The Tualatin City Council met on April 27, 2026, to address multiple proclamations, receive updates from community partners, discuss eviction prevention strategies, and review proposed intergovernmental agreements (IGAs) for the Washington County Cooperative Library Services (WCCLS). Key concerns centered on library funding, centralized collection, and county commitments.
Recording in progress. All right. Good evening, and welcome to the April 27th, 2026, Twalton City Council meeting. I'll go ahead and call the meeting to order. First item on our agenda tonight is a Pledge of Allegiance led by Councillor Gonzalez. One nation. Underground. All right, that brings us to announcements. And our first announcement tonight is Mental Health Awareness Month proclamation. And we have Gary from NAMI Outreach and Development. Uh from Clackmas County. Welcome, Gary. Thank you. I appreciate that. Sure. That was a really uh call-up. There you go. There's a button. Okay. Well, and thank you very much for inviting us today. Um this, as you probably know, is Mental Health Awareness Month. And we're here to tell you a little bit about what we're doing as uh NAMI Clackamas. I presume you're all familiar with NAMI Clackamas because in front of you you have a bag which has things in it. Number one, one of these. This is everything you ever wanted to know about NAMI Clackamas. Inside, there's a crisis communication card, which is things to say and places you can refer people to if you run into someone in crisis. Also inside is our um uh special theater night flyer. We have a very special theater night with Clackamas uh repertory theater that's a fundraiser for us, and on the back of it is a listing of a little bit about what you're supporting, which are some of our support groups. And last but not least, you also have in there a genuine NAMI clackamas stress ball. Now that guy is guaranteed to remove all stress and anxiety in 30 minutes or less, or you get your money back. So keep that in mind. So I'm gonna run you real real quickly through the basics about NAMI so you know what we're up to and uh what we're doing. Uh so first question I have though is someone want to answer or throw out an answer of the average time between the time that someone suspects they might have a mental health issue and the time that they actually go and seek help. What do you think it is? Years, okay, how many? Five years? Okay. Well, you're not really close. It's 11 years. Okay, now we know that that's not access, even though it's difficult. We know that's not cost, even though it's costly. What we know is that it's stigma, first and foremost. And how do we how do we take care of that? We change the conversation, we talk about it. Okay, we bring it up, uh, we start the conversation, especially if it's appropriate. We ask the question, are you okay if we find someone that we think is in crisis or is having some difficulty? And what that we also want to change our language uh around referring to people as their disease, that's not what we do. They're not schizophrenic or bipolar, they have that disorder. Sooner we can separate people from their disease, the better we're able to participate in their recovery. Okay, so with other language around suicide.