Tonight led by Council President Pratt.

Please place your hand over your card.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

And to the Republic for which it stands?

One nation under God.

That brings us to announcements.

We have one announcement tonight, a proclamation declaring May 2026 as Asian Pacific Islander Month in the City of Twalton, and this proclamation be read by Council Hillier.

There's no presentation.

Thank you very much, Mayor.

It's an honor to get to read this City of Tualeton Proclamation.

Whereas the month of May is recognized across the United States as Asian American and Pacific Islander, or AAPI Heritage Month, a time to honor the generations of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders who have enriched our nation's history, strengthened our communities, and contributed to the cultural, civic, economic, and social fabric of our society.

And whereas Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders represent a diverse array of cultures, languages, and histories with roots spanning East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and the Pacific Islands, each bringing unique traditions and perspectives that enhance the vibrancy of our city.

And whereas AAPI individuals have played vital roles in shaping our nation from the building of critical infrastructure and advancement of science and technology to leadership in arts, education, public service, and business, often in the face of exclusion, discrimination, and hardship.

And whereas this month also serves as an opportunity to reflect on the outgo ongoing challenges faced by AAPI communities, including acts of bias, discrimination, and violence, and to reaffirm our collective responsibility to stand against hate in all its forms.

And whereas we celebrate the resilience, achievements, and contributions of AAPI residents, leaders, and organizations within our community who continue to shape a more just and vibrant future for all.

And whereas we commit to advancing equity, supporting AAPI communities, and fostering an environment where all individuals are valued, respected, and empowered to thrive.

Now, therefore, be it proclaimed by the City Council of the City of Tuallaton, Oregon, hereby recognizes the month of May as Asian Pacific and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and encourages all residents to participate in activities, programs, and observances that celebrate AAPI history, culture, and contributions.

Introduced and adopted this 11th day of May 2026, City of Tualaton, Oregon.

So we have a member of the Idea Committee here.

I think it's Hope, correct?

Well, for God's sake.

Okay.

Thank you.

I want to give uh Councilor Sacco a moment because Councilor Sacco brought this up to the council on behalf of the idea community, so I just give you a moment to speak if you'd like.

So I just think it just represents the connection that the idea committee is making with the community and bringing forward thoughtful proclamations and wanting to make sure that everyone in our community feels seen and heard.

So I just uh huge kudos to them and the work that they're doing.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right, that brings us to public comment.

This is an opportunity for anyone to address City Council on an item that is not on tonight's agenda.

Please keep your comments to about three minutes.

I'll take the folks in the room first who would like to give public comment and then switch over to Zoom.

I have one sign up, but you don't have to be signed up to do uh your uh testimony in uh person.

Uh so I'll take the sign-ups first and then if someone else wants to come up forward to address the council, I'll do that then.

I have uh Gina Schlatter.

Welcome, Gina.

Hi my name again, Gina Schlaughter, and I live at 855 Southwest Twellaton Road.

I've resided there since 2018.

I purchased the property from my landlord in 2022.

The last two years or so, many things have been looted from my property.

I was not notified of the city's decision to make this public access camping.

I found out when I called the police because there was a man in his boxers near my home.

This was when I was informed that he was 20 weeks 20 feet away from my home, and this was legal camping from the hours of 7 p.m.

till 7 a.m.

One of the campers seemingly took up what I would consider mostly permanent residents residing there past the hours before they were available to camp and staying till late in the afternoon.

He has still there and has been there since June of last year.

There was drug paraphernalia, a tent that was abandoned, and that was left there for over three months.

I have pictures of all of this, as well as pictures of non-enforcement hours.

I was astonished that the city would make this decision and nobody needed to notify me when it is extremely impactful.

I do not know that these people are safe, that they are not felons, that they are not pedophiles.

I have a 12-year-old granddaughter that lives with me and a guard dog that is to alert me if anybody she perceives to be a threat is near, and she is constantly barking.

On February 4th, I spoke with Sherilyn Lambos and brought up the concerns regarding the situation adjacent to my property.

She said she didn't know why I wasn't notified and that she would find out why the hours weren't being enforced as well.

When I brought up the fact that there are goose droppings, as there is a large amount of Canadian geese in that property that feed and defecate that there, I mentioned that it had the potential to give these people E.

coli and salmonilla.

She replied, it doesn't need to be a clean place, we just need to give them a place.

I also brought up the fact that it was less than 500 feet from a park, which she said that was not correct.

I then asked why don't they build a fence?

She then replied, we are not going to build you a fence.

Um then she said she would get she said she would look into it and get back to me.

I wasn't why I was not notified.

She never phoned me back, and I called again on April 20th.

When I did this, I left a message asking if she had any information and notifying her that the code was not being enforced, that the people were staying there beyond their hours.

She then had Chief Pickering call me.

We discussed the fact that the rules were not being enforced still, and the people were doing drugs back there, and it is across from the park.

Chief Pickering was very kind and asked me to call if there was any problem.

I can't call them every day, and that's the truth.

Um then today, Chief Pickering called me to inform me that quote, you're getting your fence.

However, this was misleading because this is not a fence for me.

This is a canine training facility for the police department.

This does not create compliance with the situation of the campers that is already happening.

All this does not, all this does continue to disturb my right to peaceful enjoyment of my property.

Now I will have dogs and officers yelling commands at them during training during the day.

I'm sure my dogs that have lived there since they were born will respond to these dogs, thus making it very unenjoyable.

And then at 7 o'clock, I have to listen to the dogs bark again because they feel threatened by the campers that are out there.

It is highly insulting to be called and told that the fence you're getting comes with a dog kennel.

It appears that this could be retaliation from the conversation I had with Cheryl Lambos, who was extremely defensive about the fact that you had campers 500 feet away from the park, insisting that was not true.

And that they were camping on Salmonella and E.

coli, which I know for a fact because my dogs experience this from this field.

So now the city's solution is to put a dog kennel next to me and then push the campers down so they will be in fact at a diagonal 500 feet maybe from the park.

As Miss Lambos did not return my phone call after two months, she seems to only have any in have no interest in helping me, only the city.

Well, I am a part of the city, and I love this city.

I think it's a beautiful city, and I enjoy the city.

I love where I live.

I truly do.

I love walking the trails, and it's just a shame that I can't enjoy my own home in this lady in this lovely city.

The decision the city made and is currently making with this other property situation, allowing canine training is devaluing my property as does the camping.

Mostly devalues the quality of my life for me, myself and my granddaughter.

The city has a responsibility to provide safe environment for the young children.

Instead, they are playing across from non-vetted individuals that clearly I have documentation of them doing drugs.

I believe there are alternative venues for both situations.

I encourage the city to seek alternative solutions in order to avoid uh in order to avoid litigious situation.

Thank you.

So on that, we'll follow up with city staff and get back to you.

I'll follow up as well.

Okay, great.

Thank you.

Is there anyone else in the audience who would like to provide public comment?

See none of everybody in Zoom.

All right, then we'll move on from public comment.

Next up.

Our consent agenda, the consent agenda of those items that are considered routine.

They will be adopted by one motion unless someone in the council will like an item removed and heard separately later tonight.

The consent agenda tonight consists of two items.

Item number one, consideration of approval of the work session and regular meeting minutes of April 27th, 2026.

And item number two, consideration of resolution number 5956-26 awarding and authorizing a contract with WSP USA for engineering and construction management services for the 108th Avenue Sewer Project.

Would now counselor like any uh one of these items on consent removed tonight.

Okay, seeing none.

I move that we adopt the consent agenda is read.

I second it.

I have a motion and a second to adopt the consent agenda is ready.

Any discussions on those motions?

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Opposed.

Abstentions.

It's unanimous.

All right.

That brings us to special reports.

Item number one, Washington County Sheriff's Office update.

Sheriff Massie, welcome.

Hello, hello, hello.

On, right?

Yeah, there we go.

Look at that.

And Chief Deputy McCree, right?

Chief Deputy of my sugar.

Chief Deputy McCray and I.

Thank you so much, Mayor, City Council.

I really appreciate your time.

Yet again, on our sort of annual update on the state of the Washington County Sheriff's Office.

Each year I really look forward to sharing some of these updates with you.

As you know, um, we always have an opportunity to put to rest hopefully some of the cliffhangers from last time on status updates.

And uh sort of remind you and everyone in attendance that no matter where you live in Washington County, we serve you.

So tonight we're going to talk briefly just a little bit about our public safety system and then highlight some of the services provided through the sheriff's office.

Bam.

Nope.

Yep.

Good evening.

Washington County is home to more than 614,000 residents, making it the second largest county uh by population in Oregon.

The Sheriff's Office is the primary law enforcement agency providing services for the unincorporated areas and several contract cities.

We also provide countywide services that support every law enforcement agency in the county, even in cities with their own police departments.

Many critical public safety services are provided at the count at the county level.

Our goal is keeping our community safe.

Next slide.

All right.

Oh, that is not the slide I thought we had.

There we go.

There we go.

All right.

Uh just want to talk a little bit about our coordinating efforts.

One of the things that is most important to the Washington County Sheriff's Office is our collaboration.

And so I just wanted to break down a little bit.

I don't know what I want to break down there.

There we go.

Um sort of the structure with our community members' businesses and everyone.

But then, as you know, you have an incredible city police department here in Twalleton led by uh Chief Pickering.

We have our Sheriff's Office Patrol and then County City Sir Contract City Services with Cornelius, North Plains, Banks and Gaston.

And then we have those countywide infrastructure portions that include the jail, some of our specialty teams, search and rescue, air support, mature marine patrol, and civil.

One of the things that I talked about a little bit earlier and previously with you, but also with other members of the community, is that there are certain responsibilities that the sheriff is required to provide statutorily.

Those include providing a county jail, civil process, search and rescue services, the sheriff is responsible to issue, deny, and revoke concealed hanggun licenses, and we have a marine patrol.

And then our coordination and collaborative approach allows agencies across Washington County to respond safely and effectively to complex situations consistently.

One of the things I wanted to touch on is our technological investment.

I'll touch on that a little bit more in depth later, but one example of how we at the Sheriff's Office have leveraged technology to benefit public safety in our Washington County and our law enforcement here in Washington County is through our PSWeb Go app.

The app is a law enforcement database essentially that we built and maintain internally.

However, our city police departments now have uh begun utilizing that.

They subscribe to it, and it provides uh information to all the cities for calls that are pending for jail booking and photos and things like that, booking information through our jail access, and then also countywide resources that they can use while they are on calls in the moment.

So think about resources for domestic violence, family peace center, and all of that, and those areas that cross our counties.

So, regardless of what city or jurisdiction you're in, all of that information is available to everyone.

Washington County benefits from a wide range of specialty teams designed to respond when incidents require additional expertise.

These teams train year-round to ensure Washington County is prepared when complex incidents occur.

Recently, our crisis negotiation unit are in first place at the Western State Hostage Negotiators Association competition held in Spokane, Washington.

This is a multi-agency team representing Washington County, and its members include the Sheriff's Office, both jail and patrol, officers from partner city agencies, and one retired FBI agent.

The team specializes in de-escalation de-escalating high-risk, volatile situations.

During their competition, they were competing against top negotiation teams across the Western United States.

This training reinforces best practices and advanced their skills through real-world scenarios.

The team demonstrated excellence under pressure, earning the top award.

This reflects the team's commitment to a strong regional partnership and a shared commitment for a safe outcome.

Next slide.

This is a list of a few countywide special teams.

I would talk specifically about a couple more of these teams that uh Towalton Police Department are members of as we move through the slides.

Some of the teams have been established for many years.

For example, our technical negotiations team is celebrating 50 years of service this year.

These teams would not be successful if they were stagnant.

They are consistently adapting to evolving community needs.

They continue to modernize their trainings and tools to better serve the Washington County community.

Next slide, please.

Our crash analysis reconstruction team.

They investigate serious crashes, often requiring specialized expertise.

Leveraging leveraging technology such as a 3D scanner and drones, the CART team investigators provide detailed reconstruction analysis that support investigations and help ensure accurate information is available to the courts and to the family.

Next slide, please.

They respond to calls for service that involve individuals experiencing mental health crisis.

The mental health response team helps ensure these situations are handled with the appropriate expertise and compassion.

They provide the backbone of training for all crisis intervention and de-escalation for all law enforcement agencies across the county.

Next slide, please.

Our mobile field force response team.

They ensure the safety of community members, demonstrators, and officers doing large-scale events.

They also support the ability for individuals to peacefully assemble and express their views.

The mobile fuel force members receive regular training to ensure that if a large-scale incident occurs, they are prepared to respond safely and professionally.

While Washington County has not experienced the same level of protest activities as some of our neighboring jurisdictions, I think we all would agree that preparation is essential.

Next slide, please.

This is a very exciting season for us, I think, in Washington County as we continue to innovate and invest in technology to better serve our community.

We are participating in, while you see what's listed on there, that's just a snapshot, but we are participating in a couple of very exciting pilot programs with drone as first responder or DFR and Draft One.

So draft one is a pilot program that we began last year and is in place to test the effectiveness and the efficiency of artificial intelligence to assist deputies with report writing so that they can spend more time out in the field serving our community.

This project has been done in collaboration with the district attorney's office and is ongoing.

We began our piloting uh DFR earlier this year and have experienced incredible outcomes.

Uh our current focus is identifying funding to be able to get a sense for what our scope of coverage and working with our public safety partners to get a sense of whether or not we can just transition what is ROVT or our robot team, which is mostly drones at this point.

That's an interagency team, transitioning it to something that includes DFR as an interagency team, and it has the room to grow into a real-time information center.

And so that's what we're looking at now.

We want to make sure that we're working with all of our city partners to maximize coverage and efficiency.

But we have had so many instances.

One I'll give you in particular was a robbery from a store, and the gentleman ran toward the TriMet bus and jumped on within 20 seconds.

Uh, our drone was able to be on site, catch him.

He was getting just toward the bus, drone caught him getting onto the bus, which allowed them to communicate to responding officers and deputies and allowed them to kind of slow so they weren't driving code three as fast, but then also get dispatched to be able to communicate with responders and the bus driver to help keep him on board until people could get there, stop the bus, get him off safely.

But without that technology, that guy would have been on a bus and we would have been setting up contain containment five minutes later searching for him.

It's absolutely incredible.

I think the sky's the limit when it comes to that.

But we are just now testing it out and trying to see how we go.

All right.

Let's talk a little bit about the jail.

When people think about policing, they often do they focus on the moment that officers or deputies respond to the call and then don't often think about what happens next.

And so often that is uh a trip to the jail, and either being in custody at least until after arraignment or in long enough to get a release agreement and be released, or for the duration of their time pre-adjudication and then sentencing.

Um what's just as important in this season is not just providing a safe, secure environment for adults in custody.

It is also helping to ensure that they leave custody in a better mental, physical, emotional, spiritual, financial state than they came in.

And that includes significant programming through behavioral health, through GED high school diploma parenting courses.

When our jail opened in 1998, we were serving a much smaller population and community than we are now.

And as a result, with us growing to over 600,000 residents, the jails needs have become significantly more complex with behavioral health and substance use disorder reaching all-time highs.

For some context, Tualleton Police Department brought 267 people to jail last year, and we had three housing units closed during that time because of critical infrastructure repairs.

Today, we have I know that we've talked about this in the past, but when I was here last year, we talked about how we had three housing units closed because we were getting critical infrastructure repairs that included a new roof, hot and cold water piping, fire suppression systems, and all new HVAC throughout the building.

We've just installed uh jump barriers on the second tier of our upstairs units where there's a significant jump for adults in custody, and uh we've had people injured.

We've reopened Pod 1 for detox and stabilization for those adults in custody because that is our one-dorm setting housing unit.

There are eight to adorm, and those adults in custody, while they are not feeling well, also have the ability to keep an eye on each other and realize that they're not going through this alone.

Another thing that we uh have had the benefit of is looking at what the future of our jail holds.

And so our goal is to ensure the jail operates safely while adapting to those modern challenges.

One of the things I want to touch on is that last week our jail staff were honored to receive the founders' award from Safety Compass at the Child Abuse and Human Trafficking Summit for their pioneering efforts in combating human trafficking and supporting survivors.

Our team was described as leaders in the state on this front.

And they are real we are relatively new to prioritizing investigations for uh advocating for survivors when they come into jail and making sure that we are able to disconnect them from that life before they get out.

I'm incredibly proud of our staff.

One of the last things that I'll touch on here is that we have just identified a vendor to come in and take us through that second sort of process for jail expansion.

And what that will include is getting a sense for whether or not we can build up in our current footprint or whether or not we are going to have to invest in new property.

And so I'm very excited about that because as we're talking about that, there are simultaneous conversations about a new courthouse.

And so trying to accommodate all of these things is going to require an extra degree of collaboration in this next season.

I really like to take a moment to take a moment and thank the voters of Washington County while I have you here.

Last November that the community showed strong support for our public safety levy by approving it.

That investment supports critical systems across the entire public safety system, including jail, mental health response, investigations, and services for victims.

It allows us to continue to work together to keep Washington County safe.

The public safety levy also supports the district attorney's office, community corrections, and our juvenile.

And that begins in July.

I just want to share that wherever you live, as I began, we serve you, and if you have needs, or your city brings needs to you that we can help you solve, we are here for it in partnership.

And with that, I'm happy to respond to any questions.

Questions for the sheriff or chief deputy.

So Hillinger.

Thank you very much as always for your well thought out presentation.

I'd love to hear a little bit more about the pilot DFR.

You indicated that there are like significant outcomes.

And it sounds like public safety, and I'm gonna guess just based on what you said budget-wise, because you weren't chasing somebody.

I mean, there wasn't a perimeter set up and staff time, wasn't it like so?

But what are the other um things that um you're excited about in that pilot project?

Moving forward.

There's a lot, thank you.

Um, it's a few things.

One of the biggest benefits is mitigating a code three response from an officer or deputy, lights and sirens going through the community responding to a call, even as simple as, or not simple, but even something like a crash that comes across uh maybe an injury crash, which we're gonna turn the lights and sirens on for, and we're gonna go as quick as we can, as safely as we can.

But just doing that comes with inherent risk, especially depending on traffic, people out and about, especially as the sun comes out and people are walking and not always paying attention because often they have their earbuds in or they're in their phone.

Um, it can be extra dangerous.

If we can get a drone to respond from a central location, maybe the deputy or the officer is 10 minutes out, we can get a drone there in a minute and a half, look down and see that there don't seem to be any injuries because the people have moved the vehicles off to the side and they're out of the vehicle, then we can slow that response.

And then we can get there in a timely manner, but not adding additional risk to the people that are out there.

Or on the opposite side of that, something that comes across as maybe an emergency response, but then we don't know if they're armed or the person flees.

We can get a drone there much faster because they're flying as the crow flies, and people don't know that they're there, they're so quiet.

They're so quiet.

And so way before lights and sirens are around, they're able to get eyes on and inform at the same time all the responding units.

Oh, he ran this way, and then they're just chasing him at 200 feet and following along and vectoring in responding officers and deputies or letting them know intel as it arrives.

He has his hands out of his pocket, he doesn't seem to have any weapons, things like that.

Um we had someone flee a traffic stop, and the traffic was too busy to chase him safely.

And so he took off and then he dropped a female passenger off, and she went the other way.

And so we stopped pursuing, but then the drone continued, and then he crashed his car in the middle of the road, but then he took off into someone's backyard.

And so climbed a couple fences and hid on someone's back porch behind something, and the drone saw the whole thing and just vectored in people again from the other directions, and they were able to bring this to a safe resolution.

Those are just a few specific examples that we have, and we've only been testing it for like 45 to 60 days.

Yeah, fascinating.

I'm just curious, and I I suppose this is just a total curiosity question.

I'm making an assumption that since you're working with the DA on all things and collaborate, like that that is admissible, or it are the is this evidence like how does that interface with the people's rights?

That's great.

So we'll talk about the uh droneist first responder for just a second.

Um it is not capturing data uh with the camera or anything when it's on its way to the call.

So there have been you know privacy concerns which are legitimate about, you know, is it gonna be flying from point A to point Banding my family have a barbecue in the backyard, you know, along the way, and I don't want them staring at me.

It's not doing that.

We don't have those cameras on, we're not doing that.

We go straight to where we're going.

They also have red and blue lights, which is how you can tell that they're not a privately owned drone, they're a law enforcement response.

Regarding the draft one and the report writing that we're doing in collaboration with the DA's office, that um that is actually set up to first of all, yes, the answer is yes, uh, it's being used for prosecution, but it has some fail safes.

So the AI generated report that comes from the body cam has intentional errors in it that the deputy has to go through and read because it has to be his or her work product, right?

So while AI gave the so draft one gave the first draft, it has intentional errors, and I mean the errors are absurd.

Like Mickey Mouse dropped, you know, the gun.

Um so and you have to go through and you have to read it, and you have to make it yours.

It gives you the basics, you have to write it after that.

And then there is a disclaimer at the end of the report that states this report was drafted utilizing AI, it is the work product of Deputy Massey, for instance.

Um, and you swear to it because you have to affirm that everything in that report is true and accurate for your recollection.

Yeah.

Thank you.

And staff seems to be like they're loving it.

I know the world is just curious.

It it's it's help enough to make it easier for them and faster.

Yeah, but it's not all it's not, oh, I don't have to think about it.

No, you still have to do the work and make sure that it's accurate and in your recollection.

Um, and there are things in there that make them do that, but it is much faster.

It's it's uh more accurate for spelling and things like that that humans are sometimes prone to missing.

And when you end it using it on a limited basis, we have specific crimes that we're using it for, which is not everything.

Yeah, lower level level stuff right now.

You know, start to start out.

Fascinating.

Okay, one last question.

Sorry.

Sorry, back to the I was glad to hear about the body cameras because that was in my list.

But um, so how many drones do you have?

Like if it 20 seconds it was at something, for instance, like that is that's probably an exaggeration.

It was probably closer to a minute.

Um still but we do right now we have two drones that are serving as drone as first responders.

Um and they are low, they're called hives, they're located on top of a building.

Um and then we also have another like 25 drones that are throughout the county uh for people who are on our ROVT and they have them in their cars, and so they can just put, you know, when they're on a call, especially one of those TAC team calls or something like that, or a search where there's a canine, um, they'll put a drone up and search that way as well.

Yeah, fascinating.

Thank you.

Thank you for your hard work.

The exciting part is no, I'm gonna add on to that one last thing is that uh our jail deputies are now getting body cams.

Yes this month.

And so that's a that will be the last really certified deputy push for body worn cameras.

Yeah.

Council Rif.

I'm gonna continue the drones thing.

Love it, let's go.

Exciting.

Um so how many who else is participating in this pilot program within or and where does the data go to how you share data amongst each other?

So it's just us right now.

The count this from Oreg in Oregon.

Oh, in Oregon.

Uh Gresham police department, it already has a drone as first responder program.

And I don't know what other agencies do.

Um I don't know of I just know about Gresham.

Yeah, I just know about Gresham as well because they were like one of the first on the West Coast to have this real time real time information center with drones as first responders.

So it's like an Oregon on the West Coast, seems like Oregon's ahead of the We're moving pretty well.

Uh I know San Diego has a really comprehensive program there, some of the bigger cities.

Oh wow.

And um when does it how long would it take?

I mean, like this whole drone thing is probably my questions are gonna be around that.

Um how long would it be or take for this program to become a like uh implemented program like this?

You say 45 you've had it for 45 days or 60 days, something like that?

In between 45 and 60 days is where we are with our pilot, and we are working on identifying funding now to order more so that we can get this program going and then budget for it going into the future.

But it is essentially through the same vendor that we have our body worn cameras through.

It's Axon, it's SkyDio, but SkyDio is like a Axon's like a parent company for them.

And so we are working on uh evolving our contract with them to include this with hopefully the ability to expand in the future.

But if we can identify some partnerships, for instance, uh like TV F and R where we could utilize some of their roof space, we were trying to strategically figure out what locations we could put those hives that way we could cover as much of the county as possible.

If we have at least two, they have a 30-minute battery life or so.

Then you put one in the air, and then he goes for say 20 minutes, you want to be able to get another one in the air, get on site so that that one can come back and you don't have a break in that visual.

Interesting.

And if we have a lot of different locations, then we can hopefully cover the county in a way that we can keep that battery life going.

Would that be would you consider that like um as cost and not that machines are taking over our jobs or anything like that?

But would that be like two drones?

Would that be like uh would that be an FTE uh the cost of an FTE uh based on all the data and all this the run instead of running, you have I mean I'm wondering what the comparison is.

I don't think we know yet.

I don't think we have quite enough data yet on our pilot program, but that's what we're collecting now.

Is how many calls did we not have to respond to because we were able to get eyes on and realize that it wasn't going to be an emergency, or how many calls did we respond to and were able to take someone into custody that likely we may not have if we hadn't been able to get eyes on them and perhaps see them jump on a bus.

Um and so that's the kind of data that we're collecting now, and then the cost to see what it looks like and how it would translate into man hours essentially, or and that includes things like not just deputies.

So if we saw a guy get on a bus and we were able to stop the bus and take them into custody, that keeps crime scene analysis from having to happen because we don't have to go search for them.

That keeps um detectives from having to get called out and maybe take that over because it's more um in-depth than we thought it might be.

So that's what we're trying to analyze at this time though.

Okay, thank you.

Um more question has nothing to do with drones.

It's just towards the last you had a page that said all the things that the levy is funding.

Are there any um community outreach of prevention?

We know that by the time someone's committed a crime, there's hopefully some um opportunity to learn about preventing that and teach kids or uh groups within our community about um the consequences of sometimes having these decisions that would and make you end up in prison or jail.

Right.

That's a great question.

Um it's actually funding what uh I developed is called the chief communications and strategy officer that will oversee our public affairs unit and community outreach for exactly those purposes so that they can show up all over the county to make sure that we are educating from uh elder safe programs to um you know scam fraud alerts uh in retirement homes.

We are in schools everywhere and at in high demand for presentations and requests to help teach.

And so that is one, just one of the positions that is included in this year's levy that didn't exist before.

Oh, I love that.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Other questions.

Council President Pratt.

I just want to say thank you so much for what you were saying earlier about the these people that are incarcerated.

You're working to give me skills so when they get out, they have a chance to be self-reliant and you know it's critical.

Yeah, I mean, because so often you hear about these people getting left with you know 200 bucks, good luck.

Right.

That's not gonna probably like have a good outcome.

Right.

I actually serve on a governor's commission of the alcohol drug and policy commission, and even today we were talking about um how we are designing programming for substance use disorder, behavioral health that includes the holistic package like housing needs and um the ability to gain employment and to transition with a soft handoffs with peer mentors and resources once they are leaving so that they're not just being let out the door and then like okay, now what?

Um and so I think those things are gonna be more important into the future.

And then my question is about the mental health response team.

So our city we we share a a person that deals with that, but where does it overlap where our police department would be using the mental health response team?

So your department uh does like a part-time and then south cities and so um also though they they service the South Cities, but if there's not someone on our mental health response team, you know, from the sheriff's office specifically, or Beaverton, if they're on.

I mean, we all cover down for each other.

We don't we don't subscribe to jurisdictional lines.

So like if it's two in the morning, it's not two.

Correct.

Well, if it's two in the morning, we're gonna get our crisis teams gonna come out because we we end two or three in the morning, but um, but the goal is to get 24-7 services, and that's just additional FTE to do that.

But when there's not someone serving South Cities, or there's not someone serving Beaverton, um, we respond regardless to those behavioral health calls that come out.

Great.

Yeah, we don't we don't do jurisdictional lines.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Other questions?

Any questions, Councillor Sacco?

Right.

My usual two questions for you.

Come on.

Staffing, where you're at with staffing and recruitment.

This is so good.

All right, this is my favorite thing we're gonna talk about tonight.

Staffing.

We're fully staffed.

All right.

And we have been given authorization for overhires.

Right.

You ready for the next one?

Sure.

I hope the jails could be wide open.

The beginning of June.

All right.

The jail will be fully functioning and completely open with 572 bed capacity.

All right.

It's been a challenge for the whole thing.

Well, you know how many years well, my my whole three years.

Sure, that I've been coming here and with Sheriff Garrett.

The lot the first time I was sitting next to him and I was like, we have no staff, and then we got staff, and then we had no roof.

And then we got a roof.

And now it all we're danger close.

All right, great.

Those are my two questions.

Anything else for the sheriff?

Well, thank you both for coming out tonight.

Thank you so much.

Appreciate it.

Appreciate you.

All right, our next sec our next special report is the outside agency grant awardee, Smart Reading.

Welcome.

Complete with books.

All right.

Hi, I'm Sharon Benson.

Turn it on.

Face with the little line screen.

There you go.

Hi, I'm Sharon Benson.

I'm paid staff with Smart Reading.

And this is my colleague, Becky Bard.

She is unpaid volunteer staff, one of our lead volunteers, and we'll talk more about volunteers in a minute.

We're here tonight to say thank you very much for the $5,000 grant that the city awarded to Smart Reading to run our Smart Reading program at Twalton Elementary.

So I'm gonna give you just a little presentation.

Thank you first for your vote of confidence in our work.

This year we celebrated giving away our five millionth book.

Smart Reading has been around for 35 years providing books and reading support for kids, and this is a picture of our little gathering that we did to celebrate our five millionth book giveaway.

So Smart Reading has been around since 1991.

We are Oregon's largest volunteer children's literacy nonprofit.

Our vision is in Oregon where all kids can realize their potential through reading.

And we only serve or most of our programs are serving underserved kids, kids living in poverty.

And we are privately run and funded.

We are in partnership with Title One schools, but we are a private nonprofit, and less than five percent of our funding comes from the government.

Thank you for being part of that five percent.

Um so why do we have smart reading?

Only 39% of Oregon third graders are reading at benchmark.

Um so we are here to build a strong foundation of literacy.

Whoops, that's me going too fast.

There we go.

Um so research shows that two things are strong predictors of early literacy skills, shared book reading and access to books in the home, so that's exactly what we do.

We pair volunteers in the schools to read one-on-one or in a group setting with children, and we give those kids free books to take home to build personal libraries.

So we mentioned the 39% of um Oregon kids reading at benchmark in the smart reading program.

Our kids are at 64%, so we know that the program works, and teachers say that um attendance is better, aren't smart reading days.

So we were talking about this over dinner, that there's a lot of criticism of teachers and public schools, and our response is smart reading days are the best days to go into the schools.

The kids want to be there, the teachers are glad that we're there, neighbors are there volunteering with kids.

It's a great day to be in schools.

SMART is cost effective, it only costs about $320 per student.

This inverted pyramid shows that we are a statewide organization with a lean staff.

It's actually 36 staff, but we have offices throughout the state.

We are serving in about 250 Title I schools and preschools, Head Start preschools throughout the state.

It is about 5,000 volunteers that are serving about 21,000 students, and we give away over 200,000 books.

We're really proud of how lean we are.

Uh at the end of the year, teachers tell us if their students improved, and year after year, the um outcomes are pretty similar, and well over 80 percent are showing improvement and many different markers.

Oh, this is my school.

This is Becky's school.

Becky, chime in.

I'm so lucky to be the site coordinator at Twalleton Elementary, and I I do have to say from the principal to the office staff to the teachers to the instructional assistants to just the other volunteers that might be in the building.

It's it's really truly one of the finest schools I've been in.

It's just a lovely school.

Um, and my readers love coming.

And in this particular situation, we read aloud to the kids.

So we serve three different kindergartens at Tuala Tualaton.

And the children just they they know the names of their readers.

They get excited when they see see us waiting in the hallway.

And I just I just have to thank you for giving me the opportunity to go to Tualaton Elementary because it really is a lovely place to be.

This is what we get experience every week in the classroom is kids who are joyful, volunteers who are joyful.

Kids reading a wide variety of books.

Our programs are kid-led.

The child decides if they want to read or if they want to be read to, they decide which books they're going to take home on those take-home days, which they wish they had more of.

So in the last several years, we've had an infusion of books.

Some of them that you see here, we call these inclusive titles.

We just want to make sure that every kid can see themselves in a book.

We hear a lot about adverse childhood experiences, the bad things that some children experience, childhood trauma, abuse, exclusion, and loss.

There is new reporting that's being done on positive childhood experiences, new research that's showing that affirmation, conversation, engagement, opportunity, all the things that a smart reading experience provides are actually acting as a buffer to some of those adverse experiences.

So when people say, Sharon, keep it simple, just say it's about books and reading.

I say yes.

And if we can also help a child be a buffer or have a buffer to some of the adverse things that they are experience in their life, even better.

Thank you again for your support.

Lots of other ways to get involved, and we still have one minute for questions.

Questions.

Absolutely.

Nope, I would just make the comment that I love that you're thank you for everything that you've done.

You're welcome for the funds on behalf of everyone here because I didn't vote that day, but I love that the integration of generations because one of the other protective factors that many people talk about in the positive childhood experiences is that opportunity to have other trusted adults in your in your life.

And I really see this in your program and think that the model is exceptional, and thank you for all you do.

Thank you.

Thank you.

That's right.

Thank you very much for what you do.

I love the presentation.

Just out of curiosity, how many children do you think you serve here in the Tualetin area?

63.

63, because we're we're only at Tualaton Elementary at this time.

But it's it's a large number for smart for one school because it is whole class.

So we're serving three whole classes.

And I just want to piggyback on the positive outcomes.

Um I also am site coordinator at the other picture that you saw where they had the little party.

Um, and but at both schools, I see children who might struggle on a regular basis or have some problems throughout the day.

But when their smart reader comes or when the smart readers show up to their classroom, they're focused on SMART.

And other things melt away.

And it really is a magical thing to see.

And so I I agree with what you said that that relationship is very, very important.

And the the children build that trust and they find a safe place for a half an hour with someone.

That's amazing.

And I was gonna ask about kids reading to adults.

They can practice out and um since I want to take a nap or something, you know, because it was just so sweet.

But I really um you answered the question that they get to pick whether they want to read or be read too.

So thank you.

Oh, yeah, one more question.

320 a child a year.

Is that how much it costs?

Correct.

Okay.

Thank you.

Other questions.

The thank you for all you do.

Um my favorite things as mayor is to read to kids because they get super jazzed, especially elementary kids.

You know, between kindergarten and uh third grade.

They love you know when you come with books and reading, and like I said, they're excited.

I'm excited.

So one of the best things about being a mayor is reading the kids and trying to you know come up with new books that they're interested in every year.

So I appreciate what you do.

Uh anything uh any questions, Counselor Sacco.

All right.

Well, thank you for coming to I appreciate it.

Thank you.

Thank you again.

Thank you very much.

All right, we now have the Twalton Planning Commission 2025 annual report.

And I believe that's Janelle, correct?

There you go.

Yes.

Welcome, Janelle.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mayor and City Council members.

We're here from the Twalton Planning Commission.

I'm Janelle Thompson, the uh chair of the planning commission, and you guys know Teresa.

Good evening.

Um, we're gonna give you our well, we're gonna give you our annual report from 2025.

All right, let's see what the box.

Oops, it did work, and it was too okay.

Here's our picture from our last meeting.

Um, there's seven of us typically serving a three-year term, as you know.

Um, our current members are Ursula Kuhn, Zach Weimer, Alan Perracini, Ray Neshnevin, Randall Leddick, Janelle Thompson, and Justin Lynn Lindley.

And we've all been together a couple times, it's actually happened.

So the role of the planning commission, we're the we fulfill the committee uh goal one citizen involvement of Oregon Statewide Land Use Planning Program.

We're advisory, we serve as advisory committee to the city council by reviewing and making recommendations on legislative matters such as plan map and plan text amendments.

We're also advisory by providing recommendations to city council on various long-range planning topics such as housing and economic development.

We are decision makers for uh a hearing body to approve or deny certain quasi-judicial judicial land use decisions, such as conditional use permits, variances, and district master plans.

Our meetings are held monthly depending upon agenda items.

We met seven times last year.

Okay.

So a couple of recommendations we had was for the transportation system plan, um, and I know you guys saw that.

Uh corresponding amendments relevant relative to comprehensive plan, policy, and development code regulations.

We have some good discussions on that.

The planning commission recommended it five to zero, the council adopted it, and the proposed amendment find it in conformance with the Twilight and Comprehensive Plan.

That was a big left.

We also did another recommendation for the Twilight and Development Code to comply with state-manded rulemaking known as climate-friendly and equitable communities, lockable design standards.

The amendment included a variety of code amendments designed to prove neighborhood connectivity, site design standards for commercial and mixed use developments, and design standards related to audio-oriented uses.

So a lot of walkability things.

The planning commission vote voted unanimously five to zero to approve the conditional use permit.

Our other one was for building heating and electrocontractors office with on-site storage of equipment on a 1.44-acre site in the light manufacturing zone.

Uh, and the planning commission voted seven to zero to approve the conditional use permit.

Uh we also participated in the board and committee summit.

The summit brought together cities, eight different boards and committees.

It was really fun to be able to communicate with all the different boards and see everybody.

So I really enjoyed that, and I've heard good responses from the other planning commission members.

We had staff updates, a presentation that included a project to update the towalton development code to comply with Oregon revised statutes related to clear and objective standards for housing.

We did a presentation on the downtown revitalization project, which included introducing project goals and informations and the things that are coming our way.

A presentation of the 2024 Twilight and Planning Commission annual report was also given, which is what we're doing now.

Looking ahead, we have some development code updates to comply with the state requirements related to the clear and objective standards for housing.

We have our annual code cleanup, which will be an annual update of the development code to address minor policy neutral amendments.

We'll also do our contextualized housing needs analysis and capacity housing how housing capacity analysis, uh comprehensive approach to calculating housing supply, buildability buildable land capacity, and um to help serve Oregon Cities better.

I know it's a requirement.

Um, and then we also are gonna do food cart pods, which we're all excited to see how that goes.

Um questions?

Questions from Janelle.

Council President Pratt.

Um well, it's not a question, but I just wanted to tell you I know you you um this is uh a pretty um a commission that takes a lot of effort.

You I know you guys get several hundred pages on the case.

Sometimes we do, yeah.

Yeah, and um whenever things are brought to us with your recommendations, it's apparent that um a lot of effort was put into it and thoughtfulness, and it really helps us.

So just a statement of appreciation for all that you do on that commission.

Thank you.

Yeah, I know a lot of the members on the planning commission do spend a lot of time going through stuff very detailed oriented, so it's been great.

Other questions or comments.

Uh I just want to echo council president Pratt's uh comments.

Yeah, you're on one of the most intense committees or planning committee, you know, the commissions uh in the city and for you know volunteer residents, you know.

It's uh it's a big lift, but you guys do a fantastic job.

Uh when you look through transcripts of planning commission meetings, you guys do ask a lot of questions that are very specific, and you do uh as was mentioned, you do a great job of you know asking the questions that we're gonna ask, get them resolved, and then provide you know outstanding recommendations to us.

So I just want to state my uh appreciation for everyone in the committee and all the time we spend on it.

It's um it's it's well needed, and uh you guys uh are very important to the city.

Thank you.

I'll make sure I pass that along to other commission members too.

All right.

Yeah.

That's it, you can go home now.

Thanks for coming.

Thanks.

All right, that brings us to general business.

Uh, item number one, consideration of resolution 5955-26, authorizing city manager to execute an intergovernmental agreement with clean water services for recycled water.

Uh Lindsay Marshall will then lead the discussion.

Welcome, Lindsay.

Hello, good evening, Mayor Council.

Um Lindsay Marshall, Public Works.

I'm joined by a guest today.

Jared Kinner of Clean Water Services.

And we are here to talk about our purple pipe IGA.

Let's see.

Whoa.

What's happening, Bates?

Conversation's over.

I know.

Can you get me back to the beginning, please?

Can I just say slide?

I don't want to, I'll just slide.

I don't want to do it again.

Okay, so you may remember back in 2024.

Uh, we came to you uh with our lovely intern, Jay Cush and I to talk about our water conservation, water water management and conservation plan.

And this is um essentially long-term water management and conservation tool that we do every five years, and it basically looks at our water systems and its needs.

And so, what do we do with our water system, what are supplies, how are we gonna manage and conserve this water?

And so this plan explains a variety of different measures that we use to do that.

Slide.

I'm like afraid of this button now.

Um so it is required by our contract with the Portland Water Bureau.

We'll get through it, uh, every five years, and it is supported by one of our CAP action um identified actions 4.1.7, which is to establish a citywide water conservation plan, and it is also an identified council interest.

So that's why we have a water management and conservation plan.

Slide.

There we go.

So there's a couple different elements to it.

So we are only required to do chapter three, which is that water conservation element.

And there's a couple different measures.

There's basic ones that are required of all suppliers and then enhanced measures that are required by select suppliers, so larger ones.

And there are all of these measures come with benchmarks.

And so benchmarks are these specific water conservation measures that we commit to doing or exploring within the next five years.

So just kind of a background as to how we got to Purple Pipe slide.

So one of the enhanced measures that we committed to exploring was this reuse recycling in non-potable, so non-drinkable water.

And so how can we reuse, recycle, use non-appotable water in a way that would reduce the need for that potable water?

And so one of our proposed benchmarks was to explore the expansion of the CWS Durham Treatment Plant purple pipeline.

Okay, so that's how we got there.

Slide.

And why do we do this?

So we are currently using potable water for irrigation.

So all of our city facilities, the parks, we're irrigating with water that we could be drinking.

So recycled water would be more cost efficient to do this with.9, which is actually to support CWS in their thermal load management program.

So we've identified that.

It's a council priority from 2026, Action 5.6, which is to explore sustainable practices on city properties, right?

And so using non-potable recyclable water would be one of those.

And it's also part of our WMCP plan with this reuse.

So we'll tell you a little bit more about uh purple pipe and recycled water.

Slide, please.

All right.

Uh yeah, Clean Water Services is uniquely positioned to uh provide recycled water.

Uh we're a wastewater utility serving the 12 cities here in Washington County, special district government.

Um we've been producing recycled water since the early 90s.

Uh we've been sending to city parks and tigered, uh Cook Park specifically since uh 93.

Uh safe, reliable, uh highly regulated uh source of water.

Um I would consider it a uh a resource that is underutilized here in Washington County.

We're a water-rich region.

Uh other places of the country uh that uh deal with drought and population increases uh look to recycle water as a as a beneficial resource.

Uh is my job to try to diversify the water portfolios of Washington County.

Um we have a real driver at Clean Water Services, as Lindsay mentioned, uh, to expand our program, and it's not because we ultimately feel it's the right thing to do, although it is.

We also have a water quality driver.

Uh thermal load or heat in our water is the biggest pollution that we manage for.

Uh the Twalton River uh is a small, sensitive, uh slow-moving river that is uh very uh uh prone to problems with nutrients and and thermal issues, um, and we have to protect the salmon species that live in there.

Our permits basically based on uh juvenile criteria for salemotid species and for adults to return.

Um I jokingly say that we like warm showers and the salmon do not.

So we are striking a balance in which way we need to try to live in this basin uh together.

Um the program out of Durham has been about one million gallons a day.

It's been a pretty stable program for 30 plus years.

Um we really started the co conversation about recycled water by making beer out of it in 2013.

Um we believe that uh well we know that all water we have on planet Earth has been here for 4.6 billion years.

It's all been recycled uh thousands and thousands of times.

Um we also know that beer is oil of conversation, so we just started we make beer and um have the conversation about what we call it one water is that we just have water, it's not wastewater, it's not stormwater, it's not drinking water, it's water, and it's all been recycled, and we have the technology today to treat any quality of water to any purpose that it's fit for.

So Lindsay mentioned um you know, we'd like to see avoidance of taking water to the level of drinking and then using it for irrigation on lawn.

This is the appropriate kind of quality of water for irrigation, um, and and a many other uses, but in this particular instance, uh irrigation.

Um so I mentioned it's regulatory strategy for us.

Or our alternative to expanded the recycled water program is mechanical cooling, chillers, cooling towers, huge energy hogs, huge water hogs.

Clean water services has really been a leader in the uh wastewater utility as leaning into nature-based solutions.

Uh we have robust repairing planting program, uh tree-for-all program where we offset our thermal lows through shade.

We have the stored water in Hag Lake, um, and we're putting a lot of eggs in the baskets of this recycled water.

We've done a lot of modeling and alternative analysis, um, which we look through the lens of the triple bottom line of economic and community and environmental benefit.

Um, and I would suggest that uh expansion recycled water is a slam dunk in all three of those.

Um we are excited.

Um we're not gonna do this on our own.

We need partners.

Um we're just uh executed an IGA with Hillsborough to do Roodbridge Park.

Uh we're working on that project this summer.

Um, and we hope to have plans to engage with your community too.

Um next slide.

Um keeping thermal out of the river.

Uh we have a future view where we're looking at potential um wholesale retail agreements as far as potential branding for twalatin.

If you guys wanted to sell the water to your community, we we've been talking to other communities about retail wholesale agreements.

Um I've been talking to some of the folks in the agricultural community.

We've got our first agricultural customer coming in uh who's not on the Twalton Valley irrigation system.

Um so we're uh getting into that uh community, which is great.

Um we're looking for to do a lot of irrigation, and ag certainly does.

Um and we're uh looking at environmental land application uh within urban wetlands that have been degraded.

This is a tool that we can use to restore wetlands.

Um and we're trying to keep water in the river.

Um we're trying to do trades and offsets with water right transfers.

So next slide.

Um again, multiple benefits, really sort of talking about the triple bottom line, community environmental and um economic benefits.

Um I can talk at length of any of those, but um you know, I uh mentioned earlier diverse water portfolio.

I think that's really important.

Um, you know, here in Washington County, we have the stored water behind Hague Lake.

Um we just built the pipeline in from the Willamette.

Um we're we need to really think about diverse water portfolio.

We don't have snow pack like the city of Portland does.

Uh we have the stored water.

Um this will really help stretch and bridge our our strategies on how we uh maintain a healthy water supply here in Washington County.

Next slide.

Um and here's just a snapshot of all the the reuse that we do out of our Durham facility, um, which is um uh right there in the kind of the middle of the screen.

Uh we do three golf courses, um, King City Summerfield, uh Twalton Country Club, of course, um, a private land hipcock property.

Um our Thomas Dairy site there is where we've done the environmental restoration beneficial use uh with DEQ as a pilot project.

Uh Durham City Park, Durham Elementary, and Tiger High School.

Um so that's been the program that's been in place uh since the early 90s.

Next slide.

Okay.

So I had cool transitions, and I'm not gonna try.

Um so our right now, uh you can see the yellow star is the Durham treatment plant.

I was actually just there today on a tour and got to see number 12 and 13 where the recycled water comes out.

If you have not been on a tour to the Durham treatment plant, highly recommend.

It's a really cool facility doing a lot of really cool stuff.

And so you can see the purple pipeline comes kind of curves down and then down along um down along the river on the west side.

There is currently a stub, the green star um for purple pipe put in years ago with big hopes we're gonna put in purple pipe here.

There is no connection to the purple pipe on to the west because the railroad's in the way.

So we are currently working, uh, and by we I mean Jared and his team diligently to get under that railroad to connect the existing purple pipe to our existing purple pipe stub.

So that is what we are currently trying to do.

I I'm realizing why they didn't do it several years ago.

It's the railroads that are so clear.

They're a tough task.

Yes.

We'll get we'll get there.

We'll we'll we'll get there.

But yeah, I understand why that several hundred yard was not built.

Or it just quit there.

Um so once we get it to that purple stub at the top part of TCB, but we're up by the dog park.

We would like to extend it to the kind of main part of TCB, and then the ideally the Lake of the Commons, but again, there is another railroad in the way.

So that will be step two.

Uh right now uh is just step one to get under that north-south railroad to get to the existing stub.

So that's step one.

Yeah, I I'm also having uh really positive communications with the Twalton Tiger uh school district uh some of their properties where they're with like some recycle water as well.

So uh key for me is to try to hook as many projects up as possible.

So there is some opportunity within Twilight.

Yeah.

Next slide.

Um so just a quick cost benefit of purple pipe.

Um this is just looking at uh I'm realizing my slide is uh the graph is not titled correctly, apology.

It should just be the north part, uh the dog park end of the irrigation.

But if you look at our use, it's about 847 um 100 cubic feet of water for last year in 2026.

Um and so if you look at that cost savings it was with CWS with this IGA, it'll be a dollar per unit for the terms of the of the IGA.

And if you compare that to the cost of what we would be paying for that, it's about an 80% cost savings.

So over the next five years, um if you include the main part of TCP, you're looking at still 80%, but it's about a $75,000 savings, so it's it's quite a bit um of saving taking advantage of the recycled water with that dollar rate as compared to what we'd be doing for potable water.

Yeah, I'll just echo here real quick.

It this is not an enterprise for clean water services, water quality strategy.

We're not trying to make money, the dollar really covers the OM of making the water and distributing the water.

Um so that that's why we're we're not trying to be competitive with the drinking water providers.

Slide and so this IGA that we have before you is gonna allow CWS to construct, connect, and maintain the purple pipe to the that first initial stub up in um TCP.

And then it allows us to use that recycled water for irrigation and pay that dollar per 100 cubic feet during the terms of the agreement.

And so our request is that council approve this resolution to allow us to move forward with that.

So we'd happy to take questions.

Question.

Thank you.

That's a good south.

Thank you very much.

This is very exciting for conservation, especially when it comes to irrigation.

Um can't wait to see that go under the chain tracks.

How does this look to possible homeowners?

I know in California, purple water is apartment complex use purple water, and I mean there's just a lot of opportunity for that.

So how I I know that's a big question, but how how would you approach well how do you see that looking in the future?

Um so I I we've we've uh we're working with the developers in the river terrace uh area, the Bull Mountain King City expansion.

Um we're still trying to figure out the best approach there.

What we've done, we've we've got into a developer agreement where the developer has put in the purple pipe into the development and we've paid them to do that.

And we are hedging our bet that we will make a connection one day down beach band.

That's um what we have to do in order to be successful here.

If we just sat around and waited to put pipe in the ground, we would never put pipe in the ground.

So we are working with the development community, investing today's dollars in the uh hopes for future connections.

Um I I would suggest that's how serious we are about this program.

I would also like to say that doing people's backyards is not necessarily the objective of my program.

I am trying to put as much irrigation out as possible.

I'm looking for ag golf courses just to be straight.

Parks are great, athletic fields are great.

Um, you know, if I'm gonna turn in the neighborhood and do HOA and people's backyards, I you know the hope would be I have some other users along that line that would make that work.

Um doing people's backyards would not pencil.

We're just finishing up a master plan where we've developed a valuation tool.

So what it allows me to do is look at every individual project and put it in there, and we can look at the thermal reduction benefits for clean water services and compare to uh a cooling tower chiller doing that, and it would basically tell me if the project is good or not.

Even the 200,000 dollars it's cost me in design engineering and permitting services to get into the railroad still makes your six-acre park pencil.

So this is a we are serious about this.

I think the future would be to do things like that, but I've got some gaps in that as far as designing construction standards, policies and and things like that.

Um our reuse program has been very, I would say uh not we haven't really interjected and intertangled with city potable systems.

Mostly we go to golf courses and go to parks and ponds, and so we're with Tiger and the developer, we're actually working right now on how do we protect your potable supply and how do we get recycled water there?

Um so we're I'm actually developing standards as we speak.

And so would apartments be also good candidates for apartments versus individual homes.

Uh if there's a large green space within the apartment complex absolutely, but as far as getting into toilet flushing and things like that, no, there is that would be considered on site reuse, and there is a regulatory path to do that, but that's probably not what Claywater Services is looking to invest in.

This is great, it's exciting.

This is a good step.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Other questions.

Council President Pratt.

Um you were saying if we got that pipe in connected, it would be the northeast section of Twilight and Community Park.

So how much of Twilight Community Park would that be?

Um so this first step is just from like the trestle up to the dog park to like Key Cuts Bridge, just that little section.

And so what would it take to uh in the future um to at least get the rest of community park and then our new riverfront park, that's right, connected to community park.

Getting under the other railroad again and then building the pipe, really, right?

Right now the railroads.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, the cost of all these projects are the conveyance and the pipelines.

Um but you know, as I said, we we have a real driver of clean water services to make these work.

We also value partnerships, uh, clean water services um tremendously, and we recognize that we need partners to do this.

Uh I would also say that I see a huge champion of this from Lindsay and and city folks about wanting to do this, and and other cities aren't as excited as toilet and that's unfortunate actually.

So well, it is, and I understand you know, it's a bottom line world, right?

I mean, you guys have a real opportunity to save money here, and that's that's exciting.

And I would suggest doing the right thing from the environment and community.

So, you know, you guys are let's go, um, which is exciting.

So, and those are the folks that I want to work with, and and to have full support um is is where we all want to be.

So, um from this purple pipe level water to um drinking water, potable water.

What are like I don't want you to go through the whole process, but uh what are we saving like chemicals and other things and processing?

Like there must be a lot involved to get from one to the other.

Yeah, uh drinking water does involve more chemical use, um alum and chlorine and other things, um and it just a different process.

Um the water coming out of our treatment plants is almost drinking water standards because of the river we discharged to.

Um, and then this is class A recycled water, which is the highest class of recycled water there is.

So the only rule against Class A recycled water is do not drink.

You can do everything else with it.

Um so it's from a water quality perspective, it's really close to potable, although it's it's not.

Um we essentially take the tertiary water out of the back of the treatment plant, and then we further disinfect it before we distribute to customers, so it's safe for the public.

But and then there's the energy savings of the process.

Sure.

But um, no, this is very exciting.

Good, thank you.

That's what you're saying.

Thank you.

I just thought of one thing.

So I'm thinking about all the littly kids out there when they're doing sliding, they do sliding practice at TCP, they're learning.

And so say the water is from the purple line, if it's not like they're little kids.

And so, what are the chances?

Do we need to have any warnings or things like that for kids that may ingest it like in different things?

Yeah, um per rule, we have to have signage that says we're using class A recycled water, and then it also has to say do not drink.

Okay, because I'm like, I wouldn't know what class A.

So it will be like in layman's terms, yeah, yeah, and such.

I I would from a stakeholder engagement process.

Um I would I want a celebration.

I want a party.

I want you guys to say, look at us, look at what we're doing.

I want big signs, I want balloons.

Like, you know, this isn't ostrich.

This is look at us.

And so and we have a whole you know, uh, communications group that we have lots of signage, and we'd like to work with you on how you guys would like to represent yourselves and what what you would do.

But per rule, we would need some signage.

Um there's a um legislative uh person that lives in Wilsonville, I can't remember her name right now, but she went to Tiger High, and she's like, Oh, I remember, yeah.

We you guys I was there when you guys brought over the purple pipe, and you guys, you know, and we've been putting on those athletic fields for 35 years.

Um so I think there's a lot of precedence that it's safe and reliable.

Um but I you know at Rubridge Park right now.

Rudridge Park right now, that is my number one concern.

I'm I'm ready to send the water.

I don't feel like we've done the stakeholder engagement as well as I would like it to see, and that's risk to me.

And it's a perceived risk.

And from a health perspective, I I feel very confident that we're we're we're everyone's gonna be fine.

But there's a perceived risk.

This is new, change is new.

They know where the water's coming from.

I guess the ick factor, we like to call it.

So um that's why I feel communications is the number one important game on this business right here.

And I just want to make sure you know you as a council are comfortable, but obviously we're gonna need we need to do the stakeholder engagement before I'm comfortable saying Lindsay, let's go.

The park.

We just that's it's just critical.

Yeah, thank you.

But again, I should it should be a celebration, it shouldn't be like um you know, you shouldn't be scared of it.

You can celebrate and educate at the same time, right?

Absolutely.

Um good question.

Thinking about what is the city's lookability for all these.

That's a good question.

They're in the mud.

Okay, thank you.

How long um did you say five years it would take for this to be implemented?

Or is that what we're doing?

Uh I'm hoping under the two path is a railroad.

Um we're putting together.

I've hired a consultant, we're we've got a survey crew going out next week.

Uh we're starting the process um to do to put together the permit.

Uh you know, they have timelines and frameworks on their website about how long they have to review things, but um, that's the critical path would be getting through the permitting with the railroad.

I'm not sure how long that would take.

Um I think if that's efficient, my goal would be to get through that process by the end of this calendar year and to do the construction, which is going to be a jack and boar likely underneath the railroad, so it's a pretty decent project.

But to do that next summer, and potentially deliver water potentially by the end of next summer.

I'm a raging optimist, so um uh but if all things went well, you know, but I would anticipate uh summer 28 would probably be a likely target for us sending water to the park.

Thank you.

Any other questions?

Motions and we just adopt this one.

I move that we adopt resolution number 5955-26.

I have a motion and a second to adopt resolution 5955-26 and discussions on those motions.

See now it's a roll call vote, Councilor Gonzalez.

Yes, Councillor Hillier.

Aye, Council Reyes.

Yes, Council President Pratt.

I don't counselor Sacco.

Aye.

And I vote I also, it's unanimous.

Congratulations.

Thank you very much.

Welcome on the bus.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right.

So we had no items removed from consent tonight.

Uh council communications.

We had a our first budget session last this morning.

This morning, Chiefs.

Our first budget session has days been long.

We had our first budget session uh earlier before this meeting, so we did not have work sessions, so we'll go ahead and do our normal work session round table, and we'll start off with uh city manager Lombos.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um so last week was public service appreciation week.

Thank you for the proclamation.

We had um activities and cool things all week last week.

The theme was uh good vibes, and uh we held an all-employee meeting on Wednesday, so um, and that went very well, and it was great to uh get together with all of our city employees and give them a good update and um celebrate service anniversaries and introduce new employees and Don gave a presentation about um the budget and um a couple of other things.

Uh blender dash registration is open, so blender dash is June 6th.

Uh we're not quite filled up yet, so there is, although we're ahead of where we were last year at this time, but there's still openings, so um that's exciting.

And there's openings for volunteers as well.

So that's always a fun time to volunteer for.

It went really quick.

Uh we've still we've got a waiting list.

It's a smaller waiting list than before.

Uh we were able to open up additional spots.

Um but we're looking forward to a good summer.

Um the poll center renovations are looking good.

Um, a reopening announcement will be coming soon.

We had hoped for uh June 1st.

I think it's going to be a little after that, but um, it's looking great.

The Nyberg Trail is and final punch punch list.

We're excited about um opening that up and um planning a ribbon cutting grand opening kind of bike ride run or something like that.

Uh the linear park in Basalt Creek next to Plan Beck Gardens is under construction.

I drove past it today, and there's graders out there, and um obviously work taking place.

So that's exciting.

Uh the Sweek Pond Pedestrian Bridge.

That's the one next at Hedges Green, um, like where the um Starbucks is that kind of goes back behind to the police department.

Um that is that Ped Bridge is closed starting today for two weeks.

We're replacing it and making it safer and um so that people don't slip on it and um fall into the snakes in the the wetland.

Um our science and technology scholarship is open uh and so we've contacted the counselors at the um at the high school, and we're giving away uh awarding uh one $2,000 scholarship.

So if you know of anybody, um it's information is up on our website um about the criteria and who um who qualifies.

So we're looking forward to getting um some good some great um applicants for that.

Big truck day, the ever popular uh oh my gosh, we got so many people last so many kids last year.

It's um gonna be at Twallet and Community Park on May 22nd, so next week at 10 a.m.

So um got lots of lots of cool things.

Uh uh all of our big trucks plus uh fire and republic services and um a bunch of other ones.

A reminder that we're closed on Memorial Day.

The library is also closed that day as well.

And then uh just beware starting next Monday, May 18th through May 31st.

It's a click iter ticket, so the safety enforcement blitz.

So um wear your seatbelt and um don't speed.

So that's my update.

Thank you.

Council Kitsal.

So I don't have anything to report on the city side, but I want to take a moment to recognize one of our own tooling constituents, and uh his name is Bo Pfeiffer.

Uh Bo Fiver is its wallet.

He was selected to uh he was one of four uh students to be selected to place a wreath at the uh tomb of the unknown soldier.

Uh he is a student from Horizon Christian School.

Uh he is also uh let's see.

He's part of he's a cadet with the Civil Air Patrol Squadron, and this happened on May 3rd.

A phenomenal honor from one of our local constituents of a Horizon Christian School.

He got to be selected to as he wrote a winning essay, which is very excellent to hear.

I got to know from his uh his grandpapa.

So that's all I got.

Thank you.

Counselor Sacco.

Thank you.

Um I attended the C4 um meeting as Valerie's uh Councillor Pratt's uh President Pratt's alternative.

Um we discussed the moderate income um revolving loan program.

Also heard from local representatives on the on their economic development plans, including other cities who have urban renewal areas, um, which I found particularly interesting.

Um and we also reviewed the C4 retreat agenda um and then heard updates on the R1 Act, JPAC and MPAC as well.

Um and then uh also attended um the CAC where we reviewed visual renderings from um the college students for the last two um sites for Cora, uh which included the Lake on the Commons and in small groups.

We discussed um each element that we liked that we disliked uh possibly, and um there's some really great ideas.

Um it's a really great process for the committee to go through these renderings and really pick out um elements that uh folks like um and that you know people are gravitating to um so we can uh start really reimagining what the downtown area can look like.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Council Hillier.

Thank you.

On May the 6th, I attended the um IBAC CIO meeting, and we had 40 people, so I defy you to beat that.

No one wanted to burn my house down at it this year, so I felt really pleased about that.

I did put out the topics to um the CIO leadership and let them choose what we talked about.

So I felt um like it was um really what the community wanted to hear, and there was a great cert team that was there, and the city staff that attended gave a great report, and um the community is excited about things coming up in the community for the summer and all the things.

And I would like to say I'm sorry that I will not be at the events next week, and I wish you the best at the state of the city, and I'm I'm really sad to miss that.

And um know that it's was on my books way before that, so to not to not be in town that week.

So anyway, yeah, there is yeah, there is a little thing going on.

So um anyway, I just want to wish you all I know all of you will probably be there and have a wonderful time.

Thank you.

Councilor Reyes.

Um, no official meetings, but I did attend the Las Casitas, and I'm sure a lot of you will report on that.

But I just um the uh grand opening of Las Casitas, and I just had a lot of fun with the people there, the community, and it was so good to see the beginning, the middle, and the end, and the fun in the future that's coming after um all that great excitement with such a great and beautiful um park and neighborhood neighborhood park.

Um the other, let me see.

Oh, yes, I do have um somebody contacted me that there will be a blood drive uh here in Tualeton.

Um the city, the police.

Let me just read.

Uh it will be Thursday, May 14th.

Um at the uh the blood uh police department.

So there will be uh please sign up.

I um post it on my social media if you follow me.

But uh if you have any questions, um I think it'll be on the city website um calendar or something like that.

Okay, but it will be Thursday, May 14th from 9 30 to 3 30.

Sometimes if you don't sign up, just show up.

They'll do a little assessment, and um you might be able to get up that day.

So thank you and save some lives.

Thank you very much.

Council President Pratt.

I have to put the glass slide.

Um yeah, I was gonna mention the blood drive too.

It is Thursday at the police department and it's put on by the Red Cross and Bloodwork.

Or blood works northwest, sorry.

Yeah.

We'll put it on our uh social media.

Okay.

Um, and then um, so uh I attended the West Side Economic Alliance.

They had a thing at Perlow, a candidate forum with our two um candidates for chair of the Washington County Commission.

Um then on the next night I attended a Stafford Hamlet candidate forum for the people running for Diane Diane Helms position, which I'm not sure what number it is, but I think there are seven candidates for that.

So it was pretty interesting diversity of people.

And she's and she's running also.

Um then on the second of May I went to the ECIO meeting.

Um, and they're concerned about the land just east of Meridian Park.

Apparently there's a permit, and so um that's their big concern right now.

Um then the Los Casitas ribbon cutting, which was wonderful.

Um, and then um the downtown revitalization CIC meeting.

We went through um the last set of projects from the um kids at U of O, which and we got to the favorite one with the lily pads that I'm excited for all of you to see.

And then um on the 7th, um the mayor and councillor Hillier and I were invited to um give an update of the um what's going on in the community and what it's like to serve on city council to the East Washington County Democrats.

So that was um really interesting, and um it's god to see people have the interest and we got to help inform them.

That's it.

All right.

You forgot our very exciting R1 Act meeting.

Oh my gosh.

I'll cover that.

Okay, briefly uh want to thank uh Dustin and Quinn for leading us through the Metro Park walk at the Riverfront Park.

Uh Councilor Gonzalez can counselor Rosathal was with us.

Uh we're giving a heads up and let them see what we're asking for the money for.

Uh he was very enthusiastic on what he saw.

Uh also attended the candidate forum for Washington County Chair that day.

On the 30th, GPI had its meet the mayor's event in Lake Oswego.

Very well attended.

Uh the entire focus of the event, no surprise was economic development and land use reform.

Um lots of interest about uh you know how we handle UGB expansion, you know, attracting companies to uh the Portland metro area and uh keeping them here and also you know enticing them to grow.

Uh later that afternoon I had the G PED board meeting, uh, and that's the Greater Portland Educational Development District Board.

Uh it's part of the office of chamber, it's uh part of the uh commerce department that we're required to have this in the Portland metro area.

So we're updating the development plan for the next five years.

A consultant was picked uh to help lead the Portland Metro area and what they want to achieve economically in the region.

Uh had a ribbon cutting for party city instead of Staples on uh the first.

That was kind of fun uh to see that's the left side of Staples now be a little mini party city, complete with balloons and plates, all kinds of stuff used to see in Party City.

So pop in there if you want to check it out.

Uh Las Casitas, the river cutting.

I want to again thank Congresswoman Selinas for making time to pop in, uh shake some hands, meet some folks, uh do a speech, and I don't know if you saw on her Facebook feed, she did promote the the event.

Uh R1 Act.

We had our another R1 Act meeting that was totally useless on uh May 4th.

Uh we mentioned last time the R last R1 Act meeting was a waste of time.

Again, my words, uh, to come up with the 10 projects that we would recommend to ODOT to put as a standby list for what's important in terms of our project in the R1 Act zone.

Uh we could not reach consensus that night, nor could we get it on the fourth.

So this is getting punted for another few months.

I don't understand why this is such an issue, but um that was another what hour and a half, two hours that was wasted in a meeting.

Uh the CAC it's already been covered.

Uh want to thank U of O and the Urban Design Studio for some fantastic ideas.

Uh today, uh aging task force.

Um they're missing their fearless leader right now, Susan, but uh people stepped into the breach and they're gonna come up with a list of uh goals and things, achievements they want to do in the next year, and some of that is senior education, aging education, um advocating for more park benches and benches to the community.

So they're coming with a list of items they're gonna prioritize and see which ones they're gonna focus in on for the next year.

Uh but there was nothing uh outrageous.

I think a lot of good stuff that people would be very interested in and hearing and helping our aging community.

Uh and then as was mentioned by Councillor Hillier, I just want to remind people the state of the city is on May 19th, 5:30 to 7:30 at the Grand Hotel.

Uh it's gonna be a lot of fun between videos and speeches and uh having social time with all your neighbors and residents and the business community here in Twalton to celebrate what we got and done over the last year and what we foresee will be coming in the future.

So with that, counselor I don't think we have anything else on the agenda, right?

So counselor Hillier.

I move to adjourn.

Second.

I've motioned second to adjourn.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed.

It's unanimous.

Thank you.

Have a good evening.