Good afternoon.

So I'm Mike McCarthy.

Work for the city as the city engineer.

Abby McFedridge, engineering associate.

All right.

Well, we're providing an update on what's been happening since our last meeting.

And let's see if there's user error on this.

Alright.

So our plan this evening is to just provide a recap on just where we're at with the project.

Yeah, and how we've incorporated what we heard at our last discussion.

We've been working on the existing conditions and really documenting what's there.

It's an important step for going after other funding sources.

And we'll talk a little bit about some of the key constraints that are shaping some of the different alternatives of what might be feasible.

And we'll talk about a design charret that's coming up on June 2nd.

I think it's from 5 to 7 p.m.

And probably hear that again.

And that's we'll be inviting input from anybody who'd want to come and give us input about it.

And then talking about our next steps with the project.

Can we move the pictures out of the way?

The images.

All right.

So the area is centered around the intersection of Twalton Sherwood Road with Boones Ferry Road and the railroad crossing.

Shaded in yellow is particularly the area we're looking at.

The intersections with numbers on them are our traffic study intersections.

That's where we've gotten traffic counts into looking at traffic operations as part of it so far.

And I think we're all pretty familiar with the issues, traffic congestion, safety, walkability, noise, everything else there.

At our previous discussion on March 9th, our consultant Kittle Sin Associus was here presenting their viability analysis of some of the different types of options.

And they recommended not progressing basically with either option that would either raise or lower the railroad.

Lowering the railroads basically no-go because it gets right into floodplain issues.

Raising the railroad was too expensive.

And we'd essentially have to build a new railroad for them to operate on temporarily while we build the raised structure.

And then having to get it high enough to get over the road, then meet the station, then get down and under the rail crossing wasn't going to work.

Timeline, we're likely looking at a minimum of 10 years before any construction would happen if one of the bigger construction options is chosen.

Some of the uh surface level improvements could be done sooner than that.

And it was back then it was decided to continue evaluating taking the road over the rail.

So potentially a bridge of Toalton Sherwood Road going over the railroad and Boone's Ferry Road.

And then to also look at some of the options that could make some smaller improvements but staying at grade, so keeping a grade crossing.

For what if we just did nothing and left it as is.

And to let you know what's coming up and what the public will be seeing as part of that.

Some of the land uses in the area, somewhat developed, but a lot of properties that I think have pretty good potential for redevelopment and where improvements could be made.

And a lot of the study areas in our core opportunity reinvestment plan area.

Environmental conditions, the light blue is our what's called the 100 year floodplain, or about a 1% chance of flooding in that area.

The kind of lighter beige or tan color is more like what they call the 500 year floodplain, where there's a 0.2% chance of flooding happening.

And our project is right on the borderline, so flooding is definitely a consideration.

The kind of striped areas are floodways, which is where water is flowing down creeks or in the river.

Reviewing the functional classification of the roadways, the major arterials, and rail facilities, and what we have where and the west station to the north, the crossings.

Volumes of trains running on this.

And it's been harder than expected to get data from the railroad about how often they're running freight trains and when they're happening.

We know the Vest West Train runs five trains in each direction during the morning and evening peak hours.

We know freight trains are coming through pretty regularly, sometimes quite long.

And we've got some information that Washington County has helped us pull together from the signal itself to know when it goes into rail preempt mode and when it comes back out.

We also are aware of the need to preserve access to and from the Twalton Valley Fire and Rescue Station on 90th.

Our pedestrian facilities.

Analysis is on the left, and that's really an indicative of how one would feel when walking along the sidewalk or along along the roadway if there's no sidewalk.

Basically, red is bad, and red is places that we know are uncomfortable to walk along.

Blue is good, green is still pretty good.

And so we know it's a difficult spot to try to walk through.

On the right are numbers from Strava, which is tends to be used more by people who are exercising to measure their runs or bike rides.

And the thicker red lines indicate places where a lot of people are walking, running, or biking.

So it gives us a sense of the usage.

Recognizing that they tend to be more of kind of the exercise users rather than the people who wouldn't be using an app to track how far they're going.

Same thing with bike facilities.

Again, level of traffic stress on the left.

And Strava counts on the right, showing a lot of people are cycling, you know, up Boone's Ferry.

And then continuing north also into Tiger.

And so even though it's so uncomfortable to go through this intersection, there's still a whole lot of people doing it, which really shows us the travel demand there.

Traffic operations.

So the bar graph is volume of traffic, total volume through the intersection at each hour.

So there's a slight peak in the morning, again a peak in the afternoon.

But this is one of the flattest traffic volume per day charts I've seen.

Typically, there's a lot more peak in the morning and afternoon peak hours.

But what we're showing here is I think what a lot of us know is steady traffic demand all day.

A lot of it is a lot of the businesses, particularly to the west on Twalton Sherwood Road, contractors, distributors, uh, have a lot of traffic to and from all day.

The blue and red lines are the direction of traffic in those hours.

What it shows is actually a difference from the typically assumed pattern.

Typically, it's been assumed that traffic would be going eastbound on Twelfton Sherwood Road in the morning to get towards downtown Portland, and then westbound in the afternoon.

These are actually showing those numbers are reversed.

And I think it's a change in regional travel patterns.

We're seeing a lot more traffic to employers in the suburbs rather than traffic to and from downtown Portland.

So that's a change within the last decade or so.

And we're seeing a lot more people traveling west to like Lamb or some of the other employers to the west on Twalton Sherwood Road in the morning and then heading back east towards I-5 in the afternoon.

So what we're seeing here is busy all day and kind of more volume coming into Twalton in the morning and going out of Twalton in the evening.

And yes.

I'm sorry, I know we're not interrupting.

Is there any north and south?

Because that's west and east, right?

Are you gonna do that later?

Which is I don't know if we have that as part of this presentation.

Okay.

As far as the north-south volumes, uh, we're actually seeing quite a bit lower volume on Boons Ferry at this intersection itself, because it's commonly known to be such bad traffic that a lot of people are using Martinazzi or Teton or 95th or something else to get north-south.

Um, which matches with what we saw with our functional classification, uh, where Boons Ferries primarily treated to the south, but not to the north.

And a lot of that has to do with some of the difficulties in getting across this intersection.

So thank you, good question.

Uh then from the traffic counts, the way they do the counts is they set up a camera and then they now it's AI, but sometimes it was actually a person who had to watch the video and count all the different cars that go through.

And I am glad that somebody else has that job.

I've done that.

Uh but what we're seeing in the video is traffic queuing extending from this intersection through other intersections.

And sometimes vice versa, like traffic waiting to get on the freeway ends up affecting this intersection as well in certain cases.

Uh but basically we've confirmed that yes, there are traffic problems in this area.

And one of the things also is because of the some of the traffic difficulties getting through, whether it's rail or geometry or effects of other intersections, we can't actually get to the theoretical maximum traffic volumes.

So it just really confirms that there are traffic problems in the region.

Uh so a while ago, if you remember, it's a very specific detail, but this intersection actually didn't show up as level of service F, which is the lowest level, and this is where we can see why it didn't, because the cars just can't physically get to the intersection.

I believe it was level of service E, which still fails.

But this shows exactly why that was.

Thanks, Abby.

And crash analysis of the area, basically, because of the traffic problems here contributing to a lot of crashes.

And it is identified in the kind of top categories of the statewide safety priority indexing system and the county's safety priority injecing system of places where we have more crashes than expected.

It will be showing up on a rail list as well for issues.

Um sometimes we've had things like people turning left to go south on boons that have ended up on the tracks because they're having trouble figuring out where to go.

Uh so it's also on the rail list of problem areas as well.

So a lot of things coming together of yes, we have a lot of problems in this area, and it's confirming I think what we've known already.

Uh and this is a summary of some of the existing problems.

The blue or it might look green dashed lines are places where traffic cues up and starts affecting other intersections.

Uh the kind of the purple circles around the numbers indicate places with higher than typical crash rates, and where we're seeing a lot of crashes.

So it's at the main intersection itself, but also at Boons Ferry and Warm Springs in the south, which we think has a lot to do with queuing from this intersection through the warm springs intersection.

And same thing to the west at 89th Avenue, where basically if people hit the back of the line of queued traffic, it gets cued to that, gets coded to that intersection because that's where the location is, even though it's traffic from this intersection.

And then also the red dots are some of the high stress segments for walking or biking, uh the red and the yellow.

So it's a number of you know problems in this particular area.

And then we've had the project advisory committee, and we had our first meeting, was it last week?

And uh included staff from a number of other agencies affected.

Uh we actually had three people from the railroad attend, which is pretty amazing.

Uh, one attending remotely from Jacksonville, Florida, and then another one who's on his way up through this area from Medford, and then one local.

Uh, along with representatives from the Planning Commission, uh, Nancy Crowshar who helped on our TSP advisory committee, uh Trevor Rowe, who uh works for the company that owns the property with Florin Decor and TJ Maxx and that area, and uh along with representatives from TriMet, Metro, Washington County, and ODOT Rail.

Um they aren't officially showing up in this list, but they so we had a lot of interest from the other agencies, which I think is great, and I think a lot of recognition of the issues here and desire to work together to solve them, and to see that kind of attendance from the railroad, I think is wonderful.

I think we had a really good discussion about it, really gave them an overview of the project.

Uh I think they agreed with the project team about a lot of the issues that we've been seeing and the desire to do something about it.

Um I think some from the railroad initially came in with the idea of wanting to raise the railroad up.

And then I think more we talked about the issues and particularly the need to build, uh they call it a shoe fly, which is the temporary railroad line, uh, so that they can build the new bridge for the railroad.

Um I think after hearing all that, I think they decided, yeah, okay, let's take a look at the bridge over or the at grade.

But I think there's among the agencies, I think there's a lot of desire to work towards a bridge over.

And I guess I got a little ahead of myself when I was talking.

Uh so this is basically what we talked about at the project advisory committee or a pack meeting.

I guess we have to have an alternate and we have to use an acronym somehow.

Uh so reviewing some of the goals of the project, really wanting to improve safety in the area, reduce the number of crashes, reduce the risks involved, want to improve uh multimodal access.

There's a pedestrian, there's a cyclist, there should also be a car there.

So improving mobility for all modes, uh, travel reliability, um, looking to basically make it more consistent time getting through so you can know about how long it'll mean.

Typically means reducing congestion and helping traffic flow better, and then providing the opportunities for community development and helping to improve the downtown area, and also with that is reducing the negative effects of the roadway on the downtown area.

Um then feasibility of trying to find something that can be built.

So, based on what we've heard from you and from others, this is what the project team is working towards.

And talking about some of the grade separated alternatives, and really the big issue is how do you connect people the same way that they're connected now and still allow people to turn from Boons onto Twalton Sherwood in one way or another.

So those are a lot of the big questions that we'll be looking at, and that we'll be asking people to draw up at the Charette uh June 2nd in the evening.

And a couple of the other possibilities or ways that this could work.

And also continuing to look at the at-grade um alternatives, things like adding turn lanes, particularly like right turn lanes to help you get from Twalton Sherwood to Boone's.

And uh also potential do left, but ways that it would still stay at grade.

So that would likely preclude some of the federal funding options that we'd be considering.

And then some of the things we'll be talking about going forward is the question of if we were to build a bridge, how do you build it while you keep the traffic moving?

Right.

Because we're assuming we can't just you know close off to Alton Sherwood Road for a year while this gets built.

So you know, we'll need to at least keep a couple lanes moving each direction.

We'll need to still keep turning movements open.

We'll need to still keep open access for businesses.

So it becomes a question of how do you do that.

And you can try to work within the existing right-of-way and shift lanes and move traffic around and build part of a bridge in the first phase and part of a bridge in the second phase, part of the bridge in the third phase.

Um that can get pretty expensive pretty fast and kind of extends the pain of the disruption.

Some of the other options would be to actually shift the roadway.

Uh you know, perhaps go to the south and use some of the old Dwalton-Sherwood Road alignment, perhaps also with Tonka Street, and either build a bridge along that alignment or shift the road to there while building the bridge on the current alignment if we were to build the bridge.

So those are a lot of the next questions, the next things that we'll be looking at is just how could it work and what could be done to make this happen?

Um you're showing some of the temporary options and ways that we could be looking at it.

Each of the properties that are shaded in that light blue could be potentially impacted depending on which direction the options went.

And uh so there are potential options to go north as well.

Um in order to make it work.

So there could be some pretty significant impacts and questions that would have to be worked through in the process if we did go ahead and build the bridge.

And so our second to last slide.

Any thoughts or discussion at this point?

Or what thoughts or discussion do you have?

Okay.

Council President Pratt.

Um this is just back on the project process and schedule.

Will you be back before us like some time in phase two or just at the very end of phase three?

Um I believe we're looking at coming back, I think in August.

Oh I forget the specific either August or September.

Okay.

After we've gotten a lot of the public input and gone through and really starting to evaluate and narrow down options.

Yeah, that's what I was preferring instead of coming at the very end going.

This is what we think's you know, but this is what we've looked at and give us some of the feedback and you know, thought process of where you're headed and why.

Okay.

We're going through a process of going to council, going to the public, going to planning commission, and then kind of reviewing and then discuss internally.

That sounds good.

Thank you.

Councillor Gonzalo.

Thank you for this.

So I was reached out by the property managers who oversee these commercial accounts because of my professional career, my company serpese some of these communities on the landscaping side.

And they heard rumblings about that, so I ended up sending them over last video, last notes, last conversation from the ninth.

When do you get them involved in this process directly?

When do you reach out to them directly and say, hey, we're talking about this that may affect your businesses versus just going to the public and assuming they're gonna just chime in.

I'm not sure when we will.

It's such a long process when we would narrow down efforts for property owners, I would assume it would be more direct once we had a better idea of alternatives.

But we did send out mailers to I think it was property owners owners and um business owners.

I think it was a 700-foot radius from the intersection that seemed to cover the ones that would be most affected.

Um I'm not sure if that's why they had found out and reached out to you.

But we are trying to get preliminary thoughts.

Yes.

And and when I explained this to them, I did say this is way out.

So I know that this information I'll be sending to them now that they know that I'm I'll be feeding them some of this preliminary.

They may show so they may show up to this meeting on the 6th, the second you said June 2nd.

From 5 to 7 p.m.

in this room.

And admitted, I've made it very clear to them that it's not anything that's happening tomorrow.

It's it's a it's a generational move.

So you can come and talk and feel these questions out.

So that's probably coming.

Thank you.

Good.

Thank you for making that connection extending the communication.

Um one of the larger construction options moves moves forward, and there are going to be properties impacted, or we'll have to start negotiating, you know, then we'd be involving more professional staff.

But I think we're several years before that would really start happening.

Other questions or comments?

Council Brooks.

Thank you very much.

Um, the things that I think about when I think about the intersection is also all the schools that are down Boons Ferry Road and down Twelton Sherwood Road was Mitch.

And so um when we talk about pedestrian crossing and the ways risking and all that, I think that um I'd be curious around those young people populations and when they're kind of moving around.

I think that it's an important part of the conversation.

Um I'm just curious about that.

I really appreciate the thoughtfulness of the work and all of the detail um explaining um where there's issues, and so it's interesting to clarify it because we all know there's issues, and so to see oh, these are the issues exactly, is interesting.

Um even without even connecting the uh north-south.

So I appreciate that.

And then um I did see that there was good news on federal legislation around railroad crossings still, so I appreciate that as well.

And finally, with the um with the oh with the opportunities here, would there ever be an opportunity for a discussion around um around transport rail transportation for the public?

Are you thinking in terms of like more commuter rail or kind of longer rail service?

Yeah, if we're gonna be it changing that, and it seems to be the only place the feds are funding right now.

Is there an opportunity since that opportunity was missed with Metro?

Well, yeah, I think I think that would be separate from this project, but I think it's a good opportunity or good discussion to have about like you know, this line continues down into Salem, and what are the possibilities of like more passenger service or something along those lines?

Um yeah, I think it's a good op good discussion for some of the regional transportation planning.

Yeah, and then I think of it too.

Um if we're doing this, if there was something that they needed to improve that we would have the space for like a second rail, or if they would need that.

I just keep thinking about the plans to build a uh base uh a stadium downtown, the the even what we're seeing with less people driving downtown and um the people that want to go back and forth.

So I just keep thinking about that as we're looking at this.

What how else can we improve our uh regional transportation because it's such a problem here with bus service?

We all know.

I'm not gonna keep going on about it, but I'm just curious about that.

Yeah, yeah, I think good questions and um some of them would be getting looked into more with this.

I think your first comment brought up one of the issues that we're kind of hearing more about going forward is I think there's a lot of agreement that there's a that this is a problem area, but there isn't as much agreement about what the problem is, you know, or what we ought to do about it and how best we can solve some of the different problems.

So those are things we'll be delving into going forward is more of okay.

All right, we hear you that this is a place you want improved, and then okay, let's talk about why and talk about what we can do to address that.

So thank you.

Thank you very much.

Um can you flip Counselor Sacco and oh you're back on so we can I could see if they got their hands up our hands raised.

Neither of them okay.

Um two questions I have are one is I'm assuming because I didn't see it part of the pack, uh, that TV F and R is within that 700 feet that we're gonna be talking to TV F and R about any concerns they may have with tinkering with the intersection since they have to go through it every day.

We will be, yes.

Okay.

And second one is the more hairy one.

Is part of the analysis, the impacts of when a freight train and a west train go through the intersection, how the queuing gets tremendous, especially on freight when we have these long long trains, how we end up having the queues, as you mentioned, go way further than normal, end up sort of winding through neighborhoods.

How the queuing gets tremendous, especially on freight when we have these long, long trains, how we end up having the queues, as you mentioned, go way further than normal, end up sort of winding through neighborhoods.

Um is that part of the analysis, or is it just a given that we know, hey, when uh when a train comes through, we on average this is where the cues go.

Um that is part of the analysis and part of the justification for the crossing of some of the effects.

Uh I could say anecdotally as we're getting more involved in this project of actually like watching the intersection at some point.

Um maybe I'm a little too much of a traffic nerd.

Uh but at one point I was watching it right around lunchtime, and we had I think it was a four-minute long train come through.

Uh so it was a about a five-minute closure from gate down to gate up.

It took about 45 minutes for traffic to get back to normal.

That's that was the second part of my question is the recovery time.

Yeah.

And at first it was Twelfth and Sherwood was backed up.

Uh, but then the signals cleared that out in about a half hour, but then it took another 15 minutes to clear out what had the backup that had developed on Boone's Ferry while the signals were prioritizing Twalton Sherwood.

And that was during the noon hour.

That wasn't during you know the higher volumes of the five o'clock hour.

So yeah, good points that we'll be continuing with and you know, could be using if we go forward with some kind of a funding application.

Am I correcting I seem to recall Washington County Sys is one of the most complicated intersections and lights that they have in the whole county or in the region?

It is one of their most complicated ones to work with.

I think because of the traffic volume, because of the railroad, because of the adaptive signal coordination that they have there.

And uh yeah, so it is one of their most complicated ones.

Okay.

Uh any other questions for Mike or Abby.

Seeing that.

Oh.

So June 2nd in this room from five to seven.

We're really plugging the event.

No, I I saw I saw it pop up on Facebook.

I think I said there was an ad somewhere.

I saw some of the mailings.

So I forwarded it to you.

Yeah.

Okay.

It will mostly be the same information, but we wanted to invite you guys.

Yeah.

I think I have one more follow-up slide.

Because it's good, good to have, because one, you gotta, like you mentioned, you gotta get your head around this.

And the challenge is once you do get your head around what the challenges are, is how do you fix this with the least amount of disruption and ideally the least amount of cost to the community?

Right.

And then what's the time horizon of getting this done?

The existing conditions have validated a lot of concerns that the city has had.

But now it's about what should the city do.

So our next steps are what they call a design charrette, uh, which I think is just a nice fancy word for a workshop.

Uh and we'll be meeting from two to four with the project advisory committee.

So it's more of the agency staff and the um the people who have been involved with planning or transportation system work here.

Uh and then five to seven will be open to the general public.

And this would be the opportunity for people to come in and you know, propose what other option they'd want to propose.

And we will take a look at whatever gets proposed.

Um, we don't have the budget to take an in-depth look at everything, but we will consider all the options that come in.

And you know, I definitely have some of my own up ideas on how to connect things.

I think a lot of people do.

Uh I think if any of you have thoughts or things that you would want to like an option that you'd want to propose, feel free to write it up and send it to us.

Um, or bring it to that June 2nd meeting.

And uh then we'll basically assemble all the options proposed along with options coming from the project team as well, and really look at how each one would solve the different issues or maintain the different traffic movements, um, how they would address things like walkability or bikeability.

Like, do they provide a good option for someone to just walk from south to north across Twelfth and Sherwood Road that's better than the current option?

Um then what kind of effect would they have on adjacent properties and how would that work?

And some options would make adjacent properties more marketable.

And so there'd be some real positives there, but some would have some pretty big negative effects.

Yeah.

Uh so all of that will be getting considered coming from that design charret.

And if people can't attend, feel free to send them our direction, we'd be happy to answer questions.

Um I believe I know the website transition is close, so I'm not sure if it's currently up, but we plan to have like a sign up for project updates too, so they can sign up if they want to stay informed along the way.

So they can sign up if they want to stay informed along the way.

I had a question after you said that.

If has if there was a property that was interrupted by the new road, if we were say we were gonna go further south, and if there was more property opened up downtown, is there other ways of helping someone transition to a different site?

Or I don't know enough about how that works.

Um so if we do end up like either having to acquire property or doing things that would disloc displace a business, um we follow the federal right-of-way acquisition manual, uh, particularly if we're getting federal funding for the work, but we'd follow the same guidelines anyway.

It's particularly making sure people get treated fairly if some of their properties getting taken, and then if it's a business that gets relocated, I believe the provision is essentially we pay their relocation costs to a reasonable suitable facility somewhere, hopefully nearby.

And then it would I be correct in assuming that there the property that was ours after the road gets removed would be possibly more property that the city could uh sell it.

Um it is fairly common for things like that to happen with projects like this, where if the city goes through and has to acquire property, you know, the owner typically want to just sell the whole property, and then we might then separate off the portion that we don't need, which could then become sellable as a developable property.

Or where the road might used to be and extender town.

Correct.

Yeah.

If the road gets moved, the existing right-of-way gets pretty complicated to have to ask her, so you turn to how it works, but it could be then sold off as developable property.

Okay, which might be a way to capture some of those costs.

Thank you.

Any other questions?

Right.

All right, I think that's all we got for you tonight.

Great.

Thank you very much.

All right, appreciate it.

Uh next up on our agenda is the City Council 2026 priorities update led by our city manager Sheryl Lombos.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Would you prefer me to be down in front, or can I just hang out here or hang out there?

Up.

I was gonna say you can hang out there as long as they got you on camera.

So I the I'm using what's in the uh the presentation in the um the packet.

Uh we'll just we'll just scroll through it.

Um that starts with the your 2030 vision, and of course, this is in front of you on your placemat that is laminated, and um they sit in front of you and they're prominent in all kinds of documents, right?

The budget, the um our website, and we refer to these quite often.

And they are abiding.

Of course, they're only uh they're 2030, so we'll need um in the next iteration, we'll you'll review these and um next year, and it will be further out than 2030 because 2030, of course, is only four years away.

But these seven statements are broad enough to be encompassing yet specific enough to give direction and keep us focused.

Um is there a way to zoom to zoom a little bit, Andy?

Do you know?

Um if not, that's fine.

Oh, no, it's okay, it's okay.

Oh, that's fine.

That's probably better, but um I don't know if that can be shared.

Thank you while we work through this.

Perfect, thank you.

And then I'm gonna take over control of the scroll.

And then we'll be able to perfect.

All right.

So that's the the vision statement.

So we'll just scroll through.

You are familiar with those, I won't read them.

So there are seven priority areas as you know.

Uh the first one being neighborhood engagement, and there are a set of outcome statements for each one of the priority areas.

For the neighborhood engagement, the outcomes speak to investments around the city, capital, and human quality of life is of course a priority and is as a theme in the outcomes.

So in terms of the actions, uh 1.1 and 1.2 and 1.3 are all bundled together and start with bringing the current backlog of sidewalk street tree maintenance up to standard.

And on your agenda tonight is um is a uh awarding a contract for the uh sidewalk backlog project, and that is a 1.3 million dollar 1.4 million dollar contract, and um that is a two-year program, and once that is complete, uh we'll transition to a new program.

So during the two years, we'll be talking about uh a new sidewalk street tree policy, but you guys have talked about that in the past where it would be um something that the homeowners would contribute money as well as the city.

Um but that's to come.

We're starting with we're starting with the backlog project and bringing everything up to speed, and then we will have a new sidewalk street tree uh maintenance program that we'll talk through before we get there.

You don't have that adopted yet.

Yes.

Um when we're doing the implementation of the new, will we be doing community outreach on the is it going to be concurrent?

Do you think or after we're finished?

Oh, I would think it would be concurrent.

Okay, thank you.

Uh 1.4 encourage connection and interaction between city committees and other groups, including the community involvement organizations.

Um this is um for all of these.

You've been hearing about these through the budget, um, and you heard Aquila talk about this one last week when she gave her presentation in the budget that the CIO land use um meetings are prior to planning commission, and so um they get the opportunity to attend planning commission and interact that way.

It's other it's happening in a variety of other ways as well.

The idea committee has on their work plan to visit other committees and um have engagement and involvement um with other committees hosting a board committee summit, so that is also another way to encourage connection and interaction.

So that is in the budget for uh 2026, that'll be this fall, early winter, and then 1.6 is you're in the lead.

So council will stay informed and provide leadership with relevant partners on policy and funding changes at the regional at various levels.

Um so like I said, you're the lead on this.

You report out regularly on ways you are staying informed and providing leadership.

I don't know if you want to chime in about that and anything that comes to mind that you're doing, but I we kind of depend on you as you do your reports report outside.

I I would say um that one of the biggest privileges of uh serving as a city councilor is to work with the National League of Cities, the League of Oregon Cities and other regional governments together to learn more about what money people are paying into their taxes up to the federal and state level, and what ability the city has to capture those dollars for development improvement and increasing capital, which I think we've done really well.

Um this year for me.

I'm serving on the real committee, the community um engage community and engagement and development committee and the um the first tier suburbs committee for the NLC.

I serve on the women's caucus and the planning committee for the um next conference for the LOC, and then it looks like uh pending approval of Metro that I'll be serving on the parks oversight committee.

Um I got the letter today, so that will be good for our communities interest in parks and responsible use of our taxpayer dollars in this area that sometimes is overlooked, and then our county service positions.

I know all of us do these things, and we all work together.

Um I think there's that it could be interesting to dig into that a little bit more too.

Thanks.

Thank you for that.

Um the second one is housing, the broad category of housing.

Um so the outcomes speak to having a diversity of housing options, that Tewallaton is engaged in what's happening regionally, and that we work with developers and homeowners and renters alike.

The actions uh so 2.1 um staff are still evaluating and responding to legislation from the last session.

Um there will be code updates needed, uh, for instance, clear and objective standards, which Aquila and her team have been before you on, and they are working on.

So there's lots of work on this, um, and then of course we've got a legislative session coming up next year, and I'm sure there will be um a lot of of work associated with housing under that, but there's plenty to keep us busy from the past legislative sessions.

Uh 2.2.

Um staff review development applications for opportunities to increase and ensure uh green space, and um they are um Aquila and her team have been uh thinking about additional ways and uh to get and preserve green space, and that might include uh planter strips and um how to how to um uh reduce driveway approaches and so you have longer planter strips and so um that more to come on that, but um, I know staff is um trying to be responsive to this action and um think creatively and strategically about um addressing and preserving and um adding green space to Tualeton uh 2.3 and 2.4 are kind of go together right at the moment.

It's having to do with supportive housing services.

2.3, you're in the lead on staying informed and providing regional leadership or leadership on regional implementation of the SHS.

Um, but our homeless uh liaison, Megan Cohen was before you.

She's funded by SHS dollars through the county.

Uh she was before you on April 27th talking about eviction prevention, and we're following up on that, so that is definitely on the radar, and we're continuing to work on it.

And then 2.5, we received a grant from the state for this work that was kicked off in April and will continue through the year.

The next update to you will be on June 22nd about this.

Yeah, um around the the green space preservation um with the industrial lands, the basalt creek area.

Is there I know we had trails conversation of trails up there?

Um just curious if there has if we are looking at that as we are actively engaged with it, or has that already been planned, or are we still planning it, or has the green space preservation been part of that conversation up there?

Do you have a off the cuff answer to that, Aquila?

Um okay, we can we can get back with you on that or respond on that.

I appreciate it.

Okay.

Number three is economic development, and so the outcomes speak to creating, maintaining, and promoting a vibrant economy here in Tiwallaton.

Um 3.1.

Of course, you had an update and provided direction at your April 27th meeting.

We'll be back with code amendments this year.

So excited about that.

You've um 3.2 revisit zoning options in the Leviton area.

So how we're looking at this one right now, and you heard from Aquila at the budget meeting last week.

So we're working with Echo Northwest on an economic landscape analysis that looks at our clusters and the land use in our industrial areas and in our job areas.

And let's see, that we think will help guide will help guide this.

So excited to get that information in front of you.

3.3 and 3.4 are regarding our urban renewal areas, so the CORA and the Basalt Creek SWERD as it's as it's known, but let's just say Basalt Creek area.

SID is on a regular cycle of updates to the council.

The next update is scheduled for the first meeting of July.

3.5 continue the downtown revitalization project work.

Of course, this work continues.

The community advisory committee is meeting monthly.

And I'll say this in my manager's report, but this Friday, May 29th, is a celebration of the Sustainable Year City program.

It is at 4 p.m.

right here in this space, and of course, the Sustainable Year City program has been so integral to the downtown revitalization project, and it's been very exciting.

So I if you're around, it would be great to have you celebrate with us.

Pursue opportunities to stimulate development in Basalt Creek.

Our community development team is attuned to this talking to developers in the Basalt Creek area.

And I think we've had a couple of pre-application meetings, and we'll continue to focus on that.

3.9 uh tourism strategic plan.

We haven't started scoping this, but it is in the queue.

Our creative communications manager, Heidi has been pretty taken up with the website, and uh so uh her workload it is about to open up a little bit, so excited for that fingers crossed.

Anything on um economic development that you want to point out?

Can you say again when the are you gonna send us a calendar invite to the um sustainable your city?

That would be helpful.

Sure.

Thank you so much.

Definitely do that.

Um calendar invite.

So the next one is transportation, and always a hot topic in Twalaton since uh probably the beginning of time.

Uh since the Mastodons were here, they probably got into traffic jams.

So uh the outcomes speak to a functional transportation network and system as well as funding to support that and advocacy to back it up.

Um the actions, so 4.1.

Um, this is a broad action, uh, but a number of things fall under it.

We are working with a consultant on prioritizing the projects from the transportation system plan.

Um course, specific projects that have been prioritized that you just heard about the Twilight and Sherwood Road Railroad Crossing Project and Yeah.

4.2.

Uh this is ongoing work with the team from Thorn Run, and I I know that it's very active right now trying to come up with our legislative asks, and I believe that will be in front of the council on June 22nd.

So your next count or yeah, the next council meeting.

Provide regular transportation updates to the to the council and the community.

So you just had an update tonight.

Uh you do a good job of keeping each other informed, whether that's JPACT or R1 Act or WCCC as you or the Interstate Bridge I the IBR, what is that interstate bridge replacement program?

A lot falls under this, and I feel like you guys keep in tuned with uh transportation updates.

Implement changes to the residential permit parking program.

This is being worked on at police and community development are leads.

Um I don't have a date when it's gonna be back in front of you, but it is being worked on.

And then 4.5 um advocate for public transit services.

Uh this kind of came out of the whole uh TriMEC cuts and the concerns over lack of transit service here in Tualeton.

So staff from Twilight and Sherwood Westland and Lake Oswego are working together to scope a study and hire a consultant.

Um there are funds in the 2627 budget for this.

Anything on that the fifth priority is environment.

So the outcomes speak to Tualetin being a leader on environmental issues, um, implementing the climate action plan.

And uh 5.1 expand the two-year climate action implementation plan to a five-year prioritized plan.

Amanda will be in front of you on June 22nd.

So just fair warning the June 22nd meeting is going to be a sizable one given that the June 8th council meeting is canceled.

But um good stuff.

So she has been meeting with a variety of community groups and uh boards and committees.

She met with Tea Park.

She did she meet with the Arts Advisory Committee yet?

I think she is on cue for that.

She met with the Idea Committee, I believe, uh, working on bringing them up to speed on the climate action plan, but also prioritization criteria to be used.

And so that will be what you'll be talking about with her.

Of like how do we how what criteria do we use to prioritize the climate action plan actions for a five-year work plan?

5.2 is also a kind of a broad, a broad one that a lot fits under planning and programmatic endeavors.

I'll just um click off a few of them.

So the microhydro turbine project, the in pipe project, uh recycled water, which we were here the last council meeting with um on the purple pipe with clean water services, um, the seismic valves.

Um I'll talk a little bit about that.

Um I think there's one specific to that, but um, we're under contract with a consultant, we've done site um site visits, and that's very exciting.

Uh we're also working on a hazard mitigation plan uh with the county, and um so Amanda and Public Works are working on that as well.

So a lot goes into environmental resiliency, both planning-wise as well as programmatically.

Uh 5.3 has to do with backyard habitat and raising the awareness and visibility of this.

Of course, we support them financially through the budget, and they presented back in April.

You heard um, you're gonna hear a report tonight under special reports uh a really cool program with Twilight and High School Backyard Habitat and the city creating a certified backyard habitat area around the microturbine project.

And then 5.4 um raising the awareness and visibility of B City.

So a lot's going into this as well.

Um, ongoing effort.

We worked with a corporate volunteer group in April to plant pollinators and butterfly-friendly plants at Sarien Wayside Park.

I think there were about 150 plants pollinator and butterfly-friendly plants planted.

5.5, uh review the tree ordinance.

So, yes, our work, it's on our work plan to have a work session about this and review the current regulations and then scope what your what you want above and beyond our current regul our current regulations.

Uh 5.6 and 5.7 um have to do with sustainable maintenance practices.

Um I think fall um the purple pipe, the recycled water falls under this.

Also, we're doing an analysis of tiered water bills, tiered water rates that um so it would be be based on usage, like a behavior change of how much you use, you you pay for what you use.

And then Dustin and his team are exploring a variety of sustainable maintenance practices.

Last week, not last year.

It feels like a year ago.

Anything on the environment before I move to the parks.

I know for myself, since I've started doing that, I water a lot less.

So it might be a way to tie in some data that helps our create you know evidence-based narrative.

Are you thinking during our analysis to look at the the folks that are involved in the backyard habitat or to once a tiered rate is implemented to take that into account?

I would think that there might be opportunities for different kinds of studies.

There could be baseline and others.

It could be that the factor is included in the research that you could see the difference between watered by the square foot and on and um with grassland, and then you could um incorporate afterwards, you know after you know differences in measures.

Um you could have a tool for um the rate conversation, but I think the research would have to be done first.

I think so.

I'll uh check in with the folks that are doing that analysis.

I think it's our finance and public works team.

So and I don't know how many people there actually are that are doing it, but it seems like it'd be easy numbers to get, so especially since we're working directly with them, and we have also our own properties to understand what it would look like in more commercial or public areas as well.

Thank you.

Okay.

I I do have a clarifying question on uh what counselor said asked.

Are you referring to the the utilization of water resources?

What do you specifically want and analyze it would be um probably I mean I would leave it up to our public works department, but I imagine it has to do with how much water use, whether it's inches or gallons per square foot, and if there's any change with the backyard habitat involved people, and um if that would go into the metrics of the billing conversation and also um into the narrative around our partnership with the backyard habitat.

Does that make sense?

I'm sorry, still does not make sense to me.

I I'm very familiar with the back habitat.

If you're looking for a reduction of water utilization because you're not watering more garden beds, you know, clear garden bed and turf.

Um I think when it comes to backyard habitat, it it sounds great.

You'll you'll water less because you're you're not it's all native plants and all that good stuff.

And then when you talked about commercial implementation, I think the when it comes to backyard habitat outside of the environmental impact that it may have, which is a good thing.

We also have to talk about managing the expectation of what they'd look like and the other labor that goes into maintaining those backyard habitats and the commercial environments.

That's why I was asking for a clarifying question what specifically are you wanting research is labor reduction, water reduction, um no, we were talking for me.

It was just specifically about water because we were talking about measuring water, so um, and talking about usage billing based on use.

So there may be a tie in there.

I'm not expecting it, but I think there may be an opportunity, that's all.

Thank you.

I'll check in, and if we have any other if they have questions, like they can reach out to you.

All right, uh next is parks.

And so the outcomes speak to sustaining momentum and continuing to enhance and grow our offerings of our much loved parks and recreation facilities and programs.

So action 6.1.

This is an ongoing effort through our communications team and our parks staff.

I think we do a good job.

In the manager report, but I'll just mention it now because it's so interesting.

So we did a our we did a napping nutria.

Did you anybody see it on your social media feed?

It hit 411,000 views.

I know, um, on Instagram.

And I had 37,000 shares.

Oh, right.

This is like very uh very popular.

Um so I do think, I mean, I don't know why things go viral, but the I do think we do provide high value communication on on a variety of things, including napping nutria.

Uh 6.2.

Um you heard from Dustin last week or last year, uh no last week about adding uh recreation supervisor in this upcoming um year that adds capacity to offer more programs and expanded program offerings also in the poll center.

Um adding uh program offerings in in that space as well.

Uh there was a question about and Dustin gave some information about the integrated pest management uh program.

I know that's on the that's on their radar, and they I don't have any additional follow-up from what was discussed uh last week at the budget meeting.

Um 6.4 revenue opportunities.

Uh we are continuing to work through the park's utility fee analysis to support future um future capital or the capital that we the infrastructure that we put in now that we're able to replace a replacement fund.

Uh yes, and so that is scheduled to come before you in the coming months for a final approval of something.

Um6.4, yes.

6.5 move forward with partnership with the school district on athletic fields.

We are in active discussions with the district to add sports fields on school property.

Um that will be before you in the next few months, and uh it's super exciting to add additional capacity through the bond through the bond program.

And then engage the community in development of riverfront park.

Yes, check.

Um community engagement will begin in earnest this fall as we enter in the concept and design phase.

Anything additional on parks.

So finally, uh goal number seven is culture and identity.

Um the outcomes speak to knowing who we are and being strategic and what we do, as well as having a culture of welcoming all.

Sorry.

Uh 7.1 is uh trauma-informed culture and care.

So the police led by Chief Pickering will be scheduling a trauma-informed training specifically for the city council following up on the training that they have done for the organization.

We don't have that scheduled quite yet, but it it is coming.

Develop a strategic city communications plan.

This is on the work plan, but has not been started.

Um we'll be once again sequenced after the website launch, and we get all that finalized and in place.

Uh begin a comprehensive planning process.

You heard from Aquila last week.

Uh we'll be scheduling a work session to develop a scope and looking at potential grant funding to begin that.

Launch new city website, June's the date.

Um we're go live in the next week or so.

Um thanks to all that have been involved in it, and I I'm sure there will still be kinks to work out, but I think we're we're ready to ready to launch.

And 7.6 explore and promote opportunities for the community to connect and access resources.

I will point out the housing forum and then council participation in the recent participation in the St.

Anthony's Forum and the follow-up associated with that.

You may know of other opportunities that you've been involved in for the community to connect and access resources and services.

But I think one of those ways has honestly been those outside agency grant presentations here at the council meeting.

So that's that's it in terms of my update for you.

Any other questions for Sherlin?

We see the two counselors who are in Zoom land.

Any questions for Sherlon?

No, all right.

All right, so that brings us to item number three, council meeting agenda review, communications and round table.

Uh tonight I have Council Reyes reading the pledge.

Allegiance.

Uh any concerns, questions about the items on consent agenda.

All right.

I have uh Council Reyes is going to do the um the gun violence proclamation.

Uh we'd like to do Juneteenth.

We got another one here.

And Pride Month.

All right.

Come on, Penn.

Uh with that, we'll go ahead and start our council round table, and we'll begin with uh Sherlin since she's been talking for a while.

Keep her talking.

Oh my.

Okay.

I already told you about the mapping neutria.

Uh really cool.

Last week we submitted our opportunity zone application to re-up our opportunity our two opportunity zones, and um we will know in September.

It is a more competitive process.

It's a 10-year cycle, and it is a more competitive process this year, and but we have heard that our we're competitive and that we're we're hoping that we will be re-upped.

We're working with two local companies uh on their foreign trade zone application.

Apparently, there's been a um a holdup at the federal level where um it that has really impacted a couple of local companies and uh to the point of they're like we're we're the point of going out of business unless we can get this foreign trade zone um uh approved.

So we're working with them, business organs working with them, and uh the Port of Portland.

So thanks to Sid and his team.

Um there's a it's called the Silicon Valley uh Silicon Forest Partnership, which is a nonprofit that looks at semiconductor, the semiconductor ecosystem, and it includes a couple of local companies.

Um our economic development team participated in a round table.

Um I believe maybe it was today or late last week.

Uh so that's exciting.

Uh Lamb was at the table and um a couple of other of our semiconductor companies.

We hired a contractor on our semi uh seismic valve project, did walkthroughs last week of all the sites.

The money needs to be spent by July of next year, and so we're well on our way to um to doing that.

We attended the state of the city.

Umgratulations on such a successful event.

I just want to call out our staff that worked hard to make to make that happen as well.

Um last week was mental health awareness week, and uh the poll center had therapy bunnies.

I did not know that was a thing, but I went over and held a therapy bunny, and it was so cathartic.

It was amazing.

Um of course we had the budget committee meeting last week.

The third one will be tomorrow.

Last Thursday we participated in a well, we led a um called HMS, um, Hazelbrook Middle School CARES Day, and um we hosted over 500 students, 50 teachers and parents who participated in 23 service projects.

Uh we cleaned up litter, added mulch and bark under our trees and plantings to help with water retention uh and uh nuisance weeds for the summer, we scrubbed picnic tables, clipped invasive species, washed the big trucks, folded bandanas for blender dash, planted the community garden, and added five bar to the playground.

We scrubbed picnic tables, clipped invasive species, washed the big trucks, folded bandanas for blender dash, planted the community garden, and added five bar to the playground.

It was a very extensive um extensive morning um led by our uh parks team and our uh volunteer program, and then um a bunch of staff were involved with it.

So that was really cool.

Um Thursday afternoon, we swore in four new police officers.

Um that's very exciting.

Um we resurfaced the sports courts at Jurgens Park.

They're open for play, so that that is finalized and ready for the summer.

Uh Friday was big truck day, and it was a huge success.

Um like there were traffic jams of people trying to get in the park, and uh served well over 500 kids uh crawling around on trucks.

It was really cool.

Uh the Hedges Green Bridge right there by Starbucks between Starbucks.

Do I the old Starbucks?

Yes.

Uh TJ Maxx, let's say that.

Um is closed.

We're replacing the bridge deck.

Um, we're expecting early comp uh completion in early June.

Um I mentioned the Sustainable Year City celebration this Friday, a couple of other things that are coming up.

Our summer reading program kickoff is Sunday at uh 2 p.m.

There's a big carnival throughout the library and on the plaza, so that'll be exciting.

The poll center reopens next week, and there'll be a celebration on June the 12th from 10 to noon.

We'll send um information about that.

Blender Dash is of course June 6th.

We're getting close to being full.

Um, a couple of other things, Martin Asie Woods Midwest Neighborhood Fair is June 13th at Lafke Park at 1 o'clock.

Um, and then a couple of events on June 20th.

We have the Nyburg Trail Ribbon Cutting, and that is at 10 o'clock on the 20th, and then at 1 o'clock on the 20th is the River Park Community Fair at the Heritage Center.

So lots of stuff happening.

All right.

I'll switch over to Zoom and we'll go to Council Hillier.

Hi, I don't have anything formal to report at this time.

Thank you.

All right.

Counselor Sacco.

Thank you.

Um the budget committee or the budget meeting and the state of the city, I'm sure will be well covered.

Um, but attended those.

Um, and um I thought the state of the city was was wonderfully done.

Um I echo uh Sherilyn's comments to staff who made that such a wonderful um evening.

And um, great job, Mayor, on your last state of the city.

Um you brought me to tears a couple times.

Um so I was it was very well done.

Um great job, everyone and all the counselors on the video.

Um the we had the idea committee meeting on um the 18th.

Um Sherilyn did did mention um they're coordinating community group visits um with other groups within the city um that are sort of city-sanctioned uh meetings, but also outside of uh sort of normal city sanctioned meetings such as chamber meetings, um, they're meeting um they're they're attending the the rotary, um also um the um making connections with the CIOs as well.

Um so they're really trying to get um connections with a diverse group of community members.

Um they also finalize their recommendation for the native land and people acknowledgement uh statement, and they would like to bring their recommendation before council on June 22nd.

Um I know that it's already um a pretty packed agenda.

Um however, um uh it won't be a long presentation, so I'm hoping that I could get the majority um of council to um agree to put them on on the June 22nd um as I know that they've worked very hard to finalize this recommendation.

Uh everyone in favor of having present that night.

It's gonna be a long night anyway, so all right.

Looks like we got it.

Yep.

Thank you.

All right, thank you.

Councilor Reyes.

Uh no official meeting in the last two weeks, but I do want to say the same thing and did all the uh state of the city was wonderful.

I think it's I mean, I like all of them, but uh think this was was one of my favorite ones.

So thank you.

Councillor Gonzalez.

Uh I just want to echo what the council's been saying.

I want to just acknowledge uh the state of the city was amazing.

Thank you, uh, mayor.

Uh we attended the budget committee, and of course, uh, I want to give an applause to the city staff for putting together the state the state of the city and the memorial day celebration.

That was pretty amazing.

Um so thank you for for all the work that you do for our for our our residents.

All right, Council Brooks.

Uh thank you, Mayor.

Um the 20th of May, I attended an early childhood leaders um network uh series, peer network series.

Um that was put through the NLC, and there were a lot of really great um examples and information about how um cities are utilizing um some funding to help uplift uh services for children.

So if anyone's interested in more information, let me know.

Um also there'll be I was at the budget meeting on the 20th.

Thank you.

Um to all the leadership that shows up and tells us uh how we are spending our money, and I thought all the reports from staff were very good, and I appreciate all the questions um that I asked how they're answered.

Um, and then uh on the 25th, like many of us, we were at the Memorial Day celebration, and that was um always moving to me.

It was really nice to talk to everybody that was there, and um really great to see Dale.

He was a late, he came a little bit later, so I was so happy to see him there because I'm always wanting everybody to be healthy and well.

Um then also I was at the state of the city.

Um nice job on your final one, Mayor.

And um I echo also what people said it was really nice to um be sponsored and have a really nice spread.

I've heard other people come to me and say that they want to do that at their cities.

It's yes, I have had that happen, and um, and uh and then organizing it, it was just delightful as usual.

Um, and I appreciate all the work that staff puts into that, and I think it really highlights all the work that everyone's been busy doing, um, the whole team.

And then um I did not have the 12th and arts advisory committee because it was in conflict with the state of the city, so we canceled that meeting.

Um today I did the uh first meeting for the League of Oregon Cities 101st Annual Conference Planning Um Committee.

There were oh boy, close to 200 submissions of ideas for presentations.

Um, and we basically went through the ones that aren't gonna make the cut, and that and then we have to schedule an extra meeting because there were so many submissions that we still have to do more cutting, and that's all I've got.

Thank you.

Council President Pratt.

We'll start with the state of the city, and I think it was Megan and Heidi that did the organizing, so I just want to call them out in particular, and then the mayor for giving such a heartfelt speech, and then yeah, we had the budget advisory committee.

Um I went to the police swearing in ceremony, so congratulations to um the four officers, and um it's really exciting that we're full up now, police department, and then the memorial day service yesterday in the picnic by the BFW was great.

Um, and then um C4 Metro was last week, and um we um they went over the community connected transit studies, so that's more of that last mile stuff that Metro's looking at.

Um and then the um the big thing.

Um, I'll go to the other thing first.

Um, the governor's prosperity roadmap.

We had a um presentation from Catherine Heiji, who's on the regional selections committee, and they're the people that whatever this committee decides to do, they will follow through with it.

The one thing I got is their focus on economic development is mainly on big businesses coming in, not smaller businesses.

And the last thing we talked about was the same presentation the mayor saw about the IBR bridge replacement, and I'm just um well, I'll just say that we're now up to 22.05 billion, and I'll let the mayor follow up on this one.

And then I think that's it, other than the mayor and I sent the letter to the Hillsborough Planning Commission regarding our concerns about the noise from the um potential hangar for private jets in Hillsborough and all the flyovers that will happen over our city.

All right.

Thank you.

Uh going over my calendar, it's been pretty busy the last couple weeks.

Had coffee with Dr.

Udo, the superintendent of TTSD.

Two big items we discussed were potential impacts or cutbacks to the heights the high school's health center.

Um it's looking like uh the health center will be cut back to Monday, Wednesday, Friday service, but not as bad as uh people thought.

They're trying to preserve as much services as they can there, given the school districts financial situation.

Of course, we had to talk about the SROs and making sure that uh the funding that we're expecting will come through in this budget and future budgets for our two officers that help uh with uh duties at the schools here in the district.

Later that day, um, as I mentioned in the state of the city, went to youth creative labs, met with a bunch of students, and it was fun as usual.

All the interesting questions and comments of uh everyone from basically I'd say six to about 13.

Uh it's an after-school program for students over technically in Durham, but close enough to Walleton that we include it.

But a lot of fun, and I appreciate them asking me to come out and speak to the students.

On the 14th, I had lunch with rearmitage of Senator Wine's office.

We discussed the foreign trade zone issues and uh their offices' involvement in helping resolve that.

Also talked about our potential ideas and a timeline for our next CIP or EARMAC, whatever you want to call it, fairly funded project here for Twalton, and their commitment to work with us in addition with uh Congresswoman Salinas' office and uh Merkley's office to get a winning project uh to DC.

On the 18th, I was at the Washington County Coordinating Committee.

Um of numerous big discussions were the TV Highway Transit and Safety Project is continuing on.

The focus of that project is safety, rider experience, and transit speed.

Uh, for those folks who don't know, the TV Highway Transit Corridor runs from Forest Grove all the way to Beaver and Transit Center.

It's pretty big.

Uh there's been 10 years of planning on trying to improve that service on that line.

Um they're hoping them being TriMet, uh Washington County and several transportation organizations hoping to get a 50% match on a project that is now about 304 million dollars.

Total cost.

The design phase is fully funded by local dollars, so it's proceeding.

Uh, their goal is to have a bus come every 12 minutes, but they've realized that the 60-foot bus isn't going to cut it because the 60-foot bus doesn't fit in the Merlot Garage.

So they've got a and you know, they looked at redoing the Merlot Garage.

That didn't pencil out.

So it'll be the regular 40-foot buses using uh the renewable diesel going up and down uh TV Highway.

They're also looking to uh do transit signal priorities for the buses as they go through the lights.

Um but the the bad news on this project is that there's a $56 million funding gap right now that they're hoping that state and federal grants will cover.

Um my comment was don't hold your breath on the state, you know, considering the economic condition it's gonna be, and we'll see what the feds are gonna have in terms of grants for bus transit.

They're hoping everything goes right to have the service available by 2030.

As Council President Pratt mentioned, they also gave the presentation about the community connector study.

That is not in our area, it's on the other side of the county where that's where this study is being done.

Uh the source of contention there is the competition for stiff dollars.

This is another project that's gonna eat into stiff dollars, and you've got organizations like uh Smart and uh Ride Connection also competing for those same stiff dollars.

So are we taking dollars away from our local transit in order to get this going?

Um, and then this is only uh one or two-year uh project, and what happens after that?

Are we gonna have the money to continue it, or is it just it fall off the map?

Moving on to state of the city.

I want to give everyone's mentioned it before, but lots and lots of kudos to Heidi Stanley.

Heidi was with me the whole time, helped, you know, we organized it.

Well, she did the organizing and I just gave her input, but she did a fantastic job in this year's state of the city.

On the 20th, had the Greater Portland Inc.

board meeting.

Uh the uh GPI went through a Perkins and call audit and came out with uh no problems at all.

Uh the subject of discussion that today was a review.

A consultant has been hired to review the mission and the organization, giving uh the amount of economic development agencies in the area and then the changes possibly coming with the governor's prosperity uh council.

Uh we've heard that there's a leaked version of the Prosperity Council's recommendations.

Item number one is to create a Department of Commerce for the state of Oregon that will replace Business Oregon.

And the uh second idea is to create a statewide economic development organization, and we're trying to figure out okay, how's that gonna work?

We're all at the regional and city ones.

More to come on that.

Uh on the 21st, uh, was glad to attend the swearing in of the four police officers with other folks.

We also had CHAP JPAC that morning, and JPAC was everybody's favorite project is the interstate break replacement, the IBR.

Um, as Council President Pratt mentioned, uh the corridor itself, remember it used to used to be a five million five million dollar corridor.

It's between, you know, depending on who listen to $13.5 to $15.2 billion to build that out.

They've decided not to do that.

They're gonna focus in on the bridge and the connections, which will bring down the total to $7.65 million dollars.

Billion, I'm sorry, billion, thank you.

Um that $7.65 billion does not include light rail, just the capacity for light rail to have light rail put on it is another billion.

Um there was uh I want to keep this brief on June 18th.

The uh JPAC will have to look at a MTIP amendment, and what that is is basically support of the project so that federal dollars can be awarded.

There was quite a bit of concern over this latest amendment because it added another 500 million dollars to the project, which uh folks weren't wild about quite a bit of discussion about tolling because tolling will be involved in this and tolling itself will cost 50 million dollars to stand up.

Uh they will start tolling before construction, so it's pre-construction tolling.

Um there's asks about diversion to 205, which have no real answers yet about what will happen at 205.

Will they toll 205 to prevent that diversion or will they not?

And if it doesn't get told, will everybody crowd 205 and avoid I-5?

Uh so June 18th again will be the discussion of whether to vote for it or not.

Uh the Washington County mayors are going to meet uh on June 11th to discuss uh Washington County City's position on this.

Um that's more to come there.

Uh GPI, JPAC, and finally a Memorial Day, fantastic Memorial Day service.

I want to thank Jesse and the VFW for organizing again.

They do it year after year.

Also want to thank Congresswoman Salinas uh for making time to visit uh rearmitage on behalf of Senator Wyden, Representative Walters, our you know, representative in Salem, and the community for you know attending and going to the barbecue and to uh the weather for the rain holding off till 2 30.

So the barbecue concluded, you know, dryly.

All right, so anything else?

That's it for me.

So I'll go ahead and close this work session.

We have about a 20-minute break.

Uh we'll come back at seven.

And I just want to give a heads up to folks that uh we have a special report coming up tonight, number two is the Twalton High School Design Corps.

We're gonna be talking about the in-pipe project and planting project.

More than likely, I'm gonna declare a 10 minute uh recess so that we all can run out and have a group photo taken out there since it is nice out.

So if we disappear for 10 minutes on public access TV, you'll know why.

So with that, we'll go ahead and close and we'll see you ready in 20 minutes.