Good evening and welcome to July 13th, 2026 to Walton City Council meeting.

Now go ahead and call the meeting to order.

First thing on our agenda tonight is a Pledge of Allegiance now tonight, led by Councillor Brooks.

We're over there.

Pledge allegiance to the flags of America.

Under God.

All right.

Next item on our agenda is public comment.

Public comment.

It's an opportunity for anyone to address the city council regarding item that is not on tonight's agenda.

Please keep your minute your comments to about three minutes.

If there's anyone in the room who would like to address the council to take those folks first.

And then I'll switch over to Zoom if we even have access to Zoom.

But with that, we'll go ahead and insert public comment.

I have a tag team coming up, Victoria and Christina.

Welcome.

Make sure to turn on your microphones, unlike what I did.

Oh, the face button.

Oh, okay.

Let me get my little timer out so that I don't know.

Yeah, so you've got a total of six minutes.

Perfection.

Thank you so much.

Good evening, Mayor and Counselors.

For the past several years, I have invested thousands of volunteer hours and significant personal resources into building something that I believe every neighborhood should have.

And that's community.

In 2018, after my child was born, I went from being a physically capable United States Marine to a new mother who was struggling to walk to her mailbox.

The nearest place I could rehabilitate was the Greenway behind my home, and there was nowhere to sit.

Every walk became an exercise in pain, balancing my own recovery while caring for an infant.

That experience has changed how I look at public spaces forever.

About that same time, I accidentally ordered some textbooks.

I thought they were like those other kinds of books that are like self-help, they were textbooks on community building.

I laughed, I kept them, I read them, and then I bought more of them, and it's become a passion of mine now.

Uh later, when I was asked to cover graffiti on my fence, I painted it with leftover rainbow paint from my child's playhouse.

And when my child outgrew some wooden blocks, I set them out thinking that maybe another child would enjoy playing with them.

And they did.

Something unexpected happened.

Children started gathering, parents stopped to talk, neighbors met each other, donations appeared.

The community itself began shaping the space.

I posted questions about the community, what community means, what val how our values shape community, and I used those responses to put art upon my fence.

That one small experiment of art, community questions, free resources, turned into events, a pantry, a little free store, gardens, celebrations, and eventually to Walton community gather.

Has a website, has a banner, and most importantly, we provide seating.

While this was growing organically, I was attending every community organization meeting that I could find.

So I began my own adventure in mutual aid and community building.

Now I pay for and organize community events, and I've been doing this for several years.

As this project grew, so did some very specific hateful comments and complaints.

And I have repeatedly asked the city for clarification and looked for ways to work collaboratively with the parks and recreation department.

Over time, that relationship has shifted quickly from conversations about partnership to conversations about enforcement.

And how do we know this space matters?

We know because children return to play.

We know because neighbors donate food and toys.

We know because people stop to talk.

We know because volunteers helped maintain it, and even the broader community recognizes this space.

It became a poke stop, a location independently reviewed and recognized by Pokemon Go as a place that encourages exploration, exercise, or social interaction.

It's not why I built it, but it shows you what I'm looking at every single day.

Community is not something that appears because we write it on a strategic plan.

It happens because people are willing to invest time, care, creativity, and trust into the places where they live.

Unfortunately, much of the last several years has not been spent expanding these efforts.

Instead, community features are repeatedly removed by the city.

As I've asked for collaboration and provided information about existing community collaboration programs in the state, I have received silence.

Not even the ordinance I was supposedly breaking by doing the community building efforts.

I was simply trying to solve a problem that I was living in the space that was available at the time.

Rather than asking how these community spaces could be supported, the conversation has too often focused on how they should be removed.

This has been discouraging, not only for me, but for the many neighbors who have contributed donations, volunteered their time, or simply enjoyed the spaces.

I had to listen to children crying when the toys were removed and when their rocks that they painted were removed by the city.

Those responsibilities and community building do not have to be in conflict.

Cities across the country are finding ways to support tactical urbanism, neighborhood stewardship, little free libraries, community gardens, parklets, mutual aid, and resident-led public spaces because they recognize something important.

Social connection is infrastructure.

It improves public health, neighborhood resilience, safety, and quality of life.

Tonight I am asking the city to choose collaboration over conflict.

Develop clear pathways for residents who want to improve public spaces, create policies that encourage stewardship instead of discouraging it.

Invite community builders into the conversation before those decisions are made.

Most importantly, recognize that residents who invest their own time, labor, and resources in create into creating belonging are not the problem to solve.

They are your partners.

As someone living with disabilities, I experienced public spaces differently than many people.

A bench is not simply furniture.

It can be the difference between being able to participate in community life or having to go home.

A place to pause allows older adults, disabled residents, parents with small children, and people recovering from illness or injury to enjoy parks and greenways that might, in ways that they might not otherwise be accessible.

Likewise, community resources such as free pantries and shared items reduce barriers for families who may not ask for help in traditional ways.

Accessibility is not only about ramps and sidewalks, it is also about designing communities where everyone has opportunities to rest, connect, belong, and participate.

And I believe in these goals, and that's why I've spent years trying to help make them happen.

The question isn't whether these goals are good.

The question is whether our policies actually make them possible to achieve.

Community doesn't happen by accident.

It happens because someone puts the first chair, plants the first garden, hosts the first event, shares the first toy, or stocks the first pantry.

For the past several years, I have tried to be that someone.

Thank you.

Do we have anyone else who would like to provide public comment in the room tonight?

Seeing none, do we anyone is Zoom working?

Do we have anybody in Zoom?

No one's out.

Okay.

Give you an opportunity.

Someone to raise their hand if they have something.

Nothing.

All right.

With that, we'll go ahead and move on to the consent agenda.

The consent agenda are those items considered routine.

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

Tonight the consent agenda consists of consideration of approval, the work session and regular meeting minutes of June 22nd, 2026.

Consideration of resolution number 5978-26 authorizing the city manager to execute grant agreements with Washington County for fitness programs hosted by the Waneta Pole Center for fiscal year 26-27.

Consideration of resolution number 5979-26, authorizing the city manager to execute an intergovernmental agreement with Washington County for development of a natural hazard mitigation plan.

I'm number four, consideration of resolution number 5980-26, authorizing the city manager to execute an intergovernmental agreement with Washington County for participation in the community development block grant program for 2729.

Consideration of resolution number 5981-26 authorizing the city manager to execute a reinstatement and amendment of an intergovernmental agreement with the Department of Land Conservation and Development related to the clear and objective code update.

Consideration of resolution number 5983-26, amending the city of Towalton fee schedule and recending resolution number 5903-25.

Consideration of resolution number 5985-26 authorizing the city manager to execute an intergovernmental agreement between Washington County and the cities of Towalton, Beaverton, Forest Grove, King City, Sherwood Tiger, Hillsboro to provide digital forensics investigators within the Washington County Digital Forensics Laboratory.

And consideration of resolution number 5986-26 authorizing the city manager to sign an intergovernmental agreement with the city of Durham for police services.

And there's more one last one.

Consideration of resolution number 5987-26 authorizing the city manager to apply for and accept local government grant program funds for the rehabilitation of the restrooms at Otfalati Park.

Whew.

I think from me is going to be resolution number 5983-26.

Amendment in the city of Twilalton fee schedule.

Okay.

All right.

I move that we adopt the consent agenda with the exception of item number six as read.

Second.

I have a motion of second to adopt the count the consent agenda as read with the subtraction of item number six.

Any discussions on those motions?

All favor say aye.

Aye.

Okay.

Opposed.

Abstentions?

It's unanimous.

All right.

So we'll come back to item number six later tonight.

That brings us to general business.

Uh first item on our general business agenda is a downtown revitalization project update.

Sid and Quinn.

With special guest speakers.

All right.

Mayor Bubenick, members of the city council.

Thank you for the opportunity to be here this evening.

My name is Quinn Brunner.

I am an Urban Renewal and Economic Development Policy Analyst.

Um, and I'm joined here by our Urban Renewal and Economic Development Manager, Sid Sin, as well as two of our downtown revitalization project community advisory committee members, um, Caden Edwards and Beth Dittman.

Um we've got about a 15-minute presentation for you this evening, uh, providing a high-level overview of what we've been up to for the last three months, as well as looking ahead at some of the exciting developments we have in store for this fall.

Um, I'm gonna turn it over to Beth and Caden to introduce themselves and to walk through the presentation, um, at which point uh Sid and I can answer some questions for you at the end.

Good evening, Count Mayor and Counselors.

Thanks for having us here.

Um I'll go next slide.

How do I remember it, Nicole?

The downtown residentialization project began.

I did not tell you my name, but I think you all know me.

I am vested in the downtown revitalization project began in May of 2025 with the formation of the community advisory committee or CAC.

The work has been divided into three phases as shown on the screen or the infographic on the screen.

Hey, thanks.

In phase one, we worked with civilist consultants to conduct extensive community engagement and develop the downtown a downtown identity study, which was presented to the Towalton Development Committee Commission to TDC in December.

This presentation marked the end of phase one.

Phase two began last fall when we worked with our partners at University of Oregon through their sustainable city year program.

I'll also do a shout out to the students at PSU as well.

Over the past nine months, we've had eight courses and hundreds of students working on projects related to downtown.

Today's course uh presentation marks the end of phase two.

Phase three is slated to begin this fall.

Three deliverables will come in this phase: an urban design plan, downtown design standards, and consolidated recommendations report.

We'll tie all the input and recommendations we gathered in the first two phases into a coherent vision and an action plan for downtown.

Hello, Council members and mayor.

Um, I'm Caden Edwards for those of you who do not know me.

Um, all eight projects included in partnership with the United the University of Oregon's sustainability city year program are now complete.

We held a celebratory event in May marking the end of this partnership as shown in the slide.

During this, students and faculty representatives for each project highlighted their work.

The CAC has spent the last few months reviewing the recommendations and renderings produced through this partnership.

We have reviewed 66 recommendations and 14 renderings in all.

Thank you.

The CAC developed five evaluation criteria at the beginning of this year, which is what we have been using to review recommendations.

As a reminder, we are looking for projects that help make downtown a vibrant mixed-use area, distinct and magnetic, environmentally sustainable, navigable and safe, and supportive of businesses.

Links to the full repository of recommendations, scores, and our reactions are included in your packet.

Um, but we wanted to highlight a couple of examples tonight.

We chose recommendation that was pre-approved in the core opportunity reinvestment area plan and has been further developed through our discussion.

For this example, we're looking at a recommendation to implement and improve what you have program for downtown business owners.

This may take the form of facade grants, outdoor seating grants, window and lighting improvements, or other investments that help make existing businesses more easy for them to align their buildings with the new downtown design standards that we're developing in phase three.

As you can see, the group sees this as a significant contribution to the district's vibrancy and activation, creating a distinct and magnetic identity, and being a boon for local businesses.

It would not likely contribute, though, significantly to our sustainability, are a multi-boulder transportation goals, which is okay, because we have other recommendations which advance those ends.

There will be no silver bullet, sadly, to advance every priority.

The point of the project is to match up the strategies to ensure all five priorities are supported.

In addition to scoring, CAC members also provided commentary to help further development each recommendation.

Some of these comments included such some of these comments included.

Strategies or great ways to mitigate displacement of existing businesses.

Also gives the downtown a more promoting and unified look or feel, helps existing business owners and additional building owners to encourage redevelopment or multi-tenant properties.

Also, comments such as Beaverton has successfully developed such strategies, and it will also be a great if this program also funded improving signatures or signage.

On the renderings front, we used the student designs and shared visible as shared visual reference points, enabling us to identify design elements we liked and ones we didn't.

For these, we broke into small groups and aggregated our comments.

You're looking tonight at an example of that got a lot of buzz for its creativity, the lily pad design.

CAC members responded to this with comments ranging from all groups valuing its design that left room for the pumpkin regatta while using more of the lake space.

One group shared that this design would really make the lake feel alive.

Another cited that it could further activate the Veterans Plaza.

Another universally valued attribute of this design was that it improved pedestrian circulation around the lake.

It shortens the walk for anyone who might not feel like the local around the lake is a little too far, and it helps connect uh businesses from one side to the other.

Lots of the people within the groups thought that this uh liked the lily pad design.

Some groups saw it as a the kiosk structure in the middle, which you're seeing, which is the white structure near the tree, as a great retail incubator or event vending.

There was an abundance of benches that were le shown, which we all liked.

The uh groups also cited that they liked the additional shade that was there and wanted more either from a shade structure or additional trees.

The additional of a place structure or a permanent uh other permanent things like a water-powered art structure or community art space, were also suggested as additional opportunities for this design.

The larger building on the north end raised some concerns as if it would likely block the view from condos and north end buildings.

Improving water quality was also raised as a priority with the idea of including the addition of a water feature, as Beth mentioned, adding a circulatory system to the lake, and automatic cleaning mechanism.

Generally, members lauded the design as creating a destination they liked, then low profile of the lily pads, which kept the commons area feeling large and open.

They just described the curves of the LIPAD as echoing the existing design of the lake.

The natural materials were described as visually beautiful, selecting durable and low maintenance building materials was raised as important.

Again, all of these ideas are starting points, not fully developed proposals.

Building on the work we have conducted so far, we will translate the best ideas into the urban design framework, update the downtown standards.

I get exciting slide.

This work will be supported by consultants and fully funded with the Metro 2040 planning and development grant.

Because of the timing of this update, we get to be the ones to announce that the Metro Council has voted to fully fund this proposal at the amount of $740,000.

Three months ago, council opened the door for this funding opportunity with a letter of support.

Thank you.

This award at 240,000 more than staff anticipated at the time, which enables the project to include a parking study, very needed, a real estate market study, extended expended let's try that for a third time, shall we?

Expanded developer outreach and bilingual engagement.

All of these pieces serve to put downtown toilet in the best possible position for investment and redevelopment, ensuring that when our work is complete, we not only have a blueprint for a downtown that is and a consistent regulatory landscape, but we also have a broad based community support and substantial developer interest.

I'll add as a side note that this is a great example of how city funding, be it through a fee, a bond, or a tax increment finance system, can serve as a leverage point and access to additional funding, but sometimes it has to come from the city first.

Oh, that's the next slide too.

Yes.

And then just looking ahead a little bit here.

So at your next meeting, um, we have an IGA with Metro to formally accept this grant.

Um, so that'll be considered on the 27th.

Um, and then we have opened an RFP for uh an urban design firm.

We opened that last Monday and have already been receiving lots of inquiries.

Um we've closed that before the end of the month, and we'll be in our selection process through August with the hope of having an urban design firm fully on board by our October CAC meeting.

Um so we anticipate the next update to council being some we'll we'll probably be back a couple times with some intermittent updates regarding contracting, um, but then we hope to have an urban design consultant team ready to introduce to you in October who can provide an in-depth preview of our phase three work, which will extend from fall of 2027 all the way through completion of the downtown revitalization project in the spring of 2028.

We have exciting work ahead and are grateful to be a part of this project.

We look forward to answering any questions you may have at this time.

Questions?

That's right.

Thank you.

Great presentation.

I'm curious in the design, and I know you're showing us preliminaries to the design.

Were there any like um considerations for like restaurants or businesses around that area or other living spaces, maybe, or any kind of other it looks more like obviously how to utilize the lake, but surrounding areas or making it more like a downtown office space, maybe city offices or something like to that effect he looked at me like I needed to start.

Um the when we talked back um a few slides ago about the five criteria, one of them as created by the entire committee was that we wanted it to be a vibrant and mixed use area, and with that in mind, as we looked at many different, you know, you're seeing just a the top of the top selections tonight, um, that mixed use design is there, whether or not we'd identify it as specifically as a restaurant or as commerci uh you know, um commerce or a place to live.

Yes, we were seeing designs that met lots of those, and we saw lots that we liked or had tweaks to, and then some I there was one that looked like the Death Star.

It was just I think it was like the one that we could all universally agree we did not like.

But uh the short answer to your question, Council Reyes is yes, we did see things, and that's part of uh as you can see.

It's actually the first priority of the committee that we want to see this as not just um a uh improvement of the lake by the look, but rather actually a utilization of the space to be more engaging for everyone.

How do you do?

That was a great answer.

Other questions President Pratt and Councillor Brooks.

Well, I should go second, but um, I just wanted you um you said you would be going into phase three and just explain what phase three is.

I can take that one.

So the way that um I've we've kind of conceptualized this, right?

Is phase one um was focused on doing extensive community engagement and really hearing what um residents in Twalton want the want downtown to be, right?

Um so for the CAC that was a lot of listening, a lot of taking new information in.

Um we it culminated in the creation of our downtown identity study produced by civil uh civilist consultants and shared with the council in December.

Um we then kind of turned the corner at the beginning of this year into phase two, um, which is this partnership with the University of Oregon Sustainable City year program, and the way I've thought of that is the CAC's role shifted from hearing information to responding to information.

So that's where we've had the 66 recommendations and the 14 renderings, and every single one of them we've brought before the community advisory committee and asked like does this meet our criteria and what does it take to make this idea work, or do we just need to take this off the table, right?

And so we've been able to complicate and further develop these ideas, and almost think of it as like we've been unpacking the box, right?

And now phase three is where we start putting things back in into place and start making real decisions about how these pieces fit together.

Um, like Beth said, there's there's no silver bullet for this project, right?

And so um we know that we can't just do one project downtown and have all of a sudden things start booming, right?

It's all about how we fit these puzzle pieces together to create um a whole bunch of features that work together and that support one another.

And that's kind of the um essence of this urban design framework piece where we're creating a blueprint that charts out how the different interventions that we're thinking, how the all these good deal good ideas fit together and work together.

Um so on top of that, then we're translating that blueprint into code standards, um, which will ensure that our blueprint is enforceable and also that it provides a coherent look and feel um as new development happens in downtown.

Um thanks for the presentation and the work on the committee.

Um so this is specifically for the Lake of the Commons, and then we move on from there, is what you're saying.

Um I'll just clarify.

So we um are so I guess I'll I think uh sorry, I I might I went in two directions at once there.

So um the examples that we're sharing today um are focused on a whole like uh probably about a 300-acre area that we're considering for our urban design framework, right?

So when we talk about downtown, we know there's this area surrounding the Lake of the Commons, that's about 70 acres, which is really our downtown core.

And so we've been considering interventions in all those different uh different parts of uh that 70 acres we know that's gonna probably be the area that can move first.

Um but we recognize that we have a 30-year urban renewal district, and we need to be thinking long term about how all these different um areas in our community core fit together.

Um and so um our recommendations are also thinking about the areas surrounding our downtown core.

Um so our hope is that as we get into our urban design framework, we can begin thinking how these different sub-areas start interacting with one another.

Um today.

Okay.

So um, and then my next question was um when you said that the two pieces were taken off the environmental, what was the other one?

Oh, so on that one, that was just uh so one specific example that we were looking at with environmental sustain uh uh where we were looking at the recommendation related to um facade grants, right?

Or improve what you have programs.

And so that's one of our 66 recommendations, and what this community advisory committee has done is they've scored based on those five criteria to see um to what extent that specific intervention would um advance our five priorities, right?

And we know that that specific project would probably advance creating a mixed, a vibrant mixed-use area, it would create a place that's distinct and magnetic and would support our small businesses.

And it probably wouldn't be a huge contributor to our sustainability goals or to our multimodal transportation goals, but that's we have lots of other recommendations that will advance those priorities.

And so our big kind of our big mission in phase three is to find the right pairing of recommendations that advance all of these priorities together.

Um but that wasn't to say that those are not priorities for our downtown and those um numbers were not cumulative for our slate of recommendations.

Okay.

I just um I just keep thinking about how much heat comes from buildings and commercial buildings, and there's some very light touches that can make a big impact.

So I'm hopeful to see some research on how we can build out something that feels like the future instead of the past.

But I love the work and I really appreciate all the effort and the work of the um the students.

I do want to say I forgot to mention I was at this other um committee meeting that I'm new on, and the gal that was working with uh councilman from chair uh Pab Farr um from Lane County, um was one of the students that presented in the projects, and she's just like I love Twalton, I would live there, you know.

And she's from Eugene and whatever.

So it was really adorable and cute.

So um I really appreciate it.

Thank you so much for the work.

Other questions?

Elsa Hillier.

Now I have a question, just a comment.

I'd like to say thank you to the entire committee.

I know it's been hours and hours and hours and hours of paid and unpaid time, and the payment will come in the form of our community being a better place.

And so thank you so much.

And I just want to call out uh my appreciation of your uh the diverse different ways that you're looking at the puzzle pieces that are going together in this.

Everything made each of your uh theories that you're testing may not hit all five categories.

Uh and and that makes great sense to me, and I appreciate that you're being so strategic and taking the time to be sure that you do choose the right pieces.

So thank you very much.

Council Gonzalez.

Uh thank you very much for the presentation.

I'm gonna echo Councilor Hitler's comments.

Thank you very much for being thoughtful on all these steps.

I'm very excited about the possibility of the clean water in that pond.

I mean, that is that's gonna bring so much life into that place.

If you can actually roll your pants up a little bit and just put your feet in.

You know, or kids can just throw place flash around.

I mean, that's super exciting.

If that gets fixed, that makes that whole lily path experience even just that much more greater.

So thank you very much.

Any other comments?

Right.

Well, thanks for the presentation.

Um, as Council Hillier mentioned, uh three of us have the privilege to be on the committee and interact with the great folks on this committee.

And uh, as was mentioned before, the committee is really gelled here for phase three.

We've got a good team working together.

No one's shy anymore about giving their comments and stuff, so it's terrific.

Yeah.

Imagine that, Beth.

Yeah, most of the people.

Um but it's been we've had some turnover a little bit, but we uh the replacements have come on, have been you know fantastic replacements for people who had to move on.

Uh but very much appreciate all the work going into this.

Um looking forward to the discussion in August about the lake itself.

Councillor Cons was saying that an open discussion of what the committee feels about the lake and what should be done with it, and what are ideas, uh, and then we'll transition in September, as Quinn mentioned, when the consultant is put on board to get into this.

The hard part of phase three here is taking these great ideas and great designs, and the things that the committee really liked and try to put that puzzle together, like Quinn said, to what a code um framework that is attracted to developers, as Quinn is fine, uh um Sid is fond of saying, give certain certainty to developers that they come in and build a building up to our standard, and next one will have to live up to that standard, and we'll get the the downtown that we want to the way we want it to look and feel that those standards will be there and enforced.

All right.

Thank you for coming tonight.

Appreciate it.

Sidn Sid and Quinn don't get go far.

All right, our next uh item up is the Tualet and Economic Landscape Analysis and land industry cluster analysis.

Welcome back, Sid.

What's up?

I need to catch my breath.

I'm exhausted from all the speaking identifies.

Uh good evening, Mayor Bubenek and members of the council.

I'm uh Sidson Urban Renewal Economic Development Manager, and with me this evening is uh Matt Cragey from uh Echo Northwest.

Um we're excited tonight to share some findings of this uh economic development and landscape analysis, and it is a little bit focused on kind of our key cluster industries.

Um before turning it over to Matt, I just wanted to provide a little introduction, provide a little context as to where we've been, where we are now, and how we're gonna use this information as we move forward.

Uh, as you all know, uh in 2019, the city adopted Twiliton 2040, and that was uh visionary uh plan that kind of outlined and guided the development of uh Twileton for the next 20 years.

It's part of that adoption, the economic opportunities analysis as well as the some uh economic development strategic planned um strategies were adopted with that.

Um it's been seven years since we we looked at that document.

A lot has changed since then.

Uh we we made it through the pandemic.

Um a lot of businesses are dealing with some economic uncertainties, certainly geopolitical events around the world are affecting us locally here.

So, what we're trying to do right now uh with this landscape analysis, it's our first step in a multi-year process where we're looking at our local economy.

What are the different strategies that we can use as we're kind of facing new challenges?

Uh, and especially how can we um uh improve our uh attractiveness for businesses?

How do we retain them, expand and recruit them?

Uh so those additional steps uh we're we're doing the landscape analysis now.

Our next step uh into the summer and fall, we're gonna be looking at some indicators uh related to those uh uh key industry areas and those indicators we're hoping to use as opportunities to use to maybe help focus um our limited resources uh for for uh um uh recruiting businesses, retaining and expanding those businesses.

Um after that uh early 2027, we're looking at doing an update to our economic opportunity analysis.

Following that, end of 27, maybe 28, looking at developing um strategies, our economic development strategies.

And as far as timing goes, this is a great time to do it now.

Um we're also uh partnering or we're communicating and engaging in with um Greater Portland Inc., which is our regional um uh recruitment um uh partners in their uh process through up to the their five-year comprehensive uh economic developments strategic plan.

So that plan um I think terminates ended this year.

They'll be adopting a new one so over the summer, and they're doing a lot of engagement in this process.

So that'll help us inform our process as well.

So with that, I'm gonna turn it over to uh Matt.

Great, thank you, Sid.

Uh good evening, uh Mayor Bubinick and city counselors.

Um we're gonna go on a little bit of economic journey here on a Monday night.

I know it's eight o'clock.

I'll try not to bore you too much.

Um there is a lot of information in here.

I do have a tendency to talk fast, especially when I'm talking to a city council.

So uh please raise your hand, ask questions.

Happy to jump into uh and jump into the data here.

Um, like Sid said, uh, this is an economic landscape report.

So this is this is really exciting.

Uh I uh got into economics because I love economic geography.

I love uh learning about kind of why a place is where it is and what makes it tick.

And so, what this report is is we're digging into data from national sources, from state sources, uh, from state sources that pull information from local companies to really understand the composition of your economy.

So, this is this is telling the story of the economy of Tualaton here.

So it's setting up that foundation uh for all the great work that um Sid was talking about that you're gonna you're gonna go uh go and do in 27 and 28.

So we're gonna run through a few things this evening.

We're gonna start with just a few high-level macroeconomic trends, um, and then we're gonna spend uh most of the time talking about uh what's happening in your local industries and industry clusters, and I'll describe what that is in just a minute here.

But just a little bit of macroeconomic trends to orient uh orient the conversation here.

So Tualaton is growing, it continues to be a city that grows.

That's not happening in all communities in Oregon.

Actually, if we just look over the county boundary in Multnomah County, we're starting to see some numbers where communities are not growing as much.

They're um the natural cycle of births and deaths is kind of flip-flopped and fewer people are moving in.

And so while you have uh 0.06 uh annual average uh population uh 0.6 excuse me uh growth from 2014 to 2025.

Um that's not a huge number, it is still a growing number, and the community has grown substantially over 1700 new residents uh over the past 10 years.

So that's great.

More more folks in the community, that means uh more folks to go to coffee shops and to uh go to parks and everything.

That's that's a good good place to start.

You can see uh on this slide here, uh taking a look at uh the comparison of uh Tualaton's uh growth with other geographies, so the the Portland Metro region, so that's the three county region, uh Washington County and Oregon.

I wouldn't get kind of too hung up on on Twalatin being the one below uh the other ones there.

Again, they're all kind of tracking similar and a similar pattern there as well.

We were looking at labor force uh participation.

Uh we're starting to look at some trends over the past 10 years, and we it's fun to kind of take a look at the Zata of oh, the past five years or the past 10 years.

Uh we talked with Sid and Quinn about making sure that we're going before the pandemic, because of course, and you'll see some more data here in just a minute that really show that shock that happened everywhere globally.

Um, and you can see that dip uh here as well in 2020 and 2021 uh in labor force participation, and then the rebound that happened uh in 22 and 23.

Um did also mention that there are um some uh global, national, and to somewhat uh extent a regional uh macro effects that are uh putting pressure on labor force, and you're seeing we're starting to see at all of those different levels unemployment starting to tick back up.

Um if you see the unemployment rate there um in Tualaton, you're still tracking uh with the rest of those comparative geographies and doing well.

That's still a healthy unemployment uh rate generally.

This slide, this slide I want to come back to actually at the end of this, because I think you know, we focused so much of our work, we had so much conversation on the industry clusters and what's happening in the industries.

But I think I think these data are some of the most fascinating data in the whole set here.

So there's one little line, I know this is a little bit dense, uh, a lot of text in the slide here.

So commuting of those who work in Tualatin, only six percent live in Tualaton.

So we're gonna take a look at all of these industries.

You have a lot of high paying industries in Tualaton.

It's really terrific.

Doing really well.

This is a community that builds stuff.

This is a community where there's a lot of construction companies, you know, that are that are moving all across the region building buildings, but only six percent of uh those folks are living and working in Tualaton.

And so to be able to rebalance that, and we're we're not talking about policy recommendations here at all.

But you've got a real opportunity there with projects like the downtown revitalization project that you're about to embark on to try to capture more of those folks within the community.

Moving into employment growth, again, you can see a little bit of the COVID years there in the middle where as growth was going up until 2019, and then private employment dropped a little bit, but then tracking well.

Again, these are really positive numbers.

This is this is great to see.

Any community would be happy to see a 2.1% average annual private growth rate.

So doing well.

And there's there's the big uh COVID shock, of course.

Uh my gosh, we remember those uh those years, all those virtual uh meetings there.

And then you can start to see uh some of the trends that I had mentioned too in 24 and 25, as and really those are macro trends that are putting pressure on employment and starting to see a little bit of unemployment start to tick back up there.

But again, Twiliton's um doing well here with the employment growth context generally.

Um average wage per employee has been has been growing.

More positive news here.

So almost 5% average annual growth rate there, um starting at about $50,000 in uh 2014, up to about um 80,000 uh in 2024.

That's the latest year that the data is uh available.

This uh uh this slide here talks a little bit about wage growth.

You'll see that the average annual wages in Twilaton are a little bit less than Washington County, um around the same amount as uh the Portland Metro, again, the the three county region, and then above the Oregon numbers.

That's not surprising.

$80,000 a year is still a high average annual wage as you look at data across the nation.

Washington County's numbers, of course, are being pulled up because of Silicon Forest, yes, being here in Twilaton, but really being concentrated in western Washington County and Hillsboro and to some extent unincorporated areas and uh Beaverton.

Um so really healthy numbers here overall.

Um and cumulative growth there, the chart on the right, um, tracking tracking well, um, Twalatin, of course, leading the pack there as well.

Okay, industry employment growth.

So, one thing that we're gonna do is we're gonna take a look at uh industries, and then we're gonna get into industry clusters.

And so uh with industries, and so what we're looking at here is um these are uh these are data from what's called NAICS codes.

Uh these are uh all of the companies across the nation have to report um the number of employees they have and the wages up to the federal up to different levels of government, and then we were able to kind of take and and analyze those, uh, and then they're grouped into these different buckets, and they can be really kind of wide buckets around like all manufacturing, and then it kind of shrinks down to like, oh no, we're just talking about breweries, brewery manufacturing, right?

So at this level, this is kind of a high-level look at uh kind of major cluster categories.

So across the top there, you have manufacturing, you have retail and services going down the chart there on the right, excuse me, uh professional and business services, healthcare, construction, um, wholesale.

So um, and then we've got a few acronyms down there.

TWU is transportation warehousing and utilities, uh, and then fire.

Um, I wish it were kind of more of a fun thing.

It's finance insurance and real estate, um, but that's what fire stands uh for there.

So you can see here over again the 10-year period how these industries and this is employment that we're looking at have tracked.

Um retail services, of course, that huge dip there and and not much of a recovery too, and this happened kind of everywhere in retail uh following COVID and it kind of dropped down and continue to kind of uh maintain at that lower level.

Manufacturing, you see that kind of dip there at the end there, but if you look at the beginning to the end, and if I find my right notes here and I made these way too small, um maybe it's in the next slide where I have that number.

I manufacturing uh employment is still up.

Uh it wouldn't be too concerned about the kind of the downward trend there in uh 2024, still seeing uh growth in manufacturing there as well.

Make sure I didn't miss a point there.

Definitely at the point where I need reading glasses or to print these things a little bit larger for sure.

So on this slide here, uh, we're taking a look, same data set, just a different way uh of looking at it.

Um so this is looking again at the 10-year industry uh employment growth.

Manufacturing is really stood out, of course.

I think it's 864, 8600 jobs, excuse me, in 2024.

That's a 3% growth rate over 10 years.

That's absolutely phenomenal.

There's a couple other ones that really stand out here.

So professional scientific and technical services, that's 7% over the 10-year period.

And then also construction, which is the second fastest there at 5%.

One note about construction when we talk about it here is that's the construction industry.

So that's not saying people building buildings here in Tualatin.

Those are companies that are within the construction code, right?

And then build elsewhere.

So you have a number of prominent predominant contractors and construction companies based here that are building stuff elsewhere.

So all very exciting.

As I mentioned earlier, again, that's that's really terrific.

Some of these industries are really resilient to market cycle.

High tech can be somewhat resilient.

Construction is a little bit more vulnerable to, of course, market cycle as markets fluctuate and change, those those go with a cycle there.

But generally some really strong traded sector industries here within Tualiton.

Let's see, industry employment concentration.

So this is taking a look at the concentration, the specialization of these industries within Tualiton.

So the number here, the graph on the right is your location quotient.

And a location quotient basically compares a local industry's share of employment to another geography, typically the nation.

And so if uh 25% of employment in the United States were donut makers, and 25% of the donut of the employment here were donut makers, you'd have a you'd have a location quotient of one, and that would be a wonderful world to live in.

But so you can see here this is showing again that kind of share compared to the nationwide uh level, right?

So manufacturing is like off the charts, basically.

Um the manufacturing uh location quotient is three times the national uh average, uh, really phenomenal numbers.

Um and again we'll talk when we get into the clusters too about how a lot of that is high-tech manufacturing, which is which is really terrific to have.

Other ones that stand out there uh as highly specialized within Twiliton, wholesale trade construction, management, um, educational services uh as well.

But this is these are pretty unique numbers.

You know, we do these for communities um all around the Pacific Northwest, and manufacturing is is almost never or never that high.

So I think I think that's pretty exciting.

Okay, so getting into the industry cluster profiles.

Um, what we're trying to do here is we we we just took a look at employment with all those industries, with all those kind of the higher level bins.

And now we're kind of taking all those different pieces and we're shuffling them around and we're dropping them into different bins.

And you can do this a number of different ways.

Um sometimes it's done kind of a narrative way of like, oh, well, we've always had um you know this health and wellness cluster, and so let's take jobs within um uh you know uh like you know, hospitals and vet services, and let's kind of push them together and things that make sense.

And that's an that's an okay approach.

What we did here was uh trying to let the data drive a little bit more.

Um and so I know that um the city has done this analysis in the past.

These are a little bit divergent uh from the clusters that you that you've used in the past.

So uh we took uh the employment across all of the different industries.

Uh we looked at employment scale, so the number of folks within each of these industries, uh concentration growth, uh, and we did uh we did try to align as much as we could with um some of the past uh clusters.

So altogether employment within Tualatin, uh about 70 70% of the employment in Tualatin are within these uh seven clusters here.

So the clusters uh that we've uh identified are uh high-tech manufacturing, building systems, that's some of the construction that we talked about there, health sciences, corporate and business services, material goods and manufacturing.

So that's that's a little bit of the kind of pulling apart manufacturing and making some decisions around okay, which are the companies that are like high-tech, they're part of silicon forest, um, uh, and then which which other companies are doing manufacturing, yes, but are maybe doing um uh some materials work, uh, work that might go into construction, um uh metals, things like that.

So that's that's kind of taking manufacturing and looking at it a couple different ways.

Commerce and logistics, so that's getting back to the TWU, the transportation warehousing utilities that we talked about there.

There's certainly a cluster, you've got a major highway running through the community, right, or running by the community.

Um, so um definitely have that cluster there.

And then food systems as well.

Um, food systems is one of the smaller clusters here.

Um there are some uh predominant, there's some uh prominent uh firms here within the community.

I know at Echo Northwest we have Dr.

Brew Kombucha, which is a Twilight thing on tap, which we love very much, and we go through those kegs quite a bit there.

Um but that was one of the legacy clusters that uh that we wanted to put in there, even though it's not a kind of a substantial uh uh cluster from an employment standpoint.

Um so here you go.

Here's uh taking a look at some of these clusters.

Again, you've got that food systems piece is um pretty stable, but the lower um levels of employment there across the bottom.

High tech manufacturing is very exciting, it has grown uh quite a bit from 2014 uh to 2024 there.

Um so good stuff.

And let's see, building systems again is another one that I wanted to point out.

Um again, really um substantial growth and substantial growth coming out of uh the pandemic uh as well.

So taking a look at uh wages here within the clusters, um again, this is uh this is about um the clusters represent about 23,000 workers uh here in Tualetin.

Um the average the cluster wages are around $92,000 again.

So these are some of the higher wage industries within the community.

Um this grew by uh 92% since 2014, uh, which outpaced um other uh other industries.

So really substantial growth.

Most of your growth you're seeing within these clusters is another way of thinking about it.

So getting back to that location quote uh quotient, no donut makers here, but uh the high-tech manufacturing again is completely off the chart with um with uh really really high specialization, followed by building systems, and then that materials and consumer goods manufacturing that we talked about there as well.

In this chart, this is another way of taking a look at um specialization uh here.

So we're looking at the location uh uh quotient uh and this is a location quote and quotient growth matrix.

And so it's um it's creating a quadrant uh that is uh dropping each of these clusters on there, which shows either um uh clusters that are mature, so that's uh high concentration and slow growth, uh growing ones that are high concentration and high growth, so those would be rapidly expanding ones, transforming, so a low concentration and low growth, so maybe there's something happening within that industry cluster that's meaning that it's it's transitioning or it's uh moving into something else, and then emerging, which is low concentration and high growth.

So uh with emerging, uh one example there within uh what the Washington County context is biolife sciences.

Um BioLife Sciences is uh primarily um uh concentrated in the Boston and San Francisco areas in our nation.

Um, but there are emerging industries in the Pacific Northwest and uh here within the region.

There's just a couple.

I know that's not a cluster, but I'm just using that as an example of uh an industry cluster where you might want to be like taking a look at oh okay, we don't have a lot of employees there today, but there's a lot of potential for growth there as well.

And so again, high-tech manufacturing um stable right up there with a high location quotient.

Uh here in the back end of the presentation, just want to take a look at three of the clusters here.

These are the largest clusters.

So high and high-tech manufacturing, almost 5,000 jobs, that's 15% of citywide employment.

Um, and this is the highest cluster wages of all six figures, 125,000 a year uh as the highest wage there.

Grew 64% over 10 years.

Um again, uh growing really well.

Some major employers there uh will be no surprise to you all.

So LAM Research, CES, iCorps, JEE, some companies that have been here and invested in the community for for a long time.

Within uh building systems, uh again, a little bit smaller than high tech manufacturing, about 4300 jobs here within the community.

Again, still really high wages around $95,000 a year.

This was the fastest growing over the past 10 years.

Remember it took a little bit of a dip there in COVID, but then started to shoot back up.

And so and again, there we've have some major employers, so Perlow construction, renewal, another another ones that you'll you'll recognize.

And then here in uh health uh sciences, um, so this is uh a little bit less than 4,000 uh jobs, so about 12% of city employment with an average wage of uh $91,000 a year.

So steady growth um health sciences is growing nationwide, uh especially as the national uh population continues to age and there is more of an increased demand uh for health services.

Um and so you'll notice um some of the companies in there like Kaiser Providence uh and legacy.

So that's a big that's a big run through.

That's that's the snapshot of your economy there.

Happy to try to answer any questions that you have.

Um thanks for thanks for inviting me out this evening.

President Pratt.

I I have two.

First, um if like our high-tech manufacturing, if if something were to happen that really um hurt that industry, how how big of an effect would it be on our city?

Like if we lost half those jobs, say um great question, Counselor Pratt.

Yeah, that would be a substantial, that would be a substantial hit.

Um as the data show here, uh the high-tech manufacturing cluster is uh highly specialized here in Twileton.

Uh location quotient of five again is is phenomenal.

It was uh I think I have my cheat sheet right here.

15% of citywide employment is within that cluster, uh, and also provides some of the highest wages in the community.

So uh if there were, yeah, if if there were a market change, a disruption of some kind, uh, that would have a substantial impact on the local economy.

Okay.

And then my other question was about this always kind of um fascinates me that a lot of other suburbs are like us with that same the demographics, so the people that leave the city and the people that come in.

And I think part of it's got to be uh job match, because I've tried to work in Twilight.

But um so like our economic or development of our downtown and making it a more attractive place, uh what effect does that have, or is there always going to be a pretty big outflow and inflow?

Oh, I think it could have a huge effect.

And I and I don't want to get ahead of of Sid and your strategy that you're gonna work for uh here in the next couple years, but I think uh making sure that there is a diversity of housing uh available for folks and and jobs as well.

I think policies at the city level can make uh a major change.

Um in that commuting slide, there was um there was some data about how far folks are commuting.

I think it was uh 44% are commuting within 10 miles.

And so uh, you know, I think if you are uh making uh space for, so providing housing units and doing some of that placemaking also that you're gonna be working on here in the downtown for folks to say, oh, I don't need to drive, you know, on Boons Ferry, and I can I can come down here and live within the community.

I think that you could have a real impact.

Okay, great, thank you.

Other questions.

Council Race.

Um when you said construction with um with marine number be one of them or par number, those are part of construction.

Or what a what industry would they be?

Yeah, great question, Counselor Base.

Um, those companies, I can always double check here, but I'm pretty sure that those companies would be within the construction build because it's the cluster is construction and building systems.

And so what we're trying to do with the clusters there is um put like companies or companies that are within the same supply chain together, because it's you know it's like well, Perlow always works with you know this uh lumber company for building something, and they're you know, they're there, so it makes sense to put them together.

So I could double check, but I'm pretty sure that the ones that you described would be within uh the building systems cluster.

Thank you.

Council Helier.

Thank you very much.

This is very interesting.

It's uh fun to hear scientists talk.

Um so I hope this question will come out the way my brain has made it.

Um so I'm looking at the and referencing council president Pratt's conversation or uh comment regarding the um diversity of jobs already in our community and the match, because I see that 8% of residents, where do residents work, 8% commute more than 25 miles, and obviously it's it's way out of whack with the where do commuters live kind of thing.

But I wonder if we have some sort of idea if when I go then to your um pods, if you will, clusters, excuse me.

Um it's like it um it it seems like there was um there were more you just chose those, but um I thought that I saw oh yeah, sorry, then on slide page 372, I have no idea.

Industry employment concentration, sorry.

Um when we look at that, is that really kind of uh as we're looking, or maybe it's the page right before, are those different services things that we as we're gonna listen and learn from Sid and move forward, are those the sorts of um businesses we want to attract to our community because we want to keep people in the community.

Like I'm trying to make the connection of what it what it where is the whole and how do we help how do I help make that make sense to me?

I'm sorry.

Yes, no, I'm just not an economist.

Counselor, no, I think I know where you're going.

Yeah.

So how do we take all of this data and uh you and you have limited staff resources, you have these limited city resources, how do you make decisions around business attraction, business support for local businesses, it was this expansion.

And I think there are a number of different ways that you could approach that.

So uh the slide that I've showed here is slide 18, where again we're looking at some of these clusters.

Um you're looking at uh high tech again, which is uh has a high location quotient.

Um it's growing, but it's not growing, you know, it is over the line there.

So uh is the d you know, does is the decision, wow, we're highly specialized in high tech.

Uh we need to make sure that these companies stay here and that they're happy.

That could be a strategy.

Another strategy could be going to an emerging cluster and saying, you know, um let's pick uh let's pick health sciences.

Health sciences in the emerging cluster.

So low concentration today, but high growth.

So another strategy could be let's let's go to some of these, let's identify the companies where there's the most most growth uh potential, whether they're here in Tualeton or they're elsewhere, and see what they need to continue to invest and expand within our community.

And so I think both of those strategies are valid.

Um but but again, I think that's that's gonna be Sid's role when you get to the to the strategy, uh the strategy project of making that decision around you have finite resources in staff and in money and in tools that you can deploy to say, okay, well, where do we you know which strategy do we use here?

Um and you know, to I you have to do a little bit of a both, you know, with um to your point, counselor, you want to make sure that um the high-tech manufacturers are doing well here and the continue to be a stable part of the local economy uh while also keeping an eye on some of those that have the potential to grow a lot.

And and yes, thank you.

And and as part of that picture, the overlay of the community, like whatever jobs that people are leaving our community to do.

Like is uh is there an assumption that that's a gap, if you will, when people are driving 25 miles or more outside our community, 8% people say they're leaving.

There's some way to capture even those eight percent of those people.

Like, do we have any idea what jobs types of jobs they're going to?

Sure, yeah, no, I see where you're you're going with that.

Um I think that's something you could definitely uh you definitely take a look uh at within the strategy project, I would say um to dig deeper into well, where are people going and what kind of jobs are there?

Some of them are going to be unique, right?

So let's say people are are boat building, like no one's doing boat building on the Twilight and River, right?

So, you know, the boat builders are gonna go uh somewhere else.

But there could be the potential for you know professional services um you know that might be looking to relocate and like oh how could we attract some of those folks.

Definitely something to explore further in another project.

Yeah, thank you.

Other questions?

Go ahead.

I don't want to lose track of what she was saying.

So for instance, if they're m if they're working in Lake Hillsborough, like Intel, uh that they're way on the east side of the county and they perhaps want to have a campus here so they can attract the not just here in Tualeton, but also like Wilsonville and Westlin, which you know, driving all the way to Hillsborough will make so those kinds of because it is a high manufacturing or high tech manufacturing, and perhaps a lot of these in individuals that live here have to drive all the way to Hillsborough to um for work.

And then if they want to say propose a campus or something here, that's the kind of thought of processing that you're suggesting.

I mean, I'm I'm just kind of wanting to follow what she was saying.

Yeah.

Attracting people live here already, they don't they work in Intel, but if Intel wants to do something here, uh consider it so that way they can stay within here and also work here and live here.

Yes, Council Race.

Yeah, so I think I think I mean I'm like you're not making sense, but no, I I I I get where you're going around uh understanding where people are are living and working and what opportunities there are to um attract some of those businesses to here.

Because they're already living here.

Yes.

Yeah, no, I I think and that's you know, we in this project we're just looking at these industry clusters and not kind of doing some of that spatial analysis or looking elsewhere, but I think those are great questions to be asking, and certainly something that should you should explore in the strategy project.

Thank you.

Other questions.

This might be more, this is the challenge for Sid.

Oh, because I didn't because you put you've had it on the whole time.

Go ahead.

Oh, I raised my hand.

Sorry, I didn't realize I had it on.

Um I just my question was um thank you for the report.

I appreciate it.

I had two questions.

One, when you're talking about health sciences, um you're not talking about health care.

You're talking about technology?

Both, yes, yes.

Um so uh terrific question.

And we actually, in the full report, uh we have a list of the industries that are within each industry cluster.

Um, and so you can take a look at which ones um are are within that bin.

So within health sciences, um, there are both uh companies that are doing like med tech or devices and health services providers.

So the providences, the Kaisers, the legacies as well, as as well as veterinary services.

We noticed that you have you have a strong concentration of vets in this community.

Yeah, yeah.

So yeah.

Um and then my next question was exactly that, the full report.

I clicked on this and just keep getting the same slides.

So I'm just curious if we could get the link emailed to us so we can read the report.

Thank you.

Yeah, absolutely.

Other questions?

So the the question I started on was um this is great research to have for Sid with GPI and stuff, but then don't know if it's addressed in report because I didn't read the whole report yet.

Um the ability to say, okay, we're gonna one of our these are the sectors we're gonna focus in on and try to attract companies to come here and relocate.

But the old the challenge of land use and no availability of land and land uh availability is readiness is gonna be the challenge, I guess for him, not you for him and GPI.

That when we do want to attract more high-tech manufacturing, and they are interested in Twalton, the challenge we're gonna have is do we have the land and the infrastructure for them to build on?

Um I guess that's phase two of this plan of here's what we're gonna focus on.

Now we have to be able to say, okay, if you do want to locate here, here's here's our terrific site ready for you to go here in Twalton.

Uh yeah, yeah, certainly it's ongoing challenge, not just for this community, but uh region-wide uh our 2019 um strategies identified, yeah, availability of land, making sure there's services and utilities available there.

So all of those things and coordinating those uh utilities and public services for um in in the different uh parts of our community.

Uh so we continue continuously do that through our land use process.

Um the other thing is um uh just draw just a little blank on that.

It'll come back to me in a second.

While you're thinking about it, because it ties into our the work session, working with Thorn Run, it ties into our priorities and our themes that um you know if we want to attract and expand and have people live, work, and play here, we've got to have that land use or the land availability.

I'm sorry.

And then given that we do have the land available down in the urban renewal zone or the salt creek, but the funds to build out the infrastructure to get these guys to come and locate on those 70 odd acres, what I forget what it is, but yeah, that that was the second point that I just remembered was we we've got urban renewal, right?

Yeah, and the core and our swerve a little more applicable in this word area for our industrial area, but certainly the SWERT area, uh a lot of projects on infrastructure transportation, etc.

A little more applicable in this word area for our industrial area, but certainly this word area, a lot of projects on infrastructure, transportation, etc.

Um, and and as that uh uh uh council probably envisioned that you know this word area would be very similar to that the the benefits and success that we've seen in Levington Urban Renewal District as well.

So we're certainly on our way.

We've got the 50 acres that we're recently annexed.

We're looking at expanding some of that infrastructure out there now.

Uh part of our work program for the next fiscal year for Active Urban Renewal is looking at how do we start deploying some of those uh the TIFF revenue to really begin to start planning for all those areas.

And then the last question I got was I was kind of surprised that we're below the what the quota one for manufacturing for distribution and warehousing.

I find that hard to believe with all the facilities we have on to Walton Sherwood Road.

Yeah, that one's earlier.

Compared to the United States, I was like, what?

Oh, the within the industry employment concentration, mayor.

Yeah, transportation and warehousing network below.

I'm like, I think we'd be above considering we're a Mecca for we're housing and distribution here.

Just kind of caught me kind of weird.

It's pretty close to one.

But yeah, yeah.

We have the facilities, but not the jobs in them.

That's the problem.

You know, these big warehouses take up a lot of land, but the amount of people working in them might not be right.

Or appreciate it.

Anything else?

Thanks for coming, Matt.

Great.

You at least you're delivering a positive message for a change versus some of the doom and gloom.

Sometimes you talk.

I would say this is terrific news.

Yeah, I think well, yeah, maybe that's the fine point on it, uh, mayor, is that yeah, your your economy is doing great.

Uh you know, so many communities would be jealous of the economy and the um the companies that you have here within Tualeton.

So thank you.

Thank you for your time this evening.

Thanks, Sid.

All right, that brings us to item number three under general business consideration of resolution number five nine eight four-26 authorizing the city manager to sign an intergovernmental agreement with Tiger 12th School District for our SRO program.

Welcome, Chief.

And Brian and Daniel.

Welcome.

Well, good evening, Mayor and Council.

Uh we're here before you tonight to uh discuss the IGA with TTSD.

So since 1988, the Twalton Police Department has partnered with the Twalton Tiger Twalton School District by assigning SROs to to Twalton schools.

So I was a uh fresh young eighth grader when Officer Randy Cafus of the Twalton Police Department walked into Tuality Junior High back then.

Uh and that was my first experience with an SRO.

Um and since 1988, Twalton has provided SROs to Twalton schools.

Um so for nearly uh four decades, the SRO program has really been a cornerstone of our community policing uh for the department.

Uh SROs are more than just school security, they're trusted mentors for students, they're problem solvers, they're educators, and they truly are the bridge between the schools, the families, and law enforcement.

So uh now I'm gonna introduce uh Officer Brian Miller and Officer Dan Hernandez, uh, who have a short presentation that they presented to the school board a little bit a little while ago, but uh we wanted to present it to you as well, and then uh we'll talk about next steps.

So thanks for having us.

Um I don't know if you guys want me to go through every slide word for word, but uh we'll work through it.

If you have questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

So as Twalton SROs, we're dedicated to making a difference in the lives of every student.

Um supporting the staff and community, interacting with students in a positive way every day, promoting an open door policy every day.

And I missed that last one, but so this is just uh look into some of what we handled um and were involved in this school year.

So um variety of you know, attending football games, back to school dances, you know.

I'm on the coaching staff of football.

Um we had some cultural compassity work, attended basketball games, shop with a cop.

Um we really try to get involved in the school as much as we can, as long as the school wants us to be involved.

Um and then we're gonna go into uh a little bit on our referrals and criminal reports that we got involved in, and we're a very reactive um police officers in the school.

You know, everything that we get involved in is all generated by either the school admin, parents, or students themselves that are initiating uh reports that they want to speak to.

Yeah, these things quite true.

You got this thing timed out here.

I yeah, um, I wasn't in charge of this uh PowerPoint, but I've got an expert at the office that helps me out.

So we had 43 offense reports, and I'll go through those here in a little bit.

We had 16 arrest reports, one missing person, 33 supplemental reports.

And thir 33 supplemental reports basically are just additional reports that are tied into the offense reports.

This past the slide.

This is just um very tiny.

So this is actually what that last slide um kind of a deeper look into what we handled.

Um, you know, we had a variety of assaults, we had an arson, sex abuses, strangulation, we had school threats, uh distribution of intimate images, we had DHS referrals, um, public indecency, harassment, custody issues, concealed weapons, uh only one MIP alcohol.

This is a breakdown of the race and the victims race.

Um the unknown is uh two or more.

And this is for um the referral data as far as the arrests.

This is a breakdown of sex of the victims as far as who's reporting reporting parties, and here's a five-year trend of our arrest by race back to 2022 to 2026, so a little decrease this year.

And you know, on a lot of times we can get being working in the schools, um, we can get really creative in how a lot of times families we can work with families and kids within the schools and not make referrals to the juvenile department.

You know, sometimes that parents are adamant that they want this person referred.

Um which isn't a bad thing.

Um our juvenile system is all about reformation and changing kids' behavior.

So sometimes a referral for us individual student might be a good thing because it might be get the support that they actually need to get them kind of on track.

So as Twalton SROs, we're committed to every student soaring to their highest potential, and that's absolutely true.

You know, we want to make sure that every kid is successful in that school.

This is just picture of Daniel with uh some of our camper kids during our summer camp.

Any questions?

Any questions?

Okay, go ahead.

Um I've been at a couple events with Officer Hernandez, and I just think it's great how those kids know who you are and they come up and talk to you and they feel very comfortable.

So these two don't take the opportunity to gloat very often about what an impact they do have in our community.

So Brian, I mentioned it a little bit, um, but they are both actively involved, not only at the school, but outside the school as well.

Um I was hoping Brian would bring the picture, but uh I'm gonna ask Brian to tell a story um from a student from the high school that he experienced in this last school year.

So I had a student um that came into she was a senior and she came into my office her last day of school, and she in one of her classes she was instructed to create something that uh reflected something that supported her throughout the school, um, her four years at the high school, and um so she took and she created a painting, and it's absolutely beautiful.

I should have brought it, um, but it's a painting of a police car, and it's uh you know, it's it's basically a softer version of a police car.

And it's you know, it's it's basically a softer version of a police car.

And she's she basically handed to kind of made me hair on the back of my neck next stand up, but she said, you know, Officer Miller, I really appreciate you being here all four years and being here every day and protecting us and being such a genuine person.

So I thought it was it's hanging in my office right now, and so it's pretty cool.

Yeah, and that's just one small example of the impact that our officers that are in the schools have on our kids on a daily basis.

And again, they do become that trusted mentor and in a lot of ways trusted friends, which is a huge impact that we have.

So uh before you is consideration of resolution number 5984-26, which authorizes the city manager to sign an intergovernmental agreement with the Tiger Twalton School Districts uh to continue the school resource office officer program uh for the 26-27 school year.

Is there any questions that uh the council has?

That's right.

Thank you very much for your work and your service.

Um just just to out of curiosity, um, do you guys also do work go to Tu uh Tiger or just in Tualetin at the school, the schools in Twiliton.

We just serve the Tualton schools.

But we support, I mean, we meet monthly with all the tiger that's do they also have as RLs?

They do, yes.

Oh, okay.

Thank you.

Councilor Gonzalez.

I just want to say thank you so much for what you do.

I know that for me when I was a young kid, the school resource officer had a huge impact in my life and stability.

Um I just want to say thank you.

I I can feel some emotion in you a little bit.

Yeah.

So I like to see that picture if you can remember to bring it one of these days.

I will bring it in.

Or just send a picture to all of us, that'd be great.

Yeah, thank you.

Thank you.

Well, um thank you for being here.

I am in full support, of course, of this.

I think there should be even more funds because I think your salary should go up like 50% at least, because the protective factors that you provide to kids in our community are second to none.

Um I I think that even the chief is completely underselling what happens and how you interact with students, and these these numbers I know um probably could be a lot different if we didn't have you doing the hero's camp and we didn't have you in the elementary schools engaging with families and kids to know that you are safe people to go to.

And you're at every community event, and and they the kids do know you and they recognize you, and I think we have to do a better job of knowing you and recognizing you because the difference that you make for kids and families in our community is just exceptional.

And so I just want to say thank you, and I hope you continue to be recognized.

I know your conference is coming up this year, or excuse me, not this year, but here very soon at the beach, and I hope I know you'll go and represent Twalton very, very well in the school resource officer conference, and thank you for your leadership.

Both of you I know lead there, and I know Chief, you have also.

And I just um from the bottom of my heart, I see it, I feel it, and I know that things could be way different if we did not have you in our schools.

So thank you very much.

Yeah, just another comment with that.

I had a meeting last week um with the director of the juvenile department and the assistant director of the juvenile department.

And after the meeting, I was just chatting with them asking for some real stats of what Towalaton looks like.

Um, because they actually had their policy analysts there who said they offered up the stats.

We hope to have them tonight, but we didn't get them in time.

Um but one of the things that they commented on is is that Towalaton, the city of Twalton specifically, is one of the lowest, um, has one of the lowest involvements with the juvenile department with our youth.

So again, I think that's another reflection of the positive influence that a school resource officer program has on our community.

Absolutely, and I think it it shouldn't go without being mentioned that it's okay to have referrals.

I think that's a really good point.

I mean, when they're needed, those resources are critical because there are some.

They're limited right here in Twalton, and we know that, but um, sometimes that's that is the next step for some people, and so thank you for making sure the people who need those get those and the people who you who you serve here in our community in the way that you serve them, uh are not don't become a statistic in any way, right?

And so I I I'd love to see those statistics as as they come out, you know, for grant writing and other things, you know.

All right.

Do you have a motion?

I'll say thanks too, and we still miss you across the street.

And uh it's nice to know everybody well in our community.

Um I have to say when I first came on council is weird because I you know, my high school, I'm from the way back machines, we never had uh police officers at the school, so it's a little um strange, especially since I don't have kids to like think about all that.

Um but as I've gotten to understand and know the program better, and um and and you three uh I um really happy that they have the support that they do with you guys.

So thank you.

Thank you.

I move that we adopt resolution number 5984-26.

Second.

I have a motion of second to adopt resolution number five nine eight four-26.

Any discussions on those motions?

All right, uh councillor Sacco.

Aye, Council Hillier.

Aye, Council Reyes.

Big yes, Council Gonzalez.

Yes, Council Brooks.

Aye, Council President Pratt.

Aye, chair votes aye.

It's unanimously adopted.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Yep, yeah, have a fun summary.

All right.

That brings us to items removed from consent.

We did have one item removed from consent.

That was item number six, consideration of resolution number five nine eight three-26, amending the city of Tualton fee schedule and rescinding resolution number five nine zero three-25.

It's just a simple vote.

I didn't want to vote yes for it in a group setting like that, so I think um just one about no on it.

Okay, right.

Uh so I have a motion.

I didn't what was that?

I'm sorry, Miss Your Reasoning is already no, I just wanted to say that I just didn't want to vote on it.

I wanted to vote no on the fee increases.

So discussion.

Well, when I look at what this is for, I mean, we have to cover the the labor materials.

These are specific things like sign permits and development copying pages, they're just fees for services.

Um I mean, there is an increase.

Um I'm sure Don got it from a reliable source.

And um, to me, if we don't pass these on directly to the people use it requesting these things, then either we're gonna have to take it from other sources to cover the cost, or we're gonna we're punting it forward, and then there's gonna be a huge increase in future years.

So I'm gonna vote yes.

Other discussion.

Do I have a motion?

When are we rescinding?

Can I try to look at because I'm trying to look at the old fee schedule?

So the new speech, the new fee schedules replacing the old fee schedule.

I've I'm I move Sacco.

I move to adopt resolution number five nine eighty three-26, amending the city of Tualeton's fee schedule and rescinding resolution number five nine zero three-25.

I second it.

I have a motion and second to adopt resolution number five nine eight three-26.

Any discussion of those motions.

Councilor Sacco.

Aye, Council Hillier.

Aye.

Council Reyes.

Um reading yes, because I it's the city of Durham agreement.

No.

No, no.

I am number six.

I am like looking at it.

Oh can I come last?

I just want to briefly council Gonzalez.

It's gonna be a no for me.

Right, Councilor Brooks.

Hi.

Council President Pratt.

Aye.

Councilor Reyes.

I didn't really have time to study this, so I'm just gonna stay.

Okay.

Thank you.

Uh chair votes aye.

So we have six yes, one abstention.

So the uh resolution is adopted.

Oh, one no.

I'm sorry, yeah, yeah.

Sorry, you got me.

Check my math.

You adding five five yes, one no, and one abstention.

Thank you.

All right, that brings us to council communications.

Council Brooks.

Um, since our little break, I passed out uh there's more for the rest of you guys.

But what I thought was really interesting was the information about the Emerald Ash Bore.

So I had the opportunity to talk with Tyler Peterson, who's the program director for the invasive species program for Twalton Southern Water Conservation District.

And we have a thousand and nineteen trees that are going to be affected by this emerald ash bore, and I was curious if the council would be interested in hearing from Tyler Peterson, the program manager for Twalton Soil and Water Conservation District.

He's very passionate about his work and as a scientist, and I think understands about best practices and also could be a good education for the community so that you know what signs to look for before a tree falls down.

Um and then the possibilities around how people are mitigating the holding their um their canopies.

That was one.

Okay.

So you're asking to have it put on a work session or have to put yeah, like a work session.

Council Hillier.

Oh, I I think this is very important.

I'm just curious if there's a better place in the community or a better sponsor in the community for it.

It because I noticed um the room isn't packed for city council, and so I just wonder if there's a other another different natural partner to invite, or is the goal to edge help educate us.

Yeah.

Oh, I I thought it was a community education.

No, I I think the community education is a piece of it, but I also think that we are trying to do um what we call low hanging fruit around our tree canopy, which isn't really low-hanging fruit when you have an ash borer running around.

So I think to better understand the policies that we pass, it might be good to have a grasp of what we're dealing with in our community from a scientist that actually specializes in it.

Thank you for the clarification.

I I misunderstood, I don't know.

I just thought they were he was just so interesting.

He also had turtles that were really interesting because we have invasive turtles too in our river.

But he's a government guy.

I mean, I don't know if there's interest, but three other folks interested.

I just see four.

Okay, great.

Thank you.

Because Dustin's the one having to deal with yeah, I have the his card and stuff.

And then if anyone's interested in more information for kids, if you're working with kids or working with other adults and other things, I do have his card, so um if you guys are interested, they're right here.

Um and then the other um thing I wanted to bring up that I forgot during the uh check-in was that I attended the first um local government advisory committee for health care.

Um that one I'm appointed to by the League of Oregon Cities on behalf of all the city counselors in the state, which I feel really proud of.

And it's me and a bunch of and um uh mostly county commissioners from every county, and then some people from different health organizations.

The first meeting we had um social worker from OHSU that is working on helping um get the HPV vaccine more promoted, and I had no idea, but it there's like a it's a way to actually stop cancer.

So that was very interesting, and then the other um conversation was pretty important from Naomi Adelin Briggs from who's the director of public health division for the OHA, and Dr.

Dean Seidlinger, who's the health officer and state epidemiologist we saw a lot during COVID.

Um, and they both were talking about the fact that we only have one um nine and ten people vaccinated for measles, and that they're anticipating a possible outbreak in November.

Um, and I wanted to also let people know that nowadays there's two vaccines.

So if you were vaccinated earlier, um like in the 80s, that you would probably only have one of those shots.

So as we get older, having the two shots is really important.

Um, and it should make a difference in risk.

So as much as we can do to support not having an outbreak and to understand what the real impacts of measles are.

Um, I think is uh important conversation as we're um walking through our day.

That's and then finally, I didn't know if we had I know with Bates being gone, we had talked about um reassigning the um the Mac on the alternate.

I mentioned that there was no showing, and I don't get notified when the person's not going.

Um, so I don't feel comfortable in that role of being the alternate for the MAAC anymore.

Um, and I don't think that it feels right to be criticizing the county around the library, and um having people show up where they say they're gonna be, and then not having our representation going to the meetings, so and not getting a phone call to the or an email to the um alternate, so I just don't get them.

There's been a lot going on in that committee.

Um, and it's uncomfortable, and I feel like we've had this conversation a lot of different times, and I think it's the council needs to have a conversation about what we're doing here around committee assignments and showing up.

I know it's in our council rules, but I've brought it up a few times, and there's no nobody's volunteered yet to do it, nobody's volunteered to step down.

We could do it a very nice way, and uh keep bringing it up, but I am no longer I'm volunteering to step off that committee.

Right.

Okay, thank you.

Okay, that's right.

Um council Hillier.

I have a I read now the and I remember now.

Sorry, I was very confused, but can I change my vote?

I actually have a vote for um resolution 5983-26.

Can I parliamentarian here?

So is that yeah, my question to our uh and thank you.

I this has already been the motion's been adopted if there could be a motion to reconsider, but that would be uh I think out of order at this time since it has been actually passed, and I don't think there's much we can do under the council rules unless the council has a will to reconsider this and take another development.

It was about there that I just thought I asked.

Thank you.

Council Hillier.

I I don't know what the actual process is to make changes midterm.

I used to serve on that committee, I enjoyed it.

I'm happy to um move into either an alternate or a lead on that.

Okay, if you want to volunteering to take council Brooks' place as the alternate, I'm I'm volunteering to take either the lead or the alternate.

So it's in our council rules, you have to go to these meetings or call your alternate.

So if that's not happening, what is the procedure?

There have been no meetings where we have not hydrogen by members of the council, like council members.

That's not what I understand from okay.

That's what I want to understand.

So then have we heard the reports?

We can we can work with Mac to uh provide a report of uh is there work being done that the council should know about it.

I mean, can is Councillor Gonzalez do you want to give us a report?

Yeah, let me just there's been some things that I spoke to the mayor this morning when we met that I wasn't too sure what I could say when we had uh sessions, private sessions of what happened to happen on the Mac.

And so I wasn't sure.

So I'll take responsibility for that communication lack of.

I just didn't know that when we have private sessions when we're dealing with heart issues at the Mac that I could divulge those things to the council.

So it was it was the mayor just said do report just say things like we had a special session that we talked about.

So that was my bet on that.

I just wasn't too sure what I could share on the special.

Because there wasn't some heart issues that had to be dealt with with the Mac.

So I apologize for that.

And then I just want to say, sorry about my tone, but I was like, when there's no meetings to report, I had no meetings, then I was misunderstanding and I felt really uncomfortable.

Thank you.

Okay, you still want to withdraw.

Okay.

Okay, all right.

All right.

Uh any other council communications.