The Tualatin Urban Renewal Agency (URA) board held a regular meeting on August 24, 2026, with a single agenda item: a resolution to amend the Building Improvement Grant (BIG) program. The board unanimously approved the resolution after brief discussion.
But can we go through consent from the group to continue to finish this URA board meeting? We just have one agenda item. Okay. Yeah. Okay, cool. So Ray, will you please call rule? Uh Director Valenzila? What are we voting? What do we do? No, we we have to start a meeting. We have an agenda item. Oh, we got a regular meeting. We have one agenda item on there. So we're just director Shimmel. Here. Director Falconer. Here. Director Martinez. Here. Director Marshall. Here. Chair Wenzel. Here. Public comment. Time provided for anyone wishing to speak to the board on any item not scheduled for a public hearing. Comments are limited to two minutes unless additional time is granted by the presiding officer. The public comment period shall not exceed 30 minutes unless extended by the board. Is there anyone wishing to give public comment? Again, no one is here that's not getting paid or elected. And no one is online. Oh wait, we do have one person online. Is anyone on Zoom wishing to give public comment? They say no raised hand, can nothing on the consent agenda. We're gonna move on to item D resolutions. URA resolution 202602, amending the building improvement grant, also known as the big program, and repealing resolution 202601. And I'm gonna turn over to our assistant city manager, Kim Ezel. Thank you. Good evening, Chair and Board of the Urban Renewal Agency. The resolution before you this evening would amend the building improvement grant program to delegate to staff the ability to administratively award some additional funding to previously awarded projects. In recent months, staff have received feedback from program participants that project costs have increased since they applied for and received their award, and participants have requested program flexibility to release additional grant funding to help them complete awarded projects. Reviewing the program guidelines, staff believe the program merits some flexibility after award while carefully adhering to the overall limits of the program. Staff proposes that the board delegate to staff the ability to administratively award up to 25% more funding to eligible projects, subject to funding availability and the program limits of one-to-one matching funds, 100,000 maximum award per project, and 105,000 maximum award per prop business or property within a five-year period. This additional funding will be strictly limited to project cost increases and could not be awarded for additional items outside of the original project scope. Under this proposal, staff would have the ability to award up to $20,000 in additional funding to any one previously approved project and up to $87,500 across all projects awarded within a fiscal year. The 25% amendment ability is being presented by staff because it matches the contractual amendment ability under Forest Groves procurement rules. Thank you for your consideration, and I'm happy to answer any questions. Okay, thank you, Kim. Any questions? Hearing none. What is the wish of the agency?