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Meeting. We are meeting in person this evening in the Cornelia City Council

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Chambers. The meeting is also being streamed live on TV, CTV, and via Zoom.

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Language captions and translation services are available through

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wordly. You can use any smart device to access the service. There is a QR code

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and instructions in the back of the room. I will now call this meeting to

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order at 6.45, a little bit after 6.46 and staff, could you please proceed with roll call?

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Member Dillene?

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Present.

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Member Baker?

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Present.

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Vice-Chair Goudina-Zalencia?

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Present.

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Chair Lopez?

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Present.

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I'll present.

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Okay, so it looks like we've got a light agenda today, we have one item on the consent

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consent agenda and I believe there is a presentation or memo. The first item of business is the

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consent agenda. The only item on the consent agenda is previous meeting minutes, I believe

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from August. Is there anyone who would like to make a motion or has a comment or question?

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motion. I motion to approve the consent agenda. Okay. Motion made by Board or Co-Chair Galinas.

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Do I have a second? I second. Oh, you don't have to decide, Chair. We'll give it to Board

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member Baker. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor of the motion please say

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aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed?

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No, it looks like it passes unanimously.

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Okay, moving on. So,

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public comment. Do we have anyone online or in person? No, it looks like, I see some

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Notting Hood, so it's a no.

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And then finally, we're making it to presentations.

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So that brings us to a presentation from staff

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on the increase in grant funds for catalytic project.

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Community Development Director Barbara Fryer,

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you are on the floor.

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It's all yours, Barbara.

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Good evening, Chair Lopez and members of the board.

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This project, we received an OPRD, an Oregon Parks and Recreation Department grant to complete

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a storefront improvement project for this particular property.

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And originally, you folks had authorized $91,500 through not only a direct grant but reimbursement

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of staff time.

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And the project, we needed to get a different architect on board for the next phase of the

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project and as part of that the structural assessment needed to have an engineer to help

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with the design plans on the architecture.

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So this request for an additional expenditure of $7,040 is for the engineer to serve the

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architect to make sure that the structural integrity of that improvement is sound.

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The Mercado had quite an extensive amount of structural work done next door, and it's

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all one building when it was originally constructed, and then at some point in time there was

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a land division down the middle of the building.

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building. And so the structural work that was done on the Mercado, similar work needs

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to be done on this building, this portion of the building. And I'd be happy to answer any

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questions you might have.

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Are there any questions from the board?

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Okay, looks pretty straightforward. I think there's

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any questions at this time. Thank you, Barbara.

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Thank you.

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And I do believe there is no motion proposed or anything. Is that my reading or my writing?

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Okay,

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so moving on, there is no unfinished business or new business. This brings us to adjournment.

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Do I have a motion to adjourn?

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Motion to adjourn.

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Motion made by Member Dailey. Do I have a second?

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I second.

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Second by Board Member Galinas. Is there any further discussion?

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All those in favor of the motion, please say aye.

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Aye. Any opposed? Okay, that looks unanimous.

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Okay, this is

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the Cornia City Council meeting for Tuesday, September 8th, 2026.

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We're live on Zoom webinar.

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We're also available on TVC-TV live stream.

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And we have wordly live translation.

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The city is committed to providing equal access to public meetings.

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Request for accommodations can be submitted to the city recorder at least 48 hours before the meeting at city recorder at CorneliusOR.gov.

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Or by calling 503-357-9112.

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If you need information in Spanish, please call me at 503-357-9192.

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We also have this word translation that you can use to translate any language that you

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use in Spanish.

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Thank you.

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We've already had a couple of meetings earlier, so this is our regular session.

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First up, I'd like to start with the Pledge of Allegiance. Please stand and join us.

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Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

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Staff, could you please call roll?

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Councilor Lopez.

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Present.

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Councilor Baker.

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Present.

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Council President Godina's Valencia.

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Mayor Dilling.

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Present.

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All present.

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Thank you.

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First up this evening we have Oath of Office.

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Michelle, can you bring up Brenda and do the Oath of Office?

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It's my pleasure to welcome Brenda Gonzalez-Pacheco up here.

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Please hold that.

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Raise your right hand and repeat after me.

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I, state your name, I, Brenda Gonzales Pacheco, do solemnly affirm, do solemnly affirm, that

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I will faithfully support, that I would faithfully support, the Constitution of the United States

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of America, the Constitution of United States of America, and the State of Oregon, the Charter

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and Ordinances, the Charter and Ornances, of the City of Cornelius, of the City of

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Cornelius. That I will to the best of my ability. That I will to the best of my

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ability. Perform the duties of City Counselor. Perform the duties of City

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Counselor. In and for the city of Cornelius. In and for the city of Cornelius.

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County of Washington. County of Washington. As such duties are prescribed by

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law. As such duties are prescribed by law. Thank you. Please join me in welcoming

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Councilor Gonzalez-Pacheco.

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Thank you.

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And you can flip your name tag up.

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Look at that.

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Ta-da.

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Awesome.

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Welcome.

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Okay.

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Announcements.

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Friday, September 11th at 1 p.m.

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We'll have a 9-11, 9-11 Remembrance Ceremony.

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Is that going to be here at the, at our flagpole?

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Or where are we doing that?

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That was something I didn't get to ask earlier.

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Mr. Mayor, keep your eye on social media for more details.

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The morning ceremony will be at Veterans Park,

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and then later in the day there will be a visual ceremony component

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outside on the west side of the Public Safety Building.

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Okay. Great. Thank you.

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Monday, October 5th, 6 p.m., we'll have a city council work session,

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and then also at 7 p.m. that evening, October 5th, we'll have a city council meeting.

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Public comments, do we have any public comments this evening?

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that takes us to the consent agenda.

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I have a couple items on the consent agenda.

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Is there anyone wishing to make a motion

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to approve the consent agenda?

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I'll make a motion.

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Yes, Councillor Goodenous.

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Sorry, I make a motion to approve the consent agenda.

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That's okay.

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We haven't met in like two weeks,

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so you know, we're getting rusty.

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So I have a motion by Councillor Goodenous.

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Do I have a second?

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Second.

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Second by Councillor Lopez.

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Any further discussion?

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Seeing none, all those in favor, please say aye.

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Aye.

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Abstentions?

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Passes unanimous.

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Takes us on to recognitions

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and we have a few of them this evening.

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First up, for service recognitions,

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chief, you got a couple of them here.

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Sure, yeah, grab a mic there

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and I'll let you walk through, you got a couple.

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Well, we'll have one, so I'll call Corporal Drew C. Miller up.

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So Drew is in a Sheriff's Office uniform.

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He served with Cornelius for nearly seven years.

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He chose to come out here, and he's now promoted back to the Sheriff's Office as a Corporal.

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And one of the things that I'll tell you is I really have a lot of admiration for Drew.

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Not just because he chose to serve the community, but we had a really tragic event.

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There's other deputies that are here that were present for that.

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But as I watched his body-worn camera and everything that he went through, a true leader in leading his team, leading the fire department, leading me through that event.

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And I can't thank him enough for the time that he served at Cornelius, and he knows that.

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I think he really knows that he's appreciated.

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I don't think Drew's going to have much to say. He's kind of a quiet guy.

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But I might open the opportunity up for all of you to say something to Drew for his seven years out here.

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I'll lead off Corporal C. Miller now, right?

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Congratulations, first off.

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Obviously a good recognition of your time.

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I hope we can claim that part of your advancement

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was because of your great opportunities to grow

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and learn and advance out during your time in Cornelius.

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So, but thank you for all those years you spent out here

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and wish you the best of luck

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in your endeavors out in the regular county.

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I just want to echo what the mayor said and thank you for your service for our community.

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I'm sure you saw a lot of hard things and I just appreciate you responding with humility and being there for our folks when they need it most, so thank you.

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Yeah, I would like to also say thank you. I know I'm Neo, but I look forward to getting to know you and the rest of the team, the rest of Chief's team, so thank you for your service.

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Mariah, I think you're up next with the library, so,

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yep, lights right there for you.

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David wasn't able to be here tonight because he's at an outreach event that was pre-programmed

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before he was informed about this, so he's really, really sad that he's missing this.

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But I did have some words to say that I wanted to recognize David for five years of

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full-time employment.

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He has been with the library since 2018.

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He started as a library aide, but even before that he was a volunteer.

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So he's been with the library for many years and very dedicated and he has a lot of skills that he brings to the team.

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I did want to point out that his impact, where he's had the biggest impact with the library,

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is with his outreach and his dedication that he has for serving the community and reaching as many people as possible.

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Doesn't matter the age.

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I don't have the exact number. I couldn't find it.

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But I know we've distributed in the last three years more than 6,000 books through the bookmobile

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Program itself that doesn't include our summer reading out outreach that we do with the summer reading signups

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So that's a lot of books that are going out into the community

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And that's all thanks to David and finding as many books as possible

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He's like I can still use that book and so we do we save it for him

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He's also helped develop the makerspace lab for schools

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So we have school visits that come over and they come and test out some different technology in the maker space

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But I think the one that he's the most known for is making gummy

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anything so

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That is, he might be known as like the gummy man or something, that might just be me, but

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that is something that the third graders look forward to doing every year with him.

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He's also continued doing library cards for the kids. I started that like 10 years ago

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with the third graders and he's continued doing that and looking for ways to expand

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that to other grades or any teacher that's willing to work with him. And then getting

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tours, getting people set up to come into the library and check out and just share

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everything that we have available to the library. So yeah, I'm very thankful for

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his positive energy that he has out on the community and just trying to be as

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creative as possible to get people inside. And if they can't come inside, you'll

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find a way to go to them. So thank you to David.

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Susan, I think you've got one for your guys.

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Okay, so five years ago Will showed up with clean boots. We fixed that in about a week.

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Since then, he's been elbow deep in more mud than anyone should reasonably volunteer for,

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answered the phone after hours more times than he'd like to count,

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and explained to a few residents that, no, the discolored water is not going to hurt you,

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and yes, we are already on it.

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He's chased leaks no one else could find.

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He's exercised valves that haven't moved since disco.

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He's dealt with flooded meter boxes in February with a kind of attitude most people can't manage in June.

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And somewhere in there, he became the guy everyone on the crew called first.

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Not just because it was his job, but because he'd actually pick up.

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So when the crew lead position opened up, Will threw his hat in the ring.

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And since then, he's somehow become even more of the go-to guy,

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juggling every project we carpet dwellers, toss over the wall at him,

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while lining out the crew to actually get it done.

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Turns out the hard part of the job isn't the water, it's dealing with us.

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So, Will, congratulations on your five years and the new stripes.

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The system runs with people like you, keeping it running, usually in the dark, usually in

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the rain, and almost always without anyone noticing, but we noticed.

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We appreciate your dedication, professionalism, and the input that you bring to the table.

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Thank you for everything.

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Now, go clean your boots.

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Thanks, Will.

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Thanks for making the good water come in and the bad water go out and doing that

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24 by 7. Thank you very much. Next up, Senator Manning-Brendham.

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Thank you, Mayor and Counselors. I think in the spirit of Ryan in his absence, he unfortunately

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couldn't be here tonight either. Ryan would keep it brief, so I'm going to keep it more

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brief, but I do want to say I appreciate Ryan very much. He's the consummate, get

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it done manager. The kind of person that when we talk about a task and that task is given,

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I literally don't have to think about it again and it's a very comforting feeling. Ryan does

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so very quietly. In some ways, I've suggested maybe a little too quietly. I think I work

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on maybe, you know, maybe Ryan Tooting is horn a little bit more, but I appreciate

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the humility that Ryan brings.

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A couple of years ago we did a reorganization in public

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works and Ryan was the foreman at the time. Ryan still leads the operations team but stepped

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into a role with higher responsibility and higher complexity, higher time investment,

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all of that. And he did so maybe a little bit grudgingly, but he did so and he has

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really taken it on. I really appreciate his willingness to work on growth areas, too.

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And that's a very big positive trait. Filling the shoes with Susan, actually,

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of Mark Crowell, who is here for 38 years is no easy task.

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And thanks to Ryan's attributes, along with Susan, they've done a fantastic job.

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And I can't believe it's been five years and I hope we get to keep them around for a long time.

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So many thanks to Ryan.

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I'm going to jump in on Ryan here.

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I've been very proud that we've had a long tradition of being able to provide projects to eagle scouts

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that haven't been able to figure out something for themselves.

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And recently I've gotten the opportunity for Ryan and yourself to carry on that tradition

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that Mark Crawley carried on for so many years.

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So we had a couple of Eagle projects come up

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and Scouts that just, they weren't sure what to do

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and Ryan was able to hook them up with projects

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and allowed them to get through their Eagle project.

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So I'm really glad and proud that our city could do that

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because I'll use this opportunity to say those kids

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that weren't from Cornelius, they were coming

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from Beaverton and they couldn't get that done

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in that biggest city yet we're getting that kind

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of good work done in our community here

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with a smaller staff doing an awesome job.

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So thank you to Ryan for carrying that tradition

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on the market started with us.

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That takes us on to presentations and appointments.

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First up, we have Hillsborough School District

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for their 2026 capital bond measure.

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I saw Beth, yeah, hey, Beth, come on up.

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You got other people with you?

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We can get you more chairs, yep.

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Yeah.

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And just make sure you got a microphone

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with a green light, you just gotta tap it.

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Okay, wonderful.

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Thank you.

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Oh, it's in front of me as well. Wonderful.

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Give us a second here while we...

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Okay.

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All right.

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Well, thank you.

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And start the clock.

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Oh.

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Countdown is on.

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Thank you so much, Mayor Dahlin, counselors, and city staff.

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My name is Beth Grazer,

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and I am the Chief Communications Officer

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for the Hillsborough School District.

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and I'm here tonight to just share a little bit

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with you about our upcoming November 2026 capital bond.

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And I also brought with me Erica Lopez

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who is a former Hillsborough School District Board member

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and she is here to share a little bit

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about the advocacy efforts if time allows toward the end.

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So you have a packet in front of you as well

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that goes through these slides.

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So I won't necessarily go through each one.

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I'll kind of hit the highlights and leave some time

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in case there are questions.

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But let's see if I can...

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There we go.

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We'll skip ahead to some

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of the meat and potatoes.

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In case you're not overly familiar with school bonds,

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capital bonds or otherwise known as general obligation bonds

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are the only mechanism that public schools in Oregon have to complete major infrastructure

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projects because normal school funding only provides operational dollars and doesn't take

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into account times when we may need to replace a roof or an HVAC system and those things

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can get into the multiple millions of dollars.

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So we save those for bond asks of our community.

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And we have had multiple bond issuances over the years,

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and our community has always been very supportive of those,

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which we are greatly appreciative of.

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And our approach to those bonds is to try to keep the rates associated with those bonds pretty stable.

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And the way we do that is by building into the repayment structure

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kind of planned drops in the rate every 9 to 10 years or so.

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So for example, back in 2017, when we passed our last capital construction bond for $408 million,

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we told voters that we would be coming back in nine years and asking for their support again,

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and it is nine years. It went by really fast.

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But in that time, we have of course gotten to the point where we need lots of different projects

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across our our district. I'm going to take us to a slide that shows just the vastness of what

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the Hillsborough School District encompasses. We are the fourth largest district in Oregon.

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We serve almost 18,000 students across 37 school campuses and we have 42 total buildings in our

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district. Over 2.7 million square feet of interior space as well as more than 19 competition

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transition fields, tracks, tennis courts, and what not to maintain, we're proud to have

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Free Orchards Elementary School in Cornelius that serves, I think about a third of your

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student population is what we have in the Hillsborough School District about.

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And so they are served at Free Orchards and then Evergreen and Glunko.

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And within this bond program, almost $43.5 million would directly benefit those students

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who are assigned to the Hillsborough School District

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between those three schools.

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So we're really proud of that.

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How did we come up with what's in this bond?

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Well, we pulled together a cross-functional team

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of community members to form a bond development committee

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and we met over six sessions

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over several months in the fall

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and came up with, okay,

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what is our total kind of universe of need

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or what's the top of the funnel

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as I like to call it.

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And that was about $617 million worth of projects.

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And that's inclusive of all anticipated costs

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escalated over time for a five-year buildout.

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But we knew that we couldn't really

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ask voters to necessarily support that level of ask,

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because we do have that value around keeping

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their rates approximately the same.

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and so we narrowed that down to $430 million.

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And by doing so, this is a little bit confusing,

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but stick with me here.

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So this chart, the black bars actually represent

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the real tax rate that was paid by rate payers,

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property owners within the Hillsborough School District

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boundaries since 2006.

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And then the gray bars are what's currently outstanding for remaining bonds.

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So really that's just the remainder of that 2017 bond that's not quite paid off yet.

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So the golden rod bars represent what if voters do approve the bond, what that rate would be.

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And you'll see that last year, there was a significant drop in the rates.

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And just to be very transparent with you, that was because $7 billion worth of valuation

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from Intel that had previously been under abatement came onto the rolls for the first

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time.

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So that significantly dropped rates for everyone, which is exactly how those programs are

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intended to work.

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But we didn't feel right basing a 20-year repayment

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of a bond on a kind of a one-year anomaly,

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knowing and assuming that Intel would likely aggressively

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depreciate those assets.

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And so we decided to, instead, do a look back

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to the last bond and look at the average of rates

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that had been paid since then, which

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is $2.02 per 1,000.

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and we are asking voters to support $1.84.

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So it's actually 18 cents per thousand less

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than what voters have paid on average

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since the passage of our last bond.

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And it would allow us to do really great work

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across all of our district schools and buildings

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in a variety of categories.

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The main category would be buildings and systems.

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So about half, a little over half of the bond money

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would go to critical infrastructure,

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protecting those investments that we've already made over the years in our

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buildings, roofs, HVAC systems, and so on, improving safety and security, fencing,

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security, entry systems, you know, cameras that keep an eye on what's going on

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inside the schools, and cyber security, things like that, also enhancing the

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the built environment in terms of more lighted turf fields

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for students, renovation of auditorium space

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for theater performances, choir and band performances,

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things like that, getting us new buses,

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renovating kitchens so that they function properly

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and that students can get their free meals,

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which is a really nice thing

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that we're able to provide to every student.

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So let's see, you can see the breakdown here.

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I do want to draw your attention to our bond website, which is hillsbrode-bond.org.

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There is an extensive FAQ there in both English and Spanish that addresses a multitude of

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questions that have come up through the process of developing the bond and then also feedback

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that we continue to get coming in through the website or emails or through public fora

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that really deserve to be answered.

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We've been adding to that FAQ.

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So any question you might have about it,

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hopefully is answered there.

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We also have an interactive dashboard

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where you can drill down by campus or by project type

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or by a feeder.

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You know, you're all in the Glunko feeder.

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You can look at how much money is going into that feeder.

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So lots of opportunities to get information.

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If I still have a minute or two,

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I'd love to allow Erika to say a few words and or would you like to ask

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questions of me first or hear from Erika first? How about we do Erika and then

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ask questions if anybody has any? Good evening Council. Thank you for having us

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today. As opposed to best role with the school district, my role is separate. I

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am the co-chair of the Bond Political Action Committee.

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So how that differs is that the district can actually go out

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and advocate for people to vote yes on.

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So we rely on volunteers, and that's what my role is,

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is to go out into the community, explain what the bond is,

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and actually ask people to vote yes.

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The election is November 3rd.

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And as Beth mentioned, a lot of the upgrades

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that are happening is not just free orchard,

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but it follows the kids that go to Evergreen,

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that end up going to Glencoe,

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And there, Glenn was getting actually one of the biggest

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investment in the whole package that we're doing.

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But what's really important is for you all to publicly

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support the bond, to encourage your residents

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and community members to vote yes.

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I think that there's probably about two thirds

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of community members that don't have children

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that are in the schools.

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And so sometimes that is a gap for us to try

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to encourage our other community members

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to know why this investment in schools is really important and so I'm here to

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answer any questions regarding advocacy and our efforts but we'll be out in the

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community here in Cornelius, North Plains and Hillsboro going to back to

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school nights and talking to parents and just continuing to share what are

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the projects that are going to be happening especially because a lot of it

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I think are not as visible as like the last one I know you had one in with

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It's the City of Forest Grove and you had a big build.

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And so these are like, you know,

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the things that maybe aren't seen as much

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like a new roof, HVAC, security, a playground upgrade.

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And so we really need to communicate

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what it is that is happening with this bond.

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We're ready for questions.

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Council, questions?

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Council, good news?

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Yes, I appreciate you all coming out here today.

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I noticed in the back it says just from

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initial polling results and I'm curious,

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When you do these polling, who exactly are you polling to get this data?

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Yeah, so actually there have been two polls done, one in February and one again at the beginning of August,

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and each time what they do is look at historical voting patterns

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and who among registered voters is a likely voter in a November even-year non-presidential election.

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So we utilize consultants that help us drill down on that data and they make sure that it has the same,

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even though there's only 400 people responding to the survey, that the breakdown of who they end up talking to

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matches who the likely voter pool is going to be in a November 26 election.

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And both times, we had a value around making sure that all of our survey administrators

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could speak English and Spanish.

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People were given the opportunity to respond in their language of preference, which was

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really important to us.

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And the results are within 4.9 plus or minus margin of error.

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Okay.

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So you all feel confident that it will pass?

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Well, you know, to be quite honest.

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We saw a little bit of a softening of support in the August polling versus the February but

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If we think about everything that's happened since February, there's a lot of geopolitical unrest

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There's a lot of uncertainty around

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gas prices and the cost of food and what's going to happen next with tariffs and things like that so any kind of

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taxation measure

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Even one where we are able to share a message that hey

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00:33:41,670 --> 00:33:47,190
We're just kind of trying to keep things the same and even maybe save money over what you've paid historically

480
00:33:47,190 --> 00:33:52,290
It's you know people still focus on their own personal situation and

481
00:33:54,330 --> 00:33:59,630
That's understandable so but we still do I mean the polling does still support

482
00:33:59,630 --> 00:34:03,050
Path to victory. It's just really important that we get

483
00:34:03,610 --> 00:34:10,050
Information out there and answer as many questions that people have as we possibly can and just make sure that awareness is there

484
00:34:10,050 --> 00:34:12,150
and so that people actually get out and vote.

485
00:34:12,610 --> 00:34:13,270
Yeah, absolutely.

486
00:34:14,970 --> 00:34:20,650
I know that on the offside, I am supporting this as my own thing.

487
00:34:21,050 --> 00:34:25,870
But I'm curious to, if you all have thought about,

488
00:34:26,050 --> 00:34:27,950
in the case that this doesn't pass,

489
00:34:28,230 --> 00:34:30,050
what are the backup plans?

490
00:34:31,210 --> 00:34:36,250
So in order to make sure that the rate doesn't just

491
00:34:36,250 --> 00:34:42,870
completely drop next fall, which would be the fall of 27. We could go out again in May

492
00:34:42,870 --> 00:34:50,090
of 27, so that's one more opportunity to kind of take advantage of that ability to keep

493
00:34:50,090 --> 00:34:55,490
the rates stable. And if for some reason it didn't pass at that point, then our efforts

494
00:34:55,490 --> 00:35:02,930
would be having to take them from what now has become a much lower rate and seeing

495
00:35:02,930 --> 00:35:07,270
if they'd be willing to go up from there, so, yeah.

496
00:35:07,790 --> 00:35:12,390
I just wanted to say that we get that question also when we're talking to people, and one

497
00:35:12,390 --> 00:35:17,230
of the things that is really important that Beth mentioned earlier is that we don't have

498
00:35:17,230 --> 00:35:21,770
general funds to make these things, so if an HVAC system breaks, we're going to have

499
00:35:21,770 --> 00:35:24,650
to take money from our general fund because it has to be fixed.

500
00:35:24,790 --> 00:35:27,870
If there's a leak in the roof, we're going to have to take that, and so that takes

501
00:35:27,870 --> 00:35:33,150
away from programming for kids and it takes away from the salary. That's our biggest expense.

502
00:35:33,770 --> 00:35:39,010
So it ultimately like it does have an impact in our district where we have to pay for it

503
00:35:39,010 --> 00:35:40,890
somehow and it's going to impact learning.

504
00:35:42,050 --> 00:35:44,850
That's a very good point. Thank you so much. That's helpful.

505
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:50,320
Yes. Councillor Gonzalez.

506
00:35:51,700 --> 00:35:58,760
You mentioned that for those that don't have children in school, how have you if

507
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:03,140
If you've had the opportunity, how have you encouraged them to vote for this?

508
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:10,980
Yeah, so part of our strategy to do that is we are raising, doing some fundraising because

509
00:36:10,980 --> 00:36:12,420
it costs money to pass this.

510
00:36:12,740 --> 00:36:16,780
So we have to look at, like Beth said, we look at who are likely voters.

511
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:21,740
We try to send out postcards to people ahead of the election time.

512
00:36:22,300 --> 00:36:24,160
We also do door knocking.

513
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:31,700
We have also consultants that we're working with that we try to figure out who is a likely voter in a non-presidential election

514
00:36:31,700 --> 00:36:35,080
It's gonna end and target those doors because our

515
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:40,600
Universe of voters because our district is so large. It's like Cornelius North points

516
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:44,820
We do not have like the physical bodies to possibly knock

517
00:36:44,820 --> 00:36:49,080
So we have to be very targeted at who might likely vote this time around

518
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:54,280
So there's a lot of strategy behind who we're targeting and what kind of things we're using

519
00:36:54,280 --> 00:37:00,580
but a lot of it also is going into the schools and kind of galvanizing parents and

520
00:37:00,580 --> 00:37:07,780
having them also share with their neighbors and provide materials for them to be that kind of testimony for us in the community.

521
00:37:09,140 --> 00:37:15,440
A different angle to answer your question and this is a little bit pie in the sky

522
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:22,080
but public education is such a cornerstone of our democracy and that's really why it was created

523
00:37:22,970 --> 00:37:30,640
many years ago and it's always been a pay it forward system where you benefit from it

524
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:36,040
when you're a child and or you're a family that does have children in school and you're really

525
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:42,220
grateful to the 70% of community members who aren't in your shoes and they're contributing

526
00:37:42,220 --> 00:37:48,100
to it as well. So it really is just reminding people that this is a community value that

527
00:37:48,100 --> 00:37:54,380
we hold. These are historic investments. This is what our community does is we're supportive

528
00:37:54,380 --> 00:37:58,260
of schools, we're supportive of students. These students become our future workforce.

529
00:37:58,700 --> 00:38:08,000
So really focusing on that aspect of it also, when schools are safer and students

530
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:11,880
students are engaged in activities, the community becomes safer, right?

531
00:38:12,100 --> 00:38:17,540
So there are ancillary benefits and our school facilities quite honestly aren't just for students

532
00:38:17,540 --> 00:38:23,080
in schools, they're used by community groups all the time for various activities.

533
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:29,420
So in our last bond we built standalone gyms at eight of our elementary schools that

534
00:38:29,420 --> 00:38:34,700
had keffa gymitoriums and we built those to a seismic standard that would allow immediate

535
00:38:34,700 --> 00:38:36,920
occupancy after an earthquake, for example.

536
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:40,620
And so those can be emergency shelters for the broader community.

537
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:47,560
We have agreements with American Red Cross and I think fire departments that allow our

538
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:52,440
school buildings to be temporary shelters in the case of apartment fires or other things.

539
00:38:52,620 --> 00:38:55,780
I know that those agreements have been activated in the past.

540
00:38:56,120 --> 00:39:01,840
So really just if they'll give us enough time to talk to them, then we can share

541
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:06,820
all the different ways that it really benefits the broader community, not just current families.

542
00:39:06,820 --> 00:39:12,420
with kids. Thank you. I appreciate that. I think it's important for the community to

543
00:39:12,420 --> 00:39:18,520
see that perspective. If they don't have kids, how else are the school district

544
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:21,920
is contributing to the community? Thank you. Thank you.

545
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:29,340
I know that November is just around the corner, but if we have

546
00:39:29,340 --> 00:39:33,760
community members or anyone listening that wanted to volunteer or help out,

547
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:36,000
How might they do that?

548
00:39:36,860 --> 00:39:38,620
Yes, that is amazing question.

549
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:39,480
Thank you so much.

550
00:39:40,100 --> 00:39:44,300
We are gathering right now a website.

551
00:39:45,100 --> 00:39:48,420
We have also Yes for Hillsboro Schools.com.

552
00:39:48,420 --> 00:39:50,380
It's called Yes for HillsboroSchools.com.

553
00:39:50,720 --> 00:39:52,000
If you go on our website, you're

554
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:54,580
going to be able to find resources about the advocacy.

555
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:56,800
And we're going to have volunteer sign up.

556
00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:59,520
And we're also going to be recruiting

557
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:01,680
at all the events that we attend to.

558
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:04,680
We're going to be asking people if they could help out.

559
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:06,720
And if you are all interested in helping out,

560
00:40:06,940 --> 00:40:09,560
I would love to have you at Back to School Nights.

561
00:40:10,300 --> 00:40:11,940
That would be really helpful as well.

562
00:40:14,230 --> 00:40:14,830
Thank you.

563
00:40:15,830 --> 00:40:16,330
Councilor Baker?

564
00:40:17,010 --> 00:40:18,790
Yeah, I endorse this.

565
00:40:19,770 --> 00:40:23,530
I am full of support of this, partially

566
00:40:23,530 --> 00:40:25,310
because of the lawyer rates.

567
00:40:25,390 --> 00:40:29,210
I think that's easier so to the community.

568
00:40:29,210 --> 00:40:34,470
but during the May a lot of these school bonds failed.

569
00:40:35,910 --> 00:40:41,050
One of the school bonds I think of is for Canby and that was,

570
00:40:41,850 --> 00:40:46,210
you can, there was arguments that this was needed.

571
00:40:47,970 --> 00:40:57,270
You're lucky enough to not have a GAC stacks on top of in the November ballot

572
00:40:57,270 --> 00:41:01,530
but because a lot of people were anti-tax, were motivated.

573
00:41:03,410 --> 00:41:05,230
This is a really tough sell.

574
00:41:06,350 --> 00:41:10,990
You're doing a lot, and there's a lot of good things.

575
00:41:11,870 --> 00:41:14,670
And that's when you have so much,

576
00:41:15,530 --> 00:41:18,150
it's hard to sell just one item.

577
00:41:19,030 --> 00:41:20,970
It just gets muddled.

578
00:41:23,610 --> 00:41:25,890
I wish the best of luck for you.

579
00:41:27,270 --> 00:41:29,770
This is a really good thing.

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00:41:30,450 --> 00:41:36,170
Having working HVAC, working a roof, programming,

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00:41:36,530 --> 00:41:40,730
because these are things that students need to thrive.

582
00:41:41,070 --> 00:41:46,470
It's not something the state think of when they think of education.

583
00:41:47,510 --> 00:41:52,710
And when we think about taxes,

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00:41:52,710 --> 00:42:03,330
is, there's people who think what they're paying is enough and they overestimate the

585
00:42:03,330 --> 00:42:11,750
state willingness and actually the actual ability to give in funding.

586
00:42:13,210 --> 00:42:19,030
At one point in our state history, schools were fully funded by our community.

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00:42:19,030 --> 00:42:29,710
that got changed during the tax revolt in Proposition 5 where the state should have

588
00:42:29,710 --> 00:42:39,550
stepped in and that's not happening in the current levels needed. So I'm as a

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00:42:39,550 --> 00:42:46,350
political science student and someone who really want to get out there

590
00:42:46,350 --> 00:42:54,150
volunteer, I'm happy to help out. Just let me know. Thank you. Thank you. I will

591
00:42:54,150 --> 00:43:01,190
reach out. Very good. Yeah, it's it's a tough one because you're not selling

592
00:43:01,190 --> 00:43:05,870
anything sexy like we did for Scrova New School, right? It's we'd like to keep

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00:43:05,870 --> 00:43:10,210
the heat on, right? We'd like to keep the roof from leaking. So it's a

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00:43:10,210 --> 00:43:15,630
little tougher sale. So I'll continue to talk with people and I think all

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00:43:15,630 --> 00:43:21,050
council will talk to people and you know share the information right and we think that's one of the

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00:43:21,050 --> 00:43:28,230
best things we can do is just to get people to look at it these are this is a funding mechanism

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00:43:28,230 --> 00:43:34,130
to do the repairs and the upgrades that are necessary to keep the schools running you know

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00:43:34,130 --> 00:43:40,910
for the kids so I think that's what we can do is be advocates in the neighborhoods and the

599
00:43:40,910 --> 00:43:45,490
grocery stores at the local restaurant we talked to folks that helps to just

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00:43:45,490 --> 00:43:52,950
spread the good word. Councillor Girdiness. Do you all have any why am I forgetting the

601
00:43:52,950 --> 00:43:59,450
name the liars not just the flyers the yard signs the yard signs okay yeah just

602
00:43:59,450 --> 00:44:03,370
let us know or let me know when you get any of those and happy to reach out to

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00:44:03,370 --> 00:44:08,790
community and help make that get the word out so appreciate it. Any other

604
00:44:08,790 --> 00:44:09,130
Are there questions?

605
00:44:10,070 --> 00:44:10,550
See none?

606
00:44:11,050 --> 00:44:12,590
Thank you very much for making the trip out.

607
00:44:12,690 --> 00:44:15,090
I have a safe travel back now that it's getting darker.

608
00:44:15,750 --> 00:44:16,790
I appreciate the time.

609
00:44:17,110 --> 00:44:17,670
Thank you very much.

610
00:44:17,790 --> 00:44:18,110
Thank you.

611
00:44:21,010 --> 00:44:24,290
Okay, next up, we have a proclamation

612
00:44:24,290 --> 00:44:26,690
for Food Waste Prevention Week.

613
00:44:26,810 --> 00:44:28,150
Let me get to the right page here.

614
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:36,440
Okay, City of Cornelius, Oregon, proclamation.

615
00:44:37,240 --> 00:44:40,280
Food Waste Prevention Week, September 28th

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to October 4th, 2026.

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00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:47,380
whereas up to 35% of food produced is thrown away rather than eaten.

618
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:53,220
Safe and nutritious food that is currently thrown away could help address hunger in our communities

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00:44:53,220 --> 00:44:57,880
and whereas we all benefit from better utilization of food resources

620
00:44:57,880 --> 00:44:59,980
and whereas a family for

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00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:08,380
Labor can save on average $1,800 on uneaten food annually, and whereas a K-12 school and

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00:45:08,380 --> 00:45:14,560
universities play a special role in educating the next generation to reduce, recover, and

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00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:22,300
recycle food. And whereas we have the opportunity to save shared resources, including land, water,

624
00:45:22,740 --> 00:45:28,960
and energy, used to produce, transport, and dispose of food that goes uneaten. And whereas

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00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:35,520
As food and landfills decomposes slowly, releases methane gas, which contributes to climate change.

626
00:45:36,220 --> 00:45:41,500
And whereas the City of Cornelius has developed residential curbside and business food scrap

627
00:45:41,500 --> 00:45:47,760
composting programs, and recently brought food scrap composting to all city facilities.

628
00:45:48,460 --> 00:45:55,360
Now therefore, we the Cornelius City Council do hereby proclaim the week of September 28th

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October 4th, 2026 Food Waste Prevention Week in Cornelis, and we encourage all community

630
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:08,180
members to commit to reducing wasted food. Day to the safe day is September 2026, Jeffrey

631
00:46:08,180 --> 00:46:19,940
C. DeLane, Mayor of Cornelis. Next takes us to our Hispanic Heritage Month. And would

632
00:46:19,940 --> 00:46:22,900
someone in the council like to read the Spanish version which we have up first?

633
00:46:22,900 --> 00:46:25,200
Thank you, Councillor Gondines.

634
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:32,200
Ciudad de Cornelius, Oregon, proclamación para la celebración del mes de la herencia

635
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:37,620
hispana, considerando que el mes nacional de la herencia hispana, un mes de la herencia

636
00:46:37,620 --> 00:46:44,280
hispana, se observa cada año del 15 de septiembre al 15 de octubre para honorar las contribuciones

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00:46:44,700 --> 00:46:52,200
y la rica herencia cultural de las comunidades hispanas y latinas y considerando que el

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00:46:52,200 --> 00:47:10,680
El 15 de septiembre es una fecha significativa ya que marca el aniversario de dependencia de Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras y Nicaragua, con México y Chile celebrando su dependencia el 16 y el 18 de septiembre respectivamente.

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00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:19,640
Y considerando que los hispanos y latinos representan aproximadamente el 14% de la población

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00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:26,400
de Oregon y casi el 51% de la población de Cornelias, reflejando en una comunidad vibrante

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00:47:26,710 --> 00:47:35,600
y el crecimiento que Enrique significativamente el tejido cultural de nuestra ciudad y considerando

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00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:43,180
que la comunidad hispana y latinos en Cornelias es conocido por su espíritu emprendedor

643
00:47:43,180 --> 00:47:50,400
y liderazgo comunitario y los negocios de propiedad hispana en el condado de Washington

644
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:59,680
han mostrado un crecimiento notable contribuyendo significamente a la economía local y ahora

645
00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:04,600
por lo tanto nosotros el Consejo Municipal de la Ciudad de Cornelias Orgen

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00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:13,560
reclamamos del 15 de septiembre de 2016 al 15 de octubre del 2026 como el mes de la

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00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:18,840
herencia hispana en reconocimiento a las importantes contribuciones de la

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00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:23,940
comunidad hispana y para reafirmar nuestro compromiso con la unidad y el

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00:48:23,940 --> 00:48:27,620
Respeto y la apreciación cultural.

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00:48:28,460 --> 00:48:32,120
Fechado este día 8 de septiembre de 2026,

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00:48:32,700 --> 00:48:33,600
Jeffrey C. Delane.

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00:48:35,100 --> 00:48:35,780
Thank you.

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00:48:37,300 --> 00:48:39,440
City of Cornia's Oregon Proclamation.

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00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:41,900
In celebration Hispanic Heritage Month.

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00:48:42,420 --> 00:48:45,460
Where is the National Hispanic Heritage Month?

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00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:47,460
Or Mese Dele,

657
00:48:48,860 --> 00:48:57,760
Morencia Espanol, Espaná, Espaná, is observed each year from September 15th to October 15th

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00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:02,820
to honor the contributions and rich cultural heritage of Hispanic and Latinx communities,

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00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:08,020
and whereas September 15th is significant as it marks the anniversary of independence

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00:49:08,020 --> 00:49:14,620
for Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, with Mexico and Chile

661
00:49:14,620 --> 00:49:18,760
celebrating their independence on September 16th and 18th respectively.

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00:49:19,580 --> 00:49:26,860
Whereas Hispanic and Latinx people represent approximately 14% of Oregon's and nearly 51%

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00:49:26,860 --> 00:49:32,060
of Cornelius population, reflecting a vibrant and growing community that significantly enriches

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our community's cultural fabric.

665
00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:38,960
And whereas the Hispanic and Latinx communities in Cornelius are known for their entrepreneurial

666
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:44,000
spirit and community leadership, and Hispanic-owned businesses in Washington County have

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00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:50,460
seen notable growth contributing significantly to local economy. And now, therefore, we,

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00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:56,740
the City Council of Cornelius-Oregon, do hereby proclaim the period of September 15,

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00:49:57,140 --> 00:50:06,640
2026 through October 15, 2026 as Hispanic Heritage Month in recognition of the significant

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00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:12,940
contributions of the Hispanic community and to reaffirm our dedication to unity, respect

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00:50:12,940 --> 00:50:18,460
and cultural appreciation dated the safe day of September 2026 Jeffrey C.

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00:50:18,540 --> 00:50:26,450
Delaney, Mayor of Cornelis. Okay, that takes us on to our public hearing. Let's

673
00:50:28,690 --> 00:50:29,170
see.

674
00:50:32,210 --> 00:50:33,130
Get out of my way.

675
00:50:36,390 --> 00:50:39,490
Okay, now is the time and place for a public hearing on

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00:50:39,490 --> 00:50:46,410
ordinance number 2026-06. An amendment of the Cornelis Municipal Code

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00:50:46,410 --> 00:50:56,490
chapter 18.75. Gateway makes use his own. The city file number is CMCA 2026-01. The

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00:50:56,490 --> 00:51:01,110
city council decision on this amendment will be based upon the record, staff

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00:51:01,110 --> 00:51:06,390
report, and testimony and evidence presented in this hearing. I now open

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00:51:06,390 --> 00:51:06,810
the hearing.

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00:51:09,540 --> 00:51:12,400
The order of business on this application will be as follow.

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The

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00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:22,580
members of the audience in person and virtually who wish to speak on the proposal, applicants

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00:51:22,580 --> 00:51:28,680
rebuttal, staff closing remarks, close the hearing and begin deliberation.

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00:51:29,700 --> 00:51:38,600
The applicable criteria for this amendments are Cornius Municipal Code, CMC 1.05.110,

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00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:41,960
Amendment and Repeal of Code Sections,

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00:51:42,700 --> 00:51:47,260
CMC 18.125, Amendments to the Zoning Ordinance,

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00:51:47,720 --> 00:51:49,300
and Stateway Planning Goals.

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00:51:49,860 --> 00:51:51,860
Testimonies, Arguments, and Evidence

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00:51:51,860 --> 00:51:54,140
must be directed towards the listed criteria

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00:51:56,420 --> 00:51:58,880
or other criteria in the Comprehensive Plan

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00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:00,740
or Cornelius Municipal Code,

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00:52:01,100 --> 00:52:03,640
which the person believes to apply to the decision.

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00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:06,760
Evidence means FACTS, Documents,

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00:52:06,760 --> 00:52:12,900
data or other information offered to demonstrate compliance or non-compliance with the standards

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00:52:12,900 --> 00:52:15,960
believed by the proponent to be relevant to the decision.

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00:52:16,580 --> 00:52:22,200
Do any members of the City Council have any potential conflicts of interest, bias or

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00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:25,900
ex parte communication with regard to the proposed action?

699
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:37,620
Just to be on the safe side, I am a former planning commissioner.

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00:52:37,620 --> 00:52:43,160
a discussion of this property happened when it

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happened,

702
00:52:47,340 --> 00:52:50,520
but I am unbiased.

703
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:52,640
Okay, thank you.

704
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:53,440
Anyone else?

705
00:52:56,920 --> 00:52:59,640
I know I've read many things about this property,

706
00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:02,480
seen many actions about this property,

707
00:53:02,900 --> 00:53:04,420
so I'm just letting folks know that,

708
00:53:04,580 --> 00:53:07,340
but I don't think that's gonna affect my ability

709
00:53:07,340 --> 00:53:10,960
to operate unbiased and look at the facts

710
00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:11,460
and findings.

711
00:53:13,940 --> 00:53:19,480
Okay? If you do believe you're without actual bias or without,

712
00:53:20,180 --> 00:53:23,600
would you like to step down from the council during this case? And I think

713
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:26,860
Councillor Baker and myself both acknowledged we don't plan to step down.

714
00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:31,960
Would any member of the audience like to challenge the right of any city

715
00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:36,140
councillor to hear the matter before them for reason of conflict of

716
00:53:36,140 --> 00:53:38,420
interest, bias, or ex parte contact?

717
00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:44,160
Seeing none, staff will now present the

718
00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:47,700
staff report and application. Barbara thank you.

719
00:53:52,780 --> 00:53:55,980
Good evening. I have a

720
00:53:55,980 --> 00:54:00,780
PowerPoint and hopefully City Manager Brandon will queue it up for me.

721
00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:04,060
So thank

722
00:54:04,060 --> 00:54:10,060
you Mr. Mayor and Council. This amendment as noted is the Gateway Mixed

723
00:54:10,060 --> 00:54:18,200
Use Zone Amendment. In this graphic you'll see an aerial photo of the area

724
00:54:18,200 --> 00:54:25,100
outlined in pink. It's kind of hard to see. The same pink is on both graphics. The

725
00:54:25,100 --> 00:54:30,160
Council Creek Regional Trail that will be over the rail line is to the north.

726
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:38,000
Baseline or TV Highway is on the south. North 26th Avenue borders the zone on

727
00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:44,900
the east and 20th and 19th avenues border the western boundary of this

728
00:54:44,900 --> 00:54:45,320
zone.

729
00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:52,540
If you're looking at the pink map, number one is Plaza Las Amigos.

730
00:54:52,920 --> 00:55:02,340
Number two is all of the Calida development and that's 378 residential apartment units.

731
00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:06,200
Number three is the PGE substation.

732
00:55:06,520 --> 00:55:11,520
Number four is the, there's a church in that location.

733
00:55:11,520 --> 00:55:13,920
Number five is Zipley Fiber.

734
00:55:14,660 --> 00:55:18,420
Number six is a strip mall that has a number of businesses within it.

735
00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:22,020
Number seven is the Panda Express.

736
00:55:23,080 --> 00:55:27,380
Number eight, I put the number deliberately close to baseline

737
00:55:27,380 --> 00:55:29,280
because that's where the gas station is.

738
00:55:29,340 --> 00:55:33,720
That's the auto-oriented business right there.

739
00:55:34,240 --> 00:55:35,600
Number nine is Burger King.

740
00:55:35,600 --> 00:55:42,960
and number 10 is the Heaney family property that is actually now owned by Tom

741
00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:50,740
Moyer Jr. and we'll talk about that in a little bit. So the Heaney property has

742
00:55:50,740 --> 00:55:53,200
approval for 240 apartment units.

743
00:55:56,380 --> 00:56:00,180
So when this site was developed in 2019 or when

744
00:56:00,180 --> 00:56:05,820
the zone was developed in 2019 there was a large process that went through

745
00:56:05,820 --> 00:56:12,260
public review. And these three were different alternatives that were looked at.

746
00:56:12,460 --> 00:56:17,540
The yellow is where housing was intended and the red was where commercial

747
00:56:17,540 --> 00:56:18,780
development was intended.

748
00:56:21,770 --> 00:56:24,950
Alternative three was chosen to for further review

749
00:56:24,950 --> 00:56:31,790
and again residential is yellow slash orangeish color. The red is considered

750
00:56:31,790 --> 00:56:40,630
commercial or retail. Blue was looked at for office. Purple for hotels. I think it's only

751
00:56:40,630 --> 00:56:48,880
in the far right corner that they looked at a hotel. And then anywhere that it's green

752
00:56:48,880 --> 00:56:58,880
was intended to be open space. And from that, this composite was developed. And to orient

753
00:56:58,880 --> 00:57:08,120
at you this line that is in this graphic that's yellow is Davis Street going east west and

754
00:57:08,120 --> 00:57:16,100
it's a collector and then North or South, yeah, North 26th Avenue which is also a collector.

755
00:57:17,640 --> 00:57:28,240
And then the internal street that people know as the Fred Meyer driveway is this orange

756
00:57:28,240 --> 00:57:35,460
one that just came in. So you can see that additional development was identified as being

757
00:57:35,460 --> 00:57:43,460
possible on the Fred Meyer property and the Kalita property and the Haney property.

758
00:57:48,660 --> 00:57:49,500
So

759
00:57:50,320 --> 00:57:58,640
the final proposal that went through in 2019 and was approved identified three different

760
00:57:58,640 --> 00:58:08,420
types of zones in this overall zone. A was basically north of Davis Road and it was intended

761
00:58:08,420 --> 00:58:18,440
to be 100% residential. B was intended to be no more than 50% ground floor residential.

762
00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:24,700
So you could have as much residential as you wanted but only 50% of it could be on

763
00:58:24,700 --> 00:58:30,940
the ground floor so you could have commercial on the bottom and much more on top. Area C

764
00:58:30,940 --> 00:58:40,700
was intended to be 100% commercial. The transportation system plan included the extension of Davis

765
00:58:40,700 --> 00:58:47,240
from an east to a, or eastward from North 19th

766
00:58:47,240 --> 00:58:49,160
all the way to 26th Avenue.

767
00:58:51,180 --> 00:58:55,740
In 20, 24,

768
00:58:58,460 --> 00:59:03,380
no, 2025, we amended the zone

769
00:59:03,680 --> 00:59:08,440
to add in some additional definitions

770
00:59:08,440 --> 00:59:17,840
that were created in legislation that said that we had to allow affordable housing and

771
00:59:17,840 --> 00:59:25,260
a higher height for that affordable housing if it was built.

772
00:59:25,740 --> 00:59:37,480
And then also in Area B, we modified the ratio of ground floor residential if a developer

773
00:59:37,480 --> 00:59:47,640
or could demonstrate that the economy was not such that a mix of uses would work or

774
00:59:47,640 --> 00:59:56,100
would pencil, the Planning Commission could choose to allow 100% residential or 100% commercial.

775
00:59:57,340 --> 00:59:59,020
So that's still there.

776
01:00:00,620 --> 01:00:03,720
Then, so that's where we are today.

777
01:00:05,600 --> 01:00:12,600
The number of auto-oriented businesses in Cornelius has increased significantly.

778
01:00:13,600 --> 01:00:20,620
We have 37 total along TV Highway. There are more outside of the window of TV Highway,

779
01:00:21,100 --> 01:00:28,100
but along the Highway itself there are 37, and that includes restaurants and coffee shops that are drive-through.

780
01:00:28,100 --> 01:00:32,100
They may have an internal component, but they're drive-throughs.

781
01:00:32,700 --> 01:00:37,940
Gas stations with car washes, or we have standalone car washes.

782
01:00:38,960 --> 01:00:44,160
We have auto sales and we bunched in tractor sales,

783
01:00:44,460 --> 01:00:49,020
because you don't get there unless you're in a car or a truck.

784
01:00:50,920 --> 01:00:57,200
Drive-through banks, and we included the two ATM machines that are drive-up

785
01:00:58,380 --> 01:01:00,840
and then auto repair businesses.

786
01:01:01,660 --> 01:01:06,420
So that could be tires, it could be body shops,

787
01:01:06,920 --> 01:01:08,200
windows, et cetera.

788
01:01:09,200 --> 01:01:15,620
So total 37, and then up those 37,

789
01:01:16,000 --> 01:01:18,640
five have been built recently.

790
01:01:19,720 --> 01:01:22,260
And what I mean by recently is since I've been here,

791
01:01:22,360 --> 01:01:23,600
so in the last five years,

792
01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:27,840
and most of them have been built in the last two and a half, three years.

793
01:01:30,360 --> 01:01:38,060
And a new auto-oriented use was just submitted last week, not in this area,

794
01:01:38,700 --> 01:01:41,440
but it was submitted last week, has been deemed incomplete,

795
01:01:41,900 --> 01:01:46,600
but we expected to be complete and go forward to Planning Commission in November.

796
01:01:46,600 --> 01:01:56,670
So we wanted to get an idea of how does this compare to other similarly populated cities.

797
01:01:57,730 --> 01:02:06,130
So I picked these cities, Solagrand, Prineville, Pendleton, Cornelius, Sandy, Coosbey, Troutdale,

798
01:02:06,310 --> 01:02:12,670
and I included our partners to the west because they're our neighbor.

799
01:02:13,130 --> 01:02:17,750
I didn't include Heelsboro because you can see Forest Grove is a lot more populated

800
01:02:17,750 --> 01:02:20,370
than we are and Hillsborough is even more so.

801
01:02:21,510 --> 01:02:24,290
And you'll note that along the bottom,

802
01:02:24,670 --> 01:02:26,310
not only is there name listed,

803
01:02:26,650 --> 01:02:28,850
but the various freeways or highways

804
01:02:28,850 --> 01:02:33,670
that are associated with that town is along that line.

805
01:02:35,150 --> 01:02:38,230
So this is just a population graphic.

806
01:02:38,630 --> 01:02:42,070
So you can see that Cornelius is kind of middle

807
01:02:42,070 --> 01:02:44,030
of the road with everybody else, right?

808
01:02:45,390 --> 01:02:48,830
Then, if we look at the

809
01:02:50,940 --> 01:02:59,560
number of auto-oriented businesses per 10,000 people, we're doing

810
01:02:59,560 --> 01:02:59,960
okay.

811
01:03:00,500 --> 01:03:01,240
Well, kind of.

812
01:03:01,800 --> 01:03:09,760
If you exclude LeGrand, Primeville, and Pendleton because they are so rural that they're the

813
01:03:09,760 --> 01:03:15,880
attractor for these type of businesses and you look at Cornelius, Sandy, Coos Bay

814
01:03:15,880 --> 01:03:23,020
and Troutdale. Wow, we have a lot compared to everybody else. And then if you

815
01:03:23,020 --> 01:03:31,300
look at the number of businesses per square mile of the city, you'll see

816
01:03:31,300 --> 01:03:42,200
that we even exceed all those rural towns that are auto-oriented and serve a rural community.

817
01:03:44,400 --> 01:03:50,940
Then if you look at it per highway mile, we also exceed everyone else.

818
01:03:52,060 --> 01:03:58,480
And I dropped Forest Grove off the per highway mile because they have so few.

819
01:03:58,820 --> 01:04:01,240
It skews the graphic and it's hard to read.

820
01:04:01,240 --> 01:04:08,540
So theirs is even smaller than Coos Bay.

821
01:04:09,640 --> 01:04:16,100
So you can see that Cornelius is still heads and tails above everybody else.

822
01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:22,160
And then if you look at these two graphs together,

823
01:04:23,180 --> 01:04:30,000
you see, again, the population and the various highways that are related to that city.

824
01:04:30,620 --> 01:04:33,820
And then the three graphics together,

825
01:04:34,560 --> 01:04:40,040
so the medium green is the businesses per 10,000 people.

826
01:04:40,260 --> 01:04:43,580
And again, it's only along the ribbons of highways

827
01:04:45,740 --> 01:04:47,860
that are identified for that city.

828
01:04:48,980 --> 01:04:51,420
Then the businesses per square mile,

829
01:04:53,020 --> 01:04:55,980
again, only those businesses that are auto-oriented

830
01:04:55,980 --> 01:04:59,680
along the ribbons per total square mile of that city.

831
01:04:59,680 --> 01:05:03,360
and then the businesses per highway mile.

832
01:05:03,640 --> 01:05:08,620
You can see that Cornelius is really up there

833
01:05:08,620 --> 01:05:14,000
in almost every measure except the businesses per 10,000.

834
01:05:17,380 --> 01:05:22,540
So we thought of this as an issue and, excuse me,

835
01:05:22,640 --> 01:05:23,940
so we proposed an amendment.

836
01:05:25,440 --> 01:05:35,860
And this amendment only applies to the gateway mixed use area that was in the pink in the first graphic.

837
01:05:37,400 --> 01:05:43,720
And these are the different aspects that are proposed for change.

838
01:05:44,480 --> 01:05:48,680
We would specifically allow for continuation of the existing uses.

839
01:05:48,680 --> 01:05:55,600
So if Panda or Burger King or the Fred Meyer gas station needed

840
01:05:55,600 --> 01:06:01,720
to change for any reason, they could do so within their existing tax lot.

841
01:06:02,580 --> 01:06:09,080
So we're not saying that they have to go away or we're not saying that they have to downsize

842
01:06:09,080 --> 01:06:10,600
or change in any manner.

843
01:06:11,440 --> 01:06:18,000
And we're not limiting these types of developments anywhere else in the city.

844
01:06:18,680 --> 01:06:20,920
that is not currently prohibited.

845
01:06:21,700 --> 01:06:23,720
There are over 12 and a half acres

846
01:06:24,500 --> 01:06:26,960
that could be used for auto-oriented uses

847
01:06:26,960 --> 01:06:29,700
that are not within this zone,

848
01:06:29,860 --> 01:06:31,920
but are within the highway commercial zone

849
01:06:31,920 --> 01:06:33,060
where it's more appropriate.

850
01:06:35,280 --> 01:06:38,500
We also put a limitation on the size

851
01:06:38,500 --> 01:06:40,900
of a new single tenant use.

852
01:06:41,960 --> 01:06:44,340
And the intent of that is if you looked

853
01:06:44,340 --> 01:06:45,820
at the very first graphics,

854
01:06:45,820 --> 01:06:55,840
The tenant sizes are smaller, and they're intended to have things like multiple businesses in one building.

855
01:06:56,920 --> 01:07:07,000
And I did research on various smaller format retail, and as an example,

856
01:07:07,420 --> 01:07:14,400
Trader Joe's are typically 15,000 square feet or smaller, so we capped it at 15,000 square feet.

857
01:07:15,160 --> 01:07:19,520
You could have a building that's bigger, but it needs to have multiple tenants.

858
01:07:19,840 --> 01:07:21,480
It shouldn't be just one tenant.

859
01:07:22,660 --> 01:07:28,620
And this promotes walking and getting out of your car and moving around instead of just one tenant.

860
01:07:30,540 --> 01:07:37,500
We prohibited new drive-up windows, drive-ins, or drive-throughs for all types of businesses,

861
01:07:37,880 --> 01:07:40,520
not just fast food.

862
01:07:40,820 --> 01:07:42,580
It's for everything.

863
01:07:42,580 --> 01:07:46,740
We prohibited new sales service repair storage

864
01:07:46,740 --> 01:07:49,480
or fueling of motorized vehicles.

865
01:07:50,450 --> 01:07:53,740
We set a clear minimum density for multi-unit housing

866
01:07:53,740 --> 01:07:55,960
and single-unit housing in the code.

867
01:07:56,620 --> 01:07:58,000
It didn't have it before.

868
01:07:59,530 --> 01:08:03,260
We added limited manufacturing related to sales and eating.

869
01:08:03,960 --> 01:08:06,340
So if somebody wanted to put in a brew pub,

870
01:08:06,720 --> 01:08:11,480
we would allow that with the accompanying stuff

871
01:08:11,480 --> 01:08:17,180
or a cidery or soap making or anything like that.

872
01:08:17,700 --> 01:08:23,140
It removes light industrial uses and planned unit developments as conditional uses.

873
01:08:24,500 --> 01:08:40,210
It codifies the two existing businesses of the utility businesses and allows them to

874
01:08:40,210 --> 01:08:46,650
continue as they are currently today. It modified service stations field

875
01:08:46,650 --> 01:08:51,730
distribution and utilities to existing. We had a comment from one of our

876
01:08:51,730 --> 01:08:57,650
commissioners that requested that we add EV charging to commercial parking lots as

877
01:08:57,650 --> 01:09:04,470
a permitted use. We clarified building height and outdoor storage and display

878
01:09:04,470 --> 01:09:14,250
marijuana prohibition and RVs, all of those things are prohibited except that RVs can

879
01:09:14,250 --> 01:09:19,950
be in the backyard of a townhouse, although I'm not sure how you'd get it in the backyard

880
01:09:19,950 --> 01:09:26,830
of a townhouse, but the intent was not to have big RVs on the street.

881
01:09:28,610 --> 01:09:37,650
We moved that sub-district map that you saw to the beginning of the code instead of at the end so that it's clear as you're reading it.

882
01:09:38,490 --> 01:09:47,550
And then we had multiple sections that had residential design requirements and we grouped them in one area.

883
01:09:47,550 --> 01:10:00,170
And then those that are common to commercial, residential or mixed use, we grouped so that it was clear what applied to which land use.

884
01:10:01,650 --> 01:10:04,070
We provided adequate public notice.

885
01:10:06,350 --> 01:10:08,890
The proposal meets the criteria.

886
01:10:08,890 --> 01:10:09,150
area.

887
01:10:11,990 --> 01:10:20,910
We received one letter of comment from Brooke Sobert, who is a real estate agent

888
01:10:20,910 --> 01:10:29,450
for the Haney property that's now owned by Tom Moyer, Jr., and she provided a real estate

889
01:10:29,450 --> 01:10:37,950
flyer and a concept plan for this area. There is an approved development of 230 apartment

890
01:10:37,950 --> 01:10:51,350
on the northern tax lot, and the request was to allow the southern tax lot to have the ability

891
01:10:51,350 --> 01:10:57,510
through a conditional use permit to get a drive-through drive-in drive-up restaurant.

892
01:10:58,610 --> 01:11:05,430
We provided the code with that alternative as an alternative to the Planning Commission.

893
01:11:05,430 --> 01:11:14,370
The Planning Commission chose not to add that recommended text or not the recommended text.

894
01:11:14,730 --> 01:11:18,570
The alternate text, they chose not to recommend it to City Council.

895
01:11:19,190 --> 01:11:29,730
So the drive-in, drive-up, drive-through fast food restaurant would be prohibited throughout the zone as originally intended by staff.

896
01:11:29,730 --> 01:11:29,910
staff.

897
01:11:36,240 --> 01:11:40,560
So staff and the planning commission recommends the city council hold a public

898
01:11:40,560 --> 01:11:49,460
hearing and adopt ordinance number 2026-06 approving the Cornelius Municipal Code Amendment

899
01:11:49,460 --> 01:12:00,940
2026-01 as shown in exhibit A of your ordinance. And time is of the essence in this amendment

900
01:12:00,940 --> 01:12:06,660
as additional auto-oriented development may be proposed along the corridor in this location.

901
01:12:08,300 --> 01:12:10,920
I'd be happy to answer any questions you have.

902
01:12:12,460 --> 01:12:13,620
Answer, Gerdinus.

903
01:12:15,200 --> 01:12:18,260
Oh, I saw you going. Are you going for it?

904
01:12:19,500 --> 01:12:21,160
Now you have to ask one.

905
01:12:21,900 --> 01:12:28,480
That was very thorough. I think it also helped that Peter and I had our check-in on Thursday,

906
01:12:28,480 --> 01:12:32,000
and this came up as a topic, so we kind of talked about it.

907
01:12:32,140 --> 01:12:35,780
So I really don't have any questions other than it makes sense

908
01:12:35,780 --> 01:12:41,700
to want to keep this area for mixed use development

909
01:12:42,100 --> 01:12:44,840
with heavy use on the residential side

910
01:12:44,840 --> 01:12:47,800
and wanting to minimize any fast food places coming in.

911
01:12:47,860 --> 01:12:49,680
I think we can all agree that Cornelius

912
01:12:49,680 --> 01:12:51,560
has a lot of fast food places.

913
01:12:51,640 --> 01:12:54,060
And I really appreciate you not just focusing on fast food

914
01:12:54,060 --> 01:12:56,840
but really thinking of all of the businesses

915
01:12:56,840 --> 01:12:58,440
that you have a drive-in feature

916
01:12:58,440 --> 01:13:01,700
or auto-related business attached to it.

917
01:13:02,040 --> 01:13:03,660
And I think we can see that we skew

918
01:13:03,660 --> 01:13:05,380
very heavily compared to other cities.

919
01:13:05,500 --> 01:13:08,000
So it would make sense that specifically for this area,

920
01:13:08,140 --> 01:13:10,620
we have an idea of what we want it for

921
01:13:10,620 --> 01:13:12,720
and trying to make sure that the code reflects that.

922
01:13:15,460 --> 01:13:16,380
Good, thank you.

923
01:13:17,200 --> 01:13:17,940
Councilor Lopez.

924
01:13:20,000 --> 01:13:25,040
Yeah, likewise I definitely enjoyed reading this in the packet

925
01:13:25,040 --> 01:13:33,670
it because I know we've discussed ways to attract more folks to come out to

926
01:13:33,670 --> 01:13:38,170
Cornelius and stay and I just drive by or go through a drive through and

927
01:13:38,170 --> 01:13:42,670
actually you know spend some time here and so I definitely enjoyed reading this

928
01:13:42,670 --> 01:13:46,190
and I'm excited by the possibility so thank you.

929
01:13:50,160 --> 01:13:51,940
Yes, answer good solace.

930
01:13:53,020 --> 01:13:56,900
I have a question on the Gateway Mixed U-Zone.

931
01:13:57,440 --> 01:14:03,040
What other areas of a highway aid would qualify under Gateway Mixed U-Zone?

932
01:14:04,000 --> 01:14:12,160
So right now, the study that was done in 2019 was only applied to this one area.

933
01:14:12,820 --> 01:14:19,200
We also have a mixed use zone in our town center, so in downtown Cornelius.

934
01:14:19,200 --> 01:14:29,940
it is basically, let's see, south of Adair,

935
01:14:35,180 --> 01:14:39,180
all the way to 10th, there are a couple parcels

936
01:14:39,180 --> 01:14:43,200
that straddle 10th south of Baseline,

937
01:14:43,920 --> 01:14:45,860
but I think there's only two of those.

938
01:14:46,500 --> 01:14:48,940
And then it comes across,

939
01:14:48,940 --> 01:14:57,960
includes the railroad pieces south of the railroad and then it jumps north to the

940
01:14:57,960 --> 01:14:59,900
railroad and continues.

941
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:12,150
I'm used to 14th and extends north on 14th back to Adair, so that is another mixed use

942
01:15:12,150 --> 01:15:18,310
zone that we have in the city. But other than that, we don't have any other mixed use zones.

943
01:15:19,050 --> 01:15:25,210
Would our biggest one be this one that you presented today, where the Fred Meyer is located?

944
01:15:25,210 --> 01:15:29,350
The one in the town center is actually bigger.

945
01:15:29,990 --> 01:15:41,770
It doesn't appear or seem bigger because it is highly developed today with smaller types of development.

946
01:15:42,490 --> 01:15:49,110
But it's actually bigger, maybe less vacancy than this area.

947
01:15:49,870 --> 01:15:50,110
Okay.

948
01:15:50,830 --> 01:15:51,170
Sounds good.

949
01:15:51,270 --> 01:15:51,670
Thank you.

950
01:15:51,670 --> 01:15:53,050
I

951
01:15:58,550 --> 01:16:01,790
don't because I remember the past discussions.

952
01:16:06,560 --> 01:16:07,740
I'll chime in.

953
01:16:08,040 --> 01:16:16,940
So it's good to have the change in ownership now because now it's not my college roommate's family's property anymore.

954
01:16:17,700 --> 01:16:18,880
So small world.

955
01:16:20,240 --> 01:16:26,680
But the one concern I saw actually in our changes is the reduction in the light industrial.

956
01:16:26,680 --> 01:16:34,440
Can you talk about why we're taking a current light industrial facility off the roles as

957
01:16:34,440 --> 01:16:37,640
an opportunity since that's what's actually there today?

958
01:16:38,780 --> 01:16:40,040
That's a very good question.

959
01:16:40,820 --> 01:16:46,600
We do have other light industrial areas and then we have the heavy industrial area around

960
01:16:46,600 --> 01:16:53,320
the Kodiak Circle area and there's a lot of vacancy in that industrial area that

961
01:16:53,320 --> 01:16:55,760
could be used for industrial development.

962
01:16:55,760 --> 01:17:04,600
We also have the area that could come into the city limits when the property

963
01:17:04,600 --> 01:17:06,280
owners decide the time is right.

964
01:17:08,940 --> 01:17:12,660
56 acres total but 50 acres are

965
01:17:12,660 --> 01:17:22,360
developable in that area north. The current light industrial area it was

966
01:17:22,360 --> 01:17:33,660
the former hazelnut plant, I believe, and does serve as kind of a yard for various businesses.

967
01:17:34,080 --> 01:17:35,660
There are several in that location.

968
01:17:36,980 --> 01:17:40,800
It's not to say they can't continue as they are today.

969
01:17:41,180 --> 01:17:45,820
It's that if any development happens on that property, it should be something different.

970
01:17:45,820 --> 01:17:55,820
And with a continued industrial use there, it would be less likely that other residential would be developed,

971
01:17:57,080 --> 01:18:04,100
and it would limit the cohesiveness of the pedestrian environment for that area.

972
01:18:05,160 --> 01:18:12,380
The light industrial storage unit facility that's to the north of this property

973
01:18:13,180 --> 01:18:16,480
continues to stay light industrial zoning.

974
01:18:17,200 --> 01:18:18,720
None of the zoning is changing,

975
01:18:18,900 --> 01:18:21,900
it's just the uses that are permitted in that zone.

976
01:18:24,640 --> 01:18:28,280
Okay, so redevelopment would be limited

977
01:18:28,280 --> 01:18:29,300
by the light industrial,

978
01:18:29,500 --> 01:18:31,800
but the continued use of the existing light industrial.

979
01:18:32,440 --> 01:18:34,680
Yeah, because I know exactly what you mean

980
01:18:34,680 --> 01:18:37,700
is some of that drives by there many times a week

981
01:18:37,700 --> 01:18:39,100
because they live right by it.

982
01:18:40,900 --> 01:18:42,220
It's a lot of parking.

983
01:18:43,540 --> 01:18:47,580
There's really not a lot of industrial use that's mostly just parking now back in the

984
01:18:48,200 --> 01:18:48,760
Haney lot.

985
01:18:49,120 --> 01:18:49,820
That's correct.

986
01:18:50,180 --> 01:18:50,980
So, okay.

987
01:18:51,680 --> 01:18:57,240
That was the only concern I had really on that one was taking a light industrial area

988
01:18:57,240 --> 01:19:04,040
off because maybe it could be developed into more, you know, like, you know, what I've

989
01:19:04,040 --> 01:19:08,880
talked about many times is it wouldn't be great if we had more small shop space,

990
01:19:09,100 --> 01:19:09,300
right?

991
01:19:09,300 --> 01:19:16,820
like the stuff we have up on holiday with equal manufacturing or those kind of or even in the

992
01:19:16,820 --> 01:19:22,300
boardwalk property where you've got several small buildings where you can have small businesses

993
01:19:22,300 --> 01:19:29,840
come in, develop and actually do family wage jobs. But unfortunately that's not what that

994
01:19:29,840 --> 01:19:32,980
property is really being used for. It's really being used as a parking lot for a

995
01:19:32,980 --> 01:19:35,200
bunch of people that come in and out of town.

996
01:19:36,140 --> 01:19:43,080
I can see their concern or want to still use that 26th corner property for something auto-oriented

997
01:19:43,080 --> 01:19:51,780
because that whole northeast side of 26th is kind of that way leading back into the theater with the new restaurants.

998
01:19:51,780 --> 01:20:07,760
But what would it stay as then if it just, it just couldn't be a drive through, but it could be some other type of non-oriented commercial.

999
01:20:08,020 --> 01:20:10,540
It could still be highway commercial, though, basically, right?

1000
01:20:10,540 --> 01:20:13,900
It could still be commercial, you're right about that.

1001
01:20:14,760 --> 01:20:24,880
What it would most likely go to would be either a strip mall, which would have several businesses

1002
01:20:24,880 --> 01:20:27,540
in it, or a sit-down restaurant.

1003
01:20:28,360 --> 01:20:32,840
Over time it could pretend, it's probably not big enough, but if they were to move

1004
01:20:32,840 --> 01:20:38,920
the lot line, if the residential to the north doesn't end up getting built, they could

1005
01:20:38,920 --> 01:20:43,460
move that lot line and potentially put a hotel there if at some point in the

1006
01:20:43,460 --> 01:20:50,180
future it makes sense for a developer to develop a hotel here. So there are a

1007
01:20:50,180 --> 01:20:55,280
number of other uses but again it wouldn't be an auto-oriented use and

1008
01:20:55,280 --> 01:21:00,400
it's trying to get that if you saw the graphics from the first few slides

1009
01:21:00,400 --> 01:21:07,560
trying to get that pedestrian orientation in that area. Yeah I know we

1010
01:21:07,560 --> 01:21:11,080
We don't even have a hotel in town, right?

1011
01:21:12,160 --> 01:21:14,980
So that's one of those, like, wow, imagine if we did.

1012
01:21:16,700 --> 01:21:17,140
OK.

1013
01:21:17,900 --> 01:21:23,200
Yeah, because it's a challenging property there to redevelop.

1014
01:21:23,460 --> 01:21:25,800
I mean, it had the last developed property

1015
01:21:25,800 --> 01:21:28,320
was fairly honest bonds out there in the front.

1016
01:21:28,460 --> 01:21:31,060
That's been completely raised off the property.

1017
01:21:31,760 --> 01:21:33,500
So I'm dating myself there.

1018
01:21:33,740 --> 01:21:35,560
I mean, those have been around a while, remember it.

1019
01:21:39,200 --> 01:21:40,480
Okay, I got no other questions.

1020
01:21:40,660 --> 01:21:42,240
Anything else anybody else came up with?

1021
01:21:43,960 --> 01:21:44,280
Okay.

1022
01:21:44,980 --> 01:21:45,500
Thank you.

1023
01:21:45,840 --> 01:21:46,540
Thank you, Steph.

1024
01:21:46,900 --> 01:21:49,180
Is there anyone wishing to speak in favor of this proposal?

1025
01:21:52,180 --> 01:21:56,280
Is there anyone wishing to speak in opposition to the proposal?

1026
01:21:57,760 --> 01:22:01,220
Are there any other comments regarding this proposal?

1027
01:22:06,210 --> 01:22:07,270
Yeah, did anybody come online?

1028
01:22:07,610 --> 01:22:08,130
Yeah, thank you.

1029
01:22:09,470 --> 01:22:13,470
Having had nothing else, I'm sure the staff does have no further rebuttal.

1030
01:22:14,150 --> 01:22:15,890
The public hearing is officially closed.

1031
01:22:16,910 --> 01:22:22,250
The city council will formulate findings and conclusions and take action by specific motion and vote.

1032
01:22:22,770 --> 01:22:27,670
The motion will be for approval or denial by majority vote of those present.

1033
01:22:30,970 --> 01:22:34,030
We have no unfinished business this evening.

1034
01:22:35,410 --> 01:22:39,850
Surprise under new business ordinance number 2026-06.

1035
01:22:39,850 --> 01:22:48,310
6. Cornelia Municipal Code Amendment for the Gateway Mixed Use GMU Zone. No report. We've

1036
01:22:48,310 --> 01:22:54,090
already had that and this will be a roll call vote. Is there anyone wishing to read the motions?

1037
01:22:55,010 --> 01:23:02,050
I make a motion. I make a motion to approve ordinance number 2026-06 and ordinance of

1038
01:23:02,050 --> 01:23:05,290
of the Cornelius City Council amending the Cornelius

1039
01:23:05,290 --> 01:23:12,170
Municipal Goal chapter 18.75, Gateway-Mex-U zone.

1040
01:23:12,770 --> 01:23:15,030
And this action takes effect immediately.

1041
01:23:15,810 --> 01:23:17,710
Motion by Councillor Baker, do I have a second?

1042
01:23:19,090 --> 01:23:19,490
Second.

1043
01:23:19,750 --> 01:23:21,030
Second by Councillor Lopez.

1044
01:23:21,870 --> 01:23:22,730
Any further discussion?

1045
01:23:24,570 --> 01:23:27,570
Seeing none, I'm assuming well,

1046
01:23:27,710 --> 01:23:28,950
since we'll do a roll call vote,

1047
01:23:29,270 --> 01:23:30,870
those in favor will say aye.

1048
01:23:30,870 --> 01:23:37,290
Those against will say nay and you'll be called by our city recorder. Thank you

1049
01:23:37,990 --> 01:23:40,190
counselor Baker I

1050
01:23:41,390 --> 01:23:44,770
Counselor council president Corina's Valencia. Hi

1051
01:23:45,390 --> 01:23:50,490
Counselor Gonzales Pacheco. Hi. We are delaying. Hi

1052
01:23:50,490 --> 01:23:53,630
Councilor Lopez. Hi. I

1053
01:23:53,630 --> 01:23:58,570
Have it says a hundred percent on that one. Everybody's in support. Okay

1054
01:23:58,570 --> 01:24:00,330
Hey, are we done?

1055
01:24:01,050 --> 01:24:01,910
Just one roll call?

1056
01:24:02,270 --> 01:24:03,310
That's all we got to do on this one?

1057
01:24:05,250 --> 01:24:07,930
I'm used to having to have like two votes on an ordinance,

1058
01:24:08,690 --> 01:24:10,350
especially the land use, okay.

1059
01:24:11,230 --> 01:24:15,910
All right, that takes us to resolution number 202657,

1060
01:24:16,290 --> 01:24:18,110
the Comcast franchise agreement.

1061
01:24:19,610 --> 01:24:20,750
I don't see Miss Jones.

1062
01:24:21,050 --> 01:24:23,450
Oh, you're gonna, you don't look like Miss Jones at all.

1063
01:24:23,530 --> 01:24:24,350
There's any manager, Brennan.

1064
01:24:25,310 --> 01:24:26,750
Thank you, Mayor and Council.

1065
01:24:28,190 --> 01:24:31,010
Ellie's doing something more important with her family this evening.

1066
01:24:31,430 --> 01:24:36,570
So as the alternate representative for the city on the Metro Area Communications Commission,

1067
01:24:36,730 --> 01:24:39,450
I'll just provide a simple verbal summary.

1068
01:24:40,930 --> 01:24:48,610
And so as I alluded, Ellie Jones represents Cornelius on the Metro Area Communications Commission,

1069
01:24:48,810 --> 01:24:53,090
otherwise known as MAC, and I serve as alternate MAC administers,

1070
01:24:53,090 --> 01:24:57,470
There's the Comcast Cable franchise on our behalf as a member of the MAC.

1071
01:24:58,050 --> 01:25:03,290
The ten-year term of the current agreement expired and the renewal process took roughly

1072
01:25:03,290 --> 01:25:03,910
four years.

1073
01:25:04,770 --> 01:25:10,490
Most recently you approved a resolution last year to extend the current franchise agreement

1074
01:25:10,830 --> 01:25:13,370
which was originally approved in July of 2015.

1075
01:25:15,290 --> 01:25:21,910
So the process started in 2022 and included a needs assessment and discussion of several

1076
01:25:21,910 --> 01:25:28,850
key areas including public education and government TV channels, otherwise known as PEG, public

1077
01:25:28,850 --> 01:25:34,870
communications network services and rates, otherwise known as PCN, technical language

1078
01:25:34,870 --> 01:25:42,910
related to auditing, line extensions, complimentary service, enforcement and insurance, among

1079
01:25:42,910 --> 01:25:43,530
other things.

1080
01:25:44,550 --> 01:25:48,710
The agreement before you was approved by the MAC members at their meeting on August

1081
01:25:48,710 --> 01:25:52,630
is 28th and full approval requires unanimous adoption

1082
01:25:52,630 --> 01:25:55,130
by the governing boards of all 15 member jurisdictions.

1083
01:25:56,240 --> 01:25:59,210
We feel that the agreed terms represent a fair outcome

1084
01:25:59,210 --> 01:26:00,930
for the city and Comcast.

1085
01:26:02,040 --> 01:26:06,290
If approved, the new franchise will expire June 30th, 2036.

1086
01:26:08,530 --> 01:26:12,630
And I just want to extend my appreciation to Mac staff

1087
01:26:13,150 --> 01:26:18,250
and also Comcast for the DILGE obviously it took awhile

1088
01:26:18,250 --> 01:26:24,650
There was a lot of back and forth, but we got there and so I appreciate everyone's efforts happy to answer any questions

1089
01:26:24,650 --> 01:26:25,250
You might have

1090
01:26:27,300 --> 01:26:28,380
Council any questions?

1091
01:26:33,170 --> 01:26:38,370
Well seeing that I will just say that I wish that this was the first time it took years to settle this

1092
01:26:38,370 --> 01:26:44,150
But in my 23 years, I think we were working on this when we want to first join council

1093
01:26:44,150 --> 01:26:47,330
We were in negotiations with Comcast

1094
01:26:48,610 --> 01:26:53,330
Over the cable franchise and got to sit through this a couple times now

1095
01:26:53,430 --> 01:27:02,450
It's always years long to do this thing so net net what really changed around the peg and those kind of things?

1096
01:27:02,690 --> 01:27:06,690
Was it after all that years of talk did things really change much?

1097
01:27:07,470 --> 01:27:11,410
Mayor there are some substantive changes.

1098
01:27:11,970 --> 01:27:13,510
I would say nothing major.

1099
01:27:13,810 --> 01:27:22,070
I am not prepared to get into the details just because I haven't been front at you know in in that.

1100
01:27:22,070 --> 01:27:24,250
So I don't have those off the top of my head.

1101
01:27:24,470 --> 01:27:31,090
But overall, I will say that MAC staff feel that this is a, you know, a satisfactory,

1102
01:27:31,730 --> 01:27:33,910
if not better than satisfactory outcome.

1103
01:27:34,270 --> 01:27:38,070
And my understanding is that Comcast feels the same.

1104
01:27:38,230 --> 01:27:43,070
So in a negotiation, obviously, if one site isn't totally beaten down,

1105
01:27:43,110 --> 01:27:45,530
that's a good sign, and I think that's the case here.

1106
01:27:46,250 --> 01:27:46,770
Okay.

1107
01:27:48,550 --> 01:27:50,190
Any other questions, Council?

1108
01:27:50,190 --> 01:27:53,010
Council. Seeing none, does someone wish to make the motion?

1109
01:27:54,430 --> 01:27:55,210
I'll make a motion.

1110
01:27:55,490 --> 01:27:56,230
Councilor Gondinus.

1111
01:27:56,370 --> 01:28:01,850
I make a motion to approve Resolution Number 202657, a resolution of the Cornelia City

1112
01:28:01,850 --> 01:28:08,830
Council granting a non-exclusive cable franchise to Comcast of Oregon to Inc., and this action

1113
01:28:08,830 --> 01:28:09,850
takes effect immediately.

1114
01:28:10,610 --> 01:28:12,490
Motion by Councilor Gondinus. Do I have a second?

1115
01:28:13,150 --> 01:28:13,670
I second.

1116
01:28:14,050 --> 01:28:20,030
Second by Councilor Gonzales. Any other questions? All those in favour, please say

1117
01:28:20,030 --> 01:28:29,390
I. Opposed? Abstentions? That's unanimous. That takes us on to resolution number 202658,

1118
01:28:30,050 --> 01:28:36,190
an Intergovernmental Agreement with Washington County for Natural Hazard Mitigation Planned

1119
01:28:36,190 --> 01:28:44,390
Cost Share, and City Manager Brennan. Thank you, Mayor. So the Natural Hazard Mitigation

1120
01:28:44,390 --> 01:28:50,690
plan, intergovernmental agreement with Washington County before you, is the result of an invitation

1121
01:28:51,670 --> 01:28:58,050
that we receive from the county to participate in a multi-jurisdictional approach to this

1122
01:28:58,050 --> 01:29:03,790
planning. The plan provides the tool for the county in participating cities and special

1123
01:29:03,790 --> 01:29:09,870
districts to identify and reduce hazards associated with nature, including floods,

1124
01:29:09,870 --> 01:29:13,010
floods, wildfires, earthquakes, and extreme weather.

1125
01:29:14,610 --> 01:29:21,690
It also facilitates access to hazard reduction actions funding from federal agencies, namely FEMA.

1126
01:29:22,890 --> 01:29:26,890
The plans must be updated every five years to maintain that eligibility.

1127
01:29:27,970 --> 01:29:32,550
And the initial project approach was for the county to fund its development.

1128
01:29:33,150 --> 01:29:37,390
However, the county did not receive grant funding as expected in order to do that.

1129
01:29:37,390 --> 01:29:45,950
and so they came to the participating agencies to split that cost with the county taking 50%

1130
01:29:45,950 --> 01:29:52,410
of that cost and the participating entities splitting the balance 50%.

1131
01:29:52,410 --> 01:29:58,190
And so for us, that results in $5,250 contribution.

1132
01:29:59,050 --> 01:29:59,970
We did a...

1133
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:03,520
We seek approval for that in the budget process, so we have planned for that money.

1134
01:30:04,520 --> 01:30:10,820
Nine cities and seven special districts will participate in the process, and as the provider

1135
01:30:10,820 --> 01:30:16,220
of fire medical response services within the territory of the Cornelius Rural Fire Protection

1136
01:30:16,220 --> 01:30:22,340
District, we've worked with the district and agreed to represent, we will represent

1137
01:30:22,340 --> 01:30:27,640
both the city and the district in the process. They don't have staff, and it's really

1138
01:30:27,640 --> 01:30:32,540
not realistic for their board members to participate in the meetings and so forth and we can do

1139
01:30:32,540 --> 01:30:40,440
that. So our chief Morris will represent both entities and for the city will have an alternate

1140
01:30:40,440 --> 01:30:46,700
and that's Ryan how our public works operations manager when we feel good about this approach.

1141
01:30:48,900 --> 01:30:53,900
And in the arrangement with the district, the city will support future district efforts

1142
01:30:53,900 --> 01:30:57,820
efforts to access hazard mitigation grants because we'll be doing that for ourselves

1143
01:30:57,820 --> 01:31:03,180
anyway so we can do that as well. And we have an existing agreement with the district that

1144
01:31:03,180 --> 01:31:08,540
allows for cost share in those kinds of efforts so we can account for that as well. So happy

1145
01:31:08,540 --> 01:31:09,300
to answer any questions.

1146
01:31:10,680 --> 01:31:15,800
Council, any questions? Yes, Councillor Gonzalez.

1147
01:31:18,690 --> 01:31:26,010
Just to confirm the, our cost of $5,250, that's yearly, annually?

1148
01:31:27,350 --> 01:31:29,210
Thank you for that clarifying question.

1149
01:31:29,570 --> 01:31:32,030
That's just, that will cover this planning process.

1150
01:31:32,210 --> 01:31:37,270
So it's our share of the cost for the consultants who will be needed to facilitate the process.

1151
01:31:37,650 --> 01:31:42,270
So that will satisfy, once the plan is finished, that will cover five years.

1152
01:31:42,950 --> 01:31:56,950
Okay. And do we know why they weren't able to get FEMA funding? Or do we know where we can find that information if we don't have the answer to that?

1153
01:31:57,070 --> 01:32:10,250
Yes. I can certainly ask the county staff. I don't think I ever did. My understanding is that some grant source that was anticipated either fell through or wasn't available, but I can get those details.

1154
01:32:10,250 --> 01:32:11,810
Thank you.

1155
01:32:13,630 --> 01:32:14,830
Any other questions?

1156
01:32:18,490 --> 01:32:18,670
Great.

1157
01:32:19,430 --> 01:32:21,810
With that in mind, is there anyone wishing to make the motion?

1158
01:32:24,670 --> 01:32:25,290
I can make a motion.

1159
01:32:25,630 --> 01:32:26,270
Council Lopez.

1160
01:32:27,510 --> 01:32:32,330
I make a motion to approve resolution number 2026-58,

1161
01:32:32,750 --> 01:32:37,350
a resolution of the Coronado City Council authorizing the city manager to sign

1162
01:32:37,350 --> 01:32:41,570
an intergovernmental agreement with Washington County to participate

1163
01:32:41,570 --> 01:32:50,690
in the multi-jurisdictional effort to develop a natural hazard mitigation plan and this

1164
01:32:50,690 --> 01:32:52,130
action takes effect immediately.

1165
01:32:52,890 --> 01:32:55,330
Motion by Councillor Lopez. Do I have a second?

1166
01:32:55,690 --> 01:32:56,270
I second.

1167
01:32:56,550 --> 01:33:01,590
Seconded by Councillor Baker. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favour,

1168
01:33:01,750 --> 01:33:02,350
please say aye.

1169
01:33:02,750 --> 01:33:03,210
Aye.

1170
01:33:04,030 --> 01:33:07,690
Opposed? Abstentions? Passed, unanimous.

1171
01:33:08,290 --> 01:33:12,870
takes us into reports. City Council, does anyone have any reports tonight?

1172
01:33:13,810 --> 01:33:19,590
Councillor Godinez. Yes, I do have a report just reminding everybody

1173
01:33:19,590 --> 01:33:23,810
that students are back in school, so please be careful when you're driving out there

1174
01:33:23,810 --> 01:33:28,350
and especially as it starts to get darker later in the day, just be mindful.

1175
01:33:29,310 --> 01:33:34,390
I also just want to acknowledge that we continue to see, I sent our community,

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01:33:34,390 --> 01:33:39,910
community, our community members being detained and so I just want to keep reiterating the

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01:33:39,910 --> 01:33:47,190
message of making sure that our community knows their rights, that they know the PERC hotline

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01:33:47,190 --> 01:33:54,250
or they have that number somewhere easily available to them and that also they talk

1179
01:33:54,250 --> 01:33:59,190
to their family or community to sign up for ECHO which is the Equity Corpse of Oregon

1180
01:33:59,190 --> 01:34:04,310
which will help connect them with a lawyer in case that something happens.

1181
01:34:04,750 --> 01:34:09,870
It's better to get registered in their system before any detention happens

1182
01:34:09,870 --> 01:34:12,490
because it's a lot harder to get the information needed

1183
01:34:12,490 --> 01:34:17,870
and it can slow down the process if it's done after, but they're always there to support.

1184
01:34:19,010 --> 01:34:21,490
And again, just knowing your rights, your right to remain silent

1185
01:34:21,490 --> 01:34:25,470
and your right to a lawyer and your right to not have to sign anything.

1186
01:34:27,950 --> 01:34:33,590
And I just want to remind everybody that we have our city website, which I believe is

1187
01:34:35,410 --> 01:34:42,010
cornelliusor.gov slash immigration resources, which I know I'tsel has done a really good job

1188
01:34:42,010 --> 01:34:46,130
making sure that she has put a lot of the resources that I've mentioned on there,

1189
01:34:46,190 --> 01:34:51,070
as well as toolkits that the family should consider sitting down and filling out.

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01:34:51,190 --> 01:34:54,070
I know it's not a conversation that everybody wants to have,

1191
01:34:54,070 --> 01:34:58,010
but it's just important to make sure that in the case that anything does happen,

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01:34:58,530 --> 01:35:02,150
you have things written down, everything from your child's insurance information,

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01:35:02,670 --> 01:35:06,130
doctor, to who you would want, taking care of your kiddos,

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01:35:06,190 --> 01:35:11,290
and how we can reach them and get that information. So, that's all for me. Thank you.

1195
01:35:12,010 --> 01:35:14,730
Thank you. Other councillors? Councilor Lopez?

1196
01:35:15,270 --> 01:35:16,610
Yeah. Thank you, Mayor.

1197
01:35:18,110 --> 01:35:24,190
Earlier last month or mid-month, I got a chance to participate in National Night Out, thank

1198
01:35:24,190 --> 01:35:29,810
you for the invitation, and yeah, it was nice to be out there, I had great conversations

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01:35:29,810 --> 01:35:37,290
with local residents, and it was just a reminder that, you know, sometimes our community receives

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01:35:37,290 --> 01:35:42,210
information differently and some people like to have conversations about it, they have

1201
01:35:42,210 --> 01:35:48,690
questions. And it was nice going to them as opposed to expecting them to come here or show up at events.

1202
01:35:49,030 --> 01:35:58,430
So I'd like to encourage more of that, more of us going to the community and just giving them access

1203
01:35:58,430 --> 01:36:01,590
or the opportunity to ask questions. That was it. Thank you.

1204
01:36:02,110 --> 01:36:05,870
Thank you. Thank you for representing us at that. I was unfortunately out of town.

1205
01:36:06,450 --> 01:36:11,390
Otherwise I really liked National Night Out and was unfortunate that we were in the peak of a bad

1206
01:36:11,390 --> 01:36:17,010
fire season and heat when original date occurred. Any other councillors with

1207
01:36:17,010 --> 01:36:25,130
updates today? Yeah I was also there and staff couldn't get rid of me but it was

1208
01:36:25,130 --> 01:36:33,330
great seeing the community come out. I know parking was difficult and but the

1209
01:36:33,330 --> 01:36:41,650
The amount of community that showed up was just very happy because this was a rescheduled

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01:36:41,650 --> 01:36:51,170
event and the biggest concern about rescheduling is that we focus a lot on the date and getting

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01:36:51,170 --> 01:37:02,030
people to show up and getting the saving amount of people to realize these events

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01:37:02,030 --> 01:37:12,050
change and be willing to show up is always a difficult thing. I will also

1213
01:37:12,050 --> 01:37:18,250
like to say we're entering a I probably will repeat this in September and

1214
01:37:18,250 --> 01:37:27,330
October but we are entering a pretty interesting midterm election. I like to

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01:37:27,330 --> 01:37:35,590
I noticed because an incident with Jeanine Solman, our state senator, incident with her where

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01:37:35,590 --> 01:37:49,150
a community member was, allegedly, was in her face and through her classes in a bush.

1217
01:37:49,150 --> 01:37:57,010
I believe that was the reporting that came out and statements from our state center.

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01:38:00,190 --> 01:38:02,770
Let's continue being respectful.

1219
01:38:03,770 --> 01:38:07,350
Politics is a very high emotion thing.

1220
01:38:07,590 --> 01:38:13,270
As someone who studies politics, watch, attend political events.

1221
01:38:15,430 --> 01:38:26,510
these are high emotions because we are invested. We can't help it. I can't help it being really

1222
01:38:26,510 --> 01:38:39,230
invested and what's going on and emotions get the best of us. So let's not get to a point

1223
01:38:39,230 --> 01:38:46,890
where we're going into people faces because they're not willing to lessen,

1224
01:38:49,510 --> 01:38:50,910
and I've seen it.

1225
01:38:52,510 --> 01:38:59,930
I was also a legislative intern, so I was able to see the differences of approaches,

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01:39:01,750 --> 01:39:12,330
behavior of aggressive in your face. Behavior doesn't always or majority

1227
01:39:12,330 --> 01:39:19,010
time doesn't end up an outcome you wish will happen and it leaves people with a

1228
01:39:19,010 --> 01:39:27,750
sour taste. So there's a lot of topics that will be a debating. There's going

1229
01:39:27,750 --> 01:39:33,610
we have a lot of topics we have strong feelings about and which that heart

1230
01:39:33,610 --> 01:39:40,490
outcome will be the best outcome or our outcome is what everyone is thinking

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01:39:40,490 --> 01:39:52,430
about. So let's just please be respectful understand with of other

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01:39:52,430 --> 01:39:58,790
people standing and that government is very complex.

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01:40:01,250 --> 01:40:03,850
It's just how it is in the state of

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01:40:03,850 --> 01:40:09,490
Oregon, federal level, county level, even municipal level.

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01:40:11,850 --> 01:40:15,370
Janine Solman has lost her

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01:40:15,370 --> 01:40:31,490
her midterm, and New Canada is going to step up, so I hope we show them respect that we

1237
01:40:31,490 --> 01:40:34,630
will show to our own family.

1238
01:40:37,340 --> 01:40:37,860
Thank you.

1239
01:40:38,840 --> 01:40:40,720
Councillor, do you have anything this evening?

1240
01:40:41,640 --> 01:40:41,880
No?

1241
01:40:42,060 --> 01:40:42,320
Okay.

1242
01:40:42,940 --> 01:40:49,460
I'll try to keep it short, basically continue to be involved with legislative agenda making

1243
01:40:49,460 --> 01:40:51,700
through the Metropolitan Mayor's Consortium.

1244
01:40:52,580 --> 01:41:00,920
Some of the other meetings were off for August, so no JPEC and no Washington County Coordinating

1245
01:41:00,920 --> 01:41:02,700
Committee, so I'll leave it there.

1246
01:41:03,700 --> 01:41:05,940
City Manager, do you have an update for us this evening?

1247
01:41:06,160 --> 01:41:06,640
Thanks Mayor.

1248
01:41:06,800 --> 01:41:07,880
I'll keep it brief as well.

1249
01:41:07,880 --> 01:41:14,120
Well, I did take any opportunity when we get an unsolicited thanks from community member,

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01:41:14,940 --> 01:41:19,500
and this is via our library director, Maria Aguilar, from mid-August.

1251
01:41:20,040 --> 01:41:23,840
And this individual, I'm just going to read the message because it's really nice.

1252
01:41:24,120 --> 01:41:28,380
I write to give you feedback on how much I appreciate your library, the services you

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01:41:28,380 --> 01:41:31,120
provide, and the staff that coordinates it all and makes it happen.

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01:41:31,800 --> 01:41:35,240
I have gained a lot of knowledge and understanding of the ever-changing world

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01:41:35,240 --> 01:41:36,020
of technology.

1256
01:41:36,020 --> 01:41:41,580
I find keeping up with the speedy advancement of technology to be very intimidating, stressful

1257
01:41:41,580 --> 01:41:46,500
and confusing, but your staff has held my hand as they have taught me how to navigate

1258
01:41:46,500 --> 01:41:47,400
through this tech.

1259
01:41:48,120 --> 01:41:52,620
And Helica especially started me on this journey when I came in with a new phone and laptop

1260
01:41:52,620 --> 01:41:56,440
because I didn't understand how to start and set up these devices.

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01:41:57,060 --> 01:42:02,600
Since being organized is key to avoid getting lost and more confused in this maze of

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01:42:02,600 --> 01:42:02,920
tech.

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01:42:02,920 --> 01:42:07,040
I appreciate even more so the patience of Anhedaka.

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01:42:07,800 --> 01:42:15,880
She taught me how to organize my notes and I am happy to report that I have improved greatly in this area as this skill has even spilled into other areas of my life.

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01:42:16,520 --> 01:42:21,060
Plus with organization, skills comes logic. I benefited there too.

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01:42:21,540 --> 01:42:26,880
I have also worked with many volunteers at your library and I have learned much from each one of them.

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01:42:27,100 --> 01:42:31,040
I worry sometimes that they will tire out because I am not ready to graduate.

1268
01:42:31,580 --> 01:42:37,440
I sure hope they don't because now with this whirlwind of AI, I feel like I went back to square one.

1269
01:42:37,560 --> 01:42:41,020
Again, thank you for all the help and services you provide. I am grateful.

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01:42:43,200 --> 01:42:51,400
I also wanted just briefly to recognize a very impactful crime event that happened on August 27th,

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01:42:52,100 --> 01:42:56,720
and I want to thank Chief Coley and his team on the police side, and Chief Morris,

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01:42:56,720 --> 01:43:02,620
and especially C-Shift in the fire department who were on that night, the

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01:43:02,620 --> 01:43:09,040
county SWAT team led by Chief Coley and and the fire staff responded both to

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01:43:09,040 --> 01:43:14,380
the the incident and the perpetrator and and all that was going on on that end

1275
01:43:14,380 --> 01:43:19,140
as well as to the victim who really needed help and I'm just so

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01:43:19,140 --> 01:43:23,680
incredibly thankful to all of them and you know honestly I wish they

1277
01:43:23,680 --> 01:43:27,240
didn't have to experience those things but they're always there and we're grateful for

1278
01:43:27,240 --> 01:43:29,060
that so thank you.

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01:43:35,800 --> 01:43:39,840
Sorry I got a disturbing text there one of my friends just has been

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01:43:39,840 --> 01:43:48,360
admitted to the hospital so no other updates staff no other updates this evening then at

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01:43:48,360 --> 01:43:52,420
that point I will take a motion to adjourn and just to let people know we'll be going

1282
01:43:52,420 --> 01:43:58,220
into a work session immediately following our regular session so counsel do I have

1283
01:43:58,220 --> 01:44:00,540
a motion to adjourn our regular session.

1284
01:44:01,460 --> 01:44:02,740
A motion to adjourn.

1285
01:44:02,980 --> 01:44:04,480
Motion by Councillor Agoninas.

1286
01:44:04,740 --> 01:44:05,240
Do I have a second?

1287
01:44:05,900 --> 01:44:06,300
Second.

1288
01:44:06,580 --> 01:44:07,700
Second by Councillor Lopez.

1289
01:44:08,160 --> 01:44:09,400
All those in favor, please say aye.

1290
01:44:09,760 --> 01:44:10,140
Aye.

1291
01:44:11,260 --> 01:44:11,740
Opposed?

1292
01:44:12,380 --> 01:44:12,860
Abstentions?

1293
01:44:13,780 --> 01:44:15,340
Your adjourn to our work session.

1294
01:44:23,710 --> 01:44:24,670
It's a cheat code.

1295
01:44:25,970 --> 01:44:27,990
If you saw the list, it will really help.

1296
01:44:28,150 --> 01:44:32,350
I'm gonna really do my best to kind of consolidate

1297
01:44:32,350 --> 01:44:33,990
and kind of narrow us down.

1298
01:44:35,350 --> 01:44:37,770
And so I'll just dive right in if that's okay.

1299
01:44:38,170 --> 01:44:38,810
Yes, please.

1300
01:44:39,030 --> 01:44:39,130
Okay.

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01:44:39,890 --> 01:44:47,910
So the League of Oregon Cities have released the legislative priorities for seven different

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01:44:47,910 --> 01:44:49,050
committees that they operate.

1303
01:44:49,270 --> 01:44:56,130
And within those committees there are varying potential priorities that come out of that.

1304
01:44:56,130 --> 01:44:59,350
So that the first thing that I'll say is that this doesn't mean that these

1305
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:13,380
Whatever priorities they identify with input from all the cities does not mean those are the only things that they'll be working on, but they would just like to know what, you know, what the main priorities are and work with that, so we do want to respond.

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01:45:15,800 --> 01:45:29,360
And we are directly represented by myself on two of the seven committees, so one is housing, land use and community development, within which there are three identified priorities, and the other is finance, taxation and economic development,

1307
01:45:29,360 --> 01:45:30,660
within which there are four.

1308
01:45:31,160 --> 01:45:32,980
So again, a total of 27 priorities.

1309
01:45:33,180 --> 01:45:34,120
We get to pick five.

1310
01:45:34,920 --> 01:45:36,720
So I know that that was kind of fast.

1311
01:45:36,840 --> 01:45:39,380
Any questions at this point?

1312
01:45:41,520 --> 01:45:41,760
Okay.

1313
01:45:42,040 --> 01:45:42,480
I don't see any.

1314
01:45:42,860 --> 01:45:43,180
All right.

1315
01:45:44,720 --> 01:45:46,580
So the remaining five committees,

1316
01:45:46,840 --> 01:45:48,640
the balance of them are broadband,

1317
01:45:48,900 --> 01:45:50,880
cybersecurity, AI, and telecommunications.

1318
01:45:51,260 --> 01:45:52,880
There are five priorities there.

1319
01:45:53,240 --> 01:45:55,040
General government, two priorities.

1320
01:45:55,500 --> 01:45:57,160
Energy and environment, there are six.

1321
01:45:58,020 --> 01:45:59,420
Transportation, three.

1322
01:45:59,420 --> 01:46:02,440
and then water and wastewater, four priorities there.

1323
01:46:05,950 --> 01:46:07,510
So again, we'll pick five.

1324
01:46:07,930 --> 01:46:10,070
What I did here was extracted the four goals

1325
01:46:10,070 --> 01:46:12,450
in our three-year city strategic plan

1326
01:46:12,450 --> 01:46:14,150
to at least give us some basis there.

1327
01:46:14,350 --> 01:46:17,090
I also inform my recommendations

1328
01:46:17,090 --> 01:46:20,430
from all of the conversations that we have.

1329
01:46:20,590 --> 01:46:22,530
So I've got a pretty good sense

1330
01:46:22,530 --> 01:46:24,730
of where you are on things at this point.

1331
01:46:25,710 --> 01:46:28,050
Maybe not so much, Councillor Gonzales-Pacheco

1332
01:46:28,050 --> 01:46:30,670
at this point, but anyway, we'll work with that.

1333
01:46:30,670 --> 01:46:34,110
I kind of just highlighted key words in these four goals.

1334
01:46:34,510 --> 01:46:37,610
So the first one really focusing on economic development,

1335
01:46:37,910 --> 01:46:41,570
public-private partnership, job creation, revenue expansion,

1336
01:46:42,330 --> 01:46:45,470
and establishing local destinations or placemaking.

1337
01:46:46,330 --> 01:46:48,490
The second one, community engagement,

1338
01:46:48,690 --> 01:46:50,030
advocating for Cornelius.

1339
01:46:50,390 --> 01:46:53,050
So figuring out ways that we can enlist community members

1340
01:46:53,050 --> 01:46:55,030
to help us advocate for ourselves.

1341
01:46:56,150 --> 01:46:58,370
The third one, expanding staff capacity,

1342
01:47:00,310 --> 01:47:05,670
recruitment, training, and management in order to increase participation, build leaders,

1343
01:47:05,930 --> 01:47:06,870
and enhance services.

1344
01:47:07,950 --> 01:47:13,670
And then the fourth has to do with our community identity and unifying the public behind a

1345
01:47:13,670 --> 01:47:16,010
common theme to instill civic pride.

1346
01:47:16,170 --> 01:47:18,150
So that's just kind of a foundation.

1347
01:47:18,510 --> 01:47:20,110
There are other things that, of course, we care about.

1348
01:47:20,330 --> 01:47:24,710
There's a community vision plan and so forth, but wanted to kind of tie it here.

1349
01:47:24,970 --> 01:47:27,470
So what I've done is I ticked through these.

1350
01:47:27,470 --> 01:47:36,430
I'm really not going to try to do extensive summaries because I'm not really in the majority

1351
01:47:36,430 --> 01:47:42,130
of the committees or don't really have the span to be able to do that, but I can speak

1352
01:47:42,130 --> 01:47:46,450
to them in summary as you saw in the same materials that you received in your packet.

1353
01:47:47,570 --> 01:47:52,290
I've bolded those that ultimately at the end I'll have a couple of summary slides that

1354
01:47:52,290 --> 01:47:56,450
show these are the five that I think might be the ones that we want to respond.

1355
01:47:56,450 --> 01:47:58,530
And so there's one here in this group.

1356
01:48:00,510 --> 01:48:05,070
I'll focus on that. Maintain local control of a safe, modern right of way.

1357
01:48:05,530 --> 01:48:10,470
And even going back to my prior role with another city, this is a constant issue.

1358
01:48:10,930 --> 01:48:19,530
It's even more elevated in this federal administration, just the concept of taking away local authority from local governments.

1359
01:48:19,970 --> 01:48:24,710
And so this is something that I think is important enough that we actually would select it as one of our five.

1360
01:48:24,710 --> 01:48:31,170
If these others obviously very relevant to Cornelius as well, especially supporting equitable

1361
01:48:31,170 --> 01:48:37,770
access to technology, supporting responsible municipal use of technology, et cetera.

1362
01:48:38,550 --> 01:48:46,130
But again, where I land is teasing out, maintaining that local authority and control is very

1363
01:48:46,130 --> 01:48:46,930
important.

1364
01:48:48,070 --> 01:48:53,270
Within general government, Administrative Procedures Act reform, I had to educate

1365
01:48:53,270 --> 01:49:01,410
myself a little bit on this, and that really has to do with rulemaking across state agencies.

1366
01:49:01,730 --> 01:49:06,050
We have actually been at the front of one of these in terms of challenging rulemaking

1367
01:49:06,710 --> 01:49:13,310
because of the negative impacts that it has on our community, and this generally will seek to

1368
01:49:13,310 --> 01:49:18,510
establish more kind of parody in terms of how rulemaking is done across state agencies,

1369
01:49:18,510 --> 01:49:22,970
agencies, which is really all over the map right now, establishing independent oversight

1370
01:49:22,970 --> 01:49:29,210
and auditing and fiscal impact statements. That's another one. A lot of unfunded mandates

1371
01:49:29,210 --> 01:49:35,410
coming and we do ultimately do get some grant funds for some things, but it's like a fire

1372
01:49:35,410 --> 01:49:41,670
hose and we're just constantly, you know, kind of getting pummeled, to be honest,

1373
01:49:41,670 --> 01:49:44,430
with rulemaking from various agencies.

1374
01:49:45,710 --> 01:49:52,330
So this one, I put an asterisk there because ultimately I did not land on these as one of the five,

1375
01:49:52,710 --> 01:49:55,110
but we may want to consider that.

1376
01:49:55,510 --> 01:50:00,990
And then the other one in general government is public meetings, meetings, law, clarity.

1377
01:50:01,850 --> 01:50:05,970
And I just didn't see that floating to the top amongst all the others.

1378
01:50:06,890 --> 01:50:09,690
Next committee, housing, land use, and community development.

1379
01:50:09,690 --> 01:50:17,010
even sitting on this committee, it's, honestly it's difficult to track all of it within this.

1380
01:50:17,450 --> 01:50:25,570
You know, two of them have to do with funding for shelter and homeless response and housing production.

1381
01:50:26,550 --> 01:50:31,450
For me, you know, a very big theme for us is land availability and land use streamlining.

1382
01:50:32,150 --> 01:50:35,930
This one envisions work around that.

1383
01:50:35,930 --> 01:50:45,830
So, a lot of changes have been made to the foundational land use laws, but there are

1384
01:50:45,830 --> 01:50:51,990
other aspects that are really envisioned in this, including clarity and legal certainty

1385
01:50:51,990 --> 01:50:59,570
for cities, clarifying wetland-related statutes and inventories for efficient in order of

1386
01:50:59,570 --> 01:51:04,650
the urbanization of land within the urban growth boundary, streamlining urban growth

1387
01:51:04,650 --> 01:51:09,530
growth boundary expansion and swap processes for residential, commercial, and industrial

1388
01:51:10,010 --> 01:51:19,010
land, improving the process and land prioritization relative to urban reserves, which we don't

1389
01:51:19,510 --> 01:51:25,230
have currently, but I think would benefit the whole system and then funding for technical

1390
01:51:25,230 --> 01:51:31,750
assistance for code audits and updates to comply with new state statutes.

1391
01:51:32,610 --> 01:51:37,210
At the end of the day, we're still locked by state law in terms of the urban growth

1392
01:51:37,210 --> 01:51:45,710
boundary, but I do think any kind of proactive conversation and ultimately changes to the

1393
01:51:45,710 --> 01:51:52,330
system are worth putting this one up as one of the five priorities.

1394
01:51:53,030 --> 01:52:00,850
Energy and environment all, in my opinion, all laudable, important goals.

1395
01:52:00,850 --> 01:52:07,150
I don't really see any of these, again, if we're picking five floating to the top of that.

1396
01:52:07,350 --> 01:52:15,450
I do actually have done some work for us to see about additional local renewable energy generation and things like that.

1397
01:52:16,050 --> 01:52:24,710
There are imperatives for rate increased controls relative to modernizing the electrical grid and so forth.

1398
01:52:24,710 --> 01:52:32,850
But with these, I did not really identify one that would come to the top and be in the group of five.

1399
01:52:33,930 --> 01:52:39,070
This is the other committee where I represented the city finance taxation and economic development.

1400
01:52:40,490 --> 01:52:46,790
The reason why I've identified targeted prevailing wage changes is because it is actually relevant to us,

1401
01:52:47,030 --> 01:52:50,310
given the redevelopment properties that we've acquired.

1402
01:52:51,250 --> 01:53:06,470
And more specifically on this, there are currently two kind of triggers that determine when prevailing wages must be paid on a public-private project,

1403
01:53:07,050 --> 01:53:13,810
and it's really challenging for a variety of reasons. But first of all, the threshold for one of the two triggers,

1404
01:53:13,810 --> 01:53:19,630
which is the public agency trigger was set in 2005, that was at $50,000.

1405
01:53:20,410 --> 01:53:25,890
In today's money, that would be $86,000, so the value itself is antiquated.

1406
01:53:26,610 --> 01:53:33,390
And in the other trigger, the threshold is $750,000 of public money in a project.

1407
01:53:33,630 --> 01:53:38,330
So for example, with the ground day property, we get to that threshold with urban renewal

1408
01:53:38,330 --> 01:53:42,990
funds that triggers prevailing wage for an entire redevelopment.

1409
01:53:42,990 --> 01:53:51,410
And that just simply makes projects much, much harder to pencil and makes them harder to actually make happen.

1410
01:53:53,370 --> 01:54:00,390
In today's money that 750,000 threshold was set in 2007. That would be about 1.2 million today.

1411
01:54:01,290 --> 01:54:07,770
And there are other aspects to this. So I think this is a real world issue for us right now.

1412
01:54:07,770 --> 01:54:10,710
and I think is important enough that we put that in

1413
01:54:11,290 --> 01:54:12,710
as one of the five.

1414
01:54:13,470 --> 01:54:17,310
The other priorities within this are important too.

1415
01:54:17,470 --> 01:54:20,210
They really, the next two alcohol revenue,

1416
01:54:20,430 --> 01:54:23,490
modernization and emergency communication system resources

1417
01:54:23,490 --> 01:54:28,330
both deal with kind of antiquated programs

1418
01:54:28,330 --> 01:54:30,570
that do need to be modernized

1419
01:54:30,570 --> 01:54:34,110
and do impact the revenue side of things,

1420
01:54:34,110 --> 01:54:39,070
but I would still put prevailing wage modernization above those.

1421
01:54:39,710 --> 01:54:45,450
Well, I'll chime in on that one because Sherwood just did a major capital project,

1422
01:54:46,410 --> 01:54:50,450
and when they had the quotes done by the state and the county,

1423
01:54:51,530 --> 01:54:55,870
it was going to be at least 50% more than what they were able to get the project done by,

1424
01:54:56,090 --> 01:55:00,730
and part of it was because the county and the state were going to engage prevailing wage.

1425
01:55:00,730 --> 01:55:07,530
So it wasn't just the 20% that's usually estimated, their actual project estimates from the county

1426
01:55:07,530 --> 01:55:14,350
and city were 50% higher than what they actually got the project done for by using just city funds.

1427
01:55:14,910 --> 01:55:16,770
So this is a big deal.

1428
01:55:17,210 --> 01:55:18,570
It is. It's a very big deal.

1429
01:55:18,810 --> 01:55:24,830
It's for all the, especially the smaller cities with more limited resources to try and get redevelopment

1430
01:55:24,830 --> 01:55:26,850
development happening and economic development.

1431
01:55:27,210 --> 01:55:30,530
It's a huge barrier, a very real one.

1432
01:55:30,690 --> 01:55:31,790
So thank you for that example.

1433
01:55:34,060 --> 01:55:38,760
Within transportation, the big sort of bright light

1434
01:55:38,760 --> 01:55:41,060
is the 2027 transportation package

1435
01:55:41,060 --> 01:55:42,540
that you may be familiar with

1436
01:55:42,540 --> 01:55:47,920
that did not succeed in the last short session,

1437
01:55:49,760 --> 01:55:53,860
especially as compared to the other issues.

1438
01:55:53,860 --> 01:55:59,240
In fact, the city-supported street sign traditions, that one I wasn't familiar with until I read it,

1439
01:55:59,840 --> 01:56:04,940
actually involves another city that wasn't named in here that has a state highway going through,

1440
01:56:05,060 --> 01:56:07,860
and they just want to be able to put things on the street lights.

1441
01:56:08,120 --> 01:56:11,520
That sounds great, but the transportation package is fundamental.

1442
01:56:12,120 --> 01:56:16,800
We're going to be back either next month or in November to talk to you about just paving,

1443
01:56:17,100 --> 01:56:18,900
just being able to afford paving our streets.

1444
01:56:18,900 --> 01:56:24,900
it's, you know, that's totally upside down. And so across the board, whether it's the actual state

1445
01:56:24,900 --> 01:56:31,440
owned infrastructure or the funds that local governments receive through the allocations,

1446
01:56:31,820 --> 01:56:39,200
this is really important. I know, Mayor, you're very steeped in this area too. So I would

1447
01:56:39,200 --> 01:56:45,080
elevate this to one of the five. But we can talk about that. And then the last area,

1448
01:56:45,080 --> 01:56:52,220
of water and wastewater. I chose infrastructure funding kind of similarly. I get to brag because

1449
01:56:52,220 --> 01:56:58,960
of my predecessors and the choices that you've made over the many years have resulted in

1450
01:56:58,960 --> 01:57:05,180
what is really, especially comparatively very good infrastructure here in Cornelius. I'd

1451
01:57:05,180 --> 01:57:09,180
love to be able to brag about that, but it is a constant challenge whether it's

1452
01:57:09,180 --> 01:57:16,380
sewer, storm or water especially, that underground infrastructure is just going to be a constant

1453
01:57:17,100 --> 01:57:23,460
year-to-year struggle to make the upgrades that we need to do to keep it modern and functioning well.

1454
01:57:24,280 --> 01:57:33,280
And this priority would advocate for what they say is increased and sustained investments in these systems.

1455
01:57:33,280 --> 01:57:38,900
I see a lot of small Oregon cities at the table begging for money because their system

1456
01:57:38,900 --> 01:57:44,480
is literally breaking or multiple systems are breaking because they haven't had the

1457
01:57:44,480 --> 01:57:45,480
rate base to support.

1458
01:57:46,320 --> 01:57:52,320
And so I think this one is both for us as well as for all the small cities across the

1459
01:57:52,320 --> 01:57:52,640
state.

1460
01:57:52,880 --> 01:57:57,120
So I would actually elevate that one to one of the five.

1461
01:57:57,800 --> 01:58:04,960
So in summary, I just created a table here where I kind of made a grid, the strategic plan goal areas.

1462
01:58:05,520 --> 01:58:11,660
They all hit on at least one, if not multiple, like land availability does.

1463
01:58:12,600 --> 01:58:17,760
You could probably almost make a connection for all of them in some way, but I tried to at least do that.

1464
01:58:18,020 --> 01:58:26,100
So again, maintaining local control of the right-of-way, land availability and land use streamlining, prevailing wage changes.

1465
01:58:26,100 --> 01:58:31,000
is 2027 Transportation Package and Infrastructure Funding.

1466
01:58:31,460 --> 01:58:33,200
And then I'll just run back real quick.

1467
01:58:33,340 --> 01:58:35,540
The one again that I put an asterisk by

1468
01:58:35,540 --> 01:58:38,660
that we could probably consider for replacement

1469
01:58:38,660 --> 01:58:42,820
would be the Administrative Procedures Act,

1470
01:58:42,860 --> 01:58:44,580
the rulemaking related one.

1471
01:58:44,880 --> 01:58:47,240
So happy to open it up for discussion.

1472
01:58:47,980 --> 01:58:48,520
Thank you.

1473
01:58:48,520 --> 01:58:49,900
Council, questions, comments?

1474
01:58:52,480 --> 01:58:54,200
Yes, Councillor Gonzalez.

1475
01:58:56,280 --> 01:59:03,040
I have a question about the target prevailing wages changes. I'm not very familiar with that.

1476
01:59:04,380 --> 01:59:07,640
Can you provide more information so I can understand it better, please?

1477
01:59:08,300 --> 01:59:14,460
Yes, and it is quite complicated actually, and so I run up against my own limits pretty quickly,

1478
01:59:14,620 --> 01:59:21,680
but we have even just on this current project that we're conceiving of redeveloping,

1479
01:59:21,680 --> 01:59:23,000
which is the Grand Day Food Site,

1480
01:59:24,320 --> 01:59:26,860
one of the first questions that a developer

1481
01:59:26,860 --> 01:59:29,960
or an architect will ask if there's some interest is,

1482
01:59:30,360 --> 01:59:33,640
what is the situation with prevailing wages?

1483
01:59:34,620 --> 01:59:36,820
And so really before we do anything,

1484
01:59:36,980 --> 01:59:40,740
we have to really think through those implications

1485
01:59:40,740 --> 01:59:42,940
because if we trigger it for the whole project,

1486
01:59:43,200 --> 01:59:48,100
that turns the whole project into a prevailing wage project.

1487
01:59:48,220 --> 01:59:49,920
And what that means is that the wages

1488
01:59:49,920 --> 01:59:58,100
that have to be paid on all the trade work that happens on the project has to be at least

1489
01:59:58,100 --> 01:59:59,920
at that prevailing wage and it's much higher.

1490
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:08,620
And it more frequently, it seems like every year it becomes more common that it just thinks

1491
02:00:08,620 --> 02:00:16,240
the project. And it's not that we're advocating that people don't earn living wages, it's just

1492
02:00:16,240 --> 02:00:24,900
that there should be a threshold that is more modern. It's dated, and actually the way the

1493
02:00:24,900 --> 02:00:27,800
the program calculates that is a bit dated.

1494
02:00:28,700 --> 02:00:33,460
And so the whole program really needs to be modernized

1495
02:00:33,460 --> 02:00:35,660
in many folks' opinion, including mine.

1496
02:00:36,960 --> 02:00:39,840
So by setting this as a priority,

1497
02:00:40,220 --> 02:00:43,120
then we would be sharing those thoughts

1498
02:00:43,120 --> 02:00:45,980
of having like a threshold as you shared.

1499
02:00:46,520 --> 02:00:50,100
Yes, we would be lending our name, if you will,

1500
02:00:50,300 --> 02:00:53,540
to say LOC and all the cities

1501
02:00:53,540 --> 02:00:55,980
that are participating in this, we think this is,

1502
02:00:56,420 --> 02:00:58,160
this should be one of your highest priorities.

1503
02:00:58,820 --> 02:01:01,080
For us it's one of the five out of 27.

1504
02:01:02,240 --> 02:01:03,700
We think it's that important

1505
02:01:03,700 --> 02:01:05,060
that you really focus on that.

1506
02:01:05,500 --> 02:01:09,060
Okay, and the other question I have is about

1507
02:01:09,900 --> 02:01:12,520
maintaining local right away.

1508
02:01:13,560 --> 02:01:18,640
Is there a concern that we might not be able

1509
02:01:18,640 --> 02:01:19,420
to maintain that?

1510
02:01:19,420 --> 02:01:26,260
Over the last, gosh, for me, observing at least 10 years, probably longer, there have

1511
02:01:26,260 --> 02:01:33,480
been constant threats at the state level from national industry to remove that authority,

1512
02:01:33,620 --> 02:01:39,540
because, for example, we charge private companies who have assets in the public right-of-way,

1513
02:01:39,860 --> 02:01:45,960
which is essentially like you or I renting our home to someone, taking away the authority

1514
02:01:45,960 --> 02:01:52,380
for us to do that and one of the main reasons that those companies and their associations

1515
02:01:52,380 --> 02:01:57,680
do that is because they pay money and at the end of the day they pass that cost on to the

1516
02:01:57,680 --> 02:02:04,960
customer anyway, but they don't think that local government should retain that authority

1517
02:02:04,960 --> 02:02:11,600
and it does vary somewhat from one state to another, but it's really important.

1518
02:02:11,600 --> 02:02:19,760
It's crucial. There's a pretty significant revenue there for us, but it's not the main reason. We want to be able to control

1519
02:02:20,420 --> 02:02:29,820
What is ours? It's the public's right-of-way. It's the public space and we should be able you should be able the community should be able to control

1520
02:02:31,180 --> 02:02:35,260
How that is regulated. Yeah, I agree. Thank you for sharing that

1521
02:02:37,340 --> 02:02:38,760
Other questions, comments?

1522
02:02:47,430 --> 02:02:52,510
So I'll give you one of my points on why the land use thing is so important.

1523
02:02:53,210 --> 02:02:56,310
We got a land use decision, Grand Bargain, in 2014.

1524
02:02:57,490 --> 02:03:02,230
Prior to that, I think it was about another 10 years before we got a land use decision.

1525
02:03:03,190 --> 02:03:06,090
By comparison, somebody that doesn't have to deal with Metro,

1526
02:03:07,130 --> 02:03:13,950
between 2006 and 2026, Newburgh, our city, one of our sister cities in the south,

1527
02:03:13,950 --> 02:03:24,070
the outside metro, has adopted six urban growth boundary expansions in the time that we've

1528
02:03:24,070 --> 02:03:29,210
been able to process two through the machine that is metro. So they get to deal directly

1529
02:03:29,210 --> 02:03:39,730
with the DLCD for UGB expansions. Of those 271 acres, 252 of those are currently developed.

1530
02:03:40,590 --> 02:03:44,810
So not only are they able to get land when they need it and when they have a willing

1531
02:03:44,810 --> 02:03:49,770
partner willing to work with them, they can put it into use nearly immediately because

1532
02:03:49,770 --> 02:03:53,250
they come asking for land when they have interested and willing partners.

1533
02:03:53,730 --> 02:03:56,990
And they have a process that gets them through the process about two years.

1534
02:03:57,950 --> 02:03:59,370
They can get it through in two years.

1535
02:04:00,590 --> 02:04:02,170
It takes us at least 10.

1536
02:04:02,170 --> 02:04:09,770
and because the legislative mandates of the House Bill 2014, we are currently locked for

1537
02:04:09,770 --> 02:04:13,750
50 years out of expansions on the city of Cornelius.

1538
02:04:14,510 --> 02:04:22,450
The only opportunity we'll have is our undesignated land, which may not even be developable, and

1539
02:04:22,450 --> 02:04:27,470
we won't be able to get to that until 50% of the urban reserves.

1540
02:04:30,650 --> 02:04:39,770
75%, thank you for correcting me, 75% of the urban reserves are consumed and developed throughout the tri-region.

1541
02:04:41,810 --> 02:04:45,330
So we don't have a workable land system as a short answer on all this.

1542
02:04:45,870 --> 02:04:51,170
It works far better if I looked up a lapine, they'd be in the same boat and they're on the east side of the mountains.

1543
02:04:51,430 --> 02:04:58,130
When they have a willing partner, they can go to the state, say we've got a plan, this is how we're going to do it and get it done.

1544
02:04:58,130 --> 02:05:01,430
And we don't have a working system in the metro area.

1545
02:05:02,350 --> 02:05:08,450
So that's one of my points, point counterpoint on the infrastructure.

1546
02:05:09,950 --> 02:05:16,990
I get to sit and listen to all the mayors whine about not having money to do land development.

1547
02:05:17,470 --> 02:05:23,830
But somehow, when we had an open and honest conversation with Holt Holmes and the Spears

1548
02:05:23,830 --> 02:05:28,210
and all of them and said, hey, you're going to pay for a million dollar sewer station.

1549
02:05:28,570 --> 02:05:30,230
You're going to pay for all this infrastructure.

1550
02:05:31,530 --> 02:05:34,410
They penciled it into the development of Laurel Woods.

1551
02:05:35,090 --> 02:05:40,670
Yet I listened to every one of the other mayors whine and complain about they can't

1552
02:05:40,670 --> 02:05:46,130
get infrastructure money to do land development to reach the governor's housing goals

1553
02:05:47,490 --> 02:05:52,410
because their developers won't, they're just sitting back not doing anything with

1554
02:05:52,410 --> 02:05:54,870
that they're waiting for the city, the county,

1555
02:05:54,970 --> 02:05:56,570
or the state to cough up money.

1556
02:05:57,190 --> 02:06:00,350
So I think my concern there is is twofold.

1557
02:06:00,570 --> 02:06:06,030
One, I still believe development needs to shoulder

1558
02:06:06,030 --> 02:06:07,770
a significant part of its cost.

1559
02:06:08,090 --> 02:06:10,230
That shouldn't be spread out over the state.

1560
02:06:11,830 --> 02:06:15,690
Two, I also have a concern with the money part of it

1561
02:06:15,690 --> 02:06:20,910
because you hit it directly on the head as I read it

1562
02:06:20,910 --> 02:06:23,450
in Lapine as I read it in other areas.

1563
02:06:25,470 --> 02:06:31,470
Small cities are unwilling to raise the cost to

1564
02:06:31,470 --> 02:06:39,790
cover the repairs and upkeep that are necessary. You heard our school board come to us tonight

1565
02:06:39,790 --> 02:06:47,070
and talk about they bank them up to a bond and then they forecast all these repairs

1566
02:06:47,070 --> 02:06:53,090
and work they're going to do under bond because they don't want to pull out of their tax money

1567
02:06:53,090 --> 02:06:57,770
they're getting every year to do these things right because it does it would take away from

1568
02:06:58,370 --> 02:07:04,490
money for classrooms money for programs but I see the same thing happening in other cities

1569
02:07:05,070 --> 02:07:12,230
where they're unwilling to shoulder the burden of the cost of their system we've had to raise

1570
02:07:12,230 --> 02:07:18,370
our rates. Because as we've said, we will do it the way the state law says is the water

1571
02:07:18,370 --> 02:07:24,290
system is supposed to stand alone as its own business unit, right? The sewer system, the

1572
02:07:24,290 --> 02:07:32,970
surface water. That is state law. They have to stand on those. And I hear multiple municipalities

1573
02:07:32,970 --> 02:07:39,810
wine and complain about, I can't raise my rates, because they won't.

1574
02:07:39,850 --> 02:07:46,130
They won't shoulder that political onslaught that says, and you do that long enough?

1575
02:07:46,730 --> 02:07:48,310
We were in it the same place.

1576
02:07:48,470 --> 02:07:54,590
When I joined this council, we were using general fund money to basically pay for water in the city.

1577
02:07:55,670 --> 02:07:56,790
Let me repeat that.

1578
02:07:56,910 --> 02:08:01,110
We were using general fund money to pay the water bill in the city,

1579
02:08:01,990 --> 02:08:07,410
instead of having the water system do it and it was a long slog uphill and we

1580
02:08:07,410 --> 02:08:12,210
hate to pass those bills down every time Hillsborough raises our rates but we've

1581
02:08:12,210 --> 02:08:18,310
done that year after year and luckily the council has had the fortitude in the

1582
02:08:18,310 --> 02:08:24,930
past to break away from that faulty system so I hear it but my concern

1583
02:08:24,930 --> 02:08:28,750
is is the everybody's got to figure out how they're going to pay for this

1584
02:08:28,750 --> 02:08:36,350
stuff. Or you have to do things like banks did. They put a moratorium on

1585
02:08:36,350 --> 02:08:41,230
development because they didn't have the money to develop more water resources.

1586
02:08:41,930 --> 02:08:45,230
And until they could come up with a plan to get there and developers that were

1587
02:08:45,230 --> 02:08:52,430
willing to pay for it, they'd just pump the brakes and stop. So that's my only

1588
02:08:52,430 --> 02:08:56,930
concerns. So I think having banking,

1589
02:08:59,000 --> 02:09:03,220
using the financial ability of the state as a bank

1590
02:09:03,960 --> 02:09:09,340
to take loans and pay off through your rates, I think those are a great system by which to

1591
02:09:09,340 --> 02:09:17,460
use funding within the system and the state's ability to do that. But to just go, oh, my

1592
02:09:17,460 --> 02:09:22,540
rate payers don't want to pay it, so let's get a grant from the state to improve our

1593
02:09:22,540 --> 02:09:27,880
sewer or water treatment or whatever, I don't think that's the right answer.

1594
02:09:28,520 --> 02:09:30,360
So that's my two cents on the issue yet.

1595
02:09:30,520 --> 02:09:33,820
So if you guys have feedback input, I think it's important.

1596
02:09:34,040 --> 02:09:40,180
But I feel the more important part is the banking ability of that to be able to address those.

1597
02:09:41,000 --> 02:09:41,860
If I can just...

1598
02:09:41,860 --> 02:09:42,320
Yeah, please.

1599
02:09:42,640 --> 02:09:44,220
I was really on the fence.

1600
02:09:45,220 --> 02:09:49,560
So I'm just going to take the opportunity to say, if you all, you know,

1601
02:09:49,560 --> 02:09:51,940
of the Administrative Procedures Act reform.

1602
02:09:52,120 --> 02:09:54,380
I know Barbara would probably be happier

1603
02:09:54,380 --> 02:09:55,620
if we made that the priority.

1604
02:09:57,020 --> 02:09:58,740
That one really, you know,

1605
02:09:59,000 --> 02:10:00,640
and that is really about the rulemaking

1606
02:10:00,640 --> 02:10:03,160
that is just, especially for Barbara and Tim,

1607
02:10:03,340 --> 02:10:07,540
just a constant fire hose of new requirements

1608
02:10:07,540 --> 02:10:09,840
and they're totally detached from one another

1609
02:10:09,840 --> 02:10:12,000
and they overlap and they,

1610
02:10:12,540 --> 02:10:14,520
they're a lot of unfunded mandates, so.

1611
02:10:14,840 --> 02:10:15,680
Well, in the state,

1612
02:10:15,780 --> 02:10:17,420
we'll come out with a piece of legislation

1613
02:10:17,420 --> 02:10:19,260
And this is the part where we got into it, right?

1614
02:10:19,840 --> 02:10:23,440
That in concept, we probably can get on board with,

1615
02:10:23,600 --> 02:10:24,760
we can agree with.

1616
02:10:25,240 --> 02:10:28,020
And then it gets into the bureaucratic staff,

1617
02:10:29,080 --> 02:10:33,080
and they come up with all these more stringent,

1618
02:10:33,240 --> 02:10:38,340
restrictive, deep rules that can cause unfunded mandates

1619
02:10:38,340 --> 02:10:40,340
or further constrain the abilities

1620
02:10:40,340 --> 02:10:42,040
to actually take away a home rule,

1621
02:10:42,040 --> 02:10:43,540
which is what we sued the state over.

1622
02:10:46,280 --> 02:10:52,640
So I'm aligned with that, too, that we really need to look at the legislation versus the

1623
02:10:52,640 --> 02:10:58,700
rulemaking, because what we see happen at Metro and what we see happen at the State, little

1624
02:10:58,700 --> 02:11:02,980
of the county, but definitely at the State and Metro, is the staff just runs away with

1625
02:11:02,980 --> 02:11:11,060
the rulemaking, and they really change what came out as maybe a concept, a direction,

1626
02:11:11,060 --> 02:11:14,080
some guidelines into something very hard and mandated.

1627
02:11:14,980 --> 02:11:18,920
So I would be in support of more arguing on that behalf.

1628
02:11:19,540 --> 02:11:20,900
I don't know what the, what does the council think?

1629
02:11:23,600 --> 02:11:26,720
You guys may not be steeped in this as deep as the staff

1630
02:11:26,720 --> 02:11:29,500
and I are with both my time in service

1631
02:11:29,500 --> 02:11:33,080
and the amount I do is stuff with JPEC and with Metro.

1632
02:11:33,860 --> 02:11:37,160
So feedback, we do need your feedback.

1633
02:11:37,520 --> 02:11:38,960
Anyone want to go first?

1634
02:11:39,320 --> 02:11:41,420
I feel like I'm going to go and do an attention.

1635
02:11:43,000 --> 02:11:52,440
And some of these conversations before, and I tend to agree, I think, rather have some

1636
02:11:52,440 --> 02:11:57,480
transparency in how this rule-making works so that we're able to at least have some say

1637
02:11:57,480 --> 02:12:03,380
or figure out what is going on and who the key players are and where we might have some

1638
02:12:03,380 --> 02:12:03,720
impact.

1639
02:12:04,160 --> 02:12:08,080
So I agree with the conversation I just had.

1640
02:12:08,640 --> 02:12:16,900
I'll just add, I think these are great with that switch from five with the one that we just discussed.

1641
02:12:17,560 --> 02:12:24,860
It would have been nice to see some renewable energy stuff. I know as energy costs keep going up year after year,

1642
02:12:25,660 --> 02:12:29,120
it'd be nice to be able to provide some relief to the community.

1643
02:12:30,640 --> 02:12:34,920
But I know that, you know, just because they're not on it doesn't mean they're not going to be working.

1644
02:12:35,700 --> 02:12:36,620
Thank you.

1645
02:12:37,980 --> 02:12:40,140
I'm going to chase that down for just one second.

1646
02:12:41,120 --> 02:12:48,260
Reading in my latest issue of Rural Light, which is all about rural communities doing their own power,

1647
02:12:48,620 --> 02:12:54,320
and I think the cooperative groups are actually taking a lead on this,

1648
02:12:54,320 --> 02:12:59,600
because they're developing micro-power generation, power banks, their own solar.

1649
02:13:00,400 --> 02:13:07,800
I think they're leaps ahead of the PGEs or Pacific Corps or any of those,

1650
02:13:08,060 --> 02:13:11,560
because the one group that was in the case study they were talking about,

1651
02:13:11,920 --> 02:13:13,840
they've basically been building battery banks.

1652
02:13:13,980 --> 02:13:15,620
They've got plans for more battery banks,

1653
02:13:15,700 --> 02:13:18,540
and this is in a cooperative level energy group

1654
02:13:18,540 --> 02:13:23,480
to where when they literally got cut off due to a fire danger,

1655
02:13:23,480 --> 02:13:32,740
they were able to run the town for days, days with on or off power or multiple days off,

1656
02:13:32,860 --> 02:13:35,640
just because of their solar and their own banking.

1657
02:13:36,460 --> 02:13:40,680
So I think those are really the better opportunities.

1658
02:13:41,200 --> 02:13:46,880
The hope and dream of PGE to save us, I really don't think that's to happen.

1659
02:13:47,000 --> 02:13:49,740
I think doing something more local, more cooperative,

1660
02:13:49,740 --> 02:13:55,800
if we partnered, you know, us and Forest Grove on a big battery bank or, you know, solar

1661
02:13:55,800 --> 02:14:01,100
fields or anything like that, I think we would be long ways ahead.

1662
02:14:01,420 --> 02:14:07,320
And it also, it breaks a key part of the problem of the cost is the power transmission,

1663
02:14:08,300 --> 02:14:08,680
right?

1664
02:14:08,860 --> 02:14:11,840
Because they keep talking about the upgrading the system, upgrading the system.

1665
02:14:11,840 --> 02:14:18,820
Well, that's because they're trying to get the power from Bonneville, or Boardman, or

1666
02:14:18,820 --> 02:14:21,620
you know what the biggest project in Idaho is?

1667
02:14:22,720 --> 02:14:28,500
A natural gas plant, a giant natural gas fire plant that's going to feed into the same

1668
02:14:28,500 --> 02:14:34,820
grid subsystem that our BPA and the Boardman natural gas plant were shutting down, it's

1669
02:14:34,820 --> 02:14:38,200
basically replacing the Oregon one with one in Idaho.

1670
02:14:38,980 --> 02:14:45,680
So that's where the, it's not, well it's not, it's not building it local, right?

1671
02:14:45,840 --> 02:14:49,280
And that's a lot of what they're talking about is if you could do, let's say the

1672
02:14:49,280 --> 02:14:55,000
nerdy word, local nuclear, but local solar and battery, you keep the grid smaller

1673
02:14:55,000 --> 02:14:58,780
because you don't have to have so much transmission, you've generated or store it

1674
02:14:58,780 --> 02:14:59,980
where you use it.

1675
02:15:00,840 --> 02:15:03,860
So, that's the only reason I wanted to take him jumping on that one.

1676
02:15:06,080 --> 02:15:06,740
Did you have something

1677
02:15:06,740 --> 02:15:08,060
on the topic before we go tangent?

1678
02:15:11,200 --> 02:15:19,320
Well, I just wanted to say I'm still new to this, but what you've presented, I do see

1679
02:15:19,320 --> 02:15:23,320
a benefit to these priorities. Yeah, thank you.

1680
02:15:24,380 --> 02:15:25,480
Anything before we go tangent?

1681
02:15:25,480 --> 02:15:27,480
Can you just go back to the...

1682
02:15:37,440 --> 02:15:38,880
No, I think I'm good.

1683
02:15:39,000 --> 02:15:47,660
I just had some questions which I think I answered myself for the water infrastructure funding

1684
02:15:47,660 --> 02:15:51,000
because I don't know if this...

1685
02:15:51,000 --> 02:15:53,340
Reading from the citizens seemed like that would be the case

1686
02:15:53,340 --> 02:15:56,740
but my first initial thought was thinking of our water rights that we purchased.

1687
02:15:58,240 --> 02:16:14,780
This would be a potential way to visit support our long-term goals to one day hopefully make use of those water rights and actually not purchasing our water.

1688
02:16:15,620 --> 02:16:23,580
I know that's a much larger, very expensive project, so I don't know that's even something that would fall under the administration.

1689
02:16:26,370 --> 02:16:29,030
That was my initial thought when I saw that.

1690
02:16:32,620 --> 02:16:34,740
Well, that's where I was talking about.

1691
02:16:35,000 --> 02:16:38,620
I think I would rather see us look at the banking part of it

1692
02:16:38,620 --> 02:16:43,120
using the credit of the state to finance projects you want to do,

1693
02:16:43,200 --> 02:16:45,000
but then you pay them off through the term,

1694
02:16:45,260 --> 02:16:47,660
because the now money is the opportunity, right?

1695
02:16:47,780 --> 02:16:49,360
The time value of money is now.

1696
02:16:50,140 --> 02:16:52,240
It'll never be cheaper to do what then it is now.

1697
02:16:52,700 --> 02:16:54,500
So if you could finance it with the good faith

1698
02:16:54,500 --> 02:16:57,180
at the state, but pay it off with your rate increases.

1699
02:16:57,800 --> 02:16:58,900
I'll give you an example.

1700
02:16:58,900 --> 02:17:07,940
example, Gresham got off Bull Run because they saw the incredible increases in funding

1701
02:17:07,940 --> 02:17:12,840
that Bull Run is projecting with its different projects and Gresham just said we're done

1702
02:17:12,840 --> 02:17:19,500
and Rockward said we're done and they pushed into their own projects and went to ground

1703
02:17:19,500 --> 02:17:24,060
water. Now people are complaining it doesn't taste as good, it's got more metallic taste

1704
02:17:24,060 --> 02:17:28,600
isn't it? Bull Run is some beautiful water. I mean we can bottle it and sell it to

1705
02:17:28,600 --> 02:17:30,760
other people in the country, they literally do that.

1706
02:17:30,880 --> 02:17:33,160
That's what several of the water brands are.

1707
02:17:33,520 --> 02:17:37,160
But they've made the choice to invest in themselves

1708
02:17:37,160 --> 02:17:40,680
and put it in groundwater and get off the bull run system.

1709
02:17:41,200 --> 02:17:44,000
So they've got a time plan of their infrastructure

1710
02:17:44,000 --> 02:17:44,600
upgrades.

1711
02:17:44,880 --> 02:17:46,920
So to me, that's where I think the state

1712
02:17:46,920 --> 02:17:48,100
should be helping us.

1713
02:17:48,180 --> 02:17:53,800
Less about financing development, I

1714
02:17:53,800 --> 02:17:55,480
think more about the banking part of it.

1715
02:17:56,340 --> 02:17:59,320
If we decided, hey, we want to go back up

1716
02:17:59,320 --> 02:18:03,720
to the coast range we want to go back and push up into the coast range or if we

1717
02:18:03,720 --> 02:18:10,860
want to do a straw all the way the lamin and we'd fund it through the state and

1718
02:18:10,860 --> 02:18:15,980
our ratepayers I think those are there's where the states can really lean in and

1719
02:18:15,980 --> 02:18:25,610
help us if we had the water if we had the water that our farmers are forced

1720
02:18:25,610 --> 02:18:29,470
to pump on their land around here or lose their water right we wouldn't be

1721
02:18:29,470 --> 02:18:33,630
having this discussion with Hillsboro. We could pull it out of the toilet and

1722
02:18:33,630 --> 02:18:38,490
or out of the at any of the other systems. Sorry, that's me. Okay, any others

1723
02:18:38,490 --> 02:18:42,630
before we go tangent? Tangent? Great.

1724
02:18:45,470 --> 02:18:49,190
Sorry, I got distracted from the outside. How

1725
02:18:49,190 --> 02:18:56,510
many of these, in your opinion, how many of these five points will make it

1726
02:18:56,510 --> 02:18:59,950
on to the LOC priorities?

1727
02:19:00,830 --> 02:19:02,930
My honest answer is I have no idea.

1728
02:19:03,530 --> 02:19:07,970
But just from kind of some situational awareness,

1729
02:19:08,550 --> 02:19:10,410
I wouldn't be surprised if one does.

1730
02:19:10,750 --> 02:19:12,410
I'll be surprised if two does not.

1731
02:19:14,950 --> 02:19:16,810
I wouldn't be surprised if three does.

1732
02:19:18,610 --> 02:19:21,310
Three will make it because MMC is on it,

1733
02:19:21,310 --> 02:19:24,730
and that's across the state for the prevailing wage.

1734
02:19:24,730 --> 02:19:31,530
I think as many as three of these five could realistically end up there.

1735
02:19:32,570 --> 02:19:39,010
Yeah, and it's the city of Independence, Oregon, Lakeview, and Oregon.

1736
02:19:39,770 --> 02:19:52,550
L.C. is made up of tons of small cities, and most of them are facing, I know water is a big thing right away.

1737
02:19:52,550 --> 02:20:00,210
local control for failing wage. I see those as the most likely. I would love to

1738
02:20:00,210 --> 02:20:11,860
see a telecom infrastructure broadband specifically co-op energy, water rights,

1739
02:20:12,680 --> 02:20:21,140
you know, our wish list. Things that other places don't may not want us to

1740
02:20:21,140 --> 02:20:32,940
have so and this has to with the whole bubble of local govern and homeroom

1741
02:20:32,940 --> 02:20:43,140
under a lot of you may know this under federal Constitution out there's ton

1742
02:20:43,140 --> 02:20:57,600
of tribal rights and that makes a lot of sense. There are cities that outtakes both our federal

1743
02:20:57,600 --> 02:21:06,640
constitutions and our history. Under federal constitution, cities are considered state.

1744
02:21:06,640 --> 02:21:17,540
So the state is their state rights and cities are just state responsibilities on their state

1745
02:21:17,540 --> 02:21:18,220
constitution.

1746
02:21:20,560 --> 02:21:29,720
There is home rule in there, but it's the state that has the final say and our judges will

1747
02:21:29,720 --> 02:21:31,780
absolutely agree on it.

1748
02:21:31,780 --> 02:21:40,510
And for our counties, they don't have the right to exist, and neither does our cities.

1749
02:21:40,850 --> 02:21:53,170
Counties were created to help govern cities in a similar fashion.

1750
02:21:53,170 --> 02:22:03,530
The state can wake up tomorrow and dissolve cities and counties and create a regional government.

1751
02:22:03,990 --> 02:22:08,050
And that will be the state right to do.

1752
02:22:08,830 --> 02:22:14,570
They can remove how much control as they want.

1753
02:22:14,890 --> 02:22:17,810
They can edit our charter.

1754
02:22:17,810 --> 02:22:31,570
They can take away what we can do. A lot of state legislative actions has been focused

1755
02:22:31,820 --> 02:22:43,970
on a state action and I felt a lot like Portland was their main focus. Cresham,

1756
02:22:46,100 --> 02:22:46,860
Hillsborough,

1757
02:22:46,860 --> 02:22:58,920
So Ben, Salem, Eugene, those are the only cities that have 100,000 plus population.

1758
02:23:00,220 --> 02:23:10,620
And then Lake Oswego, they don't even crack, Tiger, Beaver, they're not even 100,000 in

1759
02:23:10,620 --> 02:23:11,320
population.

1760
02:23:12,500 --> 02:23:28,640
And there's a gratifying notion that Cornelius, under our 20-20 census, is about 14,300.

1761
02:23:29,760 --> 02:23:38,880
Probably lower, since lower woods, it's about 15,000.

1762
02:23:38,880 --> 02:23:42,160
that we're just like them.

1763
02:23:44,360 --> 02:23:49,060
That we're not sitting between nine to 10%

1764
02:23:49,060 --> 02:23:50,900
in our property rate.

1765
02:23:51,400 --> 02:23:55,740
That we have a similar makeup in population.

1766
02:23:56,160 --> 02:24:00,140
The state have 85% white population.

1767
02:24:02,460 --> 02:24:06,900
We have a 52% Hispanic population.

1768
02:24:07,740 --> 02:24:10,960
Murrow County is probably the closest thing

1769
02:24:10,960 --> 02:24:19,440
that do our population percentage, and they have the total county population of 12,000.

1770
02:24:20,160 --> 02:24:22,080
Probably 13,000.

1771
02:24:24,680 --> 02:24:29,120
I don't know about our future. I really don't.

1772
02:24:30,580 --> 02:24:39,320
We have metro, and I have opinions whether or not to stay in metro. I have opinions

1773
02:24:39,320 --> 02:24:46,600
whether or not to stay in LLC just because our priorities aren't aligning with them.

1774
02:24:51,830 --> 02:25:00,350
I've been on the fence to go to an LLC conference. I might actually go pay the

1775
02:25:00,350 --> 02:25:02,590
an extorvent

1776
02:25:04,900 --> 02:25:23,140
package to attend just to complain and figure out and talk to their lobbyist.

1777
02:25:24,180 --> 02:25:32,460
Personally their lobbyists are so fun to talk to because off the record they will tell

1778
02:25:32,460 --> 02:25:38,400
anything and everything that's going on in our state legislative session.

1779
02:25:41,920 --> 02:25:43,120
It's so

1780
02:25:43,120 --> 02:25:53,120
fun hearing, but we're entering a tough legislative session just because the LLC

1781
02:25:53,120 --> 02:25:58,760
is prioritizing several items doesn't mean any of them will happen.

1782
02:25:58,760 --> 02:26:03,760
and transportation bill is going to be reconsidered.

1783
02:26:05,270 --> 02:26:10,100
Several education funding will be considered.

1784
02:26:11,190 --> 02:26:13,960
Definitely data centers will be considered

1785
02:26:14,070 --> 02:26:17,480
and that is going to be difficult.

1786
02:26:19,810 --> 02:26:24,900
We have the Governor's Prosperity Council

1787
02:26:24,900 --> 02:26:32,200
And that's debatable whether or not they get any of their priorities passed.

1788
02:26:33,580 --> 02:26:35,700
This is a long session.

1789
02:26:35,920 --> 02:26:37,480
This is a six-month session.

1790
02:26:38,000 --> 02:26:42,060
The next session will be a short session with the 35 days.

1791
02:26:43,640 --> 02:26:45,620
Bills can be introduced.

1792
02:26:45,980 --> 02:26:51,020
I believe House members have two bills that they can introduce during the short session.

1793
02:26:51,020 --> 02:26:54,500
and senators have probably one.

1794
02:26:55,160 --> 02:26:56,920
Yeah, they'll make up new rules when they get there.

1795
02:26:57,120 --> 02:26:59,600
And governors have four bills.

1796
02:27:00,600 --> 02:27:04,380
But we're moving more and more closer

1797
02:27:04,380 --> 02:27:06,980
to a professional legislator.

1798
02:27:08,200 --> 02:27:11,600
And the past, right now, we're still considered a part time,

1799
02:27:11,780 --> 02:27:15,900
but they've been really shoving the short session

1800
02:27:15,900 --> 02:27:18,640
into a bloodbath of bills.

1801
02:27:21,020 --> 02:27:37,930
So I want people to understand, just because these are five, just because two and three will go forward, doesn't mean we'll get anything.

1802
02:27:39,230 --> 02:27:50,730
And that's something I would say, say it again and again, because the truth of the matter

1803
02:27:50,730 --> 02:27:53,970
were a population of 14,300.

1804
02:27:54,950 --> 02:27:58,050
We're not the biggest city in the artistic.

1805
02:27:59,670 --> 02:28:01,570
We're not the biggest priority.

1806
02:28:02,790 --> 02:28:04,790
And we will get ignored.

1807
02:28:05,710 --> 02:28:11,690
That's why I advocate, that's why I support us having a lobbyist, because if you have

1808
02:28:11,690 --> 02:28:13,410
someone that keeps showing up,

1809
02:28:15,980 --> 02:28:19,900
that it's, we are going to get harder to ignore.

1810
02:28:23,200 --> 02:28:23,760
Thank you.

1811
02:28:24,580 --> 02:28:26,440
Any other questions or comments this evening?

1812
02:28:29,650 --> 02:28:30,870
You got what you need from our staff?

1813
02:28:33,130 --> 02:28:35,750
Yes, and based

1814
02:28:37,830 --> 02:28:42,370
on what I've heard, I'm kind of tempted to swap out infrastructure funding

1815
02:28:42,370 --> 02:28:47,510
with the Administrative Procedures Act or form, would you all be supportive of that?

1816
02:28:49,010 --> 02:28:56,990
I'm fine with that. I know Portland is going to advocate for themselves on something similar,

1817
02:28:57,950 --> 02:29:05,230
but most definitely they're going to advocate like they did last session with a meeting

1818
02:29:05,230 --> 02:29:06,030
law changes.

1819
02:29:06,890 --> 02:29:07,030
Great.

1820
02:29:08,370 --> 02:29:11,150
So it looks like you've got enough head nods to move forward with that swap.

1821
02:29:11,150 --> 02:29:12,270
We'll do it.

1822
02:29:12,910 --> 02:29:13,390
Cool.

1823
02:29:13,390 --> 02:29:14,050
Thank you so much.

1824
02:29:14,210 --> 02:29:15,090
Thanks for staying late.

1825
02:29:15,350 --> 02:29:16,570
Anything else for the good of the order?

1826
02:29:18,190 --> 02:29:20,670
Can I move to adjourn our work session?

1827
02:29:21,150 --> 02:29:23,030
A motion to adjourn our work session.

1828
02:29:23,390 --> 02:29:24,930
Motion by Councillor Gaudiness.

1829
02:29:25,110 --> 02:29:25,650
Do I have a second?

1830
02:29:25,910 --> 02:29:26,450
I second.

1831
02:29:26,650 --> 02:29:27,670
Second by Councillor Baker.

1832
02:29:27,890 --> 02:29:28,890
All those in favor say aye.

1833
02:29:29,150 --> 02:29:29,470
Aye.

1834
02:29:30,190 --> 02:29:30,630
Opposed?

1835
02:29:30,810 --> 02:29:31,270
Abstention?

1836
02:29:31,650 --> 02:29:32,630
We are adjourned.