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We have a bit of a acted agenda, but my expectation is we are going to breeze through this and be done by 730. So I'm just putting it out there, high-level expectations for this evening.

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We're going to start with visitor comments, a proclamation, the city manager's report, and she told me she's going to test drive, letting some new not new city employees, but people other than her address as tonight.

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So she felt like tonight would be the night where we would be a minimal to hearing new things. So she's going to do that.

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We have a lengthy consent agenda.

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We have a contractor review board.

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We have a presentation from our Bike Advisory Committee and not one, not two, not three, but four public hearings.

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So let's get rolling tonight.

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So we're going to start with visitor comment.

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And as a reminder, that visitor comment is an essential part of local government business.

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However, in order to help us comply with Oregon's open meeting laws,

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this is not a time for dialogue, rather a time for us to listen.

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If follow up is needed, the city manager, the city recorder,

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or I will arrange follow up after the meeting.

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And we have one person joining us tonight,

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and that is Angelita.

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You have three minutes to address the council

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when you get up here and you're ready to go.

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Any one?

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Hi council.

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My name is Angelica.

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I'm from the Southridge, Conestoga area.

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I'm here to discuss why key inflatable two men

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because I believe that they need to be banned

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in residential areas.

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My neighbor has one that he runs for maybe 11 hours a day.

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It has a loud air blower that makes constant noise.

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He turns it on.

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It's been getting worse.

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Maybe five days a week sometimes more.

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This has been going on for about four months now.

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I've tried making noise complaints to the city.

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I believe that he's violating the code of Title V, Chapter 15, Section 25, which states that no

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person shall make any noise which unreasonably disturbs the comfort, health and peace

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of reasonable individuals of ordinary sensitivity and that factors where determining whether

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sound is unreasonably loud, include the duration of the sound and whether the sound is recurrent

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intermittent or constant. I can't open my window or sit in my own backyard without constantly

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hearing it. I can even hear the home of the fan with my windows closed and it's very distracting

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when I'm trying to focus. It disturbs my husband who works from home. It's causing me to get like

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angry and having anxiety because it feels like this neighbor is purposefully trying to cause

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psychological distress. And I'm guessing that this will go on all summer long. I

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try talking to him. I broke down in tears in front of him and he still refuses to

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stop. And it's not just me, like we have kids on our street so all the kids, all the

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animals, dogs, birds, everyone has to hear running all the time. There's also an

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adult pair home on our street so those residents have to listen to it too. Normally

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loud noises don't cause me psychological distress because I know that they're temporary and that

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they'll stop at some point but the fact that this thing goes on for 11 hours almost every day

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is enough to drive anybody nuts. If we can't get these inflatable two-month band then can we at least

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get like a city representative to schedule a public hearing so that the council can determine whether

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a nuisance exists. In this case, I'm referring to Title V, Chapter V, Section 145, regarding

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general nuances. And I'm not too familiar with all this stuff. This is just me trying

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to do my own research reading the codes online. I just want to be able to enjoy the

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sunny weather and hear the bird chirping without being forced to listen to a blower all

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along and I want the same for all of my neighbors. Thank you.

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Thank you. If you could drop an email address with the City Manager,

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we'll do some follow up with you. Thanks for joining us this evening.

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Okay, the rest of our comments are for our public hearing. So I'm going to read tonight's proclamation and then we'll move on to the city manager's report.

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So tonight we have a proclamation for June 10th, whereas June 10th also know in a freedom day or independent day commemorates the events of June 19th, 1865, when major general Gordon, grandeur, led union soldiers into Galveston, Texas, bringing news that the civil war had ended.

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and that all enslaved people were declared free, nearly two and a half years earlier by the

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emancipation Proclamation, and whereas one of the oldest American holidays, Juneteenth

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commemorates formally enslaved individuals, and their descendants, and has historically

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been a time of prayer, reflection, and a family reunion, and whereas July 41776 represents

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the birth of the United States of America, and commemorates its independence from British

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rule, it did not offer independence to enslaved people, and whereas although the Juneteenth

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celebration is specific to the emancipation of African descendants, it's message

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promotes and continued freedom, equity, and economic prosperity for individuals from all races.

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Ethnicities, creed, and culture, and approves upon the nation's promise of life, liberty, and

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pursuit of happiness, whereas America may never forget or repeat its vivid and tragic events

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of African-American history, which exposed the dehumanization impact of racial violence from

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chattel slavery to convicted leasing from thousands of lynchings to racial massacre in Tulsa

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and Rosewood from segregation to voter disenfranchisement and from mass incarceration to state

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stage and violence.

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And whereas we must remember the courage of those who fought for freedom, including those

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attacks on bloody Sunday during the 1965 Selma-Temot-Gummery marches across the Edmund Bridge

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and whereas historically Juneteenth observations have not always received acknowledgement

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and recognition, even though Juneteenth is a critical component of American history as

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it marks a turning point in the nation and a step towards equality.

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And whereas on June 1st, 2021, the Oregon Senate unanimously passed bill 2168 making

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Juneteenth in official holiday in Oregon and whereas Juneteenth commemorates the strength and

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resolve of black and African Americans through our history and serves as an opportunity

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to celebrate the numerous contributions of black African Americans.

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And whereas this year marks 159th commemoration of Juneteenth and whereas Bieberton honors the

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legacy of Juneteenth by working in partnership with our community to remote racial justice

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and create a more inclusive future for all.

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Now for I. Lacy Bady, the mayor of the City of Beaver 10,

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Proclame June 19, 2025, as June 10,

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in the City of Beaver 10, and call this observation

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to the attendance of our members of our community

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encouraging reflection, education,

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and the celebration of freedom and justice.

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With that, City Manager.

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All right, well, thank you, Mayor.

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Members of the Council, first off, happy anniversary,

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20th anniversary to the mayor this evening.

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One reason why we will get through these updates pretty quickly tonight.

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So I have five announcements for you.

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The first is, if we go to the next slide there, I want to announce that our community

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events are back in Beaverton and the first three here up on the slide are pretty critical because

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they're up over the next three months.

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So we've got pride that's coming on Sunday June 29th and you'll see our flags are already

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up in the downtown which is a great celebratory sign.

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10 tiny dances, everyone's favorite, July 19th, National Night Out is coming August 5th,

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Beaverton Night Market Saturday, August 9th, Celebration Parade, which is in September,

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and then we have welcoming week, which is also going to be celebrated not only here throughout

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the county but in the region, September 12th through the 21st, and then there's a much more

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that I'd want to point out, but some of the ones that we don't want to leave out are the July 4th

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concert, legendary makers market, Beaverton, music fest, and the Beaverton half marathon.

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So if you want to find out what our impressive lineup looks like, check out Beaverton

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Gav, or Oregon Gav, backslash events. The next slide is actually something that's really

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special. It is our children's entrepreneurial market, which takes place on Saturday, July 19th,

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and then Tuesday, August 5th. And this is right here at the round amphitheater. And this is a very

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very exciting program is award-winning program and what it does that teaches young people about

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the power of being their own boss.

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So these kids get to learn how to develop and sell products.

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They get to create their own business plan and they're also reminded not to eat their own inventory.

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So that's important as well.

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I want to give a shout out to the events program and the city's office of equity for finding new ways to expand our food.

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Good print and our impact in the community. The next one is our summer reading program. It is for kids, teens, and adults. It's now through August 15. Anybody who tracks 15 hours can come choose a free book from July 5th to August 15th. And for every 1,500 hours that you recollectively, the friends of the beaver tin will donate $100. So don't forget also. We've got a variety of youth packed performances and entertainment.

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music, comedy, puppet shows, dogs doing tricks and much more.

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Beaverton Library.org, backslash events is where you need to go for the current line-up.

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Hold on, hold on, hold on.

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Yes, and the reading of our council packets count towards the donation from the front.

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Absolutely, it is clear.

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This is collectively, that's like 1500 hours a week.

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There you go.

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Thank you.

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We've already halfway to our program award.

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The next slide is our new public art and central Beaverton.

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So the weather is warming up.

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It's a great time to get outside.

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We want you to check out the new public art piece that was recently added to our

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Crescent Connection Trail.

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It's called Ripple.

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It's by StudioKCA.

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It's now been installed at the intersection of Southwest Hall Boulevard and Southwest

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Crescent Street.

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And the companion to this is ribbon.

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It's located in the Plaza.

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That's right next to Patricia Resource Center for the Arts.

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And this area is known as the gateway to the larger Central

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Beaverton District.

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We have a cool interactive map.

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So you want to check that out.

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go to BeavertonOrgan.gov-slashart.

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And then also, we want to, you to stay in the nose.

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So check out our monthly newsletter.

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It's a electronic newsletter.

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You can sign up for at BeavertonOrgan.gov

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to subscribe and find out the latest and greatest

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and what you've all been waiting for is Casey Ferguson.

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He is our project engineer.

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He's going to join you up at this table here

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and talk to you a little bit about the North Transmission

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Intertileine and give you an update.

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Thank you, Casey.

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Thank you.

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Good evening.

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Honorable Mayor and Council members.

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I'm Casey Ferguson here to give you an update on the North Transmission Line Interty.

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As you know, a critical water source water infrastructure project creating a secondary and seismically resilient water supply source.

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And up on the map on the next slide, we have segment one and is broken up into three segments.

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This one A, B and C, segment A is based line east west from 158 to 173.

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It is complete with final pavement restoration and water lines in service as of last month.

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Segment one B is 173 running north south between baseline and walker road.

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It is underway with final pavement restoration, beginning next Monday, at baseline and 173 heading north.

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And we currently have water lines in service up to least the street.

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And that's represented by the orange lines east, west, and north there, and segment C.

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That's southwest one, 70, between baseline and TV highway.

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It's also underway with the TV highway and Union Pacific Railroad boring,

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complete and the associated South Transmission Line connection to the NTL.

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That was completed on May 5th.

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And there are typically two to four construction crews working in this entire vicinity.

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day and night, depending on the necessity, and I thought it'd be interesting to tell you

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to date, we've had 17 calls or emails with questions and or complaints since construction

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began in July, on July 8th, 2024.

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Next slide, the South Transmission line is there, the ginormous white tea that was installed,

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that was connected and in service on May 5th, and I just gave you kind of an assorted picture

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There's a pretty typical waterline construction up and down the two mile corridor here.

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Line segment 2, also known as Washington County's Walker Road Phase 3, work was scheduled

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to begin last month, unfortunately the county's latest schedule indicates they're going

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to be going to bid in September and starting waterline construction in spring, summer,

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They've been delayed due to one final easement acquisition that they need to have been ongoing.

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is was broken into four segments, similar to segment one, with the addition of the floor

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adation and chlorination treatment facility, which that property closed on June, I'm sorry,

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Yeah, May 30th, just recently, and the design, like I said, is broken up into four segments

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in segment 3.1, which is Walker Road between Northwest 185 and Northeast Aliclack. It's 50% complete.

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We just had the design review today with the contractor and the engineer for the refining the design.

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The final alignments for segments 3.2 and 3.3 are currently under review and consideration with the city Hillsboro.

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And anticipated construction completion is June 28.

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That's all I had for you.

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Awesome. Thank you. This project, as you know, has been ongoing for some time.

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So to see this North transmission line come the fruition and it's probably a 20 plus year city goal of getting off Portland's water source and making sure we have access to our water rights and other places.

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So thanks for coming to us tonight.

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I texted two of the previous city counselors that cared deeply about water and let them know that it's almost over the line.

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So please let us come look at the paved road where it is underneath when it's done and complete.

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Thanks for joining us.

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I just want to give a shout-out to the amazing legal finance and operations teams that we have here.

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And Emery and Suns has been fantastic to work with on the construction in RH2, is doing a fantastic job as well.

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So, probably the best team I've ever worked with in my 20 plus career.

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Awesome. Thank you.

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Are you done?

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I'm warm.

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I saw you text an adaboy, I just wanted to make sure you were done with us.

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Council President, consent agenda please.

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I moved to your proof the consent agenda.

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Is Harmer for a go second?

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I do, I have some discussion on tonight's consent agenda one.

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I want to talk about the adoption of the street trees list,

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which is the number one thing.

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As somebody that's walked every single street in Beaver's hand,

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I can tell you where street trees that should not have been planted have been planted long time ago.

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I know that our tree team has done extensive work creating this list for residents,

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some based on complaints versus sidewalks.

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And sometimes you can see sidewalks are lifted in some neighborhoods because 40 years ago,

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we didn't know what to outcome of what that's going to be.

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Climate change has deeply impacted this region.

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And so making sure that we stay updated on a list of trees that is right for us,

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that doesn't use a lot of water and does the least amount of damage to sidewalks is really important.

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So I was really excited to see that on the list.

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I also want to congratulate the chief in the city manager on the Beaverton Police Association

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Contracts Ratification that's on tonight.

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This moved at lightning speed for government.

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It feels like just yesterday and I think it was not too many yesterdays ago that we authorized

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you a half of the council to close this association contract. And so, while it is one agenda item

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on here, it represents a monumental amount of work that you guys moved so quickly. I'm excited

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to hear more details about it in the future. And thank you for doing that in my hope is that we

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have a wonderful contract that represents the values of the city. And based on the fact that it

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out of five so quickly, I have no reason to believe otherwise.

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Councilor Huston.

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Yeah, I just, I wanted to take a moment, recognize the TV Highway Project, which is finally

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gotten the IJ, so Councilor Hartmere Prager, I know you sat on that, and that's finally coming

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long.

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So, thank you.

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Thank you for the BPA work, that's been amazing, and the tree common I had was I didn't

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know we had so many trees.

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So if you want to learn about trees, I highly recommend you pull this agenda bill and see the list

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of types of trees I felt like I learned a lot so thank you and don't plan something that's not

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on this list it will lead to badness. Counselor Teter.

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Thank you. I just wanted to call the BPA

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Contract Agreement as well. One of the reasons why this moved forward so well is because I think

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there's a lot of trust between our officers and management and council that allowed the

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go she's since the move forward very smoothly and I think this really was a model negotiation

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process from everything that I've heard and I'd love for us to continue building on that

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trust and just learn from it when we can to improve our partnership elsewhere.

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All right, it's Trent and I, Councillor Kimmy.

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I just like to make a comment, I appreciate to see the list of Beaver's entry list and I also

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acquired to city manager or Dan about historic trees where how many do we have and what

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is the process? I know we have a code where we protect the historic tree but I haven't seen

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the list of historic trees or how we process it so that tree becomes historic or heritage.

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So it's in the in-car.

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Sorry, because I was asked by constituents about making certain big round trees in downtown area to be historical recognized to save it.

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So it's coming, so hopefully I can get that soon, so I can get it out to the community members.

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Good news. It already exists and it's on the website.

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So I'm sure the city manager, kid forward it to you, but we do have a list of historic tree trees.

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We actually have an historic tree walking path.

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And so I'd be happy to have you join the residents

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asking with the book, so you can go through every number

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and tree.

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And I'll join you.

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I'll come take some of those.

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I'll call you first.

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No.

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And it used to be out in the foyer,

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it used to be a walking map.

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So I don't know how to happen to those.

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But it does exist.

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It is on the website.

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And there's a great path.

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How a tree gets on the list that I don't know.

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so we will learn together.

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With that, the bike advisory team.

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Oh, I guess we should vote.

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I just saw all of our happiness.

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I took everyone's comments as yes, but by all means,

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make it legal.

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We're Dougher.

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Councillor Hartmayer, Prick?

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Yes.

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Councillor Hussain?

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Yes.

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Councillor Kimmy?

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Yes.

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Councillor Teter?

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Mayor Bady?

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Six, six, six.

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Yes.

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Zero.

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No.

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One.

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Perfect.

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All right, now the Bicycle Advisory Committee.

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Hello, Honourable Mayor and the steam counselors is very good to be here.

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It's happy to present to you.

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Thank you for the opportunity.

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My name is Mick Orlossi, my pronouns are he, him,

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and I have the honor of being the Vice Chair of the Bicycle Advisory Committee.

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I served as the Recorder in 2004.

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And this report is a brief overview of our activities in 2024.

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Next slide.

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I really want to thank all my fellow volunteers on the BAC as well as the staff liaison.

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And the council liaison, Tiffany, who is not here, but are deep thanks to them.

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And I also wanted to call out the are liaison's with the police department,

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Obstacovie Bon and Joan Amaco have been tremendous additions.

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And it really gives us a feeling of being integrated in the city government.

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We feel we have connections with the city administration, the staff,

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and all the different groups at the city, and it really feels like an effective use of our time.

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just a reminder of our mandate to provide recommendations to the city about encouraging

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active transportation and making it a safe and viable alternate for people who choose to and for

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all those who are unable to drive a car everywhere they want to go. We just want to have this be a safe

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alternative and strengthen our community in this right next slide,

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more of the same

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next slide.

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In 2024, we advised the planning department on some of the capital projects like the

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Downtown Loop Project and the Millican Way Project.

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We talked about being recognized as a bicycle-friendly community.

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That bullet point is the League of American bicyclists who recognize different communities

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around the country. And we are on that list as a silver city, so we are thankful for that

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and we continue to monitor the monitor that and hope that we can build on that going forward.

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The project and so way finding signs is something that the planning department is currently doing

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so we're providing input us to where those go and what types of destinations would be used to put

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on those. And we've tried to interact with the NAS, the NAC, the BLA is on and find out what they need

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and hear it listen to them and what their concerns are in terms of actor transportation and things like that.

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Next slide.

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In 2024, we were proud to host the Oregon Policy Makers Ride, which brought policymakers from many different governmental agencies in the state of Oregon,

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which was done in the return. We had a community bike ride.

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By members of the public and a lot of different policymakers around the state,

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and talked about the issues that we faced both here in statewide and it was very constructive

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and it brought the community very close together with the policy makers involved.

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We worked on the summer bite count to help provide data to our planning department.

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Some of us went to the Oregon Active Transportation Summit and learned a lot about the best practices

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and made a lot of connections with other active transportation planners and advocates.

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It's in luminaries from around the state. That was a very, very good experience.

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We contribute to the Beaverton Resource Guide with the Articles, Health Articles, about the types of resources available to people who are interested in cycling and other activities of transportation in the city.

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We've made a partnership with the local bicycle club, Ride West Side.

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And we did things like a public bike tour of the, excuse me, you know, bicycle ride that went around to the public art that we've had in the city.

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We'll have to update it this year to include the new piece on the crescent path there.

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And one of our favorite things to do is to judge the art from the safe routes to school program.

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We get to see the students in the Beaverton School District and the art that they do for that contest.

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It's really, it's a fun thing that we do.

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next slide.

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And then the sort of the Crown Jewel is a bicycle advisory committee is Bike

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Beaverton. It's the unofficial kickoff to summer event. I think here in the city of Beaverton

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it's been growing every year that I've been a part of it and it's really a great time to get out

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there and see the streets of our great city by bicycle and have a party at the end and it's been

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another event that really ties together all the different priorities that we have as a city and

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is ending building community and it's something we do every year

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and it's something I'm very proud of.

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And next slide.

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So in the coming year, 2021 and beyond, hopefully,

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we want to keep being advocates for the community

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and a voice for the community in city government,

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especially in the transportation planning.

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One example of that is the way finding science next slide.

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We definitely want to continue building

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on the success of like, be able to make it really

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and event that everyone in the community can look forward to.

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We want to advise, we know that the transportation

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system plan is being updated, and a lot of the things that

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plan involve a lot of community outreach and so-called

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tactical urbanism, these sort of small scale projects that

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rely on community input.

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And we think that this is a great opportunity for us to

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advocate for the community and be a part of that process.

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And we want to be a resource for the planners as well.

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We want to be something that adds value to the planning process.

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We kicked off a project this week where we were creating a GIS map of bicycle

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barking locations in downtown B-origines.

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This is something that eventually we hope can be an asset to all residents

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who want to come to downtown and be able to not have to drive there.

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And not have to deal with barking.

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And I have to contribute to gridlock and things like that.

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So we think that's a big opportunity for us there.

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And we'll also be doing some data collection around upcoming projects on Allen Boulevard.

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We know this is going to be a big thing in the years ahead, so we hope to be an asset to the city there.

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Next slide.

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And we just wanted to point out that we've been definitely immersed in the city council's goal setting and values identification process.

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We are very much aligned with that.

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We really believe in the priorities that you have set for city government.

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We think that this is to create a vibrant community, an integrated community, and a diverse

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community involves many different transportation choices, whether that's walking, biking,

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driving, scooting, skating, a vibrant community is going to have all these things, and we just

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want to be a voice for the people who participated in that.

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On the next slide.

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And I think that's it.

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Is there one more slide?

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Thank you very much for this.

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Awesome.

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Thank you for joining us this evening.

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All agree on one point.

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I do think by Peter 10 is the we could just name it here.

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They kick off this summer because it's it's not Memorial Day.

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So I like the language of this one much better.

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And I will say that Councillor Teter didn't get to participate this year.

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because his daughter's too big for the bike carrier,

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but he challenged me to erase next year.

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My bike carrier versus his.

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We are gonna put a 50 pound weight in his on top of his,

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tiny daughter, but look for that next year,

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a little friendly parent competition at Bike Beaverton.

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And I would just say,

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I would love for us in the future to figure out a way

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to do more kids focused bike stuff.

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One of the only organizations that exist

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that do bike camp is astronomically expensive.

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if it's like $800 a week in THP or D doesn't.

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So I definitely see some room to grow for us with young people and biking in the community and yes and all the things. We're going to get your opinion on the transportation plan and keep bringing it to us and thank you for coordinating all the bike rides last year and we look forward to what is coming next year.

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Well, I definitely volunteer to be the commissar for that bike race if you can.

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Perfect. You'll be totally fair though, right? Just kidding. I win all of them.

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I'm going to get out of here quickly, but I was on in 2023. It was one of the funnest

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funnest things we did by cried so if you ever get a chance you should definitely advocate

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to be on that one but do think that the committee for the work on the complete streets

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like we got that across a line due to really great feedback all the various different capital

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But also, I have a two-year-old niece that gets the daycare via cargo bike with her dad.

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And so as a cyclist who is unafraid to go anywhere, I didn't often consider children and mothers and fathers with two-year-olds and cargo bikes.

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And now that is becoming integral to the way I look at bike lanes and network completion.

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So I look forward to the continuing work.

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I think way finding is a real opportunity.

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The other day I was driving and saw someone riding down Canyon.

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I was like, you know, there's a better way like two blocks over three blocks over and I just, you know, I think some way finding signs some people just don't know that there's safer options.

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I also for the first time road my bike to Trader Joe's after being a cyclist who rides often three to four thousand miles a year.

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I did not realize as many times I've gone that it was even bike parking there so I'm really excited to hear about that because those are options for me when it's night.

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So congratulations on all the work and thank you for the report and super important.

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It was really on the edge of the Trader Joe's story.

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I was like, where is this going to end with Bike Parking?

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I thought it was going to end with something else.

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Calzler's eater.

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Thank you, Mick, and Dan for being here.

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I really appreciate the work that you all do on this committee.

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One of the things I appreciate as well is the work that you do outside of the committee.

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So I see a lot of these Vice-Go Advisory Committee members outside of City Hall being great ambassadors

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for the work that the city is doing and helping describe.

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why we are planning the projects we're planning or how it's working and I think that

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translation service that you will offer is very valuable and very meaningful. So I

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appreciate that. Yeah I'm pretty talkative today.

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I appreciate that. I just want to

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ask you to have a prejudice against electric bike. Not at all. I'm just kidding. But I

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I see the different modes.

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I mean, anything that gets set people out there,

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like I said, we're not even prejudice against cars.

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It's a completely process that we want it to be open up

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the streets to all users, however they need to get there.

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I wanted to mention that recently,

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about two or three parents came up to me

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and asked about safety, regards to electric scooters,

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and keep skateboards on the streets.

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And now somewhere is starting,

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and they see a lot of elementary school kids

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youths on sidewalks and streets going fast without helmets and they're concerned about it.

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And I would like to ask all of you in the staff where maybe we can find a way to educate the kids

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about speed, safety and other concerns.

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I know high school advisory committee can maybe advise to that.

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My idea was use service officers or schools to find a way to educate the kids.

460
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I know this is summer but I'm trying to get support for that one.

461
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That is my concern.

462
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Okay, well you're sumped in a presentation but I'm going to go ahead and help you out here

463
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and have the City Manager connect with the police chief to kind of bring that idea to light.

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I know, Councillor Teter and I have talked quite a bit about electric bikes on the trails.

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And during the winter, it's usually not a big deal, but as someone that runs frequently

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the speed of electric bikes in the summer, particularly my daughter is just learning to

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write a bike, can't get out of the way very quickly.

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So I do think there's a future conversation in mind, but it is the state law to where a helmet

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during those.

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So maybe we could do some tickets with a diversion for community service for young people,

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because somebody that suffered a traumatic brain injury,

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it is life-altering.

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Councilor Hudson.

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I felt since everyone needed to speak.

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I should also say something.

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So thank you for the bicycle advisory commission.

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I got to leave a couple of years ago,

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and it was truly a joy.

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I do want to second with the mayor,

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saying some more, just looking into more kid-friendly stuff,

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as someone with younger kids,

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we did have an opportunity to bike from,

483
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I live in North Beaverton,

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so five o'clock to the food carts,

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which is so cool, except for...

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And your tire goes out on the American way, and there's nowhere to go. So just plugging it out there, where our stations and places and spaces, because I did text council or theater who didn't get back to me in time.

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So I'd take the max home, but just something to put on your radar is like if we're going to move more towards that bike, friendliness, it was hilarious listening to me bike with a like a flat tire on the American way.

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We brainstorm different things to add to the GIS map project of what sort of resources can be added to that and become our community resource, and that was definitely something that we would consider.

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I know Nike has them like on their campus, but I wasn't going to make it so thank you.

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Councillor Hussain's birthday is in December, so if her husband is listening, she needs a bike kit with an extra tube and a pump that she can connect to it. I'll help you out with that.

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All right, well thank you for joining us today and we appreciate your contribution to the community.

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All right, we are on to our public hearings.

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The next item on our agenda is a public hearing on resolution 4919 and 4920 water rates.

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Before we begin, I will ask the city attorney to explain how people can participate in this hearing.

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Anyone wishing to speak at this hearing should follow the instructions included on tonight's agenda.

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For those attending in person, please complete a yellow visitor comment card found at the table near the door at the back of council chambers.

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Once the card is filled out, the card to the city recorder, seated at the end of the day is in wait to be called.

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Each member of the public who speaks up tonight's hearing will have two or three minutes to speak as determined by the presiding officer.

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When you speak, please give your name and city of residence for the record.

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after each person's comments. Council members may ask questions of the presenter.

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An all public comment has concluded Council members may ask the city attorney or staff.

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Any questions helpful to their decision regarding the proposed resolutions?

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Thank you.

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We'll go to the staff presentation.

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Good evening Mayor, City Council. My name is Susan Cole and the Assistant Director for the Finance

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department, and I'm joined by Tim L.C. or Public Works Director.

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And so we're here tonight to speak with you about a water rate approval and the water rate structure.

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Next slide.

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So before you this evening are two options in two separate resolutions.

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The first resolution or the first option is a cost-to-service consumption rates,

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where the single-family residential consumption rate is further divided into tiers.

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The second option, or the second resolution for you tonight, is a uniform consumption rate.

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Both options have the same fixed monthly meter charge that varies according to the size of meter.

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And both options raise the same amount of revenue for the water utility.

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We would ask that one of these options be selected for your approval this evening, so that the city can continue to meet its water revenue bond debt promises.

516
00:38:10,990 --> 00:38:25,430
So the city's water program promotes resiliency, sustainability, redundancy, redundancy, redundancy is actually good for a water program, which I'm sure Tim can go into so that when you turn on your faucets that you for sure have drinking water that comes out of your faucets.

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00:38:25,590 --> 00:38:31,010
So that's why we want redundancy. It sounds kind of funny to say we want something we don't do, but we do want that for the water utility.

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00:38:31,890 --> 00:38:43,010
We have a long range financial forecast that we developed for the water utility when we first applied for the WIFI alone, which is a loan through the federal environmental protection agency.

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This studies on a path forward for a financial sustainability for our water utility so that we could make investments into our utility to make sure that we provide water for generations to come within the city of Beaverton.

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This long-range financial model also allows for smoother, more predictable rates over time.

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Physical 26, which begins on July 1st, will be the 6th year in this 10-year financial planning horizon to fiscal year 30.

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And this is for generational projects where we are making investments for once in a generation.

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After this planning period, after fiscal year 30, rates are estimated to be inflationary after this period, after we get through these large

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large projects.

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Turn it over to Tim.

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Next slide.

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And as you can see from this slide,

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the city of Beaverton is a community that's benefited from

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00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:38,400
foresighted planning and dedicated efforts to secure its water supply.

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Thanks to the vision and hard work of individuals both past and present,

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like Casey Ferguson tonight.

532
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Beaverton is acquired three separate sources of drinking water,

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which provides for the resiliency and redundancy.

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We have water from the Joint Water Commission,

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which is our main water source. We have aquifer storage and recovery wells and we're getting water from the

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Climate, water supply, program, which will hopefully be on line a year from today. This redundancy is important. It's

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vitally important with the climate changes we're experiencing and our proximity to the cascadia,

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subduction zones. It will go a long way to ensuring that the city is well prepared to handle

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potential disruptions. This service to our community, of course, comes with a cost. And it has taken a

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commitment and vision from this in previous councils in order to fund the security for

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current and future residents of Beaverton.

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Thanks.

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So this graphic here on the screen shows you the quantity of capital investment we are making

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in our water utility.

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This graph is from fiscal 2018 until fiscal 2030 and it shows that just about $347 million

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will be invested in the city's infrastructure program.

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In order to fund that capital program next slide, we do have to enter into debt.

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And so what this slide is showing you is the debt service that the water fund has incurred

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and is projected to incur until the year fiscal 30.

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You can see here the line on there and if you look to the right of the graph,

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the right side shows the forecasted consumption rate and the line shows how that rate

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will need to increase until that time, so that we can still continue to afford the debt for

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these investments we're making into the water utility and I really want to thank Casey

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who explained the North transmission line. It's one of the largest, if not the largest, capital

555
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project, the city's undertaken. And that water project, it's very timely. It's funded partially

556
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by the WIFI alone and partially by revenue debt is how we're paying for that project. Next slide.

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So, the water rate structure, some little bit history, what we've done so far today, is the

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staff has engaged in extensive outreach to our community to explain the water rate structure

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and these options before you. We attended multiple boards and commission meetings to

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explain the tiered rates. We had individual outreach with Twenton Hills Park and Recreation District

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and the Beaverton School District. We've had articles in our city newsletter. We have had notices in our

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And we actually have a custom webpage with a bill calculator so that if customers want to know what the tiered rates may mean, they can plug in their consumption on that bill calculator to get an idea of what that means.

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And then once the council makes a decision tonight, we will continue the outreach to inform our customers on what the decision means for them.

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Next slide.

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So, as I mentioned tonight, we have two different options, so this slide here just explains

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a little bit about the pros and cons of the first option, which would be the cost of service

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rates with a single family residential consumption rate divided into tiers.

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And so this does address the council direction we received over a year ago to explore the

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possibility of tiered rates.

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It aligns the customer types with the cost of recovery for serving water to those customer

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types. It does offer a lower bill for those residential customers who are low water users,

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and it sends a strong price signal to conserve water. Some of the trade-offs of this option

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include that residential customers with high water use will pay more even if that increase usage

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is due to a large household versus due to irrigation. Other customer types such as public facilities

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and irrigation only customers will pay more than they would under the second option.

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And lastly, this rate structure is a little more complicated in that the residential sector would have tiers.

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And so as their usage increased, the price point for those units of water would likewise increase.

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So it is a little more complicated.

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Next slide.

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The second option before you tonight is a uniform rate structure, which is the same structure as we currently have today.

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One of the pros is it is very straightforward, it's easy to figure out, as I mentioned

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it's the same as we have today.

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All customers would pay the same consumption rate regardless of the customer type or regardless

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of their usage.

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Large households would pay the same unit rate for water, public facilities and irrigation

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00:44:19,070 --> 00:44:22,430
only customers would pay less than they would under the tiered rate model.

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Some of the trade-offs is that it does not align rates to the costs to serve those customer

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types. Instead, all the costs are dumped into one bucket and then the rates are figured out

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accordingly. Equalize across the system. Low water users would pay more than under

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the first option and another trade-off is that the price signal to conserve water is

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more muted in this particular option. Next slide.

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So here we see the actual rates themselves

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in the two scenarios with option one again being cost-a-service with tiered rates. Option

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is just a flat rate for everybody.

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00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:09,740
And then the box there on the right just shows you that both options include a fixed meter charge per month, which is the same for both options. That part does not change.

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Next slide. This shows you some estimated bill impacts for residential customers only. The first in the, I have a little tiny blue highlight there for CCF's CCF stands for cubic hundred cubic feet of water. That's how we measure our water use is per 100 cubic feet,

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which is equal to 748 gallons of water.

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If you were at a boards and commission meeting,

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you may remember the two hot tubs.

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One unit of water is equal to approximately two hot tubs

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that can hold three to five people each if you're curious.

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So here we see the rate impacts for a small household.

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Maybe two people using four units of water.

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You can see there the tiered consumption rates.

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They would pay about $49 on a penny for one month use.

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Versus the uniform rate.

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would pay $52.53. So there you can see the variance between the two different options for

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a low water user. The second option is a household that's a little bit larger, seven person

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00:46:11,170 --> 00:46:19,090
household, using 12 units of water each month. Under the tiered option they would pay $117 per month,

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versus the uniform rate they'd only pay $107 per month. So you can see there in the slide how the

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the impact that it may have.

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The graphic there on the right is an example of the customer bill.

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On the far right, sort of in the middle, there's a little red circle, a little tiny number

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there on your bill.

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So if you get a bill in the mail, this is what it would look like, and there's a little

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00:46:45,090 --> 00:46:48,690
tiny number there that is the consumption that a person would use.

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Each month, our e-bills are the same format.

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They have more detail, but it's the same basic orientation of where you can find your consumption

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on your water bill.

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Customers can estimate their own bills if they like by using the calculator on the city web page.

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There you can see the web address for the city's web page for the proposed utility rates.

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Next slide.

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I also wanted to provide just a little information on the customer assistance that the city offers.

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The city has a partnership with the Community Action Organization of Washington County since 2020.

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As luck would have it, we entered into this partnership one month before COVID hit.

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We did not utilize that partnership very much in the beginning of COVID because we had

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other financial assistance that was brought to bear to help our customers.

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Some of which I've listed here.

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So we've also used ARPA funds to help customers, 460,000 that came during the pandemic through

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Washington County.

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We had 123,000 in low income household water assistance through the state and 40,000 in

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00:47:53,130 --> 00:48:00,010
through Washington County, and you'll see a bullet there that since 2020, the city alone with

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00:48:00,010 --> 00:48:07,270
our own utility funds has provided $312,000 to help our customers who have that need. So the total

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assistance since 2020 since the start of the pandemic, or the pandemic started in March,

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00:48:12,590 --> 00:48:18,230
our community action partnerships started in February of 2020. We have helped customers to the tune

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We have $935,000 in that time period, so we feel we have a fairly stable customer assistance

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program, customers can get referrals or they can talk to our staff directly and then we

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set them up with community action who offers wraparound customer assistance.

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00:48:37,470 --> 00:48:44,910
So with that next slide, we would ask that the city council adopt either option, option

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one with the tiers is resolution 4919. Option two is the uniform rates or resolution 4920.

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And so we would ask that one of these options be selected so that we can meet our debt

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promises. Thank you so much.

643
00:49:00,830 --> 00:49:03,030
Thank you. Questions of the staff?

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I'm going to open up tonight's public hearing. We have

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visitors online and in person. So we're going to start with our in-person people.

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Gary Keck, David Savage, you're on deck and then after that will be Deborah and you could just come on up and you'll have two minutes to address the council and as a reminder, if you choose to testify, the council can ask you questions.

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That was meant to be an inviting comment, but please.

648
00:49:43,380 --> 00:49:50,180
Good evening. Thank you for having me tonight. My name is Gary Keck and I'm the Planning and Development Manager for 12th and Hills Park and Recreation District.

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00:49:50,900 --> 00:49:57,320
So I'm here tonight to testify for Teach for Your D and we have provided written testimony as well, which should be in front of you.

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As you all know, teach for your D.

651
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:06,800
We provide parks and recreation for the city of Bivitin, as well as a larger portion of Eastern Washington County.

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And these spaces are open to the public, and they are valued and shared community assets.

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I want to understand there are two options being considered tonight, and both will increase THVODs annual water costs.

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We acknowledge the need to raise the rates and to cover costs. We know how hard it is to develop balanced budgets these days.

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our preferences for City Council to select the uniform consumption rate.

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With that said, if Council chooses to implement the cost of service model,

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T3D does request that all irrigation accounts owned by public agencies

658
00:50:42,340 --> 00:50:44,380
be classified as a public facility.

659
00:50:46,120 --> 00:50:47,600
That concludes my comments.

660
00:50:47,960 --> 00:50:49,560
Thank you.

661
00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:51,060
David Savage,

662
00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:56,280
and then Deborah Gibson, you're on deck.

663
00:50:59,350 --> 00:51:05,430
Second, evening. Thank you. My name is Dave Savage. I'm a city of Beaverton resident, also a business owner here.

664
00:51:05,630 --> 00:51:08,610
Fundals and everything that's happening tonight have encountered a lot of these things.

665
00:51:09,750 --> 00:51:15,010
I belong to a home association that has 52 houses and we have meetings like this, only not as important.

666
00:51:15,830 --> 00:51:18,810
And we are also digging out trees that shouldn't have been planted in 1972.

667
00:51:20,010 --> 00:51:27,130
Our property was built in 1972 and so it was a unique setting. It's on 11.5 acres. We have 52 houses.

668
00:51:27,130 --> 00:51:35,610
Our problem with the tiered system is it would really unduly hurt us and we really can't do anything about it.

669
00:51:35,850 --> 00:51:39,290
Two of our three valves, which are two inch valves, our irrigation valves,

670
00:51:40,050 --> 00:51:44,830
but they're used to mainly water the plantings of our park-like setting inside of our property,

671
00:51:45,510 --> 00:51:47,110
again, which was built in 1972.

672
00:51:48,510 --> 00:51:56,590
The equivalent is if you consider each of the 52 houses, their use is not really abnormal for watering all of the plants.

673
00:51:56,590 --> 00:52:09,170
You know, it would be like three of the units, but because all of everyone's water comes through our valves, that's 52 houses times 3, we're now in the 156 unit at 1199.

674
00:52:10,030 --> 00:52:17,610
That as well as the other two of our valves are pure irrigation aid to up to the 8 dollars each, and so the financial impact would be significant.

675
00:52:18,290 --> 00:52:21,390
I feel that the option to does encourage conservation.

676
00:52:22,030 --> 00:52:31,590
Obviously, we use a considerable amount of water because we do water our plants, but also keeps our property the way it is and also property value size.

677
00:52:32,390 --> 00:52:37,530
So we don't consider ourselves a wasteful entity. We do a lot to conserve.

678
00:52:37,850 --> 00:52:41,750
We do it. We update our systems. We try to get it efficient.

679
00:52:42,610 --> 00:52:47,610
And so I just feel that the second option just seems to be a little more equitable than option one.

680
00:52:47,890 --> 00:52:48,490
Thank you.

681
00:52:48,490 --> 00:52:55,450
Yes, and David, I would say that an HOA meeting is 10 times harder than the City Council.

682
00:52:56,150 --> 00:52:56,610
So, bless you.

683
00:52:56,610 --> 00:52:58,270
Everyone shows up when money's involved.

684
00:52:59,110 --> 00:52:59,630
Yes.

685
00:53:00,150 --> 00:53:03,030
Some of the councilors have questions if you'd be appreciated.

686
00:53:03,570 --> 00:53:07,890
Yeah, I want to clarify because this is a first I've heard of an HOA.

687
00:53:07,970 --> 00:53:13,210
So, are you saying that all 52 houses are on one water account?

688
00:53:13,550 --> 00:53:16,610
So, now they have their own water account for, you know, the household.

689
00:53:17,290 --> 00:53:25,930
But all of the water that supplies the irrigation, so all of the greenery, the shrubs,

690
00:53:26,270 --> 00:53:33,150
the rodendrons, the flowers, the pathways, we're also in amongst some extremely large dug

691
00:53:33,150 --> 00:53:33,650
fires.

692
00:53:34,130 --> 00:53:39,590
We're on the corner of Heart and Marie, and so if you most people don't know we're in there,

693
00:53:39,890 --> 00:53:42,270
but when they come in there, they're like, why do you know this existed?

694
00:53:43,030 --> 00:53:45,410
Talk to the architect of the or someone did.

695
00:53:45,410 --> 00:53:46,470
I don't know if he's still alive.

696
00:53:46,950 --> 00:53:50,050
He said, yeah, they never let us build anything like this nowadays,

697
00:53:50,290 --> 00:53:54,030
so it's just way too much space, which is just trees

698
00:53:54,030 --> 00:53:55,550
and plants and things like that.

699
00:53:55,810 --> 00:53:57,170
We do have some grass, but it's like,

700
00:53:57,230 --> 00:53:59,550
is how much of that is actual just grass,

701
00:53:59,730 --> 00:54:04,130
and we consider it like probably less than or about 30%

702
00:54:04,130 --> 00:54:06,350
of what we bought or and it's not just directly

703
00:54:06,350 --> 00:54:09,150
grass, most of it's for a greenery and plantings.

704
00:54:09,510 --> 00:54:12,230
It just simply, you're saying the HOA is built

705
00:54:12,230 --> 00:54:13,490
for the irrigation separately

706
00:54:13,490 --> 00:54:14,790
than the individual households.

707
00:54:14,790 --> 00:54:19,890
correct. So the three valves, two of them are for irrigation. So they would be primarily sprinklers

708
00:54:19,890 --> 00:54:23,590
the third one, which we can't turn off. We turn those two off in the off season because we're not

709
00:54:23,590 --> 00:54:29,190
using water at all. The third one is a cloud analysis associated with it, which has showers and

710
00:54:29,190 --> 00:54:34,570
toilets, so it's on the sewer system as well as that one can't be turned off. That's another one that's

711
00:54:34,570 --> 00:54:38,950
kind of bad because it's not only the cloud analysis, but also some irrigation so that we would get

712
00:54:38,950 --> 00:54:47,430
like double-leading on it would be, we would easily be up in that higher tier right away and we really have no way of changing that.

713
00:54:47,790 --> 00:54:54,070
And have you put the HOA's numbers into the calculator to help us understand how much that would hit you.

714
00:54:54,230 --> 00:54:55,830
And then you, would you be willing to share that?

715
00:54:57,030 --> 00:54:59,970
So I took like some of our worst seasons like the hot.

716
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:16,440
Not as possible scenario. And at our current rate, basically per household, you're looking about $28 per month. Obviously, there's a section of the year we're not using water, so that's slow, so I just have it out over the year, most of that would be during the watering summer months.

717
00:55:17,460 --> 00:55:27,600
in the option two, that would go up to about 33, 34 a month for a house for the is the same scenario, which is the worst case.

718
00:55:28,600 --> 00:55:37,300
In the tiered system, and I did, I missed the, it was really hard to calculate the, once you go above 11 units,

719
00:55:37,920 --> 00:55:45,180
I didn't actually include that, so I actually considered it at the 883 as opposed to 1199, so it was probably more than this,

720
00:55:45,180 --> 00:55:47,780
about, they go about 43-44 house.

721
00:55:49,380 --> 00:55:51,360
When you look at the numbers for the association,

722
00:55:51,600 --> 00:55:52,280
they're big numbers.

723
00:55:52,520 --> 00:55:53,840
When I'm sitting on that side of the table,

724
00:55:53,860 --> 00:55:56,140
I'm showing bills, I'm like, hey,

725
00:55:56,520 --> 00:55:58,880
remember there's 52 of us, so don't look at these numbers,

726
00:55:59,700 --> 00:56:04,020
but currently, about 17,700 a year for water usage

727
00:56:04,020 --> 00:56:07,020
in the association, with the tiered one,

728
00:56:07,080 --> 00:56:11,840
it would go up to about 26,500 estimated for the option two,

729
00:56:11,960 --> 00:56:14,040
we'd go up to about 20,600.

730
00:56:14,040 --> 00:56:22,520
So, you know, a significant increase to go 177 to 20,000, 600, but we're a really

731
00:56:22,520 --> 00:56:27,000
hurtful one to go from 177 to 2700, thank you.

732
00:56:27,260 --> 00:56:27,640
First multimedia.

733
00:56:29,580 --> 00:56:29,780
Awesome.

734
00:56:30,080 --> 00:56:30,860
Any other questions?

735
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:32,020
Councillor Hussain.

736
00:56:32,880 --> 00:56:33,820
I think you answered it.

737
00:56:33,820 --> 00:56:34,380
Thank you, David.

738
00:56:34,580 --> 00:56:35,140
For your testimony.

739
00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:37,960
You said you guys are located on Murray and Hart.

740
00:56:38,360 --> 00:56:41,380
Are you a member of the HOA and that's where you're?

741
00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:42,240
Yeah, I live there.

742
00:56:42,240 --> 00:56:46,540
So I'm also on the board end of the homeowner's association, yes.

743
00:56:47,080 --> 00:56:48,480
Okay, this is a question for you.

744
00:56:48,480 --> 00:56:53,660
I'm just processing out loud like what the other impacts for other homes and with HOAs are.

745
00:56:53,840 --> 00:56:54,500
So thank you.

746
00:56:54,540 --> 00:57:00,500
It's similar because my mom was on the one on Allen in fifth and like they're watering and there's

747
00:57:00,500 --> 00:57:05,040
is on a shared up irrigation system as well that goes up in the summer because they use

748
00:57:05,040 --> 00:57:06,960
it because they water everything.

749
00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:12,220
Yeah, I commend the water commission their communication has been wonderfully clear

750
00:57:12,220 --> 00:57:19,360
it's been everywhere, but I highly, I think some people that haven't taken notice for a

751
00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:23,840
card list of that. I'm going to select other associations would be in the same situation as us.

752
00:57:24,980 --> 00:57:29,440
Thank you. All right, that's it. Thank you. Deborah Gibson.

753
00:57:42,020 --> 00:57:45,880
Hi. I'm a new resident, very new. I just

754
00:57:45,880 --> 00:57:57,440
moved to the Beaverton three months ago, and I'm a homeowner. I live by myself. So when

755
00:57:57,440 --> 00:58:00,440
I got my first water bill, I was pretty astounded.

756
00:58:02,500 --> 00:58:05,980
And I was, I really questioned why, you

757
00:58:05,980 --> 00:58:15,860
know, my actual water use bill with $11.80. My sewer use bill was almost $20.20.

758
00:58:15,860 --> 00:58:32,220
So, with that, it's $31.80, but then there's the fixed fees, or I'm assuming there are fixed fees with all the actual fixed fees, it comes to like almost $90.

759
00:58:33,040 --> 00:58:45,240
So, even though I'm trying to conserve my usage of water because what I've been doing is reusing my gray water, my shower water, and I have a bucket,

760
00:58:45,240 --> 00:58:54,160
And I let it collect and then I use it to rinse my dishes or even water some of my plants in my backyard.

761
00:58:56,040 --> 00:59:03,600
But I thought, you know, it's nice to conserve and I want to do my part to be water-wise.

762
00:59:05,420 --> 00:59:13,880
But I see that no matter what I do, you have these fixed fees that it's always going to

763
00:59:13,880 --> 00:59:17,840
be at least $90 and then on top of that is the water use.

764
00:59:18,780 --> 00:59:26,000
So it seems extremely unfair, but I was really happy when I got my recent water bill in the

765
00:59:26,000 --> 00:59:34,240
notice that had this, you know, talked about this hearing, so I said, well, when this

766
00:59:34,240 --> 00:59:42,660
fee lovely, you know, so I, I would tend toward the tiered, you know, rates, but it looks

767
00:59:42,660 --> 00:59:49,400
like I really didn't do much research before coming here, and mainly I came here just to

768
00:59:49,400 --> 00:59:51,160
see what it's being proposed.

769
00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:59,500
But it looks like that even with option number two.

770
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:06,440
The uniform billing that it would still be, it would be like close to half of what I'm paying now.

771
01:00:07,340 --> 01:00:13,720
I mean, you were saying for a residential use, the average might be 50 bucks.

772
01:00:14,520 --> 01:00:20,060
That's definitely less than what I'm paying now. My newest bill was $104.

773
01:00:21,860 --> 01:00:26,580
So, yeah, whatever you can do to help us out, that would be great.

774
01:00:26,580 --> 01:00:28,620
Any questions of Ms. Gibson?

775
01:00:30,820 --> 01:00:31,680
All right, you're off the hook.

776
01:00:31,980 --> 01:00:33,600
Thank you.

777
01:00:34,160 --> 01:00:38,340
Scott Jackson, you are up next, and Cindy Smith, you're on deck.

778
01:00:45,820 --> 01:00:47,460
Well, thank you for your time, Mayor.

779
01:00:47,820 --> 01:00:48,880
City of Beaverton.

780
01:00:49,140 --> 01:00:51,540
See, the first question I'd like to ask today is,

781
01:00:52,880 --> 01:00:54,580
you're giving examples of two tiers,

782
01:00:55,160 --> 01:00:57,840
but what is the city looking as far as an increase

783
01:00:57,840 --> 01:01:03,380
on overall, you have to know what the increase you're looking at

784
01:01:03,380 --> 01:01:09,600
This is a public hearing, so it's our time to hear from you, but we can follow up with you.

785
01:01:09,600 --> 01:01:13,720
But you can't answer that question, then you're giving the wrong examples here tonight.

786
01:01:14,280 --> 01:01:17,380
Second example, and I mentioned it in my notes there.

787
01:01:18,240 --> 01:01:22,700
I think it was five or six years ago when the billion dollar pipe was going to be established.

788
01:01:22,860 --> 01:01:29,740
And there were separate meetings around to get the water city of Beaverton acquired a payment of you.

789
01:01:29,740 --> 01:01:36,520
What was disappointing at that time, the people managed it, the public entity, they didn't understand that what compounding does.

790
01:01:36,680 --> 01:01:43,860
And at that moment, your rates went up 78% automatically, they were going to just go up by that much.

791
01:01:44,220 --> 01:01:49,900
You take an 8% increase on any bill, it doesn't have to be a water bill, and that doubles every nine years.

792
01:01:50,800 --> 01:01:58,820
So being here tonight, I'm listening to what Tier 1 or Tier 2, whatever they are, but you're not giving this what that actual increase is

793
01:01:58,820 --> 01:01:59,960
over a period of time.

794
01:02:00,400 --> 01:02:02,020
Third thing is, I like to know what the revenue

795
01:02:02,020 --> 01:02:04,240
of the city takes in from the water.

796
01:02:04,840 --> 01:02:06,040
We know how much poor it gets.

797
01:02:06,160 --> 01:02:07,600
Importance is some of the most expensive,

798
01:02:07,860 --> 01:02:10,280
but I don't want to tell you that you can get away

799
01:02:10,280 --> 01:02:12,940
with these ratings, which is because poorness is so expensive.

800
01:02:16,240 --> 01:02:18,400
Any response, or can you answer any of that?

801
01:02:18,660 --> 01:02:21,020
Sir, I'm sorry, but this is a public hearing,

802
01:02:21,260 --> 01:02:23,020
so we're here to take feedback from you.

803
01:02:23,200 --> 01:02:25,120
We're happy to follow up on any questions.

804
01:02:25,460 --> 01:02:26,320
Your dear friend, I'm afraid.

805
01:02:26,560 --> 01:02:27,340
I will tell you this.

806
01:02:27,340 --> 01:02:30,680
We put out this information when we talk about the water rates.

807
01:02:30,740 --> 01:02:33,240
This hearing tonight is about the tiered water system.

808
01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:36,900
So what you're asking for is not really what we're addressing this evening.

809
01:02:37,280 --> 01:02:38,380
But I'd be happy to have staff.

810
01:02:38,920 --> 01:02:40,560
But I'm going to interrupt you.

811
01:02:40,840 --> 01:02:45,980
Because what you say is if this passes tonight, then it goes in effect on July 1.

812
01:02:47,680 --> 01:02:50,300
So either way you know why we're even talking about this, right?

813
01:02:50,420 --> 01:02:53,080
Because what I've seen is the story going to go into effect.

814
01:02:53,760 --> 01:02:55,680
And I don't think that's right for the public residents.

815
01:02:55,680 --> 01:02:59,680
because we could pull thousands of them in here if they understood what's happening.

816
01:03:00,440 --> 01:03:04,500
And the other thing that you say I can ask is what's the revenue of the city of Beaverton?

817
01:03:05,060 --> 01:03:06,700
Because it was just witnessed here a few moments,

818
01:03:07,080 --> 01:03:11,700
or discussed a few moments ago, that you give X amount of hundreds of thousands of dollars away

819
01:03:11,700 --> 01:03:15,920
to other people that may need the subsidy, my suggestion to you,

820
01:03:15,940 --> 01:03:22,280
and I have a lot of empathy towards it, is all the residents made those donations for that to happen.

821
01:03:22,420 --> 01:03:24,320
The city of Beaverton doesn't give in any single way.

822
01:03:25,820 --> 01:03:27,880
Is there any questions from Mr. Jackson?

823
01:03:28,560 --> 01:03:31,340
Well, so how do we resolve this?

824
01:03:31,620 --> 01:03:32,640
How do you make a decision?

825
01:03:33,000 --> 01:03:33,780
And don't get that early.

826
01:03:34,220 --> 01:03:35,060
How do you make a decision?

827
01:03:35,260 --> 01:03:38,100
Whether you can increase the rates or not?

828
01:03:38,820 --> 01:03:39,380
That's the question.

829
01:03:39,440 --> 01:03:40,300
You can answer that tonight.

830
01:03:40,300 --> 01:03:42,020
This is not a water rate hearing, sir.

831
01:03:42,200 --> 01:03:45,180
We have a water rate hearing that has already happened.

832
01:03:45,180 --> 01:03:49,600
This is about how we get to the number that we already passed.

833
01:03:49,740 --> 01:03:53,980
So we're trying to decide if we do it in a tiered system or a uniform system.

834
01:03:53,980 --> 01:03:58,160
So tonight, the decision is not about how much we're going to charge for water.

835
01:03:58,220 --> 01:04:00,600
That decision has already been made at a past meeting.

836
01:04:00,980 --> 01:04:04,320
And I'd be happy to have the city manager follow up with you.

837
01:04:04,460 --> 01:04:04,860
Thank you.

838
01:04:05,160 --> 01:04:05,620
All right.

839
01:04:06,860 --> 01:04:07,620
Sandy Smith.

840
01:04:16,450 --> 01:04:18,050
First time at one of these things.

841
01:04:18,670 --> 01:04:20,550
So I'm all about conserving water.

842
01:04:21,030 --> 01:04:24,330
I can pretty much duplicate what Deborah said when she was up here.

843
01:04:24,350 --> 01:04:26,070
We use our gray water.

844
01:04:26,330 --> 01:04:28,430
Water my plants with all that.

845
01:04:28,430 --> 01:04:29,610
We're really conservative.

846
01:04:29,610 --> 01:04:39,270
I plant drought tolerant plants, I've pulled up the front yard so there's really no vegetation other than food that I can grow.

847
01:04:41,070 --> 01:04:48,570
So, any way that I can conserve a bit more rather than, you know, make my lawn nice and lush and green.

848
01:04:49,310 --> 01:04:52,990
I embrace the brown, I like a brown lawn.

849
01:04:52,990 --> 01:04:59,080
But I think that this tiered system will...

850
01:05:01,490 --> 01:05:16,430
Promote some conservating, conserving of water. It's really precious. When I see somebody watering their lawn or washing their car in the hose is just running, it just drives me a little bit nuts. So I'm here to say, I think this is a great idea.

851
01:05:16,990 --> 01:05:21,010
Well, thank you for joining us this evening. Any questions for Ms. Smith?

852
01:05:21,870 --> 01:05:23,170
All right, see you now. Thank you.

853
01:05:23,810 --> 01:05:27,250
Thanks. Are there online people? No? Okay.

854
01:05:32,620 --> 01:05:36,200
Okay, I will close the public hearing.

855
01:05:39,950 --> 01:05:45,170
I know this is a bit unusual and I want to ask the city attorney for some guidance.

856
01:05:45,470 --> 01:05:49,230
We have two motions we need to make but we don't really know where we are.

857
01:05:49,650 --> 01:05:52,210
So is it, how do I kind of handle that?

858
01:05:56,080 --> 01:06:02,160
Way that I would recommend that you handle that is whoever makes the motion gets to pick the one that is their preference.

859
01:06:02,840 --> 01:06:06,020
And then if it gets a second to you move forward and you debate that motion.

860
01:06:06,020 --> 01:06:10,980
if it does not receive a second, then you'll know that another motion will need to be made.

861
01:06:18,470 --> 01:06:18,950
I'm moved.

862
01:06:18,950 --> 01:06:19,790
Hold on, I'm sorry.

863
01:06:20,350 --> 01:06:23,730
I see Councillor hurt my ear, Prig in the chat here.

864
01:06:24,390 --> 01:06:24,430
Okay.

865
01:06:24,430 --> 01:06:25,030
Oh, that's okay.

866
01:06:25,070 --> 01:06:26,090
I was going to make a motion.

867
01:06:26,490 --> 01:06:27,950
Councillor, can you if you want to make one?

868
01:06:28,150 --> 01:06:28,530
That's fine.

869
01:06:28,830 --> 01:06:29,110
Okay.

870
01:06:30,130 --> 01:06:35,850
I moved that Council adopt Resolution 490 to 0, Resolution establishes the water consumption rate

871
01:06:35,850 --> 01:06:41,670
and monthly meter charges and repealing Resolution number 4854 implementing a uniform

872
01:06:41,670 --> 01:06:43,370
consumption rate.

873
01:06:45,030 --> 01:06:46,190
It's been moved in second.

874
01:06:47,290 --> 01:06:49,810
And just so we're all in the same page.

875
01:06:49,950 --> 01:06:56,010
The motion that's on the floor is about a uniformed rate versus the tiered rate.

876
01:06:56,150 --> 01:06:59,550
So I'm going to open a discussion on that.

877
01:06:59,630 --> 01:07:02,950
Council of Hartmaier predicted you want to talk on that or you just in there for a motion.

878
01:07:03,750 --> 01:07:03,770
Yeah.

879
01:07:03,770 --> 01:07:04,670
I can talk on that.

880
01:07:05,430 --> 01:07:12,430
So, I am in favor of the uniformed rate.

881
01:07:12,470 --> 01:07:18,310
I will say that I was someone who over the last couple years has asked for us to have

882
01:07:18,310 --> 01:07:19,810
information about tiered rates.

883
01:07:19,910 --> 01:07:25,630
It was really important to me that we have all the information and I will say that after having

884
01:07:25,630 --> 01:07:29,950
all the information, I think that the impact of the tiered rate unfortunately didn't accomplish

885
01:07:29,950 --> 01:07:36,370
what I was hoping that it would accomplish in terms of both the cost savings and the potential

886
01:07:36,370 --> 01:07:42,830
behavioral shift that I was hoping for. And so I wanted to acknowledge just all of the work

887
01:07:42,830 --> 01:07:48,210
that staff has done and I know that when we held this hearing a couple months back and we were

888
01:07:48,210 --> 01:07:52,690
unsure of what to do it was because our community came out and spoke with us just like you did

889
01:07:52,690 --> 01:07:57,870
tonight. So I want to thank everyone that has engaged. I want to thank staff for all of the

890
01:07:57,870 --> 01:08:04,750
that you have done to our community to help make sure that people were really informed of this potential change that we were considering.

891
01:08:05,990 --> 01:08:14,210
But as I've considered the information over the course of the last few months, the staff presentations and the research given to us,

892
01:08:14,330 --> 01:08:20,070
I have come to the conclusion that I want to continue with the fixed rate going forward.

893
01:08:20,950 --> 01:08:46,070
Thank you, I'm going to jump in real quick, you know, I grew up in Southern California, so water consumption I think has been like bread into me do, you know, we weren't allowed to water the grass, you only took a shower every other day and so I was really hopeful in the tiered rate system we could really drive a reduction of water usage.

894
01:08:46,070 --> 01:08:55,610
What I find extra complicated and I've been asking staff in all of my one-on-ones is given the diversity of the city as far as like multi-family and renters.

895
01:08:56,290 --> 01:09:01,130
We have a higher percentage of multi-family units than other cities.

896
01:09:01,710 --> 01:09:04,770
And the tiered rates doesn't really address that.

897
01:09:04,790 --> 01:09:09,070
And when we're talking about consumption, those are some of our largest water consumers.

898
01:09:09,610 --> 01:09:12,230
And I do think we had two things we were trying to accomplish.

899
01:09:12,890 --> 01:09:17,330
water reduction from an environmental standpoint in a chance to kind of own your

900
01:09:17,330 --> 01:09:21,370
destiny to lower the bill. What I think is challenging about the own your

901
01:09:21,370 --> 01:09:26,030
own destiny as it was pointed out by one of our residents, the majority of the

902
01:09:26,030 --> 01:09:31,710
bill is actually about sewer. And so we're not able to meaningfully drive the bill

903
01:09:31,710 --> 01:09:37,630
down in a way that I think we were hoping out of this. And I want to say like it's

904
01:09:37,630 --> 01:09:41,950
okay when we ask questions and we go down a path and we get a consultant and we have

905
01:09:41,950 --> 01:09:46,530
presentations that our original assumption is not the one we're going to go with.

906
01:09:46,770 --> 01:09:52,370
And so tonight I'm planning on voting for the uniformed rate because the other piece that

907
01:09:52,370 --> 01:09:59,970
I'm deeply concerned about is wildfire season and the encouraging commercial and irrigation.

908
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:11,960
People to not water, I think is going to lead to a disastrous outcome. We do need to have a conversation about how we're moving away from large sections of grass, but we're not there yet.

909
01:10:12,300 --> 01:10:24,480
And so I want to get more to like around our police station, that's more natural visitation that requires less watering, but I think we have a situation here where we kind of we have the ball ahead of it.

910
01:10:24,480 --> 01:10:30,400
And the majority of people are not going to be impacted by a reduction.

911
01:10:32,060 --> 01:10:33,600
So tonight I'll be voting on that.

912
01:10:33,600 --> 01:10:34,300
Councillor Dugger.

913
01:10:36,360 --> 01:10:39,620
Yeah, really conflicted here, but I will be voting no on this.

914
01:10:40,020 --> 01:10:46,120
And the reason being is, although I do not love the tiered rate, the way it set up, I think

915
01:10:46,120 --> 01:10:49,180
the idea is correct, and I think we've got to move in that direction.

916
01:10:49,340 --> 01:10:51,500
Here's a couple things I want you to consider.

917
01:10:52,260 --> 01:10:59,360
All our projections are assuming no one makes any investments or curves their usage at all.

918
01:10:59,900 --> 01:11:05,600
And I don't know of a better way to get people to do that than to raise the prices for that higher consumption.

919
01:11:06,140 --> 01:11:13,540
That is an incentivizing structure. It has happened across this country almost every water district. Many of them do this.

920
01:11:13,540 --> 01:11:19,520
Also, for our large partners like THPRD, you may have seen the question that Jenny Senus,

921
01:11:19,940 --> 01:11:27,480
Bura under assessed this year to the tune of I think $100,000 more than $100,000 going back to THPRD.

922
01:11:28,820 --> 01:11:32,740
I also asked the question of, you know, we're not the only water district that serves them.

923
01:11:33,420 --> 01:11:42,820
Okay, TV at TV, WD, excuse me, I get acronyms, actually even at the tiered higher rate would still have higher water rates than we do.

924
01:11:42,820 --> 01:11:49,160
So we are still having a lower water rate, even with the tiered, on a CCF basis.

925
01:11:49,740 --> 01:11:54,820
And so I think we've got to consider that this is something worth protecting.

926
01:11:55,240 --> 01:11:59,280
Is this a perfect system? No. I hear from the gentleman with the HOA.

927
01:11:59,400 --> 01:12:04,760
That's a complication for me, right? Like the R&T was never to harm users like that,

928
01:12:04,760 --> 01:12:08,440
but at some point with this investment that we have to make in resiliency,

929
01:12:09,040 --> 01:12:10,520
I think it is something worth considering.

930
01:12:10,520 --> 01:12:16,320
Is this a 1.0 to me? Yes, we probably will need to tweak this over the years and I and I'm okay

931
01:12:16,320 --> 01:12:19,480
I can live with this if this passes I'm not gonna you know

932
01:12:19,480 --> 01:12:25,960
This is not a hard line for me, but but I do think we've got to figure out a way to incentivize people to make

933
01:12:26,560 --> 01:12:33,560
Investments in their home. I've done it in my own. It's not very expensive to put those aerators on your water to to you know

934
01:12:33,560 --> 01:12:37,080
To cut back on your irrigation plant locals local

935
01:12:37,660 --> 01:12:39,840
Oregon plants, you know over time

936
01:12:39,840 --> 01:12:48,800
We can all do that and I just I think this is the right move, but I can live with either one, but I will be voting no on this.

937
01:12:48,860 --> 01:12:49,680
Councilor Teder.

938
01:12:51,920 --> 01:12:54,700
I've got a lot of similar thoughts this Councilor Dougher just shared.

939
01:12:56,400 --> 01:13:03,360
We're living at the cost increases for different household sizes, and they look very high pretty much no matter which way we go.

940
01:13:03,600 --> 01:13:10,320
And the reason for that is because our infrastructure investments have been so great and so meaningful over the past several years

941
01:13:10,320 --> 01:13:11,840
and we'll continue to be so.

942
01:13:12,740 --> 01:13:14,900
That said, looking at the tiered rates.

943
01:13:15,020 --> 01:13:18,500
One of the reasons why I also will vote

944
01:13:18,500 --> 01:13:21,900
and I'll probably vote no on this motion.

945
01:13:22,760 --> 01:13:24,880
The tiered rates for a two-person household

946
01:13:25,560 --> 01:13:30,080
averages out per person to be about $24.5 under a uniform rate

947
01:13:30,080 --> 01:13:32,000
to be about $26.5.

948
01:13:32,180 --> 01:13:35,840
For a seven-person household under the tiered rate

949
01:13:35,840 --> 01:13:39,820
to be about $17 under uniform rates that's about $15.5.

950
01:13:41,880 --> 01:13:47,940
So the cost burden on a smaller household is less under the tiered approach.

951
01:13:49,480 --> 01:13:54,600
And per person, per person, larger households, there's a lot of concern of larger households

952
01:13:54,600 --> 01:13:59,040
that would be paying much more per person, they are still paying a lower cost.

953
01:13:59,340 --> 01:14:03,620
Again, that's per person, so if you divide out the total bill by each person living there.

954
01:14:05,200 --> 01:14:09,740
So I'm not as concerned about large household impacts because I think it's distributed among

955
01:14:09,740 --> 01:14:15,580
number of people living there. In Council of Dr. mentioned most of what else I was going to say

956
01:14:15,580 --> 01:14:21,160
there too, so thank you. That's it. It's distributed among everyone living there, but it's only

957
01:14:21,160 --> 01:14:22,920
two people paying the bill.

958
01:14:25,260 --> 01:14:29,880
Councillor Hussain. Yeah, this is a hard one. I've been pretty

959
01:14:29,880 --> 01:14:35,020
conflicted. I think folks, if you watched the first hearing, I supported the tiered model. I felt

960
01:14:35,020 --> 01:14:39,080
like this is the direction that we were giving staff and I felt really supportive of it. I was

961
01:14:39,080 --> 01:14:44,480
pausing over the THP already, testimony just in terms of making sure we're bringing our partners along.

962
01:14:45,740 --> 01:14:47,240
I do believe in the concept of tiered.

963
01:14:47,240 --> 01:14:50,280
I think that that is something that's really important when we think about sustainability

964
01:14:50,280 --> 01:14:56,380
and the world that we want to build for our future, is teaching that sort of to teach

965
01:14:56,380 --> 01:14:59,960
conserve water, so I'm very supportive of them.

966
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:20,080
The chairbase model. However, I also think that when I'm looking at some of the numbers, I'm thinking of how we're hitting people in their homes today, and this moment in this economy. I feel like I want to pause. And so I'm going to support the uniform, the uniform, the uniform consumption rate. Sorry. I'm just going to pull that, get that.

967
01:15:20,080 --> 01:15:28,220
I'm supporting the uniform in terms of right tonight, but because I'm trying to be thoughtful of how we're hitting homes bills right now.

968
01:15:28,500 --> 01:15:33,080
And I was thankful for the testimony that we heard that really supported that.

969
01:15:33,800 --> 01:15:40,280
But I would like to counterduper as point us to move towards something like this at some point.

970
01:15:40,600 --> 01:15:44,360
I think I do think that that's important and it is important to me.

971
01:15:44,360 --> 01:15:48,920
And I think in terms of, again, like long-term goals and the

972
01:15:48,920 --> 01:15:52,020
direction that we want to go into sustainability, it's really critical.

973
01:15:52,660 --> 01:15:57,040
So tonight I'm supporting my current motion with enthusiasm,

974
01:15:57,040 --> 01:16:00,200
but also sort of hesitation because I was really excited for the

975
01:16:00,200 --> 01:16:00,740
tier model.

976
01:16:00,960 --> 01:16:01,820
I want to think staff.

977
01:16:01,940 --> 01:16:02,920
I know how hard they worked.

978
01:16:03,240 --> 01:16:05,520
I was really supportive of the tier based model before.

979
01:16:06,020 --> 01:16:11,180
And I hope that we can look at how to bring it forward sometime

980
01:16:11,180 --> 01:16:18,680
in the future. And I hope as that comes, because we did work with consultants, that we're

981
01:16:18,680 --> 01:16:28,640
able to build a model that potentially brings our public utilities along in a way that we could

982
01:16:28,640 --> 01:16:33,560
pass it, you know, the first time. So I want to just make sure I sit on the record. So thanks.

983
01:16:33,560 --> 01:16:35,880
Councillor Kimmy?

984
01:16:37,420 --> 01:16:42,600
When I first heard about tiered rate, I loved the idea and incentivizing people to conserve

985
01:16:42,600 --> 01:16:43,060
water.

986
01:16:43,520 --> 01:16:49,500
That's, you know, my values also, but once we received the studies and consultant reports,

987
01:16:51,900 --> 01:16:58,780
one thing I learned was that single household dwelling owners and residents have option to conserve water.

988
01:16:58,780 --> 01:17:06,260
they can do whatever they can, but most of the high usage people or businesses or institutions

989
01:17:06,260 --> 01:17:12,920
and school districts, the TSPRD, large consumption consumers, or have no choice but to use

990
01:17:12,920 --> 01:17:20,860
water. So, and their rates will be going up significantly higher. That's why that was the

991
01:17:20,860 --> 01:17:27,220
hesitation and that's why I'll be following S on the motion for implementing uniform consumption

992
01:17:27,220 --> 01:17:37,180
rate, but I'll put something at the end of the business today to maybe find a way to incentivize

993
01:17:37,180 --> 01:17:39,120
people to consider water. So that's coming.

994
01:17:39,540 --> 01:17:44,600
We're done with the water, Congress. Okay. But we'll think about adding something later.

995
01:17:44,760 --> 01:17:51,840
I really thought we were trending towards the tie there. So I'll have the recorder call the roll.

996
01:17:56,510 --> 01:18:13,610
Resolution 490 Councilor Dougher. No. Councillor Hart, Mayor Prick. Yes. Councillor Hassan. Yes. Councillor Kimmy. Yes. Councillor Teter. No. Mayor Bady. Yes.

997
01:18:14,170 --> 01:18:15,290
Ocean carries force.

998
01:18:19,510 --> 01:18:21,550
That wasn't an easy one for us.

999
01:18:24,950 --> 01:18:30,150
Okay. We're on to our next public hearing. The next item on the agenda is a public hearing resolution.

1000
01:18:30,150 --> 01:18:37,690
in 4901, a resolution establishing the sanitary sewer and storm water charges and repealing

1001
01:18:37,690 --> 01:18:40,390
resolution for 8-7-8 before I begin.

1002
01:18:40,610 --> 01:18:44,570
I will ask our city attorney to explain how people can participate in this hearing.

1003
01:18:48,340 --> 01:18:52,900
Anyone wishing to speak of this hearing should follow the instructions included on tonight's

1004
01:18:52,900 --> 01:18:53,240
agenda.

1005
01:18:54,240 --> 01:18:59,120
For those attending in person, please complete a yellow visitor comment card found on the table

1006
01:18:59,120 --> 01:19:02,000
near the doors at the back of the council chambers.

1007
01:19:02,600 --> 01:19:07,540
Once the card is filled out, give the card to the city recorder, seated at the end of the

1008
01:19:07,540 --> 01:19:08,920
day as and wait to be called.

1009
01:19:10,320 --> 01:19:14,120
Each member of the public who speaks at tonight's hearing will have two or three minutes

1010
01:19:14,120 --> 01:19:17,320
to speak as determined by the presiding officer.

1011
01:19:18,060 --> 01:19:21,840
When you speak, please give your name and city of residents for the record.

1012
01:19:23,100 --> 01:19:27,980
After each person's comments, council members may be asked questions, they ask questions

1013
01:19:27,980 --> 01:19:33,780
of the presenter. When all public comment has concluded, council members may ask the city attorney

1014
01:19:33,780 --> 01:19:39,160
or staff any questions helpful to their decision regarding the proposed resolution.

1015
01:19:40,680 --> 01:19:45,880
Awesome. You're back. Yeah, let's do it. Yes, Susan Cole, Assistant Director,

1016
01:19:46,040 --> 01:19:51,580
Finance Department. I'm joined tonight with Debbie Lockner, Finance Director. We're here this evening

1017
01:19:51,580 --> 01:19:54,840
to talk about the sanitary sewer and storm rate increase.

1018
01:19:56,040 --> 01:19:56,640
Next slide.

1019
01:19:58,000 --> 01:19:59,980
These services of storm water and

1020
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:04,660
And sewer services are provided in partnership with our regional partner clean water services.

1021
01:20:05,820 --> 01:20:09,440
CWS is the regional provider of these utility services.

1022
01:20:10,040 --> 01:20:15,760
CWS builds and maintains the wastewater treatment facility where all the sewer goes and is treated.

1023
01:20:16,500 --> 01:20:29,980
And then they also hold the permits issued by the Department of Environmental Quality by the state of Oregon to ensure that the

1024
01:20:29,980 --> 01:20:34,040
businesses. It's through an intergovernmental agreement that the city

1025
01:20:34,040 --> 01:20:39,320
bills on behalf of both clean water and itself for regional and local services.

1026
01:20:40,180 --> 01:20:44,680
The city adopts the same percent increase as clean water services as we've done

1027
01:20:44,680 --> 01:20:51,720
actually since the 1970s. We do have in our budget for fiscal 26 consultant study

1028
01:20:51,720 --> 01:20:59,960
to study rates for storm and sewer, much like we did for water, but there will not be

1029
01:21:01,180 --> 01:21:04,460
So, again, we adopt the same increase as clean water.

1030
01:21:04,880 --> 01:21:05,340
Next slide.

1031
01:21:07,000 --> 01:21:09,980
We are recommending tonight a 3% increase.

1032
01:21:10,480 --> 01:21:15,080
Clean water services did notify the city that they were actually dropping their rate

1033
01:21:15,080 --> 01:21:20,580
proposal from a 4% increase to a 3% increase and so we are following suit with them.

1034
01:21:20,880 --> 01:21:26,160
The financial impacts of dropping from a 4% to a 3% means a slight decrease in revenue

1035
01:21:26,160 --> 01:21:31,060
for these two utilities, which does impact the contingency

1036
01:21:31,060 --> 01:21:33,920
for future capital projects for these two utilities.

1037
01:21:34,620 --> 01:21:35,940
However, there are ending fund balances

1038
01:21:35,940 --> 01:21:37,860
still remain over target.

1039
01:21:38,300 --> 01:21:42,080
So, financially, these utilities will still be sustainable

1040
01:21:42,080 --> 01:21:43,980
by dropping that percent rate increase.

1041
01:21:44,920 --> 01:21:45,740
Next slide, please.

1042
01:21:48,170 --> 01:21:50,530
The bill impacts, you can see here on this slide

1043
01:21:50,530 --> 01:21:51,650
for our customers.

1044
01:21:51,650 --> 01:22:01,230
So, under the 4% increase, the city resident may pay roughly $1.70 more per month, and then

1045
01:22:01,230 --> 01:22:04,070
now they'll save about 62 cents with this 3% increase.

1046
01:22:04,630 --> 01:22:10,170
On the stormwater side, a 4% increase, they would have paid 40 cents more per month, and then

1047
01:22:10,170 --> 01:22:13,030
dropping it, drops it to, they save 14 cents per month.

1048
01:22:13,130 --> 01:22:17,150
So they're very small for the stormwater, so not a big impact.

1049
01:22:17,150 --> 01:22:27,290
And again, I don't know if anyone has followed the clean water services public hearings, so we are just following and locked up with them as we've done in our history.

1050
01:22:28,130 --> 01:22:29,450
And that's my presentation.

1051
01:22:30,270 --> 01:22:32,690
I don't think that's what people have been following us.

1052
01:22:32,690 --> 01:22:34,590
No, I'm sure you're right.

1053
01:22:35,390 --> 01:22:38,690
They were asked to drop their reproposal from 4% to 3%.

1054
01:22:38,690 --> 01:22:39,770
I'm sure they were.

1055
01:22:39,770 --> 01:22:41,770
There's a lot of angry rate pairs.

1056
01:22:41,890 --> 01:22:43,530
Any questions of stuff?

1057
01:22:44,840 --> 01:22:56,420
Just for the record here, we are not CWS, so if you have any concerns about their news, please direct it to their board, but I welcome the 1% reduction.

1058
01:22:57,440 --> 01:22:58,760
There's no questions with staff.

1059
01:23:00,240 --> 01:23:00,980
Oh, sorry. Good.

1060
01:23:01,400 --> 01:23:02,040
Sorry, didn't put money.

1061
01:23:02,640 --> 01:23:11,820
So just so I understand, Clean Water Services passed this rate. They've already passed it, and they are, we owe them that money.

1062
01:23:12,280 --> 01:23:15,560
essentially and we're capturing it on our bills. Is that correct?

1063
01:23:15,760 --> 01:23:19,440
Right, their public hearing was this morning. Right, yes. And so through it in our government

1064
01:23:19,440 --> 01:23:24,480
agreement, we bill for them. So that's where the partnership is. So we collected all

1065
01:23:24,480 --> 01:23:30,680
we charged their rates on our bill and then we we meant to them their share. Yeah, now, for

1066
01:23:30,680 --> 01:23:33,940
preference, I knew that. I just wanted to get that out there. Oh, sure. Yeah.

1067
01:23:33,940 --> 01:23:38,360
This is not a city of Everton. This is a clean water services. Thank you.

1068
01:23:38,360 --> 01:23:42,100
That's way to say exactly what I just had with different words.

1069
01:23:43,940 --> 01:23:45,820
With that I'm going to open the public hearing.

1070
01:23:46,440 --> 01:23:48,840
Anyone want to join this banter about CWS?

1071
01:23:50,120 --> 01:23:50,140
Okay.

1072
01:23:50,320 --> 01:23:52,480
The City Recorder said don't open that channel.

1073
01:23:53,460 --> 01:23:53,680
All right.

1074
01:23:53,680 --> 01:23:55,500
I'm going to close the public hearing.

1075
01:23:56,440 --> 01:24:00,100
I moved at the Council adopt resolution 4921,

1076
01:24:00,400 --> 01:24:03,460
a resolution establishing the sanitary sewer and stormwater charges

1077
01:24:03,460 --> 01:24:05,740
and repealing resolution 4878.

1078
01:24:06,500 --> 01:24:12,200
It's been moved by Councillor Hussain and seconded by Councillor Dugger any more discussion

1079
01:24:12,200 --> 01:24:13,240
on tonight.

1080
01:24:13,900 --> 01:24:16,280
Councillor Kimmy, you haven't talked in this public area and are you sure you don't

1081
01:24:16,280 --> 01:24:17,680
want to?

1082
01:24:17,800 --> 01:24:18,640
I'm just kidding.

1083
01:24:19,340 --> 01:24:21,500
With that, please call the roll.

1084
01:24:21,980 --> 01:24:22,480
Mayor Bady?

1085
01:24:24,540 --> 01:24:24,980
Councillor Cedar?

1086
01:24:25,700 --> 01:24:25,880
Yes.

1087
01:24:26,540 --> 01:24:27,140
Councillor Kimmy?

1088
01:24:27,540 --> 01:24:27,860
Yes.

1089
01:24:28,640 --> 01:24:29,240
Councillor Hussain?

1090
01:24:29,340 --> 01:24:29,700
Yes.

1091
01:24:30,320 --> 01:24:31,240
Councillor Hart, Mayor Preg?

1092
01:24:31,980 --> 01:24:32,140
Yes.

1093
01:24:32,800 --> 01:24:33,300
Councillor Dugger.

1094
01:24:33,380 --> 01:24:33,720
Yes.

1095
01:24:35,260 --> 01:24:36,500
Thank you.

1096
01:24:36,880 --> 01:24:42,040
The next item on the agenda is a public hearing regarding resolution 4922, a resolution

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01:24:42,040 --> 01:24:48,340
adopting a supplemental budget for fiscal year commencing July 1, 2024, and making budget

1098
01:24:48,340 --> 01:24:49,280
appropriations.

1099
01:24:49,460 --> 01:24:54,700
Before we begin, I will ask the city attorney to explain how people can participate in

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01:24:54,700 --> 01:24:55,620
this hearing.

1101
01:24:57,500 --> 01:24:59,960
Anyone wishing to speak at this hearing should follow the instructions.

1102
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:16,860
Attractions included on tonight's agenda. For those attending in person, please complete a yellow visit to a comment card, found on the table near the doors at the back of the council chambers. Once the card is filled out, give the card to the city recorder, seated at the days and week to be called.

1103
01:25:18,560 --> 01:25:25,620
Each member of the public who speaks at tonight's hearing will have two or three minutes to speak, as determined by the presiding officer.

1104
01:25:25,620 --> 01:25:30,000
Please give your name and city of residents for the record.

1105
01:25:31,460 --> 01:25:35,320
After each person's comments, council members may ask questions of the presenter.

1106
01:25:36,280 --> 01:25:41,660
All public comment has concluded, council members may ask the city attorney or staff.

1107
01:25:42,200 --> 01:25:45,500
Any questions helpful to their decision regarding the proposed resolutions?

1108
01:25:49,300 --> 01:25:49,580
Please.

1109
01:25:50,500 --> 01:25:51,180
Presentation.

1110
01:25:51,480 --> 01:25:52,860
I'll keep this very quick.

1111
01:25:52,860 --> 01:25:58,000
So, tonight, we have the final supplemental budget amendment for the year.

1112
01:25:58,380 --> 01:26:04,600
This is primarily a technical adjustment that the finance department goes through all of

1113
01:26:04,600 --> 01:26:08,680
the different funds and ensures that we will not have any budget violations, and then

1114
01:26:08,680 --> 01:26:16,600
presents a final supplemental request to the council to ensure that we maintain our budget

1115
01:26:16,600 --> 01:26:22,280
integrity throughout the year, so we don't have any overages and spending.

1116
01:26:22,280 --> 01:26:31,540
So this is essentially that there are a couple of grants where we're recognizing the revenue and the expenditure, so it's neutral, but this is what is in front of you tonight.

1117
01:26:32,200 --> 01:26:36,140
And we're required to do this because the local government must pass a balance budget.

1118
01:26:36,740 --> 01:26:40,120
And they must have a balance budget at the end of the year as well.

1119
01:26:41,180 --> 01:26:42,660
Any questions of staff?

1120
01:26:43,720 --> 01:26:44,520
Councillor Hussain.

1121
01:26:45,460 --> 01:26:51,260
And your experience with the city do you often see at supplemental underges or overges or amics?

1122
01:26:51,260 --> 01:26:57,840
We typically only look for the places where we may have overspent, so there are understanding

1123
01:26:57,840 --> 01:27:03,160
in other areas within the budget, yes, but we're typically just looking at the expenditure

1124
01:27:03,160 --> 01:27:06,000
side to ensure that we don't overspent.

1125
01:27:06,380 --> 01:27:06,520
Okay.

1126
01:27:07,180 --> 01:27:14,300
Do we have a policy of departments underspent that instead of encouraging them to spend

1127
01:27:14,300 --> 01:27:19,060
to the max to put that somewhere, has that ever been discussed?

1128
01:27:20,600 --> 01:27:22,860
You can phone a friend, is it a manager?

1129
01:27:25,340 --> 01:27:29,980
So when departments underspend, that underspend is captured and goes into fund balance.

1130
01:27:31,080 --> 01:27:35,060
And there could be different ways of council wants to allocate that fund balance differently.

1131
01:27:35,200 --> 01:27:38,180
We have a reserve target, which we meet every year.

1132
01:27:38,420 --> 01:27:42,380
We have a capital fund, which we can put money in as well.

1133
01:27:42,720 --> 01:27:46,260
But typically we will go into your fund balance, which is just a fancy word for reserves.

1134
01:27:46,900 --> 01:27:47,140
Okay.

1135
01:27:47,140 --> 01:27:58,340
And I would just add I don't we don't encourage the departments just you have to spend it by the end of the year because we do have a process to roll funds over next year if they need them so

1136
01:27:58,340 --> 01:28:04,380
We really just want the departments just to operate as normal and not hurry up and spend at the end of the year.

1137
01:28:04,580 --> 01:28:10,640
Okay, I brought it up because I've done I'm remembering budgeting a lot in college and

1138
01:28:10,640 --> 01:28:17,640
Is there a way to incentivize underspending but like to take that underspending and say is there something we could do with it

1139
01:28:17,640 --> 01:28:23,520
So we're not to address that today, but just something to put on your radar our our departments to fault sometimes

1140
01:28:24,120 --> 01:28:26,380
Understand. They're very thrifty

1141
01:28:26,380 --> 01:28:29,680
Well, and I and I don't want to typically in budgeting when you understand

1142
01:28:30,220 --> 01:28:32,540
Like it's a slap on the wrist and we under

1143
01:28:32,540 --> 01:28:34,820
Like give you the next time that's good to know

1144
01:28:34,820 --> 01:28:38,800
But I think if if that is going to happen and there is going to be some funding

1145
01:28:38,800 --> 01:28:42,540
I'd love to make sure that we're able to talk about the conversation, given all of the things

1146
01:28:42,540 --> 01:28:43,060
that are happening.

1147
01:28:43,560 --> 01:28:46,220
So I'm just kind of bringing that up for us to be thinking about for the future.

1148
01:28:46,620 --> 01:28:47,160
So thank you.

1149
01:28:52,190 --> 01:28:53,890
That was just waiting for the city recorder.

1150
01:28:54,570 --> 01:28:57,450
Any other comments?

1151
01:28:58,370 --> 01:28:58,610
All right.

1152
01:28:59,330 --> 01:28:59,790
Is there a motion?

1153
01:29:02,420 --> 01:29:03,200
We already did it.

1154
01:29:03,380 --> 01:29:03,580
Next.

1155
01:29:03,800 --> 01:29:04,080
All right.

1156
01:29:04,760 --> 01:29:05,500
I moved that.

1157
01:29:05,540 --> 01:29:06,120
I'm so adoptive.

1158
01:29:06,140 --> 01:29:06,820
I'm sorry.

1159
01:29:07,560 --> 01:29:07,740
I'm sorry.

1160
01:29:07,880 --> 01:29:09,060
We did not open the public hearing.

1161
01:29:09,400 --> 01:29:11,080
I was like all blending together.

1162
01:29:11,540 --> 01:29:12,340
Public hearing.

1163
01:29:12,440 --> 01:29:13,660
Anyone in?

1164
01:29:15,260 --> 01:29:20,000
did you fill out a card? Are you wanting to speak?

1165
01:29:22,160 --> 01:29:24,320
Okay. Well, you had to fill out a card. Yep.

1166
01:29:26,980 --> 01:29:28,300
Can someone help him? Yep.

1167
01:29:45,990 --> 01:29:46,210
Run.

1168
01:31:18,540 --> 01:31:25,840
I will take a motion. Close the hearing. Now I'll take a motion. I've done this before.

1169
01:31:31,600 --> 01:31:38,800
Right. I move at the council of that resolution four night to two A, resolution adopting and supplement the budget for the fiscal year commencing.

1170
01:31:39,540 --> 01:31:43,340
Do I want to on 2024 and making budget appropriations?

1171
01:31:43,340 --> 01:31:46,170
I'll second.

1172
01:31:46,430 --> 01:31:47,190
Look at that.

1173
01:31:47,250 --> 01:31:48,150
From the audience.

1174
01:31:48,550 --> 01:31:50,690
It's been moved and it's not the audience for anyone listening.

1175
01:31:50,970 --> 01:31:53,730
It's Councillor Hartmeyer, Craig, on line making the second.

1176
01:31:55,910 --> 01:31:58,290
With that, is there any discussion on tonight's motion?

1177
01:32:00,700 --> 01:32:02,760
Seeing none, will the recorder call the world?

1178
01:32:03,960 --> 01:32:04,640
Councillor Dougher?

1179
01:32:04,740 --> 01:32:05,300
Yes.

1180
01:32:05,720 --> 01:32:06,940
Councillor Hartmeyer, Craig?

1181
01:32:07,780 --> 01:32:07,900
Yes.

1182
01:32:08,580 --> 01:32:09,180
Councillor Hassan?

1183
01:32:09,620 --> 01:32:09,920
Yes.

1184
01:32:10,480 --> 01:32:10,960
Councillor Kimmy?

1185
01:32:11,100 --> 01:32:11,460
Yes.

1186
01:32:11,880 --> 01:32:12,500
Councillor Teter?

1187
01:32:13,240 --> 01:32:25,980
May your baby? Yes. Six, yes, zero, no. All right. Last public hearing. This is now the time and place for a public hearing on an ordinance annexing four parcels of land at 1 0 5 7,

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01:32:26,520 --> 01:32:32,320
Southwest 179 Avenue, 1 0 7 9, southwest 179 Avenue,

1189
01:32:32,320 --> 01:32:43,480
1-0-8-2 Southwest 179th Avenue and 1-7-895 Southwest Lawton Avenue in portions of Southwest 179th Avenue

1190
01:32:43,480 --> 01:32:51,240
and Southwest Lawton Avenue. I now call to order the public hearing and before we move to the substance of the hearing,

1191
01:32:51,760 --> 01:32:55,260
I will ask the city attorney to cover any legal matters.

1192
01:32:56,280 --> 01:33:00,580
Thank you, Mayor. The hearing will proceed as follows. After the preliminary legal matters,

1193
01:33:00,580 --> 01:33:04,340
of these staff will make a presentation, then members of the public will have an opportunity

1194
01:33:04,340 --> 01:33:06,000
to speak for up to three minutes each.

1195
01:33:06,360 --> 01:33:10,380
Finally, there will be time for a response or a buttole to the public testimony by staff.

1196
01:33:11,000 --> 01:33:15,600
Council members may ask questions of staff, or applicants or anyone else who testifies.

1197
01:33:15,740 --> 01:33:20,220
After the council asks any final questions of staff, the hearing will be closed, and the council

1198
01:33:20,220 --> 01:33:21,960
will deliberate towards a final decision.

1199
01:33:22,660 --> 01:33:26,400
Anyone wishing to speak at this hearing should follow the instructions included on tonight's

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01:33:26,400 --> 01:33:26,780
agenda.

1201
01:33:26,780 --> 01:33:32,040
For those attending a person, please complete the yellow comment card at the back of the room,

1202
01:33:32,360 --> 01:33:36,840
and hand that card to the city recorder up at the end of the day, and wait for your name to be called.

1203
01:33:37,420 --> 01:33:40,440
Each member of the public will have up to three minutes to speak.

1204
01:33:40,900 --> 01:33:43,980
When you speak, please give your name and city a residence for the record.

1205
01:33:44,760 --> 01:33:48,520
Now I will identify the criteria the council must use to make its decision tonight,

1206
01:33:48,700 --> 01:33:51,460
and then I'll ask members if they have any disclosures to make.

1207
01:33:51,980 --> 01:33:56,760
The council's decision on the adoption of the ordinance must be based on the consideration of

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01:33:56,760 --> 01:34:01,800
section 9.09. The Council may consider any relevant testimony that it receives.

1209
01:34:04,420 --> 01:34:07,900
Failure to raise an issue during the city's hearing on this ordinance precludes an appeal

1210
01:34:07,900 --> 01:34:12,540
to the land use board of appeals based on that issue. Any party with standing may appeal the

1211
01:34:12,540 --> 01:34:16,440
decision of the City Council to the land use board of appeals according to the rules adopted

1212
01:34:16,440 --> 01:34:21,600
by that board. Persons with standing include those who submit written testimony and those who present

1213
01:34:21,600 --> 01:34:26,460
or lead this evening. Do any members of the Council wish to declare a potential or actual conflict

1214
01:34:26,460 --> 01:34:27,240
of interest.

1215
01:34:28,640 --> 01:34:29,940
Let the records show there are none.

1216
01:34:30,680 --> 01:34:33,820
Do any council members wish to report any site visits or

1217
01:34:33,820 --> 01:34:34,900
outside a context?

1218
01:34:37,220 --> 01:34:39,000
Is that the records show that there are none?

1219
01:34:41,650 --> 01:34:44,350
Does any member of the audience wish to challenge the ability

1220
01:34:44,350 --> 01:34:47,850
of any member of the council to participate in this decision?

1221
01:34:49,810 --> 01:34:52,770
I see none, please let the records show that there are none.

1222
01:34:52,990 --> 01:34:55,690
Presenting officer, or the mayor that concludes

1223
01:34:55,690 --> 01:34:57,530
the preliminary legal matters, thank you.

1224
01:34:57,530 --> 01:34:59,630
Awesome and our present

1225
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:02,360
A staff person is remote, so please.

1226
01:35:04,340 --> 01:35:05,720
All right, thank you.

1227
01:35:07,280 --> 01:35:08,740
We've got it up.

1228
01:35:20,570 --> 01:35:23,550
Okay, good evening, Mayor Vidi and city council members.

1229
01:35:23,970 --> 01:35:28,550
I'm Lauren Russell and associate planner in the community development department.

1230
01:35:29,210 --> 01:35:34,250
The proposal for each night is the 179th Avenue annexations project.

1231
01:35:34,930 --> 01:35:41,270
Please note that you should have received a staff supplemental memorandum on June 16.

1232
01:35:41,270 --> 01:35:47,750
with staff report corrections and one additional staff report exhibit.

1233
01:35:51,050 --> 01:35:54,730
Tonight we will be asking Council to decide on one item.

1234
01:35:55,310 --> 01:36:00,130
Does Council support annexing the four subject properties and

1235
01:36:00,130 --> 01:36:05,150
abiding portions of southwest 179th Avenue and southwest

1236
01:36:05,150 --> 01:36:07,250
law and avenue into the city?

1237
01:36:07,790 --> 01:36:11,070
Please note that there is no concurrent

1238
01:36:11,070 --> 01:36:15,890
Comprehensive plan and zoning map amendments with this annexation proposal.

1239
01:36:16,950 --> 01:36:24,230
The housing authority of Washington County is in the process of digesting its portfolio of single detached public housing units.

1240
01:36:24,690 --> 01:36:29,350
And the city of Theeverson is interested in facilitating the purchase of these properties.

1241
01:36:31,430 --> 01:36:36,750
By qualified first-time home buyers in partnership with the Portland Housing Center and proud grounds.

1242
01:36:36,750 --> 01:36:42,190
Annexation of these four properties is necessary for beaver's in-to-do so.

1243
01:36:42,690 --> 01:36:51,170
PUR-ORS 222-040, annexations cannot become effective in the 90 days prior to an election.

1244
01:36:52,030 --> 01:36:55,290
We hope that processing the annexation without the map amendments,

1245
01:36:55,670 --> 01:36:59,290
which otherwise would first require us to go to the planning commission,

1246
01:36:59,770 --> 01:37:04,850
will mean the annexation will become effective by early August rather than having to wait until early November.

1247
01:37:04,850 --> 01:37:12,730
Per development conception 1041, any area annexed to the city shall retain the zoning

1248
01:37:12,730 --> 01:37:17,190
classification of its former jurisdiction until changed by the city.

1249
01:37:17,790 --> 01:37:23,550
Therefore, the annexed area will still be zone Washington County R6 and will be designated

1250
01:37:23,550 --> 01:37:30,310
as Washington County interim on the city's land use and zoning maps upon annexation.

1251
01:37:35,200 --> 01:37:53,100
These subject annexation area composed of four properties and the abiding right of leg is located south of west baseline road, west of south west 170th Avenue, north of south west J Street, and east of south west 1805th Avenue.

1252
01:37:53,100 --> 01:38:01,620
The combined area of the four properties is 0.42 acre in size, and the area of the right of way is 0.8 acre.

1253
01:38:02,040 --> 01:38:09,840
For a total annexation area of 1.22 acre, each property is currently developed with a single detached dwelling.

1254
01:38:10,700 --> 01:38:17,780
The property owner, the housing authority of Washington County, submitted a consent letter to annex into the city on April 23,

1255
01:38:19,060 --> 01:38:25,320
and the required signatures of the electors residing at the properties were obtained by

1256
01:38:25,320 --> 01:38:32,380
the city staff on June 13th, 2025. The city is the applicant for the proposal tonight.

1257
01:38:33,160 --> 01:38:38,700
If Council approves the annexation, the subject annexation area will be incorporated into the

1258
01:38:38,700 --> 01:38:44,600
city of Beaverton. If approved, the four properties will also be withdrawn from the Washington

1259
01:38:44,600 --> 01:38:50,500
County Enhanced Sheriff's Patrol District, Washington County Urban Road Maintenance District,

1260
01:38:51,060 --> 01:38:56,580
and the 12th and Valley Water District. The properties will be added to the five Oaks Triple

1261
01:38:56,580 --> 01:39:00,120
Creek neighborhood association committee upon annexation.

1262
01:39:03,940 --> 01:39:06,200
The applicable approval criteria for

1263
01:39:06,200 --> 01:39:13,620
the proposed annexation are in Beaver City Code Section 9.09. As detailed in the staff report

1264
01:39:13,620 --> 01:39:19,420
that is attached to the ordinance tonight as exhibits see. The annexation complies with all applicable

1265
01:39:19,420 --> 01:39:22,860
local, regional and state approval criteria.

1266
01:39:25,180 --> 01:39:29,200
Therefore staff recommends approval of the 179th Avenue

1267
01:39:29,200 --> 01:39:35,600
annexation's projects. This concludes staff's presentation. We're happy to answer any questions you have.

1268
01:39:36,340 --> 01:39:37,480
Any questions of staff?

1269
01:39:42,800 --> 01:39:44,300
Councillor Hartmayer Prig.

1270
01:39:44,300 --> 01:39:56,820
Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Lauren. I just have a clarifying question. Since we typically do the course funny math amendments at the same time, will we have a follow-up public hearing or action that we would have to take?

1271
01:39:57,560 --> 01:39:59,980
So, if we decide to...

1272
01:40:00,000 --> 01:40:08,060
Through us sign zones in the future, there would be, there would be a hearing with planning commission, they would

1273
01:40:08,060 --> 01:40:16,000
forward a recommendation to city council. So it would come through again. There's no requirement that

1274
01:40:16,640 --> 01:40:24,920
we have to assign any zones to it. Development could take place while it still has that R6 county designation.

1275
01:40:24,920 --> 01:40:33,000
we would just use a combination of like the county land use allowed land use is plus our

1276
01:40:34,760 --> 01:40:38,420
most of our zoning could look like but a little bit of theirs.

1277
01:40:39,020 --> 01:40:47,160
Okay thank you and so from the also wanted to follow up on just the question about you know annexations

1278
01:40:47,160 --> 01:40:53,160
we don't become effective within a certain amount of time of an election and so by not doing the map amendments

1279
01:40:53,160 --> 01:40:57,460
we think we're able to expedite the process for them. Is that what I heard?

1280
01:40:58,000 --> 01:41:06,320
That's the hope. We would, we would have made a probably an extra month at least to get

1281
01:41:06,320 --> 01:41:10,740
the planning commission first and with the Council of Calendar during the summer. It would be

1282
01:41:10,740 --> 01:41:16,680
really difficult to make it work. Yeah, thank you very much. I think it's really important for

1283
01:41:16,680 --> 01:41:24,420
folks to have the ability to vote in the election of where they're being annexed to, right?

1284
01:41:24,480 --> 01:41:28,820
And so this preserves, you know, if there was a election on the calendar, and they, you know,

1285
01:41:29,500 --> 01:41:32,420
this, so I appreciate looking out for the voter in this way. So thank you.

1286
01:41:34,520 --> 01:41:35,280
Any other questions?

1287
01:41:37,060 --> 01:41:42,380
Okay. I'll now open the public hearing. Is there anyone here to speak on this topic?

1288
01:41:43,980 --> 01:41:45,820
Okay. I will close the public hearing.

1289
01:41:47,220 --> 01:41:49,020
What's the desire of the council?

1290
01:41:51,000 --> 01:41:55,720
Mayor, I moved to adopt the city ordinance embodied in a gender bill 25108 and ordinance

1291
01:41:55,720 --> 01:42:04,880
annexing four parcels of land at 1057 southwest 179 avenue 1079 southwest 179 avenue 108

1292
01:42:04,880 --> 01:42:11,720
southwest 179 avenue and 178 nine five southwest lot an avenue and portions of southwest 179

1293
01:42:11,720 --> 01:42:13,740
have a new and southwest lot in Avenue.

1294
01:42:14,300 --> 01:42:17,400
Second, it's been moved by Councillor Huston and

1295
01:42:17,400 --> 01:42:21,480
seconded by Councillor Dugger, any discussion on the motion.

1296
01:42:22,780 --> 01:42:24,300
Council, Heart Mayer, Prig.

1297
01:42:24,760 --> 01:42:25,360
Thank you.

1298
01:42:26,060 --> 01:42:29,420
I think something really kind of special in the presentations

1299
01:42:29,420 --> 01:42:29,980
tonight, right?

1300
01:42:30,000 --> 01:42:33,880
It was talking about the way that just like the housing.

1301
01:42:34,160 --> 01:42:35,720
This is a housing and opportunity

1302
01:42:35,720 --> 01:42:37,960
and working with the county, working with our partner

1303
01:42:37,960 --> 01:42:40,800
that this housing can come into the city and just

1304
01:42:40,800 --> 01:42:45,440
potential future of us to help first-time homeowners, you know,

1305
01:42:45,580 --> 01:42:48,940
we've a solid partnership with Pride Ground, it's something that we've

1306
01:42:48,940 --> 01:42:53,380
continued to invest in as a city, and so I think that that most of our

1307
01:42:53,380 --> 01:42:57,540
annexations feel kind of mundane, they're kind of routine, but that to me was

1308
01:42:57,540 --> 01:43:00,420
something that just really stood out, so I'm looking forward to supporting

1309
01:43:00,420 --> 01:43:05,860
this motion tonight. Awesome, thank you for that. All right,

1310
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Recorder your part.

1311
01:43:11,750 --> 01:43:15,770
Councillor Dougher. Yes. Councillor Hartmayer Prick. Yes.

1312
01:43:16,370 --> 01:43:21,290
Councillor Hassan. Yes. Councillor Kimmy. Yes. Councillor Tipton.

1313
01:43:23,110 --> 01:43:26,530
Oh, sorry. Absent. Councillor Teter. Yes.

1314
01:43:27,270 --> 01:43:33,250
Mayor Bady. Yes. Six. Yes. Zero. No. One. Absent. Thank you. All right. We are on to Council

1315
01:43:33,250 --> 01:43:38,170
New Business. Councillor Kimmy. We've been waiting a while to abandon to hear all about your

1316
01:43:38,170 --> 01:43:39,710
water-saving idea.

1317
01:43:41,110 --> 01:43:42,450
Thank you for giving opportunity.

1318
01:43:45,370 --> 01:43:46,530
I was kind of torn.

1319
01:43:47,130 --> 01:43:53,230
I wanted to save water obviously and leaning towards your rate until the last moment.

1320
01:43:55,310 --> 01:43:59,290
What got me thinking is, I spent a lot of money

1321
01:43:59,290 --> 01:44:04,970
watering, irrigating my front lawn, which is required by the HOA to keep it green.

1322
01:44:04,970 --> 01:44:12,030
if not that you get a letter and a fine, but just to keep the green as hundreds of dollars to

1323
01:44:12,030 --> 01:44:17,810
my water bill every month. So we have opportunity to build another 5,000 units to the

1324
01:44:17,810 --> 01:44:24,290
Cooper Mountain in the future, where maybe as a council as a city, we can change ordinance

1325
01:44:25,950 --> 01:44:34,590
or incentivize conservation through what we could do is that we can maybe have developers

1326
01:44:37,330 --> 01:44:43,530
plant, a drought tolerant plants, rather than grass in the front yard and

1327
01:44:43,530 --> 01:44:51,420
recarring them to water to make a green, or somehow find a medium where we can

1328
01:44:51,420 --> 01:44:56,160
maybe we can require a certain percentage, should be grass, so we don't have to force people

1329
01:44:56,160 --> 01:44:59,620
water the grass and keep the green so

1330
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:06,800
That was my idea, and I would like to entertain and have staff take a look at it for the future

1331
01:45:06,800 --> 01:45:13,460
future developments, maybe we can incentivize that. That's a lot of water conservation through that.

1332
01:45:16,420 --> 01:45:21,280
It's challenging with HOA, so I think the attorney is going to have to get back. We can't

1333
01:45:21,280 --> 01:45:29,080
supersede HOA rules and how they do things. It's a state law. I would be in due mean incentivized

1334
01:45:29,080 --> 01:45:33,980
like we give people money or you talk like you want us to make a rule, which is not in

1335
01:45:33,980 --> 01:45:35,840
incentivation, it is a requirement.

1336
01:45:35,920 --> 01:45:36,460
Good requirement.

1337
01:45:36,620 --> 01:45:46,980
I can't requirement so that future developments do not put grass in the front yard, but have

1338
01:45:46,980 --> 01:45:52,700
drought tolerant plants or plants or rock garden or whatever that is so that we don't, so

1339
01:45:52,700 --> 01:45:54,640
we don't have to consume water.

1340
01:45:55,480 --> 01:45:56,840
I don't know if we could require that.

1341
01:45:56,840 --> 01:45:59,180
I'll have the city attorney get back to you,

1342
01:45:59,240 --> 01:46:01,820
but it is not, and we won't be incentivizing.

1343
01:46:01,860 --> 01:46:03,140
You want us to require.

1344
01:46:04,100 --> 01:46:06,540
Okay, just why I'm just making sure I understand.

1345
01:46:06,940 --> 01:46:07,880
Kelsler, how's it?

1346
01:46:09,620 --> 01:46:12,300
I mean, I'm supportive of what councilor can be suggesting.

1347
01:46:12,480 --> 01:46:14,020
I think I'm trying to understand the process

1348
01:46:14,020 --> 01:46:15,600
and pretty good to do that correctly.

1349
01:46:17,700 --> 01:46:18,660
I just wanted to take a moment,

1350
01:46:18,860 --> 01:46:20,160
and I will read a little bit.

1351
01:46:21,880 --> 01:46:24,560
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

1352
01:46:25,360 --> 01:46:39,720
I know that we're trying to get out of here, I want to take a moment and acknowledge the strength and resilience of the folks in our community with things that are going on in the Middle East but along with many things that are going on here in our country and across the state.

1353
01:46:40,460 --> 01:46:52,240
In the face of many of these realities it's important that we're sending together in support of our neighbors, friends, family members who are hurting and impacted by things, whether they're hundreds of miles away or thousands of miles away.

1354
01:46:52,240 --> 01:46:58,060
So, particularly right now, our community is enriched by the presence of so many from the

1355
01:46:58,060 --> 01:47:02,480
regions such as Iranian-Americans like state representative Farah Chai Chi, who brings

1356
01:47:02,480 --> 01:47:07,580
her unique perspective and experience to our state legislature, we're very grateful for

1357
01:47:07,580 --> 01:47:11,580
her vibrant cultural heritage that Iranian-Americans bring to our city.

1358
01:47:12,340 --> 01:47:13,780
And, in fact, I was trying to do the math.

1359
01:47:13,920 --> 01:47:16,840
We have several elected Iranian-Americans across the state.

1360
01:47:16,900 --> 01:47:18,680
I just don't know them all quite yet.

1361
01:47:19,280 --> 01:47:25,720
Representative Tai Chi, like many of our own constituents, does have family and Iran and often we forget the impact of global events locally.

1362
01:47:25,940 --> 01:47:33,380
So I just wanted to remind us that many of us have family members across the world, across the city, across the state that are impacted by these events.

1363
01:47:33,860 --> 01:47:40,380
I'm sure many of you here from folks asking us to put out statements or comments or proclamations and I'm often torn about.

1364
01:47:41,580 --> 01:47:43,760
Doing those kinds of things, I'm sure you are too.

1365
01:47:43,760 --> 01:47:50,660
And so I just wanted to take the moment to say like I feel deep sadness over not just what's

1366
01:47:50,660 --> 01:47:56,900
happening within our state and country, but across the globe and on our folks that are

1367
01:47:56,900 --> 01:47:59,600
impacted by it, because I know they're impacted by it every day.

1368
01:47:59,980 --> 01:48:01,580
So, thank you.

1369
01:48:01,820 --> 01:48:02,220
Sorry, Jim.

1370
01:48:02,380 --> 01:48:03,480
Dad, I ordered a Councillor Dugger.

1371
01:48:04,400 --> 01:48:05,080
That is okay.

1372
01:48:05,540 --> 01:48:13,740
I just want to give a shout out to City Leadership to this Council, to the Mayor and to City

1373
01:48:13,740 --> 01:48:17,680
I'm flying, following up today, every year I get a number of comments.

1374
01:48:17,820 --> 01:48:18,600
When is it happening?

1375
01:48:18,900 --> 01:48:19,600
What's going on?

1376
01:48:19,880 --> 01:48:22,500
And of course, when I found that out today, I walked around.

1377
01:48:22,620 --> 01:48:26,560
We took a bunch of photos and just seeing folks really enjoy that.

1378
01:48:27,300 --> 01:48:30,560
And the three to four emails I've already received talking about that.

1379
01:48:30,620 --> 01:48:32,340
I just think there's a lot of things.

1380
01:48:32,480 --> 01:48:35,040
There's a lot of negativity in the world right now.

1381
01:48:35,060 --> 01:48:38,340
A lot of sadness, a lot of immense pain and suffering.

1382
01:48:38,520 --> 01:48:43,600
And just to see a brief moment of happiness for a good number of our community.

1383
01:48:43,600 --> 01:48:48,000
I just want to give a shout out to the city staff that made that happen, particularly in leadership,

1384
01:48:48,160 --> 01:48:50,900
public works, all the groups, so it really means a lot.

1385
01:48:51,080 --> 01:48:52,300
Thank you.

1386
01:48:52,620 --> 01:48:58,980
And I, you know, raising a flag is, this is our fifth year of doing it, and it's our third year

1387
01:48:58,980 --> 01:49:05,960
of putting the pride flags down town, and, you know, the mayor of Nick Menville put out a statement

1388
01:49:05,960 --> 01:49:10,120
earlier this month that she was opposed to doing that or doing a resolution.

1389
01:49:10,120 --> 01:49:15,380
And as a matter of fact, I was talking to the mayor of the city that you used to manage.

1390
01:49:15,600 --> 01:49:20,080
And the county around you is trying to put up a, around them or trying to put up a

1391
01:49:20,080 --> 01:49:25,180
Proclamation to not allow any flag, besides the US flag and the, the POW flag to be flown.

1392
01:49:25,400 --> 01:49:31,580
And so I'm, I'm proud to be the mayor of a city that continues to do that because I think visual representation matters.

1393
01:49:31,740 --> 01:49:35,900
We also fly the Juneteenth flag, which I think is, it's pretty important for us as well.

1394
01:49:35,900 --> 01:49:42,320
We're running out of flagpoles so we might have to put up another one to get all of these in and it does cause a little bit of

1395
01:49:43,120 --> 01:49:50,580
Email chatter when we put up and down the flag so the reason the plat the pride flags are going up now is because we wanted to wait till after flag day

1396
01:49:50,580 --> 01:49:56,620
So we're not removing the U.S. flag before flag day and putting those up. So that's the reason it's kind of delayed a little bit

1397
01:49:57,100 --> 01:49:59,980
And it's the same with the Juneteenth flag. We swap them out for them

1398
01:50:04,660 --> 01:50:29,980
I have two comments tonight. One is just a statement, and I attended a rally in downtown Beaverton on Saturday, and I just wanted to give a shoutout to our whole community. I needed a boost of help and a boost of, I don't know, energy around our shared values, as a country.

1399
01:50:29,980 --> 01:50:35,880
democratic nation, and so I just wanted to say thank you to everyone that came out. It was just

1400
01:50:35,880 --> 01:50:43,280
a special moment to stand up for our democracy and our constitution. I'm a completely different

1401
01:50:43,280 --> 01:50:49,920
now, and the much closer to, you know, Beaverton and my role as a city counselor, and tonight we,

1402
01:50:49,920 --> 01:50:56,000
you know, we finished, we kind of finished the fiscal 2425 budget with our final supplemental budget,

1403
01:50:56,000 --> 01:51:07,460
And, you know, for the, every year that I've been on council and we've been, we've been dealing with our, our, our structural deficit and our budget.

1404
01:51:07,920 --> 01:51:19,700
And years ago, Mayor, Councilor Sugger and Hesson served on our fiscal sustainability committee, which, you know, we had our little budget, our, our general fund work session back in April.

1405
01:51:19,700 --> 01:51:25,600
And we heard a little bit about just where we're at against all of our fiscal sustainability plans.

1406
01:51:26,200 --> 01:51:28,680
But I wanted to ask, just what are our next steps?

1407
01:51:29,180 --> 01:51:31,360
So we've now passed another year's budget.

1408
01:51:32,320 --> 01:51:36,480
We've closed the gaps with some really hard and painful decisions.

1409
01:51:37,120 --> 01:51:38,460
But there's still items on that.

1410
01:51:39,000 --> 01:51:42,860
On that fiscal sustainability plan that I would love for us to like,

1411
01:51:42,860 --> 01:51:44,960
What is that next step? What is that next conversation?

1412
01:51:45,100 --> 01:51:48,680
And one of those things that we did identify years ago is a levy.

1413
01:51:48,680 --> 01:51:53,240
something none of us are particularly excited about, but it is actually a very critical

1414
01:51:53,240 --> 01:51:59,280
thing for us to have very intentional and serious conversations about. So, I know

1415
01:52:00,840 --> 01:52:05,520
that our agendas are often quite full and we're coming up on a bit of a summer break, but I

1416
01:52:05,520 --> 01:52:12,300
would love to maybe get an update and see what if there's a future work session planned around that.

1417
01:52:12,300 --> 01:52:20,340
Lovey, because I think it's a really critical piece of us closing the structural piece of this, right?

1418
01:52:20,340 --> 01:52:21,560
And I know that Lovey's are temporary.

1419
01:52:22,400 --> 01:52:27,940
And that voters would have to continue to support them for us to be able to use that as a mechanism.

1420
01:52:28,020 --> 01:52:31,400
But I do think it's an important part in the fiscal health of our city.

1421
01:52:32,700 --> 01:52:33,280
Well, it's great time.

1422
01:52:33,280 --> 01:52:36,760
I mean, the city manager and I were discussing that earlier this week.

1423
01:52:36,780 --> 01:52:39,420
And so I don't know she's prepared with a date.

1424
01:52:39,420 --> 01:52:44,500
I think we might have to come back with that information, but we had discussed the planning of it.

1425
01:52:45,200 --> 01:52:51,700
We have a work session scheduled, I believe, September 9th to discuss the fiscal sustainability plan,

1426
01:52:51,840 --> 01:52:55,620
where we're at and potential next steps and what those might look like.

1427
01:52:55,900 --> 01:52:59,140
We also have some data gathering to do the summer prior to that conversation.

1428
01:53:01,180 --> 01:53:01,380
Thank you.

1429
01:53:03,040 --> 01:53:04,600
All right, anyone else?

1430
01:53:05,300 --> 01:53:06,320
All right, meeting adjourned.