[0:04] I'd like to welcome everybody to our city council meeting Tuesday, September

[0:07] 1, 2026 at 7 p.m. I hereby call this meeting to order. If everybody stand,

[0:13] we'll do the pledge of allegiance for the flag salute.

[0:17] » Ready, begin. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the

[0:24] republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and

[0:30] justice for all.

[0:36] » All right. As far as our roll call, uh Mr. Rockwell, he is excused. He's not

[0:42] able to attend and we have a vacancy. So that will take us right. And other than

[0:47] that, we have a quorum for four. So, I'll take us right to our action item.

[0:52] We will do our council vacancy. We have two citizens who would like to do that.

[0:59] Uh we have Mary Jones and Isabelle Gonzalez.

[1:03] And we have uh so if you two would like to just come up and well, yeah,

[1:10] somewhere towards the podium because we uh we got some questions. There's only

[1:15] three questions. And uh

[1:19] we'll have uh Chief you start with question number one. He'll ask uh

[1:25] » Okay, I'd love to answer the question. Yeah, here we go. Thank you for taking

[1:30] care of me. What do you see the most three important

[1:34] issues facing our city over the next year to 18 months and how would you help

[1:39] to address them?

[1:43] » Question. I love it. Did you want to go first? Okay. I say I'll rock paper

[1:47] scissor for you if you want. Okay.

[1:53] I would say that as from the boardman uh goals that I can see in front of me, uh

[2:02] a lot of people recognize that growth is the biggest challenge both in making

[2:07] sure it happens but also trying to protect the residents desires that are

[2:12] already here. And so it's a double-edged sword, right? We want growth. We want

[2:16] the jobs. We would love the tax money. All of these things are good things, but

[2:20] the flip side of that coin is the residents and their desire for a small

[2:24] town and enjoying that feel of community, right? So that's that

[2:28] conflict, that tension that can be really hard to address. Um, how would I

[2:33] address it? Well, I think having been here in Boardman for about 15 years, uh,

[2:41] been raising my kids here, so I have kids that have been going through the

[2:44] school district, so I and also being a small business owner who has at times

[2:49] struggled in responsiveness from the city. I think I'm well adapted to

[2:55] understand a lot of different perspectives. Um, so I don't know how I

[3:00] would necessarily address it because the issue po pops up in a lot of different

[3:04] ways. Um, so depending on whether we're talking about, you know, water or

[3:08] electricity or power or internet like each one has its own conundrum. So,

[3:16] uh, hopefully with learning all sides, I would address it.

[3:21] » Thank you. >> So, I kind of have similar answers. Um,

[3:27] growth is the number one thing that I see right now. And it one thing that I

[3:31] think is really important is that we want to grow and we want to improve and

[3:36] we want to be better, but we don't want to just build things and fix things just

[3:41] because they're there. I want to plan, have an

[3:47] idea, think about the future, think about our growth in kind of a

[3:52] conservation kind of way. Not just spending money wherever we see fit, but

[3:56] really conserving the money that we have now and thinking about the future. What

[4:00] can we do now to fix fix now and what can we plan for in the future? Like we

[4:06] were talking about the police station, that's going to be a 25 year project.

[4:10] [clears throat] you know, that is really setting us up for the future and

[4:14] conservation of water, our electricity, um, and just the development of

[4:19] Boardman.

[4:26] » You want you can read it. >> Uh, Heather, would you like to ask the

[4:30] second one? >> So, given the city's limited tax base

[4:33] and budget, where would you prioritize increasing or reducing funding and why?

[4:40] So,

[4:44] like we've talked about before with the water, increasing water and kind of

[4:47] making that more as a cost because right now we're in a deficit and so I know

[4:52] that we're on a ladder to increase, but kind of operating that even just at cost

[4:59] I think would be a huge difference. Um, and then prioritizing those cres dollars

[5:04] because they are unpredictable. Um, as for reduced funding, I don't see

[5:10] anywhere where we really should be cutting back on money. So,

[5:18] that's important.

[5:23] Um, I will admit that I come into this not

[5:29] knowing where Boardman has been spending its money. So I will fully admit that

[5:36] without seeing having a better information. Um I can't really answer

[5:43] this question.

[5:50] » All right. The council sometimes must make decisions that are unpopular with

[5:55] residents. How would you communicate those

[5:58] decisions and respond to the community's concerns?

[6:02] So one thing that I see a lot is that maybe the communication between what

[6:09] we're doing here and what the people are understanding is not really

[6:14] communicated. Um you know these are public meetings and a lot of people

[6:18] don't come to them. So maybe it would be a good idea to put out little clips or

[6:23] announcements at at the end of each meeting and be like, "Hey, this is kind

[6:26] of what we talked about kind of like a after agenda like, hey, this is what we

[6:31] talked about. This is kind of where we're going." Just for the people to

[6:34] know and then that's really how you're going to get feedback is putting that

[6:37] out there to those people. You know, nobody wants to, you know, I do this for

[6:42] fun. People don't want to sit and watch a two hour, three hour Zoom meeting kind

[6:46] of flip through where if we were kind of putting something out and saying this is

[6:50] kind of what we talked about. These are the decisions that we're going to come

[6:54] back to later on and if people want to come then they know that that's coming

[6:57] up or that if they see a project that they're interested in that that's

[7:01] something that they're going to keep their eyes on. And just kind of really

[7:04] getting that feedback from what people want besides just the people that we see

[7:08] every day and that are coming to these meetings.

[7:15] Um, so the business my husband and I own is a mobile home park and that's

[7:19] relevant because quite frequently we make decisions that are wildly unpopular

[7:24] and we get feedback. Um, and so the best way I found is

[7:32] you listen and people can if people have an easier time accepting what a decision

[7:39] is if they feel like you really understand what they're saying and where

[7:42] they're coming from. Um, that doesn't change your decision. Or maybe it'll

[7:47] influence you moving down the road perhaps. Absolutely. And you should take

[7:50] those into account. But uh once a decision, a policy has been enacted,

[7:57] that's the bottom line, right? This is where we are. Um and that doesn't mean

[8:01] you and I can't work together to make changes, but at the same time, this is

[8:06] where it is. So giving opport people an opportunity to be heard. Um often

[8:13] helps them feel like they've been seen at the very least.

[8:19] » Well, thank you. It's always uh uh good to see people who are willing to step

[8:25] into the firing zone. Um I re I uh commend you. I will say that this has uh

[8:33] weighed heavy on me for the last couple weeks since I got the packet and uh

[8:41] because I know both of you and that's what makes it tough.

[8:46] you can [laughter] I don't need to arm wrestler for it.

[8:50] It's not >> I'm just saying that it it it as a uh as

[8:55] a a person I'm the mayor, but as a counselor up here, um I think we're all

[9:00] weighing um we're all humans. We don't like hurting people's feelings unless

[9:05] you're other people who are just evil. But um

[9:09] we care about people's feelings and uh so it's been weighing heavy on me on

[9:18] which way to go. Uh I know that since I've been doing

[9:22] this for this is my sixth year we've I have

[9:28] always weighed heavy on the individual who has participated in the council

[9:32] meetings who has participated in uh attendance things like that. U being

[9:39] on committees and things kind of like what your husband does.

[9:44] And uh so for me um my vote is going to be uh

[9:53] for Isabelle. >> Are we at that stage?

[9:58] » Are we at that stage? >> Yeah, because there's no questions.

[10:01] » Okay. >> We already asked her questions.

[10:03] » Not allowed to ask any additional questions. Oh,

[10:06] » okay. >> Unless we ask them both.

[10:10] » Exactly. >> But usually we go with just the three

[10:13] questions. That was correct in that

[10:16] » that is what we did the last time. You are correct.

[10:19] » Prior to that I think when I was on the other side I think I had every counselor

[10:26] ask a question. >> Oh yeah there was a stack of questions

[10:29] back then. >> There were more than

[10:32] » there was more than two candidates. That's fine.

[10:34] » You did you can ask another question if you'd like.

[10:36] » I think it was just Well, Mayor Kefir said no.

[10:39] » No. >> Not asking any more questions. We

[10:41] already have our three questions. Yeah.

[10:45] » So, Mayor Kefir, would you like me to do a roll call vote?

[10:49] » Yes, please. >> Okay. Councelor Hughes

[10:54] » Gonzalez. >> Councelor Bombgartner

[10:57] » Gonzalez. >> Councelor Profett Isabel.

[11:02] Councelor Quus. >> Isabelle.

[11:05] » And Mayor Kefir. >> But I appreciate you. I appreciate you.

[11:11] » Yes, Mary. Thank you. [laughter]

[11:19] » So, with that, we'll go right to the next part. Isabelle, we're going to

[11:24] swear you in. >> Mayor Keeper,

[11:28] » Mayor Kefir, we need to make a motion to appoint and then we can swear her in.

[11:33] » We got to do that. >> We need to do that. Okay. I move to

[11:38] appoint Isabella Gonzalez as a council member for the remainder of the term

[11:41] ending December 31st, 2026. >> Second.

[11:45] » I got a motion in a second. Is there any discussion?

[11:48] » All in favor say I. >> I.

[11:50] » I. Any oppose? >> Okay. Now I can swear you in.

[11:55] So after I swear you in, you get to uh choose your position.

[12:00] » Or >> Yeah. The one that's open.

[12:03] » The open one. We'll help him here. I'll give you my

[12:09] copy and I'll have a copy and plus I need my castes.

[12:23] » So, it's going to say I state my name. >> I state my name.

[12:27] » Say your name. >> Okay. So, I will say I and then you'll

[12:31] just state your name. >> Raise your right hand. I,

[12:35] » Isabelle Gonzalez, >> do solemnly swear that

[12:38] » I will support the Constitution. >> No, you need to say repeat. So, you're

[12:41] gonna repeat after me.

[12:46] » That was a good We'll start going. I >> Isabelle Gonzalez

[12:50] » do solemnly swear that >> Do solemnly swear that

[12:52] » I will support the Constitution and laws of the United States.

[12:56] » I will support the Constitution and the laws of the United States.

[12:59] » I will support the Constitution and the laws of the state of Oregon. I will

[13:03] support the constitution and the laws of the state of Oregon.

[13:07] » I will support the charter and the ordinances of the city of Boardman.

[13:10] » I will support the charter and the ordinances of the city of Boardman.

[13:14] » And I will to the best of my ability faithfully perform the duties of the

[13:17] city council member of the city of Boardman. So help me God.

[13:21] » And I will to the best of my ability faithfully perform the duties of a city

[13:26] council member of the city of Boardman. So help me God.

[13:34] You bet. Now, you can post it right there and we'll have your certificate

[13:39] next.

[13:52] So, also for uh just a little notice, she's filling in

[13:58] and her term will end December 31st, 2026.

[14:14] Committee report. Housing Advisory Committee.

[14:20] » Okay, we have Mr. Wildfire is on.

[14:26] » Take it away, Nathan. >> You guys hear me? Okay.

[14:32] » Yes, we hear you. >> Yeah, give me a verbal. Thanks, Brandon.

[14:36] All right. Hi, everybody. Um, since I last met you, our housing advisory

[14:41] committee has met uh weighed in on your tax reimbursement uh incentive plan that

[14:48] I've spoken to you about multiple times. Did the next iteration of the Colombia

[14:53] View master plan. Um and then also began work on the feedback we got from our uh

[15:00] developer session where we invited about 12 different developers and land owners

[15:05] to give some advice to the city on what what are some lowhanging fruit to

[15:10] change. Um one of the things that I'm here to talk the primary thing I'm here

[15:14] to talk to you about is timeline timeline for the development projects

[15:19] within the Colombia View master plan. Um, I've been getting a lot of uh

[15:26] questions from both committee members and staff and a few counselors. When

[15:31] when do things have to happen in order for housing development to occur on the

[15:37] Columbia View site? What are the important steps and what order they come

[15:43] in? And so, a lot of people wonder about zoning changes. A lot of people wonder

[15:48] about finalizing the plat plat. A lot of people wonder about when does the

[15:52] infrastructure work finish or um when do we surplus land that sort of thing and

[15:59] so uh Brandon asked me to come and give our advice from the housing advisory

[16:05] committee about how this might go and us as the missing middle housing fund who

[16:10] are your housing adviserss. I invited Gary Reic. Gary wave. Uh I don't know if

[16:15] anybody everyone can see Gary. Gary is our designer and architect helping to

[16:21] lead the u the design for the Columbia View Master Plan. And so I wanted to

[16:27] walk you through a few slides um that we have ready for you to illustrate uh the

[16:34] different u paths that we can go. You've seen some of these things um in plan

[16:41] form. Can everyone see that? Give me a verbal.

[16:44] » Yes. >> Okay, great. Uh so what you've seen

[16:48] before is over here on the eastern side of the uh paper. Um this is Olsen Road

[16:56] and this is where we would have a new public amphitheater that spills down

[17:01] onto the new Fourth Street with public parking underneath

[17:07] uh retail that would be on this entire big mega block. So, you'd have retail on

[17:13] the Olsen Road level and you'd have parking underneath and a big set of

[17:18] steps that comes down to the uh plaza below. You've all seen images of this

[17:24] before. [snorts] Over here on the far left, that's a

[17:28] cottage cluster. So, a cottage cluster just means smaller homes arranged around

[17:34] a central commons or green that is shared by all of the different uh homes.

[17:40] They typically are a little bit smaller in size. They typically are sold for a

[17:45] lesser price point than some of the things you see currently for sale in

[17:50] Boardman. The intention is that they are starter homes, which we've heard again

[17:54] and again and again from this council and from the committee uh are things

[17:59] that are lacking in Boardman. Up on the top on Boardman Avenue, the new vision

[18:04] would be to have a series of town homes. We've shown you pictures of what those

[18:08] might look like before. But those again would be home ownership and accessible

[18:14] to uh middle-income families, folks that are again have buying their first house,

[18:20] that sort of thing. A change that we're going to tell you

[18:23] about today is that originally we thought this would be apartments. And so

[18:28] as you kind of get towards the central core of the site, the buildings get a

[18:32] little bit bigger. Maybe they're three-story walk up apartments. But

[18:36] we've been hearing uh a lot of feedback lately from both committee members and

[18:42] counselors uh that h home ownership ought to be the thing that we prioritize

[18:48] along with senior housing. So these buildings here 6 7 and 8 9 10

[18:56] 12 13 14 we are reconsidering whether or not those could be uh home ownership

[19:02] zones much like the town homes or maybe something different but a home ownership

[19:07] option with this building 11 retained as sort of the senior housing piece that

[19:12] empties right out onto the central commons.

[19:16] So, we wanted to talk a little bit about the importance of planning. Uh, because

[19:21] again, Brandon had said, you know, when do when do certain things have to happen

[19:26] in order for us to get projects to just begin and then get across the finish

[19:33] line? And the order of things matters. You have processes. You have not done a

[19:39] master plan in your city since the main street master plan in the 80s, but you

[19:44] do have these processes. We have one chance to get this right and grow the

[19:51] right way. We just heard from your city council candidates about growth. That

[19:55] was a primary issue I heard from uh both folks. How do we grow the right way is

[20:01] something that the housing advisory committee talks about a lot. And for

[20:06] them, the sense of place, the quality of the housing, something they can be proud

[20:11] of, and the livability really, really matter. You have to get that right

[20:18] before you begin to build. So, we want to do things that enhance your city and

[20:24] make it better. You don't need to surplus your land

[20:29] first. You don't need to update your zoning code. You don't even need to uh

[20:36] finalize your plats in order to have a great plan in place.

[20:43] The plan is the thing that is going to attract your development community.

[20:47] Well, let's be real, some good incentives. But the plan is the thing

[20:51] that ties it all together and creates this new sense of place in this section

[20:57] of Boardman. Something that makes you stand out on the map. An RFQ stands for

[21:03] request for qualifications. It's like a request for proposals, but you're just

[21:08] trying to see who's interested. Who would want to be a part of this plan?

[21:13] Who would want to build cottage cluster homes? Who would want to build town

[21:18] homes on Boardman Avenue? Who would want to build forale houses on a new central

[21:24] green or central commons that goes to your new amphitheater?

[21:30] I'm here to tell you that you want as many brains as possible around your

[21:36] table in Boardman. And if you are very clear about your goals,

[21:43] your incentives, your parameters, right? What they can't do, what you don't want.

[21:49] If you have clear timelines and clear tools, you will get responses.

[21:54] Don't forget, you have a housing fund. You own the land. You are putting in new

[22:02] infrastructure, streets, roads, sewer, water. Right now, you have a very

[22:07] attractive place to build. So, we are advising that you tell the world about

[22:15] the opportunity you have and the vision that you have for Boardman and then see

[22:21] who puts their hat in the ring. Our goal is to get these RFQS out in late

[22:27] September after the next housing advisory committee meeting. We want them

[22:32] to take a look at it before it goes out on the street. We want to bring the

[22:36] final master plan back to this council in October. Uh for your comment, for

[22:42] your endorsement, uh we have to talk about what the process is for you to

[22:47] formally adopt a plan. That plan would of course show the vision, show the

[22:54] parameters, um, but also tell you about what it's going to cost to do these

[22:59] public improvements. You have an urban renewal district right

[23:03] there that can help bear some of the cost of that. Uh, but you're going to

[23:08] need a phasing plan and an economic analysis. Does this plan actually work?

[23:14] Does it bring the returns back to the city that you need after you invested in

[23:18] the land? Does it actually build things that folks in Boardman and moving to

[23:24] Boardman want and are willing to pay for? You can't just build things that

[23:29] nobody actually wants to rent or buy. So, we have to be very, very thoughtful

[23:34] about what we're proposing, how much it costs, and whether it meets your market

[23:39] conditions. And by the way, it should go without saying all of it has to be

[23:45] additive of your sense of place, your character, your culture. That's why you

[23:52] have the housing committee and a city council to ensure that it all happens

[23:57] the right way. Up like bullet point one, the plats, and I'm going to show you uh

[24:03] what those are in a minute. uh those would be updated in November reflective

[24:08] of the plan you would adopt in October. You would choose development partners in

[24:13] December based on the responses you got back in October and November.

[24:18] You would be updating your zoning code to actually allow you to build the

[24:22] things you want to build in January, part of your comprehensive plan and

[24:27] zoning code update. Meanwhile, the your chosen developers would be assembling

[24:32] their project financing, finalizing deal terms with the city since again you own

[24:37] the land. And then you would actually surplus the land at that point because

[24:41] you know who's going to build what and when it gets warm, you start building.

[24:47] So this is, you know, what we have uh before you. The plat as they are being

[24:54] recorded right now don't necessarily account for this forale piece on the

[24:59] south of Boardorman Avenue nor are is the plat quite big enough to

[25:04] fit the cottage cluster we've been contemplating in the southwest corner of

[25:08] the plan. So rather than rush the plats that we were uh that we planned eight

[25:14] months ago before this plan was really that far along, uh we're going to get it

[25:19] right and do it in November reflective of this plan. These are uh in the yellow

[25:25] three zones where we're now reconsidering whether these are

[25:29] apartment buildings or another flavor of home ownership.

[25:35] Uh, I'm guessing the folks on Third Street are going to take a very keen

[25:39] interest in what happens here. U, but there might be an opportunity to have

[25:43] yet more home ownership, especially attainable home ownership, a product

[25:48] that's often lacking in your uh, city uh, built here. Uh, Gary and I are

[25:54] running the analysis on that and seeing if that makes sense uh, financially and

[25:58] from a plan perspective. But this would then also reflect newer plats that you

[26:03] would be updating. Your committee went through this uh at their meeting this uh

[26:09] past month in August. The cottage cluster in the southwest corner would be

[26:14] the first thing kind of off off to the off to the presses. uh for sale

[26:20] attainable middle- inome pricing the you know starter homes is another word for

[26:24] this again around a a central space that's shared two spaces per unit that's

[26:29] parking uh we'd we'd send this RFQ out um late September to figure out who are

[26:37] good cottage cluster developers across Oregon that would have an interest in

[26:42] your plan in your city and then we would set up a process by which you could

[26:46] choose what are the best development partners and what's the best plan coming

[26:52] forward in accordance with what you want. Same thing up on Boardman Avenue.

[26:58] It doesn't all have to be all at once. We've thought about a lot like do we

[27:02] have multiple developers that have a common design playbook but could uh

[27:07] essentially lower your risk of putting all of your eggs in one basket and also

[27:13] lead to a diversity of housing both product design style price points. So it

[27:20] could be you know chunks of this could be different developers. Think of it

[27:25] kind of like that. Similar timeline as before as the other ones. Um, and then

[27:33] this is kind of what we're looking at here in the red circle. We think that

[27:36] that could be sort of a signature building on the end of your central

[27:41] commons. Something that really stands out and creates a sense of place. That

[27:45] could be uh a senior housing um opportunity. could be more than just

[27:50] that one building, by the way, for senior housing, but that's just the

[27:53] latest thinking. And then what we had shown previously as apartment buildings,

[27:58] we're starting to wonder whether those could be again home ownership fronting

[28:03] your central commons. Um the reason the original plan worked so well

[28:09] economically is that we are packing a lot of units into a smaller space which

[28:13] generally brings a greater uh return for sale of land to the city. So we have to

[28:19] make sure that the city is making back its capital with whatever plan uh

[28:25] ultimately gets proposed. Um, I've heard from a lot of you many, many times. We

[28:32] know what we don't want in Boardman. We've seen what we don't

[28:36] want. We don't want properties that are poorly maintained. We don't want

[28:42] properties that have bad design and fall apart too soon.

[28:47] We want buildings and homes and sense of place that preserves and grows our

[28:55] character and is a place that the folks who already live in Boardman can be

[28:59] proud of and your new neighbors moving in uh feel like they're the luckiest

[29:05] folks in the world to have landed in your city. We know that.

[29:11] So, this was the group activity we did as a housing committee last time. Um,

[29:15] you can you'll see people's names in here like Bobby or Ricardo or Gary or

[29:19] Mike or Brenda. These are some of the things that people um talked a lot

[29:25] about. What's the right price point? Folks would love it if there were things

[29:29] sold in the 300s in your city that that felt like a really really great design.

[29:37] There is a trade-off. >> Yeah.

[29:39] » Yeah. >> There's a trade-off, right, between

[29:41] square footage and price. Um, unless you have extraordinary

[29:46] subsidies, uh, it's very hard to meet certain price

[29:50] points, especially in a place where there are few contractors,

[29:53] um, and shipping is high. Gary and I will tell you, we're building housing in

[29:58] Newberg right now, so we know exactly how much it costs to build housing.

[30:04] Interest rates have a lot to do with the affordability and the cost. Um, and the

[30:10] big question everyone keeps asking, why does it cost less to buy more in

[30:13] Hermiston? So, we got to get to the bottom of that, right?

[30:18] Diversity of options. Uh, what we hear again and again, um, we want multiple

[30:24] choice. We don't want a cookie cutter unit that happens 100, 200 times in

[30:30] Boardman. We want choice. We want to have um designs that can be

[30:37] replicated but also seem unique and create a sense of place. The best

[30:43] neighborhoods everybody on the committee has been to are places that have

[30:47] different buildings on each block. Um,

[30:51] » Nathan. >> Yeah,

[30:52] » Nathan, just the I just want to point out um the I I think that you're just um

[30:58] summarizing what what people on the committee said, but that kind of sounded

[31:03] like a contradiction, right? Because the reason the cookie cutters exist is

[31:07] because it significantly lowers the cost.

[31:10] » Nailed it. You got it. So, what do you do?

[31:15] » Right. >> Right. So, that's that's our job. Our

[31:19] job is to figure out how we can deliver homes at affordable prices while

[31:24] preserving character and diversity. You you you nailed the trade-off. You nailed

[31:29] it. Um you can create a variety of a look within a cluster but still have the

[31:35] guts of a house be predominantly the same. Um and again, what are the

[31:42] incentives that the city can offer that help defay cost or time? Some of those

[31:48] could be things like subordinating the cost of the land, like a developer

[31:53] doesn't actually pay you for the land until the homes sell. That's a that's a

[31:58] big incentive for a developer um that reduces their risk and increases their

[32:03] ability to get financing uh but ultimately can help lower cost, right?

[32:09] You as a city can make loans. You can make investments. You can make grants

[32:14] with your housing fund to help defay cost. You already are installing

[32:21] infrastructure throughout a lot of this site. That's already a huge u defay of

[32:27] certain costs. You have your urban renewal district which can help pay for

[32:32] some of this pre-development work. [snorts] I'm going to keep going. You

[32:38] guys are good readers. Parking. We talked a lot about parking. Uh rural

[32:43] cities typically uh need two spaces per unit. When you start getting less than

[32:49] that, it becomes harder to sell your uh forale products. So, it's just more

[32:56] common to have uh multiple places to put your car.

[33:02] for creating retail and park space, the parking demand just got bigger. I've

[33:09] said this many times. Uh you've got to make sure you've got a way that you're

[33:12] breaking even on your land. And by the way, some of the things that Gary is

[33:18] proposing aren't actually possible with your current city code. So, your zoning

[33:24] code has to be updated. That process is underway right now. You don't have to

[33:29] have your code updated to tell developers about what you're updating it

[33:35] to. You can get them excited about your plan and the opportunity to build in

[33:40] your city before you actually have your zoning codes completely finished. So, we

[33:48] we would be an advocate for keep doing your process, keep updating your

[33:51] comprehensive plan and your zoning code. And then could this be an opportunity

[33:57] since there might be so much happening all at once to test out improvements or

[34:02] streamlining or efficiencies with your permitting system.

[34:07] Okay, this is the the same slide from the very beginning and I'm going to

[34:11] pause here because I asked Gary to join us to um to to reiterate why having a

[34:18] plan matters. If you don't know Gary, here's Gary Re

[34:24] from Iris Design. >> I didn't I just unmuted myself. I

[34:28] thought that might help. Um, you know, I was thinking uh earlier today um though

[34:37] Nathan and I got officially under contract in April. We were working with

[34:43] the city on the contract going back and forth between January and April, but we

[34:48] were also huddling clear back in October about the prospect that this work might

[34:54] be coming forward. And at that time, I got my hands on

[34:59] what [clears throat] I think was an inrogress

[35:01] document from Cascadia. Really well put together color.

[35:08] I don't know, it might have had a 100 pages in it. Uh but one section in there

[35:14] particularly was uh of interest to me and that was the four

[35:20] um workshop community workshops that were

[35:24] held through the summer. I think there were in total 7 or 800 people that

[35:31] signed up in for those within those four workshops.

[35:35] And so there was a lot of listing in there about the comments about what

[35:40] people wanted with their city. And I've worked with a lot of cities. I I came

[35:46] from a great small town. I moved to a another great small town. I I know what

[35:53] kind of ingredients it takes to make a place that people really want to stay

[35:57] in. And [clears throat] and so one of the one of the the uh notes in there was

[36:04] kind of listing here's what here's what were people were quoting they were

[36:08] wanting. And one of them forever more has is has uh has kind of been my

[36:14] guiding light. And this person said I want Boardman to

[36:19] be so nice and attractive that my kids will want to come back here after

[36:24] college. if [clears throat]

[36:28] that that sentence has been my inspiration, you know, right up to this

[36:34] moment and and beyond. And so, you know, in the tools that I have in the

[36:38] experience that I have, um, [clears throat] I could, you know, I

[36:42] said long ago, I couldn't be more excited because I thought I I had some

[36:47] experience that I could bring to this situation and make a difference. And so

[36:52] in a way I kind of become part of Boardman

[36:56] uh in a in a feeling of ownership and owning the kind of places I would make

[37:01] if I wanted to live there. And so [clears throat] that's that's

[37:05] what we've been doing over the last few months. And uh and we're getting close

[37:10] to talking about, you know, what is what is phase one? What are the first pieces

[37:15] of the plan that get implemented? What might it look like? And we've

[37:20] [clears throat] had those conversations, Nate and I, and others,

[37:24] you know, within the last few days. And I So, I guess I would um leave you with,

[37:30] not that I need to, you can come back and and ask me questions, but I'd leave

[37:35] you with kind of a mantra of mine in doing this kind of work and seeing what

[37:40] to do and what not to do. And I think what you'll always hear from me is do

[37:46] something great first. The alternative is you do something

[37:51] mediocre first and the rest of the community and and people that are

[37:58] watching it from afar and from other communities that will be whatever you do

[38:03] first is going to be a big message of the vision and and hope

[38:09] that you have for in a way building this new town.

[38:15] » So that was thanks Gary. Um, oh that's the end. So Brandon, I think one of the

[38:21] things that you had wanted to make sure folks were comfortable with was the

[38:26] notion that we would ensure that the plat are in uh concurrent with the the

[38:34] current thinking on the plan. Is that right?

[38:37] » Yeah. So um I I hope every because again I I I

[38:45] become the middleman. I I get the I get the discussions that people come to me

[38:49] and and I share that with Nathan and and I hope everyone is hearing the fact that

[38:54] people want homes to sell. He absolutely has addressed that. The other thing we

[38:59] talked about was abs having a clear timeline. Again, I get very frustrated

[39:03] and I share my thoughts with Nathan because I I do I want it like let's go,

[39:07] let's dig it. Um but also we need to make sure you guys

[39:13] are okay with that process. So like he said the original plat which is not

[39:19] complete yet we thought let's pull back so we can do it exactly how we would

[39:26] then go surplus it. And if you're okay with that please understand that the

[39:32] plat process it has to go to planning commission again

[39:37] they approve it or don't and then there's a review process. Carla, don't

[39:43] jump in. And then there's a review process and then it like the planning

[39:48] commission has to approve this. I mean, it it takes a while and we have to have

[39:54] 35 days to take it to the planning commission. So to our planning

[39:58] commission. So there really is like set guidelines that take months to do, but

[40:05] we just felt we needed to come back because the plat was we're going to have

[40:09] to go and replplat it anyway. So, if you're okay with that timeline and that

[40:14] process, the hope is to have maybe a little more clear plat. I mean, do you

[40:20] guys want the whole plat just like exactly how we're going to go and

[40:23] surplus it, which puts a little more in the design?

[40:27] » I jump in. Remember, like you don't have to slow down

[40:32] just because you're going through this plat finalization process. You can still

[40:37] be telling the world what your plan is for the plat, what your plan is for the

[40:44] zoning, and assemble the correct development partners,

[40:49] their financing, their partners and investors. Like, it

[40:53] can all happen >> at the same time.

[40:57] » Yeah. Don't don't think like if you're just because it takes a while to do your

[41:01] plats and your zoning, that doesn't mean you hit timeout on everything else.

[41:05] » Oh, no. Not by any means, but in order for us to surplus the property, it has

[41:10] to go through the plat has to be approved. That's several months out. I

[41:13] mean, I think right now Carl and I visited if we did it now, it would have

[41:18] the plat would have to be a preliminary design by next week in order to make it

[41:23] to the October meeting, then get it to the council or the county by December,

[41:30] then we would surplus it by January. I don't think that's going to happen. So

[41:35] that's the process. We can't we cannot surplus it and sell it until it goes

[41:39] through the plat. But you're right, like all of this is still going to go on.

[41:42] He's going to do the RFQ. >> You're not going to start building

[41:45] anything in January anyway. So like, you know, if you found developers tomorrow,

[41:51] they wouldn't start building until the spring anyhow. So

[41:54] » yeah, but it does just take time. So if you like I just need some guidance like

[41:59] do you want the whole thing platted? So it is how hey this is how we're going to

[42:04] sell it which will go back. >> I'm just going to say from me it's going

[42:09] way too slow. Okay. And I'm just but I know that I'm goal oriented and I want

[42:15] you know I got something on my list. I want to get it done. I've only been on

[42:19] the committee for a few minutes you know but it's too too slow.

[42:25] » And again that is like trying to help you.

[42:27] » All I'm saying is let's keep it moving. Don't put any touch the brakes.

[42:32] [laughter] >> Yeah, I've been hounding Nathan from the

[42:36] beginning about the details. Um because I want to put buildings on

[42:41] the ground right away on the same page. Keep rolling.

[42:45] » Absolutely. Please. >> I do want to work on that price point

[42:49] though. I think 300 and 325 is too high. >> Yeah.

[42:54] » And I second that. Um I did a quick search um just on Windendemir and we

[42:59] currently have seven properties for sale here in Boardman. All over,200 square

[43:03] feet, threebedroom, two sometimes some three bathrooms, all have garages

[43:07] between 300 and 330,000 seven. So we need to find a lower price

[43:13] point because if there's seven properties for sale and we're looking

[43:15] for something for lower income, we need to be lower than that.

[43:23] » Cool. you're next in line.

[43:27] » Paul hears it from me every day. >> But but regardless, I I do think we need

[43:33] to come back and just do make sure the plat is correct.

[43:39] » So because right now we would if they approve the plat as of right now, we we

[43:43] are going to have to go and send it to a replat because we can't do the cottage

[43:46] cluster. It's not sectioned out the way the housing is. It's just the top of

[43:52] north of Boardman Avenue. We want them to do them all along and it's not

[43:56] platted like that. >> Yeah. And I think that was your question

[44:00] was just, you know, like are we >> okay

[44:03] » okay with doing that? And I am. >> I don't. Yes.

[44:07] » Sounds like the consensus is go for it. >> And you does that sound.

[44:13] » I don't like it. >> The what?

[44:20] » I don't like Yeah. I don't like the cottage clusters.

[44:24] Um, I agree with the town homes. I think that if we're going to build town homes

[44:28] and they're going to be $300,000, I'd rather buy a house.

[44:34] So, if you're going to build the same square footage, same rooms, same

[44:38] bedrooms. >> Y,

[44:40] » nobody's going to want to buy that unless they absolutely have to live in

[44:43] Boardman >> because the houses that we currently

[44:45] have have lawns. >> Yeah.

[44:47] » And they're on goodsized lots between the 300 and 330,000. Nobody's going to

[44:52] want to pay that same price for a cottage.

[44:55] » Your kids can play in the backyard. You can let your dog out that you have a

[44:58] fence,

[45:02] » which I think is all good feedback for Nathan. But you were just asking about

[45:06] » the plaid pl >> and again

[45:09] » with consideration the square footage of the

[45:12] lot too. >> Correct. And that that is the benefit

[45:16] what has been discussed with the cottage clusters is because the purpose of those

[45:20] in my mind again I agree to have it lower but because the like the homes are

[45:26] closer together we're getting more on there so we can bring it lower and I've

[45:30] heard 250 before um >> yeah I'm I'm $75,000 less around the

[45:37] board to 100 grand less. >> That's what I think the cottage cluster

[45:40] benefit would be. and um he put it up there on one of the charts, but uh Gary

[45:46] told us about a gentleman who does cottage clusters in all kinds of sizes

[45:50] and shapes and he doesn't do cookie cutter, but he does something that

[45:55] allows the guts to be the same and just changes the dormer or the, you know,

[46:00] something on the outside to give it a different feel. Um and his name is Ross

[46:06] Chapen, I think. So those are those were really beautiful designs that we saw

[46:12] that this guy wrote a whole book about it. So

[46:15] » yeah, and and ultimately when we talk about we bought the land for $4 a square

[46:19] foot. We are not trying to recoup any of the road costs which is like 4 million.

[46:24] All of the road costs are going to come back through the urban renewal. So

[46:28] that's great. We really are trying to recoup the three million which should

[46:32] help us with being able to sell that and have a lower price point. Cool.

[46:39] » Uh it might be helpful just to do some math.

[46:44] So the about the cheapest you can create a house for right now in Oregon is about

[46:50] 175 uh bucks a square foot. That's about the cheapest.

[46:56] Uh most are coming in much much higher than that. But let's just pretend you

[47:01] could build it in Boardman for 175 bucks a square foot. and you want a 1,500 ft

[47:08] house, that's already at $262,000 just there. That's not inclusive of land

[47:15] or SDC fees or permitting or the cost of lending. That's just construction.

[47:23] So, you can see how the cost to just literally create a single 1500 ft home

[47:29] in today's economic realities gets you above 300

[47:34] really fast. Now, there are ways that you can build homes for a lot less than

[47:39] that, but they typically are the types of

[47:42] homes that I've heard you all say you didn't necessarily want.

[47:47] So, a thing that might um be helpful that I would offer to this council is we

[47:53] did a um we did like a developer 101 session

[47:59] and we could do that with your local development community uh where we would

[48:04] just do a workshop um for anybody on council that wants to

[48:09] uh to just essentially have several of your local folks uh walk through how how

[48:16] they create a new unit and what their risk is and what their financing risks

[48:22] are and what their costs are. Um because it it helps it helps create a shared

[48:28] understanding of uh how do we get where we want to get and what are we willing

[48:32] to spend to get there. Uh what what are we not willing to accept from a quality

[48:39] or size standpoint? um

[48:44] the product that you have right now, uh your seven houses, um we'd have to

[48:50] figure out why are they not selling? Why are they at that price point? We can dig

[48:55] in. That's that's what we do.

[49:00] So my question is, you know, we're spending a lot of time

[49:04] saying, you know, since we're the council, we get to decide sort of thing.

[49:08] But what if a contractor comes in and goes, I'll build, but I'm not building

[49:12] any of that stuff. This is what I will build. Now, now what?

[49:17] » Well, you own the land, so you don't have to sell to anyone unless they build

[49:21] what you want them to build. That would be part of your purchase and sales

[49:25] agreement, right? As you sell your different parcels of land, you would

[49:30] have in the actual sales agreement what a developer is agreeing to actually do.

[49:36] Timelines, financing, you could stipulate price points.

[49:40] » What I'm saying is what if there's nobody out there that wants to do what

[49:44] we want? They're going to come back and say, "Hey, look, I I'll build for you,

[49:49] but you have to go this direction." You know,

[49:53] » then you'll have to make a choice. If no one wants no one wants to or can build

[49:58] what you want, it won't get built. >> And um you mentioned something about

[50:05] 1500 square ft. Um most of us here that bought our first homes, it was 1,000

[50:12] square feet. It was a three-bedroom, one bath with a single car garage. That is a

[50:16] starter home. A 1500T home was the third house that I bought because I worked up

[50:21] to that. So, a 1500 square foot home is not a starter home.

[50:26] » Yeah, that that was just a math problem, but yes, I agree.

[50:30] » Well, and and no, that's good direction. So, the direction is let's work on the

[50:35] plat. We're good with the timing and price point needs to be below like 250

[50:40] and >> under.

[50:41] » Okay. I think >> and and again, that's the guidance that

[50:44] the the housing committee needs to hear. That's what we need to hear and that

[50:48] will take care of that. >> Cool.

[50:53] Okay. >> Thank you, Nathan.

[50:55] » You're welcome. >> Have any questions,

[50:58] » comments? >> I was just going to suggest that if

[51:00] Isabelle will look into the Ross Chapen. Uh he did a book called uh Pocket

[51:05] Neighborhoods and he's got lots of pictures online

[51:10] that you can look at and you can see how he changed the homes and what he did and

[51:15] what the pocket neighborhood benefit was. Anyway,

[51:19] » I know we're jumping ahead, but I have an idea for somebody for the housing

[51:23] committee on our action items. >> And thank you too, Gary, for coming.

[51:29] Appreciate that. >> Thanks, Nathan.

[51:32] » Thank you. >> Thank you, Nathan.

[51:39] All right, we're time for the public comment.

[51:43] Public comment period is an essential part of our local government meetings

[51:47] and our council takes community input into consideration. However, in

[51:51] observance of Oregon open meeting laws, this isn't the time for dialogue, but

[51:55] rather a time for us to listen to you. Our city manager will direct staff to

[52:00] follow up with you regarding your comments or questions. Anyone may speak

[52:05] on any topic other than a matter in litigation, a quasi judicial land use

[52:10] matter, or a matter scheduled for public hearing at some future date. Each person

[52:16] has three minutes to speak. Uh when your name is called, proceed to the podium

[52:20] and speak clearly into the microphone. Begin [clears throat] stating by your

[52:24] name and address name and address and then express your view or offer your

[52:30] suggestions in a courteous and considerate manner. Remember to direct

[52:34] all remarks and questions to the council through the mayor. It is not appropriate

[52:38] to address the audience or the staff. Is there anybody in

[52:45] person that would like to speak? >> My point where I can get to talk.

[52:50] » This is your >> could be You're on the left.

[52:53] » Okay. >> Oh, for uh chamber.

[52:57] » Yeah, you're later. Yeah. Is there anybody online that would like to

[53:03] share any comments?

[53:09] Okay. Having seeing none, uh we saw a public comment. You got an email from

[53:15] Jonathan Tolman. I hope everybody had a chance to take a look and read at that.

[53:21] There was a correspondence from the Oregon Rural Action. They sent

[53:26] a letter.

[53:30] And then we have the Boardman Chamber of Commerce. It is your monthly report. Is

[53:37] that where you would like to share? Yes, you are. It's your time.

[53:41] » So, in your packet, I think you guys have the August month.

[53:45] » Yes. >> Oh, yes. I'm on it. I can handle a mic.

[53:49] Um, but I am going to give you the September one because I'm it's gonna

[53:56] just give you right there. Um, so the September one's a little different than

[53:59] the August. Uh, so September I just we are going through growth zone. Uh, the

[54:04] chamber has a chamber membership program that it used to be chamber master. It's

[54:08] now growth zone. It's more of a user-friendly um online platform for our

[54:13] chamber management. And that being said though, if you had to login with the

[54:18] other program, you have to create a whole new program. So, please go find

[54:22] those emails. They coming through the newsletter. They're coming directly from

[54:26] us. They're we've sent them out numerous times. It's very important because if

[54:30] you don't have that login, you won't be able to um register events,

[54:36] put on job postings, and uh and uh attend events and different stuff. So,

[54:42] we need that really to be registered and create those accounts. Um, we have an

[54:46] upcoming uh the other thing is we're working on is we're redoing the visitors

[54:51] guide. So, our visitors guide will be coming out in January of 2027. This will

[54:56] be our guide that is going to go across the state of Oregon to the Travel Oregon

[55:00] welcome centers. We're going to be printing about 20,000 of those guides.

[55:04] Our current guide is in the Travel Oregon already. We pay about $7,000 to

[55:09] place that across the state of Oregon. We use some county tourism dollars that

[55:12] we request requested through a grant and that is to promote Boardman and Mororrow

[55:18] County. Inside the guide is an opportunity to advertise your small

[55:22] business and that is to be seen. We are using that as a relocation guide, an

[55:27] adventure guide. Um we're actually promoting the um small

[55:34] businesses to come here to add asset amenities to our housing so we can go

[55:39] handinhand with our housing with our amenities in our community so we can

[55:43] offer more services and uh also just kind of spotlight our chamber members

[55:48] and everything that they do plus our major events that bring in tourism as in

[55:52] like the fishing tournament that we just held, the end of summer celebration and

[55:56] the um fourth of July. So, Fourth of July recaps that we received on some

[56:01] data on that, we had a little over 2,000 people and through comm um interviews

[56:06] that we conducted during the day down there, the majority of the people that

[56:10] stayed at the RV park came from Portland, Seattle, California, and

[56:16] Washington deeper into Washington like Spokane side. So, that is a tourism. So,

[56:20] if you are considering a tourist person, anybody that travels over 60 miles is

[56:24] considered a tourist. So if you want to look at our employment, 30% of our

[56:29] people that drive to Borman every day are tourists. So we get to track them as

[56:33] a tourist. So um we're really trying to flip that script as well as bringing um

[56:38] 62% of our employment comes from out of the area. We're really trying to flip

[56:42] that and get that to be a little heavier on the percentage of living where they

[56:46] work. And that is going handinhand with the development of homes plus retail

[56:50] space and amenities to offer that. So if we can continue to promote our boardman

[56:55] a place to live and work and Mororrow County then that is working to meet our

[57:00] needs as a chamber as well. So you'll see some funky advertising. Um we have

[57:05] worked really hard with this company. It's called Lunar Cow. They are working

[57:09] to change their marketing. Um but we are doing majority of the marketing

[57:13] ourselves to get people to place an advertisement in there. We just wrapped

[57:17] up in a summer celebration. That was a big event. It actually ended up being a

[57:21] bigger event than we had planned. Um we it was a night to celebrate the end of

[57:26] summer celebration but also a time to recognize our fire department and police

[57:29] department and partnerships with what they are doing to provide services to

[57:34] our community and get to know our police department. Uh we were able to partner

[57:38] with a couple local food vendors to provide free food and Telmuk came over

[57:42] and provided free ice cream and as everybody can see that they were very

[57:46] busy and they're going to actually revamp how they serve food serve next

[57:50] year. Last year uh this next year they uh had a little miscommunication and

[57:54] didn't realize that they were only supposed to do like three ice creams and

[57:57] scoops but they did everything. Um so bless them for opportunity to providing

[58:02] that. And then we also had the fishing tournament. fishing tournament was a

[58:05] great success. Saturday was a little sketchy for our fishermen. Um I think

[58:09] they kept our fire department very busy on top of everything else that was

[58:12] happening that day and recovery efforts had to take place even on Sunday. So um

[58:17] but those guys came from all over the US as well and we had a great turnout. We

[58:21] had 61 professional fishermen, 110 fishermen total. They came from all the

[58:27] way from Texas to Nebraska to Canada, all over. They spent pretty much six

[58:33] full days in our community and um reserve spaces in our RV park. So that

[58:38] was another great tourist opportunity which brought our community which also

[58:41] they spent money at our um gas stations, our restaurants and our hotel years. And

[58:47] we're going to be seeing an uptick in that. They are looking to host another

[58:51] super 60 next year which is another the next level of the tournament above what

[58:56] they did this year. So there's a proam this year. Next year it's going to be a

[59:00] super 60. It's one of their top six um pro events they're going to host here.

[59:05] Uh the winner bagged 20 lbs of fish on Friday, 20 pounds of fish on Saturday,

[59:11] and 18 pounds of fish on Sunday. Even with the high winds, he was able to. He

[59:16] was a local guy out of Tri Cities. And then our amateur guy was one of the guys

[59:20] from the local area as well. So, it was exciting to see that. But, um and then

[59:24] we had the kids fishing thing event on Sunday. We had 210 kids come down and

[59:30] get free rods and reels. And then the pro fishermen that were not

[59:35] participating in the championship sat and tied um hooks on and put worms on.

[59:41] And we had a slew of kids that come down. They've never fished a day in

[59:44] their life. Got to sit out on the dock. And I was I did not realize this, but

[59:48] our little dock, you throw it in the and you're going to catch a fish like this

[59:53] fast. And so the pros were having fun down there. So they went back and

[59:56] actually we ran out of worms and ran out of stuff to support the kids. So they

[1:00:00] ran back to their boats, pulled out their private stuff and used their

[1:00:03] personal stuff to support the kids and sat right there and took the hooks and

[1:00:07] took the fish off the hooks and it was a great day of um getting the next

[1:00:11] generation into fishing. And then our next upcoming event is our third quarter

[1:00:16] lunchon which is on September 16th. that is going to be uh our gu our title

[1:00:21] sponsor is uh Lamb Weston and then we will have Brian Nelson with Amazon

[1:00:26] coming and speaking about Amazon's impact in the region and then uh AI

[1:00:32] rescue resources which is a connection with uh Chief Hughes as a business that

[1:00:37] he has which is offers AI services for answering phones and kind of automating

[1:00:42] your um upfront office space to alleviate that upfront work to allow for

[1:00:48] staff to be a little more efficient behind the scenes and not answer the

[1:00:52] crazy phone calls and get rid of the robot calls. Uh just a quick recap on

[1:00:58] the or touch on the candy crawl registration is open for the Halloween

[1:01:02] event at state center on Saturday the on Halloween day and uh we continue just to

[1:01:07] achieve our uh mission of visibility, voice and value for boatman. So any

[1:01:12] questions for me? That's a lot. But we are in the midst of revamping a lot of

[1:01:17] things. So, please follow our social media pages and uh watch for emails

[1:01:22] because uh changing in uh invoicing and the program has been a big change. And

[1:01:28] we're also going to be updating our website and our website will be able to

[1:01:31] be translated here pretty soon as a click of a button as well. So, we're

[1:01:34] excited about that. >> I do have a comment something about the

[1:01:39] end of summer. Mhm. >> Um, our end of summer's kind of almost

[1:01:42] becoming it's a really nice thing, but it's I think it's starting to overshadow

[1:01:49] the main purpose of what that >> beat what that event is. it's always

[1:01:54] been for the first responders and uh it's kind of a catch 22

[1:02:03] and so I would I would like to see it at in a positive way is how do we

[1:02:10] incorporate all the stuff we do but still not

[1:02:16] overshadowing the first responders. >> Yeah. And so my um I spoke in links with

[1:02:22] Chief Hughes and Chief Stokco about that regarding that same concern. And that

[1:02:27] was actually kind of a transition of new staff not understanding the event

[1:02:31] completely, but also the park and wreck uh making changes on me that I was not

[1:02:35] aware of of where they were placing the equipment. I was not aware that they had

[1:02:39] decided to stick everything in the parking lot. And that was a conversation

[1:02:42] that I will be having again with George re um regarding the placement of the

[1:02:47] police department and the fire department's equipment and be in the

[1:02:49] front and center. Um I just assumed that was my fault far um fault on assuming

[1:02:55] that that they were not going to be placed near the stage where we could

[1:02:58] have a spotlight on them. So that will not happen again and uh staff is very

[1:03:03] aware of the changing the direction that needs to go. that that's more of just

[1:03:06] the uh positive feedback to get back because

[1:03:10] » No, I agree. >> Um,

[1:03:12] » everybody enjoys going down there. I mean,

[1:03:16] » having the opportunity to have another fireworks display, that's pretty cool.

[1:03:20] » And uh just remembering to not overshadow and that that was really

[1:03:25] » Yeah. And we have some fun things that we're going to offer next year for our

[1:03:29] uh end of summer celebration and Fourth of July that will actually make a bigger

[1:03:32] impact on thanking people and doing things a little cooler and a little

[1:03:37] different. So >> very cool.

[1:03:39] » I thought it was a great I don't know what other people thought be able to

[1:03:44] have the food vendors thought that was a unique kind of different swing and that

[1:03:49] was kind of cool. We like the food vendor idea because they were able to

[1:03:52] just come in and serve, but we by splitting them up and spacing them out,

[1:03:56] it actually split the food lines up a little bit more and allowed people to

[1:04:01] get through and get their food a little bit better. Uh, and that was just

[1:04:05] working with them as first time trying to do that and trying to the food is

[1:04:09] covered, the cost of the food is covered and we're like, how do we provide free

[1:04:14] food and you keep track of how that and we can reimburse you for that? It's been

[1:04:18] a real learning process for everybody. >> I bet that was because there was one

[1:04:22] vendor that was like trying to get people to come. Come come in by coming

[1:04:26] in by I was like, "Oh, >> yeah.

[1:04:28] » Must be a tally." >> Yeah, there was a tally. Yes. Yes, there

[1:04:32] is a tally. So, we don't know. It's a little open-ended at the moment. It's on

[1:04:36] a trusty. >> That was kind of a unique twist to it,

[1:04:38] but >> Yeah. But it was allowed.

[1:04:40] » Good. Good thing. >> Perfect. Yeah. And we allowed the option

[1:04:43] of the snow cones and ice creams to kind of hopefully alleviate the pressure on

[1:04:47] tie, but that still did not happen. Everybody wants their tie ice cream. So,

[1:04:52] any other questions? >> You didn't go early. You didn't get it

[1:04:54] or you had to wait a long time. >> A long time. Yeah. So, thank you very

[1:04:58] much. >> Thank you.

[1:04:59] » Did you want to share with BCDA too? >> Love to share. I just saw it was a

[1:05:03] report in there and I didn't get to share. So, uh that is exciting news

[1:05:08] where we are right now. We are finally at 30% construction conceptional design

[1:05:13] for this the new retail um facility and um from here you guys might be able

[1:05:21] to see it but that is the conceptional design of where we are on the building.

[1:05:26] It has a really really cool concept. It's really modern. We're going to keep

[1:05:29] it to the um modern industrial vibe that we have with the Sage Center and the

[1:05:34] Neil Early Learning and the BMTC um facility down there. And this is going

[1:05:38] to be 20,000 square feet, two stories. It has um 75% tenant lease uh intend to

[1:05:46] lease on it already. We will have additional four spaces for incubator

[1:05:50] buildings that we are going to work on getting them started at below uh um

[1:05:57] average rental rates. And over a fiveyear slide, we'll ri we'll move them

[1:06:01] and by the end of five years at the lease into that, they will get to the

[1:06:05] real market value lease. And then hopefully by then we have our second

[1:06:09] building built and we can move them over to a full-time position into the other

[1:06:14] building and then we can bring in the next um retail space in there. This is

[1:06:18] uh looking to be a really cool building and it's exciting. Uh it's a big feat

[1:06:24] for our nonprofit board for Boardman Community Development Association, but

[1:06:27] it's a very good use of our enterprise zone dollars to reinvest back into

[1:06:31] Boardman and provide that. Uh the other thing is our home buyers incentive. We

[1:06:36] don't have that many um applications left and we are just in August and homes

[1:06:40] are buying are selling faster than we can imagine. Uh so but uh part of my

[1:06:46] work is going out and talking to developers and and saying to people we

[1:06:51] got to get down below that 300 thou 300,000 threshold. And that is a big

[1:06:56] conversation. I continue to recruit developers. I just spoke with two

[1:06:59] developers this last week actually that have um similar projects in other

[1:07:03] communities that they're coming to meet and look at um opportunities here in

[1:07:07] Boardman and they have uh ways of utilizing state dollars and federal

[1:07:12] dollars that they are awarded to invest in Boardman to buy down the cost of a

[1:07:18] home so the upfront cost is not costing costing the buyer as much and they

[1:07:23] recoup those recoup those costs over a 10-year plan. It's a pretty cool

[1:07:26] concept. It's newer. Um, but this is comes as the developer that has these

[1:07:30] opportunities. And this is something he has. And so he is actually gonna be

[1:07:35] coming to Boardman here soon. So I hope he can be maybe part of that project and

[1:07:40] uh get those home values down to that 250 275. And they are looking to be

[1:07:45] about 900 ft to,000 ft homes, which is where you guys I I believe is also

[1:07:52] workforce affordable homes. And then the pickle ball court is

[1:07:56] exciting. Uh we're removing removing the location of that. It's going to be in a

[1:08:00] space where we have more amenities where we can actually have bathrooms support

[1:08:04] with the basketball court and the existing play structure and be able to

[1:08:08] house and host uh pickle ball tournaments here.

[1:08:13] So that's mainly what we're focusing on right now. I say that's just mainly

[1:08:17] those are two big large projects plus our home buyers incentive and then

[1:08:21] everything else. So any other questions?

[1:08:26] Thanks, Tori. >> Thanks.

[1:08:32] » All right, we're down to our uh consent agenda.

[1:08:40] Anybody have any questions or comments about our consent agenda?

[1:08:45] » I move to approve the consent agenda as presented.

[1:08:49] » I'll second. >> A motion, a second. Is there any

[1:08:53] discussion? All in favor say I.

[1:08:57] » I. I. >> Any oppose? [clears throat]

[1:09:00] » All right. Action items. Ordinance 14-2026,

[1:09:06] an ordinance amending the Boardman municipal code to amend Title 8 health

[1:09:12] and safety. >> So again, we're just going to keep

[1:09:16] bringing these municipal code updates. We're just trying to make them cleaner,

[1:09:20] more concise. We're trying to make it more streamlined, you know, more

[1:09:24] consistent with the law. Um, uh, chapter or title 8 or whatever it's Yeah, title

[1:09:32] eight. Um, it is like city well we oversee these. This is like uh what our

[1:09:40] um community engagement would you know enforce and this is our code. So any

[1:09:46] questions or

[1:09:52] I move to approve the reading by title only of ordinance 14-2026,

[1:09:56] an ordinance amending the Boardman municipal code to amend title 8 health

[1:10:01] and safety. >> Second and a motion and second. Is there

[1:10:04] any other discussion? >> All in favor say I.

[1:10:08] » I. >> I. Any oppose?

[1:10:11] A staff member reads the title. Ordinance 14-2026,

[1:10:17] an ordinance amending the Boardman Municipal Code to amend Title 8 Health

[1:10:22] and Safety

[1:10:26] » and adoption. >> I move to adopt ordinance 14-2026,

[1:10:33] an ordinance amending the Boardman Municipal Code to amend Title 8 Health

[1:10:38] and Safety. >> Second. Got a motion, a second. Does

[1:10:42] anyone have any discussion? All in favor say I.

[1:10:46] » I. >> I. Any oppose.

[1:10:51] All right. So we will go to ordinance 15206.

[1:10:59] An ordinance amending the Boardman Municipal Code to amend Title 10

[1:11:04] vehicles and traffic. >> Perfect.

[1:11:08] So what this really does is it this is

[1:11:13] distinct to hey the PD covers this the city

[1:11:18] covers that. So we're really trying to make it clear

[1:11:24] and that is basically the title 10 vehicles and traffic PD will oversee

[1:11:29] that. Um again they're able to run the plates. some of these things are going

[1:11:33] to be a little more consistent to them having better resources.

[1:11:39] So,

[1:11:43] I move to approve the reading by title only of ordinance 15-2026,

[1:11:48] an ordinance amending the boardman municipal code to amend title 10

[1:11:51] vehicles and traffic. >> I'll second that.

[1:11:55] » I got a motion in a second. Is there any discussion?

[1:11:59] » All in favor say I. I. >> Any oppose?

[1:12:04] » Staff member. >> Uh, ordinance 15-2026,

[1:12:09] an ordinance amending the Boardman Municipal Code to amend Title 10

[1:12:14] vehicles and traffic.

[1:12:19] » I move to adopt ordinance 15-2026, an ordinance amending the Boardwin

[1:12:23] Municipal Code to amend Title 10 vehicles and traffic.

[1:12:26] » And I'll second. >> We got a motion in a second. Any

[1:12:29] discussion? All in favor say I. I.

[1:12:33] » I. Any oppose. All right. Go to resolutions.

[1:12:40] » Resolution 22-2026. A resolution declaring city of Boardman

[1:12:46] personal property as excess.

[1:12:51] » Yep. This is a PD card of 2021 Ford interceptor.

[1:12:58] uh chief would have any more details

[1:13:03] other than we just go through the process.

[1:13:06] » Yeah, this is one of our surplus uh well, it wasn't surplus, but it's going

[1:13:11] to cost about $11,000 to replace a transmission in it and therefore it's

[1:13:16] not worth the investment. This is one of the vehicles we were going to rotate out

[1:13:20] anyway. Uh, so it's been parked uh over at uh the fire department for

[1:13:26] a while uh just because we're out of space. Um so uh any questions? I the

[1:13:33] intention would be uh uh to donate it to uh Stanfield Police Department. Uh their

[1:13:39] mechanic thinks he can fix it for less. So

[1:13:43] » I move to approve resolution 22-2026, a resolution declaring city of Boardman

[1:13:48] personal property as excess. >> Second.

[1:13:53] got a motion and a second. Do you have any discussion?

[1:13:56] » Can I confirm who who gave that second? >> Okay. Thank you.

[1:14:01] » Council member,

[1:14:06] » all in favor say I. I. >> I.

[1:14:08] » Any oppose? All right. So, resolution

[1:14:14] 23-2026,

[1:14:18] a resolution adopting the 2015 water system master plan and the 2021

[1:14:24] wastewater facilities plan. >> Uh, Carla will have a better

[1:14:29] explanation. Carla, are you still there?

[1:14:36] » Yeah, I'm still here. Um so explanation would be um historically the city has

[1:14:42] not um adopted the various uh plans. Um I talked with Mike a little bit about

[1:14:50] this. I think he's probably dropped off, but um the city hasn't historically

[1:14:55] adopted them because the city hasn't um gone out to seek um grants or loans to

[1:15:00] fund infrastructure. So the um need to adopt them for grant purposes or loan

[1:15:07] purposes was not evident. The city self-funded. Um what got missed in that

[1:15:13] is that they also provide a factual basis um for how public facilities are

[1:15:19] um managed um what kind of plans you have

[1:15:23] what kind of projects are in those plans those types of things. So with

[1:15:26] comprehensive plan update um these just provide a factual basis um as an adopted

[1:15:33] document for the the comprehensive plan to um rely on. They don't become a part

[1:15:39] of the comprehensive plan. Um they just provide a factual basis of of what's

[1:15:44] there. As you well know, we're working on adopting um not only replacements for

[1:15:50] these two plans, but a number of other kind of public facilities plans. Many of

[1:15:55] them are well underway and will probably be in front of you sometime later this

[1:16:00] fall. Um, but that would not be timely for the work we're doing on the

[1:16:05] comprehensive plan. So, glad to answer any further questions you might have.

[1:16:15] » All right. Ready for a motion.

[1:16:21] I move to approve resolution 24-2026, a resolution establishing oops, adopting

[1:16:28] the 2015 water systems master plan and the 2021 wastewater facilities plan.

[1:16:36] » I'll second that. >> Got a motion, a second. Does anyone have

[1:16:38] any questions for Carla regarding this >> minor correction resolution 23-2026?

[1:16:47] » Thank you.

[1:16:51] Okay, hearing none. All in favor say I. >> I.

[1:16:54] » Any oppose? >> Okay, thank you.

[1:16:59] » You bet. Thanks, Carla. Resolution 24-2026,

[1:17:05] a resolution establishing an animal impoundment feed and repealing prior

[1:17:10] resolution setting such fees. So just the quickest summary is we're

[1:17:16] trying to re recoup all the costs associated with transporting and taking

[1:17:21] care of the animals. That's like gas. That's the time of our employees.

[1:17:29] So that's what is before you

[1:17:34] » move to approve resolution 24-2026 a resolution establishing an animal

[1:17:38] empowerment fee and repealing prior resolutions setting such fees.

[1:17:44] » I'll second that. >> I got a motion and a second. Any

[1:17:48] discussion? I have some discussion. I think we need to be really careful with

[1:17:52] this. Uh I get it, but I think we should be

[1:17:56] really careful. uh

[1:18:00] that we're just not going to be a small town community that tries to help people

[1:18:06] find their dog or their animal. I mean, we have people who don't take care of

[1:18:11] their animals and then we have people who do take care of their animals. And I

[1:18:16] I just hope that we're not going to be money mongers and just like because

[1:18:24] there are people that won't pay and they'll just say, "You took my animal."

[1:18:27] Okay. Well, I'm just not going to get it back. And I think that's a negative way

[1:18:31] to go at it. I I get there's a financial cost, but I've already talked to Mr.

[1:18:36] Hammond about this, but uh I think we need to uh pass this, but I just hope

[1:18:43] that there is

[1:18:47] don't know what the right word. I don't think grace is the right word, but I

[1:18:50] hope that we we still work with people to

[1:18:57] who are responsible people to get their animals back. That's all. And I'd like

[1:19:02] to piggy back on what Mayor Kefir said, and it's something that we've discussed

[1:19:07] also that if the animals are properly identified, that the code enforcement

[1:19:11] person make every effort to get that pet back to their owner before transporting

[1:19:16] them to a facility. Now, if that animal's out all the time,

[1:19:20] » there go >> and they become a problem, then that's a

[1:19:24] different situation. But I I do think every effort should be made to return

[1:19:28] the the pet that's properly identified to their owner.

[1:19:32] » And I I think that's what this rail is all about is basically the ones that

[1:19:37] aren't responsible.

[1:19:43] » So any pet that isn't identified is going to the pound or going to

[1:19:50] Haristston to the veterary clinics that hold them. Is that correct?

[1:19:55] No. So, you guys are talking about two separate things. This is just an

[1:20:00] empoundment fee. Totally different. >> You're talking about a process. The

[1:20:07] current process is you you get the dog, and this is again, this is based on

[1:20:13] code. You get the dog, you take them directly to Hermiston,

[1:20:18] and then after you've dropped the dog off in Hermiston, you would contact

[1:20:22] them. That is exactly how the code is. So what you are mentioning is you would

[1:20:27] like to change the code because again this is when we talk about these things

[1:20:32] that we're doing like we we have to go and it I don't

[1:20:37] want to go and interpret a law. So our code says this we need to do the

[1:20:42] code. If the code doesn't make sense well then let's change the code which is

[1:20:46] what we're doing. So, if if that's some direction that you as the council would

[1:20:51] like uh the city to do is is update the process, that's what you're talking

[1:20:56] about. >> I I think I'm a witness to the accepted

[1:20:59] practice is to return the dog to the existing owner if it can be identified

[1:21:03] when the code enforcement officer collects it. So, that's the current

[1:21:08] practice or was the current practice. It >> it absolutely was the current practice.

[1:21:12] it and it was a um it was u uh

[1:21:18] » individual's choice >> correct individual's choice it was not

[1:21:22] based on code >> okay

[1:21:23] » I think that if we do I think we should change the code then to

[1:21:29] » which is something we I mean again this is something that we can look at doing

[1:21:33] but right now the current code is because we've looked at it it it is like

[1:21:36] you take the dog in it's not going and finding him or anything like that

[1:21:41] » and and this resolution Brandon, just to clarify, was specifically to recoup the

[1:21:46] cost of gas and the staff that is taking >> correct

[1:21:51] » the the um pet. >> Correct.

[1:21:54] » And we'll come back at a later time with that rate because it doesn't say here

[1:21:58] what that fee is going to be >> for for purpose reasons because the rate

[1:22:03] like the mileage rate changes the >> different per person.

[1:22:08] » Correct. Yep. generally.

[1:22:12] No, it's I mean it's pretty much but the mileage rate the reimburseed mileage

[1:22:15] rate changes. I don't know how often that does but like we do increases to

[1:22:20] salaries and things like that. >> I think the consent I don't think

[1:22:23] there's a problem with the the policy that we're trying to do here. I

[1:22:29] think we're concerned about >> which is yes a different matter.

[1:22:32] Correct. I hear you need to address that. Yep. I hear you.

[1:22:37] » Any other discussion? Okay. All in favor say I.

[1:22:42] » I. >> Any oppose.

[1:22:46] All right. My computer died, so I'm going off of the thing here.

[1:22:51] » Okay. So, we're uh update bank bank signers.

[1:22:56] » Um now that you have appointed a new counselor, we need to remove um Karen

[1:23:01] Pedigrew from the accounts and add uh councelor Gonzalez.

[1:23:07] I move to update the account signers and custodians on the city of Boardman

[1:23:12] accounts at Banner Bank and money market account at the bank of eastern Oregon by

[1:23:16] removing Karen Pedigrew and adding Isabelle Gonzalez.

[1:23:21] » Second that. >> Do I have any discussion?

[1:23:26] All in favor say I. >> I.

[1:23:28] » I. Any oppose? We'll go to appoint a housing advisor

[1:23:33] committee member. I think we already already have a an idea. [laughter]

[1:23:37] » Yeah, I moved to a point. It was all acknowledged to

[1:23:41] » a nominee >> housing committee.

[1:23:44] » All right, we'll do this the quick confession.

[1:23:47] » I could second that. >> Yes, we have a second. Is there any

[1:23:50] discussion? How about the nominee? Do you have any discussion?

[1:23:53] » No. [laughter] >> Welcome.

[1:23:56] » You're willing, right? >> Willing.

[1:23:57] » Yeah. Thank you. We appreciate it. All in favor say I. I. I. Any oppose?

[1:24:04] Okay. Uh, appoint Cres 2 member. I've been uh putting some thought to this.

[1:24:10] » I would like to be on it. >> And uh

[1:24:14] you what? >> I would like to be on it.

[1:24:16] » Yeah, but you didn't let me finish. >> I'm sorry.

[1:24:21] » Cuz now I maybe not vote for you. >> Maybe not.

[1:24:23] » No. Uh I my thought process was uh was to nominate Brenda Profit just for the

[1:24:32] fact that she's been uh attending and been on a uh

[1:24:39] she's been on Chris 3 or Chris 3. I do believe she's been on some as alternate.

[1:24:43] I think she would be a good person to put on it when I think she can make the

[1:24:48] meetings. Um, and so, um, that was going to be my nomination was to put you as a

[1:24:56] Cres 2 member. >> Thank you, Paul.

[1:25:01] » I move to appoint Councelor Profett as the member of Cres 2.

[1:25:09] » I'll second that. >> Okay. Got a motion and a second. Is

[1:25:12] there any additional uh discussion?

[1:25:17] All in favor say I. I >> I

[1:25:19] » Any oppose? >> Thanks.

[1:25:25] » BCDA pickle ball leaves. >> So, um, as the BCTA chair alluded to, we

[1:25:34] are, you know, we've talked about moving it. We just need to make it official.

[1:25:38] The old lease was for the old piece of land. So, all we did was the wording is

[1:25:43] basically the same thing. All we did is move the location to behind the

[1:25:48] fieldhouse.

[1:25:52] » I move to approve city manager Hammond to sign the pickle ball court property

[1:25:55] lease agreement with the Boardman Community Development Association.

[1:25:58] » I'll second that. >> Okay, I got a motion and a second. Is

[1:26:01] there any other discussion? All in favor say I.

[1:26:05] » I. >> I.

[1:26:06] » Any oppose? All right. League of Oregon Cities

[1:26:11] Legislative Priorities. So there is a list of 27 priorities. Um

[1:26:20] in the packet I gave like there's the whole document.

[1:26:25] I then summarized that document and then the one in front of you are

[1:26:33] just a few suggestions. Those are things that uh we as city staff felt. Um but

[1:26:40] we're only needed to choose five. >> Five. You need this right now.

[1:26:44] » We do. >> I've lost my pin.

[1:26:47] » We cannot do it by secret ballot. So, what I can do is I can do a roll call

[1:26:53] and you can give me your votes by number if that would work and that would be an

[1:26:58] easy way to tally. >> What's the blue?

[1:27:02] » The blue are my recommendations from city staff. I'm sorry I didn't clarify

[1:27:06] the blue, >> but yeah, that's that's things that have

[1:27:09] come up. We as city staff, those are things that we felt are a priority. But

[1:27:13] again, I highlighted seven, eight.

[1:27:33] » Do you want to start with me? I'm allowed seven or eight.

[1:27:36] » Five. >> Five.

[1:27:38] » Five. Yep. And Amanda will note. >> Okay.

[1:27:43] » Which one to vote for? >> Councelor Profett. Well, I'm going to

[1:27:46] take my five from the eight that Brandon has here. So, I would like number six,

[1:27:52] number seven, number nine,

[1:27:58] number 24, and

[1:28:03] number 26. Thank you.

[1:28:12] else ready to go. I'll go uh 6 7 9 10 and 24.

[1:28:22] » Thank you.

[1:28:28] » Same. >> You want the same as councelor Hughes?

[1:28:32] » 67 9 10 and 24.

[1:28:37] I can go next. >> Okay.

[1:28:40] » 7 9 24 and 25.

[1:28:47] » Thank you. >> Okay, I'm ready.

[1:28:50] » Um 6 7 9 24 and 25. Okay. And Mayor Kefir?

[1:28:58] » Uh 679. Uh yeah, let's see. 679. Is that what I

[1:29:05] put? So far, yes,

[1:29:10] » I'm writing it down. >> 67 9

[1:29:15] 24 and 25.

[1:29:23] Is that everybody?

[1:29:40] So the selected priorities are number six administrative procedures act

[1:29:46] reform, number seven public meetings law clarity, number nine full funding and

[1:29:51] streamlining for housing production number 24 infrastructure funding and

[1:29:57] number 25 water reuse.

[1:30:03] that satisfy that. >> There is now another action that we will

[1:30:09] need to take for you to >> vote on that.

[1:30:12] » Yes. Authorize him to vote.

[1:30:19] » I move to authorize city manager Hammond to submit the council's top five

[1:30:22] legislative priorities elected by the council to the League of Oregon Cities.

[1:30:26] » Second. >> Motion and second. Any any discussion?

[1:30:32] All in favor say I. >> I.

[1:30:34] » Any oppose?

[1:30:38] Financial report.

[1:30:43] » Thank you. Um in front of you we have our first month of the fiscal year 2026

[1:30:49] 2027. And um it is also uh the payouts for our

[1:30:54] quarterly payments um such as the building department which is always the

[1:30:58] the very large payment that goes out and it makes our financials look like really

[1:31:02] lopsided um because we have one month of income

[1:31:06] coming in and you know three months worth of these agreements going out. So

[1:31:10] they had a total of $88,44 um that were dispersed to the

[1:31:16] surrounding jurisdictions. Um, I've listed those there for you. Um, those

[1:31:22] vary every single month. I mean, every single quarter. Um, usually in the

[1:31:27] warmer months there's more construction going on and that tends to be the months

[1:31:30] that we uh disperse out more. Um, but just depends on what developers

[1:31:37] contractors are doing. Um, availability of employees. So, um, for our reserve

[1:31:43] funds, um, our general reserve didn't have any projects. um our water reserve

[1:31:48] fund. Um we still have some projects going on. Um and we've listed those

[1:31:55] there for you. Um finishing up some of ours that are still got

[1:31:59] uh retainage payments to be paid out because we're waiting for them to fully

[1:32:03] complete the projects. So you'll kind of see sporadically some of those last

[1:32:07] payments coming through. Um such as South Main Street. Financially, we have

[1:32:11] not closed out that project. Um, but you know, 99.9%

[1:32:17] of the job, you could say, uh, construction-wise is done. Uh, but on

[1:32:21] the books, we still have some of that left. So, you'll still see that once we

[1:32:25] get that closed up. Um, and we get the sign off from Anderson Perry that, you

[1:32:31] know, everything has been done. So, it's it's a an assurance that the project is

[1:32:36] actually complete when we finalize the payments.

[1:32:40] Um, does anybody have any questions for >> I just have a comment. Um, on behalf of

[1:32:47] Boardman Fire, I just wanted to thank the city for having this partnership

[1:32:51] because without this partnership, then our fire marshall position wouldn't

[1:32:56] exist and we're the only we have the only paid fire marshal in the county.

[1:33:00] So, anyways, thank you. >> Thank him for the work that he does for

[1:33:06] you. Any

[1:33:11] other questions or comments for Marta?

[1:33:17] » Okay. Uh, city manager report.

[1:33:24] » I was just wanting to, you know, take a moment of silence is as there was no

[1:33:30] comments from Karen [laughter] to Marta because that is I mean that is

[1:33:35] right. This is the first time >> I think so.

[1:33:38] » Good grief. >> Um, okay. If you

[1:33:44] have any questions, let me know. The report is before you. Um, I I I really

[1:33:50] want to emphasize um there is a great

[1:33:55] deal of painful, laborious effort, painstakingly

[1:34:03] day in day out. that goes into making sure that your packet is given a week in

[1:34:10] advance. So, I I just so appreciate everyone who

[1:34:16] reads the packet prior because we that is an absolute investment. We have been

[1:34:22] committed. Um, just for the record, I'll be out of town

[1:34:28] at the end of September. I'm doing a family trip.

[1:34:33] Amanda has several trainings. So, in order for us to like get a packet

[1:34:39] out the week in advance, it's like going to be done next week. So,

[1:34:45] please just make sure you're reading through the packet. If you have any

[1:34:48] questions, let me know. But we really do, it's a week. We want you guys to

[1:34:53] have plenty of time to invest and read and study. So, you're coming into this.

[1:34:57] So, again, thanks for all those that take the time. Um,

[1:35:02] » I do appreciate the links because some of them were like 383 pages, some were

[1:35:08] 61 pages, and that would be like an a thousandpage document.

[1:35:12] » Yeah, >> if it was all in one.

[1:35:14] » Absolutely. It's much easier to get to with the links.

[1:35:16] » Yes. >> And I appreciate having it a week in

[1:35:19] advance, even if I can't get to it on the day that it was delivered.

[1:35:24] » Yeah. But but again, yeah, you guys are all busy, but we hope that within that

[1:35:28] week that you guys have time to look it over.

[1:35:30] » Yeah, we used to sometimes not get it until Tuesday of the meeting.

[1:35:34] » Yeah. >> So, we're we're grateful

[1:35:37] » even if we don't get to read the whole thing.

[1:35:40] » Um so, we'll go right into it. Um let just so what everyone

[1:35:48] every every month we will have some kind of munic

[1:35:54] um the next thing I'm thank you for the input it looks like we need to have some

[1:35:59] kind of animal control in the process in there and that's great because that is

[1:36:03] the fe I mean I need that feedback that should be how I'm doing my work um title

[1:36:08] 10 that's the last thing that we've been discussing chief stoko

[1:36:13] um presented a noise ordinance and it is in your

[1:36:20] packet. Do you was there any input on that? Is

[1:36:26] there is that going in the right direction? Stephanie, is Stephanie still

[1:36:31] here? >> She's online. Okay, Stephanie's

[1:36:35] listening to >> Okay,

[1:36:37] » so >> the only comment I had, and I brought

[1:36:41] this up when I talked to you, was, "Is that really our most pressing thing that

[1:36:46] we need to work on?" That was my is it an issue? Yeah. Uh, but is that out of

[1:36:55] all the things that we have going on in our community, what is that really the

[1:37:00] one that we really need to address first?

[1:37:04] » That was my only question. Okay, I'm not saying whether it was right or wrong.

[1:37:08] That was my question. >> And this comes

[1:37:12] » because I didn't see anything about speeding. I haven't heard anything about

[1:37:17] uh uh what what else has people been

[1:37:20] barking about? >> Well, I I do have a police chief

[1:37:24] question. >> That that was my only comment.

[1:37:27] » Yeah, >> but go ahead. Go ahead, Chief.

[1:37:29] » So, Chief, obviously DUIs are getting Yeah. getting worse and worse. Is there

[1:37:36] um what course of action is are you taking

[1:37:41] for that? So to answer your question, I in I

[1:37:45] didn't get an opportunity to explain this earlier, but we had just in this

[1:37:49] last month alone, the last 30 days, we had 12 DUI arrests. So that's an average

[1:37:54] of three a week, which is ridiculous. Um, we have increased our emphasis on

[1:38:02] DUIs. So if you're driving around and there's a

[1:38:06] reason to stop you, they're going to find a reason to stop you. So don't

[1:38:09] break the law. But I would really encourage you not to drink and drive. So

[1:38:14] um yes, we have done increases in uh uh emphasis patrols. Uh to answer the

[1:38:20] mayor's question on speed, speeds controlled by Oregon revised statute.

[1:38:24] Has nothing to do with the city ordinance. So there's really nothing to

[1:38:28] address there. Um we do do emphasis patrols for speed. Uh we can't be

[1:38:33] everywhere all the time. And uh we do issue tickets. I think if you look at

[1:38:38] the report, I don't have in front of me, but I'm sure there was like 60ome

[1:38:43] citations issued for the month. Um, so speed continues to be a problem.

[1:38:52] I don't want to feel like I was attacking you or that I because I've

[1:38:57] seen your posts on Facebook trying to address it and I've seen the attacking

[1:39:01] come to you. Um, so I appreciate everything that you're trying to do. I

[1:39:06] do that. That was I just wanted to reiterate that I mean everything because

[1:39:12] I've talked to a couple officers about the DUIs on what you know where is it

[1:39:18] happening? Is it really people who are going to establishments and coming out

[1:39:24] and uh I think the consensus was that wasn't really the problem. It's coming

[1:39:30] from home. people are partaking at home and then leaving or they're getting off

[1:39:36] work and they're buying a beverage and they're cracking it open at nine o'clock

[1:39:41] in the morning and going home. So, uh it's a tough problem. I I don't have a

[1:39:47] problem with discussing uh dealing with the noise because I remember in the

[1:39:53] early 2000s when certain individuals I think that was before you but that uh we

[1:39:59] had individuals who had really loud cars and that was an issue that we had to

[1:40:04] deal with as well. So,

[1:40:06] » I think it's barking dogs right at the moment. 2 a.m. barking dogs

[1:40:11] » been let out to go potty and then won't be let back in in a timely way.

[1:40:18] » I think and I think that my comment um to you Brandon was just um you know when

[1:40:24] you think about the officer's time, right? is that the best use of their

[1:40:29] time um dealing with complaints about noise versus you know the safety and and

[1:40:35] um I think that's where where I was coming from um when I made similar

[1:40:40] comments I think to Mayor Kefir. I guess I would hesitate to call 911

[1:40:48] because the neighbor's dog is barking habitually at 2 a.m. I would I would

[1:40:54] still have a trouble calling about that. I'd rather call during the day and say,

[1:40:57] "Hey, this is a problem in my neighborhood. Could you send extra

[1:40:59] patrols?" >> I I I don't think it's barking dogs that

[1:41:03] we're dealing with. We're deal the the bands that are literally in people's

[1:41:07] backyards at at 2 in the morning still rocking and rolling. Correct.

[1:41:12] » Are they inside the city? >> Yes, they are inside the city.

[1:41:16] » All right. Yeah. >> So my margarita

[1:41:21] » I always thought that we had a time that was a quiet time and I was told that we

[1:41:27] didn't and I there are other cities that have that.

[1:41:31] Um so >> we have a lot of lot of things that we

[1:41:36] got to tackle. >> So if I could I try to try to address

[1:41:39] all of the comments and concerns. So, uh, no offense, I I didn't take it as as

[1:41:44] as as you were pointing fingers. So, um, but, uh, we have to address all of these

[1:41:51] issues, not just one. And the officers are getting all kinds of calls. I I

[1:41:57] actually had to, uh, cover some calls last Saturday night. So, um, we had five

[1:42:06] noise complaints all that night alone. One of them was a

[1:42:11] repeat offender after we told them that they needed to quiet down. Um, during

[1:42:16] that, we also had other calls. We had a head-on collision um in which uh

[1:42:21] fortunately nobody got hurt, but we were dealing with that at the same time as

[1:42:25] other complaints. So, yes, we have to prioritize our calls. Um, with the

[1:42:30] barking dogs, if you don't call when it's happening, it's pretty tough for us

[1:42:35] to do anything. Okay? So, you don't have to call 911. you can call the

[1:42:40] non-emergency dispatch number and the officer if they're not on another call

[1:42:46] will go take care of that or uh we have a method in place that the city has a

[1:42:51] call out or whatever for their their folks. So all calls will get addressed

[1:42:58] all complaints have to be addressed at some point in in in some form or

[1:43:02] fashion. So we we will take care of those. We prioritize the calls as they

[1:43:07] come in. So, a barking dog call and a DUI,

[1:43:12] it's gonna get put on the back burner, >> of course.

[1:43:15] » Um, I I hope I covered everybody's kind of

[1:43:20] concerns. Um, what we did here is we tried to I took noise ordinances from

[1:43:26] several different cities. Um, I took ours, I took uh Oregon Revised Statute

[1:43:32] and kind of try to combine it into an ordinance in which we can try to address

[1:43:36] some of the concerns. So if you if you read down through that ordinance um

[1:43:40] there was the talk about amplified uh noise uh engine revving tires spinning

[1:43:46] horns defective or modified exhaust systems that type of thing. So it is

[1:43:51] encompassed into this. Our current uh ordinance is very vague and extremely

[1:44:01] difficult to try to enforce. Basically, we could arrest you for disorderly

[1:44:06] conduct with just coming and talking to you the first time. Obviously, we want

[1:44:11] to educate and uh have some ordinances. And so, I tried putting out a post uh

[1:44:16] early on about some of the concerns that we're having, but it was very vague and

[1:44:21] I had a lot of questions. So, uh that's when I went to the city manager and

[1:44:25] said, "Hey, we need to come up with a resolution and try to define our

[1:44:29] ordinance a little better than what it is." uh we're not trying to we're not

[1:44:33] trying to say don't go out and have fun. We're we're simply not doing that. But

[1:44:38] uh in a residential neighborhood, people also have the right to enjoy their their

[1:44:42] home and their their property as well. So there has to be a

[1:44:49] compromise uh on on both sides, but uh I do believe there's ways we can address

[1:44:54] some of these concerns >> because I was uh I think I was talking

[1:44:58] to Mr. happened earlier too uh about time of day. So if we

[1:45:05] we were to limit the times well that has greater ramifications because the city

[1:45:11] also has celebrations and so if we cancel things say okay uh can only be at

[1:45:19] certain times then the city and other activities that we have also have to be

[1:45:24] cognizant of that too. So other side it's like

[1:45:27] » that's >> just trying to think of you know

[1:45:31] I noticed that it just said time of day but is when you put this together is

[1:45:37] that the that's not the official one is it

[1:45:41] » we >> the one that we sent before you yes

[1:45:44] would no I mean it's a it's a draft but it has an opportunity for temporary

[1:45:50] noise ordinance allowances or exceptions >> there is at the authorization of the

[1:45:56] city manager. But again, I would use extreme caution because what we can't do

[1:46:02] is say Oregon revised statute, you don't matter. Um, and it does fall under

[1:46:07] disorderly conduct and and some other things. What we would probably encourage

[1:46:12] is if you're going to have that live music, uh, put it in a venue that's not

[1:46:17] in a residential neighborhood. Yeah. >> Put it in in in a in a park or or an

[1:46:23] event place. so that it doesn't cause that type of disturbance. Then the city

[1:46:27] manager can issue a permit allowing for certain hours to allow that to take

[1:46:32] place. When when when we make a decision based on this, there's the totality of

[1:46:38] the circumstances. So you got duration, the time of day, uh what type of noise,

[1:46:43] how long, uh if it's been going on for four or five hours compared to an hour

[1:46:48] or 30 minutes or whatever the case may be. There's a lot of stuff that comes

[1:46:51] into this when an officer makes a decision. How far are we going to push

[1:46:54] this and can we resolve it without it ending with somebody either getting a

[1:46:59] citation or somebody going to jail? That's our last course. We always always

[1:47:04] love would love to give a warning rather than issue a citation.

[1:47:09] » I think there are parties around Boardman that are outside of the city's

[1:47:13] purview that are loud enough to be heard anywhere in Boardman.

[1:47:17] » So the Sorry. So, and and I recognize that that's a that's a factor. It's just

[1:47:25] a part of I've always thought it was kind of a

[1:47:28] part of living here. So, but >> um

[1:47:32] » so to address that, uh I there was the same Saturday night, the same uh there

[1:47:38] was a party out in the county and the county was called and they actually took

[1:47:43] action on it as well. So they they kind of have similar noise issues, but it's a

[1:47:49] little easier to do out in the county. >> Yeah.

[1:47:52] And and the main concept like was there anything to change take away because the

[1:47:58] the goal is let's talk about it and then again let's present it. I mean we're

[1:48:04] trying to make and and we'll continue to make corrections and we can do that.

[1:48:08] We're just trying to clean up some things. So the hope would be to present

[1:48:12] this next month. But was there anything that stood out that you're like, "Wow,

[1:48:15] no." Or, "Where is this?" Anything? >> No.

[1:48:22] » No. I'll probably just keep talking to you about it.

[1:48:25] » Cool. All right. Okay. So, don't bring it to present next

[1:48:30] time like for adoption. >> Bring it.

[1:48:33] » Bring it. >> We'll see.

[1:48:35] » And then good the way it is. Like

[1:48:38] » anybody has a heartburn, they'll definitely bring it up to you.

[1:48:41] » Cool. Um, mobile. Again, this is a mobile food vendor. We're not talking

[1:48:46] pods yet. We're just talking mobile food vendor. Was there anything in there that

[1:48:52] uh I know Heather has shared some stuff which was great. We addressed those

[1:48:58] was >> also wanted to to bring up the

[1:49:04] like special events. >> Yes. Did I not? So

[1:49:10] » yes, we should talk about that. >> Yes, thank you. So the one thing that we

[1:49:15] don't like this does not the mobile food vendor has nothing to do with the guy

[1:49:19] selling watermelon or anything like that. We will define mobile food vendor

[1:49:24] as a food truck. Um and the special events, Stephanie, did we have anything

[1:49:29] about special events? I know we've talked about it because we do it right

[1:49:33] now. I mean, right, they go down in the marina. they do other things and I

[1:49:38] » I just >> there is a little bit of language uh

[1:49:43] it's going to be right on your first page. I don't have it in [clears throat]

[1:49:45] front of me right now but it says except special events. So under food

[1:49:49] regulations mobile vendors for events are handled differently than your

[1:49:54] typical mobile vendor. So they are inspected as standalone during that

[1:49:59] event only. So you'll see them at fair or um maybe some of the chamber events

[1:50:04] where they have to participate in those. But there is some language in there

[1:50:08] where it says accept events. >> And and Stephanie, can you shine a light

[1:50:13] on what you brought differently this time?

[1:50:18] » Sure. So with this, I I tried to take in all of the conversation that we had

[1:50:24] during the work session the one night. We sent out a preliminary. I think

[1:50:28] Brandon sent it to each of you individually for your review. Uh some of

[1:50:32] you gave us some feedback uh about specific issues. So I think what you're

[1:50:37] seeing in front of you tonight would address um individual vendor units. And

[1:50:43] the idea behind this would be that it would go I believe it's title five of

[1:50:48] the municipal code kind of the same area where we have uh transient merchant

[1:50:52] licenses and those sorts of things. And then the food pods themselves would be

[1:50:56] something that would be in it in the development code. So, this one's going

[1:51:01] to cover some regulations for individual units and things that could help

[1:51:07] facilitate the uh opportunity for these units to

[1:51:13] come in and be cited and have some safety area around them as far as fire

[1:51:21] life safety, some parking, and then the possibility for some safe connections

[1:51:26] should they need connection to water or electricity or even potentially our

[1:51:32] sewer system. >> And then also bring up the the 30 the

[1:51:39] tempor the three classifications. >> So we kind of followed a little bit of

[1:51:44] what a couple of other jurisdictions did where it would be a temporary like a

[1:51:48] type one is a a 30-day and then type two and type three going all the way up to

[1:51:54] 180 days with the intent of them being there temporarily.

[1:51:57] um but no hour limitation. They could be open 24 hours a day if they wanted to or

[1:52:02] anything like that, but more being a a temporary at that location.

[1:52:08] And then the other piece of that then would be that I would really like for

[1:52:14] you to consider tonight would be specifically what areas

[1:52:19] uh I put just the zones. I think I did um commercial industrial what zones we

[1:52:25] would like to see them in and maybe identify maybe it's not the tourist

[1:52:29] commercial overlay or maybe it is or what you'd like to see with that

[1:52:36] » that location. Yeah. >> Well, I do have a question then. So,

[1:52:41] let's say the Sage Center was holding an event and wanted a mobile vendor. then

[1:52:46] they just apply for a permit for that usage even though it's not

[1:52:51] » it's a different process because it's like a special event thing.

[1:52:54] » Okay. >> It has to be done through the health

[1:52:57] department. >> Yeah. Yeah. That's something too.

[1:53:00] » Correct.

[1:53:07] That's a totally different

[1:53:11] » anything any heartburn I mean fine you're fine

[1:53:17] with the type one type two type three nothing like that

[1:53:20] » gives them some direction when they want to come in with their mobile food truck

[1:53:26] » sure >> and not be on a pod

[1:53:28] » um I know >> I know they're well I I won't bring it

[1:53:33] up.

[1:53:36] We're not talking O do Stephanie, so don't say anything.

[1:53:42] » Are they mobile? No. >> Yeah, that's something. Anyway, cool. Um

[1:53:48] the one thing that will again, we'll just keep bringing stuff up. Um any

[1:53:53] other input, please. Again, we'll do the animal thing. Amanda wrote that down. Um

[1:54:00] uh and then the last thing that I wanted to share is just thank you. I I

[1:54:07] it can be crappy in your position and and it's not like

[1:54:12] people are breaking down the doors of city hall to come and run to be on

[1:54:16] council. Um so I I really do appreciate what you do. Uh, I've I know that you

[1:54:24] guys have the absolute utmost what is best for boredom at at heart and that's

[1:54:30] exactly what it should be. And maybe that's not always aligned with what

[1:54:34] everyone says or what I think or whatever, but that's what you guys are

[1:54:37] choosing to do. And you set yourself out for those things and and and thank you

[1:54:42] for doing that cuz um the the no one signing up is is way

[1:54:49] scary to not have people be willing to run. So,

[1:54:53] » well, and let's be honest, it's only one or two people that causes the most

[1:54:58] grief.

[1:55:02] That's all I got.

[1:55:07] » All right, we're to the point where we have counselor comments. Any counselors

[1:55:11] have some comments they'd like to share? >> I do.

[1:55:17] » So, um I did want to just say I I don't think three questions is enough.

[1:55:23] When we I'm looking at Mayor Kefir. um when we in when we interview candidates.

[1:55:31] Um so I'll leave it at that. Um but I did

[1:55:35] also want to share I had a training in Hermiston um recently and the trainer um

[1:55:41] uh was there for two days and um I was talking to her and she um shared that

[1:55:49] she was staying in Boardman and she said she was from like the

[1:55:53] Portland area. Um and she said when um she goes out and does trainings um she

[1:56:01] uh does not want to have to commute and she said but it was worth it you know

[1:56:07] driving to driving from Boardman to Hermison. She said it just is very

[1:56:12] relaxing. She really enjoyed being next to the river um and just spoke highly of

[1:56:16] Boardman. So I just wanted to share that.

[1:56:19] » Nice. >> Any other counselor comments?

[1:56:27] Okay, I have a mayor comment. So, this is going to be an update. I uh met with

[1:56:34] the county uh Mr. Jensen and I met with Lisa

[1:56:41] from the port and myself and we talked about water and um Mr. Jensen is going

[1:56:48] to be coming next month to present uh something

[1:56:56] that the county would like us to do and we need to be ready to decide on that.

[1:57:01] Um we talked about a lot of things and um

[1:57:07] we're taking a lot of heat about this water and we're taking uh a lot of heat.

[1:57:15] people are saying things that we are doing that we're not. And I think it's

[1:57:19] important that we be ready to um go somewhere to be able to give the county

[1:57:26] and the water consortium a decision on where the city stands. U

[1:57:35] cities do not sell water to people who are not citizens

[1:57:42] and it is not right. You mean citizens live in live inside the city?

[1:57:47] » Not outside the city limits. >> Clarifying.

[1:57:51] » Thank you for clarifying. >> Correct.

[1:57:54] » So yeah, make sure I say it right. Uh because I have a lot of thoughts, Roman.

[1:57:59] Um

[1:58:03] » Whoa. >> And your phone's not about Siri like

[1:58:07] commenting on what I'm saying. So, um

[1:58:13] I think that the

[1:58:20] sorry if my watch talks too. Um

[1:58:27] I think that the Mr. Jensen was really pushing would like us to apply a pipe

[1:58:34] that goes to West Glenn and uh I don't think that is probably

[1:58:40] the right way to go uh because West Glenn is in the urban growth and anyone

[1:58:47] who receives uh water outside of the city limits

[1:58:52] probably would never want to come into the city limits. uh nor would the city

[1:58:57] ever make someone do that. So out of all these things that uh are out there, I

[1:59:04] think it's important that we remember that we have the boardman and citizens

[1:59:12] water supply that we need to think about.

[1:59:16] Um that's the number one. And number two is

[1:59:22] anything that we do in if we were to go outside and enter our urban growth

[1:59:28] boundary and try to help would only bring liability to the city. I think

[1:59:34] that the county needs to build a water district

[1:59:40] and they should probably think about that if they haven't. I'm a little

[1:59:44] irritated that it's four years past 2022 and the water consortium finally decided

[1:59:50] to come talk to the city of Boardman in 2026. But that's me. That's just me. Uh

[1:59:56] I think it's should be clear that the city of Boardman is not trying to tell

[2:00:01] people what to do. I think it's should be important that the people of the area

[2:00:07] know that the city of Boardman has no interest in making people do things that

[2:00:12] they don't want to do. So, uh, out of all of that rambling, uh,

[2:00:19] next month, uh, Matt Jensen will probably be coming and talking to you

[2:00:25] and expecting a decision on the direction that you would like to go as a

[2:00:29] council. Uh I said I was only one person. I cannot make decisions for the

[2:00:34] council but tried to give them some ideas of maybe what the council might or

[2:00:40] might not be willing to do and he will do a presentation for us to decide.

[2:00:47] Uh the other thing I'd like to share just

[2:00:51] to councelor Quis is we can fix that. [laughter]

[2:00:56] We can address that. Let's give them four questions.

[2:01:00] » Yes. I just I just think um you know I I do think that these positions are

[2:01:06] important, right? And they're not paid by the way. Um but they are they are

[2:01:12] important and I want to have a good feel for the individuals and um like just the

[2:01:17] basic question of what are what are the qualities that you would bring that you

[2:01:21] feel like are the most important, right? Or that you would you know contribute,

[2:01:26] right? um from either one because I think that that's where they

[2:01:31] could really speak to what they can bring versus some of the

[2:01:36] questions that were on here. So >> yes,

[2:01:40] » we can address that. Thank you. Uh this meeting is adjourned.

Boardman, OR City Council Meeting September 1, 2026

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