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All right.

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Welcome tonight.
Going to call the Lake Oswego City

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Council meeting for Tuesday, April 21st
to order.

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Um first order of business is Pledge of
Allegiance.

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Pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the

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republic for which it stands, one nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and

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justice for all.

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I can honestly say I This is the first
meeting I've had besides COVID where

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there haven't been anybody here.
So.

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All right. Um
I'll entertain a motion to approve the

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agenda in front of us. So moved. Second.

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All those in favor of the agenda as
presented, please signify by saying I.

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I.
My microphone is not working now.

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Um do you have something on top of the
mute? Not anymore. Oh, okay. Cool. But

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it's it's showing red.

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There it is. All right.
Thank you.

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Um since there is nobody here unless
somebody up at the dais would like to uh

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have some public comments, that'd be
fine.

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Uh otherwise we'll move along to
approval of the minutes for

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» [snorts]
>> uh special City Council meeting from

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uh February 17th,
City Council workshop on the 10th of

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March, and the City Council meeting from
the 7th of April.

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I'll entertain a motion for approval of
those minutes. So moved.

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Second.
All those in favor of approving the

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minutes from
as previously previously referenced,

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please signify by saying I. I.
Agenda uh minutes are hereby approved.

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In the consent agenda this evening, we
have approved payments and

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disbursements, approved night out
special event permit, approved first

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quarter financials and dashboards.
And that's all we have on the consent

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agenda this evening.
I'll entertain a motion to

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approve the consent agenda.
So moved.

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Second.
All All those in favor of approving this

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consent agenda as read and presented,
please signify by saying I. I. All

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right.
Moving right along to the regular

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agenda. We have a first quarter 2026
goals update,

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which
shouldn't be too much different from our

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update that we had
2 weeks ago, correct? That's correct.

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So,
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the quarterly goals update are meant to
give a kind of a summary recap of how

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we're making progress on the strategic
goals, but you're absolutely right. We

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just did our first annual annual report,
which definitely was much more detailed

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um talking about what we uh accomplished
in '25 and then what [clears throat] we

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have going on in '26. So,
this should uh just kind of be a recap,

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but we didn't want to skip it either and
and we do keep this document, you know,

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as a a running running tally of our
progress. So,

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um
we did um talk about next steps for the

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180 acres on March 10th.
And um also Jason presented the schedule

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for community engagement, so that will
get going pretty soon.

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And then as Clarissa will um always
thank you for um the new financial

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software. We did uh implement it in the
first quarter, um but there are

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definitely
uh finance department is still really

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busy um working out the bugs and and
we're all learning how to still use it a

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lot. So,
do you want to say thank you again for

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purchase. Thank you,
All right.

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Um and then for our stormwater
um feed discussion, you know, it's it's

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ongoing. So, we're we've talked about it
a few times and now um we are um on

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schedule to hopefully be coming back May
5th um as long as that engineer um can

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make sure that he has all of his
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thoughts in order and and can be ready
for that. So, that's the plan right now.

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For communications,
um we were able to

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um move everyone that was signed up for
Constant Contact for the weekly email

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into [clears throat] our new um platform
on the on the website um starting in the

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beginning of the year.
And then

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um
our finance department [clears throat]

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and communications coordinator have been
working on creating a couple of the

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one-pagers when we do have policies that
are new. So, they created the one for

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the budget, but also for franchise fees.
We did that in January.

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We also um set up the notify me group
for the public hearing notices where

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people can go and sign up to be notified
when public hearing notices are added to

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the website.
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um
public works um implemented work orders

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in Beehive in quarter one. So, that is
something that you should see in your

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the dashboards um that we added where
resident-driven work orders and we were

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able to break it down for quarter one
and how many are open and how many are

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completed
um under our categories: streets,

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parks,
water, stormwater.

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That So, that that's been a nice
addition to keep keep track of the work

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that that's coming in that way.
And then we did recruit and hire for one

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additional public works um
operator position this spring as well.

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So, those are our kind of the bigger
highlights, but if you have any

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questions

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Do you have any questions for the
administrator?

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All right.
Does that sufficiently cover your

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your topic? Okay. Yep.
I Can I just quick say thank you for

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doing this again and I know we did just
cover it last week, but I I really

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appreciate how
this is like obviously a priority to

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make sure that this is the focus of the
team. So, you know, even coming back and

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doing it again to just restate it, I
just think that's great. So, I

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appreciate it.
On the comms aspect between the stuff

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that you and and Kathy are doing and
however else is distributed within the

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team, I find those to be one of the
bigger game changers because that the

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expectation that city staff do those
things did not exist

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for years.
And it was all the elected's will

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communicate it. Well, we aren't
We we can speak for boastfully and

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sometimes with too many words, but we
don't create communications. We don't

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do, you know, one-pagers in a certain
way where a certain style that's

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effective to get a message across across
from a certain standpoint. That's not

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our specialty. So, having those things
being now created for specific

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instances, that to me is a tremendous
value gained and I am also happy that

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it'll be a sustained practice that's
becoming a part of the work culture. So,

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I appreciate that and thank you for
those efforts.

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All right. Thank you.
I guess from that we can move into

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councilor reports.
Councilor Dragasits.

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» [clears throat]
>> You know, unless it's a short meeting, I

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thought I'd talk about how all the
theory of relativity impact of pavement

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life um in the downtown district on an
inverse relationship to the distance to

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the moon.
Other than that, I have nothing else to

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report.
Okay. Thank you.

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Uh
Council Member Holtz. I have nothing

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specific to report. All right. Well,
um

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as you may have seen uh
I think it might have come out today.

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Yesterday, myself
uh special projects manager uh

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» [clears throat]
>> Clark Schroeder, city administrator

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Nicole Miller, and myself went to um
the capital.

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» [clears throat and cough]
>> We had some very uh

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short time frame I I learned a whole new
thing where you can call people off the

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floor, and as long as they're not
voting, they'll come out and talk to

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you, and then they rush back to go get
their vote. But, we had the opportunity

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to talk to them about uh two of our
legislative opportunities uh to 11

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different senators and representatives.
It was nice to have that face-to-face

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and answer any questions that they may
have. Um

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that was basically most of the afternoon
yesterday. So,

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it was it was good to have those
interactions and and have some face time

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with people that are
you know, voting on or voting against uh

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whatever you're trying to get done. So,
that's my report.

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No report from me.
No report?

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Anything? Well, um
for any residents that are watching, um

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for Arbor Day, we have our tree giveaway
at Public Works this Saturday from 8:00

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to 10:00 a.m. And then following that,
there's a couple park cleanups that uh

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residents are organizing, so they're
looking for volunteers for Elmo's Pup

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Park cleanup, and then Shell Knob Park.
Got it. That's the new one in the park,

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right? On Saturday. Saturday? Yep. And
so, the park cleanups are after the tree

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giveaway. So, tree [clears throat]
giveaway 8:00 to 10:00, cleanup at the

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parks 10:00 to 12:00.
And what types of trees are we giving

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away?
I don't know. Small saplings probably. I

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think I've heard. Right? Small. Both
deciduous and kind of coniferous.

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Trees for like home residents. Green
ones.

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» [laughter]

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» Clarissa. North Park.
Sarah. North Park. All right. And with

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that, I am going to adjourn the meeting
at 7:10.

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Oh my gosh, that's the quickest one
ever.