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      "rawSrt": "1\n00:00:02,238 --> 00:00:04,238\norder and we will begin with our\n\n2\n00:00:08,244 --> 00:00:10,110\nroll call.\nCouncilor franzosa.\n\n3\n00:00:10,379 --> 00:00:12,681\n>> mendez.\n>> riley.\n\n4\n00:00:14,250 --> 00:00:16,786\n>> kebler.\n>> perkins.\n>> moranis.\n>> platt.\n\n5\n00:00:16,786 --> 00:00:18,786\n>> so we're going to start with\n\n6\n00:00:19,555 --> 00:00:21,489\nthe good of the order first with\nour legislative update from\n\n7\n00:00:33,336 --> 00:00:35,336\nstaff.\n\n8\n00:00:36,205 --> 00:00:39,141\n>> good evening, council, I'm\nkite schneider and with me is\n\n9\n00:00:40,543 --> 00:00:43,345\nsarah hudson and we're just here\nto give a brief update of the\nshort session.\n\n10\n00:00:44,514 --> 00:00:46,181\nAs you know, it ended earlier\nthis month.\n\n11\n00:00:46,816 --> 00:00:49,685\nWe put together an issue summary\ntrying to highlight the most\n\n12\n00:00:51,621 --> 00:00:53,621\nimportant bills to the city, but\n\n13\n00:00:54,257 --> 00:00:57,225\neric is our contract state\nlobbyist, so the one on the\n\n14\n00:00:57,627 --> 00:01:00,620\nground and we wanted to give you\na chance to hear directly from\n\n15\n00:01:00,697 --> 00:01:03,299\nhim on the more important bills\nthis session.\n\n16\n00:01:03,299 --> 00:01:05,299\n>> thanks, kate.\n\n17\n00:01:08,571 --> 00:01:11,390\nFor the record, eric kansler,\ncity of bend lobbyist.\n\n18\n00:01:11,307 --> 00:01:13,842\nIt's good to see you all.\nI think there's really four\n\n19\n00:01:14,611 --> 00:01:16,611\nprimary issues to talk about.\n\n20\n00:01:18,810 --> 00:01:20,183\nAs kate alluded, we have\nformalized legislative\n\n21\n00:01:20,183 --> 00:01:22,384\npriorities, a press release\nabout where we focused our\n\n22\n00:01:23,353 --> 00:01:25,454\nattention, but in terms of\non-the-ground interaction and\n\n23\n00:01:28,458 --> 00:01:30,458\nwhat we were really invested in,\n\n24\n00:01:30,827 --> 00:01:32,827\nthere was primarily the lodging\n\n25\n00:01:33,229 --> 00:01:35,229\ntax issue, the protection of\n\n26\n00:01:35,498 --> 00:01:37,733\nshelter funding, and then a\ncouple housing issues related to\n\n27\n00:01:43,106 --> 00:01:45,106\nurban reserves and complete\n\n28\n00:01:48,478 --> 00:01:50,478\ncommunities.\n\n29\n00:01:52,616 --> 00:01:55,284\nThe effort to gain flexibility\nhas been going on for a long\ntime.\n\n30\n00:01:57,721 --> 00:01:59,789\nThe first time I engaged on the\nthe city's behalf was 2017,\n\n31\n00:02:00,524 --> 00:02:02,524\nalmost a decade ago.\n\n32\n00:02:02,826 --> 00:02:05,529\nIt took a lot of buildup.\nA lot of past efforts built on\n\n33\n00:02:05,529 --> 00:02:07,529\nthemselves and led to the\n\n34\n00:02:07,931 --> 00:02:09,899\nsuccess this session, and\neffectively what happened is I\n\n35\n00:02:11,201 --> 00:02:13,201\nthink you all know that under\n\n36\n00:02:15,906 --> 00:02:18,707\nthe historic regime, 70% of the\nlodging tax dollars had to be\n\n37\n00:02:18,875 --> 00:02:20,875\nearmarked for tourism and\n\n38\n00:02:21,745 --> 00:02:23,745\nmarketed oriented purposes,\n\n39\n00:02:24,147 --> 00:02:26,147\nleaving 30% for other things,\n\n40\n00:02:26,917 --> 00:02:28,851\ngeneral fund or a mix of\nresponsibilities.\n\n41\n00:02:29,519 --> 00:02:32,488\nThe 70/30 has now shifted to\n50/50, and that is true whether\n\n42\n00:02:32,489 --> 00:02:34,489\nor not you're lodging tax\n\n43\n00:02:36,460 --> 00:02:38,460\nincrement is pre-2003, a lot of\n\n44\n00:02:39,530 --> 00:02:41,931\nwhich was grandfathered in.\nPost-2003 and already existing\n\n45\n00:02:42,966 --> 00:02:44,966\nor whether it's prospective in\n\n46\n00:02:45,769 --> 00:02:47,769\nthe future, so bend, our health\n\n47\n00:02:48,172 --> 00:02:50,172\ncare pre-2003 lodging taxes is\n\n48\n00:02:50,374 --> 00:02:52,809\nbetter than 50/50, so this\ndoesn't affect us in that\nregard.\n\n49\n00:02:53,410 --> 00:02:56,179\nThere are local governments,\ncities, and counties\n\n50\n00:02:59,683 --> 00:03:02,318\ngrandfathered in at a very high\nratio.\nWayne county was grandfathered\n\n51\n00:03:02,786 --> 00:03:04,753\nin to use all of their increment\nfor marketing.\n\n52\n00:03:05,356 --> 00:03:07,657\nNow they have a considerable\namount of flexibility.\n\n53\n00:03:08,859 --> 00:03:11,594\nSo there's flexibility we can\nconsider with the 2013 increment\n\n54\n00:03:11,929 --> 00:03:13,929\nand then there's flexibility\n\n55\n00:03:14,532 --> 00:03:16,132\nshould the city decide to\nconsider another increment in\n\n56\n00:03:16,634 --> 00:03:18,634\nthe future.\n\n57\n00:03:19,570 --> 00:03:22,438\nAnd at a high level, that is\nreally -- the bill is very\n\n58\n00:03:22,540 --> 00:03:24,741\nsimple in that regard.\nThere was one additional element\n\n59\n00:03:26,610 --> 00:03:28,610\nmoved into the restricted\n\n60\n00:03:30,114 --> 00:03:32,114\nportion which involves what the\n\n61\n00:03:33,884 --> 00:03:36,686\nlegislature turned resiliency\ngrants for small restaurants and\nthe lodging industry.\n\n62\n00:03:37,354 --> 00:03:39,556\nIt was a bit of an odd fit.\nIt was important for getting the\n\n63\n00:03:40,858 --> 00:03:42,927\nbill out of the house, but\nnobody really loved it.\n\n64\n00:03:42,927 --> 00:03:44,928\nThere was consideration about\nwhether they should strip it\n\n65\n00:03:45,663 --> 00:03:47,530\nout, send it back to the house\nfor a clean fix.\n\n66\n00:03:48,833 --> 00:03:50,833\nThey left it in, moved it\n\n67\n00:03:51,135 --> 00:03:53,136\nthrough, so it's quite possible\nthat I don't know if the\n\n68\n00:03:53,237 --> 00:03:55,505\nlegislature is going to come\nback in the long session and\n\n69\n00:03:59,100 --> 00:04:00,810\nre-look at that one little\nelement, but I don't think it's\n\n70\n00:04:01,212 --> 00:04:03,513\nreally a game changer.\nIt's just an additional thing\n\n71\n00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:06,383\nthe restricted portion could be\nused for.\n\n72\n00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:09,887\nBut it's not just a handout.\nYou need a business or\n\n73\n00:04:09,887 --> 00:04:11,887\nrestaurant experiencing some\n\n74\n00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:14,560\nsort of hardship was the intent.\n\n75\n00:04:14,926 --> 00:04:16,293\nSo that's a component of it as\nwell.\n\n76\n00:04:17,228 --> 00:04:19,797\nSo moving on -- and that was our\nnumber-one policy priority.\n\n77\n00:04:19,797 --> 00:04:21,797\nOur number-one budgetary\n\n78\n00:04:24,435 --> 00:04:26,435\npriority in materials of\n\n79\n00:04:26,637 --> 00:04:28,637\ndiscrete budgetary priorities\n\n80\n00:04:28,906 --> 00:04:31,575\nwas protecting the shelter\nfunding established through a\nlot of work including by the\n\n81\n00:04:33,344 --> 00:04:35,344\ncity of bend and others ahead of\n\n82\n00:04:35,613 --> 00:04:37,613\nand during the 2025 session.\n\n83\n00:04:38,316 --> 00:04:40,884\nThere was a lot of speculation\nthat that allocation for shelter\n\n84\n00:04:41,953 --> 00:04:44,688\nfunding which is pretty bare\nbones for essential facilities\n\n85\n00:04:44,889 --> 00:04:47,858\naround the state would get\nrobbed to pay for some other\nthings.\n\n86\n00:04:50,595 --> 00:04:52,595\nOf course, we had maybe six\n\n87\n00:04:53,865 --> 00:04:55,867\nmonths out before session really\ndire-looking revenue forecasts\n\n88\n00:04:55,867 --> 00:04:57,867\nand they got incrementally\n\n89\n00:04:58,369 --> 00:05:00,369\nbetter as we got into session.\n\n90\n00:05:01,139 --> 00:05:03,139\nso fortunately, that allocation\n\n91\n00:05:03,541 --> 00:05:05,843\nwas kept entirely intact and so\nthat means -- that was our\n\n92\n00:05:06,770 --> 00:05:08,770\nnumber-one budgetary priority,\n\n93\n00:05:08,146 --> 00:05:10,414\nso on those two fronts, we did\nvery well.\n\n94\n00:05:11,216 --> 00:05:13,851\nOf course, we were part of large\ngroups of people who were on the\n\n95\n00:05:14,519 --> 00:05:17,388\none hand fighting for lodging\ntax flexibility and on the other\n\n96\n00:05:19,157 --> 00:05:21,157\nhand protecting shelter funding.\n\n97\n00:05:21,493 --> 00:05:23,394\nIt certainly wasn't the city of\nbend leading the charge, but it\n\n98\n00:05:24,162 --> 00:05:26,463\nwas a really good group of\npeople and we were at the\n\n99\n00:05:27,232 --> 00:05:29,232\nforefront with them.\n\n100\n00:05:30,468 --> 00:05:32,770\nMore specifically to our\ninitiatives are two concepts\n\n101\n00:05:33,438 --> 00:05:35,438\nthat we talked about I think the\n\n102\n00:05:35,973 --> 00:05:37,973\nlast time I met and presented in\n\n103\n00:05:38,276 --> 00:05:39,677\nfront of you all prior to\nsession.\n\n104\n00:05:40,879 --> 00:05:42,213\nBoth in the land use and housing\nrealm.\n\n105\n00:05:44,950 --> 00:05:46,950\nThe first is related to urban\n\n106\n00:05:47,585 --> 00:05:50,121\nreserves.\nWe've spent a number of years\n\n107\n00:05:53,959 --> 00:05:55,993\nhere trying to improve the\nstatute and rules standard for\n\n108\n00:05:56,695 --> 00:05:58,829\nhow you can designate a 50-year\nurban reserve to allow us to\n\n109\n00:05:59,898 --> 00:06:02,433\nbring in a 50-year land supply\nthat's actually conducive\n\n110\n00:06:03,100 --> 00:06:04,935\ntowards efficient infrastructure\nand building housing.\n\n111\n00:06:06,571 --> 00:06:08,572\nAnd I would say bend has been at\nthe forefront at the state level\n\n112\n00:06:09,441 --> 00:06:11,375\nof the effort to improve the\nurban reserve process.\n\n113\n00:06:14,112 --> 00:06:16,112\nWe passed a big bill, senator\n\n114\n00:06:16,882 --> 00:06:19,550\nbroadman was a sponsor in '25,\nand there was one piece of\n\n115\n00:06:19,751 --> 00:06:21,751\nunfinished business around how\n\n116\n00:06:22,487 --> 00:06:24,889\nyou can account for the cost of\nserving potential parcels\n\n117\n00:06:25,424 --> 00:06:27,424\noutside the ugb.\n\n118\n00:06:27,959 --> 00:06:30,261\nWe were stuck with the regime\npreviously where oftentimes we'd\n\n119\n00:06:31,964 --> 00:06:34,332\nhave to bring in very expensive\nto serve parcels, and that\n\n120\n00:06:34,433 --> 00:06:36,330\ntranslates to increase in\nhousing costs.\n\n121\n00:06:37,402 --> 00:06:39,504\nSo we were able to get that\nthrough in an amendment to a\n\n122\n00:06:42,441 --> 00:06:43,641\nmuch larger bill, house bill\n4037.\n\n123\n00:06:46,578 --> 00:06:49,447\nIt was sort of a housing omnibus\nbill and now that's passed\n\n124\n00:06:51,650 --> 00:06:53,650\nthrough what's required to just\n\n125\n00:06:54,530 --> 00:06:56,587\nliterally adopt that into their\nrule making on urban reserves.\n\n126\n00:06:57,255 --> 00:06:59,255\nAnd then lastly in terms of the\n\n127\n00:06:59,958 --> 00:07:01,958\nbig issues that we were involved\n\n128\n00:07:03,610 --> 00:07:05,663\nin is the topic of -- you can\nlook at it a couple of different\nways.\n\n129\n00:07:07,433 --> 00:07:09,433\nI would look at it as a\n\n130\n00:07:10,503 --> 00:07:11,770\nprotection of complete community\nplanning.\n\n131\n00:07:13,239 --> 00:07:15,239\nThis city, if not more than\n\n132\n00:07:15,874 --> 00:07:17,874\nother cities, has made a\n\n133\n00:07:18,277 --> 00:07:20,478\ndeliberate effort to mix uses,\nneighborhood serving commercial\n\n134\n00:07:20,679 --> 00:07:23,414\ntogether with residential,\nwalking, biking, transit, trying\n\n135\n00:07:24,416 --> 00:07:27,152\nto blend all of those things and\ncreate the neighborhood that\n\n136\n00:07:28,353 --> 00:07:30,353\npeople want to live in at all of\n\n137\n00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:36,600\nthe price points that they need.\n\n138\n00:07:37,930 --> 00:07:40,332\nAnd in the '23 or the '21\nsession, senate bill 8 was\n\n139\n00:07:42,835 --> 00:07:45,804\npassed that created a by-right\nability to do affordable housing\nprojects anywhere in the city.\n\n140\n00:07:46,572 --> 00:07:48,673\nWe broadly supported that, still\nbroadly do support it.\n\n141\n00:07:50,176 --> 00:07:52,176\nActually lobbied in that session\n\n142\n00:07:52,712 --> 00:07:54,712\nto make -- I think it was '21 --\n\n143\n00:07:54,781 --> 00:07:56,781\nto make it more expansive.\n\n144\n00:07:56,816 --> 00:07:59,618\nOne part we kind of overshot and\nthis is coming to light in other\n\n145\n00:07:59,819 --> 00:08:01,819\ncommunities around the state is\n\n146\n00:08:01,921 --> 00:08:03,921\nwhen you've got these\n\n147\n00:08:04,690 --> 00:08:06,690\nneighborhood customer nodes, one\n\n148\n00:08:08,694 --> 00:08:10,694\nor two projects can really take\n\n149\n00:08:10,763 --> 00:08:13,660\nthat neighborhood-serving\ncommercial opportunity away\nentirely.\n\n150\n00:08:13,660 --> 00:08:14,666\nObviously that's a big issue in\nthis community.\n\n151\n00:08:17,300 --> 00:08:18,670\nit's becoming a big issue in\nother communities.\n\n152\n00:08:21,974 --> 00:08:23,608\nAlso as an amendment to 4037, we\nmoved through language that kind\n\n153\n00:08:26,179 --> 00:08:28,247\nof got a foot in the door and\nprotected those\n\n154\n00:08:28,247 --> 00:08:29,481\nneighborhood-serving commercial\nareas.\n\n155\n00:08:30,450 --> 00:08:33,285\nThat's not going to be the end\nof the story in the interim, and\n\n156\n00:08:33,386 --> 00:08:35,687\nI've been in pretty regular\ncontact with the housing staff\n\n157\n00:08:36,356 --> 00:08:38,356\nin the governor's office about\n\n158\n00:08:38,358 --> 00:08:39,591\nhow to take this conversation\nforward.\n\n159\n00:08:40,426 --> 00:08:42,527\nI think there'll be a really\nrobust interim conversation\n\n160\n00:08:43,296 --> 00:08:45,296\nabout what cities need and what\n\n161\n00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:48,400\ncommunities want in terms of\ncomplete community planning.\n\n162\n00:08:50,103 --> 00:08:52,103\nAnd I, for one, am very excited\n\n163\n00:08:52,505 --> 00:08:55,140\nabout being able to to get what\nwe need in the moment and create\n\n164\n00:08:55,575 --> 00:08:57,575\nan opportunity I think for a\n\n165\n00:08:58,845 --> 00:09:00,512\nmuch more robust and\ncomprehensive solution around\n\n166\n00:09:01,470 --> 00:09:03,470\nall of those needs.\n\n167\n00:09:03,383 --> 00:09:05,684\nSo those are the main issues.\nObviously there were a bunch of\n\n168\n00:09:06,219 --> 00:09:08,219\nother issues, but I know we're\n\n169\n00:09:08,622 --> 00:09:11,590\nshort on time here tonight.\n>> yeah, any questions from\ncouncil?\n\n170\n00:09:12,250 --> 00:09:13,359\nWe sent out some information on\nthis as well.\n\n171\n00:09:14,761 --> 00:09:16,761\nGo ahead.\n\n172\n00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:21,320\n>> on the sb 1551 related to\n\n173\n00:09:21,568 --> 00:09:23,568\nwildfire and the hoas, it all\n\n174\n00:09:23,770 --> 00:09:25,871\napplies to existing hoas, as\nwell?\n\n175\n00:09:26,406 --> 00:09:28,406\nIt just removes their ability to\n\n176\n00:09:31,978 --> 00:09:33,679\nset any any restrictions on\nmaterials?\n\n177\n00:09:35,949 --> 00:09:37,949\n>> there was a previous bill I'm\n\n178\n00:09:40,870 --> 00:09:42,870\nthinking back to when there was\n\n179\n00:09:42,189 --> 00:09:44,189\na governor-declared drought that\n\n180\n00:09:44,357 --> 00:09:46,425\nthe hoa couldn't stop you from\nwatering your lawn.\n\n181\n00:09:46,827 --> 00:09:49,940\nI don't think this has a\npre-condition like that.\n\n182\n00:09:49,229 --> 00:09:51,964\n>> in my understanding, it was\naround landscaping too.\n\n183\n00:09:52,132 --> 00:09:54,132\nJust water-wise, plants and\n\n184\n00:09:54,567 --> 00:09:56,567\nthings like that that the hoa\n\n185\n00:09:56,770 --> 00:09:58,971\ncouldn't prevent people from\nusing those.\n\n186\n00:09:59,840 --> 00:10:01,840\n>> the other question I had was\n\n187\n00:10:04,211 --> 00:10:06,211\non the 4037, there's a\n\n188\n00:10:06,947 --> 00:10:08,947\ndescription in the issue summary\n\n189\n00:10:09,249 --> 00:10:11,651\nthat talks about -- it prohibits\na public hearing to consider the\n\n190\n00:10:11,652 --> 00:10:13,652\napplication for developments\n\n191\n00:10:13,921 --> 00:10:15,721\nthat are subject to clear and\nobjective review standards.\n\n192\n00:10:16,256 --> 00:10:18,557\nCan you just talk a little bit\nmore and maybe it's more a\n\n193\n00:10:19,226 --> 00:10:21,226\nquestion for staff.\n\n194\n00:10:21,762 --> 00:10:23,629\nHow would this show up in our\ncommunity?\n\n195\n00:10:23,964 --> 00:10:25,964\n>> that would probably be a\n\n196\n00:10:26,266 --> 00:10:28,266\nbetter question for staff, but I\n\n197\n00:10:29,737 --> 00:10:31,737\ncan say thematically it was --\n\n198\n00:10:32,373 --> 00:10:34,441\nthat's part of expediting.\nIf you're going to do things\n\n199\n00:10:34,441 --> 00:10:36,542\nwith clear established\nstandards, do you need to go\n\n200\n00:10:37,211 --> 00:10:39,846\nthrough all the public\nparticipation notice and\nwhatnot.\n\n201\n00:10:40,470 --> 00:10:42,782\nAnd I think that is indicative\nof a number of policies that\n\n202\n00:10:43,217 --> 00:10:45,217\nwe've seen where they're trying\n\n203\n00:10:45,519 --> 00:10:48,221\nto speed things along if you're\nneeding those clear and\nobjective standards.\n\n204\n00:10:49,356 --> 00:10:51,457\nBut in terms of the specific\nchange, I'd probably want to\n\n205\n00:10:51,992 --> 00:10:53,992\ndefer to planning staff on that.\n\n206\n00:10:54,628 --> 00:10:57,163\n>> was that in response to -- I\nforget the name of the\n\n207\n00:10:57,664 --> 00:10:59,866\ncommunity, sherwood, where they\npassed some kind of -- was this\n\n208\n00:10:59,866 --> 00:11:02,680\na response to that?\n>> I don't think so.\n\n209\n00:11:03,470 --> 00:11:06,106\n>> was it sherwood?\n>> sherwood has passed some\n\n210\n00:11:07,574 --> 00:11:09,574\nlocal measures that are clashing\n\n211\n00:11:10,778 --> 00:11:12,778\nwith state directives, but this\n\n212\n00:11:13,414 --> 00:11:15,415\nwas more of how we could speed\nup the housing process.\n\n213\n00:11:16,150 --> 00:11:18,685\n>> and I don't know if it's a\nresponse to what the city of\n\n214\n00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:21,988\nsherwood has done, but I think\nwhat sherwood has done and what\n\n215\n00:11:23,156 --> 00:11:25,892\nthis bill did in that regard,\nthey are opposite ends of the\n\n216\n00:11:26,560 --> 00:11:28,829\ncontinuum of views on how\napplications for housing\n\n217\n00:11:28,829 --> 00:11:31,731\ndevelopment should work.\nI think that's accurate.\n\n218\n00:11:32,567 --> 00:11:35,468\n>> I mean, is there an example\nof how something would be\ntreated differently in our\n\n219\n00:11:35,670 --> 00:11:37,670\ncommunity recently with this\n\n220\n00:11:38,272 --> 00:11:40,806\nbill in place?\n>> I would probably want to talk\n\n221\n00:11:41,709 --> 00:11:44,544\nto planning staff, and I don't\nknow if it's an issue of people\n\n222\n00:11:45,713 --> 00:11:47,814\nbeing treated, it's what\napplications for needed housing\n\n223\n00:11:50,952 --> 00:11:52,686\ncan be subject to in terms of\nprocessing.\n\n224\n00:11:53,688 --> 00:11:56,456\nBut it does prohibit local\njurisdiction from requiring a\n\n225\n00:11:56,657 --> 00:11:58,759\npublic hearing prior to making a\ndecision on an application that\n\n226\n00:12:00,494 --> 00:12:02,494\nis subject to clear and\n\n227\n00:12:02,764 --> 00:12:04,832\nobjective standards because it\nseeks (Indistinct).\n\n228\n00:12:04,832 --> 00:12:07,501\nI'll provide some information\nand put it in the council memo\n\n229\n00:12:08,703 --> 00:12:10,337\nso you can get all the details.\n>> okay, thanks.\n\n230\n00:12:11,539 --> 00:12:13,740\n>> any other questions?\nOkay, I did also want to\n\n231\n00:12:14,420 --> 00:12:16,430\nhighlight just in theme with our\nmeeting tonight that there was a\n\n232\n00:12:16,911 --> 00:12:18,911\nlot of work the legislature did\n\n233\n00:12:20,615 --> 00:12:23,483\non immigration rights and also a\nbill under reforming care and we\n\n234\n00:12:23,684 --> 00:12:26,119\ndid weigh in on a couple of\nthose in support of those for\n\n235\n00:12:28,560 --> 00:12:30,560\nour community which did pass.\n\n236\n00:12:30,291 --> 00:12:31,925\nAny other questions for staff?\nOkay.\n\n237\n00:12:32,327 --> 00:12:35,195\n>> thank you.\n>> many of you helped us with\n\n238\n00:12:35,730 --> 00:12:37,730\ntestifying orally or with\n\n239\n00:12:37,932 --> 00:12:40,000\nletters, so I just wanted to\nthank council for their\n\n240\n00:12:40,635 --> 00:12:42,870\nengagement this session.\n>> and thank our legislators for\n\n241\n00:12:43,838 --> 00:12:45,838\ngetting so much done.\n\n242\n00:12:46,141 --> 00:12:48,241\n>> yeah, I think that is\nimportant as well.\n\n243\n00:12:48,777 --> 00:12:51,412\nOur legislators were deeply\ninvolved in a lot of these\n\n244\n00:12:51,946 --> 00:12:54,481\nissues and also as well we\ndidn't mention the bigger\n\n245\n00:12:58,119 --> 00:13:01,540\nrevenue picture they needed to\nsolve.\nOur senator and representatives\n\n246\n00:13:02,924 --> 00:13:05,793\nwere key on these issues.\nWe were able to work closely\n\n247\n00:13:07,950 --> 00:13:09,396\nwith with staff and our\nelecteds, and that's important.\n\n248\n00:13:10,265 --> 00:13:12,967\n>> the bend delegation had a\nvery good session.\n\n249\n00:13:13,434 --> 00:13:15,836\nI think the central oregon\ndelegation broadly is kind of\n\n250\n00:13:17,906 --> 00:13:19,906\ncoming into its own, starting to\n\n251\n00:13:20,408 --> 00:13:22,408\ngel gel, and that's\n\n252\n00:13:23,845 --> 00:13:25,845\nas well.\n\n253\n00:13:26,915 --> 00:13:28,915\n>> all right, thank you.\n\n254\n00:13:30,185 --> 00:13:32,920\nAll right, that will move us\ninto council action and reports.\n\n255\n00:13:33,922 --> 00:13:35,889\nAnd so before we get into\nindividual reports, I wanted to\n\n256\n00:13:37,993 --> 00:13:40,928\nstart with a report out from our\nneighborhood roundtable that\nhappened on thursday and just\n\n257\n00:13:41,697 --> 00:13:43,130\nhave a little discussion around\nthat.\n\n258\n00:13:44,990 --> 00:13:46,990\nSo for folks who weren't there\n\n259\n00:13:46,234 --> 00:13:48,234\nor didn't know about it, this\n\n260\n00:13:49,171 --> 00:13:51,606\nwas a new format.\nThe roundtable, we meet as\n\n261\n00:13:51,907 --> 00:13:53,974\ncouncil and sit in a discussion\ntail and have\n\n262\n00:13:55,644 --> 00:13:58,450\ntable and have a listening\ndiscussion rather than a formal\nmeeting.\n\n263\n00:13:58,347 --> 00:14:01,215\nThe format of this meeting was a\npresentation from staff about\nsome of the issues that are\n\n264\n00:14:02,184 --> 00:14:04,510\ngoing on in southeast bend where\nthere's a lot of growth and\n\n265\n00:14:06,540 --> 00:14:08,222\nchange and infrastructure\ninvestment to lay the scene.\n\n266\n00:14:09,424 --> 00:14:12,393\nThen we sat at the table with\nthree neighborhood districts in\n\n267\n00:14:12,728 --> 00:14:14,695\nthat area to talk about what\nthey'd like to see and some\n\n268\n00:14:16,198 --> 00:14:18,198\nissues and concerns on a couple\n\n269\n00:14:18,233 --> 00:14:20,233\nof topics we knew they wanted to\n\n270\n00:14:22,371 --> 00:14:24,371\ntalk about, wildfire,\n\n271\n00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:26,440\nneighborhood issues, and folks\n\n272\n00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:29,711\ncould talk to city staff, get\nquestions answered, councilors\n\n273\n00:14:30,450 --> 00:14:32,450\nto mingle with folks.\n\n274\n00:14:32,114 --> 00:14:34,949\nFrom my understanding, it was\nvery successful.\nI'd love hear feedback from\n\n275\n00:14:35,500 --> 00:14:37,485\ncouncil on that format and talk\nabout where we can go next.\n\n276\n00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:40,221\nWe also have multiple different\nneighborhoods now asking us to\n\n277\n00:14:40,322 --> 00:14:42,524\nhave the same type of meeting\nfor their corner of town which I\n\n278\n00:14:42,524 --> 00:14:45,360\nthink is great.\nSo reflections from councilors\n\n279\n00:14:46,161 --> 00:14:49,300\non how that went and then we can\ntalk about what we want to do\nnext.\n\n280\n00:14:49,298 --> 00:14:51,298\nDoes anybody have any thoughts?\n\n281\n00:14:51,367 --> 00:14:53,667\n>> I loved that format.\n>> ditto.\n\n282\n00:14:53,669 --> 00:14:56,538\n>> I thought it was amazing to\nhave so many staff present with\n\n283\n00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:00,809\nso many community members where\na community member would come up\n\n284\n00:15:01,110 --> 00:15:03,244\nand have a question and if I\ndidn't know the answer, I could\n\n285\n00:15:03,746 --> 00:15:06,800\nsay you need to go and talk to\nthis staff person over here and\n\n286\n00:15:06,615 --> 00:15:08,615\noff they'd go and someone else\n\n287\n00:15:08,984 --> 00:15:11,419\nwould come up, so I feel like\nthere was lots of circulating\n\n288\n00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:13,855\nand information sharing and lots\nof good questions answered.\n\n289\n00:15:14,290 --> 00:15:16,290\nSo I thought it was great.\n\n290\n00:15:17,259 --> 00:15:19,259\nI think the real question for us\n\n291\n00:15:19,962 --> 00:15:22,898\nis how many of these can we do.\n>> right.\n>> I think it was really helpful\n\n292\n00:15:27,690 --> 00:15:29,838\nfor people in that part of town\nto get the bigger picture of\n\n293\n00:15:30,406 --> 00:15:32,807\nwhat's going on and for folks\nwho haven't connected as much\n\n294\n00:15:33,342 --> 00:15:36,780\nwith the planning efforts that\nhave gone on in the past to come\n\n295\n00:15:37,790 --> 00:15:38,914\nand get up to speed.\nI think people really\n\n296\n00:15:40,183 --> 00:15:42,417\nappreciated that, and I think\nthere was a lot of additional\n\n297\n00:15:43,860 --> 00:15:45,420\nquestions it generated, but some\naha moments as well.\n\n298\n00:15:45,521 --> 00:15:47,690\nOh, there's actually more of\nthis happening that I understood\n\n299\n00:15:47,690 --> 00:15:50,325\nand anticipated.\nI didn't know that project was\n\n300\n00:15:51,327 --> 00:15:53,829\ncoming soon in terms of the\ntransportation improvement.\n\n301\n00:15:53,997 --> 00:15:56,631\nAnd I think that kind of\ninformation sharing is really\n\n302\n00:15:58,668 --> 00:16:00,669\nvaluable in a community.\n>> steven?\n\n303\n00:16:03,390 --> 00:16:05,390\n>> just the fact, really kudos\n\n304\n00:16:06,476 --> 00:16:08,430\nto the planning staff and our\ntransportation talking about\n\n305\n00:16:09,846 --> 00:16:11,480\nreally just as you said,\ncouncilor riley, there is a lot\n\n306\n00:16:12,282 --> 00:16:14,490\nof thinking going on.\nThere's a lot of forward\n\n307\n00:16:14,551 --> 00:16:16,551\nthinking going on and I saw a\n\n308\n00:16:18,955 --> 00:16:21,590\nlot of ahas in the audience of\nfolks, particularly when they\n\n309\n00:16:22,458 --> 00:16:25,940\nwere building out showing how\nthe transportation system had\nevolved over time.\n\n310\n00:16:25,528 --> 00:16:28,630\nThat was so effective and so\nmany people come up and talk to\n\n311\n00:16:28,564 --> 00:16:30,766\nme, so eric, really well done on\nthe team for that.\n\n312\n00:16:31,201 --> 00:16:33,201\nThat really got the message out\n\n313\n00:16:34,938 --> 00:16:37,140\nwell and I'd love to see that in\nthe other four corners around\n\n314\n00:16:37,140 --> 00:16:39,140\ntown.\n\n315\n00:16:40,410 --> 00:16:42,277\nI'd love to see that.\n>> right.\n\n316\n00:16:42,612 --> 00:16:45,447\nSo I think we've had a specific\nrequest that I've seen from our\n\n317\n00:16:46,316 --> 00:16:48,417\nsouthwest neighborhoods, but I\nknow other neighborhood groups\n\n318\n00:16:48,585 --> 00:16:50,585\nare interested as well.\n\n319\n00:16:50,921 --> 00:16:53,255\nI don't know what the next step,\neric, would be?\n\n320\n00:16:53,823 --> 00:16:56,910\nMaybe in the next quarter, try\nto find another time we can do\n\n321\n00:16:56,593 --> 00:16:58,727\nanotherone of these?\n>> there's general support from\n\n322\n00:16:59,596 --> 00:17:01,596\nstaff, now that we've built the\n\n323\n00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:05,401\nmodel, to do it in groups of\nneighborhoods.\nThat makes a lot of sense.\n\n324\n00:17:06,470 --> 00:17:08,470\nSo we'll come back with a plan\n\n325\n00:17:09,306 --> 00:17:11,640\non exactly when and we'll poll\ncouncil to see when you're\n\n326\n00:17:12,509 --> 00:17:15,100\navailable and plan for a\nsimilarly structured event where\n\n327\n00:17:15,879 --> 00:17:17,879\nwe have direct engagement,\n\n328\n00:17:18,715 --> 00:17:20,816\nroundtable discussion, and some\nlevel-set presentations as part\n\n329\n00:17:22,452 --> 00:17:24,452\nof that format.\n\n330\n00:17:25,550 --> 00:17:27,550\n>> I just wanted to do a\n\n331\n00:17:27,591 --> 00:17:29,591\nshout-out to renee mitchell for\n\n332\n00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:31,661\nbeing the vortex for making this\nfirst one happen.\n\n333\n00:17:32,729 --> 00:17:35,131\nThere was a lot of learning and\nit's the first time and I think\n\n334\n00:17:36,233 --> 00:17:38,435\nwe'll get more efficient, but\nmany staff participated and I\n\n335\n00:17:38,435 --> 00:17:41,270\nappreciate everybody who was\nthere, but in particular renee\n\n336\n00:17:41,271 --> 00:17:43,474\njust really pulling this\ntogether and making it happen.\n\n337\n00:17:43,474 --> 00:17:45,474\n>> great, yeah.\n\n338\n00:17:48,450 --> 00:17:50,246\nAnd shoutout to old farm,\nlarkspur, and southeast bend for\n\n339\n00:17:51,215 --> 00:17:53,215\nhelping get the word out, it was\n\n340\n00:17:53,717 --> 00:17:56,619\nwell attended which was great.\n>> can I point out, I think\n\n341\n00:17:57,554 --> 00:17:59,554\nfollowing on what your comment\n\n342\n00:18:00,324 --> 00:18:02,759\nwas, councilor mendez, we have a\ncouple of outstanding\n\n343\n00:18:03,394 --> 00:18:05,394\nroundtables we've committed to\n\n344\n00:18:06,230 --> 00:18:08,732\nholding with the human rights\nand equity commission,\n\n345\n00:18:08,732 --> 00:18:10,732\nelectrification fees separately,\n\n346\n00:18:11,368 --> 00:18:13,368\nand some other things, so I just\n\n347\n00:18:16,173 --> 00:18:18,808\nwant to kind of raise that flag\nof our ability to kind of meet\n\n348\n00:18:21,110 --> 00:18:23,212\nall of these requests as well as\nhave our business meetings and\n\n349\n00:18:23,847 --> 00:18:25,847\nwork sessions and we're taking a\n\n350\n00:18:26,250 --> 00:18:28,685\nbreak at some point, JULY,\nAUGUST, so I would really love\n\n351\n00:18:29,887 --> 00:18:31,887\nto see the full calendar\n\n352\n00:18:32,156 --> 00:18:34,290\npicture.\n>> to make sure we're meeting\n\n353\n00:18:34,558 --> 00:18:37,940\nour agenda on the work that\nneeds to get done.\n\n354\n00:18:37,940 --> 00:18:40,630\n>> I'll actually going to talk\nabout that in my report tonight.\n\n355\n00:18:41,799 --> 00:18:44,200\nWe're going to send out a\nsurvey.\nI'm going to propose -- I'll\n\n356\n00:18:44,668 --> 00:18:47,137\ntalk about it in my report\ntonight.\n\n357\n00:18:47,204 --> 00:18:49,204\n>> since we're going to talk\n\n358\n00:18:50,700 --> 00:18:52,542\nabout schedule later and survey\ncouncil, I think fitting the\n\n359\n00:18:52,643 --> 00:18:55,378\nroundtables into that idea of\nwhat might be happening next and\n\n360\n00:18:55,479 --> 00:18:57,479\nwhat we should prioritize makes\n\n361\n00:18:58,215 --> 00:19:00,450\na lot of sense.\n>> okay, thank you.\n\n362\n00:19:01,752 --> 00:19:03,752\n>> okay, so moving to individual\n\n363\n00:19:04,355 --> 00:19:06,355\nreports, councilor franzosa?\n\n364\n00:19:07,758 --> 00:19:09,758\n>> yes, I attended a meeting of\n\n365\n00:19:10,828 --> 00:19:12,828\nthe central oregon\n\n366\n00:19:12,830 --> 00:19:14,497\ntransportation committee, the\nodot feedback committee, and so\n\n367\n00:19:16,834 --> 00:19:19,803\nwe had some further discussions\nabout the project that central\n\n368\n00:19:20,838 --> 00:19:22,906\noregon would be putting toward\nto odot for funding.\n\n369\n00:19:23,975 --> 00:19:26,760\nIt was not a public meeting.\nI think our next public meeting\n\n370\n00:19:26,811 --> 00:19:29,346\nis APRIL 9th where we'll be\nactually voting and then really\n\n371\n00:19:32,383 --> 00:19:35,180\ndetermining what projects go\nforward.\nSo I'll actually forward that\n\n372\n00:19:35,152 --> 00:19:37,152\nspreadsheet to everyone so you\n\n373\n00:19:39,223 --> 00:19:41,223\nguys can look at it.\n\n374\n00:19:41,592 --> 00:19:43,794\nThat's been my activity.\n>> councilor mendez?\n\n375\n00:19:44,328 --> 00:19:46,328\n>> yeah, thank you.\n\n376\n00:19:47,498 --> 00:19:50,200\nOn saturday, MARCH 7th, I\nattended civics lab human\n\n377\n00:19:51,169 --> 00:19:53,169\nlibrary edition in redmond.\n\n378\n00:19:53,338 --> 00:19:55,338\nThat was a good experience to\n\n379\n00:19:56,941 --> 00:19:58,941\ntalk with people about basically\n\n380\n00:19:58,943 --> 00:20:01,144\nhow people feel about belonging\nin their community.\n\n381\n00:20:01,779 --> 00:20:03,914\nAnd it was an opportunity to\nmeet people I hadn't met before\n\n382\n00:20:06,500 --> 00:20:08,500\nin some cases and in some cases\n\n383\n00:20:08,153 --> 00:20:10,153\nfamiliar faces, but to talk\n\n384\n00:20:11,623 --> 00:20:13,623\nabout an issue that I think is\n\n385\n00:20:14,392 --> 00:20:17,161\ncentral for all of us up here\nand people perceive it in\ndifferent ways.\n\n386\n00:20:18,463 --> 00:20:20,463\nAnd I think it was a good\n\n387\n00:20:20,632 --> 00:20:22,366\nopportunity to hear different\nperspectives.\n\n388\n00:20:24,803 --> 00:20:26,103\nSo that was a welcome\nopportunity.\n\n389\n00:20:28,106 --> 00:20:29,773\nAnd yesterday, MARCH 17th, the\nbend metropolitan planning\n\n390\n00:20:30,508 --> 00:20:32,508\norganization and budget\n\n391\n00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:35,113\ncommittee met and recommended\npassing its fiscal year 2027\n\n392\n00:20:35,113 --> 00:20:37,113\nbudget.\n\n393\n00:20:38,383 --> 00:20:40,383\nThe two items of note on there\n\n394\n00:20:41,486 --> 00:20:43,921\nwere some discussion of concerns\nabout the future of federal\n\n395\n00:20:43,922 --> 00:20:46,257\ntransportation funding.\nThere's a lot up in the air\n\n396\n00:20:46,424 --> 00:20:48,424\nright now and nobody really\n\n397\n00:20:48,526 --> 00:20:51,610\nknows what congress is going to\ndo.\nAnd that could have some\n\n398\n00:20:51,797 --> 00:20:53,300\nimportant effects for us\nlocally.\n\n399\n00:20:56,368 --> 00:20:58,368\nAnd we also discussed the\n\n400\n00:20:59,771 --> 00:21:01,771\nallocation of state highway\n\n401\n00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:04,742\nfunds for street preservation\nand safety and transit\ninitiatives.\n\n402\n00:21:05,143 --> 00:21:07,211\nThere's a large amount of\ndiscretion over how those funds\n\n403\n00:21:09,810 --> 00:21:11,215\nare allocated, so we had some\ndiscussion about whether we felt\n\n404\n00:21:12,217 --> 00:21:13,751\nlike we wanted to revisit that\nallocation.\n\n405\n00:21:14,620 --> 00:21:17,555\nAnd I think that we'll continue\nto have that discussion as we\n\n406\n00:21:19,570 --> 00:21:21,492\nmove forward.\n>> great, councilor riley?\n\n407\n00:21:22,194 --> 00:21:24,895\n>> one, I just wanted to say\nthank you to a couple folks.\n\n408\n00:21:26,431 --> 00:21:29,367\nOne was the folks at embrace\nbend who organized the civics\n\n409\n00:21:30,135 --> 00:21:32,436\nlab and the human library thing.\nI also participated in that and\n\n410\n00:21:33,939 --> 00:21:36,373\nthoght it was a great event.\nI went to -- I wanted to thank\n\n411\n00:21:37,342 --> 00:21:39,342\nthe organizers of a film shown\n\n412\n00:21:41,513 --> 00:21:44,248\nup at cocc last friday.\nIt tells the story of the\n\n413\n00:21:45,116 --> 00:21:47,785\nkilling of a young palestinian\ngirl in gaza and the adults in\n\n414\n00:21:50,890 --> 00:21:52,924\nthe palestinian red cross in the\nwest bank trying to reach and\nsave her.\n\n415\n00:21:54,660 --> 00:21:57,195\nIt's a recreation of what\nhappened a year-and-a-half ago.\n\n416\n00:21:58,597 --> 00:22:00,698\nVery powerful, very moving film\nabout all that's going on in\n\n417\n00:22:01,133 --> 00:22:03,768\nthat part of the world.\nAnd in particular, there was a\n\n418\n00:22:04,837 --> 00:22:06,837\ngentleman named omar who joined\n\n419\n00:22:07,573 --> 00:22:09,641\nus live after the film from\nramallah and the west bank.\n\n420\n00:22:10,209 --> 00:22:12,209\nHe was one of the adults\n\n421\n00:22:12,478 --> 00:22:15,346\nportrayed in the film and was\nworking in the red crescent\n\n422\n00:22:17,820 --> 00:22:19,820\noffice when this all transpired.\n\n423\n00:22:19,285 --> 00:22:21,619\nHim making the effort, it was 5\nA.M. In the morning his time\n\n424\n00:22:22,988 --> 00:22:25,557\nwhen we showed the film.\nIt was his first speaking\n\n425\n00:22:26,525 --> 00:22:29,600\nengagement in the U.S. And it\nwas all virtual, so I want to\n\n426\n00:22:30,596 --> 00:22:32,596\nthank him and his translator who\n\n427\n00:22:33,799 --> 00:22:35,733\nwas from the washington D.C.\nArea as well.\n\n428\n00:22:38,337 --> 00:22:39,704\nI went on a tour of home-made\ntoffee.\n\n429\n00:22:41,974 --> 00:22:44,943\nThey're in a building that's\nstrictly organic coffee, and I\n\n430\n00:22:46,120 --> 00:22:48,447\nwant to thank don mill for\nmaking that happen and randy who\n\n431\n00:22:49,749 --> 00:22:51,749\nwas the owner and ceo hosting us\n\n432\n00:22:52,385 --> 00:22:54,786\nand talking with us honestly\nabout all the challenges she\n\n433\n00:22:55,788 --> 00:22:57,756\nfacing, including some she\nexperienced with the city of\n\n434\n00:22:59,625 --> 00:23:01,961\nbend in terms of getting some\npermits.\nThere was interesting learning\n\n435\n00:23:01,961 --> 00:23:03,928\nthere.\nCouncilor platt and mayor kebler\n\n436\n00:23:03,996 --> 00:23:05,998\nwere also there.\nWe already talked about the\n\n437\n00:23:05,998 --> 00:23:08,600\nroundtable.\nThe last thing I wanted to share\n\n438\n00:23:09,569 --> 00:23:11,569\nwith folks, the board meeting\n\n439\n00:23:11,871 --> 00:23:13,871\nlast week, we agreed to support\n\n440\n00:23:14,807 --> 00:23:16,807\nthe central oregon civic action\n\n441\n00:23:17,110 --> 00:23:19,344\nproject which josh burgess\nstarted.\n\n442\n00:23:20,513 --> 00:23:22,914\nCioc is going to be acting as a\nfiscal agent to help them get\n\n443\n00:23:23,549 --> 00:23:25,784\nstarted as a non-profit and\nhopefully receive a pretty big\n\n444\n00:23:28,154 --> 00:23:29,921\ngrant to help them become an\nindependent organization and\n\n445\n00:23:30,456 --> 00:23:33,191\nfund their activities over the\nnext several years.\n\n446\n00:23:34,294 --> 00:23:37,290\nEric sheridan, his report to us\nlast week about an event coming\n\n447\n00:23:40,990 --> 00:23:41,333\nup on APRIL 7th from 1 to 3 in\nredmond.\n\n448\n00:23:42,502 --> 00:23:44,369\nThere's an overview of the civic\nassembly tool and what it's\n\n449\n00:23:45,471 --> 00:23:47,539\nabout and how it can be used in\ncommunities.\nI plan to go.\n\n450\n00:23:48,308 --> 00:23:50,375\nIf anybody wants to go, reach\nout to me and we can figure out\n\n451\n00:23:51,770 --> 00:23:53,770\nhow to get there.\n\n452\n00:23:53,513 --> 00:23:55,747\nSo I'm pleased that cioc is\ngoing to be helping launch that.\n\n453\n00:23:57,617 --> 00:24:00,285\nI think it's a valuable tool\nthat could be used\n\n454\n00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:03,455\n(Indistinct).\n>> all right, councilor perkins?\n\n455\n00:24:04,424 --> 00:24:06,424\n>> well, first I guess shoutout\n\n456\n00:24:07,894 --> 00:24:10,729\nto all the teachers who are\ndoing all the important work\n\n457\n00:24:11,298 --> 00:24:13,966\nthis week of doing school\nconferences.\nI've had many, many conferences\n\n458\n00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:17,269\nand have many more tomorrow.\nBut just thank you to them for\n\n459\n00:24:19,873 --> 00:24:21,873\nall that they're doing.\n\n460\n00:24:21,875 --> 00:24:23,875\nI guess picking three things,\n\n461\n00:24:24,778 --> 00:24:26,778\none is the coordinated houseless\n\n462\n00:24:27,547 --> 00:24:29,547\nresponse office board met and we\n\n463\n00:24:31,151 --> 00:24:33,151\ngot an update on the\n\n464\n00:24:33,453 --> 00:24:35,453\npoint-in-time count and we're\n\n465\n00:24:36,823 --> 00:24:38,724\nhoping to get that information\nnext month.\n\n466\n00:24:40,126 --> 00:24:42,962\nThere were some data issues\ninterestingly not with the\n\n467\n00:24:43,296 --> 00:24:45,296\nunsheltered but more so in the\n\n468\n00:24:46,233 --> 00:24:48,768\nshelters with coordination, and\nso they are frantically and\n\n469\n00:24:49,690 --> 00:24:51,690\ndiligently making sure that the\n\n470\n00:24:51,938 --> 00:24:53,773\ndata that we do receive as a\ncommunity is as correct as it\n\n471\n00:24:55,976 --> 00:24:57,976\ncan be.\n\n472\n00:24:58,845 --> 00:25:00,845\nI wanted just to highlight sort\n\n473\n00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:02,880\nof the importance of funding.\n\n474\n00:25:03,884 --> 00:25:05,884\nWe were able to, with our small\n\n475\n00:25:06,853 --> 00:25:08,853\namount of money that we had at\n\n476\n00:25:09,756 --> 00:25:11,756\nthe response office, did an rfp\n\n477\n00:25:13,494 --> 00:25:15,494\nsort of to fill for service\n\n478\n00:25:16,797 --> 00:25:18,797\nproviders and organizations to\n\n479\n00:25:18,899 --> 00:25:21,468\nhelp fill any gaps that they\nhave in services that they're\n\n480\n00:25:21,468 --> 00:25:23,736\nproviding.\nAnd there were 23 applications,\n\n481\n00:25:26,206 --> 00:25:28,641\nwhich is the most that coic has\never received for an rfp which\n\n482\n00:25:29,420 --> 00:25:31,430\ngoes to show you what we're\ndealing with here.\n\n483\n00:25:32,679 --> 00:25:34,580\nAnd these are all organizations\nthat you have heard of.\n\n484\n00:25:34,882 --> 00:25:36,882\nI'd like to highlight the ones\n\n485\n00:25:38,152 --> 00:25:40,152\nthat we did decide to fund.\n\n486\n00:25:42,222 --> 00:25:45,910\nOne of them is an\nantitrafficking project.\n\n487\n00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:49,280\nThis provides rapid rehousing\n\n488\n00:25:49,730 --> 00:25:51,730\nfor youth who are in danger or\n\n489\n00:25:51,799 --> 00:25:53,799\nare currently being trafficked.\n\n490\n00:25:54,802 --> 00:25:57,203\nWe gave some money to bend\nchurch for I think it's called\n\n491\n00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:00,720\ntheir open door program, which\n\n492\n00:26:00,407 --> 00:26:02,407\npeople can come and get things\n\n493\n00:26:03,100 --> 00:26:05,100\nthat they need, toiletries or\n\n494\n00:26:05,112 --> 00:26:06,479\nfood or just any kind of\nsupplies.\n\n495\n00:26:09,490 --> 00:26:11,217\nWe gave money to saving grace\nfor obviously for domestic\n\n496\n00:26:11,852 --> 00:26:13,852\nviolence survivors, but this is\n\n497\n00:26:14,789 --> 00:26:16,789\nfor finding emergency shelter or\n\n498\n00:26:18,726 --> 00:26:19,959\nmotel placements for saving\ngrace.\n\n499\n00:26:22,663 --> 00:26:24,964\nAnd we gave money to habitat for\nhumanity.\nThese are for people that are\n\n500\n00:26:28,369 --> 00:26:30,904\nnot in habitat homes but are in\nhomes and have an issue,\n\n501\n00:26:31,973 --> 00:26:34,108\nsomething that needs fixing in\ntheir homes that they can not\n\n502\n00:26:34,108 --> 00:26:36,108\nafford.\n\n503\n00:26:37,912 --> 00:26:40,113\nthis goes in and says we'll\nreplace your window -- it keeps\n\n504\n00:26:40,314 --> 00:26:42,314\npeople in their homes, so it's a\n\n505\n00:26:43,551 --> 00:26:45,551\ngreat one too, and we gave money\n\n506\n00:26:49,190 --> 00:26:50,457\nto st. Vincent de paul of\nredmond.\n\n507\n00:26:52,593 --> 00:26:53,894\nIt felt good to give what we\ncould.\n\n508\n00:26:56,431 --> 00:26:58,431\nAnd to jump off that, today I\n\n509\n00:27:00,668 --> 00:27:02,668\nwas able to sort of pitch the\n\n510\n00:27:03,971 --> 00:27:05,971\nbend business roundtable group\n\n511\n00:27:07,141 --> 00:27:09,344\nas a representative from the\ncoordinated housing response\noffice.\n\n512\n00:27:09,344 --> 00:27:12,312\nI've been talking about how\nwe've been actively trying to\n\n513\n00:27:12,980 --> 00:27:14,980\nfind a public-private\n\n514\n00:27:15,483 --> 00:27:16,716\npartnership in order to get more\nfunding.\n\n515\n00:27:17,885 --> 00:27:19,885\nAnd this would be funding for\n\n516\n00:27:20,521 --> 00:27:22,521\nhelping get our workforce that\n\n517\n00:27:23,157 --> 00:27:25,325\nis homeless, that is\nexperiencing homelessness,\n\n518\n00:27:26,694 --> 00:27:28,462\nfinding some more stable\nhousing, because there are a lot\n\n519\n00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:30,964\nof our workforce that is\nactively homeless.\n\n520\n00:27:31,299 --> 00:27:34,234\nI've shared this statistic a\nlot.\nBut 20% of the people that live\n\n521\n00:27:35,904 --> 00:27:37,904\nin our emergency shelter, that\n\n522\n00:27:38,539 --> 00:27:41,410\nare sleeping on cots every\nnight, go to work every day, so\n\n523\n00:27:41,843 --> 00:27:43,577\nwe need to do something as a\ncommunity to support that.\n\n524\n00:27:45,446 --> 00:27:47,515\nSo we are trying to get -- the\nresponse was fantastic.\n\n525\n00:27:47,515 --> 00:27:50,284\nThere are a lot of people, a lot\nof businesses that really care\n\n526\n00:27:50,485 --> 00:27:52,586\nabout this.\nThey know some of these people\n\n527\n00:27:55,657 --> 00:27:57,657\nare their employees, so we're\n\n528\n00:27:58,994 --> 00:28:00,928\ngoing forward with awesome\npurpose and enthusiasm, and I\n\n529\n00:28:01,363 --> 00:28:03,363\nhope that we can see something\n\n530\n00:28:04,980 --> 00:28:05,332\ncome out of this in the near\nfuture.\n\n531\n00:28:07,269 --> 00:28:09,269\nAnd then finally, just wanted to\n\n532\n00:28:11,206 --> 00:28:13,640\nshare a little bit about the\ncommission meeting.\nwe will talk a little bit more\n\n533\n00:28:15,710 --> 00:28:17,710\nabout the resolution later, but\n\n534\n00:28:20,810 --> 00:28:22,216\njust to summarize the gist of\nthe conversation that the human\n\n535\n00:28:24,653 --> 00:28:26,653\nrights and equity commission had\n\n536\n00:28:28,230 --> 00:28:30,791\non this, they saw it as a\nyes/and.\nSo yes, we're doing this\n\n537\n00:28:30,992 --> 00:28:33,294\nresolution, and what more can we\ndo as a city.\n\n538\n00:28:33,495 --> 00:28:35,495\nBecause there are a lot of\n\n539\n00:28:37,990 --> 00:28:39,990\npeople that are living in fear.\n\n540\n00:28:42,137 --> 00:28:44,137\nWe also got an update on the\n\n541\n00:28:44,539 --> 00:28:46,539\nequity process with hiring the\n\n542\n00:28:47,276 --> 00:28:49,677\nnew individuals for the city of\nbend and restructuring, and I\n\n543\n00:28:50,579 --> 00:28:53,314\nwould say the summary of those\ncomments were how do we do\n\n544\n00:28:53,515 --> 00:28:55,516\nbuy-in and what's going to be\ndifferent this time around.\n\n545\n00:28:56,151 --> 00:28:57,818\nThey wanted to make sure there\nwas going to be something\n\n546\n00:28:58,220 --> 00:29:00,220\ndifferent.\n\n547\n00:29:02,657 --> 00:29:04,657\nAnd then finally, we talked with\n\n548\n00:29:04,826 --> 00:29:06,927\nbend duncan, the equity\nconsultant, about prioritizing\n\n549\n00:29:09,965 --> 00:29:12,500\nthe massive amount of work that\nhrec wants to do, that the city\n\n550\n00:29:13,602 --> 00:29:16,137\nwould like for hrec to do, that\nthe community wants hrec to do,\n\n551\n00:29:17,439 --> 00:29:18,740\nand that conversation is going\nto continue.\n\n552\n00:29:19,675 --> 00:29:22,210\n>> all right, thank you.\nCouncilor norris?\n\n553\n00:29:22,844 --> 00:29:24,844\n>> yes,\n\n554\n00:29:27,116 --> 00:29:28,816\njust briefly, I attended\nthe southwest meeting as well\n\n555\n00:29:30,953 --> 00:29:33,921\nand I appreciated the turnout\nand the tenure and the\n\n556\n00:29:33,956 --> 00:29:36,240\nconversation.\nEveryone is really respectful\n\n557\n00:29:36,659 --> 00:29:38,659\nand it was a good dialogue, so I\n\n558\n00:29:39,728 --> 00:29:41,728\nappreciated that.\n\n559\n00:29:42,264 --> 00:29:44,264\nParks and rec meeting along with\n\n560\n00:29:47,537 --> 00:29:49,504\nwall my fellow councilors.\nGreat to find more opportunities\n\n561\n00:29:50,472 --> 00:29:52,472\nto work together with bprd.\n\n562\n00:29:52,474 --> 00:29:54,542\nThat's it.\n>> councilor platt?\n\n563\n00:29:54,777 --> 00:29:56,777\n>> I had the honor of going to\n\n564\n00:29:57,413 --> 00:29:59,413\nthe provost reception at the\n\n565\n00:30:00,150 --> 00:30:02,150\ncascades where they were talking\n\n566\n00:30:03,352 --> 00:30:05,754\nabout what those funds are going\nto do and were able to point\n\n567\n00:30:06,422 --> 00:30:08,623\nover to the big hill and say\nthat big hill is going to be\n\n568\n00:30:08,924 --> 00:30:10,859\ngone and they're going to have\nthis fantastic facility that's\n\n569\n00:30:11,894 --> 00:30:13,995\ngoing to serve a lot of the\nneeds for the student body\nthere.\n\n570\n00:30:14,597 --> 00:30:16,731\nIt's been a long time coming and\nthat was really great.\n\n571\n00:30:19,435 --> 00:30:22,270\nThey were just glowing at that\nability.\n>> and community members will\n\n572\n00:30:22,972 --> 00:30:25,874\nhave access to it as well.\n>> exactly.\n\n573\n00:30:26,676 --> 00:30:29,477\n>> yeah, it's going to be\nbeautiful.\n\n574\n00:30:30,413 --> 00:30:33,248\nThe planning commission is going\nto bring timber yards coming\n\n575\n00:30:36,886 --> 00:30:39,387\nback our away, going to the\nplanning commission.\nAn interesting discussion, a\n\n576\n00:30:39,489 --> 00:30:42,580\ncouple last week.\nAnd then I think I'll leave it\n\n577\n00:30:42,580 --> 00:30:43,658\nthere.\n>> okay, thank you.\n\n578\n00:30:44,327 --> 00:30:46,728\nYeah, we did have a joint\nmeeting with the bend parks and\n\n579\n00:30:46,963 --> 00:30:49,264\nrec district board last night,\nwhich I thought was really great\n\n580\n00:30:50,266 --> 00:30:52,266\nand we had a good chance to talk\n\n581\n00:30:52,768 --> 00:30:54,970\nabout how we can both work\ntogether on housing and\n\n582\n00:30:55,404 --> 00:30:57,806\naffordable housing in particular\nbut also some other projects\n\n583\n00:30:57,807 --> 00:30:59,908\nwe're working together on\nincluding the riverfront project\n\n584\n00:31:01,444 --> 00:31:04,246\nand our bridges over in drake\npark and along the river and how\n\n585\n00:31:04,948 --> 00:31:07,683\nwe can improve those and work\ntogether on that.\n\n586\n00:31:08,885 --> 00:31:11,540\nSo more to come, already started\ntalking with eric about how to\n\n587\n00:31:11,540 --> 00:31:13,688\nstructure our leadership\nmeetings and get us to a point\n\n588\n00:31:13,990 --> 00:31:16,226\nfor recommendations for each of\nthe bodies around the housing\n\n589\n00:31:16,226 --> 00:31:18,927\ntopics.\nEric and I were at the rural\n\n590\n00:31:19,362 --> 00:31:21,362\nfire district meeting on\n\n591\n00:31:22,899 --> 00:31:24,899\nlong-term funding and so we will\n\n592\n00:31:24,968 --> 00:31:27,168\nbe having a work session in MAY\nthat we're going to invite the\n\n593\n00:31:27,570 --> 00:31:29,905\nrural fire board to sit with us\nfor part of that and talk about\n\n594\n00:31:30,874 --> 00:31:32,874\nthe plan that we've come up\n\n595\n00:31:33,376 --> 00:31:35,376\nwith, which is very succinctly\n\n596\n00:31:37,547 --> 00:31:40,482\nto look at renewing our fire\nlevy in 2028 and immediately\n\n597\n00:31:41,684 --> 00:31:44,119\nafter that looking at the\nfeasibility study for what other\n\n598\n00:31:44,554 --> 00:31:47,290\nlong-term funding options might\nbe possible.\nIn the meantime, we are\n\n599\n00:31:47,290 --> 00:31:49,290\ncurrently doing a study around\n\n600\n00:31:49,692 --> 00:31:52,127\nour ems and ambulance costs and\nwhat those are going to look\n\n601\n00:31:53,430 --> 00:31:55,932\nlike and how we can recover\nthose and going forward from\nthere.\n\n602\n00:31:55,932 --> 00:31:58,567\nSo looking forward to having\nthem here with us and discussing\n\n603\n00:32:00,870 --> 00:32:02,870\nand finalizing that plan.\n\n604\n00:32:03,473 --> 00:32:05,808\nWent to dvba's meeting this\nmorning.\nGood discussion as always.\n\n605\n00:32:06,243 --> 00:32:09,112\nOne thing to highlight, we\nreflected back our discussion on\n\n606\n00:32:09,112 --> 00:32:11,413\nfranklin, which they were\nthankful for.\n\n607\n00:32:12,816 --> 00:32:14,816\nThey are working on a paid\n\n608\n00:32:14,885 --> 00:32:17,850\nparking plan to sort of take to\ntheir stakeholders and bring to\n\n609\n00:32:18,955 --> 00:32:21,457\nus in JUNE when they do an\nupdate.\nThat will be the next time we\n\n610\n00:32:24,961 --> 00:32:26,862\nhear about that from them.\nOtherwise, we're looking forward\n\n611\n00:32:28,565 --> 00:32:31,670\nto the city events, one in MAY\njust down the street here at one\n\n612\n00:32:31,301 --> 00:32:33,301\nof the local business parking\n\n613\n00:32:33,303 --> 00:32:35,905\nlots that we're putting together\nand that will be great to\n\n614\n00:32:40,177 --> 00:32:41,435\ncoincide with one of the firth first\nfridays.\n\n615\n00:32:42,813 --> 00:32:44,813\nI had a chance to sit in this\n\n616\n00:32:44,882 --> 00:32:46,882\nroom with a bunch of cub scouts\n\n617\n00:32:47,284 --> 00:32:49,686\ntoday and they're learning about\nlocal government.\nIt was basically a little mini\n\n618\n00:32:49,686 --> 00:32:51,787\ntown hall.\nI got asked everything from when\n\n619\n00:32:53,424 --> 00:32:55,424\nare we getting an in and out to\n\n620\n00:32:56,126 --> 00:32:58,995\nhow I get elected.\nReally good questions actually,\n\n621\n00:32:59,196 --> 00:33:01,531\nroundabouts and all sorts of\nthings, so that was really nice\n\n622\n00:33:01,598 --> 00:33:03,598\nand they always like when they\n\n623\n00:33:03,834 --> 00:33:06,569\nget to come up and use the\ngavel.\nEveryone took a turn.\n\n624\n00:33:07,671 --> 00:33:09,806\nWith that, I think we are done\nwith our council action and\n\n625\n00:33:10,307 --> 00:33:13,760\nreport section, so we'll move on\nto visitors section.\nThis is the time for members of\n\n626\n00:33:14,678 --> 00:33:17,213\nthe public to give us your\ncomments.\nAnd our rules are that you\n\n627\n00:33:19,383 --> 00:33:21,317\naddress the council as a body,\nnot individually.\n\n628\n00:33:21,585 --> 00:33:23,886\nThat you come on up to a table\nif you're here in person and\n\n629\n00:33:25,523 --> 00:33:27,523\nthere's a timer over here that\n\n630\n00:33:28,259 --> 00:33:31,227\nwill show your two minutes and\nit will blink yellow at you when\n\n631\n00:33:34,398 --> 00:33:37,167\nyou have 30 seconds left.\nAnd we ask that you be\n\n632\n00:33:37,468 --> 00:33:39,468\nrespectful in your comments and\n\n633\n00:33:39,670 --> 00:33:42,639\nthat you not disrupt the meeting\nwith your comments tonight.\n\n634\n00:33:43,374 --> 00:33:45,675\nOkay, so let's start with our\nonline, because we just have\n\n635\n00:33:46,443 --> 00:33:48,443\none, so we'll have michelle go\n\n636\n00:33:52,583 --> 00:33:54,984\nand then we can move to our\nin-person.\n>> great.\n\n637\n00:33:56,870 --> 00:33:58,870\nIs the audio working okay?\n\n638\n00:33:58,489 --> 00:34:01,358\n>> yes, we can hear you,\nmichelle, hold on one second.\n\n639\n00:34:03,861 --> 00:34:05,861\n>> good evening, yes, that\n\n640\n00:34:06,263 --> 00:34:08,263\nsoutheast bend roundtable was\n\n641\n00:34:08,266 --> 00:34:10,266\ngreat, asking city planners\n\n642\n00:34:10,568 --> 00:34:12,568\nquestions in the booth and the\n\n643\n00:34:13,404 --> 00:34:16,172\nroundtable itself.\nSo there was a roundtable\n\n644\n00:34:16,240 --> 00:34:18,141\nquestion, what commercial\ndevelopment is desired.\n\n645\n00:34:20,111 --> 00:34:22,746\nThe responses were verbally\nrecapped, however a key item was\n\n646\n00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:26,249\nmissed in the verbal recap.\nSoutheast bend clearly said we\n\n647\n00:34:27,218 --> 00:34:29,619\ndo not want for this gas\nstations approved across from\n\n648\n00:34:30,540 --> 00:34:32,550\nelementary schools.\nThe no gas station response\n\n649\n00:34:32,824 --> 00:34:34,858\nwasn't in the verbal recap, so\nfirstly I'm here tonight to make\n\n650\n00:34:35,893 --> 00:34:37,294\nsure it gets in the public\nrecord.\n\n651\n00:34:39,630 --> 00:34:41,630\nClear response, no gas stations.\n\n652\n00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,868\nSecondly, I'd like to confirm if\nthe conditions that got us that\n\n653\n00:34:46,504 --> 00:34:48,739\ngas station by the school are\nstill in place.\n\n654\n00:34:49,674 --> 00:34:51,674\nAnd if another gas station would\n\n655\n00:34:51,776 --> 00:34:53,443\nget approved by this city\ncouncil.\n\n656\n00:34:54,780 --> 00:34:56,780\nBasically, I'm asking if any\n\n657\n00:34:57,882 --> 00:34:59,882\ndecision to update the planning\n\n658\n00:35:00,384 --> 00:35:02,519\ntext of the zoning law and the\nassociated 13 conditions was\n\n659\n00:35:03,154 --> 00:35:05,154\nmade or has any decision been\n\n660\n00:35:05,557 --> 00:35:07,557\nmade as to how council\n\n661\n00:35:07,625 --> 00:35:09,927\ninterprets that zoning?\nSpecifically auto-intensive uses\n\n662\n00:35:10,895 --> 00:35:13,664\nlike a gas station across from\nour kids' elementary school.\n\n663\n00:35:13,965 --> 00:35:15,965\nIf no decisions to make changes\n\n664\n00:35:16,701 --> 00:35:18,680\nwere done, then no decision is a\ndecision.\n\n665\n00:35:18,770 --> 00:35:21,204\nAnd the council has left in\nplace the exact same conditions\n\n666\n00:35:22,607 --> 00:35:24,607\nthat got us that gas station\n\n667\n00:35:25,877 --> 00:35:27,110\nacross from an elementary\nschool.\n\n668\n00:35:27,946 --> 00:35:30,470\nOur neighborhood had over 2500\nsignatures in a petition, a\n\n669\n00:35:30,649 --> 00:35:33,450\nwebsite, we raised $10,000.\nWe had a lot of activism.\n\n670\n00:35:34,653 --> 00:35:36,553\nWe need to put our money into\nmaking sure council doesn't\n\n671\n00:35:37,288 --> 00:35:40,257\napprove gas stations or enable\nconditions that permit it.\n\n672\n00:35:40,892 --> 00:35:43,660\nWhy does this matter?\nBeyond the obvious negative\n\n673\n00:35:45,597 --> 00:35:47,597\nimpacts, we've already had one\n\n674\n00:35:47,799 --> 00:35:50,668\nschool child hit on a bike on a\nroundabout.\nThankfully, the child is okay.\n\n675\n00:35:51,536 --> 00:35:53,536\nBut these hits and near misses\n\n676\n00:35:54,472 --> 00:35:57,700\nare occurring before the gas\nstation and drive-through are\n\n677\n00:35:58,210 --> 00:36:00,845\nbuilt is horrifying.\nNone of us wants a further\n\n678\n00:36:01,580 --> 00:36:03,681\ntragedy or have another gas\nadministration approved near an\n\n679\n00:36:03,782 --> 00:36:06,183\nelementary school.\nI would appreciate a response as\n\n680\n00:36:06,618 --> 00:36:09,353\npart of the public record on\nbehalf of those 2500 people that\n\n681\n00:36:10,210 --> 00:36:11,822\nwere active in our community on\nthis issue.\n\n682\n00:36:12,224 --> 00:36:13,924\nThank you.\n>> thank you.\n\n683\n00:36:15,627 --> 00:36:18,462\nEarly last year, we changed the\ncc zone to not allow\n\n684\n00:36:20,565 --> 00:36:22,333\nauto-dependent uses, so that's\nbeen done.\n\n685\n00:36:23,301 --> 00:36:25,603\nSo thank you.\n>> thanks.\n\n686\n00:36:26,138 --> 00:36:28,138\n>> okay, so that will move us\n\n687\n00:36:29,308 --> 00:36:31,308\ninto in person, so let's start\n\n688\n00:36:32,277 --> 00:36:34,245\nwith johnathan westmoreland.\nAnd please introduce yourself\n\n689\n00:36:34,580 --> 00:36:36,647\nand state whether you live in\nthe city of bend.\n\n690\n00:36:38,500 --> 00:36:40,651\n>> hi, I live in bend.\nBear with me, I am going to try\n\n691\n00:36:41,553 --> 00:36:43,553\nfor the first time to not read\n\n692\n00:36:44,289 --> 00:36:45,857\nthis verbatim and actually have\na conversation.\n\n693\n00:36:47,893 --> 00:36:49,893\nThere was a number I want you to\n\n694\n00:36:50,950 --> 00:36:52,950\nstick with you guys today,\n\n695\n00:36:52,964 --> 00:36:55,266\nthat's 45%.\nI scraped from the league of\n\n696\n00:36:55,367 --> 00:36:57,902\noregon cities the e-mail\naddresses for all the city\n\n697\n00:36:58,771 --> 00:37:01,539\nemployees including your own.\nThere were 62 of them.\n\n698\n00:37:03,942 --> 00:37:06,440\n28 of them have been involved in\ndata breaches.\n\n699\n00:37:07,346 --> 00:37:09,346\nThat's almost half, 45%.\n\n700\n00:37:11,817 --> 00:37:14,685\nSome of those data breaches\ninvolved password data.\n\n701\n00:37:15,554 --> 00:37:17,554\nI'm saying this to you not as\n\n702\n00:37:18,724 --> 00:37:20,724\nlike a gotcha but this is why\n\n703\n00:37:22,261 --> 00:37:24,562\nend-to-end encryption is such an\nimportant deal.\n\n704\n00:37:26,298 --> 00:37:28,166\nAnd sb 1516 passed, and I think\nthat's great.\n\n705\n00:37:28,467 --> 00:37:29,901\nThere's a lot of good stuff in\nthere.\n\n706\n00:37:32,905 --> 00:37:34,905\nBut I'd like for bend to see\n\n707\n00:37:35,608 --> 00:37:36,874\nthat as a floor and not the\nceiling.\n\n708\n00:37:38,544 --> 00:37:40,544\nAnd as you go through contracts\n\n709\n00:37:41,647 --> 00:37:43,647\nwith these vendors, especially\n\n710\n00:37:44,917 --> 00:37:46,917\nfor security, just be very\n\n711\n00:37:47,119 --> 00:37:49,120\ndiligent and make sure that the\npublic's security and data\n\n712\n00:37:52,240 --> 00:37:54,693\nprivacy rights are being\nobserved.\nSo moving forward, I've got some\n\n713\n00:37:54,994 --> 00:37:56,994\nquestions that I think you\n\n714\n00:37:58,264 --> 00:38:01,166\nshould be asking yourself.\nOne, at the state capitol, why\n\n715\n00:38:01,667 --> 00:38:04,536\nwere so many ordinary citizens\nwilling to take time out of\n\n716\n00:38:04,770 --> 00:38:06,770\ntheir lives to advocate for\n\n717\n00:38:07,390 --> 00:38:09,390\nhaving end-to-end encryption\n\n718\n00:38:09,410 --> 00:38:11,410\ndefined in the bill.\n\n719\n00:38:17,350 --> 00:38:20,180\nTwo, why did flock, axon lobby\nagainst this?\n\n720\n00:38:20,753 --> 00:38:22,753\nAfter learning about flock's\n\n721\n00:38:23,890 --> 00:38:25,890\ndata security practices and\n\n722\n00:38:26,526 --> 00:38:28,526\ncanceling flock in JANUARY, how\n\n723\n00:38:28,761 --> 00:38:30,761\ndo you feel knowing that axon\n\n724\n00:38:30,963 --> 00:38:33,465\nand vera mobility currently have\npartnerships with flock and how\n\n725\n00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:36,000\nare you going to protect bend\n\n726\n00:38:36,690 --> 00:38:37,636\nresidents from corporations in\nthe future.\n\n727\n00:38:38,504 --> 00:38:41,139\nI gave this to her.\nI'll e-mail you one every week\n\n728\n00:38:41,974 --> 00:38:43,974\njust to open a conversation with\n\n729\n00:38:44,770 --> 00:38:46,770\nyou and get your internet\n\n730\n00:38:48,447 --> 00:38:50,447\nbubbles and algorithms that are\n\n731\n00:38:50,617 --> 00:38:53,385\nnot going to show you what\nthey're going to show me and my\nsoftware friends.\n\n732\n00:38:53,586 --> 00:38:55,586\n>> thank you very much.\n\n733\n00:38:59,926 --> 00:39:01,926\n>> all right, thank you.\n\n734\n00:39:03,430 --> 00:39:06,398\n>> todd?\n?\n>> hi, I'm todd.\n\n735\n00:39:06,699 --> 00:39:08,699\nI live in bend.\n\n736\n00:39:08,802 --> 00:39:11,537\nand I'm speaking on behalf of\nthe southern crossing\n\n737\n00:39:12,720 --> 00:39:13,405\nneighborhood association as\nchair.\n\n738\n00:39:14,708 --> 00:39:16,709\nWe were pleased to see you had a\nsoutheast bend roundtable.\n\n739\n00:39:17,100 --> 00:39:19,312\nI recently asked representatives\nof the southeast bend and\n\n740\n00:39:19,312 --> 00:39:21,947\ncentury west neighborhood\ndistricts if they would like to\n\n741\n00:39:22,549 --> 00:39:25,384\nparticipate with us in a\nroundtable for southwest bend.\n\n742\n00:39:26,519 --> 00:39:29,288\nI explained that southern\ncrossing's focus was on the\n\n743\n00:39:30,924 --> 00:39:33,559\nbond, brookswood, and reed\nmarket given all the growth in\nthe area.\n\n744\n00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:35,861\nThey said they were interested\nin discussing that as well.\n\n745\n00:39:36,730 --> 00:39:38,931\nWe would like to meet soon,\nsince some council funding\n\n746\n00:39:39,466 --> 00:39:41,466\ndecisions are coming up that are\n\n747\n00:39:41,568 --> 00:39:43,568\nrelevant to these discussions.\n\n748\n00:39:44,271 --> 00:39:46,605\nIn the near term, an nssp\nproject for road crossing of\n\n749\n00:39:46,807 --> 00:39:48,107\nreed market will come before\nyou.\n\n750\n00:39:49,900 --> 00:39:51,744\nOn our website, you will find\nour counterproposal that is a\n\n751\n00:39:52,179 --> 00:39:55,470\nmore comprehensive solution to\nthe problems on reed market just\n\n752\n00:39:55,449 --> 00:39:58,350\nwest of U.S. 97.\nI will send you an e-mail by\n\n753\n00:39:59,419 --> 00:40:00,653\ntomorrow morning with more\ndetails.\n\n754\n00:40:02,589 --> 00:40:04,589\nLast JULY, we asked council to\n\n755\n00:40:05,192 --> 00:40:07,293\nreject the same nssp project for\na long list of reasons.\n\n756\n00:40:08,950 --> 00:40:10,397\nWe hope this money can be more\nwisely spent on a better\n\n757\n00:40:10,397 --> 00:40:13,320\nsolution.\nIf you would like to better\n\n758\n00:40:13,533 --> 00:40:15,533\nunderstand both this proposal\n\n759\n00:40:17,204 --> 00:40:19,505\nand our proposal for the\nroundabout, I would be glad to\n\n760\n00:40:21,241 --> 00:40:24,210\ngive you a personal tour\non-site.\nFeel free to respond to my\ne-mail.\n\n761\n00:40:24,945 --> 00:40:26,945\nYou're also welcome to attend\n\n762\n00:40:27,481 --> 00:40:30,170\nour zoom board meeting tomorrow\nat 5 where we will be discussing\n\n763\n00:40:30,170 --> 00:40:32,170\nthese issues.\n\n764\n00:40:32,219 --> 00:40:34,620\nSwitching to parking, when the\nglass water townhomes began\n\n765\n00:40:34,722 --> 00:40:36,722\nconstruction on the site across\n\n766\n00:40:37,391 --> 00:40:40,326\nfrom bend parks and rec\nheadquarters, we lost an\nessential parking area.\n\n767\n00:40:41,194 --> 00:40:43,194\nIt was frequently used both by\n\n768\n00:40:44,980 --> 00:40:46,933\nriver park visitors and concert\ngoers.\nPlease consider reaching out to\n\n769\n00:40:47,901 --> 00:40:49,901\nthe old mill owners and bend\n\n770\n00:40:50,537 --> 00:40:52,972\nparks and rec to work\ncollectively to create a new\n\n771\n00:40:53,207 --> 00:40:56,108\nparking area.\nEach entity has something that\n\n772\n00:40:56,210 --> 00:40:58,210\nthey can bring to the table to\n\n773\n00:40:58,312 --> 00:41:00,312\nsolve this issue.\n\n774\n00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:04,160\nSouthern crossing neighborhood\n\n775\n00:41:04,510 --> 00:41:06,510\nshould not be used as overflow\n\n776\n00:41:06,220 --> 00:41:08,288\nparking due to a lack of\nplanning.\n\n777\n00:41:14,228 --> 00:41:16,228\n>> thanks, todd.\n\n778\n00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:21,535\n>> jane?\n>> greetings, mayor and council\n\n779\n00:41:21,535 --> 00:41:23,535\nmembers.\n\n780\n00:41:25,806 --> 00:41:27,907\nI live in southeast bend in the\nking's forest neighborhood.\n\n781\n00:41:30,611 --> 00:41:32,611\nAnd I recently have become\n\n782\n00:41:33,614 --> 00:41:35,614\nappalled at the lack of\n\n783\n00:41:37,184 --> 00:41:39,619\nattention to evacuation routes\nespecially in light of the\n\n784\n00:41:43,257 --> 00:41:44,891\nexpansive new high-density\nresidential development.\n\n785\n00:41:46,994 --> 00:41:48,994\nFor example, the wild flower\n\n786\n00:41:52,330 --> 00:41:54,330\nproject at 15th and wilson will\n\n787\n00:41:55,303 --> 00:41:57,303\nhave 4,000 in and out trips per\n\n788\n00:41:58,390 --> 00:42:00,173\nday, per vehicle.\nOr 4,000 vehicles.\n\n789\n00:42:02,310 --> 00:42:04,611\nThose people will want to get\nout if the wind blows and the\n\n790\n00:42:05,446 --> 00:42:07,446\nfire comes in this hot and dry\n\n791\n00:42:07,548 --> 00:42:09,548\nsummer ahead of us.\n\n792\n00:42:11,419 --> 00:42:12,719\nReed market will be a parking\nlot.\n\n793\n00:42:13,821 --> 00:42:15,155\nWe all saw what happened in\nparadise.\n\n794\n00:42:15,890 --> 00:42:17,959\nPeople started abandoning their\ncars and walking.\n\n795\n00:42:17,959 --> 00:42:19,959\nThey were burned.\n\n796\n00:42:20,728 --> 00:42:22,728\nWe don't want that here.\n\n797\n00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:25,640\nSo I would like as a beginning\n\n798\n00:42:27,602 --> 00:42:29,369\nto have you fund and assign\nevacuation routes that will help\n\n799\n00:42:33,740 --> 00:42:35,740\nus get away from a horrific fire\n\n800\n00:42:36,711 --> 00:42:38,711\nhere in town.\n\n801\n00:42:38,913 --> 00:42:40,913\nI've talked with the county, the\n\n802\n00:42:40,982 --> 00:42:42,816\nstate, the city, planning and\nengineering.\n\n803\n00:42:46,921 --> 00:42:48,388\nThere's nothing substantial\nhappening.\n\n804\n00:42:49,557 --> 00:42:51,225\nI have three generations here in\ntown.\n\n805\n00:42:53,528 --> 00:42:55,528\nIt's frightening really.\n\n806\n00:42:56,698 --> 00:42:57,965\nAnd I think it's time to do\nsomething.\n\n807\n00:42:59,100 --> 00:43:01,869\nThere's nothing in the state\ncode.\nThe leadership needs to happen\n\n808\n00:43:04,439 --> 00:43:07,800\nmaybe locally and get something\ndone so we can protect\n\n809\n00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:09,800\nourselves.\n\n810\n00:43:12,247 --> 00:43:14,247\n>> thank you, jane.\n\n811\n00:43:22,123 --> 00:43:25,920\n>> michael baker?\n>> good evening, mayor and\n\n812\n00:43:25,827 --> 00:43:28,762\ncouncil, I'm michael baker and I\nhave the honor of being the ceo\n\n813\n00:43:29,464 --> 00:43:31,432\nfor the boys and girls clubs\nhere in bend.\n\n814\n00:43:33,268 --> 00:43:35,268\nA couple key things, information\n\n815\n00:43:35,737 --> 00:43:37,737\nthat you might find interesting.\n\n816\n00:43:38,740 --> 00:43:40,241\nLast year in 2025, we were open\n222 days.\n\n817\n00:43:41,943 --> 00:43:43,310\nThis year, we'll be open 273\ndays.\n\n818\n00:43:44,546 --> 00:43:47,181\nWe've expanded our hours of\noperation.\nThat includes saturday hours\n\n819\n00:43:47,716 --> 00:43:49,850\nwhich has never happened in the\norganization, so we're very\nexcited about that.\n\n820\n00:43:52,554 --> 00:43:54,655\nIn addition to that, we also are\nseeing an increase.\n\n821\n00:44:00,695 --> 00:44:02,864\nLast year, we handed out 17,400\nmeals to the children throughout\n\n822\n00:44:02,864 --> 00:44:04,864\nthe year.\n\n823\n00:44:05,401 --> 00:44:07,468\nWe're already on track to break\nabout 25,000 this year.\n\n824\n00:44:09,872 --> 00:44:12,607\nand we are maximizing that\nspace.\nEvery aspect that we can use,\n\n825\n00:44:14,576 --> 00:44:17,545\nwe're trying to use every inch\nof that space for programming\n\n826\n00:44:18,847 --> 00:44:21,149\nand having the kiddos go from\nroom to room to room.\n\n827\n00:44:22,170 --> 00:44:24,652\nWhat's really exciting that just\nrecently happened is for the\n\n828\n00:44:26,588 --> 00:44:28,588\nfirst time in over seven years,\n\n829\n00:44:28,657 --> 00:44:30,791\nwe actually -- many of you MAY\nhave seen this before.\n\n830\n00:44:31,627 --> 00:44:33,627\nWe have a rock wall on the stage\n\n831\n00:44:33,929 --> 00:44:36,300\narea that we've been able to get\nrecertified and are using that\n\n832\n00:44:36,565 --> 00:44:38,866\nagain, so the kids were excited\nthis past saturday to use the\n\n833\n00:44:43,139 --> 00:44:45,139\nrock wall for the first time.\n\n834\n00:44:45,207 --> 00:44:47,208\nSo it's a pretty exciting\nexperience there.\n\n835\n00:44:47,409 --> 00:44:50,780\nI will also encourage each and\nevery one of you as I always do\n\n836\n00:44:52,348 --> 00:44:54,682\nto come down and see the club in\naction any time you want a tour.\n\n837\n00:44:54,783 --> 00:44:56,783\nLove to do that.\n\n838\n00:44:57,860 --> 00:44:59,860\nThose of you that want to\n\n839\n00:44:59,588 --> 00:45:02,357\nsupport the boys and girls club,\nwe have a big event coming up,\n\n840\n00:45:06,495 --> 00:45:08,495\nAPRIL 18th are the great\n\n841\n00:45:08,798 --> 00:45:11,199\npromsby, a '20s thing, and I\nwill end by telling you\n\n842\n00:45:11,934 --> 00:45:14,269\nsomething that I've worked in a\nlot of communes across the\n\n843\n00:45:15,671 --> 00:45:17,672\ncountry, boys and girls clubs,\nworked with a lot of city\n\n844\n00:45:18,407 --> 00:45:20,407\nadministrators, and I'm telling\n\n845\n00:45:20,576 --> 00:45:23,424\nyou, you're very fortunate to\nhave MR. King in the role he's\nin.\n\n846\n00:45:23,779 --> 00:45:25,779\nThank you for everything you've\n\n847\n00:45:26,782 --> 00:45:28,516\ndone for this community.\n>> thanks, michael.\n\n848\n00:45:29,451 --> 00:45:31,886\nAll right, kinsey martin, I see\nyou're here for the resolution.\n\n849\n00:45:32,755 --> 00:45:34,289\nDid you also want to speak --\n>> yes.\n\n850\n00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:44,900\n>> okay.\n>> good evening.\n\n851\n00:45:47,203 --> 00:45:49,604\nMy name is kinsey hood martin,\nshe-her pronouns.\n\n852\n00:45:50,139 --> 00:45:52,139\nmy family, my home, my career\n\n853\n00:45:52,208 --> 00:45:54,443\nare rooted here in bend, the\ncity of bend.\n\n854\n00:45:55,344 --> 00:45:58,180\nMy grandparents were doctors and\nteachers here.\nMy parents grew up here.\n\n855\n00:45:59,949 --> 00:46:01,949\nI was born and raised here.\n\n856\n00:46:02,180 --> 00:46:04,419\nAnd despite a short stint of,\nlike, I'm never moving back to\n\n857\n00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:07,880\nthat town, here I am, my own\n\n858\n00:46:07,857 --> 00:46:09,840\nkids are born and raised here as\nwell.\n\n859\n00:46:11,761 --> 00:46:13,962\nBecause of that, because of\nknowing some of the old bend\n\n860\n00:46:15,698 --> 00:46:17,833\ncommunity can tend to be less\nappreciative of growth and\n\n861\n00:46:19,736 --> 00:46:21,970\nchange, I wanted to just come\nsay thank you for the resolution\n\n862\n00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:26,400\nthat I know is on the agenda\n\n863\n00:46:26,376 --> 00:46:28,744\nthis evening.\nThat resolution in support of\n\n864\n00:46:30,146 --> 00:46:32,814\nour immigrant neighbors and\nfriends and community members\n\n865\n00:46:35,618 --> 00:46:38,220\nmeans a lot to me personally and\nto our community.\n\n866\n00:46:38,588 --> 00:46:41,356\nAt this point in history and\nwhere we are right now as a\n\n867\n00:46:42,910 --> 00:46:44,910\nbroader community, those words\n\n868\n00:46:44,940 --> 00:46:45,894\nmatter a lot, and it really\nis -- I'm really proud to see\n\n869\n00:46:47,864 --> 00:46:50,366\nthe community that I live in\ntaking a stance and being public\n\n870\n00:46:50,366 --> 00:46:52,366\nabout that.\n\n871\n00:46:53,703 --> 00:46:55,703\nThat's really significant.\n\n872\n00:46:56,720 --> 00:46:57,740\nI know that our leadership spent\na lot of time on that.\n\n873\n00:46:58,308 --> 00:47:00,709\nI know it's an intensive process\nto do that and do it well and\n\n874\n00:47:00,911 --> 00:47:02,911\nget it right.\n\n875\n00:47:03,446 --> 00:47:06,810\nAnd I appreciate mayor pro tem\nperkins and melissa, the hrec\n\n876\n00:47:06,816 --> 00:47:08,816\nmembers, and then the immigrant\n\n877\n00:47:09,352 --> 00:47:10,786\ninitiative leaders who informed\nthat work.\n\n878\n00:47:11,488 --> 00:47:13,188\nAnd so I just wanted to say\nthank you.\n\n879\n00:47:14,491 --> 00:47:16,491\nI'm hopeful to see that it has\n\n880\n00:47:19,529 --> 00:47:21,964\nthe beginnings of tangible\nresources and commitments in it,\n\n881\n00:47:22,365 --> 00:47:24,365\nand I'm hopeful to see that\n\n882\n00:47:24,501 --> 00:47:27,336\ncontinue over the next several\nyears in council's work and the\n\n883\n00:47:28,104 --> 00:47:30,606\ncity's work as far as changes\nthat our immigrant community\n\n884\n00:47:31,410 --> 00:47:32,575\nmembers can see and feel\ndirectly.\n\n885\n00:47:34,544 --> 00:47:37,213\nBut I know public comments are\nnot usually an appreciation, so\n\n886\n00:47:38,482 --> 00:47:40,584\nI just wanted to say thank you,\nthat work matters and it matters\n\n887\n00:47:40,584 --> 00:47:42,584\na lot.\n\n888\n00:47:42,652 --> 00:47:45,454\n>> thank you, kinsey.\nAll right, that will move us to\n\n889\n00:47:47,824 --> 00:47:50,593\nour consent agenda.\n>> I move to approve the consent\n\n890\n00:47:50,894 --> 00:47:52,662\nagenda.\n>> second.\n\n891\n00:47:54,198 --> 00:47:56,198\n>> all right, moved by councilor\n\n892\n00:47:57,167 --> 00:47:59,368\nperkins, seconded by councilor\nnorris.\nAll in favor?\n\n893\n00:47:59,470 --> 00:48:00,837\n[Chorus of ayes]\n>> unanimous.\n\n894\n00:48:06,777 --> 00:48:08,777\nThat moves us to item 5.\n\n895\n00:48:09,913 --> 00:48:11,915\n>> a institution supporting\nbend's immigrant\ncommunities, condemning the\ncurrent federal government\n\n896\n00:48:11,915 --> 00:48:14,484\napproach to immigration\nenforcement, allocating funding\nto support bend's diverse\n\n897\n00:48:17,621 --> 00:48:20,289\nimmigrant communities, and\n>> I wanted to introduce\n\n898\n00:48:20,958 --> 00:48:23,359\nmelissa, our city's affordable\nhousing coordinator but is also\n\n899\n00:48:24,662 --> 00:48:26,662\nfilling in as the human rights\n\n900\n00:48:28,265 --> 00:48:30,265\nand equity commission liaison\n\n901\n00:48:31,435 --> 00:48:33,703\nand with melissa, catalina\nfrank, this resolution before\n\n902\n00:48:35,873 --> 00:48:38,740\nyou was brought in part by\ncatalina's presentation that\n\n903\n00:48:39,343 --> 00:48:42,212\ncame to council early JANUARY\nreally requesting some support.\n\n904\n00:48:42,947 --> 00:48:44,947\nAnd I think we listened and we\n\n905\n00:48:45,382 --> 00:48:48,351\nwanted to offer some meaningful,\ntangible support in the form of\n\n906\n00:48:48,986 --> 00:48:51,854\nreaffirming our values as a\nwelcoming community but also\n\n907\n00:48:52,890 --> 00:48:54,230\ngoing beyond that and offering\nsome resources.\n\n908\n00:48:55,126 --> 00:48:57,728\nso melissa and catalina will\noutline what's in the resolution\n\n909\n00:48:57,728 --> 00:48:59,728\nand then I can talk about some\n\n910\n00:49:00,831 --> 00:49:03,133\nnext steps as we're implementing\nthe resolution into various\n\n911\n00:49:03,134 --> 00:49:05,134\ncontracting methods, et cetera.\n\n912\n00:49:05,202 --> 00:49:07,971\n>> thank you so much.\nSo as eric mentioned, you're\n\n913\n00:49:10,410 --> 00:49:11,474\nused to seeing me in the housing\nrealm.\n\n914\n00:49:13,311 --> 00:49:15,311\nBut it's my honor to be the\n\n915\n00:49:15,379 --> 00:49:17,379\ninterim hrec staff liaison.\n\n916\n00:49:18,349 --> 00:49:20,349\nAnd this resolution is a body of\n\n917\n00:49:20,851 --> 00:49:22,411\nwork that is not just one\nperson.\n\n918\n00:49:24,255 --> 00:49:25,655\nIt has been touched by many\nhands.\n\n919\n00:49:29,927 --> 00:49:32,295\nAs you know, catalina came to\ncouncil in early JANUARY talking\n\n920\n00:49:33,897 --> 00:49:36,990\nabout the imminent crisis and\nurgency of potentially declaring\n\n921\n00:49:37,201 --> 00:49:39,201\na state of emergency.\n\n922\n00:49:40,271 --> 00:49:42,672\nIn a follow-up meeting, our city\nattorney, ian, outlined what\n\n923\n00:49:43,307 --> 00:49:45,307\ncould be done as a resolution.\n\n924\n00:49:46,430 --> 00:49:47,944\nFrom there, the resolution went\nto hrec.\n\n925\n00:49:49,347 --> 00:49:51,482\nIan had drafted a resolution\nfabulously by looking at other\n\n926\n00:49:53,751 --> 00:49:55,180\ncities that were in a similar\nsituation.\n\n927\n00:49:56,287 --> 00:49:58,287\nBy the time the document got to\n\n928\n00:49:59,124 --> 00:50:01,124\nhrec, it had been edited a few\n\n929\n00:50:03,628 --> 00:50:06,496\ntimes, many times actually, and\nhrec, as hrec has been developed\n\n930\n00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:11,301\nas a group that represents our\ncommunity, when this body of\n\n931\n00:50:11,903 --> 00:50:13,903\nwork got to r heck,\n\n932\n00:50:15,340 --> 00:50:17,874\nhrec, they realized\nthe eyes that needed to be on\n\n933\n00:50:18,743 --> 00:50:20,610\nthe document aren't represented\nnecessarily on our current\n\n934\n00:50:22,460 --> 00:50:24,681\ncommissioner seats, so hrec made\nthe decision to send the\n\n935\n00:50:25,750 --> 00:50:27,750\nresolution with some hrec\n\n936\n00:50:29,354 --> 00:50:30,754\nmembers to a subgroup outside of\nhrec.\n\n937\n00:50:32,524 --> 00:50:34,524\nHow that subgroup was formed was\n\n938\n00:50:36,561 --> 00:50:38,696\nin partnership with catalina and\nin different immigrant groups\n\n939\n00:50:38,830 --> 00:50:40,830\nthroughout the community, they\n\n940\n00:50:40,965 --> 00:50:43,267\nwere consulted, the leaders of\ndifferent immigrant groups, and\n\n941\n00:50:44,102 --> 00:50:46,471\nthey were asked to send a\nrepresentative of their group.\n\n942\n00:50:46,471 --> 00:50:48,672\nThese folks came together,\nlooked over the resolution,\n\n943\n00:50:49,874 --> 00:50:52,276\nprovided tremendous input, which\nthen created more and more\n\n944\n00:50:53,778 --> 00:50:55,778\niterations of the document.\n\n945\n00:50:56,810 --> 00:50:58,810\nThe document came back to hrec.\n\n946\n00:50:58,617 --> 00:51:00,618\nHrec reviewed it and decided to\naccept the document and\n\n947\n00:51:01,586 --> 00:51:02,853\nrecommend it to come back to\nyou.\n\n948\n00:51:04,322 --> 00:51:06,322\nAnd so through all of those\n\n949\n00:51:06,424 --> 00:51:09,293\niterations, you'll see in the\nresolution that it is a\nrestatement of the city's\n\n950\n00:51:12,970 --> 00:51:14,432\npriority to be a welcoming\ncommunity and so half of the\n\n951\n00:51:15,500 --> 00:51:18,269\nfunds that will be going to the\nlatino community association are\n\n952\n00:51:19,638 --> 00:51:21,105\nto further the welcoming city\nwork.\n\n953\n00:51:21,940 --> 00:51:24,709\nAnd the other half of the funds\ngoing to the latino community\n\n954\n00:51:25,244 --> 00:51:27,244\nassociation are to support\n\n955\n00:51:29,181 --> 00:51:30,481\nfamilies that are impacted by\nimmigration.\n\n956\n00:51:34,186 --> 00:51:36,822\nAnd so both bodies of work are\nincredibly important and\n\n957\n00:51:36,822 --> 00:51:39,323\nsignificant and as catalina\nmentioned in JANUARY, it's\n\n958\n00:51:41,527 --> 00:51:44,195\nreally difficult to quantify the\nimpact of immigration activities\n\n959\n00:51:44,263 --> 00:51:46,264\nin our community.\nWhile some MAY think it's not\n\n960\n00:51:47,565 --> 00:51:49,635\nhere yet, it can't be impacting\nyet, there are kids that don't\n\n961\n00:51:49,635 --> 00:51:51,635\ngo to school.\n\n962\n00:51:52,804 --> 00:51:54,939\nFolks that don't go to work.\nGroceries that aren't being\n\n963\n00:51:55,240 --> 00:51:57,875\npurchased that the store because\npeople are too afraid to leave\n\n964\n00:51:58,110 --> 00:52:00,411\ntheir homes, so this body of\nwork, as I mentioned, it's not a\n\n965\n00:52:00,813 --> 00:52:03,414\nsingle person that has had their\nhands on it.\n\n966\n00:52:03,782 --> 00:52:06,517\nI think it's important to\nrecognize all the many folks in\n\n967\n00:52:07,286 --> 00:52:09,254\nthe room and online that\nparticipated and some that\n\n968\n00:52:09,922 --> 00:52:12,890\nweren't able to join us today.\n>> I just want to take a moment\n\n969\n00:52:13,959 --> 00:52:16,194\nto recognize melissa, because I\nthink this many hands approach\n\n970\n00:52:17,930 --> 00:52:20,798\nin really opening this up and\nyour facilitation leadership\nthat helped us get to a really\n\n971\n00:52:22,634 --> 00:52:24,200\ngood place, so thank you.\n>> absolutely.\n\n972\n00:52:24,937 --> 00:52:26,538\nAll right, so council, we've got\nthe resolution -- there's no\n\n973\n00:52:27,239 --> 00:52:29,207\nslides, but we have the\nresolution in front of us with\n\n974\n00:52:29,408 --> 00:52:32,377\nthe issue summary.\nAny other questions for staff or\n\n975\n00:52:32,578 --> 00:52:34,780\nfor catalina?\nThank you for being here with us\n\n976\n00:52:34,780 --> 00:52:36,448\ntonight.\n>> you're welcome.\n\n977\n00:52:38,150 --> 00:52:39,984\n>> I just wanted to confirm, my\nunderstanding is that based on\n\n978\n00:52:42,221 --> 00:52:45,190\nthe discussions that you've been\nhaving, part of the funds is to\n\n979\n00:52:46,792 --> 00:52:49,694\nsupport the immigrant community.\nNot the 50 for welcoming week,\n\n980\n00:52:51,430 --> 00:52:54,399\nbut the other portion is meant\nto be opened up into the\n\n981\n00:52:55,701 --> 00:52:57,669\ncommunity as a hole and provide\nsome of that support and\n\n982\n00:52:58,638 --> 00:53:00,805\nactivities, but potential\npotentially in\n\n983\n00:53:01,174 --> 00:53:03,475\npartnership with other groups in\nthe community who do similar\nwork.\n\n984\n00:53:04,310 --> 00:53:06,644\nI just wanted to confirm that's\npart of the intent behind that\n\n985\n00:53:08,147 --> 00:53:10,147\nchunk of the funds?\n\n986\n00:53:10,316 --> 00:53:13,840\n>> yes, it's not limited to the\nlatino immigrants.\n\n987\n00:53:14,530 --> 00:53:16,154\nIt's the immigrant community\nimpacted by law enforcement.\n\n988\n00:53:16,989 --> 00:53:19,424\n>> I'm so glad you brought that\nup, because one of the beautiful\n\n989\n00:53:21,260 --> 00:53:23,595\nparts of that small group that\nmet offsite and mayor pro tem\n\n990\n00:53:27,533 --> 00:53:30,502\ncan speak to that as well, is\nthe group worked really well\n\n991\n00:53:31,170 --> 00:53:32,504\ntogether and had some difficult\nconversations.\n\n992\n00:53:33,339 --> 00:53:35,339\nSo much so that there's a desire\n\n993\n00:53:35,508 --> 00:53:37,508\nto continue that body of work.\n\n994\n00:53:39,679 --> 00:53:42,140\nAnd in those discussions, it was\nbridged that all of the groups\n\n995\n00:53:42,649 --> 00:53:45,283\nin the room and those that were\nnot able to be in the room\n\n996\n00:53:46,586 --> 00:53:48,687\nlearned that they have access to\nthese funds through the latino\n\n997\n00:53:48,855 --> 00:53:51,324\ncommunity association as well.\n>> thank you for playing that\n\n998\n00:53:51,324 --> 00:53:53,392\nrole.\n>> and just in terms of next\n\n999\n00:53:54,661 --> 00:53:57,329\nsteps, so we are working on\ncontract drafts for contract\n\n1000\n00:53:57,830 --> 00:53:59,830\nservices for our welcoming\n\n1001\n00:54:00,567 --> 00:54:02,401\nprogram as well as grant\nagreements.\n\n1002\n00:54:03,102 --> 00:54:05,102\nThey're two separate mechanisms\n\n1003\n00:54:05,605 --> 00:54:08,140\nto execute the outline in the\nresolution.\nAs well as continuing these\nefforts.\n\n1004\n00:54:09,542 --> 00:54:11,542\nI think we made a commitment to\n\n1005\n00:54:13,380 --> 00:54:15,581\nnot just have this be a one-time\nevent but really building this\n\n1006\n00:54:16,150 --> 00:54:18,184\ncoalition and supporting it in\nmany different ways, so we're\n\n1007\n00:54:18,184 --> 00:54:21,860\nstill working through the\ndetails of that.\n\n1008\n00:54:22,689 --> 00:54:25,424\n>> and there's a provision here\nabout advocacy with our federal\n\n1009\n00:54:25,424 --> 00:54:28,294\nrepresentatives in oregon, so\nwe'll have a letter that goes to\n\n1010\n00:54:28,394 --> 00:54:30,497\nthem with this resolution\nattached as well as part of that\n\n1011\n00:54:30,497 --> 00:54:32,564\naction.\nAny other questions before a\n\n1012\n00:54:33,133 --> 00:54:35,133\nmotion?\n\n1013\n00:54:35,735 --> 00:54:37,636\n>> I can't help but comment on\nthe difficult position that we\n\n1014\n00:54:38,939 --> 00:54:40,939\nfind ourselves in with a federal\n\n1015\n00:54:45,946 --> 00:54:47,946\ngovernment that is pursuing such -- I mean, harmful tactics.\n\n1016\n00:54:50,350 --> 00:54:52,651\nWe are severely constrained.\nThere are consequences that we\n\n1017\n00:54:53,820 --> 00:54:55,870\ncannot prevent as city and as a\ncommunity.\n\n1018\n00:54:56,990 --> 00:54:58,990\nBut we're not powerless either.\n\n1019\n00:54:59,426 --> 00:55:01,426\nAnd I'm really proud to support\n\n1020\n00:55:01,728 --> 00:55:03,728\nthis as one thing that we can do\n\n1021\n00:55:04,231 --> 00:55:06,199\nto demonstrate our support and\nour commitment and as an\n\n1022\n00:55:06,633 --> 00:55:09,502\nexpression of our values and\ndesire to make bend a welcoming\n\n1023\n00:55:10,903 --> 00:55:12,903\nand safe community regardless of\n\n1024\n00:55:13,673 --> 00:55:15,107\npeople's identity or their\nbackgrounds.\n\n1025\n00:55:17,430 --> 00:55:19,430\nSo I just wanted to address the\n\n1026\n00:55:19,445 --> 00:55:21,613\nchallenge that we face, because\nthere's no way that we're going\n\n1027\n00:55:24,500 --> 00:55:26,251\nto be able to protect everybody\nfrom this federal government,\n\n1028\n00:55:27,321 --> 00:55:29,523\nbut we are going to do what we\ncan.\n\n1029\n00:55:29,523 --> 00:55:31,523\n>> yeah, and I'll say that I\n\n1030\n00:55:32,559 --> 00:55:34,893\nthink being in that room,\nthere's so much that we can't\n\n1031\n00:55:35,950 --> 00:55:37,950\ndo, but one of the things that I\n\n1032\n00:55:37,197 --> 00:55:39,932\nsaw in that room and I see at\nthe human rights and equity\n\n1033\n00:55:40,330 --> 00:55:42,802\ncommission too is we're going to\ntake care of each other.\n\n1034\n00:55:42,803 --> 00:55:45,204\nAnd that's what matters.\nAnd so we are going to take care\n\n1035\n00:55:46,407 --> 00:55:48,407\nof our community here in bend.\n\n1036\n00:55:48,709 --> 00:55:51,110\nAnd so that's the hope that I\nhave and this is sort of a\n\n1037\n00:55:52,413 --> 00:55:55,480\nstatement of that.\n>> and I just want to say as a\n\n1038\n00:55:55,582 --> 00:55:57,783\ndaughter of an immigrant from\nmexico, I just appreciate all\n\n1039\n00:55:58,752 --> 00:56:00,119\nthat you guys are doing in our\ncommunity.\n\n1040\n00:56:01,689 --> 00:56:03,790\nI appreciate bend standing up.\nThis resolution is so important.\n\n1041\n00:56:06,860 --> 00:56:09,428\nAnd I hope it's just the\nbeginning.\n>> is there a motion?\n\n1042\n00:56:11,320 --> 00:56:12,799\n>> I just wanted to add one\nother point.\n\n1043\n00:56:13,667 --> 00:56:16,102\nThank you for making this\nhappen, thanks to mayor pro tem\n\n1044\n00:56:16,504 --> 00:56:18,504\nperkins for being part of that\n\n1045\n00:56:18,805 --> 00:56:20,805\non behalf of the council, other\n\n1046\n00:56:21,208 --> 00:56:23,676\npeople in the room and hrec and\nother community members that\nparticipated in it.\n\n1047\n00:56:24,745 --> 00:56:26,346\nI just wanted to emphasize\nparagraph 3 in the resolution\n\n1048\n00:56:27,581 --> 00:56:29,682\nthat declares no matter when\nsomeone has joined our community\n\n1049\n00:56:31,185 --> 00:56:33,620\nor where they come from, every\nperson deserves to be free of\n\n1050\n00:56:35,990 --> 00:56:37,990\nfear and intimidation and to be\n\n1051\n00:56:38,426 --> 00:56:39,793\ntreated with dignity and\nrespect.\n\n1052\n00:56:40,828 --> 00:56:43,163\nI value all the folks in our\ncommunity again no matter where\n\n1053\n00:56:44,398 --> 00:56:46,666\nthey came from or when they\narrived and all the ways they\n\n1054\n00:56:47,468 --> 00:56:49,468\nmake our community stronger.\n\n1055\n00:56:49,603 --> 00:56:51,672\nI think as councilor mendez\nsaid, I'll super proud to be\n\n1056\n00:56:51,672 --> 00:56:53,773\nsupporting this resolution\ntonight and taking this step\n\n1057\n00:56:53,841 --> 00:56:55,841\nforward and look forward to more\n\n1058\n00:57:00,448 --> 00:57:03,170\nwe can do as we move forward.\n>> I move to adopt a resolution\nsupporting bend's immigrant\ncommunities, condemning the\n\n1059\n00:57:03,170 --> 00:57:05,452\ncurrent federal government\napproach to immigration\n\n1060\n00:57:05,486 --> 00:57:07,789\nenforcement, allocating funding\nto support bend's diverse\n\n1061\n00:57:07,789 --> 00:57:10,124\nimmigrant communities, and\nauthorizing city staff to take\n\n1062\n00:57:10,124 --> 00:57:12,124\nsteps necessary to implement the\n\n1063\n00:57:17,131 --> 00:57:18,932\nresolution.\n>> second.\n\n1064\n00:57:19,467 --> 00:57:21,434\n>> all those in favor?\n[Chorus of ayes]\n\n1065\n00:57:21,636 --> 00:57:23,636\n>> greater\n\n1066\n00:57:27,541 --> 00:57:29,376\ngreat, unanimous.\nYes, immigration is a strength\n\n1067\n00:57:29,944 --> 00:57:31,211\nof this country and this\ncommunity.\n\n1068\n00:57:33,470 --> 00:57:35,470\nThank you for being here.\n\n1069\n00:57:36,840 --> 00:57:38,840\n>> thank you.\n\n1070\n00:57:38,953 --> 00:57:40,953\nAll right, that will move us to\n\n1071\n00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:47,560\nitem 6 and 7 together.\n\n1072\n00:57:48,830 --> 00:57:51,632\n>> council is asked to adopt a\nresolution to authorize the city\n\n1073\n00:57:53,334 --> 00:57:55,502\nt enter into a clean water\nstate\nrevolving fund loan agreement to\n\n1074\n00:57:58,640 --> 00:58:01,408\nfinance the king hezekiah and\nfargo sewer project in a total\n\n1075\n00:58:10,685 --> 00:58:12,519\nloan amount not to exceed\n$2,879,000.\n\n1076\n00:58:12,988 --> 00:58:14,988\n>> and council is asked to\n\n1077\n00:58:15,123 --> 00:58:17,123\nauthorize a contract with bar\n\n1078\n00:58:17,792 --> 00:58:19,994\nseven a companies for\nconstruction of the king\n\n1079\n00:58:21,396 --> 00:58:23,932\nhezekiah and fargo sewer\nproject.\n>> all right, hi.\n\n1080\n00:58:23,932 --> 00:58:25,932\n>> good evening.\n\n1081\n00:58:27,335 --> 00:58:29,335\nSo I'll go first.\n\n1082\n00:58:29,404 --> 00:58:31,473\nI'll be presenting the\nconstruction contract for\n\n1083\n00:58:31,473 --> 00:58:34,341\napproval and then we'll talk\nabout the funding that we are\n\n1084\n00:58:35,277 --> 00:58:37,277\npresenting associated with it.\n\n1085\n00:58:38,713 --> 00:58:40,714\nKing hezekiah and fargo were two\nindividual applications selected\n\n1086\n00:58:42,784 --> 00:58:44,784\nby the sept\n\n1087\n00:58:49,391 --> 00:58:51,391\nseptic to sewer program.\n\n1088\n00:58:52,127 --> 00:58:54,428\n2024, they were selected, 2025,\nthey were designed, and then\n\n1089\n00:58:56,131 --> 00:58:58,131\nhere in 2026, we are looking to\n\n1090\n00:59:05,474 --> 00:59:07,474\nactual construct them.\n\n1091\n00:59:07,876 --> 00:59:10,578\nSo a little bit about the septic\nto sewer conversion program.\n\n1092\n00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:15,483\nIt was originally identified in\nthe 2014 collection system\n\n1093\n00:59:16,785 --> 00:59:19,420\nmaster plan, further reconfirmed\nin the 2018 public facility\nplan.\n\n1094\n00:59:19,721 --> 00:59:21,721\nThis is the seventh selection\n\n1095\n00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:26,600\nthat we have made through the\nprogram.\nIt's important to note that king\n\n1096\n00:59:26,395 --> 00:59:28,395\nhezekiah and fargo are a\n\n1097\n00:59:29,698 --> 00:59:31,899\ncomponent of that selection.\nAs the municipal code states,\n\n1098\n00:59:33,735 --> 00:59:35,937\nthe city of bend will consider\nselection through this program\n\n1099\n00:59:37,906 --> 00:59:40,675\non an annual basis.\nAs the principal engineer, I get\n\n1100\n00:59:43,712 --> 00:59:45,513\nthe opportunity to look through\nthe cip.\n\n1101\n00:59:47,716 --> 00:59:50,510\nWe had an opportunity to\nover-select, meaning over-select\n\n1102\n00:59:51,320 --> 00:59:53,870\nfrom the funding, the\n3.5 million annually that we\n\n1103\n00:59:54,423 --> 00:59:56,423\nhave set aside for this program,\n\n1104\n00:59:57,260 --> 00:59:59,994\nwe actually selected over\n$6 million worth of septic to\n\n1105\n01:00:00,429 --> 01:00:02,964\nsewer applications.\nthis was in combination due to\n\n1106\n01:00:04,330 --> 01:00:06,330\nthe fact that we were about to\n\n1107\n01:00:06,435 --> 01:00:08,636\nset sail into a collection\nsystem master plan and a\n\n1108\n01:00:08,871 --> 01:00:11,720\nfacility plan update at our\ntreatment plant.\n\n1109\n01:00:11,707 --> 01:00:14,242\nKnowing those were coming, there\nwas a lot of priorities those\n\n1110\n01:00:15,277 --> 01:00:18,790\ntwo system plans were going to\nidentify and then the priority\n\n1111\n01:00:18,481 --> 01:00:20,315\nwas likely going to shift to\nimproving the existing\n\n1112\n01:00:20,583 --> 01:00:22,984\ninfrastructure associated with\neither the collection system or\n\n1113\n01:00:24,860 --> 01:00:26,860\nthe treatment system, so we did\n\n1114\n01:00:26,289 --> 01:00:29,157\nhave the opportunity to\nover-fund this program and\n\n1115\n01:00:30,559 --> 01:00:32,559\npresent to the committee for\n\n1116\n01:00:34,864 --> 01:00:36,198\nselection of 6.2 million of\napplications.\n\n1117\n01:00:38,601 --> 01:00:40,601\nTwo weeks from now, we will be\n\n1118\n01:00:40,703 --> 01:00:42,703\npresenting another construction\n\n1119\n01:00:47,443 --> 01:00:49,511\ncontract for powerful for the\ncontract for approval.\n\n1120\n01:00:50,213 --> 01:00:52,881\nWe did stagger those to make\nsure the bidding community could\n\n1121\n01:00:54,717 --> 01:00:56,717\nhave a chance to take a swing at\n\n1122\n01:00:57,190 --> 01:00:59,554\none and then all the losers or\nanyone that did want to bid on\n\n1123\n01:00:59,889 --> 01:01:01,890\nthe second one could have an\nopportunity to go there.\n\n1124\n01:01:02,158 --> 01:01:04,158\nSo it is important to stress\n\n1125\n01:01:04,227 --> 01:01:06,928\nthis is the seventh selection\nthrough the previous six, we\n\n1126\n01:01:07,763 --> 01:01:09,763\nhave installed over 400 laterals\n\n1127\n01:01:10,867 --> 01:01:12,867\nto properties, 230 of this have\n\n1128\n01:01:13,169 --> 01:01:16,138\nconnected, so that's a success\nrate of 56% and some of those\n\n1129\n01:01:16,639 --> 01:01:18,273\njust got the opportunity to\nconvert through the completion\n\n1130\n01:01:19,750 --> 01:01:21,750\nof the 2025 project.\n\n1131\n01:01:23,146 --> 01:01:25,881\nSo that's a huge success to the\nprogram.\nAnd so just emphasizing what the\n\n1132\n01:01:27,183 --> 01:01:29,384\nprogram is, it's an\napplicant-driven program where\n\n1133\n01:01:30,353 --> 01:01:33,322\npeople who are on septic can\nsubmit to the city for\n\n1134\n01:01:33,523 --> 01:01:36,425\nconsideration for selection to\nconvert their septic system on\n\n1135\n01:01:36,726 --> 01:01:39,361\nto city sewer.\nThe city evaluates their\n\n1136\n01:01:40,960 --> 01:01:42,398\napplication based on a number of\ncriteria.\nThe age of the system, whether\n\n1137\n01:01:43,500 --> 01:01:45,500\nthey have failing systems, the\n\n1138\n01:01:46,200 --> 01:01:48,670\ncost to convert, but one aspect\nI do want to stress that I\n\n1139\n01:01:48,872 --> 01:01:50,872\nalways stress, you'll know what\n\n1140\n01:01:51,641 --> 01:01:53,641\nI'm saying, is the participation\n\n1141\n01:01:53,710 --> 01:01:56,679\nthat the applicants have in the\nprogram.\nSo at the completion of the\n\n1142\n01:01:57,213 --> 01:01:59,213\nconstruction project, we issue\n\n1143\n01:01:59,282 --> 01:02:01,717\nwhat's called a notice of\noperational completion, the noc.\n\n1144\n01:02:03,586 --> 01:02:06,221\nThat noc is their ticket to go\ndown to permitting and pull\n\n1145\n01:02:06,623 --> 01:02:09,258\ntheir plumbing permit to start\ntheir conversion process.\n\n1146\n01:02:10,227 --> 01:02:12,828\nThey do get presented a window\nwould have two years to get a\n\n1147\n01:02:13,263 --> 01:02:15,263\n50% reduction on their\n\n1148\n01:02:16,299 --> 01:02:18,200\nconnection fee, which is about a\n$5,000 savings.\n\n1149\n01:02:18,735 --> 01:02:21,370\nThey don't have to convert\nunless they do sign that\n\n1150\n01:02:22,439 --> 01:02:24,439\npetition, which is that\n\n1151\n01:02:24,975 --> 01:02:26,909\ncommitment to participating in\nthe conversion upon completion\n\n1152\n01:02:31,810 --> 01:02:33,810\nof the project.\n\n1153\n01:02:33,383 --> 01:02:35,383\nOverview of this application or\n\n1154\n01:02:35,552 --> 01:02:38,321\nthis construction project, these\ntwo applications at king\n\n1155\n01:02:40,724 --> 01:02:43,492\nhezekiah and fargo are both in\nthe kingsport area south of reed\n\n1156\n01:02:44,528 --> 01:02:46,528\nmarket, east of 15th.\n\n1157\n01:02:46,830 --> 01:02:49,265\nThese ones were completed, the\ndesign was completed to the 90%\n\n1158\n01:02:50,167 --> 01:02:52,167\nlevel as part of the overall\n\n1159\n01:02:53,103 --> 01:02:55,638\nbasin study when the southeast\ninterceptor went through kings\n\n1160\n01:02:56,390 --> 01:02:58,674\nforest area and they were\ndesigned externally.\n\n1161\n01:02:59,900 --> 01:03:01,744\nWe do present opportunities that\nwe do have internal capacity to\n\n1162\n01:03:02,713 --> 01:03:04,713\ndo design services.\n\n1163\n01:03:04,815 --> 01:03:07,116\nThe next construction project\nyou'll be presented for approval\n\n1164\n01:03:07,651 --> 01:03:10,186\nin two weeks was designed\ninternally, so we do evaluate on\n\n1165\n01:03:12,220 --> 01:03:14,223\na case-by-case basis how best to\ndeliver the projects.\n\n1166\n01:03:15,659 --> 01:03:18,160\nThese projects do include a full\nwidth pavement restoration and\n\n1167\n01:03:18,629 --> 01:03:20,629\ngiven where these projects are,\n\n1168\n01:03:21,310 --> 01:03:23,433\nthere will be limited traffic\nclosures really with local\n\n1169\n01:03:26,537 --> 01:03:29,472\naccess restrictions.\nKing hezekiah, jumping into that\n\n1170\n01:03:29,673 --> 01:03:32,900\none, there's 25 properties that\nwill benefit from this sewer\n\n1171\n01:03:32,900 --> 01:03:34,844\nline.\nOf those, 13 had committed to\n\n1172\n01:03:36,380 --> 01:03:38,614\nconnecting within with the\ntwo-year period.\n\n1173\n01:03:39,350 --> 01:03:42,318\n1900 linear feet.\nThe dots indicate the properties\n\n1174\n01:03:45,656 --> 01:03:48,324\nthat did commit to connection.\nGoing to fargo, that one is a\n\n1175\n01:03:49,794 --> 01:03:51,794\nlittle over 1,000 feet, 17\n\n1176\n01:03:53,640 --> 01:03:55,698\nproperties will benefit, and 12\ndid commit to participating.\n\n1177\n01:03:56,233 --> 01:03:58,233\nSo another case, both of these\n\n1178\n01:03:59,837 --> 01:04:02,806\nprojects are over 50%\ncommitment.\nSo as far as a lot of the public\n\n1179\n01:04:03,774 --> 01:04:05,909\nthat does benefit from this is\nwanting to participate directly\n\n1180\n01:04:06,644 --> 01:04:09,379\nin this program.\n>> jason, can I ask you while\n\n1181\n01:04:09,847 --> 01:04:11,915\nyou're on these slides, please,\nhow many folks do you suppose\n\n1182\n01:04:13,751 --> 01:04:15,885\nwill also jump on a little bit\nlater but still within that\n\n1183\n01:04:18,220 --> 01:04:19,322\nwindow just based on your\nexperience?\n\n1184\n01:04:20,910 --> 01:04:22,926\nI'm not going to hold you to it,\nbut anyway, do you think?\n>> oh, absolutely.\n\n1185\n01:04:24,462 --> 01:04:27,230\nA lot of the people don't want\nto have the commitment, right?\n\n1186\n01:04:27,865 --> 01:04:30,300\nSo they have to do it.\nBut some of these applications\n\n1187\n01:04:30,301 --> 01:04:32,936\nalso have been in consideration\nfor multiple years, so there\n\n1188\n01:04:33,237 --> 01:04:35,237\nmight be a lot of interest at\n\n1189\n01:04:35,406 --> 01:04:37,406\nfirst and it has dwindled, but\n\n1190\n01:04:37,842 --> 01:04:40,110\nonce the project is selected and\nproceeded forward, it renews\n\n1191\n01:04:40,110 --> 01:04:41,912\nthat interest.\n>> right.\n\n1192\n01:04:42,747 --> 01:04:44,747\n>> also that system is that many\n\n1193\n01:04:45,917 --> 01:04:47,417\nmore years aged.\n>> makes sense.\n\n1194\n01:04:48,753 --> 01:04:50,754\n>> so they need it even further.\nUnfortunately, there are cases\n\n1195\n01:04:51,890 --> 01:04:53,824\nwhere people apply and then\ntheir system fails and their\n\n1196\n01:04:53,924 --> 01:04:55,924\napplication is not selected, so\n\n1197\n01:04:55,994 --> 01:04:57,994\nwe just have to go and fix their\n\n1198\n01:04:58,162 --> 01:05:00,597\nsystem so when we come through,\nthey aren't really attracted to\n\n1199\n01:05:00,598 --> 01:05:02,598\nconnecting, because they just\n\n1200\n01:05:02,767 --> 01:05:05,503\ndid a large investment on to\ntheir septic system.\n\n1201\n01:05:05,503 --> 01:05:08,471\n>> thank you for the context,\nappreciate it.\n\n1202\n01:05:08,473 --> 01:05:11,800\n>> there's been a lot of work in\nthis neighborhood, so I just\n\n1203\n01:05:11,309 --> 01:05:14,144\nwonder how many people have seen\nit happening on other streets in\n\n1204\n01:05:14,144 --> 01:05:16,144\nthe neighborhood and are aware\n\n1205\n01:05:16,881 --> 01:05:18,782\nof hey when this comes down my\nstreet, maybe I should consider\n\n1206\n01:05:19,851 --> 01:05:22,719\nit.\n>> exactly.\nOverall timeline here as\n\n1207\n01:05:25,223 --> 01:05:27,724\nmentioned, end of 2024 we did\nselect these two applications\n\n1208\n01:05:31,629 --> 01:05:33,997\nalong with the azalea and\nwindsor.\nWe did then proceed into the\n\n1209\n01:05:34,632 --> 01:05:36,632\ndesign of this.\n\n1210\n01:05:36,801 --> 01:05:38,569\nWe are here MARCH 18, 2026, for\ncouncil approval.\n\n1211\n01:05:39,104 --> 01:05:41,572\nWe are looking to start\nconstruction at the beginning of\nAPRIL.\n\n1212\n01:05:42,707 --> 01:05:45,800\nWe do have a public open house\nscheduled already, the\n\n1213\n01:05:46,678 --> 01:05:48,879\ncontractor is ready to get after\nthe construction.\n\n1214\n01:05:49,381 --> 01:05:51,381\nAnd then construction is slated\n\n1215\n01:05:54,986 --> 01:05:57,654\nfor completion in the end of\nOCTOBER.\nOverall budget here, the budget\n\n1216\n01:05:58,560 --> 01:06:00,157\nfor the project at time of\nselection, so going back to\n\n1217\n01:06:03,940 --> 01:06:05,330\n2024, was 2.875 million.\nwe did receive seven bids on\n\n1218\n01:06:05,330 --> 01:06:07,330\nthis project.\n\n1219\n01:06:08,834 --> 01:06:10,834\nThe lowest bid came in 26% under\n\n1220\n01:06:11,670 --> 01:06:13,670\nthe engineer's estimate, so that\n\n1221\n01:06:15,206 --> 01:06:17,206\nis beneficial to city, the water\n\n1222\n01:06:17,208 --> 01:06:19,208\nreclamation fund and the septic\n\n1223\n01:06:19,344 --> 01:06:21,112\ncity program, so it has a ripple\neffect there.\n\n1224\n01:06:21,680 --> 01:06:23,680\nSurvey and design, call it\n\n1225\n01:06:23,682 --> 01:06:25,682\nminimal cost, $160,000.\n\n1226\n01:06:26,510 --> 01:06:28,486\nThat's the amount that we have\nincurred to date through the\n\n1227\n01:06:29,988 --> 01:06:31,756\ndesign services surveying\nmiscellaneous and then some\n\n1228\n01:06:32,190 --> 01:06:34,191\nadditional services that we will\nbe providing.\n\n1229\n01:06:36,328 --> 01:06:38,996\nOverall total, 1.855.\nSo while there's a good gap\n\n1230\n01:06:39,298 --> 01:06:41,298\nthere, we aren't intending to\n\n1231\n01:06:44,360 --> 01:06:45,369\nspend the full million dollar\ndeficit.\n\n1232\n01:06:46,705 --> 01:06:48,705\nThat money goes back into the\n\n1233\n01:06:49,441 --> 01:06:51,441\nbeginning working capital of the\n\n1234\n01:06:51,977 --> 01:06:54,645\nwater reclamation fund, but we\nare taking provisions as\nnecessary.\n\n1235\n01:06:56,114 --> 01:06:58,114\nBut that 2.875 was the number\n\n1236\n01:06:58,751 --> 01:07:00,852\nback to the selection time\nperiod.\n\n1237\n01:07:01,687 --> 01:07:03,687\n>> and as jason mentioned,\n\n1238\n01:07:03,689 --> 01:07:06,557\nthere's also a resolution this\nevening to enter into a clean\n\n1239\n01:07:08,494 --> 01:07:10,494\nwater state revolving fund loan.\n\n1240\n01:07:10,929 --> 01:07:13,798\nIt's a bit of a mouthful.\nThat will be used to finance the\n\n1241\n01:07:15,234 --> 01:07:17,468\nking hezekiah and fargo septic\nto sewer project.\n\n1242\n01:07:19,171 --> 01:07:21,906\nThe not to exceed amount, the\n2.875, but consistent with our\n\n1243\n01:07:24,643 --> 01:07:27,440\nother cwsrf loans, we'll only\ndraw down the amount needed to\n\n1244\n01:07:27,279 --> 01:07:30,114\ncomplete the project, so the\nloan amount will end up being\n\n1245\n01:07:30,816 --> 01:07:32,816\nwhatever we end up using.\n\n1246\n01:07:33,986 --> 01:07:35,986\nSome of the benefits to\n\n1247\n01:07:36,922 --> 01:07:39,324\nobtaining the cwsrf loans over\nissuing traditional revenue\n\n1248\n01:07:39,658 --> 01:07:41,593\nbonds include things like no\nprepayment penalties.\n\n1249\n01:07:43,280 --> 01:07:45,280\nWe don't have bond issuance\n\n1250\n01:07:45,798 --> 01:07:47,765\ncosts, pretty low debt service\ncoverage requirements and lower\n\n1251\n01:07:49,201 --> 01:07:51,102\ninterest rates than your typical\nmarket bonds.\n\n1252\n01:07:51,737 --> 01:07:53,737\nThis particular loan is eligible\n\n1253\n01:07:55,908 --> 01:07:57,908\nfor a million dollars worth of\n\n1254\n01:07:58,210 --> 01:08:00,210\nforgiveness and up to principal\n\n1255\n01:08:01,514 --> 01:08:03,848\nforgiveness up to $450,000, so\nwe'll be roughly requiredded to\n\n1256\n01:08:09,880 --> 01:08:11,880\npay back half of that 2.87 were\n\n1257\n01:08:11,591 --> 01:08:13,591\nwe to utilize the entire amount.\n\n1258\n01:08:14,226 --> 01:08:16,328\nThe biennial budget and the\nsewer rate models include the\n\n1259\n01:08:17,129 --> 01:08:18,964\nrate plan to fund this cost of\nthe project.\n\n1260\n01:08:19,165 --> 01:08:21,333\n>> great, all right.\nAny questions, other questions,\n\n1261\n01:08:22,234 --> 01:08:24,536\ncouncil?\nLooking good.\n\n1262\n01:08:25,710 --> 01:08:27,710\n>> I have a question.\n\n1263\n01:08:27,473 --> 01:08:30,800\nThat is a pretty big budget gap.\nI recall when we looked at the\n\n1264\n01:08:31,177 --> 01:08:33,177\nprojects that were proposed, I\n\n1265\n01:08:33,813 --> 01:08:36,682\nmean, obviously changes go out\nto bid and bid it tomorrow, but\n\n1266\n01:08:38,317 --> 01:08:40,218\nthere were a lot of projects\nproposed.\n\n1267\n01:08:41,487 --> 01:08:44,220\nSo, yeah, I don't know, I'd be\ncurious, so those dollars will\n\n1268\n01:08:46,920 --> 01:08:48,393\njust go into the program?\nBecause council in the past has\n\n1269\n01:08:48,828 --> 01:08:51,296\nfunded the program at 3 million\na year?\n\n1270\n01:08:51,297 --> 01:08:53,297\n>> three-and-a-half.\n\n1271\n01:08:53,299 --> 01:08:55,300\n>> yeah, so we're spending a\nmillion less?\n\n1272\n01:08:56,703 --> 01:08:58,703\n>> going back, we did commit to\n\n1273\n01:08:59,439 --> 01:09:01,173\nspend 6.2.\n>> 2.\n\n1274\n01:09:01,641 --> 01:09:04,420\nSo we did overcommit because we\nhad that opportunity, and I want\n\n1275\n01:09:05,110 --> 01:09:07,120\nto stress that was because of\nthe collection system master\n\n1276\n01:09:08,615 --> 01:09:10,816\nplan and the facility plan\nupdate at the treatment plant\n\n1277\n01:09:11,918 --> 01:09:14,190\nthat were coming, so we are\nstarting to land those ships.\n\n1278\n01:09:16,322 --> 01:09:19,910\nAnd so we are identifying all of\nthe needs outside of septic to\n\n1279\n01:09:20,593 --> 01:09:22,593\nsewer, so a lot of the attention\n\n1280\n01:09:23,663 --> 01:09:25,297\neither from staffing or from\nfunding is going to have to\n\n1281\n01:09:26,399 --> 01:09:28,367\nshift to the highest priority\nareas.\nAnd so that's a conversation\n\n1282\n01:09:29,335 --> 01:09:31,335\nthat we need to have on how to\n\n1283\n01:09:31,971 --> 01:09:34,273\nbest support all of the needs\nwithin the collection -- within\n\n1284\n01:09:35,575 --> 01:09:38,110\nthe water reclamation system, so\ncollections and treatment.\n\n1285\n01:09:38,244 --> 01:09:40,646\nBecause we have a lot of\nexisting infrastructure on the\n\n1286\n01:09:42,282 --> 01:09:44,282\ncollections and on the treatment\n\n1287\n01:09:44,684 --> 01:09:46,585\nside that have been deferred,\nbecause we haven't had\n\n1288\n01:09:46,920 --> 01:09:49,256\nnecessarily a master plan to\ntell us exactly what is is\n\n1289\n01:09:49,256 --> 01:09:52,191\nneeded.\nSo we were looking to identify\n\n1290\n01:09:52,826 --> 01:09:54,826\nthose needs, prioritize those\n\n1291\n01:09:55,562 --> 01:09:58,197\nneeds, develop the funding\nstrategy and then balance other\n\n1292\n01:09:58,999 --> 01:10:00,999\nprograms such as septic to\n\n1293\n01:10:01,670 --> 01:10:03,670\nsewer, pump station, r & r, but\n\n1294\n01:10:03,370 --> 01:10:05,904\nwe do have a lot of other\ncapital needs through those\n\n1295\n01:10:06,390 --> 01:10:08,390\nsystems.\n\n1296\n01:10:08,410 --> 01:10:10,143\n>> mm-hmm, okay, yeah.\nI did get an e-mail from\n\n1297\n01:10:10,143 --> 01:10:12,444\nsomeone.\nIt's a couple months ago now,\n\n1298\n01:10:13,980 --> 01:10:15,980\nand I thought they were\n\n1299\n01:10:16,183 --> 01:10:18,183\nfollowing up with you, so it's\n\n1300\n01:10:18,485 --> 01:10:21,120\nprobably fine, but I think it's\nactually cabin lane, in that\n\n1301\n01:10:21,521 --> 01:10:23,756\narea, there were some\ncul-de-sacs that did not get\n\n1302\n01:10:24,691 --> 01:10:26,691\npicked up on the septic to\n\n1303\n01:10:26,894 --> 01:10:28,994\nsewer, so homeowners on those\ncul-de-sacs are still on septic,\n\n1304\n01:10:29,529 --> 01:10:32,497\nbut there is a sewer line right\nthere and it seems like sort of\n\n1305\n01:10:33,467 --> 01:10:35,467\nlittle connections that the city\n\n1306\n01:10:36,203 --> 01:10:38,738\nhas promised that neighborhood\nand made a follow-through to\n\n1307\n01:10:40,400 --> 01:10:42,675\nmost of the neighbors but not\nothers.\nI'd be interested.\n\n1308\n01:10:44,311 --> 01:10:45,978\nI'll follow up with you on it\nseparately.\n\n1309\n01:10:46,513 --> 01:10:48,513\n>> the city goes through a\n\n1310\n01:10:50,217 --> 01:10:52,217\ndiligent process to identify the\n\n1311\n01:10:52,219 --> 01:10:54,219\ndrainage area, not to come do\n\n1312\n01:10:55,355 --> 01:10:58,124\nshort segments, but you also\ncan't do excessive, because the\n\n1313\n01:10:58,125 --> 01:11:00,125\nfunding doesn't support it.\n\n1314\n01:11:01,395 --> 01:11:03,395\nSo there's a strategy on how to\n\n1315\n01:11:04,640 --> 01:11:06,132\nidentify what that drainage\nbasin is.\nThere's a lot of areas within\n\n1316\n01:11:06,900 --> 01:11:08,900\nthe city of bend, southwest,\n\n1317\n01:11:09,637 --> 01:11:11,637\nsoutheast, some of the north,\n\n1318\n01:11:12,172 --> 01:11:14,274\nnorthwest are on septic, so it\nis competitive.\n\n1319\n01:11:15,375 --> 01:11:18,244\nAnd it would take a lot of money\nto convert everybody over and\n\n1320\n01:11:18,779 --> 01:11:20,980\nthat's balancing the existing\nsystem and the operations that\n\n1321\n01:11:22,490 --> 01:11:24,250\nwe do have to have.\nSo it would be great to do it\n\n1322\n01:11:26,200 --> 01:11:28,200\nall, but we do have a system to\n\n1323\n01:11:28,656 --> 01:11:30,390\nmaintain and treat the sewage\ntoo.\n\n1324\n01:11:33,127 --> 01:11:34,461\n>> okay, any other questions?\nAll right.\n\n1325\n01:11:40,367 --> 01:11:42,435\nWe got two motions, 6 and 7.\n>> I move to adopt a resolution\n\n1326\n01:11:43,400 --> 01:11:45,400\nauthorizing a clean water state\n\n1327\n01:11:45,506 --> 01:11:47,506\nrevolving fund loan agreement to\n\n1328\n01:11:47,942 --> 01:11:49,676\nfinance the king hezekiah and\nfargo sewer project in a total\n\n1329\n01:11:55,650 --> 01:11:57,584\nloan amount not to exceed\n$2,875,000, in substantially the\n\n1330\n01:11:58,190 --> 01:11:59,986\nform presented to council and as\napproved by the department of\n\n1331\n01:12:03,958 --> 01:12:06,526\nenvironmental quality.\n>> second.\n\n1332\n01:12:06,928 --> 01:12:08,929\n>> moved by councilor platt,\nseconded by councilor riley.\n\n1333\n01:12:09,664 --> 01:12:11,664\nAll in favor?\n\n1334\n01:12:12,600 --> 01:12:14,635\n>> aye.\n>> okay.\n\n1335\n01:12:14,635 --> 01:12:16,838\nNext?\n>> I move to authorize a\ncontract with bar seven a\ncompanies, inc., in\n\n1336\n01:12:16,838 --> 01:12:18,839\nsubstantially the form presented\nto council, for construction\n\n1337\n01:12:18,940 --> 01:12:21,741\nservices for the king hezekiah\nand fargo sewer project in an\n\n1338\n01:12:29,500 --> 01:12:30,784\namount not to exceed $1,674,186.\n>> second.\n\n1339\n01:12:34,189 --> 01:12:36,723\n>> all in favor?\n[Chorus of ayes]\n\n1340\n01:12:38,826 --> 01:12:41,261\n>> we'll move on to item 8.\n>> council is asked to authorize\n\n1341\n01:12:42,764 --> 01:12:44,933\na contract with diamond parking\nservices llc for city-wide\n\n1342\n01:12:44,933 --> 01:12:46,933\nparking management and\n\n1343\n01:12:48,903 --> 01:12:50,503\nenforcement services not to\nexceed $536,000 for the first\n\n1344\n01:12:50,939 --> 01:12:52,939\nyear and authorize the city\n\n1345\n01:12:53,208 --> 01:12:55,309\nmanager to approve annual\nrenewals for a total contract\n\n1346\n01:12:58,680 --> 01:13:00,680\namount not to exceed\n\n1347\n01:13:01,215 --> 01:13:03,215\n$2,906,000 over five years.\n\n1348\n01:13:06,921 --> 01:13:09,456\n>> good evening, mayor and\ncouncil.\n\n1349\n01:13:11,726 --> 01:13:13,726\nIt's time to renew our parking\n\n1350\n01:13:14,596 --> 01:13:15,963\nmanagement and our enforcement\ncontract.\n\n1351\n01:13:18,299 --> 01:13:20,934\nSo today what we're asking is to\nauthorize a contract as was\n\n1352\n01:13:22,137 --> 01:13:24,672\nmentioned with diamond parking\nservices llc for the city-wide\n\n1353\n01:13:25,840 --> 01:13:28,709\nmanagement and enforcement\nservices.\nI'll give some details and we'll\n\n1354\n01:13:28,910 --> 01:13:30,910\ncircle back around to a motion\n\n1355\n01:13:31,120 --> 01:13:33,120\nat the end.\n\n1356\n01:13:33,848 --> 01:13:35,715\nI threw up the wheel of the\nconnected city.\n\n1357\n01:13:35,951 --> 01:13:37,951\nI think parking touches\n\n1358\n01:13:39,321 --> 01:13:41,188\nbasically pretty much on all of\nthose.\n\n1359\n01:13:42,624 --> 01:13:44,158\nBut this contract helps suppor\nefficient, responsible\n\n1360\n01:13:44,693 --> 01:13:47,228\ntransportation, system\nmanagemnt.\nWe got multiple districts in\n\n1361\n01:13:48,296 --> 01:13:50,296\ntown as you know today,\n\n1362\n01:13:50,632 --> 01:13:52,632\ndowntown, old bend, Mckay,\n\n1363\n01:13:53,268 --> 01:13:55,903\nparking garage, surface lots.\nWe do have some future districts\n\n1364\n01:13:57,205 --> 01:13:59,907\nthat we have talked with council\nabout before.\nI'll share some more information\n\n1365\n01:14:00,709 --> 01:14:03,477\non those in a later slide.\nBut this contract is a phased\n\n1366\n01:14:05,514 --> 01:14:08,282\napproach with some new districts\nproposed.\nServices support parking\n\n1367\n01:14:09,785 --> 01:14:11,785\navailability, circulation,\n\n1368\n01:14:11,787 --> 01:14:14,188\ncompliance, just to expand a\nlittle bit on what the contract\n\n1369\n01:14:14,723 --> 01:14:17,158\ndoes or doesn't maybe include,\njust a few examples.\n\n1370\n01:14:18,126 --> 01:14:20,761\nEnforcement parking management\nstrategies in compliance with\n\n1371\n01:14:23,165 --> 01:14:26,133\nour bend municipal code, oregon\nstatutes, inspect, enforce,\n\n1372\n01:14:27,669 --> 01:14:30,404\nmaintain compliance with all\nparking facilities.\nWe want our parking system to be\n\n1373\n01:14:30,839 --> 01:14:32,839\nfunctional, clean, maintained.\n\n1374\n01:14:36,245 --> 01:14:38,245\nManage the online and anywhere in-person\n\n1375\n01:14:38,380 --> 01:14:40,848\nparking permits, supplies,\nmaterials, the surface lots.\n\n1376\n01:14:41,116 --> 01:14:43,116\nDaily maintenance and operations\n\n1377\n01:14:43,752 --> 01:14:45,752\nof the parking garage.\n\n1378\n01:14:46,540 --> 01:14:48,540\nExample of maybe what this\n\n1379\n01:14:49,324 --> 01:14:51,324\ndoesn't include, diamond parking\n\n1380\n01:14:51,527 --> 01:14:53,527\ndo not create a parking\n\n1381\n01:14:53,696 --> 01:14:55,696\nmanagement strategic or\n\n1382\n01:14:55,798 --> 01:14:58,433\nstrategies or\npolicies.\nWe work with city council on\n\n1383\n01:14:58,867 --> 01:15:01,736\nwhat those parking management\nstrategies and policies are but\n\n1384\n01:15:06,208 --> 01:15:08,343\nthen diamond helps us manage and\nenforce those.\n\n1385\n01:15:09,144 --> 01:15:11,144\nSo the procurement process.\n\n1386\n01:15:14,490 --> 01:15:16,551\nWe did do a formal rfp request\nfor proposal process.\n\n1387\n01:15:18,120 --> 01:15:20,120\nI was happy to see five\n\n1388\n01:15:21,390 --> 01:15:23,725\nproposals come in.\nDiamond parking services llc was\n\n1389\n01:15:26,828 --> 01:15:28,828\nthe highest ranked proposal.\n\n1390\n01:15:29,498 --> 01:15:31,498\nWe had basically a committee, a\n\n1391\n01:15:33,502 --> 01:15:36,400\nscoring process with a total of\n1,000 points possible.\n\n1392\n01:15:36,605 --> 01:15:39,400\nThose things we looked for are\nproject understanding and\n\n1393\n01:15:39,909 --> 01:15:42,210\napproach, that was worth a few\nhundred points.\n\n1394\n01:15:43,178 --> 01:15:45,613\nProject team, experience, and\nquality of service worth another\n\n1395\n01:15:46,480 --> 01:15:48,480\nfew hundred points, so 60% of\n\n1396\n01:15:48,484 --> 01:15:50,484\nthe ranking of these proposals\n\n1397\n01:15:50,519 --> 01:15:52,954\nwas based on those.\ncost was another 400 points to\n\n1398\n01:15:55,691 --> 01:15:57,691\nmake up that 1,000-point total.\n\n1399\n01:15:58,527 --> 01:16:00,527\nWe had five proposals total.\n\n1400\n01:16:01,264 --> 01:16:03,899\nThe top two were very\ncompetitive.\nDiamond parking was the highest\n\n1401\n01:16:04,434 --> 01:16:06,434\noverall scoring proposal, the\n\n1402\n01:16:06,836 --> 01:16:09,471\nhighest in the project\nunderstanding, experience,\nquality of service.\n\n1403\n01:16:12,108 --> 01:16:14,108\nThey were the second highest\n\n1404\n01:16:14,844 --> 01:16:16,844\nscorer for cost.\n\n1405\n01:16:17,380 --> 01:16:18,813\nThey were the second lowest\nproposal.\n\n1406\n01:16:19,982 --> 01:16:22,317\nAnd that was pretty much a\nstraightup formula on cost.\n\n1407\n01:16:23,286 --> 01:16:25,787\nThe lowest cost proposal, you\nget the most points and second%\n\n1408\n01:16:26,856 --> 01:16:28,856\nand third and fourth and fifth.\n\n1409\n01:16:30,260 --> 01:16:32,260\nProposals ranged from about\n\n1410\n01:16:37,967 --> 01:16:39,967\n503,000 to 6.\n\n1411\n01:16:40,360 --> 01:16:42,671\n655,000 and some\nchange.\nHere is a picture of some of the\n\n1412\n01:16:45,174 --> 01:16:46,508\nmembers of the diamond parking\nteam.\n\n1413\n01:16:48,278 --> 01:16:50,479\nSo I mentioned the phased\napproach.\nPhase one really is taking care\n\n1414\n01:16:51,881 --> 01:16:53,882\nof what we have today.\nSo that downtown parking\n\n1415\n01:16:54,851 --> 01:16:57,152\ndistrict, the Mckay district,\nold bend benefit district, the\n\n1416\n01:16:58,221 --> 01:17:00,221\nsurface lots that I mentioned\n\n1417\n01:17:01,558 --> 01:17:03,558\nand centennial parking garage.\n\n1418\n01:17:05,280 --> 01:17:07,290\nThis summer, we look to expand\nold bend east district and what\n\n1419\n01:17:08,331 --> 01:17:10,199\nwe're calling the miller's run\ndistrict.\n\n1420\n01:17:10,834 --> 01:17:12,834\nI've got some maps.\n\n1421\n01:17:13,236 --> 01:17:15,236\nI'll shirr a little bit more\n\n1422\n01:17:16,873 --> 01:17:18,374\nshare a little bit more\nabout that.\n\n1423\n01:17:19,109 --> 01:17:21,410\nWe were within the next probably\ntwo weeks here, we're working\n\n1424\n01:17:21,911 --> 01:17:23,911\nwith communications, legal, met\n\n1425\n01:17:24,214 --> 01:17:26,810\nwith the members of the old bend\nneighborhood association just\n\n1426\n01:17:27,184 --> 01:17:29,919\nmonday of this week to go into\nthe 60-day public comment\n\n1427\n01:17:30,120 --> 01:17:32,120\nperiod, and so looking to be\n\n1428\n01:17:32,255 --> 01:17:34,255\nback in front of council with\n\n1429\n01:17:35,191 --> 01:17:37,293\nthe final recommendations on\nthese districts accounting for\n\n1430\n01:17:39,620 --> 01:17:41,620\nthe public comment in JUNE.\n\n1431\n01:17:41,598 --> 01:17:43,466\nAnd so just a quick snapshot of\nour districts.\n\n1432\n01:17:43,900 --> 01:17:46,769\nI think most of us are familiar\nwith them.\nWe've got the downtown district.\n\n1433\n01:17:48,638 --> 01:17:50,638\nI won't go through all the text\n\n1434\n01:17:51,808 --> 01:17:53,808\nthere, but 400 spaces in surface\n\n1435\n01:17:54,111 --> 01:17:56,111\nlots, 547 in garage, on-street,\n\n1436\n01:17:56,513 --> 01:17:58,848\nabout 40 blocks worth, 1500\nspaces.\n\n1437\n01:17:59,716 --> 01:18:01,716\nOld bend parking benefit street,\n\n1438\n01:18:03,854 --> 01:18:05,854\n1200 on-street space.\n\n1439\n01:18:06,523 --> 01:18:08,523\nMckay, 250 on-street spaces.\n\n1440\n01:18:08,592 --> 01:18:11,227\nAnd then we get into the two new\ndistricts that I was just\nmentioning.\n\n1441\n01:18:11,862 --> 01:18:14,397\nI went ahead and put some\nanticipated strategies up here,\n\n1442\n01:18:14,832 --> 01:18:16,832\nbut we'll be back in front of\n\n1443\n01:18:17,568 --> 01:18:19,568\ncouncil in JUNE after accounting\n\n1444\n01:18:20,504 --> 01:18:22,705\nfor public comment and with what\nstrategies we're recommending\n\n1445\n01:18:23,240 --> 01:18:25,542\nfor the final proposal.\nBut these are some of the\n\n1446\n01:18:25,542 --> 01:18:28,277\nexamples of what we're\nanticipating there.\n\n1447\n01:18:29,913 --> 01:18:32,648\nAnd then the old bend east, so\nthis would not just be an\n\n1448\n01:18:33,283 --> 01:18:34,784\nexpansion of the existing\ndistrict.\n\n1449\n01:18:35,386 --> 01:18:37,687\nWe got some different nuances,\nexisting district on the west\n\n1450\n01:18:38,422 --> 01:18:41,190\nside of broadway down to drake\npark, Mckay park, you got the\n\n1451\n01:18:46,664 --> 01:18:48,431\nriver floaters, the deschutes\nriver trail.\n\n1452\n01:18:49,400 --> 01:18:52,168\nOver to the parkway and along\nthe arizona, colorado area, more\n\n1453\n01:18:53,771 --> 01:18:56,572\nof a commercial use more so than\npark and businesses along\n\n1454\n01:18:59,844 --> 01:19:01,844\nfranklin and along the parkway.\n\n1455\n01:19:03,280 --> 01:19:06,249\nSome different strategies there.\nSo available for questions and\n\n1456\n01:19:06,450 --> 01:19:07,984\nhave a recommended motion on the\nscreen.\n\n1457\n01:19:09,487 --> 01:19:11,487\n>> all right, council, questions\n\n1458\n01:19:13,891 --> 01:19:16,326\nfor david on this contract?\n>> and I'm sorry, I didn't\n\n1459\n01:19:16,694 --> 01:19:18,694\nmention in the beginning, we\n\n1460\n01:19:19,263 --> 01:19:21,263\nhave patrick from the parking\n\n1461\n01:19:23,934 --> 01:19:25,602\ndivision as well as carina from\ndiamond parking.\n\n1462\n01:19:26,370 --> 01:19:28,805\n>> go ahead.\n>> so what I would really like\n\n1463\n01:19:29,540 --> 01:19:32,175\nto dig into a little bit with my\nfellow councilors here is the\n\n1464\n01:19:32,710 --> 01:19:34,811\ndistinction between a parking\nbenefit district and those areas\n\n1465\n01:19:36,647 --> 01:19:39,820\nversus the commercial areas\nwhere we have a lot of paid\n\n1466\n01:19:40,151 --> 01:19:42,252\nparking and we have some very\nregimented -- and we don't have\n\n1467\n01:19:43,554 --> 01:19:45,789\npeople who live in homes who are\ntrying to go about their lives\n\n1468\n01:19:48,359 --> 01:19:50,360\nand their daily business, many\nwithout driveways, for example,\n\n1469\n01:19:50,795 --> 01:19:51,995\nbecause we've moved away from\nthat.\n\n1470\n01:19:53,364 --> 01:19:55,364\nI very much support that.\n\n1471\n01:19:55,533 --> 01:19:58,101\nAnd so I'm now the old bend\nneighborhood liaison.\n\n1472\n01:19:58,269 --> 01:20:00,804\nYou probably heard the same\nthings I've been hearing.\n\n1473\n01:20:02,240 --> 01:20:04,240\nI've spent hours meeting with\n\n1474\n01:20:04,309 --> 01:20:06,610\ndave and russ grayson to talk\nabout some of the issues the old\n\n1475\n01:20:07,378 --> 01:20:09,378\nbend neighborhood is facing.\n\n1476\n01:20:09,447 --> 01:20:11,447\nSo what my concern is, is that\n\n1477\n01:20:12,150 --> 01:20:14,651\nwe're enforcing laws and rules\nin a parking benefit district\n\n1478\n01:20:15,153 --> 01:20:17,688\nthat was not really explained to\nthe residents of that\n\n1479\n01:20:18,256 --> 01:20:20,256\nneighborhood when they signed up\n\n1480\n01:20:20,625 --> 01:20:22,125\nfor the parking benefit\ndistrict.\n\n1481\n01:20:24,762 --> 01:20:26,762\nThe rules that are being\n\n1482\n01:20:27,298 --> 01:20:29,298\nenforced there are rules of\n\n1483\n01:20:29,801 --> 01:20:32,235\nparking and traffic that it's\njust going beyond what I think\n\n1484\n01:20:35,306 --> 01:20:37,306\nanyone really signed up for.\n\n1485\n01:20:37,509 --> 01:20:40,144\nSo the way that I read the\ncontract is that -- and the way\n\n1486\n01:20:40,545 --> 01:20:42,545\nthat david has explained it to\n\n1487\n01:20:43,615 --> 01:20:46,316\nme is that the contractor,\ndiamond parking, who enforcing\n\n1488\n01:20:47,510 --> 01:20:49,510\nthe ors, but they don't do that\n\n1489\n01:20:49,354 --> 01:20:51,423\nin every neighborhood, right?\nThe only reason they're going\n\n1490\n01:20:51,423 --> 01:20:53,557\nthrough the old bend\nneighborhood is because we now\n\n1491\n01:20:58,764 --> 01:21:01,732\nhave the benefit district there.\nIn the old bend neighborhood is\n\n1492\n01:21:03,802 --> 01:21:06,437\nfor us to actually kind of live\nup to the promise we made to the\n\n1493\n01:21:07,105 --> 01:21:09,730\nneighborhood which is to make it\na benefit neighborhood.\n\n1494\n01:21:10,609 --> 01:21:12,609\nSo the neighbors are paying for\n\n1495\n01:21:13,345 --> 01:21:15,412\na parking permit and they're\nhopefully getting some parking\n\n1496\n01:21:16,810 --> 01:21:18,810\non their street when tourists\n\n1497\n01:21:18,450 --> 01:21:20,450\nare in town, but they're not\n\n1498\n01:21:22,487 --> 01:21:25,256\ngetting penalized, laws enforced\non them that we're not enforcing\n\n1499\n01:21:25,524 --> 01:21:27,524\non other nakeds in\n\n1500\n01:21:27,592 --> 01:21:29,393\nneighborhoods in the\ncity.\n\n1501\n01:21:29,761 --> 01:21:32,730\nSo I think it's a clarification\nof council's policy to the staff\n\n1502\n01:21:33,465 --> 01:21:35,232\nand the contractor who are\nadministering the policy.\n\n1503\n01:21:35,667 --> 01:21:37,902\nI don't think it's necessarily a\nchange to the contract itself.\n\n1504\n01:21:39,104 --> 01:21:41,505\nI think this is a point of\nclarification that I'm asking\n\n1505\n01:21:42,841 --> 01:21:45,776\nfor you to help me convey to the\nstaff tonight.\n>> so you're saying there's\n\n1506\n01:21:45,877 --> 01:21:48,613\npeople who are living there that\nare getting tickets for maybe\n\n1507\n01:21:49,481 --> 01:21:51,480\nstaying too long on the street?\n>> exactly.\n\n1508\n01:21:52,684 --> 01:21:54,886\n>> or when they have -- I mean,\nI've heard about this from a\n\n1509\n01:21:56,880 --> 01:21:58,689\ncouple of people who live there.\nPeople have a dinner party and\n\n1510\n01:22:00,659 --> 01:22:03,270\nthey have people there for four\nhours and the systems that have\n\n1511\n01:22:03,963 --> 01:22:06,464\nto be used and the hoops that\nthese folks have to go through\n\n1512\n01:22:07,320 --> 01:22:09,333\nor their kid comes home from\ncollege for a couple weeks.\n\n1513\n01:22:09,768 --> 01:22:11,768\nIt does seem like it's maybe\n\n1514\n01:22:12,704 --> 01:22:14,704\ngotten to a point of we need to\n\n1515\n01:22:15,107 --> 01:22:16,574\nreview how some of this is\nworking.\n\n1516\n01:22:17,743 --> 01:22:20,311\n>> I can just chime in on a few\nexamples.\n>> I'm not sure if tonight's\n\n1517\n01:22:21,480 --> 01:22:23,781\nmeeting is the right venue.\nI don't disagree with you, but\n\n1518\n01:22:25,684 --> 01:22:28,286\nI'm wondering is this an agenda\nrequest and/or do we have a time\n\n1519\n01:22:30,122 --> 01:22:32,357\nat some point in the future here\nwhere we're going to talk about\n\n1520\n01:22:32,524 --> 01:22:35,260\nparking anyway and we review\nsome of those rules as part of\n\n1521\n01:22:36,161 --> 01:22:38,930\nthe new districts?\n>> we'll be in front of you with\n\n1522\n01:22:45,671 --> 01:22:47,873\nthe old bend east.\n>> that sounds like a good plan,\n\n1523\n01:22:47,873 --> 01:22:50,241\nbecause we're coming back on\nthis anyway and we'll have new\n\n1524\n01:22:50,342 --> 01:22:52,342\nrounds of public comment.\n\n1525\n01:22:52,744 --> 01:22:55,180\nSo I'm not necessarily married\nto the original pilot which was\n\n1526\n01:22:56,382 --> 01:22:58,783\nbefore any of us were on\ncouncil.\nI'd like to hear what people\n\n1527\n01:23:01,887 --> 01:23:03,887\nwant now and what they feel the\n\n1528\n01:23:13,265 --> 01:23:15,667\npressures are.\nPeople who visit who are taking\n\n1529\n01:23:17,300 --> 01:23:19,371\nup street parking, that was the\nconcern, right?\n\n1530\n01:23:22,341 --> 01:23:24,776\nAnd so I don't think the folks\nin this neighborhood think\nthey're entitled to the street\n\n1531\n01:23:25,611 --> 01:23:28,580\npacking, but we do need a system\nthat is usable for everyone.\n\n1532\n01:23:32,952 --> 01:23:34,952\n>> some of this is from the new\n\n1533\n01:23:35,188 --> 01:23:37,423\ncode from JANUARY.\nYeah, we can talk about it,\n\n1534\n01:23:37,423 --> 01:23:39,423\ncertainly some more.\n\n1535\n01:23:40,293 --> 01:23:42,828\nWe want it to work.\nAnother example is parking in\n\n1536\n01:23:43,960 --> 01:23:44,963\nthe wrong direction against the\nflow of traffic.\n\n1537\n01:23:45,431 --> 01:23:48,300\nThat is a state law.\n>> no one here has ever done\n\n1538\n01:23:51,371 --> 01:23:52,938\nthat, have you!\n(Indiscernible, simultaneous\n\n1539\n01:23:54,507 --> 01:23:56,507\nspeaking).\n\n1540\n01:23:57,377 --> 01:24:00,145\n>> but to your point, councilor\nfranzosa, this contract, diamond\n\n1541\n01:24:01,470 --> 01:24:03,470\nparking would enforce whatever\n\n1542\n01:24:05,151 --> 01:24:07,520\nbend code and policies and\nenforcement that we'd ask them\n\n1543\n01:24:07,453 --> 01:24:10,890\nto.\n>> so I would be supportive of\n\n1544\n01:24:10,890 --> 01:24:12,890\nhaving that policy discussion,\n\n1545\n01:24:12,158 --> 01:24:14,259\nand I just didn't want to MISS\nThe opportunity to say thank you\n\n1546\n01:24:15,562 --> 01:24:18,960\nto patrick and staff and to\nencourage people if you see\n\n1547\n01:24:20,330 --> 01:24:22,935\ndiamond parking agents or city\nstaff working on parking, say\n\n1548\n01:24:23,300 --> 01:24:25,971\nthank you, because I think\nthere's a perception that\n\n1549\n01:24:26,272 --> 01:24:29,800\nsomehow these programs, these\npolicies and the people that\n\n1550\n01:24:29,800 --> 01:24:31,800\nenforce them are somehow\n\n1551\n01:24:31,311 --> 01:24:32,578\nintended to make parking more\ndifficult.\n\n1552\n01:24:33,947 --> 01:24:35,947\nAnd actually if we get the\n\n1553\n01:24:36,216 --> 01:24:38,500\npolicies right, it's going to\nmake marking easier, and that's\n\n1554\n01:24:39,385 --> 01:24:41,153\none of the reasons why downtown\nbend business association is\n\n1555\n01:24:41,854 --> 01:24:44,723\ncoming back to us with their\nideas for parking, so thank you\n\n1556\n01:24:45,258 --> 01:24:47,993\nfor making parking accessible\nand available and I'm happy to\n\n1557\n01:24:48,940 --> 01:24:50,940\nhave that conversation about the\n\n1558\n01:24:50,297 --> 01:24:52,297\npolicy.\n\n1559\n01:24:52,399 --> 01:24:55,234\n>> thank you, council member.\n>> we want it to wok,\n\n1560\n01:24:56,903 --> 01:24:58,971\nwork, but it's\na team effort.\n\n1561\n01:24:59,272 --> 01:25:01,373\nJust to expand a little bit on\nthe parking benefit, just\n\n1562\n01:25:03,543 --> 01:25:05,978\nbecause you mentioned that was\nbefore that time and the pilot,\n\n1563\n01:25:08,582 --> 01:25:10,582\nand we're coming back with are\n\n1564\n01:25:13,886 --> 01:25:15,886\nwith a\n\n1565\n01:25:15,889 --> 01:25:17,889\nfinal proposal for bend east.\n\n1566\n01:25:18,292 --> 01:25:20,526\nPart of that benefit district is\nsome funds that get generated\n\n1567\n01:25:21,561 --> 01:25:23,561\nwithin that district, and so the\n\n1568\n01:25:25,832 --> 01:25:27,500\nexisting old bend is up to about\n$85,000 or something right now.\n\n1569\n01:25:28,568 --> 01:25:30,536\nAnd so we've been talking with\nsome of the folks out there,\n\n1570\n01:25:31,104 --> 01:25:33,740\nlauren and that group in the\ncommunity, but the idea is that\n\n1571\n01:25:33,740 --> 01:25:35,942\nbenefit, if they want something\nwithin that neighborhood, they\n\n1572\n01:25:37,578 --> 01:25:39,578\ncan come to the city with ideas.\n\n1573\n01:25:40,800 --> 01:25:42,615\nA park bench or formalizing\nmaybe some areas on the\n\n1574\n01:25:43,500 --> 01:25:45,384\nlandscape that can be parked on\nthat aren't in conflict with a\n\n1575\n01:25:46,753 --> 01:25:49,522\nwater meter or fire hydrant as\nan example.\n\n1576\n01:25:50,491 --> 01:25:53,226\nThere's a financial piece that\nwe're trying to have, that that\n\n1577\n01:25:53,894 --> 01:25:56,329\nneighborhood can pick some\nthings they'd like to maybe try\n\n1578\n01:25:57,731 --> 01:25:59,432\nand do and fund within their\nneighborhood.\n\n1579\n01:26:00,167 --> 01:26:02,167\n>> I'm grateful for everyone who\n\n1580\n01:26:02,703 --> 01:26:04,804\nwants that policy conversation,\nbecause the neighborhood, that\n\n1581\n01:26:05,439 --> 01:26:08,208\nmoney has been in the fund for\nquite a while and the\nneighborhood has not been able\n\n1582\n01:26:08,609 --> 01:26:10,610\nto figure out how they can\nactually use that money for the\n\n1583\n01:26:11,111 --> 01:26:13,111\ncity, so hopefully that will be\n\n1584\n01:26:13,547 --> 01:26:16,516\npart of the policy discussion.\n>> I think we can make sure we\n\n1585\n01:26:16,717 --> 01:26:19,252\nprovide direction to diamond,\nlet's not enforce some of those\n\n1586\n01:26:19,453 --> 01:26:21,453\nthings.\n\n1587\n01:26:21,655 --> 01:26:24,190\n>> that's all I'm asking.\n>> I don't agree with not\n\n1588\n01:26:24,558 --> 01:26:26,558\nenforcing parking the wrong way\n\n1589\n01:26:27,761 --> 01:26:29,329\non the street.\nBut I think --\n\n1590\n01:26:30,397 --> 01:26:32,397\n>> we have resources to do that\n\n1591\n01:26:33,133 --> 01:26:35,133\ncity wide, what we're trying to\n\n1592\n01:26:35,870 --> 01:26:38,304\ndo is do that where we have the\nparking district.\n\n1593\n01:26:39,173 --> 01:26:41,141\nWe're asking for some discretion\nfrom our parking director.\n\n1594\n01:26:41,909 --> 01:26:44,143\n>> we want to be a little bit\ncareful in the case of state law\n\n1595\n01:26:45,780 --> 01:26:48,648\nand we also want consistency\nacross our community.\nOther districts as well.\n\n1596\n01:26:50,451 --> 01:26:52,586\n>> state law, you're not\nsupposed to park the wrong\n\n1597\n01:26:52,586 --> 01:26:54,586\ndirection?\n\n1598\n01:26:58,492 --> 01:27:00,827\n>> yes, with it is.\nYes, it is.\n\n1599\n01:27:01,462 --> 01:27:03,462\n>> I'd be fine with doing that\n\n1600\n01:27:04,164 --> 01:27:06,267\nif we did it everywhere!\n(Indiscernible, simultaneous\nspeaking).\n\n1601\n01:27:06,267 --> 01:27:08,267\n>> these neighborhoods have\n\n1602\n01:27:08,669 --> 01:27:10,437\nasked for extra enforcement.\nThey wanted that.\n\n1603\n01:27:10,671 --> 01:27:12,671\nThey want more enforcement of\n\n1604\n01:27:12,940 --> 01:27:15,142\nparking in their neighborhoods\nin rules and time limits because\n\n1605\n01:27:15,142 --> 01:27:17,344\nof the parking pressures that I\nwere feeling.\n\n1606\n01:27:19,547 --> 01:27:22,482\nSo to turn around -- due\n --\n>> due to tourism.\n\n1607\n01:27:22,483 --> 01:27:25,452\n>> I know that's the case, but\nwe need to acknowledge -- and\n\n1608\n01:27:25,853 --> 01:27:28,622\nthen to turn around to the\npeople enforcing the law,\n\n1609\n01:27:28,689 --> 01:27:30,924\nactually, never mind.\nI think we can find a balance\n\n1610\n01:27:31,159 --> 01:27:33,159\nhere, but the parking pressures\n\n1611\n01:27:33,328 --> 01:27:35,950\non these neighborhoods are the\nreasons they asked for\n\n1612\n01:27:35,496 --> 01:27:37,197\nenforcement.\n>> they're asking for the\n\n1613\n01:27:38,700 --> 01:27:41,668\nenforcement to go away, for the\nbenefit district to be undone.\n\n1614\n01:27:42,360 --> 01:27:43,837\n>> I'd like to make sure we go\nthrough the public comment\n\n1615\n01:27:45,373 --> 01:27:47,674\nprocess on this and get a wide\nswath of comments.\n\n1616\n01:27:48,776 --> 01:27:50,776\nWhen your guest gets a ticket\n\n1617\n01:27:51,312 --> 01:27:54,214\nfor coming over for dinner, yes,\nyou'll write to us.\n\n1618\n01:27:54,916 --> 01:27:57,651\n>> we reinstated the paper\nvisitor passes.\nWe want it to work.\n\n1619\n01:27:58,853 --> 01:28:01,522\nWe want to make improvements.\nThe east old bend area -- well,\n\n1620\n01:28:01,723 --> 01:28:03,824\nactually it was all of that\narea.\n\n1621\n01:28:05,226 --> 01:28:07,761\nThey did an effort and survey\nand the majority of the folks\n\n1622\n01:28:08,830 --> 01:28:10,980\nthat responded are supportive of\na new district on the east side\n\n1623\n01:28:10,980 --> 01:28:13,700\ntoo.\nThere were some that were\nuncertain.\n\n1624\n01:28:14,836 --> 01:28:16,603\nBut the majority of folks were\nlooking for some help.\n\n1625\n01:28:18,106 --> 01:28:20,106\nAnd really in that area, we're\n\n1626\n01:28:20,375 --> 01:28:22,375\nlooking to be proactive ahead of\n\n1627\n01:28:22,577 --> 01:28:25,212\nthe continued commercial area\nwith the box factory and the new\n\n1628\n01:28:25,446 --> 01:28:27,446\ndevelopments and things that are\n\n1629\n01:28:28,383 --> 01:28:30,250\ngoing there, the timber yard was\nmentioned earlier tonight, be\n\n1630\n01:28:35,824 --> 01:28:37,824\nahead of that and have a\n\n1631\n01:28:37,859 --> 01:28:40,360\n>> right if we start to regulate\nin the become area they will go\n\n1632\n01:28:41,663 --> 01:28:43,731\nto neighbors to park.\nGood to have something set up\n\n1633\n01:28:43,731 --> 01:28:45,731\nthere.\n\n1634\n01:28:47,135 --> 01:28:49,436\nI am talking about locals.\nNot just tourists.\n\n1635\n01:28:52,841 --> 01:28:54,841\nWe can find a happy medium here.\n\n1636\n01:28:56,110 --> 01:28:57,244\n>> that will happen when to come\nback in.\n\n1637\n01:28:58,180 --> 01:29:00,180\n>> we will look to come back in\n\n1638\n01:29:01,817 --> 01:29:03,551\nJUNE for recommendation on the\nproposed east.\n\n1639\n01:29:05,721 --> 01:29:07,721\nTwo districts I talked about.\n\n1640\n01:29:12,600 --> 01:29:13,928\nWe can have the bigger policy\ndiscussion.\n\n1641\n01:29:16,798 --> 01:29:19,300\nWhen they did the survey to help\nus guide with the new district.\n\n1642\n01:29:20,836 --> 01:29:23,137\nExisting district as well as new\nproposed area.\n\n1643\n01:29:24,500 --> 01:29:26,500\n94 comments were part of that.\n\n1644\n01:29:27,809 --> 01:29:29,809\nWe will come back to you within\n\n1645\n01:29:30,545 --> 01:29:32,545\nput, concerns, questions.\n\n1646\n01:29:33,182 --> 01:29:35,182\nExisting district as well as how\n\n1647\n01:29:35,584 --> 01:29:37,584\nthose apply to the new district.\n\n1648\n01:29:39,488 --> 01:29:42,390\n>> I move to authorize with\ndiamonds parking services for\n\n1649\n01:29:43,250 --> 01:29:45,793\ncity-wide parking management\nenforcement services in\n\n1650\n01:29:45,961 --> 01:29:47,961\nsubstantially form presented to\n\n1651\n01:29:48,931 --> 01:29:51,265\ncouncil in an amount not to\nexceed $536,000 for the first\n\n1652\n01:29:51,900 --> 01:29:53,900\nyear and authorize city manager\n\n1653\n01:29:54,470 --> 01:29:56,470\nto approve annual renewals in\n\n1654\n01:29:57,239 --> 01:29:59,239\naccordance with terms of\n\n1655\n01:29:59,274 --> 01:30:01,644\nagreement not to exceed\n$2,906,000 over five years.\n\n1656\n01:30:01,644 --> 01:30:03,644\n>> second.\n\n1657\n01:30:04,947 --> 01:30:06,947\n>> moved by perkins.\n\n1658\n01:30:08,684 --> 01:30:11,619\nSecond by franzosa.\nIn favor.\n>> aye.\n>> thank you.\n\n1659\n01:30:13,220 --> 01:30:15,220\nwe have one second reading left.\n\n1660\n01:30:15,858 --> 01:30:17,858\n>> this is the second reading of\n\n1661\n01:30:18,327 --> 01:30:20,327\nordinance amending bend\n\n1662\n01:30:22,531 --> 01:30:24,531\ndevelopment code bdc related to\n\n1663\n01:30:24,967 --> 01:30:26,967\nprepreservation requirements b d\n\n1664\n01:30:27,470 --> 01:30:29,470\nc-3.2.200, tree preservation.\n\n1665\n01:30:30,973 --> 01:30:32,973\n>> I need to declare conflict\n\n1666\n01:30:35,111 --> 01:30:36,845\nlike the first reading.\nMy employer is hidden homes.\n\n1667\n01:30:43,519 --> 01:30:45,519\nI will remove myself for this.\n\n1668\n01:30:46,789 --> 01:30:48,789\n>> we need a motion.\n\n1669\n01:30:48,958 --> 01:30:50,958\n>> move second reading roll call\n\n1670\n01:30:52,928 --> 01:30:54,928\nvote ordinance amending bend\n\n1671\n01:30:57,400 --> 01:30:59,400\ndevelopment code bd c-3.2.200\n\n1672\n01:30:59,802 --> 01:31:01,269\ntree preservation.\n>> second.\n\n1673\n01:31:03,539 --> 01:31:06,508\n>> motion by perkins, second\nplatt.\n>> franzosa.\n>> yes.\n>> mendez.\n\n1674\n01:31:07,430 --> 01:31:09,430\n>> aye.\n\n1675\n01:31:09,111 --> 01:31:11,111\n>> riley.\n\n1676\n01:31:11,214 --> 01:31:13,214\n>> yes.\n\n1677\n01:31:13,583 --> 01:31:16,551\n>> perkins.\n>> yes.\n>> platt.\n>> yes.\n>> kebler.\n>> yes.\n\n1678\n01:31:17,420 --> 01:31:19,420\n>> city manager report.\n\n1679\n01:31:19,722 --> 01:31:22,591\n>> we have had a couple busy\nmonths and work sessions where\n\n1680\n01:31:23,426 --> 01:31:26,195\nwe typically have time to say\nwhat is coming up on the next\n\n1681\n01:31:26,195 --> 01:31:29,131\ncouple months?\nI want to share that with you.\n\n1682\n01:31:30,867 --> 01:31:32,867\nLead in to earlier conversations\n\n1683\n01:31:35,380 --> 01:31:37,380\nproposal to share with you.\n\n1684\n01:31:38,675 --> 01:31:40,675\nAPRIL next meeting on APRIL 1.\n\n1685\n01:31:42,245 --> 01:31:43,512\nStevens ranch or legacy\nbuilding.\n\n1686\n01:31:45,882 --> 01:31:48,150\nHigh points.\nAPRIL 8 roundtable with the\n\n1687\n01:31:48,918 --> 01:31:50,918\nelectrification policy work\n\n1688\n01:31:51,221 --> 01:31:53,221\nlooking at exemptions\n\n1689\n01:31:54,157 --> 01:31:56,157\nimplementation timeline inviting\n\n1690\n01:31:58,428 --> 01:32:00,428\nfour city committees.\n\n1691\n01:32:01,640 --> 01:32:03,640\nThen on the 15th we have another\n\n1692\n01:32:05,568 --> 01:32:06,769\nmaster plan timber yards as\nitem.\n\n1693\n01:32:09,939 --> 01:32:11,939\nWe will have update.\n\n1694\n01:32:12,575 --> 01:32:13,809\nI will talk about that goal\nupdate.\n\n1695\n01:32:15,178 --> 01:32:17,178\nWe will look at one year into\n\n1696\n01:32:18,810 --> 01:32:19,648\nwork plan to go through\nprioritization we will talk\n\n1697\n01:32:21,170 --> 01:32:23,886\nabout in a second.\nMAY 6 bura meeting.\n\n1698\n01:32:25,288 --> 01:32:27,288\nMAY 13 is a big work session.\n\n1699\n01:32:27,691 --> 01:32:28,924\nPrioritizing capital improvement\nprogram.\n\n1700\n01:32:30,627 --> 01:32:32,627\nIf our grants hold we have room\n\n1701\n01:32:33,363 --> 01:32:35,798\nin geobond and transportation\nconstruction fund to address\n\n1702\n01:32:36,800 --> 01:32:38,800\nissues we talked about last\n\n1703\n01:32:39,603 --> 01:32:41,603\nnight with parks and bridges.\n\n1704\n01:32:41,671 --> 01:32:43,671\nAreas cut to add on.\n\n1705\n01:32:44,641 --> 01:32:46,641\nSignificant item on MAY 13.\n\n1706\n01:32:47,344 --> 01:32:49,678\nAlong with the transient lodging\ntax about the shift.\n\n1707\n01:32:52,349 --> 01:32:54,349\nWhat does council want to do\n\n1708\n01:32:56,353 --> 01:32:59,322\nwith that split shift from 70/30\nto 50/50.\n\n1709\n01:32:59,789 --> 01:33:02,758\nJoint work session with rural\nfire district on 13th.\n\n1710\n01:33:04,728 --> 01:33:06,728\nI will stop there.\n\n1711\n01:33:07,531 --> 01:33:09,865\nIt is a lot.\nWe still have some other\n\n1712\n01:33:12,369 --> 01:33:15,400\nmeetings to try to schedule\nroundtable ideas.\n\n1713\n01:33:17,941 --> 01:33:19,408\nOne in southwest.\nInteraction.\n\n1714\n01:33:21,212 --> 01:33:22,478\nWe will send out survey later\nthis week.\n\n1715\n01:33:23,246 --> 01:33:25,281\nI will ask for your input how\nthis is going.\n\n1716\n01:33:26,483 --> 01:33:28,483\nSix months into the new schedule\n\n1717\n01:33:28,752 --> 01:33:30,752\nwith meeting every week.\n\n1718\n01:33:30,954 --> 01:33:32,221\nLayered on to that are special\nmeetings.\n\n1719\n01:33:33,791 --> 01:33:35,791\nI want to test your capacity in\n\n1720\n01:33:36,930 --> 01:33:38,930\nterms how to manage.\n\n1721\n01:33:39,163 --> 01:33:41,163\nI would stay from staff\n\n1722\n01:33:41,565 --> 01:33:44,534\nperspective one city strategic\nplan.\nOff site with leadership.\n\n1723\n01:33:45,235 --> 01:33:47,804\nA lot of prep.\nStaff is feeling it.\n\n1724\n01:33:49,390 --> 01:33:51,400\nPartnership is seeing stress on\nelected and staff side.\n\n1725\n01:33:54,311 --> 01:33:56,311\nI would like to look at both the\n\n1726\n01:33:57,470 --> 01:33:58,948\nschedule how to prioritize those\nmeetings.\n\n1727\n01:33:59,650 --> 01:34:00,883\nPrioritizing the work plan items\nas well.\n\n1728\n01:34:02,286 --> 01:34:04,286\nI am planning quarterly goal\n\n1729\n01:34:04,455 --> 01:34:06,455\nupdate in APRIL to take input\n\n1730\n01:34:06,657 --> 01:34:08,657\nfrom survey that you will see,\n\n1731\n01:34:10,600 --> 01:34:12,600\ncoupled with ideas of things to\n\n1732\n01:34:13,531 --> 01:34:15,531\nslim down to make sure we are --\n\n1733\n01:34:15,733 --> 01:34:17,733\nsometimes we talk about this we\n\n1734\n01:34:19,700 --> 01:34:21,905\ngo so fast and we might MISS\nThings.\nSlowing down is a good thing.\nIt is hard.\n\n1735\n01:34:22,773 --> 01:34:24,541\nThis is a community that expects\na lot.\n\n1736\n01:34:25,309 --> 01:34:27,811\nFast growing and want to do all\nof the things.\n\n1737\n01:34:29,447 --> 01:34:31,982\nAny effective organization is\nrealistic about resources they\n\n1738\n01:34:32,650 --> 01:34:35,485\nhave and how best to tackle\nthese problems.\n\n1739\n01:34:38,623 --> 01:34:40,725\nI will ask for your help and\nguidance over the next couple\n\n1740\n01:34:40,725 --> 01:34:42,725\nmonths.\n\n1741\n01:34:45,196 --> 01:34:47,964\n>> for the start quarter one.\nI meeting every week.\n\n1742\n01:34:48,833 --> 01:34:50,833\nThree special meetings at least\n\n1743\n01:34:54,205 --> 01:34:56,573\nthat I can think of maybe more.\nCounty, parks, roundtable,\nadvisory summit.\n\n1744\n01:34:57,675 --> 01:34:59,675\nA lot going on in quarter one.\n\n1745\n01:35:01,279 --> 01:35:03,279\nWhen you look at survey look at\n\n1746\n01:35:03,814 --> 01:35:05,814\nmaybe providing the rest of the\n\n1747\n01:35:07,251 --> 01:35:08,452\nyear more breaks, more fifth\nweeks.\n\n1748\n01:35:10,755 --> 01:35:13,900\nI don't disagree that this is a\nparticularly hard quarter to\n\n1749\n01:35:13,491 --> 01:35:15,491\nstart the year.\n\n1750\n01:35:16,961 --> 01:35:18,961\n>> the other piece everybody\n\n1751\n01:35:19,530 --> 01:35:21,530\nelse has commitments.\n\n1752\n01:35:24,836 --> 01:35:26,970\nHrac or Coc board in addition.\n>> it is okay.\n\n1753\n01:35:30,775 --> 01:35:32,976\nWe might have different\nperspective on council.\n\n1754\n01:35:33,411 --> 01:35:36,280\nLet's talk about it.\nI wanted to let you know that\n\n1755\n01:35:38,750 --> 01:35:40,750\nour notices for the bend central\n\n1756\n01:35:41,386 --> 01:35:43,687\ndistrict economic improvement\ndistrict went out.\n\n1757\n01:35:48,393 --> 01:35:50,393\nDelay with maps and properties.\n\n1758\n01:35:51,896 --> 01:35:53,896\nWe re-noticed folks.\n\n1759\n01:35:54,833 --> 01:35:56,934\nIf you get contacted new notice\nis going out.\n\n1760\n01:35:57,235 --> 01:36:00,400\nPublic hearing council will see\nin the next couple weeks.\n\n1761\n01:36:00,872 --> 01:36:02,872\nI will put more information in\n\n1762\n01:36:03,608 --> 01:36:06,143\nthe memo so you are aware.\nI think that was it.\n\n1763\n01:36:08,713 --> 01:36:10,614\nA lot of public engagement with\nprojects now.\n\n1764\n01:36:17,589 --> 01:36:19,589\nThere is too much -- open houses\n\n1765\n01:36:20,492 --> 01:36:22,560\nand things.\n>> downtown bend library closing\n\n1766\n01:36:24,796 --> 01:36:26,796\nto be renovated in APRIL will be\n\n1767\n01:36:27,165 --> 01:36:30,133\nclosed for a year.\nCentral library opening MAY 11.\n\n1768\n01:36:31,336 --> 01:36:33,336\nThey have ability to pick up and\n\n1769\n01:36:33,839 --> 01:36:35,839\ndrop off books at central\n\n1770\n01:36:35,907 --> 01:36:37,907\nlibrary east side for folks that\n\n1771\n01:36:38,643 --> 01:36:40,643\ncare about downtown access.\n\n1772\n01:36:41,513 --> 01:36:42,913\nIt will be great when finished\npainful closure.\n\n1773\n01:36:45,550 --> 01:36:47,885\n>> can you pick up and drop off\ndowntown?\n\n1774\n01:36:48,186 --> 01:36:50,654\n>> apparently library board\ndiscussed that to make sure it\n\n1775\n01:36:54,226 --> 01:36:56,226\nis ada accessible while they\n\n1776\n01:36:56,528 --> 01:36:58,162\nrenovate building it is tough.\nThey weren't able to figure out\n\n1777\n01:37:00,265 --> 01:37:02,265\nhow to do that.\n\n1778\n01:37:03,569 --> 01:37:05,569\n>> thank you for the update.\n\n1779\n01:37:05,971 --> 01:37:07,971\n>> surprise library update.\n\n1780\n01:37:08,907 --> 01:37:10,907\nGet your books now.\n\n1781\n01:37:11,443 --> 01:37:13,779\nWith that we are adjourned.\nThanks everybody.\n\n1782\n01:37:13,779 --> 01:37:16,547\nLive cc by aberdeen captioning.\n1-800-688-6621.\nWww.Abercap.Com.\n",
      "text": "order and we will begin with our\nroll call. Councilor franzosa.\nmendez. >> riley.\nkebler. >> perkins. >> moranis. >> platt.\nso we're going to start with\nthe good of the order first with our legislative update from\nstaff.\ngood evening, council, I'm kite schneider and with me is\nsarah hudson and we're just here to give a brief update of the short session.\nAs you know, it ended earlier this month.\nWe put together an issue summary trying to highlight the most\nimportant bills to the city, but\neric is our contract state lobbyist, so the one on the\nground and we wanted to give you a chance to hear directly from\nhim on the more important bills this session.\nthanks, kate.\nFor the record, eric kansler, city of bend lobbyist.\nIt's good to see you all. I think there's really four\nprimary issues to talk about.\nAs kate alluded, we have formalized legislative\npriorities, a press release about where we focused our\nattention, but in terms of on-the-ground interaction and\nwhat we were really invested in,\nthere was primarily the lodging\ntax issue, the protection of\nshelter funding, and then a couple housing issues related to\nurban reserves and complete\ncommunities.\nThe effort to gain flexibility has been going on for a long time.\nThe first time I engaged on the the city's behalf was 2017,\nalmost a decade ago.\nIt took a lot of buildup. A lot of past efforts built on\nthemselves and led to the\nsuccess this session, and effectively what happened is I\nthink you all know that under\nthe historic regime, 70% of the lodging tax dollars had to be\nearmarked for tourism and\nmarketed oriented purposes,\nleaving 30% for other things,\ngeneral fund or a mix of responsibilities.\nThe 70/30 has now shifted to 50/50, and that is true whether\nor not you're lodging tax\nincrement is pre-2003, a lot of\nwhich was grandfathered in. Post-2003 and already existing\nor whether it's prospective in\nthe future, so bend, our health\ncare pre-2003 lodging taxes is\nbetter than 50/50, so this doesn't affect us in that regard.\nThere are local governments, cities, and counties\ngrandfathered in at a very high ratio. Wayne county was grandfathered\nin to use all of their increment for marketing.\nNow they have a considerable amount of flexibility.\nSo there's flexibility we can consider with the 2013 increment\nand then there's flexibility\nshould the city decide to consider another increment in\nthe future.\nAnd at a high level, that is really -- the bill is very\nsimple in that regard. There was one additional element\nmoved into the restricted\nportion which involves what the\nlegislature turned resiliency grants for small restaurants and the lodging industry.\nIt was a bit of an odd fit. It was important for getting the\nbill out of the house, but nobody really loved it.\nThere was consideration about whether they should strip it\nout, send it back to the house for a clean fix.\nThey left it in, moved it\nthrough, so it's quite possible that I don't know if the\nlegislature is going to come back in the long session and\nre-look at that one little element, but I don't think it's\nreally a game changer. It's just an additional thing\nthe restricted portion could be used for.\nBut it's not just a handout. You need a business or\nrestaurant experiencing some\nsort of hardship was the intent.\nSo that's a component of it as well.\nSo moving on -- and that was our number-one policy priority.\nOur number-one budgetary\npriority in materials of\ndiscrete budgetary priorities\nwas protecting the shelter funding established through a lot of work including by the\ncity of bend and others ahead of\nand during the 2025 session.\nThere was a lot of speculation that that allocation for shelter\nfunding which is pretty bare bones for essential facilities\naround the state would get robbed to pay for some other things.\nOf course, we had maybe six\nmonths out before session really dire-looking revenue forecasts\nand they got incrementally\nbetter as we got into session.\nso fortunately, that allocation\nwas kept entirely intact and so that means -- that was our\nnumber-one budgetary priority,\nso on those two fronts, we did very well.\nOf course, we were part of large groups of people who were on the\none hand fighting for lodging tax flexibility and on the other\nhand protecting shelter funding.\nIt certainly wasn't the city of bend leading the charge, but it\nwas a really good group of people and we were at the\nforefront with them.\nMore specifically to our initiatives are two concepts\nthat we talked about I think the\nlast time I met and presented in\nfront of you all prior to session.\nBoth in the land use and housing realm.\nThe first is related to urban\nreserves. We've spent a number of years\nhere trying to improve the statute and rules standard for\nhow you can designate a 50-year urban reserve to allow us to\nbring in a 50-year land supply that's actually conducive\ntowards efficient infrastructure and building housing.\nAnd I would say bend has been at the forefront at the state level\nof the effort to improve the urban reserve process.\nWe passed a big bill, senator\nbroadman was a sponsor in '25, and there was one piece of\nunfinished business around how\nyou can account for the cost of serving potential parcels\noutside the ugb.\nWe were stuck with the regime previously where oftentimes we'd\nhave to bring in very expensive to serve parcels, and that\ntranslates to increase in housing costs.\nSo we were able to get that through in an amendment to a\nmuch larger bill, house bill 4037.\nIt was sort of a housing omnibus bill and now that's passed\nthrough what's required to just\nliterally adopt that into their rule making on urban reserves.\nAnd then lastly in terms of the\nbig issues that we were involved\nin is the topic of -- you can look at it a couple of different ways.\nI would look at it as a\nprotection of complete community planning.\nThis city, if not more than\nother cities, has made a\ndeliberate effort to mix uses, neighborhood serving commercial\ntogether with residential, walking, biking, transit, trying\nto blend all of those things and create the neighborhood that\npeople want to live in at all of\nthe price points that they need.\nAnd in the '23 or the '21 session, senate bill 8 was\npassed that created a by-right ability to do affordable housing projects anywhere in the city.\nWe broadly supported that, still broadly do support it.\nActually lobbied in that session\nto make -- I think it was '21 --\nto make it more expansive.\nOne part we kind of overshot and this is coming to light in other\ncommunities around the state is\nwhen you've got these\nneighborhood customer nodes, one\nor two projects can really take\nthat neighborhood-serving commercial opportunity away entirely.\nObviously that's a big issue in this community.\nit's becoming a big issue in other communities.\nAlso as an amendment to 4037, we moved through language that kind\nof got a foot in the door and protected those\nneighborhood-serving commercial areas.\nThat's not going to be the end of the story in the interim, and\nI've been in pretty regular contact with the housing staff\nin the governor's office about\nhow to take this conversation forward.\nI think there'll be a really robust interim conversation\nabout what cities need and what\ncommunities want in terms of complete community planning.\nAnd I, for one, am very excited\nabout being able to to get what we need in the moment and create\nan opportunity I think for a\nmuch more robust and comprehensive solution around\nall of those needs.\nSo those are the main issues. Obviously there were a bunch of\nother issues, but I know we're\nshort on time here tonight. >> yeah, any questions from council?\nWe sent out some information on this as well.\nGo ahead.\non the sb 1551 related to\nwildfire and the hoas, it all\napplies to existing hoas, as well?\nIt just removes their ability to\nset any any restrictions on materials?\nthere was a previous bill I'm\nthinking back to when there was\na governor-declared drought that\nthe hoa couldn't stop you from watering your lawn.\nI don't think this has a pre-condition like that.\nin my understanding, it was around landscaping too.\nJust water-wise, plants and\nthings like that that the hoa\ncouldn't prevent people from using those.\nthe other question I had was\non the 4037, there's a\ndescription in the issue summary\nthat talks about -- it prohibits a public hearing to consider the\napplication for developments\nthat are subject to clear and objective review standards.\nCan you just talk a little bit more and maybe it's more a\nquestion for staff.\nHow would this show up in our community?\nthat would probably be a\nbetter question for staff, but I\ncan say thematically it was --\nthat's part of expediting. If you're going to do things\nwith clear established standards, do you need to go\nthrough all the public participation notice and whatnot.\nAnd I think that is indicative of a number of policies that\nwe've seen where they're trying\nto speed things along if you're needing those clear and objective standards.\nBut in terms of the specific change, I'd probably want to\ndefer to planning staff on that.\nwas that in response to -- I forget the name of the\ncommunity, sherwood, where they passed some kind of -- was this\na response to that? >> I don't think so.\nwas it sherwood? >> sherwood has passed some\nlocal measures that are clashing\nwith state directives, but this\nwas more of how we could speed up the housing process.\nand I don't know if it's a response to what the city of\nsherwood has done, but I think what sherwood has done and what\nthis bill did in that regard, they are opposite ends of the\ncontinuum of views on how applications for housing\ndevelopment should work. I think that's accurate.\nI mean, is there an example of how something would be treated differently in our\ncommunity recently with this\nbill in place? >> I would probably want to talk\nto planning staff, and I don't know if it's an issue of people\nbeing treated, it's what applications for needed housing\ncan be subject to in terms of processing.\nBut it does prohibit local jurisdiction from requiring a\npublic hearing prior to making a decision on an application that\nis subject to clear and\nobjective standards because it seeks (Indistinct).\nI'll provide some information and put it in the council memo\nso you can get all the details. >> okay, thanks.\nany other questions? Okay, I did also want to\nhighlight just in theme with our meeting tonight that there was a\nlot of work the legislature did\non immigration rights and also a bill under reforming care and we\ndid weigh in on a couple of those in support of those for\nour community which did pass.\nAny other questions for staff? Okay.\nthank you. >> many of you helped us with\ntestifying orally or with\nletters, so I just wanted to thank council for their\nengagement this session. >> and thank our legislators for\ngetting so much done.\nyeah, I think that is important as well.\nOur legislators were deeply involved in a lot of these\nissues and also as well we didn't mention the bigger\nrevenue picture they needed to solve. Our senator and representatives\nwere key on these issues. We were able to work closely\nwith with staff and our electeds, and that's important.\nthe bend delegation had a very good session.\nI think the central oregon delegation broadly is kind of\ncoming into its own, starting to\ngel gel, and that's\nas well.\nall right, thank you.\nAll right, that will move us into council action and reports.\nAnd so before we get into individual reports, I wanted to\nstart with a report out from our neighborhood roundtable that happened on thursday and just\nhave a little discussion around that.\nSo for folks who weren't there\nor didn't know about it, this\nwas a new format. The roundtable, we meet as\ncouncil and sit in a discussion tail and have\ntable and have a listening discussion rather than a formal meeting.\nThe format of this meeting was a presentation from staff about some of the issues that are\ngoing on in southeast bend where there's a lot of growth and\nchange and infrastructure investment to lay the scene.\nThen we sat at the table with three neighborhood districts in\nthat area to talk about what they'd like to see and some\nissues and concerns on a couple\nof topics we knew they wanted to\ntalk about, wildfire,\nneighborhood issues, and folks\ncould talk to city staff, get questions answered, councilors\nto mingle with folks.\nFrom my understanding, it was very successful. I'd love hear feedback from\ncouncil on that format and talk about where we can go next.\nWe also have multiple different neighborhoods now asking us to\nhave the same type of meeting for their corner of town which I\nthink is great. So reflections from councilors\non how that went and then we can talk about what we want to do next.\nDoes anybody have any thoughts?\nI loved that format. >> ditto.\nI thought it was amazing to have so many staff present with\nso many community members where a community member would come up\nand have a question and if I didn't know the answer, I could\nsay you need to go and talk to this staff person over here and\noff they'd go and someone else\nwould come up, so I feel like there was lots of circulating\nand information sharing and lots of good questions answered.\nSo I thought it was great.\nI think the real question for us\nis how many of these can we do. >> right. >> I think it was really helpful\nfor people in that part of town to get the bigger picture of\nwhat's going on and for folks who haven't connected as much\nwith the planning efforts that have gone on in the past to come\nand get up to speed. I think people really\nappreciated that, and I think there was a lot of additional\nquestions it generated, but some aha moments as well.\nOh, there's actually more of this happening that I understood\nand anticipated. I didn't know that project was\ncoming soon in terms of the transportation improvement.\nAnd I think that kind of information sharing is really\nvaluable in a community. >> steven?\njust the fact, really kudos\nto the planning staff and our transportation talking about\nreally just as you said, councilor riley, there is a lot\nof thinking going on. There's a lot of forward\nthinking going on and I saw a\nlot of ahas in the audience of folks, particularly when they\nwere building out showing how the transportation system had evolved over time.\nThat was so effective and so many people come up and talk to\nme, so eric, really well done on the team for that.\nThat really got the message out\nwell and I'd love to see that in the other four corners around\ntown.\nI'd love to see that. >> right.\nSo I think we've had a specific request that I've seen from our\nsouthwest neighborhoods, but I know other neighborhood groups\nare interested as well.\nI don't know what the next step, eric, would be?\nMaybe in the next quarter, try to find another time we can do\nanotherone of these? >> there's general support from\nstaff, now that we've built the\nmodel, to do it in groups of neighborhoods. That makes a lot of sense.\nSo we'll come back with a plan\non exactly when and we'll poll council to see when you're\navailable and plan for a similarly structured event where\nwe have direct engagement,\nroundtable discussion, and some level-set presentations as part\nof that format.\nI just wanted to do a\nshout-out to renee mitchell for\nbeing the vortex for making this first one happen.\nThere was a lot of learning and it's the first time and I think\nwe'll get more efficient, but many staff participated and I\nappreciate everybody who was there, but in particular renee\njust really pulling this together and making it happen.\ngreat, yeah.\nAnd shoutout to old farm, larkspur, and southeast bend for\nhelping get the word out, it was\nwell attended which was great. >> can I point out, I think\nfollowing on what your comment\nwas, councilor mendez, we have a couple of outstanding\nroundtables we've committed to\nholding with the human rights and equity commission,\nelectrification fees separately,\nand some other things, so I just\nwant to kind of raise that flag of our ability to kind of meet\nall of these requests as well as have our business meetings and\nwork sessions and we're taking a\nbreak at some point, JULY, AUGUST, so I would really love\nto see the full calendar\npicture. >> to make sure we're meeting\nour agenda on the work that needs to get done.\nI'll actually going to talk about that in my report tonight.\nWe're going to send out a survey. I'm going to propose -- I'll\ntalk about it in my report tonight.\nsince we're going to talk\nabout schedule later and survey council, I think fitting the\nroundtables into that idea of what might be happening next and\nwhat we should prioritize makes\na lot of sense. >> okay, thank you.\nokay, so moving to individual\nreports, councilor franzosa?\nyes, I attended a meeting of\nthe central oregon\ntransportation committee, the odot feedback committee, and so\nwe had some further discussions about the project that central\noregon would be putting toward to odot for funding.\nIt was not a public meeting. I think our next public meeting\nis APRIL 9th where we'll be actually voting and then really\ndetermining what projects go forward. So I'll actually forward that\nspreadsheet to everyone so you\nguys can look at it.\nThat's been my activity. >> councilor mendez?\nyeah, thank you.\nOn saturday, MARCH 7th, I attended civics lab human\nlibrary edition in redmond.\nThat was a good experience to\ntalk with people about basically\nhow people feel about belonging in their community.\nAnd it was an opportunity to meet people I hadn't met before\nin some cases and in some cases\nfamiliar faces, but to talk\nabout an issue that I think is\ncentral for all of us up here and people perceive it in different ways.\nAnd I think it was a good\nopportunity to hear different perspectives.\nSo that was a welcome opportunity.\nAnd yesterday, MARCH 17th, the bend metropolitan planning\norganization and budget\ncommittee met and recommended passing its fiscal year 2027\nbudget.\nThe two items of note on there\nwere some discussion of concerns about the future of federal\ntransportation funding. There's a lot up in the air\nright now and nobody really\nknows what congress is going to do. And that could have some\nimportant effects for us locally.\nAnd we also discussed the\nallocation of state highway\nfunds for street preservation and safety and transit initiatives.\nThere's a large amount of discretion over how those funds\nare allocated, so we had some discussion about whether we felt\nlike we wanted to revisit that allocation.\nAnd I think that we'll continue to have that discussion as we\nmove forward. >> great, councilor riley?\none, I just wanted to say thank you to a couple folks.\nOne was the folks at embrace bend who organized the civics\nlab and the human library thing. I also participated in that and\nthoght it was a great event. I went to -- I wanted to thank\nthe organizers of a film shown\nup at cocc last friday. It tells the story of the\nkilling of a young palestinian girl in gaza and the adults in\nthe palestinian red cross in the west bank trying to reach and save her.\nIt's a recreation of what happened a year-and-a-half ago.\nVery powerful, very moving film about all that's going on in\nthat part of the world. And in particular, there was a\ngentleman named omar who joined\nus live after the film from ramallah and the west bank.\nHe was one of the adults\nportrayed in the film and was working in the red crescent\noffice when this all transpired.\nHim making the effort, it was 5 A.M. In the morning his time\nwhen we showed the film. It was his first speaking\nengagement in the U.S. And it was all virtual, so I want to\nthank him and his translator who\nwas from the washington D.C. Area as well.\nI went on a tour of home-made toffee.\nThey're in a building that's strictly organic coffee, and I\nwant to thank don mill for making that happen and randy who\nwas the owner and ceo hosting us\nand talking with us honestly about all the challenges she\nfacing, including some she experienced with the city of\nbend in terms of getting some permits. There was interesting learning\nthere. Councilor platt and mayor kebler\nwere also there. We already talked about the\nroundtable. The last thing I wanted to share\nwith folks, the board meeting\nlast week, we agreed to support\nthe central oregon civic action\nproject which josh burgess started.\nCioc is going to be acting as a fiscal agent to help them get\nstarted as a non-profit and hopefully receive a pretty big\ngrant to help them become an independent organization and\nfund their activities over the next several years.\nEric sheridan, his report to us last week about an event coming\nup on APRIL 7th from 1 to 3 in redmond.\nThere's an overview of the civic assembly tool and what it's\nabout and how it can be used in communities. I plan to go.\nIf anybody wants to go, reach out to me and we can figure out\nhow to get there.\nSo I'm pleased that cioc is going to be helping launch that.\nI think it's a valuable tool that could be used\n(Indistinct). >> all right, councilor perkins?\nwell, first I guess shoutout\nto all the teachers who are doing all the important work\nthis week of doing school conferences. I've had many, many conferences\nand have many more tomorrow. But just thank you to them for\nall that they're doing.\nI guess picking three things,\none is the coordinated houseless\nresponse office board met and we\ngot an update on the\npoint-in-time count and we're\nhoping to get that information next month.\nThere were some data issues interestingly not with the\nunsheltered but more so in the\nshelters with coordination, and so they are frantically and\ndiligently making sure that the\ndata that we do receive as a community is as correct as it\ncan be.\nI wanted just to highlight sort\nof the importance of funding.\nWe were able to, with our small\namount of money that we had at\nthe response office, did an rfp\nsort of to fill for service\nproviders and organizations to\nhelp fill any gaps that they have in services that they're\nproviding. And there were 23 applications,\nwhich is the most that coic has ever received for an rfp which\ngoes to show you what we're dealing with here.\nAnd these are all organizations that you have heard of.\nI'd like to highlight the ones\nthat we did decide to fund.\nOne of them is an antitrafficking project.\nThis provides rapid rehousing\nfor youth who are in danger or\nare currently being trafficked.\nWe gave some money to bend church for I think it's called\ntheir open door program, which\npeople can come and get things\nthat they need, toiletries or\nfood or just any kind of supplies.\nWe gave money to saving grace for obviously for domestic\nviolence survivors, but this is\nfor finding emergency shelter or\nmotel placements for saving grace.\nAnd we gave money to habitat for humanity. These are for people that are\nnot in habitat homes but are in homes and have an issue,\nsomething that needs fixing in their homes that they can not\nafford.\nthis goes in and says we'll replace your window -- it keeps\npeople in their homes, so it's a\ngreat one too, and we gave money\nto st. Vincent de paul of redmond.\nIt felt good to give what we could.\nAnd to jump off that, today I\nwas able to sort of pitch the\nbend business roundtable group\nas a representative from the coordinated housing response office.\nI've been talking about how we've been actively trying to\nfind a public-private\npartnership in order to get more funding.\nAnd this would be funding for\nhelping get our workforce that\nis homeless, that is experiencing homelessness,\nfinding some more stable housing, because there are a lot\nof our workforce that is actively homeless.\nI've shared this statistic a lot. But 20% of the people that live\nin our emergency shelter, that\nare sleeping on cots every night, go to work every day, so\nwe need to do something as a community to support that.\nSo we are trying to get -- the response was fantastic.\nThere are a lot of people, a lot of businesses that really care\nabout this. They know some of these people\nare their employees, so we're\ngoing forward with awesome purpose and enthusiasm, and I\nhope that we can see something\ncome out of this in the near future.\nAnd then finally, just wanted to\nshare a little bit about the commission meeting. we will talk a little bit more\nabout the resolution later, but\njust to summarize the gist of the conversation that the human\nrights and equity commission had\non this, they saw it as a yes/and. So yes, we're doing this\nresolution, and what more can we do as a city.\nBecause there are a lot of\npeople that are living in fear.\nWe also got an update on the\nequity process with hiring the\nnew individuals for the city of bend and restructuring, and I\nwould say the summary of those comments were how do we do\nbuy-in and what's going to be different this time around.\nThey wanted to make sure there was going to be something\ndifferent.\nAnd then finally, we talked with\nbend duncan, the equity consultant, about prioritizing\nthe massive amount of work that hrec wants to do, that the city\nwould like for hrec to do, that the community wants hrec to do,\nand that conversation is going to continue.\nall right, thank you. Councilor norris?\nyes,\njust briefly, I attended the southwest meeting as well\nand I appreciated the turnout and the tenure and the\nconversation. Everyone is really respectful\nand it was a good dialogue, so I\nappreciated that.\nParks and rec meeting along with\nwall my fellow councilors. Great to find more opportunities\nto work together with bprd.\nThat's it. >> councilor platt?\nI had the honor of going to\nthe provost reception at the\ncascades where they were talking\nabout what those funds are going to do and were able to point\nover to the big hill and say that big hill is going to be\ngone and they're going to have this fantastic facility that's\ngoing to serve a lot of the needs for the student body there.\nIt's been a long time coming and that was really great.\nThey were just glowing at that ability. >> and community members will\nhave access to it as well. >> exactly.\nyeah, it's going to be beautiful.\nThe planning commission is going to bring timber yards coming\nback our away, going to the planning commission. An interesting discussion, a\ncouple last week. And then I think I'll leave it\nthere. >> okay, thank you.\nYeah, we did have a joint meeting with the bend parks and\nrec district board last night, which I thought was really great\nand we had a good chance to talk\nabout how we can both work together on housing and\naffordable housing in particular but also some other projects\nwe're working together on including the riverfront project\nand our bridges over in drake park and along the river and how\nwe can improve those and work together on that.\nSo more to come, already started talking with eric about how to\nstructure our leadership meetings and get us to a point\nfor recommendations for each of the bodies around the housing\ntopics. Eric and I were at the rural\nfire district meeting on\nlong-term funding and so we will\nbe having a work session in MAY that we're going to invite the\nrural fire board to sit with us for part of that and talk about\nthe plan that we've come up\nwith, which is very succinctly\nto look at renewing our fire levy in 2028 and immediately\nafter that looking at the feasibility study for what other\nlong-term funding options might be possible. In the meantime, we are\ncurrently doing a study around\nour ems and ambulance costs and what those are going to look\nlike and how we can recover those and going forward from there.\nSo looking forward to having them here with us and discussing\nand finalizing that plan.\nWent to dvba's meeting this morning. Good discussion as always.\nOne thing to highlight, we reflected back our discussion on\nfranklin, which they were thankful for.\nThey are working on a paid\nparking plan to sort of take to their stakeholders and bring to\nus in JUNE when they do an update. That will be the next time we\nhear about that from them. Otherwise, we're looking forward\nto the city events, one in MAY just down the street here at one\nof the local business parking\nlots that we're putting together and that will be great to\ncoincide with one of the firth first fridays.\nI had a chance to sit in this\nroom with a bunch of cub scouts\ntoday and they're learning about local government. It was basically a little mini\ntown hall. I got asked everything from when\nare we getting an in and out to\nhow I get elected. Really good questions actually,\nroundabouts and all sorts of things, so that was really nice\nand they always like when they\nget to come up and use the gavel. Everyone took a turn.\nWith that, I think we are done with our council action and\nreport section, so we'll move on to visitors section. This is the time for members of\nthe public to give us your comments. And our rules are that you\naddress the council as a body, not individually.\nThat you come on up to a table if you're here in person and\nthere's a timer over here that\nwill show your two minutes and it will blink yellow at you when\nyou have 30 seconds left. And we ask that you be\nrespectful in your comments and\nthat you not disrupt the meeting with your comments tonight.\nOkay, so let's start with our online, because we just have\none, so we'll have michelle go\nand then we can move to our in-person. >> great.\nIs the audio working okay?\nyes, we can hear you, michelle, hold on one second.\ngood evening, yes, that\nsoutheast bend roundtable was\ngreat, asking city planners\nquestions in the booth and the\nroundtable itself. So there was a roundtable\nquestion, what commercial development is desired.\nThe responses were verbally recapped, however a key item was\nmissed in the verbal recap. Southeast bend clearly said we\ndo not want for this gas stations approved across from\nelementary schools. The no gas station response\nwasn't in the verbal recap, so firstly I'm here tonight to make\nsure it gets in the public record.\nClear response, no gas stations.\nSecondly, I'd like to confirm if the conditions that got us that\ngas station by the school are still in place.\nAnd if another gas station would\nget approved by this city council.\nBasically, I'm asking if any\ndecision to update the planning\ntext of the zoning law and the associated 13 conditions was\nmade or has any decision been\nmade as to how council\ninterprets that zoning? Specifically auto-intensive uses\nlike a gas station across from our kids' elementary school.\nIf no decisions to make changes\nwere done, then no decision is a decision.\nAnd the council has left in place the exact same conditions\nthat got us that gas station\nacross from an elementary school.\nOur neighborhood had over 2500 signatures in a petition, a\nwebsite, we raised $10,000. We had a lot of activism.\nWe need to put our money into making sure council doesn't\napprove gas stations or enable conditions that permit it.\nWhy does this matter? Beyond the obvious negative\nimpacts, we've already had one\nschool child hit on a bike on a roundabout. Thankfully, the child is okay.\nBut these hits and near misses\nare occurring before the gas station and drive-through are\nbuilt is horrifying. None of us wants a further\ntragedy or have another gas administration approved near an\nelementary school. I would appreciate a response as\npart of the public record on behalf of those 2500 people that\nwere active in our community on this issue.\nThank you. >> thank you.\nEarly last year, we changed the cc zone to not allow\nauto-dependent uses, so that's been done.\nSo thank you. >> thanks.\nokay, so that will move us\ninto in person, so let's start\nwith johnathan westmoreland. And please introduce yourself\nand state whether you live in the city of bend.\nhi, I live in bend. Bear with me, I am going to try\nfor the first time to not read\nthis verbatim and actually have a conversation.\nThere was a number I want you to\nstick with you guys today,\nthat's 45%. I scraped from the league of\noregon cities the e-mail addresses for all the city\nemployees including your own. There were 62 of them.\n28 of them have been involved in data breaches.\nThat's almost half, 45%.\nSome of those data breaches involved password data.\nI'm saying this to you not as\nlike a gotcha but this is why\nend-to-end encryption is such an important deal.\nAnd sb 1516 passed, and I think that's great.\nThere's a lot of good stuff in there.\nBut I'd like for bend to see\nthat as a floor and not the ceiling.\nAnd as you go through contracts\nwith these vendors, especially\nfor security, just be very\ndiligent and make sure that the public's security and data\nprivacy rights are being observed. So moving forward, I've got some\nquestions that I think you\nshould be asking yourself. One, at the state capitol, why\nwere so many ordinary citizens willing to take time out of\ntheir lives to advocate for\nhaving end-to-end encryption\ndefined in the bill.\nTwo, why did flock, axon lobby against this?\nAfter learning about flock's\ndata security practices and\ncanceling flock in JANUARY, how\ndo you feel knowing that axon\nand vera mobility currently have partnerships with flock and how\nare you going to protect bend\nresidents from corporations in the future.\nI gave this to her. I'll e-mail you one every week\njust to open a conversation with\nyou and get your internet\nbubbles and algorithms that are\nnot going to show you what they're going to show me and my software friends.\nthank you very much.\nall right, thank you.\ntodd? ? >> hi, I'm todd.\nI live in bend.\nand I'm speaking on behalf of the southern crossing\nneighborhood association as chair.\nWe were pleased to see you had a southeast bend roundtable.\nI recently asked representatives of the southeast bend and\ncentury west neighborhood districts if they would like to\nparticipate with us in a roundtable for southwest bend.\nI explained that southern crossing's focus was on the\nbond, brookswood, and reed market given all the growth in the area.\nThey said they were interested in discussing that as well.\nWe would like to meet soon, since some council funding\ndecisions are coming up that are\nrelevant to these discussions.\nIn the near term, an nssp project for road crossing of\nreed market will come before you.\nOn our website, you will find our counterproposal that is a\nmore comprehensive solution to the problems on reed market just\nwest of U.S. 97. I will send you an e-mail by\ntomorrow morning with more details.\nLast JULY, we asked council to\nreject the same nssp project for a long list of reasons.\nWe hope this money can be more wisely spent on a better\nsolution. If you would like to better\nunderstand both this proposal\nand our proposal for the roundabout, I would be glad to\ngive you a personal tour on-site. Feel free to respond to my e-mail.\nYou're also welcome to attend\nour zoom board meeting tomorrow at 5 where we will be discussing\nthese issues.\nSwitching to parking, when the glass water townhomes began\nconstruction on the site across\nfrom bend parks and rec headquarters, we lost an essential parking area.\nIt was frequently used both by\nriver park visitors and concert goers. Please consider reaching out to\nthe old mill owners and bend\nparks and rec to work collectively to create a new\nparking area. Each entity has something that\nthey can bring to the table to\nsolve this issue.\nSouthern crossing neighborhood\nshould not be used as overflow\nparking due to a lack of planning.\nthanks, todd.\njane? >> greetings, mayor and council\nmembers.\nI live in southeast bend in the king's forest neighborhood.\nAnd I recently have become\nappalled at the lack of\nattention to evacuation routes especially in light of the\nexpansive new high-density residential development.\nFor example, the wild flower\nproject at 15th and wilson will\nhave 4,000 in and out trips per\nday, per vehicle. Or 4,000 vehicles.\nThose people will want to get out if the wind blows and the\nfire comes in this hot and dry\nsummer ahead of us.\nReed market will be a parking lot.\nWe all saw what happened in paradise.\nPeople started abandoning their cars and walking.\nThey were burned.\nWe don't want that here.\nSo I would like as a beginning\nto have you fund and assign evacuation routes that will help\nus get away from a horrific fire\nhere in town.\nI've talked with the county, the\nstate, the city, planning and engineering.\nThere's nothing substantial happening.\nI have three generations here in town.\nIt's frightening really.\nAnd I think it's time to do something.\nThere's nothing in the state code. The leadership needs to happen\nmaybe locally and get something done so we can protect\nourselves.\nthank you, jane.\nmichael baker? >> good evening, mayor and\ncouncil, I'm michael baker and I have the honor of being the ceo\nfor the boys and girls clubs here in bend.\nA couple key things, information\nthat you might find interesting.\nLast year in 2025, we were open 222 days.\nThis year, we'll be open 273 days.\nWe've expanded our hours of operation. That includes saturday hours\nwhich has never happened in the organization, so we're very excited about that.\nIn addition to that, we also are seeing an increase.\nLast year, we handed out 17,400 meals to the children throughout\nthe year.\nWe're already on track to break about 25,000 this year.\nand we are maximizing that space. Every aspect that we can use,\nwe're trying to use every inch of that space for programming\nand having the kiddos go from room to room to room.\nWhat's really exciting that just recently happened is for the\nfirst time in over seven years,\nwe actually -- many of you MAY have seen this before.\nWe have a rock wall on the stage\narea that we've been able to get recertified and are using that\nagain, so the kids were excited this past saturday to use the\nrock wall for the first time.\nSo it's a pretty exciting experience there.\nI will also encourage each and every one of you as I always do\nto come down and see the club in action any time you want a tour.\nLove to do that.\nThose of you that want to\nsupport the boys and girls club, we have a big event coming up,\nAPRIL 18th are the great\npromsby, a '20s thing, and I will end by telling you\nsomething that I've worked in a lot of communes across the\ncountry, boys and girls clubs, worked with a lot of city\nadministrators, and I'm telling\nyou, you're very fortunate to have MR. King in the role he's in.\nThank you for everything you've\ndone for this community. >> thanks, michael.\nAll right, kinsey martin, I see you're here for the resolution.\nDid you also want to speak -- >> yes.\nokay. >> good evening.\nMy name is kinsey hood martin, she-her pronouns.\nmy family, my home, my career\nare rooted here in bend, the city of bend.\nMy grandparents were doctors and teachers here. My parents grew up here.\nI was born and raised here.\nAnd despite a short stint of, like, I'm never moving back to\nthat town, here I am, my own\nkids are born and raised here as well.\nBecause of that, because of knowing some of the old bend\ncommunity can tend to be less appreciative of growth and\nchange, I wanted to just come say thank you for the resolution\nthat I know is on the agenda\nthis evening. That resolution in support of\nour immigrant neighbors and friends and community members\nmeans a lot to me personally and to our community.\nAt this point in history and where we are right now as a\nbroader community, those words\nmatter a lot, and it really is -- I'm really proud to see\nthe community that I live in taking a stance and being public\nabout that.\nThat's really significant.\nI know that our leadership spent a lot of time on that.\nI know it's an intensive process to do that and do it well and\nget it right.\nAnd I appreciate mayor pro tem perkins and melissa, the hrec\nmembers, and then the immigrant\ninitiative leaders who informed that work.\nAnd so I just wanted to say thank you.\nI'm hopeful to see that it has\nthe beginnings of tangible resources and commitments in it,\nand I'm hopeful to see that\ncontinue over the next several years in council's work and the\ncity's work as far as changes that our immigrant community\nmembers can see and feel directly.\nBut I know public comments are not usually an appreciation, so\nI just wanted to say thank you, that work matters and it matters\na lot.\nthank you, kinsey. All right, that will move us to\nour consent agenda. >> I move to approve the consent\nagenda. >> second.\nall right, moved by councilor\nperkins, seconded by councilor norris. All in favor?\n[Chorus of ayes] >> unanimous.\nThat moves us to item 5.\na institution supporting bend's immigrant communities, condemning the current federal government\napproach to immigration enforcement, allocating funding to support bend's diverse\nimmigrant communities, and >> I wanted to introduce\nmelissa, our city's affordable housing coordinator but is also\nfilling in as the human rights\nand equity commission liaison\nand with melissa, catalina frank, this resolution before\nyou was brought in part by catalina's presentation that\ncame to council early JANUARY really requesting some support.\nAnd I think we listened and we\nwanted to offer some meaningful, tangible support in the form of\nreaffirming our values as a welcoming community but also\ngoing beyond that and offering some resources.\nso melissa and catalina will outline what's in the resolution\nand then I can talk about some\nnext steps as we're implementing the resolution into various\ncontracting methods, et cetera.\nthank you so much. So as eric mentioned, you're\nused to seeing me in the housing realm.\nBut it's my honor to be the\ninterim hrec staff liaison.\nAnd this resolution is a body of\nwork that is not just one person.\nIt has been touched by many hands.\nAs you know, catalina came to council in early JANUARY talking\nabout the imminent crisis and urgency of potentially declaring\na state of emergency.\nIn a follow-up meeting, our city attorney, ian, outlined what\ncould be done as a resolution.\nFrom there, the resolution went to hrec.\nIan had drafted a resolution fabulously by looking at other\ncities that were in a similar situation.\nBy the time the document got to\nhrec, it had been edited a few\ntimes, many times actually, and hrec, as hrec has been developed\nas a group that represents our community, when this body of\nwork got to r heck,\nhrec, they realized the eyes that needed to be on\nthe document aren't represented necessarily on our current\ncommissioner seats, so hrec made the decision to send the\nresolution with some hrec\nmembers to a subgroup outside of hrec.\nHow that subgroup was formed was\nin partnership with catalina and in different immigrant groups\nthroughout the community, they\nwere consulted, the leaders of different immigrant groups, and\nthey were asked to send a representative of their group.\nThese folks came together, looked over the resolution,\nprovided tremendous input, which then created more and more\niterations of the document.\nThe document came back to hrec.\nHrec reviewed it and decided to accept the document and\nrecommend it to come back to you.\nAnd so through all of those\niterations, you'll see in the resolution that it is a restatement of the city's\npriority to be a welcoming community and so half of the\nfunds that will be going to the latino community association are\nto further the welcoming city work.\nAnd the other half of the funds going to the latino community\nassociation are to support\nfamilies that are impacted by immigration.\nAnd so both bodies of work are incredibly important and\nsignificant and as catalina mentioned in JANUARY, it's\nreally difficult to quantify the impact of immigration activities\nin our community. While some MAY think it's not\nhere yet, it can't be impacting yet, there are kids that don't\ngo to school.\nFolks that don't go to work. Groceries that aren't being\npurchased that the store because people are too afraid to leave\ntheir homes, so this body of work, as I mentioned, it's not a\nsingle person that has had their hands on it.\nI think it's important to recognize all the many folks in\nthe room and online that participated and some that\nweren't able to join us today. >> I just want to take a moment\nto recognize melissa, because I think this many hands approach\nin really opening this up and your facilitation leadership that helped us get to a really\ngood place, so thank you. >> absolutely.\nAll right, so council, we've got the resolution -- there's no\nslides, but we have the resolution in front of us with\nthe issue summary. Any other questions for staff or\nfor catalina? Thank you for being here with us\ntonight. >> you're welcome.\nI just wanted to confirm, my understanding is that based on\nthe discussions that you've been having, part of the funds is to\nsupport the immigrant community. Not the 50 for welcoming week,\nbut the other portion is meant to be opened up into the\ncommunity as a hole and provide some of that support and\nactivities, but potential potentially in\npartnership with other groups in the community who do similar work.\nI just wanted to confirm that's part of the intent behind that\nchunk of the funds?\nyes, it's not limited to the latino immigrants.\nIt's the immigrant community impacted by law enforcement.\nI'm so glad you brought that up, because one of the beautiful\nparts of that small group that met offsite and mayor pro tem\ncan speak to that as well, is the group worked really well\ntogether and had some difficult conversations.\nSo much so that there's a desire\nto continue that body of work.\nAnd in those discussions, it was bridged that all of the groups\nin the room and those that were not able to be in the room\nlearned that they have access to these funds through the latino\ncommunity association as well. >> thank you for playing that\nrole. >> and just in terms of next\nsteps, so we are working on contract drafts for contract\nservices for our welcoming\nprogram as well as grant agreements.\nThey're two separate mechanisms\nto execute the outline in the resolution. As well as continuing these efforts.\nI think we made a commitment to\nnot just have this be a one-time event but really building this\ncoalition and supporting it in many different ways, so we're\nstill working through the details of that.\nand there's a provision here about advocacy with our federal\nrepresentatives in oregon, so we'll have a letter that goes to\nthem with this resolution attached as well as part of that\naction. Any other questions before a\nmotion?\nI can't help but comment on the difficult position that we\nfind ourselves in with a federal\ngovernment that is pursuing such -- I mean, harmful tactics.\nWe are severely constrained. There are consequences that we\ncannot prevent as city and as a community.\nBut we're not powerless either.\nAnd I'm really proud to support\nthis as one thing that we can do\nto demonstrate our support and our commitment and as an\nexpression of our values and desire to make bend a welcoming\nand safe community regardless of\npeople's identity or their backgrounds.\nSo I just wanted to address the\nchallenge that we face, because there's no way that we're going\nto be able to protect everybody from this federal government,\nbut we are going to do what we can.\nyeah, and I'll say that I\nthink being in that room, there's so much that we can't\ndo, but one of the things that I\nsaw in that room and I see at the human rights and equity\ncommission too is we're going to take care of each other.\nAnd that's what matters. And so we are going to take care\nof our community here in bend.\nAnd so that's the hope that I have and this is sort of a\nstatement of that. >> and I just want to say as a\ndaughter of an immigrant from mexico, I just appreciate all\nthat you guys are doing in our community.\nI appreciate bend standing up. This resolution is so important.\nAnd I hope it's just the beginning. >> is there a motion?\nI just wanted to add one other point.\nThank you for making this happen, thanks to mayor pro tem\nperkins for being part of that\non behalf of the council, other\npeople in the room and hrec and other community members that participated in it.\nI just wanted to emphasize paragraph 3 in the resolution\nthat declares no matter when someone has joined our community\nor where they come from, every person deserves to be free of\nfear and intimidation and to be\ntreated with dignity and respect.\nI value all the folks in our community again no matter where\nthey came from or when they arrived and all the ways they\nmake our community stronger.\nI think as councilor mendez said, I'll super proud to be\nsupporting this resolution tonight and taking this step\nforward and look forward to more\nwe can do as we move forward. >> I move to adopt a resolution supporting bend's immigrant communities, condemning the\ncurrent federal government approach to immigration\nenforcement, allocating funding to support bend's diverse\nimmigrant communities, and authorizing city staff to take\nsteps necessary to implement the\nresolution. >> second.\nall those in favor? [Chorus of ayes]\ngreater\ngreat, unanimous. Yes, immigration is a strength\nof this country and this community.\nThank you for being here.\nthank you.\nAll right, that will move us to\nitem 6 and 7 together.\ncouncil is asked to adopt a resolution to authorize the city\nt enter into a clean water state revolving fund loan agreement to\nfinance the king hezekiah and fargo sewer project in a total\nloan amount not to exceed $2,879,000.\nand council is asked to\nauthorize a contract with bar\nseven a companies for construction of the king\nhezekiah and fargo sewer project. >> all right, hi.\ngood evening.\nSo I'll go first.\nI'll be presenting the construction contract for\napproval and then we'll talk about the funding that we are\npresenting associated with it.\nKing hezekiah and fargo were two individual applications selected\nby the sept\nseptic to sewer program.\n2024, they were selected, 2025, they were designed, and then\nhere in 2026, we are looking to\nactual construct them.\nSo a little bit about the septic to sewer conversion program.\nIt was originally identified in the 2014 collection system\nmaster plan, further reconfirmed in the 2018 public facility plan.\nThis is the seventh selection\nthat we have made through the program. It's important to note that king\nhezekiah and fargo are a\ncomponent of that selection. As the municipal code states,\nthe city of bend will consider selection through this program\non an annual basis. As the principal engineer, I get\nthe opportunity to look through the cip.\nWe had an opportunity to over-select, meaning over-select\nfrom the funding, the 3.5 million annually that we\nhave set aside for this program,\nwe actually selected over $6 million worth of septic to\nsewer applications. this was in combination due to\nthe fact that we were about to\nset sail into a collection system master plan and a\nfacility plan update at our treatment plant.\nKnowing those were coming, there was a lot of priorities those\ntwo system plans were going to identify and then the priority\nwas likely going to shift to improving the existing\ninfrastructure associated with either the collection system or\nthe treatment system, so we did\nhave the opportunity to over-fund this program and\npresent to the committee for\nselection of 6.2 million of applications.\nTwo weeks from now, we will be\npresenting another construction\ncontract for powerful for the contract for approval.\nWe did stagger those to make sure the bidding community could\nhave a chance to take a swing at\none and then all the losers or anyone that did want to bid on\nthe second one could have an opportunity to go there.\nSo it is important to stress\nthis is the seventh selection through the previous six, we\nhave installed over 400 laterals\nto properties, 230 of this have\nconnected, so that's a success rate of 56% and some of those\njust got the opportunity to convert through the completion\nof the 2025 project.\nSo that's a huge success to the program. And so just emphasizing what the\nprogram is, it's an applicant-driven program where\npeople who are on septic can submit to the city for\nconsideration for selection to convert their septic system on\nto city sewer. The city evaluates their\napplication based on a number of criteria. The age of the system, whether\nthey have failing systems, the\ncost to convert, but one aspect I do want to stress that I\nalways stress, you'll know what\nI'm saying, is the participation\nthat the applicants have in the program. So at the completion of the\nconstruction project, we issue\nwhat's called a notice of operational completion, the noc.\nThat noc is their ticket to go down to permitting and pull\ntheir plumbing permit to start their conversion process.\nThey do get presented a window would have two years to get a\n50% reduction on their\nconnection fee, which is about a $5,000 savings.\nThey don't have to convert unless they do sign that\npetition, which is that\ncommitment to participating in the conversion upon completion\nof the project.\nOverview of this application or\nthis construction project, these two applications at king\nhezekiah and fargo are both in the kingsport area south of reed\nmarket, east of 15th.\nThese ones were completed, the design was completed to the 90%\nlevel as part of the overall\nbasin study when the southeast interceptor went through kings\nforest area and they were designed externally.\nWe do present opportunities that we do have internal capacity to\ndo design services.\nThe next construction project you'll be presented for approval\nin two weeks was designed internally, so we do evaluate on\na case-by-case basis how best to deliver the projects.\nThese projects do include a full width pavement restoration and\ngiven where these projects are,\nthere will be limited traffic closures really with local\naccess restrictions. King hezekiah, jumping into that\none, there's 25 properties that will benefit from this sewer\nline. Of those, 13 had committed to\nconnecting within with the two-year period.\n1900 linear feet. The dots indicate the properties\nthat did commit to connection. Going to fargo, that one is a\nlittle over 1,000 feet, 17\nproperties will benefit, and 12 did commit to participating.\nSo another case, both of these\nprojects are over 50% commitment. So as far as a lot of the public\nthat does benefit from this is wanting to participate directly\nin this program. >> jason, can I ask you while\nyou're on these slides, please, how many folks do you suppose\nwill also jump on a little bit later but still within that\nwindow just based on your experience?\nI'm not going to hold you to it, but anyway, do you think? >> oh, absolutely.\nA lot of the people don't want to have the commitment, right?\nSo they have to do it. But some of these applications\nalso have been in consideration for multiple years, so there\nmight be a lot of interest at\nfirst and it has dwindled, but\nonce the project is selected and proceeded forward, it renews\nthat interest. >> right.\nalso that system is that many\nmore years aged. >> makes sense.\nso they need it even further. Unfortunately, there are cases\nwhere people apply and then their system fails and their\napplication is not selected, so\nwe just have to go and fix their\nsystem so when we come through, they aren't really attracted to\nconnecting, because they just\ndid a large investment on to their septic system.\nthank you for the context, appreciate it.\nthere's been a lot of work in this neighborhood, so I just\nwonder how many people have seen it happening on other streets in\nthe neighborhood and are aware\nof hey when this comes down my street, maybe I should consider\nit. >> exactly. Overall timeline here as\nmentioned, end of 2024 we did select these two applications\nalong with the azalea and windsor. We did then proceed into the\ndesign of this.\nWe are here MARCH 18, 2026, for council approval.\nWe are looking to start construction at the beginning of APRIL.\nWe do have a public open house scheduled already, the\ncontractor is ready to get after the construction.\nAnd then construction is slated\nfor completion in the end of OCTOBER. Overall budget here, the budget\nfor the project at time of selection, so going back to\n2024, was 2.875 million. we did receive seven bids on\nthis project.\nThe lowest bid came in 26% under\nthe engineer's estimate, so that\nis beneficial to city, the water\nreclamation fund and the septic\ncity program, so it has a ripple effect there.\nSurvey and design, call it\nminimal cost, $160,000.\nThat's the amount that we have incurred to date through the\ndesign services surveying miscellaneous and then some\nadditional services that we will be providing.\nOverall total, 1.855. So while there's a good gap\nthere, we aren't intending to\nspend the full million dollar deficit.\nThat money goes back into the\nbeginning working capital of the\nwater reclamation fund, but we are taking provisions as necessary.\nBut that 2.875 was the number\nback to the selection time period.\nand as jason mentioned,\nthere's also a resolution this evening to enter into a clean\nwater state revolving fund loan.\nIt's a bit of a mouthful. That will be used to finance the\nking hezekiah and fargo septic to sewer project.\nThe not to exceed amount, the 2.875, but consistent with our\nother cwsrf loans, we'll only draw down the amount needed to\ncomplete the project, so the loan amount will end up being\nwhatever we end up using.\nSome of the benefits to\nobtaining the cwsrf loans over issuing traditional revenue\nbonds include things like no prepayment penalties.\nWe don't have bond issuance\ncosts, pretty low debt service coverage requirements and lower\ninterest rates than your typical market bonds.\nThis particular loan is eligible\nfor a million dollars worth of\nforgiveness and up to principal\nforgiveness up to $450,000, so we'll be roughly requiredded to\npay back half of that 2.87 were\nwe to utilize the entire amount.\nThe biennial budget and the sewer rate models include the\nrate plan to fund this cost of the project.\ngreat, all right. Any questions, other questions,\ncouncil? Looking good.\nI have a question.\nThat is a pretty big budget gap. I recall when we looked at the\nprojects that were proposed, I\nmean, obviously changes go out to bid and bid it tomorrow, but\nthere were a lot of projects proposed.\nSo, yeah, I don't know, I'd be curious, so those dollars will\njust go into the program? Because council in the past has\nfunded the program at 3 million a year?\nthree-and-a-half.\nyeah, so we're spending a million less?\ngoing back, we did commit to\nspend 6.2. >> 2.\nSo we did overcommit because we had that opportunity, and I want\nto stress that was because of the collection system master\nplan and the facility plan update at the treatment plant\nthat were coming, so we are starting to land those ships.\nAnd so we are identifying all of the needs outside of septic to\nsewer, so a lot of the attention\neither from staffing or from funding is going to have to\nshift to the highest priority areas. And so that's a conversation\nthat we need to have on how to\nbest support all of the needs within the collection -- within\nthe water reclamation system, so collections and treatment.\nBecause we have a lot of existing infrastructure on the\ncollections and on the treatment\nside that have been deferred, because we haven't had\nnecessarily a master plan to tell us exactly what is is\nneeded. So we were looking to identify\nthose needs, prioritize those\nneeds, develop the funding strategy and then balance other\nprograms such as septic to\nsewer, pump station, r & r, but\nwe do have a lot of other capital needs through those\nsystems.\nmm-hmm, okay, yeah. I did get an e-mail from\nsomeone. It's a couple months ago now,\nand I thought they were\nfollowing up with you, so it's\nprobably fine, but I think it's actually cabin lane, in that\narea, there were some cul-de-sacs that did not get\npicked up on the septic to\nsewer, so homeowners on those cul-de-sacs are still on septic,\nbut there is a sewer line right there and it seems like sort of\nlittle connections that the city\nhas promised that neighborhood and made a follow-through to\nmost of the neighbors but not others. I'd be interested.\nI'll follow up with you on it separately.\nthe city goes through a\ndiligent process to identify the\ndrainage area, not to come do\nshort segments, but you also can't do excessive, because the\nfunding doesn't support it.\nSo there's a strategy on how to\nidentify what that drainage basin is. There's a lot of areas within\nthe city of bend, southwest,\nsoutheast, some of the north,\nnorthwest are on septic, so it is competitive.\nAnd it would take a lot of money to convert everybody over and\nthat's balancing the existing system and the operations that\nwe do have to have. So it would be great to do it\nall, but we do have a system to\nmaintain and treat the sewage too.\nokay, any other questions? All right.\nWe got two motions, 6 and 7. >> I move to adopt a resolution\nauthorizing a clean water state\nrevolving fund loan agreement to\nfinance the king hezekiah and fargo sewer project in a total\nloan amount not to exceed $2,875,000, in substantially the\nform presented to council and as approved by the department of\nenvironmental quality. >> second.\nmoved by councilor platt, seconded by councilor riley.\nAll in favor?\naye. >> okay.\nNext? >> I move to authorize a contract with bar seven a companies, inc., in\nsubstantially the form presented to council, for construction\nservices for the king hezekiah and fargo sewer project in an\namount not to exceed $1,674,186. >> second.\nall in favor? [Chorus of ayes]\nwe'll move on to item 8. >> council is asked to authorize\na contract with diamond parking services llc for city-wide\nparking management and\nenforcement services not to exceed $536,000 for the first\nyear and authorize the city\nmanager to approve annual renewals for a total contract\namount not to exceed\n$2,906,000 over five years.\ngood evening, mayor and council.\nIt's time to renew our parking\nmanagement and our enforcement contract.\nSo today what we're asking is to authorize a contract as was\nmentioned with diamond parking services llc for the city-wide\nmanagement and enforcement services. I'll give some details and we'll\ncircle back around to a motion\nat the end.\nI threw up the wheel of the connected city.\nI think parking touches\nbasically pretty much on all of those.\nBut this contract helps suppor efficient, responsible\ntransportation, system managemnt. We got multiple districts in\ntown as you know today,\ndowntown, old bend, Mckay,\nparking garage, surface lots. We do have some future districts\nthat we have talked with council about before. I'll share some more information\non those in a later slide. But this contract is a phased\napproach with some new districts proposed. Services support parking\navailability, circulation,\ncompliance, just to expand a little bit on what the contract\ndoes or doesn't maybe include, just a few examples.\nEnforcement parking management strategies in compliance with\nour bend municipal code, oregon statutes, inspect, enforce,\nmaintain compliance with all parking facilities. We want our parking system to be\nfunctional, clean, maintained.\nManage the online and anywhere in-person\nparking permits, supplies, materials, the surface lots.\nDaily maintenance and operations\nof the parking garage.\nExample of maybe what this\ndoesn't include, diamond parking\ndo not create a parking\nmanagement strategic or\nstrategies or policies. We work with city council on\nwhat those parking management strategies and policies are but\nthen diamond helps us manage and enforce those.\nSo the procurement process.\nWe did do a formal rfp request for proposal process.\nI was happy to see five\nproposals come in. Diamond parking services llc was\nthe highest ranked proposal.\nWe had basically a committee, a\nscoring process with a total of 1,000 points possible.\nThose things we looked for are project understanding and\napproach, that was worth a few hundred points.\nProject team, experience, and quality of service worth another\nfew hundred points, so 60% of\nthe ranking of these proposals\nwas based on those. cost was another 400 points to\nmake up that 1,000-point total.\nWe had five proposals total.\nThe top two were very competitive. Diamond parking was the highest\noverall scoring proposal, the\nhighest in the project understanding, experience, quality of service.\nThey were the second highest\nscorer for cost.\nThey were the second lowest proposal.\nAnd that was pretty much a straightup formula on cost.\nThe lowest cost proposal, you get the most points and second%\nand third and fourth and fifth.\nProposals ranged from about\n503,000 to 6.\n655,000 and some change. Here is a picture of some of the\nmembers of the diamond parking team.\nSo I mentioned the phased approach. Phase one really is taking care\nof what we have today. So that downtown parking\ndistrict, the Mckay district, old bend benefit district, the\nsurface lots that I mentioned\nand centennial parking garage.\nThis summer, we look to expand old bend east district and what\nwe're calling the miller's run district.\nI've got some maps.\nI'll shirr a little bit more\nshare a little bit more about that.\nWe were within the next probably two weeks here, we're working\nwith communications, legal, met\nwith the members of the old bend neighborhood association just\nmonday of this week to go into the 60-day public comment\nperiod, and so looking to be\nback in front of council with\nthe final recommendations on these districts accounting for\nthe public comment in JUNE.\nAnd so just a quick snapshot of our districts.\nI think most of us are familiar with them. We've got the downtown district.\nI won't go through all the text\nthere, but 400 spaces in surface\nlots, 547 in garage, on-street,\nabout 40 blocks worth, 1500 spaces.\nOld bend parking benefit street,\n1200 on-street space.\nMckay, 250 on-street spaces.\nAnd then we get into the two new districts that I was just mentioning.\nI went ahead and put some anticipated strategies up here,\nbut we'll be back in front of\ncouncil in JUNE after accounting\nfor public comment and with what strategies we're recommending\nfor the final proposal. But these are some of the\nexamples of what we're anticipating there.\nAnd then the old bend east, so this would not just be an\nexpansion of the existing district.\nWe got some different nuances, existing district on the west\nside of broadway down to drake park, Mckay park, you got the\nriver floaters, the deschutes river trail.\nOver to the parkway and along the arizona, colorado area, more\nof a commercial use more so than park and businesses along\nfranklin and along the parkway.\nSome different strategies there. So available for questions and\nhave a recommended motion on the screen.\nall right, council, questions\nfor david on this contract? >> and I'm sorry, I didn't\nmention in the beginning, we\nhave patrick from the parking\ndivision as well as carina from diamond parking.\ngo ahead. >> so what I would really like\nto dig into a little bit with my fellow councilors here is the\ndistinction between a parking benefit district and those areas\nversus the commercial areas where we have a lot of paid\nparking and we have some very regimented -- and we don't have\npeople who live in homes who are trying to go about their lives\nand their daily business, many without driveways, for example,\nbecause we've moved away from that.\nI very much support that.\nAnd so I'm now the old bend neighborhood liaison.\nYou probably heard the same things I've been hearing.\nI've spent hours meeting with\ndave and russ grayson to talk about some of the issues the old\nbend neighborhood is facing.\nSo what my concern is, is that\nwe're enforcing laws and rules in a parking benefit district\nthat was not really explained to the residents of that\nneighborhood when they signed up\nfor the parking benefit district.\nThe rules that are being\nenforced there are rules of\nparking and traffic that it's just going beyond what I think\nanyone really signed up for.\nSo the way that I read the contract is that -- and the way\nthat david has explained it to\nme is that the contractor, diamond parking, who enforcing\nthe ors, but they don't do that\nin every neighborhood, right? The only reason they're going\nthrough the old bend neighborhood is because we now\nhave the benefit district there. In the old bend neighborhood is\nfor us to actually kind of live up to the promise we made to the\nneighborhood which is to make it a benefit neighborhood.\nSo the neighbors are paying for\na parking permit and they're hopefully getting some parking\non their street when tourists\nare in town, but they're not\ngetting penalized, laws enforced on them that we're not enforcing\non other nakeds in\nneighborhoods in the city.\nSo I think it's a clarification of council's policy to the staff\nand the contractor who are administering the policy.\nI don't think it's necessarily a change to the contract itself.\nI think this is a point of clarification that I'm asking\nfor you to help me convey to the staff tonight. >> so you're saying there's\npeople who are living there that are getting tickets for maybe\nstaying too long on the street? >> exactly.\nor when they have -- I mean, I've heard about this from a\ncouple of people who live there. People have a dinner party and\nthey have people there for four hours and the systems that have\nto be used and the hoops that these folks have to go through\nor their kid comes home from college for a couple weeks.\nIt does seem like it's maybe\ngotten to a point of we need to\nreview how some of this is working.\nI can just chime in on a few examples. >> I'm not sure if tonight's\nmeeting is the right venue. I don't disagree with you, but\nI'm wondering is this an agenda request and/or do we have a time\nat some point in the future here where we're going to talk about\nparking anyway and we review some of those rules as part of\nthe new districts? >> we'll be in front of you with\nthe old bend east. >> that sounds like a good plan,\nbecause we're coming back on this anyway and we'll have new\nrounds of public comment.\nSo I'm not necessarily married to the original pilot which was\nbefore any of us were on council. I'd like to hear what people\nwant now and what they feel the\npressures are. People who visit who are taking\nup street parking, that was the concern, right?\nAnd so I don't think the folks in this neighborhood think they're entitled to the street\npacking, but we do need a system that is usable for everyone.\nsome of this is from the new\ncode from JANUARY. Yeah, we can talk about it,\ncertainly some more.\nWe want it to work. Another example is parking in\nthe wrong direction against the flow of traffic.\nThat is a state law. >> no one here has ever done\nthat, have you! (Indiscernible, simultaneous\nspeaking).\nbut to your point, councilor franzosa, this contract, diamond\nparking would enforce whatever\nbend code and policies and enforcement that we'd ask them\nto. >> so I would be supportive of\nhaving that policy discussion,\nand I just didn't want to MISS The opportunity to say thank you\nto patrick and staff and to encourage people if you see\ndiamond parking agents or city staff working on parking, say\nthank you, because I think there's a perception that\nsomehow these programs, these policies and the people that\nenforce them are somehow\nintended to make parking more difficult.\nAnd actually if we get the\npolicies right, it's going to make marking easier, and that's\none of the reasons why downtown bend business association is\ncoming back to us with their ideas for parking, so thank you\nfor making parking accessible and available and I'm happy to\nhave that conversation about the\npolicy.\nthank you, council member. >> we want it to wok,\nwork, but it's a team effort.\nJust to expand a little bit on the parking benefit, just\nbecause you mentioned that was before that time and the pilot,\nand we're coming back with are\nwith a\nfinal proposal for bend east.\nPart of that benefit district is some funds that get generated\nwithin that district, and so the\nexisting old bend is up to about $85,000 or something right now.\nAnd so we've been talking with some of the folks out there,\nlauren and that group in the community, but the idea is that\nbenefit, if they want something within that neighborhood, they\ncan come to the city with ideas.\nA park bench or formalizing maybe some areas on the\nlandscape that can be parked on that aren't in conflict with a\nwater meter or fire hydrant as an example.\nThere's a financial piece that we're trying to have, that that\nneighborhood can pick some things they'd like to maybe try\nand do and fund within their neighborhood.\nI'm grateful for everyone who\nwants that policy conversation, because the neighborhood, that\nmoney has been in the fund for quite a while and the neighborhood has not been able\nto figure out how they can actually use that money for the\ncity, so hopefully that will be\npart of the policy discussion. >> I think we can make sure we\nprovide direction to diamond, let's not enforce some of those\nthings.\nthat's all I'm asking. >> I don't agree with not\nenforcing parking the wrong way\non the street. But I think --\nwe have resources to do that\ncity wide, what we're trying to\ndo is do that where we have the parking district.\nWe're asking for some discretion from our parking director.\nwe want to be a little bit careful in the case of state law\nand we also want consistency across our community. Other districts as well.\nstate law, you're not supposed to park the wrong\ndirection?\nyes, with it is. Yes, it is.\nI'd be fine with doing that\nif we did it everywhere! (Indiscernible, simultaneous speaking).\nthese neighborhoods have\nasked for extra enforcement. They wanted that.\nThey want more enforcement of\nparking in their neighborhoods in rules and time limits because\nof the parking pressures that I were feeling.\nSo to turn around -- due -- >> due to tourism.\nI know that's the case, but we need to acknowledge -- and\nthen to turn around to the people enforcing the law,\nactually, never mind. I think we can find a balance\nhere, but the parking pressures\non these neighborhoods are the reasons they asked for\nenforcement. >> they're asking for the\nenforcement to go away, for the benefit district to be undone.\nI'd like to make sure we go through the public comment\nprocess on this and get a wide swath of comments.\nWhen your guest gets a ticket\nfor coming over for dinner, yes, you'll write to us.\nwe reinstated the paper visitor passes. We want it to work.\nWe want to make improvements. The east old bend area -- well,\nactually it was all of that area.\nThey did an effort and survey and the majority of the folks\nthat responded are supportive of a new district on the east side\ntoo. There were some that were uncertain.\nBut the majority of folks were looking for some help.\nAnd really in that area, we're\nlooking to be proactive ahead of\nthe continued commercial area with the box factory and the new\ndevelopments and things that are\ngoing there, the timber yard was mentioned earlier tonight, be\nahead of that and have a\nright if we start to regulate in the become area they will go\nto neighbors to park. Good to have something set up\nthere.\nI am talking about locals. Not just tourists.\nWe can find a happy medium here.\nthat will happen when to come back in.\nwe will look to come back in\nJUNE for recommendation on the proposed east.\nTwo districts I talked about.\nWe can have the bigger policy discussion.\nWhen they did the survey to help us guide with the new district.\nExisting district as well as new proposed area.\n94 comments were part of that.\nWe will come back to you within\nput, concerns, questions.\nExisting district as well as how\nthose apply to the new district.\nI move to authorize with diamonds parking services for\ncity-wide parking management enforcement services in\nsubstantially form presented to\ncouncil in an amount not to exceed $536,000 for the first\nyear and authorize city manager\nto approve annual renewals in\naccordance with terms of\nagreement not to exceed $2,906,000 over five years.\nsecond.\nmoved by perkins.\nSecond by franzosa. In favor. >> aye. >> thank you.\nwe have one second reading left.\nthis is the second reading of\nordinance amending bend\ndevelopment code bdc related to\nprepreservation requirements b d\nc-3.2.200, tree preservation.\nI need to declare conflict\nlike the first reading. My employer is hidden homes.\nI will remove myself for this.\nwe need a motion.\nmove second reading roll call\nvote ordinance amending bend\ndevelopment code bd c-3.2.200\ntree preservation. >> second.\nmotion by perkins, second platt. >> franzosa. >> yes. >> mendez.\naye.\nriley.\nyes.\nperkins. >> yes. >> platt. >> yes. >> kebler. >> yes.\ncity manager report.\nwe have had a couple busy months and work sessions where\nwe typically have time to say what is coming up on the next\ncouple months? I want to share that with you.\nLead in to earlier conversations\nproposal to share with you.\nAPRIL next meeting on APRIL 1.\nStevens ranch or legacy building.\nHigh points. APRIL 8 roundtable with the\nelectrification policy work\nlooking at exemptions\nimplementation timeline inviting\nfour city committees.\nThen on the 15th we have another\nmaster plan timber yards as item.\nWe will have update.\nI will talk about that goal update.\nWe will look at one year into\nwork plan to go through prioritization we will talk\nabout in a second. MAY 6 bura meeting.\nMAY 13 is a big work session.\nPrioritizing capital improvement program.\nIf our grants hold we have room\nin geobond and transportation construction fund to address\nissues we talked about last\nnight with parks and bridges.\nAreas cut to add on.\nSignificant item on MAY 13.\nAlong with the transient lodging tax about the shift.\nWhat does council want to do\nwith that split shift from 70/30 to 50/50.\nJoint work session with rural fire district on 13th.\nI will stop there.\nIt is a lot. We still have some other\nmeetings to try to schedule roundtable ideas.\nOne in southwest. Interaction.\nWe will send out survey later this week.\nI will ask for your input how this is going.\nSix months into the new schedule\nwith meeting every week.\nLayered on to that are special meetings.\nI want to test your capacity in\nterms how to manage.\nI would stay from staff\nperspective one city strategic plan. Off site with leadership.\nA lot of prep. Staff is feeling it.\nPartnership is seeing stress on elected and staff side.\nI would like to look at both the\nschedule how to prioritize those meetings.\nPrioritizing the work plan items as well.\nI am planning quarterly goal\nupdate in APRIL to take input\nfrom survey that you will see,\ncoupled with ideas of things to\nslim down to make sure we are --\nsometimes we talk about this we\ngo so fast and we might MISS Things. Slowing down is a good thing. It is hard.\nThis is a community that expects a lot.\nFast growing and want to do all of the things.\nAny effective organization is realistic about resources they\nhave and how best to tackle these problems.\nI will ask for your help and guidance over the next couple\nmonths.\nfor the start quarter one. I meeting every week.\nThree special meetings at least\nthat I can think of maybe more. County, parks, roundtable, advisory summit.\nA lot going on in quarter one.\nWhen you look at survey look at\nmaybe providing the rest of the\nyear more breaks, more fifth weeks.\nI don't disagree that this is a particularly hard quarter to\nstart the year.\nthe other piece everybody\nelse has commitments.\nHrac or Coc board in addition. >> it is okay.\nWe might have different perspective on council.\nLet's talk about it. I wanted to let you know that\nour notices for the bend central\ndistrict economic improvement district went out.\nDelay with maps and properties.\nWe re-noticed folks.\nIf you get contacted new notice is going out.\nPublic hearing council will see in the next couple weeks.\nI will put more information in\nthe memo so you are aware. I think that was it.\nA lot of public engagement with projects now.\nThere is too much -- open houses\nand things. >> downtown bend library closing\nto be renovated in APRIL will be\nclosed for a year. Central library opening MAY 11.\nThey have ability to pick up and\ndrop off books at central\nlibrary east side for folks that\ncare about downtown access.\nIt will be great when finished painful closure.\ncan you pick up and drop off downtown?\napparently library board discussed that to make sure it\nis ada accessible while they\nrenovate building it is tough. They weren't able to figure out\nhow to do that.\nthank you for the update.\nsurprise library update.\nGet your books now.\nWith that we are adjourned. Thanks everybody.\nLive cc by aberdeen captioning. 1-800-688-6621. Www.Abercap.Com.",
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          "text": "Go ahead.",
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          "text": "question for staff.",
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          "text": "defer to planning staff on that.",
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          "text": "this bill did in that regard, they are opposite ends of the",
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          "text": "I'll provide some information and put it in the council memo",
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          "text": "Any other questions for staff? Okay.",
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          "text": "thank you. >> many of you helped us with",
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          "text": "the bend delegation had a very good session.",
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          "text": "All right, that will move us into council action and reports.",
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          "text": "of thinking going on. There's a lot of forward",
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          "text": "thinking going on and I saw a",
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          "text": "lot of ahas in the audience of folks, particularly when they",
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          "text": "were building out showing how the transportation system had evolved over time.",
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          "index": 310,
          "text": "That was so effective and so many people come up and talk to",
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          "text": "me, so eric, really well done on the team for that.",
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          "text": "That really got the message out",
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          "text": "well and I'd love to see that in the other four corners around",
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          "text": "town.",
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          "text": "I'd love to see that. >> right.",
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          "text": "So I think we've had a specific request that I've seen from our",
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          "text": "are interested as well.",
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          "text": "I don't know what the next step, eric, would be?",
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          "text": "Maybe in the next quarter, try to find another time we can do",
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          "text": "anotherone of these? >> there's general support from",
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          "text": "staff, now that we've built the",
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          "text": "model, to do it in groups of neighborhoods. That makes a lot of sense.",
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          "text": "So we'll come back with a plan",
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          "text": "on exactly when and we'll poll council to see when you're",
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          "text": "available and plan for a similarly structured event where",
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          "text": "we have direct engagement,",
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          "text": "of that format.",
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          "text": "I just wanted to do a",
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          "text": "shout-out to renee mitchell for",
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          "text": "just really pulling this together and making it happen.",
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          "text": "great, yeah.",
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          "text": "helping get the word out, it was",
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          "text": "well attended which was great. >> can I point out, I think",
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          "text": "following on what your comment",
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          "text": "was, councilor mendez, we have a couple of outstanding",
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          "text": "picture. >> to make sure we're meeting",
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          "text": "I'll actually going to talk about that in my report tonight.",
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          "text": "a lot of sense. >> okay, thank you.",
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          "text": "reports, councilor franzosa?",
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          "text": "It was not a public meeting. I think our next public meeting",
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          "text": "That's been my activity. >> councilor mendez?",
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          "text": "yeah, thank you.",
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          "text": "all right, thank you. Councilor norris?",
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          "text": "just briefly, I attended the southwest meeting as well",
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          "text": "and I appreciated the turnout and the tenure and the",
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          "text": "conversation. Everyone is really respectful",
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          "index": 557,
          "text": "and it was a good dialogue, so I",
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          "index": 558,
          "text": "appreciated that.",
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        {
          "index": 559,
          "text": "Parks and rec meeting along with",
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          "endTime": "00:29:44,264"
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          "index": 560,
          "text": "wall my fellow councilors. Great to find more opportunities",
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        {
          "index": 561,
          "text": "to work together with bprd.",
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          "endTime": "00:29:52,472"
        },
        {
          "index": 562,
          "text": "That's it. >> councilor platt?",
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          "endTime": "00:29:54,542"
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        {
          "index": 563,
          "text": "I had the honor of going to",
          "startTime": "00:29:54,777",
          "endTime": "00:29:56,777"
        },
        {
          "index": 564,
          "text": "the provost reception at the",
          "startTime": "00:29:57,413",
          "endTime": "00:29:59,413"
        },
        {
          "index": 565,
          "text": "cascades where they were talking",
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          "endTime": "00:30:02,150"
        },
        {
          "index": 566,
          "text": "about what those funds are going to do and were able to point",
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          "endTime": "00:30:05,754"
        },
        {
          "index": 567,
          "text": "over to the big hill and say that big hill is going to be",
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          "endTime": "00:30:08,623"
        },
        {
          "index": 568,
          "text": "gone and they're going to have this fantastic facility that's",
          "startTime": "00:30:08,924",
          "endTime": "00:30:10,859"
        },
        {
          "index": 569,
          "text": "going to serve a lot of the needs for the student body there.",
          "startTime": "00:30:11,894",
          "endTime": "00:30:13,995"
        },
        {
          "index": 570,
          "text": "It's been a long time coming and that was really great.",
          "startTime": "00:30:14,597",
          "endTime": "00:30:16,731"
        },
        {
          "index": 571,
          "text": "They were just glowing at that ability. >> and community members will",
          "startTime": "00:30:19,435",
          "endTime": "00:30:22,270"
        },
        {
          "index": 572,
          "text": "have access to it as well. >> exactly.",
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          "endTime": "00:30:25,874"
        },
        {
          "index": 573,
          "text": "yeah, it's going to be beautiful.",
          "startTime": "00:30:26,676",
          "endTime": "00:30:29,477"
        },
        {
          "index": 574,
          "text": "The planning commission is going to bring timber yards coming",
          "startTime": "00:30:30,413",
          "endTime": "00:30:33,248"
        },
        {
          "index": 575,
          "text": "back our away, going to the planning commission. An interesting discussion, a",
          "startTime": "00:30:36,886",
          "endTime": "00:30:39,387"
        },
        {
          "index": 576,
          "text": "couple last week. And then I think I'll leave it",
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        {
          "index": 577,
          "text": "there. >> okay, thank you.",
          "startTime": "00:30:42,580",
          "endTime": "00:30:43,658"
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        {
          "index": 578,
          "text": "Yeah, we did have a joint meeting with the bend parks and",
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          "index": 579,
          "text": "rec district board last night, which I thought was really great",
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        {
          "index": 580,
          "text": "and we had a good chance to talk",
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          "index": 581,
          "text": "about how we can both work together on housing and",
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          "text": "affordable housing in particular but also some other projects",
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          "text": "we're working together on including the riverfront project",
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          "index": 584,
          "text": "and our bridges over in drake park and along the river and how",
          "startTime": "00:31:01,444",
          "endTime": "00:31:04,246"
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        {
          "index": 585,
          "text": "we can improve those and work together on that.",
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        {
          "index": 586,
          "text": "So more to come, already started talking with eric about how to",
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        {
          "index": 587,
          "text": "structure our leadership meetings and get us to a point",
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          "index": 588,
          "text": "for recommendations for each of the bodies around the housing",
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          "index": 589,
          "text": "topics. Eric and I were at the rural",
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          "index": 590,
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          "index": 591,
          "text": "long-term funding and so we will",
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        {
          "index": 592,
          "text": "be having a work session in MAY that we're going to invite the",
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          "index": 593,
          "text": "rural fire board to sit with us for part of that and talk about",
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          "text": "the plan that we've come up",
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          "text": "with, which is very succinctly",
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        {
          "index": 596,
          "text": "to look at renewing our fire levy in 2028 and immediately",
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          "text": "after that looking at the feasibility study for what other",
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          "text": "like and how we can recover those and going forward from there.",
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          "text": "and finalizing that plan.",
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          "index": 606,
          "text": "franklin, which they were thankful for.",
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          "text": "us in JUNE when they do an update. That will be the next time we",
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          "text": "hear about that from them. Otherwise, we're looking forward",
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          "text": "to the city events, one in MAY just down the street here at one",
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        {
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          "text": "lots that we're putting together and that will be great to",
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          "index": 614,
          "text": "coincide with one of the firth first fridays.",
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          "text": "I had a chance to sit in this",
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          "text": "today and they're learning about local government. It was basically a little mini",
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          "index": 619,
          "text": "are we getting an in and out to",
          "startTime": "00:32:53,424",
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        {
          "index": 620,
          "text": "how I get elected. Really good questions actually,",
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          "index": 621,
          "text": "roundabouts and all sorts of things, so that was really nice",
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          "text": "and they always like when they",
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          "text": "get to come up and use the gavel. Everyone took a turn.",
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          "index": 624,
          "text": "With that, I think we are done with our council action and",
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          "text": "report section, so we'll move on to visitors section. This is the time for members of",
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          "text": "the public to give us your comments. And our rules are that you",
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        {
          "index": 627,
          "text": "address the council as a body, not individually.",
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          "text": "That you come on up to a table if you're here in person and",
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          "index": 629,
          "text": "there's a timer over here that",
          "startTime": "00:33:25,523",
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        {
          "index": 630,
          "text": "will show your two minutes and it will blink yellow at you when",
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          "index": 631,
          "text": "you have 30 seconds left. And we ask that you be",
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        {
          "index": 632,
          "text": "respectful in your comments and",
          "startTime": "00:33:37,468",
          "endTime": "00:33:39,468"
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        {
          "index": 633,
          "text": "that you not disrupt the meeting with your comments tonight.",
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          "index": 634,
          "text": "Okay, so let's start with our online, because we just have",
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        },
        {
          "index": 635,
          "text": "one, so we'll have michelle go",
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        {
          "index": 637,
          "text": "Is the audio working okay?",
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        {
          "index": 638,
          "text": "yes, we can hear you, michelle, hold on one second.",
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        {
          "index": 639,
          "text": "good evening, yes, that",
          "startTime": "00:34:03,861",
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        {
          "index": 640,
          "text": "southeast bend roundtable was",
          "startTime": "00:34:06,263",
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        {
          "index": 641,
          "text": "great, asking city planners",
          "startTime": "00:34:08,266",
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        {
          "index": 642,
          "text": "questions in the booth and the",
          "startTime": "00:34:10,568",
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        {
          "index": 643,
          "text": "roundtable itself. So there was a roundtable",
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          "index": 644,
          "text": "question, what commercial development is desired.",
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          "text": "The responses were verbally recapped, however a key item was",
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          "text": "missed in the verbal recap. Southeast bend clearly said we",
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          "text": "do not want for this gas stations approved across from",
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          "text": "elementary schools. The no gas station response",
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          "text": "wasn't in the verbal recap, so firstly I'm here tonight to make",
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          "text": "sure it gets in the public record.",
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          "text": "gas station by the school are still in place.",
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          "text": "get approved by this city council.",
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          "text": "Basically, I'm asking if any",
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          "text": "text of the zoning law and the associated 13 conditions was",
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          "text": "made or has any decision been",
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          "index": 660,
          "text": "made as to how council",
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          "text": "like a gas station across from our kids' elementary school.",
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          "index": 663,
          "text": "If no decisions to make changes",
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          "index": 664,
          "text": "were done, then no decision is a decision.",
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        {
          "index": 665,
          "text": "And the council has left in place the exact same conditions",
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          "index": 666,
          "text": "that got us that gas station",
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          "endTime": "00:35:24,607"
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        {
          "index": 667,
          "text": "across from an elementary school.",
          "startTime": "00:35:25,877",
          "endTime": "00:35:27,110"
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        {
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          "text": "Our neighborhood had over 2500 signatures in a petition, a",
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          "text": "website, we raised $10,000. We had a lot of activism.",
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          "index": 670,
          "text": "We need to put our money into making sure council doesn't",
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        {
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          "text": "approve gas stations or enable conditions that permit it.",
          "startTime": "00:35:37,288",
          "endTime": "00:35:40,257"
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        {
          "index": 672,
          "text": "Why does this matter? Beyond the obvious negative",
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        },
        {
          "index": 673,
          "text": "impacts, we've already had one",
          "startTime": "00:35:45,597",
          "endTime": "00:35:47,597"
        },
        {
          "index": 674,
          "text": "school child hit on a bike on a roundabout. Thankfully, the child is okay.",
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          "endTime": "00:35:50,668"
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        {
          "index": 675,
          "text": "But these hits and near misses",
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          "endTime": "00:35:53,536"
        },
        {
          "index": 676,
          "text": "are occurring before the gas station and drive-through are",
          "startTime": "00:35:54,472",
          "endTime": "00:35:57,700"
        },
        {
          "index": 677,
          "text": "built is horrifying. None of us wants a further",
          "startTime": "00:35:58,210",
          "endTime": "00:36:00,845"
        },
        {
          "index": 678,
          "text": "tragedy or have another gas administration approved near an",
          "startTime": "00:36:01,580",
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        },
        {
          "index": 679,
          "text": "elementary school. I would appreciate a response as",
          "startTime": "00:36:03,782",
          "endTime": "00:36:06,183"
        },
        {
          "index": 680,
          "text": "part of the public record on behalf of those 2500 people that",
          "startTime": "00:36:06,618",
          "endTime": "00:36:09,353"
        },
        {
          "index": 681,
          "text": "were active in our community on this issue.",
          "startTime": "00:36:10,210",
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        },
        {
          "index": 682,
          "text": "Thank you. >> thank you.",
          "startTime": "00:36:12,224",
          "endTime": "00:36:13,924"
        },
        {
          "index": 683,
          "text": "Early last year, we changed the cc zone to not allow",
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          "endTime": "00:36:18,462"
        },
        {
          "index": 684,
          "text": "auto-dependent uses, so that's been done.",
          "startTime": "00:36:20,565",
          "endTime": "00:36:22,333"
        },
        {
          "index": 685,
          "text": "So thank you. >> thanks.",
          "startTime": "00:36:23,301",
          "endTime": "00:36:25,603"
        },
        {
          "index": 686,
          "text": "okay, so that will move us",
          "startTime": "00:36:26,138",
          "endTime": "00:36:28,138"
        },
        {
          "index": 687,
          "text": "into in person, so let's start",
          "startTime": "00:36:29,308",
          "endTime": "00:36:31,308"
        },
        {
          "index": 688,
          "text": "with johnathan westmoreland. And please introduce yourself",
          "startTime": "00:36:32,277",
          "endTime": "00:36:34,245"
        },
        {
          "index": 689,
          "text": "and state whether you live in the city of bend.",
          "startTime": "00:36:34,580",
          "endTime": "00:36:36,647"
        },
        {
          "index": 690,
          "text": "hi, I live in bend. Bear with me, I am going to try",
          "startTime": "00:36:38,500",
          "endTime": "00:36:40,651"
        },
        {
          "index": 691,
          "text": "for the first time to not read",
          "startTime": "00:36:41,553",
          "endTime": "00:36:43,553"
        },
        {
          "index": 692,
          "text": "this verbatim and actually have a conversation.",
          "startTime": "00:36:44,289",
          "endTime": "00:36:45,857"
        },
        {
          "index": 693,
          "text": "There was a number I want you to",
          "startTime": "00:36:47,893",
          "endTime": "00:36:49,893"
        },
        {
          "index": 694,
          "text": "stick with you guys today,",
          "startTime": "00:36:50,950",
          "endTime": "00:36:52,950"
        },
        {
          "index": 695,
          "text": "that's 45%. I scraped from the league of",
          "startTime": "00:36:52,964",
          "endTime": "00:36:55,266"
        },
        {
          "index": 696,
          "text": "oregon cities the e-mail addresses for all the city",
          "startTime": "00:36:55,367",
          "endTime": "00:36:57,902"
        },
        {
          "index": 697,
          "text": "employees including your own. There were 62 of them.",
          "startTime": "00:36:58,771",
          "endTime": "00:37:01,539"
        },
        {
          "index": 698,
          "text": "28 of them have been involved in data breaches.",
          "startTime": "00:37:03,942",
          "endTime": "00:37:06,440"
        },
        {
          "index": 699,
          "text": "That's almost half, 45%.",
          "startTime": "00:37:07,346",
          "endTime": "00:37:09,346"
        },
        {
          "index": 700,
          "text": "Some of those data breaches involved password data.",
          "startTime": "00:37:11,817",
          "endTime": "00:37:14,685"
        },
        {
          "index": 701,
          "text": "I'm saying this to you not as",
          "startTime": "00:37:15,554",
          "endTime": "00:37:17,554"
        },
        {
          "index": 702,
          "text": "like a gotcha but this is why",
          "startTime": "00:37:18,724",
          "endTime": "00:37:20,724"
        },
        {
          "index": 703,
          "text": "end-to-end encryption is such an important deal.",
          "startTime": "00:37:22,261",
          "endTime": "00:37:24,562"
        },
        {
          "index": 704,
          "text": "And sb 1516 passed, and I think that's great.",
          "startTime": "00:37:26,298",
          "endTime": "00:37:28,166"
        },
        {
          "index": 705,
          "text": "There's a lot of good stuff in there.",
          "startTime": "00:37:28,467",
          "endTime": "00:37:29,901"
        },
        {
          "index": 706,
          "text": "But I'd like for bend to see",
          "startTime": "00:37:32,905",
          "endTime": "00:37:34,905"
        },
        {
          "index": 707,
          "text": "that as a floor and not the ceiling.",
          "startTime": "00:37:35,608",
          "endTime": "00:37:36,874"
        },
        {
          "index": 708,
          "text": "And as you go through contracts",
          "startTime": "00:37:38,544",
          "endTime": "00:37:40,544"
        },
        {
          "index": 709,
          "text": "with these vendors, especially",
          "startTime": "00:37:41,647",
          "endTime": "00:37:43,647"
        },
        {
          "index": 710,
          "text": "for security, just be very",
          "startTime": "00:37:44,917",
          "endTime": "00:37:46,917"
        },
        {
          "index": 711,
          "text": "diligent and make sure that the public's security and data",
          "startTime": "00:37:47,119",
          "endTime": "00:37:49,120"
        },
        {
          "index": 712,
          "text": "privacy rights are being observed. So moving forward, I've got some",
          "startTime": "00:37:52,240",
          "endTime": "00:37:54,693"
        },
        {
          "index": 713,
          "text": "questions that I think you",
          "startTime": "00:37:54,994",
          "endTime": "00:37:56,994"
        },
        {
          "index": 714,
          "text": "should be asking yourself. One, at the state capitol, why",
          "startTime": "00:37:58,264",
          "endTime": "00:38:01,166"
        },
        {
          "index": 715,
          "text": "were so many ordinary citizens willing to take time out of",
          "startTime": "00:38:01,667",
          "endTime": "00:38:04,536"
        },
        {
          "index": 716,
          "text": "their lives to advocate for",
          "startTime": "00:38:04,770",
          "endTime": "00:38:06,770"
        },
        {
          "index": 717,
          "text": "having end-to-end encryption",
          "startTime": "00:38:07,390",
          "endTime": "00:38:09,390"
        },
        {
          "index": 718,
          "text": "defined in the bill.",
          "startTime": "00:38:09,410",
          "endTime": "00:38:11,410"
        },
        {
          "index": 719,
          "text": "Two, why did flock, axon lobby against this?",
          "startTime": "00:38:17,350",
          "endTime": "00:38:20,180"
        },
        {
          "index": 720,
          "text": "After learning about flock's",
          "startTime": "00:38:20,753",
          "endTime": "00:38:22,753"
        },
        {
          "index": 721,
          "text": "data security practices and",
          "startTime": "00:38:23,890",
          "endTime": "00:38:25,890"
        },
        {
          "index": 722,
          "text": "canceling flock in JANUARY, how",
          "startTime": "00:38:26,526",
          "endTime": "00:38:28,526"
        },
        {
          "index": 723,
          "text": "do you feel knowing that axon",
          "startTime": "00:38:28,761",
          "endTime": "00:38:30,761"
        },
        {
          "index": 724,
          "text": "and vera mobility currently have partnerships with flock and how",
          "startTime": "00:38:30,963",
          "endTime": "00:38:33,465"
        },
        {
          "index": 725,
          "text": "are you going to protect bend",
          "startTime": "00:38:34,000",
          "endTime": "00:38:36,000"
        },
        {
          "index": 726,
          "text": "residents from corporations in the future.",
          "startTime": "00:38:36,690",
          "endTime": "00:38:37,636"
        },
        {
          "index": 727,
          "text": "I gave this to her. I'll e-mail you one every week",
          "startTime": "00:38:38,504",
          "endTime": "00:38:41,139"
        },
        {
          "index": 728,
          "text": "just to open a conversation with",
          "startTime": "00:38:41,974",
          "endTime": "00:38:43,974"
        },
        {
          "index": 729,
          "text": "you and get your internet",
          "startTime": "00:38:44,770",
          "endTime": "00:38:46,770"
        },
        {
          "index": 730,
          "text": "bubbles and algorithms that are",
          "startTime": "00:38:48,447",
          "endTime": "00:38:50,447"
        },
        {
          "index": 731,
          "text": "not going to show you what they're going to show me and my software friends.",
          "startTime": "00:38:50,617",
          "endTime": "00:38:53,385"
        },
        {
          "index": 732,
          "text": "thank you very much.",
          "startTime": "00:38:53,586",
          "endTime": "00:38:55,586"
        },
        {
          "index": 733,
          "text": "all right, thank you.",
          "startTime": "00:38:59,926",
          "endTime": "00:39:01,926"
        },
        {
          "index": 734,
          "text": "todd? ? >> hi, I'm todd.",
          "startTime": "00:39:03,430",
          "endTime": "00:39:06,398"
        },
        {
          "index": 735,
          "text": "I live in bend.",
          "startTime": "00:39:06,699",
          "endTime": "00:39:08,699"
        },
        {
          "index": 736,
          "text": "and I'm speaking on behalf of the southern crossing",
          "startTime": "00:39:08,802",
          "endTime": "00:39:11,537"
        },
        {
          "index": 737,
          "text": "neighborhood association as chair.",
          "startTime": "00:39:12,720",
          "endTime": "00:39:13,405"
        },
        {
          "index": 738,
          "text": "We were pleased to see you had a southeast bend roundtable.",
          "startTime": "00:39:14,708",
          "endTime": "00:39:16,709"
        },
        {
          "index": 739,
          "text": "I recently asked representatives of the southeast bend and",
          "startTime": "00:39:17,100",
          "endTime": "00:39:19,312"
        },
        {
          "index": 740,
          "text": "century west neighborhood districts if they would like to",
          "startTime": "00:39:19,312",
          "endTime": "00:39:21,947"
        },
        {
          "index": 741,
          "text": "participate with us in a roundtable for southwest bend.",
          "startTime": "00:39:22,549",
          "endTime": "00:39:25,384"
        },
        {
          "index": 742,
          "text": "I explained that southern crossing's focus was on the",
          "startTime": "00:39:26,519",
          "endTime": "00:39:29,288"
        },
        {
          "index": 743,
          "text": "bond, brookswood, and reed market given all the growth in the area.",
          "startTime": "00:39:30,924",
          "endTime": "00:39:33,559"
        },
        {
          "index": 744,
          "text": "They said they were interested in discussing that as well.",
          "startTime": "00:39:33,960",
          "endTime": "00:39:35,861"
        },
        {
          "index": 745,
          "text": "We would like to meet soon, since some council funding",
          "startTime": "00:39:36,730",
          "endTime": "00:39:38,931"
        },
        {
          "index": 746,
          "text": "decisions are coming up that are",
          "startTime": "00:39:39,466",
          "endTime": "00:39:41,466"
        },
        {
          "index": 747,
          "text": "relevant to these discussions.",
          "startTime": "00:39:41,568",
          "endTime": "00:39:43,568"
        },
        {
          "index": 748,
          "text": "In the near term, an nssp project for road crossing of",
          "startTime": "00:39:44,271",
          "endTime": "00:39:46,605"
        },
        {
          "index": 749,
          "text": "reed market will come before you.",
          "startTime": "00:39:46,807",
          "endTime": "00:39:48,107"
        },
        {
          "index": 750,
          "text": "On our website, you will find our counterproposal that is a",
          "startTime": "00:39:49,900",
          "endTime": "00:39:51,744"
        },
        {
          "index": 751,
          "text": "more comprehensive solution to the problems on reed market just",
          "startTime": "00:39:52,179",
          "endTime": "00:39:55,470"
        },
        {
          "index": 752,
          "text": "west of U.S. 97. I will send you an e-mail by",
          "startTime": "00:39:55,449",
          "endTime": "00:39:58,350"
        },
        {
          "index": 753,
          "text": "tomorrow morning with more details.",
          "startTime": "00:39:59,419",
          "endTime": "00:40:00,653"
        },
        {
          "index": 754,
          "text": "Last JULY, we asked council to",
          "startTime": "00:40:02,589",
          "endTime": "00:40:04,589"
        },
        {
          "index": 755,
          "text": "reject the same nssp project for a long list of reasons.",
          "startTime": "00:40:05,192",
          "endTime": "00:40:07,293"
        },
        {
          "index": 756,
          "text": "We hope this money can be more wisely spent on a better",
          "startTime": "00:40:08,950",
          "endTime": "00:40:10,397"
        },
        {
          "index": 757,
          "text": "solution. If you would like to better",
          "startTime": "00:40:10,397",
          "endTime": "00:40:13,320"
        },
        {
          "index": 758,
          "text": "understand both this proposal",
          "startTime": "00:40:13,533",
          "endTime": "00:40:15,533"
        },
        {
          "index": 759,
          "text": "and our proposal for the roundabout, I would be glad to",
          "startTime": "00:40:17,204",
          "endTime": "00:40:19,505"
        },
        {
          "index": 760,
          "text": "give you a personal tour on-site. Feel free to respond to my e-mail.",
          "startTime": "00:40:21,241",
          "endTime": "00:40:24,210"
        },
        {
          "index": 761,
          "text": "You're also welcome to attend",
          "startTime": "00:40:24,945",
          "endTime": "00:40:26,945"
        },
        {
          "index": 762,
          "text": "our zoom board meeting tomorrow at 5 where we will be discussing",
          "startTime": "00:40:27,481",
          "endTime": "00:40:30,170"
        },
        {
          "index": 763,
          "text": "these issues.",
          "startTime": "00:40:30,170",
          "endTime": "00:40:32,170"
        },
        {
          "index": 764,
          "text": "Switching to parking, when the glass water townhomes began",
          "startTime": "00:40:32,219",
          "endTime": "00:40:34,620"
        },
        {
          "index": 765,
          "text": "construction on the site across",
          "startTime": "00:40:34,722",
          "endTime": "00:40:36,722"
        },
        {
          "index": 766,
          "text": "from bend parks and rec headquarters, we lost an essential parking area.",
          "startTime": "00:40:37,391",
          "endTime": "00:40:40,326"
        },
        {
          "index": 767,
          "text": "It was frequently used both by",
          "startTime": "00:40:41,194",
          "endTime": "00:40:43,194"
        },
        {
          "index": 768,
          "text": "river park visitors and concert goers. Please consider reaching out to",
          "startTime": "00:40:44,980",
          "endTime": "00:40:46,933"
        },
        {
          "index": 769,
          "text": "the old mill owners and bend",
          "startTime": "00:40:47,901",
          "endTime": "00:40:49,901"
        },
        {
          "index": 770,
          "text": "parks and rec to work collectively to create a new",
          "startTime": "00:40:50,537",
          "endTime": "00:40:52,972"
        },
        {
          "index": 771,
          "text": "parking area. Each entity has something that",
          "startTime": "00:40:53,207",
          "endTime": "00:40:56,108"
        },
        {
          "index": 772,
          "text": "they can bring to the table to",
          "startTime": "00:40:56,210",
          "endTime": "00:40:58,210"
        },
        {
          "index": 773,
          "text": "solve this issue.",
          "startTime": "00:40:58,312",
          "endTime": "00:41:00,312"
        },
        {
          "index": 774,
          "text": "Southern crossing neighborhood",
          "startTime": "00:41:02,160",
          "endTime": "00:41:04,160"
        },
        {
          "index": 775,
          "text": "should not be used as overflow",
          "startTime": "00:41:04,510",
          "endTime": "00:41:06,510"
        },
        {
          "index": 776,
          "text": "parking due to a lack of planning.",
          "startTime": "00:41:06,220",
          "endTime": "00:41:08,288"
        },
        {
          "index": 777,
          "text": "thanks, todd.",
          "startTime": "00:41:14,228",
          "endTime": "00:41:16,228"
        },
        {
          "index": 778,
          "text": "jane? >> greetings, mayor and council",
          "startTime": "00:41:19,200",
          "endTime": "00:41:21,535"
        },
        {
          "index": 779,
          "text": "members.",
          "startTime": "00:41:21,535",
          "endTime": "00:41:23,535"
        },
        {
          "index": 780,
          "text": "I live in southeast bend in the king's forest neighborhood.",
          "startTime": "00:41:25,806",
          "endTime": "00:41:27,907"
        },
        {
          "index": 781,
          "text": "And I recently have become",
          "startTime": "00:41:30,611",
          "endTime": "00:41:32,611"
        },
        {
          "index": 782,
          "text": "appalled at the lack of",
          "startTime": "00:41:33,614",
          "endTime": "00:41:35,614"
        },
        {
          "index": 783,
          "text": "attention to evacuation routes especially in light of the",
          "startTime": "00:41:37,184",
          "endTime": "00:41:39,619"
        },
        {
          "index": 784,
          "text": "expansive new high-density residential development.",
          "startTime": "00:41:43,257",
          "endTime": "00:41:44,891"
        },
        {
          "index": 785,
          "text": "For example, the wild flower",
          "startTime": "00:41:46,994",
          "endTime": "00:41:48,994"
        },
        {
          "index": 786,
          "text": "project at 15th and wilson will",
          "startTime": "00:41:52,330",
          "endTime": "00:41:54,330"
        },
        {
          "index": 787,
          "text": "have 4,000 in and out trips per",
          "startTime": "00:41:55,303",
          "endTime": "00:41:57,303"
        },
        {
          "index": 788,
          "text": "day, per vehicle. Or 4,000 vehicles.",
          "startTime": "00:41:58,390",
          "endTime": "00:42:00,173"
        },
        {
          "index": 789,
          "text": "Those people will want to get out if the wind blows and the",
          "startTime": "00:42:02,310",
          "endTime": "00:42:04,611"
        },
        {
          "index": 790,
          "text": "fire comes in this hot and dry",
          "startTime": "00:42:05,446",
          "endTime": "00:42:07,446"
        },
        {
          "index": 791,
          "text": "summer ahead of us.",
          "startTime": "00:42:07,548",
          "endTime": "00:42:09,548"
        },
        {
          "index": 792,
          "text": "Reed market will be a parking lot.",
          "startTime": "00:42:11,419",
          "endTime": "00:42:12,719"
        },
        {
          "index": 793,
          "text": "We all saw what happened in paradise.",
          "startTime": "00:42:13,821",
          "endTime": "00:42:15,155"
        },
        {
          "index": 794,
          "text": "People started abandoning their cars and walking.",
          "startTime": "00:42:15,890",
          "endTime": "00:42:17,959"
        },
        {
          "index": 795,
          "text": "They were burned.",
          "startTime": "00:42:17,959",
          "endTime": "00:42:19,959"
        },
        {
          "index": 796,
          "text": "We don't want that here.",
          "startTime": "00:42:20,728",
          "endTime": "00:42:22,728"
        },
        {
          "index": 797,
          "text": "So I would like as a beginning",
          "startTime": "00:42:23,640",
          "endTime": "00:42:25,640"
        },
        {
          "index": 798,
          "text": "to have you fund and assign evacuation routes that will help",
          "startTime": "00:42:27,602",
          "endTime": "00:42:29,369"
        },
        {
          "index": 799,
          "text": "us get away from a horrific fire",
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          "endTime": "00:42:35,740"
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        {
          "index": 800,
          "text": "here in town.",
          "startTime": "00:42:36,711",
          "endTime": "00:42:38,711"
        },
        {
          "index": 801,
          "text": "I've talked with the county, the",
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          "endTime": "00:42:40,913"
        },
        {
          "index": 802,
          "text": "state, the city, planning and engineering.",
          "startTime": "00:42:40,982",
          "endTime": "00:42:42,816"
        },
        {
          "index": 803,
          "text": "There's nothing substantial happening.",
          "startTime": "00:42:46,921",
          "endTime": "00:42:48,388"
        },
        {
          "index": 804,
          "text": "I have three generations here in town.",
          "startTime": "00:42:49,557",
          "endTime": "00:42:51,225"
        },
        {
          "index": 805,
          "text": "It's frightening really.",
          "startTime": "00:42:53,528",
          "endTime": "00:42:55,528"
        },
        {
          "index": 806,
          "text": "And I think it's time to do something.",
          "startTime": "00:42:56,698",
          "endTime": "00:42:57,965"
        },
        {
          "index": 807,
          "text": "There's nothing in the state code. The leadership needs to happen",
          "startTime": "00:42:59,100",
          "endTime": "00:43:01,869"
        },
        {
          "index": 808,
          "text": "maybe locally and get something done so we can protect",
          "startTime": "00:43:04,439",
          "endTime": "00:43:07,800"
        },
        {
          "index": 809,
          "text": "ourselves.",
          "startTime": "00:43:07,800",
          "endTime": "00:43:09,800"
        },
        {
          "index": 810,
          "text": "thank you, jane.",
          "startTime": "00:43:12,247",
          "endTime": "00:43:14,247"
        },
        {
          "index": 811,
          "text": "michael baker? >> good evening, mayor and",
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          "endTime": "00:43:25,920"
        },
        {
          "index": 812,
          "text": "council, I'm michael baker and I have the honor of being the ceo",
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          "endTime": "00:43:28,762"
        },
        {
          "index": 813,
          "text": "for the boys and girls clubs here in bend.",
          "startTime": "00:43:29,464",
          "endTime": "00:43:31,432"
        },
        {
          "index": 814,
          "text": "A couple key things, information",
          "startTime": "00:43:33,268",
          "endTime": "00:43:35,268"
        },
        {
          "index": 815,
          "text": "that you might find interesting.",
          "startTime": "00:43:35,737",
          "endTime": "00:43:37,737"
        },
        {
          "index": 816,
          "text": "Last year in 2025, we were open 222 days.",
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          "endTime": "00:43:40,241"
        },
        {
          "index": 817,
          "text": "This year, we'll be open 273 days.",
          "startTime": "00:43:41,943",
          "endTime": "00:43:43,310"
        },
        {
          "index": 818,
          "text": "We've expanded our hours of operation. That includes saturday hours",
          "startTime": "00:43:44,546",
          "endTime": "00:43:47,181"
        },
        {
          "index": 819,
          "text": "which has never happened in the organization, so we're very excited about that.",
          "startTime": "00:43:47,716",
          "endTime": "00:43:49,850"
        },
        {
          "index": 820,
          "text": "In addition to that, we also are seeing an increase.",
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          "endTime": "00:43:54,655"
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        {
          "index": 821,
          "text": "Last year, we handed out 17,400 meals to the children throughout",
          "startTime": "00:44:00,695",
          "endTime": "00:44:02,864"
        },
        {
          "index": 822,
          "text": "the year.",
          "startTime": "00:44:02,864",
          "endTime": "00:44:04,864"
        },
        {
          "index": 823,
          "text": "We're already on track to break about 25,000 this year.",
          "startTime": "00:44:05,401",
          "endTime": "00:44:07,468"
        },
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          "index": 824,
          "text": "and we are maximizing that space. Every aspect that we can use,",
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          "endTime": "00:44:12,607"
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          "index": 825,
          "text": "we're trying to use every inch of that space for programming",
          "startTime": "00:44:14,576",
          "endTime": "00:44:17,545"
        },
        {
          "index": 826,
          "text": "and having the kiddos go from room to room to room.",
          "startTime": "00:44:18,847",
          "endTime": "00:44:21,149"
        },
        {
          "index": 827,
          "text": "What's really exciting that just recently happened is for the",
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          "endTime": "00:44:24,652"
        },
        {
          "index": 828,
          "text": "first time in over seven years,",
          "startTime": "00:44:26,588",
          "endTime": "00:44:28,588"
        },
        {
          "index": 829,
          "text": "we actually -- many of you MAY have seen this before.",
          "startTime": "00:44:28,657",
          "endTime": "00:44:30,791"
        },
        {
          "index": 830,
          "text": "We have a rock wall on the stage",
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          "endTime": "00:44:33,627"
        },
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          "index": 831,
          "text": "area that we've been able to get recertified and are using that",
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          "endTime": "00:44:36,300"
        },
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          "index": 832,
          "text": "again, so the kids were excited this past saturday to use the",
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          "endTime": "00:44:38,866"
        },
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          "index": 833,
          "text": "rock wall for the first time.",
          "startTime": "00:44:43,139",
          "endTime": "00:44:45,139"
        },
        {
          "index": 834,
          "text": "So it's a pretty exciting experience there.",
          "startTime": "00:44:45,207",
          "endTime": "00:44:47,208"
        },
        {
          "index": 835,
          "text": "I will also encourage each and every one of you as I always do",
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          "endTime": "00:44:50,780"
        },
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          "index": 836,
          "text": "to come down and see the club in action any time you want a tour.",
          "startTime": "00:44:52,348",
          "endTime": "00:44:54,682"
        },
        {
          "index": 837,
          "text": "Love to do that.",
          "startTime": "00:44:54,783",
          "endTime": "00:44:56,783"
        },
        {
          "index": 838,
          "text": "Those of you that want to",
          "startTime": "00:44:57,860",
          "endTime": "00:44:59,860"
        },
        {
          "index": 839,
          "text": "support the boys and girls club, we have a big event coming up,",
          "startTime": "00:44:59,588",
          "endTime": "00:45:02,357"
        },
        {
          "index": 840,
          "text": "APRIL 18th are the great",
          "startTime": "00:45:06,495",
          "endTime": "00:45:08,495"
        },
        {
          "index": 841,
          "text": "promsby, a '20s thing, and I will end by telling you",
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          "endTime": "00:45:11,199"
        },
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          "index": 842,
          "text": "something that I've worked in a lot of communes across the",
          "startTime": "00:45:11,934",
          "endTime": "00:45:14,269"
        },
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          "index": 843,
          "text": "country, boys and girls clubs, worked with a lot of city",
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          "endTime": "00:45:17,672"
        },
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          "index": 844,
          "text": "administrators, and I'm telling",
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          "endTime": "00:45:20,407"
        },
        {
          "index": 845,
          "text": "you, you're very fortunate to have MR. King in the role he's in.",
          "startTime": "00:45:20,576",
          "endTime": "00:45:23,424"
        },
        {
          "index": 846,
          "text": "Thank you for everything you've",
          "startTime": "00:45:23,779",
          "endTime": "00:45:25,779"
        },
        {
          "index": 847,
          "text": "done for this community. >> thanks, michael.",
          "startTime": "00:45:26,782",
          "endTime": "00:45:28,516"
        },
        {
          "index": 848,
          "text": "All right, kinsey martin, I see you're here for the resolution.",
          "startTime": "00:45:29,451",
          "endTime": "00:45:31,886"
        },
        {
          "index": 849,
          "text": "Did you also want to speak -- >> yes.",
          "startTime": "00:45:32,755",
          "endTime": "00:45:34,289"
        },
        {
          "index": 850,
          "text": "okay. >> good evening.",
          "startTime": "00:45:43,320",
          "endTime": "00:45:44,900"
        },
        {
          "index": 851,
          "text": "My name is kinsey hood martin, she-her pronouns.",
          "startTime": "00:45:47,203",
          "endTime": "00:45:49,604"
        },
        {
          "index": 852,
          "text": "my family, my home, my career",
          "startTime": "00:45:50,139",
          "endTime": "00:45:52,139"
        },
        {
          "index": 853,
          "text": "are rooted here in bend, the city of bend.",
          "startTime": "00:45:52,208",
          "endTime": "00:45:54,443"
        },
        {
          "index": 854,
          "text": "My grandparents were doctors and teachers here. My parents grew up here.",
          "startTime": "00:45:55,344",
          "endTime": "00:45:58,180"
        },
        {
          "index": 855,
          "text": "I was born and raised here.",
          "startTime": "00:45:59,949",
          "endTime": "00:46:01,949"
        },
        {
          "index": 856,
          "text": "And despite a short stint of, like, I'm never moving back to",
          "startTime": "00:46:02,180",
          "endTime": "00:46:04,419"
        },
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          "index": 857,
          "text": "that town, here I am, my own",
          "startTime": "00:46:05,880",
          "endTime": "00:46:07,880"
        },
        {
          "index": 858,
          "text": "kids are born and raised here as well.",
          "startTime": "00:46:07,857",
          "endTime": "00:46:09,840"
        },
        {
          "index": 859,
          "text": "Because of that, because of knowing some of the old bend",
          "startTime": "00:46:11,761",
          "endTime": "00:46:13,962"
        },
        {
          "index": 860,
          "text": "community can tend to be less appreciative of growth and",
          "startTime": "00:46:15,698",
          "endTime": "00:46:17,833"
        },
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          "index": 861,
          "text": "change, I wanted to just come say thank you for the resolution",
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          "endTime": "00:46:21,970"
        },
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          "index": 862,
          "text": "that I know is on the agenda",
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          "endTime": "00:46:26,400"
        },
        {
          "index": 863,
          "text": "this evening. That resolution in support of",
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          "endTime": "00:46:28,744"
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          "index": 864,
          "text": "our immigrant neighbors and friends and community members",
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          "endTime": "00:46:32,814"
        },
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          "index": 865,
          "text": "means a lot to me personally and to our community.",
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          "endTime": "00:46:38,220"
        },
        {
          "index": 866,
          "text": "At this point in history and where we are right now as a",
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          "endTime": "00:46:41,356"
        },
        {
          "index": 867,
          "text": "broader community, those words",
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          "endTime": "00:46:44,910"
        },
        {
          "index": 868,
          "text": "matter a lot, and it really is -- I'm really proud to see",
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          "endTime": "00:46:45,894"
        },
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          "index": 869,
          "text": "the community that I live in taking a stance and being public",
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          "endTime": "00:46:50,366"
        },
        {
          "index": 870,
          "text": "about that.",
          "startTime": "00:46:50,366",
          "endTime": "00:46:52,366"
        },
        {
          "index": 871,
          "text": "That's really significant.",
          "startTime": "00:46:53,703",
          "endTime": "00:46:55,703"
        },
        {
          "index": 872,
          "text": "I know that our leadership spent a lot of time on that.",
          "startTime": "00:46:56,720",
          "endTime": "00:46:57,740"
        },
        {
          "index": 873,
          "text": "I know it's an intensive process to do that and do it well and",
          "startTime": "00:46:58,308",
          "endTime": "00:47:00,709"
        },
        {
          "index": 874,
          "text": "get it right.",
          "startTime": "00:47:00,911",
          "endTime": "00:47:02,911"
        },
        {
          "index": 875,
          "text": "And I appreciate mayor pro tem perkins and melissa, the hrec",
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          "endTime": "00:47:06,810"
        },
        {
          "index": 876,
          "text": "members, and then the immigrant",
          "startTime": "00:47:06,816",
          "endTime": "00:47:08,816"
        },
        {
          "index": 877,
          "text": "initiative leaders who informed that work.",
          "startTime": "00:47:09,352",
          "endTime": "00:47:10,786"
        },
        {
          "index": 878,
          "text": "And so I just wanted to say thank you.",
          "startTime": "00:47:11,488",
          "endTime": "00:47:13,188"
        },
        {
          "index": 879,
          "text": "I'm hopeful to see that it has",
          "startTime": "00:47:14,491",
          "endTime": "00:47:16,491"
        },
        {
          "index": 880,
          "text": "the beginnings of tangible resources and commitments in it,",
          "startTime": "00:47:19,529",
          "endTime": "00:47:21,964"
        },
        {
          "index": 881,
          "text": "and I'm hopeful to see that",
          "startTime": "00:47:22,365",
          "endTime": "00:47:24,365"
        },
        {
          "index": 882,
          "text": "continue over the next several years in council's work and the",
          "startTime": "00:47:24,501",
          "endTime": "00:47:27,336"
        },
        {
          "index": 883,
          "text": "city's work as far as changes that our immigrant community",
          "startTime": "00:47:28,104",
          "endTime": "00:47:30,606"
        },
        {
          "index": 884,
          "text": "members can see and feel directly.",
          "startTime": "00:47:31,410",
          "endTime": "00:47:32,575"
        },
        {
          "index": 885,
          "text": "But I know public comments are not usually an appreciation, so",
          "startTime": "00:47:34,544",
          "endTime": "00:47:37,213"
        },
        {
          "index": 886,
          "text": "I just wanted to say thank you, that work matters and it matters",
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          "endTime": "00:47:40,584"
        },
        {
          "index": 887,
          "text": "a lot.",
          "startTime": "00:47:40,584",
          "endTime": "00:47:42,584"
        },
        {
          "index": 888,
          "text": "thank you, kinsey. All right, that will move us to",
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          "endTime": "00:47:45,454"
        },
        {
          "index": 889,
          "text": "our consent agenda. >> I move to approve the consent",
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          "endTime": "00:47:50,593"
        },
        {
          "index": 890,
          "text": "agenda. >> second.",
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          "endTime": "00:47:52,662"
        },
        {
          "index": 891,
          "text": "all right, moved by councilor",
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          "endTime": "00:47:56,198"
        },
        {
          "index": 892,
          "text": "perkins, seconded by councilor norris. All in favor?",
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          "endTime": "00:47:59,368"
        },
        {
          "index": 893,
          "text": "[Chorus of ayes] >> unanimous.",
          "startTime": "00:47:59,470",
          "endTime": "00:48:00,837"
        },
        {
          "index": 894,
          "text": "That moves us to item 5.",
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          "endTime": "00:48:08,777"
        },
        {
          "index": 895,
          "text": "a institution supporting bend's immigrant communities, condemning the current federal government",
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          "endTime": "00:48:11,915"
        },
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          "index": 896,
          "text": "approach to immigration enforcement, allocating funding to support bend's diverse",
          "startTime": "00:48:11,915",
          "endTime": "00:48:14,484"
        },
        {
          "index": 897,
          "text": "immigrant communities, and >> I wanted to introduce",
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          "endTime": "00:48:20,289"
        },
        {
          "index": 898,
          "text": "melissa, our city's affordable housing coordinator but is also",
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          "endTime": "00:48:23,359"
        },
        {
          "index": 899,
          "text": "filling in as the human rights",
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          "endTime": "00:48:26,662"
        },
        {
          "index": 900,
          "text": "and equity commission liaison",
          "startTime": "00:48:28,265",
          "endTime": "00:48:30,265"
        },
        {
          "index": 901,
          "text": "and with melissa, catalina frank, this resolution before",
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          "endTime": "00:48:33,703"
        },
        {
          "index": 902,
          "text": "you was brought in part by catalina's presentation that",
          "startTime": "00:48:35,873",
          "endTime": "00:48:38,740"
        },
        {
          "index": 903,
          "text": "came to council early JANUARY really requesting some support.",
          "startTime": "00:48:39,343",
          "endTime": "00:48:42,212"
        },
        {
          "index": 904,
          "text": "And I think we listened and we",
          "startTime": "00:48:42,947",
          "endTime": "00:48:44,947"
        },
        {
          "index": 905,
          "text": "wanted to offer some meaningful, tangible support in the form of",
          "startTime": "00:48:45,382",
          "endTime": "00:48:48,351"
        },
        {
          "index": 906,
          "text": "reaffirming our values as a welcoming community but also",
          "startTime": "00:48:48,986",
          "endTime": "00:48:51,854"
        },
        {
          "index": 907,
          "text": "going beyond that and offering some resources.",
          "startTime": "00:48:52,890",
          "endTime": "00:48:54,230"
        },
        {
          "index": 908,
          "text": "so melissa and catalina will outline what's in the resolution",
          "startTime": "00:48:55,126",
          "endTime": "00:48:57,728"
        },
        {
          "index": 909,
          "text": "and then I can talk about some",
          "startTime": "00:48:57,728",
          "endTime": "00:48:59,728"
        },
        {
          "index": 910,
          "text": "next steps as we're implementing the resolution into various",
          "startTime": "00:49:00,831",
          "endTime": "00:49:03,133"
        },
        {
          "index": 911,
          "text": "contracting methods, et cetera.",
          "startTime": "00:49:03,134",
          "endTime": "00:49:05,134"
        },
        {
          "index": 912,
          "text": "thank you so much. So as eric mentioned, you're",
          "startTime": "00:49:05,202",
          "endTime": "00:49:07,971"
        },
        {
          "index": 913,
          "text": "used to seeing me in the housing realm.",
          "startTime": "00:49:10,410",
          "endTime": "00:49:11,474"
        },
        {
          "index": 914,
          "text": "But it's my honor to be the",
          "startTime": "00:49:13,311",
          "endTime": "00:49:15,311"
        },
        {
          "index": 915,
          "text": "interim hrec staff liaison.",
          "startTime": "00:49:15,379",
          "endTime": "00:49:17,379"
        },
        {
          "index": 916,
          "text": "And this resolution is a body of",
          "startTime": "00:49:18,349",
          "endTime": "00:49:20,349"
        },
        {
          "index": 917,
          "text": "work that is not just one person.",
          "startTime": "00:49:20,851",
          "endTime": "00:49:22,411"
        },
        {
          "index": 918,
          "text": "It has been touched by many hands.",
          "startTime": "00:49:24,255",
          "endTime": "00:49:25,655"
        },
        {
          "index": 919,
          "text": "As you know, catalina came to council in early JANUARY talking",
          "startTime": "00:49:29,927",
          "endTime": "00:49:32,295"
        },
        {
          "index": 920,
          "text": "about the imminent crisis and urgency of potentially declaring",
          "startTime": "00:49:33,897",
          "endTime": "00:49:36,990"
        },
        {
          "index": 921,
          "text": "a state of emergency.",
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          "text": "In a follow-up meeting, our city attorney, ian, outlined what",
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          "endTime": "00:49:42,672"
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          "index": 923,
          "text": "could be done as a resolution.",
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          "text": "From there, the resolution went to hrec.",
          "startTime": "00:49:46,430",
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          "index": 925,
          "text": "Ian had drafted a resolution fabulously by looking at other",
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          "endTime": "00:49:51,482"
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          "index": 926,
          "text": "cities that were in a similar situation.",
          "startTime": "00:49:53,751",
          "endTime": "00:49:55,180"
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          "index": 927,
          "text": "By the time the document got to",
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          "index": 928,
          "text": "hrec, it had been edited a few",
          "startTime": "00:49:59,124",
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          "index": 929,
          "text": "times, many times actually, and hrec, as hrec has been developed",
          "startTime": "00:50:03,628",
          "endTime": "00:50:06,496"
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          "index": 930,
          "text": "as a group that represents our community, when this body of",
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          "endTime": "00:50:11,301"
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          "index": 931,
          "text": "work got to r heck,",
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          "endTime": "00:50:13,903"
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          "index": 932,
          "text": "hrec, they realized the eyes that needed to be on",
          "startTime": "00:50:15,340",
          "endTime": "00:50:17,874"
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          "index": 933,
          "text": "the document aren't represented necessarily on our current",
          "startTime": "00:50:18,743",
          "endTime": "00:50:20,610"
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          "index": 934,
          "text": "commissioner seats, so hrec made the decision to send the",
          "startTime": "00:50:22,460",
          "endTime": "00:50:24,681"
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          "index": 935,
          "text": "resolution with some hrec",
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          "endTime": "00:50:27,750"
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          "index": 936,
          "text": "members to a subgroup outside of hrec.",
          "startTime": "00:50:29,354",
          "endTime": "00:50:30,754"
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        {
          "index": 937,
          "text": "How that subgroup was formed was",
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          "endTime": "00:50:34,524"
        },
        {
          "index": 938,
          "text": "in partnership with catalina and in different immigrant groups",
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          "endTime": "00:50:38,696"
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          "index": 939,
          "text": "throughout the community, they",
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          "endTime": "00:50:40,830"
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          "index": 940,
          "text": "were consulted, the leaders of different immigrant groups, and",
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          "index": 941,
          "text": "they were asked to send a representative of their group.",
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          "endTime": "00:50:46,471"
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          "index": 942,
          "text": "These folks came together, looked over the resolution,",
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          "endTime": "00:50:48,672"
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          "index": 943,
          "text": "provided tremendous input, which then created more and more",
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          "endTime": "00:50:52,276"
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          "index": 944,
          "text": "iterations of the document.",
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          "endTime": "00:50:55,778"
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          "index": 945,
          "text": "The document came back to hrec.",
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          "text": "Hrec reviewed it and decided to accept the document and",
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          "endTime": "00:51:00,618"
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          "index": 947,
          "text": "recommend it to come back to you.",
          "startTime": "00:51:01,586",
          "endTime": "00:51:02,853"
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          "index": 948,
          "text": "And so through all of those",
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          "endTime": "00:51:06,322"
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          "index": 949,
          "text": "iterations, you'll see in the resolution that it is a restatement of the city's",
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          "endTime": "00:51:09,293"
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          "text": "priority to be a welcoming community and so half of the",
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          "endTime": "00:51:14,432"
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          "index": 951,
          "text": "funds that will be going to the latino community association are",
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          "endTime": "00:51:18,269"
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          "index": 952,
          "text": "to further the welcoming city work.",
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          "endTime": "00:51:21,105"
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          "text": "And the other half of the funds going to the latino community",
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          "endTime": "00:51:24,709"
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          "index": 954,
          "text": "association are to support",
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          "endTime": "00:51:27,244"
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          "index": 955,
          "text": "families that are impacted by immigration.",
          "startTime": "00:51:29,181",
          "endTime": "00:51:30,481"
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          "index": 956,
          "text": "And so both bodies of work are incredibly important and",
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          "endTime": "00:51:36,822"
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          "index": 957,
          "text": "significant and as catalina mentioned in JANUARY, it's",
          "startTime": "00:51:36,822",
          "endTime": "00:51:39,323"
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          "index": 958,
          "text": "really difficult to quantify the impact of immigration activities",
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          "endTime": "00:51:44,195"
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          "index": 959,
          "text": "in our community. While some MAY think it's not",
          "startTime": "00:51:44,263",
          "endTime": "00:51:46,264"
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        {
          "index": 960,
          "text": "here yet, it can't be impacting yet, there are kids that don't",
          "startTime": "00:51:47,565",
          "endTime": "00:51:49,635"
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        {
          "index": 961,
          "text": "go to school.",
          "startTime": "00:51:49,635",
          "endTime": "00:51:51,635"
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        {
          "index": 962,
          "text": "Folks that don't go to work. Groceries that aren't being",
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          "endTime": "00:51:54,939"
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          "index": 963,
          "text": "purchased that the store because people are too afraid to leave",
          "startTime": "00:51:55,240",
          "endTime": "00:51:57,875"
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          "index": 964,
          "text": "their homes, so this body of work, as I mentioned, it's not a",
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          "endTime": "00:52:00,411"
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        {
          "index": 965,
          "text": "single person that has had their hands on it.",
          "startTime": "00:52:00,813",
          "endTime": "00:52:03,414"
        },
        {
          "index": 966,
          "text": "I think it's important to recognize all the many folks in",
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          "endTime": "00:52:06,517"
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          "index": 967,
          "text": "the room and online that participated and some that",
          "startTime": "00:52:07,286",
          "endTime": "00:52:09,254"
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        {
          "index": 968,
          "text": "weren't able to join us today. >> I just want to take a moment",
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          "endTime": "00:52:12,890"
        },
        {
          "index": 969,
          "text": "to recognize melissa, because I think this many hands approach",
          "startTime": "00:52:13,959",
          "endTime": "00:52:16,194"
        },
        {
          "index": 970,
          "text": "in really opening this up and your facilitation leadership that helped us get to a really",
          "startTime": "00:52:17,930",
          "endTime": "00:52:20,798"
        },
        {
          "index": 971,
          "text": "good place, so thank you. >> absolutely.",
          "startTime": "00:52:22,634",
          "endTime": "00:52:24,200"
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        {
          "index": 972,
          "text": "All right, so council, we've got the resolution -- there's no",
          "startTime": "00:52:24,937",
          "endTime": "00:52:26,538"
        },
        {
          "index": 973,
          "text": "slides, but we have the resolution in front of us with",
          "startTime": "00:52:27,239",
          "endTime": "00:52:29,207"
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        {
          "index": 974,
          "text": "the issue summary. Any other questions for staff or",
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          "endTime": "00:52:32,377"
        },
        {
          "index": 975,
          "text": "for catalina? Thank you for being here with us",
          "startTime": "00:52:32,578",
          "endTime": "00:52:34,780"
        },
        {
          "index": 976,
          "text": "tonight. >> you're welcome.",
          "startTime": "00:52:34,780",
          "endTime": "00:52:36,448"
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        {
          "index": 977,
          "text": "I just wanted to confirm, my understanding is that based on",
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          "endTime": "00:52:39,984"
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          "index": 978,
          "text": "the discussions that you've been having, part of the funds is to",
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          "endTime": "00:52:45,190"
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          "index": 979,
          "text": "support the immigrant community. Not the 50 for welcoming week,",
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          "endTime": "00:52:49,694"
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          "index": 980,
          "text": "but the other portion is meant to be opened up into the",
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          "endTime": "00:52:54,399"
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          "index": 981,
          "text": "community as a hole and provide some of that support and",
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          "endTime": "00:52:57,669"
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          "index": 982,
          "text": "activities, but potential potentially in",
          "startTime": "00:52:58,638",
          "endTime": "00:53:00,805"
        },
        {
          "index": 983,
          "text": "partnership with other groups in the community who do similar work.",
          "startTime": "00:53:01,174",
          "endTime": "00:53:03,475"
        },
        {
          "index": 984,
          "text": "I just wanted to confirm that's part of the intent behind that",
          "startTime": "00:53:04,310",
          "endTime": "00:53:06,644"
        },
        {
          "index": 985,
          "text": "chunk of the funds?",
          "startTime": "00:53:08,147",
          "endTime": "00:53:10,147"
        },
        {
          "index": 986,
          "text": "yes, it's not limited to the latino immigrants.",
          "startTime": "00:53:10,316",
          "endTime": "00:53:13,840"
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        {
          "index": 987,
          "text": "It's the immigrant community impacted by law enforcement.",
          "startTime": "00:53:14,530",
          "endTime": "00:53:16,154"
        },
        {
          "index": 988,
          "text": "I'm so glad you brought that up, because one of the beautiful",
          "startTime": "00:53:16,989",
          "endTime": "00:53:19,424"
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          "index": 989,
          "text": "parts of that small group that met offsite and mayor pro tem",
          "startTime": "00:53:21,260",
          "endTime": "00:53:23,595"
        },
        {
          "index": 990,
          "text": "can speak to that as well, is the group worked really well",
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          "endTime": "00:53:30,502"
        },
        {
          "index": 991,
          "text": "together and had some difficult conversations.",
          "startTime": "00:53:31,170",
          "endTime": "00:53:32,504"
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        {
          "index": 992,
          "text": "So much so that there's a desire",
          "startTime": "00:53:33,339",
          "endTime": "00:53:35,339"
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        {
          "index": 993,
          "text": "to continue that body of work.",
          "startTime": "00:53:35,508",
          "endTime": "00:53:37,508"
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        {
          "index": 994,
          "text": "And in those discussions, it was bridged that all of the groups",
          "startTime": "00:53:39,679",
          "endTime": "00:53:42,140"
        },
        {
          "index": 995,
          "text": "in the room and those that were not able to be in the room",
          "startTime": "00:53:42,649",
          "endTime": "00:53:45,283"
        },
        {
          "index": 996,
          "text": "learned that they have access to these funds through the latino",
          "startTime": "00:53:46,586",
          "endTime": "00:53:48,687"
        },
        {
          "index": 997,
          "text": "community association as well. >> thank you for playing that",
          "startTime": "00:53:48,855",
          "endTime": "00:53:51,324"
        },
        {
          "index": 998,
          "text": "role. >> and just in terms of next",
          "startTime": "00:53:51,324",
          "endTime": "00:53:53,392"
        },
        {
          "index": 999,
          "text": "steps, so we are working on contract drafts for contract",
          "startTime": "00:53:54,661",
          "endTime": "00:53:57,329"
        },
        {
          "index": 1000,
          "text": "services for our welcoming",
          "startTime": "00:53:57,830",
          "endTime": "00:53:59,830"
        },
        {
          "index": 1001,
          "text": "program as well as grant agreements.",
          "startTime": "00:54:00,567",
          "endTime": "00:54:02,401"
        },
        {
          "index": 1002,
          "text": "They're two separate mechanisms",
          "startTime": "00:54:03,102",
          "endTime": "00:54:05,102"
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        {
          "index": 1003,
          "text": "to execute the outline in the resolution. As well as continuing these efforts.",
          "startTime": "00:54:05,605",
          "endTime": "00:54:08,140"
        },
        {
          "index": 1004,
          "text": "I think we made a commitment to",
          "startTime": "00:54:09,542",
          "endTime": "00:54:11,542"
        },
        {
          "index": 1005,
          "text": "not just have this be a one-time event but really building this",
          "startTime": "00:54:13,380",
          "endTime": "00:54:15,581"
        },
        {
          "index": 1006,
          "text": "coalition and supporting it in many different ways, so we're",
          "startTime": "00:54:16,150",
          "endTime": "00:54:18,184"
        },
        {
          "index": 1007,
          "text": "still working through the details of that.",
          "startTime": "00:54:18,184",
          "endTime": "00:54:21,860"
        },
        {
          "index": 1008,
          "text": "and there's a provision here about advocacy with our federal",
          "startTime": "00:54:22,689",
          "endTime": "00:54:25,424"
        },
        {
          "index": 1009,
          "text": "representatives in oregon, so we'll have a letter that goes to",
          "startTime": "00:54:25,424",
          "endTime": "00:54:28,294"
        },
        {
          "index": 1010,
          "text": "them with this resolution attached as well as part of that",
          "startTime": "00:54:28,394",
          "endTime": "00:54:30,497"
        },
        {
          "index": 1011,
          "text": "action. Any other questions before a",
          "startTime": "00:54:30,497",
          "endTime": "00:54:32,564"
        },
        {
          "index": 1012,
          "text": "motion?",
          "startTime": "00:54:33,133",
          "endTime": "00:54:35,133"
        },
        {
          "index": 1013,
          "text": "I can't help but comment on the difficult position that we",
          "startTime": "00:54:35,735",
          "endTime": "00:54:37,636"
        },
        {
          "index": 1014,
          "text": "find ourselves in with a federal",
          "startTime": "00:54:38,939",
          "endTime": "00:54:40,939"
        },
        {
          "index": 1015,
          "text": "government that is pursuing such -- I mean, harmful tactics.",
          "startTime": "00:54:45,946",
          "endTime": "00:54:47,946"
        },
        {
          "index": 1016,
          "text": "We are severely constrained. There are consequences that we",
          "startTime": "00:54:50,350",
          "endTime": "00:54:52,651"
        },
        {
          "index": 1017,
          "text": "cannot prevent as city and as a community.",
          "startTime": "00:54:53,820",
          "endTime": "00:54:55,870"
        },
        {
          "index": 1018,
          "text": "But we're not powerless either.",
          "startTime": "00:54:56,990",
          "endTime": "00:54:58,990"
        },
        {
          "index": 1019,
          "text": "And I'm really proud to support",
          "startTime": "00:54:59,426",
          "endTime": "00:55:01,426"
        },
        {
          "index": 1020,
          "text": "this as one thing that we can do",
          "startTime": "00:55:01,728",
          "endTime": "00:55:03,728"
        },
        {
          "index": 1021,
          "text": "to demonstrate our support and our commitment and as an",
          "startTime": "00:55:04,231",
          "endTime": "00:55:06,199"
        },
        {
          "index": 1022,
          "text": "expression of our values and desire to make bend a welcoming",
          "startTime": "00:55:06,633",
          "endTime": "00:55:09,502"
        },
        {
          "index": 1023,
          "text": "and safe community regardless of",
          "startTime": "00:55:10,903",
          "endTime": "00:55:12,903"
        },
        {
          "index": 1024,
          "text": "people's identity or their backgrounds.",
          "startTime": "00:55:13,673",
          "endTime": "00:55:15,107"
        },
        {
          "index": 1025,
          "text": "So I just wanted to address the",
          "startTime": "00:55:17,430",
          "endTime": "00:55:19,430"
        },
        {
          "index": 1026,
          "text": "challenge that we face, because there's no way that we're going",
          "startTime": "00:55:19,445",
          "endTime": "00:55:21,613"
        },
        {
          "index": 1027,
          "text": "to be able to protect everybody from this federal government,",
          "startTime": "00:55:24,500",
          "endTime": "00:55:26,251"
        },
        {
          "index": 1028,
          "text": "but we are going to do what we can.",
          "startTime": "00:55:27,321",
          "endTime": "00:55:29,523"
        },
        {
          "index": 1029,
          "text": "yeah, and I'll say that I",
          "startTime": "00:55:29,523",
          "endTime": "00:55:31,523"
        },
        {
          "index": 1030,
          "text": "think being in that room, there's so much that we can't",
          "startTime": "00:55:32,559",
          "endTime": "00:55:34,893"
        },
        {
          "index": 1031,
          "text": "do, but one of the things that I",
          "startTime": "00:55:35,950",
          "endTime": "00:55:37,950"
        },
        {
          "index": 1032,
          "text": "saw in that room and I see at the human rights and equity",
          "startTime": "00:55:37,197",
          "endTime": "00:55:39,932"
        },
        {
          "index": 1033,
          "text": "commission too is we're going to take care of each other.",
          "startTime": "00:55:40,330",
          "endTime": "00:55:42,802"
        },
        {
          "index": 1034,
          "text": "And that's what matters. And so we are going to take care",
          "startTime": "00:55:42,803",
          "endTime": "00:55:45,204"
        },
        {
          "index": 1035,
          "text": "of our community here in bend.",
          "startTime": "00:55:46,407",
          "endTime": "00:55:48,407"
        },
        {
          "index": 1036,
          "text": "And so that's the hope that I have and this is sort of a",
          "startTime": "00:55:48,709",
          "endTime": "00:55:51,110"
        },
        {
          "index": 1037,
          "text": "statement of that. >> and I just want to say as a",
          "startTime": "00:55:52,413",
          "endTime": "00:55:55,480"
        },
        {
          "index": 1038,
          "text": "daughter of an immigrant from mexico, I just appreciate all",
          "startTime": "00:55:55,582",
          "endTime": "00:55:57,783"
        },
        {
          "index": 1039,
          "text": "that you guys are doing in our community.",
          "startTime": "00:55:58,752",
          "endTime": "00:56:00,119"
        },
        {
          "index": 1040,
          "text": "I appreciate bend standing up. This resolution is so important.",
          "startTime": "00:56:01,689",
          "endTime": "00:56:03,790"
        },
        {
          "index": 1041,
          "text": "And I hope it's just the beginning. >> is there a motion?",
          "startTime": "00:56:06,860",
          "endTime": "00:56:09,428"
        },
        {
          "index": 1042,
          "text": "I just wanted to add one other point.",
          "startTime": "00:56:11,320",
          "endTime": "00:56:12,799"
        },
        {
          "index": 1043,
          "text": "Thank you for making this happen, thanks to mayor pro tem",
          "startTime": "00:56:13,667",
          "endTime": "00:56:16,102"
        },
        {
          "index": 1044,
          "text": "perkins for being part of that",
          "startTime": "00:56:16,504",
          "endTime": "00:56:18,504"
        },
        {
          "index": 1045,
          "text": "on behalf of the council, other",
          "startTime": "00:56:18,805",
          "endTime": "00:56:20,805"
        },
        {
          "index": 1046,
          "text": "people in the room and hrec and other community members that participated in it.",
          "startTime": "00:56:21,208",
          "endTime": "00:56:23,676"
        },
        {
          "index": 1047,
          "text": "I just wanted to emphasize paragraph 3 in the resolution",
          "startTime": "00:56:24,745",
          "endTime": "00:56:26,346"
        },
        {
          "index": 1048,
          "text": "that declares no matter when someone has joined our community",
          "startTime": "00:56:27,581",
          "endTime": "00:56:29,682"
        },
        {
          "index": 1049,
          "text": "or where they come from, every person deserves to be free of",
          "startTime": "00:56:31,185",
          "endTime": "00:56:33,620"
        },
        {
          "index": 1050,
          "text": "fear and intimidation and to be",
          "startTime": "00:56:35,990",
          "endTime": "00:56:37,990"
        },
        {
          "index": 1051,
          "text": "treated with dignity and respect.",
          "startTime": "00:56:38,426",
          "endTime": "00:56:39,793"
        },
        {
          "index": 1052,
          "text": "I value all the folks in our community again no matter where",
          "startTime": "00:56:40,828",
          "endTime": "00:56:43,163"
        },
        {
          "index": 1053,
          "text": "they came from or when they arrived and all the ways they",
          "startTime": "00:56:44,398",
          "endTime": "00:56:46,666"
        },
        {
          "index": 1054,
          "text": "make our community stronger.",
          "startTime": "00:56:47,468",
          "endTime": "00:56:49,468"
        },
        {
          "index": 1055,
          "text": "I think as councilor mendez said, I'll super proud to be",
          "startTime": "00:56:49,603",
          "endTime": "00:56:51,672"
        },
        {
          "index": 1056,
          "text": "supporting this resolution tonight and taking this step",
          "startTime": "00:56:51,672",
          "endTime": "00:56:53,773"
        },
        {
          "index": 1057,
          "text": "forward and look forward to more",
          "startTime": "00:56:53,841",
          "endTime": "00:56:55,841"
        },
        {
          "index": 1058,
          "text": "we can do as we move forward. >> I move to adopt a resolution supporting bend's immigrant communities, condemning the",
          "startTime": "00:57:00,448",
          "endTime": "00:57:03,170"
        },
        {
          "index": 1059,
          "text": "current federal government approach to immigration",
          "startTime": "00:57:03,170",
          "endTime": "00:57:05,452"
        },
        {
          "index": 1060,
          "text": "enforcement, allocating funding to support bend's diverse",
          "startTime": "00:57:05,486",
          "endTime": "00:57:07,789"
        },
        {
          "index": 1061,
          "text": "immigrant communities, and authorizing city staff to take",
          "startTime": "00:57:07,789",
          "endTime": "00:57:10,124"
        },
        {
          "index": 1062,
          "text": "steps necessary to implement the",
          "startTime": "00:57:10,124",
          "endTime": "00:57:12,124"
        },
        {
          "index": 1063,
          "text": "resolution. >> second.",
          "startTime": "00:57:17,131",
          "endTime": "00:57:18,932"
        },
        {
          "index": 1064,
          "text": "all those in favor? [Chorus of ayes]",
          "startTime": "00:57:19,467",
          "endTime": "00:57:21,434"
        },
        {
          "index": 1065,
          "text": "greater",
          "startTime": "00:57:21,636",
          "endTime": "00:57:23,636"
        },
        {
          "index": 1066,
          "text": "great, unanimous. Yes, immigration is a strength",
          "startTime": "00:57:27,541",
          "endTime": "00:57:29,376"
        },
        {
          "index": 1067,
          "text": "of this country and this community.",
          "startTime": "00:57:29,944",
          "endTime": "00:57:31,211"
        },
        {
          "index": 1068,
          "text": "Thank you for being here.",
          "startTime": "00:57:33,470",
          "endTime": "00:57:35,470"
        },
        {
          "index": 1069,
          "text": "thank you.",
          "startTime": "00:57:36,840",
          "endTime": "00:57:38,840"
        },
        {
          "index": 1070,
          "text": "All right, that will move us to",
          "startTime": "00:57:38,953",
          "endTime": "00:57:40,953"
        },
        {
          "index": 1071,
          "text": "item 6 and 7 together.",
          "startTime": "00:57:45,560",
          "endTime": "00:57:47,560"
        },
        {
          "index": 1072,
          "text": "council is asked to adopt a resolution to authorize the city",
          "startTime": "00:57:48,830",
          "endTime": "00:57:51,632"
        },
        {
          "index": 1073,
          "text": "t enter into a clean water state revolving fund loan agreement to",
          "startTime": "00:57:53,334",
          "endTime": "00:57:55,502"
        },
        {
          "index": 1074,
          "text": "finance the king hezekiah and fargo sewer project in a total",
          "startTime": "00:57:58,640",
          "endTime": "00:58:01,408"
        },
        {
          "index": 1075,
          "text": "loan amount not to exceed $2,879,000.",
          "startTime": "00:58:10,685",
          "endTime": "00:58:12,519"
        },
        {
          "index": 1076,
          "text": "and council is asked to",
          "startTime": "00:58:12,988",
          "endTime": "00:58:14,988"
        },
        {
          "index": 1077,
          "text": "authorize a contract with bar",
          "startTime": "00:58:15,123",
          "endTime": "00:58:17,123"
        },
        {
          "index": 1078,
          "text": "seven a companies for construction of the king",
          "startTime": "00:58:17,792",
          "endTime": "00:58:19,994"
        },
        {
          "index": 1079,
          "text": "hezekiah and fargo sewer project. >> all right, hi.",
          "startTime": "00:58:21,396",
          "endTime": "00:58:23,932"
        },
        {
          "index": 1080,
          "text": "good evening.",
          "startTime": "00:58:23,932",
          "endTime": "00:58:25,932"
        },
        {
          "index": 1081,
          "text": "So I'll go first.",
          "startTime": "00:58:27,335",
          "endTime": "00:58:29,335"
        },
        {
          "index": 1082,
          "text": "I'll be presenting the construction contract for",
          "startTime": "00:58:29,404",
          "endTime": "00:58:31,473"
        },
        {
          "index": 1083,
          "text": "approval and then we'll talk about the funding that we are",
          "startTime": "00:58:31,473",
          "endTime": "00:58:34,341"
        },
        {
          "index": 1084,
          "text": "presenting associated with it.",
          "startTime": "00:58:35,277",
          "endTime": "00:58:37,277"
        },
        {
          "index": 1085,
          "text": "King hezekiah and fargo were two individual applications selected",
          "startTime": "00:58:38,713",
          "endTime": "00:58:40,714"
        },
        {
          "index": 1086,
          "text": "by the sept",
          "startTime": "00:58:42,784",
          "endTime": "00:58:44,784"
        },
        {
          "index": 1087,
          "text": "septic to sewer program.",
          "startTime": "00:58:49,391",
          "endTime": "00:58:51,391"
        },
        {
          "index": 1088,
          "text": "2024, they were selected, 2025, they were designed, and then",
          "startTime": "00:58:52,127",
          "endTime": "00:58:54,428"
        },
        {
          "index": 1089,
          "text": "here in 2026, we are looking to",
          "startTime": "00:58:56,131",
          "endTime": "00:58:58,131"
        },
        {
          "index": 1090,
          "text": "actual construct them.",
          "startTime": "00:59:05,474",
          "endTime": "00:59:07,474"
        },
        {
          "index": 1091,
          "text": "So a little bit about the septic to sewer conversion program.",
          "startTime": "00:59:07,876",
          "endTime": "00:59:10,578"
        },
        {
          "index": 1092,
          "text": "It was originally identified in the 2014 collection system",
          "startTime": "00:59:13,480",
          "endTime": "00:59:15,483"
        },
        {
          "index": 1093,
          "text": "master plan, further reconfirmed in the 2018 public facility plan.",
          "startTime": "00:59:16,785",
          "endTime": "00:59:19,420"
        },
        {
          "index": 1094,
          "text": "This is the seventh selection",
          "startTime": "00:59:19,721",
          "endTime": "00:59:21,721"
        },
        {
          "index": 1095,
          "text": "that we have made through the program. It's important to note that king",
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          "endTime": "00:59:26,600"
        },
        {
          "index": 1096,
          "text": "hezekiah and fargo are a",
          "startTime": "00:59:26,395",
          "endTime": "00:59:28,395"
        },
        {
          "index": 1097,
          "text": "component of that selection. As the municipal code states,",
          "startTime": "00:59:29,698",
          "endTime": "00:59:31,899"
        },
        {
          "index": 1098,
          "text": "the city of bend will consider selection through this program",
          "startTime": "00:59:33,735",
          "endTime": "00:59:35,937"
        },
        {
          "index": 1099,
          "text": "on an annual basis. As the principal engineer, I get",
          "startTime": "00:59:37,906",
          "endTime": "00:59:40,675"
        },
        {
          "index": 1100,
          "text": "the opportunity to look through the cip.",
          "startTime": "00:59:43,712",
          "endTime": "00:59:45,513"
        },
        {
          "index": 1101,
          "text": "We had an opportunity to over-select, meaning over-select",
          "startTime": "00:59:47,716",
          "endTime": "00:59:50,510"
        },
        {
          "index": 1102,
          "text": "from the funding, the 3.5 million annually that we",
          "startTime": "00:59:51,320",
          "endTime": "00:59:53,870"
        },
        {
          "index": 1103,
          "text": "have set aside for this program,",
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          "endTime": "00:59:56,423"
        },
        {
          "index": 1104,
          "text": "we actually selected over $6 million worth of septic to",
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          "endTime": "00:59:59,994"
        },
        {
          "index": 1105,
          "text": "sewer applications. this was in combination due to",
          "startTime": "01:00:00,429",
          "endTime": "01:00:02,964"
        },
        {
          "index": 1106,
          "text": "the fact that we were about to",
          "startTime": "01:00:04,330",
          "endTime": "01:00:06,330"
        },
        {
          "index": 1107,
          "text": "set sail into a collection system master plan and a",
          "startTime": "01:00:06,435",
          "endTime": "01:00:08,636"
        },
        {
          "index": 1108,
          "text": "facility plan update at our treatment plant.",
          "startTime": "01:00:08,871",
          "endTime": "01:00:11,720"
        },
        {
          "index": 1109,
          "text": "Knowing those were coming, there was a lot of priorities those",
          "startTime": "01:00:11,707",
          "endTime": "01:00:14,242"
        },
        {
          "index": 1110,
          "text": "two system plans were going to identify and then the priority",
          "startTime": "01:00:15,277",
          "endTime": "01:00:18,790"
        },
        {
          "index": 1111,
          "text": "was likely going to shift to improving the existing",
          "startTime": "01:00:18,481",
          "endTime": "01:00:20,315"
        },
        {
          "index": 1112,
          "text": "infrastructure associated with either the collection system or",
          "startTime": "01:00:20,583",
          "endTime": "01:00:22,984"
        },
        {
          "index": 1113,
          "text": "the treatment system, so we did",
          "startTime": "01:00:24,860",
          "endTime": "01:00:26,860"
        },
        {
          "index": 1114,
          "text": "have the opportunity to over-fund this program and",
          "startTime": "01:00:26,289",
          "endTime": "01:00:29,157"
        },
        {
          "index": 1115,
          "text": "present to the committee for",
          "startTime": "01:00:30,559",
          "endTime": "01:00:32,559"
        },
        {
          "index": 1116,
          "text": "selection of 6.2 million of applications.",
          "startTime": "01:00:34,864",
          "endTime": "01:00:36,198"
        },
        {
          "index": 1117,
          "text": "Two weeks from now, we will be",
          "startTime": "01:00:38,601",
          "endTime": "01:00:40,601"
        },
        {
          "index": 1118,
          "text": "presenting another construction",
          "startTime": "01:00:40,703",
          "endTime": "01:00:42,703"
        },
        {
          "index": 1119,
          "text": "contract for powerful for the contract for approval.",
          "startTime": "01:00:47,443",
          "endTime": "01:00:49,511"
        },
        {
          "index": 1120,
          "text": "We did stagger those to make sure the bidding community could",
          "startTime": "01:00:50,213",
          "endTime": "01:00:52,881"
        },
        {
          "index": 1121,
          "text": "have a chance to take a swing at",
          "startTime": "01:00:54,717",
          "endTime": "01:00:56,717"
        },
        {
          "index": 1122,
          "text": "one and then all the losers or anyone that did want to bid on",
          "startTime": "01:00:57,190",
          "endTime": "01:00:59,554"
        },
        {
          "index": 1123,
          "text": "the second one could have an opportunity to go there.",
          "startTime": "01:00:59,889",
          "endTime": "01:01:01,890"
        },
        {
          "index": 1124,
          "text": "So it is important to stress",
          "startTime": "01:01:02,158",
          "endTime": "01:01:04,158"
        },
        {
          "index": 1125,
          "text": "this is the seventh selection through the previous six, we",
          "startTime": "01:01:04,227",
          "endTime": "01:01:06,928"
        },
        {
          "index": 1126,
          "text": "have installed over 400 laterals",
          "startTime": "01:01:07,763",
          "endTime": "01:01:09,763"
        },
        {
          "index": 1127,
          "text": "to properties, 230 of this have",
          "startTime": "01:01:10,867",
          "endTime": "01:01:12,867"
        },
        {
          "index": 1128,
          "text": "connected, so that's a success rate of 56% and some of those",
          "startTime": "01:01:13,169",
          "endTime": "01:01:16,138"
        },
        {
          "index": 1129,
          "text": "just got the opportunity to convert through the completion",
          "startTime": "01:01:16,639",
          "endTime": "01:01:18,273"
        },
        {
          "index": 1130,
          "text": "of the 2025 project.",
          "startTime": "01:01:19,750",
          "endTime": "01:01:21,750"
        },
        {
          "index": 1131,
          "text": "So that's a huge success to the program. And so just emphasizing what the",
          "startTime": "01:01:23,146",
          "endTime": "01:01:25,881"
        },
        {
          "index": 1132,
          "text": "program is, it's an applicant-driven program where",
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          "endTime": "01:01:29,384"
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        {
          "index": 1133,
          "text": "people who are on septic can submit to the city for",
          "startTime": "01:01:30,353",
          "endTime": "01:01:33,322"
        },
        {
          "index": 1134,
          "text": "consideration for selection to convert their septic system on",
          "startTime": "01:01:33,523",
          "endTime": "01:01:36,425"
        },
        {
          "index": 1135,
          "text": "to city sewer. The city evaluates their",
          "startTime": "01:01:36,726",
          "endTime": "01:01:39,361"
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        {
          "index": 1136,
          "text": "application based on a number of criteria. The age of the system, whether",
          "startTime": "01:01:40,960",
          "endTime": "01:01:42,398"
        },
        {
          "index": 1137,
          "text": "they have failing systems, the",
          "startTime": "01:01:43,500",
          "endTime": "01:01:45,500"
        },
        {
          "index": 1138,
          "text": "cost to convert, but one aspect I do want to stress that I",
          "startTime": "01:01:46,200",
          "endTime": "01:01:48,670"
        },
        {
          "index": 1139,
          "text": "always stress, you'll know what",
          "startTime": "01:01:48,872",
          "endTime": "01:01:50,872"
        },
        {
          "index": 1140,
          "text": "I'm saying, is the participation",
          "startTime": "01:01:51,641",
          "endTime": "01:01:53,641"
        },
        {
          "index": 1141,
          "text": "that the applicants have in the program. So at the completion of the",
          "startTime": "01:01:53,710",
          "endTime": "01:01:56,679"
        },
        {
          "index": 1142,
          "text": "construction project, we issue",
          "startTime": "01:01:57,213",
          "endTime": "01:01:59,213"
        },
        {
          "index": 1143,
          "text": "what's called a notice of operational completion, the noc.",
          "startTime": "01:01:59,282",
          "endTime": "01:02:01,717"
        },
        {
          "index": 1144,
          "text": "That noc is their ticket to go down to permitting and pull",
          "startTime": "01:02:03,586",
          "endTime": "01:02:06,221"
        },
        {
          "index": 1145,
          "text": "their plumbing permit to start their conversion process.",
          "startTime": "01:02:06,623",
          "endTime": "01:02:09,258"
        },
        {
          "index": 1146,
          "text": "They do get presented a window would have two years to get a",
          "startTime": "01:02:10,227",
          "endTime": "01:02:12,828"
        },
        {
          "index": 1147,
          "text": "50% reduction on their",
          "startTime": "01:02:13,263",
          "endTime": "01:02:15,263"
        },
        {
          "index": 1148,
          "text": "connection fee, which is about a $5,000 savings.",
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          "endTime": "01:02:18,200"
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        {
          "index": 1149,
          "text": "They don't have to convert unless they do sign that",
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          "endTime": "01:02:21,370"
        },
        {
          "index": 1150,
          "text": "petition, which is that",
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          "endTime": "01:02:24,439"
        },
        {
          "index": 1151,
          "text": "commitment to participating in the conversion upon completion",
          "startTime": "01:02:24,975",
          "endTime": "01:02:26,909"
        },
        {
          "index": 1152,
          "text": "of the project.",
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          "endTime": "01:02:33,810"
        },
        {
          "index": 1153,
          "text": "Overview of this application or",
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          "endTime": "01:02:35,383"
        },
        {
          "index": 1154,
          "text": "this construction project, these two applications at king",
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          "endTime": "01:02:38,321"
        },
        {
          "index": 1155,
          "text": "hezekiah and fargo are both in the kingsport area south of reed",
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          "endTime": "01:02:43,492"
        },
        {
          "index": 1156,
          "text": "market, east of 15th.",
          "startTime": "01:02:44,528",
          "endTime": "01:02:46,528"
        },
        {
          "index": 1157,
          "text": "These ones were completed, the design was completed to the 90%",
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          "endTime": "01:02:49,265"
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        {
          "index": 1158,
          "text": "level as part of the overall",
          "startTime": "01:02:50,167",
          "endTime": "01:02:52,167"
        },
        {
          "index": 1159,
          "text": "basin study when the southeast interceptor went through kings",
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          "endTime": "01:02:55,638"
        },
        {
          "index": 1160,
          "text": "forest area and they were designed externally.",
          "startTime": "01:02:56,390",
          "endTime": "01:02:58,674"
        },
        {
          "index": 1161,
          "text": "We do present opportunities that we do have internal capacity to",
          "startTime": "01:02:59,900",
          "endTime": "01:03:01,744"
        },
        {
          "index": 1162,
          "text": "do design services.",
          "startTime": "01:03:02,713",
          "endTime": "01:03:04,713"
        },
        {
          "index": 1163,
          "text": "The next construction project you'll be presented for approval",
          "startTime": "01:03:04,815",
          "endTime": "01:03:07,116"
        },
        {
          "index": 1164,
          "text": "in two weeks was designed internally, so we do evaluate on",
          "startTime": "01:03:07,651",
          "endTime": "01:03:10,186"
        },
        {
          "index": 1165,
          "text": "a case-by-case basis how best to deliver the projects.",
          "startTime": "01:03:12,220",
          "endTime": "01:03:14,223"
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          "index": 1166,
          "text": "These projects do include a full width pavement restoration and",
          "startTime": "01:03:15,659",
          "endTime": "01:03:18,160"
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          "index": 1167,
          "text": "given where these projects are,",
          "startTime": "01:03:18,629",
          "endTime": "01:03:20,629"
        },
        {
          "index": 1168,
          "text": "there will be limited traffic closures really with local",
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          "endTime": "01:03:23,433"
        },
        {
          "index": 1169,
          "text": "access restrictions. King hezekiah, jumping into that",
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          "endTime": "01:03:29,472"
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          "index": 1170,
          "text": "one, there's 25 properties that will benefit from this sewer",
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          "endTime": "01:03:32,900"
        },
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          "index": 1171,
          "text": "line. Of those, 13 had committed to",
          "startTime": "01:03:32,900",
          "endTime": "01:03:34,844"
        },
        {
          "index": 1172,
          "text": "connecting within with the two-year period.",
          "startTime": "01:03:36,380",
          "endTime": "01:03:38,614"
        },
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          "index": 1173,
          "text": "1900 linear feet. The dots indicate the properties",
          "startTime": "01:03:39,350",
          "endTime": "01:03:42,318"
        },
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          "index": 1174,
          "text": "that did commit to connection. Going to fargo, that one is a",
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          "endTime": "01:03:48,324"
        },
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          "index": 1175,
          "text": "little over 1,000 feet, 17",
          "startTime": "01:03:49,794",
          "endTime": "01:03:51,794"
        },
        {
          "index": 1176,
          "text": "properties will benefit, and 12 did commit to participating.",
          "startTime": "01:03:53,640",
          "endTime": "01:03:55,698"
        },
        {
          "index": 1177,
          "text": "So another case, both of these",
          "startTime": "01:03:56,233",
          "endTime": "01:03:58,233"
        },
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          "index": 1178,
          "text": "projects are over 50% commitment. So as far as a lot of the public",
          "startTime": "01:03:59,837",
          "endTime": "01:04:02,806"
        },
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          "index": 1179,
          "text": "that does benefit from this is wanting to participate directly",
          "startTime": "01:04:03,774",
          "endTime": "01:04:05,909"
        },
        {
          "index": 1180,
          "text": "in this program. >> jason, can I ask you while",
          "startTime": "01:04:06,644",
          "endTime": "01:04:09,379"
        },
        {
          "index": 1181,
          "text": "you're on these slides, please, how many folks do you suppose",
          "startTime": "01:04:09,847",
          "endTime": "01:04:11,915"
        },
        {
          "index": 1182,
          "text": "will also jump on a little bit later but still within that",
          "startTime": "01:04:13,751",
          "endTime": "01:04:15,885"
        },
        {
          "index": 1183,
          "text": "window just based on your experience?",
          "startTime": "01:04:18,220",
          "endTime": "01:04:19,322"
        },
        {
          "index": 1184,
          "text": "I'm not going to hold you to it, but anyway, do you think? >> oh, absolutely.",
          "startTime": "01:04:20,910",
          "endTime": "01:04:22,926"
        },
        {
          "index": 1185,
          "text": "A lot of the people don't want to have the commitment, right?",
          "startTime": "01:04:24,462",
          "endTime": "01:04:27,230"
        },
        {
          "index": 1186,
          "text": "So they have to do it. But some of these applications",
          "startTime": "01:04:27,865",
          "endTime": "01:04:30,300"
        },
        {
          "index": 1187,
          "text": "also have been in consideration for multiple years, so there",
          "startTime": "01:04:30,301",
          "endTime": "01:04:32,936"
        },
        {
          "index": 1188,
          "text": "might be a lot of interest at",
          "startTime": "01:04:33,237",
          "endTime": "01:04:35,237"
        },
        {
          "index": 1189,
          "text": "first and it has dwindled, but",
          "startTime": "01:04:35,406",
          "endTime": "01:04:37,406"
        },
        {
          "index": 1190,
          "text": "once the project is selected and proceeded forward, it renews",
          "startTime": "01:04:37,842",
          "endTime": "01:04:40,110"
        },
        {
          "index": 1191,
          "text": "that interest. >> right.",
          "startTime": "01:04:40,110",
          "endTime": "01:04:41,912"
        },
        {
          "index": 1192,
          "text": "also that system is that many",
          "startTime": "01:04:42,747",
          "endTime": "01:04:44,747"
        },
        {
          "index": 1193,
          "text": "more years aged. >> makes sense.",
          "startTime": "01:04:45,917",
          "endTime": "01:04:47,417"
        },
        {
          "index": 1194,
          "text": "so they need it even further. Unfortunately, there are cases",
          "startTime": "01:04:48,753",
          "endTime": "01:04:50,754"
        },
        {
          "index": 1195,
          "text": "where people apply and then their system fails and their",
          "startTime": "01:04:51,890",
          "endTime": "01:04:53,824"
        },
        {
          "index": 1196,
          "text": "application is not selected, so",
          "startTime": "01:04:53,924",
          "endTime": "01:04:55,924"
        },
        {
          "index": 1197,
          "text": "we just have to go and fix their",
          "startTime": "01:04:55,994",
          "endTime": "01:04:57,994"
        },
        {
          "index": 1198,
          "text": "system so when we come through, they aren't really attracted to",
          "startTime": "01:04:58,162",
          "endTime": "01:05:00,597"
        },
        {
          "index": 1199,
          "text": "connecting, because they just",
          "startTime": "01:05:00,598",
          "endTime": "01:05:02,598"
        },
        {
          "index": 1200,
          "text": "did a large investment on to their septic system.",
          "startTime": "01:05:02,767",
          "endTime": "01:05:05,503"
        },
        {
          "index": 1201,
          "text": "thank you for the context, appreciate it.",
          "startTime": "01:05:05,503",
          "endTime": "01:05:08,471"
        },
        {
          "index": 1202,
          "text": "there's been a lot of work in this neighborhood, so I just",
          "startTime": "01:05:08,473",
          "endTime": "01:05:11,800"
        },
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          "index": 1203,
          "text": "wonder how many people have seen it happening on other streets in",
          "startTime": "01:05:11,309",
          "endTime": "01:05:14,144"
        },
        {
          "index": 1204,
          "text": "the neighborhood and are aware",
          "startTime": "01:05:14,144",
          "endTime": "01:05:16,144"
        },
        {
          "index": 1205,
          "text": "of hey when this comes down my street, maybe I should consider",
          "startTime": "01:05:16,881",
          "endTime": "01:05:18,782"
        },
        {
          "index": 1206,
          "text": "it. >> exactly. Overall timeline here as",
          "startTime": "01:05:19,851",
          "endTime": "01:05:22,719"
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          "index": 1207,
          "text": "mentioned, end of 2024 we did select these two applications",
          "startTime": "01:05:25,223",
          "endTime": "01:05:27,724"
        },
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          "index": 1208,
          "text": "along with the azalea and windsor. We did then proceed into the",
          "startTime": "01:05:31,629",
          "endTime": "01:05:33,997"
        },
        {
          "index": 1209,
          "text": "design of this.",
          "startTime": "01:05:34,632",
          "endTime": "01:05:36,632"
        },
        {
          "index": 1210,
          "text": "We are here MARCH 18, 2026, for council approval.",
          "startTime": "01:05:36,801",
          "endTime": "01:05:38,569"
        },
        {
          "index": 1211,
          "text": "We are looking to start construction at the beginning of APRIL.",
          "startTime": "01:05:39,104",
          "endTime": "01:05:41,572"
        },
        {
          "index": 1212,
          "text": "We do have a public open house scheduled already, the",
          "startTime": "01:05:42,707",
          "endTime": "01:05:45,800"
        },
        {
          "index": 1213,
          "text": "contractor is ready to get after the construction.",
          "startTime": "01:05:46,678",
          "endTime": "01:05:48,879"
        },
        {
          "index": 1214,
          "text": "And then construction is slated",
          "startTime": "01:05:49,381",
          "endTime": "01:05:51,381"
        },
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          "index": 1215,
          "text": "for completion in the end of OCTOBER. Overall budget here, the budget",
          "startTime": "01:05:54,986",
          "endTime": "01:05:57,654"
        },
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          "index": 1216,
          "text": "for the project at time of selection, so going back to",
          "startTime": "01:05:58,560",
          "endTime": "01:06:00,157"
        },
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          "index": 1217,
          "text": "2024, was 2.875 million. we did receive seven bids on",
          "startTime": "01:06:03,940",
          "endTime": "01:06:05,330"
        },
        {
          "index": 1218,
          "text": "this project.",
          "startTime": "01:06:05,330",
          "endTime": "01:06:07,330"
        },
        {
          "index": 1219,
          "text": "The lowest bid came in 26% under",
          "startTime": "01:06:08,834",
          "endTime": "01:06:10,834"
        },
        {
          "index": 1220,
          "text": "the engineer's estimate, so that",
          "startTime": "01:06:11,670",
          "endTime": "01:06:13,670"
        },
        {
          "index": 1221,
          "text": "is beneficial to city, the water",
          "startTime": "01:06:15,206",
          "endTime": "01:06:17,206"
        },
        {
          "index": 1222,
          "text": "reclamation fund and the septic",
          "startTime": "01:06:17,208",
          "endTime": "01:06:19,208"
        },
        {
          "index": 1223,
          "text": "city program, so it has a ripple effect there.",
          "startTime": "01:06:19,344",
          "endTime": "01:06:21,112"
        },
        {
          "index": 1224,
          "text": "Survey and design, call it",
          "startTime": "01:06:21,680",
          "endTime": "01:06:23,680"
        },
        {
          "index": 1225,
          "text": "minimal cost, $160,000.",
          "startTime": "01:06:23,682",
          "endTime": "01:06:25,682"
        },
        {
          "index": 1226,
          "text": "That's the amount that we have incurred to date through the",
          "startTime": "01:06:26,510",
          "endTime": "01:06:28,486"
        },
        {
          "index": 1227,
          "text": "design services surveying miscellaneous and then some",
          "startTime": "01:06:29,988",
          "endTime": "01:06:31,756"
        },
        {
          "index": 1228,
          "text": "additional services that we will be providing.",
          "startTime": "01:06:32,190",
          "endTime": "01:06:34,191"
        },
        {
          "index": 1229,
          "text": "Overall total, 1.855. So while there's a good gap",
          "startTime": "01:06:36,328",
          "endTime": "01:06:38,996"
        },
        {
          "index": 1230,
          "text": "there, we aren't intending to",
          "startTime": "01:06:39,298",
          "endTime": "01:06:41,298"
        },
        {
          "index": 1231,
          "text": "spend the full million dollar deficit.",
          "startTime": "01:06:44,360",
          "endTime": "01:06:45,369"
        },
        {
          "index": 1232,
          "text": "That money goes back into the",
          "startTime": "01:06:46,705",
          "endTime": "01:06:48,705"
        },
        {
          "index": 1233,
          "text": "beginning working capital of the",
          "startTime": "01:06:49,441",
          "endTime": "01:06:51,441"
        },
        {
          "index": 1234,
          "text": "water reclamation fund, but we are taking provisions as necessary.",
          "startTime": "01:06:51,977",
          "endTime": "01:06:54,645"
        },
        {
          "index": 1235,
          "text": "But that 2.875 was the number",
          "startTime": "01:06:56,114",
          "endTime": "01:06:58,114"
        },
        {
          "index": 1236,
          "text": "back to the selection time period.",
          "startTime": "01:06:58,751",
          "endTime": "01:07:00,852"
        },
        {
          "index": 1237,
          "text": "and as jason mentioned,",
          "startTime": "01:07:01,687",
          "endTime": "01:07:03,687"
        },
        {
          "index": 1238,
          "text": "there's also a resolution this evening to enter into a clean",
          "startTime": "01:07:03,689",
          "endTime": "01:07:06,557"
        },
        {
          "index": 1239,
          "text": "water state revolving fund loan.",
          "startTime": "01:07:08,494",
          "endTime": "01:07:10,494"
        },
        {
          "index": 1240,
          "text": "It's a bit of a mouthful. That will be used to finance the",
          "startTime": "01:07:10,929",
          "endTime": "01:07:13,798"
        },
        {
          "index": 1241,
          "text": "king hezekiah and fargo septic to sewer project.",
          "startTime": "01:07:15,234",
          "endTime": "01:07:17,468"
        },
        {
          "index": 1242,
          "text": "The not to exceed amount, the 2.875, but consistent with our",
          "startTime": "01:07:19,171",
          "endTime": "01:07:21,906"
        },
        {
          "index": 1243,
          "text": "other cwsrf loans, we'll only draw down the amount needed to",
          "startTime": "01:07:24,643",
          "endTime": "01:07:27,440"
        },
        {
          "index": 1244,
          "text": "complete the project, so the loan amount will end up being",
          "startTime": "01:07:27,279",
          "endTime": "01:07:30,114"
        },
        {
          "index": 1245,
          "text": "whatever we end up using.",
          "startTime": "01:07:30,816",
          "endTime": "01:07:32,816"
        },
        {
          "index": 1246,
          "text": "Some of the benefits to",
          "startTime": "01:07:33,986",
          "endTime": "01:07:35,986"
        },
        {
          "index": 1247,
          "text": "obtaining the cwsrf loans over issuing traditional revenue",
          "startTime": "01:07:36,922",
          "endTime": "01:07:39,324"
        },
        {
          "index": 1248,
          "text": "bonds include things like no prepayment penalties.",
          "startTime": "01:07:39,658",
          "endTime": "01:07:41,593"
        },
        {
          "index": 1249,
          "text": "We don't have bond issuance",
          "startTime": "01:07:43,280",
          "endTime": "01:07:45,280"
        },
        {
          "index": 1250,
          "text": "costs, pretty low debt service coverage requirements and lower",
          "startTime": "01:07:45,798",
          "endTime": "01:07:47,765"
        },
        {
          "index": 1251,
          "text": "interest rates than your typical market bonds.",
          "startTime": "01:07:49,201",
          "endTime": "01:07:51,102"
        },
        {
          "index": 1252,
          "text": "This particular loan is eligible",
          "startTime": "01:07:51,737",
          "endTime": "01:07:53,737"
        },
        {
          "index": 1253,
          "text": "for a million dollars worth of",
          "startTime": "01:07:55,908",
          "endTime": "01:07:57,908"
        },
        {
          "index": 1254,
          "text": "forgiveness and up to principal",
          "startTime": "01:07:58,210",
          "endTime": "01:08:00,210"
        },
        {
          "index": 1255,
          "text": "forgiveness up to $450,000, so we'll be roughly requiredded to",
          "startTime": "01:08:01,514",
          "endTime": "01:08:03,848"
        },
        {
          "index": 1256,
          "text": "pay back half of that 2.87 were",
          "startTime": "01:08:09,880",
          "endTime": "01:08:11,880"
        },
        {
          "index": 1257,
          "text": "we to utilize the entire amount.",
          "startTime": "01:08:11,591",
          "endTime": "01:08:13,591"
        },
        {
          "index": 1258,
          "text": "The biennial budget and the sewer rate models include the",
          "startTime": "01:08:14,226",
          "endTime": "01:08:16,328"
        },
        {
          "index": 1259,
          "text": "rate plan to fund this cost of the project.",
          "startTime": "01:08:17,129",
          "endTime": "01:08:18,964"
        },
        {
          "index": 1260,
          "text": "great, all right. Any questions, other questions,",
          "startTime": "01:08:19,165",
          "endTime": "01:08:21,333"
        },
        {
          "index": 1261,
          "text": "council? Looking good.",
          "startTime": "01:08:22,234",
          "endTime": "01:08:24,536"
        },
        {
          "index": 1262,
          "text": "I have a question.",
          "startTime": "01:08:25,710",
          "endTime": "01:08:27,710"
        },
        {
          "index": 1263,
          "text": "That is a pretty big budget gap. I recall when we looked at the",
          "startTime": "01:08:27,473",
          "endTime": "01:08:30,800"
        },
        {
          "index": 1264,
          "text": "projects that were proposed, I",
          "startTime": "01:08:31,177",
          "endTime": "01:08:33,177"
        },
        {
          "index": 1265,
          "text": "mean, obviously changes go out to bid and bid it tomorrow, but",
          "startTime": "01:08:33,813",
          "endTime": "01:08:36,682"
        },
        {
          "index": 1266,
          "text": "there were a lot of projects proposed.",
          "startTime": "01:08:38,317",
          "endTime": "01:08:40,218"
        },
        {
          "index": 1267,
          "text": "So, yeah, I don't know, I'd be curious, so those dollars will",
          "startTime": "01:08:41,487",
          "endTime": "01:08:44,220"
        },
        {
          "index": 1268,
          "text": "just go into the program? Because council in the past has",
          "startTime": "01:08:46,920",
          "endTime": "01:08:48,393"
        },
        {
          "index": 1269,
          "text": "funded the program at 3 million a year?",
          "startTime": "01:08:48,828",
          "endTime": "01:08:51,296"
        },
        {
          "index": 1270,
          "text": "three-and-a-half.",
          "startTime": "01:08:51,297",
          "endTime": "01:08:53,297"
        },
        {
          "index": 1271,
          "text": "yeah, so we're spending a million less?",
          "startTime": "01:08:53,299",
          "endTime": "01:08:55,300"
        },
        {
          "index": 1272,
          "text": "going back, we did commit to",
          "startTime": "01:08:56,703",
          "endTime": "01:08:58,703"
        },
        {
          "index": 1273,
          "text": "spend 6.2. >> 2.",
          "startTime": "01:08:59,439",
          "endTime": "01:09:01,173"
        },
        {
          "index": 1274,
          "text": "So we did overcommit because we had that opportunity, and I want",
          "startTime": "01:09:01,641",
          "endTime": "01:09:04,420"
        },
        {
          "index": 1275,
          "text": "to stress that was because of the collection system master",
          "startTime": "01:09:05,110",
          "endTime": "01:09:07,120"
        },
        {
          "index": 1276,
          "text": "plan and the facility plan update at the treatment plant",
          "startTime": "01:09:08,615",
          "endTime": "01:09:10,816"
        },
        {
          "index": 1277,
          "text": "that were coming, so we are starting to land those ships.",
          "startTime": "01:09:11,918",
          "endTime": "01:09:14,190"
        },
        {
          "index": 1278,
          "text": "And so we are identifying all of the needs outside of septic to",
          "startTime": "01:09:16,322",
          "endTime": "01:09:19,910"
        },
        {
          "index": 1279,
          "text": "sewer, so a lot of the attention",
          "startTime": "01:09:20,593",
          "endTime": "01:09:22,593"
        },
        {
          "index": 1280,
          "text": "either from staffing or from funding is going to have to",
          "startTime": "01:09:23,663",
          "endTime": "01:09:25,297"
        },
        {
          "index": 1281,
          "text": "shift to the highest priority areas. And so that's a conversation",
          "startTime": "01:09:26,399",
          "endTime": "01:09:28,367"
        },
        {
          "index": 1282,
          "text": "that we need to have on how to",
          "startTime": "01:09:29,335",
          "endTime": "01:09:31,335"
        },
        {
          "index": 1283,
          "text": "best support all of the needs within the collection -- within",
          "startTime": "01:09:31,971",
          "endTime": "01:09:34,273"
        },
        {
          "index": 1284,
          "text": "the water reclamation system, so collections and treatment.",
          "startTime": "01:09:35,575",
          "endTime": "01:09:38,110"
        },
        {
          "index": 1285,
          "text": "Because we have a lot of existing infrastructure on the",
          "startTime": "01:09:38,244",
          "endTime": "01:09:40,646"
        },
        {
          "index": 1286,
          "text": "collections and on the treatment",
          "startTime": "01:09:42,282",
          "endTime": "01:09:44,282"
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        {
          "index": 1287,
          "text": "side that have been deferred, because we haven't had",
          "startTime": "01:09:44,684",
          "endTime": "01:09:46,585"
        },
        {
          "index": 1288,
          "text": "necessarily a master plan to tell us exactly what is is",
          "startTime": "01:09:46,920",
          "endTime": "01:09:49,256"
        },
        {
          "index": 1289,
          "text": "needed. So we were looking to identify",
          "startTime": "01:09:49,256",
          "endTime": "01:09:52,191"
        },
        {
          "index": 1290,
          "text": "those needs, prioritize those",
          "startTime": "01:09:52,826",
          "endTime": "01:09:54,826"
        },
        {
          "index": 1291,
          "text": "needs, develop the funding strategy and then balance other",
          "startTime": "01:09:55,562",
          "endTime": "01:09:58,197"
        },
        {
          "index": 1292,
          "text": "programs such as septic to",
          "startTime": "01:09:58,999",
          "endTime": "01:10:00,999"
        },
        {
          "index": 1293,
          "text": "sewer, pump station, r & r, but",
          "startTime": "01:10:01,670",
          "endTime": "01:10:03,670"
        },
        {
          "index": 1294,
          "text": "we do have a lot of other capital needs through those",
          "startTime": "01:10:03,370",
          "endTime": "01:10:05,904"
        },
        {
          "index": 1295,
          "text": "systems.",
          "startTime": "01:10:06,390",
          "endTime": "01:10:08,390"
        },
        {
          "index": 1296,
          "text": "mm-hmm, okay, yeah. I did get an e-mail from",
          "startTime": "01:10:08,410",
          "endTime": "01:10:10,143"
        },
        {
          "index": 1297,
          "text": "someone. It's a couple months ago now,",
          "startTime": "01:10:10,143",
          "endTime": "01:10:12,444"
        },
        {
          "index": 1298,
          "text": "and I thought they were",
          "startTime": "01:10:13,980",
          "endTime": "01:10:15,980"
        },
        {
          "index": 1299,
          "text": "following up with you, so it's",
          "startTime": "01:10:16,183",
          "endTime": "01:10:18,183"
        },
        {
          "index": 1300,
          "text": "probably fine, but I think it's actually cabin lane, in that",
          "startTime": "01:10:18,485",
          "endTime": "01:10:21,120"
        },
        {
          "index": 1301,
          "text": "area, there were some cul-de-sacs that did not get",
          "startTime": "01:10:21,521",
          "endTime": "01:10:23,756"
        },
        {
          "index": 1302,
          "text": "picked up on the septic to",
          "startTime": "01:10:24,691",
          "endTime": "01:10:26,691"
        },
        {
          "index": 1303,
          "text": "sewer, so homeowners on those cul-de-sacs are still on septic,",
          "startTime": "01:10:26,894",
          "endTime": "01:10:28,994"
        },
        {
          "index": 1304,
          "text": "but there is a sewer line right there and it seems like sort of",
          "startTime": "01:10:29,529",
          "endTime": "01:10:32,497"
        },
        {
          "index": 1305,
          "text": "little connections that the city",
          "startTime": "01:10:33,467",
          "endTime": "01:10:35,467"
        },
        {
          "index": 1306,
          "text": "has promised that neighborhood and made a follow-through to",
          "startTime": "01:10:36,203",
          "endTime": "01:10:38,738"
        },
        {
          "index": 1307,
          "text": "most of the neighbors but not others. I'd be interested.",
          "startTime": "01:10:40,400",
          "endTime": "01:10:42,675"
        },
        {
          "index": 1308,
          "text": "I'll follow up with you on it separately.",
          "startTime": "01:10:44,311",
          "endTime": "01:10:45,978"
        },
        {
          "index": 1309,
          "text": "the city goes through a",
          "startTime": "01:10:46,513",
          "endTime": "01:10:48,513"
        },
        {
          "index": 1310,
          "text": "diligent process to identify the",
          "startTime": "01:10:50,217",
          "endTime": "01:10:52,217"
        },
        {
          "index": 1311,
          "text": "drainage area, not to come do",
          "startTime": "01:10:52,219",
          "endTime": "01:10:54,219"
        },
        {
          "index": 1312,
          "text": "short segments, but you also can't do excessive, because the",
          "startTime": "01:10:55,355",
          "endTime": "01:10:58,124"
        },
        {
          "index": 1313,
          "text": "funding doesn't support it.",
          "startTime": "01:10:58,125",
          "endTime": "01:11:00,125"
        },
        {
          "index": 1314,
          "text": "So there's a strategy on how to",
          "startTime": "01:11:01,395",
          "endTime": "01:11:03,395"
        },
        {
          "index": 1315,
          "text": "identify what that drainage basin is. There's a lot of areas within",
          "startTime": "01:11:04,640",
          "endTime": "01:11:06,132"
        },
        {
          "index": 1316,
          "text": "the city of bend, southwest,",
          "startTime": "01:11:06,900",
          "endTime": "01:11:08,900"
        },
        {
          "index": 1317,
          "text": "southeast, some of the north,",
          "startTime": "01:11:09,637",
          "endTime": "01:11:11,637"
        },
        {
          "index": 1318,
          "text": "northwest are on septic, so it is competitive.",
          "startTime": "01:11:12,172",
          "endTime": "01:11:14,274"
        },
        {
          "index": 1319,
          "text": "And it would take a lot of money to convert everybody over and",
          "startTime": "01:11:15,375",
          "endTime": "01:11:18,244"
        },
        {
          "index": 1320,
          "text": "that's balancing the existing system and the operations that",
          "startTime": "01:11:18,779",
          "endTime": "01:11:20,980"
        },
        {
          "index": 1321,
          "text": "we do have to have. So it would be great to do it",
          "startTime": "01:11:22,490",
          "endTime": "01:11:24,250"
        },
        {
          "index": 1322,
          "text": "all, but we do have a system to",
          "startTime": "01:11:26,200",
          "endTime": "01:11:28,200"
        },
        {
          "index": 1323,
          "text": "maintain and treat the sewage too.",
          "startTime": "01:11:28,656",
          "endTime": "01:11:30,390"
        },
        {
          "index": 1324,
          "text": "okay, any other questions? All right.",
          "startTime": "01:11:33,127",
          "endTime": "01:11:34,461"
        },
        {
          "index": 1325,
          "text": "We got two motions, 6 and 7. >> I move to adopt a resolution",
          "startTime": "01:11:40,367",
          "endTime": "01:11:42,435"
        },
        {
          "index": 1326,
          "text": "authorizing a clean water state",
          "startTime": "01:11:43,400",
          "endTime": "01:11:45,400"
        },
        {
          "index": 1327,
          "text": "revolving fund loan agreement to",
          "startTime": "01:11:45,506",
          "endTime": "01:11:47,506"
        },
        {
          "index": 1328,
          "text": "finance the king hezekiah and fargo sewer project in a total",
          "startTime": "01:11:47,942",
          "endTime": "01:11:49,676"
        },
        {
          "index": 1329,
          "text": "loan amount not to exceed $2,875,000, in substantially the",
          "startTime": "01:11:55,650",
          "endTime": "01:11:57,584"
        },
        {
          "index": 1330,
          "text": "form presented to council and as approved by the department of",
          "startTime": "01:11:58,190",
          "endTime": "01:11:59,986"
        },
        {
          "index": 1331,
          "text": "environmental quality. >> second.",
          "startTime": "01:12:03,958",
          "endTime": "01:12:06,526"
        },
        {
          "index": 1332,
          "text": "moved by councilor platt, seconded by councilor riley.",
          "startTime": "01:12:06,928",
          "endTime": "01:12:08,929"
        },
        {
          "index": 1333,
          "text": "All in favor?",
          "startTime": "01:12:09,664",
          "endTime": "01:12:11,664"
        },
        {
          "index": 1334,
          "text": "aye. >> okay.",
          "startTime": "01:12:12,600",
          "endTime": "01:12:14,635"
        },
        {
          "index": 1335,
          "text": "Next? >> I move to authorize a contract with bar seven a companies, inc., in",
          "startTime": "01:12:14,635",
          "endTime": "01:12:16,838"
        },
        {
          "index": 1336,
          "text": "substantially the form presented to council, for construction",
          "startTime": "01:12:16,838",
          "endTime": "01:12:18,839"
        },
        {
          "index": 1337,
          "text": "services for the king hezekiah and fargo sewer project in an",
          "startTime": "01:12:18,940",
          "endTime": "01:12:21,741"
        },
        {
          "index": 1338,
          "text": "amount not to exceed $1,674,186. >> second.",
          "startTime": "01:12:29,500",
          "endTime": "01:12:30,784"
        },
        {
          "index": 1339,
          "text": "all in favor? [Chorus of ayes]",
          "startTime": "01:12:34,189",
          "endTime": "01:12:36,723"
        },
        {
          "index": 1340,
          "text": "we'll move on to item 8. >> council is asked to authorize",
          "startTime": "01:12:38,826",
          "endTime": "01:12:41,261"
        },
        {
          "index": 1341,
          "text": "a contract with diamond parking services llc for city-wide",
          "startTime": "01:12:42,764",
          "endTime": "01:12:44,933"
        },
        {
          "index": 1342,
          "text": "parking management and",
          "startTime": "01:12:44,933",
          "endTime": "01:12:46,933"
        },
        {
          "index": 1343,
          "text": "enforcement services not to exceed $536,000 for the first",
          "startTime": "01:12:48,903",
          "endTime": "01:12:50,503"
        },
        {
          "index": 1344,
          "text": "year and authorize the city",
          "startTime": "01:12:50,939",
          "endTime": "01:12:52,939"
        },
        {
          "index": 1345,
          "text": "manager to approve annual renewals for a total contract",
          "startTime": "01:12:53,208",
          "endTime": "01:12:55,309"
        },
        {
          "index": 1346,
          "text": "amount not to exceed",
          "startTime": "01:12:58,680",
          "endTime": "01:13:00,680"
        },
        {
          "index": 1347,
          "text": "$2,906,000 over five years.",
          "startTime": "01:13:01,215",
          "endTime": "01:13:03,215"
        },
        {
          "index": 1348,
          "text": "good evening, mayor and council.",
          "startTime": "01:13:06,921",
          "endTime": "01:13:09,456"
        },
        {
          "index": 1349,
          "text": "It's time to renew our parking",
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          "endTime": "01:13:13,726"
        },
        {
          "index": 1350,
          "text": "management and our enforcement contract.",
          "startTime": "01:13:14,596",
          "endTime": "01:13:15,963"
        },
        {
          "index": 1351,
          "text": "So today what we're asking is to authorize a contract as was",
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          "endTime": "01:13:20,934"
        },
        {
          "index": 1352,
          "text": "mentioned with diamond parking services llc for the city-wide",
          "startTime": "01:13:22,137",
          "endTime": "01:13:24,672"
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        {
          "index": 1353,
          "text": "management and enforcement services. I'll give some details and we'll",
          "startTime": "01:13:25,840",
          "endTime": "01:13:28,709"
        },
        {
          "index": 1354,
          "text": "circle back around to a motion",
          "startTime": "01:13:28,910",
          "endTime": "01:13:30,910"
        },
        {
          "index": 1355,
          "text": "at the end.",
          "startTime": "01:13:31,120",
          "endTime": "01:13:33,120"
        },
        {
          "index": 1356,
          "text": "I threw up the wheel of the connected city.",
          "startTime": "01:13:33,848",
          "endTime": "01:13:35,715"
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        {
          "index": 1357,
          "text": "I think parking touches",
          "startTime": "01:13:35,951",
          "endTime": "01:13:37,951"
        },
        {
          "index": 1358,
          "text": "basically pretty much on all of those.",
          "startTime": "01:13:39,321",
          "endTime": "01:13:41,188"
        },
        {
          "index": 1359,
          "text": "But this contract helps suppor efficient, responsible",
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          "endTime": "01:13:44,158"
        },
        {
          "index": 1360,
          "text": "transportation, system managemnt. We got multiple districts in",
          "startTime": "01:13:44,693",
          "endTime": "01:13:47,228"
        },
        {
          "index": 1361,
          "text": "town as you know today,",
          "startTime": "01:13:48,296",
          "endTime": "01:13:50,296"
        },
        {
          "index": 1362,
          "text": "downtown, old bend, Mckay,",
          "startTime": "01:13:50,632",
          "endTime": "01:13:52,632"
        },
        {
          "index": 1363,
          "text": "parking garage, surface lots. We do have some future districts",
          "startTime": "01:13:53,268",
          "endTime": "01:13:55,903"
        },
        {
          "index": 1364,
          "text": "that we have talked with council about before. I'll share some more information",
          "startTime": "01:13:57,205",
          "endTime": "01:13:59,907"
        },
        {
          "index": 1365,
          "text": "on those in a later slide. But this contract is a phased",
          "startTime": "01:14:00,709",
          "endTime": "01:14:03,477"
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        {
          "index": 1366,
          "text": "approach with some new districts proposed. Services support parking",
          "startTime": "01:14:05,514",
          "endTime": "01:14:08,282"
        },
        {
          "index": 1367,
          "text": "availability, circulation,",
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          "endTime": "01:14:11,785"
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        {
          "index": 1368,
          "text": "compliance, just to expand a little bit on what the contract",
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          "endTime": "01:14:14,188"
        },
        {
          "index": 1369,
          "text": "does or doesn't maybe include, just a few examples.",
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          "endTime": "01:14:17,158"
        },
        {
          "index": 1370,
          "text": "Enforcement parking management strategies in compliance with",
          "startTime": "01:14:18,126",
          "endTime": "01:14:20,761"
        },
        {
          "index": 1371,
          "text": "our bend municipal code, oregon statutes, inspect, enforce,",
          "startTime": "01:14:23,165",
          "endTime": "01:14:26,133"
        },
        {
          "index": 1372,
          "text": "maintain compliance with all parking facilities. We want our parking system to be",
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          "endTime": "01:14:30,404"
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        {
          "index": 1373,
          "text": "functional, clean, maintained.",
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          "endTime": "01:14:32,839"
        },
        {
          "index": 1374,
          "text": "Manage the online and anywhere in-person",
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          "endTime": "01:14:38,245"
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        {
          "index": 1375,
          "text": "parking permits, supplies, materials, the surface lots.",
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          "endTime": "01:14:40,848"
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          "index": 1376,
          "text": "Daily maintenance and operations",
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          "endTime": "01:14:43,116"
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        {
          "index": 1377,
          "text": "of the parking garage.",
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          "endTime": "01:14:45,752"
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          "index": 1378,
          "text": "Example of maybe what this",
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          "index": 1379,
          "text": "doesn't include, diamond parking",
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          "endTime": "01:14:51,324"
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          "index": 1380,
          "text": "do not create a parking",
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          "endTime": "01:14:53,527"
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          "index": 1381,
          "text": "management strategic or",
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          "endTime": "01:14:55,696"
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          "endTime": "01:14:58,433"
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          "index": 1383,
          "text": "what those parking management strategies and policies are but",
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          "endTime": "01:15:01,736"
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          "index": 1384,
          "text": "then diamond helps us manage and enforce those.",
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          "endTime": "01:15:08,343"
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          "index": 1385,
          "text": "So the procurement process.",
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          "endTime": "01:15:11,144"
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          "index": 1386,
          "text": "We did do a formal rfp request for proposal process.",
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          "endTime": "01:15:16,551"
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          "text": "I was happy to see five",
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          "endTime": "01:15:20,120"
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          "text": "the highest ranked proposal.",
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          "text": "We had basically a committee, a",
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          "text": "scoring process with a total of 1,000 points possible.",
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          "text": "Those things we looked for are project understanding and",
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          "index": 1393,
          "text": "approach, that was worth a few hundred points.",
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          "text": "Project team, experience, and quality of service worth another",
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          "text": "few hundred points, so 60% of",
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          "text": "the ranking of these proposals",
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          "endTime": "01:15:50,484"
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          "index": 1397,
          "text": "was based on those. cost was another 400 points to",
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          "endTime": "01:15:52,954"
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          "index": 1398,
          "text": "make up that 1,000-point total.",
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          "endTime": "01:15:57,691"
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          "index": 1399,
          "text": "We had five proposals total.",
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          "endTime": "01:16:00,527"
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          "text": "The top two were very competitive. Diamond parking was the highest",
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          "text": "overall scoring proposal, the",
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          "text": "highest in the project understanding, experience, quality of service.",
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          "text": "They were the second highest",
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          "endTime": "01:16:14,108"
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          "text": "scorer for cost.",
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          "endTime": "01:16:16,844"
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        {
          "index": 1405,
          "text": "They were the second lowest proposal.",
          "startTime": "01:16:17,380",
          "endTime": "01:16:18,813"
        },
        {
          "index": 1406,
          "text": "And that was pretty much a straightup formula on cost.",
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          "endTime": "01:16:22,317"
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          "index": 1407,
          "text": "The lowest cost proposal, you get the most points and second%",
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          "endTime": "01:16:25,787"
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          "index": 1408,
          "text": "and third and fourth and fifth.",
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          "endTime": "01:16:28,856"
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        {
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          "text": "Proposals ranged from about",
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          "endTime": "01:16:32,260"
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        {
          "index": 1410,
          "text": "503,000 to 6.",
          "startTime": "01:16:37,967",
          "endTime": "01:16:39,967"
        },
        {
          "index": 1411,
          "text": "655,000 and some change. Here is a picture of some of the",
          "startTime": "01:16:40,360",
          "endTime": "01:16:42,671"
        },
        {
          "index": 1412,
          "text": "members of the diamond parking team.",
          "startTime": "01:16:45,174",
          "endTime": "01:16:46,508"
        },
        {
          "index": 1413,
          "text": "So I mentioned the phased approach. Phase one really is taking care",
          "startTime": "01:16:48,278",
          "endTime": "01:16:50,479"
        },
        {
          "index": 1414,
          "text": "of what we have today. So that downtown parking",
          "startTime": "01:16:51,881",
          "endTime": "01:16:53,882"
        },
        {
          "index": 1415,
          "text": "district, the Mckay district, old bend benefit district, the",
          "startTime": "01:16:54,851",
          "endTime": "01:16:57,152"
        },
        {
          "index": 1416,
          "text": "surface lots that I mentioned",
          "startTime": "01:16:58,221",
          "endTime": "01:17:00,221"
        },
        {
          "index": 1417,
          "text": "and centennial parking garage.",
          "startTime": "01:17:01,558",
          "endTime": "01:17:03,558"
        },
        {
          "index": 1418,
          "text": "This summer, we look to expand old bend east district and what",
          "startTime": "01:17:05,280",
          "endTime": "01:17:07,290"
        },
        {
          "index": 1419,
          "text": "we're calling the miller's run district.",
          "startTime": "01:17:08,331",
          "endTime": "01:17:10,199"
        },
        {
          "index": 1420,
          "text": "I've got some maps.",
          "startTime": "01:17:10,834",
          "endTime": "01:17:12,834"
        },
        {
          "index": 1421,
          "text": "I'll shirr a little bit more",
          "startTime": "01:17:13,236",
          "endTime": "01:17:15,236"
        },
        {
          "index": 1422,
          "text": "share a little bit more about that.",
          "startTime": "01:17:16,873",
          "endTime": "01:17:18,374"
        },
        {
          "index": 1423,
          "text": "We were within the next probably two weeks here, we're working",
          "startTime": "01:17:19,109",
          "endTime": "01:17:21,410"
        },
        {
          "index": 1424,
          "text": "with communications, legal, met",
          "startTime": "01:17:21,911",
          "endTime": "01:17:23,911"
        },
        {
          "index": 1425,
          "text": "with the members of the old bend neighborhood association just",
          "startTime": "01:17:24,214",
          "endTime": "01:17:26,810"
        },
        {
          "index": 1426,
          "text": "monday of this week to go into the 60-day public comment",
          "startTime": "01:17:27,184",
          "endTime": "01:17:29,919"
        },
        {
          "index": 1427,
          "text": "period, and so looking to be",
          "startTime": "01:17:30,120",
          "endTime": "01:17:32,120"
        },
        {
          "index": 1428,
          "text": "back in front of council with",
          "startTime": "01:17:32,255",
          "endTime": "01:17:34,255"
        },
        {
          "index": 1429,
          "text": "the final recommendations on these districts accounting for",
          "startTime": "01:17:35,191",
          "endTime": "01:17:37,293"
        },
        {
          "index": 1430,
          "text": "the public comment in JUNE.",
          "startTime": "01:17:39,620",
          "endTime": "01:17:41,620"
        },
        {
          "index": 1431,
          "text": "And so just a quick snapshot of our districts.",
          "startTime": "01:17:41,598",
          "endTime": "01:17:43,466"
        },
        {
          "index": 1432,
          "text": "I think most of us are familiar with them. We've got the downtown district.",
          "startTime": "01:17:43,900",
          "endTime": "01:17:46,769"
        },
        {
          "index": 1433,
          "text": "I won't go through all the text",
          "startTime": "01:17:48,638",
          "endTime": "01:17:50,638"
        },
        {
          "index": 1434,
          "text": "there, but 400 spaces in surface",
          "startTime": "01:17:51,808",
          "endTime": "01:17:53,808"
        },
        {
          "index": 1435,
          "text": "lots, 547 in garage, on-street,",
          "startTime": "01:17:54,111",
          "endTime": "01:17:56,111"
        },
        {
          "index": 1436,
          "text": "about 40 blocks worth, 1500 spaces.",
          "startTime": "01:17:56,513",
          "endTime": "01:17:58,848"
        },
        {
          "index": 1437,
          "text": "Old bend parking benefit street,",
          "startTime": "01:17:59,716",
          "endTime": "01:18:01,716"
        },
        {
          "index": 1438,
          "text": "1200 on-street space.",
          "startTime": "01:18:03,854",
          "endTime": "01:18:05,854"
        },
        {
          "index": 1439,
          "text": "Mckay, 250 on-street spaces.",
          "startTime": "01:18:06,523",
          "endTime": "01:18:08,523"
        },
        {
          "index": 1440,
          "text": "And then we get into the two new districts that I was just mentioning.",
          "startTime": "01:18:08,592",
          "endTime": "01:18:11,227"
        },
        {
          "index": 1441,
          "text": "I went ahead and put some anticipated strategies up here,",
          "startTime": "01:18:11,862",
          "endTime": "01:18:14,397"
        },
        {
          "index": 1442,
          "text": "but we'll be back in front of",
          "startTime": "01:18:14,832",
          "endTime": "01:18:16,832"
        },
        {
          "index": 1443,
          "text": "council in JUNE after accounting",
          "startTime": "01:18:17,568",
          "endTime": "01:18:19,568"
        },
        {
          "index": 1444,
          "text": "for public comment and with what strategies we're recommending",
          "startTime": "01:18:20,504",
          "endTime": "01:18:22,705"
        },
        {
          "index": 1445,
          "text": "for the final proposal. But these are some of the",
          "startTime": "01:18:23,240",
          "endTime": "01:18:25,542"
        },
        {
          "index": 1446,
          "text": "examples of what we're anticipating there.",
          "startTime": "01:18:25,542",
          "endTime": "01:18:28,277"
        },
        {
          "index": 1447,
          "text": "And then the old bend east, so this would not just be an",
          "startTime": "01:18:29,913",
          "endTime": "01:18:32,648"
        },
        {
          "index": 1448,
          "text": "expansion of the existing district.",
          "startTime": "01:18:33,283",
          "endTime": "01:18:34,784"
        },
        {
          "index": 1449,
          "text": "We got some different nuances, existing district on the west",
          "startTime": "01:18:35,386",
          "endTime": "01:18:37,687"
        },
        {
          "index": 1450,
          "text": "side of broadway down to drake park, Mckay park, you got the",
          "startTime": "01:18:38,422",
          "endTime": "01:18:41,190"
        },
        {
          "index": 1451,
          "text": "river floaters, the deschutes river trail.",
          "startTime": "01:18:46,664",
          "endTime": "01:18:48,431"
        },
        {
          "index": 1452,
          "text": "Over to the parkway and along the arizona, colorado area, more",
          "startTime": "01:18:49,400",
          "endTime": "01:18:52,168"
        },
        {
          "index": 1453,
          "text": "of a commercial use more so than park and businesses along",
          "startTime": "01:18:53,771",
          "endTime": "01:18:56,572"
        },
        {
          "index": 1454,
          "text": "franklin and along the parkway.",
          "startTime": "01:18:59,844",
          "endTime": "01:19:01,844"
        },
        {
          "index": 1455,
          "text": "Some different strategies there. So available for questions and",
          "startTime": "01:19:03,280",
          "endTime": "01:19:06,249"
        },
        {
          "index": 1456,
          "text": "have a recommended motion on the screen.",
          "startTime": "01:19:06,450",
          "endTime": "01:19:07,984"
        },
        {
          "index": 1457,
          "text": "all right, council, questions",
          "startTime": "01:19:09,487",
          "endTime": "01:19:11,487"
        },
        {
          "index": 1458,
          "text": "for david on this contract? >> and I'm sorry, I didn't",
          "startTime": "01:19:13,891",
          "endTime": "01:19:16,326"
        },
        {
          "index": 1459,
          "text": "mention in the beginning, we",
          "startTime": "01:19:16,694",
          "endTime": "01:19:18,694"
        },
        {
          "index": 1460,
          "text": "have patrick from the parking",
          "startTime": "01:19:19,263",
          "endTime": "01:19:21,263"
        },
        {
          "index": 1461,
          "text": "division as well as carina from diamond parking.",
          "startTime": "01:19:23,934",
          "endTime": "01:19:25,602"
        },
        {
          "index": 1462,
          "text": "go ahead. >> so what I would really like",
          "startTime": "01:19:26,370",
          "endTime": "01:19:28,805"
        },
        {
          "index": 1463,
          "text": "to dig into a little bit with my fellow councilors here is the",
          "startTime": "01:19:29,540",
          "endTime": "01:19:32,175"
        },
        {
          "index": 1464,
          "text": "distinction between a parking benefit district and those areas",
          "startTime": "01:19:32,710",
          "endTime": "01:19:34,811"
        },
        {
          "index": 1465,
          "text": "versus the commercial areas where we have a lot of paid",
          "startTime": "01:19:36,647",
          "endTime": "01:19:39,820"
        },
        {
          "index": 1466,
          "text": "parking and we have some very regimented -- and we don't have",
          "startTime": "01:19:40,151",
          "endTime": "01:19:42,252"
        },
        {
          "index": 1467,
          "text": "people who live in homes who are trying to go about their lives",
          "startTime": "01:19:43,554",
          "endTime": "01:19:45,789"
        },
        {
          "index": 1468,
          "text": "and their daily business, many without driveways, for example,",
          "startTime": "01:19:48,359",
          "endTime": "01:19:50,360"
        },
        {
          "index": 1469,
          "text": "because we've moved away from that.",
          "startTime": "01:19:50,795",
          "endTime": "01:19:51,995"
        },
        {
          "index": 1470,
          "text": "I very much support that.",
          "startTime": "01:19:53,364",
          "endTime": "01:19:55,364"
        },
        {
          "index": 1471,
          "text": "And so I'm now the old bend neighborhood liaison.",
          "startTime": "01:19:55,533",
          "endTime": "01:19:58,101"
        },
        {
          "index": 1472,
          "text": "You probably heard the same things I've been hearing.",
          "startTime": "01:19:58,269",
          "endTime": "01:20:00,804"
        },
        {
          "index": 1473,
          "text": "I've spent hours meeting with",
          "startTime": "01:20:02,240",
          "endTime": "01:20:04,240"
        },
        {
          "index": 1474,
          "text": "dave and russ grayson to talk about some of the issues the old",
          "startTime": "01:20:04,309",
          "endTime": "01:20:06,610"
        },
        {
          "index": 1475,
          "text": "bend neighborhood is facing.",
          "startTime": "01:20:07,378",
          "endTime": "01:20:09,378"
        },
        {
          "index": 1476,
          "text": "So what my concern is, is that",
          "startTime": "01:20:09,447",
          "endTime": "01:20:11,447"
        },
        {
          "index": 1477,
          "text": "we're enforcing laws and rules in a parking benefit district",
          "startTime": "01:20:12,150",
          "endTime": "01:20:14,651"
        },
        {
          "index": 1478,
          "text": "that was not really explained to the residents of that",
          "startTime": "01:20:15,153",
          "endTime": "01:20:17,688"
        },
        {
          "index": 1479,
          "text": "neighborhood when they signed up",
          "startTime": "01:20:18,256",
          "endTime": "01:20:20,256"
        },
        {
          "index": 1480,
          "text": "for the parking benefit district.",
          "startTime": "01:20:20,625",
          "endTime": "01:20:22,125"
        },
        {
          "index": 1481,
          "text": "The rules that are being",
          "startTime": "01:20:24,762",
          "endTime": "01:20:26,762"
        },
        {
          "index": 1482,
          "text": "enforced there are rules of",
          "startTime": "01:20:27,298",
          "endTime": "01:20:29,298"
        },
        {
          "index": 1483,
          "text": "parking and traffic that it's just going beyond what I think",
          "startTime": "01:20:29,801",
          "endTime": "01:20:32,235"
        },
        {
          "index": 1484,
          "text": "anyone really signed up for.",
          "startTime": "01:20:35,306",
          "endTime": "01:20:37,306"
        },
        {
          "index": 1485,
          "text": "So the way that I read the contract is that -- and the way",
          "startTime": "01:20:37,509",
          "endTime": "01:20:40,144"
        },
        {
          "index": 1486,
          "text": "that david has explained it to",
          "startTime": "01:20:40,545",
          "endTime": "01:20:42,545"
        },
        {
          "index": 1487,
          "text": "me is that the contractor, diamond parking, who enforcing",
          "startTime": "01:20:43,615",
          "endTime": "01:20:46,316"
        },
        {
          "index": 1488,
          "text": "the ors, but they don't do that",
          "startTime": "01:20:47,510",
          "endTime": "01:20:49,510"
        },
        {
          "index": 1489,
          "text": "in every neighborhood, right? The only reason they're going",
          "startTime": "01:20:49,354",
          "endTime": "01:20:51,423"
        },
        {
          "index": 1490,
          "text": "through the old bend neighborhood is because we now",
          "startTime": "01:20:51,423",
          "endTime": "01:20:53,557"
        },
        {
          "index": 1491,
          "text": "have the benefit district there. In the old bend neighborhood is",
          "startTime": "01:20:58,764",
          "endTime": "01:21:01,732"
        },
        {
          "index": 1492,
          "text": "for us to actually kind of live up to the promise we made to the",
          "startTime": "01:21:03,802",
          "endTime": "01:21:06,437"
        },
        {
          "index": 1493,
          "text": "neighborhood which is to make it a benefit neighborhood.",
          "startTime": "01:21:07,105",
          "endTime": "01:21:09,730"
        },
        {
          "index": 1494,
          "text": "So the neighbors are paying for",
          "startTime": "01:21:10,609",
          "endTime": "01:21:12,609"
        },
        {
          "index": 1495,
          "text": "a parking permit and they're hopefully getting some parking",
          "startTime": "01:21:13,345",
          "endTime": "01:21:15,412"
        },
        {
          "index": 1496,
          "text": "on their street when tourists",
          "startTime": "01:21:16,810",
          "endTime": "01:21:18,810"
        },
        {
          "index": 1497,
          "text": "are in town, but they're not",
          "startTime": "01:21:18,450",
          "endTime": "01:21:20,450"
        },
        {
          "index": 1498,
          "text": "getting penalized, laws enforced on them that we're not enforcing",
          "startTime": "01:21:22,487",
          "endTime": "01:21:25,256"
        },
        {
          "index": 1499,
          "text": "on other nakeds in",
          "startTime": "01:21:25,524",
          "endTime": "01:21:27,524"
        },
        {
          "index": 1500,
          "text": "neighborhoods in the city.",
          "startTime": "01:21:27,592",
          "endTime": "01:21:29,393"
        },
        {
          "index": 1501,
          "text": "So I think it's a clarification of council's policy to the staff",
          "startTime": "01:21:29,761",
          "endTime": "01:21:32,730"
        },
        {
          "index": 1502,
          "text": "and the contractor who are administering the policy.",
          "startTime": "01:21:33,465",
          "endTime": "01:21:35,232"
        },
        {
          "index": 1503,
          "text": "I don't think it's necessarily a change to the contract itself.",
          "startTime": "01:21:35,667",
          "endTime": "01:21:37,902"
        },
        {
          "index": 1504,
          "text": "I think this is a point of clarification that I'm asking",
          "startTime": "01:21:39,104",
          "endTime": "01:21:41,505"
        },
        {
          "index": 1505,
          "text": "for you to help me convey to the staff tonight. >> so you're saying there's",
          "startTime": "01:21:42,841",
          "endTime": "01:21:45,776"
        },
        {
          "index": 1506,
          "text": "people who are living there that are getting tickets for maybe",
          "startTime": "01:21:45,877",
          "endTime": "01:21:48,613"
        },
        {
          "index": 1507,
          "text": "staying too long on the street? >> exactly.",
          "startTime": "01:21:49,481",
          "endTime": "01:21:51,480"
        },
        {
          "index": 1508,
          "text": "or when they have -- I mean, I've heard about this from a",
          "startTime": "01:21:52,684",
          "endTime": "01:21:54,886"
        },
        {
          "index": 1509,
          "text": "couple of people who live there. People have a dinner party and",
          "startTime": "01:21:56,880",
          "endTime": "01:21:58,689"
        },
        {
          "index": 1510,
          "text": "they have people there for four hours and the systems that have",
          "startTime": "01:22:00,659",
          "endTime": "01:22:03,270"
        },
        {
          "index": 1511,
          "text": "to be used and the hoops that these folks have to go through",
          "startTime": "01:22:03,963",
          "endTime": "01:22:06,464"
        },
        {
          "index": 1512,
          "text": "or their kid comes home from college for a couple weeks.",
          "startTime": "01:22:07,320",
          "endTime": "01:22:09,333"
        },
        {
          "index": 1513,
          "text": "It does seem like it's maybe",
          "startTime": "01:22:09,768",
          "endTime": "01:22:11,768"
        },
        {
          "index": 1514,
          "text": "gotten to a point of we need to",
          "startTime": "01:22:12,704",
          "endTime": "01:22:14,704"
        },
        {
          "index": 1515,
          "text": "review how some of this is working.",
          "startTime": "01:22:15,107",
          "endTime": "01:22:16,574"
        },
        {
          "index": 1516,
          "text": "I can just chime in on a few examples. >> I'm not sure if tonight's",
          "startTime": "01:22:17,743",
          "endTime": "01:22:20,311"
        },
        {
          "index": 1517,
          "text": "meeting is the right venue. I don't disagree with you, but",
          "startTime": "01:22:21,480",
          "endTime": "01:22:23,781"
        },
        {
          "index": 1518,
          "text": "I'm wondering is this an agenda request and/or do we have a time",
          "startTime": "01:22:25,684",
          "endTime": "01:22:28,286"
        },
        {
          "index": 1519,
          "text": "at some point in the future here where we're going to talk about",
          "startTime": "01:22:30,122",
          "endTime": "01:22:32,357"
        },
        {
          "index": 1520,
          "text": "parking anyway and we review some of those rules as part of",
          "startTime": "01:22:32,524",
          "endTime": "01:22:35,260"
        },
        {
          "index": 1521,
          "text": "the new districts? >> we'll be in front of you with",
          "startTime": "01:22:36,161",
          "endTime": "01:22:38,930"
        },
        {
          "index": 1522,
          "text": "the old bend east. >> that sounds like a good plan,",
          "startTime": "01:22:45,671",
          "endTime": "01:22:47,873"
        },
        {
          "index": 1523,
          "text": "because we're coming back on this anyway and we'll have new",
          "startTime": "01:22:47,873",
          "endTime": "01:22:50,241"
        },
        {
          "index": 1524,
          "text": "rounds of public comment.",
          "startTime": "01:22:50,342",
          "endTime": "01:22:52,342"
        },
        {
          "index": 1525,
          "text": "So I'm not necessarily married to the original pilot which was",
          "startTime": "01:22:52,744",
          "endTime": "01:22:55,180"
        },
        {
          "index": 1526,
          "text": "before any of us were on council. I'd like to hear what people",
          "startTime": "01:22:56,382",
          "endTime": "01:22:58,783"
        },
        {
          "index": 1527,
          "text": "want now and what they feel the",
          "startTime": "01:23:01,887",
          "endTime": "01:23:03,887"
        },
        {
          "index": 1528,
          "text": "pressures are. People who visit who are taking",
          "startTime": "01:23:13,265",
          "endTime": "01:23:15,667"
        },
        {
          "index": 1529,
          "text": "up street parking, that was the concern, right?",
          "startTime": "01:23:17,300",
          "endTime": "01:23:19,371"
        },
        {
          "index": 1530,
          "text": "And so I don't think the folks in this neighborhood think they're entitled to the street",
          "startTime": "01:23:22,341",
          "endTime": "01:23:24,776"
        },
        {
          "index": 1531,
          "text": "packing, but we do need a system that is usable for everyone.",
          "startTime": "01:23:25,611",
          "endTime": "01:23:28,580"
        },
        {
          "index": 1532,
          "text": "some of this is from the new",
          "startTime": "01:23:32,952",
          "endTime": "01:23:34,952"
        },
        {
          "index": 1533,
          "text": "code from JANUARY. Yeah, we can talk about it,",
          "startTime": "01:23:35,188",
          "endTime": "01:23:37,423"
        },
        {
          "index": 1534,
          "text": "certainly some more.",
          "startTime": "01:23:37,423",
          "endTime": "01:23:39,423"
        },
        {
          "index": 1535,
          "text": "We want it to work. Another example is parking in",
          "startTime": "01:23:40,293",
          "endTime": "01:23:42,828"
        },
        {
          "index": 1536,
          "text": "the wrong direction against the flow of traffic.",
          "startTime": "01:23:43,960",
          "endTime": "01:23:44,963"
        },
        {
          "index": 1537,
          "text": "That is a state law. >> no one here has ever done",
          "startTime": "01:23:45,431",
          "endTime": "01:23:48,300"
        },
        {
          "index": 1538,
          "text": "that, have you! (Indiscernible, simultaneous",
          "startTime": "01:23:51,371",
          "endTime": "01:23:52,938"
        },
        {
          "index": 1539,
          "text": "speaking).",
          "startTime": "01:23:54,507",
          "endTime": "01:23:56,507"
        },
        {
          "index": 1540,
          "text": "but to your point, councilor franzosa, this contract, diamond",
          "startTime": "01:23:57,377",
          "endTime": "01:24:00,145"
        },
        {
          "index": 1541,
          "text": "parking would enforce whatever",
          "startTime": "01:24:01,470",
          "endTime": "01:24:03,470"
        },
        {
          "index": 1542,
          "text": "bend code and policies and enforcement that we'd ask them",
          "startTime": "01:24:05,151",
          "endTime": "01:24:07,520"
        },
        {
          "index": 1543,
          "text": "to. >> so I would be supportive of",
          "startTime": "01:24:07,453",
          "endTime": "01:24:10,890"
        },
        {
          "index": 1544,
          "text": "having that policy discussion,",
          "startTime": "01:24:10,890",
          "endTime": "01:24:12,890"
        },
        {
          "index": 1545,
          "text": "and I just didn't want to MISS The opportunity to say thank you",
          "startTime": "01:24:12,158",
          "endTime": "01:24:14,259"
        },
        {
          "index": 1546,
          "text": "to patrick and staff and to encourage people if you see",
          "startTime": "01:24:15,562",
          "endTime": "01:24:18,960"
        },
        {
          "index": 1547,
          "text": "diamond parking agents or city staff working on parking, say",
          "startTime": "01:24:20,330",
          "endTime": "01:24:22,935"
        },
        {
          "index": 1548,
          "text": "thank you, because I think there's a perception that",
          "startTime": "01:24:23,300",
          "endTime": "01:24:25,971"
        },
        {
          "index": 1549,
          "text": "somehow these programs, these policies and the people that",
          "startTime": "01:24:26,272",
          "endTime": "01:24:29,800"
        },
        {
          "index": 1550,
          "text": "enforce them are somehow",
          "startTime": "01:24:29,800",
          "endTime": "01:24:31,800"
        },
        {
          "index": 1551,
          "text": "intended to make parking more difficult.",
          "startTime": "01:24:31,311",
          "endTime": "01:24:32,578"
        },
        {
          "index": 1552,
          "text": "And actually if we get the",
          "startTime": "01:24:33,947",
          "endTime": "01:24:35,947"
        },
        {
          "index": 1553,
          "text": "policies right, it's going to make marking easier, and that's",
          "startTime": "01:24:36,216",
          "endTime": "01:24:38,500"
        },
        {
          "index": 1554,
          "text": "one of the reasons why downtown bend business association is",
          "startTime": "01:24:39,385",
          "endTime": "01:24:41,153"
        },
        {
          "index": 1555,
          "text": "coming back to us with their ideas for parking, so thank you",
          "startTime": "01:24:41,854",
          "endTime": "01:24:44,723"
        },
        {
          "index": 1556,
          "text": "for making parking accessible and available and I'm happy to",
          "startTime": "01:24:45,258",
          "endTime": "01:24:47,993"
        },
        {
          "index": 1557,
          "text": "have that conversation about the",
          "startTime": "01:24:48,940",
          "endTime": "01:24:50,940"
        },
        {
          "index": 1558,
          "text": "policy.",
          "startTime": "01:24:50,297",
          "endTime": "01:24:52,297"
        },
        {
          "index": 1559,
          "text": "thank you, council member. >> we want it to wok,",
          "startTime": "01:24:52,399",
          "endTime": "01:24:55,234"
        },
        {
          "index": 1560,
          "text": "work, but it's a team effort.",
          "startTime": "01:24:56,903",
          "endTime": "01:24:58,971"
        },
        {
          "index": 1561,
          "text": "Just to expand a little bit on the parking benefit, just",
          "startTime": "01:24:59,272",
          "endTime": "01:25:01,373"
        },
        {
          "index": 1562,
          "text": "because you mentioned that was before that time and the pilot,",
          "startTime": "01:25:03,543",
          "endTime": "01:25:05,978"
        },
        {
          "index": 1563,
          "text": "and we're coming back with are",
          "startTime": "01:25:08,582",
          "endTime": "01:25:10,582"
        },
        {
          "index": 1564,
          "text": "with a",
          "startTime": "01:25:13,886",
          "endTime": "01:25:15,886"
        },
        {
          "index": 1565,
          "text": "final proposal for bend east.",
          "startTime": "01:25:15,889",
          "endTime": "01:25:17,889"
        },
        {
          "index": 1566,
          "text": "Part of that benefit district is some funds that get generated",
          "startTime": "01:25:18,292",
          "endTime": "01:25:20,526"
        },
        {
          "index": 1567,
          "text": "within that district, and so the",
          "startTime": "01:25:21,561",
          "endTime": "01:25:23,561"
        },
        {
          "index": 1568,
          "text": "existing old bend is up to about $85,000 or something right now.",
          "startTime": "01:25:25,832",
          "endTime": "01:25:27,500"
        },
        {
          "index": 1569,
          "text": "And so we've been talking with some of the folks out there,",
          "startTime": "01:25:28,568",
          "endTime": "01:25:30,536"
        },
        {
          "index": 1570,
          "text": "lauren and that group in the community, but the idea is that",
          "startTime": "01:25:31,104",
          "endTime": "01:25:33,740"
        },
        {
          "index": 1571,
          "text": "benefit, if they want something within that neighborhood, they",
          "startTime": "01:25:33,740",
          "endTime": "01:25:35,942"
        },
        {
          "index": 1572,
          "text": "can come to the city with ideas.",
          "startTime": "01:25:37,578",
          "endTime": "01:25:39,578"
        },
        {
          "index": 1573,
          "text": "A park bench or formalizing maybe some areas on the",
          "startTime": "01:25:40,800",
          "endTime": "01:25:42,615"
        },
        {
          "index": 1574,
          "text": "landscape that can be parked on that aren't in conflict with a",
          "startTime": "01:25:43,500",
          "endTime": "01:25:45,384"
        },
        {
          "index": 1575,
          "text": "water meter or fire hydrant as an example.",
          "startTime": "01:25:46,753",
          "endTime": "01:25:49,522"
        },
        {
          "index": 1576,
          "text": "There's a financial piece that we're trying to have, that that",
          "startTime": "01:25:50,491",
          "endTime": "01:25:53,226"
        },
        {
          "index": 1577,
          "text": "neighborhood can pick some things they'd like to maybe try",
          "startTime": "01:25:53,894",
          "endTime": "01:25:56,329"
        },
        {
          "index": 1578,
          "text": "and do and fund within their neighborhood.",
          "startTime": "01:25:57,731",
          "endTime": "01:25:59,432"
        },
        {
          "index": 1579,
          "text": "I'm grateful for everyone who",
          "startTime": "01:26:00,167",
          "endTime": "01:26:02,167"
        },
        {
          "index": 1580,
          "text": "wants that policy conversation, because the neighborhood, that",
          "startTime": "01:26:02,703",
          "endTime": "01:26:04,804"
        },
        {
          "index": 1581,
          "text": "money has been in the fund for quite a while and the neighborhood has not been able",
          "startTime": "01:26:05,439",
          "endTime": "01:26:08,208"
        },
        {
          "index": 1582,
          "text": "to figure out how they can actually use that money for the",
          "startTime": "01:26:08,609",
          "endTime": "01:26:10,610"
        },
        {
          "index": 1583,
          "text": "city, so hopefully that will be",
          "startTime": "01:26:11,111",
          "endTime": "01:26:13,111"
        },
        {
          "index": 1584,
          "text": "part of the policy discussion. >> I think we can make sure we",
          "startTime": "01:26:13,547",
          "endTime": "01:26:16,516"
        },
        {
          "index": 1585,
          "text": "provide direction to diamond, let's not enforce some of those",
          "startTime": "01:26:16,717",
          "endTime": "01:26:19,252"
        },
        {
          "index": 1586,
          "text": "things.",
          "startTime": "01:26:19,453",
          "endTime": "01:26:21,453"
        },
        {
          "index": 1587,
          "text": "that's all I'm asking. >> I don't agree with not",
          "startTime": "01:26:21,655",
          "endTime": "01:26:24,190"
        },
        {
          "index": 1588,
          "text": "enforcing parking the wrong way",
          "startTime": "01:26:24,558",
          "endTime": "01:26:26,558"
        },
        {
          "index": 1589,
          "text": "on the street. But I think --",
          "startTime": "01:26:27,761",
          "endTime": "01:26:29,329"
        },
        {
          "index": 1590,
          "text": "we have resources to do that",
          "startTime": "01:26:30,397",
          "endTime": "01:26:32,397"
        },
        {
          "index": 1591,
          "text": "city wide, what we're trying to",
          "startTime": "01:26:33,133",
          "endTime": "01:26:35,133"
        },
        {
          "index": 1592,
          "text": "do is do that where we have the parking district.",
          "startTime": "01:26:35,870",
          "endTime": "01:26:38,304"
        },
        {
          "index": 1593,
          "text": "We're asking for some discretion from our parking director.",
          "startTime": "01:26:39,173",
          "endTime": "01:26:41,141"
        },
        {
          "index": 1594,
          "text": "we want to be a little bit careful in the case of state law",
          "startTime": "01:26:41,909",
          "endTime": "01:26:44,143"
        },
        {
          "index": 1595,
          "text": "and we also want consistency across our community. Other districts as well.",
          "startTime": "01:26:45,780",
          "endTime": "01:26:48,648"
        },
        {
          "index": 1596,
          "text": "state law, you're not supposed to park the wrong",
          "startTime": "01:26:50,451",
          "endTime": "01:26:52,586"
        },
        {
          "index": 1597,
          "text": "direction?",
          "startTime": "01:26:52,586",
          "endTime": "01:26:54,586"
        },
        {
          "index": 1598,
          "text": "yes, with it is. Yes, it is.",
          "startTime": "01:26:58,492",
          "endTime": "01:27:00,827"
        },
        {
          "index": 1599,
          "text": "I'd be fine with doing that",
          "startTime": "01:27:01,462",
          "endTime": "01:27:03,462"
        },
        {
          "index": 1600,
          "text": "if we did it everywhere! (Indiscernible, simultaneous speaking).",
          "startTime": "01:27:04,164",
          "endTime": "01:27:06,267"
        },
        {
          "index": 1601,
          "text": "these neighborhoods have",
          "startTime": "01:27:06,267",
          "endTime": "01:27:08,267"
        },
        {
          "index": 1602,
          "text": "asked for extra enforcement. They wanted that.",
          "startTime": "01:27:08,669",
          "endTime": "01:27:10,437"
        },
        {
          "index": 1603,
          "text": "They want more enforcement of",
          "startTime": "01:27:10,671",
          "endTime": "01:27:12,671"
        },
        {
          "index": 1604,
          "text": "parking in their neighborhoods in rules and time limits because",
          "startTime": "01:27:12,940",
          "endTime": "01:27:15,142"
        },
        {
          "index": 1605,
          "text": "of the parking pressures that I were feeling.",
          "startTime": "01:27:15,142",
          "endTime": "01:27:17,344"
        },
        {
          "index": 1606,
          "text": "So to turn around -- due -- >> due to tourism.",
          "startTime": "01:27:19,547",
          "endTime": "01:27:22,482"
        },
        {
          "index": 1607,
          "text": "I know that's the case, but we need to acknowledge -- and",
          "startTime": "01:27:22,483",
          "endTime": "01:27:25,452"
        },
        {
          "index": 1608,
          "text": "then to turn around to the people enforcing the law,",
          "startTime": "01:27:25,853",
          "endTime": "01:27:28,622"
        },
        {
          "index": 1609,
          "text": "actually, never mind. I think we can find a balance",
          "startTime": "01:27:28,689",
          "endTime": "01:27:30,924"
        },
        {
          "index": 1610,
          "text": "here, but the parking pressures",
          "startTime": "01:27:31,159",
          "endTime": "01:27:33,159"
        },
        {
          "index": 1611,
          "text": "on these neighborhoods are the reasons they asked for",
          "startTime": "01:27:33,328",
          "endTime": "01:27:35,950"
        },
        {
          "index": 1612,
          "text": "enforcement. >> they're asking for the",
          "startTime": "01:27:35,496",
          "endTime": "01:27:37,197"
        },
        {
          "index": 1613,
          "text": "enforcement to go away, for the benefit district to be undone.",
          "startTime": "01:27:38,700",
          "endTime": "01:27:41,668"
        },
        {
          "index": 1614,
          "text": "I'd like to make sure we go through the public comment",
          "startTime": "01:27:42,360",
          "endTime": "01:27:43,837"
        },
        {
          "index": 1615,
          "text": "process on this and get a wide swath of comments.",
          "startTime": "01:27:45,373",
          "endTime": "01:27:47,674"
        },
        {
          "index": 1616,
          "text": "When your guest gets a ticket",
          "startTime": "01:27:48,776",
          "endTime": "01:27:50,776"
        },
        {
          "index": 1617,
          "text": "for coming over for dinner, yes, you'll write to us.",
          "startTime": "01:27:51,312",
          "endTime": "01:27:54,214"
        },
        {
          "index": 1618,
          "text": "we reinstated the paper visitor passes. We want it to work.",
          "startTime": "01:27:54,916",
          "endTime": "01:27:57,651"
        },
        {
          "index": 1619,
          "text": "We want to make improvements. The east old bend area -- well,",
          "startTime": "01:27:58,853",
          "endTime": "01:28:01,522"
        },
        {
          "index": 1620,
          "text": "actually it was all of that area.",
          "startTime": "01:28:01,723",
          "endTime": "01:28:03,824"
        },
        {
          "index": 1621,
          "text": "They did an effort and survey and the majority of the folks",
          "startTime": "01:28:05,226",
          "endTime": "01:28:07,761"
        },
        {
          "index": 1622,
          "text": "that responded are supportive of a new district on the east side",
          "startTime": "01:28:08,830",
          "endTime": "01:28:10,980"
        },
        {
          "index": 1623,
          "text": "too. There were some that were uncertain.",
          "startTime": "01:28:10,980",
          "endTime": "01:28:13,700"
        },
        {
          "index": 1624,
          "text": "But the majority of folks were looking for some help.",
          "startTime": "01:28:14,836",
          "endTime": "01:28:16,603"
        },
        {
          "index": 1625,
          "text": "And really in that area, we're",
          "startTime": "01:28:18,106",
          "endTime": "01:28:20,106"
        },
        {
          "index": 1626,
          "text": "looking to be proactive ahead of",
          "startTime": "01:28:20,375",
          "endTime": "01:28:22,375"
        },
        {
          "index": 1627,
          "text": "the continued commercial area with the box factory and the new",
          "startTime": "01:28:22,577",
          "endTime": "01:28:25,212"
        },
        {
          "index": 1628,
          "text": "developments and things that are",
          "startTime": "01:28:25,446",
          "endTime": "01:28:27,446"
        },
        {
          "index": 1629,
          "text": "going there, the timber yard was mentioned earlier tonight, be",
          "startTime": "01:28:28,383",
          "endTime": "01:28:30,250"
        },
        {
          "index": 1630,
          "text": "ahead of that and have a",
          "startTime": "01:28:35,824",
          "endTime": "01:28:37,824"
        },
        {
          "index": 1631,
          "text": "right if we start to regulate in the become area they will go",
          "startTime": "01:28:37,859",
          "endTime": "01:28:40,360"
        },
        {
          "index": 1632,
          "text": "to neighbors to park. Good to have something set up",
          "startTime": "01:28:41,663",
          "endTime": "01:28:43,731"
        },
        {
          "index": 1633,
          "text": "there.",
          "startTime": "01:28:43,731",
          "endTime": "01:28:45,731"
        },
        {
          "index": 1634,
          "text": "I am talking about locals. Not just tourists.",
          "startTime": "01:28:47,135",
          "endTime": "01:28:49,436"
        },
        {
          "index": 1635,
          "text": "We can find a happy medium here.",
          "startTime": "01:28:52,841",
          "endTime": "01:28:54,841"
        },
        {
          "index": 1636,
          "text": "that will happen when to come back in.",
          "startTime": "01:28:56,110",
          "endTime": "01:28:57,244"
        },
        {
          "index": 1637,
          "text": "we will look to come back in",
          "startTime": "01:28:58,180",
          "endTime": "01:29:00,180"
        },
        {
          "index": 1638,
          "text": "JUNE for recommendation on the proposed east.",
          "startTime": "01:29:01,817",
          "endTime": "01:29:03,551"
        },
        {
          "index": 1639,
          "text": "Two districts I talked about.",
          "startTime": "01:29:05,721",
          "endTime": "01:29:07,721"
        },
        {
          "index": 1640,
          "text": "We can have the bigger policy discussion.",
          "startTime": "01:29:12,600",
          "endTime": "01:29:13,928"
        },
        {
          "index": 1641,
          "text": "When they did the survey to help us guide with the new district.",
          "startTime": "01:29:16,798",
          "endTime": "01:29:19,300"
        },
        {
          "index": 1642,
          "text": "Existing district as well as new proposed area.",
          "startTime": "01:29:20,836",
          "endTime": "01:29:23,137"
        },
        {
          "index": 1643,
          "text": "94 comments were part of that.",
          "startTime": "01:29:24,500",
          "endTime": "01:29:26,500"
        },
        {
          "index": 1644,
          "text": "We will come back to you within",
          "startTime": "01:29:27,809",
          "endTime": "01:29:29,809"
        },
        {
          "index": 1645,
          "text": "put, concerns, questions.",
          "startTime": "01:29:30,545",
          "endTime": "01:29:32,545"
        },
        {
          "index": 1646,
          "text": "Existing district as well as how",
          "startTime": "01:29:33,182",
          "endTime": "01:29:35,182"
        },
        {
          "index": 1647,
          "text": "those apply to the new district.",
          "startTime": "01:29:35,584",
          "endTime": "01:29:37,584"
        },
        {
          "index": 1648,
          "text": "I move to authorize with diamonds parking services for",
          "startTime": "01:29:39,488",
          "endTime": "01:29:42,390"
        },
        {
          "index": 1649,
          "text": "city-wide parking management enforcement services in",
          "startTime": "01:29:43,250",
          "endTime": "01:29:45,793"
        },
        {
          "index": 1650,
          "text": "substantially form presented to",
          "startTime": "01:29:45,961",
          "endTime": "01:29:47,961"
        },
        {
          "index": 1651,
          "text": "council in an amount not to exceed $536,000 for the first",
          "startTime": "01:29:48,931",
          "endTime": "01:29:51,265"
        },
        {
          "index": 1652,
          "text": "year and authorize city manager",
          "startTime": "01:29:51,900",
          "endTime": "01:29:53,900"
        },
        {
          "index": 1653,
          "text": "to approve annual renewals in",
          "startTime": "01:29:54,470",
          "endTime": "01:29:56,470"
        },
        {
          "index": 1654,
          "text": "accordance with terms of",
          "startTime": "01:29:57,239",
          "endTime": "01:29:59,239"
        },
        {
          "index": 1655,
          "text": "agreement not to exceed $2,906,000 over five years.",
          "startTime": "01:29:59,274",
          "endTime": "01:30:01,644"
        },
        {
          "index": 1656,
          "text": "second.",
          "startTime": "01:30:01,644",
          "endTime": "01:30:03,644"
        },
        {
          "index": 1657,
          "text": "moved by perkins.",
          "startTime": "01:30:04,947",
          "endTime": "01:30:06,947"
        },
        {
          "index": 1658,
          "text": "Second by franzosa. In favor. >> aye. >> thank you.",
          "startTime": "01:30:08,684",
          "endTime": "01:30:11,619"
        },
        {
          "index": 1659,
          "text": "we have one second reading left.",
          "startTime": "01:30:13,220",
          "endTime": "01:30:15,220"
        },
        {
          "index": 1660,
          "text": "this is the second reading of",
          "startTime": "01:30:15,858",
          "endTime": "01:30:17,858"
        },
        {
          "index": 1661,
          "text": "ordinance amending bend",
          "startTime": "01:30:18,327",
          "endTime": "01:30:20,327"
        },
        {
          "index": 1662,
          "text": "development code bdc related to",
          "startTime": "01:30:22,531",
          "endTime": "01:30:24,531"
        },
        {
          "index": 1663,
          "text": "prepreservation requirements b d",
          "startTime": "01:30:24,967",
          "endTime": "01:30:26,967"
        },
        {
          "index": 1664,
          "text": "c-3.2.200, tree preservation.",
          "startTime": "01:30:27,470",
          "endTime": "01:30:29,470"
        },
        {
          "index": 1665,
          "text": "I need to declare conflict",
          "startTime": "01:30:30,973",
          "endTime": "01:30:32,973"
        },
        {
          "index": 1666,
          "text": "like the first reading. My employer is hidden homes.",
          "startTime": "01:30:35,111",
          "endTime": "01:30:36,845"
        },
        {
          "index": 1667,
          "text": "I will remove myself for this.",
          "startTime": "01:30:43,519",
          "endTime": "01:30:45,519"
        },
        {
          "index": 1668,
          "text": "we need a motion.",
          "startTime": "01:30:46,789",
          "endTime": "01:30:48,789"
        },
        {
          "index": 1669,
          "text": "move second reading roll call",
          "startTime": "01:30:48,958",
          "endTime": "01:30:50,958"
        },
        {
          "index": 1670,
          "text": "vote ordinance amending bend",
          "startTime": "01:30:52,928",
          "endTime": "01:30:54,928"
        },
        {
          "index": 1671,
          "text": "development code bd c-3.2.200",
          "startTime": "01:30:57,400",
          "endTime": "01:30:59,400"
        },
        {
          "index": 1672,
          "text": "tree preservation. >> second.",
          "startTime": "01:30:59,802",
          "endTime": "01:31:01,269"
        },
        {
          "index": 1673,
          "text": "motion by perkins, second platt. >> franzosa. >> yes. >> mendez.",
          "startTime": "01:31:03,539",
          "endTime": "01:31:06,508"
        },
        {
          "index": 1674,
          "text": "aye.",
          "startTime": "01:31:07,430",
          "endTime": "01:31:09,430"
        },
        {
          "index": 1675,
          "text": "riley.",
          "startTime": "01:31:09,111",
          "endTime": "01:31:11,111"
        },
        {
          "index": 1676,
          "text": "yes.",
          "startTime": "01:31:11,214",
          "endTime": "01:31:13,214"
        },
        {
          "index": 1677,
          "text": "perkins. >> yes. >> platt. >> yes. >> kebler. >> yes.",
          "startTime": "01:31:13,583",
          "endTime": "01:31:16,551"
        },
        {
          "index": 1678,
          "text": "city manager report.",
          "startTime": "01:31:17,420",
          "endTime": "01:31:19,420"
        },
        {
          "index": 1679,
          "text": "we have had a couple busy months and work sessions where",
          "startTime": "01:31:19,722",
          "endTime": "01:31:22,591"
        },
        {
          "index": 1680,
          "text": "we typically have time to say what is coming up on the next",
          "startTime": "01:31:23,426",
          "endTime": "01:31:26,195"
        },
        {
          "index": 1681,
          "text": "couple months? I want to share that with you.",
          "startTime": "01:31:26,195",
          "endTime": "01:31:29,131"
        },
        {
          "index": 1682,
          "text": "Lead in to earlier conversations",
          "startTime": "01:31:30,867",
          "endTime": "01:31:32,867"
        },
        {
          "index": 1683,
          "text": "proposal to share with you.",
          "startTime": "01:31:35,380",
          "endTime": "01:31:37,380"
        },
        {
          "index": 1684,
          "text": "APRIL next meeting on APRIL 1.",
          "startTime": "01:31:38,675",
          "endTime": "01:31:40,675"
        },
        {
          "index": 1685,
          "text": "Stevens ranch or legacy building.",
          "startTime": "01:31:42,245",
          "endTime": "01:31:43,512"
        },
        {
          "index": 1686,
          "text": "High points. APRIL 8 roundtable with the",
          "startTime": "01:31:45,882",
          "endTime": "01:31:48,150"
        },
        {
          "index": 1687,
          "text": "electrification policy work",
          "startTime": "01:31:48,918",
          "endTime": "01:31:50,918"
        },
        {
          "index": 1688,
          "text": "looking at exemptions",
          "startTime": "01:31:51,221",
          "endTime": "01:31:53,221"
        },
        {
          "index": 1689,
          "text": "implementation timeline inviting",
          "startTime": "01:31:54,157",
          "endTime": "01:31:56,157"
        },
        {
          "index": 1690,
          "text": "four city committees.",
          "startTime": "01:31:58,428",
          "endTime": "01:32:00,428"
        },
        {
          "index": 1691,
          "text": "Then on the 15th we have another",
          "startTime": "01:32:01,640",
          "endTime": "01:32:03,640"
        },
        {
          "index": 1692,
          "text": "master plan timber yards as item.",
          "startTime": "01:32:05,568",
          "endTime": "01:32:06,769"
        },
        {
          "index": 1693,
          "text": "We will have update.",
          "startTime": "01:32:09,939",
          "endTime": "01:32:11,939"
        },
        {
          "index": 1694,
          "text": "I will talk about that goal update.",
          "startTime": "01:32:12,575",
          "endTime": "01:32:13,809"
        },
        {
          "index": 1695,
          "text": "We will look at one year into",
          "startTime": "01:32:15,178",
          "endTime": "01:32:17,178"
        },
        {
          "index": 1696,
          "text": "work plan to go through prioritization we will talk",
          "startTime": "01:32:18,810",
          "endTime": "01:32:19,648"
        },
        {
          "index": 1697,
          "text": "about in a second. MAY 6 bura meeting.",
          "startTime": "01:32:21,170",
          "endTime": "01:32:23,886"
        },
        {
          "index": 1698,
          "text": "MAY 13 is a big work session.",
          "startTime": "01:32:25,288",
          "endTime": "01:32:27,288"
        },
        {
          "index": 1699,
          "text": "Prioritizing capital improvement program.",
          "startTime": "01:32:27,691",
          "endTime": "01:32:28,924"
        },
        {
          "index": 1700,
          "text": "If our grants hold we have room",
          "startTime": "01:32:30,627",
          "endTime": "01:32:32,627"
        },
        {
          "index": 1701,
          "text": "in geobond and transportation construction fund to address",
          "startTime": "01:32:33,363",
          "endTime": "01:32:35,798"
        },
        {
          "index": 1702,
          "text": "issues we talked about last",
          "startTime": "01:32:36,800",
          "endTime": "01:32:38,800"
        },
        {
          "index": 1703,
          "text": "night with parks and bridges.",
          "startTime": "01:32:39,603",
          "endTime": "01:32:41,603"
        },
        {
          "index": 1704,
          "text": "Areas cut to add on.",
          "startTime": "01:32:41,671",
          "endTime": "01:32:43,671"
        },
        {
          "index": 1705,
          "text": "Significant item on MAY 13.",
          "startTime": "01:32:44,641",
          "endTime": "01:32:46,641"
        },
        {
          "index": 1706,
          "text": "Along with the transient lodging tax about the shift.",
          "startTime": "01:32:47,344",
          "endTime": "01:32:49,678"
        },
        {
          "index": 1707,
          "text": "What does council want to do",
          "startTime": "01:32:52,349",
          "endTime": "01:32:54,349"
        },
        {
          "index": 1708,
          "text": "with that split shift from 70/30 to 50/50.",
          "startTime": "01:32:56,353",
          "endTime": "01:32:59,322"
        },
        {
          "index": 1709,
          "text": "Joint work session with rural fire district on 13th.",
          "startTime": "01:32:59,789",
          "endTime": "01:33:02,758"
        },
        {
          "index": 1710,
          "text": "I will stop there.",
          "startTime": "01:33:04,728",
          "endTime": "01:33:06,728"
        },
        {
          "index": 1711,
          "text": "It is a lot. We still have some other",
          "startTime": "01:33:07,531",
          "endTime": "01:33:09,865"
        },
        {
          "index": 1712,
          "text": "meetings to try to schedule roundtable ideas.",
          "startTime": "01:33:12,369",
          "endTime": "01:33:15,400"
        },
        {
          "index": 1713,
          "text": "One in southwest. Interaction.",
          "startTime": "01:33:17,941",
          "endTime": "01:33:19,408"
        },
        {
          "index": 1714,
          "text": "We will send out survey later this week.",
          "startTime": "01:33:21,212",
          "endTime": "01:33:22,478"
        },
        {
          "index": 1715,
          "text": "I will ask for your input how this is going.",
          "startTime": "01:33:23,246",
          "endTime": "01:33:25,281"
        },
        {
          "index": 1716,
          "text": "Six months into the new schedule",
          "startTime": "01:33:26,483",
          "endTime": "01:33:28,483"
        },
        {
          "index": 1717,
          "text": "with meeting every week.",
          "startTime": "01:33:28,752",
          "endTime": "01:33:30,752"
        },
        {
          "index": 1718,
          "text": "Layered on to that are special meetings.",
          "startTime": "01:33:30,954",
          "endTime": "01:33:32,221"
        },
        {
          "index": 1719,
          "text": "I want to test your capacity in",
          "startTime": "01:33:33,791",
          "endTime": "01:33:35,791"
        },
        {
          "index": 1720,
          "text": "terms how to manage.",
          "startTime": "01:33:36,930",
          "endTime": "01:33:38,930"
        },
        {
          "index": 1721,
          "text": "I would stay from staff",
          "startTime": "01:33:39,163",
          "endTime": "01:33:41,163"
        },
        {
          "index": 1722,
          "text": "perspective one city strategic plan. Off site with leadership.",
          "startTime": "01:33:41,565",
          "endTime": "01:33:44,534"
        },
        {
          "index": 1723,
          "text": "A lot of prep. Staff is feeling it.",
          "startTime": "01:33:45,235",
          "endTime": "01:33:47,804"
        },
        {
          "index": 1724,
          "text": "Partnership is seeing stress on elected and staff side.",
          "startTime": "01:33:49,390",
          "endTime": "01:33:51,400"
        },
        {
          "index": 1725,
          "text": "I would like to look at both the",
          "startTime": "01:33:54,311",
          "endTime": "01:33:56,311"
        },
        {
          "index": 1726,
          "text": "schedule how to prioritize those meetings.",
          "startTime": "01:33:57,470",
          "endTime": "01:33:58,948"
        },
        {
          "index": 1727,
          "text": "Prioritizing the work plan items as well.",
          "startTime": "01:33:59,650",
          "endTime": "01:34:00,883"
        },
        {
          "index": 1728,
          "text": "I am planning quarterly goal",
          "startTime": "01:34:02,286",
          "endTime": "01:34:04,286"
        },
        {
          "index": 1729,
          "text": "update in APRIL to take input",
          "startTime": "01:34:04,455",
          "endTime": "01:34:06,455"
        },
        {
          "index": 1730,
          "text": "from survey that you will see,",
          "startTime": "01:34:06,657",
          "endTime": "01:34:08,657"
        },
        {
          "index": 1731,
          "text": "coupled with ideas of things to",
          "startTime": "01:34:10,600",
          "endTime": "01:34:12,600"
        },
        {
          "index": 1732,
          "text": "slim down to make sure we are --",
          "startTime": "01:34:13,531",
          "endTime": "01:34:15,531"
        },
        {
          "index": 1733,
          "text": "sometimes we talk about this we",
          "startTime": "01:34:15,733",
          "endTime": "01:34:17,733"
        },
        {
          "index": 1734,
          "text": "go so fast and we might MISS Things. Slowing down is a good thing. It is hard.",
          "startTime": "01:34:19,700",
          "endTime": "01:34:21,905"
        },
        {
          "index": 1735,
          "text": "This is a community that expects a lot.",
          "startTime": "01:34:22,773",
          "endTime": "01:34:24,541"
        },
        {
          "index": 1736,
          "text": "Fast growing and want to do all of the things.",
          "startTime": "01:34:25,309",
          "endTime": "01:34:27,811"
        },
        {
          "index": 1737,
          "text": "Any effective organization is realistic about resources they",
          "startTime": "01:34:29,447",
          "endTime": "01:34:31,982"
        },
        {
          "index": 1738,
          "text": "have and how best to tackle these problems.",
          "startTime": "01:34:32,650",
          "endTime": "01:34:35,485"
        },
        {
          "index": 1739,
          "text": "I will ask for your help and guidance over the next couple",
          "startTime": "01:34:38,623",
          "endTime": "01:34:40,725"
        },
        {
          "index": 1740,
          "text": "months.",
          "startTime": "01:34:40,725",
          "endTime": "01:34:42,725"
        },
        {
          "index": 1741,
          "text": "for the start quarter one. I meeting every week.",
          "startTime": "01:34:45,196",
          "endTime": "01:34:47,964"
        },
        {
          "index": 1742,
          "text": "Three special meetings at least",
          "startTime": "01:34:48,833",
          "endTime": "01:34:50,833"
        },
        {
          "index": 1743,
          "text": "that I can think of maybe more. County, parks, roundtable, advisory summit.",
          "startTime": "01:34:54,205",
          "endTime": "01:34:56,573"
        },
        {
          "index": 1744,
          "text": "A lot going on in quarter one.",
          "startTime": "01:34:57,675",
          "endTime": "01:34:59,675"
        },
        {
          "index": 1745,
          "text": "When you look at survey look at",
          "startTime": "01:35:01,279",
          "endTime": "01:35:03,279"
        },
        {
          "index": 1746,
          "text": "maybe providing the rest of the",
          "startTime": "01:35:03,814",
          "endTime": "01:35:05,814"
        },
        {
          "index": 1747,
          "text": "year more breaks, more fifth weeks.",
          "startTime": "01:35:07,251",
          "endTime": "01:35:08,452"
        },
        {
          "index": 1748,
          "text": "I don't disagree that this is a particularly hard quarter to",
          "startTime": "01:35:10,755",
          "endTime": "01:35:13,900"
        },
        {
          "index": 1749,
          "text": "start the year.",
          "startTime": "01:35:13,491",
          "endTime": "01:35:15,491"
        },
        {
          "index": 1750,
          "text": "the other piece everybody",
          "startTime": "01:35:16,961",
          "endTime": "01:35:18,961"
        },
        {
          "index": 1751,
          "text": "else has commitments.",
          "startTime": "01:35:19,530",
          "endTime": "01:35:21,530"
        },
        {
          "index": 1752,
          "text": "Hrac or Coc board in addition. >> it is okay.",
          "startTime": "01:35:24,836",
          "endTime": "01:35:26,970"
        },
        {
          "index": 1753,
          "text": "We might have different perspective on council.",
          "startTime": "01:35:30,775",
          "endTime": "01:35:32,976"
        },
        {
          "index": 1754,
          "text": "Let's talk about it. I wanted to let you know that",
          "startTime": "01:35:33,411",
          "endTime": "01:35:36,280"
        },
        {
          "index": 1755,
          "text": "our notices for the bend central",
          "startTime": "01:35:38,750",
          "endTime": "01:35:40,750"
        },
        {
          "index": 1756,
          "text": "district economic improvement district went out.",
          "startTime": "01:35:41,386",
          "endTime": "01:35:43,687"
        },
        {
          "index": 1757,
          "text": "Delay with maps and properties.",
          "startTime": "01:35:48,393",
          "endTime": "01:35:50,393"
        },
        {
          "index": 1758,
          "text": "We re-noticed folks.",
          "startTime": "01:35:51,896",
          "endTime": "01:35:53,896"
        },
        {
          "index": 1759,
          "text": "If you get contacted new notice is going out.",
          "startTime": "01:35:54,833",
          "endTime": "01:35:56,934"
        },
        {
          "index": 1760,
          "text": "Public hearing council will see in the next couple weeks.",
          "startTime": "01:35:57,235",
          "endTime": "01:36:00,400"
        },
        {
          "index": 1761,
          "text": "I will put more information in",
          "startTime": "01:36:00,872",
          "endTime": "01:36:02,872"
        },
        {
          "index": 1762,
          "text": "the memo so you are aware. I think that was it.",
          "startTime": "01:36:03,608",
          "endTime": "01:36:06,143"
        },
        {
          "index": 1763,
          "text": "A lot of public engagement with projects now.",
          "startTime": "01:36:08,713",
          "endTime": "01:36:10,614"
        },
        {
          "index": 1764,
          "text": "There is too much -- open houses",
          "startTime": "01:36:17,589",
          "endTime": "01:36:19,589"
        },
        {
          "index": 1765,
          "text": "and things. >> downtown bend library closing",
          "startTime": "01:36:20,492",
          "endTime": "01:36:22,560"
        },
        {
          "index": 1766,
          "text": "to be renovated in APRIL will be",
          "startTime": "01:36:24,796",
          "endTime": "01:36:26,796"
        },
        {
          "index": 1767,
          "text": "closed for a year. Central library opening MAY 11.",
          "startTime": "01:36:27,165",
          "endTime": "01:36:30,133"
        },
        {
          "index": 1768,
          "text": "They have ability to pick up and",
          "startTime": "01:36:31,336",
          "endTime": "01:36:33,336"
        },
        {
          "index": 1769,
          "text": "drop off books at central",
          "startTime": "01:36:33,839",
          "endTime": "01:36:35,839"
        },
        {
          "index": 1770,
          "text": "library east side for folks that",
          "startTime": "01:36:35,907",
          "endTime": "01:36:37,907"
        },
        {
          "index": 1771,
          "text": "care about downtown access.",
          "startTime": "01:36:38,643",
          "endTime": "01:36:40,643"
        },
        {
          "index": 1772,
          "text": "It will be great when finished painful closure.",
          "startTime": "01:36:41,513",
          "endTime": "01:36:42,913"
        },
        {
          "index": 1773,
          "text": "can you pick up and drop off downtown?",
          "startTime": "01:36:45,550",
          "endTime": "01:36:47,885"
        },
        {
          "index": 1774,
          "text": "apparently library board discussed that to make sure it",
          "startTime": "01:36:48,186",
          "endTime": "01:36:50,654"
        },
        {
          "index": 1775,
          "text": "is ada accessible while they",
          "startTime": "01:36:54,226",
          "endTime": "01:36:56,226"
        },
        {
          "index": 1776,
          "text": "renovate building it is tough. They weren't able to figure out",
          "startTime": "01:36:56,528",
          "endTime": "01:36:58,162"
        },
        {
          "index": 1777,
          "text": "how to do that.",
          "startTime": "01:37:00,265",
          "endTime": "01:37:02,265"
        },
        {
          "index": 1778,
          "text": "thank you for the update.",
          "startTime": "01:37:03,569",
          "endTime": "01:37:05,569"
        },
        {
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    "text": "order and we will begin with our\nroll call. Councilor franzosa.\nMendez: mendez.\nRiley: riley.\nKebler: kebler.\nPerkins: perkins.\nMoranis: moranis.\nPlatt: platt.\nso we're going to start with\nthe good of the order first with our legislative update from\nstaff.\ngood evening, council, I'm kite schneider and with me is\nsarah hudson and we're just here to give a brief update of the short session.\nAs you know, it ended earlier this month.\nWe put together an issue summary trying to highlight the most\nimportant bills to the city, but\neric is our contract state lobbyist, so the one on the\nground and we wanted to give you a chance to hear directly from\nhim on the more important bills this session.\nthanks, kate.\nFor the record, eric kansler, city of bend lobbyist.\nIt's good to see you all. I think there's really four\nprimary issues to talk about.\nAs kate alluded, we have formalized legislative\npriorities, a press release about where we focused our\nattention, but in terms of on-the-ground interaction and\nwhat we were really invested in,\nthere was primarily the lodging\ntax issue, the protection of\nshelter funding, and then a couple housing issues related to\nurban reserves and complete\ncommunities.\nThe effort to gain flexibility has been going on for a long time.\nThe first time I engaged on the the city's behalf was 2017,\nalmost a decade ago.\nIt took a lot of buildup. A lot of past efforts built on\nthemselves and led to the\nsuccess this session, and effectively what happened is I\nthink you all know that under\nthe historic regime, 70% of the lodging tax dollars had to be\nearmarked for tourism and\nmarketed oriented purposes,\nleaving 30% for other things,\ngeneral fund or a mix of responsibilities.\nThe 70/30 has now shifted to 50/50, and that is true whether\nor not you're lodging tax\nincrement is pre-2003, a lot of\nwhich was grandfathered in. Post-2003 and already existing\nor whether it's prospective in\nthe future, so bend, our health\ncare pre-2003 lodging taxes is\nbetter than 50/50, so this doesn't affect us in that regard.\nThere are local governments, cities, and counties\ngrandfathered in at a very high ratio. Wayne county was grandfathered\nin to use all of their increment for marketing.\nNow they have a considerable amount of flexibility.\nSo there's flexibility we can consider with the 2013 increment\nand then there's flexibility\nshould the city decide to consider another increment in\nthe future.\nAnd at a high level, that is really -- the bill is very\nsimple in that regard. There was one additional element\nmoved into the restricted\nportion which involves what the\nlegislature turned resiliency grants for small restaurants and the lodging industry.\nIt was a bit of an odd fit. It was important for getting the\nbill out of the house, but nobody really loved it.\nThere was consideration about whether they should strip it\nout, send it back to the house for a clean fix.\nThey left it in, moved it\nthrough, so it's quite possible that I don't know if the\nlegislature is going to come back in the long session and\nre-look at that one little element, but I don't think it's\nreally a game changer. It's just an additional thing\nthe restricted portion could be used for.\nBut it's not just a handout. You need a business or\nrestaurant experiencing some\nsort of hardship was the intent.\nSo that's a component of it as well.\nSo moving on -- and that was our number-one policy priority.\nOur number-one budgetary\npriority in materials of\ndiscrete budgetary priorities\nwas protecting the shelter funding established through a lot of work including by the\ncity of bend and others ahead of\nand during the 2025 session.\nThere was a lot of speculation that that allocation for shelter\nfunding which is pretty bare bones for essential facilities\naround the state would get robbed to pay for some other things.\nOf course, we had maybe six\nmonths out before session really dire-looking revenue forecasts\nand they got incrementally\nbetter as we got into session.\nso fortunately, that allocation\nwas kept entirely intact and so that means -- that was our\nnumber-one budgetary priority,\nso on those two fronts, we did very well.\nOf course, we were part of large groups of people who were on the\none hand fighting for lodging tax flexibility and on the other\nhand protecting shelter funding.\nIt certainly wasn't the city of bend leading the charge, but it\nwas a really good group of people and we were at the\nforefront with them.\nMore specifically to our initiatives are two concepts\nthat we talked about I think the\nlast time I met and presented in\nfront of you all prior to session.\nBoth in the land use and housing realm.\nThe first is related to urban\nreserves. We've spent a number of years\nhere trying to improve the statute and rules standard for\nhow you can designate a 50-year urban reserve to allow us to\nbring in a 50-year land supply that's actually conducive\ntowards efficient infrastructure and building housing.\nAnd I would say bend has been at the forefront at the state level\nof the effort to improve the urban reserve process.\nWe passed a big bill, senator\nbroadman was a sponsor in '25, and there was one piece of\nunfinished business around how\nyou can account for the cost of serving potential parcels\noutside the ugb.\nWe were stuck with the regime previously where oftentimes we'd\nhave to bring in very expensive to serve parcels, and that\ntranslates to increase in housing costs.\nSo we were able to get that through in an amendment to a\nmuch larger bill, house bill 4037.\nIt was sort of a housing omnibus bill and now that's passed\nthrough what's required to just\nliterally adopt that into their rule making on urban reserves.\nAnd then lastly in terms of the\nbig issues that we were involved\nin is the topic of -- you can look at it a couple of different ways.\nI would look at it as a\nprotection of complete community planning.\nThis city, if not more than\nother cities, has made a\ndeliberate effort to mix uses, neighborhood serving commercial\ntogether with residential, walking, biking, transit, trying\nto blend all of those things and create the neighborhood that\npeople want to live in at all of\nthe price points that they need.\nAnd in the '23 or the '21 session, senate bill 8 was\npassed that created a by-right ability to do affordable housing projects anywhere in the city.\nWe broadly supported that, still broadly do support it.\nActually lobbied in that session\nto make -- I think it was '21 --\nto make it more expansive.\nOne part we kind of overshot and this is coming to light in other\ncommunities around the state is\nwhen you've got these\nneighborhood customer nodes, one\nor two projects can really take\nthat neighborhood-serving commercial opportunity away entirely.\nObviously that's a big issue in this community.\nit's becoming a big issue in other communities.\nAlso as an amendment to 4037, we moved through language that kind\nof got a foot in the door and protected those\nneighborhood-serving commercial areas.\nThat's not going to be the end of the story in the interim, and\nI've been in pretty regular contact with the housing staff\nin the governor's office about\nhow to take this conversation forward.\nI think there'll be a really robust interim conversation\nabout what cities need and what\ncommunities want in terms of complete community planning.\nAnd I, for one, am very excited\nabout being able to to get what we need in the moment and create\nan opportunity I think for a\nmuch more robust and comprehensive solution around\nall of those needs.\nSo those are the main issues. Obviously there were a bunch of\nother issues, but I know we're\nshort on time here tonight. >> yeah, any questions from council?\nWe sent out some information on this as well.\nGo ahead.\non the sb 1551 related to\nwildfire and the hoas, it all\napplies to existing hoas, as well?\nIt just removes their ability to\nset any any restrictions on materials?\nthere was a previous bill I'm\nthinking back to when there was\na governor-declared drought that\nthe hoa couldn't stop you from watering your lawn.\nI don't think this has a pre-condition like that.\nin my understanding, it was around landscaping too.\nJust water-wise, plants and\nthings like that that the hoa\ncouldn't prevent people from using those.\nthe other question I had was\non the 4037, there's a\ndescription in the issue summary\nthat talks about -- it prohibits a public hearing to consider the\napplication for developments\nthat are subject to clear and objective review standards.\nCan you just talk a little bit more and maybe it's more a\nquestion for staff.\nHow would this show up in our community?\nthat would probably be a\nbetter question for staff, but I\ncan say thematically it was --\nthat's part of expediting. If you're going to do things\nwith clear established standards, do you need to go\nthrough all the public participation notice and whatnot.\nAnd I think that is indicative of a number of policies that\nwe've seen where they're trying\nto speed things along if you're needing those clear and objective standards.\nBut in terms of the specific change, I'd probably want to\ndefer to planning staff on that.\nwas that in response to -- I forget the name of the\ncommunity, sherwood, where they passed some kind of -- was this\na response to that? >> I don't think so.\nwas it sherwood?\nsherwood has passed some\nlocal measures that are clashing\nwith state directives, but this\nwas more of how we could speed up the housing process.\nand I don't know if it's a response to what the city of\nsherwood has done, but I think what sherwood has done and what\nthis bill did in that regard, they are opposite ends of the\ncontinuum of views on how applications for housing\ndevelopment should work. I think that's accurate.\nI mean, is there an example of how something would be treated differently in our\ncommunity recently with this\nbill in place? >> I would probably want to talk\nto planning staff, and I don't know if it's an issue of people\nbeing treated, it's what applications for needed housing\ncan be subject to in terms of processing.\nBut it does prohibit local jurisdiction from requiring a\npublic hearing prior to making a decision on an application that\nis subject to clear and\nobjective standards because it seeks (Indistinct).\nI'll provide some information and put it in the council memo\nso you can get all the details. >> okay, thanks.\nany other questions? Okay, I did also want to\nhighlight just in theme with our meeting tonight that there was a\nlot of work the legislature did\non immigration rights and also a bill under reforming care and we\ndid weigh in on a couple of those in support of those for\nour community which did pass.\nAny other questions for staff? Okay.\nthank you.\nmany of you helped us with\ntestifying orally or with\nletters, so I just wanted to thank council for their\nengagement this session. >> and thank our legislators for\ngetting so much done.\nyeah, I think that is important as well.\nOur legislators were deeply involved in a lot of these\nissues and also as well we didn't mention the bigger\nrevenue picture they needed to solve. Our senator and representatives\nwere key on these issues. We were able to work closely\nwith with staff and our electeds, and that's important.\nthe bend delegation had a very good session.\nI think the central oregon delegation broadly is kind of\ncoming into its own, starting to\ngel gel, and that's\nas well.\nall right, thank you.\nAll right, that will move us into council action and reports.\nAnd so before we get into individual reports, I wanted to\nstart with a report out from our neighborhood roundtable that happened on thursday and just\nhave a little discussion around that.\nSo for folks who weren't there\nor didn't know about it, this\nwas a new format. The roundtable, we meet as\ncouncil and sit in a discussion tail and have\ntable and have a listening discussion rather than a formal meeting.\nThe format of this meeting was a presentation from staff about some of the issues that are\ngoing on in southeast bend where there's a lot of growth and\nchange and infrastructure investment to lay the scene.\nThen we sat at the table with three neighborhood districts in\nthat area to talk about what they'd like to see and some\nissues and concerns on a couple\nof topics we knew they wanted to\ntalk about, wildfire,\nneighborhood issues, and folks\ncould talk to city staff, get questions answered, councilors\nto mingle with folks.\nFrom my understanding, it was very successful. I'd love hear feedback from\ncouncil on that format and talk about where we can go next.\nWe also have multiple different neighborhoods now asking us to\nhave the same type of meeting for their corner of town which I\nthink is great. So reflections from councilors\non how that went and then we can talk about what we want to do next.\nDoes anybody have any thoughts?\nI loved that format.\nDitto: ditto.\nI thought it was amazing to have so many staff present with\nso many community members where a community member would come up\nand have a question and if I didn't know the answer, I could\nsay you need to go and talk to this staff person over here and\noff they'd go and someone else\nwould come up, so I feel like there was lots of circulating\nand information sharing and lots of good questions answered.\nSo I thought it was great.\nI think the real question for us\nis how many of these can we do.\nright.\nI think it was really helpful\nfor people in that part of town to get the bigger picture of\nwhat's going on and for folks who haven't connected as much\nwith the planning efforts that have gone on in the past to come\nand get up to speed. I think people really\nappreciated that, and I think there was a lot of additional\nquestions it generated, but some aha moments as well.\nOh, there's actually more of this happening that I understood\nand anticipated. I didn't know that project was\ncoming soon in terms of the transportation improvement.\nAnd I think that kind of information sharing is really\nvaluable in a community. >> steven?\njust the fact, really kudos\nto the planning staff and our transportation talking about\nreally just as you said, councilor riley, there is a lot\nof thinking going on. There's a lot of forward\nthinking going on and I saw a\nlot of ahas in the audience of folks, particularly when they\nwere building out showing how the transportation system had evolved over time.\nThat was so effective and so many people come up and talk to\nme, so eric, really well done on the team for that.\nThat really got the message out\nwell and I'd love to see that in the other four corners around\ntown.\nI'd love to see that. >> right.\nSo I think we've had a specific request that I've seen from our\nsouthwest neighborhoods, but I know other neighborhood groups\nare interested as well.\nI don't know what the next step, eric, would be?\nMaybe in the next quarter, try to find another time we can do\nanotherone of these? >> there's general support from\nstaff, now that we've built the\nmodel, to do it in groups of neighborhoods. That makes a lot of sense.\nSo we'll come back with a plan\non exactly when and we'll poll council to see when you're\navailable and plan for a similarly structured event where\nwe have direct engagement,\nroundtable discussion, and some level-set presentations as part\nof that format.\nI just wanted to do a\nshout-out to renee mitchell for\nbeing the vortex for making this first one happen.\nThere was a lot of learning and it's the first time and I think\nwe'll get more efficient, but many staff participated and I\nappreciate everybody who was there, but in particular renee\njust really pulling this together and making it happen.\ngreat, yeah.\nAnd shoutout to old farm, larkspur, and southeast bend for\nhelping get the word out, it was\nwell attended which was great. >> can I point out, I think\nfollowing on what your comment\nwas, councilor mendez, we have a couple of outstanding\nroundtables we've committed to\nholding with the human rights and equity commission,\nelectrification fees separately,\nand some other things, so I just\nwant to kind of raise that flag of our ability to kind of meet\nall of these requests as well as have our business meetings and\nwork sessions and we're taking a\nbreak at some point, JULY, AUGUST, so I would really love\nto see the full calendar\npicture. >> to make sure we're meeting\nour agenda on the work that needs to get done.\nI'll actually going to talk about that in my report tonight.\nWe're going to send out a survey. I'm going to propose -- I'll\ntalk about it in my report tonight.\nsince we're going to talk\nabout schedule later and survey council, I think fitting the\nroundtables into that idea of what might be happening next and\nwhat we should prioritize makes\na lot of sense. >> okay, thank you.\nokay, so moving to individual\nreports, councilor franzosa?\nyes, I attended a meeting of\nthe central oregon\ntransportation committee, the odot feedback committee, and so\nwe had some further discussions about the project that central\noregon would be putting toward to odot for funding.\nIt was not a public meeting. I think our next public meeting\nis APRIL 9th where we'll be actually voting and then really\ndetermining what projects go forward. So I'll actually forward that\nspreadsheet to everyone so you\nguys can look at it.\nThat's been my activity. >> councilor mendez?\nyeah, thank you.\nOn saturday, MARCH 7th, I attended civics lab human\nlibrary edition in redmond.\nThat was a good experience to\ntalk with people about basically\nhow people feel about belonging in their community.\nAnd it was an opportunity to meet people I hadn't met before\nin some cases and in some cases\nfamiliar faces, but to talk\nabout an issue that I think is\ncentral for all of us up here and people perceive it in different ways.\nAnd I think it was a good\nopportunity to hear different perspectives.\nSo that was a welcome opportunity.\nAnd yesterday, MARCH 17th, the bend metropolitan planning\norganization and budget\ncommittee met and recommended passing its fiscal year 2027\nbudget.\nThe two items of note on there\nwere some discussion of concerns about the future of federal\ntransportation funding. There's a lot up in the air\nright now and nobody really\nknows what congress is going to do. And that could have some\nimportant effects for us locally.\nAnd we also discussed the\nallocation of state highway\nfunds for street preservation and safety and transit initiatives.\nThere's a large amount of discretion over how those funds\nare allocated, so we had some discussion about whether we felt\nlike we wanted to revisit that allocation.\nAnd I think that we'll continue to have that discussion as we\nmove forward. >> great, councilor riley?\none, I just wanted to say thank you to a couple folks.\nOne was the folks at embrace bend who organized the civics\nlab and the human library thing. I also participated in that and\nthoght it was a great event. I went to -- I wanted to thank\nthe organizers of a film shown\nup at cocc last friday. It tells the story of the\nkilling of a young palestinian girl in gaza and the adults in\nthe palestinian red cross in the west bank trying to reach and save her.\nIt's a recreation of what happened a year-and-a-half ago.\nVery powerful, very moving film about all that's going on in\nthat part of the world. And in particular, there was a\ngentleman named omar who joined\nus live after the film from ramallah and the west bank.\nHe was one of the adults\nportrayed in the film and was working in the red crescent\noffice when this all transpired.\nHim making the effort, it was 5 A.M. In the morning his time\nwhen we showed the film. It was his first speaking\nengagement in the U.S. And it was all virtual, so I want to\nthank him and his translator who\nwas from the washington D.C. Area as well.\nI went on a tour of home-made toffee.\nThey're in a building that's strictly organic coffee, and I\nwant to thank don mill for making that happen and randy who\nwas the owner and ceo hosting us\nand talking with us honestly about all the challenges she\nfacing, including some she experienced with the city of\nbend in terms of getting some permits. There was interesting learning\nthere. Councilor platt and mayor kebler\nwere also there. We already talked about the\nroundtable. The last thing I wanted to share\nwith folks, the board meeting\nlast week, we agreed to support\nthe central oregon civic action\nproject which josh burgess started.\nCioc is going to be acting as a fiscal agent to help them get\nstarted as a non-profit and hopefully receive a pretty big\ngrant to help them become an independent organization and\nfund their activities over the next several years.\nEric sheridan, his report to us last week about an event coming\nup on APRIL 7th from 1 to 3 in redmond.\nThere's an overview of the civic assembly tool and what it's\nabout and how it can be used in communities. I plan to go.\nIf anybody wants to go, reach out to me and we can figure out\nhow to get there.\nSo I'm pleased that cioc is going to be helping launch that.\nI think it's a valuable tool that could be used\n(Indistinct). >> all right, councilor perkins?\nwell, first I guess shoutout\nto all the teachers who are doing all the important work\nthis week of doing school conferences. I've had many, many conferences\nand have many more tomorrow. But just thank you to them for\nall that they're doing.\nI guess picking three things,\none is the coordinated houseless\nresponse office board met and we\ngot an update on the\npoint-in-time count and we're\nhoping to get that information next month.\nThere were some data issues interestingly not with the\nunsheltered but more so in the\nshelters with coordination, and so they are frantically and\ndiligently making sure that the\ndata that we do receive as a community is as correct as it\ncan be.\nI wanted just to highlight sort\nof the importance of funding.\nWe were able to, with our small\namount of money that we had at\nthe response office, did an rfp\nsort of to fill for service\nproviders and organizations to\nhelp fill any gaps that they have in services that they're\nproviding. And there were 23 applications,\nwhich is the most that coic has ever received for an rfp which\ngoes to show you what we're dealing with here.\nAnd these are all organizations that you have heard of.\nI'd like to highlight the ones\nthat we did decide to fund.\nOne of them is an antitrafficking project.\nThis provides rapid rehousing\nfor youth who are in danger or\nare currently being trafficked.\nWe gave some money to bend church for I think it's called\ntheir open door program, which\npeople can come and get things\nthat they need, toiletries or\nfood or just any kind of supplies.\nWe gave money to saving grace for obviously for domestic\nviolence survivors, but this is\nfor finding emergency shelter or\nmotel placements for saving grace.\nAnd we gave money to habitat for humanity. These are for people that are\nnot in habitat homes but are in homes and have an issue,\nsomething that needs fixing in their homes that they can not\nafford.\nthis goes in and says we'll replace your window -- it keeps\npeople in their homes, so it's a\ngreat one too, and we gave money\nto st. Vincent de paul of redmond.\nIt felt good to give what we could.\nAnd to jump off that, today I\nwas able to sort of pitch the\nbend business roundtable group\nas a representative from the coordinated housing response office.\nI've been talking about how we've been actively trying to\nfind a public-private\npartnership in order to get more funding.\nAnd this would be funding for\nhelping get our workforce that\nis homeless, that is experiencing homelessness,\nfinding some more stable housing, because there are a lot\nof our workforce that is actively homeless.\nI've shared this statistic a lot. But 20% of the people that live\nin our emergency shelter, that\nare sleeping on cots every night, go to work every day, so\nwe need to do something as a community to support that.\nSo we are trying to get -- the response was fantastic.\nThere are a lot of people, a lot of businesses that really care\nabout this. They know some of these people\nare their employees, so we're\ngoing forward with awesome purpose and enthusiasm, and I\nhope that we can see something\ncome out of this in the near future.\nAnd then finally, just wanted to\nshare a little bit about the commission meeting. we will talk a little bit more\nabout the resolution later, but\njust to summarize the gist of the conversation that the human\nrights and equity commission had\non this, they saw it as a yes/and. So yes, we're doing this\nresolution, and what more can we do as a city.\nBecause there are a lot of\npeople that are living in fear.\nWe also got an update on the\nequity process with hiring the\nnew individuals for the city of bend and restructuring, and I\nwould say the summary of those comments were how do we do\nbuy-in and what's going to be different this time around.\nThey wanted to make sure there was going to be something\ndifferent.\nAnd then finally, we talked with\nbend duncan, the equity consultant, about prioritizing\nthe massive amount of work that hrec wants to do, that the city\nwould like for hrec to do, that the community wants hrec to do,\nand that conversation is going to continue.\nall right, thank you. Councilor norris?\nyes,\njust briefly, I attended the southwest meeting as well\nand I appreciated the turnout and the tenure and the\nconversation. Everyone is really respectful\nand it was a good dialogue, so I\nappreciated that.\nParks and rec meeting along with\nwall my fellow councilors. Great to find more opportunities\nto work together with bprd.\nThat's it. >> councilor platt?\nI had the honor of going to\nthe provost reception at the\ncascades where they were talking\nabout what those funds are going to do and were able to point\nover to the big hill and say that big hill is going to be\ngone and they're going to have this fantastic facility that's\ngoing to serve a lot of the needs for the student body there.\nIt's been a long time coming and that was really great.\nThey were just glowing at that ability. >> and community members will\nhave access to it as well. >> exactly.\nyeah, it's going to be beautiful.\nThe planning commission is going to bring timber yards coming\nback our away, going to the planning commission. An interesting discussion, a\ncouple last week. And then I think I'll leave it\nthere. >> okay, thank you.\nYeah, we did have a joint meeting with the bend parks and\nrec district board last night, which I thought was really great\nand we had a good chance to talk\nabout how we can both work together on housing and\naffordable housing in particular but also some other projects\nwe're working together on including the riverfront project\nand our bridges over in drake park and along the river and how\nwe can improve those and work together on that.\nSo more to come, already started talking with eric about how to\nstructure our leadership meetings and get us to a point\nfor recommendations for each of the bodies around the housing\ntopics. Eric and I were at the rural\nfire district meeting on\nlong-term funding and so we will\nbe having a work session in MAY that we're going to invite the\nrural fire board to sit with us for part of that and talk about\nthe plan that we've come up\nwith, which is very succinctly\nto look at renewing our fire levy in 2028 and immediately\nafter that looking at the feasibility study for what other\nlong-term funding options might be possible. In the meantime, we are\ncurrently doing a study around\nour ems and ambulance costs and what those are going to look\nlike and how we can recover those and going forward from there.\nSo looking forward to having them here with us and discussing\nand finalizing that plan.\nWent to dvba's meeting this morning. Good discussion as always.\nOne thing to highlight, we reflected back our discussion on\nfranklin, which they were thankful for.\nThey are working on a paid\nparking plan to sort of take to their stakeholders and bring to\nus in JUNE when they do an update. That will be the next time we\nhear about that from them. Otherwise, we're looking forward\nto the city events, one in MAY just down the street here at one\nof the local business parking\nlots that we're putting together and that will be great to\ncoincide with one of the firth first fridays.\nI had a chance to sit in this\nroom with a bunch of cub scouts\ntoday and they're learning about local government. It was basically a little mini\ntown hall. I got asked everything from when\nare we getting an in and out to\nhow I get elected. Really good questions actually,\nroundabouts and all sorts of things, so that was really nice\nand they always like when they\nget to come up and use the gavel. Everyone took a turn.\nWith that, I think we are done with our council action and\nreport section, so we'll move on to visitors section. This is the time for members of\nthe public to give us your comments. And our rules are that you\naddress the council as a body, not individually.\nThat you come on up to a table if you're here in person and\nthere's a timer over here that\nwill show your two minutes and it will blink yellow at you when\nyou have 30 seconds left. And we ask that you be\nrespectful in your comments and\nthat you not disrupt the meeting with your comments tonight.\nOkay, so let's start with our online, because we just have\none, so we'll have michelle go\nand then we can move to our in-person. >> great.\nIs the audio working okay?\nyes, we can hear you, michelle, hold on one second.\ngood evening, yes, that\nsoutheast bend roundtable was\ngreat, asking city planners\nquestions in the booth and the\nroundtable itself. So there was a roundtable\nquestion, what commercial development is desired.\nThe responses were verbally recapped, however a key item was\nmissed in the verbal recap. Southeast bend clearly said we\ndo not want for this gas stations approved across from\nelementary schools. The no gas station response\nwasn't in the verbal recap, so firstly I'm here tonight to make\nsure it gets in the public record.\nClear response, no gas stations.\nSecondly, I'd like to confirm if the conditions that got us that\ngas station by the school are still in place.\nAnd if another gas station would\nget approved by this city council.\nBasically, I'm asking if any\ndecision to update the planning\ntext of the zoning law and the associated 13 conditions was\nmade or has any decision been\nmade as to how council\ninterprets that zoning? Specifically auto-intensive uses\nlike a gas station across from our kids' elementary school.\nIf no decisions to make changes\nwere done, then no decision is a decision.\nAnd the council has left in place the exact same conditions\nthat got us that gas station\nacross from an elementary school.\nOur neighborhood had over 2500 signatures in a petition, a\nwebsite, we raised $10,000. We had a lot of activism.\nWe need to put our money into making sure council doesn't\napprove gas stations or enable conditions that permit it.\nWhy does this matter? Beyond the obvious negative\nimpacts, we've already had one\nschool child hit on a bike on a roundabout. Thankfully, the child is okay.\nBut these hits and near misses\nare occurring before the gas station and drive-through are\nbuilt is horrifying. None of us wants a further\ntragedy or have another gas administration approved near an\nelementary school. I would appreciate a response as\npart of the public record on behalf of those 2500 people that\nwere active in our community on this issue.\nThank you. >> thank you.\nEarly last year, we changed the cc zone to not allow\nauto-dependent uses, so that's been done.\nSo thank you. >> thanks.\nokay, so that will move us\ninto in person, so let's start\nwith johnathan westmoreland. And please introduce yourself\nand state whether you live in the city of bend.\nhi, I live in bend. Bear with me, I am going to try\nfor the first time to not read\nthis verbatim and actually have a conversation.\nThere was a number I want you to\nstick with you guys today,\nthat's 45%. I scraped from the league of\noregon cities the e-mail addresses for all the city\nemployees including your own. There were 62 of them.\n28 of them have been involved in data breaches.\nThat's almost half, 45%.\nSome of those data breaches involved password data.\nI'm saying this to you not as\nlike a gotcha but this is why\nend-to-end encryption is such an important deal.\nAnd sb 1516 passed, and I think that's great.\nThere's a lot of good stuff in there.\nBut I'd like for bend to see\nthat as a floor and not the ceiling.\nAnd as you go through contracts\nwith these vendors, especially\nfor security, just be very\ndiligent and make sure that the public's security and data\nprivacy rights are being observed. So moving forward, I've got some\nquestions that I think you\nshould be asking yourself. One, at the state capitol, why\nwere so many ordinary citizens willing to take time out of\ntheir lives to advocate for\nhaving end-to-end encryption\ndefined in the bill.\nTwo, why did flock, axon lobby against this?\nAfter learning about flock's\ndata security practices and\ncanceling flock in JANUARY, how\ndo you feel knowing that axon\nand vera mobility currently have partnerships with flock and how\nare you going to protect bend\nresidents from corporations in the future.\nI gave this to her. I'll e-mail you one every week\njust to open a conversation with\nyou and get your internet\nbubbles and algorithms that are\nnot going to show you what they're going to show me and my software friends.\nthank you very much.\nall right, thank you.\ntodd? ?\nhi, I'm todd.\nI live in bend.\nand I'm speaking on behalf of the southern crossing\nneighborhood association as chair.\nWe were pleased to see you had a southeast bend roundtable.\nI recently asked representatives of the southeast bend and\ncentury west neighborhood districts if they would like to\nparticipate with us in a roundtable for southwest bend.\nI explained that southern crossing's focus was on the\nbond, brookswood, and reed market given all the growth in the area.\nThey said they were interested in discussing that as well.\nWe would like to meet soon, since some council funding\ndecisions are coming up that are\nrelevant to these discussions.\nIn the near term, an nssp project for road crossing of\nreed market will come before you.\nOn our website, you will find our counterproposal that is a\nmore comprehensive solution to the problems on reed market just\nwest of U.S. 97. I will send you an e-mail by\ntomorrow morning with more details.\nLast JULY, we asked council to\nreject the same nssp project for a long list of reasons.\nWe hope this money can be more wisely spent on a better\nsolution. If you would like to better\nunderstand both this proposal\nand our proposal for the roundabout, I would be glad to\ngive you a personal tour on-site. Feel free to respond to my e-mail.\nYou're also welcome to attend\nour zoom board meeting tomorrow at 5 where we will be discussing\nthese issues.\nSwitching to parking, when the glass water townhomes began\nconstruction on the site across\nfrom bend parks and rec headquarters, we lost an essential parking area.\nIt was frequently used both by\nriver park visitors and concert goers. Please consider reaching out to\nthe old mill owners and bend\nparks and rec to work collectively to create a new\nparking area. Each entity has something that\nthey can bring to the table to\nsolve this issue.\nSouthern crossing neighborhood\nshould not be used as overflow\nparking due to a lack of planning.\nthanks, todd.\nJane: jane?\ngreetings, mayor and council\nmembers.\nI live in southeast bend in the king's forest neighborhood.\nAnd I recently have become\nappalled at the lack of\nattention to evacuation routes especially in light of the\nexpansive new high-density residential development.\nFor example, the wild flower\nproject at 15th and wilson will\nhave 4,000 in and out trips per\nday, per vehicle. Or 4,000 vehicles.\nThose people will want to get out if the wind blows and the\nfire comes in this hot and dry\nsummer ahead of us.\nReed market will be a parking lot.\nWe all saw what happened in paradise.\nPeople started abandoning their cars and walking.\nThey were burned.\nWe don't want that here.\nSo I would like as a beginning\nto have you fund and assign evacuation routes that will help\nus get away from a horrific fire\nhere in town.\nI've talked with the county, the\nstate, the city, planning and engineering.\nThere's nothing substantial happening.\nI have three generations here in town.\nIt's frightening really.\nAnd I think it's time to do something.\nThere's nothing in the state code. The leadership needs to happen\nmaybe locally and get something done so we can protect\nourselves.\nthank you, jane.\nmichael baker?\ngood evening, mayor and\ncouncil, I'm michael baker and I have the honor of being the ceo\nfor the boys and girls clubs here in bend.\nA couple key things, information\nthat you might find interesting.\nLast year in 2025, we were open 222 days.\nThis year, we'll be open 273 days.\nWe've expanded our hours of operation. That includes saturday hours\nwhich has never happened in the organization, so we're very excited about that.\nIn addition to that, we also are seeing an increase.\nLast year, we handed out 17,400 meals to the children throughout\nthe year.\nWe're already on track to break about 25,000 this year.\nand we are maximizing that space. Every aspect that we can use,\nwe're trying to use every inch of that space for programming\nand having the kiddos go from room to room to room.\nWhat's really exciting that just recently happened is for the\nfirst time in over seven years,\nwe actually -- many of you MAY have seen this before.\nWe have a rock wall on the stage\narea that we've been able to get recertified and are using that\nagain, so the kids were excited this past saturday to use the\nrock wall for the first time.\nSo it's a pretty exciting experience there.\nI will also encourage each and every one of you as I always do\nto come down and see the club in action any time you want a tour.\nLove to do that.\nThose of you that want to\nsupport the boys and girls club, we have a big event coming up,\nAPRIL 18th are the great\npromsby, a '20s thing, and I will end by telling you\nsomething that I've worked in a lot of communes across the\ncountry, boys and girls clubs, worked with a lot of city\nadministrators, and I'm telling\nyou, you're very fortunate to have MR. King in the role he's in.\nThank you for everything you've\ndone for this community. >> thanks, michael.\nAll right, kinsey martin, I see you're here for the resolution.\nDid you also want to speak -- >> yes.\nokay.\ngood evening.\nMy name is kinsey hood martin, she-her pronouns.\nmy family, my home, my career\nare rooted here in bend, the city of bend.\nMy grandparents were doctors and teachers here. My parents grew up here.\nI was born and raised here.\nAnd despite a short stint of, like, I'm never moving back to\nthat town, here I am, my own\nkids are born and raised here as well.\nBecause of that, because of knowing some of the old bend\ncommunity can tend to be less appreciative of growth and\nchange, I wanted to just come say thank you for the resolution\nthat I know is on the agenda\nthis evening. That resolution in support of\nour immigrant neighbors and friends and community members\nmeans a lot to me personally and to our community.\nAt this point in history and where we are right now as a\nbroader community, those words\nmatter a lot, and it really is -- I'm really proud to see\nthe community that I live in taking a stance and being public\nabout that.\nThat's really significant.\nI know that our leadership spent a lot of time on that.\nI know it's an intensive process to do that and do it well and\nget it right.\nAnd I appreciate mayor pro tem perkins and melissa, the hrec\nmembers, and then the immigrant\ninitiative leaders who informed that work.\nAnd so I just wanted to say thank you.\nI'm hopeful to see that it has\nthe beginnings of tangible resources and commitments in it,\nand I'm hopeful to see that\ncontinue over the next several years in council's work and the\ncity's work as far as changes that our immigrant community\nmembers can see and feel directly.\nBut I know public comments are not usually an appreciation, so\nI just wanted to say thank you, that work matters and it matters\na lot.\nthank you, kinsey. All right, that will move us to\nour consent agenda. >> I move to approve the consent\nagenda. >> second.\nall right, moved by councilor\nperkins, seconded by councilor norris. All in favor?\n[Chorus of ayes] >> unanimous.\nThat moves us to item 5.\na institution supporting bend's immigrant communities, condemning the current federal government\napproach to immigration enforcement, allocating funding to support bend's diverse\nimmigrant communities, and >> I wanted to introduce\nmelissa, our city's affordable housing coordinator but is also\nfilling in as the human rights\nand equity commission liaison\nand with melissa, catalina frank, this resolution before\nyou was brought in part by catalina's presentation that\ncame to council early JANUARY really requesting some support.\nAnd I think we listened and we\nwanted to offer some meaningful, tangible support in the form of\nreaffirming our values as a welcoming community but also\ngoing beyond that and offering some resources.\nso melissa and catalina will outline what's in the resolution\nand then I can talk about some\nnext steps as we're implementing the resolution into various\ncontracting methods, et cetera.\nthank you so much. So as eric mentioned, you're\nused to seeing me in the housing realm.\nBut it's my honor to be the\ninterim hrec staff liaison.\nAnd this resolution is a body of\nwork that is not just one person.\nIt has been touched by many hands.\nAs you know, catalina came to council in early JANUARY talking\nabout the imminent crisis and urgency of potentially declaring\na state of emergency.\nIn a follow-up meeting, our city attorney, ian, outlined what\ncould be done as a resolution.\nFrom there, the resolution went to hrec.\nIan had drafted a resolution fabulously by looking at other\ncities that were in a similar situation.\nBy the time the document got to\nhrec, it had been edited a few\ntimes, many times actually, and hrec, as hrec has been developed\nas a group that represents our community, when this body of\nwork got to r heck,\nhrec, they realized the eyes that needed to be on\nthe document aren't represented necessarily on our current\ncommissioner seats, so hrec made the decision to send the\nresolution with some hrec\nmembers to a subgroup outside of hrec.\nHow that subgroup was formed was\nin partnership with catalina and in different immigrant groups\nthroughout the community, they\nwere consulted, the leaders of different immigrant groups, and\nthey were asked to send a representative of their group.\nThese folks came together, looked over the resolution,\nprovided tremendous input, which then created more and more\niterations of the document.\nThe document came back to hrec.\nHrec reviewed it and decided to accept the document and\nrecommend it to come back to you.\nAnd so through all of those\niterations, you'll see in the resolution that it is a restatement of the city's\npriority to be a welcoming community and so half of the\nfunds that will be going to the latino community association are\nto further the welcoming city work.\nAnd the other half of the funds going to the latino community\nassociation are to support\nfamilies that are impacted by immigration.\nAnd so both bodies of work are incredibly important and\nsignificant and as catalina mentioned in JANUARY, it's\nreally difficult to quantify the impact of immigration activities\nin our community. While some MAY think it's not\nhere yet, it can't be impacting yet, there are kids that don't\ngo to school.\nFolks that don't go to work. Groceries that aren't being\npurchased that the store because people are too afraid to leave\ntheir homes, so this body of work, as I mentioned, it's not a\nsingle person that has had their hands on it.\nI think it's important to recognize all the many folks in\nthe room and online that participated and some that\nweren't able to join us today. >> I just want to take a moment\nto recognize melissa, because I think this many hands approach\nin really opening this up and your facilitation leadership that helped us get to a really\ngood place, so thank you. >> absolutely.\nAll right, so council, we've got the resolution -- there's no\nslides, but we have the resolution in front of us with\nthe issue summary. Any other questions for staff or\nfor catalina? Thank you for being here with us\ntonight. >> you're welcome.\nI just wanted to confirm, my understanding is that based on\nthe discussions that you've been having, part of the funds is to\nsupport the immigrant community. Not the 50 for welcoming week,\nbut the other portion is meant to be opened up into the\ncommunity as a hole and provide some of that support and\nactivities, but potential potentially in\npartnership with other groups in the community who do similar work.\nI just wanted to confirm that's part of the intent behind that\nchunk of the funds?\nyes, it's not limited to the latino immigrants.\nIt's the immigrant community impacted by law enforcement.\nI'm so glad you brought that up, because one of the beautiful\nparts of that small group that met offsite and mayor pro tem\ncan speak to that as well, is the group worked really well\ntogether and had some difficult conversations.\nSo much so that there's a desire\nto continue that body of work.\nAnd in those discussions, it was bridged that all of the groups\nin the room and those that were not able to be in the room\nlearned that they have access to these funds through the latino\ncommunity association as well. >> thank you for playing that\nrole. >> and just in terms of next\nsteps, so we are working on contract drafts for contract\nservices for our welcoming\nprogram as well as grant agreements.\nThey're two separate mechanisms\nto execute the outline in the resolution. As well as continuing these efforts.\nI think we made a commitment to\nnot just have this be a one-time event but really building this\ncoalition and supporting it in many different ways, so we're\nstill working through the details of that.\nand there's a provision here about advocacy with our federal\nrepresentatives in oregon, so we'll have a letter that goes to\nthem with this resolution attached as well as part of that\naction. Any other questions before a\nmotion?\nI can't help but comment on the difficult position that we\nfind ourselves in with a federal\ngovernment that is pursuing such -- I mean, harmful tactics.\nWe are severely constrained. There are consequences that we\ncannot prevent as city and as a community.\nBut we're not powerless either.\nAnd I'm really proud to support\nthis as one thing that we can do\nto demonstrate our support and our commitment and as an\nexpression of our values and desire to make bend a welcoming\nand safe community regardless of\npeople's identity or their backgrounds.\nSo I just wanted to address the\nchallenge that we face, because there's no way that we're going\nto be able to protect everybody from this federal government,\nbut we are going to do what we can.\nyeah, and I'll say that I\nthink being in that room, there's so much that we can't\ndo, but one of the things that I\nsaw in that room and I see at the human rights and equity\ncommission too is we're going to take care of each other.\nAnd that's what matters. And so we are going to take care\nof our community here in bend.\nAnd so that's the hope that I have and this is sort of a\nstatement of that. >> and I just want to say as a\ndaughter of an immigrant from mexico, I just appreciate all\nthat you guys are doing in our community.\nI appreciate bend standing up. This resolution is so important.\nAnd I hope it's just the beginning. >> is there a motion?\nI just wanted to add one other point.\nThank you for making this happen, thanks to mayor pro tem\nperkins for being part of that\non behalf of the council, other\npeople in the room and hrec and other community members that participated in it.\nI just wanted to emphasize paragraph 3 in the resolution\nthat declares no matter when someone has joined our community\nor where they come from, every person deserves to be free of\nfear and intimidation and to be\ntreated with dignity and respect.\nI value all the folks in our community again no matter where\nthey came from or when they arrived and all the ways they\nmake our community stronger.\nI think as councilor mendez said, I'll super proud to be\nsupporting this resolution tonight and taking this step\nforward and look forward to more\nwe can do as we move forward. >> I move to adopt a resolution supporting bend's immigrant communities, condemning the\ncurrent federal government approach to immigration\nenforcement, allocating funding to support bend's diverse\nimmigrant communities, and authorizing city staff to take\nsteps necessary to implement the\nresolution. >> second.\nall those in favor? [Chorus of ayes]\ngreater\ngreat, unanimous. Yes, immigration is a strength\nof this country and this community.\nThank you for being here.\nthank you.\nAll right, that will move us to\nitem 6 and 7 together.\ncouncil is asked to adopt a resolution to authorize the city\nt enter into a clean water state revolving fund loan agreement to\nfinance the king hezekiah and fargo sewer project in a total\nloan amount not to exceed $2,879,000.\nand council is asked to\nauthorize a contract with bar\nseven a companies for construction of the king\nhezekiah and fargo sewer project. >> all right, hi.\ngood evening.\nSo I'll go first.\nI'll be presenting the construction contract for\napproval and then we'll talk about the funding that we are\npresenting associated with it.\nKing hezekiah and fargo were two individual applications selected\nby the sept\nseptic to sewer program.\n2024, they were selected, 2025, they were designed, and then\nhere in 2026, we are looking to\nactual construct them.\nSo a little bit about the septic to sewer conversion program.\nIt was originally identified in the 2014 collection system\nmaster plan, further reconfirmed in the 2018 public facility plan.\nThis is the seventh selection\nthat we have made through the program. It's important to note that king\nhezekiah and fargo are a\ncomponent of that selection. As the municipal code states,\nthe city of bend will consider selection through this program\non an annual basis. As the principal engineer, I get\nthe opportunity to look through the cip.\nWe had an opportunity to over-select, meaning over-select\nfrom the funding, the 3.5 million annually that we\nhave set aside for this program,\nwe actually selected over $6 million worth of septic to\nsewer applications. this was in combination due to\nthe fact that we were about to\nset sail into a collection system master plan and a\nfacility plan update at our treatment plant.\nKnowing those were coming, there was a lot of priorities those\ntwo system plans were going to identify and then the priority\nwas likely going to shift to improving the existing\ninfrastructure associated with either the collection system or\nthe treatment system, so we did\nhave the opportunity to over-fund this program and\npresent to the committee for\nselection of 6.2 million of applications.\nTwo weeks from now, we will be\npresenting another construction\ncontract for powerful for the contract for approval.\nWe did stagger those to make sure the bidding community could\nhave a chance to take a swing at\none and then all the losers or anyone that did want to bid on\nthe second one could have an opportunity to go there.\nSo it is important to stress\nthis is the seventh selection through the previous six, we\nhave installed over 400 laterals\nto properties, 230 of this have\nconnected, so that's a success rate of 56% and some of those\njust got the opportunity to convert through the completion\nof the 2025 project.\nSo that's a huge success to the program. And so just emphasizing what the\nprogram is, it's an applicant-driven program where\npeople who are on septic can submit to the city for\nconsideration for selection to convert their septic system on\nto city sewer. The city evaluates their\napplication based on a number of criteria. The age of the system, whether\nthey have failing systems, the\ncost to convert, but one aspect I do want to stress that I\nalways stress, you'll know what\nI'm saying, is the participation\nthat the applicants have in the program. So at the completion of the\nconstruction project, we issue\nwhat's called a notice of operational completion, the noc.\nThat noc is their ticket to go down to permitting and pull\ntheir plumbing permit to start their conversion process.\nThey do get presented a window would have two years to get a\n50% reduction on their\nconnection fee, which is about a $5,000 savings.\nThey don't have to convert unless they do sign that\npetition, which is that\ncommitment to participating in the conversion upon completion\nof the project.\nOverview of this application or\nthis construction project, these two applications at king\nhezekiah and fargo are both in the kingsport area south of reed\nmarket, east of 15th.\nThese ones were completed, the design was completed to the 90%\nlevel as part of the overall\nbasin study when the southeast interceptor went through kings\nforest area and they were designed externally.\nWe do present opportunities that we do have internal capacity to\ndo design services.\nThe next construction project you'll be presented for approval\nin two weeks was designed internally, so we do evaluate on\na case-by-case basis how best to deliver the projects.\nThese projects do include a full width pavement restoration and\ngiven where these projects are,\nthere will be limited traffic closures really with local\naccess restrictions. King hezekiah, jumping into that\none, there's 25 properties that will benefit from this sewer\nline. Of those, 13 had committed to\nconnecting within with the two-year period.\n1900 linear feet. The dots indicate the properties\nthat did commit to connection. Going to fargo, that one is a\nlittle over 1,000 feet, 17\nproperties will benefit, and 12 did commit to participating.\nSo another case, both of these\nprojects are over 50% commitment. So as far as a lot of the public\nthat does benefit from this is wanting to participate directly\nin this program. >> jason, can I ask you while\nyou're on these slides, please, how many folks do you suppose\nwill also jump on a little bit later but still within that\nwindow just based on your experience?\nI'm not going to hold you to it, but anyway, do you think? >> oh, absolutely.\nA lot of the people don't want to have the commitment, right?\nSo they have to do it. But some of these applications\nalso have been in consideration for multiple years, so there\nmight be a lot of interest at\nfirst and it has dwindled, but\nonce the project is selected and proceeded forward, it renews\nthat interest. >> right.\nalso that system is that many\nmore years aged. >> makes sense.\nso they need it even further. Unfortunately, there are cases\nwhere people apply and then their system fails and their\napplication is not selected, so\nwe just have to go and fix their\nsystem so when we come through, they aren't really attracted to\nconnecting, because they just\ndid a large investment on to their septic system.\nthank you for the context, appreciate it.\nthere's been a lot of work in this neighborhood, so I just\nwonder how many people have seen it happening on other streets in\nthe neighborhood and are aware\nof hey when this comes down my street, maybe I should consider\nit. >> exactly. Overall timeline here as\nmentioned, end of 2024 we did select these two applications\nalong with the azalea and windsor. We did then proceed into the\ndesign of this.\nWe are here MARCH 18, 2026, for council approval.\nWe are looking to start construction at the beginning of APRIL.\nWe do have a public open house scheduled already, the\ncontractor is ready to get after the construction.\nAnd then construction is slated\nfor completion in the end of OCTOBER. Overall budget here, the budget\nfor the project at time of selection, so going back to\n2024, was 2.875 million. we did receive seven bids on\nthis project.\nThe lowest bid came in 26% under\nthe engineer's estimate, so that\nis beneficial to city, the water\nreclamation fund and the septic\ncity program, so it has a ripple effect there.\nSurvey and design, call it\nminimal cost, $160,000.\nThat's the amount that we have incurred to date through the\ndesign services surveying miscellaneous and then some\nadditional services that we will be providing.\nOverall total, 1.855. So while there's a good gap\nthere, we aren't intending to\nspend the full million dollar deficit.\nThat money goes back into the\nbeginning working capital of the\nwater reclamation fund, but we are taking provisions as necessary.\nBut that 2.875 was the number\nback to the selection time period.\nand as jason mentioned,\nthere's also a resolution this evening to enter into a clean\nwater state revolving fund loan.\nIt's a bit of a mouthful. That will be used to finance the\nking hezekiah and fargo septic to sewer project.\nThe not to exceed amount, the 2.875, but consistent with our\nother cwsrf loans, we'll only draw down the amount needed to\ncomplete the project, so the loan amount will end up being\nwhatever we end up using.\nSome of the benefits to\nobtaining the cwsrf loans over issuing traditional revenue\nbonds include things like no prepayment penalties.\nWe don't have bond issuance\ncosts, pretty low debt service coverage requirements and lower\ninterest rates than your typical market bonds.\nThis particular loan is eligible\nfor a million dollars worth of\nforgiveness and up to principal\nforgiveness up to $450,000, so we'll be roughly requiredded to\npay back half of that 2.87 were\nwe to utilize the entire amount.\nThe biennial budget and the sewer rate models include the\nrate plan to fund this cost of the project.\ngreat, all right. Any questions, other questions,\ncouncil? Looking good.\nI have a question.\nThat is a pretty big budget gap. I recall when we looked at the\nprojects that were proposed, I\nmean, obviously changes go out to bid and bid it tomorrow, but\nthere were a lot of projects proposed.\nSo, yeah, I don't know, I'd be curious, so those dollars will\njust go into the program? Because council in the past has\nfunded the program at 3 million a year?\nthree-and-a-half.\nyeah, so we're spending a million less?\ngoing back, we did commit to\nspend 6.2. >> 2.\nSo we did overcommit because we had that opportunity, and I want\nto stress that was because of the collection system master\nplan and the facility plan update at the treatment plant\nthat were coming, so we are starting to land those ships.\nAnd so we are identifying all of the needs outside of septic to\nsewer, so a lot of the attention\neither from staffing or from funding is going to have to\nshift to the highest priority areas. And so that's a conversation\nthat we need to have on how to\nbest support all of the needs within the collection -- within\nthe water reclamation system, so collections and treatment.\nBecause we have a lot of existing infrastructure on the\ncollections and on the treatment\nside that have been deferred, because we haven't had\nnecessarily a master plan to tell us exactly what is is\nneeded. So we were looking to identify\nthose needs, prioritize those\nneeds, develop the funding strategy and then balance other\nprograms such as septic to\nsewer, pump station, r & r, but\nwe do have a lot of other capital needs through those\nsystems.\nmm-hmm, okay, yeah. I did get an e-mail from\nsomeone. It's a couple months ago now,\nand I thought they were\nfollowing up with you, so it's\nprobably fine, but I think it's actually cabin lane, in that\narea, there were some cul-de-sacs that did not get\npicked up on the septic to\nsewer, so homeowners on those cul-de-sacs are still on septic,\nbut there is a sewer line right there and it seems like sort of\nlittle connections that the city\nhas promised that neighborhood and made a follow-through to\nmost of the neighbors but not others. I'd be interested.\nI'll follow up with you on it separately.\nthe city goes through a\ndiligent process to identify the\ndrainage area, not to come do\nshort segments, but you also can't do excessive, because the\nfunding doesn't support it.\nSo there's a strategy on how to\nidentify what that drainage basin is. There's a lot of areas within\nthe city of bend, southwest,\nsoutheast, some of the north,\nnorthwest are on septic, so it is competitive.\nAnd it would take a lot of money to convert everybody over and\nthat's balancing the existing system and the operations that\nwe do have to have. So it would be great to do it\nall, but we do have a system to\nmaintain and treat the sewage too.\nokay, any other questions? All right.\nWe got two motions, 6 and 7. >> I move to adopt a resolution\nauthorizing a clean water state\nrevolving fund loan agreement to\nfinance the king hezekiah and fargo sewer project in a total\nloan amount not to exceed $2,875,000, in substantially the\nform presented to council and as approved by the department of\nenvironmental quality. >> second.\nmoved by councilor platt, seconded by councilor riley.\nAll in favor?\naye.\nokay.\nNext? >> I move to authorize a contract with bar seven a companies, inc., in\nsubstantially the form presented to council, for construction\nservices for the king hezekiah and fargo sewer project in an\namount not to exceed $1,674,186. >> second.\nall in favor? [Chorus of ayes]\nwe'll move on to item 8.\ncouncil is asked to authorize\na contract with diamond parking services llc for city-wide\nparking management and\nenforcement services not to exceed $536,000 for the first\nyear and authorize the city\nmanager to approve annual renewals for a total contract\namount not to exceed\n$2,906,000 over five years.\ngood evening, mayor and council.\nIt's time to renew our parking\nmanagement and our enforcement contract.\nSo today what we're asking is to authorize a contract as was\nmentioned with diamond parking services llc for the city-wide\nmanagement and enforcement services. I'll give some details and we'll\ncircle back around to a motion\nat the end.\nI threw up the wheel of the connected city.\nI think parking touches\nbasically pretty much on all of those.\nBut this contract helps suppor efficient, responsible\ntransportation, system managemnt. We got multiple districts in\ntown as you know today,\ndowntown, old bend, Mckay,\nparking garage, surface lots. We do have some future districts\nthat we have talked with council about before. I'll share some more information\non those in a later slide. But this contract is a phased\napproach with some new districts proposed. Services support parking\navailability, circulation,\ncompliance, just to expand a little bit on what the contract\ndoes or doesn't maybe include, just a few examples.\nEnforcement parking management strategies in compliance with\nour bend municipal code, oregon statutes, inspect, enforce,\nmaintain compliance with all parking facilities. We want our parking system to be\nfunctional, clean, maintained.\nManage the online and anywhere in-person\nparking permits, supplies, materials, the surface lots.\nDaily maintenance and operations\nof the parking garage.\nExample of maybe what this\ndoesn't include, diamond parking\ndo not create a parking\nmanagement strategic or\nstrategies or policies. We work with city council on\nwhat those parking management strategies and policies are but\nthen diamond helps us manage and enforce those.\nSo the procurement process.\nWe did do a formal rfp request for proposal process.\nI was happy to see five\nproposals come in. Diamond parking services llc was\nthe highest ranked proposal.\nWe had basically a committee, a\nscoring process with a total of 1,000 points possible.\nThose things we looked for are project understanding and\napproach, that was worth a few hundred points.\nProject team, experience, and quality of service worth another\nfew hundred points, so 60% of\nthe ranking of these proposals\nwas based on those. cost was another 400 points to\nmake up that 1,000-point total.\nWe had five proposals total.\nThe top two were very competitive. Diamond parking was the highest\noverall scoring proposal, the\nhighest in the project understanding, experience, quality of service.\nThey were the second highest\nscorer for cost.\nThey were the second lowest proposal.\nAnd that was pretty much a straightup formula on cost.\nThe lowest cost proposal, you get the most points and second%\nand third and fourth and fifth.\nProposals ranged from about\n503,000 to 6.\n655,000 and some change. Here is a picture of some of the\nmembers of the diamond parking team.\nSo I mentioned the phased approach. Phase one really is taking care\nof what we have today. So that downtown parking\ndistrict, the Mckay district, old bend benefit district, the\nsurface lots that I mentioned\nand centennial parking garage.\nThis summer, we look to expand old bend east district and what\nwe're calling the miller's run district.\nI've got some maps.\nI'll shirr a little bit more\nshare a little bit more about that.\nWe were within the next probably two weeks here, we're working\nwith communications, legal, met\nwith the members of the old bend neighborhood association just\nmonday of this week to go into the 60-day public comment\nperiod, and so looking to be\nback in front of council with\nthe final recommendations on these districts accounting for\nthe public comment in JUNE.\nAnd so just a quick snapshot of our districts.\nI think most of us are familiar with them. We've got the downtown district.\nI won't go through all the text\nthere, but 400 spaces in surface\nlots, 547 in garage, on-street,\nabout 40 blocks worth, 1500 spaces.\nOld bend parking benefit street,\n1200 on-street space.\nMckay, 250 on-street spaces.\nAnd then we get into the two new districts that I was just mentioning.\nI went ahead and put some anticipated strategies up here,\nbut we'll be back in front of\ncouncil in JUNE after accounting\nfor public comment and with what strategies we're recommending\nfor the final proposal. But these are some of the\nexamples of what we're anticipating there.\nAnd then the old bend east, so this would not just be an\nexpansion of the existing district.\nWe got some different nuances, existing district on the west\nside of broadway down to drake park, Mckay park, you got the\nriver floaters, the deschutes river trail.\nOver to the parkway and along the arizona, colorado area, more\nof a commercial use more so than park and businesses along\nfranklin and along the parkway.\nSome different strategies there. So available for questions and\nhave a recommended motion on the screen.\nall right, council, questions\nfor david on this contract? >> and I'm sorry, I didn't\nmention in the beginning, we\nhave patrick from the parking\ndivision as well as carina from diamond parking.\ngo ahead.\nso what I would really like\nto dig into a little bit with my fellow councilors here is the\ndistinction between a parking benefit district and those areas\nversus the commercial areas where we have a lot of paid\nparking and we have some very regimented -- and we don't have\npeople who live in homes who are trying to go about their lives\nand their daily business, many without driveways, for example,\nbecause we've moved away from that.\nI very much support that.\nAnd so I'm now the old bend neighborhood liaison.\nYou probably heard the same things I've been hearing.\nI've spent hours meeting with\ndave and russ grayson to talk about some of the issues the old\nbend neighborhood is facing.\nSo what my concern is, is that\nwe're enforcing laws and rules in a parking benefit district\nthat was not really explained to the residents of that\nneighborhood when they signed up\nfor the parking benefit district.\nThe rules that are being\nenforced there are rules of\nparking and traffic that it's just going beyond what I think\nanyone really signed up for.\nSo the way that I read the contract is that -- and the way\nthat david has explained it to\nme is that the contractor, diamond parking, who enforcing\nthe ors, but they don't do that\nin every neighborhood, right? The only reason they're going\nthrough the old bend neighborhood is because we now\nhave the benefit district there. In the old bend neighborhood is\nfor us to actually kind of live up to the promise we made to the\nneighborhood which is to make it a benefit neighborhood.\nSo the neighbors are paying for\na parking permit and they're hopefully getting some parking\non their street when tourists\nare in town, but they're not\ngetting penalized, laws enforced on them that we're not enforcing\non other nakeds in\nneighborhoods in the city.\nSo I think it's a clarification of council's policy to the staff\nand the contractor who are administering the policy.\nI don't think it's necessarily a change to the contract itself.\nI think this is a point of clarification that I'm asking\nfor you to help me convey to the staff tonight. >> so you're saying there's\npeople who are living there that are getting tickets for maybe\nstaying too long on the street? >> exactly.\nor when they have -- I mean, I've heard about this from a\ncouple of people who live there. People have a dinner party and\nthey have people there for four hours and the systems that have\nto be used and the hoops that these folks have to go through\nor their kid comes home from college for a couple weeks.\nIt does seem like it's maybe\ngotten to a point of we need to\nreview how some of this is working.\nI can just chime in on a few examples.\nI'm not sure if tonight's\nmeeting is the right venue. I don't disagree with you, but\nI'm wondering is this an agenda request and/or do we have a time\nat some point in the future here where we're going to talk about\nparking anyway and we review some of those rules as part of\nthe new districts? >> we'll be in front of you with\nthe old bend east. >> that sounds like a good plan,\nbecause we're coming back on this anyway and we'll have new\nrounds of public comment.\nSo I'm not necessarily married to the original pilot which was\nbefore any of us were on council. I'd like to hear what people\nwant now and what they feel the\npressures are. People who visit who are taking\nup street parking, that was the concern, right?\nAnd so I don't think the folks in this neighborhood think they're entitled to the street\npacking, but we do need a system that is usable for everyone.\nsome of this is from the new\ncode from JANUARY. Yeah, we can talk about it,\ncertainly some more.\nWe want it to work. Another example is parking in\nthe wrong direction against the flow of traffic.\nThat is a state law. >> no one here has ever done\nthat, have you! (Indiscernible, simultaneous\nspeaking).\nbut to your point, councilor franzosa, this contract, diamond\nparking would enforce whatever\nbend code and policies and enforcement that we'd ask them\nto. >> so I would be supportive of\nhaving that policy discussion,\nand I just didn't want to MISS The opportunity to say thank you\nto patrick and staff and to encourage people if you see\ndiamond parking agents or city staff working on parking, say\nthank you, because I think there's a perception that\nsomehow these programs, these policies and the people that\nenforce them are somehow\nintended to make parking more difficult.\nAnd actually if we get the\npolicies right, it's going to make marking easier, and that's\none of the reasons why downtown bend business association is\ncoming back to us with their ideas for parking, so thank you\nfor making parking accessible and available and I'm happy to\nhave that conversation about the\npolicy.\nthank you, council member.\nwe want it to wok,\nwork, but it's a team effort.\nJust to expand a little bit on the parking benefit, just\nbecause you mentioned that was before that time and the pilot,\nand we're coming back with are\nwith a\nfinal proposal for bend east.\nPart of that benefit district is some funds that get generated\nwithin that district, and so the\nexisting old bend is up to about $85,000 or something right now.\nAnd so we've been talking with some of the folks out there,\nlauren and that group in the community, but the idea is that\nbenefit, if they want something within that neighborhood, they\ncan come to the city with ideas.\nA park bench or formalizing maybe some areas on the\nlandscape that can be parked on that aren't in conflict with a\nwater meter or fire hydrant as an example.\nThere's a financial piece that we're trying to have, that that\nneighborhood can pick some things they'd like to maybe try\nand do and fund within their neighborhood.\nI'm grateful for everyone who\nwants that policy conversation, because the neighborhood, that\nmoney has been in the fund for quite a while and the neighborhood has not been able\nto figure out how they can actually use that money for the\ncity, so hopefully that will be\npart of the policy discussion. >> I think we can make sure we\nprovide direction to diamond, let's not enforce some of those\nthings.\nthat's all I'm asking.\nI don't agree with not\nenforcing parking the wrong way\non the street. But I think --\nwe have resources to do that\ncity wide, what we're trying to\ndo is do that where we have the parking district.\nWe're asking for some discretion from our parking director.\nwe want to be a little bit careful in the case of state law\nand we also want consistency across our community. Other districts as well.\nstate law, you're not supposed to park the wrong\ndirection?\nyes, with it is. Yes, it is.\nI'd be fine with doing that\nif we did it everywhere! (Indiscernible, simultaneous speaking).\nthese neighborhoods have\nasked for extra enforcement. They wanted that.\nThey want more enforcement of\nparking in their neighborhoods in rules and time limits because\nof the parking pressures that I were feeling.\nSo to turn around -- due -- >> due to tourism.\nI know that's the case, but we need to acknowledge -- and\nthen to turn around to the people enforcing the law,\nactually, never mind. I think we can find a balance\nhere, but the parking pressures\non these neighborhoods are the reasons they asked for\nenforcement. >> they're asking for the\nenforcement to go away, for the benefit district to be undone.\nI'd like to make sure we go through the public comment\nprocess on this and get a wide swath of comments.\nWhen your guest gets a ticket\nfor coming over for dinner, yes, you'll write to us.\nwe reinstated the paper visitor passes. We want it to work.\nWe want to make improvements. The east old bend area -- well,\nactually it was all of that area.\nThey did an effort and survey and the majority of the folks\nthat responded are supportive of a new district on the east side\ntoo. There were some that were uncertain.\nBut the majority of folks were looking for some help.\nAnd really in that area, we're\nlooking to be proactive ahead of\nthe continued commercial area with the box factory and the new\ndevelopments and things that are\ngoing there, the timber yard was mentioned earlier tonight, be\nahead of that and have a\nright if we start to regulate in the become area they will go\nto neighbors to park. Good to have something set up\nthere.\nI am talking about locals. Not just tourists.\nWe can find a happy medium here.\nthat will happen when to come back in.\nwe will look to come back in\nJUNE for recommendation on the proposed east.\nTwo districts I talked about.\nWe can have the bigger policy discussion.\nWhen they did the survey to help us guide with the new district.\nExisting district as well as new proposed area.\n94 comments were part of that.\nWe will come back to you within\nput, concerns, questions.\nExisting district as well as how\nthose apply to the new district.\nI move to authorize with diamonds parking services for\ncity-wide parking management enforcement services in\nsubstantially form presented to\ncouncil in an amount not to exceed $536,000 for the first\nyear and authorize city manager\nto approve annual renewals in\naccordance with terms of\nagreement not to exceed $2,906,000 over five years.\nsecond.\nmoved by perkins.\nSecond by franzosa. In favor.\naye.\nthank you.\nwe have one second reading left.\nthis is the second reading of\nordinance amending bend\ndevelopment code bdc related to\nprepreservation requirements b d\nc-3.2.200, tree preservation.\nI need to declare conflict\nlike the first reading. My employer is hidden homes.\nI will remove myself for this.\nwe need a motion.\nmove second reading roll call\nvote ordinance amending bend\ndevelopment code bd c-3.2.200\ntree preservation. >> second.\nmotion by perkins, second platt.\nFranzosa: franzosa.\nyes.\nMendez: mendez.\naye.\nRiley: riley.\nyes.\nPerkins: perkins.\nyes.\nPlatt: platt.\nyes.\nKebler: kebler.\nyes.\ncity manager report.\nwe have had a couple busy months and work sessions where\nwe typically have time to say what is coming up on the next\ncouple months? I want to share that with you.\nLead in to earlier conversations\nproposal to share with you.\nAPRIL next meeting on APRIL 1.\nStevens ranch or legacy building.\nHigh points. APRIL 8 roundtable with the\nelectrification policy work\nlooking at exemptions\nimplementation timeline inviting\nfour city committees.\nThen on the 15th we have another\nmaster plan timber yards as item.\nWe will have update.\nI will talk about that goal update.\nWe will look at one year into\nwork plan to go through prioritization we will talk\nabout in a second. MAY 6 bura meeting.\nMAY 13 is a big work session.\nPrioritizing capital improvement program.\nIf our grants hold we have room\nin geobond and transportation construction fund to address\nissues we talked about last\nnight with parks and bridges.\nAreas cut to add on.\nSignificant item on MAY 13.\nAlong with the transient lodging tax about the shift.\nWhat does council want to do\nwith that split shift from 70/30 to 50/50.\nJoint work session with rural fire district on 13th.\nI will stop there.\nIt is a lot. We still have some other\nmeetings to try to schedule roundtable ideas.\nOne in southwest. Interaction.\nWe will send out survey later this week.\nI will ask for your input how this is going.\nSix months into the new schedule\nwith meeting every week.\nLayered on to that are special meetings.\nI want to test your capacity in\nterms how to manage.\nI would stay from staff\nperspective one city strategic plan. Off site with leadership.\nA lot of prep. Staff is feeling it.\nPartnership is seeing stress on elected and staff side.\nI would like to look at both the\nschedule how to prioritize those meetings.\nPrioritizing the work plan items as well.\nI am planning quarterly goal\nupdate in APRIL to take input\nfrom survey that you will see,\ncoupled with ideas of things to\nslim down to make sure we are --\nsometimes we talk about this we\ngo so fast and we might MISS Things. Slowing down is a good thing. It is hard.\nThis is a community that expects a lot.\nFast growing and want to do all of the things.\nAny effective organization is realistic about resources they\nhave and how best to tackle these problems.\nI will ask for your help and guidance over the next couple\nmonths.\nfor the start quarter one. I meeting every week.\nThree special meetings at least\nthat I can think of maybe more. County, parks, roundtable, advisory summit.\nA lot going on in quarter one.\nWhen you look at survey look at\nmaybe providing the rest of the\nyear more breaks, more fifth weeks.\nI don't disagree that this is a particularly hard quarter to\nstart the year.\nthe other piece everybody\nelse has commitments.\nHrac or Coc board in addition. >> it is okay.\nWe might have different perspective on council.\nLet's talk about it. I wanted to let you know that\nour notices for the bend central\ndistrict economic improvement district went out.\nDelay with maps and properties.\nWe re-noticed folks.\nIf you get contacted new notice is going out.\nPublic hearing council will see in the next couple weeks.\nI will put more information in\nthe memo so you are aware. I think that was it.\nA lot of public engagement with projects now.\nThere is too much -- open houses\nand things. >> downtown bend library closing\nto be renovated in APRIL will be\nclosed for a year. Central library opening MAY 11.\nThey have ability to pick up and\ndrop off books at central\nlibrary east side for folks that\ncare about downtown access.\nIt will be great when finished painful closure.\ncan you pick up and drop off downtown?\napparently library board discussed that to make sure it\nis ada accessible while they\nrenovate building it is tough. They weren't able to figure out\nhow to do that.\nthank you for the update.\nsurprise library update.\nGet your books now.\nWith that we are adjourned. Thanks everybody.\nLive cc by aberdeen captioning. 1-800-688-6621. Www.Abercap.Com."
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      "headline": "Bend City Council adopts immigrant community resolution, approves sewer and parking contracts, hears state legislative update",
      "summary": "The March 18, 2026 Bend City Council Business Meeting covered five substantive areas: a state legislative session debrief, a neighborhood roundtable format discussion, three action items (immigrant community resolution, two sewer project approvals, a parking services contract renewal), a tree preservation ordinance second reading, and a city manager report on the upcoming work calendar. All action items passed unanimously. The meeting ran in roughly chronological order with no procedural disruptions.",
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        "STATE LEGISLATIVE UPDATE (Oregon short session): City lobbyist Eric Kansler reported four priority outcomes — (1) Lodging tax flexibility shifted from 70/30 to 50/50 tourism vs. general use, Bend's pre-2003 increment already exceeds that ratio so no immediate impact but future flexibility gained; (2) Shelter funding allocation preserved intact despite earlier revenue forecast concerns; (3) Urban reserve statute improved via amendment to HB 4037, allowing cost-of-service accounting for parcels outside the urban growth boundary; (4) Complete community planning protections added to HB 4037, guarding neighborhood-serving commercial zones from being displaced by by-right affordable housing projects (authorized under 2021 SB 8). Kansler flagged an unresolved element: a resiliency grant provision for small restaurants was folded into the lodging tax bill as a condition of House passage; he called it an odd fit but not a game changer. Council also noted SB 1551 (wildfire/HOA landscaping restrictions) and HB 4037's prohibition on public hearings for applications under clear-and-objective review standards — staff was directed to provide a memo explaining local impacts of the latter.",
        "SOUTHEAST BEND NEIGHBORHOOD ROUNDTABLE DEBRIEF: Mayor Kebler led a discussion of a new roundtable format held the prior Thursday, where council sat at tables with three southeast neighborhoods for informal Q&A alongside city staff. Councilors Mendez, Riley, and Norris all praised the format. Staff member Renee Mitchell was credited with organizing the event. Neighborhoods Old Farm, Larkspur, and Southeast Bend were named as participants. Council agreed to continue the format in other parts of the city; southwest neighborhoods have already requested one. City Manager Eric (last name not consistently stated in transcript — likely King, referenced separately) committed to returning with a scheduling plan.",
        "RESOLUTION — IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES (Item 5, unanimous): Council adopted a resolution (1) reaffirming Bend as a welcoming community, (2) condemning federal immigration enforcement tactics, (3) allocating funding to the Latino Community Association — half for welcoming-city programming, half for families directly impacted by immigration enforcement — and (4) directing staff to write to Oregon federal representatives with the resolution attached. The resolution went through multiple drafting iterations: City Attorney Ian drafted an initial version drawing on peer-city examples; it was revised by the Human Rights and Equity Commission (HREC), then sent to a community subgroup convened through immigrant-group leaders coordinated by Catalina Frank. The subgroup's input produced further iterations before HREC accepted it and forwarded to council. Melissa (city affordable housing coordinator, serving as interim HREC staff liaison) presented. Mayor Pro Tem Perkins represented council in the subgroup process. Staff noted contracts and grant agreements are being drafted to execute the funding. Catalina Frank (named as the community catalyst) was present. Public speaker Kinsey Hood Martin thanked the council and urged follow-through on tangible commitments.",
        "SEWER PROJECT — KING HEZEKIAH AND FARGO (Items 6 & 7, unanimous): Council adopted two items: a Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) loan not to exceed $2,875,000, and a construction contract with Bar Seven A Companies Inc. not to exceed $1,674,186 — 26% below the engineer's estimate. The project converts septic systems to city sewer in the Kingsport area (south of Reed Market, east of 15th). Of 42 total properties served, 25 (King Hezekiah) and 17 (Fargo), 13 and 12 respectively committed upfront to connect within two years for a ~$5,000 connection-fee discount. The CWSRF loan includes up to $1 million in principal forgiveness ($450,000 guaranteed forgiveness). Construction is slated to begin April 2026 and complete by October 2026. This is the seventh selection under the city's septic-to-sewer program, which has installed 400+ laterals since inception with a 56% connection rate.",
        "PARKING CONTRACT RENEWAL (Item 8, unanimous): Council authorized a contract with Diamond Parking Services LLC for citywide parking management and enforcement — $536,000 for year one, up to $2,906,000 over five years. Diamond scored highest overall in an RFP process with five proposals; it had the second-lowest cost bid. The contract is structured in phases: Phase 1 covers existing districts (downtown, Old Bend, McKay, surface lots, Centennial Garage). This summer, staff plans to expand into Old Bend East and a new 'Miller's Run' district, with a 60-day public comment period beginning soon and final recommendations to council in June. A notable policy discussion arose: Councilor Franzosa raised concerns that enforcement in the Old Bend parking benefit district is penalizing residents (e.g., for guests parking at dinner parties, or parking against traffic flow) in ways not originally explained when the district was formed. Staff acknowledged the concern and committed to a broader policy discussion when returning in June with the East Old Bend district proposal. The Old Bend benefit district fund currently holds approximately $85,000 that the neighborhood has not yet been able to spend.",
        "TREE PRESERVATION ORDINANCE (Item 9 — second reading, roll call vote): Ordinance amending Bend Development Code BDC 3.2.200 (tree preservation requirements) passed on second reading. Councilor Kebler recused due to a conflict of interest (employer: Hidden Homes). Roll call: Franzosa yes, Mendez aye, Riley yes, Perkins yes, Platt yes — passed.",
        "CITY MANAGER REPORT / UPCOMING CALENDAR: Staff flagged a crowded Q1 schedule and proposed sending councilors a survey about capacity and workload. Key upcoming items flagged: April 1 — Stevens Ranch/Legacy Building; April 8 — Electrification policy roundtable (exemptions, implementation timeline, four city committees invited); April 15 — Timber Yards master plan update, one-year work plan review; May 6 — BURA meeting; May 13 — Major work session including capital improvement program prioritization, transient lodging tax policy discussion (how to use the new 50/50 flexibility), and joint session with Rural Fire District on long-term funding (fire levy renewal eyed for 2028, EMS/ambulance cost study underway). Staff also noted: Bend Central District Economic Improvement District notices were re-sent due to mapping errors, public hearing coming soon; Downtown Bend library closing in April for renovation (approximately one year), Central Library East Side opens May 11 for pickup/drop-off."
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      "decisions": [
        "Adopted resolution supporting immigrant communities, condemning federal immigration enforcement, and allocating funds to the Latino Community Association (unanimous)",
        "Adopted CWSRF loan resolution for King Hezekiah and Fargo sewer project, not to exceed $2,875,000 (unanimous)",
        "Authorized construction contract with Bar Seven A Companies Inc. for King Hezekiah and Fargo sewer project, not to exceed $1,674,186 (unanimous)",
        "Authorized five-year parking management contract with Diamond Parking Services LLC, not to exceed $2,906,000 (unanimous)",
        "Passed second reading of tree preservation ordinance amending BDC 3.2.200 (roll call, Kebler recused)",
        "Directed city manager to survey council on schedule capacity and workload prioritization",
        "Agreed to pursue additional neighborhood roundtables, with southwest neighborhoods next in line"
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        "Staff to provide council memo explaining local impacts of HB 4037's clear-and-objective-standards hearing prohibition (raised by Councilor Riley)",
        "City lobbyist Eric Kansler to monitor whether legislature revisits the small-restaurant resiliency grant element of the lodging tax bill in a long session",
        "Staff to return in June with final Old Bend East and Miller's Run parking district proposals after public comment period",
        "Staff to bring policy discussion on Old Bend parking benefit district enforcement practices alongside June parking update",
        "City attorney to finalize contract and grant agreement documents to execute immigrant community resolution funding",
        "Letter to Oregon federal representatives to accompany the immigrant community resolution",
        "May 13 work session: council to decide how to use new 50/50 lodging tax flexibility",
        "May work session with Rural Fire District on long-term fire funding plan; EMS/ambulance cost study ongoing",
        "Councilor Franzosa to share central Oregon transportation project spreadsheet with full council ahead of April 9 public vote",
        "City manager to send out council workload/schedule survey this week",
        "Council to schedule additional neighborhood roundtables (southwest confirmed as next)",
        "Staff to follow up on Cabin Lane cul-de-sac septic-to-sewer gap flagged by Councilor Riley",
        "Bend Central District EID public hearing to come before council in coming weeks",
        "Quarterly goal update planned for April"
      ],
      "notablePeople": [
        "Eric Kansler — City of Bend contract state lobbyist; presented legislative session debrief",
        "Kate Schneider — city staff, introduced legislative update alongside Sarah Hudson",
        "Melissa (last name not stated) — city affordable housing coordinator, serving as interim HREC staff liaison; presented immigrant resolution",
        "Catalina Frank — community advocate who brought initial immigration concerns to council in January; named as catalyst for the resolution",
        "Kinsey Hood Martin — public commenter, Bend native, spoke in support of the immigrant resolution",
        "Renee Mitchell — city staff credited with organizing the southeast bend neighborhood roundtable",
        "Jason (last name not stated) — principal engineer, presented King Hezekiah/Fargo sewer project",
        "David (last name not stated) — presented parking contract; Patrick named as parking division staff",
        "Carina — representative from Diamond Parking Services present at meeting",
        "Michael Baker — CEO, Boys and Girls Clubs of Bend; updated council on expanded programming (273 days open this year, 25,000 meals projected)",
        "Johnathan Westmoreland — public commenter, raised data security and end-to-end encryption concerns regarding city vendor contracts (Flock, Axon, Vera Mobility)",
        "Todd (last name not stated) — chair, Southern Crossing Neighborhood Association; raised Reed Market road crossing project and parking concerns near Old Mill",
        "Jane (last name not stated) — southeast Bend resident; raised wildfire evacuation route concerns for high-density growth areas",
        "Michelle (last name not stated) — online commenter; flagged that the southeast roundtable recap omitted neighborhood opposition to gas stations near elementary schools; Mayor Kebler confirmed the CC zone was changed in early 2025 to prohibit auto-dependent uses",
        "Omar — Palestinian Red Crescent worker in Ramallah; joined virtually after a COCC film screening (mentioned by Councilor Riley in council reports)",
        "Josh Burgess — started Central Oregon Civic Action Project; CIOC approved to act as fiscal agent",
        "Eric Sheridan — reported to CIOC board on civic assembly tool event April 7 in Redmond",
        "Bend Duncan — named as equity consultant working with HREC on workload prioritization"
      ],
      "uncertainty": "The city manager's first name is referenced in passing (councilors say 'eric') but his last name is never clearly stated in the transcript — likely Eric King based on the Boys and Girls Club CEO's comment praising 'MR. King,' but this is inferred, not confirmed in this transcript. The transcript's SRT captions frequently drop last names and occasionally render speech as '(Indistinct)' or '(Indiscernible, simultaneous speaking),' particularly during the parking discussion. The tree preservation ordinance second reading is described only briefly; no substantive policy content about what it changes is included in this transcript. The 'Councilor Norris' who appears in roll call and gives a brief report is listed in roll call as 'Moranis' — this may be a transcription error in the captions; treat the name with caution."
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