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      "rawSrt": "1\n00:00:01,660 --> 00:00:04,200\nAll right, I show it's 6:00.\n\n2\n00:00:06,460 --> 00:00:09,820\nLet's go ahead and call to order tonight's meeting of the Corvallis City Council.\n\n3\n00:00:09,830 --> 00:00:11,660\nCity recorder, roll call please.\n\n4\n00:00:12,940 --> 00:00:13,720\nMayor Maughan?\n\n5\n00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:14,260\nHere.\n\n6\n00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:16,760\nCouncilors Napack? Lewis?\n\n7\n00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:17,740\nHere.\n\n8\n00:00:17,780 --> 00:00:18,560\nMoorefield?\n\n9\n00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:19,340\nHere.\n\n10\n00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:19,960\nOlsen?\n\n11\n00:00:19,980 --> 00:00:20,670\nHere.\n\n12\n00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:21,260\nEllis?\n\n13\n00:00:21,300 --> 00:00:21,900\nHere.\n\n14\n00:00:21,910 --> 00:00:24,560\nBowden? Shaffer?\n\n15\n00:00:24,580 --> 00:00:25,580\nHere.\n\n16\n00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:26,200\nMayors?\n\n17\n00:00:26,220 --> 00:00:26,760\nHere.\n\n18\n00:00:26,780 --> 00:00:27,400\nKadena?\n\n19\n00:00:27,500 --> 00:00:28,120\nHere.\n\n20\n00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:30,020\nEight councilors present, Your Honor.\n\n21\n00:00:30,060 --> 00:00:30,500\nThank you.\n\n22\n00:00:32,201 --> 00:00:34,220\nNext up, looking for approval of tonight's\n\n23\n00:00:34,260 --> 00:00:36,620\nagenda.\n\n24\n00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:39,600\nI move to approve the agenda. I'll second.\n\n25\n00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:43,600\nAll right. Any discussion? No? All in favor of the\n\n26\n00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:45,200\nagenda as written say, \"Aye.\"\n\n27\n00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:45,480\nAye.\n\n28\n00:00:45,500 --> 00:00:46,220\nAye.\n\n29\n00:00:46,230 --> 00:00:46,230\nAye.\n\n30\n00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:50,000\nSay no. Sorry, Paul, I'll try to remember to give you a\n\n31\n00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:52,540\nminute.\n\n32\n00:00:53,660 --> 00:00:56,540\nThe Corvallis City Council asks community members to register in advance, but also\n\n33\n00:00:56,580 --> 00:00:59,000\noffers limited opportunities to sign up at the meeting.\n\n34\n00:00:59,070 --> 00:01:02,030\nThe comm- community members may indicate their interest in providing comment this\n\n35\n00:01:02,100 --> 00:01:05,760\nevening by using the sign-up sheet in the back of the room, or using the raise hand\n\n36\n00:01:05,820 --> 00:01:09,440\nfunction in Zoom when your desired opportunity for public testimony is reached.\n\n37\n00:01:09,450 --> 00:01:12,020\nPlease remember to state your name and area of residence for the record and be\n\n38\n00:01:12,060 --> 00:01:15,760\nmindful of the three-minute timer.\n\n39\n00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:19,360\nWe do have two presentations today, so community comments will be after that.\n\n40\n00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:23,020\nUp first, we have the Corvallis Arts Center annual report for the fiscal year\n\n41\n00:01:23,060 --> 00:01:26,960\ntwenty twenty-four, twenty twenty-five.\n\n42\n00:01:41,860 --> 00:01:43,440\nGood evening, mayor and city council.\n\n43\n00:01:43,540 --> 00:01:46,780\nUh, tonight I have the pleasure of introducing\n\n44\n00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:51,060\nErin, Erin, Gavigan, as the executive\n\n45\n00:01:51,100 --> 00:01:53,700\ndirector of the Corvallis Arts Center.\n\n46\n00:01:53,820 --> 00:01:57,380\nAs s- many of you know, the Corvallis Arts Center\n\n47\n00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:01,190\nis owned by the City of Corvallis, the facility itself, the\n\n48\n00:02:01,260 --> 00:02:04,990\nbuilding itself, and it's operated by the nonprofit,\n\n49\n00:02:05,260 --> 00:02:07,700\nCorvallis Arts Center Incorporated.\n\n50\n00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:11,370\nAnd, part of their annual\n\n51\n00:02:12,140 --> 00:02:15,280\nag- agreement with the city council and the city\n\n52\n00:02:16,100 --> 00:02:19,300\nis the city council provides fifty-four thousand dollars\n\n53\n00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:23,380\nannually to the arts center, to help operate the\n\n54\n00:02:23,420 --> 00:02:27,160\narts center, and then in turn, owes an annual\n\n55\n00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:31,180\nreport as well as financial statements to the city that\n\n56\n00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:35,130\non-- starting on electronic page nineteen, you'll see the,\n\n57\n00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:38,620\nreview from the city's finance department of their financial\n\n58\n00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:42,480\nstatements, and a, and an approval for those, those\n\n59\n00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:44,940\nfinancial reviews. And up next is\n\n60\n00:02:44,980 --> 00:02:48,640\nErin.\n\n61\n00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:53,040\nI'm excited to get to talk to you all.\n\n62\n00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:55,560\nUm, I also wanna thank, I have a couple of board members with me.\n\n63\n00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:57,860\nThank you for being here.\n\n64\n00:02:59,100 --> 00:02:59,380\nUm-\n\n65\n00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:01,380\nCan you make sure your microphone's on?\n\n66\n00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:01,880\nIt just-\n\n67\n00:03:01,940 --> 00:03:02,480\nIs it on?\n\n68\n00:03:02,540 --> 00:03:05,980\nIs it-- No. No, it's not on. Is the green light on?\n\n69\n00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:07,940\nSorry. How's that?\n\n70\n00:03:08,020 --> 00:03:09,220\nPerfect. Thank you.\n\n71\n00:03:09,260 --> 00:03:13,020\nGreat. Okay. Um, the arts\n\n72\n00:03:13,060 --> 00:03:16,300\ncenter positively impacts the city of Corvallis' economic\n\n73\n00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:20,060\nvitality, quality of life, and visitor attraction\n\n74\n00:03:20,100 --> 00:03:22,100\nthrough the visual arts.\n\n75\n00:03:45,100 --> 00:03:48,020\nI think you might just have to like scroll, 'cause I think this is just a PDF.\n\n76\n00:03:48,340 --> 00:03:49,090\nIt's like...\n\n77\n00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:51,360\nWell, we practice.\n\n78\n00:03:51,420 --> 00:03:53,900\nOh.\n\n79\n00:03:57,440 --> 00:04:01,200\nThere we go. All right. Okay.\n\n80\n00:04:01,260 --> 00:04:01,840\nNext slide.\n\n81\n00:04:01,860 --> 00:04:02,630\nAnd now it's not on the screen.\n\n82\n00:04:02,660 --> 00:04:03,130\nYep.\n\n83\n00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:06,420\nOh, now we're not on the screen. Oh, that's okay\n\n84\n00:04:06,660 --> 00:04:19,360\ntoo.\n\n85\n00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:38,860\nOkay. That's all right, the very end.\n\n86\n00:04:40,740 --> 00:04:41,990\nAll right.\n\n87\n00:04:46,060 --> 00:04:49,840\nOkay. Next slide. There we go. All right.\n\n88\n00:04:49,940 --> 00:04:53,720\nUm, so the city of Corvallis' strategic plan and twenty forty\n\n89\n00:04:53,740 --> 00:04:57,380\nvision call for cultivating community identity centered on\n\n90\n00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:01,040\narts, culture, recreation, and celebration.\n\n91\n00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:04,840\nThe arts center is a primary driver on this vision\n\n92\n00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:06,500\naction.\n\n93\n00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:12,020\nThrough, free exhibitions, community arts programming,\n\n94\n00:05:12,460 --> 00:05:16,190\nartist entrepreneurship, development, youth education, and\n\n95\n00:05:16,260 --> 00:05:19,400\nstr- and the strategic expansion of accessible arts\n\n96\n00:05:19,500 --> 00:05:23,280\ninfrastructure, the arts center directly advances the city's goals of economic\n\n97\n00:05:23,340 --> 00:05:26,190\nvitality, social connection, and cultural\n\n98\n00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:29,980\ndistinction. Our fiscal year twenty-five work reflects not\n\n99\n00:05:30,060 --> 00:05:33,920\nonly artistic excellence, but intentional alignment with the city's\n\n100\n00:05:33,980 --> 00:05:37,440\nlong-term strategy for a vibrant, creative Corvallis.\n\n101\n00:05:37,500 --> 00:05:41,100\nIn many ways, the arts center serves as the city's primary visual\n\n102\n00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:45,080\narts partner. Be helping to translate, to\n\n103\n00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:48,730\ntranslate the community's cultural, aspirations into\n\n104\n00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:52,580\naccessible programs, creative opportunities, and shared public\n\n105\n00:05:52,660 --> 00:05:54,460\nexperiences.\n\n106\n00:05:55,980 --> 00:05:59,700\nUm, the arts center's curator and a twelve-member, community-based\n\n107\n00:05:59,780 --> 00:06:03,560\nexhibition committee work together to select each year's main\n\n108\n00:06:03,620 --> 00:06:07,200\nexhibitions and those mounted in our more emerging and experimental\n\n109\n00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:09,000\ncareer, Corinne Woodmen\n\n110\n00:06:09,060 --> 00:06:12,670\nGallery.Um, this\n\n111\n00:06:12,790 --> 00:06:16,530\nis, just images from the six exhibits in our main\n\n112\n00:06:16,630 --> 00:06:18,520\nspace for the fiscal year '25.\n\n113\n00:06:21,150 --> 00:06:24,710\nArts education is a main part of the Art Center's work in the\n\n114\n00:06:24,750 --> 00:06:28,620\ncommunity. Um, for the fiscal year '25, it was a really a time of\n\n115\n00:06:28,650 --> 00:06:32,600\ngrowth for us. We're, we're really starting to experiment with expanding our\n\n116\n00:06:32,630 --> 00:06:36,570\narts education programs. We do this through community arts\n\n117\n00:06:36,590 --> 00:06:39,890\nprograms that are free monthly events led by the Art\n\n118\n00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:43,730\nCenter's learning staff with the support of volunteers, to\n\n119\n00:06:43,770 --> 00:06:47,310\ninclude things like Second Saturday and the Fourth Tuesday Craft Night at the\n\n120\n00:06:47,330 --> 00:06:51,150\nCorvallis Library. We also have project-based learning classes\n\n121\n00:06:51,190 --> 00:06:54,720\nfor youth, which are fee-based, but we do have scholarships available for\n\n122\n00:06:54,790 --> 00:06:58,260\nthose. Um, and arts, community part,\n\n123\n00:06:58,770 --> 00:07:02,610\nyeah, arts community, partners such as the City of Corvallis Parks and\n\n124\n00:07:02,650 --> 00:07:05,730\nRec, the Corvallis Museum, and the Benton County\n\n125\n00:07:05,810 --> 00:07:09,570\nLibrary. In fiscal year '25, the Art Center\n\n126\n00:07:09,630 --> 00:07:11,850\nparticipated in fifty-six community events.\n\n127\n00:07:13,910 --> 00:07:17,770\nUm, we did this through our creative resources and our community outreach.\n\n128\n00:07:17,810 --> 00:07:21,370\nFor the year, we had over fifteen hundred participants in our community\n\n129\n00:07:21,430 --> 00:07:25,410\nevents, including Creation Station, which is the, TAC\n\n130\n00:07:25,490 --> 00:07:28,520\nMakes, program that we host at the,\n\n131\n00:07:28,850 --> 00:07:32,370\nC3 Parks and Rec Center.\n\n132\n00:07:33,990 --> 00:07:37,910\nThis is a snapshot of, our financials,\n\n133\n00:07:37,950 --> 00:07:40,750\nour expenses and revenue for fiscal year '25.\n\n134\n00:07:40,770 --> 00:07:44,170\nOf course, you have the much more detailed version in your packet, but just a quick\n\n135\n00:07:44,310 --> 00:07:47,990\noverview of this. Um, you'll see that the bulk of our total\n\n136\n00:07:48,030 --> 00:07:51,990\nrevenue is from grants. Um, the grants is inclusive\n\n137\n00:07:52,030 --> 00:07:55,170\nof government grants, so the funding that we get from the city of Corvallis is\n\n138\n00:07:55,210 --> 00:07:58,920\nincluded in that number. Um, second highest is,\n\n139\n00:07:59,230 --> 00:08:02,930\nindividual contributions, which include direct annual gifts from\n\n140\n00:08:02,990 --> 00:08:05,680\nindividuals, as well as contributions to our\n\n141\n00:08:05,710 --> 00:08:09,550\nendowments. In our expenses, you will see\n\n142\n00:08:09,570 --> 00:08:13,510\nthat the bulk of our expenses do go towards, producing the programs that we\n\n143\n00:08:13,570 --> 00:08:16,910\ndo, with management and fundraising being the rest of our\n\n144\n00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:19,670\nexpenses.\n\n145\n00:08:21,350 --> 00:08:24,959\nSo looking forward, I wanna share a little bit with you.\n\n146\n00:08:25,090 --> 00:08:29,010\nUm, we have embarked on a project\n\n147\n00:08:29,050 --> 00:08:32,951\ncalled TAC Forward, which is our expansion project.\n\n148\n00:08:33,030 --> 00:08:36,430\nUh, since I talked to you last year, we've completed our\n\n149\n00:08:36,451 --> 00:08:40,050\nfeasibility for expansion. The board and staff have gone\n\n150\n00:08:40,110 --> 00:08:43,790\nthrough, visioning sessions, and we\n\n151\n00:08:43,910 --> 00:08:47,700\nhave contracted with an architect to help us design our programming for\n\n152\n00:08:47,730 --> 00:08:49,370\nexpansion.\n\n153\n00:08:50,870 --> 00:08:54,510\nThrough our expansion feasibility study, there were\n\n154\n00:08:54,570 --> 00:08:58,350\nseveral findings that came out, but the one that is probably the most visible,\n\n155\n00:08:58,360 --> 00:08:59,170\nwhich I'll highlight,\n\n156\n00:09:00,830 --> 00:09:04,130\nshowed up in both the key findings and our strategic recommendations,\n\n157\n00:09:04,550 --> 00:09:08,070\nwhich was that we have some space constraint issues at the\n\n158\n00:09:08,090 --> 00:09:11,590\nArt Center. The Art Center has been in the same footprint for over\n\n159\n00:09:11,650 --> 00:09:15,170\nsixty-three years. Um, and the strategic\n\n160\n00:09:15,230 --> 00:09:19,150\nrecommendation c- that came out of that, obviously, is to identify additional\n\n161\n00:09:19,170 --> 00:09:22,890\nspace for the Art Center, as well as to retrofit the current\n\n162\n00:09:22,990 --> 00:09:25,750\nspace.\n\n163\n00:09:27,990 --> 00:09:31,930\nI wanna talk a little bit about how this expansion aligns with, Imagine\n\n164\n00:09:32,030 --> 00:09:35,990\nCorvallis 2040. Um, Imagine Corvallis identifies arts\n\n165\n00:09:36,010 --> 00:09:39,790\nand culture as an essential community, identity, economic\n\n166\n00:09:39,870 --> 00:09:41,630\nresilience, and quality of life.\n\n167\n00:09:42,890 --> 00:09:46,230\nIn that vision, the city identified four\n\n168\n00:09:46,330 --> 00:09:49,970\nareas, where the culture is important, which is culturi-\n\n169\n00:09:50,030 --> 00:09:53,650\ncultivating a distinct cultural identity, expanding\n\n170\n00:09:53,710 --> 00:09:57,210\nequitable access to the arts, strengthening the creative\n\n171\n00:09:57,220 --> 00:10:01,030\neconomy, and investing in cultural infrastructure for the\n\n172\n00:10:01,070 --> 00:10:04,980\nfuture. This expansion, expanding\n\n173\n00:10:04,980 --> 00:10:08,950\nthe footpi- footprint of the Art Center, of course, transforms it\n\n174\n00:10:09,010 --> 00:10:12,850\nphysically. Um, but what it also does is it transforms TAC into a\n\n175\n00:10:12,930 --> 00:10:16,690\ncomprehensive community art center, directly advancing the city's\n\n176\n00:10:16,730 --> 00:10:19,260\nvision of an arts-centered community\n\n177\n00:10:19,350 --> 00:10:22,550\nlife.\n\n178\n00:10:24,930 --> 00:10:28,130\nThe Art Center expansion, is two-phase project.\n\n179\n00:10:28,670 --> 00:10:32,570\nIn fiscal year '26 and '27, we will focus on phase\n\n180\n00:10:32,690 --> 00:10:35,790\none, which includes the design development,\n\n181\n00:10:36,110 --> 00:10:39,710\npermitting, and renovation and restoration of 760\n\n182\n00:10:39,810 --> 00:10:43,150\nSouthwest Madison Avenue, which we purchased on January\n\n183\n00:10:43,330 --> 00:10:46,970\n26th of this year. It is, as you can see from the\n\n184\n00:10:47,050 --> 00:10:50,990\naerial 3D, image here, is right next\n\n185\n00:10:51,050 --> 00:10:52,870\nto the current Art Center space.\n\n186\n00:10:53,830 --> 00:10:57,700\nWithin this space, go to the next slide, this will become our\n\n187\n00:10:57,810 --> 00:11:01,610\nprimary education space. Um, so in addition\n\n188\n00:11:01,690 --> 00:11:05,570\nto an exterior elevator and, to the building to make it fully\n\n189\n00:11:05,610 --> 00:11:09,350\nADA accessible, it will include large 2D\n\n190\n00:11:09,410 --> 00:11:13,390\nart-making classrooms and art supply retail space, which is something\n\n191\n00:11:13,410 --> 00:11:16,760\nthat's very much needed in the community of Corvallis.\n\n192\n00:11:16,850 --> 00:11:20,830\nUm, a community library lounge space for creatives to retreat\n\n193\n00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:24,380\nand reflect. Uh, low-cost short-term artist\n\n194\n00:11:24,450 --> 00:11:27,950\nstudios for project-based work. A community art\n\n195\n00:11:28,050 --> 00:11:31,190\ngallery for the Art Center students and other community e-\n\n196\n00:11:31,690 --> 00:11:35,590\nexhibition opportunities. Um, jewelry making, stained\n\n197\n00:11:35,650 --> 00:11:39,350\nglass, printmaking, a two-bedroom apartment to host\n\n198\n00:11:39,430 --> 00:11:43,010\nartists in residence, and office space for eight of our staff\n\n199\n00:11:43,070 --> 00:11:47,050\nmembers. Phase two will\n\n200\n00:11:47,090 --> 00:11:51,070\nbe the design development, permitting, and renovation restoration of\n\n201\n00:11:51,130 --> 00:11:54,610\n700 Southwest Madison Avenue, which as you know, is our current\n\n202\n00:11:54,650 --> 00:11:58,530\nfacility. We expect this phase to start, in\n\n203\n00:11:58,570 --> 00:12:02,510\nfiscal year '27, '28. But very early plans\n\n204\n00:12:02,530 --> 00:12:06,230\ninclude an interior elevator and a new rear entrance to the\n\n205\n00:12:06,250 --> 00:12:10,230\nbuilding to make it fully ADA accessible, an expanded\n\n206\n00:12:10,270 --> 00:12:14,110\nmain gallery space, a renovated art shop, a multi-use\n\n207\n00:12:14,210 --> 00:12:16,550\nlecture and meeting space, and a digital lab\n\n208\n00:12:16,630 --> 00:12:20,240\nclassroom.TAC\n\n209\n00:12:20,340 --> 00:12:24,180\nForward positions Corvallis not only as a city that supports the\n\n210\n00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:27,980\narts, but as a city built around them by expanding arts\n\n211\n00:12:28,060 --> 00:12:31,760\nlearning, artist development, and public cultural space.\n\n212\n00:12:31,820 --> 00:12:35,790\nTAC Forward will help ensure that arts and culture remain a defining\n\n213\n00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:39,380\nfeature of Corvallis' identity well into the future.\n\n214\n00:12:40,700 --> 00:12:44,280\nAs part of our shared commitment to Imagine\n\n215\n00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:47,990\nCorvallis 2040, the Arts Center is open to,\n\n216\n00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:51,800\nongoing discussions with the city regarding the potential transfer of\n\n217\n00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:55,300\nownership of 700 Southwest Madison Avenue to the Arts\n\n218\n00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:59,210\nCenter, which kind of brings us full circle actually, because the Arts\n\n219\n00:12:59,220 --> 00:13:01,140\nCenter originally owned the building.\n\n220\n00:13:01,220 --> 00:13:05,160\nUm, and when it was moved to its current location, it was on city property, and\n\n221\n00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:08,360\nthe city took ownership of it, and that was, again, about 60 years\n\n222\n00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:10,230\nago.\n\n223\n00:13:12,620 --> 00:13:16,240\nTogether with the City of Corvallis, the Arts Center has spent more than 60 years\n\n224\n00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:19,810\ncultivating a vibrant arts ecosystem that strengthens community\n\n225\n00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:23,850\nidentity, economic vitality, and the quality of life through\n\n226\n00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:27,400\nexhibitions, arts education, and ent- entrepreneurship\n\n227\n00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:31,190\nprograms. The TAC Forward expansion and the TAC Forward\n\n228\n00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:35,110\nexpansion, the Art- Arts Center is building the\n\n229\n00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:38,940\ncultural infrastructure necessary to meet the aspirations of the\n\n230\n00:13:38,980 --> 00:13:42,750\nImagine Corvallis 2040 vision. As our community grows and\n\n231\n00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:46,320\nevolves, the Arts Center remains committed to ensuring that arts and\n\n232\n00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:50,340\ncreativity cont- continue to be central to what makes Corvallis a\n\n233\n00:13:50,380 --> 00:13:54,260\nremarkable place to live, learn, work, and play.\n\n234\n00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:58,960\nThe future of Corvallis is creative, and the Arts Center is proud to help\n\n235\n00:13:58,970 --> 00:14:01,380\nlead that way. Thank you.\n\n236\n00:14:02,980 --> 00:14:06,090\nThank you very much. That was a, a lot of information.\n\n237\n00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:08,960\nKind of exciting. Counselors, any\n\n238\n00:14:08,980 --> 00:14:12,960\nquestions? Counselor Cadena?\n\n239\n00:14:13,020 --> 00:14:16,890\nI don't have any questions at all. Um, but I just wanted to,\n\n240\n00:14:17,060 --> 00:14:20,600\nsay, the report and your presentation,\n\n241\n00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:24,720\njust amazing, awesome. It's really amazing to see the progress\n\n242\n00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:28,300\nthat's, that's happened. Uh, as you know, I was on the Arts Center board quite a\n\n243\n00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:32,029\nfew years ago, so to see the evolution of the organization and the\n\n244\n00:14:32,100 --> 00:14:35,600\nvision that you're looking forward to for the future, what it'll mean for the\n\n245\n00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:39,200\ncommunity is just... It's, it's, breathtaking to\n\n246\n00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:40,700\nsee. So thank you.\n\n247\n00:14:40,740 --> 00:14:42,780\nThank you. We, we appreciate that.\n\n248\n00:14:44,020 --> 00:14:44,660\nCouncilor Meyers?\n\n249\n00:14:45,980 --> 00:14:49,840\nWell, ditto what Councilor Cati- Cadena said, and I just had a couple\n\n250\n00:14:50,140 --> 00:14:53,150\nquick q- questions 'cause I just, don't know.\n\n251\n00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:57,170\nUm, I just wondered about, how you or\n\n252\n00:14:57,260 --> 00:14:58,720\nif you collaborate with\n\n253\n00:14:59,580 --> 00:14:59,680\nthe\n\n254\n00:15:00,680 --> 00:15:04,640\nuniversity, the, the, community college, and\n\n255\n00:15:04,820 --> 00:15:08,060\nthe public schools, and/or the public schools at\n\n256\n00:15:08,100 --> 00:15:09,380\nall.\n\n257\n00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:09,710\nYes.\n\n258\n00:15:09,710 --> 00:15:10,820\nYes.\n\n259\n00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:14,580\nUm, we are, we're currently partnering with the public\n\n260\n00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:17,950\nschools. Um, we, help the,\n\n261\n00:15:17,950 --> 00:15:21,240\nthe... I'm trying to remember the exact name of the All Corvallis Arts\n\n262\n00:15:21,700 --> 00:15:24,860\nexhibit, that they, that the public schools do each year.\n\n263\n00:15:24,900 --> 00:15:28,560\nWe help support that, and are collaborating with them in the\n\n264\n00:15:28,620 --> 00:15:31,880\nfuture on perha- perhaps having some sites for portions of that\n\n265\n00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:34,460\nexhibit out off of the school property.\n\n266\n00:15:34,500 --> 00:15:35,070\nOh.\n\n267\n00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:37,540\nUm, so there's more accessibility to that.\n\n268\n00:15:37,620 --> 00:15:41,230\nUm, with, the community college, yes, we have\n\n269\n00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:43,430\nactually, had a couple of programs.\n\n270\n00:15:43,460 --> 00:15:46,690\nThey've, they've allo- they've partnered with us and allow us to use their...\n\n271\n00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:50,640\nThey have a fabulous ceramic studio, much larger than our current space,\n\n272\n00:15:50,660 --> 00:15:53,820\nand so we've partnered with them to present, ceramics\n\n273\n00:15:53,860 --> 00:15:57,220\nworkshops. Um, and I ha- we have a good\n\n274\n00:15:57,240 --> 00:16:00,780\nrelationship with the, the university,\n\n275\n00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:04,320\nparticularly with the, the art\n\n276\n00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:05,930\ndepartment. They're actually...\n\n277\n00:16:05,940 --> 00:16:09,700\nSome other faculty is helping us, in designing our new\n\n278\n00:16:09,740 --> 00:16:13,150\nspaces, particularly printmaking and,\n\n279\n00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:18,340\nour, let me think, printmaking and also our digital\n\n280\n00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:22,120\nlab. Um, so they're, we're partnering with them on\n\n281\n00:16:22,220 --> 00:16:26,070\nthat, and we, really wanna help build more of a\n\n282\n00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:30,070\ncommunity connection between the arts at the university and in the\n\n283\n00:16:30,140 --> 00:16:33,990\ncommunity. Um, I just had somebody ask me today about our co- our connections\n\n284\n00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:37,240\nwith Prax, and, they're good, but they need to be\n\n285\n00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:39,040\nstronger.\n\n286\n00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:42,220\nCouncilor Lewis?\n\n287\n00:16:42,340 --> 00:16:45,900\nUm, I don't have a question. I just wanted to say it was amazing\n\n288\n00:16:45,940 --> 00:16:49,630\nbeing... When you first asked me to be a part of this, the\n\n289\n00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:53,380\nexpansion TAC force in the beginning, it was very awesome to see where, where it\n\n290\n00:16:53,420 --> 00:16:57,260\nwas like just from an idea to now where it is right now.\n\n291\n00:16:57,340 --> 00:17:01,300\nSo I'm like very impressed on just how much work has gone\n\n292\n00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:04,280\ninto this, and I appreciate all the work that you've been doing.\n\n293\n00:17:04,290 --> 00:17:06,120\nThank you for being a part of that.\n\n294\n00:17:07,540 --> 00:17:09,300\nCouncilor Napet.\n\n295\n00:17:09,340 --> 00:17:10,800\nI'm gonna sign up.\n\n296\n00:17:10,840 --> 00:17:11,860\nNice.\n\n297\n00:17:12,340 --> 00:17:12,350\nYes.\n\n298\n00:17:13,500 --> 00:17:14,840\nFor all of it.\n\n299\n00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:21,161\nAgain, just th- thank you for all your work and-\n\n300\n00:17:21,181 --> 00:17:21,230\nThank you\n\n301\n00:17:21,230 --> 00:17:22,580\n... for your great presentation.\n\n302\n00:17:22,641 --> 00:17:25,520\nOkay. Thank you.\n\n303\n00:17:27,881 --> 00:17:30,920\nMoving on, we have our Downtown Vitality Strategy Task Force\n\n304\n00:17:31,020 --> 00:17:34,720\nupdate. Invite our co-chairs up to tell us what's going\n\n305\n00:17:34,780 --> 00:17:38,859\non.\n\n306\n00:17:44,970 --> 00:17:48,580\nGood evening, Mayor Monn and councilors. Thank you for giving...\n\n307\n00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:52,000\nI'm Julie Manning, by the way. Thank you for giving Steve Clark and me the\n\n308\n00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:55,750\nopportunity to provide a brief update on the work of the\n\n309\n00:17:55,820 --> 00:17:58,820\nDowntown Vitality Strategy Task Force.\n\n310\n00:17:58,900 --> 00:18:02,380\nThis will be the final update before we come back to you in\n\n311\n00:18:02,460 --> 00:18:06,400\nJune with our report, findings, and recommendations.\n\n312\n00:18:06,420 --> 00:18:10,400\nAnd just as a, a reminder for, and for the audience, this\n\n313\n00:18:10,420 --> 00:18:13,560\nmayor-appointed task force consists of 40\n\n314\n00:18:13,620 --> 00:18:17,160\nmembers, serving on four different committees.\n\n315\n00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:20,900\nSteve and I co-chair the executive committee, and there are\n\n316\n00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:24,210\nalso committees working on, safety and,\n\n317\n00:18:24,580 --> 00:18:28,240\nculture, on infrastructure, and on economic\n\n318\n00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:31,980\nvitality, really representing a, a broad\n\n319\n00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:35,580\nperspective of experience, and\n\n320\n00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:39,160\ninteractions with the downtown, a- and also\n\n321\n00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:42,600\nincluding all, all members of the, city council.\n\n322\n00:18:42,660 --> 00:18:46,000\nSo we really appreciate the ongoing commitment and\n\n323\n00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:49,260\nparticipation, from all of you in this important\n\n324\n00:18:49,300 --> 00:18:53,052\nendeavor.We have a few slides to share with you\n\n325\n00:18:53,112 --> 00:18:56,752\ntonight, they'll also be in the minutes for tonight's meeting that\n\n326\n00:18:56,832 --> 00:19:00,792\nsummarize our work to date. Um, beginning with just\n\n327\n00:19:00,832 --> 00:19:04,632\na reminder of the charge, of our task\n\n328\n00:19:04,692 --> 00:19:08,652\nforce. Uh, this, task force was formed by the council to\n\n329\n00:19:08,692 --> 00:19:12,612\ncreate a downtown vitality strategy to advance\n\n330\n00:19:12,692 --> 00:19:15,952\nits strategic plan priority to nurture a\n\n331\n00:19:16,032 --> 00:19:19,842\nthriving downtown as the hub and character of\n\n332\n00:19:19,872 --> 00:19:23,812\nCorvallis. And certainly in the work that we've done since beginning to meet\n\n333\n00:19:23,852 --> 00:19:27,461\nlast June, we've really seen a tremendous,\n\n334\n00:19:27,912 --> 00:19:31,812\nongoing, interest in the work of, of this group and really an\n\n335\n00:19:31,932 --> 00:19:35,752\nongoing affirmation of the affection and\n\n336\n00:19:35,912 --> 00:19:39,622\nthe importance that this community, holds,\n\n337\n00:19:39,912 --> 00:19:40,972\nfor the downtown.\n\n338\n00:19:41,872 --> 00:19:44,212\nUh, next slide, please. Yeah. Yes, here we are.\n\n339\n00:19:44,292 --> 00:19:46,852\nSo, where are we in the process?\n\n340\n00:19:46,932 --> 00:19:50,892\nUh, as you recall, last summer and early fall, the task force\n\n341\n00:19:50,932 --> 00:19:54,452\ndeveloped a preliminary set of actions and\n\n342\n00:19:54,531 --> 00:19:57,942\nideas for how to enhance the vitality and\n\n343\n00:19:58,032 --> 00:20:01,132\nsafety of downtown. Then beginning in\n\n344\n00:20:01,192 --> 00:20:04,822\nNovember, we launched a comprehensive outreach and\n\n345\n00:20:04,872 --> 00:20:08,722\nengagement effort to elicit community input on\n\n346\n00:20:08,772 --> 00:20:12,462\nthis list of actions, and, also how local\n\n347\n00:20:12,572 --> 00:20:15,992\nresidents would prioritize those actions.\n\n348\n00:20:16,092 --> 00:20:19,952\nIn addition, we asked, how individuals engage\n\n349\n00:20:20,012 --> 00:20:23,832\nwith the downtown and how often, and we'll be sharing\n\n350\n00:20:23,912 --> 00:20:27,732\nsome, key details of those results in just, just a\n\n351\n00:20:27,772 --> 00:20:31,572\nmoment. Our next step is to incorporate that feedback\n\n352\n00:20:31,932 --> 00:20:35,532\ninto a refined set of prioritized actions\n\n353\n00:20:35,852 --> 00:20:39,332\nthat will include implementation recommendations,\n\n354\n00:20:39,412 --> 00:20:43,072\ntimelines, and potential funding sources.\n\n355\n00:20:43,092 --> 00:20:46,792\nAnd we'll bring this to you in June, along with our\n\n356\n00:20:46,832 --> 00:20:48,972\nreport. Next slide.\n\n357\n00:20:50,072 --> 00:20:54,042\nSo this slide outlines the various methods that\n\n358\n00:20:54,132 --> 00:20:57,792\nwe've used to elicit comments and input,\n\n359\n00:20:58,132 --> 00:21:01,972\nsome of which will continue through the life of the project via the\n\n360\n00:21:01,992 --> 00:21:05,372\ncomments section on our project webpage.\n\n361\n00:21:05,452 --> 00:21:09,252\nAs you can see, there's been outstanding participation from\n\n362\n00:21:09,332 --> 00:21:13,192\nindividuals and organizations indicating how important\n\n363\n00:21:13,232 --> 00:21:16,822\nit is for them to maintain, a strong and\n\n364\n00:21:16,872 --> 00:21:20,832\nhealthy downtown. Particularly noteworthy is\n\n365\n00:21:20,952 --> 00:21:24,792\nthe level of survey responses, beginning with\n\n366\n00:21:24,872 --> 00:21:28,732\nlast fall's random sample community survey that\n\n367\n00:21:28,772 --> 00:21:32,612\nincluded several questions related to the downtown and\n\n368\n00:21:32,692 --> 00:21:35,752\nreceived more than five hundred responses.\n\n369\n00:21:35,792 --> 00:21:39,652\nPlus, the more than four hundred who've responded to the\n\n370\n00:21:39,712 --> 00:21:43,232\nadditional downtown questions on our task force\n\n371\n00:21:43,392 --> 00:21:47,292\nwebpage, and more than sixteen hundred who\n\n372\n00:21:47,332 --> 00:21:50,912\nparticipated in ranking our list of preliminary\n\n373\n00:21:50,952 --> 00:21:54,832\naction items, also was found-- the information found\n\n374\n00:21:54,872 --> 00:21:58,352\non our task force webpage. I'll now turn it over to\n\n375\n00:21:58,412 --> 00:22:02,092\nSteve, who will provide additional details on our community\n\n376\n00:22:02,152 --> 00:22:03,292\nengagement results.\n\n377\n00:22:05,872 --> 00:22:08,992\nThank you, Julie. And again, thank you mayor and members of the city\n\n378\n00:22:09,032 --> 00:22:11,852\ncouncil, and, and really the community.\n\n379\n00:22:11,912 --> 00:22:15,392\nWe, we think of this as an opportunity not to just update you, but really\n\n380\n00:22:15,412 --> 00:22:19,402\nprovide an update to the community as we've been doing over the last several\n\n381\n00:22:19,412 --> 00:22:22,872\nmonths, with the-- with these, meetings with\n\n382\n00:22:22,952 --> 00:22:26,332\nyou. We think, their engagement, their\n\n383\n00:22:26,372 --> 00:22:29,952\nknowledge is primary, and so we, we appreciate this opportunity\n\n384\n00:22:29,992 --> 00:22:32,572\ntonight. You know, we have taken\n\n385\n00:22:33,612 --> 00:22:36,992\nnote not only of input received and judging,\n\n386\n00:22:37,652 --> 00:22:40,092\nthe action items that, that Julie\n\n387\n00:22:40,172 --> 00:22:43,372\nsug-suggested, but we've also taken time to\n\n388\n00:22:43,472 --> 00:22:47,172\nlisten, to engage in conversation, and to be informed\n\n389\n00:22:47,272 --> 00:22:50,072\nbeyond those actions. I think that's really important.\n\n390\n00:22:50,092 --> 00:22:52,792\nWe're just not asking people a set of questions.\n\n391\n00:22:52,802 --> 00:22:54,952\nWe're listening to what they have to say.\n\n392\n00:22:55,012 --> 00:22:58,692\nAnd today we're gonna share with you some of that information.\n\n393\n00:22:58,772 --> 00:23:02,752\nUh, on the screen, we have before you a slide I believe you've\n\n394\n00:23:02,812 --> 00:23:06,792\nseen before. It's an overall community assessment of Corvallis'\n\n395\n00:23:06,892 --> 00:23:09,812\noverall economy, the business community, employment\n\n396\n00:23:09,892 --> 00:23:13,732\nopportunities, downtown commerce, overall vibrancy of\n\n397\n00:23:13,792 --> 00:23:17,692\nthe, of the Corvallis, economy and the community,\n\n398\n00:23:17,732 --> 00:23:19,992\ncost of living and other matters. You've seen this before.\n\n399\n00:23:20,012 --> 00:23:23,712\nWe're not here to really discuss that more unless you'd like to in\n\n400\n00:23:23,832 --> 00:23:27,592\nyour questions to us, look at some of those, those\n\n401\n00:23:27,612 --> 00:23:31,392\ntopical matters. Our next slide shows how\n\n402\n00:23:31,432 --> 00:23:34,092\ncommunity residents engage with downtown.\n\n403\n00:23:34,102 --> 00:23:37,332\nAnd I think what's really important is as we provide you\n\n404\n00:23:37,422 --> 00:23:40,772\nrecommendations, we're gonna take the context not only of the community\n\n405\n00:23:40,812 --> 00:23:44,552\nsurvey, the surveys we've done, but the input we've received from community\n\n406\n00:23:44,592 --> 00:23:48,312\nmembers and knit together a series of recommendations based upon\n\n407\n00:23:48,452 --> 00:23:52,352\nfindings. It's really important that it's a context of\n\n408\n00:23:52,392 --> 00:23:56,382\nthe downtown that will benefit not only the downtown in our recommendations, but\n\n409\n00:23:56,382 --> 00:24:00,302\nthe overall community. As you see here, we have a, a number\n\n410\n00:24:00,332 --> 00:24:03,492\nof positives about how people engage with their\n\n411\n00:24:03,532 --> 00:24:07,412\ndowntown. Uh, forty-three percent say, they\n\n412\n00:24:07,452 --> 00:24:08,862\nvisited town for any reason\n\n413\n00:24:09,792 --> 00:24:12,972\nin the past twelve months. But as we study\n\n414\n00:24:13,072 --> 00:24:16,082\nthese bar charts, we see some gaps,\n\n415\n00:24:17,272 --> 00:24:20,752\nwe see some opportunities, we see some\n\n416\n00:24:20,792 --> 00:24:24,392\nrequirements to improve, and that's where our task force work\n\n417\n00:24:24,432 --> 00:24:25,812\nreally is focusing on.\n\n418\n00:24:27,152 --> 00:24:30,981\nThese are not negatives. There's opportunities to improve, but if they're not\n\n419\n00:24:31,012 --> 00:24:34,852\ndealt with, they become primary negatives as time goes\n\n420\n00:24:34,952 --> 00:24:35,772\non.\n\n421\n00:24:37,472 --> 00:24:41,172\nAs we look at, our, our\n\n422\n00:24:41,212 --> 00:24:44,752\nresponsibility, as Julie said, as a charge, is to\n\n423\n00:24:44,832 --> 00:24:48,612\nrecommend to you and to the community how to\n\n424\n00:24:48,652 --> 00:24:52,612\nimprove the vitality of downtown, its safety, and we believe\n\n425\n00:24:52,692 --> 00:24:55,332\nsignificantly increase the community's engagement with\n\n426\n00:24:55,372 --> 00:24:59,096\ndowntown.As Julie says, as part of this effort, we\n\n427\n00:24:59,136 --> 00:25:02,836\npresented the community with twenty-eight possible actions, preliminary actions to\n\n428\n00:25:02,876 --> 00:25:03,696\nimprove downtown\n\n429\n00:25:04,516 --> 00:25:08,296\nOur next slide shows how community members we have been in contact with\n\n430\n00:25:08,396 --> 00:25:12,296\nprioritized the top ten of those twenty-eight actions.\n\n431\n00:25:13,256 --> 00:25:17,216\nNow, these are weighted scores. They take what somebody may have judged\n\n432\n00:25:17,236 --> 00:25:21,146\nas their number one, their number two, their number three, their number four, their\n\n433\n00:25:21,176 --> 00:25:23,956\nnumber five, and they add them together to give you a weighted\n\n434\n00:25:24,036 --> 00:25:27,816\nscore. We also understand how people,\n\n435\n00:25:28,316 --> 00:25:31,796\nvoted on these as their priorities based upon where\n\n436\n00:25:31,836 --> 00:25:35,616\nthey live. Do they live in the community, but not downtown? Do they live downtown?\n\n437\n00:25:35,776 --> 00:25:38,056\nDo they work downtown?\n\n438\n00:25:39,476 --> 00:25:41,096\nDo they own property downtown?\n\n439\n00:25:42,596 --> 00:25:46,396\nDo they own a business downtown? And, and what we see is some real\n\n440\n00:25:46,456 --> 00:25:50,336\nstrong consistency in community evaluation of priority\n\n441\n00:25:50,356 --> 00:25:53,916\nactions that need to be addressed as a community for\n\n442\n00:25:53,996 --> 00:25:56,916\ndowntown Corvallis. Safety is number one.\n\n443\n00:25:59,256 --> 00:26:02,336\nAddressing behavioral matters is included in\n\n444\n00:26:02,396 --> 00:26:04,396\nthat. The economy.\n\n445\n00:26:05,476 --> 00:26:09,296\nDeveloping and reducing s- providing strategies to reduce\n\n446\n00:26:09,336 --> 00:26:12,896\nstorefront vacancies. There's a strong perception in our community\n\n447\n00:26:13,876 --> 00:26:17,386\nthat storefront vacancies are predominant downtown and are a\n\n448\n00:26:17,436 --> 00:26:20,996\nsignificant issue. Voting downtown is a\n\n449\n00:26:21,056 --> 00:26:24,426\ncompelling place. It isn't just about the promotion, but it's\n\n450\n00:26:24,516 --> 00:26:28,036\nactually having the belief, the perception that\n\n451\n00:26:28,076 --> 00:26:31,776\ndowntown is a compelling place to visit, shop, to dine, to\n\n452\n00:26:31,836 --> 00:26:33,016\ncelebrate.\n\n453\n00:26:34,896 --> 00:26:38,636\nSafety. Again, in some respects, this is not only a vote, it's a\n\n454\n00:26:38,656 --> 00:26:42,476\nperception. There's a strong perception in the community that downtown is not\n\n455\n00:26:42,496 --> 00:26:46,476\nsafe enough, and we need to take steps to address safety\n\n456\n00:26:46,496 --> 00:26:48,066\nissues that the community has.\n\n457\n00:26:49,176 --> 00:26:53,116\nRiver connections. The Willamette River is perceived to be a strong asset\n\n458\n00:26:53,196 --> 00:26:57,116\nto the community, a strong asset to downtown, but it's\n\n459\n00:26:57,176 --> 00:26:58,216\na jewel that is not\n\n460\n00:26:59,316 --> 00:27:03,266\nbeing utilized. W-we basically can't see the down--\n\n461\n00:27:03,296 --> 00:27:06,836\nthe river downtown. We have few opportunities to\n\n462\n00:27:06,856 --> 00:27:10,796\nengage with it physically if you're on the river or if you're\n\n463\n00:27:10,856 --> 00:27:14,196\nalong the riverfront and want to do something within the river.\n\n464\n00:27:15,596 --> 00:27:19,476\nTransportation. Certainly, there's many issues of transportation,\n\n465\n00:27:19,536 --> 00:27:23,445\nbut mobility, pedestrian mobility is the--\n\n466\n00:27:23,476 --> 00:27:27,296\na, a number one priority of the community within downtown\n\n467\n00:27:27,676 --> 00:27:31,516\nand to downtown. And for those who need to drive to\n\n468\n00:27:31,536 --> 00:27:35,336\ndowntown or take transit downtown, they want an\n\n469\n00:27:35,436 --> 00:27:39,316\neasy way to park or ride transit to the, to the transit\n\n470\n00:27:39,376 --> 00:27:43,256\ncenter and then be able to get around town.\n\n471\n00:27:45,816 --> 00:27:49,716\nCity incentives to provide opportunities for the community to,\n\n472\n00:27:50,236 --> 00:27:53,605\nthe economy to grow. And I would offer as a previous\n\n473\n00:27:53,896 --> 00:27:57,796\nprivate sector businessperson, it isn't the responsibility only of the city\n\n474\n00:27:57,816 --> 00:28:01,676\nto provide incentives and opportunities and programs, but the private sector\n\n475\n00:28:01,716 --> 00:28:05,596\nmust contribute to itself through, nonprofit organizations such\n\n476\n00:28:05,636 --> 00:28:08,976\nas the Chamber, Visit Corvallis, Downtown Corvallis\n\n477\n00:28:09,156 --> 00:28:12,036\nOrganization, and others. Again,\n\n478\n00:28:12,116 --> 00:28:14,996\nsafety, lighting, walking,\n\n479\n00:28:15,096 --> 00:28:18,976\nalleyways, sidewalks, restrooms,\n\n480\n00:28:19,576 --> 00:28:23,496\nclean, safe, and open when people need to use them, and in more than\n\n481\n00:28:24,436 --> 00:28:27,076\na location on the north and the south.\n\n482\n00:28:27,116 --> 00:28:30,536\nAnd housing. People wanna live downtown.\n\n483\n00:28:30,546 --> 00:28:34,176\nThey want our housing downtown to complement housing goals for the rest of the\n\n484\n00:28:34,216 --> 00:28:35,246\ncommunity.\n\n485\n00:28:36,736 --> 00:28:38,976\nSo where are we right now?\n\n486\n00:28:39,876 --> 00:28:43,656\nSo we've taken eleven months of work that we are engaged-- that we have\n\n487\n00:28:43,696 --> 00:28:47,676\nengaged in. The, the incredible engagement of the community\n\n488\n00:28:47,716 --> 00:28:51,576\nthat Julie said is, is-- indicates both an, a, an\n\n489\n00:28:51,636 --> 00:28:54,676\ninterest and a sense of momentum for downtown that we should\n\n490\n00:28:54,756 --> 00:28:58,636\ncapture. This past month, month of March,\n\n491\n00:28:58,656 --> 00:29:02,266\nwe've been analyzing the results, both the quantitative results that we've shared\n\n492\n00:29:02,536 --> 00:29:06,086\na, a brief amount with you, and the qualitative results from the community\n\n493\n00:29:06,156 --> 00:29:09,906\nmeetings and other input from surveys, and\n\n494\n00:29:09,956 --> 00:29:13,896\ntask forces that the city has conducted in the past, two\n\n495\n00:29:13,976 --> 00:29:17,486\nyears or more. The community engagement task force is an example.\n\n496\n00:29:17,515 --> 00:29:20,176\nThe parking task force is an example.\n\n497\n00:29:20,236 --> 00:29:23,436\nWe are now judging those to, to understand\n\n498\n00:29:23,476 --> 00:29:27,336\nwithin those, areas of\n\n499\n00:29:27,416 --> 00:29:31,386\nactivity which are priority actions that the community,\n\n500\n00:29:32,336 --> 00:29:35,396\nbelieves in. What are areas that we may have\n\n501\n00:29:35,456 --> 00:29:39,396\nmissed? We're listening to people as well as just\n\n502\n00:29:39,736 --> 00:29:42,296\ngiving them something to think about.\n\n503\n00:29:42,356 --> 00:29:46,216\nIn April, we will begin to organize these goals\n\n504\n00:29:46,296 --> 00:29:50,076\nand these actions into prioritized recommendations to\n\n505\n00:29:50,116 --> 00:29:53,956\nbring to you later in June. We're thinking about which of these\n\n506\n00:29:54,056 --> 00:29:57,816\nshould be recommendations to be conducted right now in the next three\n\n507\n00:29:57,876 --> 00:30:01,636\nyears. Which of these should be, issues and actions to\n\n508\n00:30:01,696 --> 00:30:05,676\nbe addressed next, the next four to seven years, and which\n\n509\n00:30:05,716 --> 00:30:09,016\nshould we prioritize for years eight and beyond.\n\n510\n00:30:09,326 --> 00:30:12,346\nWe're also taking stock of who should be responsible.\n\n511\n00:30:12,346 --> 00:30:14,906\nWe are not here to tell the council what to do.\n\n512\n00:30:14,916 --> 00:30:18,866\nWe're here to provide recommendations on what the city might do, what\n\n513\n00:30:18,866 --> 00:30:22,836\nthe private sector might do, what collaborators, public and private, city\n\n514\n00:30:22,876 --> 00:30:26,366\nand private, or county, university might do\n\n515\n00:30:26,376 --> 00:30:29,676\ntogether. How might we fund these?\n\n516\n00:30:31,936 --> 00:30:35,596\nAnd to the extent possible, we want to understand\n\n517\n00:30:35,756 --> 00:30:39,696\nas best as we could and communicate to both you and the community, how do\n\n518\n00:30:39,736 --> 00:30:43,596\nour recommendations benefit not only downtown, but the greater community as a\n\n519\n00:30:43,656 --> 00:30:47,536\nwhole? Because we want the community to support this, not just for\n\n520\n00:30:47,576 --> 00:30:50,996\nthe benefit of downtown, but for the benefit of the overall Corvallis\n\n521\n00:30:51,056 --> 00:30:54,726\ncommunity and beyond. In closing, our\n\n522\n00:30:55,076 --> 00:30:57,976\nclosing slide provides you the finish line,\n\n523\n00:30:58,056 --> 00:31:01,894\nmid-June.We will bringing to you a set of findings\n\n524\n00:31:02,584 --> 00:31:06,264\nthat will support our recommendations, and we will also promise\n\n525\n00:31:06,724 --> 00:31:10,684\nto take the results of our findings and our recommendations after we've\n\n526\n00:31:10,704 --> 00:31:14,584\ndelivered them to you, to the community, because it's the community that\n\n527\n00:31:14,604 --> 00:31:18,304\nhas provided such em-enormous and, and, I\n\n528\n00:31:18,324 --> 00:31:21,784\nthink, highly responsible input. Thank you.\n\n529\n00:31:21,824 --> 00:31:24,524\nWe're available for any questions you might have.\n\n530\n00:31:24,564 --> 00:31:26,964\nThank you very much. Counselors,\n\n531\n00:31:27,024 --> 00:31:29,424\nquestions?\n\n532\n00:31:31,404 --> 00:31:35,314\nGuess not tonight. I think, I think everybody's just really looking forward to,\n\n533\n00:31:35,764 --> 00:31:36,324\nthe results.\n\n534\n00:31:36,384 --> 00:31:37,084\nThank you.\n\n535\n00:31:37,684 --> 00:31:38,864\nThank you very much.\n\n536\n00:31:44,084 --> 00:31:45,824\nWe will now move on to community comments.\n\n537\n00:31:46,244 --> 00:31:49,484\nAnd I wanna start off saying we did receive, for those who submitted it, we\n\n538\n00:31:49,504 --> 00:31:53,494\nreceived some community comments through our, our website and\n\n539\n00:31:53,584 --> 00:31:56,704\nthrough email, and, again, we do read those.\n\n540\n00:31:56,784 --> 00:31:59,284\nI spent my lunch today reading several.\n\n541\n00:31:59,384 --> 00:32:03,084\nUm, so I appreciate those who submitted their, their comments early.\n\n542\n00:32:03,184 --> 00:32:06,824\nUm, and for those who signed up in advance, that's also much appreciated.\n\n543\n00:32:06,844 --> 00:32:09,974\nWe'll start with the people who signed up in advance and go from there.\n\n544\n00:32:09,984 --> 00:32:13,924\nAnd up first is, Rob Upson. And I'll remind everybody again, we do\n\n545\n00:32:14,064 --> 00:32:15,844\nuse the three-minute timer that's located right there.\n\n546\n00:32:15,864 --> 00:32:18,484\nIt'll go green, yellow, and then red, meaning stop.\n\n547\n00:32:19,804 --> 00:32:23,784\nWelcome. I don't think that's on, sorry about.\n\n548\n00:32:23,824 --> 00:32:24,224\nMayor and council-\n\n549\n00:32:24,244 --> 00:32:24,534\nThere we go\n\n550\n00:32:24,534 --> 00:32:28,514\n... good evening. I wanna bring your attention to\n\n551\n00:32:28,584 --> 00:32:32,504\nmaterials provided on page forty-four of the meeting packet related to a safer\n\n552\n00:32:32,544 --> 00:32:36,464\nWalnut Boulevard, the corridor from, all the way from Circle\n\n553\n00:32:36,504 --> 00:32:39,804\nto MLK Park. Those are the road safety audits and the lane\n\n554\n00:32:39,904 --> 00:32:43,204\nreconfiguration evaluations, which I spoke about last December.\n\n555\n00:32:43,964 --> 00:32:47,324\nFull reports are now available. I wanna repeat the message of\n\n556\n00:32:47,404 --> 00:32:48,104\nurgency,\n\n557\n00:32:49,384 --> 00:32:52,644\nand I'm asking council tonight to do something already on your strategic\n\n558\n00:32:52,654 --> 00:32:56,454\nplan, just do it a little bit earlier, and that is to move your discussion\n\n559\n00:32:56,484 --> 00:33:00,144\nabout the funding of the Safe Streets For All projects forward in preparation for\n\n560\n00:33:00,184 --> 00:33:03,164\nnext school year, which is approaching very quickly.\n\n561\n00:33:03,184 --> 00:33:06,994\nOn Thursday, you will receive a presentation from Public Works about the work of\n\n562\n00:33:07,004 --> 00:33:10,864\nthe Safe Streets For All task force and newly identified transportation safety\n\n563\n00:33:10,884 --> 00:33:14,124\nneeds. According to council's strategic\n\n564\n00:33:14,164 --> 00:33:18,144\nplan, this work is being completed nine months ahead of schedule,\n\n565\n00:33:18,164 --> 00:33:21,624\nand what that means is that the funding discussion, which is also on the strategic\n\n566\n00:33:21,634 --> 00:33:25,544\nplan, can also move forward. I know that\n\n567\n00:33:25,584 --> 00:33:29,464\nschool closings were unexpected, and they're not one\n\n568\n00:33:29,504 --> 00:33:30,284\nof your big rocks.\n\n569\n00:33:32,684 --> 00:33:36,464\nHowever, the community needs action urgently, and many of the projects identified\n\n570\n00:33:36,524 --> 00:33:39,844\nin the Safe Streets For All work would improve safety for school\n\n571\n00:33:39,924 --> 00:33:43,764\ntransportation. Refer to the proposed timeline\n\n572\n00:33:44,464 --> 00:33:47,664\non page forty-five of your packet.\n\n573\n00:33:49,984 --> 00:33:51,144\nIf you don't give Public Works\n\n574\n00:33:52,044 --> 00:33:55,884\na direction about these safety projects for the twenty-seven to twenty-nine\n\n575\n00:33:55,904 --> 00:33:59,424\nbudget, it is likely that we would have to wait another two years to realize any\n\n576\n00:33:59,464 --> 00:34:03,184\nmovement on any of the newly identified projects, so you must\n\n577\n00:34:03,324 --> 00:34:06,224\nact early in twenty-twenty-six in order to meet the budgeting\n\n578\n00:34:06,284 --> 00:34:10,165\nwindow. The proposed timeline gives council enough time to\n\n579\n00:34:10,205 --> 00:34:14,185\ndeliberate, provide direction to Public Works, and for Public Works to\n\n580\n00:34:14,205 --> 00:34:16,944\ndevelop and cost out projects for the twenty-seven, twenty-nine\n\n581\n00:34:16,964 --> 00:34:20,245\nbudgeting.\n\n582\n00:34:21,205 --> 00:34:24,984\nThe low and mid complexity projects could be paid for in the street\n\n583\n00:34:25,024 --> 00:34:28,144\nfund, which currently has a balance of over thirty-five million\n\n584\n00:34:28,165 --> 00:34:31,734\ndollars. Pages forty-six to forty-eight give examples\n\n585\n00:34:32,265 --> 00:34:36,004\nof similar small-scale, non-recurring street fund projects from\n\n586\n00:34:36,044 --> 00:34:39,884\nprior budgets similar to those projects identified by the Safe Streets For\n\n587\n00:34:39,964 --> 00:34:43,765\nAll consultants.\n\n588\n00:34:43,833 --> 00:34:47,254\nMayor and council, please add the discussion about Safe Streets For All road safety\n\n589\n00:34:47,304 --> 00:34:49,364\nimprovements to your agenda quickly.\n\n590\n00:34:49,374 --> 00:34:53,024\nA majority of council has already publicly stated that they support safer\n\n591\n00:34:53,064 --> 00:34:56,995\nstreets, and I'm asking for a commitment from that majority to support improved\n\n592\n00:34:57,064 --> 00:35:01,044\nsafety before the expiration of your elected terms this year, not just for\n\n593\n00:35:01,084 --> 00:35:04,844\nWalnut, but also for Ninth, for Circle, and for other roads in the city which are\n\n594\n00:35:04,864 --> 00:35:08,754\nidentified in those reports. So please consider the proposed timeline and\n\n595\n00:35:08,804 --> 00:35:12,384\nmove your discussion about road safety projects onto your twenty-twenty six agenda\n\n596\n00:35:12,424 --> 00:35:14,854\nwith urgency. As always, thank you for your\n\n597\n00:35:14,924 --> 00:35:16,504\nservice.\n\n598\n00:35:16,544 --> 00:35:19,424\nThank you very much.\n\n599\n00:35:22,604 --> 00:35:26,204\nUp next I have Amanda Bressler.\n\n600\n00:35:28,304 --> 00:35:31,344\nAnd please, anybody, if I mispronounce your name, just correct me.\n\n601\n00:35:31,404 --> 00:35:34,064\nOkay, yes. It's Amanda Bressler. I'm a resident of Ward\n\n602\n00:35:34,144 --> 00:35:38,004\nEight. Community members who live and work along the Walnut\n\n603\n00:35:38,084 --> 00:35:41,414\ncorridor, some of whom are in attendance tonight, have come together to create\n\n604\n00:35:41,464 --> 00:35:45,344\nSafer Walnut, a grassroots effort to advocate for increased safety\n\n605\n00:35:45,424 --> 00:35:47,284\nmeasures along Walnut Bor- Boulevard.\n\n606\n00:35:48,324 --> 00:35:51,284\nYou can find us online at saferwalnut.org.\n\n607\n00:35:51,304 --> 00:35:54,444\nOur first action was to circulate a petition calling on the city to plan and fund\n\n608\n00:35:54,524 --> 00:35:58,304\nchanges to Walnut Boulevard that will reduce speeds and increase\n\n609\n00:35:58,364 --> 00:36:01,664\nsafety and usability, improve quality of life in North and Northwest\n\n610\n00:36:01,744 --> 00:36:04,624\nCorvallis, and help the city meet its strategic\n\n611\n00:36:04,634 --> 00:36:08,224\npriorities. Over the past several weeks, our petition has\n\n612\n00:36:08,264 --> 00:36:12,164\ncollected two hundred and forty-five signatures and counting, and I've shared a\n\n613\n00:36:12,214 --> 00:36:16,164\nlink to that petition with counselors via your city emails.\n\n614\n00:36:16,204 --> 00:36:20,024\nIn your Thursday work session, you'll see a presentation from, of the\n\n615\n00:36:20,044 --> 00:36:23,904\ncity's Transportation Safety Action Plan, or TSAP.\n\n616\n00:36:23,964 --> 00:36:27,824\nSafe Streets and Roads For All task force has unanimously\n\n617\n00:36:27,864 --> 00:36:31,614\nrecommended that, quote, \"Coun- Council prioritize funding and\n\n618\n00:36:31,664 --> 00:36:35,244\nconstruction of the safety enhancements identified in the TSAP such that the\n\n619\n00:36:35,264 --> 00:36:37,753\ntreatments are prioritized to the fullest extent\n\n620\n00:36:37,784 --> 00:36:41,584\npossible.\" There is a Walnut-specific road safety\n\n621\n00:36:41,664 --> 00:36:45,484\naudit in the task force's report, and we at\n\n622\n00:36:45,684 --> 00:36:49,304\nSafer Walnut we're happy to see many options for changes that would increase\n\n623\n00:36:49,384 --> 00:36:51,244\nsafety for all on Walnut Boulevard.\n\n624\n00:36:52,144 --> 00:36:56,004\nSome low and medium complexity solutions we expe-especially expect\n\n625\n00:36:56,064 --> 00:36:59,784\nto see implemented in the short term include buffered bike lanes between Jack\n\n626\n00:36:59,804 --> 00:37:03,676\nLondon and Circle to keep cyclists safe.Pedestrian exclusive\n\n627\n00:37:03,756 --> 00:37:07,486\nphases at intersections to reduce conflict between pedestrians and\n\n628\n00:37:07,576 --> 00:37:11,476\ncars, curb extensions at the Witham Hill Walnut intersection\n\n629\n00:37:11,536 --> 00:37:15,196\nto shorten crossing distances and increase crossings throughout the\n\n630\n00:37:15,256 --> 00:37:18,866\ncorridor to align with neighborhood bikeways and bus stops and\n\n631\n00:37:18,876 --> 00:37:22,336\ndiscourage dangerous crossings betweens, between the intersections that are very\n\n632\n00:37:22,376 --> 00:37:25,946\nfar apart on Walnut. We feel that near-term change is\n\n633\n00:37:25,996 --> 00:37:29,836\nnecessary and possible by focusing on some of these high-impact, low to\n\n634\n00:37:29,876 --> 00:37:32,036\nmedium complexity interventions.\n\n635\n00:37:32,076 --> 00:37:35,956\nHere are a few of the high complexity projects that we're especially in support of\n\n636\n00:37:35,965 --> 00:37:38,726\nand will be keeping an eye on, that we realize will take more time to fund and\n\n637\n00:37:38,756 --> 00:37:42,616\nimplement. Protected bike lanes along the corridor with physical\n\n638\n00:37:42,716 --> 00:37:46,696\nseparation from car traffic lanes in the form of vertical barriers, especially in\n\n639\n00:37:46,756 --> 00:37:50,496\nareas that represent a high risk to cyclists or are necessary for safe\n\n640\n00:37:50,596 --> 00:37:54,096\nroad, safe routes to school. Addition of pedestrian\n\n641\n00:37:54,156 --> 00:37:57,916\nrefuges or islands at Jack London, Twenty-fifth Street and between\n\n642\n00:37:57,956 --> 00:38:01,716\nTwenty-ninth and Aspen, and protected intersections or roundabouts at\n\n643\n00:38:01,796 --> 00:38:04,396\nHighland and Walnut and at Kings and Walnut.\n\n644\n00:38:05,516 --> 00:38:09,376\nSafer Walnut is asking for a commitment from the city to implement some low\n\n645\n00:38:09,456 --> 00:38:12,456\nto medium complexity, but high impact changes on Walnut as soon as\n\n646\n00:38:12,496 --> 00:38:16,466\npossible, while planning for the larger, long-term, more transformative\n\n647\n00:38:16,536 --> 00:38:20,456\nchanges, and to add those to the city's capital improvement plan\n\n648\n00:38:20,796 --> 00:38:23,816\nand the twenty twenty-seven to twenty-nine biennial budget.\n\n649\n00:38:23,856 --> 00:38:25,176\nThank you.\n\n650\n00:38:25,216 --> 00:38:27,596\nThank you very much.\n\n651\n00:38:28,556 --> 00:38:29,336\nUp next, we have Daniel\n\n652\n00:38:29,396 --> 00:38:35,376\nChambers.\n\n653\n00:38:39,696 --> 00:38:42,756\nGood evening, mayor and council. My name is Daniel Chambers from Ward\n\n654\n00:38:42,796 --> 00:38:46,516\nSeven. I wanted to speak to you tonight about a\n\n655\n00:38:46,556 --> 00:38:50,536\ntopic on the agenda, which is the ICE resolution, of which I am one of\n\n656\n00:38:50,596 --> 00:38:53,216\nthe authors. Of course, it had many contributors\n\n657\n00:38:54,996 --> 00:38:58,826\nfor whom I'm very grateful. I wanted to\n\n658\n00:38:58,856 --> 00:38:59,876\nencourage you tonight\n\n659\n00:39:02,176 --> 00:39:05,576\nto use your powers as legislators to pass this\n\n660\n00:39:05,616 --> 00:39:08,466\nresolution by whatever means you need\n\n661\n00:39:08,516 --> 00:39:12,356\nto. Whether you need, you feel the need to strike something\n\n662\n00:39:12,396 --> 00:39:13,676\nbecause it feels inappropriate\n\n663\n00:39:16,376 --> 00:39:20,076\nor add something that is clearly missing, I invite you to do\n\n664\n00:39:20,216 --> 00:39:24,186\nso, to use your powers. This resolution will\n\n665\n00:39:24,216 --> 00:39:26,906\nprotect the most vulnerable members of our community\n\n666\n00:39:29,236 --> 00:39:32,316\nwho don't have the opportunity to be here tonight to advocate for\n\n667\n00:39:32,356 --> 00:39:35,996\nthemselves, who are scared.\n\n668\n00:39:37,416 --> 00:39:40,565\nI've done my homework on the resolution to the best of my ability.\n\n669\n00:39:40,616 --> 00:39:43,876\nI've sought a lot of input, for which I'm very grateful, especially from the city\n\n670\n00:39:43,936 --> 00:39:46,976\nmanager and city attorney, from Councilor Cadena.\n\n671\n00:39:46,986 --> 00:39:50,416\nAnd of course, I'm extremely grateful to Mayor Monn and Councilor Olsen\n\n672\n00:39:50,936 --> 00:39:52,356\nfor their support in this\n\n673\n00:39:52,376 --> 00:39:55,056\nresolution.\n\n674\n00:39:57,256 --> 00:39:58,056\nI wanted to mention\n\n675\n00:39:59,936 --> 00:40:02,776\nthat many of you know this, but I'm originally from Oklahoma.\n\n676\n00:40:02,845 --> 00:40:05,816\nI moved here a couple of years ago now, and I'm a very proud Corvallis\n\n677\n00:40:05,876 --> 00:40:09,456\nresident, and I'm even more proud hearing what other people in our\n\n678\n00:40:09,476 --> 00:40:12,116\ncommun- our community are doing.\n\n679\n00:40:13,196 --> 00:40:15,996\nIt's one of the things that makes this place special.\n\n680\n00:40:16,036 --> 00:40:18,936\nBut I'm originally from Oklahoma, and in Oklahoma, we get a lot of\n\n681\n00:40:18,976 --> 00:40:22,096\ntornadoes. Right now,\n\n682\n00:40:22,136 --> 00:40:24,856\ncouncil, we are in the eye of a\n\n683\n00:40:24,896 --> 00:40:28,436\ntornado. It touched down around us without us\n\n684\n00:40:28,716 --> 00:40:32,416\nreally noticing, and it'd be really easy to miss.\n\n685\n00:40:32,836 --> 00:40:35,556\nBut right now, all around us,\n\n686\n00:40:36,736 --> 00:40:40,696\nImmigration and Customs Enforcement is in full force in Portland,\n\n687\n00:40:40,756 --> 00:40:42,596\ndown in Eugene, Newport,\n\n688\n00:40:43,736 --> 00:40:47,546\nin Hillsboro. We've been lucky to avoid the brunt of the winds so\n\n689\n00:40:47,716 --> 00:40:50,416\nfar, despite a few scares.\n\n690\n00:40:51,536 --> 00:40:55,396\nNow, back in Oklahoma, we have a bad habit of instead\n\n691\n00:40:55,436 --> 00:40:59,306\nof going inside and seeking shelter, we'll grab our lawn chairs instead, and\n\n692\n00:40:59,316 --> 00:41:02,166\nwe'll sit out on our front lawns to watch the tornado as it\n\n693\n00:41:02,196 --> 00:41:03,316\npasses.\n\n694\n00:41:04,466 --> 00:41:07,586\nI'm here to tell you that we do not have...\n\n695\n00:41:07,616 --> 00:41:08,266\nWe fortunately\n\n696\n00:41:09,096 --> 00:41:11,836\ndon't have lawn chairs or tornadoes.\n\n697\n00:41:11,876 --> 00:41:15,796\nWe do not have tornadoes to bring out our lawn chairs for, but we can't afford\n\n698\n00:41:15,816 --> 00:41:19,576\nto sit around as people are kidnapped, as forty\n\n699\n00:41:19,656 --> 00:41:23,535\nbillion dollars in Nav-Navy contracts are available\n\n700\n00:41:24,035 --> 00:41:27,976\nfor ICE to build facilities anywhere they choose without anyone knowing or\n\n701\n00:41:28,016 --> 00:41:31,396\nhaving the ability to comment.\n\n702\n00:41:32,216 --> 00:41:35,846\nSo, council, I urge you, please edit and or pass this\n\n703\n00:41:35,856 --> 00:41:38,876\nresolution tonight, and thank you very much for your time and your\n\n704\n00:41:38,896 --> 00:41:40,856\nservice.\n\n705\n00:41:40,916 --> 00:41:43,876\nThank you. Good timing.\n\n706\n00:41:44,876 --> 00:41:45,896\nNext, I have, Tyler\n\n707\n00:41:45,976 --> 00:41:49,836\nWilson.\n\n708\n00:41:52,176 --> 00:41:55,996\nAll right. I'm Tyler Wilson. I am a resident in\n\n709\n00:41:56,076 --> 00:41:59,816\nWard Five, and I work at Bessie Coleman Elementary.\n\n710\n00:41:59,856 --> 00:42:03,776\nI'm a fifth-grade teacher there. I'm an avid, bike commuter, and I'm\n\n711\n00:42:03,856 --> 00:42:07,376\nhere to advocate for safer infrastructure on Walnut\n\n712\n00:42:07,456 --> 00:42:08,436\nBoulevard. So\n\n713\n00:42:09,376 --> 00:42:12,066\none of the things I've been thinking about when I'm thinking about commuting is\n\n714\n00:42:12,116 --> 00:42:15,366\nthat generally people can be kinda lazy.\n\n715\n00:42:15,376 --> 00:42:19,136\nAnd what I was thinking about when I mean lazy is people often choose the easiest\n\n716\n00:42:19,256 --> 00:42:23,096\nway to travel to a location. So if you are\n\n717\n00:42:23,216 --> 00:42:25,156\ntraveling to OSU, for example, you\n\n718\n00:42:25,956 --> 00:42:29,876\nmight be more inclined to walk or bike or take public transit\n\n719\n00:42:29,896 --> 00:42:32,796\nbecause it's hard to drive there. It's hard to park.\n\n720\n00:42:32,816 --> 00:42:36,736\nBut with the rest of town, the it's easier to, to drive\n\n721\n00:42:36,776 --> 00:42:40,346\nto a lot of those locations, including Bessie Coleman Elementary.\n\n722\n00:42:40,436 --> 00:42:44,166\nUm, a lot of the families, though, who go to school at\n\n723\n00:42:44,176 --> 00:42:47,816\nBessie Coleman live close enough where they could easily walk or bike to\n\n724\n00:42:47,836 --> 00:42:51,656\nschool, and that's one of the things that I love about working there.\n\n725\n00:42:51,696 --> 00:42:55,656\nHowever, there are still many families that don't walk or bike\n\n726\n00:42:55,666 --> 00:42:59,546\nto school because they, they, there, there's this, there,\n\n727\n00:42:59,576 --> 00:43:03,176\nthere's a fear of safety, safety concerns related to Walnut\n\n728\n00:43:03,196 --> 00:43:05,356\nBoulevard and other streets in the area.\n\n729\n00:43:05,956 --> 00:43:07,976\nAnd I can, I can see that firsthand too.\n\n730\n00:43:08,016 --> 00:43:10,376\nI, I bike commute to school every day.\n\n731\n00:43:10,456 --> 00:43:13,276\nI ride, I ride my bike on Walnut. I have to turn left\n\n732\n00:43:13,336 --> 00:43:17,054\nacrossFour lanes of traffic, and\n\n733\n00:43:17,384 --> 00:43:21,374\nso I, I understand the concerns. Um, one of the things\n\n734\n00:43:21,424 --> 00:43:24,844\nthat I did recently at Bessie Coleman was started a walk and roll to school\n\n735\n00:43:24,884 --> 00:43:28,284\nday. And the idea of that is that we me-meet at the park\n\n736\n00:43:28,904 --> 00:43:32,284\nand we travel together as a group, students,\n\n737\n00:43:32,344 --> 00:43:36,264\nparents, any teachers, staff members that want to join,\n\n738\n00:43:36,344 --> 00:43:40,184\nand we travel together to school, safety in numbers.\n\n739\n00:43:40,204 --> 00:43:44,044\nAnd one of the parks that we met at was at, MLK Park,\n\n740\n00:43:44,104 --> 00:43:47,124\nand then the route from there is straight down Walnut.\n\n741\n00:43:47,164 --> 00:43:50,384\nAnd when I was creating that route, I wanted to create a route for people who live\n\n742\n00:43:50,424 --> 00:43:53,584\nin that part of the, of the school area, so they could get to\n\n743\n00:43:53,624 --> 00:43:57,264\nschool. But I was a little bit torn about the route creation\n\n744\n00:43:57,344 --> 00:43:57,704\nbecause\n\n745\n00:43:58,624 --> 00:44:01,144\ndo you go in the bike lane where you're closer to traffic?\n\n746\n00:44:01,184 --> 00:44:04,744\nDo you go on the sidewalk? It's kind of a confusing area because there's a bike\n\n747\n00:44:04,824 --> 00:44:07,764\npath that comes up Fifty-Third and it just ends.\n\n748\n00:44:07,824 --> 00:44:11,774\nAnd so the way we made it work is we had lots of parent volunteers\n\n749\n00:44:11,804 --> 00:44:14,204\nat intersections to make sure that it was safe.\n\n750\n00:44:14,304 --> 00:44:18,284\nUm, and one of my goals going forward though is that I, I would like that to\n\n751\n00:44:18,324 --> 00:44:22,284\nbe something that, that kids and families feel like they can do even\n\n752\n00:44:22,304 --> 00:44:26,224\nwithout an event. But at this point, that's gonna require\n\n753\n00:44:26,264 --> 00:44:30,084\nsome more infrastructure changes to Walnut Boulevard, things that some of,\n\n754\n00:44:30,564 --> 00:44:33,364\nsome of the earlier commenters talked about, protected bike\n\n755\n00:44:33,424 --> 00:44:37,384\nlanes, a turning lane close to the school, something to slow\n\n756\n00:44:37,424 --> 00:44:41,304\ntraffic down. Um, and I think\n\n757\n00:44:41,314 --> 00:44:44,824\nthe issues will become even more next year when there's more than a hundred more\n\n758\n00:44:44,904 --> 00:44:48,604\nstudents at the school. Right now, it's-- there's already a lot of traffic at the\n\n759\n00:44:48,644 --> 00:44:52,584\nend of the school day, so that's something that I'm concerned about going forward.\n\n760\n00:44:52,624 --> 00:44:55,344\nSo, yeah. Thank you.\n\n761\n00:44:55,364 --> 00:44:57,284\nThank you.\n\n762\n00:44:59,484 --> 00:45:01,244\nMayor, I have a question.\n\n763\n00:45:01,284 --> 00:45:02,484\nOh, go ahead.\n\n764\n00:45:02,584 --> 00:45:06,574\nUm, Tyler, generally we-- you, you, you wait for questions, so you would\n\n765\n00:45:06,574 --> 00:45:10,164\nknow one's had one yet. Um, how many parents are\n\n766\n00:45:10,204 --> 00:45:13,704\ndropping their kids off rather than having them walk or ride to school?\n\n767\n00:45:13,724 --> 00:45:16,364\nBecause I know at CHS, parent drop-off is a\n\n768\n00:45:16,404 --> 00:45:17,804\nnightmare.\n\n769\n00:45:17,844 --> 00:45:21,244\nThe, I don't have an exact number, but it, it's a lot.\n\n770\n00:45:21,304 --> 00:45:24,923\nSo our parking lot every day, I, I mean, I'm there for, for drop-off with my\n\n771\n00:45:24,964 --> 00:45:28,144\nstudents, and it fills up every day with the current number of students that we\n\n772\n00:45:28,204 --> 00:45:31,624\nhave, especially on days when it's rainy or cold.\n\n773\n00:45:32,264 --> 00:45:35,484\nUm, in the fall and the spring, a lot more people will walk and bike\n\n774\n00:45:36,024 --> 00:45:38,444\nand, but the bike racks are ver-rarely full.\n\n775\n00:45:38,764 --> 00:45:42,724\nOnly when we have our bike education week, that, that, those two weeks I saw\n\n776\n00:45:42,764 --> 00:45:45,004\nthe bike racks full. Um, but,\n\n777\n00:45:46,424 --> 00:45:49,804\nyeah, it's, traffic is an issue right now because\n\n778\n00:45:49,864 --> 00:45:53,564\nit's, because of those, reasons that I listed.\n\n779\n00:45:55,284 --> 00:45:57,544\nThank you.\n\n780\n00:45:58,584 --> 00:45:58,844\nSam\n\n781\n00:45:59,124 --> 00:46:04,484\nHoskinson.\n\n782\n00:46:08,964 --> 00:46:11,204\nI'm supposed to press the green button. Is that the word?\n\n783\n00:46:11,254 --> 00:46:13,264\nIt'll, it'll, it'll turn on for you. You're good.\n\n784\n00:46:13,344 --> 00:46:15,064\nOh, okay.\n\n785\n00:46:15,104 --> 00:46:15,824\nWhenever you're ready.\n\n786\n00:46:15,864 --> 00:46:18,484\nWell, my name's Sam Hoskinson. I live in Ward\n\n787\n00:46:18,684 --> 00:46:22,464\nFour. Um, I'm here to talk\n\n788\n00:46:22,544 --> 00:46:26,484\nabout the MUPTA approval. I think that's on\n\n789\n00:46:26,524 --> 00:46:28,993\nthe agenda tonight. Um,\n\n790\n00:46:29,104 --> 00:46:33,064\nthe... I can see at least, think\n\n791\n00:46:33,104 --> 00:46:36,484\nof at least two ways you might be able to deny this\n\n792\n00:46:36,524 --> 00:46:40,304\nhorrible, development that's being\n\n793\n00:46:40,404 --> 00:46:43,924\nproposed. Um, the first one would be fairly\n\n794\n00:46:44,004 --> 00:46:47,604\nsimple. The order of the MUPTA\n\n795\n00:46:47,624 --> 00:46:51,604\napproval and the regular LDC code approvals has been\n\n796\n00:46:51,684 --> 00:46:55,604\nswapped from the last, episode where\n\n797\n00:46:55,784 --> 00:46:58,444\nyou approved the one over on the riverfront.\n\n798\n00:46:58,584 --> 00:47:02,204\nAnd in this case, no land\n\n799\n00:47:02,284 --> 00:47:05,824\nuse, public hearings or anything like that has taken place,\n\n800\n00:47:06,404 --> 00:47:09,844\nand nothing has been granted as far as height\n\n801\n00:47:10,304 --> 00:47:12,444\nadjustments or anything like that.\n\n802\n00:47:12,464 --> 00:47:16,384\nBut the proposal that you're going to get is\n\n803\n00:47:16,444 --> 00:47:19,704\nfor an hundred and forty-four foot building.\n\n804\n00:47:19,764 --> 00:47:23,704\nThe current approval for a\n\n805\n00:47:24,064 --> 00:47:27,124\nmixed use is like a hundred and five foot.\n\n806\n00:47:27,164 --> 00:47:30,374\nThey give you a bonus eighteen, so they really only have\n\n807\n00:47:30,384 --> 00:47:33,584\npermission for a hundred and twenty-three feet.\n\n808\n00:47:33,624 --> 00:47:36,764\nSo the packet that you get is going to be\n\n809\n00:47:37,544 --> 00:47:41,384\nasking for a higher building than they\n\n810\n00:47:41,504 --> 00:47:44,944\nactually have, and I really feel that if you guys go ahead and approve\n\n811\n00:47:44,954 --> 00:47:48,644\nthat ahead of time, it's going to prejudice\n\n812\n00:47:48,654 --> 00:47:51,964\nany land use of as far as being able\n\n813\n00:47:52,024 --> 00:47:54,864\nto not grant that twenty-one foot.\n\n814\n00:47:55,664 --> 00:47:59,564\nUh, the second one, you guys are one\n\n815\n00:47:59,624 --> 00:48:00,064\nof the\n\n816\n00:48:00,944 --> 00:48:04,853\nline items, I think it's eight nineteen O two\n\n817\n00:48:04,964 --> 00:48:08,284\nO J. You are a city council\n\n818\n00:48:08,424 --> 00:48:11,884\ntasked with deciding that the\n\n819\n00:48:11,924 --> 00:48:15,764\nbenefits of the proposed building\n\n820\n00:48:15,844 --> 00:48:18,464\noutweigh the costs of the,\n\n821\n00:48:19,984 --> 00:48:23,684\nyou giving them thirteen million dollars to build this thing.\n\n822\n00:48:23,744 --> 00:48:27,044\nOkay? So the revenue, thirteen million dollars paid to the\n\n823\n00:48:27,084 --> 00:48:30,444\ndeveloper out of our tax funds to create this\n\n824\n00:48:30,484 --> 00:48:33,744\nbuilding. Um, the positive\n\n825\n00:48:33,784 --> 00:48:37,304\nbenefits, they get to give ten percent of our\n\n826\n00:48:37,314 --> 00:48:41,294\nmoney, to donate to affordable housing since\n\n827\n00:48:41,344 --> 00:48:44,944\nthey have absolutely no interest in building affordable housing\n\n828\n00:48:44,964 --> 00:48:48,584\nthemselves. Okay, they'll also give an\n\n829\n00:48:48,624 --> 00:48:52,324\nextra hundred thousand dollars for the\n\n830\n00:48:52,424 --> 00:48:56,244\nrailroad, crossing improvement or something like that.\n\n831\n00:48:56,324 --> 00:48:59,644\nSo that's, I guess that's positive benefits.\n\n832\n00:48:59,664 --> 00:49:03,184\nThey're giving back some of the money that we're giving them to build this\n\n833\n00:49:03,204 --> 00:49:07,124\nmonstrosity. Okay, but I'd like you to\n\n834\n00:49:07,184 --> 00:49:10,784\nthink about benefits as going two directions.\n\n835\n00:49:10,804 --> 00:49:14,204\nThere can be positive benefits and there can be\n\n836\n00:49:14,324 --> 00:49:18,208\nnegative benefits, okay? The-That was three\n\n837\n00:49:18,308 --> 00:49:18,688\nminutes?\n\n838\n00:49:18,728 --> 00:49:21,448\nThat was three minutes. It, it goes fast when you're sitting there.\n\n839\n00:49:21,548 --> 00:49:22,988\nI remember.\n\n840\n00:49:23,088 --> 00:49:26,108\nOkay. You guys have any questions?\n\n841\n00:49:26,188 --> 00:49:30,008\nI provided quite a bit of information in the cartoons and stuff that I\n\n842\n00:49:30,048 --> 00:49:30,728\nsent you.\n\n843\n00:49:30,768 --> 00:49:33,508\nYeah. We did receive all that. Doesn't seem like there is.\n\n844\n00:49:33,548 --> 00:49:37,348\nThank you very much for your time, and for submitting information in\n\n845\n00:49:37,408 --> 00:49:38,468\nadvance.\n\n846\n00:49:38,548 --> 00:49:40,168\nYeah. Thank you for not reading-\n\n847\n00:49:40,178 --> 00:49:42,688\nAppreciate it. I read it.\n\n848\n00:49:43,748 --> 00:49:45,268\nUp next, Mary Francis,\n\n849\n00:49:45,768 --> 00:49:49,727\nCampana.\n\n850\n00:49:52,028 --> 00:49:52,648\nHello.\n\n851\n00:49:53,528 --> 00:49:53,758\nUm,\n\n852\n00:49:54,788 --> 00:49:58,468\nI'm here with the group that's concerned about Walnut\n\n853\n00:49:58,548 --> 00:49:59,168\nBoulevard.\n\n854\n00:50:00,148 --> 00:50:01,948\nI live on Walnut myself,\n\n855\n00:50:02,888 --> 00:50:03,228\nand\n\n856\n00:50:04,148 --> 00:50:08,088\nthe, the concerns for safety that others have mentioned,\n\n857\n00:50:08,108 --> 00:50:08,908\nthe,\n\n858\n00:50:11,448 --> 00:50:15,068\nschoolchildren, which there'll be more, as you know, because of the\n\n859\n00:50:15,388 --> 00:50:18,388\nclosure of schools, will be coming in.\n\n860\n00:50:18,568 --> 00:50:19,108\nAnd,\n\n861\n00:50:20,948 --> 00:50:24,888\nbut I wanted to mention a couple of other things that perhaps\n\n862\n00:50:24,928 --> 00:50:28,508\nhad not, we've not thought of. One is the\n\n863\n00:50:28,608 --> 00:50:32,508\nongoing residential construction around and above\n\n864\n00:50:32,528 --> 00:50:35,908\nand below Walnut, but especially above Walnut.\n\n865\n00:50:35,988 --> 00:50:39,828\nAll of those houses that are going in are going\n\n866\n00:50:39,868 --> 00:50:43,408\nto have to come down and onto Walnut to\n\n867\n00:50:43,448 --> 00:50:46,558\nget wherever they're going. And,\n\n868\n00:50:48,308 --> 00:50:51,908\nI think that it's gonna just add more and\n\n869\n00:50:51,968 --> 00:50:52,448\nmore,\n\n870\n00:50:53,408 --> 00:50:57,248\nyou know, congestion, and also increase\n\n871\n00:50:57,288 --> 00:50:59,208\nthe possibility of danger,\n\n872\n00:51:01,068 --> 00:51:04,008\nwhen we have these expanded housing\n\n873\n00:51:04,108 --> 00:51:06,968\nand other things like that. Um,\n\n874\n00:51:07,928 --> 00:51:10,268\npeople have talked about the bikes and the joggers\n\n875\n00:51:11,348 --> 00:51:15,228\nand the walkers. They haven't mentioned the wild and domestic animals\n\n876\n00:51:15,268 --> 00:51:18,648\nthat are always running around, but they're there too, and they can\n\n877\n00:51:18,708 --> 00:51:21,268\ncause... They can be injured or else cause\n\n878\n00:51:21,388 --> 00:51:25,318\nproblems. Um, and we have to begin to take into\n\n879\n00:51:25,368 --> 00:51:26,188\naccount\n\n880\n00:51:27,227 --> 00:51:28,368\nall of those things.\n\n881\n00:51:29,428 --> 00:51:33,228\nMy husband, Michael Campana, was killed as he\n\n882\n00:51:33,328 --> 00:51:37,248\nexited the, Timber Hill Townhomes, which is where I\n\n883\n00:51:37,328 --> 00:51:40,688\nlive, as he le- exit-\n\n884\n00:51:40,748 --> 00:51:44,648\nexited that driveway onto Walnut, in\n\n885\n00:51:44,708 --> 00:51:48,308\nlate August of '24. Um, no one saw the\n\n886\n00:51:48,328 --> 00:51:52,208\ncollision, but it was a large vehicle that hit his little\n\n887\n00:51:52,348 --> 00:51:52,928\nsports car\n\n888\n00:51:53,988 --> 00:51:57,138\nas he was making a left-hand turn onto Walnut.\n\n889\n00:51:58,088 --> 00:51:58,568\nAnd,\n\n890\n00:52:00,348 --> 00:52:03,108\nwe don't really know what happened 'cause as I say, no one saw it.\n\n891\n00:52:03,128 --> 00:52:07,088\nThey heard it. But Michael was mortally injured, and he died on\n\n892\n00:52:07,168 --> 00:52:08,848\nAugust 24th of two-\n\n893\n00:52:08,968 --> 00:52:12,868\n2024. And I cannot help\n\n894\n00:52:12,908 --> 00:52:16,838\nbut feel that speed and other things were\n\n895\n00:52:16,868 --> 00:52:20,028\ninvolved in that accident.\n\n896\n00:52:22,008 --> 00:52:25,828\nWalnut and its surrounding area is no longer\n\n897\n00:52:26,028 --> 00:52:29,047\nsort of a semi-rural edge to Corvallis.\n\n898\n00:52:29,308 --> 00:52:33,088\nIt's a major artery. People use it to\n\n899\n00:52:33,168 --> 00:52:34,468\ncome from all over\n\n900\n00:52:35,468 --> 00:52:39,328\nto Corvallis, and certainly to the, the west and the,\n\n901\n00:52:39,338 --> 00:52:41,728\nand the east. Um,\n\n902\n00:52:42,948 --> 00:52:44,088\nand I think\n\n903\n00:52:45,168 --> 00:52:47,208\nthat it would be important for all of us\n\n904\n00:52:48,408 --> 00:52:52,128\nto think about traffic control, speed, noise,\n\n905\n00:52:52,168 --> 00:52:55,988\ncongestion, and to start addressing the way to\n\n906\n00:52:56,048 --> 00:52:59,908\ndo this. So I encourage you to participate.\n\n907\n00:53:00,838 --> 00:53:03,308\nThank you.\n\n908\n00:53:04,628 --> 00:53:06,208\nCouncilor Ellis?\n\n909\n00:53:06,288 --> 00:53:08,058\nI'm very sorry to hear about your husband.\n\n910\n00:53:08,068 --> 00:53:09,448\nThank you.\n\n911\n00:53:10,728 --> 00:53:12,088\nThank you for coming tonight.\n\n912\n00:53:14,048 --> 00:53:17,608\nNext is Bjorn... I'm gonna mess up the last name, I\n\n913\n00:53:17,648 --> 00:53:18,288\nknow.\n\n914\n00:53:19,088 --> 00:53:19,988\nBolteys.\n\n915\n00:53:20,008 --> 00:53:20,928\nBoltis?\n\n916\n00:53:21,728 --> 00:53:25,428\nThank you.\n\n917\n00:53:27,508 --> 00:53:31,288\nGood evening. My name is Bjorn Bolteys, and I'm a homeowner in the Avery Helm\n\n918\n00:53:31,328 --> 00:53:35,188\nHistoric District, Ward Four, directly across the street from the\n\n919\n00:53:35,248 --> 00:53:37,848\nproposed Pineview Development on 4th Street.\n\n920\n00:53:38,688 --> 00:53:42,628\nThis building will rise 13 stories directly outside my front door.\n\n921\n00:53:42,648 --> 00:53:46,488\nIt will permanently change the experience of living in this neighborhood,\n\n922\n00:53:46,528 --> 00:53:50,338\nblocking the morning sunlight to our home and creating an overbearing visual\n\n923\n00:53:50,428 --> 00:53:53,808\npresence. Because of that impact, I believe it's especially\n\n924\n00:53:53,848 --> 00:53:57,808\nimportant that the public benefits tied to this project clear-\n\n925\n00:53:57,848 --> 00:53:59,768\nclearly improve the neighborhood around it.\n\n926\n00:54:00,588 --> 00:54:04,328\nThis project is asking for the public to significantly sub, a\n\n927\n00:54:04,368 --> 00:54:08,238\nsignificant subsidy, over 13 million in property tax exemptions\n\n928\n00:54:08,568 --> 00:54:12,508\nover 10 years. When the city provides that level of support, it\n\n929\n00:54:12,548 --> 00:54:16,108\nis reasonable to ask what tangible benefits will the surrounding neighborhood\n\n930\n00:54:16,128 --> 00:54:19,508\nreceive in return? The application lists several\n\n931\n00:54:19,548 --> 00:54:22,948\npublic benefits, including $100,000 infrastructure\n\n932\n00:54:22,988 --> 00:54:26,338\ncontribution and a $50,000 for pedestrian\n\n933\n00:54:26,408 --> 00:54:30,268\nconnectivity and improvements. I'd like to suggest a very\n\n934\n00:54:30,328 --> 00:54:34,208\npractical way those funds could benefit both the new residents and\n\n935\n00:54:34,348 --> 00:54:38,308\nthe existing neighborhood. Many people in our neighborhood regularly cross\n\n936\n00:54:38,408 --> 00:54:42,058\n4th Street at Washington and Adams to reach Safeway.\n\n937\n00:54:42,108 --> 00:54:45,378\nThis section of 4th is three lanes of traffic and often\n\n938\n00:54:45,428 --> 00:54:49,288\nbusy. There's also a bus stop that brings transit riders across the\n\n939\n00:54:49,368 --> 00:54:53,328\nstreet from the grocery store. Today, crossing can feel like a\n\n940\n00:54:53,368 --> 00:54:56,828\ntreacherous little game, real-life game of Frogger.\n\n941\n00:54:56,838 --> 00:55:00,468\nI nervously wait for my kids to return anytime they go to the store for\n\n942\n00:55:00,548 --> 00:55:00,968\nsomething.\n\n943\n00:55:02,228 --> 00:55:06,108\nThe Pineview Project will bring roughly 600 additional residents\n\n944\n00:55:06,128 --> 00:55:09,948\ninto the corridor. This will dramatically increase the number of pedestrians\n\n945\n00:55:10,008 --> 00:55:13,928\nmoving between housing and essential services downtown.\n\n946\n00:55:13,988 --> 00:55:17,708\nA signalized mid-block pedestrian crossing between Washington and\n\n947\n00:55:17,788 --> 00:55:21,068\nAdams would address a real safety issue that already\n\n948\n00:55:21,108 --> 00:55:24,804\nexists and will only grow with this development.It would\n\n949\n00:55:24,864 --> 00:55:28,424\nsupport the city's own goals around walkability, transit\n\n950\n00:55:28,544 --> 00:55:32,504\nuse, reducing vehicle trips, and it would directly serve both\n\n951\n00:55:32,524 --> 00:55:35,104\nthe new building and the surrounding neighborhood.\n\n952\n00:55:35,144 --> 00:55:38,744\nSo my request is simple. If the city approves the m- this MOPD app-\n\n953\n00:55:38,804 --> 00:55:42,184\napplication, please prioritize directing the project's\n\n954\n00:55:42,244 --> 00:55:46,214\ninfrastructure and connectivity contributions towards designing and\n\n955\n00:55:46,284 --> 00:55:49,964\nconstructing a safe pedestrian crossing on 4th Street between\n\n956\n00:55:50,024 --> 00:55:53,794\nWashington and Adams. If we are adding hundreds of new residents to this\n\n957\n00:55:53,824 --> 00:55:57,774\nblock, we should also add the infrastructure that allows them,\n\n958\n00:55:57,784 --> 00:56:01,193\nand the neighbors who already live here, a safe, uh...\n\n959\n00:56:01,224 --> 00:56:05,144\nto safely cross the street to reach basic services.\n\n960\n00:56:05,204 --> 00:56:07,904\nLet's make a safe way to the safe\n\n961\n00:56:07,924 --> 00:56:09,224\nway.\n\n962\n00:56:10,624 --> 00:56:14,504\nThank you. Up next is\n\n963\n00:56:14,564 --> 00:56:14,704\nJean\n\n964\n00:56:14,764 --> 00:56:21,404\nRaymond.\n\n965\n00:56:25,484 --> 00:56:27,484\nGood\n\n966\n00:56:27,544 --> 00:56:34,344\nevening.\n\n967\n00:56:36,144 --> 00:56:39,864\nThis is an oral statement in support of the Corvallis ICE\n\n968\n00:56:40,424 --> 00:56:43,404\nresolution. I'm in strong support of the ICE\n\n969\n00:56:43,484 --> 00:56:47,104\nresolution. In this time of political chaos and\n\n970\n00:56:47,204 --> 00:56:51,124\nillegal violent action by ICE, I thank our Corva-\n\n971\n00:56:51,144 --> 00:56:54,704\nCorvallis community, which of course includes the mayor,\n\n972\n00:56:55,624 --> 00:56:59,504\ncouncil, manager, and staff, for putting the wellbeing and the safety of our\n\n973\n00:56:59,544 --> 00:57:03,344\ncommunity first. I acknowledge with gratitude the\n\n974\n00:57:03,404 --> 00:57:06,684\nmany co- contributions of immigrants throughout our\n\n975\n00:57:06,724 --> 00:57:10,684\nhistory. In contrast, ICE has targeted\n\n976\n00:57:10,724 --> 00:57:14,284\nwith bigotry those of darker color, those who look\n\n977\n00:57:14,294 --> 00:57:17,944\ndifferent, speak with an accent, and even those who protest\n\n978\n00:57:17,964 --> 00:57:21,544\npeacefully. ICE has targeted students, health workers,\n\n979\n00:57:21,604 --> 00:57:25,424\nfarmers, service people, and those immigrants and natives who have\n\n980\n00:57:25,464 --> 00:57:28,964\nbenefited our community. It has illegally\n\n981\n00:57:29,044 --> 00:57:32,264\ntargeted those with student and work visas, asylum\n\n982\n00:57:32,364 --> 00:57:36,284\nseekers, citizens, and naturalized citizens.\n\n983\n00:57:36,344 --> 00:57:40,024\nNow it proposes to build a mass- massive detention cent-\n\n984\n00:57:40,044 --> 00:57:42,584\ndetention centers across the United\n\n985\n00:57:42,684 --> 00:57:46,444\nStates. These actions by ICE have caused\n\n986\n00:57:46,564 --> 00:57:48,044\nfear and dismay.\n\n987\n00:57:49,164 --> 00:57:52,284\nIn response, the community has worked together to protest\n\n988\n00:57:52,364 --> 00:57:55,954\nsafely, to write letters to our representatives, to\n\n989\n00:57:56,044 --> 00:57:59,954\ncollect funds, food, and clothing, to make banners, and\n\n990\n00:58:00,044 --> 00:58:03,604\nprovide transportation. We have seen Oregon leaders\n\n991\n00:58:04,104 --> 00:58:07,844\nre- respond with bills about s- and there are 13\n\n992\n00:58:07,854 --> 00:58:11,784\nnew bills that have passed the Senate and the House that you\n\n993\n00:58:11,824 --> 00:58:14,234\ncan ask me about.\n\n994\n00:58:15,984 --> 00:58:19,644\nSo we have seen Oregon leaders respond with\n\n995\n00:58:19,724 --> 00:58:23,664\nbills about sanctuary for state, about how police react, how\n\n996\n00:58:23,744 --> 00:58:27,104\nschools and universities must plan and carry out those plans,\n\n997\n00:58:27,644 --> 00:58:31,564\nhow we can peacefully resist illegal violence from ICE.\n\n998\n00:58:32,304 --> 00:58:36,164\nWe see how state leaders have worked together with other state leaders to\n\n999\n00:58:36,224 --> 00:58:39,244\npush back against unlawful, overreaching\n\n1000\n00:58:39,404 --> 00:58:43,184\nactions. I'm glad this resolution has actions that the\n\n1001\n00:58:43,224 --> 00:58:46,944\ncity may take to provide safety. I expect the\n\n1002\n00:58:46,964 --> 00:58:50,464\ncity manager to follow through and provide guidance to the\n\n1003\n00:58:50,504 --> 00:58:54,414\nmayor, council, and staff, and I have written s-\n\n1004\n00:58:54,414 --> 00:58:57,904\nseveral actions which could be provided by the city.\n\n1005\n00:58:59,124 --> 00:59:03,084\nI've written this also in your, packet.\n\n1006\n00:59:03,184 --> 00:59:07,084\nSo requirement that no u- use of harmful chemicals, tear gas, et\n\n1007\n00:59:07,104 --> 00:59:10,724\ncetera, harassment by ICE, or use of weapons against peaceful\n\n1008\n00:59:11,084 --> 00:59:14,244\nprotesters or residents be allowed.\n\n1009\n00:59:14,264 --> 00:59:17,624\nThat no city facilities, utilities, buildings, parks, parking\n\n1010\n00:59:17,644 --> 00:59:20,874\nlots, airport facilities be allowed by\n\n1011\n00:59:20,984 --> 00:59:24,744\nICE. That no mass detention center be\n\n1012\n00:59:24,804 --> 00:59:28,544\nallowed. That all ICE officers have identification that can be\n\n1013\n00:59:28,584 --> 00:59:31,984\nclearly visible. That the sanctity and safety of\n\n1014\n00:59:32,024 --> 00:59:35,614\nsanctuary be followed, including schools, places of worship,\n\n1015\n00:59:35,624 --> 00:59:39,524\nhospitals, and courthouses. Please ask\n\n1016\n00:59:39,584 --> 00:59:41,823\nme about these bills.\n\n1017\n00:59:43,003 --> 00:59:44,003\nThank you.\n\n1018\n00:59:45,664 --> 00:59:48,204\nWe have your email, so if anybody wants to reach out to you, they're able to.\n\n1019\n00:59:48,604 --> 00:59:51,934\nOkay. I haven't included these though, so this is new to me too.\n\n1020\n00:59:51,934 --> 00:59:54,124\nYeah. I mean, they can reach out to you to ask you about this.\n\n1021\n00:59:54,164 --> 00:59:54,944\nThank you.\n\n1022\n00:59:54,984 --> 00:59:56,304\nThank you very much.\n\n1023\n00:59:57,984 --> 00:59:59,284\nUp next is Aubrey.\n\n1024\n01:00:01,044 --> 01:00:02,124\nI didn't know you had a second,\n\n1025\n01:00:02,964 --> 01:00:05,584\na first part of a last name. I just imagined it as Aubrey Cloud.\n\n1026\n01:00:07,264 --> 01:00:07,844\nOh, that's wa-\n\n1027\n01:00:07,864 --> 01:00:08,234\nMm-hmm\n\n1028\n01:00:08,234 --> 01:00:11,424\nOkay. If you could pronounce that for me, I'd appreciate it.\n\n1029\n01:00:11,464 --> 01:00:12,734\nSure.\n\n1030\n01:00:14,924 --> 01:00:18,604\nThank you. Mayor and councilors, good\n\n1031\n01:00:18,644 --> 01:00:22,464\nevening. My name is Aubrey Sadiki-Cloud, a resident of Ward\n\n1032\n01:00:22,784 --> 01:00:26,304\n7, and I'm here to urge you in the strongest possible\n\n1033\n01:00:26,404 --> 01:00:30,074\nterms to adopt the Addressing Escalating Federal Immigration\n\n1034\n01:00:30,124 --> 01:00:33,924\nEnforcement resolution before you this evening.\n\n1035\n01:00:33,964 --> 01:00:37,704\nFor over a year now, we've all been watching ICE and CBP drive a\n\n1036\n01:00:37,764 --> 01:00:41,174\nbulldozer through constitutional and legal protections.\n\n1037\n01:00:41,204 --> 01:00:44,824\nThey're kidnapping people off the streets, from their homes and places of work\n\n1038\n01:00:45,624 --> 01:00:49,124\nwith no due process. They're setting cruel and inhuman\n\n1039\n01:00:49,164 --> 01:00:52,624\nquotas that prove false any pretext of pursuing violent\n\n1040\n01:00:52,644 --> 01:00:56,584\ncriminals. They're using immigration court appointments as traps\n\n1041\n01:00:56,624 --> 01:00:59,814\nto capture people trying to go through the proper channels.\n\n1042\n01:00:59,844 --> 01:01:03,104\nThey're neglecting and abusing those in their custody to the point that deaths are\n\n1043\n01:01:03,164 --> 01:01:06,824\noccurring. They're racially profiling, which has resulted in the\n\n1044\n01:01:06,864 --> 01:01:10,054\nkidnapping of American citizens simply because they aren't\n\n1045\n01:01:10,084 --> 01:01:13,294\nwhite. They're building a sprawling network of\n\n1046\n01:01:13,324 --> 01:01:17,184\nconcentration camps to process and deport tens or even hundreds of\n\n1047\n01:01:17,204 --> 01:01:21,094\nthousands of human beings at any given time, and\n\n1048\n01:01:21,184 --> 01:01:24,264\nnow they are executing people in the streets.\n\n1049\n01:01:24,784 --> 01:01:28,524\nThis isn't a time to keep our heads down, to try and avoid\n\n1050\n01:01:28,544 --> 01:01:32,384\nattracting attention. That's how authoritarians cement\n\n1051\n01:01:32,444 --> 01:01:36,374\ntheir grip on power.They make us feel isolated and vulnerable\n\n1052\n01:01:36,434 --> 01:01:39,154\nagainst the overwhelming power of the state.\n\n1053\n01:01:39,174 --> 01:01:42,974\nBut we are not alone. This nation is boiling with fury at what's\n\n1054\n01:01:43,054 --> 01:01:46,934\nhappening. By taking a stand, we're not sticking our heads up, we're joining\n\n1055\n01:01:46,954 --> 01:01:50,374\nhands with our neighbors and standing shoulder to shoulder with\n\n1056\n01:01:50,414 --> 01:01:53,794\nthem. We have to do something, and this resolution is a\n\n1057\n01:01:53,834 --> 01:01:57,314\nfantastic start. I also want to\n\n1058\n01:01:57,354 --> 01:01:59,934\nemphasize the critical importance of Clause B in the\n\n1059\n01:01:59,974 --> 01:02:03,914\nresolution. The risk of violence, harassment, and criminality\n\n1060\n01:02:03,954 --> 01:02:07,884\nfrom vigilantes impersonating federal immigration officers is not\n\n1061\n01:02:07,954 --> 01:02:11,634\na hypothetical. This is a real phenomenon, and it has occurred\n\n1062\n01:02:11,674 --> 01:02:14,894\nmultiple times since the start of this madness, including here in\n\n1063\n01:02:14,934 --> 01:02:18,854\nCorvallis. One concern I've heard about this clause is that\n\n1064\n01:02:18,894 --> 01:02:22,774\nlocal police aren't allowed to interfere with ICE and CBP operations.\n\n1065\n01:02:22,834 --> 01:02:26,494\nThat's fine. Asking these officers to verify their identity is not\n\n1066\n01:02:26,534 --> 01:02:30,524\ninterference, it is duty. We have a duty to protect our community, and\n\n1067\n01:02:30,574 --> 01:02:34,094\nthis is a simple action we could take to do that.\n\n1068\n01:02:34,134 --> 01:02:37,004\nImpersonating a federal officer is a felony.\n\n1069\n01:02:37,054 --> 01:02:40,394\nRacially motivated harassment or worse are crimes.\n\n1070\n01:02:41,434 --> 01:02:45,014\nIf we can't enforce our own laws because the perpetrators put on the\n\n1071\n01:02:45,074 --> 01:02:48,894\ncostume of a federal agent, then we've just told every criminal out there\n\n1072\n01:02:48,914 --> 01:02:52,374\nhow to get away with crime in Corvallis.\n\n1073\n01:02:52,434 --> 01:02:56,354\nCouncil, I implore you, please adopt this resolution\n\n1074\n01:02:56,374 --> 01:03:00,154\nand make our city a stronger sanctuary. Thank you.\n\n1075\n01:03:00,194 --> 01:03:02,434\nThank you very much.\n\n1076\n01:03:04,734 --> 01:03:06,174\nLast on the presenters, we have Laura\n\n1077\n01:03:06,234 --> 01:03:09,114\nDuncan.\n\n1078\n01:03:16,534 --> 01:03:20,374\nThank you to councilors and staff for your service to the city,\n\n1079\n01:03:20,474 --> 01:03:24,034\nand thanks to everyone in the room tonight who\n\n1080\n01:03:24,114 --> 01:03:27,214\ncares about Corvallis, my hometown.\n\n1081\n01:03:27,914 --> 01:03:31,774\nI'm Laura Duncan, and I live in the Jack Taylor house at Fifth\n\n1082\n01:03:31,874 --> 01:03:35,774\nand C. My house was built in 1907.\n\n1083\n01:03:35,794 --> 01:03:39,234\nIt's on the National Register of Historic Places.\n\n1084\n01:03:41,074 --> 01:03:44,894\nI w- reading through tonight's packet, I was deeply offended by the\n\n1085\n01:03:44,914 --> 01:03:48,414\ndeveloper's justification for the tax break,\n\n1086\n01:03:48,494 --> 01:03:51,254\nciting connectivity improvements.\n\n1087\n01:03:52,374 --> 01:03:55,974\nThis took me back a few years and the lies we were told by the\n\n1088\n01:03:55,994 --> 01:03:59,474\ndevelopers of the Sierra Apartments on Washington\n\n1089\n01:03:59,574 --> 01:04:03,394\nBoulevard. Prior to their construction,\n\n1090\n01:04:03,454 --> 01:04:06,874\nneighbors were invited to talk with the developer.\n\n1091\n01:04:06,914 --> 01:04:10,744\nWe were promised enhanced bike and pedestrian crossing of the\n\n1092\n01:04:10,814 --> 01:04:14,614\nrailroad at Seventh, as well as repairs to the railroad\n\n1093\n01:04:14,674 --> 01:04:18,034\ncrossing on Washington. Also, the\n\n1094\n01:04:18,174 --> 01:04:21,694\nstreet-facing side of their parking garage was promised to have\n\n1095\n01:04:21,754 --> 01:04:25,014\ncommunity commercial spaces, such as a coffee shop.\n\n1096\n01:04:25,774 --> 01:04:29,734\nInstead, what we have are concrete barricades and\n\n1097\n01:04:29,774 --> 01:04:33,394\nchain link fencing on Seventh Street at Western.\n\n1098\n01:04:33,404 --> 01:04:37,103\nNo improvements on Washington, and the storage of\n\n1099\n01:04:37,114 --> 01:04:40,274\nconstruction materials where we were promised a coffee\n\n1100\n01:04:40,414 --> 01:04:44,334\nshop. I don't have any faith that the Pine\n\n1101\n01:04:44,414 --> 01:04:48,234\nView will actually achieve any improvements to the rail\n\n1102\n01:04:48,334 --> 01:04:52,154\ncrossings either. This is not something where the promise\n\n1103\n01:04:52,194 --> 01:04:55,094\nof money to the city does anything.\n\n1104\n01:04:55,154 --> 01:04:58,834\nIt is up to the railroad if and when improvements are\n\n1105\n01:04:58,854 --> 01:04:59,294\nmade.\n\n1106\n01:05:00,734 --> 01:05:04,204\nAdditionally, I need to cross Western at Fifth\n\n1107\n01:05:04,694 --> 01:05:08,114\nseveral times a day for work and activities.\n\n1108\n01:05:08,214 --> 01:05:11,474\nI go as a pedestrian, cyclist, and a\n\n1109\n01:05:11,494 --> 01:05:15,214\ndriver. Often, I have long waits looking for a\n\n1110\n01:05:15,254 --> 01:05:18,834\nbreak in the traffic. Any increase in traffic on\n\n1111\n01:05:18,894 --> 01:05:22,674\nWestern will exacerbate the risks for me and\n\n1112\n01:05:22,774 --> 01:05:25,974\nothers in my neighborhood, including many young\n\n1113\n01:05:26,134 --> 01:05:26,794\nchildren.\n\n1114\n01:05:27,934 --> 01:05:31,734\nTell me how cutting off the connectivity for my historic\n\n1115\n01:05:31,794 --> 01:05:35,674\nneighborhood is an improvement. Please hit\n\n1116\n01:05:35,714 --> 01:05:38,714\nthe pause button for this proposed development.\n\n1117\n01:05:38,734 --> 01:05:42,514\nLet's have community input and talk about what the citizens of\n\n1118\n01:05:42,554 --> 01:05:46,534\nCorvallis want, and not gift money to out-of-state\n\n1119\n01:05:46,614 --> 01:05:50,494\ndevelopers who are destroying the livability in\n\n1120\n01:05:50,554 --> 01:05:52,694\ntown. Thank you.\n\n1121\n01:05:52,733 --> 01:05:55,853\nThank you very much.\n\n1122\n01:06:12,374 --> 01:06:14,994\nAll right, we'll now move on to our drop-in commenters.\n\n1123\n01:06:15,094 --> 01:06:18,464\nUm, and I was just informed we have one person online, so we can start\n\n1124\n01:06:18,514 --> 01:06:20,934\nthere.\n\n1125\n01:06:22,154 --> 01:06:25,743\nBob Mandel, you should have the ability to unmute yourself and be heard by\n\n1126\n01:06:25,774 --> 01:06:27,454\ncouncil.\n\n1127\n01:06:27,534 --> 01:06:30,624\nYes. Thank you. I'm\n\n1128\n01:06:31,594 --> 01:06:35,414\ncalling in to speak on the resolution\n\n1129\n01:06:35,474 --> 01:06:39,034\nabout ICE. I simply want to\n\n1130\n01:06:40,314 --> 01:06:43,734\nagree with the previous speaker, Henri\n\n1131\n01:06:43,914 --> 01:06:47,334\nCloud. This is of the highest\n\n1132\n01:06:47,434 --> 01:06:51,254\npriority. The fact that\n\n1133\n01:06:51,374 --> 01:06:55,194\nit has receded from the headlines\n\n1134\n01:06:55,674 --> 01:06:59,214\nis testimony to the effectiveness\n\n1135\n01:06:59,614 --> 01:07:02,734\nof what the people in Minneapolis did,\n\n1136\n01:07:03,614 --> 01:07:05,634\nand Corvallis\n\n1137\n01:07:07,354 --> 01:07:11,294\nshould join that. This resolution,\n\n1138\n01:07:11,354 --> 01:07:15,094\ndoing everything that the city can legally\n\n1139\n01:07:15,254 --> 01:07:18,854\ndo in refusing to cooperate\n\n1140\n01:07:19,554 --> 01:07:23,114\nand in putting every possible\n\n1141\n01:07:23,654 --> 01:07:26,774\nlegal obstacle in ICE's\n\n1142\n01:07:26,934 --> 01:07:30,754\nway is imperative. We\n\n1143\n01:07:30,854 --> 01:07:33,854\nwere brought up to believe that this is a\n\n1144\n01:07:33,874 --> 01:07:37,026\ndemocracy.We were brought up to\n\n1145\n01:07:37,066 --> 01:07:40,726\nbelieve that the police were there to serve\n\n1146\n01:07:40,906 --> 01:07:44,686\nand protect. It is clear that\n\n1147\n01:07:45,026 --> 01:07:49,006\nICE is here neither to serve nor to\n\n1148\n01:07:49,046 --> 01:07:52,126\nprotect but to intimidate,\n\n1149\n01:07:52,926 --> 01:07:56,746\nto spread terror, to drive people from\n\n1150\n01:07:56,786 --> 01:08:00,726\ntheir homes. And a- as the murder of\n\n1151\n01:08:00,826 --> 01:08:03,306\ntwo people already proves,\n\n1152\n01:08:04,826 --> 01:08:08,226\nthe tactics that they're using will\n\n1153\n01:08:08,626 --> 01:08:12,246\nspread into the cities for\n\n1154\n01:08:12,526 --> 01:08:16,346\nother purposes. Those tactics will\n\n1155\n01:08:16,507 --> 01:08:19,846\nbe used to repress any\n\n1156\n01:08:20,246 --> 01:08:23,906\ndissent that the US government finds\n\n1157\n01:08:24,047 --> 01:08:27,566\nobjectionable. I worked in the civil rights\n\n1158\n01:08:27,726 --> 01:08:31,286\nmovement in Mississippi and witnessed the\n\n1159\n01:08:31,446 --> 01:08:35,146\nfailure of the feds to protect civil\n\n1160\n01:08:35,206 --> 01:08:38,946\nrights workers from the Ku Klux Klan.\n\n1161\n01:08:39,547 --> 01:08:43,126\nNow we have ICE acting just\n\n1162\n01:08:43,406 --> 01:08:46,887\nlike the Klan, masked,\n\n1163\n01:08:47,026 --> 01:08:50,986\nruthless, riding by day and riding\n\n1164\n01:08:51,366 --> 01:08:52,706\nby night.\n\n1165\n01:08:54,026 --> 01:08:57,346\nI congratulate you on raising this\n\n1166\n01:08:57,446 --> 01:09:00,467\nresolution. I urge its\n\n1167\n01:09:00,547 --> 01:09:03,706\nadoption. As an ESL\n\n1168\n01:09:03,746 --> 01:09:07,266\nteacher, my students live in fear\n\n1169\n01:09:07,746 --> 01:09:08,467\ndaily\n\n1170\n01:09:09,646 --> 01:09:13,626\nof being arrested, no matter what their\n\n1171\n01:09:13,766 --> 01:09:15,686\ncitizenship status,\n\n1172\n01:09:16,566 --> 01:09:19,846\nand being deported, no matter\n\n1173\n01:09:20,326 --> 01:09:23,866\nlegally or legal- illegally.\n\n1174\n01:09:23,946 --> 01:09:27,706\nEveryone has a right to live safely in\n\n1175\n01:09:27,766 --> 01:09:31,366\nthis country. Thank you. Please support the\n\n1176\n01:09:31,427 --> 01:09:32,866\nresolution.\n\n1177\n01:09:34,166 --> 01:09:36,387\nThank you very much.\n\n1178\n01:09:38,246 --> 01:09:40,486\nUp next I have Mike Blair.\n\n1179\n01:09:42,427 --> 01:09:46,266\nI think that's on.\n\n1180\n01:09:48,587 --> 01:09:49,406\nDo I push this?\n\n1181\n01:09:49,446 --> 01:09:51,186\nYeah. You're good.\n\n1182\n01:09:51,206 --> 01:09:53,666\nHello. I'm Mike Blair from Ward\n\n1183\n01:09:53,826 --> 01:09:57,346\nFour. Um, and\n\n1184\n01:09:59,306 --> 01:10:03,186\nI live in the, downtown historic\n\n1185\n01:10:03,246 --> 01:10:03,806\ndistrict,\n\n1186\n01:10:04,666 --> 01:10:05,726\nnext door to Bjorn,\n\n1187\n01:10:07,066 --> 01:10:10,806\nright in the middle of the block on, Fifth Street, a half a\n\n1188\n01:10:10,866 --> 01:10:12,066\nblock from the proposed\n\n1189\n01:10:13,026 --> 01:10:16,986\nPineview, site. And,\n\n1190\n01:10:17,326 --> 01:10:19,846\nour adjacent properties\n\n1191\n01:10:19,986 --> 01:10:23,866\nare, significant contributing\n\n1192\n01:10:23,906 --> 01:10:27,126\nhistoric houses. In order to make\n\n1193\n01:10:27,186 --> 01:10:29,906\nany... For example, to make any changes to the\n\n1194\n01:10:29,926 --> 01:10:33,366\nexteriors of our buildings, including\n\n1195\n01:10:33,466 --> 01:10:36,406\nfor, say, energy, energy efficient\n\n1196\n01:10:37,566 --> 01:10:41,326\nwindow replacement, it requires a major and a bureaucratic\n\n1197\n01:10:41,366 --> 01:10:44,895\nprocess to gain approval. I've done it a couple times\n\n1198\n01:10:44,966 --> 01:10:48,666\nand, I love the historic houses,\n\n1199\n01:10:49,946 --> 01:10:52,086\nso it's worthwhile for a lot of reasons.\n\n1200\n01:10:52,106 --> 01:10:53,486\nBut,\n\n1201\n01:10:54,746 --> 01:10:58,726\nthis, the Pineview is a monstrosity of\n\n1202\n01:10:58,786 --> 01:11:02,596\na building structure for downtown Corvallis, and it wi-\n\n1203\n01:11:02,626 --> 01:11:06,506\nwill fit in like a sore thumb. The proposed height\n\n1204\n01:11:07,286 --> 01:11:11,246\nwill drown out the east sun and the sun completely\n\n1205\n01:11:11,886 --> 01:11:14,406\nuntil around noon for our properties\n\n1206\n01:11:15,546 --> 01:11:19,066\nfor the neighboring blocks. I believe this proposed building will\n\n1207\n01:11:19,126 --> 01:11:23,046\nnegatively impact the values of the historic homes in our\n\n1208\n01:11:23,086 --> 01:11:26,946\ndowntown neighborhood. Uh, parking\n\n1209\n01:11:27,046 --> 01:11:30,806\nissues. Um, my understanding is there's\n\n1210\n01:11:30,866 --> 01:11:34,835\nnot adequate parking for the proposed structure\n\n1211\n01:11:35,526 --> 01:11:36,335\nat this point.\n\n1212\n01:11:37,366 --> 01:11:40,766\nWe live on Fifth Street. There's currently no on-street parking on Fifth\n\n1213\n01:11:40,806 --> 01:11:44,696\nStreet. It was turned into bike lanes years ago,\n\n1214\n01:11:44,696 --> 01:11:47,526\nwhich is great, but if we have company\n\n1215\n01:11:48,686 --> 01:11:52,546\nto our house, they, they must park on on-street\n\n1216\n01:11:52,626 --> 01:11:55,306\nparking on the adjacent Washington Avenue.\n\n1217\n01:11:55,326 --> 01:11:56,166\nThere's two blocks\n\n1218\n01:11:57,006 --> 01:11:59,286\nwhere there's on-street parking.\n\n1219\n01:11:59,406 --> 01:12:03,186\nUm, the proposed building will not\n\n1220\n01:12:03,766 --> 01:12:07,566\nprovide, adequate parking for the residents, and so the\n\n1221\n01:12:07,606 --> 01:12:10,626\non-street parking spaces will become rare, at\n\n1222\n01:12:10,686 --> 01:12:13,746\nbest, find. Thank you.\n\n1223\n01:12:15,066 --> 01:12:18,986\nThank you.\n\n1224\n01:12:21,346 --> 01:12:22,466\nUp next I have Patricia\n\n1225\n01:12:25,086 --> 01:12:25,426\nVann.\n\n1226\n01:12:25,436 --> 01:12:26,866\nVann.\n\n1227\n01:12:27,286 --> 01:12:29,776\nI c- I can read the Patricia, I'm just not sure about the last name, sorry.\n\n1228\n01:12:29,786 --> 01:12:33,326\nThat's okay. That's much better.\n\n1229\n01:12:35,306 --> 01:12:39,166\nOkay, all. Thanks so very much. Thanks for the community to come out\n\n1230\n01:12:39,226 --> 01:12:42,706\nto speak on these various topics that are very, very important.\n\n1231\n01:12:44,366 --> 01:12:47,786\nI used to call Corvallis our cozy cove.\n\n1232\n01:12:47,846 --> 01:12:51,786\nI moved here from Manhattan in '91 because I love\n\n1233\n01:12:51,866 --> 01:12:54,866\nthe community, the walkability, the safety, the\n\n1234\n01:12:55,046 --> 01:12:56,386\nschools.\n\n1235\n01:12:58,006 --> 01:13:01,696\nAs we have to move forward, we can't live in the\n\n1236\n01:13:01,766 --> 01:13:02,346\npast,\n\n1237\n01:13:03,166 --> 01:13:04,786\nI urge the city council\n\n1238\n01:13:05,746 --> 01:13:06,806\nto think about\n\n1239\n01:13:07,786 --> 01:13:11,696\nwhat we are doing in terms of the safety.\n\n1240\n01:13:11,706 --> 01:13:15,346\nWe've heard all about the... We have the whole programs for bike to school\n\n1241\n01:13:15,426 --> 01:13:19,266\nsafety, bike and walk to school. Then we look at the schools\n\n1242\n01:13:19,326 --> 01:13:23,166\nthat they are closing, and those they are\n\n1243\n01:13:23,226 --> 01:13:27,046\nkeeping open. Um, Mountain View is by the\n\n1244\n01:13:27,166 --> 01:13:28,306\nrailroad tracks,\n\n1245\n01:13:29,226 --> 01:13:33,106\nand there is no way to walk to Mountain View and to\n\n1246\n01:13:33,166 --> 01:13:36,786\nbike to Mountain View safely. We've already had a\n\n1247\n01:13:36,846 --> 01:13:39,986\nteacher killed in an accident on that railroad\n\n1248\n01:13:40,066 --> 01:13:43,294\ntraffic-And nothing has been done at that\n\n1249\n01:13:43,394 --> 01:13:46,634\narea. Yet they're going to expand that\n\n1250\n01:13:46,694 --> 01:13:50,534\nschool despite the chemicals in the water, which were\n\n1251\n01:13:50,554 --> 01:13:54,144\nknown seventeen years again- ago, and are now erupting\n\n1252\n01:13:54,194 --> 01:13:57,954\nagain. That school is now going to be a K\n\n1253\n01:13:58,034 --> 01:14:00,334\nthrough six and then K through eight.\n\n1254\n01:14:00,374 --> 01:14:02,974\nNo bike lanes, no walkable\n\n1255\n01:14:03,114 --> 01:14:05,414\npaths, no safe railroad\n\n1256\n01:14:05,534 --> 01:14:09,444\ncrossings. What are we doing? We can do\n\n1257\n01:14:09,454 --> 01:14:09,754\nbetter.\n\n1258\n01:14:12,334 --> 01:14:13,934\nThe second one is\n\n1259\n01:14:15,214 --> 01:14:17,254\nLetitia Carson, Title I school.\n\n1260\n01:14:18,454 --> 01:14:22,174\nAffordable neighborhood right around there with tons and\n\n1261\n01:14:22,274 --> 01:14:25,774\ntons of good families walking their kids to\n\n1262\n01:14:25,854 --> 01:14:27,414\nschool.\n\n1263\n01:14:29,414 --> 01:14:33,174\nAnd they're going to close it and put those children on\n\n1264\n01:14:33,214 --> 01:14:36,164\nbuses. One family has three\n\n1265\n01:14:36,334 --> 01:14:40,294\nchildren, and they are going to be bused to three different\n\n1266\n01:14:40,394 --> 01:14:44,184\nschools. The enhancement of traffic is\n\n1267\n01:14:44,214 --> 01:14:46,504\ngoing to be unbelievable. We've got to have\n\n1268\n01:14:46,574 --> 01:14:49,734\ninfrastructure.\n\n1269\n01:14:51,294 --> 01:14:55,054\nUh, the Sheldon Middle School, which is perfect location for K through\n\n1270\n01:14:55,194 --> 01:14:55,634\neight,\n\n1271\n01:14:57,174 --> 01:15:00,714\nis going to be closed. And those students will be\n\n1272\n01:15:00,834 --> 01:15:04,054\nbused, many of them into Linus Pauling,\n\n1273\n01:15:04,894 --> 01:15:07,534\nwhich is already super congested\n\n1274\n01:15:08,474 --> 01:15:12,174\nall through the morning and the evenings without walkable, safe paths\n\n1275\n01:15:12,774 --> 01:15:16,234\nand bike lanes. Seven hundred\n\n1276\n01:15:16,474 --> 01:15:17,534\njunior high kids.\n\n1277\n01:15:18,894 --> 01:15:21,874\nThe traffic is gonna be unbelievable.\n\n1278\n01:15:21,914 --> 01:15:23,934\nWe have to think and work together\n\n1279\n01:15:24,794 --> 01:15:28,204\nand establish safe routes for this, for the\n\n1280\n01:15:28,354 --> 01:15:31,414\nschool, for the kids, for the pedestrians, and the people who live in the\n\n1281\n01:15:31,454 --> 01:15:35,434\nneighborhoods. And I'd like to see the city\n\n1282\n01:15:35,444 --> 01:15:38,914\nand the district work together and really put forth a\n\n1283\n01:15:38,974 --> 01:15:41,454\nplan. Thank you.\n\n1284\n01:15:41,474 --> 01:15:42,454\nThank you.\n\n1285\n01:15:45,874 --> 01:15:49,494\nUp next is Tammy Scabina.\n\n1286\n01:15:50,754 --> 01:15:51,484\nScabina.\n\n1287\n01:15:55,194 --> 01:15:57,154\nI really do try.\n\n1288\n01:15:57,174 --> 01:16:00,514\nThat's okay. Yes, my name is Tammy Scabina, and\n\n1289\n01:16:00,674 --> 01:16:04,364\nI'm a member of Ward Eight. Um,\n\n1290\n01:16:04,514 --> 01:16:08,504\nI'm sharing my support of the resolution addressing escalating federal immigration\n\n1291\n01:16:08,534 --> 01:16:12,334\nenforcement. Um, it's my view that the\n\n1292\n01:16:12,374 --> 01:16:15,874\ncity of Corvallis and the council and the mayor need to publicly put\n\n1293\n01:16:15,974 --> 01:16:19,304\non record that everyone in Corvallis deserves to feel\n\n1294\n01:16:19,334 --> 01:16:23,294\nsafe, and that especially immigrants\n\n1295\n01:16:23,304 --> 01:16:26,054\nand people of color need to feel safe.\n\n1296\n01:16:26,134 --> 01:16:28,834\nI have a friend that I met twenty years ago.\n\n1297\n01:16:28,894 --> 01:16:31,594\nShe was a high school student here in Corvallis.\n\n1298\n01:16:31,654 --> 01:16:34,734\nI worked with her on projects where she was helping other students\n\n1299\n01:16:35,694 --> 01:16:39,654\nand making a difference. Twenty years later, she and her\n\n1300\n01:16:39,714 --> 01:16:40,254\nfamily are\n\n1301\n01:16:41,514 --> 01:16:44,954\ns-super fearful every single day.\n\n1302\n01:16:44,974 --> 01:16:47,494\nThey own a business. Their kids are in our\n\n1303\n01:16:47,594 --> 01:16:51,114\nschools. I want them to know that the city supports\n\n1304\n01:16:51,174 --> 01:16:54,284\nthem. And so please pass this resolution.\n\n1305\n01:16:54,294 --> 01:16:57,984\nThere should be no question that this city should support this\n\n1306\n01:16:58,014 --> 01:17:02,004\nresolution of addressing escalating federal immigration enforcement.\n\n1307\n01:17:02,004 --> 01:17:03,974\nThank you.\n\n1308\n01:17:04,014 --> 01:17:05,954\nThank you.\n\n1309\n01:17:07,314 --> 01:17:09,834\nAndrew R?\n\n1310\n01:17:21,994 --> 01:17:24,204\nHello, everybody. I'm from Fairyland,\n\n1311\n01:17:25,514 --> 01:17:29,054\nclearly. I, just, I'm from Ward Two.\n\n1312\n01:17:29,154 --> 01:17:33,054\nUm, I, I, I know this, I wanna speak in support of just about\n\n1313\n01:17:33,094 --> 01:17:34,704\neverybody who's spoken here before.\n\n1314\n01:17:34,754 --> 01:17:37,784\nEverything everybody said has been, exactly dead on.\n\n1315\n01:17:37,894 --> 01:17:41,694\nUh, Third Street is a big problem. Fourth Street is also a major\n\n1316\n01:17:41,754 --> 01:17:44,594\nissue. Everybody drives down those two streets like they're driving down the\n\n1317\n01:17:44,634 --> 01:17:46,414\nhighway, and it is always\n\n1318\n01:17:47,554 --> 01:17:50,434\nscary to cross those. I cross them regularly.\n\n1319\n01:17:50,554 --> 01:17:53,824\nUm, I've been visiting the, local drop-in center here.\n\n1320\n01:17:53,914 --> 01:17:57,734\nI try to get people to encourage people to\n\n1321\n01:17:57,794 --> 01:18:01,573\ngo and, and visit there o-on a, you know, somewhat of a regular\n\n1322\n01:18:01,654 --> 01:18:04,114\nbasis and talk to people there and listen to their stories.\n\n1323\n01:18:04,194 --> 01:18:04,834\nI've been hearing\n\n1324\n01:18:05,734 --> 01:18:07,914\na lot of stories for months now.\n\n1325\n01:18:09,094 --> 01:18:12,824\nUm, my friend here, Jo-Joshua Browning, recently,\n\n1326\n01:18:13,114 --> 01:18:16,374\nwas thrown out on the streets by Unity Shelters.\n\n1327\n01:18:16,474 --> 01:18:19,984\nUm, I've been hearing, stories, for months\n\n1328\n01:18:20,274 --> 01:18:21,674\nabout Unity Shelters,\n\n1329\n01:18:23,294 --> 01:18:27,214\nthrowing victims of property crimes by other shelter members\n\n1330\n01:18:27,274 --> 01:18:30,834\nout on the streets. Uh, some of them did not survive\n\n1331\n01:18:30,894 --> 01:18:33,714\nthis. All of them had their lives disrupted.\n\n1332\n01:18:33,814 --> 01:18:34,083\nUm,\n\n1333\n01:18:35,214 --> 01:18:39,114\nit's strange. And then I started hearing them on the men's side recently,\n\n1334\n01:18:39,194 --> 01:18:39,494\nand\n\n1335\n01:18:40,714 --> 01:18:44,594\nI started hearing different things about all three of the shelters' abuses to\n\n1336\n01:18:44,614 --> 01:18:48,194\nshelter, residents and, you\n\n1337\n01:18:48,254 --> 01:18:52,174\nknow, that sort of thing just does our community so much harm.\n\n1338\n01:18:52,234 --> 01:18:55,914\nI, I, I sh- hear about criminal\n\n1339\n01:18:55,934 --> 01:18:59,174\nactivities there. I hear about criminal activities on the part of\n\n1340\n01:18:59,234 --> 01:19:02,784\nour, unfortunately, our local police force, using\n\n1341\n01:19:02,834 --> 01:19:06,494\nconfidential informants and using, individuals that they catch with\n\n1342\n01:19:06,514 --> 01:19:10,234\ndrugs to drop packages in places. And, confidential\n\n1343\n01:19:10,254 --> 01:19:14,024\ninformants, as you know, cannot be held accountable or go to jail because\n\n1344\n01:19:14,054 --> 01:19:18,014\nthere's a, a mythology that they will be murdered\n\n1345\n01:19:18,074 --> 01:19:21,944\nif they ever wind up there. Um, so they're pretty much free\n\n1346\n01:19:21,974 --> 01:19:25,424\nof all accountability to any laws in, in most of the cities that,\n\n1347\n01:19:25,914 --> 01:19:29,454\nthat they, they use them for, purposes, law enforcement.\n\n1348\n01:19:29,464 --> 01:19:33,194\nAnd, I've heard a, a story from a man who came here to get\n\n1349\n01:19:33,214 --> 01:19:37,124\nhis wife out of a trafficking situation, was told by an officer--\n\n1350\n01:19:37,194 --> 01:19:38,484\nasked by an officer where he lived.\n\n1351\n01:19:38,514 --> 01:19:41,844\nHe said, \"California.\" And, and the officer told him, \"You should just go back\n\n1352\n01:19:41,844 --> 01:19:45,424\nthere.\" Um, and he said, \"Well, I'm not leaving until I get my wife out of this\n\n1353\n01:19:45,454 --> 01:19:49,194\ntrafficking situation.\" Um...Yeah, the stories I\n\n1354\n01:19:49,274 --> 01:19:52,674\nhear just over and over again, I, I...\n\n1355\n01:19:52,714 --> 01:19:55,434\nY- you can't, I can't just tell you these stories.\n\n1356\n01:19:55,454 --> 01:19:59,194\nThey're, they're facts, but you have to hear them for\n\n1357\n01:19:59,234 --> 01:20:02,894\nyourself. Um, maybe journalistic efforts can.\n\n1358\n01:20:02,974 --> 01:20:06,764\nUm, I'm, I'm working on an investigative journalism effort, Voice of the\n\n1359\n01:20:06,814 --> 01:20:09,964\nVoiceless for the City, to try and do some, uh...\n\n1360\n01:20:09,964 --> 01:20:13,414\nMy whole family's journalists. Um, do some investigative journalism, get some\n\n1361\n01:20:13,454 --> 01:20:17,004\nchanges to, to the city. In Oregon, I hear that we're 49th in\n\n1362\n01:20:17,034 --> 01:20:20,394\noutcomes for mentally ill people. Who, who is allowing that?\n\n1363\n01:20:20,434 --> 01:20:23,764\nWho is, who is not funding those people? So on and so forth.\n\n1364\n01:20:23,794 --> 01:20:25,684\nThat's all.\n\n1365\n01:20:25,734 --> 01:20:28,094\nThank you.\n\n1366\n01:20:28,174 --> 01:20:29,874\nDo you have any questions?\n\n1367\n01:20:31,014 --> 01:20:31,423\nEverybody good?\n\n1368\n01:20:31,434 --> 01:20:32,714\nNo questions. Thank you.\n\n1369\n01:20:34,334 --> 01:20:34,594\nBrendan\n\n1370\n01:20:34,634 --> 01:20:38,854\nKohlberg.\n\n1371\n01:20:44,034 --> 01:20:47,774\nHello there, mayor and council. I'm coming in my individual capacity as\n\n1372\n01:20:47,874 --> 01:20:51,074\nvice chair of the planning commission, though I'm also a ward, a resident of Ward\n\n1373\n01:20:51,334 --> 01:20:55,114\n6. Um, the planning commission has ma- or we\n\n1374\n01:20:55,134 --> 01:20:59,044\ndecided at our last meeting, which was held in person, our annual work plan,\n\n1375\n01:20:59,174 --> 01:21:02,474\nto make two somewhat significant changes to our workflow that I figure you\n\n1376\n01:21:02,554 --> 01:21:06,344\nshould be informed of. Um, as of the cycle of members this\n\n1377\n01:21:06,414 --> 01:21:09,894\nsummer, some are rotating off at the end of June, and then more should be\n\n1378\n01:21:09,914 --> 01:21:11,684\nappointed at the beginning of July.\n\n1379\n01:21:11,684 --> 01:21:15,374\nWe're going back to fully in-person meetings or hybrid in-person\n\n1380\n01:21:15,474 --> 01:21:19,024\nfirst meetings. I believe we're the last major commission to do so.\n\n1381\n01:21:19,024 --> 01:21:22,574\nAnd then secondly, because members of the commission weren't too\n\n1382\n01:21:22,614 --> 01:21:25,834\nconfident in how to prioritize different changes to the\n\n1383\n01:21:25,894 --> 01:21:29,574\nLDC, given that there's a list that's about six years long and the amount of\n\n1384\n01:21:29,614 --> 01:21:33,394\ntime we have, we're interested in, in the process of trying to figure\n\n1385\n01:21:33,454 --> 01:21:37,314\nout how we can learn what changes are most\n\n1386\n01:21:37,334 --> 01:21:41,034\nimportant. In particular, establishing communication lines with the\n\n1387\n01:21:41,054 --> 01:21:44,634\npeople who interface with them most, from the user side, which is a\n\n1388\n01:21:44,654 --> 01:21:47,654\npractice standard in most, like, tech and high performance companies.\n\n1389\n01:21:48,154 --> 01:21:52,014\nUm, so we're looking at what we can do, as far\n\n1390\n01:21:52,254 --> 01:21:56,054\nas our positioning, to hear from developers\n\n1391\n01:21:56,114 --> 01:21:59,704\nand, and people who would like to develop but can't about rules that they feel that\n\n1392\n01:21:59,774 --> 01:22:03,714\nare in the way, but not... And then contrasting those with, you\n\n1393\n01:22:03,754 --> 01:22:06,874\nknow, the point of regulations is to solve collection action problems and keep\n\n1394\n01:22:06,894 --> 01:22:09,754\npeople's private incentives from overruling the common good.\n\n1395\n01:22:09,774 --> 01:22:13,334\nBut where a rule provides, barriers\n\n1396\n01:22:13,454 --> 01:22:17,144\nto, the city's goals of\n\n1397\n01:22:17,194 --> 01:22:20,574\naffordability and economic development, but they're, it's not actually actively\n\n1398\n01:22:20,614 --> 01:22:23,914\npreser- preventing something that the city does not want, and we're gonna try to\n\n1399\n01:22:23,954 --> 01:22:26,574\nidentify those and see where we can improve some of those.\n\n1400\n01:22:26,594 --> 01:22:30,474\nSo just a brief update there. Um, if you guys, you're, you're\n\n1401\n01:22:30,554 --> 01:22:33,794\nobviously more connected to the community than anyone on the commission is,\n\n1402\n01:22:35,014 --> 01:22:38,914\nif you have any leads on things that you think we should look at, there's a lot\n\n1403\n01:22:38,954 --> 01:22:41,814\nof uncertainty on that, and I figured you should be informed even,\n\n1404\n01:22:43,354 --> 01:22:45,854\nyeah, even that says. That's all.\n\n1405\n01:22:45,924 --> 01:22:47,974\nThank you.\n\n1406\n01:22:50,414 --> 01:22:54,294\nThat concludes our community comments.\n\n1407\n01:22:54,314 --> 01:22:56,434\nMoving on to the consent agenda.\n\n1408\n01:22:56,514 --> 01:22:59,294\nI will move to adopt the consent agenda.\n\n1409\n01:22:59,994 --> 01:23:01,174\nSecond.\n\n1410\n01:23:01,994 --> 01:23:03,294\nWorried there. It was kind of a pause.\n\n1411\n01:23:04,094 --> 01:23:08,034\nAny discussion? Seeing no hands, all\n\n1412\n01:23:08,103 --> 01:23:10,514\nin favor of adopting the consent agenda, say aye.\n\n1413\n01:23:10,594 --> 01:23:11,694\nAye.\n\n1414\n01:23:11,704 --> 01:23:11,704\nAye.\n\n1415\n01:23:11,714 --> 01:23:12,494\nAye.\n\n1416\n01:23:12,634 --> 01:23:15,414\nAll opposed, say no. That passed\n\n1417\n01:23:15,514 --> 01:23:18,634\nunanimously. Now on to unfinished business.\n\n1418\n01:23:18,654 --> 01:23:21,794\nWe have item A, revised noise ordinance.\n\n1419\n01:23:21,914 --> 01:23:25,514\nUm, city manager's here to...\n\n1420\n01:23:25,574 --> 01:23:29,394\nYes. Um, our police department staff brought this forward at your\n\n1421\n01:23:29,434 --> 01:23:33,294\nFebruary 19th work session. Uh, just to check in\n\n1422\n01:23:33,354 --> 01:23:37,134\nwith you, council seemed, amenable to these changes, so\n\n1423\n01:23:37,214 --> 01:23:41,174\nthey are in front of you, in the ordinance here.\n\n1424\n01:23:41,194 --> 01:23:41,774\nYou have a\n\n1425\n01:23:42,934 --> 01:23:46,494\nredline strikeout starting on page 133 of the electronic\n\n1426\n01:23:46,574 --> 01:23:49,054\npacket, and then a clean copy on, starting on page\n\n1427\n01:23:49,214 --> 01:23:50,894\n137.\n\n1428\n01:23:51,974 --> 01:23:55,794\nThank you. And, and the chief is here if we have questions that\n\n1429\n01:23:56,334 --> 01:23:58,854\ncity manager can't answer, but you're okay.\n\n1430\n01:23:58,894 --> 01:24:02,174\nAny questions, or should we have the ordinance read?\n\n1431\n01:24:03,774 --> 01:24:06,174\nAll right. City recorder, if you would, please.\n\n1432\n01:24:06,214 --> 01:24:09,774\nThis is an ordinance relating to noise amending Corvallis Municipal Code\n\n1433\n01:24:09,834 --> 01:24:13,104\nSection 5.03.030,\n\n1434\n01:24:13,104 --> 01:24:14,854\nnoise.\n\n1435\n01:24:15,714 --> 01:24:18,694\nVery much. Again, last chance for any questions, or we can just take a\n\n1436\n01:24:18,754 --> 01:24:20,794\nvote.\n\n1437\n01:24:20,814 --> 01:24:22,454\nI have an observation.\n\n1438\n01:24:22,474 --> 01:24:24,214\nPlease, Councilor Ellis.\n\n1439\n01:24:24,274 --> 01:24:28,244\nThis was actually a topic of conversation at my house this weekend, because some\n\n1440\n01:24:28,254 --> 01:24:31,434\npeople may know that it was not actually St.\n\n1441\n01:24:31,444 --> 01:24:34,464\nPatrick's Day, but the fraternities were celebrating St.\n\n1442\n01:24:34,494 --> 01:24:38,314\nPatrick's Day. Um, and we were actually talking about hopefully with the\n\n1443\n01:24:38,374 --> 01:24:41,914\nclarity of having the decibel level, there will be\n\n1444\n01:24:42,034 --> 01:24:45,214\nless conflict between the police and the\n\n1445\n01:24:45,254 --> 01:24:47,914\npeople celebrating, shall we say.\n\n1446\n01:24:47,954 --> 01:24:50,064\nSo we are feeling pretty positive about this.\n\n1447\n01:24:51,174 --> 01:24:54,654\nYeah, I have to agree. I re- I really think that the, you know, hard facts instead\n\n1448\n01:24:54,694 --> 01:24:58,454\nof just trying to determine whether or not there's a violation is gonna\n\n1449\n01:24:58,494 --> 01:25:00,674\nbe useful for everybody.\n\n1450\n01:25:01,934 --> 01:25:05,644\nAppreciate it. All right. Let's, I guess, go ahead and take a vote.\n\n1451\n01:25:05,654 --> 01:25:07,554\nOh. Some more things. Go ahead.\n\n1452\n01:25:07,674 --> 01:25:11,394\nUm, just, just a quick comment. I appreciate the work that went into this so\n\n1453\n01:25:11,474 --> 01:25:15,114\nquickly after a problem was identified, so thank you to the police\n\n1454\n01:25:15,154 --> 01:25:16,924\ndepartment for your work.\n\n1455\n01:25:16,954 --> 01:25:19,394\nYes, absolutely.\n\n1456\n01:25:21,294 --> 01:25:22,124\nDo you have a question or comment?\n\n1457\n01:25:22,134 --> 01:25:22,294\nMm-mm.\n\n1458\n01:25:22,314 --> 01:25:23,854\nOh, okay. Thought I saw a hand.\n\n1459\n01:25:23,894 --> 01:25:24,414\nNope.\n\n1460\n01:25:24,424 --> 01:25:26,474\nAll right. Let's go ahead and, take a vote.\n\n1461\n01:25:26,514 --> 01:25:28,854\nAll in favor of the ordinance, say aye.\n\n1462\n01:25:28,864 --> 01:25:28,864\nAye.\n\n1463\n01:25:28,874 --> 01:25:29,854\nAye.\n\n1464\n01:25:29,864 --> 01:25:29,864\nAye.\n\n1465\n01:25:31,054 --> 01:25:34,354\nAll opposed, say no. That passed unanimously.\n\n1466\n01:25:34,394 --> 01:25:38,154\nThank you all, and again, thank you to all staff and that were involved in\n\n1467\n01:25:38,214 --> 01:25:40,814\nthis. Much appreciated.\n\n1468\n01:25:43,374 --> 01:25:46,454\nNext up, and we're moving on to new business now.\n\n1469\n01:25:46,474 --> 01:25:50,284\nItem A, Pineview Multi-Unit, Multi-Unit Property Tax Exemption, also known as\n\n1470\n01:25:50,354 --> 01:25:51,354\nMEPTA application.\n\n1471\n01:25:54,678 --> 01:25:56,758\nThank you, Mayor, members of the council.\n\n1472\n01:25:56,858 --> 01:25:58,758\nUm, normally I wouldn't be up here.\n\n1473\n01:25:58,798 --> 01:26:01,388\nThis is a economic development activity, so we would...\n\n1474\n01:26:01,418 --> 01:26:03,038\nIt's generally about the dollars and cents.\n\n1475\n01:26:03,078 --> 01:26:06,768\nBut I know you had a lot of testimony from, community members, and\n\n1476\n01:26:06,858 --> 01:26:10,478\nlooking through that, I think eighty or ninety percent of it was about land\n\n1477\n01:26:10,558 --> 01:26:14,518\nuse, piece. So I'm here for, that aspect if you have\n\n1478\n01:26:14,578 --> 01:26:17,968\nquestions down that line. But, also the developer is,\n\n1479\n01:26:18,358 --> 01:26:21,088\navailable remotely, so there'll be a moment for them as\n\n1480\n01:26:21,138 --> 01:26:22,638\nwell.\n\n1481\n01:26:22,648 --> 01:26:22,668\nThat's what I was checking.\n\n1482\n01:26:22,678 --> 01:26:24,678\nYes, and the city attorney is online as well.\n\n1483\n01:26:24,738 --> 01:26:28,558\nOkay. So, with that kind of intro, I'll turn it back over to the regularly\n\n1484\n01:26:28,698 --> 01:26:30,918\nscheduled show.\n\n1485\n01:26:30,958 --> 01:26:33,118\nGood evening, everyone. Uh, great to be with you.\n\n1486\n01:26:33,238 --> 01:26:35,358\nI'm excited to present this,\n\n1487\n01:26:36,638 --> 01:26:40,138\nMUPTE application, the second that the city's received.\n\n1488\n01:26:40,238 --> 01:26:43,938\nUm, it is a, a exemption\n\n1489\n01:26:43,948 --> 01:26:47,888\nrequest for ten years, totaling thirteen million four\n\n1490\n01:26:47,918 --> 01:26:51,778\nhundred and twelve thousand s- three hundred and seventy-nine dollars.\n\n1491\n01:26:51,878 --> 01:26:52,248\nUm,\n\n1492\n01:26:53,938 --> 01:26:57,738\nthis is a, a thirteen-story building with two hundred and sixty-three\n\n1493\n01:26:57,818 --> 01:27:01,438\nunits and, commercial on the ground floor.\n\n1494\n01:27:01,538 --> 01:27:05,198\nUm, total project cost is estimated to be a hundred and thirty-two million\n\n1495\n01:27:05,238 --> 01:27:09,028\ndollars. Um, a little context, the two hundred and\n\n1496\n01:27:09,028 --> 01:27:12,908\nsixty-three units, just about double the number\n\n1497\n01:27:13,018 --> 01:27:15,758\nof units currently in downtown for residential\n\n1498\n01:27:15,818 --> 01:27:19,598\nunits. When we look at the MUPTE\n\n1499\n01:27:19,658 --> 01:27:23,638\napplication and the staff review, it really, comes down to three\n\n1500\n01:27:23,698 --> 01:27:27,458\ntests. The but-for test, so is this project financially\n\n1501\n01:27:27,538 --> 01:27:31,338\nfeasible but for the exemption? And we,\n\n1502\n01:27:31,778 --> 01:27:35,338\nhave a requirement that we have a third-party financial consultant do\n\n1503\n01:27:35,378 --> 01:27:38,878\nthat analysis. Um, that financial consultant is also\n\n1504\n01:27:38,958 --> 01:27:42,018\nonline, can answer any technical questions about,\n\n1505\n01:27:42,978 --> 01:27:44,978\nthe report produced by ECO Northwest.\n\n1506\n01:27:45,718 --> 01:27:49,298\nUm, at the end of the day, it was concluded through that,\n\n1507\n01:27:49,678 --> 01:27:53,538\nanalysis that, the project, passes the but-for\n\n1508\n01:27:53,658 --> 01:27:57,638\ntest. The next is the affordable housing test, so fifteen\n\n1509\n01:27:57,718 --> 01:28:01,398\npercent of the project's units must be affordable for households\n\n1510\n01:28:01,478 --> 01:28:05,367\nearning eighty percent or less of the AMI in Corvallis, or,\n\n1511\n01:28:05,758 --> 01:28:08,458\nthe applicant can provide ten percent of the total property tax\n\n1512\n01:28:08,498 --> 01:28:12,218\nexemption to fund the development of future affordable housing.\n\n1513\n01:28:12,318 --> 01:28:15,958\nUm, this applicant chose to provide, ten\n\n1514\n01:28:16,038 --> 01:28:18,888\npercent of the total property tax exemption.\n\n1515\n01:28:18,888 --> 01:28:22,838\nAnd we'll get to what all the total financials are here at the\n\n1516\n01:28:22,918 --> 01:28:26,858\nend. Um, but the third, test,\n\n1517\n01:28:26,918 --> 01:28:29,558\nso to speak, is the public benefits test.\n\n1518\n01:28:29,618 --> 01:28:33,278\nSo there's a list of public benefits in the ordinance from which a developer can\n\n1519\n01:28:33,398 --> 01:28:34,478\nchoose to try,\n\n1520\n01:28:36,278 --> 01:28:39,398\nand, and accomplish to, qualify for the\n\n1521\n01:28:39,418 --> 01:28:42,898\nMUPTE. Um, there are,\n\n1522\n01:28:44,198 --> 01:28:48,178\nfour identified in the application: public infrastructure,\n\n1523\n01:28:48,198 --> 01:28:51,918\nhigh quality urban design and special architectural features, economic\n\n1524\n01:28:51,978 --> 01:28:54,488\ncatalytic effect, and connectivity improvements.\n\n1525\n01:28:55,738 --> 01:28:59,158\nAs for pub- public infrastructure, very\n\n1526\n01:28:59,198 --> 01:29:02,518\nstraightforward, the applicant has agreed to deposit one hundred thousand dollars\n\n1527\n01:29:02,558 --> 01:29:06,198\nwith the city to be used for construction of public infrastructure in the\n\n1528\n01:29:06,238 --> 01:29:10,218\nCIP, and that'll be the discretion of,\n\n1529\n01:29:10,638 --> 01:29:13,898\npublic works and staff to determine what\n\n1530\n01:29:13,918 --> 01:29:17,478\nexactly is, what those dollars are, are earmarked\n\n1531\n01:29:17,538 --> 01:29:19,608\nfor. Um,\n\n1532\n01:29:20,758 --> 01:29:23,678\nnext is high quality urban design, special architectural features.\n\n1533\n01:29:23,718 --> 01:29:26,988\nSo the development provides high quality landscaping and\n\n1534\n01:29:27,038 --> 01:29:30,878\narchitecture and/or other elements beyond what the city of Corvallis,\n\n1535\n01:29:31,178 --> 01:29:34,938\ncurrently provides. Um, there's sufficient detail in the\n\n1536\n01:29:34,978 --> 01:29:38,358\napplication to demonstrate high quality architectural design and a commitment to\n\n1537\n01:29:38,378 --> 01:29:42,318\nexceeding City of Corvallis code standards in the choice of\n\n1538\n01:29:42,358 --> 01:29:45,918\nextraordinary materials. Um, it's not\n\n1539\n01:29:45,978 --> 01:29:49,568\nlocated on lots that are identified as having historic significance, so it's\n\n1540\n01:29:49,618 --> 01:29:52,258\nnot subject to the Historic Resources\n\n1541\n01:29:52,338 --> 01:29:54,208\nCommission. Um,\n\n1542\n01:29:56,198 --> 01:29:59,198\nthat, public benefit is, in our\n\n1543\n01:29:59,518 --> 01:30:02,598\nview, sufficient to claim.\n\n1544\n01:30:04,178 --> 01:30:07,978\nNext is economic catalytic effect, and so the applicant provided\n\n1545\n01:30:08,038 --> 01:30:11,318\nsufficient detailed analysis of a proposed economic catalytic\n\n1546\n01:30:11,358 --> 01:30:15,178\neffect, and the influx of residents, roughly six hundred or so\n\n1547\n01:30:15,718 --> 01:30:19,608\nin downtown, and multiplier effect of that investment stands to significantly and\n\n1548\n01:30:19,658 --> 01:30:23,528\npermanently improve the outlook for other businesses in terms of\n\n1549\n01:30:23,558 --> 01:30:26,638\nincreased employment and/or revenues.\n\n1550\n01:30:28,078 --> 01:30:32,018\nThe fourth, again, there are three required, s- developer chose\n\n1551\n01:30:32,058 --> 01:30:35,978\nto, to provide four. Um, the developers proposed to work with\n\n1552\n01:30:36,038 --> 01:30:39,558\nthe city and railroad to fund future pedestrian crossing\n\n1553\n01:30:39,598 --> 01:30:43,418\nimprovements at Sixth, not to exceed a contribution of fifty thousand\n\n1554\n01:30:43,498 --> 01:30:47,408\ndollars. So, understandably, that's not\n\n1555\n01:30:47,418 --> 01:30:51,368\ngonna cover the entire cost, but it is a, a public benefit offered, in the\n\n1556\n01:30:51,398 --> 01:30:55,078\napplication. And we consider all four as being\n\n1557\n01:30:55,218 --> 01:30:58,238\nsufficiently met in terms of the standards for\n\n1558\n01:30:58,318 --> 01:31:02,058\nqualification. There's evidence that the\n\n1559\n01:31:02,098 --> 01:31:05,638\napplicant may have actually qualified for an additional public benefit not\n\n1560\n01:31:05,678 --> 01:31:09,178\nclaimed. Um, that is regarding abandoned, vacant, or\n\n1561\n01:31:09,338 --> 01:31:13,158\nunderdeveloped properties. So I think there's a strong argument, we won't spend too\n\n1562\n01:31:13,178 --> 01:31:16,078\nmuch time on it, but, for having met that\n\n1563\n01:31:16,088 --> 01:31:18,348\nrequirement, for,\n\n1564\n01:31:20,598 --> 01:31:22,378\nresolving or improving a\n\n1565\n01:31:22,458 --> 01:31:25,638\nblighted area.\n\n1566\n01:31:27,258 --> 01:31:31,058\nUm, this proposal, this project, it's\n\n1567\n01:31:31,098 --> 01:31:34,428\nreally well aligned with a lot of city policies.\n\n1568\n01:31:34,598 --> 01:31:38,278\nUm, Corvallis 2040, mixed-use development, diverse and\n\n1569\n01:31:38,298 --> 01:31:39,258\naffordable housing,\n\n1570\n01:31:40,958 --> 01:31:44,078\nclimate change, climate action plan.\n\n1571\n01:31:44,978 --> 01:31:46,618\nIt's been a long time coming,\n\n1572\n01:31:48,218 --> 01:31:52,078\nthe code changes that have, have led to a project of this scale being,\n\n1573\n01:31:52,278 --> 01:31:52,938\nproposed\n\n1574\n01:31:53,738 --> 01:31:57,678\nand, the tools that have been put in place to attract this\n\n1575\n01:31:57,758 --> 01:32:01,754\nkind of development.And so I think this is a culmination of a lot of efforts\n\n1576\n01:32:01,794 --> 01:32:03,934\nthat have been underway for many years.\n\n1577\n01:32:04,054 --> 01:32:06,994\nUm, it is, it is a change, to\n\n1578\n01:32:07,034 --> 01:32:08,704\ndowntown. Um,\n\n1579\n01:32:09,894 --> 01:32:13,324\nbut I think as evidenced by the, the public benefits here,\n\n1580\n01:32:14,414 --> 01:32:16,774\na po- a positive change.\n\n1581\n01:32:16,874 --> 01:32:20,554\nUm, as far as the financial impact or the\n\n1582\n01:32:20,594 --> 01:32:24,534\nimpact on schools, because of the state education formula,\n\n1583\n01:32:25,274 --> 01:32:27,974\nthere's no, there's no negative\n\n1584\n01:32:28,074 --> 01:32:31,074\nimpact, from the tax exemption.\n\n1585\n01:32:31,174 --> 01:32:34,254\nUm, we will be increasing,\n\n1586\n01:32:34,994 --> 01:32:38,234\ntaxes both during the exemption period and following the exemption\n\n1587\n01:32:38,314 --> 01:32:42,194\nperiod. Um, so the local contribution will go up to our\n\n1588\n01:32:42,234 --> 01:32:46,223\nschools. However, it'll, it'll most likely just be offset, state\n\n1589\n01:32:46,334 --> 01:32:49,934\neducation funding. Um, as far as the budget\n\n1590\n01:32:49,954 --> 01:32:53,674\nimpact, the current property taxes the city collects are eight thousand two hundred\n\n1591\n01:32:53,734 --> 01:32:56,774\nand twenty-six dollars on the four lots.\n\n1592\n01:32:56,854 --> 01:32:57,044\nUm,\n\n1593\n01:32:57,994 --> 01:33:00,874\nit's a total of twenty-five thousand.\n\n1594\n01:33:01,054 --> 01:33:04,754\nUm, and the exemption period,\n\n1595\n01:33:06,274 --> 01:33:08,674\nthe, the taxes that the city will collect are twenty,\n\n1596\n01:33:09,474 --> 01:33:11,434\ntwenty-two thousand four hundred and nine dollars.\n\n1597\n01:33:11,474 --> 01:33:14,674\nSo city stands to roughly just about double or, or\n\n1598\n01:33:14,794 --> 01:33:18,734\nso, the number, the amount of tax revenue generated from\n\n1599\n01:33:18,794 --> 01:33:22,594\nyears one to ten. Uh, post-exemption period, the city stands\n\n1600\n01:33:22,654 --> 01:33:26,484\nto claim four hundred and forty-three thousand one hundred and fifty-four\n\n1601\n01:33:26,554 --> 01:33:29,534\ndollars a year, so year eleven\n\n1602\n01:33:29,594 --> 01:33:33,554\nplus. Uh, the direct net financial benefits to the city are\n\n1603\n01:33:33,574 --> 01:33:37,154\nas follows. Um, fourteen thousand one hundred and eighty-three dollars\n\n1604\n01:33:37,234 --> 01:33:40,974\nincrease during the exemption period, years one through\n\n1605\n01:33:41,074 --> 01:33:45,054\nten. A hundred and thirty-four thousand one hundred and twenty-four dollar\n\n1606\n01:33:45,174 --> 01:33:48,774\ncontribution annually to the Affordable Housing Fund during the exemption\n\n1607\n01:33:48,854 --> 01:33:52,754\nperiod. A hundred thousand dollar, contribution to the\n\n1608\n01:33:52,794 --> 01:33:56,694\nCapital Improvements Plan. Fifty thousand dollar contribution to fund\n\n1609\n01:33:57,014 --> 01:33:59,334\npedestrian crossing improvements.\n\n1610\n01:33:59,354 --> 01:34:02,654\nUh, one million one hundred and sixty-two thousand one hundred and twenty-five\n\n1611\n01:34:02,734 --> 01:34:03,334\ndollar,\n\n1612\n01:34:04,574 --> 01:34:08,204\nexpected contribution to the Affordable Housing Construction\n\n1613\n01:34:08,414 --> 01:34:11,454\nExcise Tax, and a twenty-seven thousand\n\n1614\n01:34:11,554 --> 01:34:15,074\none-time Affordable Housing Construction Excise Tax for\n\n1615\n01:34:15,154 --> 01:34:19,014\nthe, commercial. The total financial impact\n\n1616\n01:34:19,054 --> 01:34:22,123\nduring the ten-year exemption period is roughly one million six hundred and\n\n1617\n01:34:22,123 --> 01:34:25,224\nthirty-three thousand one hundred and twenty-one dollars.\n\n1618\n01:34:25,234 --> 01:34:29,094\nAnd the total financial impact following the exemption, four hundred forty-three\n\n1619\n01:34:30,034 --> 01:34:33,963\none five four. Uh, those are the, the analysis that\n\n1620\n01:34:33,994 --> 01:34:37,394\nwe do in the application. This is what we're tasked with in the\n\n1621\n01:34:37,434 --> 01:34:41,234\nordinance. And, any other questions,\n\n1622\n01:34:42,554 --> 01:34:46,194\nmay be better suited, if they're about the pro forma,\n\n1623\n01:34:46,524 --> 01:34:49,653\nto the financial consultant, or if they're about the development project and\n\n1624\n01:34:49,734 --> 01:34:53,574\nspecifics, the developer. But I'm happy to answer any other questions about the\n\n1625\n01:34:53,614 --> 01:34:55,154\nstaff report.\n\n1626\n01:34:55,194 --> 01:34:55,854\nCouncillor Gediman?\n\n1627\n01:34:57,494 --> 01:35:01,094\nUh, I don't have questions. I do-- I did send a co- question\n\n1628\n01:35:01,474 --> 01:35:05,234\nto Director Bilotta earlier that I thought might be informative\n\n1629\n01:35:05,794 --> 01:35:08,634\nto help us focus our conversation.\n\n1630\n01:35:08,734 --> 01:35:12,183\nUh, first let me say in, in reference to one of the public comments, we're\n\n1631\n01:35:12,214 --> 01:35:15,364\nnot, we're foregoing property taxes.\n\n1632\n01:35:15,414 --> 01:35:19,134\nThat is a difference. That is different than giving the\n\n1633\n01:35:19,174 --> 01:35:22,274\ndeveloper funds, just a clarification.\n\n1634\n01:35:22,394 --> 01:35:25,374\nUm, I also want to, to\n\n1635\n01:35:26,374 --> 01:35:30,194\nmake a few points that Director Bilotta confirmed with me in my email to\n\n1636\n01:35:30,214 --> 01:35:30,434\nhim,\n\n1637\n01:35:32,214 --> 01:35:35,334\nthat what we're talking about today is the\n\n1638\n01:35:35,454 --> 01:35:38,934\nMUPTE, request. If the\n\n1639\n01:35:38,954 --> 01:35:42,804\ndeveloper, for whatever reason, was not requesting MUPTE, they\n\n1640\n01:35:42,854 --> 01:35:45,694\ncould, they could proceed with this project as\n\n1641\n01:35:45,814 --> 01:35:49,764\nis. They could get a building permit for a\n\n1642\n01:35:49,794 --> 01:35:52,574\nhundred and twenty-three foot building.\n\n1643\n01:35:52,634 --> 01:35:56,154\nThey could request an extra twenty percent in height, which\n\n1644\n01:35:56,234 --> 01:36:00,034\nis, part of the new process from the state\n\n1645\n01:36:00,254 --> 01:36:03,874\ngranting automatic variances, where the staff has no\n\n1646\n01:36:03,914 --> 01:36:07,814\ndiscretion in granting that. Um, so\n\n1647\n01:36:08,294 --> 01:36:10,994\nI, I think we should keep our focus on\n\n1648\n01:36:12,434 --> 01:36:12,914\nwhat we are\n\n1649\n01:36:13,974 --> 01:36:16,754\ndeciding today. We're deciding whether to extend the,\n\n1650\n01:36:17,814 --> 01:36:20,854\nmulti-unit property tax exemption ordinance.\n\n1651\n01:36:20,894 --> 01:36:21,894\nWe're not\n\n1652\n01:36:23,454 --> 01:36:27,364\nrevisiting the state's, choices around climate\n\n1653\n01:36:27,394 --> 01:36:31,274\nfriendly, equitable communities parking requirements.\n\n1654\n01:36:31,314 --> 01:36:35,234\nWe're not, discussing land use\n\n1655\n01:36:35,314 --> 01:36:37,594\nchanges. This is not a land use case.\n\n1656\n01:36:37,664 --> 01:36:41,454\nSo I, I just think that's important, and I, I appreciate\n\n1657\n01:36:42,254 --> 01:36:45,234\nthe concern that community members\n\n1658\n01:36:45,274 --> 01:36:49,134\nhave, but I think it's important to understand this is not a land\n\n1659\n01:36:49,174 --> 01:36:52,874\nuse case. This is not a... If, if they were not asking for a MUPTE, this building\n\n1660\n01:36:52,914 --> 01:36:56,294\ncould go forward with zero,\n\n1661\n01:36:58,454 --> 01:37:00,314\npublic hearing, zero land use\n\n1662\n01:37:00,374 --> 01:37:04,274\ndiscussion, et cetera. So just, and I'm, I'm gonna\n\n1663\n01:37:04,334 --> 01:37:07,114\nask you to confirm everything I just said.\n\n1664\n01:37:07,174 --> 01:37:10,984\nUh, yeah, that, that is correct. Um, in addition, the one other thing that,\n\n1665\n01:37:11,154 --> 01:37:15,064\nmight be helpful to know on land use is, there was a lot of discussion and\n\n1666\n01:37:15,114 --> 01:37:17,694\ncommentary about the historic district.\n\n1667\n01:37:17,774 --> 01:37:21,494\nUh, historic districts, a property owner or a neighborhood, et cetera,\n\n1668\n01:37:21,734 --> 01:37:25,214\ncan choose to, put themselves into a\n\n1669\n01:37:25,274 --> 01:37:29,114\nhistoric district and forego any upside and those sorts of things\n\n1670\n01:37:29,134 --> 01:37:32,103\nfrom that. What historic districts don't do is\n\n1671\n01:37:32,154 --> 01:37:35,874\nextend and remove property rights from adjacent\n\n1672\n01:37:35,914 --> 01:37:39,854\nproperties. And so part of what we were hearing a little bit was kind of\n\n1673\n01:37:39,894 --> 01:37:43,284\nimplying that, because they're a historic district, that that\n\n1674\n01:37:43,314 --> 01:37:46,754\ncontrols the adjacent properties, and that's not how historic districts\n\n1675\n01:37:46,814 --> 01:37:49,234\nwork.\n\n1676\n01:37:51,114 --> 01:37:53,714\nIf I saw hands correctly, I saw Councilor Ellis, Napack, and then\n\n1677\n01:37:53,754 --> 01:37:56,004\nOlson.\n\n1678\n01:37:57,214 --> 01:38:01,134\nI didn't actually. I was just putting my hand up, but I'm\n\n1679\n01:38:01,174 --> 01:38:01,714\nwilling to-\n\n1680\n01:38:01,734 --> 01:38:02,654\nThat's what I saw.\n\n1681\n01:38:02,714 --> 01:38:06,293\nI, I'm willing to... I think Councilor Olson was before me, but I'm willing to go.\n\n1682\n01:38:06,686 --> 01:38:08,766\nUm, and get it over with. Um,\n\n1683\n01:38:09,806 --> 01:38:12,666\nI understand this is not a land use, and that we cannot\n\n1684\n01:38:12,726 --> 01:38:16,706\ndiscuss, the appropriateness of that\n\n1685\n01:38:16,806 --> 01:38:20,346\nbuilding on that space. And the state has taken away\n\n1686\n01:38:20,406 --> 01:38:23,346\nconsiderable of our authority to do that.\n\n1687\n01:38:23,406 --> 01:38:26,766\nWhether or not we agree with that is out of our control, and we need to take it up\n\n1688\n01:38:26,806 --> 01:38:30,446\nwith the state. However, I am gonna argue that\n\n1689\n01:38:30,506 --> 01:38:34,026\nthey're, that this is not, they do not meet the qualifications\n\n1690\n01:38:34,486 --> 01:38:38,116\nfor the MUPTE based on what I see. Um, I\n\n1691\n01:38:38,126 --> 01:38:41,986\nthink any building that is putting a private pool on its roof\n\n1692\n01:38:42,026 --> 01:38:45,886\nis failing the but-for test, because I think you just don't put the pu- you\n\n1693\n01:38:45,946 --> 01:38:48,846\nknow? You're going for luxury housing here.\n\n1694\n01:38:48,906 --> 01:38:52,806\nIf you're, if you were building housing for ordinary people, no,\n\n1695\n01:38:52,846 --> 01:38:55,566\nno pool on the roof. Um, you might meet it.\n\n1696\n01:38:55,586 --> 01:38:59,506\nBut for me, that just was no.\n\n1697\n01:38:59,586 --> 01:39:03,506\nUm, I also am concerned that this is not housing for ordinary\n\n1698\n01:39:03,626 --> 01:39:06,926\npeople. I did a little math. I'm not a mathematician.\n\n1699\n01:39:06,936 --> 01:39:09,906\nMy partner looked it over and corrected a little bit of it.\n\n1700\n01:39:09,926 --> 01:39:13,516\nBut a studio is, if you're paying a third of your\n\n1701\n01:39:13,606 --> 01:39:17,506\nrent, you have to be a mid-career teacher for this to\n\n1702\n01:39:17,546 --> 01:39:20,916\nbe affordable. So I would argue that even though they're not\n\n1703\n01:39:20,966 --> 01:39:23,616\naffordable, this is just not affordable rent.\n\n1704\n01:39:23,626 --> 01:39:27,546\nAnd then I saw they're comparing their rent to the Sierras\n\n1705\n01:39:27,606 --> 01:39:31,366\nand saying it was about the same, but it actually had raised it a couple of\n\n1706\n01:39:31,766 --> 01:39:35,506\nhundred dollars. So it is no, we're, we're actually raising\n\n1707\n01:39:35,626 --> 01:39:38,846\nrent. We're not trickling down for more affordable\n\n1708\n01:39:39,086 --> 01:39:42,636\nhousing. I would also argue that,\n\n1709\n01:39:42,836 --> 01:39:46,406\n$100,000 contribution for public infrastructure is\n\n1710\n01:39:46,586 --> 01:39:50,406\nminimal. It, you, there's very little that we can actually do with that amount of\n\n1711\n01:39:50,446 --> 01:39:53,926\nmoney. Um, I've heard enough from bi- bicycle and pedestrian\n\n1712\n01:39:53,966 --> 01:39:57,606\ninfrastructure to know that that is, there's not very much.\n\n1713\n01:39:57,666 --> 01:40:00,866\nHigh quality urban design is clearly subjective.\n\n1714\n01:40:01,066 --> 01:40:04,436\nI look at the pictures and I think, \"I don't think so.\" But other people look at it\n\n1715\n01:40:04,466 --> 01:40:07,326\nand think that's beautiful. But that's a subjective, not an\n\n1716\n01:40:07,426 --> 01:40:11,306\nobjective quality, and I don't think we can make a decision based\n\n1717\n01:40:11,386 --> 01:40:14,985\non that. I am concerned about the ec- economic catalytic\n\n1718\n01:40:15,186 --> 01:40:17,696\neffect of 600 people with\n\n1719\n01:40:19,286 --> 01:40:22,546\n300, 400, 500 cars parking in\n\n1720\n01:40:22,586 --> 01:40:26,526\ndowntown. I think that's gonna make things worse, 'cause we're constantly hearing\n\n1721\n01:40:26,606 --> 01:40:29,916\nabout the concerns in downtown. Um, and\n\n1722\n01:40:29,986 --> 01:40:33,835\n50,000 for connectivity, again, does not strike me as\n\n1723\n01:40:33,866 --> 01:40:37,806\nbeing very much at all. So I think that they fail based\n\n1724\n01:40:37,866 --> 01:40:41,466\nupon their qualifications, and I intend to vote no\n\n1725\n01:40:41,706 --> 01:40:44,226\non the MUPTE.\n\n1726\n01:40:44,946 --> 01:40:46,606\nCouncilor Nyback?\n\n1727\n01:40:48,526 --> 01:40:52,466\nYeah, I have a, a question, which is if Pineview\n\n1728\n01:40:53,046 --> 01:40:55,286\nfolds or defaults or\n\n1729\n01:40:56,486 --> 01:40:58,886\ndoesn't complete the project, what happens to\n\n1730\n01:40:58,986 --> 01:41:00,886\nus?\n\n1731\n01:41:02,886 --> 01:41:06,306\nYou mean if, if the MUPTE goes forward and then they fail, they\n\n1732\n01:41:06,506 --> 01:41:09,036\nconstruct it and they fail, and you're fine or something?\n\n1733\n01:41:09,036 --> 01:41:11,246\nIf they stop halfway or something terrible happens, yeah.\n\n1734\n01:41:11,256 --> 01:41:14,376\nSure, sure. So, there's a few things. If they...\n\n1735\n01:41:14,426 --> 01:41:18,386\nObviously, the building is still there, so you continue to have a\n\n1736\n01:41:18,426 --> 01:41:20,286\nbuilding that gets taxed and all those other things.\n\n1737\n01:41:20,306 --> 01:41:23,946\nBut if they fail to pay us the affordable\n\n1738\n01:41:24,046 --> 01:41:27,326\nhousing annual payment, then they have\n\n1739\n01:41:28,066 --> 01:41:31,986\nunder 20 days, I believe, we, we have to submit to them, we contact\n\n1740\n01:41:31,996 --> 01:41:35,746\nthe developer, we contact the developer's lender, and we contact the city\n\n1741\n01:41:35,806 --> 01:41:39,706\ncouncil and say, \"They're in default.\" At that point, they get hauled in\n\n1742\n01:41:39,746 --> 01:41:43,566\nfront of the council, and they get to plead their case\n\n1743\n01:41:43,646 --> 01:41:47,216\nto preserve their tax exemption, assuming that\n\n1744\n01:41:48,106 --> 01:41:51,486\nwe didn't make it up and we had a valid reason to bring them before the council,\n\n1745\n01:41:51,526 --> 01:41:54,286\nand the council then could, remove their tax exemption.\n\n1746\n01:41:54,326 --> 01:41:58,196\nSo then at that point, instead of being exempt and all those, you know,\n\n1747\n01:41:58,206 --> 01:42:01,835\nhundreds of thousands of dollars, every year, they would immediately have\n\n1748\n01:42:01,846 --> 01:42:03,536\nto start paying taxes, right\n\n1749\n01:42:03,586 --> 01:42:05,856\naway.\n\n1750\n01:42:07,046 --> 01:42:09,486\nI have more questions, but I'll wait.\n\n1751\n01:42:09,496 --> 01:42:13,466\nOkay. And before I move on to Councilor Olsen, I wonder if it\n\n1752\n01:42:13,486 --> 01:42:17,466\nmight be wise, 'cause currently there's nothing even on the table to, to\n\n1753\n01:42:17,546 --> 01:42:21,246\ndeliberate, so maybe we should go ahead and have, the city reporter read the\n\n1754\n01:42:21,326 --> 01:42:23,386\nordinance. We'll see if we have a motion and a second\n\n1755\n01:42:24,546 --> 01:42:27,525\non the plan, yeah? City reporter, if you would, please.\n\n1756\n01:42:27,566 --> 01:42:31,306\nThis is the resolution approving a multiple unit property tax exemption,\n\n1757\n01:42:31,366 --> 01:42:34,886\nMUPTE, for residential property located at 516 to\n\n1758\n01:42:35,106 --> 01:42:38,546\n544 Southwest Fourth Street, Corvallis, Oregon\n\n1759\n01:42:38,966 --> 01:42:41,486\n97333. Applicant, Pineview\n\n1760\n01:42:41,546 --> 01:42:43,686\nDevelopment.\n\n1761\n01:42:45,446 --> 01:42:48,906\nAt this point we can, you, you can continue asking questions, or someone can make a\n\n1762\n01:42:48,946 --> 01:42:51,386\nmotion to get this at least on the table.\n\n1763\n01:42:52,906 --> 01:42:53,726\nSo moved.\n\n1764\n01:42:54,986 --> 01:42:56,006\nDo we have a second?\n\n1765\n01:42:56,046 --> 01:42:56,906\nI'll second.\n\n1766\n01:42:57,006 --> 01:43:00,906\nThank you. Okay, so now we are in deliberation\n\n1767\n01:43:00,986 --> 01:43:04,366\nofficially. Um, but questions are still welcome as well.\n\n1768\n01:43:04,426 --> 01:43:08,326\nSo, go to Councilor Olsen, and then it gets back to Councilor Nyback\n\n1769\n01:43:08,346 --> 01:43:09,926\nafter that. There's...\n\n1770\n01:43:09,966 --> 01:43:13,866\nYeah, I actually have a couple questions which are different than the questions I\n\n1771\n01:43:13,906 --> 01:43:16,206\nemailed you, Paul, so sorry about this.\n\n1772\n01:43:16,346 --> 01:43:20,276\nUm, one of the main questions I've had a lot from the community is how they're\n\n1773\n01:43:20,306 --> 01:43:23,626\nallowed to submit an application for a building that we don't know if it meets the\n\n1774\n01:43:23,666 --> 01:43:27,126\nland use criteria. Can you explain that?\n\n1775\n01:43:27,186 --> 01:43:31,176\nYeah. Uh, there's, there's, there's a little bit of a chicken and\n\n1776\n01:43:31,246 --> 01:43:34,466\negg situation. You can either come in and try to get your exemption first, or you\n\n1777\n01:43:34,486 --> 01:43:37,106\ncan come in and, and get your approvals first.\n\n1778\n01:43:37,226 --> 01:43:41,056\nUm, it, there is no right or wrong way for how it\n\n1779\n01:43:41,146 --> 01:43:44,806\nhas to happen. Now, in this instance, so, so when Obie came\n\n1780\n01:43:44,906 --> 01:43:48,626\nforward before, they had a discretionary Willamette River\n\n1781\n01:43:48,726 --> 01:43:52,306\nGreenway, process that's a public hearing and the whole big land use\n\n1782\n01:43:52,406 --> 01:43:56,286\ndeal. So they chose to get that resolved up front so that they could set\n\n1783\n01:43:56,296 --> 01:44:00,286\ntheir pro forma to know what was, gonna be there before asking\n\n1784\n01:44:00,306 --> 01:44:03,616\nfor the tax exemption. On this situation,\n\n1785\n01:44:04,466 --> 01:44:07,006\nthe developer chose not to do that, and the developer's here if we wanna know\n\n1786\n01:44:07,046 --> 01:44:10,286\nwhy. But, one thing that's very different about the land use\n\n1787\n01:44:10,366 --> 01:44:13,416\nsituation with this project than the Obie project\n\n1788\n01:44:13,886 --> 01:44:17,482\nis-Uh, like it's been referenced, this is this new state\n\n1789\n01:44:17,622 --> 01:44:21,402\nautomatic variance process. So although they have not yet gone\n\n1790\n01:44:21,522 --> 01:44:25,382\nthrough it, the way the process works is we send\n\n1791\n01:44:25,442 --> 01:44:29,432\nout notices to the people within a radius so they know it's happening.\n\n1792\n01:44:29,432 --> 01:44:32,922\nThey then submit letters to us telling us whether they support it or don't support\n\n1793\n01:44:32,962 --> 01:44:36,702\nit. None of that really matters because the state says we have to approve it\n\n1794\n01:44:36,762 --> 01:44:40,082\nanyway, and the only one who can appeal that decision would be the\n\n1795\n01:44:40,182 --> 01:44:44,162\napplicant. And so the only thing that could really be appealed would be if we said\n\n1796\n01:44:44,242 --> 01:44:47,412\nno. So although they haven't been through all the land use\n\n1797\n01:44:47,742 --> 01:44:51,382\nprocesses, the only land use process they haven't been through is one\n\n1798\n01:44:51,422 --> 01:44:55,202\nthat's, you know, kind of performative.\n\n1799\n01:44:56,602 --> 01:45:00,312\nYeah. And then, um... Yeah, so I've\n\n1800\n01:45:00,342 --> 01:45:04,102\nbeen looking over this application a lot,\n\n1801\n01:45:04,142 --> 01:45:06,922\nand based on my\n\n1802\n01:45:07,122 --> 01:45:10,762\nown, views, and\n\n1803\n01:45:10,942 --> 01:45:14,682\nbased on... Yeah, based on my own views, I don't\n\n1804\n01:45:14,702 --> 01:45:17,142\nbelieve that it fulfills the MUPD criteria.\n\n1805\n01:45:17,202 --> 01:45:20,982\nI believe that the p- public benefits, of\n\n1806\n01:45:21,022 --> 01:45:24,902\npublic infrastructure and connectivity improvements\n\n1807\n01:45:24,912 --> 01:45:28,562\nare not, fulfilled. Uh, for the connectivity\n\n1808\n01:45:28,582 --> 01:45:32,382\nimprovements, they say that they want to fund future\n\n1809\n01:45:32,442 --> 01:45:36,342\npedestrian con- crossing improvements or just any sort of connectivity\n\n1810\n01:45:36,362 --> 01:45:39,502\nimprovements not to exceed a contribution of fifty thousand\n\n1811\n01:45:39,602 --> 01:45:43,182\ndollars. Uh, yeah, fifty thousand dollars.\n\n1812\n01:45:43,302 --> 01:45:47,282\nIn the Corvallis Transportation System Plan, which was adopted\n\n1813\n01:45:47,322 --> 01:45:50,272\nin twenty nineteen, they lifted...\n\n1814\n01:45:50,302 --> 01:45:54,082\nthey listed eleven unfunded projects for a total of,\n\n1815\n01:45:54,582 --> 01:45:57,902\nfifty-five... five five zero zero zero\n\n1816\n01:45:57,942 --> 01:46:01,822\nzero, dollars, which calculates out to\n\n1817\n01:46:02,682 --> 01:46:05,942\nfifty thousand a project. And these are,\n\n1818\n01:46:06,602 --> 01:46:10,522\nat least a couple of these are railroad crossing improvements or other crosswalk\n\n1819\n01:46:10,562 --> 01:46:13,342\nimprovements that are not currently funded.\n\n1820\n01:46:13,402 --> 01:46:17,022\nAnd st- this was at twenty nineteen prices, which\n\n1821\n01:46:17,182 --> 01:46:20,462\naccording to a, inflation calculator\n\n1822\n01:46:20,882 --> 01:46:23,672\ncalculates to over sixty-three hundred...\n\n1823\n01:46:23,682 --> 01:46:26,562\nsixty-three thousand, in\n\n1824\n01:46:27,442 --> 01:46:31,302\nthis day and age. So this money would not fund even a singular\n\n1825\n01:46:31,402 --> 01:46:35,362\nproject in the neighborhood. And while I know that is only\n\n1826\n01:46:35,382 --> 01:46:39,342\nsome of the funding, I don't believe if you can't even fund one project with\n\n1827\n01:46:39,382 --> 01:46:42,592\nthe money you're offering, that that's a sufficient connectivity\n\n1828\n01:46:42,662 --> 01:46:45,762\ndevelopment. Additionally, I don't believe that\n\n1829\n01:46:45,822 --> 01:46:49,402\nthe, public, public infrastructure is\n\n1830\n01:46:49,462 --> 01:46:52,522\nmet. Uh, our requirements say an investment of at\n\n1831\n01:46:52,682 --> 01:46:55,422\nleast, a hundred thousand dollars.\n\n1832\n01:46:55,432 --> 01:46:59,402\nThey have agreed to deposit exactly a hundred thousand dollars, and with\n\n1833\n01:46:59,442 --> 01:47:02,822\ntheir estimate of how many people are going to live in there,\n\n1834\n01:47:03,262 --> 01:47:07,192\nsix... sixty, give or take, that calculates to a\n\n1835\n01:47:07,222 --> 01:47:10,722\nhundred and fifty dollars per person in infrastructure developments, which\n\n1836\n01:47:11,762 --> 01:47:15,652\nis not a lot. Like, I could... I mean, I don't have a\n\n1837\n01:47:15,702 --> 01:47:19,242\nlot of money, but if I went up to the city and was like, \"Hey, I'll give you a\n\n1838\n01:47:19,262 --> 01:47:22,682\nhundred and fifty dollars if you'll put a crosswalk in my neighborhood,\" they'd be\n\n1839\n01:47:22,722 --> 01:47:25,242\nlike, \"Great, that doesn't cover the paint,\"\n\n1840\n01:47:26,302 --> 01:47:29,522\nor, \"That doesn't cover the street sign.\" Because believe me, I've thought about\n\n1841\n01:47:29,582 --> 01:47:31,762\njust, like, putting up street signs in my neighborhood.\n\n1842\n01:47:31,822 --> 01:47:35,502\nAnd s- because of that, because of those two\n\n1843\n01:47:35,542 --> 01:47:39,392\nfacts, while I do...\n\n1844\n01:47:39,422 --> 01:47:42,922\nYeah, I do not believe that this project\n\n1845\n01:47:42,982 --> 01:47:46,322\nfulfills the requirements for\n\n1846\n01:47:46,382 --> 01:47:49,702\nthe, MUPD, and so I will\n\n1847\n01:47:49,762 --> 01:47:51,922\nbe voting no on\n\n1848\n01:47:51,962 --> 01:47:53,842\nit.\n\n1849\n01:47:55,022 --> 01:47:58,022\nCouncilor Morfield.\n\n1850\n01:47:59,582 --> 01:48:01,782\nCouncilor Napack had, had her hand up\n\n1851\n01:48:01,791 --> 01:48:03,842\nfirst.\n\n1852\n01:48:04,542 --> 01:48:06,862\nAll right. Okay. Councilor Napack.\n\n1853\n01:48:08,402 --> 01:48:10,582\nI have a... So in, in\n\n1854\n01:48:11,542 --> 01:48:15,442\nthe text, the narrative that staff put together, thank you very much,\n\n1855\n01:48:15,892 --> 01:48:16,882\na lot of the things\n\n1856\n01:48:17,942 --> 01:48:21,362\nthat they talk about, especially infrastructure, are\n\n1857\n01:48:21,382 --> 01:48:25,242\nproposed. They're not concrete, shall we\n\n1858\n01:48:25,282 --> 01:48:28,872\nsay. They're saying, \"We will do this, we will do that.\" They say they're proposing\n\n1859\n01:48:29,742 --> 01:48:33,342\nX, Y, Z. And I know, for instance, through the railroad, they\n\n1860\n01:48:33,502 --> 01:48:35,442\nwant... they never wanna cooperate,\n\n1861\n01:48:36,261 --> 01:48:39,952\nand they won't maintain the crossing. They...\n\n1862\n01:48:39,952 --> 01:48:43,842\nw- w- w- will refuse to maintain the crossing even if we improve it.\n\n1863\n01:48:43,962 --> 01:48:44,302\nUm,\n\n1864\n01:48:45,102 --> 01:48:45,382\nthe,\n\n1865\n01:48:47,962 --> 01:48:51,842\nSD... Well, infrastructure downtown, you know, we've been on the task\n\n1866\n01:48:51,902 --> 01:48:55,642\nforce for, revitalization downtown, and I\n\n1867\n01:48:55,682 --> 01:48:59,052\nunderstand, you know, we have utilities that are\n\n1868\n01:49:00,302 --> 01:49:04,262\nneeding a lot of upgrades, especially\n\n1869\n01:49:04,302 --> 01:49:08,262\nelectric and so on and so forth. And this would seem\n\n1870\n01:49:08,322 --> 01:49:11,492\nthat they might run into a problem if they, if\n\n1871\n01:49:11,522 --> 01:49:15,082\nthey... I don't know if they will or not, but I know their,\n\n1872\n01:49:15,582 --> 01:49:16,622\nwater main burst\n\n1873\n01:49:17,782 --> 01:49:19,062\nright there on the corner of,\n\n1874\n01:49:20,822 --> 01:49:23,102\nFourth and Safeway.\n\n1875\n01:49:24,482 --> 01:49:26,832\nSo I don't... You know, how we can...\n\n1876\n01:49:26,842 --> 01:49:29,842\nHow can we, can we afford\n\n1877\n01:49:29,902 --> 01:49:31,842\nthis?\n\n1878\n01:49:33,202 --> 01:49:36,792\nOkay. Um, yeah, a couple things. Uh, one is, you know, some of\n\n1879\n01:49:36,842 --> 01:49:40,142\nthese, some of these things about what the developer should or should not offer, we\n\n1880\n01:49:40,162 --> 01:49:42,572\nshould probably get the developer on to, to talk about that. I...\n\n1881\n01:49:42,602 --> 01:49:44,882\nYou know, we're not here to, to deal with that part of it.\n\n1882\n01:49:44,982 --> 01:49:48,182\nUm, but as far as the public utilities piece of things\n\n1883\n01:49:48,782 --> 01:49:52,642\nand the electrical, what we've seen, you know, our\n\n1884\n01:49:52,662 --> 01:49:53,642\nelectrical grid\n\n1885\n01:49:54,442 --> 01:49:57,902\nin the downtown is a problem for pretty much any scale of\n\n1886\n01:49:57,962 --> 01:50:01,902\ndevelopment. Um, we've had problems, on\n\n1887\n01:50:01,962 --> 01:50:04,482\nsome of the renovations on Madison even.\n\n1888\n01:50:04,582 --> 01:50:06,692\nUm, it's a very old technology. It's...\n\n1889\n01:50:06,692 --> 01:50:09,262\nit has not been well-maintained by Pacific Power.\n\n1890\n01:50:09,362 --> 01:50:12,842\nSo when we do have projects, like the l- museum was\n\n1891\n01:50:12,962 --> 01:50:16,552\none, like, OB recently, there's\n\n1892\n01:50:16,602 --> 01:50:20,182\nextensive multi-million dollar upgrades to the entire\n\n1893\n01:50:20,242 --> 01:50:22,152\ngrid downtown that occurs for that.\n\n1894\n01:50:22,222 --> 01:50:26,082\nSo it would not sur- You know, I don't know the details about this particular part\n\n1895\n01:50:26,122 --> 01:50:30,002\nof downtown, but it would not surprise me at all if there's not the same\n\n1896\n01:50:30,042 --> 01:50:33,552\nthing. And it doesn't necessarily mean that the grid just is on that block.\n\n1897\n01:50:33,582 --> 01:50:35,122\nThey often have to run back.\n\n1898\n01:50:35,346 --> 01:50:39,106\nAs far as water lines and sewer lines,\n\n1899\n01:50:39,846 --> 01:50:43,046\nthose are things that get resolved every- when the development comes\n\n1900\n01:50:43,146 --> 01:50:46,866\nin, and if they are not adequate, then the development has to bring them up to\n\n1901\n01:50:46,906 --> 01:50:50,656\nspeed. It's actually kind of beneficial if you have older,\n\n1902\n01:50:52,106 --> 01:50:54,446\ninfrastructure that needs to be upgraded\n\n1903\n01:50:54,456 --> 01:50:58,046\nthen along with the development, but again, I don't know if that would be the case\n\n1904\n01:50:58,106 --> 01:51:00,766\nhere or not. Oh, maybe Mark knows something.\n\n1905\n01:51:00,826 --> 01:51:04,726\nYeah, I can just share generally if you think about water and, and sewer\n\n1906\n01:51:04,766 --> 01:51:08,746\nlines as our public works director has, has talked about\n\n1907\n01:51:08,786 --> 01:51:12,756\nand, and presentations on master plans recently on both our water and,\n\n1908\n01:51:12,786 --> 01:51:16,526\nand wastewater. Generally it's, for water, it's\n\n1909\n01:51:16,626 --> 01:51:20,426\nfire flows that drive water line sizes, and for\n\n1910\n01:51:20,526 --> 01:51:23,486\nsewer line sizes, it's that infiltration and inflow.\n\n1911\n01:51:23,526 --> 01:51:26,106\nIt's not number of residents,\n\n1912\n01:51:27,766 --> 01:51:29,506\nas Director Bilade pointed out.\n\n1913\n01:51:29,586 --> 01:51:33,106\nIf, if there is a, a local deficiency\n\n1914\n01:51:33,186 --> 01:51:37,016\nidentified, generally that, the developer has to deal with that as\n\n1915\n01:51:37,066 --> 01:51:40,966\npart of their development, and they do that through a, a permit process\n\n1916\n01:51:40,986 --> 01:51:43,586\nthrough public works.\n\n1917\n01:51:43,626 --> 01:51:45,746\nOkay, thanks.\n\n1918\n01:51:45,946 --> 01:51:48,606\nCouncillor Marfield?\n\n1919\n01:51:48,726 --> 01:51:48,966\nUm,\n\n1920\n01:51:50,146 --> 01:51:52,386\nI have a couple of questions. Um,\n\n1921\n01:51:53,306 --> 01:51:56,636\nI'll ask them both if someone else doesn't wanna take a turn.\n\n1922\n01:51:56,636 --> 01:52:00,546\nBut, the first one is a fairly narrow technical\n\n1923\n01:52:00,646 --> 01:52:04,256\none. It was a question I posed to staff late in the day, so there wasn't\n\n1924\n01:52:04,266 --> 01:52:08,246\nreally time to come up with an answer, but it had to do with the\n\n1925\n01:52:08,346 --> 01:52:10,896\nfinancial projections and, and,\n\n1926\n01:52:13,486 --> 01:52:14,506\nwhat, at least on the\n\n1927\n01:52:14,586 --> 01:52:18,466\nsurface, looked to me like an error, but I'm not familiar\n\n1928\n01:52:18,486 --> 01:52:20,746\nwith this kind of commercial development either.\n\n1929\n01:52:20,766 --> 01:52:24,586\nBut the, that coverage ratio in the first three years seemed to be calculated\n\n1930\n01:52:24,646 --> 01:52:28,306\nincorrectly. And since there's, the purpose of it is to\n\n1931\n01:52:28,326 --> 01:52:32,226\nestablish the need for the property tax exemption, I need\n\n1932\n01:52:32,266 --> 01:52:34,086\nthat to be clarified.\n\n1933\n01:52:34,146 --> 01:52:37,846\nYeah. I, I think here we'll ask Eric Bagwell, from Echo\n\n1934\n01:52:37,926 --> 01:52:40,016\nNorthwest to clarify that.\n\n1935\n01:52:40,026 --> 01:52:42,466\nHuh.\n\n1936\n01:52:44,305 --> 01:52:47,486\nSure. Good evening, everyone. Um, sure, happy to answer that question.\n\n1937\n01:52:47,506 --> 01:52:51,326\nUm, w- the, the debt service cover ratio is\n\n1938\n01:52:51,366 --> 01:52:55,266\ncalculated properly. What's happening is there's a three percent,\n\n1939\n01:52:55,546 --> 01:52:59,026\nincrease assumption on r- on the rental income\n\n1940\n01:52:59,126 --> 01:53:02,296\nannually. And so what happens is that's ticking up every year.\n\n1941\n01:53:02,326 --> 01:53:06,286\nAnd also, I think in year four, there, the developer is expecting a refinancing\n\n1942\n01:53:06,326 --> 01:53:10,206\nevent, and so you're seeing that actually change to serve, the debt service\n\n1943\n01:53:10,286 --> 01:53:12,866\nactually change in that year. Um, does that answer your\n\n1944\n01:53:12,906 --> 01:53:14,426\nquestion?\n\n1945\n01:53:14,526 --> 01:53:16,996\nIt- I'm sorry, I couldn't quite hear you.\n\n1946\n01:53:16,996 --> 01:53:20,686\nThe sound is just because of my hearing and quality of the\n\n1947\n01:53:20,806 --> 01:53:24,026\nspeaker wasn't real great. Maybe I can get an interpreter.\n\n1948\n01:53:25,186 --> 01:53:28,506\nUm, so no, I, I didn't, I couldn't hear the answer\n\n1949\n01:53:28,546 --> 01:53:29,546\nexactly.\n\n1950\n01:53:29,686 --> 01:53:33,606\nSure. So my understanding of the, the pro forma is that in year four,\n\n1951\n01:53:33,666 --> 01:53:37,366\nthe developer is expecting a refinancing event to basically take out a\n\n1952\n01:53:37,386 --> 01:53:38,506\nportion of the equity-\n\n1953\n01:53:38,606 --> 01:53:38,806\nRight\n\n1954\n01:53:38,926 --> 01:53:41,766\n... that is being put into... So wha- what you're seeing is the debt service start\n\n1955\n01:53:41,806 --> 01:53:43,346\nto change in that year. Also-\n\n1956\n01:53:43,386 --> 01:53:45,286\nYeah, I, I understand what happens in year four.\n\n1957\n01:53:45,306 --> 01:53:48,586\nIt's years one through three that seem to be...\n\n1958\n01:53:48,626 --> 01:53:49,866\nIf I, if I,\n\n1959\n01:53:52,706 --> 01:53:54,776\nyou know, divide,\n\n1960\n01:53:55,246 --> 01:53:58,866\nnet operating income by debt service for year one through three, it doesn't come up\n\n1961\n01:53:58,906 --> 01:54:02,456\nwith a one point one five, one ei- one eighteen, one twenty two\n\n1962\n01:54:03,166 --> 01:54:04,666\ndebt coverage ratio.\n\n1963\n01:54:04,726 --> 01:54:08,266\nOh, that's because in year, the first three years, there's just an interest-only\n\n1964\n01:54:08,326 --> 01:54:09,666\nannual payment.\n\n1965\n01:54:09,706 --> 01:54:11,306\nBut it's still debt service.\n\n1966\n01:54:11,346 --> 01:54:15,216\nYes, but the debt service is different because when that refinancing event happens,\n\n1967\n01:54:15,266 --> 01:54:19,206\nit changes to a thirty-year am- amortization as opposed to\n\n1968\n01:54:19,226 --> 01:54:21,776\nthe interest-only payment that's happening in the first three years.\n\n1969\n01:54:21,826 --> 01:54:23,916\nThat's why it's changing.\n\n1970\n01:54:23,966 --> 01:54:24,535\nOkay, well,\n\n1971\n01:54:25,946 --> 01:54:29,486\nI, I'm talking about, I think, a simple math question.\n\n1972\n01:54:29,546 --> 01:54:29,906\nSure.\n\n1973\n01:54:29,926 --> 01:54:33,886\nIn a pro forma, if I look at net operating income of, I mean,\n\n1974\n01:54:33,926 --> 01:54:37,606\nI'll use the first year, of eight one, eight point one\n\n1975\n01:54:37,706 --> 01:54:38,146\nmillion,\n\n1976\n01:54:40,426 --> 01:54:43,926\nand divide it by the, the, debt service of five point\n\n1977\n01:54:44,066 --> 01:54:46,766\nnine, it does not come out to one point one five.\n\n1978\n01:54:47,906 --> 01:54:51,606\nSo I'm just going by the numbers that are shown on the sheet.\n\n1979\n01:54:51,646 --> 01:54:55,566\nAnd I would say the same error, I, I mean,\n\n1980\n01:54:55,845 --> 01:54:59,386\nat least it appears to be that, shows up in years two and three, and then\n\n1981\n01:54:59,686 --> 01:55:02,276\nafter that it's fine. It, it ma- it\n\n1982\n01:55:03,126 --> 01:55:05,826\nmakes sense in the way that I understand it.\n\n1983\n01:55:05,886 --> 01:55:09,546\nYeah. My, the calculation I have on, in the application that I received\n\n1984\n01:55:09,706 --> 01:55:13,546\nhas the net operating income divided by the interest\n\n1985\n01:55:13,806 --> 01:55:15,796\nof five point fi- or the, the\n\n1986\n01:55:16,606 --> 01:55:20,516\none year, debt service of five\n\n1987\n01:55:20,606 --> 01:55:24,046\npoint five million dollars. So it is getting to, it, it's an accurate\n\n1988\n01:55:24,086 --> 01:55:26,546\ncalculation in my, in my pro forma.\n\n1989\n01:55:26,626 --> 01:55:28,126\nMaybe we're looking at two different-\n\n1990\n01:55:28,146 --> 01:55:28,156\nOkay\n\n1991\n01:55:28,156 --> 01:55:29,326\n... versions of it.\n\n1992\n01:55:29,406 --> 01:55:32,346\nCan, can I, can I jump in as the developer and maybe clarify?\n\n1993\n01:55:32,406 --> 01:55:32,986\nSure. Thanks, Dan.\n\n1994\n01:55:33,026 --> 01:55:36,526\nYou don't mind? Sorry about that. So yeah, I can explain that.\n\n1995\n01:55:36,586 --> 01:55:40,466\nUm, for purposes of lenders reviewing pro\n\n1996\n01:55:40,486 --> 01:55:41,186\nformas,\n\n1997\n01:55:42,086 --> 01:55:45,806\nregardless of whether it's interest-only payment, debt cover ratio is\n\n1998\n01:55:45,866 --> 01:55:49,526\nbased on the thirty-year amortized payment.\n\n1999\n01:55:49,546 --> 01:55:53,496\nSo as if you are paying, even though you're not for the first three\n\n2000\n01:55:53,606 --> 01:55:57,546\nyears alone, it's calculated as if you are paying part of\n\n2001\n01:55:57,586 --> 01:56:00,816\nthe principal amount down. That is why.\n\n2002\n01:56:00,866 --> 01:56:04,186\nSo in fact, if you look at, you don't divide it by the\n\n2003\n01:56:04,246 --> 01:56:05,926\ninterest-only payment amount,\n\n2004\n01:56:06,806 --> 01:56:10,746\nyou divide it by the larger amount of the thirty-year fully amortized amount,\n\n2005\n01:56:11,506 --> 01:56:12,426\nand that's how you get to that\n\n2006\n01:56:12,466 --> 01:56:16,306\nnumber.\n\n2007\n01:56:20,086 --> 01:56:22,676\nI, I'm not gonna sit here in the middle of the meeting and do math.\n\n2008\n01:56:22,726 --> 01:56:25,546\nI, I turned my- ... stuff so it wouldn't-\n\n2009\n01:56:25,726 --> 01:56:26,466\nYeah, it's, uh-\n\n2010\n01:56:26,506 --> 01:56:30,026\nI'm just reporting on m- me coming up with different\n\n2011\n01:56:30,066 --> 01:56:32,326\nDCRs when I was doing it at home.\n\n2012\n01:56:32,386 --> 01:56:33,926\nYeah, no, DCR is-\n\n2013\n01:56:34,066 --> 01:56:34,076\nSo-\n\n2014\n01:56:34,086 --> 01:56:37,416\nI'm sorry. The DCR is, is co- is for the purpose of getting\n\n2015\n01:56:37,426 --> 01:56:41,410\nthe-The debt cover ratio, it's calculated regardless\n\n2016\n01:56:41,470 --> 01:56:45,310\nof whether you're only paying interest payments for those three years.\n\n2017\n01:56:45,390 --> 01:56:49,170\nIt's, the debt cover ratio is actually calculated based\n\n2018\n01:56:49,290 --> 01:56:51,990\non a larger payment on a monthly\n\n2019\n01:56:52,010 --> 01:56:55,760\nbasis amount. For the bank purposes, that's always the way it's\n\n2020\n01:56:55,770 --> 01:56:58,090\ndone. So y-you can't get a loan\n\n2021\n01:56:58,950 --> 01:57:01,610\nbased on the interest-only payment.\n\n2022\n01:57:01,650 --> 01:57:05,630\nIt, the lender will always base it on the amortized amount\n\n2023\n01:57:06,690 --> 01:57:10,290\nover thir- which is a higher payment on an annual basis.\n\n2024\n01:57:10,310 --> 01:57:13,150\nThat's why it's, it sounds confusing.\n\n2025\n01:57:13,190 --> 01:57:16,630\nI, I... And I totally get why you'd be confused.\n\n2026\n01:57:16,670 --> 01:57:19,350\nI, I was a little concerned that you, you kind of\n\n2027\n01:57:20,170 --> 01:57:23,880\nneed to be in our world of finance to...\n\n2028\n01:57:23,910 --> 01:57:27,550\nAs a s- kind of a stray calculation, it doesn't make sense, but that's, that's how\n\n2029\n01:57:27,590 --> 01:57:30,990\nit's calculated. And Eric, you can, I guess, confirm\n\n2030\n01:57:31,050 --> 01:57:32,310\nthat. Maybe just-\n\n2031\n01:57:32,350 --> 01:57:34,430\nYes, that is typically how it is calculated,\n\n2032\n01:57:34,470 --> 01:57:36,750\ncorrect.\n\n2033\n01:57:38,070 --> 01:57:39,040\nOkay. Um,\n\n2034\n01:57:39,930 --> 01:57:41,250\nsecond question. Um,\n\n2035\n01:57:42,730 --> 01:57:46,670\nthe, I don't have the, ORS or the, or the actually the city\n\n2036\n01:57:46,750 --> 01:57:49,830\nordinance language sitting right in front of me, so I'm working from memory a\n\n2037\n01:57:49,850 --> 01:57:53,290\nlittle bit. But the, ORS that\n\n2038\n01:57:53,370 --> 01:57:57,310\nauthorizes localities to have a MUPTI program mentions design\n\n2039\n01:57:57,390 --> 01:58:00,890\ncriteria as being an element that can be considered.\n\n2040\n01:58:01,530 --> 01:58:05,410\nUm, in the city's ordinance, there's some,\n\n2041\n01:58:05,430 --> 01:58:08,770\nwhat I consider, fairly general language about, design\n\n2042\n01:58:08,870 --> 01:58:12,680\ncriteria in there. And so the, a question\n\n2043\n01:58:12,950 --> 01:58:16,660\nthat I think is appropriate to ask tonight is that because the language is\n\n2044\n01:58:16,730 --> 01:58:17,150\ngeneral\n\n2045\n01:58:18,070 --> 01:58:22,050\nand, and not real specific about what we\n\n2046\n01:58:22,130 --> 01:58:23,230\nmean by that,\n\n2047\n01:58:25,490 --> 01:58:29,210\nit raises the question to me, number one, how are we supposed to interpret\n\n2048\n01:58:29,250 --> 01:58:32,970\nit? One way to have some guidance around that issue\n\n2049\n01:58:33,090 --> 01:58:36,990\nis what did the council intend back in '23 or\n\n2050\n01:58:37,010 --> 01:58:40,850\nwhenever it was when the, when the ordinance was adopted.\n\n2051\n01:58:40,970 --> 01:58:41,250\nUm,\n\n2052\n01:58:42,170 --> 01:58:45,930\ncan you... Because I, I think of a design can, is a very\n\n2053\n01:58:46,030 --> 01:58:49,800\nglobal kind of topic. And, and\n\n2054\n01:58:49,870 --> 01:58:51,690\nsome, some of the concerns that have been raised\n\n2055\n01:58:52,530 --> 01:58:55,499\naren't just about how the exterior of the building is\n\n2056\n01:58:55,530 --> 01:58:59,070\ntreated, but its relationship to\n\n2057\n01:58:59,150 --> 01:59:01,770\nsurrounding areas. Certainly, architects\n\n2058\n01:59:02,890 --> 01:59:06,090\ntake into account context when they design things.\n\n2059\n01:59:06,150 --> 01:59:06,380\nSure.\n\n2060\n01:59:07,150 --> 01:59:10,040\nUh, I, that's not specified in our ordinance, though.\n\n2061\n01:59:10,070 --> 01:59:13,850\nSo I'm trying to get some guidance on what the intent was of having\n\n2062\n01:59:13,870 --> 01:59:16,770\ndesign, in the ordinance.\n\n2063\n01:59:16,830 --> 01:59:20,710\nYeah. Design is usually, you know, it was intended to be, fairly general\n\n2064\n01:59:20,770 --> 01:59:23,490\nto give council some latitude. Uh, we don't\n\n2065\n01:59:23,590 --> 01:59:24,770\nhave,\n\n2066\n01:59:26,110 --> 01:59:28,510\nwe don't have a very specific design,\n\n2067\n01:59:30,210 --> 01:59:33,690\nstandard across the city. You know, we, we tend to allow a lot of different\n\n2068\n01:59:33,700 --> 01:59:36,610\nthings. Um, typically, design is going to\n\n2069\n01:59:36,710 --> 01:59:40,450\nbe, not change of\n\n2070\n01:59:40,550 --> 01:59:44,310\nscale per se, but elements of the\n\n2071\n01:59:44,350 --> 01:59:48,339\ndesign. So, you know, a, taking\n\n2072\n01:59:48,390 --> 01:59:52,250\nthe 13-story building down to a three-story building would not be\n\n2073\n01:59:52,330 --> 01:59:53,510\njust an architectural\n\n2074\n01:59:54,570 --> 01:59:57,270\nopinion. You know, that's, that's something that's different.\n\n2075\n01:59:57,370 --> 02:00:01,250\nMoving, you know, having the lobby open over here\n\n2076\n02:00:01,350 --> 02:00:05,050\nor having a step back or having, you know,\n\n2077\n02:00:05,090 --> 02:00:08,050\nbalconies go this way instead of that way. You know, those sorts of things.\n\n2078\n02:00:08,070 --> 02:00:10,610\nThose, those are design, pieces to it.\n\n2079\n02:00:10,710 --> 02:00:14,380\nUm, you know, if we... Not in, not in this\n\n2080\n02:00:14,450 --> 02:00:18,410\ncase because they, of course, get to use the standards as it is\n\n2081\n02:00:18,490 --> 02:00:21,930\nnow. Uh, in the future, if the council wanted to be more clear\n\n2082\n02:00:22,030 --> 02:00:25,910\nabout, you know, these are the five things that we really care about\n\n2083\n02:00:25,950 --> 02:00:29,910\nand we don't care about anything else, that's fine, but, that's not\n\n2084\n02:00:29,970 --> 02:00:32,119\nhow, this was set up. It was set up to...\n\n2085\n02:00:32,119 --> 02:00:35,510\n'Cause, you know, no one really knew what was gonna come in, so it was set up to\n\n2086\n02:00:35,550 --> 02:00:37,730\ngive the council some, some, freedom.\n\n2087\n02:00:38,050 --> 02:00:41,990\nAs a former developer, I, I certainly have been supportive of the city\n\n2088\n02:00:42,110 --> 02:00:46,070\nmoving away from vague design requirements that were always\n\n2089\n02:00:46,130 --> 02:00:49,970\nseen in the eye of the beholder and created opportunities for nothing more\n\n2090\n02:00:50,010 --> 02:00:53,730\nthan conflict and appeals. Uh, so having more\n\n2091\n02:00:53,770 --> 02:00:57,430\nobjective criteria in what we, what kind of\n\n2092\n02:00:57,469 --> 02:00:59,130\ndesign elements should apply-\n\n2093\n02:00:59,210 --> 02:00:59,240\nMm-hmm\n\n2094\n02:00:59,270 --> 02:01:02,230\n... in developments, that makes perfect sense.\n\n2095\n02:01:02,270 --> 02:01:02,670\nYeah.\n\n2096\n02:01:02,740 --> 02:01:04,970\nBut that's not the question in my mind before us.\n\n2097\n02:01:05,010 --> 02:01:08,770\nThis is about whether we provide a, a property tax\n\n2098\n02:01:08,830 --> 02:01:09,290\nexemption-\n\n2099\n02:01:09,330 --> 02:01:09,430\nRight\n\n2100\n02:01:09,950 --> 02:01:13,850\n... and how, and it raises the, it, a matter of\n\n2101\n02:01:13,890 --> 02:01:17,610\ndesign as one of those matters of public benefit-\n\n2102\n02:01:17,670 --> 02:01:17,830\nRight\n\n2103\n02:01:18,170 --> 02:01:20,910\n... especially when it's exceeded.\n\n2104\n02:01:20,950 --> 02:01:21,490\nAnd so\n\n2105\n02:01:22,990 --> 02:01:25,170\nit, it, it appears to inject\n\n2106\n02:01:26,430 --> 02:01:26,750\na\n\n2107\n02:01:27,610 --> 02:01:31,070\nelement that otherwise is not in our land development code.\n\n2108\n02:01:31,090 --> 02:01:31,550\nYeah.\n\n2109\n02:01:31,570 --> 02:01:35,150\nBut it injects that element design into a decision\n\n2110\n02:01:35,190 --> 02:01:37,330\non, on subsidy.\n\n2111\n02:01:37,370 --> 02:01:41,170\nThe, the language in the, in the MUPTI, and I don't have it right in front of me,\n\n2112\n02:01:41,310 --> 02:01:44,690\nbut it's, it's ref- referencing,\n\n2113\n02:01:45,300 --> 02:01:48,750\ndesign and materials that are in excess of, of kind of\n\n2114\n02:01:48,830 --> 02:01:52,430\nstandard. So what we look, when we look at it from the staff level, we're not\n\n2115\n02:01:52,470 --> 02:01:56,270\nlooking at whether something's, you know, a particular time period or anything\n\n2116\n02:01:56,310 --> 02:02:00,090\nlike that. We're looking at what would be, building code\n\n2117\n02:02:00,170 --> 02:02:03,330\nminimums and what's above and beyond that.\n\n2118\n02:02:03,390 --> 02:02:07,360\nSo, this project in particular, just right\n\n2119\n02:02:07,410 --> 02:02:10,640\nout of the gate, the fact that it uses steel construction\n\n2120\n02:02:11,330 --> 02:02:15,070\nis above and beyond a standard, you know, six-story kind\n\n2121\n02:02:15,110 --> 02:02:18,730\nof, wood st- wooden or concrete base and st- and stick\n\n2122\n02:02:18,990 --> 02:02:20,970\nconstruction like you'd see normally.\n\n2123\n02:02:21,050 --> 02:02:24,970\nUm, so that right there, you know, you've got, I think they showed in\n\n2124\n02:02:24,990 --> 02:02:28,810\nthe, in the, documentation that it was about $24 a square foot.\n\n2125\n02:02:28,850 --> 02:02:32,350\nSo that's an element above. Uh, the developer also\n\n2126\n02:02:32,410 --> 02:02:35,970\nhighlighted the amount of glazing that they have on the project, whether\n\n2127\n02:02:36,030 --> 02:02:39,410\nthat's adequate or not. The main one I think from the staffing\n\n2128\n02:02:39,470 --> 02:02:43,030\nperspective would be, you know, going to a steel construction is a very\n\n2129\n02:02:43,070 --> 02:02:46,900\ndifferent, kind of concept. And that's exactly the concept the council was\n\n2130\n02:02:46,970 --> 02:02:50,320\nlooking at when we went... You know, Councilor Ellis will remember when we had\n\n2131\n02:02:50,350 --> 02:02:53,926\nthose discussions with the task force-You can go up to about six\n\n2132\n02:02:54,046 --> 02:02:57,506\nstoreys with stick built construction, and then there's a dead\n\n2133\n02:02:57,626 --> 02:03:00,615\nzone, and you've gotta get up to about 10 or more above.\n\n2134\n02:03:00,646 --> 02:03:04,386\nAnd so that's how we ended up with the 123 feet, when the council made that\n\n2135\n02:03:04,406 --> 02:03:08,226\ndecision. So the intent was to get steel construction and to\n\n2136\n02:03:08,286 --> 02:03:12,246\npush in there. We could have stopped at six storey and, and\n\n2137\n02:03:12,306 --> 02:03:14,206\njust stayed with, you know, business as usual.\n\n2138\n02:03:14,246 --> 02:03:17,946\nSo this i- that I think is the big architectural\n\n2139\n02:03:18,066 --> 02:03:20,686\nelement when you're looking at dollars and, and cents.\n\n2140\n02:03:20,786 --> 02:03:24,746\nUh, staff's not real comfortable getting into questions about, wow, what's\n\n2141\n02:03:24,786 --> 02:03:28,346\nthe color of the doors, and does that match the, the colors of the\n\n2142\n02:03:28,386 --> 02:03:32,086\nwindows, and things like that. So, that's not the kinda level that we're\n\n2143\n02:03:32,126 --> 02:03:32,646\nlooking at.\n\n2144\n02:03:33,386 --> 02:03:36,226\nWe're looking primarily does it exceed the current\n\n2145\n02:03:36,326 --> 02:03:39,866\nstandards. And, for the reasons\n\n2146\n02:03:40,066 --> 02:03:43,956\nDirector Bilotta outlined, it was found that it, it does meet that criteria\n\n2147\n02:03:44,006 --> 02:03:47,726\naccording to the ordinance. With all of these, the\n\n2148\n02:03:47,766 --> 02:03:51,566\ncriteria for having been met, there's a standard,\n\n2149\n02:03:51,606 --> 02:03:55,175\nright? Um, whether it's at least $100,000,\n\n2150\n02:03:55,526 --> 02:03:59,306\nor whether, the project will include\n\n2151\n02:03:59,386 --> 02:04:02,306\nadditional non-required connectivity improvements.\n\n2152\n02:04:02,566 --> 02:04:04,506\nUm, that's how we looked at\n\n2153\n02:04:04,546 --> 02:04:08,606\nit.\n\n2154\n02:04:10,046 --> 02:04:10,246\nUh,\n\n2155\n02:04:11,126 --> 02:04:15,106\nso I have Councilor Olsen and then, Councilor Ellis, but I wanted to add my\n\n2156\n02:04:15,146 --> 02:04:18,986\nopinion. Although I don't normally get a vote, I just still have an opinion,\n\n2157\n02:04:19,006 --> 02:04:20,706\nso\n\n2158\n02:04:21,746 --> 02:04:25,686\nWhen, when I was first encouraged to run for city council by a good friend\n\n2159\n02:04:25,706 --> 02:04:29,406\nof mine, former City Councilor George Groesch, he told me, \"Trust your staff.\n\n2160\n02:04:29,426 --> 02:04:33,086\nThey're the experts.\" You know, 'cause we can't be experts on everything.\n\n2161\n02:04:33,366 --> 02:04:33,506\nUm,\n\n2162\n02:04:34,426 --> 02:04:37,146\nand but he said that it's perfectly okay to question them.\n\n2163\n02:04:37,206 --> 02:04:41,066\nSo I'm not, I'm not saying that those here who disagree with that are\n\n2164\n02:04:41,086 --> 02:04:43,306\nwrong 'cause you're questioning it, and that's fine.\n\n2165\n02:04:44,066 --> 02:04:45,806\nBut I do have a lot of faith in staff.\n\n2166\n02:04:45,866 --> 02:04:49,626\nI, I, I believe we have some of the best staff you could possibly ask for.\n\n2167\n02:04:49,686 --> 02:04:53,106\nSo when I looked at the criteria, there are things I questioned, and I had to\n\n2168\n02:04:53,126 --> 02:04:57,106\nreread some things, but I f- I feel like staff knows whether criteria is being\n\n2169\n02:04:57,146 --> 02:05:01,106\nmet. Um, it's what we pay them for.\n\n2170\n02:05:01,206 --> 02:05:05,166\nUm, some of the i- i- items that I wanna really point out is\n\n2171\n02:05:05,826 --> 02:05:07,026\nthe overall benefit\n\n2172\n02:05:08,306 --> 02:05:12,246\nand, and I'm not getting into the details of improvements of pedestrian crosses\n\n2173\n02:05:12,286 --> 02:05:14,726\nor railroad 'cause that there's always complications there.\n\n2174\n02:05:14,746 --> 02:05:18,626\nBut it, well, the one thing that was pointed out by staff\n\n2175\n02:05:18,646 --> 02:05:22,006\nthat wasn't actually part of the criteria used was around the, the improvement of\n\n2176\n02:05:22,026 --> 02:05:25,426\nthe area. That, you know, that area has looked very run down for many\n\n2177\n02:05:25,446 --> 02:05:29,296\nyears. You know, we, we've heard from our, our task force, and we hear from\n\n2178\n02:05:29,366 --> 02:05:33,166\ncommunity members all the time about the concern of downtown looking\n\n2179\n02:05:33,306 --> 02:05:36,626\naging. It's not a lot of people all the time, although lately I feel like it's been\n\n2180\n02:05:36,646 --> 02:05:37,436\ndoing better.\n\n2181\n02:05:38,426 --> 02:05:38,596\nBut, but\n\n2182\n02:05:40,286 --> 02:05:43,986\nthis is something we've talked about as a council and as a community that we want.\n\n2183\n02:05:44,006 --> 02:05:45,816\nWe want more people living downtown.\n\n2184\n02:05:45,846 --> 02:05:48,206\nWe want new improvements to downtown.\n\n2185\n02:05:48,286 --> 02:05:52,166\nUm, the financial benefit is something we, we talk, we've had conversations\n\n2186\n02:05:52,226 --> 02:05:55,686\naround, budget gap and needs to increase revenue.\n\n2187\n02:05:55,726 --> 02:05:57,306\nWell, this was going to increase revenue.\n\n2188\n02:05:57,326 --> 02:05:59,986\nIt was gonna increase, you know, the look of our\n\n2189\n02:06:00,026 --> 02:06:03,706\ndowntown. The height of it, I, I have mixed\n\n2190\n02:06:03,746 --> 02:06:07,126\nfeelings about that. My wife has a different opinion than me.\n\n2191\n02:06:07,166 --> 02:06:09,346\nBut it's, that's not what's in question here today.\n\n2192\n02:06:09,386 --> 02:06:10,866\nThat's not something we're talking about.\n\n2193\n02:06:10,926 --> 02:06:13,486\nSo we all might have our own opinions on that.\n\n2194\n02:06:13,506 --> 02:06:17,486\nI'm sure they vary quite a bit, and maybe after this is not\n\n2195\n02:06:17,566 --> 02:06:21,206\nno longer a council thing, we can have conversations around those opinions.\n\n2196\n02:06:21,286 --> 02:06:21,415\nUm,\n\n2197\n02:06:22,746 --> 02:06:26,176\nbut I'm very hopeful that the council will, will see this as a benefit and see that\n\n2198\n02:06:26,206 --> 02:06:29,355\nit meets the criteria and hopefully will vote yes,\n\n2199\n02:06:30,966 --> 02:06:31,746\nfor something that,\n\n2200\n02:06:32,586 --> 02:06:35,546\nyou know, we talk about all the time, density, housing,\n\n2201\n02:06:36,126 --> 02:06:39,966\nbusiness, finance. You know, it, it checks a\n\n2202\n02:06:40,006 --> 02:06:42,466\nlot of boxes as far as I'm concerned.\n\n2203\n02:06:42,546 --> 02:06:42,746\nSo\n\n2204\n02:06:43,586 --> 02:06:47,306\nappreciate that. Um, I've Councilor Olsen next, and then I saw\n\n2205\n02:06:47,366 --> 02:06:50,406\nCouncilor Ellis raise her hand, and then I'll go from there.\n\n2206\n02:06:50,986 --> 02:06:52,346\nAnd at some point, someone's gonna wanna\n\n2207\n02:06:53,146 --> 02:06:55,266\ncall the question, but Councilor Olsen.\n\n2208\n02:06:55,346 --> 02:06:58,896\nUh, yeah. I also wanna say Councilor Lewis has had a question, so if you can add\n\n2209\n02:06:58,926 --> 02:06:59,676\nthem to the list.\n\n2210\n02:06:59,726 --> 02:07:00,586\nWill do.\n\n2211\n02:07:00,626 --> 02:07:04,326\nYeah. Um, I have a question and then a comment.\n\n2212\n02:07:04,346 --> 02:07:07,426\nMy first question is for Director Bilotta, and it's\n\n2213\n02:07:07,766 --> 02:07:11,175\nhow, like, what are the next...\n\n2214\n02:07:11,226 --> 02:07:14,886\nWhether or if this gets approved by the council, what are the next steps\n\n2215\n02:07:14,926 --> 02:07:18,786\nfor the development? Specifically, is this going to go to a\n\n2216\n02:07:18,806 --> 02:07:22,626\nplanning commission process? Or, like, how would\n\n2217\n02:07:22,706 --> 02:07:25,486\npeople get involved with the land development side of it?\n\n2218\n02:07:25,506 --> 02:07:29,096\nSure. From the land development side, because this involves housing-\n\n2219\n02:07:29,366 --> 02:07:29,506\nMm-hmm\n\n2220\n02:07:29,626 --> 02:07:32,666\n... state law generally doesn't allow much interaction at all.\n\n2221\n02:07:32,706 --> 02:07:36,566\nSo what will happen will be, the developer would apply to\n\n2222\n02:07:36,606 --> 02:07:39,726\nget that twenty percent height bonus, which is what's called a HLUA,\n\n2223\n02:07:39,886 --> 02:07:43,006\nH-L-U-A. That's the new state process.\n\n2224\n02:07:43,106 --> 02:07:46,426\nUh, we are then require... That's required to be a staff level\n\n2225\n02:07:46,846 --> 02:07:50,826\napproval, and we would then... We do have a requirement for\n\n2226\n02:07:50,866 --> 02:07:54,116\nnotification. I can't quite remember the radius off the top of my head, but\n\n2227\n02:07:54,146 --> 02:07:58,126\nsomebody will get, will get notices and, they're\n\n2228\n02:07:58,226 --> 02:08:02,026\nvery unsatisfying notices to send out, because they\n\n2229\n02:08:02,206 --> 02:08:06,126\nsay, \"Here you go. Please write in and let\n\n2230\n02:08:06,166 --> 02:08:09,906\nus know what you think. And by the way, state law really won't let us do anything\n\n2231\n02:08:09,966 --> 02:08:13,555\nabout what you think anyway.\" Uh, but we do, and we send those\n\n2232\n02:08:13,686 --> 02:08:16,466\nout, and then, those are set up.\n\n2233\n02:08:16,506 --> 02:08:19,636\nThe state law is you will approve, so then we do approve,\n\n2234\n02:08:20,086 --> 02:08:23,986\nand then, people that submit testimony get sent,\n\n2235\n02:08:24,266 --> 02:08:27,426\nnotices that we approved, and, and then it moves forward to building\n\n2236\n02:08:27,446 --> 02:08:29,786\npermit.\n\n2237\n02:08:29,826 --> 02:08:33,446\nYeah. And then my second thing is that while I still\n\n2238\n02:08:33,606 --> 02:08:36,966\nplan to vote against this for the reasons I stated\n\n2239\n02:08:37,026 --> 02:08:40,206\npreviously, I am going to make a motion to amend\n\n2240\n02:08:40,866 --> 02:08:44,666\nthis. Um, specifically electronic packet page\n\n2241\n02:08:44,766 --> 02:08:47,166\ntwo oh five under connectivity\n\n2242\n02:08:47,226 --> 02:08:50,886\nimprovements, talks about paying fifty\n\n2243\n02:08:51,026 --> 02:08:54,686\nthousand directly to the city of Corvallis during the first year of tax\n\n2244\n02:08:54,746 --> 02:08:58,666\nexemption following the completion of construction to be used by the city to fund\n\n2245\n02:08:58,766 --> 02:09:02,598\nconnectivity developments af-At the end of that, I would like to add\n\n2246\n02:09:02,958 --> 02:09:06,618\nwithin one quarter mile of the development's property line to\n\n2247\n02:09:06,658 --> 02:09:10,168\nensure that this money is going to be connectivity\n\n2248\n02:09:10,218 --> 02:09:13,618\nimprovements that directly relate to the development and the surrounding\n\n2249\n02:09:13,658 --> 02:09:17,308\nneighborhood, and not, like, not that this fund will\n\n2250\n02:09:17,338 --> 02:09:20,568\ngo, they'll, like, give us money and it'll go somewhere. So.\n\n2251\n02:09:20,578 --> 02:09:24,048\nOne, one clarification. The reason why their contribution's to\n\n2252\n02:09:24,058 --> 02:09:28,018\nconnectivity and public infrastructure is because we wanna provide\n\n2253\n02:09:28,038 --> 02:09:31,558\nfor flexibility for public works to determine what the\n\n2254\n02:09:31,578 --> 02:09:34,507\npriorities are for that money to be used, right?\n\n2255\n02:09:34,558 --> 02:09:38,488\nSo it's, it's not as though, it's not as\n\n2256\n02:09:38,518 --> 02:09:41,358\nthough it's up to the developer how those contributions are used.\n\n2257\n02:09:41,378 --> 02:09:43,218\nIt's really up to the city to determine\n\n2258\n02:09:44,478 --> 02:09:48,118\nits best use of that. And so I, I appreciate the motion, I just wanted to\n\n2259\n02:09:48,138 --> 02:09:49,848\nclarify that that's why their contribution is.\n\n2260\n02:09:49,858 --> 02:09:53,638\nYes. And I understand that, but at the same time,\n\n2261\n02:09:53,658 --> 02:09:55,898\nthis money could be used anywhere in the city.\n\n2262\n02:09:55,938 --> 02:09:59,638\nAnd while I have nothing against at North Corvallis, for\n\n2263\n02:09:59,698 --> 02:10:03,078\nexample, if you're building 600 units of housing in\n\n2264\n02:10:03,138 --> 02:10:06,318\ndowntown and they're like, \"We're gonna use this on the Walnut\n\n2265\n02:10:06,398 --> 02:10:10,178\nBoulevard,\" which great use of any money, that's\n\n2266\n02:10:10,278 --> 02:10:13,418\nnot going to impact 600 people living in downtown.\n\n2267\n02:10:13,438 --> 02:10:16,638\nThat's going to impact a different group of people who's not related to this\n\n2268\n02:10:16,678 --> 02:10:17,738\ndevelopment, so.\n\n2269\n02:10:17,778 --> 02:10:21,348\nYeah. I- I could just add that, you know, one, one of the things to\n\n2270\n02:10:21,418 --> 02:10:24,738\nknow, you know, because this is coming in through economic development, those\n\n2271\n02:10:24,818 --> 02:10:28,758\nfunds will most likely be squirreled away in economic\n\n2272\n02:10:28,798 --> 02:10:32,738\ndevelopment budget, so they're gonna stand out like a sore thumb, and they\n\n2273\n02:10:32,758 --> 02:10:35,278\nwon't get absorbed into a $15 million\n\n2274\n02:10:36,198 --> 02:10:37,888\npublic works budget or anything like that.\n\n2275\n02:10:37,918 --> 02:10:41,908\nAnd then in the ca- capital improvement pro- planning process, that's really where\n\n2276\n02:10:41,998 --> 02:10:45,938\nattaching it to the right thing. And what I'd hate to do with picking out an, you\n\n2277\n02:10:45,978 --> 02:10:49,898\nknow... It's, I think it's okay to say that you hope that this proper-\n\n2278\n02:10:49,908 --> 02:10:53,848\nthis gets used in the general vicinity of this or in the downtown or that\n\n2279\n02:10:53,858 --> 02:10:57,558\nkinda thing. I worry that if we say a quarter of a mile, that we\n\n2280\n02:10:57,598 --> 02:11:01,418\nmight be 16 feet away from the really bad problem, 'cause I\n\n2281\n02:11:01,438 --> 02:11:03,738\ndon't know what distance everything is right now.\n\n2282\n02:11:04,978 --> 02:11:06,578\nCity manager?\n\n2283\n02:11:06,618 --> 02:11:10,277\nYeah, I think that sort of conversation about where these funds would be\n\n2284\n02:11:10,398 --> 02:11:14,178\nused is best directed to staff and not part of this,\n\n2285\n02:11:14,218 --> 02:11:18,058\nthis agreement, and allow staff to come back and\n\n2286\n02:11:18,118 --> 02:11:21,678\nsay, \"Hey, here's some options within that quarter\n\n2287\n02:11:21,778 --> 02:11:24,698\nmile or within the vicinity,\" and, and talk about pros and\n\n2288\n02:11:24,798 --> 02:11:28,538\ncons. So again, that, that's more appropriate to have a conversation\n\n2289\n02:11:28,608 --> 02:11:32,258\nwith staff about how to use that funds, not\n\n2290\n02:11:32,458 --> 02:11:35,318\nin a MUPTE agreement.\n\n2291\n02:11:36,358 --> 02:11:39,358\nAnd I, I do understand that, I\n\n2292\n02:11:39,618 --> 02:11:43,567\njust, I don't, especially with the budget gap that we're\n\n2293\n02:11:43,618 --> 02:11:47,198\nfacing at the moment, I don't trust that if this isn't in a\n\n2294\n02:11:47,218 --> 02:11:50,998\nresolution somewhere... Like, I trust staff fully, but I don't trust that\n\n2295\n02:11:51,038 --> 02:11:53,918\nthis won't be, \"Oh, we're going to add it.\n\n2296\n02:11:53,958 --> 02:11:57,378\nWe just need a little bit of money to push this project through, and then we just\n\n2297\n02:11:57,398 --> 02:12:01,358\nneed a little bit of money to push this project for, through,\" and it\n\n2298\n02:12:01,398 --> 02:12:04,258\nwon't happen. I would be down to increase the\n\n2299\n02:12:04,898 --> 02:12:08,088\nradius. I was just thinking of a quarter mile because that incorporates,\n\n2300\n02:12:08,098 --> 02:12:09,618\nlike, honestly\n\n2301\n02:12:10,758 --> 02:12:13,998\npretty much, the 30,\n\n2302\n02:12:14,038 --> 02:12:17,918\nthe, the fr- the, the river. The Mary's River all the way up\n\n2303\n02:12:17,978 --> 02:12:21,038\nto, when I was looking at at least,\n\n2304\n02:12:21,558 --> 02:12:25,238\nMadison, which is a lot of intersections and a lot of\n\n2305\n02:12:25,278 --> 02:12:28,158\ncrossings and a lot of bike lanes that could be built, so.\n\n2306\n02:12:28,218 --> 02:12:31,058\nAt this point, Councilor Olsen does not have a second.\n\n2307\n02:12:31,078 --> 02:12:31,198\nRight.\n\n2308\n02:12:31,218 --> 02:12:35,118\nSo I'm going to second because we didn't have that option before everybody\n\n2309\n02:12:35,178 --> 02:12:35,978\njumped in.\n\n2310\n02:12:37,298 --> 02:12:39,778\nAnd I, and I'll, my, my concern's with the motion.\n\n2311\n02:12:39,818 --> 02:12:40,798\nI, I appreciate\n\n2312\n02:12:41,738 --> 02:12:45,338\nyour thought on this, but my concern is what if, there's an opportunity to\n\n2313\n02:12:45,378 --> 02:12:46,798\nimprove our transit system\n\n2314\n02:12:47,738 --> 02:12:50,698\nthat would benefit people living there potentially but it would be outside of that\n\n2315\n02:12:50,718 --> 02:12:51,618\nquarter mile?\n\n2316\n02:12:51,638 --> 02:12:53,938\nThen one bus.\n\n2317\n02:12:53,978 --> 02:12:57,798\nBut, but there's a tran- there's, there could be, money that goes to additional\n\n2318\n02:12:57,998 --> 02:13:00,668\nfunding or additional routes that go where people need to go.\n\n2319\n02:13:00,718 --> 02:13:04,418\nSo I'm saying there's potential other needs and uses that would\n\n2320\n02:13:04,458 --> 02:13:06,258\nbenefit people, not directly\n\n2321\n02:13:06,638 --> 02:13:09,928\nnecessarily. So we have a motion and a second,\n\n2322\n02:13:10,018 --> 02:13:13,128\nand, is it... Go ahead.\n\n2323\n02:13:13,128 --> 02:13:15,898\nI have a clarifying question on the motion, and I think it's a legal\n\n2324\n02:13:15,938 --> 02:13:19,398\nquestion, which is the, the resolution\n\n2325\n02:13:19,817 --> 02:13:23,798\ndescribes the basis upon which the applicant would\n\n2326\n02:13:23,838 --> 02:13:27,178\nbe granted a, a multi-unit property tax\n\n2327\n02:13:27,218 --> 02:13:28,458\nexemption.\n\n2328\n02:13:29,578 --> 02:13:33,418\nWhat, which... And if you read the language of that resolution, it\n\n2329\n02:13:33,478 --> 02:13:36,718\ntalks a lot about what the applicant is going to\n\n2330\n02:13:36,778 --> 02:13:40,018\ndo. If we approve this motion,\n\n2331\n02:13:41,278 --> 02:13:44,958\nhow does that work legally? Because this is\n\n2332\n02:13:44,998 --> 02:13:48,558\nsupposed to be an agreement of the basis upon which you're\n\n2333\n02:13:48,598 --> 02:13:52,578\ngetting this MUPTE, and now we're saying the basis upon which you're getting this\n\n2334\n02:13:52,618 --> 02:13:53,318\nexemption\n\n2335\n02:13:54,198 --> 02:13:58,118\nis the city doing a certain amount, doing a, a\n\n2336\n02:13:58,238 --> 02:14:02,128\nspecific project. So I think that's, I\n\n2337\n02:14:02,138 --> 02:14:05,468\ndon't know that that is clean from a legal point of view, and I have a question\n\n2338\n02:14:05,498 --> 02:14:06,178\nabout that.\n\n2339\n02:14:06,198 --> 02:14:09,498\nWell, fortunately, we actually have the city attorney online, I believe.\n\n2340\n02:14:10,538 --> 02:14:13,658\nSo that sounds like a question for him.\n\n2341\n02:14:13,778 --> 02:14:15,598\nD**n, Josh.\n\n2342\n02:14:15,658 --> 02:14:18,938\nYes. So as I understand, the question is related to the, the\n\n2343\n02:14:18,998 --> 02:14:20,728\namendment. Um,\n\n2344\n02:14:21,718 --> 02:14:25,548\nand I, I guess, as I understand it, the, that,\n\n2345\n02:14:26,258 --> 02:14:29,158\namendment would restrict how the city can use the\n\n2346\n02:14:29,218 --> 02:14:33,118\nfunding. So it would, because this\n\n2347\n02:14:33,178 --> 02:14:37,078\nis a resolution that's being adopted by the city, the\n\n2348\n02:14:37,118 --> 02:14:40,918\ncity would be bound to that restriction on how it can use the funding.\n\n2349\n02:14:40,978 --> 02:14:44,298\nThat wouldn't be a condition on the developers\n\n2350\n02:14:44,308 --> 02:14:48,148\nreceiving the tax exemption, if that makes\n\n2351\n02:14:48,158 --> 02:14:49,098\nsense.\n\n2352\n02:14:49,118 --> 02:14:49,238\nOkay.\n\n2353\n02:14:49,258 --> 02:14:52,318\nSo the, the developer gets a tax exemption, the city is self-imposing a restriction\n\n2354\n02:14:52,328 --> 02:14:53,498\non how it uses the funding.\n\n2355\n02:14:54,918 --> 02:14:58,558\nAnd, and so if, if the city chose not to do a $50,000\n\n2356\n02:14:58,578 --> 02:15:02,277\nproject within, do, do we owe the developer the 50K back?\n\n2357\n02:15:04,474 --> 02:15:07,634\nIf, if you were to, if the city were to,\n\n2358\n02:15:09,814 --> 02:15:11,304\ncon- to use that\n\n2359\n02:15:11,334 --> 02:15:15,254\nfunding for some other project, then the\n\n2360\n02:15:15,374 --> 02:15:19,294\ncity would be in violation of this resolution and could potentially face a\n\n2361\n02:15:19,334 --> 02:15:22,564\ncause of action from somebody. Um, if you were just\n\n2362\n02:15:22,634 --> 02:15:26,614\nto not build the project for a period\n\n2363\n02:15:26,654 --> 02:15:30,554\nof time, because there's no timeline on building the project, as long as that\n\n2364\n02:15:30,614 --> 02:15:33,694\nfifty thousand dollars is either not used or is used\n\n2365\n02:15:33,734 --> 02:15:36,674\nwithin that, radius, then it would\n\n2366\n02:15:36,834 --> 02:15:39,854\nqualify.\n\n2367\n02:15:42,214 --> 02:15:45,514\nAny other discussion on the motion to amend? Counselor Ellis?\n\n2368\n02:15:46,834 --> 02:15:50,654\nI actually think that we could argue that this is policy when we're talking\n\n2369\n02:15:50,734 --> 02:15:54,514\nabout, um... And I, I actually appreciated the city attorney's\n\n2370\n02:15:54,574 --> 02:15:57,934\ndistinction of the resolution versus the MUFD. That was helpful.\n\n2371\n02:15:57,994 --> 02:16:01,474\nI would think that this could be something that council could use very\n\n2372\n02:16:01,534 --> 02:16:05,054\neffectively to lessen the impact of some of these\n\n2373\n02:16:05,074 --> 02:16:07,454\ndevelopments on neighborhoods. So,\n\n2374\n02:16:08,774 --> 02:16:10,854\nit's not a very large amount of money.\n\n2375\n02:16:10,954 --> 02:16:14,854\nUm, it's kind of a symbolic gesture, but I think that, I think\n\n2376\n02:16:14,914 --> 02:16:18,634\nwe could argue that it is policy and is appropriate and is clearly\n\n2377\n02:16:18,694 --> 02:16:21,574\nlegal to put in the resolution.\n\n2378\n02:16:22,994 --> 02:16:23,874\nCounselor Cadena?\n\n2379\n02:16:25,774 --> 02:16:29,694\nYes, it very well might be legal. Um, I th- I think this,\n\n2380\n02:16:30,854 --> 02:16:34,214\nI think it's messy and I think that it's\n\n2381\n02:16:34,294 --> 02:16:37,534\nmore, important for,\n\n2382\n02:16:39,094 --> 02:16:41,245\nfor these types of projects as they move forward\n\n2383\n02:16:41,915 --> 02:16:45,724\nfor the council to clarify how these funds\n\n2384\n02:16:45,755 --> 02:16:49,514\nare used and not make decisions on the fly in a\n\n2385\n02:16:49,554 --> 02:16:53,434\nparticular MUFD application. I have no problem bringing these policy\n\n2386\n02:16:53,474 --> 02:16:57,234\nissues to a policy discussion. I, I think this is just messy\n\n2387\n02:16:57,594 --> 02:17:00,474\nand I also know on the amendment.\n\n2388\n02:17:02,335 --> 02:17:06,314\nAny other discussion on the motion to amend? All right.\n\n2389\n02:17:06,354 --> 02:17:06,594\nLet's go ahead.\n\n2390\n02:17:06,614 --> 02:17:07,995\nMayor, Counselor Shaffer-\n\n2391\n02:17:08,014 --> 02:17:08,354\nYeah.\n\n2392\n02:17:08,495 --> 02:17:09,434\nHas his hand raised.\n\n2393\n02:17:09,454 --> 02:17:11,255\nGo ahead, Counselor Shaffer.\n\n2394\n02:17:11,314 --> 02:17:14,303\nYeah, thank you. Excuse me. Um,\n\n2395\n02:17:15,755 --> 02:17:19,634\nI, I'm sympathetic to the concept of the\n\n2396\n02:17:19,774 --> 02:17:23,114\namendment, but I'm concerned that it\n\n2397\n02:17:23,194 --> 02:17:27,134\nentangles us and complicates the, the actual\n\n2398\n02:17:27,194 --> 02:17:29,634\nmo- decisions and motions going forward.\n\n2399\n02:17:29,694 --> 02:17:33,394\nAnd so, while I appreciate the the-\n\n2400\n02:17:33,434 --> 02:17:35,675\nthe notion, I will vote against the\n\n2401\n02:17:35,734 --> 02:17:37,675\namendment.\n\n2402\n02:17:37,734 --> 02:17:40,534\nThank you, Counselor Shaffer. We ready for a\n\n2403\n02:17:40,575 --> 02:17:41,874\nvote?\n\n2404\n02:17:43,354 --> 02:17:46,374\nCity recorder, you have the language correctly?\n\n2405\n02:17:46,454 --> 02:17:47,755\nUh, yes, I do, Mayor.\n\n2406\n02:17:47,774 --> 02:17:51,654\nOkay. Sure you have it. All right, all those in favor of the motion to amend,\n\n2407\n02:17:51,734 --> 02:17:52,495\nsay aye.\n\n2408\n02:17:52,554 --> 02:17:53,054\nAye.\n\n2409\n02:17:53,064 --> 02:17:53,064\nAye.\n\n2410\n02:17:53,075 --> 02:17:55,194\nAye. I'm sorry.\n\n2411\n02:17:55,234 --> 02:17:55,694\nWhoops.\n\n2412\n02:17:55,734 --> 02:17:56,954\nI meant no.\n\n2413\n02:17:58,394 --> 02:18:02,134\nIt's always difficult online. Um, all those opposed say no.\n\n2414\n02:18:02,175 --> 02:18:02,335\nNo.\n\n2415\n02:18:02,394 --> 02:18:02,694\nNo.\n\n2416\n02:18:02,974 --> 02:18:03,874\nNo.\n\n2417\n02:18:04,954 --> 02:18:08,194\nIn the opinion of me as chair, it sounded like the noes had\n\n2418\n02:18:08,234 --> 02:18:11,835\nit. But I appreciate, again, I appreciate your, your\n\n2419\n02:18:11,854 --> 02:18:15,534\nattempt. That's what we do here. So we're back to the\n\n2420\n02:18:15,575 --> 02:18:19,325\nresolution as written, and I have originally had Counselor Ellis, Lewis, and\n\n2421\n02:18:19,394 --> 02:18:21,874\nCadena, and now Napak.\n\n2422\n02:18:23,934 --> 02:18:26,854\nI had a couple of, questions for Director Pilata.\n\n2423\n02:18:26,894 --> 02:18:30,755\nAt one point, we required like some sort of setback if you had a\n\n2424\n02:18:30,794 --> 02:18:33,354\nhigh density going up against a lower density.\n\n2425\n02:18:33,374 --> 02:18:33,954\nMm-hmm.\n\n2426\n02:18:33,974 --> 02:18:35,214\nDid that go away with the state?\n\n2427\n02:18:35,255 --> 02:18:38,335\nThat wa- that was part of... No, that was actually part of the mixed use project,\n\n2428\n02:18:38,634 --> 02:18:39,654\ntook away some of that.\n\n2429\n02:18:39,714 --> 02:18:42,634\nOkay. And solar access?\n\n2430\n02:18:42,774 --> 02:18:46,165\nUm, solar access comes into play, um...\n\n2431\n02:18:46,194 --> 02:18:47,694\nThere's two things called solar access.\n\n2432\n02:18:47,734 --> 02:18:51,354\nThere's the ability to, if you have\n\n2433\n02:18:51,474 --> 02:18:54,995\nsolar panels and you want to control\n\n2434\n02:18:55,474 --> 02:18:59,384\nthe, property next to you so that they don't shade on your\n\n2435\n02:18:59,534 --> 02:19:03,425\nsolar panels, there is a process that you can go through to get that.\n\n2436\n02:19:03,434 --> 02:19:06,974\nThey are... Your neighbor has to agree to that.\n\n2437\n02:19:07,034 --> 02:19:09,814\nSo it's, it's one of those things. But you know, if you have a...\n\n2438\n02:19:09,854 --> 02:19:12,814\nIf you and your neighbor are on good terms and you just wanna make sure that when\n\n2439\n02:19:12,854 --> 02:19:15,575\nthe neighbor sells it in ten years that it doesn't get you, you know, a lot of\n\n2440\n02:19:15,594 --> 02:19:17,314\ntimes they'll do that sort of thing.\n\n2441\n02:19:17,335 --> 02:19:21,014\nThere's another kind of thing that's called solar access in the code, which is in a\n\n2442\n02:19:21,075 --> 02:19:24,915\nsubdivision level, is talking about orienting buildings in particular\n\n2443\n02:19:25,014 --> 02:19:27,335\nways so they can maximize the solar gain.\n\n2444\n02:19:27,374 --> 02:19:31,044\nSo, neither one of those is probably gonna be, relevant in this\n\n2445\n02:19:31,094 --> 02:19:31,964\nlocation.\n\n2446\n02:19:31,974 --> 02:19:35,585\nMm-hmm. Um, I also wanna say that,\n\n2447\n02:19:36,054 --> 02:19:39,255\nI don't believe, and this is no offense to, to our, our staff-\n\n2448\n02:19:39,314 --> 02:19:39,454\nMm-hmm\n\n2449\n02:19:39,694 --> 02:19:43,534\n... that, steel is going above and beyond if it is kind\n\n2450\n02:19:43,594 --> 02:19:46,614\nof the structural norm for a building of that\n\n2451\n02:19:46,654 --> 02:19:50,374\nheight. So, I, I remember- that's\n\n2452\n02:19:51,074 --> 02:19:54,434\ns- up to six feet or six stories, they don't need to have it.\n\n2453\n02:19:54,474 --> 02:19:58,414\nYou said ab- above and beyond that, it's kind of the structural norm.\n\n2454\n02:19:58,494 --> 02:20:01,834\nUm, so...\n\n2455\n02:20:01,894 --> 02:20:03,834\nCounselor Lewis.\n\n2456\n02:20:03,914 --> 02:20:07,834\nSo a lot of counselors, especially Counselor Olsen Ellis, has\n\n2457\n02:20:07,914 --> 02:20:11,774\nbeen more, eloquent in it, in their opinions.\n\n2458\n02:20:11,854 --> 02:20:15,124\nUm, so I'm just like dithering a little bit, but I wanna push back a little,\n\n2459\n02:20:15,474 --> 02:20:18,974\nabout the fact that we do talk a lot about infrastructure and\n\n2460\n02:20:18,994 --> 02:20:22,074\nbeautifying Corvallis and making downtown look wonderful and\n\n2461\n02:20:22,154 --> 02:20:25,974\nhousing, but the main thing that we focus on the most is affordable\n\n2462\n02:20:26,014 --> 02:20:29,994\nhousing. And looking at these prices, I'm a renter myself, I literally\n\n2463\n02:20:30,014 --> 02:20:33,794\nhad to move because my one bedroom, for my last\n\n2464\n02:20:33,854 --> 02:20:36,134\napartment was going to be nineteen hundred dollars.\n\n2465\n02:20:36,214 --> 02:20:38,714\nI make eighteen dollars an hour. I can't afford that.\n\n2466\n02:20:38,774 --> 02:20:41,994\nI am in a two-income household. We cannot afford that.\n\n2467\n02:20:42,094 --> 02:20:45,974\nUm, so seeing the, this just like the potential\n\n2468\n02:20:46,114 --> 02:20:49,994\npricing of these units, especially the studio and the\n\n2469\n02:20:50,034 --> 02:20:53,724\none bedroom, I'm just like, \"Who is this for?\" Because we...\n\n2470\n02:20:53,754 --> 02:20:57,624\nAnd the, especially for, Ward Two, the n- number\n\n2471\n02:20:57,654 --> 02:21:01,254\none thing I hear all about is like, \"It is too expensive to live in Corvallis.\"\n\n2472\n02:21:01,274 --> 02:21:04,574\nThey would love to live here and as they work here, they would love to not have to\n\n2473\n02:21:04,594 --> 02:21:06,854\ncommute. It is too expensive\n\n2474\n02:21:07,334 --> 02:21:10,938\nand-As beautiful as and\n\n2475\n02:21:10,978 --> 02:21:14,558\nwonderful as it will be to have more people to live in Corvallis, we have to make\n\n2476\n02:21:14,578 --> 02:21:18,248\nsure they can afford it and at, and just looking\n\n2477\n02:21:18,338 --> 02:21:22,328\nat this proposal, this is not something that I can\n\n2478\n02:21:22,398 --> 02:21:26,238\nwholeheartedly be behind. So I will be voting no.\n\n2479\n02:21:27,198 --> 02:21:28,558\nCouncilor Katina.\n\n2480\n02:21:29,078 --> 02:21:33,038\nYeah, a few comments. One is I, I would encourage\n\n2481\n02:21:33,098 --> 02:21:36,758\nus to not, make decisions based\n\n2482\n02:21:36,778 --> 02:21:40,618\nupon personal preferences about how people\n\n2483\n02:21:40,658 --> 02:21:44,458\nchoose to live or not live. Um,\n\n2484\n02:21:44,498 --> 02:21:48,147\nand I think the, I think the challenge for us is, and I think we're\n\n2485\n02:21:48,178 --> 02:21:51,798\nfacing this with the changes that have-- both the changes we've made here\n\n2486\n02:21:51,878 --> 02:21:54,998\nlocally as well as the changes that have come from the state.\n\n2487\n02:21:55,878 --> 02:21:59,718\nUm, this will add a significant am-number of rental units.\n\n2488\n02:21:59,898 --> 02:22:03,458\nI think that, we've heard, discussion\n\n2489\n02:22:03,498 --> 02:22:07,428\npreviously about our vacancy, rate in\n\n2490\n02:22:07,478 --> 02:22:10,578\nrental housing. Our vacancy rate's low enough that we\n\n2491\n02:22:10,618 --> 02:22:14,438\nhave, stickiness, and\n\n2492\n02:22:14,558 --> 02:22:18,478\nupward pressure on rents. Um, putting this number of units on\n\n2493\n02:22:18,518 --> 02:22:22,158\nthe market, even if it appeals\n\n2494\n02:22:22,218 --> 02:22:26,098\nto, higher-end renters,\n\n2495\n02:22:26,518 --> 02:22:28,718\nwill have an impact on the,\n\n2496\n02:22:29,748 --> 02:22:33,718\navailable rental inventory, in the\n\n2497\n02:22:33,758 --> 02:22:37,688\ncity. Um, I, if I just walked pa-- I mean, in my ward\n\n2498\n02:22:37,818 --> 02:22:41,538\nI, I, I know there are students that live in single-family homes that\n\n2499\n02:22:41,738 --> 02:22:45,258\nprobably would prefer to not live in single-family homes.\n\n2500\n02:22:45,398 --> 02:22:49,358\nUm, I think that, c-creating more housing,\n\n2501\n02:22:49,378 --> 02:22:52,478\nthis is what we, this is what we said we wanted to do.\n\n2502\n02:22:52,558 --> 02:22:55,358\nI, and I, I feel like we're in a situation\n\n2503\n02:22:55,458 --> 02:22:56,778\nwhere,\n\n2504\n02:22:59,598 --> 02:23:03,238\nwhere we want more housing, we want density, but then if it's too high,\n\n2505\n02:23:03,858 --> 02:23:07,638\nwe don't like that. If it's too-- If it's, if it's sprawl, we\n\n2506\n02:23:07,678 --> 02:23:11,438\ndon't like that. Um, I, I think that\n\n2507\n02:23:11,498 --> 02:23:13,088\nhou-- you know, we need housing\n\n2508\n02:23:14,038 --> 02:23:17,858\nand it's only gonna be through the addition of a significant amount of housing\n\n2509\n02:23:17,898 --> 02:23:20,578\nthat things are gonna become more affordable.\n\n2510\n02:23:20,678 --> 02:23:24,598\nUm, I think that Corvallis, I mean, I've been-- I moved\n\n2511\n02:23:24,638 --> 02:23:28,258\nto Corvallis in ninety-five. Definitely the\n\n2512\n02:23:28,318 --> 02:23:29,128\nlack of\n\n2513\n02:23:30,178 --> 02:23:33,618\nkeeping up with our housing requirements has led us to the situation that we're in.\n\n2514\n02:23:33,678 --> 02:23:37,538\nWe, we created commercial mixed-use zones.\n\n2515\n02:23:37,678 --> 02:23:41,438\nUm, I, I think if\n\n2516\n02:23:41,498 --> 02:23:43,558\nyou-- That will change\n\n2517\n02:23:44,378 --> 02:23:47,118\nthe nature of what gets built, and it's not\n\n2518\n02:23:47,178 --> 02:23:50,218\novernight, but it will change. So yeah, we\n\n2519\n02:23:50,318 --> 02:23:53,518\ncan, we can deny this,\n\n2520\n02:23:54,298 --> 02:23:56,758\nand we can deny the next one and the next one.\n\n2521\n02:23:56,878 --> 02:24:00,778\nUm, but I think that the\n\n2522\n02:24:00,818 --> 02:24:04,258\ngetting to affordable housing by only building affordable\n\n2523\n02:24:04,398 --> 02:24:06,798\nhousing, i.e. tax-subsidized,\n\n2524\n02:24:08,158 --> 02:24:11,038\na-affordable housing is not the answer.\n\n2525\n02:24:11,107 --> 02:24:15,058\nUm, that is one element, an important element, but looking\n\n2526\n02:24:15,098 --> 02:24:18,798\nat each in-individual proposal as the\n\n2527\n02:24:18,858 --> 02:24:22,838\nsolution to affordable housing is, is myopic.\n\n2528\n02:24:22,878 --> 02:24:26,778\nAnd so I think we really do need to look at what will it take\n\n2529\n02:24:26,838 --> 02:24:29,938\nto... This is a significant increase i-in housing.\n\n2530\n02:24:29,998 --> 02:24:33,918\nI don't, I, I canna-- I cannot predict, I can't predict\n\n2531\n02:24:33,998 --> 02:24:37,887\nstudents. I'm too far from that age to know why people have dogs and\n\n2532\n02:24:37,898 --> 02:24:40,918\ngo to college and why people have cars and go to college.\n\n2533\n02:24:40,958 --> 02:24:44,308\nBut I, I think this would, this provides the opportunity\n\n2534\n02:24:45,158 --> 02:24:48,598\nfor people to easily get around without a car.\n\n2535\n02:24:48,618 --> 02:24:51,498\nPerhaps it will appeal to those folks. I don't really know.\n\n2536\n02:24:51,578 --> 02:24:53,178\nUh, but I think that\n\n2537\n02:24:54,658 --> 02:24:58,598\nthere is immediate tax benefit, albeit small,\n\n2538\n02:24:58,638 --> 02:25:01,878\nbut it is higher and much higher than it is currently.\n\n2539\n02:25:01,938 --> 02:25:05,358\nIt is a development in commercial mixed use.\n\n2540\n02:25:05,398 --> 02:25:08,768\nIt is adding a significant amount of housing.\n\n2541\n02:25:08,838 --> 02:25:12,098\nAnd yes, I cannot say that,\n\n2542\n02:25:13,898 --> 02:25:15,738\nthat we know the, the full\n\n2543\n02:25:15,798 --> 02:25:19,678\nconsequences of where we're going with commercial mixed use, but\n\n2544\n02:25:19,738 --> 02:25:23,358\nthat is the path that we are on, is to build significantly more housing.\n\n2545\n02:25:23,398 --> 02:25:26,267\nSo I think we need to get on with it, and I will be in favor of\n\n2546\n02:25:26,318 --> 02:25:28,938\nthis.\n\n2547\n02:25:28,978 --> 02:25:30,137\nCity manager.\n\n2548\n02:25:31,758 --> 02:25:35,658\nYeah, I understand some of the, the challenge, and maybe\n\n2549\n02:25:35,738 --> 02:25:39,648\nthe angst that the council is feeling, certainly the community is feeling on\n\n2550\n02:25:39,718 --> 02:25:39,908\nthis.\n\n2551\n02:25:40,958 --> 02:25:44,718\nAnd we've talked a lot about how the state has come in and, and\n\n2552\n02:25:44,798 --> 02:25:48,418\nchanged, how we can or can't\n\n2553\n02:25:48,478 --> 02:25:50,717\nregulate development.\n\n2554\n02:25:52,038 --> 02:25:55,657\nI also wanna remind the council that the council\n\n2555\n02:25:55,758 --> 02:25:59,258\nitself has made multiple policy\n\n2556\n02:25:59,298 --> 02:26:03,258\ndecisions, and this project, while it's the first one,\n\n2557\n02:26:03,338 --> 02:26:04,018\nit does\n\n2558\n02:26:04,898 --> 02:26:06,678\nmatch,\n\n2559\n02:26:08,718 --> 02:26:11,618\nlayers of policy decisions the council has made\n\n2560\n02:26:11,938 --> 02:26:15,398\nthoughtfully. And, the\n\n2561\n02:26:15,538 --> 02:26:19,418\nMUPTI program, the way it was set up, you know, the issue of\n\n2562\n02:26:19,458 --> 02:26:20,118\nyou can either\n\n2563\n02:26:21,018 --> 02:26:24,258\ninclude affordable housing or pay a fee in lieu.\n\n2564\n02:26:24,338 --> 02:26:27,878\nAnd so these things were thought out in a, in\n\n2565\n02:26:27,958 --> 02:26:31,578\na, in a vacuum of a specific project, and I think\n\n2566\n02:26:31,638 --> 02:26:35,138\nthat's good because each project is gonna have its own,\n\n2567\n02:26:36,098 --> 02:26:38,538\nchallenges, those who oppose, those who\n\n2568\n02:26:38,658 --> 02:26:40,548\nsupport. Um,\n\n2569\n02:26:42,138 --> 02:26:46,098\nand I think it will become challenging certainly for staff to understand what\n\n2570\n02:26:46,138 --> 02:26:49,778\nis the council's direction when we have all this policy direction\n\n2571\n02:26:49,878 --> 02:26:53,658\nthat you have given us over the years, and it certainly will be confusing\n\n2572\n02:26:53,738 --> 02:26:53,998\nfor\n\n2573\n02:26:55,158 --> 02:26:59,118\nfuture developers. So again, staff's evaluation is\n\n2574\n02:26:59,958 --> 02:27:03,898\nthis is in alignment with those policy decisions and the specifics\n\n2575\n02:27:04,018 --> 02:27:07,778\nof, our MUPTI program. So a denial\n\n2576\n02:27:07,858 --> 02:27:11,358\nreally would be confusing for, for staff and for,\n\n2577\n02:27:11,638 --> 02:27:12,458\ndevelopers.\n\n2578\n02:27:15,454 --> 02:27:18,614\nBut Councilor Napert, Napack and then Council Mayer's, and I believe at that point\n\n2579\n02:27:18,634 --> 02:27:22,464\neverybody would have spoken. So unless it's something new, I'd like to get\n\n2580\n02:27:22,494 --> 02:27:23,833\ntowards a vote because it is getting late.\n\n2581\n02:27:24,714 --> 02:27:25,834\nCouncilor Napack.\n\n2582\n02:27:27,214 --> 02:27:31,094\nI just want assurances or some,\n\n2583\n02:27:32,754 --> 02:27:35,954\nhand-waving, if you will. Um, this is a\n\n2584\n02:27:35,974 --> 02:27:38,484\nhigh-end development, and I'm just, uh...\n\n2585\n02:27:38,494 --> 02:27:40,924\nIs there any chance that,\n\n2586\n02:27:42,274 --> 02:27:46,234\nit would change the basis or rationale, of su-\n\n2587\n02:27:46,294 --> 02:27:48,674\nof successfully obtaining a\n\n2588\n02:27:48,734 --> 02:27:52,154\ndowntown tax increment financing\n\n2589\n02:27:52,194 --> 02:27:53,894\ndistrict?\n\n2590\n02:27:55,394 --> 02:27:58,854\nIt would be, hypothetically part of the\n\n2591\n02:27:58,894 --> 02:28:02,554\ncapture for a tax increment financing district if the district were\n\n2592\n02:28:02,594 --> 02:28:05,534\nestablished before construction finished\n\n2593\n02:28:05,694 --> 02:28:08,414\nup. So\n\n2594\n02:28:08,494 --> 02:28:11,974\nthere's... A tax increment financing district has a lot\n\n2595\n02:28:12,014 --> 02:28:15,814\nto, lot to stand to gain from the project in year\n\n2596\n02:28:15,854 --> 02:28:19,794\neleven.\n\n2597\n02:28:22,034 --> 02:28:25,974\nCouncilor Mayer, Moorefield, and then Schaffer.\n\n2598\n02:28:27,754 --> 02:28:29,014\nOkay. Um,\n\n2599\n02:28:30,354 --> 02:28:31,414\nfirst off,\n\n2600\n02:28:35,094 --> 02:28:39,074\nthe project objectively meets the criteria as set out,\n\n2601\n02:28:40,334 --> 02:28:40,794\nand\n\n2602\n02:28:43,994 --> 02:28:44,634\nwhether it,\n\n2603\n02:28:46,194 --> 02:28:48,334\nwhether it meets them by a little or a lot is\n\n2604\n02:28:48,414 --> 02:28:51,214\nirrelevant. Um,\n\n2605\n02:28:53,634 --> 02:28:57,354\nit also meets an additional one, regarding blight, which I\n\n2606\n02:28:57,394 --> 02:29:00,754\ntotally agree with and was a little surprised that wasn't on the first part of the\n\n2607\n02:29:00,814 --> 02:29:03,914\nlist because that's a very rundown block.\n\n2608\n02:29:03,954 --> 02:29:05,034\nSo,\n\n2609\n02:29:06,894 --> 02:29:10,534\na question of it meeting the sub- the objective\n\n2610\n02:29:10,614 --> 02:29:13,534\ncriteria is, in my mind, not really a\n\n2611\n02:29:13,594 --> 02:29:17,234\nquestion. Um, there were a lot of additional benefits that were\n\n2612\n02:29:17,294 --> 02:29:21,214\nlisted that I won't go into, one of, but, one of which that impressed\n\n2613\n02:29:21,274 --> 02:29:24,994\nme was, a, plan to use a certain\n\n2614\n02:29:25,053 --> 02:29:28,934\npercentage of local labor and materials, which I think is good,\n\n2615\n02:29:29,294 --> 02:29:33,014\nis a good thing. Um, there were, some\n\n2616\n02:29:33,154 --> 02:29:36,934\nenergy, benefits that they listed above and\n\n2617\n02:29:37,014 --> 02:29:40,874\nbeyond. So, if we're looking for\n\n2618\n02:29:40,914 --> 02:29:43,744\nbenefits, I think we, we need to be,\n\n2619\n02:29:44,034 --> 02:29:48,004\nbroad-minded. And I am, I'm gonna say a\n\n2620\n02:29:48,034 --> 02:29:51,714\ncouple other things. Uh, I think it's a little\n\n2621\n02:29:51,814 --> 02:29:55,354\nconfusing, the concept\n\n2622\n02:29:55,814 --> 02:29:56,314\nthat a,\n\n2623\n02:29:57,594 --> 02:30:01,554\nthat a s- a, an apartment building just because it's higher end\n\n2624\n02:30:02,274 --> 02:30:06,174\nthat supplies housing to six hundred people is somehow\n\n2625\n02:30:06,294 --> 02:30:09,554\nnot going to free up other units for people who are\n\n2626\n02:30:09,594 --> 02:30:13,484\nlooking on the lower ends. Um, that doesn't\n\n2627\n02:30:13,514 --> 02:30:16,234\nmake logical sense to me. And so,\n\n2628\n02:30:18,434 --> 02:30:21,534\nI think it will help with our housing situation, which is\n\n2629\n02:30:21,574 --> 02:30:23,694\ndire. Um,\n\n2630\n02:30:26,194 --> 02:30:30,034\nI also think single-family homes, as Councilor Kadina said,\n\n2631\n02:30:30,154 --> 02:30:34,024\nwhich people are holding onto their homes because there's no inventory, it would\n\n2632\n02:30:34,054 --> 02:30:37,934\nhelp free up some of that. And finally, I, I reme-\n\n2633\n02:30:38,054 --> 02:30:42,034\nrecall our discussion with the Downtown Vitality,\n\n2634\n02:30:43,294 --> 02:30:47,134\nStrategy Task Force, infrastructure discussion, and we've been\n\n2635\n02:30:47,214 --> 02:30:51,154\ngoing through all of the information that was collected from community\n\n2636\n02:30:51,254 --> 02:30:54,574\nmembers on the priorities, for\n\n2637\n02:30:54,594 --> 02:30:58,554\ndowntown. And s- through our discussion last\n\n2638\n02:30:58,614 --> 02:31:01,934\nTuesday, several-- It came up that\n\n2639\n02:31:02,074 --> 02:31:02,674\nseveral\n\n2640\n02:31:03,554 --> 02:31:07,194\nof the things that we wanna get done downtown will actually be\n\n2641\n02:31:07,254 --> 02:31:10,514\naccomplished by having more people living\n\n2642\n02:31:10,524 --> 02:31:14,234\ndowntown. Safety, right? More\n\n2643\n02:31:14,294 --> 02:31:17,994\npeople on the streets. Vacant buildings getting filled\n\n2644\n02:31:18,034 --> 02:31:21,984\nbecause there are more shoppers. So I,\n\n2645\n02:31:22,714 --> 02:31:26,634\nI am very much in favor of this. I think it's exactly what council had in\n\n2646\n02:31:26,694 --> 02:31:30,454\nmind when it put this into place. And if we're gonna talk about\n\n2647\n02:31:30,494 --> 02:31:32,914\neconomic development and deny this, then\n\n2648\n02:31:34,334 --> 02:31:36,313\nI don't know what to say. So I'll be voting\n\n2649\n02:31:36,373 --> 02:31:38,334\nyes.\n\n2650\n02:31:38,374 --> 02:31:39,374\nCouncilor Moorefield.\n\n2651\n02:31:40,814 --> 02:31:43,254\nUm, I'm gonna vote in favor of it. Um,\n\n2652\n02:31:44,354 --> 02:31:48,214\nyou know, there, there are aspects of this that have kinda driven me a little\n\n2653\n02:31:48,274 --> 02:31:52,234\ncrazy, and it is kinda shocking, the idea that such a tall building\n\n2654\n02:31:52,254 --> 02:31:55,314\nwill be in our downtown. Uh, but it was gonna happen\n\n2655\n02:31:55,394 --> 02:31:57,914\nsomeday because we, we\n\n2656\n02:31:57,974 --> 02:32:01,734\ndo, Corvallis in particular, and the state of\n\n2657\n02:32:01,774 --> 02:32:05,274\nOregon, western Oregon in particular, we need to increase our housing\n\n2658\n02:32:05,394 --> 02:32:09,234\nsupply. That's one, one of the reasons why so many decisions have been taken\n\n2659\n02:32:09,294 --> 02:32:12,034\nout of our hands locally, because the state\n\n2660\n02:32:12,854 --> 02:32:16,594\ntook the bull by the horns and said, \"We're gonna work on building more\n\n2661\n02:32:16,634 --> 02:32:20,234\nhousing,\" or, supporting the construction of more\n\n2662\n02:32:20,274 --> 02:32:22,974\nhousing. We also have climate change and a long\n\n2663\n02:32:23,074 --> 02:32:26,924\ntime, vision that we h- are still\n\n2664\n02:32:26,954 --> 02:32:30,794\nstruggling with as a, as a nation and a community about\n\n2665\n02:32:30,834 --> 02:32:33,664\nwhat we're gonna look like in the future.\n\n2666\n02:32:33,734 --> 02:32:37,013\nAll I know is that we're gonna look very different than we do today.\n\n2667\n02:32:37,354 --> 02:32:41,194\nAnd, and, and I think there's consensus that we need to build\n\n2668\n02:32:41,274 --> 02:32:45,034\nup, not out. This is up. It may be shockingly high, but\n\n2669\n02:32:45,094 --> 02:32:47,254\nit's, but it's where we're headed.\n\n2670\n02:32:47,264 --> 02:32:50,514\nAnd, and, you know, so I'm looking out a long\n\n2671\n02:32:50,574 --> 02:32:54,194\nways and, and seeing that this is part of our future.\n\n2672\n02:32:54,234 --> 02:32:57,634\nThis is one of the ways that we have to change, and someone had to be\n\n2673\n02:32:57,694 --> 02:33:01,504\nfirst. And, so someone is taking\n\n2674\n02:33:01,574 --> 02:33:05,084\nthat chance and investing a lot of money in our, our community.\n\n2675\n02:33:05,194 --> 02:33:09,074\nUm, affordable housing is addressed, this,\n\n2676\n02:33:09,114 --> 02:33:13,014\nby this project indirectly by its contribution to our affordable housing\n\n2677\n02:33:13,094 --> 02:33:16,986\nfunds. Um, the, um...Downtown will\n\n2678\n02:33:17,066 --> 02:33:20,246\nbenefit by having a lot more people living downtown.\n\n2679\n02:33:20,256 --> 02:33:23,686\nDo we have the resources to support local businesses?\n\n2680\n02:33:23,806 --> 02:33:27,766\nUm, and, if I'm frustrated with, with,\n\n2681\n02:33:28,646 --> 02:33:31,726\nyou know, how we got here, it's because I do think the\n\n2682\n02:33:31,766 --> 02:33:34,376\nMUPTI ordinance requires some work.\n\n2683\n02:33:34,486 --> 02:33:35,066\nUh, I'm not\n\n2684\n02:33:36,586 --> 02:33:39,506\nsatisfied with, the but for\n\n2685\n02:33:39,606 --> 02:33:42,396\nanalysis. I, I think the, the,\n\n2686\n02:33:42,886 --> 02:33:45,626\nrequire-requirements have been met, mind you.\n\n2687\n02:33:45,686 --> 02:33:49,166\nI'm just saying that, you know, I would like something a little bit more robust in\n\n2688\n02:33:49,206 --> 02:33:52,056\nthe future, and we can talk about that another time.\n\n2689\n02:33:52,106 --> 02:33:55,546\nAnd, and I, you know, I'm not satisfied with this element of\n\n2690\n02:33:55,646 --> 02:33:58,446\ndesign that we can, you know, we can\n\n2691\n02:33:59,886 --> 02:34:03,166\nsee it any way we want, as either a yes or a no or a maybe\n\n2692\n02:34:03,266 --> 02:34:07,095\nor, or something. So I, I think it needs work. And my...\n\n2693\n02:34:07,126 --> 02:34:10,566\nIf I'm frustrated at all, it's because, because we have an ordinance\n\n2694\n02:34:10,986 --> 02:34:12,086\nthat's new,\n\n2695\n02:34:13,166 --> 02:34:17,006\nand this is our first or second experiment\n\n2696\n02:34:17,066 --> 02:34:20,745\nwith, with it, if you will. And, and I look\n\n2697\n02:34:20,806 --> 02:34:23,706\nforward to, tightening it up in the\n\n2698\n02:34:23,766 --> 02:34:25,846\nfuture.\n\n2699\n02:34:26,726 --> 02:34:29,366\nCouncilor Schaefer, and then let's take a vote.\n\n2700\n02:34:30,246 --> 02:34:34,186\nThank you. Uh, I have to believe the developer in\n\n2701\n02:34:34,226 --> 02:34:37,646\nthis case recognizes that there's a need just- not just for\n\n2702\n02:34:37,706 --> 02:34:41,036\naffordable housing, but for all housing, market rate,\n\n2703\n02:34:41,606 --> 02:34:45,526\neverything in the downtown area. We, we simply don't have housing\n\n2704\n02:34:45,566 --> 02:34:49,396\ndowntown. And I think there are people of means\n\n2705\n02:34:49,446 --> 02:34:53,426\nwho would like to live in or closer to downtown, and this\n\n2706\n02:34:53,486 --> 02:34:56,116\nwill afford an opportunity for them.\n\n2707\n02:34:56,226 --> 02:35:00,126\nUm, I'm, I'm concerned about the, the layout\n\n2708\n02:35:00,186 --> 02:35:03,926\nand the plan for some of these units, that it seems targeted at\n\n2709\n02:35:04,066 --> 02:35:04,966\nstudent-type\n\n2710\n02:35:05,946 --> 02:35:09,826\ngroups rather than perhaps, families\n\n2711\n02:35:10,286 --> 02:35:10,886\nor,\n\n2712\n02:35:12,006 --> 02:35:15,806\nyou know, s-smaller units for\n\n2713\n02:35:15,906 --> 02:35:19,856\nsingles, young c- young couples, working families,\n\n2714\n02:35:19,986 --> 02:35:23,666\nretirees, anybody. But I think that's, that's their\n\n2715\n02:35:23,746 --> 02:35:27,656\ncall, what they build. And, and so-- And I think\n\n2716\n02:35:27,686 --> 02:35:31,346\nthe fact that there is some money going to affordable housing for\n\n2717\n02:35:31,426 --> 02:35:34,886\nthis as, as required in what the council set out\n\n2718\n02:35:35,826 --> 02:35:38,816\nat the beginning of this, they meet that, they meet that\n\n2719\n02:35:38,866 --> 02:35:42,846\nrequirement. Um, I'm tr- I am troubled about\n\n2720\n02:35:42,966 --> 02:35:43,286\nthe\n\n2721\n02:35:44,326 --> 02:35:45,446\nparking issues.\n\n2722\n02:35:46,326 --> 02:35:50,266\nUm, I think we're in for a messy transition from\n\n2723\n02:35:50,326 --> 02:35:53,986\na very car-centric transportation model to\n\n2724\n02:35:54,046 --> 02:35:57,066\nsomething that's closer to,\n\n2725\n02:35:58,106 --> 02:36:01,796\nwalking, ped, whatever. But again, that's not\n\n2726\n02:36:01,826 --> 02:36:04,376\nsomething we can manage and dictate in this.\n\n2727\n02:36:04,406 --> 02:36:07,096\nThe state has taken that away from me, s- from us.\n\n2728\n02:36:07,146 --> 02:36:10,906\nSo I think we just have to go with, with what's there.\n\n2729\n02:36:11,026 --> 02:36:14,896\nUm, I have concerns, but I will be voting for the, for the,\n\n2730\n02:36:15,786 --> 02:36:18,306\nresolution.\n\n2731\n02:36:18,346 --> 02:36:21,546\nThank you. Let's go ahead and move on to a, a vote.\n\n2732\n02:36:21,626 --> 02:36:23,686\nUm, city recorder, can you do a roll call vote, please?\n\n2733\n02:36:23,746 --> 02:36:26,686\nYes, Mayor. Councilors Cadena?\n\n2734\n02:36:26,766 --> 02:36:27,526\nYes.\n\n2735\n02:36:27,566 --> 02:36:28,246\nMayors?\n\n2736\n02:36:28,326 --> 02:36:28,906\nYes.\n\n2737\n02:36:28,966 --> 02:36:29,626\nMoorefield?\n\n2738\n02:36:29,686 --> 02:36:30,326\nYes.\n\n2739\n02:36:30,366 --> 02:36:31,146\nLewis?\n\n2740\n02:36:31,166 --> 02:36:31,846\nNo.\n\n2741\n02:36:31,886 --> 02:36:32,506\nNapack?\n\n2742\n02:36:32,546 --> 02:36:33,706\nYes.\n\n2743\n02:36:33,746 --> 02:36:36,026\nBowden? Schaefer?\n\n2744\n02:36:36,086 --> 02:36:37,006\nYes.\n\n2745\n02:36:37,066 --> 02:36:37,866\nEllis?\n\n2746\n02:36:37,926 --> 02:36:38,686\nNo.\n\n2747\n02:36:38,766 --> 02:36:39,386\nOlsen?\n\n2748\n02:36:39,406 --> 02:36:40,246\nNo.\n\n2749\n02:36:40,286 --> 02:36:42,586\nThe resolution passes five to three.\n\n2750\n02:36:42,626 --> 02:36:43,656\nThank you all very much.\n\n2751\n02:36:44,506 --> 02:36:47,686\nAnd I really do appreciate the discussion and the questions and the varying\n\n2752\n02:36:47,706 --> 02:36:50,766\nopinions, 'cause that's why there's so many of us.\n\n2753\n02:36:50,826 --> 02:36:53,066\nAnd Mayor, a break?\n\n2754\n02:36:53,126 --> 02:36:56,886\nI was just about to suggest that. I apologize to any of those who are\n\n2755\n02:36:56,946 --> 02:37:00,775\nwaiting around for the, discussion on the resolut-- on the, the,\n\n2756\n02:37:01,086 --> 02:37:04,446\nICE resolution. But let's go ahead and take a short break,\n\n2757\n02:37:05,526 --> 02:37:07,626\nbio break as they call it. Ten minutes will\n\n2758\n02:37:07,686 --> 02:37:10,646\ndo. So let's return. Uh, I guess\n\n2759\n02:37:10,706 --> 02:37:13,055\nit's... Yeah, we'll round it\n\n2760\n02:37:13,126 --> 02:37:15,206\nup.\n\n2761\n02:37:16,746 --> 02:37:17,566\nIt is eight fifty,\n\n2762\n02:37:18,566 --> 02:37:22,166\nso let's reconvene this meeting of the Corvallis City Council.\n\n2763\n02:37:22,246 --> 02:37:25,866\nNext item up on the agenda is the resolution addressing\n\n2764\n02:37:25,906 --> 02:37:29,846\nescalating federal immigration enforcement, and I want to start off by\n\n2765\n02:37:29,886 --> 02:37:31,716\nmaking an apology. Um,\n\n2766\n02:37:33,025 --> 02:37:36,766\nI should have... This was act- is actually being put on the agenda by me.\n\n2767\n02:37:36,846 --> 02:37:40,066\nUm, I know. Paul's appears\n\n2768\n02:37:40,146 --> 02:37:42,406\nunmuted.\n\n2769\n02:37:46,486 --> 02:37:48,706\nI think I'm quiet.\n\n2770\n02:37:50,546 --> 02:37:52,066\nCouncilor Schaefer, if you wouldn't mind\n\n2771\n02:37:52,586 --> 02:37:55,606\nmuting.\n\n2772\n02:37:55,626 --> 02:37:57,306\nThought I was. Sorry.\n\n2773\n02:37:57,366 --> 02:37:59,406\nOh.\n\n2774\n02:38:01,686 --> 02:38:01,956\nDid that\n\n2775\n02:38:02,906 --> 02:38:05,366\nfix it?\n\n2776\n02:38:07,446 --> 02:38:09,266\nCan you hear me now when we talk?\n\n2777\n02:38:11,826 --> 02:38:13,226\nWe will briefly pause to figure this\n\n2778\n02:38:13,306 --> 02:38:24,126\nout.\n\n2779\n02:38:59,926 --> 02:39:01,306\nDavid, I don't know if you can hear me.\n\n2780\n02:39:01,346 --> 02:39:03,066\nWe're still getting quite a significant\n\n2781\n02:39:03,326 --> 02:39:07,866\necho.\n\n2782\n02:39:09,086 --> 02:39:09,716\nYou have an interesting\n\n2783\n02:39:09,766 --> 02:39:16,046\ndefinition\n\n2784\n02:39:16,096 --> 02:39:16,126\nof better.\n\n2785\n02:39:24,862 --> 02:39:27,792\nOkay. I think we should proceed.\n\n2786\n02:39:27,822 --> 02:39:27,832\nOkay.\n\n2787\n02:39:27,842 --> 02:39:29,222\nI think it's been resolved.\n\n2788\n02:39:29,302 --> 02:39:30,222\nI think so.\n\n2789\n02:39:30,262 --> 02:39:31,842\nThank you.\n\n2790\n02:39:31,902 --> 02:39:34,742\nThank you. Apologies for technical\n\n2791\n02:39:34,762 --> 02:39:37,852\nerrors. Technology's fine. Anyway, so the...\n\n2792\n02:39:37,902 --> 02:39:41,682\nI wanted to, apologize because the resolution, was brought\n\n2793\n02:39:41,802 --> 02:39:45,732\nforth onto the agenda by me, and not realizing I should've removed\n\n2794\n02:39:45,762 --> 02:39:49,572\nCouncilor Olsen's name from it, 'cause that's usually there for whoever\n\n2795\n02:39:49,622 --> 02:39:52,932\nmoves the resolution forward if it gets adopted, things like that.\n\n2796\n02:39:52,962 --> 02:39:56,742\nAnd I should've pres- I should've provided a cover page, explaining why the-\n\n2797\n02:39:56,782 --> 02:39:58,692\nwhy this resolution's in the agenda.\n\n2798\n02:39:58,722 --> 02:40:01,872\nSo that, that is my fault, and I apologize for any confusion that\n\n2799\n02:40:01,922 --> 02:40:05,402\ncreated. Um, but the reason why\n\n2800\n02:40:05,482 --> 02:40:08,702\nit was added, and it was kind of sort of last minute,\n\n2801\n02:40:09,822 --> 02:40:11,311\nis 'cause it was brought forward to this council.\n\n2802\n02:40:11,322 --> 02:40:15,102\nIt was shared with everybody, and I feel like the timing is kinda\n\n2803\n02:40:15,242 --> 02:40:18,872\ncritical on this. Um, as, spoken earlier t- this\n\n2804\n02:40:18,942 --> 02:40:22,442\nevening, we are being surrounded by a lot of ICE\n\n2805\n02:40:22,502 --> 02:40:25,182\nactivity. It's a matter of time, and I think it's important\n\n2806\n02:40:26,082 --> 02:40:29,882\nto make our residents of our, of our community feel that we support\n\n2807\n02:40:29,961 --> 02:40:33,772\nthem. Um, interesting timing on,\n\n2808\n02:40:34,202 --> 02:40:36,902\nSaturday was the Celebrate Corvallis,\n\n2809\n02:40:36,962 --> 02:40:40,382\nand the, person who won First Citizen\n\n2810\n02:40:41,382 --> 02:40:43,402\nwas not a citizen.\n\n2811\n02:40:44,282 --> 02:40:48,202\nAnd e- he, he made it... explained how he's, he's not a legal\n\n2812\n02:40:48,302 --> 02:40:51,872\nor, or political, citizen, but he's a citizen\n\n2813\n02:40:51,882 --> 02:40:54,462\nnonetheless. He, he, he contributes to our community.\n\n2814\n02:40:54,482 --> 02:40:58,272\nHe's an, a amazing person, and for obvious reasons, won, First\n\n2815\n02:40:58,342 --> 02:41:02,082\nCitizen. So what does that say about our community?\n\n2816\n02:41:02,092 --> 02:41:05,842\nAnd if we don't, take some sort of action to support\n\n2817\n02:41:05,882 --> 02:41:09,762\nmembers of our community who perhaps speak a different language or\n\n2818\n02:41:09,802 --> 02:41:13,782\nhave a different color skin than I do, then we're not supporting our\n\n2819\n02:41:13,802 --> 02:41:17,202\ncommunity. So I added this to the agenda.\n\n2820\n02:41:17,682 --> 02:41:21,342\nObviously, I can't vote on it. I also can't even make the motion that's\n\n2821\n02:41:21,362 --> 02:41:25,102\nrequired to move it forward. But I do have the authority,\n\n2822\n02:41:25,382 --> 02:41:28,192\nthankfully, to at least put things on the agenda, so that's what I did.\n\n2823\n02:41:28,622 --> 02:41:31,202\nUm, so I'll leave it in the hands of all of\n\n2824\n02:41:31,222 --> 02:41:33,502\nyou.\n\n2825\n02:41:33,562 --> 02:41:37,542\nI mean, I'll make a motion to cons- I don't know what the official words are for\n\n2826\n02:41:37,562 --> 02:41:39,831\nthis. Motion to consider it, motion to...\n\n2827\n02:41:39,831 --> 02:41:42,142\nBut what's the words, Alex?\n\n2828\n02:41:42,182 --> 02:41:44,882\nUh, normally we would have the title of the resolution read.\n\n2829\n02:41:44,922 --> 02:41:48,302\nCorrect. So get a title read, and then if you'd like to move the resolution\n\n2830\n02:41:48,382 --> 02:41:51,202\nforward, that would be fine. I just wanna see if we wanna get as far as reading the\n\n2831\n02:41:51,242 --> 02:41:54,782\ntitle. So city recorder, would you please read the re- resolution?\n\n2832\n02:41:54,822 --> 02:41:58,662\nThis is a resolution addressing escalating federal immigration enforcement.\n\n2833\n02:41:59,582 --> 02:42:03,002\nI move to approve the resolution. Adopt?\n\n2834\n02:42:03,082 --> 02:42:03,771\nApprove? Adopt.\n\n2835\n02:42:03,822 --> 02:42:05,002\nBoth, both are correct.\n\n2836\n02:42:06,042 --> 02:42:06,051\nOkay.\n\n2837\n02:42:06,082 --> 02:42:09,822\nGo either way. Sometimes just so moved even works, but\n\n2838\n02:42:10,102 --> 02:42:12,292\nI like when someone says what the resolution...\n\n2839\n02:42:12,302 --> 02:42:16,082\nAll right, we have a motion to approve, and it was seconded. Uh, discussion?\n\n2840\n02:42:19,302 --> 02:42:20,462\nCouncilor Navick.\n\n2841\n02:42:22,182 --> 02:42:26,142\nUh, thank you. I wanted to first say how much\n\n2842\n02:42:26,202 --> 02:42:29,222\nI appreciate our community,\n\n2843\n02:42:30,322 --> 02:42:33,642\nresolve, in, in, in this situation\n\n2844\n02:42:34,502 --> 02:42:37,662\nand, the work that was put forth to put this resolution\n\n2845\n02:42:37,702 --> 02:42:39,292\nforth. Um,\n\n2846\n02:42:40,202 --> 02:42:42,622\nthere unfortunately are a\n\n2847\n02:42:42,702 --> 02:42:45,742\nfew, well, more than a few,\n\n2848\n02:42:46,302 --> 02:42:49,582\nunworkable situations or,\n\n2849\n02:42:53,022 --> 02:42:55,642\nasks, if you will, that the city\n\n2850\n02:42:55,702 --> 02:42:59,002\ncannot provide. Uh, the city\n\n2851\n02:43:00,322 --> 02:43:03,442\nactually, is,\n\n2852\n02:43:03,502 --> 02:43:07,362\num... A- after talking with, community development,\n\n2853\n02:43:08,682 --> 02:43:10,051\nthe city is,\n\n2854\n02:43:11,662 --> 02:43:15,002\ndue to the Supremacy Clause, the city is helpless.\n\n2855\n02:43:15,082 --> 02:43:16,922\nIf the s- if, the federal\n\n2856\n02:43:17,942 --> 02:43:19,612\ngovernment wanted to come in and,\n\n2857\n02:43:22,862 --> 02:43:24,972\nclaim emi- eminent domain and, and\n\n2858\n02:43:25,002 --> 02:43:28,852\nbuild a detention facility, and we have, we are powerless to do anything about\n\n2859\n02:43:28,942 --> 02:43:32,142\nthat. It's called the, the,\n\n2860\n02:43:33,122 --> 02:43:37,042\nSupremacy Clause. And, people have tried with\n\n2861\n02:43:37,082 --> 02:43:40,362\nmoratoriums, especially in the State of Washington, but,\n\n2862\n02:43:41,222 --> 02:43:44,882\nthey're all in, in court now. The,\n\n2863\n02:43:46,402 --> 02:43:49,742\nother thing is that our bandwidth, you know, we are doing a lot\n\n2864\n02:43:49,822 --> 02:43:51,772\nnow, in terms of,\n\n2865\n02:43:54,042 --> 02:43:54,872\ndowntown vitaliz-\n\n2866\n02:43:54,942 --> 02:43:58,642\nrevitalization and, task forces, civic\n\n2867\n02:43:58,722 --> 02:44:02,092\ncenter, and so on and so forth. It's...\n\n2868\n02:44:02,102 --> 02:44:05,022\nBut nevertheless, the, the,\n\n2869\n02:44:05,602 --> 02:44:08,272\nintent is clear from, from the\n\n2870\n02:44:08,322 --> 02:44:11,742\ncommunity. And on that\n\n2871\n02:44:11,842 --> 02:44:12,502\nbasis,\n\n2872\n02:44:14,482 --> 02:44:15,142\nCouncilor\n\n2873\n02:44:16,182 --> 02:44:18,922\nEllis and I put together a\n\n2874\n02:44:19,202 --> 02:44:21,042\nsubstitute,\n\n2875\n02:44:21,602 --> 02:44:24,582\nproposition, that\n\n2876\n02:44:25,762 --> 02:44:29,222\nexplains the, the, the sentiment, I\n\n2877\n02:44:29,262 --> 02:44:31,002\nthink, as, as well as\n\n2878\n02:44:31,862 --> 02:44:34,062\nit can be. It, it shows... It has,\n\n2879\n02:44:35,642 --> 02:44:38,672\nuh... It cites the, four or five\n\n2880\n02:44:39,282 --> 02:44:42,191\nprevious resolutions that we have in our, our\n\n2881\n02:44:42,322 --> 02:44:43,442\ncity,\n\n2882\n02:44:45,022 --> 02:44:48,542\nstrategic plan and our, our city vision,\n\n2883\n02:44:49,422 --> 02:44:52,012\nto affirm that we\n\n2884\n02:44:52,142 --> 02:44:55,862\nare a, undivided, shall we\n\n2885\n02:44:55,902 --> 02:44:59,662\nsay, and in one, one body,\n\n2886\n02:44:59,762 --> 02:45:03,622\nwe support our immigrant community.\n\n2887\n02:45:03,742 --> 02:45:07,122\nUm, we don't support\n\n2888\n02:45:07,242 --> 02:45:10,942\nthe activities that are being\n\n2889\n02:45:10,982 --> 02:45:13,191\npropagated by the,\n\n2890\n02:45:14,962 --> 02:45:17,962\nfederal government at this time. And so\n\n2891\n02:45:18,822 --> 02:45:19,742\nif, if I\n\n2892\n02:45:20,682 --> 02:45:23,502\nmay, what I would like to propose now\n\n2893\n02:45:24,502 --> 02:45:25,642\nis to table the first\n\n2894\n02:45:25,722 --> 02:45:29,438\nresolution-Until after we\n\n2895\n02:45:29,478 --> 02:45:32,928\ndiscussed the proposition that,\n\n2896\n02:45:33,298 --> 02:45:37,188\nwas mailed to our council this morning and\n\n2897\n02:45:37,218 --> 02:45:40,878\npublished, at least it's somewhere published.\n\n2898\n02:45:40,998 --> 02:45:41,268\nUm,\n\n2899\n02:45:42,758 --> 02:45:46,578\nand the, the copy of that proposition should be in your\n\n2900\n02:45:46,598 --> 02:45:50,278\nmailbox, in your email. Do we have\n\n2901\n02:45:50,318 --> 02:45:54,178\ncopies thereof? And we have copies to pass out.\n\n2902\n02:45:54,238 --> 02:45:58,038\nSo that would be, um... Anyway, I motion to\n\n2903\n02:45:58,078 --> 02:45:59,818\ntable the first resolution until\n\n2904\n02:46:00,618 --> 02:46:03,818\nafter we discuss the, the,\n\n2905\n02:46:03,998 --> 02:46:06,658\nproposition from Councilor Ellis\n\n2906\n02:46:08,198 --> 02:46:09,918\nthat, goes into,\n\n2907\n02:46:11,858 --> 02:46:13,218\nthe rationale and the reasoning\n\n2908\n02:46:13,578 --> 02:46:15,398\nfor,\n\n2909\n02:46:17,238 --> 02:46:17,518\nfor\n\n2910\n02:46:18,958 --> 02:46:19,838\na, um-\n\n2911\n02:46:19,898 --> 02:46:20,258\nI have it\n\n2912\n02:46:20,638 --> 02:46:22,198\n... substitute.\n\n2913\n02:46:22,258 --> 02:46:24,038\nI'll second that.\n\n2914\n02:46:25,238 --> 02:46:28,998\nOkay, we have a motion to table, technically time uncertain, although I\n\n2915\n02:46:29,018 --> 02:46:32,958\nthink, we could probably get this on a agenda very fast, assuming\n\n2916\n02:46:33,558 --> 02:46:35,398\neverybody feels that way. Um,\n\n2917\n02:46:36,818 --> 02:46:40,598\ndiscussion, I don't even think there's an ability to discuss on tabling a\n\n2918\n02:46:40,618 --> 02:46:41,318\nmotion really.\n\n2919\n02:46:41,358 --> 02:46:42,298\nWell-\n\n2920\n02:46:42,318 --> 02:46:43,118\nExcept for the time\n\n2921\n02:46:43,178 --> 02:46:46,558\npart.\n\n2922\n02:46:48,698 --> 02:46:51,198\nYeah, there's certain motions we don't get too often, and then I forget how we're\n\n2923\n02:46:51,218 --> 02:46:53,237\nsupposed to do those, so.\n\n2924\n02:46:53,258 --> 02:46:56,138\nSkipping it.\n\n2925\n02:46:56,558 --> 02:46:57,728\nChange.\n\n2926\n02:46:58,918 --> 02:46:59,278\nMayor.\n\n2927\n02:46:59,458 --> 02:47:00,598\nYes, yes.\n\n2928\n02:47:00,658 --> 02:47:03,568\nSo that was a motion to postpone consideration of an item-\n\n2929\n02:47:03,568 --> 02:47:03,568\nYep\n\n2930\n02:47:03,578 --> 02:47:05,458\n... to a certain time. Um-\n\n2931\n02:47:05,998 --> 02:47:06,778\nThat's me.\n\n2932\n02:47:06,818 --> 02:47:10,708\nIt i- ... A r- A second is required, the motion is\n\n2933\n02:47:10,798 --> 02:47:14,338\ndebatable, and the motion is amendable, and it\n\n2934\n02:47:14,398 --> 02:47:15,358\nrequires a majority\n\n2935\n02:47:15,458 --> 02:47:18,678\nvote.\n\n2936\n02:47:20,758 --> 02:47:24,678\nI'm looking on the cheat sheet here under, subsidiary motions number\n\n2937\n02:47:24,778 --> 02:47:28,688\nfour, postpone temporarily, table to a time uncertain.\n\n2938\n02:47:28,778 --> 02:47:32,538\nUm, says motion debatable, no. For some reason it's\n\n2939\n02:47:32,558 --> 02:47:34,598\nwrong.\n\n2940\n02:47:34,678 --> 02:47:35,538\nUm, I-\n\n2941\n02:47:35,578 --> 02:47:37,438\nOh, wait, I'm looking at the wrong one.\n\n2942\n02:47:37,518 --> 02:47:41,128\nI was looking at item number seven just because there was a, a time\n\n2943\n02:47:41,198 --> 02:47:44,938\ncertain, stated by councilor in APAC that-\n\n2944\n02:47:45,098 --> 02:47:47,038\nWhat it said just until we can review.\n\n2945\n02:47:47,078 --> 02:47:49,167\nI don't know if that would be considered time certain.\n\n2946\n02:47:49,398 --> 02:47:52,598\nBut I, I may have misheard. I was passing out the materials.\n\n2947\n02:47:52,618 --> 02:47:56,498\nBut, I thought that she said consider it, after\n\n2948\n02:47:57,438 --> 02:48:01,268\nthe consideration of this resolution reaffirming Corvallis as a\n\n2949\n02:48:01,358 --> 02:48:02,578\nsanctuary city.\n\n2950\n02:48:02,618 --> 02:48:04,918\nRight, and we don't know when that'll be.\n\n2951\n02:48:04,978 --> 02:48:08,528\nOh, I- ... I thought it was right after this discussion during this meeting.\n\n2952\n02:48:08,538 --> 02:48:09,618\nBut feel free to correct me.\n\n2953\n02:48:09,678 --> 02:48:13,138\nI mean, if that's, if that, I, if that was what the intent of the motion was,\n\n2954\n02:48:13,178 --> 02:48:13,908\nCouncilor Nate.\n\n2955\n02:48:16,778 --> 02:48:20,378\nWas it, was it to consider this tonight?\n\n2956\n02:48:20,387 --> 02:48:20,387\nYeah.\n\n2957\n02:48:20,398 --> 02:48:23,278\nThe, 'cause the community has not seen this yet.\n\n2958\n02:48:23,378 --> 02:48:26,258\nUh, to consider the substitute resolution\n\n2959\n02:48:26,318 --> 02:48:27,518\ntonight.\n\n2960\n02:48:27,538 --> 02:48:30,528\nOkay, so you're just wanting to table this other resolution till after we...\n\n2961\n02:48:30,528 --> 02:48:30,978\nToday, okay.\n\n2962\n02:48:31,098 --> 02:48:31,238\nYeah.\n\n2963\n02:48:31,248 --> 02:48:33,278\nSo that's, that's debatable then. All right.\n\n2964\n02:48:33,418 --> 02:48:33,878\nWe can do that?\n\n2965\n02:48:33,898 --> 02:48:36,698\nIt sounded like it was a time uncertain, so that's why.\n\n2966\n02:48:37,138 --> 02:48:39,858\nSo we can debate, it now.\n\n2967\n02:48:42,178 --> 02:48:45,758\nAnd we are debating the tabling, not the resolution itself.\n\n2968\n02:48:45,818 --> 02:48:49,638\nRight, right. Just the motion to table the current discussion of the\n\n2969\n02:48:49,678 --> 02:48:53,568\nresolution to have a discussion about this resolution. That's clear.\n\n2970\n02:48:53,618 --> 02:48:54,158\nOkay.\n\n2971\n02:48:54,918 --> 02:48:56,708\nSo. Councilor Olsen?\n\n2972\n02:48:57,958 --> 02:49:01,718\nUm, I am not in favor of tabling this resolution\n\n2973\n02:49:01,778 --> 02:49:04,798\nuntil afterwards because I believe that the resolution we have in\n\n2974\n02:49:04,838 --> 02:49:07,578\nplace is,\n\n2975\n02:49:07,738 --> 02:49:11,318\num... Well, one, I don't believe we've had enough\n\n2976\n02:49:11,858 --> 02:49:13,238\ntime to review the\n\n2977\n02:49:14,158 --> 02:49:17,598\nsanctuary city resolution, considering I noticed it at\n\n2978\n02:49:18,018 --> 02:49:21,938\n2:00 PM today, while I've had the other resolution for a\n\n2979\n02:49:21,978 --> 02:49:25,198\nwhile. Um, sorry, that came out with way more snark than it meant to.\n\n2980\n02:49:25,218 --> 02:49:26,398\nIt was not meant to be snarky.\n\n2981\n02:49:27,338 --> 02:49:31,298\nUm, yes. But also I think that the resolution we have in front\n\n2982\n02:49:31,318 --> 02:49:35,078\nof us is important, and it provides actionable items as\n\n2983\n02:49:35,118 --> 02:49:38,928\nopposed to just, \"Hey, we're going to say that w- like, we already have\n\n2984\n02:49:38,978 --> 02:49:42,818\nthings in place. We don't need to say again that we're have the\n\n2985\n02:49:42,858 --> 02:49:45,148\nthings in place that we all know we have in place.\n\n2986\n02:49:45,178 --> 02:49:49,038\nSo I, because of those reasons, I believe\n\n2987\n02:49:49,098 --> 02:49:50,418\nthat,\n\n2988\n02:49:51,798 --> 02:49:53,838\nyeah, I don't think we should table this resolution.\n\n2989\n02:49:53,898 --> 02:49:55,778\nI think we should deal with it first, and then\n\n2990\n02:49:56,678 --> 02:50:00,318\nif we want, we can add this item to the agenda.\n\n2991\n02:50:00,378 --> 02:50:02,998\nCouncilor Cadena, then APAC.\n\n2992\n02:50:03,098 --> 02:50:06,778\nYeah, speaking to the motion to table, I\n\n2993\n02:50:06,798 --> 02:50:10,218\nthink that we have to, we have another, we have an\n\n2994\n02:50:10,278 --> 02:50:13,248\nalternative that is worth discussing and\n\n2995\n02:50:13,358 --> 02:50:16,458\na, a different approach that is suggested.\n\n2996\n02:50:16,518 --> 02:50:20,378\nI think that would be the purpose for tabling, is to get to that\n\n2997\n02:50:20,418 --> 02:50:23,618\ndiscussion. So I'm in favor of the tabling.\n\n2998\n02:50:23,658 --> 02:50:25,398\nCouncilor Napack?\n\n2999\n02:50:25,758 --> 02:50:29,618\nI think the information that's in the sanctuary city resolution\n\n3000\n02:50:30,458 --> 02:50:31,458\nis important enough\n\n3001\n02:50:32,298 --> 02:50:36,158\nthat it would, replace quite a bit of what was said in the first\n\n3002\n02:50:36,218 --> 02:50:39,018\nresolution. So I would like to,\n\n3003\n02:50:39,118 --> 02:50:40,918\num... I will vote for\n\n3004\n02:50:40,978 --> 02:50:43,118\ntabling.\n\n3005\n02:50:44,658 --> 02:50:46,958\nAnyone else or should we take a vote?\n\n3006\n02:50:47,878 --> 02:50:49,998\nSeeing the hands.\n\n3007\n02:50:52,138 --> 02:50:54,738\nOkay, let's go ahead and move to a vote.\n\n3008\n02:50:54,818 --> 02:50:58,508\nAll those in favor of the motion to table the current resolution\n\n3009\n02:50:58,578 --> 02:50:58,918\nto\n\n3010\n02:50:59,878 --> 02:51:03,588\npotentially entertain this other resolution, I guess, say,\n\n3011\n02:51:03,588 --> 02:51:04,307\n\"Aye.\"\n\n3012\n02:51:04,378 --> 02:51:04,928\nAye.\n\n3013\n02:51:06,678 --> 02:51:07,768\nAll opposed, say, \"No.\"\n\n3014\n02:51:07,818 --> 02:51:08,038\nNo.\n\n3015\n02:51:08,078 --> 02:51:08,378\nNo.\n\n3016\n02:51:09,278 --> 02:51:12,818\nSound like the ayes have it, so therefore the resolution in the packet is\n\n3017\n02:51:12,898 --> 02:51:16,058\ntabled until after we review this one.\n\n3018\n02:51:16,078 --> 02:51:18,418\nMayor, can I just have the no votes clarify?\n\n3019\n02:51:18,498 --> 02:51:22,148\nI believe I heard Councilor Olsen and Councilor Lewis. Thank you.\n\n3020\n02:51:22,158 --> 02:51:22,638\nThat's what I heard\n\n3021\n02:51:24,078 --> 02:51:25,758\nas... Councilor Lewis.\n\n3022\n02:51:27,278 --> 02:51:30,998\nI do hear the concern that people didn't get the motion until later on\n\n3023\n02:51:31,038 --> 02:51:33,958\ntoday, or t- the, the new resolution till later on today.\n\n3024\n02:51:33,978 --> 02:51:35,438\nSo if that, um-\n\n3025\n02:51:35,942 --> 02:51:39,802\nI, I understand that. And I, if I, if I hadn't been, involved in\n\n3026\n02:51:39,862 --> 02:51:43,622\nit, I would probably be a little, squiffy about it as well, and I do not\n\n3027\n02:51:43,702 --> 02:51:47,342\nthink that Councilor Ol-Olson was intending to be snarky.\n\n3028\n02:51:47,922 --> 02:51:51,252\nUm, when I looked at the\n\n3029\n02:51:51,342 --> 02:51:55,242\nresolution, and I looked at the actions,\n\n3030\n02:51:55,362 --> 02:51:57,342\nI had con- Even... And I'm totally\n\n3031\n02:51:58,642 --> 02:52:02,422\nconcerned also about ICE coming to Corvallis, but I looked at\n\n3032\n02:52:02,482 --> 02:52:06,302\nthe actions, that were suggested, and I\n\n3033\n02:52:06,402 --> 02:52:09,902\nthought, to quote Director Blaine,\n\n3034\n02:52:10,862 --> 02:52:14,012\nhe likes to underpromise and overdeliver, and this\n\n3035\n02:52:14,022 --> 02:52:17,982\nfelt to me like the opposite. We are promising to do things that we probably\n\n3036\n02:52:18,042 --> 02:52:21,822\ncould not do. Um, we actually asked Director\n\n3037\n02:52:21,902 --> 02:52:25,842\nBilotta if we could ban, a facility, and\n\n3038\n02:52:25,882 --> 02:52:29,292\nhe said, \"No, I've never heard that question before, and no.\"\n\n3039\n02:52:29,382 --> 02:52:33,252\nUm, private property, as places all over the country are finding\n\n3040\n02:52:33,302 --> 02:52:37,042\nout to their great dismay. Um, so there are\n\n3041\n02:52:37,082 --> 02:52:40,702\nthings in there that we can't do. And then,\n\n3042\n02:52:41,342 --> 02:52:43,722\nI actually really like working with Councilor Napack on\n\n3043\n02:52:43,782 --> 02:52:47,702\nresolutions. Um, she, she, she's got a really good eye\n\n3044\n02:52:47,762 --> 02:52:50,932\nfor them, so I reached out to Councilor Napack and asked to work with\n\n3045\n02:52:50,942 --> 02:52:54,192\nher. And, she discovered\n\n3046\n02:52:54,782 --> 02:52:58,582\nthe, the House bills and the Senate bills that were sitting on the\n\n3047\n02:52:58,602 --> 02:53:02,542\ngovernor's desk, and actually I believe talked to Sen- Representative\n\n3048\n02:53:02,582 --> 02:53:06,122\nFinger McDonald about them at the legislative breakfast, and\n\n3049\n02:53:06,202 --> 02:53:09,962\nthey hit considerable of the other things that were\n\n3050\n02:53:10,022 --> 02:53:13,862\nthere. And so I... And I think it's much better for the state to do\n\n3051\n02:53:13,942 --> 02:53:17,442\nthis so it's everywhere and it's clear than for us to do it.\n\n3052\n02:53:17,462 --> 02:53:21,082\nSo that combination of promising to do things that we legally\n\n3053\n02:53:21,262 --> 02:53:25,202\ncouldn't do, and then the state taking action made\n\n3054\n02:53:25,242 --> 02:53:28,902\nme think that this might be a better situation.\n\n3055\n02:53:29,002 --> 02:53:32,782\nI do think that there are a couple of things in here that we\n\n3056\n02:53:32,862 --> 02:53:33,702\ncould direct\n\n3057\n02:53:34,822 --> 02:53:38,222\nthe city or the city manager or somebody to do.\n\n3058\n02:53:38,342 --> 02:53:42,172\nUm, if we pass the, the, the,\n\n3059\n02:53:42,202 --> 02:53:45,981\nthe resolution that we wrote with the Senate and the s-\n\n3060\n02:53:46,862 --> 02:53:49,762\ns- or with the House bills and the Senate bills in it, I think there's a couple\n\n3061\n02:53:49,802 --> 02:53:53,742\nof things in there that we could dir- then direct the city manager\n\n3062\n02:53:53,782 --> 02:53:57,542\nto do, such as using the city communication platforms to\n\n3063\n02:53:57,562 --> 02:53:59,991\ncommunita- communicate to the community.\n\n3064\n02:53:59,991 --> 02:54:02,862\nThat seems to me to be a pretty straightforward thing.\n\n3065\n02:54:02,902 --> 02:54:06,602\nAnd perhaps, asking Jedi to solicit community\n\n3066\n02:54:06,642 --> 02:54:10,242\nempowerment grants in the next cycle, 'cause unfortunately the request\n\n3067\n02:54:10,582 --> 02:54:13,442\nhas already gone out this year and we can't change it.\n\n3068\n02:54:13,502 --> 02:54:17,422\nUm, those things seem, like, doable, but some of the other things just felt\n\n3069\n02:54:19,022 --> 02:54:22,362\nlike something we couldn't do, and I didn't wanna promise something that we just\n\n3070\n02:54:22,422 --> 02:54:22,892\ncouldn't\n\n3071\n02:54:22,962 --> 02:54:26,642\ndo.\n\n3072\n02:54:29,242 --> 02:54:30,762\nCouncilor Greena and then Olson.\n\n3073\n02:54:32,262 --> 02:54:35,542\nUh, I wanna thank, both, Councilor Ellis and Councilor\n\n3074\n02:54:35,602 --> 02:54:39,462\nNapack for what I think is, nicely done\n\n3075\n02:54:39,542 --> 02:54:42,782\nwork. Um, I think the reference to\n\n3076\n02:54:42,842 --> 02:54:45,722\nthe, the bills in the Oregon\n\n3077\n02:54:45,762 --> 02:54:49,382\nlegislature, is a very strong addition and\n\n3078\n02:54:49,422 --> 02:54:52,322\nrecognition that we're not in this alone.\n\n3079\n02:54:52,442 --> 02:54:56,362\nUm, absolutely. I also... Uh, I'm not gonna reiterate everything that\n\n3080\n02:54:56,432 --> 02:54:59,382\nCouncilor Ellis said because I think I agree with it.\n\n3081\n02:54:59,502 --> 02:55:02,592\nUm, but I also wanna say f- beyond\n\n3082\n02:55:02,682 --> 02:55:05,021\nthat, I think the, the\n\n3083\n02:55:05,102 --> 02:55:08,982\nresolves, speak much more strongly\n\n3084\n02:55:09,922 --> 02:55:13,812\nto what we wanna say to our community, and\n\n3085\n02:55:13,862 --> 02:55:16,982\nthat is our support for every, every member of our\n\n3086\n02:55:17,002 --> 02:55:20,702\ncommunity, and a re-affirmation of our\n\n3087\n02:55:20,742 --> 02:55:24,442\nvalues. I think that comes across much more strongly in this resolution, and\n\n3088\n02:55:24,502 --> 02:55:27,722\nI, I really like that. I think that,\n\n3089\n02:55:27,822 --> 02:55:31,682\num... I think it's\n\n3090\n02:55:31,742 --> 02:55:35,712\nimportant, um... I think\n\n3091\n02:55:35,762 --> 02:55:39,742\nthis ke- I think this keeps the, the direction we're pursuing\n\n3092\n02:55:39,802 --> 02:55:43,142\nvery clear without trying to overspecify.\n\n3093\n02:55:43,162 --> 02:55:47,082\nAnd I think when we overspecify, we tend to get into that potentially\n\n3094\n02:55:47,142 --> 02:55:49,022\npromising something we couldn't deliver on\n\n3095\n02:55:50,242 --> 02:55:51,562\nor,\n\n3096\n02:55:52,982 --> 02:55:56,762\nmaking requests that are a ch- a challenge for staff to\n\n3097\n02:55:56,782 --> 02:55:59,782\nfigure out. Um, so I, I like the tone.\n\n3098\n02:55:59,842 --> 02:56:03,012\nI like the level of detail on this. I think that, um...\n\n3099\n02:56:03,062 --> 02:56:06,562\nAnd I feel particularly, good about the,\n\n3100\n02:56:07,282 --> 02:56:08,532\nthe message that it sends to the\n\n3101\n02:56:08,532 --> 02:56:11,562\ncommunity.\n\n3102\n02:56:11,602 --> 02:56:15,062\nCouncilor Olson. And I will point out at this point there is no\n\n3103\n02:56:15,082 --> 02:56:16,602\nresolution on the table.\n\n3104\n02:56:16,612 --> 02:56:16,612\nMm.\n\n3105\n02:56:16,642 --> 02:56:20,492\nSo if, if there's, if there's interest in having the city recorder read it and\n\n3106\n02:56:20,522 --> 02:56:22,152\nmove forward today, that would...\n\n3107\n02:56:22,202 --> 02:56:25,102\nsomething we would need to do before anything happens.\n\n3108\n02:56:25,122 --> 02:56:27,102\nBut Councilor Olson.\n\n3109\n02:56:27,182 --> 02:56:30,662\nShould I give Councilor Ellis a chance to do that first?\n\n3110\n02:56:30,942 --> 02:56:31,932\nShe seemed like she wanted to-\n\n3111\n02:56:31,932 --> 02:56:33,862\nWell, I'll look for head nods. Do we want, do we wanna,\n\n3112\n02:56:35,982 --> 02:56:39,542\npotentially, not definitely, 'cause that takes a vote, adopt this resolution?\n\n3113\n02:56:39,552 --> 02:56:41,202\nShould the city recorder read it to get it?\n\n3114\n02:56:42,802 --> 02:56:46,482\nI am gonna move that the city recorder read the resolution.\n\n3115\n02:56:46,502 --> 02:56:49,042\nI don't think that really needs a motion to have it, have it read.\n\n3116\n02:56:49,062 --> 02:56:51,132\nThe motion comes after that, which is the more important part.\n\n3117\n02:56:51,162 --> 02:56:55,142\nSo we'll go ahead and, we'll go ahead and, um... Hmm?\n\n3118\n02:56:55,182 --> 02:56:55,352\nTalk to\n\n3119\n02:56:56,202 --> 02:56:56,252\nme.\n\n3120\n02:56:57,222 --> 02:57:01,062\nCity recorder, will you please read the resolution?\n\n3121\n02:57:01,122 --> 02:57:04,632\nYes, Mayor. The title of the resolution is A Resolution Reaffirming\n\n3122\n02:57:04,722 --> 02:57:07,302\nCorvallis as a Sanctuary City.\n\n3123\n02:57:09,282 --> 02:57:12,742\nNow this would be the point when someone would make a motion to move it forward.\n\n3124\n02:57:12,802 --> 02:57:14,682\nSo moved.\n\n3125\n02:57:14,782 --> 02:57:17,262\nSecond.\n\n3126\n02:57:18,782 --> 02:57:20,162\nCouncilor Olson?\n\n3127\n02:57:20,202 --> 02:57:24,142\nYeah. Um, so first off, I'm going to vote in favor\n\n3128\n02:57:24,162 --> 02:57:28,022\nof this resolution because I agree with everything it says and\n\n3129\n02:57:28,042 --> 02:57:31,302\nthink it's a good one. Um, I am going to\n\n3130\n02:57:31,342 --> 02:57:35,092\nsay, and I am going to say this\n\n3131\n02:57:35,142 --> 02:57:38,762\nwith the backing of this is not-\n\n3132\n02:57:39,458 --> 02:57:43,338\nThese are a lot of emotions that I have felt, and they are not exclusively directed\n\n3133\n02:57:43,358 --> 02:57:46,938\nat this council. But this is my favorite type of resolution, the\n\n3134\n02:57:46,978 --> 02:57:50,758\nkind that lists a whole bunch of values and does nothing to\n\n3135\n02:57:50,838 --> 02:57:54,258\nprotect them, which says the City of Corvallis\n\n3136\n02:57:54,698 --> 02:57:58,118\nlikes what the state's doing, but we don't think that we're important enough,\n\n3137\n02:57:58,158 --> 02:58:02,058\nor, and we don't care about our community enough to put in our own\n\n3138\n02:58:02,098 --> 02:58:05,068\nprotections on top of what the state's doing.\n\n3139\n02:58:05,078 --> 02:58:09,018\nIt's a list of, \"Hey, here's some cool stuff people have done.\" Things,\n\n3140\n02:58:09,038 --> 02:58:12,018\na list that you could have pulled off online, or if you had read\n\n3141\n02:58:12,618 --> 02:58:14,628\nliterally any article on\n\n3142\n02:58:15,478 --> 02:58:19,248\nwhat happened this legislative session, which I've read many, these would have\n\n3143\n02:58:19,258 --> 02:58:20,868\nbeen highlighted. Um,\n\n3144\n02:58:22,818 --> 02:58:26,458\nyeah. It's, it's saying that w-we love, we love\n\n3145\n02:58:26,518 --> 02:58:29,718\nimmigrants, we love the people in our community, but we aren't going to take any\n\n3146\n02:58:29,818 --> 02:58:33,558\nactions as a city to protect them. We aren't going to\n\n3147\n02:58:33,598 --> 02:58:36,758\ntake any actions as a city to even\n\n3148\n02:58:36,838 --> 02:58:40,208\nconsider... Not like... M- All of the...\n\n3149\n02:58:40,258 --> 02:58:44,038\nAt least in the old resolution, which is not on the table, none of those were we\n\n3150\n02:58:44,078 --> 02:58:47,478\nare going to do this, or are we are going to look into doing\n\n3151\n02:58:47,498 --> 02:58:48,978\nthis. And\n\n3152\n02:58:49,778 --> 02:58:52,458\nthis has none of that. It is, it's,\n\n3153\n02:58:54,338 --> 02:58:58,058\nit's like the No Kings protest. It's a whole bunch of people yelling and\n\n3154\n02:58:58,098 --> 02:59:01,398\nmaking no movements and no community involvement.\n\n3155\n02:59:01,478 --> 02:59:04,788\nAnd I am very, very\n\n3156\n02:59:04,818 --> 02:59:08,718\nfrustrated. And also, if anyone tries to be like, \"Well, why didn't you say\n\n3157\n02:59:08,778 --> 02:59:11,848\nthis when we talked about the trans sanctuary resolution?\" I would have loved if\n\n3158\n02:59:11,898 --> 02:59:15,278\nthat resolution had any actionable steps by the city, but when we were bringing it\n\n3159\n02:59:15,298 --> 02:59:18,798\nforward, we considered it too diverse of a, too di-divisive as\n\n3160\n02:59:18,938 --> 02:59:21,938\nis, so we didn't want to even push that.\n\n3161\n02:59:21,978 --> 02:59:25,778\nBut anyways, to... Yeah. So my\n\n3162\n02:59:25,798 --> 02:59:29,148\nopinion on this is that, sure, it's great, it's wonderful,\n\n3163\n02:59:29,218 --> 02:59:32,828\nit's the same thing we see. It's, it's\n\n3164\n02:59:32,898 --> 02:59:34,238\njust,\n\n3165\n02:59:35,298 --> 02:59:39,118\nit's pointless. It's pointless when these are already things that we as a\n\n3166\n02:59:39,138 --> 02:59:42,858\ncommunity believe, already things we have signed in a resolution,\n\n3167\n02:59:42,878 --> 02:59:46,798\nalready things the state has done, and we're just writing our own list\n\n3168\n02:59:46,858 --> 02:59:50,718\nto make us feel good. Thank you.\n\n3169\n02:59:51,298 --> 02:59:54,138\nPlease don't. Do not applaud, please.\n\n3170\n02:59:54,238 --> 02:59:57,358\nUm, I will say, Councilor Olsen, I appreciate your opinion, and I share\n\n3171\n02:59:57,398 --> 02:59:59,018\nit.\n\n3172\n03:00:01,138 --> 03:00:02,638\nBut here we are, so .\n\n3173\n03:00:03,758 --> 03:00:07,538\nAny other discussion on the current re-re-resolution? Councilor Neidbach.\n\n3174\n03:00:07,598 --> 03:00:11,318\nI, I appreciate, Councilor Olsen's passion.\n\n3175\n03:00:11,438 --> 03:00:14,028\nUh, I, I, I do need to point out, though,\n\n3176\n03:00:14,098 --> 03:00:16,458\nthat if we\n\n3177\n03:00:17,718 --> 03:00:21,678\ndid with what it says in the first resolution, we would be duplicating what the\n\n3178\n03:00:21,738 --> 03:00:25,248\nstate legislature has just done. They have\n\n3179\n03:00:25,258 --> 03:00:28,968\nwritten extreme, you know, quite a bit of, uh...\n\n3180\n03:00:28,998 --> 03:00:31,848\nIf you read the rules, the public schools have to,\n\n3181\n03:00:32,598 --> 03:00:35,398\ndevelop, programs,\n\n3182\n03:00:38,898 --> 03:00:39,198\na-adopt\n\n3183\n03:00:39,208 --> 03:00:41,698\npolicies to notify families, students, and staff.\n\n3184\n03:00:41,758 --> 03:00:43,938\nWe, we couldn't tell the school district to do\n\n3185\n03:00:44,038 --> 03:00:47,738\nthat. But they did do it. Okay.\n\n3186\n03:00:47,878 --> 03:00:51,398\nThey, uh... We can't tell employers to,\n\n3187\n03:00:53,378 --> 03:00:54,758\num... They, they can't\n\n3188\n03:00:56,438 --> 03:01:00,258\nthis, that, or the other thing. We, we could, but the state is already\n\n3189\n03:01:00,318 --> 03:01:03,378\nsaying it, so why should we duplicate that?\n\n3190\n03:01:03,498 --> 03:01:05,318\nI'm also seeing, you know, the,\n\n3191\n03:01:06,658 --> 03:01:10,638\nlaw enforcement operations. If they come to Corvallis,\n\n3192\n03:01:10,658 --> 03:01:12,018\nand Corvallis is the only\n\n3193\n03:01:13,238 --> 03:01:17,178\ncity that has a, a rec- a, a law that\n\n3194\n03:01:17,238 --> 03:01:20,718\nsays you can't wear, face coverings,\n\n3195\n03:01:21,338 --> 03:01:25,238\nas opposed to the entire state saying you can't do that, and the power of the\n\n3196\n03:01:25,398 --> 03:01:28,898\nstate legislature behind that rule,\n\n3197\n03:01:29,478 --> 03:01:32,938\nas opposed to tiny Corvallis. It, it, it makes a\n\n3198\n03:01:32,978 --> 03:01:35,448\ndifference that the state has adopted these\n\n3199\n03:01:36,518 --> 03:01:39,618\nand other resolutions to protect all of\n\n3200\n03:01:39,658 --> 03:01:43,478\nOregon, and we're gonna put... If we piggyback on\n\n3201\n03:01:43,518 --> 03:01:47,348\nthose, we still end up with the same rules and\n\n3202\n03:01:47,418 --> 03:01:51,178\nregulations in Corvallis that we would otherwise had we invented them\n\n3203\n03:01:51,218 --> 03:01:54,818\nourselves or carried them, carried through with them ourselves.\n\n3204\n03:01:54,858 --> 03:01:55,518\nThank you.\n\n3205\n03:01:55,558 --> 03:01:59,518\nI'd like to interject, Mayor. We keep referring back to the other resolution\n\n3206\n03:01:59,558 --> 03:02:02,978\nthat's been tabled and not really talking much about the resolution that's\n\n3207\n03:02:03,038 --> 03:02:06,678\ncurrently on the table. So if we can keep comments to the current\n\n3208\n03:02:06,738 --> 03:02:09,888\nresolution, 'cause if it, it... No matter what, after we address this, the other\n\n3209\n03:02:09,918 --> 03:02:13,858\none goes back, comes back. So we can discuss concerns or\n\n3210\n03:02:13,918 --> 03:02:14,518\nwhatever about the other-\n\n3211\n03:02:14,528 --> 03:02:15,688\nUh, yeah. Thank you. Thank you.\n\n3212\n03:02:15,918 --> 03:02:17,218\nBut keeping things moving here.\n\n3213\n03:02:17,258 --> 03:02:20,898\nBut it, but, but this, this proposition, the sanctuary city proposition, actually\n\n3214\n03:02:20,938 --> 03:02:21,498\nhas more\n\n3215\n03:02:22,458 --> 03:02:26,398\nin it, that... The talking about\n\n3216\n03:02:26,478 --> 03:02:29,078\nlandlord-tenant confidentiality.\n\n3217\n03:02:29,198 --> 03:02:32,998\nUm, it talks about, the federal\n\n3218\n03:02:33,038 --> 03:02:36,938\ngovernment having to register their law enforcement activities to the\n\n3219\n03:02:36,978 --> 03:02:39,238\nlocal jurisdiction. Um,\n\n3220\n03:02:40,118 --> 03:02:43,538\nregulates access to public hospitals by federal agents.\n\n3221\n03:02:43,618 --> 03:02:46,718\nIt, orders public bodies may not give certain data to data\n\n3222\n03:02:46,798 --> 03:02:49,838\nbrokers based on immigration data.\n\n3223\n03:02:49,938 --> 03:02:52,768\nUm, so it is very... You know, the state did a good\n\n3224\n03:02:52,818 --> 03:02:56,038\njob. And the governor\n\n3225\n03:02:56,138 --> 03:03:00,058\nis... Both houses, the Senate and the House, passed these.\n\n3226\n03:03:00,078 --> 03:03:03,058\nThey're enrolled. Uh, these will become\n\n3227\n03:03:03,558 --> 03:03:06,038\nordinances. These will become laws.\n\n3228\n03:03:06,058 --> 03:03:09,578\nThey will be, have to be followed by everyone in Oregon,\n\n3229\n03:03:09,638 --> 03:03:11,758\nincluding our fair\n\n3230\n03:03:11,818 --> 03:03:13,958\ncity.\n\n3231\n03:03:14,318 --> 03:03:16,328\nThank you.\n\n3232\n03:03:16,338 --> 03:03:16,758\nAnyone else?\n\n3233\n03:03:18,758 --> 03:03:22,718\nIf there was something in the resolves to encourage\n\n3234\n03:03:22,738 --> 03:03:26,658\nthe city manager that somebody wishes, wished to add into the\n\n3235\n03:03:26,718 --> 03:03:30,018\nresolution, that is easily\n\n3236\n03:03:30,028 --> 03:03:31,698\ndone.\n\n3237\n03:03:31,718 --> 03:03:32,198\nTechnically.\n\n3238\n03:03:32,238 --> 03:03:35,938\nI'm not, I'm not addressing either the, the values of either resolution.\n\n3239\n03:03:35,978 --> 03:03:39,598\nI'm just saying that if there was something that we felt like needed to be\n\n3240\n03:03:39,698 --> 03:03:43,218\nadded in, that would be, that would be a pretty straightforward\n\n3241\n03:03:43,278 --> 03:03:47,238\nmotion, or it could be a standalone motion at,\n\n3242\n03:03:47,318 --> 03:03:48,118\nafter we've-\n\n3243\n03:03:48,242 --> 03:03:50,082\nWe finish with this\n\n3244\n03:03:50,122 --> 03:03:54,002\nCall again. City manager.\n\n3245\n03:03:54,062 --> 03:03:57,732\nAs, as Councilor Napack was speaking, it just made me think,\n\n3246\n03:03:57,802 --> 03:04:01,302\njust this is purely from a practical standpoint,\n\n3247\n03:04:02,262 --> 03:04:02,662\nshould\n\n3248\n03:04:03,782 --> 03:04:07,452\nthese laws and directives be challenged, it will be the state that\n\n3249\n03:04:07,482 --> 03:04:08,762\ndefends those,\n\n3250\n03:04:10,522 --> 03:04:14,362\nand not the city, which I think there's, from a financial and\n\n3251\n03:04:14,442 --> 03:04:17,642\njust a, a resource standpoint,\n\n3252\n03:04:19,202 --> 03:04:21,662\nis helpful for the city. And s-certainly, I\n\n3253\n03:04:21,682 --> 03:04:25,562\nthink the resources of the state, having them bring that to\n\n3254\n03:04:25,622 --> 03:04:29,322\nbear rather than us trying to bring, our resources to\n\n3255\n03:04:29,362 --> 03:04:30,382\nbear, are likely to be\n\n3256\n03:04:31,342 --> 03:04:33,282\nmore effective, if anything is to be\n\n3257\n03:04:33,322 --> 03:04:35,722\neffective.\n\n3258\n03:04:36,902 --> 03:04:38,602\nAnything else on this resolution or should we move to a\n\n3259\n03:04:38,682 --> 03:04:41,422\nvote?\n\n3260\n03:04:43,182 --> 03:04:44,422\nCouncil Mayers.\n\n3261\n03:04:44,522 --> 03:04:47,282\nI have a parliamentary sort of a question.\n\n3262\n03:04:47,322 --> 03:04:49,242\nMm-hmm. Go ahead.\n\n3263\n03:04:49,282 --> 03:04:53,162\nWell, it just seems to me that this is kind\n\n3264\n03:04:53,202 --> 03:04:57,182\nof like a, substitution, or could be\n\n3265\n03:04:57,242 --> 03:04:59,262\na substitution.\n\n3266\n03:04:59,302 --> 03:05:02,742\nKind of, except for it completely eliminates the direction of the other\n\n3267\n03:05:02,782 --> 03:05:03,872\none. So the other one-\n\n3268\n03:05:03,902 --> 03:05:04,222\nWell-\n\n3269\n03:05:04,242 --> 03:05:07,762\nThe other one's not gone away. I think it was tabled.\n\n3270\n03:05:07,802 --> 03:05:08,322\nSo it's-\n\n3271\n03:05:08,382 --> 03:05:09,202\nRight. It should have-\n\n3272\n03:05:09,222 --> 03:05:12,212\nIt's, it's just been taken on, put on another table instead of the table we're\n\n3273\n03:05:12,282 --> 03:05:12,762\ndealing with.\n\n3274\n03:05:12,772 --> 03:05:12,772\nOkay.\n\n3275\n03:05:12,802 --> 03:05:15,202\nAnd then that resolution is now on this table.\n\n3276\n03:05:15,262 --> 03:05:18,302\nSo once we vote on this, regardless of its\n\n3277\n03:05:18,362 --> 03:05:20,502\noutcome, we're back to the other resolution.\n\n3278\n03:05:20,542 --> 03:05:21,672\nOkay. That seems-\n\n3279\n03:05:21,682 --> 03:05:24,702\nSo it's, it's because of it being... No, no, it's not a substitution.\n\n3280\n03:05:24,802 --> 03:05:25,042\nOkay.\n\n3281\n03:05:25,102 --> 03:05:26,982\nIt's a, a first this.\n\n3282\n03:05:27,062 --> 03:05:29,202\nOkay.\n\n3283\n03:05:30,602 --> 03:05:31,382\nCouncilor Napack.\n\n3284\n03:05:31,442 --> 03:05:33,422\nYou, do you think we should div-divide the\n\n3285\n03:05:33,462 --> 03:05:35,522\nquestion?\n\n3286\n03:05:35,532 --> 03:05:38,172\nNo. I mean, it is already divided. We're asking, we're asking one question right\n\n3287\n03:05:38,172 --> 03:05:38,662\nnow. Do we want-\n\n3288\n03:05:38,682 --> 03:05:42,072\nBut if we, if we pass one resolution, then the other one's moot.\n\n3289\n03:05:42,122 --> 03:05:42,962\nNope.\n\n3290\n03:05:43,002 --> 03:05:43,602\nNope?\n\n3291\n03:05:43,622 --> 03:05:44,082\nNot at all.\n\n3292\n03:05:44,122 --> 03:05:45,142\nWe can pass them both?\n\n3293\n03:05:45,202 --> 03:05:45,942\nTechnically.\n\n3294\n03:05:46,002 --> 03:05:48,302\nOh, okay.\n\n3295\n03:05:48,362 --> 03:05:51,842\nThey are two separate resolutions. We didn't vote down the other one.\n\n3296\n03:05:51,882 --> 03:05:55,582\nIt was just tabled. So let's go ahead and take a\n\n3297\n03:05:55,622 --> 03:05:59,412\nvote, and then just for clarity, I wanna do a roll call vote on this if...\n\n3298\n03:05:59,442 --> 03:06:02,382\nSure. Jack. City recorder, if you would,\n\n3299\n03:06:02,402 --> 03:06:03,622\nplease.\n\n3300\n03:06:03,662 --> 03:06:07,222\nYes. This is a vote regarding the resolution reaffirming Corvallis's\n\n3301\n03:06:07,302 --> 03:06:09,202\nsanctuary city. Councilors\n\n3302\n03:06:09,682 --> 03:06:11,342\nLewis.\n\n3303\n03:06:11,422 --> 03:06:12,181\nYes.\n\n3304\n03:06:12,262 --> 03:06:12,882\nShaffer.\n\n3305\n03:06:13,442 --> 03:06:13,982\nYes.\n\n3306\n03:06:14,702 --> 03:06:15,622\nMayors.\n\n3307\n03:06:15,662 --> 03:06:17,242\nYeah. Yes.\n\n3308\n03:06:17,322 --> 03:06:18,342\nMorefield.\n\n3309\n03:06:18,422 --> 03:06:19,142\nYes.\n\n3310\n03:06:19,182 --> 03:06:19,982\nNapack.\n\n3311\n03:06:20,042 --> 03:06:20,722\nYes.\n\n3312\n03:06:20,762 --> 03:06:21,802\nCadena.\n\n3313\n03:06:21,842 --> 03:06:22,462\nYes.\n\n3314\n03:06:22,482 --> 03:06:24,282\nBowden. Olson.\n\n3315\n03:06:24,322 --> 03:06:25,082\nYes.\n\n3316\n03:06:25,102 --> 03:06:25,842\nEllis.\n\n3317\n03:06:25,902 --> 03:06:27,242\nYes.\n\n3318\n03:06:27,262 --> 03:06:29,522\nThe resolution passes eight to zero.\n\n3319\n03:06:29,582 --> 03:06:33,522\nThank you very much. Now, we're back to the\n\n3320\n03:06:33,542 --> 03:06:36,082\nresolution that was tabled, was motioned and\n\n3321\n03:06:36,142 --> 03:06:40,082\nseconded. Um, and I'm gonna speak to it a minute 'cause there's been some things\n\n3322\n03:06:40,142 --> 03:06:43,222\nsaid that I, I kind of scratched my head a bit thinking about it,\n\n3323\n03:06:44,062 --> 03:06:47,482\nstating there are things in there that we cannot do or that would be\n\n3324\n03:06:47,522 --> 03:06:51,122\nillegal. However, nowhere on here does it say to do those things\n\n3325\n03:06:51,322 --> 03:06:55,032\nexactly. It says that the city c- the council of the city of\n\n3326\n03:06:55,082 --> 03:06:59,032\nCorvallis resolves to encourage the city manager to continue to take\n\n3327\n03:06:59,162 --> 03:07:03,042\nactions demonstrating this commitment, including a ) to evaluate\n\n3328\n03:07:03,102 --> 03:07:06,802\nlegal avenues to prevent, delay, or disadvantage the development of facilities to\n\n3329\n03:07:06,842 --> 03:07:09,142\nbe used for federal immigration enforcement purposes.\n\n3330\n03:07:09,182 --> 03:07:11,502\nIt does not say block development.\n\n3331\n03:07:11,562 --> 03:07:13,882\nIt doesn't say to not allow development.\n\n3332\n03:07:13,902 --> 03:07:16,722\nIt says to pursue legal avenues, 'cause maybe there's something out there.\n\n3333\n03:07:16,742 --> 03:07:20,422\nMaybe there'll be, our district attorney, you know, or, or, or,\n\n3334\n03:07:20,682 --> 03:07:24,162\nOregon district attorney might come up with some legal battle that he, that gets\n\n3335\n03:07:24,222 --> 03:07:27,802\nwon, that shows, that sets precedence that we can block.\n\n3336\n03:07:27,862 --> 03:07:31,502\nCurrently, doesn't seem like we could. But we can evaluate it.\n\n3337\n03:07:31,542 --> 03:07:34,762\nTo evaluate legal avenues for peace officers of the city to request to identif-\n\n3338\n03:07:34,802 --> 03:07:38,542\nidentify, identity of apparent immigration enforcement agents when\n\n3339\n03:07:38,562 --> 03:07:39,462\nlegally permissible.\n\n3340\n03:07:40,262 --> 03:07:43,362\nDoesn't say you're definitely gonna, it says you're gonna evaluate if it's legally\n\n3341\n03:07:43,402 --> 03:07:47,271\npermissible. I think that's, it's, it's, it's work- we're, we're,\n\n3342\n03:07:47,282 --> 03:07:49,782\nthis is high level direction as far as I'm concerned.\n\n3343\n03:07:50,122 --> 03:07:53,292\nAgain, to utilize existing city communication platforms to connect the community\n\n3344\n03:07:53,322 --> 03:07:56,642\nwith clear and reputable information. I think we should already be doing that.\n\n3345\n03:07:56,662 --> 03:08:00,202\nWe have a city website, and I think we should be able to provide clear guidance to\n\n3346\n03:08:00,242 --> 03:08:03,182\nthe community of where they can find other information.\n\n3347\n03:08:03,242 --> 03:08:06,982\nUm, that, that's the law. We, we kind of already do that with our\n\n3348\n03:08:07,042 --> 03:08:10,342\nmunicipal code. It's on there. That's the law.\n\n3349\n03:08:10,462 --> 03:08:10,772\nUm,\n\n3350\n03:08:12,562 --> 03:08:15,712\nd ) to ident- to identify and evaluate additional opportunities\n\n3351\n03:08:16,202 --> 03:08:19,322\nconsistent with the city's legal authority, again make sure we're doing it within\n\n3352\n03:08:19,362 --> 03:08:22,572\nlegal authority, to collaborate with community-based organizations, service\n\n3353\n03:08:22,622 --> 03:08:26,092\nproviders, regional partners to support community trust, access to information, and\n\n3354\n03:08:26,102 --> 03:08:29,842\npublic safety for all residents. We sort of already do that.\n\n3355\n03:08:31,902 --> 03:08:35,662\nE ) To consider adoption of the Attorney General's model policies regarding\n\n3356\n03:08:35,682 --> 03:08:39,592\nimmigration where appropriate. We should already be doing that.\n\n3357\n03:08:40,842 --> 03:08:44,162\nAnd then f ) To ensure all non-public spaces in city buildings are clearly\n\n3358\n03:08:44,182 --> 03:08:47,872\nidentified and labeled with signage indicating restricted access.\n\n3359\n03:08:47,902 --> 03:08:51,142\nWe have some of that in City Hall. I haven't been to every city facility to find\n\n3360\n03:08:51,162 --> 03:08:53,102\nout if it's done everywhere, but that's good.\n\n3361\n03:08:53,122 --> 03:08:55,942\nThat's something that I encourage every\n\n3362\n03:08:56,082 --> 03:08:59,882\nbusiness, school, anywhere that has areas that are for\n\n3363\n03:08:59,902 --> 03:09:03,182\nemployees only should have those labels up, because\n\n3364\n03:09:03,202 --> 03:09:06,952\nthen police, regardless of what, entity it is,\n\n3365\n03:09:06,962 --> 03:09:10,362\ncannot enter without a warrant. So\n\n3366\n03:09:10,422 --> 03:09:12,802\nthat's... I mean, we're not saying we're gonna\n\n3367\n03:09:14,062 --> 03:09:17,742\noverhaul buildings. It's signage, and it'll, it might take a while depending on how\n\n3368\n03:09:17,782 --> 03:09:20,202\nmuch is needed. But it just, it's to, it's\n\n3369\n03:09:21,442 --> 03:09:25,022\nto encourage the city manager to continue taking these actions.\n\n3370\n03:09:25,122 --> 03:09:27,902\nI think that's pretty clear. And regarding the comment about the Jedi board\n\n3371\n03:09:27,982 --> 03:09:31,362\nsoliciting community empowerment grant applications, it doesn't say when.\n\n3372\n03:09:32,362 --> 03:09:34,662\nSo I agree, they're already kind of in it.\n\n3373\n03:09:34,702 --> 03:09:38,542\nIt couldn't be done, but maybe the next time, which I think is a good\n\n3374\n03:09:38,602 --> 03:09:41,612\nidea, obviously. And then sending copies of this\n\n3375\n03:09:41,622 --> 03:09:45,402\nresolution. We probably would do that anyway, so at least I would like to think we\n\n3376\n03:09:45,422 --> 03:09:48,562\nwould. So I, I personally do not see the major\n\n3377\n03:09:48,582 --> 03:09:52,418\nconcern-Um, this is action. This is saying we're gonna\n\n3378\n03:09:52,478 --> 03:09:56,358\ndo these things, but it doesn't say exactly when or whether we can\n\n3379\n03:09:56,398 --> 03:09:58,868\nlegally accomplish it. We're just gonna try.\n\n3380\n03:09:58,978 --> 03:10:01,278\nWe're gonna try to find out what we can do legally.\n\n3381\n03:10:01,378 --> 03:10:01,568\nUm,\n\n3382\n03:10:02,538 --> 03:10:06,218\nand as, Director Bilotta apparently said, like, maybe there's no way we can\n\n3383\n03:10:06,438 --> 03:10:09,678\nblock a facility, and that would be unfortunate 'cause I really don't want\n\n3384\n03:10:09,718 --> 03:10:12,598\none, or anywhere, honestly. So\n\n3385\n03:10:13,978 --> 03:10:16,318\nmy, my hope is that this gets a- adopted, but\n\n3386\n03:10:17,618 --> 03:10:18,538\nyou're all the councilors.\n\n3387\n03:10:19,998 --> 03:10:21,258\nCouncilor Olson.\n\n3388\n03:10:21,298 --> 03:10:24,428\nYeah. Um, I second everything you ever...\n\n3389\n03:10:24,478 --> 03:10:28,408\nyou just said about all of these being, we're going to evaluate, we're\n\n3390\n03:10:28,418 --> 03:10:32,358\ngoing to con- look at this. An evaluation means we can look at it\n\n3391\n03:10:32,398 --> 03:10:34,888\nand decide that's not legal, and then we would...\n\n3392\n03:10:34,918 --> 03:10:37,287\nwe don't do it, and that's the end of that.\n\n3393\n03:10:37,358 --> 03:10:41,198\nUm, so to sum up what you said, additionally,\n\n3394\n03:10:41,558 --> 03:10:45,478\nall... this language was all reviewed by our city attorney multiple times and\n\n3395\n03:10:45,498 --> 03:10:47,938\nwas edited and then sent back, and then edited again.\n\n3396\n03:10:47,998 --> 03:10:51,918\nSo our city attorney has, examined this, determined all of the leg- language\n\n3397\n03:10:51,938 --> 03:10:55,708\nin here to be legal and things we can do.\n\n3398\n03:10:55,778 --> 03:10:59,558\nUm, this resolution does not include everything that was in the\n\n3399\n03:10:59,578 --> 03:11:02,848\nprevious resolution because it was written with the knowledge that the state was\n\n3400\n03:11:02,898 --> 03:11:06,228\nworking on these, and so we didn't need to replicate efforts.\n\n3401\n03:11:06,258 --> 03:11:10,038\nAnd in fact, things such as, you know, evaluating\n\n3402\n03:11:10,098 --> 03:11:13,778\nlegal avenues for the city to request the identity of apparent\n\n3403\n03:11:14,338 --> 03:11:18,258\nimmigration agents, that will be so much easier now that they cannot wear masks\n\n3404\n03:11:18,298 --> 03:11:22,018\ndue to state limitations, and they have to have visible ID.\n\n3405\n03:11:22,078 --> 03:11:25,638\nSo we are asking... And if anything, it will make the community safer,\n\n3406\n03:11:25,678 --> 03:11:26,278\nconsidering\n\n3407\n03:11:27,258 --> 03:11:30,738\nOSU has already had people on campus pretending to be fake\n\n3408\n03:11:30,818 --> 03:11:34,758\nimmigration agents. And that, for\n\n3409\n03:11:34,818 --> 03:11:35,918\nme personally, that\n\n3410\n03:11:36,918 --> 03:11:40,888\nspecific, you know, letter B is really important because\n\n3411\n03:11:40,998 --> 03:11:44,648\nI don't want my community to be able to be terrorized by three bored\n\n3412\n03:11:44,758 --> 03:11:48,638\nfrat guys who decide to... that they wanna be immigration agents.\n\n3413\n03:11:48,678 --> 03:11:52,578\nAnd so by coming at it as we're requesting their identification to make sure that\n\n3414\n03:11:52,598 --> 03:11:55,878\nthey're legal immigration agents and not just some guy,\n\n3415\n03:11:56,478 --> 03:12:00,358\num... Yeah. And then, oh my gosh, I had one more thing I\n\n3416\n03:12:00,378 --> 03:12:04,338\nwas gonna say on this. Yeah. Broad- I am\n\n3417\n03:12:04,538 --> 03:12:07,228\njust in support of taking actual\n\n3418\n03:12:08,218 --> 03:12:11,998\nactions on this, and I am very proud of all of\n\n3419\n03:12:12,078 --> 03:12:15,408\nthe work that the community has put into this.\n\n3420\n03:12:15,458 --> 03:12:15,758\nAnd\n\n3421\n03:12:17,258 --> 03:12:21,138\nyeah, I am proud to have my name on it, and also Mayor Mon's name,\n\n3422\n03:12:21,178 --> 03:12:23,198\nwhoever's names ends up being on there.\n\n3423\n03:12:23,238 --> 03:12:25,878\nAnd additio- oh, that was the other thing.\n\n3424\n03:12:25,898 --> 03:12:29,638\nAnd for people who worry that we might be getting our\n\n3425\n03:12:29,698 --> 03:12:33,258\nhands dirty by putting additional restrictions on things\n\n3426\n03:12:33,338 --> 03:12:36,958\nor by drawing attention to us by the federal government,\n\n3427\n03:12:36,998 --> 03:12:40,818\nwe're already involved in legal activities\n\n3428\n03:12:40,858 --> 03:12:44,238\nrelating to the federal government, so it's not like they don't know who we\n\n3429\n03:12:44,338 --> 03:12:47,688\nare. They know about the city of Corvallis. That's not...\n\n3430\n03:12:47,698 --> 03:12:50,618\nWe're not not on their list. We're already on their\n\n3431\n03:12:50,678 --> 03:12:53,918\nlist. So it, it can't\n\n3432\n03:12:54,018 --> 03:12:56,358\nhurt, and I am fully in support of this\n\n3433\n03:12:56,398 --> 03:12:59,698\nresolution.\n\n3434\n03:13:00,278 --> 03:13:02,478\nCouncilor Moorfield?\n\n3435\n03:13:02,598 --> 03:13:03,278\nUm-\n\n3436\n03:13:03,358 --> 03:13:04,968\nOh, go ahead.\n\n3437\n03:13:04,968 --> 03:13:07,418\nI, I'm substantially supportive.\n\n3438\n03:13:07,538 --> 03:13:10,838\nUm, most of these things are\n\n3439\n03:13:10,878 --> 03:13:14,638\ncommonsensical, and they align well with the resolution we already passed\n\n3440\n03:13:14,678 --> 03:13:17,378\nand, and aren't necessarily in conflict.\n\n3441\n03:13:17,498 --> 03:13:19,058\nUm, the,\n\n3442\n03:13:20,378 --> 03:13:23,098\nthe only question I had,\n\n3443\n03:13:24,338 --> 03:13:28,178\neven though it uses the word evaluate legal av- avenues,\n\n3444\n03:13:28,198 --> 03:13:31,658\nit's specific... I'm talking about A now.\n\n3445\n03:13:31,718 --> 03:13:34,958\nIt's specific to the development of facilities.\n\n3446\n03:13:35,078 --> 03:13:38,858\nUm, you said that the city attorney reviewed\n\n3447\n03:13:38,918 --> 03:13:42,598\nthis and didn't have a problem with the language.\n\n3448\n03:13:42,738 --> 03:13:46,638\nUm, the question I wanna make s- I wanna see if it was asked or\n\n3449\n03:13:46,678 --> 03:13:50,378\nif city, city attorney's not with us now, I assume.\n\n3450\n03:13:50,398 --> 03:13:52,978\nYeah. Um, I'm gonna ask the question.\n\n3451\n03:13:53,078 --> 03:13:55,838\nUm, when we say ahead of time\n\n3452\n03:13:56,658 --> 03:14:00,378\nthat we're going to oppose or delay, prevent,\n\n3453\n03:14:00,398 --> 03:14:03,858\ndisadvantage the development of facilities, which\n\n3454\n03:14:04,258 --> 03:14:07,818\nrequires a l- which may involve a land use action,\n\n3455\n03:14:09,378 --> 03:14:11,458\nwe are actually disadvantag-\n\n3456\n03:14:11,838 --> 03:14:12,958\ndisadvantaging\n\n3457\n03:14:14,158 --> 03:14:17,238\nourselves in making a case,\n\n3458\n03:14:18,118 --> 03:14:21,018\nor being able to make a case to say no, if that makes\n\n3459\n03:14:21,078 --> 03:14:24,698\nsense. In other words, if we're presented with\n\n3460\n03:14:24,758 --> 03:14:28,398\nsomething that requires some sort of discretionary review,\n\n3461\n03:14:30,018 --> 03:14:33,098\nand I don't know what... You know, there's times most development these days does\n\n3462\n03:14:33,138 --> 03:14:36,248\nnot have much discretion attached to it, but it does\n\n3463\n03:14:36,318 --> 03:14:39,948\nsometimes. And I don't know enough about where things like\n\n3464\n03:14:39,978 --> 03:14:43,798\njails are even allowed in our, our town from a land use point of\n\n3465\n03:14:43,818 --> 03:14:47,058\nview to understand what issues may or may not be\n\n3466\n03:14:47,098 --> 03:14:48,458\ninvolved. But,\n\n3467\n03:14:49,278 --> 03:14:52,678\nyou know, when we've had certain kinds of land use related\n\n3468\n03:14:52,718 --> 03:14:56,698\ndecisions, we have to declare whether we have a bias or not.\n\n3469\n03:14:56,718 --> 03:14:59,498\nAnd if we do, we have to recuse ourselves.\n\n3470\n03:14:59,518 --> 03:15:00,098\nMm-hmm.\n\n3471\n03:15:00,158 --> 03:15:03,628\nSo if we're gonna pass a resolution saying, \"Oh, we oppose this on\n\n3472\n03:15:03,658 --> 03:15:07,588\nprinciple,\" and then we're gonna b- also, not\n\n3473\n03:15:07,618 --> 03:15:11,558\nhave to recuse ourselves if we're presented with a decision that is a\n\n3474\n03:15:11,578 --> 03:15:15,388\ndiscretionary one that gets to the level of the council, I, I don't know why\n\n3475\n03:15:15,458 --> 03:15:19,168\nthe, the attorney wouldn't have addressed that. Um...\n\n3476\n03:15:19,198 --> 03:15:22,178\nCan I respond to this? Okay. Um,\n\n3477\n03:15:23,218 --> 03:15:26,948\nyeah. Uh, main... So when we were...\n\n3478\n03:15:26,958 --> 03:15:30,938\nWell, I say we. I'm reading from a document that really wasn't\n\n3479\n03:15:30,958 --> 03:15:33,288\nput together by myself, but from\n\n3480\n03:15:34,178 --> 03:15:37,238\nboth the city attorney and the city manager, it was\n\n3481\n03:15:37,318 --> 03:15:40,678\nread, item A was read as a request for a\n\n3482\n03:15:40,778 --> 03:15:44,578\nstaff/city attorney, to determine what\n\n3483\n03:15:44,678 --> 03:15:47,578\nlegal means the city might have to prevent an ICE facility.\n\n3484\n03:15:47,638 --> 03:15:51,098\nI think that there will be few options for the city to regulate use on private\n\n3485\n03:15:51,158 --> 03:15:53,858\nproperty outside of current zoning limitations.\n\n3486\n03:15:53,898 --> 03:15:57,158\nThat said, it is something that council could af- ask time to\n\n3487\n03:15:57,198 --> 03:16:00,498\nspend, ask staff to spend time researching.\n\n3488\n03:16:00,538 --> 03:16:03,238\nAdditionally, like you, like-\n\n3489\n03:16:03,258 --> 03:16:04,698\nExcuse me, Councilor Olson, real quick.\n\n3490\n03:16:04,758 --> 03:16:04,768\nYeah.\n\n3491\n03:16:04,778 --> 03:16:06,458\nCity manager's had his hand raised.\n\n3492\n03:16:06,478 --> 03:16:06,958\nI wanna see what-\n\n3493\n03:16:07,290 --> 03:16:11,130\nI, I, I just wanna clarify. From my knowledge, the city\n\n3494\n03:16:11,190 --> 03:16:14,930\nattorney reviewed an earlier version that was presented,\n\n3495\n03:16:14,950 --> 03:16:18,710\nand I did appreciate, the request for that review.\n\n3496\n03:16:18,730 --> 03:16:22,710\nBut, to my knowledge, the city attorney did not review\n\n3497\n03:16:22,850 --> 03:16:24,750\nthe version that's actually in here.\n\n3498\n03:16:24,770 --> 03:16:27,850\nThe version, that's in the council\n\n3499\n03:16:27,970 --> 03:16:31,930\npacket, was revised based on some comments, but\n\n3500\n03:16:31,970 --> 03:16:33,650\nnot reviewed again by the city\n\n3501\n03:16:33,710 --> 03:16:36,290\nattorney.\n\n3502\n03:16:37,810 --> 03:16:39,550\nYeah. Were you just reading an email?\n\n3503\n03:16:40,390 --> 03:16:44,310\nUh, I was reading comments on the document itself that I was provided, so.\n\n3504\n03:16:44,350 --> 03:16:46,230\nYeah, 'cause that, that, that could be considered\n\n3505\n03:16:47,790 --> 03:16:51,430\nconfidential client information from the city attorney.\n\n3506\n03:16:52,730 --> 03:16:55,979\nIt, it was g- it was given to a community member, not me.\n\n3507\n03:16:55,979 --> 03:16:55,979\nOh.\n\n3508\n03:16:56,050 --> 03:16:59,390\nSo I'm assuming it's not confidential since the community's not clients.\n\n3509\n03:16:59,430 --> 03:17:03,020\nTo clarify, those were comments I wrote based on\n\n3510\n03:17:03,070 --> 03:17:06,870\ninformation I got from the, the city attorney, and again, those\n\n3511\n03:17:06,930 --> 03:17:10,030\ncomments were on a previous\n\n3512\n03:17:10,090 --> 03:17:12,270\nversion.\n\n3513\n03:17:12,330 --> 03:17:13,830\nYeah.\n\n3514\n03:17:13,850 --> 03:17:17,150\nBut this language was on the previous version you reviewed,\n\n3515\n03:17:17,210 --> 03:17:20,270\nright? That clause specifically?\n\n3516\n03:17:20,590 --> 03:17:22,750\nNot as written, no.\n\n3517\n03:17:22,810 --> 03:17:24,730\nOkay.\n\n3518\n03:17:25,750 --> 03:17:29,300\nI mean, to say what I had said earlier\n\n3519\n03:17:29,450 --> 03:17:32,970\nalso, we're evaluating avenues. We send it to the attorney, they\n\n3520\n03:17:33,010 --> 03:17:36,520\nsay, \"Yeah, this will get you in trouble with the land use.\" And we go,\n\n3521\n03:17:36,520 --> 03:17:40,190\n\"Great. Good to know.\" And then that's the end of the\n\n3522\n03:17:40,250 --> 03:17:41,930\nstory.\n\n3523\n03:17:41,950 --> 03:17:42,010\nAnd-\n\n3524\n03:17:42,030 --> 03:17:45,440\nLet me make a suggestion, though, that saying it...\n\n3525\n03:17:45,530 --> 03:17:48,990\nAsking the question is fine, but putting it in the form of\n\n3526\n03:17:49,070 --> 03:17:52,950\na resolution, we're stating a position, an end to\n\n3527\n03:17:53,010 --> 03:17:55,650\nwhich... that we're trying to achieve.\n\n3528\n03:17:55,730 --> 03:17:58,290\nAnd, from a land\n\n3529\n03:17:58,390 --> 03:18:02,250\nuse, perspective, we're,\n\n3530\n03:18:02,290 --> 03:18:06,070\nwe're pre-judging a land use request that might come\n\n3531\n03:18:06,110 --> 03:18:10,090\nour way and, and that, that is grounds for\n\n3532\n03:18:10,170 --> 03:18:12,750\napplicants to say, \"You have to recuse yourself.\"\n\n3533\n03:18:12,790 --> 03:18:13,830\nTechnically true.\n\n3534\n03:18:14,030 --> 03:18:14,240\nYeah.\n\n3535\n03:18:14,270 --> 03:18:16,400\nAnd, and, and, and, you know, at the end, we also...\n\n3536\n03:18:16,430 --> 03:18:19,350\nWhen there's, when there's public hearings on land use, we also ask, you know, \"Is\n\n3537\n03:18:19,410 --> 03:18:22,670\nthis the appropriate body for this decision?\" And one might be going,\n\n3538\n03:18:22,690 --> 03:18:25,890\n\"No.\" And then the decision is no longer ours to make.\n\n3539\n03:18:27,130 --> 03:18:29,230\nSo, y- yeah.\n\n3540\n03:18:29,970 --> 03:18:33,210\nSo I mean, I, I, I, I get your point, and I don't think you're wrong\n\n3541\n03:18:33,250 --> 03:18:35,610\nnecessarily, so.\n\n3542\n03:18:37,160 --> 03:18:38,650\nCouncilor Cadena.\n\n3543\n03:18:38,710 --> 03:18:42,460\nYeah, a couple comments. There was a comment made earlier about, the feds\n\n3544\n03:18:42,690 --> 03:18:44,380\ncomplying with our land development code.\n\n3545\n03:18:44,450 --> 03:18:48,030\nI believe that when the feds do any kind of\n\n3546\n03:18:48,070 --> 03:18:51,310\nfacility, they don't have to comply with local land development code.\n\n3547\n03:18:51,390 --> 03:18:53,250\nIs that correct, city manager?\n\n3548\n03:18:53,470 --> 03:18:57,350\nThat's correct. Whether it's a post office or\n\n3549\n03:18:57,390 --> 03:19:00,699\nany other facility, they, they may take into\n\n3550\n03:19:00,710 --> 03:19:04,610\nconsideration local land use, but there's a supremacy clause that they\n\n3551\n03:19:04,630 --> 03:19:08,370\ndo not have to follow, state or local land use\n\n3552\n03:19:08,510 --> 03:19:09,490\nregulations.\n\n3553\n03:19:09,550 --> 03:19:12,890\nOkay. So my... the... I just wanted to clarify that one point.\n\n3554\n03:19:12,990 --> 03:19:14,890\nUm, the rest of my comments are\n\n3555\n03:19:16,150 --> 03:19:19,850\nI don't want anybody to mistake that I think what's going on in\n\n3556\n03:19:19,950 --> 03:19:23,380\ns- immigration enforcement is abhorrent,\n\n3557\n03:19:23,470 --> 03:19:26,650\nand the lack of due process, poor training,\n\n3558\n03:19:27,490 --> 03:19:30,950\nthe targeting of folks, with\n\n3559\n03:19:31,270 --> 03:19:34,900\nlikely no probable cause, et cetera, et cetera. It's...\n\n3560\n03:19:36,690 --> 03:19:40,070\nUh, there's... Words can't describe it.\n\n3561\n03:19:40,210 --> 03:19:43,080\nUm, I have a, a... I think that\n\n3562\n03:19:44,270 --> 03:19:45,910\nI'm also sensitive to\n\n3563\n03:19:47,470 --> 03:19:51,250\nwhen we say that we're gonna encourage the city manager to evaluate certain things\n\n3564\n03:19:51,350 --> 03:19:54,319\nthat I, I don't, I don't like putting something...\n\n3565\n03:19:54,350 --> 03:19:57,510\nasking the staff to do things that,\n\n3566\n03:19:57,830 --> 03:20:01,660\nbasically will result in nothing. I, and...\n\n3567\n03:20:01,710 --> 03:20:05,170\nOr, or that we set staff up for an\n\n3568\n03:20:05,250 --> 03:20:09,180\nexpectation that something will come out of it, and the, and\n\n3569\n03:20:09,270 --> 03:20:12,970\nthe viewpoint is, \"I don't know what we can\n\n3570\n03:20:13,010 --> 03:20:16,330\ndo.\" But beyond that, aside from the staff\n\n3571\n03:20:16,370 --> 03:20:18,590\nimpact,\n\n3572\n03:20:19,630 --> 03:20:23,450\nI think that, Councilor Olsen made the comment\n\n3573\n03:20:23,530 --> 03:20:26,410\nthat, you know, we want something that does something.\n\n3574\n03:20:26,530 --> 03:20:30,070\nUh, we want a resolution that does something.\n\n3575\n03:20:30,310 --> 03:20:33,179\nI, I think one could make an argument this resolution won't do...\n\n3576\n03:20:33,250 --> 03:20:34,650\naccomplish anything\n\n3577\n03:20:35,710 --> 03:20:37,250\nfrom the perspective of\n\n3578\n03:20:38,130 --> 03:20:41,090\ncontaining ICE. I think that\n\n3579\n03:20:42,850 --> 03:20:43,670\nwhat I,\n\n3580\n03:20:44,850 --> 03:20:45,970\nwhat I think is\n\n3581\n03:20:46,930 --> 03:20:50,850\nfrom my personal experience, my personal perspective, and perhaps it's because\n\n3582\n03:20:50,930 --> 03:20:52,050\nI grew up in a different era\n\n3583\n03:20:53,110 --> 03:20:56,370\nand because I'm old, but I think\n\n3584\n03:20:56,430 --> 03:20:58,690\nthat\n\n3585\n03:21:01,050 --> 03:21:04,830\nbecause I b- because I grew up in San Jose, California,\n\n3586\n03:21:04,910 --> 03:21:08,810\nand yeah, there's a lot of Latinos in, in San Jose now, and but\n\n3587\n03:21:08,910 --> 03:21:10,470\nwe were definitely a minority.\n\n3588\n03:21:11,850 --> 03:21:12,250\nAnd\n\n3589\n03:21:14,810 --> 03:21:17,190\nI've, I've gotten... I've grown quite weary\n\n3590\n03:21:18,810 --> 03:21:21,580\nof politicians doing things\n\n3591\n03:21:22,990 --> 03:21:25,520\nbut they're not actually accomplishing anything.\n\n3592\n03:21:25,550 --> 03:21:29,350\nAnd by doing things, I mean by making statements.\n\n3593\n03:21:29,490 --> 03:21:33,250\nMy favorite being, of course, \"Of course I'm in favor of common sense\n\n3594\n03:21:33,370 --> 03:21:36,160\nimmigration reform,\" and yet that's\n\n3595\n03:21:37,670 --> 03:21:41,040\nnever been delivered. I think I\n\n3596\n03:21:41,070 --> 03:21:44,990\nwant... I think the mess we have at the\n\n3597\n03:21:45,030 --> 03:21:49,020\nfederal level, I want it to be resolved. And I, I wish that our...\n\n3598\n03:21:49,050 --> 03:21:52,710\nI don't wanna go off on a rant, but I wish that our legislature would actually pass\n\n3599\n03:21:52,750 --> 03:21:56,420\nsome laws that would address the very specific issues\n\n3600\n03:21:57,170 --> 03:22:00,110\nthat the country by and large supports.\n\n3601\n03:22:00,190 --> 03:22:04,110\nI think you have to control the border, you have to have a good immigration\n\n3602\n03:22:04,190 --> 03:22:07,810\npolicy, and you have to provide a f- path towards citizenship.\n\n3603\n03:22:07,820 --> 03:22:11,050\nLike I don't see that this does anything but create a false\n\n3604\n03:22:11,090 --> 03:22:14,630\nexpectation. This resolution creates a false expectation that\n\n3605\n03:22:15,110 --> 03:22:18,740\nthere's going to be some-Change that occurs\n\n3606\n03:22:18,780 --> 03:22:21,920\nbecause of the city manager or city staff taking\n\n3607\n03:22:22,020 --> 03:22:24,190\naction. And\n\n3608\n03:22:25,040 --> 03:22:28,860\nI mean, it might make us feel good, but I\n\n3609\n03:22:28,880 --> 03:22:32,440\nthink what the best thing we can do is to support our\n\n3610\n03:22:32,500 --> 03:22:35,320\ncommunity to know that they\n\n3611\n03:22:35,420 --> 03:22:37,900\nhave... That we have their backs.\n\n3612\n03:22:39,300 --> 03:22:43,200\nUm, and I think we need to have the backs of our vulnerable\n\n3613\n03:22:43,500 --> 03:22:46,100\nmembers in ways that maybe\n\n3614\n03:22:47,520 --> 03:22:49,700\nare consistent with their concerns.\n\n3615\n03:22:49,710 --> 03:22:51,880\nAnd I'll, I'll give an example without being too\n\n3616\n03:22:51,900 --> 03:22:55,860\nexplicit. There's a lot of talk about making\n\n3617\n03:22:55,900 --> 03:22:58,420\nthings very visible. My wife's a physician.\n\n3618\n03:22:58,430 --> 03:23:00,280\nThere are physicians that are concerned about\n\n3619\n03:23:01,180 --> 03:23:04,820\nvulnerable populations that will not go to appointments, et\n\n3620\n03:23:04,860 --> 03:23:08,540\ncetera. There's already a significant effort to try to\n\n3621\n03:23:08,580 --> 03:23:09,820\naddress that concern,\n\n3622\n03:23:10,740 --> 03:23:13,060\nby choice from participants and\n\n3623\n03:23:13,220 --> 03:23:15,600\npractitioners.\n\n3624\n03:23:16,920 --> 03:23:18,140\nThere's a desire to\n\n3625\n03:23:20,820 --> 03:23:21,750\nmake sure that\n\n3626\n03:23:22,579 --> 03:23:25,380\nconfidentiality and, and in\n\n3627\n03:23:25,500 --> 03:23:28,620\nfact, anonymity is\n\n3628\n03:23:28,660 --> 03:23:32,220\npreserved. I don't want more visibility of\n\n3629\n03:23:32,280 --> 03:23:32,710\nthings\n\n3630\n03:23:33,740 --> 03:23:37,440\nthat appear to be accomplishing something, but they're actually not.\n\n3631\n03:23:37,480 --> 03:23:41,460\nSo I, I'm not in favor of this resolution because I don't\n\n3632\n03:23:41,480 --> 03:23:43,520\nthink it sp- it speaks to what we can do.\n\n3633\n03:23:43,960 --> 03:23:45,320\nI think it promises things that\n\n3634\n03:23:46,560 --> 03:23:50,460\nrealistically I don't know how to evaluate city staff when we ask them to\n\n3635\n03:23:50,500 --> 03:23:54,060\ndo something that can't be done.\n\n3636\n03:23:55,820 --> 03:23:59,420\nIs there something urgent, pressings? I really wanted to move towards a vote.\n\n3637\n03:23:59,440 --> 03:24:02,880\nIt's after nine thirty at night, but if you have something,\n\n3638\n03:24:02,940 --> 03:24:03,680\nsure.\n\n3639\n03:24:05,620 --> 03:24:05,860\nThank\n\n3640\n03:24:05,940 --> 03:24:09,720\nyou.\n\n3641\n03:24:10,200 --> 03:24:10,560\nUm,\n\n3642\n03:24:11,780 --> 03:24:15,420\nyes. Um, it's been said that, we need to\n\n3643\n03:24:15,460 --> 03:24:19,040\nevaluate legal avenues and so forth with land use.\n\n3644\n03:24:19,080 --> 03:24:22,880\nIt's already been stated very clearly by our city manager and\n\n3645\n03:24:22,920 --> 03:24:25,829\nby Paul Balota that those legal avenues are not\n\n3646\n03:24:25,900 --> 03:24:29,320\navailable. And so I don't see the point\n\n3647\n03:24:29,400 --> 03:24:33,340\nof, A, to\n\n3648\n03:24:33,380 --> 03:24:36,919\nevaluate legal avenues for peace officers of the city to request the\n\n3649\n03:24:36,940 --> 03:24:40,200\nidentity of apparent immigration enforcement agents when legally\n\n3650\n03:24:40,240 --> 03:24:44,160\npermissible. It's pretty much legally\n\n3651\n03:24:44,200 --> 03:24:46,590\npermissible after stuff has happened.\n\n3652\n03:24:46,700 --> 03:24:50,580\nIf law enforcement stops something to\n\n3653\n03:24:50,590 --> 03:24:54,520\nask for their ID while it's happening, that's a big\n\n3654\n03:24:54,580 --> 03:24:58,410\nno-no. I did a lot of research on this before\n\n3655\n03:24:58,460 --> 03:24:59,720\nthis meeting because\n\n3656\n03:25:01,240 --> 03:25:03,060\nI was concerned about putting our\n\n3657\n03:25:04,460 --> 03:25:08,260\nofficers in a legally questionable position,\n\n3658\n03:25:08,360 --> 03:25:10,040\nand\n\n3659\n03:25:11,300 --> 03:25:14,980\nI guess what I'm saying is there's really no way to do A or B.\n\n3660\n03:25:15,900 --> 03:25:16,380\nAnd so\n\n3661\n03:25:17,180 --> 03:25:20,040\nto, to explore legal avenues to do them\n\n3662\n03:25:20,940 --> 03:25:24,870\nlooks like a very much a dead end. As far as\n\n3663\n03:25:24,920 --> 03:25:28,320\nthe rest of it, you know, our staff is totally maxed\n\n3664\n03:25:28,420 --> 03:25:31,720\nout. I mean, I would love to do all of it.\n\n3665\n03:25:31,940 --> 03:25:32,480\nI don't know\n\n3666\n03:25:33,720 --> 03:25:36,000\nhow much of it we can do. I mean, this is just\n\n3667\n03:25:36,100 --> 03:25:39,480\nreality. And so, anyway,\n\n3668\n03:25:40,960 --> 03:25:43,360\nand it kills me because it's a horrible\n\n3669\n03:25:43,400 --> 03:25:46,640\nsituation. Um,\n\n3670\n03:25:46,680 --> 03:25:50,340\nanyhow, we've said enough, I guess.\n\n3671\n03:25:50,360 --> 03:25:52,520\nWe move to a vote.\n\n3672\n03:25:53,460 --> 03:25:57,020\nCan we have a roll call vote, please, city recorder?\n\n3673\n03:25:57,060 --> 03:26:00,620\nYes, Mayor. This is a vote on the resolution addressing escalating federal\n\n3674\n03:26:00,660 --> 03:26:01,970\nimmigration enforcement.\n\n3675\n03:26:03,160 --> 03:26:05,960\nCouncilors Moorfield?\n\n3676\n03:26:08,020 --> 03:26:09,160\nNo.\n\n3677\n03:26:09,220 --> 03:26:10,100\nEllis?\n\n3678\n03:26:10,160 --> 03:26:10,780\nNo.\n\n3679\n03:26:10,800 --> 03:26:11,640\nOlsen?\n\n3680\n03:26:11,700 --> 03:26:12,329\nYes.\n\n3681\n03:26:12,340 --> 03:26:13,320\nKadena?\n\n3682\n03:26:13,360 --> 03:26:13,980\nNo.\n\n3683\n03:26:14,000 --> 03:26:16,240\nBowden? Napack?\n\n3684\n03:26:16,320 --> 03:26:17,340\nNo.\n\n3685\n03:26:17,360 --> 03:26:18,920\nSchafer?\n\n3686\n03:26:18,960 --> 03:26:19,340\nNo.\n\n3687\n03:26:20,220 --> 03:26:21,020\nLewis?\n\n3688\n03:26:21,080 --> 03:26:21,840\nYes.\n\n3689\n03:26:21,880 --> 03:26:22,460\nMayors?\n\n3690\n03:26:22,520 --> 03:26:23,360\nNo.\n\n3691\n03:26:23,400 --> 03:26:25,990\nThe resolution fails two to six.\n\n3692\n03:26:26,000 --> 03:26:27,240\nThank you all for the conversation.\n\n3693\n03:26:28,380 --> 03:26:28,750\nOkay.\n\n3694\n03:26:28,780 --> 03:26:29,940\nWe'll move now on to the-\n\n3695\n03:26:30,000 --> 03:26:30,580\nMayor?\n\n3696\n03:26:30,640 --> 03:26:33,320\nYes. Council Ellis.\n\n3697\n03:26:33,420 --> 03:26:37,380\nI did say that we could, independently move,\n\n3698\n03:26:38,200 --> 03:26:40,320\nsome of the things in the,\n\n3699\n03:26:41,520 --> 03:26:45,210\nsuggestions after we decided on whether or not to avoid, to,\n\n3700\n03:26:46,520 --> 03:26:49,130\nto approve the resolution. So I am going to move\n\n3701\n03:26:49,180 --> 03:26:53,120\nto utilize ci- existing city communication platforms\n\n3702\n03:26:53,160 --> 03:26:57,120\nto connect the community with clear and reputable information available in both\n\n3703\n03:26:57,180 --> 03:27:00,560\nEnglish and Spanish regarding, I'm just gonna read the whole\n\n3704\n03:27:00,600 --> 03:27:04,460\nthing. A, rights afforded to immigrants under federal and state law.\n\n3705\n03:27:04,780 --> 03:27:08,570\nB, community-based legal and social service resources available to immigrants and\n\n3706\n03:27:08,600 --> 03:27:12,180\ntheir families. And C, other relevant info, information\n\n3707\n03:27:12,220 --> 03:27:16,200\nintended to support community awareness and access to services for\n\n3708\n03:27:16,300 --> 03:27:18,200\ninformational purposes only.\n\n3709\n03:27:19,320 --> 03:27:19,820\nSecond.\n\n3710\n03:27:21,360 --> 03:27:23,460\nThank you. We have a motion and a second.\n\n3711\n03:27:23,470 --> 03:27:27,050\nAny discussion needed on this item? Question Napack?\n\n3712\n03:27:27,050 --> 03:27:31,040\nA friendly amendment perhaps is that it's not just Spanish, but Farsi\n\n3713\n03:27:31,100 --> 03:27:33,800\nand everything else.\n\n3714\n03:27:34,600 --> 03:27:34,950\nSorry.\n\n3715\n03:27:35,020 --> 03:27:38,420\nI would think, I would think to the ability that a website-\n\n3716\n03:27:38,760 --> 03:27:39,180\nNever mind\n\n3717\n03:27:39,200 --> 03:27:40,850\n... may be, I would, I would try to-\n\n3718\n03:27:40,920 --> 03:27:41,780\nI retract.\n\n3719\n03:27:41,800 --> 03:27:45,020\nOkay. I, I, I like the idea that, you know, Arabic and everything else, and it's\n\n3720\n03:27:45,060 --> 03:27:47,100\nlike I'm sure the city staff can figure out-\n\n3721\n03:27:47,180 --> 03:27:50,640\nEverything else is a pretty broad category.\n\n3722\n03:27:50,680 --> 03:27:50,830\nYeah.\n\n3723\n03:27:51,100 --> 03:27:51,400\nYeah. Oh-\n\n3724\n03:27:51,460 --> 03:27:51,990\nTo whatever extent-\n\n3725\n03:27:52,000 --> 03:27:54,220\nAs, as appropriate, how about that?\n\n3726\n03:27:54,230 --> 03:27:54,230\nYeah.\n\n3727\n03:27:54,240 --> 03:27:55,940\nThank you.\n\n3728\n03:27:55,980 --> 03:27:57,580\nAll right. Let's go ahead and take a vote on this.\n\n3729\n03:27:57,620 --> 03:27:59,860\nAll those in favor of the motion, say aye.\n\n3730\n03:28:00,360 --> 03:28:00,370\nAye.\n\n3731\n03:28:00,400 --> 03:28:01,580\nAye.\n\n3732\n03:28:01,590 --> 03:28:01,590\nAye.\n\n3733\n03:28:01,600 --> 03:28:04,840\nAll opposed, say no. That passed unanimously.\n\n3734\n03:28:04,880 --> 03:28:06,600\nThank you, Councilor Ellis. Go ahead.\n\n3735\n03:28:06,680 --> 03:28:10,540\nUm, I'm also going to move, because I think that we could do this over time,\n\n3736\n03:28:10,620 --> 03:28:14,360\nsection F: To ensure all non-public spaces and city buildings are\n\n3737\n03:28:14,420 --> 03:28:17,940\nclearly identified and labeled with signage indicating restricted\n\n3738\n03:28:18,040 --> 03:28:19,960\naccess.\n\n3739\n03:28:20,920 --> 03:28:21,460\nSecond.\n\n3740\n03:28:25,024 --> 03:28:28,524\nYeah, I, I actually believe, that's already been done based\n\n3741\n03:28:28,584 --> 03:28:31,324\non other issues a couple years ago.\n\n3742\n03:28:31,364 --> 03:28:34,804\nBut we can, we can confirm that.\n\n3743\n03:28:34,844 --> 03:28:35,624\nYep. Um-\n\n3744\n03:28:35,634 --> 03:28:37,004\nI suspected as much.\n\n3745\n03:28:37,044 --> 03:28:37,544\nYeah. So\n\n3746\n03:28:38,364 --> 03:28:42,194\nyeah, if this passes, we will just confirm that that work has been done.\n\n3747\n03:28:42,224 --> 03:28:45,884\nAppreciate that. Discussion? No.\n\n3748\n03:28:46,144 --> 03:28:48,804\nAll in favor of the motion, say aye.\n\n3749\n03:28:48,864 --> 03:28:49,584\nAye.\n\n3750\n03:28:49,644 --> 03:28:50,584\nAye.\n\n3751\n03:28:50,594 --> 03:28:50,594\nAye.\n\n3752\n03:28:50,604 --> 03:28:51,844\nAll opposed, say no.\n\n3753\n03:28:51,904 --> 03:28:53,444\nDid that get a second?\n\n3754\n03:28:53,504 --> 03:28:53,964\nYes, it did.\n\n3755\n03:28:54,044 --> 03:28:56,164\nOkay.\n\n3756\n03:28:56,184 --> 03:28:58,434\nCouncilor Ellis? That, that passed unanimously, by the way.\n\n3757\n03:28:58,984 --> 03:29:01,244\nThank you. Um, could you report back to us in, like, a\n\n3758\n03:29:01,324 --> 03:29:03,484\nmonth?\n\n3759\n03:29:03,544 --> 03:29:04,164\nYes, I can.\n\n3760\n03:29:04,204 --> 03:29:07,384\nThank you. Um, the last one is, I am going to just say\n\n3761\n03:29:07,744 --> 03:29:11,504\nresolve that the council encourages the Jedi Board to solicit community\n\n3762\n03:29:11,524 --> 03:29:15,463\nempower grant applications to assist those affected by escalating\n\n3763\n03:29:15,524 --> 03:29:18,524\nimmigration enforcement in the next round of\n\n3764\n03:29:18,564 --> 03:29:19,684\ngrants.\n\n3765\n03:29:19,744 --> 03:29:21,304\nSecond.\n\n3766\n03:29:21,344 --> 03:29:24,744\nMotion and second. Council Morefield?\n\n3767\n03:29:25,664 --> 03:29:29,304\nUh, when I saw this draft, I looked up what the current grant criteria\n\n3768\n03:29:29,364 --> 03:29:31,084\nare. I thought it already allowed it.\n\n3769\n03:29:32,464 --> 03:29:35,284\nI did not look it up. I just assumed that it wasn't there because it was\n\n3770\n03:29:35,324 --> 03:29:37,344\nhere.\n\n3771\n03:29:37,364 --> 03:29:38,904\nMaybe, maybe it makes it more of like a-\n\n3772\n03:29:39,044 --> 03:29:39,464\nI mean it-\n\n3773\n03:29:39,474 --> 03:29:42,444\n-to focus a bit more there since it's already allowed.\n\n3774\n03:29:42,484 --> 03:29:45,684\nThe green grants were giving an extra point for a certain thing-\n\n3775\n03:29:45,844 --> 03:29:45,904\nMm-hmm\n\n3776\n03:29:45,914 --> 03:29:49,124\n-in the last couple of years, so maybe that was the thought.\n\n3777\n03:29:49,144 --> 03:29:51,564\nI think it's still good to just solidify that\n\n3778\n03:29:51,624 --> 03:29:55,464\nmaybe. Okay, all those in favor of the\n\n3779\n03:29:55,504 --> 03:29:56,864\nmotion, say aye.\n\n3780\n03:29:56,874 --> 03:29:56,874\nAye.\n\n3781\n03:29:56,944 --> 03:29:57,714\nAye.\n\n3782\n03:29:58,204 --> 03:29:58,214\nAye.\n\n3783\n03:29:58,224 --> 03:29:58,874\nAll opposed say no.\n\n3784\n03:29:58,884 --> 03:30:00,344\nAye. Sorry.\n\n3785\n03:30:00,544 --> 03:30:03,064\nThat's all right. Sorry. Council Schaefer.\n\n3786\n03:30:03,084 --> 03:30:04,264\nThat's a yes.\n\n3787\n03:30:04,284 --> 03:30:07,894\nOkay. I didn't hear any of those though. All right.\n\n3788\n03:30:07,984 --> 03:30:10,624\nIt passed unanimously. Is that it?\n\n3789\n03:30:10,684 --> 03:30:11,224\nI think.\n\n3790\n03:30:11,244 --> 03:30:11,744\nOkay.\n\n3791\n03:30:11,804 --> 03:30:15,344\nI think that cut all the things we can actually do. Thank you.\n\n3792\n03:30:15,354 --> 03:30:17,784\nThank you. Well, hopefully I'm not too tired to get through my presentation.\n\n3793\n03:30:17,844 --> 03:30:19,904\nUh, moving on to mayor and council reports.\n\n3794\n03:30:19,964 --> 03:30:23,424\nIn my mayor's report, I'm finally getting-- got around to doing the presentation\n\n3795\n03:30:23,464 --> 03:30:26,684\nregarding the Mayor's Innovation Project conference that I went-- that you all sent\n\n3796\n03:30:26,704 --> 03:30:30,614\nme to in DC. I apologize for it taking so long, but,\n\n3797\n03:30:30,984 --> 03:30:34,024\nas you know, I came, I got sick while I was there, and was sick afterwards, and\n\n3798\n03:30:34,044 --> 03:30:37,304\nit put my whole life delayed. So,\n\n3799\n03:30:37,384 --> 03:30:41,004\nbut let me get this brought up. I'll try to go very\n\n3800\n03:30:41,064 --> 03:30:44,724\nquickly through these slides. It's late, but I just wanted to keep my promise to\n\n3801\n03:30:44,764 --> 03:30:48,364\nyou all. This was the, agenda. I'm gonna\n\n3802\n03:30:48,584 --> 03:30:51,584\nswitch gears here so I could see it, 'cause I can't read it there.\n\n3803\n03:30:51,644 --> 03:30:53,334\nUm, the topics, well, it's gonna...\n\n3804\n03:30:53,344 --> 03:30:55,804\nAll my slides will have the topics, so it doesn't matter.\n\n3805\n03:30:56,094 --> 03:30:57,944\nUm, we can go ahead and next slide.\n\n3806\n03:30:57,984 --> 03:30:59,484\nWe've got to get better slides.\n\n3807\n03:31:00,124 --> 03:31:02,464\nWell, I made this, so it's probably my fault.\n\n3808\n03:31:02,564 --> 03:31:05,974\nUm, as you can see, it was cold there.\n\n3809\n03:31:06,064 --> 03:31:09,224\nLike, on average, it was like between seven and seventeen\n\n3810\n03:31:09,244 --> 03:31:12,993\ndegrees, so I was freezing. Um, the, the\n\n3811\n03:31:13,164 --> 03:31:16,504\nactual conference was held at the Laborers' International Union of\n\n3812\n03:31:16,584 --> 03:31:19,864\nAmerica, and fortunately, I was able to afford to bring my wife along.\n\n3813\n03:31:19,904 --> 03:31:20,124\nSo\n\n3814\n03:31:21,184 --> 03:31:23,884\nthat was kind of like a weird vacation of learning stuff for our\n\n3815\n03:31:23,924 --> 03:31:27,884\ncity. The first topic was Leading Under\n\n3816\n03:31:27,924 --> 03:31:31,174\nPressure: Protecting Elected Officials, which I found very interesting considering\n\n3817\n03:31:31,184 --> 03:31:34,724\nsome of the legislation that's been passed here in Oregon recently.\n\n3818\n03:31:34,824 --> 03:31:38,504\nUm, next slide. This might be a little hard to\n\n3819\n03:31:38,544 --> 03:31:42,384\nread, but one of the... So on all these, there was multiple speakers,\n\n3820\n03:31:42,504 --> 03:31:44,794\nusually between three and four speakers per th- per thing.\n\n3821\n03:31:44,824 --> 03:31:47,744\nThey all had their own presentation. This was a two-day conference.\n\n3822\n03:31:47,824 --> 03:31:51,134\nUh, I'm trying to point out just the things that really caught my attention that I\n\n3823\n03:31:51,164 --> 03:31:53,474\nthought were really interesting.\n\n3824\n03:31:53,504 --> 03:31:56,524\nSo the two colored graphs you see there, the blue is male\n\n3825\n03:31:56,624 --> 03:31:59,384\nmayors, the yellow is female mayors.\n\n3826\n03:31:59,484 --> 03:32:03,344\nUh, the top one is mayors who experience harassment more than three times per month\n\n3827\n03:32:03,384 --> 03:32:03,964\nin office,\n\n3828\n03:32:05,104 --> 03:32:07,684\nand that was twenty-five percent of, of female mayors.\n\n3829\n03:32:07,704 --> 03:32:10,664\nAnd the bottom is mayors who experience harassment at least once per month in\n\n3830\n03:32:10,764 --> 03:32:13,594\noffice. So I found it very interesting of the,\n\n3831\n03:32:16,004 --> 03:32:19,744\nthe, the, the variance there between male and female mayors.\n\n3832\n03:32:19,844 --> 03:32:23,324\nUm, and then you see some of the quotes there, from other mayors around the s-\n\n3833\n03:32:23,364 --> 03:32:27,224\naround the country, stalker, vandalizing homes, et\n\n3834\n03:32:27,244 --> 03:32:30,304\ncetera. Next slide.\n\n3835\n03:32:32,184 --> 03:32:35,964\nUm, these were some of the proposed solutions, and I, and I actually really thought\n\n3836\n03:32:36,004 --> 03:32:39,584\nthese were interesting. And the first one is normalize the position as a job.\n\n3837\n03:32:39,684 --> 03:32:39,844\nUm,\n\n3838\n03:32:40,924 --> 03:32:44,564\nwe put a lot of hours into this kind of work, and, and this is still mostly focused\n\n3839\n03:32:44,604 --> 03:32:46,584\non mayors, but it really applies to all of us.\n\n3840\n03:32:46,684 --> 03:32:50,624\nUh, I, I'm not sure how often you get harassed or\n\n3841\n03:32:51,204 --> 03:32:53,604\nthreatened, but it's happened to me.\n\n3842\n03:32:53,664 --> 03:32:57,284\nUm, so some of the solutions norm- no-normalize support professional development,\n\n3843\n03:32:57,304 --> 03:33:00,574\nnormalize support for personal protection, staff dedicated to the mayor, I\n\n3844\n03:33:00,664 --> 03:33:04,584\nkinda like that one, and raising wages, which is something I plan on\n\n3845\n03:33:04,644 --> 03:33:07,664\nbringing back, later this year after we get through some of our conversation\n\n3846\n03:33:07,704 --> 03:33:08,834\naround our budget gap.\n\n3847\n03:33:10,444 --> 03:33:13,604\nSo I found, I found all these really inter-interesting,\n\n3848\n03:33:14,604 --> 03:33:18,344\nas solutions. So that's the end of that one. Next slide.\n\n3849\n03:33:19,264 --> 03:33:23,163\nAnd this one was very relevant to our city, Leading Through\n\n3850\n03:33:23,224 --> 03:33:26,484\nUncertainty: A Fiscal Playbook for a Thriving Community.\n\n3851\n03:33:26,604 --> 03:33:30,524\nNext slide. Did you get it? The, this was done by the person who\n\n3852\n03:33:30,584 --> 03:33:32,254\nactually created the Mayor's Innovation Project.\n\n3853\n03:33:32,264 --> 03:33:34,864\nHe talked about the broken social condract-- contract.\n\n3854\n03:33:34,874 --> 03:33:38,164\nWhat's hard to see there is all those lines together is,\n\n3855\n03:33:38,864 --> 03:33:42,604\nbasically income versus productivity, and it used to stay pretty straight\n\n3856\n03:33:42,644 --> 03:33:45,684\nand, and equal. The purple line shooting way up\n\n3857\n03:33:46,284 --> 03:33:48,984\nis the top one percent earners country.\n\n3858\n03:33:49,864 --> 03:33:53,664\nWhere everything else, the red is the bottom twenty percent, the blue is\n\n3859\n03:33:53,804 --> 03:33:57,384\nmiddle sixty percent, and the green is upper middle.\n\n3860\n03:33:57,484 --> 03:34:01,284\nUm, so as you can see, wages have not increased as much as productivity\n\n3861\n03:34:01,564 --> 03:34:05,384\nand as much as the top one percent earners in the country make, which I\n\n3862\n03:34:05,404 --> 03:34:08,244\nthink is all information we're very aware of.\n\n3863\n03:34:08,284 --> 03:34:11,704\nNext slide. This graph, which you can't read\n\n3864\n03:34:11,744 --> 03:34:14,404\neither, it's too much... Oh, you can kind of read it.\n\n3865\n03:34:14,424 --> 03:34:17,584\nIt's showing, how much our, our country has changed.\n\n3866\n03:34:17,604 --> 03:34:21,104\nWe are more diverse now than ever before, which is kind of also relevant coming\n\n3867\n03:34:21,144 --> 03:34:21,354\ntoday-\n\n3868\n03:34:21,364 --> 03:34:21,394\nHmm\n\n3869\n03:34:21,394 --> 03:34:23,424\n...to the resolution we were just discussing.\n\n3870\n03:34:24,284 --> 03:34:27,684\nUm, and less than fifty percent of our country are white\n\n3871\n03:34:27,764 --> 03:34:31,644\nanymore, now. So we have a very diverse country, and I think it's just\n\n3872\n03:34:31,684 --> 03:34:35,656\ngonna continue to change, um-The blue, I think you can read\n\n3873\n03:34:35,666 --> 03:34:39,616\nthat, blue is Hispanic. Uh, the dark blue, kinda gray\n\n3874\n03:34:39,656 --> 03:34:43,436\nis Black. Green is Asian. Next\n\n3875\n03:34:43,456 --> 03:34:47,216\nslide. And then it transitioned to around infrastructure to support these\n\n3876\n03:34:47,236 --> 03:34:50,455\ncommunities that are always changing and always growing.\n\n3877\n03:34:50,536 --> 03:34:53,706\nAnd I think, our city manager might find this one int-interesting.\n\n3878\n03:34:53,716 --> 03:34:56,616\nIt's the average age and life expectancy of US infrastructure.\n\n3879\n03:34:56,656 --> 03:35:00,236\nSo the first one's roads, next one's bridges, rail, water\n\n3880\n03:35:00,336 --> 03:35:03,896\npipes, dams, levies, and water treatment\n\n3881\n03:35:03,976 --> 03:35:07,036\nplants. So the average age is the dark color.\n\n3882\n03:35:07,056 --> 03:35:09,876\nThe life expectancy, this is, is the lighter color.\n\n3883\n03:35:10,616 --> 03:35:13,816\nSo it's showing that our issues here were not unique.\n\n3884\n03:35:14,936 --> 03:35:16,096\nNext slide.\n\n3885\n03:35:17,996 --> 03:35:21,096\nAnd then that conversation around infrastructure got-- it was quite interesting\n\n3886\n03:35:21,116 --> 03:35:24,056\n'cause it started talking about it's not just this infrastructure that we rely on\n\n3887\n03:35:24,096 --> 03:35:28,036\ndaily, but also how, things impact that infrastructure.\n\n3888\n03:35:28,076 --> 03:35:32,046\nSo in this case, growing risks around, nature events due\n\n3889\n03:35:32,076 --> 03:35:35,616\nto climate change. So you see here, C-Hurricane Katrina on the bottom left, two\n\n3890\n03:35:35,676 --> 03:35:39,615\nthousand and five, Superstorm Sandy, two thousand and twelve, the fires in\n\n3891\n03:35:39,656 --> 03:35:43,536\ntwenty twenty-three, Hurricane, Helen in twenty twenty-four, the Los\n\n3892\n03:35:43,576 --> 03:35:45,136\nAngeles fires of twenty twenty-five.\n\n3893\n03:35:45,146 --> 03:35:48,976\nAnd then the small writing, which I actually can read, in, in two thousand a\n\n3894\n03:35:49,036 --> 03:35:51,506\nbillion-dollar disaster occurred every seventy-two days.\n\n3895\n03:35:51,556 --> 03:35:53,056\nNow they occur every eighteen days.\n\n3896\n03:35:53,076 --> 03:35:56,056\nBy twenty thirty, they will be weekly occurrences.\n\n3897\n03:35:56,066 --> 03:35:59,606\nSo on top of just trying to pr-provide regular service to our community with what\n\n3898\n03:35:59,636 --> 03:36:02,436\nthey ask, we're dealing with some serious stuff now.\n\n3899\n03:36:02,456 --> 03:36:05,626\nAnd our firefighters will be dealing with it, and, and\n\n3900\n03:36:05,936 --> 03:36:09,816\npolice, and public works. And I like that thing\n\n3901\n03:36:09,856 --> 03:36:13,456\nthere. For every major headline, there are innumerable smaller events impacting\n\n3902\n03:36:13,476 --> 03:36:16,356\nwhere we live, work, and play every day. City manager.\n\n3903\n03:36:16,416 --> 03:36:19,936\nYeah, one of those impacts that we'll see, even if we don't have a\n\n3904\n03:36:19,976 --> 03:36:22,156\ndisaster, insurance rates-\n\n3905\n03:36:22,176 --> 03:36:22,196\nMm\n\n3906\n03:36:22,236 --> 03:36:25,596\n...continue to climb. And so we do get impacted,\n\n3907\n03:36:26,076 --> 03:36:28,796\nby that, even indirectly, if we don't have that\n\n3908\n03:36:28,856 --> 03:36:30,776\ndisaster.\n\n3909\n03:36:30,796 --> 03:36:33,496\nAppreciate that. Next slide. No, there it is.\n\n3910\n03:36:33,536 --> 03:36:37,036\nAnd this one I just thought was an interesting view of, of what local government\n\n3911\n03:36:37,176 --> 03:36:40,996\nis, right? So one-third of our an- of annual local GOP spent on disaster and\n\n3912\n03:36:41,056 --> 03:36:44,976\nweather costs, but this impacts every other entity that we interact\n\n3913\n03:36:44,995 --> 03:36:48,476\nwith from real estate insurance, which city manager just pointed out,\n\n3914\n03:36:48,996 --> 03:36:52,836\nutilities, health. Uh, we all work together to be what\n\n3915\n03:36:52,936 --> 03:36:56,736\nis a community, and it all-- it's all majorly impacted.\n\n3916\n03:36:56,776 --> 03:36:57,316\nNext slide.\n\n3917\n03:36:58,936 --> 03:37:02,166\nAnd this was kind of a weird but interesting graph I just threw in here.\n\n3918\n03:37:02,176 --> 03:37:05,296\nAnd it talked about how federal support for cities is declining.\n\n3919\n03:37:05,336 --> 03:37:09,306\nAlthough the infl-in-Inflation Reduction Act is still, investments still\n\n3920\n03:37:09,416 --> 03:37:12,816\nhappen, less and less money are coming to communities to deal with these\n\n3921\n03:37:12,876 --> 03:37:16,496\nissues. So it's kind of a bleak\n\n3922\n03:37:16,576 --> 03:37:20,456\noutcome. Um, and a lot of these conversations when they hold\n\n3923\n03:37:20,496 --> 03:37:24,366\nthese things is to really get mayors to talk, 'cause we don't just sit through\n\n3924\n03:37:24,396 --> 03:37:27,306\nthese presentations. We all gather around and talk about solutions and\n\n3925\n03:37:27,376 --> 03:37:31,216\nideas. Um, and this one, not a lot of solutions or\n\n3926\n03:37:31,256 --> 03:37:34,316\nideas, unfortunately, but it's something we're dealing with right now.\n\n3927\n03:37:35,896 --> 03:37:39,636\nThe next slide is onto the one I, I-- when I was-- I was really not looking forward\n\n3928\n03:37:39,656 --> 03:37:42,156\nto this conversation because I was, \"What does this have to do with the city of\n\n3929\n03:37:42,176 --> 03:37:46,076\nCorvallis or our role?\" Um, so again, building a supportive\n\n3930\n03:37:46,116 --> 03:37:49,766\nchildcare ecosystem for families and workers, I'm like, \"That's not our role.\" Um,\n\n3931\n03:37:50,076 --> 03:37:53,926\nturns out, yes, it is. Um, so I want this, this slide-- This\n\n3932\n03:37:53,936 --> 03:37:57,776\npresentation was from Mayor Kelly Girtz, from Athens, Georgia.\n\n3933\n03:37:59,496 --> 03:38:03,256\nAnd in here, they, they-- there's similarities I thought were interesting besides\n\n3934\n03:38:03,376 --> 03:38:06,576\ntheir government's different, but at the same time, they have, they have a\n\n3935\n03:38:06,596 --> 03:38:08,686\ncouncil manager form of local government.\n\n3936\n03:38:08,686 --> 03:38:11,436\nThey're a much larger community, as you can see, but they have a ten-member\n\n3937\n03:38:11,476 --> 03:38:14,656\ncommission, as their legi-legislative unit, so it's kinda like our\n\n3938\n03:38:14,716 --> 03:38:18,386\ncouncil, and it's similar size. So I just thought\n\n3939\n03:38:18,436 --> 03:38:20,796\ninteresting. Just they're much bigger.\n\n3940\n03:38:20,996 --> 03:38:23,296\nNext slide.\n\n3941\n03:38:25,016 --> 03:38:25,845\nYes. Um,\n\n3942\n03:38:26,656 --> 03:38:28,356\nso I like this 'cause it's really straightforward.\n\n3943\n03:38:28,436 --> 03:38:30,056\nUh, keep-- Hiring talent is tough.\n\n3944\n03:38:30,076 --> 03:38:33,396\nWe know that's an issue locally for, for childcare providers.\n\n3945\n03:38:33,436 --> 03:38:37,056\nLabor costs are a challenge 'cause you have to pay people enough to live, which is\n\n3946\n03:38:37,116 --> 03:38:41,076\na challenge. Uh, facility costs are high, so the-- what families are\n\n3947\n03:38:41,116 --> 03:38:45,016\ncharged for health- for childcare is just extreme, and\n\n3948\n03:38:45,256 --> 03:38:48,456\nI, I know that is true. Next slide.\n\n3949\n03:38:49,956 --> 03:38:53,265\nAnd then, which-- When I was going back to the slides, I remembered this one.\n\n3950\n03:38:53,276 --> 03:38:55,315\nI was like, \"Oh, yeah, this is what got my attention.\n\n3951\n03:38:55,356 --> 03:38:59,306\nWhy do-- Why would a city care? What, what does this have to do with us?\" Um,\n\n3952\n03:38:59,316 --> 03:39:03,236\nbut we care about our economy. So again, a strong employment base\n\n3953\n03:39:03,316 --> 03:39:05,936\nand long-term community health, safety, and prosperity.\n\n3954\n03:39:05,976 --> 03:39:08,896\nCouldn't disagree with that. Next slide.\n\n3955\n03:39:08,916 --> 03:39:12,576\nSo here's where it came down to what a city could do, and I'm not saying we\n\n3956\n03:39:12,756 --> 03:39:15,246\nwill do this, but it's something we should think about.\n\n3957\n03:39:15,336 --> 03:39:18,386\nUm, they, they ta- they would talk about the projects that they successfully did\n\n3958\n03:39:18,416 --> 03:39:21,866\nthere. But the one at the end was, buying down the capital cost of\n\n3959\n03:39:21,936 --> 03:39:24,296\nfacilities lowers family price tag.\n\n3960\n03:39:24,306 --> 03:39:28,116\nAnd so creating opportunities for space for childcare providers,\n\n3961\n03:39:28,236 --> 03:39:32,116\nlicensed childcare providers, that we could re-reduce their costs by potentially\n\n3962\n03:39:32,156 --> 03:39:36,046\nmaybe having space in some of our city facilities for them to operate.\n\n3963\n03:39:36,096 --> 03:39:38,606\nThat could potentially benefit our employees.\n\n3964\n03:39:38,616 --> 03:39:40,446\nIt could also benefit the community.\n\n3965\n03:39:40,476 --> 03:39:44,456\nSo as we're thinking about, a civic campus project, like maybe\n\n3966\n03:39:44,496 --> 03:39:46,426\nthere's room to think about doing that.\n\n3967\n03:39:46,426 --> 03:39:49,186\nAnd we have other facilities, two minutes in the room, we have the\n\n3968\n03:39:49,636 --> 03:39:53,436\nC-3. It's just something we could potentially look at of a way\n\n3969\n03:39:53,476 --> 03:39:57,455\nto help alleviate, rising costs for childcare.\n\n3970\n03:39:57,516 --> 03:40:00,296\nSo that's when it hit me. I'm like, \"Oh, that is something we technically could\n\n3971\n03:40:00,316 --> 03:40:00,606\ndo.\"\n\n3972\n03:40:01,496 --> 03:40:04,596\nAnd then the last one, which is very interesting as well,\n\n3973\n03:40:05,836 --> 03:40:08,576\naging in place. So again, we're talking about seniors,\n\n3974\n03:40:08,656 --> 03:40:11,756\nand I used the slides from AARP 'cause I think they were the best\n\n3975\n03:40:11,796 --> 03:40:15,496\nones. Um, we're in a lasting demogra-demographic\n\n3976\n03:40:15,596 --> 03:40:18,666\nshift. And at first, I was like, \"What does that mean, demographic shift?\" So if\n\n3977\n03:40:18,696 --> 03:40:21,436\nyou go to the next slide, this one hit me.\n\n3978\n03:40:21,756 --> 03:40:25,606\nThe aging of America is here. So on the left there is what,\n\n3979\n03:40:25,936 --> 03:40:29,596\ntwenty fifteen and like the light color, that is Oregon, would've\n\n3980\n03:40:29,636 --> 03:40:32,536\nbeen, twelve point five to one point uh\n\n3981\n03:40:33,136 --> 03:40:35,576\nfifteen percent of the population.\n\n3982\n03:40:35,596 --> 03:40:39,356\nBut if you look at the map on the right, that jumps us up to twenty to twenty-two\n\n3983\n03:40:39,456 --> 03:40:42,536\npoint five percent of the population, and it's continuing to\n\n3984\n03:40:42,576 --> 03:40:46,430\ngrow.So we're gonna have a sig- you know, in the future, the whole...\n\n3985\n03:40:46,480 --> 03:40:49,550\nall the countries got a significantly different looking population than it does\n\n3986\n03:40:49,580 --> 03:40:51,630\ntoday. Next slide.\n\n3987\n03:40:53,500 --> 03:40:57,160\nAnd it talked about most communities in the country have not been built to\n\n3988\n03:40:57,680 --> 03:41:00,900\neven address that, you know, with, with better sidewalks, better transportation\n\n3989\n03:41:00,960 --> 03:41:04,810\noptions, things like that. And this next slide actually helped me with my\n\n3990\n03:41:04,860 --> 03:41:08,680\nfamily issues right now, which about how d- aging in place is\n\n3991\n03:41:08,700 --> 03:41:11,390\ndifficult because of type of housing you have.\n\n3992\n03:41:11,460 --> 03:41:15,220\nUm, we, we know we talked a few years back when we talked about the,\n\n3993\n03:41:17,220 --> 03:41:18,910\nthe senior facilities. I can't think of the name all of a\n\n3994\n03:41:18,940 --> 03:41:22,710\nsudden. The Bonaventure. When we were talking about Bonaventure, we talked about\n\n3995\n03:41:22,740 --> 03:41:26,360\nthose people who are living in homes that are, you know, they're, they're not being\n\n3996\n03:41:26,400 --> 03:41:29,400\nused to their full potential. A single person living who maybe would be happier\n\n3997\n03:41:29,840 --> 03:41:31,720\nliving somewhere else and opening that home up to family.\n\n3998\n03:41:31,740 --> 03:41:35,400\nSo there's housing mobility, which t- I just mentioned.\n\n3999\n03:41:35,410 --> 03:41:38,760\nUm, even our public spaces, how we think of the design of our parks.\n\n4000\n03:41:38,840 --> 03:41:42,290\nUm, and the last one is the, the biggest one, isolation.\n\n4001\n03:41:42,300 --> 03:41:45,469\nThe health risks of, of prolonged isolation is equivalent to eating...\n\n4002\n03:41:45,520 --> 03:41:49,100\nsmoking 15 cigarettes a day. So o- people\n\n4003\n03:41:49,259 --> 03:41:52,980\n65 and over, it severely impacts their health if they're not engaged and\n\n4004\n03:41:53,040 --> 03:41:56,870\nkept active and, you know, out of isolation.\n\n4005\n03:41:56,900 --> 03:42:00,890\nAnd what I don't... I, I think what was good about this one is I feel like we were\n\n4006\n03:42:00,940 --> 03:42:03,610\nin a really good place. Like, we already are addressing a lot of this.\n\n4007\n03:42:03,620 --> 03:42:06,930\nYou know, we have our, our community center that has programs, our library has\n\n4008\n03:42:06,960 --> 03:42:08,010\nprograms. We have good,\n\n4009\n03:42:09,340 --> 03:42:12,720\nfairly good transportation system here and, and a, a network\n\n4010\n03:42:12,780 --> 03:42:14,260\nof s- of social service providers.\n\n4011\n03:42:14,320 --> 03:42:18,180\nSo I think compared to what I was hearing from other mayors, I think we're doing\n\n4012\n03:42:18,220 --> 03:42:21,760\nall right. But it doesn't mean we shouldn't think about this as we think of\n\n4013\n03:42:21,820 --> 03:42:24,690\nlong-term development in our community.\n\n4014\n03:42:25,420 --> 03:42:29,140\nAnd I like the saying, create a great community for an older adult, you build a\n\n4015\n03:42:29,180 --> 03:42:32,740\ncommunity great for everyone. I think, again, keep that in\n\n4016\n03:42:32,760 --> 03:42:35,860\nmind. And this next slide's just kind of fun.\n\n4017\n03:42:35,920 --> 03:42:39,900\nAgain, as I said, it's not like, we just sit there and are talked at like some\n\n4018\n03:42:39,960 --> 03:42:42,970\nconferences I go to. There's a lot of engagement with other mayors.\n\n4019\n03:42:43,020 --> 03:42:45,820\nThis is me with the mayor of Madison, Wisconsin, Satya\n\n4020\n03:42:45,880 --> 03:42:48,650\nRhodes-Conway. Um, Wisconsin...\n\n4021\n03:42:48,650 --> 03:42:52,600\nUh, Madison, Wisconsin, is where the Mayors Innovation project started, with\n\n4022\n03:42:52,660 --> 03:42:53,600\na professor there.\n\n4023\n03:42:54,500 --> 03:42:56,390\nAnd so I was able to catch up with her.\n\n4024\n03:42:56,440 --> 03:42:59,340\nI met her when I went to the, new mayors',\n\n4025\n03:43:00,440 --> 03:43:01,989\nwhatever that was called, cohort.\n\n4026\n03:43:02,020 --> 03:43:04,369\nI met, I met her there, and she saw me, and we were able to reconnect.\n\n4027\n03:43:04,400 --> 03:43:08,120\nAnd along with, other mayors from Oregon and a mayor from\n\n4028\n03:43:08,140 --> 03:43:12,120\nGeorgia and a few other places. It was, it was really\n\n4029\n03:43:12,160 --> 03:43:15,160\ngood. And again, you sit down and you talk about what the presentation you were\n\n4030\n03:43:15,260 --> 03:43:18,429\njust given and say, \"Well, what, what are you, what are you doing to address this?\"\n\n4031\n03:43:18,460 --> 03:43:22,000\nSo I was able to brag about Corvallis and some of the steps we've taken to address\n\n4032\n03:43:22,020 --> 03:43:24,500\nhousing needs and infrastructure needs.\n\n4033\n03:43:25,400 --> 03:43:28,840\nSome people were impressed. So that is pretty much the end of my\n\n4034\n03:43:28,900 --> 03:43:32,380\npresentation. I, I know ... No, that's good.\n\n4035\n03:43:32,480 --> 03:43:35,540\nUm, I didn't wanna make it too long 'cause I was looking at the agenda and I'm\n\n4036\n03:43:35,580 --> 03:43:38,860\nlike, \"Yeah, I'm not gonna talk all night about this.\" 'Cause if, if you want, I\n\n4037\n03:43:38,880 --> 03:43:42,110\ncould spend the next two days and just go over the whole thing, but I don't think\n\n4038\n03:43:42,140 --> 03:43:45,180\nthat's a good idea. And I apologize again for the delay.\n\n4039\n03:43:45,200 --> 03:43:47,560\nThat was not my intent.\n\n4040\n03:43:48,440 --> 03:43:48,640\nUm,\n\n4041\n03:43:49,660 --> 03:43:52,140\nhopefully this was enjoyable a little bit.\n\n4042\n03:43:52,260 --> 03:43:56,020\nUm, they did make me an offer to... if, if we wanted to become a member city of the\n\n4043\n03:43:56,040 --> 03:43:59,160\nMayors Innovation Project. It's, for our size city, it's normally\n\n4044\n03:43:59,200 --> 03:44:03,020\n$2,500. They're willing to deduct the amount that I paid to attend\n\n4045\n03:44:03,060 --> 03:44:05,260\nthat conference off the annual price.\n\n4046\n03:44:05,300 --> 03:44:08,260\nSo that's something I'm gonna get some information about where, where our budget\n\n4047\n03:44:08,360 --> 03:44:12,200\nis, 'cause I'm not sure where our council budget is, and with maybe a request to\n\n4048\n03:44:12,240 --> 03:44:16,140\njoin them. And in the future, if we join, then there's no cost to attend these\n\n4049\n03:44:16,200 --> 03:44:19,100\nconferences. And they provide a bunch of other stuff, but I'll get all that to you\n\n4050\n03:44:19,140 --> 03:44:20,550\nguys at a future meeting.\n\n4051\n03:44:20,780 --> 03:44:23,460\nThis office. What,\n\n4052\n03:44:24,280 --> 03:44:25,330\nwhat...\n\n4053\n03:44:25,360 --> 03:44:28,310\nYeah. That'll be put... I'll, I'll bring that back at a council meeting for, for\n\n4054\n03:44:28,360 --> 03:44:32,140\nconsideration. Um, my other comments, and I, you know, I, I haven't\n\n4055\n03:44:32,300 --> 03:44:36,180\ngiven many comments lately, so this is where I make up for that.\n\n4056\n03:44:36,260 --> 03:44:39,520\nUm, Saturday I attended the legislative breakfast, and just quick takeaways from\n\n4057\n03:44:39,560 --> 03:44:42,630\nthat. Legislative breakfast, for those don't know, is, the county holds it, and\n\n4058\n03:44:42,640 --> 03:44:45,850\nthey invite our legislators. So we heard from three of our legislators, even though\n\n4059\n03:44:46,060 --> 03:44:49,900\nwe only actually have two, but there's also the one for Philomath, on how\n\n4060\n03:44:49,980 --> 03:44:53,970\nthe se- short session went. The one things I took away from, the, the\n\n4061\n03:44:54,020 --> 03:44:57,380\nflexibility on our, on lodging tax funds passed.\n\n4062\n03:44:57,480 --> 03:45:00,670\nUm, but unfortunately there's gonna be a reduction in safe route to schools\n\n4063\n03:45:00,740 --> 03:45:04,600\nfunding. That's not good. Um, but there is an increase to the earned income tax\n\n4064\n03:45:04,660 --> 03:45:07,730\ncredit, which I know helps people with lower incomes significantly.\n\n4065\n03:45:07,730 --> 03:45:11,349\n'Cause I remember when I was extremely poor and got that for my kids,\n\n4066\n03:45:11,400 --> 03:45:15,020\nit really made a difference. Sometimes it just went to buying ne- needed\n\n4067\n03:45:15,060 --> 03:45:17,890\nsupplies like shoes for school. Um,\n\n4068\n03:45:20,340 --> 03:45:21,650\nI wanted to, wanted to say something.\n\n4069\n03:45:21,650 --> 03:45:25,420\nUh, earlier when we were reviewing the MUPTE request, I know we\n\n4070\n03:45:25,460 --> 03:45:29,420\nreceived an email, and one of the emails talked about, the loss of the\n\n4071\n03:45:29,520 --> 03:45:31,920\nfood trucks that used to be on that, on that block.\n\n4072\n03:45:31,960 --> 03:45:35,160\nSo I just wanna quickly say we did not lose those food trucks.\n\n4073\n03:45:35,240 --> 03:45:38,400\nUh, one of them is now in the plaza on Madison.\n\n4074\n03:45:38,420 --> 03:45:41,340\nThat's Tacos El Machine, and apparently they're doing better business there than\n\n4075\n03:45:41,360 --> 03:45:44,930\nthey ever did in their food truck. So they're thriving. And the space is great.\n\n4076\n03:45:44,960 --> 03:45:46,950\nYou should all check it out if you're up in the plaza.\n\n4077\n03:45:46,950 --> 03:45:49,680\nAnd the other one moved over to Common Fields, the sushi one.\n\n4078\n03:45:49,740 --> 03:45:53,040\nSo if you enjoyed those businesses, you can continue to support them.\n\n4079\n03:45:54,460 --> 03:45:57,640\nUm, now I got some events I wanna let everybody know about, 'cause\n\n4080\n03:45:58,760 --> 03:46:02,010\nI never do that. Um, League of Women Voters event called Sheltering Our\n\n4081\n03:46:02,100 --> 03:46:03,800\nUnhoused: Are We Making Progress?\n\n4082\n03:46:03,880 --> 03:46:06,950\nis Wednesday, March 18th at 6:30 at the library.\n\n4083\n03:46:07,100 --> 03:46:10,460\nI plan on being there, so all of you can join if you\n\n4084\n03:46:10,520 --> 03:46:14,460\nwant. Um, I will be attending a groundbreaking ceremony for Third Street\n\n4085\n03:46:14,560 --> 03:46:18,520\nCommons on the 19th, which is this coming Thursday at 11:30\n\n4086\n03:46:18,580 --> 03:46:21,590\nAM. Everyone's welcome. I gotta go...\n\n4087\n03:46:21,590 --> 03:46:24,840\nI was concerned 'cause they said I would need to be able to operate a shovel.\n\n4088\n03:46:24,860 --> 03:46:28,800\nI'm like, \"Am I qualified for that?\" Operate sounds like a bigger thing,\n\n4089\n03:46:28,820 --> 03:46:32,560\nbut I think I can manage. Uh, on Saturday the 28th, there's a\n\n4090\n03:46:32,600 --> 03:46:35,050\ndowntown cleanup happening at 10:00 AM. They're...\n\n4091\n03:46:35,080 --> 03:46:36,380\npeople are gathering at the museum.\n\n4092\n03:46:36,480 --> 03:46:39,470\nI intend to participate this time 'cause I'm in town and I'm not...\n\n4093\n03:46:39,480 --> 03:46:41,539\ndon't have the flu. So,\n\n4094\n03:46:42,360 --> 03:46:46,000\nso I encourage people to join thatUm, and\n\n4095\n03:46:46,120 --> 03:46:49,780\nlast but not least, same day, on January,\n\n4096\n03:46:50,020 --> 03:46:53,730\nSaturday the 28th at noon is the No S- No Kings March and\n\n4097\n03:46:53,800 --> 03:46:57,520\nRally. Um, the march starts on the OSU campus, McNeary\n\n4098\n03:46:57,580 --> 03:46:59,900\nField, goes to Central Park and then to the courthouse.\n\n4099\n03:46:59,940 --> 03:47:03,090\nYou can join them along the way or just be at the courthouse.\n\n4100\n03:47:03,180 --> 03:47:06,220\nUm, and I appreciate all those doing that.\n\n4101\n03:47:06,240 --> 03:47:08,980\nAlthough when, when I talk to the organizers, I say the same thing, it's like,\n\n4102\n03:47:09,000 --> 03:47:12,400\n\"Well, this is great, this gets people excited. What is next?\n\n4103\n03:47:12,420 --> 03:47:14,980\nWhen does the work happen? Where do people get involved to actually make a\n\n4104\n03:47:15,040 --> 03:47:17,690\ndifference?\" And I appreciate everybody who shows up for rallies.\n\n4105\n03:47:17,740 --> 03:47:21,480\nI've attended so many over the last 10 years, I don't remember most of them.\n\n4106\n03:47:21,520 --> 03:47:24,620\nBut I also do things. I encourage you all to do the\n\n4107\n03:47:24,660 --> 03:47:25,800\nsame.\n\n4108\n03:47:26,600 --> 03:47:29,660\nAnd that is the end of my comments, I believe, unless I'm forgetting\n\n4109\n03:47:29,760 --> 03:47:32,920\nsomething. But I don't think I am. So\n\n4110\n03:47:34,000 --> 03:47:37,480\nanybody remember where we went last time? I think I started over here.\n\n4111\n03:47:38,700 --> 03:47:42,050\nSo Councilor El... Actually, I'll start with Councilor Shaffer, even though he's\n\n4112\n03:47:42,080 --> 03:47:44,240\nvirtually, but he'd be over there.\n\n4113\n03:47:45,520 --> 03:47:49,160\nI will be extremely quick. It's already 1:00 AM in where I am.\n\n4114\n03:47:49,720 --> 03:47:49,750\nOoh, oodle.\n\n4115\n03:47:49,750 --> 03:47:51,980\nI'm tired. I'm gonna pass this\n\n4116\n03:47:52,040 --> 03:47:55,690\nweek.\n\n4117\n03:47:55,740 --> 03:47:56,640\nOkay.\n\n4118\n03:47:57,960 --> 03:47:58,780\nUh, Councilor Olsen.\n\n4119\n03:47:59,800 --> 03:48:03,440\nUm, yeah. I don't have too much to say right now.\n\n4120\n03:48:04,200 --> 03:48:07,720\nSome updates on things in the community is\n\n4121\n03:48:07,820 --> 03:48:11,780\nthat OSU just approved tuition increases for both their in\n\n4122\n03:48:11,860 --> 03:48:15,730\nand out-of-state students. So just, just to, like, let everyone know\n\n4123\n03:48:15,780 --> 03:48:18,100\nwhat's going on with OSU. Um-\n\n4124\n03:48:19,280 --> 03:48:19,500\nYeah.\n\n4125\n03:48:19,510 --> 03:48:23,360\nYeah, it's up, almost 6% for\n\n4126\n03:48:23,700 --> 03:48:26,980\nresidents and 6.25% for\n\n4127\n03:48:27,020 --> 03:48:30,390\nnon-residents. So if you're curious, that's almost\n\n4128\n03:48:30,390 --> 03:48:33,010\n$300 a credit, which is\n\n4129\n03:48:33,060 --> 03:48:36,840\ninsane. Um, yeah. So that's my main\n\n4130\n03:48:36,880 --> 03:48:40,600\nthing. Also, I have been, attending some\n\n4131\n03:48:40,640 --> 03:48:44,060\nboar- unofficial board meetings held by some people in my board, so that's been\n\n4132\n03:48:44,100 --> 03:48:47,640\nreally fun. We talked about the MUPTI\n\n4133\n03:48:47,860 --> 03:48:51,470\nmostly on our meeting on Saturday, so that was really exciting.\n\n4134\n03:48:51,540 --> 03:48:54,070\nI liked getting to meet with people.\n\n4135\n03:48:54,139 --> 03:48:57,780\nUm, and yeah. The last thing I have to say\n\n4136\n03:48:58,000 --> 03:48:58,640\nis just\n\n4137\n03:49:00,420 --> 03:49:04,080\nI, I know I said at the time that I\n\n4138\n03:49:04,480 --> 03:49:06,680\ndon't like resolutions that don't seem to do much.\n\n4139\n03:49:06,690 --> 03:49:10,680\nAnd so what I'm gonna say right now is ask all of you guys who didn't vote\n\n4140\n03:49:10,720 --> 03:49:14,120\non the resolution what you personally are doing to\n\n4141\n03:49:14,160 --> 03:49:17,840\nhelp, to prevent ICE in our\n\n4142\n03:49:17,900 --> 03:49:21,840\ncommunity. Not what you as a community member are doing, what, not what\n\n4143\n03:49:22,020 --> 03:49:25,380\nyou, not what the state's done, but what you personally are doing.\n\n4144\n03:49:25,400 --> 03:49:27,780\nWho are you helping? Who are you connecting to?\n\n4145\n03:49:27,800 --> 03:49:31,480\nHow are you impeding the ever-encroaching force of\n\n4146\n03:49:31,540 --> 03:49:35,209\nfascism in this country? Because while community\n\n4147\n03:49:35,280 --> 03:49:39,040\nefforts are the best, individual efforts are better than\n\n4148\n03:49:39,080 --> 03:49:42,989\nnothing. So...\n\n4149\n03:49:43,020 --> 03:49:45,620\nCouncilor Meyers.\n\n4150\n03:49:45,700 --> 03:49:49,330\nWell, I unfortunately have a whole bunch of stuff. I'll go as fast as I can.\n\n4151\n03:49:49,440 --> 03:49:53,020\nUm, we had the all d- all task\n\n4152\n03:49:53,160 --> 03:49:56,960\nforce meeting, Downtown Vitality Strategy\n\n4153\n03:49:57,020 --> 03:50:00,960\nTask Force on the 3rd, and I'm\n\n4154\n03:50:00,970 --> 03:50:04,700\npretty excited about how things are progressing and how the\n\n4155\n03:50:04,720 --> 03:50:08,030\ndiscussions are going and, and working through,\n\n4156\n03:50:08,880 --> 03:50:10,440\nwell, getting to some\n\n4157\n03:50:10,480 --> 03:50:12,240\nrecommendations.\n\n4158\n03:50:12,360 --> 03:50:16,330\nUm, I'll skip that one. Uh,\n\n4159\n03:50:16,400 --> 03:50:20,300\nMarch 9th, we had Budget Commission meeting, catching up the commission on\n\n4160\n03:50:20,380 --> 03:50:24,300\nall of the things council's been working on, and facilities funding and\n\n4161\n03:50:24,380 --> 03:50:27,610\nall the financial, challenges we're\n\n4162\n03:50:27,620 --> 03:50:31,220\nfacing. And there was a really good discussion about getting some more\n\n4163\n03:50:31,260 --> 03:50:35,250\ninformation about the Bu- Budget Commission and what we're doing out to\n\n4164\n03:50:35,280 --> 03:50:39,160\nthe community, so I was grateful to, Councilor\n\n4165\n03:50:39,260 --> 03:50:43,160\nEllis for bringing that up, and I think we landed on a couple of good\n\n4166\n03:50:43,220 --> 03:50:47,140\nideas. Um, on the 10th, we had... I'll\n\n4167\n03:50:47,180 --> 03:50:50,540\nlet you talk about the Charter PAC. Are you gonna talk about it?\n\n4168\n03:50:50,580 --> 03:50:54,440\nOkay. Um, on the 11th, we had the,\n\n4169\n03:50:55,780 --> 03:50:58,100\nDowntown Vitality Task Force, again,\n\n4170\n03:50:58,300 --> 03:51:02,119\nInfrastructure Committee, and that was a great discussion about, as I said\n\n4171\n03:51:02,160 --> 03:51:05,960\nbefore, how housing s- more housing downtown\n\n4172\n03:51:06,140 --> 03:51:09,380\nsolves a lot of the problems we're trying to solve.\n\n4173\n03:51:09,480 --> 03:51:12,180\nUm, I also was at the legislative breakfast.\n\n4174\n03:51:12,260 --> 03:51:15,720\nOh, and Thursday, we had a makeup Leadership Corvallis\n\n4175\n03:51:15,900 --> 03:51:19,160\nclass because we had that ice storm last year, and it was\n\n4176\n03:51:19,220 --> 03:51:22,820\nEducation Day. And it was... I never had\n\n4177\n03:51:22,920 --> 03:51:26,840\nkids. I haven't thought about schools much except we have OSU here, and\n\n4178\n03:51:26,900 --> 03:51:30,240\nwe have all the things happening with the public schools, and it\n\n4179\n03:51:30,300 --> 03:51:33,960\nwas amazing. We spent quite a long time at College\n\n4180\n03:51:34,020 --> 03:51:37,990\nHill. I, I, I won't go into\n\n4181\n03:51:37,990 --> 03:51:41,950\nany details, but there is a lot of dedication\n\n4182\n03:51:42,000 --> 03:51:45,840\nto the students succeeding in this city at all\n\n4183\n03:51:45,880 --> 03:51:49,680\nlevels, and it was just very inspiring\n\n4184\n03:51:49,800 --> 03:51:53,620\nand, um... Anyway, I'm inspired.\n\n4185\n03:51:53,700 --> 03:51:55,700\nAlso went to the legislative breakfast.\n\n4186\n03:51:55,720 --> 03:51:59,120\nWent to the Celebrate Corvallis, which was a real\n\n4187\n03:51:59,200 --> 03:51:59,800\nblast.\n\n4188\n03:52:00,640 --> 03:52:01,240\nAnd\n\n4189\n03:52:02,180 --> 03:52:05,840\nthe Downtown Corvallis Organization is having a quarterly meeting\n\n4190\n03:52:06,680 --> 03:52:10,320\nthis Wednesday from 5:30 to 6:30 at one of the meza-\n\n4191\n03:52:10,360 --> 03:52:11,340\nmezzanines,\n\n4192\n03:52:13,260 --> 03:52:16,080\nin the plaza. And that's it.\n\n4193\n03:52:16,880 --> 03:52:17,600\nPhew.\n\n4194\n03:52:17,620 --> 03:52:18,060\nYeah.\n\n4195\n03:52:18,120 --> 03:52:21,900\nYes. Uh, I have a number of things I was going to talk about, which I will defer\n\n4196\n03:52:21,980 --> 03:52:25,220\nsome of those to the next council meeting, but I do wanna provide a couple of\n\n4197\n03:52:25,280 --> 03:52:28,260\nupdates. Uh, we have the charter\n\n4198\n03:52:28,380 --> 03:52:32,000\namendment, charter, Charter Measures PAC up and running.\n\n4199\n03:52:32,020 --> 03:52:35,860\nIt kinda feels like we're going downhill, and so far we haven't.\n\n4200\n03:52:35,940 --> 03:52:38,760\nUh, our feet are still in front of our heads, so that's good.\n\n4201\n03:52:38,890 --> 03:52:42,030\nUm, it's a good group of folks. I think we're gonna make progress.\n\n4202\n03:52:42,040 --> 03:52:45,800\nWe're meeting, every Wednesday, and through\n\n4203\n03:52:45,840 --> 03:52:47,940\nthe, election timeframe, but I think\n\n4204\n03:52:47,980 --> 03:52:51,030\nwe'll-Um, I think we'll get there.\n\n4205\n03:52:51,120 --> 03:52:54,300\nUh, I'll give you a n- better update next time.\n\n4206\n03:52:54,400 --> 03:52:58,060\nUh, and then just one other thing I wanted to cover,\n\n4207\n03:52:58,780 --> 03:53:01,840\nwhich is we have received for the city manager\n\n4208\n03:53:01,920 --> 03:53:04,840\nevaluation process, we have received,\n\n4209\n03:53:05,120 --> 03:53:08,840\nsix req- RFPs were\n\n4210\n03:53:08,880 --> 03:53:11,840\ncompleted. Uh, we did review those.\n\n4211\n03:53:11,940 --> 03:53:14,360\nUh, there was a group of five that's supposed to review this.\n\n4212\n03:53:14,420 --> 03:53:18,320\nOnly four of us, actually did\n\n4213\n03:53:18,400 --> 03:53:22,360\nreview that, so we're gonna move forward, with\n\n4214\n03:53:22,400 --> 03:53:26,300\nthe group of four. That would be the city manager, the HR director, the mayor\n\n4215\n03:53:26,340 --> 03:53:29,900\nand myself. Um, just wanted to let folks know\n\n4216\n03:53:29,980 --> 03:53:33,790\nthat cost of the evaluations are likely to be somewhere in the range of\n\n4217\n03:53:33,880 --> 03:53:37,720\nabout $25,000. Um, happy to\n\n4218\n03:53:37,760 --> 03:53:41,740\ncontinue with this, unless I hear that the council would like\n\n4219\n03:53:41,820 --> 03:53:45,389\nto reconsider that expense. Are we...\n\n4220\n03:53:45,400 --> 03:53:46,660\nAnd the question would be, are we\n\n4221\n03:53:47,540 --> 03:53:50,980\ngoing to get $25,000 worth of benefit out of doing this\n\n4222\n03:53:51,640 --> 03:53:53,580\ndifferently? Um,\n\n4223\n03:53:54,600 --> 03:53:58,440\nso I guess I'll pause and see if there's any comment as\n\n4224\n03:53:58,520 --> 03:54:01,560\nto, any discussion as to whether we might want to alter that.\n\n4225\n03:54:01,620 --> 03:54:04,200\nOtherwise, we'll, we will proceed.\n\n4226\n03:54:04,300 --> 03:54:08,280\nUm, we intend to... Based on the\n\n4227\n03:54:08,340 --> 03:54:12,280\ntimeline, we intend to announce the, to, give notice of the intent to\n\n4228\n03:54:12,340 --> 03:54:16,120\naward contracts by April 8th. So we have a very short\n\n4229\n03:54:16,180 --> 03:54:19,680\ntime window on this. Any comment\n\n4230\n03:54:20,340 --> 03:54:22,240\nfrom anybody?\n\n4231\n03:54:24,080 --> 03:54:26,330\nJust, I...\n\n4232\n03:54:27,980 --> 03:54:31,840\nIt's after 10 and I don't, I think I would rather h- think about\n\n4233\n03:54:31,860 --> 03:54:35,780\nit rather than make a comment on whether or not to go\n\n4234\n03:54:35,840 --> 03:54:39,800\nforward. My gut sense is yes, but I really don't\n\n4235\n03:54:39,820 --> 03:54:43,260\nwant to engage in the discussion. I don't think o- any of us would make a good\n\n4236\n03:54:43,300 --> 03:54:44,660\ndecision at this hour.\n\n4237\n03:54:44,700 --> 03:54:47,470\nMaybe we can make some room on Thursday.\n\n4238\n03:54:47,480 --> 03:54:49,080\nThat'd be fine.\n\n4239\n03:54:49,900 --> 03:54:52,520\nCouncilor Lewis.\n\n4240\n03:54:54,080 --> 03:54:57,860\nOh, fantastic. Okay. Um, police review advisory board, if\n\n4241\n03:54:57,940 --> 03:55:01,200\nyou haven't signed up, you can sign up for Corvallis Police 101.\n\n4242\n03:55:01,240 --> 03:55:05,030\nIt's from April 1st to June 10th, every Wednesday from 6 PM to 9 PM.\n\n4243\n03:55:05,420 --> 03:55:08,450\nIt is just literally learning the ins and outs of the police force.\n\n4244\n03:55:08,520 --> 03:55:11,960\nI will see them next year 'cause I do not have the capacity to do it this year.\n\n4245\n03:55:12,020 --> 03:55:14,980\nUm, but you can apply by March, 20th.\n\n4246\n03:55:15,040 --> 03:55:18,780\nAlso, they, our wonderful police chief went to the COA\n\n4247\n03:55:18,880 --> 03:55:22,680\nSpring Conference between March 11th and, and 15th in Tucson,\n\n4248\n03:55:22,740 --> 03:55:25,580\nArizona. I don't know what happened there. I'll ask him later.\n\n4249\n03:55:25,660 --> 03:55:29,580\nUm, the Empowerment and Green Grants info session is, tomorrow\n\n4250\n03:55:29,640 --> 03:55:33,600\nat three-- at 5:15 on Zoom. As always, the Winter's Farmers Market\n\n4251\n03:55:33,660 --> 03:55:37,380\nis Saturdays 9 AM to 1 PM at the Benton County Fairgrounds.\n\n4252\n03:55:37,480 --> 03:55:37,820\nUm,\n\n4253\n03:55:39,380 --> 03:55:41,620\nthere's a few things that have already are said.\n\n4254\n03:55:41,629 --> 03:55:45,360\nAnd because it is still Women's History Month, that has not changed, I'm going\n\n4255\n03:55:45,380 --> 03:55:49,020\nto talk very briefly about Rita Moreno, who is still alive at ninety-four years\n\n4256\n03:55:49,060 --> 03:55:51,940\nold. She was born December 11th, 1931.\n\n4257\n03:55:51,980 --> 03:55:55,349\nYou probably know her as Rosa Dolores Alvera or\n\n4258\n03:55:55,400 --> 03:55:59,240\nAnita from West Side Story. That was actually the role that actually got her\n\n4259\n03:55:59,400 --> 03:56:03,020\nthe, to be the first Latina to win an Oscar for Best Supporting\n\n4260\n03:56:03,180 --> 03:56:06,820\nActress, in 1962. And she actually became an EGOT\n\n4261\n03:56:06,860 --> 03:56:09,700\nstatus, which only twenty-one people have gotten, in\n\n4262\n03:56:09,720 --> 03:56:13,380\n1977. And I am going to go, be going home after this.\n\n4263\n03:56:13,420 --> 03:56:15,940\nYou all have a wonderful night.\n\n4264\n03:56:15,980 --> 03:56:17,230\nWe have one item still.\n\n4265\n03:56:18,780 --> 03:56:21,840\nWhich I should have started with Jim for that one. Councilman Packham.\n\n4266\n03:56:22,160 --> 03:56:25,700\nYeah, I wrote my report, but I wanted to highlight a couple of things.\n\n4267\n03:56:25,760 --> 03:56:29,100\nFirst and foremost, I want to extend thanks to Danielle\n\n4268\n03:56:29,180 --> 03:56:32,960\nChambers, Gene Raymond, our former counselor for Ward\n\n4269\n03:56:33,020 --> 03:56:34,180\nSeven, I believe, Ava\n\n4270\n03:56:35,000 --> 03:56:38,040\nOlsen, and the mayor for bringing forth the resolution,\n\n4271\n03:56:39,200 --> 03:56:42,020\nfor advancing the resolution to the council.\n\n4272\n03:56:42,120 --> 03:56:45,200\nUm, very important that, that this occurred and,\n\n4273\n03:56:46,640 --> 03:56:50,230\nthank you all. And others that I don't know who you are, but thank\n\n4274\n03:56:50,300 --> 03:56:54,260\nyou. Um, quickly, I support\n\n4275\n03:56:55,200 --> 03:56:58,480\nthe changes to Walnut Boulevard, the safety,\n\n4276\n03:56:58,660 --> 03:57:02,360\nimprovements. Uh, I think the last time I rode my bike on Walnut,\n\n4277\n03:57:02,380 --> 03:57:05,360\nsomebody passed me at fifty miles an hour.\n\n4278\n03:57:05,480 --> 03:57:09,389\nUm, it needs to do something. We need to do something\n\n4279\n03:57:09,420 --> 03:57:12,980\nabout that. Uh, the Bikeway project for North Benton\n\n4280\n03:57:13,080 --> 03:57:16,740\nCounty, that's the bike path you see partially\n\n4281\n03:57:16,880 --> 03:57:20,420\ncompleted from here along Highway 20.\n\n4282\n03:57:20,540 --> 03:57:24,100\nUh, there's going to be an open house, at\n\n4283\n03:57:24,120 --> 03:57:28,080\nboth the Corvallis and the Albany Farmers Market, May\n\n4284\n03:57:28,120 --> 03:57:31,760\n16th from ten to noon. They wanna figure out\n\n4285\n03:57:31,840 --> 03:57:35,810\nhow the path crosses over the highway, and you're all\n\n4286\n03:57:35,840 --> 03:57:38,960\ninvited 'cause nobody can figure it out.\n\n4287\n03:57:39,500 --> 03:57:43,300\nUm, and last thing, LBCC\n\n4288\n03:57:43,400 --> 03:57:47,300\nhas a ribbon cutting sometime this coming April\n\n4289\n03:57:48,120 --> 03:57:51,820\nto unveil their new mobility hub, and I\n\n4290\n03:57:52,220 --> 03:57:56,080\ndon't-- I remember standing in a huddle waiting\n\n4291\n03:57:56,120 --> 03:57:57,360\nfor the bus at LB,\n\n4292\n03:57:58,200 --> 03:58:02,020\nyou know, the, the shuttle. Um, it was raining and,\n\n4293\n03:58:02,080 --> 03:58:05,400\nand people are lined up, but now it's really nice.\n\n4294\n03:58:05,460 --> 03:58:08,100\nThis is going to connect with, OSU\n\n4295\n03:58:09,000 --> 03:58:12,820\nMobility Hub, which is going to be at 14th and Jefferson across from\n\n4296\n03:58:12,860 --> 03:58:16,520\nCallahan Hall. And, OSU is,\n\n4297\n03:58:16,580 --> 03:58:19,960\nOSU is scoping right now their Campus\n\n4298\n03:58:20,140 --> 03:58:24,110\nWay Promenade, if you will. Uh,\n\n4299\n03:58:24,140 --> 03:58:27,390\nthe plans, I don't know, I don't have the plans, but,\n\n4300\n03:58:28,580 --> 03:58:30,900\nit is, something\n\n4301\n03:58:32,180 --> 03:58:36,020\nthat it's, you know, pedestrian and, and multimodal\n\n4302\n03:58:36,740 --> 03:58:38,880\nmall right through the middle of campus.\n\n4303\n03:58:38,940 --> 03:58:41,840\nI don't think there's cars allowed. Be fun.\n\n4304\n03:58:41,980 --> 03:58:43,520\nThank you.\n\n4305\n03:58:43,980 --> 03:58:45,320\nCouncilor Morefield, my apologies.\n\n4306\n03:58:45,360 --> 03:58:49,040\nI should have started with you. Oh,\n\n4307\n03:58:49,160 --> 03:58:52,540\ntired? Not at all. Oh. About past my bedtime.\n\n4308\n03:58:53,340 --> 03:58:57,200\nI wanted to make a, just a quick comment about the, the evaluation,\n\n4309\n03:58:57,620 --> 03:59:01,200\nresponses. It's a lot of money, but I don't know what they're proposing to\n\n4310\n03:59:01,260 --> 03:59:02,110\ndo. So\n\n4311\n03:59:03,240 --> 03:59:06,760\nI would... Before I'd really have an opinion, I'd wanna know what they were\n\n4312\n03:59:06,800 --> 03:59:10,740\nproposing to do. Um, so that would be helpful.\n\n4313\n03:59:10,860 --> 03:59:14,760\nUm, so I brought, forward a, an action item,\n\n4314\n03:59:15,000 --> 03:59:17,980\nthat was in your packet, letter to the BLM.\n\n4315\n03:59:18,080 --> 03:59:21,980\nUh, I didn't provide an introductory memo, 'cause I didn't even think to do this\n\n4316\n03:59:22,040 --> 03:59:25,540\nuntil, like, 24 hours before I was gonna have to get something to\n\n4317\n03:59:25,620 --> 03:59:29,529\nAlex, to get into the packet. So you got...\n\n4318\n03:59:29,540 --> 03:59:33,220\nYou know, I just focused on what the letter itself would say, but the,\n\n4319\n03:59:33,500 --> 03:59:36,209\nI think it's self-explanatory. Um,\n\n4320\n03:59:36,740 --> 03:59:40,660\nI... For people that haven't lived in Oregon or been on the\n\n4321\n03:59:40,760 --> 03:59:44,709\nplanet for long enough, historically, the,\n\n4322\n03:59:44,760 --> 03:59:48,100\nthe quote from the BLM, Resource Management Plan\n\n4323\n03:59:48,680 --> 03:59:50,670\nupdate says they seek to increase\n\n4324\n03:59:51,700 --> 03:59:55,680\nan, an increase in sustained yield timber harve- harvest that aligns with\n\n4325\n03:59:55,700 --> 03:59:59,280\nthe historically higher levels of production on BLM\n\n4326\n03:59:59,360 --> 04:00:02,460\nadministrated, administered public lands.\n\n4327\n04:00:02,480 --> 04:00:05,340\nThat's a significant change from current practice.\n\n4328\n04:00:05,360 --> 04:00:08,920\nAnd if you've lived here long enough, you know what it looked like.\n\n4329\n04:00:09,040 --> 04:00:11,720\nUm, and so the, the thing that's\n\n4330\n04:00:12,560 --> 04:00:13,780\ninfuriating about it\n\n4331\n04:00:14,660 --> 04:00:15,840\nis that they're saying\n\n4332\n04:00:16,760 --> 04:00:20,280\nthe choice is between no change... This is right in the notice.\n\n4333\n04:00:20,300 --> 04:00:23,860\nThe choice is between no change in current practice,\n\n4334\n04:00:24,840 --> 04:00:26,840\nor going back to historic\n\n4335\n04:00:26,860 --> 04:00:30,280\nlevels. So it's, so it's a very stark choice,\n\n4336\n04:00:30,380 --> 04:00:33,840\nand, responses are due by the\n\n4337\n04:00:33,900 --> 04:00:37,560\n23rd. So I'm asking for the council's support\n\n4338\n04:00:37,820 --> 04:00:39,560\nin s- submitting the letter.\n\n4339\n04:00:39,720 --> 04:00:43,610\nI'd like to make a motion that we, adopt the, and\n\n4340\n04:00:43,720 --> 04:00:46,040\nsend the letter that, Councilor Moorfield\n\n4341\n04:00:46,560 --> 04:00:47,840\ndrafted.\n\n4342\n04:00:47,860 --> 04:00:49,260\nI'll second.\n\n4343\n04:00:50,460 --> 04:00:51,680\nDo we need to discuss it?\n\n4344\n04:00:51,700 --> 04:00:55,680\nCan I make one comment on it? If possible, I would prefer to have all\n\n4345\n04:00:55,720 --> 04:00:59,300\nof our names and the mayor's signature on it, and not just the mayor on our behalf.\n\n4346\n04:00:59,340 --> 04:01:02,369\nThat's what it says, is mayor and council signatures, or mayor signs on our behalf.\n\n4347\n04:01:02,369 --> 04:01:02,600\nYes.\n\n4348\n04:01:02,880 --> 04:01:02,900\nI-\n\n4349\n04:01:02,980 --> 04:01:05,720\nI am professing in a, my, my\n\n4350\n04:01:07,040 --> 04:01:07,760\nfavorite-\n\n4351\n04:01:07,800 --> 04:01:07,809\nMoorfield.\n\n4352\n04:01:07,840 --> 04:01:08,640\nYeah.\n\n4353\n04:01:08,680 --> 04:01:09,120\nI, I-\n\n4354\n04:01:09,180 --> 04:01:10,890\nI wanna, I want my signature on it .\n\n4355\n04:01:10,920 --> 04:01:14,820\nYeah, no, I, I, I put it out there 'cause it was just a logistical thing\n\n4356\n04:01:14,860 --> 04:01:18,840\nin getting signatures, and Alex said she would have suggestions,\n\n4357\n04:01:18,900 --> 04:01:20,010\nor the city manager about it.\n\n4358\n04:01:20,040 --> 04:01:23,249\nYeah, I think we can, we can seek those\n\n4359\n04:01:23,300 --> 04:01:27,200\nsignatures. Uh, due to the time, we may not get\n\n4360\n04:01:27,260 --> 04:01:30,110\nevery councilor to sign, but we'll seek those\n\n4361\n04:01:30,200 --> 04:01:32,300\nout.\n\n4362\n04:01:32,320 --> 04:01:35,480\nBy when? To sign it by?\n\n4363\n04:01:35,520 --> 04:01:38,820\nBecause Councilor Schaefer is out of the state,\n\n4364\n04:01:39,820 --> 04:01:42,760\nand because of other councilor obligations, we would\n\n4365\n04:01:42,920 --> 04:01:45,120\nprobably do a e-signature.\n\n4366\n04:01:46,240 --> 04:01:48,480\nCa- can you DocuSign for me?\n\n4367\n04:01:49,880 --> 04:01:51,100\nYou can DocuSign it, yes.\n\n4368\n04:01:51,140 --> 04:01:51,620\nYeah.\n\n4369\n04:01:51,940 --> 04:01:52,620\nThat would be great.\n\n4370\n04:01:52,660 --> 04:01:55,050\nI think... And that might be the best way to move forward, just so we can capture\n\n4371\n04:01:55,080 --> 04:01:55,580\neverybody.\n\n4372\n04:01:55,620 --> 04:01:56,600\nSounds good.\n\n4373\n04:01:56,620 --> 04:02:00,330\nSo we have a motion. Vote on it? Okay, all in\n\n4374\n04:02:00,440 --> 04:02:03,869\nfavor of the motion to sign on to this letter to the\n\n4375\n04:02:04,280 --> 04:02:06,100\nBL- Bureau of Land Management?\n\n4376\n04:02:06,180 --> 04:02:06,940\nAye.\n\n4377\n04:02:07,020 --> 04:02:07,240\nAye.\n\n4378\n04:02:07,280 --> 04:02:09,420\nAye.\n\n4379\n04:02:09,430 --> 04:02:09,430\nAye.\n\n4380\n04:02:09,460 --> 04:02:13,180\nAll those opposed, no? All right.\n\n4381\n04:02:13,560 --> 04:02:15,500\nThat sounds like it passed unanimously.\n\n4382\n04:02:15,540 --> 04:02:18,800\nDid you have anything else for us, Councilor Moorfield?\n\n4383\n04:02:18,880 --> 04:02:19,580\nI do not.\n\n4384\n04:02:19,620 --> 04:02:21,300\nAll right. Councilor Ellis?\n\n4385\n04:02:21,460 --> 04:02:23,660\nI am glad that he did not make his letter a lie.\n\n4386\n04:02:23,670 --> 04:02:27,140\nWe said already that we had voted unanimously in the letter.\n\n4387\n04:02:27,340 --> 04:02:31,100\nIt's like we did. Um, I had a couple of things.\n\n4388\n04:02:31,180 --> 04:02:34,480\nUm, on Tuesday the 31st, there's going to be a\n\n4389\n04:02:34,500 --> 04:02:38,360\ndiscussion of prioritization of neighborhood bikeways, which\n\n4390\n04:02:38,400 --> 04:02:42,160\nis kind of an actually fascinating topic, and it will be here at\n\n4391\n04:02:42,640 --> 04:02:46,550\n5:30. Um, I believe there, there'll be a present- I don't\n\n4392\n04:02:46,560 --> 04:02:49,480\nknow how they're gonna organize it, but they're very excited about it, and the\n\n4393\n04:02:49,520 --> 04:02:53,420\ninformation is getting out. Um, so I think people who\n\n4394\n04:02:53,440 --> 04:02:56,200\nare interested should engage in that.\n\n4395\n04:02:56,280 --> 04:02:56,560\nUm,\n\n4396\n04:02:57,700 --> 04:03:01,460\nI do wanna say, that when I was in college, it was $35\n\n4397\n04:03:01,820 --> 04:03:02,460\na credit.\n\n4398\n04:03:03,260 --> 04:03:04,140\nWow.\n\n4399\n04:03:04,220 --> 04:03:07,080\nUm, and I remember 'cause I was paying it.\n\n4400\n04:03:07,160 --> 04:03:10,659\nUm, and then I had a couple of, more serious things.\n\n4401\n04:03:10,719 --> 04:03:14,219\nI actually appreciate the fact that we had some flexible things on the agenda.\n\n4402\n04:03:14,820 --> 04:03:17,740\nAt first I thought, \"How'd that resolution get on there without the form?\" But I\n\n4403\n04:03:17,940 --> 04:03:21,880\nactually think that people bringing a resolution or a letter forward\n\n4404\n04:03:21,940 --> 04:03:24,280\nin councilor comments is the way things should work.\n\n4405\n04:03:24,640 --> 04:03:26,260\nSo I appreciate that. Um,\n\n4406\n04:03:27,880 --> 04:03:31,580\nand then I also... We're gonna be seeing a lot\n\n4407\n04:03:31,760 --> 04:03:35,460\nof, as Director Bellotta referred to it,\n\n4408\n04:03:35,560 --> 04:03:39,440\nurban form in terms of multi-family\n\n4409\n04:03:39,600 --> 04:03:42,980\nhousing coming forward into established\n\n4410\n04:03:43,060 --> 04:03:46,320\nneighborhoods, and we need to recognize that is an\n\n4411\n04:03:46,360 --> 04:03:50,020\nincredibly stressful experience for are, the people who are\n\n4412\n04:03:50,100 --> 04:03:54,040\nliving there. Um, I, I, I, I hear\n\n4413\n04:03:54,140 --> 04:03:58,040\nyou. I started, before I was a city councilor, involved\n\n4414\n04:03:58,080 --> 04:04:01,260\nin some of the land use decisions, when we actually could say\n\n4415\n04:04:01,360 --> 04:04:05,000\nthings. And to find out that, an\n\n4416\n04:04:05,200 --> 04:04:08,810\nurban form is landing on your neighborhood is very\n\n4417\n04:04:08,880 --> 04:04:12,820\ndifficult. I know some people will adjust and some people will move,\n\n4418\n04:04:12,900 --> 04:04:16,760\nbut we need to keep the fact that this is very stressful for people\n\n4419\n04:04:16,840 --> 04:04:20,060\nin very stressful times in mind as we go\n\n4420\n04:04:20,100 --> 04:04:23,240\nforward. Um, and I think that's what I\n\n4421\n04:04:23,280 --> 04:04:24,680\nhad.\n\n4422\n04:04:24,720 --> 04:04:26,740\nThank you. City manager.\n\n4423\n04:04:27,860 --> 04:04:31,760\nYeah, I have two things. Uh, some happy news and some less than happy news.\n\n4424\n04:04:31,780 --> 04:04:33,940\nI'll start with the less than happy news.\n\n4425\n04:04:33,980 --> 04:04:34,400\nJust wanna\n\n4426\n04:04:35,340 --> 04:04:39,000\nkeep council informed of impacts, staff seen\n\n4427\n04:04:39,240 --> 04:04:42,320\nin their jobs. Uh, two incidences\n\n4428\n04:04:42,580 --> 04:04:45,540\nrecently. Um, as you know, we do\n\n4429\n04:04:45,640 --> 04:04:49,540\nallow, sleeping outside of our facilities\n\n4430\n04:04:49,640 --> 04:04:52,700\ndowntown, and, last week,\n\n4431\n04:04:52,780 --> 04:04:56,308\nunfortunately-Uh, one morning we had some\n\n4432\n04:04:56,348 --> 04:05:00,308\nindividuals outside the Madison Avenue building, which is\n\n4433\n04:05:00,368 --> 04:05:04,108\nnot uncommon, but, one of the indi- individuals\n\n4434\n04:05:04,148 --> 04:05:07,288\nbecame very loud and shouting\n\n4435\n04:05:07,308 --> 04:05:11,108\nobscenities, was asked to, to stop, did\n\n4436\n04:05:11,168 --> 04:05:15,108\nnot stop. Ultimately, we had to call the police and have that person\n\n4437\n04:05:15,408 --> 04:05:17,928\ntrespassed from, the facility.\n\n4438\n04:05:18,008 --> 04:05:21,528\nAgain, not, not what we like to do, but for, the\n\n4439\n04:05:21,608 --> 04:05:25,528\nsafety, of our staff and disruption to people\n\n4440\n04:05:25,588 --> 04:05:29,128\ntrying to enter our facilities, public, we had to deal with\n\n4441\n04:05:29,168 --> 04:05:32,608\nthat. And then we also had, one of our security attendants\n\n4442\n04:05:33,388 --> 04:05:37,308\nat the library, i- asking someone\n\n4443\n04:05:37,318 --> 04:05:39,868\nto leave the library for behavioral issues.\n\n4444\n04:05:39,908 --> 04:05:43,148\nThey were struck, their glasses were knocked off,\n\n4445\n04:05:43,488 --> 04:05:45,408\nsignificant scratch across their face.\n\n4446\n04:05:45,448 --> 04:05:49,048\nSo I'm just keeping you informed of what's happening with,\n\n4447\n04:05:49,708 --> 04:05:52,708\nwith our staff. So there's the unhappy\n\n4448\n04:05:52,788 --> 04:05:56,548\nnews. The, the happy news, as Councilor Lewis\n\n4449\n04:05:56,608 --> 04:06:00,548\npointed out, Chief Harvey, our\n\n4450\n04:06:00,648 --> 04:06:04,498\ntwo captains and some other police staff and myself were,\n\n4451\n04:06:04,748 --> 04:06:06,868\ndown for the final step in CALEA\n\n4452\n04:06:06,948 --> 04:06:10,808\nre-accreditation. Ended up being a, a working weekend for\n\n4453\n04:06:10,888 --> 04:06:11,168\nus,\n\n4454\n04:06:12,788 --> 04:06:16,708\nbut I'm happy to report that, we have been re-accredited\n\n4455\n04:06:17,728 --> 04:06:21,368\na thirtieth year. There is not anyone\n\n4456\n04:06:21,408 --> 04:06:25,198\nworking for Corvallis Police who was there before we were accredited,\n\n4457\n04:06:25,328 --> 04:06:29,208\nso it is part of our DNA, which I, I\n\n4458\n04:06:29,288 --> 04:06:32,208\nthink is fantastic. And during the last...\n\n4459\n04:06:32,218 --> 04:06:36,148\nSo Saturday morning is when we had our panel interview with the evaluators, and one\n\n4460\n04:06:36,188 --> 04:06:40,168\nof the issues that came up through the evaluation was challenges with\n\n4461\n04:06:40,208 --> 04:06:43,908\nour facilities. And so I was asked, \"What are you gonna be doing\n\n4462\n04:06:44,648 --> 04:06:47,868\nabout those facilities?\" So just a reinforcement that there\n\n4463\n04:06:47,928 --> 04:06:51,328\nare, there are impacts to these\n\n4464\n04:06:51,368 --> 04:06:54,988\nfacilities, and it's being seen now even by our\n\n4465\n04:06:55,088 --> 04:06:58,648\naccreditation, evaluators. So,\n\n4466\n04:06:59,208 --> 04:07:02,427\nit's important we continue to move forward with, dealing with that.\n\n4467\n04:07:02,468 --> 04:07:06,148\nBut very happy to announce, the re-accreditation\n\n4468\n04:07:06,888 --> 04:07:10,798\nand, we'll be getting, you know, the official plaque and some pictures and\n\n4469\n04:07:10,868 --> 04:07:14,838\nall that. But, great work by our staff, Lori Jackson,\n\n4470\n04:07:14,838 --> 04:07:18,788\nour accreditation manager, and all the police staff who follow\n\n4471\n04:07:18,928 --> 04:07:22,908\nthrough and actually do what we say as far as those\n\n4472\n04:07:22,928 --> 04:07:26,808\npolicies and procedures. And, and staying accredited is\n\n4473\n04:07:26,928 --> 04:07:30,768\nvery rigorous. They're-- They, they're not only asking you for\n\n4474\n04:07:31,048 --> 04:07:34,388\nyour policies, but proof that you are following those.\n\n4475\n04:07:34,408 --> 04:07:38,008\nAnd they talk to, officers,\n\n4476\n04:07:38,328 --> 04:07:42,048\ndifferent staff, even community members at times to make\n\n4477\n04:07:42,128 --> 04:07:44,488\nsure that we're doing what we, we say we do.\n\n4478\n04:07:44,548 --> 04:07:48,248\nSo, we are very blessed to have the police\n\n4479\n04:07:48,508 --> 04:07:51,048\ndepartment that we have and the staff that are there.\n\n4480\n04:07:51,128 --> 04:07:53,828\nSo congratulations to them.\n\n4481\n04:07:53,928 --> 04:07:57,428\nI forgot it was a group of you. I should have asked you.\n\n4482\n04:07:57,488 --> 04:08:01,368\nIt's late. And if there's nothing else then, everybody's\n\n4483\n04:08:01,408 --> 04:08:03,838\ntired. Have a good night, everybody.\n\n4484\n04:08:03,888 --> 04:08:04,688\nWe are adjourned\n",
      "text": "All right, I show it's 6:00.\nLet's go ahead and call to order tonight's meeting of the Corvallis City Council.\nCity recorder, roll call please.\nMayor Maughan?\nHere.\nCouncilors Napack? Lewis?\nHere.\nMoorefield?\nHere.\nOlsen?\nHere.\nEllis?\nHere.\nBowden? Shaffer?\nHere.\nMayors?\nHere.\nKadena?\nHere.\nEight councilors present, Your Honor.\nThank you.\nNext up, looking for approval of tonight's\nagenda.\nI move to approve the agenda. I'll second.\nAll right. Any discussion? No? All in favor of the\nagenda as written say, \"Aye.\"\nAye.\nAye.\nAye.\nSay no. Sorry, Paul, I'll try to remember to give you a\nminute.\nThe Corvallis City Council asks community members to register in advance, but also\noffers limited opportunities to sign up at the meeting.\nThe comm- community members may indicate their interest in providing comment this\nevening by using the sign-up sheet in the back of the room, or using the raise hand\nfunction in Zoom when your desired opportunity for public testimony is reached.\nPlease remember to state your name and area of residence for the record and be\nmindful of the three-minute timer.\nWe do have two presentations today, so community comments will be after that.\nUp first, we have the Corvallis Arts Center annual report for the fiscal year\ntwenty twenty-four, twenty twenty-five.\nGood evening, mayor and city council.\nUh, tonight I have the pleasure of introducing\nErin, Erin, Gavigan, as the executive\ndirector of the Corvallis Arts Center.\nAs s- many of you know, the Corvallis Arts Center\nis owned by the City of Corvallis, the facility itself, the\nbuilding itself, and it's operated by the nonprofit,\nCorvallis Arts Center Incorporated.\nAnd, part of their annual\nag- agreement with the city council and the city\nis the city council provides fifty-four thousand dollars\nannually to the arts center, to help operate the\narts center, and then in turn, owes an annual\nreport as well as financial statements to the city that\non-- starting on electronic page nineteen, you'll see the,\nreview from the city's finance department of their financial\nstatements, and a, and an approval for those, those\nfinancial reviews. And up next is\nErin.\nI'm excited to get to talk to you all.\nUm, I also wanna thank, I have a couple of board members with me.\nThank you for being here.\nUm-\nCan you make sure your microphone's on?\nIt just-\nIs it on?\nIs it-- No. No, it's not on. Is the green light on?\nSorry. How's that?\nPerfect. Thank you.\nGreat. Okay. Um, the arts\ncenter positively impacts the city of Corvallis' economic\nvitality, quality of life, and visitor attraction\nthrough the visual arts.\nI think you might just have to like scroll, 'cause I think this is just a PDF.\nIt's like...\nWell, we practice.\nOh.\nThere we go. All right. Okay.\nNext slide.\nAnd now it's not on the screen.\nYep.\nOh, now we're not on the screen. Oh, that's okay\ntoo.\nOkay. That's all right, the very end.\nAll right.\nOkay. Next slide. There we go. All right.\nUm, so the city of Corvallis' strategic plan and twenty forty\nvision call for cultivating community identity centered on\narts, culture, recreation, and celebration.\nThe arts center is a primary driver on this vision\naction.\nThrough, free exhibitions, community arts programming,\nartist entrepreneurship, development, youth education, and\nstr- and the strategic expansion of accessible arts\ninfrastructure, the arts center directly advances the city's goals of economic\nvitality, social connection, and cultural\ndistinction. Our fiscal year twenty-five work reflects not\nonly artistic excellence, but intentional alignment with the city's\nlong-term strategy for a vibrant, creative Corvallis.\nIn many ways, the arts center serves as the city's primary visual\narts partner. Be helping to translate, to\ntranslate the community's cultural, aspirations into\naccessible programs, creative opportunities, and shared public\nexperiences.\nUm, the arts center's curator and a twelve-member, community-based\nexhibition committee work together to select each year's main\nexhibitions and those mounted in our more emerging and experimental\ncareer, Corinne Woodmen\nGallery.Um, this\nis, just images from the six exhibits in our main\nspace for the fiscal year '25.\nArts education is a main part of the Art Center's work in the\ncommunity. Um, for the fiscal year '25, it was a really a time of\ngrowth for us. We're, we're really starting to experiment with expanding our\narts education programs. We do this through community arts\nprograms that are free monthly events led by the Art\nCenter's learning staff with the support of volunteers, to\ninclude things like Second Saturday and the Fourth Tuesday Craft Night at the\nCorvallis Library. We also have project-based learning classes\nfor youth, which are fee-based, but we do have scholarships available for\nthose. Um, and arts, community part,\nyeah, arts community, partners such as the City of Corvallis Parks and\nRec, the Corvallis Museum, and the Benton County\nLibrary. In fiscal year '25, the Art Center\nparticipated in fifty-six community events.\nUm, we did this through our creative resources and our community outreach.\nFor the year, we had over fifteen hundred participants in our community\nevents, including Creation Station, which is the, TAC\nMakes, program that we host at the,\nC3 Parks and Rec Center.\nThis is a snapshot of, our financials,\nour expenses and revenue for fiscal year '25.\nOf course, you have the much more detailed version in your packet, but just a quick\noverview of this. Um, you'll see that the bulk of our total\nrevenue is from grants. Um, the grants is inclusive\nof government grants, so the funding that we get from the city of Corvallis is\nincluded in that number. Um, second highest is,\nindividual contributions, which include direct annual gifts from\nindividuals, as well as contributions to our\nendowments. In our expenses, you will see\nthat the bulk of our expenses do go towards, producing the programs that we\ndo, with management and fundraising being the rest of our\nexpenses.\nSo looking forward, I wanna share a little bit with you.\nUm, we have embarked on a project\ncalled TAC Forward, which is our expansion project.\nUh, since I talked to you last year, we've completed our\nfeasibility for expansion. The board and staff have gone\nthrough, visioning sessions, and we\nhave contracted with an architect to help us design our programming for\nexpansion.\nThrough our expansion feasibility study, there were\nseveral findings that came out, but the one that is probably the most visible,\nwhich I'll highlight,\nshowed up in both the key findings and our strategic recommendations,\nwhich was that we have some space constraint issues at the\nArt Center. The Art Center has been in the same footprint for over\nsixty-three years. Um, and the strategic\nrecommendation c- that came out of that, obviously, is to identify additional\nspace for the Art Center, as well as to retrofit the current\nspace.\nI wanna talk a little bit about how this expansion aligns with, Imagine\nCorvallis 2040. Um, Imagine Corvallis identifies arts\nand culture as an essential community, identity, economic\nresilience, and quality of life.\nIn that vision, the city identified four\nareas, where the culture is important, which is culturi-\ncultivating a distinct cultural identity, expanding\nequitable access to the arts, strengthening the creative\neconomy, and investing in cultural infrastructure for the\nfuture. This expansion, expanding\nthe footpi- footprint of the Art Center, of course, transforms it\nphysically. Um, but what it also does is it transforms TAC into a\ncomprehensive community art center, directly advancing the city's\nvision of an arts-centered community\nlife.\nThe Art Center expansion, is two-phase project.\nIn fiscal year '26 and '27, we will focus on phase\none, which includes the design development,\npermitting, and renovation and restoration of 760\nSouthwest Madison Avenue, which we purchased on January\n26th of this year. It is, as you can see from the\naerial 3D, image here, is right next\nto the current Art Center space.\nWithin this space, go to the next slide, this will become our\nprimary education space. Um, so in addition\nto an exterior elevator and, to the building to make it fully\nADA accessible, it will include large 2D\nart-making classrooms and art supply retail space, which is something\nthat's very much needed in the community of Corvallis.\nUm, a community library lounge space for creatives to retreat\nand reflect. Uh, low-cost short-term artist\nstudios for project-based work. A community art\ngallery for the Art Center students and other community e-\nexhibition opportunities. Um, jewelry making, stained\nglass, printmaking, a two-bedroom apartment to host\nartists in residence, and office space for eight of our staff\nmembers. Phase two will\nbe the design development, permitting, and renovation restoration of\n700 Southwest Madison Avenue, which as you know, is our current\nfacility. We expect this phase to start, in\nfiscal year '27, '28. But very early plans\ninclude an interior elevator and a new rear entrance to the\nbuilding to make it fully ADA accessible, an expanded\nmain gallery space, a renovated art shop, a multi-use\nlecture and meeting space, and a digital lab\nclassroom.TAC\nForward positions Corvallis not only as a city that supports the\narts, but as a city built around them by expanding arts\nlearning, artist development, and public cultural space.\nTAC Forward will help ensure that arts and culture remain a defining\nfeature of Corvallis' identity well into the future.\nAs part of our shared commitment to Imagine\nCorvallis 2040, the Arts Center is open to,\nongoing discussions with the city regarding the potential transfer of\nownership of 700 Southwest Madison Avenue to the Arts\nCenter, which kind of brings us full circle actually, because the Arts\nCenter originally owned the building.\nUm, and when it was moved to its current location, it was on city property, and\nthe city took ownership of it, and that was, again, about 60 years\nago.\nTogether with the City of Corvallis, the Arts Center has spent more than 60 years\ncultivating a vibrant arts ecosystem that strengthens community\nidentity, economic vitality, and the quality of life through\nexhibitions, arts education, and ent- entrepreneurship\nprograms. The TAC Forward expansion and the TAC Forward\nexpansion, the Art- Arts Center is building the\ncultural infrastructure necessary to meet the aspirations of the\nImagine Corvallis 2040 vision. As our community grows and\nevolves, the Arts Center remains committed to ensuring that arts and\ncreativity cont- continue to be central to what makes Corvallis a\nremarkable place to live, learn, work, and play.\nThe future of Corvallis is creative, and the Arts Center is proud to help\nlead that way. Thank you.\nThank you very much. That was a, a lot of information.\nKind of exciting. Counselors, any\nquestions? Counselor Cadena?\nI don't have any questions at all. Um, but I just wanted to,\nsay, the report and your presentation,\njust amazing, awesome. It's really amazing to see the progress\nthat's, that's happened. Uh, as you know, I was on the Arts Center board quite a\nfew years ago, so to see the evolution of the organization and the\nvision that you're looking forward to for the future, what it'll mean for the\ncommunity is just... It's, it's, breathtaking to\nsee. So thank you.\nThank you. We, we appreciate that.\nCouncilor Meyers?\nWell, ditto what Councilor Cati- Cadena said, and I just had a couple\nquick q- questions 'cause I just, don't know.\nUm, I just wondered about, how you or\nif you collaborate with\nthe\nuniversity, the, the, community college, and\nthe public schools, and/or the public schools at\nall.\nYes.\nYes.\nUm, we are, we're currently partnering with the public\nschools. Um, we, help the,\nthe... I'm trying to remember the exact name of the All Corvallis Arts\nexhibit, that they, that the public schools do each year.\nWe help support that, and are collaborating with them in the\nfuture on perha- perhaps having some sites for portions of that\nexhibit out off of the school property.\nOh.\nUm, so there's more accessibility to that.\nUm, with, the community college, yes, we have\nactually, had a couple of programs.\nThey've, they've allo- they've partnered with us and allow us to use their...\nThey have a fabulous ceramic studio, much larger than our current space,\nand so we've partnered with them to present, ceramics\nworkshops. Um, and I ha- we have a good\nrelationship with the, the university,\nparticularly with the, the art\ndepartment. They're actually...\nSome other faculty is helping us, in designing our new\nspaces, particularly printmaking and,\nour, let me think, printmaking and also our digital\nlab. Um, so they're, we're partnering with them on\nthat, and we, really wanna help build more of a\ncommunity connection between the arts at the university and in the\ncommunity. Um, I just had somebody ask me today about our co- our connections\nwith Prax, and, they're good, but they need to be\nstronger.\nCouncilor Lewis?\nUm, I don't have a question. I just wanted to say it was amazing\nbeing... When you first asked me to be a part of this, the\nexpansion TAC force in the beginning, it was very awesome to see where, where it\nwas like just from an idea to now where it is right now.\nSo I'm like very impressed on just how much work has gone\ninto this, and I appreciate all the work that you've been doing.\nThank you for being a part of that.\nCouncilor Napet.\nI'm gonna sign up.\nNice.\nYes.\nFor all of it.\nAgain, just th- thank you for all your work and-\nThank you\n... for your great presentation.\nOkay. Thank you.\nMoving on, we have our Downtown Vitality Strategy Task Force\nupdate. Invite our co-chairs up to tell us what's going\non.\nGood evening, Mayor Monn and councilors. Thank you for giving...\nI'm Julie Manning, by the way. Thank you for giving Steve Clark and me the\nopportunity to provide a brief update on the work of the\nDowntown Vitality Strategy Task Force.\nThis will be the final update before we come back to you in\nJune with our report, findings, and recommendations.\nAnd just as a, a reminder for, and for the audience, this\nmayor-appointed task force consists of 40\nmembers, serving on four different committees.\nSteve and I co-chair the executive committee, and there are\nalso committees working on, safety and,\nculture, on infrastructure, and on economic\nvitality, really representing a, a broad\nperspective of experience, and\ninteractions with the downtown, a- and also\nincluding all, all members of the, city council.\nSo we really appreciate the ongoing commitment and\nparticipation, from all of you in this important\nendeavor.We have a few slides to share with you\ntonight, they'll also be in the minutes for tonight's meeting that\nsummarize our work to date. Um, beginning with just\na reminder of the charge, of our task\nforce. Uh, this, task force was formed by the council to\ncreate a downtown vitality strategy to advance\nits strategic plan priority to nurture a\nthriving downtown as the hub and character of\nCorvallis. And certainly in the work that we've done since beginning to meet\nlast June, we've really seen a tremendous,\nongoing, interest in the work of, of this group and really an\nongoing affirmation of the affection and\nthe importance that this community, holds,\nfor the downtown.\nUh, next slide, please. Yeah. Yes, here we are.\nSo, where are we in the process?\nUh, as you recall, last summer and early fall, the task force\ndeveloped a preliminary set of actions and\nideas for how to enhance the vitality and\nsafety of downtown. Then beginning in\nNovember, we launched a comprehensive outreach and\nengagement effort to elicit community input on\nthis list of actions, and, also how local\nresidents would prioritize those actions.\nIn addition, we asked, how individuals engage\nwith the downtown and how often, and we'll be sharing\nsome, key details of those results in just, just a\nmoment. Our next step is to incorporate that feedback\ninto a refined set of prioritized actions\nthat will include implementation recommendations,\ntimelines, and potential funding sources.\nAnd we'll bring this to you in June, along with our\nreport. Next slide.\nSo this slide outlines the various methods that\nwe've used to elicit comments and input,\nsome of which will continue through the life of the project via the\ncomments section on our project webpage.\nAs you can see, there's been outstanding participation from\nindividuals and organizations indicating how important\nit is for them to maintain, a strong and\nhealthy downtown. Particularly noteworthy is\nthe level of survey responses, beginning with\nlast fall's random sample community survey that\nincluded several questions related to the downtown and\nreceived more than five hundred responses.\nPlus, the more than four hundred who've responded to the\nadditional downtown questions on our task force\nwebpage, and more than sixteen hundred who\nparticipated in ranking our list of preliminary\naction items, also was found-- the information found\non our task force webpage. I'll now turn it over to\nSteve, who will provide additional details on our community\nengagement results.\nThank you, Julie. And again, thank you mayor and members of the city\ncouncil, and, and really the community.\nWe, we think of this as an opportunity not to just update you, but really\nprovide an update to the community as we've been doing over the last several\nmonths, with the-- with these, meetings with\nyou. We think, their engagement, their\nknowledge is primary, and so we, we appreciate this opportunity\ntonight. You know, we have taken\nnote not only of input received and judging,\nthe action items that, that Julie\nsug-suggested, but we've also taken time to\nlisten, to engage in conversation, and to be informed\nbeyond those actions. I think that's really important.\nWe're just not asking people a set of questions.\nWe're listening to what they have to say.\nAnd today we're gonna share with you some of that information.\nUh, on the screen, we have before you a slide I believe you've\nseen before. It's an overall community assessment of Corvallis'\noverall economy, the business community, employment\nopportunities, downtown commerce, overall vibrancy of\nthe, of the Corvallis, economy and the community,\ncost of living and other matters. You've seen this before.\nWe're not here to really discuss that more unless you'd like to in\nyour questions to us, look at some of those, those\ntopical matters. Our next slide shows how\ncommunity residents engage with downtown.\nAnd I think what's really important is as we provide you\nrecommendations, we're gonna take the context not only of the community\nsurvey, the surveys we've done, but the input we've received from community\nmembers and knit together a series of recommendations based upon\nfindings. It's really important that it's a context of\nthe downtown that will benefit not only the downtown in our recommendations, but\nthe overall community. As you see here, we have a, a number\nof positives about how people engage with their\ndowntown. Uh, forty-three percent say, they\nvisited town for any reason\nin the past twelve months. But as we study\nthese bar charts, we see some gaps,\nwe see some opportunities, we see some\nrequirements to improve, and that's where our task force work\nreally is focusing on.\nThese are not negatives. There's opportunities to improve, but if they're not\ndealt with, they become primary negatives as time goes\non.\nAs we look at, our, our\nresponsibility, as Julie said, as a charge, is to\nrecommend to you and to the community how to\nimprove the vitality of downtown, its safety, and we believe\nsignificantly increase the community's engagement with\ndowntown.As Julie says, as part of this effort, we\npresented the community with twenty-eight possible actions, preliminary actions to\nimprove downtown\nOur next slide shows how community members we have been in contact with\nprioritized the top ten of those twenty-eight actions.\nNow, these are weighted scores. They take what somebody may have judged\nas their number one, their number two, their number three, their number four, their\nnumber five, and they add them together to give you a weighted\nscore. We also understand how people,\nvoted on these as their priorities based upon where\nthey live. Do they live in the community, but not downtown? Do they live downtown?\nDo they work downtown?\nDo they own property downtown?\nDo they own a business downtown? And, and what we see is some real\nstrong consistency in community evaluation of priority\nactions that need to be addressed as a community for\ndowntown Corvallis. Safety is number one.\nAddressing behavioral matters is included in\nthat. The economy.\nDeveloping and reducing s- providing strategies to reduce\nstorefront vacancies. There's a strong perception in our community\nthat storefront vacancies are predominant downtown and are a\nsignificant issue. Voting downtown is a\ncompelling place. It isn't just about the promotion, but it's\nactually having the belief, the perception that\ndowntown is a compelling place to visit, shop, to dine, to\ncelebrate.\nSafety. Again, in some respects, this is not only a vote, it's a\nperception. There's a strong perception in the community that downtown is not\nsafe enough, and we need to take steps to address safety\nissues that the community has.\nRiver connections. The Willamette River is perceived to be a strong asset\nto the community, a strong asset to downtown, but it's\na jewel that is not\nbeing utilized. W-we basically can't see the down--\nthe river downtown. We have few opportunities to\nengage with it physically if you're on the river or if you're\nalong the riverfront and want to do something within the river.\nTransportation. Certainly, there's many issues of transportation,\nbut mobility, pedestrian mobility is the--\na, a number one priority of the community within downtown\nand to downtown. And for those who need to drive to\ndowntown or take transit downtown, they want an\neasy way to park or ride transit to the, to the transit\ncenter and then be able to get around town.\nCity incentives to provide opportunities for the community to,\nthe economy to grow. And I would offer as a previous\nprivate sector businessperson, it isn't the responsibility only of the city\nto provide incentives and opportunities and programs, but the private sector\nmust contribute to itself through, nonprofit organizations such\nas the Chamber, Visit Corvallis, Downtown Corvallis\nOrganization, and others. Again,\nsafety, lighting, walking,\nalleyways, sidewalks, restrooms,\nclean, safe, and open when people need to use them, and in more than\na location on the north and the south.\nAnd housing. People wanna live downtown.\nThey want our housing downtown to complement housing goals for the rest of the\ncommunity.\nSo where are we right now?\nSo we've taken eleven months of work that we are engaged-- that we have\nengaged in. The, the incredible engagement of the community\nthat Julie said is, is-- indicates both an, a, an\ninterest and a sense of momentum for downtown that we should\ncapture. This past month, month of March,\nwe've been analyzing the results, both the quantitative results that we've shared\na, a brief amount with you, and the qualitative results from the community\nmeetings and other input from surveys, and\ntask forces that the city has conducted in the past, two\nyears or more. The community engagement task force is an example.\nThe parking task force is an example.\nWe are now judging those to, to understand\nwithin those, areas of\nactivity which are priority actions that the community,\nbelieves in. What are areas that we may have\nmissed? We're listening to people as well as just\ngiving them something to think about.\nIn April, we will begin to organize these goals\nand these actions into prioritized recommendations to\nbring to you later in June. We're thinking about which of these\nshould be recommendations to be conducted right now in the next three\nyears. Which of these should be, issues and actions to\nbe addressed next, the next four to seven years, and which\nshould we prioritize for years eight and beyond.\nWe're also taking stock of who should be responsible.\nWe are not here to tell the council what to do.\nWe're here to provide recommendations on what the city might do, what\nthe private sector might do, what collaborators, public and private, city\nand private, or county, university might do\ntogether. How might we fund these?\nAnd to the extent possible, we want to understand\nas best as we could and communicate to both you and the community, how do\nour recommendations benefit not only downtown, but the greater community as a\nwhole? Because we want the community to support this, not just for\nthe benefit of downtown, but for the benefit of the overall Corvallis\ncommunity and beyond. In closing, our\nclosing slide provides you the finish line,\nmid-June.We will bringing to you a set of findings\nthat will support our recommendations, and we will also promise\nto take the results of our findings and our recommendations after we've\ndelivered them to you, to the community, because it's the community that\nhas provided such em-enormous and, and, I\nthink, highly responsible input. Thank you.\nWe're available for any questions you might have.\nThank you very much. Counselors,\nquestions?\nGuess not tonight. I think, I think everybody's just really looking forward to,\nthe results.\nThank you.\nThank you very much.\nWe will now move on to community comments.\nAnd I wanna start off saying we did receive, for those who submitted it, we\nreceived some community comments through our, our website and\nthrough email, and, again, we do read those.\nI spent my lunch today reading several.\nUm, so I appreciate those who submitted their, their comments early.\nUm, and for those who signed up in advance, that's also much appreciated.\nWe'll start with the people who signed up in advance and go from there.\nAnd up first is, Rob Upson. And I'll remind everybody again, we do\nuse the three-minute timer that's located right there.\nIt'll go green, yellow, and then red, meaning stop.\nWelcome. I don't think that's on, sorry about.\nMayor and council-\nThere we go\n... good evening. I wanna bring your attention to\nmaterials provided on page forty-four of the meeting packet related to a safer\nWalnut Boulevard, the corridor from, all the way from Circle\nto MLK Park. Those are the road safety audits and the lane\nreconfiguration evaluations, which I spoke about last December.\nFull reports are now available. I wanna repeat the message of\nurgency,\nand I'm asking council tonight to do something already on your strategic\nplan, just do it a little bit earlier, and that is to move your discussion\nabout the funding of the Safe Streets For All projects forward in preparation for\nnext school year, which is approaching very quickly.\nOn Thursday, you will receive a presentation from Public Works about the work of\nthe Safe Streets For All task force and newly identified transportation safety\nneeds. According to council's strategic\nplan, this work is being completed nine months ahead of schedule,\nand what that means is that the funding discussion, which is also on the strategic\nplan, can also move forward. I know that\nschool closings were unexpected, and they're not one\nof your big rocks.\nHowever, the community needs action urgently, and many of the projects identified\nin the Safe Streets For All work would improve safety for school\ntransportation. Refer to the proposed timeline\non page forty-five of your packet.\nIf you don't give Public Works\na direction about these safety projects for the twenty-seven to twenty-nine\nbudget, it is likely that we would have to wait another two years to realize any\nmovement on any of the newly identified projects, so you must\nact early in twenty-twenty-six in order to meet the budgeting\nwindow. The proposed timeline gives council enough time to\ndeliberate, provide direction to Public Works, and for Public Works to\ndevelop and cost out projects for the twenty-seven, twenty-nine\nbudgeting.\nThe low and mid complexity projects could be paid for in the street\nfund, which currently has a balance of over thirty-five million\ndollars. Pages forty-six to forty-eight give examples\nof similar small-scale, non-recurring street fund projects from\nprior budgets similar to those projects identified by the Safe Streets For\nAll consultants.\nMayor and council, please add the discussion about Safe Streets For All road safety\nimprovements to your agenda quickly.\nA majority of council has already publicly stated that they support safer\nstreets, and I'm asking for a commitment from that majority to support improved\nsafety before the expiration of your elected terms this year, not just for\nWalnut, but also for Ninth, for Circle, and for other roads in the city which are\nidentified in those reports. So please consider the proposed timeline and\nmove your discussion about road safety projects onto your twenty-twenty six agenda\nwith urgency. As always, thank you for your\nservice.\nThank you very much.\nUp next I have Amanda Bressler.\nAnd please, anybody, if I mispronounce your name, just correct me.\nOkay, yes. It's Amanda Bressler. I'm a resident of Ward\nEight. Community members who live and work along the Walnut\ncorridor, some of whom are in attendance tonight, have come together to create\nSafer Walnut, a grassroots effort to advocate for increased safety\nmeasures along Walnut Bor- Boulevard.\nYou can find us online at saferwalnut.org.\nOur first action was to circulate a petition calling on the city to plan and fund\nchanges to Walnut Boulevard that will reduce speeds and increase\nsafety and usability, improve quality of life in North and Northwest\nCorvallis, and help the city meet its strategic\npriorities. Over the past several weeks, our petition has\ncollected two hundred and forty-five signatures and counting, and I've shared a\nlink to that petition with counselors via your city emails.\nIn your Thursday work session, you'll see a presentation from, of the\ncity's Transportation Safety Action Plan, or TSAP.\nSafe Streets and Roads For All task force has unanimously\nrecommended that, quote, \"Coun- Council prioritize funding and\nconstruction of the safety enhancements identified in the TSAP such that the\ntreatments are prioritized to the fullest extent\npossible.\" There is a Walnut-specific road safety\naudit in the task force's report, and we at\nSafer Walnut we're happy to see many options for changes that would increase\nsafety for all on Walnut Boulevard.\nSome low and medium complexity solutions we expe-especially expect\nto see implemented in the short term include buffered bike lanes between Jack\nLondon and Circle to keep cyclists safe.Pedestrian exclusive\nphases at intersections to reduce conflict between pedestrians and\ncars, curb extensions at the Witham Hill Walnut intersection\nto shorten crossing distances and increase crossings throughout the\ncorridor to align with neighborhood bikeways and bus stops and\ndiscourage dangerous crossings betweens, between the intersections that are very\nfar apart on Walnut. We feel that near-term change is\nnecessary and possible by focusing on some of these high-impact, low to\nmedium complexity interventions.\nHere are a few of the high complexity projects that we're especially in support of\nand will be keeping an eye on, that we realize will take more time to fund and\nimplement. Protected bike lanes along the corridor with physical\nseparation from car traffic lanes in the form of vertical barriers, especially in\nareas that represent a high risk to cyclists or are necessary for safe\nroad, safe routes to school. Addition of pedestrian\nrefuges or islands at Jack London, Twenty-fifth Street and between\nTwenty-ninth and Aspen, and protected intersections or roundabouts at\nHighland and Walnut and at Kings and Walnut.\nSafer Walnut is asking for a commitment from the city to implement some low\nto medium complexity, but high impact changes on Walnut as soon as\npossible, while planning for the larger, long-term, more transformative\nchanges, and to add those to the city's capital improvement plan\nand the twenty twenty-seven to twenty-nine biennial budget.\nThank you.\nThank you very much.\nUp next, we have Daniel\nChambers.\nGood evening, mayor and council. My name is Daniel Chambers from Ward\nSeven. I wanted to speak to you tonight about a\ntopic on the agenda, which is the ICE resolution, of which I am one of\nthe authors. Of course, it had many contributors\nfor whom I'm very grateful. I wanted to\nencourage you tonight\nto use your powers as legislators to pass this\nresolution by whatever means you need\nto. Whether you need, you feel the need to strike something\nbecause it feels inappropriate\nor add something that is clearly missing, I invite you to do\nso, to use your powers. This resolution will\nprotect the most vulnerable members of our community\nwho don't have the opportunity to be here tonight to advocate for\nthemselves, who are scared.\nI've done my homework on the resolution to the best of my ability.\nI've sought a lot of input, for which I'm very grateful, especially from the city\nmanager and city attorney, from Councilor Cadena.\nAnd of course, I'm extremely grateful to Mayor Monn and Councilor Olsen\nfor their support in this\nresolution.\nI wanted to mention\nthat many of you know this, but I'm originally from Oklahoma.\nI moved here a couple of years ago now, and I'm a very proud Corvallis\nresident, and I'm even more proud hearing what other people in our\ncommun- our community are doing.\nIt's one of the things that makes this place special.\nBut I'm originally from Oklahoma, and in Oklahoma, we get a lot of\ntornadoes. Right now,\ncouncil, we are in the eye of a\ntornado. It touched down around us without us\nreally noticing, and it'd be really easy to miss.\nBut right now, all around us,\nImmigration and Customs Enforcement is in full force in Portland,\ndown in Eugene, Newport,\nin Hillsboro. We've been lucky to avoid the brunt of the winds so\nfar, despite a few scares.\nNow, back in Oklahoma, we have a bad habit of instead\nof going inside and seeking shelter, we'll grab our lawn chairs instead, and\nwe'll sit out on our front lawns to watch the tornado as it\npasses.\nI'm here to tell you that we do not have...\nWe fortunately\ndon't have lawn chairs or tornadoes.\nWe do not have tornadoes to bring out our lawn chairs for, but we can't afford\nto sit around as people are kidnapped, as forty\nbillion dollars in Nav-Navy contracts are available\nfor ICE to build facilities anywhere they choose without anyone knowing or\nhaving the ability to comment.\nSo, council, I urge you, please edit and or pass this\nresolution tonight, and thank you very much for your time and your\nservice.\nThank you. Good timing.\nNext, I have, Tyler\nWilson.\nAll right. I'm Tyler Wilson. I am a resident in\nWard Five, and I work at Bessie Coleman Elementary.\nI'm a fifth-grade teacher there. I'm an avid, bike commuter, and I'm\nhere to advocate for safer infrastructure on Walnut\nBoulevard. So\none of the things I've been thinking about when I'm thinking about commuting is\nthat generally people can be kinda lazy.\nAnd what I was thinking about when I mean lazy is people often choose the easiest\nway to travel to a location. So if you are\ntraveling to OSU, for example, you\nmight be more inclined to walk or bike or take public transit\nbecause it's hard to drive there. It's hard to park.\nBut with the rest of town, the it's easier to, to drive\nto a lot of those locations, including Bessie Coleman Elementary.\nUm, a lot of the families, though, who go to school at\nBessie Coleman live close enough where they could easily walk or bike to\nschool, and that's one of the things that I love about working there.\nHowever, there are still many families that don't walk or bike\nto school because they, they, there, there's this, there,\nthere's a fear of safety, safety concerns related to Walnut\nBoulevard and other streets in the area.\nAnd I can, I can see that firsthand too.\nI, I bike commute to school every day.\nI ride, I ride my bike on Walnut. I have to turn left\nacrossFour lanes of traffic, and\nso I, I understand the concerns. Um, one of the things\nthat I did recently at Bessie Coleman was started a walk and roll to school\nday. And the idea of that is that we me-meet at the park\nand we travel together as a group, students,\nparents, any teachers, staff members that want to join,\nand we travel together to school, safety in numbers.\nAnd one of the parks that we met at was at, MLK Park,\nand then the route from there is straight down Walnut.\nAnd when I was creating that route, I wanted to create a route for people who live\nin that part of the, of the school area, so they could get to\nschool. But I was a little bit torn about the route creation\nbecause\ndo you go in the bike lane where you're closer to traffic?\nDo you go on the sidewalk? It's kind of a confusing area because there's a bike\npath that comes up Fifty-Third and it just ends.\nAnd so the way we made it work is we had lots of parent volunteers\nat intersections to make sure that it was safe.\nUm, and one of my goals going forward though is that I, I would like that to\nbe something that, that kids and families feel like they can do even\nwithout an event. But at this point, that's gonna require\nsome more infrastructure changes to Walnut Boulevard, things that some of,\nsome of the earlier commenters talked about, protected bike\nlanes, a turning lane close to the school, something to slow\ntraffic down. Um, and I think\nthe issues will become even more next year when there's more than a hundred more\nstudents at the school. Right now, it's-- there's already a lot of traffic at the\nend of the school day, so that's something that I'm concerned about going forward.\nSo, yeah. Thank you.\nThank you.\nMayor, I have a question.\nOh, go ahead.\nUm, Tyler, generally we-- you, you, you wait for questions, so you would\nknow one's had one yet. Um, how many parents are\ndropping their kids off rather than having them walk or ride to school?\nBecause I know at CHS, parent drop-off is a\nnightmare.\nThe, I don't have an exact number, but it, it's a lot.\nSo our parking lot every day, I, I mean, I'm there for, for drop-off with my\nstudents, and it fills up every day with the current number of students that we\nhave, especially on days when it's rainy or cold.\nUm, in the fall and the spring, a lot more people will walk and bike\nand, but the bike racks are ver-rarely full.\nOnly when we have our bike education week, that, that, those two weeks I saw\nthe bike racks full. Um, but,\nyeah, it's, traffic is an issue right now because\nit's, because of those, reasons that I listed.\nThank you.\nSam\nHoskinson.\nI'm supposed to press the green button. Is that the word?\nIt'll, it'll, it'll turn on for you. You're good.\nOh, okay.\nWhenever you're ready.\nWell, my name's Sam Hoskinson. I live in Ward\nFour. Um, I'm here to talk\nabout the MUPTA approval. I think that's on\nthe agenda tonight. Um,\nthe... I can see at least, think\nof at least two ways you might be able to deny this\nhorrible, development that's being\nproposed. Um, the first one would be fairly\nsimple. The order of the MUPTA\napproval and the regular LDC code approvals has been\nswapped from the last, episode where\nyou approved the one over on the riverfront.\nAnd in this case, no land\nuse, public hearings or anything like that has taken place,\nand nothing has been granted as far as height\nadjustments or anything like that.\nBut the proposal that you're going to get is\nfor an hundred and forty-four foot building.\nThe current approval for a\nmixed use is like a hundred and five foot.\nThey give you a bonus eighteen, so they really only have\npermission for a hundred and twenty-three feet.\nSo the packet that you get is going to be\nasking for a higher building than they\nactually have, and I really feel that if you guys go ahead and approve\nthat ahead of time, it's going to prejudice\nany land use of as far as being able\nto not grant that twenty-one foot.\nUh, the second one, you guys are one\nof the\nline items, I think it's eight nineteen O two\nO J. You are a city council\ntasked with deciding that the\nbenefits of the proposed building\noutweigh the costs of the,\nyou giving them thirteen million dollars to build this thing.\nOkay? So the revenue, thirteen million dollars paid to the\ndeveloper out of our tax funds to create this\nbuilding. Um, the positive\nbenefits, they get to give ten percent of our\nmoney, to donate to affordable housing since\nthey have absolutely no interest in building affordable housing\nthemselves. Okay, they'll also give an\nextra hundred thousand dollars for the\nrailroad, crossing improvement or something like that.\nSo that's, I guess that's positive benefits.\nThey're giving back some of the money that we're giving them to build this\nmonstrosity. Okay, but I'd like you to\nthink about benefits as going two directions.\nThere can be positive benefits and there can be\nnegative benefits, okay? The-That was three\nminutes?\nThat was three minutes. It, it goes fast when you're sitting there.\nI remember.\nOkay. You guys have any questions?\nI provided quite a bit of information in the cartoons and stuff that I\nsent you.\nYeah. We did receive all that. Doesn't seem like there is.\nThank you very much for your time, and for submitting information in\nadvance.\nYeah. Thank you for not reading-\nAppreciate it. I read it.\nUp next, Mary Francis,\nCampana.\nHello.\nUm,\nI'm here with the group that's concerned about Walnut\nBoulevard.\nI live on Walnut myself,\nand\nthe, the concerns for safety that others have mentioned,\nthe,\nschoolchildren, which there'll be more, as you know, because of the\nclosure of schools, will be coming in.\nAnd,\nbut I wanted to mention a couple of other things that perhaps\nhad not, we've not thought of. One is the\nongoing residential construction around and above\nand below Walnut, but especially above Walnut.\nAll of those houses that are going in are going\nto have to come down and onto Walnut to\nget wherever they're going. And,\nI think that it's gonna just add more and\nmore,\nyou know, congestion, and also increase\nthe possibility of danger,\nwhen we have these expanded housing\nand other things like that. Um,\npeople have talked about the bikes and the joggers\nand the walkers. They haven't mentioned the wild and domestic animals\nthat are always running around, but they're there too, and they can\ncause... They can be injured or else cause\nproblems. Um, and we have to begin to take into\naccount\nall of those things.\nMy husband, Michael Campana, was killed as he\nexited the, Timber Hill Townhomes, which is where I\nlive, as he le- exit-\nexited that driveway onto Walnut, in\nlate August of '24. Um, no one saw the\ncollision, but it was a large vehicle that hit his little\nsports car\nas he was making a left-hand turn onto Walnut.\nAnd,\nwe don't really know what happened 'cause as I say, no one saw it.\nThey heard it. But Michael was mortally injured, and he died on\nAugust 24th of two-\n2024. And I cannot help\nbut feel that speed and other things were\ninvolved in that accident.\nWalnut and its surrounding area is no longer\nsort of a semi-rural edge to Corvallis.\nIt's a major artery. People use it to\ncome from all over\nto Corvallis, and certainly to the, the west and the,\nand the east. Um,\nand I think\nthat it would be important for all of us\nto think about traffic control, speed, noise,\ncongestion, and to start addressing the way to\ndo this. So I encourage you to participate.\nThank you.\nCouncilor Ellis?\nI'm very sorry to hear about your husband.\nThank you.\nThank you for coming tonight.\nNext is Bjorn... I'm gonna mess up the last name, I\nknow.\nBolteys.\nBoltis?\nThank you.\nGood evening. My name is Bjorn Bolteys, and I'm a homeowner in the Avery Helm\nHistoric District, Ward Four, directly across the street from the\nproposed Pineview Development on 4th Street.\nThis building will rise 13 stories directly outside my front door.\nIt will permanently change the experience of living in this neighborhood,\nblocking the morning sunlight to our home and creating an overbearing visual\npresence. Because of that impact, I believe it's especially\nimportant that the public benefits tied to this project clear-\nclearly improve the neighborhood around it.\nThis project is asking for the public to significantly sub, a\nsignificant subsidy, over 13 million in property tax exemptions\nover 10 years. When the city provides that level of support, it\nis reasonable to ask what tangible benefits will the surrounding neighborhood\nreceive in return? The application lists several\npublic benefits, including $100,000 infrastructure\ncontribution and a $50,000 for pedestrian\nconnectivity and improvements. I'd like to suggest a very\npractical way those funds could benefit both the new residents and\nthe existing neighborhood. Many people in our neighborhood regularly cross\n4th Street at Washington and Adams to reach Safeway.\nThis section of 4th is three lanes of traffic and often\nbusy. There's also a bus stop that brings transit riders across the\nstreet from the grocery store. Today, crossing can feel like a\ntreacherous little game, real-life game of Frogger.\nI nervously wait for my kids to return anytime they go to the store for\nsomething.\nThe Pineview Project will bring roughly 600 additional residents\ninto the corridor. This will dramatically increase the number of pedestrians\nmoving between housing and essential services downtown.\nA signalized mid-block pedestrian crossing between Washington and\nAdams would address a real safety issue that already\nexists and will only grow with this development.It would\nsupport the city's own goals around walkability, transit\nuse, reducing vehicle trips, and it would directly serve both\nthe new building and the surrounding neighborhood.\nSo my request is simple. If the city approves the m- this MOPD app-\napplication, please prioritize directing the project's\ninfrastructure and connectivity contributions towards designing and\nconstructing a safe pedestrian crossing on 4th Street between\nWashington and Adams. If we are adding hundreds of new residents to this\nblock, we should also add the infrastructure that allows them,\nand the neighbors who already live here, a safe, uh...\nto safely cross the street to reach basic services.\nLet's make a safe way to the safe\nway.\nThank you. Up next is\nJean\nRaymond.\nGood\nevening.\nThis is an oral statement in support of the Corvallis ICE\nresolution. I'm in strong support of the ICE\nresolution. In this time of political chaos and\nillegal violent action by ICE, I thank our Corva-\nCorvallis community, which of course includes the mayor,\ncouncil, manager, and staff, for putting the wellbeing and the safety of our\ncommunity first. I acknowledge with gratitude the\nmany co- contributions of immigrants throughout our\nhistory. In contrast, ICE has targeted\nwith bigotry those of darker color, those who look\ndifferent, speak with an accent, and even those who protest\npeacefully. ICE has targeted students, health workers,\nfarmers, service people, and those immigrants and natives who have\nbenefited our community. It has illegally\ntargeted those with student and work visas, asylum\nseekers, citizens, and naturalized citizens.\nNow it proposes to build a mass- massive detention cent-\ndetention centers across the United\nStates. These actions by ICE have caused\nfear and dismay.\nIn response, the community has worked together to protest\nsafely, to write letters to our representatives, to\ncollect funds, food, and clothing, to make banners, and\nprovide transportation. We have seen Oregon leaders\nre- respond with bills about s- and there are 13\nnew bills that have passed the Senate and the House that you\ncan ask me about.\nSo we have seen Oregon leaders respond with\nbills about sanctuary for state, about how police react, how\nschools and universities must plan and carry out those plans,\nhow we can peacefully resist illegal violence from ICE.\nWe see how state leaders have worked together with other state leaders to\npush back against unlawful, overreaching\nactions. I'm glad this resolution has actions that the\ncity may take to provide safety. I expect the\ncity manager to follow through and provide guidance to the\nmayor, council, and staff, and I have written s-\nseveral actions which could be provided by the city.\nI've written this also in your, packet.\nSo requirement that no u- use of harmful chemicals, tear gas, et\ncetera, harassment by ICE, or use of weapons against peaceful\nprotesters or residents be allowed.\nThat no city facilities, utilities, buildings, parks, parking\nlots, airport facilities be allowed by\nICE. That no mass detention center be\nallowed. That all ICE officers have identification that can be\nclearly visible. That the sanctity and safety of\nsanctuary be followed, including schools, places of worship,\nhospitals, and courthouses. Please ask\nme about these bills.\nThank you.\nWe have your email, so if anybody wants to reach out to you, they're able to.\nOkay. I haven't included these though, so this is new to me too.\nYeah. I mean, they can reach out to you to ask you about this.\nThank you.\nThank you very much.\nUp next is Aubrey.\nI didn't know you had a second,\na first part of a last name. I just imagined it as Aubrey Cloud.\nOh, that's wa-\nMm-hmm\nOkay. If you could pronounce that for me, I'd appreciate it.\nSure.\nThank you. Mayor and councilors, good\nevening. My name is Aubrey Sadiki-Cloud, a resident of Ward\n7, and I'm here to urge you in the strongest possible\nterms to adopt the Addressing Escalating Federal Immigration\nEnforcement resolution before you this evening.\nFor over a year now, we've all been watching ICE and CBP drive a\nbulldozer through constitutional and legal protections.\nThey're kidnapping people off the streets, from their homes and places of work\nwith no due process. They're setting cruel and inhuman\nquotas that prove false any pretext of pursuing violent\ncriminals. They're using immigration court appointments as traps\nto capture people trying to go through the proper channels.\nThey're neglecting and abusing those in their custody to the point that deaths are\noccurring. They're racially profiling, which has resulted in the\nkidnapping of American citizens simply because they aren't\nwhite. They're building a sprawling network of\nconcentration camps to process and deport tens or even hundreds of\nthousands of human beings at any given time, and\nnow they are executing people in the streets.\nThis isn't a time to keep our heads down, to try and avoid\nattracting attention. That's how authoritarians cement\ntheir grip on power.They make us feel isolated and vulnerable\nagainst the overwhelming power of the state.\nBut we are not alone. This nation is boiling with fury at what's\nhappening. By taking a stand, we're not sticking our heads up, we're joining\nhands with our neighbors and standing shoulder to shoulder with\nthem. We have to do something, and this resolution is a\nfantastic start. I also want to\nemphasize the critical importance of Clause B in the\nresolution. The risk of violence, harassment, and criminality\nfrom vigilantes impersonating federal immigration officers is not\na hypothetical. This is a real phenomenon, and it has occurred\nmultiple times since the start of this madness, including here in\nCorvallis. One concern I've heard about this clause is that\nlocal police aren't allowed to interfere with ICE and CBP operations.\nThat's fine. Asking these officers to verify their identity is not\ninterference, it is duty. We have a duty to protect our community, and\nthis is a simple action we could take to do that.\nImpersonating a federal officer is a felony.\nRacially motivated harassment or worse are crimes.\nIf we can't enforce our own laws because the perpetrators put on the\ncostume of a federal agent, then we've just told every criminal out there\nhow to get away with crime in Corvallis.\nCouncil, I implore you, please adopt this resolution\nand make our city a stronger sanctuary. Thank you.\nThank you very much.\nLast on the presenters, we have Laura\nDuncan.\nThank you to councilors and staff for your service to the city,\nand thanks to everyone in the room tonight who\ncares about Corvallis, my hometown.\nI'm Laura Duncan, and I live in the Jack Taylor house at Fifth\nand C. My house was built in 1907.\nIt's on the National Register of Historic Places.\nI w- reading through tonight's packet, I was deeply offended by the\ndeveloper's justification for the tax break,\nciting connectivity improvements.\nThis took me back a few years and the lies we were told by the\ndevelopers of the Sierra Apartments on Washington\nBoulevard. Prior to their construction,\nneighbors were invited to talk with the developer.\nWe were promised enhanced bike and pedestrian crossing of the\nrailroad at Seventh, as well as repairs to the railroad\ncrossing on Washington. Also, the\nstreet-facing side of their parking garage was promised to have\ncommunity commercial spaces, such as a coffee shop.\nInstead, what we have are concrete barricades and\nchain link fencing on Seventh Street at Western.\nNo improvements on Washington, and the storage of\nconstruction materials where we were promised a coffee\nshop. I don't have any faith that the Pine\nView will actually achieve any improvements to the rail\ncrossings either. This is not something where the promise\nof money to the city does anything.\nIt is up to the railroad if and when improvements are\nmade.\nAdditionally, I need to cross Western at Fifth\nseveral times a day for work and activities.\nI go as a pedestrian, cyclist, and a\ndriver. Often, I have long waits looking for a\nbreak in the traffic. Any increase in traffic on\nWestern will exacerbate the risks for me and\nothers in my neighborhood, including many young\nchildren.\nTell me how cutting off the connectivity for my historic\nneighborhood is an improvement. Please hit\nthe pause button for this proposed development.\nLet's have community input and talk about what the citizens of\nCorvallis want, and not gift money to out-of-state\ndevelopers who are destroying the livability in\ntown. Thank you.\nThank you very much.\nAll right, we'll now move on to our drop-in commenters.\nUm, and I was just informed we have one person online, so we can start\nthere.\nBob Mandel, you should have the ability to unmute yourself and be heard by\ncouncil.\nYes. Thank you. I'm\ncalling in to speak on the resolution\nabout ICE. I simply want to\nagree with the previous speaker, Henri\nCloud. This is of the highest\npriority. The fact that\nit has receded from the headlines\nis testimony to the effectiveness\nof what the people in Minneapolis did,\nand Corvallis\nshould join that. This resolution,\ndoing everything that the city can legally\ndo in refusing to cooperate\nand in putting every possible\nlegal obstacle in ICE's\nway is imperative. We\nwere brought up to believe that this is a\ndemocracy.We were brought up to\nbelieve that the police were there to serve\nand protect. It is clear that\nICE is here neither to serve nor to\nprotect but to intimidate,\nto spread terror, to drive people from\ntheir homes. And a- as the murder of\ntwo people already proves,\nthe tactics that they're using will\nspread into the cities for\nother purposes. Those tactics will\nbe used to repress any\ndissent that the US government finds\nobjectionable. I worked in the civil rights\nmovement in Mississippi and witnessed the\nfailure of the feds to protect civil\nrights workers from the Ku Klux Klan.\nNow we have ICE acting just\nlike the Klan, masked,\nruthless, riding by day and riding\nby night.\nI congratulate you on raising this\nresolution. I urge its\nadoption. As an ESL\nteacher, my students live in fear\ndaily\nof being arrested, no matter what their\ncitizenship status,\nand being deported, no matter\nlegally or legal- illegally.\nEveryone has a right to live safely in\nthis country. Thank you. Please support the\nresolution.\nThank you very much.\nUp next I have Mike Blair.\nI think that's on.\nDo I push this?\nYeah. You're good.\nHello. I'm Mike Blair from Ward\nFour. Um, and\nI live in the, downtown historic\ndistrict,\nnext door to Bjorn,\nright in the middle of the block on, Fifth Street, a half a\nblock from the proposed\nPineview, site. And,\nour adjacent properties\nare, significant contributing\nhistoric houses. In order to make\nany... For example, to make any changes to the\nexteriors of our buildings, including\nfor, say, energy, energy efficient\nwindow replacement, it requires a major and a bureaucratic\nprocess to gain approval. I've done it a couple times\nand, I love the historic houses,\nso it's worthwhile for a lot of reasons.\nBut,\nthis, the Pineview is a monstrosity of\na building structure for downtown Corvallis, and it wi-\nwill fit in like a sore thumb. The proposed height\nwill drown out the east sun and the sun completely\nuntil around noon for our properties\nfor the neighboring blocks. I believe this proposed building will\nnegatively impact the values of the historic homes in our\ndowntown neighborhood. Uh, parking\nissues. Um, my understanding is there's\nnot adequate parking for the proposed structure\nat this point.\nWe live on Fifth Street. There's currently no on-street parking on Fifth\nStreet. It was turned into bike lanes years ago,\nwhich is great, but if we have company\nto our house, they, they must park on on-street\nparking on the adjacent Washington Avenue.\nThere's two blocks\nwhere there's on-street parking.\nUm, the proposed building will not\nprovide, adequate parking for the residents, and so the\non-street parking spaces will become rare, at\nbest, find. Thank you.\nThank you.\nUp next I have Patricia\nVann.\nVann.\nI c- I can read the Patricia, I'm just not sure about the last name, sorry.\nThat's okay. That's much better.\nOkay, all. Thanks so very much. Thanks for the community to come out\nto speak on these various topics that are very, very important.\nI used to call Corvallis our cozy cove.\nI moved here from Manhattan in '91 because I love\nthe community, the walkability, the safety, the\nschools.\nAs we have to move forward, we can't live in the\npast,\nI urge the city council\nto think about\nwhat we are doing in terms of the safety.\nWe've heard all about the... We have the whole programs for bike to school\nsafety, bike and walk to school. Then we look at the schools\nthat they are closing, and those they are\nkeeping open. Um, Mountain View is by the\nrailroad tracks,\nand there is no way to walk to Mountain View and to\nbike to Mountain View safely. We've already had a\nteacher killed in an accident on that railroad\ntraffic-And nothing has been done at that\narea. Yet they're going to expand that\nschool despite the chemicals in the water, which were\nknown seventeen years again- ago, and are now erupting\nagain. That school is now going to be a K\nthrough six and then K through eight.\nNo bike lanes, no walkable\npaths, no safe railroad\ncrossings. What are we doing? We can do\nbetter.\nThe second one is\nLetitia Carson, Title I school.\nAffordable neighborhood right around there with tons and\ntons of good families walking their kids to\nschool.\nAnd they're going to close it and put those children on\nbuses. One family has three\nchildren, and they are going to be bused to three different\nschools. The enhancement of traffic is\ngoing to be unbelievable. We've got to have\ninfrastructure.\nUh, the Sheldon Middle School, which is perfect location for K through\neight,\nis going to be closed. And those students will be\nbused, many of them into Linus Pauling,\nwhich is already super congested\nall through the morning and the evenings without walkable, safe paths\nand bike lanes. Seven hundred\njunior high kids.\nThe traffic is gonna be unbelievable.\nWe have to think and work together\nand establish safe routes for this, for the\nschool, for the kids, for the pedestrians, and the people who live in the\nneighborhoods. And I'd like to see the city\nand the district work together and really put forth a\nplan. Thank you.\nThank you.\nUp next is Tammy Scabina.\nScabina.\nI really do try.\nThat's okay. Yes, my name is Tammy Scabina, and\nI'm a member of Ward Eight. Um,\nI'm sharing my support of the resolution addressing escalating federal immigration\nenforcement. Um, it's my view that the\ncity of Corvallis and the council and the mayor need to publicly put\non record that everyone in Corvallis deserves to feel\nsafe, and that especially immigrants\nand people of color need to feel safe.\nI have a friend that I met twenty years ago.\nShe was a high school student here in Corvallis.\nI worked with her on projects where she was helping other students\nand making a difference. Twenty years later, she and her\nfamily are\ns-super fearful every single day.\nThey own a business. Their kids are in our\nschools. I want them to know that the city supports\nthem. And so please pass this resolution.\nThere should be no question that this city should support this\nresolution of addressing escalating federal immigration enforcement.\nThank you.\nThank you.\nAndrew R?\nHello, everybody. I'm from Fairyland,\nclearly. I, just, I'm from Ward Two.\nUm, I, I, I know this, I wanna speak in support of just about\neverybody who's spoken here before.\nEverything everybody said has been, exactly dead on.\nUh, Third Street is a big problem. Fourth Street is also a major\nissue. Everybody drives down those two streets like they're driving down the\nhighway, and it is always\nscary to cross those. I cross them regularly.\nUm, I've been visiting the, local drop-in center here.\nI try to get people to encourage people to\ngo and, and visit there o-on a, you know, somewhat of a regular\nbasis and talk to people there and listen to their stories.\nI've been hearing\na lot of stories for months now.\nUm, my friend here, Jo-Joshua Browning, recently,\nwas thrown out on the streets by Unity Shelters.\nUm, I've been hearing, stories, for months\nabout Unity Shelters,\nthrowing victims of property crimes by other shelter members\nout on the streets. Uh, some of them did not survive\nthis. All of them had their lives disrupted.\nUm,\nit's strange. And then I started hearing them on the men's side recently,\nand\nI started hearing different things about all three of the shelters' abuses to\nshelter, residents and, you\nknow, that sort of thing just does our community so much harm.\nI, I, I sh- hear about criminal\nactivities there. I hear about criminal activities on the part of\nour, unfortunately, our local police force, using\nconfidential informants and using, individuals that they catch with\ndrugs to drop packages in places. And, confidential\ninformants, as you know, cannot be held accountable or go to jail because\nthere's a, a mythology that they will be murdered\nif they ever wind up there. Um, so they're pretty much free\nof all accountability to any laws in, in most of the cities that,\nthat they, they use them for, purposes, law enforcement.\nAnd, I've heard a, a story from a man who came here to get\nhis wife out of a trafficking situation, was told by an officer--\nasked by an officer where he lived.\nHe said, \"California.\" And, and the officer told him, \"You should just go back\nthere.\" Um, and he said, \"Well, I'm not leaving until I get my wife out of this\ntrafficking situation.\" Um...Yeah, the stories I\nhear just over and over again, I, I...\nY- you can't, I can't just tell you these stories.\nThey're, they're facts, but you have to hear them for\nyourself. Um, maybe journalistic efforts can.\nUm, I'm, I'm working on an investigative journalism effort, Voice of the\nVoiceless for the City, to try and do some, uh...\nMy whole family's journalists. Um, do some investigative journalism, get some\nchanges to, to the city. In Oregon, I hear that we're 49th in\noutcomes for mentally ill people. Who, who is allowing that?\nWho is, who is not funding those people? So on and so forth.\nThat's all.\nThank you.\nDo you have any questions?\nEverybody good?\nNo questions. Thank you.\nBrendan\nKohlberg.\nHello there, mayor and council. I'm coming in my individual capacity as\nvice chair of the planning commission, though I'm also a ward, a resident of Ward\n6. Um, the planning commission has ma- or we\ndecided at our last meeting, which was held in person, our annual work plan,\nto make two somewhat significant changes to our workflow that I figure you\nshould be informed of. Um, as of the cycle of members this\nsummer, some are rotating off at the end of June, and then more should be\nappointed at the beginning of July.\nWe're going back to fully in-person meetings or hybrid in-person\nfirst meetings. I believe we're the last major commission to do so.\nAnd then secondly, because members of the commission weren't too\nconfident in how to prioritize different changes to the\nLDC, given that there's a list that's about six years long and the amount of\ntime we have, we're interested in, in the process of trying to figure\nout how we can learn what changes are most\nimportant. In particular, establishing communication lines with the\npeople who interface with them most, from the user side, which is a\npractice standard in most, like, tech and high performance companies.\nUm, so we're looking at what we can do, as far\nas our positioning, to hear from developers\nand, and people who would like to develop but can't about rules that they feel that\nare in the way, but not... And then contrasting those with, you\nknow, the point of regulations is to solve collection action problems and keep\npeople's private incentives from overruling the common good.\nBut where a rule provides, barriers\nto, the city's goals of\naffordability and economic development, but they're, it's not actually actively\npreser- preventing something that the city does not want, and we're gonna try to\nidentify those and see where we can improve some of those.\nSo just a brief update there. Um, if you guys, you're, you're\nobviously more connected to the community than anyone on the commission is,\nif you have any leads on things that you think we should look at, there's a lot\nof uncertainty on that, and I figured you should be informed even,\nyeah, even that says. That's all.\nThank you.\nThat concludes our community comments.\nMoving on to the consent agenda.\nI will move to adopt the consent agenda.\nSecond.\nWorried there. It was kind of a pause.\nAny discussion? Seeing no hands, all\nin favor of adopting the consent agenda, say aye.\nAye.\nAye.\nAye.\nAll opposed, say no. That passed\nunanimously. Now on to unfinished business.\nWe have item A, revised noise ordinance.\nUm, city manager's here to...\nYes. Um, our police department staff brought this forward at your\nFebruary 19th work session. Uh, just to check in\nwith you, council seemed, amenable to these changes, so\nthey are in front of you, in the ordinance here.\nYou have a\nredline strikeout starting on page 133 of the electronic\npacket, and then a clean copy on, starting on page\n137.\nThank you. And, and the chief is here if we have questions that\ncity manager can't answer, but you're okay.\nAny questions, or should we have the ordinance read?\nAll right. City recorder, if you would, please.\nThis is an ordinance relating to noise amending Corvallis Municipal Code\nSection 5.03.030,\nnoise.\nVery much. Again, last chance for any questions, or we can just take a\nvote.\nI have an observation.\nPlease, Councilor Ellis.\nThis was actually a topic of conversation at my house this weekend, because some\npeople may know that it was not actually St.\nPatrick's Day, but the fraternities were celebrating St.\nPatrick's Day. Um, and we were actually talking about hopefully with the\nclarity of having the decibel level, there will be\nless conflict between the police and the\npeople celebrating, shall we say.\nSo we are feeling pretty positive about this.\nYeah, I have to agree. I re- I really think that the, you know, hard facts instead\nof just trying to determine whether or not there's a violation is gonna\nbe useful for everybody.\nAppreciate it. All right. Let's, I guess, go ahead and take a vote.\nOh. Some more things. Go ahead.\nUm, just, just a quick comment. I appreciate the work that went into this so\nquickly after a problem was identified, so thank you to the police\ndepartment for your work.\nYes, absolutely.\nDo you have a question or comment?\nMm-mm.\nOh, okay. Thought I saw a hand.\nNope.\nAll right. Let's go ahead and, take a vote.\nAll in favor of the ordinance, say aye.\nAye.\nAye.\nAye.\nAll opposed, say no. That passed unanimously.\nThank you all, and again, thank you to all staff and that were involved in\nthis. Much appreciated.\nNext up, and we're moving on to new business now.\nItem A, Pineview Multi-Unit, Multi-Unit Property Tax Exemption, also known as\nMEPTA application.\nThank you, Mayor, members of the council.\nUm, normally I wouldn't be up here.\nThis is a economic development activity, so we would...\nIt's generally about the dollars and cents.\nBut I know you had a lot of testimony from, community members, and\nlooking through that, I think eighty or ninety percent of it was about land\nuse, piece. So I'm here for, that aspect if you have\nquestions down that line. But, also the developer is,\navailable remotely, so there'll be a moment for them as\nwell.\nThat's what I was checking.\nYes, and the city attorney is online as well.\nOkay. So, with that kind of intro, I'll turn it back over to the regularly\nscheduled show.\nGood evening, everyone. Uh, great to be with you.\nI'm excited to present this,\nMUPTE application, the second that the city's received.\nUm, it is a, a exemption\nrequest for ten years, totaling thirteen million four\nhundred and twelve thousand s- three hundred and seventy-nine dollars.\nUm,\nthis is a, a thirteen-story building with two hundred and sixty-three\nunits and, commercial on the ground floor.\nUm, total project cost is estimated to be a hundred and thirty-two million\ndollars. Um, a little context, the two hundred and\nsixty-three units, just about double the number\nof units currently in downtown for residential\nunits. When we look at the MUPTE\napplication and the staff review, it really, comes down to three\ntests. The but-for test, so is this project financially\nfeasible but for the exemption? And we,\nhave a requirement that we have a third-party financial consultant do\nthat analysis. Um, that financial consultant is also\nonline, can answer any technical questions about,\nthe report produced by ECO Northwest.\nUm, at the end of the day, it was concluded through that,\nanalysis that, the project, passes the but-for\ntest. The next is the affordable housing test, so fifteen\npercent of the project's units must be affordable for households\nearning eighty percent or less of the AMI in Corvallis, or,\nthe applicant can provide ten percent of the total property tax\nexemption to fund the development of future affordable housing.\nUm, this applicant chose to provide, ten\npercent of the total property tax exemption.\nAnd we'll get to what all the total financials are here at the\nend. Um, but the third, test,\nso to speak, is the public benefits test.\nSo there's a list of public benefits in the ordinance from which a developer can\nchoose to try,\nand, and accomplish to, qualify for the\nMUPTE. Um, there are,\nfour identified in the application: public infrastructure,\nhigh quality urban design and special architectural features, economic\ncatalytic effect, and connectivity improvements.\nAs for pub- public infrastructure, very\nstraightforward, the applicant has agreed to deposit one hundred thousand dollars\nwith the city to be used for construction of public infrastructure in the\nCIP, and that'll be the discretion of,\npublic works and staff to determine what\nexactly is, what those dollars are, are earmarked\nfor. Um,\nnext is high quality urban design, special architectural features.\nSo the development provides high quality landscaping and\narchitecture and/or other elements beyond what the city of Corvallis,\ncurrently provides. Um, there's sufficient detail in the\napplication to demonstrate high quality architectural design and a commitment to\nexceeding City of Corvallis code standards in the choice of\nextraordinary materials. Um, it's not\nlocated on lots that are identified as having historic significance, so it's\nnot subject to the Historic Resources\nCommission. Um,\nthat, public benefit is, in our\nview, sufficient to claim.\nNext is economic catalytic effect, and so the applicant provided\nsufficient detailed analysis of a proposed economic catalytic\neffect, and the influx of residents, roughly six hundred or so\nin downtown, and multiplier effect of that investment stands to significantly and\npermanently improve the outlook for other businesses in terms of\nincreased employment and/or revenues.\nThe fourth, again, there are three required, s- developer chose\nto, to provide four. Um, the developers proposed to work with\nthe city and railroad to fund future pedestrian crossing\nimprovements at Sixth, not to exceed a contribution of fifty thousand\ndollars. So, understandably, that's not\ngonna cover the entire cost, but it is a, a public benefit offered, in the\napplication. And we consider all four as being\nsufficiently met in terms of the standards for\nqualification. There's evidence that the\napplicant may have actually qualified for an additional public benefit not\nclaimed. Um, that is regarding abandoned, vacant, or\nunderdeveloped properties. So I think there's a strong argument, we won't spend too\nmuch time on it, but, for having met that\nrequirement, for,\nresolving or improving a\nblighted area.\nUm, this proposal, this project, it's\nreally well aligned with a lot of city policies.\nUm, Corvallis 2040, mixed-use development, diverse and\naffordable housing,\nclimate change, climate action plan.\nIt's been a long time coming,\nthe code changes that have, have led to a project of this scale being,\nproposed\nand, the tools that have been put in place to attract this\nkind of development.And so I think this is a culmination of a lot of efforts\nthat have been underway for many years.\nUm, it is, it is a change, to\ndowntown. Um,\nbut I think as evidenced by the, the public benefits here,\na po- a positive change.\nUm, as far as the financial impact or the\nimpact on schools, because of the state education formula,\nthere's no, there's no negative\nimpact, from the tax exemption.\nUm, we will be increasing,\ntaxes both during the exemption period and following the exemption\nperiod. Um, so the local contribution will go up to our\nschools. However, it'll, it'll most likely just be offset, state\neducation funding. Um, as far as the budget\nimpact, the current property taxes the city collects are eight thousand two hundred\nand twenty-six dollars on the four lots.\nUm,\nit's a total of twenty-five thousand.\nUm, and the exemption period,\nthe, the taxes that the city will collect are twenty,\ntwenty-two thousand four hundred and nine dollars.\nSo city stands to roughly just about double or, or\nso, the number, the amount of tax revenue generated from\nyears one to ten. Uh, post-exemption period, the city stands\nto claim four hundred and forty-three thousand one hundred and fifty-four\ndollars a year, so year eleven\nplus. Uh, the direct net financial benefits to the city are\nas follows. Um, fourteen thousand one hundred and eighty-three dollars\nincrease during the exemption period, years one through\nten. A hundred and thirty-four thousand one hundred and twenty-four dollar\ncontribution annually to the Affordable Housing Fund during the exemption\nperiod. A hundred thousand dollar, contribution to the\nCapital Improvements Plan. Fifty thousand dollar contribution to fund\npedestrian crossing improvements.\nUh, one million one hundred and sixty-two thousand one hundred and twenty-five\ndollar,\nexpected contribution to the Affordable Housing Construction\nExcise Tax, and a twenty-seven thousand\none-time Affordable Housing Construction Excise Tax for\nthe, commercial. The total financial impact\nduring the ten-year exemption period is roughly one million six hundred and\nthirty-three thousand one hundred and twenty-one dollars.\nAnd the total financial impact following the exemption, four hundred forty-three\none five four. Uh, those are the, the analysis that\nwe do in the application. This is what we're tasked with in the\nordinance. And, any other questions,\nmay be better suited, if they're about the pro forma,\nto the financial consultant, or if they're about the development project and\nspecifics, the developer. But I'm happy to answer any other questions about the\nstaff report.\nCouncillor Gediman?\nUh, I don't have questions. I do-- I did send a co- question\nto Director Bilotta earlier that I thought might be informative\nto help us focus our conversation.\nUh, first let me say in, in reference to one of the public comments, we're\nnot, we're foregoing property taxes.\nThat is a difference. That is different than giving the\ndeveloper funds, just a clarification.\nUm, I also want to, to\nmake a few points that Director Bilotta confirmed with me in my email to\nhim,\nthat what we're talking about today is the\nMUPTE, request. If the\ndeveloper, for whatever reason, was not requesting MUPTE, they\ncould, they could proceed with this project as\nis. They could get a building permit for a\nhundred and twenty-three foot building.\nThey could request an extra twenty percent in height, which\nis, part of the new process from the state\ngranting automatic variances, where the staff has no\ndiscretion in granting that. Um, so\nI, I think we should keep our focus on\nwhat we are\ndeciding today. We're deciding whether to extend the,\nmulti-unit property tax exemption ordinance.\nWe're not\nrevisiting the state's, choices around climate\nfriendly, equitable communities parking requirements.\nWe're not, discussing land use\nchanges. This is not a land use case.\nSo I, I just think that's important, and I, I appreciate\nthe concern that community members\nhave, but I think it's important to understand this is not a land\nuse case. This is not a... If, if they were not asking for a MUPTE, this building\ncould go forward with zero,\npublic hearing, zero land use\ndiscussion, et cetera. So just, and I'm, I'm gonna\nask you to confirm everything I just said.\nUh, yeah, that, that is correct. Um, in addition, the one other thing that,\nmight be helpful to know on land use is, there was a lot of discussion and\ncommentary about the historic district.\nUh, historic districts, a property owner or a neighborhood, et cetera,\ncan choose to, put themselves into a\nhistoric district and forego any upside and those sorts of things\nfrom that. What historic districts don't do is\nextend and remove property rights from adjacent\nproperties. And so part of what we were hearing a little bit was kind of\nimplying that, because they're a historic district, that that\ncontrols the adjacent properties, and that's not how historic districts\nwork.\nIf I saw hands correctly, I saw Councilor Ellis, Napack, and then\nOlson.\nI didn't actually. I was just putting my hand up, but I'm\nwilling to-\nThat's what I saw.\nI, I'm willing to... I think Councilor Olson was before me, but I'm willing to go.\nUm, and get it over with. Um,\nI understand this is not a land use, and that we cannot\ndiscuss, the appropriateness of that\nbuilding on that space. And the state has taken away\nconsiderable of our authority to do that.\nWhether or not we agree with that is out of our control, and we need to take it up\nwith the state. However, I am gonna argue that\nthey're, that this is not, they do not meet the qualifications\nfor the MUPTE based on what I see. Um, I\nthink any building that is putting a private pool on its roof\nis failing the but-for test, because I think you just don't put the pu- you\nknow? You're going for luxury housing here.\nIf you're, if you were building housing for ordinary people, no,\nno pool on the roof. Um, you might meet it.\nBut for me, that just was no.\nUm, I also am concerned that this is not housing for ordinary\npeople. I did a little math. I'm not a mathematician.\nMy partner looked it over and corrected a little bit of it.\nBut a studio is, if you're paying a third of your\nrent, you have to be a mid-career teacher for this to\nbe affordable. So I would argue that even though they're not\naffordable, this is just not affordable rent.\nAnd then I saw they're comparing their rent to the Sierras\nand saying it was about the same, but it actually had raised it a couple of\nhundred dollars. So it is no, we're, we're actually raising\nrent. We're not trickling down for more affordable\nhousing. I would also argue that,\n$100,000 contribution for public infrastructure is\nminimal. It, you, there's very little that we can actually do with that amount of\nmoney. Um, I've heard enough from bi- bicycle and pedestrian\ninfrastructure to know that that is, there's not very much.\nHigh quality urban design is clearly subjective.\nI look at the pictures and I think, \"I don't think so.\" But other people look at it\nand think that's beautiful. But that's a subjective, not an\nobjective quality, and I don't think we can make a decision based\non that. I am concerned about the ec- economic catalytic\neffect of 600 people with\n300, 400, 500 cars parking in\ndowntown. I think that's gonna make things worse, 'cause we're constantly hearing\nabout the concerns in downtown. Um, and\n50,000 for connectivity, again, does not strike me as\nbeing very much at all. So I think that they fail based\nupon their qualifications, and I intend to vote no\non the MUPTE.\nCouncilor Nyback?\nYeah, I have a, a question, which is if Pineview\nfolds or defaults or\ndoesn't complete the project, what happens to\nus?\nYou mean if, if the MUPTE goes forward and then they fail, they\nconstruct it and they fail, and you're fine or something?\nIf they stop halfway or something terrible happens, yeah.\nSure, sure. So, there's a few things. If they...\nObviously, the building is still there, so you continue to have a\nbuilding that gets taxed and all those other things.\nBut if they fail to pay us the affordable\nhousing annual payment, then they have\nunder 20 days, I believe, we, we have to submit to them, we contact\nthe developer, we contact the developer's lender, and we contact the city\ncouncil and say, \"They're in default.\" At that point, they get hauled in\nfront of the council, and they get to plead their case\nto preserve their tax exemption, assuming that\nwe didn't make it up and we had a valid reason to bring them before the council,\nand the council then could, remove their tax exemption.\nSo then at that point, instead of being exempt and all those, you know,\nhundreds of thousands of dollars, every year, they would immediately have\nto start paying taxes, right\naway.\nI have more questions, but I'll wait.\nOkay. And before I move on to Councilor Olsen, I wonder if it\nmight be wise, 'cause currently there's nothing even on the table to, to\ndeliberate, so maybe we should go ahead and have, the city reporter read the\nordinance. We'll see if we have a motion and a second\non the plan, yeah? City reporter, if you would, please.\nThis is the resolution approving a multiple unit property tax exemption,\nMUPTE, for residential property located at 516 to\n544 Southwest Fourth Street, Corvallis, Oregon\n97333. Applicant, Pineview\nDevelopment.\nAt this point we can, you, you can continue asking questions, or someone can make a\nmotion to get this at least on the table.\nSo moved.\nDo we have a second?\nI'll second.\nThank you. Okay, so now we are in deliberation\nofficially. Um, but questions are still welcome as well.\nSo, go to Councilor Olsen, and then it gets back to Councilor Nyback\nafter that. There's...\nYeah, I actually have a couple questions which are different than the questions I\nemailed you, Paul, so sorry about this.\nUm, one of the main questions I've had a lot from the community is how they're\nallowed to submit an application for a building that we don't know if it meets the\nland use criteria. Can you explain that?\nYeah. Uh, there's, there's, there's a little bit of a chicken and\negg situation. You can either come in and try to get your exemption first, or you\ncan come in and, and get your approvals first.\nUm, it, there is no right or wrong way for how it\nhas to happen. Now, in this instance, so, so when Obie came\nforward before, they had a discretionary Willamette River\nGreenway, process that's a public hearing and the whole big land use\ndeal. So they chose to get that resolved up front so that they could set\ntheir pro forma to know what was, gonna be there before asking\nfor the tax exemption. On this situation,\nthe developer chose not to do that, and the developer's here if we wanna know\nwhy. But, one thing that's very different about the land use\nsituation with this project than the Obie project\nis-Uh, like it's been referenced, this is this new state\nautomatic variance process. So although they have not yet gone\nthrough it, the way the process works is we send\nout notices to the people within a radius so they know it's happening.\nThey then submit letters to us telling us whether they support it or don't support\nit. None of that really matters because the state says we have to approve it\nanyway, and the only one who can appeal that decision would be the\napplicant. And so the only thing that could really be appealed would be if we said\nno. So although they haven't been through all the land use\nprocesses, the only land use process they haven't been through is one\nthat's, you know, kind of performative.\nYeah. And then, um... Yeah, so I've\nbeen looking over this application a lot,\nand based on my\nown, views, and\nbased on... Yeah, based on my own views, I don't\nbelieve that it fulfills the MUPD criteria.\nI believe that the p- public benefits, of\npublic infrastructure and connectivity improvements\nare not, fulfilled. Uh, for the connectivity\nimprovements, they say that they want to fund future\npedestrian con- crossing improvements or just any sort of connectivity\nimprovements not to exceed a contribution of fifty thousand\ndollars. Uh, yeah, fifty thousand dollars.\nIn the Corvallis Transportation System Plan, which was adopted\nin twenty nineteen, they lifted...\nthey listed eleven unfunded projects for a total of,\nfifty-five... five five zero zero zero\nzero, dollars, which calculates out to\nfifty thousand a project. And these are,\nat least a couple of these are railroad crossing improvements or other crosswalk\nimprovements that are not currently funded.\nAnd st- this was at twenty nineteen prices, which\naccording to a, inflation calculator\ncalculates to over sixty-three hundred...\nsixty-three thousand, in\nthis day and age. So this money would not fund even a singular\nproject in the neighborhood. And while I know that is only\nsome of the funding, I don't believe if you can't even fund one project with\nthe money you're offering, that that's a sufficient connectivity\ndevelopment. Additionally, I don't believe that\nthe, public, public infrastructure is\nmet. Uh, our requirements say an investment of at\nleast, a hundred thousand dollars.\nThey have agreed to deposit exactly a hundred thousand dollars, and with\ntheir estimate of how many people are going to live in there,\nsix... sixty, give or take, that calculates to a\nhundred and fifty dollars per person in infrastructure developments, which\nis not a lot. Like, I could... I mean, I don't have a\nlot of money, but if I went up to the city and was like, \"Hey, I'll give you a\nhundred and fifty dollars if you'll put a crosswalk in my neighborhood,\" they'd be\nlike, \"Great, that doesn't cover the paint,\"\nor, \"That doesn't cover the street sign.\" Because believe me, I've thought about\njust, like, putting up street signs in my neighborhood.\nAnd s- because of that, because of those two\nfacts, while I do...\nYeah, I do not believe that this project\nfulfills the requirements for\nthe, MUPD, and so I will\nbe voting no on\nit.\nCouncilor Morfield.\nCouncilor Napack had, had her hand up\nfirst.\nAll right. Okay. Councilor Napack.\nI have a... So in, in\nthe text, the narrative that staff put together, thank you very much,\na lot of the things\nthat they talk about, especially infrastructure, are\nproposed. They're not concrete, shall we\nsay. They're saying, \"We will do this, we will do that.\" They say they're proposing\nX, Y, Z. And I know, for instance, through the railroad, they\nwant... they never wanna cooperate,\nand they won't maintain the crossing. They...\nw- w- w- will refuse to maintain the crossing even if we improve it.\nUm,\nthe,\nSD... Well, infrastructure downtown, you know, we've been on the task\nforce for, revitalization downtown, and I\nunderstand, you know, we have utilities that are\nneeding a lot of upgrades, especially\nelectric and so on and so forth. And this would seem\nthat they might run into a problem if they, if\nthey... I don't know if they will or not, but I know their,\nwater main burst\nright there on the corner of,\nFourth and Safeway.\nSo I don't... You know, how we can...\nHow can we, can we afford\nthis?\nOkay. Um, yeah, a couple things. Uh, one is, you know, some of\nthese, some of these things about what the developer should or should not offer, we\nshould probably get the developer on to, to talk about that. I...\nYou know, we're not here to, to deal with that part of it.\nUm, but as far as the public utilities piece of things\nand the electrical, what we've seen, you know, our\nelectrical grid\nin the downtown is a problem for pretty much any scale of\ndevelopment. Um, we've had problems, on\nsome of the renovations on Madison even.\nUm, it's a very old technology. It's...\nit has not been well-maintained by Pacific Power.\nSo when we do have projects, like the l- museum was\none, like, OB recently, there's\nextensive multi-million dollar upgrades to the entire\ngrid downtown that occurs for that.\nSo it would not sur- You know, I don't know the details about this particular part\nof downtown, but it would not surprise me at all if there's not the same\nthing. And it doesn't necessarily mean that the grid just is on that block.\nThey often have to run back.\nAs far as water lines and sewer lines,\nthose are things that get resolved every- when the development comes\nin, and if they are not adequate, then the development has to bring them up to\nspeed. It's actually kind of beneficial if you have older,\ninfrastructure that needs to be upgraded\nthen along with the development, but again, I don't know if that would be the case\nhere or not. Oh, maybe Mark knows something.\nYeah, I can just share generally if you think about water and, and sewer\nlines as our public works director has, has talked about\nand, and presentations on master plans recently on both our water and,\nand wastewater. Generally it's, for water, it's\nfire flows that drive water line sizes, and for\nsewer line sizes, it's that infiltration and inflow.\nIt's not number of residents,\nas Director Bilade pointed out.\nIf, if there is a, a local deficiency\nidentified, generally that, the developer has to deal with that as\npart of their development, and they do that through a, a permit process\nthrough public works.\nOkay, thanks.\nCouncillor Marfield?\nUm,\nI have a couple of questions. Um,\nI'll ask them both if someone else doesn't wanna take a turn.\nBut, the first one is a fairly narrow technical\none. It was a question I posed to staff late in the day, so there wasn't\nreally time to come up with an answer, but it had to do with the\nfinancial projections and, and,\nwhat, at least on the\nsurface, looked to me like an error, but I'm not familiar\nwith this kind of commercial development either.\nBut the, that coverage ratio in the first three years seemed to be calculated\nincorrectly. And since there's, the purpose of it is to\nestablish the need for the property tax exemption, I need\nthat to be clarified.\nYeah. I, I think here we'll ask Eric Bagwell, from Echo\nNorthwest to clarify that.\nHuh.\nSure. Good evening, everyone. Um, sure, happy to answer that question.\nUm, w- the, the debt service cover ratio is\ncalculated properly. What's happening is there's a three percent,\nincrease assumption on r- on the rental income\nannually. And so what happens is that's ticking up every year.\nAnd also, I think in year four, there, the developer is expecting a refinancing\nevent, and so you're seeing that actually change to serve, the debt service\nactually change in that year. Um, does that answer your\nquestion?\nIt- I'm sorry, I couldn't quite hear you.\nThe sound is just because of my hearing and quality of the\nspeaker wasn't real great. Maybe I can get an interpreter.\nUm, so no, I, I didn't, I couldn't hear the answer\nexactly.\nSure. So my understanding of the, the pro forma is that in year four,\nthe developer is expecting a refinancing event to basically take out a\nportion of the equity-\nRight\n... that is being put into... So wha- what you're seeing is the debt service start\nto change in that year. Also-\nYeah, I, I understand what happens in year four.\nIt's years one through three that seem to be...\nIf I, if I,\nyou know, divide,\nnet operating income by debt service for year one through three, it doesn't come up\nwith a one point one five, one ei- one eighteen, one twenty two\ndebt coverage ratio.\nOh, that's because in year, the first three years, there's just an interest-only\nannual payment.\nBut it's still debt service.\nYes, but the debt service is different because when that refinancing event happens,\nit changes to a thirty-year am- amortization as opposed to\nthe interest-only payment that's happening in the first three years.\nThat's why it's changing.\nOkay, well,\nI, I'm talking about, I think, a simple math question.\nSure.\nIn a pro forma, if I look at net operating income of, I mean,\nI'll use the first year, of eight one, eight point one\nmillion,\nand divide it by the, the, debt service of five point\nnine, it does not come out to one point one five.\nSo I'm just going by the numbers that are shown on the sheet.\nAnd I would say the same error, I, I mean,\nat least it appears to be that, shows up in years two and three, and then\nafter that it's fine. It, it ma- it\nmakes sense in the way that I understand it.\nYeah. My, the calculation I have on, in the application that I received\nhas the net operating income divided by the interest\nof five point fi- or the, the\none year, debt service of five\npoint five million dollars. So it is getting to, it, it's an accurate\ncalculation in my, in my pro forma.\nMaybe we're looking at two different-\nOkay\n... versions of it.\nCan, can I, can I jump in as the developer and maybe clarify?\nSure. Thanks, Dan.\nYou don't mind? Sorry about that. So yeah, I can explain that.\nUm, for purposes of lenders reviewing pro\nformas,\nregardless of whether it's interest-only payment, debt cover ratio is\nbased on the thirty-year amortized payment.\nSo as if you are paying, even though you're not for the first three\nyears alone, it's calculated as if you are paying part of\nthe principal amount down. That is why.\nSo in fact, if you look at, you don't divide it by the\ninterest-only payment amount,\nyou divide it by the larger amount of the thirty-year fully amortized amount,\nand that's how you get to that\nnumber.\nI, I'm not gonna sit here in the middle of the meeting and do math.\nI, I turned my- ... stuff so it wouldn't-\nYeah, it's, uh-\nI'm just reporting on m- me coming up with different\nDCRs when I was doing it at home.\nYeah, no, DCR is-\nSo-\nI'm sorry. The DCR is, is co- is for the purpose of getting\nthe-The debt cover ratio, it's calculated regardless\nof whether you're only paying interest payments for those three years.\nIt's, the debt cover ratio is actually calculated based\non a larger payment on a monthly\nbasis amount. For the bank purposes, that's always the way it's\ndone. So y-you can't get a loan\nbased on the interest-only payment.\nIt, the lender will always base it on the amortized amount\nover thir- which is a higher payment on an annual basis.\nThat's why it's, it sounds confusing.\nI, I... And I totally get why you'd be confused.\nI, I was a little concerned that you, you kind of\nneed to be in our world of finance to...\nAs a s- kind of a stray calculation, it doesn't make sense, but that's, that's how\nit's calculated. And Eric, you can, I guess, confirm\nthat. Maybe just-\nYes, that is typically how it is calculated,\ncorrect.\nOkay. Um,\nsecond question. Um,\nthe, I don't have the, ORS or the, or the actually the city\nordinance language sitting right in front of me, so I'm working from memory a\nlittle bit. But the, ORS that\nauthorizes localities to have a MUPTI program mentions design\ncriteria as being an element that can be considered.\nUm, in the city's ordinance, there's some,\nwhat I consider, fairly general language about, design\ncriteria in there. And so the, a question\nthat I think is appropriate to ask tonight is that because the language is\ngeneral\nand, and not real specific about what we\nmean by that,\nit raises the question to me, number one, how are we supposed to interpret\nit? One way to have some guidance around that issue\nis what did the council intend back in '23 or\nwhenever it was when the, when the ordinance was adopted.\nUm,\ncan you... Because I, I think of a design can, is a very\nglobal kind of topic. And, and\nsome, some of the concerns that have been raised\naren't just about how the exterior of the building is\ntreated, but its relationship to\nsurrounding areas. Certainly, architects\ntake into account context when they design things.\nSure.\nUh, I, that's not specified in our ordinance, though.\nSo I'm trying to get some guidance on what the intent was of having\ndesign, in the ordinance.\nYeah. Design is usually, you know, it was intended to be, fairly general\nto give council some latitude. Uh, we don't\nhave,\nwe don't have a very specific design,\nstandard across the city. You know, we, we tend to allow a lot of different\nthings. Um, typically, design is going to\nbe, not change of\nscale per se, but elements of the\ndesign. So, you know, a, taking\nthe 13-story building down to a three-story building would not be\njust an architectural\nopinion. You know, that's, that's something that's different.\nMoving, you know, having the lobby open over here\nor having a step back or having, you know,\nbalconies go this way instead of that way. You know, those sorts of things.\nThose, those are design, pieces to it.\nUm, you know, if we... Not in, not in this\ncase because they, of course, get to use the standards as it is\nnow. Uh, in the future, if the council wanted to be more clear\nabout, you know, these are the five things that we really care about\nand we don't care about anything else, that's fine, but, that's not\nhow, this was set up. It was set up to...\n'Cause, you know, no one really knew what was gonna come in, so it was set up to\ngive the council some, some, freedom.\nAs a former developer, I, I certainly have been supportive of the city\nmoving away from vague design requirements that were always\nseen in the eye of the beholder and created opportunities for nothing more\nthan conflict and appeals. Uh, so having more\nobjective criteria in what we, what kind of\ndesign elements should apply-\nMm-hmm\n... in developments, that makes perfect sense.\nYeah.\nBut that's not the question in my mind before us.\nThis is about whether we provide a, a property tax\nexemption-\nRight\n... and how, and it raises the, it, a matter of\ndesign as one of those matters of public benefit-\nRight\n... especially when it's exceeded.\nAnd so\nit, it, it appears to inject\nelement that otherwise is not in our land development code.\nYeah.\nBut it injects that element design into a decision\non, on subsidy.\nThe, the language in the, in the MUPTI, and I don't have it right in front of me,\nbut it's, it's ref- referencing,\ndesign and materials that are in excess of, of kind of\nstandard. So what we look, when we look at it from the staff level, we're not\nlooking at whether something's, you know, a particular time period or anything\nlike that. We're looking at what would be, building code\nminimums and what's above and beyond that.\nSo, this project in particular, just right\nout of the gate, the fact that it uses steel construction\nis above and beyond a standard, you know, six-story kind\nof, wood st- wooden or concrete base and st- and stick\nconstruction like you'd see normally.\nUm, so that right there, you know, you've got, I think they showed in\nthe, in the, documentation that it was about $24 a square foot.\nSo that's an element above. Uh, the developer also\nhighlighted the amount of glazing that they have on the project, whether\nthat's adequate or not. The main one I think from the staffing\nperspective would be, you know, going to a steel construction is a very\ndifferent, kind of concept. And that's exactly the concept the council was\nlooking at when we went... You know, Councilor Ellis will remember when we had\nthose discussions with the task force-You can go up to about six\nstoreys with stick built construction, and then there's a dead\nzone, and you've gotta get up to about 10 or more above.\nAnd so that's how we ended up with the 123 feet, when the council made that\ndecision. So the intent was to get steel construction and to\npush in there. We could have stopped at six storey and, and\njust stayed with, you know, business as usual.\nSo this i- that I think is the big architectural\nelement when you're looking at dollars and, and cents.\nUh, staff's not real comfortable getting into questions about, wow, what's\nthe color of the doors, and does that match the, the colors of the\nwindows, and things like that. So, that's not the kinda level that we're\nlooking at.\nWe're looking primarily does it exceed the current\nstandards. And, for the reasons\nDirector Bilotta outlined, it was found that it, it does meet that criteria\naccording to the ordinance. With all of these, the\ncriteria for having been met, there's a standard,\nright? Um, whether it's at least $100,000,\nor whether, the project will include\nadditional non-required connectivity improvements.\nUm, that's how we looked at\nit.\nUh,\nso I have Councilor Olsen and then, Councilor Ellis, but I wanted to add my\nopinion. Although I don't normally get a vote, I just still have an opinion,\nso\nWhen, when I was first encouraged to run for city council by a good friend\nof mine, former City Councilor George Groesch, he told me, \"Trust your staff.\nThey're the experts.\" You know, 'cause we can't be experts on everything.\nUm,\nand but he said that it's perfectly okay to question them.\nSo I'm not, I'm not saying that those here who disagree with that are\nwrong 'cause you're questioning it, and that's fine.\nBut I do have a lot of faith in staff.\nI, I, I believe we have some of the best staff you could possibly ask for.\nSo when I looked at the criteria, there are things I questioned, and I had to\nreread some things, but I f- I feel like staff knows whether criteria is being\nmet. Um, it's what we pay them for.\nUm, some of the i- i- items that I wanna really point out is\nthe overall benefit\nand, and I'm not getting into the details of improvements of pedestrian crosses\nor railroad 'cause that there's always complications there.\nBut it, well, the one thing that was pointed out by staff\nthat wasn't actually part of the criteria used was around the, the improvement of\nthe area. That, you know, that area has looked very run down for many\nyears. You know, we, we've heard from our, our task force, and we hear from\ncommunity members all the time about the concern of downtown looking\naging. It's not a lot of people all the time, although lately I feel like it's been\ndoing better.\nBut, but\nthis is something we've talked about as a council and as a community that we want.\nWe want more people living downtown.\nWe want new improvements to downtown.\nUm, the financial benefit is something we, we talk, we've had conversations\naround, budget gap and needs to increase revenue.\nWell, this was going to increase revenue.\nIt was gonna increase, you know, the look of our\ndowntown. The height of it, I, I have mixed\nfeelings about that. My wife has a different opinion than me.\nBut it's, that's not what's in question here today.\nThat's not something we're talking about.\nSo we all might have our own opinions on that.\nI'm sure they vary quite a bit, and maybe after this is not\nno longer a council thing, we can have conversations around those opinions.\nUm,\nbut I'm very hopeful that the council will, will see this as a benefit and see that\nit meets the criteria and hopefully will vote yes,\nfor something that,\nyou know, we talk about all the time, density, housing,\nbusiness, finance. You know, it, it checks a\nlot of boxes as far as I'm concerned.\nSo\nappreciate that. Um, I've Councilor Olsen next, and then I saw\nCouncilor Ellis raise her hand, and then I'll go from there.\nAnd at some point, someone's gonna wanna\ncall the question, but Councilor Olsen.\nUh, yeah. I also wanna say Councilor Lewis has had a question, so if you can add\nthem to the list.\nWill do.\nYeah. Um, I have a question and then a comment.\nMy first question is for Director Bilotta, and it's\nhow, like, what are the next...\nWhether or if this gets approved by the council, what are the next steps\nfor the development? Specifically, is this going to go to a\nplanning commission process? Or, like, how would\npeople get involved with the land development side of it?\nSure. From the land development side, because this involves housing-\nMm-hmm\n... state law generally doesn't allow much interaction at all.\nSo what will happen will be, the developer would apply to\nget that twenty percent height bonus, which is what's called a HLUA,\nH-L-U-A. That's the new state process.\nUh, we are then require... That's required to be a staff level\napproval, and we would then... We do have a requirement for\nnotification. I can't quite remember the radius off the top of my head, but\nsomebody will get, will get notices and, they're\nvery unsatisfying notices to send out, because they\nsay, \"Here you go. Please write in and let\nus know what you think. And by the way, state law really won't let us do anything\nabout what you think anyway.\" Uh, but we do, and we send those\nout, and then, those are set up.\nThe state law is you will approve, so then we do approve,\nand then, people that submit testimony get sent,\nnotices that we approved, and, and then it moves forward to building\npermit.\nYeah. And then my second thing is that while I still\nplan to vote against this for the reasons I stated\npreviously, I am going to make a motion to amend\nthis. Um, specifically electronic packet page\ntwo oh five under connectivity\nimprovements, talks about paying fifty\nthousand directly to the city of Corvallis during the first year of tax\nexemption following the completion of construction to be used by the city to fund\nconnectivity developments af-At the end of that, I would like to add\nwithin one quarter mile of the development's property line to\nensure that this money is going to be connectivity\nimprovements that directly relate to the development and the surrounding\nneighborhood, and not, like, not that this fund will\ngo, they'll, like, give us money and it'll go somewhere. So.\nOne, one clarification. The reason why their contribution's to\nconnectivity and public infrastructure is because we wanna provide\nfor flexibility for public works to determine what the\npriorities are for that money to be used, right?\nSo it's, it's not as though, it's not as\nthough it's up to the developer how those contributions are used.\nIt's really up to the city to determine\nits best use of that. And so I, I appreciate the motion, I just wanted to\nclarify that that's why their contribution is.\nYes. And I understand that, but at the same time,\nthis money could be used anywhere in the city.\nAnd while I have nothing against at North Corvallis, for\nexample, if you're building 600 units of housing in\ndowntown and they're like, \"We're gonna use this on the Walnut\nBoulevard,\" which great use of any money, that's\nnot going to impact 600 people living in downtown.\nThat's going to impact a different group of people who's not related to this\ndevelopment, so.\nYeah. I- I could just add that, you know, one, one of the things to\nknow, you know, because this is coming in through economic development, those\nfunds will most likely be squirreled away in economic\ndevelopment budget, so they're gonna stand out like a sore thumb, and they\nwon't get absorbed into a $15 million\npublic works budget or anything like that.\nAnd then in the ca- capital improvement pro- planning process, that's really where\nattaching it to the right thing. And what I'd hate to do with picking out an, you\nknow... It's, I think it's okay to say that you hope that this proper-\nthis gets used in the general vicinity of this or in the downtown or that\nkinda thing. I worry that if we say a quarter of a mile, that we\nmight be 16 feet away from the really bad problem, 'cause I\ndon't know what distance everything is right now.\nCity manager?\nYeah, I think that sort of conversation about where these funds would be\nused is best directed to staff and not part of this,\nthis agreement, and allow staff to come back and\nsay, \"Hey, here's some options within that quarter\nmile or within the vicinity,\" and, and talk about pros and\ncons. So again, that, that's more appropriate to have a conversation\nwith staff about how to use that funds, not\nin a MUPTE agreement.\nAnd I, I do understand that, I\njust, I don't, especially with the budget gap that we're\nfacing at the moment, I don't trust that if this isn't in a\nresolution somewhere... Like, I trust staff fully, but I don't trust that\nthis won't be, \"Oh, we're going to add it.\nWe just need a little bit of money to push this project through, and then we just\nneed a little bit of money to push this project for, through,\" and it\nwon't happen. I would be down to increase the\nradius. I was just thinking of a quarter mile because that incorporates,\nlike, honestly\npretty much, the 30,\nthe, the fr- the, the river. The Mary's River all the way up\nto, when I was looking at at least,\nMadison, which is a lot of intersections and a lot of\ncrossings and a lot of bike lanes that could be built, so.\nAt this point, Councilor Olsen does not have a second.\nRight.\nSo I'm going to second because we didn't have that option before everybody\njumped in.\nAnd I, and I'll, my, my concern's with the motion.\nI, I appreciate\nyour thought on this, but my concern is what if, there's an opportunity to\nimprove our transit system\nthat would benefit people living there potentially but it would be outside of that\nquarter mile?\nThen one bus.\nBut, but there's a tran- there's, there could be, money that goes to additional\nfunding or additional routes that go where people need to go.\nSo I'm saying there's potential other needs and uses that would\nbenefit people, not directly\nnecessarily. So we have a motion and a second,\nand, is it... Go ahead.\nI have a clarifying question on the motion, and I think it's a legal\nquestion, which is the, the resolution\ndescribes the basis upon which the applicant would\nbe granted a, a multi-unit property tax\nexemption.\nWhat, which... And if you read the language of that resolution, it\ntalks a lot about what the applicant is going to\ndo. If we approve this motion,\nhow does that work legally? Because this is\nsupposed to be an agreement of the basis upon which you're\ngetting this MUPTE, and now we're saying the basis upon which you're getting this\nexemption\nis the city doing a certain amount, doing a, a\nspecific project. So I think that's, I\ndon't know that that is clean from a legal point of view, and I have a question\nabout that.\nWell, fortunately, we actually have the city attorney online, I believe.\nSo that sounds like a question for him.\nD**n, Josh.\nYes. So as I understand, the question is related to the, the\namendment. Um,\nand I, I guess, as I understand it, the, that,\namendment would restrict how the city can use the\nfunding. So it would, because this\nis a resolution that's being adopted by the city, the\ncity would be bound to that restriction on how it can use the funding.\nThat wouldn't be a condition on the developers\nreceiving the tax exemption, if that makes\nsense.\nOkay.\nSo the, the developer gets a tax exemption, the city is self-imposing a restriction\non how it uses the funding.\nAnd, and so if, if the city chose not to do a $50,000\nproject within, do, do we owe the developer the 50K back?\nIf, if you were to, if the city were to,\ncon- to use that\nfunding for some other project, then the\ncity would be in violation of this resolution and could potentially face a\ncause of action from somebody. Um, if you were just\nto not build the project for a period\nof time, because there's no timeline on building the project, as long as that\nfifty thousand dollars is either not used or is used\nwithin that, radius, then it would\nqualify.\nAny other discussion on the motion to amend? Counselor Ellis?\nI actually think that we could argue that this is policy when we're talking\nabout, um... And I, I actually appreciated the city attorney's\ndistinction of the resolution versus the MUFD. That was helpful.\nI would think that this could be something that council could use very\neffectively to lessen the impact of some of these\ndevelopments on neighborhoods. So,\nit's not a very large amount of money.\nUm, it's kind of a symbolic gesture, but I think that, I think\nwe could argue that it is policy and is appropriate and is clearly\nlegal to put in the resolution.\nCounselor Cadena?\nYes, it very well might be legal. Um, I th- I think this,\nI think it's messy and I think that it's\nmore, important for,\nfor these types of projects as they move forward\nfor the council to clarify how these funds\nare used and not make decisions on the fly in a\nparticular MUFD application. I have no problem bringing these policy\nissues to a policy discussion. I, I think this is just messy\nand I also know on the amendment.\nAny other discussion on the motion to amend? All right.\nLet's go ahead.\nMayor, Counselor Shaffer-\nYeah.\nHas his hand raised.\nGo ahead, Counselor Shaffer.\nYeah, thank you. Excuse me. Um,\nI, I'm sympathetic to the concept of the\namendment, but I'm concerned that it\nentangles us and complicates the, the actual\nmo- decisions and motions going forward.\nAnd so, while I appreciate the the-\nthe notion, I will vote against the\namendment.\nThank you, Counselor Shaffer. We ready for a\nvote?\nCity recorder, you have the language correctly?\nUh, yes, I do, Mayor.\nOkay. Sure you have it. All right, all those in favor of the motion to amend,\nsay aye.\nAye.\nAye.\nAye. I'm sorry.\nWhoops.\nI meant no.\nIt's always difficult online. Um, all those opposed say no.\nNo.\nNo.\nNo.\nIn the opinion of me as chair, it sounded like the noes had\nit. But I appreciate, again, I appreciate your, your\nattempt. That's what we do here. So we're back to the\nresolution as written, and I have originally had Counselor Ellis, Lewis, and\nCadena, and now Napak.\nI had a couple of, questions for Director Pilata.\nAt one point, we required like some sort of setback if you had a\nhigh density going up against a lower density.\nMm-hmm.\nDid that go away with the state?\nThat wa- that was part of... No, that was actually part of the mixed use project,\ntook away some of that.\nOkay. And solar access?\nUm, solar access comes into play, um...\nThere's two things called solar access.\nThere's the ability to, if you have\nsolar panels and you want to control\nthe, property next to you so that they don't shade on your\nsolar panels, there is a process that you can go through to get that.\nThey are... Your neighbor has to agree to that.\nSo it's, it's one of those things. But you know, if you have a...\nIf you and your neighbor are on good terms and you just wanna make sure that when\nthe neighbor sells it in ten years that it doesn't get you, you know, a lot of\ntimes they'll do that sort of thing.\nThere's another kind of thing that's called solar access in the code, which is in a\nsubdivision level, is talking about orienting buildings in particular\nways so they can maximize the solar gain.\nSo, neither one of those is probably gonna be, relevant in this\nlocation.\nMm-hmm. Um, I also wanna say that,\nI don't believe, and this is no offense to, to our, our staff-\nMm-hmm\n... that, steel is going above and beyond if it is kind\nof the structural norm for a building of that\nheight. So, I, I remember- that's\ns- up to six feet or six stories, they don't need to have it.\nYou said ab- above and beyond that, it's kind of the structural norm.\nUm, so...\nCounselor Lewis.\nSo a lot of counselors, especially Counselor Olsen Ellis, has\nbeen more, eloquent in it, in their opinions.\nUm, so I'm just like dithering a little bit, but I wanna push back a little,\nabout the fact that we do talk a lot about infrastructure and\nbeautifying Corvallis and making downtown look wonderful and\nhousing, but the main thing that we focus on the most is affordable\nhousing. And looking at these prices, I'm a renter myself, I literally\nhad to move because my one bedroom, for my last\napartment was going to be nineteen hundred dollars.\nI make eighteen dollars an hour. I can't afford that.\nI am in a two-income household. We cannot afford that.\nUm, so seeing the, this just like the potential\npricing of these units, especially the studio and the\none bedroom, I'm just like, \"Who is this for?\" Because we...\nAnd the, especially for, Ward Two, the n- number\none thing I hear all about is like, \"It is too expensive to live in Corvallis.\"\nThey would love to live here and as they work here, they would love to not have to\ncommute. It is too expensive\nand-As beautiful as and\nwonderful as it will be to have more people to live in Corvallis, we have to make\nsure they can afford it and at, and just looking\nat this proposal, this is not something that I can\nwholeheartedly be behind. So I will be voting no.\nCouncilor Katina.\nYeah, a few comments. One is I, I would encourage\nus to not, make decisions based\nupon personal preferences about how people\nchoose to live or not live. Um,\nand I think the, I think the challenge for us is, and I think we're\nfacing this with the changes that have-- both the changes we've made here\nlocally as well as the changes that have come from the state.\nUm, this will add a significant am-number of rental units.\nI think that, we've heard, discussion\npreviously about our vacancy, rate in\nrental housing. Our vacancy rate's low enough that we\nhave, stickiness, and\nupward pressure on rents. Um, putting this number of units on\nthe market, even if it appeals\nto, higher-end renters,\nwill have an impact on the,\navailable rental inventory, in the\ncity. Um, I, if I just walked pa-- I mean, in my ward\nI, I, I know there are students that live in single-family homes that\nprobably would prefer to not live in single-family homes.\nUm, I think that, c-creating more housing,\nthis is what we, this is what we said we wanted to do.\nI, and I, I feel like we're in a situation\nwhere,\nwhere we want more housing, we want density, but then if it's too high,\nwe don't like that. If it's too-- If it's, if it's sprawl, we\ndon't like that. Um, I, I think that\nhou-- you know, we need housing\nand it's only gonna be through the addition of a significant amount of housing\nthat things are gonna become more affordable.\nUm, I think that Corvallis, I mean, I've been-- I moved\nto Corvallis in ninety-five. Definitely the\nlack of\nkeeping up with our housing requirements has led us to the situation that we're in.\nWe, we created commercial mixed-use zones.\nUm, I, I think if\nyou-- That will change\nthe nature of what gets built, and it's not\novernight, but it will change. So yeah, we\ncan, we can deny this,\nand we can deny the next one and the next one.\nUm, but I think that the\ngetting to affordable housing by only building affordable\nhousing, i.e. tax-subsidized,\na-affordable housing is not the answer.\nUm, that is one element, an important element, but looking\nat each in-individual proposal as the\nsolution to affordable housing is, is myopic.\nAnd so I think we really do need to look at what will it take\nto... This is a significant increase i-in housing.\nI don't, I, I canna-- I cannot predict, I can't predict\nstudents. I'm too far from that age to know why people have dogs and\ngo to college and why people have cars and go to college.\nBut I, I think this would, this provides the opportunity\nfor people to easily get around without a car.\nPerhaps it will appeal to those folks. I don't really know.\nUh, but I think that\nthere is immediate tax benefit, albeit small,\nbut it is higher and much higher than it is currently.\nIt is a development in commercial mixed use.\nIt is adding a significant amount of housing.\nAnd yes, I cannot say that,\nthat we know the, the full\nconsequences of where we're going with commercial mixed use, but\nthat is the path that we are on, is to build significantly more housing.\nSo I think we need to get on with it, and I will be in favor of\nthis.\nCity manager.\nYeah, I understand some of the, the challenge, and maybe\nthe angst that the council is feeling, certainly the community is feeling on\nthis.\nAnd we've talked a lot about how the state has come in and, and\nchanged, how we can or can't\nregulate development.\nI also wanna remind the council that the council\nitself has made multiple policy\ndecisions, and this project, while it's the first one,\nit does\nmatch,\nlayers of policy decisions the council has made\nthoughtfully. And, the\nMUPTI program, the way it was set up, you know, the issue of\nyou can either\ninclude affordable housing or pay a fee in lieu.\nAnd so these things were thought out in a, in\na, in a vacuum of a specific project, and I think\nthat's good because each project is gonna have its own,\nchallenges, those who oppose, those who\nsupport. Um,\nand I think it will become challenging certainly for staff to understand what\nis the council's direction when we have all this policy direction\nthat you have given us over the years, and it certainly will be confusing\nfor\nfuture developers. So again, staff's evaluation is\nthis is in alignment with those policy decisions and the specifics\nof, our MUPTI program. So a denial\nreally would be confusing for, for staff and for,\ndevelopers.\nBut Councilor Napert, Napack and then Council Mayer's, and I believe at that point\neverybody would have spoken. So unless it's something new, I'd like to get\ntowards a vote because it is getting late.\nCouncilor Napack.\nI just want assurances or some,\nhand-waving, if you will. Um, this is a\nhigh-end development, and I'm just, uh...\nIs there any chance that,\nit would change the basis or rationale, of su-\nof successfully obtaining a\ndowntown tax increment financing\ndistrict?\nIt would be, hypothetically part of the\ncapture for a tax increment financing district if the district were\nestablished before construction finished\nup. So\nthere's... A tax increment financing district has a lot\nto, lot to stand to gain from the project in year\neleven.\nCouncilor Mayer, Moorefield, and then Schaffer.\nOkay. Um,\nfirst off,\nthe project objectively meets the criteria as set out,\nand\nwhether it,\nwhether it meets them by a little or a lot is\nirrelevant. Um,\nit also meets an additional one, regarding blight, which I\ntotally agree with and was a little surprised that wasn't on the first part of the\nlist because that's a very rundown block.\nSo,\na question of it meeting the sub- the objective\ncriteria is, in my mind, not really a\nquestion. Um, there were a lot of additional benefits that were\nlisted that I won't go into, one of, but, one of which that impressed\nme was, a, plan to use a certain\npercentage of local labor and materials, which I think is good,\nis a good thing. Um, there were, some\nenergy, benefits that they listed above and\nbeyond. So, if we're looking for\nbenefits, I think we, we need to be,\nbroad-minded. And I am, I'm gonna say a\ncouple other things. Uh, I think it's a little\nconfusing, the concept\nthat a,\nthat a s- a, an apartment building just because it's higher end\nthat supplies housing to six hundred people is somehow\nnot going to free up other units for people who are\nlooking on the lower ends. Um, that doesn't\nmake logical sense to me. And so,\nI think it will help with our housing situation, which is\ndire. Um,\nI also think single-family homes, as Councilor Kadina said,\nwhich people are holding onto their homes because there's no inventory, it would\nhelp free up some of that. And finally, I, I reme-\nrecall our discussion with the Downtown Vitality,\nStrategy Task Force, infrastructure discussion, and we've been\ngoing through all of the information that was collected from community\nmembers on the priorities, for\ndowntown. And s- through our discussion last\nTuesday, several-- It came up that\nseveral\nof the things that we wanna get done downtown will actually be\naccomplished by having more people living\ndowntown. Safety, right? More\npeople on the streets. Vacant buildings getting filled\nbecause there are more shoppers. So I,\nI am very much in favor of this. I think it's exactly what council had in\nmind when it put this into place. And if we're gonna talk about\neconomic development and deny this, then\nI don't know what to say. So I'll be voting\nyes.\nCouncilor Moorefield.\nUm, I'm gonna vote in favor of it. Um,\nyou know, there, there are aspects of this that have kinda driven me a little\ncrazy, and it is kinda shocking, the idea that such a tall building\nwill be in our downtown. Uh, but it was gonna happen\nsomeday because we, we\ndo, Corvallis in particular, and the state of\nOregon, western Oregon in particular, we need to increase our housing\nsupply. That's one, one of the reasons why so many decisions have been taken\nout of our hands locally, because the state\ntook the bull by the horns and said, \"We're gonna work on building more\nhousing,\" or, supporting the construction of more\nhousing. We also have climate change and a long\ntime, vision that we h- are still\nstruggling with as a, as a nation and a community about\nwhat we're gonna look like in the future.\nAll I know is that we're gonna look very different than we do today.\nAnd, and, and I think there's consensus that we need to build\nup, not out. This is up. It may be shockingly high, but\nit's, but it's where we're headed.\nAnd, and, you know, so I'm looking out a long\nways and, and seeing that this is part of our future.\nThis is one of the ways that we have to change, and someone had to be\nfirst. And, so someone is taking\nthat chance and investing a lot of money in our, our community.\nUm, affordable housing is addressed, this,\nby this project indirectly by its contribution to our affordable housing\nfunds. Um, the, um...Downtown will\nbenefit by having a lot more people living downtown.\nDo we have the resources to support local businesses?\nUm, and, if I'm frustrated with, with,\nyou know, how we got here, it's because I do think the\nMUPTI ordinance requires some work.\nUh, I'm not\nsatisfied with, the but for\nanalysis. I, I think the, the,\nrequire-requirements have been met, mind you.\nI'm just saying that, you know, I would like something a little bit more robust in\nthe future, and we can talk about that another time.\nAnd, and I, you know, I'm not satisfied with this element of\ndesign that we can, you know, we can\nsee it any way we want, as either a yes or a no or a maybe\nor, or something. So I, I think it needs work. And my...\nIf I'm frustrated at all, it's because, because we have an ordinance\nthat's new,\nand this is our first or second experiment\nwith, with it, if you will. And, and I look\nforward to, tightening it up in the\nfuture.\nCouncilor Schaefer, and then let's take a vote.\nThank you. Uh, I have to believe the developer in\nthis case recognizes that there's a need just- not just for\naffordable housing, but for all housing, market rate,\neverything in the downtown area. We, we simply don't have housing\ndowntown. And I think there are people of means\nwho would like to live in or closer to downtown, and this\nwill afford an opportunity for them.\nUm, I'm, I'm concerned about the, the layout\nand the plan for some of these units, that it seems targeted at\nstudent-type\ngroups rather than perhaps, families\nor,\nyou know, s-smaller units for\nsingles, young c- young couples, working families,\nretirees, anybody. But I think that's, that's their\ncall, what they build. And, and so-- And I think\nthe fact that there is some money going to affordable housing for\nthis as, as required in what the council set out\nat the beginning of this, they meet that, they meet that\nrequirement. Um, I'm tr- I am troubled about\nthe\nparking issues.\nUm, I think we're in for a messy transition from\na very car-centric transportation model to\nsomething that's closer to,\nwalking, ped, whatever. But again, that's not\nsomething we can manage and dictate in this.\nThe state has taken that away from me, s- from us.\nSo I think we just have to go with, with what's there.\nUm, I have concerns, but I will be voting for the, for the,\nresolution.\nThank you. Let's go ahead and move on to a, a vote.\nUm, city recorder, can you do a roll call vote, please?\nYes, Mayor. Councilors Cadena?\nYes.\nMayors?\nYes.\nMoorefield?\nYes.\nLewis?\nNo.\nNapack?\nYes.\nBowden? Schaefer?\nYes.\nEllis?\nNo.\nOlsen?\nNo.\nThe resolution passes five to three.\nThank you all very much.\nAnd I really do appreciate the discussion and the questions and the varying\nopinions, 'cause that's why there's so many of us.\nAnd Mayor, a break?\nI was just about to suggest that. I apologize to any of those who are\nwaiting around for the, discussion on the resolut-- on the, the,\nICE resolution. But let's go ahead and take a short break,\nbio break as they call it. Ten minutes will\ndo. So let's return. Uh, I guess\nit's... Yeah, we'll round it\nup.\nIt is eight fifty,\nso let's reconvene this meeting of the Corvallis City Council.\nNext item up on the agenda is the resolution addressing\nescalating federal immigration enforcement, and I want to start off by\nmaking an apology. Um,\nI should have... This was act- is actually being put on the agenda by me.\nUm, I know. Paul's appears\nunmuted.\nI think I'm quiet.\nCouncilor Schaefer, if you wouldn't mind\nmuting.\nThought I was. Sorry.\nOh.\nDid that\nfix it?\nCan you hear me now when we talk?\nWe will briefly pause to figure this\nout.\nDavid, I don't know if you can hear me.\nWe're still getting quite a significant\necho.\nYou have an interesting\ndefinition\nof better.\nOkay. I think we should proceed.\nOkay.\nI think it's been resolved.\nI think so.\nThank you.\nThank you. Apologies for technical\nerrors. Technology's fine. Anyway, so the...\nI wanted to, apologize because the resolution, was brought\nforth onto the agenda by me, and not realizing I should've removed\nCouncilor Olsen's name from it, 'cause that's usually there for whoever\nmoves the resolution forward if it gets adopted, things like that.\nAnd I should've pres- I should've provided a cover page, explaining why the-\nwhy this resolution's in the agenda.\nSo that, that is my fault, and I apologize for any confusion that\ncreated. Um, but the reason why\nit was added, and it was kind of sort of last minute,\nis 'cause it was brought forward to this council.\nIt was shared with everybody, and I feel like the timing is kinda\ncritical on this. Um, as, spoken earlier t- this\nevening, we are being surrounded by a lot of ICE\nactivity. It's a matter of time, and I think it's important\nto make our residents of our, of our community feel that we support\nthem. Um, interesting timing on,\nSaturday was the Celebrate Corvallis,\nand the, person who won First Citizen\nwas not a citizen.\nAnd e- he, he made it... explained how he's, he's not a legal\nor, or political, citizen, but he's a citizen\nnonetheless. He, he, he contributes to our community.\nHe's an, a amazing person, and for obvious reasons, won, First\nCitizen. So what does that say about our community?\nAnd if we don't, take some sort of action to support\nmembers of our community who perhaps speak a different language or\nhave a different color skin than I do, then we're not supporting our\ncommunity. So I added this to the agenda.\nObviously, I can't vote on it. I also can't even make the motion that's\nrequired to move it forward. But I do have the authority,\nthankfully, to at least put things on the agenda, so that's what I did.\nUm, so I'll leave it in the hands of all of\nyou.\nI mean, I'll make a motion to cons- I don't know what the official words are for\nthis. Motion to consider it, motion to...\nBut what's the words, Alex?\nUh, normally we would have the title of the resolution read.\nCorrect. So get a title read, and then if you'd like to move the resolution\nforward, that would be fine. I just wanna see if we wanna get as far as reading the\ntitle. So city recorder, would you please read the re- resolution?\nThis is a resolution addressing escalating federal immigration enforcement.\nI move to approve the resolution. Adopt?\nApprove? Adopt.\nBoth, both are correct.\nOkay.\nGo either way. Sometimes just so moved even works, but\nI like when someone says what the resolution...\nAll right, we have a motion to approve, and it was seconded. Uh, discussion?\nCouncilor Navick.\nUh, thank you. I wanted to first say how much\nI appreciate our community,\nresolve, in, in, in this situation\nand, the work that was put forth to put this resolution\nforth. Um,\nthere unfortunately are a\nfew, well, more than a few,\nunworkable situations or,\nasks, if you will, that the city\ncannot provide. Uh, the city\nactually, is,\num... A- after talking with, community development,\nthe city is,\ndue to the Supremacy Clause, the city is helpless.\nIf the s- if, the federal\ngovernment wanted to come in and,\nclaim emi- eminent domain and, and\nbuild a detention facility, and we have, we are powerless to do anything about\nthat. It's called the, the,\nSupremacy Clause. And, people have tried with\nmoratoriums, especially in the State of Washington, but,\nthey're all in, in court now. The,\nother thing is that our bandwidth, you know, we are doing a lot\nnow, in terms of,\ndowntown vitaliz-\nrevitalization and, task forces, civic\ncenter, and so on and so forth. It's...\nBut nevertheless, the, the,\nintent is clear from, from the\ncommunity. And on that\nbasis,\nCouncilor\nEllis and I put together a\nsubstitute,\nproposition, that\nexplains the, the, the sentiment, I\nthink, as, as well as\nit can be. It, it shows... It has,\nuh... It cites the, four or five\nprevious resolutions that we have in our, our\ncity,\nstrategic plan and our, our city vision,\nto affirm that we\nare a, undivided, shall we\nsay, and in one, one body,\nwe support our immigrant community.\nUm, we don't support\nthe activities that are being\npropagated by the,\nfederal government at this time. And so\nif, if I\nmay, what I would like to propose now\nis to table the first\nresolution-Until after we\ndiscussed the proposition that,\nwas mailed to our council this morning and\npublished, at least it's somewhere published.\nUm,\nand the, the copy of that proposition should be in your\nmailbox, in your email. Do we have\ncopies thereof? And we have copies to pass out.\nSo that would be, um... Anyway, I motion to\ntable the first resolution until\nafter we discuss the, the,\nproposition from Councilor Ellis\nthat, goes into,\nthe rationale and the reasoning\nfor,\nfor\na, um-\nI have it\n... substitute.\nI'll second that.\nOkay, we have a motion to table, technically time uncertain, although I\nthink, we could probably get this on a agenda very fast, assuming\neverybody feels that way. Um,\ndiscussion, I don't even think there's an ability to discuss on tabling a\nmotion really.\nWell-\nExcept for the time\npart.\nYeah, there's certain motions we don't get too often, and then I forget how we're\nsupposed to do those, so.\nSkipping it.\nChange.\nMayor.\nYes, yes.\nSo that was a motion to postpone consideration of an item-\nYep\n... to a certain time. Um-\nThat's me.\nIt i- ... A r- A second is required, the motion is\ndebatable, and the motion is amendable, and it\nrequires a majority\nvote.\nI'm looking on the cheat sheet here under, subsidiary motions number\nfour, postpone temporarily, table to a time uncertain.\nUm, says motion debatable, no. For some reason it's\nwrong.\nUm, I-\nOh, wait, I'm looking at the wrong one.\nI was looking at item number seven just because there was a, a time\ncertain, stated by councilor in APAC that-\nWhat it said just until we can review.\nI don't know if that would be considered time certain.\nBut I, I may have misheard. I was passing out the materials.\nBut, I thought that she said consider it, after\nthe consideration of this resolution reaffirming Corvallis as a\nsanctuary city.\nRight, and we don't know when that'll be.\nOh, I- ... I thought it was right after this discussion during this meeting.\nBut feel free to correct me.\nI mean, if that's, if that, I, if that was what the intent of the motion was,\nCouncilor Nate.\nWas it, was it to consider this tonight?\nYeah.\nThe, 'cause the community has not seen this yet.\nUh, to consider the substitute resolution\ntonight.\nOkay, so you're just wanting to table this other resolution till after we...\nToday, okay.\nYeah.\nSo that's, that's debatable then. All right.\nWe can do that?\nIt sounded like it was a time uncertain, so that's why.\nSo we can debate, it now.\nAnd we are debating the tabling, not the resolution itself.\nRight, right. Just the motion to table the current discussion of the\nresolution to have a discussion about this resolution. That's clear.\nOkay.\nSo. Councilor Olsen?\nUm, I am not in favor of tabling this resolution\nuntil afterwards because I believe that the resolution we have in\nplace is,\num... Well, one, I don't believe we've had enough\ntime to review the\nsanctuary city resolution, considering I noticed it at\n2:00 PM today, while I've had the other resolution for a\nwhile. Um, sorry, that came out with way more snark than it meant to.\nIt was not meant to be snarky.\nUm, yes. But also I think that the resolution we have in front\nof us is important, and it provides actionable items as\nopposed to just, \"Hey, we're going to say that w- like, we already have\nthings in place. We don't need to say again that we're have the\nthings in place that we all know we have in place.\nSo I, because of those reasons, I believe\nthat,\nyeah, I don't think we should table this resolution.\nI think we should deal with it first, and then\nif we want, we can add this item to the agenda.\nCouncilor Cadena, then APAC.\nYeah, speaking to the motion to table, I\nthink that we have to, we have another, we have an\nalternative that is worth discussing and\na, a different approach that is suggested.\nI think that would be the purpose for tabling, is to get to that\ndiscussion. So I'm in favor of the tabling.\nCouncilor Napack?\nI think the information that's in the sanctuary city resolution\nis important enough\nthat it would, replace quite a bit of what was said in the first\nresolution. So I would like to,\num... I will vote for\ntabling.\nAnyone else or should we take a vote?\nSeeing the hands.\nOkay, let's go ahead and move to a vote.\nAll those in favor of the motion to table the current resolution\nto\npotentially entertain this other resolution, I guess, say,\n\"Aye.\"\nAye.\nAll opposed, say, \"No.\"\nNo.\nNo.\nSound like the ayes have it, so therefore the resolution in the packet is\ntabled until after we review this one.\nMayor, can I just have the no votes clarify?\nI believe I heard Councilor Olsen and Councilor Lewis. Thank you.\nThat's what I heard\nas... Councilor Lewis.\nI do hear the concern that people didn't get the motion until later on\ntoday, or t- the, the new resolution till later on today.\nSo if that, um-\nI, I understand that. And I, if I, if I hadn't been, involved in\nit, I would probably be a little, squiffy about it as well, and I do not\nthink that Councilor Ol-Olson was intending to be snarky.\nUm, when I looked at the\nresolution, and I looked at the actions,\nI had con- Even... And I'm totally\nconcerned also about ICE coming to Corvallis, but I looked at\nthe actions, that were suggested, and I\nthought, to quote Director Blaine,\nhe likes to underpromise and overdeliver, and this\nfelt to me like the opposite. We are promising to do things that we probably\ncould not do. Um, we actually asked Director\nBilotta if we could ban, a facility, and\nhe said, \"No, I've never heard that question before, and no.\"\nUm, private property, as places all over the country are finding\nout to their great dismay. Um, so there are\nthings in there that we can't do. And then,\nI actually really like working with Councilor Napack on\nresolutions. Um, she, she, she's got a really good eye\nfor them, so I reached out to Councilor Napack and asked to work with\nher. And, she discovered\nthe, the House bills and the Senate bills that were sitting on the\ngovernor's desk, and actually I believe talked to Sen- Representative\nFinger McDonald about them at the legislative breakfast, and\nthey hit considerable of the other things that were\nthere. And so I... And I think it's much better for the state to do\nthis so it's everywhere and it's clear than for us to do it.\nSo that combination of promising to do things that we legally\ncouldn't do, and then the state taking action made\nme think that this might be a better situation.\nI do think that there are a couple of things in here that we\ncould direct\nthe city or the city manager or somebody to do.\nUm, if we pass the, the, the,\nthe resolution that we wrote with the Senate and the s-\ns- or with the House bills and the Senate bills in it, I think there's a couple\nof things in there that we could dir- then direct the city manager\nto do, such as using the city communication platforms to\ncommunita- communicate to the community.\nThat seems to me to be a pretty straightforward thing.\nAnd perhaps, asking Jedi to solicit community\nempowerment grants in the next cycle, 'cause unfortunately the request\nhas already gone out this year and we can't change it.\nUm, those things seem, like, doable, but some of the other things just felt\nlike something we couldn't do, and I didn't wanna promise something that we just\ncouldn't\ndo.\nCouncilor Greena and then Olson.\nUh, I wanna thank, both, Councilor Ellis and Councilor\nNapack for what I think is, nicely done\nwork. Um, I think the reference to\nthe, the bills in the Oregon\nlegislature, is a very strong addition and\nrecognition that we're not in this alone.\nUm, absolutely. I also... Uh, I'm not gonna reiterate everything that\nCouncilor Ellis said because I think I agree with it.\nUm, but I also wanna say f- beyond\nthat, I think the, the\nresolves, speak much more strongly\nto what we wanna say to our community, and\nthat is our support for every, every member of our\ncommunity, and a re-affirmation of our\nvalues. I think that comes across much more strongly in this resolution, and\nI, I really like that. I think that,\num... I think it's\nimportant, um... I think\nthis ke- I think this keeps the, the direction we're pursuing\nvery clear without trying to overspecify.\nAnd I think when we overspecify, we tend to get into that potentially\npromising something we couldn't deliver on\nor,\nmaking requests that are a ch- a challenge for staff to\nfigure out. Um, so I, I like the tone.\nI like the level of detail on this. I think that, um...\nAnd I feel particularly, good about the,\nthe message that it sends to the\ncommunity.\nCouncilor Olson. And I will point out at this point there is no\nresolution on the table.\nMm.\nSo if, if there's, if there's interest in having the city recorder read it and\nmove forward today, that would...\nsomething we would need to do before anything happens.\nBut Councilor Olson.\nShould I give Councilor Ellis a chance to do that first?\nShe seemed like she wanted to-\nWell, I'll look for head nods. Do we want, do we wanna,\npotentially, not definitely, 'cause that takes a vote, adopt this resolution?\nShould the city recorder read it to get it?\nI am gonna move that the city recorder read the resolution.\nI don't think that really needs a motion to have it, have it read.\nThe motion comes after that, which is the more important part.\nSo we'll go ahead and, we'll go ahead and, um... Hmm?\nTalk to\nme.\nCity recorder, will you please read the resolution?\nYes, Mayor. The title of the resolution is A Resolution Reaffirming\nCorvallis as a Sanctuary City.\nNow this would be the point when someone would make a motion to move it forward.\nSo moved.\nSecond.\nCouncilor Olson?\nYeah. Um, so first off, I'm going to vote in favor\nof this resolution because I agree with everything it says and\nthink it's a good one. Um, I am going to\nsay, and I am going to say this\nwith the backing of this is not-\nThese are a lot of emotions that I have felt, and they are not exclusively directed\nat this council. But this is my favorite type of resolution, the\nkind that lists a whole bunch of values and does nothing to\nprotect them, which says the City of Corvallis\nlikes what the state's doing, but we don't think that we're important enough,\nor, and we don't care about our community enough to put in our own\nprotections on top of what the state's doing.\nIt's a list of, \"Hey, here's some cool stuff people have done.\" Things,\na list that you could have pulled off online, or if you had read\nliterally any article on\nwhat happened this legislative session, which I've read many, these would have\nbeen highlighted. Um,\nyeah. It's, it's saying that w-we love, we love\nimmigrants, we love the people in our community, but we aren't going to take any\nactions as a city to protect them. We aren't going to\ntake any actions as a city to even\nconsider... Not like... M- All of the...\nAt least in the old resolution, which is not on the table, none of those were we\nare going to do this, or are we are going to look into doing\nthis. And\nthis has none of that. It is, it's,\nit's like the No Kings protest. It's a whole bunch of people yelling and\nmaking no movements and no community involvement.\nAnd I am very, very\nfrustrated. And also, if anyone tries to be like, \"Well, why didn't you say\nthis when we talked about the trans sanctuary resolution?\" I would have loved if\nthat resolution had any actionable steps by the city, but when we were bringing it\nforward, we considered it too diverse of a, too di-divisive as\nis, so we didn't want to even push that.\nBut anyways, to... Yeah. So my\nopinion on this is that, sure, it's great, it's wonderful,\nit's the same thing we see. It's, it's\njust,\nit's pointless. It's pointless when these are already things that we as a\ncommunity believe, already things we have signed in a resolution,\nalready things the state has done, and we're just writing our own list\nto make us feel good. Thank you.\nPlease don't. Do not applaud, please.\nUm, I will say, Councilor Olsen, I appreciate your opinion, and I share\nit.\nBut here we are, so .\nAny other discussion on the current re-re-resolution? Councilor Neidbach.\nI, I appreciate, Councilor Olsen's passion.\nUh, I, I, I do need to point out, though,\nthat if we\ndid with what it says in the first resolution, we would be duplicating what the\nstate legislature has just done. They have\nwritten extreme, you know, quite a bit of, uh...\nIf you read the rules, the public schools have to,\ndevelop, programs,\na-adopt\npolicies to notify families, students, and staff.\nWe, we couldn't tell the school district to do\nthat. But they did do it. Okay.\nThey, uh... We can't tell employers to,\num... They, they can't\nthis, that, or the other thing. We, we could, but the state is already\nsaying it, so why should we duplicate that?\nI'm also seeing, you know, the,\nlaw enforcement operations. If they come to Corvallis,\nand Corvallis is the only\ncity that has a, a rec- a, a law that\nsays you can't wear, face coverings,\nas opposed to the entire state saying you can't do that, and the power of the\nstate legislature behind that rule,\nas opposed to tiny Corvallis. It, it, it makes a\ndifference that the state has adopted these\nand other resolutions to protect all of\nOregon, and we're gonna put... If we piggyback on\nthose, we still end up with the same rules and\nregulations in Corvallis that we would otherwise had we invented them\nourselves or carried them, carried through with them ourselves.\nThank you.\nI'd like to interject, Mayor. We keep referring back to the other resolution\nthat's been tabled and not really talking much about the resolution that's\ncurrently on the table. So if we can keep comments to the current\nresolution, 'cause if it, it... No matter what, after we address this, the other\none goes back, comes back. So we can discuss concerns or\nwhatever about the other-\nUh, yeah. Thank you. Thank you.\nBut keeping things moving here.\nBut it, but, but this, this proposition, the sanctuary city proposition, actually\nhas more\nin it, that... The talking about\nlandlord-tenant confidentiality.\nUm, it talks about, the federal\ngovernment having to register their law enforcement activities to the\nlocal jurisdiction. Um,\nregulates access to public hospitals by federal agents.\nIt, orders public bodies may not give certain data to data\nbrokers based on immigration data.\nUm, so it is very... You know, the state did a good\njob. And the governor\nis... Both houses, the Senate and the House, passed these.\nThey're enrolled. Uh, these will become\nordinances. These will become laws.\nThey will be, have to be followed by everyone in Oregon,\nincluding our fair\ncity.\nThank you.\nAnyone else?\nIf there was something in the resolves to encourage\nthe city manager that somebody wishes, wished to add into the\nresolution, that is easily\ndone.\nTechnically.\nI'm not, I'm not addressing either the, the values of either resolution.\nI'm just saying that if there was something that we felt like needed to be\nadded in, that would be, that would be a pretty straightforward\nmotion, or it could be a standalone motion at,\nafter we've-\nWe finish with this\nCall again. City manager.\nAs, as Councilor Napack was speaking, it just made me think,\njust this is purely from a practical standpoint,\nshould\nthese laws and directives be challenged, it will be the state that\ndefends those,\nand not the city, which I think there's, from a financial and\njust a, a resource standpoint,\nis helpful for the city. And s-certainly, I\nthink the resources of the state, having them bring that to\nbear rather than us trying to bring, our resources to\nbear, are likely to be\nmore effective, if anything is to be\neffective.\nAnything else on this resolution or should we move to a\nvote?\nCouncil Mayers.\nI have a parliamentary sort of a question.\nMm-hmm. Go ahead.\nWell, it just seems to me that this is kind\nof like a, substitution, or could be\na substitution.\nKind of, except for it completely eliminates the direction of the other\none. So the other one-\nWell-\nThe other one's not gone away. I think it was tabled.\nSo it's-\nRight. It should have-\nIt's, it's just been taken on, put on another table instead of the table we're\ndealing with.\nOkay.\nAnd then that resolution is now on this table.\nSo once we vote on this, regardless of its\noutcome, we're back to the other resolution.\nOkay. That seems-\nSo it's, it's because of it being... No, no, it's not a substitution.\nOkay.\nIt's a, a first this.\nOkay.\nCouncilor Napack.\nYou, do you think we should div-divide the\nquestion?\nNo. I mean, it is already divided. We're asking, we're asking one question right\nnow. Do we want-\nBut if we, if we pass one resolution, then the other one's moot.\nNope.\nNope?\nNot at all.\nWe can pass them both?\nTechnically.\nOh, okay.\nThey are two separate resolutions. We didn't vote down the other one.\nIt was just tabled. So let's go ahead and take a\nvote, and then just for clarity, I wanna do a roll call vote on this if...\nSure. Jack. City recorder, if you would,\nplease.\nYes. This is a vote regarding the resolution reaffirming Corvallis's\nsanctuary city. Councilors\nLewis.\nYes.\nShaffer.\nYes.\nMayors.\nYeah. Yes.\nMorefield.\nYes.\nNapack.\nYes.\nCadena.\nYes.\nBowden. Olson.\nYes.\nEllis.\nYes.\nThe resolution passes eight to zero.\nThank you very much. Now, we're back to the\nresolution that was tabled, was motioned and\nseconded. Um, and I'm gonna speak to it a minute 'cause there's been some things\nsaid that I, I kind of scratched my head a bit thinking about it,\nstating there are things in there that we cannot do or that would be\nillegal. However, nowhere on here does it say to do those things\nexactly. It says that the city c- the council of the city of\nCorvallis resolves to encourage the city manager to continue to take\nactions demonstrating this commitment, including a ) to evaluate\nlegal avenues to prevent, delay, or disadvantage the development of facilities to\nbe used for federal immigration enforcement purposes.\nIt does not say block development.\nIt doesn't say to not allow development.\nIt says to pursue legal avenues, 'cause maybe there's something out there.\nMaybe there'll be, our district attorney, you know, or, or, or,\nOregon district attorney might come up with some legal battle that he, that gets\nwon, that shows, that sets precedence that we can block.\nCurrently, doesn't seem like we could. But we can evaluate it.\nTo evaluate legal avenues for peace officers of the city to request to identif-\nidentify, identity of apparent immigration enforcement agents when\nlegally permissible.\nDoesn't say you're definitely gonna, it says you're gonna evaluate if it's legally\npermissible. I think that's, it's, it's, it's work- we're, we're,\nthis is high level direction as far as I'm concerned.\nAgain, to utilize existing city communication platforms to connect the community\nwith clear and reputable information. I think we should already be doing that.\nWe have a city website, and I think we should be able to provide clear guidance to\nthe community of where they can find other information.\nUm, that, that's the law. We, we kind of already do that with our\nmunicipal code. It's on there. That's the law.\nUm,\nd ) to ident- to identify and evaluate additional opportunities\nconsistent with the city's legal authority, again make sure we're doing it within\nlegal authority, to collaborate with community-based organizations, service\nproviders, regional partners to support community trust, access to information, and\npublic safety for all residents. We sort of already do that.\nE ) To consider adoption of the Attorney General's model policies regarding\nimmigration where appropriate. We should already be doing that.\nAnd then f ) To ensure all non-public spaces in city buildings are clearly\nidentified and labeled with signage indicating restricted access.\nWe have some of that in City Hall. I haven't been to every city facility to find\nout if it's done everywhere, but that's good.\nThat's something that I encourage every\nbusiness, school, anywhere that has areas that are for\nemployees only should have those labels up, because\nthen police, regardless of what, entity it is,\ncannot enter without a warrant. So\nthat's... I mean, we're not saying we're gonna\noverhaul buildings. It's signage, and it'll, it might take a while depending on how\nmuch is needed. But it just, it's to, it's\nto encourage the city manager to continue taking these actions.\nI think that's pretty clear. And regarding the comment about the Jedi board\nsoliciting community empowerment grant applications, it doesn't say when.\nSo I agree, they're already kind of in it.\nIt couldn't be done, but maybe the next time, which I think is a good\nidea, obviously. And then sending copies of this\nresolution. We probably would do that anyway, so at least I would like to think we\nwould. So I, I personally do not see the major\nconcern-Um, this is action. This is saying we're gonna\ndo these things, but it doesn't say exactly when or whether we can\nlegally accomplish it. We're just gonna try.\nWe're gonna try to find out what we can do legally.\nUm,\nand as, Director Bilotta apparently said, like, maybe there's no way we can\nblock a facility, and that would be unfortunate 'cause I really don't want\none, or anywhere, honestly. So\nmy, my hope is that this gets a- adopted, but\nyou're all the councilors.\nCouncilor Olson.\nYeah. Um, I second everything you ever...\nyou just said about all of these being, we're going to evaluate, we're\ngoing to con- look at this. An evaluation means we can look at it\nand decide that's not legal, and then we would...\nwe don't do it, and that's the end of that.\nUm, so to sum up what you said, additionally,\nall... this language was all reviewed by our city attorney multiple times and\nwas edited and then sent back, and then edited again.\nSo our city attorney has, examined this, determined all of the leg- language\nin here to be legal and things we can do.\nUm, this resolution does not include everything that was in the\nprevious resolution because it was written with the knowledge that the state was\nworking on these, and so we didn't need to replicate efforts.\nAnd in fact, things such as, you know, evaluating\nlegal avenues for the city to request the identity of apparent\nimmigration agents, that will be so much easier now that they cannot wear masks\ndue to state limitations, and they have to have visible ID.\nSo we are asking... And if anything, it will make the community safer,\nconsidering\nOSU has already had people on campus pretending to be fake\nimmigration agents. And that, for\nme personally, that\nspecific, you know, letter B is really important because\nI don't want my community to be able to be terrorized by three bored\nfrat guys who decide to... that they wanna be immigration agents.\nAnd so by coming at it as we're requesting their identification to make sure that\nthey're legal immigration agents and not just some guy,\num... Yeah. And then, oh my gosh, I had one more thing I\nwas gonna say on this. Yeah. Broad- I am\njust in support of taking actual\nactions on this, and I am very proud of all of\nthe work that the community has put into this.\nAnd\nyeah, I am proud to have my name on it, and also Mayor Mon's name,\nwhoever's names ends up being on there.\nAnd additio- oh, that was the other thing.\nAnd for people who worry that we might be getting our\nhands dirty by putting additional restrictions on things\nor by drawing attention to us by the federal government,\nwe're already involved in legal activities\nrelating to the federal government, so it's not like they don't know who we\nare. They know about the city of Corvallis. That's not...\nWe're not not on their list. We're already on their\nlist. So it, it can't\nhurt, and I am fully in support of this\nresolution.\nCouncilor Moorfield?\nUm-\nOh, go ahead.\nI, I'm substantially supportive.\nUm, most of these things are\ncommonsensical, and they align well with the resolution we already passed\nand, and aren't necessarily in conflict.\nUm, the,\nthe only question I had,\neven though it uses the word evaluate legal av- avenues,\nit's specific... I'm talking about A now.\nIt's specific to the development of facilities.\nUm, you said that the city attorney reviewed\nthis and didn't have a problem with the language.\nUm, the question I wanna make s- I wanna see if it was asked or\nif city, city attorney's not with us now, I assume.\nYeah. Um, I'm gonna ask the question.\nUm, when we say ahead of time\nthat we're going to oppose or delay, prevent,\ndisadvantage the development of facilities, which\nrequires a l- which may involve a land use action,\nwe are actually disadvantag-\ndisadvantaging\nourselves in making a case,\nor being able to make a case to say no, if that makes\nsense. In other words, if we're presented with\nsomething that requires some sort of discretionary review,\nand I don't know what... You know, there's times most development these days does\nnot have much discretion attached to it, but it does\nsometimes. And I don't know enough about where things like\njails are even allowed in our, our town from a land use point of\nview to understand what issues may or may not be\ninvolved. But,\nyou know, when we've had certain kinds of land use related\ndecisions, we have to declare whether we have a bias or not.\nAnd if we do, we have to recuse ourselves.\nMm-hmm.\nSo if we're gonna pass a resolution saying, \"Oh, we oppose this on\nprinciple,\" and then we're gonna b- also, not\nhave to recuse ourselves if we're presented with a decision that is a\ndiscretionary one that gets to the level of the council, I, I don't know why\nthe, the attorney wouldn't have addressed that. Um...\nCan I respond to this? Okay. Um,\nyeah. Uh, main... So when we were...\nWell, I say we. I'm reading from a document that really wasn't\nput together by myself, but from\nboth the city attorney and the city manager, it was\nread, item A was read as a request for a\nstaff/city attorney, to determine what\nlegal means the city might have to prevent an ICE facility.\nI think that there will be few options for the city to regulate use on private\nproperty outside of current zoning limitations.\nThat said, it is something that council could af- ask time to\nspend, ask staff to spend time researching.\nAdditionally, like you, like-\nExcuse me, Councilor Olson, real quick.\nYeah.\nCity manager's had his hand raised.\nI wanna see what-\nI, I, I just wanna clarify. From my knowledge, the city\nattorney reviewed an earlier version that was presented,\nand I did appreciate, the request for that review.\nBut, to my knowledge, the city attorney did not review\nthe version that's actually in here.\nThe version, that's in the council\npacket, was revised based on some comments, but\nnot reviewed again by the city\nattorney.\nYeah. Were you just reading an email?\nUh, I was reading comments on the document itself that I was provided, so.\nYeah, 'cause that, that, that could be considered\nconfidential client information from the city attorney.\nIt, it was g- it was given to a community member, not me.\nOh.\nSo I'm assuming it's not confidential since the community's not clients.\nTo clarify, those were comments I wrote based on\ninformation I got from the, the city attorney, and again, those\ncomments were on a previous\nversion.\nYeah.\nBut this language was on the previous version you reviewed,\nright? That clause specifically?\nNot as written, no.\nOkay.\nI mean, to say what I had said earlier\nalso, we're evaluating avenues. We send it to the attorney, they\nsay, \"Yeah, this will get you in trouble with the land use.\" And we go,\n\"Great. Good to know.\" And then that's the end of the\nstory.\nAnd-\nLet me make a suggestion, though, that saying it...\nAsking the question is fine, but putting it in the form of\na resolution, we're stating a position, an end to\nwhich... that we're trying to achieve.\nAnd, from a land\nuse, perspective, we're,\nwe're pre-judging a land use request that might come\nour way and, and that, that is grounds for\napplicants to say, \"You have to recuse yourself.\"\nTechnically true.\nYeah.\nAnd, and, and, and, you know, at the end, we also...\nWhen there's, when there's public hearings on land use, we also ask, you know, \"Is\nthis the appropriate body for this decision?\" And one might be going,\n\"No.\" And then the decision is no longer ours to make.\nSo, y- yeah.\nSo I mean, I, I, I, I get your point, and I don't think you're wrong\nnecessarily, so.\nCouncilor Cadena.\nYeah, a couple comments. There was a comment made earlier about, the feds\ncomplying with our land development code.\nI believe that when the feds do any kind of\nfacility, they don't have to comply with local land development code.\nIs that correct, city manager?\nThat's correct. Whether it's a post office or\nany other facility, they, they may take into\nconsideration local land use, but there's a supremacy clause that they\ndo not have to follow, state or local land use\nregulations.\nOkay. So my... the... I just wanted to clarify that one point.\nUm, the rest of my comments are\nI don't want anybody to mistake that I think what's going on in\ns- immigration enforcement is abhorrent,\nand the lack of due process, poor training,\nthe targeting of folks, with\nlikely no probable cause, et cetera, et cetera. It's...\nUh, there's... Words can't describe it.\nUm, I have a, a... I think that\nI'm also sensitive to\nwhen we say that we're gonna encourage the city manager to evaluate certain things\nthat I, I don't, I don't like putting something...\nasking the staff to do things that,\nbasically will result in nothing. I, and...\nOr, or that we set staff up for an\nexpectation that something will come out of it, and the, and\nthe viewpoint is, \"I don't know what we can\ndo.\" But beyond that, aside from the staff\nimpact,\nI think that, Councilor Olsen made the comment\nthat, you know, we want something that does something.\nUh, we want a resolution that does something.\nI, I think one could make an argument this resolution won't do...\naccomplish anything\nfrom the perspective of\ncontaining ICE. I think that\nwhat I,\nwhat I think is\nfrom my personal experience, my personal perspective, and perhaps it's because\nI grew up in a different era\nand because I'm old, but I think\nthat\nbecause I b- because I grew up in San Jose, California,\nand yeah, there's a lot of Latinos in, in San Jose now, and but\nwe were definitely a minority.\nAnd\nI've, I've gotten... I've grown quite weary\nof politicians doing things\nbut they're not actually accomplishing anything.\nAnd by doing things, I mean by making statements.\nMy favorite being, of course, \"Of course I'm in favor of common sense\nimmigration reform,\" and yet that's\nnever been delivered. I think I\nwant... I think the mess we have at the\nfederal level, I want it to be resolved. And I, I wish that our...\nI don't wanna go off on a rant, but I wish that our legislature would actually pass\nsome laws that would address the very specific issues\nthat the country by and large supports.\nI think you have to control the border, you have to have a good immigration\npolicy, and you have to provide a f- path towards citizenship.\nLike I don't see that this does anything but create a false\nexpectation. This resolution creates a false expectation that\nthere's going to be some-Change that occurs\nbecause of the city manager or city staff taking\naction. And\nI mean, it might make us feel good, but I\nthink what the best thing we can do is to support our\ncommunity to know that they\nhave... That we have their backs.\nUm, and I think we need to have the backs of our vulnerable\nmembers in ways that maybe\nare consistent with their concerns.\nAnd I'll, I'll give an example without being too\nexplicit. There's a lot of talk about making\nthings very visible. My wife's a physician.\nThere are physicians that are concerned about\nvulnerable populations that will not go to appointments, et\ncetera. There's already a significant effort to try to\naddress that concern,\nby choice from participants and\npractitioners.\nThere's a desire to\nmake sure that\nconfidentiality and, and in\nfact, anonymity is\npreserved. I don't want more visibility of\nthings\nthat appear to be accomplishing something, but they're actually not.\nSo I, I'm not in favor of this resolution because I don't\nthink it sp- it speaks to what we can do.\nI think it promises things that\nrealistically I don't know how to evaluate city staff when we ask them to\ndo something that can't be done.\nIs there something urgent, pressings? I really wanted to move towards a vote.\nIt's after nine thirty at night, but if you have something,\nsure.\nThank\nyou.\nUm,\nyes. Um, it's been said that, we need to\nevaluate legal avenues and so forth with land use.\nIt's already been stated very clearly by our city manager and\nby Paul Balota that those legal avenues are not\navailable. And so I don't see the point\nof, A, to\nevaluate legal avenues for peace officers of the city to request the\nidentity of apparent immigration enforcement agents when legally\npermissible. It's pretty much legally\npermissible after stuff has happened.\nIf law enforcement stops something to\nask for their ID while it's happening, that's a big\nno-no. I did a lot of research on this before\nthis meeting because\nI was concerned about putting our\nofficers in a legally questionable position,\nand\nI guess what I'm saying is there's really no way to do A or B.\nAnd so\nto, to explore legal avenues to do them\nlooks like a very much a dead end. As far as\nthe rest of it, you know, our staff is totally maxed\nout. I mean, I would love to do all of it.\nI don't know\nhow much of it we can do. I mean, this is just\nreality. And so, anyway,\nand it kills me because it's a horrible\nsituation. Um,\nanyhow, we've said enough, I guess.\nWe move to a vote.\nCan we have a roll call vote, please, city recorder?\nYes, Mayor. This is a vote on the resolution addressing escalating federal\nimmigration enforcement.\nCouncilors Moorfield?\nNo.\nEllis?\nNo.\nOlsen?\nYes.\nKadena?\nNo.\nBowden? Napack?\nNo.\nSchafer?\nNo.\nLewis?\nYes.\nMayors?\nNo.\nThe resolution fails two to six.\nThank you all for the conversation.\nOkay.\nWe'll move now on to the-\nMayor?\nYes. Council Ellis.\nI did say that we could, independently move,\nsome of the things in the,\nsuggestions after we decided on whether or not to avoid, to,\nto approve the resolution. So I am going to move\nto utilize ci- existing city communication platforms\nto connect the community with clear and reputable information available in both\nEnglish and Spanish regarding, I'm just gonna read the whole\nthing. A, rights afforded to immigrants under federal and state law.\nB, community-based legal and social service resources available to immigrants and\ntheir families. And C, other relevant info, information\nintended to support community awareness and access to services for\ninformational purposes only.\nSecond.\nThank you. We have a motion and a second.\nAny discussion needed on this item? Question Napack?\nA friendly amendment perhaps is that it's not just Spanish, but Farsi\nand everything else.\nSorry.\nI would think, I would think to the ability that a website-\nNever mind\n... may be, I would, I would try to-\nI retract.\nOkay. I, I, I like the idea that, you know, Arabic and everything else, and it's\nlike I'm sure the city staff can figure out-\nEverything else is a pretty broad category.\nYeah.\nYeah. Oh-\nTo whatever extent-\nAs, as appropriate, how about that?\nYeah.\nThank you.\nAll right. Let's go ahead and take a vote on this.\nAll those in favor of the motion, say aye.\nAye.\nAye.\nAye.\nAll opposed, say no. That passed unanimously.\nThank you, Councilor Ellis. Go ahead.\nUm, I'm also going to move, because I think that we could do this over time,\nsection F: To ensure all non-public spaces and city buildings are\nclearly identified and labeled with signage indicating restricted\naccess.\nSecond.\nYeah, I, I actually believe, that's already been done based\non other issues a couple years ago.\nBut we can, we can confirm that.\nYep. Um-\nI suspected as much.\nYeah. So\nyeah, if this passes, we will just confirm that that work has been done.\nAppreciate that. Discussion? No.\nAll in favor of the motion, say aye.\nAye.\nAye.\nAye.\nAll opposed, say no.\nDid that get a second?\nYes, it did.\nOkay.\nCouncilor Ellis? That, that passed unanimously, by the way.\nThank you. Um, could you report back to us in, like, a\nmonth?\nYes, I can.\nThank you. Um, the last one is, I am going to just say\nresolve that the council encourages the Jedi Board to solicit community\nempower grant applications to assist those affected by escalating\nimmigration enforcement in the next round of\ngrants.\nSecond.\nMotion and second. Council Morefield?\nUh, when I saw this draft, I looked up what the current grant criteria\nare. I thought it already allowed it.\nI did not look it up. I just assumed that it wasn't there because it was\nhere.\nMaybe, maybe it makes it more of like a-\nI mean it-\n-to focus a bit more there since it's already allowed.\nThe green grants were giving an extra point for a certain thing-\nMm-hmm\n-in the last couple of years, so maybe that was the thought.\nI think it's still good to just solidify that\nmaybe. Okay, all those in favor of the\nmotion, say aye.\nAye.\nAye.\nAye.\nAll opposed say no.\nAye. Sorry.\nThat's all right. Sorry. Council Schaefer.\nThat's a yes.\nOkay. I didn't hear any of those though. All right.\nIt passed unanimously. Is that it?\nI think.\nOkay.\nI think that cut all the things we can actually do. Thank you.\nThank you. Well, hopefully I'm not too tired to get through my presentation.\nUh, moving on to mayor and council reports.\nIn my mayor's report, I'm finally getting-- got around to doing the presentation\nregarding the Mayor's Innovation Project conference that I went-- that you all sent\nme to in DC. I apologize for it taking so long, but,\nas you know, I came, I got sick while I was there, and was sick afterwards, and\nit put my whole life delayed. So,\nbut let me get this brought up. I'll try to go very\nquickly through these slides. It's late, but I just wanted to keep my promise to\nyou all. This was the, agenda. I'm gonna\nswitch gears here so I could see it, 'cause I can't read it there.\nUm, the topics, well, it's gonna...\nAll my slides will have the topics, so it doesn't matter.\nUm, we can go ahead and next slide.\nWe've got to get better slides.\nWell, I made this, so it's probably my fault.\nUm, as you can see, it was cold there.\nLike, on average, it was like between seven and seventeen\ndegrees, so I was freezing. Um, the, the\nactual conference was held at the Laborers' International Union of\nAmerica, and fortunately, I was able to afford to bring my wife along.\nSo\nthat was kind of like a weird vacation of learning stuff for our\ncity. The first topic was Leading Under\nPressure: Protecting Elected Officials, which I found very interesting considering\nsome of the legislation that's been passed here in Oregon recently.\nUm, next slide. This might be a little hard to\nread, but one of the... So on all these, there was multiple speakers,\nusually between three and four speakers per th- per thing.\nThey all had their own presentation. This was a two-day conference.\nUh, I'm trying to point out just the things that really caught my attention that I\nthought were really interesting.\nSo the two colored graphs you see there, the blue is male\nmayors, the yellow is female mayors.\nUh, the top one is mayors who experience harassment more than three times per month\nin office,\nand that was twenty-five percent of, of female mayors.\nAnd the bottom is mayors who experience harassment at least once per month in\noffice. So I found it very interesting of the,\nthe, the, the variance there between male and female mayors.\nUm, and then you see some of the quotes there, from other mayors around the s-\naround the country, stalker, vandalizing homes, et\ncetera. Next slide.\nUm, these were some of the proposed solutions, and I, and I actually really thought\nthese were interesting. And the first one is normalize the position as a job.\nUm,\nwe put a lot of hours into this kind of work, and, and this is still mostly focused\non mayors, but it really applies to all of us.\nUh, I, I'm not sure how often you get harassed or\nthreatened, but it's happened to me.\nUm, so some of the solutions norm- no-normalize support professional development,\nnormalize support for personal protection, staff dedicated to the mayor, I\nkinda like that one, and raising wages, which is something I plan on\nbringing back, later this year after we get through some of our conversation\naround our budget gap.\nSo I found, I found all these really inter-interesting,\nas solutions. So that's the end of that one. Next slide.\nAnd this one was very relevant to our city, Leading Through\nUncertainty: A Fiscal Playbook for a Thriving Community.\nNext slide. Did you get it? The, this was done by the person who\nactually created the Mayor's Innovation Project.\nHe talked about the broken social condract-- contract.\nWhat's hard to see there is all those lines together is,\nbasically income versus productivity, and it used to stay pretty straight\nand, and equal. The purple line shooting way up\nis the top one percent earners country.\nWhere everything else, the red is the bottom twenty percent, the blue is\nmiddle sixty percent, and the green is upper middle.\nUm, so as you can see, wages have not increased as much as productivity\nand as much as the top one percent earners in the country make, which I\nthink is all information we're very aware of.\nNext slide. This graph, which you can't read\neither, it's too much... Oh, you can kind of read it.\nIt's showing, how much our, our country has changed.\nWe are more diverse now than ever before, which is kind of also relevant coming\ntoday-\nHmm\n...to the resolution we were just discussing.\nUm, and less than fifty percent of our country are white\nanymore, now. So we have a very diverse country, and I think it's just\ngonna continue to change, um-The blue, I think you can read\nthat, blue is Hispanic. Uh, the dark blue, kinda gray\nis Black. Green is Asian. Next\nslide. And then it transitioned to around infrastructure to support these\ncommunities that are always changing and always growing.\nAnd I think, our city manager might find this one int-interesting.\nIt's the average age and life expectancy of US infrastructure.\nSo the first one's roads, next one's bridges, rail, water\npipes, dams, levies, and water treatment\nplants. So the average age is the dark color.\nThe life expectancy, this is, is the lighter color.\nSo it's showing that our issues here were not unique.\nNext slide.\nAnd then that conversation around infrastructure got-- it was quite interesting\n'cause it started talking about it's not just this infrastructure that we rely on\ndaily, but also how, things impact that infrastructure.\nSo in this case, growing risks around, nature events due\nto climate change. So you see here, C-Hurricane Katrina on the bottom left, two\nthousand and five, Superstorm Sandy, two thousand and twelve, the fires in\ntwenty twenty-three, Hurricane, Helen in twenty twenty-four, the Los\nAngeles fires of twenty twenty-five.\nAnd then the small writing, which I actually can read, in, in two thousand a\nbillion-dollar disaster occurred every seventy-two days.\nNow they occur every eighteen days.\nBy twenty thirty, they will be weekly occurrences.\nSo on top of just trying to pr-provide regular service to our community with what\nthey ask, we're dealing with some serious stuff now.\nAnd our firefighters will be dealing with it, and, and\npolice, and public works. And I like that thing\nthere. For every major headline, there are innumerable smaller events impacting\nwhere we live, work, and play every day. City manager.\nYeah, one of those impacts that we'll see, even if we don't have a\ndisaster, insurance rates-\nMm\n...continue to climb. And so we do get impacted,\nby that, even indirectly, if we don't have that\ndisaster.\nAppreciate that. Next slide. No, there it is.\nAnd this one I just thought was an interesting view of, of what local government\nis, right? So one-third of our an- of annual local GOP spent on disaster and\nweather costs, but this impacts every other entity that we interact\nwith from real estate insurance, which city manager just pointed out,\nutilities, health. Uh, we all work together to be what\nis a community, and it all-- it's all majorly impacted.\nNext slide.\nAnd this was kind of a weird but interesting graph I just threw in here.\nAnd it talked about how federal support for cities is declining.\nAlthough the infl-in-Inflation Reduction Act is still, investments still\nhappen, less and less money are coming to communities to deal with these\nissues. So it's kind of a bleak\noutcome. Um, and a lot of these conversations when they hold\nthese things is to really get mayors to talk, 'cause we don't just sit through\nthese presentations. We all gather around and talk about solutions and\nideas. Um, and this one, not a lot of solutions or\nideas, unfortunately, but it's something we're dealing with right now.\nThe next slide is onto the one I, I-- when I was-- I was really not looking forward\nto this conversation because I was, \"What does this have to do with the city of\nCorvallis or our role?\" Um, so again, building a supportive\nchildcare ecosystem for families and workers, I'm like, \"That's not our role.\" Um,\nturns out, yes, it is. Um, so I want this, this slide-- This\npresentation was from Mayor Kelly Girtz, from Athens, Georgia.\nAnd in here, they, they-- there's similarities I thought were interesting besides\ntheir government's different, but at the same time, they have, they have a\ncouncil manager form of local government.\nThey're a much larger community, as you can see, but they have a ten-member\ncommission, as their legi-legislative unit, so it's kinda like our\ncouncil, and it's similar size. So I just thought\ninteresting. Just they're much bigger.\nNext slide.\nYes. Um,\nso I like this 'cause it's really straightforward.\nUh, keep-- Hiring talent is tough.\nWe know that's an issue locally for, for childcare providers.\nLabor costs are a challenge 'cause you have to pay people enough to live, which is\na challenge. Uh, facility costs are high, so the-- what families are\ncharged for health- for childcare is just extreme, and\nI, I know that is true. Next slide.\nAnd then, which-- When I was going back to the slides, I remembered this one.\nI was like, \"Oh, yeah, this is what got my attention.\nWhy do-- Why would a city care? What, what does this have to do with us?\" Um,\nbut we care about our economy. So again, a strong employment base\nand long-term community health, safety, and prosperity.\nCouldn't disagree with that. Next slide.\nSo here's where it came down to what a city could do, and I'm not saying we\nwill do this, but it's something we should think about.\nUm, they, they ta- they would talk about the projects that they successfully did\nthere. But the one at the end was, buying down the capital cost of\nfacilities lowers family price tag.\nAnd so creating opportunities for space for childcare providers,\nlicensed childcare providers, that we could re-reduce their costs by potentially\nmaybe having space in some of our city facilities for them to operate.\nThat could potentially benefit our employees.\nIt could also benefit the community.\nSo as we're thinking about, a civic campus project, like maybe\nthere's room to think about doing that.\nAnd we have other facilities, two minutes in the room, we have the\nC-3. It's just something we could potentially look at of a way\nto help alleviate, rising costs for childcare.\nSo that's when it hit me. I'm like, \"Oh, that is something we technically could\ndo.\"\nAnd then the last one, which is very interesting as well,\naging in place. So again, we're talking about seniors,\nand I used the slides from AARP 'cause I think they were the best\nones. Um, we're in a lasting demogra-demographic\nshift. And at first, I was like, \"What does that mean, demographic shift?\" So if\nyou go to the next slide, this one hit me.\nThe aging of America is here. So on the left there is what,\ntwenty fifteen and like the light color, that is Oregon, would've\nbeen, twelve point five to one point uh\nfifteen percent of the population.\nBut if you look at the map on the right, that jumps us up to twenty to twenty-two\npoint five percent of the population, and it's continuing to\ngrow.So we're gonna have a sig- you know, in the future, the whole...\nall the countries got a significantly different looking population than it does\ntoday. Next slide.\nAnd it talked about most communities in the country have not been built to\neven address that, you know, with, with better sidewalks, better transportation\noptions, things like that. And this next slide actually helped me with my\nfamily issues right now, which about how d- aging in place is\ndifficult because of type of housing you have.\nUm, we, we know we talked a few years back when we talked about the,\nthe senior facilities. I can't think of the name all of a\nsudden. The Bonaventure. When we were talking about Bonaventure, we talked about\nthose people who are living in homes that are, you know, they're, they're not being\nused to their full potential. A single person living who maybe would be happier\nliving somewhere else and opening that home up to family.\nSo there's housing mobility, which t- I just mentioned.\nUm, even our public spaces, how we think of the design of our parks.\nUm, and the last one is the, the biggest one, isolation.\nThe health risks of, of prolonged isolation is equivalent to eating...\nsmoking 15 cigarettes a day. So o- people\n65 and over, it severely impacts their health if they're not engaged and\nkept active and, you know, out of isolation.\nAnd what I don't... I, I think what was good about this one is I feel like we were\nin a really good place. Like, we already are addressing a lot of this.\nYou know, we have our, our community center that has programs, our library has\nprograms. We have good,\nfairly good transportation system here and, and a, a network\nof s- of social service providers.\nSo I think compared to what I was hearing from other mayors, I think we're doing\nall right. But it doesn't mean we shouldn't think about this as we think of\nlong-term development in our community.\nAnd I like the saying, create a great community for an older adult, you build a\ncommunity great for everyone. I think, again, keep that in\nmind. And this next slide's just kind of fun.\nAgain, as I said, it's not like, we just sit there and are talked at like some\nconferences I go to. There's a lot of engagement with other mayors.\nThis is me with the mayor of Madison, Wisconsin, Satya\nRhodes-Conway. Um, Wisconsin...\nUh, Madison, Wisconsin, is where the Mayors Innovation project started, with\na professor there.\nAnd so I was able to catch up with her.\nI met her when I went to the, new mayors',\nwhatever that was called, cohort.\nI met, I met her there, and she saw me, and we were able to reconnect.\nAnd along with, other mayors from Oregon and a mayor from\nGeorgia and a few other places. It was, it was really\ngood. And again, you sit down and you talk about what the presentation you were\njust given and say, \"Well, what, what are you, what are you doing to address this?\"\nSo I was able to brag about Corvallis and some of the steps we've taken to address\nhousing needs and infrastructure needs.\nSome people were impressed. So that is pretty much the end of my\npresentation. I, I know ... No, that's good.\nUm, I didn't wanna make it too long 'cause I was looking at the agenda and I'm\nlike, \"Yeah, I'm not gonna talk all night about this.\" 'Cause if, if you want, I\ncould spend the next two days and just go over the whole thing, but I don't think\nthat's a good idea. And I apologize again for the delay.\nThat was not my intent.\nUm,\nhopefully this was enjoyable a little bit.\nUm, they did make me an offer to... if, if we wanted to become a member city of the\nMayors Innovation Project. It's, for our size city, it's normally\n$2,500. They're willing to deduct the amount that I paid to attend\nthat conference off the annual price.\nSo that's something I'm gonna get some information about where, where our budget\nis, 'cause I'm not sure where our council budget is, and with maybe a request to\njoin them. And in the future, if we join, then there's no cost to attend these\nconferences. And they provide a bunch of other stuff, but I'll get all that to you\nguys at a future meeting.\nThis office. What,\nwhat...\nYeah. That'll be put... I'll, I'll bring that back at a council meeting for, for\nconsideration. Um, my other comments, and I, you know, I, I haven't\ngiven many comments lately, so this is where I make up for that.\nUm, Saturday I attended the legislative breakfast, and just quick takeaways from\nthat. Legislative breakfast, for those don't know, is, the county holds it, and\nthey invite our legislators. So we heard from three of our legislators, even though\nwe only actually have two, but there's also the one for Philomath, on how\nthe se- short session went. The one things I took away from, the, the\nflexibility on our, on lodging tax funds passed.\nUm, but unfortunately there's gonna be a reduction in safe route to schools\nfunding. That's not good. Um, but there is an increase to the earned income tax\ncredit, which I know helps people with lower incomes significantly.\n'Cause I remember when I was extremely poor and got that for my kids,\nit really made a difference. Sometimes it just went to buying ne- needed\nsupplies like shoes for school. Um,\nI wanted to, wanted to say something.\nUh, earlier when we were reviewing the MUPTE request, I know we\nreceived an email, and one of the emails talked about, the loss of the\nfood trucks that used to be on that, on that block.\nSo I just wanna quickly say we did not lose those food trucks.\nUh, one of them is now in the plaza on Madison.\nThat's Tacos El Machine, and apparently they're doing better business there than\nthey ever did in their food truck. So they're thriving. And the space is great.\nYou should all check it out if you're up in the plaza.\nAnd the other one moved over to Common Fields, the sushi one.\nSo if you enjoyed those businesses, you can continue to support them.\nUm, now I got some events I wanna let everybody know about, 'cause\nI never do that. Um, League of Women Voters event called Sheltering Our\nUnhoused: Are We Making Progress?\nis Wednesday, March 18th at 6:30 at the library.\nI plan on being there, so all of you can join if you\nwant. Um, I will be attending a groundbreaking ceremony for Third Street\nCommons on the 19th, which is this coming Thursday at 11:30\nAM. Everyone's welcome. I gotta go...\nI was concerned 'cause they said I would need to be able to operate a shovel.\nI'm like, \"Am I qualified for that?\" Operate sounds like a bigger thing,\nbut I think I can manage. Uh, on Saturday the 28th, there's a\ndowntown cleanup happening at 10:00 AM. They're...\npeople are gathering at the museum.\nI intend to participate this time 'cause I'm in town and I'm not...\ndon't have the flu. So,\nso I encourage people to join thatUm, and\nlast but not least, same day, on January,\nSaturday the 28th at noon is the No S- No Kings March and\nRally. Um, the march starts on the OSU campus, McNeary\nField, goes to Central Park and then to the courthouse.\nYou can join them along the way or just be at the courthouse.\nUm, and I appreciate all those doing that.\nAlthough when, when I talk to the organizers, I say the same thing, it's like,\n\"Well, this is great, this gets people excited. What is next?\nWhen does the work happen? Where do people get involved to actually make a\ndifference?\" And I appreciate everybody who shows up for rallies.\nI've attended so many over the last 10 years, I don't remember most of them.\nBut I also do things. I encourage you all to do the\nsame.\nAnd that is the end of my comments, I believe, unless I'm forgetting\nsomething. But I don't think I am. So\nanybody remember where we went last time? I think I started over here.\nSo Councilor El... Actually, I'll start with Councilor Shaffer, even though he's\nvirtually, but he'd be over there.\nI will be extremely quick. It's already 1:00 AM in where I am.\nOoh, oodle.\nI'm tired. I'm gonna pass this\nweek.\nOkay.\nUh, Councilor Olsen.\nUm, yeah. I don't have too much to say right now.\nSome updates on things in the community is\nthat OSU just approved tuition increases for both their in\nand out-of-state students. So just, just to, like, let everyone know\nwhat's going on with OSU. Um-\nYeah.\nYeah, it's up, almost 6% for\nresidents and 6.25% for\nnon-residents. So if you're curious, that's almost\n$300 a credit, which is\ninsane. Um, yeah. So that's my main\nthing. Also, I have been, attending some\nboar- unofficial board meetings held by some people in my board, so that's been\nreally fun. We talked about the MUPTI\nmostly on our meeting on Saturday, so that was really exciting.\nI liked getting to meet with people.\nUm, and yeah. The last thing I have to say\nis just\nI, I know I said at the time that I\ndon't like resolutions that don't seem to do much.\nAnd so what I'm gonna say right now is ask all of you guys who didn't vote\non the resolution what you personally are doing to\nhelp, to prevent ICE in our\ncommunity. Not what you as a community member are doing, what, not what\nyou, not what the state's done, but what you personally are doing.\nWho are you helping? Who are you connecting to?\nHow are you impeding the ever-encroaching force of\nfascism in this country? Because while community\nefforts are the best, individual efforts are better than\nnothing. So...\nCouncilor Meyers.\nWell, I unfortunately have a whole bunch of stuff. I'll go as fast as I can.\nUm, we had the all d- all task\nforce meeting, Downtown Vitality Strategy\nTask Force on the 3rd, and I'm\npretty excited about how things are progressing and how the\ndiscussions are going and, and working through,\nwell, getting to some\nrecommendations.\nUm, I'll skip that one. Uh,\nMarch 9th, we had Budget Commission meeting, catching up the commission on\nall of the things council's been working on, and facilities funding and\nall the financial, challenges we're\nfacing. And there was a really good discussion about getting some more\ninformation about the Bu- Budget Commission and what we're doing out to\nthe community, so I was grateful to, Councilor\nEllis for bringing that up, and I think we landed on a couple of good\nideas. Um, on the 10th, we had... I'll\nlet you talk about the Charter PAC. Are you gonna talk about it?\nOkay. Um, on the 11th, we had the,\nDowntown Vitality Task Force, again,\nInfrastructure Committee, and that was a great discussion about, as I said\nbefore, how housing s- more housing downtown\nsolves a lot of the problems we're trying to solve.\nUm, I also was at the legislative breakfast.\nOh, and Thursday, we had a makeup Leadership Corvallis\nclass because we had that ice storm last year, and it was\nEducation Day. And it was... I never had\nkids. I haven't thought about schools much except we have OSU here, and\nwe have all the things happening with the public schools, and it\nwas amazing. We spent quite a long time at College\nHill. I, I, I won't go into\nany details, but there is a lot of dedication\nto the students succeeding in this city at all\nlevels, and it was just very inspiring\nand, um... Anyway, I'm inspired.\nAlso went to the legislative breakfast.\nWent to the Celebrate Corvallis, which was a real\nblast.\nAnd\nthe Downtown Corvallis Organization is having a quarterly meeting\nthis Wednesday from 5:30 to 6:30 at one of the meza-\nmezzanines,\nin the plaza. And that's it.\nPhew.\nYeah.\nYes. Uh, I have a number of things I was going to talk about, which I will defer\nsome of those to the next council meeting, but I do wanna provide a couple of\nupdates. Uh, we have the charter\namendment, charter, Charter Measures PAC up and running.\nIt kinda feels like we're going downhill, and so far we haven't.\nUh, our feet are still in front of our heads, so that's good.\nUm, it's a good group of folks. I think we're gonna make progress.\nWe're meeting, every Wednesday, and through\nthe, election timeframe, but I think\nwe'll-Um, I think we'll get there.\nUh, I'll give you a n- better update next time.\nUh, and then just one other thing I wanted to cover,\nwhich is we have received for the city manager\nevaluation process, we have received,\nsix req- RFPs were\ncompleted. Uh, we did review those.\nUh, there was a group of five that's supposed to review this.\nOnly four of us, actually did\nreview that, so we're gonna move forward, with\nthe group of four. That would be the city manager, the HR director, the mayor\nand myself. Um, just wanted to let folks know\nthat cost of the evaluations are likely to be somewhere in the range of\nabout $25,000. Um, happy to\ncontinue with this, unless I hear that the council would like\nto reconsider that expense. Are we...\nAnd the question would be, are we\ngoing to get $25,000 worth of benefit out of doing this\ndifferently? Um,\nso I guess I'll pause and see if there's any comment as\nto, any discussion as to whether we might want to alter that.\nOtherwise, we'll, we will proceed.\nUm, we intend to... Based on the\ntimeline, we intend to announce the, to, give notice of the intent to\naward contracts by April 8th. So we have a very short\ntime window on this. Any comment\nfrom anybody?\nJust, I...\nIt's after 10 and I don't, I think I would rather h- think about\nit rather than make a comment on whether or not to go\nforward. My gut sense is yes, but I really don't\nwant to engage in the discussion. I don't think o- any of us would make a good\ndecision at this hour.\nMaybe we can make some room on Thursday.\nThat'd be fine.\nCouncilor Lewis.\nOh, fantastic. Okay. Um, police review advisory board, if\nyou haven't signed up, you can sign up for Corvallis Police 101.\nIt's from April 1st to June 10th, every Wednesday from 6 PM to 9 PM.\nIt is just literally learning the ins and outs of the police force.\nI will see them next year 'cause I do not have the capacity to do it this year.\nUm, but you can apply by March, 20th.\nAlso, they, our wonderful police chief went to the COA\nSpring Conference between March 11th and, and 15th in Tucson,\nArizona. I don't know what happened there. I'll ask him later.\nUm, the Empowerment and Green Grants info session is, tomorrow\nat three-- at 5:15 on Zoom. As always, the Winter's Farmers Market\nis Saturdays 9 AM to 1 PM at the Benton County Fairgrounds.\nUm,\nthere's a few things that have already are said.\nAnd because it is still Women's History Month, that has not changed, I'm going\nto talk very briefly about Rita Moreno, who is still alive at ninety-four years\nold. She was born December 11th, 1931.\nYou probably know her as Rosa Dolores Alvera or\nAnita from West Side Story. That was actually the role that actually got her\nthe, to be the first Latina to win an Oscar for Best Supporting\nActress, in 1962. And she actually became an EGOT\nstatus, which only twenty-one people have gotten, in\n1977. And I am going to go, be going home after this.\nYou all have a wonderful night.\nWe have one item still.\nWhich I should have started with Jim for that one. Councilman Packham.\nYeah, I wrote my report, but I wanted to highlight a couple of things.\nFirst and foremost, I want to extend thanks to Danielle\nChambers, Gene Raymond, our former counselor for Ward\nSeven, I believe, Ava\nOlsen, and the mayor for bringing forth the resolution,\nfor advancing the resolution to the council.\nUm, very important that, that this occurred and,\nthank you all. And others that I don't know who you are, but thank\nyou. Um, quickly, I support\nthe changes to Walnut Boulevard, the safety,\nimprovements. Uh, I think the last time I rode my bike on Walnut,\nsomebody passed me at fifty miles an hour.\nUm, it needs to do something. We need to do something\nabout that. Uh, the Bikeway project for North Benton\nCounty, that's the bike path you see partially\ncompleted from here along Highway 20.\nUh, there's going to be an open house, at\nboth the Corvallis and the Albany Farmers Market, May\n16th from ten to noon. They wanna figure out\nhow the path crosses over the highway, and you're all\ninvited 'cause nobody can figure it out.\nUm, and last thing, LBCC\nhas a ribbon cutting sometime this coming April\nto unveil their new mobility hub, and I\ndon't-- I remember standing in a huddle waiting\nfor the bus at LB,\nyou know, the, the shuttle. Um, it was raining and,\nand people are lined up, but now it's really nice.\nThis is going to connect with, OSU\nMobility Hub, which is going to be at 14th and Jefferson across from\nCallahan Hall. And, OSU is,\nOSU is scoping right now their Campus\nWay Promenade, if you will. Uh,\nthe plans, I don't know, I don't have the plans, but,\nit is, something\nthat it's, you know, pedestrian and, and multimodal\nmall right through the middle of campus.\nI don't think there's cars allowed. Be fun.\nThank you.\nCouncilor Morefield, my apologies.\nI should have started with you. Oh,\ntired? Not at all. Oh. About past my bedtime.\nI wanted to make a, just a quick comment about the, the evaluation,\nresponses. It's a lot of money, but I don't know what they're proposing to\ndo. So\nI would... Before I'd really have an opinion, I'd wanna know what they were\nproposing to do. Um, so that would be helpful.\nUm, so I brought, forward a, an action item,\nthat was in your packet, letter to the BLM.\nUh, I didn't provide an introductory memo, 'cause I didn't even think to do this\nuntil, like, 24 hours before I was gonna have to get something to\nAlex, to get into the packet. So you got...\nYou know, I just focused on what the letter itself would say, but the,\nI think it's self-explanatory. Um,\nI... For people that haven't lived in Oregon or been on the\nplanet for long enough, historically, the,\nthe quote from the BLM, Resource Management Plan\nupdate says they seek to increase\nan, an increase in sustained yield timber harve- harvest that aligns with\nthe historically higher levels of production on BLM\nadministrated, administered public lands.\nThat's a significant change from current practice.\nAnd if you've lived here long enough, you know what it looked like.\nUm, and so the, the thing that's\ninfuriating about it\nis that they're saying\nthe choice is between no change... This is right in the notice.\nThe choice is between no change in current practice,\nor going back to historic\nlevels. So it's, so it's a very stark choice,\nand, responses are due by the\n23rd. So I'm asking for the council's support\nin s- submitting the letter.\nI'd like to make a motion that we, adopt the, and\nsend the letter that, Councilor Moorfield\ndrafted.\nI'll second.\nDo we need to discuss it?\nCan I make one comment on it? If possible, I would prefer to have all\nof our names and the mayor's signature on it, and not just the mayor on our behalf.\nThat's what it says, is mayor and council signatures, or mayor signs on our behalf.\nYes.\nI-\nI am professing in a, my, my\nfavorite-\nMoorfield.\nYeah.\nI, I-\nI wanna, I want my signature on it .\nYeah, no, I, I, I put it out there 'cause it was just a logistical thing\nin getting signatures, and Alex said she would have suggestions,\nor the city manager about it.\nYeah, I think we can, we can seek those\nsignatures. Uh, due to the time, we may not get\nevery councilor to sign, but we'll seek those\nout.\nBy when? To sign it by?\nBecause Councilor Schaefer is out of the state,\nand because of other councilor obligations, we would\nprobably do a e-signature.\nCa- can you DocuSign for me?\nYou can DocuSign it, yes.\nYeah.\nThat would be great.\nI think... And that might be the best way to move forward, just so we can capture\neverybody.\nSounds good.\nSo we have a motion. Vote on it? Okay, all in\nfavor of the motion to sign on to this letter to the\nBL- Bureau of Land Management?\nAye.\nAye.\nAye.\nAye.\nAll those opposed, no? All right.\nThat sounds like it passed unanimously.\nDid you have anything else for us, Councilor Moorfield?\nI do not.\nAll right. Councilor Ellis?\nI am glad that he did not make his letter a lie.\nWe said already that we had voted unanimously in the letter.\nIt's like we did. Um, I had a couple of things.\nUm, on Tuesday the 31st, there's going to be a\ndiscussion of prioritization of neighborhood bikeways, which\nis kind of an actually fascinating topic, and it will be here at\n5:30. Um, I believe there, there'll be a present- I don't\nknow how they're gonna organize it, but they're very excited about it, and the\ninformation is getting out. Um, so I think people who\nare interested should engage in that.\nUm,\nI do wanna say, that when I was in college, it was $35\na credit.\nWow.\nUm, and I remember 'cause I was paying it.\nUm, and then I had a couple of, more serious things.\nI actually appreciate the fact that we had some flexible things on the agenda.\nAt first I thought, \"How'd that resolution get on there without the form?\" But I\nactually think that people bringing a resolution or a letter forward\nin councilor comments is the way things should work.\nSo I appreciate that. Um,\nand then I also... We're gonna be seeing a lot\nof, as Director Bellotta referred to it,\nurban form in terms of multi-family\nhousing coming forward into established\nneighborhoods, and we need to recognize that is an\nincredibly stressful experience for are, the people who are\nliving there. Um, I, I, I, I hear\nyou. I started, before I was a city councilor, involved\nin some of the land use decisions, when we actually could say\nthings. And to find out that, an\nurban form is landing on your neighborhood is very\ndifficult. I know some people will adjust and some people will move,\nbut we need to keep the fact that this is very stressful for people\nin very stressful times in mind as we go\nforward. Um, and I think that's what I\nhad.\nThank you. City manager.\nYeah, I have two things. Uh, some happy news and some less than happy news.\nI'll start with the less than happy news.\nJust wanna\nkeep council informed of impacts, staff seen\nin their jobs. Uh, two incidences\nrecently. Um, as you know, we do\nallow, sleeping outside of our facilities\ndowntown, and, last week,\nunfortunately-Uh, one morning we had some\nindividuals outside the Madison Avenue building, which is\nnot uncommon, but, one of the indi- individuals\nbecame very loud and shouting\nobscenities, was asked to, to stop, did\nnot stop. Ultimately, we had to call the police and have that person\ntrespassed from, the facility.\nAgain, not, not what we like to do, but for, the\nsafety, of our staff and disruption to people\ntrying to enter our facilities, public, we had to deal with\nthat. And then we also had, one of our security attendants\nat the library, i- asking someone\nto leave the library for behavioral issues.\nThey were struck, their glasses were knocked off,\nsignificant scratch across their face.\nSo I'm just keeping you informed of what's happening with,\nwith our staff. So there's the unhappy\nnews. The, the happy news, as Councilor Lewis\npointed out, Chief Harvey, our\ntwo captains and some other police staff and myself were,\ndown for the final step in CALEA\nre-accreditation. Ended up being a, a working weekend for\nus,\nbut I'm happy to report that, we have been re-accredited\na thirtieth year. There is not anyone\nworking for Corvallis Police who was there before we were accredited,\nso it is part of our DNA, which I, I\nthink is fantastic. And during the last...\nSo Saturday morning is when we had our panel interview with the evaluators, and one\nof the issues that came up through the evaluation was challenges with\nour facilities. And so I was asked, \"What are you gonna be doing\nabout those facilities?\" So just a reinforcement that there\nare, there are impacts to these\nfacilities, and it's being seen now even by our\naccreditation, evaluators. So,\nit's important we continue to move forward with, dealing with that.\nBut very happy to announce, the re-accreditation\nand, we'll be getting, you know, the official plaque and some pictures and\nall that. But, great work by our staff, Lori Jackson,\nour accreditation manager, and all the police staff who follow\nthrough and actually do what we say as far as those\npolicies and procedures. And, and staying accredited is\nvery rigorous. They're-- They, they're not only asking you for\nyour policies, but proof that you are following those.\nAnd they talk to, officers,\ndifferent staff, even community members at times to make\nsure that we're doing what we, we say we do.\nSo, we are very blessed to have the police\ndepartment that we have and the staff that are there.\nSo congratulations to them.\nI forgot it was a group of you. I should have asked you.\nIt's late. And if there's nothing else then, everybody's\ntired. Have a good night, everybody.\nWe are adjourned",
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          "text": "Let's go ahead and call to order tonight's meeting of the Corvallis City Council.",
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          "text": "City recorder, roll call please.",
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          "text": "Mayor Maughan?",
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          "text": "Here.",
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          "text": "Councilors Napack? Lewis?",
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          "text": "Here.",
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          "text": "Moorefield?",
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          "text": "Here.",
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          "text": "Olsen?",
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          "text": "Here.",
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          "text": "Ellis?",
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          "text": "Here.",
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          "text": "Bowden? Shaffer?",
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          "text": "Here.",
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          "text": "Mayors?",
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          "text": "Here.",
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          "text": "Kadena?",
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          "text": "Here.",
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          "text": "Eight councilors present, Your Honor.",
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          "text": "Thank you.",
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          "text": "Next up, looking for approval of tonight's",
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          "text": "agenda.",
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          "text": "I move to approve the agenda. I'll second.",
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          "index": 25,
          "text": "All right. Any discussion? No? All in favor of the",
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          "text": "agenda as written say, \"Aye.\"",
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          "index": 27,
          "text": "Aye.",
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          "index": 28,
          "text": "Aye.",
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        {
          "index": 29,
          "text": "Aye.",
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          "index": 30,
          "text": "Say no. Sorry, Paul, I'll try to remember to give you a",
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        {
          "index": 31,
          "text": "minute.",
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          "index": 32,
          "text": "The Corvallis City Council asks community members to register in advance, but also",
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          "index": 33,
          "text": "offers limited opportunities to sign up at the meeting.",
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          "index": 34,
          "text": "The comm- community members may indicate their interest in providing comment this",
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          "index": 35,
          "text": "evening by using the sign-up sheet in the back of the room, or using the raise hand",
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          "text": "function in Zoom when your desired opportunity for public testimony is reached.",
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          "text": "Please remember to state your name and area of residence for the record and be",
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          "index": 38,
          "text": "mindful of the three-minute timer.",
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          "text": "We do have two presentations today, so community comments will be after that.",
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          "index": 40,
          "text": "Up first, we have the Corvallis Arts Center annual report for the fiscal year",
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        {
          "index": 41,
          "text": "twenty twenty-four, twenty twenty-five.",
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          "index": 42,
          "text": "Good evening, mayor and city council.",
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          "text": "Uh, tonight I have the pleasure of introducing",
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          "text": "As s- many of you know, the Corvallis Arts Center",
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          "text": "is the city council provides fifty-four thousand dollars",
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          "text": "on-- starting on electronic page nineteen, you'll see the,",
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          "text": "financial reviews. And up next is",
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        {
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          "text": "Erin.",
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          "text": "I'm excited to get to talk to you all.",
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          "text": "Um, I also wanna thank, I have a couple of board members with me.",
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        {
          "index": 63,
          "text": "Thank you for being here.",
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          "index": 64,
          "text": "Um-",
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        {
          "index": 65,
          "text": "Can you make sure your microphone's on?",
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          "index": 66,
          "text": "It just-",
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        {
          "index": 67,
          "text": "Is it on?",
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        {
          "index": 68,
          "text": "Is it-- No. No, it's not on. Is the green light on?",
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          "text": "Sorry. How's that?",
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          "text": "Perfect. Thank you.",
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          "text": "Great. Okay. Um, the arts",
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          "text": "center positively impacts the city of Corvallis' economic",
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          "text": "through the visual arts.",
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          "index": 75,
          "text": "I think you might just have to like scroll, 'cause I think this is just a PDF.",
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          "text": "It's like...",
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        {
          "index": 77,
          "text": "Well, we practice.",
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          "index": 78,
          "text": "Oh.",
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        {
          "index": 79,
          "text": "There we go. All right. Okay.",
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        {
          "index": 80,
          "text": "Next slide.",
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        {
          "index": 81,
          "text": "And now it's not on the screen.",
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          "index": 82,
          "text": "Yep.",
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          "index": 83,
          "text": "Oh, now we're not on the screen. Oh, that's okay",
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          "index": 85,
          "text": "Okay. That's all right, the very end.",
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          "index": 86,
          "text": "All right.",
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          "text": "Okay. Next slide. There we go. All right.",
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          "text": "Um, so the city of Corvallis' strategic plan and twenty forty",
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          "text": "Rec, the Corvallis Museum, and the Benton County",
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          "text": "lead that way. Thank you.",
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          "text": "Thank you very much. That was a, a lot of information.",
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          "text": "Kind of exciting. Counselors, any",
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          "text": "I don't have any questions at all. Um, but I just wanted to,",
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          "index": 240,
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          "text": "just amazing, awesome. It's really amazing to see the progress",
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          "text": "that's, that's happened. Uh, as you know, I was on the Arts Center board quite a",
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          "index": 243,
          "text": "few years ago, so to see the evolution of the organization and the",
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          "text": "vision that you're looking forward to for the future, what it'll mean for the",
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          "text": "community is just... It's, it's, breathtaking to",
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          "text": "see. So thank you.",
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          "text": "Thank you. We, we appreciate that.",
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          "index": 248,
          "text": "Councilor Meyers?",
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          "text": "Well, ditto what Councilor Cati- Cadena said, and I just had a couple",
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          "text": "Um, I just wondered about, how you or",
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          "text": "all.",
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          "text": "Yes.",
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          "text": "Yes.",
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          "text": "Um, we are, we're currently partnering with the public",
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          "text": "schools. Um, we, help the,",
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          "text": "exhibit, that they, that the public schools do each year.",
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          "text": "We help support that, and are collaborating with them in the",
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          "text": "future on perha- perhaps having some sites for portions of that",
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          "text": "exhibit out off of the school property.",
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          "text": "Oh.",
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          "text": "Um, so there's more accessibility to that.",
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          "text": "actually, had a couple of programs.",
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          "text": "They've, they've allo- they've partnered with us and allow us to use their...",
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          "text": "They have a fabulous ceramic studio, much larger than our current space,",
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          "text": "community. Um, I just had somebody ask me today about our co- our connections",
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          "text": "stronger.",
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          "text": "Councilor Lewis?",
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          "text": "Um, I don't have a question. I just wanted to say it was amazing",
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          "text": "being... When you first asked me to be a part of this, the",
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          "index": 289,
          "text": "expansion TAC force in the beginning, it was very awesome to see where, where it",
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          "text": "was like just from an idea to now where it is right now.",
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          "text": "So I'm like very impressed on just how much work has gone",
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          "text": "into this, and I appreciate all the work that you've been doing.",
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          "text": "Thank you for being a part of that.",
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        {
          "index": 294,
          "text": "Councilor Napet.",
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          "text": "I'm gonna sign up.",
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          "text": "Nice.",
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          "text": "Yes.",
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          "text": "For all of it.",
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          "text": "Again, just th- thank you for all your work and-",
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          "text": "Thank you",
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          "text": "... for your great presentation.",
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          "text": "Okay. Thank you.",
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          "text": "Moving on, we have our Downtown Vitality Strategy Task Force",
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          "text": "update. Invite our co-chairs up to tell us what's going",
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          "text": "on.",
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          "text": "Good evening, Mayor Monn and councilors. Thank you for giving...",
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          "text": "I'm Julie Manning, by the way. Thank you for giving Steve Clark and me the",
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          "text": "This will be the final update before we come back to you in",
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          "text": "tonight, they'll also be in the minutes for tonight's meeting that",
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          "text": "Uh, next slide, please. Yeah. Yes, here we are.",
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          "text": "action items, also was found-- the information found",
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          "index": 523,
          "text": "mid-June.We will bringing to you a set of findings",
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          "text": "think, highly responsible input. Thank you.",
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          "text": "the results.",
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          "text": "Thank you very much.",
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          "index": 537,
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          "text": "through email, and, again, we do read those.",
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          "index": 540,
          "text": "I spent my lunch today reading several.",
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          "index": 541,
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          "index": 542,
          "text": "Um, and for those who signed up in advance, that's also much appreciated.",
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          "text": "We'll start with the people who signed up in advance and go from there.",
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          "text": "And up first is, Rob Upson. And I'll remind everybody again, we do",
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        {
          "index": 545,
          "text": "use the three-minute timer that's located right there.",
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        {
          "index": 546,
          "text": "It'll go green, yellow, and then red, meaning stop.",
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          "index": 547,
          "text": "Welcome. I don't think that's on, sorry about.",
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          "index": 548,
          "text": "Mayor and council-",
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        {
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          "text": "There we go",
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          "index": 550,
          "text": "... good evening. I wanna bring your attention to",
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        {
          "index": 551,
          "text": "materials provided on page forty-four of the meeting packet related to a safer",
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          "index": 552,
          "text": "Walnut Boulevard, the corridor from, all the way from Circle",
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        {
          "index": 553,
          "text": "to MLK Park. Those are the road safety audits and the lane",
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          "text": "reconfiguration evaluations, which I spoke about last December.",
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          "text": "Full reports are now available. I wanna repeat the message of",
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          "index": 556,
          "text": "urgency,",
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          "text": "plan, just do it a little bit earlier, and that is to move your discussion",
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          "text": "next school year, which is approaching very quickly.",
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          "text": "the Safe Streets For All task force and newly identified transportation safety",
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          "text": "of your big rocks.",
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          "text": "However, the community needs action urgently, and many of the projects identified",
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          "text": "in the Safe Streets For All work would improve safety for school",
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          "text": "on page forty-five of your packet.",
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          "index": 573,
          "text": "If you don't give Public Works",
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          "text": "a direction about these safety projects for the twenty-seven to twenty-nine",
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          "text": "budget, it is likely that we would have to wait another two years to realize any",
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          "text": "movement on any of the newly identified projects, so you must",
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          "text": "act early in twenty-twenty-six in order to meet the budgeting",
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          "index": 578,
          "text": "window. The proposed timeline gives council enough time to",
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          "index": 579,
          "text": "deliberate, provide direction to Public Works, and for Public Works to",
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          "text": "develop and cost out projects for the twenty-seven, twenty-nine",
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        {
          "index": 581,
          "text": "budgeting.",
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          "index": 582,
          "text": "The low and mid complexity projects could be paid for in the street",
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          "text": "fund, which currently has a balance of over thirty-five million",
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        {
          "index": 584,
          "text": "dollars. Pages forty-six to forty-eight give examples",
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        {
          "index": 585,
          "text": "of similar small-scale, non-recurring street fund projects from",
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          "endTime": "00:34:36,004"
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        {
          "index": 586,
          "text": "prior budgets similar to those projects identified by the Safe Streets For",
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        {
          "index": 587,
          "text": "All consultants.",
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        {
          "index": 588,
          "text": "Mayor and council, please add the discussion about Safe Streets For All road safety",
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        {
          "index": 589,
          "text": "improvements to your agenda quickly.",
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        {
          "index": 590,
          "text": "A majority of council has already publicly stated that they support safer",
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          "text": "streets, and I'm asking for a commitment from that majority to support improved",
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          "text": "safety before the expiration of your elected terms this year, not just for",
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        {
          "index": 593,
          "text": "Walnut, but also for Ninth, for Circle, and for other roads in the city which are",
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          "text": "identified in those reports. So please consider the proposed timeline and",
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          "text": "move your discussion about road safety projects onto your twenty-twenty six agenda",
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          "index": 596,
          "text": "with urgency. As always, thank you for your",
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        {
          "index": 597,
          "text": "service.",
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        {
          "index": 598,
          "text": "Thank you very much.",
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          "endTime": "00:35:19,424"
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        {
          "index": 599,
          "text": "Up next I have Amanda Bressler.",
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          "endTime": "00:35:26,204"
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        {
          "index": 600,
          "text": "And please, anybody, if I mispronounce your name, just correct me.",
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        {
          "index": 601,
          "text": "Okay, yes. It's Amanda Bressler. I'm a resident of Ward",
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          "index": 602,
          "text": "Eight. Community members who live and work along the Walnut",
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          "endTime": "00:35:38,004"
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          "index": 603,
          "text": "corridor, some of whom are in attendance tonight, have come together to create",
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          "text": "Safer Walnut, a grassroots effort to advocate for increased safety",
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          "endTime": "00:35:45,344"
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          "index": 605,
          "text": "measures along Walnut Bor- Boulevard.",
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          "text": "You can find us online at saferwalnut.org.",
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          "text": "Our first action was to circulate a petition calling on the city to plan and fund",
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          "endTime": "00:35:54,444"
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          "text": "changes to Walnut Boulevard that will reduce speeds and increase",
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        {
          "index": 609,
          "text": "safety and usability, improve quality of life in North and Northwest",
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        {
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          "text": "Corvallis, and help the city meet its strategic",
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          "text": "priorities. Over the past several weeks, our petition has",
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          "text": "collected two hundred and forty-five signatures and counting, and I've shared a",
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        {
          "index": 613,
          "text": "link to that petition with counselors via your city emails.",
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        {
          "index": 614,
          "text": "In your Thursday work session, you'll see a presentation from, of the",
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        {
          "index": 615,
          "text": "city's Transportation Safety Action Plan, or TSAP.",
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          "index": 616,
          "text": "Safe Streets and Roads For All task force has unanimously",
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          "endTime": "00:36:27,824"
        },
        {
          "index": 617,
          "text": "recommended that, quote, \"Coun- Council prioritize funding and",
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          "endTime": "00:36:31,614"
        },
        {
          "index": 618,
          "text": "construction of the safety enhancements identified in the TSAP such that the",
          "startTime": "00:36:31,664",
          "endTime": "00:36:35,244"
        },
        {
          "index": 619,
          "text": "treatments are prioritized to the fullest extent",
          "startTime": "00:36:35,264",
          "endTime": "00:36:37,753"
        },
        {
          "index": 620,
          "text": "possible.\" There is a Walnut-specific road safety",
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          "endTime": "00:36:41,584"
        },
        {
          "index": 621,
          "text": "audit in the task force's report, and we at",
          "startTime": "00:36:41,664",
          "endTime": "00:36:45,484"
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        {
          "index": 622,
          "text": "Safer Walnut we're happy to see many options for changes that would increase",
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          "endTime": "00:36:49,304"
        },
        {
          "index": 623,
          "text": "safety for all on Walnut Boulevard.",
          "startTime": "00:36:49,384",
          "endTime": "00:36:51,244"
        },
        {
          "index": 624,
          "text": "Some low and medium complexity solutions we expe-especially expect",
          "startTime": "00:36:52,144",
          "endTime": "00:36:56,004"
        },
        {
          "index": 625,
          "text": "to see implemented in the short term include buffered bike lanes between Jack",
          "startTime": "00:36:56,064",
          "endTime": "00:36:59,784"
        },
        {
          "index": 626,
          "text": "London and Circle to keep cyclists safe.Pedestrian exclusive",
          "startTime": "00:36:59,804",
          "endTime": "00:37:03,676"
        },
        {
          "index": 627,
          "text": "phases at intersections to reduce conflict between pedestrians and",
          "startTime": "00:37:03,756",
          "endTime": "00:37:07,486"
        },
        {
          "index": 628,
          "text": "cars, curb extensions at the Witham Hill Walnut intersection",
          "startTime": "00:37:07,576",
          "endTime": "00:37:11,476"
        },
        {
          "index": 629,
          "text": "to shorten crossing distances and increase crossings throughout the",
          "startTime": "00:37:11,536",
          "endTime": "00:37:15,196"
        },
        {
          "index": 630,
          "text": "corridor to align with neighborhood bikeways and bus stops and",
          "startTime": "00:37:15,256",
          "endTime": "00:37:18,866"
        },
        {
          "index": 631,
          "text": "discourage dangerous crossings betweens, between the intersections that are very",
          "startTime": "00:37:18,876",
          "endTime": "00:37:22,336"
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        {
          "index": 632,
          "text": "far apart on Walnut. We feel that near-term change is",
          "startTime": "00:37:22,376",
          "endTime": "00:37:25,946"
        },
        {
          "index": 633,
          "text": "necessary and possible by focusing on some of these high-impact, low to",
          "startTime": "00:37:25,996",
          "endTime": "00:37:29,836"
        },
        {
          "index": 634,
          "text": "medium complexity interventions.",
          "startTime": "00:37:29,876",
          "endTime": "00:37:32,036"
        },
        {
          "index": 635,
          "text": "Here are a few of the high complexity projects that we're especially in support of",
          "startTime": "00:37:32,076",
          "endTime": "00:37:35,956"
        },
        {
          "index": 636,
          "text": "and will be keeping an eye on, that we realize will take more time to fund and",
          "startTime": "00:37:35,965",
          "endTime": "00:37:38,726"
        },
        {
          "index": 637,
          "text": "implement. Protected bike lanes along the corridor with physical",
          "startTime": "00:37:38,756",
          "endTime": "00:37:42,616"
        },
        {
          "index": 638,
          "text": "separation from car traffic lanes in the form of vertical barriers, especially in",
          "startTime": "00:37:42,716",
          "endTime": "00:37:46,696"
        },
        {
          "index": 639,
          "text": "areas that represent a high risk to cyclists or are necessary for safe",
          "startTime": "00:37:46,756",
          "endTime": "00:37:50,496"
        },
        {
          "index": 640,
          "text": "road, safe routes to school. Addition of pedestrian",
          "startTime": "00:37:50,596",
          "endTime": "00:37:54,096"
        },
        {
          "index": 641,
          "text": "refuges or islands at Jack London, Twenty-fifth Street and between",
          "startTime": "00:37:54,156",
          "endTime": "00:37:57,916"
        },
        {
          "index": 642,
          "text": "Twenty-ninth and Aspen, and protected intersections or roundabouts at",
          "startTime": "00:37:57,956",
          "endTime": "00:38:01,716"
        },
        {
          "index": 643,
          "text": "Highland and Walnut and at Kings and Walnut.",
          "startTime": "00:38:01,796",
          "endTime": "00:38:04,396"
        },
        {
          "index": 644,
          "text": "Safer Walnut is asking for a commitment from the city to implement some low",
          "startTime": "00:38:05,516",
          "endTime": "00:38:09,376"
        },
        {
          "index": 645,
          "text": "to medium complexity, but high impact changes on Walnut as soon as",
          "startTime": "00:38:09,456",
          "endTime": "00:38:12,456"
        },
        {
          "index": 646,
          "text": "possible, while planning for the larger, long-term, more transformative",
          "startTime": "00:38:12,496",
          "endTime": "00:38:16,466"
        },
        {
          "index": 647,
          "text": "changes, and to add those to the city's capital improvement plan",
          "startTime": "00:38:16,536",
          "endTime": "00:38:20,456"
        },
        {
          "index": 648,
          "text": "and the twenty twenty-seven to twenty-nine biennial budget.",
          "startTime": "00:38:20,796",
          "endTime": "00:38:23,816"
        },
        {
          "index": 649,
          "text": "Thank you.",
          "startTime": "00:38:23,856",
          "endTime": "00:38:25,176"
        },
        {
          "index": 650,
          "text": "Thank you very much.",
          "startTime": "00:38:25,216",
          "endTime": "00:38:27,596"
        },
        {
          "index": 651,
          "text": "Up next, we have Daniel",
          "startTime": "00:38:28,556",
          "endTime": "00:38:29,336"
        },
        {
          "index": 652,
          "text": "Chambers.",
          "startTime": "00:38:29,396",
          "endTime": "00:38:35,376"
        },
        {
          "index": 653,
          "text": "Good evening, mayor and council. My name is Daniel Chambers from Ward",
          "startTime": "00:38:39,696",
          "endTime": "00:38:42,756"
        },
        {
          "index": 654,
          "text": "Seven. I wanted to speak to you tonight about a",
          "startTime": "00:38:42,796",
          "endTime": "00:38:46,516"
        },
        {
          "index": 655,
          "text": "topic on the agenda, which is the ICE resolution, of which I am one of",
          "startTime": "00:38:46,556",
          "endTime": "00:38:50,536"
        },
        {
          "index": 656,
          "text": "the authors. Of course, it had many contributors",
          "startTime": "00:38:50,596",
          "endTime": "00:38:53,216"
        },
        {
          "index": 657,
          "text": "for whom I'm very grateful. I wanted to",
          "startTime": "00:38:54,996",
          "endTime": "00:38:58,826"
        },
        {
          "index": 658,
          "text": "encourage you tonight",
          "startTime": "00:38:58,856",
          "endTime": "00:38:59,876"
        },
        {
          "index": 659,
          "text": "to use your powers as legislators to pass this",
          "startTime": "00:39:02,176",
          "endTime": "00:39:05,576"
        },
        {
          "index": 660,
          "text": "resolution by whatever means you need",
          "startTime": "00:39:05,616",
          "endTime": "00:39:08,466"
        },
        {
          "index": 661,
          "text": "to. Whether you need, you feel the need to strike something",
          "startTime": "00:39:08,516",
          "endTime": "00:39:12,356"
        },
        {
          "index": 662,
          "text": "because it feels inappropriate",
          "startTime": "00:39:12,396",
          "endTime": "00:39:13,676"
        },
        {
          "index": 663,
          "text": "or add something that is clearly missing, I invite you to do",
          "startTime": "00:39:16,376",
          "endTime": "00:39:20,076"
        },
        {
          "index": 664,
          "text": "so, to use your powers. This resolution will",
          "startTime": "00:39:20,216",
          "endTime": "00:39:24,186"
        },
        {
          "index": 665,
          "text": "protect the most vulnerable members of our community",
          "startTime": "00:39:24,216",
          "endTime": "00:39:26,906"
        },
        {
          "index": 666,
          "text": "who don't have the opportunity to be here tonight to advocate for",
          "startTime": "00:39:29,236",
          "endTime": "00:39:32,316"
        },
        {
          "index": 667,
          "text": "themselves, who are scared.",
          "startTime": "00:39:32,356",
          "endTime": "00:39:35,996"
        },
        {
          "index": 668,
          "text": "I've done my homework on the resolution to the best of my ability.",
          "startTime": "00:39:37,416",
          "endTime": "00:39:40,565"
        },
        {
          "index": 669,
          "text": "I've sought a lot of input, for which I'm very grateful, especially from the city",
          "startTime": "00:39:40,616",
          "endTime": "00:39:43,876"
        },
        {
          "index": 670,
          "text": "manager and city attorney, from Councilor Cadena.",
          "startTime": "00:39:43,936",
          "endTime": "00:39:46,976"
        },
        {
          "index": 671,
          "text": "And of course, I'm extremely grateful to Mayor Monn and Councilor Olsen",
          "startTime": "00:39:46,986",
          "endTime": "00:39:50,416"
        },
        {
          "index": 672,
          "text": "for their support in this",
          "startTime": "00:39:50,936",
          "endTime": "00:39:52,356"
        },
        {
          "index": 673,
          "text": "resolution.",
          "startTime": "00:39:52,376",
          "endTime": "00:39:55,056"
        },
        {
          "index": 674,
          "text": "I wanted to mention",
          "startTime": "00:39:57,256",
          "endTime": "00:39:58,056"
        },
        {
          "index": 675,
          "text": "that many of you know this, but I'm originally from Oklahoma.",
          "startTime": "00:39:59,936",
          "endTime": "00:40:02,776"
        },
        {
          "index": 676,
          "text": "I moved here a couple of years ago now, and I'm a very proud Corvallis",
          "startTime": "00:40:02,845",
          "endTime": "00:40:05,816"
        },
        {
          "index": 677,
          "text": "resident, and I'm even more proud hearing what other people in our",
          "startTime": "00:40:05,876",
          "endTime": "00:40:09,456"
        },
        {
          "index": 678,
          "text": "commun- our community are doing.",
          "startTime": "00:40:09,476",
          "endTime": "00:40:12,116"
        },
        {
          "index": 679,
          "text": "It's one of the things that makes this place special.",
          "startTime": "00:40:13,196",
          "endTime": "00:40:15,996"
        },
        {
          "index": 680,
          "text": "But I'm originally from Oklahoma, and in Oklahoma, we get a lot of",
          "startTime": "00:40:16,036",
          "endTime": "00:40:18,936"
        },
        {
          "index": 681,
          "text": "tornadoes. Right now,",
          "startTime": "00:40:18,976",
          "endTime": "00:40:22,096"
        },
        {
          "index": 682,
          "text": "council, we are in the eye of a",
          "startTime": "00:40:22,136",
          "endTime": "00:40:24,856"
        },
        {
          "index": 683,
          "text": "tornado. It touched down around us without us",
          "startTime": "00:40:24,896",
          "endTime": "00:40:28,436"
        },
        {
          "index": 684,
          "text": "really noticing, and it'd be really easy to miss.",
          "startTime": "00:40:28,716",
          "endTime": "00:40:32,416"
        },
        {
          "index": 685,
          "text": "But right now, all around us,",
          "startTime": "00:40:32,836",
          "endTime": "00:40:35,556"
        },
        {
          "index": 686,
          "text": "Immigration and Customs Enforcement is in full force in Portland,",
          "startTime": "00:40:36,736",
          "endTime": "00:40:40,696"
        },
        {
          "index": 687,
          "text": "down in Eugene, Newport,",
          "startTime": "00:40:40,756",
          "endTime": "00:40:42,596"
        },
        {
          "index": 688,
          "text": "in Hillsboro. We've been lucky to avoid the brunt of the winds so",
          "startTime": "00:40:43,736",
          "endTime": "00:40:47,546"
        },
        {
          "index": 689,
          "text": "far, despite a few scares.",
          "startTime": "00:40:47,716",
          "endTime": "00:40:50,416"
        },
        {
          "index": 690,
          "text": "Now, back in Oklahoma, we have a bad habit of instead",
          "startTime": "00:40:51,536",
          "endTime": "00:40:55,396"
        },
        {
          "index": 691,
          "text": "of going inside and seeking shelter, we'll grab our lawn chairs instead, and",
          "startTime": "00:40:55,436",
          "endTime": "00:40:59,306"
        },
        {
          "index": 692,
          "text": "we'll sit out on our front lawns to watch the tornado as it",
          "startTime": "00:40:59,316",
          "endTime": "00:41:02,166"
        },
        {
          "index": 693,
          "text": "passes.",
          "startTime": "00:41:02,196",
          "endTime": "00:41:03,316"
        },
        {
          "index": 694,
          "text": "I'm here to tell you that we do not have...",
          "startTime": "00:41:04,466",
          "endTime": "00:41:07,586"
        },
        {
          "index": 695,
          "text": "We fortunately",
          "startTime": "00:41:07,616",
          "endTime": "00:41:08,266"
        },
        {
          "index": 696,
          "text": "don't have lawn chairs or tornadoes.",
          "startTime": "00:41:09,096",
          "endTime": "00:41:11,836"
        },
        {
          "index": 697,
          "text": "We do not have tornadoes to bring out our lawn chairs for, but we can't afford",
          "startTime": "00:41:11,876",
          "endTime": "00:41:15,796"
        },
        {
          "index": 698,
          "text": "to sit around as people are kidnapped, as forty",
          "startTime": "00:41:15,816",
          "endTime": "00:41:19,576"
        },
        {
          "index": 699,
          "text": "billion dollars in Nav-Navy contracts are available",
          "startTime": "00:41:19,656",
          "endTime": "00:41:23,535"
        },
        {
          "index": 700,
          "text": "for ICE to build facilities anywhere they choose without anyone knowing or",
          "startTime": "00:41:24,035",
          "endTime": "00:41:27,976"
        },
        {
          "index": 701,
          "text": "having the ability to comment.",
          "startTime": "00:41:28,016",
          "endTime": "00:41:31,396"
        },
        {
          "index": 702,
          "text": "So, council, I urge you, please edit and or pass this",
          "startTime": "00:41:32,216",
          "endTime": "00:41:35,846"
        },
        {
          "index": 703,
          "text": "resolution tonight, and thank you very much for your time and your",
          "startTime": "00:41:35,856",
          "endTime": "00:41:38,876"
        },
        {
          "index": 704,
          "text": "service.",
          "startTime": "00:41:38,896",
          "endTime": "00:41:40,856"
        },
        {
          "index": 705,
          "text": "Thank you. Good timing.",
          "startTime": "00:41:40,916",
          "endTime": "00:41:43,876"
        },
        {
          "index": 706,
          "text": "Next, I have, Tyler",
          "startTime": "00:41:44,876",
          "endTime": "00:41:45,896"
        },
        {
          "index": 707,
          "text": "Wilson.",
          "startTime": "00:41:45,976",
          "endTime": "00:41:49,836"
        },
        {
          "index": 708,
          "text": "All right. I'm Tyler Wilson. I am a resident in",
          "startTime": "00:41:52,176",
          "endTime": "00:41:55,996"
        },
        {
          "index": 709,
          "text": "Ward Five, and I work at Bessie Coleman Elementary.",
          "startTime": "00:41:56,076",
          "endTime": "00:41:59,816"
        },
        {
          "index": 710,
          "text": "I'm a fifth-grade teacher there. I'm an avid, bike commuter, and I'm",
          "startTime": "00:41:59,856",
          "endTime": "00:42:03,776"
        },
        {
          "index": 711,
          "text": "here to advocate for safer infrastructure on Walnut",
          "startTime": "00:42:03,856",
          "endTime": "00:42:07,376"
        },
        {
          "index": 712,
          "text": "Boulevard. So",
          "startTime": "00:42:07,456",
          "endTime": "00:42:08,436"
        },
        {
          "index": 713,
          "text": "one of the things I've been thinking about when I'm thinking about commuting is",
          "startTime": "00:42:09,376",
          "endTime": "00:42:12,066"
        },
        {
          "index": 714,
          "text": "that generally people can be kinda lazy.",
          "startTime": "00:42:12,116",
          "endTime": "00:42:15,366"
        },
        {
          "index": 715,
          "text": "And what I was thinking about when I mean lazy is people often choose the easiest",
          "startTime": "00:42:15,376",
          "endTime": "00:42:19,136"
        },
        {
          "index": 716,
          "text": "way to travel to a location. So if you are",
          "startTime": "00:42:19,256",
          "endTime": "00:42:23,096"
        },
        {
          "index": 717,
          "text": "traveling to OSU, for example, you",
          "startTime": "00:42:23,216",
          "endTime": "00:42:25,156"
        },
        {
          "index": 718,
          "text": "might be more inclined to walk or bike or take public transit",
          "startTime": "00:42:25,956",
          "endTime": "00:42:29,876"
        },
        {
          "index": 719,
          "text": "because it's hard to drive there. It's hard to park.",
          "startTime": "00:42:29,896",
          "endTime": "00:42:32,796"
        },
        {
          "index": 720,
          "text": "But with the rest of town, the it's easier to, to drive",
          "startTime": "00:42:32,816",
          "endTime": "00:42:36,736"
        },
        {
          "index": 721,
          "text": "to a lot of those locations, including Bessie Coleman Elementary.",
          "startTime": "00:42:36,776",
          "endTime": "00:42:40,346"
        },
        {
          "index": 722,
          "text": "Um, a lot of the families, though, who go to school at",
          "startTime": "00:42:40,436",
          "endTime": "00:42:44,166"
        },
        {
          "index": 723,
          "text": "Bessie Coleman live close enough where they could easily walk or bike to",
          "startTime": "00:42:44,176",
          "endTime": "00:42:47,816"
        },
        {
          "index": 724,
          "text": "school, and that's one of the things that I love about working there.",
          "startTime": "00:42:47,836",
          "endTime": "00:42:51,656"
        },
        {
          "index": 725,
          "text": "However, there are still many families that don't walk or bike",
          "startTime": "00:42:51,696",
          "endTime": "00:42:55,656"
        },
        {
          "index": 726,
          "text": "to school because they, they, there, there's this, there,",
          "startTime": "00:42:55,666",
          "endTime": "00:42:59,546"
        },
        {
          "index": 727,
          "text": "there's a fear of safety, safety concerns related to Walnut",
          "startTime": "00:42:59,576",
          "endTime": "00:43:03,176"
        },
        {
          "index": 728,
          "text": "Boulevard and other streets in the area.",
          "startTime": "00:43:03,196",
          "endTime": "00:43:05,356"
        },
        {
          "index": 729,
          "text": "And I can, I can see that firsthand too.",
          "startTime": "00:43:05,956",
          "endTime": "00:43:07,976"
        },
        {
          "index": 730,
          "text": "I, I bike commute to school every day.",
          "startTime": "00:43:08,016",
          "endTime": "00:43:10,376"
        },
        {
          "index": 731,
          "text": "I ride, I ride my bike on Walnut. I have to turn left",
          "startTime": "00:43:10,456",
          "endTime": "00:43:13,276"
        },
        {
          "index": 732,
          "text": "acrossFour lanes of traffic, and",
          "startTime": "00:43:13,336",
          "endTime": "00:43:17,054"
        },
        {
          "index": 733,
          "text": "so I, I understand the concerns. Um, one of the things",
          "startTime": "00:43:17,384",
          "endTime": "00:43:21,374"
        },
        {
          "index": 734,
          "text": "that I did recently at Bessie Coleman was started a walk and roll to school",
          "startTime": "00:43:21,424",
          "endTime": "00:43:24,844"
        },
        {
          "index": 735,
          "text": "day. And the idea of that is that we me-meet at the park",
          "startTime": "00:43:24,884",
          "endTime": "00:43:28,284"
        },
        {
          "index": 736,
          "text": "and we travel together as a group, students,",
          "startTime": "00:43:28,904",
          "endTime": "00:43:32,284"
        },
        {
          "index": 737,
          "text": "parents, any teachers, staff members that want to join,",
          "startTime": "00:43:32,344",
          "endTime": "00:43:36,264"
        },
        {
          "index": 738,
          "text": "and we travel together to school, safety in numbers.",
          "startTime": "00:43:36,344",
          "endTime": "00:43:40,184"
        },
        {
          "index": 739,
          "text": "And one of the parks that we met at was at, MLK Park,",
          "startTime": "00:43:40,204",
          "endTime": "00:43:44,044"
        },
        {
          "index": 740,
          "text": "and then the route from there is straight down Walnut.",
          "startTime": "00:43:44,104",
          "endTime": "00:43:47,124"
        },
        {
          "index": 741,
          "text": "And when I was creating that route, I wanted to create a route for people who live",
          "startTime": "00:43:47,164",
          "endTime": "00:43:50,384"
        },
        {
          "index": 742,
          "text": "in that part of the, of the school area, so they could get to",
          "startTime": "00:43:50,424",
          "endTime": "00:43:53,584"
        },
        {
          "index": 743,
          "text": "school. But I was a little bit torn about the route creation",
          "startTime": "00:43:53,624",
          "endTime": "00:43:57,264"
        },
        {
          "index": 744,
          "text": "because",
          "startTime": "00:43:57,344",
          "endTime": "00:43:57,704"
        },
        {
          "index": 745,
          "text": "do you go in the bike lane where you're closer to traffic?",
          "startTime": "00:43:58,624",
          "endTime": "00:44:01,144"
        },
        {
          "index": 746,
          "text": "Do you go on the sidewalk? It's kind of a confusing area because there's a bike",
          "startTime": "00:44:01,184",
          "endTime": "00:44:04,744"
        },
        {
          "index": 747,
          "text": "path that comes up Fifty-Third and it just ends.",
          "startTime": "00:44:04,824",
          "endTime": "00:44:07,764"
        },
        {
          "index": 748,
          "text": "And so the way we made it work is we had lots of parent volunteers",
          "startTime": "00:44:07,824",
          "endTime": "00:44:11,774"
        },
        {
          "index": 749,
          "text": "at intersections to make sure that it was safe.",
          "startTime": "00:44:11,804",
          "endTime": "00:44:14,204"
        },
        {
          "index": 750,
          "text": "Um, and one of my goals going forward though is that I, I would like that to",
          "startTime": "00:44:14,304",
          "endTime": "00:44:18,284"
        },
        {
          "index": 751,
          "text": "be something that, that kids and families feel like they can do even",
          "startTime": "00:44:18,324",
          "endTime": "00:44:22,284"
        },
        {
          "index": 752,
          "text": "without an event. But at this point, that's gonna require",
          "startTime": "00:44:22,304",
          "endTime": "00:44:26,224"
        },
        {
          "index": 753,
          "text": "some more infrastructure changes to Walnut Boulevard, things that some of,",
          "startTime": "00:44:26,264",
          "endTime": "00:44:30,084"
        },
        {
          "index": 754,
          "text": "some of the earlier commenters talked about, protected bike",
          "startTime": "00:44:30,564",
          "endTime": "00:44:33,364"
        },
        {
          "index": 755,
          "text": "lanes, a turning lane close to the school, something to slow",
          "startTime": "00:44:33,424",
          "endTime": "00:44:37,384"
        },
        {
          "index": 756,
          "text": "traffic down. Um, and I think",
          "startTime": "00:44:37,424",
          "endTime": "00:44:41,304"
        },
        {
          "index": 757,
          "text": "the issues will become even more next year when there's more than a hundred more",
          "startTime": "00:44:41,314",
          "endTime": "00:44:44,824"
        },
        {
          "index": 758,
          "text": "students at the school. Right now, it's-- there's already a lot of traffic at the",
          "startTime": "00:44:44,904",
          "endTime": "00:44:48,604"
        },
        {
          "index": 759,
          "text": "end of the school day, so that's something that I'm concerned about going forward.",
          "startTime": "00:44:48,644",
          "endTime": "00:44:52,584"
        },
        {
          "index": 760,
          "text": "So, yeah. Thank you.",
          "startTime": "00:44:52,624",
          "endTime": "00:44:55,344"
        },
        {
          "index": 761,
          "text": "Thank you.",
          "startTime": "00:44:55,364",
          "endTime": "00:44:57,284"
        },
        {
          "index": 762,
          "text": "Mayor, I have a question.",
          "startTime": "00:44:59,484",
          "endTime": "00:45:01,244"
        },
        {
          "index": 763,
          "text": "Oh, go ahead.",
          "startTime": "00:45:01,284",
          "endTime": "00:45:02,484"
        },
        {
          "index": 764,
          "text": "Um, Tyler, generally we-- you, you, you wait for questions, so you would",
          "startTime": "00:45:02,584",
          "endTime": "00:45:06,574"
        },
        {
          "index": 765,
          "text": "know one's had one yet. Um, how many parents are",
          "startTime": "00:45:06,574",
          "endTime": "00:45:10,164"
        },
        {
          "index": 766,
          "text": "dropping their kids off rather than having them walk or ride to school?",
          "startTime": "00:45:10,204",
          "endTime": "00:45:13,704"
        },
        {
          "index": 767,
          "text": "Because I know at CHS, parent drop-off is a",
          "startTime": "00:45:13,724",
          "endTime": "00:45:16,364"
        },
        {
          "index": 768,
          "text": "nightmare.",
          "startTime": "00:45:16,404",
          "endTime": "00:45:17,804"
        },
        {
          "index": 769,
          "text": "The, I don't have an exact number, but it, it's a lot.",
          "startTime": "00:45:17,844",
          "endTime": "00:45:21,244"
        },
        {
          "index": 770,
          "text": "So our parking lot every day, I, I mean, I'm there for, for drop-off with my",
          "startTime": "00:45:21,304",
          "endTime": "00:45:24,923"
        },
        {
          "index": 771,
          "text": "students, and it fills up every day with the current number of students that we",
          "startTime": "00:45:24,964",
          "endTime": "00:45:28,144"
        },
        {
          "index": 772,
          "text": "have, especially on days when it's rainy or cold.",
          "startTime": "00:45:28,204",
          "endTime": "00:45:31,624"
        },
        {
          "index": 773,
          "text": "Um, in the fall and the spring, a lot more people will walk and bike",
          "startTime": "00:45:32,264",
          "endTime": "00:45:35,484"
        },
        {
          "index": 774,
          "text": "and, but the bike racks are ver-rarely full.",
          "startTime": "00:45:36,024",
          "endTime": "00:45:38,444"
        },
        {
          "index": 775,
          "text": "Only when we have our bike education week, that, that, those two weeks I saw",
          "startTime": "00:45:38,764",
          "endTime": "00:45:42,724"
        },
        {
          "index": 776,
          "text": "the bike racks full. Um, but,",
          "startTime": "00:45:42,764",
          "endTime": "00:45:45,004"
        },
        {
          "index": 777,
          "text": "yeah, it's, traffic is an issue right now because",
          "startTime": "00:45:46,424",
          "endTime": "00:45:49,804"
        },
        {
          "index": 778,
          "text": "it's, because of those, reasons that I listed.",
          "startTime": "00:45:49,864",
          "endTime": "00:45:53,564"
        },
        {
          "index": 779,
          "text": "Thank you.",
          "startTime": "00:45:55,284",
          "endTime": "00:45:57,544"
        },
        {
          "index": 780,
          "text": "Sam",
          "startTime": "00:45:58,584",
          "endTime": "00:45:58,844"
        },
        {
          "index": 781,
          "text": "Hoskinson.",
          "startTime": "00:45:59,124",
          "endTime": "00:46:04,484"
        },
        {
          "index": 782,
          "text": "I'm supposed to press the green button. Is that the word?",
          "startTime": "00:46:08,964",
          "endTime": "00:46:11,204"
        },
        {
          "index": 783,
          "text": "It'll, it'll, it'll turn on for you. You're good.",
          "startTime": "00:46:11,254",
          "endTime": "00:46:13,264"
        },
        {
          "index": 784,
          "text": "Oh, okay.",
          "startTime": "00:46:13,344",
          "endTime": "00:46:15,064"
        },
        {
          "index": 785,
          "text": "Whenever you're ready.",
          "startTime": "00:46:15,104",
          "endTime": "00:46:15,824"
        },
        {
          "index": 786,
          "text": "Well, my name's Sam Hoskinson. I live in Ward",
          "startTime": "00:46:15,864",
          "endTime": "00:46:18,484"
        },
        {
          "index": 787,
          "text": "Four. Um, I'm here to talk",
          "startTime": "00:46:18,684",
          "endTime": "00:46:22,464"
        },
        {
          "index": 788,
          "text": "about the MUPTA approval. I think that's on",
          "startTime": "00:46:22,544",
          "endTime": "00:46:26,484"
        },
        {
          "index": 789,
          "text": "the agenda tonight. Um,",
          "startTime": "00:46:26,524",
          "endTime": "00:46:28,993"
        },
        {
          "index": 790,
          "text": "the... I can see at least, think",
          "startTime": "00:46:29,104",
          "endTime": "00:46:33,064"
        },
        {
          "index": 791,
          "text": "of at least two ways you might be able to deny this",
          "startTime": "00:46:33,104",
          "endTime": "00:46:36,484"
        },
        {
          "index": 792,
          "text": "horrible, development that's being",
          "startTime": "00:46:36,524",
          "endTime": "00:46:40,304"
        },
        {
          "index": 793,
          "text": "proposed. Um, the first one would be fairly",
          "startTime": "00:46:40,404",
          "endTime": "00:46:43,924"
        },
        {
          "index": 794,
          "text": "simple. The order of the MUPTA",
          "startTime": "00:46:44,004",
          "endTime": "00:46:47,604"
        },
        {
          "index": 795,
          "text": "approval and the regular LDC code approvals has been",
          "startTime": "00:46:47,624",
          "endTime": "00:46:51,604"
        },
        {
          "index": 796,
          "text": "swapped from the last, episode where",
          "startTime": "00:46:51,684",
          "endTime": "00:46:55,604"
        },
        {
          "index": 797,
          "text": "you approved the one over on the riverfront.",
          "startTime": "00:46:55,784",
          "endTime": "00:46:58,444"
        },
        {
          "index": 798,
          "text": "And in this case, no land",
          "startTime": "00:46:58,584",
          "endTime": "00:47:02,204"
        },
        {
          "index": 799,
          "text": "use, public hearings or anything like that has taken place,",
          "startTime": "00:47:02,284",
          "endTime": "00:47:05,824"
        },
        {
          "index": 800,
          "text": "and nothing has been granted as far as height",
          "startTime": "00:47:06,404",
          "endTime": "00:47:09,844"
        },
        {
          "index": 801,
          "text": "adjustments or anything like that.",
          "startTime": "00:47:10,304",
          "endTime": "00:47:12,444"
        },
        {
          "index": 802,
          "text": "But the proposal that you're going to get is",
          "startTime": "00:47:12,464",
          "endTime": "00:47:16,384"
        },
        {
          "index": 803,
          "text": "for an hundred and forty-four foot building.",
          "startTime": "00:47:16,444",
          "endTime": "00:47:19,704"
        },
        {
          "index": 804,
          "text": "The current approval for a",
          "startTime": "00:47:19,764",
          "endTime": "00:47:23,704"
        },
        {
          "index": 805,
          "text": "mixed use is like a hundred and five foot.",
          "startTime": "00:47:24,064",
          "endTime": "00:47:27,124"
        },
        {
          "index": 806,
          "text": "They give you a bonus eighteen, so they really only have",
          "startTime": "00:47:27,164",
          "endTime": "00:47:30,374"
        },
        {
          "index": 807,
          "text": "permission for a hundred and twenty-three feet.",
          "startTime": "00:47:30,384",
          "endTime": "00:47:33,584"
        },
        {
          "index": 808,
          "text": "So the packet that you get is going to be",
          "startTime": "00:47:33,624",
          "endTime": "00:47:36,764"
        },
        {
          "index": 809,
          "text": "asking for a higher building than they",
          "startTime": "00:47:37,544",
          "endTime": "00:47:41,384"
        },
        {
          "index": 810,
          "text": "actually have, and I really feel that if you guys go ahead and approve",
          "startTime": "00:47:41,504",
          "endTime": "00:47:44,944"
        },
        {
          "index": 811,
          "text": "that ahead of time, it's going to prejudice",
          "startTime": "00:47:44,954",
          "endTime": "00:47:48,644"
        },
        {
          "index": 812,
          "text": "any land use of as far as being able",
          "startTime": "00:47:48,654",
          "endTime": "00:47:51,964"
        },
        {
          "index": 813,
          "text": "to not grant that twenty-one foot.",
          "startTime": "00:47:52,024",
          "endTime": "00:47:54,864"
        },
        {
          "index": 814,
          "text": "Uh, the second one, you guys are one",
          "startTime": "00:47:55,664",
          "endTime": "00:47:59,564"
        },
        {
          "index": 815,
          "text": "of the",
          "startTime": "00:47:59,624",
          "endTime": "00:48:00,064"
        },
        {
          "index": 816,
          "text": "line items, I think it's eight nineteen O two",
          "startTime": "00:48:00,944",
          "endTime": "00:48:04,853"
        },
        {
          "index": 817,
          "text": "O J. You are a city council",
          "startTime": "00:48:04,964",
          "endTime": "00:48:08,284"
        },
        {
          "index": 818,
          "text": "tasked with deciding that the",
          "startTime": "00:48:08,424",
          "endTime": "00:48:11,884"
        },
        {
          "index": 819,
          "text": "benefits of the proposed building",
          "startTime": "00:48:11,924",
          "endTime": "00:48:15,764"
        },
        {
          "index": 820,
          "text": "outweigh the costs of the,",
          "startTime": "00:48:15,844",
          "endTime": "00:48:18,464"
        },
        {
          "index": 821,
          "text": "you giving them thirteen million dollars to build this thing.",
          "startTime": "00:48:19,984",
          "endTime": "00:48:23,684"
        },
        {
          "index": 822,
          "text": "Okay? So the revenue, thirteen million dollars paid to the",
          "startTime": "00:48:23,744",
          "endTime": "00:48:27,044"
        },
        {
          "index": 823,
          "text": "developer out of our tax funds to create this",
          "startTime": "00:48:27,084",
          "endTime": "00:48:30,444"
        },
        {
          "index": 824,
          "text": "building. Um, the positive",
          "startTime": "00:48:30,484",
          "endTime": "00:48:33,744"
        },
        {
          "index": 825,
          "text": "benefits, they get to give ten percent of our",
          "startTime": "00:48:33,784",
          "endTime": "00:48:37,304"
        },
        {
          "index": 826,
          "text": "money, to donate to affordable housing since",
          "startTime": "00:48:37,314",
          "endTime": "00:48:41,294"
        },
        {
          "index": 827,
          "text": "they have absolutely no interest in building affordable housing",
          "startTime": "00:48:41,344",
          "endTime": "00:48:44,944"
        },
        {
          "index": 828,
          "text": "themselves. Okay, they'll also give an",
          "startTime": "00:48:44,964",
          "endTime": "00:48:48,584"
        },
        {
          "index": 829,
          "text": "extra hundred thousand dollars for the",
          "startTime": "00:48:48,624",
          "endTime": "00:48:52,324"
        },
        {
          "index": 830,
          "text": "railroad, crossing improvement or something like that.",
          "startTime": "00:48:52,424",
          "endTime": "00:48:56,244"
        },
        {
          "index": 831,
          "text": "So that's, I guess that's positive benefits.",
          "startTime": "00:48:56,324",
          "endTime": "00:48:59,644"
        },
        {
          "index": 832,
          "text": "They're giving back some of the money that we're giving them to build this",
          "startTime": "00:48:59,664",
          "endTime": "00:49:03,184"
        },
        {
          "index": 833,
          "text": "monstrosity. Okay, but I'd like you to",
          "startTime": "00:49:03,204",
          "endTime": "00:49:07,124"
        },
        {
          "index": 834,
          "text": "think about benefits as going two directions.",
          "startTime": "00:49:07,184",
          "endTime": "00:49:10,784"
        },
        {
          "index": 835,
          "text": "There can be positive benefits and there can be",
          "startTime": "00:49:10,804",
          "endTime": "00:49:14,204"
        },
        {
          "index": 836,
          "text": "negative benefits, okay? The-That was three",
          "startTime": "00:49:14,324",
          "endTime": "00:49:18,208"
        },
        {
          "index": 837,
          "text": "minutes?",
          "startTime": "00:49:18,308",
          "endTime": "00:49:18,688"
        },
        {
          "index": 838,
          "text": "That was three minutes. It, it goes fast when you're sitting there.",
          "startTime": "00:49:18,728",
          "endTime": "00:49:21,448"
        },
        {
          "index": 839,
          "text": "I remember.",
          "startTime": "00:49:21,548",
          "endTime": "00:49:22,988"
        },
        {
          "index": 840,
          "text": "Okay. You guys have any questions?",
          "startTime": "00:49:23,088",
          "endTime": "00:49:26,108"
        },
        {
          "index": 841,
          "text": "I provided quite a bit of information in the cartoons and stuff that I",
          "startTime": "00:49:26,188",
          "endTime": "00:49:30,008"
        },
        {
          "index": 842,
          "text": "sent you.",
          "startTime": "00:49:30,048",
          "endTime": "00:49:30,728"
        },
        {
          "index": 843,
          "text": "Yeah. We did receive all that. Doesn't seem like there is.",
          "startTime": "00:49:30,768",
          "endTime": "00:49:33,508"
        },
        {
          "index": 844,
          "text": "Thank you very much for your time, and for submitting information in",
          "startTime": "00:49:33,548",
          "endTime": "00:49:37,348"
        },
        {
          "index": 845,
          "text": "advance.",
          "startTime": "00:49:37,408",
          "endTime": "00:49:38,468"
        },
        {
          "index": 846,
          "text": "Yeah. Thank you for not reading-",
          "startTime": "00:49:38,548",
          "endTime": "00:49:40,168"
        },
        {
          "index": 847,
          "text": "Appreciate it. I read it.",
          "startTime": "00:49:40,178",
          "endTime": "00:49:42,688"
        },
        {
          "index": 848,
          "text": "Up next, Mary Francis,",
          "startTime": "00:49:43,748",
          "endTime": "00:49:45,268"
        },
        {
          "index": 849,
          "text": "Campana.",
          "startTime": "00:49:45,768",
          "endTime": "00:49:49,727"
        },
        {
          "index": 850,
          "text": "Hello.",
          "startTime": "00:49:52,028",
          "endTime": "00:49:52,648"
        },
        {
          "index": 851,
          "text": "Um,",
          "startTime": "00:49:53,528",
          "endTime": "00:49:53,758"
        },
        {
          "index": 852,
          "text": "I'm here with the group that's concerned about Walnut",
          "startTime": "00:49:54,788",
          "endTime": "00:49:58,468"
        },
        {
          "index": 853,
          "text": "Boulevard.",
          "startTime": "00:49:58,548",
          "endTime": "00:49:59,168"
        },
        {
          "index": 854,
          "text": "I live on Walnut myself,",
          "startTime": "00:50:00,148",
          "endTime": "00:50:01,948"
        },
        {
          "index": 855,
          "text": "and",
          "startTime": "00:50:02,888",
          "endTime": "00:50:03,228"
        },
        {
          "index": 856,
          "text": "the, the concerns for safety that others have mentioned,",
          "startTime": "00:50:04,148",
          "endTime": "00:50:08,088"
        },
        {
          "index": 857,
          "text": "the,",
          "startTime": "00:50:08,108",
          "endTime": "00:50:08,908"
        },
        {
          "index": 858,
          "text": "schoolchildren, which there'll be more, as you know, because of the",
          "startTime": "00:50:11,448",
          "endTime": "00:50:15,068"
        },
        {
          "index": 859,
          "text": "closure of schools, will be coming in.",
          "startTime": "00:50:15,388",
          "endTime": "00:50:18,388"
        },
        {
          "index": 860,
          "text": "And,",
          "startTime": "00:50:18,568",
          "endTime": "00:50:19,108"
        },
        {
          "index": 861,
          "text": "but I wanted to mention a couple of other things that perhaps",
          "startTime": "00:50:20,948",
          "endTime": "00:50:24,888"
        },
        {
          "index": 862,
          "text": "had not, we've not thought of. One is the",
          "startTime": "00:50:24,928",
          "endTime": "00:50:28,508"
        },
        {
          "index": 863,
          "text": "ongoing residential construction around and above",
          "startTime": "00:50:28,608",
          "endTime": "00:50:32,508"
        },
        {
          "index": 864,
          "text": "and below Walnut, but especially above Walnut.",
          "startTime": "00:50:32,528",
          "endTime": "00:50:35,908"
        },
        {
          "index": 865,
          "text": "All of those houses that are going in are going",
          "startTime": "00:50:35,988",
          "endTime": "00:50:39,828"
        },
        {
          "index": 866,
          "text": "to have to come down and onto Walnut to",
          "startTime": "00:50:39,868",
          "endTime": "00:50:43,408"
        },
        {
          "index": 867,
          "text": "get wherever they're going. And,",
          "startTime": "00:50:43,448",
          "endTime": "00:50:46,558"
        },
        {
          "index": 868,
          "text": "I think that it's gonna just add more and",
          "startTime": "00:50:48,308",
          "endTime": "00:50:51,908"
        },
        {
          "index": 869,
          "text": "more,",
          "startTime": "00:50:51,968",
          "endTime": "00:50:52,448"
        },
        {
          "index": 870,
          "text": "you know, congestion, and also increase",
          "startTime": "00:50:53,408",
          "endTime": "00:50:57,248"
        },
        {
          "index": 871,
          "text": "the possibility of danger,",
          "startTime": "00:50:57,288",
          "endTime": "00:50:59,208"
        },
        {
          "index": 872,
          "text": "when we have these expanded housing",
          "startTime": "00:51:01,068",
          "endTime": "00:51:04,008"
        },
        {
          "index": 873,
          "text": "and other things like that. Um,",
          "startTime": "00:51:04,108",
          "endTime": "00:51:06,968"
        },
        {
          "index": 874,
          "text": "people have talked about the bikes and the joggers",
          "startTime": "00:51:07,928",
          "endTime": "00:51:10,268"
        },
        {
          "index": 875,
          "text": "and the walkers. They haven't mentioned the wild and domestic animals",
          "startTime": "00:51:11,348",
          "endTime": "00:51:15,228"
        },
        {
          "index": 876,
          "text": "that are always running around, but they're there too, and they can",
          "startTime": "00:51:15,268",
          "endTime": "00:51:18,648"
        },
        {
          "index": 877,
          "text": "cause... They can be injured or else cause",
          "startTime": "00:51:18,708",
          "endTime": "00:51:21,268"
        },
        {
          "index": 878,
          "text": "problems. Um, and we have to begin to take into",
          "startTime": "00:51:21,388",
          "endTime": "00:51:25,318"
        },
        {
          "index": 879,
          "text": "account",
          "startTime": "00:51:25,368",
          "endTime": "00:51:26,188"
        },
        {
          "index": 880,
          "text": "all of those things.",
          "startTime": "00:51:27,227",
          "endTime": "00:51:28,368"
        },
        {
          "index": 881,
          "text": "My husband, Michael Campana, was killed as he",
          "startTime": "00:51:29,428",
          "endTime": "00:51:33,228"
        },
        {
          "index": 882,
          "text": "exited the, Timber Hill Townhomes, which is where I",
          "startTime": "00:51:33,328",
          "endTime": "00:51:37,248"
        },
        {
          "index": 883,
          "text": "live, as he le- exit-",
          "startTime": "00:51:37,328",
          "endTime": "00:51:40,688"
        },
        {
          "index": 884,
          "text": "exited that driveway onto Walnut, in",
          "startTime": "00:51:40,748",
          "endTime": "00:51:44,648"
        },
        {
          "index": 885,
          "text": "late August of '24. Um, no one saw the",
          "startTime": "00:51:44,708",
          "endTime": "00:51:48,308"
        },
        {
          "index": 886,
          "text": "collision, but it was a large vehicle that hit his little",
          "startTime": "00:51:48,328",
          "endTime": "00:51:52,208"
        },
        {
          "index": 887,
          "text": "sports car",
          "startTime": "00:51:52,348",
          "endTime": "00:51:52,928"
        },
        {
          "index": 888,
          "text": "as he was making a left-hand turn onto Walnut.",
          "startTime": "00:51:53,988",
          "endTime": "00:51:57,138"
        },
        {
          "index": 889,
          "text": "And,",
          "startTime": "00:51:58,088",
          "endTime": "00:51:58,568"
        },
        {
          "index": 890,
          "text": "we don't really know what happened 'cause as I say, no one saw it.",
          "startTime": "00:52:00,348",
          "endTime": "00:52:03,108"
        },
        {
          "index": 891,
          "text": "They heard it. But Michael was mortally injured, and he died on",
          "startTime": "00:52:03,128",
          "endTime": "00:52:07,088"
        },
        {
          "index": 892,
          "text": "August 24th of two-",
          "startTime": "00:52:07,168",
          "endTime": "00:52:08,848"
        },
        {
          "index": 893,
          "text": "2024. And I cannot help",
          "startTime": "00:52:08,968",
          "endTime": "00:52:12,868"
        },
        {
          "index": 894,
          "text": "but feel that speed and other things were",
          "startTime": "00:52:12,908",
          "endTime": "00:52:16,838"
        },
        {
          "index": 895,
          "text": "involved in that accident.",
          "startTime": "00:52:16,868",
          "endTime": "00:52:20,028"
        },
        {
          "index": 896,
          "text": "Walnut and its surrounding area is no longer",
          "startTime": "00:52:22,008",
          "endTime": "00:52:25,828"
        },
        {
          "index": 897,
          "text": "sort of a semi-rural edge to Corvallis.",
          "startTime": "00:52:26,028",
          "endTime": "00:52:29,047"
        },
        {
          "index": 898,
          "text": "It's a major artery. People use it to",
          "startTime": "00:52:29,308",
          "endTime": "00:52:33,088"
        },
        {
          "index": 899,
          "text": "come from all over",
          "startTime": "00:52:33,168",
          "endTime": "00:52:34,468"
        },
        {
          "index": 900,
          "text": "to Corvallis, and certainly to the, the west and the,",
          "startTime": "00:52:35,468",
          "endTime": "00:52:39,328"
        },
        {
          "index": 901,
          "text": "and the east. Um,",
          "startTime": "00:52:39,338",
          "endTime": "00:52:41,728"
        },
        {
          "index": 902,
          "text": "and I think",
          "startTime": "00:52:42,948",
          "endTime": "00:52:44,088"
        },
        {
          "index": 903,
          "text": "that it would be important for all of us",
          "startTime": "00:52:45,168",
          "endTime": "00:52:47,208"
        },
        {
          "index": 904,
          "text": "to think about traffic control, speed, noise,",
          "startTime": "00:52:48,408",
          "endTime": "00:52:52,128"
        },
        {
          "index": 905,
          "text": "congestion, and to start addressing the way to",
          "startTime": "00:52:52,168",
          "endTime": "00:52:55,988"
        },
        {
          "index": 906,
          "text": "do this. So I encourage you to participate.",
          "startTime": "00:52:56,048",
          "endTime": "00:52:59,908"
        },
        {
          "index": 907,
          "text": "Thank you.",
          "startTime": "00:53:00,838",
          "endTime": "00:53:03,308"
        },
        {
          "index": 908,
          "text": "Councilor Ellis?",
          "startTime": "00:53:04,628",
          "endTime": "00:53:06,208"
        },
        {
          "index": 909,
          "text": "I'm very sorry to hear about your husband.",
          "startTime": "00:53:06,288",
          "endTime": "00:53:08,058"
        },
        {
          "index": 910,
          "text": "Thank you.",
          "startTime": "00:53:08,068",
          "endTime": "00:53:09,448"
        },
        {
          "index": 911,
          "text": "Thank you for coming tonight.",
          "startTime": "00:53:10,728",
          "endTime": "00:53:12,088"
        },
        {
          "index": 912,
          "text": "Next is Bjorn... I'm gonna mess up the last name, I",
          "startTime": "00:53:14,048",
          "endTime": "00:53:17,608"
        },
        {
          "index": 913,
          "text": "know.",
          "startTime": "00:53:17,648",
          "endTime": "00:53:18,288"
        },
        {
          "index": 914,
          "text": "Bolteys.",
          "startTime": "00:53:19,088",
          "endTime": "00:53:19,988"
        },
        {
          "index": 915,
          "text": "Boltis?",
          "startTime": "00:53:20,008",
          "endTime": "00:53:20,928"
        },
        {
          "index": 916,
          "text": "Thank you.",
          "startTime": "00:53:21,728",
          "endTime": "00:53:25,428"
        },
        {
          "index": 917,
          "text": "Good evening. My name is Bjorn Bolteys, and I'm a homeowner in the Avery Helm",
          "startTime": "00:53:27,508",
          "endTime": "00:53:31,288"
        },
        {
          "index": 918,
          "text": "Historic District, Ward Four, directly across the street from the",
          "startTime": "00:53:31,328",
          "endTime": "00:53:35,188"
        },
        {
          "index": 919,
          "text": "proposed Pineview Development on 4th Street.",
          "startTime": "00:53:35,248",
          "endTime": "00:53:37,848"
        },
        {
          "index": 920,
          "text": "This building will rise 13 stories directly outside my front door.",
          "startTime": "00:53:38,688",
          "endTime": "00:53:42,628"
        },
        {
          "index": 921,
          "text": "It will permanently change the experience of living in this neighborhood,",
          "startTime": "00:53:42,648",
          "endTime": "00:53:46,488"
        },
        {
          "index": 922,
          "text": "blocking the morning sunlight to our home and creating an overbearing visual",
          "startTime": "00:53:46,528",
          "endTime": "00:53:50,338"
        },
        {
          "index": 923,
          "text": "presence. Because of that impact, I believe it's especially",
          "startTime": "00:53:50,428",
          "endTime": "00:53:53,808"
        },
        {
          "index": 924,
          "text": "important that the public benefits tied to this project clear-",
          "startTime": "00:53:53,848",
          "endTime": "00:53:57,808"
        },
        {
          "index": 925,
          "text": "clearly improve the neighborhood around it.",
          "startTime": "00:53:57,848",
          "endTime": "00:53:59,768"
        },
        {
          "index": 926,
          "text": "This project is asking for the public to significantly sub, a",
          "startTime": "00:54:00,588",
          "endTime": "00:54:04,328"
        },
        {
          "index": 927,
          "text": "significant subsidy, over 13 million in property tax exemptions",
          "startTime": "00:54:04,368",
          "endTime": "00:54:08,238"
        },
        {
          "index": 928,
          "text": "over 10 years. When the city provides that level of support, it",
          "startTime": "00:54:08,568",
          "endTime": "00:54:12,508"
        },
        {
          "index": 929,
          "text": "is reasonable to ask what tangible benefits will the surrounding neighborhood",
          "startTime": "00:54:12,548",
          "endTime": "00:54:16,108"
        },
        {
          "index": 930,
          "text": "receive in return? The application lists several",
          "startTime": "00:54:16,128",
          "endTime": "00:54:19,508"
        },
        {
          "index": 931,
          "text": "public benefits, including $100,000 infrastructure",
          "startTime": "00:54:19,548",
          "endTime": "00:54:22,948"
        },
        {
          "index": 932,
          "text": "contribution and a $50,000 for pedestrian",
          "startTime": "00:54:22,988",
          "endTime": "00:54:26,338"
        },
        {
          "index": 933,
          "text": "connectivity and improvements. I'd like to suggest a very",
          "startTime": "00:54:26,408",
          "endTime": "00:54:30,268"
        },
        {
          "index": 934,
          "text": "practical way those funds could benefit both the new residents and",
          "startTime": "00:54:30,328",
          "endTime": "00:54:34,208"
        },
        {
          "index": 935,
          "text": "the existing neighborhood. Many people in our neighborhood regularly cross",
          "startTime": "00:54:34,348",
          "endTime": "00:54:38,308"
        },
        {
          "index": 936,
          "text": "4th Street at Washington and Adams to reach Safeway.",
          "startTime": "00:54:38,408",
          "endTime": "00:54:42,058"
        },
        {
          "index": 937,
          "text": "This section of 4th is three lanes of traffic and often",
          "startTime": "00:54:42,108",
          "endTime": "00:54:45,378"
        },
        {
          "index": 938,
          "text": "busy. There's also a bus stop that brings transit riders across the",
          "startTime": "00:54:45,428",
          "endTime": "00:54:49,288"
        },
        {
          "index": 939,
          "text": "street from the grocery store. Today, crossing can feel like a",
          "startTime": "00:54:49,368",
          "endTime": "00:54:53,328"
        },
        {
          "index": 940,
          "text": "treacherous little game, real-life game of Frogger.",
          "startTime": "00:54:53,368",
          "endTime": "00:54:56,828"
        },
        {
          "index": 941,
          "text": "I nervously wait for my kids to return anytime they go to the store for",
          "startTime": "00:54:56,838",
          "endTime": "00:55:00,468"
        },
        {
          "index": 942,
          "text": "something.",
          "startTime": "00:55:00,548",
          "endTime": "00:55:00,968"
        },
        {
          "index": 943,
          "text": "The Pineview Project will bring roughly 600 additional residents",
          "startTime": "00:55:02,228",
          "endTime": "00:55:06,108"
        },
        {
          "index": 944,
          "text": "into the corridor. This will dramatically increase the number of pedestrians",
          "startTime": "00:55:06,128",
          "endTime": "00:55:09,948"
        },
        {
          "index": 945,
          "text": "moving between housing and essential services downtown.",
          "startTime": "00:55:10,008",
          "endTime": "00:55:13,928"
        },
        {
          "index": 946,
          "text": "A signalized mid-block pedestrian crossing between Washington and",
          "startTime": "00:55:13,988",
          "endTime": "00:55:17,708"
        },
        {
          "index": 947,
          "text": "Adams would address a real safety issue that already",
          "startTime": "00:55:17,788",
          "endTime": "00:55:21,068"
        },
        {
          "index": 948,
          "text": "exists and will only grow with this development.It would",
          "startTime": "00:55:21,108",
          "endTime": "00:55:24,804"
        },
        {
          "index": 949,
          "text": "support the city's own goals around walkability, transit",
          "startTime": "00:55:24,864",
          "endTime": "00:55:28,424"
        },
        {
          "index": 950,
          "text": "use, reducing vehicle trips, and it would directly serve both",
          "startTime": "00:55:28,544",
          "endTime": "00:55:32,504"
        },
        {
          "index": 951,
          "text": "the new building and the surrounding neighborhood.",
          "startTime": "00:55:32,524",
          "endTime": "00:55:35,104"
        },
        {
          "index": 952,
          "text": "So my request is simple. If the city approves the m- this MOPD app-",
          "startTime": "00:55:35,144",
          "endTime": "00:55:38,744"
        },
        {
          "index": 953,
          "text": "application, please prioritize directing the project's",
          "startTime": "00:55:38,804",
          "endTime": "00:55:42,184"
        },
        {
          "index": 954,
          "text": "infrastructure and connectivity contributions towards designing and",
          "startTime": "00:55:42,244",
          "endTime": "00:55:46,214"
        },
        {
          "index": 955,
          "text": "constructing a safe pedestrian crossing on 4th Street between",
          "startTime": "00:55:46,284",
          "endTime": "00:55:49,964"
        },
        {
          "index": 956,
          "text": "Washington and Adams. If we are adding hundreds of new residents to this",
          "startTime": "00:55:50,024",
          "endTime": "00:55:53,794"
        },
        {
          "index": 957,
          "text": "block, we should also add the infrastructure that allows them,",
          "startTime": "00:55:53,824",
          "endTime": "00:55:57,774"
        },
        {
          "index": 958,
          "text": "and the neighbors who already live here, a safe, uh...",
          "startTime": "00:55:57,784",
          "endTime": "00:56:01,193"
        },
        {
          "index": 959,
          "text": "to safely cross the street to reach basic services.",
          "startTime": "00:56:01,224",
          "endTime": "00:56:05,144"
        },
        {
          "index": 960,
          "text": "Let's make a safe way to the safe",
          "startTime": "00:56:05,204",
          "endTime": "00:56:07,904"
        },
        {
          "index": 961,
          "text": "way.",
          "startTime": "00:56:07,924",
          "endTime": "00:56:09,224"
        },
        {
          "index": 962,
          "text": "Thank you. Up next is",
          "startTime": "00:56:10,624",
          "endTime": "00:56:14,504"
        },
        {
          "index": 963,
          "text": "Jean",
          "startTime": "00:56:14,564",
          "endTime": "00:56:14,704"
        },
        {
          "index": 964,
          "text": "Raymond.",
          "startTime": "00:56:14,764",
          "endTime": "00:56:21,404"
        },
        {
          "index": 965,
          "text": "Good",
          "startTime": "00:56:25,484",
          "endTime": "00:56:27,484"
        },
        {
          "index": 966,
          "text": "evening.",
          "startTime": "00:56:27,544",
          "endTime": "00:56:34,344"
        },
        {
          "index": 967,
          "text": "This is an oral statement in support of the Corvallis ICE",
          "startTime": "00:56:36,144",
          "endTime": "00:56:39,864"
        },
        {
          "index": 968,
          "text": "resolution. I'm in strong support of the ICE",
          "startTime": "00:56:40,424",
          "endTime": "00:56:43,404"
        },
        {
          "index": 969,
          "text": "resolution. In this time of political chaos and",
          "startTime": "00:56:43,484",
          "endTime": "00:56:47,104"
        },
        {
          "index": 970,
          "text": "illegal violent action by ICE, I thank our Corva-",
          "startTime": "00:56:47,204",
          "endTime": "00:56:51,124"
        },
        {
          "index": 971,
          "text": "Corvallis community, which of course includes the mayor,",
          "startTime": "00:56:51,144",
          "endTime": "00:56:54,704"
        },
        {
          "index": 972,
          "text": "council, manager, and staff, for putting the wellbeing and the safety of our",
          "startTime": "00:56:55,624",
          "endTime": "00:56:59,504"
        },
        {
          "index": 973,
          "text": "community first. I acknowledge with gratitude the",
          "startTime": "00:56:59,544",
          "endTime": "00:57:03,344"
        },
        {
          "index": 974,
          "text": "many co- contributions of immigrants throughout our",
          "startTime": "00:57:03,404",
          "endTime": "00:57:06,684"
        },
        {
          "index": 975,
          "text": "history. In contrast, ICE has targeted",
          "startTime": "00:57:06,724",
          "endTime": "00:57:10,684"
        },
        {
          "index": 976,
          "text": "with bigotry those of darker color, those who look",
          "startTime": "00:57:10,724",
          "endTime": "00:57:14,284"
        },
        {
          "index": 977,
          "text": "different, speak with an accent, and even those who protest",
          "startTime": "00:57:14,294",
          "endTime": "00:57:17,944"
        },
        {
          "index": 978,
          "text": "peacefully. ICE has targeted students, health workers,",
          "startTime": "00:57:17,964",
          "endTime": "00:57:21,544"
        },
        {
          "index": 979,
          "text": "farmers, service people, and those immigrants and natives who have",
          "startTime": "00:57:21,604",
          "endTime": "00:57:25,424"
        },
        {
          "index": 980,
          "text": "benefited our community. It has illegally",
          "startTime": "00:57:25,464",
          "endTime": "00:57:28,964"
        },
        {
          "index": 981,
          "text": "targeted those with student and work visas, asylum",
          "startTime": "00:57:29,044",
          "endTime": "00:57:32,264"
        },
        {
          "index": 982,
          "text": "seekers, citizens, and naturalized citizens.",
          "startTime": "00:57:32,364",
          "endTime": "00:57:36,284"
        },
        {
          "index": 983,
          "text": "Now it proposes to build a mass- massive detention cent-",
          "startTime": "00:57:36,344",
          "endTime": "00:57:40,024"
        },
        {
          "index": 984,
          "text": "detention centers across the United",
          "startTime": "00:57:40,044",
          "endTime": "00:57:42,584"
        },
        {
          "index": 985,
          "text": "States. These actions by ICE have caused",
          "startTime": "00:57:42,684",
          "endTime": "00:57:46,444"
        },
        {
          "index": 986,
          "text": "fear and dismay.",
          "startTime": "00:57:46,564",
          "endTime": "00:57:48,044"
        },
        {
          "index": 987,
          "text": "In response, the community has worked together to protest",
          "startTime": "00:57:49,164",
          "endTime": "00:57:52,284"
        },
        {
          "index": 988,
          "text": "safely, to write letters to our representatives, to",
          "startTime": "00:57:52,364",
          "endTime": "00:57:55,954"
        },
        {
          "index": 989,
          "text": "collect funds, food, and clothing, to make banners, and",
          "startTime": "00:57:56,044",
          "endTime": "00:57:59,954"
        },
        {
          "index": 990,
          "text": "provide transportation. We have seen Oregon leaders",
          "startTime": "00:58:00,044",
          "endTime": "00:58:03,604"
        },
        {
          "index": 991,
          "text": "re- respond with bills about s- and there are 13",
          "startTime": "00:58:04,104",
          "endTime": "00:58:07,844"
        },
        {
          "index": 992,
          "text": "new bills that have passed the Senate and the House that you",
          "startTime": "00:58:07,854",
          "endTime": "00:58:11,784"
        },
        {
          "index": 993,
          "text": "can ask me about.",
          "startTime": "00:58:11,824",
          "endTime": "00:58:14,234"
        },
        {
          "index": 994,
          "text": "So we have seen Oregon leaders respond with",
          "startTime": "00:58:15,984",
          "endTime": "00:58:19,644"
        },
        {
          "index": 995,
          "text": "bills about sanctuary for state, about how police react, how",
          "startTime": "00:58:19,724",
          "endTime": "00:58:23,664"
        },
        {
          "index": 996,
          "text": "schools and universities must plan and carry out those plans,",
          "startTime": "00:58:23,744",
          "endTime": "00:58:27,104"
        },
        {
          "index": 997,
          "text": "how we can peacefully resist illegal violence from ICE.",
          "startTime": "00:58:27,644",
          "endTime": "00:58:31,564"
        },
        {
          "index": 998,
          "text": "We see how state leaders have worked together with other state leaders to",
          "startTime": "00:58:32,304",
          "endTime": "00:58:36,164"
        },
        {
          "index": 999,
          "text": "push back against unlawful, overreaching",
          "startTime": "00:58:36,224",
          "endTime": "00:58:39,244"
        },
        {
          "index": 1000,
          "text": "actions. I'm glad this resolution has actions that the",
          "startTime": "00:58:39,404",
          "endTime": "00:58:43,184"
        },
        {
          "index": 1001,
          "text": "city may take to provide safety. I expect the",
          "startTime": "00:58:43,224",
          "endTime": "00:58:46,944"
        },
        {
          "index": 1002,
          "text": "city manager to follow through and provide guidance to the",
          "startTime": "00:58:46,964",
          "endTime": "00:58:50,464"
        },
        {
          "index": 1003,
          "text": "mayor, council, and staff, and I have written s-",
          "startTime": "00:58:50,504",
          "endTime": "00:58:54,414"
        },
        {
          "index": 1004,
          "text": "several actions which could be provided by the city.",
          "startTime": "00:58:54,414",
          "endTime": "00:58:57,904"
        },
        {
          "index": 1005,
          "text": "I've written this also in your, packet.",
          "startTime": "00:58:59,124",
          "endTime": "00:59:03,084"
        },
        {
          "index": 1006,
          "text": "So requirement that no u- use of harmful chemicals, tear gas, et",
          "startTime": "00:59:03,184",
          "endTime": "00:59:07,084"
        },
        {
          "index": 1007,
          "text": "cetera, harassment by ICE, or use of weapons against peaceful",
          "startTime": "00:59:07,104",
          "endTime": "00:59:10,724"
        },
        {
          "index": 1008,
          "text": "protesters or residents be allowed.",
          "startTime": "00:59:11,084",
          "endTime": "00:59:14,244"
        },
        {
          "index": 1009,
          "text": "That no city facilities, utilities, buildings, parks, parking",
          "startTime": "00:59:14,264",
          "endTime": "00:59:17,624"
        },
        {
          "index": 1010,
          "text": "lots, airport facilities be allowed by",
          "startTime": "00:59:17,644",
          "endTime": "00:59:20,874"
        },
        {
          "index": 1011,
          "text": "ICE. That no mass detention center be",
          "startTime": "00:59:20,984",
          "endTime": "00:59:24,744"
        },
        {
          "index": 1012,
          "text": "allowed. That all ICE officers have identification that can be",
          "startTime": "00:59:24,804",
          "endTime": "00:59:28,544"
        },
        {
          "index": 1013,
          "text": "clearly visible. That the sanctity and safety of",
          "startTime": "00:59:28,584",
          "endTime": "00:59:31,984"
        },
        {
          "index": 1014,
          "text": "sanctuary be followed, including schools, places of worship,",
          "startTime": "00:59:32,024",
          "endTime": "00:59:35,614"
        },
        {
          "index": 1015,
          "text": "hospitals, and courthouses. Please ask",
          "startTime": "00:59:35,624",
          "endTime": "00:59:39,524"
        },
        {
          "index": 1016,
          "text": "me about these bills.",
          "startTime": "00:59:39,584",
          "endTime": "00:59:41,823"
        },
        {
          "index": 1017,
          "text": "Thank you.",
          "startTime": "00:59:43,003",
          "endTime": "00:59:44,003"
        },
        {
          "index": 1018,
          "text": "We have your email, so if anybody wants to reach out to you, they're able to.",
          "startTime": "00:59:45,664",
          "endTime": "00:59:48,204"
        },
        {
          "index": 1019,
          "text": "Okay. I haven't included these though, so this is new to me too.",
          "startTime": "00:59:48,604",
          "endTime": "00:59:51,934"
        },
        {
          "index": 1020,
          "text": "Yeah. I mean, they can reach out to you to ask you about this.",
          "startTime": "00:59:51,934",
          "endTime": "00:59:54,124"
        },
        {
          "index": 1021,
          "text": "Thank you.",
          "startTime": "00:59:54,164",
          "endTime": "00:59:54,944"
        },
        {
          "index": 1022,
          "text": "Thank you very much.",
          "startTime": "00:59:54,984",
          "endTime": "00:59:56,304"
        },
        {
          "index": 1023,
          "text": "Up next is Aubrey.",
          "startTime": "00:59:57,984",
          "endTime": "00:59:59,284"
        },
        {
          "index": 1024,
          "text": "I didn't know you had a second,",
          "startTime": "01:00:01,044",
          "endTime": "01:00:02,124"
        },
        {
          "index": 1025,
          "text": "a first part of a last name. I just imagined it as Aubrey Cloud.",
          "startTime": "01:00:02,964",
          "endTime": "01:00:05,584"
        },
        {
          "index": 1026,
          "text": "Oh, that's wa-",
          "startTime": "01:00:07,264",
          "endTime": "01:00:07,844"
        },
        {
          "index": 1027,
          "text": "Mm-hmm",
          "startTime": "01:00:07,864",
          "endTime": "01:00:08,234"
        },
        {
          "index": 1028,
          "text": "Okay. If you could pronounce that for me, I'd appreciate it.",
          "startTime": "01:00:08,234",
          "endTime": "01:00:11,424"
        },
        {
          "index": 1029,
          "text": "Sure.",
          "startTime": "01:00:11,464",
          "endTime": "01:00:12,734"
        },
        {
          "index": 1030,
          "text": "Thank you. Mayor and councilors, good",
          "startTime": "01:00:14,924",
          "endTime": "01:00:18,604"
        },
        {
          "index": 1031,
          "text": "evening. My name is Aubrey Sadiki-Cloud, a resident of Ward",
          "startTime": "01:00:18,644",
          "endTime": "01:00:22,464"
        },
        {
          "index": 1032,
          "text": "7, and I'm here to urge you in the strongest possible",
          "startTime": "01:00:22,784",
          "endTime": "01:00:26,304"
        },
        {
          "index": 1033,
          "text": "terms to adopt the Addressing Escalating Federal Immigration",
          "startTime": "01:00:26,404",
          "endTime": "01:00:30,074"
        },
        {
          "index": 1034,
          "text": "Enforcement resolution before you this evening.",
          "startTime": "01:00:30,124",
          "endTime": "01:00:33,924"
        },
        {
          "index": 1035,
          "text": "For over a year now, we've all been watching ICE and CBP drive a",
          "startTime": "01:00:33,964",
          "endTime": "01:00:37,704"
        },
        {
          "index": 1036,
          "text": "bulldozer through constitutional and legal protections.",
          "startTime": "01:00:37,764",
          "endTime": "01:00:41,174"
        },
        {
          "index": 1037,
          "text": "They're kidnapping people off the streets, from their homes and places of work",
          "startTime": "01:00:41,204",
          "endTime": "01:00:44,824"
        },
        {
          "index": 1038,
          "text": "with no due process. They're setting cruel and inhuman",
          "startTime": "01:00:45,624",
          "endTime": "01:00:49,124"
        },
        {
          "index": 1039,
          "text": "quotas that prove false any pretext of pursuing violent",
          "startTime": "01:00:49,164",
          "endTime": "01:00:52,624"
        },
        {
          "index": 1040,
          "text": "criminals. They're using immigration court appointments as traps",
          "startTime": "01:00:52,644",
          "endTime": "01:00:56,584"
        },
        {
          "index": 1041,
          "text": "to capture people trying to go through the proper channels.",
          "startTime": "01:00:56,624",
          "endTime": "01:00:59,814"
        },
        {
          "index": 1042,
          "text": "They're neglecting and abusing those in their custody to the point that deaths are",
          "startTime": "01:00:59,844",
          "endTime": "01:01:03,104"
        },
        {
          "index": 1043,
          "text": "occurring. They're racially profiling, which has resulted in the",
          "startTime": "01:01:03,164",
          "endTime": "01:01:06,824"
        },
        {
          "index": 1044,
          "text": "kidnapping of American citizens simply because they aren't",
          "startTime": "01:01:06,864",
          "endTime": "01:01:10,054"
        },
        {
          "index": 1045,
          "text": "white. They're building a sprawling network of",
          "startTime": "01:01:10,084",
          "endTime": "01:01:13,294"
        },
        {
          "index": 1046,
          "text": "concentration camps to process and deport tens or even hundreds of",
          "startTime": "01:01:13,324",
          "endTime": "01:01:17,184"
        },
        {
          "index": 1047,
          "text": "thousands of human beings at any given time, and",
          "startTime": "01:01:17,204",
          "endTime": "01:01:21,094"
        },
        {
          "index": 1048,
          "text": "now they are executing people in the streets.",
          "startTime": "01:01:21,184",
          "endTime": "01:01:24,264"
        },
        {
          "index": 1049,
          "text": "This isn't a time to keep our heads down, to try and avoid",
          "startTime": "01:01:24,784",
          "endTime": "01:01:28,524"
        },
        {
          "index": 1050,
          "text": "attracting attention. That's how authoritarians cement",
          "startTime": "01:01:28,544",
          "endTime": "01:01:32,384"
        },
        {
          "index": 1051,
          "text": "their grip on power.They make us feel isolated and vulnerable",
          "startTime": "01:01:32,444",
          "endTime": "01:01:36,374"
        },
        {
          "index": 1052,
          "text": "against the overwhelming power of the state.",
          "startTime": "01:01:36,434",
          "endTime": "01:01:39,154"
        },
        {
          "index": 1053,
          "text": "But we are not alone. This nation is boiling with fury at what's",
          "startTime": "01:01:39,174",
          "endTime": "01:01:42,974"
        },
        {
          "index": 1054,
          "text": "happening. By taking a stand, we're not sticking our heads up, we're joining",
          "startTime": "01:01:43,054",
          "endTime": "01:01:46,934"
        },
        {
          "index": 1055,
          "text": "hands with our neighbors and standing shoulder to shoulder with",
          "startTime": "01:01:46,954",
          "endTime": "01:01:50,374"
        },
        {
          "index": 1056,
          "text": "them. We have to do something, and this resolution is a",
          "startTime": "01:01:50,414",
          "endTime": "01:01:53,794"
        },
        {
          "index": 1057,
          "text": "fantastic start. I also want to",
          "startTime": "01:01:53,834",
          "endTime": "01:01:57,314"
        },
        {
          "index": 1058,
          "text": "emphasize the critical importance of Clause B in the",
          "startTime": "01:01:57,354",
          "endTime": "01:01:59,934"
        },
        {
          "index": 1059,
          "text": "resolution. The risk of violence, harassment, and criminality",
          "startTime": "01:01:59,974",
          "endTime": "01:02:03,914"
        },
        {
          "index": 1060,
          "text": "from vigilantes impersonating federal immigration officers is not",
          "startTime": "01:02:03,954",
          "endTime": "01:02:07,884"
        },
        {
          "index": 1061,
          "text": "a hypothetical. This is a real phenomenon, and it has occurred",
          "startTime": "01:02:07,954",
          "endTime": "01:02:11,634"
        },
        {
          "index": 1062,
          "text": "multiple times since the start of this madness, including here in",
          "startTime": "01:02:11,674",
          "endTime": "01:02:14,894"
        },
        {
          "index": 1063,
          "text": "Corvallis. One concern I've heard about this clause is that",
          "startTime": "01:02:14,934",
          "endTime": "01:02:18,854"
        },
        {
          "index": 1064,
          "text": "local police aren't allowed to interfere with ICE and CBP operations.",
          "startTime": "01:02:18,894",
          "endTime": "01:02:22,774"
        },
        {
          "index": 1065,
          "text": "That's fine. Asking these officers to verify their identity is not",
          "startTime": "01:02:22,834",
          "endTime": "01:02:26,494"
        },
        {
          "index": 1066,
          "text": "interference, it is duty. We have a duty to protect our community, and",
          "startTime": "01:02:26,534",
          "endTime": "01:02:30,524"
        },
        {
          "index": 1067,
          "text": "this is a simple action we could take to do that.",
          "startTime": "01:02:30,574",
          "endTime": "01:02:34,094"
        },
        {
          "index": 1068,
          "text": "Impersonating a federal officer is a felony.",
          "startTime": "01:02:34,134",
          "endTime": "01:02:37,004"
        },
        {
          "index": 1069,
          "text": "Racially motivated harassment or worse are crimes.",
          "startTime": "01:02:37,054",
          "endTime": "01:02:40,394"
        },
        {
          "index": 1070,
          "text": "If we can't enforce our own laws because the perpetrators put on the",
          "startTime": "01:02:41,434",
          "endTime": "01:02:45,014"
        },
        {
          "index": 1071,
          "text": "costume of a federal agent, then we've just told every criminal out there",
          "startTime": "01:02:45,074",
          "endTime": "01:02:48,894"
        },
        {
          "index": 1072,
          "text": "how to get away with crime in Corvallis.",
          "startTime": "01:02:48,914",
          "endTime": "01:02:52,374"
        },
        {
          "index": 1073,
          "text": "Council, I implore you, please adopt this resolution",
          "startTime": "01:02:52,434",
          "endTime": "01:02:56,354"
        },
        {
          "index": 1074,
          "text": "and make our city a stronger sanctuary. Thank you.",
          "startTime": "01:02:56,374",
          "endTime": "01:03:00,154"
        },
        {
          "index": 1075,
          "text": "Thank you very much.",
          "startTime": "01:03:00,194",
          "endTime": "01:03:02,434"
        },
        {
          "index": 1076,
          "text": "Last on the presenters, we have Laura",
          "startTime": "01:03:04,734",
          "endTime": "01:03:06,174"
        },
        {
          "index": 1077,
          "text": "Duncan.",
          "startTime": "01:03:06,234",
          "endTime": "01:03:09,114"
        },
        {
          "index": 1078,
          "text": "Thank you to councilors and staff for your service to the city,",
          "startTime": "01:03:16,534",
          "endTime": "01:03:20,374"
        },
        {
          "index": 1079,
          "text": "and thanks to everyone in the room tonight who",
          "startTime": "01:03:20,474",
          "endTime": "01:03:24,034"
        },
        {
          "index": 1080,
          "text": "cares about Corvallis, my hometown.",
          "startTime": "01:03:24,114",
          "endTime": "01:03:27,214"
        },
        {
          "index": 1081,
          "text": "I'm Laura Duncan, and I live in the Jack Taylor house at Fifth",
          "startTime": "01:03:27,914",
          "endTime": "01:03:31,774"
        },
        {
          "index": 1082,
          "text": "and C. My house was built in 1907.",
          "startTime": "01:03:31,874",
          "endTime": "01:03:35,774"
        },
        {
          "index": 1083,
          "text": "It's on the National Register of Historic Places.",
          "startTime": "01:03:35,794",
          "endTime": "01:03:39,234"
        },
        {
          "index": 1084,
          "text": "I w- reading through tonight's packet, I was deeply offended by the",
          "startTime": "01:03:41,074",
          "endTime": "01:03:44,894"
        },
        {
          "index": 1085,
          "text": "developer's justification for the tax break,",
          "startTime": "01:03:44,914",
          "endTime": "01:03:48,414"
        },
        {
          "index": 1086,
          "text": "citing connectivity improvements.",
          "startTime": "01:03:48,494",
          "endTime": "01:03:51,254"
        },
        {
          "index": 1087,
          "text": "This took me back a few years and the lies we were told by the",
          "startTime": "01:03:52,374",
          "endTime": "01:03:55,974"
        },
        {
          "index": 1088,
          "text": "developers of the Sierra Apartments on Washington",
          "startTime": "01:03:55,994",
          "endTime": "01:03:59,474"
        },
        {
          "index": 1089,
          "text": "Boulevard. Prior to their construction,",
          "startTime": "01:03:59,574",
          "endTime": "01:04:03,394"
        },
        {
          "index": 1090,
          "text": "neighbors were invited to talk with the developer.",
          "startTime": "01:04:03,454",
          "endTime": "01:04:06,874"
        },
        {
          "index": 1091,
          "text": "We were promised enhanced bike and pedestrian crossing of the",
          "startTime": "01:04:06,914",
          "endTime": "01:04:10,744"
        },
        {
          "index": 1092,
          "text": "railroad at Seventh, as well as repairs to the railroad",
          "startTime": "01:04:10,814",
          "endTime": "01:04:14,614"
        },
        {
          "index": 1093,
          "text": "crossing on Washington. Also, the",
          "startTime": "01:04:14,674",
          "endTime": "01:04:18,034"
        },
        {
          "index": 1094,
          "text": "street-facing side of their parking garage was promised to have",
          "startTime": "01:04:18,174",
          "endTime": "01:04:21,694"
        },
        {
          "index": 1095,
          "text": "community commercial spaces, such as a coffee shop.",
          "startTime": "01:04:21,754",
          "endTime": "01:04:25,014"
        },
        {
          "index": 1096,
          "text": "Instead, what we have are concrete barricades and",
          "startTime": "01:04:25,774",
          "endTime": "01:04:29,734"
        },
        {
          "index": 1097,
          "text": "chain link fencing on Seventh Street at Western.",
          "startTime": "01:04:29,774",
          "endTime": "01:04:33,394"
        },
        {
          "index": 1098,
          "text": "No improvements on Washington, and the storage of",
          "startTime": "01:04:33,404",
          "endTime": "01:04:37,103"
        },
        {
          "index": 1099,
          "text": "construction materials where we were promised a coffee",
          "startTime": "01:04:37,114",
          "endTime": "01:04:40,274"
        },
        {
          "index": 1100,
          "text": "shop. I don't have any faith that the Pine",
          "startTime": "01:04:40,414",
          "endTime": "01:04:44,334"
        },
        {
          "index": 1101,
          "text": "View will actually achieve any improvements to the rail",
          "startTime": "01:04:44,414",
          "endTime": "01:04:48,234"
        },
        {
          "index": 1102,
          "text": "crossings either. This is not something where the promise",
          "startTime": "01:04:48,334",
          "endTime": "01:04:52,154"
        },
        {
          "index": 1103,
          "text": "of money to the city does anything.",
          "startTime": "01:04:52,194",
          "endTime": "01:04:55,094"
        },
        {
          "index": 1104,
          "text": "It is up to the railroad if and when improvements are",
          "startTime": "01:04:55,154",
          "endTime": "01:04:58,834"
        },
        {
          "index": 1105,
          "text": "made.",
          "startTime": "01:04:58,854",
          "endTime": "01:04:59,294"
        },
        {
          "index": 1106,
          "text": "Additionally, I need to cross Western at Fifth",
          "startTime": "01:05:00,734",
          "endTime": "01:05:04,204"
        },
        {
          "index": 1107,
          "text": "several times a day for work and activities.",
          "startTime": "01:05:04,694",
          "endTime": "01:05:08,114"
        },
        {
          "index": 1108,
          "text": "I go as a pedestrian, cyclist, and a",
          "startTime": "01:05:08,214",
          "endTime": "01:05:11,474"
        },
        {
          "index": 1109,
          "text": "driver. Often, I have long waits looking for a",
          "startTime": "01:05:11,494",
          "endTime": "01:05:15,214"
        },
        {
          "index": 1110,
          "text": "break in the traffic. Any increase in traffic on",
          "startTime": "01:05:15,254",
          "endTime": "01:05:18,834"
        },
        {
          "index": 1111,
          "text": "Western will exacerbate the risks for me and",
          "startTime": "01:05:18,894",
          "endTime": "01:05:22,674"
        },
        {
          "index": 1112,
          "text": "others in my neighborhood, including many young",
          "startTime": "01:05:22,774",
          "endTime": "01:05:25,974"
        },
        {
          "index": 1113,
          "text": "children.",
          "startTime": "01:05:26,134",
          "endTime": "01:05:26,794"
        },
        {
          "index": 1114,
          "text": "Tell me how cutting off the connectivity for my historic",
          "startTime": "01:05:27,934",
          "endTime": "01:05:31,734"
        },
        {
          "index": 1115,
          "text": "neighborhood is an improvement. Please hit",
          "startTime": "01:05:31,794",
          "endTime": "01:05:35,674"
        },
        {
          "index": 1116,
          "text": "the pause button for this proposed development.",
          "startTime": "01:05:35,714",
          "endTime": "01:05:38,714"
        },
        {
          "index": 1117,
          "text": "Let's have community input and talk about what the citizens of",
          "startTime": "01:05:38,734",
          "endTime": "01:05:42,514"
        },
        {
          "index": 1118,
          "text": "Corvallis want, and not gift money to out-of-state",
          "startTime": "01:05:42,554",
          "endTime": "01:05:46,534"
        },
        {
          "index": 1119,
          "text": "developers who are destroying the livability in",
          "startTime": "01:05:46,614",
          "endTime": "01:05:50,494"
        },
        {
          "index": 1120,
          "text": "town. Thank you.",
          "startTime": "01:05:50,554",
          "endTime": "01:05:52,694"
        },
        {
          "index": 1121,
          "text": "Thank you very much.",
          "startTime": "01:05:52,733",
          "endTime": "01:05:55,853"
        },
        {
          "index": 1122,
          "text": "All right, we'll now move on to our drop-in commenters.",
          "startTime": "01:06:12,374",
          "endTime": "01:06:14,994"
        },
        {
          "index": 1123,
          "text": "Um, and I was just informed we have one person online, so we can start",
          "startTime": "01:06:15,094",
          "endTime": "01:06:18,464"
        },
        {
          "index": 1124,
          "text": "there.",
          "startTime": "01:06:18,514",
          "endTime": "01:06:20,934"
        },
        {
          "index": 1125,
          "text": "Bob Mandel, you should have the ability to unmute yourself and be heard by",
          "startTime": "01:06:22,154",
          "endTime": "01:06:25,743"
        },
        {
          "index": 1126,
          "text": "council.",
          "startTime": "01:06:25,774",
          "endTime": "01:06:27,454"
        },
        {
          "index": 1127,
          "text": "Yes. Thank you. I'm",
          "startTime": "01:06:27,534",
          "endTime": "01:06:30,624"
        },
        {
          "index": 1128,
          "text": "calling in to speak on the resolution",
          "startTime": "01:06:31,594",
          "endTime": "01:06:35,414"
        },
        {
          "index": 1129,
          "text": "about ICE. I simply want to",
          "startTime": "01:06:35,474",
          "endTime": "01:06:39,034"
        },
        {
          "index": 1130,
          "text": "agree with the previous speaker, Henri",
          "startTime": "01:06:40,314",
          "endTime": "01:06:43,734"
        },
        {
          "index": 1131,
          "text": "Cloud. This is of the highest",
          "startTime": "01:06:43,914",
          "endTime": "01:06:47,334"
        },
        {
          "index": 1132,
          "text": "priority. The fact that",
          "startTime": "01:06:47,434",
          "endTime": "01:06:51,254"
        },
        {
          "index": 1133,
          "text": "it has receded from the headlines",
          "startTime": "01:06:51,374",
          "endTime": "01:06:55,194"
        },
        {
          "index": 1134,
          "text": "is testimony to the effectiveness",
          "startTime": "01:06:55,674",
          "endTime": "01:06:59,214"
        },
        {
          "index": 1135,
          "text": "of what the people in Minneapolis did,",
          "startTime": "01:06:59,614",
          "endTime": "01:07:02,734"
        },
        {
          "index": 1136,
          "text": "and Corvallis",
          "startTime": "01:07:03,614",
          "endTime": "01:07:05,634"
        },
        {
          "index": 1137,
          "text": "should join that. This resolution,",
          "startTime": "01:07:07,354",
          "endTime": "01:07:11,294"
        },
        {
          "index": 1138,
          "text": "doing everything that the city can legally",
          "startTime": "01:07:11,354",
          "endTime": "01:07:15,094"
        },
        {
          "index": 1139,
          "text": "do in refusing to cooperate",
          "startTime": "01:07:15,254",
          "endTime": "01:07:18,854"
        },
        {
          "index": 1140,
          "text": "and in putting every possible",
          "startTime": "01:07:19,554",
          "endTime": "01:07:23,114"
        },
        {
          "index": 1141,
          "text": "legal obstacle in ICE's",
          "startTime": "01:07:23,654",
          "endTime": "01:07:26,774"
        },
        {
          "index": 1142,
          "text": "way is imperative. We",
          "startTime": "01:07:26,934",
          "endTime": "01:07:30,754"
        },
        {
          "index": 1143,
          "text": "were brought up to believe that this is a",
          "startTime": "01:07:30,854",
          "endTime": "01:07:33,854"
        },
        {
          "index": 1144,
          "text": "democracy.We were brought up to",
          "startTime": "01:07:33,874",
          "endTime": "01:07:37,026"
        },
        {
          "index": 1145,
          "text": "believe that the police were there to serve",
          "startTime": "01:07:37,066",
          "endTime": "01:07:40,726"
        },
        {
          "index": 1146,
          "text": "and protect. It is clear that",
          "startTime": "01:07:40,906",
          "endTime": "01:07:44,686"
        },
        {
          "index": 1147,
          "text": "ICE is here neither to serve nor to",
          "startTime": "01:07:45,026",
          "endTime": "01:07:49,006"
        },
        {
          "index": 1148,
          "text": "protect but to intimidate,",
          "startTime": "01:07:49,046",
          "endTime": "01:07:52,126"
        },
        {
          "index": 1149,
          "text": "to spread terror, to drive people from",
          "startTime": "01:07:52,926",
          "endTime": "01:07:56,746"
        },
        {
          "index": 1150,
          "text": "their homes. And a- as the murder of",
          "startTime": "01:07:56,786",
          "endTime": "01:08:00,726"
        },
        {
          "index": 1151,
          "text": "two people already proves,",
          "startTime": "01:08:00,826",
          "endTime": "01:08:03,306"
        },
        {
          "index": 1152,
          "text": "the tactics that they're using will",
          "startTime": "01:08:04,826",
          "endTime": "01:08:08,226"
        },
        {
          "index": 1153,
          "text": "spread into the cities for",
          "startTime": "01:08:08,626",
          "endTime": "01:08:12,246"
        },
        {
          "index": 1154,
          "text": "other purposes. Those tactics will",
          "startTime": "01:08:12,526",
          "endTime": "01:08:16,346"
        },
        {
          "index": 1155,
          "text": "be used to repress any",
          "startTime": "01:08:16,507",
          "endTime": "01:08:19,846"
        },
        {
          "index": 1156,
          "text": "dissent that the US government finds",
          "startTime": "01:08:20,246",
          "endTime": "01:08:23,906"
        },
        {
          "index": 1157,
          "text": "objectionable. I worked in the civil rights",
          "startTime": "01:08:24,047",
          "endTime": "01:08:27,566"
        },
        {
          "index": 1158,
          "text": "movement in Mississippi and witnessed the",
          "startTime": "01:08:27,726",
          "endTime": "01:08:31,286"
        },
        {
          "index": 1159,
          "text": "failure of the feds to protect civil",
          "startTime": "01:08:31,446",
          "endTime": "01:08:35,146"
        },
        {
          "index": 1160,
          "text": "rights workers from the Ku Klux Klan.",
          "startTime": "01:08:35,206",
          "endTime": "01:08:38,946"
        },
        {
          "index": 1161,
          "text": "Now we have ICE acting just",
          "startTime": "01:08:39,547",
          "endTime": "01:08:43,126"
        },
        {
          "index": 1162,
          "text": "like the Klan, masked,",
          "startTime": "01:08:43,406",
          "endTime": "01:08:46,887"
        },
        {
          "index": 1163,
          "text": "ruthless, riding by day and riding",
          "startTime": "01:08:47,026",
          "endTime": "01:08:50,986"
        },
        {
          "index": 1164,
          "text": "by night.",
          "startTime": "01:08:51,366",
          "endTime": "01:08:52,706"
        },
        {
          "index": 1165,
          "text": "I congratulate you on raising this",
          "startTime": "01:08:54,026",
          "endTime": "01:08:57,346"
        },
        {
          "index": 1166,
          "text": "resolution. I urge its",
          "startTime": "01:08:57,446",
          "endTime": "01:09:00,467"
        },
        {
          "index": 1167,
          "text": "adoption. As an ESL",
          "startTime": "01:09:00,547",
          "endTime": "01:09:03,706"
        },
        {
          "index": 1168,
          "text": "teacher, my students live in fear",
          "startTime": "01:09:03,746",
          "endTime": "01:09:07,266"
        },
        {
          "index": 1169,
          "text": "daily",
          "startTime": "01:09:07,746",
          "endTime": "01:09:08,467"
        },
        {
          "index": 1170,
          "text": "of being arrested, no matter what their",
          "startTime": "01:09:09,646",
          "endTime": "01:09:13,626"
        },
        {
          "index": 1171,
          "text": "citizenship status,",
          "startTime": "01:09:13,766",
          "endTime": "01:09:15,686"
        },
        {
          "index": 1172,
          "text": "and being deported, no matter",
          "startTime": "01:09:16,566",
          "endTime": "01:09:19,846"
        },
        {
          "index": 1173,
          "text": "legally or legal- illegally.",
          "startTime": "01:09:20,326",
          "endTime": "01:09:23,866"
        },
        {
          "index": 1174,
          "text": "Everyone has a right to live safely in",
          "startTime": "01:09:23,946",
          "endTime": "01:09:27,706"
        },
        {
          "index": 1175,
          "text": "this country. Thank you. Please support the",
          "startTime": "01:09:27,766",
          "endTime": "01:09:31,366"
        },
        {
          "index": 1176,
          "text": "resolution.",
          "startTime": "01:09:31,427",
          "endTime": "01:09:32,866"
        },
        {
          "index": 1177,
          "text": "Thank you very much.",
          "startTime": "01:09:34,166",
          "endTime": "01:09:36,387"
        },
        {
          "index": 1178,
          "text": "Up next I have Mike Blair.",
          "startTime": "01:09:38,246",
          "endTime": "01:09:40,486"
        },
        {
          "index": 1179,
          "text": "I think that's on.",
          "startTime": "01:09:42,427",
          "endTime": "01:09:46,266"
        },
        {
          "index": 1180,
          "text": "Do I push this?",
          "startTime": "01:09:48,587",
          "endTime": "01:09:49,406"
        },
        {
          "index": 1181,
          "text": "Yeah. You're good.",
          "startTime": "01:09:49,446",
          "endTime": "01:09:51,186"
        },
        {
          "index": 1182,
          "text": "Hello. I'm Mike Blair from Ward",
          "startTime": "01:09:51,206",
          "endTime": "01:09:53,666"
        },
        {
          "index": 1183,
          "text": "Four. Um, and",
          "startTime": "01:09:53,826",
          "endTime": "01:09:57,346"
        },
        {
          "index": 1184,
          "text": "I live in the, downtown historic",
          "startTime": "01:09:59,306",
          "endTime": "01:10:03,186"
        },
        {
          "index": 1185,
          "text": "district,",
          "startTime": "01:10:03,246",
          "endTime": "01:10:03,806"
        },
        {
          "index": 1186,
          "text": "next door to Bjorn,",
          "startTime": "01:10:04,666",
          "endTime": "01:10:05,726"
        },
        {
          "index": 1187,
          "text": "right in the middle of the block on, Fifth Street, a half a",
          "startTime": "01:10:07,066",
          "endTime": "01:10:10,806"
        },
        {
          "index": 1188,
          "text": "block from the proposed",
          "startTime": "01:10:10,866",
          "endTime": "01:10:12,066"
        },
        {
          "index": 1189,
          "text": "Pineview, site. And,",
          "startTime": "01:10:13,026",
          "endTime": "01:10:16,986"
        },
        {
          "index": 1190,
          "text": "our adjacent properties",
          "startTime": "01:10:17,326",
          "endTime": "01:10:19,846"
        },
        {
          "index": 1191,
          "text": "are, significant contributing",
          "startTime": "01:10:19,986",
          "endTime": "01:10:23,866"
        },
        {
          "index": 1192,
          "text": "historic houses. In order to make",
          "startTime": "01:10:23,906",
          "endTime": "01:10:27,126"
        },
        {
          "index": 1193,
          "text": "any... For example, to make any changes to the",
          "startTime": "01:10:27,186",
          "endTime": "01:10:29,906"
        },
        {
          "index": 1194,
          "text": "exteriors of our buildings, including",
          "startTime": "01:10:29,926",
          "endTime": "01:10:33,366"
        },
        {
          "index": 1195,
          "text": "for, say, energy, energy efficient",
          "startTime": "01:10:33,466",
          "endTime": "01:10:36,406"
        },
        {
          "index": 1196,
          "text": "window replacement, it requires a major and a bureaucratic",
          "startTime": "01:10:37,566",
          "endTime": "01:10:41,326"
        },
        {
          "index": 1197,
          "text": "process to gain approval. I've done it a couple times",
          "startTime": "01:10:41,366",
          "endTime": "01:10:44,895"
        },
        {
          "index": 1198,
          "text": "and, I love the historic houses,",
          "startTime": "01:10:44,966",
          "endTime": "01:10:48,666"
        },
        {
          "index": 1199,
          "text": "so it's worthwhile for a lot of reasons.",
          "startTime": "01:10:49,946",
          "endTime": "01:10:52,086"
        },
        {
          "index": 1200,
          "text": "But,",
          "startTime": "01:10:52,106",
          "endTime": "01:10:53,486"
        },
        {
          "index": 1201,
          "text": "this, the Pineview is a monstrosity of",
          "startTime": "01:10:54,746",
          "endTime": "01:10:58,726"
        },
        {
          "index": 1202,
          "text": "a building structure for downtown Corvallis, and it wi-",
          "startTime": "01:10:58,786",
          "endTime": "01:11:02,596"
        },
        {
          "index": 1203,
          "text": "will fit in like a sore thumb. The proposed height",
          "startTime": "01:11:02,626",
          "endTime": "01:11:06,506"
        },
        {
          "index": 1204,
          "text": "will drown out the east sun and the sun completely",
          "startTime": "01:11:07,286",
          "endTime": "01:11:11,246"
        },
        {
          "index": 1205,
          "text": "until around noon for our properties",
          "startTime": "01:11:11,886",
          "endTime": "01:11:14,406"
        },
        {
          "index": 1206,
          "text": "for the neighboring blocks. I believe this proposed building will",
          "startTime": "01:11:15,546",
          "endTime": "01:11:19,066"
        },
        {
          "index": 1207,
          "text": "negatively impact the values of the historic homes in our",
          "startTime": "01:11:19,126",
          "endTime": "01:11:23,046"
        },
        {
          "index": 1208,
          "text": "downtown neighborhood. Uh, parking",
          "startTime": "01:11:23,086",
          "endTime": "01:11:26,946"
        },
        {
          "index": 1209,
          "text": "issues. Um, my understanding is there's",
          "startTime": "01:11:27,046",
          "endTime": "01:11:30,806"
        },
        {
          "index": 1210,
          "text": "not adequate parking for the proposed structure",
          "startTime": "01:11:30,866",
          "endTime": "01:11:34,835"
        },
        {
          "index": 1211,
          "text": "at this point.",
          "startTime": "01:11:35,526",
          "endTime": "01:11:36,335"
        },
        {
          "index": 1212,
          "text": "We live on Fifth Street. There's currently no on-street parking on Fifth",
          "startTime": "01:11:37,366",
          "endTime": "01:11:40,766"
        },
        {
          "index": 1213,
          "text": "Street. It was turned into bike lanes years ago,",
          "startTime": "01:11:40,806",
          "endTime": "01:11:44,696"
        },
        {
          "index": 1214,
          "text": "which is great, but if we have company",
          "startTime": "01:11:44,696",
          "endTime": "01:11:47,526"
        },
        {
          "index": 1215,
          "text": "to our house, they, they must park on on-street",
          "startTime": "01:11:48,686",
          "endTime": "01:11:52,546"
        },
        {
          "index": 1216,
          "text": "parking on the adjacent Washington Avenue.",
          "startTime": "01:11:52,626",
          "endTime": "01:11:55,306"
        },
        {
          "index": 1217,
          "text": "There's two blocks",
          "startTime": "01:11:55,326",
          "endTime": "01:11:56,166"
        },
        {
          "index": 1218,
          "text": "where there's on-street parking.",
          "startTime": "01:11:57,006",
          "endTime": "01:11:59,286"
        },
        {
          "index": 1219,
          "text": "Um, the proposed building will not",
          "startTime": "01:11:59,406",
          "endTime": "01:12:03,186"
        },
        {
          "index": 1220,
          "text": "provide, adequate parking for the residents, and so the",
          "startTime": "01:12:03,766",
          "endTime": "01:12:07,566"
        },
        {
          "index": 1221,
          "text": "on-street parking spaces will become rare, at",
          "startTime": "01:12:07,606",
          "endTime": "01:12:10,626"
        },
        {
          "index": 1222,
          "text": "best, find. Thank you.",
          "startTime": "01:12:10,686",
          "endTime": "01:12:13,746"
        },
        {
          "index": 1223,
          "text": "Thank you.",
          "startTime": "01:12:15,066",
          "endTime": "01:12:18,986"
        },
        {
          "index": 1224,
          "text": "Up next I have Patricia",
          "startTime": "01:12:21,346",
          "endTime": "01:12:22,466"
        },
        {
          "index": 1225,
          "text": "Vann.",
          "startTime": "01:12:25,086",
          "endTime": "01:12:25,426"
        },
        {
          "index": 1226,
          "text": "Vann.",
          "startTime": "01:12:25,436",
          "endTime": "01:12:26,866"
        },
        {
          "index": 1227,
          "text": "I c- I can read the Patricia, I'm just not sure about the last name, sorry.",
          "startTime": "01:12:27,286",
          "endTime": "01:12:29,776"
        },
        {
          "index": 1228,
          "text": "That's okay. That's much better.",
          "startTime": "01:12:29,786",
          "endTime": "01:12:33,326"
        },
        {
          "index": 1229,
          "text": "Okay, all. Thanks so very much. Thanks for the community to come out",
          "startTime": "01:12:35,306",
          "endTime": "01:12:39,166"
        },
        {
          "index": 1230,
          "text": "to speak on these various topics that are very, very important.",
          "startTime": "01:12:39,226",
          "endTime": "01:12:42,706"
        },
        {
          "index": 1231,
          "text": "I used to call Corvallis our cozy cove.",
          "startTime": "01:12:44,366",
          "endTime": "01:12:47,786"
        },
        {
          "index": 1232,
          "text": "I moved here from Manhattan in '91 because I love",
          "startTime": "01:12:47,846",
          "endTime": "01:12:51,786"
        },
        {
          "index": 1233,
          "text": "the community, the walkability, the safety, the",
          "startTime": "01:12:51,866",
          "endTime": "01:12:54,866"
        },
        {
          "index": 1234,
          "text": "schools.",
          "startTime": "01:12:55,046",
          "endTime": "01:12:56,386"
        },
        {
          "index": 1235,
          "text": "As we have to move forward, we can't live in the",
          "startTime": "01:12:58,006",
          "endTime": "01:13:01,696"
        },
        {
          "index": 1236,
          "text": "past,",
          "startTime": "01:13:01,766",
          "endTime": "01:13:02,346"
        },
        {
          "index": 1237,
          "text": "I urge the city council",
          "startTime": "01:13:03,166",
          "endTime": "01:13:04,786"
        },
        {
          "index": 1238,
          "text": "to think about",
          "startTime": "01:13:05,746",
          "endTime": "01:13:06,806"
        },
        {
          "index": 1239,
          "text": "what we are doing in terms of the safety.",
          "startTime": "01:13:07,786",
          "endTime": "01:13:11,696"
        },
        {
          "index": 1240,
          "text": "We've heard all about the... We have the whole programs for bike to school",
          "startTime": "01:13:11,706",
          "endTime": "01:13:15,346"
        },
        {
          "index": 1241,
          "text": "safety, bike and walk to school. Then we look at the schools",
          "startTime": "01:13:15,426",
          "endTime": "01:13:19,266"
        },
        {
          "index": 1242,
          "text": "that they are closing, and those they are",
          "startTime": "01:13:19,326",
          "endTime": "01:13:23,166"
        },
        {
          "index": 1243,
          "text": "keeping open. Um, Mountain View is by the",
          "startTime": "01:13:23,226",
          "endTime": "01:13:27,046"
        },
        {
          "index": 1244,
          "text": "railroad tracks,",
          "startTime": "01:13:27,166",
          "endTime": "01:13:28,306"
        },
        {
          "index": 1245,
          "text": "and there is no way to walk to Mountain View and to",
          "startTime": "01:13:29,226",
          "endTime": "01:13:33,106"
        },
        {
          "index": 1246,
          "text": "bike to Mountain View safely. We've already had a",
          "startTime": "01:13:33,166",
          "endTime": "01:13:36,786"
        },
        {
          "index": 1247,
          "text": "teacher killed in an accident on that railroad",
          "startTime": "01:13:36,846",
          "endTime": "01:13:39,986"
        },
        {
          "index": 1248,
          "text": "traffic-And nothing has been done at that",
          "startTime": "01:13:40,066",
          "endTime": "01:13:43,294"
        },
        {
          "index": 1249,
          "text": "area. Yet they're going to expand that",
          "startTime": "01:13:43,394",
          "endTime": "01:13:46,634"
        },
        {
          "index": 1250,
          "text": "school despite the chemicals in the water, which were",
          "startTime": "01:13:46,694",
          "endTime": "01:13:50,534"
        },
        {
          "index": 1251,
          "text": "known seventeen years again- ago, and are now erupting",
          "startTime": "01:13:50,554",
          "endTime": "01:13:54,144"
        },
        {
          "index": 1252,
          "text": "again. That school is now going to be a K",
          "startTime": "01:13:54,194",
          "endTime": "01:13:57,954"
        },
        {
          "index": 1253,
          "text": "through six and then K through eight.",
          "startTime": "01:13:58,034",
          "endTime": "01:14:00,334"
        },
        {
          "index": 1254,
          "text": "No bike lanes, no walkable",
          "startTime": "01:14:00,374",
          "endTime": "01:14:02,974"
        },
        {
          "index": 1255,
          "text": "paths, no safe railroad",
          "startTime": "01:14:03,114",
          "endTime": "01:14:05,414"
        },
        {
          "index": 1256,
          "text": "crossings. What are we doing? We can do",
          "startTime": "01:14:05,534",
          "endTime": "01:14:09,444"
        },
        {
          "index": 1257,
          "text": "better.",
          "startTime": "01:14:09,454",
          "endTime": "01:14:09,754"
        },
        {
          "index": 1258,
          "text": "The second one is",
          "startTime": "01:14:12,334",
          "endTime": "01:14:13,934"
        },
        {
          "index": 1259,
          "text": "Letitia Carson, Title I school.",
          "startTime": "01:14:15,214",
          "endTime": "01:14:17,254"
        },
        {
          "index": 1260,
          "text": "Affordable neighborhood right around there with tons and",
          "startTime": "01:14:18,454",
          "endTime": "01:14:22,174"
        },
        {
          "index": 1261,
          "text": "tons of good families walking their kids to",
          "startTime": "01:14:22,274",
          "endTime": "01:14:25,774"
        },
        {
          "index": 1262,
          "text": "school.",
          "startTime": "01:14:25,854",
          "endTime": "01:14:27,414"
        },
        {
          "index": 1263,
          "text": "And they're going to close it and put those children on",
          "startTime": "01:14:29,414",
          "endTime": "01:14:33,174"
        },
        {
          "index": 1264,
          "text": "buses. One family has three",
          "startTime": "01:14:33,214",
          "endTime": "01:14:36,164"
        },
        {
          "index": 1265,
          "text": "children, and they are going to be bused to three different",
          "startTime": "01:14:36,334",
          "endTime": "01:14:40,294"
        },
        {
          "index": 1266,
          "text": "schools. The enhancement of traffic is",
          "startTime": "01:14:40,394",
          "endTime": "01:14:44,184"
        },
        {
          "index": 1267,
          "text": "going to be unbelievable. We've got to have",
          "startTime": "01:14:44,214",
          "endTime": "01:14:46,504"
        },
        {
          "index": 1268,
          "text": "infrastructure.",
          "startTime": "01:14:46,574",
          "endTime": "01:14:49,734"
        },
        {
          "index": 1269,
          "text": "Uh, the Sheldon Middle School, which is perfect location for K through",
          "startTime": "01:14:51,294",
          "endTime": "01:14:55,054"
        },
        {
          "index": 1270,
          "text": "eight,",
          "startTime": "01:14:55,194",
          "endTime": "01:14:55,634"
        },
        {
          "index": 1271,
          "text": "is going to be closed. And those students will be",
          "startTime": "01:14:57,174",
          "endTime": "01:15:00,714"
        },
        {
          "index": 1272,
          "text": "bused, many of them into Linus Pauling,",
          "startTime": "01:15:00,834",
          "endTime": "01:15:04,054"
        },
        {
          "index": 1273,
          "text": "which is already super congested",
          "startTime": "01:15:04,894",
          "endTime": "01:15:07,534"
        },
        {
          "index": 1274,
          "text": "all through the morning and the evenings without walkable, safe paths",
          "startTime": "01:15:08,474",
          "endTime": "01:15:12,174"
        },
        {
          "index": 1275,
          "text": "and bike lanes. Seven hundred",
          "startTime": "01:15:12,774",
          "endTime": "01:15:16,234"
        },
        {
          "index": 1276,
          "text": "junior high kids.",
          "startTime": "01:15:16,474",
          "endTime": "01:15:17,534"
        },
        {
          "index": 1277,
          "text": "The traffic is gonna be unbelievable.",
          "startTime": "01:15:18,894",
          "endTime": "01:15:21,874"
        },
        {
          "index": 1278,
          "text": "We have to think and work together",
          "startTime": "01:15:21,914",
          "endTime": "01:15:23,934"
        },
        {
          "index": 1279,
          "text": "and establish safe routes for this, for the",
          "startTime": "01:15:24,794",
          "endTime": "01:15:28,204"
        },
        {
          "index": 1280,
          "text": "school, for the kids, for the pedestrians, and the people who live in the",
          "startTime": "01:15:28,354",
          "endTime": "01:15:31,414"
        },
        {
          "index": 1281,
          "text": "neighborhoods. And I'd like to see the city",
          "startTime": "01:15:31,454",
          "endTime": "01:15:35,434"
        },
        {
          "index": 1282,
          "text": "and the district work together and really put forth a",
          "startTime": "01:15:35,444",
          "endTime": "01:15:38,914"
        },
        {
          "index": 1283,
          "text": "plan. Thank you.",
          "startTime": "01:15:38,974",
          "endTime": "01:15:41,454"
        },
        {
          "index": 1284,
          "text": "Thank you.",
          "startTime": "01:15:41,474",
          "endTime": "01:15:42,454"
        },
        {
          "index": 1285,
          "text": "Up next is Tammy Scabina.",
          "startTime": "01:15:45,874",
          "endTime": "01:15:49,494"
        },
        {
          "index": 1286,
          "text": "Scabina.",
          "startTime": "01:15:50,754",
          "endTime": "01:15:51,484"
        },
        {
          "index": 1287,
          "text": "I really do try.",
          "startTime": "01:15:55,194",
          "endTime": "01:15:57,154"
        },
        {
          "index": 1288,
          "text": "That's okay. Yes, my name is Tammy Scabina, and",
          "startTime": "01:15:57,174",
          "endTime": "01:16:00,514"
        },
        {
          "index": 1289,
          "text": "I'm a member of Ward Eight. Um,",
          "startTime": "01:16:00,674",
          "endTime": "01:16:04,364"
        },
        {
          "index": 1290,
          "text": "I'm sharing my support of the resolution addressing escalating federal immigration",
          "startTime": "01:16:04,514",
          "endTime": "01:16:08,504"
        },
        {
          "index": 1291,
          "text": "enforcement. Um, it's my view that the",
          "startTime": "01:16:08,534",
          "endTime": "01:16:12,334"
        },
        {
          "index": 1292,
          "text": "city of Corvallis and the council and the mayor need to publicly put",
          "startTime": "01:16:12,374",
          "endTime": "01:16:15,874"
        },
        {
          "index": 1293,
          "text": "on record that everyone in Corvallis deserves to feel",
          "startTime": "01:16:15,974",
          "endTime": "01:16:19,304"
        },
        {
          "index": 1294,
          "text": "safe, and that especially immigrants",
          "startTime": "01:16:19,334",
          "endTime": "01:16:23,294"
        },
        {
          "index": 1295,
          "text": "and people of color need to feel safe.",
          "startTime": "01:16:23,304",
          "endTime": "01:16:26,054"
        },
        {
          "index": 1296,
          "text": "I have a friend that I met twenty years ago.",
          "startTime": "01:16:26,134",
          "endTime": "01:16:28,834"
        },
        {
          "index": 1297,
          "text": "She was a high school student here in Corvallis.",
          "startTime": "01:16:28,894",
          "endTime": "01:16:31,594"
        },
        {
          "index": 1298,
          "text": "I worked with her on projects where she was helping other students",
          "startTime": "01:16:31,654",
          "endTime": "01:16:34,734"
        },
        {
          "index": 1299,
          "text": "and making a difference. Twenty years later, she and her",
          "startTime": "01:16:35,694",
          "endTime": "01:16:39,654"
        },
        {
          "index": 1300,
          "text": "family are",
          "startTime": "01:16:39,714",
          "endTime": "01:16:40,254"
        },
        {
          "index": 1301,
          "text": "s-super fearful every single day.",
          "startTime": "01:16:41,514",
          "endTime": "01:16:44,954"
        },
        {
          "index": 1302,
          "text": "They own a business. Their kids are in our",
          "startTime": "01:16:44,974",
          "endTime": "01:16:47,494"
        },
        {
          "index": 1303,
          "text": "schools. I want them to know that the city supports",
          "startTime": "01:16:47,594",
          "endTime": "01:16:51,114"
        },
        {
          "index": 1304,
          "text": "them. And so please pass this resolution.",
          "startTime": "01:16:51,174",
          "endTime": "01:16:54,284"
        },
        {
          "index": 1305,
          "text": "There should be no question that this city should support this",
          "startTime": "01:16:54,294",
          "endTime": "01:16:57,984"
        },
        {
          "index": 1306,
          "text": "resolution of addressing escalating federal immigration enforcement.",
          "startTime": "01:16:58,014",
          "endTime": "01:17:02,004"
        },
        {
          "index": 1307,
          "text": "Thank you.",
          "startTime": "01:17:02,004",
          "endTime": "01:17:03,974"
        },
        {
          "index": 1308,
          "text": "Thank you.",
          "startTime": "01:17:04,014",
          "endTime": "01:17:05,954"
        },
        {
          "index": 1309,
          "text": "Andrew R?",
          "startTime": "01:17:07,314",
          "endTime": "01:17:09,834"
        },
        {
          "index": 1310,
          "text": "Hello, everybody. I'm from Fairyland,",
          "startTime": "01:17:21,994",
          "endTime": "01:17:24,204"
        },
        {
          "index": 1311,
          "text": "clearly. I, just, I'm from Ward Two.",
          "startTime": "01:17:25,514",
          "endTime": "01:17:29,054"
        },
        {
          "index": 1312,
          "text": "Um, I, I, I know this, I wanna speak in support of just about",
          "startTime": "01:17:29,154",
          "endTime": "01:17:33,054"
        },
        {
          "index": 1313,
          "text": "everybody who's spoken here before.",
          "startTime": "01:17:33,094",
          "endTime": "01:17:34,704"
        },
        {
          "index": 1314,
          "text": "Everything everybody said has been, exactly dead on.",
          "startTime": "01:17:34,754",
          "endTime": "01:17:37,784"
        },
        {
          "index": 1315,
          "text": "Uh, Third Street is a big problem. Fourth Street is also a major",
          "startTime": "01:17:37,894",
          "endTime": "01:17:41,694"
        },
        {
          "index": 1316,
          "text": "issue. Everybody drives down those two streets like they're driving down the",
          "startTime": "01:17:41,754",
          "endTime": "01:17:44,594"
        },
        {
          "index": 1317,
          "text": "highway, and it is always",
          "startTime": "01:17:44,634",
          "endTime": "01:17:46,414"
        },
        {
          "index": 1318,
          "text": "scary to cross those. I cross them regularly.",
          "startTime": "01:17:47,554",
          "endTime": "01:17:50,434"
        },
        {
          "index": 1319,
          "text": "Um, I've been visiting the, local drop-in center here.",
          "startTime": "01:17:50,554",
          "endTime": "01:17:53,824"
        },
        {
          "index": 1320,
          "text": "I try to get people to encourage people to",
          "startTime": "01:17:53,914",
          "endTime": "01:17:57,734"
        },
        {
          "index": 1321,
          "text": "go and, and visit there o-on a, you know, somewhat of a regular",
          "startTime": "01:17:57,794",
          "endTime": "01:18:01,573"
        },
        {
          "index": 1322,
          "text": "basis and talk to people there and listen to their stories.",
          "startTime": "01:18:01,654",
          "endTime": "01:18:04,114"
        },
        {
          "index": 1323,
          "text": "I've been hearing",
          "startTime": "01:18:04,194",
          "endTime": "01:18:04,834"
        },
        {
          "index": 1324,
          "text": "a lot of stories for months now.",
          "startTime": "01:18:05,734",
          "endTime": "01:18:07,914"
        },
        {
          "index": 1325,
          "text": "Um, my friend here, Jo-Joshua Browning, recently,",
          "startTime": "01:18:09,094",
          "endTime": "01:18:12,824"
        },
        {
          "index": 1326,
          "text": "was thrown out on the streets by Unity Shelters.",
          "startTime": "01:18:13,114",
          "endTime": "01:18:16,374"
        },
        {
          "index": 1327,
          "text": "Um, I've been hearing, stories, for months",
          "startTime": "01:18:16,474",
          "endTime": "01:18:19,984"
        },
        {
          "index": 1328,
          "text": "about Unity Shelters,",
          "startTime": "01:18:20,274",
          "endTime": "01:18:21,674"
        },
        {
          "index": 1329,
          "text": "throwing victims of property crimes by other shelter members",
          "startTime": "01:18:23,294",
          "endTime": "01:18:27,214"
        },
        {
          "index": 1330,
          "text": "out on the streets. Uh, some of them did not survive",
          "startTime": "01:18:27,274",
          "endTime": "01:18:30,834"
        },
        {
          "index": 1331,
          "text": "this. All of them had their lives disrupted.",
          "startTime": "01:18:30,894",
          "endTime": "01:18:33,714"
        },
        {
          "index": 1332,
          "text": "Um,",
          "startTime": "01:18:33,814",
          "endTime": "01:18:34,083"
        },
        {
          "index": 1333,
          "text": "it's strange. And then I started hearing them on the men's side recently,",
          "startTime": "01:18:35,214",
          "endTime": "01:18:39,114"
        },
        {
          "index": 1334,
          "text": "and",
          "startTime": "01:18:39,194",
          "endTime": "01:18:39,494"
        },
        {
          "index": 1335,
          "text": "I started hearing different things about all three of the shelters' abuses to",
          "startTime": "01:18:40,714",
          "endTime": "01:18:44,594"
        },
        {
          "index": 1336,
          "text": "shelter, residents and, you",
          "startTime": "01:18:44,614",
          "endTime": "01:18:48,194"
        },
        {
          "index": 1337,
          "text": "know, that sort of thing just does our community so much harm.",
          "startTime": "01:18:48,254",
          "endTime": "01:18:52,174"
        },
        {
          "index": 1338,
          "text": "I, I, I sh- hear about criminal",
          "startTime": "01:18:52,234",
          "endTime": "01:18:55,914"
        },
        {
          "index": 1339,
          "text": "activities there. I hear about criminal activities on the part of",
          "startTime": "01:18:55,934",
          "endTime": "01:18:59,174"
        },
        {
          "index": 1340,
          "text": "our, unfortunately, our local police force, using",
          "startTime": "01:18:59,234",
          "endTime": "01:19:02,784"
        },
        {
          "index": 1341,
          "text": "confidential informants and using, individuals that they catch with",
          "startTime": "01:19:02,834",
          "endTime": "01:19:06,494"
        },
        {
          "index": 1342,
          "text": "drugs to drop packages in places. And, confidential",
          "startTime": "01:19:06,514",
          "endTime": "01:19:10,234"
        },
        {
          "index": 1343,
          "text": "informants, as you know, cannot be held accountable or go to jail because",
          "startTime": "01:19:10,254",
          "endTime": "01:19:14,024"
        },
        {
          "index": 1344,
          "text": "there's a, a mythology that they will be murdered",
          "startTime": "01:19:14,054",
          "endTime": "01:19:18,014"
        },
        {
          "index": 1345,
          "text": "if they ever wind up there. Um, so they're pretty much free",
          "startTime": "01:19:18,074",
          "endTime": "01:19:21,944"
        },
        {
          "index": 1346,
          "text": "of all accountability to any laws in, in most of the cities that,",
          "startTime": "01:19:21,974",
          "endTime": "01:19:25,424"
        },
        {
          "index": 1347,
          "text": "that they, they use them for, purposes, law enforcement.",
          "startTime": "01:19:25,914",
          "endTime": "01:19:29,454"
        },
        {
          "index": 1348,
          "text": "And, I've heard a, a story from a man who came here to get",
          "startTime": "01:19:29,464",
          "endTime": "01:19:33,194"
        },
        {
          "index": 1349,
          "text": "his wife out of a trafficking situation, was told by an officer--",
          "startTime": "01:19:33,214",
          "endTime": "01:19:37,124"
        },
        {
          "index": 1350,
          "text": "asked by an officer where he lived.",
          "startTime": "01:19:37,194",
          "endTime": "01:19:38,484"
        },
        {
          "index": 1351,
          "text": "He said, \"California.\" And, and the officer told him, \"You should just go back",
          "startTime": "01:19:38,514",
          "endTime": "01:19:41,844"
        },
        {
          "index": 1352,
          "text": "there.\" Um, and he said, \"Well, I'm not leaving until I get my wife out of this",
          "startTime": "01:19:41,844",
          "endTime": "01:19:45,424"
        },
        {
          "index": 1353,
          "text": "trafficking situation.\" Um...Yeah, the stories I",
          "startTime": "01:19:45,454",
          "endTime": "01:19:49,194"
        },
        {
          "index": 1354,
          "text": "hear just over and over again, I, I...",
          "startTime": "01:19:49,274",
          "endTime": "01:19:52,674"
        },
        {
          "index": 1355,
          "text": "Y- you can't, I can't just tell you these stories.",
          "startTime": "01:19:52,714",
          "endTime": "01:19:55,434"
        },
        {
          "index": 1356,
          "text": "They're, they're facts, but you have to hear them for",
          "startTime": "01:19:55,454",
          "endTime": "01:19:59,194"
        },
        {
          "index": 1357,
          "text": "yourself. Um, maybe journalistic efforts can.",
          "startTime": "01:19:59,234",
          "endTime": "01:20:02,894"
        },
        {
          "index": 1358,
          "text": "Um, I'm, I'm working on an investigative journalism effort, Voice of the",
          "startTime": "01:20:02,974",
          "endTime": "01:20:06,764"
        },
        {
          "index": 1359,
          "text": "Voiceless for the City, to try and do some, uh...",
          "startTime": "01:20:06,814",
          "endTime": "01:20:09,964"
        },
        {
          "index": 1360,
          "text": "My whole family's journalists. Um, do some investigative journalism, get some",
          "startTime": "01:20:09,964",
          "endTime": "01:20:13,414"
        },
        {
          "index": 1361,
          "text": "changes to, to the city. In Oregon, I hear that we're 49th in",
          "startTime": "01:20:13,454",
          "endTime": "01:20:17,004"
        },
        {
          "index": 1362,
          "text": "outcomes for mentally ill people. Who, who is allowing that?",
          "startTime": "01:20:17,034",
          "endTime": "01:20:20,394"
        },
        {
          "index": 1363,
          "text": "Who is, who is not funding those people? So on and so forth.",
          "startTime": "01:20:20,434",
          "endTime": "01:20:23,764"
        },
        {
          "index": 1364,
          "text": "That's all.",
          "startTime": "01:20:23,794",
          "endTime": "01:20:25,684"
        },
        {
          "index": 1365,
          "text": "Thank you.",
          "startTime": "01:20:25,734",
          "endTime": "01:20:28,094"
        },
        {
          "index": 1366,
          "text": "Do you have any questions?",
          "startTime": "01:20:28,174",
          "endTime": "01:20:29,874"
        },
        {
          "index": 1367,
          "text": "Everybody good?",
          "startTime": "01:20:31,014",
          "endTime": "01:20:31,423"
        },
        {
          "index": 1368,
          "text": "No questions. Thank you.",
          "startTime": "01:20:31,434",
          "endTime": "01:20:32,714"
        },
        {
          "index": 1369,
          "text": "Brendan",
          "startTime": "01:20:34,334",
          "endTime": "01:20:34,594"
        },
        {
          "index": 1370,
          "text": "Kohlberg.",
          "startTime": "01:20:34,634",
          "endTime": "01:20:38,854"
        },
        {
          "index": 1371,
          "text": "Hello there, mayor and council. I'm coming in my individual capacity as",
          "startTime": "01:20:44,034",
          "endTime": "01:20:47,774"
        },
        {
          "index": 1372,
          "text": "vice chair of the planning commission, though I'm also a ward, a resident of Ward",
          "startTime": "01:20:47,874",
          "endTime": "01:20:51,074"
        },
        {
          "index": 1373,
          "text": "6. Um, the planning commission has ma- or we",
          "startTime": "01:20:51,334",
          "endTime": "01:20:55,114"
        },
        {
          "index": 1374,
          "text": "decided at our last meeting, which was held in person, our annual work plan,",
          "startTime": "01:20:55,134",
          "endTime": "01:20:59,044"
        },
        {
          "index": 1375,
          "text": "to make two somewhat significant changes to our workflow that I figure you",
          "startTime": "01:20:59,174",
          "endTime": "01:21:02,474"
        },
        {
          "index": 1376,
          "text": "should be informed of. Um, as of the cycle of members this",
          "startTime": "01:21:02,554",
          "endTime": "01:21:06,344"
        },
        {
          "index": 1377,
          "text": "summer, some are rotating off at the end of June, and then more should be",
          "startTime": "01:21:06,414",
          "endTime": "01:21:09,894"
        },
        {
          "index": 1378,
          "text": "appointed at the beginning of July.",
          "startTime": "01:21:09,914",
          "endTime": "01:21:11,684"
        },
        {
          "index": 1379,
          "text": "We're going back to fully in-person meetings or hybrid in-person",
          "startTime": "01:21:11,684",
          "endTime": "01:21:15,374"
        },
        {
          "index": 1380,
          "text": "first meetings. I believe we're the last major commission to do so.",
          "startTime": "01:21:15,474",
          "endTime": "01:21:19,024"
        },
        {
          "index": 1381,
          "text": "And then secondly, because members of the commission weren't too",
          "startTime": "01:21:19,024",
          "endTime": "01:21:22,574"
        },
        {
          "index": 1382,
          "text": "confident in how to prioritize different changes to the",
          "startTime": "01:21:22,614",
          "endTime": "01:21:25,834"
        },
        {
          "index": 1383,
          "text": "LDC, given that there's a list that's about six years long and the amount of",
          "startTime": "01:21:25,894",
          "endTime": "01:21:29,574"
        },
        {
          "index": 1384,
          "text": "time we have, we're interested in, in the process of trying to figure",
          "startTime": "01:21:29,614",
          "endTime": "01:21:33,394"
        },
        {
          "index": 1385,
          "text": "out how we can learn what changes are most",
          "startTime": "01:21:33,454",
          "endTime": "01:21:37,314"
        },
        {
          "index": 1386,
          "text": "important. In particular, establishing communication lines with the",
          "startTime": "01:21:37,334",
          "endTime": "01:21:41,034"
        },
        {
          "index": 1387,
          "text": "people who interface with them most, from the user side, which is a",
          "startTime": "01:21:41,054",
          "endTime": "01:21:44,634"
        },
        {
          "index": 1388,
          "text": "practice standard in most, like, tech and high performance companies.",
          "startTime": "01:21:44,654",
          "endTime": "01:21:47,654"
        },
        {
          "index": 1389,
          "text": "Um, so we're looking at what we can do, as far",
          "startTime": "01:21:48,154",
          "endTime": "01:21:52,014"
        },
        {
          "index": 1390,
          "text": "as our positioning, to hear from developers",
          "startTime": "01:21:52,254",
          "endTime": "01:21:56,054"
        },
        {
          "index": 1391,
          "text": "and, and people who would like to develop but can't about rules that they feel that",
          "startTime": "01:21:56,114",
          "endTime": "01:21:59,704"
        },
        {
          "index": 1392,
          "text": "are in the way, but not... And then contrasting those with, you",
          "startTime": "01:21:59,774",
          "endTime": "01:22:03,714"
        },
        {
          "index": 1393,
          "text": "know, the point of regulations is to solve collection action problems and keep",
          "startTime": "01:22:03,754",
          "endTime": "01:22:06,874"
        },
        {
          "index": 1394,
          "text": "people's private incentives from overruling the common good.",
          "startTime": "01:22:06,894",
          "endTime": "01:22:09,754"
        },
        {
          "index": 1395,
          "text": "But where a rule provides, barriers",
          "startTime": "01:22:09,774",
          "endTime": "01:22:13,334"
        },
        {
          "index": 1396,
          "text": "to, the city's goals of",
          "startTime": "01:22:13,454",
          "endTime": "01:22:17,144"
        },
        {
          "index": 1397,
          "text": "affordability and economic development, but they're, it's not actually actively",
          "startTime": "01:22:17,194",
          "endTime": "01:22:20,574"
        },
        {
          "index": 1398,
          "text": "preser- preventing something that the city does not want, and we're gonna try to",
          "startTime": "01:22:20,614",
          "endTime": "01:22:23,914"
        },
        {
          "index": 1399,
          "text": "identify those and see where we can improve some of those.",
          "startTime": "01:22:23,954",
          "endTime": "01:22:26,574"
        },
        {
          "index": 1400,
          "text": "So just a brief update there. Um, if you guys, you're, you're",
          "startTime": "01:22:26,594",
          "endTime": "01:22:30,474"
        },
        {
          "index": 1401,
          "text": "obviously more connected to the community than anyone on the commission is,",
          "startTime": "01:22:30,554",
          "endTime": "01:22:33,794"
        },
        {
          "index": 1402,
          "text": "if you have any leads on things that you think we should look at, there's a lot",
          "startTime": "01:22:35,014",
          "endTime": "01:22:38,914"
        },
        {
          "index": 1403,
          "text": "of uncertainty on that, and I figured you should be informed even,",
          "startTime": "01:22:38,954",
          "endTime": "01:22:41,814"
        },
        {
          "index": 1404,
          "text": "yeah, even that says. That's all.",
          "startTime": "01:22:43,354",
          "endTime": "01:22:45,854"
        },
        {
          "index": 1405,
          "text": "Thank you.",
          "startTime": "01:22:45,924",
          "endTime": "01:22:47,974"
        },
        {
          "index": 1406,
          "text": "That concludes our community comments.",
          "startTime": "01:22:50,414",
          "endTime": "01:22:54,294"
        },
        {
          "index": 1407,
          "text": "Moving on to the consent agenda.",
          "startTime": "01:22:54,314",
          "endTime": "01:22:56,434"
        },
        {
          "index": 1408,
          "text": "I will move to adopt the consent agenda.",
          "startTime": "01:22:56,514",
          "endTime": "01:22:59,294"
        },
        {
          "index": 1409,
          "text": "Second.",
          "startTime": "01:22:59,994",
          "endTime": "01:23:01,174"
        },
        {
          "index": 1410,
          "text": "Worried there. It was kind of a pause.",
          "startTime": "01:23:01,994",
          "endTime": "01:23:03,294"
        },
        {
          "index": 1411,
          "text": "Any discussion? Seeing no hands, all",
          "startTime": "01:23:04,094",
          "endTime": "01:23:08,034"
        },
        {
          "index": 1412,
          "text": "in favor of adopting the consent agenda, say aye.",
          "startTime": "01:23:08,103",
          "endTime": "01:23:10,514"
        },
        {
          "index": 1413,
          "text": "Aye.",
          "startTime": "01:23:10,594",
          "endTime": "01:23:11,694"
        },
        {
          "index": 1414,
          "text": "Aye.",
          "startTime": "01:23:11,704",
          "endTime": "01:23:11,704"
        },
        {
          "index": 1415,
          "text": "Aye.",
          "startTime": "01:23:11,714",
          "endTime": "01:23:12,494"
        },
        {
          "index": 1416,
          "text": "All opposed, say no. That passed",
          "startTime": "01:23:12,634",
          "endTime": "01:23:15,414"
        },
        {
          "index": 1417,
          "text": "unanimously. Now on to unfinished business.",
          "startTime": "01:23:15,514",
          "endTime": "01:23:18,634"
        },
        {
          "index": 1418,
          "text": "We have item A, revised noise ordinance.",
          "startTime": "01:23:18,654",
          "endTime": "01:23:21,794"
        },
        {
          "index": 1419,
          "text": "Um, city manager's here to...",
          "startTime": "01:23:21,914",
          "endTime": "01:23:25,514"
        },
        {
          "index": 1420,
          "text": "Yes. Um, our police department staff brought this forward at your",
          "startTime": "01:23:25,574",
          "endTime": "01:23:29,394"
        },
        {
          "index": 1421,
          "text": "February 19th work session. Uh, just to check in",
          "startTime": "01:23:29,434",
          "endTime": "01:23:33,294"
        },
        {
          "index": 1422,
          "text": "with you, council seemed, amenable to these changes, so",
          "startTime": "01:23:33,354",
          "endTime": "01:23:37,134"
        },
        {
          "index": 1423,
          "text": "they are in front of you, in the ordinance here.",
          "startTime": "01:23:37,214",
          "endTime": "01:23:41,174"
        },
        {
          "index": 1424,
          "text": "You have a",
          "startTime": "01:23:41,194",
          "endTime": "01:23:41,774"
        },
        {
          "index": 1425,
          "text": "redline strikeout starting on page 133 of the electronic",
          "startTime": "01:23:42,934",
          "endTime": "01:23:46,494"
        },
        {
          "index": 1426,
          "text": "packet, and then a clean copy on, starting on page",
          "startTime": "01:23:46,574",
          "endTime": "01:23:49,054"
        },
        {
          "index": 1427,
          "text": "137.",
          "startTime": "01:23:49,214",
          "endTime": "01:23:50,894"
        },
        {
          "index": 1428,
          "text": "Thank you. And, and the chief is here if we have questions that",
          "startTime": "01:23:51,974",
          "endTime": "01:23:55,794"
        },
        {
          "index": 1429,
          "text": "city manager can't answer, but you're okay.",
          "startTime": "01:23:56,334",
          "endTime": "01:23:58,854"
        },
        {
          "index": 1430,
          "text": "Any questions, or should we have the ordinance read?",
          "startTime": "01:23:58,894",
          "endTime": "01:24:02,174"
        },
        {
          "index": 1431,
          "text": "All right. City recorder, if you would, please.",
          "startTime": "01:24:03,774",
          "endTime": "01:24:06,174"
        },
        {
          "index": 1432,
          "text": "This is an ordinance relating to noise amending Corvallis Municipal Code",
          "startTime": "01:24:06,214",
          "endTime": "01:24:09,774"
        },
        {
          "index": 1433,
          "text": "Section 5.03.030,",
          "startTime": "01:24:09,834",
          "endTime": "01:24:13,104"
        },
        {
          "index": 1434,
          "text": "noise.",
          "startTime": "01:24:13,104",
          "endTime": "01:24:14,854"
        },
        {
          "index": 1435,
          "text": "Very much. Again, last chance for any questions, or we can just take a",
          "startTime": "01:24:15,714",
          "endTime": "01:24:18,694"
        },
        {
          "index": 1436,
          "text": "vote.",
          "startTime": "01:24:18,754",
          "endTime": "01:24:20,794"
        },
        {
          "index": 1437,
          "text": "I have an observation.",
          "startTime": "01:24:20,814",
          "endTime": "01:24:22,454"
        },
        {
          "index": 1438,
          "text": "Please, Councilor Ellis.",
          "startTime": "01:24:22,474",
          "endTime": "01:24:24,214"
        },
        {
          "index": 1439,
          "text": "This was actually a topic of conversation at my house this weekend, because some",
          "startTime": "01:24:24,274",
          "endTime": "01:24:28,244"
        },
        {
          "index": 1440,
          "text": "people may know that it was not actually St.",
          "startTime": "01:24:28,254",
          "endTime": "01:24:31,434"
        },
        {
          "index": 1441,
          "text": "Patrick's Day, but the fraternities were celebrating St.",
          "startTime": "01:24:31,444",
          "endTime": "01:24:34,464"
        },
        {
          "index": 1442,
          "text": "Patrick's Day. Um, and we were actually talking about hopefully with the",
          "startTime": "01:24:34,494",
          "endTime": "01:24:38,314"
        },
        {
          "index": 1443,
          "text": "clarity of having the decibel level, there will be",
          "startTime": "01:24:38,374",
          "endTime": "01:24:41,914"
        },
        {
          "index": 1444,
          "text": "less conflict between the police and the",
          "startTime": "01:24:42,034",
          "endTime": "01:24:45,214"
        },
        {
          "index": 1445,
          "text": "people celebrating, shall we say.",
          "startTime": "01:24:45,254",
          "endTime": "01:24:47,914"
        },
        {
          "index": 1446,
          "text": "So we are feeling pretty positive about this.",
          "startTime": "01:24:47,954",
          "endTime": "01:24:50,064"
        },
        {
          "index": 1447,
          "text": "Yeah, I have to agree. I re- I really think that the, you know, hard facts instead",
          "startTime": "01:24:51,174",
          "endTime": "01:24:54,654"
        },
        {
          "index": 1448,
          "text": "of just trying to determine whether or not there's a violation is gonna",
          "startTime": "01:24:54,694",
          "endTime": "01:24:58,454"
        },
        {
          "index": 1449,
          "text": "be useful for everybody.",
          "startTime": "01:24:58,494",
          "endTime": "01:25:00,674"
        },
        {
          "index": 1450,
          "text": "Appreciate it. All right. Let's, I guess, go ahead and take a vote.",
          "startTime": "01:25:01,934",
          "endTime": "01:25:05,644"
        },
        {
          "index": 1451,
          "text": "Oh. Some more things. Go ahead.",
          "startTime": "01:25:05,654",
          "endTime": "01:25:07,554"
        },
        {
          "index": 1452,
          "text": "Um, just, just a quick comment. I appreciate the work that went into this so",
          "startTime": "01:25:07,674",
          "endTime": "01:25:11,394"
        },
        {
          "index": 1453,
          "text": "quickly after a problem was identified, so thank you to the police",
          "startTime": "01:25:11,474",
          "endTime": "01:25:15,114"
        },
        {
          "index": 1454,
          "text": "department for your work.",
          "startTime": "01:25:15,154",
          "endTime": "01:25:16,924"
        },
        {
          "index": 1455,
          "text": "Yes, absolutely.",
          "startTime": "01:25:16,954",
          "endTime": "01:25:19,394"
        },
        {
          "index": 1456,
          "text": "Do you have a question or comment?",
          "startTime": "01:25:21,294",
          "endTime": "01:25:22,124"
        },
        {
          "index": 1457,
          "text": "Mm-mm.",
          "startTime": "01:25:22,134",
          "endTime": "01:25:22,294"
        },
        {
          "index": 1458,
          "text": "Oh, okay. Thought I saw a hand.",
          "startTime": "01:25:22,314",
          "endTime": "01:25:23,854"
        },
        {
          "index": 1459,
          "text": "Nope.",
          "startTime": "01:25:23,894",
          "endTime": "01:25:24,414"
        },
        {
          "index": 1460,
          "text": "All right. Let's go ahead and, take a vote.",
          "startTime": "01:25:24,424",
          "endTime": "01:25:26,474"
        },
        {
          "index": 1461,
          "text": "All in favor of the ordinance, say aye.",
          "startTime": "01:25:26,514",
          "endTime": "01:25:28,854"
        },
        {
          "index": 1462,
          "text": "Aye.",
          "startTime": "01:25:28,864",
          "endTime": "01:25:28,864"
        },
        {
          "index": 1463,
          "text": "Aye.",
          "startTime": "01:25:28,874",
          "endTime": "01:25:29,854"
        },
        {
          "index": 1464,
          "text": "Aye.",
          "startTime": "01:25:29,864",
          "endTime": "01:25:29,864"
        },
        {
          "index": 1465,
          "text": "All opposed, say no. That passed unanimously.",
          "startTime": "01:25:31,054",
          "endTime": "01:25:34,354"
        },
        {
          "index": 1466,
          "text": "Thank you all, and again, thank you to all staff and that were involved in",
          "startTime": "01:25:34,394",
          "endTime": "01:25:38,154"
        },
        {
          "index": 1467,
          "text": "this. Much appreciated.",
          "startTime": "01:25:38,214",
          "endTime": "01:25:40,814"
        },
        {
          "index": 1468,
          "text": "Next up, and we're moving on to new business now.",
          "startTime": "01:25:43,374",
          "endTime": "01:25:46,454"
        },
        {
          "index": 1469,
          "text": "Item A, Pineview Multi-Unit, Multi-Unit Property Tax Exemption, also known as",
          "startTime": "01:25:46,474",
          "endTime": "01:25:50,284"
        },
        {
          "index": 1470,
          "text": "MEPTA application.",
          "startTime": "01:25:50,354",
          "endTime": "01:25:51,354"
        },
        {
          "index": 1471,
          "text": "Thank you, Mayor, members of the council.",
          "startTime": "01:25:54,678",
          "endTime": "01:25:56,758"
        },
        {
          "index": 1472,
          "text": "Um, normally I wouldn't be up here.",
          "startTime": "01:25:56,858",
          "endTime": "01:25:58,758"
        },
        {
          "index": 1473,
          "text": "This is a economic development activity, so we would...",
          "startTime": "01:25:58,798",
          "endTime": "01:26:01,388"
        },
        {
          "index": 1474,
          "text": "It's generally about the dollars and cents.",
          "startTime": "01:26:01,418",
          "endTime": "01:26:03,038"
        },
        {
          "index": 1475,
          "text": "But I know you had a lot of testimony from, community members, and",
          "startTime": "01:26:03,078",
          "endTime": "01:26:06,768"
        },
        {
          "index": 1476,
          "text": "looking through that, I think eighty or ninety percent of it was about land",
          "startTime": "01:26:06,858",
          "endTime": "01:26:10,478"
        },
        {
          "index": 1477,
          "text": "use, piece. So I'm here for, that aspect if you have",
          "startTime": "01:26:10,558",
          "endTime": "01:26:14,518"
        },
        {
          "index": 1478,
          "text": "questions down that line. But, also the developer is,",
          "startTime": "01:26:14,578",
          "endTime": "01:26:17,968"
        },
        {
          "index": 1479,
          "text": "available remotely, so there'll be a moment for them as",
          "startTime": "01:26:18,358",
          "endTime": "01:26:21,088"
        },
        {
          "index": 1480,
          "text": "well.",
          "startTime": "01:26:21,138",
          "endTime": "01:26:22,638"
        },
        {
          "index": 1481,
          "text": "That's what I was checking.",
          "startTime": "01:26:22,648",
          "endTime": "01:26:22,668"
        },
        {
          "index": 1482,
          "text": "Yes, and the city attorney is online as well.",
          "startTime": "01:26:22,678",
          "endTime": "01:26:24,678"
        },
        {
          "index": 1483,
          "text": "Okay. So, with that kind of intro, I'll turn it back over to the regularly",
          "startTime": "01:26:24,738",
          "endTime": "01:26:28,558"
        },
        {
          "index": 1484,
          "text": "scheduled show.",
          "startTime": "01:26:28,698",
          "endTime": "01:26:30,918"
        },
        {
          "index": 1485,
          "text": "Good evening, everyone. Uh, great to be with you.",
          "startTime": "01:26:30,958",
          "endTime": "01:26:33,118"
        },
        {
          "index": 1486,
          "text": "I'm excited to present this,",
          "startTime": "01:26:33,238",
          "endTime": "01:26:35,358"
        },
        {
          "index": 1487,
          "text": "MUPTE application, the second that the city's received.",
          "startTime": "01:26:36,638",
          "endTime": "01:26:40,138"
        },
        {
          "index": 1488,
          "text": "Um, it is a, a exemption",
          "startTime": "01:26:40,238",
          "endTime": "01:26:43,938"
        },
        {
          "index": 1489,
          "text": "request for ten years, totaling thirteen million four",
          "startTime": "01:26:43,948",
          "endTime": "01:26:47,888"
        },
        {
          "index": 1490,
          "text": "hundred and twelve thousand s- three hundred and seventy-nine dollars.",
          "startTime": "01:26:47,918",
          "endTime": "01:26:51,778"
        },
        {
          "index": 1491,
          "text": "Um,",
          "startTime": "01:26:51,878",
          "endTime": "01:26:52,248"
        },
        {
          "index": 1492,
          "text": "this is a, a thirteen-story building with two hundred and sixty-three",
          "startTime": "01:26:53,938",
          "endTime": "01:26:57,738"
        },
        {
          "index": 1493,
          "text": "units and, commercial on the ground floor.",
          "startTime": "01:26:57,818",
          "endTime": "01:27:01,438"
        },
        {
          "index": 1494,
          "text": "Um, total project cost is estimated to be a hundred and thirty-two million",
          "startTime": "01:27:01,538",
          "endTime": "01:27:05,198"
        },
        {
          "index": 1495,
          "text": "dollars. Um, a little context, the two hundred and",
          "startTime": "01:27:05,238",
          "endTime": "01:27:09,028"
        },
        {
          "index": 1496,
          "text": "sixty-three units, just about double the number",
          "startTime": "01:27:09,028",
          "endTime": "01:27:12,908"
        },
        {
          "index": 1497,
          "text": "of units currently in downtown for residential",
          "startTime": "01:27:13,018",
          "endTime": "01:27:15,758"
        },
        {
          "index": 1498,
          "text": "units. When we look at the MUPTE",
          "startTime": "01:27:15,818",
          "endTime": "01:27:19,598"
        },
        {
          "index": 1499,
          "text": "application and the staff review, it really, comes down to three",
          "startTime": "01:27:19,658",
          "endTime": "01:27:23,638"
        },
        {
          "index": 1500,
          "text": "tests. The but-for test, so is this project financially",
          "startTime": "01:27:23,698",
          "endTime": "01:27:27,458"
        },
        {
          "index": 1501,
          "text": "feasible but for the exemption? And we,",
          "startTime": "01:27:27,538",
          "endTime": "01:27:31,338"
        },
        {
          "index": 1502,
          "text": "have a requirement that we have a third-party financial consultant do",
          "startTime": "01:27:31,778",
          "endTime": "01:27:35,338"
        },
        {
          "index": 1503,
          "text": "that analysis. Um, that financial consultant is also",
          "startTime": "01:27:35,378",
          "endTime": "01:27:38,878"
        },
        {
          "index": 1504,
          "text": "online, can answer any technical questions about,",
          "startTime": "01:27:38,958",
          "endTime": "01:27:42,018"
        },
        {
          "index": 1505,
          "text": "the report produced by ECO Northwest.",
          "startTime": "01:27:42,978",
          "endTime": "01:27:44,978"
        },
        {
          "index": 1506,
          "text": "Um, at the end of the day, it was concluded through that,",
          "startTime": "01:27:45,718",
          "endTime": "01:27:49,298"
        },
        {
          "index": 1507,
          "text": "analysis that, the project, passes the but-for",
          "startTime": "01:27:49,678",
          "endTime": "01:27:53,538"
        },
        {
          "index": 1508,
          "text": "test. The next is the affordable housing test, so fifteen",
          "startTime": "01:27:53,658",
          "endTime": "01:27:57,638"
        },
        {
          "index": 1509,
          "text": "percent of the project's units must be affordable for households",
          "startTime": "01:27:57,718",
          "endTime": "01:28:01,398"
        },
        {
          "index": 1510,
          "text": "earning eighty percent or less of the AMI in Corvallis, or,",
          "startTime": "01:28:01,478",
          "endTime": "01:28:05,367"
        },
        {
          "index": 1511,
          "text": "the applicant can provide ten percent of the total property tax",
          "startTime": "01:28:05,758",
          "endTime": "01:28:08,458"
        },
        {
          "index": 1512,
          "text": "exemption to fund the development of future affordable housing.",
          "startTime": "01:28:08,498",
          "endTime": "01:28:12,218"
        },
        {
          "index": 1513,
          "text": "Um, this applicant chose to provide, ten",
          "startTime": "01:28:12,318",
          "endTime": "01:28:15,958"
        },
        {
          "index": 1514,
          "text": "percent of the total property tax exemption.",
          "startTime": "01:28:16,038",
          "endTime": "01:28:18,888"
        },
        {
          "index": 1515,
          "text": "And we'll get to what all the total financials are here at the",
          "startTime": "01:28:18,888",
          "endTime": "01:28:22,838"
        },
        {
          "index": 1516,
          "text": "end. Um, but the third, test,",
          "startTime": "01:28:22,918",
          "endTime": "01:28:26,858"
        },
        {
          "index": 1517,
          "text": "so to speak, is the public benefits test.",
          "startTime": "01:28:26,918",
          "endTime": "01:28:29,558"
        },
        {
          "index": 1518,
          "text": "So there's a list of public benefits in the ordinance from which a developer can",
          "startTime": "01:28:29,618",
          "endTime": "01:28:33,278"
        },
        {
          "index": 1519,
          "text": "choose to try,",
          "startTime": "01:28:33,398",
          "endTime": "01:28:34,478"
        },
        {
          "index": 1520,
          "text": "and, and accomplish to, qualify for the",
          "startTime": "01:28:36,278",
          "endTime": "01:28:39,398"
        },
        {
          "index": 1521,
          "text": "MUPTE. Um, there are,",
          "startTime": "01:28:39,418",
          "endTime": "01:28:42,898"
        },
        {
          "index": 1522,
          "text": "four identified in the application: public infrastructure,",
          "startTime": "01:28:44,198",
          "endTime": "01:28:48,178"
        },
        {
          "index": 1523,
          "text": "high quality urban design and special architectural features, economic",
          "startTime": "01:28:48,198",
          "endTime": "01:28:51,918"
        },
        {
          "index": 1524,
          "text": "catalytic effect, and connectivity improvements.",
          "startTime": "01:28:51,978",
          "endTime": "01:28:54,488"
        },
        {
          "index": 1525,
          "text": "As for pub- public infrastructure, very",
          "startTime": "01:28:55,738",
          "endTime": "01:28:59,158"
        },
        {
          "index": 1526,
          "text": "straightforward, the applicant has agreed to deposit one hundred thousand dollars",
          "startTime": "01:28:59,198",
          "endTime": "01:29:02,518"
        },
        {
          "index": 1527,
          "text": "with the city to be used for construction of public infrastructure in the",
          "startTime": "01:29:02,558",
          "endTime": "01:29:06,198"
        },
        {
          "index": 1528,
          "text": "CIP, and that'll be the discretion of,",
          "startTime": "01:29:06,238",
          "endTime": "01:29:10,218"
        },
        {
          "index": 1529,
          "text": "public works and staff to determine what",
          "startTime": "01:29:10,638",
          "endTime": "01:29:13,898"
        },
        {
          "index": 1530,
          "text": "exactly is, what those dollars are, are earmarked",
          "startTime": "01:29:13,918",
          "endTime": "01:29:17,478"
        },
        {
          "index": 1531,
          "text": "for. Um,",
          "startTime": "01:29:17,538",
          "endTime": "01:29:19,608"
        },
        {
          "index": 1532,
          "text": "next is high quality urban design, special architectural features.",
          "startTime": "01:29:20,758",
          "endTime": "01:29:23,678"
        },
        {
          "index": 1533,
          "text": "So the development provides high quality landscaping and",
          "startTime": "01:29:23,718",
          "endTime": "01:29:26,988"
        },
        {
          "index": 1534,
          "text": "architecture and/or other elements beyond what the city of Corvallis,",
          "startTime": "01:29:27,038",
          "endTime": "01:29:30,878"
        },
        {
          "index": 1535,
          "text": "currently provides. Um, there's sufficient detail in the",
          "startTime": "01:29:31,178",
          "endTime": "01:29:34,938"
        },
        {
          "index": 1536,
          "text": "application to demonstrate high quality architectural design and a commitment to",
          "startTime": "01:29:34,978",
          "endTime": "01:29:38,358"
        },
        {
          "index": 1537,
          "text": "exceeding City of Corvallis code standards in the choice of",
          "startTime": "01:29:38,378",
          "endTime": "01:29:42,318"
        },
        {
          "index": 1538,
          "text": "extraordinary materials. Um, it's not",
          "startTime": "01:29:42,358",
          "endTime": "01:29:45,918"
        },
        {
          "index": 1539,
          "text": "located on lots that are identified as having historic significance, so it's",
          "startTime": "01:29:45,978",
          "endTime": "01:29:49,568"
        },
        {
          "index": 1540,
          "text": "not subject to the Historic Resources",
          "startTime": "01:29:49,618",
          "endTime": "01:29:52,258"
        },
        {
          "index": 1541,
          "text": "Commission. Um,",
          "startTime": "01:29:52,338",
          "endTime": "01:29:54,208"
        },
        {
          "index": 1542,
          "text": "that, public benefit is, in our",
          "startTime": "01:29:56,198",
          "endTime": "01:29:59,198"
        },
        {
          "index": 1543,
          "text": "view, sufficient to claim.",
          "startTime": "01:29:59,518",
          "endTime": "01:30:02,598"
        },
        {
          "index": 1544,
          "text": "Next is economic catalytic effect, and so the applicant provided",
          "startTime": "01:30:04,178",
          "endTime": "01:30:07,978"
        },
        {
          "index": 1545,
          "text": "sufficient detailed analysis of a proposed economic catalytic",
          "startTime": "01:30:08,038",
          "endTime": "01:30:11,318"
        },
        {
          "index": 1546,
          "text": "effect, and the influx of residents, roughly six hundred or so",
          "startTime": "01:30:11,358",
          "endTime": "01:30:15,178"
        },
        {
          "index": 1547,
          "text": "in downtown, and multiplier effect of that investment stands to significantly and",
          "startTime": "01:30:15,718",
          "endTime": "01:30:19,608"
        },
        {
          "index": 1548,
          "text": "permanently improve the outlook for other businesses in terms of",
          "startTime": "01:30:19,658",
          "endTime": "01:30:23,528"
        },
        {
          "index": 1549,
          "text": "increased employment and/or revenues.",
          "startTime": "01:30:23,558",
          "endTime": "01:30:26,638"
        },
        {
          "index": 1550,
          "text": "The fourth, again, there are three required, s- developer chose",
          "startTime": "01:30:28,078",
          "endTime": "01:30:32,018"
        },
        {
          "index": 1551,
          "text": "to, to provide four. Um, the developers proposed to work with",
          "startTime": "01:30:32,058",
          "endTime": "01:30:35,978"
        },
        {
          "index": 1552,
          "text": "the city and railroad to fund future pedestrian crossing",
          "startTime": "01:30:36,038",
          "endTime": "01:30:39,558"
        },
        {
          "index": 1553,
          "text": "improvements at Sixth, not to exceed a contribution of fifty thousand",
          "startTime": "01:30:39,598",
          "endTime": "01:30:43,418"
        },
        {
          "index": 1554,
          "text": "dollars. So, understandably, that's not",
          "startTime": "01:30:43,498",
          "endTime": "01:30:47,408"
        },
        {
          "index": 1555,
          "text": "gonna cover the entire cost, but it is a, a public benefit offered, in the",
          "startTime": "01:30:47,418",
          "endTime": "01:30:51,368"
        },
        {
          "index": 1556,
          "text": "application. And we consider all four as being",
          "startTime": "01:30:51,398",
          "endTime": "01:30:55,078"
        },
        {
          "index": 1557,
          "text": "sufficiently met in terms of the standards for",
          "startTime": "01:30:55,218",
          "endTime": "01:30:58,238"
        },
        {
          "index": 1558,
          "text": "qualification. There's evidence that the",
          "startTime": "01:30:58,318",
          "endTime": "01:31:02,058"
        },
        {
          "index": 1559,
          "text": "applicant may have actually qualified for an additional public benefit not",
          "startTime": "01:31:02,098",
          "endTime": "01:31:05,638"
        },
        {
          "index": 1560,
          "text": "claimed. Um, that is regarding abandoned, vacant, or",
          "startTime": "01:31:05,678",
          "endTime": "01:31:09,178"
        },
        {
          "index": 1561,
          "text": "underdeveloped properties. So I think there's a strong argument, we won't spend too",
          "startTime": "01:31:09,338",
          "endTime": "01:31:13,158"
        },
        {
          "index": 1562,
          "text": "much time on it, but, for having met that",
          "startTime": "01:31:13,178",
          "endTime": "01:31:16,078"
        },
        {
          "index": 1563,
          "text": "requirement, for,",
          "startTime": "01:31:16,088",
          "endTime": "01:31:18,348"
        },
        {
          "index": 1564,
          "text": "resolving or improving a",
          "startTime": "01:31:20,598",
          "endTime": "01:31:22,378"
        },
        {
          "index": 1565,
          "text": "blighted area.",
          "startTime": "01:31:22,458",
          "endTime": "01:31:25,638"
        },
        {
          "index": 1566,
          "text": "Um, this proposal, this project, it's",
          "startTime": "01:31:27,258",
          "endTime": "01:31:31,058"
        },
        {
          "index": 1567,
          "text": "really well aligned with a lot of city policies.",
          "startTime": "01:31:31,098",
          "endTime": "01:31:34,428"
        },
        {
          "index": 1568,
          "text": "Um, Corvallis 2040, mixed-use development, diverse and",
          "startTime": "01:31:34,598",
          "endTime": "01:31:38,278"
        },
        {
          "index": 1569,
          "text": "affordable housing,",
          "startTime": "01:31:38,298",
          "endTime": "01:31:39,258"
        },
        {
          "index": 1570,
          "text": "climate change, climate action plan.",
          "startTime": "01:31:40,958",
          "endTime": "01:31:44,078"
        },
        {
          "index": 1571,
          "text": "It's been a long time coming,",
          "startTime": "01:31:44,978",
          "endTime": "01:31:46,618"
        },
        {
          "index": 1572,
          "text": "the code changes that have, have led to a project of this scale being,",
          "startTime": "01:31:48,218",
          "endTime": "01:31:52,078"
        },
        {
          "index": 1573,
          "text": "proposed",
          "startTime": "01:31:52,278",
          "endTime": "01:31:52,938"
        },
        {
          "index": 1574,
          "text": "and, the tools that have been put in place to attract this",
          "startTime": "01:31:53,738",
          "endTime": "01:31:57,678"
        },
        {
          "index": 1575,
          "text": "kind of development.And so I think this is a culmination of a lot of efforts",
          "startTime": "01:31:57,758",
          "endTime": "01:32:01,754"
        },
        {
          "index": 1576,
          "text": "that have been underway for many years.",
          "startTime": "01:32:01,794",
          "endTime": "01:32:03,934"
        },
        {
          "index": 1577,
          "text": "Um, it is, it is a change, to",
          "startTime": "01:32:04,054",
          "endTime": "01:32:06,994"
        },
        {
          "index": 1578,
          "text": "downtown. Um,",
          "startTime": "01:32:07,034",
          "endTime": "01:32:08,704"
        },
        {
          "index": 1579,
          "text": "but I think as evidenced by the, the public benefits here,",
          "startTime": "01:32:09,894",
          "endTime": "01:32:13,324"
        },
        {
          "index": 1580,
          "text": "a po- a positive change.",
          "startTime": "01:32:14,414",
          "endTime": "01:32:16,774"
        },
        {
          "index": 1581,
          "text": "Um, as far as the financial impact or the",
          "startTime": "01:32:16,874",
          "endTime": "01:32:20,554"
        },
        {
          "index": 1582,
          "text": "impact on schools, because of the state education formula,",
          "startTime": "01:32:20,594",
          "endTime": "01:32:24,534"
        },
        {
          "index": 1583,
          "text": "there's no, there's no negative",
          "startTime": "01:32:25,274",
          "endTime": "01:32:27,974"
        },
        {
          "index": 1584,
          "text": "impact, from the tax exemption.",
          "startTime": "01:32:28,074",
          "endTime": "01:32:31,074"
        },
        {
          "index": 1585,
          "text": "Um, we will be increasing,",
          "startTime": "01:32:31,174",
          "endTime": "01:32:34,254"
        },
        {
          "index": 1586,
          "text": "taxes both during the exemption period and following the exemption",
          "startTime": "01:32:34,994",
          "endTime": "01:32:38,234"
        },
        {
          "index": 1587,
          "text": "period. Um, so the local contribution will go up to our",
          "startTime": "01:32:38,314",
          "endTime": "01:32:42,194"
        },
        {
          "index": 1588,
          "text": "schools. However, it'll, it'll most likely just be offset, state",
          "startTime": "01:32:42,234",
          "endTime": "01:32:46,223"
        },
        {
          "index": 1589,
          "text": "education funding. Um, as far as the budget",
          "startTime": "01:32:46,334",
          "endTime": "01:32:49,934"
        },
        {
          "index": 1590,
          "text": "impact, the current property taxes the city collects are eight thousand two hundred",
          "startTime": "01:32:49,954",
          "endTime": "01:32:53,674"
        },
        {
          "index": 1591,
          "text": "and twenty-six dollars on the four lots.",
          "startTime": "01:32:53,734",
          "endTime": "01:32:56,774"
        },
        {
          "index": 1592,
          "text": "Um,",
          "startTime": "01:32:56,854",
          "endTime": "01:32:57,044"
        },
        {
          "index": 1593,
          "text": "it's a total of twenty-five thousand.",
          "startTime": "01:32:57,994",
          "endTime": "01:33:00,874"
        },
        {
          "index": 1594,
          "text": "Um, and the exemption period,",
          "startTime": "01:33:01,054",
          "endTime": "01:33:04,754"
        },
        {
          "index": 1595,
          "text": "the, the taxes that the city will collect are twenty,",
          "startTime": "01:33:06,274",
          "endTime": "01:33:08,674"
        },
        {
          "index": 1596,
          "text": "twenty-two thousand four hundred and nine dollars.",
          "startTime": "01:33:09,474",
          "endTime": "01:33:11,434"
        },
        {
          "index": 1597,
          "text": "So city stands to roughly just about double or, or",
          "startTime": "01:33:11,474",
          "endTime": "01:33:14,674"
        },
        {
          "index": 1598,
          "text": "so, the number, the amount of tax revenue generated from",
          "startTime": "01:33:14,794",
          "endTime": "01:33:18,734"
        },
        {
          "index": 1599,
          "text": "years one to ten. Uh, post-exemption period, the city stands",
          "startTime": "01:33:18,794",
          "endTime": "01:33:22,594"
        },
        {
          "index": 1600,
          "text": "to claim four hundred and forty-three thousand one hundred and fifty-four",
          "startTime": "01:33:22,654",
          "endTime": "01:33:26,484"
        },
        {
          "index": 1601,
          "text": "dollars a year, so year eleven",
          "startTime": "01:33:26,554",
          "endTime": "01:33:29,534"
        },
        {
          "index": 1602,
          "text": "plus. Uh, the direct net financial benefits to the city are",
          "startTime": "01:33:29,594",
          "endTime": "01:33:33,554"
        },
        {
          "index": 1603,
          "text": "as follows. Um, fourteen thousand one hundred and eighty-three dollars",
          "startTime": "01:33:33,574",
          "endTime": "01:33:37,154"
        },
        {
          "index": 1604,
          "text": "increase during the exemption period, years one through",
          "startTime": "01:33:37,234",
          "endTime": "01:33:40,974"
        },
        {
          "index": 1605,
          "text": "ten. A hundred and thirty-four thousand one hundred and twenty-four dollar",
          "startTime": "01:33:41,074",
          "endTime": "01:33:45,054"
        },
        {
          "index": 1606,
          "text": "contribution annually to the Affordable Housing Fund during the exemption",
          "startTime": "01:33:45,174",
          "endTime": "01:33:48,774"
        },
        {
          "index": 1607,
          "text": "period. A hundred thousand dollar, contribution to the",
          "startTime": "01:33:48,854",
          "endTime": "01:33:52,754"
        },
        {
          "index": 1608,
          "text": "Capital Improvements Plan. Fifty thousand dollar contribution to fund",
          "startTime": "01:33:52,794",
          "endTime": "01:33:56,694"
        },
        {
          "index": 1609,
          "text": "pedestrian crossing improvements.",
          "startTime": "01:33:57,014",
          "endTime": "01:33:59,334"
        },
        {
          "index": 1610,
          "text": "Uh, one million one hundred and sixty-two thousand one hundred and twenty-five",
          "startTime": "01:33:59,354",
          "endTime": "01:34:02,654"
        },
        {
          "index": 1611,
          "text": "dollar,",
          "startTime": "01:34:02,734",
          "endTime": "01:34:03,334"
        },
        {
          "index": 1612,
          "text": "expected contribution to the Affordable Housing Construction",
          "startTime": "01:34:04,574",
          "endTime": "01:34:08,204"
        },
        {
          "index": 1613,
          "text": "Excise Tax, and a twenty-seven thousand",
          "startTime": "01:34:08,414",
          "endTime": "01:34:11,454"
        },
        {
          "index": 1614,
          "text": "one-time Affordable Housing Construction Excise Tax for",
          "startTime": "01:34:11,554",
          "endTime": "01:34:15,074"
        },
        {
          "index": 1615,
          "text": "the, commercial. The total financial impact",
          "startTime": "01:34:15,154",
          "endTime": "01:34:19,014"
        },
        {
          "index": 1616,
          "text": "during the ten-year exemption period is roughly one million six hundred and",
          "startTime": "01:34:19,054",
          "endTime": "01:34:22,123"
        },
        {
          "index": 1617,
          "text": "thirty-three thousand one hundred and twenty-one dollars.",
          "startTime": "01:34:22,123",
          "endTime": "01:34:25,224"
        },
        {
          "index": 1618,
          "text": "And the total financial impact following the exemption, four hundred forty-three",
          "startTime": "01:34:25,234",
          "endTime": "01:34:29,094"
        },
        {
          "index": 1619,
          "text": "one five four. Uh, those are the, the analysis that",
          "startTime": "01:34:30,034",
          "endTime": "01:34:33,963"
        },
        {
          "index": 1620,
          "text": "we do in the application. This is what we're tasked with in the",
          "startTime": "01:34:33,994",
          "endTime": "01:34:37,394"
        },
        {
          "index": 1621,
          "text": "ordinance. And, any other questions,",
          "startTime": "01:34:37,434",
          "endTime": "01:34:41,234"
        },
        {
          "index": 1622,
          "text": "may be better suited, if they're about the pro forma,",
          "startTime": "01:34:42,554",
          "endTime": "01:34:46,194"
        },
        {
          "index": 1623,
          "text": "to the financial consultant, or if they're about the development project and",
          "startTime": "01:34:46,524",
          "endTime": "01:34:49,653"
        },
        {
          "index": 1624,
          "text": "specifics, the developer. But I'm happy to answer any other questions about the",
          "startTime": "01:34:49,734",
          "endTime": "01:34:53,574"
        },
        {
          "index": 1625,
          "text": "staff report.",
          "startTime": "01:34:53,614",
          "endTime": "01:34:55,154"
        },
        {
          "index": 1626,
          "text": "Councillor Gediman?",
          "startTime": "01:34:55,194",
          "endTime": "01:34:55,854"
        },
        {
          "index": 1627,
          "text": "Uh, I don't have questions. I do-- I did send a co- question",
          "startTime": "01:34:57,494",
          "endTime": "01:35:01,094"
        },
        {
          "index": 1628,
          "text": "to Director Bilotta earlier that I thought might be informative",
          "startTime": "01:35:01,474",
          "endTime": "01:35:05,234"
        },
        {
          "index": 1629,
          "text": "to help us focus our conversation.",
          "startTime": "01:35:05,794",
          "endTime": "01:35:08,634"
        },
        {
          "index": 1630,
          "text": "Uh, first let me say in, in reference to one of the public comments, we're",
          "startTime": "01:35:08,734",
          "endTime": "01:35:12,183"
        },
        {
          "index": 1631,
          "text": "not, we're foregoing property taxes.",
          "startTime": "01:35:12,214",
          "endTime": "01:35:15,364"
        },
        {
          "index": 1632,
          "text": "That is a difference. That is different than giving the",
          "startTime": "01:35:15,414",
          "endTime": "01:35:19,134"
        },
        {
          "index": 1633,
          "text": "developer funds, just a clarification.",
          "startTime": "01:35:19,174",
          "endTime": "01:35:22,274"
        },
        {
          "index": 1634,
          "text": "Um, I also want to, to",
          "startTime": "01:35:22,394",
          "endTime": "01:35:25,374"
        },
        {
          "index": 1635,
          "text": "make a few points that Director Bilotta confirmed with me in my email to",
          "startTime": "01:35:26,374",
          "endTime": "01:35:30,194"
        },
        {
          "index": 1636,
          "text": "him,",
          "startTime": "01:35:30,214",
          "endTime": "01:35:30,434"
        },
        {
          "index": 1637,
          "text": "that what we're talking about today is the",
          "startTime": "01:35:32,214",
          "endTime": "01:35:35,334"
        },
        {
          "index": 1638,
          "text": "MUPTE, request. If the",
          "startTime": "01:35:35,454",
          "endTime": "01:35:38,934"
        },
        {
          "index": 1639,
          "text": "developer, for whatever reason, was not requesting MUPTE, they",
          "startTime": "01:35:38,954",
          "endTime": "01:35:42,804"
        },
        {
          "index": 1640,
          "text": "could, they could proceed with this project as",
          "startTime": "01:35:42,854",
          "endTime": "01:35:45,694"
        },
        {
          "index": 1641,
          "text": "is. They could get a building permit for a",
          "startTime": "01:35:45,814",
          "endTime": "01:35:49,764"
        },
        {
          "index": 1642,
          "text": "hundred and twenty-three foot building.",
          "startTime": "01:35:49,794",
          "endTime": "01:35:52,574"
        },
        {
          "index": 1643,
          "text": "They could request an extra twenty percent in height, which",
          "startTime": "01:35:52,634",
          "endTime": "01:35:56,154"
        },
        {
          "index": 1644,
          "text": "is, part of the new process from the state",
          "startTime": "01:35:56,234",
          "endTime": "01:36:00,034"
        },
        {
          "index": 1645,
          "text": "granting automatic variances, where the staff has no",
          "startTime": "01:36:00,254",
          "endTime": "01:36:03,874"
        },
        {
          "index": 1646,
          "text": "discretion in granting that. Um, so",
          "startTime": "01:36:03,914",
          "endTime": "01:36:07,814"
        },
        {
          "index": 1647,
          "text": "I, I think we should keep our focus on",
          "startTime": "01:36:08,294",
          "endTime": "01:36:10,994"
        },
        {
          "index": 1648,
          "text": "what we are",
          "startTime": "01:36:12,434",
          "endTime": "01:36:12,914"
        },
        {
          "index": 1649,
          "text": "deciding today. We're deciding whether to extend the,",
          "startTime": "01:36:13,974",
          "endTime": "01:36:16,754"
        },
        {
          "index": 1650,
          "text": "multi-unit property tax exemption ordinance.",
          "startTime": "01:36:17,814",
          "endTime": "01:36:20,854"
        },
        {
          "index": 1651,
          "text": "We're not",
          "startTime": "01:36:20,894",
          "endTime": "01:36:21,894"
        },
        {
          "index": 1652,
          "text": "revisiting the state's, choices around climate",
          "startTime": "01:36:23,454",
          "endTime": "01:36:27,364"
        },
        {
          "index": 1653,
          "text": "friendly, equitable communities parking requirements.",
          "startTime": "01:36:27,394",
          "endTime": "01:36:31,274"
        },
        {
          "index": 1654,
          "text": "We're not, discussing land use",
          "startTime": "01:36:31,314",
          "endTime": "01:36:35,234"
        },
        {
          "index": 1655,
          "text": "changes. This is not a land use case.",
          "startTime": "01:36:35,314",
          "endTime": "01:36:37,594"
        },
        {
          "index": 1656,
          "text": "So I, I just think that's important, and I, I appreciate",
          "startTime": "01:36:37,664",
          "endTime": "01:36:41,454"
        },
        {
          "index": 1657,
          "text": "the concern that community members",
          "startTime": "01:36:42,254",
          "endTime": "01:36:45,234"
        },
        {
          "index": 1658,
          "text": "have, but I think it's important to understand this is not a land",
          "startTime": "01:36:45,274",
          "endTime": "01:36:49,134"
        },
        {
          "index": 1659,
          "text": "use case. This is not a... If, if they were not asking for a MUPTE, this building",
          "startTime": "01:36:49,174",
          "endTime": "01:36:52,874"
        },
        {
          "index": 1660,
          "text": "could go forward with zero,",
          "startTime": "01:36:52,914",
          "endTime": "01:36:56,294"
        },
        {
          "index": 1661,
          "text": "public hearing, zero land use",
          "startTime": "01:36:58,454",
          "endTime": "01:37:00,314"
        },
        {
          "index": 1662,
          "text": "discussion, et cetera. So just, and I'm, I'm gonna",
          "startTime": "01:37:00,374",
          "endTime": "01:37:04,274"
        },
        {
          "index": 1663,
          "text": "ask you to confirm everything I just said.",
          "startTime": "01:37:04,334",
          "endTime": "01:37:07,114"
        },
        {
          "index": 1664,
          "text": "Uh, yeah, that, that is correct. Um, in addition, the one other thing that,",
          "startTime": "01:37:07,174",
          "endTime": "01:37:10,984"
        },
        {
          "index": 1665,
          "text": "might be helpful to know on land use is, there was a lot of discussion and",
          "startTime": "01:37:11,154",
          "endTime": "01:37:15,064"
        },
        {
          "index": 1666,
          "text": "commentary about the historic district.",
          "startTime": "01:37:15,114",
          "endTime": "01:37:17,694"
        },
        {
          "index": 1667,
          "text": "Uh, historic districts, a property owner or a neighborhood, et cetera,",
          "startTime": "01:37:17,774",
          "endTime": "01:37:21,494"
        },
        {
          "index": 1668,
          "text": "can choose to, put themselves into a",
          "startTime": "01:37:21,734",
          "endTime": "01:37:25,214"
        },
        {
          "index": 1669,
          "text": "historic district and forego any upside and those sorts of things",
          "startTime": "01:37:25,274",
          "endTime": "01:37:29,114"
        },
        {
          "index": 1670,
          "text": "from that. What historic districts don't do is",
          "startTime": "01:37:29,134",
          "endTime": "01:37:32,103"
        },
        {
          "index": 1671,
          "text": "extend and remove property rights from adjacent",
          "startTime": "01:37:32,154",
          "endTime": "01:37:35,874"
        },
        {
          "index": 1672,
          "text": "properties. And so part of what we were hearing a little bit was kind of",
          "startTime": "01:37:35,914",
          "endTime": "01:37:39,854"
        },
        {
          "index": 1673,
          "text": "implying that, because they're a historic district, that that",
          "startTime": "01:37:39,894",
          "endTime": "01:37:43,284"
        },
        {
          "index": 1674,
          "text": "controls the adjacent properties, and that's not how historic districts",
          "startTime": "01:37:43,314",
          "endTime": "01:37:46,754"
        },
        {
          "index": 1675,
          "text": "work.",
          "startTime": "01:37:46,814",
          "endTime": "01:37:49,234"
        },
        {
          "index": 1676,
          "text": "If I saw hands correctly, I saw Councilor Ellis, Napack, and then",
          "startTime": "01:37:51,114",
          "endTime": "01:37:53,714"
        },
        {
          "index": 1677,
          "text": "Olson.",
          "startTime": "01:37:53,754",
          "endTime": "01:37:56,004"
        },
        {
          "index": 1678,
          "text": "I didn't actually. I was just putting my hand up, but I'm",
          "startTime": "01:37:57,214",
          "endTime": "01:38:01,134"
        },
        {
          "index": 1679,
          "text": "willing to-",
          "startTime": "01:38:01,174",
          "endTime": "01:38:01,714"
        },
        {
          "index": 1680,
          "text": "That's what I saw.",
          "startTime": "01:38:01,734",
          "endTime": "01:38:02,654"
        },
        {
          "index": 1681,
          "text": "I, I'm willing to... I think Councilor Olson was before me, but I'm willing to go.",
          "startTime": "01:38:02,714",
          "endTime": "01:38:06,293"
        },
        {
          "index": 1682,
          "text": "Um, and get it over with. Um,",
          "startTime": "01:38:06,686",
          "endTime": "01:38:08,766"
        },
        {
          "index": 1683,
          "text": "I understand this is not a land use, and that we cannot",
          "startTime": "01:38:09,806",
          "endTime": "01:38:12,666"
        },
        {
          "index": 1684,
          "text": "discuss, the appropriateness of that",
          "startTime": "01:38:12,726",
          "endTime": "01:38:16,706"
        },
        {
          "index": 1685,
          "text": "building on that space. And the state has taken away",
          "startTime": "01:38:16,806",
          "endTime": "01:38:20,346"
        },
        {
          "index": 1686,
          "text": "considerable of our authority to do that.",
          "startTime": "01:38:20,406",
          "endTime": "01:38:23,346"
        },
        {
          "index": 1687,
          "text": "Whether or not we agree with that is out of our control, and we need to take it up",
          "startTime": "01:38:23,406",
          "endTime": "01:38:26,766"
        },
        {
          "index": 1688,
          "text": "with the state. However, I am gonna argue that",
          "startTime": "01:38:26,806",
          "endTime": "01:38:30,446"
        },
        {
          "index": 1689,
          "text": "they're, that this is not, they do not meet the qualifications",
          "startTime": "01:38:30,506",
          "endTime": "01:38:34,026"
        },
        {
          "index": 1690,
          "text": "for the MUPTE based on what I see. Um, I",
          "startTime": "01:38:34,486",
          "endTime": "01:38:38,116"
        },
        {
          "index": 1691,
          "text": "think any building that is putting a private pool on its roof",
          "startTime": "01:38:38,126",
          "endTime": "01:38:41,986"
        },
        {
          "index": 1692,
          "text": "is failing the but-for test, because I think you just don't put the pu- you",
          "startTime": "01:38:42,026",
          "endTime": "01:38:45,886"
        },
        {
          "index": 1693,
          "text": "know? You're going for luxury housing here.",
          "startTime": "01:38:45,946",
          "endTime": "01:38:48,846"
        },
        {
          "index": 1694,
          "text": "If you're, if you were building housing for ordinary people, no,",
          "startTime": "01:38:48,906",
          "endTime": "01:38:52,806"
        },
        {
          "index": 1695,
          "text": "no pool on the roof. Um, you might meet it.",
          "startTime": "01:38:52,846",
          "endTime": "01:38:55,566"
        },
        {
          "index": 1696,
          "text": "But for me, that just was no.",
          "startTime": "01:38:55,586",
          "endTime": "01:38:59,506"
        },
        {
          "index": 1697,
          "text": "Um, I also am concerned that this is not housing for ordinary",
          "startTime": "01:38:59,586",
          "endTime": "01:39:03,506"
        },
        {
          "index": 1698,
          "text": "people. I did a little math. I'm not a mathematician.",
          "startTime": "01:39:03,626",
          "endTime": "01:39:06,926"
        },
        {
          "index": 1699,
          "text": "My partner looked it over and corrected a little bit of it.",
          "startTime": "01:39:06,936",
          "endTime": "01:39:09,906"
        },
        {
          "index": 1700,
          "text": "But a studio is, if you're paying a third of your",
          "startTime": "01:39:09,926",
          "endTime": "01:39:13,516"
        },
        {
          "index": 1701,
          "text": "rent, you have to be a mid-career teacher for this to",
          "startTime": "01:39:13,606",
          "endTime": "01:39:17,506"
        },
        {
          "index": 1702,
          "text": "be affordable. So I would argue that even though they're not",
          "startTime": "01:39:17,546",
          "endTime": "01:39:20,916"
        },
        {
          "index": 1703,
          "text": "affordable, this is just not affordable rent.",
          "startTime": "01:39:20,966",
          "endTime": "01:39:23,616"
        },
        {
          "index": 1704,
          "text": "And then I saw they're comparing their rent to the Sierras",
          "startTime": "01:39:23,626",
          "endTime": "01:39:27,546"
        },
        {
          "index": 1705,
          "text": "and saying it was about the same, but it actually had raised it a couple of",
          "startTime": "01:39:27,606",
          "endTime": "01:39:31,366"
        },
        {
          "index": 1706,
          "text": "hundred dollars. So it is no, we're, we're actually raising",
          "startTime": "01:39:31,766",
          "endTime": "01:39:35,506"
        },
        {
          "index": 1707,
          "text": "rent. We're not trickling down for more affordable",
          "startTime": "01:39:35,626",
          "endTime": "01:39:38,846"
        },
        {
          "index": 1708,
          "text": "housing. I would also argue that,",
          "startTime": "01:39:39,086",
          "endTime": "01:39:42,636"
        },
        {
          "index": 1709,
          "text": "$100,000 contribution for public infrastructure is",
          "startTime": "01:39:42,836",
          "endTime": "01:39:46,406"
        },
        {
          "index": 1710,
          "text": "minimal. It, you, there's very little that we can actually do with that amount of",
          "startTime": "01:39:46,586",
          "endTime": "01:39:50,406"
        },
        {
          "index": 1711,
          "text": "money. Um, I've heard enough from bi- bicycle and pedestrian",
          "startTime": "01:39:50,446",
          "endTime": "01:39:53,926"
        },
        {
          "index": 1712,
          "text": "infrastructure to know that that is, there's not very much.",
          "startTime": "01:39:53,966",
          "endTime": "01:39:57,606"
        },
        {
          "index": 1713,
          "text": "High quality urban design is clearly subjective.",
          "startTime": "01:39:57,666",
          "endTime": "01:40:00,866"
        },
        {
          "index": 1714,
          "text": "I look at the pictures and I think, \"I don't think so.\" But other people look at it",
          "startTime": "01:40:01,066",
          "endTime": "01:40:04,436"
        },
        {
          "index": 1715,
          "text": "and think that's beautiful. But that's a subjective, not an",
          "startTime": "01:40:04,466",
          "endTime": "01:40:07,326"
        },
        {
          "index": 1716,
          "text": "objective quality, and I don't think we can make a decision based",
          "startTime": "01:40:07,426",
          "endTime": "01:40:11,306"
        },
        {
          "index": 1717,
          "text": "on that. I am concerned about the ec- economic catalytic",
          "startTime": "01:40:11,386",
          "endTime": "01:40:14,985"
        },
        {
          "index": 1718,
          "text": "effect of 600 people with",
          "startTime": "01:40:15,186",
          "endTime": "01:40:17,696"
        },
        {
          "index": 1719,
          "text": "300, 400, 500 cars parking in",
          "startTime": "01:40:19,286",
          "endTime": "01:40:22,546"
        },
        {
          "index": 1720,
          "text": "downtown. I think that's gonna make things worse, 'cause we're constantly hearing",
          "startTime": "01:40:22,586",
          "endTime": "01:40:26,526"
        },
        {
          "index": 1721,
          "text": "about the concerns in downtown. Um, and",
          "startTime": "01:40:26,606",
          "endTime": "01:40:29,916"
        },
        {
          "index": 1722,
          "text": "50,000 for connectivity, again, does not strike me as",
          "startTime": "01:40:29,986",
          "endTime": "01:40:33,835"
        },
        {
          "index": 1723,
          "text": "being very much at all. So I think that they fail based",
          "startTime": "01:40:33,866",
          "endTime": "01:40:37,806"
        },
        {
          "index": 1724,
          "text": "upon their qualifications, and I intend to vote no",
          "startTime": "01:40:37,866",
          "endTime": "01:40:41,466"
        },
        {
          "index": 1725,
          "text": "on the MUPTE.",
          "startTime": "01:40:41,706",
          "endTime": "01:40:44,226"
        },
        {
          "index": 1726,
          "text": "Councilor Nyback?",
          "startTime": "01:40:44,946",
          "endTime": "01:40:46,606"
        },
        {
          "index": 1727,
          "text": "Yeah, I have a, a question, which is if Pineview",
          "startTime": "01:40:48,526",
          "endTime": "01:40:52,466"
        },
        {
          "index": 1728,
          "text": "folds or defaults or",
          "startTime": "01:40:53,046",
          "endTime": "01:40:55,286"
        },
        {
          "index": 1729,
          "text": "doesn't complete the project, what happens to",
          "startTime": "01:40:56,486",
          "endTime": "01:40:58,886"
        },
        {
          "index": 1730,
          "text": "us?",
          "startTime": "01:40:58,986",
          "endTime": "01:41:00,886"
        },
        {
          "index": 1731,
          "text": "You mean if, if the MUPTE goes forward and then they fail, they",
          "startTime": "01:41:02,886",
          "endTime": "01:41:06,306"
        },
        {
          "index": 1732,
          "text": "construct it and they fail, and you're fine or something?",
          "startTime": "01:41:06,506",
          "endTime": "01:41:09,036"
        },
        {
          "index": 1733,
          "text": "If they stop halfway or something terrible happens, yeah.",
          "startTime": "01:41:09,036",
          "endTime": "01:41:11,246"
        },
        {
          "index": 1734,
          "text": "Sure, sure. So, there's a few things. If they...",
          "startTime": "01:41:11,256",
          "endTime": "01:41:14,376"
        },
        {
          "index": 1735,
          "text": "Obviously, the building is still there, so you continue to have a",
          "startTime": "01:41:14,426",
          "endTime": "01:41:18,386"
        },
        {
          "index": 1736,
          "text": "building that gets taxed and all those other things.",
          "startTime": "01:41:18,426",
          "endTime": "01:41:20,286"
        },
        {
          "index": 1737,
          "text": "But if they fail to pay us the affordable",
          "startTime": "01:41:20,306",
          "endTime": "01:41:23,946"
        },
        {
          "index": 1738,
          "text": "housing annual payment, then they have",
          "startTime": "01:41:24,046",
          "endTime": "01:41:27,326"
        },
        {
          "index": 1739,
          "text": "under 20 days, I believe, we, we have to submit to them, we contact",
          "startTime": "01:41:28,066",
          "endTime": "01:41:31,986"
        },
        {
          "index": 1740,
          "text": "the developer, we contact the developer's lender, and we contact the city",
          "startTime": "01:41:31,996",
          "endTime": "01:41:35,746"
        },
        {
          "index": 1741,
          "text": "council and say, \"They're in default.\" At that point, they get hauled in",
          "startTime": "01:41:35,806",
          "endTime": "01:41:39,706"
        },
        {
          "index": 1742,
          "text": "front of the council, and they get to plead their case",
          "startTime": "01:41:39,746",
          "endTime": "01:41:43,566"
        },
        {
          "index": 1743,
          "text": "to preserve their tax exemption, assuming that",
          "startTime": "01:41:43,646",
          "endTime": "01:41:47,216"
        },
        {
          "index": 1744,
          "text": "we didn't make it up and we had a valid reason to bring them before the council,",
          "startTime": "01:41:48,106",
          "endTime": "01:41:51,486"
        },
        {
          "index": 1745,
          "text": "and the council then could, remove their tax exemption.",
          "startTime": "01:41:51,526",
          "endTime": "01:41:54,286"
        },
        {
          "index": 1746,
          "text": "So then at that point, instead of being exempt and all those, you know,",
          "startTime": "01:41:54,326",
          "endTime": "01:41:58,196"
        },
        {
          "index": 1747,
          "text": "hundreds of thousands of dollars, every year, they would immediately have",
          "startTime": "01:41:58,206",
          "endTime": "01:42:01,835"
        },
        {
          "index": 1748,
          "text": "to start paying taxes, right",
          "startTime": "01:42:01,846",
          "endTime": "01:42:03,536"
        },
        {
          "index": 1749,
          "text": "away.",
          "startTime": "01:42:03,586",
          "endTime": "01:42:05,856"
        },
        {
          "index": 1750,
          "text": "I have more questions, but I'll wait.",
          "startTime": "01:42:07,046",
          "endTime": "01:42:09,486"
        },
        {
          "index": 1751,
          "text": "Okay. And before I move on to Councilor Olsen, I wonder if it",
          "startTime": "01:42:09,496",
          "endTime": "01:42:13,466"
        },
        {
          "index": 1752,
          "text": "might be wise, 'cause currently there's nothing even on the table to, to",
          "startTime": "01:42:13,486",
          "endTime": "01:42:17,466"
        },
        {
          "index": 1753,
          "text": "deliberate, so maybe we should go ahead and have, the city reporter read the",
          "startTime": "01:42:17,546",
          "endTime": "01:42:21,246"
        },
        {
          "index": 1754,
          "text": "ordinance. We'll see if we have a motion and a second",
          "startTime": "01:42:21,326",
          "endTime": "01:42:23,386"
        },
        {
          "index": 1755,
          "text": "on the plan, yeah? City reporter, if you would, please.",
          "startTime": "01:42:24,546",
          "endTime": "01:42:27,525"
        },
        {
          "index": 1756,
          "text": "This is the resolution approving a multiple unit property tax exemption,",
          "startTime": "01:42:27,566",
          "endTime": "01:42:31,306"
        },
        {
          "index": 1757,
          "text": "MUPTE, for residential property located at 516 to",
          "startTime": "01:42:31,366",
          "endTime": "01:42:34,886"
        },
        {
          "index": 1758,
          "text": "544 Southwest Fourth Street, Corvallis, Oregon",
          "startTime": "01:42:35,106",
          "endTime": "01:42:38,546"
        },
        {
          "index": 1759,
          "text": "97333. Applicant, Pineview",
          "startTime": "01:42:38,966",
          "endTime": "01:42:41,486"
        },
        {
          "index": 1760,
          "text": "Development.",
          "startTime": "01:42:41,546",
          "endTime": "01:42:43,686"
        },
        {
          "index": 1761,
          "text": "At this point we can, you, you can continue asking questions, or someone can make a",
          "startTime": "01:42:45,446",
          "endTime": "01:42:48,906"
        },
        {
          "index": 1762,
          "text": "motion to get this at least on the table.",
          "startTime": "01:42:48,946",
          "endTime": "01:42:51,386"
        },
        {
          "index": 1763,
          "text": "So moved.",
          "startTime": "01:42:52,906",
          "endTime": "01:42:53,726"
        },
        {
          "index": 1764,
          "text": "Do we have a second?",
          "startTime": "01:42:54,986",
          "endTime": "01:42:56,006"
        },
        {
          "index": 1765,
          "text": "I'll second.",
          "startTime": "01:42:56,046",
          "endTime": "01:42:56,906"
        },
        {
          "index": 1766,
          "text": "Thank you. Okay, so now we are in deliberation",
          "startTime": "01:42:57,006",
          "endTime": "01:43:00,906"
        },
        {
          "index": 1767,
          "text": "officially. Um, but questions are still welcome as well.",
          "startTime": "01:43:00,986",
          "endTime": "01:43:04,366"
        },
        {
          "index": 1768,
          "text": "So, go to Councilor Olsen, and then it gets back to Councilor Nyback",
          "startTime": "01:43:04,426",
          "endTime": "01:43:08,326"
        },
        {
          "index": 1769,
          "text": "after that. There's...",
          "startTime": "01:43:08,346",
          "endTime": "01:43:09,926"
        },
        {
          "index": 1770,
          "text": "Yeah, I actually have a couple questions which are different than the questions I",
          "startTime": "01:43:09,966",
          "endTime": "01:43:13,866"
        },
        {
          "index": 1771,
          "text": "emailed you, Paul, so sorry about this.",
          "startTime": "01:43:13,906",
          "endTime": "01:43:16,206"
        },
        {
          "index": 1772,
          "text": "Um, one of the main questions I've had a lot from the community is how they're",
          "startTime": "01:43:16,346",
          "endTime": "01:43:20,276"
        },
        {
          "index": 1773,
          "text": "allowed to submit an application for a building that we don't know if it meets the",
          "startTime": "01:43:20,306",
          "endTime": "01:43:23,626"
        },
        {
          "index": 1774,
          "text": "land use criteria. Can you explain that?",
          "startTime": "01:43:23,666",
          "endTime": "01:43:27,126"
        },
        {
          "index": 1775,
          "text": "Yeah. Uh, there's, there's, there's a little bit of a chicken and",
          "startTime": "01:43:27,186",
          "endTime": "01:43:31,176"
        },
        {
          "index": 1776,
          "text": "egg situation. You can either come in and try to get your exemption first, or you",
          "startTime": "01:43:31,246",
          "endTime": "01:43:34,466"
        },
        {
          "index": 1777,
          "text": "can come in and, and get your approvals first.",
          "startTime": "01:43:34,486",
          "endTime": "01:43:37,106"
        },
        {
          "index": 1778,
          "text": "Um, it, there is no right or wrong way for how it",
          "startTime": "01:43:37,226",
          "endTime": "01:43:41,056"
        },
        {
          "index": 1779,
          "text": "has to happen. Now, in this instance, so, so when Obie came",
          "startTime": "01:43:41,146",
          "endTime": "01:43:44,806"
        },
        {
          "index": 1780,
          "text": "forward before, they had a discretionary Willamette River",
          "startTime": "01:43:44,906",
          "endTime": "01:43:48,626"
        },
        {
          "index": 1781,
          "text": "Greenway, process that's a public hearing and the whole big land use",
          "startTime": "01:43:48,726",
          "endTime": "01:43:52,306"
        },
        {
          "index": 1782,
          "text": "deal. So they chose to get that resolved up front so that they could set",
          "startTime": "01:43:52,406",
          "endTime": "01:43:56,286"
        },
        {
          "index": 1783,
          "text": "their pro forma to know what was, gonna be there before asking",
          "startTime": "01:43:56,296",
          "endTime": "01:44:00,286"
        },
        {
          "index": 1784,
          "text": "for the tax exemption. On this situation,",
          "startTime": "01:44:00,306",
          "endTime": "01:44:03,616"
        },
        {
          "index": 1785,
          "text": "the developer chose not to do that, and the developer's here if we wanna know",
          "startTime": "01:44:04,466",
          "endTime": "01:44:07,006"
        },
        {
          "index": 1786,
          "text": "why. But, one thing that's very different about the land use",
          "startTime": "01:44:07,046",
          "endTime": "01:44:10,286"
        },
        {
          "index": 1787,
          "text": "situation with this project than the Obie project",
          "startTime": "01:44:10,366",
          "endTime": "01:44:13,416"
        },
        {
          "index": 1788,
          "text": "is-Uh, like it's been referenced, this is this new state",
          "startTime": "01:44:13,886",
          "endTime": "01:44:17,482"
        },
        {
          "index": 1789,
          "text": "automatic variance process. So although they have not yet gone",
          "startTime": "01:44:17,622",
          "endTime": "01:44:21,402"
        },
        {
          "index": 1790,
          "text": "through it, the way the process works is we send",
          "startTime": "01:44:21,522",
          "endTime": "01:44:25,382"
        },
        {
          "index": 1791,
          "text": "out notices to the people within a radius so they know it's happening.",
          "startTime": "01:44:25,442",
          "endTime": "01:44:29,432"
        },
        {
          "index": 1792,
          "text": "They then submit letters to us telling us whether they support it or don't support",
          "startTime": "01:44:29,432",
          "endTime": "01:44:32,922"
        },
        {
          "index": 1793,
          "text": "it. None of that really matters because the state says we have to approve it",
          "startTime": "01:44:32,962",
          "endTime": "01:44:36,702"
        },
        {
          "index": 1794,
          "text": "anyway, and the only one who can appeal that decision would be the",
          "startTime": "01:44:36,762",
          "endTime": "01:44:40,082"
        },
        {
          "index": 1795,
          "text": "applicant. And so the only thing that could really be appealed would be if we said",
          "startTime": "01:44:40,182",
          "endTime": "01:44:44,162"
        },
        {
          "index": 1796,
          "text": "no. So although they haven't been through all the land use",
          "startTime": "01:44:44,242",
          "endTime": "01:44:47,412"
        },
        {
          "index": 1797,
          "text": "processes, the only land use process they haven't been through is one",
          "startTime": "01:44:47,742",
          "endTime": "01:44:51,382"
        },
        {
          "index": 1798,
          "text": "that's, you know, kind of performative.",
          "startTime": "01:44:51,422",
          "endTime": "01:44:55,202"
        },
        {
          "index": 1799,
          "text": "Yeah. And then, um... Yeah, so I've",
          "startTime": "01:44:56,602",
          "endTime": "01:45:00,312"
        },
        {
          "index": 1800,
          "text": "been looking over this application a lot,",
          "startTime": "01:45:00,342",
          "endTime": "01:45:04,102"
        },
        {
          "index": 1801,
          "text": "and based on my",
          "startTime": "01:45:04,142",
          "endTime": "01:45:06,922"
        },
        {
          "index": 1802,
          "text": "own, views, and",
          "startTime": "01:45:07,122",
          "endTime": "01:45:10,762"
        },
        {
          "index": 1803,
          "text": "based on... Yeah, based on my own views, I don't",
          "startTime": "01:45:10,942",
          "endTime": "01:45:14,682"
        },
        {
          "index": 1804,
          "text": "believe that it fulfills the MUPD criteria.",
          "startTime": "01:45:14,702",
          "endTime": "01:45:17,142"
        },
        {
          "index": 1805,
          "text": "I believe that the p- public benefits, of",
          "startTime": "01:45:17,202",
          "endTime": "01:45:20,982"
        },
        {
          "index": 1806,
          "text": "public infrastructure and connectivity improvements",
          "startTime": "01:45:21,022",
          "endTime": "01:45:24,902"
        },
        {
          "index": 1807,
          "text": "are not, fulfilled. Uh, for the connectivity",
          "startTime": "01:45:24,912",
          "endTime": "01:45:28,562"
        },
        {
          "index": 1808,
          "text": "improvements, they say that they want to fund future",
          "startTime": "01:45:28,582",
          "endTime": "01:45:32,382"
        },
        {
          "index": 1809,
          "text": "pedestrian con- crossing improvements or just any sort of connectivity",
          "startTime": "01:45:32,442",
          "endTime": "01:45:36,342"
        },
        {
          "index": 1810,
          "text": "improvements not to exceed a contribution of fifty thousand",
          "startTime": "01:45:36,362",
          "endTime": "01:45:39,502"
        },
        {
          "index": 1811,
          "text": "dollars. Uh, yeah, fifty thousand dollars.",
          "startTime": "01:45:39,602",
          "endTime": "01:45:43,182"
        },
        {
          "index": 1812,
          "text": "In the Corvallis Transportation System Plan, which was adopted",
          "startTime": "01:45:43,302",
          "endTime": "01:45:47,282"
        },
        {
          "index": 1813,
          "text": "in twenty nineteen, they lifted...",
          "startTime": "01:45:47,322",
          "endTime": "01:45:50,272"
        },
        {
          "index": 1814,
          "text": "they listed eleven unfunded projects for a total of,",
          "startTime": "01:45:50,302",
          "endTime": "01:45:54,082"
        },
        {
          "index": 1815,
          "text": "fifty-five... five five zero zero zero",
          "startTime": "01:45:54,582",
          "endTime": "01:45:57,902"
        },
        {
          "index": 1816,
          "text": "zero, dollars, which calculates out to",
          "startTime": "01:45:57,942",
          "endTime": "01:46:01,822"
        },
        {
          "index": 1817,
          "text": "fifty thousand a project. And these are,",
          "startTime": "01:46:02,682",
          "endTime": "01:46:05,942"
        },
        {
          "index": 1818,
          "text": "at least a couple of these are railroad crossing improvements or other crosswalk",
          "startTime": "01:46:06,602",
          "endTime": "01:46:10,522"
        },
        {
          "index": 1819,
          "text": "improvements that are not currently funded.",
          "startTime": "01:46:10,562",
          "endTime": "01:46:13,342"
        },
        {
          "index": 1820,
          "text": "And st- this was at twenty nineteen prices, which",
          "startTime": "01:46:13,402",
          "endTime": "01:46:17,022"
        },
        {
          "index": 1821,
          "text": "according to a, inflation calculator",
          "startTime": "01:46:17,182",
          "endTime": "01:46:20,462"
        },
        {
          "index": 1822,
          "text": "calculates to over sixty-three hundred...",
          "startTime": "01:46:20,882",
          "endTime": "01:46:23,672"
        },
        {
          "index": 1823,
          "text": "sixty-three thousand, in",
          "startTime": "01:46:23,682",
          "endTime": "01:46:26,562"
        },
        {
          "index": 1824,
          "text": "this day and age. So this money would not fund even a singular",
          "startTime": "01:46:27,442",
          "endTime": "01:46:31,302"
        },
        {
          "index": 1825,
          "text": "project in the neighborhood. And while I know that is only",
          "startTime": "01:46:31,402",
          "endTime": "01:46:35,362"
        },
        {
          "index": 1826,
          "text": "some of the funding, I don't believe if you can't even fund one project with",
          "startTime": "01:46:35,382",
          "endTime": "01:46:39,342"
        },
        {
          "index": 1827,
          "text": "the money you're offering, that that's a sufficient connectivity",
          "startTime": "01:46:39,382",
          "endTime": "01:46:42,592"
        },
        {
          "index": 1828,
          "text": "development. Additionally, I don't believe that",
          "startTime": "01:46:42,662",
          "endTime": "01:46:45,762"
        },
        {
          "index": 1829,
          "text": "the, public, public infrastructure is",
          "startTime": "01:46:45,822",
          "endTime": "01:46:49,402"
        },
        {
          "index": 1830,
          "text": "met. Uh, our requirements say an investment of at",
          "startTime": "01:46:49,462",
          "endTime": "01:46:52,522"
        },
        {
          "index": 1831,
          "text": "least, a hundred thousand dollars.",
          "startTime": "01:46:52,682",
          "endTime": "01:46:55,422"
        },
        {
          "index": 1832,
          "text": "They have agreed to deposit exactly a hundred thousand dollars, and with",
          "startTime": "01:46:55,432",
          "endTime": "01:46:59,402"
        },
        {
          "index": 1833,
          "text": "their estimate of how many people are going to live in there,",
          "startTime": "01:46:59,442",
          "endTime": "01:47:02,822"
        },
        {
          "index": 1834,
          "text": "six... sixty, give or take, that calculates to a",
          "startTime": "01:47:03,262",
          "endTime": "01:47:07,192"
        },
        {
          "index": 1835,
          "text": "hundred and fifty dollars per person in infrastructure developments, which",
          "startTime": "01:47:07,222",
          "endTime": "01:47:10,722"
        },
        {
          "index": 1836,
          "text": "is not a lot. Like, I could... I mean, I don't have a",
          "startTime": "01:47:11,762",
          "endTime": "01:47:15,652"
        },
        {
          "index": 1837,
          "text": "lot of money, but if I went up to the city and was like, \"Hey, I'll give you a",
          "startTime": "01:47:15,702",
          "endTime": "01:47:19,242"
        },
        {
          "index": 1838,
          "text": "hundred and fifty dollars if you'll put a crosswalk in my neighborhood,\" they'd be",
          "startTime": "01:47:19,262",
          "endTime": "01:47:22,682"
        },
        {
          "index": 1839,
          "text": "like, \"Great, that doesn't cover the paint,\"",
          "startTime": "01:47:22,722",
          "endTime": "01:47:25,242"
        },
        {
          "index": 1840,
          "text": "or, \"That doesn't cover the street sign.\" Because believe me, I've thought about",
          "startTime": "01:47:26,302",
          "endTime": "01:47:29,522"
        },
        {
          "index": 1841,
          "text": "just, like, putting up street signs in my neighborhood.",
          "startTime": "01:47:29,582",
          "endTime": "01:47:31,762"
        },
        {
          "index": 1842,
          "text": "And s- because of that, because of those two",
          "startTime": "01:47:31,822",
          "endTime": "01:47:35,502"
        },
        {
          "index": 1843,
          "text": "facts, while I do...",
          "startTime": "01:47:35,542",
          "endTime": "01:47:39,392"
        },
        {
          "index": 1844,
          "text": "Yeah, I do not believe that this project",
          "startTime": "01:47:39,422",
          "endTime": "01:47:42,922"
        },
        {
          "index": 1845,
          "text": "fulfills the requirements for",
          "startTime": "01:47:42,982",
          "endTime": "01:47:46,322"
        },
        {
          "index": 1846,
          "text": "the, MUPD, and so I will",
          "startTime": "01:47:46,382",
          "endTime": "01:47:49,702"
        },
        {
          "index": 1847,
          "text": "be voting no on",
          "startTime": "01:47:49,762",
          "endTime": "01:47:51,922"
        },
        {
          "index": 1848,
          "text": "it.",
          "startTime": "01:47:51,962",
          "endTime": "01:47:53,842"
        },
        {
          "index": 1849,
          "text": "Councilor Morfield.",
          "startTime": "01:47:55,022",
          "endTime": "01:47:58,022"
        },
        {
          "index": 1850,
          "text": "Councilor Napack had, had her hand up",
          "startTime": "01:47:59,582",
          "endTime": "01:48:01,782"
        },
        {
          "index": 1851,
          "text": "first.",
          "startTime": "01:48:01,791",
          "endTime": "01:48:03,842"
        },
        {
          "index": 1852,
          "text": "All right. Okay. Councilor Napack.",
          "startTime": "01:48:04,542",
          "endTime": "01:48:06,862"
        },
        {
          "index": 1853,
          "text": "I have a... So in, in",
          "startTime": "01:48:08,402",
          "endTime": "01:48:10,582"
        },
        {
          "index": 1854,
          "text": "the text, the narrative that staff put together, thank you very much,",
          "startTime": "01:48:11,542",
          "endTime": "01:48:15,442"
        },
        {
          "index": 1855,
          "text": "a lot of the things",
          "startTime": "01:48:15,892",
          "endTime": "01:48:16,882"
        },
        {
          "index": 1856,
          "text": "that they talk about, especially infrastructure, are",
          "startTime": "01:48:17,942",
          "endTime": "01:48:21,362"
        },
        {
          "index": 1857,
          "text": "proposed. They're not concrete, shall we",
          "startTime": "01:48:21,382",
          "endTime": "01:48:25,242"
        },
        {
          "index": 1858,
          "text": "say. They're saying, \"We will do this, we will do that.\" They say they're proposing",
          "startTime": "01:48:25,282",
          "endTime": "01:48:28,872"
        },
        {
          "index": 1859,
          "text": "X, Y, Z. And I know, for instance, through the railroad, they",
          "startTime": "01:48:29,742",
          "endTime": "01:48:33,342"
        },
        {
          "index": 1860,
          "text": "want... they never wanna cooperate,",
          "startTime": "01:48:33,502",
          "endTime": "01:48:35,442"
        },
        {
          "index": 1861,
          "text": "and they won't maintain the crossing. They...",
          "startTime": "01:48:36,261",
          "endTime": "01:48:39,952"
        },
        {
          "index": 1862,
          "text": "w- w- w- will refuse to maintain the crossing even if we improve it.",
          "startTime": "01:48:39,952",
          "endTime": "01:48:43,842"
        },
        {
          "index": 1863,
          "text": "Um,",
          "startTime": "01:48:43,962",
          "endTime": "01:48:44,302"
        },
        {
          "index": 1864,
          "text": "the,",
          "startTime": "01:48:45,102",
          "endTime": "01:48:45,382"
        },
        {
          "index": 1865,
          "text": "SD... Well, infrastructure downtown, you know, we've been on the task",
          "startTime": "01:48:47,962",
          "endTime": "01:48:51,842"
        },
        {
          "index": 1866,
          "text": "force for, revitalization downtown, and I",
          "startTime": "01:48:51,902",
          "endTime": "01:48:55,642"
        },
        {
          "index": 1867,
          "text": "understand, you know, we have utilities that are",
          "startTime": "01:48:55,682",
          "endTime": "01:48:59,052"
        },
        {
          "index": 1868,
          "text": "needing a lot of upgrades, especially",
          "startTime": "01:49:00,302",
          "endTime": "01:49:04,262"
        },
        {
          "index": 1869,
          "text": "electric and so on and so forth. And this would seem",
          "startTime": "01:49:04,302",
          "endTime": "01:49:08,262"
        },
        {
          "index": 1870,
          "text": "that they might run into a problem if they, if",
          "startTime": "01:49:08,322",
          "endTime": "01:49:11,492"
        },
        {
          "index": 1871,
          "text": "they... I don't know if they will or not, but I know their,",
          "startTime": "01:49:11,522",
          "endTime": "01:49:15,082"
        },
        {
          "index": 1872,
          "text": "water main burst",
          "startTime": "01:49:15,582",
          "endTime": "01:49:16,622"
        },
        {
          "index": 1873,
          "text": "right there on the corner of,",
          "startTime": "01:49:17,782",
          "endTime": "01:49:19,062"
        },
        {
          "index": 1874,
          "text": "Fourth and Safeway.",
          "startTime": "01:49:20,822",
          "endTime": "01:49:23,102"
        },
        {
          "index": 1875,
          "text": "So I don't... You know, how we can...",
          "startTime": "01:49:24,482",
          "endTime": "01:49:26,832"
        },
        {
          "index": 1876,
          "text": "How can we, can we afford",
          "startTime": "01:49:26,842",
          "endTime": "01:49:29,842"
        },
        {
          "index": 1877,
          "text": "this?",
          "startTime": "01:49:29,902",
          "endTime": "01:49:31,842"
        },
        {
          "index": 1878,
          "text": "Okay. Um, yeah, a couple things. Uh, one is, you know, some of",
          "startTime": "01:49:33,202",
          "endTime": "01:49:36,792"
        },
        {
          "index": 1879,
          "text": "these, some of these things about what the developer should or should not offer, we",
          "startTime": "01:49:36,842",
          "endTime": "01:49:40,142"
        },
        {
          "index": 1880,
          "text": "should probably get the developer on to, to talk about that. I...",
          "startTime": "01:49:40,162",
          "endTime": "01:49:42,572"
        },
        {
          "index": 1881,
          "text": "You know, we're not here to, to deal with that part of it.",
          "startTime": "01:49:42,602",
          "endTime": "01:49:44,882"
        },
        {
          "index": 1882,
          "text": "Um, but as far as the public utilities piece of things",
          "startTime": "01:49:44,982",
          "endTime": "01:49:48,182"
        },
        {
          "index": 1883,
          "text": "and the electrical, what we've seen, you know, our",
          "startTime": "01:49:48,782",
          "endTime": "01:49:52,642"
        },
        {
          "index": 1884,
          "text": "electrical grid",
          "startTime": "01:49:52,662",
          "endTime": "01:49:53,642"
        },
        {
          "index": 1885,
          "text": "in the downtown is a problem for pretty much any scale of",
          "startTime": "01:49:54,442",
          "endTime": "01:49:57,902"
        },
        {
          "index": 1886,
          "text": "development. Um, we've had problems, on",
          "startTime": "01:49:57,962",
          "endTime": "01:50:01,902"
        },
        {
          "index": 1887,
          "text": "some of the renovations on Madison even.",
          "startTime": "01:50:01,962",
          "endTime": "01:50:04,482"
        },
        {
          "index": 1888,
          "text": "Um, it's a very old technology. It's...",
          "startTime": "01:50:04,582",
          "endTime": "01:50:06,692"
        },
        {
          "index": 1889,
          "text": "it has not been well-maintained by Pacific Power.",
          "startTime": "01:50:06,692",
          "endTime": "01:50:09,262"
        },
        {
          "index": 1890,
          "text": "So when we do have projects, like the l- museum was",
          "startTime": "01:50:09,362",
          "endTime": "01:50:12,842"
        },
        {
          "index": 1891,
          "text": "one, like, OB recently, there's",
          "startTime": "01:50:12,962",
          "endTime": "01:50:16,552"
        },
        {
          "index": 1892,
          "text": "extensive multi-million dollar upgrades to the entire",
          "startTime": "01:50:16,602",
          "endTime": "01:50:20,182"
        },
        {
          "index": 1893,
          "text": "grid downtown that occurs for that.",
          "startTime": "01:50:20,242",
          "endTime": "01:50:22,152"
        },
        {
          "index": 1894,
          "text": "So it would not sur- You know, I don't know the details about this particular part",
          "startTime": "01:50:22,222",
          "endTime": "01:50:26,082"
        },
        {
          "index": 1895,
          "text": "of downtown, but it would not surprise me at all if there's not the same",
          "startTime": "01:50:26,122",
          "endTime": "01:50:30,002"
        },
        {
          "index": 1896,
          "text": "thing. And it doesn't necessarily mean that the grid just is on that block.",
          "startTime": "01:50:30,042",
          "endTime": "01:50:33,552"
        },
        {
          "index": 1897,
          "text": "They often have to run back.",
          "startTime": "01:50:33,582",
          "endTime": "01:50:35,122"
        },
        {
          "index": 1898,
          "text": "As far as water lines and sewer lines,",
          "startTime": "01:50:35,346",
          "endTime": "01:50:39,106"
        },
        {
          "index": 1899,
          "text": "those are things that get resolved every- when the development comes",
          "startTime": "01:50:39,846",
          "endTime": "01:50:43,046"
        },
        {
          "index": 1900,
          "text": "in, and if they are not adequate, then the development has to bring them up to",
          "startTime": "01:50:43,146",
          "endTime": "01:50:46,866"
        },
        {
          "index": 1901,
          "text": "speed. It's actually kind of beneficial if you have older,",
          "startTime": "01:50:46,906",
          "endTime": "01:50:50,656"
        },
        {
          "index": 1902,
          "text": "infrastructure that needs to be upgraded",
          "startTime": "01:50:52,106",
          "endTime": "01:50:54,446"
        },
        {
          "index": 1903,
          "text": "then along with the development, but again, I don't know if that would be the case",
          "startTime": "01:50:54,456",
          "endTime": "01:50:58,046"
        },
        {
          "index": 1904,
          "text": "here or not. Oh, maybe Mark knows something.",
          "startTime": "01:50:58,106",
          "endTime": "01:51:00,766"
        },
        {
          "index": 1905,
          "text": "Yeah, I can just share generally if you think about water and, and sewer",
          "startTime": "01:51:00,826",
          "endTime": "01:51:04,726"
        },
        {
          "index": 1906,
          "text": "lines as our public works director has, has talked about",
          "startTime": "01:51:04,766",
          "endTime": "01:51:08,746"
        },
        {
          "index": 1907,
          "text": "and, and presentations on master plans recently on both our water and,",
          "startTime": "01:51:08,786",
          "endTime": "01:51:12,756"
        },
        {
          "index": 1908,
          "text": "and wastewater. Generally it's, for water, it's",
          "startTime": "01:51:12,786",
          "endTime": "01:51:16,526"
        },
        {
          "index": 1909,
          "text": "fire flows that drive water line sizes, and for",
          "startTime": "01:51:16,626",
          "endTime": "01:51:20,426"
        },
        {
          "index": 1910,
          "text": "sewer line sizes, it's that infiltration and inflow.",
          "startTime": "01:51:20,526",
          "endTime": "01:51:23,486"
        },
        {
          "index": 1911,
          "text": "It's not number of residents,",
          "startTime": "01:51:23,526",
          "endTime": "01:51:26,106"
        },
        {
          "index": 1912,
          "text": "as Director Bilade pointed out.",
          "startTime": "01:51:27,766",
          "endTime": "01:51:29,506"
        },
        {
          "index": 1913,
          "text": "If, if there is a, a local deficiency",
          "startTime": "01:51:29,586",
          "endTime": "01:51:33,106"
        },
        {
          "index": 1914,
          "text": "identified, generally that, the developer has to deal with that as",
          "startTime": "01:51:33,186",
          "endTime": "01:51:37,016"
        },
        {
          "index": 1915,
          "text": "part of their development, and they do that through a, a permit process",
          "startTime": "01:51:37,066",
          "endTime": "01:51:40,966"
        },
        {
          "index": 1916,
          "text": "through public works.",
          "startTime": "01:51:40,986",
          "endTime": "01:51:43,586"
        },
        {
          "index": 1917,
          "text": "Okay, thanks.",
          "startTime": "01:51:43,626",
          "endTime": "01:51:45,746"
        },
        {
          "index": 1918,
          "text": "Councillor Marfield?",
          "startTime": "01:51:45,946",
          "endTime": "01:51:48,606"
        },
        {
          "index": 1919,
          "text": "Um,",
          "startTime": "01:51:48,726",
          "endTime": "01:51:48,966"
        },
        {
          "index": 1920,
          "text": "I have a couple of questions. Um,",
          "startTime": "01:51:50,146",
          "endTime": "01:51:52,386"
        },
        {
          "index": 1921,
          "text": "I'll ask them both if someone else doesn't wanna take a turn.",
          "startTime": "01:51:53,306",
          "endTime": "01:51:56,636"
        },
        {
          "index": 1922,
          "text": "But, the first one is a fairly narrow technical",
          "startTime": "01:51:56,636",
          "endTime": "01:52:00,546"
        },
        {
          "index": 1923,
          "text": "one. It was a question I posed to staff late in the day, so there wasn't",
          "startTime": "01:52:00,646",
          "endTime": "01:52:04,256"
        },
        {
          "index": 1924,
          "text": "really time to come up with an answer, but it had to do with the",
          "startTime": "01:52:04,266",
          "endTime": "01:52:08,246"
        },
        {
          "index": 1925,
          "text": "financial projections and, and,",
          "startTime": "01:52:08,346",
          "endTime": "01:52:10,896"
        },
        {
          "index": 1926,
          "text": "what, at least on the",
          "startTime": "01:52:13,486",
          "endTime": "01:52:14,506"
        },
        {
          "index": 1927,
          "text": "surface, looked to me like an error, but I'm not familiar",
          "startTime": "01:52:14,586",
          "endTime": "01:52:18,466"
        },
        {
          "index": 1928,
          "text": "with this kind of commercial development either.",
          "startTime": "01:52:18,486",
          "endTime": "01:52:20,746"
        },
        {
          "index": 1929,
          "text": "But the, that coverage ratio in the first three years seemed to be calculated",
          "startTime": "01:52:20,766",
          "endTime": "01:52:24,586"
        },
        {
          "index": 1930,
          "text": "incorrectly. And since there's, the purpose of it is to",
          "startTime": "01:52:24,646",
          "endTime": "01:52:28,306"
        },
        {
          "index": 1931,
          "text": "establish the need for the property tax exemption, I need",
          "startTime": "01:52:28,326",
          "endTime": "01:52:32,226"
        },
        {
          "index": 1932,
          "text": "that to be clarified.",
          "startTime": "01:52:32,266",
          "endTime": "01:52:34,086"
        },
        {
          "index": 1933,
          "text": "Yeah. I, I think here we'll ask Eric Bagwell, from Echo",
          "startTime": "01:52:34,146",
          "endTime": "01:52:37,846"
        },
        {
          "index": 1934,
          "text": "Northwest to clarify that.",
          "startTime": "01:52:37,926",
          "endTime": "01:52:40,016"
        },
        {
          "index": 1935,
          "text": "Huh.",
          "startTime": "01:52:40,026",
          "endTime": "01:52:42,466"
        },
        {
          "index": 1936,
          "text": "Sure. Good evening, everyone. Um, sure, happy to answer that question.",
          "startTime": "01:52:44,305",
          "endTime": "01:52:47,486"
        },
        {
          "index": 1937,
          "text": "Um, w- the, the debt service cover ratio is",
          "startTime": "01:52:47,506",
          "endTime": "01:52:51,326"
        },
        {
          "index": 1938,
          "text": "calculated properly. What's happening is there's a three percent,",
          "startTime": "01:52:51,366",
          "endTime": "01:52:55,266"
        },
        {
          "index": 1939,
          "text": "increase assumption on r- on the rental income",
          "startTime": "01:52:55,546",
          "endTime": "01:52:59,026"
        },
        {
          "index": 1940,
          "text": "annually. And so what happens is that's ticking up every year.",
          "startTime": "01:52:59,126",
          "endTime": "01:53:02,296"
        },
        {
          "index": 1941,
          "text": "And also, I think in year four, there, the developer is expecting a refinancing",
          "startTime": "01:53:02,326",
          "endTime": "01:53:06,286"
        },
        {
          "index": 1942,
          "text": "event, and so you're seeing that actually change to serve, the debt service",
          "startTime": "01:53:06,326",
          "endTime": "01:53:10,206"
        },
        {
          "index": 1943,
          "text": "actually change in that year. Um, does that answer your",
          "startTime": "01:53:10,286",
          "endTime": "01:53:12,866"
        },
        {
          "index": 1944,
          "text": "question?",
          "startTime": "01:53:12,906",
          "endTime": "01:53:14,426"
        },
        {
          "index": 1945,
          "text": "It- I'm sorry, I couldn't quite hear you.",
          "startTime": "01:53:14,526",
          "endTime": "01:53:16,996"
        },
        {
          "index": 1946,
          "text": "The sound is just because of my hearing and quality of the",
          "startTime": "01:53:16,996",
          "endTime": "01:53:20,686"
        },
        {
          "index": 1947,
          "text": "speaker wasn't real great. Maybe I can get an interpreter.",
          "startTime": "01:53:20,806",
          "endTime": "01:53:24,026"
        },
        {
          "index": 1948,
          "text": "Um, so no, I, I didn't, I couldn't hear the answer",
          "startTime": "01:53:25,186",
          "endTime": "01:53:28,506"
        },
        {
          "index": 1949,
          "text": "exactly.",
          "startTime": "01:53:28,546",
          "endTime": "01:53:29,546"
        },
        {
          "index": 1950,
          "text": "Sure. So my understanding of the, the pro forma is that in year four,",
          "startTime": "01:53:29,686",
          "endTime": "01:53:33,606"
        },
        {
          "index": 1951,
          "text": "the developer is expecting a refinancing event to basically take out a",
          "startTime": "01:53:33,666",
          "endTime": "01:53:37,366"
        },
        {
          "index": 1952,
          "text": "portion of the equity-",
          "startTime": "01:53:37,386",
          "endTime": "01:53:38,506"
        },
        {
          "index": 1953,
          "text": "Right",
          "startTime": "01:53:38,606",
          "endTime": "01:53:38,806"
        },
        {
          "index": 1954,
          "text": "... that is being put into... So wha- what you're seeing is the debt service start",
          "startTime": "01:53:38,926",
          "endTime": "01:53:41,766"
        },
        {
          "index": 1955,
          "text": "to change in that year. Also-",
          "startTime": "01:53:41,806",
          "endTime": "01:53:43,346"
        },
        {
          "index": 1956,
          "text": "Yeah, I, I understand what happens in year four.",
          "startTime": "01:53:43,386",
          "endTime": "01:53:45,286"
        },
        {
          "index": 1957,
          "text": "It's years one through three that seem to be...",
          "startTime": "01:53:45,306",
          "endTime": "01:53:48,586"
        },
        {
          "index": 1958,
          "text": "If I, if I,",
          "startTime": "01:53:48,626",
          "endTime": "01:53:49,866"
        },
        {
          "index": 1959,
          "text": "you know, divide,",
          "startTime": "01:53:52,706",
          "endTime": "01:53:54,776"
        },
        {
          "index": 1960,
          "text": "net operating income by debt service for year one through three, it doesn't come up",
          "startTime": "01:53:55,246",
          "endTime": "01:53:58,866"
        },
        {
          "index": 1961,
          "text": "with a one point one five, one ei- one eighteen, one twenty two",
          "startTime": "01:53:58,906",
          "endTime": "01:54:02,456"
        },
        {
          "index": 1962,
          "text": "debt coverage ratio.",
          "startTime": "01:54:03,166",
          "endTime": "01:54:04,666"
        },
        {
          "index": 1963,
          "text": "Oh, that's because in year, the first three years, there's just an interest-only",
          "startTime": "01:54:04,726",
          "endTime": "01:54:08,266"
        },
        {
          "index": 1964,
          "text": "annual payment.",
          "startTime": "01:54:08,326",
          "endTime": "01:54:09,666"
        },
        {
          "index": 1965,
          "text": "But it's still debt service.",
          "startTime": "01:54:09,706",
          "endTime": "01:54:11,306"
        },
        {
          "index": 1966,
          "text": "Yes, but the debt service is different because when that refinancing event happens,",
          "startTime": "01:54:11,346",
          "endTime": "01:54:15,216"
        },
        {
          "index": 1967,
          "text": "it changes to a thirty-year am- amortization as opposed to",
          "startTime": "01:54:15,266",
          "endTime": "01:54:19,206"
        },
        {
          "index": 1968,
          "text": "the interest-only payment that's happening in the first three years.",
          "startTime": "01:54:19,226",
          "endTime": "01:54:21,776"
        },
        {
          "index": 1969,
          "text": "That's why it's changing.",
          "startTime": "01:54:21,826",
          "endTime": "01:54:23,916"
        },
        {
          "index": 1970,
          "text": "Okay, well,",
          "startTime": "01:54:23,966",
          "endTime": "01:54:24,535"
        },
        {
          "index": 1971,
          "text": "I, I'm talking about, I think, a simple math question.",
          "startTime": "01:54:25,946",
          "endTime": "01:54:29,486"
        },
        {
          "index": 1972,
          "text": "Sure.",
          "startTime": "01:54:29,546",
          "endTime": "01:54:29,906"
        },
        {
          "index": 1973,
          "text": "In a pro forma, if I look at net operating income of, I mean,",
          "startTime": "01:54:29,926",
          "endTime": "01:54:33,886"
        },
        {
          "index": 1974,
          "text": "I'll use the first year, of eight one, eight point one",
          "startTime": "01:54:33,926",
          "endTime": "01:54:37,606"
        },
        {
          "index": 1975,
          "text": "million,",
          "startTime": "01:54:37,706",
          "endTime": "01:54:38,146"
        },
        {
          "index": 1976,
          "text": "and divide it by the, the, debt service of five point",
          "startTime": "01:54:40,426",
          "endTime": "01:54:43,926"
        },
        {
          "index": 1977,
          "text": "nine, it does not come out to one point one five.",
          "startTime": "01:54:44,066",
          "endTime": "01:54:46,766"
        },
        {
          "index": 1978,
          "text": "So I'm just going by the numbers that are shown on the sheet.",
          "startTime": "01:54:47,906",
          "endTime": "01:54:51,606"
        },
        {
          "index": 1979,
          "text": "And I would say the same error, I, I mean,",
          "startTime": "01:54:51,646",
          "endTime": "01:54:55,566"
        },
        {
          "index": 1980,
          "text": "at least it appears to be that, shows up in years two and three, and then",
          "startTime": "01:54:55,845",
          "endTime": "01:54:59,386"
        },
        {
          "index": 1981,
          "text": "after that it's fine. It, it ma- it",
          "startTime": "01:54:59,686",
          "endTime": "01:55:02,276"
        },
        {
          "index": 1982,
          "text": "makes sense in the way that I understand it.",
          "startTime": "01:55:03,126",
          "endTime": "01:55:05,826"
        },
        {
          "index": 1983,
          "text": "Yeah. My, the calculation I have on, in the application that I received",
          "startTime": "01:55:05,886",
          "endTime": "01:55:09,546"
        },
        {
          "index": 1984,
          "text": "has the net operating income divided by the interest",
          "startTime": "01:55:09,706",
          "endTime": "01:55:13,546"
        },
        {
          "index": 1985,
          "text": "of five point fi- or the, the",
          "startTime": "01:55:13,806",
          "endTime": "01:55:15,796"
        },
        {
          "index": 1986,
          "text": "one year, debt service of five",
          "startTime": "01:55:16,606",
          "endTime": "01:55:20,516"
        },
        {
          "index": 1987,
          "text": "point five million dollars. So it is getting to, it, it's an accurate",
          "startTime": "01:55:20,606",
          "endTime": "01:55:24,046"
        },
        {
          "index": 1988,
          "text": "calculation in my, in my pro forma.",
          "startTime": "01:55:24,086",
          "endTime": "01:55:26,546"
        },
        {
          "index": 1989,
          "text": "Maybe we're looking at two different-",
          "startTime": "01:55:26,626",
          "endTime": "01:55:28,126"
        },
        {
          "index": 1990,
          "text": "Okay",
          "startTime": "01:55:28,146",
          "endTime": "01:55:28,156"
        },
        {
          "index": 1991,
          "text": "... versions of it.",
          "startTime": "01:55:28,156",
          "endTime": "01:55:29,326"
        },
        {
          "index": 1992,
          "text": "Can, can I, can I jump in as the developer and maybe clarify?",
          "startTime": "01:55:29,406",
          "endTime": "01:55:32,346"
        },
        {
          "index": 1993,
          "text": "Sure. Thanks, Dan.",
          "startTime": "01:55:32,406",
          "endTime": "01:55:32,986"
        },
        {
          "index": 1994,
          "text": "You don't mind? Sorry about that. So yeah, I can explain that.",
          "startTime": "01:55:33,026",
          "endTime": "01:55:36,526"
        },
        {
          "index": 1995,
          "text": "Um, for purposes of lenders reviewing pro",
          "startTime": "01:55:36,586",
          "endTime": "01:55:40,466"
        },
        {
          "index": 1996,
          "text": "formas,",
          "startTime": "01:55:40,486",
          "endTime": "01:55:41,186"
        },
        {
          "index": 1997,
          "text": "regardless of whether it's interest-only payment, debt cover ratio is",
          "startTime": "01:55:42,086",
          "endTime": "01:55:45,806"
        },
        {
          "index": 1998,
          "text": "based on the thirty-year amortized payment.",
          "startTime": "01:55:45,866",
          "endTime": "01:55:49,526"
        },
        {
          "index": 1999,
          "text": "So as if you are paying, even though you're not for the first three",
          "startTime": "01:55:49,546",
          "endTime": "01:55:53,496"
        },
        {
          "index": 2000,
          "text": "years alone, it's calculated as if you are paying part of",
          "startTime": "01:55:53,606",
          "endTime": "01:55:57,546"
        },
        {
          "index": 2001,
          "text": "the principal amount down. That is why.",
          "startTime": "01:55:57,586",
          "endTime": "01:56:00,816"
        },
        {
          "index": 2002,
          "text": "So in fact, if you look at, you don't divide it by the",
          "startTime": "01:56:00,866",
          "endTime": "01:56:04,186"
        },
        {
          "index": 2003,
          "text": "interest-only payment amount,",
          "startTime": "01:56:04,246",
          "endTime": "01:56:05,926"
        },
        {
          "index": 2004,
          "text": "you divide it by the larger amount of the thirty-year fully amortized amount,",
          "startTime": "01:56:06,806",
          "endTime": "01:56:10,746"
        },
        {
          "index": 2005,
          "text": "and that's how you get to that",
          "startTime": "01:56:11,506",
          "endTime": "01:56:12,426"
        },
        {
          "index": 2006,
          "text": "number.",
          "startTime": "01:56:12,466",
          "endTime": "01:56:16,306"
        },
        {
          "index": 2007,
          "text": "I, I'm not gonna sit here in the middle of the meeting and do math.",
          "startTime": "01:56:20,086",
          "endTime": "01:56:22,676"
        },
        {
          "index": 2008,
          "text": "I, I turned my- ... stuff so it wouldn't-",
          "startTime": "01:56:22,726",
          "endTime": "01:56:25,546"
        },
        {
          "index": 2009,
          "text": "Yeah, it's, uh-",
          "startTime": "01:56:25,726",
          "endTime": "01:56:26,466"
        },
        {
          "index": 2010,
          "text": "I'm just reporting on m- me coming up with different",
          "startTime": "01:56:26,506",
          "endTime": "01:56:30,026"
        },
        {
          "index": 2011,
          "text": "DCRs when I was doing it at home.",
          "startTime": "01:56:30,066",
          "endTime": "01:56:32,326"
        },
        {
          "index": 2012,
          "text": "Yeah, no, DCR is-",
          "startTime": "01:56:32,386",
          "endTime": "01:56:33,926"
        },
        {
          "index": 2013,
          "text": "So-",
          "startTime": "01:56:34,066",
          "endTime": "01:56:34,076"
        },
        {
          "index": 2014,
          "text": "I'm sorry. The DCR is, is co- is for the purpose of getting",
          "startTime": "01:56:34,086",
          "endTime": "01:56:37,416"
        },
        {
          "index": 2015,
          "text": "the-The debt cover ratio, it's calculated regardless",
          "startTime": "01:56:37,426",
          "endTime": "01:56:41,410"
        },
        {
          "index": 2016,
          "text": "of whether you're only paying interest payments for those three years.",
          "startTime": "01:56:41,470",
          "endTime": "01:56:45,310"
        },
        {
          "index": 2017,
          "text": "It's, the debt cover ratio is actually calculated based",
          "startTime": "01:56:45,390",
          "endTime": "01:56:49,170"
        },
        {
          "index": 2018,
          "text": "on a larger payment on a monthly",
          "startTime": "01:56:49,290",
          "endTime": "01:56:51,990"
        },
        {
          "index": 2019,
          "text": "basis amount. For the bank purposes, that's always the way it's",
          "startTime": "01:56:52,010",
          "endTime": "01:56:55,760"
        },
        {
          "index": 2020,
          "text": "done. So y-you can't get a loan",
          "startTime": "01:56:55,770",
          "endTime": "01:56:58,090"
        },
        {
          "index": 2021,
          "text": "based on the interest-only payment.",
          "startTime": "01:56:58,950",
          "endTime": "01:57:01,610"
        },
        {
          "index": 2022,
          "text": "It, the lender will always base it on the amortized amount",
          "startTime": "01:57:01,650",
          "endTime": "01:57:05,630"
        },
        {
          "index": 2023,
          "text": "over thir- which is a higher payment on an annual basis.",
          "startTime": "01:57:06,690",
          "endTime": "01:57:10,290"
        },
        {
          "index": 2024,
          "text": "That's why it's, it sounds confusing.",
          "startTime": "01:57:10,310",
          "endTime": "01:57:13,150"
        },
        {
          "index": 2025,
          "text": "I, I... And I totally get why you'd be confused.",
          "startTime": "01:57:13,190",
          "endTime": "01:57:16,630"
        },
        {
          "index": 2026,
          "text": "I, I was a little concerned that you, you kind of",
          "startTime": "01:57:16,670",
          "endTime": "01:57:19,350"
        },
        {
          "index": 2027,
          "text": "need to be in our world of finance to...",
          "startTime": "01:57:20,170",
          "endTime": "01:57:23,880"
        },
        {
          "index": 2028,
          "text": "As a s- kind of a stray calculation, it doesn't make sense, but that's, that's how",
          "startTime": "01:57:23,910",
          "endTime": "01:57:27,550"
        },
        {
          "index": 2029,
          "text": "it's calculated. And Eric, you can, I guess, confirm",
          "startTime": "01:57:27,590",
          "endTime": "01:57:30,990"
        },
        {
          "index": 2030,
          "text": "that. Maybe just-",
          "startTime": "01:57:31,050",
          "endTime": "01:57:32,310"
        },
        {
          "index": 2031,
          "text": "Yes, that is typically how it is calculated,",
          "startTime": "01:57:32,350",
          "endTime": "01:57:34,430"
        },
        {
          "index": 2032,
          "text": "correct.",
          "startTime": "01:57:34,470",
          "endTime": "01:57:36,750"
        },
        {
          "index": 2033,
          "text": "Okay. Um,",
          "startTime": "01:57:38,070",
          "endTime": "01:57:39,040"
        },
        {
          "index": 2034,
          "text": "second question. Um,",
          "startTime": "01:57:39,930",
          "endTime": "01:57:41,250"
        },
        {
          "index": 2035,
          "text": "the, I don't have the, ORS or the, or the actually the city",
          "startTime": "01:57:42,730",
          "endTime": "01:57:46,670"
        },
        {
          "index": 2036,
          "text": "ordinance language sitting right in front of me, so I'm working from memory a",
          "startTime": "01:57:46,750",
          "endTime": "01:57:49,830"
        },
        {
          "index": 2037,
          "text": "little bit. But the, ORS that",
          "startTime": "01:57:49,850",
          "endTime": "01:57:53,290"
        },
        {
          "index": 2038,
          "text": "authorizes localities to have a MUPTI program mentions design",
          "startTime": "01:57:53,370",
          "endTime": "01:57:57,310"
        },
        {
          "index": 2039,
          "text": "criteria as being an element that can be considered.",
          "startTime": "01:57:57,390",
          "endTime": "01:58:00,890"
        },
        {
          "index": 2040,
          "text": "Um, in the city's ordinance, there's some,",
          "startTime": "01:58:01,530",
          "endTime": "01:58:05,410"
        },
        {
          "index": 2041,
          "text": "what I consider, fairly general language about, design",
          "startTime": "01:58:05,430",
          "endTime": "01:58:08,770"
        },
        {
          "index": 2042,
          "text": "criteria in there. And so the, a question",
          "startTime": "01:58:08,870",
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        },
        {
          "index": 2043,
          "text": "that I think is appropriate to ask tonight is that because the language is",
          "startTime": "01:58:12,950",
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        },
        {
          "index": 2044,
          "text": "general",
          "startTime": "01:58:16,730",
          "endTime": "01:58:17,150"
        },
        {
          "index": 2045,
          "text": "and, and not real specific about what we",
          "startTime": "01:58:18,070",
          "endTime": "01:58:22,050"
        },
        {
          "index": 2046,
          "text": "mean by that,",
          "startTime": "01:58:22,130",
          "endTime": "01:58:23,230"
        },
        {
          "index": 2047,
          "text": "it raises the question to me, number one, how are we supposed to interpret",
          "startTime": "01:58:25,490",
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        },
        {
          "index": 2048,
          "text": "it? One way to have some guidance around that issue",
          "startTime": "01:58:29,250",
          "endTime": "01:58:32,970"
        },
        {
          "index": 2049,
          "text": "is what did the council intend back in '23 or",
          "startTime": "01:58:33,090",
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        },
        {
          "index": 2050,
          "text": "whenever it was when the, when the ordinance was adopted.",
          "startTime": "01:58:37,010",
          "endTime": "01:58:40,850"
        },
        {
          "index": 2051,
          "text": "Um,",
          "startTime": "01:58:40,970",
          "endTime": "01:58:41,250"
        },
        {
          "index": 2052,
          "text": "can you... Because I, I think of a design can, is a very",
          "startTime": "01:58:42,170",
          "endTime": "01:58:45,930"
        },
        {
          "index": 2053,
          "text": "global kind of topic. And, and",
          "startTime": "01:58:46,030",
          "endTime": "01:58:49,800"
        },
        {
          "index": 2054,
          "text": "some, some of the concerns that have been raised",
          "startTime": "01:58:49,870",
          "endTime": "01:58:51,690"
        },
        {
          "index": 2055,
          "text": "aren't just about how the exterior of the building is",
          "startTime": "01:58:52,530",
          "endTime": "01:58:55,499"
        },
        {
          "index": 2056,
          "text": "treated, but its relationship to",
          "startTime": "01:58:55,530",
          "endTime": "01:58:59,070"
        },
        {
          "index": 2057,
          "text": "surrounding areas. Certainly, architects",
          "startTime": "01:58:59,150",
          "endTime": "01:59:01,770"
        },
        {
          "index": 2058,
          "text": "take into account context when they design things.",
          "startTime": "01:59:02,890",
          "endTime": "01:59:06,090"
        },
        {
          "index": 2059,
          "text": "Sure.",
          "startTime": "01:59:06,150",
          "endTime": "01:59:06,380"
        },
        {
          "index": 2060,
          "text": "Uh, I, that's not specified in our ordinance, though.",
          "startTime": "01:59:07,150",
          "endTime": "01:59:10,040"
        },
        {
          "index": 2061,
          "text": "So I'm trying to get some guidance on what the intent was of having",
          "startTime": "01:59:10,070",
          "endTime": "01:59:13,850"
        },
        {
          "index": 2062,
          "text": "design, in the ordinance.",
          "startTime": "01:59:13,870",
          "endTime": "01:59:16,770"
        },
        {
          "index": 2063,
          "text": "Yeah. Design is usually, you know, it was intended to be, fairly general",
          "startTime": "01:59:16,830",
          "endTime": "01:59:20,710"
        },
        {
          "index": 2064,
          "text": "to give council some latitude. Uh, we don't",
          "startTime": "01:59:20,770",
          "endTime": "01:59:23,490"
        },
        {
          "index": 2065,
          "text": "have,",
          "startTime": "01:59:23,590",
          "endTime": "01:59:24,770"
        },
        {
          "index": 2066,
          "text": "we don't have a very specific design,",
          "startTime": "01:59:26,110",
          "endTime": "01:59:28,510"
        },
        {
          "index": 2067,
          "text": "standard across the city. You know, we, we tend to allow a lot of different",
          "startTime": "01:59:30,210",
          "endTime": "01:59:33,690"
        },
        {
          "index": 2068,
          "text": "things. Um, typically, design is going to",
          "startTime": "01:59:33,700",
          "endTime": "01:59:36,610"
        },
        {
          "index": 2069,
          "text": "be, not change of",
          "startTime": "01:59:36,710",
          "endTime": "01:59:40,450"
        },
        {
          "index": 2070,
          "text": "scale per se, but elements of the",
          "startTime": "01:59:40,550",
          "endTime": "01:59:44,310"
        },
        {
          "index": 2071,
          "text": "design. So, you know, a, taking",
          "startTime": "01:59:44,350",
          "endTime": "01:59:48,339"
        },
        {
          "index": 2072,
          "text": "the 13-story building down to a three-story building would not be",
          "startTime": "01:59:48,390",
          "endTime": "01:59:52,250"
        },
        {
          "index": 2073,
          "text": "just an architectural",
          "startTime": "01:59:52,330",
          "endTime": "01:59:53,510"
        },
        {
          "index": 2074,
          "text": "opinion. You know, that's, that's something that's different.",
          "startTime": "01:59:54,570",
          "endTime": "01:59:57,270"
        },
        {
          "index": 2075,
          "text": "Moving, you know, having the lobby open over here",
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          "endTime": "02:00:01,250"
        },
        {
          "index": 2076,
          "text": "or having a step back or having, you know,",
          "startTime": "02:00:01,350",
          "endTime": "02:00:05,050"
        },
        {
          "index": 2077,
          "text": "balconies go this way instead of that way. You know, those sorts of things.",
          "startTime": "02:00:05,090",
          "endTime": "02:00:08,050"
        },
        {
          "index": 2078,
          "text": "Those, those are design, pieces to it.",
          "startTime": "02:00:08,070",
          "endTime": "02:00:10,610"
        },
        {
          "index": 2079,
          "text": "Um, you know, if we... Not in, not in this",
          "startTime": "02:00:10,710",
          "endTime": "02:00:14,380"
        },
        {
          "index": 2080,
          "text": "case because they, of course, get to use the standards as it is",
          "startTime": "02:00:14,450",
          "endTime": "02:00:18,410"
        },
        {
          "index": 2081,
          "text": "now. Uh, in the future, if the council wanted to be more clear",
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          "endTime": "02:00:21,930"
        },
        {
          "index": 2082,
          "text": "about, you know, these are the five things that we really care about",
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          "endTime": "02:00:25,910"
        },
        {
          "index": 2083,
          "text": "and we don't care about anything else, that's fine, but, that's not",
          "startTime": "02:00:25,950",
          "endTime": "02:00:29,910"
        },
        {
          "index": 2084,
          "text": "how, this was set up. It was set up to...",
          "startTime": "02:00:29,970",
          "endTime": "02:00:32,119"
        },
        {
          "index": 2085,
          "text": "'Cause, you know, no one really knew what was gonna come in, so it was set up to",
          "startTime": "02:00:32,119",
          "endTime": "02:00:35,510"
        },
        {
          "index": 2086,
          "text": "give the council some, some, freedom.",
          "startTime": "02:00:35,550",
          "endTime": "02:00:37,730"
        },
        {
          "index": 2087,
          "text": "As a former developer, I, I certainly have been supportive of the city",
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          "endTime": "02:00:41,990"
        },
        {
          "index": 2088,
          "text": "moving away from vague design requirements that were always",
          "startTime": "02:00:42,110",
          "endTime": "02:00:46,070"
        },
        {
          "index": 2089,
          "text": "seen in the eye of the beholder and created opportunities for nothing more",
          "startTime": "02:00:46,130",
          "endTime": "02:00:49,970"
        },
        {
          "index": 2090,
          "text": "than conflict and appeals. Uh, so having more",
          "startTime": "02:00:50,010",
          "endTime": "02:00:53,730"
        },
        {
          "index": 2091,
          "text": "objective criteria in what we, what kind of",
          "startTime": "02:00:53,770",
          "endTime": "02:00:57,430"
        },
        {
          "index": 2092,
          "text": "design elements should apply-",
          "startTime": "02:00:57,469",
          "endTime": "02:00:59,130"
        },
        {
          "index": 2093,
          "text": "Mm-hmm",
          "startTime": "02:00:59,210",
          "endTime": "02:00:59,240"
        },
        {
          "index": 2094,
          "text": "... in developments, that makes perfect sense.",
          "startTime": "02:00:59,270",
          "endTime": "02:01:02,230"
        },
        {
          "index": 2095,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "02:01:02,270",
          "endTime": "02:01:02,670"
        },
        {
          "index": 2096,
          "text": "But that's not the question in my mind before us.",
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          "endTime": "02:01:04,970"
        },
        {
          "index": 2097,
          "text": "This is about whether we provide a, a property tax",
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          "endTime": "02:01:08,770"
        },
        {
          "index": 2098,
          "text": "exemption-",
          "startTime": "02:01:08,830",
          "endTime": "02:01:09,290"
        },
        {
          "index": 2099,
          "text": "Right",
          "startTime": "02:01:09,330",
          "endTime": "02:01:09,430"
        },
        {
          "index": 2100,
          "text": "... and how, and it raises the, it, a matter of",
          "startTime": "02:01:09,950",
          "endTime": "02:01:13,850"
        },
        {
          "index": 2101,
          "text": "design as one of those matters of public benefit-",
          "startTime": "02:01:13,890",
          "endTime": "02:01:17,610"
        },
        {
          "index": 2102,
          "text": "Right",
          "startTime": "02:01:17,670",
          "endTime": "02:01:17,830"
        },
        {
          "index": 2103,
          "text": "... especially when it's exceeded.",
          "startTime": "02:01:18,170",
          "endTime": "02:01:20,910"
        },
        {
          "index": 2104,
          "text": "And so",
          "startTime": "02:01:20,950",
          "endTime": "02:01:21,490"
        },
        {
          "index": 2105,
          "text": "it, it, it appears to inject",
          "startTime": "02:01:22,990",
          "endTime": "02:01:25,170"
        },
        {
          "index": 2107,
          "text": "element that otherwise is not in our land development code.",
          "startTime": "02:01:27,610",
          "endTime": "02:01:31,070"
        },
        {
          "index": 2108,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "02:01:31,090",
          "endTime": "02:01:31,550"
        },
        {
          "index": 2109,
          "text": "But it injects that element design into a decision",
          "startTime": "02:01:31,570",
          "endTime": "02:01:35,150"
        },
        {
          "index": 2110,
          "text": "on, on subsidy.",
          "startTime": "02:01:35,190",
          "endTime": "02:01:37,330"
        },
        {
          "index": 2111,
          "text": "The, the language in the, in the MUPTI, and I don't have it right in front of me,",
          "startTime": "02:01:37,370",
          "endTime": "02:01:41,170"
        },
        {
          "index": 2112,
          "text": "but it's, it's ref- referencing,",
          "startTime": "02:01:41,310",
          "endTime": "02:01:44,690"
        },
        {
          "index": 2113,
          "text": "design and materials that are in excess of, of kind of",
          "startTime": "02:01:45,300",
          "endTime": "02:01:48,750"
        },
        {
          "index": 2114,
          "text": "standard. So what we look, when we look at it from the staff level, we're not",
          "startTime": "02:01:48,830",
          "endTime": "02:01:52,430"
        },
        {
          "index": 2115,
          "text": "looking at whether something's, you know, a particular time period or anything",
          "startTime": "02:01:52,470",
          "endTime": "02:01:56,270"
        },
        {
          "index": 2116,
          "text": "like that. We're looking at what would be, building code",
          "startTime": "02:01:56,310",
          "endTime": "02:02:00,090"
        },
        {
          "index": 2117,
          "text": "minimums and what's above and beyond that.",
          "startTime": "02:02:00,170",
          "endTime": "02:02:03,330"
        },
        {
          "index": 2118,
          "text": "So, this project in particular, just right",
          "startTime": "02:02:03,390",
          "endTime": "02:02:07,360"
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        {
          "index": 2119,
          "text": "out of the gate, the fact that it uses steel construction",
          "startTime": "02:02:07,410",
          "endTime": "02:02:10,640"
        },
        {
          "index": 2120,
          "text": "is above and beyond a standard, you know, six-story kind",
          "startTime": "02:02:11,330",
          "endTime": "02:02:15,070"
        },
        {
          "index": 2121,
          "text": "of, wood st- wooden or concrete base and st- and stick",
          "startTime": "02:02:15,110",
          "endTime": "02:02:18,730"
        },
        {
          "index": 2122,
          "text": "construction like you'd see normally.",
          "startTime": "02:02:18,990",
          "endTime": "02:02:20,970"
        },
        {
          "index": 2123,
          "text": "Um, so that right there, you know, you've got, I think they showed in",
          "startTime": "02:02:21,050",
          "endTime": "02:02:24,970"
        },
        {
          "index": 2124,
          "text": "the, in the, documentation that it was about $24 a square foot.",
          "startTime": "02:02:24,990",
          "endTime": "02:02:28,810"
        },
        {
          "index": 2125,
          "text": "So that's an element above. Uh, the developer also",
          "startTime": "02:02:28,850",
          "endTime": "02:02:32,350"
        },
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          "index": 2126,
          "text": "highlighted the amount of glazing that they have on the project, whether",
          "startTime": "02:02:32,410",
          "endTime": "02:02:35,970"
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          "index": 2127,
          "text": "that's adequate or not. The main one I think from the staffing",
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          "endTime": "02:02:39,410"
        },
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          "index": 2128,
          "text": "perspective would be, you know, going to a steel construction is a very",
          "startTime": "02:02:39,470",
          "endTime": "02:02:43,030"
        },
        {
          "index": 2129,
          "text": "different, kind of concept. And that's exactly the concept the council was",
          "startTime": "02:02:43,070",
          "endTime": "02:02:46,900"
        },
        {
          "index": 2130,
          "text": "looking at when we went... You know, Councilor Ellis will remember when we had",
          "startTime": "02:02:46,970",
          "endTime": "02:02:50,320"
        },
        {
          "index": 2131,
          "text": "those discussions with the task force-You can go up to about six",
          "startTime": "02:02:50,350",
          "endTime": "02:02:53,926"
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        {
          "index": 2132,
          "text": "storeys with stick built construction, and then there's a dead",
          "startTime": "02:02:54,046",
          "endTime": "02:02:57,506"
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        {
          "index": 2133,
          "text": "zone, and you've gotta get up to about 10 or more above.",
          "startTime": "02:02:57,626",
          "endTime": "02:03:00,615"
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        {
          "index": 2134,
          "text": "And so that's how we ended up with the 123 feet, when the council made that",
          "startTime": "02:03:00,646",
          "endTime": "02:03:04,386"
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          "index": 2135,
          "text": "decision. So the intent was to get steel construction and to",
          "startTime": "02:03:04,406",
          "endTime": "02:03:08,226"
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        {
          "index": 2136,
          "text": "push in there. We could have stopped at six storey and, and",
          "startTime": "02:03:08,286",
          "endTime": "02:03:12,246"
        },
        {
          "index": 2137,
          "text": "just stayed with, you know, business as usual.",
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          "endTime": "02:03:14,206"
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        {
          "index": 2138,
          "text": "So this i- that I think is the big architectural",
          "startTime": "02:03:14,246",
          "endTime": "02:03:17,946"
        },
        {
          "index": 2139,
          "text": "element when you're looking at dollars and, and cents.",
          "startTime": "02:03:18,066",
          "endTime": "02:03:20,686"
        },
        {
          "index": 2140,
          "text": "Uh, staff's not real comfortable getting into questions about, wow, what's",
          "startTime": "02:03:20,786",
          "endTime": "02:03:24,746"
        },
        {
          "index": 2141,
          "text": "the color of the doors, and does that match the, the colors of the",
          "startTime": "02:03:24,786",
          "endTime": "02:03:28,346"
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        {
          "index": 2142,
          "text": "windows, and things like that. So, that's not the kinda level that we're",
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          "endTime": "02:03:32,086"
        },
        {
          "index": 2143,
          "text": "looking at.",
          "startTime": "02:03:32,126",
          "endTime": "02:03:32,646"
        },
        {
          "index": 2144,
          "text": "We're looking primarily does it exceed the current",
          "startTime": "02:03:33,386",
          "endTime": "02:03:36,226"
        },
        {
          "index": 2145,
          "text": "standards. And, for the reasons",
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          "endTime": "02:03:39,866"
        },
        {
          "index": 2146,
          "text": "Director Bilotta outlined, it was found that it, it does meet that criteria",
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          "endTime": "02:03:43,956"
        },
        {
          "index": 2147,
          "text": "according to the ordinance. With all of these, the",
          "startTime": "02:03:44,006",
          "endTime": "02:03:47,726"
        },
        {
          "index": 2148,
          "text": "criteria for having been met, there's a standard,",
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        },
        {
          "index": 2149,
          "text": "right? Um, whether it's at least $100,000,",
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        },
        {
          "index": 2150,
          "text": "or whether, the project will include",
          "startTime": "02:03:55,526",
          "endTime": "02:03:59,306"
        },
        {
          "index": 2151,
          "text": "additional non-required connectivity improvements.",
          "startTime": "02:03:59,386",
          "endTime": "02:04:02,306"
        },
        {
          "index": 2152,
          "text": "Um, that's how we looked at",
          "startTime": "02:04:02,566",
          "endTime": "02:04:04,506"
        },
        {
          "index": 2153,
          "text": "it.",
          "startTime": "02:04:04,546",
          "endTime": "02:04:08,606"
        },
        {
          "index": 2154,
          "text": "Uh,",
          "startTime": "02:04:10,046",
          "endTime": "02:04:10,246"
        },
        {
          "index": 2155,
          "text": "so I have Councilor Olsen and then, Councilor Ellis, but I wanted to add my",
          "startTime": "02:04:11,126",
          "endTime": "02:04:15,106"
        },
        {
          "index": 2156,
          "text": "opinion. Although I don't normally get a vote, I just still have an opinion,",
          "startTime": "02:04:15,146",
          "endTime": "02:04:18,986"
        },
        {
          "index": 2157,
          "text": "so",
          "startTime": "02:04:19,006",
          "endTime": "02:04:20,706"
        },
        {
          "index": 2158,
          "text": "When, when I was first encouraged to run for city council by a good friend",
          "startTime": "02:04:21,746",
          "endTime": "02:04:25,686"
        },
        {
          "index": 2159,
          "text": "of mine, former City Councilor George Groesch, he told me, \"Trust your staff.",
          "startTime": "02:04:25,706",
          "endTime": "02:04:29,406"
        },
        {
          "index": 2160,
          "text": "They're the experts.\" You know, 'cause we can't be experts on everything.",
          "startTime": "02:04:29,426",
          "endTime": "02:04:33,086"
        },
        {
          "index": 2161,
          "text": "Um,",
          "startTime": "02:04:33,366",
          "endTime": "02:04:33,506"
        },
        {
          "index": 2162,
          "text": "and but he said that it's perfectly okay to question them.",
          "startTime": "02:04:34,426",
          "endTime": "02:04:37,146"
        },
        {
          "index": 2163,
          "text": "So I'm not, I'm not saying that those here who disagree with that are",
          "startTime": "02:04:37,206",
          "endTime": "02:04:41,066"
        },
        {
          "index": 2164,
          "text": "wrong 'cause you're questioning it, and that's fine.",
          "startTime": "02:04:41,086",
          "endTime": "02:04:43,306"
        },
        {
          "index": 2165,
          "text": "But I do have a lot of faith in staff.",
          "startTime": "02:04:44,066",
          "endTime": "02:04:45,806"
        },
        {
          "index": 2166,
          "text": "I, I, I believe we have some of the best staff you could possibly ask for.",
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          "endTime": "02:04:49,626"
        },
        {
          "index": 2167,
          "text": "So when I looked at the criteria, there are things I questioned, and I had to",
          "startTime": "02:04:49,686",
          "endTime": "02:04:53,106"
        },
        {
          "index": 2168,
          "text": "reread some things, but I f- I feel like staff knows whether criteria is being",
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          "endTime": "02:04:57,106"
        },
        {
          "index": 2169,
          "text": "met. Um, it's what we pay them for.",
          "startTime": "02:04:57,146",
          "endTime": "02:05:01,106"
        },
        {
          "index": 2170,
          "text": "Um, some of the i- i- items that I wanna really point out is",
          "startTime": "02:05:01,206",
          "endTime": "02:05:05,166"
        },
        {
          "index": 2171,
          "text": "the overall benefit",
          "startTime": "02:05:05,826",
          "endTime": "02:05:07,026"
        },
        {
          "index": 2172,
          "text": "and, and I'm not getting into the details of improvements of pedestrian crosses",
          "startTime": "02:05:08,306",
          "endTime": "02:05:12,246"
        },
        {
          "index": 2173,
          "text": "or railroad 'cause that there's always complications there.",
          "startTime": "02:05:12,286",
          "endTime": "02:05:14,726"
        },
        {
          "index": 2174,
          "text": "But it, well, the one thing that was pointed out by staff",
          "startTime": "02:05:14,746",
          "endTime": "02:05:18,626"
        },
        {
          "index": 2175,
          "text": "that wasn't actually part of the criteria used was around the, the improvement of",
          "startTime": "02:05:18,646",
          "endTime": "02:05:22,006"
        },
        {
          "index": 2176,
          "text": "the area. That, you know, that area has looked very run down for many",
          "startTime": "02:05:22,026",
          "endTime": "02:05:25,426"
        },
        {
          "index": 2177,
          "text": "years. You know, we, we've heard from our, our task force, and we hear from",
          "startTime": "02:05:25,446",
          "endTime": "02:05:29,296"
        },
        {
          "index": 2178,
          "text": "community members all the time about the concern of downtown looking",
          "startTime": "02:05:29,366",
          "endTime": "02:05:33,166"
        },
        {
          "index": 2179,
          "text": "aging. It's not a lot of people all the time, although lately I feel like it's been",
          "startTime": "02:05:33,306",
          "endTime": "02:05:36,626"
        },
        {
          "index": 2180,
          "text": "doing better.",
          "startTime": "02:05:36,646",
          "endTime": "02:05:37,436"
        },
        {
          "index": 2181,
          "text": "But, but",
          "startTime": "02:05:38,426",
          "endTime": "02:05:38,596"
        },
        {
          "index": 2182,
          "text": "this is something we've talked about as a council and as a community that we want.",
          "startTime": "02:05:40,286",
          "endTime": "02:05:43,986"
        },
        {
          "index": 2183,
          "text": "We want more people living downtown.",
          "startTime": "02:05:44,006",
          "endTime": "02:05:45,816"
        },
        {
          "index": 2184,
          "text": "We want new improvements to downtown.",
          "startTime": "02:05:45,846",
          "endTime": "02:05:48,206"
        },
        {
          "index": 2185,
          "text": "Um, the financial benefit is something we, we talk, we've had conversations",
          "startTime": "02:05:48,286",
          "endTime": "02:05:52,166"
        },
        {
          "index": 2186,
          "text": "around, budget gap and needs to increase revenue.",
          "startTime": "02:05:52,226",
          "endTime": "02:05:55,686"
        },
        {
          "index": 2187,
          "text": "Well, this was going to increase revenue.",
          "startTime": "02:05:55,726",
          "endTime": "02:05:57,306"
        },
        {
          "index": 2188,
          "text": "It was gonna increase, you know, the look of our",
          "startTime": "02:05:57,326",
          "endTime": "02:05:59,986"
        },
        {
          "index": 2189,
          "text": "downtown. The height of it, I, I have mixed",
          "startTime": "02:06:00,026",
          "endTime": "02:06:03,706"
        },
        {
          "index": 2190,
          "text": "feelings about that. My wife has a different opinion than me.",
          "startTime": "02:06:03,746",
          "endTime": "02:06:07,126"
        },
        {
          "index": 2191,
          "text": "But it's, that's not what's in question here today.",
          "startTime": "02:06:07,166",
          "endTime": "02:06:09,346"
        },
        {
          "index": 2192,
          "text": "That's not something we're talking about.",
          "startTime": "02:06:09,386",
          "endTime": "02:06:10,866"
        },
        {
          "index": 2193,
          "text": "So we all might have our own opinions on that.",
          "startTime": "02:06:10,926",
          "endTime": "02:06:13,486"
        },
        {
          "index": 2194,
          "text": "I'm sure they vary quite a bit, and maybe after this is not",
          "startTime": "02:06:13,506",
          "endTime": "02:06:17,486"
        },
        {
          "index": 2195,
          "text": "no longer a council thing, we can have conversations around those opinions.",
          "startTime": "02:06:17,566",
          "endTime": "02:06:21,206"
        },
        {
          "index": 2196,
          "text": "Um,",
          "startTime": "02:06:21,286",
          "endTime": "02:06:21,415"
        },
        {
          "index": 2197,
          "text": "but I'm very hopeful that the council will, will see this as a benefit and see that",
          "startTime": "02:06:22,746",
          "endTime": "02:06:26,176"
        },
        {
          "index": 2198,
          "text": "it meets the criteria and hopefully will vote yes,",
          "startTime": "02:06:26,206",
          "endTime": "02:06:29,355"
        },
        {
          "index": 2199,
          "text": "for something that,",
          "startTime": "02:06:30,966",
          "endTime": "02:06:31,746"
        },
        {
          "index": 2200,
          "text": "you know, we talk about all the time, density, housing,",
          "startTime": "02:06:32,586",
          "endTime": "02:06:35,546"
        },
        {
          "index": 2201,
          "text": "business, finance. You know, it, it checks a",
          "startTime": "02:06:36,126",
          "endTime": "02:06:39,966"
        },
        {
          "index": 2202,
          "text": "lot of boxes as far as I'm concerned.",
          "startTime": "02:06:40,006",
          "endTime": "02:06:42,466"
        },
        {
          "index": 2203,
          "text": "So",
          "startTime": "02:06:42,546",
          "endTime": "02:06:42,746"
        },
        {
          "index": 2204,
          "text": "appreciate that. Um, I've Councilor Olsen next, and then I saw",
          "startTime": "02:06:43,586",
          "endTime": "02:06:47,306"
        },
        {
          "index": 2205,
          "text": "Councilor Ellis raise her hand, and then I'll go from there.",
          "startTime": "02:06:47,366",
          "endTime": "02:06:50,406"
        },
        {
          "index": 2206,
          "text": "And at some point, someone's gonna wanna",
          "startTime": "02:06:50,986",
          "endTime": "02:06:52,346"
        },
        {
          "index": 2207,
          "text": "call the question, but Councilor Olsen.",
          "startTime": "02:06:53,146",
          "endTime": "02:06:55,266"
        },
        {
          "index": 2208,
          "text": "Uh, yeah. I also wanna say Councilor Lewis has had a question, so if you can add",
          "startTime": "02:06:55,346",
          "endTime": "02:06:58,896"
        },
        {
          "index": 2209,
          "text": "them to the list.",
          "startTime": "02:06:58,926",
          "endTime": "02:06:59,676"
        },
        {
          "index": 2210,
          "text": "Will do.",
          "startTime": "02:06:59,726",
          "endTime": "02:07:00,586"
        },
        {
          "index": 2211,
          "text": "Yeah. Um, I have a question and then a comment.",
          "startTime": "02:07:00,626",
          "endTime": "02:07:04,326"
        },
        {
          "index": 2212,
          "text": "My first question is for Director Bilotta, and it's",
          "startTime": "02:07:04,346",
          "endTime": "02:07:07,426"
        },
        {
          "index": 2213,
          "text": "how, like, what are the next...",
          "startTime": "02:07:07,766",
          "endTime": "02:07:11,175"
        },
        {
          "index": 2214,
          "text": "Whether or if this gets approved by the council, what are the next steps",
          "startTime": "02:07:11,226",
          "endTime": "02:07:14,886"
        },
        {
          "index": 2215,
          "text": "for the development? Specifically, is this going to go to a",
          "startTime": "02:07:14,926",
          "endTime": "02:07:18,786"
        },
        {
          "index": 2216,
          "text": "planning commission process? Or, like, how would",
          "startTime": "02:07:18,806",
          "endTime": "02:07:22,626"
        },
        {
          "index": 2217,
          "text": "people get involved with the land development side of it?",
          "startTime": "02:07:22,706",
          "endTime": "02:07:25,486"
        },
        {
          "index": 2218,
          "text": "Sure. From the land development side, because this involves housing-",
          "startTime": "02:07:25,506",
          "endTime": "02:07:29,096"
        },
        {
          "index": 2219,
          "text": "Mm-hmm",
          "startTime": "02:07:29,366",
          "endTime": "02:07:29,506"
        },
        {
          "index": 2220,
          "text": "... state law generally doesn't allow much interaction at all.",
          "startTime": "02:07:29,626",
          "endTime": "02:07:32,666"
        },
        {
          "index": 2221,
          "text": "So what will happen will be, the developer would apply to",
          "startTime": "02:07:32,706",
          "endTime": "02:07:36,566"
        },
        {
          "index": 2222,
          "text": "get that twenty percent height bonus, which is what's called a HLUA,",
          "startTime": "02:07:36,606",
          "endTime": "02:07:39,726"
        },
        {
          "index": 2223,
          "text": "H-L-U-A. That's the new state process.",
          "startTime": "02:07:39,886",
          "endTime": "02:07:43,006"
        },
        {
          "index": 2224,
          "text": "Uh, we are then require... That's required to be a staff level",
          "startTime": "02:07:43,106",
          "endTime": "02:07:46,426"
        },
        {
          "index": 2225,
          "text": "approval, and we would then... We do have a requirement for",
          "startTime": "02:07:46,846",
          "endTime": "02:07:50,826"
        },
        {
          "index": 2226,
          "text": "notification. I can't quite remember the radius off the top of my head, but",
          "startTime": "02:07:50,866",
          "endTime": "02:07:54,116"
        },
        {
          "index": 2227,
          "text": "somebody will get, will get notices and, they're",
          "startTime": "02:07:54,146",
          "endTime": "02:07:58,126"
        },
        {
          "index": 2228,
          "text": "very unsatisfying notices to send out, because they",
          "startTime": "02:07:58,226",
          "endTime": "02:08:02,026"
        },
        {
          "index": 2229,
          "text": "say, \"Here you go. Please write in and let",
          "startTime": "02:08:02,206",
          "endTime": "02:08:06,126"
        },
        {
          "index": 2230,
          "text": "us know what you think. And by the way, state law really won't let us do anything",
          "startTime": "02:08:06,166",
          "endTime": "02:08:09,906"
        },
        {
          "index": 2231,
          "text": "about what you think anyway.\" Uh, but we do, and we send those",
          "startTime": "02:08:09,966",
          "endTime": "02:08:13,555"
        },
        {
          "index": 2232,
          "text": "out, and then, those are set up.",
          "startTime": "02:08:13,686",
          "endTime": "02:08:16,466"
        },
        {
          "index": 2233,
          "text": "The state law is you will approve, so then we do approve,",
          "startTime": "02:08:16,506",
          "endTime": "02:08:19,636"
        },
        {
          "index": 2234,
          "text": "and then, people that submit testimony get sent,",
          "startTime": "02:08:20,086",
          "endTime": "02:08:23,986"
        },
        {
          "index": 2235,
          "text": "notices that we approved, and, and then it moves forward to building",
          "startTime": "02:08:24,266",
          "endTime": "02:08:27,426"
        },
        {
          "index": 2236,
          "text": "permit.",
          "startTime": "02:08:27,446",
          "endTime": "02:08:29,786"
        },
        {
          "index": 2237,
          "text": "Yeah. And then my second thing is that while I still",
          "startTime": "02:08:29,826",
          "endTime": "02:08:33,446"
        },
        {
          "index": 2238,
          "text": "plan to vote against this for the reasons I stated",
          "startTime": "02:08:33,606",
          "endTime": "02:08:36,966"
        },
        {
          "index": 2239,
          "text": "previously, I am going to make a motion to amend",
          "startTime": "02:08:37,026",
          "endTime": "02:08:40,206"
        },
        {
          "index": 2240,
          "text": "this. Um, specifically electronic packet page",
          "startTime": "02:08:40,866",
          "endTime": "02:08:44,666"
        },
        {
          "index": 2241,
          "text": "two oh five under connectivity",
          "startTime": "02:08:44,766",
          "endTime": "02:08:47,166"
        },
        {
          "index": 2242,
          "text": "improvements, talks about paying fifty",
          "startTime": "02:08:47,226",
          "endTime": "02:08:50,886"
        },
        {
          "index": 2243,
          "text": "thousand directly to the city of Corvallis during the first year of tax",
          "startTime": "02:08:51,026",
          "endTime": "02:08:54,686"
        },
        {
          "index": 2244,
          "text": "exemption following the completion of construction to be used by the city to fund",
          "startTime": "02:08:54,746",
          "endTime": "02:08:58,666"
        },
        {
          "index": 2245,
          "text": "connectivity developments af-At the end of that, I would like to add",
          "startTime": "02:08:58,766",
          "endTime": "02:09:02,598"
        },
        {
          "index": 2246,
          "text": "within one quarter mile of the development's property line to",
          "startTime": "02:09:02,958",
          "endTime": "02:09:06,618"
        },
        {
          "index": 2247,
          "text": "ensure that this money is going to be connectivity",
          "startTime": "02:09:06,658",
          "endTime": "02:09:10,168"
        },
        {
          "index": 2248,
          "text": "improvements that directly relate to the development and the surrounding",
          "startTime": "02:09:10,218",
          "endTime": "02:09:13,618"
        },
        {
          "index": 2249,
          "text": "neighborhood, and not, like, not that this fund will",
          "startTime": "02:09:13,658",
          "endTime": "02:09:17,308"
        },
        {
          "index": 2250,
          "text": "go, they'll, like, give us money and it'll go somewhere. So.",
          "startTime": "02:09:17,338",
          "endTime": "02:09:20,568"
        },
        {
          "index": 2251,
          "text": "One, one clarification. The reason why their contribution's to",
          "startTime": "02:09:20,578",
          "endTime": "02:09:24,048"
        },
        {
          "index": 2252,
          "text": "connectivity and public infrastructure is because we wanna provide",
          "startTime": "02:09:24,058",
          "endTime": "02:09:28,018"
        },
        {
          "index": 2253,
          "text": "for flexibility for public works to determine what the",
          "startTime": "02:09:28,038",
          "endTime": "02:09:31,558"
        },
        {
          "index": 2254,
          "text": "priorities are for that money to be used, right?",
          "startTime": "02:09:31,578",
          "endTime": "02:09:34,507"
        },
        {
          "index": 2255,
          "text": "So it's, it's not as though, it's not as",
          "startTime": "02:09:34,558",
          "endTime": "02:09:38,488"
        },
        {
          "index": 2256,
          "text": "though it's up to the developer how those contributions are used.",
          "startTime": "02:09:38,518",
          "endTime": "02:09:41,358"
        },
        {
          "index": 2257,
          "text": "It's really up to the city to determine",
          "startTime": "02:09:41,378",
          "endTime": "02:09:43,218"
        },
        {
          "index": 2258,
          "text": "its best use of that. And so I, I appreciate the motion, I just wanted to",
          "startTime": "02:09:44,478",
          "endTime": "02:09:48,118"
        },
        {
          "index": 2259,
          "text": "clarify that that's why their contribution is.",
          "startTime": "02:09:48,138",
          "endTime": "02:09:49,848"
        },
        {
          "index": 2260,
          "text": "Yes. And I understand that, but at the same time,",
          "startTime": "02:09:49,858",
          "endTime": "02:09:53,638"
        },
        {
          "index": 2261,
          "text": "this money could be used anywhere in the city.",
          "startTime": "02:09:53,658",
          "endTime": "02:09:55,898"
        },
        {
          "index": 2262,
          "text": "And while I have nothing against at North Corvallis, for",
          "startTime": "02:09:55,938",
          "endTime": "02:09:59,638"
        },
        {
          "index": 2263,
          "text": "example, if you're building 600 units of housing in",
          "startTime": "02:09:59,698",
          "endTime": "02:10:03,078"
        },
        {
          "index": 2264,
          "text": "downtown and they're like, \"We're gonna use this on the Walnut",
          "startTime": "02:10:03,138",
          "endTime": "02:10:06,318"
        },
        {
          "index": 2265,
          "text": "Boulevard,\" which great use of any money, that's",
          "startTime": "02:10:06,398",
          "endTime": "02:10:10,178"
        },
        {
          "index": 2266,
          "text": "not going to impact 600 people living in downtown.",
          "startTime": "02:10:10,278",
          "endTime": "02:10:13,418"
        },
        {
          "index": 2267,
          "text": "That's going to impact a different group of people who's not related to this",
          "startTime": "02:10:13,438",
          "endTime": "02:10:16,638"
        },
        {
          "index": 2268,
          "text": "development, so.",
          "startTime": "02:10:16,678",
          "endTime": "02:10:17,738"
        },
        {
          "index": 2269,
          "text": "Yeah. I- I could just add that, you know, one, one of the things to",
          "startTime": "02:10:17,778",
          "endTime": "02:10:21,348"
        },
        {
          "index": 2270,
          "text": "know, you know, because this is coming in through economic development, those",
          "startTime": "02:10:21,418",
          "endTime": "02:10:24,738"
        },
        {
          "index": 2271,
          "text": "funds will most likely be squirreled away in economic",
          "startTime": "02:10:24,818",
          "endTime": "02:10:28,758"
        },
        {
          "index": 2272,
          "text": "development budget, so they're gonna stand out like a sore thumb, and they",
          "startTime": "02:10:28,798",
          "endTime": "02:10:32,738"
        },
        {
          "index": 2273,
          "text": "won't get absorbed into a $15 million",
          "startTime": "02:10:32,758",
          "endTime": "02:10:35,278"
        },
        {
          "index": 2274,
          "text": "public works budget or anything like that.",
          "startTime": "02:10:36,198",
          "endTime": "02:10:37,888"
        },
        {
          "index": 2275,
          "text": "And then in the ca- capital improvement pro- planning process, that's really where",
          "startTime": "02:10:37,918",
          "endTime": "02:10:41,908"
        },
        {
          "index": 2276,
          "text": "attaching it to the right thing. And what I'd hate to do with picking out an, you",
          "startTime": "02:10:41,998",
          "endTime": "02:10:45,938"
        },
        {
          "index": 2277,
          "text": "know... It's, I think it's okay to say that you hope that this proper-",
          "startTime": "02:10:45,978",
          "endTime": "02:10:49,898"
        },
        {
          "index": 2278,
          "text": "this gets used in the general vicinity of this or in the downtown or that",
          "startTime": "02:10:49,908",
          "endTime": "02:10:53,848"
        },
        {
          "index": 2279,
          "text": "kinda thing. I worry that if we say a quarter of a mile, that we",
          "startTime": "02:10:53,858",
          "endTime": "02:10:57,558"
        },
        {
          "index": 2280,
          "text": "might be 16 feet away from the really bad problem, 'cause I",
          "startTime": "02:10:57,598",
          "endTime": "02:11:01,418"
        },
        {
          "index": 2281,
          "text": "don't know what distance everything is right now.",
          "startTime": "02:11:01,438",
          "endTime": "02:11:03,738"
        },
        {
          "index": 2282,
          "text": "City manager?",
          "startTime": "02:11:04,978",
          "endTime": "02:11:06,578"
        },
        {
          "index": 2283,
          "text": "Yeah, I think that sort of conversation about where these funds would be",
          "startTime": "02:11:06,618",
          "endTime": "02:11:10,277"
        },
        {
          "index": 2284,
          "text": "used is best directed to staff and not part of this,",
          "startTime": "02:11:10,398",
          "endTime": "02:11:14,178"
        },
        {
          "index": 2285,
          "text": "this agreement, and allow staff to come back and",
          "startTime": "02:11:14,218",
          "endTime": "02:11:18,058"
        },
        {
          "index": 2286,
          "text": "say, \"Hey, here's some options within that quarter",
          "startTime": "02:11:18,118",
          "endTime": "02:11:21,678"
        },
        {
          "index": 2287,
          "text": "mile or within the vicinity,\" and, and talk about pros and",
          "startTime": "02:11:21,778",
          "endTime": "02:11:24,698"
        },
        {
          "index": 2288,
          "text": "cons. So again, that, that's more appropriate to have a conversation",
          "startTime": "02:11:24,798",
          "endTime": "02:11:28,538"
        },
        {
          "index": 2289,
          "text": "with staff about how to use that funds, not",
          "startTime": "02:11:28,608",
          "endTime": "02:11:32,258"
        },
        {
          "index": 2290,
          "text": "in a MUPTE agreement.",
          "startTime": "02:11:32,458",
          "endTime": "02:11:35,318"
        },
        {
          "index": 2291,
          "text": "And I, I do understand that, I",
          "startTime": "02:11:36,358",
          "endTime": "02:11:39,358"
        },
        {
          "index": 2292,
          "text": "just, I don't, especially with the budget gap that we're",
          "startTime": "02:11:39,618",
          "endTime": "02:11:43,567"
        },
        {
          "index": 2293,
          "text": "facing at the moment, I don't trust that if this isn't in a",
          "startTime": "02:11:43,618",
          "endTime": "02:11:47,198"
        },
        {
          "index": 2294,
          "text": "resolution somewhere... Like, I trust staff fully, but I don't trust that",
          "startTime": "02:11:47,218",
          "endTime": "02:11:50,998"
        },
        {
          "index": 2295,
          "text": "this won't be, \"Oh, we're going to add it.",
          "startTime": "02:11:51,038",
          "endTime": "02:11:53,918"
        },
        {
          "index": 2296,
          "text": "We just need a little bit of money to push this project through, and then we just",
          "startTime": "02:11:53,958",
          "endTime": "02:11:57,378"
        },
        {
          "index": 2297,
          "text": "need a little bit of money to push this project for, through,\" and it",
          "startTime": "02:11:57,398",
          "endTime": "02:12:01,358"
        },
        {
          "index": 2298,
          "text": "won't happen. I would be down to increase the",
          "startTime": "02:12:01,398",
          "endTime": "02:12:04,258"
        },
        {
          "index": 2299,
          "text": "radius. I was just thinking of a quarter mile because that incorporates,",
          "startTime": "02:12:04,898",
          "endTime": "02:12:08,088"
        },
        {
          "index": 2300,
          "text": "like, honestly",
          "startTime": "02:12:08,098",
          "endTime": "02:12:09,618"
        },
        {
          "index": 2301,
          "text": "pretty much, the 30,",
          "startTime": "02:12:10,758",
          "endTime": "02:12:13,998"
        },
        {
          "index": 2302,
          "text": "the, the fr- the, the river. The Mary's River all the way up",
          "startTime": "02:12:14,038",
          "endTime": "02:12:17,918"
        },
        {
          "index": 2303,
          "text": "to, when I was looking at at least,",
          "startTime": "02:12:17,978",
          "endTime": "02:12:21,038"
        },
        {
          "index": 2304,
          "text": "Madison, which is a lot of intersections and a lot of",
          "startTime": "02:12:21,558",
          "endTime": "02:12:25,238"
        },
        {
          "index": 2305,
          "text": "crossings and a lot of bike lanes that could be built, so.",
          "startTime": "02:12:25,278",
          "endTime": "02:12:28,158"
        },
        {
          "index": 2306,
          "text": "At this point, Councilor Olsen does not have a second.",
          "startTime": "02:12:28,218",
          "endTime": "02:12:31,058"
        },
        {
          "index": 2307,
          "text": "Right.",
          "startTime": "02:12:31,078",
          "endTime": "02:12:31,198"
        },
        {
          "index": 2308,
          "text": "So I'm going to second because we didn't have that option before everybody",
          "startTime": "02:12:31,218",
          "endTime": "02:12:35,118"
        },
        {
          "index": 2309,
          "text": "jumped in.",
          "startTime": "02:12:35,178",
          "endTime": "02:12:35,978"
        },
        {
          "index": 2310,
          "text": "And I, and I'll, my, my concern's with the motion.",
          "startTime": "02:12:37,298",
          "endTime": "02:12:39,778"
        },
        {
          "index": 2311,
          "text": "I, I appreciate",
          "startTime": "02:12:39,818",
          "endTime": "02:12:40,798"
        },
        {
          "index": 2312,
          "text": "your thought on this, but my concern is what if, there's an opportunity to",
          "startTime": "02:12:41,738",
          "endTime": "02:12:45,338"
        },
        {
          "index": 2313,
          "text": "improve our transit system",
          "startTime": "02:12:45,378",
          "endTime": "02:12:46,798"
        },
        {
          "index": 2314,
          "text": "that would benefit people living there potentially but it would be outside of that",
          "startTime": "02:12:47,738",
          "endTime": "02:12:50,698"
        },
        {
          "index": 2315,
          "text": "quarter mile?",
          "startTime": "02:12:50,718",
          "endTime": "02:12:51,618"
        },
        {
          "index": 2316,
          "text": "Then one bus.",
          "startTime": "02:12:51,638",
          "endTime": "02:12:53,938"
        },
        {
          "index": 2317,
          "text": "But, but there's a tran- there's, there could be, money that goes to additional",
          "startTime": "02:12:53,978",
          "endTime": "02:12:57,798"
        },
        {
          "index": 2318,
          "text": "funding or additional routes that go where people need to go.",
          "startTime": "02:12:57,998",
          "endTime": "02:13:00,668"
        },
        {
          "index": 2319,
          "text": "So I'm saying there's potential other needs and uses that would",
          "startTime": "02:13:00,718",
          "endTime": "02:13:04,418"
        },
        {
          "index": 2320,
          "text": "benefit people, not directly",
          "startTime": "02:13:04,458",
          "endTime": "02:13:06,258"
        },
        {
          "index": 2321,
          "text": "necessarily. So we have a motion and a second,",
          "startTime": "02:13:06,638",
          "endTime": "02:13:09,928"
        },
        {
          "index": 2322,
          "text": "and, is it... Go ahead.",
          "startTime": "02:13:10,018",
          "endTime": "02:13:13,128"
        },
        {
          "index": 2323,
          "text": "I have a clarifying question on the motion, and I think it's a legal",
          "startTime": "02:13:13,128",
          "endTime": "02:13:15,898"
        },
        {
          "index": 2324,
          "text": "question, which is the, the resolution",
          "startTime": "02:13:15,938",
          "endTime": "02:13:19,398"
        },
        {
          "index": 2325,
          "text": "describes the basis upon which the applicant would",
          "startTime": "02:13:19,817",
          "endTime": "02:13:23,798"
        },
        {
          "index": 2326,
          "text": "be granted a, a multi-unit property tax",
          "startTime": "02:13:23,838",
          "endTime": "02:13:27,178"
        },
        {
          "index": 2327,
          "text": "exemption.",
          "startTime": "02:13:27,218",
          "endTime": "02:13:28,458"
        },
        {
          "index": 2328,
          "text": "What, which... And if you read the language of that resolution, it",
          "startTime": "02:13:29,578",
          "endTime": "02:13:33,418"
        },
        {
          "index": 2329,
          "text": "talks a lot about what the applicant is going to",
          "startTime": "02:13:33,478",
          "endTime": "02:13:36,718"
        },
        {
          "index": 2330,
          "text": "do. If we approve this motion,",
          "startTime": "02:13:36,778",
          "endTime": "02:13:40,018"
        },
        {
          "index": 2331,
          "text": "how does that work legally? Because this is",
          "startTime": "02:13:41,278",
          "endTime": "02:13:44,958"
        },
        {
          "index": 2332,
          "text": "supposed to be an agreement of the basis upon which you're",
          "startTime": "02:13:44,998",
          "endTime": "02:13:48,558"
        },
        {
          "index": 2333,
          "text": "getting this MUPTE, and now we're saying the basis upon which you're getting this",
          "startTime": "02:13:48,598",
          "endTime": "02:13:52,578"
        },
        {
          "index": 2334,
          "text": "exemption",
          "startTime": "02:13:52,618",
          "endTime": "02:13:53,318"
        },
        {
          "index": 2335,
          "text": "is the city doing a certain amount, doing a, a",
          "startTime": "02:13:54,198",
          "endTime": "02:13:58,118"
        },
        {
          "index": 2336,
          "text": "specific project. So I think that's, I",
          "startTime": "02:13:58,238",
          "endTime": "02:14:02,128"
        },
        {
          "index": 2337,
          "text": "don't know that that is clean from a legal point of view, and I have a question",
          "startTime": "02:14:02,138",
          "endTime": "02:14:05,468"
        },
        {
          "index": 2338,
          "text": "about that.",
          "startTime": "02:14:05,498",
          "endTime": "02:14:06,178"
        },
        {
          "index": 2339,
          "text": "Well, fortunately, we actually have the city attorney online, I believe.",
          "startTime": "02:14:06,198",
          "endTime": "02:14:09,498"
        },
        {
          "index": 2340,
          "text": "So that sounds like a question for him.",
          "startTime": "02:14:10,538",
          "endTime": "02:14:13,658"
        },
        {
          "index": 2341,
          "text": "D**n, Josh.",
          "startTime": "02:14:13,778",
          "endTime": "02:14:15,598"
        },
        {
          "index": 2342,
          "text": "Yes. So as I understand, the question is related to the, the",
          "startTime": "02:14:15,658",
          "endTime": "02:14:18,938"
        },
        {
          "index": 2343,
          "text": "amendment. Um,",
          "startTime": "02:14:18,998",
          "endTime": "02:14:20,728"
        },
        {
          "index": 2344,
          "text": "and I, I guess, as I understand it, the, that,",
          "startTime": "02:14:21,718",
          "endTime": "02:14:25,548"
        },
        {
          "index": 2345,
          "text": "amendment would restrict how the city can use the",
          "startTime": "02:14:26,258",
          "endTime": "02:14:29,158"
        },
        {
          "index": 2346,
          "text": "funding. So it would, because this",
          "startTime": "02:14:29,218",
          "endTime": "02:14:33,118"
        },
        {
          "index": 2347,
          "text": "is a resolution that's being adopted by the city, the",
          "startTime": "02:14:33,178",
          "endTime": "02:14:37,078"
        },
        {
          "index": 2348,
          "text": "city would be bound to that restriction on how it can use the funding.",
          "startTime": "02:14:37,118",
          "endTime": "02:14:40,918"
        },
        {
          "index": 2349,
          "text": "That wouldn't be a condition on the developers",
          "startTime": "02:14:40,978",
          "endTime": "02:14:44,298"
        },
        {
          "index": 2350,
          "text": "receiving the tax exemption, if that makes",
          "startTime": "02:14:44,308",
          "endTime": "02:14:48,148"
        },
        {
          "index": 2351,
          "text": "sense.",
          "startTime": "02:14:48,158",
          "endTime": "02:14:49,098"
        },
        {
          "index": 2352,
          "text": "Okay.",
          "startTime": "02:14:49,118",
          "endTime": "02:14:49,238"
        },
        {
          "index": 2353,
          "text": "So the, the developer gets a tax exemption, the city is self-imposing a restriction",
          "startTime": "02:14:49,258",
          "endTime": "02:14:52,318"
        },
        {
          "index": 2354,
          "text": "on how it uses the funding.",
          "startTime": "02:14:52,328",
          "endTime": "02:14:53,498"
        },
        {
          "index": 2355,
          "text": "And, and so if, if the city chose not to do a $50,000",
          "startTime": "02:14:54,918",
          "endTime": "02:14:58,558"
        },
        {
          "index": 2356,
          "text": "project within, do, do we owe the developer the 50K back?",
          "startTime": "02:14:58,578",
          "endTime": "02:15:02,277"
        },
        {
          "index": 2357,
          "text": "If, if you were to, if the city were to,",
          "startTime": "02:15:04,474",
          "endTime": "02:15:07,634"
        },
        {
          "index": 2358,
          "text": "con- to use that",
          "startTime": "02:15:09,814",
          "endTime": "02:15:11,304"
        },
        {
          "index": 2359,
          "text": "funding for some other project, then the",
          "startTime": "02:15:11,334",
          "endTime": "02:15:15,254"
        },
        {
          "index": 2360,
          "text": "city would be in violation of this resolution and could potentially face a",
          "startTime": "02:15:15,374",
          "endTime": "02:15:19,294"
        },
        {
          "index": 2361,
          "text": "cause of action from somebody. Um, if you were just",
          "startTime": "02:15:19,334",
          "endTime": "02:15:22,564"
        },
        {
          "index": 2362,
          "text": "to not build the project for a period",
          "startTime": "02:15:22,634",
          "endTime": "02:15:26,614"
        },
        {
          "index": 2363,
          "text": "of time, because there's no timeline on building the project, as long as that",
          "startTime": "02:15:26,654",
          "endTime": "02:15:30,554"
        },
        {
          "index": 2364,
          "text": "fifty thousand dollars is either not used or is used",
          "startTime": "02:15:30,614",
          "endTime": "02:15:33,694"
        },
        {
          "index": 2365,
          "text": "within that, radius, then it would",
          "startTime": "02:15:33,734",
          "endTime": "02:15:36,674"
        },
        {
          "index": 2366,
          "text": "qualify.",
          "startTime": "02:15:36,834",
          "endTime": "02:15:39,854"
        },
        {
          "index": 2367,
          "text": "Any other discussion on the motion to amend? Counselor Ellis?",
          "startTime": "02:15:42,214",
          "endTime": "02:15:45,514"
        },
        {
          "index": 2368,
          "text": "I actually think that we could argue that this is policy when we're talking",
          "startTime": "02:15:46,834",
          "endTime": "02:15:50,654"
        },
        {
          "index": 2369,
          "text": "about, um... And I, I actually appreciated the city attorney's",
          "startTime": "02:15:50,734",
          "endTime": "02:15:54,514"
        },
        {
          "index": 2370,
          "text": "distinction of the resolution versus the MUFD. That was helpful.",
          "startTime": "02:15:54,574",
          "endTime": "02:15:57,934"
        },
        {
          "index": 2371,
          "text": "I would think that this could be something that council could use very",
          "startTime": "02:15:57,994",
          "endTime": "02:16:01,474"
        },
        {
          "index": 2372,
          "text": "effectively to lessen the impact of some of these",
          "startTime": "02:16:01,534",
          "endTime": "02:16:05,054"
        },
        {
          "index": 2373,
          "text": "developments on neighborhoods. So,",
          "startTime": "02:16:05,074",
          "endTime": "02:16:07,454"
        },
        {
          "index": 2374,
          "text": "it's not a very large amount of money.",
          "startTime": "02:16:08,774",
          "endTime": "02:16:10,854"
        },
        {
          "index": 2375,
          "text": "Um, it's kind of a symbolic gesture, but I think that, I think",
          "startTime": "02:16:10,954",
          "endTime": "02:16:14,854"
        },
        {
          "index": 2376,
          "text": "we could argue that it is policy and is appropriate and is clearly",
          "startTime": "02:16:14,914",
          "endTime": "02:16:18,634"
        },
        {
          "index": 2377,
          "text": "legal to put in the resolution.",
          "startTime": "02:16:18,694",
          "endTime": "02:16:21,574"
        },
        {
          "index": 2378,
          "text": "Counselor Cadena?",
          "startTime": "02:16:22,994",
          "endTime": "02:16:23,874"
        },
        {
          "index": 2379,
          "text": "Yes, it very well might be legal. Um, I th- I think this,",
          "startTime": "02:16:25,774",
          "endTime": "02:16:29,694"
        },
        {
          "index": 2380,
          "text": "I think it's messy and I think that it's",
          "startTime": "02:16:30,854",
          "endTime": "02:16:34,214"
        },
        {
          "index": 2381,
          "text": "more, important for,",
          "startTime": "02:16:34,294",
          "endTime": "02:16:37,534"
        },
        {
          "index": 2382,
          "text": "for these types of projects as they move forward",
          "startTime": "02:16:39,094",
          "endTime": "02:16:41,245"
        },
        {
          "index": 2383,
          "text": "for the council to clarify how these funds",
          "startTime": "02:16:41,915",
          "endTime": "02:16:45,724"
        },
        {
          "index": 2384,
          "text": "are used and not make decisions on the fly in a",
          "startTime": "02:16:45,755",
          "endTime": "02:16:49,514"
        },
        {
          "index": 2385,
          "text": "particular MUFD application. I have no problem bringing these policy",
          "startTime": "02:16:49,554",
          "endTime": "02:16:53,434"
        },
        {
          "index": 2386,
          "text": "issues to a policy discussion. I, I think this is just messy",
          "startTime": "02:16:53,474",
          "endTime": "02:16:57,234"
        },
        {
          "index": 2387,
          "text": "and I also know on the amendment.",
          "startTime": "02:16:57,594",
          "endTime": "02:17:00,474"
        },
        {
          "index": 2388,
          "text": "Any other discussion on the motion to amend? All right.",
          "startTime": "02:17:02,335",
          "endTime": "02:17:06,314"
        },
        {
          "index": 2389,
          "text": "Let's go ahead.",
          "startTime": "02:17:06,354",
          "endTime": "02:17:06,594"
        },
        {
          "index": 2390,
          "text": "Mayor, Counselor Shaffer-",
          "startTime": "02:17:06,614",
          "endTime": "02:17:07,995"
        },
        {
          "index": 2391,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "02:17:08,014",
          "endTime": "02:17:08,354"
        },
        {
          "index": 2392,
          "text": "Has his hand raised.",
          "startTime": "02:17:08,495",
          "endTime": "02:17:09,434"
        },
        {
          "index": 2393,
          "text": "Go ahead, Counselor Shaffer.",
          "startTime": "02:17:09,454",
          "endTime": "02:17:11,255"
        },
        {
          "index": 2394,
          "text": "Yeah, thank you. Excuse me. Um,",
          "startTime": "02:17:11,314",
          "endTime": "02:17:14,303"
        },
        {
          "index": 2395,
          "text": "I, I'm sympathetic to the concept of the",
          "startTime": "02:17:15,755",
          "endTime": "02:17:19,634"
        },
        {
          "index": 2396,
          "text": "amendment, but I'm concerned that it",
          "startTime": "02:17:19,774",
          "endTime": "02:17:23,114"
        },
        {
          "index": 2397,
          "text": "entangles us and complicates the, the actual",
          "startTime": "02:17:23,194",
          "endTime": "02:17:27,134"
        },
        {
          "index": 2398,
          "text": "mo- decisions and motions going forward.",
          "startTime": "02:17:27,194",
          "endTime": "02:17:29,634"
        },
        {
          "index": 2399,
          "text": "And so, while I appreciate the the-",
          "startTime": "02:17:29,694",
          "endTime": "02:17:33,394"
        },
        {
          "index": 2400,
          "text": "the notion, I will vote against the",
          "startTime": "02:17:33,434",
          "endTime": "02:17:35,675"
        },
        {
          "index": 2401,
          "text": "amendment.",
          "startTime": "02:17:35,734",
          "endTime": "02:17:37,675"
        },
        {
          "index": 2402,
          "text": "Thank you, Counselor Shaffer. We ready for a",
          "startTime": "02:17:37,734",
          "endTime": "02:17:40,534"
        },
        {
          "index": 2403,
          "text": "vote?",
          "startTime": "02:17:40,575",
          "endTime": "02:17:41,874"
        },
        {
          "index": 2404,
          "text": "City recorder, you have the language correctly?",
          "startTime": "02:17:43,354",
          "endTime": "02:17:46,374"
        },
        {
          "index": 2405,
          "text": "Uh, yes, I do, Mayor.",
          "startTime": "02:17:46,454",
          "endTime": "02:17:47,755"
        },
        {
          "index": 2406,
          "text": "Okay. Sure you have it. All right, all those in favor of the motion to amend,",
          "startTime": "02:17:47,774",
          "endTime": "02:17:51,654"
        },
        {
          "index": 2407,
          "text": "say aye.",
          "startTime": "02:17:51,734",
          "endTime": "02:17:52,495"
        },
        {
          "index": 2408,
          "text": "Aye.",
          "startTime": "02:17:52,554",
          "endTime": "02:17:53,054"
        },
        {
          "index": 2409,
          "text": "Aye.",
          "startTime": "02:17:53,064",
          "endTime": "02:17:53,064"
        },
        {
          "index": 2410,
          "text": "Aye. I'm sorry.",
          "startTime": "02:17:53,075",
          "endTime": "02:17:55,194"
        },
        {
          "index": 2411,
          "text": "Whoops.",
          "startTime": "02:17:55,234",
          "endTime": "02:17:55,694"
        },
        {
          "index": 2412,
          "text": "I meant no.",
          "startTime": "02:17:55,734",
          "endTime": "02:17:56,954"
        },
        {
          "index": 2413,
          "text": "It's always difficult online. Um, all those opposed say no.",
          "startTime": "02:17:58,394",
          "endTime": "02:18:02,134"
        },
        {
          "index": 2414,
          "text": "No.",
          "startTime": "02:18:02,175",
          "endTime": "02:18:02,335"
        },
        {
          "index": 2415,
          "text": "No.",
          "startTime": "02:18:02,394",
          "endTime": "02:18:02,694"
        },
        {
          "index": 2416,
          "text": "No.",
          "startTime": "02:18:02,974",
          "endTime": "02:18:03,874"
        },
        {
          "index": 2417,
          "text": "In the opinion of me as chair, it sounded like the noes had",
          "startTime": "02:18:04,954",
          "endTime": "02:18:08,194"
        },
        {
          "index": 2418,
          "text": "it. But I appreciate, again, I appreciate your, your",
          "startTime": "02:18:08,234",
          "endTime": "02:18:11,835"
        },
        {
          "index": 2419,
          "text": "attempt. That's what we do here. So we're back to the",
          "startTime": "02:18:11,854",
          "endTime": "02:18:15,534"
        },
        {
          "index": 2420,
          "text": "resolution as written, and I have originally had Counselor Ellis, Lewis, and",
          "startTime": "02:18:15,575",
          "endTime": "02:18:19,325"
        },
        {
          "index": 2421,
          "text": "Cadena, and now Napak.",
          "startTime": "02:18:19,394",
          "endTime": "02:18:21,874"
        },
        {
          "index": 2422,
          "text": "I had a couple of, questions for Director Pilata.",
          "startTime": "02:18:23,934",
          "endTime": "02:18:26,854"
        },
        {
          "index": 2423,
          "text": "At one point, we required like some sort of setback if you had a",
          "startTime": "02:18:26,894",
          "endTime": "02:18:30,755"
        },
        {
          "index": 2424,
          "text": "high density going up against a lower density.",
          "startTime": "02:18:30,794",
          "endTime": "02:18:33,354"
        },
        {
          "index": 2425,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
          "startTime": "02:18:33,374",
          "endTime": "02:18:33,954"
        },
        {
          "index": 2426,
          "text": "Did that go away with the state?",
          "startTime": "02:18:33,974",
          "endTime": "02:18:35,214"
        },
        {
          "index": 2427,
          "text": "That wa- that was part of... No, that was actually part of the mixed use project,",
          "startTime": "02:18:35,255",
          "endTime": "02:18:38,335"
        },
        {
          "index": 2428,
          "text": "took away some of that.",
          "startTime": "02:18:38,634",
          "endTime": "02:18:39,654"
        },
        {
          "index": 2429,
          "text": "Okay. And solar access?",
          "startTime": "02:18:39,714",
          "endTime": "02:18:42,634"
        },
        {
          "index": 2430,
          "text": "Um, solar access comes into play, um...",
          "startTime": "02:18:42,774",
          "endTime": "02:18:46,165"
        },
        {
          "index": 2431,
          "text": "There's two things called solar access.",
          "startTime": "02:18:46,194",
          "endTime": "02:18:47,694"
        },
        {
          "index": 2432,
          "text": "There's the ability to, if you have",
          "startTime": "02:18:47,734",
          "endTime": "02:18:51,354"
        },
        {
          "index": 2433,
          "text": "solar panels and you want to control",
          "startTime": "02:18:51,474",
          "endTime": "02:18:54,995"
        },
        {
          "index": 2434,
          "text": "the, property next to you so that they don't shade on your",
          "startTime": "02:18:55,474",
          "endTime": "02:18:59,384"
        },
        {
          "index": 2435,
          "text": "solar panels, there is a process that you can go through to get that.",
          "startTime": "02:18:59,534",
          "endTime": "02:19:03,425"
        },
        {
          "index": 2436,
          "text": "They are... Your neighbor has to agree to that.",
          "startTime": "02:19:03,434",
          "endTime": "02:19:06,974"
        },
        {
          "index": 2437,
          "text": "So it's, it's one of those things. But you know, if you have a...",
          "startTime": "02:19:07,034",
          "endTime": "02:19:09,814"
        },
        {
          "index": 2438,
          "text": "If you and your neighbor are on good terms and you just wanna make sure that when",
          "startTime": "02:19:09,854",
          "endTime": "02:19:12,814"
        },
        {
          "index": 2439,
          "text": "the neighbor sells it in ten years that it doesn't get you, you know, a lot of",
          "startTime": "02:19:12,854",
          "endTime": "02:19:15,575"
        },
        {
          "index": 2440,
          "text": "times they'll do that sort of thing.",
          "startTime": "02:19:15,594",
          "endTime": "02:19:17,314"
        },
        {
          "index": 2441,
          "text": "There's another kind of thing that's called solar access in the code, which is in a",
          "startTime": "02:19:17,335",
          "endTime": "02:19:21,014"
        },
        {
          "index": 2442,
          "text": "subdivision level, is talking about orienting buildings in particular",
          "startTime": "02:19:21,075",
          "endTime": "02:19:24,915"
        },
        {
          "index": 2443,
          "text": "ways so they can maximize the solar gain.",
          "startTime": "02:19:25,014",
          "endTime": "02:19:27,335"
        },
        {
          "index": 2444,
          "text": "So, neither one of those is probably gonna be, relevant in this",
          "startTime": "02:19:27,374",
          "endTime": "02:19:31,044"
        },
        {
          "index": 2445,
          "text": "location.",
          "startTime": "02:19:31,094",
          "endTime": "02:19:31,964"
        },
        {
          "index": 2446,
          "text": "Mm-hmm. Um, I also wanna say that,",
          "startTime": "02:19:31,974",
          "endTime": "02:19:35,585"
        },
        {
          "index": 2447,
          "text": "I don't believe, and this is no offense to, to our, our staff-",
          "startTime": "02:19:36,054",
          "endTime": "02:19:39,255"
        },
        {
          "index": 2448,
          "text": "Mm-hmm",
          "startTime": "02:19:39,314",
          "endTime": "02:19:39,454"
        },
        {
          "index": 2449,
          "text": "... that, steel is going above and beyond if it is kind",
          "startTime": "02:19:39,694",
          "endTime": "02:19:43,534"
        },
        {
          "index": 2450,
          "text": "of the structural norm for a building of that",
          "startTime": "02:19:43,594",
          "endTime": "02:19:46,614"
        },
        {
          "index": 2451,
          "text": "height. So, I, I remember- that's",
          "startTime": "02:19:46,654",
          "endTime": "02:19:50,374"
        },
        {
          "index": 2452,
          "text": "s- up to six feet or six stories, they don't need to have it.",
          "startTime": "02:19:51,074",
          "endTime": "02:19:54,434"
        },
        {
          "index": 2453,
          "text": "You said ab- above and beyond that, it's kind of the structural norm.",
          "startTime": "02:19:54,474",
          "endTime": "02:19:58,414"
        },
        {
          "index": 2454,
          "text": "Um, so...",
          "startTime": "02:19:58,494",
          "endTime": "02:20:01,834"
        },
        {
          "index": 2455,
          "text": "Counselor Lewis.",
          "startTime": "02:20:01,894",
          "endTime": "02:20:03,834"
        },
        {
          "index": 2456,
          "text": "So a lot of counselors, especially Counselor Olsen Ellis, has",
          "startTime": "02:20:03,914",
          "endTime": "02:20:07,834"
        },
        {
          "index": 2457,
          "text": "been more, eloquent in it, in their opinions.",
          "startTime": "02:20:07,914",
          "endTime": "02:20:11,774"
        },
        {
          "index": 2458,
          "text": "Um, so I'm just like dithering a little bit, but I wanna push back a little,",
          "startTime": "02:20:11,854",
          "endTime": "02:20:15,124"
        },
        {
          "index": 2459,
          "text": "about the fact that we do talk a lot about infrastructure and",
          "startTime": "02:20:15,474",
          "endTime": "02:20:18,974"
        },
        {
          "index": 2460,
          "text": "beautifying Corvallis and making downtown look wonderful and",
          "startTime": "02:20:18,994",
          "endTime": "02:20:22,074"
        },
        {
          "index": 2461,
          "text": "housing, but the main thing that we focus on the most is affordable",
          "startTime": "02:20:22,154",
          "endTime": "02:20:25,974"
        },
        {
          "index": 2462,
          "text": "housing. And looking at these prices, I'm a renter myself, I literally",
          "startTime": "02:20:26,014",
          "endTime": "02:20:29,994"
        },
        {
          "index": 2463,
          "text": "had to move because my one bedroom, for my last",
          "startTime": "02:20:30,014",
          "endTime": "02:20:33,794"
        },
        {
          "index": 2464,
          "text": "apartment was going to be nineteen hundred dollars.",
          "startTime": "02:20:33,854",
          "endTime": "02:20:36,134"
        },
        {
          "index": 2465,
          "text": "I make eighteen dollars an hour. I can't afford that.",
          "startTime": "02:20:36,214",
          "endTime": "02:20:38,714"
        },
        {
          "index": 2466,
          "text": "I am in a two-income household. We cannot afford that.",
          "startTime": "02:20:38,774",
          "endTime": "02:20:41,994"
        },
        {
          "index": 2467,
          "text": "Um, so seeing the, this just like the potential",
          "startTime": "02:20:42,094",
          "endTime": "02:20:45,974"
        },
        {
          "index": 2468,
          "text": "pricing of these units, especially the studio and the",
          "startTime": "02:20:46,114",
          "endTime": "02:20:49,994"
        },
        {
          "index": 2469,
          "text": "one bedroom, I'm just like, \"Who is this for?\" Because we...",
          "startTime": "02:20:50,034",
          "endTime": "02:20:53,724"
        },
        {
          "index": 2470,
          "text": "And the, especially for, Ward Two, the n- number",
          "startTime": "02:20:53,754",
          "endTime": "02:20:57,624"
        },
        {
          "index": 2471,
          "text": "one thing I hear all about is like, \"It is too expensive to live in Corvallis.\"",
          "startTime": "02:20:57,654",
          "endTime": "02:21:01,254"
        },
        {
          "index": 2472,
          "text": "They would love to live here and as they work here, they would love to not have to",
          "startTime": "02:21:01,274",
          "endTime": "02:21:04,574"
        },
        {
          "index": 2473,
          "text": "commute. It is too expensive",
          "startTime": "02:21:04,594",
          "endTime": "02:21:06,854"
        },
        {
          "index": 2474,
          "text": "and-As beautiful as and",
          "startTime": "02:21:07,334",
          "endTime": "02:21:10,938"
        },
        {
          "index": 2475,
          "text": "wonderful as it will be to have more people to live in Corvallis, we have to make",
          "startTime": "02:21:10,978",
          "endTime": "02:21:14,558"
        },
        {
          "index": 2476,
          "text": "sure they can afford it and at, and just looking",
          "startTime": "02:21:14,578",
          "endTime": "02:21:18,248"
        },
        {
          "index": 2477,
          "text": "at this proposal, this is not something that I can",
          "startTime": "02:21:18,338",
          "endTime": "02:21:22,328"
        },
        {
          "index": 2478,
          "text": "wholeheartedly be behind. So I will be voting no.",
          "startTime": "02:21:22,398",
          "endTime": "02:21:26,238"
        },
        {
          "index": 2479,
          "text": "Councilor Katina.",
          "startTime": "02:21:27,198",
          "endTime": "02:21:28,558"
        },
        {
          "index": 2480,
          "text": "Yeah, a few comments. One is I, I would encourage",
          "startTime": "02:21:29,078",
          "endTime": "02:21:33,038"
        },
        {
          "index": 2481,
          "text": "us to not, make decisions based",
          "startTime": "02:21:33,098",
          "endTime": "02:21:36,758"
        },
        {
          "index": 2482,
          "text": "upon personal preferences about how people",
          "startTime": "02:21:36,778",
          "endTime": "02:21:40,618"
        },
        {
          "index": 2483,
          "text": "choose to live or not live. Um,",
          "startTime": "02:21:40,658",
          "endTime": "02:21:44,458"
        },
        {
          "index": 2484,
          "text": "and I think the, I think the challenge for us is, and I think we're",
          "startTime": "02:21:44,498",
          "endTime": "02:21:48,147"
        },
        {
          "index": 2485,
          "text": "facing this with the changes that have-- both the changes we've made here",
          "startTime": "02:21:48,178",
          "endTime": "02:21:51,798"
        },
        {
          "index": 2486,
          "text": "locally as well as the changes that have come from the state.",
          "startTime": "02:21:51,878",
          "endTime": "02:21:54,998"
        },
        {
          "index": 2487,
          "text": "Um, this will add a significant am-number of rental units.",
          "startTime": "02:21:55,878",
          "endTime": "02:21:59,718"
        },
        {
          "index": 2488,
          "text": "I think that, we've heard, discussion",
          "startTime": "02:21:59,898",
          "endTime": "02:22:03,458"
        },
        {
          "index": 2489,
          "text": "previously about our vacancy, rate in",
          "startTime": "02:22:03,498",
          "endTime": "02:22:07,428"
        },
        {
          "index": 2490,
          "text": "rental housing. Our vacancy rate's low enough that we",
          "startTime": "02:22:07,478",
          "endTime": "02:22:10,578"
        },
        {
          "index": 2491,
          "text": "have, stickiness, and",
          "startTime": "02:22:10,618",
          "endTime": "02:22:14,438"
        },
        {
          "index": 2492,
          "text": "upward pressure on rents. Um, putting this number of units on",
          "startTime": "02:22:14,558",
          "endTime": "02:22:18,478"
        },
        {
          "index": 2493,
          "text": "the market, even if it appeals",
          "startTime": "02:22:18,518",
          "endTime": "02:22:22,158"
        },
        {
          "index": 2494,
          "text": "to, higher-end renters,",
          "startTime": "02:22:22,218",
          "endTime": "02:22:26,098"
        },
        {
          "index": 2495,
          "text": "will have an impact on the,",
          "startTime": "02:22:26,518",
          "endTime": "02:22:28,718"
        },
        {
          "index": 2496,
          "text": "available rental inventory, in the",
          "startTime": "02:22:29,748",
          "endTime": "02:22:33,718"
        },
        {
          "index": 2497,
          "text": "city. Um, I, if I just walked pa-- I mean, in my ward",
          "startTime": "02:22:33,758",
          "endTime": "02:22:37,688"
        },
        {
          "index": 2498,
          "text": "I, I, I know there are students that live in single-family homes that",
          "startTime": "02:22:37,818",
          "endTime": "02:22:41,538"
        },
        {
          "index": 2499,
          "text": "probably would prefer to not live in single-family homes.",
          "startTime": "02:22:41,738",
          "endTime": "02:22:45,258"
        },
        {
          "index": 2500,
          "text": "Um, I think that, c-creating more housing,",
          "startTime": "02:22:45,398",
          "endTime": "02:22:49,358"
        },
        {
          "index": 2501,
          "text": "this is what we, this is what we said we wanted to do.",
          "startTime": "02:22:49,378",
          "endTime": "02:22:52,478"
        },
        {
          "index": 2502,
          "text": "I, and I, I feel like we're in a situation",
          "startTime": "02:22:52,558",
          "endTime": "02:22:55,358"
        },
        {
          "index": 2503,
          "text": "where,",
          "startTime": "02:22:55,458",
          "endTime": "02:22:56,778"
        },
        {
          "index": 2504,
          "text": "where we want more housing, we want density, but then if it's too high,",
          "startTime": "02:22:59,598",
          "endTime": "02:23:03,238"
        },
        {
          "index": 2505,
          "text": "we don't like that. If it's too-- If it's, if it's sprawl, we",
          "startTime": "02:23:03,858",
          "endTime": "02:23:07,638"
        },
        {
          "index": 2506,
          "text": "don't like that. Um, I, I think that",
          "startTime": "02:23:07,678",
          "endTime": "02:23:11,438"
        },
        {
          "index": 2507,
          "text": "hou-- you know, we need housing",
          "startTime": "02:23:11,498",
          "endTime": "02:23:13,088"
        },
        {
          "index": 2508,
          "text": "and it's only gonna be through the addition of a significant amount of housing",
          "startTime": "02:23:14,038",
          "endTime": "02:23:17,858"
        },
        {
          "index": 2509,
          "text": "that things are gonna become more affordable.",
          "startTime": "02:23:17,898",
          "endTime": "02:23:20,578"
        },
        {
          "index": 2510,
          "text": "Um, I think that Corvallis, I mean, I've been-- I moved",
          "startTime": "02:23:20,678",
          "endTime": "02:23:24,598"
        },
        {
          "index": 2511,
          "text": "to Corvallis in ninety-five. Definitely the",
          "startTime": "02:23:24,638",
          "endTime": "02:23:28,258"
        },
        {
          "index": 2512,
          "text": "lack of",
          "startTime": "02:23:28,318",
          "endTime": "02:23:29,128"
        },
        {
          "index": 2513,
          "text": "keeping up with our housing requirements has led us to the situation that we're in.",
          "startTime": "02:23:30,178",
          "endTime": "02:23:33,618"
        },
        {
          "index": 2514,
          "text": "We, we created commercial mixed-use zones.",
          "startTime": "02:23:33,678",
          "endTime": "02:23:37,538"
        },
        {
          "index": 2515,
          "text": "Um, I, I think if",
          "startTime": "02:23:37,678",
          "endTime": "02:23:41,438"
        },
        {
          "index": 2516,
          "text": "you-- That will change",
          "startTime": "02:23:41,498",
          "endTime": "02:23:43,558"
        },
        {
          "index": 2517,
          "text": "the nature of what gets built, and it's not",
          "startTime": "02:23:44,378",
          "endTime": "02:23:47,118"
        },
        {
          "index": 2518,
          "text": "overnight, but it will change. So yeah, we",
          "startTime": "02:23:47,178",
          "endTime": "02:23:50,218"
        },
        {
          "index": 2519,
          "text": "can, we can deny this,",
          "startTime": "02:23:50,318",
          "endTime": "02:23:53,518"
        },
        {
          "index": 2520,
          "text": "and we can deny the next one and the next one.",
          "startTime": "02:23:54,298",
          "endTime": "02:23:56,758"
        },
        {
          "index": 2521,
          "text": "Um, but I think that the",
          "startTime": "02:23:56,878",
          "endTime": "02:24:00,778"
        },
        {
          "index": 2522,
          "text": "getting to affordable housing by only building affordable",
          "startTime": "02:24:00,818",
          "endTime": "02:24:04,258"
        },
        {
          "index": 2523,
          "text": "housing, i.e. tax-subsidized,",
          "startTime": "02:24:04,398",
          "endTime": "02:24:06,798"
        },
        {
          "index": 2524,
          "text": "a-affordable housing is not the answer.",
          "startTime": "02:24:08,158",
          "endTime": "02:24:11,038"
        },
        {
          "index": 2525,
          "text": "Um, that is one element, an important element, but looking",
          "startTime": "02:24:11,107",
          "endTime": "02:24:15,058"
        },
        {
          "index": 2526,
          "text": "at each in-individual proposal as the",
          "startTime": "02:24:15,098",
          "endTime": "02:24:18,798"
        },
        {
          "index": 2527,
          "text": "solution to affordable housing is, is myopic.",
          "startTime": "02:24:18,858",
          "endTime": "02:24:22,838"
        },
        {
          "index": 2528,
          "text": "And so I think we really do need to look at what will it take",
          "startTime": "02:24:22,878",
          "endTime": "02:24:26,778"
        },
        {
          "index": 2529,
          "text": "to... This is a significant increase i-in housing.",
          "startTime": "02:24:26,838",
          "endTime": "02:24:29,938"
        },
        {
          "index": 2530,
          "text": "I don't, I, I canna-- I cannot predict, I can't predict",
          "startTime": "02:24:29,998",
          "endTime": "02:24:33,918"
        },
        {
          "index": 2531,
          "text": "students. I'm too far from that age to know why people have dogs and",
          "startTime": "02:24:33,998",
          "endTime": "02:24:37,887"
        },
        {
          "index": 2532,
          "text": "go to college and why people have cars and go to college.",
          "startTime": "02:24:37,898",
          "endTime": "02:24:40,918"
        },
        {
          "index": 2533,
          "text": "But I, I think this would, this provides the opportunity",
          "startTime": "02:24:40,958",
          "endTime": "02:24:44,308"
        },
        {
          "index": 2534,
          "text": "for people to easily get around without a car.",
          "startTime": "02:24:45,158",
          "endTime": "02:24:48,598"
        },
        {
          "index": 2535,
          "text": "Perhaps it will appeal to those folks. I don't really know.",
          "startTime": "02:24:48,618",
          "endTime": "02:24:51,498"
        },
        {
          "index": 2536,
          "text": "Uh, but I think that",
          "startTime": "02:24:51,578",
          "endTime": "02:24:53,178"
        },
        {
          "index": 2537,
          "text": "there is immediate tax benefit, albeit small,",
          "startTime": "02:24:54,658",
          "endTime": "02:24:58,598"
        },
        {
          "index": 2538,
          "text": "but it is higher and much higher than it is currently.",
          "startTime": "02:24:58,638",
          "endTime": "02:25:01,878"
        },
        {
          "index": 2539,
          "text": "It is a development in commercial mixed use.",
          "startTime": "02:25:01,938",
          "endTime": "02:25:05,358"
        },
        {
          "index": 2540,
          "text": "It is adding a significant amount of housing.",
          "startTime": "02:25:05,398",
          "endTime": "02:25:08,768"
        },
        {
          "index": 2541,
          "text": "And yes, I cannot say that,",
          "startTime": "02:25:08,838",
          "endTime": "02:25:12,098"
        },
        {
          "index": 2542,
          "text": "that we know the, the full",
          "startTime": "02:25:13,898",
          "endTime": "02:25:15,738"
        },
        {
          "index": 2543,
          "text": "consequences of where we're going with commercial mixed use, but",
          "startTime": "02:25:15,798",
          "endTime": "02:25:19,678"
        },
        {
          "index": 2544,
          "text": "that is the path that we are on, is to build significantly more housing.",
          "startTime": "02:25:19,738",
          "endTime": "02:25:23,358"
        },
        {
          "index": 2545,
          "text": "So I think we need to get on with it, and I will be in favor of",
          "startTime": "02:25:23,398",
          "endTime": "02:25:26,267"
        },
        {
          "index": 2546,
          "text": "this.",
          "startTime": "02:25:26,318",
          "endTime": "02:25:28,938"
        },
        {
          "index": 2547,
          "text": "City manager.",
          "startTime": "02:25:28,978",
          "endTime": "02:25:30,137"
        },
        {
          "index": 2548,
          "text": "Yeah, I understand some of the, the challenge, and maybe",
          "startTime": "02:25:31,758",
          "endTime": "02:25:35,658"
        },
        {
          "index": 2549,
          "text": "the angst that the council is feeling, certainly the community is feeling on",
          "startTime": "02:25:35,738",
          "endTime": "02:25:39,648"
        },
        {
          "index": 2550,
          "text": "this.",
          "startTime": "02:25:39,718",
          "endTime": "02:25:39,908"
        },
        {
          "index": 2551,
          "text": "And we've talked a lot about how the state has come in and, and",
          "startTime": "02:25:40,958",
          "endTime": "02:25:44,718"
        },
        {
          "index": 2552,
          "text": "changed, how we can or can't",
          "startTime": "02:25:44,798",
          "endTime": "02:25:48,418"
        },
        {
          "index": 2553,
          "text": "regulate development.",
          "startTime": "02:25:48,478",
          "endTime": "02:25:50,717"
        },
        {
          "index": 2554,
          "text": "I also wanna remind the council that the council",
          "startTime": "02:25:52,038",
          "endTime": "02:25:55,657"
        },
        {
          "index": 2555,
          "text": "itself has made multiple policy",
          "startTime": "02:25:55,758",
          "endTime": "02:25:59,258"
        },
        {
          "index": 2556,
          "text": "decisions, and this project, while it's the first one,",
          "startTime": "02:25:59,298",
          "endTime": "02:26:03,258"
        },
        {
          "index": 2557,
          "text": "it does",
          "startTime": "02:26:03,338",
          "endTime": "02:26:04,018"
        },
        {
          "index": 2558,
          "text": "match,",
          "startTime": "02:26:04,898",
          "endTime": "02:26:06,678"
        },
        {
          "index": 2559,
          "text": "layers of policy decisions the council has made",
          "startTime": "02:26:08,718",
          "endTime": "02:26:11,618"
        },
        {
          "index": 2560,
          "text": "thoughtfully. And, the",
          "startTime": "02:26:11,938",
          "endTime": "02:26:15,398"
        },
        {
          "index": 2561,
          "text": "MUPTI program, the way it was set up, you know, the issue of",
          "startTime": "02:26:15,538",
          "endTime": "02:26:19,418"
        },
        {
          "index": 2562,
          "text": "you can either",
          "startTime": "02:26:19,458",
          "endTime": "02:26:20,118"
        },
        {
          "index": 2563,
          "text": "include affordable housing or pay a fee in lieu.",
          "startTime": "02:26:21,018",
          "endTime": "02:26:24,258"
        },
        {
          "index": 2564,
          "text": "And so these things were thought out in a, in",
          "startTime": "02:26:24,338",
          "endTime": "02:26:27,878"
        },
        {
          "index": 2565,
          "text": "a, in a vacuum of a specific project, and I think",
          "startTime": "02:26:27,958",
          "endTime": "02:26:31,578"
        },
        {
          "index": 2566,
          "text": "that's good because each project is gonna have its own,",
          "startTime": "02:26:31,638",
          "endTime": "02:26:35,138"
        },
        {
          "index": 2567,
          "text": "challenges, those who oppose, those who",
          "startTime": "02:26:36,098",
          "endTime": "02:26:38,538"
        },
        {
          "index": 2568,
          "text": "support. Um,",
          "startTime": "02:26:38,658",
          "endTime": "02:26:40,548"
        },
        {
          "index": 2569,
          "text": "and I think it will become challenging certainly for staff to understand what",
          "startTime": "02:26:42,138",
          "endTime": "02:26:46,098"
        },
        {
          "index": 2570,
          "text": "is the council's direction when we have all this policy direction",
          "startTime": "02:26:46,138",
          "endTime": "02:26:49,778"
        },
        {
          "index": 2571,
          "text": "that you have given us over the years, and it certainly will be confusing",
          "startTime": "02:26:49,878",
          "endTime": "02:26:53,658"
        },
        {
          "index": 2572,
          "text": "for",
          "startTime": "02:26:53,738",
          "endTime": "02:26:53,998"
        },
        {
          "index": 2573,
          "text": "future developers. So again, staff's evaluation is",
          "startTime": "02:26:55,158",
          "endTime": "02:26:59,118"
        },
        {
          "index": 2574,
          "text": "this is in alignment with those policy decisions and the specifics",
          "startTime": "02:26:59,958",
          "endTime": "02:27:03,898"
        },
        {
          "index": 2575,
          "text": "of, our MUPTI program. So a denial",
          "startTime": "02:27:04,018",
          "endTime": "02:27:07,778"
        },
        {
          "index": 2576,
          "text": "really would be confusing for, for staff and for,",
          "startTime": "02:27:07,858",
          "endTime": "02:27:11,358"
        },
        {
          "index": 2577,
          "text": "developers.",
          "startTime": "02:27:11,638",
          "endTime": "02:27:12,458"
        },
        {
          "index": 2578,
          "text": "But Councilor Napert, Napack and then Council Mayer's, and I believe at that point",
          "startTime": "02:27:15,454",
          "endTime": "02:27:18,614"
        },
        {
          "index": 2579,
          "text": "everybody would have spoken. So unless it's something new, I'd like to get",
          "startTime": "02:27:18,634",
          "endTime": "02:27:22,464"
        },
        {
          "index": 2580,
          "text": "towards a vote because it is getting late.",
          "startTime": "02:27:22,494",
          "endTime": "02:27:23,833"
        },
        {
          "index": 2581,
          "text": "Councilor Napack.",
          "startTime": "02:27:24,714",
          "endTime": "02:27:25,834"
        },
        {
          "index": 2582,
          "text": "I just want assurances or some,",
          "startTime": "02:27:27,214",
          "endTime": "02:27:31,094"
        },
        {
          "index": 2583,
          "text": "hand-waving, if you will. Um, this is a",
          "startTime": "02:27:32,754",
          "endTime": "02:27:35,954"
        },
        {
          "index": 2584,
          "text": "high-end development, and I'm just, uh...",
          "startTime": "02:27:35,974",
          "endTime": "02:27:38,484"
        },
        {
          "index": 2585,
          "text": "Is there any chance that,",
          "startTime": "02:27:38,494",
          "endTime": "02:27:40,924"
        },
        {
          "index": 2586,
          "text": "it would change the basis or rationale, of su-",
          "startTime": "02:27:42,274",
          "endTime": "02:27:46,234"
        },
        {
          "index": 2587,
          "text": "of successfully obtaining a",
          "startTime": "02:27:46,294",
          "endTime": "02:27:48,674"
        },
        {
          "index": 2588,
          "text": "downtown tax increment financing",
          "startTime": "02:27:48,734",
          "endTime": "02:27:52,154"
        },
        {
          "index": 2589,
          "text": "district?",
          "startTime": "02:27:52,194",
          "endTime": "02:27:53,894"
        },
        {
          "index": 2590,
          "text": "It would be, hypothetically part of the",
          "startTime": "02:27:55,394",
          "endTime": "02:27:58,854"
        },
        {
          "index": 2591,
          "text": "capture for a tax increment financing district if the district were",
          "startTime": "02:27:58,894",
          "endTime": "02:28:02,554"
        },
        {
          "index": 2592,
          "text": "established before construction finished",
          "startTime": "02:28:02,594",
          "endTime": "02:28:05,534"
        },
        {
          "index": 2593,
          "text": "up. So",
          "startTime": "02:28:05,694",
          "endTime": "02:28:08,414"
        },
        {
          "index": 2594,
          "text": "there's... A tax increment financing district has a lot",
          "startTime": "02:28:08,494",
          "endTime": "02:28:11,974"
        },
        {
          "index": 2595,
          "text": "to, lot to stand to gain from the project in year",
          "startTime": "02:28:12,014",
          "endTime": "02:28:15,814"
        },
        {
          "index": 2596,
          "text": "eleven.",
          "startTime": "02:28:15,854",
          "endTime": "02:28:19,794"
        },
        {
          "index": 2597,
          "text": "Councilor Mayer, Moorefield, and then Schaffer.",
          "startTime": "02:28:22,034",
          "endTime": "02:28:25,974"
        },
        {
          "index": 2598,
          "text": "Okay. Um,",
          "startTime": "02:28:27,754",
          "endTime": "02:28:29,014"
        },
        {
          "index": 2599,
          "text": "first off,",
          "startTime": "02:28:30,354",
          "endTime": "02:28:31,414"
        },
        {
          "index": 2600,
          "text": "the project objectively meets the criteria as set out,",
          "startTime": "02:28:35,094",
          "endTime": "02:28:39,074"
        },
        {
          "index": 2601,
          "text": "and",
          "startTime": "02:28:40,334",
          "endTime": "02:28:40,794"
        },
        {
          "index": 2602,
          "text": "whether it,",
          "startTime": "02:28:43,994",
          "endTime": "02:28:44,634"
        },
        {
          "index": 2603,
          "text": "whether it meets them by a little or a lot is",
          "startTime": "02:28:46,194",
          "endTime": "02:28:48,334"
        },
        {
          "index": 2604,
          "text": "irrelevant. Um,",
          "startTime": "02:28:48,414",
          "endTime": "02:28:51,214"
        },
        {
          "index": 2605,
          "text": "it also meets an additional one, regarding blight, which I",
          "startTime": "02:28:53,634",
          "endTime": "02:28:57,354"
        },
        {
          "index": 2606,
          "text": "totally agree with and was a little surprised that wasn't on the first part of the",
          "startTime": "02:28:57,394",
          "endTime": "02:29:00,754"
        },
        {
          "index": 2607,
          "text": "list because that's a very rundown block.",
          "startTime": "02:29:00,814",
          "endTime": "02:29:03,914"
        },
        {
          "index": 2608,
          "text": "So,",
          "startTime": "02:29:03,954",
          "endTime": "02:29:05,034"
        },
        {
          "index": 2609,
          "text": "a question of it meeting the sub- the objective",
          "startTime": "02:29:06,894",
          "endTime": "02:29:10,534"
        },
        {
          "index": 2610,
          "text": "criteria is, in my mind, not really a",
          "startTime": "02:29:10,614",
          "endTime": "02:29:13,534"
        },
        {
          "index": 2611,
          "text": "question. Um, there were a lot of additional benefits that were",
          "startTime": "02:29:13,594",
          "endTime": "02:29:17,234"
        },
        {
          "index": 2612,
          "text": "listed that I won't go into, one of, but, one of which that impressed",
          "startTime": "02:29:17,294",
          "endTime": "02:29:21,214"
        },
        {
          "index": 2613,
          "text": "me was, a, plan to use a certain",
          "startTime": "02:29:21,274",
          "endTime": "02:29:24,994"
        },
        {
          "index": 2614,
          "text": "percentage of local labor and materials, which I think is good,",
          "startTime": "02:29:25,053",
          "endTime": "02:29:28,934"
        },
        {
          "index": 2615,
          "text": "is a good thing. Um, there were, some",
          "startTime": "02:29:29,294",
          "endTime": "02:29:33,014"
        },
        {
          "index": 2616,
          "text": "energy, benefits that they listed above and",
          "startTime": "02:29:33,154",
          "endTime": "02:29:36,934"
        },
        {
          "index": 2617,
          "text": "beyond. So, if we're looking for",
          "startTime": "02:29:37,014",
          "endTime": "02:29:40,874"
        },
        {
          "index": 2618,
          "text": "benefits, I think we, we need to be,",
          "startTime": "02:29:40,914",
          "endTime": "02:29:43,744"
        },
        {
          "index": 2619,
          "text": "broad-minded. And I am, I'm gonna say a",
          "startTime": "02:29:44,034",
          "endTime": "02:29:48,004"
        },
        {
          "index": 2620,
          "text": "couple other things. Uh, I think it's a little",
          "startTime": "02:29:48,034",
          "endTime": "02:29:51,714"
        },
        {
          "index": 2621,
          "text": "confusing, the concept",
          "startTime": "02:29:51,814",
          "endTime": "02:29:55,354"
        },
        {
          "index": 2622,
          "text": "that a,",
          "startTime": "02:29:55,814",
          "endTime": "02:29:56,314"
        },
        {
          "index": 2623,
          "text": "that a s- a, an apartment building just because it's higher end",
          "startTime": "02:29:57,594",
          "endTime": "02:30:01,554"
        },
        {
          "index": 2624,
          "text": "that supplies housing to six hundred people is somehow",
          "startTime": "02:30:02,274",
          "endTime": "02:30:06,174"
        },
        {
          "index": 2625,
          "text": "not going to free up other units for people who are",
          "startTime": "02:30:06,294",
          "endTime": "02:30:09,554"
        },
        {
          "index": 2626,
          "text": "looking on the lower ends. Um, that doesn't",
          "startTime": "02:30:09,594",
          "endTime": "02:30:13,484"
        },
        {
          "index": 2627,
          "text": "make logical sense to me. And so,",
          "startTime": "02:30:13,514",
          "endTime": "02:30:16,234"
        },
        {
          "index": 2628,
          "text": "I think it will help with our housing situation, which is",
          "startTime": "02:30:18,434",
          "endTime": "02:30:21,534"
        },
        {
          "index": 2629,
          "text": "dire. Um,",
          "startTime": "02:30:21,574",
          "endTime": "02:30:23,694"
        },
        {
          "index": 2630,
          "text": "I also think single-family homes, as Councilor Kadina said,",
          "startTime": "02:30:26,194",
          "endTime": "02:30:30,034"
        },
        {
          "index": 2631,
          "text": "which people are holding onto their homes because there's no inventory, it would",
          "startTime": "02:30:30,154",
          "endTime": "02:30:34,024"
        },
        {
          "index": 2632,
          "text": "help free up some of that. And finally, I, I reme-",
          "startTime": "02:30:34,054",
          "endTime": "02:30:37,934"
        },
        {
          "index": 2633,
          "text": "recall our discussion with the Downtown Vitality,",
          "startTime": "02:30:38,054",
          "endTime": "02:30:42,034"
        },
        {
          "index": 2634,
          "text": "Strategy Task Force, infrastructure discussion, and we've been",
          "startTime": "02:30:43,294",
          "endTime": "02:30:47,134"
        },
        {
          "index": 2635,
          "text": "going through all of the information that was collected from community",
          "startTime": "02:30:47,214",
          "endTime": "02:30:51,154"
        },
        {
          "index": 2636,
          "text": "members on the priorities, for",
          "startTime": "02:30:51,254",
          "endTime": "02:30:54,574"
        },
        {
          "index": 2637,
          "text": "downtown. And s- through our discussion last",
          "startTime": "02:30:54,594",
          "endTime": "02:30:58,554"
        },
        {
          "index": 2638,
          "text": "Tuesday, several-- It came up that",
          "startTime": "02:30:58,614",
          "endTime": "02:31:01,934"
        },
        {
          "index": 2639,
          "text": "several",
          "startTime": "02:31:02,074",
          "endTime": "02:31:02,674"
        },
        {
          "index": 2640,
          "text": "of the things that we wanna get done downtown will actually be",
          "startTime": "02:31:03,554",
          "endTime": "02:31:07,194"
        },
        {
          "index": 2641,
          "text": "accomplished by having more people living",
          "startTime": "02:31:07,254",
          "endTime": "02:31:10,514"
        },
        {
          "index": 2642,
          "text": "downtown. Safety, right? More",
          "startTime": "02:31:10,524",
          "endTime": "02:31:14,234"
        },
        {
          "index": 2643,
          "text": "people on the streets. Vacant buildings getting filled",
          "startTime": "02:31:14,294",
          "endTime": "02:31:17,994"
        },
        {
          "index": 2644,
          "text": "because there are more shoppers. So I,",
          "startTime": "02:31:18,034",
          "endTime": "02:31:21,984"
        },
        {
          "index": 2645,
          "text": "I am very much in favor of this. I think it's exactly what council had in",
          "startTime": "02:31:22,714",
          "endTime": "02:31:26,634"
        },
        {
          "index": 2646,
          "text": "mind when it put this into place. And if we're gonna talk about",
          "startTime": "02:31:26,694",
          "endTime": "02:31:30,454"
        },
        {
          "index": 2647,
          "text": "economic development and deny this, then",
          "startTime": "02:31:30,494",
          "endTime": "02:31:32,914"
        },
        {
          "index": 2648,
          "text": "I don't know what to say. So I'll be voting",
          "startTime": "02:31:34,334",
          "endTime": "02:31:36,313"
        },
        {
          "index": 2649,
          "text": "yes.",
          "startTime": "02:31:36,373",
          "endTime": "02:31:38,334"
        },
        {
          "index": 2650,
          "text": "Councilor Moorefield.",
          "startTime": "02:31:38,374",
          "endTime": "02:31:39,374"
        },
        {
          "index": 2651,
          "text": "Um, I'm gonna vote in favor of it. Um,",
          "startTime": "02:31:40,814",
          "endTime": "02:31:43,254"
        },
        {
          "index": 2652,
          "text": "you know, there, there are aspects of this that have kinda driven me a little",
          "startTime": "02:31:44,354",
          "endTime": "02:31:48,214"
        },
        {
          "index": 2653,
          "text": "crazy, and it is kinda shocking, the idea that such a tall building",
          "startTime": "02:31:48,274",
          "endTime": "02:31:52,234"
        },
        {
          "index": 2654,
          "text": "will be in our downtown. Uh, but it was gonna happen",
          "startTime": "02:31:52,254",
          "endTime": "02:31:55,314"
        },
        {
          "index": 2655,
          "text": "someday because we, we",
          "startTime": "02:31:55,394",
          "endTime": "02:31:57,914"
        },
        {
          "index": 2656,
          "text": "do, Corvallis in particular, and the state of",
          "startTime": "02:31:57,974",
          "endTime": "02:32:01,734"
        },
        {
          "index": 2657,
          "text": "Oregon, western Oregon in particular, we need to increase our housing",
          "startTime": "02:32:01,774",
          "endTime": "02:32:05,274"
        },
        {
          "index": 2658,
          "text": "supply. That's one, one of the reasons why so many decisions have been taken",
          "startTime": "02:32:05,394",
          "endTime": "02:32:09,234"
        },
        {
          "index": 2659,
          "text": "out of our hands locally, because the state",
          "startTime": "02:32:09,294",
          "endTime": "02:32:12,034"
        },
        {
          "index": 2660,
          "text": "took the bull by the horns and said, \"We're gonna work on building more",
          "startTime": "02:32:12,854",
          "endTime": "02:32:16,594"
        },
        {
          "index": 2661,
          "text": "housing,\" or, supporting the construction of more",
          "startTime": "02:32:16,634",
          "endTime": "02:32:20,234"
        },
        {
          "index": 2662,
          "text": "housing. We also have climate change and a long",
          "startTime": "02:32:20,274",
          "endTime": "02:32:22,974"
        },
        {
          "index": 2663,
          "text": "time, vision that we h- are still",
          "startTime": "02:32:23,074",
          "endTime": "02:32:26,924"
        },
        {
          "index": 2664,
          "text": "struggling with as a, as a nation and a community about",
          "startTime": "02:32:26,954",
          "endTime": "02:32:30,794"
        },
        {
          "index": 2665,
          "text": "what we're gonna look like in the future.",
          "startTime": "02:32:30,834",
          "endTime": "02:32:33,664"
        },
        {
          "index": 2666,
          "text": "All I know is that we're gonna look very different than we do today.",
          "startTime": "02:32:33,734",
          "endTime": "02:32:37,013"
        },
        {
          "index": 2667,
          "text": "And, and, and I think there's consensus that we need to build",
          "startTime": "02:32:37,354",
          "endTime": "02:32:41,194"
        },
        {
          "index": 2668,
          "text": "up, not out. This is up. It may be shockingly high, but",
          "startTime": "02:32:41,274",
          "endTime": "02:32:45,034"
        },
        {
          "index": 2669,
          "text": "it's, but it's where we're headed.",
          "startTime": "02:32:45,094",
          "endTime": "02:32:47,254"
        },
        {
          "index": 2670,
          "text": "And, and, you know, so I'm looking out a long",
          "startTime": "02:32:47,264",
          "endTime": "02:32:50,514"
        },
        {
          "index": 2671,
          "text": "ways and, and seeing that this is part of our future.",
          "startTime": "02:32:50,574",
          "endTime": "02:32:54,194"
        },
        {
          "index": 2672,
          "text": "This is one of the ways that we have to change, and someone had to be",
          "startTime": "02:32:54,234",
          "endTime": "02:32:57,634"
        },
        {
          "index": 2673,
          "text": "first. And, so someone is taking",
          "startTime": "02:32:57,694",
          "endTime": "02:33:01,504"
        },
        {
          "index": 2674,
          "text": "that chance and investing a lot of money in our, our community.",
          "startTime": "02:33:01,574",
          "endTime": "02:33:05,084"
        },
        {
          "index": 2675,
          "text": "Um, affordable housing is addressed, this,",
          "startTime": "02:33:05,194",
          "endTime": "02:33:09,074"
        },
        {
          "index": 2676,
          "text": "by this project indirectly by its contribution to our affordable housing",
          "startTime": "02:33:09,114",
          "endTime": "02:33:13,014"
        },
        {
          "index": 2677,
          "text": "funds. Um, the, um...Downtown will",
          "startTime": "02:33:13,094",
          "endTime": "02:33:16,986"
        },
        {
          "index": 2678,
          "text": "benefit by having a lot more people living downtown.",
          "startTime": "02:33:17,066",
          "endTime": "02:33:20,246"
        },
        {
          "index": 2679,
          "text": "Do we have the resources to support local businesses?",
          "startTime": "02:33:20,256",
          "endTime": "02:33:23,686"
        },
        {
          "index": 2680,
          "text": "Um, and, if I'm frustrated with, with,",
          "startTime": "02:33:23,806",
          "endTime": "02:33:27,766"
        },
        {
          "index": 2681,
          "text": "you know, how we got here, it's because I do think the",
          "startTime": "02:33:28,646",
          "endTime": "02:33:31,726"
        },
        {
          "index": 2682,
          "text": "MUPTI ordinance requires some work.",
          "startTime": "02:33:31,766",
          "endTime": "02:33:34,376"
        },
        {
          "index": 2683,
          "text": "Uh, I'm not",
          "startTime": "02:33:34,486",
          "endTime": "02:33:35,066"
        },
        {
          "index": 2684,
          "text": "satisfied with, the but for",
          "startTime": "02:33:36,586",
          "endTime": "02:33:39,506"
        },
        {
          "index": 2685,
          "text": "analysis. I, I think the, the,",
          "startTime": "02:33:39,606",
          "endTime": "02:33:42,396"
        },
        {
          "index": 2686,
          "text": "require-requirements have been met, mind you.",
          "startTime": "02:33:42,886",
          "endTime": "02:33:45,626"
        },
        {
          "index": 2687,
          "text": "I'm just saying that, you know, I would like something a little bit more robust in",
          "startTime": "02:33:45,686",
          "endTime": "02:33:49,166"
        },
        {
          "index": 2688,
          "text": "the future, and we can talk about that another time.",
          "startTime": "02:33:49,206",
          "endTime": "02:33:52,056"
        },
        {
          "index": 2689,
          "text": "And, and I, you know, I'm not satisfied with this element of",
          "startTime": "02:33:52,106",
          "endTime": "02:33:55,546"
        },
        {
          "index": 2690,
          "text": "design that we can, you know, we can",
          "startTime": "02:33:55,646",
          "endTime": "02:33:58,446"
        },
        {
          "index": 2691,
          "text": "see it any way we want, as either a yes or a no or a maybe",
          "startTime": "02:33:59,886",
          "endTime": "02:34:03,166"
        },
        {
          "index": 2692,
          "text": "or, or something. So I, I think it needs work. And my...",
          "startTime": "02:34:03,266",
          "endTime": "02:34:07,095"
        },
        {
          "index": 2693,
          "text": "If I'm frustrated at all, it's because, because we have an ordinance",
          "startTime": "02:34:07,126",
          "endTime": "02:34:10,566"
        },
        {
          "index": 2694,
          "text": "that's new,",
          "startTime": "02:34:10,986",
          "endTime": "02:34:12,086"
        },
        {
          "index": 2695,
          "text": "and this is our first or second experiment",
          "startTime": "02:34:13,166",
          "endTime": "02:34:17,006"
        },
        {
          "index": 2696,
          "text": "with, with it, if you will. And, and I look",
          "startTime": "02:34:17,066",
          "endTime": "02:34:20,745"
        },
        {
          "index": 2697,
          "text": "forward to, tightening it up in the",
          "startTime": "02:34:20,806",
          "endTime": "02:34:23,706"
        },
        {
          "index": 2698,
          "text": "future.",
          "startTime": "02:34:23,766",
          "endTime": "02:34:25,846"
        },
        {
          "index": 2699,
          "text": "Councilor Schaefer, and then let's take a vote.",
          "startTime": "02:34:26,726",
          "endTime": "02:34:29,366"
        },
        {
          "index": 2700,
          "text": "Thank you. Uh, I have to believe the developer in",
          "startTime": "02:34:30,246",
          "endTime": "02:34:34,186"
        },
        {
          "index": 2701,
          "text": "this case recognizes that there's a need just- not just for",
          "startTime": "02:34:34,226",
          "endTime": "02:34:37,646"
        },
        {
          "index": 2702,
          "text": "affordable housing, but for all housing, market rate,",
          "startTime": "02:34:37,706",
          "endTime": "02:34:41,036"
        },
        {
          "index": 2703,
          "text": "everything in the downtown area. We, we simply don't have housing",
          "startTime": "02:34:41,606",
          "endTime": "02:34:45,526"
        },
        {
          "index": 2704,
          "text": "downtown. And I think there are people of means",
          "startTime": "02:34:45,566",
          "endTime": "02:34:49,396"
        },
        {
          "index": 2705,
          "text": "who would like to live in or closer to downtown, and this",
          "startTime": "02:34:49,446",
          "endTime": "02:34:53,426"
        },
        {
          "index": 2706,
          "text": "will afford an opportunity for them.",
          "startTime": "02:34:53,486",
          "endTime": "02:34:56,116"
        },
        {
          "index": 2707,
          "text": "Um, I'm, I'm concerned about the, the layout",
          "startTime": "02:34:56,226",
          "endTime": "02:35:00,126"
        },
        {
          "index": 2708,
          "text": "and the plan for some of these units, that it seems targeted at",
          "startTime": "02:35:00,186",
          "endTime": "02:35:03,926"
        },
        {
          "index": 2709,
          "text": "student-type",
          "startTime": "02:35:04,066",
          "endTime": "02:35:04,966"
        },
        {
          "index": 2710,
          "text": "groups rather than perhaps, families",
          "startTime": "02:35:05,946",
          "endTime": "02:35:09,826"
        },
        {
          "index": 2711,
          "text": "or,",
          "startTime": "02:35:10,286",
          "endTime": "02:35:10,886"
        },
        {
          "index": 2712,
          "text": "you know, s-smaller units for",
          "startTime": "02:35:12,006",
          "endTime": "02:35:15,806"
        },
        {
          "index": 2713,
          "text": "singles, young c- young couples, working families,",
          "startTime": "02:35:15,906",
          "endTime": "02:35:19,856"
        },
        {
          "index": 2714,
          "text": "retirees, anybody. But I think that's, that's their",
          "startTime": "02:35:19,986",
          "endTime": "02:35:23,666"
        },
        {
          "index": 2715,
          "text": "call, what they build. And, and so-- And I think",
          "startTime": "02:35:23,746",
          "endTime": "02:35:27,656"
        },
        {
          "index": 2716,
          "text": "the fact that there is some money going to affordable housing for",
          "startTime": "02:35:27,686",
          "endTime": "02:35:31,346"
        },
        {
          "index": 2717,
          "text": "this as, as required in what the council set out",
          "startTime": "02:35:31,426",
          "endTime": "02:35:34,886"
        },
        {
          "index": 2718,
          "text": "at the beginning of this, they meet that, they meet that",
          "startTime": "02:35:35,826",
          "endTime": "02:35:38,816"
        },
        {
          "index": 2719,
          "text": "requirement. Um, I'm tr- I am troubled about",
          "startTime": "02:35:38,866",
          "endTime": "02:35:42,846"
        },
        {
          "index": 2720,
          "text": "the",
          "startTime": "02:35:42,966",
          "endTime": "02:35:43,286"
        },
        {
          "index": 2721,
          "text": "parking issues.",
          "startTime": "02:35:44,326",
          "endTime": "02:35:45,446"
        },
        {
          "index": 2722,
          "text": "Um, I think we're in for a messy transition from",
          "startTime": "02:35:46,326",
          "endTime": "02:35:50,266"
        },
        {
          "index": 2723,
          "text": "a very car-centric transportation model to",
          "startTime": "02:35:50,326",
          "endTime": "02:35:53,986"
        },
        {
          "index": 2724,
          "text": "something that's closer to,",
          "startTime": "02:35:54,046",
          "endTime": "02:35:57,066"
        },
        {
          "index": 2725,
          "text": "walking, ped, whatever. But again, that's not",
          "startTime": "02:35:58,106",
          "endTime": "02:36:01,796"
        },
        {
          "index": 2726,
          "text": "something we can manage and dictate in this.",
          "startTime": "02:36:01,826",
          "endTime": "02:36:04,376"
        },
        {
          "index": 2727,
          "text": "The state has taken that away from me, s- from us.",
          "startTime": "02:36:04,406",
          "endTime": "02:36:07,096"
        },
        {
          "index": 2728,
          "text": "So I think we just have to go with, with what's there.",
          "startTime": "02:36:07,146",
          "endTime": "02:36:10,906"
        },
        {
          "index": 2729,
          "text": "Um, I have concerns, but I will be voting for the, for the,",
          "startTime": "02:36:11,026",
          "endTime": "02:36:14,896"
        },
        {
          "index": 2730,
          "text": "resolution.",
          "startTime": "02:36:15,786",
          "endTime": "02:36:18,306"
        },
        {
          "index": 2731,
          "text": "Thank you. Let's go ahead and move on to a, a vote.",
          "startTime": "02:36:18,346",
          "endTime": "02:36:21,546"
        },
        {
          "index": 2732,
          "text": "Um, city recorder, can you do a roll call vote, please?",
          "startTime": "02:36:21,626",
          "endTime": "02:36:23,686"
        },
        {
          "index": 2733,
          "text": "Yes, Mayor. Councilors Cadena?",
          "startTime": "02:36:23,746",
          "endTime": "02:36:26,686"
        },
        {
          "index": 2734,
          "text": "Yes.",
          "startTime": "02:36:26,766",
          "endTime": "02:36:27,526"
        },
        {
          "index": 2735,
          "text": "Mayors?",
          "startTime": "02:36:27,566",
          "endTime": "02:36:28,246"
        },
        {
          "index": 2736,
          "text": "Yes.",
          "startTime": "02:36:28,326",
          "endTime": "02:36:28,906"
        },
        {
          "index": 2737,
          "text": "Moorefield?",
          "startTime": "02:36:28,966",
          "endTime": "02:36:29,626"
        },
        {
          "index": 2738,
          "text": "Yes.",
          "startTime": "02:36:29,686",
          "endTime": "02:36:30,326"
        },
        {
          "index": 2739,
          "text": "Lewis?",
          "startTime": "02:36:30,366",
          "endTime": "02:36:31,146"
        },
        {
          "index": 2740,
          "text": "No.",
          "startTime": "02:36:31,166",
          "endTime": "02:36:31,846"
        },
        {
          "index": 2741,
          "text": "Napack?",
          "startTime": "02:36:31,886",
          "endTime": "02:36:32,506"
        },
        {
          "index": 2742,
          "text": "Yes.",
          "startTime": "02:36:32,546",
          "endTime": "02:36:33,706"
        },
        {
          "index": 2743,
          "text": "Bowden? Schaefer?",
          "startTime": "02:36:33,746",
          "endTime": "02:36:36,026"
        },
        {
          "index": 2744,
          "text": "Yes.",
          "startTime": "02:36:36,086",
          "endTime": "02:36:37,006"
        },
        {
          "index": 2745,
          "text": "Ellis?",
          "startTime": "02:36:37,066",
          "endTime": "02:36:37,866"
        },
        {
          "index": 2746,
          "text": "No.",
          "startTime": "02:36:37,926",
          "endTime": "02:36:38,686"
        },
        {
          "index": 2747,
          "text": "Olsen?",
          "startTime": "02:36:38,766",
          "endTime": "02:36:39,386"
        },
        {
          "index": 2748,
          "text": "No.",
          "startTime": "02:36:39,406",
          "endTime": "02:36:40,246"
        },
        {
          "index": 2749,
          "text": "The resolution passes five to three.",
          "startTime": "02:36:40,286",
          "endTime": "02:36:42,586"
        },
        {
          "index": 2750,
          "text": "Thank you all very much.",
          "startTime": "02:36:42,626",
          "endTime": "02:36:43,656"
        },
        {
          "index": 2751,
          "text": "And I really do appreciate the discussion and the questions and the varying",
          "startTime": "02:36:44,506",
          "endTime": "02:36:47,686"
        },
        {
          "index": 2752,
          "text": "opinions, 'cause that's why there's so many of us.",
          "startTime": "02:36:47,706",
          "endTime": "02:36:50,766"
        },
        {
          "index": 2753,
          "text": "And Mayor, a break?",
          "startTime": "02:36:50,826",
          "endTime": "02:36:53,066"
        },
        {
          "index": 2754,
          "text": "I was just about to suggest that. I apologize to any of those who are",
          "startTime": "02:36:53,126",
          "endTime": "02:36:56,886"
        },
        {
          "index": 2755,
          "text": "waiting around for the, discussion on the resolut-- on the, the,",
          "startTime": "02:36:56,946",
          "endTime": "02:37:00,775"
        },
        {
          "index": 2756,
          "text": "ICE resolution. But let's go ahead and take a short break,",
          "startTime": "02:37:01,086",
          "endTime": "02:37:04,446"
        },
        {
          "index": 2757,
          "text": "bio break as they call it. Ten minutes will",
          "startTime": "02:37:05,526",
          "endTime": "02:37:07,626"
        },
        {
          "index": 2758,
          "text": "do. So let's return. Uh, I guess",
          "startTime": "02:37:07,686",
          "endTime": "02:37:10,646"
        },
        {
          "index": 2759,
          "text": "it's... Yeah, we'll round it",
          "startTime": "02:37:10,706",
          "endTime": "02:37:13,055"
        },
        {
          "index": 2760,
          "text": "up.",
          "startTime": "02:37:13,126",
          "endTime": "02:37:15,206"
        },
        {
          "index": 2761,
          "text": "It is eight fifty,",
          "startTime": "02:37:16,746",
          "endTime": "02:37:17,566"
        },
        {
          "index": 2762,
          "text": "so let's reconvene this meeting of the Corvallis City Council.",
          "startTime": "02:37:18,566",
          "endTime": "02:37:22,166"
        },
        {
          "index": 2763,
          "text": "Next item up on the agenda is the resolution addressing",
          "startTime": "02:37:22,246",
          "endTime": "02:37:25,866"
        },
        {
          "index": 2764,
          "text": "escalating federal immigration enforcement, and I want to start off by",
          "startTime": "02:37:25,906",
          "endTime": "02:37:29,846"
        },
        {
          "index": 2765,
          "text": "making an apology. Um,",
          "startTime": "02:37:29,886",
          "endTime": "02:37:31,716"
        },
        {
          "index": 2766,
          "text": "I should have... This was act- is actually being put on the agenda by me.",
          "startTime": "02:37:33,025",
          "endTime": "02:37:36,766"
        },
        {
          "index": 2767,
          "text": "Um, I know. Paul's appears",
          "startTime": "02:37:36,846",
          "endTime": "02:37:40,066"
        },
        {
          "index": 2768,
          "text": "unmuted.",
          "startTime": "02:37:40,146",
          "endTime": "02:37:42,406"
        },
        {
          "index": 2769,
          "text": "I think I'm quiet.",
          "startTime": "02:37:46,486",
          "endTime": "02:37:48,706"
        },
        {
          "index": 2770,
          "text": "Councilor Schaefer, if you wouldn't mind",
          "startTime": "02:37:50,546",
          "endTime": "02:37:52,066"
        },
        {
          "index": 2771,
          "text": "muting.",
          "startTime": "02:37:52,586",
          "endTime": "02:37:55,606"
        },
        {
          "index": 2772,
          "text": "Thought I was. Sorry.",
          "startTime": "02:37:55,626",
          "endTime": "02:37:57,306"
        },
        {
          "index": 2773,
          "text": "Oh.",
          "startTime": "02:37:57,366",
          "endTime": "02:37:59,406"
        },
        {
          "index": 2774,
          "text": "Did that",
          "startTime": "02:38:01,686",
          "endTime": "02:38:01,956"
        },
        {
          "index": 2775,
          "text": "fix it?",
          "startTime": "02:38:02,906",
          "endTime": "02:38:05,366"
        },
        {
          "index": 2776,
          "text": "Can you hear me now when we talk?",
          "startTime": "02:38:07,446",
          "endTime": "02:38:09,266"
        },
        {
          "index": 2777,
          "text": "We will briefly pause to figure this",
          "startTime": "02:38:11,826",
          "endTime": "02:38:13,226"
        },
        {
          "index": 2778,
          "text": "out.",
          "startTime": "02:38:13,306",
          "endTime": "02:38:24,126"
        },
        {
          "index": 2779,
          "text": "David, I don't know if you can hear me.",
          "startTime": "02:38:59,926",
          "endTime": "02:39:01,306"
        },
        {
          "index": 2780,
          "text": "We're still getting quite a significant",
          "startTime": "02:39:01,346",
          "endTime": "02:39:03,066"
        },
        {
          "index": 2781,
          "text": "echo.",
          "startTime": "02:39:03,326",
          "endTime": "02:39:07,866"
        },
        {
          "index": 2782,
          "text": "You have an interesting",
          "startTime": "02:39:09,086",
          "endTime": "02:39:09,716"
        },
        {
          "index": 2783,
          "text": "definition",
          "startTime": "02:39:09,766",
          "endTime": "02:39:16,046"
        },
        {
          "index": 2784,
          "text": "of better.",
          "startTime": "02:39:16,096",
          "endTime": "02:39:16,126"
        },
        {
          "index": 2785,
          "text": "Okay. I think we should proceed.",
          "startTime": "02:39:24,862",
          "endTime": "02:39:27,792"
        },
        {
          "index": 2786,
          "text": "Okay.",
          "startTime": "02:39:27,822",
          "endTime": "02:39:27,832"
        },
        {
          "index": 2787,
          "text": "I think it's been resolved.",
          "startTime": "02:39:27,842",
          "endTime": "02:39:29,222"
        },
        {
          "index": 2788,
          "text": "I think so.",
          "startTime": "02:39:29,302",
          "endTime": "02:39:30,222"
        },
        {
          "index": 2789,
          "text": "Thank you.",
          "startTime": "02:39:30,262",
          "endTime": "02:39:31,842"
        },
        {
          "index": 2790,
          "text": "Thank you. Apologies for technical",
          "startTime": "02:39:31,902",
          "endTime": "02:39:34,742"
        },
        {
          "index": 2791,
          "text": "errors. Technology's fine. Anyway, so the...",
          "startTime": "02:39:34,762",
          "endTime": "02:39:37,852"
        },
        {
          "index": 2792,
          "text": "I wanted to, apologize because the resolution, was brought",
          "startTime": "02:39:37,902",
          "endTime": "02:39:41,682"
        },
        {
          "index": 2793,
          "text": "forth onto the agenda by me, and not realizing I should've removed",
          "startTime": "02:39:41,802",
          "endTime": "02:39:45,732"
        },
        {
          "index": 2794,
          "text": "Councilor Olsen's name from it, 'cause that's usually there for whoever",
          "startTime": "02:39:45,762",
          "endTime": "02:39:49,572"
        },
        {
          "index": 2795,
          "text": "moves the resolution forward if it gets adopted, things like that.",
          "startTime": "02:39:49,622",
          "endTime": "02:39:52,932"
        },
        {
          "index": 2796,
          "text": "And I should've pres- I should've provided a cover page, explaining why the-",
          "startTime": "02:39:52,962",
          "endTime": "02:39:56,742"
        },
        {
          "index": 2797,
          "text": "why this resolution's in the agenda.",
          "startTime": "02:39:56,782",
          "endTime": "02:39:58,692"
        },
        {
          "index": 2798,
          "text": "So that, that is my fault, and I apologize for any confusion that",
          "startTime": "02:39:58,722",
          "endTime": "02:40:01,872"
        },
        {
          "index": 2799,
          "text": "created. Um, but the reason why",
          "startTime": "02:40:01,922",
          "endTime": "02:40:05,402"
        },
        {
          "index": 2800,
          "text": "it was added, and it was kind of sort of last minute,",
          "startTime": "02:40:05,482",
          "endTime": "02:40:08,702"
        },
        {
          "index": 2801,
          "text": "is 'cause it was brought forward to this council.",
          "startTime": "02:40:09,822",
          "endTime": "02:40:11,311"
        },
        {
          "index": 2802,
          "text": "It was shared with everybody, and I feel like the timing is kinda",
          "startTime": "02:40:11,322",
          "endTime": "02:40:15,102"
        },
        {
          "index": 2803,
          "text": "critical on this. Um, as, spoken earlier t- this",
          "startTime": "02:40:15,242",
          "endTime": "02:40:18,872"
        },
        {
          "index": 2804,
          "text": "evening, we are being surrounded by a lot of ICE",
          "startTime": "02:40:18,942",
          "endTime": "02:40:22,442"
        },
        {
          "index": 2805,
          "text": "activity. It's a matter of time, and I think it's important",
          "startTime": "02:40:22,502",
          "endTime": "02:40:25,182"
        },
        {
          "index": 2806,
          "text": "to make our residents of our, of our community feel that we support",
          "startTime": "02:40:26,082",
          "endTime": "02:40:29,882"
        },
        {
          "index": 2807,
          "text": "them. Um, interesting timing on,",
          "startTime": "02:40:29,961",
          "endTime": "02:40:33,772"
        },
        {
          "index": 2808,
          "text": "Saturday was the Celebrate Corvallis,",
          "startTime": "02:40:34,202",
          "endTime": "02:40:36,902"
        },
        {
          "index": 2809,
          "text": "and the, person who won First Citizen",
          "startTime": "02:40:36,962",
          "endTime": "02:40:40,382"
        },
        {
          "index": 2810,
          "text": "was not a citizen.",
          "startTime": "02:40:41,382",
          "endTime": "02:40:43,402"
        },
        {
          "index": 2811,
          "text": "And e- he, he made it... explained how he's, he's not a legal",
          "startTime": "02:40:44,282",
          "endTime": "02:40:48,202"
        },
        {
          "index": 2812,
          "text": "or, or political, citizen, but he's a citizen",
          "startTime": "02:40:48,302",
          "endTime": "02:40:51,872"
        },
        {
          "index": 2813,
          "text": "nonetheless. He, he, he contributes to our community.",
          "startTime": "02:40:51,882",
          "endTime": "02:40:54,462"
        },
        {
          "index": 2814,
          "text": "He's an, a amazing person, and for obvious reasons, won, First",
          "startTime": "02:40:54,482",
          "endTime": "02:40:58,272"
        },
        {
          "index": 2815,
          "text": "Citizen. So what does that say about our community?",
          "startTime": "02:40:58,342",
          "endTime": "02:41:02,082"
        },
        {
          "index": 2816,
          "text": "And if we don't, take some sort of action to support",
          "startTime": "02:41:02,092",
          "endTime": "02:41:05,842"
        },
        {
          "index": 2817,
          "text": "members of our community who perhaps speak a different language or",
          "startTime": "02:41:05,882",
          "endTime": "02:41:09,762"
        },
        {
          "index": 2818,
          "text": "have a different color skin than I do, then we're not supporting our",
          "startTime": "02:41:09,802",
          "endTime": "02:41:13,782"
        },
        {
          "index": 2819,
          "text": "community. So I added this to the agenda.",
          "startTime": "02:41:13,802",
          "endTime": "02:41:17,202"
        },
        {
          "index": 2820,
          "text": "Obviously, I can't vote on it. I also can't even make the motion that's",
          "startTime": "02:41:17,682",
          "endTime": "02:41:21,342"
        },
        {
          "index": 2821,
          "text": "required to move it forward. But I do have the authority,",
          "startTime": "02:41:21,362",
          "endTime": "02:41:25,102"
        },
        {
          "index": 2822,
          "text": "thankfully, to at least put things on the agenda, so that's what I did.",
          "startTime": "02:41:25,382",
          "endTime": "02:41:28,192"
        },
        {
          "index": 2823,
          "text": "Um, so I'll leave it in the hands of all of",
          "startTime": "02:41:28,622",
          "endTime": "02:41:31,202"
        },
        {
          "index": 2824,
          "text": "you.",
          "startTime": "02:41:31,222",
          "endTime": "02:41:33,502"
        },
        {
          "index": 2825,
          "text": "I mean, I'll make a motion to cons- I don't know what the official words are for",
          "startTime": "02:41:33,562",
          "endTime": "02:41:37,542"
        },
        {
          "index": 2826,
          "text": "this. Motion to consider it, motion to...",
          "startTime": "02:41:37,562",
          "endTime": "02:41:39,831"
        },
        {
          "index": 2827,
          "text": "But what's the words, Alex?",
          "startTime": "02:41:39,831",
          "endTime": "02:41:42,142"
        },
        {
          "index": 2828,
          "text": "Uh, normally we would have the title of the resolution read.",
          "startTime": "02:41:42,182",
          "endTime": "02:41:44,882"
        },
        {
          "index": 2829,
          "text": "Correct. So get a title read, and then if you'd like to move the resolution",
          "startTime": "02:41:44,922",
          "endTime": "02:41:48,302"
        },
        {
          "index": 2830,
          "text": "forward, that would be fine. I just wanna see if we wanna get as far as reading the",
          "startTime": "02:41:48,382",
          "endTime": "02:41:51,202"
        },
        {
          "index": 2831,
          "text": "title. So city recorder, would you please read the re- resolution?",
          "startTime": "02:41:51,242",
          "endTime": "02:41:54,782"
        },
        {
          "index": 2832,
          "text": "This is a resolution addressing escalating federal immigration enforcement.",
          "startTime": "02:41:54,822",
          "endTime": "02:41:58,662"
        },
        {
          "index": 2833,
          "text": "I move to approve the resolution. Adopt?",
          "startTime": "02:41:59,582",
          "endTime": "02:42:03,002"
        },
        {
          "index": 2834,
          "text": "Approve? Adopt.",
          "startTime": "02:42:03,082",
          "endTime": "02:42:03,771"
        },
        {
          "index": 2835,
          "text": "Both, both are correct.",
          "startTime": "02:42:03,822",
          "endTime": "02:42:05,002"
        },
        {
          "index": 2836,
          "text": "Okay.",
          "startTime": "02:42:06,042",
          "endTime": "02:42:06,051"
        },
        {
          "index": 2837,
          "text": "Go either way. Sometimes just so moved even works, but",
          "startTime": "02:42:06,082",
          "endTime": "02:42:09,822"
        },
        {
          "index": 2838,
          "text": "I like when someone says what the resolution...",
          "startTime": "02:42:10,102",
          "endTime": "02:42:12,292"
        },
        {
          "index": 2839,
          "text": "All right, we have a motion to approve, and it was seconded. Uh, discussion?",
          "startTime": "02:42:12,302",
          "endTime": "02:42:16,082"
        },
        {
          "index": 2840,
          "text": "Councilor Navick.",
          "startTime": "02:42:19,302",
          "endTime": "02:42:20,462"
        },
        {
          "index": 2841,
          "text": "Uh, thank you. I wanted to first say how much",
          "startTime": "02:42:22,182",
          "endTime": "02:42:26,142"
        },
        {
          "index": 2842,
          "text": "I appreciate our community,",
          "startTime": "02:42:26,202",
          "endTime": "02:42:29,222"
        },
        {
          "index": 2843,
          "text": "resolve, in, in, in this situation",
          "startTime": "02:42:30,322",
          "endTime": "02:42:33,642"
        },
        {
          "index": 2844,
          "text": "and, the work that was put forth to put this resolution",
          "startTime": "02:42:34,502",
          "endTime": "02:42:37,662"
        },
        {
          "index": 2845,
          "text": "forth. Um,",
          "startTime": "02:42:37,702",
          "endTime": "02:42:39,292"
        },
        {
          "index": 2846,
          "text": "there unfortunately are a",
          "startTime": "02:42:40,202",
          "endTime": "02:42:42,622"
        },
        {
          "index": 2847,
          "text": "few, well, more than a few,",
          "startTime": "02:42:42,702",
          "endTime": "02:42:45,742"
        },
        {
          "index": 2848,
          "text": "unworkable situations or,",
          "startTime": "02:42:46,302",
          "endTime": "02:42:49,582"
        },
        {
          "index": 2849,
          "text": "asks, if you will, that the city",
          "startTime": "02:42:53,022",
          "endTime": "02:42:55,642"
        },
        {
          "index": 2850,
          "text": "cannot provide. Uh, the city",
          "startTime": "02:42:55,702",
          "endTime": "02:42:59,002"
        },
        {
          "index": 2851,
          "text": "actually, is,",
          "startTime": "02:43:00,322",
          "endTime": "02:43:03,442"
        },
        {
          "index": 2852,
          "text": "um... A- after talking with, community development,",
          "startTime": "02:43:03,502",
          "endTime": "02:43:07,362"
        },
        {
          "index": 2853,
          "text": "the city is,",
          "startTime": "02:43:08,682",
          "endTime": "02:43:10,051"
        },
        {
          "index": 2854,
          "text": "due to the Supremacy Clause, the city is helpless.",
          "startTime": "02:43:11,662",
          "endTime": "02:43:15,002"
        },
        {
          "index": 2855,
          "text": "If the s- if, the federal",
          "startTime": "02:43:15,082",
          "endTime": "02:43:16,922"
        },
        {
          "index": 2856,
          "text": "government wanted to come in and,",
          "startTime": "02:43:17,942",
          "endTime": "02:43:19,612"
        },
        {
          "index": 2857,
          "text": "claim emi- eminent domain and, and",
          "startTime": "02:43:22,862",
          "endTime": "02:43:24,972"
        },
        {
          "index": 2858,
          "text": "build a detention facility, and we have, we are powerless to do anything about",
          "startTime": "02:43:25,002",
          "endTime": "02:43:28,852"
        },
        {
          "index": 2859,
          "text": "that. It's called the, the,",
          "startTime": "02:43:28,942",
          "endTime": "02:43:32,142"
        },
        {
          "index": 2860,
          "text": "Supremacy Clause. And, people have tried with",
          "startTime": "02:43:33,122",
          "endTime": "02:43:37,042"
        },
        {
          "index": 2861,
          "text": "moratoriums, especially in the State of Washington, but,",
          "startTime": "02:43:37,082",
          "endTime": "02:43:40,362"
        },
        {
          "index": 2862,
          "text": "they're all in, in court now. The,",
          "startTime": "02:43:41,222",
          "endTime": "02:43:44,882"
        },
        {
          "index": 2863,
          "text": "other thing is that our bandwidth, you know, we are doing a lot",
          "startTime": "02:43:46,402",
          "endTime": "02:43:49,742"
        },
        {
          "index": 2864,
          "text": "now, in terms of,",
          "startTime": "02:43:49,822",
          "endTime": "02:43:51,772"
        },
        {
          "index": 2865,
          "text": "downtown vitaliz-",
          "startTime": "02:43:54,042",
          "endTime": "02:43:54,872"
        },
        {
          "index": 2866,
          "text": "revitalization and, task forces, civic",
          "startTime": "02:43:54,942",
          "endTime": "02:43:58,642"
        },
        {
          "index": 2867,
          "text": "center, and so on and so forth. It's...",
          "startTime": "02:43:58,722",
          "endTime": "02:44:02,092"
        },
        {
          "index": 2868,
          "text": "But nevertheless, the, the,",
          "startTime": "02:44:02,102",
          "endTime": "02:44:05,022"
        },
        {
          "index": 2869,
          "text": "intent is clear from, from the",
          "startTime": "02:44:05,602",
          "endTime": "02:44:08,272"
        },
        {
          "index": 2870,
          "text": "community. And on that",
          "startTime": "02:44:08,322",
          "endTime": "02:44:11,742"
        },
        {
          "index": 2871,
          "text": "basis,",
          "startTime": "02:44:11,842",
          "endTime": "02:44:12,502"
        },
        {
          "index": 2872,
          "text": "Councilor",
          "startTime": "02:44:14,482",
          "endTime": "02:44:15,142"
        },
        {
          "index": 2873,
          "text": "Ellis and I put together a",
          "startTime": "02:44:16,182",
          "endTime": "02:44:18,922"
        },
        {
          "index": 2874,
          "text": "substitute,",
          "startTime": "02:44:19,202",
          "endTime": "02:44:21,042"
        },
        {
          "index": 2875,
          "text": "proposition, that",
          "startTime": "02:44:21,602",
          "endTime": "02:44:24,582"
        },
        {
          "index": 2876,
          "text": "explains the, the, the sentiment, I",
          "startTime": "02:44:25,762",
          "endTime": "02:44:29,222"
        },
        {
          "index": 2877,
          "text": "think, as, as well as",
          "startTime": "02:44:29,262",
          "endTime": "02:44:31,002"
        },
        {
          "index": 2878,
          "text": "it can be. It, it shows... It has,",
          "startTime": "02:44:31,862",
          "endTime": "02:44:34,062"
        },
        {
          "index": 2879,
          "text": "uh... It cites the, four or five",
          "startTime": "02:44:35,642",
          "endTime": "02:44:38,672"
        },
        {
          "index": 2880,
          "text": "previous resolutions that we have in our, our",
          "startTime": "02:44:39,282",
          "endTime": "02:44:42,191"
        },
        {
          "index": 2881,
          "text": "city,",
          "startTime": "02:44:42,322",
          "endTime": "02:44:43,442"
        },
        {
          "index": 2882,
          "text": "strategic plan and our, our city vision,",
          "startTime": "02:44:45,022",
          "endTime": "02:44:48,542"
        },
        {
          "index": 2883,
          "text": "to affirm that we",
          "startTime": "02:44:49,422",
          "endTime": "02:44:52,012"
        },
        {
          "index": 2884,
          "text": "are a, undivided, shall we",
          "startTime": "02:44:52,142",
          "endTime": "02:44:55,862"
        },
        {
          "index": 2885,
          "text": "say, and in one, one body,",
          "startTime": "02:44:55,902",
          "endTime": "02:44:59,662"
        },
        {
          "index": 2886,
          "text": "we support our immigrant community.",
          "startTime": "02:44:59,762",
          "endTime": "02:45:03,622"
        },
        {
          "index": 2887,
          "text": "Um, we don't support",
          "startTime": "02:45:03,742",
          "endTime": "02:45:07,122"
        },
        {
          "index": 2888,
          "text": "the activities that are being",
          "startTime": "02:45:07,242",
          "endTime": "02:45:10,942"
        },
        {
          "index": 2889,
          "text": "propagated by the,",
          "startTime": "02:45:10,982",
          "endTime": "02:45:13,191"
        },
        {
          "index": 2890,
          "text": "federal government at this time. And so",
          "startTime": "02:45:14,962",
          "endTime": "02:45:17,962"
        },
        {
          "index": 2891,
          "text": "if, if I",
          "startTime": "02:45:18,822",
          "endTime": "02:45:19,742"
        },
        {
          "index": 2892,
          "text": "may, what I would like to propose now",
          "startTime": "02:45:20,682",
          "endTime": "02:45:23,502"
        },
        {
          "index": 2893,
          "text": "is to table the first",
          "startTime": "02:45:24,502",
          "endTime": "02:45:25,642"
        },
        {
          "index": 2894,
          "text": "resolution-Until after we",
          "startTime": "02:45:25,722",
          "endTime": "02:45:29,438"
        },
        {
          "index": 2895,
          "text": "discussed the proposition that,",
          "startTime": "02:45:29,478",
          "endTime": "02:45:32,928"
        },
        {
          "index": 2896,
          "text": "was mailed to our council this morning and",
          "startTime": "02:45:33,298",
          "endTime": "02:45:37,188"
        },
        {
          "index": 2897,
          "text": "published, at least it's somewhere published.",
          "startTime": "02:45:37,218",
          "endTime": "02:45:40,878"
        },
        {
          "index": 2898,
          "text": "Um,",
          "startTime": "02:45:40,998",
          "endTime": "02:45:41,268"
        },
        {
          "index": 2899,
          "text": "and the, the copy of that proposition should be in your",
          "startTime": "02:45:42,758",
          "endTime": "02:45:46,578"
        },
        {
          "index": 2900,
          "text": "mailbox, in your email. Do we have",
          "startTime": "02:45:46,598",
          "endTime": "02:45:50,278"
        },
        {
          "index": 2901,
          "text": "copies thereof? And we have copies to pass out.",
          "startTime": "02:45:50,318",
          "endTime": "02:45:54,178"
        },
        {
          "index": 2902,
          "text": "So that would be, um... Anyway, I motion to",
          "startTime": "02:45:54,238",
          "endTime": "02:45:58,038"
        },
        {
          "index": 2903,
          "text": "table the first resolution until",
          "startTime": "02:45:58,078",
          "endTime": "02:45:59,818"
        },
        {
          "index": 2904,
          "text": "after we discuss the, the,",
          "startTime": "02:46:00,618",
          "endTime": "02:46:03,818"
        },
        {
          "index": 2905,
          "text": "proposition from Councilor Ellis",
          "startTime": "02:46:03,998",
          "endTime": "02:46:06,658"
        },
        {
          "index": 2906,
          "text": "that, goes into,",
          "startTime": "02:46:08,198",
          "endTime": "02:46:09,918"
        },
        {
          "index": 2907,
          "text": "the rationale and the reasoning",
          "startTime": "02:46:11,858",
          "endTime": "02:46:13,218"
        },
        {
          "index": 2908,
          "text": "for,",
          "startTime": "02:46:13,578",
          "endTime": "02:46:15,398"
        },
        {
          "index": 2909,
          "text": "for",
          "startTime": "02:46:17,238",
          "endTime": "02:46:17,518"
        },
        {
          "index": 2910,
          "text": "a, um-",
          "startTime": "02:46:18,958",
          "endTime": "02:46:19,838"
        },
        {
          "index": 2911,
          "text": "I have it",
          "startTime": "02:46:19,898",
          "endTime": "02:46:20,258"
        },
        {
          "index": 2912,
          "text": "... substitute.",
          "startTime": "02:46:20,638",
          "endTime": "02:46:22,198"
        },
        {
          "index": 2913,
          "text": "I'll second that.",
          "startTime": "02:46:22,258",
          "endTime": "02:46:24,038"
        },
        {
          "index": 2914,
          "text": "Okay, we have a motion to table, technically time uncertain, although I",
          "startTime": "02:46:25,238",
          "endTime": "02:46:28,998"
        },
        {
          "index": 2915,
          "text": "think, we could probably get this on a agenda very fast, assuming",
          "startTime": "02:46:29,018",
          "endTime": "02:46:32,958"
        },
        {
          "index": 2916,
          "text": "everybody feels that way. Um,",
          "startTime": "02:46:33,558",
          "endTime": "02:46:35,398"
        },
        {
          "index": 2917,
          "text": "discussion, I don't even think there's an ability to discuss on tabling a",
          "startTime": "02:46:36,818",
          "endTime": "02:46:40,598"
        },
        {
          "index": 2918,
          "text": "motion really.",
          "startTime": "02:46:40,618",
          "endTime": "02:46:41,318"
        },
        {
          "index": 2919,
          "text": "Well-",
          "startTime": "02:46:41,358",
          "endTime": "02:46:42,298"
        },
        {
          "index": 2920,
          "text": "Except for the time",
          "startTime": "02:46:42,318",
          "endTime": "02:46:43,118"
        },
        {
          "index": 2921,
          "text": "part.",
          "startTime": "02:46:43,178",
          "endTime": "02:46:46,558"
        },
        {
          "index": 2922,
          "text": "Yeah, there's certain motions we don't get too often, and then I forget how we're",
          "startTime": "02:46:48,698",
          "endTime": "02:46:51,198"
        },
        {
          "index": 2923,
          "text": "supposed to do those, so.",
          "startTime": "02:46:51,218",
          "endTime": "02:46:53,237"
        },
        {
          "index": 2924,
          "text": "Skipping it.",
          "startTime": "02:46:53,258",
          "endTime": "02:46:56,138"
        },
        {
          "index": 2925,
          "text": "Change.",
          "startTime": "02:46:56,558",
          "endTime": "02:46:57,728"
        },
        {
          "index": 2926,
          "text": "Mayor.",
          "startTime": "02:46:58,918",
          "endTime": "02:46:59,278"
        },
        {
          "index": 2927,
          "text": "Yes, yes.",
          "startTime": "02:46:59,458",
          "endTime": "02:47:00,598"
        },
        {
          "index": 2928,
          "text": "So that was a motion to postpone consideration of an item-",
          "startTime": "02:47:00,658",
          "endTime": "02:47:03,568"
        },
        {
          "index": 2929,
          "text": "Yep",
          "startTime": "02:47:03,568",
          "endTime": "02:47:03,568"
        },
        {
          "index": 2930,
          "text": "... to a certain time. Um-",
          "startTime": "02:47:03,578",
          "endTime": "02:47:05,458"
        },
        {
          "index": 2931,
          "text": "That's me.",
          "startTime": "02:47:05,998",
          "endTime": "02:47:06,778"
        },
        {
          "index": 2932,
          "text": "It i- ... A r- A second is required, the motion is",
          "startTime": "02:47:06,818",
          "endTime": "02:47:10,708"
        },
        {
          "index": 2933,
          "text": "debatable, and the motion is amendable, and it",
          "startTime": "02:47:10,798",
          "endTime": "02:47:14,338"
        },
        {
          "index": 2934,
          "text": "requires a majority",
          "startTime": "02:47:14,398",
          "endTime": "02:47:15,358"
        },
        {
          "index": 2935,
          "text": "vote.",
          "startTime": "02:47:15,458",
          "endTime": "02:47:18,678"
        },
        {
          "index": 2936,
          "text": "I'm looking on the cheat sheet here under, subsidiary motions number",
          "startTime": "02:47:20,758",
          "endTime": "02:47:24,678"
        },
        {
          "index": 2937,
          "text": "four, postpone temporarily, table to a time uncertain.",
          "startTime": "02:47:24,778",
          "endTime": "02:47:28,688"
        },
        {
          "index": 2938,
          "text": "Um, says motion debatable, no. For some reason it's",
          "startTime": "02:47:28,778",
          "endTime": "02:47:32,538"
        },
        {
          "index": 2939,
          "text": "wrong.",
          "startTime": "02:47:32,558",
          "endTime": "02:47:34,598"
        },
        {
          "index": 2940,
          "text": "Um, I-",
          "startTime": "02:47:34,678",
          "endTime": "02:47:35,538"
        },
        {
          "index": 2941,
          "text": "Oh, wait, I'm looking at the wrong one.",
          "startTime": "02:47:35,578",
          "endTime": "02:47:37,438"
        },
        {
          "index": 2942,
          "text": "I was looking at item number seven just because there was a, a time",
          "startTime": "02:47:37,518",
          "endTime": "02:47:41,128"
        },
        {
          "index": 2943,
          "text": "certain, stated by councilor in APAC that-",
          "startTime": "02:47:41,198",
          "endTime": "02:47:44,938"
        },
        {
          "index": 2944,
          "text": "What it said just until we can review.",
          "startTime": "02:47:45,098",
          "endTime": "02:47:47,038"
        },
        {
          "index": 2945,
          "text": "I don't know if that would be considered time certain.",
          "startTime": "02:47:47,078",
          "endTime": "02:47:49,167"
        },
        {
          "index": 2946,
          "text": "But I, I may have misheard. I was passing out the materials.",
          "startTime": "02:47:49,398",
          "endTime": "02:47:52,598"
        },
        {
          "index": 2947,
          "text": "But, I thought that she said consider it, after",
          "startTime": "02:47:52,618",
          "endTime": "02:47:56,498"
        },
        {
          "index": 2948,
          "text": "the consideration of this resolution reaffirming Corvallis as a",
          "startTime": "02:47:57,438",
          "endTime": "02:48:01,268"
        },
        {
          "index": 2949,
          "text": "sanctuary city.",
          "startTime": "02:48:01,358",
          "endTime": "02:48:02,578"
        },
        {
          "index": 2950,
          "text": "Right, and we don't know when that'll be.",
          "startTime": "02:48:02,618",
          "endTime": "02:48:04,918"
        },
        {
          "index": 2951,
          "text": "Oh, I- ... I thought it was right after this discussion during this meeting.",
          "startTime": "02:48:04,978",
          "endTime": "02:48:08,528"
        },
        {
          "index": 2952,
          "text": "But feel free to correct me.",
          "startTime": "02:48:08,538",
          "endTime": "02:48:09,618"
        },
        {
          "index": 2953,
          "text": "I mean, if that's, if that, I, if that was what the intent of the motion was,",
          "startTime": "02:48:09,678",
          "endTime": "02:48:13,138"
        },
        {
          "index": 2954,
          "text": "Councilor Nate.",
          "startTime": "02:48:13,178",
          "endTime": "02:48:13,908"
        },
        {
          "index": 2955,
          "text": "Was it, was it to consider this tonight?",
          "startTime": "02:48:16,778",
          "endTime": "02:48:20,378"
        },
        {
          "index": 2956,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "02:48:20,387",
          "endTime": "02:48:20,387"
        },
        {
          "index": 2957,
          "text": "The, 'cause the community has not seen this yet.",
          "startTime": "02:48:20,398",
          "endTime": "02:48:23,278"
        },
        {
          "index": 2958,
          "text": "Uh, to consider the substitute resolution",
          "startTime": "02:48:23,378",
          "endTime": "02:48:26,258"
        },
        {
          "index": 2959,
          "text": "tonight.",
          "startTime": "02:48:26,318",
          "endTime": "02:48:27,518"
        },
        {
          "index": 2960,
          "text": "Okay, so you're just wanting to table this other resolution till after we...",
          "startTime": "02:48:27,538",
          "endTime": "02:48:30,528"
        },
        {
          "index": 2961,
          "text": "Today, okay.",
          "startTime": "02:48:30,528",
          "endTime": "02:48:30,978"
        },
        {
          "index": 2962,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "02:48:31,098",
          "endTime": "02:48:31,238"
        },
        {
          "index": 2963,
          "text": "So that's, that's debatable then. All right.",
          "startTime": "02:48:31,248",
          "endTime": "02:48:33,278"
        },
        {
          "index": 2964,
          "text": "We can do that?",
          "startTime": "02:48:33,418",
          "endTime": "02:48:33,878"
        },
        {
          "index": 2965,
          "text": "It sounded like it was a time uncertain, so that's why.",
          "startTime": "02:48:33,898",
          "endTime": "02:48:36,698"
        },
        {
          "index": 2966,
          "text": "So we can debate, it now.",
          "startTime": "02:48:37,138",
          "endTime": "02:48:39,858"
        },
        {
          "index": 2967,
          "text": "And we are debating the tabling, not the resolution itself.",
          "startTime": "02:48:42,178",
          "endTime": "02:48:45,758"
        },
        {
          "index": 2968,
          "text": "Right, right. Just the motion to table the current discussion of the",
          "startTime": "02:48:45,818",
          "endTime": "02:48:49,638"
        },
        {
          "index": 2969,
          "text": "resolution to have a discussion about this resolution. That's clear.",
          "startTime": "02:48:49,678",
          "endTime": "02:48:53,568"
        },
        {
          "index": 2970,
          "text": "Okay.",
          "startTime": "02:48:53,618",
          "endTime": "02:48:54,158"
        },
        {
          "index": 2971,
          "text": "So. Councilor Olsen?",
          "startTime": "02:48:54,918",
          "endTime": "02:48:56,708"
        },
        {
          "index": 2972,
          "text": "Um, I am not in favor of tabling this resolution",
          "startTime": "02:48:57,958",
          "endTime": "02:49:01,718"
        },
        {
          "index": 2973,
          "text": "until afterwards because I believe that the resolution we have in",
          "startTime": "02:49:01,778",
          "endTime": "02:49:04,798"
        },
        {
          "index": 2974,
          "text": "place is,",
          "startTime": "02:49:04,838",
          "endTime": "02:49:07,578"
        },
        {
          "index": 2975,
          "text": "um... Well, one, I don't believe we've had enough",
          "startTime": "02:49:07,738",
          "endTime": "02:49:11,318"
        },
        {
          "index": 2976,
          "text": "time to review the",
          "startTime": "02:49:11,858",
          "endTime": "02:49:13,238"
        },
        {
          "index": 2977,
          "text": "sanctuary city resolution, considering I noticed it at",
          "startTime": "02:49:14,158",
          "endTime": "02:49:17,598"
        },
        {
          "index": 2978,
          "text": "2:00 PM today, while I've had the other resolution for a",
          "startTime": "02:49:18,018",
          "endTime": "02:49:21,938"
        },
        {
          "index": 2979,
          "text": "while. Um, sorry, that came out with way more snark than it meant to.",
          "startTime": "02:49:21,978",
          "endTime": "02:49:25,198"
        },
        {
          "index": 2980,
          "text": "It was not meant to be snarky.",
          "startTime": "02:49:25,218",
          "endTime": "02:49:26,398"
        },
        {
          "index": 2981,
          "text": "Um, yes. But also I think that the resolution we have in front",
          "startTime": "02:49:27,338",
          "endTime": "02:49:31,298"
        },
        {
          "index": 2982,
          "text": "of us is important, and it provides actionable items as",
          "startTime": "02:49:31,318",
          "endTime": "02:49:35,078"
        },
        {
          "index": 2983,
          "text": "opposed to just, \"Hey, we're going to say that w- like, we already have",
          "startTime": "02:49:35,118",
          "endTime": "02:49:38,928"
        },
        {
          "index": 2984,
          "text": "things in place. We don't need to say again that we're have the",
          "startTime": "02:49:38,978",
          "endTime": "02:49:42,818"
        },
        {
          "index": 2985,
          "text": "things in place that we all know we have in place.",
          "startTime": "02:49:42,858",
          "endTime": "02:49:45,148"
        },
        {
          "index": 2986,
          "text": "So I, because of those reasons, I believe",
          "startTime": "02:49:45,178",
          "endTime": "02:49:49,038"
        },
        {
          "index": 2987,
          "text": "that,",
          "startTime": "02:49:49,098",
          "endTime": "02:49:50,418"
        },
        {
          "index": 2988,
          "text": "yeah, I don't think we should table this resolution.",
          "startTime": "02:49:51,798",
          "endTime": "02:49:53,838"
        },
        {
          "index": 2989,
          "text": "I think we should deal with it first, and then",
          "startTime": "02:49:53,898",
          "endTime": "02:49:55,778"
        },
        {
          "index": 2990,
          "text": "if we want, we can add this item to the agenda.",
          "startTime": "02:49:56,678",
          "endTime": "02:50:00,318"
        },
        {
          "index": 2991,
          "text": "Councilor Cadena, then APAC.",
          "startTime": "02:50:00,378",
          "endTime": "02:50:02,998"
        },
        {
          "index": 2992,
          "text": "Yeah, speaking to the motion to table, I",
          "startTime": "02:50:03,098",
          "endTime": "02:50:06,778"
        },
        {
          "index": 2993,
          "text": "think that we have to, we have another, we have an",
          "startTime": "02:50:06,798",
          "endTime": "02:50:10,218"
        },
        {
          "index": 2994,
          "text": "alternative that is worth discussing and",
          "startTime": "02:50:10,278",
          "endTime": "02:50:13,248"
        },
        {
          "index": 2995,
          "text": "a, a different approach that is suggested.",
          "startTime": "02:50:13,358",
          "endTime": "02:50:16,458"
        },
        {
          "index": 2996,
          "text": "I think that would be the purpose for tabling, is to get to that",
          "startTime": "02:50:16,518",
          "endTime": "02:50:20,378"
        },
        {
          "index": 2997,
          "text": "discussion. So I'm in favor of the tabling.",
          "startTime": "02:50:20,418",
          "endTime": "02:50:23,618"
        },
        {
          "index": 2998,
          "text": "Councilor Napack?",
          "startTime": "02:50:23,658",
          "endTime": "02:50:25,398"
        },
        {
          "index": 2999,
          "text": "I think the information that's in the sanctuary city resolution",
          "startTime": "02:50:25,758",
          "endTime": "02:50:29,618"
        },
        {
          "index": 3000,
          "text": "is important enough",
          "startTime": "02:50:30,458",
          "endTime": "02:50:31,458"
        },
        {
          "index": 3001,
          "text": "that it would, replace quite a bit of what was said in the first",
          "startTime": "02:50:32,298",
          "endTime": "02:50:36,158"
        },
        {
          "index": 3002,
          "text": "resolution. So I would like to,",
          "startTime": "02:50:36,218",
          "endTime": "02:50:39,018"
        },
        {
          "index": 3003,
          "text": "um... I will vote for",
          "startTime": "02:50:39,118",
          "endTime": "02:50:40,918"
        },
        {
          "index": 3004,
          "text": "tabling.",
          "startTime": "02:50:40,978",
          "endTime": "02:50:43,118"
        },
        {
          "index": 3005,
          "text": "Anyone else or should we take a vote?",
          "startTime": "02:50:44,658",
          "endTime": "02:50:46,958"
        },
        {
          "index": 3006,
          "text": "Seeing the hands.",
          "startTime": "02:50:47,878",
          "endTime": "02:50:49,998"
        },
        {
          "index": 3007,
          "text": "Okay, let's go ahead and move to a vote.",
          "startTime": "02:50:52,138",
          "endTime": "02:50:54,738"
        },
        {
          "index": 3008,
          "text": "All those in favor of the motion to table the current resolution",
          "startTime": "02:50:54,818",
          "endTime": "02:50:58,508"
        },
        {
          "index": 3009,
          "text": "to",
          "startTime": "02:50:58,578",
          "endTime": "02:50:58,918"
        },
        {
          "index": 3010,
          "text": "potentially entertain this other resolution, I guess, say,",
          "startTime": "02:50:59,878",
          "endTime": "02:51:03,588"
        },
        {
          "index": 3011,
          "text": "\"Aye.\"",
          "startTime": "02:51:03,588",
          "endTime": "02:51:04,307"
        },
        {
          "index": 3012,
          "text": "Aye.",
          "startTime": "02:51:04,378",
          "endTime": "02:51:04,928"
        },
        {
          "index": 3013,
          "text": "All opposed, say, \"No.\"",
          "startTime": "02:51:06,678",
          "endTime": "02:51:07,768"
        },
        {
          "index": 3014,
          "text": "No.",
          "startTime": "02:51:07,818",
          "endTime": "02:51:08,038"
        },
        {
          "index": 3015,
          "text": "No.",
          "startTime": "02:51:08,078",
          "endTime": "02:51:08,378"
        },
        {
          "index": 3016,
          "text": "Sound like the ayes have it, so therefore the resolution in the packet is",
          "startTime": "02:51:09,278",
          "endTime": "02:51:12,818"
        },
        {
          "index": 3017,
          "text": "tabled until after we review this one.",
          "startTime": "02:51:12,898",
          "endTime": "02:51:16,058"
        },
        {
          "index": 3018,
          "text": "Mayor, can I just have the no votes clarify?",
          "startTime": "02:51:16,078",
          "endTime": "02:51:18,418"
        },
        {
          "index": 3019,
          "text": "I believe I heard Councilor Olsen and Councilor Lewis. Thank you.",
          "startTime": "02:51:18,498",
          "endTime": "02:51:22,148"
        },
        {
          "index": 3020,
          "text": "That's what I heard",
          "startTime": "02:51:22,158",
          "endTime": "02:51:22,638"
        },
        {
          "index": 3021,
          "text": "as... Councilor Lewis.",
          "startTime": "02:51:24,078",
          "endTime": "02:51:25,758"
        },
        {
          "index": 3022,
          "text": "I do hear the concern that people didn't get the motion until later on",
          "startTime": "02:51:27,278",
          "endTime": "02:51:30,998"
        },
        {
          "index": 3023,
          "text": "today, or t- the, the new resolution till later on today.",
          "startTime": "02:51:31,038",
          "endTime": "02:51:33,958"
        },
        {
          "index": 3024,
          "text": "So if that, um-",
          "startTime": "02:51:33,978",
          "endTime": "02:51:35,438"
        },
        {
          "index": 3025,
          "text": "I, I understand that. And I, if I, if I hadn't been, involved in",
          "startTime": "02:51:35,942",
          "endTime": "02:51:39,802"
        },
        {
          "index": 3026,
          "text": "it, I would probably be a little, squiffy about it as well, and I do not",
          "startTime": "02:51:39,862",
          "endTime": "02:51:43,622"
        },
        {
          "index": 3027,
          "text": "think that Councilor Ol-Olson was intending to be snarky.",
          "startTime": "02:51:43,702",
          "endTime": "02:51:47,342"
        },
        {
          "index": 3028,
          "text": "Um, when I looked at the",
          "startTime": "02:51:47,922",
          "endTime": "02:51:51,252"
        },
        {
          "index": 3029,
          "text": "resolution, and I looked at the actions,",
          "startTime": "02:51:51,342",
          "endTime": "02:51:55,242"
        },
        {
          "index": 3030,
          "text": "I had con- Even... And I'm totally",
          "startTime": "02:51:55,362",
          "endTime": "02:51:57,342"
        },
        {
          "index": 3031,
          "text": "concerned also about ICE coming to Corvallis, but I looked at",
          "startTime": "02:51:58,642",
          "endTime": "02:52:02,422"
        },
        {
          "index": 3032,
          "text": "the actions, that were suggested, and I",
          "startTime": "02:52:02,482",
          "endTime": "02:52:06,302"
        },
        {
          "index": 3033,
          "text": "thought, to quote Director Blaine,",
          "startTime": "02:52:06,402",
          "endTime": "02:52:09,902"
        },
        {
          "index": 3034,
          "text": "he likes to underpromise and overdeliver, and this",
          "startTime": "02:52:10,862",
          "endTime": "02:52:14,012"
        },
        {
          "index": 3035,
          "text": "felt to me like the opposite. We are promising to do things that we probably",
          "startTime": "02:52:14,022",
          "endTime": "02:52:17,982"
        },
        {
          "index": 3036,
          "text": "could not do. Um, we actually asked Director",
          "startTime": "02:52:18,042",
          "endTime": "02:52:21,822"
        },
        {
          "index": 3037,
          "text": "Bilotta if we could ban, a facility, and",
          "startTime": "02:52:21,902",
          "endTime": "02:52:25,842"
        },
        {
          "index": 3038,
          "text": "he said, \"No, I've never heard that question before, and no.\"",
          "startTime": "02:52:25,882",
          "endTime": "02:52:29,292"
        },
        {
          "index": 3039,
          "text": "Um, private property, as places all over the country are finding",
          "startTime": "02:52:29,382",
          "endTime": "02:52:33,252"
        },
        {
          "index": 3040,
          "text": "out to their great dismay. Um, so there are",
          "startTime": "02:52:33,302",
          "endTime": "02:52:37,042"
        },
        {
          "index": 3041,
          "text": "things in there that we can't do. And then,",
          "startTime": "02:52:37,082",
          "endTime": "02:52:40,702"
        },
        {
          "index": 3042,
          "text": "I actually really like working with Councilor Napack on",
          "startTime": "02:52:41,342",
          "endTime": "02:52:43,722"
        },
        {
          "index": 3043,
          "text": "resolutions. Um, she, she, she's got a really good eye",
          "startTime": "02:52:43,782",
          "endTime": "02:52:47,702"
        },
        {
          "index": 3044,
          "text": "for them, so I reached out to Councilor Napack and asked to work with",
          "startTime": "02:52:47,762",
          "endTime": "02:52:50,932"
        },
        {
          "index": 3045,
          "text": "her. And, she discovered",
          "startTime": "02:52:50,942",
          "endTime": "02:52:54,192"
        },
        {
          "index": 3046,
          "text": "the, the House bills and the Senate bills that were sitting on the",
          "startTime": "02:52:54,782",
          "endTime": "02:52:58,582"
        },
        {
          "index": 3047,
          "text": "governor's desk, and actually I believe talked to Sen- Representative",
          "startTime": "02:52:58,602",
          "endTime": "02:53:02,542"
        },
        {
          "index": 3048,
          "text": "Finger McDonald about them at the legislative breakfast, and",
          "startTime": "02:53:02,582",
          "endTime": "02:53:06,122"
        },
        {
          "index": 3049,
          "text": "they hit considerable of the other things that were",
          "startTime": "02:53:06,202",
          "endTime": "02:53:09,962"
        },
        {
          "index": 3050,
          "text": "there. And so I... And I think it's much better for the state to do",
          "startTime": "02:53:10,022",
          "endTime": "02:53:13,862"
        },
        {
          "index": 3051,
          "text": "this so it's everywhere and it's clear than for us to do it.",
          "startTime": "02:53:13,942",
          "endTime": "02:53:17,442"
        },
        {
          "index": 3052,
          "text": "So that combination of promising to do things that we legally",
          "startTime": "02:53:17,462",
          "endTime": "02:53:21,082"
        },
        {
          "index": 3053,
          "text": "couldn't do, and then the state taking action made",
          "startTime": "02:53:21,262",
          "endTime": "02:53:25,202"
        },
        {
          "index": 3054,
          "text": "me think that this might be a better situation.",
          "startTime": "02:53:25,242",
          "endTime": "02:53:28,902"
        },
        {
          "index": 3055,
          "text": "I do think that there are a couple of things in here that we",
          "startTime": "02:53:29,002",
          "endTime": "02:53:32,782"
        },
        {
          "index": 3056,
          "text": "could direct",
          "startTime": "02:53:32,862",
          "endTime": "02:53:33,702"
        },
        {
          "index": 3057,
          "text": "the city or the city manager or somebody to do.",
          "startTime": "02:53:34,822",
          "endTime": "02:53:38,222"
        },
        {
          "index": 3058,
          "text": "Um, if we pass the, the, the,",
          "startTime": "02:53:38,342",
          "endTime": "02:53:42,172"
        },
        {
          "index": 3059,
          "text": "the resolution that we wrote with the Senate and the s-",
          "startTime": "02:53:42,202",
          "endTime": "02:53:45,981"
        },
        {
          "index": 3060,
          "text": "s- or with the House bills and the Senate bills in it, I think there's a couple",
          "startTime": "02:53:46,862",
          "endTime": "02:53:49,762"
        },
        {
          "index": 3061,
          "text": "of things in there that we could dir- then direct the city manager",
          "startTime": "02:53:49,802",
          "endTime": "02:53:53,742"
        },
        {
          "index": 3062,
          "text": "to do, such as using the city communication platforms to",
          "startTime": "02:53:53,782",
          "endTime": "02:53:57,542"
        },
        {
          "index": 3063,
          "text": "communita- communicate to the community.",
          "startTime": "02:53:57,562",
          "endTime": "02:53:59,991"
        },
        {
          "index": 3064,
          "text": "That seems to me to be a pretty straightforward thing.",
          "startTime": "02:53:59,991",
          "endTime": "02:54:02,862"
        },
        {
          "index": 3065,
          "text": "And perhaps, asking Jedi to solicit community",
          "startTime": "02:54:02,902",
          "endTime": "02:54:06,602"
        },
        {
          "index": 3066,
          "text": "empowerment grants in the next cycle, 'cause unfortunately the request",
          "startTime": "02:54:06,642",
          "endTime": "02:54:10,242"
        },
        {
          "index": 3067,
          "text": "has already gone out this year and we can't change it.",
          "startTime": "02:54:10,582",
          "endTime": "02:54:13,442"
        },
        {
          "index": 3068,
          "text": "Um, those things seem, like, doable, but some of the other things just felt",
          "startTime": "02:54:13,502",
          "endTime": "02:54:17,422"
        },
        {
          "index": 3069,
          "text": "like something we couldn't do, and I didn't wanna promise something that we just",
          "startTime": "02:54:19,022",
          "endTime": "02:54:22,362"
        },
        {
          "index": 3070,
          "text": "couldn't",
          "startTime": "02:54:22,422",
          "endTime": "02:54:22,892"
        },
        {
          "index": 3071,
          "text": "do.",
          "startTime": "02:54:22,962",
          "endTime": "02:54:26,642"
        },
        {
          "index": 3072,
          "text": "Councilor Greena and then Olson.",
          "startTime": "02:54:29,242",
          "endTime": "02:54:30,762"
        },
        {
          "index": 3073,
          "text": "Uh, I wanna thank, both, Councilor Ellis and Councilor",
          "startTime": "02:54:32,262",
          "endTime": "02:54:35,542"
        },
        {
          "index": 3074,
          "text": "Napack for what I think is, nicely done",
          "startTime": "02:54:35,602",
          "endTime": "02:54:39,462"
        },
        {
          "index": 3075,
          "text": "work. Um, I think the reference to",
          "startTime": "02:54:39,542",
          "endTime": "02:54:42,782"
        },
        {
          "index": 3076,
          "text": "the, the bills in the Oregon",
          "startTime": "02:54:42,842",
          "endTime": "02:54:45,722"
        },
        {
          "index": 3077,
          "text": "legislature, is a very strong addition and",
          "startTime": "02:54:45,762",
          "endTime": "02:54:49,382"
        },
        {
          "index": 3078,
          "text": "recognition that we're not in this alone.",
          "startTime": "02:54:49,422",
          "endTime": "02:54:52,322"
        },
        {
          "index": 3079,
          "text": "Um, absolutely. I also... Uh, I'm not gonna reiterate everything that",
          "startTime": "02:54:52,442",
          "endTime": "02:54:56,362"
        },
        {
          "index": 3080,
          "text": "Councilor Ellis said because I think I agree with it.",
          "startTime": "02:54:56,432",
          "endTime": "02:54:59,382"
        },
        {
          "index": 3081,
          "text": "Um, but I also wanna say f- beyond",
          "startTime": "02:54:59,502",
          "endTime": "02:55:02,592"
        },
        {
          "index": 3082,
          "text": "that, I think the, the",
          "startTime": "02:55:02,682",
          "endTime": "02:55:05,021"
        },
        {
          "index": 3083,
          "text": "resolves, speak much more strongly",
          "startTime": "02:55:05,102",
          "endTime": "02:55:08,982"
        },
        {
          "index": 3084,
          "text": "to what we wanna say to our community, and",
          "startTime": "02:55:09,922",
          "endTime": "02:55:13,812"
        },
        {
          "index": 3085,
          "text": "that is our support for every, every member of our",
          "startTime": "02:55:13,862",
          "endTime": "02:55:16,982"
        },
        {
          "index": 3086,
          "text": "community, and a re-affirmation of our",
          "startTime": "02:55:17,002",
          "endTime": "02:55:20,702"
        },
        {
          "index": 3087,
          "text": "values. I think that comes across much more strongly in this resolution, and",
          "startTime": "02:55:20,742",
          "endTime": "02:55:24,442"
        },
        {
          "index": 3088,
          "text": "I, I really like that. I think that,",
          "startTime": "02:55:24,502",
          "endTime": "02:55:27,722"
        },
        {
          "index": 3089,
          "text": "um... I think it's",
          "startTime": "02:55:27,822",
          "endTime": "02:55:31,682"
        },
        {
          "index": 3090,
          "text": "important, um... I think",
          "startTime": "02:55:31,742",
          "endTime": "02:55:35,712"
        },
        {
          "index": 3091,
          "text": "this ke- I think this keeps the, the direction we're pursuing",
          "startTime": "02:55:35,762",
          "endTime": "02:55:39,742"
        },
        {
          "index": 3092,
          "text": "very clear without trying to overspecify.",
          "startTime": "02:55:39,802",
          "endTime": "02:55:43,142"
        },
        {
          "index": 3093,
          "text": "And I think when we overspecify, we tend to get into that potentially",
          "startTime": "02:55:43,162",
          "endTime": "02:55:47,082"
        },
        {
          "index": 3094,
          "text": "promising something we couldn't deliver on",
          "startTime": "02:55:47,142",
          "endTime": "02:55:49,022"
        },
        {
          "index": 3095,
          "text": "or,",
          "startTime": "02:55:50,242",
          "endTime": "02:55:51,562"
        },
        {
          "index": 3096,
          "text": "making requests that are a ch- a challenge for staff to",
          "startTime": "02:55:52,982",
          "endTime": "02:55:56,762"
        },
        {
          "index": 3097,
          "text": "figure out. Um, so I, I like the tone.",
          "startTime": "02:55:56,782",
          "endTime": "02:55:59,782"
        },
        {
          "index": 3098,
          "text": "I like the level of detail on this. I think that, um...",
          "startTime": "02:55:59,842",
          "endTime": "02:56:03,012"
        },
        {
          "index": 3099,
          "text": "And I feel particularly, good about the,",
          "startTime": "02:56:03,062",
          "endTime": "02:56:06,562"
        },
        {
          "index": 3100,
          "text": "the message that it sends to the",
          "startTime": "02:56:07,282",
          "endTime": "02:56:08,532"
        },
        {
          "index": 3101,
          "text": "community.",
          "startTime": "02:56:08,532",
          "endTime": "02:56:11,562"
        },
        {
          "index": 3102,
          "text": "Councilor Olson. And I will point out at this point there is no",
          "startTime": "02:56:11,602",
          "endTime": "02:56:15,062"
        },
        {
          "index": 3103,
          "text": "resolution on the table.",
          "startTime": "02:56:15,082",
          "endTime": "02:56:16,602"
        },
        {
          "index": 3104,
          "text": "Mm.",
          "startTime": "02:56:16,612",
          "endTime": "02:56:16,612"
        },
        {
          "index": 3105,
          "text": "So if, if there's, if there's interest in having the city recorder read it and",
          "startTime": "02:56:16,642",
          "endTime": "02:56:20,492"
        },
        {
          "index": 3106,
          "text": "move forward today, that would...",
          "startTime": "02:56:20,522",
          "endTime": "02:56:22,152"
        },
        {
          "index": 3107,
          "text": "something we would need to do before anything happens.",
          "startTime": "02:56:22,202",
          "endTime": "02:56:25,102"
        },
        {
          "index": 3108,
          "text": "But Councilor Olson.",
          "startTime": "02:56:25,122",
          "endTime": "02:56:27,102"
        },
        {
          "index": 3109,
          "text": "Should I give Councilor Ellis a chance to do that first?",
          "startTime": "02:56:27,182",
          "endTime": "02:56:30,662"
        },
        {
          "index": 3110,
          "text": "She seemed like she wanted to-",
          "startTime": "02:56:30,942",
          "endTime": "02:56:31,932"
        },
        {
          "index": 3111,
          "text": "Well, I'll look for head nods. Do we want, do we wanna,",
          "startTime": "02:56:31,932",
          "endTime": "02:56:33,862"
        },
        {
          "index": 3112,
          "text": "potentially, not definitely, 'cause that takes a vote, adopt this resolution?",
          "startTime": "02:56:35,982",
          "endTime": "02:56:39,542"
        },
        {
          "index": 3113,
          "text": "Should the city recorder read it to get it?",
          "startTime": "02:56:39,552",
          "endTime": "02:56:41,202"
        },
        {
          "index": 3114,
          "text": "I am gonna move that the city recorder read the resolution.",
          "startTime": "02:56:42,802",
          "endTime": "02:56:46,482"
        },
        {
          "index": 3115,
          "text": "I don't think that really needs a motion to have it, have it read.",
          "startTime": "02:56:46,502",
          "endTime": "02:56:49,042"
        },
        {
          "index": 3116,
          "text": "The motion comes after that, which is the more important part.",
          "startTime": "02:56:49,062",
          "endTime": "02:56:51,132"
        },
        {
          "index": 3117,
          "text": "So we'll go ahead and, we'll go ahead and, um... Hmm?",
          "startTime": "02:56:51,162",
          "endTime": "02:56:55,142"
        },
        {
          "index": 3118,
          "text": "Talk to",
          "startTime": "02:56:55,182",
          "endTime": "02:56:55,352"
        },
        {
          "index": 3119,
          "text": "me.",
          "startTime": "02:56:56,202",
          "endTime": "02:56:56,252"
        },
        {
          "index": 3120,
          "text": "City recorder, will you please read the resolution?",
          "startTime": "02:56:57,222",
          "endTime": "02:57:01,062"
        },
        {
          "index": 3121,
          "text": "Yes, Mayor. The title of the resolution is A Resolution Reaffirming",
          "startTime": "02:57:01,122",
          "endTime": "02:57:04,632"
        },
        {
          "index": 3122,
          "text": "Corvallis as a Sanctuary City.",
          "startTime": "02:57:04,722",
          "endTime": "02:57:07,302"
        },
        {
          "index": 3123,
          "text": "Now this would be the point when someone would make a motion to move it forward.",
          "startTime": "02:57:09,282",
          "endTime": "02:57:12,742"
        },
        {
          "index": 3124,
          "text": "So moved.",
          "startTime": "02:57:12,802",
          "endTime": "02:57:14,682"
        },
        {
          "index": 3125,
          "text": "Second.",
          "startTime": "02:57:14,782",
          "endTime": "02:57:17,262"
        },
        {
          "index": 3126,
          "text": "Councilor Olson?",
          "startTime": "02:57:18,782",
          "endTime": "02:57:20,162"
        },
        {
          "index": 3127,
          "text": "Yeah. Um, so first off, I'm going to vote in favor",
          "startTime": "02:57:20,202",
          "endTime": "02:57:24,142"
        },
        {
          "index": 3128,
          "text": "of this resolution because I agree with everything it says and",
          "startTime": "02:57:24,162",
          "endTime": "02:57:28,022"
        },
        {
          "index": 3129,
          "text": "think it's a good one. Um, I am going to",
          "startTime": "02:57:28,042",
          "endTime": "02:57:31,302"
        },
        {
          "index": 3130,
          "text": "say, and I am going to say this",
          "startTime": "02:57:31,342",
          "endTime": "02:57:35,092"
        },
        {
          "index": 3131,
          "text": "with the backing of this is not-",
          "startTime": "02:57:35,142",
          "endTime": "02:57:38,762"
        },
        {
          "index": 3132,
          "text": "These are a lot of emotions that I have felt, and they are not exclusively directed",
          "startTime": "02:57:39,458",
          "endTime": "02:57:43,338"
        },
        {
          "index": 3133,
          "text": "at this council. But this is my favorite type of resolution, the",
          "startTime": "02:57:43,358",
          "endTime": "02:57:46,938"
        },
        {
          "index": 3134,
          "text": "kind that lists a whole bunch of values and does nothing to",
          "startTime": "02:57:46,978",
          "endTime": "02:57:50,758"
        },
        {
          "index": 3135,
          "text": "protect them, which says the City of Corvallis",
          "startTime": "02:57:50,838",
          "endTime": "02:57:54,258"
        },
        {
          "index": 3136,
          "text": "likes what the state's doing, but we don't think that we're important enough,",
          "startTime": "02:57:54,698",
          "endTime": "02:57:58,118"
        },
        {
          "index": 3137,
          "text": "or, and we don't care about our community enough to put in our own",
          "startTime": "02:57:58,158",
          "endTime": "02:58:02,058"
        },
        {
          "index": 3138,
          "text": "protections on top of what the state's doing.",
          "startTime": "02:58:02,098",
          "endTime": "02:58:05,068"
        },
        {
          "index": 3139,
          "text": "It's a list of, \"Hey, here's some cool stuff people have done.\" Things,",
          "startTime": "02:58:05,078",
          "endTime": "02:58:09,018"
        },
        {
          "index": 3140,
          "text": "a list that you could have pulled off online, or if you had read",
          "startTime": "02:58:09,038",
          "endTime": "02:58:12,018"
        },
        {
          "index": 3141,
          "text": "literally any article on",
          "startTime": "02:58:12,618",
          "endTime": "02:58:14,628"
        },
        {
          "index": 3142,
          "text": "what happened this legislative session, which I've read many, these would have",
          "startTime": "02:58:15,478",
          "endTime": "02:58:19,248"
        },
        {
          "index": 3143,
          "text": "been highlighted. Um,",
          "startTime": "02:58:19,258",
          "endTime": "02:58:20,868"
        },
        {
          "index": 3144,
          "text": "yeah. It's, it's saying that w-we love, we love",
          "startTime": "02:58:22,818",
          "endTime": "02:58:26,458"
        },
        {
          "index": 3145,
          "text": "immigrants, we love the people in our community, but we aren't going to take any",
          "startTime": "02:58:26,518",
          "endTime": "02:58:29,718"
        },
        {
          "index": 3146,
          "text": "actions as a city to protect them. We aren't going to",
          "startTime": "02:58:29,818",
          "endTime": "02:58:33,558"
        },
        {
          "index": 3147,
          "text": "take any actions as a city to even",
          "startTime": "02:58:33,598",
          "endTime": "02:58:36,758"
        },
        {
          "index": 3148,
          "text": "consider... Not like... M- All of the...",
          "startTime": "02:58:36,838",
          "endTime": "02:58:40,208"
        },
        {
          "index": 3149,
          "text": "At least in the old resolution, which is not on the table, none of those were we",
          "startTime": "02:58:40,258",
          "endTime": "02:58:44,038"
        },
        {
          "index": 3150,
          "text": "are going to do this, or are we are going to look into doing",
          "startTime": "02:58:44,078",
          "endTime": "02:58:47,478"
        },
        {
          "index": 3151,
          "text": "this. And",
          "startTime": "02:58:47,498",
          "endTime": "02:58:48,978"
        },
        {
          "index": 3152,
          "text": "this has none of that. It is, it's,",
          "startTime": "02:58:49,778",
          "endTime": "02:58:52,458"
        },
        {
          "index": 3153,
          "text": "it's like the No Kings protest. It's a whole bunch of people yelling and",
          "startTime": "02:58:54,338",
          "endTime": "02:58:58,058"
        },
        {
          "index": 3154,
          "text": "making no movements and no community involvement.",
          "startTime": "02:58:58,098",
          "endTime": "02:59:01,398"
        },
        {
          "index": 3155,
          "text": "And I am very, very",
          "startTime": "02:59:01,478",
          "endTime": "02:59:04,788"
        },
        {
          "index": 3156,
          "text": "frustrated. And also, if anyone tries to be like, \"Well, why didn't you say",
          "startTime": "02:59:04,818",
          "endTime": "02:59:08,718"
        },
        {
          "index": 3157,
          "text": "this when we talked about the trans sanctuary resolution?\" I would have loved if",
          "startTime": "02:59:08,778",
          "endTime": "02:59:11,848"
        },
        {
          "index": 3158,
          "text": "that resolution had any actionable steps by the city, but when we were bringing it",
          "startTime": "02:59:11,898",
          "endTime": "02:59:15,278"
        },
        {
          "index": 3159,
          "text": "forward, we considered it too diverse of a, too di-divisive as",
          "startTime": "02:59:15,298",
          "endTime": "02:59:18,798"
        },
        {
          "index": 3160,
          "text": "is, so we didn't want to even push that.",
          "startTime": "02:59:18,938",
          "endTime": "02:59:21,938"
        },
        {
          "index": 3161,
          "text": "But anyways, to... Yeah. So my",
          "startTime": "02:59:21,978",
          "endTime": "02:59:25,778"
        },
        {
          "index": 3162,
          "text": "opinion on this is that, sure, it's great, it's wonderful,",
          "startTime": "02:59:25,798",
          "endTime": "02:59:29,148"
        },
        {
          "index": 3163,
          "text": "it's the same thing we see. It's, it's",
          "startTime": "02:59:29,218",
          "endTime": "02:59:32,828"
        },
        {
          "index": 3164,
          "text": "just,",
          "startTime": "02:59:32,898",
          "endTime": "02:59:34,238"
        },
        {
          "index": 3165,
          "text": "it's pointless. It's pointless when these are already things that we as a",
          "startTime": "02:59:35,298",
          "endTime": "02:59:39,118"
        },
        {
          "index": 3166,
          "text": "community believe, already things we have signed in a resolution,",
          "startTime": "02:59:39,138",
          "endTime": "02:59:42,858"
        },
        {
          "index": 3167,
          "text": "already things the state has done, and we're just writing our own list",
          "startTime": "02:59:42,878",
          "endTime": "02:59:46,798"
        },
        {
          "index": 3168,
          "text": "to make us feel good. Thank you.",
          "startTime": "02:59:46,858",
          "endTime": "02:59:50,718"
        },
        {
          "index": 3169,
          "text": "Please don't. Do not applaud, please.",
          "startTime": "02:59:51,298",
          "endTime": "02:59:54,138"
        },
        {
          "index": 3170,
          "text": "Um, I will say, Councilor Olsen, I appreciate your opinion, and I share",
          "startTime": "02:59:54,238",
          "endTime": "02:59:57,358"
        },
        {
          "index": 3171,
          "text": "it.",
          "startTime": "02:59:57,398",
          "endTime": "02:59:59,018"
        },
        {
          "index": 3172,
          "text": "But here we are, so .",
          "startTime": "03:00:01,138",
          "endTime": "03:00:02,638"
        },
        {
          "index": 3173,
          "text": "Any other discussion on the current re-re-resolution? Councilor Neidbach.",
          "startTime": "03:00:03,758",
          "endTime": "03:00:07,538"
        },
        {
          "index": 3174,
          "text": "I, I appreciate, Councilor Olsen's passion.",
          "startTime": "03:00:07,598",
          "endTime": "03:00:11,318"
        },
        {
          "index": 3175,
          "text": "Uh, I, I, I do need to point out, though,",
          "startTime": "03:00:11,438",
          "endTime": "03:00:14,028"
        },
        {
          "index": 3176,
          "text": "that if we",
          "startTime": "03:00:14,098",
          "endTime": "03:00:16,458"
        },
        {
          "index": 3177,
          "text": "did with what it says in the first resolution, we would be duplicating what the",
          "startTime": "03:00:17,718",
          "endTime": "03:00:21,678"
        },
        {
          "index": 3178,
          "text": "state legislature has just done. They have",
          "startTime": "03:00:21,738",
          "endTime": "03:00:25,248"
        },
        {
          "index": 3179,
          "text": "written extreme, you know, quite a bit of, uh...",
          "startTime": "03:00:25,258",
          "endTime": "03:00:28,968"
        },
        {
          "index": 3180,
          "text": "If you read the rules, the public schools have to,",
          "startTime": "03:00:28,998",
          "endTime": "03:00:31,848"
        },
        {
          "index": 3181,
          "text": "develop, programs,",
          "startTime": "03:00:32,598",
          "endTime": "03:00:35,398"
        },
        {
          "index": 3182,
          "text": "a-adopt",
          "startTime": "03:00:38,898",
          "endTime": "03:00:39,198"
        },
        {
          "index": 3183,
          "text": "policies to notify families, students, and staff.",
          "startTime": "03:00:39,208",
          "endTime": "03:00:41,698"
        },
        {
          "index": 3184,
          "text": "We, we couldn't tell the school district to do",
          "startTime": "03:00:41,758",
          "endTime": "03:00:43,938"
        },
        {
          "index": 3185,
          "text": "that. But they did do it. Okay.",
          "startTime": "03:00:44,038",
          "endTime": "03:00:47,738"
        },
        {
          "index": 3186,
          "text": "They, uh... We can't tell employers to,",
          "startTime": "03:00:47,878",
          "endTime": "03:00:51,398"
        },
        {
          "index": 3187,
          "text": "um... They, they can't",
          "startTime": "03:00:53,378",
          "endTime": "03:00:54,758"
        },
        {
          "index": 3188,
          "text": "this, that, or the other thing. We, we could, but the state is already",
          "startTime": "03:00:56,438",
          "endTime": "03:01:00,258"
        },
        {
          "index": 3189,
          "text": "saying it, so why should we duplicate that?",
          "startTime": "03:01:00,318",
          "endTime": "03:01:03,378"
        },
        {
          "index": 3190,
          "text": "I'm also seeing, you know, the,",
          "startTime": "03:01:03,498",
          "endTime": "03:01:05,318"
        },
        {
          "index": 3191,
          "text": "law enforcement operations. If they come to Corvallis,",
          "startTime": "03:01:06,658",
          "endTime": "03:01:10,638"
        },
        {
          "index": 3192,
          "text": "and Corvallis is the only",
          "startTime": "03:01:10,658",
          "endTime": "03:01:12,018"
        },
        {
          "index": 3193,
          "text": "city that has a, a rec- a, a law that",
          "startTime": "03:01:13,238",
          "endTime": "03:01:17,178"
        },
        {
          "index": 3194,
          "text": "says you can't wear, face coverings,",
          "startTime": "03:01:17,238",
          "endTime": "03:01:20,718"
        },
        {
          "index": 3195,
          "text": "as opposed to the entire state saying you can't do that, and the power of the",
          "startTime": "03:01:21,338",
          "endTime": "03:01:25,238"
        },
        {
          "index": 3196,
          "text": "state legislature behind that rule,",
          "startTime": "03:01:25,398",
          "endTime": "03:01:28,898"
        },
        {
          "index": 3197,
          "text": "as opposed to tiny Corvallis. It, it, it makes a",
          "startTime": "03:01:29,478",
          "endTime": "03:01:32,938"
        },
        {
          "index": 3198,
          "text": "difference that the state has adopted these",
          "startTime": "03:01:32,978",
          "endTime": "03:01:35,448"
        },
        {
          "index": 3199,
          "text": "and other resolutions to protect all of",
          "startTime": "03:01:36,518",
          "endTime": "03:01:39,618"
        },
        {
          "index": 3200,
          "text": "Oregon, and we're gonna put... If we piggyback on",
          "startTime": "03:01:39,658",
          "endTime": "03:01:43,478"
        },
        {
          "index": 3201,
          "text": "those, we still end up with the same rules and",
          "startTime": "03:01:43,518",
          "endTime": "03:01:47,348"
        },
        {
          "index": 3202,
          "text": "regulations in Corvallis that we would otherwise had we invented them",
          "startTime": "03:01:47,418",
          "endTime": "03:01:51,178"
        },
        {
          "index": 3203,
          "text": "ourselves or carried them, carried through with them ourselves.",
          "startTime": "03:01:51,218",
          "endTime": "03:01:54,818"
        },
        {
          "index": 3204,
          "text": "Thank you.",
          "startTime": "03:01:54,858",
          "endTime": "03:01:55,518"
        },
        {
          "index": 3205,
          "text": "I'd like to interject, Mayor. We keep referring back to the other resolution",
          "startTime": "03:01:55,558",
          "endTime": "03:01:59,518"
        },
        {
          "index": 3206,
          "text": "that's been tabled and not really talking much about the resolution that's",
          "startTime": "03:01:59,558",
          "endTime": "03:02:02,978"
        },
        {
          "index": 3207,
          "text": "currently on the table. So if we can keep comments to the current",
          "startTime": "03:02:03,038",
          "endTime": "03:02:06,678"
        },
        {
          "index": 3208,
          "text": "resolution, 'cause if it, it... No matter what, after we address this, the other",
          "startTime": "03:02:06,738",
          "endTime": "03:02:09,888"
        },
        {
          "index": 3209,
          "text": "one goes back, comes back. So we can discuss concerns or",
          "startTime": "03:02:09,918",
          "endTime": "03:02:13,858"
        },
        {
          "index": 3210,
          "text": "whatever about the other-",
          "startTime": "03:02:13,918",
          "endTime": "03:02:14,518"
        },
        {
          "index": 3211,
          "text": "Uh, yeah. Thank you. Thank you.",
          "startTime": "03:02:14,528",
          "endTime": "03:02:15,688"
        },
        {
          "index": 3212,
          "text": "But keeping things moving here.",
          "startTime": "03:02:15,918",
          "endTime": "03:02:17,218"
        },
        {
          "index": 3213,
          "text": "But it, but, but this, this proposition, the sanctuary city proposition, actually",
          "startTime": "03:02:17,258",
          "endTime": "03:02:20,898"
        },
        {
          "index": 3214,
          "text": "has more",
          "startTime": "03:02:20,938",
          "endTime": "03:02:21,498"
        },
        {
          "index": 3215,
          "text": "in it, that... The talking about",
          "startTime": "03:02:22,458",
          "endTime": "03:02:26,398"
        },
        {
          "index": 3216,
          "text": "landlord-tenant confidentiality.",
          "startTime": "03:02:26,478",
          "endTime": "03:02:29,078"
        },
        {
          "index": 3217,
          "text": "Um, it talks about, the federal",
          "startTime": "03:02:29,198",
          "endTime": "03:02:32,998"
        },
        {
          "index": 3218,
          "text": "government having to register their law enforcement activities to the",
          "startTime": "03:02:33,038",
          "endTime": "03:02:36,938"
        },
        {
          "index": 3219,
          "text": "local jurisdiction. Um,",
          "startTime": "03:02:36,978",
          "endTime": "03:02:39,238"
        },
        {
          "index": 3220,
          "text": "regulates access to public hospitals by federal agents.",
          "startTime": "03:02:40,118",
          "endTime": "03:02:43,538"
        },
        {
          "index": 3221,
          "text": "It, orders public bodies may not give certain data to data",
          "startTime": "03:02:43,618",
          "endTime": "03:02:46,718"
        },
        {
          "index": 3222,
          "text": "brokers based on immigration data.",
          "startTime": "03:02:46,798",
          "endTime": "03:02:49,838"
        },
        {
          "index": 3223,
          "text": "Um, so it is very... You know, the state did a good",
          "startTime": "03:02:49,938",
          "endTime": "03:02:52,768"
        },
        {
          "index": 3224,
          "text": "job. And the governor",
          "startTime": "03:02:52,818",
          "endTime": "03:02:56,038"
        },
        {
          "index": 3225,
          "text": "is... Both houses, the Senate and the House, passed these.",
          "startTime": "03:02:56,138",
          "endTime": "03:03:00,058"
        },
        {
          "index": 3226,
          "text": "They're enrolled. Uh, these will become",
          "startTime": "03:03:00,078",
          "endTime": "03:03:03,058"
        },
        {
          "index": 3227,
          "text": "ordinances. These will become laws.",
          "startTime": "03:03:03,558",
          "endTime": "03:03:06,038"
        },
        {
          "index": 3228,
          "text": "They will be, have to be followed by everyone in Oregon,",
          "startTime": "03:03:06,058",
          "endTime": "03:03:09,578"
        },
        {
          "index": 3229,
          "text": "including our fair",
          "startTime": "03:03:09,638",
          "endTime": "03:03:11,758"
        },
        {
          "index": 3230,
          "text": "city.",
          "startTime": "03:03:11,818",
          "endTime": "03:03:13,958"
        },
        {
          "index": 3231,
          "text": "Thank you.",
          "startTime": "03:03:14,318",
          "endTime": "03:03:16,328"
        },
        {
          "index": 3232,
          "text": "Anyone else?",
          "startTime": "03:03:16,338",
          "endTime": "03:03:16,758"
        },
        {
          "index": 3233,
          "text": "If there was something in the resolves to encourage",
          "startTime": "03:03:18,758",
          "endTime": "03:03:22,718"
        },
        {
          "index": 3234,
          "text": "the city manager that somebody wishes, wished to add into the",
          "startTime": "03:03:22,738",
          "endTime": "03:03:26,658"
        },
        {
          "index": 3235,
          "text": "resolution, that is easily",
          "startTime": "03:03:26,718",
          "endTime": "03:03:30,018"
        },
        {
          "index": 3236,
          "text": "done.",
          "startTime": "03:03:30,028",
          "endTime": "03:03:31,698"
        },
        {
          "index": 3237,
          "text": "Technically.",
          "startTime": "03:03:31,718",
          "endTime": "03:03:32,198"
        },
        {
          "index": 3238,
          "text": "I'm not, I'm not addressing either the, the values of either resolution.",
          "startTime": "03:03:32,238",
          "endTime": "03:03:35,938"
        },
        {
          "index": 3239,
          "text": "I'm just saying that if there was something that we felt like needed to be",
          "startTime": "03:03:35,978",
          "endTime": "03:03:39,598"
        },
        {
          "index": 3240,
          "text": "added in, that would be, that would be a pretty straightforward",
          "startTime": "03:03:39,698",
          "endTime": "03:03:43,218"
        },
        {
          "index": 3241,
          "text": "motion, or it could be a standalone motion at,",
          "startTime": "03:03:43,278",
          "endTime": "03:03:47,238"
        },
        {
          "index": 3242,
          "text": "after we've-",
          "startTime": "03:03:47,318",
          "endTime": "03:03:48,118"
        },
        {
          "index": 3243,
          "text": "We finish with this",
          "startTime": "03:03:48,242",
          "endTime": "03:03:50,082"
        },
        {
          "index": 3244,
          "text": "Call again. City manager.",
          "startTime": "03:03:50,122",
          "endTime": "03:03:54,002"
        },
        {
          "index": 3245,
          "text": "As, as Councilor Napack was speaking, it just made me think,",
          "startTime": "03:03:54,062",
          "endTime": "03:03:57,732"
        },
        {
          "index": 3246,
          "text": "just this is purely from a practical standpoint,",
          "startTime": "03:03:57,802",
          "endTime": "03:04:01,302"
        },
        {
          "index": 3247,
          "text": "should",
          "startTime": "03:04:02,262",
          "endTime": "03:04:02,662"
        },
        {
          "index": 3248,
          "text": "these laws and directives be challenged, it will be the state that",
          "startTime": "03:04:03,782",
          "endTime": "03:04:07,452"
        },
        {
          "index": 3249,
          "text": "defends those,",
          "startTime": "03:04:07,482",
          "endTime": "03:04:08,762"
        },
        {
          "index": 3250,
          "text": "and not the city, which I think there's, from a financial and",
          "startTime": "03:04:10,522",
          "endTime": "03:04:14,362"
        },
        {
          "index": 3251,
          "text": "just a, a resource standpoint,",
          "startTime": "03:04:14,442",
          "endTime": "03:04:17,642"
        },
        {
          "index": 3252,
          "text": "is helpful for the city. And s-certainly, I",
          "startTime": "03:04:19,202",
          "endTime": "03:04:21,662"
        },
        {
          "index": 3253,
          "text": "think the resources of the state, having them bring that to",
          "startTime": "03:04:21,682",
          "endTime": "03:04:25,562"
        },
        {
          "index": 3254,
          "text": "bear rather than us trying to bring, our resources to",
          "startTime": "03:04:25,622",
          "endTime": "03:04:29,322"
        },
        {
          "index": 3255,
          "text": "bear, are likely to be",
          "startTime": "03:04:29,362",
          "endTime": "03:04:30,382"
        },
        {
          "index": 3256,
          "text": "more effective, if anything is to be",
          "startTime": "03:04:31,342",
          "endTime": "03:04:33,282"
        },
        {
          "index": 3257,
          "text": "effective.",
          "startTime": "03:04:33,322",
          "endTime": "03:04:35,722"
        },
        {
          "index": 3258,
          "text": "Anything else on this resolution or should we move to a",
          "startTime": "03:04:36,902",
          "endTime": "03:04:38,602"
        },
        {
          "index": 3259,
          "text": "vote?",
          "startTime": "03:04:38,682",
          "endTime": "03:04:41,422"
        },
        {
          "index": 3260,
          "text": "Council Mayers.",
          "startTime": "03:04:43,182",
          "endTime": "03:04:44,422"
        },
        {
          "index": 3261,
          "text": "I have a parliamentary sort of a question.",
          "startTime": "03:04:44,522",
          "endTime": "03:04:47,282"
        },
        {
          "index": 3262,
          "text": "Mm-hmm. Go ahead.",
          "startTime": "03:04:47,322",
          "endTime": "03:04:49,242"
        },
        {
          "index": 3263,
          "text": "Well, it just seems to me that this is kind",
          "startTime": "03:04:49,282",
          "endTime": "03:04:53,162"
        },
        {
          "index": 3264,
          "text": "of like a, substitution, or could be",
          "startTime": "03:04:53,202",
          "endTime": "03:04:57,182"
        },
        {
          "index": 3265,
          "text": "a substitution.",
          "startTime": "03:04:57,242",
          "endTime": "03:04:59,262"
        },
        {
          "index": 3266,
          "text": "Kind of, except for it completely eliminates the direction of the other",
          "startTime": "03:04:59,302",
          "endTime": "03:05:02,742"
        },
        {
          "index": 3267,
          "text": "one. So the other one-",
          "startTime": "03:05:02,782",
          "endTime": "03:05:03,872"
        },
        {
          "index": 3268,
          "text": "Well-",
          "startTime": "03:05:03,902",
          "endTime": "03:05:04,222"
        },
        {
          "index": 3269,
          "text": "The other one's not gone away. I think it was tabled.",
          "startTime": "03:05:04,242",
          "endTime": "03:05:07,762"
        },
        {
          "index": 3270,
          "text": "So it's-",
          "startTime": "03:05:07,802",
          "endTime": "03:05:08,322"
        },
        {
          "index": 3271,
          "text": "Right. It should have-",
          "startTime": "03:05:08,382",
          "endTime": "03:05:09,202"
        },
        {
          "index": 3272,
          "text": "It's, it's just been taken on, put on another table instead of the table we're",
          "startTime": "03:05:09,222",
          "endTime": "03:05:12,212"
        },
        {
          "index": 3273,
          "text": "dealing with.",
          "startTime": "03:05:12,282",
          "endTime": "03:05:12,762"
        },
        {
          "index": 3274,
          "text": "Okay.",
          "startTime": "03:05:12,772",
          "endTime": "03:05:12,772"
        },
        {
          "index": 3275,
          "text": "And then that resolution is now on this table.",
          "startTime": "03:05:12,802",
          "endTime": "03:05:15,202"
        },
        {
          "index": 3276,
          "text": "So once we vote on this, regardless of its",
          "startTime": "03:05:15,262",
          "endTime": "03:05:18,302"
        },
        {
          "index": 3277,
          "text": "outcome, we're back to the other resolution.",
          "startTime": "03:05:18,362",
          "endTime": "03:05:20,502"
        },
        {
          "index": 3278,
          "text": "Okay. That seems-",
          "startTime": "03:05:20,542",
          "endTime": "03:05:21,672"
        },
        {
          "index": 3279,
          "text": "So it's, it's because of it being... No, no, it's not a substitution.",
          "startTime": "03:05:21,682",
          "endTime": "03:05:24,702"
        },
        {
          "index": 3280,
          "text": "Okay.",
          "startTime": "03:05:24,802",
          "endTime": "03:05:25,042"
        },
        {
          "index": 3281,
          "text": "It's a, a first this.",
          "startTime": "03:05:25,102",
          "endTime": "03:05:26,982"
        },
        {
          "index": 3282,
          "text": "Okay.",
          "startTime": "03:05:27,062",
          "endTime": "03:05:29,202"
        },
        {
          "index": 3283,
          "text": "Councilor Napack.",
          "startTime": "03:05:30,602",
          "endTime": "03:05:31,382"
        },
        {
          "index": 3284,
          "text": "You, do you think we should div-divide the",
          "startTime": "03:05:31,442",
          "endTime": "03:05:33,422"
        },
        {
          "index": 3285,
          "text": "question?",
          "startTime": "03:05:33,462",
          "endTime": "03:05:35,522"
        },
        {
          "index": 3286,
          "text": "No. I mean, it is already divided. We're asking, we're asking one question right",
          "startTime": "03:05:35,532",
          "endTime": "03:05:38,172"
        },
        {
          "index": 3287,
          "text": "now. Do we want-",
          "startTime": "03:05:38,172",
          "endTime": "03:05:38,662"
        },
        {
          "index": 3288,
          "text": "But if we, if we pass one resolution, then the other one's moot.",
          "startTime": "03:05:38,682",
          "endTime": "03:05:42,072"
        },
        {
          "index": 3289,
          "text": "Nope.",
          "startTime": "03:05:42,122",
          "endTime": "03:05:42,962"
        },
        {
          "index": 3290,
          "text": "Nope?",
          "startTime": "03:05:43,002",
          "endTime": "03:05:43,602"
        },
        {
          "index": 3291,
          "text": "Not at all.",
          "startTime": "03:05:43,622",
          "endTime": "03:05:44,082"
        },
        {
          "index": 3292,
          "text": "We can pass them both?",
          "startTime": "03:05:44,122",
          "endTime": "03:05:45,142"
        },
        {
          "index": 3293,
          "text": "Technically.",
          "startTime": "03:05:45,202",
          "endTime": "03:05:45,942"
        },
        {
          "index": 3294,
          "text": "Oh, okay.",
          "startTime": "03:05:46,002",
          "endTime": "03:05:48,302"
        },
        {
          "index": 3295,
          "text": "They are two separate resolutions. We didn't vote down the other one.",
          "startTime": "03:05:48,362",
          "endTime": "03:05:51,842"
        },
        {
          "index": 3296,
          "text": "It was just tabled. So let's go ahead and take a",
          "startTime": "03:05:51,882",
          "endTime": "03:05:55,582"
        },
        {
          "index": 3297,
          "text": "vote, and then just for clarity, I wanna do a roll call vote on this if...",
          "startTime": "03:05:55,622",
          "endTime": "03:05:59,412"
        },
        {
          "index": 3298,
          "text": "Sure. Jack. City recorder, if you would,",
          "startTime": "03:05:59,442",
          "endTime": "03:06:02,382"
        },
        {
          "index": 3299,
          "text": "please.",
          "startTime": "03:06:02,402",
          "endTime": "03:06:03,622"
        },
        {
          "index": 3300,
          "text": "Yes. This is a vote regarding the resolution reaffirming Corvallis's",
          "startTime": "03:06:03,662",
          "endTime": "03:06:07,222"
        },
        {
          "index": 3301,
          "text": "sanctuary city. Councilors",
          "startTime": "03:06:07,302",
          "endTime": "03:06:09,202"
        },
        {
          "index": 3302,
          "text": "Lewis.",
          "startTime": "03:06:09,682",
          "endTime": "03:06:11,342"
        },
        {
          "index": 3303,
          "text": "Yes.",
          "startTime": "03:06:11,422",
          "endTime": "03:06:12,181"
        },
        {
          "index": 3304,
          "text": "Shaffer.",
          "startTime": "03:06:12,262",
          "endTime": "03:06:12,882"
        },
        {
          "index": 3305,
          "text": "Yes.",
          "startTime": "03:06:13,442",
          "endTime": "03:06:13,982"
        },
        {
          "index": 3306,
          "text": "Mayors.",
          "startTime": "03:06:14,702",
          "endTime": "03:06:15,622"
        },
        {
          "index": 3307,
          "text": "Yeah. Yes.",
          "startTime": "03:06:15,662",
          "endTime": "03:06:17,242"
        },
        {
          "index": 3308,
          "text": "Morefield.",
          "startTime": "03:06:17,322",
          "endTime": "03:06:18,342"
        },
        {
          "index": 3309,
          "text": "Yes.",
          "startTime": "03:06:18,422",
          "endTime": "03:06:19,142"
        },
        {
          "index": 3310,
          "text": "Napack.",
          "startTime": "03:06:19,182",
          "endTime": "03:06:19,982"
        },
        {
          "index": 3311,
          "text": "Yes.",
          "startTime": "03:06:20,042",
          "endTime": "03:06:20,722"
        },
        {
          "index": 3312,
          "text": "Cadena.",
          "startTime": "03:06:20,762",
          "endTime": "03:06:21,802"
        },
        {
          "index": 3313,
          "text": "Yes.",
          "startTime": "03:06:21,842",
          "endTime": "03:06:22,462"
        },
        {
          "index": 3314,
          "text": "Bowden. Olson.",
          "startTime": "03:06:22,482",
          "endTime": "03:06:24,282"
        },
        {
          "index": 3315,
          "text": "Yes.",
          "startTime": "03:06:24,322",
          "endTime": "03:06:25,082"
        },
        {
          "index": 3316,
          "text": "Ellis.",
          "startTime": "03:06:25,102",
          "endTime": "03:06:25,842"
        },
        {
          "index": 3317,
          "text": "Yes.",
          "startTime": "03:06:25,902",
          "endTime": "03:06:27,242"
        },
        {
          "index": 3318,
          "text": "The resolution passes eight to zero.",
          "startTime": "03:06:27,262",
          "endTime": "03:06:29,522"
        },
        {
          "index": 3319,
          "text": "Thank you very much. Now, we're back to the",
          "startTime": "03:06:29,582",
          "endTime": "03:06:33,522"
        },
        {
          "index": 3320,
          "text": "resolution that was tabled, was motioned and",
          "startTime": "03:06:33,542",
          "endTime": "03:06:36,082"
        },
        {
          "index": 3321,
          "text": "seconded. Um, and I'm gonna speak to it a minute 'cause there's been some things",
          "startTime": "03:06:36,142",
          "endTime": "03:06:40,082"
        },
        {
          "index": 3322,
          "text": "said that I, I kind of scratched my head a bit thinking about it,",
          "startTime": "03:06:40,142",
          "endTime": "03:06:43,222"
        },
        {
          "index": 3323,
          "text": "stating there are things in there that we cannot do or that would be",
          "startTime": "03:06:44,062",
          "endTime": "03:06:47,482"
        },
        {
          "index": 3324,
          "text": "illegal. However, nowhere on here does it say to do those things",
          "startTime": "03:06:47,522",
          "endTime": "03:06:51,122"
        },
        {
          "index": 3325,
          "text": "exactly. It says that the city c- the council of the city of",
          "startTime": "03:06:51,322",
          "endTime": "03:06:55,032"
        },
        {
          "index": 3326,
          "text": "Corvallis resolves to encourage the city manager to continue to take",
          "startTime": "03:06:55,082",
          "endTime": "03:06:59,032"
        },
        {
          "index": 3327,
          "text": "actions demonstrating this commitment, including a ) to evaluate",
          "startTime": "03:06:59,162",
          "endTime": "03:07:03,042"
        },
        {
          "index": 3328,
          "text": "legal avenues to prevent, delay, or disadvantage the development of facilities to",
          "startTime": "03:07:03,102",
          "endTime": "03:07:06,802"
        },
        {
          "index": 3329,
          "text": "be used for federal immigration enforcement purposes.",
          "startTime": "03:07:06,842",
          "endTime": "03:07:09,142"
        },
        {
          "index": 3330,
          "text": "It does not say block development.",
          "startTime": "03:07:09,182",
          "endTime": "03:07:11,502"
        },
        {
          "index": 3331,
          "text": "It doesn't say to not allow development.",
          "startTime": "03:07:11,562",
          "endTime": "03:07:13,882"
        },
        {
          "index": 3332,
          "text": "It says to pursue legal avenues, 'cause maybe there's something out there.",
          "startTime": "03:07:13,902",
          "endTime": "03:07:16,722"
        },
        {
          "index": 3333,
          "text": "Maybe there'll be, our district attorney, you know, or, or, or,",
          "startTime": "03:07:16,742",
          "endTime": "03:07:20,422"
        },
        {
          "index": 3334,
          "text": "Oregon district attorney might come up with some legal battle that he, that gets",
          "startTime": "03:07:20,682",
          "endTime": "03:07:24,162"
        },
        {
          "index": 3335,
          "text": "won, that shows, that sets precedence that we can block.",
          "startTime": "03:07:24,222",
          "endTime": "03:07:27,802"
        },
        {
          "index": 3336,
          "text": "Currently, doesn't seem like we could. But we can evaluate it.",
          "startTime": "03:07:27,862",
          "endTime": "03:07:31,502"
        },
        {
          "index": 3337,
          "text": "To evaluate legal avenues for peace officers of the city to request to identif-",
          "startTime": "03:07:31,542",
          "endTime": "03:07:34,762"
        },
        {
          "index": 3338,
          "text": "identify, identity of apparent immigration enforcement agents when",
          "startTime": "03:07:34,802",
          "endTime": "03:07:38,542"
        },
        {
          "index": 3339,
          "text": "legally permissible.",
          "startTime": "03:07:38,562",
          "endTime": "03:07:39,462"
        },
        {
          "index": 3340,
          "text": "Doesn't say you're definitely gonna, it says you're gonna evaluate if it's legally",
          "startTime": "03:07:40,262",
          "endTime": "03:07:43,362"
        },
        {
          "index": 3341,
          "text": "permissible. I think that's, it's, it's, it's work- we're, we're,",
          "startTime": "03:07:43,402",
          "endTime": "03:07:47,271"
        },
        {
          "index": 3342,
          "text": "this is high level direction as far as I'm concerned.",
          "startTime": "03:07:47,282",
          "endTime": "03:07:49,782"
        },
        {
          "index": 3343,
          "text": "Again, to utilize existing city communication platforms to connect the community",
          "startTime": "03:07:50,122",
          "endTime": "03:07:53,292"
        },
        {
          "index": 3344,
          "text": "with clear and reputable information. I think we should already be doing that.",
          "startTime": "03:07:53,322",
          "endTime": "03:07:56,642"
        },
        {
          "index": 3345,
          "text": "We have a city website, and I think we should be able to provide clear guidance to",
          "startTime": "03:07:56,662",
          "endTime": "03:08:00,202"
        },
        {
          "index": 3346,
          "text": "the community of where they can find other information.",
          "startTime": "03:08:00,242",
          "endTime": "03:08:03,182"
        },
        {
          "index": 3347,
          "text": "Um, that, that's the law. We, we kind of already do that with our",
          "startTime": "03:08:03,242",
          "endTime": "03:08:06,982"
        },
        {
          "index": 3348,
          "text": "municipal code. It's on there. That's the law.",
          "startTime": "03:08:07,042",
          "endTime": "03:08:10,342"
        },
        {
          "index": 3349,
          "text": "Um,",
          "startTime": "03:08:10,462",
          "endTime": "03:08:10,772"
        },
        {
          "index": 3350,
          "text": "d ) to ident- to identify and evaluate additional opportunities",
          "startTime": "03:08:12,562",
          "endTime": "03:08:15,712"
        },
        {
          "index": 3351,
          "text": "consistent with the city's legal authority, again make sure we're doing it within",
          "startTime": "03:08:16,202",
          "endTime": "03:08:19,322"
        },
        {
          "index": 3352,
          "text": "legal authority, to collaborate with community-based organizations, service",
          "startTime": "03:08:19,362",
          "endTime": "03:08:22,572"
        },
        {
          "index": 3353,
          "text": "providers, regional partners to support community trust, access to information, and",
          "startTime": "03:08:22,622",
          "endTime": "03:08:26,092"
        },
        {
          "index": 3354,
          "text": "public safety for all residents. We sort of already do that.",
          "startTime": "03:08:26,102",
          "endTime": "03:08:29,842"
        },
        {
          "index": 3355,
          "text": "E ) To consider adoption of the Attorney General's model policies regarding",
          "startTime": "03:08:31,902",
          "endTime": "03:08:35,662"
        },
        {
          "index": 3356,
          "text": "immigration where appropriate. We should already be doing that.",
          "startTime": "03:08:35,682",
          "endTime": "03:08:39,592"
        },
        {
          "index": 3357,
          "text": "And then f ) To ensure all non-public spaces in city buildings are clearly",
          "startTime": "03:08:40,842",
          "endTime": "03:08:44,162"
        },
        {
          "index": 3358,
          "text": "identified and labeled with signage indicating restricted access.",
          "startTime": "03:08:44,182",
          "endTime": "03:08:47,872"
        },
        {
          "index": 3359,
          "text": "We have some of that in City Hall. I haven't been to every city facility to find",
          "startTime": "03:08:47,902",
          "endTime": "03:08:51,142"
        },
        {
          "index": 3360,
          "text": "out if it's done everywhere, but that's good.",
          "startTime": "03:08:51,162",
          "endTime": "03:08:53,102"
        },
        {
          "index": 3361,
          "text": "That's something that I encourage every",
          "startTime": "03:08:53,122",
          "endTime": "03:08:55,942"
        },
        {
          "index": 3362,
          "text": "business, school, anywhere that has areas that are for",
          "startTime": "03:08:56,082",
          "endTime": "03:08:59,882"
        },
        {
          "index": 3363,
          "text": "employees only should have those labels up, because",
          "startTime": "03:08:59,902",
          "endTime": "03:09:03,182"
        },
        {
          "index": 3364,
          "text": "then police, regardless of what, entity it is,",
          "startTime": "03:09:03,202",
          "endTime": "03:09:06,952"
        },
        {
          "index": 3365,
          "text": "cannot enter without a warrant. So",
          "startTime": "03:09:06,962",
          "endTime": "03:09:10,362"
        },
        {
          "index": 3366,
          "text": "that's... I mean, we're not saying we're gonna",
          "startTime": "03:09:10,422",
          "endTime": "03:09:12,802"
        },
        {
          "index": 3367,
          "text": "overhaul buildings. It's signage, and it'll, it might take a while depending on how",
          "startTime": "03:09:14,062",
          "endTime": "03:09:17,742"
        },
        {
          "index": 3368,
          "text": "much is needed. But it just, it's to, it's",
          "startTime": "03:09:17,782",
          "endTime": "03:09:20,202"
        },
        {
          "index": 3369,
          "text": "to encourage the city manager to continue taking these actions.",
          "startTime": "03:09:21,442",
          "endTime": "03:09:25,022"
        },
        {
          "index": 3370,
          "text": "I think that's pretty clear. And regarding the comment about the Jedi board",
          "startTime": "03:09:25,122",
          "endTime": "03:09:27,902"
        },
        {
          "index": 3371,
          "text": "soliciting community empowerment grant applications, it doesn't say when.",
          "startTime": "03:09:27,982",
          "endTime": "03:09:31,362"
        },
        {
          "index": 3372,
          "text": "So I agree, they're already kind of in it.",
          "startTime": "03:09:32,362",
          "endTime": "03:09:34,662"
        },
        {
          "index": 3373,
          "text": "It couldn't be done, but maybe the next time, which I think is a good",
          "startTime": "03:09:34,702",
          "endTime": "03:09:38,542"
        },
        {
          "index": 3374,
          "text": "idea, obviously. And then sending copies of this",
          "startTime": "03:09:38,602",
          "endTime": "03:09:41,612"
        },
        {
          "index": 3375,
          "text": "resolution. We probably would do that anyway, so at least I would like to think we",
          "startTime": "03:09:41,622",
          "endTime": "03:09:45,402"
        },
        {
          "index": 3376,
          "text": "would. So I, I personally do not see the major",
          "startTime": "03:09:45,422",
          "endTime": "03:09:48,562"
        },
        {
          "index": 3377,
          "text": "concern-Um, this is action. This is saying we're gonna",
          "startTime": "03:09:48,582",
          "endTime": "03:09:52,418"
        },
        {
          "index": 3378,
          "text": "do these things, but it doesn't say exactly when or whether we can",
          "startTime": "03:09:52,478",
          "endTime": "03:09:56,358"
        },
        {
          "index": 3379,
          "text": "legally accomplish it. We're just gonna try.",
          "startTime": "03:09:56,398",
          "endTime": "03:09:58,868"
        },
        {
          "index": 3380,
          "text": "We're gonna try to find out what we can do legally.",
          "startTime": "03:09:58,978",
          "endTime": "03:10:01,278"
        },
        {
          "index": 3381,
          "text": "Um,",
          "startTime": "03:10:01,378",
          "endTime": "03:10:01,568"
        },
        {
          "index": 3382,
          "text": "and as, Director Bilotta apparently said, like, maybe there's no way we can",
          "startTime": "03:10:02,538",
          "endTime": "03:10:06,218"
        },
        {
          "index": 3383,
          "text": "block a facility, and that would be unfortunate 'cause I really don't want",
          "startTime": "03:10:06,438",
          "endTime": "03:10:09,678"
        },
        {
          "index": 3384,
          "text": "one, or anywhere, honestly. So",
          "startTime": "03:10:09,718",
          "endTime": "03:10:12,598"
        },
        {
          "index": 3385,
          "text": "my, my hope is that this gets a- adopted, but",
          "startTime": "03:10:13,978",
          "endTime": "03:10:16,318"
        },
        {
          "index": 3386,
          "text": "you're all the councilors.",
          "startTime": "03:10:17,618",
          "endTime": "03:10:18,538"
        },
        {
          "index": 3387,
          "text": "Councilor Olson.",
          "startTime": "03:10:19,998",
          "endTime": "03:10:21,258"
        },
        {
          "index": 3388,
          "text": "Yeah. Um, I second everything you ever...",
          "startTime": "03:10:21,298",
          "endTime": "03:10:24,428"
        },
        {
          "index": 3389,
          "text": "you just said about all of these being, we're going to evaluate, we're",
          "startTime": "03:10:24,478",
          "endTime": "03:10:28,408"
        },
        {
          "index": 3390,
          "text": "going to con- look at this. An evaluation means we can look at it",
          "startTime": "03:10:28,418",
          "endTime": "03:10:32,358"
        },
        {
          "index": 3391,
          "text": "and decide that's not legal, and then we would...",
          "startTime": "03:10:32,398",
          "endTime": "03:10:34,888"
        },
        {
          "index": 3392,
          "text": "we don't do it, and that's the end of that.",
          "startTime": "03:10:34,918",
          "endTime": "03:10:37,287"
        },
        {
          "index": 3393,
          "text": "Um, so to sum up what you said, additionally,",
          "startTime": "03:10:37,358",
          "endTime": "03:10:41,198"
        },
        {
          "index": 3394,
          "text": "all... this language was all reviewed by our city attorney multiple times and",
          "startTime": "03:10:41,558",
          "endTime": "03:10:45,478"
        },
        {
          "index": 3395,
          "text": "was edited and then sent back, and then edited again.",
          "startTime": "03:10:45,498",
          "endTime": "03:10:47,938"
        },
        {
          "index": 3396,
          "text": "So our city attorney has, examined this, determined all of the leg- language",
          "startTime": "03:10:47,998",
          "endTime": "03:10:51,918"
        },
        {
          "index": 3397,
          "text": "in here to be legal and things we can do.",
          "startTime": "03:10:51,938",
          "endTime": "03:10:55,708"
        },
        {
          "index": 3398,
          "text": "Um, this resolution does not include everything that was in the",
          "startTime": "03:10:55,778",
          "endTime": "03:10:59,558"
        },
        {
          "index": 3399,
          "text": "previous resolution because it was written with the knowledge that the state was",
          "startTime": "03:10:59,578",
          "endTime": "03:11:02,848"
        },
        {
          "index": 3400,
          "text": "working on these, and so we didn't need to replicate efforts.",
          "startTime": "03:11:02,898",
          "endTime": "03:11:06,228"
        },
        {
          "index": 3401,
          "text": "And in fact, things such as, you know, evaluating",
          "startTime": "03:11:06,258",
          "endTime": "03:11:10,038"
        },
        {
          "index": 3402,
          "text": "legal avenues for the city to request the identity of apparent",
          "startTime": "03:11:10,098",
          "endTime": "03:11:13,778"
        },
        {
          "index": 3403,
          "text": "immigration agents, that will be so much easier now that they cannot wear masks",
          "startTime": "03:11:14,338",
          "endTime": "03:11:18,258"
        },
        {
          "index": 3404,
          "text": "due to state limitations, and they have to have visible ID.",
          "startTime": "03:11:18,298",
          "endTime": "03:11:22,018"
        },
        {
          "index": 3405,
          "text": "So we are asking... And if anything, it will make the community safer,",
          "startTime": "03:11:22,078",
          "endTime": "03:11:25,638"
        },
        {
          "index": 3406,
          "text": "considering",
          "startTime": "03:11:25,678",
          "endTime": "03:11:26,278"
        },
        {
          "index": 3407,
          "text": "OSU has already had people on campus pretending to be fake",
          "startTime": "03:11:27,258",
          "endTime": "03:11:30,738"
        },
        {
          "index": 3408,
          "text": "immigration agents. And that, for",
          "startTime": "03:11:30,818",
          "endTime": "03:11:34,758"
        },
        {
          "index": 3409,
          "text": "me personally, that",
          "startTime": "03:11:34,818",
          "endTime": "03:11:35,918"
        },
        {
          "index": 3410,
          "text": "specific, you know, letter B is really important because",
          "startTime": "03:11:36,918",
          "endTime": "03:11:40,888"
        },
        {
          "index": 3411,
          "text": "I don't want my community to be able to be terrorized by three bored",
          "startTime": "03:11:40,998",
          "endTime": "03:11:44,648"
        },
        {
          "index": 3412,
          "text": "frat guys who decide to... that they wanna be immigration agents.",
          "startTime": "03:11:44,758",
          "endTime": "03:11:48,638"
        },
        {
          "index": 3413,
          "text": "And so by coming at it as we're requesting their identification to make sure that",
          "startTime": "03:11:48,678",
          "endTime": "03:11:52,578"
        },
        {
          "index": 3414,
          "text": "they're legal immigration agents and not just some guy,",
          "startTime": "03:11:52,598",
          "endTime": "03:11:55,878"
        },
        {
          "index": 3415,
          "text": "um... Yeah. And then, oh my gosh, I had one more thing I",
          "startTime": "03:11:56,478",
          "endTime": "03:12:00,358"
        },
        {
          "index": 3416,
          "text": "was gonna say on this. Yeah. Broad- I am",
          "startTime": "03:12:00,378",
          "endTime": "03:12:04,338"
        },
        {
          "index": 3417,
          "text": "just in support of taking actual",
          "startTime": "03:12:04,538",
          "endTime": "03:12:07,228"
        },
        {
          "index": 3418,
          "text": "actions on this, and I am very proud of all of",
          "startTime": "03:12:08,218",
          "endTime": "03:12:11,998"
        },
        {
          "index": 3419,
          "text": "the work that the community has put into this.",
          "startTime": "03:12:12,078",
          "endTime": "03:12:15,408"
        },
        {
          "index": 3420,
          "text": "And",
          "startTime": "03:12:15,458",
          "endTime": "03:12:15,758"
        },
        {
          "index": 3421,
          "text": "yeah, I am proud to have my name on it, and also Mayor Mon's name,",
          "startTime": "03:12:17,258",
          "endTime": "03:12:21,138"
        },
        {
          "index": 3422,
          "text": "whoever's names ends up being on there.",
          "startTime": "03:12:21,178",
          "endTime": "03:12:23,198"
        },
        {
          "index": 3423,
          "text": "And additio- oh, that was the other thing.",
          "startTime": "03:12:23,238",
          "endTime": "03:12:25,878"
        },
        {
          "index": 3424,
          "text": "And for people who worry that we might be getting our",
          "startTime": "03:12:25,898",
          "endTime": "03:12:29,638"
        },
        {
          "index": 3425,
          "text": "hands dirty by putting additional restrictions on things",
          "startTime": "03:12:29,698",
          "endTime": "03:12:33,258"
        },
        {
          "index": 3426,
          "text": "or by drawing attention to us by the federal government,",
          "startTime": "03:12:33,338",
          "endTime": "03:12:36,958"
        },
        {
          "index": 3427,
          "text": "we're already involved in legal activities",
          "startTime": "03:12:36,998",
          "endTime": "03:12:40,818"
        },
        {
          "index": 3428,
          "text": "relating to the federal government, so it's not like they don't know who we",
          "startTime": "03:12:40,858",
          "endTime": "03:12:44,238"
        },
        {
          "index": 3429,
          "text": "are. They know about the city of Corvallis. That's not...",
          "startTime": "03:12:44,338",
          "endTime": "03:12:47,688"
        },
        {
          "index": 3430,
          "text": "We're not not on their list. We're already on their",
          "startTime": "03:12:47,698",
          "endTime": "03:12:50,618"
        },
        {
          "index": 3431,
          "text": "list. So it, it can't",
          "startTime": "03:12:50,678",
          "endTime": "03:12:53,918"
        },
        {
          "index": 3432,
          "text": "hurt, and I am fully in support of this",
          "startTime": "03:12:54,018",
          "endTime": "03:12:56,358"
        },
        {
          "index": 3433,
          "text": "resolution.",
          "startTime": "03:12:56,398",
          "endTime": "03:12:59,698"
        },
        {
          "index": 3434,
          "text": "Councilor Moorfield?",
          "startTime": "03:13:00,278",
          "endTime": "03:13:02,478"
        },
        {
          "index": 3435,
          "text": "Um-",
          "startTime": "03:13:02,598",
          "endTime": "03:13:03,278"
        },
        {
          "index": 3436,
          "text": "Oh, go ahead.",
          "startTime": "03:13:03,358",
          "endTime": "03:13:04,968"
        },
        {
          "index": 3437,
          "text": "I, I'm substantially supportive.",
          "startTime": "03:13:04,968",
          "endTime": "03:13:07,418"
        },
        {
          "index": 3438,
          "text": "Um, most of these things are",
          "startTime": "03:13:07,538",
          "endTime": "03:13:10,838"
        },
        {
          "index": 3439,
          "text": "commonsensical, and they align well with the resolution we already passed",
          "startTime": "03:13:10,878",
          "endTime": "03:13:14,638"
        },
        {
          "index": 3440,
          "text": "and, and aren't necessarily in conflict.",
          "startTime": "03:13:14,678",
          "endTime": "03:13:17,378"
        },
        {
          "index": 3441,
          "text": "Um, the,",
          "startTime": "03:13:17,498",
          "endTime": "03:13:19,058"
        },
        {
          "index": 3442,
          "text": "the only question I had,",
          "startTime": "03:13:20,378",
          "endTime": "03:13:23,098"
        },
        {
          "index": 3443,
          "text": "even though it uses the word evaluate legal av- avenues,",
          "startTime": "03:13:24,338",
          "endTime": "03:13:28,178"
        },
        {
          "index": 3444,
          "text": "it's specific... I'm talking about A now.",
          "startTime": "03:13:28,198",
          "endTime": "03:13:31,658"
        },
        {
          "index": 3445,
          "text": "It's specific to the development of facilities.",
          "startTime": "03:13:31,718",
          "endTime": "03:13:34,958"
        },
        {
          "index": 3446,
          "text": "Um, you said that the city attorney reviewed",
          "startTime": "03:13:35,078",
          "endTime": "03:13:38,858"
        },
        {
          "index": 3447,
          "text": "this and didn't have a problem with the language.",
          "startTime": "03:13:38,918",
          "endTime": "03:13:42,598"
        },
        {
          "index": 3448,
          "text": "Um, the question I wanna make s- I wanna see if it was asked or",
          "startTime": "03:13:42,738",
          "endTime": "03:13:46,638"
        },
        {
          "index": 3449,
          "text": "if city, city attorney's not with us now, I assume.",
          "startTime": "03:13:46,678",
          "endTime": "03:13:50,378"
        },
        {
          "index": 3450,
          "text": "Yeah. Um, I'm gonna ask the question.",
          "startTime": "03:13:50,398",
          "endTime": "03:13:52,978"
        },
        {
          "index": 3451,
          "text": "Um, when we say ahead of time",
          "startTime": "03:13:53,078",
          "endTime": "03:13:55,838"
        },
        {
          "index": 3452,
          "text": "that we're going to oppose or delay, prevent,",
          "startTime": "03:13:56,658",
          "endTime": "03:14:00,378"
        },
        {
          "index": 3453,
          "text": "disadvantage the development of facilities, which",
          "startTime": "03:14:00,398",
          "endTime": "03:14:03,858"
        },
        {
          "index": 3454,
          "text": "requires a l- which may involve a land use action,",
          "startTime": "03:14:04,258",
          "endTime": "03:14:07,818"
        },
        {
          "index": 3455,
          "text": "we are actually disadvantag-",
          "startTime": "03:14:09,378",
          "endTime": "03:14:11,458"
        },
        {
          "index": 3456,
          "text": "disadvantaging",
          "startTime": "03:14:11,838",
          "endTime": "03:14:12,958"
        },
        {
          "index": 3457,
          "text": "ourselves in making a case,",
          "startTime": "03:14:14,158",
          "endTime": "03:14:17,238"
        },
        {
          "index": 3458,
          "text": "or being able to make a case to say no, if that makes",
          "startTime": "03:14:18,118",
          "endTime": "03:14:21,018"
        },
        {
          "index": 3459,
          "text": "sense. In other words, if we're presented with",
          "startTime": "03:14:21,078",
          "endTime": "03:14:24,698"
        },
        {
          "index": 3460,
          "text": "something that requires some sort of discretionary review,",
          "startTime": "03:14:24,758",
          "endTime": "03:14:28,398"
        },
        {
          "index": 3461,
          "text": "and I don't know what... You know, there's times most development these days does",
          "startTime": "03:14:30,018",
          "endTime": "03:14:33,098"
        },
        {
          "index": 3462,
          "text": "not have much discretion attached to it, but it does",
          "startTime": "03:14:33,138",
          "endTime": "03:14:36,248"
        },
        {
          "index": 3463,
          "text": "sometimes. And I don't know enough about where things like",
          "startTime": "03:14:36,318",
          "endTime": "03:14:39,948"
        },
        {
          "index": 3464,
          "text": "jails are even allowed in our, our town from a land use point of",
          "startTime": "03:14:39,978",
          "endTime": "03:14:43,798"
        },
        {
          "index": 3465,
          "text": "view to understand what issues may or may not be",
          "startTime": "03:14:43,818",
          "endTime": "03:14:47,058"
        },
        {
          "index": 3466,
          "text": "involved. But,",
          "startTime": "03:14:47,098",
          "endTime": "03:14:48,458"
        },
        {
          "index": 3467,
          "text": "you know, when we've had certain kinds of land use related",
          "startTime": "03:14:49,278",
          "endTime": "03:14:52,678"
        },
        {
          "index": 3468,
          "text": "decisions, we have to declare whether we have a bias or not.",
          "startTime": "03:14:52,718",
          "endTime": "03:14:56,698"
        },
        {
          "index": 3469,
          "text": "And if we do, we have to recuse ourselves.",
          "startTime": "03:14:56,718",
          "endTime": "03:14:59,498"
        },
        {
          "index": 3470,
          "text": "Mm-hmm.",
          "startTime": "03:14:59,518",
          "endTime": "03:15:00,098"
        },
        {
          "index": 3471,
          "text": "So if we're gonna pass a resolution saying, \"Oh, we oppose this on",
          "startTime": "03:15:00,158",
          "endTime": "03:15:03,628"
        },
        {
          "index": 3472,
          "text": "principle,\" and then we're gonna b- also, not",
          "startTime": "03:15:03,658",
          "endTime": "03:15:07,588"
        },
        {
          "index": 3473,
          "text": "have to recuse ourselves if we're presented with a decision that is a",
          "startTime": "03:15:07,618",
          "endTime": "03:15:11,558"
        },
        {
          "index": 3474,
          "text": "discretionary one that gets to the level of the council, I, I don't know why",
          "startTime": "03:15:11,578",
          "endTime": "03:15:15,388"
        },
        {
          "index": 3475,
          "text": "the, the attorney wouldn't have addressed that. Um...",
          "startTime": "03:15:15,458",
          "endTime": "03:15:19,168"
        },
        {
          "index": 3476,
          "text": "Can I respond to this? Okay. Um,",
          "startTime": "03:15:19,198",
          "endTime": "03:15:22,178"
        },
        {
          "index": 3477,
          "text": "yeah. Uh, main... So when we were...",
          "startTime": "03:15:23,218",
          "endTime": "03:15:26,948"
        },
        {
          "index": 3478,
          "text": "Well, I say we. I'm reading from a document that really wasn't",
          "startTime": "03:15:26,958",
          "endTime": "03:15:30,938"
        },
        {
          "index": 3479,
          "text": "put together by myself, but from",
          "startTime": "03:15:30,958",
          "endTime": "03:15:33,288"
        },
        {
          "index": 3480,
          "text": "both the city attorney and the city manager, it was",
          "startTime": "03:15:34,178",
          "endTime": "03:15:37,238"
        },
        {
          "index": 3481,
          "text": "read, item A was read as a request for a",
          "startTime": "03:15:37,318",
          "endTime": "03:15:40,678"
        },
        {
          "index": 3482,
          "text": "staff/city attorney, to determine what",
          "startTime": "03:15:40,778",
          "endTime": "03:15:44,578"
        },
        {
          "index": 3483,
          "text": "legal means the city might have to prevent an ICE facility.",
          "startTime": "03:15:44,678",
          "endTime": "03:15:47,578"
        },
        {
          "index": 3484,
          "text": "I think that there will be few options for the city to regulate use on private",
          "startTime": "03:15:47,638",
          "endTime": "03:15:51,098"
        },
        {
          "index": 3485,
          "text": "property outside of current zoning limitations.",
          "startTime": "03:15:51,158",
          "endTime": "03:15:53,858"
        },
        {
          "index": 3486,
          "text": "That said, it is something that council could af- ask time to",
          "startTime": "03:15:53,898",
          "endTime": "03:15:57,158"
        },
        {
          "index": 3487,
          "text": "spend, ask staff to spend time researching.",
          "startTime": "03:15:57,198",
          "endTime": "03:16:00,498"
        },
        {
          "index": 3488,
          "text": "Additionally, like you, like-",
          "startTime": "03:16:00,538",
          "endTime": "03:16:03,238"
        },
        {
          "index": 3489,
          "text": "Excuse me, Councilor Olson, real quick.",
          "startTime": "03:16:03,258",
          "endTime": "03:16:04,698"
        },
        {
          "index": 3490,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "03:16:04,758",
          "endTime": "03:16:04,768"
        },
        {
          "index": 3491,
          "text": "City manager's had his hand raised.",
          "startTime": "03:16:04,778",
          "endTime": "03:16:06,458"
        },
        {
          "index": 3492,
          "text": "I wanna see what-",
          "startTime": "03:16:06,478",
          "endTime": "03:16:06,958"
        },
        {
          "index": 3493,
          "text": "I, I, I just wanna clarify. From my knowledge, the city",
          "startTime": "03:16:07,290",
          "endTime": "03:16:11,130"
        },
        {
          "index": 3494,
          "text": "attorney reviewed an earlier version that was presented,",
          "startTime": "03:16:11,190",
          "endTime": "03:16:14,930"
        },
        {
          "index": 3495,
          "text": "and I did appreciate, the request for that review.",
          "startTime": "03:16:14,950",
          "endTime": "03:16:18,710"
        },
        {
          "index": 3496,
          "text": "But, to my knowledge, the city attorney did not review",
          "startTime": "03:16:18,730",
          "endTime": "03:16:22,710"
        },
        {
          "index": 3497,
          "text": "the version that's actually in here.",
          "startTime": "03:16:22,850",
          "endTime": "03:16:24,750"
        },
        {
          "index": 3498,
          "text": "The version, that's in the council",
          "startTime": "03:16:24,770",
          "endTime": "03:16:27,850"
        },
        {
          "index": 3499,
          "text": "packet, was revised based on some comments, but",
          "startTime": "03:16:27,970",
          "endTime": "03:16:31,930"
        },
        {
          "index": 3500,
          "text": "not reviewed again by the city",
          "startTime": "03:16:31,970",
          "endTime": "03:16:33,650"
        },
        {
          "index": 3501,
          "text": "attorney.",
          "startTime": "03:16:33,710",
          "endTime": "03:16:36,290"
        },
        {
          "index": 3502,
          "text": "Yeah. Were you just reading an email?",
          "startTime": "03:16:37,810",
          "endTime": "03:16:39,550"
        },
        {
          "index": 3503,
          "text": "Uh, I was reading comments on the document itself that I was provided, so.",
          "startTime": "03:16:40,390",
          "endTime": "03:16:44,310"
        },
        {
          "index": 3504,
          "text": "Yeah, 'cause that, that, that could be considered",
          "startTime": "03:16:44,350",
          "endTime": "03:16:46,230"
        },
        {
          "index": 3505,
          "text": "confidential client information from the city attorney.",
          "startTime": "03:16:47,790",
          "endTime": "03:16:51,430"
        },
        {
          "index": 3506,
          "text": "It, it was g- it was given to a community member, not me.",
          "startTime": "03:16:52,730",
          "endTime": "03:16:55,979"
        },
        {
          "index": 3507,
          "text": "Oh.",
          "startTime": "03:16:55,979",
          "endTime": "03:16:55,979"
        },
        {
          "index": 3508,
          "text": "So I'm assuming it's not confidential since the community's not clients.",
          "startTime": "03:16:56,050",
          "endTime": "03:16:59,390"
        },
        {
          "index": 3509,
          "text": "To clarify, those were comments I wrote based on",
          "startTime": "03:16:59,430",
          "endTime": "03:17:03,020"
        },
        {
          "index": 3510,
          "text": "information I got from the, the city attorney, and again, those",
          "startTime": "03:17:03,070",
          "endTime": "03:17:06,870"
        },
        {
          "index": 3511,
          "text": "comments were on a previous",
          "startTime": "03:17:06,930",
          "endTime": "03:17:10,030"
        },
        {
          "index": 3512,
          "text": "version.",
          "startTime": "03:17:10,090",
          "endTime": "03:17:12,270"
        },
        {
          "index": 3513,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "03:17:12,330",
          "endTime": "03:17:13,830"
        },
        {
          "index": 3514,
          "text": "But this language was on the previous version you reviewed,",
          "startTime": "03:17:13,850",
          "endTime": "03:17:17,150"
        },
        {
          "index": 3515,
          "text": "right? That clause specifically?",
          "startTime": "03:17:17,210",
          "endTime": "03:17:20,270"
        },
        {
          "index": 3516,
          "text": "Not as written, no.",
          "startTime": "03:17:20,590",
          "endTime": "03:17:22,750"
        },
        {
          "index": 3517,
          "text": "Okay.",
          "startTime": "03:17:22,810",
          "endTime": "03:17:24,730"
        },
        {
          "index": 3518,
          "text": "I mean, to say what I had said earlier",
          "startTime": "03:17:25,750",
          "endTime": "03:17:29,300"
        },
        {
          "index": 3519,
          "text": "also, we're evaluating avenues. We send it to the attorney, they",
          "startTime": "03:17:29,450",
          "endTime": "03:17:32,970"
        },
        {
          "index": 3520,
          "text": "say, \"Yeah, this will get you in trouble with the land use.\" And we go,",
          "startTime": "03:17:33,010",
          "endTime": "03:17:36,520"
        },
        {
          "index": 3521,
          "text": "\"Great. Good to know.\" And then that's the end of the",
          "startTime": "03:17:36,520",
          "endTime": "03:17:40,190"
        },
        {
          "index": 3522,
          "text": "story.",
          "startTime": "03:17:40,250",
          "endTime": "03:17:41,930"
        },
        {
          "index": 3523,
          "text": "And-",
          "startTime": "03:17:41,950",
          "endTime": "03:17:42,010"
        },
        {
          "index": 3524,
          "text": "Let me make a suggestion, though, that saying it...",
          "startTime": "03:17:42,030",
          "endTime": "03:17:45,440"
        },
        {
          "index": 3525,
          "text": "Asking the question is fine, but putting it in the form of",
          "startTime": "03:17:45,530",
          "endTime": "03:17:48,990"
        },
        {
          "index": 3526,
          "text": "a resolution, we're stating a position, an end to",
          "startTime": "03:17:49,070",
          "endTime": "03:17:52,950"
        },
        {
          "index": 3527,
          "text": "which... that we're trying to achieve.",
          "startTime": "03:17:53,010",
          "endTime": "03:17:55,650"
        },
        {
          "index": 3528,
          "text": "And, from a land",
          "startTime": "03:17:55,730",
          "endTime": "03:17:58,290"
        },
        {
          "index": 3529,
          "text": "use, perspective, we're,",
          "startTime": "03:17:58,390",
          "endTime": "03:18:02,250"
        },
        {
          "index": 3530,
          "text": "we're pre-judging a land use request that might come",
          "startTime": "03:18:02,290",
          "endTime": "03:18:06,070"
        },
        {
          "index": 3531,
          "text": "our way and, and that, that is grounds for",
          "startTime": "03:18:06,110",
          "endTime": "03:18:10,090"
        },
        {
          "index": 3532,
          "text": "applicants to say, \"You have to recuse yourself.\"",
          "startTime": "03:18:10,170",
          "endTime": "03:18:12,750"
        },
        {
          "index": 3533,
          "text": "Technically true.",
          "startTime": "03:18:12,790",
          "endTime": "03:18:13,830"
        },
        {
          "index": 3534,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "03:18:14,030",
          "endTime": "03:18:14,240"
        },
        {
          "index": 3535,
          "text": "And, and, and, and, you know, at the end, we also...",
          "startTime": "03:18:14,270",
          "endTime": "03:18:16,400"
        },
        {
          "index": 3536,
          "text": "When there's, when there's public hearings on land use, we also ask, you know, \"Is",
          "startTime": "03:18:16,430",
          "endTime": "03:18:19,350"
        },
        {
          "index": 3537,
          "text": "this the appropriate body for this decision?\" And one might be going,",
          "startTime": "03:18:19,410",
          "endTime": "03:18:22,670"
        },
        {
          "index": 3538,
          "text": "\"No.\" And then the decision is no longer ours to make.",
          "startTime": "03:18:22,690",
          "endTime": "03:18:25,890"
        },
        {
          "index": 3539,
          "text": "So, y- yeah.",
          "startTime": "03:18:27,130",
          "endTime": "03:18:29,230"
        },
        {
          "index": 3540,
          "text": "So I mean, I, I, I, I get your point, and I don't think you're wrong",
          "startTime": "03:18:29,970",
          "endTime": "03:18:33,210"
        },
        {
          "index": 3541,
          "text": "necessarily, so.",
          "startTime": "03:18:33,250",
          "endTime": "03:18:35,610"
        },
        {
          "index": 3542,
          "text": "Councilor Cadena.",
          "startTime": "03:18:37,160",
          "endTime": "03:18:38,650"
        },
        {
          "index": 3543,
          "text": "Yeah, a couple comments. There was a comment made earlier about, the feds",
          "startTime": "03:18:38,710",
          "endTime": "03:18:42,460"
        },
        {
          "index": 3544,
          "text": "complying with our land development code.",
          "startTime": "03:18:42,690",
          "endTime": "03:18:44,380"
        },
        {
          "index": 3545,
          "text": "I believe that when the feds do any kind of",
          "startTime": "03:18:44,450",
          "endTime": "03:18:48,030"
        },
        {
          "index": 3546,
          "text": "facility, they don't have to comply with local land development code.",
          "startTime": "03:18:48,070",
          "endTime": "03:18:51,310"
        },
        {
          "index": 3547,
          "text": "Is that correct, city manager?",
          "startTime": "03:18:51,390",
          "endTime": "03:18:53,250"
        },
        {
          "index": 3548,
          "text": "That's correct. Whether it's a post office or",
          "startTime": "03:18:53,470",
          "endTime": "03:18:57,350"
        },
        {
          "index": 3549,
          "text": "any other facility, they, they may take into",
          "startTime": "03:18:57,390",
          "endTime": "03:19:00,699"
        },
        {
          "index": 3550,
          "text": "consideration local land use, but there's a supremacy clause that they",
          "startTime": "03:19:00,710",
          "endTime": "03:19:04,610"
        },
        {
          "index": 3551,
          "text": "do not have to follow, state or local land use",
          "startTime": "03:19:04,630",
          "endTime": "03:19:08,370"
        },
        {
          "index": 3552,
          "text": "regulations.",
          "startTime": "03:19:08,510",
          "endTime": "03:19:09,490"
        },
        {
          "index": 3553,
          "text": "Okay. So my... the... I just wanted to clarify that one point.",
          "startTime": "03:19:09,550",
          "endTime": "03:19:12,890"
        },
        {
          "index": 3554,
          "text": "Um, the rest of my comments are",
          "startTime": "03:19:12,990",
          "endTime": "03:19:14,890"
        },
        {
          "index": 3555,
          "text": "I don't want anybody to mistake that I think what's going on in",
          "startTime": "03:19:16,150",
          "endTime": "03:19:19,850"
        },
        {
          "index": 3556,
          "text": "s- immigration enforcement is abhorrent,",
          "startTime": "03:19:19,950",
          "endTime": "03:19:23,380"
        },
        {
          "index": 3557,
          "text": "and the lack of due process, poor training,",
          "startTime": "03:19:23,470",
          "endTime": "03:19:26,650"
        },
        {
          "index": 3558,
          "text": "the targeting of folks, with",
          "startTime": "03:19:27,490",
          "endTime": "03:19:30,950"
        },
        {
          "index": 3559,
          "text": "likely no probable cause, et cetera, et cetera. It's...",
          "startTime": "03:19:31,270",
          "endTime": "03:19:34,900"
        },
        {
          "index": 3560,
          "text": "Uh, there's... Words can't describe it.",
          "startTime": "03:19:36,690",
          "endTime": "03:19:40,070"
        },
        {
          "index": 3561,
          "text": "Um, I have a, a... I think that",
          "startTime": "03:19:40,210",
          "endTime": "03:19:43,080"
        },
        {
          "index": 3562,
          "text": "I'm also sensitive to",
          "startTime": "03:19:44,270",
          "endTime": "03:19:45,910"
        },
        {
          "index": 3563,
          "text": "when we say that we're gonna encourage the city manager to evaluate certain things",
          "startTime": "03:19:47,470",
          "endTime": "03:19:51,250"
        },
        {
          "index": 3564,
          "text": "that I, I don't, I don't like putting something...",
          "startTime": "03:19:51,350",
          "endTime": "03:19:54,319"
        },
        {
          "index": 3565,
          "text": "asking the staff to do things that,",
          "startTime": "03:19:54,350",
          "endTime": "03:19:57,510"
        },
        {
          "index": 3566,
          "text": "basically will result in nothing. I, and...",
          "startTime": "03:19:57,830",
          "endTime": "03:20:01,660"
        },
        {
          "index": 3567,
          "text": "Or, or that we set staff up for an",
          "startTime": "03:20:01,710",
          "endTime": "03:20:05,170"
        },
        {
          "index": 3568,
          "text": "expectation that something will come out of it, and the, and",
          "startTime": "03:20:05,250",
          "endTime": "03:20:09,180"
        },
        {
          "index": 3569,
          "text": "the viewpoint is, \"I don't know what we can",
          "startTime": "03:20:09,270",
          "endTime": "03:20:12,970"
        },
        {
          "index": 3570,
          "text": "do.\" But beyond that, aside from the staff",
          "startTime": "03:20:13,010",
          "endTime": "03:20:16,330"
        },
        {
          "index": 3571,
          "text": "impact,",
          "startTime": "03:20:16,370",
          "endTime": "03:20:18,590"
        },
        {
          "index": 3572,
          "text": "I think that, Councilor Olsen made the comment",
          "startTime": "03:20:19,630",
          "endTime": "03:20:23,450"
        },
        {
          "index": 3573,
          "text": "that, you know, we want something that does something.",
          "startTime": "03:20:23,530",
          "endTime": "03:20:26,410"
        },
        {
          "index": 3574,
          "text": "Uh, we want a resolution that does something.",
          "startTime": "03:20:26,530",
          "endTime": "03:20:30,070"
        },
        {
          "index": 3575,
          "text": "I, I think one could make an argument this resolution won't do...",
          "startTime": "03:20:30,310",
          "endTime": "03:20:33,179"
        },
        {
          "index": 3576,
          "text": "accomplish anything",
          "startTime": "03:20:33,250",
          "endTime": "03:20:34,650"
        },
        {
          "index": 3577,
          "text": "from the perspective of",
          "startTime": "03:20:35,710",
          "endTime": "03:20:37,250"
        },
        {
          "index": 3578,
          "text": "containing ICE. I think that",
          "startTime": "03:20:38,130",
          "endTime": "03:20:41,090"
        },
        {
          "index": 3579,
          "text": "what I,",
          "startTime": "03:20:42,850",
          "endTime": "03:20:43,670"
        },
        {
          "index": 3580,
          "text": "what I think is",
          "startTime": "03:20:44,850",
          "endTime": "03:20:45,970"
        },
        {
          "index": 3581,
          "text": "from my personal experience, my personal perspective, and perhaps it's because",
          "startTime": "03:20:46,930",
          "endTime": "03:20:50,850"
        },
        {
          "index": 3582,
          "text": "I grew up in a different era",
          "startTime": "03:20:50,930",
          "endTime": "03:20:52,050"
        },
        {
          "index": 3583,
          "text": "and because I'm old, but I think",
          "startTime": "03:20:53,110",
          "endTime": "03:20:56,370"
        },
        {
          "index": 3584,
          "text": "that",
          "startTime": "03:20:56,430",
          "endTime": "03:20:58,690"
        },
        {
          "index": 3585,
          "text": "because I b- because I grew up in San Jose, California,",
          "startTime": "03:21:01,050",
          "endTime": "03:21:04,830"
        },
        {
          "index": 3586,
          "text": "and yeah, there's a lot of Latinos in, in San Jose now, and but",
          "startTime": "03:21:04,910",
          "endTime": "03:21:08,810"
        },
        {
          "index": 3587,
          "text": "we were definitely a minority.",
          "startTime": "03:21:08,910",
          "endTime": "03:21:10,470"
        },
        {
          "index": 3588,
          "text": "And",
          "startTime": "03:21:11,850",
          "endTime": "03:21:12,250"
        },
        {
          "index": 3589,
          "text": "I've, I've gotten... I've grown quite weary",
          "startTime": "03:21:14,810",
          "endTime": "03:21:17,190"
        },
        {
          "index": 3590,
          "text": "of politicians doing things",
          "startTime": "03:21:18,810",
          "endTime": "03:21:21,580"
        },
        {
          "index": 3591,
          "text": "but they're not actually accomplishing anything.",
          "startTime": "03:21:22,990",
          "endTime": "03:21:25,520"
        },
        {
          "index": 3592,
          "text": "And by doing things, I mean by making statements.",
          "startTime": "03:21:25,550",
          "endTime": "03:21:29,350"
        },
        {
          "index": 3593,
          "text": "My favorite being, of course, \"Of course I'm in favor of common sense",
          "startTime": "03:21:29,490",
          "endTime": "03:21:33,250"
        },
        {
          "index": 3594,
          "text": "immigration reform,\" and yet that's",
          "startTime": "03:21:33,370",
          "endTime": "03:21:36,160"
        },
        {
          "index": 3595,
          "text": "never been delivered. I think I",
          "startTime": "03:21:37,670",
          "endTime": "03:21:41,040"
        },
        {
          "index": 3596,
          "text": "want... I think the mess we have at the",
          "startTime": "03:21:41,070",
          "endTime": "03:21:44,990"
        },
        {
          "index": 3597,
          "text": "federal level, I want it to be resolved. And I, I wish that our...",
          "startTime": "03:21:45,030",
          "endTime": "03:21:49,020"
        },
        {
          "index": 3598,
          "text": "I don't wanna go off on a rant, but I wish that our legislature would actually pass",
          "startTime": "03:21:49,050",
          "endTime": "03:21:52,710"
        },
        {
          "index": 3599,
          "text": "some laws that would address the very specific issues",
          "startTime": "03:21:52,750",
          "endTime": "03:21:56,420"
        },
        {
          "index": 3600,
          "text": "that the country by and large supports.",
          "startTime": "03:21:57,170",
          "endTime": "03:22:00,110"
        },
        {
          "index": 3601,
          "text": "I think you have to control the border, you have to have a good immigration",
          "startTime": "03:22:00,190",
          "endTime": "03:22:04,110"
        },
        {
          "index": 3602,
          "text": "policy, and you have to provide a f- path towards citizenship.",
          "startTime": "03:22:04,190",
          "endTime": "03:22:07,810"
        },
        {
          "index": 3603,
          "text": "Like I don't see that this does anything but create a false",
          "startTime": "03:22:07,820",
          "endTime": "03:22:11,050"
        },
        {
          "index": 3604,
          "text": "expectation. This resolution creates a false expectation that",
          "startTime": "03:22:11,090",
          "endTime": "03:22:14,630"
        },
        {
          "index": 3605,
          "text": "there's going to be some-Change that occurs",
          "startTime": "03:22:15,110",
          "endTime": "03:22:18,740"
        },
        {
          "index": 3606,
          "text": "because of the city manager or city staff taking",
          "startTime": "03:22:18,780",
          "endTime": "03:22:21,920"
        },
        {
          "index": 3607,
          "text": "action. And",
          "startTime": "03:22:22,020",
          "endTime": "03:22:24,190"
        },
        {
          "index": 3608,
          "text": "I mean, it might make us feel good, but I",
          "startTime": "03:22:25,040",
          "endTime": "03:22:28,860"
        },
        {
          "index": 3609,
          "text": "think what the best thing we can do is to support our",
          "startTime": "03:22:28,880",
          "endTime": "03:22:32,440"
        },
        {
          "index": 3610,
          "text": "community to know that they",
          "startTime": "03:22:32,500",
          "endTime": "03:22:35,320"
        },
        {
          "index": 3611,
          "text": "have... That we have their backs.",
          "startTime": "03:22:35,420",
          "endTime": "03:22:37,900"
        },
        {
          "index": 3612,
          "text": "Um, and I think we need to have the backs of our vulnerable",
          "startTime": "03:22:39,300",
          "endTime": "03:22:43,200"
        },
        {
          "index": 3613,
          "text": "members in ways that maybe",
          "startTime": "03:22:43,500",
          "endTime": "03:22:46,100"
        },
        {
          "index": 3614,
          "text": "are consistent with their concerns.",
          "startTime": "03:22:47,520",
          "endTime": "03:22:49,700"
        },
        {
          "index": 3615,
          "text": "And I'll, I'll give an example without being too",
          "startTime": "03:22:49,710",
          "endTime": "03:22:51,880"
        },
        {
          "index": 3616,
          "text": "explicit. There's a lot of talk about making",
          "startTime": "03:22:51,900",
          "endTime": "03:22:55,860"
        },
        {
          "index": 3617,
          "text": "things very visible. My wife's a physician.",
          "startTime": "03:22:55,900",
          "endTime": "03:22:58,420"
        },
        {
          "index": 3618,
          "text": "There are physicians that are concerned about",
          "startTime": "03:22:58,430",
          "endTime": "03:23:00,280"
        },
        {
          "index": 3619,
          "text": "vulnerable populations that will not go to appointments, et",
          "startTime": "03:23:01,180",
          "endTime": "03:23:04,820"
        },
        {
          "index": 3620,
          "text": "cetera. There's already a significant effort to try to",
          "startTime": "03:23:04,860",
          "endTime": "03:23:08,540"
        },
        {
          "index": 3621,
          "text": "address that concern,",
          "startTime": "03:23:08,580",
          "endTime": "03:23:09,820"
        },
        {
          "index": 3622,
          "text": "by choice from participants and",
          "startTime": "03:23:10,740",
          "endTime": "03:23:13,060"
        },
        {
          "index": 3623,
          "text": "practitioners.",
          "startTime": "03:23:13,220",
          "endTime": "03:23:15,600"
        },
        {
          "index": 3624,
          "text": "There's a desire to",
          "startTime": "03:23:16,920",
          "endTime": "03:23:18,140"
        },
        {
          "index": 3625,
          "text": "make sure that",
          "startTime": "03:23:20,820",
          "endTime": "03:23:21,750"
        },
        {
          "index": 3626,
          "text": "confidentiality and, and in",
          "startTime": "03:23:22,579",
          "endTime": "03:23:25,380"
        },
        {
          "index": 3627,
          "text": "fact, anonymity is",
          "startTime": "03:23:25,500",
          "endTime": "03:23:28,620"
        },
        {
          "index": 3628,
          "text": "preserved. I don't want more visibility of",
          "startTime": "03:23:28,660",
          "endTime": "03:23:32,220"
        },
        {
          "index": 3629,
          "text": "things",
          "startTime": "03:23:32,280",
          "endTime": "03:23:32,710"
        },
        {
          "index": 3630,
          "text": "that appear to be accomplishing something, but they're actually not.",
          "startTime": "03:23:33,740",
          "endTime": "03:23:37,440"
        },
        {
          "index": 3631,
          "text": "So I, I'm not in favor of this resolution because I don't",
          "startTime": "03:23:37,480",
          "endTime": "03:23:41,460"
        },
        {
          "index": 3632,
          "text": "think it sp- it speaks to what we can do.",
          "startTime": "03:23:41,480",
          "endTime": "03:23:43,520"
        },
        {
          "index": 3633,
          "text": "I think it promises things that",
          "startTime": "03:23:43,960",
          "endTime": "03:23:45,320"
        },
        {
          "index": 3634,
          "text": "realistically I don't know how to evaluate city staff when we ask them to",
          "startTime": "03:23:46,560",
          "endTime": "03:23:50,460"
        },
        {
          "index": 3635,
          "text": "do something that can't be done.",
          "startTime": "03:23:50,500",
          "endTime": "03:23:54,060"
        },
        {
          "index": 3636,
          "text": "Is there something urgent, pressings? I really wanted to move towards a vote.",
          "startTime": "03:23:55,820",
          "endTime": "03:23:59,420"
        },
        {
          "index": 3637,
          "text": "It's after nine thirty at night, but if you have something,",
          "startTime": "03:23:59,440",
          "endTime": "03:24:02,880"
        },
        {
          "index": 3638,
          "text": "sure.",
          "startTime": "03:24:02,940",
          "endTime": "03:24:03,680"
        },
        {
          "index": 3639,
          "text": "Thank",
          "startTime": "03:24:05,620",
          "endTime": "03:24:05,860"
        },
        {
          "index": 3640,
          "text": "you.",
          "startTime": "03:24:05,940",
          "endTime": "03:24:09,720"
        },
        {
          "index": 3641,
          "text": "Um,",
          "startTime": "03:24:10,200",
          "endTime": "03:24:10,560"
        },
        {
          "index": 3642,
          "text": "yes. Um, it's been said that, we need to",
          "startTime": "03:24:11,780",
          "endTime": "03:24:15,420"
        },
        {
          "index": 3643,
          "text": "evaluate legal avenues and so forth with land use.",
          "startTime": "03:24:15,460",
          "endTime": "03:24:19,040"
        },
        {
          "index": 3644,
          "text": "It's already been stated very clearly by our city manager and",
          "startTime": "03:24:19,080",
          "endTime": "03:24:22,880"
        },
        {
          "index": 3645,
          "text": "by Paul Balota that those legal avenues are not",
          "startTime": "03:24:22,920",
          "endTime": "03:24:25,829"
        },
        {
          "index": 3646,
          "text": "available. And so I don't see the point",
          "startTime": "03:24:25,900",
          "endTime": "03:24:29,320"
        },
        {
          "index": 3647,
          "text": "of, A, to",
          "startTime": "03:24:29,400",
          "endTime": "03:24:33,340"
        },
        {
          "index": 3648,
          "text": "evaluate legal avenues for peace officers of the city to request the",
          "startTime": "03:24:33,380",
          "endTime": "03:24:36,919"
        },
        {
          "index": 3649,
          "text": "identity of apparent immigration enforcement agents when legally",
          "startTime": "03:24:36,940",
          "endTime": "03:24:40,200"
        },
        {
          "index": 3650,
          "text": "permissible. It's pretty much legally",
          "startTime": "03:24:40,240",
          "endTime": "03:24:44,160"
        },
        {
          "index": 3651,
          "text": "permissible after stuff has happened.",
          "startTime": "03:24:44,200",
          "endTime": "03:24:46,590"
        },
        {
          "index": 3652,
          "text": "If law enforcement stops something to",
          "startTime": "03:24:46,700",
          "endTime": "03:24:50,580"
        },
        {
          "index": 3653,
          "text": "ask for their ID while it's happening, that's a big",
          "startTime": "03:24:50,590",
          "endTime": "03:24:54,520"
        },
        {
          "index": 3654,
          "text": "no-no. I did a lot of research on this before",
          "startTime": "03:24:54,580",
          "endTime": "03:24:58,410"
        },
        {
          "index": 3655,
          "text": "this meeting because",
          "startTime": "03:24:58,460",
          "endTime": "03:24:59,720"
        },
        {
          "index": 3656,
          "text": "I was concerned about putting our",
          "startTime": "03:25:01,240",
          "endTime": "03:25:03,060"
        },
        {
          "index": 3657,
          "text": "officers in a legally questionable position,",
          "startTime": "03:25:04,460",
          "endTime": "03:25:08,260"
        },
        {
          "index": 3658,
          "text": "and",
          "startTime": "03:25:08,360",
          "endTime": "03:25:10,040"
        },
        {
          "index": 3659,
          "text": "I guess what I'm saying is there's really no way to do A or B.",
          "startTime": "03:25:11,300",
          "endTime": "03:25:14,980"
        },
        {
          "index": 3660,
          "text": "And so",
          "startTime": "03:25:15,900",
          "endTime": "03:25:16,380"
        },
        {
          "index": 3661,
          "text": "to, to explore legal avenues to do them",
          "startTime": "03:25:17,180",
          "endTime": "03:25:20,040"
        },
        {
          "index": 3662,
          "text": "looks like a very much a dead end. As far as",
          "startTime": "03:25:20,940",
          "endTime": "03:25:24,870"
        },
        {
          "index": 3663,
          "text": "the rest of it, you know, our staff is totally maxed",
          "startTime": "03:25:24,920",
          "endTime": "03:25:28,320"
        },
        {
          "index": 3664,
          "text": "out. I mean, I would love to do all of it.",
          "startTime": "03:25:28,420",
          "endTime": "03:25:31,720"
        },
        {
          "index": 3665,
          "text": "I don't know",
          "startTime": "03:25:31,940",
          "endTime": "03:25:32,480"
        },
        {
          "index": 3666,
          "text": "how much of it we can do. I mean, this is just",
          "startTime": "03:25:33,720",
          "endTime": "03:25:36,000"
        },
        {
          "index": 3667,
          "text": "reality. And so, anyway,",
          "startTime": "03:25:36,100",
          "endTime": "03:25:39,480"
        },
        {
          "index": 3668,
          "text": "and it kills me because it's a horrible",
          "startTime": "03:25:40,960",
          "endTime": "03:25:43,360"
        },
        {
          "index": 3669,
          "text": "situation. Um,",
          "startTime": "03:25:43,400",
          "endTime": "03:25:46,640"
        },
        {
          "index": 3670,
          "text": "anyhow, we've said enough, I guess.",
          "startTime": "03:25:46,680",
          "endTime": "03:25:50,340"
        },
        {
          "index": 3671,
          "text": "We move to a vote.",
          "startTime": "03:25:50,360",
          "endTime": "03:25:52,520"
        },
        {
          "index": 3672,
          "text": "Can we have a roll call vote, please, city recorder?",
          "startTime": "03:25:53,460",
          "endTime": "03:25:57,020"
        },
        {
          "index": 3673,
          "text": "Yes, Mayor. This is a vote on the resolution addressing escalating federal",
          "startTime": "03:25:57,060",
          "endTime": "03:26:00,620"
        },
        {
          "index": 3674,
          "text": "immigration enforcement.",
          "startTime": "03:26:00,660",
          "endTime": "03:26:01,970"
        },
        {
          "index": 3675,
          "text": "Councilors Moorfield?",
          "startTime": "03:26:03,160",
          "endTime": "03:26:05,960"
        },
        {
          "index": 3676,
          "text": "No.",
          "startTime": "03:26:08,020",
          "endTime": "03:26:09,160"
        },
        {
          "index": 3677,
          "text": "Ellis?",
          "startTime": "03:26:09,220",
          "endTime": "03:26:10,100"
        },
        {
          "index": 3678,
          "text": "No.",
          "startTime": "03:26:10,160",
          "endTime": "03:26:10,780"
        },
        {
          "index": 3679,
          "text": "Olsen?",
          "startTime": "03:26:10,800",
          "endTime": "03:26:11,640"
        },
        {
          "index": 3680,
          "text": "Yes.",
          "startTime": "03:26:11,700",
          "endTime": "03:26:12,329"
        },
        {
          "index": 3681,
          "text": "Kadena?",
          "startTime": "03:26:12,340",
          "endTime": "03:26:13,320"
        },
        {
          "index": 3682,
          "text": "No.",
          "startTime": "03:26:13,360",
          "endTime": "03:26:13,980"
        },
        {
          "index": 3683,
          "text": "Bowden? Napack?",
          "startTime": "03:26:14,000",
          "endTime": "03:26:16,240"
        },
        {
          "index": 3684,
          "text": "No.",
          "startTime": "03:26:16,320",
          "endTime": "03:26:17,340"
        },
        {
          "index": 3685,
          "text": "Schafer?",
          "startTime": "03:26:17,360",
          "endTime": "03:26:18,920"
        },
        {
          "index": 3686,
          "text": "No.",
          "startTime": "03:26:18,960",
          "endTime": "03:26:19,340"
        },
        {
          "index": 3687,
          "text": "Lewis?",
          "startTime": "03:26:20,220",
          "endTime": "03:26:21,020"
        },
        {
          "index": 3688,
          "text": "Yes.",
          "startTime": "03:26:21,080",
          "endTime": "03:26:21,840"
        },
        {
          "index": 3689,
          "text": "Mayors?",
          "startTime": "03:26:21,880",
          "endTime": "03:26:22,460"
        },
        {
          "index": 3690,
          "text": "No.",
          "startTime": "03:26:22,520",
          "endTime": "03:26:23,360"
        },
        {
          "index": 3691,
          "text": "The resolution fails two to six.",
          "startTime": "03:26:23,400",
          "endTime": "03:26:25,990"
        },
        {
          "index": 3692,
          "text": "Thank you all for the conversation.",
          "startTime": "03:26:26,000",
          "endTime": "03:26:27,240"
        },
        {
          "index": 3693,
          "text": "Okay.",
          "startTime": "03:26:28,380",
          "endTime": "03:26:28,750"
        },
        {
          "index": 3694,
          "text": "We'll move now on to the-",
          "startTime": "03:26:28,780",
          "endTime": "03:26:29,940"
        },
        {
          "index": 3695,
          "text": "Mayor?",
          "startTime": "03:26:30,000",
          "endTime": "03:26:30,580"
        },
        {
          "index": 3696,
          "text": "Yes. Council Ellis.",
          "startTime": "03:26:30,640",
          "endTime": "03:26:33,320"
        },
        {
          "index": 3697,
          "text": "I did say that we could, independently move,",
          "startTime": "03:26:33,420",
          "endTime": "03:26:37,380"
        },
        {
          "index": 3698,
          "text": "some of the things in the,",
          "startTime": "03:26:38,200",
          "endTime": "03:26:40,320"
        },
        {
          "index": 3699,
          "text": "suggestions after we decided on whether or not to avoid, to,",
          "startTime": "03:26:41,520",
          "endTime": "03:26:45,210"
        },
        {
          "index": 3700,
          "text": "to approve the resolution. So I am going to move",
          "startTime": "03:26:46,520",
          "endTime": "03:26:49,130"
        },
        {
          "index": 3701,
          "text": "to utilize ci- existing city communication platforms",
          "startTime": "03:26:49,180",
          "endTime": "03:26:53,120"
        },
        {
          "index": 3702,
          "text": "to connect the community with clear and reputable information available in both",
          "startTime": "03:26:53,160",
          "endTime": "03:26:57,120"
        },
        {
          "index": 3703,
          "text": "English and Spanish regarding, I'm just gonna read the whole",
          "startTime": "03:26:57,180",
          "endTime": "03:27:00,560"
        },
        {
          "index": 3704,
          "text": "thing. A, rights afforded to immigrants under federal and state law.",
          "startTime": "03:27:00,600",
          "endTime": "03:27:04,460"
        },
        {
          "index": 3705,
          "text": "B, community-based legal and social service resources available to immigrants and",
          "startTime": "03:27:04,780",
          "endTime": "03:27:08,570"
        },
        {
          "index": 3706,
          "text": "their families. And C, other relevant info, information",
          "startTime": "03:27:08,600",
          "endTime": "03:27:12,180"
        },
        {
          "index": 3707,
          "text": "intended to support community awareness and access to services for",
          "startTime": "03:27:12,220",
          "endTime": "03:27:16,200"
        },
        {
          "index": 3708,
          "text": "informational purposes only.",
          "startTime": "03:27:16,300",
          "endTime": "03:27:18,200"
        },
        {
          "index": 3709,
          "text": "Second.",
          "startTime": "03:27:19,320",
          "endTime": "03:27:19,820"
        },
        {
          "index": 3710,
          "text": "Thank you. We have a motion and a second.",
          "startTime": "03:27:21,360",
          "endTime": "03:27:23,460"
        },
        {
          "index": 3711,
          "text": "Any discussion needed on this item? Question Napack?",
          "startTime": "03:27:23,470",
          "endTime": "03:27:27,050"
        },
        {
          "index": 3712,
          "text": "A friendly amendment perhaps is that it's not just Spanish, but Farsi",
          "startTime": "03:27:27,050",
          "endTime": "03:27:31,040"
        },
        {
          "index": 3713,
          "text": "and everything else.",
          "startTime": "03:27:31,100",
          "endTime": "03:27:33,800"
        },
        {
          "index": 3714,
          "text": "Sorry.",
          "startTime": "03:27:34,600",
          "endTime": "03:27:34,950"
        },
        {
          "index": 3715,
          "text": "I would think, I would think to the ability that a website-",
          "startTime": "03:27:35,020",
          "endTime": "03:27:38,420"
        },
        {
          "index": 3716,
          "text": "Never mind",
          "startTime": "03:27:38,760",
          "endTime": "03:27:39,180"
        },
        {
          "index": 3717,
          "text": "... may be, I would, I would try to-",
          "startTime": "03:27:39,200",
          "endTime": "03:27:40,850"
        },
        {
          "index": 3718,
          "text": "I retract.",
          "startTime": "03:27:40,920",
          "endTime": "03:27:41,780"
        },
        {
          "index": 3719,
          "text": "Okay. I, I, I like the idea that, you know, Arabic and everything else, and it's",
          "startTime": "03:27:41,800",
          "endTime": "03:27:45,020"
        },
        {
          "index": 3720,
          "text": "like I'm sure the city staff can figure out-",
          "startTime": "03:27:45,060",
          "endTime": "03:27:47,100"
        },
        {
          "index": 3721,
          "text": "Everything else is a pretty broad category.",
          "startTime": "03:27:47,180",
          "endTime": "03:27:50,640"
        },
        {
          "index": 3722,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "03:27:50,680",
          "endTime": "03:27:50,830"
        },
        {
          "index": 3723,
          "text": "Yeah. Oh-",
          "startTime": "03:27:51,100",
          "endTime": "03:27:51,400"
        },
        {
          "index": 3724,
          "text": "To whatever extent-",
          "startTime": "03:27:51,460",
          "endTime": "03:27:51,990"
        },
        {
          "index": 3725,
          "text": "As, as appropriate, how about that?",
          "startTime": "03:27:52,000",
          "endTime": "03:27:54,220"
        },
        {
          "index": 3726,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "03:27:54,230",
          "endTime": "03:27:54,230"
        },
        {
          "index": 3727,
          "text": "Thank you.",
          "startTime": "03:27:54,240",
          "endTime": "03:27:55,940"
        },
        {
          "index": 3728,
          "text": "All right. Let's go ahead and take a vote on this.",
          "startTime": "03:27:55,980",
          "endTime": "03:27:57,580"
        },
        {
          "index": 3729,
          "text": "All those in favor of the motion, say aye.",
          "startTime": "03:27:57,620",
          "endTime": "03:27:59,860"
        },
        {
          "index": 3730,
          "text": "Aye.",
          "startTime": "03:28:00,360",
          "endTime": "03:28:00,370"
        },
        {
          "index": 3731,
          "text": "Aye.",
          "startTime": "03:28:00,400",
          "endTime": "03:28:01,580"
        },
        {
          "index": 3732,
          "text": "Aye.",
          "startTime": "03:28:01,590",
          "endTime": "03:28:01,590"
        },
        {
          "index": 3733,
          "text": "All opposed, say no. That passed unanimously.",
          "startTime": "03:28:01,600",
          "endTime": "03:28:04,840"
        },
        {
          "index": 3734,
          "text": "Thank you, Councilor Ellis. Go ahead.",
          "startTime": "03:28:04,880",
          "endTime": "03:28:06,600"
        },
        {
          "index": 3735,
          "text": "Um, I'm also going to move, because I think that we could do this over time,",
          "startTime": "03:28:06,680",
          "endTime": "03:28:10,540"
        },
        {
          "index": 3736,
          "text": "section F: To ensure all non-public spaces and city buildings are",
          "startTime": "03:28:10,620",
          "endTime": "03:28:14,360"
        },
        {
          "index": 3737,
          "text": "clearly identified and labeled with signage indicating restricted",
          "startTime": "03:28:14,420",
          "endTime": "03:28:17,940"
        },
        {
          "index": 3738,
          "text": "access.",
          "startTime": "03:28:18,040",
          "endTime": "03:28:19,960"
        },
        {
          "index": 3739,
          "text": "Second.",
          "startTime": "03:28:20,920",
          "endTime": "03:28:21,460"
        },
        {
          "index": 3740,
          "text": "Yeah, I, I actually believe, that's already been done based",
          "startTime": "03:28:25,024",
          "endTime": "03:28:28,524"
        },
        {
          "index": 3741,
          "text": "on other issues a couple years ago.",
          "startTime": "03:28:28,584",
          "endTime": "03:28:31,324"
        },
        {
          "index": 3742,
          "text": "But we can, we can confirm that.",
          "startTime": "03:28:31,364",
          "endTime": "03:28:34,804"
        },
        {
          "index": 3743,
          "text": "Yep. Um-",
          "startTime": "03:28:34,844",
          "endTime": "03:28:35,624"
        },
        {
          "index": 3744,
          "text": "I suspected as much.",
          "startTime": "03:28:35,634",
          "endTime": "03:28:37,004"
        },
        {
          "index": 3745,
          "text": "Yeah. So",
          "startTime": "03:28:37,044",
          "endTime": "03:28:37,544"
        },
        {
          "index": 3746,
          "text": "yeah, if this passes, we will just confirm that that work has been done.",
          "startTime": "03:28:38,364",
          "endTime": "03:28:42,194"
        },
        {
          "index": 3747,
          "text": "Appreciate that. Discussion? No.",
          "startTime": "03:28:42,224",
          "endTime": "03:28:45,884"
        },
        {
          "index": 3748,
          "text": "All in favor of the motion, say aye.",
          "startTime": "03:28:46,144",
          "endTime": "03:28:48,804"
        },
        {
          "index": 3749,
          "text": "Aye.",
          "startTime": "03:28:48,864",
          "endTime": "03:28:49,584"
        },
        {
          "index": 3750,
          "text": "Aye.",
          "startTime": "03:28:49,644",
          "endTime": "03:28:50,584"
        },
        {
          "index": 3751,
          "text": "Aye.",
          "startTime": "03:28:50,594",
          "endTime": "03:28:50,594"
        },
        {
          "index": 3752,
          "text": "All opposed, say no.",
          "startTime": "03:28:50,604",
          "endTime": "03:28:51,844"
        },
        {
          "index": 3753,
          "text": "Did that get a second?",
          "startTime": "03:28:51,904",
          "endTime": "03:28:53,444"
        },
        {
          "index": 3754,
          "text": "Yes, it did.",
          "startTime": "03:28:53,504",
          "endTime": "03:28:53,964"
        },
        {
          "index": 3755,
          "text": "Okay.",
          "startTime": "03:28:54,044",
          "endTime": "03:28:56,164"
        },
        {
          "index": 3756,
          "text": "Councilor Ellis? That, that passed unanimously, by the way.",
          "startTime": "03:28:56,184",
          "endTime": "03:28:58,434"
        },
        {
          "index": 3757,
          "text": "Thank you. Um, could you report back to us in, like, a",
          "startTime": "03:28:58,984",
          "endTime": "03:29:01,244"
        },
        {
          "index": 3758,
          "text": "month?",
          "startTime": "03:29:01,324",
          "endTime": "03:29:03,484"
        },
        {
          "index": 3759,
          "text": "Yes, I can.",
          "startTime": "03:29:03,544",
          "endTime": "03:29:04,164"
        },
        {
          "index": 3760,
          "text": "Thank you. Um, the last one is, I am going to just say",
          "startTime": "03:29:04,204",
          "endTime": "03:29:07,384"
        },
        {
          "index": 3761,
          "text": "resolve that the council encourages the Jedi Board to solicit community",
          "startTime": "03:29:07,744",
          "endTime": "03:29:11,504"
        },
        {
          "index": 3762,
          "text": "empower grant applications to assist those affected by escalating",
          "startTime": "03:29:11,524",
          "endTime": "03:29:15,463"
        },
        {
          "index": 3763,
          "text": "immigration enforcement in the next round of",
          "startTime": "03:29:15,524",
          "endTime": "03:29:18,524"
        },
        {
          "index": 3764,
          "text": "grants.",
          "startTime": "03:29:18,564",
          "endTime": "03:29:19,684"
        },
        {
          "index": 3765,
          "text": "Second.",
          "startTime": "03:29:19,744",
          "endTime": "03:29:21,304"
        },
        {
          "index": 3766,
          "text": "Motion and second. Council Morefield?",
          "startTime": "03:29:21,344",
          "endTime": "03:29:24,744"
        },
        {
          "index": 3767,
          "text": "Uh, when I saw this draft, I looked up what the current grant criteria",
          "startTime": "03:29:25,664",
          "endTime": "03:29:29,304"
        },
        {
          "index": 3768,
          "text": "are. I thought it already allowed it.",
          "startTime": "03:29:29,364",
          "endTime": "03:29:31,084"
        },
        {
          "index": 3769,
          "text": "I did not look it up. I just assumed that it wasn't there because it was",
          "startTime": "03:29:32,464",
          "endTime": "03:29:35,284"
        },
        {
          "index": 3770,
          "text": "here.",
          "startTime": "03:29:35,324",
          "endTime": "03:29:37,344"
        },
        {
          "index": 3771,
          "text": "Maybe, maybe it makes it more of like a-",
          "startTime": "03:29:37,364",
          "endTime": "03:29:38,904"
        },
        {
          "index": 3772,
          "text": "I mean it-",
          "startTime": "03:29:39,044",
          "endTime": "03:29:39,464"
        },
        {
          "index": 3773,
          "text": "-to focus a bit more there since it's already allowed.",
          "startTime": "03:29:39,474",
          "endTime": "03:29:42,444"
        },
        {
          "index": 3774,
          "text": "The green grants were giving an extra point for a certain thing-",
          "startTime": "03:29:42,484",
          "endTime": "03:29:45,684"
        },
        {
          "index": 3775,
          "text": "Mm-hmm",
          "startTime": "03:29:45,844",
          "endTime": "03:29:45,904"
        },
        {
          "index": 3776,
          "text": "-in the last couple of years, so maybe that was the thought.",
          "startTime": "03:29:45,914",
          "endTime": "03:29:49,124"
        },
        {
          "index": 3777,
          "text": "I think it's still good to just solidify that",
          "startTime": "03:29:49,144",
          "endTime": "03:29:51,564"
        },
        {
          "index": 3778,
          "text": "maybe. Okay, all those in favor of the",
          "startTime": "03:29:51,624",
          "endTime": "03:29:55,464"
        },
        {
          "index": 3779,
          "text": "motion, say aye.",
          "startTime": "03:29:55,504",
          "endTime": "03:29:56,864"
        },
        {
          "index": 3780,
          "text": "Aye.",
          "startTime": "03:29:56,874",
          "endTime": "03:29:56,874"
        },
        {
          "index": 3781,
          "text": "Aye.",
          "startTime": "03:29:56,944",
          "endTime": "03:29:57,714"
        },
        {
          "index": 3782,
          "text": "Aye.",
          "startTime": "03:29:58,204",
          "endTime": "03:29:58,214"
        },
        {
          "index": 3783,
          "text": "All opposed say no.",
          "startTime": "03:29:58,224",
          "endTime": "03:29:58,874"
        },
        {
          "index": 3784,
          "text": "Aye. Sorry.",
          "startTime": "03:29:58,884",
          "endTime": "03:30:00,344"
        },
        {
          "index": 3785,
          "text": "That's all right. Sorry. Council Schaefer.",
          "startTime": "03:30:00,544",
          "endTime": "03:30:03,064"
        },
        {
          "index": 3786,
          "text": "That's a yes.",
          "startTime": "03:30:03,084",
          "endTime": "03:30:04,264"
        },
        {
          "index": 3787,
          "text": "Okay. I didn't hear any of those though. All right.",
          "startTime": "03:30:04,284",
          "endTime": "03:30:07,894"
        },
        {
          "index": 3788,
          "text": "It passed unanimously. Is that it?",
          "startTime": "03:30:07,984",
          "endTime": "03:30:10,624"
        },
        {
          "index": 3789,
          "text": "I think.",
          "startTime": "03:30:10,684",
          "endTime": "03:30:11,224"
        },
        {
          "index": 3790,
          "text": "Okay.",
          "startTime": "03:30:11,244",
          "endTime": "03:30:11,744"
        },
        {
          "index": 3791,
          "text": "I think that cut all the things we can actually do. Thank you.",
          "startTime": "03:30:11,804",
          "endTime": "03:30:15,344"
        },
        {
          "index": 3792,
          "text": "Thank you. Well, hopefully I'm not too tired to get through my presentation.",
          "startTime": "03:30:15,354",
          "endTime": "03:30:17,784"
        },
        {
          "index": 3793,
          "text": "Uh, moving on to mayor and council reports.",
          "startTime": "03:30:17,844",
          "endTime": "03:30:19,904"
        },
        {
          "index": 3794,
          "text": "In my mayor's report, I'm finally getting-- got around to doing the presentation",
          "startTime": "03:30:19,964",
          "endTime": "03:30:23,424"
        },
        {
          "index": 3795,
          "text": "regarding the Mayor's Innovation Project conference that I went-- that you all sent",
          "startTime": "03:30:23,464",
          "endTime": "03:30:26,684"
        },
        {
          "index": 3796,
          "text": "me to in DC. I apologize for it taking so long, but,",
          "startTime": "03:30:26,704",
          "endTime": "03:30:30,614"
        },
        {
          "index": 3797,
          "text": "as you know, I came, I got sick while I was there, and was sick afterwards, and",
          "startTime": "03:30:30,984",
          "endTime": "03:30:34,024"
        },
        {
          "index": 3798,
          "text": "it put my whole life delayed. So,",
          "startTime": "03:30:34,044",
          "endTime": "03:30:37,304"
        },
        {
          "index": 3799,
          "text": "but let me get this brought up. I'll try to go very",
          "startTime": "03:30:37,384",
          "endTime": "03:30:41,004"
        },
        {
          "index": 3800,
          "text": "quickly through these slides. It's late, but I just wanted to keep my promise to",
          "startTime": "03:30:41,064",
          "endTime": "03:30:44,724"
        },
        {
          "index": 3801,
          "text": "you all. This was the, agenda. I'm gonna",
          "startTime": "03:30:44,764",
          "endTime": "03:30:48,364"
        },
        {
          "index": 3802,
          "text": "switch gears here so I could see it, 'cause I can't read it there.",
          "startTime": "03:30:48,584",
          "endTime": "03:30:51,584"
        },
        {
          "index": 3803,
          "text": "Um, the topics, well, it's gonna...",
          "startTime": "03:30:51,644",
          "endTime": "03:30:53,334"
        },
        {
          "index": 3804,
          "text": "All my slides will have the topics, so it doesn't matter.",
          "startTime": "03:30:53,344",
          "endTime": "03:30:55,804"
        },
        {
          "index": 3805,
          "text": "Um, we can go ahead and next slide.",
          "startTime": "03:30:56,094",
          "endTime": "03:30:57,944"
        },
        {
          "index": 3806,
          "text": "We've got to get better slides.",
          "startTime": "03:30:57,984",
          "endTime": "03:30:59,484"
        },
        {
          "index": 3807,
          "text": "Well, I made this, so it's probably my fault.",
          "startTime": "03:31:00,124",
          "endTime": "03:31:02,464"
        },
        {
          "index": 3808,
          "text": "Um, as you can see, it was cold there.",
          "startTime": "03:31:02,564",
          "endTime": "03:31:05,974"
        },
        {
          "index": 3809,
          "text": "Like, on average, it was like between seven and seventeen",
          "startTime": "03:31:06,064",
          "endTime": "03:31:09,224"
        },
        {
          "index": 3810,
          "text": "degrees, so I was freezing. Um, the, the",
          "startTime": "03:31:09,244",
          "endTime": "03:31:12,993"
        },
        {
          "index": 3811,
          "text": "actual conference was held at the Laborers' International Union of",
          "startTime": "03:31:13,164",
          "endTime": "03:31:16,504"
        },
        {
          "index": 3812,
          "text": "America, and fortunately, I was able to afford to bring my wife along.",
          "startTime": "03:31:16,584",
          "endTime": "03:31:19,864"
        },
        {
          "index": 3813,
          "text": "So",
          "startTime": "03:31:19,904",
          "endTime": "03:31:20,124"
        },
        {
          "index": 3814,
          "text": "that was kind of like a weird vacation of learning stuff for our",
          "startTime": "03:31:21,184",
          "endTime": "03:31:23,884"
        },
        {
          "index": 3815,
          "text": "city. The first topic was Leading Under",
          "startTime": "03:31:23,924",
          "endTime": "03:31:27,884"
        },
        {
          "index": 3816,
          "text": "Pressure: Protecting Elected Officials, which I found very interesting considering",
          "startTime": "03:31:27,924",
          "endTime": "03:31:31,174"
        },
        {
          "index": 3817,
          "text": "some of the legislation that's been passed here in Oregon recently.",
          "startTime": "03:31:31,184",
          "endTime": "03:31:34,724"
        },
        {
          "index": 3818,
          "text": "Um, next slide. This might be a little hard to",
          "startTime": "03:31:34,824",
          "endTime": "03:31:38,504"
        },
        {
          "index": 3819,
          "text": "read, but one of the... So on all these, there was multiple speakers,",
          "startTime": "03:31:38,544",
          "endTime": "03:31:42,384"
        },
        {
          "index": 3820,
          "text": "usually between three and four speakers per th- per thing.",
          "startTime": "03:31:42,504",
          "endTime": "03:31:44,794"
        },
        {
          "index": 3821,
          "text": "They all had their own presentation. This was a two-day conference.",
          "startTime": "03:31:44,824",
          "endTime": "03:31:47,744"
        },
        {
          "index": 3822,
          "text": "Uh, I'm trying to point out just the things that really caught my attention that I",
          "startTime": "03:31:47,824",
          "endTime": "03:31:51,134"
        },
        {
          "index": 3823,
          "text": "thought were really interesting.",
          "startTime": "03:31:51,164",
          "endTime": "03:31:53,474"
        },
        {
          "index": 3824,
          "text": "So the two colored graphs you see there, the blue is male",
          "startTime": "03:31:53,504",
          "endTime": "03:31:56,524"
        },
        {
          "index": 3825,
          "text": "mayors, the yellow is female mayors.",
          "startTime": "03:31:56,624",
          "endTime": "03:31:59,384"
        },
        {
          "index": 3826,
          "text": "Uh, the top one is mayors who experience harassment more than three times per month",
          "startTime": "03:31:59,484",
          "endTime": "03:32:03,344"
        },
        {
          "index": 3827,
          "text": "in office,",
          "startTime": "03:32:03,384",
          "endTime": "03:32:03,964"
        },
        {
          "index": 3828,
          "text": "and that was twenty-five percent of, of female mayors.",
          "startTime": "03:32:05,104",
          "endTime": "03:32:07,684"
        },
        {
          "index": 3829,
          "text": "And the bottom is mayors who experience harassment at least once per month in",
          "startTime": "03:32:07,704",
          "endTime": "03:32:10,664"
        },
        {
          "index": 3830,
          "text": "office. So I found it very interesting of the,",
          "startTime": "03:32:10,764",
          "endTime": "03:32:13,594"
        },
        {
          "index": 3831,
          "text": "the, the, the variance there between male and female mayors.",
          "startTime": "03:32:16,004",
          "endTime": "03:32:19,744"
        },
        {
          "index": 3832,
          "text": "Um, and then you see some of the quotes there, from other mayors around the s-",
          "startTime": "03:32:19,844",
          "endTime": "03:32:23,324"
        },
        {
          "index": 3833,
          "text": "around the country, stalker, vandalizing homes, et",
          "startTime": "03:32:23,364",
          "endTime": "03:32:27,224"
        },
        {
          "index": 3834,
          "text": "cetera. Next slide.",
          "startTime": "03:32:27,244",
          "endTime": "03:32:30,304"
        },
        {
          "index": 3835,
          "text": "Um, these were some of the proposed solutions, and I, and I actually really thought",
          "startTime": "03:32:32,184",
          "endTime": "03:32:35,964"
        },
        {
          "index": 3836,
          "text": "these were interesting. And the first one is normalize the position as a job.",
          "startTime": "03:32:36,004",
          "endTime": "03:32:39,584"
        },
        {
          "index": 3837,
          "text": "Um,",
          "startTime": "03:32:39,684",
          "endTime": "03:32:39,844"
        },
        {
          "index": 3838,
          "text": "we put a lot of hours into this kind of work, and, and this is still mostly focused",
          "startTime": "03:32:40,924",
          "endTime": "03:32:44,564"
        },
        {
          "index": 3839,
          "text": "on mayors, but it really applies to all of us.",
          "startTime": "03:32:44,604",
          "endTime": "03:32:46,584"
        },
        {
          "index": 3840,
          "text": "Uh, I, I'm not sure how often you get harassed or",
          "startTime": "03:32:46,684",
          "endTime": "03:32:50,624"
        },
        {
          "index": 3841,
          "text": "threatened, but it's happened to me.",
          "startTime": "03:32:51,204",
          "endTime": "03:32:53,604"
        },
        {
          "index": 3842,
          "text": "Um, so some of the solutions norm- no-normalize support professional development,",
          "startTime": "03:32:53,664",
          "endTime": "03:32:57,284"
        },
        {
          "index": 3843,
          "text": "normalize support for personal protection, staff dedicated to the mayor, I",
          "startTime": "03:32:57,304",
          "endTime": "03:33:00,574"
        },
        {
          "index": 3844,
          "text": "kinda like that one, and raising wages, which is something I plan on",
          "startTime": "03:33:00,664",
          "endTime": "03:33:04,584"
        },
        {
          "index": 3845,
          "text": "bringing back, later this year after we get through some of our conversation",
          "startTime": "03:33:04,644",
          "endTime": "03:33:07,664"
        },
        {
          "index": 3846,
          "text": "around our budget gap.",
          "startTime": "03:33:07,704",
          "endTime": "03:33:08,834"
        },
        {
          "index": 3847,
          "text": "So I found, I found all these really inter-interesting,",
          "startTime": "03:33:10,444",
          "endTime": "03:33:13,604"
        },
        {
          "index": 3848,
          "text": "as solutions. So that's the end of that one. Next slide.",
          "startTime": "03:33:14,604",
          "endTime": "03:33:18,344"
        },
        {
          "index": 3849,
          "text": "And this one was very relevant to our city, Leading Through",
          "startTime": "03:33:19,264",
          "endTime": "03:33:23,163"
        },
        {
          "index": 3850,
          "text": "Uncertainty: A Fiscal Playbook for a Thriving Community.",
          "startTime": "03:33:23,224",
          "endTime": "03:33:26,484"
        },
        {
          "index": 3851,
          "text": "Next slide. Did you get it? The, this was done by the person who",
          "startTime": "03:33:26,604",
          "endTime": "03:33:30,524"
        },
        {
          "index": 3852,
          "text": "actually created the Mayor's Innovation Project.",
          "startTime": "03:33:30,584",
          "endTime": "03:33:32,254"
        },
        {
          "index": 3853,
          "text": "He talked about the broken social condract-- contract.",
          "startTime": "03:33:32,264",
          "endTime": "03:33:34,864"
        },
        {
          "index": 3854,
          "text": "What's hard to see there is all those lines together is,",
          "startTime": "03:33:34,874",
          "endTime": "03:33:38,164"
        },
        {
          "index": 3855,
          "text": "basically income versus productivity, and it used to stay pretty straight",
          "startTime": "03:33:38,864",
          "endTime": "03:33:42,604"
        },
        {
          "index": 3856,
          "text": "and, and equal. The purple line shooting way up",
          "startTime": "03:33:42,644",
          "endTime": "03:33:45,684"
        },
        {
          "index": 3857,
          "text": "is the top one percent earners country.",
          "startTime": "03:33:46,284",
          "endTime": "03:33:48,984"
        },
        {
          "index": 3858,
          "text": "Where everything else, the red is the bottom twenty percent, the blue is",
          "startTime": "03:33:49,864",
          "endTime": "03:33:53,664"
        },
        {
          "index": 3859,
          "text": "middle sixty percent, and the green is upper middle.",
          "startTime": "03:33:53,804",
          "endTime": "03:33:57,384"
        },
        {
          "index": 3860,
          "text": "Um, so as you can see, wages have not increased as much as productivity",
          "startTime": "03:33:57,484",
          "endTime": "03:34:01,284"
        },
        {
          "index": 3861,
          "text": "and as much as the top one percent earners in the country make, which I",
          "startTime": "03:34:01,564",
          "endTime": "03:34:05,384"
        },
        {
          "index": 3862,
          "text": "think is all information we're very aware of.",
          "startTime": "03:34:05,404",
          "endTime": "03:34:08,244"
        },
        {
          "index": 3863,
          "text": "Next slide. This graph, which you can't read",
          "startTime": "03:34:08,284",
          "endTime": "03:34:11,704"
        },
        {
          "index": 3864,
          "text": "either, it's too much... Oh, you can kind of read it.",
          "startTime": "03:34:11,744",
          "endTime": "03:34:14,404"
        },
        {
          "index": 3865,
          "text": "It's showing, how much our, our country has changed.",
          "startTime": "03:34:14,424",
          "endTime": "03:34:17,584"
        },
        {
          "index": 3866,
          "text": "We are more diverse now than ever before, which is kind of also relevant coming",
          "startTime": "03:34:17,604",
          "endTime": "03:34:21,104"
        },
        {
          "index": 3867,
          "text": "today-",
          "startTime": "03:34:21,144",
          "endTime": "03:34:21,354"
        },
        {
          "index": 3868,
          "text": "Hmm",
          "startTime": "03:34:21,364",
          "endTime": "03:34:21,394"
        },
        {
          "index": 3869,
          "text": "...to the resolution we were just discussing.",
          "startTime": "03:34:21,394",
          "endTime": "03:34:23,424"
        },
        {
          "index": 3870,
          "text": "Um, and less than fifty percent of our country are white",
          "startTime": "03:34:24,284",
          "endTime": "03:34:27,684"
        },
        {
          "index": 3871,
          "text": "anymore, now. So we have a very diverse country, and I think it's just",
          "startTime": "03:34:27,764",
          "endTime": "03:34:31,644"
        },
        {
          "index": 3872,
          "text": "gonna continue to change, um-The blue, I think you can read",
          "startTime": "03:34:31,684",
          "endTime": "03:34:35,656"
        },
        {
          "index": 3873,
          "text": "that, blue is Hispanic. Uh, the dark blue, kinda gray",
          "startTime": "03:34:35,666",
          "endTime": "03:34:39,616"
        },
        {
          "index": 3874,
          "text": "is Black. Green is Asian. Next",
          "startTime": "03:34:39,656",
          "endTime": "03:34:43,436"
        },
        {
          "index": 3875,
          "text": "slide. And then it transitioned to around infrastructure to support these",
          "startTime": "03:34:43,456",
          "endTime": "03:34:47,216"
        },
        {
          "index": 3876,
          "text": "communities that are always changing and always growing.",
          "startTime": "03:34:47,236",
          "endTime": "03:34:50,455"
        },
        {
          "index": 3877,
          "text": "And I think, our city manager might find this one int-interesting.",
          "startTime": "03:34:50,536",
          "endTime": "03:34:53,706"
        },
        {
          "index": 3878,
          "text": "It's the average age and life expectancy of US infrastructure.",
          "startTime": "03:34:53,716",
          "endTime": "03:34:56,616"
        },
        {
          "index": 3879,
          "text": "So the first one's roads, next one's bridges, rail, water",
          "startTime": "03:34:56,656",
          "endTime": "03:35:00,236"
        },
        {
          "index": 3880,
          "text": "pipes, dams, levies, and water treatment",
          "startTime": "03:35:00,336",
          "endTime": "03:35:03,896"
        },
        {
          "index": 3881,
          "text": "plants. So the average age is the dark color.",
          "startTime": "03:35:03,976",
          "endTime": "03:35:07,036"
        },
        {
          "index": 3882,
          "text": "The life expectancy, this is, is the lighter color.",
          "startTime": "03:35:07,056",
          "endTime": "03:35:09,876"
        },
        {
          "index": 3883,
          "text": "So it's showing that our issues here were not unique.",
          "startTime": "03:35:10,616",
          "endTime": "03:35:13,816"
        },
        {
          "index": 3884,
          "text": "Next slide.",
          "startTime": "03:35:14,936",
          "endTime": "03:35:16,096"
        },
        {
          "index": 3885,
          "text": "And then that conversation around infrastructure got-- it was quite interesting",
          "startTime": "03:35:17,996",
          "endTime": "03:35:21,096"
        },
        {
          "index": 3886,
          "text": "'cause it started talking about it's not just this infrastructure that we rely on",
          "startTime": "03:35:21,116",
          "endTime": "03:35:24,056"
        },
        {
          "index": 3887,
          "text": "daily, but also how, things impact that infrastructure.",
          "startTime": "03:35:24,096",
          "endTime": "03:35:28,036"
        },
        {
          "index": 3888,
          "text": "So in this case, growing risks around, nature events due",
          "startTime": "03:35:28,076",
          "endTime": "03:35:32,046"
        },
        {
          "index": 3889,
          "text": "to climate change. So you see here, C-Hurricane Katrina on the bottom left, two",
          "startTime": "03:35:32,076",
          "endTime": "03:35:35,616"
        },
        {
          "index": 3890,
          "text": "thousand and five, Superstorm Sandy, two thousand and twelve, the fires in",
          "startTime": "03:35:35,676",
          "endTime": "03:35:39,615"
        },
        {
          "index": 3891,
          "text": "twenty twenty-three, Hurricane, Helen in twenty twenty-four, the Los",
          "startTime": "03:35:39,656",
          "endTime": "03:35:43,536"
        },
        {
          "index": 3892,
          "text": "Angeles fires of twenty twenty-five.",
          "startTime": "03:35:43,576",
          "endTime": "03:35:45,136"
        },
        {
          "index": 3893,
          "text": "And then the small writing, which I actually can read, in, in two thousand a",
          "startTime": "03:35:45,146",
          "endTime": "03:35:48,976"
        },
        {
          "index": 3894,
          "text": "billion-dollar disaster occurred every seventy-two days.",
          "startTime": "03:35:49,036",
          "endTime": "03:35:51,506"
        },
        {
          "index": 3895,
          "text": "Now they occur every eighteen days.",
          "startTime": "03:35:51,556",
          "endTime": "03:35:53,056"
        },
        {
          "index": 3896,
          "text": "By twenty thirty, they will be weekly occurrences.",
          "startTime": "03:35:53,076",
          "endTime": "03:35:56,056"
        },
        {
          "index": 3897,
          "text": "So on top of just trying to pr-provide regular service to our community with what",
          "startTime": "03:35:56,066",
          "endTime": "03:35:59,606"
        },
        {
          "index": 3898,
          "text": "they ask, we're dealing with some serious stuff now.",
          "startTime": "03:35:59,636",
          "endTime": "03:36:02,436"
        },
        {
          "index": 3899,
          "text": "And our firefighters will be dealing with it, and, and",
          "startTime": "03:36:02,456",
          "endTime": "03:36:05,626"
        },
        {
          "index": 3900,
          "text": "police, and public works. And I like that thing",
          "startTime": "03:36:05,936",
          "endTime": "03:36:09,816"
        },
        {
          "index": 3901,
          "text": "there. For every major headline, there are innumerable smaller events impacting",
          "startTime": "03:36:09,856",
          "endTime": "03:36:13,456"
        },
        {
          "index": 3902,
          "text": "where we live, work, and play every day. City manager.",
          "startTime": "03:36:13,476",
          "endTime": "03:36:16,356"
        },
        {
          "index": 3903,
          "text": "Yeah, one of those impacts that we'll see, even if we don't have a",
          "startTime": "03:36:16,416",
          "endTime": "03:36:19,936"
        },
        {
          "index": 3904,
          "text": "disaster, insurance rates-",
          "startTime": "03:36:19,976",
          "endTime": "03:36:22,156"
        },
        {
          "index": 3905,
          "text": "Mm",
          "startTime": "03:36:22,176",
          "endTime": "03:36:22,196"
        },
        {
          "index": 3906,
          "text": "...continue to climb. And so we do get impacted,",
          "startTime": "03:36:22,236",
          "endTime": "03:36:25,596"
        },
        {
          "index": 3907,
          "text": "by that, even indirectly, if we don't have that",
          "startTime": "03:36:26,076",
          "endTime": "03:36:28,796"
        },
        {
          "index": 3908,
          "text": "disaster.",
          "startTime": "03:36:28,856",
          "endTime": "03:36:30,776"
        },
        {
          "index": 3909,
          "text": "Appreciate that. Next slide. No, there it is.",
          "startTime": "03:36:30,796",
          "endTime": "03:36:33,496"
        },
        {
          "index": 3910,
          "text": "And this one I just thought was an interesting view of, of what local government",
          "startTime": "03:36:33,536",
          "endTime": "03:36:37,036"
        },
        {
          "index": 3911,
          "text": "is, right? So one-third of our an- of annual local GOP spent on disaster and",
          "startTime": "03:36:37,176",
          "endTime": "03:36:40,996"
        },
        {
          "index": 3912,
          "text": "weather costs, but this impacts every other entity that we interact",
          "startTime": "03:36:41,056",
          "endTime": "03:36:44,976"
        },
        {
          "index": 3913,
          "text": "with from real estate insurance, which city manager just pointed out,",
          "startTime": "03:36:44,995",
          "endTime": "03:36:48,476"
        },
        {
          "index": 3914,
          "text": "utilities, health. Uh, we all work together to be what",
          "startTime": "03:36:48,996",
          "endTime": "03:36:52,836"
        },
        {
          "index": 3915,
          "text": "is a community, and it all-- it's all majorly impacted.",
          "startTime": "03:36:52,936",
          "endTime": "03:36:56,736"
        },
        {
          "index": 3916,
          "text": "Next slide.",
          "startTime": "03:36:56,776",
          "endTime": "03:36:57,316"
        },
        {
          "index": 3917,
          "text": "And this was kind of a weird but interesting graph I just threw in here.",
          "startTime": "03:36:58,936",
          "endTime": "03:37:02,166"
        },
        {
          "index": 3918,
          "text": "And it talked about how federal support for cities is declining.",
          "startTime": "03:37:02,176",
          "endTime": "03:37:05,296"
        },
        {
          "index": 3919,
          "text": "Although the infl-in-Inflation Reduction Act is still, investments still",
          "startTime": "03:37:05,336",
          "endTime": "03:37:09,306"
        },
        {
          "index": 3920,
          "text": "happen, less and less money are coming to communities to deal with these",
          "startTime": "03:37:09,416",
          "endTime": "03:37:12,816"
        },
        {
          "index": 3921,
          "text": "issues. So it's kind of a bleak",
          "startTime": "03:37:12,876",
          "endTime": "03:37:16,496"
        },
        {
          "index": 3922,
          "text": "outcome. Um, and a lot of these conversations when they hold",
          "startTime": "03:37:16,576",
          "endTime": "03:37:20,456"
        },
        {
          "index": 3923,
          "text": "these things is to really get mayors to talk, 'cause we don't just sit through",
          "startTime": "03:37:20,496",
          "endTime": "03:37:24,366"
        },
        {
          "index": 3924,
          "text": "these presentations. We all gather around and talk about solutions and",
          "startTime": "03:37:24,396",
          "endTime": "03:37:27,306"
        },
        {
          "index": 3925,
          "text": "ideas. Um, and this one, not a lot of solutions or",
          "startTime": "03:37:27,376",
          "endTime": "03:37:31,216"
        },
        {
          "index": 3926,
          "text": "ideas, unfortunately, but it's something we're dealing with right now.",
          "startTime": "03:37:31,256",
          "endTime": "03:37:34,316"
        },
        {
          "index": 3927,
          "text": "The next slide is onto the one I, I-- when I was-- I was really not looking forward",
          "startTime": "03:37:35,896",
          "endTime": "03:37:39,636"
        },
        {
          "index": 3928,
          "text": "to this conversation because I was, \"What does this have to do with the city of",
          "startTime": "03:37:39,656",
          "endTime": "03:37:42,156"
        },
        {
          "index": 3929,
          "text": "Corvallis or our role?\" Um, so again, building a supportive",
          "startTime": "03:37:42,176",
          "endTime": "03:37:46,076"
        },
        {
          "index": 3930,
          "text": "childcare ecosystem for families and workers, I'm like, \"That's not our role.\" Um,",
          "startTime": "03:37:46,116",
          "endTime": "03:37:49,766"
        },
        {
          "index": 3931,
          "text": "turns out, yes, it is. Um, so I want this, this slide-- This",
          "startTime": "03:37:50,076",
          "endTime": "03:37:53,926"
        },
        {
          "index": 3932,
          "text": "presentation was from Mayor Kelly Girtz, from Athens, Georgia.",
          "startTime": "03:37:53,936",
          "endTime": "03:37:57,776"
        },
        {
          "index": 3933,
          "text": "And in here, they, they-- there's similarities I thought were interesting besides",
          "startTime": "03:37:59,496",
          "endTime": "03:38:03,256"
        },
        {
          "index": 3934,
          "text": "their government's different, but at the same time, they have, they have a",
          "startTime": "03:38:03,376",
          "endTime": "03:38:06,576"
        },
        {
          "index": 3935,
          "text": "council manager form of local government.",
          "startTime": "03:38:06,596",
          "endTime": "03:38:08,686"
        },
        {
          "index": 3936,
          "text": "They're a much larger community, as you can see, but they have a ten-member",
          "startTime": "03:38:08,686",
          "endTime": "03:38:11,436"
        },
        {
          "index": 3937,
          "text": "commission, as their legi-legislative unit, so it's kinda like our",
          "startTime": "03:38:11,476",
          "endTime": "03:38:14,656"
        },
        {
          "index": 3938,
          "text": "council, and it's similar size. So I just thought",
          "startTime": "03:38:14,716",
          "endTime": "03:38:18,386"
        },
        {
          "index": 3939,
          "text": "interesting. Just they're much bigger.",
          "startTime": "03:38:18,436",
          "endTime": "03:38:20,796"
        },
        {
          "index": 3940,
          "text": "Next slide.",
          "startTime": "03:38:20,996",
          "endTime": "03:38:23,296"
        },
        {
          "index": 3941,
          "text": "Yes. Um,",
          "startTime": "03:38:25,016",
          "endTime": "03:38:25,845"
        },
        {
          "index": 3942,
          "text": "so I like this 'cause it's really straightforward.",
          "startTime": "03:38:26,656",
          "endTime": "03:38:28,356"
        },
        {
          "index": 3943,
          "text": "Uh, keep-- Hiring talent is tough.",
          "startTime": "03:38:28,436",
          "endTime": "03:38:30,056"
        },
        {
          "index": 3944,
          "text": "We know that's an issue locally for, for childcare providers.",
          "startTime": "03:38:30,076",
          "endTime": "03:38:33,396"
        },
        {
          "index": 3945,
          "text": "Labor costs are a challenge 'cause you have to pay people enough to live, which is",
          "startTime": "03:38:33,436",
          "endTime": "03:38:37,056"
        },
        {
          "index": 3946,
          "text": "a challenge. Uh, facility costs are high, so the-- what families are",
          "startTime": "03:38:37,116",
          "endTime": "03:38:41,076"
        },
        {
          "index": 3947,
          "text": "charged for health- for childcare is just extreme, and",
          "startTime": "03:38:41,116",
          "endTime": "03:38:45,016"
        },
        {
          "index": 3948,
          "text": "I, I know that is true. Next slide.",
          "startTime": "03:38:45,256",
          "endTime": "03:38:48,456"
        },
        {
          "index": 3949,
          "text": "And then, which-- When I was going back to the slides, I remembered this one.",
          "startTime": "03:38:49,956",
          "endTime": "03:38:53,265"
        },
        {
          "index": 3950,
          "text": "I was like, \"Oh, yeah, this is what got my attention.",
          "startTime": "03:38:53,276",
          "endTime": "03:38:55,315"
        },
        {
          "index": 3951,
          "text": "Why do-- Why would a city care? What, what does this have to do with us?\" Um,",
          "startTime": "03:38:55,356",
          "endTime": "03:38:59,306"
        },
        {
          "index": 3952,
          "text": "but we care about our economy. So again, a strong employment base",
          "startTime": "03:38:59,316",
          "endTime": "03:39:03,236"
        },
        {
          "index": 3953,
          "text": "and long-term community health, safety, and prosperity.",
          "startTime": "03:39:03,316",
          "endTime": "03:39:05,936"
        },
        {
          "index": 3954,
          "text": "Couldn't disagree with that. Next slide.",
          "startTime": "03:39:05,976",
          "endTime": "03:39:08,896"
        },
        {
          "index": 3955,
          "text": "So here's where it came down to what a city could do, and I'm not saying we",
          "startTime": "03:39:08,916",
          "endTime": "03:39:12,576"
        },
        {
          "index": 3956,
          "text": "will do this, but it's something we should think about.",
          "startTime": "03:39:12,756",
          "endTime": "03:39:15,246"
        },
        {
          "index": 3957,
          "text": "Um, they, they ta- they would talk about the projects that they successfully did",
          "startTime": "03:39:15,336",
          "endTime": "03:39:18,386"
        },
        {
          "index": 3958,
          "text": "there. But the one at the end was, buying down the capital cost of",
          "startTime": "03:39:18,416",
          "endTime": "03:39:21,866"
        },
        {
          "index": 3959,
          "text": "facilities lowers family price tag.",
          "startTime": "03:39:21,936",
          "endTime": "03:39:24,296"
        },
        {
          "index": 3960,
          "text": "And so creating opportunities for space for childcare providers,",
          "startTime": "03:39:24,306",
          "endTime": "03:39:28,116"
        },
        {
          "index": 3961,
          "text": "licensed childcare providers, that we could re-reduce their costs by potentially",
          "startTime": "03:39:28,236",
          "endTime": "03:39:32,116"
        },
        {
          "index": 3962,
          "text": "maybe having space in some of our city facilities for them to operate.",
          "startTime": "03:39:32,156",
          "endTime": "03:39:36,046"
        },
        {
          "index": 3963,
          "text": "That could potentially benefit our employees.",
          "startTime": "03:39:36,096",
          "endTime": "03:39:38,606"
        },
        {
          "index": 3964,
          "text": "It could also benefit the community.",
          "startTime": "03:39:38,616",
          "endTime": "03:39:40,446"
        },
        {
          "index": 3965,
          "text": "So as we're thinking about, a civic campus project, like maybe",
          "startTime": "03:39:40,476",
          "endTime": "03:39:44,456"
        },
        {
          "index": 3966,
          "text": "there's room to think about doing that.",
          "startTime": "03:39:44,496",
          "endTime": "03:39:46,426"
        },
        {
          "index": 3967,
          "text": "And we have other facilities, two minutes in the room, we have the",
          "startTime": "03:39:46,426",
          "endTime": "03:39:49,186"
        },
        {
          "index": 3968,
          "text": "C-3. It's just something we could potentially look at of a way",
          "startTime": "03:39:49,636",
          "endTime": "03:39:53,436"
        },
        {
          "index": 3969,
          "text": "to help alleviate, rising costs for childcare.",
          "startTime": "03:39:53,476",
          "endTime": "03:39:57,455"
        },
        {
          "index": 3970,
          "text": "So that's when it hit me. I'm like, \"Oh, that is something we technically could",
          "startTime": "03:39:57,516",
          "endTime": "03:40:00,296"
        },
        {
          "index": 3971,
          "text": "do.\"",
          "startTime": "03:40:00,316",
          "endTime": "03:40:00,606"
        },
        {
          "index": 3972,
          "text": "And then the last one, which is very interesting as well,",
          "startTime": "03:40:01,496",
          "endTime": "03:40:04,596"
        },
        {
          "index": 3973,
          "text": "aging in place. So again, we're talking about seniors,",
          "startTime": "03:40:05,836",
          "endTime": "03:40:08,576"
        },
        {
          "index": 3974,
          "text": "and I used the slides from AARP 'cause I think they were the best",
          "startTime": "03:40:08,656",
          "endTime": "03:40:11,756"
        },
        {
          "index": 3975,
          "text": "ones. Um, we're in a lasting demogra-demographic",
          "startTime": "03:40:11,796",
          "endTime": "03:40:15,496"
        },
        {
          "index": 3976,
          "text": "shift. And at first, I was like, \"What does that mean, demographic shift?\" So if",
          "startTime": "03:40:15,596",
          "endTime": "03:40:18,666"
        },
        {
          "index": 3977,
          "text": "you go to the next slide, this one hit me.",
          "startTime": "03:40:18,696",
          "endTime": "03:40:21,436"
        },
        {
          "index": 3978,
          "text": "The aging of America is here. So on the left there is what,",
          "startTime": "03:40:21,756",
          "endTime": "03:40:25,606"
        },
        {
          "index": 3979,
          "text": "twenty fifteen and like the light color, that is Oregon, would've",
          "startTime": "03:40:25,936",
          "endTime": "03:40:29,596"
        },
        {
          "index": 3980,
          "text": "been, twelve point five to one point uh",
          "startTime": "03:40:29,636",
          "endTime": "03:40:32,536"
        },
        {
          "index": 3981,
          "text": "fifteen percent of the population.",
          "startTime": "03:40:33,136",
          "endTime": "03:40:35,576"
        },
        {
          "index": 3982,
          "text": "But if you look at the map on the right, that jumps us up to twenty to twenty-two",
          "startTime": "03:40:35,596",
          "endTime": "03:40:39,356"
        },
        {
          "index": 3983,
          "text": "point five percent of the population, and it's continuing to",
          "startTime": "03:40:39,456",
          "endTime": "03:40:42,536"
        },
        {
          "index": 3984,
          "text": "grow.So we're gonna have a sig- you know, in the future, the whole...",
          "startTime": "03:40:42,576",
          "endTime": "03:40:46,430"
        },
        {
          "index": 3985,
          "text": "all the countries got a significantly different looking population than it does",
          "startTime": "03:40:46,480",
          "endTime": "03:40:49,550"
        },
        {
          "index": 3986,
          "text": "today. Next slide.",
          "startTime": "03:40:49,580",
          "endTime": "03:40:51,630"
        },
        {
          "index": 3987,
          "text": "And it talked about most communities in the country have not been built to",
          "startTime": "03:40:53,500",
          "endTime": "03:40:57,160"
        },
        {
          "index": 3988,
          "text": "even address that, you know, with, with better sidewalks, better transportation",
          "startTime": "03:40:57,680",
          "endTime": "03:41:00,900"
        },
        {
          "index": 3989,
          "text": "options, things like that. And this next slide actually helped me with my",
          "startTime": "03:41:00,960",
          "endTime": "03:41:04,810"
        },
        {
          "index": 3990,
          "text": "family issues right now, which about how d- aging in place is",
          "startTime": "03:41:04,860",
          "endTime": "03:41:08,680"
        },
        {
          "index": 3991,
          "text": "difficult because of type of housing you have.",
          "startTime": "03:41:08,700",
          "endTime": "03:41:11,390"
        },
        {
          "index": 3992,
          "text": "Um, we, we know we talked a few years back when we talked about the,",
          "startTime": "03:41:11,460",
          "endTime": "03:41:15,220"
        },
        {
          "index": 3993,
          "text": "the senior facilities. I can't think of the name all of a",
          "startTime": "03:41:17,220",
          "endTime": "03:41:18,910"
        },
        {
          "index": 3994,
          "text": "sudden. The Bonaventure. When we were talking about Bonaventure, we talked about",
          "startTime": "03:41:18,940",
          "endTime": "03:41:22,710"
        },
        {
          "index": 3995,
          "text": "those people who are living in homes that are, you know, they're, they're not being",
          "startTime": "03:41:22,740",
          "endTime": "03:41:26,360"
        },
        {
          "index": 3996,
          "text": "used to their full potential. A single person living who maybe would be happier",
          "startTime": "03:41:26,400",
          "endTime": "03:41:29,400"
        },
        {
          "index": 3997,
          "text": "living somewhere else and opening that home up to family.",
          "startTime": "03:41:29,840",
          "endTime": "03:41:31,720"
        },
        {
          "index": 3998,
          "text": "So there's housing mobility, which t- I just mentioned.",
          "startTime": "03:41:31,740",
          "endTime": "03:41:35,400"
        },
        {
          "index": 3999,
          "text": "Um, even our public spaces, how we think of the design of our parks.",
          "startTime": "03:41:35,410",
          "endTime": "03:41:38,760"
        },
        {
          "index": 4000,
          "text": "Um, and the last one is the, the biggest one, isolation.",
          "startTime": "03:41:38,840",
          "endTime": "03:41:42,290"
        },
        {
          "index": 4001,
          "text": "The health risks of, of prolonged isolation is equivalent to eating...",
          "startTime": "03:41:42,300",
          "endTime": "03:41:45,469"
        },
        {
          "index": 4002,
          "text": "smoking 15 cigarettes a day. So o- people",
          "startTime": "03:41:45,520",
          "endTime": "03:41:49,100"
        },
        {
          "index": 4003,
          "text": "65 and over, it severely impacts their health if they're not engaged and",
          "startTime": "03:41:49,259",
          "endTime": "03:41:52,980"
        },
        {
          "index": 4004,
          "text": "kept active and, you know, out of isolation.",
          "startTime": "03:41:53,040",
          "endTime": "03:41:56,870"
        },
        {
          "index": 4005,
          "text": "And what I don't... I, I think what was good about this one is I feel like we were",
          "startTime": "03:41:56,900",
          "endTime": "03:42:00,890"
        },
        {
          "index": 4006,
          "text": "in a really good place. Like, we already are addressing a lot of this.",
          "startTime": "03:42:00,940",
          "endTime": "03:42:03,610"
        },
        {
          "index": 4007,
          "text": "You know, we have our, our community center that has programs, our library has",
          "startTime": "03:42:03,620",
          "endTime": "03:42:06,930"
        },
        {
          "index": 4008,
          "text": "programs. We have good,",
          "startTime": "03:42:06,960",
          "endTime": "03:42:08,010"
        },
        {
          "index": 4009,
          "text": "fairly good transportation system here and, and a, a network",
          "startTime": "03:42:09,340",
          "endTime": "03:42:12,720"
        },
        {
          "index": 4010,
          "text": "of s- of social service providers.",
          "startTime": "03:42:12,780",
          "endTime": "03:42:14,260"
        },
        {
          "index": 4011,
          "text": "So I think compared to what I was hearing from other mayors, I think we're doing",
          "startTime": "03:42:14,320",
          "endTime": "03:42:18,180"
        },
        {
          "index": 4012,
          "text": "all right. But it doesn't mean we shouldn't think about this as we think of",
          "startTime": "03:42:18,220",
          "endTime": "03:42:21,760"
        },
        {
          "index": 4013,
          "text": "long-term development in our community.",
          "startTime": "03:42:21,820",
          "endTime": "03:42:24,690"
        },
        {
          "index": 4014,
          "text": "And I like the saying, create a great community for an older adult, you build a",
          "startTime": "03:42:25,420",
          "endTime": "03:42:29,140"
        },
        {
          "index": 4015,
          "text": "community great for everyone. I think, again, keep that in",
          "startTime": "03:42:29,180",
          "endTime": "03:42:32,740"
        },
        {
          "index": 4016,
          "text": "mind. And this next slide's just kind of fun.",
          "startTime": "03:42:32,760",
          "endTime": "03:42:35,860"
        },
        {
          "index": 4017,
          "text": "Again, as I said, it's not like, we just sit there and are talked at like some",
          "startTime": "03:42:35,920",
          "endTime": "03:42:39,900"
        },
        {
          "index": 4018,
          "text": "conferences I go to. There's a lot of engagement with other mayors.",
          "startTime": "03:42:39,960",
          "endTime": "03:42:42,970"
        },
        {
          "index": 4019,
          "text": "This is me with the mayor of Madison, Wisconsin, Satya",
          "startTime": "03:42:43,020",
          "endTime": "03:42:45,820"
        },
        {
          "index": 4020,
          "text": "Rhodes-Conway. Um, Wisconsin...",
          "startTime": "03:42:45,880",
          "endTime": "03:42:48,650"
        },
        {
          "index": 4021,
          "text": "Uh, Madison, Wisconsin, is where the Mayors Innovation project started, with",
          "startTime": "03:42:48,650",
          "endTime": "03:42:52,600"
        },
        {
          "index": 4022,
          "text": "a professor there.",
          "startTime": "03:42:52,660",
          "endTime": "03:42:53,600"
        },
        {
          "index": 4023,
          "text": "And so I was able to catch up with her.",
          "startTime": "03:42:54,500",
          "endTime": "03:42:56,390"
        },
        {
          "index": 4024,
          "text": "I met her when I went to the, new mayors',",
          "startTime": "03:42:56,440",
          "endTime": "03:42:59,340"
        },
        {
          "index": 4025,
          "text": "whatever that was called, cohort.",
          "startTime": "03:43:00,440",
          "endTime": "03:43:01,989"
        },
        {
          "index": 4026,
          "text": "I met, I met her there, and she saw me, and we were able to reconnect.",
          "startTime": "03:43:02,020",
          "endTime": "03:43:04,369"
        },
        {
          "index": 4027,
          "text": "And along with, other mayors from Oregon and a mayor from",
          "startTime": "03:43:04,400",
          "endTime": "03:43:08,120"
        },
        {
          "index": 4028,
          "text": "Georgia and a few other places. It was, it was really",
          "startTime": "03:43:08,140",
          "endTime": "03:43:12,120"
        },
        {
          "index": 4029,
          "text": "good. And again, you sit down and you talk about what the presentation you were",
          "startTime": "03:43:12,160",
          "endTime": "03:43:15,160"
        },
        {
          "index": 4030,
          "text": "just given and say, \"Well, what, what are you, what are you doing to address this?\"",
          "startTime": "03:43:15,260",
          "endTime": "03:43:18,429"
        },
        {
          "index": 4031,
          "text": "So I was able to brag about Corvallis and some of the steps we've taken to address",
          "startTime": "03:43:18,460",
          "endTime": "03:43:22,000"
        },
        {
          "index": 4032,
          "text": "housing needs and infrastructure needs.",
          "startTime": "03:43:22,020",
          "endTime": "03:43:24,500"
        },
        {
          "index": 4033,
          "text": "Some people were impressed. So that is pretty much the end of my",
          "startTime": "03:43:25,400",
          "endTime": "03:43:28,840"
        },
        {
          "index": 4034,
          "text": "presentation. I, I know ... No, that's good.",
          "startTime": "03:43:28,900",
          "endTime": "03:43:32,380"
        },
        {
          "index": 4035,
          "text": "Um, I didn't wanna make it too long 'cause I was looking at the agenda and I'm",
          "startTime": "03:43:32,480",
          "endTime": "03:43:35,540"
        },
        {
          "index": 4036,
          "text": "like, \"Yeah, I'm not gonna talk all night about this.\" 'Cause if, if you want, I",
          "startTime": "03:43:35,580",
          "endTime": "03:43:38,860"
        },
        {
          "index": 4037,
          "text": "could spend the next two days and just go over the whole thing, but I don't think",
          "startTime": "03:43:38,880",
          "endTime": "03:43:42,110"
        },
        {
          "index": 4038,
          "text": "that's a good idea. And I apologize again for the delay.",
          "startTime": "03:43:42,140",
          "endTime": "03:43:45,180"
        },
        {
          "index": 4039,
          "text": "That was not my intent.",
          "startTime": "03:43:45,200",
          "endTime": "03:43:47,560"
        },
        {
          "index": 4040,
          "text": "Um,",
          "startTime": "03:43:48,440",
          "endTime": "03:43:48,640"
        },
        {
          "index": 4041,
          "text": "hopefully this was enjoyable a little bit.",
          "startTime": "03:43:49,660",
          "endTime": "03:43:52,140"
        },
        {
          "index": 4042,
          "text": "Um, they did make me an offer to... if, if we wanted to become a member city of the",
          "startTime": "03:43:52,260",
          "endTime": "03:43:56,020"
        },
        {
          "index": 4043,
          "text": "Mayors Innovation Project. It's, for our size city, it's normally",
          "startTime": "03:43:56,040",
          "endTime": "03:43:59,160"
        },
        {
          "index": 4044,
          "text": "$2,500. They're willing to deduct the amount that I paid to attend",
          "startTime": "03:43:59,200",
          "endTime": "03:44:03,020"
        },
        {
          "index": 4045,
          "text": "that conference off the annual price.",
          "startTime": "03:44:03,060",
          "endTime": "03:44:05,260"
        },
        {
          "index": 4046,
          "text": "So that's something I'm gonna get some information about where, where our budget",
          "startTime": "03:44:05,300",
          "endTime": "03:44:08,260"
        },
        {
          "index": 4047,
          "text": "is, 'cause I'm not sure where our council budget is, and with maybe a request to",
          "startTime": "03:44:08,360",
          "endTime": "03:44:12,200"
        },
        {
          "index": 4048,
          "text": "join them. And in the future, if we join, then there's no cost to attend these",
          "startTime": "03:44:12,240",
          "endTime": "03:44:16,140"
        },
        {
          "index": 4049,
          "text": "conferences. And they provide a bunch of other stuff, but I'll get all that to you",
          "startTime": "03:44:16,200",
          "endTime": "03:44:19,100"
        },
        {
          "index": 4050,
          "text": "guys at a future meeting.",
          "startTime": "03:44:19,140",
          "endTime": "03:44:20,550"
        },
        {
          "index": 4051,
          "text": "This office. What,",
          "startTime": "03:44:20,780",
          "endTime": "03:44:23,460"
        },
        {
          "index": 4052,
          "text": "what...",
          "startTime": "03:44:24,280",
          "endTime": "03:44:25,330"
        },
        {
          "index": 4053,
          "text": "Yeah. That'll be put... I'll, I'll bring that back at a council meeting for, for",
          "startTime": "03:44:25,360",
          "endTime": "03:44:28,310"
        },
        {
          "index": 4054,
          "text": "consideration. Um, my other comments, and I, you know, I, I haven't",
          "startTime": "03:44:28,360",
          "endTime": "03:44:32,140"
        },
        {
          "index": 4055,
          "text": "given many comments lately, so this is where I make up for that.",
          "startTime": "03:44:32,300",
          "endTime": "03:44:36,180"
        },
        {
          "index": 4056,
          "text": "Um, Saturday I attended the legislative breakfast, and just quick takeaways from",
          "startTime": "03:44:36,260",
          "endTime": "03:44:39,520"
        },
        {
          "index": 4057,
          "text": "that. Legislative breakfast, for those don't know, is, the county holds it, and",
          "startTime": "03:44:39,560",
          "endTime": "03:44:42,630"
        },
        {
          "index": 4058,
          "text": "they invite our legislators. So we heard from three of our legislators, even though",
          "startTime": "03:44:42,640",
          "endTime": "03:44:45,850"
        },
        {
          "index": 4059,
          "text": "we only actually have two, but there's also the one for Philomath, on how",
          "startTime": "03:44:46,060",
          "endTime": "03:44:49,900"
        },
        {
          "index": 4060,
          "text": "the se- short session went. The one things I took away from, the, the",
          "startTime": "03:44:49,980",
          "endTime": "03:44:53,970"
        },
        {
          "index": 4061,
          "text": "flexibility on our, on lodging tax funds passed.",
          "startTime": "03:44:54,020",
          "endTime": "03:44:57,380"
        },
        {
          "index": 4062,
          "text": "Um, but unfortunately there's gonna be a reduction in safe route to schools",
          "startTime": "03:44:57,480",
          "endTime": "03:45:00,670"
        },
        {
          "index": 4063,
          "text": "funding. That's not good. Um, but there is an increase to the earned income tax",
          "startTime": "03:45:00,740",
          "endTime": "03:45:04,600"
        },
        {
          "index": 4064,
          "text": "credit, which I know helps people with lower incomes significantly.",
          "startTime": "03:45:04,660",
          "endTime": "03:45:07,730"
        },
        {
          "index": 4065,
          "text": "'Cause I remember when I was extremely poor and got that for my kids,",
          "startTime": "03:45:07,730",
          "endTime": "03:45:11,349"
        },
        {
          "index": 4066,
          "text": "it really made a difference. Sometimes it just went to buying ne- needed",
          "startTime": "03:45:11,400",
          "endTime": "03:45:15,020"
        },
        {
          "index": 4067,
          "text": "supplies like shoes for school. Um,",
          "startTime": "03:45:15,060",
          "endTime": "03:45:17,890"
        },
        {
          "index": 4068,
          "text": "I wanted to, wanted to say something.",
          "startTime": "03:45:20,340",
          "endTime": "03:45:21,650"
        },
        {
          "index": 4069,
          "text": "Uh, earlier when we were reviewing the MUPTE request, I know we",
          "startTime": "03:45:21,650",
          "endTime": "03:45:25,420"
        },
        {
          "index": 4070,
          "text": "received an email, and one of the emails talked about, the loss of the",
          "startTime": "03:45:25,460",
          "endTime": "03:45:29,420"
        },
        {
          "index": 4071,
          "text": "food trucks that used to be on that, on that block.",
          "startTime": "03:45:29,520",
          "endTime": "03:45:31,920"
        },
        {
          "index": 4072,
          "text": "So I just wanna quickly say we did not lose those food trucks.",
          "startTime": "03:45:31,960",
          "endTime": "03:45:35,160"
        },
        {
          "index": 4073,
          "text": "Uh, one of them is now in the plaza on Madison.",
          "startTime": "03:45:35,240",
          "endTime": "03:45:38,400"
        },
        {
          "index": 4074,
          "text": "That's Tacos El Machine, and apparently they're doing better business there than",
          "startTime": "03:45:38,420",
          "endTime": "03:45:41,340"
        },
        {
          "index": 4075,
          "text": "they ever did in their food truck. So they're thriving. And the space is great.",
          "startTime": "03:45:41,360",
          "endTime": "03:45:44,930"
        },
        {
          "index": 4076,
          "text": "You should all check it out if you're up in the plaza.",
          "startTime": "03:45:44,960",
          "endTime": "03:45:46,950"
        },
        {
          "index": 4077,
          "text": "And the other one moved over to Common Fields, the sushi one.",
          "startTime": "03:45:46,950",
          "endTime": "03:45:49,680"
        },
        {
          "index": 4078,
          "text": "So if you enjoyed those businesses, you can continue to support them.",
          "startTime": "03:45:49,740",
          "endTime": "03:45:53,040"
        },
        {
          "index": 4079,
          "text": "Um, now I got some events I wanna let everybody know about, 'cause",
          "startTime": "03:45:54,460",
          "endTime": "03:45:57,640"
        },
        {
          "index": 4080,
          "text": "I never do that. Um, League of Women Voters event called Sheltering Our",
          "startTime": "03:45:58,760",
          "endTime": "03:46:02,010"
        },
        {
          "index": 4081,
          "text": "Unhoused: Are We Making Progress?",
          "startTime": "03:46:02,100",
          "endTime": "03:46:03,800"
        },
        {
          "index": 4082,
          "text": "is Wednesday, March 18th at 6:30 at the library.",
          "startTime": "03:46:03,880",
          "endTime": "03:46:06,950"
        },
        {
          "index": 4083,
          "text": "I plan on being there, so all of you can join if you",
          "startTime": "03:46:07,100",
          "endTime": "03:46:10,460"
        },
        {
          "index": 4084,
          "text": "want. Um, I will be attending a groundbreaking ceremony for Third Street",
          "startTime": "03:46:10,520",
          "endTime": "03:46:14,460"
        },
        {
          "index": 4085,
          "text": "Commons on the 19th, which is this coming Thursday at 11:30",
          "startTime": "03:46:14,560",
          "endTime": "03:46:18,520"
        },
        {
          "index": 4086,
          "text": "AM. Everyone's welcome. I gotta go...",
          "startTime": "03:46:18,580",
          "endTime": "03:46:21,590"
        },
        {
          "index": 4087,
          "text": "I was concerned 'cause they said I would need to be able to operate a shovel.",
          "startTime": "03:46:21,590",
          "endTime": "03:46:24,840"
        },
        {
          "index": 4088,
          "text": "I'm like, \"Am I qualified for that?\" Operate sounds like a bigger thing,",
          "startTime": "03:46:24,860",
          "endTime": "03:46:28,800"
        },
        {
          "index": 4089,
          "text": "but I think I can manage. Uh, on Saturday the 28th, there's a",
          "startTime": "03:46:28,820",
          "endTime": "03:46:32,560"
        },
        {
          "index": 4090,
          "text": "downtown cleanup happening at 10:00 AM. They're...",
          "startTime": "03:46:32,600",
          "endTime": "03:46:35,050"
        },
        {
          "index": 4091,
          "text": "people are gathering at the museum.",
          "startTime": "03:46:35,080",
          "endTime": "03:46:36,380"
        },
        {
          "index": 4092,
          "text": "I intend to participate this time 'cause I'm in town and I'm not...",
          "startTime": "03:46:36,480",
          "endTime": "03:46:39,470"
        },
        {
          "index": 4093,
          "text": "don't have the flu. So,",
          "startTime": "03:46:39,480",
          "endTime": "03:46:41,539"
        },
        {
          "index": 4094,
          "text": "so I encourage people to join thatUm, and",
          "startTime": "03:46:42,360",
          "endTime": "03:46:46,000"
        },
        {
          "index": 4095,
          "text": "last but not least, same day, on January,",
          "startTime": "03:46:46,120",
          "endTime": "03:46:49,780"
        },
        {
          "index": 4096,
          "text": "Saturday the 28th at noon is the No S- No Kings March and",
          "startTime": "03:46:50,020",
          "endTime": "03:46:53,730"
        },
        {
          "index": 4097,
          "text": "Rally. Um, the march starts on the OSU campus, McNeary",
          "startTime": "03:46:53,800",
          "endTime": "03:46:57,520"
        },
        {
          "index": 4098,
          "text": "Field, goes to Central Park and then to the courthouse.",
          "startTime": "03:46:57,580",
          "endTime": "03:46:59,900"
        },
        {
          "index": 4099,
          "text": "You can join them along the way or just be at the courthouse.",
          "startTime": "03:46:59,940",
          "endTime": "03:47:03,090"
        },
        {
          "index": 4100,
          "text": "Um, and I appreciate all those doing that.",
          "startTime": "03:47:03,180",
          "endTime": "03:47:06,220"
        },
        {
          "index": 4101,
          "text": "Although when, when I talk to the organizers, I say the same thing, it's like,",
          "startTime": "03:47:06,240",
          "endTime": "03:47:08,980"
        },
        {
          "index": 4102,
          "text": "\"Well, this is great, this gets people excited. What is next?",
          "startTime": "03:47:09,000",
          "endTime": "03:47:12,400"
        },
        {
          "index": 4103,
          "text": "When does the work happen? Where do people get involved to actually make a",
          "startTime": "03:47:12,420",
          "endTime": "03:47:14,980"
        },
        {
          "index": 4104,
          "text": "difference?\" And I appreciate everybody who shows up for rallies.",
          "startTime": "03:47:15,040",
          "endTime": "03:47:17,690"
        },
        {
          "index": 4105,
          "text": "I've attended so many over the last 10 years, I don't remember most of them.",
          "startTime": "03:47:17,740",
          "endTime": "03:47:21,480"
        },
        {
          "index": 4106,
          "text": "But I also do things. I encourage you all to do the",
          "startTime": "03:47:21,520",
          "endTime": "03:47:24,620"
        },
        {
          "index": 4107,
          "text": "same.",
          "startTime": "03:47:24,660",
          "endTime": "03:47:25,800"
        },
        {
          "index": 4108,
          "text": "And that is the end of my comments, I believe, unless I'm forgetting",
          "startTime": "03:47:26,600",
          "endTime": "03:47:29,660"
        },
        {
          "index": 4109,
          "text": "something. But I don't think I am. So",
          "startTime": "03:47:29,760",
          "endTime": "03:47:32,920"
        },
        {
          "index": 4110,
          "text": "anybody remember where we went last time? I think I started over here.",
          "startTime": "03:47:34,000",
          "endTime": "03:47:37,480"
        },
        {
          "index": 4111,
          "text": "So Councilor El... Actually, I'll start with Councilor Shaffer, even though he's",
          "startTime": "03:47:38,700",
          "endTime": "03:47:42,050"
        },
        {
          "index": 4112,
          "text": "virtually, but he'd be over there.",
          "startTime": "03:47:42,080",
          "endTime": "03:47:44,240"
        },
        {
          "index": 4113,
          "text": "I will be extremely quick. It's already 1:00 AM in where I am.",
          "startTime": "03:47:45,520",
          "endTime": "03:47:49,160"
        },
        {
          "index": 4114,
          "text": "Ooh, oodle.",
          "startTime": "03:47:49,720",
          "endTime": "03:47:49,750"
        },
        {
          "index": 4115,
          "text": "I'm tired. I'm gonna pass this",
          "startTime": "03:47:49,750",
          "endTime": "03:47:51,980"
        },
        {
          "index": 4116,
          "text": "week.",
          "startTime": "03:47:52,040",
          "endTime": "03:47:55,690"
        },
        {
          "index": 4117,
          "text": "Okay.",
          "startTime": "03:47:55,740",
          "endTime": "03:47:56,640"
        },
        {
          "index": 4118,
          "text": "Uh, Councilor Olsen.",
          "startTime": "03:47:57,960",
          "endTime": "03:47:58,780"
        },
        {
          "index": 4119,
          "text": "Um, yeah. I don't have too much to say right now.",
          "startTime": "03:47:59,800",
          "endTime": "03:48:03,440"
        },
        {
          "index": 4120,
          "text": "Some updates on things in the community is",
          "startTime": "03:48:04,200",
          "endTime": "03:48:07,720"
        },
        {
          "index": 4121,
          "text": "that OSU just approved tuition increases for both their in",
          "startTime": "03:48:07,820",
          "endTime": "03:48:11,780"
        },
        {
          "index": 4122,
          "text": "and out-of-state students. So just, just to, like, let everyone know",
          "startTime": "03:48:11,860",
          "endTime": "03:48:15,730"
        },
        {
          "index": 4123,
          "text": "what's going on with OSU. Um-",
          "startTime": "03:48:15,780",
          "endTime": "03:48:18,100"
        },
        {
          "index": 4124,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "03:48:19,280",
          "endTime": "03:48:19,500"
        },
        {
          "index": 4125,
          "text": "Yeah, it's up, almost 6% for",
          "startTime": "03:48:19,510",
          "endTime": "03:48:23,360"
        },
        {
          "index": 4126,
          "text": "residents and 6.25% for",
          "startTime": "03:48:23,700",
          "endTime": "03:48:26,980"
        },
        {
          "index": 4127,
          "text": "non-residents. So if you're curious, that's almost",
          "startTime": "03:48:27,020",
          "endTime": "03:48:30,390"
        },
        {
          "index": 4128,
          "text": "$300 a credit, which is",
          "startTime": "03:48:30,390",
          "endTime": "03:48:33,010"
        },
        {
          "index": 4129,
          "text": "insane. Um, yeah. So that's my main",
          "startTime": "03:48:33,060",
          "endTime": "03:48:36,840"
        },
        {
          "index": 4130,
          "text": "thing. Also, I have been, attending some",
          "startTime": "03:48:36,880",
          "endTime": "03:48:40,600"
        },
        {
          "index": 4131,
          "text": "boar- unofficial board meetings held by some people in my board, so that's been",
          "startTime": "03:48:40,640",
          "endTime": "03:48:44,060"
        },
        {
          "index": 4132,
          "text": "really fun. We talked about the MUPTI",
          "startTime": "03:48:44,100",
          "endTime": "03:48:47,640"
        },
        {
          "index": 4133,
          "text": "mostly on our meeting on Saturday, so that was really exciting.",
          "startTime": "03:48:47,860",
          "endTime": "03:48:51,470"
        },
        {
          "index": 4134,
          "text": "I liked getting to meet with people.",
          "startTime": "03:48:51,540",
          "endTime": "03:48:54,070"
        },
        {
          "index": 4135,
          "text": "Um, and yeah. The last thing I have to say",
          "startTime": "03:48:54,139",
          "endTime": "03:48:57,780"
        },
        {
          "index": 4136,
          "text": "is just",
          "startTime": "03:48:58,000",
          "endTime": "03:48:58,640"
        },
        {
          "index": 4137,
          "text": "I, I know I said at the time that I",
          "startTime": "03:49:00,420",
          "endTime": "03:49:04,080"
        },
        {
          "index": 4138,
          "text": "don't like resolutions that don't seem to do much.",
          "startTime": "03:49:04,480",
          "endTime": "03:49:06,680"
        },
        {
          "index": 4139,
          "text": "And so what I'm gonna say right now is ask all of you guys who didn't vote",
          "startTime": "03:49:06,690",
          "endTime": "03:49:10,680"
        },
        {
          "index": 4140,
          "text": "on the resolution what you personally are doing to",
          "startTime": "03:49:10,720",
          "endTime": "03:49:14,120"
        },
        {
          "index": 4141,
          "text": "help, to prevent ICE in our",
          "startTime": "03:49:14,160",
          "endTime": "03:49:17,840"
        },
        {
          "index": 4142,
          "text": "community. Not what you as a community member are doing, what, not what",
          "startTime": "03:49:17,900",
          "endTime": "03:49:21,840"
        },
        {
          "index": 4143,
          "text": "you, not what the state's done, but what you personally are doing.",
          "startTime": "03:49:22,020",
          "endTime": "03:49:25,380"
        },
        {
          "index": 4144,
          "text": "Who are you helping? Who are you connecting to?",
          "startTime": "03:49:25,400",
          "endTime": "03:49:27,780"
        },
        {
          "index": 4145,
          "text": "How are you impeding the ever-encroaching force of",
          "startTime": "03:49:27,800",
          "endTime": "03:49:31,480"
        },
        {
          "index": 4146,
          "text": "fascism in this country? Because while community",
          "startTime": "03:49:31,540",
          "endTime": "03:49:35,209"
        },
        {
          "index": 4147,
          "text": "efforts are the best, individual efforts are better than",
          "startTime": "03:49:35,280",
          "endTime": "03:49:39,040"
        },
        {
          "index": 4148,
          "text": "nothing. So...",
          "startTime": "03:49:39,080",
          "endTime": "03:49:42,989"
        },
        {
          "index": 4149,
          "text": "Councilor Meyers.",
          "startTime": "03:49:43,020",
          "endTime": "03:49:45,620"
        },
        {
          "index": 4150,
          "text": "Well, I unfortunately have a whole bunch of stuff. I'll go as fast as I can.",
          "startTime": "03:49:45,700",
          "endTime": "03:49:49,330"
        },
        {
          "index": 4151,
          "text": "Um, we had the all d- all task",
          "startTime": "03:49:49,440",
          "endTime": "03:49:53,020"
        },
        {
          "index": 4152,
          "text": "force meeting, Downtown Vitality Strategy",
          "startTime": "03:49:53,160",
          "endTime": "03:49:56,960"
        },
        {
          "index": 4153,
          "text": "Task Force on the 3rd, and I'm",
          "startTime": "03:49:57,020",
          "endTime": "03:50:00,960"
        },
        {
          "index": 4154,
          "text": "pretty excited about how things are progressing and how the",
          "startTime": "03:50:00,970",
          "endTime": "03:50:04,700"
        },
        {
          "index": 4155,
          "text": "discussions are going and, and working through,",
          "startTime": "03:50:04,720",
          "endTime": "03:50:08,030"
        },
        {
          "index": 4156,
          "text": "well, getting to some",
          "startTime": "03:50:08,880",
          "endTime": "03:50:10,440"
        },
        {
          "index": 4157,
          "text": "recommendations.",
          "startTime": "03:50:10,480",
          "endTime": "03:50:12,240"
        },
        {
          "index": 4158,
          "text": "Um, I'll skip that one. Uh,",
          "startTime": "03:50:12,360",
          "endTime": "03:50:16,330"
        },
        {
          "index": 4159,
          "text": "March 9th, we had Budget Commission meeting, catching up the commission on",
          "startTime": "03:50:16,400",
          "endTime": "03:50:20,300"
        },
        {
          "index": 4160,
          "text": "all of the things council's been working on, and facilities funding and",
          "startTime": "03:50:20,380",
          "endTime": "03:50:24,300"
        },
        {
          "index": 4161,
          "text": "all the financial, challenges we're",
          "startTime": "03:50:24,380",
          "endTime": "03:50:27,610"
        },
        {
          "index": 4162,
          "text": "facing. And there was a really good discussion about getting some more",
          "startTime": "03:50:27,620",
          "endTime": "03:50:31,220"
        },
        {
          "index": 4163,
          "text": "information about the Bu- Budget Commission and what we're doing out to",
          "startTime": "03:50:31,260",
          "endTime": "03:50:35,250"
        },
        {
          "index": 4164,
          "text": "the community, so I was grateful to, Councilor",
          "startTime": "03:50:35,280",
          "endTime": "03:50:39,160"
        },
        {
          "index": 4165,
          "text": "Ellis for bringing that up, and I think we landed on a couple of good",
          "startTime": "03:50:39,260",
          "endTime": "03:50:43,160"
        },
        {
          "index": 4166,
          "text": "ideas. Um, on the 10th, we had... I'll",
          "startTime": "03:50:43,220",
          "endTime": "03:50:47,140"
        },
        {
          "index": 4167,
          "text": "let you talk about the Charter PAC. Are you gonna talk about it?",
          "startTime": "03:50:47,180",
          "endTime": "03:50:50,540"
        },
        {
          "index": 4168,
          "text": "Okay. Um, on the 11th, we had the,",
          "startTime": "03:50:50,580",
          "endTime": "03:50:54,440"
        },
        {
          "index": 4169,
          "text": "Downtown Vitality Task Force, again,",
          "startTime": "03:50:55,780",
          "endTime": "03:50:58,100"
        },
        {
          "index": 4170,
          "text": "Infrastructure Committee, and that was a great discussion about, as I said",
          "startTime": "03:50:58,300",
          "endTime": "03:51:02,119"
        },
        {
          "index": 4171,
          "text": "before, how housing s- more housing downtown",
          "startTime": "03:51:02,160",
          "endTime": "03:51:05,960"
        },
        {
          "index": 4172,
          "text": "solves a lot of the problems we're trying to solve.",
          "startTime": "03:51:06,140",
          "endTime": "03:51:09,380"
        },
        {
          "index": 4173,
          "text": "Um, I also was at the legislative breakfast.",
          "startTime": "03:51:09,480",
          "endTime": "03:51:12,180"
        },
        {
          "index": 4174,
          "text": "Oh, and Thursday, we had a makeup Leadership Corvallis",
          "startTime": "03:51:12,260",
          "endTime": "03:51:15,720"
        },
        {
          "index": 4175,
          "text": "class because we had that ice storm last year, and it was",
          "startTime": "03:51:15,900",
          "endTime": "03:51:19,160"
        },
        {
          "index": 4176,
          "text": "Education Day. And it was... I never had",
          "startTime": "03:51:19,220",
          "endTime": "03:51:22,820"
        },
        {
          "index": 4177,
          "text": "kids. I haven't thought about schools much except we have OSU here, and",
          "startTime": "03:51:22,920",
          "endTime": "03:51:26,840"
        },
        {
          "index": 4178,
          "text": "we have all the things happening with the public schools, and it",
          "startTime": "03:51:26,900",
          "endTime": "03:51:30,240"
        },
        {
          "index": 4179,
          "text": "was amazing. We spent quite a long time at College",
          "startTime": "03:51:30,300",
          "endTime": "03:51:33,960"
        },
        {
          "index": 4180,
          "text": "Hill. I, I, I won't go into",
          "startTime": "03:51:34,020",
          "endTime": "03:51:37,990"
        },
        {
          "index": 4181,
          "text": "any details, but there is a lot of dedication",
          "startTime": "03:51:37,990",
          "endTime": "03:51:41,950"
        },
        {
          "index": 4182,
          "text": "to the students succeeding in this city at all",
          "startTime": "03:51:42,000",
          "endTime": "03:51:45,840"
        },
        {
          "index": 4183,
          "text": "levels, and it was just very inspiring",
          "startTime": "03:51:45,880",
          "endTime": "03:51:49,680"
        },
        {
          "index": 4184,
          "text": "and, um... Anyway, I'm inspired.",
          "startTime": "03:51:49,800",
          "endTime": "03:51:53,620"
        },
        {
          "index": 4185,
          "text": "Also went to the legislative breakfast.",
          "startTime": "03:51:53,700",
          "endTime": "03:51:55,700"
        },
        {
          "index": 4186,
          "text": "Went to the Celebrate Corvallis, which was a real",
          "startTime": "03:51:55,720",
          "endTime": "03:51:59,120"
        },
        {
          "index": 4187,
          "text": "blast.",
          "startTime": "03:51:59,200",
          "endTime": "03:51:59,800"
        },
        {
          "index": 4188,
          "text": "And",
          "startTime": "03:52:00,640",
          "endTime": "03:52:01,240"
        },
        {
          "index": 4189,
          "text": "the Downtown Corvallis Organization is having a quarterly meeting",
          "startTime": "03:52:02,180",
          "endTime": "03:52:05,840"
        },
        {
          "index": 4190,
          "text": "this Wednesday from 5:30 to 6:30 at one of the meza-",
          "startTime": "03:52:06,680",
          "endTime": "03:52:10,320"
        },
        {
          "index": 4191,
          "text": "mezzanines,",
          "startTime": "03:52:10,360",
          "endTime": "03:52:11,340"
        },
        {
          "index": 4192,
          "text": "in the plaza. And that's it.",
          "startTime": "03:52:13,260",
          "endTime": "03:52:16,080"
        },
        {
          "index": 4193,
          "text": "Phew.",
          "startTime": "03:52:16,880",
          "endTime": "03:52:17,600"
        },
        {
          "index": 4194,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "03:52:17,620",
          "endTime": "03:52:18,060"
        },
        {
          "index": 4195,
          "text": "Yes. Uh, I have a number of things I was going to talk about, which I will defer",
          "startTime": "03:52:18,120",
          "endTime": "03:52:21,900"
        },
        {
          "index": 4196,
          "text": "some of those to the next council meeting, but I do wanna provide a couple of",
          "startTime": "03:52:21,980",
          "endTime": "03:52:25,220"
        },
        {
          "index": 4197,
          "text": "updates. Uh, we have the charter",
          "startTime": "03:52:25,280",
          "endTime": "03:52:28,260"
        },
        {
          "index": 4198,
          "text": "amendment, charter, Charter Measures PAC up and running.",
          "startTime": "03:52:28,380",
          "endTime": "03:52:32,000"
        },
        {
          "index": 4199,
          "text": "It kinda feels like we're going downhill, and so far we haven't.",
          "startTime": "03:52:32,020",
          "endTime": "03:52:35,860"
        },
        {
          "index": 4200,
          "text": "Uh, our feet are still in front of our heads, so that's good.",
          "startTime": "03:52:35,940",
          "endTime": "03:52:38,760"
        },
        {
          "index": 4201,
          "text": "Um, it's a good group of folks. I think we're gonna make progress.",
          "startTime": "03:52:38,890",
          "endTime": "03:52:42,030"
        },
        {
          "index": 4202,
          "text": "We're meeting, every Wednesday, and through",
          "startTime": "03:52:42,040",
          "endTime": "03:52:45,800"
        },
        {
          "index": 4203,
          "text": "the, election timeframe, but I think",
          "startTime": "03:52:45,840",
          "endTime": "03:52:47,940"
        },
        {
          "index": 4204,
          "text": "we'll-Um, I think we'll get there.",
          "startTime": "03:52:47,980",
          "endTime": "03:52:51,030"
        },
        {
          "index": 4205,
          "text": "Uh, I'll give you a n- better update next time.",
          "startTime": "03:52:51,120",
          "endTime": "03:52:54,300"
        },
        {
          "index": 4206,
          "text": "Uh, and then just one other thing I wanted to cover,",
          "startTime": "03:52:54,400",
          "endTime": "03:52:58,060"
        },
        {
          "index": 4207,
          "text": "which is we have received for the city manager",
          "startTime": "03:52:58,780",
          "endTime": "03:53:01,840"
        },
        {
          "index": 4208,
          "text": "evaluation process, we have received,",
          "startTime": "03:53:01,920",
          "endTime": "03:53:04,840"
        },
        {
          "index": 4209,
          "text": "six req- RFPs were",
          "startTime": "03:53:05,120",
          "endTime": "03:53:08,840"
        },
        {
          "index": 4210,
          "text": "completed. Uh, we did review those.",
          "startTime": "03:53:08,880",
          "endTime": "03:53:11,840"
        },
        {
          "index": 4211,
          "text": "Uh, there was a group of five that's supposed to review this.",
          "startTime": "03:53:11,940",
          "endTime": "03:53:14,360"
        },
        {
          "index": 4212,
          "text": "Only four of us, actually did",
          "startTime": "03:53:14,420",
          "endTime": "03:53:18,320"
        },
        {
          "index": 4213,
          "text": "review that, so we're gonna move forward, with",
          "startTime": "03:53:18,400",
          "endTime": "03:53:22,360"
        },
        {
          "index": 4214,
          "text": "the group of four. That would be the city manager, the HR director, the mayor",
          "startTime": "03:53:22,400",
          "endTime": "03:53:26,300"
        },
        {
          "index": 4215,
          "text": "and myself. Um, just wanted to let folks know",
          "startTime": "03:53:26,340",
          "endTime": "03:53:29,900"
        },
        {
          "index": 4216,
          "text": "that cost of the evaluations are likely to be somewhere in the range of",
          "startTime": "03:53:29,980",
          "endTime": "03:53:33,790"
        },
        {
          "index": 4217,
          "text": "about $25,000. Um, happy to",
          "startTime": "03:53:33,880",
          "endTime": "03:53:37,720"
        },
        {
          "index": 4218,
          "text": "continue with this, unless I hear that the council would like",
          "startTime": "03:53:37,760",
          "endTime": "03:53:41,740"
        },
        {
          "index": 4219,
          "text": "to reconsider that expense. Are we...",
          "startTime": "03:53:41,820",
          "endTime": "03:53:45,389"
        },
        {
          "index": 4220,
          "text": "And the question would be, are we",
          "startTime": "03:53:45,400",
          "endTime": "03:53:46,660"
        },
        {
          "index": 4221,
          "text": "going to get $25,000 worth of benefit out of doing this",
          "startTime": "03:53:47,540",
          "endTime": "03:53:50,980"
        },
        {
          "index": 4222,
          "text": "differently? Um,",
          "startTime": "03:53:51,640",
          "endTime": "03:53:53,580"
        },
        {
          "index": 4223,
          "text": "so I guess I'll pause and see if there's any comment as",
          "startTime": "03:53:54,600",
          "endTime": "03:53:58,440"
        },
        {
          "index": 4224,
          "text": "to, any discussion as to whether we might want to alter that.",
          "startTime": "03:53:58,520",
          "endTime": "03:54:01,560"
        },
        {
          "index": 4225,
          "text": "Otherwise, we'll, we will proceed.",
          "startTime": "03:54:01,620",
          "endTime": "03:54:04,200"
        },
        {
          "index": 4226,
          "text": "Um, we intend to... Based on the",
          "startTime": "03:54:04,300",
          "endTime": "03:54:08,280"
        },
        {
          "index": 4227,
          "text": "timeline, we intend to announce the, to, give notice of the intent to",
          "startTime": "03:54:08,340",
          "endTime": "03:54:12,280"
        },
        {
          "index": 4228,
          "text": "award contracts by April 8th. So we have a very short",
          "startTime": "03:54:12,340",
          "endTime": "03:54:16,120"
        },
        {
          "index": 4229,
          "text": "time window on this. Any comment",
          "startTime": "03:54:16,180",
          "endTime": "03:54:19,680"
        },
        {
          "index": 4230,
          "text": "from anybody?",
          "startTime": "03:54:20,340",
          "endTime": "03:54:22,240"
        },
        {
          "index": 4231,
          "text": "Just, I...",
          "startTime": "03:54:24,080",
          "endTime": "03:54:26,330"
        },
        {
          "index": 4232,
          "text": "It's after 10 and I don't, I think I would rather h- think about",
          "startTime": "03:54:27,980",
          "endTime": "03:54:31,840"
        },
        {
          "index": 4233,
          "text": "it rather than make a comment on whether or not to go",
          "startTime": "03:54:31,860",
          "endTime": "03:54:35,780"
        },
        {
          "index": 4234,
          "text": "forward. My gut sense is yes, but I really don't",
          "startTime": "03:54:35,840",
          "endTime": "03:54:39,800"
        },
        {
          "index": 4235,
          "text": "want to engage in the discussion. I don't think o- any of us would make a good",
          "startTime": "03:54:39,820",
          "endTime": "03:54:43,260"
        },
        {
          "index": 4236,
          "text": "decision at this hour.",
          "startTime": "03:54:43,300",
          "endTime": "03:54:44,660"
        },
        {
          "index": 4237,
          "text": "Maybe we can make some room on Thursday.",
          "startTime": "03:54:44,700",
          "endTime": "03:54:47,470"
        },
        {
          "index": 4238,
          "text": "That'd be fine.",
          "startTime": "03:54:47,480",
          "endTime": "03:54:49,080"
        },
        {
          "index": 4239,
          "text": "Councilor Lewis.",
          "startTime": "03:54:49,900",
          "endTime": "03:54:52,520"
        },
        {
          "index": 4240,
          "text": "Oh, fantastic. Okay. Um, police review advisory board, if",
          "startTime": "03:54:54,080",
          "endTime": "03:54:57,860"
        },
        {
          "index": 4241,
          "text": "you haven't signed up, you can sign up for Corvallis Police 101.",
          "startTime": "03:54:57,940",
          "endTime": "03:55:01,200"
        },
        {
          "index": 4242,
          "text": "It's from April 1st to June 10th, every Wednesday from 6 PM to 9 PM.",
          "startTime": "03:55:01,240",
          "endTime": "03:55:05,030"
        },
        {
          "index": 4243,
          "text": "It is just literally learning the ins and outs of the police force.",
          "startTime": "03:55:05,420",
          "endTime": "03:55:08,450"
        },
        {
          "index": 4244,
          "text": "I will see them next year 'cause I do not have the capacity to do it this year.",
          "startTime": "03:55:08,520",
          "endTime": "03:55:11,960"
        },
        {
          "index": 4245,
          "text": "Um, but you can apply by March, 20th.",
          "startTime": "03:55:12,020",
          "endTime": "03:55:14,980"
        },
        {
          "index": 4246,
          "text": "Also, they, our wonderful police chief went to the COA",
          "startTime": "03:55:15,040",
          "endTime": "03:55:18,780"
        },
        {
          "index": 4247,
          "text": "Spring Conference between March 11th and, and 15th in Tucson,",
          "startTime": "03:55:18,880",
          "endTime": "03:55:22,680"
        },
        {
          "index": 4248,
          "text": "Arizona. I don't know what happened there. I'll ask him later.",
          "startTime": "03:55:22,740",
          "endTime": "03:55:25,580"
        },
        {
          "index": 4249,
          "text": "Um, the Empowerment and Green Grants info session is, tomorrow",
          "startTime": "03:55:25,660",
          "endTime": "03:55:29,580"
        },
        {
          "index": 4250,
          "text": "at three-- at 5:15 on Zoom. As always, the Winter's Farmers Market",
          "startTime": "03:55:29,640",
          "endTime": "03:55:33,600"
        },
        {
          "index": 4251,
          "text": "is Saturdays 9 AM to 1 PM at the Benton County Fairgrounds.",
          "startTime": "03:55:33,660",
          "endTime": "03:55:37,380"
        },
        {
          "index": 4252,
          "text": "Um,",
          "startTime": "03:55:37,480",
          "endTime": "03:55:37,820"
        },
        {
          "index": 4253,
          "text": "there's a few things that have already are said.",
          "startTime": "03:55:39,380",
          "endTime": "03:55:41,620"
        },
        {
          "index": 4254,
          "text": "And because it is still Women's History Month, that has not changed, I'm going",
          "startTime": "03:55:41,629",
          "endTime": "03:55:45,360"
        },
        {
          "index": 4255,
          "text": "to talk very briefly about Rita Moreno, who is still alive at ninety-four years",
          "startTime": "03:55:45,380",
          "endTime": "03:55:49,020"
        },
        {
          "index": 4256,
          "text": "old. She was born December 11th, 1931.",
          "startTime": "03:55:49,060",
          "endTime": "03:55:51,940"
        },
        {
          "index": 4257,
          "text": "You probably know her as Rosa Dolores Alvera or",
          "startTime": "03:55:51,980",
          "endTime": "03:55:55,349"
        },
        {
          "index": 4258,
          "text": "Anita from West Side Story. That was actually the role that actually got her",
          "startTime": "03:55:55,400",
          "endTime": "03:55:59,240"
        },
        {
          "index": 4259,
          "text": "the, to be the first Latina to win an Oscar for Best Supporting",
          "startTime": "03:55:59,400",
          "endTime": "03:56:03,020"
        },
        {
          "index": 4260,
          "text": "Actress, in 1962. And she actually became an EGOT",
          "startTime": "03:56:03,180",
          "endTime": "03:56:06,820"
        },
        {
          "index": 4261,
          "text": "status, which only twenty-one people have gotten, in",
          "startTime": "03:56:06,860",
          "endTime": "03:56:09,700"
        },
        {
          "index": 4262,
          "text": "1977. And I am going to go, be going home after this.",
          "startTime": "03:56:09,720",
          "endTime": "03:56:13,380"
        },
        {
          "index": 4263,
          "text": "You all have a wonderful night.",
          "startTime": "03:56:13,420",
          "endTime": "03:56:15,940"
        },
        {
          "index": 4264,
          "text": "We have one item still.",
          "startTime": "03:56:15,980",
          "endTime": "03:56:17,230"
        },
        {
          "index": 4265,
          "text": "Which I should have started with Jim for that one. Councilman Packham.",
          "startTime": "03:56:18,780",
          "endTime": "03:56:21,840"
        },
        {
          "index": 4266,
          "text": "Yeah, I wrote my report, but I wanted to highlight a couple of things.",
          "startTime": "03:56:22,160",
          "endTime": "03:56:25,700"
        },
        {
          "index": 4267,
          "text": "First and foremost, I want to extend thanks to Danielle",
          "startTime": "03:56:25,760",
          "endTime": "03:56:29,100"
        },
        {
          "index": 4268,
          "text": "Chambers, Gene Raymond, our former counselor for Ward",
          "startTime": "03:56:29,180",
          "endTime": "03:56:32,960"
        },
        {
          "index": 4269,
          "text": "Seven, I believe, Ava",
          "startTime": "03:56:33,020",
          "endTime": "03:56:34,180"
        },
        {
          "index": 4270,
          "text": "Olsen, and the mayor for bringing forth the resolution,",
          "startTime": "03:56:35,000",
          "endTime": "03:56:38,040"
        },
        {
          "index": 4271,
          "text": "for advancing the resolution to the council.",
          "startTime": "03:56:39,200",
          "endTime": "03:56:42,020"
        },
        {
          "index": 4272,
          "text": "Um, very important that, that this occurred and,",
          "startTime": "03:56:42,120",
          "endTime": "03:56:45,200"
        },
        {
          "index": 4273,
          "text": "thank you all. And others that I don't know who you are, but thank",
          "startTime": "03:56:46,640",
          "endTime": "03:56:50,230"
        },
        {
          "index": 4274,
          "text": "you. Um, quickly, I support",
          "startTime": "03:56:50,300",
          "endTime": "03:56:54,260"
        },
        {
          "index": 4275,
          "text": "the changes to Walnut Boulevard, the safety,",
          "startTime": "03:56:55,200",
          "endTime": "03:56:58,480"
        },
        {
          "index": 4276,
          "text": "improvements. Uh, I think the last time I rode my bike on Walnut,",
          "startTime": "03:56:58,660",
          "endTime": "03:57:02,360"
        },
        {
          "index": 4277,
          "text": "somebody passed me at fifty miles an hour.",
          "startTime": "03:57:02,380",
          "endTime": "03:57:05,360"
        },
        {
          "index": 4278,
          "text": "Um, it needs to do something. We need to do something",
          "startTime": "03:57:05,480",
          "endTime": "03:57:09,389"
        },
        {
          "index": 4279,
          "text": "about that. Uh, the Bikeway project for North Benton",
          "startTime": "03:57:09,420",
          "endTime": "03:57:12,980"
        },
        {
          "index": 4280,
          "text": "County, that's the bike path you see partially",
          "startTime": "03:57:13,080",
          "endTime": "03:57:16,740"
        },
        {
          "index": 4281,
          "text": "completed from here along Highway 20.",
          "startTime": "03:57:16,880",
          "endTime": "03:57:20,420"
        },
        {
          "index": 4282,
          "text": "Uh, there's going to be an open house, at",
          "startTime": "03:57:20,540",
          "endTime": "03:57:24,100"
        },
        {
          "index": 4283,
          "text": "both the Corvallis and the Albany Farmers Market, May",
          "startTime": "03:57:24,120",
          "endTime": "03:57:28,080"
        },
        {
          "index": 4284,
          "text": "16th from ten to noon. They wanna figure out",
          "startTime": "03:57:28,120",
          "endTime": "03:57:31,760"
        },
        {
          "index": 4285,
          "text": "how the path crosses over the highway, and you're all",
          "startTime": "03:57:31,840",
          "endTime": "03:57:35,810"
        },
        {
          "index": 4286,
          "text": "invited 'cause nobody can figure it out.",
          "startTime": "03:57:35,840",
          "endTime": "03:57:38,960"
        },
        {
          "index": 4287,
          "text": "Um, and last thing, LBCC",
          "startTime": "03:57:39,500",
          "endTime": "03:57:43,300"
        },
        {
          "index": 4288,
          "text": "has a ribbon cutting sometime this coming April",
          "startTime": "03:57:43,400",
          "endTime": "03:57:47,300"
        },
        {
          "index": 4289,
          "text": "to unveil their new mobility hub, and I",
          "startTime": "03:57:48,120",
          "endTime": "03:57:51,820"
        },
        {
          "index": 4290,
          "text": "don't-- I remember standing in a huddle waiting",
          "startTime": "03:57:52,220",
          "endTime": "03:57:56,080"
        },
        {
          "index": 4291,
          "text": "for the bus at LB,",
          "startTime": "03:57:56,120",
          "endTime": "03:57:57,360"
        },
        {
          "index": 4292,
          "text": "you know, the, the shuttle. Um, it was raining and,",
          "startTime": "03:57:58,200",
          "endTime": "03:58:02,020"
        },
        {
          "index": 4293,
          "text": "and people are lined up, but now it's really nice.",
          "startTime": "03:58:02,080",
          "endTime": "03:58:05,400"
        },
        {
          "index": 4294,
          "text": "This is going to connect with, OSU",
          "startTime": "03:58:05,460",
          "endTime": "03:58:08,100"
        },
        {
          "index": 4295,
          "text": "Mobility Hub, which is going to be at 14th and Jefferson across from",
          "startTime": "03:58:09,000",
          "endTime": "03:58:12,820"
        },
        {
          "index": 4296,
          "text": "Callahan Hall. And, OSU is,",
          "startTime": "03:58:12,860",
          "endTime": "03:58:16,520"
        },
        {
          "index": 4297,
          "text": "OSU is scoping right now their Campus",
          "startTime": "03:58:16,580",
          "endTime": "03:58:19,960"
        },
        {
          "index": 4298,
          "text": "Way Promenade, if you will. Uh,",
          "startTime": "03:58:20,140",
          "endTime": "03:58:24,110"
        },
        {
          "index": 4299,
          "text": "the plans, I don't know, I don't have the plans, but,",
          "startTime": "03:58:24,140",
          "endTime": "03:58:27,390"
        },
        {
          "index": 4300,
          "text": "it is, something",
          "startTime": "03:58:28,580",
          "endTime": "03:58:30,900"
        },
        {
          "index": 4301,
          "text": "that it's, you know, pedestrian and, and multimodal",
          "startTime": "03:58:32,180",
          "endTime": "03:58:36,020"
        },
        {
          "index": 4302,
          "text": "mall right through the middle of campus.",
          "startTime": "03:58:36,740",
          "endTime": "03:58:38,880"
        },
        {
          "index": 4303,
          "text": "I don't think there's cars allowed. Be fun.",
          "startTime": "03:58:38,940",
          "endTime": "03:58:41,840"
        },
        {
          "index": 4304,
          "text": "Thank you.",
          "startTime": "03:58:41,980",
          "endTime": "03:58:43,520"
        },
        {
          "index": 4305,
          "text": "Councilor Morefield, my apologies.",
          "startTime": "03:58:43,980",
          "endTime": "03:58:45,320"
        },
        {
          "index": 4306,
          "text": "I should have started with you. Oh,",
          "startTime": "03:58:45,360",
          "endTime": "03:58:49,040"
        },
        {
          "index": 4307,
          "text": "tired? Not at all. Oh. About past my bedtime.",
          "startTime": "03:58:49,160",
          "endTime": "03:58:52,540"
        },
        {
          "index": 4308,
          "text": "I wanted to make a, just a quick comment about the, the evaluation,",
          "startTime": "03:58:53,340",
          "endTime": "03:58:57,200"
        },
        {
          "index": 4309,
          "text": "responses. It's a lot of money, but I don't know what they're proposing to",
          "startTime": "03:58:57,620",
          "endTime": "03:59:01,200"
        },
        {
          "index": 4310,
          "text": "do. So",
          "startTime": "03:59:01,260",
          "endTime": "03:59:02,110"
        },
        {
          "index": 4311,
          "text": "I would... Before I'd really have an opinion, I'd wanna know what they were",
          "startTime": "03:59:03,240",
          "endTime": "03:59:06,760"
        },
        {
          "index": 4312,
          "text": "proposing to do. Um, so that would be helpful.",
          "startTime": "03:59:06,800",
          "endTime": "03:59:10,740"
        },
        {
          "index": 4313,
          "text": "Um, so I brought, forward a, an action item,",
          "startTime": "03:59:10,860",
          "endTime": "03:59:14,760"
        },
        {
          "index": 4314,
          "text": "that was in your packet, letter to the BLM.",
          "startTime": "03:59:15,000",
          "endTime": "03:59:17,980"
        },
        {
          "index": 4315,
          "text": "Uh, I didn't provide an introductory memo, 'cause I didn't even think to do this",
          "startTime": "03:59:18,080",
          "endTime": "03:59:21,980"
        },
        {
          "index": 4316,
          "text": "until, like, 24 hours before I was gonna have to get something to",
          "startTime": "03:59:22,040",
          "endTime": "03:59:25,540"
        },
        {
          "index": 4317,
          "text": "Alex, to get into the packet. So you got...",
          "startTime": "03:59:25,620",
          "endTime": "03:59:29,529"
        },
        {
          "index": 4318,
          "text": "You know, I just focused on what the letter itself would say, but the,",
          "startTime": "03:59:29,540",
          "endTime": "03:59:33,220"
        },
        {
          "index": 4319,
          "text": "I think it's self-explanatory. Um,",
          "startTime": "03:59:33,500",
          "endTime": "03:59:36,209"
        },
        {
          "index": 4320,
          "text": "I... For people that haven't lived in Oregon or been on the",
          "startTime": "03:59:36,740",
          "endTime": "03:59:40,660"
        },
        {
          "index": 4321,
          "text": "planet for long enough, historically, the,",
          "startTime": "03:59:40,760",
          "endTime": "03:59:44,709"
        },
        {
          "index": 4322,
          "text": "the quote from the BLM, Resource Management Plan",
          "startTime": "03:59:44,760",
          "endTime": "03:59:48,100"
        },
        {
          "index": 4323,
          "text": "update says they seek to increase",
          "startTime": "03:59:48,680",
          "endTime": "03:59:50,670"
        },
        {
          "index": 4324,
          "text": "an, an increase in sustained yield timber harve- harvest that aligns with",
          "startTime": "03:59:51,700",
          "endTime": "03:59:55,680"
        },
        {
          "index": 4325,
          "text": "the historically higher levels of production on BLM",
          "startTime": "03:59:55,700",
          "endTime": "03:59:59,280"
        },
        {
          "index": 4326,
          "text": "administrated, administered public lands.",
          "startTime": "03:59:59,360",
          "endTime": "04:00:02,460"
        },
        {
          "index": 4327,
          "text": "That's a significant change from current practice.",
          "startTime": "04:00:02,480",
          "endTime": "04:00:05,340"
        },
        {
          "index": 4328,
          "text": "And if you've lived here long enough, you know what it looked like.",
          "startTime": "04:00:05,360",
          "endTime": "04:00:08,920"
        },
        {
          "index": 4329,
          "text": "Um, and so the, the thing that's",
          "startTime": "04:00:09,040",
          "endTime": "04:00:11,720"
        },
        {
          "index": 4330,
          "text": "infuriating about it",
          "startTime": "04:00:12,560",
          "endTime": "04:00:13,780"
        },
        {
          "index": 4331,
          "text": "is that they're saying",
          "startTime": "04:00:14,660",
          "endTime": "04:00:15,840"
        },
        {
          "index": 4332,
          "text": "the choice is between no change... This is right in the notice.",
          "startTime": "04:00:16,760",
          "endTime": "04:00:20,280"
        },
        {
          "index": 4333,
          "text": "The choice is between no change in current practice,",
          "startTime": "04:00:20,300",
          "endTime": "04:00:23,860"
        },
        {
          "index": 4334,
          "text": "or going back to historic",
          "startTime": "04:00:24,840",
          "endTime": "04:00:26,840"
        },
        {
          "index": 4335,
          "text": "levels. So it's, so it's a very stark choice,",
          "startTime": "04:00:26,860",
          "endTime": "04:00:30,280"
        },
        {
          "index": 4336,
          "text": "and, responses are due by the",
          "startTime": "04:00:30,380",
          "endTime": "04:00:33,840"
        },
        {
          "index": 4337,
          "text": "23rd. So I'm asking for the council's support",
          "startTime": "04:00:33,900",
          "endTime": "04:00:37,560"
        },
        {
          "index": 4338,
          "text": "in s- submitting the letter.",
          "startTime": "04:00:37,820",
          "endTime": "04:00:39,560"
        },
        {
          "index": 4339,
          "text": "I'd like to make a motion that we, adopt the, and",
          "startTime": "04:00:39,720",
          "endTime": "04:00:43,610"
        },
        {
          "index": 4340,
          "text": "send the letter that, Councilor Moorfield",
          "startTime": "04:00:43,720",
          "endTime": "04:00:46,040"
        },
        {
          "index": 4341,
          "text": "drafted.",
          "startTime": "04:00:46,560",
          "endTime": "04:00:47,840"
        },
        {
          "index": 4342,
          "text": "I'll second.",
          "startTime": "04:00:47,860",
          "endTime": "04:00:49,260"
        },
        {
          "index": 4343,
          "text": "Do we need to discuss it?",
          "startTime": "04:00:50,460",
          "endTime": "04:00:51,680"
        },
        {
          "index": 4344,
          "text": "Can I make one comment on it? If possible, I would prefer to have all",
          "startTime": "04:00:51,700",
          "endTime": "04:00:55,680"
        },
        {
          "index": 4345,
          "text": "of our names and the mayor's signature on it, and not just the mayor on our behalf.",
          "startTime": "04:00:55,720",
          "endTime": "04:00:59,300"
        },
        {
          "index": 4346,
          "text": "That's what it says, is mayor and council signatures, or mayor signs on our behalf.",
          "startTime": "04:00:59,340",
          "endTime": "04:01:02,369"
        },
        {
          "index": 4347,
          "text": "Yes.",
          "startTime": "04:01:02,369",
          "endTime": "04:01:02,600"
        },
        {
          "index": 4348,
          "text": "I-",
          "startTime": "04:01:02,880",
          "endTime": "04:01:02,900"
        },
        {
          "index": 4349,
          "text": "I am professing in a, my, my",
          "startTime": "04:01:02,980",
          "endTime": "04:01:05,720"
        },
        {
          "index": 4350,
          "text": "favorite-",
          "startTime": "04:01:07,040",
          "endTime": "04:01:07,760"
        },
        {
          "index": 4351,
          "text": "Moorfield.",
          "startTime": "04:01:07,800",
          "endTime": "04:01:07,809"
        },
        {
          "index": 4352,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "04:01:07,840",
          "endTime": "04:01:08,640"
        },
        {
          "index": 4353,
          "text": "I, I-",
          "startTime": "04:01:08,680",
          "endTime": "04:01:09,120"
        },
        {
          "index": 4354,
          "text": "I wanna, I want my signature on it .",
          "startTime": "04:01:09,180",
          "endTime": "04:01:10,890"
        },
        {
          "index": 4355,
          "text": "Yeah, no, I, I, I put it out there 'cause it was just a logistical thing",
          "startTime": "04:01:10,920",
          "endTime": "04:01:14,820"
        },
        {
          "index": 4356,
          "text": "in getting signatures, and Alex said she would have suggestions,",
          "startTime": "04:01:14,860",
          "endTime": "04:01:18,840"
        },
        {
          "index": 4357,
          "text": "or the city manager about it.",
          "startTime": "04:01:18,900",
          "endTime": "04:01:20,010"
        },
        {
          "index": 4358,
          "text": "Yeah, I think we can, we can seek those",
          "startTime": "04:01:20,040",
          "endTime": "04:01:23,249"
        },
        {
          "index": 4359,
          "text": "signatures. Uh, due to the time, we may not get",
          "startTime": "04:01:23,300",
          "endTime": "04:01:27,200"
        },
        {
          "index": 4360,
          "text": "every councilor to sign, but we'll seek those",
          "startTime": "04:01:27,260",
          "endTime": "04:01:30,110"
        },
        {
          "index": 4361,
          "text": "out.",
          "startTime": "04:01:30,200",
          "endTime": "04:01:32,300"
        },
        {
          "index": 4362,
          "text": "By when? To sign it by?",
          "startTime": "04:01:32,320",
          "endTime": "04:01:35,480"
        },
        {
          "index": 4363,
          "text": "Because Councilor Schaefer is out of the state,",
          "startTime": "04:01:35,520",
          "endTime": "04:01:38,820"
        },
        {
          "index": 4364,
          "text": "and because of other councilor obligations, we would",
          "startTime": "04:01:39,820",
          "endTime": "04:01:42,760"
        },
        {
          "index": 4365,
          "text": "probably do a e-signature.",
          "startTime": "04:01:42,920",
          "endTime": "04:01:45,120"
        },
        {
          "index": 4366,
          "text": "Ca- can you DocuSign for me?",
          "startTime": "04:01:46,240",
          "endTime": "04:01:48,480"
        },
        {
          "index": 4367,
          "text": "You can DocuSign it, yes.",
          "startTime": "04:01:49,880",
          "endTime": "04:01:51,100"
        },
        {
          "index": 4368,
          "text": "Yeah.",
          "startTime": "04:01:51,140",
          "endTime": "04:01:51,620"
        },
        {
          "index": 4369,
          "text": "That would be great.",
          "startTime": "04:01:51,940",
          "endTime": "04:01:52,620"
        },
        {
          "index": 4370,
          "text": "I think... And that might be the best way to move forward, just so we can capture",
          "startTime": "04:01:52,660",
          "endTime": "04:01:55,050"
        },
        {
          "index": 4371,
          "text": "everybody.",
          "startTime": "04:01:55,080",
          "endTime": "04:01:55,580"
        },
        {
          "index": 4372,
          "text": "Sounds good.",
          "startTime": "04:01:55,620",
          "endTime": "04:01:56,600"
        },
        {
          "index": 4373,
          "text": "So we have a motion. Vote on it? Okay, all in",
          "startTime": "04:01:56,620",
          "endTime": "04:02:00,330"
        },
        {
          "index": 4374,
          "text": "favor of the motion to sign on to this letter to the",
          "startTime": "04:02:00,440",
          "endTime": "04:02:03,869"
        },
        {
          "index": 4375,
          "text": "BL- Bureau of Land Management?",
          "startTime": "04:02:04,280",
          "endTime": "04:02:06,100"
        },
        {
          "index": 4376,
          "text": "Aye.",
          "startTime": "04:02:06,180",
          "endTime": "04:02:06,940"
        },
        {
          "index": 4377,
          "text": "Aye.",
          "startTime": "04:02:07,020",
          "endTime": "04:02:07,240"
        },
        {
          "index": 4378,
          "text": "Aye.",
          "startTime": "04:02:07,280",
          "endTime": "04:02:09,420"
        },
        {
          "index": 4379,
          "text": "Aye.",
          "startTime": "04:02:09,430",
          "endTime": "04:02:09,430"
        },
        {
          "index": 4380,
          "text": "All those opposed, no? All right.",
          "startTime": "04:02:09,460",
          "endTime": "04:02:13,180"
        },
        {
          "index": 4381,
          "text": "That sounds like it passed unanimously.",
          "startTime": "04:02:13,560",
          "endTime": "04:02:15,500"
        },
        {
          "index": 4382,
          "text": "Did you have anything else for us, Councilor Moorfield?",
          "startTime": "04:02:15,540",
          "endTime": "04:02:18,800"
        },
        {
          "index": 4383,
          "text": "I do not.",
          "startTime": "04:02:18,880",
          "endTime": "04:02:19,580"
        },
        {
          "index": 4384,
          "text": "All right. Councilor Ellis?",
          "startTime": "04:02:19,620",
          "endTime": "04:02:21,300"
        },
        {
          "index": 4385,
          "text": "I am glad that he did not make his letter a lie.",
          "startTime": "04:02:21,460",
          "endTime": "04:02:23,660"
        },
        {
          "index": 4386,
          "text": "We said already that we had voted unanimously in the letter.",
          "startTime": "04:02:23,670",
          "endTime": "04:02:27,140"
        },
        {
          "index": 4387,
          "text": "It's like we did. Um, I had a couple of things.",
          "startTime": "04:02:27,340",
          "endTime": "04:02:31,100"
        },
        {
          "index": 4388,
          "text": "Um, on Tuesday the 31st, there's going to be a",
          "startTime": "04:02:31,180",
          "endTime": "04:02:34,480"
        },
        {
          "index": 4389,
          "text": "discussion of prioritization of neighborhood bikeways, which",
          "startTime": "04:02:34,500",
          "endTime": "04:02:38,360"
        },
        {
          "index": 4390,
          "text": "is kind of an actually fascinating topic, and it will be here at",
          "startTime": "04:02:38,400",
          "endTime": "04:02:42,160"
        },
        {
          "index": 4391,
          "text": "5:30. Um, I believe there, there'll be a present- I don't",
          "startTime": "04:02:42,640",
          "endTime": "04:02:46,550"
        },
        {
          "index": 4392,
          "text": "know how they're gonna organize it, but they're very excited about it, and the",
          "startTime": "04:02:46,560",
          "endTime": "04:02:49,480"
        },
        {
          "index": 4393,
          "text": "information is getting out. Um, so I think people who",
          "startTime": "04:02:49,520",
          "endTime": "04:02:53,420"
        },
        {
          "index": 4394,
          "text": "are interested should engage in that.",
          "startTime": "04:02:53,440",
          "endTime": "04:02:56,200"
        },
        {
          "index": 4395,
          "text": "Um,",
          "startTime": "04:02:56,280",
          "endTime": "04:02:56,560"
        },
        {
          "index": 4396,
          "text": "I do wanna say, that when I was in college, it was $35",
          "startTime": "04:02:57,700",
          "endTime": "04:03:01,460"
        },
        {
          "index": 4397,
          "text": "a credit.",
          "startTime": "04:03:01,820",
          "endTime": "04:03:02,460"
        },
        {
          "index": 4398,
          "text": "Wow.",
          "startTime": "04:03:03,260",
          "endTime": "04:03:04,140"
        },
        {
          "index": 4399,
          "text": "Um, and I remember 'cause I was paying it.",
          "startTime": "04:03:04,220",
          "endTime": "04:03:07,080"
        },
        {
          "index": 4400,
          "text": "Um, and then I had a couple of, more serious things.",
          "startTime": "04:03:07,160",
          "endTime": "04:03:10,659"
        },
        {
          "index": 4401,
          "text": "I actually appreciate the fact that we had some flexible things on the agenda.",
          "startTime": "04:03:10,719",
          "endTime": "04:03:14,219"
        },
        {
          "index": 4402,
          "text": "At first I thought, \"How'd that resolution get on there without the form?\" But I",
          "startTime": "04:03:14,820",
          "endTime": "04:03:17,740"
        },
        {
          "index": 4403,
          "text": "actually think that people bringing a resolution or a letter forward",
          "startTime": "04:03:17,940",
          "endTime": "04:03:21,880"
        },
        {
          "index": 4404,
          "text": "in councilor comments is the way things should work.",
          "startTime": "04:03:21,940",
          "endTime": "04:03:24,280"
        },
        {
          "index": 4405,
          "text": "So I appreciate that. Um,",
          "startTime": "04:03:24,640",
          "endTime": "04:03:26,260"
        },
        {
          "index": 4406,
          "text": "and then I also... We're gonna be seeing a lot",
          "startTime": "04:03:27,880",
          "endTime": "04:03:31,580"
        },
        {
          "index": 4407,
          "text": "of, as Director Bellotta referred to it,",
          "startTime": "04:03:31,760",
          "endTime": "04:03:35,460"
        },
        {
          "index": 4408,
          "text": "urban form in terms of multi-family",
          "startTime": "04:03:35,560",
          "endTime": "04:03:39,440"
        },
        {
          "index": 4409,
          "text": "housing coming forward into established",
          "startTime": "04:03:39,600",
          "endTime": "04:03:42,980"
        },
        {
          "index": 4410,
          "text": "neighborhoods, and we need to recognize that is an",
          "startTime": "04:03:43,060",
          "endTime": "04:03:46,320"
        },
        {
          "index": 4411,
          "text": "incredibly stressful experience for are, the people who are",
          "startTime": "04:03:46,360",
          "endTime": "04:03:50,020"
        },
        {
          "index": 4412,
          "text": "living there. Um, I, I, I, I hear",
          "startTime": "04:03:50,100",
          "endTime": "04:03:54,040"
        },
        {
          "index": 4413,
          "text": "you. I started, before I was a city councilor, involved",
          "startTime": "04:03:54,140",
          "endTime": "04:03:58,040"
        },
        {
          "index": 4414,
          "text": "in some of the land use decisions, when we actually could say",
          "startTime": "04:03:58,080",
          "endTime": "04:04:01,260"
        },
        {
          "index": 4415,
          "text": "things. And to find out that, an",
          "startTime": "04:04:01,360",
          "endTime": "04:04:05,000"
        },
        {
          "index": 4416,
          "text": "urban form is landing on your neighborhood is very",
          "startTime": "04:04:05,200",
          "endTime": "04:04:08,810"
        },
        {
          "index": 4417,
          "text": "difficult. I know some people will adjust and some people will move,",
          "startTime": "04:04:08,880",
          "endTime": "04:04:12,820"
        },
        {
          "index": 4418,
          "text": "but we need to keep the fact that this is very stressful for people",
          "startTime": "04:04:12,900",
          "endTime": "04:04:16,760"
        },
        {
          "index": 4419,
          "text": "in very stressful times in mind as we go",
          "startTime": "04:04:16,840",
          "endTime": "04:04:20,060"
        },
        {
          "index": 4420,
          "text": "forward. Um, and I think that's what I",
          "startTime": "04:04:20,100",
          "endTime": "04:04:23,240"
        },
        {
          "index": 4421,
          "text": "had.",
          "startTime": "04:04:23,280",
          "endTime": "04:04:24,680"
        },
        {
          "index": 4422,
          "text": "Thank you. City manager.",
          "startTime": "04:04:24,720",
          "endTime": "04:04:26,740"
        },
        {
          "index": 4423,
          "text": "Yeah, I have two things. Uh, some happy news and some less than happy news.",
          "startTime": "04:04:27,860",
          "endTime": "04:04:31,760"
        },
        {
          "index": 4424,
          "text": "I'll start with the less than happy news.",
          "startTime": "04:04:31,780",
          "endTime": "04:04:33,940"
        },
        {
          "index": 4425,
          "text": "Just wanna",
          "startTime": "04:04:33,980",
          "endTime": "04:04:34,400"
        },
        {
          "index": 4426,
          "text": "keep council informed of impacts, staff seen",
          "startTime": "04:04:35,340",
          "endTime": "04:04:39,000"
        },
        {
          "index": 4427,
          "text": "in their jobs. Uh, two incidences",
          "startTime": "04:04:39,240",
          "endTime": "04:04:42,320"
        },
        {
          "index": 4428,
          "text": "recently. Um, as you know, we do",
          "startTime": "04:04:42,580",
          "endTime": "04:04:45,540"
        },
        {
          "index": 4429,
          "text": "allow, sleeping outside of our facilities",
          "startTime": "04:04:45,640",
          "endTime": "04:04:49,540"
        },
        {
          "index": 4430,
          "text": "downtown, and, last week,",
          "startTime": "04:04:49,640",
          "endTime": "04:04:52,700"
        },
        {
          "index": 4431,
          "text": "unfortunately-Uh, one morning we had some",
          "startTime": "04:04:52,780",
          "endTime": "04:04:56,308"
        },
        {
          "index": 4432,
          "text": "individuals outside the Madison Avenue building, which is",
          "startTime": "04:04:56,348",
          "endTime": "04:05:00,308"
        },
        {
          "index": 4433,
          "text": "not uncommon, but, one of the indi- individuals",
          "startTime": "04:05:00,368",
          "endTime": "04:05:04,108"
        },
        {
          "index": 4434,
          "text": "became very loud and shouting",
          "startTime": "04:05:04,148",
          "endTime": "04:05:07,288"
        },
        {
          "index": 4435,
          "text": "obscenities, was asked to, to stop, did",
          "startTime": "04:05:07,308",
          "endTime": "04:05:11,108"
        },
        {
          "index": 4436,
          "text": "not stop. Ultimately, we had to call the police and have that person",
          "startTime": "04:05:11,168",
          "endTime": "04:05:15,108"
        },
        {
          "index": 4437,
          "text": "trespassed from, the facility.",
          "startTime": "04:05:15,408",
          "endTime": "04:05:17,928"
        },
        {
          "index": 4438,
          "text": "Again, not, not what we like to do, but for, the",
          "startTime": "04:05:18,008",
          "endTime": "04:05:21,528"
        },
        {
          "index": 4439,
          "text": "safety, of our staff and disruption to people",
          "startTime": "04:05:21,608",
          "endTime": "04:05:25,528"
        },
        {
          "index": 4440,
          "text": "trying to enter our facilities, public, we had to deal with",
          "startTime": "04:05:25,588",
          "endTime": "04:05:29,128"
        },
        {
          "index": 4441,
          "text": "that. And then we also had, one of our security attendants",
          "startTime": "04:05:29,168",
          "endTime": "04:05:32,608"
        },
        {
          "index": 4442,
          "text": "at the library, i- asking someone",
          "startTime": "04:05:33,388",
          "endTime": "04:05:37,308"
        },
        {
          "index": 4443,
          "text": "to leave the library for behavioral issues.",
          "startTime": "04:05:37,318",
          "endTime": "04:05:39,868"
        },
        {
          "index": 4444,
          "text": "They were struck, their glasses were knocked off,",
          "startTime": "04:05:39,908",
          "endTime": "04:05:43,148"
        },
        {
          "index": 4445,
          "text": "significant scratch across their face.",
          "startTime": "04:05:43,488",
          "endTime": "04:05:45,408"
        },
        {
          "index": 4446,
          "text": "So I'm just keeping you informed of what's happening with,",
          "startTime": "04:05:45,448",
          "endTime": "04:05:49,048"
        },
        {
          "index": 4447,
          "text": "with our staff. So there's the unhappy",
          "startTime": "04:05:49,708",
          "endTime": "04:05:52,708"
        },
        {
          "index": 4448,
          "text": "news. The, the happy news, as Councilor Lewis",
          "startTime": "04:05:52,788",
          "endTime": "04:05:56,548"
        },
        {
          "index": 4449,
          "text": "pointed out, Chief Harvey, our",
          "startTime": "04:05:56,608",
          "endTime": "04:06:00,548"
        },
        {
          "index": 4450,
          "text": "two captains and some other police staff and myself were,",
          "startTime": "04:06:00,648",
          "endTime": "04:06:04,498"
        },
        {
          "index": 4451,
          "text": "down for the final step in CALEA",
          "startTime": "04:06:04,748",
          "endTime": "04:06:06,868"
        },
        {
          "index": 4452,
          "text": "re-accreditation. Ended up being a, a working weekend for",
          "startTime": "04:06:06,948",
          "endTime": "04:06:10,808"
        },
        {
          "index": 4453,
          "text": "us,",
          "startTime": "04:06:10,888",
          "endTime": "04:06:11,168"
        },
        {
          "index": 4454,
          "text": "but I'm happy to report that, we have been re-accredited",
          "startTime": "04:06:12,788",
          "endTime": "04:06:16,708"
        },
        {
          "index": 4455,
          "text": "a thirtieth year. There is not anyone",
          "startTime": "04:06:17,728",
          "endTime": "04:06:21,368"
        },
        {
          "index": 4456,
          "text": "working for Corvallis Police who was there before we were accredited,",
          "startTime": "04:06:21,408",
          "endTime": "04:06:25,198"
        },
        {
          "index": 4457,
          "text": "so it is part of our DNA, which I, I",
          "startTime": "04:06:25,328",
          "endTime": "04:06:29,208"
        },
        {
          "index": 4458,
          "text": "think is fantastic. And during the last...",
          "startTime": "04:06:29,288",
          "endTime": "04:06:32,208"
        },
        {
          "index": 4459,
          "text": "So Saturday morning is when we had our panel interview with the evaluators, and one",
          "startTime": "04:06:32,218",
          "endTime": "04:06:36,148"
        },
        {
          "index": 4460,
          "text": "of the issues that came up through the evaluation was challenges with",
          "startTime": "04:06:36,188",
          "endTime": "04:06:40,168"
        },
        {
          "index": 4461,
          "text": "our facilities. And so I was asked, \"What are you gonna be doing",
          "startTime": "04:06:40,208",
          "endTime": "04:06:43,908"
        },
        {
          "index": 4462,
          "text": "about those facilities?\" So just a reinforcement that there",
          "startTime": "04:06:44,648",
          "endTime": "04:06:47,868"
        },
        {
          "index": 4463,
          "text": "are, there are impacts to these",
          "startTime": "04:06:47,928",
          "endTime": "04:06:51,328"
        },
        {
          "index": 4464,
          "text": "facilities, and it's being seen now even by our",
          "startTime": "04:06:51,368",
          "endTime": "04:06:54,988"
        },
        {
          "index": 4465,
          "text": "accreditation, evaluators. So,",
          "startTime": "04:06:55,088",
          "endTime": "04:06:58,648"
        },
        {
          "index": 4466,
          "text": "it's important we continue to move forward with, dealing with that.",
          "startTime": "04:06:59,208",
          "endTime": "04:07:02,427"
        },
        {
          "index": 4467,
          "text": "But very happy to announce, the re-accreditation",
          "startTime": "04:07:02,468",
          "endTime": "04:07:06,148"
        },
        {
          "index": 4468,
          "text": "and, we'll be getting, you know, the official plaque and some pictures and",
          "startTime": "04:07:06,888",
          "endTime": "04:07:10,798"
        },
        {
          "index": 4469,
          "text": "all that. But, great work by our staff, Lori Jackson,",
          "startTime": "04:07:10,868",
          "endTime": "04:07:14,838"
        },
        {
          "index": 4470,
          "text": "our accreditation manager, and all the police staff who follow",
          "startTime": "04:07:14,838",
          "endTime": "04:07:18,788"
        },
        {
          "index": 4471,
          "text": "through and actually do what we say as far as those",
          "startTime": "04:07:18,928",
          "endTime": "04:07:22,908"
        },
        {
          "index": 4472,
          "text": "policies and procedures. And, and staying accredited is",
          "startTime": "04:07:22,928",
          "endTime": "04:07:26,808"
        },
        {
          "index": 4473,
          "text": "very rigorous. They're-- They, they're not only asking you for",
          "startTime": "04:07:26,928",
          "endTime": "04:07:30,768"
        },
        {
          "index": 4474,
          "text": "your policies, but proof that you are following those.",
          "startTime": "04:07:31,048",
          "endTime": "04:07:34,388"
        },
        {
          "index": 4475,
          "text": "And they talk to, officers,",
          "startTime": "04:07:34,408",
          "endTime": "04:07:38,008"
        },
        {
          "index": 4476,
          "text": "different staff, even community members at times to make",
          "startTime": "04:07:38,328",
          "endTime": "04:07:42,048"
        },
        {
          "index": 4477,
          "text": "sure that we're doing what we, we say we do.",
          "startTime": "04:07:42,128",
          "endTime": "04:07:44,488"
        },
        {
          "index": 4478,
          "text": "So, we are very blessed to have the police",
          "startTime": "04:07:44,548",
          "endTime": "04:07:48,248"
        },
        {
          "index": 4479,
          "text": "department that we have and the staff that are there.",
          "startTime": "04:07:48,508",
          "endTime": "04:07:51,048"
        },
        {
          "index": 4480,
          "text": "So congratulations to them.",
          "startTime": "04:07:51,128",
          "endTime": "04:07:53,828"
        },
        {
          "index": 4481,
          "text": "I forgot it was a group of you. I should have asked you.",
          "startTime": "04:07:53,928",
          "endTime": "04:07:57,428"
        },
        {
          "index": 4482,
          "text": "It's late. And if there's nothing else then, everybody's",
          "startTime": "04:07:57,488",
          "endTime": "04:08:01,368"
        },
        {
          "index": 4483,
          "text": "tired. Have a good night, everybody.",
          "startTime": "04:08:01,408",
          "endTime": "04:08:03,838"
        },
        {
          "index": 4484,
          "text": "We are adjourned",
          "startTime": "04:08:03,888",
          "endTime": "04:08:04,688"
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    "text": "All right, I show it's 6:00.\nLet's go ahead and call to order tonight's meeting of the Corvallis City Council.\nCity recorder, roll call please.\nMayor Maughan?\nHere.\nCouncilors Napack? Lewis?\nHere.\nMoorefield?\nHere.\nOlsen?\nHere.\nEllis?\nHere.\nBowden? Shaffer?\nHere.\nMayors?\nHere.\nKadena?\nHere.\nEight councilors present, Your Honor.\nThank you.\nNext up, looking for approval of tonight's\nagenda.\nI move to approve the agenda. I'll second.\nAll right. Any discussion? No? All in favor of the\nagenda as written say, \"Aye.\"\nAye.\nAye.\nAye.\nSay no. Sorry, Paul, I'll try to remember to give you a\nminute.\nThe Corvallis City Council asks community members to register in advance, but also\noffers limited opportunities to sign up at the meeting.\nThe comm- community members may indicate their interest in providing comment this\nevening by using the sign-up sheet in the back of the room, or using the raise hand\nfunction in Zoom when your desired opportunity for public testimony is reached.\nPlease remember to state your name and area of residence for the record and be\nmindful of the three-minute timer.\nWe do have two presentations today, so community comments will be after that.\nUp first, we have the Corvallis Arts Center annual report for the fiscal year\ntwenty twenty-four, twenty twenty-five.\nGood evening, mayor and city council.\nUh, tonight I have the pleasure of introducing\nErin, Erin, Gavigan, as the executive\ndirector of the Corvallis Arts Center.\nAs s- many of you know, the Corvallis Arts Center\nis owned by the City of Corvallis, the facility itself, the\nbuilding itself, and it's operated by the nonprofit,\nCorvallis Arts Center Incorporated.\nAnd, part of their annual\nag- agreement with the city council and the city\nis the city council provides fifty-four thousand dollars\nannually to the arts center, to help operate the\narts center, and then in turn, owes an annual\nreport as well as financial statements to the city that\non-- starting on electronic page nineteen, you'll see the,\nreview from the city's finance department of their financial\nstatements, and a, and an approval for those, those\nfinancial reviews. And up next is\nErin.\nI'm excited to get to talk to you all.\nUm, I also wanna thank, I have a couple of board members with me.\nThank you for being here.\nUm-\nCan you make sure your microphone's on?\nIt just-\nIs it on?\nIs it-- No. No, it's not on. Is the green light on?\nSorry. How's that?\nPerfect. Thank you.\nGreat. Okay. Um, the arts\ncenter positively impacts the city of Corvallis' economic\nvitality, quality of life, and visitor attraction\nthrough the visual arts.\nI think you might just have to like scroll, 'cause I think this is just a PDF.\nIt's like...\nWell, we practice.\nOh.\nThere we go. All right. Okay.\nNext slide.\nAnd now it's not on the screen.\nYep.\nOh, now we're not on the screen. Oh, that's okay\ntoo.\nOkay. That's all right, the very end.\nAll right.\nOkay. Next slide. There we go. All right.\nUm, so the city of Corvallis' strategic plan and twenty forty\nvision call for cultivating community identity centered on\narts, culture, recreation, and celebration.\nThe arts center is a primary driver on this vision\naction.\nThrough, free exhibitions, community arts programming,\nartist entrepreneurship, development, youth education, and\nstr- and the strategic expansion of accessible arts\ninfrastructure, the arts center directly advances the city's goals of economic\nvitality, social connection, and cultural\ndistinction. Our fiscal year twenty-five work reflects not\nonly artistic excellence, but intentional alignment with the city's\nlong-term strategy for a vibrant, creative Corvallis.\nIn many ways, the arts center serves as the city's primary visual\narts partner. Be helping to translate, to\ntranslate the community's cultural, aspirations into\naccessible programs, creative opportunities, and shared public\nexperiences.\nUm, the arts center's curator and a twelve-member, community-based\nexhibition committee work together to select each year's main\nexhibitions and those mounted in our more emerging and experimental\ncareer, Corinne Woodmen\nGallery.Um, this\nis, just images from the six exhibits in our main\nspace for the fiscal year '25.\nArts education is a main part of the Art Center's work in the\ncommunity. Um, for the fiscal year '25, it was a really a time of\ngrowth for us. We're, we're really starting to experiment with expanding our\narts education programs. We do this through community arts\nprograms that are free monthly events led by the Art\nCenter's learning staff with the support of volunteers, to\ninclude things like Second Saturday and the Fourth Tuesday Craft Night at the\nCorvallis Library. We also have project-based learning classes\nfor youth, which are fee-based, but we do have scholarships available for\nthose. Um, and arts, community part,\nyeah, arts community, partners such as the City of Corvallis Parks and\nRec, the Corvallis Museum, and the Benton County\nLibrary. In fiscal year '25, the Art Center\nparticipated in fifty-six community events.\nUm, we did this through our creative resources and our community outreach.\nFor the year, we had over fifteen hundred participants in our community\nevents, including Creation Station, which is the, TAC\nMakes, program that we host at the,\nC3 Parks and Rec Center.\nThis is a snapshot of, our financials,\nour expenses and revenue for fiscal year '25.\nOf course, you have the much more detailed version in your packet, but just a quick\noverview of this. Um, you'll see that the bulk of our total\nrevenue is from grants. Um, the grants is inclusive\nof government grants, so the funding that we get from the city of Corvallis is\nincluded in that number. Um, second highest is,\nindividual contributions, which include direct annual gifts from\nindividuals, as well as contributions to our\nendowments. In our expenses, you will see\nthat the bulk of our expenses do go towards, producing the programs that we\ndo, with management and fundraising being the rest of our\nexpenses.\nSo looking forward, I wanna share a little bit with you.\nUm, we have embarked on a project\ncalled TAC Forward, which is our expansion project.\nUh, since I talked to you last year, we've completed our\nfeasibility for expansion. The board and staff have gone\nthrough, visioning sessions, and we\nhave contracted with an architect to help us design our programming for\nexpansion.\nThrough our expansion feasibility study, there were\nseveral findings that came out, but the one that is probably the most visible,\nwhich I'll highlight,\nshowed up in both the key findings and our strategic recommendations,\nwhich was that we have some space constraint issues at the\nArt Center. The Art Center has been in the same footprint for over\nsixty-three years. Um, and the strategic\nrecommendation c- that came out of that, obviously, is to identify additional\nspace for the Art Center, as well as to retrofit the current\nspace.\nI wanna talk a little bit about how this expansion aligns with, Imagine\nCorvallis 2040. Um, Imagine Corvallis identifies arts\nand culture as an essential community, identity, economic\nresilience, and quality of life.\nIn that vision, the city identified four\nareas, where the culture is important, which is culturi-\ncultivating a distinct cultural identity, expanding\nequitable access to the arts, strengthening the creative\neconomy, and investing in cultural infrastructure for the\nfuture. This expansion, expanding\nthe footpi- footprint of the Art Center, of course, transforms it\nphysically. Um, but what it also does is it transforms TAC into a\ncomprehensive community art center, directly advancing the city's\nvision of an arts-centered community\nlife.\nThe Art Center expansion, is two-phase project.\nIn fiscal year '26 and '27, we will focus on phase\none, which includes the design development,\npermitting, and renovation and restoration of 760\nSouthwest Madison Avenue, which we purchased on January\n26th of this year. It is, as you can see from the\naerial 3D, image here, is right next\nto the current Art Center space.\nWithin this space, go to the next slide, this will become our\nprimary education space. Um, so in addition\nto an exterior elevator and, to the building to make it fully\nADA accessible, it will include large 2D\nart-making classrooms and art supply retail space, which is something\nthat's very much needed in the community of Corvallis.\nUm, a community library lounge space for creatives to retreat\nand reflect. Uh, low-cost short-term artist\nstudios for project-based work. A community art\ngallery for the Art Center students and other community e-\nexhibition opportunities. Um, jewelry making, stained\nglass, printmaking, a two-bedroom apartment to host\nartists in residence, and office space for eight of our staff\nmembers. Phase two will\nbe the design development, permitting, and renovation restoration of\n700 Southwest Madison Avenue, which as you know, is our current\nfacility. We expect this phase to start, in\nfiscal year '27, '28. But very early plans\ninclude an interior elevator and a new rear entrance to the\nbuilding to make it fully ADA accessible, an expanded\nmain gallery space, a renovated art shop, a multi-use\nlecture and meeting space, and a digital lab\nclassroom.TAC\nForward positions Corvallis not only as a city that supports the\narts, but as a city built around them by expanding arts\nlearning, artist development, and public cultural space.\nTAC Forward will help ensure that arts and culture remain a defining\nfeature of Corvallis' identity well into the future.\nAs part of our shared commitment to Imagine\nCorvallis 2040, the Arts Center is open to,\nongoing discussions with the city regarding the potential transfer of\nownership of 700 Southwest Madison Avenue to the Arts\nCenter, which kind of brings us full circle actually, because the Arts\nCenter originally owned the building.\nUm, and when it was moved to its current location, it was on city property, and\nthe city took ownership of it, and that was, again, about 60 years\nago.\nTogether with the City of Corvallis, the Arts Center has spent more than 60 years\ncultivating a vibrant arts ecosystem that strengthens community\nidentity, economic vitality, and the quality of life through\nexhibitions, arts education, and ent- entrepreneurship\nprograms. The TAC Forward expansion and the TAC Forward\nexpansion, the Art- Arts Center is building the\ncultural infrastructure necessary to meet the aspirations of the\nImagine Corvallis 2040 vision. As our community grows and\nevolves, the Arts Center remains committed to ensuring that arts and\ncreativity cont- continue to be central to what makes Corvallis a\nremarkable place to live, learn, work, and play.\nThe future of Corvallis is creative, and the Arts Center is proud to help\nlead that way. Thank you.\nThank you very much. That was a, a lot of information.\nKind of exciting. Counselors, any\nquestions? Counselor Cadena?\nI don't have any questions at all. Um, but I just wanted to,\nsay, the report and your presentation,\njust amazing, awesome. It's really amazing to see the progress\nthat's, that's happened. Uh, as you know, I was on the Arts Center board quite a\nfew years ago, so to see the evolution of the organization and the\nvision that you're looking forward to for the future, what it'll mean for the\ncommunity is just... It's, it's, breathtaking to\nsee. So thank you.\nThank you. We, we appreciate that.\nCouncilor Meyers?\nWell, ditto what Councilor Cati- Cadena said, and I just had a couple\nquick q- questions 'cause I just, don't know.\nUm, I just wondered about, how you or\nif you collaborate with\nthe\nuniversity, the, the, community college, and\nthe public schools, and/or the public schools at\nall.\nYes.\nYes.\nUm, we are, we're currently partnering with the public\nschools. Um, we, help the,\nthe... I'm trying to remember the exact name of the All Corvallis Arts\nexhibit, that they, that the public schools do each year.\nWe help support that, and are collaborating with them in the\nfuture on perha- perhaps having some sites for portions of that\nexhibit out off of the school property.\nOh.\nUm, so there's more accessibility to that.\nUm, with, the community college, yes, we have\nactually, had a couple of programs.\nThey've, they've allo- they've partnered with us and allow us to use their...\nThey have a fabulous ceramic studio, much larger than our current space,\nand so we've partnered with them to present, ceramics\nworkshops. Um, and I ha- we have a good\nrelationship with the, the university,\nparticularly with the, the art\ndepartment. They're actually...\nSome other faculty is helping us, in designing our new\nspaces, particularly printmaking and,\nour, let me think, printmaking and also our digital\nlab. Um, so they're, we're partnering with them on\nthat, and we, really wanna help build more of a\ncommunity connection between the arts at the university and in the\ncommunity. Um, I just had somebody ask me today about our co- our connections\nwith Prax, and, they're good, but they need to be\nstronger.\nCouncilor Lewis?\nUm, I don't have a question. I just wanted to say it was amazing\nbeing... When you first asked me to be a part of this, the\nexpansion TAC force in the beginning, it was very awesome to see where, where it\nwas like just from an idea to now where it is right now.\nSo I'm like very impressed on just how much work has gone\ninto this, and I appreciate all the work that you've been doing.\nThank you for being a part of that.\nCouncilor Napet.\nI'm gonna sign up.\nNice.\nYes.\nFor all of it.\nAgain, just th- thank you for all your work and-\nThank you\n... for your great presentation.\nOkay. Thank you.\nMoving on, we have our Downtown Vitality Strategy Task Force\nupdate. Invite our co-chairs up to tell us what's going\non.\nGood evening, Mayor Monn and councilors. Thank you for giving...\nI'm Julie Manning, by the way. Thank you for giving Steve Clark and me the\nopportunity to provide a brief update on the work of the\nDowntown Vitality Strategy Task Force.\nThis will be the final update before we come back to you in\nJune with our report, findings, and recommendations.\nAnd just as a, a reminder for, and for the audience, this\nmayor-appointed task force consists of 40\nmembers, serving on four different committees.\nSteve and I co-chair the executive committee, and there are\nalso committees working on, safety and,\nculture, on infrastructure, and on economic\nvitality, really representing a, a broad\nperspective of experience, and\ninteractions with the downtown, a- and also\nincluding all, all members of the, city council.\nSo we really appreciate the ongoing commitment and\nparticipation, from all of you in this important\nendeavor.We have a few slides to share with you\ntonight, they'll also be in the minutes for tonight's meeting that\nsummarize our work to date. Um, beginning with just\na reminder of the charge, of our task\nforce. Uh, this, task force was formed by the council to\ncreate a downtown vitality strategy to advance\nits strategic plan priority to nurture a\nthriving downtown as the hub and character of\nCorvallis. And certainly in the work that we've done since beginning to meet\nlast June, we've really seen a tremendous,\nongoing, interest in the work of, of this group and really an\nongoing affirmation of the affection and\nthe importance that this community, holds,\nfor the downtown.\nUh, next slide, please. Yeah. Yes, here we are.\nSo, where are we in the process?\nUh, as you recall, last summer and early fall, the task force\ndeveloped a preliminary set of actions and\nideas for how to enhance the vitality and\nsafety of downtown. Then beginning in\nNovember, we launched a comprehensive outreach and\nengagement effort to elicit community input on\nthis list of actions, and, also how local\nresidents would prioritize those actions.\nIn addition, we asked, how individuals engage\nwith the downtown and how often, and we'll be sharing\nsome, key details of those results in just, just a\nmoment. Our next step is to incorporate that feedback\ninto a refined set of prioritized actions\nthat will include implementation recommendations,\ntimelines, and potential funding sources.\nAnd we'll bring this to you in June, along with our\nreport. Next slide.\nSo this slide outlines the various methods that\nwe've used to elicit comments and input,\nsome of which will continue through the life of the project via the\ncomments section on our project webpage.\nAs you can see, there's been outstanding participation from\nindividuals and organizations indicating how important\nit is for them to maintain, a strong and\nhealthy downtown. Particularly noteworthy is\nthe level of survey responses, beginning with\nlast fall's random sample community survey that\nincluded several questions related to the downtown and\nreceived more than five hundred responses.\nPlus, the more than four hundred who've responded to the\nadditional downtown questions on our task force\nwebpage, and more than sixteen hundred who\nparticipated in ranking our list of preliminary\naction items, also was found-- the information found\non our task force webpage. I'll now turn it over to\nSteve, who will provide additional details on our community\nengagement results.\nThank you, Julie. And again, thank you mayor and members of the city\ncouncil, and, and really the community.\nWe, we think of this as an opportunity not to just update you, but really\nprovide an update to the community as we've been doing over the last several\nmonths, with the-- with these, meetings with\nyou. We think, their engagement, their\nknowledge is primary, and so we, we appreciate this opportunity\ntonight. You know, we have taken\nnote not only of input received and judging,\nthe action items that, that Julie\nsug-suggested, but we've also taken time to\nlisten, to engage in conversation, and to be informed\nbeyond those actions. I think that's really important.\nWe're just not asking people a set of questions.\nWe're listening to what they have to say.\nAnd today we're gonna share with you some of that information.\nUh, on the screen, we have before you a slide I believe you've\nseen before. It's an overall community assessment of Corvallis'\noverall economy, the business community, employment\nopportunities, downtown commerce, overall vibrancy of\nthe, of the Corvallis, economy and the community,\ncost of living and other matters. You've seen this before.\nWe're not here to really discuss that more unless you'd like to in\nyour questions to us, look at some of those, those\ntopical matters. Our next slide shows how\ncommunity residents engage with downtown.\nAnd I think what's really important is as we provide you\nrecommendations, we're gonna take the context not only of the community\nsurvey, the surveys we've done, but the input we've received from community\nmembers and knit together a series of recommendations based upon\nfindings. It's really important that it's a context of\nthe downtown that will benefit not only the downtown in our recommendations, but\nthe overall community. As you see here, we have a, a number\nof positives about how people engage with their\ndowntown. Uh, forty-three percent say, they\nvisited town for any reason\nin the past twelve months. But as we study\nthese bar charts, we see some gaps,\nwe see some opportunities, we see some\nrequirements to improve, and that's where our task force work\nreally is focusing on.\nThese are not negatives. There's opportunities to improve, but if they're not\ndealt with, they become primary negatives as time goes\non.\nAs we look at, our, our\nresponsibility, as Julie said, as a charge, is to\nrecommend to you and to the community how to\nimprove the vitality of downtown, its safety, and we believe\nsignificantly increase the community's engagement with\ndowntown.As Julie says, as part of this effort, we\npresented the community with twenty-eight possible actions, preliminary actions to\nimprove downtown\nOur next slide shows how community members we have been in contact with\nprioritized the top ten of those twenty-eight actions.\nNow, these are weighted scores. They take what somebody may have judged\nas their number one, their number two, their number three, their number four, their\nnumber five, and they add them together to give you a weighted\nscore. We also understand how people,\nvoted on these as their priorities based upon where\nthey live. Do they live in the community, but not downtown? Do they live downtown?\nDo they work downtown?\nDo they own property downtown?\nDo they own a business downtown? And, and what we see is some real\nstrong consistency in community evaluation of priority\nactions that need to be addressed as a community for\ndowntown Corvallis. Safety is number one.\nAddressing behavioral matters is included in\nthat. The economy.\nDeveloping and reducing s- providing strategies to reduce\nstorefront vacancies. There's a strong perception in our community\nthat storefront vacancies are predominant downtown and are a\nsignificant issue. Voting downtown is a\ncompelling place. It isn't just about the promotion, but it's\nactually having the belief, the perception that\ndowntown is a compelling place to visit, shop, to dine, to\ncelebrate.\nSafety. Again, in some respects, this is not only a vote, it's a\nperception. There's a strong perception in the community that downtown is not\nsafe enough, and we need to take steps to address safety\nissues that the community has.\nRiver connections. The Willamette River is perceived to be a strong asset\nto the community, a strong asset to downtown, but it's\na jewel that is not\nbeing utilized. W-we basically can't see the down--\nthe river downtown. We have few opportunities to\nengage with it physically if you're on the river or if you're\nalong the riverfront and want to do something within the river.\nTransportation. Certainly, there's many issues of transportation,\nbut mobility, pedestrian mobility is the--\na, a number one priority of the community within downtown\nand to downtown. And for those who need to drive to\ndowntown or take transit downtown, they want an\neasy way to park or ride transit to the, to the transit\ncenter and then be able to get around town.\nCity incentives to provide opportunities for the community to,\nthe economy to grow. And I would offer as a previous\nprivate sector businessperson, it isn't the responsibility only of the city\nto provide incentives and opportunities and programs, but the private sector\nmust contribute to itself through, nonprofit organizations such\nas the Chamber, Visit Corvallis, Downtown Corvallis\nOrganization, and others. Again,\nsafety, lighting, walking,\nalleyways, sidewalks, restrooms,\nclean, safe, and open when people need to use them, and in more than\na location on the north and the south.\nAnd housing. People wanna live downtown.\nThey want our housing downtown to complement housing goals for the rest of the\ncommunity.\nSo where are we right now?\nSo we've taken eleven months of work that we are engaged-- that we have\nengaged in. The, the incredible engagement of the community\nthat Julie said is, is-- indicates both an, a, an\ninterest and a sense of momentum for downtown that we should\ncapture. This past month, month of March,\nwe've been analyzing the results, both the quantitative results that we've shared\na, a brief amount with you, and the qualitative results from the community\nmeetings and other input from surveys, and\ntask forces that the city has conducted in the past, two\nyears or more. The community engagement task force is an example.\nThe parking task force is an example.\nWe are now judging those to, to understand\nwithin those, areas of\nactivity which are priority actions that the community,\nbelieves in. What are areas that we may have\nmissed? We're listening to people as well as just\ngiving them something to think about.\nIn April, we will begin to organize these goals\nand these actions into prioritized recommendations to\nbring to you later in June. We're thinking about which of these\nshould be recommendations to be conducted right now in the next three\nyears. Which of these should be, issues and actions to\nbe addressed next, the next four to seven years, and which\nshould we prioritize for years eight and beyond.\nWe're also taking stock of who should be responsible.\nWe are not here to tell the council what to do.\nWe're here to provide recommendations on what the city might do, what\nthe private sector might do, what collaborators, public and private, city\nand private, or county, university might do\ntogether. How might we fund these?\nAnd to the extent possible, we want to understand\nas best as we could and communicate to both you and the community, how do\nour recommendations benefit not only downtown, but the greater community as a\nwhole? Because we want the community to support this, not just for\nthe benefit of downtown, but for the benefit of the overall Corvallis\ncommunity and beyond. In closing, our\nclosing slide provides you the finish line,\nmid-June.We will bringing to you a set of findings\nthat will support our recommendations, and we will also promise\nto take the results of our findings and our recommendations after we've\ndelivered them to you, to the community, because it's the community that\nhas provided such em-enormous and, and, I\nthink, highly responsible input. Thank you.\nWe're available for any questions you might have.\nThank you very much. Counselors,\nquestions?\nGuess not tonight. I think, I think everybody's just really looking forward to,\nthe results.\nThank you.\nThank you very much.\nWe will now move on to community comments.\nAnd I wanna start off saying we did receive, for those who submitted it, we\nreceived some community comments through our, our website and\nthrough email, and, again, we do read those.\nI spent my lunch today reading several.\nUm, so I appreciate those who submitted their, their comments early.\nUm, and for those who signed up in advance, that's also much appreciated.\nWe'll start with the people who signed up in advance and go from there.\nAnd up first is, Rob Upson. And I'll remind everybody again, we do\nuse the three-minute timer that's located right there.\nIt'll go green, yellow, and then red, meaning stop.\nWelcome. I don't think that's on, sorry about.\nMayor and council-\nThere we go\n... good evening. I wanna bring your attention to\nmaterials provided on page forty-four of the meeting packet related to a safer\nWalnut Boulevard, the corridor from, all the way from Circle\nto MLK Park. Those are the road safety audits and the lane\nreconfiguration evaluations, which I spoke about last December.\nFull reports are now available. I wanna repeat the message of\nurgency,\nand I'm asking council tonight to do something already on your strategic\nplan, just do it a little bit earlier, and that is to move your discussion\nabout the funding of the Safe Streets For All projects forward in preparation for\nnext school year, which is approaching very quickly.\nOn Thursday, you will receive a presentation from Public Works about the work of\nthe Safe Streets For All task force and newly identified transportation safety\nneeds. According to council's strategic\nplan, this work is being completed nine months ahead of schedule,\nand what that means is that the funding discussion, which is also on the strategic\nplan, can also move forward. I know that\nschool closings were unexpected, and they're not one\nof your big rocks.\nHowever, the community needs action urgently, and many of the projects identified\nin the Safe Streets For All work would improve safety for school\ntransportation. Refer to the proposed timeline\non page forty-five of your packet.\nIf you don't give Public Works\na direction about these safety projects for the twenty-seven to twenty-nine\nbudget, it is likely that we would have to wait another two years to realize any\nmovement on any of the newly identified projects, so you must\nact early in twenty-twenty-six in order to meet the budgeting\nwindow. The proposed timeline gives council enough time to\ndeliberate, provide direction to Public Works, and for Public Works to\ndevelop and cost out projects for the twenty-seven, twenty-nine\nbudgeting.\nThe low and mid complexity projects could be paid for in the street\nfund, which currently has a balance of over thirty-five million\ndollars. Pages forty-six to forty-eight give examples\nof similar small-scale, non-recurring street fund projects from\nprior budgets similar to those projects identified by the Safe Streets For\nAll consultants.\nMayor and council, please add the discussion about Safe Streets For All road safety\nimprovements to your agenda quickly.\nA majority of council has already publicly stated that they support safer\nstreets, and I'm asking for a commitment from that majority to support improved\nsafety before the expiration of your elected terms this year, not just for\nWalnut, but also for Ninth, for Circle, and for other roads in the city which are\nidentified in those reports. So please consider the proposed timeline and\nmove your discussion about road safety projects onto your twenty-twenty six agenda\nwith urgency. As always, thank you for your\nservice.\nThank you very much.\nUp next I have Amanda Bressler.\nAnd please, anybody, if I mispronounce your name, just correct me.\nOkay, yes. It's Amanda Bressler. I'm a resident of Ward\nEight. Community members who live and work along the Walnut\ncorridor, some of whom are in attendance tonight, have come together to create\nSafer Walnut, a grassroots effort to advocate for increased safety\nmeasures along Walnut Bor- Boulevard.\nYou can find us online at saferwalnut.org.\nOur first action was to circulate a petition calling on the city to plan and fund\nchanges to Walnut Boulevard that will reduce speeds and increase\nsafety and usability, improve quality of life in North and Northwest\nCorvallis, and help the city meet its strategic\npriorities. Over the past several weeks, our petition has\ncollected two hundred and forty-five signatures and counting, and I've shared a\nlink to that petition with counselors via your city emails.\nIn your Thursday work session, you'll see a presentation from, of the\ncity's Transportation Safety Action Plan, or TSAP.\nSafe Streets and Roads For All task force has unanimously\nrecommended that, quote, \"Coun- Council prioritize funding and\nconstruction of the safety enhancements identified in the TSAP such that the\ntreatments are prioritized to the fullest extent\npossible.\" There is a Walnut-specific road safety\naudit in the task force's report, and we at\nSafer Walnut we're happy to see many options for changes that would increase\nsafety for all on Walnut Boulevard.\nSome low and medium complexity solutions we expe-especially expect\nto see implemented in the short term include buffered bike lanes between Jack\nLondon and Circle to keep cyclists safe.Pedestrian exclusive\nphases at intersections to reduce conflict between pedestrians and\ncars, curb extensions at the Witham Hill Walnut intersection\nto shorten crossing distances and increase crossings throughout the\ncorridor to align with neighborhood bikeways and bus stops and\ndiscourage dangerous crossings betweens, between the intersections that are very\nfar apart on Walnut. We feel that near-term change is\nnecessary and possible by focusing on some of these high-impact, low to\nmedium complexity interventions.\nHere are a few of the high complexity projects that we're especially in support of\nand will be keeping an eye on, that we realize will take more time to fund and\nimplement. Protected bike lanes along the corridor with physical\nseparation from car traffic lanes in the form of vertical barriers, especially in\nareas that represent a high risk to cyclists or are necessary for safe\nroad, safe routes to school. Addition of pedestrian\nrefuges or islands at Jack London, Twenty-fifth Street and between\nTwenty-ninth and Aspen, and protected intersections or roundabouts at\nHighland and Walnut and at Kings and Walnut.\nSafer Walnut is asking for a commitment from the city to implement some low\nto medium complexity, but high impact changes on Walnut as soon as\npossible, while planning for the larger, long-term, more transformative\nchanges, and to add those to the city's capital improvement plan\nand the twenty twenty-seven to twenty-nine biennial budget.\nThank you.\nThank you very much.\nUp next, we have Daniel\nChambers.\nGood evening, mayor and council. My name is Daniel Chambers from Ward\nSeven. I wanted to speak to you tonight about a\ntopic on the agenda, which is the ICE resolution, of which I am one of\nthe authors. Of course, it had many contributors\nfor whom I'm very grateful. I wanted to\nencourage you tonight\nto use your powers as legislators to pass this\nresolution by whatever means you need\nto. Whether you need, you feel the need to strike something\nbecause it feels inappropriate\nor add something that is clearly missing, I invite you to do\nso, to use your powers. This resolution will\nprotect the most vulnerable members of our community\nwho don't have the opportunity to be here tonight to advocate for\nthemselves, who are scared.\nI've done my homework on the resolution to the best of my ability.\nI've sought a lot of input, for which I'm very grateful, especially from the city\nmanager and city attorney, from Councilor Cadena.\nAnd of course, I'm extremely grateful to Mayor Monn and Councilor Olsen\nfor their support in this\nresolution.\nI wanted to mention\nthat many of you know this, but I'm originally from Oklahoma.\nI moved here a couple of years ago now, and I'm a very proud Corvallis\nresident, and I'm even more proud hearing what other people in our\ncommun- our community are doing.\nIt's one of the things that makes this place special.\nBut I'm originally from Oklahoma, and in Oklahoma, we get a lot of\ntornadoes. Right now,\ncouncil, we are in the eye of a\ntornado. It touched down around us without us\nreally noticing, and it'd be really easy to miss.\nBut right now, all around us,\nImmigration and Customs Enforcement is in full force in Portland,\ndown in Eugene, Newport,\nin Hillsboro. We've been lucky to avoid the brunt of the winds so\nfar, despite a few scares.\nNow, back in Oklahoma, we have a bad habit of instead\nof going inside and seeking shelter, we'll grab our lawn chairs instead, and\nwe'll sit out on our front lawns to watch the tornado as it\npasses.\nI'm here to tell you that we do not have...\nWe fortunately\ndon't have lawn chairs or tornadoes.\nWe do not have tornadoes to bring out our lawn chairs for, but we can't afford\nto sit around as people are kidnapped, as forty\nbillion dollars in Nav-Navy contracts are available\nfor ICE to build facilities anywhere they choose without anyone knowing or\nhaving the ability to comment.\nSo, council, I urge you, please edit and or pass this\nresolution tonight, and thank you very much for your time and your\nservice.\nThank you. Good timing.\nNext, I have, Tyler\nWilson.\nAll right. I'm Tyler Wilson. I am a resident in\nWard Five, and I work at Bessie Coleman Elementary.\nI'm a fifth-grade teacher there. I'm an avid, bike commuter, and I'm\nhere to advocate for safer infrastructure on Walnut\nBoulevard. So\none of the things I've been thinking about when I'm thinking about commuting is\nthat generally people can be kinda lazy.\nAnd what I was thinking about when I mean lazy is people often choose the easiest\nway to travel to a location. So if you are\ntraveling to OSU, for example, you\nmight be more inclined to walk or bike or take public transit\nbecause it's hard to drive there. It's hard to park.\nBut with the rest of town, the it's easier to, to drive\nto a lot of those locations, including Bessie Coleman Elementary.\nUm, a lot of the families, though, who go to school at\nBessie Coleman live close enough where they could easily walk or bike to\nschool, and that's one of the things that I love about working there.\nHowever, there are still many families that don't walk or bike\nto school because they, they, there, there's this, there,\nthere's a fear of safety, safety concerns related to Walnut\nBoulevard and other streets in the area.\nAnd I can, I can see that firsthand too.\nI, I bike commute to school every day.\nI ride, I ride my bike on Walnut. I have to turn left\nacrossFour lanes of traffic, and\nso I, I understand the concerns. Um, one of the things\nthat I did recently at Bessie Coleman was started a walk and roll to school\nday. And the idea of that is that we me-meet at the park\nand we travel together as a group, students,\nparents, any teachers, staff members that want to join,\nand we travel together to school, safety in numbers.\nAnd one of the parks that we met at was at, MLK Park,\nand then the route from there is straight down Walnut.\nAnd when I was creating that route, I wanted to create a route for people who live\nin that part of the, of the school area, so they could get to\nschool. But I was a little bit torn about the route creation\nbecause\ndo you go in the bike lane where you're closer to traffic?\nDo you go on the sidewalk? It's kind of a confusing area because there's a bike\npath that comes up Fifty-Third and it just ends.\nAnd so the way we made it work is we had lots of parent volunteers\nat intersections to make sure that it was safe.\nUm, and one of my goals going forward though is that I, I would like that to\nbe something that, that kids and families feel like they can do even\nwithout an event. But at this point, that's gonna require\nsome more infrastructure changes to Walnut Boulevard, things that some of,\nsome of the earlier commenters talked about, protected bike\nlanes, a turning lane close to the school, something to slow\ntraffic down. Um, and I think\nthe issues will become even more next year when there's more than a hundred more\nstudents at the school. Right now, it's-- there's already a lot of traffic at the\nend of the school day, so that's something that I'm concerned about going forward.\nSo, yeah. Thank you.\nThank you.\nMayor, I have a question.\nOh, go ahead.\nUm, Tyler, generally we-- you, you, you wait for questions, so you would\nknow one's had one yet. Um, how many parents are\ndropping their kids off rather than having them walk or ride to school?\nBecause I know at CHS, parent drop-off is a\nnightmare.\nThe, I don't have an exact number, but it, it's a lot.\nSo our parking lot every day, I, I mean, I'm there for, for drop-off with my\nstudents, and it fills up every day with the current number of students that we\nhave, especially on days when it's rainy or cold.\nUm, in the fall and the spring, a lot more people will walk and bike\nand, but the bike racks are ver-rarely full.\nOnly when we have our bike education week, that, that, those two weeks I saw\nthe bike racks full. Um, but,\nyeah, it's, traffic is an issue right now because\nit's, because of those, reasons that I listed.\nThank you.\nSam\nHoskinson.\nI'm supposed to press the green button. Is that the word?\nIt'll, it'll, it'll turn on for you. You're good.\nOh, okay.\nWhenever you're ready.\nWell, my name's Sam Hoskinson. I live in Ward\nFour. Um, I'm here to talk\nabout the MUPTA approval. I think that's on\nthe agenda tonight. Um,\nthe... I can see at least, think\nof at least two ways you might be able to deny this\nhorrible, development that's being\nproposed. Um, the first one would be fairly\nsimple. The order of the MUPTA\napproval and the regular LDC code approvals has been\nswapped from the last, episode where\nyou approved the one over on the riverfront.\nAnd in this case, no land\nuse, public hearings or anything like that has taken place,\nand nothing has been granted as far as height\nadjustments or anything like that.\nBut the proposal that you're going to get is\nfor an hundred and forty-four foot building.\nThe current approval for a\nmixed use is like a hundred and five foot.\nThey give you a bonus eighteen, so they really only have\npermission for a hundred and twenty-three feet.\nSo the packet that you get is going to be\nasking for a higher building than they\nactually have, and I really feel that if you guys go ahead and approve\nthat ahead of time, it's going to prejudice\nany land use of as far as being able\nto not grant that twenty-one foot.\nUh, the second one, you guys are one\nof the\nline items, I think it's eight nineteen O two\nO J. You are a city council\ntasked with deciding that the\nbenefits of the proposed building\noutweigh the costs of the,\nyou giving them thirteen million dollars to build this thing.\nOkay? So the revenue, thirteen million dollars paid to the\ndeveloper out of our tax funds to create this\nbuilding. Um, the positive\nbenefits, they get to give ten percent of our\nmoney, to donate to affordable housing since\nthey have absolutely no interest in building affordable housing\nthemselves. Okay, they'll also give an\nextra hundred thousand dollars for the\nrailroad, crossing improvement or something like that.\nSo that's, I guess that's positive benefits.\nThey're giving back some of the money that we're giving them to build this\nmonstrosity. Okay, but I'd like you to\nthink about benefits as going two directions.\nThere can be positive benefits and there can be\nnegative benefits, okay? The-That was three\nminutes?\nThat was three minutes. It, it goes fast when you're sitting there.\nI remember.\nOkay. You guys have any questions?\nI provided quite a bit of information in the cartoons and stuff that I\nsent you.\nYeah. We did receive all that. Doesn't seem like there is.\nThank you very much for your time, and for submitting information in\nadvance.\nYeah. Thank you for not reading-\nAppreciate it. I read it.\nUp next, Mary Francis,\nCampana.\nHello.\nUm,\nI'm here with the group that's concerned about Walnut\nBoulevard.\nI live on Walnut myself,\nand\nthe, the concerns for safety that others have mentioned,\nthe,\nschoolchildren, which there'll be more, as you know, because of the\nclosure of schools, will be coming in.\nAnd,\nbut I wanted to mention a couple of other things that perhaps\nhad not, we've not thought of. One is the\nongoing residential construction around and above\nand below Walnut, but especially above Walnut.\nAll of those houses that are going in are going\nto have to come down and onto Walnut to\nget wherever they're going. And,\nI think that it's gonna just add more and\nmore,\nyou know, congestion, and also increase\nthe possibility of danger,\nwhen we have these expanded housing\nand other things like that. Um,\npeople have talked about the bikes and the joggers\nand the walkers. They haven't mentioned the wild and domestic animals\nthat are always running around, but they're there too, and they can\ncause... They can be injured or else cause\nproblems. Um, and we have to begin to take into\naccount\nall of those things.\nMy husband, Michael Campana, was killed as he\nexited the, Timber Hill Townhomes, which is where I\nlive, as he le- exit-\nexited that driveway onto Walnut, in\nlate August of '24. Um, no one saw the\ncollision, but it was a large vehicle that hit his little\nsports car\nas he was making a left-hand turn onto Walnut.\nAnd,\nwe don't really know what happened 'cause as I say, no one saw it.\nThey heard it. But Michael was mortally injured, and he died on\nAugust 24th of two-\n2024. And I cannot help\nbut feel that speed and other things were\ninvolved in that accident.\nWalnut and its surrounding area is no longer\nsort of a semi-rural edge to Corvallis.\nIt's a major artery. People use it to\ncome from all over\nto Corvallis, and certainly to the, the west and the,\nand the east. Um,\nand I think\nthat it would be important for all of us\nto think about traffic control, speed, noise,\ncongestion, and to start addressing the way to\ndo this. So I encourage you to participate.\nThank you.\nCouncilor Ellis?\nI'm very sorry to hear about your husband.\nThank you.\nThank you for coming tonight.\nNext is Bjorn... I'm gonna mess up the last name, I\nknow.\nBolteys.\nBoltis?\nThank you.\nGood evening. My name is Bjorn Bolteys, and I'm a homeowner in the Avery Helm\nHistoric District, Ward Four, directly across the street from the\nproposed Pineview Development on 4th Street.\nThis building will rise 13 stories directly outside my front door.\nIt will permanently change the experience of living in this neighborhood,\nblocking the morning sunlight to our home and creating an overbearing visual\npresence. Because of that impact, I believe it's especially\nimportant that the public benefits tied to this project clear-\nclearly improve the neighborhood around it.\nThis project is asking for the public to significantly sub, a\nsignificant subsidy, over 13 million in property tax exemptions\nover 10 years. When the city provides that level of support, it\nis reasonable to ask what tangible benefits will the surrounding neighborhood\nreceive in return? The application lists several\npublic benefits, including $100,000 infrastructure\ncontribution and a $50,000 for pedestrian\nconnectivity and improvements. I'd like to suggest a very\npractical way those funds could benefit both the new residents and\nthe existing neighborhood. Many people in our neighborhood regularly cross\n4th Street at Washington and Adams to reach Safeway.\nThis section of 4th is three lanes of traffic and often\nbusy. There's also a bus stop that brings transit riders across the\nstreet from the grocery store. Today, crossing can feel like a\ntreacherous little game, real-life game of Frogger.\nI nervously wait for my kids to return anytime they go to the store for\nsomething.\nThe Pineview Project will bring roughly 600 additional residents\ninto the corridor. This will dramatically increase the number of pedestrians\nmoving between housing and essential services downtown.\nA signalized mid-block pedestrian crossing between Washington and\nAdams would address a real safety issue that already\nexists and will only grow with this development.It would\nsupport the city's own goals around walkability, transit\nuse, reducing vehicle trips, and it would directly serve both\nthe new building and the surrounding neighborhood.\nSo my request is simple. If the city approves the m- this MOPD app-\napplication, please prioritize directing the project's\ninfrastructure and connectivity contributions towards designing and\nconstructing a safe pedestrian crossing on 4th Street between\nWashington and Adams. If we are adding hundreds of new residents to this\nblock, we should also add the infrastructure that allows them,\nand the neighbors who already live here, a safe, uh...\nto safely cross the street to reach basic services.\nLet's make a safe way to the safe\nway.\nThank you. Up next is\nJean\nRaymond.\nGood\nevening.\nThis is an oral statement in support of the Corvallis ICE\nresolution. I'm in strong support of the ICE\nresolution. In this time of political chaos and\nillegal violent action by ICE, I thank our Corva-\nCorvallis community, which of course includes the mayor,\ncouncil, manager, and staff, for putting the wellbeing and the safety of our\ncommunity first. I acknowledge with gratitude the\nmany co- contributions of immigrants throughout our\nhistory. In contrast, ICE has targeted\nwith bigotry those of darker color, those who look\ndifferent, speak with an accent, and even those who protest\npeacefully. ICE has targeted students, health workers,\nfarmers, service people, and those immigrants and natives who have\nbenefited our community. It has illegally\ntargeted those with student and work visas, asylum\nseekers, citizens, and naturalized citizens.\nNow it proposes to build a mass- massive detention cent-\ndetention centers across the United\nStates. These actions by ICE have caused\nfear and dismay.\nIn response, the community has worked together to protest\nsafely, to write letters to our representatives, to\ncollect funds, food, and clothing, to make banners, and\nprovide transportation. We have seen Oregon leaders\nre- respond with bills about s- and there are 13\nnew bills that have passed the Senate and the House that you\ncan ask me about.\nSo we have seen Oregon leaders respond with\nbills about sanctuary for state, about how police react, how\nschools and universities must plan and carry out those plans,\nhow we can peacefully resist illegal violence from ICE.\nWe see how state leaders have worked together with other state leaders to\npush back against unlawful, overreaching\nactions. I'm glad this resolution has actions that the\ncity may take to provide safety. I expect the\ncity manager to follow through and provide guidance to the\nmayor, council, and staff, and I have written s-\nseveral actions which could be provided by the city.\nI've written this also in your, packet.\nSo requirement that no u- use of harmful chemicals, tear gas, et\ncetera, harassment by ICE, or use of weapons against peaceful\nprotesters or residents be allowed.\nThat no city facilities, utilities, buildings, parks, parking\nlots, airport facilities be allowed by\nICE. That no mass detention center be\nallowed. That all ICE officers have identification that can be\nclearly visible. That the sanctity and safety of\nsanctuary be followed, including schools, places of worship,\nhospitals, and courthouses. Please ask\nme about these bills.\nThank you.\nWe have your email, so if anybody wants to reach out to you, they're able to.\nOkay. I haven't included these though, so this is new to me too.\nYeah. I mean, they can reach out to you to ask you about this.\nThank you.\nThank you very much.\nUp next is Aubrey.\nI didn't know you had a second,\na first part of a last name. I just imagined it as Aubrey Cloud.\nOh, that's wa-\nMm-hmm\nOkay. If you could pronounce that for me, I'd appreciate it.\nSure.\nThank you. Mayor and councilors, good\nevening. My name is Aubrey Sadiki-Cloud, a resident of Ward\n7, and I'm here to urge you in the strongest possible\nterms to adopt the Addressing Escalating Federal Immigration\nEnforcement resolution before you this evening.\nFor over a year now, we've all been watching ICE and CBP drive a\nbulldozer through constitutional and legal protections.\nThey're kidnapping people off the streets, from their homes and places of work\nwith no due process. They're setting cruel and inhuman\nquotas that prove false any pretext of pursuing violent\ncriminals. They're using immigration court appointments as traps\nto capture people trying to go through the proper channels.\nThey're neglecting and abusing those in their custody to the point that deaths are\noccurring. They're racially profiling, which has resulted in the\nkidnapping of American citizens simply because they aren't\nwhite. They're building a sprawling network of\nconcentration camps to process and deport tens or even hundreds of\nthousands of human beings at any given time, and\nnow they are executing people in the streets.\nThis isn't a time to keep our heads down, to try and avoid\nattracting attention. That's how authoritarians cement\ntheir grip on power.They make us feel isolated and vulnerable\nagainst the overwhelming power of the state.\nBut we are not alone. This nation is boiling with fury at what's\nhappening. By taking a stand, we're not sticking our heads up, we're joining\nhands with our neighbors and standing shoulder to shoulder with\nthem. We have to do something, and this resolution is a\nfantastic start. I also want to\nemphasize the critical importance of Clause B in the\nresolution. The risk of violence, harassment, and criminality\nfrom vigilantes impersonating federal immigration officers is not\na hypothetical. This is a real phenomenon, and it has occurred\nmultiple times since the start of this madness, including here in\nCorvallis. One concern I've heard about this clause is that\nlocal police aren't allowed to interfere with ICE and CBP operations.\nThat's fine. Asking these officers to verify their identity is not\ninterference, it is duty. We have a duty to protect our community, and\nthis is a simple action we could take to do that.\nImpersonating a federal officer is a felony.\nRacially motivated harassment or worse are crimes.\nIf we can't enforce our own laws because the perpetrators put on the\ncostume of a federal agent, then we've just told every criminal out there\nhow to get away with crime in Corvallis.\nCouncil, I implore you, please adopt this resolution\nand make our city a stronger sanctuary. Thank you.\nThank you very much.\nLast on the presenters, we have Laura\nDuncan.\nThank you to councilors and staff for your service to the city,\nand thanks to everyone in the room tonight who\ncares about Corvallis, my hometown.\nI'm Laura Duncan, and I live in the Jack Taylor house at Fifth\nand C. My house was built in 1907.\nIt's on the National Register of Historic Places.\nI w- reading through tonight's packet, I was deeply offended by the\ndeveloper's justification for the tax break,\nciting connectivity improvements.\nThis took me back a few years and the lies we were told by the\ndevelopers of the Sierra Apartments on Washington\nBoulevard. Prior to their construction,\nneighbors were invited to talk with the developer.\nWe were promised enhanced bike and pedestrian crossing of the\nrailroad at Seventh, as well as repairs to the railroad\ncrossing on Washington. Also, the\nstreet-facing side of their parking garage was promised to have\ncommunity commercial spaces, such as a coffee shop.\nInstead, what we have are concrete barricades and\nchain link fencing on Seventh Street at Western.\nNo improvements on Washington, and the storage of\nconstruction materials where we were promised a coffee\nshop. I don't have any faith that the Pine\nView will actually achieve any improvements to the rail\ncrossings either. This is not something where the promise\nof money to the city does anything.\nIt is up to the railroad if and when improvements are\nmade.\nAdditionally, I need to cross Western at Fifth\nseveral times a day for work and activities.\nI go as a pedestrian, cyclist, and a\ndriver. Often, I have long waits looking for a\nbreak in the traffic. Any increase in traffic on\nWestern will exacerbate the risks for me and\nothers in my neighborhood, including many young\nchildren.\nTell me how cutting off the connectivity for my historic\nneighborhood is an improvement. Please hit\nthe pause button for this proposed development.\nLet's have community input and talk about what the citizens of\nCorvallis want, and not gift money to out-of-state\ndevelopers who are destroying the livability in\ntown. Thank you.\nThank you very much.\nAll right, we'll now move on to our drop-in commenters.\nUm, and I was just informed we have one person online, so we can start\nthere.\nBob Mandel, you should have the ability to unmute yourself and be heard by\ncouncil.\nYes. Thank you. I'm\ncalling in to speak on the resolution\nabout ICE. I simply want to\nagree with the previous speaker, Henri\nCloud. This is of the highest\npriority. The fact that\nit has receded from the headlines\nis testimony to the effectiveness\nof what the people in Minneapolis did,\nand Corvallis\nshould join that. This resolution,\ndoing everything that the city can legally\ndo in refusing to cooperate\nand in putting every possible\nlegal obstacle in ICE's\nway is imperative. We\nwere brought up to believe that this is a\ndemocracy.We were brought up to\nbelieve that the police were there to serve\nand protect. It is clear that\nICE is here neither to serve nor to\nprotect but to intimidate,\nto spread terror, to drive people from\ntheir homes. And a- as the murder of\ntwo people already proves,\nthe tactics that they're using will\nspread into the cities for\nother purposes. Those tactics will\nbe used to repress any\ndissent that the US government finds\nobjectionable. I worked in the civil rights\nmovement in Mississippi and witnessed the\nfailure of the feds to protect civil\nrights workers from the Ku Klux Klan.\nNow we have ICE acting just\nlike the Klan, masked,\nruthless, riding by day and riding\nby night.\nI congratulate you on raising this\nresolution. I urge its\nadoption. As an ESL\nteacher, my students live in fear\ndaily\nof being arrested, no matter what their\ncitizenship status,\nand being deported, no matter\nlegally or legal- illegally.\nEveryone has a right to live safely in\nthis country. Thank you. Please support the\nresolution.\nThank you very much.\nUp next I have Mike Blair.\nI think that's on.\nDo I push this?\nYeah. You're good.\nHello. I'm Mike Blair from Ward\nFour. Um, and\nI live in the, downtown historic\ndistrict,\nnext door to Bjorn,\nright in the middle of the block on, Fifth Street, a half a\nblock from the proposed\nPineview, site. And,\nour adjacent properties\nare, significant contributing\nhistoric houses. In order to make\nany... For example, to make any changes to the\nexteriors of our buildings, including\nfor, say, energy, energy efficient\nwindow replacement, it requires a major and a bureaucratic\nprocess to gain approval. I've done it a couple times\nand, I love the historic houses,\nso it's worthwhile for a lot of reasons.\nBut,\nthis, the Pineview is a monstrosity of\na building structure for downtown Corvallis, and it wi-\nwill fit in like a sore thumb. The proposed height\nwill drown out the east sun and the sun completely\nuntil around noon for our properties\nfor the neighboring blocks. I believe this proposed building will\nnegatively impact the values of the historic homes in our\ndowntown neighborhood. Uh, parking\nissues. Um, my understanding is there's\nnot adequate parking for the proposed structure\nat this point.\nWe live on Fifth Street. There's currently no on-street parking on Fifth\nStreet. It was turned into bike lanes years ago,\nwhich is great, but if we have company\nto our house, they, they must park on on-street\nparking on the adjacent Washington Avenue.\nThere's two blocks\nwhere there's on-street parking.\nUm, the proposed building will not\nprovide, adequate parking for the residents, and so the\non-street parking spaces will become rare, at\nbest, find. Thank you.\nThank you.\nUp next I have Patricia\nVann.\nVann.\nI c- I can read the Patricia, I'm just not sure about the last name, sorry.\nThat's okay. That's much better.\nOkay, all. Thanks so very much. Thanks for the community to come out\nto speak on these various topics that are very, very important.\nI used to call Corvallis our cozy cove.\nI moved here from Manhattan in '91 because I love\nthe community, the walkability, the safety, the\nschools.\nAs we have to move forward, we can't live in the\npast,\nI urge the city council\nto think about\nwhat we are doing in terms of the safety.\nWe've heard all about the... We have the whole programs for bike to school\nsafety, bike and walk to school. Then we look at the schools\nthat they are closing, and those they are\nkeeping open. Um, Mountain View is by the\nrailroad tracks,\nand there is no way to walk to Mountain View and to\nbike to Mountain View safely. We've already had a\nteacher killed in an accident on that railroad\ntraffic-And nothing has been done at that\narea. Yet they're going to expand that\nschool despite the chemicals in the water, which were\nknown seventeen years again- ago, and are now erupting\nagain. That school is now going to be a K\nthrough six and then K through eight.\nNo bike lanes, no walkable\npaths, no safe railroad\ncrossings. What are we doing? We can do\nbetter.\nThe second one is\nLetitia Carson, Title I school.\nAffordable neighborhood right around there with tons and\ntons of good families walking their kids to\nschool.\nAnd they're going to close it and put those children on\nbuses. One family has three\nchildren, and they are going to be bused to three different\nschools. The enhancement of traffic is\ngoing to be unbelievable. We've got to have\ninfrastructure.\nUh, the Sheldon Middle School, which is perfect location for K through\neight,\nis going to be closed. And those students will be\nbused, many of them into Linus Pauling,\nwhich is already super congested\nall through the morning and the evenings without walkable, safe paths\nand bike lanes. Seven hundred\njunior high kids.\nThe traffic is gonna be unbelievable.\nWe have to think and work together\nand establish safe routes for this, for the\nschool, for the kids, for the pedestrians, and the people who live in the\nneighborhoods. And I'd like to see the city\nand the district work together and really put forth a\nplan. Thank you.\nThank you.\nUp next is Tammy Scabina.\nScabina.\nI really do try.\nThat's okay. Yes, my name is Tammy Scabina, and\nI'm a member of Ward Eight. Um,\nI'm sharing my support of the resolution addressing escalating federal immigration\nenforcement. Um, it's my view that the\ncity of Corvallis and the council and the mayor need to publicly put\non record that everyone in Corvallis deserves to feel\nsafe, and that especially immigrants\nand people of color need to feel safe.\nI have a friend that I met twenty years ago.\nShe was a high school student here in Corvallis.\nI worked with her on projects where she was helping other students\nand making a difference. Twenty years later, she and her\nfamily are\ns-super fearful every single day.\nThey own a business. Their kids are in our\nschools. I want them to know that the city supports\nthem. And so please pass this resolution.\nThere should be no question that this city should support this\nresolution of addressing escalating federal immigration enforcement.\nThank you.\nThank you.\nAndrew R?\nHello, everybody. I'm from Fairyland,\nclearly. I, just, I'm from Ward Two.\nUm, I, I, I know this, I wanna speak in support of just about\neverybody who's spoken here before.\nEverything everybody said has been, exactly dead on.\nUh, Third Street is a big problem. Fourth Street is also a major\nissue. Everybody drives down those two streets like they're driving down the\nhighway, and it is always\nscary to cross those. I cross them regularly.\nUm, I've been visiting the, local drop-in center here.\nI try to get people to encourage people to\ngo and, and visit there o-on a, you know, somewhat of a regular\nbasis and talk to people there and listen to their stories.\nI've been hearing\na lot of stories for months now.\nUm, my friend here, Jo-Joshua Browning, recently,\nwas thrown out on the streets by Unity Shelters.\nUm, I've been hearing, stories, for months\nabout Unity Shelters,\nthrowing victims of property crimes by other shelter members\nout on the streets. Uh, some of them did not survive\nthis. All of them had their lives disrupted.\nUm,\nit's strange. And then I started hearing them on the men's side recently,\nand\nI started hearing different things about all three of the shelters' abuses to\nshelter, residents and, you\nknow, that sort of thing just does our community so much harm.\nI, I, I sh- hear about criminal\nactivities there. I hear about criminal activities on the part of\nour, unfortunately, our local police force, using\nconfidential informants and using, individuals that they catch with\ndrugs to drop packages in places. And, confidential\ninformants, as you know, cannot be held accountable or go to jail because\nthere's a, a mythology that they will be murdered\nif they ever wind up there. Um, so they're pretty much free\nof all accountability to any laws in, in most of the cities that,\nthat they, they use them for, purposes, law enforcement.\nAnd, I've heard a, a story from a man who came here to get\nhis wife out of a trafficking situation, was told by an officer--\nasked by an officer where he lived.\nHe said, \"California.\" And, and the officer told him, \"You should just go back\nthere.\" Um, and he said, \"Well, I'm not leaving until I get my wife out of this\ntrafficking situation.\" Um...Yeah, the stories I\nhear just over and over again, I, I...\nY- you can't, I can't just tell you these stories.\nThey're, they're facts, but you have to hear them for\nyourself. Um, maybe journalistic efforts can.\nUm, I'm, I'm working on an investigative journalism effort, Voice of the\nVoiceless for the City, to try and do some, uh...\nMy whole family's journalists. Um, do some investigative journalism, get some\nchanges to, to the city. In Oregon, I hear that we're 49th in\noutcomes for mentally ill people. Who, who is allowing that?\nWho is, who is not funding those people? So on and so forth.\nThat's all.\nThank you.\nDo you have any questions?\nEverybody good?\nNo questions. Thank you.\nBrendan\nKohlberg.\nHello there, mayor and council. I'm coming in my individual capacity as\nvice chair of the planning commission, though I'm also a ward, a resident of Ward\n6. Um, the planning commission has ma- or we\ndecided at our last meeting, which was held in person, our annual work plan,\nto make two somewhat significant changes to our workflow that I figure you\nshould be informed of. Um, as of the cycle of members this\nsummer, some are rotating off at the end of June, and then more should be\nappointed at the beginning of July.\nWe're going back to fully in-person meetings or hybrid in-person\nfirst meetings. I believe we're the last major commission to do so.\nAnd then secondly, because members of the commission weren't too\nconfident in how to prioritize different changes to the\nLDC, given that there's a list that's about six years long and the amount of\ntime we have, we're interested in, in the process of trying to figure\nout how we can learn what changes are most\nimportant. In particular, establishing communication lines with the\npeople who interface with them most, from the user side, which is a\npractice standard in most, like, tech and high performance companies.\nUm, so we're looking at what we can do, as far\nas our positioning, to hear from developers\nand, and people who would like to develop but can't about rules that they feel that\nare in the way, but not... And then contrasting those with, you\nknow, the point of regulations is to solve collection action problems and keep\npeople's private incentives from overruling the common good.\nBut where a rule provides, barriers\nto, the city's goals of\naffordability and economic development, but they're, it's not actually actively\npreser- preventing something that the city does not want, and we're gonna try to\nidentify those and see where we can improve some of those.\nSo just a brief update there. Um, if you guys, you're, you're\nobviously more connected to the community than anyone on the commission is,\nif you have any leads on things that you think we should look at, there's a lot\nof uncertainty on that, and I figured you should be informed even,\nyeah, even that says. That's all.\nThank you.\nThat concludes our community comments.\nMoving on to the consent agenda.\nI will move to adopt the consent agenda.\nSecond.\nWorried there. It was kind of a pause.\nAny discussion? Seeing no hands, all\nin favor of adopting the consent agenda, say aye.\nAye.\nAye.\nAye.\nAll opposed, say no. That passed\nunanimously. Now on to unfinished business.\nWe have item A, revised noise ordinance.\nUm, city manager's here to...\nYes. Um, our police department staff brought this forward at your\nFebruary 19th work session. Uh, just to check in\nwith you, council seemed, amenable to these changes, so\nthey are in front of you, in the ordinance here.\nYou have a\nredline strikeout starting on page 133 of the electronic\npacket, and then a clean copy on, starting on page\n137.\nThank you. And, and the chief is here if we have questions that\ncity manager can't answer, but you're okay.\nAny questions, or should we have the ordinance read?\nAll right. City recorder, if you would, please.\nThis is an ordinance relating to noise amending Corvallis Municipal Code\nSection 5.03.030,\nnoise.\nVery much. Again, last chance for any questions, or we can just take a\nvote.\nI have an observation.\nPlease, Councilor Ellis.\nThis was actually a topic of conversation at my house this weekend, because some\npeople may know that it was not actually St.\nPatrick's Day, but the fraternities were celebrating St.\nPatrick's Day. Um, and we were actually talking about hopefully with the\nclarity of having the decibel level, there will be\nless conflict between the police and the\npeople celebrating, shall we say.\nSo we are feeling pretty positive about this.\nYeah, I have to agree. I re- I really think that the, you know, hard facts instead\nof just trying to determine whether or not there's a violation is gonna\nbe useful for everybody.\nAppreciate it. All right. Let's, I guess, go ahead and take a vote.\nOh. Some more things. Go ahead.\nUm, just, just a quick comment. I appreciate the work that went into this so\nquickly after a problem was identified, so thank you to the police\ndepartment for your work.\nYes, absolutely.\nDo you have a question or comment?\nMm-mm.\nOh, okay. Thought I saw a hand.\nNope.\nAll right. Let's go ahead and, take a vote.\nAll in favor of the ordinance, say aye.\nAye.\nAye.\nAye.\nAll opposed, say no. That passed unanimously.\nThank you all, and again, thank you to all staff and that were involved in\nthis. Much appreciated.\nNext up, and we're moving on to new business now.\nItem A, Pineview Multi-Unit, Multi-Unit Property Tax Exemption, also known as\nMEPTA application.\nThank you, Mayor, members of the council.\nUm, normally I wouldn't be up here.\nThis is a economic development activity, so we would...\nIt's generally about the dollars and cents.\nBut I know you had a lot of testimony from, community members, and\nlooking through that, I think eighty or ninety percent of it was about land\nuse, piece. So I'm here for, that aspect if you have\nquestions down that line. But, also the developer is,\navailable remotely, so there'll be a moment for them as\nwell.\nThat's what I was checking.\nYes, and the city attorney is online as well.\nOkay. So, with that kind of intro, I'll turn it back over to the regularly\nscheduled show.\nGood evening, everyone. Uh, great to be with you.\nI'm excited to present this,\nMUPTE application, the second that the city's received.\nUm, it is a, a exemption\nrequest for ten years, totaling thirteen million four\nhundred and twelve thousand s- three hundred and seventy-nine dollars.\nUm,\nthis is a, a thirteen-story building with two hundred and sixty-three\nunits and, commercial on the ground floor.\nUm, total project cost is estimated to be a hundred and thirty-two million\ndollars. Um, a little context, the two hundred and\nsixty-three units, just about double the number\nof units currently in downtown for residential\nunits. When we look at the MUPTE\napplication and the staff review, it really, comes down to three\ntests. The but-for test, so is this project financially\nfeasible but for the exemption? And we,\nhave a requirement that we have a third-party financial consultant do\nthat analysis. Um, that financial consultant is also\nonline, can answer any technical questions about,\nthe report produced by ECO Northwest.\nUm, at the end of the day, it was concluded through that,\nanalysis that, the project, passes the but-for\ntest. The next is the affordable housing test, so fifteen\npercent of the project's units must be affordable for households\nearning eighty percent or less of the AMI in Corvallis, or,\nthe applicant can provide ten percent of the total property tax\nexemption to fund the development of future affordable housing.\nUm, this applicant chose to provide, ten\npercent of the total property tax exemption.\nAnd we'll get to what all the total financials are here at the\nend. Um, but the third, test,\nso to speak, is the public benefits test.\nSo there's a list of public benefits in the ordinance from which a developer can\nchoose to try,\nand, and accomplish to, qualify for the\nMUPTE. Um, there are,\nfour identified in the application: public infrastructure,\nhigh quality urban design and special architectural features, economic\ncatalytic effect, and connectivity improvements.\nAs for pub- public infrastructure, very\nstraightforward, the applicant has agreed to deposit one hundred thousand dollars\nwith the city to be used for construction of public infrastructure in the\nCIP, and that'll be the discretion of,\npublic works and staff to determine what\nexactly is, what those dollars are, are earmarked\nfor. Um,\nnext is high quality urban design, special architectural features.\nSo the development provides high quality landscaping and\narchitecture and/or other elements beyond what the city of Corvallis,\ncurrently provides. Um, there's sufficient detail in the\napplication to demonstrate high quality architectural design and a commitment to\nexceeding City of Corvallis code standards in the choice of\nextraordinary materials. Um, it's not\nlocated on lots that are identified as having historic significance, so it's\nnot subject to the Historic Resources\nCommission. Um,\nthat, public benefit is, in our\nview, sufficient to claim.\nNext is economic catalytic effect, and so the applicant provided\nsufficient detailed analysis of a proposed economic catalytic\neffect, and the influx of residents, roughly six hundred or so\nin downtown, and multiplier effect of that investment stands to significantly and\npermanently improve the outlook for other businesses in terms of\nincreased employment and/or revenues.\nThe fourth, again, there are three required, s- developer chose\nto, to provide four. Um, the developers proposed to work with\nthe city and railroad to fund future pedestrian crossing\nimprovements at Sixth, not to exceed a contribution of fifty thousand\ndollars. So, understandably, that's not\ngonna cover the entire cost, but it is a, a public benefit offered, in the\napplication. And we consider all four as being\nsufficiently met in terms of the standards for\nqualification. There's evidence that the\napplicant may have actually qualified for an additional public benefit not\nclaimed. Um, that is regarding abandoned, vacant, or\nunderdeveloped properties. So I think there's a strong argument, we won't spend too\nmuch time on it, but, for having met that\nrequirement, for,\nresolving or improving a\nblighted area.\nUm, this proposal, this project, it's\nreally well aligned with a lot of city policies.\nUm, Corvallis 2040, mixed-use development, diverse and\naffordable housing,\nclimate change, climate action plan.\nIt's been a long time coming,\nthe code changes that have, have led to a project of this scale being,\nproposed\nand, the tools that have been put in place to attract this\nkind of development.And so I think this is a culmination of a lot of efforts\nthat have been underway for many years.\nUm, it is, it is a change, to\ndowntown. Um,\nbut I think as evidenced by the, the public benefits here,\na po- a positive change.\nUm, as far as the financial impact or the\nimpact on schools, because of the state education formula,\nthere's no, there's no negative\nimpact, from the tax exemption.\nUm, we will be increasing,\ntaxes both during the exemption period and following the exemption\nperiod. Um, so the local contribution will go up to our\nschools. However, it'll, it'll most likely just be offset, state\neducation funding. Um, as far as the budget\nimpact, the current property taxes the city collects are eight thousand two hundred\nand twenty-six dollars on the four lots.\nUm,\nit's a total of twenty-five thousand.\nUm, and the exemption period,\nthe, the taxes that the city will collect are twenty,\ntwenty-two thousand four hundred and nine dollars.\nSo city stands to roughly just about double or, or\nso, the number, the amount of tax revenue generated from\nyears one to ten. Uh, post-exemption period, the city stands\nto claim four hundred and forty-three thousand one hundred and fifty-four\ndollars a year, so year eleven\nplus. Uh, the direct net financial benefits to the city are\nas follows. Um, fourteen thousand one hundred and eighty-three dollars\nincrease during the exemption period, years one through\nten. A hundred and thirty-four thousand one hundred and twenty-four dollar\ncontribution annually to the Affordable Housing Fund during the exemption\nperiod. A hundred thousand dollar, contribution to the\nCapital Improvements Plan. Fifty thousand dollar contribution to fund\npedestrian crossing improvements.\nUh, one million one hundred and sixty-two thousand one hundred and twenty-five\ndollar,\nexpected contribution to the Affordable Housing Construction\nExcise Tax, and a twenty-seven thousand\none-time Affordable Housing Construction Excise Tax for\nthe, commercial. The total financial impact\nduring the ten-year exemption period is roughly one million six hundred and\nthirty-three thousand one hundred and twenty-one dollars.\nAnd the total financial impact following the exemption, four hundred forty-three\none five four. Uh, those are the, the analysis that\nwe do in the application. This is what we're tasked with in the\nordinance. And, any other questions,\nmay be better suited, if they're about the pro forma,\nto the financial consultant, or if they're about the development project and\nspecifics, the developer. But I'm happy to answer any other questions about the\nstaff report.\nCouncillor Gediman?\nUh, I don't have questions. I do-- I did send a co- question\nto Director Bilotta earlier that I thought might be informative\nto help us focus our conversation.\nUh, first let me say in, in reference to one of the public comments, we're\nnot, we're foregoing property taxes.\nThat is a difference. That is different than giving the\ndeveloper funds, just a clarification.\nUm, I also want to, to\nmake a few points that Director Bilotta confirmed with me in my email to\nhim,\nthat what we're talking about today is the\nMUPTE, request. If the\ndeveloper, for whatever reason, was not requesting MUPTE, they\ncould, they could proceed with this project as\nis. They could get a building permit for a\nhundred and twenty-three foot building.\nThey could request an extra twenty percent in height, which\nis, part of the new process from the state\ngranting automatic variances, where the staff has no\ndiscretion in granting that. Um, so\nI, I think we should keep our focus on\nwhat we are\ndeciding today. We're deciding whether to extend the,\nmulti-unit property tax exemption ordinance.\nWe're not\nrevisiting the state's, choices around climate\nfriendly, equitable communities parking requirements.\nWe're not, discussing land use\nchanges. This is not a land use case.\nSo I, I just think that's important, and I, I appreciate\nthe concern that community members\nhave, but I think it's important to understand this is not a land\nuse case. This is not a... If, if they were not asking for a MUPTE, this building\ncould go forward with zero,\npublic hearing, zero land use\ndiscussion, et cetera. So just, and I'm, I'm gonna\nask you to confirm everything I just said.\nUh, yeah, that, that is correct. Um, in addition, the one other thing that,\nmight be helpful to know on land use is, there was a lot of discussion and\ncommentary about the historic district.\nUh, historic districts, a property owner or a neighborhood, et cetera,\ncan choose to, put themselves into a\nhistoric district and forego any upside and those sorts of things\nfrom that. What historic districts don't do is\nextend and remove property rights from adjacent\nproperties. And so part of what we were hearing a little bit was kind of\nimplying that, because they're a historic district, that that\ncontrols the adjacent properties, and that's not how historic districts\nwork.\nIf I saw hands correctly, I saw Councilor Ellis, Napack, and then\nOlson.\nI didn't actually. I was just putting my hand up, but I'm\nwilling to-\nThat's what I saw.\nI, I'm willing to... I think Councilor Olson was before me, but I'm willing to go.\nUm, and get it over with. Um,\nI understand this is not a land use, and that we cannot\ndiscuss, the appropriateness of that\nbuilding on that space. And the state has taken away\nconsiderable of our authority to do that.\nWhether or not we agree with that is out of our control, and we need to take it up\nwith the state. However, I am gonna argue that\nthey're, that this is not, they do not meet the qualifications\nfor the MUPTE based on what I see. Um, I\nthink any building that is putting a private pool on its roof\nis failing the but-for test, because I think you just don't put the pu- you\nknow? You're going for luxury housing here.\nIf you're, if you were building housing for ordinary people, no,\nno pool on the roof. Um, you might meet it.\nBut for me, that just was no.\nUm, I also am concerned that this is not housing for ordinary\npeople. I did a little math. I'm not a mathematician.\nMy partner looked it over and corrected a little bit of it.\nBut a studio is, if you're paying a third of your\nrent, you have to be a mid-career teacher for this to\nbe affordable. So I would argue that even though they're not\naffordable, this is just not affordable rent.\nAnd then I saw they're comparing their rent to the Sierras\nand saying it was about the same, but it actually had raised it a couple of\nhundred dollars. So it is no, we're, we're actually raising\nrent. We're not trickling down for more affordable\nhousing. I would also argue that,\n$100,000 contribution for public infrastructure is\nminimal. It, you, there's very little that we can actually do with that amount of\nmoney. Um, I've heard enough from bi- bicycle and pedestrian\ninfrastructure to know that that is, there's not very much.\nHigh quality urban design is clearly subjective.\nI look at the pictures and I think, \"I don't think so.\" But other people look at it\nand think that's beautiful. But that's a subjective, not an\nobjective quality, and I don't think we can make a decision based\non that. I am concerned about the ec- economic catalytic\neffect of 600 people with\n300, 400, 500 cars parking in\ndowntown. I think that's gonna make things worse, 'cause we're constantly hearing\nabout the concerns in downtown. Um, and\n50,000 for connectivity, again, does not strike me as\nbeing very much at all. So I think that they fail based\nupon their qualifications, and I intend to vote no\non the MUPTE.\nCouncilor Nyback?\nYeah, I have a, a question, which is if Pineview\nfolds or defaults or\ndoesn't complete the project, what happens to\nus?\nYou mean if, if the MUPTE goes forward and then they fail, they\nconstruct it and they fail, and you're fine or something?\nIf they stop halfway or something terrible happens, yeah.\nSure, sure. So, there's a few things. If they...\nObviously, the building is still there, so you continue to have a\nbuilding that gets taxed and all those other things.\nBut if they fail to pay us the affordable\nhousing annual payment, then they have\nunder 20 days, I believe, we, we have to submit to them, we contact\nthe developer, we contact the developer's lender, and we contact the city\ncouncil and say, \"They're in default.\" At that point, they get hauled in\nfront of the council, and they get to plead their case\nto preserve their tax exemption, assuming that\nwe didn't make it up and we had a valid reason to bring them before the council,\nand the council then could, remove their tax exemption.\nSo then at that point, instead of being exempt and all those, you know,\nhundreds of thousands of dollars, every year, they would immediately have\nto start paying taxes, right\naway.\nI have more questions, but I'll wait.\nOkay. And before I move on to Councilor Olsen, I wonder if it\nmight be wise, 'cause currently there's nothing even on the table to, to\ndeliberate, so maybe we should go ahead and have, the city reporter read the\nordinance. We'll see if we have a motion and a second\non the plan, yeah? City reporter, if you would, please.\nThis is the resolution approving a multiple unit property tax exemption,\nMUPTE, for residential property located at 516 to\n544 Southwest Fourth Street, Corvallis, Oregon\n97333. Applicant, Pineview\nDevelopment.\nAt this point we can, you, you can continue asking questions, or someone can make a\nmotion to get this at least on the table.\nSo moved.\nDo we have a second?\nI'll second.\nThank you. Okay, so now we are in deliberation\nofficially. Um, but questions are still welcome as well.\nSo, go to Councilor Olsen, and then it gets back to Councilor Nyback\nafter that. There's...\nYeah, I actually have a couple questions which are different than the questions I\nemailed you, Paul, so sorry about this.\nUm, one of the main questions I've had a lot from the community is how they're\nallowed to submit an application for a building that we don't know if it meets the\nland use criteria. Can you explain that?\nYeah. Uh, there's, there's, there's a little bit of a chicken and\negg situation. You can either come in and try to get your exemption first, or you\ncan come in and, and get your approvals first.\nUm, it, there is no right or wrong way for how it\nhas to happen. Now, in this instance, so, so when Obie came\nforward before, they had a discretionary Willamette River\nGreenway, process that's a public hearing and the whole big land use\ndeal. So they chose to get that resolved up front so that they could set\ntheir pro forma to know what was, gonna be there before asking\nfor the tax exemption. On this situation,\nthe developer chose not to do that, and the developer's here if we wanna know\nwhy. But, one thing that's very different about the land use\nsituation with this project than the Obie project\nis-Uh, like it's been referenced, this is this new state\nautomatic variance process. So although they have not yet gone\nthrough it, the way the process works is we send\nout notices to the people within a radius so they know it's happening.\nThey then submit letters to us telling us whether they support it or don't support\nit. None of that really matters because the state says we have to approve it\nanyway, and the only one who can appeal that decision would be the\napplicant. And so the only thing that could really be appealed would be if we said\nno. So although they haven't been through all the land use\nprocesses, the only land use process they haven't been through is one\nthat's, you know, kind of performative.\nYeah. And then, um... Yeah, so I've\nbeen looking over this application a lot,\nand based on my\nown, views, and\nbased on... Yeah, based on my own views, I don't\nbelieve that it fulfills the MUPD criteria.\nI believe that the p- public benefits, of\npublic infrastructure and connectivity improvements\nare not, fulfilled. Uh, for the connectivity\nimprovements, they say that they want to fund future\npedestrian con- crossing improvements or just any sort of connectivity\nimprovements not to exceed a contribution of fifty thousand\ndollars. Uh, yeah, fifty thousand dollars.\nIn the Corvallis Transportation System Plan, which was adopted\nin twenty nineteen, they lifted...\nthey listed eleven unfunded projects for a total of,\nfifty-five... five five zero zero zero\nzero, dollars, which calculates out to\nfifty thousand a project. And these are,\nat least a couple of these are railroad crossing improvements or other crosswalk\nimprovements that are not currently funded.\nAnd st- this was at twenty nineteen prices, which\naccording to a, inflation calculator\ncalculates to over sixty-three hundred...\nsixty-three thousand, in\nthis day and age. So this money would not fund even a singular\nproject in the neighborhood. And while I know that is only\nsome of the funding, I don't believe if you can't even fund one project with\nthe money you're offering, that that's a sufficient connectivity\ndevelopment. Additionally, I don't believe that\nthe, public, public infrastructure is\nmet. Uh, our requirements say an investment of at\nleast, a hundred thousand dollars.\nThey have agreed to deposit exactly a hundred thousand dollars, and with\ntheir estimate of how many people are going to live in there,\nsix... sixty, give or take, that calculates to a\nhundred and fifty dollars per person in infrastructure developments, which\nis not a lot. Like, I could... I mean, I don't have a\nlot of money, but if I went up to the city and was like, \"Hey, I'll give you a\nhundred and fifty dollars if you'll put a crosswalk in my neighborhood,\" they'd be\nlike, \"Great, that doesn't cover the paint,\"\nor, \"That doesn't cover the street sign.\" Because believe me, I've thought about\njust, like, putting up street signs in my neighborhood.\nAnd s- because of that, because of those two\nfacts, while I do...\nYeah, I do not believe that this project\nfulfills the requirements for\nthe, MUPD, and so I will\nbe voting no on\nit.\nCouncilor Morfield.\nCouncilor Napack had, had her hand up\nfirst.\nAll right. Okay. Councilor Napack.\nI have a... So in, in\nthe text, the narrative that staff put together, thank you very much,\na lot of the things\nthat they talk about, especially infrastructure, are\nproposed. They're not concrete, shall we\nsay. They're saying, \"We will do this, we will do that.\" They say they're proposing\nX, Y, Z. And I know, for instance, through the railroad, they\nwant... they never wanna cooperate,\nand they won't maintain the crossing. They...\nw- w- w- will refuse to maintain the crossing even if we improve it.\nUm,\nthe,\nSD... Well, infrastructure downtown, you know, we've been on the task\nforce for, revitalization downtown, and I\nunderstand, you know, we have utilities that are\nneeding a lot of upgrades, especially\nelectric and so on and so forth. And this would seem\nthat they might run into a problem if they, if\nthey... I don't know if they will or not, but I know their,\nwater main burst\nright there on the corner of,\nFourth and Safeway.\nSo I don't... You know, how we can...\nHow can we, can we afford\nthis?\nOkay. Um, yeah, a couple things. Uh, one is, you know, some of\nthese, some of these things about what the developer should or should not offer, we\nshould probably get the developer on to, to talk about that. I...\nYou know, we're not here to, to deal with that part of it.\nUm, but as far as the public utilities piece of things\nand the electrical, what we've seen, you know, our\nelectrical grid\nin the downtown is a problem for pretty much any scale of\ndevelopment. Um, we've had problems, on\nsome of the renovations on Madison even.\nUm, it's a very old technology. It's...\nit has not been well-maintained by Pacific Power.\nSo when we do have projects, like the l- museum was\none, like, OB recently, there's\nextensive multi-million dollar upgrades to the entire\ngrid downtown that occurs for that.\nSo it would not sur- You know, I don't know the details about this particular part\nof downtown, but it would not surprise me at all if there's not the same\nthing. And it doesn't necessarily mean that the grid just is on that block.\nThey often have to run back.\nAs far as water lines and sewer lines,\nthose are things that get resolved every- when the development comes\nin, and if they are not adequate, then the development has to bring them up to\nspeed. It's actually kind of beneficial if you have older,\ninfrastructure that needs to be upgraded\nthen along with the development, but again, I don't know if that would be the case\nhere or not. Oh, maybe Mark knows something.\nYeah, I can just share generally if you think about water and, and sewer\nlines as our public works director has, has talked about\nand, and presentations on master plans recently on both our water and,\nand wastewater. Generally it's, for water, it's\nfire flows that drive water line sizes, and for\nsewer line sizes, it's that infiltration and inflow.\nIt's not number of residents,\nas Director Bilade pointed out.\nIf, if there is a, a local deficiency\nidentified, generally that, the developer has to deal with that as\npart of their development, and they do that through a, a permit process\nthrough public works.\nOkay, thanks.\nCouncillor Marfield?\nUm,\nI have a couple of questions. Um,\nI'll ask them both if someone else doesn't wanna take a turn.\nBut, the first one is a fairly narrow technical\none. It was a question I posed to staff late in the day, so there wasn't\nreally time to come up with an answer, but it had to do with the\nfinancial projections and, and,\nwhat, at least on the\nsurface, looked to me like an error, but I'm not familiar\nwith this kind of commercial development either.\nBut the, that coverage ratio in the first three years seemed to be calculated\nincorrectly. And since there's, the purpose of it is to\nestablish the need for the property tax exemption, I need\nthat to be clarified.\nYeah. I, I think here we'll ask Eric Bagwell, from Echo\nNorthwest to clarify that.\nHuh.\nSure. Good evening, everyone. Um, sure, happy to answer that question.\nUm, w- the, the debt service cover ratio is\ncalculated properly. What's happening is there's a three percent,\nincrease assumption on r- on the rental income\nannually. And so what happens is that's ticking up every year.\nAnd also, I think in year four, there, the developer is expecting a refinancing\nevent, and so you're seeing that actually change to serve, the debt service\nactually change in that year. Um, does that answer your\nquestion?\nIt- I'm sorry, I couldn't quite hear you.\nThe sound is just because of my hearing and quality of the\nspeaker wasn't real great. Maybe I can get an interpreter.\nUm, so no, I, I didn't, I couldn't hear the answer\nexactly.\nSure. So my understanding of the, the pro forma is that in year four,\nthe developer is expecting a refinancing event to basically take out a\nportion of the equity-\nRight\n... that is being put into... So wha- what you're seeing is the debt service start\nto change in that year. Also-\nYeah, I, I understand what happens in year four.\nIt's years one through three that seem to be...\nIf I, if I,\nyou know, divide,\nnet operating income by debt service for year one through three, it doesn't come up\nwith a one point one five, one ei- one eighteen, one twenty two\ndebt coverage ratio.\nOh, that's because in year, the first three years, there's just an interest-only\nannual payment.\nBut it's still debt service.\nYes, but the debt service is different because when that refinancing event happens,\nit changes to a thirty-year am- amortization as opposed to\nthe interest-only payment that's happening in the first three years.\nThat's why it's changing.\nOkay, well,\nI, I'm talking about, I think, a simple math question.\nSure.\nIn a pro forma, if I look at net operating income of, I mean,\nI'll use the first year, of eight one, eight point one\nmillion,\nand divide it by the, the, debt service of five point\nnine, it does not come out to one point one five.\nSo I'm just going by the numbers that are shown on the sheet.\nAnd I would say the same error, I, I mean,\nat least it appears to be that, shows up in years two and three, and then\nafter that it's fine. It, it ma- it\nmakes sense in the way that I understand it.\nYeah. My, the calculation I have on, in the application that I received\nhas the net operating income divided by the interest\nof five point fi- or the, the\none year, debt service of five\npoint five million dollars. So it is getting to, it, it's an accurate\ncalculation in my, in my pro forma.\nMaybe we're looking at two different-\nOkay\n... versions of it.\nCan, can I, can I jump in as the developer and maybe clarify?\nSure. Thanks, Dan.\nYou don't mind? Sorry about that. So yeah, I can explain that.\nUm, for purposes of lenders reviewing pro\nformas,\nregardless of whether it's interest-only payment, debt cover ratio is\nbased on the thirty-year amortized payment.\nSo as if you are paying, even though you're not for the first three\nyears alone, it's calculated as if you are paying part of\nthe principal amount down. That is why.\nSo in fact, if you look at, you don't divide it by the\ninterest-only payment amount,\nyou divide it by the larger amount of the thirty-year fully amortized amount,\nand that's how you get to that\nnumber.\nI, I'm not gonna sit here in the middle of the meeting and do math.\nI, I turned my- ... stuff so it wouldn't-\nYeah, it's, uh-\nI'm just reporting on m- me coming up with different\nDCRs when I was doing it at home.\nYeah, no, DCR is-\nSo-\nI'm sorry. The DCR is, is co- is for the purpose of getting\nthe-The debt cover ratio, it's calculated regardless\nof whether you're only paying interest payments for those three years.\nIt's, the debt cover ratio is actually calculated based\non a larger payment on a monthly\nbasis amount. For the bank purposes, that's always the way it's\ndone. So y-you can't get a loan\nbased on the interest-only payment.\nIt, the lender will always base it on the amortized amount\nover thir- which is a higher payment on an annual basis.\nThat's why it's, it sounds confusing.\nI, I... And I totally get why you'd be confused.\nI, I was a little concerned that you, you kind of\nneed to be in our world of finance to...\nAs a s- kind of a stray calculation, it doesn't make sense, but that's, that's how\nit's calculated. And Eric, you can, I guess, confirm\nthat. Maybe just-\nYes, that is typically how it is calculated,\ncorrect.\nOkay. Um,\nsecond question. Um,\nthe, I don't have the, ORS or the, or the actually the city\nordinance language sitting right in front of me, so I'm working from memory a\nlittle bit. But the, ORS that\nauthorizes localities to have a MUPTI program mentions design\ncriteria as being an element that can be considered.\nUm, in the city's ordinance, there's some,\nwhat I consider, fairly general language about, design\ncriteria in there. And so the, a question\nthat I think is appropriate to ask tonight is that because the language is\ngeneral\nand, and not real specific about what we\nmean by that,\nit raises the question to me, number one, how are we supposed to interpret\nit? One way to have some guidance around that issue\nis what did the council intend back in '23 or\nwhenever it was when the, when the ordinance was adopted.\nUm,\ncan you... Because I, I think of a design can, is a very\nglobal kind of topic. And, and\nsome, some of the concerns that have been raised\naren't just about how the exterior of the building is\ntreated, but its relationship to\nsurrounding areas. Certainly, architects\ntake into account context when they design things.\nSure.\nUh, I, that's not specified in our ordinance, though.\nSo I'm trying to get some guidance on what the intent was of having\ndesign, in the ordinance.\nYeah. Design is usually, you know, it was intended to be, fairly general\nto give council some latitude. Uh, we don't\nhave,\nwe don't have a very specific design,\nstandard across the city. You know, we, we tend to allow a lot of different\nthings. Um, typically, design is going to\nbe, not change of\nscale per se, but elements of the\ndesign. So, you know, a, taking\nthe 13-story building down to a three-story building would not be\njust an architectural\nopinion. You know, that's, that's something that's different.\nMoving, you know, having the lobby open over here\nor having a step back or having, you know,\nbalconies go this way instead of that way. You know, those sorts of things.\nThose, those are design, pieces to it.\nUm, you know, if we... Not in, not in this\ncase because they, of course, get to use the standards as it is\nnow. Uh, in the future, if the council wanted to be more clear\nabout, you know, these are the five things that we really care about\nand we don't care about anything else, that's fine, but, that's not\nhow, this was set up. It was set up to...\n'Cause, you know, no one really knew what was gonna come in, so it was set up to\ngive the council some, some, freedom.\nAs a former developer, I, I certainly have been supportive of the city\nmoving away from vague design requirements that were always\nseen in the eye of the beholder and created opportunities for nothing more\nthan conflict and appeals. Uh, so having more\nobjective criteria in what we, what kind of\ndesign elements should apply-\nMm-hmm\n... in developments, that makes perfect sense.\nYeah.\nBut that's not the question in my mind before us.\nThis is about whether we provide a, a property tax\nexemption-\nRight\n... and how, and it raises the, it, a matter of\ndesign as one of those matters of public benefit-\nRight\n... especially when it's exceeded.\nAnd so\nit, it, it appears to inject\nelement that otherwise is not in our land development code.\nYeah.\nBut it injects that element design into a decision\non, on subsidy.\nThe, the language in the, in the MUPTI, and I don't have it right in front of me,\nbut it's, it's ref- referencing,\ndesign and materials that are in excess of, of kind of\nstandard. So what we look, when we look at it from the staff level, we're not\nlooking at whether something's, you know, a particular time period or anything\nlike that. We're looking at what would be, building code\nminimums and what's above and beyond that.\nSo, this project in particular, just right\nout of the gate, the fact that it uses steel construction\nis above and beyond a standard, you know, six-story kind\nof, wood st- wooden or concrete base and st- and stick\nconstruction like you'd see normally.\nUm, so that right there, you know, you've got, I think they showed in\nthe, in the, documentation that it was about $24 a square foot.\nSo that's an element above. Uh, the developer also\nhighlighted the amount of glazing that they have on the project, whether\nthat's adequate or not. The main one I think from the staffing\nperspective would be, you know, going to a steel construction is a very\ndifferent, kind of concept. And that's exactly the concept the council was\nlooking at when we went... You know, Councilor Ellis will remember when we had\nthose discussions with the task force-You can go up to about six\nstoreys with stick built construction, and then there's a dead\nzone, and you've gotta get up to about 10 or more above.\nAnd so that's how we ended up with the 123 feet, when the council made that\ndecision. So the intent was to get steel construction and to\npush in there. We could have stopped at six storey and, and\njust stayed with, you know, business as usual.\nSo this i- that I think is the big architectural\nelement when you're looking at dollars and, and cents.\nUh, staff's not real comfortable getting into questions about, wow, what's\nthe color of the doors, and does that match the, the colors of the\nwindows, and things like that. So, that's not the kinda level that we're\nlooking at.\nWe're looking primarily does it exceed the current\nstandards. And, for the reasons\nDirector Bilotta outlined, it was found that it, it does meet that criteria\naccording to the ordinance. With all of these, the\ncriteria for having been met, there's a standard,\nright? Um, whether it's at least $100,000,\nor whether, the project will include\nadditional non-required connectivity improvements.\nUm, that's how we looked at\nit.\nUh,\nso I have Councilor Olsen and then, Councilor Ellis, but I wanted to add my\nopinion. Although I don't normally get a vote, I just still have an opinion,\nso\nWhen, when I was first encouraged to run for city council by a good friend\nof mine, former City Councilor George Groesch, he told me, \"Trust your staff.\nThey're the experts.\" You know, 'cause we can't be experts on everything.\nUm,\nand but he said that it's perfectly okay to question them.\nSo I'm not, I'm not saying that those here who disagree with that are\nwrong 'cause you're questioning it, and that's fine.\nBut I do have a lot of faith in staff.\nI, I, I believe we have some of the best staff you could possibly ask for.\nSo when I looked at the criteria, there are things I questioned, and I had to\nreread some things, but I f- I feel like staff knows whether criteria is being\nmet. Um, it's what we pay them for.\nUm, some of the i- i- items that I wanna really point out is\nthe overall benefit\nand, and I'm not getting into the details of improvements of pedestrian crosses\nor railroad 'cause that there's always complications there.\nBut it, well, the one thing that was pointed out by staff\nthat wasn't actually part of the criteria used was around the, the improvement of\nthe area. That, you know, that area has looked very run down for many\nyears. You know, we, we've heard from our, our task force, and we hear from\ncommunity members all the time about the concern of downtown looking\naging. It's not a lot of people all the time, although lately I feel like it's been\ndoing better.\nBut, but\nthis is something we've talked about as a council and as a community that we want.\nWe want more people living downtown.\nWe want new improvements to downtown.\nUm, the financial benefit is something we, we talk, we've had conversations\naround, budget gap and needs to increase revenue.\nWell, this was going to increase revenue.\nIt was gonna increase, you know, the look of our\ndowntown. The height of it, I, I have mixed\nfeelings about that. My wife has a different opinion than me.\nBut it's, that's not what's in question here today.\nThat's not something we're talking about.\nSo we all might have our own opinions on that.\nI'm sure they vary quite a bit, and maybe after this is not\nno longer a council thing, we can have conversations around those opinions.\nUm,\nbut I'm very hopeful that the council will, will see this as a benefit and see that\nit meets the criteria and hopefully will vote yes,\nfor something that,\nyou know, we talk about all the time, density, housing,\nbusiness, finance. You know, it, it checks a\nlot of boxes as far as I'm concerned.\nSo\nappreciate that. Um, I've Councilor Olsen next, and then I saw\nCouncilor Ellis raise her hand, and then I'll go from there.\nAnd at some point, someone's gonna wanna\ncall the question, but Councilor Olsen.\nUh, yeah. I also wanna say Councilor Lewis has had a question, so if you can add\nthem to the list.\nWill do.\nYeah. Um, I have a question and then a comment.\nMy first question is for Director Bilotta, and it's\nhow, like, what are the next...\nWhether or if this gets approved by the council, what are the next steps\nfor the development? Specifically, is this going to go to a\nplanning commission process? Or, like, how would\npeople get involved with the land development side of it?\nSure. From the land development side, because this involves housing-\nMm-hmm\n... state law generally doesn't allow much interaction at all.\nSo what will happen will be, the developer would apply to\nget that twenty percent height bonus, which is what's called a HLUA,\nH-L-U-A. That's the new state process.\nUh, we are then require... That's required to be a staff level\napproval, and we would then... We do have a requirement for\nnotification. I can't quite remember the radius off the top of my head, but\nsomebody will get, will get notices and, they're\nvery unsatisfying notices to send out, because they\nsay, \"Here you go. Please write in and let\nus know what you think. And by the way, state law really won't let us do anything\nabout what you think anyway.\" Uh, but we do, and we send those\nout, and then, those are set up.\nThe state law is you will approve, so then we do approve,\nand then, people that submit testimony get sent,\nnotices that we approved, and, and then it moves forward to building\npermit.\nYeah. And then my second thing is that while I still\nplan to vote against this for the reasons I stated\npreviously, I am going to make a motion to amend\nthis. Um, specifically electronic packet page\ntwo oh five under connectivity\nimprovements, talks about paying fifty\nthousand directly to the city of Corvallis during the first year of tax\nexemption following the completion of construction to be used by the city to fund\nconnectivity developments af-At the end of that, I would like to add\nwithin one quarter mile of the development's property line to\nensure that this money is going to be connectivity\nimprovements that directly relate to the development and the surrounding\nneighborhood, and not, like, not that this fund will\ngo, they'll, like, give us money and it'll go somewhere. So.\nOne, one clarification. The reason why their contribution's to\nconnectivity and public infrastructure is because we wanna provide\nfor flexibility for public works to determine what the\npriorities are for that money to be used, right?\nSo it's, it's not as though, it's not as\nthough it's up to the developer how those contributions are used.\nIt's really up to the city to determine\nits best use of that. And so I, I appreciate the motion, I just wanted to\nclarify that that's why their contribution is.\nYes. And I understand that, but at the same time,\nthis money could be used anywhere in the city.\nAnd while I have nothing against at North Corvallis, for\nexample, if you're building 600 units of housing in\ndowntown and they're like, \"We're gonna use this on the Walnut\nBoulevard,\" which great use of any money, that's\nnot going to impact 600 people living in downtown.\nThat's going to impact a different group of people who's not related to this\ndevelopment, so.\nYeah. I- I could just add that, you know, one, one of the things to\nknow, you know, because this is coming in through economic development, those\nfunds will most likely be squirreled away in economic\ndevelopment budget, so they're gonna stand out like a sore thumb, and they\nwon't get absorbed into a $15 million\npublic works budget or anything like that.\nAnd then in the ca- capital improvement pro- planning process, that's really where\nattaching it to the right thing. And what I'd hate to do with picking out an, you\nknow... It's, I think it's okay to say that you hope that this proper-\nthis gets used in the general vicinity of this or in the downtown or that\nkinda thing. I worry that if we say a quarter of a mile, that we\nmight be 16 feet away from the really bad problem, 'cause I\ndon't know what distance everything is right now.\nCity manager?\nYeah, I think that sort of conversation about where these funds would be\nused is best directed to staff and not part of this,\nthis agreement, and allow staff to come back and\nsay, \"Hey, here's some options within that quarter\nmile or within the vicinity,\" and, and talk about pros and\ncons. So again, that, that's more appropriate to have a conversation\nwith staff about how to use that funds, not\nin a MUPTE agreement.\nAnd I, I do understand that, I\njust, I don't, especially with the budget gap that we're\nfacing at the moment, I don't trust that if this isn't in a\nresolution somewhere... Like, I trust staff fully, but I don't trust that\nthis won't be, \"Oh, we're going to add it.\nWe just need a little bit of money to push this project through, and then we just\nneed a little bit of money to push this project for, through,\" and it\nwon't happen. I would be down to increase the\nradius. I was just thinking of a quarter mile because that incorporates,\nlike, honestly\npretty much, the 30,\nthe, the fr- the, the river. The Mary's River all the way up\nto, when I was looking at at least,\nMadison, which is a lot of intersections and a lot of\ncrossings and a lot of bike lanes that could be built, so.\nAt this point, Councilor Olsen does not have a second.\nRight.\nSo I'm going to second because we didn't have that option before everybody\njumped in.\nAnd I, and I'll, my, my concern's with the motion.\nI, I appreciate\nyour thought on this, but my concern is what if, there's an opportunity to\nimprove our transit system\nthat would benefit people living there potentially but it would be outside of that\nquarter mile?\nThen one bus.\nBut, but there's a tran- there's, there could be, money that goes to additional\nfunding or additional routes that go where people need to go.\nSo I'm saying there's potential other needs and uses that would\nbenefit people, not directly\nnecessarily. So we have a motion and a second,\nand, is it... Go ahead.\nI have a clarifying question on the motion, and I think it's a legal\nquestion, which is the, the resolution\ndescribes the basis upon which the applicant would\nbe granted a, a multi-unit property tax\nexemption.\nWhat, which... And if you read the language of that resolution, it\ntalks a lot about what the applicant is going to\ndo. If we approve this motion,\nhow does that work legally? Because this is\nsupposed to be an agreement of the basis upon which you're\ngetting this MUPTE, and now we're saying the basis upon which you're getting this\nexemption\nis the city doing a certain amount, doing a, a\nspecific project. So I think that's, I\ndon't know that that is clean from a legal point of view, and I have a question\nabout that.\nWell, fortunately, we actually have the city attorney online, I believe.\nSo that sounds like a question for him.\nD**n, Josh.\nYes. So as I understand, the question is related to the, the\namendment. Um,\nand I, I guess, as I understand it, the, that,\namendment would restrict how the city can use the\nfunding. So it would, because this\nis a resolution that's being adopted by the city, the\ncity would be bound to that restriction on how it can use the funding.\nThat wouldn't be a condition on the developers\nreceiving the tax exemption, if that makes\nsense.\nOkay.\nSo the, the developer gets a tax exemption, the city is self-imposing a restriction\non how it uses the funding.\nAnd, and so if, if the city chose not to do a $50,000\nproject within, do, do we owe the developer the 50K back?\nIf, if you were to, if the city were to,\ncon- to use that\nfunding for some other project, then the\ncity would be in violation of this resolution and could potentially face a\ncause of action from somebody. Um, if you were just\nto not build the project for a period\nof time, because there's no timeline on building the project, as long as that\nfifty thousand dollars is either not used or is used\nwithin that, radius, then it would\nqualify.\nAny other discussion on the motion to amend? Counselor Ellis?\nI actually think that we could argue that this is policy when we're talking\nabout, um... And I, I actually appreciated the city attorney's\ndistinction of the resolution versus the MUFD. That was helpful.\nI would think that this could be something that council could use very\neffectively to lessen the impact of some of these\ndevelopments on neighborhoods. So,\nit's not a very large amount of money.\nUm, it's kind of a symbolic gesture, but I think that, I think\nwe could argue that it is policy and is appropriate and is clearly\nlegal to put in the resolution.\nCounselor Cadena?\nYes, it very well might be legal. Um, I th- I think this,\nI think it's messy and I think that it's\nmore, important for,\nfor these types of projects as they move forward\nfor the council to clarify how these funds\nare used and not make decisions on the fly in a\nparticular MUFD application. I have no problem bringing these policy\nissues to a policy discussion. I, I think this is just messy\nand I also know on the amendment.\nAny other discussion on the motion to amend? All right.\nLet's go ahead.\nMayor, Counselor Shaffer-\nYeah.\nHas his hand raised.\nGo ahead, Counselor Shaffer.\nYeah, thank you. Excuse me. Um,\nI, I'm sympathetic to the concept of the\namendment, but I'm concerned that it\nentangles us and complicates the, the actual\nmo- decisions and motions going forward.\nAnd so, while I appreciate the the-\nthe notion, I will vote against the\namendment.\nThank you, Counselor Shaffer. We ready for a\nvote?\nCity recorder, you have the language correctly?\nUh, yes, I do, Mayor.\nOkay. Sure you have it. All right, all those in favor of the motion to amend,\nsay aye.\nAye.\nAye.\nAye. I'm sorry.\nWhoops.\nI meant no.\nIt's always difficult online. Um, all those opposed say no.\nNo.\nNo.\nNo.\nIn the opinion of me as chair, it sounded like the noes had\nit. But I appreciate, again, I appreciate your, your\nattempt. That's what we do here. So we're back to the\nresolution as written, and I have originally had Counselor Ellis, Lewis, and\nCadena, and now Napak.\nI had a couple of, questions for Director Pilata.\nAt one point, we required like some sort of setback if you had a\nhigh density going up against a lower density.\nMm-hmm.\nDid that go away with the state?\nThat wa- that was part of... No, that was actually part of the mixed use project,\ntook away some of that.\nOkay. And solar access?\nUm, solar access comes into play, um...\nThere's two things called solar access.\nThere's the ability to, if you have\nsolar panels and you want to control\nthe, property next to you so that they don't shade on your\nsolar panels, there is a process that you can go through to get that.\nThey are... Your neighbor has to agree to that.\nSo it's, it's one of those things. But you know, if you have a...\nIf you and your neighbor are on good terms and you just wanna make sure that when\nthe neighbor sells it in ten years that it doesn't get you, you know, a lot of\ntimes they'll do that sort of thing.\nThere's another kind of thing that's called solar access in the code, which is in a\nsubdivision level, is talking about orienting buildings in particular\nways so they can maximize the solar gain.\nSo, neither one of those is probably gonna be, relevant in this\nlocation.\nMm-hmm. Um, I also wanna say that,\nI don't believe, and this is no offense to, to our, our staff-\nMm-hmm\n... that, steel is going above and beyond if it is kind\nof the structural norm for a building of that\nheight. So, I, I remember- that's\ns- up to six feet or six stories, they don't need to have it.\nYou said ab- above and beyond that, it's kind of the structural norm.\nUm, so...\nCounselor Lewis.\nSo a lot of counselors, especially Counselor Olsen Ellis, has\nbeen more, eloquent in it, in their opinions.\nUm, so I'm just like dithering a little bit, but I wanna push back a little,\nabout the fact that we do talk a lot about infrastructure and\nbeautifying Corvallis and making downtown look wonderful and\nhousing, but the main thing that we focus on the most is affordable\nhousing. And looking at these prices, I'm a renter myself, I literally\nhad to move because my one bedroom, for my last\napartment was going to be nineteen hundred dollars.\nI make eighteen dollars an hour. I can't afford that.\nI am in a two-income household. We cannot afford that.\nUm, so seeing the, this just like the potential\npricing of these units, especially the studio and the\none bedroom, I'm just like, \"Who is this for?\" Because we...\nAnd the, especially for, Ward Two, the n- number\none thing I hear all about is like, \"It is too expensive to live in Corvallis.\"\nThey would love to live here and as they work here, they would love to not have to\ncommute. It is too expensive\nand-As beautiful as and\nwonderful as it will be to have more people to live in Corvallis, we have to make\nsure they can afford it and at, and just looking\nat this proposal, this is not something that I can\nwholeheartedly be behind. So I will be voting no.\nCouncilor Katina.\nYeah, a few comments. One is I, I would encourage\nus to not, make decisions based\nupon personal preferences about how people\nchoose to live or not live. Um,\nand I think the, I think the challenge for us is, and I think we're\nfacing this with the changes that have-- both the changes we've made here\nlocally as well as the changes that have come from the state.\nUm, this will add a significant am-number of rental units.\nI think that, we've heard, discussion\npreviously about our vacancy, rate in\nrental housing. Our vacancy rate's low enough that we\nhave, stickiness, and\nupward pressure on rents. Um, putting this number of units on\nthe market, even if it appeals\nto, higher-end renters,\nwill have an impact on the,\navailable rental inventory, in the\ncity. Um, I, if I just walked pa-- I mean, in my ward\nI, I, I know there are students that live in single-family homes that\nprobably would prefer to not live in single-family homes.\nUm, I think that, c-creating more housing,\nthis is what we, this is what we said we wanted to do.\nI, and I, I feel like we're in a situation\nwhere,\nwhere we want more housing, we want density, but then if it's too high,\nwe don't like that. If it's too-- If it's, if it's sprawl, we\ndon't like that. Um, I, I think that\nhou-- you know, we need housing\nand it's only gonna be through the addition of a significant amount of housing\nthat things are gonna become more affordable.\nUm, I think that Corvallis, I mean, I've been-- I moved\nto Corvallis in ninety-five. Definitely the\nlack of\nkeeping up with our housing requirements has led us to the situation that we're in.\nWe, we created commercial mixed-use zones.\nUm, I, I think if\nyou-- That will change\nthe nature of what gets built, and it's not\novernight, but it will change. So yeah, we\ncan, we can deny this,\nand we can deny the next one and the next one.\nUm, but I think that the\ngetting to affordable housing by only building affordable\nhousing, i.e. tax-subsidized,\na-affordable housing is not the answer.\nUm, that is one element, an important element, but looking\nat each in-individual proposal as the\nsolution to affordable housing is, is myopic.\nAnd so I think we really do need to look at what will it take\nto... This is a significant increase i-in housing.\nI don't, I, I canna-- I cannot predict, I can't predict\nstudents. I'm too far from that age to know why people have dogs and\ngo to college and why people have cars and go to college.\nBut I, I think this would, this provides the opportunity\nfor people to easily get around without a car.\nPerhaps it will appeal to those folks. I don't really know.\nUh, but I think that\nthere is immediate tax benefit, albeit small,\nbut it is higher and much higher than it is currently.\nIt is a development in commercial mixed use.\nIt is adding a significant amount of housing.\nAnd yes, I cannot say that,\nthat we know the, the full\nconsequences of where we're going with commercial mixed use, but\nthat is the path that we are on, is to build significantly more housing.\nSo I think we need to get on with it, and I will be in favor of\nthis.\nCity manager.\nYeah, I understand some of the, the challenge, and maybe\nthe angst that the council is feeling, certainly the community is feeling on\nthis.\nAnd we've talked a lot about how the state has come in and, and\nchanged, how we can or can't\nregulate development.\nI also wanna remind the council that the council\nitself has made multiple policy\ndecisions, and this project, while it's the first one,\nit does\nmatch,\nlayers of policy decisions the council has made\nthoughtfully. And, the\nMUPTI program, the way it was set up, you know, the issue of\nyou can either\ninclude affordable housing or pay a fee in lieu.\nAnd so these things were thought out in a, in\na, in a vacuum of a specific project, and I think\nthat's good because each project is gonna have its own,\nchallenges, those who oppose, those who\nsupport. Um,\nand I think it will become challenging certainly for staff to understand what\nis the council's direction when we have all this policy direction\nthat you have given us over the years, and it certainly will be confusing\nfor\nfuture developers. So again, staff's evaluation is\nthis is in alignment with those policy decisions and the specifics\nof, our MUPTI program. So a denial\nreally would be confusing for, for staff and for,\ndevelopers.\nBut Councilor Napert, Napack and then Council Mayer's, and I believe at that point\neverybody would have spoken. So unless it's something new, I'd like to get\ntowards a vote because it is getting late.\nCouncilor Napack.\nI just want assurances or some,\nhand-waving, if you will. Um, this is a\nhigh-end development, and I'm just, uh...\nIs there any chance that,\nit would change the basis or rationale, of su-\nof successfully obtaining a\ndowntown tax increment financing\ndistrict?\nIt would be, hypothetically part of the\ncapture for a tax increment financing district if the district were\nestablished before construction finished\nup. So\nthere's... A tax increment financing district has a lot\nto, lot to stand to gain from the project in year\neleven.\nCouncilor Mayer, Moorefield, and then Schaffer.\nOkay. Um,\nfirst off,\nthe project objectively meets the criteria as set out,\nand\nwhether it,\nwhether it meets them by a little or a lot is\nirrelevant. Um,\nit also meets an additional one, regarding blight, which I\ntotally agree with and was a little surprised that wasn't on the first part of the\nlist because that's a very rundown block.\nSo,\na question of it meeting the sub- the objective\ncriteria is, in my mind, not really a\nquestion. Um, there were a lot of additional benefits that were\nlisted that I won't go into, one of, but, one of which that impressed\nme was, a, plan to use a certain\npercentage of local labor and materials, which I think is good,\nis a good thing. Um, there were, some\nenergy, benefits that they listed above and\nbeyond. So, if we're looking for\nbenefits, I think we, we need to be,\nbroad-minded. And I am, I'm gonna say a\ncouple other things. Uh, I think it's a little\nconfusing, the concept\nthat a,\nthat a s- a, an apartment building just because it's higher end\nthat supplies housing to six hundred people is somehow\nnot going to free up other units for people who are\nlooking on the lower ends. Um, that doesn't\nmake logical sense to me. And so,\nI think it will help with our housing situation, which is\ndire. Um,\nI also think single-family homes, as Councilor Kadina said,\nwhich people are holding onto their homes because there's no inventory, it would\nhelp free up some of that. And finally, I, I reme-\nrecall our discussion with the Downtown Vitality,\nStrategy Task Force, infrastructure discussion, and we've been\ngoing through all of the information that was collected from community\nmembers on the priorities, for\ndowntown. And s- through our discussion last\nTuesday, several-- It came up that\nseveral\nof the things that we wanna get done downtown will actually be\naccomplished by having more people living\ndowntown. Safety, right? More\npeople on the streets. Vacant buildings getting filled\nbecause there are more shoppers. So I,\nI am very much in favor of this. I think it's exactly what council had in\nmind when it put this into place. And if we're gonna talk about\neconomic development and deny this, then\nI don't know what to say. So I'll be voting\nyes.\nCouncilor Moorefield.\nUm, I'm gonna vote in favor of it. Um,\nyou know, there, there are aspects of this that have kinda driven me a little\ncrazy, and it is kinda shocking, the idea that such a tall building\nwill be in our downtown. Uh, but it was gonna happen\nsomeday because we, we\ndo, Corvallis in particular, and the state of\nOregon, western Oregon in particular, we need to increase our housing\nsupply. That's one, one of the reasons why so many decisions have been taken\nout of our hands locally, because the state\ntook the bull by the horns and said, \"We're gonna work on building more\nhousing,\" or, supporting the construction of more\nhousing. We also have climate change and a long\ntime, vision that we h- are still\nstruggling with as a, as a nation and a community about\nwhat we're gonna look like in the future.\nAll I know is that we're gonna look very different than we do today.\nAnd, and, and I think there's consensus that we need to build\nup, not out. This is up. It may be shockingly high, but\nit's, but it's where we're headed.\nAnd, and, you know, so I'm looking out a long\nways and, and seeing that this is part of our future.\nThis is one of the ways that we have to change, and someone had to be\nfirst. And, so someone is taking\nthat chance and investing a lot of money in our, our community.\nUm, affordable housing is addressed, this,\nby this project indirectly by its contribution to our affordable housing\nfunds. Um, the, um...Downtown will\nbenefit by having a lot more people living downtown.\nDo we have the resources to support local businesses?\nUm, and, if I'm frustrated with, with,\nyou know, how we got here, it's because I do think the\nMUPTI ordinance requires some work.\nUh, I'm not\nsatisfied with, the but for\nanalysis. I, I think the, the,\nrequire-requirements have been met, mind you.\nI'm just saying that, you know, I would like something a little bit more robust in\nthe future, and we can talk about that another time.\nAnd, and I, you know, I'm not satisfied with this element of\ndesign that we can, you know, we can\nsee it any way we want, as either a yes or a no or a maybe\nor, or something. So I, I think it needs work. And my...\nIf I'm frustrated at all, it's because, because we have an ordinance\nthat's new,\nand this is our first or second experiment\nwith, with it, if you will. And, and I look\nforward to, tightening it up in the\nfuture.\nCouncilor Schaefer, and then let's take a vote.\nThank you. Uh, I have to believe the developer in\nthis case recognizes that there's a need just- not just for\naffordable housing, but for all housing, market rate,\neverything in the downtown area. We, we simply don't have housing\ndowntown. And I think there are people of means\nwho would like to live in or closer to downtown, and this\nwill afford an opportunity for them.\nUm, I'm, I'm concerned about the, the layout\nand the plan for some of these units, that it seems targeted at\nstudent-type\ngroups rather than perhaps, families\nor,\nyou know, s-smaller units for\nsingles, young c- young couples, working families,\nretirees, anybody. But I think that's, that's their\ncall, what they build. And, and so-- And I think\nthe fact that there is some money going to affordable housing for\nthis as, as required in what the council set out\nat the beginning of this, they meet that, they meet that\nrequirement. Um, I'm tr- I am troubled about\nthe\nparking issues.\nUm, I think we're in for a messy transition from\na very car-centric transportation model to\nsomething that's closer to,\nwalking, ped, whatever. But again, that's not\nsomething we can manage and dictate in this.\nThe state has taken that away from me, s- from us.\nSo I think we just have to go with, with what's there.\nUm, I have concerns, but I will be voting for the, for the,\nresolution.\nThank you. Let's go ahead and move on to a, a vote.\nUm, city recorder, can you do a roll call vote, please?\nYes, Mayor. Councilors Cadena?\nYes.\nMayors?\nYes.\nMoorefield?\nYes.\nLewis?\nNo.\nNapack?\nYes.\nBowden? Schaefer?\nYes.\nEllis?\nNo.\nOlsen?\nNo.\nThe resolution passes five to three.\nThank you all very much.\nAnd I really do appreciate the discussion and the questions and the varying\nopinions, 'cause that's why there's so many of us.\nAnd Mayor, a break?\nI was just about to suggest that. I apologize to any of those who are\nwaiting around for the, discussion on the resolut-- on the, the,\nICE resolution. But let's go ahead and take a short break,\nbio break as they call it. Ten minutes will\ndo. So let's return. Uh, I guess\nit's... Yeah, we'll round it\nup.\nIt is eight fifty,\nso let's reconvene this meeting of the Corvallis City Council.\nNext item up on the agenda is the resolution addressing\nescalating federal immigration enforcement, and I want to start off by\nmaking an apology. Um,\nI should have... This was act- is actually being put on the agenda by me.\nUm, I know. Paul's appears\nunmuted.\nI think I'm quiet.\nCouncilor Schaefer, if you wouldn't mind\nmuting.\nThought I was. Sorry.\nOh.\nDid that\nfix it?\nCan you hear me now when we talk?\nWe will briefly pause to figure this\nout.\nDavid, I don't know if you can hear me.\nWe're still getting quite a significant\necho.\nYou have an interesting\ndefinition\nof better.\nOkay. I think we should proceed.\nOkay.\nI think it's been resolved.\nI think so.\nThank you.\nThank you. Apologies for technical\nerrors. Technology's fine. Anyway, so the...\nI wanted to, apologize because the resolution, was brought\nforth onto the agenda by me, and not realizing I should've removed\nCouncilor Olsen's name from it, 'cause that's usually there for whoever\nmoves the resolution forward if it gets adopted, things like that.\nAnd I should've pres- I should've provided a cover page, explaining why the-\nwhy this resolution's in the agenda.\nSo that, that is my fault, and I apologize for any confusion that\ncreated. Um, but the reason why\nit was added, and it was kind of sort of last minute,\nis 'cause it was brought forward to this council.\nIt was shared with everybody, and I feel like the timing is kinda\ncritical on this. Um, as, spoken earlier t- this\nevening, we are being surrounded by a lot of ICE\nactivity. It's a matter of time, and I think it's important\nto make our residents of our, of our community feel that we support\nthem. Um, interesting timing on,\nSaturday was the Celebrate Corvallis,\nand the, person who won First Citizen\nwas not a citizen.\nAnd e- he, he made it... explained how he's, he's not a legal\nor, or political, citizen, but he's a citizen\nnonetheless. He, he, he contributes to our community.\nHe's an, a amazing person, and for obvious reasons, won, First\nCitizen. So what does that say about our community?\nAnd if we don't, take some sort of action to support\nmembers of our community who perhaps speak a different language or\nhave a different color skin than I do, then we're not supporting our\ncommunity. So I added this to the agenda.\nObviously, I can't vote on it. I also can't even make the motion that's\nrequired to move it forward. But I do have the authority,\nthankfully, to at least put things on the agenda, so that's what I did.\nUm, so I'll leave it in the hands of all of\nyou.\nI mean, I'll make a motion to cons- I don't know what the official words are for\nthis. Motion to consider it, motion to...\nBut what's the words, Alex?\nUh, normally we would have the title of the resolution read.\nCorrect. So get a title read, and then if you'd like to move the resolution\nforward, that would be fine. I just wanna see if we wanna get as far as reading the\ntitle. So city recorder, would you please read the re- resolution?\nThis is a resolution addressing escalating federal immigration enforcement.\nI move to approve the resolution. Adopt?\nApprove? Adopt.\nBoth, both are correct.\nOkay.\nGo either way. Sometimes just so moved even works, but\nI like when someone says what the resolution...\nAll right, we have a motion to approve, and it was seconded. Uh, discussion?\nCouncilor Navick.\nUh, thank you. I wanted to first say how much\nI appreciate our community,\nresolve, in, in, in this situation\nand, the work that was put forth to put this resolution\nforth. Um,\nthere unfortunately are a\nfew, well, more than a few,\nunworkable situations or,\nasks, if you will, that the city\ncannot provide. Uh, the city\nactually, is,\num... A- after talking with, community development,\nthe city is,\ndue to the Supremacy Clause, the city is helpless.\nIf the s- if, the federal\ngovernment wanted to come in and,\nclaim emi- eminent domain and, and\nbuild a detention facility, and we have, we are powerless to do anything about\nthat. It's called the, the,\nSupremacy Clause. And, people have tried with\nmoratoriums, especially in the State of Washington, but,\nthey're all in, in court now. The,\nother thing is that our bandwidth, you know, we are doing a lot\nnow, in terms of,\ndowntown vitaliz-\nrevitalization and, task forces, civic\ncenter, and so on and so forth. It's...\nBut nevertheless, the, the,\nintent is clear from, from the\ncommunity. And on that\nbasis,\nCouncilor\nEllis and I put together a\nsubstitute,\nproposition, that\nexplains the, the, the sentiment, I\nthink, as, as well as\nit can be. It, it shows... It has,\nuh... It cites the, four or five\nprevious resolutions that we have in our, our\ncity,\nstrategic plan and our, our city vision,\nto affirm that we\nare a, undivided, shall we\nsay, and in one, one body,\nwe support our immigrant community.\nUm, we don't support\nthe activities that are being\npropagated by the,\nfederal government at this time. And so\nif, if I\nmay, what I would like to propose now\nis to table the first\nresolution-Until after we\ndiscussed the proposition that,\nwas mailed to our council this morning and\npublished, at least it's somewhere published.\nUm,\nand the, the copy of that proposition should be in your\nmailbox, in your email. Do we have\ncopies thereof? And we have copies to pass out.\nSo that would be, um... Anyway, I motion to\ntable the first resolution until\nafter we discuss the, the,\nproposition from Councilor Ellis\nthat, goes into,\nthe rationale and the reasoning\nfor,\nfor\na, um-\nI have it\n... substitute.\nI'll second that.\nOkay, we have a motion to table, technically time uncertain, although I\nthink, we could probably get this on a agenda very fast, assuming\neverybody feels that way. Um,\ndiscussion, I don't even think there's an ability to discuss on tabling a\nmotion really.\nWell-\nExcept for the time\npart.\nYeah, there's certain motions we don't get too often, and then I forget how we're\nsupposed to do those, so.\nSkipping it.\nChange.\nMayor.\nYes, yes.\nSo that was a motion to postpone consideration of an item-\nYep\n... to a certain time. Um-\nThat's me.\nIt i- ... A r- A second is required, the motion is\ndebatable, and the motion is amendable, and it\nrequires a majority\nvote.\nI'm looking on the cheat sheet here under, subsidiary motions number\nfour, postpone temporarily, table to a time uncertain.\nUm, says motion debatable, no. For some reason it's\nwrong.\nUm, I-\nOh, wait, I'm looking at the wrong one.\nI was looking at item number seven just because there was a, a time\ncertain, stated by councilor in APAC that-\nWhat it said just until we can review.\nI don't know if that would be considered time certain.\nBut I, I may have misheard. I was passing out the materials.\nBut, I thought that she said consider it, after\nthe consideration of this resolution reaffirming Corvallis as a\nsanctuary city.\nRight, and we don't know when that'll be.\nOh, I- ... I thought it was right after this discussion during this meeting.\nBut feel free to correct me.\nI mean, if that's, if that, I, if that was what the intent of the motion was,\nCouncilor Nate.\nWas it, was it to consider this tonight?\nYeah.\nThe, 'cause the community has not seen this yet.\nUh, to consider the substitute resolution\ntonight.\nOkay, so you're just wanting to table this other resolution till after we...\nToday, okay.\nYeah.\nSo that's, that's debatable then. All right.\nWe can do that?\nIt sounded like it was a time uncertain, so that's why.\nSo we can debate, it now.\nAnd we are debating the tabling, not the resolution itself.\nRight, right. Just the motion to table the current discussion of the\nresolution to have a discussion about this resolution. That's clear.\nOkay.\nSo. Councilor Olsen?\nUm, I am not in favor of tabling this resolution\nuntil afterwards because I believe that the resolution we have in\nplace is,\num... Well, one, I don't believe we've had enough\ntime to review the\nsanctuary city resolution, considering I noticed it at\n2:00 PM today, while I've had the other resolution for a\nwhile. Um, sorry, that came out with way more snark than it meant to.\nIt was not meant to be snarky.\nUm, yes. But also I think that the resolution we have in front\nof us is important, and it provides actionable items as\nopposed to just, \"Hey, we're going to say that w- like, we already have\nthings in place. We don't need to say again that we're have the\nthings in place that we all know we have in place.\nSo I, because of those reasons, I believe\nthat,\nyeah, I don't think we should table this resolution.\nI think we should deal with it first, and then\nif we want, we can add this item to the agenda.\nCouncilor Cadena, then APAC.\nYeah, speaking to the motion to table, I\nthink that we have to, we have another, we have an\nalternative that is worth discussing and\na, a different approach that is suggested.\nI think that would be the purpose for tabling, is to get to that\ndiscussion. So I'm in favor of the tabling.\nCouncilor Napack?\nI think the information that's in the sanctuary city resolution\nis important enough\nthat it would, replace quite a bit of what was said in the first\nresolution. So I would like to,\num... I will vote for\ntabling.\nAnyone else or should we take a vote?\nSeeing the hands.\nOkay, let's go ahead and move to a vote.\nAll those in favor of the motion to table the current resolution\nto\npotentially entertain this other resolution, I guess, say,\n\"Aye.\"\nAye.\nAll opposed, say, \"No.\"\nNo.\nNo.\nSound like the ayes have it, so therefore the resolution in the packet is\ntabled until after we review this one.\nMayor, can I just have the no votes clarify?\nI believe I heard Councilor Olsen and Councilor Lewis. Thank you.\nThat's what I heard\nas... Councilor Lewis.\nI do hear the concern that people didn't get the motion until later on\ntoday, or t- the, the new resolution till later on today.\nSo if that, um-\nI, I understand that. And I, if I, if I hadn't been, involved in\nit, I would probably be a little, squiffy about it as well, and I do not\nthink that Councilor Ol-Olson was intending to be snarky.\nUm, when I looked at the\nresolution, and I looked at the actions,\nI had con- Even... And I'm totally\nconcerned also about ICE coming to Corvallis, but I looked at\nthe actions, that were suggested, and I\nthought, to quote Director Blaine,\nhe likes to underpromise and overdeliver, and this\nfelt to me like the opposite. We are promising to do things that we probably\ncould not do. Um, we actually asked Director\nBilotta if we could ban, a facility, and\nhe said, \"No, I've never heard that question before, and no.\"\nUm, private property, as places all over the country are finding\nout to their great dismay. Um, so there are\nthings in there that we can't do. And then,\nI actually really like working with Councilor Napack on\nresolutions. Um, she, she, she's got a really good eye\nfor them, so I reached out to Councilor Napack and asked to work with\nher. And, she discovered\nthe, the House bills and the Senate bills that were sitting on the\ngovernor's desk, and actually I believe talked to Sen- Representative\nFinger McDonald about them at the legislative breakfast, and\nthey hit considerable of the other things that were\nthere. And so I... And I think it's much better for the state to do\nthis so it's everywhere and it's clear than for us to do it.\nSo that combination of promising to do things that we legally\ncouldn't do, and then the state taking action made\nme think that this might be a better situation.\nI do think that there are a couple of things in here that we\ncould direct\nthe city or the city manager or somebody to do.\nUm, if we pass the, the, the,\nthe resolution that we wrote with the Senate and the s-\ns- or with the House bills and the Senate bills in it, I think there's a couple\nof things in there that we could dir- then direct the city manager\nto do, such as using the city communication platforms to\ncommunita- communicate to the community.\nThat seems to me to be a pretty straightforward thing.\nAnd perhaps, asking Jedi to solicit community\nempowerment grants in the next cycle, 'cause unfortunately the request\nhas already gone out this year and we can't change it.\nUm, those things seem, like, doable, but some of the other things just felt\nlike something we couldn't do, and I didn't wanna promise something that we just\ncouldn't\ndo.\nCouncilor Greena and then Olson.\nUh, I wanna thank, both, Councilor Ellis and Councilor\nNapack for what I think is, nicely done\nwork. Um, I think the reference to\nthe, the bills in the Oregon\nlegislature, is a very strong addition and\nrecognition that we're not in this alone.\nUm, absolutely. I also... Uh, I'm not gonna reiterate everything that\nCouncilor Ellis said because I think I agree with it.\nUm, but I also wanna say f- beyond\nthat, I think the, the\nresolves, speak much more strongly\nto what we wanna say to our community, and\nthat is our support for every, every member of our\ncommunity, and a re-affirmation of our\nvalues. I think that comes across much more strongly in this resolution, and\nI, I really like that. I think that,\num... I think it's\nimportant, um... I think\nthis ke- I think this keeps the, the direction we're pursuing\nvery clear without trying to overspecify.\nAnd I think when we overspecify, we tend to get into that potentially\npromising something we couldn't deliver on\nor,\nmaking requests that are a ch- a challenge for staff to\nfigure out. Um, so I, I like the tone.\nI like the level of detail on this. I think that, um...\nAnd I feel particularly, good about the,\nthe message that it sends to the\ncommunity.\nCouncilor Olson. And I will point out at this point there is no\nresolution on the table.\nMm.\nSo if, if there's, if there's interest in having the city recorder read it and\nmove forward today, that would...\nsomething we would need to do before anything happens.\nBut Councilor Olson.\nShould I give Councilor Ellis a chance to do that first?\nShe seemed like she wanted to-\nWell, I'll look for head nods. Do we want, do we wanna,\npotentially, not definitely, 'cause that takes a vote, adopt this resolution?\nShould the city recorder read it to get it?\nI am gonna move that the city recorder read the resolution.\nI don't think that really needs a motion to have it, have it read.\nThe motion comes after that, which is the more important part.\nSo we'll go ahead and, we'll go ahead and, um... Hmm?\nTalk to\nme.\nCity recorder, will you please read the resolution?\nYes, Mayor. The title of the resolution is A Resolution Reaffirming\nCorvallis as a Sanctuary City.\nNow this would be the point when someone would make a motion to move it forward.\nSo moved.\nSecond.\nCouncilor Olson?\nYeah. Um, so first off, I'm going to vote in favor\nof this resolution because I agree with everything it says and\nthink it's a good one. Um, I am going to\nsay, and I am going to say this\nwith the backing of this is not-\nThese are a lot of emotions that I have felt, and they are not exclusively directed\nat this council. But this is my favorite type of resolution, the\nkind that lists a whole bunch of values and does nothing to\nprotect them, which says the City of Corvallis\nlikes what the state's doing, but we don't think that we're important enough,\nor, and we don't care about our community enough to put in our own\nprotections on top of what the state's doing.\nIt's a list of, \"Hey, here's some cool stuff people have done.\" Things,\na list that you could have pulled off online, or if you had read\nliterally any article on\nwhat happened this legislative session, which I've read many, these would have\nbeen highlighted. Um,\nyeah. It's, it's saying that w-we love, we love\nimmigrants, we love the people in our community, but we aren't going to take any\nactions as a city to protect them. We aren't going to\ntake any actions as a city to even\nconsider... Not like... M- All of the...\nAt least in the old resolution, which is not on the table, none of those were we\nare going to do this, or are we are going to look into doing\nthis. And\nthis has none of that. It is, it's,\nit's like the No Kings protest. It's a whole bunch of people yelling and\nmaking no movements and no community involvement.\nAnd I am very, very\nfrustrated. And also, if anyone tries to be like, \"Well, why didn't you say\nthis when we talked about the trans sanctuary resolution?\" I would have loved if\nthat resolution had any actionable steps by the city, but when we were bringing it\nforward, we considered it too diverse of a, too di-divisive as\nis, so we didn't want to even push that.\nBut anyways, to... Yeah. So my\nopinion on this is that, sure, it's great, it's wonderful,\nit's the same thing we see. It's, it's\njust,\nit's pointless. It's pointless when these are already things that we as a\ncommunity believe, already things we have signed in a resolution,\nalready things the state has done, and we're just writing our own list\nto make us feel good. Thank you.\nPlease don't. Do not applaud, please.\nUm, I will say, Councilor Olsen, I appreciate your opinion, and I share\nit.\nBut here we are, so .\nAny other discussion on the current re-re-resolution? Councilor Neidbach.\nI, I appreciate, Councilor Olsen's passion.\nUh, I, I, I do need to point out, though,\nthat if we\ndid with what it says in the first resolution, we would be duplicating what the\nstate legislature has just done. They have\nwritten extreme, you know, quite a bit of, uh...\nIf you read the rules, the public schools have to,\ndevelop, programs,\na-adopt\npolicies to notify families, students, and staff.\nWe, we couldn't tell the school district to do\nthat. But they did do it. Okay.\nThey, uh... We can't tell employers to,\num... They, they can't\nthis, that, or the other thing. We, we could, but the state is already\nsaying it, so why should we duplicate that?\nI'm also seeing, you know, the,\nlaw enforcement operations. If they come to Corvallis,\nand Corvallis is the only\ncity that has a, a rec- a, a law that\nsays you can't wear, face coverings,\nas opposed to the entire state saying you can't do that, and the power of the\nstate legislature behind that rule,\nas opposed to tiny Corvallis. It, it, it makes a\ndifference that the state has adopted these\nand other resolutions to protect all of\nOregon, and we're gonna put... If we piggyback on\nthose, we still end up with the same rules and\nregulations in Corvallis that we would otherwise had we invented them\nourselves or carried them, carried through with them ourselves.\nThank you.\nI'd like to interject, Mayor. We keep referring back to the other resolution\nthat's been tabled and not really talking much about the resolution that's\ncurrently on the table. So if we can keep comments to the current\nresolution, 'cause if it, it... No matter what, after we address this, the other\none goes back, comes back. So we can discuss concerns or\nwhatever about the other-\nUh, yeah. Thank you. Thank you.\nBut keeping things moving here.\nBut it, but, but this, this proposition, the sanctuary city proposition, actually\nhas more\nin it, that... The talking about\nlandlord-tenant confidentiality.\nUm, it talks about, the federal\ngovernment having to register their law enforcement activities to the\nlocal jurisdiction. Um,\nregulates access to public hospitals by federal agents.\nIt, orders public bodies may not give certain data to data\nbrokers based on immigration data.\nUm, so it is very... You know, the state did a good\njob. And the governor\nis... Both houses, the Senate and the House, passed these.\nThey're enrolled. Uh, these will become\nordinances. These will become laws.\nThey will be, have to be followed by everyone in Oregon,\nincluding our fair\ncity.\nThank you.\nAnyone else?\nIf there was something in the resolves to encourage\nthe city manager that somebody wishes, wished to add into the\nresolution, that is easily\ndone.\nTechnically.\nI'm not, I'm not addressing either the, the values of either resolution.\nI'm just saying that if there was something that we felt like needed to be\nadded in, that would be, that would be a pretty straightforward\nmotion, or it could be a standalone motion at,\nafter we've-\nWe finish with this\nCall again. City manager.\nAs, as Councilor Napack was speaking, it just made me think,\njust this is purely from a practical standpoint,\nshould\nthese laws and directives be challenged, it will be the state that\ndefends those,\nand not the city, which I think there's, from a financial and\njust a, a resource standpoint,\nis helpful for the city. And s-certainly, I\nthink the resources of the state, having them bring that to\nbear rather than us trying to bring, our resources to\nbear, are likely to be\nmore effective, if anything is to be\neffective.\nAnything else on this resolution or should we move to a\nvote?\nCouncil Mayers.\nI have a parliamentary sort of a question.\nMm-hmm. Go ahead.\nWell, it just seems to me that this is kind\nof like a, substitution, or could be\na substitution.\nKind of, except for it completely eliminates the direction of the other\none. So the other one-\nWell-\nThe other one's not gone away. I think it was tabled.\nSo it's-\nRight. It should have-\nIt's, it's just been taken on, put on another table instead of the table we're\ndealing with.\nOkay.\nAnd then that resolution is now on this table.\nSo once we vote on this, regardless of its\noutcome, we're back to the other resolution.\nOkay. That seems-\nSo it's, it's because of it being... No, no, it's not a substitution.\nOkay.\nIt's a, a first this.\nOkay.\nCouncilor Napack.\nYou, do you think we should div-divide the\nquestion?\nNo. I mean, it is already divided. We're asking, we're asking one question right\nnow. Do we want-\nBut if we, if we pass one resolution, then the other one's moot.\nNope.\nNope?\nNot at all.\nWe can pass them both?\nTechnically.\nOh, okay.\nThey are two separate resolutions. We didn't vote down the other one.\nIt was just tabled. So let's go ahead and take a\nvote, and then just for clarity, I wanna do a roll call vote on this if...\nSure. Jack. City recorder, if you would,\nplease.\nYes. This is a vote regarding the resolution reaffirming Corvallis's\nsanctuary city. Councilors\nLewis.\nYes.\nShaffer.\nYes.\nMayors.\nYeah. Yes.\nMorefield.\nYes.\nNapack.\nYes.\nCadena.\nYes.\nBowden. Olson.\nYes.\nEllis.\nYes.\nThe resolution passes eight to zero.\nThank you very much. Now, we're back to the\nresolution that was tabled, was motioned and\nseconded. Um, and I'm gonna speak to it a minute 'cause there's been some things\nsaid that I, I kind of scratched my head a bit thinking about it,\nstating there are things in there that we cannot do or that would be\nillegal. However, nowhere on here does it say to do those things\nexactly. It says that the city c- the council of the city of\nCorvallis resolves to encourage the city manager to continue to take\nactions demonstrating this commitment, including a ) to evaluate\nlegal avenues to prevent, delay, or disadvantage the development of facilities to\nbe used for federal immigration enforcement purposes.\nIt does not say block development.\nIt doesn't say to not allow development.\nIt says to pursue legal avenues, 'cause maybe there's something out there.\nMaybe there'll be, our district attorney, you know, or, or, or,\nOregon district attorney might come up with some legal battle that he, that gets\nwon, that shows, that sets precedence that we can block.\nCurrently, doesn't seem like we could. But we can evaluate it.\nTo evaluate legal avenues for peace officers of the city to request to identif-\nidentify, identity of apparent immigration enforcement agents when\nlegally permissible.\nDoesn't say you're definitely gonna, it says you're gonna evaluate if it's legally\npermissible. I think that's, it's, it's, it's work- we're, we're,\nthis is high level direction as far as I'm concerned.\nAgain, to utilize existing city communication platforms to connect the community\nwith clear and reputable information. I think we should already be doing that.\nWe have a city website, and I think we should be able to provide clear guidance to\nthe community of where they can find other information.\nUm, that, that's the law. We, we kind of already do that with our\nmunicipal code. It's on there. That's the law.\nUm,\nd ) to ident- to identify and evaluate additional opportunities\nconsistent with the city's legal authority, again make sure we're doing it within\nlegal authority, to collaborate with community-based organizations, service\nproviders, regional partners to support community trust, access to information, and\npublic safety for all residents. We sort of already do that.\nE ) To consider adoption of the Attorney General's model policies regarding\nimmigration where appropriate. We should already be doing that.\nAnd then f ) To ensure all non-public spaces in city buildings are clearly\nidentified and labeled with signage indicating restricted access.\nWe have some of that in City Hall. I haven't been to every city facility to find\nout if it's done everywhere, but that's good.\nThat's something that I encourage every\nbusiness, school, anywhere that has areas that are for\nemployees only should have those labels up, because\nthen police, regardless of what, entity it is,\ncannot enter without a warrant. So\nthat's... I mean, we're not saying we're gonna\noverhaul buildings. It's signage, and it'll, it might take a while depending on how\nmuch is needed. But it just, it's to, it's\nto encourage the city manager to continue taking these actions.\nI think that's pretty clear. And regarding the comment about the Jedi board\nsoliciting community empowerment grant applications, it doesn't say when.\nSo I agree, they're already kind of in it.\nIt couldn't be done, but maybe the next time, which I think is a good\nidea, obviously. And then sending copies of this\nresolution. We probably would do that anyway, so at least I would like to think we\nwould. So I, I personally do not see the major\nconcern-Um, this is action. This is saying we're gonna\ndo these things, but it doesn't say exactly when or whether we can\nlegally accomplish it. We're just gonna try.\nWe're gonna try to find out what we can do legally.\nUm,\nand as, Director Bilotta apparently said, like, maybe there's no way we can\nblock a facility, and that would be unfortunate 'cause I really don't want\none, or anywhere, honestly. So\nmy, my hope is that this gets a- adopted, but\nyou're all the councilors.\nCouncilor Olson.\nYeah. Um, I second everything you ever...\nyou just said about all of these being, we're going to evaluate, we're\ngoing to con- look at this. An evaluation means we can look at it\nand decide that's not legal, and then we would...\nwe don't do it, and that's the end of that.\nUm, so to sum up what you said, additionally,\nall... this language was all reviewed by our city attorney multiple times and\nwas edited and then sent back, and then edited again.\nSo our city attorney has, examined this, determined all of the leg- language\nin here to be legal and things we can do.\nUm, this resolution does not include everything that was in the\nprevious resolution because it was written with the knowledge that the state was\nworking on these, and so we didn't need to replicate efforts.\nAnd in fact, things such as, you know, evaluating\nlegal avenues for the city to request the identity of apparent\nimmigration agents, that will be so much easier now that they cannot wear masks\ndue to state limitations, and they have to have visible ID.\nSo we are asking... And if anything, it will make the community safer,\nconsidering\nOSU has already had people on campus pretending to be fake\nimmigration agents. And that, for\nme personally, that\nspecific, you know, letter B is really important because\nI don't want my community to be able to be terrorized by three bored\nfrat guys who decide to... that they wanna be immigration agents.\nAnd so by coming at it as we're requesting their identification to make sure that\nthey're legal immigration agents and not just some guy,\num... Yeah. And then, oh my gosh, I had one more thing I\nwas gonna say on this. Yeah. Broad- I am\njust in support of taking actual\nactions on this, and I am very proud of all of\nthe work that the community has put into this.\nAnd\nyeah, I am proud to have my name on it, and also Mayor Mon's name,\nwhoever's names ends up being on there.\nAnd additio- oh, that was the other thing.\nAnd for people who worry that we might be getting our\nhands dirty by putting additional restrictions on things\nor by drawing attention to us by the federal government,\nwe're already involved in legal activities\nrelating to the federal government, so it's not like they don't know who we\nare. They know about the city of Corvallis. That's not...\nWe're not not on their list. We're already on their\nlist. So it, it can't\nhurt, and I am fully in support of this\nresolution.\nCouncilor Moorfield?\nUm-\nOh, go ahead.\nI, I'm substantially supportive.\nUm, most of these things are\ncommonsensical, and they align well with the resolution we already passed\nand, and aren't necessarily in conflict.\nUm, the,\nthe only question I had,\neven though it uses the word evaluate legal av- avenues,\nit's specific... I'm talking about A now.\nIt's specific to the development of facilities.\nUm, you said that the city attorney reviewed\nthis and didn't have a problem with the language.\nUm, the question I wanna make s- I wanna see if it was asked or\nif city, city attorney's not with us now, I assume.\nYeah. Um, I'm gonna ask the question.\nUm, when we say ahead of time\nthat we're going to oppose or delay, prevent,\ndisadvantage the development of facilities, which\nrequires a l- which may involve a land use action,\nwe are actually disadvantag-\ndisadvantaging\nourselves in making a case,\nor being able to make a case to say no, if that makes\nsense. In other words, if we're presented with\nsomething that requires some sort of discretionary review,\nand I don't know what... You know, there's times most development these days does\nnot have much discretion attached to it, but it does\nsometimes. And I don't know enough about where things like\njails are even allowed in our, our town from a land use point of\nview to understand what issues may or may not be\ninvolved. But,\nyou know, when we've had certain kinds of land use related\ndecisions, we have to declare whether we have a bias or not.\nAnd if we do, we have to recuse ourselves.\nMm-hmm.\nSo if we're gonna pass a resolution saying, \"Oh, we oppose this on\nprinciple,\" and then we're gonna b- also, not\nhave to recuse ourselves if we're presented with a decision that is a\ndiscretionary one that gets to the level of the council, I, I don't know why\nthe, the attorney wouldn't have addressed that. Um...\nCan I respond to this? Okay. Um,\nyeah. Uh, main... So when we were...\nWell, I say we. I'm reading from a document that really wasn't\nput together by myself, but from\nboth the city attorney and the city manager, it was\nread, item A was read as a request for a\nstaff/city attorney, to determine what\nlegal means the city might have to prevent an ICE facility.\nI think that there will be few options for the city to regulate use on private\nproperty outside of current zoning limitations.\nThat said, it is something that council could af- ask time to\nspend, ask staff to spend time researching.\nAdditionally, like you, like-\nExcuse me, Councilor Olson, real quick.\nYeah.\nCity manager's had his hand raised.\nI wanna see what-\nI, I, I just wanna clarify. From my knowledge, the city\nattorney reviewed an earlier version that was presented,\nand I did appreciate, the request for that review.\nBut, to my knowledge, the city attorney did not review\nthe version that's actually in here.\nThe version, that's in the council\npacket, was revised based on some comments, but\nnot reviewed again by the city\nattorney.\nYeah. Were you just reading an email?\nUh, I was reading comments on the document itself that I was provided, so.\nYeah, 'cause that, that, that could be considered\nconfidential client information from the city attorney.\nIt, it was g- it was given to a community member, not me.\nOh.\nSo I'm assuming it's not confidential since the community's not clients.\nTo clarify, those were comments I wrote based on\ninformation I got from the, the city attorney, and again, those\ncomments were on a previous\nversion.\nYeah.\nBut this language was on the previous version you reviewed,\nright? That clause specifically?\nNot as written, no.\nOkay.\nI mean, to say what I had said earlier\nalso, we're evaluating avenues. We send it to the attorney, they\nsay, \"Yeah, this will get you in trouble with the land use.\" And we go,\n\"Great. Good to know.\" And then that's the end of the\nstory.\nAnd-\nLet me make a suggestion, though, that saying it...\nAsking the question is fine, but putting it in the form of\na resolution, we're stating a position, an end to\nwhich... that we're trying to achieve.\nAnd, from a land\nuse, perspective, we're,\nwe're pre-judging a land use request that might come\nour way and, and that, that is grounds for\napplicants to say, \"You have to recuse yourself.\"\nTechnically true.\nYeah.\nAnd, and, and, and, you know, at the end, we also...\nWhen there's, when there's public hearings on land use, we also ask, you know, \"Is\nthis the appropriate body for this decision?\" And one might be going,\n\"No.\" And then the decision is no longer ours to make.\nSo, y- yeah.\nSo I mean, I, I, I, I get your point, and I don't think you're wrong\nnecessarily, so.\nCouncilor Cadena.\nYeah, a couple comments. There was a comment made earlier about, the feds\ncomplying with our land development code.\nI believe that when the feds do any kind of\nfacility, they don't have to comply with local land development code.\nIs that correct, city manager?\nThat's correct. Whether it's a post office or\nany other facility, they, they may take into\nconsideration local land use, but there's a supremacy clause that they\ndo not have to follow, state or local land use\nregulations.\nOkay. So my... the... I just wanted to clarify that one point.\nUm, the rest of my comments are\nI don't want anybody to mistake that I think what's going on in\ns- immigration enforcement is abhorrent,\nand the lack of due process, poor training,\nthe targeting of folks, with\nlikely no probable cause, et cetera, et cetera. It's...\nUh, there's... Words can't describe it.\nUm, I have a, a... I think that\nI'm also sensitive to\nwhen we say that we're gonna encourage the city manager to evaluate certain things\nthat I, I don't, I don't like putting something...\nasking the staff to do things that,\nbasically will result in nothing. I, and...\nOr, or that we set staff up for an\nexpectation that something will come out of it, and the, and\nthe viewpoint is, \"I don't know what we can\ndo.\" But beyond that, aside from the staff\nimpact,\nI think that, Councilor Olsen made the comment\nthat, you know, we want something that does something.\nUh, we want a resolution that does something.\nI, I think one could make an argument this resolution won't do...\naccomplish anything\nfrom the perspective of\ncontaining ICE. I think that\nwhat I,\nwhat I think is\nfrom my personal experience, my personal perspective, and perhaps it's because\nI grew up in a different era\nand because I'm old, but I think\nthat\nbecause I b- because I grew up in San Jose, California,\nand yeah, there's a lot of Latinos in, in San Jose now, and but\nwe were definitely a minority.\nAnd\nI've, I've gotten... I've grown quite weary\nof politicians doing things\nbut they're not actually accomplishing anything.\nAnd by doing things, I mean by making statements.\nMy favorite being, of course, \"Of course I'm in favor of common sense\nimmigration reform,\" and yet that's\nnever been delivered. I think I\nwant... I think the mess we have at the\nfederal level, I want it to be resolved. And I, I wish that our...\nI don't wanna go off on a rant, but I wish that our legislature would actually pass\nsome laws that would address the very specific issues\nthat the country by and large supports.\nI think you have to control the border, you have to have a good immigration\npolicy, and you have to provide a f- path towards citizenship.\nLike I don't see that this does anything but create a false\nexpectation. This resolution creates a false expectation that\nthere's going to be some-Change that occurs\nbecause of the city manager or city staff taking\naction. And\nI mean, it might make us feel good, but I\nthink what the best thing we can do is to support our\ncommunity to know that they\nhave... That we have their backs.\nUm, and I think we need to have the backs of our vulnerable\nmembers in ways that maybe\nare consistent with their concerns.\nAnd I'll, I'll give an example without being too\nexplicit. There's a lot of talk about making\nthings very visible. My wife's a physician.\nThere are physicians that are concerned about\nvulnerable populations that will not go to appointments, et\ncetera. There's already a significant effort to try to\naddress that concern,\nby choice from participants and\npractitioners.\nThere's a desire to\nmake sure that\nconfidentiality and, and in\nfact, anonymity is\npreserved. I don't want more visibility of\nthings\nthat appear to be accomplishing something, but they're actually not.\nSo I, I'm not in favor of this resolution because I don't\nthink it sp- it speaks to what we can do.\nI think it promises things that\nrealistically I don't know how to evaluate city staff when we ask them to\ndo something that can't be done.\nIs there something urgent, pressings? I really wanted to move towards a vote.\nIt's after nine thirty at night, but if you have something,\nsure.\nThank\nyou.\nUm,\nyes. Um, it's been said that, we need to\nevaluate legal avenues and so forth with land use.\nIt's already been stated very clearly by our city manager and\nby Paul Balota that those legal avenues are not\navailable. And so I don't see the point\nof, A, to\nevaluate legal avenues for peace officers of the city to request the\nidentity of apparent immigration enforcement agents when legally\npermissible. It's pretty much legally\npermissible after stuff has happened.\nIf law enforcement stops something to\nask for their ID while it's happening, that's a big\nno-no. I did a lot of research on this before\nthis meeting because\nI was concerned about putting our\nofficers in a legally questionable position,\nand\nI guess what I'm saying is there's really no way to do A or B.\nAnd so\nto, to explore legal avenues to do them\nlooks like a very much a dead end. As far as\nthe rest of it, you know, our staff is totally maxed\nout. I mean, I would love to do all of it.\nI don't know\nhow much of it we can do. I mean, this is just\nreality. And so, anyway,\nand it kills me because it's a horrible\nsituation. Um,\nanyhow, we've said enough, I guess.\nWe move to a vote.\nCan we have a roll call vote, please, city recorder?\nYes, Mayor. This is a vote on the resolution addressing escalating federal\nimmigration enforcement.\nCouncilors Moorfield?\nNo.\nEllis?\nNo.\nOlsen?\nYes.\nKadena?\nNo.\nBowden? Napack?\nNo.\nSchafer?\nNo.\nLewis?\nYes.\nMayors?\nNo.\nThe resolution fails two to six.\nThank you all for the conversation.\nOkay.\nWe'll move now on to the-\nMayor?\nYes. Council Ellis.\nI did say that we could, independently move,\nsome of the things in the,\nsuggestions after we decided on whether or not to avoid, to,\nto approve the resolution. So I am going to move\nto utilize ci- existing city communication platforms\nto connect the community with clear and reputable information available in both\nEnglish and Spanish regarding, I'm just gonna read the whole\nthing. A, rights afforded to immigrants under federal and state law.\nB, community-based legal and social service resources available to immigrants and\ntheir families. And C, other relevant info, information\nintended to support community awareness and access to services for\ninformational purposes only.\nSecond.\nThank you. We have a motion and a second.\nAny discussion needed on this item? Question Napack?\nA friendly amendment perhaps is that it's not just Spanish, but Farsi\nand everything else.\nSorry.\nI would think, I would think to the ability that a website-\nNever mind\n... may be, I would, I would try to-\nI retract.\nOkay. I, I, I like the idea that, you know, Arabic and everything else, and it's\nlike I'm sure the city staff can figure out-\nEverything else is a pretty broad category.\nYeah.\nYeah. Oh-\nTo whatever extent-\nAs, as appropriate, how about that?\nYeah.\nThank you.\nAll right. Let's go ahead and take a vote on this.\nAll those in favor of the motion, say aye.\nAye.\nAye.\nAye.\nAll opposed, say no. That passed unanimously.\nThank you, Councilor Ellis. Go ahead.\nUm, I'm also going to move, because I think that we could do this over time,\nsection F: To ensure all non-public spaces and city buildings are\nclearly identified and labeled with signage indicating restricted\naccess.\nSecond.\nYeah, I, I actually believe, that's already been done based\non other issues a couple years ago.\nBut we can, we can confirm that.\nYep. Um-\nI suspected as much.\nYeah. So\nyeah, if this passes, we will just confirm that that work has been done.\nAppreciate that. Discussion? No.\nAll in favor of the motion, say aye.\nAye.\nAye.\nAye.\nAll opposed, say no.\nDid that get a second?\nYes, it did.\nOkay.\nCouncilor Ellis? That, that passed unanimously, by the way.\nThank you. Um, could you report back to us in, like, a\nmonth?\nYes, I can.\nThank you. Um, the last one is, I am going to just say\nresolve that the council encourages the Jedi Board to solicit community\nempower grant applications to assist those affected by escalating\nimmigration enforcement in the next round of\ngrants.\nSecond.\nMotion and second. Council Morefield?\nUh, when I saw this draft, I looked up what the current grant criteria\nare. I thought it already allowed it.\nI did not look it up. I just assumed that it wasn't there because it was\nhere.\nMaybe, maybe it makes it more of like a-\nI mean it-\n-to focus a bit more there since it's already allowed.\nThe green grants were giving an extra point for a certain thing-\nMm-hmm\n-in the last couple of years, so maybe that was the thought.\nI think it's still good to just solidify that\nmaybe. Okay, all those in favor of the\nmotion, say aye.\nAye.\nAye.\nAye.\nAll opposed say no.\nAye. Sorry.\nThat's all right. Sorry. Council Schaefer.\nThat's a yes.\nOkay. I didn't hear any of those though. All right.\nIt passed unanimously. Is that it?\nI think.\nOkay.\nI think that cut all the things we can actually do. Thank you.\nThank you. Well, hopefully I'm not too tired to get through my presentation.\nUh, moving on to mayor and council reports.\nIn my mayor's report, I'm finally getting-- got around to doing the presentation\nregarding the Mayor's Innovation Project conference that I went-- that you all sent\nme to in DC. I apologize for it taking so long, but,\nas you know, I came, I got sick while I was there, and was sick afterwards, and\nit put my whole life delayed. So,\nbut let me get this brought up. I'll try to go very\nquickly through these slides. It's late, but I just wanted to keep my promise to\nyou all. This was the, agenda. I'm gonna\nswitch gears here so I could see it, 'cause I can't read it there.\nUm, the topics, well, it's gonna...\nAll my slides will have the topics, so it doesn't matter.\nUm, we can go ahead and next slide.\nWe've got to get better slides.\nWell, I made this, so it's probably my fault.\nUm, as you can see, it was cold there.\nLike, on average, it was like between seven and seventeen\ndegrees, so I was freezing. Um, the, the\nactual conference was held at the Laborers' International Union of\nAmerica, and fortunately, I was able to afford to bring my wife along.\nSo\nthat was kind of like a weird vacation of learning stuff for our\ncity. The first topic was Leading Under\nPressure: Protecting Elected Officials, which I found very interesting considering\nsome of the legislation that's been passed here in Oregon recently.\nUm, next slide. This might be a little hard to\nread, but one of the... So on all these, there was multiple speakers,\nusually between three and four speakers per th- per thing.\nThey all had their own presentation. This was a two-day conference.\nUh, I'm trying to point out just the things that really caught my attention that I\nthought were really interesting.\nSo the two colored graphs you see there, the blue is male\nmayors, the yellow is female mayors.\nUh, the top one is mayors who experience harassment more than three times per month\nin office,\nand that was twenty-five percent of, of female mayors.\nAnd the bottom is mayors who experience harassment at least once per month in\noffice. So I found it very interesting of the,\nthe, the, the variance there between male and female mayors.\nUm, and then you see some of the quotes there, from other mayors around the s-\naround the country, stalker, vandalizing homes, et\ncetera. Next slide.\nUm, these were some of the proposed solutions, and I, and I actually really thought\nthese were interesting. And the first one is normalize the position as a job.\nUm,\nwe put a lot of hours into this kind of work, and, and this is still mostly focused\non mayors, but it really applies to all of us.\nUh, I, I'm not sure how often you get harassed or\nthreatened, but it's happened to me.\nUm, so some of the solutions norm- no-normalize support professional development,\nnormalize support for personal protection, staff dedicated to the mayor, I\nkinda like that one, and raising wages, which is something I plan on\nbringing back, later this year after we get through some of our conversation\naround our budget gap.\nSo I found, I found all these really inter-interesting,\nas solutions. So that's the end of that one. Next slide.\nAnd this one was very relevant to our city, Leading Through\nUncertainty: A Fiscal Playbook for a Thriving Community.\nNext slide. Did you get it? The, this was done by the person who\nactually created the Mayor's Innovation Project.\nHe talked about the broken social condract-- contract.\nWhat's hard to see there is all those lines together is,\nbasically income versus productivity, and it used to stay pretty straight\nand, and equal. The purple line shooting way up\nis the top one percent earners country.\nWhere everything else, the red is the bottom twenty percent, the blue is\nmiddle sixty percent, and the green is upper middle.\nUm, so as you can see, wages have not increased as much as productivity\nand as much as the top one percent earners in the country make, which I\nthink is all information we're very aware of.\nNext slide. This graph, which you can't read\neither, it's too much... Oh, you can kind of read it.\nIt's showing, how much our, our country has changed.\nWe are more diverse now than ever before, which is kind of also relevant coming\ntoday-\nHmm\n...to the resolution we were just discussing.\nUm, and less than fifty percent of our country are white\nanymore, now. So we have a very diverse country, and I think it's just\ngonna continue to change, um-The blue, I think you can read\nthat, blue is Hispanic. Uh, the dark blue, kinda gray\nis Black. Green is Asian. Next\nslide. And then it transitioned to around infrastructure to support these\ncommunities that are always changing and always growing.\nAnd I think, our city manager might find this one int-interesting.\nIt's the average age and life expectancy of US infrastructure.\nSo the first one's roads, next one's bridges, rail, water\npipes, dams, levies, and water treatment\nplants. So the average age is the dark color.\nThe life expectancy, this is, is the lighter color.\nSo it's showing that our issues here were not unique.\nNext slide.\nAnd then that conversation around infrastructure got-- it was quite interesting\n'cause it started talking about it's not just this infrastructure that we rely on\ndaily, but also how, things impact that infrastructure.\nSo in this case, growing risks around, nature events due\nto climate change. So you see here, C-Hurricane Katrina on the bottom left, two\nthousand and five, Superstorm Sandy, two thousand and twelve, the fires in\ntwenty twenty-three, Hurricane, Helen in twenty twenty-four, the Los\nAngeles fires of twenty twenty-five.\nAnd then the small writing, which I actually can read, in, in two thousand a\nbillion-dollar disaster occurred every seventy-two days.\nNow they occur every eighteen days.\nBy twenty thirty, they will be weekly occurrences.\nSo on top of just trying to pr-provide regular service to our community with what\nthey ask, we're dealing with some serious stuff now.\nAnd our firefighters will be dealing with it, and, and\npolice, and public works. And I like that thing\nthere. For every major headline, there are innumerable smaller events impacting\nwhere we live, work, and play every day. City manager.\nYeah, one of those impacts that we'll see, even if we don't have a\ndisaster, insurance rates-\nMm\n...continue to climb. And so we do get impacted,\nby that, even indirectly, if we don't have that\ndisaster.\nAppreciate that. Next slide. No, there it is.\nAnd this one I just thought was an interesting view of, of what local government\nis, right? So one-third of our an- of annual local GOP spent on disaster and\nweather costs, but this impacts every other entity that we interact\nwith from real estate insurance, which city manager just pointed out,\nutilities, health. Uh, we all work together to be what\nis a community, and it all-- it's all majorly impacted.\nNext slide.\nAnd this was kind of a weird but interesting graph I just threw in here.\nAnd it talked about how federal support for cities is declining.\nAlthough the infl-in-Inflation Reduction Act is still, investments still\nhappen, less and less money are coming to communities to deal with these\nissues. So it's kind of a bleak\noutcome. Um, and a lot of these conversations when they hold\nthese things is to really get mayors to talk, 'cause we don't just sit through\nthese presentations. We all gather around and talk about solutions and\nideas. Um, and this one, not a lot of solutions or\nideas, unfortunately, but it's something we're dealing with right now.\nThe next slide is onto the one I, I-- when I was-- I was really not looking forward\nto this conversation because I was, \"What does this have to do with the city of\nCorvallis or our role?\" Um, so again, building a supportive\nchildcare ecosystem for families and workers, I'm like, \"That's not our role.\" Um,\nturns out, yes, it is. Um, so I want this, this slide-- This\npresentation was from Mayor Kelly Girtz, from Athens, Georgia.\nAnd in here, they, they-- there's similarities I thought were interesting besides\ntheir government's different, but at the same time, they have, they have a\ncouncil manager form of local government.\nThey're a much larger community, as you can see, but they have a ten-member\ncommission, as their legi-legislative unit, so it's kinda like our\ncouncil, and it's similar size. So I just thought\ninteresting. Just they're much bigger.\nNext slide.\nYes. Um,\nso I like this 'cause it's really straightforward.\nUh, keep-- Hiring talent is tough.\nWe know that's an issue locally for, for childcare providers.\nLabor costs are a challenge 'cause you have to pay people enough to live, which is\na challenge. Uh, facility costs are high, so the-- what families are\ncharged for health- for childcare is just extreme, and\nI, I know that is true. Next slide.\nAnd then, which-- When I was going back to the slides, I remembered this one.\nI was like, \"Oh, yeah, this is what got my attention.\nWhy do-- Why would a city care? What, what does this have to do with us?\" Um,\nbut we care about our economy. So again, a strong employment base\nand long-term community health, safety, and prosperity.\nCouldn't disagree with that. Next slide.\nSo here's where it came down to what a city could do, and I'm not saying we\nwill do this, but it's something we should think about.\nUm, they, they ta- they would talk about the projects that they successfully did\nthere. But the one at the end was, buying down the capital cost of\nfacilities lowers family price tag.\nAnd so creating opportunities for space for childcare providers,\nlicensed childcare providers, that we could re-reduce their costs by potentially\nmaybe having space in some of our city facilities for them to operate.\nThat could potentially benefit our employees.\nIt could also benefit the community.\nSo as we're thinking about, a civic campus project, like maybe\nthere's room to think about doing that.\nAnd we have other facilities, two minutes in the room, we have the\nC-3. It's just something we could potentially look at of a way\nto help alleviate, rising costs for childcare.\nSo that's when it hit me. I'm like, \"Oh, that is something we technically could\ndo.\"\nAnd then the last one, which is very interesting as well,\naging in place. So again, we're talking about seniors,\nand I used the slides from AARP 'cause I think they were the best\nones. Um, we're in a lasting demogra-demographic\nshift. And at first, I was like, \"What does that mean, demographic shift?\" So if\nyou go to the next slide, this one hit me.\nThe aging of America is here. So on the left there is what,\ntwenty fifteen and like the light color, that is Oregon, would've\nbeen, twelve point five to one point uh\nfifteen percent of the population.\nBut if you look at the map on the right, that jumps us up to twenty to twenty-two\npoint five percent of the population, and it's continuing to\ngrow.So we're gonna have a sig- you know, in the future, the whole...\nall the countries got a significantly different looking population than it does\ntoday. Next slide.\nAnd it talked about most communities in the country have not been built to\neven address that, you know, with, with better sidewalks, better transportation\noptions, things like that. And this next slide actually helped me with my\nfamily issues right now, which about how d- aging in place is\ndifficult because of type of housing you have.\nUm, we, we know we talked a few years back when we talked about the,\nthe senior facilities. I can't think of the name all of a\nsudden. The Bonaventure. When we were talking about Bonaventure, we talked about\nthose people who are living in homes that are, you know, they're, they're not being\nused to their full potential. A single person living who maybe would be happier\nliving somewhere else and opening that home up to family.\nSo there's housing mobility, which t- I just mentioned.\nUm, even our public spaces, how we think of the design of our parks.\nUm, and the last one is the, the biggest one, isolation.\nThe health risks of, of prolonged isolation is equivalent to eating...\nsmoking 15 cigarettes a day. So o- people\n65 and over, it severely impacts their health if they're not engaged and\nkept active and, you know, out of isolation.\nAnd what I don't... I, I think what was good about this one is I feel like we were\nin a really good place. Like, we already are addressing a lot of this.\nYou know, we have our, our community center that has programs, our library has\nprograms. We have good,\nfairly good transportation system here and, and a, a network\nof s- of social service providers.\nSo I think compared to what I was hearing from other mayors, I think we're doing\nall right. But it doesn't mean we shouldn't think about this as we think of\nlong-term development in our community.\nAnd I like the saying, create a great community for an older adult, you build a\ncommunity great for everyone. I think, again, keep that in\nmind. And this next slide's just kind of fun.\nAgain, as I said, it's not like, we just sit there and are talked at like some\nconferences I go to. There's a lot of engagement with other mayors.\nThis is me with the mayor of Madison, Wisconsin, Satya\nRhodes-Conway. Um, Wisconsin...\nUh, Madison, Wisconsin, is where the Mayors Innovation project started, with\na professor there.\nAnd so I was able to catch up with her.\nI met her when I went to the, new mayors',\nwhatever that was called, cohort.\nI met, I met her there, and she saw me, and we were able to reconnect.\nAnd along with, other mayors from Oregon and a mayor from\nGeorgia and a few other places. It was, it was really\ngood. And again, you sit down and you talk about what the presentation you were\njust given and say, \"Well, what, what are you, what are you doing to address this?\"\nSo I was able to brag about Corvallis and some of the steps we've taken to address\nhousing needs and infrastructure needs.\nSome people were impressed. So that is pretty much the end of my\npresentation. I, I know ... No, that's good.\nUm, I didn't wanna make it too long 'cause I was looking at the agenda and I'm\nlike, \"Yeah, I'm not gonna talk all night about this.\" 'Cause if, if you want, I\ncould spend the next two days and just go over the whole thing, but I don't think\nthat's a good idea. And I apologize again for the delay.\nThat was not my intent.\nUm,\nhopefully this was enjoyable a little bit.\nUm, they did make me an offer to... if, if we wanted to become a member city of the\nMayors Innovation Project. It's, for our size city, it's normally\n$2,500. They're willing to deduct the amount that I paid to attend\nthat conference off the annual price.\nSo that's something I'm gonna get some information about where, where our budget\nis, 'cause I'm not sure where our council budget is, and with maybe a request to\njoin them. And in the future, if we join, then there's no cost to attend these\nconferences. And they provide a bunch of other stuff, but I'll get all that to you\nguys at a future meeting.\nThis office. What,\nwhat...\nYeah. That'll be put... I'll, I'll bring that back at a council meeting for, for\nconsideration. Um, my other comments, and I, you know, I, I haven't\ngiven many comments lately, so this is where I make up for that.\nUm, Saturday I attended the legislative breakfast, and just quick takeaways from\nthat. Legislative breakfast, for those don't know, is, the county holds it, and\nthey invite our legislators. So we heard from three of our legislators, even though\nwe only actually have two, but there's also the one for Philomath, on how\nthe se- short session went. The one things I took away from, the, the\nflexibility on our, on lodging tax funds passed.\nUm, but unfortunately there's gonna be a reduction in safe route to schools\nfunding. That's not good. Um, but there is an increase to the earned income tax\ncredit, which I know helps people with lower incomes significantly.\n'Cause I remember when I was extremely poor and got that for my kids,\nit really made a difference. Sometimes it just went to buying ne- needed\nsupplies like shoes for school. Um,\nI wanted to, wanted to say something.\nUh, earlier when we were reviewing the MUPTE request, I know we\nreceived an email, and one of the emails talked about, the loss of the\nfood trucks that used to be on that, on that block.\nSo I just wanna quickly say we did not lose those food trucks.\nUh, one of them is now in the plaza on Madison.\nThat's Tacos El Machine, and apparently they're doing better business there than\nthey ever did in their food truck. So they're thriving. And the space is great.\nYou should all check it out if you're up in the plaza.\nAnd the other one moved over to Common Fields, the sushi one.\nSo if you enjoyed those businesses, you can continue to support them.\nUm, now I got some events I wanna let everybody know about, 'cause\nI never do that. Um, League of Women Voters event called Sheltering Our\nUnhoused: Are We Making Progress?\nis Wednesday, March 18th at 6:30 at the library.\nI plan on being there, so all of you can join if you\nwant. Um, I will be attending a groundbreaking ceremony for Third Street\nCommons on the 19th, which is this coming Thursday at 11:30\nAM. Everyone's welcome. I gotta go...\nI was concerned 'cause they said I would need to be able to operate a shovel.\nI'm like, \"Am I qualified for that?\" Operate sounds like a bigger thing,\nbut I think I can manage. Uh, on Saturday the 28th, there's a\ndowntown cleanup happening at 10:00 AM. They're...\npeople are gathering at the museum.\nI intend to participate this time 'cause I'm in town and I'm not...\ndon't have the flu. So,\nso I encourage people to join thatUm, and\nlast but not least, same day, on January,\nSaturday the 28th at noon is the No S- No Kings March and\nRally. Um, the march starts on the OSU campus, McNeary\nField, goes to Central Park and then to the courthouse.\nYou can join them along the way or just be at the courthouse.\nUm, and I appreciate all those doing that.\nAlthough when, when I talk to the organizers, I say the same thing, it's like,\n\"Well, this is great, this gets people excited. What is next?\nWhen does the work happen? Where do people get involved to actually make a\ndifference?\" And I appreciate everybody who shows up for rallies.\nI've attended so many over the last 10 years, I don't remember most of them.\nBut I also do things. I encourage you all to do the\nsame.\nAnd that is the end of my comments, I believe, unless I'm forgetting\nsomething. But I don't think I am. So\nanybody remember where we went last time? I think I started over here.\nSo Councilor El... Actually, I'll start with Councilor Shaffer, even though he's\nvirtually, but he'd be over there.\nI will be extremely quick. It's already 1:00 AM in where I am.\nOoh, oodle.\nI'm tired. I'm gonna pass this\nweek.\nOkay.\nUh, Councilor Olsen.\nUm, yeah. I don't have too much to say right now.\nSome updates on things in the community is\nthat OSU just approved tuition increases for both their in\nand out-of-state students. So just, just to, like, let everyone know\nwhat's going on with OSU. Um-\nYeah.\nYeah, it's up, almost 6% for\nresidents and 6.25% for\nnon-residents. So if you're curious, that's almost\n$300 a credit, which is\ninsane. Um, yeah. So that's my main\nthing. Also, I have been, attending some\nboar- unofficial board meetings held by some people in my board, so that's been\nreally fun. We talked about the MUPTI\nmostly on our meeting on Saturday, so that was really exciting.\nI liked getting to meet with people.\nUm, and yeah. The last thing I have to say\nis just\nI, I know I said at the time that I\ndon't like resolutions that don't seem to do much.\nAnd so what I'm gonna say right now is ask all of you guys who didn't vote\non the resolution what you personally are doing to\nhelp, to prevent ICE in our\ncommunity. Not what you as a community member are doing, what, not what\nyou, not what the state's done, but what you personally are doing.\nWho are you helping? Who are you connecting to?\nHow are you impeding the ever-encroaching force of\nfascism in this country? Because while community\nefforts are the best, individual efforts are better than\nnothing. So...\nCouncilor Meyers.\nWell, I unfortunately have a whole bunch of stuff. I'll go as fast as I can.\nUm, we had the all d- all task\nforce meeting, Downtown Vitality Strategy\nTask Force on the 3rd, and I'm\npretty excited about how things are progressing and how the\ndiscussions are going and, and working through,\nwell, getting to some\nrecommendations.\nUm, I'll skip that one. Uh,\nMarch 9th, we had Budget Commission meeting, catching up the commission on\nall of the things council's been working on, and facilities funding and\nall the financial, challenges we're\nfacing. And there was a really good discussion about getting some more\ninformation about the Bu- Budget Commission and what we're doing out to\nthe community, so I was grateful to, Councilor\nEllis for bringing that up, and I think we landed on a couple of good\nideas. Um, on the 10th, we had... I'll\nlet you talk about the Charter PAC. Are you gonna talk about it?\nOkay. Um, on the 11th, we had the,\nDowntown Vitality Task Force, again,\nInfrastructure Committee, and that was a great discussion about, as I said\nbefore, how housing s- more housing downtown\nsolves a lot of the problems we're trying to solve.\nUm, I also was at the legislative breakfast.\nOh, and Thursday, we had a makeup Leadership Corvallis\nclass because we had that ice storm last year, and it was\nEducation Day. And it was... I never had\nkids. I haven't thought about schools much except we have OSU here, and\nwe have all the things happening with the public schools, and it\nwas amazing. We spent quite a long time at College\nHill. I, I, I won't go into\nany details, but there is a lot of dedication\nto the students succeeding in this city at all\nlevels, and it was just very inspiring\nand, um... Anyway, I'm inspired.\nAlso went to the legislative breakfast.\nWent to the Celebrate Corvallis, which was a real\nblast.\nAnd\nthe Downtown Corvallis Organization is having a quarterly meeting\nthis Wednesday from 5:30 to 6:30 at one of the meza-\nmezzanines,\nin the plaza. And that's it.\nPhew.\nYeah.\nYes. Uh, I have a number of things I was going to talk about, which I will defer\nsome of those to the next council meeting, but I do wanna provide a couple of\nupdates. Uh, we have the charter\namendment, charter, Charter Measures PAC up and running.\nIt kinda feels like we're going downhill, and so far we haven't.\nUh, our feet are still in front of our heads, so that's good.\nUm, it's a good group of folks. I think we're gonna make progress.\nWe're meeting, every Wednesday, and through\nthe, election timeframe, but I think\nwe'll-Um, I think we'll get there.\nUh, I'll give you a n- better update next time.\nUh, and then just one other thing I wanted to cover,\nwhich is we have received for the city manager\nevaluation process, we have received,\nsix req- RFPs were\ncompleted. Uh, we did review those.\nUh, there was a group of five that's supposed to review this.\nOnly four of us, actually did\nreview that, so we're gonna move forward, with\nthe group of four. That would be the city manager, the HR director, the mayor\nand myself. Um, just wanted to let folks know\nthat cost of the evaluations are likely to be somewhere in the range of\nabout $25,000. Um, happy to\ncontinue with this, unless I hear that the council would like\nto reconsider that expense. Are we...\nAnd the question would be, are we\ngoing to get $25,000 worth of benefit out of doing this\ndifferently? Um,\nso I guess I'll pause and see if there's any comment as\nto, any discussion as to whether we might want to alter that.\nOtherwise, we'll, we will proceed.\nUm, we intend to... Based on the\ntimeline, we intend to announce the, to, give notice of the intent to\naward contracts by April 8th. So we have a very short\ntime window on this. Any comment\nfrom anybody?\nJust, I...\nIt's after 10 and I don't, I think I would rather h- think about\nit rather than make a comment on whether or not to go\nforward. My gut sense is yes, but I really don't\nwant to engage in the discussion. I don't think o- any of us would make a good\ndecision at this hour.\nMaybe we can make some room on Thursday.\nThat'd be fine.\nCouncilor Lewis.\nOh, fantastic. Okay. Um, police review advisory board, if\nyou haven't signed up, you can sign up for Corvallis Police 101.\nIt's from April 1st to June 10th, every Wednesday from 6 PM to 9 PM.\nIt is just literally learning the ins and outs of the police force.\nI will see them next year 'cause I do not have the capacity to do it this year.\nUm, but you can apply by March, 20th.\nAlso, they, our wonderful police chief went to the COA\nSpring Conference between March 11th and, and 15th in Tucson,\nArizona. I don't know what happened there. I'll ask him later.\nUm, the Empowerment and Green Grants info session is, tomorrow\nat three-- at 5:15 on Zoom. As always, the Winter's Farmers Market\nis Saturdays 9 AM to 1 PM at the Benton County Fairgrounds.\nUm,\nthere's a few things that have already are said.\nAnd because it is still Women's History Month, that has not changed, I'm going\nto talk very briefly about Rita Moreno, who is still alive at ninety-four years\nold. She was born December 11th, 1931.\nYou probably know her as Rosa Dolores Alvera or\nAnita from West Side Story. That was actually the role that actually got her\nthe, to be the first Latina to win an Oscar for Best Supporting\nActress, in 1962. And she actually became an EGOT\nstatus, which only twenty-one people have gotten, in\n1977. And I am going to go, be going home after this.\nYou all have a wonderful night.\nWe have one item still.\nWhich I should have started with Jim for that one. Councilman Packham.\nYeah, I wrote my report, but I wanted to highlight a couple of things.\nFirst and foremost, I want to extend thanks to Danielle\nChambers, Gene Raymond, our former counselor for Ward\nSeven, I believe, Ava\nOlsen, and the mayor for bringing forth the resolution,\nfor advancing the resolution to the council.\nUm, very important that, that this occurred and,\nthank you all. And others that I don't know who you are, but thank\nyou. Um, quickly, I support\nthe changes to Walnut Boulevard, the safety,\nimprovements. Uh, I think the last time I rode my bike on Walnut,\nsomebody passed me at fifty miles an hour.\nUm, it needs to do something. We need to do something\nabout that. Uh, the Bikeway project for North Benton\nCounty, that's the bike path you see partially\ncompleted from here along Highway 20.\nUh, there's going to be an open house, at\nboth the Corvallis and the Albany Farmers Market, May\n16th from ten to noon. They wanna figure out\nhow the path crosses over the highway, and you're all\ninvited 'cause nobody can figure it out.\nUm, and last thing, LBCC\nhas a ribbon cutting sometime this coming April\nto unveil their new mobility hub, and I\ndon't-- I remember standing in a huddle waiting\nfor the bus at LB,\nyou know, the, the shuttle. Um, it was raining and,\nand people are lined up, but now it's really nice.\nThis is going to connect with, OSU\nMobility Hub, which is going to be at 14th and Jefferson across from\nCallahan Hall. And, OSU is,\nOSU is scoping right now their Campus\nWay Promenade, if you will. Uh,\nthe plans, I don't know, I don't have the plans, but,\nit is, something\nthat it's, you know, pedestrian and, and multimodal\nmall right through the middle of campus.\nI don't think there's cars allowed. Be fun.\nThank you.\nCouncilor Morefield, my apologies.\nI should have started with you. Oh,\ntired? Not at all. Oh. About past my bedtime.\nI wanted to make a, just a quick comment about the, the evaluation,\nresponses. It's a lot of money, but I don't know what they're proposing to\ndo. So\nI would... Before I'd really have an opinion, I'd wanna know what they were\nproposing to do. Um, so that would be helpful.\nUm, so I brought, forward a, an action item,\nthat was in your packet, letter to the BLM.\nUh, I didn't provide an introductory memo, 'cause I didn't even think to do this\nuntil, like, 24 hours before I was gonna have to get something to\nAlex, to get into the packet. So you got...\nYou know, I just focused on what the letter itself would say, but the,\nI think it's self-explanatory. Um,\nI... For people that haven't lived in Oregon or been on the\nplanet for long enough, historically, the,\nthe quote from the BLM, Resource Management Plan\nupdate says they seek to increase\nan, an increase in sustained yield timber harve- harvest that aligns with\nthe historically higher levels of production on BLM\nadministrated, administered public lands.\nThat's a significant change from current practice.\nAnd if you've lived here long enough, you know what it looked like.\nUm, and so the, the thing that's\ninfuriating about it\nis that they're saying\nthe choice is between no change... This is right in the notice.\nThe choice is between no change in current practice,\nor going back to historic\nlevels. So it's, so it's a very stark choice,\nand, responses are due by the\n23rd. So I'm asking for the council's support\nin s- submitting the letter.\nI'd like to make a motion that we, adopt the, and\nsend the letter that, Councilor Moorfield\ndrafted.\nI'll second.\nDo we need to discuss it?\nCan I make one comment on it? If possible, I would prefer to have all\nof our names and the mayor's signature on it, and not just the mayor on our behalf.\nThat's what it says, is mayor and council signatures, or mayor signs on our behalf.\nYes.\nI-\nI am professing in a, my, my\nfavorite-\nMoorfield.\nYeah.\nI, I-\nI wanna, I want my signature on it .\nYeah, no, I, I, I put it out there 'cause it was just a logistical thing\nin getting signatures, and Alex said she would have suggestions,\nor the city manager about it.\nYeah, I think we can, we can seek those\nsignatures. Uh, due to the time, we may not get\nevery councilor to sign, but we'll seek those\nout.\nBy when? To sign it by?\nBecause Councilor Schaefer is out of the state,\nand because of other councilor obligations, we would\nprobably do a e-signature.\nCa- can you DocuSign for me?\nYou can DocuSign it, yes.\nYeah.\nThat would be great.\nI think... And that might be the best way to move forward, just so we can capture\neverybody.\nSounds good.\nSo we have a motion. Vote on it? Okay, all in\nfavor of the motion to sign on to this letter to the\nBL- Bureau of Land Management?\nAye.\nAye.\nAye.\nAye.\nAll those opposed, no? All right.\nThat sounds like it passed unanimously.\nDid you have anything else for us, Councilor Moorfield?\nI do not.\nAll right. Councilor Ellis?\nI am glad that he did not make his letter a lie.\nWe said already that we had voted unanimously in the letter.\nIt's like we did. Um, I had a couple of things.\nUm, on Tuesday the 31st, there's going to be a\ndiscussion of prioritization of neighborhood bikeways, which\nis kind of an actually fascinating topic, and it will be here at\n5:30. Um, I believe there, there'll be a present- I don't\nknow how they're gonna organize it, but they're very excited about it, and the\ninformation is getting out. Um, so I think people who\nare interested should engage in that.\nUm,\nI do wanna say, that when I was in college, it was $35\na credit.\nWow.\nUm, and I remember 'cause I was paying it.\nUm, and then I had a couple of, more serious things.\nI actually appreciate the fact that we had some flexible things on the agenda.\nAt first I thought, \"How'd that resolution get on there without the form?\" But I\nactually think that people bringing a resolution or a letter forward\nin councilor comments is the way things should work.\nSo I appreciate that. Um,\nand then I also... We're gonna be seeing a lot\nof, as Director Bellotta referred to it,\nurban form in terms of multi-family\nhousing coming forward into established\nneighborhoods, and we need to recognize that is an\nincredibly stressful experience for are, the people who are\nliving there. Um, I, I, I, I hear\nyou. I started, before I was a city councilor, involved\nin some of the land use decisions, when we actually could say\nthings. And to find out that, an\nurban form is landing on your neighborhood is very\ndifficult. I know some people will adjust and some people will move,\nbut we need to keep the fact that this is very stressful for people\nin very stressful times in mind as we go\nforward. Um, and I think that's what I\nhad.\nThank you. City manager.\nYeah, I have two things. Uh, some happy news and some less than happy news.\nI'll start with the less than happy news.\nJust wanna\nkeep council informed of impacts, staff seen\nin their jobs. Uh, two incidences\nrecently. Um, as you know, we do\nallow, sleeping outside of our facilities\ndowntown, and, last week,\nunfortunately-Uh, one morning we had some\nindividuals outside the Madison Avenue building, which is\nnot uncommon, but, one of the indi- individuals\nbecame very loud and shouting\nobscenities, was asked to, to stop, did\nnot stop. Ultimately, we had to call the police and have that person\ntrespassed from, the facility.\nAgain, not, not what we like to do, but for, the\nsafety, of our staff and disruption to people\ntrying to enter our facilities, public, we had to deal with\nthat. And then we also had, one of our security attendants\nat the library, i- asking someone\nto leave the library for behavioral issues.\nThey were struck, their glasses were knocked off,\nsignificant scratch across their face.\nSo I'm just keeping you informed of what's happening with,\nwith our staff. So there's the unhappy\nnews. The, the happy news, as Councilor Lewis\npointed out, Chief Harvey, our\ntwo captains and some other police staff and myself were,\ndown for the final step in CALEA\nre-accreditation. Ended up being a, a working weekend for\nus,\nbut I'm happy to report that, we have been re-accredited\na thirtieth year. There is not anyone\nworking for Corvallis Police who was there before we were accredited,\nso it is part of our DNA, which I, I\nthink is fantastic. And during the last...\nSo Saturday morning is when we had our panel interview with the evaluators, and one\nof the issues that came up through the evaluation was challenges with\nour facilities. And so I was asked, \"What are you gonna be doing\nabout those facilities?\" So just a reinforcement that there\nare, there are impacts to these\nfacilities, and it's being seen now even by our\naccreditation, evaluators. So,\nit's important we continue to move forward with, dealing with that.\nBut very happy to announce, the re-accreditation\nand, we'll be getting, you know, the official plaque and some pictures and\nall that. But, great work by our staff, Lori Jackson,\nour accreditation manager, and all the police staff who follow\nthrough and actually do what we say as far as those\npolicies and procedures. And, and staying accredited is\nvery rigorous. They're-- They, they're not only asking you for\nyour policies, but proof that you are following those.\nAnd they talk to, officers,\ndifferent staff, even community members at times to make\nsure that we're doing what we, we say we do.\nSo, we are very blessed to have the police\ndepartment that we have and the staff that are there.\nSo congratulations to them.\nI forgot it was a group of you. I should have asked you.\nIt's late. And if there's nothing else then, everybody's\ntired. Have a good night, everybody.\nWe are adjourned"
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      "headline": "Corvallis City Council Approves Pineview MUPTE 5–3, Passes Sanctuary City Resolution Unanimously, Rejects ICE Action Resolution 2–6",
      "summary": "The March 16, 2026 Corvallis City Council meeting covered two presentations (Corvallis Arts Center annual report and Downtown Vitality Task Force update), extensive community comment on Walnut Boulevard safety and the Pineview development, and three contested votes: the Pineview MUPTE (approved 5–3), a sanctuary city reaffirmation resolution (unanimous), and a more specific ICE enforcement resolution (failed 2–6). Three standalone immigration-related directives passed unanimously afterward. The meeting ran past 10 PM.",
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        "Corvallis Arts Center (TAC) presented FY25 annual report; city provides $54K/year. TAC purchased 760 SW Madison Ave for Phase 1 expansion (education space, ADA elevator, artist studios). TAC open to discussing ownership transfer of 700 SW Madison back from city.",
        "Downtown Vitality Strategy Task Force (40 members, co-chairs Julie Manning and Steve Clark) gave final pre-report update. Top community priorities: safety, storefront vacancies, downtown appeal, Willamette River access, pedestrian mobility, housing. Final report due June 2026.",
        "Multiple community members urged Walnut Boulevard safety improvements, citing a fatality (Michael Campana, August 2024), school consolidation routing more students to the corridor, and a Thursday work session on the Transportation Safety Action Plan (TSAP).",
        "Revised noise ordinance adding objective decibel standards passed unanimously.",
        "Pineview MUPTE: 13-story, 263-unit building at 516–544 SW 4th St; $13.4M, 10-year tax exemption. Staff found three required tests met. Approved 5–3 (No: Ellis, Lewis, Olsen). Dissenting councilors argued but-for test questionable (rooftop pool), public benefit contributions too small ($100K infrastructure, $50K connectivity), and units unaffordable for average residents.",
        "Amendment to restrict $50K connectivity funds to within one-quarter mile of the development failed 3–5.",
        "Resolution reaffirming Corvallis as a Sanctuary City (referencing 13 Oregon legislative bills) passed 8–0.",
        "Resolution directing city manager to evaluate specific ICE-related legal avenues failed 2–6 (Yes: Olsen, Lewis). Key objections: Supremacy Clause limits city authority, city attorney had not reviewed final version, bias concerns for future land use decisions.",
        "Three standalone immigration directives passed unanimously: (1) post immigrant rights info on city platforms in English, Spanish, and other languages; (2) confirm restricted-access signage in all non-public city spaces (report back in one month); (3) encourage JEDI Board to solicit community empowerment grants for those affected by immigration enforcement.",
        "Letter to BLM opposing increased timber harvest on Oregon BLM lands passed unanimously; comment deadline March 23. Signatures via DocuSign.",
        "Corvallis Police re-accredited by CALEA for 30th consecutive year. City manager flagged two recent staff safety incidents at city facilities.",
        "Mayor Monn presented Mayor's Innovation Project conference recap: highlights included childcare facility subsidies as a potential city role (possible civic campus application), aging-in-place demographic trends, and escalating climate disaster costs."
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        "Pineview MUPTE approved 5–3 (Cadena, Mayers, Moorefield, Napack, Schaefer yes; Ellis, Lewis, Olsen no)",
        "Amendment to geographically restrict $50K connectivity contribution failed 3–5",
        "Noise ordinance amendment passed unanimously",
        "Sanctuary City reaffirmation resolution passed 8–0",
        "ICE enforcement action resolution failed 2–6",
        "City communication platforms directed to post immigrant rights information — passed unanimously",
        "Restricted-access signage in city buildings confirmed/verified — passed unanimously",
        "JEDI Board encouraged to solicit immigration-related empowerment grants — passed unanimously",
        "BLM timber harvest opposition letter authorized — passed unanimously",
        "Consent agenda adopted unanimously"
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      "followUps": [
        "Thursday work session: Public Works presentation on Transportation Safety Action Plan (TSAP) and Safe Streets For All findings",
        "Public Works to receive council direction on Safe Streets For All road safety project funding for FY27–29 budget window",
        "Downtown Vitality Strategy Task Force to deliver final report with findings and prioritized recommendations in June 2026",
        "City manager to report back within one month on status of restricted-access signage in city buildings",
        "City attorney/staff to continue monitoring legal avenues related to immigration enforcement per the three adopted directives",
        "BLM comment letter to be signed via DocuSign and submitted by March 23",
        "City manager evaluation contract to be awarded by April 8; ~$25K cost; further council discussion deferred to Thursday",
        "Mayor Monn to bring Mayors Innovation Project membership proposal (~$2,500/year) to a future council meeting",
        "Neighborhood bikeways prioritization discussion scheduled March 31 at 5:30 PM at City Hall",
        "North Benton County Bikeway open house at Corvallis and Albany Farmers Markets, May 16",
        "LBCC mobility hub ribbon cutting, April 2026",
        "TAC ownership transfer discussion with city ongoing (no timeline set)",
        "Planning Commission to begin outreach to developers on LDC barriers"
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      "notablePeople": [
        "Erin Gavigan — Executive Director, Corvallis Arts Center",
        "Julie Manning — Co-chair, Downtown Vitality Strategy Task Force",
        "Steve Clark — Co-chair, Downtown Vitality Strategy Task Force",
        "Rob Upson — Community member, Safe Streets For All advocate",
        "Amanda Bressler — Safer Walnut organizer, Ward 8",
        "Tyler Wilson — Fifth-grade teacher, Bessie Coleman Elementary; Walnut Boulevard cyclist",
        "Mary Francis Campana — Walnut Boulevard resident; husband Michael Campana killed on Walnut in August 2024",
        "Daniel Chambers — Ward 7, co-author of ICE resolution",
        "Bjorn Bolteys — Ward 4, Avery-Helm Historic District, adjacent to Pineview site",
        "Laura Duncan — Ward 4, Fifth and C, historic home owner; opposed Pineview",
        "Aubrey Sadiki-Cloud — Ward 7, ICE resolution supporter",
        "Brendan Kohlberg — Vice Chair, Planning Commission, Ward 6",
        "Mayor Monn — Brought ICE resolution to agenda; presented Mayors Innovation Project conference report",
        "Director Bilotta (Paul) — Community Development Director, primary staff presenter on MUPTE",
        "Eric Bagwell — ECO Northwest, third-party financial consultant on MUPTE but-for analysis",
        "City Manager (unnamed in transcript) — Provided staff guidance throughout; announced CALEA re-accreditation",
        "Councilor Ellis — Co-authored sanctuary city resolution with Napack; moved standalone immigration directives",
        "Councilor Olsen — Co-authored original ICE resolution; voted yes on ICE action resolution, no on MUPTE",
        "Councilor Cadena — Voted yes on MUPTE; led opposition to ICE action resolution on legal/practical grounds",
        "Councilor Lewis — Voted no on MUPTE (affordability); yes on ICE action resolution",
        "Councilor Moorefield — Voted yes on MUPTE; raised recusal concern on ICE resolution; moved BLM letter"
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