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Three of them.\nLet's go ahead and call to order tonight's meeting of the Corvallis City Council.\nCity recorder, roll call, please.\nMayor Maughan?\nHere.\nCouncilor Snappack?\nLewis?\nHere.\nMoorefield?\nHere.\nOlsen?\nEllis?\nHere.\nBowden?\nHere.\nShaffer?\nHere.\nMayors?\nHere.\nCadena?\nHere.\nEight councilors present, Your Honor.\nThank you very much.\nUp next, we have requesting approval of the agenda.\nLook for a motion.\nI will move to approve the agenda as written.\nSecond.\nMotion is seconded. Any discussion?\nSeeing none. All those in favor of the agenda as written, say \"aye.\"\nAye.\nAye.\nAye. Aye.\nAll opposed, say \"no.\"\nThank you. Passed unanimously.\nOn to our first pleasant item of the evening,\nis a recognition and appreciation for solar panel donation to Corvallis Community\nCenter in memory of\nJames Reese Miller. I'd like to invite up Meredith\nPetit and Cassandra Robertson.\nAll right. Well, good evening, Mayor and City Council.\nAs you announced, we're here to express our appreciation for all of\nthose involved in a meaningful project that you'll hear more about.\nThe Corvallis Community Center is the recent beneficiary of a solar\narray donated in honor of the late James, or\nJames Reese Miller. A generous contribution that\nreflects both community spirit and a commitment to sustainability.\nI'm going to turn it on over to Cassandra Robertson to share more about\nthe project.\nAll right.\nThank you. I'm Cassandra Robertson, owner of Abundant Solar.\nWe've been in business now for 21 years. Local solar installer.\nI've never been in this seat, but I've been in that seat a bunch of times,\nand just as nervous as I always am. So that's all fine.\nI usually am here asking for something, asking for a project,\nasking for money, asking for a decision, and\nthrough those years, sharing different projects, right?\nSo Unity Shelter and the Micro Shelter project that you very\ngraciously funded many years ago.\nEnergize Corvallis, which was a decade ago, putting\nelectricity conservation in the hands of our\nhomeowners and giving everybody a light bulb.\nAlso being a part of the Climate Action Plan and Energy Action Team.\nSo just a lot of reasons to be here, and then coming back\nand reporting\nhow we were doing. And I'm actually really glad, and just this is so different to\nbe here to give the City of Corvallis a really beautiful donation.\nYeah. So\nthis is what we did. In the middle of March, we built a solar\narray, a 46.8 kilowatt system,\non the Corvallis Community Center, long ago called the Senior\nCenter, which I keep messing up.\nAnd it's been really fun to let people know where this is.\nA lot of people still don't know where our community center is.\nAfter James left, I started tango dancing, and\nthat was there. So anyway, that's a sidetrack.\nSo this is a gift from Solar Installers of Oregon in\nmemory of my husband, James Reese Miller.\nHe died unexpectedly on September 20th, 2022.\nAnd when the solar community found out about this, they just offered.\nThey said, \"We're putting a solar system up in his honor.\" And it was so\namazing to me, and I couldn't really deal with it, so it took a little while to\nunderstand what that meant.\nThey just asked me to find a roof, and that's all I had to do.\nI didn't have to do anything. So very much.\nAnd I knew James would really want this to be something that was\ncommunity-oriented and also very visible, because he was just so pro-solar.\nHe wanted every roof to be covered.\nHis goal was to cover every roof in our community.\nHe did a lot in that direction.\nSo I wasn't sure where\nit was going to be. I just kept\nfeeling into it. Where is it? And then I called my good friend and colleague, Scott\nDivan,\nto talk about what could we do with the city, because this would be truly\ncommunity, and that's really what he would want, that it was going back into our\ncommunity.\nSo we worked over the last summer, talking with everybody that\nneeded to be talked to, to figure out where we could put it, and the community\ncenter became the place.\nWhen the solar community offered this, I thought\n10k system, a cute little system somewhere.\nAnd when Katie Martin at Elemental Energy, who was\nthe person who really spearheaded this project, I told her I thought it'd just be\n10k. She's like, \"No way. I was going to cover whatever roof you brought to me.\"\nSo that is how we got to 46.8. And for folks who don't really know how\nmuch energy that is, that is a huge system.\nHouses usually have about 10 kilowatts, so this is really a\ngenerous and really nice system.\nIt's going to power about 41% of C3,\nwhich is amazing.\nThese systems are going to last 25 years\nplus. We still have projects that are from the '90s that\nare still in operation. Not me personally, but there are solar systems in\noperation.So\nthis man was so passionate about solar.\nWhen I first met him in 2000, he was a sound engineer out from\nIndiana and couldn't find any work because there's 100 sound engineers in\nPortland, Oregon. And I asked him, \"What do you want to do\nwith your life?\" And he's asking me the same thing, \"What do I do with my life?\" I\nsaid, \"What do you love?\" He's like, \"I love renewable energy.\" And I said, \"Go\nfind somebody who knows about this.\" And hardly anyone was installing in 2000.\nSo he just really invested, and he became a journeyman so that he could own a\ncompany. He just saw the vision, and he made this happen.\nI want to just talk a little bit about solar too as it's\nreally inspiring. So the first modules from the 1950s could convert\n6%. Now that we're at about 20%, so that's a big\nleap, even though I was hoping that number would be even bigger.\nIt's about 1,000 gigawatts installed globally at this point from a\ndecade ago when it was one gigawatt.\nIt's the cheapest new energy electrical source.\nSolar costs have dropped 90%. It's cleaner, it's cheaper, and it's the\nfastest-growing energy source\nthat we have right now and the cleanest. It renews itself.\nWhen you build a panel, it's between one and five years before it's\nmaking that energy that it took to build the solar panel.\nSo it's really amazing.\nIt was experimental, I feel like, when we started, and I remember our first\ncustomer and how excited Seumas was when he opened Abundant Solar\n21 years ago. And it was still like we had to really prove\nits efficacy, and now it's just become way more mainstream.\nHe always was ahead of the curve, which I loved, and he\ncame out from Indiana with these old solar panels that he'd collected somewhere.\nAnd he was so excited when we bought our first place, and he could actually install\nthem, and they were just these rinky-dink little things, but they powered.\nThey just keep working. It's really an amazing technology, even these old ones.\nHe came home one night with a $25 LED light, and I was just\nhorrified. I was like, \"How can you spend $25 on a light bulb?\" That's when we\npretty much were using\nincandescent lights, and he was so proud of it.\nIt barely put out any light, but he was always cutting edge, cutting edge.\nAbundant Solar for many years had all vegetable oil-run\ntrucks. He was just always wanting to try stuff that was sustainable, and\nhe was always willing to put his time and his money towards that more than anything\nelse. It was just so inspiring.\nAnd that's what I think is so beautiful about this project is that he\nmade this project happen. So people come up to me and they say, \"Oh,\nit's so great that you did this.\" I didn't do it.\nHe did it from across, whatever your thoughts are around death, from\nacross that place. He actually inspired this project to happen based on how he\nlived his life, so I'm so proud of that.\nAnd he also built Abundant Solar to be a community\nresource because we kept small,\nkept local,\nwith a lot of\njust focus on quality, focus on community, so we could ride the ups and downs\nbecause the solar industry has not been consistent.\nIt is literally called the solar coaster, and it really is that.\nAnd now as the owner, I never thought I would own a construction company, but\nit's hard. So he really laid the groundwork to create a\ncompany that would survive so that we would have installers to fix your\nsystems, to be around, to really be here in our small Corvallis community.\nAbundant Solar alone has installed about 1,000 plus projects,\nwhich when I little bit do the math, it's approximately 10% of our\nhousing stock just from our company alone, and there's other companies, again, come\nand gone. We have a lot of solar in our community, so it's really inspiring, and\nI just love how much is here in the city, on city\ngrounds, and city buildings.\nAnd then just to inspire anybody who's listening to this broadcast and\neverybody in this room, it's just like we can really do a lot with what our\npassions are.\nThe smallest thing. He wasn't big and fla-- Well, he was kind of big and\nflashy, actually. But his\nheart, he just diligently kept building and just knew.\nHe would say to me, \"I wish I could volunteer.\" And I was like, \"Your work is\nvolunteering. You put all this extra time into making sure that our community\nis run off of the sun, and that's so amazing.\" And so just\neverybody's, your passions, your actions, just make a direct impact, even if we\ndon't realize that we're doing that.\nAnd then later on, you just don't even know how we'll inspire\npeople. And to inspire a 46.8 kilowatt\nsystem\non a building is really saying something. And it's not just him.\nWe can do this for each other in our community, and I feel so proud to be in\nCorvallis that we chose to... I went to college here. I brought him back.\nWe were like, \"We got to live here.\" This is really a special place.\nI'm\nso thankful to have this place that is a memorial to him, but\nalso, I'm just so proud of this community and thankful to all of you,\nespecially those of you who've been on the council for a long time, that I\nactually, when I was in this room, you were here.\nJust all the work and effort that goes into making a community that\nis vibrant and healthy and forward-thinking.\nWe're just really appreciative of that.\nSo I'm very proud to offer this gift tonight to\nthe city of Corvallis in honor of my husband, Seumas Reese Miller,\nand just in great gratitude for everybody who made this happen,\nwhich this is everybody who made this happen, plus others, for sure.\nAnd this is a really generous offering that just\ntouches my heart so much. You can tell.\nSo\nthank you.\nThank you, Cassandra. So just to recap where we're at with the city on this, this\nis our seventh solar array on city property, including\nPublic Works, the airport, the fire stations, and now the Corvallis Community\nCenter.\nAnd of course, as you know, this supports a lot of our strategic goals\nwith the city in terms of infrastructure, amenities, resilient and\nsafe city, as well as our sustainability\ngoalsAnd with that, I just want to\nexpress our appreciation from Parks and Recreation.\nWe know this will have a major impact on our operations there, but\nalso serve as an educational opportunity for our visitors.\nWe're working with Cassandra on a nice sign that will be placed at the\ncenter.\nAnd so that'll be installed in the next couple of months, and we hope to stay in\ncontact. Thank you.\nAnd I'll add appreciation\nto you as well as James and all those who contributed\nand who've kept pushing for not just this project, but all the\nprojects and the more to come out.\nThank you very much.\nCounselors?\nWhen I was at the Sustainability Coalition Town Hall meeting, at my\ntable group, one of the questions we had to answer was: What was the most inspiring\nproject? And everybody agreed that those solar\npanels on the community center were the most inspiring project.\nSo\nit's having an effect already.\nLove that.\nThank you.\nThank you.\nIt's also a block from my house.\nAnyone\nelse? Just jump on in if you want.\nNo? Thank you very much.\nThank you.\nYeah. Thank you.\nAnd if you haven't had a chance to go look at it, go over to the community center.\nOne, just go to the community center. It's fantastic.\nMm-hmm.\nBut look at the roof. It's amazing.\nI'll skip the tango, but...\nOh, I think...\nWe'll now move on to our next happy item of the evening.\nAnd as a proclamation, I get to do these from time to time, and this one means a\nlot to me. This is a\nproclamation for Fair Housing Month.\nWhereas April 11th, 2026 marks the 58th anniversary of the enactment of\nTitle VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, commonly known as the Federal\nFair Housing Act. And whereas fair and equal access to housing\nopportunities for all, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, disability,\nmarital status, familiar status, national origin, sexual orientation, or\ngender identity is a fundamental goal of our nation, our state, and our\ncity.\nAnd whereas housing choice impacts children's access to education, an individual's\nability to seek and retain employment, the cultural benefits we enjoy, and the safe\nconduct of our daily lives.\nAnd whereas housing is a critical component of family and community physical,\nmental, and emotional health and stability.\nAnd whereas the laws of our country, our state, and the City of Corvallis seek to\nensure fair and equal choice in all housing activities.\nAnd whereas ongoing education, outreach, and monitoring are critical to raising\nawareness of fair housing principles, practices, rights, and responsibilities.\nAnd whereas barriers to fair housing in Corvallis will be eliminated only through\nbroad-based and consistent cooperation, commitment, and community\nsupport.\nNow, therefore, I, Charles Maughan, Mayor of Corvallis, do hereby proclaim April\n2026 to be Fair Housing Month in the City of Corvallis, and call upon the\ncommunity to share in the responsibility of ensuring fair housing choice for all\nour members.\nThank you all very much for allowing me to do this\nprivilege.\nWe'll now move on to the other good thing, presentation on our quarterly\nhousing continuum updates.\nGive Brittany a moment to get things loaded up.\nOh.\nIs that microphone on?\nDarn it.\nThere it is.\nBut today, I get to come before you and talk about\njust quarterly updates associated with the housing continuum.\nWe're going to share, I'll share about the Housing Development Task Force.\nWe're 10 years since that was adopted by council\nand recommendations. Housing production,\na little updates about the Coordinated Homeless Response office, and then funding.\n2016, the Housing Development Task Force adopted\nrecommendations. There are about 30 of them.\nWe've completed most of them, but two.\nThe two that have not been completed is develop an inclusionary\nzone program.\nThat's been on hold waiting for state guidance and law changes.\nThere was a recent\nbill passed, Senate Bill 1521, that\nis focused more on the Portland Metro associated with inclusionary zoning, but\nso it won't affect our region yet. But we're watching and seeing\nif there will be further changes.\nAnd then, the second goal we have not been able to achieve quite yet is\nreceive and distribute donations of land and money for affordable housing.\nSo we haven't had any land donations.\nBut we did attempt some land banking earlier this year, but it was\nultimately unsuccessful.\nLast year, housing permitted in 2025, we had\n473 housing units. So diversity of housing types,\nmultifamily, 20 single family homes, and then\n151 senior housing\nunits. Compared to 2024, we\npermitted 83 housing units. So we're\nseeingThe benefit of a lot of the policy changes\nthat you adopted over 10 years ago,\nand knowing now that I'm older, some of this policy\nwork takes so much time. But 10 years later, we're seeing\na lot more production, which is fabulous.\nAnd in the next couple of years, we're going to have roughly\n2,000 new units of housing,\nand that's from affordable housing,\nmulti-rate, market-rate, and\nhomeownership.\nThe\nHOPE board, or Home Opportunity Planning Engagement board was\nalso--\nI should know the date in which it was.\nProbably around 10 years ago, too.\nLess.\nA little less? Okay.\nIt was pre-pandemic. At any rate,\nit was a board that adopted multiple goals and recommendations that\nhelped guide us towards the path of having policy\nrecommendations associated with houselessness and ways that we can\nincrease housing supply, but also have the needed supports in our community to\nhelp folks who are unhoused. There\nis\na recent reorganization within that board that now includes other\nmembers. So IHNCCO, Linn-Benton Housing Authority,\nthe CSC, Community Services Consortium, and\nBenton County is the lead, along with the City of Corvallis and\nPhilomath.\nThere is a HOPE advisory board meeting on Wednesday from 4:00 to\n5:00. If community members or councilors are interested in really\ngetting deep updates about houselessness, this is really the\nforum that folks should be paying attention to, attending and\nwhatnot. The HOPE advisory body is comprised of\nboth elected officials along with executive\nofficers and the CRO staff, Coordinated Homeless\nResponse staff, of which I'm a party along with Benton County,\nprovide updates during those meetings and work in partnership with a\nlot of community partners here in Corvallis and Benton County.\nSo, the regional coordinator is-- this was discussed at our\nlast meeting, but the state of Oregon is restructuring in how\nsome of the statewide sheltering programs and funding allocations come\nforward. Benton County Coordinated Homeless Response\noffice was selected, which is fabulous news.\nThey are waiting to get an executed contract and know the total\nallocation.\nOHCS, Oregon Housing Community Services, did open up an\napplication in Linn County again.\nSo I don't think they had a successful applicant, but that really matters.\nWe need to have\nproviders and coordinated\nresponses along our community, three-county area,\nLinn, Benton, and Lincoln. So I'm hopeful they will find\na successful applicant that will be a regional coordinator to work\nalongside the Benton County Coordinated Homeless Response office.\nThe CRO has a lot of work ahead of us.\nThere's going to be a community plan, a regional assessment of gaps and needs\nin our community\nis underway, building upon\nHouse Bill 1519 that was a strategic plan along with our\nHOPE recommendations. Staff from the CRO, again, led\nby Benton County Health Department, are engaging in local\nplanning efforts with homeless service providers just last week and\nongoing. They're on speed dial. Healthcare, behavioral health,\nsupportive housing, day-use hygiene providers.\nThere's going to be a significant amount of outreach happening in the coming\nspringtime,\nand plan must be submitted 60 days after\nallocations. So once Oregon Housing and Community Services\nsays it's go time,\nthe CRO team has 60 days to refine the plan, make sure it\nis viable, and\nidentifies gaps and needs within our community, and submits it to Oregon Housing\nCommunity Services. So a lot of work ahead.\nThe CRO is going to be talking about potential\nwork plans or work groups coming up at the HOPE\nmeeting on Wednesday, and really working on\nimproved referral pathways and accurate data collection.\nSo this could be a potential work group adapting new\ncoordinated entry by name assessment tool,\nensuring that data entry is consistent, a universal assessment\nand intake form for all providers.\nOutreach, of course, and engagement with providers, and then just\nstrengthening coordination and referrals within partners\nand homeless service provider response systems.\nThe other potential work group would be street outreach and encampment response.\nBenton County has had some meetings with some key partners.\nIt's been more organic, and not a formalized work group\nquite yet.\nBut they're really talking about ways that we can work collectively in\nparticipation to help meet the needs of unsheltered individuals.\nSo,\nthe county has additional resources through the\nHousing 360, which we talked about at length last fall,\nfor street outreach and response,\nin partnership with the Corvallis Daytime Drop-in Center.\nThe goal really is to connect unhoused, unsheltered\nindividuals, and\nhelp them seek shelter, identify shelter, and\nultimately, housing, of course.\nA lot of coordination and collaboration will be\nhopefully taking place with all parties.\nService providers, parks and rec, police, behavioral health,\nreally targeting\nmulti-jurisdictions, different\nareas, neighborhoods, and working in a targeted approach to help\nget unsheltered individuals under a roof.We've\nbeen discussing the structure and possibilities of shared agreements within\nthat.\nCommunity Development isn't a participant in street outreach in\ngeneral, and so this is a lot of the work that our friends at Parks and\nPolice and Behavioral Health, and of course the lead\nat the CRO office.\nFunding updates.\nContinuum of Care, I believe there's been some funding\ndecisions through CSE, Community Services Consortium,\nand Corvallis Housing First through the CoC.\nStatewide, the sheltering system through the Coordinated Homeless Response\noffice,\nwhich will then go to providers, and then more updates can be found at\nBenton County.\nNew funding and investments from Oregon Housing Community\nServices. It was a short session this\nFebruary in Salem. There are some new financial resources,\nwhich is good because it was looking like\nit was pretty bleak for a while. So I'm glad to see some bit of\nrevenue and some resources for affordable housing.\nSo $75 million for LIFT, Local Innovative Fast-Track money\nfor affordable housing.\n$25 million for preservation of affordable housing, rental housing, and\nmanufactured house parks. And then $20 million, which is going to\nbe transferred from the MIRL program, Moderate Income Revolving\nLoan, to the Mixed Income Revolving Loan program.\nAnd then last, the social service funding.\nThe city is working in close collaboration with United Way\nto send RFPs out to the community in the coming weeks.\nAs a reminder, last fall, I think, we\ncame before you about splitting that resource for category one\nin which the Coordinated Homeless Response office will be helping to deploy that\nresource of 240. The remaining 240,\nplus admin, will be through United Way.\nSo we are working with United Way to make sure that\nthe RFP processes, which will be two different ones, will\nbe clearly communicated. We'll have an opportunity for potential\ngrantees to come to a Q&A\nso they can ask which fund they might want to be interested in funding\nor applying to, et cetera. And so, we're working really closely with\nUnited Way on that right now.\nAs a reminder, category one\nis through the CRO, but it's for new, expanded, and/or improved homeless\nservices, really helping get unsheltered\nindividuals under a roof. And then category two is all\nsocial services, which can include homeless service provisions.\nAnd with that, thank you.\nThank you very much. It was a pleasant update, especially when you see the\nnumbers. I think we're headed in the right direction.\nCounselors, any questions?\nCounselor Napack.\nThe meeting on Wednesday, will that be recorded and available later to view?\nThe public meeting, so yes. It's through the county.\nBut yeah.\nOkay. Yeah. Okay. Thank you.\nYeah.\nCounselor Moorefield.\nWith the\nregional shelter coordination thing that's starting,\nwhat do you hope gets achieved? I saw that you talked about the plan\nthat's going to be required and so on, but can you say what you hope\nthe change will be that we'll see in the next year or two?\nThe state has done a lot of adoption of best\npractices of how we should be delivering homeless services throughout the\nstate,\nand a lot of them are based on HUD. And I'm excited about that,\nthat there\nwill be more coordination, better systems.\nIt's been fragmented for quite some time.\nWe're gathering more data, working on coordinated\nentry. Folks will be utilizing HMIS,\nHomeless Management Information System, where you can really\nhelp follow an individual to the path of shelter and\nhousing.\nI think we've seen a lot of great progress with the flexible housing subsidy\npool in partnership with Benton County and their\ncontracted service providers. And I\nthink there's opportunities for ongoing improvement\nand\nreally helping understand where the gaps are within the system and\nhow to then address those gaps.\nAnyone else?\nMs. Meyers.\nYeah. When you said you\nhope someone from Linn County\nwould also become a regional coordinator, what happens if\nno one from Linn County, since it's a regional system...\nJust wondering.\nYeah, I haven't been following that that closely.\nI'm\n90% certain there will be an entity that will be delivering that service.\nOkay.\nI was surprised that there wasn't a selected\nentity for the first go-around. I think there were just two counties that didn't\nhave a\nregional coordinator. So I'm looking forward to seeing\nwho that entity is, and then how we can collaborate with them.\nFolks, certainly in Linn and Benton County-\nYeah\n...\nneed to work really closely together. So, yeah.\nYeah, and you mentioned Lincoln. Are we assuming Lincoln already has?\nIt does. Yep.\nOkay. All right. Thank you.\nI'm thinking to the pause we had earlier with Hope when it was formed.\nYeah.\nIt had to have been 2019 because I served on it as a new counselor when it was\nbeing formed, so\nAnd I was a part of that in the nonprofit. Yeah.\nYeah.\nYeah.\nOkay, so we're not 10 years yet, but-\nRight.\nYeah.\nSeven.\nAll right. Well, thank you very much again.\nThank you.\nWonderful numbers, and I'll add to that later during my mayor's\ncomments.We'll now move on to community\ncomments.\nThe Corvallis City Council asks community members to register in advance, but also\noffers limited opportunities to sign up at the meeting.\nCommunity members may indicate their interest in providing comment this evening by\nusing the sign-up sheet in the back of the room now, or use the raise hand function\nin 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 our three-minute clock that's right there.\nWe will start with the pre-sign-ups. And we have David Barron.\nWelcome.\nTap, tap.\nThere we are.\nThere you go. Yeah, I\nthink it's on.\nIs it on?\nI think so.\nIs it?\nTap the front of it. The... Nope, it's not on.\nTry it now.\nYeah.\nThere you go.\nThere we go.\nThere you go.\nMy name's David Barron, I'm from Blodgett, Oregon.\nI live\noutside of Blodgett, but that's our postal\naddress. I'm a founder of a nonprofit called FRIEND, and that's\nFirefighters Reaching Internationally through Education as a Nonprofit\nDelegation, and we offer youth STEM firefighter camps.\nFor 27 years, I've been a Portland firefighter.\nAnd much like firefighters, you live in the community that you\nwant to live, and you work around the region,\nas you guys spoke about earlier.\nThis coming June, we're going to be doing a firefighter STEM camp with\nPhilomath Fire & Rescue. That's for 13 to 19-year-old\ngirls and boys. It'll be two days. The first day will be\nCPR and first aid certification,\nand the second day they will get dressed up in full firefighter turnouts\nand get to operate the Jaws of Life, and a chainsaw, and\nforcible door entry, and all kind of other fun things that we're partnered\nwith Starker and the Department of Forestry.\nWe have done this with other cities and communities in\nthe metro area.\nPortland is where this started,\nand we've ran this for three years, and we partner\nwith Gresham Fire & Rescue, City of Gresham, Walton Valley Fire &\nRescue,\nand many other firefighter volunteers from around the area.\nAnd my presentation here is to build a relationship\nand see about bringing this to the City of Corvallis\nand our community here.\nThat's wonderful. It sounds like a great program.\nYeah.\nI know somebody with a youth in Philomath, so I'll let them know.\nThank you.\nIf you'd like, feel free to... My information, I think I have a card in the back of\nthe room. Feel free to send me an email with some more information, and I'll follow\nup with you.\nPerfect. Thank you.\nCouncilors, any questions about that?\nCouncilor Lewis?\nI would also like more information because I work at a daycare, and they have\nsiblings, so I would definitely want more information just to see how that works.\nThank you. I have more information here I could leave.\nLet's see, your card here.\nThank you.\nCouncilor Ellis?\nI think this sounds like a very cool program.\nI work with high school kids, and I think some of them would really enjoy it.\nCorrect. We have already youth signed up.\nIt's only for\nyouth of Benton County. However, we've got Alsea,\nand some Kings Valley, and Philomath boys and girls\nsigned up. Spots are limited. There's going to\nbe 20 spots available, and I would\nimagine we're somewhere around six or so, and maybe after\nthis meeting we'll be more than double that.\nCouncilor Marz?\nWhat did you say the ages were again?\n13 to 19, so middle school and high school.\nOkay.\nAnd the idea is to offer STEM opportunities\nfor youth that haven't traditionally considered firefighting as\na career,\nand those that are in rural settings where these\nskills may be able to serve immediately in need of an\nemergency.\nMm-hmm.\nAnyone else?\nCool. Thank you very much, and-\nThank you very much\n... I look forward to connecting with you.\nThank you very much, Mayor.\nUp next, we have Wendy Burn.\nI think I saw her\nenter.\nHello, Mayor, and Council-\nHello\n... and City Manager.\nIt's been a while, and I just wanted to come tonight because I see\nthat the Monroe Avenue Corridor Study is on the\nagenda for discussion. And I think, well, that could be in the\nconsent agenda because it's all a thumbs up.\nBut I'm just here to speak strongly in favor of the whole process,\nbecause Public Works, and OSU, and the consultants did\nsuch a great job of engaging with the community and coming up with a\nplan that works for a\nlot of reasons and might have some problems.\nBut we shouldn't let perfect be the enemy of good.\nAnd the only real problem that I see is that it doesn't go all the way\ndown to the riverfront.\nSo I'm just hoping that this plan will engender something else in the\nfuture. So it's a lovely day, and\nwhen you get out on your bike and you ride from the university down to the\nwaterfront, when you get to 5th Street, the bike lane ends.\nAnd that's okay for me because I will just get in traffic.\nBut it's not okay for my mom, and it's not okay for my sister, and it's not\nokay for my friends that come here, and I put on a bicycle, and I want to take them\nto the riverfront. And so it'd be really great if that\nchanged in the future. So thanks for your time, and I look\nforward to hearing the discussion.\nThank\nyou.See\nif we have any drop-in commenters.\nDavid Rabinowitz?\nI think I'm getting better at saying your name.\nYou're getting closer.\nCloser? I try.\nAnyway, I'm Dave Rabinowitz, and I live in Ward 2,\nand I usually don't disagree with Wendy, but when it comes to\nMonroe Avenue, I have problems with the\nwhole design. I've been to all the open houses, I've put in\nmy input, and I still have serious problems.\nI think the bike track on the south\nside has serious problems, causes more\nproblems than it solves.\nNumber one,\nentering that\nfrom at 14th Street, you have to diagonally cross the intersection.\nThat is problematic. It means traffic\nlight issues and\nall that. Even worse, exiting it westbound at\n26th Street, at the last open house I was at, they admitted\nthey had no solution. It just didn't work, and it\ndoesn't work. In addition, bike access from\nthat bike track to businesses on\nMonroe is not available.\nPeople who want to get to those business on\nMonroe are probably going to ride the sidewalk on the north\nside of Monroe, and that's definitely not a good idea.\nIt's unsafe for everybody. And it's also\neastbound buses are going to cause problems with the cycle track,\nbecause somehow people are going to have to get from the sidewalk to the\nbuses. And I've seen similar problems in-- I\nspent some time in Washington, DC, and they had similar problems.\nPeople just stand in the bike track while\nthey're waiting for a bus. So that's not going to work at all.\nBut there are\nactual suggestions to fix that problem.\nFirst of all, Monroe should be a street, not a stroad.\nI hope people know what a stroad is.\nIf not, I've already given links to a website that\nexplains it. But basically, it should be something which\ndiscourages through traffic. If you're on Monroe, you're doing it because\nyou want to be somewhere on Monroe.\nSo basically,\nif you want to allow private cars on Monroe,\nyou really need to reduce the speeds, and you can do that with\nchicanes,\nand doing chicanes around bus stops.\nFirst of all, it gives better bus access and slows the traffic, and\nonce you've got traffic slowed down to 20 or lower, you don't need\nany special bicycle lanes or anything.\nBikes are just fine with 20 mile an hour traffic.\nAnd ideally, that whole\ncorridor would be\ncar free. You'd have buses, alternative\ntransportation, and pedestrians.\nAnd there's really no reason for that to be a through street.\nYou've got\nHarrison and Van Buren parallel to it.\nYou've got\nJackson just one block away. So I think the whole\nplan is\nnot a good idea. Thank you.\nThank you very much.\nQuestions?\nQuestions?\nNo.\nThank you.\nUp next is Tamara.\nTell me when I start.\nSorry. Whenever you're ready.\nTamara Musafia from Sarajevo, Bosnia,\nformer Yugoslavia.\nIn 1972,\nmy uncle, Mladen,\nhe's now rahmetli, but in\n1972, he took my brother\nand me\nto see my mama, who was in the Bosnia, in\nZenica, about to have a baby.\nBefore we could go on a train, we all\ngot variola vera\nvaccination.\nYugoslavia\nvaccinated 20 million people\nso that my mama and my baby sister\ncould live.\n20 million people. Yugoslavia stopped\nvariola vera\nfrom going everywhere in the world.\nYou now in America have children dying of\nmeasles, hemophilia,\nHIV, influenza. It's a bacteria that's very\npreventable. Now children are dying of that.\nYou have people, because\nyou have an idiot who is not even a doctor in charge.\nYou will get polio back.\nCuba!\nCuba made their own\nvaccine against COVID-19.\nCuba\nsent their doctors to Bologna, Italy, to\nfight COVID. Cuba went to\nAngola to fight racist\nregime of Elon Musk and his idiots.\nCuba did.CIA killed\nPatrice Lumumba, but Cuba stood with the people\nfighting. And I am here to...\nI will die. I don't know how many times my heart has to be\nbroke.\nBut\nevery\nUS president is a Caligula,\nand this guy who you now have in power, he's\nCaligula plus Nero in one.\nHe's going to kill you all. You need to know I am\nJewish. I have been a slave in Babylon.\nI have been a slave in Egypt. I was\ntaken by original fascists. After they\nbroke my temple, I was taken\nGod knows where. I was in Portugal.\nI know all this. I did genealogy. So I want to\ntell you, the people who do the best music, it's...\nCan I please talk? I have to tell you this, please.\nI can give you about 30 more seconds.\nPlease, please. I have to tell this. I'll die. I cannot do more.\nSo\nthe people who have the best music is .\nWe are the best in violin and\nlet my people go. This is people who suffered.\nAnd now you people, you don't understand, my country was\ndestroyed one million times. Caligula\nClinton, he went to blow up Yugoslavia after a b**w j*b.\nThis Caligula is now starting world war\nbecause of Epstein files. This is fascism.\nThat's their playbook. They are sexual\ndeviants, pedophiles, God knows what they are.\nI have seen them many times. Please, people, get to your\nsenses. I need to tell you about Serbia, and then I am done.\nI under-\nNow in Serbia-\nUnfortunately, your time's up.\nOkay, bye.\nYou're welcome to reach out to councilors-\nI cannot tell you. But please, people, know that where are you?\nS**t.\nThank you very much.\nBye.\nWe'll now move on to the consent agenda.\nI move to approve the consent agenda.\nSecond.\nWow.\nI'm a little offended there, Tony.\nI thought we'd just change things up a tiny bit.\nIn two weeks.\nAll right. We have a motion to approve, and it's been seconded.\nAll in favor of the consent agenda, say aye.\nAye.\nAye.\nAll opposed, say no.\nPassed unanimously. Thank you.\nCan I move on to unfinished business? I'm going to...\nThe city manager evaluation process update, and I'll hand it off to Counselor\nCadena.\nOkay, thank you.\nI'm assuming that you've all read my short memo in the packet,\nwhere I've offered up two alternatives for how we approach\nmoving forward with the city manager evaluation process.\nIn the interest of rigor, we should more formally discuss our\ndecision process and document our final decision.\nAt this time of discussing budget gaps and significant spending\nneeds, it's worth taking the time, even if it is only\nfor approximately 25K.\nIf we do plan to hire an outside consultant every year, we should\nalso state that and budget for it.\nSo I'm going to just basically say that I\nstand ready to successfully implement\nwhatever this council's final decision is.\nAnd I invite your discussion. I'll just\nstate for the record that I think moving forward,\ndoing it ourselves with a robust, repeatable process,\nI'm committed to making that happen and that'll be the direction that\nI'm moving, but I invite others' comments.\nCouncilors?\nCouncilor Ellison Moorefield.\nI believe that we do need to get an outside consultant\nthis year. We agreed at the end of the\nprocess in September to go out for an RFP and to do this.\nWe have promised the community that we're going to do it this year, and\nwe have discussed it for many years.\nSo I think that it is essential to follow through with our promise for this\nyear, and perhaps what we need to do\nat the end of that process is make a decision as to whether or not we want to do\nit\nregularly that way or if we have received enough information.\nBut we have talked about this for several years, and I think we just\nneed to do it.\nCouncilor Moorefield?\nA question first. You\nmade a recommendation at the end, or your personal opinion.\nIn your memo, you had two alternatives that are somewhat\ndifferent.\nWere you-\nNo, I-\n... attaching yourself to one of them or?\nI'm attaching my preference to alternative two.\nRight. Okay. That's what I thought, but I didn't quite hear the\nwords.\nAny other questions?\nCouncilor Meyers and then Shaffer.\nI don't have a question. I don't\nrecall that we made a promise that we would hire\nan outside consultant. I believe we decided to\nexplore the RFP process and then decide.\nThat's just my recollection.\nAnd I\nfeel\nthat...\nI'm not feeling convinced that we would gain\nenough to justify spending\n$25,000 on the process when\nwecreated a process already\nlast year that used much of what the\nRFP was written for.\nOr I mean the parameters\nwithin it. So I would vote no\nfor those reasons.\nAnd just for clarification, I would agree, I don't think there was a promise made,\nbut there has been a desire for previous councils to use an outside\nconsultant, and there was direction to go through the RFP process.\nThat's where we are today.\nCouncilor Shaffer?\nYeah, I am also in support of\ngoing through this process and hiring an outside consultant.\nIs that something we do\nfrom now until the end of time? No. But I think we owe it to\nourselves, the past councils, and to the community\nto be faithful to the conversations\nthen of having an outside look at what we\ndo and how we do it.\nI think the money is less important than that we\nget some fresh eyes and some independent eyes looking at\nour process to make sure we're doing it\nas well as possible.\nThis is something that\nwas talked about\nthree years ago in council, I believe, that we needed to change\nit. It was talked about\nin 2024 and in the process last\nyear.\nheard what I interpreted as a commitment to go forward\nwith this process, and I think we need to at least\nget some outside looks at this and some\nobjective, experienced, independent people\nhelping guide us through this process.\nCouncil Morefield?\nIn many ways, I'm on the fence.\nWhat I would say is that when we started talking about city manager\nevaluation last year, I was fully on board with getting\nsome outside help,\nprimarily because I was a new city council member last year,\nand I was hearing how it had been done in the past.\nIt seemed like there was not a sort of a fixed or a\ncodified way for the evaluation to happen.\nSo it made sense to get some help and let's get this done\nright and codify it so that it's replicable\nfor future councils so that they don't have to guess or reinvent the wheel.\nAnd that's what I'm hearing city councilors agreeing with, and\nI think that's very important that we\nestablish a well-designed process that meets the council's need as\nwell as the city manager's, and\nthen keep doing it. We wouldn't need a consultant\nin later years, or at least that would be my intent.\nThis would be a one and done.\nThe reason I'm on the fence to some degree now is because we went through a\nprocess,\nand with all of these requirements in mind,\nand I thought it worked really well and is continuing to work because\nwe're doing quarterly check-ins.\nI think if we took what we've already learned this year\nor exhibited this year and we could put it into\na codified form,\nwith the assistance of human resources, just like\nwe used during this recent evaluation\nprocess, then I think we could achieve the same end.\nI thought that the contract was going to cost less, which is\nthe reason I'm going in the direction of let's not\ndo this RFP, but do\nsomething rigorous that results in a well-established\nprocess is just because this is a bit spendy,\nand I think we can get to where we want to go without it.\nSo\nI'm going to vote\nin favor of alternative two.\nYeah, I'll go ahead and add my voice.\nI think I feel very similar to the way Councilor\nMorefield feels. I've always been a supporter ever since the\ncouncil, I don't know how many councils ago, said, \"I think we need to get\nsome outside help to come up with a...\" Because we did see a different process year\nafter year, and that's no way to\ntreat an employee, and it's also not good practice for good results.\nAnd the city manager is our employee, and we should treat him with respect\nto that role.\nI know my work with the state, I have a set process.\nIt's the same, and I know what to expect from it.\nAnd\nnow they do quarterly check-ins. It's kind of very similar. It's interesting.\nAnd I think that's best practice. So I was all in favor.\nI had no idea that the amount would be what the RFP came out with.\nSo I'm also in favor of alternative two at this point in time.\nWe have a framework to build off of.\nI think it needs to be, I think you used the word \"codified.\" I think we need\nsomething that becomes the set standard policy in how we move\nforward\nwith an evaluation, bringing in the outside\npeer review, peer questions as well.\nBut at this time, I struggle to justify in my\nhead and in my\nduty to be fiscally responsible for the\ncommunity's money to spend that kind of dollars for something that we\nmight end up with exactly what we have. We don't know.\nIf it was lower cost, I would totally support going out\nwith an outside assistant to do that.\nOn to other questions.\nCouncilor Ellis, then Cadena\nIf we agree to explore the RFPs, then I feel like then maybe\nall of council should explore the RFPs.\nUm, we had um, the city manager, the\nmayor, um, Counselor Cadena looked at the responses we\ngot. I think we should all look at them.\nWe did that when we were hiring an attorney, so I think that if we're\nexploring, then we should all be exploring the RFPs.\nUm, I do want to clarify, the process has been the\nsame since I've been on council.\nThe questions have changed,\nand different councilors have changed the questions, and we have\nmoved from different... We've\nused different formats to give our answers and bring them together, I think.\nAnd I don't know all the technology, but the process has always been the\nsame. It's always been directed by HR, but the questions\nhave definitely changed over the years.\nSo I think that our process is...\nAnd the concern often that was part of the discussion\nwas to\nput our HR director in an awkward position of\ndoing the evaluation for her boss.\nThat was one of the concerns that came up over and over again,\num, when we started talking about doing a different way of an\nevaluation, um, was we shouldn't be asking somebody\nwho's\na direct report to also be coordinating.\nUm, so those were the concerns. I think our process is always...\nBut the process we did this year was the exact same process that\nwe have always done. Questions definitely changed.\nI mean, I would argue slightly. Uh, I feel like when the process, I mean, the\ngeneral, I guess, but when the\nforms we use change and the questions change, the process changed.\nIt's just maybe the\nend result and how we try to get there, that stayed the same, which is receive\nfeedback, evaluate it, move forward with the decision.\nThat part's the only part of the process that stayed the same.\nUm,\nI feel like every time I turn around, we're trying to rethink, reinvent the wheel.\nSo...\nCouncilor Cadena, and then Shaffer.\nYeah. I'll make a couple of comments.\nFirst, I would echo what the mayor said.\nI don't think the process has remained the same, um, because,\num,\nat various times, uh, questions and approaches have changed.\nThat is a fundamental change in the process.\nUm, I think that as far as,\nuh, putting the HR, uh, manager, HR director\nin an uncomfortable position, uh, I would just comment that I don't\nsee that the HR director is in an uncomfortable position.\nI would also highlight that when we compared ourselves to other cities,\nthat's not an uncommon, uh, um, position for the\nHR director to be in. I would just make a comment that\nin both, uh, municipal organizations, corporate\norganizations, nonprofit organizations, there are functions,\nuh, which by definition have\na ethical and, um, uh,\nposition-related responsibility that's unlike others.\nSo to be clear, and those typically would include finance,\nHR, legal. Uh, those are folks who\ntheoretically have conflicts of interest if one\nmight argue. Um, but their\nprofessional ethics and standards require them to operate independently as,\nuh... I mean, I fully expect that, for example, in our own city,\npublic works will advocate strongly for a public works project.\nI fully\nam also anticipate that Director Engels, as a\nfinance director, um, has to balance the variety\nof, uh, constituents, uh, of staff, uh, positions\nthat he has to then use to come up with a budget.\nSo, uh, I'm going to defer to the city manager for just a\nmoment, and then I'm going to come back and make a motion.\nOkay, City manager.\nYeah, just because our HR director was mentioned here, um,\nI believe in front of the council, and certainly with me, the HR director\nhas said this is a normal course of business, both in,\nuh, her experience here in the public sector, but also her experience in the\nprivate sector, and she understands that role and is not\nuncomfortable with that.\nOkay. Um, I think, uh, to move us along, I'm going to make a\nmotion that we adopt alternative two, which is to utilize\nbest practices,\nthe ICMA Manager Evaluation Guide, the RFP\nresponses to craft a process which adheres to the objectives,\nengage the support of the HR director in this work, and report\nback to the council by the May 7th work session.\nSecond.\nUh, just to speak to that, I fully anticipate that at the May 7th work\nsession, I would bring back\nthe set of questions, the participants for both, uh,\nstaff,\num, mayor and city council, and peer evaluators,\nuh, a timeline, roles and responsibilities,\nuh, how I would direct the work, uh, using the\nHR director to facilitate the data\ncollection, uh, and being pretty clear about, uh,\nwhat the responsibility of the HR director is versus council\npresident.\nAll right. We have a motion and a second.\nUm, haven't forgotten about you, Councilor Shaffer, if you want to go ahead and\nspeak to-\nYeah, I would. Um, I will be voting\nagainst the motion. Um, I think there's several things\nhere. I think, um, in a lot of respects, the\nprocess has not changed.\nWe\nhave a set of questions. We ask the same people.\nWe have not made any move to include external peers,\nfor instance.Or to include anybody below\nthe director level from staff. I think there's a lot of questions that\ncould and should be looked at. And I feel like\nwe're\nsubstituting\nthe council president's knowledge and expertise for\nthat of a person who does this for a living, and I think\nwe're\nundershooting here. I would also note,\n$25,000 is 0.01%,\nroughly, of the city's budget.\nAnd for that modest amount of\nmoney, to the extent that that helps\nmake the city work better and run better\non probably a one-time basis, I think that's a rather\nmodest\ncharge\nfor us to accept. So I will be voting against it.\nI, as I said earlier, am in favor of having\nan outside party\nhelp guide us through this process.\nAny other discussion?\nCouncil Mayers?\nYes. I\njust need to point out that it isn't just the council president who would be\narranging what the questions and process would be.\nHe'd be working with someone who actually is a professional in the field.\nAnd, I also just wanted to\nsay it sounded like Councilor Shaffer was saying that\nwe need to do a process where\noutside peers and other people are\ninvolved in giving comments on the city manager's performance,\nand I believe that's\ngoing to be part of the proposed process. So...\nCould I?\nCouncil Shaffer.\nWe're presupposing what the recommendation will be.\nWe're also, I think,\nlimiting to the same people who have been involved in\nthis with the city for a long time, and I think\nI would like to see some people who can help us\nwith best practices and best\nprocess. And I...\nSo.\nCouncil Cadena, then I'll call on the question because we're kind of repeating same\ntalking points.\nOkay. I'll just deal with the first comment.\nYou don't have to presuppose. The RFP we sent out did include\nthat we would solicit peer evaluations.\nThat would be part of what I bring back on the May 7th.\nAnd I'll just leave it at that.\nLet's go ahead and take a vote, and city recorder, can you do a roll call vote\nplease?\nYes, Mayor.\nCouncilors Lewis?\nI'm sorry, I'm-\nI can restate the motion.\nThank you.\nThis is a motion to adopt alternative two, utilize the past practices,\nthe ICMA Manager Evaluation Guide and RFP responses to\ncraft a process which adheres to the objectives,\nengage the support of the HR director in this work, and report back to the council\nby the May 7th work session.\nYes.\nThank you. Councilor Bowden?\nNo.\nCouncilor Olson? Councilors Moorefield?\nYes.\nEllis?\nNo.\nMayers?\nYes.\nShaffer?\nNo.\nNapack?\nYes.\nCadena?\nYes.\nMotion passes five to three.\nThank you all very much.\nAnything else on the subject?\nNo, I thank you for your input. I will bring back\na work product that I trust all of you will find satisfactory.\nSure, we'll have a robust conversation.\nOkay. Moving on to our last-\nComment.\nCouncilor Moorefield.\nJust\na topic that I think we ought to cover when we get to the May\nreport back.\nI think one of the challenges that I've observed with this council,\nbut in the past as well,\nis that\nmost of us don't have experience with a chief executive\nevaluation type of evaluation.\nWe've all had, anyone who has a job, has been evaluated.\nBut the relationship between a board\nand a CEO, or\ncity council and a city manager, is a different kind of\nevaluation. It's a different kind of relationship.\nAnd\nit would be useful as we articulate what we want\nto achieve, to embed\nwhatever we end up adopting with that in mind,\nbecause I think that's sort of the core\nchallenge that\nlay people have with doing the kind of evaluation\nthat's required here.\nThat's all.\nThank you.\nYeah, I fully intend to do that. If you don't see that evident on the May\n7th work session, please highlight that.\nMy aim is to create a process that is both well-documented\nand that could literally be replicated year in and year out.\nMayor.\nCouncilor Ellis.\nAnd I want to make it very clear that\nmy concern with going through HR has absolutely nothing to do with our\nHR director. It has always made me uncomfortable, and it is\nnothing to do with my suspicions of our HR director.\nI think that she is honorable and does her work.\nI'll add, I never thought that you meant otherwise.\nOkay. Let's go ahead and move on to the Monroe Quarter Plan\nstudy,\nright, of Greg Gescher and Bill Werth\nThere we go.\nThank you very much. So for the past couple of years, the\ncity and OSU have been partnering, working\ntogether\nwith the support of\nPhil Werth of Kittelson Associates beside us.\nWe've been working on looking for opportunities to\nimprove travel on Monroe Avenue between 14th and\n26th Street. It's a project identified in our TSP.\nIn fact, both TSPs recognize the\nunique nature of this segment of roadway.\nWith the university on the south side, with a number of\ncampus entry points identified,\ncommercial properties on the north side,\nsurrounded by the residential areas.\nBoth plans recognize that unique nature in that\narea calls for some approaches that better\nfacilitate the travel of all modes along the corridor.\nSo tonight, we've\ncome to the end of our planning work, and we're here, and Phil Werth is going\nto present a recommended strategy for improving travel on\nMonroe to all modes.\nHe's going to give a little bit of information about the process we followed and\nthe options we considered that got us to our recommendation.\nWe'll answer any questions you have.\nAnd at the end of our presentation and discussion, we'll\nask you to consider\ndirecting staff to initiate a comp plan amendment process that\nwill adopt the plan into\nour transportation system plan.\nSo Bob, unless you have anything to add, I'll hand it off to Phil.\nI just wanted to say thanks to Greg.\nThis is a project that both the university and the city partnered\non, and I think it's just a great example of how the two organizations can\nwork together to accomplish shared goals.\nAnd so,\nin my mind, it was a smooth process that worked really well.\nI'm happy to be here this evening.\nGood evening, Mayor and Council. My name is Phil Werth.\nI'm with the firm Kittelson and Associates, and we had the great pleasure of\nworking with the city and with the university on this project.\nI've got a presentation of about 45 slides,\njust to let you know the number.\nI'll work through this quickly, highlight many of the\noptions that we went through before we got to the final preferred concept,\nand go through that in detail for you.\nBut would welcome questions. I would encourage you, if\nyou could, save them until I'm done, and then we'll take all\nthat you have. So, with that.\nAt.\nSometimes\npresentations get kind of...\nAll right. So,\njust a quick overview.\nWith respect to the project goals, the project actually began\nby the city and the university coming together and establishing goals\nbefore we were even engaged. These three really highlight\nwhat drove the process, if you will, what were the key objectives or\noutcomes both entities were looking to achieve.\nCertainly, first and foremost, that notion of ensuring that the corridor works for\nall travelers, regardless of mode.\nAnd secondly, that in that notion of it working, that it's safe,\nessentially equally safe for all users, regardless of the mode they\nchose.\nThere was also this key notion of strengthening the relationship between\nthe university and the city by making this place work\nmore effectively in that physical connection of\nbusinesses and residences to the north of the campus,\nto the campus edge, as well as well into the\ndepths of the campus.\nAnd then lastly, both entities certainly are continuing to plan for the\nfuture. And this corridor and its\nconcept has that opportunity to help both institutions carry\nforward with those plans.\nThere are a number of key successes and challenges\nalready in place with this corridor.\nEveryone knows who's been to Corvallis, that when you go to Monroe\nAvenue, you can expect to see a lot of pedestrian and bicycle\nactivity. It really doesn't matter what day of the week, what season of the\nyear.\nIt's a very active, vibrant place, and it's both because of the students\nand staff that are moving to and from the campus, but also the\nbusinesses themselves that are there, and then the residents that are also\nin the area.\nIt also is your most frequently served\ntransit corridor in the entire city, and we were very aware of that\nand wanted to make sure that any recommendations continued to\nenhance the efficiency of transit on\nthis corridor.\nSo a few of the challenges.\nThe businesses on this corridor depend on freight, so we need to make sure\nthat freight still works.\nWe have a limited right of way. There's not the luxury of\njustexpanding this facility to meet\neveryone's need with the most ample facilities.\nAnd then lastly, of course, that notion of it's built on both sides of the street.\nSo a few successes and\nchallenges that we face.\nIn terms of highlights for the engagement process, it really\noperated at three levels. Among the\nprofessional staff from the university and from the city, we had\nseveral meetings. They were actively involved in working through that notion\nof what are the options, what are the criteria we should use for\nselecting them. Among the business and\nproperty owners on the corridor itself, we had more direct\ninteraction with them than we did the general public for obvious reasons.\nWe wanted to make sure they were aware, they had opportunities to\nengage with us, to help us recognize how to best\naccomplish the goals of the project.\nAnd then with the general public, a number of different types of\noutreach activities were used. We used online\nsurveys. We have this thing called an interactive mapping tool, where\nyou can get into the map and place a very specific\ncomment to a very specific location to help us understand the\nperspectives of the general community.\nAs well as then open houses and other ways of reaching out and\nengaging with the broader community.\nSome of the early input that we received about the corridor\nis captured here. That notion that Monroe Avenue\nreally is a unique place, and I believe it to\nbe that case. That notion of it is not simply\nan interface between the community and the university, but this\ncommercial corridor that doesn't exist on any other edge of the\ncampus, and that's part of what makes it unique.\nMonroe has that character that makes people want to\njust come and be.\nAnd I think that's part of the motivation for this project is to\ncontinue to encourage that to happen.\nSafety and accessibility, of course, is very, very high on\nthe list. The idea that improvements are needed, that the status\nquo isn't sufficient.\nAnd one\nearly member participating in all of this said, \"Now's\nthe time to think big.\" So we tried to accomplish all of those things.\nThis is just an example of some of the feedback that\nwas received when we did provide a community-wide\nonline survey. We asked the question, what transportation\namenities would you like to see enhanced along Monroe Avenue?\nThey had an opportunity to select more than one thing.\nBut what you'll see on the left really highlights the\nthings that gathered the most votes, if you will.\nThe idea of\nproviding better crossings.\nCrossings are really the thing that happens most on this\ncorridor. More people cross it than go along it, for example.\nBetter separation, that means better separation between the modes.\nBetter lighting, of course, for obvious reasons.\nWe all know what it's like to live and drive and walk and ride bikes\nin the cold, dark winters of Oregon.\nMore space, and I think in this respect, it is not only for moving,\nbut then also for resting and\nengaging people along the corridor, as well as the businesses.\nAnd lastly, wider sidewalks.\nThere were several guiding documents that we worked\nthrough in the beginning of the project.\nThe city's transportation system plan really provides\ngreat guidance in terms of what has the city already anticipated\ndoing on or near the corridor.\nThe purple stripe through the middle of the graphic is the\nMonroe Avenue corridor, and project\nPB16 is what we've just accomplished by doing this\nMonroe Avenue concept\nplan. But you see other planned improvements,\nprimarily focused on pedestrian and bicycle improvements,\noccasionally something that's related more to motor vehicle\nissues on the corridor.\nIn addition to the TSP and other city documents,\nOSU has its own set of planning documents that\nprovide great guidance, and reflect,\nin this case, the Corvallis campus vision,\nwhat I found to be real strong parallels between the university and the\ncity.\nThe notion of sustainability, safety,\nimproving the quality of life for the residents and\nthe staff and the students that make up Corvallis.\nAnother document of consequence is the OSU\n2030 Sustainable Transportation Strategy.\nIts focus is on\nhelping the university reduce its impact through\ntransportation on the community.\nWe call it Transportation Demand Management, or TDM.\nOne of the 15 action items on this\nplan is the Monroe Corridor redesign.\nSo this is where that partnership came together.\nAnd lastly, the OSU Campus Transportation Plan\nidentified Monroe Avenue as a key corridor that needed to be\nimproved, in part to\nmake it more open and accessible to the community,\nto define gateways and improve facilities that welcomed\ncommunity members to the edge as well as into the campus itself.\nSo\nwith all of that as the background then,\nwe began the project, and early on, we came up with five\nconcepts that we worked through in a variety of ways.\nI'm going to describe these very quickly, show you images of them,\nand we can always return to them if you'd like.So first,\nwhere are we on the corridor? We're looking eastbound on Monroe,\nand we're at the intersection of 21st and Monroe.\nAnd I wanted to show you this photograph because now every\nimage that you see is of a similar kind of\nperspective looking east on Monroe Avenue.\nThe first concept is what we called a buffered\nwestbound bike lane with a shared eastbound\nlane. So again, we're looking eastbound, so that shared lane\nis the one that's going away from us in the image, and the\ncyclist would be riding in the travel lane with the motorist,\nwhile in the opposite direction, the westbound direction,\nthe cyclist would be riding in a buffered bike lane.\nAn example of this in real terms is\nhere. This happens to be in San Diego.\nThe reason why we created the bike lane going in the westbound direction\nis you are climbing a grade on Monroe, while in\nthe eastbound direction, then you would be riding downhill.\nAnd that aid of riding downhill is what made\nsome of us feel comfortable that this might be a possible\noption to consider.\nAnother option that we came up with was what we call the\nfully separated cycle bicycle facility.\nIn this case, what you see in the image is\na lane in each direction, a bicycle lane in each\ndirection, that's fully separated from the motor vehicles, both\nhorizontally and with some kind of vertical, like a curb,\nseparator.\nIn this drawing, what you see is a lane in each direction.\nTo accomplish this, we would unfortunately have to lose all of\nthe on-street parking or that space that on-street parking\nuses today. It would be committed to this kind of a\ncross-section.\nKeeping us moving along, here are some photos of how those\nkind of buffered, fully separated bike lanes are sometimes\ninstalled in cities. The photos that you're seeing, we try to\nalways find from similar communities, a college community, in other\nwords, typically trying to stay under 100,000 just\nso that it better matched your circumstances.\nA third concept is what was called the bike boulevard treatment.\nAnd what you see simplistically shown is the notion\nof bicyclists riding shared with\nmotorists. How do we accomplish this?\nIt's really through the effort of calming the street,\nmaking it\nuncomfortable to drive fast, and really discouraging\nmotorists from driving here unless their purpose is to reach\nsomewhere on Monroe Avenue or in the very near\nvicinity.\nAnd that would then, with those lower volumes of traffic at lower\nspeeds, make it more comfortable for riders to share the lane.\nHere's examples of what those look like in real life.\nAnd you see in both of these photos how the roadway\nactually takes on a curvilinear type of alignment that helps to keep\nmotor vehicles moving relatively slowly.\nNot something that would be as easily accomplished on Monroe simply because\nit's so narrow.\nThe fourth concept is what we call the transit-friendly street.\nThese streets really promote the use of transit.\nIt has its focus on efficient movement of the transit\nvehicle as well as very high accommodation for\npedestrians who are becoming transit riders or have\njust disembarked and are\ncloser to their destination. Again, similar to the last\nexample, what makes this work is when we lower the\ntraffic volumes, or we don't allow private vehicles to\noperate on this type of a street. If it's only freight\nand transit vehicles, then of course, cyclists would find\nample opportunity to ride more comfortably in that\nshared lane kind of treatment.\nAnd then finally, there are\nphotographs of what transit-friendly streets can look like.\nThe last option is what's referred to as a curbless\nstreet, or sometimes it's called a festival street.\nWhat\nyou're striving to accomplish here is to\nalmost eliminate the notion of the street being a divider between one\nside and the other. And you do it by all\nkinds of treatments, including the removal of a curb,\nthus something you're stepping down and up,\nand instead the plane of that\ncross-section is relatively flat, much more\naccessible for those in wheelchairs or in need of other\nmobility devices.\nIt's also a street that, like the name implies,\nfestival street,\ninvites opportunities to create areas\nand times for celebrations of one form or\nanother.\nSo with all of those options in\nfront of us, and a last set of photographs\nof what a curbless or a festival street can look like.\nThe\nphotograph on the right is local. That's Sherwood, Oregon,\nand that's their old town downtown in Sherwood, if you've ever\nbeen there.\nSo some examples of what they can look like.\nThe preferred concept\ntakes advantage of that notion of providing a\nvery separate facility for the cyclist that\nis protected because it's both horizontally\nseparated as well as vertically separated.So I'm going to talk from\nthe\nsouth side or the right-hand side of the graphic\nand go north. So you have a wide sidewalk with a\nbuffer strip where you see tree wells, and then you\nhave what's called a two-way cycle track.\nIt's very similar to what's been\ninstalled on Washington Way through the OSU campus.\nSo cyclists ride in both direction in that two-way\ncycle track, but they're separated from the motor vehicles by at least\na two-foot vertical and horizontal separator.\nThink of it as a curb, and a photograph of that\nwould look like this.\nThe photograph, especially on the left, is very\nstrong representation of what this concept would or could look\nlike on the ground.\nYou've got that two-way cycle track, and then you see the bright white curb.\nIt actually has\ngreen street treatments so stormwater could flow into\nthat and be initially treated before it's removed off-site.\nAnd then the travel lanes and the rest of the facility.\nI'm going to go back to show you dimensions so you can\nmore fully appreciate what is it that would come about\nwith this kind of a treatment. So on the south side, the OSU\nside of the street, there would be at least a 10-foot wide sidewalk,\nand then a five-foot buffer where the street trees would\nbe located. That's between the curb and the sidewalk.\nThen you'd have a 10-foot two-way cycle track with a two-foot\nwide separator,\nand then two 11-foot travel lanes.\nAnd then we finally get to the far side of the street.\nThat zone today is almost entirely on-street\nparking. But what you're seeing here in this picture\nis the notion that it can really take on a variety of\npurposes. It can be on-street parking that could\nprovide freight access, it could be\nquick loading zone areas, it could serve\ngeneral purpose on-street parking.\nBut it also has the flexibility to become a planted area,\nthus the street trees and the plantings that you see.\nOr it could be a cafe zone where restaurants and other\nbusinesses could put out tables and chairs for people to take\nadvantage of.\nSo a great deal of flexibility and variety there.\nAnd then lastly, the concept would accomplish a nine-foot\nsidewalk area, which is in many areas of\nMonroe today, much wider than what we have to work with.\nThe concept then accomplishes all of the key objectives,\nseparate, safe, distinct facilities for each mode of\ntravel,\nand especially that notion of creating separation for the\ncyclists who are no longer riding adjacent to the travel lanes.\nNow I'm going to give you a different view of the corridor.\nInstead of looking down the street, we're all like birds\nflying over the street.\nAnd I'm going to fly you down the corridor from starting at\n26th on the left, and we'll go all the way down to\n14th. I'll explain much of what's on\nthe drawings as I go. So starting at 26th,\nI think\nsome important things to highlight. First of all, why is it light gray?\nThe whole intersection is light gray because what's proposed is for the\nintersection to be raised to the top of the curb.\nIt's what we call a tabletop intersection. What's the value of that?\nPedestrians have no hazards in crossing the street.\nThey're always crossing at the same grade.\nFor motorists, they get this physical cue that they should\ntravel slowly because they're driving up a ramp to get to the\ntop of the table, which is the intersection itself.\nThat is then coupled with all of the other treatments that you see.\nFirst, it's an always stop control intersection.\nThe value of this is that every user of that intersection\nstops,\nlooks, makes contact, typically eye contact, with the\nothers present, and then recognizes their opportunity to\nmove forward in the right of way.\nGoing diagonal across that intersection is a skip stripe\nthat's green. That represents how a cyclist,\nif I was riding westbound through the cycle track,\nwhen I reached 26th, if I was to continue going west\ndown onto Arnold Way, I would take that diagonal\nroute.\nSo that tells the cyclist where to ride, but it also\ntells everyone else in the intersection where to expect that\ncyclist to ride to get across the intersection and continue on\ntheir path.\nThe cyclist that's coming the other direction is against the curb on\nArnold, reaches the intersection, and then would just\nlogically enter into the cycle track because it would be against the\ncurb where they're riding.\nSo that's how you enter and exit the cycle track at\n26th.\nNow, there are several things here to see, so\nI'll talk you through them.\nMay I stand and point?\nIt would be so much easier, thanks.\nYou'll have to speak up so the microphone can pick it up, though.\nOkay, I'll speak louder.\nOkay.\nSo\nfocusing here on the cycle track, what you see here is a\nblue rectangle. That blue rectangle actually represents a\ntransit shelter.\nThis gray area is a raised island where if you're waiting\nfor the\nbus, you could stand on that raised island, or you could be in the\nshelterBut this is where if a bus is coming from\nthe campus, and many of them do, it would make the right-hand turn,\nrest in the travel lane against this curb, and people\nwould board and alight from this island.\nSo there's no conflict for these pedestrians\nresting or waiting here with these cyclists riding\nthrough the cycle.\nSo then continuing down the corridor, you see this kind of\na hatched treatment that's just showing that instead of\nproviding on-street parking at this location, maybe this is a\nlocation where you would have those street cafes.\nGiven the businesses that are in this area already,\nthat might be something that they would do.\nAnd then continuing down, just to kind of help you recognize what we're\ntrying to show here, here we're showing on-street parking.\nAgain, you have businesses who need loading zones, who need freight access,\nso these on-street parking spaces could provide that kind of freight\naccess.\nSide streets are also another place where freight access would be available.\nYou have street\ntrees in the street tree wells in a\nvery kind of rhythmic pattern. You have pedestrian-scale\nlighting all the way down the corridor, as well as\nstreet lighting that's helping motorists and cyclists to\nbe able to see as they pass.\nWhen you get to another intersection, this happens to be the one at 25th.\nIt's light gray, again, because it's a raised intersection.\nBut there's a lot going on here that's again trying to help people\nunderstand where they should be traveling.\nIf you're a cyclist and you are in the cycle track and you want to get to the north\nside of the street, you reach the intersection, you can cross in that\nskip stripe.\nAnd that's a very common treatment all the way down the corridor.\nThis is\nthe treatment that you would find anywhere in the United States.\nThis is according to the groups.\nThese islands are large enough, they're six feet wide, so they're large enough to\nserve as a refuge to protect a cyclist who's trying to\ncross or a pedestrian who's trying to cross.\nSo you have a lot of protection that's happening at every intersection for\nall of those.\nI think I've pretty well talked you through all of the visual\naids that represent what the concept is, but I'm just going to take you\nfurther down the corridor. I've moved down to now Memorial\nPlace, coming out of OSU, 23rd\nto the north. And again, you see another transit\nstop on an island where pedestrians could wait\nsafely while they're out of the flow of motor vehicle traffic, other\npedestrian traffic, or the bicyclists.\nContinuing down to 21st. 21st, if you'll\nrecall, was where we were all looking down the street.\nSo that view was right here.\nAnd then toward Kings Boulevard, I wanted to\nhighlight this feature, which is a unique one on the\ncorridor. This is meant to represent the notion of a\nmid-block raised pedestrian crossing.\nThis is in an area of the campus that really\nmatches quite nicely with an existing pedestrian corridor\nthat enters into the campus and would give the university a\nchance to leverage not only this facility, but then this new\ncrossing to help people get back and forth between\nbusinesses and the university\nwithout necessarily having to go to the next intersection up or down\nthe street.\nKings Boulevard, as you know it today, it's always stop control.\nIt would continue to be always stop control, and the same kind of\ntreatments that I've described before.\nOne thing I'll highlight\nis...\nIn fact, let me just go back.\nI'm coming back one\nto show you\nor to answer a question you haven't asked me, but\nI'll explain anyway. You see as the cycle track\napproaches an intersection, that it bends away from the\nintersection,\nand then after the intersection, it bends back.\nWe do that for two reasons. One is to create this island,\nthat refuge for pedestrians. But the second value of this\nis for cyclists who tend to like to ride fast when it's a\nnice straight thing to ride on. This\ndeviation in the direction of travel causes them to slow\ndown. And just like the motorists, they'd be riding up a ramp to\nget to the top of the intersection.\nSo all of these things combined together work to slow\ncyclists and motorists down as they approach these intersections.\nSo\nI'll keep moving\nbecause here's the end.\nSo our last\nintersection before 14th is at 15th.\nAnd again, if you see very similar treatments\nbeing applied at this intersection.\nWhen we get to\n15th, 14th intersection with Monroe,\nwe have a traffic signal at 14th, and that\nprovides us with that added benefit if you're the bicyclist.\nNow, if you're a bicyclist westbound,\nyou reach the intersection, we can make this traffic\nsignal allow that bike to go and no one\nelseThey get a separate phase of the signal\nthat protects them to make that move.\nWho can go with those are pedestrians that would\nnot be conflicting with that. These pedestrians\ncould go with that bicycle.\nSo you have a lot of protection due to the fact that you have a signalized\nintersection with this kind of a crossing treatment.\nAnd then lastly, this notion of a crossing treatment like this,\nor even at 26th, it has existed here in Corvallis.\nIt was in place on\nWashington Way in an earlier phase of the Washington Way\nImprovement project\nnear the intersection of Benton Place at Washington Way, not\nfar from the signal at 15th. And so we had that\nsame kind of diagonal treatment, and we made the Benton Place\nintersection always stop with Washington.\nThat's been revised now because we've finished the site,\nso it's no longer needed.\nI talked you through that very quickly,\nbut I'm happy to answer questions.\nI'll get through the last few slides, and\nthen we'll take questions. So there's some current development\nhappening along the corridor. I'm certain that you're very much aware of it.\nWe wanted to acknowledge that as this project, the\nLong Collaborative Innovation Complex, as it was in\nits design phases, it was occurring at the same time this project\nwas. And it gave us that opportunity to ensure that what\nwe were coming up with as good ideas, and ultimately the\npreferred concept, was consistent or complementary with\nwhat's happening with what we call the CIC building.\nAnd so, what we're simply trying to highlight here is\nalong that frontage, which is between 26th and Memorial\nPlace,\nwhere the development is occurring, the street frontage is going to be improved\nto look very similar to what you just saw in the concept\nfor\nMonroe Avenue\nto the south curb line of Monroe.\nThe university has gone further. This is still in a\nconceptual or schematic design. It's still in an idea\nstage. In other words, it's not under construction by any means.\nBut\ntrying to move further east on the corridor from Memorial Place,\nwhich is where this picks up, and continuing to go east\nalong Monroe,\nmaintaining that pattern of a five-foot wide\nconcrete sidewalk area that has tree\nplanter wells, and then a 10-foot wide sidewalk to the south of that.\nSo what you saw earlier in the diagrams would\nbe continued along the corridor\nas OSU continues to move forward with its plans.\nBriefly, in terms of community feedback, once we reached the point where\nwe felt like we had a strong concept of a\npreferred alternative, we took it to the community\na couple of different ways, but most particularly in an open\nhouse format.\nAnd of those who participated in the open house, we found\na very strong\npercentage of those folks expressing support for\nthis concept\nthat\nI've just taken you through. They appreciated the notion that we've got wider\nsidewalks on both sides of the street.\nThey loved the idea of the raised intersections,\nmore accessible for all users.\nEspecially appreciated that notion of a fully separated bicycle\nfacility that provided that added degree of protection.\nAnd of course, the whole notion of more opportunities outdoors\nalong these sidewalks to find respite, to just\nfind a friend or neighbor to have a conversation with and enjoy the\nbusinesses in the area.\nNear the end of the project, we discovered that we had made an error in part\nof the technical work that we had done with regard to parking\ncapacity in the area.\nAnd so briefly, what we did in\nterms of parking assessment was to take a look at each of\nthe streets that you see highlighted in yellow and measure not only\nthe parking supply on street, as well as all\nof those white boxes that are surrounded in blue.\nThose are the off-street parking lots in the area.\nWe measured the supply in all of this, as well as\nthen the demand for parking in that on-street and those\noff-street lots over the course of weekdays and\nweekends.\nAnd in short, what we found is\nthat the peak hour of on-street demand\nput this area, all of those yellow streets, at\nabout 82% occupied. And that's a\nwonderful number for a parking guy because you hope to\nbe around 85% occupied if you're in a kind of an\nactive commercial area, because it means those businesses are doing\nokay,\nand there's still a space or two available for the next\ncustomer to come and park.\nSo you've got some flexibility to accommodate that added demand.\nSo 82% full for the on-street, but the off-street\nwas less than 50% full. And therein\nlies an opportunity for the area in terms of\nbetter leveraging that off-street parking to do more\nin service to those businesses and residents that are in\nthat area.Kind of simple\nconclusions from all of the work with regard to the parking was\n82% full. That's good.\nThat means we've got a good amount of parking that's\nmeeting the demand, that you're not seeing demand that's exceeding\nyour capacity to serve them.\nThen because this\nparking on-street on\nMonroe and those side streets just one block to the north,\nthey really need to be focused, their management needs to be focused\non serving customers and visitors\nof those businesses, not the employees, not the students.\nReally, not even the residents,\nif residents have off-street parking, which\nthere's certainly plenty of in this area.\nSo by the end of the work,\nwhat we concluded was,\nif there is going to be a reduction in on-street\nparking along Monroe, and that's what the plan recommends, is a\nreduction of on-street parking along Monroe.\nWe need to make sure that as a city, as you manage the on-street\nsupply, you have your focus on ensuring that that\non-street supply supports the customers and visitors of the\nbusinesses and\nthose that are in the area.\nAnd\nespecially that notion of accommodating freight, so\nensuring that loading zones and other kind of\ntemporary parking areas are available to support\nfreight access to the area.\nSo what's next is kind of what comes back to what\nGreg said at the outset. So I'm going to turn it back\nto you, Greg.\nWell, we'll go ahead and open it up.\nI think your mic's off still. There you go.\nThank you. We'll go ahead and open it up to any questions that you might have.\nOkay. One thing I'd like to add, there's another place where we have a diagonal\ncrossing, and that's in South Corvallis on Highway 99, which is a very busy\nroad in Crystal Lake. And when that was first built, I was like, \"I don't\nknow about this.\" But now that I've used it many times, it's actually\nvery efficient and a much better way to cross the highway.\nSo just wanted to throw that out there.\nCouncilors? Councilor Ellis, and then Napack.\nI just want to make it clear to the council, because I went to all those open\nhouses, and I don't think everybody else can say that.\nThere were a lot of eyes on these maps and a lot of\nactive conversations.\nThere was at least\none where the OSU students who were studying transportation were all there, because\nI talked to quite a few of them. There were a lot of people who ride their bikes\nup and down. There were a lot of residents. There were a lot of business owners.\nThe outreach for this project was exceptionally good,\nand they did a really lovely job of incorporating feedback.\nSo I am very comfortable\nadopting this plan because I understand the level\nof effort and work that went into it, and I just want to make that really\nclear. There's some things you're like, \"I don't know about that.\nI don't know about that.\" That was all discussed at\nall of the open houses. And at this point, and I've\nheard Dave, and he has definitely been heard,\nbut I do think the number of people who have looked at this\nhas been incredibly impressive. So I want to make that--\nI feel really comfortable with adopting this\nplan. I could move to adopt.\nBut I can wait for a couple of questions.\nYeah. Let's get to a couple.\nCouncilor Napack.\nThank you. Great\npresentation. I think anything would be an improvement,\nto tell you the truth. I went through there today\nat 15 miles an hour at 10 of the hour,\nwhich you can imagine,\ntried not to run over anyone. But wow, it's really busy.\nThe other thing about parking, you're saying there's 15 stalls that\nwould-- How many stalls are there now on Monroe\nbetween, you said, 14th and 21st?\nBetween\n14th and 26th there's-\nOh, 26th.\nYeah. I'll say it's 45.\nYou would reduce that to 15?\nThat's what's shown in the preferred concept, yes.\nOkay. All right. Well, that gives me pause,\nbecause I've spent probably a decade parking\nnear OSU and on the side streets and on the street itself, and\nthat's pretty crazy.\nThe other thing I was wondering is if Campus\nWay,\nwhich is in the OSU plan,\nhow close is that to being\nlaunched,\nimprovement, and could that be incorporated in some way\nto\nmove traffic from Monroe onto Campus Way in an\neasy\nway,\nthat's not\nintrusive on the campus, say for other bicyclists and\nwhat\nnot?\nOSU is\ngetting ready to kick off a feasibility study of Campus Way\nto look at ways to move, especially\nbikes and pedestrians up and down that corridor, but other vehicles as\nwell. I'm not sure that that would\nserve to take traffic from Monroe and move it into campus that way, in\npart because of\njust the obstructions, kind of there's a building that crosses the\nCampus Way there\nAnd the nature of campus, just we're trying to not have as\nmany vehicles going through it. So what that study would look at\nis\nhow to make it safer,\nhow to support bikes and pedestrians primarily.\nSo I'm not sure that would really be\na substitute, or I know you're not saying a substitute, but I don't know if it\nwould take too many vehicles from Monroe.\nThank you. Not vehicles, but bicyclists and pedestrians.\nBicyclists and pedestrians, potentially. Yeah.\nIf say they're\ncoming from Harrison Boulevard, that way down, and they\ncould go through campus,\nwest to east that way,\nmore efficiently in the future,\nwith the ideas that we're looking at for that area.\nSo,\nsure. But they might have a different destination than those folks that\nare wanting to move up and down Monroe.\nSo parking.\nImportant.\nI have Councilors Cadena, Moorefield, and Shaffer.\nThank you for the presentation,\nand for the process. Seems like a\npretty amazing process. So I won't echo what Councilor Ellis said about the\nprocess, for sure.\nI do have a question because I know,\ngiven the available off-street parking,\nI'm wondering if you have\nexperience with other communities that have similar situation\nwhere there's off-street parking that could be made\navailable to the public, but many times is not done\nbecause individual property owners are, well, one, I'm not in the parking\nbusiness. Two, I know it'd be better if it were\nmanaged collectively rather than individually.\nIt seems like that could be a real win for the entire\narea,\nis to manage, in some manner,\neven from a revenue generating point of view, at least to cover expenses,\nthe management of off-street parking.\nDo you have any suggestions or recommendations or examples where other\ncommunities have done that in a similar fashion?\nYeah. It's not\nan uncommon problem.\nI should just put that in the positive. It's a common problem, right?\nAnd in that respect, a couple of communities that come to my mind\nwho've tried to tackle this,\nin recent times would be Bend, Oregon, with their downtown\narea, and\nPort Angeles,\ngiven kind of the seasonal tourist\nimpacts that they go through. In both cases, part of\nwhat\nis\nin the policy arsenal, if you will, is the notion of shared use\nagreements between adjacent property owners that they\ncan, with city approval, share that resource, which\nis off-street parking, for broader purposes than\nany one owner would otherwise have a right to\ndo. Those shared use agreements are kind of a starter,\nif you will, toward this notion of still privately owned\noff-street parking, but made available for\nmore uses than just that one owner. Yeah.\nGreat. I'll just put in a plug for the council then.\nI think we should think about that in our arsenal of tools,\nbecause this is not the only area in town where we\nmay benefit from being able to\nutilize some of those arrangements.\nCouncilor Moorefield.\nBefore I ask my question, I need to congratulate Bob\nRichardson on his new job as community development director for Benton\nCounty.\nIt's\ngreat to have someone in that role that we know.\nI was going to ask a question very similar to Councilor Cadena.\nI was thinking about the parking. When you showed that slide,\nit was a lot of little...\nNo wonder it's underutilized. I've lived here for\n47 years, and I didn't even know that some of those\nexisted. There's one sizable one\nthat I know about as a destination if I'm looking for a place.\nBut the rest of it, I didn't have a clue.\nAnd so how that ends up being utilized\nis a little bit of a mystery to me. You mentioned agreements,\nbut\nthere would have to be way finding.\nThere are all kinds of things to actually get people to those\nspots.\nSo I suppose my question is, what do the business owners think about\nthe approach parking, or what the future of parking\nmight be? Because it's certainly a ripe area for taking\noff all or most\non-street parking,\ngiven all the other needs.\nWell, anecdotally, there was a range.\nIt ranged from supporting the plan as is, weren't\nconcerned with\nlosing parking in front of their\nbusinesses, to,\n\"Yeah, we'd like to minimize any loss of parking.\" So there is\na range there. And that is\nreally why we've come to the conclusion here at the end that there are some\nopportunities, even on the existing on-street\nparking in that first block, which we've been\nmanaging for years, right? There are some metered\nspots there. There is a residential parking district\nin a portion of the area. And then towards the\nwest end are some unrestricted parking.\nSo,\nif we can effectively manage that,\nand\nmake it all paid\nThat first block, and manage the time so that it\nsupports the business activities,\nthen we can\ngain some room there on some of this lost parking.\nAnd there are other opportunities to manage that\narea in a different way from a parking perspective that we talked to our parking\npeople about.\nSo yeah. So again, the business community kind of had a gamut\nof opinions, as you might expect.\nCouncillor Schafer, Mayor, and then Councillor Ellis.\nYeah, a couple of thoughts. First of all, thank you for the work on this.\nI think it\npresents several options that could be used.\nI'm not going to beat the dead horse of parking.\nOther than to note, I don't know if there's been any consideration of\nusing some of the OSU space for short-term parking.\nI don't know how heavily that's utilized on the south side of Monroe\nor west by the oceanography school, if there's anything there that\nmight be considered.\nAn observation personally, when they dropped the speed limit on Monroe\nStreet, I pretty much quit driving it.\nI live where I came down 29th Street, and I had the\nchoice of going to Harrison or Van Buren or going to Monroe\nStreet. I used to mostly use Monroe, and I rarely\ndrive on that street anymore because it's slowed down.\nIf I'm trying to get from point A to point B, there's better ways to do it,\nand so I think anything that continues to move us in that\ndirection is a good thing.\nOne question.\nYou have the cycle track on the south side of the Monroe Quarter.\nI wonder if there was any consideration of putting it on the north\nside so it put bikes closer to the\nbusinesses along the street or housing on the north side of the\nstreet. And\nif it was considered, why the south side was preferred.\nI'd simplify it to highlight\nhow many more streets from the north connect to\nMonroe compared to the number of streets from the south.\nOkay.\nAnd then\nbecause of that, those cyclists are able to ride through\nthe intersection\nwithout any interaction with motorists, while today\nthey must.\nRight?\nOkay.\nSo that was a real significant\nmotivation to put it on the south side.\nSure.\nThank you.\nCouncilor Marris, then Ellis.\nOkay. Well,\namazing\nwork. And I was at a couple of those open houses, and there were a\nlot of people there.\nSo\nI have a couple things. The first thing is\nit strikes me how many similar goals there are between\nthis and what we're getting from the downtown task force\nas far as things people want. They want\nsafer crossings, safer biking, more lighting,\nwider sidewalks, more activated outdoor spaces.\nThis is like it's the same stuff. So that is just cool\nbecause another one they have\nis in the OSU plan, enhance the sense of\nconnection between the community and the university.\nThis is all stuff we're coming up with, so\nvery excited about that part.\nI did have a question about\nwhether or not you said it was a very transit-friendly street, which is\ngood, especially if we're going to be removing parking and moving bike parking\nto the side streets.\nI wondered\nif the transit stops were in the same place, similar\nplaces, as frequent\na-as they are now.\nOur approach with transit was to ensure that current\ntransit stops would be maintained.\nWe of course had CTS\nas a part of this. The\ncurrent plans don't call for changes to the location of\nthose transit stops.\nThis is at a conceptual level-\nMm\n... so it has the ability to adjust if CTS needs to\nadjust-\nMm-hmm\n... transit stop locations or frequency of service.\nMm-hmm.\nSo inherently it has that flexibility to accommodate\nthat.\nOkay.\nI think that's frankly one of the benefits of coming up with\nthis concept is a little more flexibility in how you\ntreat the transit element based on the needs of the service.\nYeah, because they may see something already that they would like to do better,\nand you're doing it based on how it is.\nSo that's good. Thank you.\nYeah.\nCouncillor Ellis.\nHow much of that off-street parking is\naffiliated with apartments and residences?\nI don't think we know that in that specificity.\nOkay. I suspect much of it is.\nI'm thinking of-\nYeah\n... a couple of parking-- You're my neighborhood.\nI'm thinking of a couple of-\nYeah\n... parking lots that are clearly tied to residential.\nSo it may be that we'll have more residents parking in some of that\nresidential parking rather than on the street.\nRight.\nBut I am going to move to adopt the\nMonroe Corridor Plan.\nSecond.\nMaybe move to initiate a comprehensive plan amendment process?\nI can do that too.\nOkay.\nI will move to initiate a comprehensive plan amendment.\nAm I supposed to do this as action requested and as needed, a land\ndevelopment called amendment to incorporate the Monroe Corridor Plan into the\nTransportation System Plan? Is that what you want?\nPerfect.\nThanks.\nSecond.\nMotion and second. Any final discussion before we\nvote?All those in favor of the motion,\nsay I.\nI.\nAll\nopposed, say no.\nThank you. That passes unanimously. And thank you very much for the presentation.\nThank you.\nA lot of work.\nWe'll now move on to our last\nitems,\nand that is Mayor and City Council reports.\nMine's kind of a strange one, but I'm going to try to get through it anyways.\nSo on March 28th, I volunteered with Our Revolution\nCorvallis Allies for the No Kings Rally.\nWe were down on the courthouse lawn, kind of where we normally are.\nAnd that one was interesting because I was able to talk about some of the things\nthat we have been working on as mayor over the last\nyear or so,\nincluding the upcoming charter amendments that'll\nbe on your May ballot. But I talked with a lot of people.\nSurprisingly, they were very interested.\nNot that many people knew they were even coming, which is excellent.\nNot excellent they didn't know, but excellent that I could have that conversation\nabout it. So I encourage everybody to talk to your neighbors and friends and\nany opportunity you have about measures 2143, 2144,\n2145, and 2146, and feel free to reach out to me if anybody ever\nhas any questions.\nI do have some literature that I meant to bring to give a little bit to all of you\nto have available. I'll get those to you as soon as possible.\nThen on, calendar forward here,\non the 31st,\nI actually did something I've done several times before.\nI attended a ribbon cutting. I know it doesn't sound that surprising.\nAnd it was for affordable housing.\nThe interesting part is it wasn't in Corvallis, and it wasn't as my job as mayor.\nIt was actually for my day job, which is the first I've ever been invited to a\nribbon cutting for.\nAnd this was in McMinnville.\nAnd the reason why I bring this up is because it's very interesting.\nThey talked about the need in McMinnville and how important this project\nis,\nand I believe it was around 150 units of affordable housing.\nAnd what shocked me there is I thought about,\nwe're doing good work here. When that's a huge impact to their\ncommunity and a much-needed development, and I look at what we've accomplished for\nthe last couple of years in Corvallis,\nwith 174 units in South Corvallis, another 80 something in South Corvallis.\nWe've got the groundbreaking that just happened for Third Street Commons.\nGoing to provide permanent supportive housing.\nAnd we have another 160 units over on 99 that's being built and others\nthroughout the community. Not to mention the senior housing, the actual houses\nbeing built. I think we're playing a little bit of\ncatch up over some of the previous history that Corvallis had.\nBut I think the developers and\nnonprofits have realized we're not\nthe anti-development community we used to be,\nand we've got a lot of room to make time to make up, but we're\naddressing the housing needs of our community.\nAnd it makes me very proud for the work we've done.\nSo just kind of strange note there.\nOn the 1st,\nI had my Charter Review Phase 2 Task Force meeting.\nSome of you were there. And we had a good discussion trying to address the\nconcerns the council had\nafter the last presentation that we had with you all.\nYour concerns were a lot about how the voters\nwould feel with their neighbors maybe a block away that were in a different ward,\nthem voting, but you're not able to.\nA little bit of inequity there. So\nwe had a good discussion and came up with an idea that we will\npresent to you, but I want to get feelers out now on your opinions\nbecause I don't want to waste anybody's time.\nWhat we ended up settling on for equity is to reduce\nthe ward size down to three wards with two councilors\neach. So every ward, every two years, you're voting for a councilor,\nbut it'd be a different councilor.\nThat's done similar in other communities,\nso there's a proven system of how that operates.\nIt does lower the number of councilors by one from our previous recommendation,\nbut it solves some of the concerns that you all had.\nSo I just want to get your feedback when you give your comments.\nLet me know what your thoughts are there. Should we continue in this direction?\nExcuse me.\nWhat else did I do recently?\nIt's been a busy few weeks.\nI guess that's really it. I thought I had something else, but I don't have it up\nnow.\nSo I guess I will stop there. Oh, no. One more thing.\nI want to remind everybody, this coming Saturday and Sunday\nis Game Con at C3.\nSo get your tickets. Should be fun.\nI intend to try to be there. I have a really busy weekend unfortunately, but I\nintend to try to be there Saturday late afternoon, evening,\nto participate in whatever way\nI get the opportunity. I've enjoyed it the last few years.\nIt's\nan interesting thing that we do, and it's at C3, which is a wonderful place.\nSo I'm sure I'll run into Patrick there. I usually do.\nI assume you're hosting a game again.\nWonderful. So I will see you there.\nAnd with that, I will wrap up my comments, and we're going to move on.\nI'm going to start with Councilor Kadena, since he has an item in council reports\nas I should have done with Councilor Moorefield last time. So Councilor Kadena.\nOkay.\nAll right. I have four items total.\nThe first one is what's in the packet,\nwhich is I've\nwritten down a process. I've discussed this process for getting items on the agenda\nwith the mayor, and I've attempted to document the\nprocess that we've been heading towards, including the\nagenda request form.\nAnd so I suggest that we\nadopt this as our standard working process.\nAlthough I fully expect that we'll learn from this.\nWe will adapt\nas needed, and then make improvements, including in the form itself\nBut I would recommend that over time, at some point, we\nformalize this and put that into our council\npolicies as part of a\ngeneral good governance. So I'll pause at this point and ask if there's any\ncomments\nregarding that process.\nCouncillor. I went Councillor Ellis, then Napack earlier, so I'm going to go Napack\nnow,\njust to be fair. Councillor Napack.\nYeah. So if you recall, there was,\nI don't know, six months ago, we had\na preliminary discussion on this,\nand some of the information I had from long\nago and far away\nin my work history\nshowed that the present state\nis what we need. We do need to look at what the present state is.\nI've seen where resolutions are proposed,\nbut the present state is not taken into consideration.\nAnd so there's a gap between\nwhat people might not know is actually being done,\nbut\nwhat needs to be done. So that difference there.\nSo present state\nneeds\nto be\ndescribed in some way, maybe just one sentence.\n\"Oh, no, we don't have any ordinance on this.\"\nThat sort of thing. Just a real quick, what do we\nhave that helps\nwith whatever agenda item this is addressing?\nYeah, and that's kind of the purpose of the form. It gives staff an opportunity.\nSo, we're actually going to have a great example because Councillor Ellis did\nsubmit something that\nwas passed this conversation we can\nuse as a good\ntrial run, if you will. I don't know.\nYeah. If this-\nThis may-\nWe can incorporate it somehow.\nIt's been received. We have the information of what Councillor Ellis wants to do.\nStaff can be aware of it. Then what the next step is to have it on the agenda,\nnot to do the thing necessarily, but to decide whether council wants to go\nforward and bring that back. And it gives staff the opportunity to say what you're\nsaying, \"Well, where are we currently on this?\"\nYes.\nSo, it's kind of implied because it gives staff that opportunity, because\nwe'll know what,\nin this case, Councillor Ellis is trying to accomplish.\nYeah. I think as long as we remember that-\nYeah\n... and make sure we... It's a key issue, a critical\nissue.\nYeah. I agree with you. That's the one thing I think we've kind of been missing is,\nit's not just the, \"I want to do this thing.\" It's, \"I want to do this thing,\nhere's where it addresses in our plan, here's what we're trying to accomplish.\" And\nstaff come back, \"Well, we're already doing this part of it, or not.\"\nRight. It's an analysis is what it is.\nYeah.\nThank you.\nI appreciate that.\nCouncillor Ellis.\nI did do the form.\nYou did.\nPartly because I had something I wanted to get on the agenda for this\nsummer, and partly because I thought somebody had to do the form.\nSo I thought, well, I'll do the form.\nIt's a small thing I'm asking for,\nand you can check it out. I will say that I really think we need\nclarity in the process of how to get things on the agenda.\nWe\nhad a\nsomewhat functional system,\nand then it has gone away. So I am all in favor\nof clarity on the process. I did find the form to be kind of\ncumbersome and repetitious, and at the bottom of it, I don't remember what I\nsuggested, but I did make one suggestion for changing the form.\nAnd maybe if a couple of other people do it too, then we can start to iron out.\nSo plug for filling out the form.\nI do think in the past, if we haven't\nhad a memo, we have not voted on it at the meeting,\nand I think that is really,\nwe need to return to that. I'm not sure we need\na form, but I do think we need something in writing,\nand maybe there's a way to incorporate a form and a\nmemo kind of thing. But I tried the form.\nMm-hmm.\nAnd\nwe can go from there.\nAnd I think that's part of what Jan was getting, Councilor Napack was getting at,\nthat we've been real confused in what we've voted on things we haven't\nhad anything in writing on a couple of times, and how things are getting on has\nnot been clear.\nSo I\nam willing to work on the process. I do appreciate the\nopportunity sometimes to send in a memo or\nsomething to the council in councilor comments\nat least for discussion and perhaps a vote, depending on whether or not\nit is time sensitive.\nI do think that we're asking a lot if we don't send anything in for\npeople to think about. But I would like us to have a little bit of\nflexibility to be able to bring something in in writing, especially\nif it's some, like Councillor Moorefield's thing from last meeting.\nThat was time sensitive.\nVery.\nIt was in writing. I felt no problem at all with voting on that.\nSo-\nI don't think there'll ever be a perfect solution.\nI think there's a perfect plan, and I think with this form and kind of where we're\ntrying to go to is a great plan. It kind of is that memo, this is why I want to do\nthese things.\nMm-hmm.\nBut yet there'll be things like Council Moorefield's letter where it's time.\nAnd what Councilor Moorefield brought in and what I'm thinking is actually stuff\nthat is a council issue, not something that's going to add to staff\nworkload.\nYes.\nSo I think when we're looking at something to add to staff workload, then we\nabsolutely need a slightly more robust process.\nBut if it's just a council voting on something that is not\nactually... I mean, Alex had to do a little bit of work to get it on there, but\nthat was something I thought we didn't really need.\nAnd I want us to maintain that flexibility.\nAppreciate it. Council Moorefield.\nA clarifying question. Most of this makes sense, and thank you for\nIt's time to put something together that\nis coherent. The part that I'm\nnot sure I get,\nin the section on recommended process for proposing an agenda item, the\nlast, number seven, use councilor comments at work session\nto determine support.\nWe do that all the time in work sessions with things that are\nplanned business, that it's in the pipeline for council\nconsideration. We have general discussions and sometimes there's\na check-in with council about whether we really want to go down this\nroad or not, that kind of thing.\nAre you suggesting that we do basically the same thing\nwith\nproposed actions that individual councilors bring forward?\nThat we have an informal discussion, whether it's at\na councilor comments or at a work session prior\nto things like memos getting written, or...\nWasn't quite sure what the intent was to speak to that.\nI think what Councilor Cadena is meaning is that something that's part of the old\nprocess we used to have is if you want staff to bring something back, you'd have a\ndiscussion, make a motion for staff to bring something back, and that's kind of\nwhat that is.\nRight.\nSo if you have something\nmore like Councilor Ellis' submission, it'll come before council to have a\nconversation and then a vote on does council feel\nthis needs to be brought back within this timeframe?\nBecause it is time sensitive for the summary.\nMy question arises from\nsometimes we individual councilors have brought up some new\nthing-\nMm-hmm\n... we want to have considered.\nSometimes it might affect staff, sometimes it doesn't.\nBut it's a thing that we're bringing forward in our own\ninitiatives.\nAnd\nsometimes it requires discussion before we can have a sense of the\ncouncil, and sometimes it requires explanation, sometimes it requires some\nbackup documentation. And so\nthe way this reads is that we\nwouldn't get to that stage of things like written report\nfrom a council member until there had been a\ncheck-in.\nNo.\nOkay. That wasn't the intent.\nAs council, during your comments, you can have conversations about,\nwell, almost anything, not a land use case or anything like that.\nBut you can talk about, \"Hey, I'm working on this thing.\nI just want to get a...\" If you're just putting feelers out to know whether or not\nyou want to submit this form to have they come back formally.\nConversation's great, and I think we should take more advantage of that during this\ntime,\nunless it gets super late. So no, it doesn't stop anybody\nfrom bringing up an idea or\nsomething you're working on maybe.\nAll right.\nWhat about Greg?\nOkay.\nThank you all for your input. I will reach out individually\nto Councilors Napack, Ellis, Moorefield\nat a minimum to make sure I completely got your\nfeedback. I think I have ideas about how to respond to your\nfeedback,\nbecause I think the whole point is to improve the process.\nAbsolutely. And I think, Councillor Moorefield, to your last question,\nI think that\nI'm in favor of conversation\nalways. And I think what my\ngoal is, is to\nhave a process that enables us to act as a body.\nAnd whatever helps us to act as a body,\nis what makes us the most powerful that we can be.\nAnd while we'll never have a perfect process, what I do know is that if we\ndon't have any process, we will never get there.\nSo I aim for perfection and I accept humanity.\nSo\nI will continue to work on refining this process. Thank you.\nThank you very much for the input. That's all very helpful.\nAnd sometimes stuff happens.\nSometimes stuff happens. And I\ntried to put that in the objectives as well, that we do want to be flexible.\nWe don't want rigidity.\nBut you want enough structure that you have\nstrength. You don't want so much structure that you\nlose all flexibility. Absolutely.\nOkay. I'll do the rest of my council report now.\nCouple of comments.\nJust an update on the\nmeasures that are on the ballot. I just wanted to highlight that the\nvoters pamphlet\nis now available online from Benton County.\nI'll just note that no arguments against the measures were\nsubmitted.\nThe pack has been working to educate folks and to gain\nbroad support. I encourage you all to visit...\nI think I can do this. I'm unelected, so I can do a little campaigning.\nPlease visit the website goodgovernancecorvallis, all one word,\ngoodgovernancecorvallis.org,\nfor more information and to see the list of endorsees.\nIt's quite a broad range of endorsees.\nPlease add your name to the endorsement list or invite others in the\ncommunity to add their names, at your earliest\nconvenience.\nAnd we also ask that you publicize the information, the\nwebsite through your social media and email list.\nSo, please do that.\nI think these changes are well\nworth it. And I did go back and looked at the variety of changes that have been\nmade in the past, and I think despite\nformer Councilor Penny York's excellent work, I think\na lot of what she recommended did not\ncome to fruition, and I think that she would be\nvery happy that a lot of what she suggested is being addressed.\nSo again, I'm really\nexcited about the prospect.Another thing I wanted to bring to\nyour attention is that, and I will be working with Patrick\nRollins about this through\nthe Oregon Department of Transportation,\nthere will be a second open house\nfor the North Benton County Community Pathways\nProject on April 28th at Latisha\nCarson Elementary School from 4:00 to 6:00 PM.\nThis is about building a pathway that, I\nknow this is very small,\nand I will send this out to you via email, but this\nhere is Samaritan. Just north of\nSamaritan, there will be an\noverpass passing over both Highway\n99 and the railroad.\nAnd then the multi-use path along the\nJackson Frazier wetlands up and connecting up at\nNortheast Elliot Circle. This is a project that is\nbeing Odot led. I will send this\ninformation out about a second open house, and I'll be\nworking with city staff\nto understand and bring back implications that might\nbe important for\nus as a council to consider. But it's an exciting project.\nI know that it also fits,\nhaving previous discussion with Greenbelt Land Trust for their plans for the\nOwens\nFarm area,\nand walking paths, et cetera, that they're putting into that\nside of the highway on the west side.\nAnd lastly, regarding a council handbook.\nI'm looking to provide an update to council at the April 23rd work\nsession. I have not scheduled that.\nI haven't talked to the\nmayor or city manager about this.\nBut as I mentioned previously, looking to divide up that\nwork into four groupings.\nOne piece of which you saw today in this proposal for\nhow to get items on the agenda. I think that in\nregarding\ncouncil manual per se,\nI'm looking to not create a de novo council handbook,\nbut rather leverage our existing resources, council policies and\nprocedures. I think we have opportunity to improve\nthe documentation of policies and get those codified so\nthat they're accessible and available for folks.\nGovernance documents.\nI worked with Alex she... I'm sorry, with city recorder.\nCity recorder's done a great job in new council orientation, and we\ndo have a handbook if you look for it.\nBut it\nis web links. And so my\napproach, and we'll talk about this on the 23rd, is to not try to create a\nmanual, which is a separate document that then needs to be kept updated, but\nrather to have the online resources so that people can find what they need, and\nto facilitate making that process easier.\nWorking also on a\nstrategic plan onboarding process as part of each new council term,\naccompanied by a council goal-setting alignment and integration process, which\nI will suggest could occur annually.\nAnd building upon the strategic plan review process, which we\nrecently went through, led by Abby Alexander, to better\nalign\nthat with our longer term agenda-setting process.\nAnd then lastly, a proposal for how to strengthen trust and\ncollaboration with such topics such as periodic\nself-evaluation, conflict resolution, holding ourselves\naccountable, et cetera. So a lot of material to\nbring forward for comment, ideas, feedback,\nobservations, et cetera,\nthat I hope to get done, if not the April 23rd work session,\nat a time shortly thereafter. And that's my council\nreport. Thank you.\nOh, and to the question that you asked, Mayor.\nHaving looked at the data from the LOC\nregarding council\nformats,\ntwo councilors in a ward\nwith fewer wards is a pretty standard process.\nSo my short answer is I would favor that as a proposal.\nI think the course, that's how you draw the boundaries, et cetera,\nis a big part of it. But I think that does\nallow for\ngood broad representation with periodic refreshing of the\ncouncil, but with four-year terms staggered.\nI think that makes a great idea. So I'm in favor of the direction you're heading,\nsince you asked.\nThank you. It's not my direction, it's the password's direction.\nOkay, I think we should start over here this time. So Councilor Ellis.\nI don't have a lot. I will say I have been on the open house\npathway the last couple of weeks. I went to the neighborhood bikeways open\nhouse\nlast week, and I just went to the Corvallis Forest Plan open house\nbefore I came to the council meeting.\nSo I'm short on dinner. I will say they've been very\nwell attended. People have been actively engaged, have been discussing,\nthey've been getting questions answered, they've been raising issues.\nAnd I love an open house because not only does it give people a chance to\nlook at the material, it also gives them a chance to look at the material with each\nother.\nAnd so you can stand and you can talk, and you can think about it.\nAnd then often I think people go home and do the\nonline open house for their comments.\nSo it builds community and communication and gives us a chance\nto actually think about what we're doing.\nSo I've been very pleased with both of the open houses.\nThe forest plan was pretty well attended when I left at quarter of\n6:00.\nAppreciate that feedback.\nYeah. That was very nice.\nI am going to askUm, our public information\nofficer on the timeline for the frequently asked questions that\nwe directed the\ncity manager to come up with at the last meeting.\nYeah, happy to give an update on that.\nUh, the materials are kind of in final draft mode right now, so kind of\nbouncing around some final edits.\nOnce we get the kind of content of the webpage nailed down, then we'll, of\ncourse, we'll translate it to Spanish per the council's direction.\nUm, I'd like to say that, uh, work should be finalized, and it'll be\npublished within a week or so.\nGreat. That's great.\nTo clarify, this is regarding immigration concerns?\nYep.\nSorry, I wasn't as clear.\nUm, I also,\num, I want us to remember and to consider\nthat if we want a diverse council, if we want to have people\nwho are not mostly retired, nothing against the people who are\nretired, we need to keep work schedules in\nmind. And my concern is that some of\nour counselors who are working full-time are going--\nare finding getting to meetings and work sessions\nchallenging. And if they can't participate in a\nwork session, then they're not getting the information that they need\nto make good\ndecisions. And watching a work session, although I really appreciate\nthe fact that we can do that if we're sick and we don't have a functional\nbrain, is not a substitute for attending.\nAnd if it's during somebody's work hours, they need to be brave enough\nto say something, and we need to reconsider how we\nschedule because we have a diverse council, and I think it's really\nimportant for us to have a diverse council that is not just people\nwho can show up at the times that we have things\nstated. I've mentioned this before, I'm hitting it again because I\nthink we're running into some of those challenges.\nUm, and then I want to say that I do not support the going to\nthree wards with two, um, counselors.\nI like the system we have. Um, I would argue against it\nactively, and I think it's really important for us to have a\nwalkable\nward where we can meet the people, and we also run into them when we're out on\nour daily business. So I really like the system we have now.\nI want to comment about the, uh,\ndiverse council statement. Uh, as one of the people at this dais that works a\nfull-time job before coming here, I completely understand, and sometimes it's\nchallenging for me, too. And what I'll say to that is any counselor who's\nstruggling to meet our schedule, come talk to me.\nUh, they're not set in stone.\nUm, we do try to work with what works with staff, but it doesn't mean we couldn't\nmake changes if there's a need. So please just let me know.\nYeah. And I wanted to raise it because I'm fine with the schedule we have, but I\nwanted to give support to counselors who might be challenged by it.\nYeah. No, I appreciate that. It generally works with me, but every once in a while\nit's a little rough, so...\nAnd I'm not talking about dentist appointments here.\nNo, no.\nCouncil Morefield.\nUm, just a couple comments. Um,\non the, uh, number of wards and counselors, I have no idea what I think about that\nidea. Um,\nand I do know that, um, I think nine\nwards is too much because a committee of nine\nhas been proven over and over again to be\nunwieldy, but that doesn't mean it needs to be\nsmall either. Um, I think a modest change is called for\nat least.\nUm, but I don't know what I think about the three ward,\ntwo counselor thing. I'd like to see what Albany thinks of it,\nbecause I think that's the structure they have.\nAnd, um, uh, and I continue to be concerned\nabout the impact that we make\nor that the voters make on what our system looks like and\nits relationship to the cost of running a\ncampaign.\nUm, I worry that\nmoney,\nuh, becomes a barrier in a way that it hasn't been.\nUm, that's a concern.\nUh, but I don't know where that leads me to conclusions either.\nIt's just a consideration. That's all I got.\nCouncilor Napack.\nOkay.\nSo, um, let me start out...\nSorry.\nThere's always trade-offs whatever we decide in regards\nto a two-year, or four-year, six counselors,\nnine counselors, there's trade-offs.\nWe don't pay our counselors,\num, they're all volunteer. But if we\ncannot plan\nahead, you know, and look around corners and complete our\nprojects,\nand we can't do that in two years, uh, we need to come up with a different\napproach, which is the four-year approach.\nAnd if we're going to go with a four-year approach,\num,\nbut have an odd number, you know, there's all kinds of trade-offs.\nSo I don't think you can\ndamn one idea or promote another as yet.\nIt's still being worked on. And, um, pros and cons.\nUm,\nMay is Corvallis Bike Month.\nI know it's only April, um, but want to remind\neveryone that\nthe Corvallis to Albany Trail,\nwhich goes along Highway 20 toward Albany,\nuh, is supposed to cross Highway 20 from the south\nside to the north side,\nsomewhere around Scenic Drive\nMaybe, and go as far as Spring Hill Drive.\nThat crossing is what is\nthe sticking point, and that's where there are going to be an open\nhouse\nat both farmers' markets in Albany and Corvallis from 10:00 to\nnoon\non May 16th.\nSo if you care about that, you better show up, and I will be there.\nQuickly, Campo news.\nThe\nmulti-modal path that's been talked\nabout for a long time, decades\nperhaps. A\nlong time. Between where Circle comes out on Harrison\nand Campus. So the fields that are west\nof 35th and south of Harrison looks like a\nvery good way to have a shortcut for folks on\nbicycles and\non foot,\nand rolling, to\nget from their apartments or their housing up there on Witham Hill\nto campus. So that\nproject,\nthey're going to be developing project\nalternatives and alignments\nfor that multi-use path.\nStarting in 2027, they have $300,000\nto\nlaunch that\nstudy.\nAnd\nstatewide transportation improvement programs that deal\nwith Corvallis right now.\nSeveral of them, but one of which is\nBellfountain Road, which is now being used as a\nback door\nto circumvent downtown Corvallis if you're going south,\nhas\na number of issues\nfor the traffic and freight, actually, that is\ngoing down that road.\nThey will be improving the intersections\nwith\nwarning aids\nand rumble strips and so on and so forth, bigger signs,\nflashing lights, and so it should be a little safer route to\ngo in the future. They'll be starting that in 2027.\nWell, it's in the 2027-2030\nplan.\nOther things in the plan, the 2027-2030 plan,\nmodifying traffic signals at\nBuchanan\nand 9th, Circle and 9th, Circle and Kings,\nHarrison and 29th, Harrison and 5th, Harrison and 9th, Van\nBuren and 9th, Western and 35th.\nBusy. So it's going to be a busy time,\nbut that's all necessary. By the way, the open house is from 10:00 to noon,\nand hope to see you there.\nCouncil Lewis.\nSaturday was my birthday. I just want to get that\nout there.\nThe winter market ends this week, April\n11th. So this be your last time to have to go to the fairgrounds.\nI highly still recommend you go. It's from\n9:00 AM to 1:00 PM as always, and then it comes back\ndowntown next week, April 18th.\nI go mostly to the downtown one, so you will see me outside a lot more\noften.\nApril is also Arab American Heritage Month,\nwhich consists of 22 countries across Northern Africa and Asia.\nAnd so I'm just going to highlight someone really fast, it's the US Air Force\nColonel James Jabara. He was the first jet ace in history,\nand to be considered a jet ace, you need to take down five or more jets as a\nfighter pilot. He received the Distinguished Flying Cross\nwith one oak leaf cluster in World War II and again\nin the Korean War. If you want to look up more information,\nit is US Air Force Colonel James\nJabara. J-A-B-A-R-A. The\nNo Kings Rally on March 28th was awesome and\ncrowded. I was in a car, and I convinced my friend to honk her horn\ntwice. It was fun.\nIf you are going to Game Con, Saturday, it's 10:00 AM to 11:00\nPM, and Sunday, 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM.\nIt's $15 for advanced tickets and $21 at the door.\nSo I highly recommend you get your tickets\nbefore the door. And then I'm also having a civic story time\nstarting April 18th at the Corvallis Museum.\nIt's going to be once a month for four months, and all ages\nare welcome, and there's more information on the museum website, and it\nstarts at 10:30, and it's free.\nThat's it.\nCouncilor Bowden, do you have anything for us?\nI want to begin by offering a sincere apology for my lack of\ncommunication regarding my recent absences from council meetings.\nI know silence can create uncertainty, and it was not fair to our community,\ncity staff, and fellow councilors to be left without an explanation.\nFor that, I am truly sorry.\nWhat I was navigating personally has made it difficult to show up and engage as\nI would have liked. But my deepest regret is that I did not communicate better\nabout what was going on. You deserve that transparency, and I take\nfull responsibility for falling short.\nI am grateful to those who reached out to check on me during these past weeks.\nYour kindness meant more than I can say, and I am thankful to serve alongside\nsuch compassionate people.Without going into unnecessary\ndetail, I want to acknowledge that I have been managing some mental health\nchallenges and medication adjustments, realities that many people\nface at some point in their lives.\nI share this not as an excuse, but because I believe in being honest about the\ncomplexities we navigate as human beings and ending the\nstigma surrounding these topics.\nCaring for your mental health is essential, and I hope by speaking\nopenly, this is a reminder that it is okay to need time to\nheal.\nI want to close by reaffirming my commitment to the city and to the work we\ndo as a council. I'm looking forward to continuing to serve\nalongside each of you, communicating openly, and giving my best\nto the community we represent.\nI also want to highlight an upcoming event, the\n2026 Out of Darkness Campus Walk.\nThis is an annual event that\nOSU partners with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.\nThe goal of this walk is to share hope, raise\nawareness, and support suicide prevention efforts both at\nOSU and across the nation.\nIt's a powerful reminder that suicide is preventable and\nthat no one has to face their struggles alone.\nMore information about the 2026 Out of Darkness Campus\nWalk can be found on the OSU website, and the event will take place\nSaturday, April 18th at 10:00 a.m.\nin the Students Experience Plaza in Corvallis, or in\nSEC Plaza.\nThe event is free, and there are opportunities to\nvolunteer and walk alongside.\nBut visit the OSU site for more information.\nThank you.\nThank you.\nCouncil Tina, so what's yours?\nI have a lot.\nWe were off, but it was busy.\nI've been attending the Downtown Corvallis Organization quarterly\nmeetings, and they had one on March 18th.\nAnd the big news there would be they're going to continue\nto have the monthly downtown cleanups.\nI believe it's the last Saturday of each month.\nAnd they're going to be having the CorkVallis Wine\nWalk on May 16th from 2:00 to 6:00.\nThey've got 30 wineries coming around town this year. I know.\nWoo-hoo. And\nthere's a lot of stuff out on social media.\nYou can reach out to them and get tickets. They're available.\nI think they became available a couple days ago.\nThe League of Women Voters had\nanother really amazing\npresentation. This one was Sheltering Our Unhoused,\nAre We Making Progress? I would say the answer was\na lot of yes and some no.\nMostly,\nthough, people were very well-informed and by the panel of\nspeakers, had really good questions.\nAnd\nthe League held a follow-up conversation, which I also\nattended on\nApril 1st, so good conversations going on there.\nI attended the March\n19th Third Street Commons groundbreaking, and our mayor\nspoke there, along with a bunch of other dignitaries\nand advocates and so forth. And that was a very\ninspiring event, I have to say. There\nwas electricity in the air that it's finally getting\ngoing.\nA lot of gratitude for all the support they've had was expressed.\nOn Tuesday the 31st... And then I took some time off.\nAnd then on the 31st, I attended my first Housing\nOperational Committee meeting. And as luck would have it,\nit was their annual required public meeting on severe\nrent burden. So I got to hear all kinds of statistics and\nlots of great information, and we are making progress.\nI learned that the housing dashboard will be updated in June, so our numbers\nwill finally be up to date, so people don't just have to take our\nword for it that we're making progress, but they can actually see data.\nAnd that was really good, and I think it's about the same time every\nyear. I will try to remember to remind people. It's very worthwhile.\nIt was only an hour. We've been having\nweekly meetings of our Political Action Committee, which is a very,\nvery robust team, and we have social media coming out.\nAnd just spread the word that we are\nreally, really working on the charter being\nbetter, smarter,\nclearer.\nAnd then a couple of Chamber of Commerce meetings, the board meeting and\ngovernmental affairs. They're especially looking for anyone\nwho's interested in\nadvocacy on behalf of businesses.\nThey're starting to really get going on local, state, and\nfederal advocacy, working with other chambers regionally,\nand aligning with the state's push for economic development.\nSo there's an opportunity there for anyone who might be interested.\nAnd\nI really also wanted to highlight the Planning Commission meeting on\nWednesday, which I attended because when I was on the Planning Commission,\nwe did the South 90... What's it called?\nOR99W South Corvallis Facility Plan.\nAnd they were discussing that\nto approve proposed amendments to the\nTSP like we did todayTo put that into the\nTSP. And\nit was a fascinating discussion. It was also very interesting because\nWestern is at the top of it, and there were comments about\nPineview because it's on the corner of Western.\nAnd some of the facility improvements will be pedestrian improvements.\nSo that was cool the way that worked out. And that's it.\nAnd Council Schafer.\nOkay, I've got four things all pretty quick.\nFirst, there was a\nmeeting this afternoon of the\nvolunteer group that manages the\nsocial service funds distribution.\nIt's the last meeting before applications\nfor funding for next fiscal year open up.\nUnited Way's been working with\nBrigida,\nand looking at some tweaks to how funding is done and trying to make it a little\nmore competitive. And there's active discussion, I had to\nleave early, about\ncreating pots of money. You get this much or this much or this\nmuch as opposed to just a minimum or maximum\napplication amount. Stay tuned. More to come on that.\nSecond, Spring Roll, which is a bike event for\nkids,\nhappens every spring. This year it will be May 17th,\nSunday, from 10:00 to 2:00 at\nCloverland Park. It's a chance for kids to learn\nskills, a chance to\nlearn more about safety equipment, get and adjust things like helmets,\nand then there's also a\nride on controlled streets around Cloverland Park.\nIf you have young kids, it's a great deal.\nThird thing, I'll just say I am unenthusiastic at best\nabout the idea of three wards and two councilors.\nI think it reduces the\nlevel of\ncommunication and contact between councilors\nand residents. I also think, as Jim touched\non, excuse me, Councilor Moorefield touched on,\nI'm concerned about cost. I think as wards get bigger,\nit's going to take more work, more money in particular,\nand I'm concerned about that partly because it may discourage some people from\nrunning for office. It may also be an invitation for special\ninterests to start funding\ncouncilor candidates, and I think that's an inherently bad thing.\nFourth thing,\nI'm home after three weeks in Florida and the upper\nMidwest, and I'll just say I am\ndelighted to live in a place where we practice\ncontrols on land use and development after being\nin infinite sprawl in the Florida Gulf Coast,\nand driving past acre upon acre upon acre\nof woodlots and fields being sacrificed\nfor every kind of development in a\nvery sprawly and random fashion. I'm\ndelighted that that doesn't happen here.\nAnd so kudos to all those people\ngoing way back to\nthe '90s, I guess it would have been, when Oregon's land use\nplanning really took hold.\nPardon?\nTom McCall.\nMcCall, but then yeah. But it's\na wonderful thing that helps make Oregon a wonderful place to live, and\nevery time I'm away, I appreciate it more and more. And that's it.\nBefore I hand it off to city manager, I feel the need to express a bit of\nfrustration.\nWhen phase one of the Charter Review Task Force finished up, this council\nwas very adamant of changing one of the timelines, and that was to\naddress\nnumber of wards and council terms, the term\nlengths. This body wanted four-year terms\nto address consistency, address the\nturnover.\nSo phase two of the Charter Review Task Force took those on.\nSo we had too many wards. That was decided by this body.\nWe had too short of council terms. So we took that work on.\nWe presented the first idea we come up with, was reducing it just a little bit\nbecause we understand don't want crazy big change, so seven\nwards instead of nine seemed reasonable\nwith four-year staggered terms.\nYeah.\nAnd this council had a concern over the equity issue around\nsome people in the city getting to vote one election and not the next.\nSo the task force said, \"Okay, let's look at that again,\" and we came up with the\ncurrent idea that we're still working on the final details of.\nAnd right now I heard two against it, one for it, two\nnot sure, and three people didn't answer.\nIt's very difficult for this task force to come back with a product\nthat matches what you want. So what I ask of all of you is to please\nreach out to me directly by email and tell me what you want.\nBecause it's a lot of work. Some of you served on the first task\nforce. They went honestly smoother than I thought.\nI'm also serving on the PAC right now.\nSo I've got the PAC and phase two of the Charter Review Task Force, and I want to\nbring back something this council can get behind.\nBut at this moment, I don't know what that is.\nBut it's a bit frustrating, I just want to share that. So please reach out to me.\nNot everybody, just me, and give me some feedback so I can try to come\nup with something y'all want.\nSo with that, city manager.\nI'll finish us off with one quick positive note.\nAs you recall, when the\ncouncil adopted the West Hills Road Corridor study, there was an appeal\nmade to LUBA. That appeal has been dismissed.\nThat's all I have to report tonight.\nThat's it?\nIf there's nothing else then,\nI'll go ahead and say we're adjourned.\nThank you" }, "summary": { "generatedAt": "2026-04-14T05:50:22.730Z", "model": "sonnet", "source": { "type": "meeting", "videoId": "corvallis-2026-04-06-city-council-meeting", "parsedPath": "/Users/thedjpetersen/code/seacc/data/cities/corvallis/parsed/meetings/corvallis-2026-04-06-city-council-meeting.json", "transcriptHash": "85aeafdf9d38817191551c98c7283f7e354e7ad7ef1112b88d5d42b9b4aa92d1" }, "result": { "headline": "Corvallis City Council Approves Monroe Corridor Plan, Opts for Internal City Manager Evaluation Process", "summary": "The April 6, 2026 Corvallis City Council meeting covered a solar array donation to the Community Center, a housing continuum update showing a major jump in permitted units, an unanimous vote to initiate a comprehensive plan amendment for the Monroe Avenue Corridor, and a 5–3 vote to develop the city manager evaluation process internally rather than hire an outside consultant. 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