At the pace the Hillsboro City Council is moving these days, they will need to add another monthly meeting! Seriously, folks, these meetings lately are chock full of meaty items, code changes, and tens of millions in expenditures being approved. Two nights a month is not enough time to consider these many issues and approve these many code changes, and it is all just mind-boggling for the average citizen. The Council is a smart bunch, but digging in on these issues is far beyond what most people can understand, let alone decide. So it goes in the City That Grows!
Watch online or register to speak – see the info below. Also, you can sure attend in person!
Items we are watching:
- Item 2.3 – Downtown Tree Plantings Presentation
- Item 4.1- Shute Road Multimodal Path- $6.28 Million dollar path – 400 page contract attached
- Item 4.2 – 2nd and Lincoln Street Rebuild Contract – Council to waive competitive bidding requirement
- Item 5.1 – Reconstruction agreement for alley off Washington Street to accommodate future growth at US Bank property
- Item 7.1 – Significant changes to the rules and codes that regulate wooded and natural areas in the City known as SNRO areas.
- Item 7.2 – A revised Economic Opportunity Analysis – this is a very important measure as these numbers and reports control housing.
- Item 7.5 – Approval of financing for $138,000,000.00 in City and Taxpayer financing for HOPS Stadium, Police Station, Fire, etc.!!!
A LOT of money and a lot of big decisions tonight. And I just scratched the surface.
| 1. | Work Session – 6pm – Civic Center C113B&C/Zoom Teleconference |
| 1.1. | Advisory Body Member Stipend Policy and the Community Engagement Stipend Policy – presented by Marcus Ford, Community Engagement Manager, and Simone Brooks, Assistant City Manager
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| City Council Regular Session – 7pm – Civic Center C113B&C/Zoom Teleconference
Zoom Teleconference Phone: 1-253-215-8782 or 1-301-715-8592 Meeting ID: 851 4863 9488 Password: 932487 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85148639488?pwd=RzNHQ0ZzVFBNN3h5Q04xQnJjaGJsQT09 |
| Pledge of Allegiance |
| Call to Order – Roll Call |
| 2. | Presentations and Appointments |
| 2.1. | Proclamation: Pride Month – June
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| 2.2. | Proclamation: Pollinator and Monarch Awareness Week – June 16-22
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| 2.3. | Downtown Tree Planting Project Update – presented by Friends of Trees and Hillsboro Downtown Partnership
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| 2.4. | Youth Advisory Council Annual Update
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| 3. | Public Comment Comments are limited to three minutes.
Speaking In Person: Please fill out a yellow card on the table in the back of the room and give it to the City Recorder. If you have a written statement for the Council, please have 10 copies available and give them to the City Recorder who will distribute them to the Council.
Speaking Virtually: Register to speak by contacting the City Recorder’s Office before 3 pm the day of the meeting. Email Council@Hillsboro-Oregon.gov or call 503-681-6117 to provide your name, phone number, address, email, and topic. Members of the public will not be able to share their screen or turn their camera on during the meeting; presentation materials should be submitted as written testimony. |
| 4. | Consent Agenda |
| 4.1. | Consider Transportation Committee’s recommendation to approve a contract with Pacific Excavation, Inc., for construction of the Shute Road Multi-Use Path Project, in the amount of $6,284,000.00. Intel will pay $6,235,800.00 for the majority of the improvements and the City will pay $48,200.00 for pavement rehabilitation outside of the scope that Intel is responsible for.
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| 4.2. | Consider Transportation Committee’s recommendation to approval of the written findings and an exemption from the competitive bidding process for the 2nd and Lincoln Corrido Improvement Project. Such an exemption would allow staff to issue a competitive, “best value” Request for Proposal in lieu of selecting a contractor based solely on least cost.
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| 4.3. | Consider accepting a petition and schedule a public hearing at the regular City Council meeting on Tuesday, July 2, 2024, for the vacation of a public utility easement and an emergency vehicle access easement located in Parcel 2, Partition Plat 2016-055.
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| 5. | Public Hearings Comments are limited to three minutes.
Speaking In Person: Please fill out a yellow card on the table in the back of the room and give it to the City Recorder. If you have a written statement for the Council, please have 10 copies available and give them to the City Recorder who will distribute them to the Council.
Speaking Virtually: Register to speak by contacting the City Recorder’s Office before 3 pm the day of the meeting. Email Council@Hillsboro-Oregon.gov or call 503-681-6117 to provide your name, phone number, address, email, and topic. Members of the public will not be able to share their screen or turn their camera on during the meeting; presentation materials should be submitted as written testimony. |
| 5.1. | Misc -001-24: Development of a Local Improvement District for Infrastructure Funding for relocating and rebuilding Elkmont Lane Alley in Downtown: Consider staff recommendation to approve and adopt a resolution establishing a Local Improvement District for relocating and rebuilding Elkmont Lane Alley in Downtown. Resolution No. *2841 is available.
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| 6. | Unfinished Business |
| 6.1. | None.
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| 7. | Ordinances: (Per Charter requirements, ordinances are adopted over the course of two City Council meetings, unless special circumstances exist. If applicable, ordinances adopted at a single meeting are noted as such on the agenda.) |
| First Reading:
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| 7.1. | Community Development Code Amendment-003-23:Consider the recommendation from the Planning Commission to approve an Ordinance to amend the Community Development Code and refine the Significant Natural Resource Overlay (SNRO). The amendment is a technical refinement of the code including reorganization of the overlay and changes to application requirements and the approval process. Ordinance No. *6473 is available.
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| 7.2. | Comprehensive Plan Amendment-003-22: Hillsboro 2021 Economic Opportunities Analysis (EOA): Consider the recommendation from the Planning Commission to approve an Ordinance for a Comprehensive Plan Minor Text Amendment to incorporate by reference the 2021 EOA. Ordinance No. *6474 is available.
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| 7.3. | Consider an ordinance amending Section 9.32.020 of the Hillsboro Municipal Code to permit exclusions to apply to more than one public facility and for a period greater than 90 days. Ordinance No. *6475 is available.
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| 7.4. | Annexation-003-24: NE Sewell Avenue Right-of-Way: Consider approving an Ordinance for Annexation of a a portion of Right-of-Way approximately 1.15 acres in size into the City limits. Ordinance No. *6470 is available.
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| 7.5. | Consider Finance Committee’s recommendation to adopt an ordinance authorizing staff to execute the sale of bonds as it relates to various capital projects in the City’s capital improvement plan. Ordinance No. *6472 is available.
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| 8. | New Business |
| 8.1. | Consider Transportation Committee’s recommendation to adopt a resolution affirming the need to acquire certain property interests for street and right-of-way improvements to NE Gibbs Drive and NE 96th Avenue(“Project”) and authorize the City Attorney and their designees to proceed with the necessary acquisitions in accordance with our real property acquisition and disposition policy. Resolution No. *2836 is available.
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| 8.2. | Westside Multimodal Improvement Study: Consider the recommendation from the Transportation Committee to approve a Resolution as an acknowledgement of the Westside Multimodal Improvement Study (WMIS) and support for advancement of the study recommendations. Resolution No. *2840 is available.
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| 9. | City Manager Report |
| 10. | Advice/Information Items |
| 10.1. | For information on the 2024 General Election City Council Candidates, visit Hillsboro-Oregon.gov/Elections
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| 10.2. | Sign up to receive Creciendo Juntos email updates from the City of Hillsboro.
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| 11. | Work Session – Following Regular Session – Civic Center C113B&C/Zoom Teleconference |
| 11.1. | Non-represented Classification/Compensation Update – presented by Katie Jensen, Human Resources Manager
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| 12. | Executive Session – Following Work Session – Civic Center C113B&C |
| 12.1. | ORS 192.660(2)(d) – to conduct deliberations with persons designated by the governing body to carry on labor negotiations.
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We just passed 1 million views and I am looking toward 5 million by next year. Oh if I only had the time and inclination and the don’t give a “F” attitude to just give it up. Maybe I will call Carpenterr Media? Yah…that’s the move. in the meantime I will just keep swinging.
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Keep doing what you do, Dirk. Media, reporter, civilian journalist, blogger. All the same to me. You are enouraging people to discuss the issues happening right here at home, and providing fact-based information for everyone’s discernment. If you called me at my office, I would treat you as media…because you are. There is no licensure.
Not surprised by the action on the Hops financing…it was always expected. The PRC heard from CIty staff late last month about the current list of options to replace the three fields (two vs three, dirt vs turf, some combination). I am confident they are developing their own proposal to put infront of the City Council (which I hope is three turfed fields). Our youth will no doubt get only two fields for the three they are losing (I still don’t agree with the notion the City floats about regaining use of Field 3 and the existing stadium). Three for three is my view. The new fields (whether two or three) MUST be turfed. We get too much rain in the Spring and Fall to stick with dirt and grass. I need to work on my 3-mins of comments for the upcoming PRC and, eventual, lsat pitch to the Cit Council.
Matt, I’ve enjoyed hearing your voice in this conversation. If Portland State had a larger role at Gordon Faber than “afterthought tenant,” I have little doubt the discussion of replacement fields would look very different and far more public. But it’s been the extraordinarily vocal softball community here in Washington County that’s kept the discussion honest.
Given Hillsboro Stadium’s obvious logistical and maintenance issues, it shouldn’t be considered a “replacement” of any youth field. At best, it should be a value-ad for events like tournaments, Team USA exhibitions, OSU/PSU games or Athletes Unlimited travel exhibitions. You have DeMarini right across 26 and you’re telling me you can’t organize more marquee youth events than the Hops have been drawing? C’mon.
It should be a 1-for-1 replacement, and I wish you the best in getting turf fields. I know better than to throw myself in the middle of that debate, so I’ll leave it to the people who have to play on those fields and maintain them every year.
Jason, I really hope the City takes care of PSU. They had a nice, professional grade field there…which I am sure they helped finance (in some way). They deserve at least as good a situation as they had on Field 4. If not, they should relocate to somewhere in Portland (perhaps Delta Park). D1 softball team that brings some big names to town. I watched them best OSU this season. And, yes, I would love to see more marquee events and sponsorships opportunities for local companies.