Springfield City Council — April 18, 2022

0:15 all right i'm going to call the springfield city council work session to order with roll call mayor van gorden here councillor pitts here sponsor mo here councillor rodley here councillor stare here councilor woodrow here encounter pitionary here thank you all right we have one item tonight which is the update for the housing and homelessness project list with aaron fifield and i see erin so i'm going to turn it over to her and hopefully aj you can get rid of the uh the acknowledgement thank you neil erin it is all yours great thank you um good evening mayor council um i am back here tonight to revisit a

1:01 project list that was first brought to you in february to address affordable housing and needs for the unhoused as you may remember the city has received or is about to receive a number of one-time grants from various state and federal sources each with different requirements these are in addition to our annual federal cdbg and home funds that also can be used sometimes for affordable housing development or other needs for low-income persons at our work session in february staff brought to you a list of projects that had previously been identified by various community groups some of which

1:47 have been around for years but for the ability to identify funding for said projects so during that february meeting you all had given staff direction on certain projects some of which you supported and had additional questions about others and ask staff to bring the list back to you for further discussion so that's what you see tonight um i see that on a second yeah yeah merrily did you have a question before we you're stalling mute no i was waiting for her to be ready for questions okay then you you're getting

2:33 into the queue early okay okay so the list um as in your packet um i've listed the projects by funding sources the ones highlighted in green are the ones um i heard from council saying yes we want to support this so i'm acknowledging them in the packet but i don't have any questions about them um the peach color coding my just thank you for your patience with it but just sort of indicate the funding amount left to sort of be decided upon and so that's kind of what i'm looking forward uh to you tonight any further direction on that outstanding dollar amount um and there are um certainly try to include

3:18 some answers i could get to some of the projects you had questions about um and then um i think that's where we're at and we can just kind of go through it um i guess project or funding source by funding source so i'm certainly happy to jump right in or um if there are questions okay so it looks like the first funding source is that one million dollars that we got from the state for uh for housing and homelessness needs uh so marilee do you have you do you want to start um so and aaron it's i'm sorry it's anything that's green is we had a conversation of we supported it you would say could be funded out of this would be quote funded on this list

4:04 based on our last conversation and then peach is the money that's left over for us to discuss yeah sorry that's a good that's a good final point um when we discussed it back in february i had just presented the projects to you all and not really the funding sources and sort of got the direction from you all to sort of match them if you will so take the projects you supported and match them to the appropriate sort of grant based on those requirements or timelines and so that's what you see tonight in green is sort of what i heard you say yes to and that project is ready to go and so when we're about to talk about like the one million dollar grant really i've added up sort of those first three projects i heard you guys say yes

4:50 to so supporting the eagan warming sites sprinklers supporting the habitat for humanity fisher village new affordable housing development and supporting a cahoots backup van adding all of those up subtracting it from the one million dollars gives us that sort of quote-unquote peach peach number of hundred and sixteen thousand five hundred and then below that are projects that i didn't really hear i heard questions about so i just wanted to provide additional sort of information and that's what i wanted to and before i turn it over to mary lee just could you clarify one thing for me on the very bottom of this list is sort of staff delivery costs on our side is that included in the funding or would we have to tell you to include that in the in the funding

5:35 it's um it's not included in the green amount it would be an addition we'd be adding it to that list so of the 1165 yes that would be one of the things we'd throw in there yes okay perfect merrily it's on on this first category i had a question in regards to the 20 000 first of all let me say this was wonderful i love the way this was organized it made so much sense it was so easy to go through and see what funding was going to be used for what project what was the i mean it was just i was just for my for my uh interest it worked out great because i i totally got it and it was you know it just i really liked the way you put it together um

6:20 dropping down below the peach to the twenty thousand dollars for sub uh i know that's i know sub gets other funding to help with low income and i know that they i know they also have the the request on your sub bill if you want to donate more money to help out you know and that kind of thing 20 000 seems like a small drop in the bucket for something that could help and i just i if if possible would would like that might be considered so i'm just going to throw that out there and i have i have other comments but i'll wait till we get to the other charts leonard um a couple of things um first of all the uh anne's heart is still up in the air apparently um is

7:05 the site that's being contemplated for the anne's heart project or the shelter still the upper floor of the memorial building um so my understanding with anne's heart and i put that on a it's under a different i think it's like a second um bucket but my understanding is that anne's heart has not identified a location um and we can talk about it there but i also understood from this project that the memorial or from this group last time that the memorial building wasn't a go but i'll leave that to you all so leonard like we're we're taking the number one list with a the one that's uh attachment one page 206 first and then we'll get to i think ann hart's is on is on a different

7:51 funding list okay so it's coming out of a different bucket then well i i wouldn't describe it as funded at this point but it's on a different list for a different bucket when we get when we get considered all right the the other question that i had was off the first list it was about fisher village here um it says that the um 300 k would fund the construction of the first two of 12 habitat for humanity units um do we have um sites picked out for all 12 units or just for two right now they own the property they've um they know where those 12 are going they've just sort of run up against some um sort of

8:36 cut like a lot of different changes have happened over the last i don't know five ten years that this project has been in the works but they know where the sites are yes they own that property nothing against any of the other items that are in white right now we're the one in peach but i i would give high priority to constructing more of those units um i id if there's if there's nothing to prevent us from further funding the construction of those units i i know that habitat humanity always gives you tremendous bang for your buck and i would love to see some of those constructed steve uh curiosity on the cahoots backup van which i'm really glad to see the purchase would give the springfield police department a backup ban for

9:22 cahoots i didn't know there was a connection here i thought cahoots was separate is it so my understanding is that cahoots is run you know run through whitebird um but there's the connection that it's i don't know if the correct term is operated by or sort of the dispatchers through the police department sort of take that initial call and then decide whether or not it is a sort of a better fit for cahoots if there is a crisis versus a better fit for a police or other sort of response um i just i just didn't didn't know there was a that kind of connection there i thought cahoots was cahoots and and uh

10:08 the police department would be different so so um i i'm gonna phone a friend seeing that she's sitting in the parking lot you know out there he is put him on the spot right now thanks chief springfield dispatch so they triage the cases that come in and i think we transfer about 5 000 cases a year to cahoots versus a police response yeah i think it's great i just didn't realize it was i sort of thought coats was cahoots sort of separate there's a connection and we provide i i'm not sure exactly i mean it's 450 or so thousand dollars a year to that program as well okay thank you

10:56 i i think actually that's more of a salmon color but anyway no i i am supportive of the green and the salmon slash peach on that list i think that's probably the wisest use of the money at this time thank you um i will acknowledge and defer to counselor pictionary's expertise on salmon uh my uh my sense right is that uh is that uh you know that we uh build in some additional pro uh project costs to actually deliver this if it's going to cost staff time we need to we need to spend we need to spend it you know i do like uh councillor stairs idea of funding additional housing at fisher village if we can but for right

11:42 now i would my preference would be to just save all that money the additional leftover money into contingency to deliver the first few projects with inflation as high as it is right now uh like eight let's get the first three done and then we'll circle back to the rest of them um counselor rodney yeah um i actually agree with you on that um first of all i'm very supportive of those three because i remember us talking about those and um you know particularly the sprinklers i think is just a key piece to do um and also when i'm looking at the ones at the bottom um i think last time i sort of shared my thoughts around the 20 000 for the the you know to administer assistance and just having

12:27 worked in that know how quickly that goes and all the different sources of revenue for that kind of program so and then i'm just sitting there like wrestling with the porta potty pieces and wondering how much those are being used now that city hall and other places are open and so so anyway that's my roundabout way of taking up more space time to say i really think we should hang on to the remainder and figure out how we're going to spend it and definitely build in some administration costs for staff time and resources that are going to take to get these top three projects over the finish line thank you all right erin i think we're good there are you ready to move to the next list yeah sure so just to confirm

13:12 we'll focus on the first three hold the contingency and for staff and then come back to you sort of when we know more as those move forward if there are any other questions correct great that is clear thank you um so the second source of funds um is the american rescue plan act funding that came through the state um specifically representative lively was given a piece of funding for projects he put 445 000 toward uh permanent financing for the filbert grove manufactured home park i heard last time you all supported that we're moving forward in that direction um we'll come

13:58 back to you i think with the contract to finalize that but then the remaining so 620 000 representative lively again like speaking of sort of how costs have increased over time at the time we had this discussion there were two projects in mind um that representative lively wanted to support one was ant heart and helping them acquire a building for a women's shelter and the second project that representative lively wanted to support was square one villages had an idea to expand the c street co-op to a neighboring property um thinking that that cost could be 220 000 so in the time between our last meeting doing some follow-up um ans hart has sort of said they're looking at properties that could work and right now

14:43 their estimate is that cost is actually closer to 500 000 not 400 000 um with increase in home prices and then for the square one villages actually the c street lot is no longer available for expansion there was an idea i think i brought forward last time of f street co-op and since that time in my follow-up there's actually i think that is less certain i believe than when i first brought it to you um the developer is certainly interested but there's no exact plan for how it would or could be constructed and square one villages hasn't exactly signed on yet though it said they're kind of interested so personally as staff if we're talking about moving projects forward i'm a little hesitant on sort of

15:28 supporting a project that isn't ready or the people i would normally expect to be i can't support it because they have not signed on yet but if and when they do there is another funding source for them um in terms of the affordable housing square one project so if as i see it i could really i see only maybe enough funds remaining to support one project and so that's why staff sort of put forward to say as representative lively put forward these two you know staff is sort of recommending putting money toward dan's heart and then if and when square villages comes in and whatever project they do understanding your support for it there are other sources that we could use whenever they're ready but i'm hesitant to say yes now when that project is not ready to go um

16:13 knowing we want to move the funds so that's kind of where that conversation is but i would love to hear um questions and thoughts okay um so leonard first um so aaron um the if we give van's heart to 500 then that would leave 120 and is there is square one ready to move forward with anything right now or are they more or less just holding holding i've got a big project in eugene they're working on off river road and that's where their focus is i understand right now called peace village um i think they're certainly interested in the future in springfield for sure but that is not as i've heard they're not ready so we would have the option of just holding uh that that money the remainder in advance until such a time as we've

16:59 got a um a project ready to go yeah yeah that's one possibility i think anne's heart also mentions like if there are need to repair or do other sort of improvements to the house that could potentially also be us you know they might also be needing a need for that but um yeah we however you wanted to hold that okay i'm i'm good with that okay then merrily next and then we'll go go to council rodley um yes i i um i like what's here in front of us and i i like the 500 000 for ann's heart i think that's something i think that's a program we really need in springfield um and we need do we need the program itself uh group home for homeless women um

17:47 the um as far as repairs potential repairs hypothetically would that not fall under a possibility for cdbg money as well uh in the future if they if they came across something like that they could apply for cdbg money to go towards repairs yes so so at this point 500 000 would get them started and and get them in a good spot to know what they need and where that where they're going i hope so this is like a recent real estate look i think they did in terms of saying what's for sale now i think as we've seen home prices increase is 500 still gonna be the price of a home in six months um i don't know so that's kind of where some of the

18:34 uncertainty is but um are they doing any outside fundraising my understanding is yes they've been fundraising for years actually um and as uh sort of that nonprofit has stated their belief um is that fundraising is certainly going to be that much more when there's an actual property right that they have in hand so um okay well i i'm i'm definitely in favor of the philbrook grove and the uh anne's heart and go from there and merrily june's here and she's nodding yes to all these questions all along so thumbs up june corey uh so i also am in support of both of

19:19 these and in support of the 500 000 for anne's heart my suggestion would be to then just hang on to the remainder also again i definitely think we should you know have administration costs come out of that to support staff and what it's going to take to get them through um and um i also at first when i was reading over it i was like oh this is this is a challenge because i'm a big fan of the city street co-op and i'm looking forward to more things like that so yes and i think they have other funding opportunities so thank you um so i guess i had two quick comments i'm a big fan of what they did at the c street co-op as well um and i know that they're not quite ready to go for you

20:05 know they're not ready for prime time for phase two but it's a very creative way to get us to some home ownership and you know i if if the folks from uh square one are listening right like that we just wanna back up the first the first round of c street went really well and i look forward to when they when they design and they're ready to get the second uh the second piece off the uh off the ground and then with you know um the question with with anne's heart and june i is here and i like at some point i want to connect with you and just learn a little bit about everything that's going to get us to the finish line here because it's been out there for a few years and i feel like i'm three versions ago all right anybody else i've been working with anne's heart

20:51 group since they the concept is they've been working really hard to get to this spot they deserve it all right aaron okay great um i i guess i just want to maybe confirm is this helping ants certainly buy a property so if they let's say find something for 550 000 are we supportive like up to the 620 in that sense i'm looking around um if that's what administrative costs demand then sure well 620 is what's left right right so i guess the and you're you're saying do we want to go uh do we want to tell

21:36 them it's up to 620 or do we want to cap them at 550 before they come back into and talk to us all right joe i i like the c street project i think that should be funded and also i think aunt's heart should be funded i don't like the um i don't think we need to bump that up i think it would give us a good trigger for them to come back and take a look and then we potentially could have uh different directions that we can pull from i we also have administrative costs at the end of this column uh that we need to consider so i would like to stay at the 500

22:22 and if for whatever reason they come up with something that they found for 5 25 they could come back and ask council about it or something but i would like to put the 500 at this point stay there and and see how they do okay so that's the that's the direction that we've got i think that's reasonable all right let's go to the next funding level which is the 3 million for the new manufactured home park yeah i'll just add i don't those are really all my my questions um there's certainly time if you guys have any questions but i could just i had brought these up before so wanted to include them i heard support um you know staff have certainly been doing due diligence on a site that we own

23:07 to see can we partition off a vacant parcel to meet the needs for a new manufactured home park given some of the deadlines with this funding source and our plan is to come back to council before recess with a little more information on that site and that project and see any questions or directions you have for us to really go forward leonard yeah i did just wanted to ask how many mobile home units do we expect to get out of the three million dollars um i i want to say st vincent de paul would be estimating about like 40 and 60 between 40 and 60 depending on the site plan um so 60 that that'd be 50

23:52 000 i mean at at a minimum uh 50 000 per mobile home is that about right yeah i would i would i don't know what the total cost of development will be the three million will just be a piece of that um yeah so we get do we get the lots and the development and the grid and the water out of all of that or what so leonard this might help so aaron is conceptually there there's basically a line right we have a couple of bullet points and that's what we know at this point and then we will probably know more about it if we're in sometime in the fall or earlier than that i mean i you know staff is hoping to sit down and talk with um

24:37 saint vincent depaul this spring to see what is feasible what what could what we've identified work for them if so what would the cost be and do we kind of have a financing plan that makes sense to really move forward with this or not and then to bring that back to you all so i as far as the legislative like 3 million is concerned that is eligible to be used for costs of development um whether that's reimbursing for the cost of land or creating infrastructure or buying the units is kind of up to i would say the developer on how they want to sort of put that forward but secure yeah so we can expect itemizing yeah so some of the detailed questions you have right like are still getting sorted

25:22 yeah counselor pictionary thank you so along that same line i think that i know i i realize it's very initial um but i think also of course that money can be used for for actually putting in infrastructure as opposed to handing cash over etc etc so there's many different ways and that's down in the weeds quite a bit but i do want to make sure we get out in front of before this moves forward to look at the adjacent properties just to d to determine if there is potentially any negative financial impact those homeowners would suffer based on a development or what their what their thoughts are their support etc etc i think by not including them

26:08 way early on will bite us because i'm sure they'll get quite vocal all right um looking at the next two pages of content uh those look like updates so i'm gonna look around um does anybody have specific questions or feedback for aaron on the next sort of the rest of the packet since there's not a there's not a decision item but there's an opportunity to discuss if if we're interested oh well um i do want to call out um the money from senator beyer around uh for a behavioral health center right like i think there's a partnership there to be made and you know it just i i'm interested to see how that

26:54 develops um in the future and i know that there are some parties at you know out in springfield that are looking at us at a similar thing so i think that'll be interesting to see what you know when we get more information yeah there is i'm going to talk with the county staff hopefully soon just about if they don't move forward with the behavioral health center in springfield then what the opportunity is to sort of use that money for land acquisition in springfield so hopefully i'll have no have more there joe thank you can't figure out which button to push um so and i'm familiar aaron with the responses that you gave back to mr sauer appreciate the work you

27:40 did in that and that's what um the mayor is referring to in regards to the east springfield area but i think too is that are these monies these the monies that buyers talking about are those the same ones that are encumbered by quite a bit or is there more flexibility that potentially or is there any potential and flexibility of any and all of these funds that are being looked at that could be applicable to that because that the idea of that project and how it would run it would be very beneficial to our youth so yeah i you know so my understanding is so the senator buyer funds that are referenced here are similar to representative lively it's

28:26 the same source of arpa funds these are federal arpa funds and the project that senator buyer referenced that lane county has since signed an agreement with the state das department of administrative services is to say we will use this money for a lane county behavioral health center or to buy land for affordable housing in springfield um when i've talked with lane county staff there is a estimated 22 million dollar project for a new behavioral health center that is being sort of developed that is sort of a a one stop as opposed to maybe this these kind of community center ideas um and they have a committee and they're moving forward with trying to figure out location and

29:11 square footage and you name it so my understanding from the the buyer allocation is that is for that particular project um what i talked with is it ron um i think what they are doing is certainly needed and when he talks about sort of that community build especially in the thurston area i didn't get a sense that it is on the sort of medical or behavioral health sort of plane that senator buyer is sort of allocating those funds toward um it was certainly brainstorming other types of funding sources that maybe the city is aware of or knows of that could help it's a tricky i think it's a tricky project given our sort of the limited federal sources we as a city have because how open they

29:56 want it to be and yet some of these projects we or the funding sources we have are pretty dedicated toward specifically low income or the unhoused and um yeah i'm i'm still trying to brainstorm i think maybe on the foundation side that may be a great place to start considering it's a community focus but um i don't think it is the same intent that senator breyer had okay yeah if we can keep looking i think it's something that the community very much needs and it just seems like there's a ton of money being doled out everywhere else but in that niche so yeah that would be great if we could find something thank you all right then um our next meeting is at seven o'clock we are going to be on the same

30:41 link so we don't get to change you know links one more time um so please come back here at seven o'clock and then we will get going on the regular session we are adjourned thank you do you do we see counselor pitts in the waiting room i knew he had a conflict so i don't know if not seeing him at this time america yeah i think he okay counselor pissionary are you did you make it back [Music] all right

31:26 we still have enough to keep get going so i am going to call the regular session of the springfield city council to order with a roll call mayor van gorden here councillor pitts counselor mo here councillor rodley here answer stair here answer woodrow here and council missionary i'm here thanks and entry as always uh please join me in the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states

32:17 as we begin our meeting tonight i would like to ask members of the audience who are joining us by phone or online to please keep yourselves on mute until you are called to provide public testimony there are two items designated for public testimony this evening under public hearings and business from the audience if you are attending in person please complete the request to speak card located at the entrance of the council chambers and give them to the city recorder if you're joining us with a tablet smartphone or computer and wish to speak at either of those times please use the raise hand feature in zoom the order of public testimony is as followers follows anyone in person in the council chambers anyone who's raised their hand for virtual testimony and neil could you let us know how many

33:02 people are joining us yes mayor 26 participants online and approximately 19 here in the room great thank you first item please yeah the first item is springfield upbeat item one mayor's recognition recognition of officer kate crawford and mayor this is your item oh well this is fantastic we're gonna if we can have uh chief shear and officer crawford join us um i have a brief thing that i'm going to read and then uh we are going to give to shira a chance to say great things about the work officer crawford's doing and then we'll turn it up over to the rest of the council to share any thoughts that they have on a friday night in february 2022 a 9-1-1 call came in by a man saying that

33:48 he'd been stabbed officers were dispatched and officer kate crawford was that first officer on the scene officer crawford met the male victim on the sidewalk who was bleeding badly from a deep stab wound to his chest and provided life-saving care until paramount paramedics arrived and transported him to the hospital prior to joining spd officer kate crawford worked for the eugene springfield fire department in 2021 she applied to be a member of the spd swat team she underwent a selection process and ultimately was chosen to be a team member and attend state basic swat school she has a peripheral duty on the team as being a team medic providing peace of mind to the members that they can face dangerous situations knowing if they are injured she'll be

34:34 there to immediately to render aid or or to subjects who are critically injured in her short time on the team she has taken it upon herself to develop in an enhanced emergency first aid training curriculum called tactical emergency casualty care for members of spd she's administered that training to both spd swat and lynn county sheriff's office swat team and will be providing all it to all members of the spd in coming weeks the knowledge she is sharing and the skills that she is teaching will allow our first responder their officers to save lives and critical incidents when seconds may literally be the difference between someone living or dying so when i saw this story i was just i was

35:19 amazed you know it is a great story of the level of uh you know public safety that you know the the citizens of springfield can can expect from from folks like you and one of the things that really stood out to me is not only the the bravery and response and that you save this gentleman's life but also how as we kind of go forward in an enhanced sort of public safety network it really touched on a lot of different skills and i just wanted to say thank you and i appreciated it and i'll let office chief shear say a couple words echo what the mayor said officer crawford's been with spd a relatively short time but she's made a significant impact on the time that she's there she's making impacts in ways that are gonna set the bar for how we perform as an

36:06 agency moving forward but the kind of skills that she's teaching our police officers truly help keep them safe when they go out on the street every day and help keep the community safe and while we're here to recognize kate crawford for her achievements tonight she's also a representative of every single person in this police department and what we're recognizing her for is one example of the great work that happens day in and day out from this agency so thank you for representing this agency thank you for representing this entire city and we're super proud to have you as part of this team thank you all right don't go anywhere yet did merrily did you have uh anything dad yes thank you doesn't seem to to be a big enough thing to say but it is a huge thank you um

36:51 i don't know what to say besides that you're awesome what you're spreading the the the attitude the passion the incredible experience and devotion to your fellow uh uh officers as well as the the job itself and the department um just just a huge thank you all right anybody else counselor rodney i just want to say thank you and thank you for bringing your best self to the city of springfield and to the springfield police department and i think you are an exemplary example of a great team that we have and i have deep appreciation for the first responders

37:36 and the work that you all do in very difficult situations so thank you also pictionary yes thank you great work that's awesome and you know uh you can tell when people stand out like you're doing right now is that you're doing something that i have no doubt you feel deep to the core is your calling and that uh by doing that by answering your call you are doing more for the public than than most anybody could possibly do and and i i know that you feel a deep sense of satisfaction within yourself by being able to be uh a part of this great picture and so

38:22 for that i i we all appreciate you a ton and um keep listening to that call that's awesome good job all right i'm coming down we're going to take a picture so i didn't get the letter done on time because apparently i didn't complete my homework but we brought you one of these uh shiny uh community of opportunity springfield oregon mugs and rumor has it there's another one someplace in the in the the pd that you'll have to find but hopefully you'll be able to put this to good news

39:15 awesome all right put this to good work thank you so much next item please may or be hard to top that but your next item is the consent calendar well the consent calendar is always in the running steve uh hi for a motion to approve the consent calendar second uh it's been moved by councillor mo and second ended by counselor pictionary uh could you call the role please neil yes uh councilor pitts counselor mo yes councillor rodley yes

40:00 councillor stare aye councillor woodrow yes and counselor pictionary yes thank you the motion passes uh five yays and zero nose and one absent next item please next time you have two public hearings tonight public hearing number one is the overnight parking program code change ordinance number two an ordinance amending sections 8.00 8.005 sorry 8.000 8.005 8.010 and 8.012 of the springfield municipal code to expand outdoor temporary emergency shelters to include social and religious institutions and adopting a severability clause christina kras and sandy belson are here

40:45 for the staff report hello mayor and council it's nice to be with you this evening um this is the item that came to you in work session last week on monday with some additional changes um per your direction this is specifically a proposed ordinance to adjust the definition of those sites that can participate in the overnight parking program from including churches and industrial sites to including religious and social institutions that are private institutions which includes churches but it's not limited to churches as well as the existing industrial properties and the clarification was added to the ordinance that it does not include

41:31 public institutions like schools or community centers or other public facilities are there any questions if not you can hold your public hearing and then i can take any additional questions afterwards or sandy belson is also here and can answer questions about the program if you have any i am looking around and i don't see any questions um i am going to open the public hearing i do not have any cards hang on we have breaking news i have one card for this uh for this item which is chris mcallister

42:19 good evening mr mayor members of the council my name is chris mcallister and i live in ward 3. i come before you as a member of the chariot forward team which currently does overnight parking program site in springfield over at 42nd street and we're very much supportive of the language of this ordinance we're very much in support of expansions of our only option for springfielders in this community that are not families we do a lot of great excellent supported family work but this is a really good way to meet our people where they are we have seniors who don't qualify we have couples who would be separated if they go to other options in our community and so car camping is one of the ways that we can do this better we as carrot forward also use our vocational program to help keep people engaged and try and find their way back

43:05 to uh what we call mainstream jobs and housing and so by that we've created a model called the spot shelter which is a wooden shelter that we'd like to ask for you to consider into the code as you expand your code these are like a conestoga but they are fit to be able to use power they do not have plumbing but they are able to sometimes be moved because we had them on wheels but we created an ada version which is the first known ada shelter created locally and we'd like you to check it out later on today you'll all receive an email with our specs as well as one of our shower units that we designed for it this is created by the unhoused for the unhoused and models that are currently around lane county i thank you for your time and your service

43:52 thank you um that was the only card that i had from the in the room uh we're going to open it up to any virtual testimony on this item neil do we have any hands of folks indicating they want to testify to this item may or we may or we do not have any hands for this item all right then i'm going to go ahead and close the public hearing and this was no action requested since it was a first reading next item please next item is your public hearing number to an ordinance amending springfield municipal code regarding criminal misdemeanors and violations and state traffic offenses ordinance number three an ordinance amending springfield municipal code section 5.100 and 5.104 adding section 6.000 and 6.002 and adopting a severability

44:39 clause mary bridget smith is here for the staff report good evening mayor and council i'm here before you tonight for a public hearing and first reading on an item that we periodically bring before the council about your criminal code we um the state or excuse me let me start over the city incorporates by reference state criminal violations and misdemeanor laws that can be prosecuted in springfield municipal court this is a bit of a belt and suspenders approach but we also ask the council to re-adopt the criminal code to capture any changes in a recent in any recent legislative session and then this year we're also making an

45:24 explicit reference to the traffic code by statute again we have that authority but our prosecutor has asked us to make an explicit reference in our code so there's no confusion that traffic misdemeanor crimes and violations and criminal misdemeanors can be prosecuted in springfield municipal court and tonight is a public hearing and first reading all right are there any questions before i hold the public hearing all right i'm going to go ahead and open the public hearing i don't have any cards for this item neil do you have anybody indicating they want to testify mayor it appears we have no hands for this item all right i'm going to go ahead and close the public hearing and

46:10 this is again a first reading no action required tonight great thank you this will be back before you on consent in a few weeks perfect thank you uh next item please next item is business from the audience all right i got three all right i've got four cards and then um if you want to testify virtually please you can start queuing up and raising your hand the uh first uh first card is sabrina white good evening mayor and council in chief i just wanted to let everybody know on council that

46:58 our cops rock we have wonderful police officers and i am just so tired of hearing how bad they are they're getting a bad rap and they don't deserve that um we have i've had interactions with them on many levels mostly through the community service that i do around springfield and just a week ago i was up at the cemetery out in glenwood where an officer out of uniform was helping me pick up garbage that was alongside the road up there and so they are really going above and beyond their call of duty in and out of the uniform i just wanted people to know that

47:44 thank you it's pronounced sly lynch i apologize evening council members everybody at home i'm asking the council to change the way they're doing the glenwood annexation i feel like myself and my neighbors aren't taken into account we have constantly dealt with just squatters honestly sometimes showing up and dropping off motorhomes and not actually sleeping in them but showing up enough to do their drugs and

48:29 everything else in the neighborhood we have neighbors just a few blocks over that family members passed away and they've turned into squatters on those properties and had numbers of motor homes where they just have numerous people staying at the places i've tried to go the direction of county and making the code complaints being somebody who's been through dealing with code complaints city of springfield harassing i want to say harassing my family for decades i know that that's the direction you're supposed to go with this but when i approach code enforcement i get more of the response that she's going to give me a citation versus addressing the situation and enforcing the codes um these complaints go back from 2014 and still haven't been addressed

49:15 currently the way i look at the map it's basically my neighborhood that's not going to be annexed by the way the annexation plan is and i feel like that's just taking away from myself my neighbors my kids end up having to watch people shoot up heroin and cars at their bus stop i really would like it if the city took a different approach and um not necessarily a bully approach but more give them uh somewhere to go or a different approach on things i said something to council member steve mo about using tax slot 17 0 3 3 4 4 3 0 1 1 oh wait that's my address it's it's eighteen zero three zero

50:00 three four zero zero zero seven hundred um this tax slot is currently owned by the city of eugene but is inside the glenwood annexation plan as i'm looking at it it's the bottom lot right here closest to franklin where you often have a lot of motorhomes sitting and camping and squatting this is i think it's roughly 17 acres up there it's quite a bit of space to turn into a community where we could actually do something to change the way things are going versus saying something about the camp that was located um right here off 19th in between the railroad tracks i said something about a year ago and they removed the trees but they just move in different locations my neighbors and i would like you to put

50:45 some type of barrier just north of 19th street on the opposite side of the railroad tracks north of them in between 19th and franklin to keep people from cutting through our neighborhood and maybe change some of the outcomes going on in the neighborhood um we'd also like some help because the moment shelter care opens back up we're just dealing with the traffic even worse than before so it's a big concern for myself hello june father gill uh i live at 317 30th street here in spring here in springfield first of all i want to say

51:31 thank you for the last session where you decided to give money to anne's heart yay and also for the um eagan center possibility at everett i really appreciate those decisions are they're not final yet but looks like that's where you're headed and i appreciate that very much i also want to thank you that um for the code change to continue to support and expand the parking program i think that's important and that is on one of the things that's on the letter that you received from us at springfield shelter rights alliance on february 8th 2022 shall i resend it how many have you lost it already anyway so i'm up here again reminding you of

52:16 that letter and the desire to have another work session i know you have lots of things planned i saw the agenda that neil had but put it on the agenda down the road please to have a work session looking even more at what can we do about our unhoused community and working with them and as a man that just spoke said it includes glenwood of course and there's lots of things that we could be doing that we're not doing and we have a list of about nine things here find out that on that letter and i'm sure there's more if you get the creativity of your staff involved they'll come up with even more ideas so i think there's all kinds of possibilities but we do need to take some intentional work session time to really look at the

53:01 issue and what the needs are and i encourage you to include glenn winner that in that and what he said um thank you very much thank you the next card is chris mcallister mr mayor members of the council chris mcallister ward 3. i'd like to speak first and foremost about a tragedy we just had on the fire on 20th in maine an unhoused person that was very near and dear to carry it forward into the city of springfield's efforts during covid passed away we were able to get her safe but we

53:46 weren't able to keep her safe when the shelter closed down due to federal dollars moving out our people got displaced so we took six of the hardest to help and we got a community member to put them in a house and we took care of them we were able to keep them alive and keep them safe until the next shelter's open five months later things happen health does not necessarily go well and depression and scarcity of resources and opportunity weigh down so three of the six are dead now of the ones that we were able to spare from covid and so two of them within the last four months glenwood is a very dear part of our community as we go forward but a lot of our people have been displaced

54:31 there shelter care was there they're now closed and that place is now a county shelter that hasn't been able to get enough people qualified to be able to open we have a big shelter opening up maybe after july with people who are not necessarily in our same network so we need to make sure that when we move forward as a community that we do not forget our own our people matter and we need to have more recognition about what options our people need as opposed to what works best for small groups in our community we need recovery sites for people who want to fight the drugs who are tired of living in the situations that they're in we need elder support our emergency shelters are becoming nursing homes as people are being displaced from the hospitals to the street and those of us

55:17 who cannot look away those of us who rise when eagan comes and who are there when the fires came we are stretched too thin we need options in our town right now carry it forward maintains a camp with six displaced springfielders because there are no place for springfield singles in springfield's situation outside the car camping programs and so while the opp is an awesome option it can't be our only option we need something more long-term for our seniors we need something more open for our people who want to do the public health interventions such as recovery and harm reduction if we want to expand glenwood to be the gem that we know it is we really need to invest in solutions that put options in every part of springfield not just the parts we

56:03 want to build in or sell off i very much appreciate your time and your service and ask for you to rise with us as we fight this thank you very much thank you all right that is the last card i have so we're ready to bring up folks that are on the uh on the zoom link here we currently have one hand up and that is james hugo james your microphone should be unmuted read on your end can you hear me we can hear you wow chris i really want to say uh thank you for that i i think we all need to hear that that was a really good uh statement you made and i i support you and agree with you 110 percent um what i'm here to talk about is i guess it doesn't really involve that but it

56:48 does i guess the homeless population is influenced and affected by toxins coming from factories and mills within the city of limits of springfield um so again i'm i'm asking the city council to help create a committee to tackle environmental justice issues environmental concerns within the city of springfield and also emergency management kind of throw that in give the public like myself and chris and many other people like us to be listening right now a voice to hear our concerns and start talking about the issues um and so that way we can come up with a solution um because that's that's all i really care about so um yeah so mr van gorden and every other

57:34 counselor on the on the board there i really appreciate you if you listen to these concerns i'm having and help me create a community talk about environmental justice um i guess that's all i have to say yeah thank you uh mayor it appears that's our only hand for this evening all right uh thank you um anybody have council response yes steve i want to thank mr lynch for coming here and speaking for glendon because what he touched on was just a little bit of what the problem is down there i've been fighting it we can't get police response we can't get code enforcement we they don't answer phone calls you're overloaded with so

58:19 many calls into city hall i think are just overloaded they just don't seem to be able to respond to what we have over there and we can't get anything done plus legally it's pretty hard to to enforce the code because uh it's it's outside the city limits is is is not under city code so uh municipal court doesn't apply it's a it's a it's a mess over there and i'm working hard to try and find some a new to a solution it's pretty hard and mr lynch please come keep coming back telling us what's going on and i've been telling the council uh and i just i just frustrated nothing seems to be happening but i'm really really trying so thank you for coming

59:09 so leonard did you have a comment specific for mr lynch because i mean jump in okay i will come back to you for a second um can we have somebody from staff follow up with mr lynch um and see if we can't you right because they exist you know that those properties sometimes exist in a limbo zone between the city and the county and some and getting them put in the right place and getting an answer is pretty important and mr lynch i would encourage you to reach out to your county commissioner to talk about the issue our staff is going to follow up with you and see if we can't get to get you a little bit more information and you pointed to the right direction the one piece of property that you did cite from what from what i could see that actually may not be city of eugene

59:54 property that may be eweb's piece of property um so i would just encourage you to keep contacting that the different elected boards and to find a solution but we've got your we've got your phone number uh i'll get it to this staff and somebody will follow up with you leonard um thanks i i did want to thank sabrina white and sly lynch iii june father gill chris mcallister james hugo for your comments tonight i'm james i i think that environmental issues are things that the the council is very concerned about we do have staff that is devoted to emergency management right now but the environment is completely inextricable from

1:00:39 the emergency issues that we face right now and i think that we're all dedicated to finding solutions i um i did hear a lot of comments about the homeless community tonight and um i i was in utah recently and um a housing activist said that housing first is great but it's not all that you have to do you have to provide wrap around social services as well and it's something that the um the city needs to be cognizant of and i hope that is something we're going to be paying more attention to uh yes i just wanted to um ask chris if he would please get that information

1:01:25 in regard to the spot shelter i had not heard of that before it sounds very interesting and i'd like to i'd like to see some more information on that and i'm i'm getting head nods from chris mcallister so message received thank you anybody else just to talk about property ownership up there there's eweb and sub that on on property up there but if sub it's it it's called city of springfield loans it's not sub and i believe web the same way it's not e-web it's city of eugene so that's i think the actual ownership is by the cities right next item please uh next time under bids is item number one a bid award for project p21151

1:02:10 which is the centennial boulevard overlay at aspen and prescott and zomboyat is here for the staff report thanks neil mayor and counselors we usually don't pull a bid award off the consent agenda this one has excuse me extra meaning it's the eighth and final project of the street bond and i just want to run through a few sort of facts here i think it was almost exactly four years ago when victoria doyle asked questions at the budget committee about our state of our assets in the streets and uh that was in april and by a special meeting in july the council had

1:02:55 directed staff to go ahead and put an item on uh the november ballot for a 10 million dollar bond to fix eight streets that passed something 65 percent plus or minus and i just have to pause here and give a shout out to uh steve mo then planning commissioner leonard stair then city councilor sean van gorden then city councilor for forming up the core of the political action group and working with victoria and others to bring this forward to the community and and see the success that it enjoyed property taxes hit the property tax levy hit the tax rolls on july 1st of 2019

1:03:42 we had already begun designing construction at that point front loaded a little bit of money picked off the uh the easiest couple of projects to build um 2020 was really a design and a bidding and a contracting year and last year in 21 we did six more of those projects and so centennial is the final project we're ahead we're right about spot on budget um we'll know once we wrap up this project how close we came to exactly 10 billion uh we're prepared to go over a little bit not sure if there'll be any left over but if there is we'll figure that out when we get there anyway just uh phenomenal um

1:04:27 all the way around i couldn't be prouder of the engineering group christy krueger getting those projects out there getting them built even towards the end here with inflation and some other things that started hitting construction price indexes the voters placed their trust in your decision making and in that bond and together we've been able to deliver it so normally we don't present bids and i'm certainly the wrong person to do that this is the low qualifying bid for centennial and uh we hope to see that built this year all right and just one comment before we get go like it's exciting to get to the finish line here and you know i just

1:05:13 i want to thank the springfield voters for this right like our roads needed work and to have them come forward and support road work with you know their their own money and it means a lot and you can see it in the quality of those roads and how excited everybody is uh when they see one of these fixed roads i know we got a lot of work to do on roads that's for for a different a different night but uh but the roads that got done in this pond really it's a noticeable improvement and they look fantastic steve when we put this before the public can i say we because i was part of the organization that did that we made promises to the public that we the money would go exactly where we said it would and it has done that and it's been a

1:06:00 wonderful job and i think we're certainly looking forward to hopefully they'll support us and doing another one so thank you tom leonard um i think when we were putting this to a vote um we put out some literature that said that the the state of our roads amounted to a regressive tax um because what was happening was that people were having to devote a lot of money to the upkeep of their vehicles based on the amount of damage that the roads were doing to it and um the of course the less money that you have to put into your car the less you can afford to get that uh get that done and i i'm very proud of the work that the city has done since that vote um to make this happen so thanks

1:06:46 for your help tom i mean you've uh you've been very instrumental in it team effort all right counselor mo we do have a motion for this oh well i'd like to make a motion that we award the contract river riverbend construction for the amount of 954 564.81 cents second removed and seconded neil can you call the vote please yes counselor pitts counselor mo yes counselor rodley yes counselor stare yes sponsor woodrow yes and counselor pictionary hi thank you a motion passes five yeses zero knows and one absent thanks tom next item

1:07:33 please any business from the city council i do have a couple uh we found we found my public testimony i have a couple things too um i just wanted to take a couple of minutes to um acknowledge a lot of people some of whom some folks names we know and some we don't um chris mcallister mentioned earlier the the fire in the 2000 block of main street um where nathan mcneil and elena chambers died in that fire and we also recently there were two individuals who were killed in a stabbing over on 28th street all of these are really close in my neighborhood

1:08:18 and i wanted to acknowledge the loss of our neighbors and i also think it's important to acknowledge the eugene spirit and quill firefighters and our first responders in the springfield police department because when these things happen in our communities they are happening to all of us those who are who are experiencing it as victims and those who are the responders who are also um responding and having a front row seat to the the loss and the trauma of that and that is as a city what we do is we come together on all sides of those and so i just want to take a little piece of my time to express my deep appreciation as i did a little bit earlier for those directors those um responders and those people who show up

1:09:03 when we hear the sirens or the roads get closed and also just to acknowledge the loss of life of our neighbors thank you okay and i've got a couple uh a couple of pieces of business um the the the first ones the the easy one um dessert desserts for dinner three is coming up so this is the annual dessert competition that catholic community services has in springfield where you get a box of desserts and then you get to grade the winning baker in town to support unhoused families in the catholic community services day center for for oasis so please if you have not bought your dessert box please go out and do it they come with zero calories in them

1:09:49 boxes yeah they're pretty good all right second item um councilor woodrow and i went out we we took a we we've been taking a couple of meetings along main street as we talk about the main street safety plan and i guess uh you know having watched the planning commission the last couple of weeks and when i think about an 1800 uh page packet really coming at at this group the thing i wanted to to to work through tonight is we really need to delay when we're talking when we're opening the uh the the public hearing from main street and the direction that um i'd like to take the staff is to really push it to february of next year and take the opportunity and time that we have in may to really dig into the safety plan and just acknowledge the

1:10:37 sheer amount of public input that we've got and that we're going to have to consider as we sort of make uh make this decision so to me i the way the schedule's gonna look for the next couple of weeks is it's gonna have a lot of main street in it for work sessions um and take into account a lot of you know stakeholder input that we've gotten you would get all summer to read the main street safety plan i know everybody's excited about that and then we would come in and fall and really get into the meat of the policy discussion about what that what that safety plan looks like and look to open a public hearing in in february and that really is going to give us an opportunity to be as responsive as we possibly can to the public we've heard a

1:11:22 lot of public input and really dig in and understand what changes we need to make all right i'm seeing head nod so that seems like a good i think we need to do that as um as has the planning commission um weighed in with any kind of a rule yeah so the planning commission passed it four to three and if you really read the discussion from the planning commission it it really right like the planning commission gave us this this same advice right which is slow down talk about it consider the breadth of like public input that that we're getting to make sure that we're getting to the right place for springfield merrily

1:12:09 yes i just wanted to support you in that in what you just said and to recognize that the the moving this off to a policy decision in february is a response to the community um input that we've gotten it's not we're not trying to avoid it or put it off it's it's important that we have uh that information that we've gotten and we will get more and we're looking forward to having all that all the input we can have but it's a it's a concerted effort to be able to recognize that input read the input digest it in in in connection with like i said like you said the 1800 packet in here the page packet that we're looking at uh diving into um it's

1:12:58 it's something that is conceptual and looks and looks ahead to what may or may not happen on main street and when we have to evaluate it from all angles um and we have a balance between the different entities and their uh areas of concern um and involvement it's important that we'd be able to have the time to look from all from all aspects of it so thank you i in the the city is going to put out a press release uh that takes the uh that provides some of the information to the public and again provides the the comment link for people to provide any additional uh feedback that they might have joe

1:13:45 thank you yeah i'm just reiterating has been said is that i think that um the way things laid out in as much consternation in the community that plant has created uh whether there's whether there's inaccuracies accuracy so it just kind of doesn't matter right now but just the uh just the amount of consternation and uh confusion it we we owe it to the citizens in the city to just say okay stop we need you know like i said throw the anchor out i'm not ready to support it the way it's presented i can tell you that that i look forward to uh different iterations of it and considerations of it and all the uh questions that were put forward to be answered and to be shared those answers to be shared

1:14:32 with us as well so that's it looking forward to seeing it in the fall or in the spring it will be here sooner than you think um all right any other business from the council all right next item please any business from the city manager a couple of quick items this evening um we had some good news tonight uh with the recognition of officer crawford and i just wanted to also thank her for her service to our police department i believe that her unique skill set coming from eugene's springfield fire is was really a contributing factor in saving this man's life and that in that call so i although ordinarily i would be disappointed in losing such a valuable staff member for eugene's springfield fire it was clearly the gain for our

1:15:19 police department and our city so i wanted to recognize officer crawford as well as her fellow officers who were in the hearing room this evening uh lending their support and of course to chief shearer who um is always so incredibly supportive of his officers if you ever take a couple of minutes to talk to chief uh the very first thing is his concern for the safety of his officers and the safety of our community um so i just wanted to acknowledge that i also wanted to thank our incredible staff in public public works for delivering on the bond projects keeping our promises to the community is such a wonderful feeling to have so i want to thank the community for that i just wanted to say tonight there were some decisions made um you

1:16:06 know mayor you took some leadership steps with the main street project um and also some of the other decisions that were happening this evening these are all examples of good governance and that's why i do my jobs thank you no additional business tonight thank you all right and this looks like our last meeting for the evening so i'm going to adjourn the meeting have a good night everybody thank you for attending

0:15 all right i'm going to call the springfield city council work session to order with roll call mayor van gorden here councillor pitts here sponsor mo here councillor rodley here councillor stare here councilor woodrow here encounter pitionary here thank you all right we have one item tonight which is the update for the housing and homelessness project list with aaron fifield and i see erin so i'm going to turn it over to her and hopefully aj you can get rid of the uh the acknowledgement thank you neil erin it is all yours great thank you um good evening mayor council um i am back here tonight to revisit a

1:01 project list that was first brought to you in february to address affordable housing and needs for the unhoused as you may remember the city has received or is about to receive a number of one-time grants from various state and federal sources each with different requirements these are in addition to our annual federal cdbg and home funds that also can be used sometimes for affordable housing development or other needs for low-income persons at our work session in february staff brought to you a list of projects that had previously been identified by various community groups some of which

1:47 have been around for years but for the ability to identify funding for said projects so during that february meeting you all had given staff direction on certain projects some of which you supported and had additional questions about others and ask staff to bring the list back to you for further discussion so that's what you see tonight um i see that on a second yeah yeah merrily did you have a question before we you're stalling mute no i was waiting for her to be ready for questions okay then you you're getting

2:33 into the queue early okay okay so the list um as in your packet um i've listed the projects by funding sources the ones highlighted in green are the ones um i heard from council saying yes we want to support this so i'm acknowledging them in the packet but i don't have any questions about them um the peach color coding my just thank you for your patience with it but just sort of indicate the funding amount left to sort of be decided upon and so that's kind of what i'm looking forward uh to you tonight any further direction on that outstanding dollar amount um and there are um certainly try to include

3:18 some answers i could get to some of the projects you had questions about um and then um i think that's where we're at and we can just kind of go through it um i guess project or funding source by funding source so i'm certainly happy to jump right in or um if there are questions okay so it looks like the first funding source is that one million dollars that we got from the state for uh for housing and homelessness needs uh so marilee do you have you do you want to start um so and aaron it's i'm sorry it's anything that's green is we had a conversation of we supported it you would say could be funded out of this would be quote funded on this list

4:04 based on our last conversation and then peach is the money that's left over for us to discuss yeah sorry that's a good that's a good final point um when we discussed it back in february i had just presented the projects to you all and not really the funding sources and sort of got the direction from you all to sort of match them if you will so take the projects you supported and match them to the appropriate sort of grant based on those requirements or timelines and so that's what you see tonight in green is sort of what i heard you say yes to and that project is ready to go and so when we're about to talk about like the one million dollar grant really i've added up sort of those first three projects i heard you guys say yes

4:50 to so supporting the eagan warming sites sprinklers supporting the habitat for humanity fisher village new affordable housing development and supporting a cahoots backup van adding all of those up subtracting it from the one million dollars gives us that sort of quote-unquote peach peach number of hundred and sixteen thousand five hundred and then below that are projects that i didn't really hear i heard questions about so i just wanted to provide additional sort of information and that's what i wanted to and before i turn it over to mary lee just could you clarify one thing for me on the very bottom of this list is sort of staff delivery costs on our side is that included in the funding or would we have to tell you to include that in the in the funding

5:35 it's um it's not included in the green amount it would be an addition we'd be adding it to that list so of the 1165 yes that would be one of the things we'd throw in there yes okay perfect merrily it's on on this first category i had a question in regards to the 20 000 first of all let me say this was wonderful i love the way this was organized it made so much sense it was so easy to go through and see what funding was going to be used for what project what was the i mean it was just i was just for my for my uh interest it worked out great because i i totally got it and it was you know it just i really liked the way you put it together um

6:20 dropping down below the peach to the twenty thousand dollars for sub uh i know that's i know sub gets other funding to help with low income and i know that they i know they also have the the request on your sub bill if you want to donate more money to help out you know and that kind of thing 20 000 seems like a small drop in the bucket for something that could help and i just i if if possible would would like that might be considered so i'm just going to throw that out there and i have i have other comments but i'll wait till we get to the other charts leonard um a couple of things um first of all the uh anne's heart is still up in the air apparently um is

7:05 the site that's being contemplated for the anne's heart project or the shelter still the upper floor of the memorial building um so my understanding with anne's heart and i put that on a it's under a different i think it's like a second um bucket but my understanding is that anne's heart has not identified a location um and we can talk about it there but i also understood from this project that the memorial or from this group last time that the memorial building wasn't a go but i'll leave that to you all so leonard like we're we're taking the number one list with a the one that's uh attachment one page 206 first and then we'll get to i think ann hart's is on is on a different

7:51 funding list okay so it's coming out of a different bucket then well i i wouldn't describe it as funded at this point but it's on a different list for a different bucket when we get when we get considered all right the the other question that i had was off the first list it was about fisher village here um it says that the um 300 k would fund the construction of the first two of 12 habitat for humanity units um do we have um sites picked out for all 12 units or just for two right now they own the property they've um they know where those 12 are going they've just sort of run up against some um sort of

8:36 cut like a lot of different changes have happened over the last i don't know five ten years that this project has been in the works but they know where the sites are yes they own that property nothing against any of the other items that are in white right now we're the one in peach but i i would give high priority to constructing more of those units um i id if there's if there's nothing to prevent us from further funding the construction of those units i i know that habitat humanity always gives you tremendous bang for your buck and i would love to see some of those constructed steve uh curiosity on the cahoots backup van which i'm really glad to see the purchase would give the springfield police department a backup ban for

9:22 cahoots i didn't know there was a connection here i thought cahoots was separate is it so my understanding is that cahoots is run you know run through whitebird um but there's the connection that it's i don't know if the correct term is operated by or sort of the dispatchers through the police department sort of take that initial call and then decide whether or not it is a sort of a better fit for cahoots if there is a crisis versus a better fit for a police or other sort of response um i just i just didn't didn't know there was a that kind of connection there i thought cahoots was cahoots and and uh

10:08 the police department would be different so so um i i'm gonna phone a friend seeing that she's sitting in the parking lot you know out there he is put him on the spot right now thanks chief springfield dispatch so they triage the cases that come in and i think we transfer about 5 000 cases a year to cahoots versus a police response yeah i think it's great i just didn't realize it was i sort of thought coats was cahoots sort of separate there's a connection and we provide i i'm not sure exactly i mean it's 450 or so thousand dollars a year to that program as well okay thank you

10:56 i i think actually that's more of a salmon color but anyway no i i am supportive of the green and the salmon slash peach on that list i think that's probably the wisest use of the money at this time thank you um i will acknowledge and defer to counselor pictionary's expertise on salmon uh my uh my sense right is that uh is that uh you know that we uh build in some additional pro uh project costs to actually deliver this if it's going to cost staff time we need to we need to spend we need to spend it you know i do like uh councillor stairs idea of funding additional housing at fisher village if we can but for right

11:42 now i would my preference would be to just save all that money the additional leftover money into contingency to deliver the first few projects with inflation as high as it is right now uh like eight let's get the first three done and then we'll circle back to the rest of them um counselor rodney yeah um i actually agree with you on that um first of all i'm very supportive of those three because i remember us talking about those and um you know particularly the sprinklers i think is just a key piece to do um and also when i'm looking at the ones at the bottom um i think last time i sort of shared my thoughts around the 20 000 for the the you know to administer assistance and just having

12:27 worked in that know how quickly that goes and all the different sources of revenue for that kind of program so and then i'm just sitting there like wrestling with the porta potty pieces and wondering how much those are being used now that city hall and other places are open and so so anyway that's my roundabout way of taking up more space time to say i really think we should hang on to the remainder and figure out how we're going to spend it and definitely build in some administration costs for staff time and resources that are going to take to get these top three projects over the finish line thank you all right erin i think we're good there are you ready to move to the next list yeah sure so just to confirm

13:12 we'll focus on the first three hold the contingency and for staff and then come back to you sort of when we know more as those move forward if there are any other questions correct great that is clear thank you um so the second source of funds um is the american rescue plan act funding that came through the state um specifically representative lively was given a piece of funding for projects he put 445 000 toward uh permanent financing for the filbert grove manufactured home park i heard last time you all supported that we're moving forward in that direction um we'll come

13:58 back to you i think with the contract to finalize that but then the remaining so 620 000 representative lively again like speaking of sort of how costs have increased over time at the time we had this discussion there were two projects in mind um that representative lively wanted to support one was ant heart and helping them acquire a building for a women's shelter and the second project that representative lively wanted to support was square one villages had an idea to expand the c street co-op to a neighboring property um thinking that that cost could be 220 000 so in the time between our last meeting doing some follow-up um ans hart has sort of said they're looking at properties that could work and right now

14:43 their estimate is that cost is actually closer to 500 000 not 400 000 um with increase in home prices and then for the square one villages actually the c street lot is no longer available for expansion there was an idea i think i brought forward last time of f street co-op and since that time in my follow-up there's actually i think that is less certain i believe than when i first brought it to you um the developer is certainly interested but there's no exact plan for how it would or could be constructed and square one villages hasn't exactly signed on yet though it said they're kind of interested so personally as staff if we're talking about moving projects forward i'm a little hesitant on sort of

15:28 supporting a project that isn't ready or the people i would normally expect to be i can't support it because they have not signed on yet but if and when they do there is another funding source for them um in terms of the affordable housing square one project so if as i see it i could really i see only maybe enough funds remaining to support one project and so that's why staff sort of put forward to say as representative lively put forward these two you know staff is sort of recommending putting money toward dan's heart and then if and when square villages comes in and whatever project they do understanding your support for it there are other sources that we could use whenever they're ready but i'm hesitant to say yes now when that project is not ready to go um

16:13 knowing we want to move the funds so that's kind of where that conversation is but i would love to hear um questions and thoughts okay um so leonard first um so aaron um the if we give van's heart to 500 then that would leave 120 and is there is square one ready to move forward with anything right now or are they more or less just holding holding i've got a big project in eugene they're working on off river road and that's where their focus is i understand right now called peace village um i think they're certainly interested in the future in springfield for sure but that is not as i've heard they're not ready so we would have the option of just holding uh that that money the remainder in advance until such a time as we've

16:59 got a um a project ready to go yeah yeah that's one possibility i think anne's heart also mentions like if there are need to repair or do other sort of improvements to the house that could potentially also be us you know they might also be needing a need for that but um yeah we however you wanted to hold that okay i'm i'm good with that okay then merrily next and then we'll go go to council rodley um yes i i um i like what's here in front of us and i i like the 500 000 for ann's heart i think that's something i think that's a program we really need in springfield um and we need do we need the program itself uh group home for homeless women um

17:47 the um as far as repairs potential repairs hypothetically would that not fall under a possibility for cdbg money as well uh in the future if they if they came across something like that they could apply for cdbg money to go towards repairs yes so so at this point 500 000 would get them started and and get them in a good spot to know what they need and where that where they're going i hope so this is like a recent real estate look i think they did in terms of saying what's for sale now i think as we've seen home prices increase is 500 still gonna be the price of a home in six months um i don't know so that's kind of where some of the

18:34 uncertainty is but um are they doing any outside fundraising my understanding is yes they've been fundraising for years actually um and as uh sort of that nonprofit has stated their belief um is that fundraising is certainly going to be that much more when there's an actual property right that they have in hand so um okay well i i'm i'm definitely in favor of the philbrook grove and the uh anne's heart and go from there and merrily june's here and she's nodding yes to all these questions all along so thumbs up june corey uh so i also am in support of both of

19:19 these and in support of the 500 000 for anne's heart my suggestion would be to then just hang on to the remainder also again i definitely think we should you know have administration costs come out of that to support staff and what it's going to take to get them through um and um i also at first when i was reading over it i was like oh this is this is a challenge because i'm a big fan of the city street co-op and i'm looking forward to more things like that so yes and i think they have other funding opportunities so thank you um so i guess i had two quick comments i'm a big fan of what they did at the c street co-op as well um and i know that they're not quite ready to go for you

20:05 know they're not ready for prime time for phase two but it's a very creative way to get us to some home ownership and you know i if if the folks from uh square one are listening right like that we just wanna back up the first the first round of c street went really well and i look forward to when they when they design and they're ready to get the second uh the second piece off the uh off the ground and then with you know um the question with with anne's heart and june i is here and i like at some point i want to connect with you and just learn a little bit about everything that's going to get us to the finish line here because it's been out there for a few years and i feel like i'm three versions ago all right anybody else i've been working with anne's heart

20:51 group since they the concept is they've been working really hard to get to this spot they deserve it all right aaron okay great um i i guess i just want to maybe confirm is this helping ants certainly buy a property so if they let's say find something for 550 000 are we supportive like up to the 620 in that sense i'm looking around um if that's what administrative costs demand then sure well 620 is what's left right right so i guess the and you're you're saying do we want to go uh do we want to tell

21:36 them it's up to 620 or do we want to cap them at 550 before they come back into and talk to us all right joe i i like the c street project i think that should be funded and also i think aunt's heart should be funded i don't like the um i don't think we need to bump that up i think it would give us a good trigger for them to come back and take a look and then we potentially could have uh different directions that we can pull from i we also have administrative costs at the end of this column uh that we need to consider so i would like to stay at the 500

22:22 and if for whatever reason they come up with something that they found for 5 25 they could come back and ask council about it or something but i would like to put the 500 at this point stay there and and see how they do okay so that's the that's the direction that we've got i think that's reasonable all right let's go to the next funding level which is the 3 million for the new manufactured home park yeah i'll just add i don't those are really all my my questions um there's certainly time if you guys have any questions but i could just i had brought these up before so wanted to include them i heard support um you know staff have certainly been doing due diligence on a site that we own

23:07 to see can we partition off a vacant parcel to meet the needs for a new manufactured home park given some of the deadlines with this funding source and our plan is to come back to council before recess with a little more information on that site and that project and see any questions or directions you have for us to really go forward leonard yeah i did just wanted to ask how many mobile home units do we expect to get out of the three million dollars um i i want to say st vincent de paul would be estimating about like 40 and 60 between 40 and 60 depending on the site plan um so 60 that that'd be 50

23:52 000 i mean at at a minimum uh 50 000 per mobile home is that about right yeah i would i would i don't know what the total cost of development will be the three million will just be a piece of that um yeah so we get do we get the lots and the development and the grid and the water out of all of that or what so leonard this might help so aaron is conceptually there there's basically a line right we have a couple of bullet points and that's what we know at this point and then we will probably know more about it if we're in sometime in the fall or earlier than that i mean i you know staff is hoping to sit down and talk with um

24:37 saint vincent depaul this spring to see what is feasible what what could what we've identified work for them if so what would the cost be and do we kind of have a financing plan that makes sense to really move forward with this or not and then to bring that back to you all so i as far as the legislative like 3 million is concerned that is eligible to be used for costs of development um whether that's reimbursing for the cost of land or creating infrastructure or buying the units is kind of up to i would say the developer on how they want to sort of put that forward but secure yeah so we can expect itemizing yeah so some of the detailed questions you have right like are still getting sorted

25:22 yeah counselor pictionary thank you so along that same line i think that i know i i realize it's very initial um but i think also of course that money can be used for for actually putting in infrastructure as opposed to handing cash over etc etc so there's many different ways and that's down in the weeds quite a bit but i do want to make sure we get out in front of before this moves forward to look at the adjacent properties just to d to determine if there is potentially any negative financial impact those homeowners would suffer based on a development or what their what their thoughts are their support etc etc i think by not including them

26:08 way early on will bite us because i'm sure they'll get quite vocal all right um looking at the next two pages of content uh those look like updates so i'm gonna look around um does anybody have specific questions or feedback for aaron on the next sort of the rest of the packet since there's not a there's not a decision item but there's an opportunity to discuss if if we're interested oh well um i do want to call out um the money from senator beyer around uh for a behavioral health center right like i think there's a partnership there to be made and you know it just i i'm interested to see how that

26:54 develops um in the future and i know that there are some parties at you know out in springfield that are looking at us at a similar thing so i think that'll be interesting to see what you know when we get more information yeah there is i'm going to talk with the county staff hopefully soon just about if they don't move forward with the behavioral health center in springfield then what the opportunity is to sort of use that money for land acquisition in springfield so hopefully i'll have no have more there joe thank you can't figure out which button to push um so and i'm familiar aaron with the responses that you gave back to mr sauer appreciate the work you

27:40 did in that and that's what um the mayor is referring to in regards to the east springfield area but i think too is that are these monies these the monies that buyers talking about are those the same ones that are encumbered by quite a bit or is there more flexibility that potentially or is there any potential and flexibility of any and all of these funds that are being looked at that could be applicable to that because that the idea of that project and how it would run it would be very beneficial to our youth so yeah i you know so my understanding is so the senator buyer funds that are referenced here are similar to representative lively it's

28:26 the same source of arpa funds these are federal arpa funds and the project that senator buyer referenced that lane county has since signed an agreement with the state das department of administrative services is to say we will use this money for a lane county behavioral health center or to buy land for affordable housing in springfield um when i've talked with lane county staff there is a estimated 22 million dollar project for a new behavioral health center that is being sort of developed that is sort of a a one stop as opposed to maybe this these kind of community center ideas um and they have a committee and they're moving forward with trying to figure out location and

29:11 square footage and you name it so my understanding from the the buyer allocation is that is for that particular project um what i talked with is it ron um i think what they are doing is certainly needed and when he talks about sort of that community build especially in the thurston area i didn't get a sense that it is on the sort of medical or behavioral health sort of plane that senator buyer is sort of allocating those funds toward um it was certainly brainstorming other types of funding sources that maybe the city is aware of or knows of that could help it's a tricky i think it's a tricky project given our sort of the limited federal sources we as a city have because how open they

29:56 want it to be and yet some of these projects we or the funding sources we have are pretty dedicated toward specifically low income or the unhoused and um yeah i'm i'm still trying to brainstorm i think maybe on the foundation side that may be a great place to start considering it's a community focus but um i don't think it is the same intent that senator breyer had okay yeah if we can keep looking i think it's something that the community very much needs and it just seems like there's a ton of money being doled out everywhere else but in that niche so yeah that would be great if we could find something thank you all right then um our next meeting is at seven o'clock we are going to be on the same

30:41 link so we don't get to change you know links one more time um so please come back here at seven o'clock and then we will get going on the regular session we are adjourned thank you do you do we see counselor pitts in the waiting room i knew he had a conflict so i don't know if not seeing him at this time america yeah i think he okay counselor pissionary are you did you make it back [Music] all right

31:26 we still have enough to keep get going so i am going to call the regular session of the springfield city council to order with a roll call mayor van gorden here councillor pitts counselor mo here councillor rodley here answer stair here answer woodrow here and council missionary i'm here thanks and entry as always uh please join me in the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states

32:17 as we begin our meeting tonight i would like to ask members of the audience who are joining us by phone or online to please keep yourselves on mute until you are called to provide public testimony there are two items designated for public testimony this evening under public hearings and business from the audience if you are attending in person please complete the request to speak card located at the entrance of the council chambers and give them to the city recorder if you're joining us with a tablet smartphone or computer and wish to speak at either of those times please use the raise hand feature in zoom the order of public testimony is as followers follows anyone in person in the council chambers anyone who's raised their hand for virtual testimony and neil could you let us know how many

33:02 people are joining us yes mayor 26 participants online and approximately 19 here in the room great thank you first item please yeah the first item is springfield upbeat item one mayor's recognition recognition of officer kate crawford and mayor this is your item oh well this is fantastic we're gonna if we can have uh chief shear and officer crawford join us um i have a brief thing that i'm going to read and then uh we are going to give to shira a chance to say great things about the work officer crawford's doing and then we'll turn it up over to the rest of the council to share any thoughts that they have on a friday night in february 2022 a 9-1-1 call came in by a man saying that

33:48 he'd been stabbed officers were dispatched and officer kate crawford was that first officer on the scene officer crawford met the male victim on the sidewalk who was bleeding badly from a deep stab wound to his chest and provided life-saving care until paramount paramedics arrived and transported him to the hospital prior to joining spd officer kate crawford worked for the eugene springfield fire department in 2021 she applied to be a member of the spd swat team she underwent a selection process and ultimately was chosen to be a team member and attend state basic swat school she has a peripheral duty on the team as being a team medic providing peace of mind to the members that they can face dangerous situations knowing if they are injured she'll be

34:34 there to immediately to render aid or or to subjects who are critically injured in her short time on the team she has taken it upon herself to develop in an enhanced emergency first aid training curriculum called tactical emergency casualty care for members of spd she's administered that training to both spd swat and lynn county sheriff's office swat team and will be providing all it to all members of the spd in coming weeks the knowledge she is sharing and the skills that she is teaching will allow our first responder their officers to save lives and critical incidents when seconds may literally be the difference between someone living or dying so when i saw this story i was just i was

35:19 amazed you know it is a great story of the level of uh you know public safety that you know the the citizens of springfield can can expect from from folks like you and one of the things that really stood out to me is not only the the bravery and response and that you save this gentleman's life but also how as we kind of go forward in an enhanced sort of public safety network it really touched on a lot of different skills and i just wanted to say thank you and i appreciated it and i'll let office chief shear say a couple words echo what the mayor said officer crawford's been with spd a relatively short time but she's made a significant impact on the time that she's there she's making impacts in ways that are gonna set the bar for how we perform as an

36:06 agency moving forward but the kind of skills that she's teaching our police officers truly help keep them safe when they go out on the street every day and help keep the community safe and while we're here to recognize kate crawford for her achievements tonight she's also a representative of every single person in this police department and what we're recognizing her for is one example of the great work that happens day in and day out from this agency so thank you for representing this agency thank you for representing this entire city and we're super proud to have you as part of this team thank you all right don't go anywhere yet did merrily did you have uh anything dad yes thank you doesn't seem to to be a big enough thing to say but it is a huge thank you um

36:51 i don't know what to say besides that you're awesome what you're spreading the the the attitude the passion the incredible experience and devotion to your fellow uh uh officers as well as the the job itself and the department um just just a huge thank you all right anybody else counselor rodney i just want to say thank you and thank you for bringing your best self to the city of springfield and to the springfield police department and i think you are an exemplary example of a great team that we have and i have deep appreciation for the first responders

37:36 and the work that you all do in very difficult situations so thank you also pictionary yes thank you great work that's awesome and you know uh you can tell when people stand out like you're doing right now is that you're doing something that i have no doubt you feel deep to the core is your calling and that uh by doing that by answering your call you are doing more for the public than than most anybody could possibly do and and i i know that you feel a deep sense of satisfaction within yourself by being able to be uh a part of this great picture and so

38:22 for that i i we all appreciate you a ton and um keep listening to that call that's awesome good job all right i'm coming down we're going to take a picture so i didn't get the letter done on time because apparently i didn't complete my homework but we brought you one of these uh shiny uh community of opportunity springfield oregon mugs and rumor has it there's another one someplace in the in the the pd that you'll have to find but hopefully you'll be able to put this to good news

39:15 awesome all right put this to good work thank you so much next item please may or be hard to top that but your next item is the consent calendar well the consent calendar is always in the running steve uh hi for a motion to approve the consent calendar second uh it's been moved by councillor mo and second ended by counselor pictionary uh could you call the role please neil yes uh councilor pitts counselor mo yes councillor rodley yes

40:00 councillor stare aye councillor woodrow yes and counselor pictionary yes thank you the motion passes uh five yays and zero nose and one absent next item please next time you have two public hearings tonight public hearing number one is the overnight parking program code change ordinance number two an ordinance amending sections 8.00 8.005 sorry 8.000 8.005 8.010 and 8.012 of the springfield municipal code to expand outdoor temporary emergency shelters to include social and religious institutions and adopting a severability clause christina kras and sandy belson are here

40:45 for the staff report hello mayor and council it's nice to be with you this evening um this is the item that came to you in work session last week on monday with some additional changes um per your direction this is specifically a proposed ordinance to adjust the definition of those sites that can participate in the overnight parking program from including churches and industrial sites to including religious and social institutions that are private institutions which includes churches but it's not limited to churches as well as the existing industrial properties and the clarification was added to the ordinance that it does not include

41:31 public institutions like schools or community centers or other public facilities are there any questions if not you can hold your public hearing and then i can take any additional questions afterwards or sandy belson is also here and can answer questions about the program if you have any i am looking around and i don't see any questions um i am going to open the public hearing i do not have any cards hang on we have breaking news i have one card for this uh for this item which is chris mcallister

42:19 good evening mr mayor members of the council my name is chris mcallister and i live in ward 3. i come before you as a member of the chariot forward team which currently does overnight parking program site in springfield over at 42nd street and we're very much supportive of the language of this ordinance we're very much in support of expansions of our only option for springfielders in this community that are not families we do a lot of great excellent supported family work but this is a really good way to meet our people where they are we have seniors who don't qualify we have couples who would be separated if they go to other options in our community and so car camping is one of the ways that we can do this better we as carrot forward also use our vocational program to help keep people engaged and try and find their way back

43:05 to uh what we call mainstream jobs and housing and so by that we've created a model called the spot shelter which is a wooden shelter that we'd like to ask for you to consider into the code as you expand your code these are like a conestoga but they are fit to be able to use power they do not have plumbing but they are able to sometimes be moved because we had them on wheels but we created an ada version which is the first known ada shelter created locally and we'd like you to check it out later on today you'll all receive an email with our specs as well as one of our shower units that we designed for it this is created by the unhoused for the unhoused and models that are currently around lane county i thank you for your time and your service

43:52 thank you um that was the only card that i had from the in the room uh we're going to open it up to any virtual testimony on this item neil do we have any hands of folks indicating they want to testify to this item may or we may or we do not have any hands for this item all right then i'm going to go ahead and close the public hearing and this was no action requested since it was a first reading next item please next item is your public hearing number to an ordinance amending springfield municipal code regarding criminal misdemeanors and violations and state traffic offenses ordinance number three an ordinance amending springfield municipal code section 5.100 and 5.104 adding section 6.000 and 6.002 and adopting a severability

44:39 clause mary bridget smith is here for the staff report good evening mayor and council i'm here before you tonight for a public hearing and first reading on an item that we periodically bring before the council about your criminal code we um the state or excuse me let me start over the city incorporates by reference state criminal violations and misdemeanor laws that can be prosecuted in springfield municipal court this is a bit of a belt and suspenders approach but we also ask the council to re-adopt the criminal code to capture any changes in a recent in any recent legislative session and then this year we're also making an

45:24 explicit reference to the traffic code by statute again we have that authority but our prosecutor has asked us to make an explicit reference in our code so there's no confusion that traffic misdemeanor crimes and violations and criminal misdemeanors can be prosecuted in springfield municipal court and tonight is a public hearing and first reading all right are there any questions before i hold the public hearing all right i'm going to go ahead and open the public hearing i don't have any cards for this item neil do you have anybody indicating they want to testify mayor it appears we have no hands for this item all right i'm going to go ahead and close the public hearing and

46:10 this is again a first reading no action required tonight great thank you this will be back before you on consent in a few weeks perfect thank you uh next item please next item is business from the audience all right i got three all right i've got four cards and then um if you want to testify virtually please you can start queuing up and raising your hand the uh first uh first card is sabrina white good evening mayor and council in chief i just wanted to let everybody know on council that

46:58 our cops rock we have wonderful police officers and i am just so tired of hearing how bad they are they're getting a bad rap and they don't deserve that um we have i've had interactions with them on many levels mostly through the community service that i do around springfield and just a week ago i was up at the cemetery out in glenwood where an officer out of uniform was helping me pick up garbage that was alongside the road up there and so they are really going above and beyond their call of duty in and out of the uniform i just wanted people to know that

47:44 thank you it's pronounced sly lynch i apologize evening council members everybody at home i'm asking the council to change the way they're doing the glenwood annexation i feel like myself and my neighbors aren't taken into account we have constantly dealt with just squatters honestly sometimes showing up and dropping off motorhomes and not actually sleeping in them but showing up enough to do their drugs and

48:29 everything else in the neighborhood we have neighbors just a few blocks over that family members passed away and they've turned into squatters on those properties and had numbers of motor homes where they just have numerous people staying at the places i've tried to go the direction of county and making the code complaints being somebody who's been through dealing with code complaints city of springfield harassing i want to say harassing my family for decades i know that that's the direction you're supposed to go with this but when i approach code enforcement i get more of the response that she's going to give me a citation versus addressing the situation and enforcing the codes um these complaints go back from 2014 and still haven't been addressed

49:15 currently the way i look at the map it's basically my neighborhood that's not going to be annexed by the way the annexation plan is and i feel like that's just taking away from myself my neighbors my kids end up having to watch people shoot up heroin and cars at their bus stop i really would like it if the city took a different approach and um not necessarily a bully approach but more give them uh somewhere to go or a different approach on things i said something to council member steve mo about using tax slot 17 0 3 3 4 4 3 0 1 1 oh wait that's my address it's it's eighteen zero three zero

50:00 three four zero zero zero seven hundred um this tax slot is currently owned by the city of eugene but is inside the glenwood annexation plan as i'm looking at it it's the bottom lot right here closest to franklin where you often have a lot of motorhomes sitting and camping and squatting this is i think it's roughly 17 acres up there it's quite a bit of space to turn into a community where we could actually do something to change the way things are going versus saying something about the camp that was located um right here off 19th in between the railroad tracks i said something about a year ago and they removed the trees but they just move in different locations my neighbors and i would like you to put

50:45 some type of barrier just north of 19th street on the opposite side of the railroad tracks north of them in between 19th and franklin to keep people from cutting through our neighborhood and maybe change some of the outcomes going on in the neighborhood um we'd also like some help because the moment shelter care opens back up we're just dealing with the traffic even worse than before so it's a big concern for myself hello june father gill uh i live at 317 30th street here in spring here in springfield first of all i want to say

51:31 thank you for the last session where you decided to give money to anne's heart yay and also for the um eagan center possibility at everett i really appreciate those decisions are they're not final yet but looks like that's where you're headed and i appreciate that very much i also want to thank you that um for the code change to continue to support and expand the parking program i think that's important and that is on one of the things that's on the letter that you received from us at springfield shelter rights alliance on february 8th 2022 shall i resend it how many have you lost it already anyway so i'm up here again reminding you of

52:16 that letter and the desire to have another work session i know you have lots of things planned i saw the agenda that neil had but put it on the agenda down the road please to have a work session looking even more at what can we do about our unhoused community and working with them and as a man that just spoke said it includes glenwood of course and there's lots of things that we could be doing that we're not doing and we have a list of about nine things here find out that on that letter and i'm sure there's more if you get the creativity of your staff involved they'll come up with even more ideas so i think there's all kinds of possibilities but we do need to take some intentional work session time to really look at the

53:01 issue and what the needs are and i encourage you to include glenn winner that in that and what he said um thank you very much thank you the next card is chris mcallister mr mayor members of the council chris mcallister ward 3. i'd like to speak first and foremost about a tragedy we just had on the fire on 20th in maine an unhoused person that was very near and dear to carry it forward into the city of springfield's efforts during covid passed away we were able to get her safe but we

53:46 weren't able to keep her safe when the shelter closed down due to federal dollars moving out our people got displaced so we took six of the hardest to help and we got a community member to put them in a house and we took care of them we were able to keep them alive and keep them safe until the next shelter's open five months later things happen health does not necessarily go well and depression and scarcity of resources and opportunity weigh down so three of the six are dead now of the ones that we were able to spare from covid and so two of them within the last four months glenwood is a very dear part of our community as we go forward but a lot of our people have been displaced

54:31 there shelter care was there they're now closed and that place is now a county shelter that hasn't been able to get enough people qualified to be able to open we have a big shelter opening up maybe after july with people who are not necessarily in our same network so we need to make sure that when we move forward as a community that we do not forget our own our people matter and we need to have more recognition about what options our people need as opposed to what works best for small groups in our community we need recovery sites for people who want to fight the drugs who are tired of living in the situations that they're in we need elder support our emergency shelters are becoming nursing homes as people are being displaced from the hospitals to the street and those of us

55:17 who cannot look away those of us who rise when eagan comes and who are there when the fires came we are stretched too thin we need options in our town right now carry it forward maintains a camp with six displaced springfielders because there are no place for springfield singles in springfield's situation outside the car camping programs and so while the opp is an awesome option it can't be our only option we need something more long-term for our seniors we need something more open for our people who want to do the public health interventions such as recovery and harm reduction if we want to expand glenwood to be the gem that we know it is we really need to invest in solutions that put options in every part of springfield not just the parts we

56:03 want to build in or sell off i very much appreciate your time and your service and ask for you to rise with us as we fight this thank you very much thank you all right that is the last card i have so we're ready to bring up folks that are on the uh on the zoom link here we currently have one hand up and that is james hugo james your microphone should be unmuted read on your end can you hear me we can hear you wow chris i really want to say uh thank you for that i i think we all need to hear that that was a really good uh statement you made and i i support you and agree with you 110 percent um what i'm here to talk about is i guess it doesn't really involve that but it

56:48 does i guess the homeless population is influenced and affected by toxins coming from factories and mills within the city of limits of springfield um so again i'm i'm asking the city council to help create a committee to tackle environmental justice issues environmental concerns within the city of springfield and also emergency management kind of throw that in give the public like myself and chris and many other people like us to be listening right now a voice to hear our concerns and start talking about the issues um and so that way we can come up with a solution um because that's that's all i really care about so um yeah so mr van gorden and every other

57:34 counselor on the on the board there i really appreciate you if you listen to these concerns i'm having and help me create a community talk about environmental justice um i guess that's all i have to say yeah thank you uh mayor it appears that's our only hand for this evening all right uh thank you um anybody have council response yes steve i want to thank mr lynch for coming here and speaking for glendon because what he touched on was just a little bit of what the problem is down there i've been fighting it we can't get police response we can't get code enforcement we they don't answer phone calls you're overloaded with so

58:19 many calls into city hall i think are just overloaded they just don't seem to be able to respond to what we have over there and we can't get anything done plus legally it's pretty hard to to enforce the code because uh it's it's outside the city limits is is is not under city code so uh municipal court doesn't apply it's a it's a it's a mess over there and i'm working hard to try and find some a new to a solution it's pretty hard and mr lynch please come keep coming back telling us what's going on and i've been telling the council uh and i just i just frustrated nothing seems to be happening but i'm really really trying so thank you for coming

59:09 so leonard did you have a comment specific for mr lynch because i mean jump in okay i will come back to you for a second um can we have somebody from staff follow up with mr lynch um and see if we can't you right because they exist you know that those properties sometimes exist in a limbo zone between the city and the county and some and getting them put in the right place and getting an answer is pretty important and mr lynch i would encourage you to reach out to your county commissioner to talk about the issue our staff is going to follow up with you and see if we can't get to get you a little bit more information and you pointed to the right direction the one piece of property that you did cite from what from what i could see that actually may not be city of eugene

59:54 property that may be eweb's piece of property um so i would just encourage you to keep contacting that the different elected boards and to find a solution but we've got your we've got your phone number uh i'll get it to this staff and somebody will follow up with you leonard um thanks i i did want to thank sabrina white and sly lynch iii june father gill chris mcallister james hugo for your comments tonight i'm james i i think that environmental issues are things that the the council is very concerned about we do have staff that is devoted to emergency management right now but the environment is completely inextricable from

1:00:39 the emergency issues that we face right now and i think that we're all dedicated to finding solutions i um i did hear a lot of comments about the homeless community tonight and um i i was in utah recently and um a housing activist said that housing first is great but it's not all that you have to do you have to provide wrap around social services as well and it's something that the um the city needs to be cognizant of and i hope that is something we're going to be paying more attention to uh yes i just wanted to um ask chris if he would please get that information

1:01:25 in regard to the spot shelter i had not heard of that before it sounds very interesting and i'd like to i'd like to see some more information on that and i'm i'm getting head nods from chris mcallister so message received thank you anybody else just to talk about property ownership up there there's eweb and sub that on on property up there but if sub it's it it's called city of springfield loans it's not sub and i believe web the same way it's not e-web it's city of eugene so that's i think the actual ownership is by the cities right next item please uh next time under bids is item number one a bid award for project p21151

1:02:10 which is the centennial boulevard overlay at aspen and prescott and zomboyat is here for the staff report thanks neil mayor and counselors we usually don't pull a bid award off the consent agenda this one has excuse me extra meaning it's the eighth and final project of the street bond and i just want to run through a few sort of facts here i think it was almost exactly four years ago when victoria doyle asked questions at the budget committee about our state of our assets in the streets and uh that was in april and by a special meeting in july the council had

1:02:55 directed staff to go ahead and put an item on uh the november ballot for a 10 million dollar bond to fix eight streets that passed something 65 percent plus or minus and i just have to pause here and give a shout out to uh steve mo then planning commissioner leonard stair then city councilor sean van gorden then city councilor for forming up the core of the political action group and working with victoria and others to bring this forward to the community and and see the success that it enjoyed property taxes hit the property tax levy hit the tax rolls on july 1st of 2019

1:03:42 we had already begun designing construction at that point front loaded a little bit of money picked off the uh the easiest couple of projects to build um 2020 was really a design and a bidding and a contracting year and last year in 21 we did six more of those projects and so centennial is the final project we're ahead we're right about spot on budget um we'll know once we wrap up this project how close we came to exactly 10 billion uh we're prepared to go over a little bit not sure if there'll be any left over but if there is we'll figure that out when we get there anyway just uh phenomenal um

1:04:27 all the way around i couldn't be prouder of the engineering group christy krueger getting those projects out there getting them built even towards the end here with inflation and some other things that started hitting construction price indexes the voters placed their trust in your decision making and in that bond and together we've been able to deliver it so normally we don't present bids and i'm certainly the wrong person to do that this is the low qualifying bid for centennial and uh we hope to see that built this year all right and just one comment before we get go like it's exciting to get to the finish line here and you know i just

1:05:13 i want to thank the springfield voters for this right like our roads needed work and to have them come forward and support road work with you know their their own money and it means a lot and you can see it in the quality of those roads and how excited everybody is uh when they see one of these fixed roads i know we got a lot of work to do on roads that's for for a different a different night but uh but the roads that got done in this pond really it's a noticeable improvement and they look fantastic steve when we put this before the public can i say we because i was part of the organization that did that we made promises to the public that we the money would go exactly where we said it would and it has done that and it's been a

1:06:00 wonderful job and i think we're certainly looking forward to hopefully they'll support us and doing another one so thank you tom leonard um i think when we were putting this to a vote um we put out some literature that said that the the state of our roads amounted to a regressive tax um because what was happening was that people were having to devote a lot of money to the upkeep of their vehicles based on the amount of damage that the roads were doing to it and um the of course the less money that you have to put into your car the less you can afford to get that uh get that done and i i'm very proud of the work that the city has done since that vote um to make this happen so thanks

1:06:46 for your help tom i mean you've uh you've been very instrumental in it team effort all right counselor mo we do have a motion for this oh well i'd like to make a motion that we award the contract river riverbend construction for the amount of 954 564.81 cents second removed and seconded neil can you call the vote please yes counselor pitts counselor mo yes counselor rodley yes counselor stare yes sponsor woodrow yes and counselor pictionary hi thank you a motion passes five yeses zero knows and one absent thanks tom next item

1:07:33 please any business from the city council i do have a couple uh we found we found my public testimony i have a couple things too um i just wanted to take a couple of minutes to um acknowledge a lot of people some of whom some folks names we know and some we don't um chris mcallister mentioned earlier the the fire in the 2000 block of main street um where nathan mcneil and elena chambers died in that fire and we also recently there were two individuals who were killed in a stabbing over on 28th street all of these are really close in my neighborhood

1:08:18 and i wanted to acknowledge the loss of our neighbors and i also think it's important to acknowledge the eugene spirit and quill firefighters and our first responders in the springfield police department because when these things happen in our communities they are happening to all of us those who are who are experiencing it as victims and those who are the responders who are also um responding and having a front row seat to the the loss and the trauma of that and that is as a city what we do is we come together on all sides of those and so i just want to take a little piece of my time to express my deep appreciation as i did a little bit earlier for those directors those um responders and those people who show up

1:09:03 when we hear the sirens or the roads get closed and also just to acknowledge the loss of life of our neighbors thank you okay and i've got a couple uh a couple of pieces of business um the the the first ones the the easy one um dessert desserts for dinner three is coming up so this is the annual dessert competition that catholic community services has in springfield where you get a box of desserts and then you get to grade the winning baker in town to support unhoused families in the catholic community services day center for for oasis so please if you have not bought your dessert box please go out and do it they come with zero calories in them

1:09:49 boxes yeah they're pretty good all right second item um councilor woodrow and i went out we we took a we we've been taking a couple of meetings along main street as we talk about the main street safety plan and i guess uh you know having watched the planning commission the last couple of weeks and when i think about an 1800 uh page packet really coming at at this group the thing i wanted to to to work through tonight is we really need to delay when we're talking when we're opening the uh the the public hearing from main street and the direction that um i'd like to take the staff is to really push it to february of next year and take the opportunity and time that we have in may to really dig into the safety plan and just acknowledge the

1:10:37 sheer amount of public input that we've got and that we're going to have to consider as we sort of make uh make this decision so to me i the way the schedule's gonna look for the next couple of weeks is it's gonna have a lot of main street in it for work sessions um and take into account a lot of you know stakeholder input that we've gotten you would get all summer to read the main street safety plan i know everybody's excited about that and then we would come in and fall and really get into the meat of the policy discussion about what that what that safety plan looks like and look to open a public hearing in in february and that really is going to give us an opportunity to be as responsive as we possibly can to the public we've heard a

1:11:22 lot of public input and really dig in and understand what changes we need to make all right i'm seeing head nod so that seems like a good i think we need to do that as um as has the planning commission um weighed in with any kind of a rule yeah so the planning commission passed it four to three and if you really read the discussion from the planning commission it it really right like the planning commission gave us this this same advice right which is slow down talk about it consider the breadth of like public input that that we're getting to make sure that we're getting to the right place for springfield merrily

1:12:09 yes i just wanted to support you in that in what you just said and to recognize that the the moving this off to a policy decision in february is a response to the community um input that we've gotten it's not we're not trying to avoid it or put it off it's it's important that we have uh that information that we've gotten and we will get more and we're looking forward to having all that all the input we can have but it's a it's a concerted effort to be able to recognize that input read the input digest it in in in connection with like i said like you said the 1800 packet in here the page packet that we're looking at uh diving into um it's

1:12:58 it's something that is conceptual and looks and looks ahead to what may or may not happen on main street and when we have to evaluate it from all angles um and we have a balance between the different entities and their uh areas of concern um and involvement it's important that we'd be able to have the time to look from all from all aspects of it so thank you i in the the city is going to put out a press release uh that takes the uh that provides some of the information to the public and again provides the the comment link for people to provide any additional uh feedback that they might have joe

1:13:45 thank you yeah i'm just reiterating has been said is that i think that um the way things laid out in as much consternation in the community that plant has created uh whether there's whether there's inaccuracies accuracy so it just kind of doesn't matter right now but just the uh just the amount of consternation and uh confusion it we we owe it to the citizens in the city to just say okay stop we need you know like i said throw the anchor out i'm not ready to support it the way it's presented i can tell you that that i look forward to uh different iterations of it and considerations of it and all the uh questions that were put forward to be answered and to be shared those answers to be shared

1:14:32 with us as well so that's it looking forward to seeing it in the fall or in the spring it will be here sooner than you think um all right any other business from the council all right next item please any business from the city manager a couple of quick items this evening um we had some good news tonight uh with the recognition of officer crawford and i just wanted to also thank her for her service to our police department i believe that her unique skill set coming from eugene's springfield fire is was really a contributing factor in saving this man's life and that in that call so i although ordinarily i would be disappointed in losing such a valuable staff member for eugene's springfield fire it was clearly the gain for our

1:15:19 police department and our city so i wanted to recognize officer crawford as well as her fellow officers who were in the hearing room this evening uh lending their support and of course to chief shearer who um is always so incredibly supportive of his officers if you ever take a couple of minutes to talk to chief uh the very first thing is his concern for the safety of his officers and the safety of our community um so i just wanted to acknowledge that i also wanted to thank our incredible staff in public public works for delivering on the bond projects keeping our promises to the community is such a wonderful feeling to have so i want to thank the community for that i just wanted to say tonight there were some decisions made um you

1:16:06 know mayor you took some leadership steps with the main street project um and also some of the other decisions that were happening this evening these are all examples of good governance and that's why i do my jobs thank you no additional business tonight thank you all right and this looks like our last meeting for the evening so i'm going to adjourn the meeting have a good night everybody thank you for attending