Springfield City Council — May 15, 2023

0:05 city council work session to order with roll call uh mayor Van Gordon sure councilor Weber here councilman here councilor Bradley here here councilor Doyle here um we have two items for the work session tonight the first is an update on the implementation of climate friendly and equivalent community school rules linking process I'm sure that comes to a nice acronyms someplace but Sandy uh good evening my name is Sandy Belson I'm a comprehensive planning manager for the city and uh I was blessed before you in February although we have a new members since then uh but the lead conservation and development information passed rules last summer that are called

0:53 the climate friendly and Equitable communities rules uh the purpose of these rules generally is to reduce carbon emitted by vehicles and to increase Equity during Community engagement when providing housing and transportation choices so these rules are wide include wide-ranging requirements for metropolitan areas that affect Community engagement land use and transportation so uh first update is that there has been ongoing rulemaking the commission passed temporary rules in April to address some of the issues that have come up and they've also convened a or

1:40 are convening another move advisory committee to assist in some permanent rulemaking the temporary rules are good for six months so if those are going to be stay in place they need to become permanent and so they'll look at those making those permanent and expand their scope to address some other topics um it's unclear yet whether they will go beyond just Corrections and clarifications and address some of the more underlying issues but we'll stay informed and particularly so in terms of actual implementation for parking we have tentatively scheduled a joint public hearing between the

2:25 Springfield Planning Commission and the Lane County Planning Commission on August 1st um I'm going to then skip next to scenario planning which is um the last time I got brought up but uh you have provided some direction previously um in terms of the governance structure for the scenario planning and so for that scenario plan we're using a plan that our region had developed in 2015 we're going to need to develop some performance measures and so that um you had given your input and we're looking to have the Metropolitan planning committing service that governance mature with the admission of Coburg um in that role of some changes to the

3:10 bylaws but NPC did agree to that at their last meeting or putting that forth in our work program for the scenario planning also the post-governance structure and then um coming next to climate friendly areas these rules require that Springfield designate areas where people can do most meet most of their daily needs without having to drive so these are intended to be urban mixed-use areas with a greater than average mix of housing jobs businesses at higher densities that are served by a multimodal transportation Network

3:55 so we are looking to align these areas in places that align with our already adopted policies so we looked at Urban centers multimodal areas in downtown looked at our current Transportation Network and then we're going to exclude areas that are harder to develop so those in the blood way or in steep slope areas so um Allison do you want to share that mouth now there are three areas that we're going to look at for consideration so these three areas are Riverbend area of Gateway downtown and Glenwood Waterfront so we'll start analyzing

4:41 those three areas more in depth and then ultimately come back to you for an idea of what which ones do we want to designate as climate friendly areas as part of this climate-friendly area process um bringing in the Equitable communities aspect of the rules um we're going to be doing a displacement analysis to determine if there are any historically marginalized communities that we need to be aware of to take measures either to not designate those communities areas as climate friendly areas or a proper way to mitigate according to potential displacement and

5:28 so in preparing for the Outreach we've created some draft key messages and those are in your pocket so also look for your input or questions about those key messages and that with that I will start talking and be available to answer questions or take input on anything and shared first thank you I always appreciate the update as we're moving through this I'm curious as to how you all got to those three areas I have a little bit of a bias for like Centennial Mohawk area because I think that there's you know you've got a hospital you're really close to like Grocery and on all of that so I'm just curious as to how you came

6:13 up with those three instead of other areas sure so the Mohawk area you're talking about is designated and Zone nodal development so we did include that initially the drawback there is that it's not on a frequent Transit Network even though there are three bus lines that start at 13 17 and 18. um it's not at the frequency that we have of the frequent Transit Network like Route 11 or the MS so that's why it has strong thoughts at this point okay that's good to know thank you could you clerk like with climate friendly areas it's 30 of our housing needs over 20 years current and future for the next 20 years need to fit within the zoned area

7:00 so roughly when we look at the maps how many additional housing units do we think would we would be putting into the into the orange areas so I have that in a previous packet but our number of housing units is because I'm not remembering that but um I will try to come up with that um but it's it's kind of a academic exercise in that we're not taking into consideration what's already there it's the Zone capacity um so it's as if nothing's there how much could you fit within it um and there's it's pretty prescribed in terms of the height that we would have

7:47 to allow that the dwelling units would be 900 square feet but 30 percent of the floor within those buildings would be residential so assuming 70 something that's not residential and that's one of the things that we'll be calculating through these next processes is to see how big of an area we would need to accommodate our 30 percent and that way that's naturally going to size like under logs if you will right I mean these there's much more area here than what we're going to need okay um and whether we'll end up with one blog or one blob with what are other sort of smaller blobs is yet to be seen

8:38 you mentioned transportation is a limitation and I think one of our goals should be trying to figure out some way to expand that Transportation availability to the rest of the city we're going to have bikes they're like bikes and nature but but buses for the rest to say we don't have it and we need that should be one of our goals out there someplace well we we are going to be working with Lane Transit District in the scenario planning they will be one of the key Partners um that we'll be working with mpoc whatever because millions of dollars out there but that's just no money absolutely

9:29 um I know that Lane Transit I spoke with the director last week and he was saying that he would like very much to have some time with the council to come in and do an update and just kind of talk to us and get questions from us about um what some of those concerns or goals or whatever are and so that's something maybe we could just put that in the out there in The Ether um did you look at all further out like Thurston area where like the the bus transfer station is and the Albertsons and like that area right on i-126 and all of that I didn't know we did not because we don't have any nodal development areas there um so because we were trying to align with existing adopted policy um gotcha we only looked at areas that we had designated for nodal development

10:14 or in the case of Glenwood the multimodal areas and then is any of this affected by the lawsuit information that lawsuit stuff we've got going on and we just have to work we just keep working like it's it's working through parallels right now okay just keep keeping on keeping on until the okay all right that's all I wanted thank you oh I did have one more question I'm sorry oh good um on the equity portion um I I looked and it said about the process that they're going to be looking the city will Center the voices of historically marginalized communities particularly those that who have been harmed by past planning climate and transportation decisions and that the city conducted a series of interviews with key Community leaders

10:59 can you speak a little more to that like tell me who you talk to and what we're kind of talking about there I'm not sure that's the um update that I provided in February uh where are we listed um the people that we had talked with and some of the key findings from that so um I can go back and look at that yeah thank you sorry that's okay um I guess two other quick things um obviously you know when you think about when you think about these areas you know my preferences could continue much of that or Glenwood and downtown as possible right because that's historically where we've planned a lot more of our high density residential to

11:45 go um on the messaging itself like the messages seemed like conceptually fine but I would before we put this out or use this as talking points I really would love to have it turned into you know either a handout or just go through one maybe one more iteration to make it more approachable from a language perspective right like it reads like a planning document to me um and then I guess the last comment about the temporary rules and this is was my take from the last um the last time the commission met is there's going to be a set of changes that come in the fall right and so um and then when the commission talked it seemed like there was an

12:31 understanding that there may be another set of changes that go come out in January you know that they start in January February and that for the next couple of years that they're going their plan would be to iterate off of this a couple of times and I guess I want to acknowledge that that you know we're trying to comply with rules that may or may not exist within the next right like and that's cost the Springfield taxpayers paying opposed to right like you know that the state agent regulatory agency is still sort of changing we're building the plane as we're flying it here I guess is what I'm saying and I is that is there a real risk here that we made duplicate work I don't know um but I did find that other number okay

13:17 but I still have long enough so um the climate-friendly areas must be planned to accommodate 24 500 Springfield residents yeah so that is a lot of people and not a very big space so by saying that you're saying 24 000 in this area probably smaller area yes um I am open to looking for a place and you know if you know to looking at Mohawk a little bit closer especially with how

14:03 much space in the industrial are around the hospitals that you have and you know in the old Wilmer building Fred there's actually you know more space out there and the last thing is you guys sort of size and talk through this I just want to be conscientious to a lot like a lot of what's going on in Riverbend right now right like there should there's a lot of space but there's not a lot of clarity about you know whether or not that's going to be clear you know clinical buildings or whether or not there's going to be housing there and I just I think we've got to be aware of that as we Design This financially [Music] I don't know what we can do to get funds for those but um they make us convert staff from these issues and it takes away from servicing

14:48 people I don't like that that's not right anyway we can work on that yes well I mean it's the legislative process that determines the budget um there was no budget for this project in the governor's the governor included no money for implementation in her budget um so it will be up to the legislature to decide how much any funds are available at least to the Department of land conservation and development ODOT does have some funding they have set aside so they're moving forward in some contracts like with consultants and with

15:33 Lancome slope governments but now that odot's money is available to the city directly mandates don't come through the legislature what's the timeline for the project as far as do you have to have a first like so its implementation has started for instance um for parking already we are not allowed to require any on-site parking within half a mile of a BMX or 11 or certain uses um multi-family housing units um required to be ready for 40 of their on-site parking rather than just 20 as required by the building codes so those two phases are already implemented

16:19 um it will take us up through 2029 to finish implementing everything yeah we're going to have boards you think they're going to wait till 2029 before they tell us they more things I'm kidding I'm kidding um I really appreciate the update I know that you're going to be back in the next you know probably in the fall a little bit more about what's going on with this because there's going to be a lot of work around in the next couple of years all right thank you thanks

17:15 right good evening Mary Council uh Neil is ringer budget and procurement manager uh science department here with Aaron Donnelly and Chris Carr uh from Santa pack uh we're here tonight uh I'm recusing myself in this conversation extension okay thank you um so we're here tonight uh with the rate request from Santa pack um basically a request to adjust the solid waste section of the Masterpiece and charges schedule um so just to get a little background uh the city has an exclusive franchise with Santa pack to provide solid solid waste collection services in Springfield uh as part of that franchise agreement is

18:00 spells out um basically the ability for Santa Santa request a annual rate adjustment and then outlines a number of different factors that the city can use to evaluate any great adjustment request um so staff has tried to provide some additional detail and background that the council hopefully will find helpful in evaluating the rate requests from Santa pack um I won't go into any more details right now because we've got a short presentation from Santa pack so I think what I'll do is turn it over to Aaron and Chris for the presentation and hopefully we can have plenty of time for discussion thanks Dale um thank you for having us it's uh again

18:46 Don lay on the municipal accounts manager of the Santa pack and Chris car is our district manager which is like our general manager um I've been the main contact for the City of Springfield now for probably uh close to 15 years and it's been my privilege to work work directly with staff and Council so um I think but it did come up that we had a number of new uh counselors so I thought maybe we could go through just briefly a number of slide series to talk about Santa pack service to the City Historic and sort of what we grew I'll make this quick the printouts are in your handouts so I don't need to probably cover everything but um there's just a little history here we actually just had our 50th anniversary party uh last week uh thank you mayor

19:33 Ben Gordon for attending that it's great to see a lot of old drivers and old staff people come and a lot of my old friends um so we've actually serviced the City of Springfield in one variety or another since 1953. it used to be called Springfield Sanitary Service and then there were a number of companies that came together um four of them and that merged in 1973 called themselves Santa pack Springfield Sanitary Service essentially the franchise got passed down as that company called sanipac um the the only Rich the only original founding member of Santa pack is still alive was at our at our event it's Carlin Burbank he owns Cottage Grove sanitary so he's been in the business since 1960.

20:18 um anyway uh in 2009 Santa pack was purchased by Waste Connections so prior to that uh I Believe In 1980 or so Pepe family bought Santa pack in 2009 Waste Connections so Waste Connections started in Vancouver Washington in 1997 and it's primarily uh just grew from there out of the Pacific Northwest and is now all across the United States it's the third largest garbage company in the United States right now um we still have a very heavy presence in Oregon in Washington my understanding is we probably have the most employees with garbage companies in Oregon so but it's a decentralized corporate model so uh for local purchasing and local business decisions are primarily made here at the district with Chris as well

21:04 it's a strong district manager model so Chris gets to sort of call the shots um and we keep the names of all the companies and try and keep the culture of those companies so there's probably a lot of companies that you may have heard of that service a lot of cities in Oregon that are actually Waste Connections companies we Service Florence of Coos Bay and sweet home and art support Land The Dalles so I'll go faster now because I feel like I'm picking up a lot of time but um so franchising in the city in the state of Oregon and on the west coast is the primary way that cities achieve the garbage service so actually Springfield was a very early adopter of it one of the earliest in the state of Oregon but now uh everywhere in the state of

21:51 Oregon except for Eugene my understanding an AES has a sort of franchised contract at hauler for the residential service and everywhere except the city of Portland itself has commercial franchise in the City of Eugene but even in those areas it's highly regulated so it's sort of seen as a pseudo utility that a city will contract with uh one hauler there's a lot of upfront sort of capital costs to get the business going the trucks costs you know four hundred thousand dollars each car so it's a big substantial infrastructure investment and usually the contracts are very long term um so some of the things we do Springfield city-wide cleanup which we have coming up uh so um we do street sweeping uh drop boxes and Disposal at no charge we donate just a number of

22:37 services all throughout the city um uh or totaling over 168 thousand dollars we need to leave uh collection program and uh franchise fees back to the city as a portion of the uh fees that we collect um keeps City staff down to a minimum and maintain stable rates for a Citizens Springfield historically and and still to today have some of the lowest rates for residential curbside available in the state other things that Santa pack does we complete so every city uh over over 4 000 a population is required by the state to meet the opportunity to recycle act so you have to provide certain recycling opportunities education and Outreach to your citizens uh we fulfill those obligations for the city through a number of Outreach programs

23:24 this quickly you know we have drag cams in all the trucks we're the industry leader in safety Waste Connections is by Foreign especially in Springfield a lot of long-term same drivers that have been doing the same routes for many many years um servant leadership there is a core value is something that both Chris and I get judged on by our employees every year and is treated very seriously um there's some other services some of the stuff Outreach we have a free mobile app people can download that will give you a notification the night before what cans to put out also access to the waste Wizards wishing to tell you what to recycle in the area last year we started curbside composting in the City of Springfield

24:10 um I didn't I'm not going to click on that link but there's a cool little video there with Sluggo that talks about how to do it so we rolled out in the city last July and it's been going well I haven't had any complaints or issues come to me from the processor which is great um Santa pack sister company across the street from Santa Pak is ecosort ecosort has been around for 25 years over 25 years in Glenwood all of the construction boxes that we take and the many of the haulers and many of the companies in the area that do construction take the waste to ecosort where it's sorted out so we pull out the wood the metal the cardboard anything anything that can be recycled later we'll pull it out before it goes to the landfill so we'll recycle the construction waste ecosort on the back end of it also does some recycling

24:55 processing you can see the Sorting line there this is just a bunch of stuff that we do in the community um high school scholarships bike build we did a beautiful Springfield truck rep last year to promote keeping the rivers clean this is something that um you can kind of see me up in the corner but a lot of people don't know we've been the title sponsor for the Northwest Association for blind athletes for years now and that's a great organization so I'll uh I always say that to say that when you support Santa pack we really do try to reach out and support the community um recycling modernization acts this is something that's happening that's big in the state of Oregon very Progressive legislation that the state uh approved into law it becomes effective

25:40 until in 2025 and what it does does is a few things it'll make essentially the recycling producers so the people that make the Coke and Pepsi bottles and those kind of things responsible for helping to stabilize the cost of the recycling Market that's the overall goal so those companies will form a group called a pro that Pro will create a fund that fund will do help with transportation of recycling education and Outreach that kind of stuff so that we don't have another situation where we had in 2017 where China we refuse the America's garbage and we had a market collapse of recycling so we're trying to make so that's what the goal is is to make it stable and sustainable long-term so there's the

26:27 funding for that another thing is it's going to create a Statewide list so everyone in every city in the state will have the same materials that can go into the recycle can so we'll have some consistency there and all the education will look the same everywhere across the state and another thing is the truth and labeling act so and actually this just gotta it should it's in front of the governor's desk and my understanding to be signed but basically um by 2027 the first step is that on everything you buy that could be recyclable there'll be a QR code and you can scan it and it'll tell you whether it can go in the can or not um or not where so I think the bridge in the long term is that someday you might be able to see on every everything that you buy whether it can go in the recycle can or not very clearly so this is the

27:13 first step towards that it's called Truth and letting I think it's a really important thing I am lnd Association of work and recyclers legislative committee and the Oregon records and recession uh recycling Association board and those are just some pictures of Santa back dumpsters by their Springfield murals so um anyway okay so that's another Pony show about Snapback um the reason the main reason why we're here tonight is our visit rate adjustment requests we come in annually to discuss this and discuss the cost impacts that we've had year over year so I wrote a letter Mr Kennedy some historical context of that um 2020 we did not come in for a rate adjustment request due to the impacts of covid-19 we didn't want to we didn't ask

27:58 for an increase 2021 we asked for a 2.1 percent and last year we were the CPI was trending very high close to nine we came in and asked the counselors uh you know what you guys thought was feasible for the city and uh requested a five percent at the time so we went with five percent rate adjustment last year this year CPI is as I'm sure you're aware for the year of 2022 from January to December was very high it was 8.15 percent um well the CPI that we've used typically is to sort of gauge off of is is called the CPI all Urban all Urban consumers beat West BC so what that is is Western United States BC is small medium-sized cities so it's

28:46 not like Seattle or Portland it's more like Salem Eugene area BC and and that that's the and again it's put out by the bureau uh Bureau of Labor Statistics United States government and they said 8.15 so we have seen those costs um internally over the last few years definitely Chris is here as well to talk I wrote some about some of them in here labor over last year we've seen an 8.9 truck maintenance of 10.6 increase uh container expense of 6.8 percent increase there has been a fuel decrease from the high that it was last year at this time so that's a negative 16.5 from sort of that all-time high um the big costs that we have that is

29:33 increasing as of July 1 is the Lane County landfill where we take the garbage is doing a seven percent tip fee increase on disposal so that's just that's about 30 percent of our total cost um and they're just doing a seven percent so um so that's why we're here tonight is uh I usually like to also say you know the average uh average residential household in Springfield and really everywhere there's a 35 gallon can picked up once a week um at your house so at that that person's house right now it's 20.37 a month with this 8.15 it would be going to 2203 that's an increase of 1.66 per month on the average sort of household garbage

30:18 um so with that there's a bunch of information here um Les Neil or Chris anything else no you covered with just you know take questions or yeah and we're open discussion that's we kind of you know I feel like last year we we definitely wanted to respect you know everything we were at but five percent was probably less than our actual cost this year we're requesting the CPI of our action of our costs but we're open we're happy to discuss it before I open up a cost uh for conversations right what we're doing right now is we're agreeing upon the number and then they'll take that number forward and go public and go public hearing so that we can that we can we can pass on a rate increase so that well we got to end up this discussion with is

31:03 some sort of percentage that we're that we're agreeing to correct we'll take the guidance from tonight and build it into the adoption of a master's and Target schedule I believe on June 5th if we did invite uh Neil and Sam and Mary um to come into sanipac about a few weeks ago kind of showed them more uh more you know confidential business costs information um and show them sort of some hard numbers of actual percentages so um I don't know I just want to ensure that that they they did that due diligence as well the business company so uh what questions do you guys have okay so then we'll flip the conversation is that everybody comfortable with that eighty percent I think it's 8.1 in there

31:48 right so I guess the only comment that that I have is you know or you know as a community we're always pretty rate sensitive right so I you know this is on the higher end of what I'm betting a lot of people are going to be you know ultimately comfortable with and I just want to flag that but also the clear message that I had is on top of inflation was the increase with the Tipping fee um and how that contributes and when we like last week we saw in the con we saw a conversation starting to develop about uh investments into the dump right and so I think we're just going to be aware as we're talking about our partners in the County Commission is that we're passing through their fee increase onto on onto our our citizens and as they

32:35 kind of think about where they want to go strategically we just have to be aware that like we're actually you know the the folks that are passing that on to people's bills um that's not on Santa pack that's on that's a public policy question and how he's got to work both um yeah I just want to say that I I think that it's important to note that this is a service that is super reliable that is like it doesn't matter whether it's snowing or it's raining or whatever I know that that's that the service is going to be there for me and I think that that's important that we acknowledge that with your costs going up just like with everybody else's so I don't know sometimes you get what you paid for it I like paying for something that I know I can count on so thank you I appreciate them okay that's a testament to the drivers the supervisors

33:21 selling them on the ground so thank you every week the driver goes by long sewing so my daughter's congratulations they're huge fans and we don't even tell them to do that I know all right so I think if 8.15 and then thank you guys thank you very much all right we are in church thank you thank you I'm going to call the regular session of the Springfield City Council to order with roll call Mayor Van Gordon here counselor Weber here councilor Mo here

34:06 Council rodley here Council Blackwell here councilor Doyle here Council missionary here thank you please join me for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty as we begin our meeting tonight there are two designated times for public testimony this evening under public hearings and business from the audience

34:53 if you are attending in person please complete the request to speak card located at the entrance of the city council chambers and give it to the city recorder if you are joining us online with the tablet smartphone or computer and wish to speak to either of those times please use the raised hand feature in Zoom the order of public testimony is as follows anyone in the person in person in the council chambers and then anyone who has raised their virtual hand and Neil how many folks do we have joining us oh we have approximately 50 folks in the chambers and maybe nine online very good first item please uh the first item under Springfield upbeat is an awesome mayor's recognition it's the Springfield High School basketball team uh 22-23

35:40 . or is there going to be a pickup game between the PD and the basketball team between this I see enough yeah okay so we'll let the record show the PD didn't want any of that info all right so I'm gonna have the coaches come up and then I'm going to read some of this and give you guys a chance to make uh make some additional comments um it's really really great to see you guys in the uh in in the audience just come on up and we're gonna put you right next to the next to the podium I know we're doing this on the Fly here so our Springfield Millers had a year to remember

36:25 coming off a second place finish the year before expectations were high going into the season they were a young team in making a state championship game in the 21 22 season was a surprise from everybody the girls handled expectations starting and finishing the season ranked number one in the state polls and finishing it off holding the first place Trophy and cutting down the Nets at Gale Coliseum for the 5A state championships which is pretty cool to see um so the following list is of the team accomplishments they finished as League Champs in 12-0 in the midwestern League finished 19-0 against the 5A teams for the season and of course they won the state championship so that and with the 3.5

37:11 commute GPA um really if you is there anything else about the team the season the experience that you want that you would really like to share with us first of all I want to just tell you every last one of them drive us crazy but no I'm proud of the girls we got a very young team we had two seniors and we came in with very high expectations and you know we work hard every day and you know we we planning on to keep this train running for a long time so if this what happens when you want to stay titled y'all gonna see us back next week

37:58 that's great to hear I think aside from the state championship which was a huge accomplishment um just thinking back to summer basketball uh fall workouts there's so much that went into preparing for the state championship that so many people didn't see and the work ethic of this group on the court and off the court is very um impressive and we're very proud of them for all the accomplishments that they've had um they've learned how to solve conflict together and just work through a lot of bumps that naturally come with um just a basketball season and they are all just growing so much as people and it makes us really proud and there's so much more that got accomplished off the court that we are very passion for well I gotta tell you we were all

38:44 excited and thank you for inspiring an entire community so we're going to have you guys up and we're going to take a big group photo so come on up very rarely do we even let people up here that's how no no foreign don't worry if they're going to do bunny ears for you guys

39:36 get on over back come on come on you Thursday that's awesome all right everyone look this way just make sure it's your index finger got it congratulations

40:29 all right you guys do not have to stay stay for the entire meeting

41:20 all right next item please uh this next item is also awesome just to be clear and it's the national law enforcement week Proclamation and mayor this is your item all right whereas there are more than 800 000 law enforcement officers serving in communities across the United States including and that the dedicated members of the Springfield Police Department and whereas since the first recorded death in 1786 more than 2000 23 785 law enforcement officers in the United States have made the ultimate sacrifice and been killed in the line of duty and whereas the names of these dedicated public servants are engraved on the walls the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington D.C and whereas the service

42:05 and sacrifice of all officers killed in the line of duty will be honored during the national law enforcement's Law Enforcement Officers Memorial fund's 35th Candlelight vigil on the evening of May 13 2022 and whereas May 15 2022 is designated as the Peace Officers Memorial Day in honor of the fallen officers and their families and U.S flags should be flown at half staff therefore I Sean Van Gordon mayor of the City of Springfield do hereby Proclaim May 14th through 20th 2023 as national law enforcement a week in the city of Springfield and publicly salute the service of law enforcement officers in our community and communities Across the Nation and before we come down and take a picture I did want to invite the chief up to make a few comments um

42:51 about Law Enforcement Memorial Day thank you mayor council I'll try to keep it brief but um I if I don't it's because I feel so proud of them and they're standing here behind me and the women of SPD so thank you for the proclamation recognizing law enforcement around the country and more specifically uh the people in SPD so the SPD officers that are here today on behalf of the city of City executive team and all the people of Springfield I want to thank you for everything you do for this community so as the chief I get the opportunity to see and hear about the thing the amazing things that they do every single day and your bravery your dedication and your title or service to those in need is humbling to say the least

43:44 it's a day for us to pay tribute to the men and women of this profession who gave their lives in service to something greater than themselves and As Americans we collectively must respect their courage honor their sacrifice and I'm sorry never forget the loss the families continue to experience long after they're gone so for those of us that are active members of law enforcement today is a day for reflection and it's a day for us to renew our commitment to honoring those fallen heroes and their families and we do that through service that's grounded in dignity respect courage and in a way that is uncompromising in the pursuit of justice for all thank you thanks chief and I just wanted to say before as we come

44:30 up and we'll all be down to take the picture just thank you guys um you know as as elected officials in this community um you know we get it we don't get that many times we get a stand in front of you guys or have you guys down uh to city council and I just want to say I really appreciate what you guys do every single day

45:49 all right next item please next item is the consent calendar I can make a motion to prove the consent calendar second you all could call the vote please yes counselor Weber yes couns Thermo yes counselor rodley yes counselor Blackwell yes counselor Doyle yes and counselor Pictionary yes motion passes six cases zero no's next item please next item is public hearings you have one public hearing public hearing number one is liquor license endorsements for the renewal period of 2023 through 2024 Jeff Pascal is here for this item a good evening mayor and Council um thanks for having me um tonight you have the list of the 175 businesses for which staff anticipate um renewals coming in for liquor

46:34 licenses um attached as well as a police a report from police that shows calls of service to there one of the things noted was it's down from last year um chapter seven the section is is uh attached for you to review it requires the council to hold a public hearing um taking public comment and then the last thing is for the council to give their endorsement or non-endorsement and right now staff doesn't find any reason for Council not to give a positive recommendation for those 175 anticipated renewals or any questions right then I'm going to open the public

47:20 hearing oh I don't know I don't see any cards um Neil do we have anybody wanting to speak online we'll see I don't see any hands for this item all right I'm going to close the public hearing like to make a motion to approve the liquor license renewal list second yo could you call a vote please yes councilor Weber yes councilor Moon yes councilor rodley yes counselor Blackwell yes counselor Doyle yes and counselor Pictionary yes motion passes six yeses zero knows next item please next item is business from the audience we have item one Tim black with St Vincent de Paul and he has

48:06 five minutes before we get to the regular cards mayor counselors uh thank you I appreciate the time I just want to take a few minutes really just to say thank you it was a long hard winter and we could not have done it without your support uh having the memorial building um I have just a few pictures uh give you uh more feeling like uh that you were there you can go ahead and Advance um Egan is all about the volunteers this is the volunteer check-in area in the memorial building you can see the fancy name tags they use uh and I just love looking at this and seeing all the names and I think you have a handout with some of the uh the statistics we had 230 unique volunteers who worked just in Springfield this winter uh more than 1

48:51 550 hours and we had 60 um some volunteers who worked 10 or more nights it's a huge commitment uh this was the 13th year vegan and we were open 31 nights that was six more than the previous uh winter and of course uh every time I catch myself whining about that I remember who it was really hard on and that's our guess because there were so many other nights this winter know that we're just above just below so wet so many nights it was miserable out there we have to follow our protocol and we opened when it's below 30 and that's what we did um you can go ahead and advance so we do clean blankets and black bags this is a Negan thing so those are clean blankets ready to be loaded in that's the hallway coming up off the ramp where we did checking and all those tables are

49:37 where we put the items um because our guests check their items in before they go and spend the night you can go ahead and advance as I said I'm 31 nights this is the gymnasium in the memorial building and uh we uh you can move on there um and just want to show you a couple volunteers that's Jim Cantrell that's going to pop up that's Tim uh he has a safety vest on we have volunteers work outside the entire time all night in the cold just to make sure that the parking lot's safe and everything else is safe and go ahead and this is Alma Beck who right now she's making grilled cheese it looks like but she has been there from the beginning of Eagan all those years ago when it was at every United Methodist Church and she loves making Flapjacks that's where her thing uh go ahead as

50:23 you know it's really important for us being a low barrier shelter to welcome everybody that we welcome guests or guests with their animals and there are many it's usually dogs we do have a random cat every now and then and of course we have the random other things every now and then and on the left there's is John Helmer Jr and the Helmer family from Springfield they make this a family affair John's dad John Senior and his sister Charlotte Helmer she's one of our new up and coming volunteer leads they really make it a family favorites great go ahead foreign they still cook dinner for everybody on site um and of course food filling county is one of the huge Partners you can go ahead I just want to show you some of the other partners um it's so many we are really fortunate in this community

51:08 to have Public Safety at our side um all these LTD who gives rides to our guests and so many others you can go ahead and Advance um kovid was a real challenge no surprise we lost a lot of volunteers we lost a lot of our sites it was really difficult and you can go ahead and click the next one and then this year we've all heard about the opioid crisis we lived it um Narcan was that last little picture it's okay we had to do it our volunteers had to do it three or four times this year doing the nasal spray to revive somebody who was in overdose it's a real problem and we have plenty of it now and you know crisis leads to more Partnerships so we continue to gather more Partnerships folks who help who want to take care of our guests Medical and otherwise

51:54 and we just couldn't do it without any of them go ahead that is Santa but it's also David Strahan who's in the room here in Springfield is such a unique site for us they go beyond just the core mission of getting inside they really try to create Community for the people who come into our shelters and that's just an example there you can go on it is tough um it can be tough being a neighbor of an Eagan warming Center site if you click it again I think or so uh we dealt with this and I know that probably all of you saw this from time to time that was probably the worst right there it's it's a challenge and we clean it up as best we could

52:39 um go ahead but you know that's a person uh under there under that blanket and that's really what we're all about here what we're about at Eagan and it's okay for people to be frustrated when they see the messes like that and to be angry what I hope they remember though is that they should be upset because that person had no other option that night we have so many even more people with mental illness issues who just cannot take care of themselves and those are the ones who end up having to do spend so much time on and I know as a community we're going to continue to work so that we do take care of those folks um go ahead you know Egan started and ends with the volunteers and it's amazing um and we couldn't do it without them and uh just so once again I just want to thank the city I want to thank um the you know

53:24 bahana Mike Espinoza from Public Works who was helpful here in fifefield of course Neil um and of course thanks to you mayor and everyone you identified real money to help us this year and didn't come into fruition because we couldn't use the church but thank you for that and we're going to need that uh we're probably gonna looking for another site um this year we're going to do our best and we know that you're there uh to help us so thank you for letting City staff help us it's much appreciated and Summer's going to go by fast we're going to work and organize and we'll see you soon I'm sure thank you really hey Tim I'm back for a second can you tell me how somebody would get him would get a hold of you or get a

54:09 hold of someone to be able to become a volunteer yeah we uh we always have a bunch of new volunteer orientations uh mostly during the starting in the fall you can just go to the Saint Vinnie's website and look for um just type Eagan in the search or emergency shelter um my email I'm always happy to talk to people it's very easy it's just tim.black svdp.us svdps St Vincent de Paul thanks for coming Tim okay thank you all okay we're going to move to the cards next and then online uh first card that I have is Joe to Conley and if you could state your name and location for the record please good evening uh mayor Van Gordon distinguished council members uh my name

54:55 for the record is Joe Conley uh I live just outside the city of Springfield I've owned and operated a business for over the last 16 years and I am here today um to speak on behalf of common sense for Springfield common sense for Springfield is a 501c4 organization that encourages a public debate and discussion of related public policy issues of the uh for the economic and overall welfare um of our community uh this community of Springfield uh our organization has submitted a letter on uh for the record uh but I just wanted to come in person and talk to you today because I feel passionate about this issue

55:41 um first I would like to commend you on the approach that you've taken for the process of collecting and engaging the community and collecting feedback um via the online survey that you put out there I really appreciate that I think that is a step in the right direction of engaging the entire Community the stakeholders trying to listen and find out what the community is trying to tell us while we construct this ordinance um second I wanted to um uh I like the approach of making this particular ordinance as narrow as possible but also reasonable um I would like um uh continue to use the public feedback

56:28 um that you have received and adjust the ordinance uh just to a more finely a point uh we highlighted a couple of items in our communication in our letter surrounding specifically the protection of children and uh the other point was quote the objectively reasonable as to time unquote stated in the house bill 3115. and lastly um once you've completed your your ordinance discussions and fine-tuned it I would love to encourage you to distribute that as widely as you can to the community so the citizens of Springfield the stakeholders can understand the new policy uphold it and

57:13 support it we are Springfield and we are proud of the city that we've made I thank you for your time thank you Jason profit thanks for your time uh Jason profit Quarry Road about three things it's great to see the guys from the police department here tonight now if they just write some tickets and slow the noise down so I see in uh on the post and stuff you guys want to grow Springfield I see that on marcoolin 28th Street you know Thursday night the city run out of ambulance the fire department waited 30 minutes sitting on a call

57:59 and I don't know how back up they were actually are the city doesn't have the services in place to grow and I don't know how many amethysters we have here and how many we share that needs to be addressed you got four guys on a truck sitting out there for 30 minutes waiting to be on calls now my other issue is the city's code in my septic tank wrong in my storm drain and I asked you to look at it I've asked the lawyer to look at it we're going to end up going to court I don't have sewer I've asked the City come out and show me where I hooked up at sewer I'm getting 16 a month charge for that

58:46 but 500 a month or 500 a year though I don't know I don't know how else to resolve it but to go file on the Wednesday in the court so I think that ends everything I got right thanks Jason thank you Erwin Master Spain good evening my name is Arwen most of Spain and I live in Eugene I am the founder of carry it Forward which you most likely know is a 501c3 nonprofit that serves unhoused people in Lane County we're currently running two camps in Eugene one camp in Cottage Grove and manage the car camping program in

59:31 Springfield all our participants received case management and housing navigation assistance and we have a high success rate in getting people into more permanent housing we also have a vocational program for people who want to get back into the workforce so I'm here tonight to speak as a service provider to address how the camping ordinance impacts our population and the work we do the ordinance is problematic for several reasons it seems to lump all homeless people under one umbrella and the reality is that homelessness does not discriminate it touches every category of people we serve elders and medically fragile people lgbtq and trans people veterans and people of all colors many of these people are springfielders who are not currently served by Springfield one of our Eugene camps is actually named after a Springfield or Tom

1:00:17 Campbell and specializes in serving medically fragile folks I say all this to illustrate the complexity of unhoused people who should not be lumped altogether second the ordinance does not provide Solutions it seems to push people out of sight and punish individuals with higher fines it names every place people are not allowed but does not identify legal places for people to be it is not acceptable in my mind to leave it at the discretion of the city manager to identify locations because finding and creating places in Springfield should be mandatory lastly court cases and recent legislation have put the responsibility for addressing homelessness directly on local governments to quote Martin versus Boise ninth circuit 2019 an ordinance violates the Eighth Amendment insofar as it imposes criminal sanctions against

1:01:02 homeless individuals for sleeping Outdoors or on public property when no alternative shelter is available to them this ordinance only contributes to perpetuation of stigma and Punishment rather than real solutions these are your people they are your daughters and sons your mothers and fathers and your grandparents they are part of your community they also need safe places to be to get on their feet and stabilize so that they can give back I would like to see more of Springfield self-sufficient pride in supporting thoughtful comprehensive approaches to homelessness in your city in conjunction with service providers who can support this as a city goal as it stands this ordinance only makes our work and the lives of those we serve more difficult so I ask you tonight where do springfielders go to sleep at night

1:01:47 thank you for your time Chris McAllister Mr Mayor esteemed members of the council my name is Chris McAllister and I came from your streets I reside in ward 3 and I've been honored to serve your people both over the past winters and this recent Heat Wave I use two words with distinction whereas others use them interchangeably unhoused is someone who is experiencing the loss of Housing and has options for relief homeless is a population that has no options comparable to the exact need Springfield's population of singles and couples are predominantly homeless as you have not designated a legal place

1:02:32 for them to be within time place or manner unless you invoke the words of our officer Burke and tell them to go to another Sovereign jurisdiction Eugene I am not opposed to the city doing its role I am to adding weight to those with the greatest met uh unmet needs I understand Eugene has a similar item before them but they have a different stance they have a plan they have a place a series of places with different themes to try and meet the needs Cottage Grove has a four-tier plan with a quarter of our population we lack an emergency plan that does not Place predominantly into the children and families or emergent winter relief programming we set out plans that then lack our political accountability with those in our jurisdiction our six wards Mr Wagner has represented the Emergency Management

1:03:18 component of the county all in process with energy and thoughtful response I am thankful that he is a voice for what we have in the room safety of vulnerable populations children women and adults with disabilities is the top priority of a crisis system and Oregon's bad inventory is too small to ensure that safety this is from the Oregon Community foundation's study on homelessness release 2018. they also say that the state will not make progress on homelessness if the hard work is done only by those who directly to serve the homeless on a daily basis we are not asking the City of Springfield to fix homelessness we are asking the city to be kind and to be accountable with its loss Lake versus Grants Pass shows how a municipality with legislative support challenged Martin versus Boise and came up short all residents include the unhoused and homeless who will be identified by the ordinance this case

1:04:05 highlights how these so-called quality of life ordinances cost cities almost four times the amount they spend on housing and safe filtering that would then negate the need for sex enforcement two studies and two Regional legal rulings point to redress being necessary should this ordinance pass as written I encourage the city to meet with providers and agencies who are tasked with this work to provide a sound approach to make sure that all springfielders are served by the ordinances we pretend as written this ordinance could be challenged under Section 1 subsection 4 as the nature of these regulations do not take into consideration the perspective of the targeted individuals June 5th 2020 the memorial building was closed and 17 of Springfield's most vulnerable people were asked to leave city property it's also my birthday I feel forever tied to June 5th

1:04:50 homelessness in this city please vote no without further understanding for the ban of June 5th 2023 I yield my time Johannes to Dale hello city council and mayor Van Gordon my name is Johannes tadel and I'm part of Kerry Ford and safer and live in ward 3. I want to say thank you for your support for Egan in your car camping program are the safe spaces to be in Springfield I oversee the case management for the Springfield camps I get to see who they are and hear the stories each week their concerns their goals and the fortunate pain that they carry due to how they're labeled

1:05:36 there is more to fixing on House people we operate in a manner that is not judgmental in our organization we don't fix anyone we give them a space to heal and see their potential we try to provide folks an opportunity to feel human work gain skills and stay in the community that they grew up in I heard from comments that were shared two weeks ago what folks had to say and see they do not see the potential we see when they focus on the actions when they focus on the actions of a few being taken for the whole Community this isn't right for Springfield so why would why would it be acceptable for our fallen it's unfortunate that we we will create a public band that will exclude our community from places that are that are safe we should accommodate and work together as a community like we did in

1:06:21 2020 and find ways to help and change and shift the blame and finding safe places for people to be we should not further criminalize our community and tell folks to get out of our town when they are not even receiving services in a place that is their home and always has been I was part of the unhoused community in 2013 2014. I was invisible to some and most folks didn't or couldn't know that I was living on the streets unhoused communities come in all shapes uh needs and colors you know the work I do outside of CIF imagine if I was asked to leave my city because if folks are not familiar with my struggle because they saw me as dirty instead of seeing that we need more support in areas to help and bring back uh folks on their feet let's find Solutions instead of blame imagine what other potential

1:07:07 people have when you invest in them like Chris and I were able to accomplish the potential of our people have when given the same chance and opportunity please do right by our people and the potential our display springfielders have and can be so you can also see their productive capacity imagine the things that they would do if they had a had sleep and a place to map out their reality so that they can live how we do now is this a Springfield we want to be please recognize your residence vote no on the ban thank you okay so now I live at 407 South 4th Street in Springfield and um a few weeks ago I came and I had

1:07:53 been planning to talk to you about what I'm going to talk to you about tonight but I got going on a rabbit hole with the garbage so the update on the garbage is that now there's a monthly garbage cleanup happening and there's a lot of volunteers that have been showing up and and so I'm happy to tell you that's been handled um what my um passion is is health and well-being and I spent the last five years going to willamalane board meetings and talking to them about the use of chemicals in public parks places and schools my background is I'm a registered nurse but now I'm a real estate agent and I just really think that we can do better um

1:08:42 there was a study that was done and willamaline was really open to the idea of transitioning away from using pesticides and chemicals and I thought they were they handled it really well they took it seriously they had um some training Beyond toxics a local organization went and met with them and brought in a specialist who specializes in organic Landscape Management without the use of chemicals and they made a commitment to transition away from it and so I would like to see that happen in my lifetime before I die and that started five years ago I started advocating five years ago and like I said they've been open and they listened but it's still kind of business as usual um I think it's really hard even in my own life when we get going on

1:09:29 doing things a certain way and it's easy and we just do it and it's just how it is and I think we can do better so I wanted to talk to you guys about it since I know you work with willamalane and I don't know who holds the power and who can tell who what to do but I would love it if our money went to a healthy Alternatives and if you go online there are cities non-toxic communities all over the United States popping up now there are 25 in California two in Arizona four in Colorado five in Connecticut seven in Florida four in Ohio five in Pennsylvania the list goes on there's many many states now that are having cities that are not using

1:10:14 chemicals in Parks public places and schools particularly important for the kids and pets because a lot of pets if you look at what the veterinarians are saying like all the problems that are happening with pets have a lot to do with what they are walking on in Parks same with kids kids are very vulnerable so there are online IPM the document that they use to govern public places that they can do with non-toxic management and that's what I'm advocating for is all right thank you Neil that the last card I have is anybody raising their hand online yeah we currently have one hand up and that's

1:10:59 Daphne mantis and Daphne I'm going to unmute your microphone so just a little technical glitch we're working on Daphne you should be able to unmute your microphone now thank you I'm Daphne mantis I live on West B

1:11:45 Street in Springfield and I just want to I guess repeat what the carry it Forward speakers have emphasized which is the draft ordinance to update camping in Springfield does not provide there's a long list in the subsection three as to prohibited spaces there is a suggestion that subsection 4 might provide for where camping would be allowed when there are no shelters available

1:12:35 um yet there is nothing stated in subsection for as to where is the alternative the reasonable time place and manner alternative when there are no shelters available so I don't think either the draft ordinance A or B could comply with the requirements under house bill 3115 that's all I have definitely

1:13:21 thank you we have one more hand raised the next speaker is Nancy Forrest and Nancy you should be able to unmute your microphone can you hear me can thank you for taking my testimony this evening my name is Nancy Forrest I do work for carry it forward in 2020 I found myself engaging with people at the Eagan warming Center at the memorial building where I met 32 people with long-standing ties to Springfield later when we were conducting Street Outreach efforts over a year after that shelter closed I met over a hundred people in various places in Springfield business doorways remote fields and thickets in

1:14:07 the woods and along the riverbank and actually to my surprise I discovered that 75 to 80 percent of the folks are from Springfield many born and raised here and this is their home I'm going to share three quick examples with you of some of the wonderful people I've been able to work with Larry's a single 40 year old male he left home in school at the age of 13. began living on the streets he probably had developmental disabilities that were never adequately addressed and he came from a family that was poorly equipped to recognize his challenges or to seek appropriate help he spent most of his adolescence and all his adult life trying to get employed but could never quite put it together before he enrolled in a carry it Forward program he was unable to get basic things done Mike replaces ID apply for disability renew his OHP connect with

1:14:52 Medical Services apply for housing and so on not because he didn't want to but because he was unable to do so without significant assistance and a safe secure place to stay this is checking into our low barrier safe sleep Society has his ID he supply for and is close to receiving disability he's received a Housing Voucher he's likely to received long-term assistance and benefits from a lot of agencies that serve people with his disability Larry's finally getting his life together but he misses Glenwood Zelda she's 30 she was 35 year old single female she too came from a family in Springfield that did not understand nor were they able to support the multiple disabilities she was born with she basically spent her entire adult life living on the streets in and around Glenwood in Springfield to sometimes in

1:15:38 shelters like Dusk to Dawn basically she was finally able when she enrolled in our shelter after languishing for about 20 years in and around Eugene and Springfield she was diagnosed with multiple disabilities she received disability she was finally getting the medical treatment she needed and sadly she passed away from natural causes only a couple of weeks before she was to receive the keys to her new and only home her passing was pretty hard to take she was only 35 and she always dreamed of establishing a home in Springfield and lastly I want to talk about Joan she's 76 lived most of her life in Springfield spent the last 10 years in an affordable housing complex in Springfield due to a paperwork snafu she didn't realize that they thought she

1:16:24 was vacating her unit when they told her she had to leave she actually packed up everything put it in the storage and started Living in her car we encountered her at the Eagan warming Center at the memorial building and we are trying desperately now to assist her in a safe secure place and she wants to come back to Springfield so when can we bring her home thank you mayor we have one more hand up it's Bonnie Mickelson and Bonnie you should be able to unmute your microphone thank you good evening mayor and city councilors thank you for the opportunity to speak I'm here on behalf of the Springfield area Chamber of Commerce at 101 South A Street the chamber's been

1:17:10 studying and monitoring the camping code ordinance revisions specific to non-sanctioned camping on public land we've distributed the city's survey to our members review those responses monitored Council work sessions and related public testimony we've also met with and received feedback from business and Community Partners and as tenants in a city-owned building have first-hand experience operating a business and serving the public our objective has been to ensure that businesses are heard and that the preservation of community health safety and economic Vitality are assured based on these efforts we conclude that the ordinance is drafted reflects sufficient intent to preserve community health safety and economic Vitality while also providing clear and specific rules and accountability

1:17:55 measures for non-sanctioned camping while the ordinance itself is not proposed as a solution for the larger complex issues surrounding houselessness public discourse has brought attention to several concerns challenges and economic impacts businesses are experiencing now that deserve attention so we appreciate the cities responsiveness to those that rise to the Forefront such as cost shoulder by business that of Maintenance restoration enforcement and liability circumstances that present harmful and unsafe conditions for employees and clientele any risk for loss of new development or business recruitment opportunities employees in our tax base and cost of enforcement

1:18:42 of and resolution or preservation of public health and safety that could be shouldered by local employers and employees for these reasons we encourage continued constructive dialogue with businesses and Community Partners and a provision of clear specific guidance business assistance and solutions oriented strategies Compassionate Care for our vulnerable populations is not to be confused with leniency for criminal activity or behaviors that diminish quality of place the monitoring and tracking impacts of these ordinance changes and houselessness in general will be important to inform and address impacts over time

1:19:27 we'll advocate for resources and supportive targeted and coordinated response resolution and prevention Solutions with our public and private Partners particularly those that strengthen Workforce re-entry training programs ensure Public Safety stabilize housing affordability and improve mental and Behavioral Health Services thank you for your consideration of our perspective and for working with the Springfield business Community thank you mayor no other hands for this item all right uh thank you um we're going to open up the council response the one comment I had before I open it up to everybody else is Julie there's a gentleman in the back from willama Lane I'm going to put him on the

1:20:13 spot here um we don't like William Lane has its own elected board and you know you really need to go back towards them as far as sort of guidance he can help put you in the put you in contact with the right with the right folks I knew it Eric's got thank you for letting us draft you into this one um but at least he'll help get you to the right person anybody else for Council response all right next item please any business from the city council just a few things as we're halfway through May one tomorrow is election day so anybody who's listening who hasn't voted please vote by 8pm tomorrow we

1:20:58 have three ballot boxes unless there's been some surprises in Springfield um when I'm Thurston one right downstairs and one at the Albertsons um um at sort of Mohawk and Marcola um May is also Asian American Pacific Islander heritage month which many of you know and um Maya's mental health awareness month and I just wanted to bring that attention to everyone and get that on the public record thank you thank you anybody else next item please next item is under business from the city manager item number one is intergovernmental agreement for the management and use of the Georgia Pacific Natural Area Christina kras is here for this item

1:21:44 thank you um this permanent intergovernmental agreement for the ongoing joint ownership of the Georgia Pacific Natural Area is what it's called right now I understand William Elaine is potentially working on identifying new naming opportunities for that property this is a large jointly owned property between the City of Springfield facility board and William Elaine in the area of Clearwater Park and the Middle Fork path area along the between the Mill Race and the river the city individually owns property right directly that the Mill Race occupies this is property from that boundary um to the river the history here as this property was purchased in the 1990s jointly from

1:22:29 Georgia Pacific against the name and it was governed under an intergovernmental agreement for the management from about 1995 until present a couple of years ago we came to you and asked the city council to approve a temporary intergovernmental agreement to allow some pilot program equestrian uses on the property and then to continue that via a several series of amendments while the parties worked on and updated intergovernmental agreement for the property in that time a Lama Lane has adopted a master plan for the park that kind of outlines some potential Park activities that could go into that area over time for enhance the

1:23:14 recreational assets of the property and that was reviewed by this Springfield Utility Board and by the city council and approved by both um the council and Saab as being kind of consistent with our interests and co-owning that property over time so this intergovernmental agreement sort of resets the way the parties are going to work together it's not drastically different from the prior agreement it's primarily to recognize that the master plan is now in place and so a lamoline can move forward as outlined in that master plan with developing those recreational uses on the property and it also provides some Provisions around what the city can do and some can do for the City of Springfield where our primary interest in the property is to maintain the water quality associated with the Mill Race and the river and

1:24:00 that's really important to us and our environmental obligations under Federal permits as well as just being good stewards of the environment and then sub has interest related to Wellhead protection because drinking water for the city comes from um just adjacent to that property so if there are any questions I'm happy to answer them sure so I'm looking at the maps I'm trying to determine the Springfield sub and Milan Lane have specific uh boundaries within that property or is it joint ownership where they're all the same it's joint ownership just like when you're married and you you're you and your spouse jointly own a property it's the same provision so one of the components of

1:24:46 this agreement that wasn't specified is clearly in the prior one is that no one of those parties could sell its interest without permission from the other parties so we wouldn't I don't know who would want to buy property jointly with CityWalk Himalayan and sub but conceivably if that were to come up that would wouldn't be an option unless everyone was on board so it's sort of joint tenancy if you will okay so and follow up then on the original agreement was was it um communally communally purchased at that time or was there it was still that same way it was purchased that way correct it was purchased that way I don't have the details on who bought in what component but my understanding is there were funds from all three entities that went into the purchase and it was we're not changing

1:25:32 the structure of ownership it's been jointly owned by all three at an equal level since 1995 and we went through a process um previously where William Elaine asked if the other parties were interested in continuing to sort of jointly own the property and the response back was yes all three entities have strong interests in the in maintaining joint ownership of the property so do we know the valuation of Springfield's part I don't we haven't had an appraisal done on the property because we weren't proposing to change who owns what so but we're not we're not realizing any return other than I mean as far as a city there's not really isn't any return other than providing or giving that property up to

1:26:17 William Lane we're not relinquishing any ownership of our of the property so we're we're still complete owners what sort of one-third share owners of the property um we have them before we'll be continuing that we explicitly allows us to continue to use the property for the per for one of our purposes which is Wetlands conservation if in the future we would like to do wetland banking this property may offer those opportunities and it was reviewed by environmental services staff pretty thoroughly the master plan that William's adopted was reviewed pretty thoroughly to ensure that that master plan wouldn't conflict with our um complementary desire to use of the property I'm getting I understand that and so the last of the follow-up question is is that so can we assume

1:27:04 that all liability of that property is still joint or is it going to be breasting with polymerly there are um specific indemnification provisions so each party maintains their own insurance over the property there is also what's called recreational immunity in Oregon which is any entity public or private that makes property open to the public for recreational use is immune from liability associated with that use there are some specific concerns around equestrian use if that continues so the agreement includes a specific provision that will lamb Elaine will ensure the property on behalf of the city and sub for any equestrian risks associated with

1:27:51 the property okay so we're going to be absolved of potential issues down the road this will basically hand it over for complete management to Atlanta Lane and city of Springfield's not going to be on the hook for anything we I would say we're in a better position liability-wise than under the 1995 joint ownership agreement which wasn't specific about those risks so not completely but some yeah we're not completely absolved of of liability but recreational immunity in the state of Oregon is pretty strong the property is open to the public for recreational uses and so that also helps provide protection there and then with the um with the specific there's other Provisions that if a party were to take on a specific use that wasn't contemplated that party would provide insurance so if we had liability related

1:28:37 to our own use of the property um related to you know employee workers compensation claim related to going out and inspecting Wetlands for water quality we would still bear that liability okay thank you very much any other questions back to you Joe going back so they can make a motion to authorize the city manager to execute the intergovernmental agreement for the management and use of the Georgia-Pacific Natural Area as substantially provided their endpoint yes counselor Weber yes yes councilman yes Council Radley yes councilor Blackwell counselor Doyle yes and cancer

1:29:23 missionary yes thank you motion passes six yeses next item please any other business from the city manager no further business thank you uh next item is business from the city attorney one item the camping ordinance Mary Bridget Smith is here for the staff report

1:30:09 okay good evening mayor and Council I'm here before you my name is Mary Bridget Smith I'm the City attorney here before you tonight to continue the discussion on the camping ordinance um and this is an item that the council has been considering uh over the past few months this evening the agenda is to discuss three aspects of this the draft code that is in your packet the process and next steps and really with next steps is to talk about some of the implementation and other steps that the staff will be doing as connected with this project and that you'll be hearing about in either different ways through Council communication items or future work sessions or future items uh and then moving forward um so I know you've seen this before but

1:30:55 I just want to frame up the discussion so again this is um some information from the federal court rulings um and HB 3115 so it's the idea that a government entity cannot criminalize conduct that is an avoidable consequence of being homeless namely sitting lying or sleeping but those things did say that governments can regulate um that behavior and that conduct then the state legislature essentially codified those rulings in HB 3115 and mandated two local governments that if they were going to have regulations about camping they needed to be objectively reasonable to all your stakeholders including those with

1:31:41 experiencing homelessness as I've said probably every time that I've gone up here this area is developing um and um many cities are going through the same process that we are right now but this is the process that's been um what we're talking about tonight is the draft ordinance that the process that Springfield has gone through for its community and um so now I want to talk a little bit about process so this would be a change to the municipal code that requires an adoption of the or of an ordinance that must be read twice at regular sessions such as this we had one reading um already on April 17th there was some direction from the council though to

1:32:26 look at the fine amount so I'm bringing this back for what I would call an additional first reading so you're not adopting this ordinance tonight but you are providing Direction about the version of the ordinance that will move forward for adoption if that makes sense does that make sense from just like a processing like what we're doing okay so um there are two ordinances in your packet draft ordinance a just takes the revised direction for the direction from the council about the fine and inserts a 200 fine for um enforcement um as a reminder that was a conversation that the council was having about sort of appropriate fine for this kind of offense the city's existing prohibited camping

1:33:15 um regulation or is I'm sorry is a violation and it has the Baseline of or a fine not to exceed 720 that's our standard fine for violations and it's a fine not to exceed 720 the court May order a different amount um in their discretion I don't know what their practice is to be honest I couldn't tell you exactly what they would do in the circumstance but they do have flexibility up to that 720 amount um then looking at draft ordinance B that also has the fine in it it also has two additional areas as to location we had talked about prohibiting camping in public parks I had inadvertently left out multi-use paths which are part of

1:34:00 the park system and would be asking the council to consider adding that in the third area is an area I didn't feel I adequately addressed on the April 17th hearing and that was downtown we had a lot of public feedback about looking at regulating downtown different than other areas of the city because of the revitalization of downtown in recent years and just that it's an area where there are lots of people and also the um weigh that right away in traffic Works downtown is Zone mixed use the way the ordinance is now it prohibits camping in residentially zoned areas but that does not mean mixed use so I'm asking the council to consider expressly prohibiting camping prohibited camping

1:34:45 in the downtown area it's called the downtown exception area which is like River to 8th Street to the alley between B and C to the railroad tracks so that would be the area of downtown it's an area that's defined in our development code so it's not like we're creating a new area of downtown another area for people to keep track of so those are the three options or three additional items for the ordinance that I'm asking the council to consider or have a discussion about um if it works we can go through one by one or if I just want to throw it back to you for discussion but whatever works best for you

1:35:30 excuse me thank you for all your work on this it's it's quite an exceptional um ordinance I believe so I I'm taking note of we the conversation was deviated from our standard practice of our typical set Bales for our code violations and I think that with the comment that I focused in on this evening is that it's up to 720 dollars which means it could be a dollar up to seven hundred and twenty dollars or none um so I think that covers all the areas in my mind of what all the counselors spoke of everybody seemed to have kind of a different number in their head and I I can I understand that but I also understand

1:36:16 too is that um I believe and I know this there's um there's also there's case law that the judge typically must follow in regards to what they call the ability to pay and that typically is a very uh prescribed schedule in which the judges Municipal judges need must follow in regards to assessing fines and bails to defendants so is that do you concur with that um I don't know if I could speak to that just so I don't have that experience or that handy in my head right now but uh judge 3M spoke of it many times okay in regards to uh practices the previous

1:37:01 presiding judge in our current presiding judges spoke of it in um Finance judicial meetings in the past so I think that plays a role okay so I would I would be fine with just leaving it as is instead of going and altering the bail sets and relying on the judge's uh assessment of those defendants and their ability to pay um secondly I think I would I also would concur with adding in the multi-use pass that makes sense it just was oversight from brief four and I do very much and I think downtown businesses and our Chambers several folks on our survey and the hundreds of emails we received we're very concerned about the downtown area

1:37:46 after spending so many years of frankly just cleaning it up from where it used to be and so the borders I'm curious now you had a prescribed border but I'm wondering is would it be easier to do that or I should say would it obviously that would work but it would be easier to use this the Springfield Economic Development agency borders for the downtown area yeah we did look at that the urban renewal the Downtowner renewal plan actually extends farther out to I believe 14th Street it's a bigger area not connected back to the development code which seemed more regulatory so that's um how we came up with the downtown exceptionary okay I mean it sounds like that may be easier yeah to do and then I am I am also have

1:38:31 an area that I didn't think about earlier as well that was brought up as far as children act centers near children's activities such as schools public private day care centers libraries and businesses and non-profit businesses that specifically deal with children yeah I can speak to the schools the intent with having residentially zone property not allowing camping there was to try and capture the schools I couldn't speak to tonight I saw the letter from common sense um The Common Sense group I couldn't speak to specifically to specific non-profits or private daycares but that's something we can look at over the summer and then potentially come back with some changes if necessary I I support that myself when I'm speaking just myself

1:39:18 Corey um so I I remain interested in reducing the fine amount um 200 I think we were all like 100 and it's 200 and I realized that maybe a lone voice but I am interested in reducing the fine amount okay um because we're talking about people who are have limited um resources and I think you know I hear what folks are saying about being concerned about children and that's making this assumption that no one with children is homeless and the farther we push people away from services and we push people who may be homeless with children away from schools you know G Street Oasis is right across from schools and right along an alley in my

1:40:05 neighborhood with schools so I think the the bigger concern from my years of experience working on this is just putting a mixed group of people together in a place that's unregulated so that's part of it is the more narrow we make the places that people can be you might have people who are you know offenders with people who are families and that's not what that would be us incurring harm so I am not as I would be willing to chat more about what that looks like and just keep in mind that our unhoused and homeless populations are not all the same people um so I would be interested in moving forward with draft ordinance B and probably have lots more to say as we continue to talk about this so thank you

1:40:50 foreign supporter of dropping that fine way down but when I hear the ability to pay and be applied by the judge I feel a lot more comfortable with a higher higher amount now back to the standard fine of 720 yeah okay so and just to clarify because this is we're all we're all talking on the Fly though if we went with a standard fine the judge would evaluate the the ability to pay and could yield the fine from one dollar all the way up to the cap yeah I believe so the way the code is written is as a set up to a 720

1:41:35 fine so that discretion is written into the code I just can't speak to actually how it will be applied in each individual instance but um they do have discretion to do that yeah yeah okay Victoria so my question would be is when we're talking about the 200 is it written as up to two hundred dollars no that was um it was written a fine of 200 trying to get a council's direction to go lower so the 720 actually if we just stuck with the regular violation amount may give more flexibility yeah but it gives flexibility to go quite a bit above that 200 as well so I'm I'm more comfortable with with b and leaving it at the 200 that's my okay Michelle I just want to sure I support draft

1:42:20 ordinance b as well and the fine I I think either way we go whatever kind of consensus we reach on that is is fine okay Beth I'm I'm more with the up to 720 and keeping it there because I think we're kind of assuming a little bit someone doesn't have um the means to pay based on being you know just assuming because they're unhoused that they don't have those funds and and saying that if we if we you know have our fines um different for different people I think we should just keep all the same across the board yeah

1:43:11 so do you think you can try to form a motion from all of that um counselor do you want me to read it out and then to see if that helps I think I get it okay you got it okay we'll see all right if I mess up stop me in my tracks okay I'd like to make a motion hang on a second well while you're getting that ready right like let's just make sure we all are clear where we're like this is directing you to draft and ordinance with all this information in it and then we will get another sort of bite at the Apple here in the next couple of weeks right so this will come back to you on June 5th for adoption it won't be on consent it'll be an item that I'll come up again and talk about but we won't get we should not have as long as discussion and um it should be the final version all right thank you

1:43:57 I'd like to make a motion to approved draft ordinance B repealing and replacing Springfield Municipal Code section 5.130 for adoption in the following manner by with a fine amount of 700 up to 720 and adding to the place restrictions in section three the multi-use pass and adding the downtown exception area thank you I don't know that Cory's gonna second this so somebody thank you Neil could you call a vote please yes counselor Weber yes councilor move yes Council Radley no counselor Blackwell yes councilor Doyle yes and cancer patient yes

1:44:42 all right motion carries five yeses one no thank you uh last item just to talk briefly next steps so adopting the ordinance obviously having some discussions with the court about alternative enforcement talking about that that's been a concern of the council to talk about that I think I can at least get you some information about work crew and the kinds of things they do for um sentencing vehicle regulation looking at that this summer providing information to you on the public feedback that we received through the survey and also through letters and emails and then keeping the public updated through the website and kind of throughout as information goes so we can kind of keep people informed as we work our way through this Steve I I understood we had to have something in place by July 1st yes but

1:45:28 we can still modify it after that yeah we I think that um the way this will uh go is that we plan it would be adopted by the council by June 5th our ordinances take 30 days to be effective so technically we're a little after July 5th or July 1st it'll be like July 5th but I think that's an okay legal risk to get the ordinance the way you want it okay then um once let's say we implement this ordinance we find out maybe there's a gap or a hole or something then you could direct me hey come back and look at this at another time and we could continue to change it like we would any other Municipal Code section that we have and thank you for bringing the alternative enforcement methods I think that's come up a couple of times whether or not it'd be you know additional work

1:46:14 around the city volunteerism case management really something we can investigate yep thank you all right thank you any other business from the city attorney no no business all right then we are adjourned have a good night everybody