November 2018 Committee Meeting Minutes
Post date: Feb 05, 2019 10:27:44 PM
Attendance
Meeting called to order at 6:34 pm by the Chair, Carole Ockert at the Lake Oswego Public Library conference room.
Wllo Village presentation – Noreen Lesage from Wllo-Village presented to the board about the Wllo Village program. Part of the larger Villages Northwest (VillagesNW.org) regional program, Wllo Village is intended to bring the nationally recognized Village Movement to West Linn and Lake Oswego. WLLO Village is the first “aging in place” Village in development in Clackamas County.
From their website:
WLLO (West Linn Lake Oswego) Village is a Village in development with VillagesNW.org that will support aging in place, your place. The leaders of this Village are local and are already your neighbors.
We are “neighbors helping neighbors stay neighbors” in West Linn and Lake Oswego and the unincorporated area of Clackamas County known as Stafford Hamlet. A virtual village, a plan not a place, and community working to support aging at home.
We anticipate launching WLLO Village in June 2019, At that time, we will provide help to our members with household tasks, rides, technology challenges and coming together for informal social gatherings.
Newly Elected Council Members – The board reviewed the recent LO Council election. At the time of the meeting, only Daniel Nguyen and John Wendland had definitely won their seats. Jackie Manz and Massene Mboup were still too close to call (as of 11/8/18 Jackie Manz had succeeded in winning re-election).
Annual Board Meeting Review – The Chair led a discussion with the board members reviewing the last annual board meeting. The format of presentation, meet-and-greet with food, and then a panel discussion was considered a success. Attendance was in excess of 65. It was also observed that attendees remained after the meeting to talk one-on-one with panel members. Having to vacate the ACC at 8:30 pm did impact attendees remaining longer. It was discussed to perhaps move up the ending time to allow more after meeting time before the hard stop time.
Candidates’ Night Review – The Board discussed the recent Candidates’ night that was hosted by FANFH. The room was filled and it was well received by the attendees. With the time constraints using the ACC and eight candidates, time was very limited for participants to ask their questions of the candidates.
Subcommittee Reports
· Tree Subcommittee – Conducted a training meeting on 10/25 at the City Maintenance Center to train attendees from other neighborhoods on how to comment on tree permits. Attendance was lower than expected at 12. Invitations were sent out to 192 individuals. Sharon Gustafson and Kathleen Wiens will be meeting the week of November 12th with John LaMotte to discuss the Tree and Development Code interactions.
· PrepLO – David Rudawitz attended the October and November PrepLO meetings representations FANFH. David provided an in-depth discussion of what PrepLO is working on and the challenges they are facing. It was determined to have this topic as an agenda item in an upcoming FANFH Board meeting.
Updates
· Short Term Rentals – survey results have been distributed via the Internet. With one exception, the neighborhood association representatives that originally signed up to assist with the development of the survey, recused themselves as a result of the direction the City Staff were taking the survey questions. It was reported that the survey questions were biased towards supporting STRs as opposed to being neutral in order to truly gage citizen support (or lack thereof).
· Citizen Involvement Guidelines – Planning Commission has been holding focus groups on this topic. It was noted that the scope of the Planning Commission’s investigation into this topic was being greatly widened well beyond the original topic to the detriment of the original assigned focus for this activity. On 11/14 the Planning Commission, in a work session, will be reviewing a proposal to downgrade neighborhood associations which include unincorporated county areas. It was reported that this proposal is extremely unfair to the LO citizens living in any neighborhood association that includes these non-city residents.
· Sewer Treatment Plant – Dennis O’Neil attended a sewer treatment plant meeting last week. Currently Lake Oswego pays 50% of the plant cost but uses more like 53% of the current plan capacity. A development company with no waste water treatment facility engineering, design nor construction experience, came to the City Council in July and proposed that the City go out and build their own plant at an estimated cost $150M using a very new membrane separation process and located at a new 3.7 acre site. City Council provided funding for a study. The consensus of the Board is that this is a total waste of money and historically, City projects have come in well over the initial estimated budget (for example, D street started out at about $½ million and is now over $6 million). The City, which also has no waste water treatment facility engineering, design nor construction experience, is preparing an RFP for this proposed facility with a target for a decision in late summer of 2019. No information provided on the City of Portland’s response other than their waste water engineering staff stated that this proposed technology is not appropriate for this application.
Another issue is the Tryon Creek interceptor which has to be replaced. Three options being considered are:
o Sleeve the line - $5M-$10M
o New line option 1 - $30M
o New line option 2 - $80M
· New City Hall – Current cost estimate is $42M with 39,000 square feet. Adding another story to raise the building to four floors would increase the cost and make the total size up to 53,000 square feet. Either option has the Parks and Recreation Department in another facility. Construction is projected to stare in the summer of 2019 in the area immediately to the east of the current City Hall. The current City Hall we be demolished after the new one is constructed and replaced with parking and some park area.
· Six Corners Project – new striping and reflectors to improve lane visibility and reduce confusion.
· Event Center – Miles Haladay provided an emailed status report and reported that they are making good progress. They have had a few issues with the next door neighbors to the east mostly around the alley and the PGE. They are communicating as much as they can. They will continue to work with the leadership over there to minimize issues. On the parking front, Miles reported that they are doing pretty well spreading the parking out and not having too many trucks in the neighborhood. In terms of schedule, they are doing well, but it is still too early to know when it will be open. Expect to see a crane after Thanksgiving and a lot of concrete being poured around then. They will also be closing 3rd street a lot over the next 60 days, but that shouldn't affect many people.
The Chair commented that she has asked if the crane will be decorated with Christmas lights.
· North Anchor Project – no report.
· Pre-App Training – scheduled for 11/8 at City Hall
Pre-Apps
· Apartment building at the car wash at the end of D – no activity
· Lot split on Andrews – developer has dropped out
· Lot split on C Avenue (flag lot) – owners will be living there and have previously indicated they would be wanting to save as many trees as possible. They have no current plans to develop both lots, just one of them.
· Variance for the remodel of “Castle House” at Bayberry and Rye which just sold.
Treasurer Report - $113 donations at the Annual Meeting with a new total of $184.
Meeting adjourned at 8:42 pm.
Respectively Submitted
David Rudawitz
Co-secretary
Rudawitzd@acm.org