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Reference Slides 7.17 Tigard Charter Review Committee Reference July 17 , 2023 Membership Community Representatives Elected Representatives • Derek Lawson • Former Mayor Jason Snider • Karen Emerson • Councilor Jeanette Shaw • Lindsey Washburn • Former Mayor John Cook • Former Rep. Margaret Doherty • Nathan Jackson City Recorder • William T Simpson • Carol Krager Youth Representative Non-Voting Alternates • Zachary Clairmont • Dolly Sprech • Holly Fenton • Zeena Pinto Mission Statement Advance the governance of the City of Tigard through a comprehensive review of the City Charter and provide recommendations for an understandable, flexible, and durable cornerstone for the future of the city. Framework Topic Introduction Breakout Session and Q&A (as needed) Committee Discussion O Concept 0 No Presentation to City Attorney Draft 4 Consensus _ —► Committee Recommendation (75%) II / © © Committee Committee Discussion Recommendation 0 Concept requires Charter language 0 Concept does not require new Charter language 0 Consensus is `no change to Charter' 0 Consensus is not reached Framework Straightforward Complex Intricate Areas that can have major Topics in need of modernization of Pure policy decisions that require consequential impacts on Tigard and language or in response to some explanation and background. require extensive background and technology. Anticipate little discussion Anticipate some discussion and research. Anticipate in-depth and general consensus. differences of opinion. conversations and differences of opinion. • Charter Structure: Title of • Public Improvements • Governance roles of Elected Enactment, Powers of the City, • Ordinances Officials Preamble, Severability, Article • Debt Limit • Governance roles of City Officers Outline • Willamette River as a source of • Elections process • Charter Concepts: drinking water Gender neutrality, technology • High-Capacity Transit • Urban Renewal Path January 23 February 13 January 9 Ordinances February 27 Charter Structure and Public Improvements Introductions Debt Limit Urban Renewal Concepts Willamette River March 13 March 20 April 10 April 17 High-Capacity Transit High-Capacity Transit Form of Government Form of Government Elected Officials Elected Officials Elected Officials June 26 May 8 May 22 June 12 Vacancies Elected Officials Elected Officials Elected Officials Recall Eligibility July 17 August 7 August 14 Recall Fees Finishing Touches City Officers Preamble Does the Committee recommend a Yes No vacancy be created by some level of abandoning the position? Recommend Do not recommend Recall/ Removal : Key Questions 1. Does the Committee recommend continuing to defer to state law on the recall process for elected officials? City Officials : Key Questions 1. What are the appropriate officials to include in the Charter? 2. What changes, if any, does the Committee recommend to the draft descriptions of officials' duties? City Officers : Overview The Charter establishes three City offices appointed and removed by a majority of Council —a City Manager, a City Attorney, and a Municipal Court Judge. The Council may combine any two or more appointive City offices. No member of Council may assign or direct the work of any of the following offices : City Officers : City Manager The office of city manager is established as the administrative head of the city government. The city manager is responsible to the city council for the proper leadership and administration of all city business including serving as the Budget Officer; appointing and removing all city employees except the Municipal Judge, and City Attorney; organizing departments; and carrying out all city policies, resolutions, and ordinances. City kers : Municipal Judge The Municipal Court of the City of Tigard, Washington County, Oregon, is established and operates as a municipal court. (a) All areas within the city and areas outside the city as permitted by state law are within the territorial jurisdiction of the court. The municipal court has subject matter jurisdiction over every offense created by city ordinance and to the fullest extent allowed by law over all misdemeanors and violations defined and made punishable under state law, unless limited by city ordinance. (b) All municipal judges must be members in good standing of the bar of the state of Oregon. The presiding judge exercises general supervision over the judicial functions of the municipal court and its judges and has authority over the dockets and assignment of cases. The council may assign other duties to the presiding judge. City Officers : City Attorney The city attorney is the chief legal officer for the City. The city attorney must be a member in good standing of the bar of the state of Oregon . The city attorney appoints, manages, and may remove any employees who work in and for the city attorney's office. Preamble : Purposes • Introduction to the Charter • Opportunity to explicitly include values in the Charter • Can claim home rule (as in Beaverton's Charter) Preamble : US Constitution We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America . Preamble : Oregon Constitution We the people of the State of Oregon to the end that Justice be established, order maintained, and liberty perpetuated, do ordain this Constitution . — Preamble : Beaverton We, the voters of the City of Beaverton, Oregon, exercise our power to the fullest extent possible under the constitution and laws of the State of Oregon and enact this home rule charter.