City Council Minutes - 04/04/2006 Agenda Item No. V. COMM
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Tigard City Council Special Meeting Minutes
Date: April 4, 2006
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Place: Tigard City Hall, 13125 SW Hall Boulevard
Tigard, Oregon
Attending: Mayor Craig Dirksen Presiding
Councilor Sally Harding
Councilor Sydney Sherwood
Councilor Nick Wilson
Absent: Councilor Tom Woodruff
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Special Meeting
Discuss Staff Presenter: Interim Community Development Staff will keep the City
Community Director Coffee Council informed of status
Attitude Survey of survey. City Council will
with Consultant Interim Community Development Director Coffee have an opportunity to
from Riley introduced Mike Riley from Riley Associates. review draft questionnaire.
Associates
Mr. Riley reviewed the scope of the upcoming
community attitude survey and asked for City
Council input on what the survey should
accomplish.
Key points of the discussion included:
• Is the City delivering the right kind of
services?
• A gap analysis could be done; that is,how
well is the City providing service compared
to the ranked importance (satisfaction
compared to importance).
• This first survey will be a baseline with a
follow up survey recommended every other
year.
• Test key services,including: public safety,
library,water,public works,planning,and
fiscal responsibility.
• Tigard Beyond Tomorrow survey was open
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ended and serves as an indicator of issues.
• How is the City doing with long-range
planning? Ask questions regarding what
should be addressed in the Comprehensive
Plan Review.
• What are other issues besides Bull
Mountain; e.g.,growth, types of
development?
• Is there support for design review,regulated
growth, or objective vs. discretionary rules?
• Does the community want to see upzoning
of older neighborhoods?
• Would the community support more row
housing development?
• Tie questions to performance objectives.
• Attempt to involve citizenry to determine
what they will pay for.
• Reference made to the City of Arcadia,
California survey as a resource.
• Discussed positions favoring growth vs. no
growth.
• How do citizens want the City to manage
growth?
• Use information from the parks survey;
refine and build off of it. For example,if in
favor of more parks,would the support be
for developed parks or greenspace (in terms
of percentage).
• Find out what people mean by greenspace:
no public access vs. pedestrian trails.
• What do citizens expect from government
and at what cost?
• Purpose of questions on survey would be to
determine a balance of cost and services
wanted.
• Reviewed types of open ended questions:
What do you value? What issues should
City Council address? Then, drill down to
specific issues on parks, traffic, and
development. Determine what are most
important services associated with relative
costs.
• People might not understand what things
cost.
• If it is discovered, through the survey, there
is dissatisfaction with a certain area, then the
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City staff/Council can proceed with follow
up measures.
• Discussed possibility of specific questions
on policies to be considered.
• Determine how the City is doing and what
should the City focus on in the future?
• Potential topic areas: livability,
parks/recreation, schools,housing,
communication improvements.
• How does the public prefer
communication?
• What are some suggestions to increase
public involvement?
• Solicit improvement suggestions for the
Cityscape and the website.
• Solicit suggestions about programs and
events the City could offer.
• How do people feel about specific items:
e.g., street maintenance,Hwy 99/McDonald
intersection improvements.
• What is the community's perception of
community aesthetics; e.g., derelict
properties, code enforcement (weeds),right
of way maintenance, community
appearance, and signs?
• Solicit input on entry monuments.
• What would the community like to see in
the future in the downtown? Is there
support for a community gathering place?
• Gauge environmental sensitivity of the
community.
• Compare results with the Metro survey.
• Ask more than one question about public
safety. Do people feel safe?
• Discussed the large list of potential
questions that could be generated;pare back
so survey will take 12-15 minutes.
• Reviewed how this scientific survey would
be conducted (random telephone numbers).
• Attempt to determine geographic
distribution of respondents (e.g.,what is the
nearest school,park, or major street?).
• Launch survey after the May 16 election;
survey will take about a week to conduct.
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Non Agenda • Mayor Dirksen will be absent from the
April 25,2006, City Council meeting.
• City Council agreed to convene into an
executive session at 6 p.m. on April 18,
2006, to discuss labor relations.
Adjournment The meeting adjourned at 7:36 p.in.
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`Catherine Wheatley, City Recorder
Attest:
Mayor, City of Tigard
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