05/16/1989 - Packet AGENDA
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MEETING
TUESDAY, May 16, 198f, 7:30 A.M.
DAVIDSON'S RESTAURANT - 12830 SW PACIFIC HIGHWAY, TIGARD, OR
1. CALL TO ORDER
2. ROLL CALL: SAVORY CORLISS DE BERNARDIS CROUCH
PIERCE CLARK MOORE MONAHAN
3. APPROVE MINUTES
4. PERIODIC REVIEW
o EDC Role
5. MAYOR'S BOARD AND COMMITTEE MEETING
o EDC Designee
6. URBAN RENEWAL DISTRICTS
o Trammal Crow Proposal
7. AMBASSADOR PROGRAM
o Program awareness
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MEETING `
Tuesday, April 18, 1981 C' V
MEMBERS PRESENT: Joy Crouch, Susan Clark, Brian Moore, Bill Monahan
OTHERS PRESENT: Peggy Weston Byrd, John Acker
The meeting was called to order at 7:40 a.m. and the minutes of the February
meeting were approved without modification.
The major issue of discussion for the Committee was the status of the City
Center Plan. It was pointed out that the City Council had accepted the Tigard
City Center Development Plan rather than adopt the plan as expected and had put
the tax increment question off until November. The Council also brought up a
new project that was not recommended by the task force and discussed excluding
some projects that the task force had recommended.
Committee members stated that the City Council's actions are very discouraging
in terms of the affect on the City Center Task Force and the implications for
other City Committees. The Council's decisions were apparently made without
consulting the Task Force which had spent many hours trying to "fast track" the
project at the request of the City Council. EDC members expressed
disappointment in the way this was handled and questioned what this would do to
the credibility of the City and the urban redevelopment effort.
It was also pointed out that if the committee process was going to be
disregarded, then the considerable amount of time spent by citizens and money
spent on consultants would have been better spent on actual improvements.
Peggy stated that the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Commerce had
unanimously voted to withdraw their support for the City Center Plan pending a
requested meeting between the Directors and the City Council.
Staff pointed out that from a practical standpoint, the decision to accept
rather than adopt the plan would not change much. Because the election was
moved to November, a work program will be developed between now and May that
outlines what will be done until the November election target.
Since the City has not yet received it's Periodic Review Notice and because of
the shortness of time it was decided that discussion of EDC's role in periodic
review would be scheduled for the next meeting.
The meeting was adjourned at 9:00.