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Cityscape 2010-05 City of Tigard's Official Newsletter (] 1TYSCAP.F,_ Now Mayor's Corner Pacific Highway/99W Construction Begins! Congratulations,Tigard!As of You may have noticed Stay Informed...Your Choice April 15 our community returned construction has started on Pacific • For more information and project 72 percent of the 2010 US Census Highway. Most of the work will be ht in order to minimize updates,visit us on the web at questionnaires. done at night www..tigard-orgov/991Vwhere you Urdw&&m' traffic disruption;however some will also find a link to Washington Census congestion is inevitable due to high County's project website. traffic volumes. is Check for project updates at Drivers are advised to use alternate hvitter.com/99V Tigard 2010 routes to avoid the area,particularly • Questions? Call the Washington during nighttime construction. County 99W Hotline at 503-846- An accurate count of residents 7807 to get answers or hear the is very important.Many government First Order of Business weekly status update. programs which provide funding • Project design work has been • Beginning Friday,April 30, from for things like social services, completed. 8-8:30 a.m. on Fridays,stop by transportation and schools depend • Utility relocation(power poles, the McDonalds on Main Street on accurate census data in order phone,gas and water lines) started in Tigard and talk to project to distribute the money fairly and recently and will continue through representatives. equitably. May. • Contact Tigard's Project Manager By showing how our population • Kerr Contractors has been Mike McCarthy at 503-718-2462 has increased,the census data will awarded the contract and is or mikem@tigard-orgov. show why Tigard deserves more scheduled to begin funding for improvements to work in May,2010. transportation,public safety,schools, and more.Additionally,sending in Safety First your census questionnaire saves the For those driving m9m Federal Government considerable through the workF dollars because non-responders must zone,we ask you to �e6mc 9m be visited by a census taker.The focus on the road and �0 government estimates that every one the task of driving percent of the population that fails safely. to respond to the questionnaire costs PLEASE...pay American taxpayers $80-90 million. attention to flaggers W GARDEN PL and do your part to Cyt help everyone get s� through the area o���s Proieci Location Craig E.Dirksen,Mayor efficiently and safely. sr TIGARD CITY COUNCIL: MAYOR CRAIG DIRKSEN, GRETCHEN BUEHNER, MARLAND HENDERSON, SYDNEY WEBB, NICK WILSON ACity of Tigard Seeking Volunteers: Transportation System youth Giving Back Transportation Advisory Committee Plan Milestones g The City of Tigard is recruiting The city has reached a critical 'M` Are you a student to fill three vacancies on the Tigard milestone in the update of the in Tigard between Transportation Advisory Committee Transportation System Plan(TSP).After the ages of 12 �AC .The TTAC advises the Ci and 18? ) �' more than a year,the consultant team Council on transportation issues.The has completed a draft TSP for final Would you TTAC generally meets one evening review and adoption by the city. If you like to make a each month,in addition to optional difference in our would like to review the draft TSP,it is y JI participation , • i participation in specific transportation available at www..tigard-orgov/transportation. community by projects. A schedule of work sessions and hearings actively planning i di d coordinating +• If you are interested in being with the Planning Commission and City ang .tib considered for a TTAC position,please Council will be available on the same web events for youth AN fill out a Citizen Committee Interest page. and their families; application and return it to City Hall by The TSP is a planning tool that and have fun p g while doing it? 5 p.m. on Friday,May 28. ensures today's actions and investments Citizen Committee Interest support our transportation needs for the d you want to serve as an a applications are available at the City Hall future.It's also a necessary component advocate for youth in your lobby, 13125 SW Hall Boulevard,or can be of Tigard's quest for a share of regional, community? obtained from the city's web site at state,and national transportation If you answered yes to these www..tigard-orgov/volunteer. investments. questions and are a team player, For more information about these If you have questions,please contact self—motivated and have excellent vacancies and TTAC activities,please Sr.Transportation Planner Judith Gray at leadership qualities,the Tigard Youth contact Judith Gray at 503-718-2557 or 503-718-2557 or judith@ligard orgov. Advisory Council is the group for you. judith@tigard-orgov. For more information about the Council and how to become a member,contact Sheryl Huiras,Youth Burnham Street Construction Continues Programs Manager at 503-718-2578 or 19104@tigard-orgov. We've had our April showers and This month the contractor will begin now we should see May bring us the the excavation and placement beginning of the surface of base rock for the new Campaign Helps to Make changes on Burnham roadway section on 2010"Prom Perfect" Street. Kodiak Pacific will f Burnham Street on the continue with the utility VI south side,between Tigard Turns the Tide is participating trenches for our franchise Ash Avenue and Main in a campaign that encourages young utilities. Street. people and caring adults to make this prom There is a utility This work has season alcohol and drug free.www.promperfect.org on each side of been in the queue Visit ww.promperfect.org to send a text Burnham Street and Ash I behind the installation, message to a teen on prom night and Avenue. This provides a testing,and chlorination of to access helpful resources. common corridor for utilities like a new water main.By the end Talk with your teen about their prom PGE,Verizon and NW Natural. of the month,the contractor will start night plans. Once the utilities are relocated the curb work on this same section of , Offer alcohol and drug free parties to this trench,the utility poles will road.With the curb in place,the road before and/or after the prom. be removed.This will provide us really begins to take shape. � Offer a ride home to your teen or their with a new and improved view down Questions? Contact Project friends,anytime,no questions asked. Burnham Street. Manager Kim McMillan at 503-718- Look for new photos on our 2642 or kim@tigard-orgov. For more information about the Prom website at www.tigard-or.gov/burnbam. Perfect campaign,please contact Tigard Turns the Tide (503-431-4022) which serves Tigard High School. Paget www.tigard-or.gov•503-639-4171 CITYSCAPE Cityscape Newsletter Construction Update: Calling All Students Paving begins on 72nd Avenue, g Bonita Road,and Durham Road! Ages 4th — 12th Grade Watch for construction in May on You Could win $50 or a laptop Computer! the following streets: • 72nd Avenue: Fir Street(just Mayor Dirksen One local winner in south of Hwy 217) to Upper invites all Tigard students 14M_ each category will receive Boones Ferry Road between fourth and if I were mayor, $50 and recognition at • Durham Road:Upper Boones twelfth grade,including I would the June 8,2010 televised pp hey,wait a minute, Ferry Road to Hall Boulevard students who are home I AM Council meeting. Each • Bonita Road: Interstate 5 schooled,to participate M MAYOPI Tigard winner will be Bridge to Fanno Creek in the annual"If 1 Were entered into the Oregon Mayor"poster/essay/ Mayors Association Knife River,Inc.is scheduled video contest. statewide contest,where to begin paving in early May. Crews three statewide winners will will start by removing sections of One winner in each receive laptop computers! failed and potholed pavement and category: then grind the pavement along the 1.Elementary School Entry forms are available online at zvavavtigard curbs.After that,two inches of Poster new asphalt is placed on top of the orgov/mayor or at Tigard City existing roadway.Manholes and valve 2.Middle School Essay Hall. Students must submit covers are adjusted to match the 3.High School Video or their original work with a new pavement surface and striping is PowerPoint presentation completed entry form by done on the roadway to complete the 5 p.m. on Friday,May 28. project. Flaggers will do their best to keep traffic moving during construction, Your City Has Gone Green though some delays are inevitable due You've probably read about Oregon ■ Lighting and faucet controls have been to the high volume of traffic.Drivers public agencies going"green."We're doing replaced with energy efficient fixtures. are advised to use alternate routes our part,too.A few of our earth-friendly ■ Working with our regional partners to when feasible to avoid construction projects are funded by the American win approval of light rail in the Pacific delays. Recovery and Reinvestment Act(ARRA) Highway corridor. Work will include a weekend and include: ■ Installing solar-powered flashing lights closure of Durham Road(May 8-9) ■ Plans to install solar collectors on the and school speed signs. in conjunction with a railroad project new reservoir on Bull Mountain Road. to replace the railroad crossing near (ARRA Project) ■ Working to connect trails throughout Upper Boones Ferry Road. This Tigard. ro ect is funded b ■ Replacing the Permit Center roof with p y ARRA federal a new,energy efficient roof. (ARRA ■ Recently published an eco-friendly map stimulus dollars. ) Project of bicycle routes through Tigard. Project) For more information,including If you have any questions,contact road closure details,visit our ■ Replacing non-police vehicles with hybrid vehicles for the city fleet. Dennis Koellermeier at 503-718-2596 or Construction in Tigard link at dennis@tigard-orgou ww tigard-orgov/construction. Help Wanted Neighborhood Area 2 is Looking for a Web Administrator! Here's your chance bring energy and ideas to a webpage that's already on-line and ready to go.The training only takes about an hour and anyone who lives in Neighborhood Network Area 2 is eligible to participate!If you are interested please - contact Joanne Bengtson at joanne@tigard-orgov or 503-718-2476. May2010 www.tigard-or.gov•503-639-4171 Page ACity of Tigard RULES of the ROAD: RESTRICTED LANES AT INTERSECTIONS Afternoon rush hour hope that a sympathetic driver Arrows on the pavement and one is well underway in will wave her into the center or more signs alert drivers to the Tigard as"Jane"drives lane,thus avoiding the long restriction. north on Hall Boulevard, RIGHT delay? The risk,of course,is A driver who ignores lane planning to turn left at the that Jane's attempt to merge restrictions can be cited for"failure to intersection with Pacific TURN will fail and she'll end up obey a traffic control device,"with a Highway. She notices that blocking the right-turn lane. base fine of $295. A driver who blocks a long line of cars has ONLY Jane faces a familiar a lane can be cited for"impeding backed up in the center dilemma at busy urban traffic" ($145 base fine). lane for drivers planning intersections. Once she enters Jane and others who drive on to go left onto Pacific or a restricted turn (or straight) Pacific Highway will soon be getting straight onto Hall. Only lane,however, she has no legal g significant relief.When construction is a couple cars are ahead of her in the alternative but to obey the restriction. complete,drivers will be offered three right lane,which becomes a signed A right turn becomes mandatory as lanes at Hall Blvd. You can find the "Right Turn Only"lane closer to the soon asane asses the sin and solid J p g project details on the city's website at intersection. lane divider. www..tigard-orgov/99V Jane has to choose: Should she Restricted lanes are well marked move into the center lane and follow according to a federal manual for road BY JUDGE MICHAEL J. O'BRIEN the line of cars to the intersection, markings and devices. A restricted TIGARD MUNICIPAL COURT possibly waiting through several cycles lane is usually defined by a solid line of the light to get there? Or should that begins well before the intersection. she proceed ahead in the right lane and Improving Neighborhood Livability The Garrett Street sidewalk Community Development Block Grant to improvement project has begun! The construct a sidewalk and associated storm Congratulations new segments fill in gaps in the existing drainage improvements along the south Exemplary Citizens sidewalks on the south side of Garrett side of Garrett Street.Engineering and Street between Ash Avenue construction management Council President Nick Wilson and Pacific Highway. services are provided honored the 2010 Exemplary Garrett Street is anQ =- R by the city as local Citizens at the Shining Stars older street without �.- n �, ' ' match. Community Awards Banquet on curbs or storm c; = ' April 16. drainage facilities. �' 1 f�` Great News!! g ---�, _ ' Michael O'Loughlin received There are significant _ _ �� Due to lower recognition for his outstanding sidewalk gaps and � -����--� - than expected � g p — costs,we will be able service for his stewardship of narrow shoulders,which the Woodward Garden program, force people to walk into to construct a pavement p p overlay on Garrett Street at the while the talented and dedicated the traffic lanes.As a result,pedestrian volunteers of the Tigard Police safe Is a major concern.The installation completion of the project. S-2 Contractors safety anticipates completing the project by the Reserve Unit received tribute for of sidewalks will improve neighborhood risking their own safety so that we livabilityb providing safe and convenient end of June. Y p g can live in a community worthy of residential access to school bus stops, For more information,visit being called"A Place to Call Home." public transportation,nearby stores and www..tigard-orgov/construction or contact City other services. Engineer Ted Kyle at 503-718-2759 or Well Done! The city was awarded a$142,000 tedk@tigard-orgov. Page www.tigard-orgov•503-639-4171 CITYSCAPE Cityscape Newsletter 14 4 1 LIVA&7khff �A Area 8—Here's looking Neighbors Like Spring at you... literally! Scoop-ers Cleaning— If you live in Southview(Area 8),now you Leashed dogs and friendly Spring Cash! can take a neighborhood tour by video! This dog owners travel parks and Garage Sales and Estate is just one of the features you'll find on this paths in droves when the nice Sales are popping up all active neighborhood page.Find Southview at weather arrives. Please be over town. avzvsvtigardarea8.blogsjiot.com/ courteous to your neighbors Save paper,paint and stinky Some of the most beautiful walking paths (and law abiding!)by cleaning poster markers by announcing your and boutique shopping can be found in the up after your pet. There are garage sale on your neighborhood Southview Neighborhood. Check out the bag stations in locations all web page!You'll thank yourself Summerfield Golf Course;toss the ball around around town. If you walk, later when you're not driving with your family on one of the five baseball walk prepared! around the neighborhood pulling diamonds or two tennis courts which serve down signs and partially deflated Templeton and Twality schools. Shoppers willw[iQ#! balloons!Include information like find almost every service under the sun as they sale hours and target items you move closer to Southview's western boundary wish to sell: "kid toys,""household at Pacific Highway,between Durham Road and items,"and the like. McDonald Street. Fowler Woods Slated for Purchase Tigard Farmers Market The Tigard City Council approved the potential purchase of the Summer Opens Sunday,May 9! Creek property(locally known as the Fowler property). The site is adjacent to SUNDAYS FROM 9 A.M.TO 2 P.M. Fowler Middle School and generally bounded by Tigard Street,Tiedeman and Gallo Avenues.The city has been working in conjunction with the Trust for Public Land LOCATION: Parking lot at Young's (TPL) to acquire this parcel. Funeral Home (near Pacific Hwyl The city wants to Hwy 217 interchange) purchase the land to Help us celebrate the 22" create a publicly-owned Farmers Market season and park and natural area. get a free Tigard Area Farmers The 43 acres of trees, Market reusable bag(limited to streams and wetland will - the first 200 customers). also include a ballfield This season's market and a small interpretive - shelter.The city hopes to features all your favorite purchase the land for$5.33 million.TPL has helped the city to secure a$1 million farmers and artists plus several new vendors. Shop here and "Nature in Neighborhoods"grant administered by Metro. This grant represents approximately 19 percent of the purchase price. TPL also secured pledges from support your local economy and area farmers. Washington County ($400,000) and from Clean Water Services ($100,000). Several other contributions are pending. Questions?Contact Market For more information,contact Tigard Public Works Director Dennis Master Pam Benson at 503-639- Koellermeier at 503-718-2596 or dennis@tigard-orgou 2900 orpam.benson@yaboo.com. May2010 www.tigard-or.gov•503-639-4171 Page & City of Tigard Bulky Waste $44 Coupon Available Clean Streams Rely on You! The City of Tigard and Metro Not Acceptable: Whether you're recognize the challenge of properly a do-it-yourself �k disposing of bulky waste.Because of Food waste,household hazardous homeowner or you and/or medical waste this,Tigard residents can receive a$44 hire contractors coupon to offset disposal cost of sorted HURRY! A limited number of coupons to complete work material at the Hillsboro Landfill or will be available to residents to use around your house,we Tualatin Valley Waste Recovery—both during the month of May. To request are all responsible for of which are located at 3205 SE Minter a coupon,contact Environmental keeping our waterways clean. Bridge Road in Hillsboro. Program Coordinator Jennifer Joe at Do your part! 503-718-2599 or jennifer@tigard-orgov. Accepted Items Include: • Purchase eco-friendly paint and �k Furniture,appliances,box springs, Thisprogram is made possible by the City biodegradable soap. of Tigard, Waste Managements Hillsboro • Monitor our contractors to make mattresses,passenger car tires, Landfill, Tualatin Dalley Waste Recovery and y automobile batteries sure they are correctly disposing of Metro Re ional Government. chemicals. • Never pour contaminants into storm drains. "Overload"or"Extra Bag"Charge... A Small Price to Pay For more tips and information on what you can do around the house to Garbage service is charged by a broom handle, shower rod,etc. are save local streams,visit nww..tigard-orgov/ volume.For example,if you have a preventing the lid from closing and stormwater. 32-gallon cart,anything disposed of the garbage is below the lip of the in excess of 32 gallons is considered lid,no extra charge will be incurred. extra garbage. The same applies to yard Miscellaneous service rates are debris. In both cases,if the material listed on the back of your bill or visit Find Out What does not fit inside the cart with the lid zvzvavtigard-orgov/rates. You're Missing completely closed,there is a charge for For all other questions,please Did you know: the extra material. Fees run from$2- contact your waste hauler: $3.75 per occurrence. Pride Disposal at 503-625-6177 You can get detailed do-it-yourself However,if rigid items such as car repair instructions right from your Waste Management at 503-249-8078 home computer through the Library's subscription to the Auto Repair Reference Center? Calling Young Tigard Artists! Library volunteers work 2,000 hours each month? Are you a Tigard student in 6th, The winner receives: You can avoid waiting in line at the 7th or 8th grade with a creative streak? �, 0 A$30 gift card � Library by picking up reserved items Here's your opportunity to create some yourself? sidewalk art that won't wash away with 0 Recognition by the next rain! Mayor Dirksen at the"stamping" You would be in the know if you got ceremony Books&Bits,the Library's monthly e- Street"Sidewalk Art Contest" 0 Lifetime bragging rights hts newsletter,delivered right to your in-box. Submit your original sketch of Check out the latest issue on the Library's either a"Western Pond Turtle"ora The contest will begin in early May website and sign up at www..tigard-or.gov/ "Red-Legged Frog." The winning and is open to all 6th through 8th grade library/nesysletter.as�. entry will be used to make a concrete Tigard students,including students who stamp for the sidewalk along are homeschooled. Burnham Street or Ash Check our website for all the L00" o Avenue as part of the Nese details: www..tigard orgov/burnham. Tigard Library Burnham Street project. Page www.tigard-or.gov•503-639-4171 CITYSCAPE Cityscape Newsletter GAMING @ THE TIGARD Shelf Ar-r Lmife PUBLIC LIBRARY News from the Tigard Library 13500 SW Hall Blvd. A world of games awaits you! Wii Sports for Boomers& Pangaea String Quartet Tea,True Womanhood and Seniors Friday,May 28,7-8 p.m Uppity Women Monday,May 10,2-3:30 p.m. Community Room Wednesday,May 26,7-8:30 p.m. Community Room Enjoy an evening Community Room Calling all baby boomers and of classical, Through journals,stories,songs and seniors!Join us for our WiiTM Baroque and A �._ c readings,award- Sports series and learn how s winning author to bowl olf, la tennis contemporary g �g �play music with `�:�==� -� Susan Butruille or baseball with the WuTM original ``�7'` -- explores the gaming system. All you need arrangements Victorian is the ability to swing your arm while dynamics holding the Wii'sTM small controller. and compositions by that were We'll show you the rest.Try your hand Toby Loftus. designed to at more traditional games,too. ..•,.•., keep women in their place. She Retrogaming will spotlight women who defied Friday,May 14,5-7 p.m. Swedish Oregon! convention and sought freedom. Technology Room,Teens and Adults Wednesday,May 5,7-8:30 p.m. Community Room Join other teens and adults for a communal gaming experience and get Join us for an evening of Scandinavian swept back to the 80s with old-school history,refreshments and music. View Programs For Kids' console and computer games. Can you historical Swedish artifacts in the Music in Action with Rich Glauber make it across the Oregon Trail or Library lobby provided by Swedish Tuesday,May 4,7-8 p.m. through the asteroid field? Roots in Oregon.Lars Nordstr6m, author of Swedish Oregon,wills speak Community Room p All Ages Duct Tape Mystery Prom Night about the Swedish history of the state I '� Thursday,May 20,5-7 p.m. of Oregon from the late 1800s into the Theaudience Community Room,Grades 6-12 21st century. ill prom rom ni ht at the Library,transformed g Y,but a Genealogy Workshops into participants crime has been committed.Help us Thursday,May 6,Technology Room and performers solve this mystery by following the trail 90-minute sessions beginning @ 4 p.m.or 6 p.m. as musician Rich of duct tape clues. Trained volunteers Glauber entices from the Tualatin everyone to sing, Family History clap,move and laugh together! �luuuwuuuuuuuuuuwuummuuuuuuuinnlulnnnnnumm� Centex will assist ' _ SAFAIROM 0 uN AFROC nyou in exploring Mother s Day Tea IPlnt !;1 your family's roots Sunday,May 9,1:30-2:30 p.m. = Tuesday,May 25,7-8:30 p.m. using Ancestry and Puett Room,Ages 5 and up Community Room Heritage Quest, Moms and their children are invited = Make your dreams of an African two genealogy to enjoy a story,share tea and cookies Safari a reality. Join Teresa Sullivan, databases available at the Library.The and create a personalized picture frame. = owner of Mango African Safaris, workshop is free,but registration is We'll even take a family photo to = to learn how to plan an awesome required. Please call the Library at celebrate this special day. = African adventure. 503-718-2517 to register for a session. -_ �IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIR May2010 www.tigard-or.gov•503-639-4171 Page City of Tigard PRSRT STD CERT Reaches Out _ 13125 SW Hall Blvd. US Postage Tigaxd's Community � Tigard,OR 97223 PAID Emergency Response f` j J r 503-639-4171 Portland,OR Team(CERT) is preparing Permit No 2528 to train students and faculty in emergency ' preparedness at the Tigard Muslim Educational Trust (MET). This is the first educational institute in Tigard POSTAL CUSTOMER to open their doors to a school-focused emergency preparedness training course. In light of recent natural disasters,school leaders contacted city staff for training support to educate students and their families.The faculty and students will be trained in fire suppression,disaster medical activities, light search and rescue,and emergency organization. The training will provide educators with tools to develop Regular Council Meetings: Tuesday,May 11, 18,25 emergency plans. @ 6:30 p.m.,Tigard Town Hall(13125 SW Hall Blvd.) For more information on how your local business, religious-based organization or public/private school can Budget Committee Meeting: Monday,May 3, 10, 17 t @ 6:30 p.m.,Public Works Auditorium(8777 SW Burnham) take advantage of the same opportunity,please contact Emergency Services Coordinator Mike Lueck at All meetings are open to the public. Council agendas are mikel@tigard-orgov or 503-718-2593. available online at www..tigard-orgov/council or contact Cathy Wheatley at 503-718-2410 or cathy@tigard orgov. Budget Cutbacks Affect City Services In response to the lagging economic recovery,the city has implemented service and program reductions as noted below. Questions? Contact Liz Newton in City Administration at 503-718-2412 or li�;,@tigard-or.gov. Planning Counter Hours Tigard Public Library Will Close No More Room Reservations Reduced Thursday Mornings On April 12,the city discontinued Effective May 3,the Planning Beginning Thursday,June 3,the Tigard its room reservation program. The Counter will offer limited service Public Library will open at 1 p.m. on city will honor room reservations on Mondays. Staff will be avail- Thursdays. All other Library hours will made prior to April 12. able for appointment check-in, remain the same. to accept appeals on land use decisions,and for picking up items Attention Passport Applicants from will-call. Full planning and Who You Gonna Call? Passport acceptance hours have been development code services will be Beginning May 17,the city will switch to reduced. Contact Passport Staff at available Tuesday—Fridayan automated phone attendant.All phone from 503-639-4171 for availability. 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. numbers,including the main line (503-639- 4171)will remain unchanged.If you know your party's direct-dial number,you may use Budget Hearings Scheduled Fanno Creek Conference it to bypass the automated attendant. Although the changes listed here will The Fanno Creek Conference Find adirect-dial phone list at ra ivty tigard- provide savings for the immediate scheduled for May 1,2010 has orgov/contact or see the June edition of future,budget planning for been cancelled.We apologize for Cityscape for a list of direct-dial numbers for FY 10-11 will be discussed starting the short notice announcing the major city programs and services. May 3.All meetings are open to the cancellation and we appreciate the public and will be held at 6:30 p.m.in interest expressed by community the Public Works Auditorium (8777 members. SW Burnham) on May 3, 10 and 17.