CITY ANNOUNCEMENT
Mayor Hu shared that City Manager Brent Stockwell submitted his resignation today, effective November 18, 2025, and the Tigard City Council accepted it. On behalf of the council, Mayor Hu thanked Brent and wished him well in his future endeavors. Acting City Manager Emily Tritsch will continue to serve in the interim to ensure stability and continuity in city operations. The council will begin discussions about the process of identifying long-term leadership.
PUBLIC COMMENT
Two written public comments were received by the Monday noon deadline. The comments were about concerns with River Terrace parks and city funding priorities. One person commented in person and spoke about camping on the Public Works lawn and concerns with leadership at Just Compassion.
COMMUNITY UPDATES
Tigard Chamber of Commerce
This update has been moved, and the next update is planned for January 2026.
Tigard High School Envoy
Envoy Khosravani shared that there is a lot going on at Tigard High School, such as the beginning of winter sports, the National Honors Society blood drive on December 4th which is open to the community from 9:00 am to 2:30 pm, the theatre program performing their final shows of "The Merry Wives of Windsor" on November 20th and 21st, recent activities to promote the mission of STUDD (Students Against Underage Drinking and Drug use), and the school committees are working on many projects.
Tigard Police Department Report
Chief McDonald highlighted the consistency of where we respond to calls for traffic, persons, property, and other calls – which are on main routes of the city and spread throughout the city.
Community members have reported concerns with photo enforcement cameras flashing excessively. Chief McDonald shared that the flashing is excessive calibration that is being worked on by the vendor and clarified that the cameras are still catching violations in the meantime.
Community engagement has increased for the Police Department. In calendar year 2024 the department made 9,000 contacts and year-to-date in 2025 has made 11,502 contacts. Engagement includes the recent community event for the Public Works and Police facility. The event included the project architect, general contractor, consultant, and team to share flyers, billboards, and a model of what the facility may look like and give people the opportunity to learn more and ask questions.
Council Board and Committee Liaison Reports
Councilors reported on their city board and committee and regional liaison assignment meetings.
CONSENT AGENDA
On the Consent Agenda, both items were approved unanimously. One item was a temporary lease of Town Center Development Agency (TCDA) owned property for Costco to use as employee parking. The second item was Resolution No. 25-41 to support the city to apply for a Department of Land Conservation and Development 2025-2027 technical assistance grant to fund a feasibility study for the creation of a new Tax Increment Financing (TIF) district in River Terrace 2.0 and an assessment of existing TIF districts.
TIGARD MUNICIPAL COURT UPDATE
Judge Oberdorfer and Court Operations Supervisor Fenton presented the staff report. The majority of what the Tigard Municipal Court handles are traffic violations and the volume of tickets have increased significantly with the new photo enforcement camera vendor. Our court rarely has City Code violation cases but handled one recently. Judge Oberdorfer commended city teammates for keeping her siloed from information about the case to avoid bias. She highlighted that the Court team is committed to community engagement, equity, and access to justice.
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN (CIP) UPDATE
City Engineer Wisniewski provided a report on the Capital Improvement Plan and discussed the status of water, sanitary sewer, stormwater, transportation, parks, and facilities projects. Council asked a few clarifying questions regarding the status of the projects. He shared photos of multiple projects, including the library roof and HVAC projects that are currently underway.
RIVER TERRACE 2.0 PARKS UPDATE
Senior Planner Gada and Parks Manager Gruen presented the draft River Terrace 2.0 parks approach, including the proposed parks level of service and expected operations and maintenance needs based on added parks system demand. They highlighted that the draft plan shows reduced park acreage and the reduction included some usable park land and natural areas that did not impact usable park land. A recent National Recreation and Parks Association survey showed that Tigard has more acres of parks per 1,000 people when compared to other cities our size.
Council expressed interest in looking (1) at the ongoing cost, constraints, and balance of park land and land for housing and (2) at our Parks System Development Charges (SDC) methodology and Parks and Recreation Fee (PARF) for right sizing to what we want for our community.
