Below are the City of Tigard’s key federal legislative priorities. In coordination with our partners, Tigard will continue to pursue additional opportunities that align with our values as they arise.

Project and Program Specific Funding Requests

The City will pursue federal grants and funding opportunities for projects that advance Tigard’s vision and values.

Public Safety Facility Planning

Tigard is committed to public safety, emergency response, and service reliability during our best days and our worst (during disaster events). The City of Tigard seeks funding to plan and design a resilient facility for our emergency responders—Tigard Police and Public Works—and to house our Emergency Operations Center. This new resilient and green facility will support service continuity, regional partnership, and community support in emergency situations. Current city facilities, including those for Police, Public Works, and Emergency Operations, are functionally limited, seismically unsafe, and overcrowded.

72nd Ave Corridor Improvements

Tigard is requesting $15,792,000 from the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity Grant Program (RAISE) towards final design and construction of The Ave – A New Mobility Corridor for an Equitable Tigard Triangle project. Federal funding will leverage almost $4,000,000 in non-federal funding to implement a Complete Streets design along SW 72nd Avenue, transforming a congested, automobile-oriented arterial into an attractive, safe, multimodal street for all users.

Cook Family Park ADA-Accessible Boat Dock

The City of Tigard is seeking $730,000 to build an ADA-accessible boat dock at Cook Family Park with a total project cost of $910,000, increasing community access to the Tualatin River, a valuable natural resource in Tigard. The City has committed $180,000 and will seek state funding to leverage any federal support.

Heat Pump Financial Assistance Program

The City supports efforts to secure funding to continue the successful Heat Pump incentive program, first launched in summer 2024. Tigard established a program that incentivizes homeowners to install new energy-efficient heat pumps with financial assistance of up to $11,000 per home. Within two months, the City allocated the majority of the $200,000 fund, primarily for low-income households and older adults, with continued community demand.

Transportation and Infrastructure

The City of Tigard supports equitable, accessible, safe, and climate-friendly transportation and infrastructure policy and investments. Tigard plans to pursue opportunities accessible to cities from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and Inflation Reduction Act.

Transportation Reauthorization Bill

Tigard supports protecting funding opportunities within the transportation reauthorization bill that can be used to expand surface and public transportation programs in key areas of the City such as the greenfield site known as River Terrace.

Resilient Infrastructure

Cities need federal support to build and invest in sustainable, resilient, and inclusive infrastructure. Backup emergency power generation for water intake and treatment is one example of resilient infrastructure that Tigard is pursuing funding for in partnership with the City of Lake Oswego. Direct investment will help meet the growing demands on our infrastructure to support resilient communities.

Southwest Corridor Light Rail

The City of Tigard supports funding to deliver this valuable transit corridor that provides expanded access to jobs, education, and affordable housing. Tigard is joined by agencies and cities, including Portland, Beaverton, and Tualatin, working to extend light rail service. Once complete, the Southwest Corridor Light Rail is expected to carry around 40,000 passengers daily and reduce congestion throughout the region and on major corridors, including I-5.

Electric Mobility Transition

Tigard supports further increased access to electric mobility infrastructure and incentives for electric mobility adoption in low-income households and communities to ensure that the electric mobility transition is equitable. The City supports funding inclusive of micro-mobility modes, shared mobility, and Mobility as a Service models.

Affordable Housing

Tigard supports legislation to remove barriers for local governments to address the housing affordability crisis and federal investments that increase access to, and supply of, affordable housing units or funding programs.

Additional Opportunities

Tigard ZIP Code

As part of the National ZIP Code Advocacy Coalition, Tigard is seeking an adjustment of 97223 or 97224 to list Tigard as the primary city and bring addresses within city boundaries into those ZIP codes. Tigard supports efforts to expedite review and implementation of such changes to afford cities their own identifiers.

Affordable Childcare

Tigard supports the creation of a grant program to lower the barrier to entry for at-home childcare and explore other opportunities to increase facilities within the city and reduce the cost.

Restore Advanced Refunding

The City supports refinancing of municipal bonds which was eliminated in the 2017 tax bill. Refinancing bonds lowers the debt service for local governments and is a financing tool that reduces the burden on community members.

Restore State and Local Tax (SALT) Deductions

Tigard supports restoring SALT deductions since the City’s residents pay an inequitable portion of their income in taxes as a result of the upper limit placed on SALT deductions in the 2017 tax bill.