Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Governance Goals topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Tigard council refines goal language, agrees to amend council rules to reflect wording changes
Summary
Councilmembers debated replacement words for Goal 3 and refinements across multiple goals, reached consensus on new language (chiefly replacing ‘foster’ with ‘cultivate’ for Goal 3) and moved to amend council rules to incorporate the changes.
The Tigard City Council spent extensive time refining the wording of its strategic goals and voted to amend council rules to incorporate the agreed revisions.
Council discussion focused on Goal 3 — originally phrased “Foster Tigard as a great place to live, work and play” — and on parallel edits in Goals 2 and 4. Members proposed alternatives including “cultivate,” “elevate,” “prioritize,” and others. After discussion and multiple suggestions, council appeared to coalesce around using “cultivate” for Goal 3 and adopting related edits that emphasize the experience of living, working and playing in Tigard. Council also removed the word “resilience” from one strategy (4.1) while keeping it in the umbrella goal and in strategy 4.2 to remain consistent with federal grant language for a resilient emergency operations center.
Councilor Schlack proposed “cultivate” and several colleagues supported it. Councilors also debated reuse of words that duplicated strategy language (for example, that “invest” appeared both in a goal and a strategy) and struck options to avoid redundancy. Staff and the deputy city manager participated in the discussion to explain grant implications and how specific words align with funding opportunities.
After returning to the broader rules item, a motion was made and seconded to amend the council rules to include the discussed wording changes; the council approved the amendment by voice vote (with an advisory aye recorded from the youth councillor). The meeting record indicates the council deemed that action “clear direction.”
Clarifying details: the council agreed to replace the Goal 3 lead word with “cultivate” (final phrasing: “Cultivate the experience of living, working and playing in Tigard” or equivalent staff-drafted language); the word “resilience” was retained in the overall goal language and in Strategy 4.2 (resilient emergency operations center) for grant alignment but removed from Strategy 4.1 to avoid duplication.
