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Milwaukie schedules Nov. 13 special session after draft IGAs arrive in park negotiations
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Mayor Lisa Beatty and the Milwaukie City Council on Nov. 4 said they will hold a publicly noticed special session on Thursday, Nov. 13, at 5 p.m. to review draft intergovernmental agreements from the North Clackamas Parks and Recreation District relating to Milwaukee Bay Park.
Mayor Lisa Beatty and the Milwaukie City Council on Nov. 4 said they will hold a publicly noticed special session on Thursday, Nov. 13, at 5 p.m. to review draft intergovernmental agreements (IGAs) and an addendum submitted by the North Clackamas Parks and Recreation District (NCPRD) related to the proposed Milwaukee Bay Park.
City Manager Emma told the council staff received draft IGAs at 4:51 p.m. the day of the meeting and asked for time to review the documents before discussing substantive terms. Emma summarized the city’s requested terms in prior correspondence: Milwaukie would take over project management; NCPRD would transfer designs and contracts to the city and contribute financially, including $3,100,000 in Zone 1 system development charges and $2,500,000 in metro local‑share funds that had been budgeted previously by the district.
Council members used the update to air concerns about process and communications. Councilor Robert Massey, who presented the Veterans Day proclamation earlier in the meeting, said he supported moving carefully; other councilors criticized a series of side conversations between individual council members and county commissioners that were perceived to have muddied the negotiation message. One councilor said in private meetings with a county commissioner a question about withdrawal from NCPRD was raised and then mischaracterized publicly; Mayor Beatty said she had tried to keep the message focused on Milwaukee Bay Park and “stuck to that message” during the conversations.
City Manager Emma and other council members stressed that the council appointed two representatives to conduct negotiations, and that any external conversations should not supplant the official negotiating team. Emma proposed a special session to allow council and counsel to review the draft IGAs together; council members agreed on the Thursday, Nov. 13, 5 p.m. date and asked staff to notice the meeting publicly.
The council did not take final action on any agreement at the Nov. 4 session. Instead, members asked staff and the negotiation team to bring the draft IGAs and any recommended motions back for the special session. The council also directed staff to continue its outreach to the county and to report any substantive changes to the terms previously outlined in the city’s Oct. 23 letter to the NCPRD board.
Next steps: staff will circulate the draft IGAs to council and counsel for review ahead of the Nov. 13 special session; no agreement was adopted at the Nov. 4 meeting.
