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Boardman council adopts updated Transportation System Plan, declares emergency to meet contract deadline
Summary
The Boardman City Council on Nov. 18 adopted Ordinance 10-20-25 to update the city's Transportation System Plan (TSP), moving to meet a consultant contract deadline in mid-December. The measure passed by roll call after staff placed public comments into the record.
The Boardman City Council voted to adopt Ordinance 10-20-25 on Nov. 18, 2025, updating the city's Transportation System Plan from a version last substantively revised in 2001 and declaring an emergency to meet the project contract schedule.
Planning official Carla McClain told the council the city received a Transportation Growth Management grant (a joint program of the Department of Land Conservation and Development and the Oregon Department of Transportation) to fund the TSP update and that staff updated the meeting packet at 2:30 p.m. the day of the hearing to add public comments and staff responses. "We did apply for and were successful in receiving a transportation growth management grant," McClain said during her staff report. Consultant lead Matt Hugart told the council the project team could meet the contractual deadline if the council approved the plan tonight.
Councilors moved to approve the reading of Ordinance 10-20-25 by title and then to adopt the ordinance and declare an emergency. The record shows roll-call affirmative responses for Councilors Ron Carpenter, Peddes, Pettigrew, Proffitt, Rockwell, Solana and Mayor Kiefer; the ordinance was adopted and the emergency declared. The agenda item was described as the formal adoption of the City of Boardman Transportation System Plan, which the staff report said is legislative in nature and co-applicable within the urban growth boundary.
The adoption authorizes staff to finalize deliverables required under the consultant contract; Matt Hugart had said, "Our contract with ODOT runs out here in mid to late December ... I'm hopeful that we can get there this evening." The staff report and consultant presentation describe a mix of financially constrained projects and aspirational projects, as well as a recommended refinement (project r25) that will return the council to update the I-84/Main Street interchange area management plan (IAMP).
Next procedural steps noted by staff: finalizing the TSP deliverables, coordinating co-adoption with Morrow County (their hearings were scheduled for early 2026), and initiating the IAMP refinement as a separate, more focused planning task.
