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City attorney's office outlines multi-year plan to review Woodburn ordinances
Summary
Staff from the city attorney's office presented a prioritized work plan to review and update ordinances including bylaws, public contracting rules (unchanged since 2005), the master fee schedule, transportation SDCs, animal control and graffiti regulations; a summer law clerk will help with the contracting review.
Mackenzie, a representative of the city attorney's office, briefed the council on a roadmap to review the city's general and special ordinances and to prioritize items for workshops or formal amendments over the next 12 to 18 months.
"We did provide you with a packet with all of this information so that you can read through it at your leisure," Mackenzie said, and then described the office's color-coded inventory: green items recently reviewed, yellow items expected to be reviewed in two to five years, and orange items targeted for the next 24 months. She highlighted bylaws and governing procedures, public contracting rules that have not been revised since February 2005, the master fee schedule, Transportation System Development Charge (SDC) amendments, and defense of state-driven sanitation and stormwater code updates.
Mackenzie said the office plans to bring a summer law clerk on board to work on public contracting and related purchasing rules and that some items would be brought back for informal half-hour workshops (animal control, graffiti) while others would require full ordinance amendments. Councilors suggested targeted workshops and flagged the dancing/public-dance ordinance and parking-on-private-property provisions for future review.
There was no formal action this evening; Mackenzie said staff will follow up with workshop scheduling and formal drafts as needed.
