{ "meetingId": "2026-08-06-fgc-1", "title": "Portland City Council Finance & Governance Committee (Whole) 08/06/26", "displayTitle": "Finance & Governance Committee (Whole)", "date": "2026-08-06T09:30:00-07:00", "duration": 191, "videoUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftWYFuJm_RA", "videoId": "ftWYFuJm_RA", "agendaUrl": "https://www.portland.gov/council/agenda/committee-whole/2026/8/6", "agendaItems": [ { "number": 1, "title": "Committee Chair updates", "type": "Presentation", "url": "https://www.portland.gov/council/documents/presentation/placed-file/2026-274" }, { "number": 2, "title": "Consent to franchise transfer from Zenith Energy Terminals Holdings LLC to ISQ Springer Holdings, LLC (amend Ordinance 188554)", "type": "Ordinance", "url": "https://www.portland.gov/council/documents/ordinance/passed/192229" }, { "number": 3, "title": "Vision Zero updates", "type": "Presentation", "url": "https://www.portland.gov/council/documents/presentation/placed-file/2026-262" }, { "number": 4, "title": "Vision Zero public input", "type": "Public hearing", "url": "https://www.portland.gov/council/documents/public-hearing/placed-file/2026-276" } ], "summary": "**A Portland City Council committee voted 7-5 to send the transfer of the Zenith Energy fuel-terminal franchise to a new owner, ISQ Springer Holdings, to the full council with a recommendation that it pass** ([02:39:42](meeting:2026-08-06-fgc-1@02:39:42)). The vote followed roughly two hours of testimony, most of it opposed.\n\n## Zenith franchise transfer moves toward full council\n\nThe Finance and Governance Committee of the Whole, chaired by Councilor Sameer Kanal (District 2), took up the transfer of a franchise — the right to run fuel pipes across Front Avenue — from Zenith Energy Terminals Holdings to ISQ Springer Holdings, an entity of the private-equity firm I Squared Capital. Councilor Dan Ryan (District 2) moved to refer the ordinance with a do-pass recommendation, saying \"staff has recommended this. I trust their due diligence as professionals\" ([02:31:04](meeting:2026-08-06-fgc-1@02:31:04)). Councilor Steve Novick (District 3) seconded and said he wanted to \"get Zenith out of the way\" ([02:31:30](meeting:2026-08-06-fgc-1@02:31:30)).\n\nThe clerk announced the tally as **7 ayes and 5 nays** ([02:39:42](meeting:2026-08-06-fgc-1@02:39:42)). The transcribed roll records ayes from Novick, Olivia Clark (District 4), Loretta Smith (District 1), Elana Pirtle-Guiney (District 2) and Ryan, and nays from Tiffany Koyama Lane (District 3), Angelita Morillo (District 3), Eric Zimmerman (District 4), Mitch Green (District 4) and Kanal.\n\nCouncilor Pirtle-Guiney, voting yes, said the decision was narrow: I Squared can technically, legally and financially operate the pipes, and the same on-site staff would remain. She told Zenith directly, \"the lawsuit you filed is not helping us\" ([02:34:16](meeting:2026-08-06-fgc-1@02:34:16)). Green, voting no, called the transfer \"a regulatory checkpoint\" and said \"I would not vote to pass this outta committee today\" ([02:33:20](meeting:2026-08-06-fgc-1@02:33:20)). Morillo said she did not \"feel comfortable approving anything today without more information\" ([02:10:38](meeting:2026-08-06-fgc-1@02:10:38)). Kanal, presiding, said an attempt \"to bully me out of letting people testify on this item was not a good way to demonstrate\" any intent, adding that \"the bully's own business partners are among the testifiers\" ([02:37:11](meeting:2026-08-06-fgc-1@02:37:11)).\n\n## Records dispute and public testimony\n\nMore than 30 people testified across two panels, most urging delay. A recurring demand was release of documents referenced in the ordinance's Sections 4, 8, 9 and 10, plus third-party enforcement and an emergency resolution barring fuel-expansion permits until the city's Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub policy is in place. Nick Caleb of Breach Collective said the city had been sued by Zenith and that he had sought records since April, getting \"the runaround\" ([00:22:09](meeting:2026-08-06-fgc-1@00:22:09)). Cassie Cohen of the Portland Harbor Community Coalition itemized I Squared's 18 UK violations — nine safety, six employment, two environmental and one consumer-protection ([01:55:35](meeting:2026-08-06-fgc-1@01:55:35)). Danny Noonan said about 90% of Oregon's liquid fuel storage sits in the Cascadia subduction zone, where there is a 37% chance of a 7.1-plus earthquake within 50 years ([00:25:06](meeting:2026-08-06-fgc-1@00:25:06)).\n\nSupporters framed the transfer as an improvement over Zenith. Jules Bailey, consulting for Skyline Renewable Energy, said renewable diesel produces at least **60% fewer lifecycle greenhouse-gas emissions** and that Skyline committed to eliminate fossil-fuel storage at the terminal **by October 2027** ([00:20:35](meeting:2026-08-06-fgc-1@00:20:35)). Jerry Zhang, a vice president at I Squared Capital, said the plan was to convert the terminal to 100% renewable fuels and retain the current team ([00:28:20](meeting:2026-08-06-fgc-1@00:28:20)). Will Rasmussen, advising Skyline, said the only question was whether I Squared could operate the pipes ([01:46:01](meeting:2026-08-06-fgc-1@01:46:01)).\n\nCity staff addressed the disputes on the record. Franchise Utility Program Manager Andrew Spear said BPS ran four rounds of questions and found \"no violations or major violations found inside the US,\" treating out-of-country matters as not connected to safe operation here ([02:02:34](meeting:2026-08-06-fgc-1@02:02:34)). City Attorney Robert Taylor said the withheld records had been provided in confidence but that \"the public interest is in the disclosure of it. And we will disclose that information\" ([02:24:14](meeting:2026-08-06-fgc-1@02:24:14)). Acting BPS Director Tate White said broader CEI Hub code changes were forwarded by the Planning Commission on March 10 and denied any intent to delay them so the transfer could proceed: \"there's no intention to slow that down\" ([02:26:14](meeting:2026-08-06-fgc-1@02:26:14)).\n\n## Vision Zero and a rebuke from the testimony table\n\nThe committee heard testimony on Vision Zero and placed the item on file. Sarah Risser of Families for Safe Streets said the West Burnside project defers safety improvements to prioritize paving, citing Joey Capone, killed there as a pedestrian in 2022, and said the task force created by the September 2025 Vision Zero resolution excludes safety advocates and has not honored Councilor Candace Avalos's (District 1) community-engagement amendment ([02:41:22](meeting:2026-08-06-fgc-1@02:41:22)).\n\nJustin Skolnick told Ryan that his prior attempt to link pedestrian deaths to drug use was insulting, recounting his sister's 2003 death by an impaired driver while she was sober. \"Do you have the faintest idea how insulting it is to hear a grown man work persistently to pin pedestrian deaths on the pedestrians,\" he said, and told Ryan to resign ([02:44:47](meeting:2026-08-06-fgc-1@02:44:47)). Vision Zero policy manager Dana Dickman presented a 10-page memo answering councilor questions ([02:59:39](meeting:2026-08-06-fgc-1@02:59:39)). Green said the city has to \"stop this practice of just abandoning the plans that we have because one block or one two blocks of neighbors called\" ([03:06:30](meeting:2026-08-06-fgc-1@03:06:30)). Novick said the city could expand its speed- and red-light-camera program toward 45 cameras, noting New York runs 3,000 ([03:05:56](meeting:2026-08-06-fgc-1@03:05:56)).\n\n## Chair updates\n\nKanal added an administration-deadlines list, flagging an investment policy options report due **August 31** ([00:10:48](meeting:2026-08-06-fgc-1@00:10:48)). Clark, chair of Public Works, said PBOT was asked to draft an autonomous-vehicle ordinance for September.\n\n## What's next\n\nThe Zenith transfer returns to the full City Council for another hearing and vote; staff committed to posting the disputed documents to the agenda. The broader CEI Hub code and comprehensive-plan changes, forwarded by the Planning Commission on March 10, are expected at a coming reading. PBOT will present intersection safety work to the Public Works Committee next Tuesday, and Smith asked that Vision Zero return there. Novick and Koyama Lane raised taking up speed cameras in the Public Safety Committee. The next Committee of the Whole meets Thursday, August 13, at 9:30 a.m.", "summaryText": "A Portland City Council committee voted 7-5 to send the transfer of the Zenith Energy fuel-terminal franchise to a new owner, ISQ Springer Holdings, to the full council with a recommendation that it pass (02:39:42). The vote followed roughly two hours of testimony, most of it opposed.\n\nThe Finance and Governance Committee of the Whole, chaired by Councilor Sameer Kanal (District 2), took up the transfer of a franchise — the right to run fuel pipes across Front Avenue — from Zenith Energy Terminals Holdings to ISQ Springer Holdings, an entity of the private-equity firm I Squared Capital. Councilor Dan Ryan (District 2) moved to refer the ordinance with a do-pass recommendation, saying \"staff has recommended this. I trust their due diligence as professionals\" (02:31:04). Councilor Steve Novick (District 3) seconded and said he wanted to \"get Zenith out of the way\" (02:31:30).\n\nThe clerk announced the tally as 7 ayes and 5 nays (02:39:42). The transcribed roll records ayes from Novick, Olivia Clark (District 4), Loretta Smith (District 1), Elana Pirtle-Guiney (District 2) and Ryan, and nays from Tiffany Koyama Lane (District 3), Angelita Morillo (District 3), Eric Zimmerman (District 4), Mitch Green (District 4) and Kanal.\n\nCouncilor Pirtle-Guiney, voting yes, said the decision was narrow: I Squared can technically, legally and financially operate the pipes, and the same on-site staff would remain. She told Zenith directly, \"the lawsuit you filed is not helping us\" (02:34:16). Green, voting no, called the transfer \"a regulatory checkpoint\" and said \"I would not vote to pass this outta committee today\" (02:33:20). Morillo said she did not \"feel comfortable approving anything today without more information\" (02:10:38). Kanal, presiding, said an attempt \"to bully me out of letting people testify on this item was not a good way to demonstrate\" any intent, adding that \"the bully's own business partners are among the testifiers\" (02:37:11).\n\nMore than 30 people testified across two panels, most urging delay. A recurring demand was release of documents referenced in the ordinance's Sections 4, 8, 9 and 10, plus third-party enforcement and an emergency resolution barring fuel-expansion permits until the city's Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub policy is in place. Nick Caleb of Breach Collective said the city had been sued by Zenith and that he had sought records since April, getting \"the runaround\" (00:22:09). Cassie Cohen of the Portland Harbor Community Coalition itemized I Squared's 18 UK violations — nine safety, six employment, two environmental and one consumer-protection (01:55:35). Danny Noonan said about 90% of Oregon's liquid fuel storage sits in the Cascadia subduction zone, where there is a 37% chance of a 7.1-plus earthquake within 50 years (00:25:06).\n\nSupporters framed the transfer as an improvement over Zenith. Jules Bailey, consulting for Skyline Renewable Energy, said renewable diesel produces at least 60% fewer lifecycle greenhouse-gas emissions and that Skyline committed to eliminate fossil-fuel storage at the terminal by October 2027 (00:20:35). Jerry Zhang, a vice president at I Squared Capital, said the plan was to convert the terminal to 100% renewable fuels and retain the current team (00:28:20). Will Rasmussen, advising Skyline, said the only question was whether I Squared could operate the pipes (01:46:01).\n\nCity staff addressed the disputes on the record. Franchise Utility Program Manager Andrew Spear said BPS ran four rounds of questions and found \"no violations or major violations found inside the US,\" treating out-of-country matters as not connected to safe operation here (02:02:34). City Attorney Robert Taylor said the withheld records had been provided in confidence but that \"the public interest is in the disclosure of it. And we will disclose that information\" (02:24:14). Acting BPS Director Tate White said broader CEI Hub code changes were forwarded by the Planning Commission on March 10 and denied any intent to delay them so the transfer could proceed: \"there's no intention to slow that down\" (02:26:14).\n\nThe committee heard testimony on Vision Zero and placed the item on file. Sarah Risser of Families for Safe Streets said the West Burnside project defers safety improvements to prioritize paving, citing Joey Capone, killed there as a pedestrian in 2022, and said the task force created by the September 2025 Vision Zero resolution excludes safety advocates and has not honored Councilor Candace Avalos's (District 1) community-engagement amendment (02:41:22).\n\nJustin Skolnick told Ryan that his prior attempt to link pedestrian deaths to drug use was insulting, recounting his sister's 2003 death by an impaired driver while she was sober. \"Do you have the faintest idea how insulting it is to hear a grown man work persistently to pin pedestrian deaths on the pedestrians,\" he said, and told Ryan to resign (02:44:47). Vision Zero policy manager Dana Dickman presented a 10-page memo answering councilor questions (02:59:39). Green said the city has to \"stop this practice of just abandoning the plans that we have because one block or one two blocks of neighbors called\" (03:06:30). Novick said the city could expand its speed- and red-light-camera program toward 45 cameras, noting New York runs 3,000 (03:05:56).\n\nKanal added an administration-deadlines list, flagging an investment policy options report due August 31 (00:10:48). Clark, chair of Public Works, said PBOT was asked to draft an autonomous-vehicle ordinance for September.\n\nThe Zenith transfer returns to the full City Council for another hearing and vote; staff committed to posting the disputed documents to the agenda. The broader CEI Hub code and comprehensive-plan changes, forwarded by the Planning Commission on March 10, are expected at a coming reading. PBOT will present intersection safety work to the Public Works Committee next Tuesday, and Smith asked that Vision Zero return there. Novick and Koyama Lane raised taking up speed cameras in the Public Safety Committee. The next Committee of the Whole meets Thursday, August 13, at 9:30 a.m.", "summaryLede": "A Portland City Council committee voted 7-5 to send the transfer of the Zenith Energy fuel-terminal franchise to a new owner, ISQ Springer Holdings, to the full council with a recommendation that it pass. 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make sure that there's time for other folks who are waiting to testify as well.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-64", "start": 642.66, "end": 646.507, "text": "All right, can you please call the first item, Keelan?", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-65", "start": 648.672, "end": 653.066, "text": "Item 1, document 2026-274, Committee Chair Updates.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-66", "start": 653.712, "end": 653.974, "text": "Thanks.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-67", "start": 654.023, "end": 661.943, "text": "I'll keep the committee chair update portion brief today other than of course we do have an update from Vice President I'm Council Vice President Olivia Clark, chair of the Public Works Committee.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-68", "start": 662.857, "end": 675.89, "text": "There have been some updates to the, the meeting calendar, and you'll see that things are just kind of, as they 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documentation related to the terminal sale since April and have been getting the runaround.", "speaker": "Nick Caleb" }, { "id": "cue-188", "start": 1400.643, "end": 1405.451, "text": "In April, I made a records request and received a single unrelated document.", "speaker": "Nick Caleb" }, { "id": "cue-189", "start": 1405.932, "end": 1414.86, "text": "The city responded to a broader records request in May with a fee estimate pending alert that lasted over 2 and a half months, an extraordinary delay for an estimate in my experience.", "speaker": "Nick Caleb" }, { "id": "cue-190", "start": 1415.869, "end": 1422.793, "text": "Interestingly, last week the city finally sent me some of the documentation I requested, including a few of the missing documents from my April request.", "speaker": "Nick Caleb" }, { "id": "cue-191", "start": 1422.841, "end": 1422.969, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-192", "start": 1423.563, "end": 1428.167, "text": "The city 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1450.372, "end": 1459.583, "text": "The city's failure to provide documentation referenced in the mayor's ordinance is an egregious failure of the city's obligations to the public, especially given the city's troubled history with Zenith.", "speaker": "Nick Caleb" }, { "id": "cue-199", "start": 1460.243, "end": 1467.348, "text": "This context creates an appearance of a deliberate strategy to delay the release of full records until after the approval of this franchise transfer.", "speaker": "Nick Caleb" }, { "id": "cue-200", "start": 1471.515, "end": 1474.721, "text": "This would not be the first time the city pulled a stunt like this related to Zenith.", "speaker": "Nick Caleb" }, { "id": "cue-201", "start": 1475.142, "end": 1487.778, "text": "Last time, it resulted in a multi-year scandal and this city council finding in a resolution that high-level staff substantially undermine public confidence in the city's administrative apparatus by creating the appearance of impropriety.", "speaker": "Nick Caleb" }, { "id": "cue-202", "start": 1488.37, "end": 1491.043, "text": "I expect we all would very much like to avoid a repeat.", "speaker": "Nick Caleb" }, { "id": "cue-203", "start": 1491.783, "end": 1493.587, "text": "To conclude, my ask today is simple.", "speaker": "Nick Caleb" }, { "id": "cue-204", "start": 1494.183, "end": 1501.618, "text": "Please make documents referenced in the mayor's ordinance available to the public with adequate time to review them before any council vote on this franchise transfer.", "speaker": "Nick Caleb" }, { "id": "cue-205", "start": 1502.022, "end": 1502.313, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Nick Caleb" }, { "id": "cue-206", "start": 1506.303, "end": 1506.531, "text": "Okay.", "speaker": "Danny Noonan" }, { "id": "cue-207", "start": 1506.873, "end": 1510.876, "text": "Chairs Kanal, Vice Chairs Ryan and Koyama Lane, Portland City Councilors, thank you for the opportunity to give testimony.", "speaker": "Danny Noonan" }, { "id": "cue-208", "start": 1513.343, "end": 1515.318, "text": "For the record, my name is Danny Noonan.", "speaker": "Danny Noonan" }, { "id": "cue-209", "start": 1515.655, "end": 1522.542, "text": "I am a registered lobbyist with the city on behalf of the 501 nonprofit Breach Collective, and I am giving my testimony in that capacity.", "speaker": "Danny Noonan" }, { "id": "cue-210", "start": 1523.697, "end": 1530.89, "text": "This meeting takes place in the midst of a full-blown climate disaster in the form of a historic wildfire season in Oregon that will continue to worsen.", "speaker": "Danny Noonan" }, { "id": "cue-211", "start": 1531.483, "end": 1532.784, "text": "This disaster is not an anomaly.", "speaker": "Danny Noonan" }, { "id": "cue-212", "start": 1532.928, "end": 1539.719, "text": "June 2026 was the 2nd warmest June according to analyses of global weather data going back to 1850.", "speaker": "Danny Noonan" }, { "id": "cue-213", "start": 1540.65, "end": 1545.908, "text": "2026 Is very likely to be among the top 5 warmest years on record and possibly the warmest.", "speaker": "Danny Noonan" }, { "id": "cue-214", "start": 1546.891, "end": 1550.408, "text": "The 11 warmest years on record have occurred in the last 11 years.", "speaker": "Danny Noonan" }, { "id": "cue-215", "start": 1551.96, "end": 1559.727, "text": "The brutal summer conditions we are now facing come after an incredibly warm and dry winter, with Oregon's snowpack over the last 12 months among the lowest on record.", "speaker": "Danny Noonan" }, { "id": "cue-216", "start": 1560.48, "end": 1566.018, "text": "We are now also now entering into a super El Niño event in the Pacific Ocean that could drive temperatures even higher.", "speaker": "Danny Noonan" }, { "id": "cue-217", "start": 1567.27, "end": 1572.507, "text": "These climate conditions should be reason enough for this council to be concerned about the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure.", "speaker": "Danny Noonan" }, { "id": "cue-218", "start": 1572.587, "end": 1588.217, "text": "But as you are well aware, there is the added problem that the city of Portland and approximately 90% of Oregon's liquid fuel storage is situated within the Cascadian subduction zone, in which there is a 37% chance of a 7.1+ magnitude earthquake within the next 50 years.", "speaker": "Danny Noonan" }, { "id": "cue-219", "start": 1589.598, "end": 1606.053, "text": "This will liquefy the earth under Portland's critical energy infrastructure hub and cause the largest I'm sure you've heard this all before, and the reason I'm reciting these facts right now is that you don't seem to be acting like it.", "speaker": "Danny Noonan" }, { "id": "cue-220", "start": 1606.778, "end": 1626.976, "text": "Yesterday, council held a hearing to consider the mayor's proposal to raid the Portland Clean Energy Fund for sports stadium renovations, removing resources that are supposed to be for community adaptation to conditions like these under the flimsiest of environmental and energy efficiency pretext, and cynically presenting this decision as a referendum on the city's economy.", "speaker": "Danny Noonan" }, { "id": "cue-221", "start": 1628.59, "end": 1638.879, "text": "Today, council is considering rubber-stamping a franchise transfer from one of Portland's most notorious fossil fuel companies to an international venture capital firm with a particularly Byzantine corporate structure.", "speaker": "Danny Noonan" }, { "id": "cue-222", "start": 1641.09, "end": 1650.909, "text": "Speaking of flimsy pretenses, we have heard and will probably continue to hear about how renewable fuels in this terminal are going to be part of Portland's future climate solutions.", "speaker": "Danny Noonan" }, { "id": "cue-223", "start": 1651.913, "end": 1655.807, "text": "The reality is that renewable fuels usually still have a greenhouse gas emissions intensity.", "speaker": "Danny Noonan" }, { "id": "cue-224", "start": 1655.855, "end": 1660.662, "text": "Sometimes this is marginally less than fossil fuels, sometimes it is more.", "speaker": "Danny Noonan" }, { "id": "cue-225", "start": 1661.271, "end": 1666.943, "text": "Often there are environmental externalities associated with producing these renewable fuels that further diminish its purported benefits.", "speaker": "Danny Noonan" }, { "id": "cue-226", "start": 1666.991, "end": 1673.112, "text": "Sometimes renewable fuels are just a way of outsourcing greenhouse gas emissions to agriculture and other sectors of the economy.", "speaker": "Danny Noonan" }, { "id": "cue-227", "start": 1673.721, "end": 1694.926, "text": "The Port of Portland, Zenith, and I-Square Capital have all indicated they intend to expand fuel storage in this terminal, which flies in the face of economy-wide analyses that show that we need to wind down the use of all hydrocarbons and increase electrification, and which means that both the greenhouse gas emissions and the potential consequences of seismic risk may increase rather than decrease over time.", "speaker": "Danny Noonan" }, { "id": "cue-228", "start": 1695.087, "end": 1696.93, "text": "Please give this decision the attention it deserves.", "speaker": "Danny Noonan" }, { "id": "cue-229", "start": 1697.027, "end": 1697.303, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Danny Noonan" }, { "id": "cue-230", "start": 1700.12, "end": 1700.573, "text": "Good morning.", "speaker": "Jerry Zhang" }, { "id": "cue-231", "start": 1700.994, "end": 1701.934, "text": "My name is Jerry Zhang.", "speaker": "Jerry Zhang" }, { "id": "cue-232", "start": 1702.079, "end": 1704.395, "text": "I'm a, I'm a vice president here at I Squared Capital.", "speaker": "Jerry Zhang" }, { "id": "cue-233", "start": 1705.547, "end": 1708.576, "text": "We know this terminal carries a nuanced history in Portland.", "speaker": "Jerry Zhang" }, { "id": "cue-234", "start": 1709.153, "end": 1717.71, "text": "We're here because we'll be a different type of owner— long-term, 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"Jerry Zhang" }, { "id": "cue-240", "start": 1745.33, "end": 1749.932, "text": "Succeeding here means delivering on Portland's and Oregon's clean energy goals.", "speaker": "Jerry Zhang" }, { "id": "cue-241", "start": 1750.926, "end": 1752.69, "text": "I want to make an important distinction here.", "speaker": "Jerry Zhang" }, { "id": "cue-242", "start": 1753.332, "end": 1757.405, "text": "The ultimate owner of the terminal asset will be our Energy Transition Fund.", "speaker": "Jerry Zhang" }, { "id": "cue-243", "start": 1757.501, "end": 1757.597, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Jerry Zhang" }, { "id": "cue-244", "start": 1757.886, "end": 1759.186, "text": "Managed by I-Squared Capital.", "speaker": "Jerry Zhang" }, { "id": "cue-245", "start": 1759.891, "end": 1765.651, "text": "It matters which part of I-Squared is making this investment, and I-Squared manages several distinct funds.", "speaker": "Jerry Zhang" }, { "id": "cue-246", "start": 1766.469, "end": 1782.256, "text": "Our Energy Transition Fund adheres to EU's most rigorous sustainability standard with a core legally binding mission of investing in assets that genuinely move society towards a cleaner future, a mission that lines up with Oregon's and Portland's clean energy goals.", "speaker": "Jerry Zhang" }, { "id": "cue-247", "start": 1783.315, "end": 1787.149, "text": "Our commitment to safety and sustainability is backed by real capability.", "speaker": "Jerry Zhang" }, { "id": "cue-248", "start": 1787.968, "end": 1796.513, "text": "We are a global infrastructure investor that invests in essential services people rely on every day— energy, utilities, transportation, etc.", "speaker": "Jerry Zhang" }, { "id": "cue-249", "start": 1797.219, "end": 1804.254, "text": "We operate bulk fuel terminals in Europe and the Philippines, where regulatory compliance and safety are embedded within our core values.", "speaker": "Jerry Zhang" }, { "id": "cue-250", "start": 1805.33, "end": 1808.51, "text": "Consider 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is to convert the asset to 100% renewable fuels.", "speaker": "Jerry Zhang" }, { "id": "cue-256", "start": 1840.56, "end": 1840.817, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Jerry Zhang" }, { "id": "cue-257", "start": 1841.737, "end": 1847.685, "text": "We have the experience, financial strength, and values to operate this facility responsibly for the long term.", "speaker": "Jerry Zhang" }, { "id": "cue-258", "start": 1848.41, "end": 1851.391, "text": "We plan to retain the full team that operates this facility today.", "speaker": "Jerry Zhang" }, { "id": "cue-259", "start": 1852.116, "end": 1854.354, "text": "We will be good community partners and neighbors.", "speaker": "Jerry Zhang" }, { "id": "cue-260", "start": 1855.271, "end": 1860.884, "text": "Portland has a well-earned reputation for environmental stewardship, and we plan to contribute to that.", "speaker": "Jerry Zhang" }, { "id": "cue-261", "start": 1861.349, "end": 1862.014, "text": "Thanks for your time.", "speaker": "Jerry Zhang" }, { "id": "cue-262", "start": 1863.907, "end": 1864.507, "text": "Wow.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-263", "start": 1869.039, "end": 1881.276, "text": "Next panel includes Ben Harper, Randall Friesen, Samantha Hernandez, Jordan Lewis, Michaela McCormick.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-264", "start": 1887.662, "end": 1890.75, "text": "Good afternoon.", "speaker": "Ben Harper" }, { "id": "cue-265", "start": 1891.461, "end": 1894.843, "text": "My name is Ben Harper, and I'm head of sustainability here at I Squared Capital.", "speaker": "Ben Harper" }, { "id": "cue-266", "start": 1895.392, "end": 1896.771, "text": "And I want to thank you for your time today.", "speaker": "Ben Harper" }, { "id": "cue-267", "start": 1897.477, "end": 1914.138, "text": "I'd like to start by reiterating the change in ownership of this terminal is an opportunity to make a positive break from the past and for our team to operate a best-in-class facility in supporting the City of Portland and the State of Oregon in achieving its climate and sustainable fuel goals today and in the future.", "speaker": "Ben Harper" }, { "id": "cue-268", "start": 1915.356, "end": 1925.716, "text": "What should be most important to the council and to the community is knowing that we will be operating this terminal under the strictest regulatory framework requiring the utmost operational diligence.", "speaker": "Ben Harper" }, { "id": "cue-269", "start": 1926.502, "end": 1931.314, "text": "The regulation under which this terminal is operated does not allow us to simply promise a cleaner future.", "speaker": "Ben Harper" }, { "id": "cue-270", "start": 1932.1, "end": 1936.768, "text": "It requires us to deliver one and to prove it every year to the regulators.", "speaker": "Ben Harper" }, { "id": "cue-271", "start": 1937.634, "end": 1944.948, "text": "The commitment to convert this site to 100% renewable fuel by 2027 is not a press release, but it's a condition of our ownership.", "speaker": "Ben Harper" }, { "id": "cue-272", "start": 1946.007, "end": 1956.287, "text": "And that's because we're purchasing this terminal in a fund governed by the European Union's strictest sustainability regulation, the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, or SFDR.", "speaker": "Ben Harper" }, { "id": "cue-273", "start": 1957.522, "end": 1959.702, "text": "SFDR is a transparency framework.", "speaker": "Ben Harper" }, { "id": "cue-274", "start": 1960.184, "end": 1968.811, "text": "It requires asset managers like ourselves and other financial market participants to disclose how they handle sustainability in their investments.", "speaker": "Ben Harper" }, { "id": "cue-275", "start": 1969.869, "end": 1976.989, "text": "SFDR classifies funds and therefore investments into 3 tiers according to their environmental and social impact.", "speaker": "Ben Harper" }, { "id": "cue-276", "start": 1978.081, "end": 1983.237, "text": "Article IX, which applies to this 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"Randall Friesen" }, { "id": "cue-292", "start": 2090.597, "end": 2097.317, "text": "I'm here today representing over 20,000 construction professionals across the Portland metropolitan and Southwest Washington regions.", "speaker": "Randall Friesen" }, { "id": "cue-293", "start": 2098.231, "end": 2105.22, "text": "Our council comprises 22 local unions whose members build and maintain the critical systems within the critical energy infrastructure hub.", "speaker": "Randall Friesen" }, { "id": "cue-294", "start": 2106.31, "end": 2117.067, "text": "Because over 90% of Oregon's liquid fuel supply passes through this hub, this is a statewide infrastructure necessity, not just a local Portland issue, and it should be treated with that same level of gravity.", "speaker": "Randall Friesen" }, { "id": "cue-295", "start": 2118.029, "end": 2125.059, "text": "Oregon, Multnomah County, and City of Portland have set climate reduction goals, and this terminal is necessary component to reach those goals.", "speaker": "Randall Friesen" }, { "id": "cue-296", "start": 2126.039, "end": 2133.81, "text": "As outlined in the city's carbon reduction goals, fossil fuels need to be replaced by nearly 100% renewable gas and diesel by 2030.", "speaker": "Randall Friesen" }, { "id": "cue-297", "start": 2134.404, "end": 2138.9, "text": "Any delay or actions to prevent the hub from moving forward puts these goals and mandates at risk.", "speaker": "Randall Friesen" }, { "id": "cue-298", "start": 2140.345, "end": 2144.889, "text": "That means sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel are necessary to meet the state's climate goals.", "speaker": "Randall Friesen" }, { "id": "cue-299", "start": 2145.733, "end": 2149.166, "text": "Renewable fuels are at least 60% carbon savings over petroleum fuel.", "speaker": "Randall Friesen" }, { "id": "cue-300", "start": 2150.955, "end": 2156.592, "text": "Access to that fuel is necessary for construction equipment, trucks, and other heavy equipment to meet state and local mandates.", "speaker": "Randall Friesen" }, { "id": "cue-301", "start": 2157.154, "end": 2171.907, "text": "We are proud that I Squared Capital is not only committed to accomplishing the nearly 100% renewable fuel mandate, but also committed to using union labor for system upgrades and safety improvements, highlighting the highest skilled and trained workforce in the construction industry.", "speaker": "Randall Friesen" }, { "id": "cue-302", "start": 2171.955, "end": 2172.085, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Randall Friesen" }, { "id": "cue-303", "start": 2173.014, "end": 2176.27, "text": "Demonstrating their commitment to safety, quality, and family-wage jobs.", "speaker": "Randall Friesen" }, { "id": "cue-304", "start": 2177.264, "end": 2192.711, "text": "With other renewable fuel projects on the horizon, such as Next Clean Energy, this hub is and will continue to help decarbonize 90% of the state's available fuel system while also helping show that Portland is soon to be ahead of the curve in the transition away from fossil fuels.", "speaker": "Randall Friesen" }, { "id": "cue-305", "start": 2193.369, "end": 2208.57, "text": "We ask that the council, as you all carefully consider this proposal, to approve the franchise transfer, transfer within thank you very much for your time and careful consideration.", "speaker": "Randall Friesen" }, { "id": "cue-306", "start": 2211.43, "end": 2212.35, "text": "Hello, Committee of the Whole.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-307", "start": 2212.35, "end": 2213.21, "text": "My name is Jordan Lewis.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-308", "start": 2213.45, "end": 2216.73, "text": "I'm a volunteer lobbyist for the Portland Democratic Socialists of America.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-309", "start": 2216.73, "end": 2224.49, "text": "I recently had the horror of reading in the news that fires in Spokane have destroyed nearly 1,000 homes and forced the evacuation of 70,000 people.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-310", "start": 2224.49, "end": 2229.495, "text": "Now wildfires threaten forests on Mount Hood, The Timberline Lodge may actually be destroyed.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-311", "start": 2229.959, "end": 2239.444, "text": "As we process this news, we are smothered in a thick white smoke which casts an orange haze on everything, blocks out the sun, gives us a constant mild headache, and leaves our tissues inflamed.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-312", "start": 2239.828, "end": 2244.362, "text": "The wildfire risk and smoke inhalation risk are no longer things we just read about on the news.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-313", "start": 2244.891, "end": 2249.201, "text": "It's getting harder and harder to change the channel or turn up the radio and ignore the new reality.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-314", "start": 2250.242, "end": 2257.419, "text": "When I moved to Portland in 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"speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-326", "start": 2300.09, "end": 2306.314, "text": "When you talk to younger people you know will grow up in this world and you look back on how you spent your time in office, what will you tell them?", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-327", "start": 2306.587, "end": 2309.812, "text": "That you knowingly traded away their future for guilt-free trips to the airport?", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-328", "start": 2310.229, "end": 2313.485, "text": "That you undermined the Portland Clean Energy Fund to pay for cops who don't exist?", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-329", "start": 2313.966, "end": 2324.617, "text": "That you made roads bigger and larger so that more fuels could be burned, that you watched public transit get gutted so that more fuels could be burned, that you rolled out the red carpet for a fuel terminal to get sold to private equity.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-330", "start": 2325.21, "end": 2328.21, "text": "I'm testifying in opposition to the transfer of the Zenith franchise agreement.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-331", "start": 2328.498, "end": 2330.936, "text": "A constant false sense of urgency is a sign of a scammer.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-332", "start": 2331.065, "end": 2337.288, "text": "I've seen this before from freeway expansion boosters, from the owners of the Trail Blazers, and from phone-based identity scammers.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-333", "start": 2337.657, "end": 2341.779, "text": "The point has always been to use urgency to lock the public out of public decision-making and to get unpopular.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-334", "start": 2341.86, "end": 2343.142, "text": "Popular decisions expedited.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-335", "start": 2343.64, "end": 2344.826, "text": "Good ideas hold up to scrutiny.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-336", "start": 2345.259, "end": 2349.348, "text": "The city attorney said last time the council has authority to attach conditions to the franchise agreement.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-337", "start": 2349.669, "end": 2350.744, "text": "That is public information.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-338", "start": 2351.193, "end": 2357.046, "text": "Zenith is already suing the city for the second time, hoping to silence people like me from our charter-mandated opportunity to testify.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-339", "start": 2357.671, "end": 2358.233, "text": "It's shameful.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-340", "start": 2358.714, "end": 2360.382, "text": "And beware greenwashing.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-341", "start": 2361.215, "end": 2363.22, "text": "People will come here and talk about the renewable fuels plan.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-342", "start": 2363.3, "end": 2367.245, "text": "Where were these people when the transportation package flopped and transit got defunded?", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-343", "start": 2367.309, "end": 2379.639, "text": "That's going to result in a lot more Michaela is joining us online.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-344", "start": 2381.99, "end": 2383.681, "text": "Hello, I'm Michaela McCormick.", "speaker": "Michaela McCormick" }, { "id": "cue-345", "start": 2383.778, "end": 2390.214, "text": "I'm a member of Extinction Rebellion PDX, for whom I'm speaking.", "speaker": "Michaela McCormick" }, { "id": "cue-346", "start": 2391.478, "end": 2397.215, "text": "Some of what I will say is a repeat, and it's well worth repeating.", "speaker": "Michaela McCormick" }, { "id": "cue-347", "start": 2398.546, "end": 2407.078, "text": "It is an outrage that Zenith is suing the city to stop council's due diligence on I Squared's technical and legal qualifications.", "speaker": "Michaela McCormick" }, { "id": "cue-348", "start": 2407.928, "end": 2418.545, "text": "Zenith's past illegalities and shady practices are the very reason that the city administration should provide all documentation on the depth of their I Squared review.", "speaker": "Michaela McCormick" }, { "id": "cue-349", "start": 2419.556, "end": 2427.042, "text": "Zenith waited until the franchise hearings were in progress to sue are they afraid of what will be revealed in testimony?", "speaker": "Michaela McCormick" }, { "id": "cue-350", "start": 2428.308, "end": 2446.156, "text": "Without access to the city's vetting of I Squared, even a cursory search shows that I Squared's— I Squared's a giant private equity firm— has multiple red flags showing they have not put the safety and well-being of communities at the forefront.", "speaker": "Michaela McCormick" }, { "id": "cue-351", "start": 2447.277, "end": 2453.157, "text": "I Squared committed 18 law-breaking acts with associated fines in the UK.", "speaker": "Michaela McCormick" }, { "id": "cue-352", "start": 2453.702, "end": 2461.618, "text": "In the categories of workplace safety and health, labor standards, railroad safety, consumer protection, and the environment.", "speaker": "Michaela McCormick" }, { "id": "cue-353", "start": 2462.499, "end": 2477.065, "text": "There are lawsuits around I Squared's financial misconduct and regulatory compliance in New York, and suits alleging insurance fraud and business malpractice in Florida, with I Squared paying settlements without admitting liability.", "speaker": "Michaela McCormick" }, { "id": "cue-354", "start": 2477.978, "end": 2480.077, "text": "This does not bode well for Portland.", "speaker": "Michaela McCormick" }, { "id": "cue-355", "start": 2481.424, "end": 2498.628, "text": "Given city administrators' lack of willingness or inability to provide adequate oversight in the past, council should ensure protections have been built into the franchise agreement, such as a 3 to 5 year performance review with automatic 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Diane Meisenhelter, John Rosapup.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-362", "start": 2543.914, "end": 2557.358, "text": "Go ahead.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-363", "start": 2557.76, "end": 2558.163, "text": "Oh, I'm first.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-364", "start": 2558.212, "end": 2559.1, "text": "Sorry, everyone.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-365", "start": 2559.649, "end": 2560.715, "text": "Um, good morning.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-366", "start": 2560.779, "end": 2562.006, "text": "My name is Marnie Glickman.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-367", "start": 2562.602, "end": 2568.938, "text": "I'm the executive director of Braided River Campaign, a registered city lobbyist, and a District 2 resident.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-368", "start": 2569.659, "end": 2579.973, "text": "We are here to ask you, our city council, to stand up against the fossil fuel 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residents and environmental stewards cannot evaluate the essential technical legal and financial information at issue or review the city's administration's own evaluation of this administration.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-373", "start": 2625.922, "end": 2630.659, "text": "And we need to look at these conclusions and they need to be made public.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-374", "start": 2631.14, "end": 2636.648, "text": "In other words, we are here to ask for the information we need to fully participate in our local democracy.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-375", "start": 2637.483, "end": 2647.294, "text": "This refusal to give the public full information about a matter of great interest mirrors efforts by the mayor and high-level administrators on the Moda Center issue.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-376", "start": 2647.518, "end": 2648.289, "text": "Moda Center issue.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-377", "start": 2648.562, "end": 2664.345, "text": "Project Mount Hood and the extreme discrepancies around housing money last fall and the recent exclusion of environmental leaders from final negotiations with PGE on a controversial project impacting ancient trees in Forest Park.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-378", "start": 2664.906, "end": 2668.351, "text": "This pattern of deceptive practices must come to an end.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-379", "start": 2668.832, "end": 2675.417, "text": "Transparency and accountability are essential ingredients in our climate emergency work plan and the future of our city.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-380", "start": 2676.605, "end": 2679.943, "text": "Renewable fuels are dangerous, toxic, and flammable.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-381", "start": 2680.536, "end": 2688.079, "text": "Even Portland City Code explicitly defines renewable diesel as being chemically the same as petroleum diesel fuel.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-382", "start": 2688.946, "end": 2691.947, "text": "Please consider the big picture when you make your decisions today.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-383", "start": 2692.397, "end": 2698.19, "text": "The unhealthy air we've been breathing and the wildfires generated by the climate crisis.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-384", "start": 2698.591, "end": 2700.453, "text": "People and wildlife are suffering.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-385", "start": 2701.223, "end": 2702.459, "text": "Remember our geography.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-386", "start": 2702.764, "end": 2712.782, "text": "We sit here just 5 miles from Zenith, Zenith is 300 yards from the Portland Harbor Superfund site and a few hundred yards from Forest Park.", "speaker": "Marnie Glickman" }, { "id": "cue-387", "start": 2713.441, "end": 2720.763, "text": "Zenith is also smack dab in the 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2849.149, "text": "In addition to ongoing oversight from those agencies, we are required to have robust emergency response plans.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-407", "start": 2849.614, "end": 2852.631, "text": "These include a spill prevention, control, and countermeasure plan.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-408", "start": 2853.225, "end": 2860.254, "text": "This plan is a worst-case scenario plan that is required by the EPA for facilities that could release fuel into navigable waters.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-409", "start": 2861.008, "end": 2868.599, "text": "We conduct annual drills with both the DEQ and Clean Rivers Cooperative, who is a nonprofit spill response organization providing mutual aid.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-410", "start": 2868.663, "end": 2868.775, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-411", "start": 2869.352, "end": 2871.084, "text": "We 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"text": "And it's kind of hard to even imagine that the real possibility that ISQ could have even less of an ethical compass thank you.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-427", "start": 2982.333, "end": 2985.924, "text": "Than the shady, dishonest, lawbreaking Zenith we've been dealing with.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-428", "start": 2986.757, "end": 2996.216, "text": "City administrators justified their backroom deal with Zenith based on the unfulfilled promise that they would transition fully to renewable fuels by '27.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-429", "start": 2996.745, "end": 3011.557, "text": "We've talked to you numerous times, and maybe we need to have another session with you to talk about the problematics of renewables and that they have many of the same problems and are not necessarily a climate solution.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-430", "start": 3012.872, "end": 3028.645, "text": "But clearly ongoing, if you look at the facts around what Zenith went and did after they made that promise, you can look at their fossil fuel expansion and exports and know that they never had that as their real intent.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-431", "start": 3028.982, "end": 3029.992, "text": "And now they're leaving town.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-432", "start": 3031.05, "end": 3033.791, "text": "As advocates predicted, the city was scammed.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-433", "start": 3034.497, "end": 3040.095, "text": "When the city— when will the city say no to bad players out of step with Portland policies and values?", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-434", "start": 3040.529, "end": 3050.25, "text": "If ISQ wants to be welcomed into our community, come and set up a time to talk to the public about our concerns that we've repeated and repeated and repeated.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-435", "start": 3050.779, "end": 3057.18, "text": "Listen and agree to a good neighbor agreement with us that will really address those concerns.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-436", "start": 3057.677, "end": 3060.517, "text": "Within the franchise agreement, council should ensure oversight.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-437", "start": 3060.565, "end": 3060.661, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-438", "start": 3061.062, "end": 3066.57, "text": "Such as regular performance evaluations with violations viewed as cause for termination.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-439", "start": 3067.228, "end": 3076.846, "text": "Plus, council must pass a separate emergency resolution preventing fossil— preventing fuel expansion permits until the CEI Hub policy has been implemented.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-440", "start": 3077.199, "end": 3087.684, "text": "Without this protection, our safety remains vulnerable to profiteers from outside our community who we know have shown little regards to community safety and concerns in other places.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-441", "start": 3088.422, "end": 3099.496, "text": "When will city leaders take the crisis of climate change and public safety seriously enough for right action before the ruin of all we hold dear, including potentially our very existence?", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-442", "start": 3100.218, "end": 3105.691, "text": "And just finally, I mean, it's just laughable, some of these things that people say.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-443", "start": 3105.771, "end": 3109.831, "text": "We see these greenwashing dog and pony shows over and over and again.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-444", "start": 3110.184, "end": 3123.492, "text": "What you just said about the core samples every single group 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Heather King.", "speaker": "Heather King" }, { "id": "cue-452", "start": 3139.902, "end": 3144.669, "text": "I'm co-executive director and Lower Willamette Riverkeeper for Willamette Riverkeeper.", "speaker": "Heather King" }, { "id": "cue-453", "start": 3145.247, "end": 3153.256, "text": "I want to start by thanking you for the opportunity to testify today and also for continuing with the public hearing process and not backing down to Zenith and their lawsuit.", "speaker": "Heather King" }, { "id": "cue-454", "start": 3154.316, "end": 3160.158, "text": "Willamette Riverkeeper has deep concerns about the proposed franchise transfer from Zenith to I Squared Capital.", "speaker": "Heather King" }, { "id": "cue-455", "start": 3160.656, "end": 3166.787, "text": "Despite requests, the city has not made full documentation related to this franchise transfer available to the public.", "speaker": "Heather King" }, { "id": "cue-456", "start": 3167.236, "end": 3171.63, "text": "The proposed ordinance includes references to materials that were not made available to us.", "speaker": "Heather King" }, { "id": "cue-457", "start": 3172.544, "end": 3176.04, "text": "The city must make them available before City Council votes on this matter.", "speaker": "Heather King" }, { "id": "cue-458", "start": 3176.377, "end": 3183.658, "text": "This transparency is needed for many reasons, but largely due to the city's mishandling of Zenith in the past and the secrecy that accompanied it.", "speaker": "Heather King" }, { "id": "cue-459", "start": 3184.572, "end": 3188.18, "text": "For years, the city has shown an unwillingness to hold Zenith accountable.", "speaker": "Heather King" }, { "id": "cue-460", "start": 3188.501, "end": 3192.847, "text": "Because of this, the franchise agreement should be strengthened to allow for third-party enforcement.", "speaker": "Heather King" }, { "id": "cue-461", "start": 3192.895, "end": 3193.055, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Heather King" }, { "id": "cue-462", "start": 3193.713, "end": 3206.042, "text": "The people of Portland need to be protected, and as the city has continually fallen short, there needs to be a way for the public to enforce this franchise agreement if I Squared has similar failings to what we have experienced with Zenith.", "speaker": "Heather King" }, { "id": "cue-463", "start": 3206.973, "end": 3216.766, "text": "If the city is going to transfer this agreement to an unknown international entity, it needs to put protections in place now to ensure compliance with the agreement and all that goes with it.", "speaker": "Heather King" }, { "id": "cue-464", "start": 3217.793, "end": 3220.169, "text": "The city is currently undergoing a transformation.", "speaker": "Heather King" }, { "id": "cue-465", "start": 3220.525, "end": 3226.918, "text": "With a focus on the CEI hub and the immense harm it will cause to the people of Portland and beyond if the status quo continues.", "speaker": "Heather King" }, { "id": "cue-466", "start": 3227.598, "end": 3235.811, "text": "Zenith is a part of this problem, and right now we have an opportunity to strengthen the franchise agreement and better protect the city that we all love.", "speaker": "Heather King" }, { "id": "cue-467", "start": 3236.149, "end": 3236.455, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Heather King" }, { "id": "cue-468", "start": 3236.649, "end": 3241.287, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-469", "start": 3247.58, "end": 3254.497, "text": "Next up we have Skyler Cruz, Lori King, Margaret Thomas, Victoria Berka, Artie Vijaykumar.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-470", "start": 3265.348, "end": 3265.785, "text": "Good morning.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-471", "start": 3265.914, "end": 3270.186, "text": "I'm going to use my testimony written on my phone because it's easier for me to read.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-472", "start": 3274.127, "end": 3275.719, "text": "Good morning, City Councilors.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-473", "start": 3276.629, "end": 3280.236, "text": "First, I want to say what a privilege it is to live in this beautiful city.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-474", "start": 3280.77, "end": 3283.915, "text": "I moved to Portland from Kansas in 1977.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-475", "start": 3286.109, "end": 3286.496, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-476", "start": 3287.21, "end": 3294.524, "text": "One day I went with some friends of mine to the coast, and on the way, as we went by the Willamette River, I saw the CBI hub for the first time.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-477", "start": 3295.66, "end": 3297.628, "text": "We didn't know much about it back in the '70s.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-478", "start": 3298.574, "end": 3300.26, "text": "It had Chevron on some of the tanks.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-479", "start": 3300.678, "end": 3306.843, "text": "Since living here, I've seen it many times and have learned more about the danger of a serious earthquake.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-480", "start": 3307.245, "end": 3314.117, "text": "A major earthquake occurs in the Cascadia subduction zone approximately every 500 to 600 years.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-481", "start": 3315.193, "end": 3318.019, "text": "The tanks which Zenith owns are on unstable ground.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-482", "start": 3318.565, "end": 3321.953, "text": "Forest Park is across St. Helens Road from the hub.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-483", "start": 3322.723, "end": 3328.559, "text": "It covers 5,170 acres and stretches along the west side of Portland for 8 miles.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-484", "start": 3329.393, "end": 3337.024, "text": "A forest fire fueled by any amount of oil and liquid natural gas would exacerbate an already disastrous seismic event.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-485", "start": 3337.809, "end": 3346.001, "text": "Geologists have stated that a major 9.0 quake is overdue for the Cascadia subduction zone and could occur at any time.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-486", "start": 3346.61, "end": 3355.549, "text": "Any plans to transfer ownership of any part of the hub should include a mitigation plan, which should be evaluated by City Council before the transfer is approved.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-487", "start": 3356.239, "end": 3361.811, "text": "Alternatively, alternatively, Zenith could make a mitigation plan and implement it before the sale.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-488", "start": 3362.598, "end": 3370.915, "text": "The ideal scenario would be to decommission the 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Skylar Cruz.", "speaker": "Skylar Cruz" }, { "id": "cue-495", "start": 3399.661, "end": 3401.94, "text": "I'm a resident of District District 4 here in Portland.", "speaker": "Skylar Cruz" }, { "id": "cue-496", "start": 3402.308, "end": 3409.184, "text": "Um, first off, I want to say, um, the Zenith suing the city to push along the franchise agreement— very disgusting.", "speaker": "Skylar Cruz" }, { "id": "cue-497", "start": 3409.297, "end": 3410.403, "text": "Don't like to see that at all.", "speaker": "Skylar Cruz" }, { "id": "cue-498", "start": 3410.723, "end": 3422.167, "text": "You know, part of my experience as a young person who shows up to City Hall along with a lot of other young people is the feeling that every time you speak, you are going to be silenced constantly, that your words aren't taken seriously.", "speaker": "Skylar Cruz" }, { "id": "cue-499", "start": 3422.6, "end": 3426.094, "text": "And this feels more and more true, like, the further you are away from the 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"start": 3441.91, "end": 3446.156, "text": "I think we have to really consider, like, what is actually going on here.", "speaker": "Skylar Cruz" }, { "id": "cue-508", "start": 3446.717, "end": 3450.947, "text": "We have corporations that really want to just take over and have their moneyed interests.", "speaker": "Skylar Cruz" }, { "id": "cue-509", "start": 3451.283, "end": 3454.504, "text": "And I believe in the economic, like, well-being of Portland.", "speaker": "Skylar Cruz" }, { "id": "cue-510", "start": 3454.953, "end": 3456.635, "text": "But what's going on here is really a cash grab.", "speaker": "Skylar Cruz" }, { "id": "cue-511", "start": 3456.715, "end": 3456.811, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Heather King" }, { "id": "cue-512", "start": 3460.021, "end": 3465.718, "text": "I live close to the CEI Hub, and we have just been seeing the effects of these fires recently.", "speaker": "Skylar Cruz" }, { "id": "cue-513", "start": 3466.199, "end": 3470.516, "text": "We know 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think that's the right move.", "speaker": "Skylar Cruz" }, { "id": "cue-519", "start": 3497.233, "end": 3508.142, "text": "People who don't have a lot of money but who live here and rely on this wonderful city being functional and not exploding in a giant firebomb, that's what I want to see.", "speaker": "Skylar Cruz" }, { "id": "cue-520", "start": 3508.303, "end": 3509.169, "text": "Like, this is the priority.", "speaker": "Skylar Cruz" }, { "id": "cue-521", "start": 3509.233, "end": 3509.345, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Skylar Cruz" }, { "id": "cue-522", "start": 3509.747, "end": 3512.321, "text": "You serve the people, and I want the people to be safe.", "speaker": "Skylar Cruz" }, { "id": "cue-523", "start": 3512.739, "end": 3513.672, "text": "That's my top priority.", "speaker": "Skylar Cruz" }, { "id": "cue-524", "start": 3514.171, "end": 3514.412, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Skylar Cruz" }, { "id": "cue-525", "start": 3517.002, "end": 3518.417, "text": "Lori is joining us online.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-526", "start": 3521.71, "end": 3522.857, "text": "Good morning, City Council.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-527", "start": 3523.342, "end": 3525.136, "text": "I wasn't going to testify today.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-528", "start": 3525.314, "end": 3535.961, "text": "I was simply going to stand by my colleagues who have testified against passing this, this franchise transfer today.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-529", "start": 3537.258, "end": 3541.252, "text": "I want to support Lynn Handlen, Nick Caleb, Diana Meisenhelter, and all.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-530", "start": 3541.765, "end": 3548.085, "text": "But just hearing some of the testimony from I-Square Capital, I have to say something, uh, myself.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-531", "start": 3548.422, "end": 3557.052, "text": "And that is, 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3671.909, "end": 3681.782, "text": "Our next panel includes Patricia Kohlberg, Carolyn Roderick, Max Brumm, Lindsay Hutchison, John Schroeder.", "speaker": "Victoria Burka" }, { "id": "cue-555", "start": 3688.61, "end": 3689.223, "text": "Patricia, go ahead.", "speaker": "Victoria Burka" }, { "id": "cue-556", "start": 3690.32, "end": 3690.772, "text": "Oh, okay.", "speaker": "Patricia Kohlberg" }, { "id": "cue-557", "start": 3691.208, "end": 3692.047, "text": "Um, thank you.", "speaker": "Patricia Kohlberg" }, { "id": "cue-558", "start": 3692.419, "end": 3705.884, "text": "Uh, for the record, my name is Patricia Kohlberg, and I really appreciate the opportunity to I am a retired primary care physician and public health official for Multnomah County Health Department.", "speaker": "Patricia Kohlberg" }, { "id": "cue-559", "start": 3706.14, "end": 3723.719, "text": "I'm going to start with a point I had not intended to make, but I just want to say that I've read and reviewed one of the most authoritative studies that purports to show that a life cycle analysis of renewable diesel shows a net reduction in greenhouse gases.", "speaker": "Patricia Kohlberg" }, { "id": "cue-560", "start": 3724.394, "end": 3734.417, "text": "This is a deeply flawed study and, among other problems, completely fails to take into consideration the market conditions for various feedstocks.", "speaker": "Patricia Kohlberg" }, { "id": "cue-561", "start": 3735.059, "end": 3741.934, "text": "I strongly caution the council against tethering our future to renewable diesel.", "speaker": "Patricia Kohlberg" }, { "id": "cue-562", "start": 3742.85, "end": 3749.901, "text": "Regarding Zenith, I will say, along with others, that Portland has a long history with Zenith, and it's not pretty.", "speaker": "Patricia Kohlberg" }, { "id": "cue-563", "start": 3750.56, "end": 3771.695, "text": "There have been deceptions and lies and reversals and backroom deals largely designed to circumvent our community's expressed desire not to expand fossil fuel infrastructure in our community and to effect a significant drawdown of the fuel stored and transloaded at the hub.", "speaker": "Patricia Kohlberg" }, { "id": "cue-564", "start": 3772.097, "end": 3781.173, "text": "Many of us have been left with a bad taste in our mouths and diminished faith in city bureaucracy to deal openly and honestly with the public.", "speaker": "Patricia Kohlberg" }, { "id": "cue-565", "start": 3781.897, "end": 3798.048, "text": "How can we avoid repeating that history with yet another huge corporation that has no ties to Portland and wishes to enter in— Purpose than to extract profits for shareholders, because that's what corporations do.", "speaker": "Patricia Kohlberg" }, { "id": "cue-566", "start": 3798.516, "end": 3801.629, "text": "And I Squared Capital has its own history.", "speaker": "Patricia Kohlberg" }, { "id": "cue-567", "start": 3802.452, "end": 3806.42, "text": "People have already talked about the 18 violations in the UK.", "speaker": "Patricia Kohlberg" }, { "id": "cue-568", "start": 3807.123, "end": 3810.412, "text": "Most of which were health and safety or labor violations.", "speaker": "Patricia Kohlberg" }, { "id": "cue-569", "start": 3810.492, "end": 3812.948, "text": "If this does not give you pause, it should.", "speaker": "Patricia Kohlberg" }, { "id": "cue-570", "start": 3813.686, "end": 3829.059, "text": "I urge the city to slow down the process to allow for ample community engagement, public disclosure of all relevant details of the franchise agreement, and provision for a disinterested third party to provide oversight of the agreement.", "speaker": "Patricia Kohlberg" }, { "id": "cue-571", "start": 3829.91, "end": 3833.617, "text": "Again, thank you very much for this opportunity to testify this morning.", "speaker": "Patricia Kohlberg" }, { "id": "cue-572", "start": 3833.665, "end": 3833.777, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-573", "start": 3842.144, "end": 3842.257, "text": "Lindsay.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-574", "start": 3842.775, "end": 3843.163, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-575", "start": 3844.23, "end": 3847.545, "text": "Good morning, my name is Lindsay Hutchison and I'm a resident of District 3.", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-576", "start": 3848.499, "end": 3855.026, "text": "I am very concerned about the lack of transparency the city has provided to the public on the Zenith transfer agreement and around Zenith in general.", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-577", "start": 3855.608, "end": 3859.629, "text": "The city has been operating in secrecy behind closed doors in its dealings with Zenith for years.", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-578", "start": 3860.772, "end": 3865.344, "text": "The proposed ordinance mentions a memorandum and other materials that were not made available to the public.", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-579", "start": 3866.16, "end": 3870.015, "text": "How are we supposed to testify on something when we don't know what the city is using to make their decisions?", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-580", "start": 3870.647, "end": 3876.51, "text": "These materials need to be made public before council votes on this matter, even if Zenith's lawsuit against the city tries to say otherwise.", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-581", "start": 3878.804, "end": 3884.759, "text": "Additionally, this is an opportunity for city council to strengthen the franchise agreement by adding the right to third-party enforcement.", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-582", "start": 3885.844, "end": 3890.756, "text": "The Zenith Energy bulk fuel terminal is the largest in the CEI Hub with plans to expand.", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-583", "start": 3891.126, "end": 3896.568, "text": "The CEI Hub is one of the worst public health and environmental disasters in the making as it currently stands.", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-584", "start": 3897.243, "end": 3902.541, "text": "The city has shown an unwillingness or inability to stand up to Zenith, and the public lacks faith that the city will ever do so.", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-585", "start": 3903.167, "end": 3911.435, "text": "This is especially true given Zenith's recent lawsuit against the city about this franchise agreement transfer, a blatant attempt by 2 large corporations to bulldoze over the public.", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-586", "start": 3912.093, "end": 3915.959, "text": "I thank City Council for allowing this public process to continue despite the lawsuit.", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-587", "start": 3916.809, "end": 3923.322, "text": "Adding in third-party enforcement to the franchise agreement before it is transferred to a large international entity would help promote the public's faith in the city.", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-588", "start": 3923.964, "end": 3929.835, "text": "The city would still have every right to enforce compliance, but if it dropped the ball, the public would know that they are still protected.", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-589", "start": 3930.525, "end": 3934.503, "text": "I urge the city to release the materials for public review and strengthen the franchise agreement.", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-590", "start": 3935.048, "end": 3938.289, "text": "I know the city can do better and can stand up to corporate bullies, and I hope I get to see that.", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-591", "start": 3938.353, "end": 3938.449, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Lindsay Hutchison" }, { "id": "cue-592", "start": 3942.488, "end": 3943.918, "text": "Max is joining us online.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-593", "start": 3951.49, "end": 3952.236, "text": "Hello.", "speaker": "Max Brumm" }, { "id": "cue-594", "start": 3953.958, "end": 3954.526, "text": "Go ahead, Max.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-595", "start": 3955.159, "end": 3958.196, "text": "Uh, hello, my name is Max Brumm and I'm a District 4 resident.", "speaker": "Max Brumm" }, { "id": "cue-596", "start": 3959.107, "end": 3960.95, "text": "I'm opposed to the franchise agreement transfers.", "speaker": "Max Brumm" }, { "id": "cue-597", "start": 3961.064, "end": 3987.956, "text": "The public does not have all the available information regarding this There are several documents that the city staff has not made available to the public, and I would like for that to be made available so we can get all the available information and we can bring up any other concerns that are present and not hidden behind backroom deals or hidden behind public records requests.", "speaker": "Max Brumm" }, { "id": "cue-598", "start": 3988.101, "end": 3993.095, "text": "The city and past city councils have let us down repeatedly on how Zenith has handled business in Portland.", "speaker": "Max Brumm" }, { "id": "cue-599", "start": 3994.087, "end": 4003.05, "text": "From broken laws, unwilling to enforce current agreements, shady lobbying practices, and lies that have covered two mayoral administrations.", "speaker": "Max Brumm" }, { "id": "cue-600", "start": 4004.044, "end": 4011.836, "text": "Pressure that is placed for not only signing this franchise agreement transfer, but also from the disastrous business practice that Zenith has engaged in.", "speaker": "Max Brumm" }, { "id": "cue-601", "start": 4013.183, "end": 4022.209, "text": "I ask before I ask the city to agree before the city agrees and signs the dotted line to one make sure all of the documents are made publicly available.", "speaker": "Max Brumm" }, { "id": "cue-602", "start": 4022.29, "end": 4022.55, "text": "Thank you, Mayor.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-603", "start": 4022.55, "end": 4022.55, "text": "Thank you, Mayor.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-604", "start": 4022.55, "end": 4031.48, "text": "I would ask that the mayor, one, please review the documents, 2, have reviewed and analyzed them, making sure that this decision is truly the best for the city and for the environment and for the safety of those who live here.", "speaker": "Max Brumm" }, { "id": "cue-605", "start": 4032.87, "end": 4046.69, "text": "And at a minimum, please attempt to negotiate for a third-party enforcement of this agreement so that the community and environmental organizations can ensure the terms of that agreement are upheld if the mayor continues to ignore his duties.", "speaker": "Max Brumm" }, { "id": "cue-606", "start": 4047.14, "end": 4055.657, "text": "And I just want to add one other note, too, that Um, all these lobbyists in favor of this, they are really good at what they're doing.", "speaker": "Max Brumm" }, { "id": "cue-607", "start": 4055.916, "end": 4061.825, "text": "The slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right amount of time and then shut up.", "speaker": "Max Brumm" }, { "id": "cue-608", "start": 4062.308, "end": 4063.113, "text": "Thank you for your time.", "speaker": "Max Brumm" }, { "id": "cue-609", "start": 4064.16, "end": 4072.446, "text": "All right, uh, checking to see if Carolyn Roderick is here or John Schroeder.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-610", "start": 4074.568, "end": 4088.739, "text": "Next up we have Jeremy Bossele-Smith, Emily Hawley, Jamie Partridge, Adam Harris, As folks are coming up, just want to give a sort of housekeeping announcement that we'll be taking a break just before 11 o'clock.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-611", "start": 4093.72, "end": 4095.386, "text": "Thanks.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-612", "start": 4097.505, "end": 4097.731, "text": "Go ahead.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-613", "start": 4099.947, "end": 4101.5, "text": "I'm sorry, should Jeremy go first?", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-614", "start": 4102.034, "end": 4102.31, "text": "I see him.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-615", "start": 4102.846, "end": 4104.211, "text": "Okay, go ahead, Jeremy.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-616", "start": 4105.771, "end": 4106.015, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Jeremy Bosley-Smith" }, { "id": "cue-617", "start": 4106.542, "end": 4107.585, "text": "Good morning, City Council.", "speaker": "Jeremy Bosley-Smith" }, { "id": "cue-618", "start": 4108.307, "end": 4109.639, "text": "My name is Jeremy Bosley-Smith.", "speaker": "Jeremy Bosley-Smith" }, { "id": "cue-619", "start": 4110.313, "end": 4112.191, "text": "My generation wants a livable future.", "speaker": "Jeremy Bosley-Smith" }, { "id": "cue-620", "start": 4112.399, "end": 4115.962, "text": "We want air we can breathe, water we can drink, and rivers and forests we can enjoy.", "speaker": "Jeremy Bosley-Smith" }, { "id": "cue-621", "start": 4116.652, "end": 4120.937, "text": "Over the past week, we've choked on our poisoned air that's a direct result of climate change.", "speaker": "Jeremy Bosley-Smith" }, { "id": "cue-622", "start": 4121.611, "end": 4124.532, "text": "My generation wants to live long lives, and we want to die peacefully.", "speaker": "Jeremy Bosley-Smith" }, { "id": "cue-623", "start": 4124.981, "end": 4134.484, "text": "But if we don't stand up to fossil fuel— the fossil fuel industry, their bullying— and stand up for the safety of Portlanders and protect our local democracies, We won't have that opportunity.", "speaker": "Jeremy Bosley-Smith" }, { "id": "cue-624", "start": 4135.512, "end": 4143.8, "text": "Under our city charter, Portlanders are entitled to a full legislative process, including full information about legislative items and the opportunity for public testimony.", "speaker": "Jeremy Bosley-Smith" }, { "id": "cue-625", "start": 4144.282, "end": 4156.601, "text": "Zenith Energy and I Squared Capital clearly do not want council to exercise its legislative power, so they're trying to bully you into surrendering your legislative authority and responsibility to the public on a matter of critical importance to public safety.", "speaker": "Jeremy Bosley-Smith" }, { "id": "cue-626", "start": 4157.34, "end": 4158.753, "text": "All the documents related to the fan.", "speaker": "Jeremy Bosley-Smith" }, { "id": "cue-627", "start": 4159.042, "end": 4161.547, "text": "Franchise transfer should be made public.", "speaker": "Jeremy Bosley-Smith" }, { "id": "cue-628", "start": 4161.997, "end": 4175.179, "text": "Portland residents and environmental stewards cannot evaluate the essential technical, legal, and financial information at issue or review the city administration's own evaluation of this information and conclusions without these documents being made available to the public.", "speaker": "Jeremy Bosley-Smith" }, { "id": "cue-629", "start": 4175.58, "end": 4178.439, "text": "In other words, we cannot be full participants in our democracy.", "speaker": "Jeremy Bosley-Smith" }, { "id": "cue-630", "start": 4179.257, "end": 4194.389, "text": "This refusal to give the public full information about a matter of great public interest mirrors other efforts Particularly the recent exclusion of environmental leaders from final negotiations with PGE on a controversial project impacting ancient trees in Forest Park.", "speaker": "Jeremy Bosley-Smith" }, { "id": "cue-631", "start": 4194.935, "end": 4198.036, "text": "This pattern of deceptive practices must come to an end.", "speaker": "Jeremy Bosley-Smith" }, { "id": "cue-632", "start": 4198.63, "end": 4206.069, "text": "It is past time for the city council to hold the administration accountable to basic due process, transparency, and compliance with public records requirements.", "speaker": "Jeremy Bosley-Smith" }, { "id": "cue-633", "start": 4206.503, "end": 4210.969, "text": "Council must not allow private actors or the city administration to undermine due process.", "speaker": "Jeremy Bosley-Smith" }, { "id": "cue-634", "start": 4211.643, "end": 4222.492, "text": "Until the public has received full information related to this franchise approval, there must be a presumption that the mayor and his administrators are hiding information from the public because there's something they do not want us to see.", "speaker": "Jeremy Bosley-Smith" }, { "id": "cue-635", "start": 4223.503, "end": 4230.501, "text": "I Squared Capital's own public statements demonstrate their intent to expand operations at the Zenith Energy site into a regional fuel hub.", "speaker": "Jeremy Bosley-Smith" }, { "id": "cue-636", "start": 4230.822, "end": 4234.898, "text": "This is an extremely concerning proposition and a matter of grave public interest.", "speaker": "Jeremy Bosley-Smith" }, { "id": "cue-637", "start": 4235.379, "end": 4243.71, "text": "Expansion of fuel storage at the CEI hub compounds the existing catastrophic health and safety risks of this facility for Portlanders, our rivers, and our environment.", "speaker": "Jeremy Bosley-Smith" }, { "id": "cue-638", "start": 4244.144, "end": 4253.296, "text": "We also know that I Squared Capital has a record of safety, employment, consumer protection, and environmental violations, at least in the United Kingdom, if not elsewhere.", "speaker": "Jeremy Bosley-Smith" }, { "id": "cue-639", "start": 4253.761, "end": 4262.737, "text": "At a bare minimum, Portland community members have an absolute right to review documentation related to this matter, to give public testimony, and to ask our City Council to attach conditions.", "speaker": "Jeremy Bosley-Smith" }, { "id": "cue-640", "start": 4262.833, "end": 4265.723, "text": "We must stand up to fossil fuel corporations.", "speaker": "Jeremy Bosley-Smith" }, { "id": "cue-641", "start": 4265.835, "end": 4266.333, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Jeremy Bosley-Smith" }, { "id": "cue-642", "start": 4271.658, "end": 4275.811, "text": "Chair Kanal, Vice Chairs Koyama Lane and Ryan, and committee members.", "speaker": "Emily Hawley" }, { "id": "cue-643", "start": 4275.924, "end": 4276.982, "text": "My name is Emily Hawley.", "speaker": "Emily Hawley" }, { "id": "cue-644", "start": 4277.142, "end": 4282.627, "text": "I'm a human rights lawyer and atrocity investigator with a focus on corporate accountability and such abuses.", "speaker": "Emily Hawley" }, { "id": "cue-645", "start": 4283.14, "end": 4288.721, "text": "A core limitation upon my own work is the incentive— corporate incentive structures and power.", "speaker": "Emily Hawley" }, { "id": "cue-646", "start": 4289.138, "end": 4292.089, "text": "At the end of the day, corporations are motivated by profit.", "speaker": "Emily Hawley" }, { "id": "cue-647", "start": 4292.827, "end": 4296.501, "text": "All that really matters is their obligations to shareholders and bottom lines.", "speaker": "Emily Hawley" }, { "id": "cue-648", "start": 4297.158, "end": 4303.623, "text": "And without sufficient teeth, the penalties for flouting the rules risk become simply the cost of doing business.", "speaker": "Emily Hawley" }, { "id": "cue-649", "start": 4304.698, "end": 4311.933, "text": "Zenith, with its rampant disregard for local regulations and a facility that poses an existential risk to Portland, is the archetype.", "speaker": "Emily Hawley" }, { "id": "cue-650", "start": 4312.751, "end": 4334.373, "text": "Since Zenith first exploited a loophole to swoop in, convert an asphalt facility into oil-by-rail throughput, Upon liquefiable soil on a river along the Cascadia subduction zone, Portland has witnessed successive city administrations acting to handmaiden what appears to be the equivalent of a house-flipping operation.", "speaker": "Emily Hawley" }, { "id": "cue-651", "start": 4334.983, "end": 4343.846, "text": "Xena swept in, flouted local regulations to illegally expand storage and throughput, all for the corporate equivalent of a slap on the wrist.", "speaker": "Emily Hawley" }, { "id": "cue-652", "start": 4343.959, "end": 4344.055, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Emily Hawley" }, { "id": "cue-653", "start": 4345.79, "end": 4353.407, "text": "Now Zenith hopes to exit Portland and sell the facility at a tidy profit to a company overseeing the expansion of data centers into the Amazon.", "speaker": "Emily Hawley" }, { "id": "cue-654", "start": 4354.065, "end": 4356.749, "text": "Will I Squared be any better stewards in this area?", "speaker": "Emily Hawley" }, { "id": "cue-655", "start": 4357.681, "end": 4361.136, "text": "Only if local officials create the incentives to do so.", "speaker": "Emily Hawley" }, { "id": "cue-656", "start": 4361.714, "end": 4369.797, "text": "With lucrative incentives to break the rules, it's upon governments to create strong regulatory frameworks that can compete with destructive corporate greed.", "speaker": "Emily Hawley" }, { "id": "cue-657", "start": 4370.616, "end": 4388.275, "text": "Fortunately, the 12 of you are not bound to protect Zenith's profit margins, but to steward the city of Portland, including by mitigating the cataclysmic risk posed by a looming industrial disaster at the CEI hub, which threatens the largest industrial disaster in continental US history.", "speaker": "Emily Hawley" }, { "id": "cue-658", "start": 4388.821, "end": 4395.397, "text": "When Portland is on fire, I'm sure Portlanders would be grateful that it is renewable naphtha stored in those tanks.", "speaker": "Emily Hawley" }, { "id": "cue-659", "start": 4396.52, "end": 4398.829, "text": "The community's ask for council today is easy.", "speaker": "Emily Hawley" }, { "id": "cue-660", "start": 4399.102, "end": 4407.986, "text": "We ask you do your due diligence, including exploring the possibility of conditioning approval, ensure public transparency, and allow genuine public engagement.", "speaker": "Emily Hawley" }, { "id": "cue-661", "start": 4408.708, "end": 4418.538, "text": "As of today, as demonstrated by incomplete records responses to records requests and records delays, the public has not been given the transparency they require.", "speaker": "Emily Hawley" }, { "id": "cue-662", "start": 4419.292, "end": 4423.124, "text": "This is a precondition for any decision, and it has not been met.", "speaker": "Emily Hawley" }, { "id": "cue-663", "start": 4424.343, "end": 4440.521, "text": "I would also add that I Squared plans, as the city— as the testimony showed last— in the last 2 weeks, Zenith will— the management and staff is planned to continue on through I Squared, which has been a considerable source of concern.", "speaker": "Emily Hawley" }, { "id": "cue-664", "start": 4442.138, "end": 4448.693, "text": "So we ask you today, please ensure the city is not stewarding corporate profit for the price 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"cue-680", "start": 4540.227, "end": 4544.538, "text": "If you want to turn on your video, you can, but you can go ahead and start your testimony.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-681", "start": 4551.766, "end": 4553.221, "text": "Okay, we'll come back to Diana.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-682", "start": 4554.498, "end": 4554.886, "text": "Rowan Harvey.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-683", "start": 4554.983, "end": 4555.904, "text": "Thank you, Council President.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-684", "start": 4560.237, "end": 4560.927, "text": "Hi.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-685", "start": 4561.2, "end": 4562.388, "text": "Well, good morning, councilors.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-686", "start": 4562.5, "end": 4563.832, "text": "This has been an eventful morning.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-687", "start": 4565.309, "end": 4569.176, "text": "My child is in the background, so I appreciate all the patience.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-688", "start": 4569.722, "end": 4570.893, "text": "But my name is Rowan Harvey.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-689", "start": 4571.648, "end": 4572.402, "text": "Pronouns are they/them.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-690", "start": 4572.514, "end": 4580.891, "text": "I'm a lifelong Portlander, District 3 resident, parent, and field organizer with NextUp, a political home for diverse young people to build political power.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-691", "start": 4580.972, "end": 4582.207, "text": "I'm urging you—.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-692", "start": 4582.239, "end": 4582.801, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-693", "start": 4583.058, "end": 4591.691, "text": "I'm urging you to put off the Zenith franchise agreement until there is full transparency and disclosure for the public, and maybe to get Zenith out of Portland.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-694", "start": 4592.51, "end": 4600.79, "text": "I was born at St. Vincent's in Beaverton and spent the majority of my childhood in Southeast Portland, just up the street from the Check 'n Mart on the corner of Clavel and 92nd, if anyone's familiar with that.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-695", "start": 4601.239, "end": 4605.636, "text": "I remember the mild summers we had, the downpour of rain that would drench you to the bone in any season.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-696", "start": 4605.989, "end": 4610.209, "text": "What I don't remember is weeks spent inside because it was too smoky to safely be outdoors.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-697", "start": 4610.707, "end": 4615.955, "text": "Someone else already mentioned this, but back in 2020 when we had the smoke, my youngest had just been born.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-698", "start": 4616.003, "end": 4623.499, "text": "He was an August— he's an August baby, and we had to stay inside for weeks with a newborn and 3-year-old in order to make sure that everyone could be safe.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-699", "start": 4623.547, "end": 4624.815, "text": "And luckily no one got poisoned.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-700", "start": 4625.89, "end": 4633.594, "text": "Unfortunately— and we were also part of that evacuation order— unfortunately for my children's generation, this could become normal for them.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-701", "start": 4633.819, "end": 4655.966, "text": "This is because of multiple decisions like this made over decades by city officials and administration choosing to commodify land and ignore the real risk for the communities most impacted, like young people of color, in exchange for big money from companies like Zenith that care only for profit without a single thought of the consequences on public health, the environment, or what legacy we're leaving for the next generations to take on.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-702", "start": 4656.64, "end": 4661.346, "text": "Mayor Wilson has consistently shown through his actions that public engagement is not his priority.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-703", "start": 4661.619, "end": 4664.671, "text": "Rather, he prefers to make deals behind closed doors away from the public eye.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-704", "start": 4664.8, "end": 4664.816, "text": "Aye.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-705", "start": 4665.169, "end": 4675.755, "text": "Zenith Energy replicates this pattern and is attempting once again to sneak their agenda into our city, this time through an agreement transfer so that another company can instead do it for them under a different name.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-706", "start": 4677.104, "end": 4677.458, "text": "Where did it go?", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-707", "start": 4678.807, "end": 4683.434, "text": "A company we know little about aside from the fact that they are funding data centers across the country.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-708", "start": 4683.546, "end": 4688.333, "text": "And in case you haven't heard, communities in Oregon have made it very clear we don't want data centers.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-709", "start": 4689.072, "end": 4692.79, "text": "Rushing it into a decision this critical without comprehensive input from the people thank you.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-710", "start": 4692.79, "end": 4692.79, "text": "Thank you, Councilor Dan Ryan.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-711", "start": 4692.79, "end": 4692.79, "text": "Thank you, Councilor Dan Ryan.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-712", "start": 4692.79, "end": 4694.79, "text": "The actions of the people who call this city home is unjust and unacceptable.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-713", "start": 4696.07, "end": 4702.97, "text": "Young people don't want Zenith Energy utilizing a pipeline in our city to transfer their oil, and we especially don't want them doing it right next to our river.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-714", "start": 4702.99, "end": 4710.9, "text": "We don't want to be the next national headline with a devastating oil spill that could impact the health and safety of our communities, our soil, and our water for generations to come.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-715", "start": 4710.93, "end": 4721.781, "text": "And if this new company, ISQ, has been funding data centers all over, it's not a far guess to presume that this agreement opens the door for them to build here, and I can assure you that won't go over well with the people you answer to.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-716", "start": 4722.632, "end": 4729.199, "text": "Passing this agreement today signals to the public that our concerns and our input doesn't hold value for the people we elected to represent us.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-717", "start": 4729.697, "end": 4732.972, "text": "It signals that the mayor doesn't see himself accountable to the people he represents.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-718", "start": 4733.39, "end": 4743.794, "text": "It signals to young people we represent, who are often the loudest voices in the room for climate change, that the future you're envisioning doesn't include them, and that the impact of your decisions felt by them means nothing.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-719", "start": 4744.003, "end": 4747.311, "text": "And maybe you won't feel the impact, but your family's next generation dwell.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-720", "start": 4747.81, "end": 4754.991, "text": "So I urge you to push this vote until public input has been gathered, until we actually have a transparent process, and just get it done faster.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-721", "start": 4755.201, "end": 4755.861, "text": "Thank you for your time.", "speaker": "Rowan Harvey" }, { "id": "cue-722", "start": 4760.704, "end": 4761.942, "text": "All right, uh, Adam.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-723", "start": 4765.517, "end": 4766.848, "text": "Hello, I'm Adam Harris.", "speaker": "Adam Harris" }, { "id": "cue-724", "start": 4766.913, "end": 4767.563, "text": "I live in District 3.", "speaker": "Adam Harris" }, { "id": "cue-725", "start": 4768.212, "end": 4772.077, "text": "First off, I, and I'm sure others, had to take off time, time off work today to testify.", "speaker": "Adam Harris" }, { "id": "cue-726", "start": 4772.756, "end": 4775.598, "text": "And I really hope there can be more regular evening sessions in the future.", "speaker": "Adam Harris" }, { "id": "cue-727", "start": 4776.16, "end": 4778.232, "text": "I'm testifying strongly against this transfer.", "speaker": "Adam Harris" }, { "id": "cue-728", "start": 4778.794, "end": 4789.809, "text": "While Portland does need some fuels, having them in one concentrated place on unstable soil and right next to the river has always been terrible for the city at any time, especially in the event of a disaster.", "speaker": "Adam Harris" }, { "id": "cue-729", "start": 4790.435, "end": 4793.967, "text": "And the current smoke is barely a sample of what we would get if something bad happened there.", "speaker": "Adam Harris" }, { "id": "cue-730", "start": 4794.529, "end": 4797.773, "text": "If this deal is approved, I Squared Capital wants to expand their chemical storage at the hub.", "speaker": "Adam Harris" }, { "id": "cue-731", "start": 4797.821, "end": 4797.965, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Adam Harris" }, { "id": "cue-732", "start": 4798.64, "end": 4802.277, "text": "Instead, the city should be concentrating its efforts to draw down and close the hub as soon as possible.", "speaker": "Adam Harris" }, { "id": "cue-733", "start": 4803.117, "end": 4812.116, "text": "And while they promote an increase in biofuel storage in an effort to make the facility seem more appealing, biofuels, once made, are no less hazardous and just as dangerous to store in that location.", "speaker": "Adam Harris" }, { "id": "cue-734", "start": 4813.77, "end": 4818.334, "text": "The company— companies are already suing the city, claiming the process is too slow for them.", "speaker": "Adam Harris" }, { "id": "cue-735", "start": 4819.028, "end": 4823.609, "text": "Considering only their bottom line and not any care about Portland, they're already acting in bad faith.", "speaker": "Adam Harris" }, { "id": "cue-736", "start": 4828.68, "end": 4833.47, "text": "Previous administrations have been strangely kind to Zenith, somehow never finding fault with their operations.", "speaker": "Adam Harris" }, { "id": "cue-737", "start": 4834.23, "end": 4843.65, "text": "Mayor Wilson, in addition to bringing this matter to the council, has ignored serious problems in Zenith's practices, and Mayor Wilson has repeatedly ignored environmental groups in Portland who have confronted him about these issues.", "speaker": "Adam Harris" }, { "id": "cue-738", "start": 4844.37, "end": 4850.65, "text": "If this deal is allowed to go through, before it does, the council needs to add serious third-party oversight and enforcement to their operations.", "speaker": "Adam Harris" }, { "id": "cue-739", "start": 4850.65, "end": 4854.662, "text": "Councilmember Wilson, To ensure their responsibility and stop any further backroom dealings.", "speaker": "Adam Harris" }, { "id": "cue-740", "start": 4856.01, "end": 4866.977, "text": "Even though these companies would much rather Portland not be allowed to express our concerns about this facility that affects everyone in the city, I encourage everyone who can to testify and write to the councilors with their thoughts on this next time this comes to council.", "speaker": "Adam Harris" }, { "id": "cue-741", "start": 4868.117, "end": 4875.937, "text": "The operation of the CEI Hub— and I hate that name— and its presence in the city at all is a much bigger deal and a greater danger than some of you councilors seem to fully realize.", "speaker": "Adam Harris" }, { "id": "cue-742", "start": 4875.985, "end": 4876.081, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Adam Harris" }, { "id": "cue-743", "start": 4876.945, "end": 4884.205, "text": "I strongly encourage all of you not to buckle to their pressure to rush and instead fight for the city's safety and think long-term about the future of Portland.", "speaker": "Adam Harris" }, { "id": "cue-744", "start": 4885.807, "end": 4887.643, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-745", "start": 4889.027, "end": 4889.591, "text": "Robin.", "speaker": "Adam Harris" }, { "id": "cue-746", "start": 4890.637, "end": 4891.41, "text": "Hi, city councilors.", "speaker": "Robin Bogusevic" }, { "id": "cue-747", "start": 4891.668, "end": 4895.018, "text": "Um, my name is Robin Bogusevic and I'm a resident of District 4.", "speaker": "Robin Bogusevic" }, { "id": "cue-748", "start": 4895.859, "end": 4900.611, "text": "Uh, there are some massive issues with re-signing this franchise agreement as it currently stands.", "speaker": "Robin Bogusevic" }, { "id": "cue-749", "start": 4901.355, "end": 4904.93, "text": "Uh, the biggest one is that it has simply been ineffective at thank you, Mayor.", "speaker": "Robin Bogusevic" }, { "id": "cue-750", "start": 4904.93, "end": 4904.93, "text": "Thank you, Mayor.", "speaker": "Robin Bogusevic" }, { "id": "cue-751", "start": 4904.93, "end": 4907.11, "text": "I'm here to speak out in support of Councilmember Herbold's motion to reject holding Zenith Energy accountable.", "speaker": "Robin Bogusevic" }, { "id": "cue-752", "start": 4907.11, "end": 4921.48, "text": "Across 2 mayoral administrations, the city has repeatedly failed to enforce the franchise agreement, and rubber stamping that same ineffective agreement without any meaningful public review or accountability would be a critical mistake for our critical energy infrastructure.", "speaker": "Robin Bogusevic" }, { "id": "cue-753", "start": 4922.44, "end": 4926.85, "text": "I'm really concerned about the lack of transparency around this transfer.", "speaker": "Robin Bogusevic" }, { "id": "cue-754", "start": 4927.07, "end": 4933.3, "text": "Community confidence is already really low because of Zenith's long history of violating the public's trust.", "speaker": "Robin Bogusevic" }, { "id": "cue-755", "start": 4934.297, "end": 4942.623, "text": "It's your job as council to insist that oversight actually happens and to make sure this agreement actually protects Portlanders rather than some corporation.", "speaker": "Robin Bogusevic" }, { "id": "cue-756", "start": 4944.29, "end": 4946.789, "text": "Also, do we even know who this I Squared Corporation is?", "speaker": "Robin Bogusevic" }, { "id": "cue-757", "start": 4947.386, "end": 4950.467, "text": "They don't appear to have any real history or stake in Portland.", "speaker": "Robin Bogusevic" }, { "id": "cue-758", "start": 4951.01, "end": 4960.109, "text": "From what I've been able to find, I Squared is a private equity firm that invests heavily in some pretty hot markets Uh, mostly data centers and fossil fuels.", "speaker": "Robin Bogusevic" }, { "id": "cue-759", "start": 4960.928, "end": 4966.562, "text": "Apparently it also has plans to expand the CEI facility into a more regional fuel hub.", "speaker": "Robin Bogusevic" }, { "id": "cue-760", "start": 4966.803, "end": 4970.03, "text": "This likely means more of those bomb trains moving through Portland.", "speaker": "Robin Bogusevic" }, { "id": "cue-761", "start": 4970.72, "end": 4975.921, "text": "Just within recent memory, in early July, we had a Union Pacific train derail near the Steel Bridge.", "speaker": "Robin Bogusevic" }, { "id": "cue-762", "start": 4977.157, "end": 4980.095, "text": "We got really, really lucky that railcar was empty.", "speaker": "Robin Bogusevic" }, { "id": "cue-763", "start": 4980.914, "end": 4984.269, "text": "Frankly, with our lack of major earthquakes, Portland has been incredibly lucky in general.", "speaker": "Robin Bogusevic" }, { "id": "cue-764", "start": 4984.317, "end": 4984.445, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Robin Bogusevic" }, { "id": "cue-765", "start": 4985.023, "end": 4990.354, "text": "But every time a train carrying explosive fuel rolls over that bridge to the CEI hub, we're rolling the dice.", "speaker": "Robin Bogusevic" }, { "id": "cue-766", "start": 4991.189, "end": 4993.678, "text": "And how lucky are we really willing to be?", "speaker": "Robin Bogusevic" }, { "id": "cue-767", "start": 4994.994, "end": 5000.919, "text": "If this transfer moves forward, we can't let it happen on blind faith to a shadowy private equity firm.", "speaker": "Robin Bogusevic" }, { "id": "cue-768", "start": 5001.305, "end": 5008.113, "text": "This needs to come with actual public scrutiny and actual third-party oversight, and it has to come with some form of actual enforcement.", "speaker": "Robin Bogusevic" }, { "id": "cue-769", "start": 5009.012, "end": 5014.076, "text": "Otherwise, we're just thank you very much.", "speaker": "Robin Bogusevic" }, { "id": "cue-770", "start": 5016.853, "end": 5017.303, "text": "Deanna.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-771", "start": 5023.755, "end": 5024.821, "text": "You're muted, Deanna.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-772", "start": 5028.442, "end": 5029.881, "text": "Hello, Deanna Richardson.", "speaker": "Diana Richardson" }, { "id": "cue-773", "start": 5031.029, "end": 5032.791, "text": "Good morning, City Council.", "speaker": "Diana Richardson" }, { "id": "cue-774", "start": 5033.78, "end": 5035.809, "text": "I had not planned to testify this morning.", "speaker": "Diana Richardson" }, { "id": "cue-775", "start": 5035.859, 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"text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Diana Richardson" }, { "id": "cue-781", "start": 5091.929, "end": 5092.346, "text": "Go ahead, sir.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-782", "start": 5093.052, "end": 5095.25, "text": "Hello, Committee of the Whole.", "speaker": "Anthony Resch" }, { "id": "cue-783", "start": 5095.538, "end": 5100.672, "text": "My name is Anthony Resch, and I am a District 3 resident and make under $19 an hour.", "speaker": "Anthony Resch" }, { "id": "cue-784", "start": 5101.217, "end": 5106.976, "text": "I also wanted to say greetings to the vampire suits at Zenith and I Squared, who make a bit more than $19 an hour, I would assume.", "speaker": "Anthony Resch" }, { "id": "cue-785", "start": 5107.65, "end": 5115.799, "text": "The citizens see you suing the city to stop testimony processes so you can transport a bomb through my city, risking countless lives and infrastructure.", "speaker": "Anthony Resch" }, { "id": "cue-786", "start": 5116.633, "end": 5127.029, "text": "It's disgusting to know the risk of the risk of charred flesh and liquefied fat of human beings in Portland has a monetary sum, but I'm sure your accountants could tell me about how much that is.", "speaker": "Anthony Resch" }, { "id": "cue-787", "start": 5127.927, "end": 5134.568, "text": "As you all step outside today, I want you to look at the eerie orange haze and thick choking smoke that wafts over the entire city.", "speaker": "Anthony Resch" }, { "id": "cue-788", "start": 5135.242, "end": 5137.76, "text": "I want you all to realize that more of this is coming.", "speaker": "Anthony Resch" }, { "id": "cue-789", "start": 5138.29, "end": 5146.439, "text": "We can sit around here and recycle beer bottles and do peace signs and greenwash, but the 45,287 fires that have happened in the U.S. this year will be increasing.", "speaker": "Anthony Resch" }, { "id": "cue-790", "start": 5146.953, "end": 5149.633, "text": "And we will be dealing with this again and again and again.", "speaker": "Anthony Resch" }, { "id": "cue-791", "start": 5150.548, "end": 5151.929, "text": "I don't even really know what to say here.", "speaker": "Anthony Resch" }, { "id": "cue-792", "start": 5152.009, "end": 5154.144, "text": "I don't have these incredible speeches.", "speaker": "Anthony Resch" }, { "id": "cue-793", "start": 5154.561, "end": 5158.766, "text": "I don't have the same data figures that these other people have.", "speaker": "Anthony Resch" }, { "id": "cue-794", "start": 5158.831, "end": 5164.4, "text": "But why does a deal need to be shuffled through the door this quickly so its own citizens don't even get to see the whole process?", "speaker": "Anthony Resch" }, { "id": "cue-795", "start": 5164.77, "end": 5165.267, "text": "Is rent due?", "speaker": "Anthony Resch" }, { "id": "cue-796", "start": 5165.733, "end": 5166.792, "text": "Does the sale need to happen?", "speaker": "Anthony Resch" }, { "id": "cue-797", "start": 5166.84, "end": 5168.638, "text": "Or is Keith Wilson's pizza party canceled?", "speaker": "Anthony Resch" }, { "id": "cue-798", "start": 5168.782, "end": 5169.44, "text": "I don't really get it.", "speaker": "Anthony Resch" }, { "id": "cue-799", "start": 5169.826, "end": 5176.374, "text": "If you really want to expand the operations of the CEI hub and sell it to private equity corporation, Thanked by the Trump administration.", "speaker": "Anthony Resch" }, { "id": "cue-800", "start": 5176.712, "end": 5188.765, "text": "You can at least go through legal channels and show all of us the details and not use expensive lawyers to silence one of the last processes we as working-class Portlanders have to slow the liquefaction of human existence for material wealth.", "speaker": "Anthony Resch" }, { "id": "cue-801", "start": 5189.311, "end": 5192.986, "text": "City Council, I'm just asking you, do not— please just don't rush this deal.", "speaker": "Anthony Resch" }, { "id": "cue-802", "start": 5193.243, "end": 5194.238, "text": 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doesn't necessarily mean any particular outcome.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-810", "start": 5217.18, "end": 5221.853, "text": "If we end this topic by 12, we'll have the chance to do the Vision Zero topic in full.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-811", "start": 5221.901, "end": 5225.658, "text": "If we end it by 12:15, we'll at least hear the 4 testifiers on that item.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-812", "start": 5226.158, "end": 5227.649, "text": "Um, if not, then we won't be able to do that.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-813", "start": 5227.713, "end": 5229.091, "text": "Just wanted to give that context.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-814", "start": 5229.561, "end": 5231.7, "text": "Um, we'll be back at 11:02.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-815", "start": 5231.992, "end": 5232.17, "text": "Thanks.", "speaker": "Unidentified speaker" }, { "id": "cue-816", "start": 6127.64, "end": 6132.573, "text": "All right, thank you.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-817", "start": 6132.622, "end": 6136.294, "text": "We're now back, and Keelan, if you could please call up the next panel when you're ready.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-818", "start": 6141.14, "end": 6145.586, "text": "Okay, uh, from the last panel, Diana Lobo, are you here?", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-819", "start": 6147.128, "end": 6156.817, "text": "Okay, our next panel includes Mark D'Arienzo, Elaina Garcia, Adam Smith, Lillian Weaver, Ruth Dallas.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-820", "start": 6160.415, "end": 6162.003, "text": "Lillian is online.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-821", "start": 6163.71, "end": 6167.292, "text": "Yeah, hi, um, thank you for having me.", "speaker": "Lillian Weaver" }, { "id": "cue-822", "start": 6168.406, "end": 6172.925, "text": "Uh, my name is Lillian Weaver and I am a PhD student at Portland State.", "speaker": "Lillian Weaver" }, { "id": "cue-823", "start": 6173.767, "end": 6178.683, "text": "Studying environmental justice and community emergency preparedness issues around the CEI Hub.", "speaker": "Lillian Weaver" }, { "id": "cue-824", "start": 6178.924, "end": 6185.558, "text": "The I Squared deal is another example of backroom dealings between the City of Portland and big oil businesses.", "speaker": "Lillian Weaver" }, { "id": "cue-825", "start": 6185.992, "end": 6195.165, "text": "The city has repeatedly not enforced franchise agreements with Zenith, and I have no trust that this will change with I Squared, especially given the lack of transparency in the current process.", "speaker": "Lillian Weaver" }, { "id": "cue-826", "start": 6195.952, "end": 6200.675, "text": "Given this, I ask the council to create a process for third-party enforcement of the agreement.", "speaker": "Lillian Weaver" }, { "id": "cue-827", "start": 6200.723, "end": 6200.835, "text": "Second.", "speaker": "Lillian Weaver" }, { "id": "cue-828", "start": 6201.653, "end": 6208.515, "text": "Additionally, I Squared has indicated that they, they intend to expand Zenith, the Zenith site, for renewable fuels.", "speaker": "Lillian Weaver" }, { "id": "cue-829", "start": 6209.51, "end": 6222.545, "text": "Renewables is a, is a sparkly and distracting word, but especially given my, my studies of this topic, I've found that renewables are no safer for surrounding communities than other types of fuels.", "speaker": "Lillian Weaver" }, { "id": "cue-830", "start": 6222.737, "end": 6225.239, "text": "Any fuel expansion at the hub increases risk.", "speaker": "Lillian Weaver" }, { "id": "cue-831", "start": 6226.265, "end": 6229.247, "text": "Further, there has been a lack of transparency throughout this process.", "speaker": "Lillian Weaver" }, { "id": "cue-832", "start": 6229.295, "end": 6229.439, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Lillian Weaver" }, { "id": "cue-833", "start": 6230.189, "end": 6237.577, "text": "The public deserves access to all of the materials and documents related to the agreement and sufficient time to understand how they will impact our lives.", "speaker": "Lillian Weaver" }, { "id": "cue-834", "start": 6238.46, "end": 6243.889, "text": "The mayor and city attorneys are pushing to make this transfer happen without allowing the public access to vital information.", "speaker": "Lillian Weaver" }, { "id": "cue-835", "start": 6244.554, "end": 6248.505, "text": "I am asking you to stand up to this pressure and make this a just and fair process.", "speaker": "Lillian Weaver" }, { "id": "cue-836", "start": 6249.085, "end": 6249.391, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Lillian Weaver" }, { "id": "cue-837", "start": 6250.39, "end": 6250.761, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-838", "start": 6254.645, "end": 6256.079, "text": "Ruth is online.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-839", "start": 6263.277, "end": 6269.859, "text": "Ruth, you're muted.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-840", "start": 6272.536, "end": 6274.233, "text": "Hi, my name is Ruth Dallas.", "speaker": "Ruth Dallas" }, { "id": "cue-841", "start": 6274.944, "end": 6282.745, "text": "I am a resident of District 2, and I had prepared testimony, but I'm just going to reduce it to 2 points.", "speaker": "Ruth Dallas" }, { "id": "cue-842", "start": 6283.393, "end": 6292.76, "text": "One is that renewable fuels are only renewable if really reducing reductions in greenhouse gases if they're made from waste fuels.", "speaker": "Ruth Dallas" }, { "id": "cue-843", "start": 6293.274, "end": 6299.91, "text": "There is nowhere enough, nearly enough, not even a fraction of enough waste fuels available to make these fuels.", "speaker": "Ruth Dallas" }, { "id": "cue-844", "start": 6300.344, "end": 6308.972, "text": "Instead, they'll be made in the Global South, cutting down all sorts of food crops and planting just soy and palm oil.", "speaker": "Ruth Dallas" }, { "id": "cue-845", "start": 6309.406, "end": 6311.896, "text": "To make these fuels, and then they are no longer renewable.", "speaker": "Ruth Dallas" }, { "id": "cue-846", "start": 6311.992, "end": 6316.458, "text": "They barely make a dent or sometimes are just as polluting as fossil fuels.", "speaker": "Ruth Dallas" }, { "id": "cue-847", "start": 6317.052, "end": 6319.156, "text": "My other point is what several other people have said.", "speaker": "Ruth Dallas" }, { "id": "cue-848", "start": 6319.622, "end": 6329.276, "text": "If Square One is being honest and they're going to be good partners and they really are going to do renewable fuels, then let us see the agreement.", "speaker": "Ruth Dallas" }, { "id": "cue-849", "start": 6329.404, "end": 6330.85, "text": "Why is the agreement a secret?", "speaker": "Ruth Dallas" }, { "id": "cue-850", "start": 6331.268, "end": 6334.528, "text": "We should all be able to look at it, and there should be third-party verification.", "speaker": "Ruth Dallas" }, { "id": "cue-851", "start": 6334.576, "end": 6334.737, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Ruth Dallas" }, { "id": "cue-852", "start": 6335.043, "end": 6335.847, "text": "Thank you very much.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-853", "start": 6336.635, "end": 6337.375, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-854", "start": 6338.405, "end": 6345.764, "text": "Okay, from this panel, just checking to see if Mark D'Arienzo is here, Helena Garcia, and Adam Smith.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-855", "start": 6347.962, "end": 6356.174, "text": "Moving on to the next panel, Ben Latson, Will Rasmussen, Stephanie McBarron, Jonathan Nash, Elena Barecki.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-856", "start": 6361.904, "end": 6363.924, "text": "Go ahead.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-857", "start": 6364.693, "end": 6365.062, "text": "Good morning.", "speaker": "Will Rasmussen" }, { "id": "cue-858", "start": 6365.334, "end": 6368.172, "text": "I'm Will Rasmussen, administrative law lawyer at Miller Nash.", "speaker": "Will Rasmussen" }, { "id": "cue-859", "start": 6368.717, "end": 6372.452, "text": "Been practicing for 20 years, and Miller Nash has been in this town for 150 years.", "speaker": "Will Rasmussen" }, { "id": "cue-860", "start": 6373.51, "end": 6380.707, "text": "I am advising Skyline Renewables on the proposed acquisition, including the limited franchise agreement that's at issue in this hearing.", "speaker": "Will Rasmussen" }, { "id": "cue-861", "start": 6381.525, "end": 6384.763, "text": "I urge the council to approve and give its consent to this transfer.", "speaker": "Will Rasmussen" }, { "id": "cue-862", "start": 6385.452, "end": 6388.674, "text": "I am just going to touch on 2 really short points today.", "speaker": "Will Rasmussen" }, { "id": "cue-863", "start": 6389.38, "end": 6392.49, "text": 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"start": 6440.253, "end": 6441.685, "text": "It's not about the terminal.", "speaker": "Will Rasmussen" }, { "id": "cue-875", "start": 6442.248, "end": 6444.582, "text": "And there's only one issue about the pipes and the right-of-way.", "speaker": "Will Rasmussen" }, { "id": "cue-876", "start": 6444.662, "end": 6448.413, "text": "Does I Squared have the technical, legal, and financial ability to operate those pipes?", "speaker": "Will Rasmussen" }, { "id": "cue-877", "start": 6449.987, "end": 6450.822, "text": "It clearly does.", "speaker": "Will Rasmussen" }, { "id": "cue-878", "start": 6451.833, "end": 6458.881, "text": "Council has heard a lot of testimony so far today about a number of things that are other than those narrow issues.", "speaker": "Will Rasmussen" }, { "id": "cue-879", "start": 6459.651, "end": 6465.993, "text": "Folks spoke about the terminal and its tanks as opposed to the limited number of pipes that cross Front Avenue.", "speaker": "Will Rasmussen" }, { "id": "cue-880", "start": 6466.924, "end": 6476.251, "text": "Other people talked about Zenith and its past actions and the recent investigation the city did, as opposed to Ice Squared and its ability to operate those pipes.", "speaker": "Will Rasmussen" }, { "id": "cue-881", "start": 6477.179, "end": 6488.227, "text": "And many people gave compelling testimony about the realities of climate change in Portland, Oregon, as opposed to the terms of the agreement that govern this franchise transfer.", "speaker": "Will Rasmussen" }, { "id": "cue-882", "start": 6491.506, "end": 6493.889, "text": "Those broader concerns are fair and important.", "speaker": "Will Rasmussen" }, { "id": "cue-883", "start": 6494.343, "end": 6496.548, "text": "They're just not the decision in front of this council today.", "speaker": "Will Rasmussen" }, { "id": "cue-884", "start": 6497.696, "end": 6502.092, "text": "I Squared is well more than qualified to operate these pipes in the right-of-way.", "speaker": "Will 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"cue-897", "start": 6551.946, "end": 6555.205, "text": "I would just respectfully ask this committee to approve the consent.", "speaker": "Will Rasmussen" }, { "id": "cue-898", "start": 6555.59, "end": 6561.57, "text": "And I would say if I Squared doesn't operate or doesn't qualify to invest in the City of Portland, I don't know who would.", "speaker": "Will Rasmussen" }, { "id": "cue-899", "start": 6562.235, "end": 6562.51, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Will Rasmussen" }, { "id": "cue-900", "start": 6566.044, "end": 6574.026, "text": "Okay, in this panel is Ben Ladson, Stephanie McBarren, Jonathan Nash, or Elena Burecki here?", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-901", "start": 6576.745, "end": 6580.786, "text": "Next up we have Cassie Cohen, Calliope Ruskin, Sharice Buck.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-902", "start": 6597.623, "end": 6599.226, "text": "Am I up?", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-903", "start": 6600.172, "end": 6601.903, "text": "Hi, my name is Calliope Ruskin.", "speaker": "Calliope Ruskin" }, { "id": "cue-904", "start": 6602.256, "end": 6606.312, "text": "I'm a constituent of District 2, but I'm a rising junior at Lewis& Clark College in District 4.", "speaker": "Calliope Ruskin" }, { "id": "cue-905", "start": 6607.386, "end": 6609.053, "text": "I grew up protesting fossil fuels.", "speaker": "Calliope Ruskin" }, { "id": "cue-906", "start": 6609.55, "end": 6612.195, "text": "I remember the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.", "speaker": "Calliope Ruskin" }, { "id": "cue-907", "start": 6612.532, "end": 6613.127, "text": "I was 4.", "speaker": "Calliope Ruskin" }, { "id": "cue-908", "start": 6614.782, "end": 6618.317, "text": "I was a child when I knew that the Deepwater Horizon killed 11 people.", "speaker": "Calliope Ruskin" }, { "id": "cue-909", "start": 6618.703, "end": 6624.519, "text": "I— an additional 82,000 birds, 6,000 sea turtles, and 25,000 marine animals were harmed or killed.", "speaker": "Calliope Ruskin" }, { "id": "cue-910", "start": 6625.307, "end": 6632.335, "text": "A disaster of higher magnitude can occur in our river at the hands of Zenith Energy, its employees, and now I Squared Capital.", "speaker": "Calliope Ruskin" }, { "id": "cue-911", "start": 6633.712, "end": 6635.391, "text": "Why haven't you learned from BP?", "speaker": "Calliope Ruskin" }, { "id": "cue-912", "start": 6636.053, "end": 6639.574, "text": "Why haven't you learned from the explosions from oil trains?", "speaker": "Calliope Ruskin" }, { "id": "cue-913", "start": 6639.945, "end": 6641.883, "text": "Our blast zone encompasses over 1/4 of the city.", "speaker": "Calliope Ruskin" }, { "id": "cue-914", "start": 6641.947, "end": 6642.222, "text": "Councilor Smith.", "speaker": "Calliope Ruskin" }, { "id": "cue-915", "start": 6644.18, "end": 6646.089, "text": "Why haven't you learned from pipeline failures?", "speaker": "Calliope Ruskin" }, { "id": "cue-916", "start": 6647.068, "end": 6653.599, "text": "I've learned that I can't trust my elected officials to fight against oil companies, but I'm here to beg you, please don't make it worse.", "speaker": "Calliope Ruskin" }, { "id": "cue-917", "start": 6654.53, "end": 6663.5, "text": "Stand strong against fossil industry bullies and their bogus greenwashing claims and continue to allow us to do our civil duty of testimony and public access to documentation.", "speaker": "Calliope Ruskin" }, { "id": "cue-918", "start": 6664.254, "end": 6666.228, "text": "I beg of you, no more backroom deals.", "speaker": "Calliope Ruskin" }, { "id": "cue-919", "start": 6667.624, "end": 6670.882, "text": "Zenith and I Square don't want you to hear our voices because we know the truth.", "speaker": "Calliope Ruskin" }, { "id": "cue-920", "start": 6671.459, "end": 6673.369, "text": "They are a danger to our city and ourselves.", "speaker": "Calliope Ruskin" }, { "id": "cue-921", "start": 6674.348, "end": 6680.221, "text": "I implore this council to explore a third-party enforcement condition or provision of this franchise agreement.", "speaker": "Calliope Ruskin" }, { "id": "cue-922", "start": 6680.782, "end": 6684.152, "text": "The public has no trust in neither Zenith nor I Squared nor the mayor.", "speaker": "Calliope Ruskin" }, { "id": "cue-923", "start": 6684.714, "end": 6688.051, "text": "A third party would hold all parties accountable for their actions.", "speaker": "Calliope Ruskin" }, { "id": "cue-924", "start": 6689.191, "end": 6694.855, "text": "I ask that there is a full and complete review of this franchise agreement with ample opportunities for public input.", "speaker": "Calliope Ruskin" }, { "id": "cue-925", "start": 6695.465, "end": 6701.097, "text": "Despite many records requests, the public does not have access to the full evaluations of the proposed franchise agreement.", "speaker": "Calliope Ruskin" }, { "id": "cue-926", "start": 6701.145, "end": 6701.289, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Calliope Ruskin" }, { "id": "cue-927", "start": 6701.722, "end": 6702.813, "text": "Please release them.", "speaker": "Calliope Ruskin" }, { "id": "cue-928", "start": 6704.209, "end": 6711.509, "text": "Plus, council must pass a separate emergency resolution preventing fuel expansion permits until the CEI Hub policy has been implemented.", "speaker": "Calliope Ruskin" }, { "id": "cue-929", "start": 6712.777, "end": 6720.301, "text": "When the big one happens, and it will, the CEI Hub will dump 90% of Oregon's oil and 100% of its jet fuel into the Willamette.", "speaker": "Calliope Ruskin" }, { "id": "cue-930", "start": 6720.815, "end": 6722.018, "text": "How many animals will die?", "speaker": "Calliope Ruskin" }, { "id": "cue-931", "start": 6722.644, "end": 6724.023, "text": "How many people will die?", "speaker": "Calliope Ruskin" }, { "id": "cue-932", "start": 6724.665, "end": 6726.719, "text": "Their blood will be on these companies' hands.", "speaker": "Calliope Ruskin" }, { "id": "cue-933", "start": 6727.302, "end": 6728.214, "text": "Do you trust them?", "speaker": "Calliope Ruskin" }, { "id": "cue-934", "start": 6729.501, "end": 6731.277, "text": "Because our blood is in your hands.", "speaker": "Calliope Ruskin" }, { "id": "cue-935", "start": 6736.4, "end": 6740.019, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-936", "start": 6741.74, "end": 6743.558, "text": "Is Cassie online?", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-937", "start": 6745.296, "end": 6745.521, "text": "Okay.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-938", "start": 6746.827, "end": 6747.987, "text": "Good morning, City Council.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-939", "start": 6748.197, "end": 6749.696, "text": "My name is Charisse Bach, she/her.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-940", "start": 6750.292, "end": 6753.339, "text": "I'm the climate policy director at 350 PDX.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-941", "start": 6753.876, "end": 6764.966, "text": "And we represent thousands of people around the Portland area for whom Zenith and the CEI Hub has been a major source of concern for the last decade.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-942", "start": 6766.72, "end": 6779.133, "text": "You've heard eloquent and informative testimony before me about what is at stake, the way Zenith Energy has gone back on its word, the extreme danger their bomb trains and toxic tanks pose to the public and the environment.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-943", "start": 6779.692, "end": 6787.672, "text": "The dubious claims of renewable and sustainable fuels, and the need to renegotiate a franchise agreement that's enforceable with third-party oversight.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-944", "start": 6788.585, "end": 6792.079, "text": "Many of us submitted a joint letter detailing our concerns.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-945", "start": 6793.553, "end": 6805.251, "text": "To what has already been shared, I want to add that we want City Council to pass an emergency resolution preventing new or renewed fuel permits until the CEI Hub policy project has passed and is in effect.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-946", "start": 6806.845, "end": 6819.828, "text": "If I Squared is serious about reducing its climate impact, they will want to partner with Portland to create a new franchise agreement that will reduce emissions and increase safety through a transparent and community-engaged process.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-947", "start": 6821.78, "end": 6832.216, "text": "And so I want to use some of my time to invite us to pause and take a moment to reflect as human beings who get to steward this place.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-948", "start": 6832.333, "end": 6832.434, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-949", "start": 6832.756, "end": 6834.534, "text": "For the present and the future.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-950", "start": 6838.64, "end": 6848.893, "text": "Today we can see and feel the impacts of climate change in the smoke blanketing our region, in the very color of the light.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-951", "start": 6850.533, "end": 6852.315, "text": "Take a moment to feel it in your body.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-952", "start": 6858.544, "end": 6865.379, "text": "I feel it in the back of my throat, in my itchy eyes, in the tension in my shoulders of having to be on alert.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-953", "start": 6868.166, "end": 6871.585, "text": "Now take a moment to reflect on the Portland that you want to see.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-954", "start": 6873.166, "end": 6874.376, "text": "What would our rivers look like?", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-955", "start": 6875.505, "end": 6876.779, "text": "What would it feel like to breathe?", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-956", "start": 6877.61, "end": 6879.026, "text": "What would we see when we look around?", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-957", "start": 6883.788, "end": 6885.963, "text": "I do this work partially because I'm a mom.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-958", "start": 6888.586, "end": 6891.5, "text": "Last night, my teenager and I were talking about the future.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-959", "start": 6895.25, "end": 6902.122, "text": "I want all of us to be able to look my teenager in the eye and say we're cleaning up this mess so that they don't have to.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-960", "start": 6905.662, "end": 6911.89, "text": "Now is a unique moment of inflection, a moment that doesn't come along every day.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-961", "start": 6911.973, "end": 6912.106, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-962", "start": 6913.177, "end": 6918.35, "text": "Where you and we have the power to change the terms of this agreement.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-963", "start": 6922.83, "end": 6930.125, "text": "So please take this moment to renegotiate the terms and start moving into the direction of the Portland that we want to see.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-964", "start": 6931.17, "end": 6931.398, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-965", "start": 6935.024, "end": 6935.367, "text": "Cassie.", "speaker": "Ruth Dallas" }, { "id": "cue-966", "start": 6945.114, "end": 6946.447, "text": "Good morning, committee leaders.", "speaker": "Cassie Cohen" }, { "id": "cue-967", "start": 6946.543, "end": 6947.892, "text": "My name is Cassie Cohen.", "speaker": "Cassie Cohen" }, { "id": "cue-968", "start": 6948.069, "end": 6955.326, "text": "I am a second-generation Portlander and executive director of the Portland Harbor Community Coalition.", "speaker": "Cassie Cohen" }, { "id": "cue-969", "start": 6956.434, "end": 6964.077, "text": "Do you recall the pre-existing liability that already exists for the City of Portland to clean up the Portland Harbor Superfund site?", "speaker": "Cassie Cohen" }, { "id": "cue-970", "start": 6964.141, "end": 6964.189, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Cassie Cohen" }, { "id": "cue-971", "start": 6965.167, "end": 6967.604, "text": "Cleanup is supposed to start in 2 years.", "speaker": "Cassie Cohen" }, { "id": "cue-972", "start": 6968.534, "end": 6979.035, "text": "Allowing I Squared Capital to qualify to operate pipes at the edge of the river will continue a heightened risk of recontamination of the river.", "speaker": "Cassie Cohen" }, { "id": "cue-973", "start": 6979.452, "end": 6990.882, "text": "It pains me that corporations such as I Squared Capital calculate the risk of spills and explosions of their infrastructure, uh, as minor damages to their profit margins.", "speaker": "Cassie Cohen" }, { "id": "cue-974", "start": 6991.54, "end": 7005.799, "text": "As you heard already, we share the concerns of risks from proposed renewable oil spills, explosive fire hazards, and recontamination of our river, causing irreversible harm to tribal cultural resources and treaty rights as well.", "speaker": "Cassie Cohen" }, { "id": "cue-975", "start": 7006.858, "end": 7022.884, "text": "With a city that takes pride in sustainability, workers' rights values, quality controls, all city leaders should be as concerned as we are that I Squared Capital is not technically legally viable due to its own legacy of violations.", "speaker": "Cassie Cohen" }, { "id": "cue-976", "start": 7023.478, "end": 7028.581, "text": "I Squared representatives said commitment to safety compliance leaves a false sense of security.", "speaker": "Cassie Cohen" }, { "id": "cue-977", "start": 7030.042, "end": 7041.856, "text": "Risk of these violations locally would put Portland's environment, residents, workers, and infrastructure at even far greater risk than what already exists with Zenith and the rest of the very explosive CEI hub.", "speaker": "Cassie Cohen" }, { "id": "cue-978", "start": 7042.562, "end": 7047.378, "text": "The mix of I-Squared 18 recorded violations are a pattern, not a fluke.", "speaker": "Cassie Cohen" }, { "id": "cue-979", "start": 7047.892, "end": 7064.095, "text": "9 Safety-related safety offenses, 6 employment-related offenses, 2 environmental, 1 consumer protection related, 6 workplace safety or health violations, labor standards, 6 of them, 3 railroad safety violations.", "speaker": "Cassie Cohen" }, { "id": "cue-980", "start": 7065.042, "end": 7080.969, "text": "Prior to a City Council vote on this franchise, we expect city leaders to ensure full transparency of all records, including explanations of city leadership and evaluations on I Squared's viability in lieu of these violations.", "speaker": "Cassie Cohen" }, { "id": "cue-981", "start": 7081.404, "end": 7094.351, "text": "We ask that you share any draft ordinance language, resolution language that should include— we hope will include third-party independent enforcement and oversight on this franchise transfer.", "speaker": "Cassie Cohen" }, { "id": "cue-982", "start": 7094.608, "end": 7094.994, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Cassie Cohen" }, { "id": "cue-983", "start": 7099.054, "end": 7099.597, "text": "Anthony Rush.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-984", "start": 7106.938, "end": 7108.836, "text": "Okay, uh, that completes testimony.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-985", "start": 7110.862, "end": 7111.248, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-986", "start": 7111.329, "end": 7113.323, "text": "Thank you again, everyone, for testifying.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-987", "start": 7113.419, "end": 7118.445, "text": "Thank you to, uh, for everyone for your patience as well as we got through, uh, you know, this over 2 meetings.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-988", "start": 7119.139, "end": 7125.776, "text": "Um, colleagues, feel free to get into the queue for, um, technical questions, discussion, amendments, motions, etc.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-989", "start": 7126.324, "end": 7134.745, "text": "Um, and I imagine we will have requests for either the staff from BPS or, and/or city attorneys, so, um, please feel free to come up.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-990", "start": 7134.826, "end": 7139.012, "text": "It's probably going to be you for these seats and going forward.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-991", "start": 7139.077, "end": 7141.293, "text": "We'll start with Councilor Avalos.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-992", "start": 7141.711, "end": 7141.904, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Cassie Cohen" }, { "id": "cue-993", "start": 7142.53, "end": 7142.867, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-994", "start": 7142.996, "end": 7146.995, "text": "And yes, definitely would love staff to come up as I have a few questions.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-995", "start": 7148.216, "end": 7155.106, "text": "Let me start by just saying that I know this is an issue that many Portlanders care deeply about, as we clearly heard in the testimony.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-996", "start": 7155.379, "end": 7161.129, "text": "And I want to start by acknowledging the elephant in the room, that this facility has had a long and controversial history.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-997", "start": 7161.21, "end": 7168.43, "text": "So many people have lost trust in the city's oversight, and I think it's important that we recognize that history and take those concerns seriously.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-998", "start": 7169.184, "end": 7173.934, "text": "At the same time, I think it's also important that we're clear about the decision that we have before us today.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-999", "start": 7174.864, "end": 7181.507, "text": "This is not a vote on whether the facility should exist or on expanding operations or rewriting the franchise.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1000", "start": 7181.78, "end": 7189.995, "text": "It's my understanding that today our— the main question is whether this existing franchise can be transferred to a new owner under the legal framework that Currently exists.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1001", "start": 7190.749, "end": 7194.84, "text": "And but that also doesn't mean that council's role is to just rubber stamp this.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1002", "start": 7194.936, "end": 7205.058, "text": "We do have an obligation to understand what due diligence has been done and what authority we have under the franchise agreement and how the city intends to hold this new owner accountable going forward.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1003", "start": 7205.106, "end": 7215.838, "text": "So my questions are focused on those kind of oversight responsibilities, because if a new owner is going to inherit this franchise, they also need to inherit every obligation that comes with it, in my opinion.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1004", "start": 7216.415, "end": 7220.185, "text": "And Portlanders deserve confidence that those obligations will be monitored and enforced.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1005", "start": 7220.281, "end": 7220.377, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1006", "start": 7220.909, "end": 7236.806, "text": "So with that, could you start by walking me through the documentation that staff reviewed to determine that ISQ, or I Square, I don't know what's the best way to call them, meets the technical, legal, and financial qualifications under the current franchise agreement?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1007", "start": 7237.129, "end": 7241.874, "text": "Just talk me through how you collected that info, what you were using to base that decision on.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1008", "start": 7243.822, "end": 7244.997, "text": "Thank you, Councilor Avalos.", "speaker": "Tate White" }, { "id": "cue-1009", "start": 7245.109, "end": 7246.027, "text": "Good morning, everyone.", "speaker": "Tate White" }, { "id": "cue-1010", "start": 7246.236, "end": 7248.393, "text": "For the record, my name is Tate White.", "speaker": "Tate White" }, { "id": "cue-1011", "start": 7248.554, "end": 7256.586, "text": "I am the Deputy Director of BPS, But I am acting director this week as Director Engstrom is out on a much-deserved vacation.", "speaker": "Tate White" }, { "id": "cue-1012", "start": 7257.742, "end": 7260.566, "text": "DCA Oliveira is also very sorry not to be here.", "speaker": "Tate White" }, { "id": "cue-1013", "start": 7260.695, "end": 7264.659, "text": "He is double-booked at a county hearing about the Moda Center.", "speaker": "Tate White" }, { "id": "cue-1014", "start": 7265.846, "end": 7270.821, "text": "So I am joined today by Andrew Spear, who I'm gonna let introduce himself.", "speaker": "Tate White" }, { "id": "cue-1015", "start": 7271.672, "end": 7273.517, "text": "Hi, good morning, Council.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1016", "start": 7273.71, "end": 7277.401, "text": "My name is Andrew Spear, and I'm the Franchise Utility Program Manager at BPS.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1017", "start": 7279.006, "end": 7284.692, "text": "With regards to your question, Councilor Avalos, we went through 4 rounds of questions.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1018", "start": 7284.885, "end": 7298.145, "text": "So we received the request to transfer the franchise in January of this year, and then we went through 4 rounds of questions with— between the councils representing ISQ as part of the transfer.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1019", "start": 7298.999, "end": 7306.003, "text": "As part of those questions, we asked kind of 4 distinct rounds and then received replies back from—.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1020", "start": 7306.019, "end": 7307.324, "text": "Councilor Avalos.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1021", "start": 7307.999, "end": 7311.168, "text": "ISQ's attorneys as part of our inquiry.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1022", "start": 7312.8, "end": 7315.184, "text": "Did you— I didn't know if you had a specific question of like—.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1023", "start": 7315.492, "end": 7317.406, "text": "I'll get into some more specifics.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1024", "start": 7317.454, "end": 7327.034, "text": "So let's start with, was your review based on information that was provided just by I Squared, or did the city independently verify any of the information that we received from them?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1025", "start": 7329.039, "end": 7342.881, "text": "We did a little bit of inquiry into like some of the responses, but primarily relied on the, the information provided because that was the scopes of the question, was only the company could really answer those questions.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1026", "start": 7343.554, "end": 7350.796, "text": "And did staff also review their compliance and operating history at similar facilities in other jurisdictions?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1027", "start": 7350.844, "end": 7353.328, "text": "And if so, what factors were considered as part of that?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1028", "start": 7354.513, "end": 7366.743, "text": "Yes, we, as part of the 4th round of questions, asked for any compliance violations across any of the companies owned or the facilities operated by ISQ.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1029", "start": 7368.023, "end": 7376.298, "text": "And there were a few pending investigations for facilities outside of the US.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1030", "start": 7376.801, "end": 7381.205, "text": "There were no violations or major violations found inside the US.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1031", "start": 7381.56, "end": 7400.922, "text": "And so given the materiality and the scope being outside of the US, It was found as not connected to them having safety violations with it to operate this facility or operate this facility in an unsafe way.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1032", "start": 7402.271, "end": 7408.891, "text": "And so you all note that the council may place conditions on a franchise transfer related to their qualifications.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1033", "start": 7408.955, "end": 7415.349, "text": "So I'm curious, what conditions, if any, did staff consider before recommending an unconditional transfer?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1034", "start": 7416.826, "end": 7430.02, "text": "Yeah, if you'll recall the presentation by Director Engstrom 2 weeks ago, the 3 areas that the franchise agreement allows for conditions to be posed on is technical, legal, and financial.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1035", "start": 7431.39, "end": 7455.636, "text": "Given the structure of the company and its financial backing of the different chains that we showed in the slides of the Uh, holding companies which own, ultimately own the, the company requesting the transfer and their ability to operate the facility in conjunction with their other facilities in a safe manner.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1036", "start": 7456.869, "end": 7467.269, "text": "There was nothing found within the documents we reviewed that would pose staff recommending some type of obligation outside of the current franchise.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1037", "start": 7468.05, "end": 7486.171, "text": "So to clarify, when you say technical qualifications, it's not— so does it just mean operating the facility, or does it include things like compliance programs or organizational capacity to meet ongoing regulatory obligations?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1038", "start": 7487.077, "end": 7489.729, "text": "Yeah, well, there's a little bit of nuance within your question.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1039", "start": 7491.011, "end": 7496.473, "text": "The franchise is really only connecting to the pipes crossing Front Avenue.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1040", "start": 7497.103, "end": 7504.281, "text": "And so it's the operations of those pipes crossing and transporting fuel across them that we're talking about.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1041", "start": 7505.814, "end": 7515.386, "text": "Within regards to compliance for the franchise agreement, there's not that many aspects of compliance obligations to the company.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1042", "start": 7515.498, "end": 7519.692, "text": "They need to pay their fees to the city for accessing the right-of-way.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1043", "start": 7519.837, "end": 7520.897, "text": "So that is one piece.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1044", "start": 7521.516, "end": 7525.827, "text": "They need to also provide bond and insurance requirements, obligations.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1045", "start": 7525.939, "end": 7535.812, "text": "So if an event was to happen or on a permit there was an issue during construction, the bond or the insurance could be called upon.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1046", "start": 7536.276, "end": 7550.268, "text": "And then there's other provisions that are like what we're here today under Section 8, which are transfers, right, which are kind of the obligations between the company and the city in this case to transfer it to a different entity.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1047", "start": 7550.877, "end": 7551.037, "text": "So.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1048", "start": 7551.101, "end": 7551.229, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1049", "start": 7551.983, "end": 7560.559, "text": "We looked at all of those as part of our review with that scope in mind and didn't find any thresholds for additional obligations to be provided.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1050", "start": 7561.521, "end": 7568.285, "text": "And to be clear, if the new owner wants to modify any portion of the franchise agreement in the future, is that going to require council action?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1051", "start": 7569.68, "end": 7578.08, "text": "Yes, the, the agree— a franchise agreement is a contract, one-to-one contract between the city and a company.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1052", "start": 7578.993, "end": 7601.809, "text": "In this case, it would need mutual agreement by each party to enter into lastly, given the public interest in this facility, did staff consider whether any additional reporting or transparency expectations would be appropriate under the city's existing authority, even if the underlying franchise itself is not being renegotiated?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1053", "start": 7603.589, "end": 7613.057, "text": "Again, there weren't any areas of the franchise that allow for us to impose those, given the 3 categories that we outlined of technical, financial, and legal.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1054", "start": 7613.726, "end": 7615.634, "text": "Okay, well, thank you for answering those.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1055", "start": 7615.81, "end": 7621.869, "text": "Um, I think what I'm hearing is— well, actually, maybe one final question.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1056", "start": 7622.542, "end": 7627.656, "text": "If council wants to have that discussion, I guess, what is the method in which we can?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1057", "start": 7627.928, "end": 7630.813, "text": "Like, is it we discuss that?", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1058", "start": 7631.054, "end": 7636.071, "text": "I guess I'm just trying to understand what are the ways that we can add extra layers of accountability if we want to take those steps.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1059", "start": 7636.728, "end": 7639.613, "text": "Uh, I, I would defer to the city attorney on that.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1060", "start": 7639.693, "end": 7639.726, "text": "I—.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1061", "start": 7639.726, "end": 7644.654, "text": "Yeah, I mean, there's multiple venues, but I can't recommend anything.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1062", "start": 7645.248, "end": 7647.513, "text": "Okay, I'll just follow up with the city attorney later.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1063", "start": 7647.658, "end": 7647.995, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1064", "start": 7649.183, "end": 7649.44, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1065", "start": 7649.505, "end": 7656.122, "text": "I know we do have city attorneys in the back, so, um, if you're able to come up, um, would appreciate it.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1066", "start": 7656.314, "end": 7656.636, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1067", "start": 7656.796, "end": 7657.712, "text": "For my question, I'm good.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1068", "start": 7657.792, "end": 7658.354, "text": "I'll follow up.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1069", "start": 7658.74, "end": 7658.997, "text": "Okay.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1070", "start": 7659.286, "end": 7663.365, "text": "Uh, I, I will have one for, for city attorneys even if, if you don't, Councilor Avalos.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1071", "start": 7663.702, "end": 7665.228, "text": "So in the next few minutes, if you could.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1072", "start": 7665.309, "end": 7670.8, "text": "Councilor Murillo and then Councilor thank you, Chair.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1073", "start": 7671.427, "end": 7673.45, "text": "I almost called you President.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1074", "start": 7673.514, "end": 7679.182, "text": "Thank you guys so much for being here today, and thank you so much to everyone who came and testified today to provide a variety of perspectives.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1075", "start": 7679.696, "end": 7689.346, "text": "But I was especially moved by the community members who I know have been working for years, if not decades, on this issue and trying to make sure that the city is accountable.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1076", "start": 7689.41, "end": 7701.435, "text": "So I just want to level set and say that If the city isn't doing our part to be as transparent in the process as possible, we are going to inherently incur the wrath of some very well-organized folks.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1077", "start": 7701.917, "end": 7703.924, "text": "And I personally would like not to do that.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1078", "start": 7704.1, "end": 7712.529, "text": "I would love for this process to be as transparent and smooth as possible so that should everything be going well, then we have that trust established.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1079", "start": 7713.894, "end": 7718.646, "text": "So I just want to start with that, just making sure that we are getting whatever records the public needs to them.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1080", "start": 7719.419, "end": 7724.169, "text": "And answering their questions fairly, because that is at the very least what they deserve.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1081", "start": 7724.218, "end": 7729.973, "text": "And I feel as a councilor that in many of our processes, we have been rushed and given limited information.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1082", "start": 7730.038, "end": 7734.68, "text": "So if I as a councilor feel that way, I am certain that the public feels even worse.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1083", "start": 7736.317, "end": 7744.208, "text": "With that, I had a question about the I squared Article 9 aspect of this, and perhaps this is a legal question, so let me know if I shouldn't direct it to you.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1084", "start": 7744.272, "end": 7744.818, "text": "I think it's a legal question.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1085", "start": 7745.674, "end": 7759.53, "text": "But they stated in their testimony that the commitment to end fuel storage is binding, and I want to know what exactly that means from a legal perspective by it being actually binding.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1086", "start": 7760.702, "end": 7765.246, "text": "So maybe, maybe the city attorney should come up.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1087", "start": 7765.503, "end": 7770.769, "text": "I don't know if Nancy Thorington or Robert Taylor either, if you would come up, please.", "speaker": "Tate White" }, { "id": "cue-1088", "start": 7784.036, "end": 7784.727, "text": "Thank you, Councilor.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-1089", "start": 7784.775, "end": 7788.565, "text": "Robert Taylor, City Attorney, and I have Nancy Thorington here also from my office.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-1090", "start": 7788.63, "end": 7790.525, "text": "Can you, can you restate the question, please?", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-1091", "start": 7791.216, "end": 7794.862, "text": "Yeah, I just wanted some clarity on the I Squared testimony.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1092", "start": 7794.958, "end": 7803.994, "text": "They were talking about how Article 9 means that They are legally bound to— they have a commitment to end fossil fuel storage by 2027, I think was the date.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1093", "start": 7805.245, "end": 7813.554, "text": "And I wanted to know how— what exactly that commitment means in terms of it being legally binding and what the enforcement is for that if they don't do it.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1094", "start": 7817.704, "end": 7821.473, "text": "I'd be happy to follow up with you on that in a later communication.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-1095", "start": 7822.99, "end": 7827.502, "text": "Okay, um, should we just save any and all legal questions for later?", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1096", "start": 7828.679, "end": 7837.354, "text": "I'm happy to do my best here, but I, I— to be able to fully answer that question, it would help me if I had an opportunity to think about that.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-1097", "start": 7838.794, "end": 7839.715, "text": "Okay, that's fair.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1098", "start": 7840.394, "end": 7852.581, "text": "Um, I think that given the— I have a lot of questions that perhaps can't be answered in this venue, so I definitely don't feel comfortable approving anything today without more information.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1099", "start": 7854.62, "end": 7857.925, "text": "And I'm just saying that here for my colleagues.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1100", "start": 7857.973, "end": 7859.804, "text": "I'm going to need more time to look at this.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1101", "start": 7860.6, "end": 7864.36, "text": "We were during a very busy budget season, then we just ended that.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1102", "start": 7864.472, "end": 7869.743, "text": "Now we're jumping into this, and I think council needs the opportunity to do our due diligence on this.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1103", "start": 7869.92, "end": 7870.766, "text": "We don't—.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1104", "start": 7871.238, "end": 7877.476, "text": "This is not something that can be rushed if we want to gain public trust or do our due diligence as city councilors.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1105", "start": 7878.916, "end": 7886.208, "text": "Um, and frankly, since they've already threatened a lawsuit, I feel like I can take my time now.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1106", "start": 7889.481, "end": 7893.514, "text": "But okay, I guess we can't answer any questions here, so I'll just loop back with you later.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1107", "start": 7894.082, "end": 7896.287, "text": "Thank you, Councilor Murillo.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1108", "start": 7896.352, "end": 7898.104, "text": "Councilor Green, and then Councilor Pirtle-Guiney.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1109", "start": 7899.612, "end": 7900.163, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Joe Rowe" }, { "id": "cue-1110", "start": 7900.309, "end": 7903.631, "text": "Um, Thanks for everyone who gave testimony.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1111", "start": 7904.624, "end": 7912.834, "text": "There was an idea floated during testimony that I'm kind of curious about, which was the concept of attaching conditions.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1112", "start": 7913.546, "end": 7918.351, "text": "And so Robert and Nancy, I hope that you can help me answer some questions up here on the fly.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1113", "start": 7919.492, "end": 7927.355, "text": "And, but I'm looking at Section 8.2.a, which is in the franchise agreement, which thank you.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1114", "start": 7927.515, "end": 7930.774, "text": "So in the ordinance, it defines the consent of transfer clause there.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1115", "start": 7931.561, "end": 7944.951, "text": "And it says the city may condition any transfer of this franchise upon such conditions related to the technical, legal, and financial qualifications of the prospective party to perform according to the terms of this franchise.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1116", "start": 7945.063, "end": 7947.953, "text": "And then it goes on to say, as it deems reasonably appropriate.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1117", "start": 7948.9, "end": 7960.953, "text": "And so I guess my question would be that last independent clause there, as it deems reasonably appropriate, like, What does that mean in the context of this clause?", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1118", "start": 7961.872, "end": 7970.965, "text": "Well, it would mean that we, as was discussed earlier, the franchise is focused on the pipes and the right-of-way.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-1119", "start": 7972.33, "end": 7979.541, "text": "And so you can condition based on those 3 factors, and those conditions would have to be reasonable.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-1120", "start": 7979.75, "end": 7980.99, "text": "So they can't be unreasonable.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-1121", "start": 7981.36, "end": 7996.069, "text": "That's what that last So it's gotta be focused on the operation of the pipes in the franchise and the legal, technical, and financial ability to operate in the right-of-way.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-1122", "start": 7996.551, "end": 7998.173, "text": "And the conditions have to be reasonable.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-1123", "start": 7999.458, "end": 7999.683, "text": "All right.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1124", "start": 7999.859, "end": 8000.759, "text": "And so then, thank you.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1125", "start": 8001.048, "end": 8019.165, "text": "And so there was an ask to sort of attach some sort of an emergency resolution somewhere along this process, either Along with the item or independently to kind of hold any new permit issuances or any new capital expansion there.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1126", "start": 8019.359, "end": 8023.04, "text": "And so we've adopted some broader policymaking.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1127", "start": 8023.104, "end": 8038.779, "text": "And so I wonder, would it be appropriate to attach a directive or a finding in this ordinance to say the city's currently engaged in a comp plan and zoning policy thing that's that's going to be coming to us very shortly.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1128", "start": 8038.828, "end": 8047.538, "text": "And so until we've— council's considered that, then we would not issue new work and then let the transfer go forward as it is otherwise.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1129", "start": 8047.891, "end": 8048.789, "text": "Would that be appropriate?", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1130", "start": 8048.837, "end": 8049.639, "text": "Would that be reasonable?", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1131", "start": 8051.083, "end": 8056.649, "text": "I'd like some time to think about that before I talked about that in this venue.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-1132", "start": 8057.74, "end": 8073.083, "text": "And I do think if we were— because there is that reasonable requirement In any conditions, I think it would be in the city's interest to work with I Squared to understand their view on those conditions.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-1133", "start": 8074.339, "end": 8075.096, "text": "I appreciate that.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1134", "start": 8075.192, "end": 8079.814, "text": "And I mean, I think that is also reasonable to kind of think that through and not from the dais.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1135", "start": 8079.862, "end": 8084.033, "text": "That's why I'm not interested in trying to floor amend something like that to that end right now.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1136", "start": 8084.163, "end": 8088.268, "text": "But I needed to ask that question here while you guys were here 'cause we heard it multiple times from testimony.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1137", "start": 8090.123, "end": 8099.23, "text": "I think what we had heard earlier in our conversation about the predecessor company involved here was this idea that let's be forward-looking here.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1138", "start": 8099.423, "end": 8103.021, "text": "Let's think about how we can do some forward-looking comp plan and zoning code changes.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1139", "start": 8103.117, "end": 8105.736, "text": "And that work is actually very near to completion.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1140", "start": 8105.784, "end": 8113.638, "text": "And so I wonder if there's an opportunity to sort of say, let's give some comfort to the community here by kind of meeting that moment here.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1141", "start": 8113.718, "end": 8114.714, "text": "And that's what I'm interested in.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1142", "start": 8114.762, "end": 8119.867, "text": "So I look forward to working with your office and seeing if that's a thing that we can attach to this.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1143", "start": 8120.718, "end": 8122.467, "text": "And I think that's probably the question I have for now.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1144", "start": 8122.579, "end": 8132.241, "text": "I think Councilor Morillo had asked some other questions about the studies, and, you know, there was— I think it was findings 4, 8, 9, and 10 or something to that effect that referenced some documents.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1145", "start": 8132.29, "end": 8134.248, "text": "I'd be interested in seeing those as attachments.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1146", "start": 8135.628, "end": 8135.821, "text": "Thanks.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1147", "start": 8137.233, "end": 8138.822, "text": "I believe you already have those.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1148", "start": 8139.255, "end": 8146.998, "text": "Those should have been sent to you, but happy to, um, you know, make those public and, you know, publish them with the agenda.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1149", "start": 8148.011, "end": 8152.485, "text": "Yeah, I think if they can be attached as exhibits to this agenda, that would go a really long way.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1150", "start": 8153.047, "end": 8153.246, "text": "Thanks.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-1151", "start": 8153.312, "end": 8153.807, "text": "We can do that.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1152", "start": 8155.41, "end": 8156.152, "text": "Thank you, Councilor Green.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1153", "start": 8156.233, "end": 8158.074, "text": "Councilor Pirtle-Guiney, followed by Councilor Zimmerman.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1154", "start": 8159.302, "end": 8159.916, "text": "Thank you, Chair.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1155", "start": 8160.045, "end": 8171.034, "text": "Councilor Green, you just asked my first question, which is, can we get those items attached as exhibits or Are they privileged for any reason?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1156", "start": 8171.099, "end": 8177.152, "text": "And it sounds like there is a commitment to attach those to the agenda items so that the public has access to them.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1157", "start": 8177.232, "end": 8177.907, "text": "Is that accurate?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1158", "start": 8178.404, "end": 8178.982, "text": "Correct, yes.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1159", "start": 8179.946, "end": 8201.343, "text": "Would those be— just so that folks know what to expect— would those be, um, the complete set of documents, or are there some documents that the attorneys would need to review before being able to post I believe everything that was listed in the ordinance itself is public record.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1160", "start": 8201.471, "end": 8205.321, "text": "So I'll take a final look to make sure that that's true.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1161", "start": 8205.45, "end": 8206.348, "text": "But yeah.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1162", "start": 8207.166, "end": 8207.279, "text": "Great.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1163", "start": 8207.616, "end": 8208.049, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1164", "start": 8208.594, "end": 8214.611, "text": "I want to just note related to that, and unfortunately we don't have the administrator with us today.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1165", "start": 8214.691, "end": 8216.424, "text": "He makes most of our meetings.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1166", "start": 8216.52, "end": 8219.568, "text": "I don't mean any criticism by that, but I wish he I wish she could hear me say this.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1167", "start": 8221.15, "end": 8230.276, "text": "We're dealing with a topic where there's not a lot of public trust, and I think the city sometimes makes unforced errors.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1168", "start": 8230.34, "end": 8240.219, "text": "And it sounds like by not sharing documents on this one that are not privileged, that we can easily post, we made a bit of an unforced error.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1169", "start": 8240.284, "end": 8245.127, "text": "And I, I want to actually say that differently because I don't want to wrap council up in that choice.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1170", "start": 8245.241, "end": 8247.175, "text": "The administration made an unforced error.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1171", "start": 8250.687, "end": 8261.299, "text": "For folks in the community, we can't change what error was made, but if we can get it fixed moving forward, I hope that that's helpful.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1172", "start": 8262.467, "end": 8264.787, "text": "And I appreciate you all being willing to post those.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1173", "start": 8265.549, "end": 8273.967, "text": "The second question that I had was also about the topic that's come up about the expansion of permits.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1174", "start": 8275.018, "end": 8284.724, "text": "Can you speak to the process of any requests for expansion for permits that would allow expanded capacity?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1175", "start": 8285.942, "end": 8293.133, "text": "If that request was made after this transfer, what process would that take?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1176", "start": 8295.532, "end": 8305.703, "text": "Under the franchise agreement, Councilor, any expansion of facilities is allowable on a defined portion of Front Avenue.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1177", "start": 8305.88, "end": 8316.853, "text": "And so we would need to know the plans and what different pipe, you know, they're looking to expand or number of pipes and in what section of Front Avenue.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1178", "start": 8317.671, "end": 8343.888, "text": "And then we would be looking at, you know, Within the scopes of the franchise, if there's any callout of any use of or transportation of fuels, and if there are deviations from what is allowable within the agreement, then we would work with the company to understand if, if those were allowable under the agreement or not before issuing the approval under the franchise.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1179", "start": 8344.386, "end": 8349.797, "text": "And then there's a second step that then they would be allowed to then pursue permits with PBOT.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1180", "start": 8353.205, "end": 8368.934, "text": "So any expansion, and to be clear, for the sake of this process, we really are only talking about the expansion of access in the public right-of-way, the expansion of the piece before us, the franchise agreement before us.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1181", "start": 8370.89, "end": 8375.183, "text": "It sounds like there is an assumption of approval if conditions are met.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1182", "start": 8375.296, "end": 8375.409, "text": "Correct.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1183", "start": 8376.517, "end": 8381.084, "text": "But that does need to go through a full lengthy permit process, permitting process.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1184", "start": 8383.053, "end": 8390.92, "text": "For the request that comes to us, it's not technically a permit, but they must seek approval before expansion.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1185", "start": 8391.76, "end": 8391.873, "text": "Okay.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1186", "start": 8392.035, "end": 8398.282, "text": "And under this particular franchise agreement, you had said there were some conditions that had to be met.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1187", "start": 8398.347, "end": 8408.168, "text": "Do you know if this particular franchise agreement allows for easy expansion or if there are significant limitations.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1188", "start": 8409.644, "end": 8419.685, "text": "There was an amendment to the franchise after 2017 when it was transferred to Zenith, and it revised certain aspects of what could be transported.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1189", "start": 8420.07, "end": 8427.61, "text": "And so that was passed via a second ordinance, but attached to the original ordinance, which is a franchise agreement.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1190", "start": 8427.69, "end": 8436.851, "text": "And so There's certain requirements on the fuel— it's not fuels, but it's the chemical, the composite makeup of what's allowable in the pipe.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1191", "start": 8437.46, "end": 8441.584, "text": "And so that would take into effect once the request was made.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1192", "start": 8441.648, "end": 8447.086, "text": "We would look at both franchises— or excuse me, both ordinances to evaluate the request.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1193", "start": 8447.488, "end": 8467.569, "text": "Okay, so it sounds like there may be a little bit more digging that we need to do there for me to fully understand how much risk It's my understanding that that second ordinance that was passed was in conjunction with being allowing to transport chemicals that would be needed in the process of renewable fuel.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1194", "start": 8468.588, "end": 8471.712, "text": "So that's the only context I have for that second one.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1195", "start": 8472.295, "end": 8472.57, "text": "Heard.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1196", "start": 8472.699, "end": 8478.089, "text": "I think I'm looking for some information around total amount.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1197", "start": 8479.72, "end": 8490.808, "text": "It sounded like what community members were concerned about was the total amount of product that was moving through and an expansion not in type but in amount.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1198", "start": 8491.857, "end": 8494.957, "text": "But I can try to find that out at a further time.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1199", "start": 8495.005, "end": 8500.527, "text": "That seemed like it was an ask for us to do something separate from this process, so I may not need the answer today.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1200", "start": 8503.907, "end": 8505.905, "text": "I think I'm going to end there and thank you.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1201", "start": 8505.953, "end": 8508.589, "text": "I'll look forward to seeing those documents posted on the agenda.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1202", "start": 8509.714, "end": 8510.213, "text": "Thanks, Chair.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1203", "start": 8510.679, "end": 8512.543, "text": "Thank you, Councilor.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1204", "start": 8513.331, "end": 8514.924, "text": "Councilor Zimmerman followed by Councilor Smith.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1205", "start": 8516.085, "end": 8516.553, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-1206", "start": 8518.972, "end": 8522.504, "text": "There was a discussion about reasonable— reasonableness.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-1207", "start": 8523.953, "end": 8528.767, "text": "I believe a few years ago that Multnomah County, there was a commissioner there was pursuing risk bonding.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-1208", "start": 8529.43, "end": 8534.592, "text": "I don't know that they ever got that across the line, so to speak.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-1209", "start": 8535.697, "end": 8543.705, "text": "But in that sense, in this case, is adding a risk bond provision, would that be considered reasonable?", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-1210", "start": 8544.247, "end": 8549.073, "text": "And I look to all 4 of you 'cause I actually don't know where the best place to throw that question toward.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-1211", "start": 8552.43, "end": 8561.077, "text": "I think that's something we could discuss with the city attorney I squared to see if that would be something that we could, uh, work through as a condition.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-1212", "start": 8562.153, "end": 8562.876, "text": "Okay, thank you.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-1213", "start": 8563.021, "end": 8563.278, "text": "That's all.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1214", "start": 8563.358, "end": 8566.201, "text": "Thank you, Councilor Zimmerman.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1215", "start": 8566.249, "end": 8567.807, "text": "Councilor Smith, and then myself.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1216", "start": 8568.562, "end": 8568.996, "text": "Thank you, Mr.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1217", "start": 8569.044, "end": 8569.237, "text": "Chair.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1218", "start": 8570.008, "end": 8571.261, "text": "Thank you all for the presentation.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1219", "start": 8571.614, "end": 8582.135, "text": "Um, just in terms of the scope of work and the expansion, how much new work is expanded to the scope of work that will be done with the new franchisee?", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1220", "start": 8585.96, "end": 8591.135, "text": "Uh, Councilor, there's no request as part of this transfer to expand the facility.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1221", "start": 8591.475, "end": 8594.532, "text": "Okay, that's, that's what I was trying to figure out.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1222", "start": 8595.13, "end": 8595.469, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1223", "start": 8595.937, "end": 8597.422, "text": "So it's the same scope of work?", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1224", "start": 8598.261, "end": 8598.68, "text": "Correct.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1225", "start": 8599.003, "end": 8600.391, "text": "Okay, thank you.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1226", "start": 8602.134, "end": 8602.973, "text": "Thank you, Councilor Smith.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1227", "start": 8603.021, "end": 8603.78, "text": "I'm next in the queue.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1228", "start": 8604.232, "end": 8605.938, "text": "Um, I appreciate everyone being here.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1229", "start": 8606.02, "end": 8608.382, "text": "Thank you for the presentation before, as well as thank you.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1230", "start": 8608.431, "end": 8610.316, "text": "Thank you, Councilor Smith, for being here to answer questions.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1231", "start": 8612.03, "end": 8614.327, "text": "I recognize the scope.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1232", "start": 8614.507, "end": 8617.864, "text": "A lot of what Councilor Green and Councilor Pirtle-Guiney said is in my notes as well.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1233", "start": 8620.67, "end": 8634.919, "text": "I think the questions I have— so in terms of the records being added, I agree completely about the public trust issue that Councilor Pirtle-Guiney raised, and I actually had unforced errors in my notes verbatim as well.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1234", "start": 8635.063, "end": 8647.909, "text": "So, uh, by the administration here, I, I think, um, is that something that we'd be able to get amended or proposed, or I guess floated as an amendment in to put into the public record prior to public testimony on this at council?", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1235", "start": 8648.426, "end": 8651.4, "text": "There will be another, uh, consideration of this item by council.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1236", "start": 8654.619, "end": 8663.961, "text": "Yeah, and, uh, Robert Taylor, City Attorney, just to be clear, so that, um, under the we handle records requests and records we receive under the Public Records Act.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-1237", "start": 8664.057, "end": 8686.39, "text": "There's a provision in the Public Records Act that says that documents that are provided to a public entity in confidence and with assurance that they'll be held in confidence will be treated as such by the public entity unless the public interest requires their disclosure.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-1238", "start": 8687, "end": 8697.231, "text": "And we operate under that all the time with various different members of the public or corporations who provide information that the city requests.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-1239", "start": 8698.322, "end": 8701.69, "text": "And this information was, was requested by the city.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-1240", "start": 8701.85, "end": 8703.967, "text": "It was provided as part of the due diligence.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-1241", "start": 8704.978, "end": 8710.286, "text": "We treated it like we do those other types of documents under the public records law.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-1242", "start": 8711.056, "end": 8714.253, "text": "There's been requests, public records requests that are filed.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-1243", "start": 8715.089, "end": 8720.712, "text": "Based on the testimony today, I think it's clear to me that the public interest is in the disclosure of it.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-1244", "start": 8721.499, "end": 8723.395, "text": "And we will follow that public interest.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-1245", "start": 8723.443, "end": 8725.66, "text": "We will disclose that information.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-1246", "start": 8726.656, "end": 8726.897, "text": "Great.", "speaker": "Candace Avalos" }, { "id": "cue-1247", "start": 8727.058, "end": 8727.443, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1248", "start": 8728.6, "end": 8737.565, "text": "For the BPS staff, and thank you for being here, items related to the broader policy conversation have been approved out of the Planning Commission in March.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1249", "start": 8738.063, "end": 8757.941, "text": "But not yet filed with us, and some testifiers have alleged that the city is delaying the proposal of the planning commission items to council and to this committee in order to allow for the sale and franchise transfer associated with the terminal to go through and new ownership to file permits under the current rules before council changes the rules if we approve those planning commission referred items.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1250", "start": 8758.921, "end": 8763.079, "text": "As pointed out, there's a lack of public trust on this issue among the public, and so I want to ask.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1251", "start": 8763.176, "end": 8764.701, "text": "Ask these 2 questions on the record.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1252", "start": 8765.504, "end": 8773.598, "text": "To your knowledge, is that the intention on the rush of the franchise transfer and/or the delay of the Planning Commission referred items?", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1253", "start": 8774.754, "end": 8776.81, "text": "Thank you for the question, Councilor Kanal.", "speaker": "Tate White" }, { "id": "cue-1254", "start": 8777.002, "end": 8779.475, "text": "Again, for the public record, my name is Tate White.", "speaker": "Tate White" }, { "id": "cue-1255", "start": 8779.796, "end": 8784.437, "text": "I am acting director of BPS right now, permanently deputy director.", "speaker": "Tate White" }, { "id": "cue-1256", "start": 8785.112, "end": 8790.267, "text": "And yes, the CEI Hub project has been going on since last year.", "speaker": "Tate White" }, { "id": "cue-1257", "start": 8790.717, "end": 8796.309, "text": "It has involved significant public process and gone through the Planning Commission.", "speaker": "Tate White" }, { "id": "cue-1258", "start": 8796.903, "end": 8825.178, "text": "I could go through all of that, but given our time, I'm going to acknowledge yes, on March 10th, Portland's Planning Commission voted to forward it to City Council for consideration, and staff have been working really hard to develop the draft code for Title 17 Related to draw— the drawdown program and released a public review of that in June, and they held public engagement on that.", "speaker": "Tate White" }, { "id": "cue-1259", "start": 8825.563, "end": 8832.728, "text": "It's a really complex project requiring updates to the comprehensive plan as well as that Title 17.", "speaker": "Tate White" }, { "id": "cue-1260", "start": 8832.808, "end": 8837.28, "text": "So that's why we've needed to take this time to involve that process.", "speaker": "Tate White" }, { "id": "cue-1261", "start": 8837.986, "end": 8844.399, "text": "And then last week, Director Engstrom did make a request to come to the Committee of the Whole to, to review that.", "speaker": "Tate White" }, { "id": "cue-1262", "start": 8844.832, "end": 8854.653, "text": "So it is a very complex project, and we have been diligently working on it for, for over a year, and there's no intention to slow that down.", "speaker": "Tate White" }, { "id": "cue-1263", "start": 8855.472, "end": 8855.744, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1264", "start": 8856.194, "end": 8866.127, "text": "Um, it's a follow-up on that is, to the best of your knowledge, has any person in the city discussed creating a deliberate gap between the franchise transfer and the broader rule or code changes?", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1265", "start": 8867.042, "end": 8868.55, "text": "No, definitely not.", "speaker": "Tate White" }, { "id": "cue-1266", "start": 8868.791, "end": 8879.05, "text": "I, I think there are tangents tangentially related, but they are sort of separate processes overseen by, by different scopes of work and authority.", "speaker": "Tate White" }, { "id": "cue-1267", "start": 8879.805, "end": 8880.206, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1268", "start": 8881.234, "end": 8886.918, "text": "Um, so I think we've, we've had a couple questions— this might be more on the lawyer side— about conditions.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1269", "start": 8887.512, "end": 8894.753, "text": "Another thing that I don't think has been brought up post-testimony is, are we able to develop conditions based on a Good Neighbor Agreement?", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1270", "start": 8896.615, "end": 8902.742, "text": "That was floated in testimony, and I just wanted to get the, the, I, the, that on the record.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1271", "start": 8903.354, "end": 8911.949, "text": "Um, I think there would be a separate process if we wanted to engage in the Good Neighbor Agreement type conversation.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-1272", "start": 8912.686, "end": 8931.533, "text": "Um, I, and again, any, any conditions that you impose as part of the approval of the transfer are focused on the pipes in the right-of-way and the legal, technical, and financial ability to operate those in the right-of-way.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-1273", "start": 8931.935, "end": 8935.006, "text": "So that's the framework we're operating in.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-1274", "start": 8935.376, "end": 8939.459, "text": "And I think the Good Neighbor Agreement might be a separate conversation.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-1275", "start": 8941.56, "end": 8944.513, "text": "So if, just to clarify, I appreciate that answer.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1276", "start": 8944.856, "end": 8954.158, "text": "In the event that the Good Neighbor Agreement, because certainly, A potential failure of pipes under the right-of-way would affect neighbors as well, even if everything else with the terminal was perfect.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1277", "start": 8955.87, "end": 8962.634, "text": "So isn't there a potential narrowly scoped Good Neighbor Agreement?", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1278", "start": 8962.956, "end": 8968.523, "text": "I think that's certainly a possibility we can discuss with I-Squared.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-1279", "start": 8969.07, "end": 8973.289, "text": "I think there were some other, yeah, we'd be happy to talk about that.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-1280", "start": 8973.354, "end": 8980.841, "text": "I think there were some other, ideas that were floated that may be more connected to the actual franchise.", "speaker": "Robert Taylor" }, { "id": "cue-1281", "start": 8981.676, "end": 8982.897, "text": "And I appreciate that.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1282", "start": 8983.025, "end": 8985.867, "text": "And similar question about the third-party enforcement request.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1283", "start": 8985.915, "end": 9001.522, "text": "And I think we've had the questions on what does the existing enforcement look like and under the Article 9 scope, and certainly didn't expect to have European Union regulations be a topic here today, but would be curious about how that conversation, Is that the same answer effectively?", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1284", "start": 9001.586, "end": 9005.071, "text": "We could— we need to kind of scope it out between now and when it comes to council?", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1285", "start": 9006.082, "end": 9006.275, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1286", "start": 9007.126, "end": 9009.615, "text": "Okay, I appreciate that.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1287", "start": 9009.695, "end": 9011.558, "text": "And that concludes my questions.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1288", "start": 9011.847, "end": 9015.01, "text": "Um, Councilor Zimmerman, are you still in the queue, or is that a legacy hand?", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1289", "start": 9015.074, "end": 9020.79, "text": "Okay, so colleagues, um, we have the option of— there are no pre-filed amendments.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1290", "start": 9020.854, "end": 9028.399, "text": "We have the option of discussing it further, but there's nobody in the queue right now, or someone could make a motion, uh, at This time, um, with relation to referral.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1291", "start": 9036.553, "end": 9037.18, "text": "Nobody's in the queue.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1292", "start": 9037.26, "end": 9045.353, "text": "I don't know if he wants— Councilor Ryan, your mic's on, so if you wanted to— To your question again, are you asking if we're calling the question?", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1293", "start": 9045.492, "end": 9057.289, "text": "Yeah, I mean, I— we would need either a motion to refer this to the full council with a do pass recommendation Or a motion to refer this to the full council with no recommendation, or I guess theoretically a request to continue it.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1294", "start": 9058.289, "end": 9060.322, "text": "But otherwise, there's nobody in the queue to discuss this item.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1295", "start": 9060.37, "end": 9061.809, "text": "So— Well, staff has recommended this.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1296", "start": 9061.922, "end": 9063.914, "text": "I trust their due diligence as professionals.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1297", "start": 9064.432, "end": 9066.099, "text": "I say we move this forward.", "speaker": "Will Rasmussen" }, { "id": "cue-1298", "start": 9066.617, "end": 9068.544, "text": "And would you like to put a recommendation on that?", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1299", "start": 9071.44, "end": 9074.292, "text": "Yeah, I mean, I just said I'll be supporting it.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1300", "start": 9074.406, "end": 9077.427, "text": "So that's a motion to refer to the full council with the due path Second.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1301", "start": 9078.551, "end": 9084.845, "text": "Okay, uh, I think I'll— Councilor Novick on that one, uh, was first.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1302", "start": 9085.054, "end": 9087.735, "text": "Uh, now there are colleagues in the queue for discussion on that motion.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1303", "start": 9087.799, "end": 9089.453, "text": "So Councilor Novick, would you like to speak to it?", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1304", "start": 9090.93, "end": 9095.635, "text": "Um, I think I agree with what Councilor Ryan just said.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-1305", "start": 9095.972, "end": 9102.587, "text": "Um, I would like to— I mean, I understand that we're— we have a narrow issue here, um, and I would like to get Zenith out of the way.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-1306", "start": 9103.881, "end": 9116.164, "text": "I think that we can approve this transfer and take up other issues without limiting our ability to take up other issues such as oversight as we go along.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-1307", "start": 9117.52, "end": 9118.222, "text": "Thank you, Councilor Novick.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1308", "start": 9118.287, "end": 9119.757, "text": "Councilor Murillo, then Councilor Green.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1309", "start": 9121.956, "end": 9128.134, "text": "Yeah, I think I've been repeatedly told when I've tried to move policy forward quickly in committee that committee is the place to work.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1310", "start": 9128.23, "end": 9132.902, "text": "Workshop policy and to make sure that we're doing our due diligence and digging into it.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1311", "start": 9132.982, "end": 9140.336, "text": "And sometimes people will even have a policy go through committee twice, 3 times, 4 times, really interrogate it.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1312", "start": 9141.508, "end": 9143.323, "text": "People have done that to almost all of my policies.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1313", "start": 9143.435, "end": 9162.35, "text": "So I think that for an issue that impacts the entire city and the well-being of all of our residents, we should do our due diligence and look into anything I am pretty concerned by the testimony that was here today, and there are clearly questions that need to be answered.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1314", "start": 9162.928, "end": 9168.821, "text": "Even if there's nothing new that comes out of having more discussion, there is— we clearly do not have the public trust.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1315", "start": 9169.35, "end": 9179.129, "text": "And if we don't have the public trust, we're just going to endure, you know, if Portlanders want us to be reelected, you're going to have another 4 years of people not trusting the decision that you made.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1316", "start": 9179.627, "end": 9181.521, "text": "And then being upset with all of us.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1317", "start": 9181.746, "end": 9185.552, "text": "So I would rather earn the public trust than make the decision.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1318", "start": 9186.322, "end": 9189.55, "text": "So again, we are in a committee right now, even if it's just Committee of the Whole.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1319", "start": 9190.561, "end": 9195.828, "text": "I think we should take time to evaluate everything that's before us and to really bring the public along in that discussion.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1320", "start": 9196.165, "end": 9196.486, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1321", "start": 9197.53, "end": 9198.284, "text": "Thank you, Councilor Morillo.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1322", "start": 9198.349, "end": 9199.858, "text": "Councilor Green, and then I'm next in the queue.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1323", "start": 9200.982, "end": 9202.732, "text": "Yeah, thank you so much, Chair Kanal.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1324", "start": 9204.998, "end": 9211.245, "text": "You know, we did a Zenith franchise investigation that I think left a lot of questions unanswered.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1325", "start": 9212.197, "end": 9218.866, "text": "And while I understand this is a very narrow-scope consideration, it's still the point at which the city has a regulatory checkpoint.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1326", "start": 9219.772, "end": 9235.239, "text": "And if we're not going to exercise that checkpoint by attempting to put conditions on that that satisfy some of the more forward-looking policy frameworks that we might consider with the public together and as a body, then we've missed a moment there.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1327", "start": 9235.753, "end": 9242.111, "text": "And we've already gotten commitments to attach the documents that I think community's been asking for.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1328", "start": 9242.85, "end": 9247.008, "text": "So I would not vote to pass this outta committee today.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1329", "start": 9247.105, "end": 9249.625, "text": "I think that, you know, we should keep discussing it here in committee.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1330", "start": 9250.3, "end": 9250.717, "text": "Thanks.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1331", "start": 9250.862, "end": 9252.756, "text": "Thank you, Councilor Green.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1332", "start": 9253.013, "end": 9254.876, "text": "I'll put Councilor Pirtle-Guiney and then follow that.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1333", "start": 9256.885, "end": 9257.482, "text": "Thank you, Chair.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1334", "start": 9257.998, "end": 9264.436, "text": "You know, to Zenith, the lawsuit you filed is not helping us.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1335", "start": 9264.856, "end": 9267.384, "text": "This should be a straightforward process.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1336", "start": 9267.753, "end": 9283.109, "text": "There are many items coming where we get to dig in on what is happening in the CEI hub, and a, a transfer of a franchise with a very narrow scope shouldn't be where we dig in.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1337", "start": 9283.242, "end": 9292.185, "text": "But that lawsuit has raised old distrust, and I think not helped us move forward quickly.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1338", "start": 9294.348, "end": 9301.215, "text": "And I've already discussed the lack of trust that the city has stirred up through not releasing documents.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1339", "start": 9302.298, "end": 9307.815, "text": "And despite all of that, we still have a very narrow scope before us, colleagues.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1340", "start": 9308.075, "end": 9308.465, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1341", "start": 9309.093, "end": 9313.635, "text": "Technically, can this company operate the franchise?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1342", "start": 9314.774, "end": 9325.351, "text": "I asked that question when we were first briefed on this, and the fact that the same staff are going to be staying on, on the ground and operating this leads me to believe that yes, technically they can.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1343", "start": 9326.587, "end": 9329.764, "text": "Legally, can they comply with local laws?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1344", "start": 9329.861, "end": 9334.322, "text": "Well, we've heard that they choose not to comply with local laws as a company in some other places.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1345", "start": 9334.403, "end": 9334.547, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1346", "start": 9334.66, "end": 9338.754, "text": "Places, but they have local council who know the local laws.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1347", "start": 9338.85, "end": 9342.126, "text": "They can legally comply with our local laws.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1348", "start": 9343.282, "end": 9346.718, "text": "Financially, are they qualified to maintain the infrastructure?", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1349", "start": 9347.938, "end": 9359.82, "text": "I think for better or worse, the fact that this is a, a very large financial company, investment company, means that they, they likely can keep up the infrastructure.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1350", "start": 9360.943, "end": 9367.881, "text": "And so I'm hearing a lot of concern about not having these documents, and I think we need to post them and have that transparency.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1351", "start": 9368.859, "end": 9411.261, "text": "I'm hearing a lot of concern about other pieces that I want us to dig into on the other questions that are coming about CEI Hub, but I'm not sure what waiting does to help us answer those questions because it seems to me that the answers So I'm not sure if anybody else is going to be in the queue to provide information on why they have doubts raised there, but right now I'm not seeing the argument to wait, despite the fact that I think this process has not moved in a way that allows it to be straightforward as it should have been, and despite the fact that, as many folks have raised here today, the process has been very lengthy.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1352", "start": 9411.31, "end": 9411.408, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1353", "start": 9411.712, "end": 9418.822, "text": "There are a lot of questions that we need to answer about the operations of all of the entities within the CEI hub more broadly.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1354", "start": 9419.496, "end": 9424.536, "text": "And I think one testifier said early on they want us to get through this so we can get to those questions quickly.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1355", "start": 9425.579, "end": 9428.997, "text": "And I think I'm sitting with that comment pretty firmly right now.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1356", "start": 9429.447, "end": 9430.041, "text": "Thank you, Chair.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1357", "start": 9431.517, "end": 9432.464, "text": "Thank you, Councilor Pirtle-Guiney.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1358", "start": 9432.721, "end": 9434.839, "text": "I'm next in the queue.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1359", "start": 9435.289, "end": 9437.809, "text": "So speaking as the chair, Thank you, Mr.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1360", "start": 9437.857, "end": 9437.905, "text": "Mayor.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1361", "start": 9437.953, "end": 9438.612, "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chairman.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1362", "start": 9438.692, "end": 9449.225, "text": "As the chair of this committee, I think attempting to bully me out of letting people testify on this item was not a good way to demonstrate— I don't know, whatever the intent was there to demonstrate.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1363", "start": 9450.558, "end": 9453.609, "text": "But this is a place where people get to testify.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1364", "start": 9453.849, "end": 9454.524, "text": "That's the point.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1365", "start": 9455.632, "end": 9458.458, "text": "So I just want to get that on the record here.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1366", "start": 9458.987, "end": 9460.111, "text": "Testimony is not a delay.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1367", "start": 9460.433, "end": 9464.535, "text": "Testimony is a part of any credible process that involves involves the public in any way.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1368", "start": 9465.18, "end": 9472.168, "text": "And especially when someone, when the bully's own business partners are among the testifiers, I think that's worth noting as well.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1369", "start": 9475.482, "end": 9482.198, "text": "So I appreciate that, speaking now just in terms of my vote, I appreciate every point that Councilor Pirtle-Guiney made.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1370", "start": 9482.358, "end": 9483.033, "text": "I agree with that.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1371", "start": 9483.097, "end": 9496.367, "text": "I think that one of the concerns is, and this is true in all the land use conversations we have, we often are limited in our discussion decision-making power to, to, um, to things that are a narrower scope than what we discuss in broader policy conversations.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1372", "start": 9496.415, "end": 9498.647, "text": "And so it is challenging to do that.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1373", "start": 9498.808, "end": 9510.481, "text": "I, I know that we have, um, the first reading anticipated based on the request that, that Deputy Director White pointed out, um, to have the, the broader CEI Hub project come to council or come to this committee.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1374", "start": 9510.545, "end": 9510.915, "text": "Sorry.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1375", "start": 9511.396, "end": 9518.659, "text": "Um, we have that currently penciled in for thank you.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1376", "start": 9519.222, "end": 9522.118, "text": "I also understand here that the scope is much narrower.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1377", "start": 9522.214, "end": 9528.058, "text": "For me, my vote will be based on— and I took the pains to clarify whether there was a do pass or no recommendation on it.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1378", "start": 9528.413, "end": 9529.701, "text": "That's the reason for my vote.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1379", "start": 9530.345, "end": 9533.634, "text": "But I'm happy to help move this to a decision at this moment.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1380", "start": 9534.12, "end": 9543.078, "text": "I'll just be voting based on the ask to make a recommendation to the full council to approve So with that, I don't see anyone else in the queue.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1381", "start": 9543.753, "end": 9547.835, "text": "We have a motion to refer this item on to the full council with the do pass recommendation.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1382", "start": 9548.172, "end": 9549.184, "text": "Keelan, would you please call the roll?", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1383", "start": 9550.679, "end": 9556.64, "text": "Document 2026-263, moved by Ryan, seconded by Novick.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1384", "start": 9556.929, "end": 9557.395, "text": "Koyama Lane?", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1385", "start": 9558.166, "end": 9558.375, "text": "No.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1386", "start": 9558.745, "end": 9559.902, "text": "Murillo?", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1387", "start": 9560.625, "end": 9560.785, "text": "No.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1388", "start": 9561.38, "end": 9561.782, "text": "Novick?", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1389", "start": 9562.714, "end": 9562.762, "text": "Aye.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-1390", "start": 9563.453, "end": 9563.999, "text": "Clark?", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1391", "start": 9565.124, "end": 9565.172, "text": "Aye.", "speaker": "Olivia Clark" }, { "id": "cue-1392", "start": 9567.744, "end": 9569.673, "text": "No.", "speaker": "Eric Zimmerman" }, { "id": "cue-1393", "start": 9572.836, "end": 9573.063, "text": "Smith.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1394", "start": 9574.214, "end": 9574.246, "text": "Aye.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1395", "start": 9575.09, "end": 9575.335, "text": "Pirtle-Guiney.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1396", "start": 9576.169, "end": 9576.218, "text": "Aye.", "speaker": "Elana Pirtle-Guiney" }, { "id": "cue-1397", "start": 9576.921, "end": 9577.215, "text": "Ryan.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1398", "start": 9577.64, "end": 9577.689, "text": "Aye.", "speaker": "Dan Ryan" }, { "id": "cue-1399", "start": 9578.376, "end": 9578.654, "text": "Kanal.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1400", "start": 9581.705, "end": 9581.963, "text": "No.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1401", "start": 9582.543, "end": 9586.768, "text": "The motion is approved with a vote of 7 ayes and 5 nos.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1402", "start": 9587.074, "end": 9594.462, "text": "The ordinance is referred to full council with the recommendation that it be thank you, everyone.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1403", "start": 9594.688, "end": 9596.483, "text": "We'll move into the next item now.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1404", "start": 9596.855, "end": 9599.636, "text": "Um, Keelan, would you please call the next 2 items together?", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1405", "start": 9604.931, "end": 9616.331, "text": "Items 3 and 4, document 2026-262, Vision Zero updates, and document 2026-276, Vision Zero public input.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1406", "start": 9617.799, "end": 9619.565, "text": "Thank you, colleagues.", "speaker": "Andrew Spear" }, { "id": "cue-1407", "start": 9619.629, "end": 9624.254, "text": "So, uh, while we're kind of having a changeover here, I want to welcome back Dana Digman.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1408", "start": 9624.527, "end": 9628.621, "text": "Um, I— we are going to have testimony, and I'd like to do that first.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1409", "start": 9628.765, "end": 9638.11, "text": "Um, and then with time permitting, uh, after that, um, Dana had some, um, responses to some of the questions that, uh, we brought up.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1410", "start": 9638.238, "end": 9639.475, "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1411", "start": 9639.523, "end": 9643.874, "text": "So that based on whatever time's left after that, and that's why we have these 2 items Called together.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1412", "start": 9644.195, "end": 9648.466, "text": "Similar to my comment on the previous item, I want to thank those who wanted to testify on this.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1413", "start": 9648.531, "end": 9650.746, "text": "We didn't have that opportunity last time.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1414", "start": 9651.084, "end": 9655.162, "text": "I apologize for that, but we did make an opportunity for Vision Zero testimony this time.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1415", "start": 9656.013, "end": 9659.096, "text": "So with that, Keelan, if you could please call up our panel of testifiers.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1416", "start": 9659.834, "end": 9661.842, "text": "We have 5 people signed up.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1417", "start": 9662.018, "end": 9678.307, "text": "Sarah Risser, Justin Skolnick, Mike Dennis, Jordan Lewis, Joe Rowe.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1418", "start": 9680.195, "end": 9681.614, "text": "And feel free to start whenever you're ready.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1419", "start": 9681.952, "end": 9682.193, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1420", "start": 9682.596, "end": 9683.143, "text": "Can I go ahead?", "speaker": "Sarah Risser" }, { "id": "cue-1421", "start": 9683.803, "end": 9683.981, "text": "Okay.", "speaker": "Sarah Risser" }, { "id": "cue-1422", "start": 9684.222, "end": 9685.558, "text": "Good morning, councilors.", "speaker": "Sarah Risser" }, { "id": "cue-1423", "start": 9685.671, "end": 9686.863, "text": "My name is Sarah Risser.", "speaker": "Sarah Risser" }, { "id": "cue-1424", "start": 9686.943, "end": 9691.859, "text": "I support crash victims in Portland through my work with Families for Safe Streets.", "speaker": "Sarah Risser" }, { "id": "cue-1425", "start": 9692.36, "end": 9698.484, "text": "Since learning about PBOT's plans to prioritize paving over safety on West Burnside, Joey Capone and his family have been on my mind.", "speaker": "Sarah Risser" }, { "id": "cue-1426", "start": 9700.902, "end": 9701.704, "text": "And in my heart.", "speaker": "Sarah Risser" }, { "id": "cue-1427", "start": 9702.409, "end": 9706.16, "text": "Joey was killed on West Burnside as a pedestrian in 2022.", "speaker": "Sarah Risser" }, { "id": "cue-1428", "start": 9707.073, "end": 9713.373, "text": "The loss of Joey's life is unimaginable, but the damage from that crash extends beyond losing Joey.", "speaker": "Sarah Risser" }, { "id": "cue-1429", "start": 9714.03, "end": 9724.16, "text": "That crash inflicted life sentences of grief on Pammy Capone, Joey's mother, Cassie Capone, Joey's sister, and Ella Capone, Joey's wife.", "speaker": "Sarah Risser" }, { "id": "cue-1430", "start": 9724.529, "end": 9727.478, "text": "There are many more who continue to grieve that I can't mention.", "speaker": "Sarah Risser" }, { "id": "cue-1431", "start": 9727.67, "end": 9728.199, "text": "Too many.", "speaker": "Sarah Risser" }, { "id": "cue-1432", "start": 9728.616, "end": 9734.279, "text": "These people are also victims of dangerous road traffic, and they are your constituents.", "speaker": "Sarah Risser" }, { "id": "cue-1433", "start": 9735.274, "end": 9739.589, "text": "Plans for West Burnside don't reflect city plans or Vision Zero principles.", "speaker": "Sarah Risser" }, { "id": "cue-1434", "start": 9739.862, "end": 9744.226, "text": "This project calls for paving now and safety improvements later.", "speaker": "Sarah Risser" }, { "id": "cue-1435", "start": 9745.156, "end": 9752.552, "text": "At meeting— at a meeting earlier this week, a PBOT employee justified this by saying Burnside has critical paving needs.", "speaker": "Sarah Risser" }, { "id": "cue-1436", "start": 9753.001, "end": 9759.04, "text": "She didn't mention Burnside's critical safety needs despite the reality that its traffic kills people.", "speaker": "Sarah Risser" }, { "id": "cue-1437", "start": 9759.522, "end": 9766.757, "text": "By deferring safety, PBOT implicitly condones sacrificing human lives in the short term to prioritize driver convenience.", "speaker": "Sarah Risser" }, { "id": "cue-1438", "start": 9767.26, "end": 9770.711, "text": "Again, this approach flouts Vision Zero objectives and goals.", "speaker": "Sarah Risser" }, { "id": "cue-1439", "start": 9772.17, "end": 9780.366, "text": "On September 17th, 2025, this council approved a resolution brought by Councilor Lane to reaffirm the city's commitment to Vision Zero.", "speaker": "Sarah Risser" }, { "id": "cue-1440", "start": 9780.876, "end": 9784.068, "text": "That resolution created a new task force.", "speaker": "Sarah Risser" }, { "id": "cue-1441", "start": 9784.34, "end": 9791.445, "text": "There's no seat at the table for safety advocates, nor are advocates allowed to sit in or listen in on these meetings at this time.", "speaker": "Sarah Risser" }, { "id": "cue-1442", "start": 9792.134, "end": 9796.128, "text": "So we don't have any idea what the task force is working on and talking about.", "speaker": "Sarah Risser" }, { "id": "cue-1443", "start": 9796.513, "end": 9801.981, "text": "This is problematic for many reasons, but especially because it makes it hard to be effective and helpful.", "speaker": "Sarah Risser" }, { "id": "cue-1444", "start": 9802.623, "end": 9816.144, "text": "At that September 2025 meeting, Councilor Avalos, introduced a friendly amendment to ensure meaningful community engagement is built into the Vision Zero Task Force, including its analysis and action plan.", "speaker": "Sarah Risser" }, { "id": "cue-1445", "start": 9816.497, "end": 9825.369, "text": "Councilor Lane accepted the amendment and underscored its importance, saying we need to know that there will be a connection to stakeholders from the community.", "speaker": "Sarah Risser" }, { "id": "cue-1446", "start": 9826.187, "end": 9828.85, "text": "I appreciate Dana Dickman's concern on this item.", "speaker": "Sarah Risser" }, { "id": "cue-1447", "start": 9829.074, "end": 9832.796, "text": "I know it's on her radar, and we have been communicating about it.", "speaker": "Sarah Risser" }, { "id": "cue-1448", "start": 9833.102, "end": 9839.593, "text": "But as of now, the community is not a part of the task force, its analysis, or formation of the action plan in any way.", "speaker": "Sarah Risser" }, { "id": "cue-1449", "start": 9840.17, "end": 9844.145, "text": "So the friendly amendment from Avalos is not being upheld.", "speaker": "Sarah Risser" }, { "id": "cue-1450", "start": 9844.866, "end": 9856.278, "text": "I want to leave with one last point, and that is to urge the committee to distinguish between safety and danger in a Vision Zero context.", "speaker": "Sarah Risser" }, { "id": "cue-1451", "start": 9856.662, "end": 9859.868, "text": "And our unhoused neighbors provide a brilliant example.", "speaker": "Sarah Risser" }, { "id": "cue-1452", "start": 9860.413, "end": 9861.807, "text": "They are vulnerable.", "speaker": "Sarah Risser" }, { "id": "cue-1453", "start": 9862.115, "end": 9867.368, "text": "And therefore they require more safety interventions.", "speaker": "Sarah Risser" }, { "id": "cue-1454", "start": 9868.16, "end": 9873.014, "text": "However, they do not cause danger in our traffic system.", "speaker": "Sarah Risser" }, { "id": "cue-1455", "start": 9873.5, "end": 9878.422, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1456", "start": 9887.092, "end": 9888.404, "text": "My name is Justin Skolnick.", "speaker": "Justin Skolnick" }, { "id": "cue-1457", "start": 9888.469, "end": 9894.254, "text": "2 Weeks ago, I made the mistake of opening my phone Online posts alerted me to something that was said in this committee.", "speaker": "Justin Skolnick" }, { "id": "cue-1458", "start": 9894.671, "end": 9899.559, "text": "One of my councilors tried to make a causal connection between pedestrian deaths and substance use.", "speaker": "Justin Skolnick" }, { "id": "cue-1459", "start": 9899.815, "end": 9901.754, "text": "I happen to know a lot about that topic.", "speaker": "Justin Skolnick" }, { "id": "cue-1460", "start": 9902.123, "end": 9909.238, "text": "In fact, Iowa prosecutors used my family's grief to get something on the books connecting a quantity of THC with a pedestrian death.", "speaker": "Justin Skolnick" }, { "id": "cue-1461", "start": 9909.494, "end": 9910.375, "text": "I'll get to that.", "speaker": "Justin Skolnick" }, { "id": "cue-1462", "start": 9910.792, "end": 9912.715, "text": "First, I want to quote Dan Ryan directly.", "speaker": "Justin Skolnick" }, { "id": "cue-1463", "start": 9912.795, "end": 9926.569, "text": "He said, unless we start doing better cross-referencing with public health when it relates to Division Zero and bringing in more of a, like, SWAT team analysis to really get to the bottom of this, I think we're going to continue to see high numbers and we can't mask it with other things.", "speaker": "Justin Skolnick" }, { "id": "cue-1464", "start": 9927.244, "end": 9936.899, "text": "Now everybody knows Dan has 2 interests, the other being storefronts, but he says he's been persistent about proving that the people getting hit by cars are responsible for getting hit by cars because of drugs.", "speaker": "Justin Skolnick" }, { "id": "cue-1465", "start": 9937.028, "end": 9940.578, "text": "That is the kind of edgy, shoddy thinking I remember from middle school.", "speaker": "Justin Skolnick" }, { "id": "cue-1466", "start": 9941.141, "end": 9943.326, "text": "My kid's sister was walking to work.", "speaker": "Justin Skolnick" }, { "id": "cue-1467", "start": 9943.454, "end": 9952.041, "text": "She was and trying to establish residency for in-state tuition at the University of Iowa because she discovered that her dream job was actually possible.", "speaker": "Justin Skolnick" }, { "id": "cue-1468", "start": 9952.362, "end": 9955.797, "text": "But to become a nurse practitioner, she had to switch tracks, and so she did.", "speaker": "Justin Skolnick" }, { "id": "cue-1469", "start": 9956.15, "end": 9957.37, "text": "She was strong like that.", "speaker": "Justin Skolnick" }, { "id": "cue-1470", "start": 9957.498, "end": 9959.328, "text": "She was vibrant, she was funny.", "speaker": "Justin Skolnick" }, { "id": "cue-1471", "start": 9959.745, "end": 9961.478, "text": "You would want her attention and care.", "speaker": "Justin Skolnick" }, { "id": "cue-1472", "start": 9961.992, "end": 9962.955, "text": "Most people did.", "speaker": "Justin Skolnick" }, { "id": "cue-1473", "start": 9963.854, "end": 9968.091, "text": "On the morning of September 4th, 2003, she waited at the crosswalk for the signal.", "speaker": "Justin Skolnick" }, { "id": "cue-1474", "start": 9968.187, "end": 9978.541, "text": "At the same intersection, at the same time, a kid her age who'd gotten stoned off his ass The night before, woke up, smoked a big fat blunt, and crawled behind the wheel of his big old SUV.", "speaker": "Justin Skolnick" }, { "id": "cue-1475", "start": 9978.927, "end": 9984.82, "text": "The light changed for him the same time it changed for my sister, and he made his left-hand turn into my sister.", "speaker": "Justin Skolnick" }, { "id": "cue-1476", "start": 9985.606, "end": 9988.497, "text": "Investigators found her fingerprints on the fender.", "speaker": "Justin Skolnick" }, { "id": "cue-1477", "start": 9988.978, "end": 9991.949, "text": "This means she knew what was happening to her and tried to stop it.", "speaker": "Justin Skolnick" }, { "id": "cue-1478", "start": 9992.029, "end": 9992.928, "text": "This is physics.", "speaker": "Justin Skolnick" }, { "id": "cue-1479", "start": 9993.153, "end": 9994.518, "text": "This is basic physics.", "speaker": "Justin Skolnick" }, { "id": "cue-1480", "start": 9994.598, "end": 9996.059, "text": "This is mass and velocity.", "speaker": "Justin Skolnick" }, { "id": "cue-1481", "start": 9996.188, "end": 9999.897, "text": "There are straightforward mathematical equations that express how this works.", "speaker": "Justin Skolnick" }, { "id": "cue-1482", "start": 10000.122, "end": 10004.008, "text": "The vehicles are larger and faster moving than the human bodies they're driving into.", "speaker": "Justin Skolnick" }, { "id": "cue-1483", "start": 10004.137, "end": 10007.413, "text": "My 5'2 sister could not fight off an SUV, Dan.", "speaker": "Justin Skolnick" }, { "id": "cue-1484", "start": 10008.152, "end": 10009.372, "text": "That is the problem.", "speaker": "Justin Skolnick" }, { "id": "cue-1485", "start": 10009.918, "end": 10011.332, "text": "My sister wasn't on drugs.", "speaker": "Justin Skolnick" }, { "id": "cue-1486", "start": 10011.38, "end": 10015.009, "text": "They ran her blood at the hospital where she died 30 hours later.", "speaker": "Justin Skolnick" }, { "id": "cue-1487", "start": 10015.073, "end": 10023.216, "text": "Do you have the faintest idea how insulting it is to hear a grown man work persistently to pin pedestrian deaths on the pedestrians, or is being insulting the point?", "speaker": "Justin Skolnick" }, { "id": "cue-1488", "start": 10023.505, "end": 10031.695, "text": "Technically, you are my rep, though you have another constituency, mostly D4, mostly men, Men who, by the sound of what they say, never fully escaped adolescence.", "speaker": "Justin Skolnick" }, { "id": "cue-1489", "start": 10031.775, "end": 10033.108, "text": "They love it when you're bad.", "speaker": "Justin Skolnick" }, { "id": "cue-1490", "start": 10033.541, "end": 10035.436, "text": "Blaming victims is a bad thing.", "speaker": "Justin Skolnick" }, { "id": "cue-1491", "start": 10035.934, "end": 10045.953, "text": "My brother in Christ, if this building and its temptations are more powerful than your soul is able to resist, then remove yourself from it and resign.", "speaker": "Justin Skolnick" }, { "id": "cue-1492", "start": 10057.931, "end": 10076.027, "text": "Thank you, um, and thank you from the other panelists, uh, for your testimony, uh, and thank you, Committee Chair Kanal and Vice Chairs Koyama Lane and Ryan and members of the committee for the opportunity to provide public comment on Vision Zero.", "speaker": "Mike Dennis" }, { "id": "cue-1493", "start": 10076.396, "end": 10078.853, "text": "I'm Mike Dennis with Oregon Walks.", "speaker": "Mike Dennis" }, { "id": "cue-1494", "start": 10080.665, "end": 10101.528, "text": "Last September, each one of you voted to approve Resolution 37716, a resolution that was forwarded by Councilor Koyama Lane and co-sponsored by Councilors Clark and Green and, and Murillo and Smith to recommit the city to Vision Zero.", "speaker": "Mike Dennis" }, { "id": "cue-1495", "start": 10101.977, "end": 10102.41, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Mike Dennis" }, { "id": "cue-1496", "start": 10103.5, "end": 10108.381, "text": "Thank you for your leadership standing up For our most vulnerable road users.", "speaker": "Mike Dennis" }, { "id": "cue-1497", "start": 10109.762, "end": 10119.901, "text": "As you may recall, the resolution reestablished the goal that, quote, no person should die or be incapacitated from simply going about their day, unquote.", "speaker": "Mike Dennis" }, { "id": "cue-1498", "start": 10121.09, "end": 10131.598, "text": "As the 1-year anniversary approaches, it's time to reassess, or I'm sorry, to assess and test how serious are we about this commitment.", "speaker": "Mike Dennis" }, { "id": "cue-1499", "start": 10131.662, "end": 10131.855, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Mike Dennis" }, { "id": "cue-1500", "start": 10133.074, "end": 10144.121, "text": "In the past year, in one significant test, you all passed the transportation utility fee, and in doing so, you carved out specific funds for Vision Zero.", "speaker": "Mike Dennis" }, { "id": "cue-1501", "start": 10144.682, "end": 10149.797, "text": "Budgets define priorities, and you demonstrated Vision Zero as a priority.", "speaker": "Mike Dennis" }, { "id": "cue-1502", "start": 10149.973, "end": 10150.47, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Mike Dennis" }, { "id": "cue-1503", "start": 10151.929, "end": 10160.299, "text": "There's some other tests to determine if we're really determined— committed to Vision Zero, or if it's in resolution only.", "speaker": "Mike Dennis" }, { "id": "cue-1504", "start": 10160.829, "end": 10170.414, "text": "So first, your city staff needs you to stand behind their expertise and for you to stand behind your commitment to Vision Zero.", "speaker": "Mike Dennis" }, { "id": "cue-1505", "start": 10171.169, "end": 10174.669, "text": "There are going to be some hard decisions on street design changes.", "speaker": "Mike Dennis" }, { "id": "cue-1506", "start": 10175.504, "end": 10181.654, "text": "We know that the built environment has the biggest and most lasting impact on saving lives and eliminating injuries.", "speaker": "Mike Dennis" }, { "id": "cue-1507", "start": 10182.473, "end": 10185.588, "text": "Street design changes must happen to save lives.", "speaker": "Mike Dennis" }, { "id": "cue-1508", "start": 10186.486, "end": 10194.323, "text": "But change is hard, and changing a transportation system that's prioritized the automobile for decades is daunting.", "speaker": "Mike Dennis" }, { "id": "cue-1509", "start": 10195.317, "end": 10203.988, "text": "Your leadership and support is necessary to reshape our cities, our streets, our neighborhoods to save lives and make our communities safer and healthier.", "speaker": "Mike Dennis" }, { "id": "cue-1510", "start": 10205.11, "end": 10215.207, "text": "So your constituents may be upset with you, and please use your voice to help explain how we're prioritizing safety and community.", "speaker": "Mike Dennis" }, { "id": "cue-1511", "start": 10215.351, "end": 10215.479, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Mike Dennis" }, { "id": "cue-1512", "start": 10215.977, "end": 10217.886, "text": "Over convenience and car speed.", "speaker": "Mike Dennis" }, { "id": "cue-1513", "start": 10218.784, "end": 10220.421, "text": "Second, please stay engaged.", "speaker": "Mike Dennis" }, { "id": "cue-1514", "start": 10221.207, "end": 10222.811, "text": "Please stay engaged with Vision Zero.", "speaker": "Mike Dennis" }, { "id": "cue-1515", "start": 10223.694, "end": 10234.138, "text": "Please, for instance, request a list of prioritized Vision Zero investments that will give you goals and benchmarks so you can measure how each public dollar is used.", "speaker": "Mike Dennis" }, { "id": "cue-1516", "start": 10234.844, "end": 10244.393, "text": "Reach out to PBOT staff with questions to problem solve, and I really appreciated you all inviting Dana Dickman and Wendy and Clay to come talk to you about Vision Zero.", "speaker": "Mike Dennis" }, { "id": "cue-1517", "start": 10244.858, "end": 10250.382, "text": "Think about how you can break down silos, how PBOT can't deliver this Vision Zero alone.", "speaker": "Mike Dennis" }, { "id": "cue-1518", "start": 10251.378, "end": 10262.78, "text": "Can we break down silos to bolster community-led tactical urbanism like what Strong Towns has been proposing and continue to elevate Vision Zero across the city?", "speaker": "Mike Dennis" }, { "id": "cue-1519", "start": 10263.503, "end": 10268.288, "text": "For instance, I know the city is looking to hire a new Deputy City Administrator for safety.", "speaker": "Mike Dennis" }, { "id": "cue-1520", "start": 10268.384, "end": 10268.561, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Mike Dennis" }, { "id": "cue-1521", "start": 10269.203, "end": 10276.441, "text": "Can you make sure that person and that hiring process and that job description puts Vision Zero as a top priority?", "speaker": "Mike Dennis" }, { "id": "cue-1522", "start": 10277.629, "end": 10280.694, "text": "My last and final comment is on Burnside.", "speaker": "Mike Dennis" }, { "id": "cue-1523", "start": 10280.935, "end": 10283.439, "text": "Sarah spoke very articulately about this.", "speaker": "Mike Dennis" }, { "id": "cue-1524", "start": 10284.61, "end": 10288.863, "text": "I would just add a comment that I recognize Phase 1 is already underway.", "speaker": "Mike Dennis" }, { "id": "cue-1525", "start": 10290.211, "end": 10296.182, "text": "We have 10 neighborhoods and stakeholders who've spoken loudly about being involved in the future.", "speaker": "Mike Dennis" }, { "id": "cue-1526", "start": 10296.743, "end": 10302.966, "text": "So please take a beat, Integrate the needed safety needs, engage these voices, and do the project right from the start.", "speaker": "Mike Dennis" }, { "id": "cue-1527", "start": 10303.047, "end": 10307.912, "text": "I apologize for going over and really appreciate your time and your commitment to Vision Zero.", "speaker": "Mike Dennis" }, { "id": "cue-1528", "start": 10310.349, "end": 10313.303, "text": "My name is Joe Rowe, District 2.", "speaker": "Joe Rowe" }, { "id": "cue-1529", "start": 10314.062, "end": 10320.708, "text": "I want to start by paying respect to a teen victim of our failures to implement Vision Zero.", "speaker": "Joe Rowe" }, { "id": "cue-1530", "start": 10321.813, "end": 10343.956, "text": "You are all invited to a flower vigil For Fallon Smart, who was killed in a Hawthorne crosswalk 10 years ago, please attend 5 PM August 19th, Hawthorne and 43rd.", "speaker": "Joe Rowe" }, { "id": "cue-1531", "start": 10344.702, "end": 10352.471, "text": "Her dad will be there, and her dad has 3 goals, all of which fit into Vision Zero: pay respects, Number 2, address the lack of justice.", "speaker": "Joe Rowe" }, { "id": "cue-1532", "start": 10352.956, "end": 10355.345, "text": "Number 3, safer streets for kids and everyone.", "speaker": "Joe Rowe" }, { "id": "cue-1533", "start": 10357.22, "end": 10367.201, "text": "If you look at cities who have Vision Zero, that's a hub supported by many intervention spokes, and each of those spokes has big benefits.", "speaker": "Joe Rowe" }, { "id": "cue-1534", "start": 10367.362, "end": 10370.476, "text": "Even one weak spoke can risk pedestrians and drivers.", "speaker": "Joe Rowe" }, { "id": "cue-1535", "start": 10371.218, "end": 10374.606, "text": "These Vision Zero spokes hold the safety system in place.", "speaker": "Joe Rowe" }, { "id": "cue-1536", "start": 10375.187, "end": 10384.531, "text": "We listen with respect I respect my neighbor testimony that Vision Zero tools will harm their business or freedom from shorter trips.", "speaker": "Joe Rowe" }, { "id": "cue-1537", "start": 10385.493, "end": 10388.956, "text": "But we must balance that listening to Karens and Chads with facts.", "speaker": "Joe Rowe" }, { "id": "cue-1538", "start": 10389.036, "end": 10395.496, "text": "It's a fact that cities like Hoboken, New Jersey, Helsinki, and Oslo do not have dead teenagers or dead anyone for long periods.", "speaker": "Joe Rowe" }, { "id": "cue-1539", "start": 10396.81, "end": 10399.744, "text": "Land use puts people above profit.", "speaker": "Joe Rowe" }, { "id": "cue-1540", "start": 10399.92, "end": 10402.501, "text": "These are the spokes that make Vision Zero possible.", "speaker": "Joe Rowe" }, { "id": "cue-1541", "start": 10402.565, "end": 10402.677, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Joe Rowe" }, { "id": "cue-1542", "start": 10403.528, "end": 10428.949, "text": "Progressive land use, key foundations of Vision Zero, unapologetic and near unanimous lawmaker support for all Vision Zero components, lawmakers who stand up to the Karens and Chads but listen to them, high-capacity, high-speed buses and more transportation choices, fewer trips by cars, better parks and safe routes to schools, separated and protected paths for pedestrians and bike buses, not just paint like Portland paint.", "speaker": "Joe Rowe" }, { "id": "cue-1543", "start": 10429.462, "end": 10430.521, "text": "Lower car dependence.", "speaker": "Joe Rowe" }, { "id": "cue-1544", "start": 10431.05, "end": 10433.842, "text": "Lastly, enforcement and equitable and just penalties.", "speaker": "Joe Rowe" }, { "id": "cue-1545", "start": 10435.237, "end": 10441.333, "text": "Equitable and scaled fees for bigger cars and citations for driving violations.", "speaker": "Joe Rowe" }, { "id": "cue-1546", "start": 10441.397, "end": 10443.355, "text": "The more affluent, the bigger speeding ticket.", "speaker": "Joe Rowe" }, { "id": "cue-1547", "start": 10443.419, "end": 10445.632, "text": "The heavier the vehicle, the higher the yearly fees.", "speaker": "Joe Rowe" }, { "id": "cue-1548", "start": 10446.066, "end": 10458.015, "text": "Portland will never, never have nice things unless we spend money to build a system where elderly, kids— elderly and kids can come and go without the fear they need to Sit in a steel personal vehicle.", "speaker": "Joe Rowe" }, { "id": "cue-1549", "start": 10458.575, "end": 10461.957, "text": "Lastly, cities that are safer for kids are safer for the planet.", "speaker": "Joe Rowe" }, { "id": "cue-1550", "start": 10462.501, "end": 10468.799, "text": "I would like a moment of silence for Jamie Diaz, our librarian, on a sidewalk bench, mowed down.", "speaker": "Joe Rowe" }, { "id": "cue-1551", "start": 10468.895, "end": 10472.004, "text": "For Joey and Ben Carlson, mowed down walking on Burnside.", "speaker": "Joe Rowe" }, { "id": "cue-1552", "start": 10472.837, "end": 10482.147, "text": "Ben Carlson was killed by Douglas James Walker of Beaverton, who's obviously a friend of the police because they never cited the driver who drove on the sidewalk and killed Ben Carlson.", "speaker": "Joe Rowe" }, { "id": "cue-1553", "start": 10482.195, "end": 10482.387, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Joe Rowe" }, { "id": "cue-1554", "start": 10483.141, "end": 10484.629, "text": "This is for all the cities.", "speaker": "Joe Rowe" }, { "id": "cue-1555", "start": 10486.565, "end": 10496.632, "text": "For all the— moment of silence is for Mike and Dennis and Sarah and my colleagues who mentioned victims.", "speaker": "Joe Rowe" }, { "id": "cue-1556", "start": 10496.857, "end": 10501.886, "text": "We are crying literally for you to do what other cities have done.", "speaker": "Joe Rowe" }, { "id": "cue-1557", "start": 10502.481, "end": 10504.168, "text": "You don't need to reinvent the wheel.", "speaker": "Joe Rowe" }, { "id": "cue-1558", "start": 10504.65, "end": 10508, "text": "You just need to stand up because you ran for office.", "speaker": "Joe Rowe" }, { "id": "cue-1559", "start": 10508.113, "end": 10510.385, "text": "No one forced you to put your name on the ballot.", "speaker": "Joe Rowe" }, { "id": "cue-1560", "start": 10510.433, "end": 10510.675, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Joe Rowe" }, { "id": "cue-1561", "start": 10511.42, "end": 10511.903, "text": "Thank you, Joe.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1562", "start": 10512.161, "end": 10513.031, "text": "Okay, thank you.", "speaker": "Joe Rowe" }, { "id": "cue-1563", "start": 10515.447, "end": 10515.721, "text": "Jordan.", "speaker": "Angelita Morillo" }, { "id": "cue-1564", "start": 10518.025, "end": 10518.782, "text": "Hello, City Council.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1565", "start": 10519.152, "end": 10524.977, "text": "Uh, Jordan Lewis, he/him, District 4 resident, uh, volunteer lobbyist for Portland Democratic Socialists of America.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1566", "start": 10525.445, "end": 10526.72, "text": "I was going to testify in person.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1567", "start": 10526.978, "end": 10534.175, "text": "I apologize, um, the, the agenda had the testimony happening after the presentation, so I'm here remotely.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1568", "start": 10534.885, "end": 10535.24, "text": "Uh, I—.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1569", "start": 10536.337, "end": 10547.577, "text": "We just saw the immense power of 55, 56 community advocates coming together to express their feelings and how that is treated and rewarded in this city.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1570", "start": 10548.343, "end": 10550.917, "text": "But I'm gonna remain here and I'm going to continue talking anyways.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1571", "start": 10552.786, "end": 10560.372, "text": "I live on West Burnside and I have experienced a lot of really heinous behavior from drivers, which was not an individual choice on their behalf.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1572", "start": 10560.436, "end": 10563.795, "text": "It was enabled by the infrastructure on West Burnside.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1573", "start": 10564.456, "end": 10572.235, "text": "I have crossed West Burnside and 18th on a game night behind a family with small children speaking Spanish.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1574", "start": 10572.796, "end": 10580.109, "text": "A lifted truck with a roided-out white guy lurches, right turn, lurches into the crosswalk and almost hits them.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1575", "start": 10580.911, "end": 10583.044, "text": "Am I allowed to be upset about that?", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1576", "start": 10583.477, "end": 10594.09, "text": "We have been on Alder and 18th and a car very rapidly right left turned in like a sweeping motion and shouted F-slurs out of the car.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1577", "start": 10594.699, "end": 10596.382, "text": "Are we allowed to be upset about that?", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1578", "start": 10596.926, "end": 10601.509, "text": "Um, I have been overtaken very quickly on 17th while riding my bike.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1579", "start": 10602.054, "end": 10603.657, "text": "Um, am I allowed to be upset about that?", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1580", "start": 10604.057, "end": 10609.698, "text": "Um, I have seen a car run the wrong way down north down 18th.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1581", "start": 10610.066, "end": 10611.477, "text": "Am I allowed to be upset about that?", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1582", "start": 10611.989, "end": 10614.986, "text": "Um, the experience living on West Burnside— I love my apartment.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1583", "start": 10615.354, "end": 10621.409, "text": "Um, I would love to I would love to stay here longer, but the, the conditions outside are hazardous to human health.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1584", "start": 10622.66, "end": 10623.591, "text": "I can't stand it.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1585", "start": 10623.72, "end": 10631.672, "text": "And so I will be leaving this apartment, this lovely apartment that I love, to go move somewhere else that is not on such a hazardous thruway.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1586", "start": 10634.408, "end": 10639.651, "text": "And this is a great opportunity with the rebuilding of West Burnside to maybe remediate some of these conditions.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1587", "start": 10640.233, "end": 10641.9, "text": "A friend told me there is a weed store.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1588", "start": 10641.981, "end": 10642.175, "text": "Oh, that's right.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1589", "start": 10642.442, "end": 10658.916, "text": "That has 2 locations about a quarter mile from each other, separated by West Burnside, because it is so difficult for pedestrians to move across that street that, uh, it is actually profitable to open 2 businesses on either side of the road.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1590", "start": 10659.687, "end": 10670.333, "text": "Um, unfortunately, I have heard that, uh, the rebuild will be mostly paving, repaving, and that any transformative elements have been delayed and will be staged to a later segment.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1591", "start": 10670.381, "end": 10670.445, "text": "Okay.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1592", "start": 10670.846, "end": 10678.435, "text": "I have lived in this city long enough to see malicious procedural door closing weaponized against vulnerable communities on these streets.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1593", "start": 10679.606, "end": 10682.012, "text": "So this is where that cynicism comes from.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1594", "start": 10682.718, "end": 10689.873, "text": "And I really, really hope this council can step in and actually see some transformative elements on West Burnside.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1595", "start": 10690.515, "end": 10692.456, "text": "I want it to be a place people want to live.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1596", "start": 10692.585, "end": 10693.531, "text": "I could not raise kids here.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1597", "start": 10694.109, "end": 10695.456, "text": "I would not trust my kids outside.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1598", "start": 10695.793, "end": 10696.419, "text": "This is ridiculous.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1599", "start": 10697.079, "end": 10701.305, "text": "There's literally heavy vehicles going around crashing and killing people, breaking their bones and making their blood come out.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1600", "start": 10701.37, "end": 10701.757, "text": "That's bad.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1601", "start": 10701.999, "end": 10702.677, "text": "I don't want that to happen.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1602", "start": 10703.28, "end": 10703.683, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1603", "start": 10704.908, "end": 10705.295, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1604", "start": 10706.762, "end": 10707.825, "text": "That completes testimony.", "speaker": "Keelan McClymont" }, { "id": "cue-1605", "start": 10708.535, "end": 10709.695, "text": "Thank you everyone for being here.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1606", "start": 10711.876, "end": 10714.513, "text": "Um, and we'll get Dana back up in a second, but Councilor Koyama Lane.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1607", "start": 10715.031, "end": 10716.002, "text": "Yeah, thank you, Chair.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1608", "start": 10716.633, "end": 10728.387, "text": "Um, I wanted to thank everyone who took time to come here for testimony and, um, also So just wanted to ask everyone to take a moment of silence right now, as was suggested.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1609", "start": 10737.251, "end": 10737.591, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Sarah Risser" }, { "id": "cue-1610", "start": 10749.484, "end": 10749.872, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Calliope Ruskin" }, { "id": "cue-1611", "start": 10754.413, "end": 10754.736, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1612", "start": 10755.398, "end": 10756.982, "text": "Dana, if you could come on back.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1613", "start": 10757.776, "end": 10760.48, "text": "And colleagues, um, we have about 5 minutes left here.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1614", "start": 10760.545, "end": 10762.132, "text": "We have about 1 minute of other things.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1615", "start": 10762.392, "end": 10768.047, "text": "Uh, we have the ability to run a few minutes over if you are all available for at most 5 minutes or so.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1616", "start": 10768.771, "end": 10770.347, "text": "Um, so I'd ask for that.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1617", "start": 10770.396, "end": 10774.621, "text": "I know some folks do have pre-planned absences or, or no notices that have been acknowledged.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1618", "start": 10774.669, "end": 10777.974, "text": "So, um, Dana, I'll let you take it away.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1619", "start": 10779.161, "end": 10779.882, "text": "Um, thank you.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1620", "start": 10780.123, "end": 10782.192, "text": "Hi, I am Dana Dickman.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1621", "start": 10782.289, "end": 10784.374, "text": "I'm the city's Vision Zero policy manager.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1622", "start": 10784.47, "end": 10786.716, "text": "Thank you for having me back here today.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1623", "start": 10787.743, "end": 10798.201, "text": "Um, I just want to also thank the community members again for being here and sharing their thoughts, sharing their pain, and why this work is so important.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1624", "start": 10798.282, "end": 10799.645, "text": "Sorry, it gets to me.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1625", "start": 10801.296, "end": 10802.556, "text": "We only have 5 minutes left.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1626", "start": 10802.604, "end": 10810.443, "text": "We had planned to do some short presentations on a couple of the questions that you had all brought up from the 23rd.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1627", "start": 10810.915, "end": 10815.118, "text": "You should all have a memo that has a written response to all of those questions.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1628", "start": 10817.016, "end": 10830.1, "text": "We obviously don't have time for a presentation today, so I think I would just ask if there is any discussion that you all want to have about where you want us to come back and elaborate on some of those questions.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1629", "start": 10831.015, "end": 10839.566, "text": "There was some interest in talking about the speed camera program, some other things that were felt we needed more time than we would have at committee.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1630", "start": 10840.481, "end": 10842.342, "text": "So I guess I would pose that to you.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1631", "start": 10842.47, "end": 10851.375, "text": "I can follow up with folks individually that asked the questions, or I can work with this body and talk about how you want to come back to different committee.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1632", "start": 10857.208, "end": 10858.754, "text": "Thank you, Dana.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1633", "start": 10858.834, "end": 10861.623, "text": "Are you able to just kind of walk us through the memo?", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1634", "start": 10861.753, "end": 10866.002, "text": "Just show us, not talk about every part, but just explain where that is?", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1635", "start": 10866.148, "end": 10866.213, "text": "Right.", "speaker": "Jordan Lewis" }, { "id": "cue-1636", "start": 10866.278, "end": 10871.094, "text": "I don't have it digitally, but I can kind of just walk you through it.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1637", "start": 10871.545, "end": 10873.285, "text": "So what we did was we took—.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1638", "start": 10873.527, "end": 10875.895, "text": "I think the clerk can bring it up if it's an exhibit.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1639", "start": 10878.187, "end": 10878.892, "text": "It should be.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1640", "start": 10878.988, "end": 10880.814, "text": "Or sorry, the Council Operations.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1641", "start": 10881.007, "end": 10881.167, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1642", "start": 10881.263, "end": 10882.609, "text": "Someone amazing over here.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1643", "start": 10882.993, "end": 10886.902, "text": "Yeah, it's the memo, not the presentation.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1644", "start": 10887.912, "end": 10894.641, "text": "So the memo essentially looked at each one of your questions and documented what it was and then had a response.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1645", "start": 10895.009, "end": 10898.438, "text": "Those responses are coming from the folks that are doing the work across the city.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1646", "start": 10898.566, "end": 10906.769, "text": "Some of them were more directed towards PPB, some of them for PBOT, some of them I answered, some of them the Deputy City Administrator answered.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1647", "start": 10907.122, "end": 10913.769, "text": "So you'll have essentially the reiteration of your question and the response to that.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1648", "start": 10914.026, "end": 10915.31, "text": "These are summarized.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1649", "start": 10915.471, "end": 10923.146, "text": "So again, you're only getting, you're getting kind of a quick response that we could then come back and do a deeper dive on.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1650", "start": 10923.901, "end": 10925.731, "text": "Yeah, you can see, I can walk you through.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1651", "start": 10925.828, "end": 10927.064, "text": "That's just the first question.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1652", "start": 10927.176, "end": 10932.218, "text": "Councilor Clark asked specifically about how do we stack up against comparable cities?", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1653", "start": 10932.475, "end": 10950.884, "text": "So So there's some information in there about our rate per deaths per 100,000 and how we stack up against some cities that, when I say comparable cities, I'm looking at places that have a similar population and size.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1654", "start": 10950.98, "end": 10960.32, "text": "Like we often work with cities like New York City and other places that we consider peers on the Vision Zero work, but in some ways they're not a great comparison.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1655", "start": 10960.448, "end": 10967.473, "text": "So the comparisons that you have in the memo Are cities that are of comparable size and population.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1656", "start": 10968.949, "end": 10984.964, "text": "And then you'll see that there are, if you're walking through it, responses to the questions about speed reader boards, about when we might be able to get speed cameras or additional speed cameras.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1657", "start": 10985.558, "end": 10991.608, "text": "There was a question about the Police Bureau's Traffic Division and how they deploy resources.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1658", "start": 10991.656, "end": 10997.189, "text": "So there's some summary information about what The traffic division prioritizes and how they do that.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1659", "start": 10997.974, "end": 11001.613, "text": "You have information about West Burnside.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1660", "start": 11001.758, "end": 11010.543, "text": "We do have a colleague here from PBOT that was supposed to present, so you also will see a slide deck associated with that in your materials.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1661", "start": 11011.777, "end": 11021.657, "text": "There is a response related to Councilor Koyama Lane's question about how Vision Zero and safe systems connect to neighborhood greenways and safe routes to school.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1662", "start": 11022.627, "end": 11027.719, "text": "And then do you want me to continue to kind of go through each question, or what works best for you?", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1663", "start": 11028.284, "end": 11029.516, "text": "I know the time is very limited.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1664", "start": 11034.509, "end": 11034.671, "text": "Okay.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1665", "start": 11036.045, "end": 11049.174, "text": "We also have a response to the question about how budget cuts are going to impact The Vision Zero team, especially around outreach and engagement.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1666", "start": 11050.377, "end": 11059.121, "text": "Then Councilor Pirtle-Guiney had a question about when the I-5 closure is happening and how Vision Zero and PBOT is engaged in that.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1667", "start": 11060.163, "end": 11073.931, "text": "And then finally, there was Councilor Kanal's question about ADT, or like the mile— VMT on the corridors.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1668", "start": 11074.285, "end": 11084.689, "text": "And there's a very long answer for you, Councilor Kanal, about data, where we have data and why that's not a measure that we use regularly.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1669", "start": 11084.866, "end": 11092.958, "text": "But we are happy to follow up and get you more information if you wanna see that data in a map form or something like that.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1670", "start": 11093.376, "end": 11094.371, "text": "Yeah, we can follow up.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1671", "start": 11094.58, "end": 11094.917, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1672", "start": 11098.646, "end": 11099.774, "text": "Oh, thank you, Dana.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1673", "start": 11099.839, "end": 11112.824, "text": "I just wanted to appreciate you for really listening and taking some very close notes and responding in a really expanded, specific way.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1674", "start": 11112.905, "end": 11116.114, "text": "I see the memo's 10 pages, and you took it very seriously.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1675", "start": 11116.195, "end": 11119.01, "text": "I hope that there's some room at some committees.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1676", "start": 11119.059, "end": 11121.272, "text": "I think the Public Safety Committee would be a great place to talk more about this.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1677", "start": 11121.32, "end": 11121.532, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1678", "start": 11121.65, "end": 11123.014, "text": "About speed cameras.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1679", "start": 11124.315, "end": 11131.669, "text": "And I think some of the questions that Councilor Ryan brought up were also important, and I think those would be also great—.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1680", "start": 11131.942, "end": 11133.612, "text": "I skipped that, I apologize.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1681", "start": 11133.724, "end": 11136.807, "text": "For another committee conversation.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1682", "start": 11137.353, "end": 11138.075, "text": "So thank you.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1683", "start": 11138.364, "end": 11140.805, "text": "I hope that folks will look at these presentations.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1684", "start": 11140.869, "end": 11146.971, "text": "Thank you to our folks from PBOT for providing information around the West Burnside paving project.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1685", "start": 11147.854, "end": 11151.579, "text": "And just with the limited time we have left, I know Councilors Novick, Green, and Smith are in the queue.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1686", "start": 11151.772, "end": 11153.008, "text": "I'll ask you to keep it brief.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1687", "start": 11153.072, "end": 11154.742, "text": "We'll get through all 3 and then close out the item.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1688", "start": 11154.839, "end": 11155.192, "text": "Thanks.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1689", "start": 11156.107, "end": 11158.339, "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chairman.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-1690", "start": 11158.596, "end": 11161.149, "text": "Uh, Councilor Koyama Lane took the words out of my mouth.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-1691", "start": 11161.406, "end": 11170.815, "text": "Um, I do think that we should have a discussion in the Public Safety Committee about whether the prospect of dramatically expanding speed and red light cameras— we're talking about going up to 45.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-1692", "start": 11170.879, "end": 11172.019, "text": "New York has 3,000.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-1693", "start": 11172.099, "end": 11176.817, "text": "We have 1/3 as many lane miles as New York, so comparable for us would be 1,000.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-1694", "start": 11176.945, "end": 11185.304, "text": "So I'd like to see when we can have a reasonable conversation about what the prospects might be and what would need to happen for us to dramatically expand the program.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-1695", "start": 11185.817, "end": 11185.913, "text": "Great.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-1696", "start": 11185.977, "end": 11186.314, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Steve Novick" }, { "id": "cue-1697", "start": 11186.443, "end": 11186.86, "text": "We'll follow you up.", "speaker": "Cassie Cohen" }, { "id": "cue-1698", "start": 11187.405, "end": 11188.962, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1699", "start": 11189.01, "end": 11189.635, "text": "Councilor Green.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1700", "start": 11190.373, "end": 11190.646, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Charisse Bach" }, { "id": "cue-1701", "start": 11190.694, "end": 11206.118, "text": "I just want to say briefly, and it's not a question to you, Dana, but it's just while we're on this topic, we have to stop this practice Of just abandoning the plans that we have because one block or one two blocks of neighbors called and got really cranky about it.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1702", "start": 11206.905, "end": 11209.201, "text": "Like we cannot, we cannot do that anymore.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1703", "start": 11209.811, "end": 11213.793, "text": "We adopt plans as as a council that then are directives for the city.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1704", "start": 11214.387, "end": 11215.351, "text": "We have to see that through.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1705", "start": 11215.576, "end": 11223.299, "text": "I'm I'm happy to stand by the policy, and you can't we cannot move as the bureaus because one councillor got your ear.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1706", "start": 11223.54, "end": 11224.005, "text": "That's unacceptable.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1707", "start": 11224.422, "end": 11226.042, "text": "And so we have to sort of hold the line.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1708", "start": 11226.587, "end": 11228.351, "text": "We have to do our safety improvements.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1709", "start": 11228.432, "end": 11233.146, "text": "We have to put forward and stay with our Northwest in Motion plans and all the like.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1710", "start": 11233.307, "end": 11241.117, "text": "And so I'm just going to keep reiterating that because that's a pattern I see in the City of Portland in this new form of government.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1711", "start": 11241.181, "end": 11242.079, "text": "I'm not an executive.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1712", "start": 11242.143, "end": 11242.785, "text": "I'm not a commissioner.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1713", "start": 11242.849, "end": 11245.158, "text": "I cannot do anything about it except for raise my voice.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1714", "start": 11245.27, "end": 11246.329, "text": "And so I'm going to continue to do that.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1715", "start": 11246.425, "end": 11247.435, "text": "So thank you.", "speaker": "Mitch Green" }, { "id": "cue-1716", "start": 11248.157, "end": 11249.232, "text": "Thank you, Councilor Green.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1717", "start": 11249.36, "end": 11249.969, "text": "Councilor Smith.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1718", "start": 11252.092, "end": 11252.968, "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chairman.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1719", "start": 11253.066, "end": 11254.803, "text": "Thank you so much, um, Miss Dana.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1720", "start": 11254.933, "end": 11257.596, "text": "I didn't— I was not at the meeting.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1721", "start": 11259.066, "end": 11262.023, "text": "Um, did you give this to the Public Works Committee?", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1722", "start": 11263.566, "end": 11268.258, "text": "This presentation was at the last Committee of the Whole, and I think you were gone that day.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1723", "start": 11268.71, "end": 11272.809, "text": "Okay, and it was— but, but it's never been given at the Public Works Committee where transportation—.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1724", "start": 11273.874, "end": 11275.069, "text": "Not the same presentation.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1725", "start": 11275.612, "end": 11275.772, "text": "No.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1726", "start": 11275.917, "end": 11276.399, "text": "Okay.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1727", "start": 11276.479, "end": 11276.656, "text": "I—.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1728", "start": 11277.684, "end": 11278.247, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1729", "start": 11278.424, "end": 11295.893, "text": "So what I think is, because this deals with transportation and that's what Public Works does, that you should also try to get on our schedule so that the folks— so that we can really talk about these things in a more appropriate committee.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1730", "start": 11296.974, "end": 11309.319, "text": "Because I think that we could go deeper into this, and I appreciate you bringing it here because it is something that all of us have supported at this diocese.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1731", "start": 11310.54, "end": 11321.204, "text": "But I would also like to be— when you're talking about Vision Zero, I want us to be one of your stops, if not the first stop, to let us know what's going on.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1732", "start": 11321.461, "end": 11322.248, "text": "Yeah, absolutely.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1733", "start": 11322.376, "end": 11322.762, "text": "Okay.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1734", "start": 11322.906, "end": 11330.947, "text": "You will have a presentation next Tuesday from PBOT staff to dig into some intersection So that'll be a great way to dive deeper.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1735", "start": 11331.011, "end": 11331.845, "text": "Will you be there?", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1736", "start": 11332.133, "end": 11332.582, "text": "Yes, I will.", "speaker": "Dana Dickman" }, { "id": "cue-1737", "start": 11332.63, "end": 11333.416, "text": "Okay, perfect.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1738", "start": 11333.897, "end": 11334.602, "text": "Thank you so much.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" }, { "id": "cue-1739", "start": 11335.195, "end": 11336.125, "text": "Thank you, Councilor Smith.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1740", "start": 11336.221, "end": 11337.728, "text": "Councilor Koyama Lane, if you want to close out the item.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1741", "start": 11337.984, "end": 11345.615, "text": "Oh, I just wanted to say thank you, Councilor Smith, Vice Chair of the Public Works Committee, for your commitment and for saying that.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1742", "start": 11345.759, "end": 11346.272, "text": "I agree.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1743", "start": 11347.378, "end": 11363.039, "text": "It'll be important that we— I've been pushing for more on the public works agenda and would love I think we've— PBOT-specific Vision Zero work is going to be next week.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1744", "start": 11363.665, "end": 11377.891, "text": "Dana also does the citywide work that includes a lot of other areas, and that is why we have that citywide position, because public safety, fire, police, emergency management, city life— I mean, there's a lot.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1745", "start": 11377.955, "end": 11379.304, "text": "I think that sometimes can be a bit of the challenge.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1746", "start": 11379.384, "end": 11379.737, "text": "I think that's a great point.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1747", "start": 11379.882, "end": 11381.372, "text": "Is that we just think it's a PBOT thing.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1748", "start": 11381.789, "end": 11385.939, "text": "It is, and we do need to focus on it in Public Works, but it's not just a PBOT thing.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1749", "start": 11386.051, "end": 11390.955, "text": "And so, but I hear that and I really appreciate your support.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1750", "start": 11391.083, "end": 11398.038, "text": "And most of the questions that Councilor Clark said last week are ones that I think we should dig in specifically in the Public Works Committee.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1751", "start": 11398.311, "end": 11398.647, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Tiffany Koyama Lane" }, { "id": "cue-1752", "start": 11399.176, "end": 11399.673, "text": "Thank you.", "speaker": "Ruth Dallas" }, { "id": "cue-1753", "start": 11399.737, "end": 11400.875, "text": "Thank you, and thank you, Dana.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1754", "start": 11401.676, "end": 11403.551, "text": "Just as we wrap up, 2 quick notes.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1755", "start": 11403.839, "end": 11411.291, "text": "First, the next meeting of the The, um, Committee of the Whole is next Thursday, uh, August 13th at 9:30 AM.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1756", "start": 11411.996, "end": 11414.592, "text": "Um, you can see in the chair's update what we're talking about then.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1757", "start": 11415.121, "end": 11421.387, "text": "I also wanted to take the opportunity to note today is the 81st anniversary of the, uh, bombing of Hiroshima.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1758", "start": 11422.012, "end": 11427.284, "text": "Um, and I know there's, there's some events that are still going on and others that were canceled due to air quality.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1759", "start": 11427.781, "end": 11434.205, "text": "Um, but wanted to observe that, um, while we're here for a moment, and, uh, I appreciate the opportunity.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1760", "start": 11434.577, "end": 11436.017, "text": "Appreciate everyone being here today.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1761", "start": 11436.162, "end": 11436.842, "text": "Thank you for the time.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1762", "start": 11437.23, "end": 11441.044, "text": "The meeting of the Community— Committee of the Whole is adjourned at 12:36.", "speaker": "Sameer Kanal" }, { "id": "cue-1763", "start": 11441.145, "end": 11441.631, "text": "Adjourned.", "speaker": "Loretta Smith" } ] }