City Council 3/3/2008 7:00 PM
City Hall 29799 SW Town Center Loop East, Wilsonville, Oregon 97070
This meeting’s agenda has not yet been made public. When it is you should be able to download it from the City website.
The Wilsonville Public Library, through the Wilsonville Public Library Foundation, received a $10,090 grant from The Oregon! Ready to Learn Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation.
The grant will fund the library’s Book Bridges program at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility. Library staff currently works with the Early Head Start program at Coffee Creek to provide library services to incarcerated mothers and their children ages’ birth to three years old. The Book Bridges program will expand this partnership to include:
• Monthly Storytime sessions
• Monthly Parent Training sessions to address early literacy development and storytelling techniques
• Monthly selection and delivery of appropriate library books
• Development of a personal library for each participant and her child, to consist of the books presented at Storytime
• Community library introduction for each released participant, to include location, hours, Storytime schedule, and library card (or application) to the library in her new community.
"The goal of the program is to extend the benefits of Storytime to some of the most vulnerable children in our society. It give parents the skills and encouragement to read and tell stories to their children and to increase understanding of the role of reading and stories on children’s literacy and learning development," said Wilsonville Library Director Pat Duke. "Our staff will also work to introduce released parents to their future local library in order to encourage them to attend Storytime with their children and continue to read to their children."
Director Duke said the program was developed by Youth Services Librarian Keren Joshi, and Children’s Assistant Terri Wortman. Keren’s Doctorate from the University of Illinois focused on children’s early literacy development.
The commission will meet at City Hall at 6 PM. Highlights of the agenda include:
6:15 PM PUBLIC HEARING
A. LP07-0006 - Day Road Design Overlay District
7:45 PM WORK SESSIONS
A. LP06-0003 - Outdoor Lighting Standards
B. LP08-0002 – Development Code amendments related to FEMA Floodplains Standards
8:15 PM OLD BUSINESS
A. 2008 Planning Commission Work Program
8:20 PM NEW BUSINESS
A. City Council Liaison Report
B. Commissioners’ Comments
If you wonder about how decisions are made regarding the development of your community, this is a meeting worth attending.
On December 15th, the City joined the Xerces Society, Friends of Trees, and other volunteers in a hedgerow planting just south of the Wilsonville Community Garden. Approximately 1600 plants will be used to establish the hedgerow including twelve varieties of shrubs and trees, and fifteen varieties of flowers. A second planting will take place on Saturday, February 23rd from 9a.m. to 1 p.m. The purpose of this hedgerow is to provide foraging habitat for a diversity of pollinators such as bees, butterflies and a variety of other insects. The flowers selected for planting provide a range of shapes, colors, and flowering times and are all native to the Northwest. The hedgerow will also provide wildlife with cover for feeding, nesting and caring for young. The unique linear design of the hedgerow, sometimes referred to as a living fence, can provide travel lanes or corridors that allow wildlife to move safely across the landscape.
To sign up, contact the City of Wilsonville.
Slated for tonight:
Villebois Specific Area Plan (SAP) North
DB07-0054: Villebois SAP an SAP Amendment
SI07-0001: Significant Resource Impact Report
Mark Chriss
3 parcel partition
DB07-0067: Comprehensive Plan Amendment
DB07-0068: Tentative Plat
DB07-0069: Type ‘C’ Tree Plan
Hydro-Temp Mechanical
Extension of development permit for 18,000 sq.ft. industrial building.
DB07-0086: One-year development permit time extension
The panel meets tonight at City Hall, 6:30pm. The agenda is available on the city’s website.
City Hall will be closed today, Monday, January 28th, 2008.
Limited city services will be available at the Public Works & Police facility at 30000 SW Town Center Loop E. For information please contact the main number at 503-682-1011.
This just in from City Hall -
The Masonry & Ceramic Tile Institute of Oregon selected Wilsonville City Hall as a meritorious masonry and tile project for 2007. The award of merit for the use of masonry was presented at an awards luncheon Jan. 17 in Portland.
The purpose of the awards program is to recognize excellence in masonry and ceramic tile design and craftsmanship. The awards program honors works of distinction and brings public attention to projects designed by architects in Oregon and southwest Washington. Masonry that includes brick, block, stone and/or ceramic tile must be the outstanding feature of the project.
Held every two years, the Hammurabi Awards are named in honor of King Hammurabi and his code of laws - some of the first guidelines governing the construction of dwellings recorded in history.
City employees started working in the new city hall in Sept. 2006. City departments located in the 29,796 square foot building include Community Development, Building, Engineering, Planning, Urban Renewal, Administration, Municipal Court, Finance, Information Systems, Human Resources and Legal. The architect was Group McKenzie and the mason contractor was Davidson’s Masonry Inc.
"It is a real honor for the City to be presented with this award," said Redevelopment Director C.J. Sylvester. "It recognizes the efforts of both the community and the design team."
The City of Wilsonville is improving its Water Distribution System to provide service to Villebois and the City of Sherwood. To construct the waterlines, Tooze Road will have one lane traffic from 110th Avenue to Grahams Ferry Road from Monday, January 21 through Friday, March 28, 2008.
Flaggers will be onsite to help direct one-way traffic 7:00 am to 7:00 pm. The road will be open to two-way traffic otherwise. Be careful traveling through the construction zone. Always watch for workers and hazards.
Emergency vehicles will continue to have access to all properties.
The city of Wilsonville Natural Resources and the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation are hosting a seminar entitled Native Pollinators: The Heart of a Healthy Environment at City Hall Wednesday from 1-4pm. There is no charge to attend this workshop, but space may be limited. They ask that you register by contacting Matthew Shepherd at the Xerces Society ( mdshepherd@xerces.org ) or call him at 503-232-6639.
According to the Xerces Society, pollinators are a key component of our environment, but we are losing them due to changes we make in their habitat. The small -scale habitats these creatures need and their ability to move between patches mean their conservation is ideally suited to urban greenspaces of all types.
Seminar attendees will discover the natural history of these creatures, and learn successful ways to introduce pollinator conservation to personal greenspace.
The Wilsonville Planning Commission met last evening and spent over an hour on a work session related to the lighting standards here in Wilsonville. This is just one of several they have had and will have addressing this issue. The goal is to establish a standard guideline for the Development Review Board to utilize when it is considering development requests.
While the exact details are still being hammered out, the Planning Commission does have a general outline of where it is headed with the standards. These can be seen at the City of Wilsonville Website under Meetings & Agendas where you will find it under the January meeting packet.
The Commissioners also heard a presentation regarding the current status of Villebois.