City Council Meeting

Calendar Date:
Monday, April 14, 2025 - 6:30pm

AGENDA SESSION 
City Hall Council Chambers
400 East Main Street, Cottage Grove, OR 97424
Friday, April 11, 2025 @ 8:30 am  

This meeting will be held in person and electronically using Zoom Webinar.

Use this link to join the meeting electronically:
https://zoom.us/j/92290047094 

You can also dial in by telephone:  253-205-0468
Webinar ID: 922 9004 7094

 

COTTAGE GROVE EXECUTIVE SESSION & REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING 
City Hall - 400 East Main Street, Cottage Grove, OR 97424
Monday, April 14, 2025 @ 6:30 pm 
 

This meeting will be held in person and electronically using Zoom Webinar.

Use this link to join the meeting electronically:
https://zoom.us/j/95872073189

You can also dial in by telephone:  253-205-0468
Webinar ID: 958 7207 3189
 

Providing Comments to Council:

Anyone wishing to comment in person or virtually during Appearance of Interested Citizens for “Items Not on the Agenda” or “Action Items on the Agenda” should sign up using the comment request form available at: https://www.cottagegroveor.gov/citycouncil/webform/april-14-2025-city-council-meeting-comment-request-form  by 5:00 pm on the date of the meeting.  Anyone wishing to comment in person may also sign up on the appropriate form in Council Chambers, before the Presiding Officer calls the meeting to order.  Written comments or testimony may be submitted to cityrecorder@cottagegrove.org or delivered to the City Recorder by 5:00 pm the date of the meeting at 400 E Main Street, Cottage Grove, Oregon.

 

CITY COUNCIL MEETING

(1)  CALL TO ORDER

(2)  ROLL CALL

~  Recess City Council Meeting for Executive Session  ~

(3)  EXECUTIVE SESSION - Any member of the media desiring to attend the Executive Session in person or electronically, please contact City Recorder, Mindy Roberts by 3:00 pm on Monday, April 14, 2025.

       (a)  Executive Session held pursuant to ORS 192.660 (2)(f) which allows the Council to meet in Executive Session to consider information or records that are exempt by law from public inspection. 

~ Reconvene City Council Meeting ~ 

(4)  ROLL CALL/PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

(5)  PRESENTATION

      (a)  Public Safety Telecommunicators Week Proclamation

(6)  ITEMS TO BE ADDED TO THE AGENDA
            

Appearance of Interested Citizens

This is a time for citizen comment.  The Council will first take comments addressing items not listed on the agenda, for a maximum of 30 minutes. The Council will then take comments addressing action items on the agenda, for a maximum of 30 minutes.

Individual speakers must be recognized by the presiding officer, provide their name, identify whether they are a City resident, and if so, their ward.  Please limit comments to three (3) minutes (or less, with Council approval.)  Comments regarding any matter scheduled for a public hearing may be provided only during that hearing.  The Council will not make any decisions based on public comment; however, Staff and Council may choose to ask questions or comment following the conclusion of citizen comments.

      

(7)  APPEARANCE OF INTERESTED CITIZENS

       (a)  Items not on the Agenda

       (b)  Action Items on the Agenda

(8)   PUBLIC HEARINGS

        None

(9)    CONSENT AGENDA

      (a)  Approval of February 21, 2025 Agenda Session Minutes
      (b)  Approval of February 24, 2025 City Council Meeting Minutes
      (c)  Approval of March 7, 2025 Agenda Session Minutes
      (d)  Approval of March 10, 2025, Joint City Council & Planning Commission Work Session Minutes
      (e)  Approval of March 10, 2025 City Council Meeting Minutes
      (f)  Approval of March 21, 2025 Agenda Session Minutes
      (g)  Approval of March 24, 2025 City Council Meeting Minutes

                                
(10)    RESOLUTIONS AND ORDINANCES

   (a)  Resolution Establishing Appropriations within the General Fund for the Expenditure of an Unforeseen Specific Purpose Grant from Oregon Community Trees (OCT-24-05) (Associate Planner Leni Crow)

(11)  BUSINESS FROM THE CITY COUNCIL 

        (a)  Council Goal Discussion (SSW Facilitator Ashley Sonoff) – 1 hour

        (b)  Approval of Storm Drainage System Master Plan Development Project Engineering Services Contract (Public Works Director Faye Stewart) – 5 minutes

        (c)  Approval of Change Orders # 1 and # 2 for the Cleveland Street Capital Improvement Project (Public Works Director Faye Stewart) – 10 minutes

       (d)  Cancellation of City Council Meeting (City Manager Mike Sauerwein) – 5 minutes

       (e)  Concerns from Council

(12)  BUSINESS FROM THE CITY MANAGER

        (a)  Report from the City Manager - 5 Minutes

           
(13)  BUSINESS FROM THE CITY ATTORNEY

         (a)  Report from City Attorney - 5 Minutes
 

(14)  ITEMS REMOVED FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA

 

(15)  ADJOURNMENT
 

THE NEXT REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING IS SCHEDULED FOR: Monday, April 28, 2025  at 7:00 pm in the Council Chambers at City Hall.

City Council meetings are live streamed on YouTube Live and available the day following the meeting at https://www.youtube.com/user/citymanagerCG

 

 

Hearing T Loop is intalled in City Council Chambers

Cottage Grove complies with state and federal laws and regulations relating to discrimination, including the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA). Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Mindy Roberts at (541)942-5501 at least 48 hours prior to any meeting of the City Council.

Cottage Grove City Council Chambers is equipped with an induction hearing loop - hearing aids can be set to T-coil setting to hear the Council meeting.