Banks city councilors met for a fairly light agenda Tuesday evening to discuss the city's business.
After an executive session to discuss potential litigation, the city council work session began.
Executive sessions are closed to the public. This reporter attended but cannot legally report on the contents of the session.
During the work session, council members heard an update on public works design standards from a city consultant.
An update on a city park in development at the new Sunset View development was held (disclosure: this journalist's sister-in-law designed said park).
The work session concluded with a discussion around the Aerts Addition petition to change street names, a process which would be finalized at a later meeting.
What would be NW 6th Street would instead be changed to NW Welcome Avenue.
Other nearby street names in the Aerts Addition follow a similar "feel good" naming convention, including "Reunion," "Memory," and the like.
Following the work session, which ended at 8:29 p.m., the council rolled straight into the city council meeting.
Washington County Sheriff's Office Deputy Ryan Pope joined remotely for a monthly police update.
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Also joining remotely was Banks Public Library Susan Cackler, who gave a brief update on the city's library. A longer written report was included in the city's meeting packet.
City Manager Jolynn Becker noted that the city would need to come up with a name for each new city park being constructed in each development.
"Do you want us to come up with some names?" she asked.
Wilkes City Park and Quail Valley City Park were the initial suggestions.
Councilor April Cannon suggest council come up with names and put it out to the community, while Councilor Pearcia Bogroff said she would prefer to see the Wilkes and Quail Valley names to honor those that came before.
Ultimately, council directed Assistant City Manager/City Recorder Angie Lanter to put a survey out to the community to seek feedback on names.
Tualatin Valley Community Television is interested in filming city council meetings for broadcast, Becker said. The community television network broadcasts city council meetings for Forest Grove and Cornelius, among other agencies. Becker said she would seek further information on costs and come back to the council with more info.
Council adopted the city council consent agenda, items considered routine and adopted as a batch.
Only two items were on the business agenda: council committee assignments, and the acceptance of water rights for Dairy Creek from the Westside development property owners, part of the developer agreement between the city and the developers.
After a lengthy discussion on council committee assignments, city council swiftly approved the water rights transfer, and the meeting ended with the removal of two further agenda items: a roundtable discussion and an executive session, opting to postpone them to the following month.
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