At the beginning of this month I spent some time updating our COOP (Continuity of Operations Plan). This plan, give us guidance in the event the city suffers failure of infrastructure. It help us get back up and running.

We spent a lot of time this month, giving the budget a deep dive review and doing some fine tuning. Council will be receiving some supplemental budgets in the near future to correct for shortfalls, loss of contract and in some cases, adjust for unexpected tax revenues.

I continue to meet monthly with the Fire Chief and the School Superintendent. These meetings are very helpful and allow us the opportunity to problem solve overlapping issues and gain insights form peers on other matters.

On May 8th, Mayor King, Councilor Exner and I met with youth at the Sandy High-school for our first Youth Town Hall. What an amazing group of young adults we met. Meetings will continue at the start of school in September.

We are making great strides in our move towards a new software that will allow us to manage our public meeting minutes, contracts and other documents. Training for council and the planning commission on ICompass will be coming soon.

We are working on processes, forms and infrastructure surrounding the use of the Sandy Community Campus.  The goal is to minimize liability and provide as much access to citizens as possible.

With the Estacada Contract non-renewal notice and in the spirit of looking at all of our options, Tyler Deems and I attended a City/Counties Insurance Services (CIS) entitled “Best Practices for Dealing with Downsizing”. We are looking at all options to manage the impact.

Work was done this month to consolidated and provide some continuity to the rules and guidelines that all advisory boards follow. Will also be working on Council Rules updates and making sure language does not conflict with other documents such as the City Charter, Council Policy and Oregon Revised Statue (ORS).

We worked this month on a grant with the Oregon Trail School District. The Grant, if received will provide for programming with for youth at the Sandy Grade. We will be partners in programming.

I was asked by Dr. Scott Lazenby to be a guest speaker at his class at Portland State University. We have worked together on this class in the past and I always learn so much from the students.

We met again with Bert Key from the VFW about the flag installation. All the areas are marked, supplies are ordered and we are ready to dig.

Staff and I held our first annual meeting with Enterprise to see how the vehicle lease contract and fleet management is working. Things are going well, a little fine tuning was discussed but overall it seems to be a success.

Work continues on the Sandy Community Campus both for short term repair and planning for our long term project.

We have been working on reclassification of our coaching, referee and other causal employees. New employment contracts and other changes keeping within existing and new labor laws.

I have reached out to a Trade Mark Attorney. Once the branding is completed and approved by council, I will work on getting it Trademarked to protect our investment.

On March 9th, Karey Milne and I attended Elections Training in Independence Or. It was very helpful for her as the City Recorder and for me as the City Manager. Great overview.

On March 15th an open house at the library was held for the Pleasant Street Master Plan. Great turn out and input.

Completed some work this month in preparation for the State of the City which was held on March 28th. Also this month we worked with ICompass in training key staff.

We continue to work with the County on the Library Master Order.  We also reached out to Gladstone and discussed our concerns with them.

I was out of the office part of this month for a medical leave.  We also had a lot of weather related issues, but the Public Works Department did a fantastic job.  We had to cancel a Council Meeting and the Clackamas County Dinner.