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Someone brought their snake to the splash pad at hidden creek. Are snakes allowed at parks?

There was a toddler playing the splash pad and the guy let his snake loose to take pictures of it in the splash pad.

This post is mostly venting because I’m sure the owner will say the snake was harmless but there were toddlers at this park. And toddlers are unpredictable.

I was at the parking garage in downtown hillsboro right next to the court house watching the fireworks with some people, when a bunch of kids were playing around. I think it was three girls and two boys. One boy, in all black in a skimask was climbing the outside of the fencing at the top of the garage while the other recorded and egged him on as he hung off it. Then, five minutes later, this same masked kid lit a massive firework in the middle of top the level of the garage right next to families and people. The sparks went everywhere and a man approached them telling them to leave. The kid was blasting the N-word and threatening the man and took the elevator down. Then a couple minutes later, the kids came back, the one in the ski mask threatening to lit more and even closer to people. The cops were calls. I hope that these kids learn their lesson somehow, because this was so dangerous for no literal reason at all. I have pictures of the girls faces but none of the boys.

Please be safe everyone!

Does anyone know of any local restaurants steaming the Mexico game on Sunday in Spanish?

Two land-use appeals have been filed challenging the Hillsboro Planning Commission's approval decision on the Sky Harbour Private Jet facility at Hillsboro Airport (HIO). Tualatin Riverkeepers are accepting donations to fund the legal fight, and with your help we can win this! Get a yard sign and learn more at OregonAir.org

I was just doing a search for the La Strada dei Pastelli Chalk Art Festival, to see when it was scheduled for this year, and it turns out TVC has a new executive director and they aren’t going to do it anymore. ☹️
I’m so incredibly bummed. It was such a fun and unique event for art lovers. There’s something about chalk art that’s just so cool, especially getting to witness it being created. I feel like this is a sucky move; I thought it was a fairly popular event, but maybe I’m wrong?
Does anyone know why they canceled it? Or if there are other chalk art festivals in the metro area to check out?

My daughter old enough to stay up a bit later for fireworks now. Does anyone have something family friendly and simple to check out some fireworks? I was thinking going to the Fred Meters parking lot to see the Hops fireworks and then head home for bedtime.
Open to suggestions that don’t involve anything too complicated.

Bought tickets for the family to see the Hops game and fireworks for July 4th. Parking passes are sold out.

Is there a section at the stadium that doesn't require a pre-paid parking pass? (ex: pay onsite). Or do I have to find parking somewhere close-by?

What parking do you recommend?

I swerved to avoid hitting a deer right by Berryhill Nursery, ending up driving my car into a ditch. Two very nice people pulled over to help tow me out. Thank you both so much, I really appreciate it. And to Berryhill Nursery, thank you for letting me use your property to park my car and inspect it for damage.

I see/hear lots of celebrations here in Hillsboro every year, but I genuinely don’t understand. Maybe cuz I struggle with social cues as an autistic person, I don’t know. But why do y’all celebrate a country that, by its own definition, is the biggest t*rrorist nation in the world? The US fought to break away from England cuz they wanted to keep the institution of chattel slavery. England wanted to ban it, not cuz they cared about Black people, but because they saw the US making SO much money, they had the ability to break away from England. That’s why they were taxing Americans so much.

Even now, the US is heavily persecuting immigrants and the people who stand up for them. Black African and middle eastern soccer teams are being heavily searched and I believe the Iranian team (might’ve been Iraqi) was asked to leave immediately about 2 hours after their game ended because people felt uncomfortable.

So again, why do people in Hillsboro pay to burn their money to celebrate such a nation? Or is it easier to make excuses and not think about it than it is to reflect? Cuz that just sounds lazy and unintelligent.

At the last council meeting, only 2 council members showed up in person following the incident with Cristian Salgado. They discussed POTENTIAL disciplinary action, which they stated at the beginning, and admitted they don’t have the power to remove him from his position as a council member, which doesn’t make sense because they have the power to appoint him. Cuz remember, WE didn’t vote for him, the council appointed him to fill Beach Pace’s seat after she became mayor.

The council tuning in through Zoom says a lot because it gives them the ability to just mute the public if they go past their 3 minutes. First of all, they have a responsibility to listen to their constituents, no? Only giving us 3 minutes to speak every other week is ridiculous. If they don’t want to listen to us, what’s the point of the council? Second of all, we KNOW they’re not gonna actually listen to the working class people; they’re still going to act based on THEIR financial/political wellbeing. Such as when Beach Pace met in private with contractors WITHOUT journalists present. So much for the transparency she always preaching 😒 but it’s not surprising when you take into account that she’s a CEO that earns $148 and receives around a $2k raise annually.

In other words, they don’t want to be held accountable. They don’t want to have to face the frustrated working class that gets screwed over by their decisions, such as the millions in tax breaks that Intel receives. They don’t want to deal with our anger at them for siding with data centers or for calling them out their bs, such as “taxing data centers more”, which is trickle down economics and doesn’t stop our resources from being wasted.

We NEED people to show up to the council meetings who are willing to stand on business. The council is scared and they SHOULD be. They’re scared of losing their positions of authority that have given them financial security. They’ll try to make us THINK we’re getting somewhere by SAYING all these nice things, but when it comes to their actions, we can see VERY clearly that they don’t give a flying fuh about us.

Anyone know anything about the timeline of the construction moving TV hwy down to 1 lane right before you get out of town? It is brutal in the after work hours.

I tried looking it up but couldn't find anything.

I live near the parade route and am noticing way less spaces have been taped off for families this year. Is this an indication that there will be less attendees? Or are people just slower off the mark/not setting up ahead of time?

Lets go!!!!!

I have been showing up to the city council meetings for a while now. The one on 6/16 was adjourned early because a community member printed out all the disrespectful and unprofessional comments Cristian Salgado had been making and handed them out to the council members, which he livestreamed and has since deleted or made private. Salgado was APPOINTED, not ELECTED; he didn’t EARN his position, it was given to him. We the people didn’t elect or vote for him.

I and other community members saw councilor Cristian Salgado blow a kiss to one of the female community members and we called him out on it. He started yelling “prove it then” and “go report me then. Look, the cops are right there.” The police proceeded to do NOTHING cuz “they didn’t see it” 💀

He was live-streaming it from his perspective so you can’t see him, but he unknowingly caught the moment in it. You hear a smooch sound, then Antonia, his target, gasps and stands up to call him out. I have the clip from HIS livestream where it happens, but it’s since been deleted and/or made private. Let me know if you wanna see it.

Council President Rob Harris is ALWAYS calling out members of the crowd; us, the working class for being “disrespectful” when we have reasonable, human reactions to their lies, such as when Beach Pace tells us the HPD is getting a new $90 million building paid for by OUR money to “fight crime more effectively” when they did nothing to prevent multiple people, including children, from being ILLEGALLY bear maced by a maga crowd. Yet that day, he got mad at Antonia for standing up and “interrupting” when she called out that he blew a kiss. Rob has no problem trying to keep us working class community members in check, yet he doesn’t apply the same standards to council members. The council voted to adjourn early and reconvene the following Tuesday (6/23).

Only 2 council members chose to show up in person (Kipperlyn Sinclair and Olivia Alcaire), but the rest tuned in over Zoom, which is worrying. They’re setting the precedent that these meetings will be done virtually, which makes it easier to infringe on our free speech and protects them from having to face the frustrated community. For example, they muted Antonia for reading comments being made about her that Salgado was allowing on his posts about her cuz they had bad words. Antonia said she didn’t have the privilege of avoiding those comments, so neither does the council.

Salgado at one point asks “where in the minutes do you see the alleged action”, when the City of Hillsboro EDITED that part out and has NOT released the footage of it or what led up to it even now.

Back to the meeting, they discussed POTENTIAL disciplinary action against Salgado, such as removing him as a representative for Hillsboro, removing him from committees, and cutting his stipend. The council admitted that they don’t have the power to remove him; the voters have to vote him out NEXT election cycle. In other words, they have the power to APPOINT people like Salgado to positions of authority, but not REMOVE them when they become a problem.

That is just the system working as intended. At every meeting, I turn my back to the council because I’m there to speak to the ones who have the REAL power; the WORKING CLASS 🔥🔥🔥

There’s a meeting on 7/7 and we NEED to show up. Even if you’re going to speak, at least get to know the community because they know a LOT about things going on in local government. We gotta stand together and we won’t be able to if we don’t even get to know each other.

Hey! I just moved to Hillsboro last week and I’m wondering what there is to do around here. I’m 23 and I’m hoping to find venues with people my age to explore. Any help is appreciated! Thank you!

(Candidate self-post)

I'm Karim Delgado, and I'm running for Hillsboro City Council in Ward 2. Tuesday night I gave the council three minutes of public comment on the data center tax breaks. I laid out my argument against the current majority pro-data-center council's decision to go on a data center speedrun. Shout-out to Councilors Kipperlyn Sinclaire and Olivia Alclaire for both speaking out against the data center rush (unfortunately, they are both leaving their seats this year).

I've spent the past several weeks reading thousands of pages of city budgets going back 20 years, and I noticed a concerning trend: we keep giving up the store for the chance to close that year's deficit. The problem is snowballing, and we keep kicking the can down the road with bad multi-year contracts that keep us in the green for one more year while handing our resources and taxpayer money to corporations we then depend on. This year we've got a $20M shortfall in our schools while residential utility rates are climbing every year, and yet we still hand the richest companies on earth a tax break to set up next door, $7.2 billion in value we agreed not to tax.

Even a fraction of what we're forgoing would matter enormously to our residents. Instead we're bending over backwards to discount their tax bill and calling it economic development.

Transcript below, or watch the video on my campaign's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/reel/2058976998353000

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Good evening. My name is Karim Delgado. I’m a local bar owner and resident of Hillsboro.

Set something aside with me tonight. People here have real concerns about data centers: the water, the power, the jobs, what the AI build-out means. Set all of it aside. I want to talk about the deal as a deal, the numbers, and the question any business owner asks. Is this a good deal for the people paying for it? It is not.

This council keeps telling us that any application that meets the criteria must be approved by law. Sure. But who sets the criteria? This council does. This council created the zone. This council reauthorized it in 2017. This council expanded its boundary in 2024. This council held the door open while seventeen applications came in from eight companies before the state closed it. These were the council’s choices.

Here is what these choices bought us: twelve data center companies that hold seven point two billion dollars in value that this council agreed not to tax. Let’s grant that every job they create is a good one. There are barely any. The Oregonian found a data center here that pocketed more than three quarters of a million dollars in tax breaks for one full-time job. Does this council think that’s a good deal?

The city even has a fee that gives it away. The Community Service Fee climbs the fewer jobs you create, so data centers pay the top rate. It deters no one, because the break is worth far more than the fee. The city is collecting proof, in its own records, that these projects do not create the jobs an enterprise zone exists for, and the companies pay it gladly, because even then the deal is a steal.

Ah, but then there’s the school support fee, the one tool that puts money back into our schools. A 2023 state law set how high it can go. The chair of the Washington County Chamber of Commerce testified against that law, saying he strongly opposed it. The law passed anyway and allowed councils to set the fee from a floor of fifteen percent all the way up to thirty. The former chair of the Washington County Chamber of Commerce now sits on this council (as its president) and that fee is still parked at its floor of fifteen percent.

Hillsboro residents may wonder why we would keep a school support fee at its legal minimum while our schools face year after year of budgetary shortfalls. This council has an answer: see, they say, school money gets equalized across Oregon, so it wouldn’t even stay in Hillsboro.  So we forgo more school revenue to tax breaks than any district in the state, because we don’t want to lift a fee for our schools if some of it would reach another town's kids. With schools in the shape they are in, that should be too embarrassing to say out loud.

This program is reserved by law for communities in real economic distress. Hillsboro qualified for it by drawing a poor neighborhood in the southwest into the zone, and that low income offset the average enough to let the whole zone count as needy. Then the breaks went north, to the richest companies on earth, while the neighborhood that made it legal only got poorer. Thanks for the corporate tax breaks, we’ll call you next time we need you.

See, the legal creativity is always there for a corporation. They will redraw a zone, hold the door open, leave a condition off the list. But the second a resident needs something, the law ties their hands: the application must be approved, the fee cannot move, the money would just get equalized away. They call it pro-business. We are giving up billions for the chance to make millions, and the richest companies in the world are laughing at how easy we’ve made it for them.

This council holds the levers, but they are gathering dust. Maybe give them a try. Thank you.