The Partnership Committee is a four-person advisory group with members from the City of Tigard and City of Lake Oswego City Councils. The Committee provides oversight on issues and topics of Partnership water operations, budgets and requests. Individual members will deliver information and recommendations to their respective City Councils as necessary.
Meetings are held the third Monday of every quarter at 4:30 p.m. Click here for upcoming meetings and agendas.
Tigard City Councilor, Yi-Kang Hu
Councilor Yi-Kang Hu is a food and drug lawyer whose practice focuses on FDA law and regulation. Prior to his legal career, Yi was a research scientist and earned a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Yi has volunteered with several community organizations and served on many of their boards and committees. At the city level, Yi’s community involvement includes Tigard Transportation Advisory Committee and Tigard Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), in addition to the Planning Commission.
Born in Taiwan, Yi immigrated to the United States with his family when he was a child. He came to Oregon to attend college in the ’90s and has called Oregon home ever since.
Tigard City Councilor, Heather Robbins
Heather Robbins has lived in Tigard with her husband and two boys since 2017. They moved here from southwest Florida to escape the heat and be closer to family. Since settling here, they’ve found a community they’re thrilled to call home.
Councilor Robbins is a physician associate (PA) at Adventist Health Portland. She works in general surgery taking care of patients with a variety of diagnoses. She’s a member of the hospital Medical Executive Committee overseeing hospital policy and practitioners and is president-elect of the Oregon Society of Physician Associates (OSPA). Prior to working in healthcare, she was a technical writer, journalist, and chemist.
Councilor Robbins started her volunteering with the city as a member of the Tigard Audit Committee. Her other volunteer experiences include Scouts, THS Track, THS Band Boosters, and the Jr. League of Fort Myers. She is a firm believer in advocacy at the state and federal level and has worked to advance PA practice laws to ensure her neighbors and patients are able to access healthcare easily and fairly.
In her free time, she enjoys baking, creating recipes she shares on her blog, traveling, and playing with her spoiled little dog, Arlo.
Lake Oswego City Councilor, John Wendland
John Wendland graduated from Lake Oswego High School. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Commerce and Accounting and a Certificate of Retail Studies from the Retail Management Institute at Santa Clara University.
Councilor Wendland held various corporate and senior management positions prior to owning his own manufacturing business in Portland. He has volunteered in many capacities for our schools and served on the Lake Oswego School Board for eight years, two as Chair. He serves as Chair of the non-profit organization Reading Results, served on his HOA board, and has been a LO Chamber member since 2006.
John and his wife Lisa have two daughters, both graduates of Lake Oswego schools.
Lake Oswego City Councilor, Ali Afghan
Ali Afghan is an Iranian born U.S. Citizen who moved to America to attend university. He has lived in the Portland Metro area since 1979 (in Lake Oswego since 1990) where he has set roots with family, friends, and his professional accomplishments.
Councilor Afghan is a Registered Professional Engineer and has over 30 years of experience in facilities design and engineering, construction project management, and organizational leadership. The last chapter of his professional career prior to Genentech includes 17 years in leadership roles at Intel.
Ali is a husband, father, brother, uncle, and friend. He and his wife, Billy, have four children (Roya, Sara, Sean, and Will) who are grown and on their way in the world.