Board of County Commissioners - Regular Meeting

Well, good morning everyone and uh thank you for joining I'll now call to order the Clackmus County Board of Commissioners business meeting on April 9th, 2026. I'll start out by County Administrator Gary Schmidt. Would you please call the role for us? Yes. Thank you, Chair. First, our staff support today. County Council Billy Williams. Clerk to the board Andrew Geri. Commissioner Schrader is out of the office today. Joining you online, I'll do roll call online. Commissioner West here. Thank you. in the room. Commissioner Savis present. Commissioner Helm here. Chair Roberts here. Thank you, Gary. If able, would you please stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance?

I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. So again, good morning everyone and first off as public communication and testimony is limited to three minutes per person. So as always, I ask your comments to be respectful and courteous. As a reminder, you can also email uh submissions for public communication at bccclacmus. us. They'll be accepted as a part of the public record. I'll take inerson testimony first. We'll then transfer to doing online uh testimony. So, clerk, uh, would you please moderate our in-person testimony for us?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. This is a reminder that if you are attending this meeting in person today and wish to comment during general public communication and not about any item on the agenda that has its own specific public hearing to please fill out a blue card and deposit in the box that can be found by the center doors. I will call on you in the order that they are received. Please come forward, introduce yourself, and you'll have three minutes. First, Carrie Moore. Miss Kra Moore, if you could please come forward. Thanks, Andrew. Commissioners, council, and staff, can you hear me? Okay. Yes.

I'm Carrie Moore. Thank you for listening to my story today. My husband Jeff and I, who's in the room, Clackamus County taxpayers and homeowners, and have been here for 43 years. the last 13 of it. Um, we live exactly two miles from this building in the county on 4.3 acres. I was a general contractor to our build many years ago, 13 now, and spent a lot of time in these offices. And uh, we were allowed to move in when our permits were finalized November 2013. Directly north of us, 366 ft from our home, is a legally licensed OLCC Cannabis Grow operating 247. Address is 20890 South Leland Road. The odor from that facility has forced us to contact code enforcement nearly eight months ago. My formal complaint was filed. My name is now on public record with Andrea Hall and code enforcement. I would have gone to the property owners directly. However, there was a Chinese English language barrier that prohibited communication with them. Miss Hall of the revealed that there were several outstanding and long-term land use and building code violations at this property. The one I cared about the most was the carbon filtration that was supposed to be installed on the buildings, and the odor is just totally unbelievable. She told me again and again via emails and conversations on the phone that she would cite the owners That never happened. It's been eight months. So, they've continued to grow and dry and pollute our air. And as my uh emails continued, she finally came to our property last week and told us no one from her office had stepped foot on that on that property all these eight months. Four months ago, the odor was so strong we couldn't open our windows in our home. And I'm not making any of this

up. We couldn't sit on our patio. So, the people I contacted at this this uh facility, I'm just going to use their first names, Andrea, Shane, Michael Barnes, Tony, and now Dan Johnson and I had a conversation yesterday. DEEQ and EPA came out to our properties, but no one from this facility. My question was, and continues to be this, what does code enforcement mean? How can we how can an operation clearly functioning outside the law be stopped? Current system here needs some overhaul improvements because there's no consequences for these people and I can't be we can't be the only people who are enduring this. Miss Hall told me four days ago that that owners are now growing without compliance in the next bigger building. And so finally a $411 fine was issued to them. My voice had to get so loud and my time was so horribly wasted simply trying to breathe the air on our property.

Thank you. Thank you. Next, Les Pool. Mr. Les Pool, if you could please come forward. You'll have three minutes. Good morning. Good morning,

Les Pool. I live in Lynn County, but lived in Clackamus for 32 years and was here many moons ago when Commissioner Savas was elected. And uh the reason I bring his name up is today I want to talk a little bit about transportation. and tied to all of our future is the cost for transportation far beyond the price of fuel. Um, I recall so many years of discussing where we were heading with transportation and being concerned that we'd end up underfunded and underserved. And indeed, that's what's happened in Clackamus County. And uh I do want to thank everyone uh that has fought against the tolling scheme. Once again, I refer to Commissioner Savis. Uh to those that have said we're we're taxed out and we're maxed out. Um Commissioner West isn't here. I think he's serving right now. Uh but he's been very adamant in his uh support for the referendum. And I want to just conclude by sharing a couple thoughts about that. ODOT showed up in February of 2025 at the Capitol in a committee meeting and dropped a bomb. And that bomb was they were 1 bill100 million upside down. And they just finally decided to talk about it. And the response to that was that monstrous bill that went down in flames. And ultimately, we all know where where we are now. They did pass a $4.3 or four and a half billion dollar tax and fee increase that now is going to be on the May ballot. Originally, it was going to be in November, but some shenanigans by the

governor got it to May, but very important that people vote on that. Um I'm as someone who's been on the inside, I can say publicly that um it's not justified. It's not affordable. And um I hope we have a good turnout in the election. I hope that helps drive it. There's important races in the election. And uh and our transportation future will be determined by who gets elected. How you folks vote matters. And so how we vote matters. So thank you very much. Thank you.

Thank you. Next, Pat Erdenberger. Please forgive me if that's a mispronunciation or misreading. Please come forward. You'll have three minutes. I'll make it quick. Good morning, commissioners. I guess I'm really here to speak to Commissioner West. who's online. Yes.

Uh, last week I'm Pat Erdenberger. I live in Welches, Oregon. I'm the chair of the Hoodland CPO. Last week, three of you along with Gary Schmidt, Dylan Bllelock, and an AV crew presented a very comprehensive town hall experience to discuss short-term rentals. The discussion was short because you were just overwhelmed with testimony, but the event seemed to breathe life into a serious subject that many people had simply given up on. We've lost many neighbors who've moved away from the problem of control on short-term rentals. Recently, people have mentioned to me that Commissioner Savis had a draft STR code years ago that was whittleled down to the current one. And they suggest that Commissioner Savis bring that out again and run it by your staff. Safety and harmony in our neighborhoods requires your help to develop a strong, successful program, a well-managed program in short-term rentals. And we're hoping for four things: rules, transparent processes, monitoring, and enforcement. And I'm going to end on a happy note. We have good news. The US Forest Service is beginning the process of developing workforce housing in Zigzag, Oregon. We're thrilled with that because this housing will not only be for forest

service, it'll be for our community. It's very important that the county, at least in spirit, support that effort. And so if you hear from the Zigzag Ranger District, uh, please consider at least being on Zoom calls to follow what they're doing. And I thank you. All right. Thank you. Wonderful. Thank you.

This is a final call. If you are attending this meeting in person and wish to comment during general public communication and have not yet had the chance to do so to please fill out a blue card and deposit in the box that can be found by the center doors. Question two.

Mr. Chair, seeing no other members of the public physically present wish to comment during general public communication with your ascent I'll turn to those who are attending virtually. If you're attending this meeting virtually and wish to comment during general public communication, this is your opportunity to please raise your hand. And Mr. Chair, I should add that I see Commissioner's West hand is raised. Would you like to address that now or after we finish virtual public communication? Um, why don't we uh take a pause and go to I have uh both Helm Savas and uh Commissioner West would like to comment. So, I'm going to uh take a normally I don't do this, but I want to give them a chance to say something. So, I'll start with you, Commissioner West. Go ahead.

Thank you, Chair. I appreciate the opportunity and the break from protocol. I I really do thank you for that. Just the first two testimonies. Um I really want to understand a little bit better what's going on with the marijuana grow and the nuisance that they're having as neighbors. It's the first I've heard about it. I'm very concerned. Um, so I I hope that we can act swiftly and quickly and make sure that we're um being responsive to this to the community member and our resident that came and testified on that issue today. It definitely has piqu my interest and I want to be responsive to your concerns and thank you for taking so much time to to to advocate for the issue you care about that's impact impacting your lives and for letting us know. I know it's not easy. Completely hear you on that, but I want us to be responsive. So, I just want to put that out there. um and the other woman that just testified on the issue with STRs and up on the mountain. Um I I am so sorry I wasn't able to make it to that meeting and thank you for coming and um sharing today uh what had happened before us today and helping catching me up to speed. I was away on naval orders and duty. I wasn't able to attend the meeting where I absolutely would have. Um commissioner's office has done a lot of great work on this issue. We're trying to address those concerns that the residents have up in the Welch's area. I'm also excited about the workforce housing. A lot of the forest policy actually um coming out from the federal government right now is something that the county has been uh very involved in and engaged in and um I am more than happy to do whatever it takes to uh help represent the needs of the communities in that area. But just want to let you know I'm paying attention um even though I had to be away but I'm back now and uh I appreciate you coming and testifying and helping me get up to speed.

All right. Thank you, Commissioner. Uh Commissioner Savis.

Yeah. uh to the first public comment regarding the marijuana grow. Um I I'll be looking I think they left, but I'll be looking into that. I want to um I know that sometimes code enforcement takes time and it's complex and each case is unique and different. Um and sometimes it takes way too long than than one would like. But I I'll certainly look into that. Um, I do know, you know, that that whole when the county had an option of opting in or out on the marijuana stuff, um, that was quite a a rigorous discussion and, um, uh, we ended up legalizing it, which I would prefer we we hadn't, uh, frankly for the livability of our county, but nonetheless, um, um, I I will look into that. And the common thread here to the second comment with regard to the STRs uh that Pat just spoke to um also heard, you know, from the Mount Hood meeting uh up at Welch's that the um a lot of emphasis on code enforcement and it's expensive. Um it takes time. Uh but certainly uh to do more code enforcement would take more resources. And I think that we after years and years of wrangling uh we didn't get much done for several years on the on the uh short-term rental code enforcement and um later after a pause we did get a pilot program uh initiated and you know you all know or those up at Mount Hood and others that are paying attention to the STR thing we're working on that and trying to revise that how we can beef it up and so that that process will be uh forthcoming and then we'll figure out how we navigate that. But uh it takes a lot of it takes a lot of effort and of course it takes enough votes to carry things through and that and uh an understanding and commitment to to the work. So, um I do want to say I'll just

take this opportunity that I actually went back um yesterday and tried to go back and refresh my memory by watching some meetings and I discovered Gary that a lot of the meetings in 2018 and 19 uh the policy sessions that were typically on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, they're recorded, but when I hit the record tab, there's nothing there. Goes to a 404 air message. The packets are there, but the recording is there. I'm not sure if it was a video recording or an audio. I think it may have been audio, but nonetheless, um I uh I looked for several meetings and I I couldn't find them. Just to remind myself about the STR difficulties that we had. Um but I will look into that. That's my comment for today. Chair, back to you.

Thank you, Commissioner Helm. Uh yeah, and I want to thank Carrie and Jeff for showing up to testify uh about the the Grow operation. Um, I understand code enforcement takes time, but what really disturbs me is that that DEEQ and EPA actually had the time to show up and they're usually harder to get a hold of uh than your own county. So, I would hope we would do something to speed the process up and I don't know what the answer is here, but um I I feel for him and I know when all this was going on, I was uh mayor in Damascus and it came up a lot that u be careful what you wish for when you make all this legal and uh here we are. So, um I would think all of us would get a report back on that here very very shortly. Um

yes, not individually. Um and then Pat, I know you talked about the Forest Service, uh the Workforce Housing and there's upcoming meetings and if you could provide us with those meeting times, that would be great. So, even if they're virtual or in person, I would love to attend as many as I can. So, thank you.

All right. Uh just a couple comments really to echo uh what my colleagues have said is one of the things we value most is uh hearing from you the community and I think it's very important and I also want to recognize um Carrie and Jeff that I heard you loud and clear and that we are all on board on looking into this and helping address the issue. So I want you to know that. Um, also, um, regarding the short-term rentals, I will say that was probably the best turnout on an event I have ever been at.

The place was packed. It was incredible. Uh, we got to hear from so many different people. And I will just say what was resounding to me was a couple things of one is we want us to move forward with a sense of urgency. um and um and that we really want to see things happen and a big issue had to do with once again code enforcement. So we've been having I want you to know we've been having ongoing meetings. We are trying to move this at a rapid pace. I know it's been far too long and um I just want you to know personally for me I mean I have really tried to get myself educated on that. I've spoke with folks in uh Long Beach, uh Washington, Arizona, Boisee, Idaho, and learning uh what a lot of these different programs are, and we just really want to make sure we put together a robust program that really uh is fair to everybody involved. So I want to thank you for uh coming today and also uh being a part of organizing such a it was really uh one of the best events I think we've been to the last year. So thank you. So with that we'll move on to um uh online communication. Gary, did you want to add anything else? Uh thank you chair for the the cannabis feedback. We'll get back to all of you commissioners on kind of the status of where things are at and then we'll see what options are to get back to the constituent and the short-term rental recordings online. I'll find out what's going on and report back to the board.

Thank you. Right. And one other thing having to do with the workforce development out there near Welches or Zigzag. Um I thought we I saw some documents that that we are supporting that. Is that correct? Do you do you recall that? supporting the BLM when she's talking about the housing up there. Oh, yes. You have supported that in the past. Yes. It's been a while, but you did as Yes. So, I recall that we're we're we're behind that. I just want you to know we we feel that's critically important. So, um so, okay. Uh thank you all. Um colleagues, Andrew,

thank you, Mr. Chair. Returning to virtual attendance for public communication. If you are attending this meeting virtually and wish to comment not on any item that has its own specific public hearing on today's agenda, this is your opportunity to please raise your hand. I will call on you in the order that I see. This is a final call if you're attending this meeting virtually to raise your hand if you wish to comment. Mr. Mr. Chair, I see no other members of the public either physically or virtually present wish to comment during general public communication today.

All right. Thank you, Andrew. I'll now close the public communication. I'll now recess as board of county commissioners and convene as the housing authority of Clakamus County and I'll turn to Gary as to what do you have next for us? Yes, thank you. You are now meeting as a housing authority of Clackamus County Board of Directors for the Housing Authority consent agenda. Joining you online is housing resident commissioner Anne Linstra. Good morning, Commissioner Linstra. Good morning. Thank you for being here. Andrew, would you please read the consent agenda?

Consent agenda for the housing authority of Clackamus County. Item A, approval of a resolution to adopt the 2026 annual public housing authority plan and moving to work supplement. No county general funds are involved. Mr. Chair, that concludes the housing authority consent agenda. All right. Do any of my colleagues wish to remove any item from the agenda? Seeing none, may I have a motion? I move we approve the con housing authority consent agenda. Second. All right. Commissioner Leure has moved to approve the housing authority consent agenda. Commissioner seconded that. Any further discussion? Seeing none, clerk, will you please call the poll? Commissioner West.

I. Commissioner Leanstra. I. Commissioner Helm I. Commissioner Savis. I. Mr. Chair, I. Motion passes five to zero. Mr. Chair. All right. And housing commissioner Lisa, thank you so much for your involvement. We sure appreciate it. You're welcome.

You're right. I will now adjourn as a housing authority and reconvene as a board of county commissioners. Gary, thank you. Next, you have two presentations, commissioners. The first is approval of a proclamation of April 2026 as Graange month in Clackamus County. Uh, a brief presentation will be shared with you by our Graange leaders in the county, Don Kingsboro from the Warner Grange and Shirley Gilman from the Redling Graange. Would you please come forward? Or uh, Don, at least Don, come forward.

It's actually Oh, I apologize. So we got it. Thank you. Welcome. Thank you for doing that. So if you'd like to make a few comments, please go ahead. Am I limited to one day or two? We're not we're not limiting your time, but concise is appreciated. This is kind of

Good morning, Chair Roberts and Commissioners and and Gary and Andrew. It's always a pleasure to be here. I love coming to your meetings. I think you're even a little bit more formal than we are at our Graange meetings. We are representing the Clackamus Pomona Grange. Uh in our world, Pomona means a collection of graes. In this case, Clackamus County has 16 graes that are active in the county and doing community service. Um our our most important our very favorite community service project is the Veterans Village or I think you call it the transitional village. Uh we've been involved with that since before it was built. Uh it's it's been a wonderful experience for us. Uh for me personally, I've gotten to know some of the residents. I'm sad when they move on, but I'm happy. And occasionally I'm lucky enough to meet one of them in his workplace or on the street and it's it's a big thrill. We have um we we pick up food twice a month. Uh somebody on the community service committee picks up the food and I love to say this. We pick it up at the 10:00 church on the 10:00 hill at 10 o'clock in the morning. Isn't that just a number 10?

Can't give me another 10. Anyway, anyway, we pick up the food and we deliver it to the village. Uh some of the residents come out and uh get it and we get to help putting it away and it's just a very positive experience into that in in addition to that on a regular basis. Clark's Graange once a month prepares food at their Graange Hall. They started doing this very very early in the village's life. So they prepare a full meal, transport it, I don't remember the name of the containers, but they transport it heated or chilled depending on what it is. And we take it to the to the village and we set up a table. BaskinRobins in Gladstone donates ice cream and we sit down and we have Sunday dinner with the veterans and it is truly a wonderful experience. It's uh the veterans like it, the staff likes it and we Grers that get to attend it also like it. So each graange in Clackamus County contributes something to the village. At the end of this month, April 25th, we have our big drive and that will be mostly paper products and hygiene products and we will fill a car and fill a pickup and we'll take it to the village and they'll say where are we going to store all this and then a few months later they'll be asking for the same thing again. So, I want to give you a brief description of what uh some of the Grangers in the county do. Um, Maplewood Graange, uh, they have a pioneer cemetery. They spent 40 hours cleaning the cemetery. They participate in eggfest. They collect clothing for a um, a clothing and supply drive in Molala uh, in I'm sorry, Maplewood area, south of Cani. Um they they donate produce to the local food bank. They donate money to the Backpack Buddy program uh which is in Marian County for weekend lunches.

They make a monetary donation uh to the Startright program. They also make a monetary donation and they spent $1,500 buying milk, just milk for the Buddy program. They offer their hall as do all Granges uh at a discount for public service groups and for a community that wants to have a meeting whether it be to discuss politics or road conditions or whatever. Almost every Graange Hall is available for free to have a public meeting. So I wish we had a Graange up on the mountain. We used to Sunnyside Graange. Uh, Sunnyside Graange this year has donated 670 pounds to the Oregon Food Bank. They are currently raising money to put a bench along a trail in the Happy Valley area. They have blood drives three to four times a year. Harding Graange, I saw a video on Facebook. They recently had a an egg Easter egg hunt. I I don't know where all those kids came from. They must in incorporated they must have brought them in from someplace else. There were a lot of kids. So they had their Easter egg hunt and they had a breakfast. They have dinner every month for the community and um they are a gleaner distribution site. Beaver Creek Graange coming up and uh is on May 10th is Mother's Day breakfast. Uh they also have a monthly breakfast on the first Saturday. The Beaver Creek Lions use their hall. The Cub Scouts and Girl Scouts use their hall. This is free of charge. They have a blood drive every two months. Uh they host the Beaver Creek um hamlet. They have a St. Patty's Day dinner which is really good. If you all like corn, beef, cabbage, it's really good and filling. And they participate in the Christmas tree lighting in the Beaver Creek area. They open their hall and let people come

in and eat and sing and and light the Christmas tree. So, Boring Damascus, Boring Damascus Grange also has a Christmas tree lighting event where they provide snacks and they go to the boring trail head park. They also participate in the boring dull day. And if you don't know what boring Oregon is and dull Scotland is, and that probably sounds depressing, but they do that every August. And they are trying desperately, just trying desperately to teach Paul Savas to pour syrup without spilling it because they have a strawberry waffle feed every year. And I don't know, Paul, have you learned how to spill syrup or learned how to Yeah. Well, I I do my best. And the whipped cream, the strawberries as well.

Right on. It's a fun event. The the strawberry waffle thing is a time for local community leaders, um, state representatives, county commissioners, others to come out and get acquainted with the people in the community over waffles and whipped cream and syrup. The Moligrange, they donate to the senior center every month. They have scholarships for high school students. They contribute to dogs for better living. They contribute to the local food bank. uh Clackamus women's services veterans village of course they give used line used glasses to the Lions Club they allow the girl scouts and the gleaners to use their hall for free uh they recently hosted a disaster preparedness event which is getting more and more important as fire becomes a big part of our lives this year they gave out school supplies at Halloween in their trunk or treat event warrange has recently started having I can't say this correctly Loia. I can't roll my tongue. Anyway, Loia is Mexican bingo and you'd be surprised how much the community loves it. Instead of letters and numbers or symbols, you know, so it really is fun. Um, Springwater Graange, Springwater Graange has breakfast on the first Saturday every month except during the summer. And the funds from that breakfast, especially the tip jar, go to different events. Uh they might go to the Veterans Village, might go to the Eststerio Food Bank, might go to scholarship program, might go to the dictionary program. Um uh oh, coming up Saturday, I gave you all a flyer. They're having a spaghetti dinner, which the money from that will go to raise money to buy dictionaries. Uh January 13, June 13th, they're having a strawberry social. August the 4th, National Night Out. at national and out

your um your finest in blue which I guess they were cocky green the usually the sheriff's department comes out and also the esicada fire department comes out and la last year I think it was last year they brought a brand new fire truck that had not had experience yet was really cool uh September 13th we'll have a community fair for the community and a car show and that's gotten really really uh popular Um, we have a new program that's only a couple of years old now. Uh, one of our members that passed away, left us some money, and we give a grant to teachers, teachers that want to do something in the community that's not necessarily covered by school funds. Uh, for instance, um, one teacher took a trip down to meet the thorns. You know, they thought that was pretty cool. They got to go downtown and meet the thorns. uh can't remember what the other programs have been, but the teachers are very impressed that we can give them money to do something that's outside of the budget. Okay. Uh I mentioned the dictionary program. Um some years ago, a gal by the name of Mary French in North Carolina went to her little girl's class and found no dictionaries. So, she bought dictionaries for the kids in the class. And she looked around and found out a bunch of the schools didn't have dictionaries. So she started what's called the dictionary project and that's been about 25 years ago. Uh several of the granges in Oregon, several of the grangers in Clakamus County and several grangers across the United States participate in that program. In the last approximately 20 years, there have been 37,762 685 dictionaries given out given out donated. this school year 568,692. A little personal story before I close and let um Georgin

all been in a dentist chair unless you got perfect teeth and you know you're laying there on your back and you got your mouth open and the hygienist actually is talking to you and you want to answer but you can't. Well, my recent experience is last Monday. I'm laying there and a gal started talking about her kids and turns out she has an 11-year-old boy and I think a nineyear-old boy and and when I could when I got a chance I said well where do you live and then she opened my mouth again she said I live in Cambi and I waited and I waited and I waited well then finally I got to say what what school do your kids go to and she said 91 school and then she put went back in my mouth and I'm Anyway, so her 11-year-old son came home with a dictionary that I had that that Warner Grange which is my home Graange had given to them. I don't get to get that experience very often where I get to talk to somebody that's gotten one of the dictionaries other than when I go to the school and a kid from last year will say, "Hey, I'm still using that dictionary." But the neat part of this one is that kid, this is a physical dictionary. I mean, the kids have iPads and laptops and telephones and all this stuff. This kid's got a physical dictionary, which I think you all have up there. Okay. Inside that dictionary is a Star Spangled Banner with sheet music. This 11-year-old boy who is taking piano lessons is teaching himself to play our Star Spangled Banner out of our dictionary. Wow. And I am pleased. I can't give enough enthusiasm to that story. I mean, it just makes me tingle. In fact, to finish up her job, she just held her instrument straight and I just vibrated with excitement. Thank you for your patience. Thank you for doing the proclamation for Clackamus Pomona Graange. On behalf of our president, Joyce Parker, thank you very much for keeping our county safe, for

keeping our county beautiful, and for making the sunshine today. Georgin,

thank you for this opportunity. In the matter of April 20 month in Clackamus County, uh whereas the board's strategic goals in pub include public trust in government, good government, and safe, excuse me, secure and livable communities. And whereas the Graange comp complements these goals through its mission to strengthen individuals, families, and communities through grassroots action, service, education, advocacy, and agricultural awareness. And whereas for nearly 160 years, the Graange has thrived because of strong community Graanges serving as gathering places where neighbors connect, leaders are developed, and local solutions are born. And whereas the strength of the Graange is built upon the vitality, visibility, and engagement of each community Graange across the country. And whereas in a time when communities seek belonging, civil dialogue, and local leadership, community graanges offer trusted spaces where individuals can serve, learn, and lead together. And whereas Graange month is an opportunity to recognize and celebrate the past, present, and future contributions of Graange members to Clackamus County. Now therefore, the Clackamus County Board of Commissioners do hereby proclaim April 2026 as Graange month in Clackamus County.

All right. Thank you very much. And before we move forward to adopt that, I want to give my colleagues a opportunity to make comments. I see Commissioner Savis has a comment.

Well, I think this is one of my favorite days of the year on the county commission when you all come to us uh uh and talk about your successes and what you're doing. And I also appreciate pointing out your your the volunteer work with the with the Veterans Village. So I greatly appreciated really a heartfelt appreciation for all that you do and and all the all the contributions you the philanthropy that you all provide, the Grers provide. So I again it's just a testament I think to who we are as Clackamus County and our the backbone really I think of our of this county is the people within it and all that you do. So much appreciated. Um and uh look forward to the next event. All right. Thank you.

All right. One uh comment I just want to say that that I've had personal experience with the Backpack Buddy program and how important that is is really sending food home with kids and uh it really does make a difference. Um I've uh had a number of conversations with some of the social workers that are in the schools. They help identify those kids in need. And when they come to school hungry, one of the things uh education is is they cannot focus on their education if they're hungry. And why that is so important is it academically uh makes them successful. And I just have seen that program up front. And uh just want to say thank you for doing that. I also want to kind of give a shout out, you know, for the frog pond range and I've had the opportunity to go uh visit it. Just this the folks there are working hard to make that really continue the long history that it's had. It is really a um kind of an icon in the Wilsonville area. And so just to thank you and and I just encourage folks that if they want to help and support Graanges, you know, reach out to your local Grange and and as as many organizations, they can they can use help from all of us. So I know you give to the community, but uh individuals in the community can also help support local graes, which is really important. So with that, I'll ask uh if I could have a motion for the proclamation from one of my colleagues here.

Sure. Uh, I move we approve the proclamation of April 2026 as Graange month in Clackamus County. Second. All right. Commissioner Savis has moved to approve the proclamation April 2026 is Graange month in Clakamus County and Commissioner Helm second of that. Any further discussion? Uh, seeing none, clerk, will you please call the poll? Commissioner West I. Commissioner Helm, I. Commissioner Savis, I. Mr. Chair I motion passes four to zero. Mr. Chair.

All right. I know we have a number of representatives from some of the Granges. If you would be so kind to come up front so we could get a picture with the uh members of you, we'd love to have you up here. You know what? I totally forgot to mention the candidates forum. We'll come on back.

It's been a while. Congratulations. Oh, sure. If you want to do a crazy one. Perfect.

Nice to meet you.

Thank you. All right, we'll go ahead and jump right back into business. I know we have some of my colleagues here on a tight timeline as well. So Gary, what do you have next for us? Thank you. The next presentation is business spotlight QB fabrication and welding here in Clackamus County. Laura Edmonds, economic development manager will present. And joining today is Ben Quatch, who's the founder of QB Fabrication, and Maria Naylor, the executive administrator of QB Fabrication. Welcome to our guests. And Laura, uh, go ahead, please. Okay. And I'll sit over here.

Right. Thank you. Um, so good morning. I think it's not. Yeah. Chair and, uh, commissioners. A privilege to be before you again. And um it is our pleasure to come before you with our pres to present our seventh business spotlight um presentation in our series. QB fabrication and welding is a multigenerational business and joining us as Gary said is um Ben Quatch um founder and father Ivy does send her regrets because she is out sick today and then also Maria Naylor executive administrator. So um funding for the video production series is through office of economic development lottery funds as well as the budgeted county general funds supporting public and government affairs. Back in May 13th of 2025, you approved a as part of your business outreach strategy. Um you included the um development of this business spotlight series. So we appreciate that support and opportunity. So, Office of Economic Development in collaboration with public government affairs um established the video program in spring of 2025 and started um we started um presenting the videos to you um in October of 25. So, with that said, um the videos they're shortened um they will be they're shortened for today's presentation, but the elongated and original versions will be on the website as well as social media. Um we are committing to delivering one every 10 one a month for about 10 months. Um QB fabrication and welding is a clackmus based metal manufacturing company that specializes in transmission towers, substations and distribution products for the utility industry. Currently QB is the only metal fabricator in the Northwest that manufactures steel lattice towers from 115,000 volt to 500,000 volt. QB is a 24 grant recipient

that received $50,000 for a capital project to purchase new machinery to help increase um production capacity. The grants that were administered, these are the fiscal year 2425 grants and the grants are um funded through um office of economic development lottery dollars. So, let's proceed with the video and then Ben and Maria will be able to answer any questions you have.

Thank you. QB fabrication and welding has been around for over 38 years. We've been in Clackmus County for over 10 years. And what we do is we specialize manufacturing transmission towers and substations all over the northwestern states including California and also in Canada. Some of our key clients includes Bonavville Power Administration, Portland General Electric, Wilson Construction, and Northwestern Energy back in Montana as well. My dad is the founder, Mr. Ben Quatch. He founded it along with my mom, Wick Louu. They came from Vietnam in 1978 after the Vietnam War and they resided here in the Northwest since then. People work at QB call me Oz. That mean uh the old guy. Because I work uh with QB I think over 20 year.

We have over 38 full-time employees here. We've grown over 70%. And we are rapidly expanding and growing. Our company is uh about five uh about 55 acres and uh we can produce here about half a million,000 pounds of steel uh of those components for the electric towers. The grant allowed us to get a new press break and also a brand new angle master with that which has definitely helped reduce some of the bottlenecks that we are having with old equipments and also just brand new uh equipments to need to increase our capacity. We've actually been able to get a CNC uh press break operator as well too that's dedicated for that and it's currently in training. And then also on top of that with a new angle master, we have a CNT um operator that actually understands what they're doing from doing the plate burners, beam line, and now understanding how to use the brand new angle master.

And we are still looking into the uh expanding uh our uh business and our capacities. And thanks to Cluckamus County grant uh we are able to do that.

They have been such immense help for us in many different ways. Uh the enterprise zone program has definitely helped us. They've actually been supportive with work source as well too, showing the resources with more skilled workforce here than we thought we would ever find. And a lot of our folks love being in Clackamus County, too. We're going to continue growing and expanding. We're actively looking for lands and buildings here in Clackamus County. We want to stay here. That's the future. And the second thing is we hope that we can continue uh providing stronger relationships hopefully internationally as well too so we can actually be the premier you know utility manufacturer for the United States eventually.

Wow. Fantastic. Very fantastic. Uh go ahead, Commissioner Sav. Yeah, I just want to say I had the privilege and thank you for hosting us. uh have the privilege of touring your facility and meeting meeting you all uh in Ivy as well. So I was uh very impressed with your work and I you're right. You mentioned the expansion. So I knew you were moving into the property next door still. Great. Great. Um uh we just want you to be successful and I again I was very impressed with uh with the work and and also nice to see the press break and that other machine as well. I was pretty pretty impressed again how that one machine punched all those holes in there in the perfect location. So very nice. All right.

First of all, I want would like to thank you Glacamat County with support for QB. Now we had a new fat break. It really work very well for us. Help us keep moving the production quicker. We don't have to wait at all time. We don't have a press break like county supporters. Then we have to send out waiting for six week before the part get back and then we lay sometime we work with um bon wheel power the power line went down they need them now so we don't have any that kind of equipment to quick turn around but now with clamat county support yes we got them now so really would turn around really nice uh equipment and good production ction fast turnar around. Well, we love it.

Thank you so much for black county support. So, we had today this is really everyone happy. Thank you. Thank you. Did you want to say something? I What a great story. I mean, it's I I haven't had the privilege to tour your operation yet, but it's fascinating. It's absolutely fascinating. And uh I I and I hope you can grow and expand here. We are looking for more land. Always, always, always. Um, so it we just appreciate you being a partner with us and we're happy that you're happy you're here. Yes. Thank you very much. Thank you.

Yeah. And, uh, first of all, you energize me. So, I got to tell you, uh, QB, I think you ought to be the quarterback because I'll be on your team. Um, and so I just wanted to say, I mean, it is very exciting. You have 38 FTEES. Um, uh, you you've been in business for 38 years, right? And 10 years in Clakmus County. And, uh, we're we're really excited that you're here. And I think, uh, most importantly, we want you to know this is that we so much believe in businesses just like yours and that we we can only be successful because of you guys. You guys are the economic driver of our communities. And the more businesses that come here, that helps support so many things. So, You might not realize that to the degree, but it is such a huge economic driver in our counties and we couldn't be more pleased and we are always here to support you and um want to wish you all the best and uh I love the video and and I am going to come by and uh see your uh operation firsthand. I haven't been there yet and the two of us were going to come down and visit. So,

all right. Uh thank you both very much. Thank you so much. All right. Yeah. Anything else? So, now a photo op, please. Oh, yes. Photo op. Sorry. Very excited. I wear my socks today. My jeans on this side. All right. And we'll do one more.

Perfect.

It hand was raised. Before we go, Commissioner West had his hand raised. I apologize. I missed it. I didn't see that. Can you speak please before our friends? Yes. Can you hold on one second? One of our commissioners that is uh not here right now. He wanted to make a comment. Go ahead. I'm sorry, Commissioner West. I didn't see the light. He's on You're on mute, Commissioner. Commissioner West, I believe you're muted. Can you hear me? Yes, we can hear you now, Commissioner. Thank you.

Fantastic. I just wanted to say thank you so much for choosing to do business in Clackamus County and we appreciate that and there's a lot of places you can decide to do business and you chose our county and you're such an important part of the fabric of our community and um I wish I was there to take a photo and celebrate with you all. Um I would also love the opportunity to see your facilities. This Clakamus County is Clackamus County is very much prioritizing uh business development development, economic development, finding vitality and resiliency for our business community moving forward. Now, if I'm correct, um I'm a nurse by trade, so I don't know much about machining and things like that, but I'm pretty sure Commissioner Savis, this is right up his wheelhouse. If you ever been to Commissioner uh Savis's shop, it's full of machines that look very impressive and they're very large and they do very cool things. and I have no idea what that is. Um, but they make parts and do things and he's um, and so I I truly do believe that he was very impressed and wowed and probably geeking out a little bit about uh, the machinery that we were able to help you get through a grant process that allows you to be more responsive and um, have better outcomes and provide better service in a timely manner to your customers. That's fantastic. I hope we can find other ways to partner with you in the future and other businesses like yours. We just really want to have a pro job creation, pro economy, prog growth um mindset here in Clackinus County. We need more of that in Oregon and you guys are part of that resiliency and that future with us. So once again, thank you so much for choosing to do business in Clackamus.

Well, thank you. Yeah, if I may like a small comment about the like parts, uh what what do they mean? Yes. Uh for example, for example, uh this um press break uh led us to reduce the production like um we used to make part like which uh took us 12 hours. Now we it takes us two hours. Wow. Gosh. Like six times less. Wow. And uh for and uh we and we do it inhouse. We don't have to outsource and wait like Pen mentioned like plan ahead weeks of weeks ahead. Wait till it's done. bring it back, not get lost in the way. Right.

Right. And for example, we also now ordering more of the dyes for this press break that are custom made. Now we're working on the um McNair roundup project for B administration and we need to make um plate um curve plate. It took us four uh steps to form the plate. Now just one time. Oh wow. Darn. That's awesome. Thank you so much. improving efficiency. Fantastic. Thank you again. Thank you for coming today, too. Thank you. All right. Appreciate it. Thank you. Give it up for him.

Very impressive. I'd love to start my day out with that. Huh. Is that nice? That's great news. Gary, what's next? All right. Thank you. Next, you have five public hearings. First is second reading and approval of ordinance 02-2026 an ordinance amending ordinance 2-97 public land corner preservation and declaring an emergency. Jeff Mun's assistant county council will present. Go ahead please.

Yes. Good morning chair commissioners. This is the second reading on the uh ordinance 02-2026. This amends ordinance 2-97. This is the public land corner preservation fund essentially or it is that this has to do with survey monuments. The legislature last year in house bill uh 3175 changed this law slightly instead of capping the fee for that charge for those to fund this preservation fund at $10. It allows you as the board of county commissioners to set this right resolution as you do all of the other fees and so on for the county. It's declaring an emergency so that you can do so and have it effective for the next fiscal year. All right, colleagues, any questions?

All right, I'll now open uh the public hearing on this item and I'll turn to our clerk. Please moderate those comments for us.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. If you're attending this meeting in person, wish to comment on this specific item only, this is your opportunity to please fill out a blue card and deposit in the box that can be found by the center doors. Mr. Chair, seeing no members of the public physically present who wish to comment on this specific item with your ascent, I'll now move for those attending virtually. If you're attending this meeting virtually, wish to comment on this specific item only, this is your opportunity to please raise your hand. I will call on you in the order that I see. Mr. Chair, I see no other members of the public either physically or virtually present day, wish to come on this specific item. All right. Thank you. I'll now close the uh public hearing and check to see if there's any of the commissioners have any other comments. Seeing none, may I have a motion?

I move we read the ordinance by title only. Second. All right. All right. Commissioner Savis has moved to read the ordinance by Todd only. Commissioner Elma second of that. Any further discussion? Seeing none, clerk, will you please call the poll? Commissioner West. Commissioner West, if you're speaking, we can't currently hear you right now. I Thank you, Commissioner. Commissioner Helm I. Commissioner Savis. I. Mr. Chair. I. Motion passes four to zero. Mr. Chair. All right. Um. All right. Clerk, will you read the uh read by title only for us?

Yes, Mr. Chair. This is ordinance 02-2026 entitled as an ordinance amending ordinance 2-97 public land corner preservation and declaring an emergency. That is the title. Mr. Sure. All right. Is there a motion to approve? I move we approve ordinance 02-2026. Second. All right. Commissioner Savis has moved to approve an ordinance 02-2026. Commissioner Helma seconded that. Any further discussion? Seeing none, clerk, will you please call the poll? Commissioner West. I. Thank you, Commissioner. Commissioner Helm, I. Commissioner Savis. Hi,

Mr. Chair. I. Motion passes 4 to zero. Mr. Chair. All right, Gary. What's next? Thank you, Mr. Muns. Thank you. The next public hearing is a second reading and approval of ordinance 03-2026, an ordinance amending county code chapter 2.15, county internal auditor. Presenting as Jod Cochran, the county's internal auditor. Go ahead, please.

Good morning, chair, commissioners, administrator, council. So again, Jody Cochran, Clackamus County Internal Auditor. This is the third presentation of an amendment to the county code designed to reinforce the independence of the Office of County Internal Audit and the Internal Auditor. Uh so you had this information come before the policy committee on March 3rd. There was a first reading on March 2nd or excuse me, March 12th. Uh there are two items that are being asked. The first is to just clarify and define a role that exists in practice already. That's the internal audit administrator. The second is a refinement and restructuring of the internal audit oversight committee making that membership from a seven committee to a five member committee. Uh that realign the participation level of both the county administrator and county council to non voting participants. So, in addition to those two revisions, there's some administrative edits as well as a slight adjustment to the board's participation and representation on the internal audit oversight committee rather than the vice chair by position serving on the oversight committee. The board would select and appoint one of its members to serve on the oversight committee.

All right, any questions for my colleagues? Seeing now to open the public hearing on this item. So, I'll turn to our clerk and help moderate that for me. Thank you, Mr. Chair. If you're attending this meeting in person, wish to come on this specific item only, this is your opportunity to please file a blue card and pause in the box that can be found by the center doors. Mr. Chair, seeing no members of the public physically present wish to come on this specific item with your ascent, I'll turn to those attending virtually. If you're attending this meeting virtually, wish to come on this specific item only, this is your opportunity to please raise your hand. Mr. Mr. I see no other members of the public physically or virtually presently wish to come on this specific item today.

All right. Thank you, Andrew. I'll now close the public hearing. Check with the commissioners if you have any other questions. Seeing none, may I have a motion? Chair, I move we read the ordinance by title only. Second. All right. Commissioner Helm has moved to read the ordinance by title only. Commissioner Savis is second. Any further discussion? Seeing none, uh, clerk, could you please call the poll? Commissioner West. I, Commissioner Satis. I, Commissioner Helm. I, Mr. Chair, I. Motion passes 4 to zero. Mr. Chair. All right. So, I'll ask uh Andrew if you'd read by title only for us.

Yes, Mr. Chair. The ordinance is 03-2026 entitled as an ordinance amending county code chapter 2.15, county internal auditor. That is the title, Mr. Chair. Okay. Next, uh, is there a motion to approve? I move we approve ordinance 03-2026. Second. All right. Commissioner Helm is move to approve ordinance 03-2026. Commissioner Savas is seconded. Any further discussion?

Yes, Chair. I just want to just do a shout out to uh Jod Cochran and the treasurer's office for all the great work and advancing and continually improving the processes for the internal auditor. Um it's been it's been quite the journey. Uh, and we just get done better and better and always making improvements to make it more efficient and more independent. So, I thank you. All right. Thank you. Uh, clerk, will you please call the poll? Commissioner West. Commissioner West, if you're speaking, we can't currently hear you. Sorry about that. I clicked the wrong button. I Thank you, Commissioner. Commissioner Savis, I. Commissioner Helm, I. Mr. Chair,

I. Motion passes four to zero. Mr. Chair, thank you again, Andrew and Gary. What's next? Thank you. The next public hearing is second reading and approval of ordinance 04-2026, an ordinance amending county code chapter 2.03, hospital facility authority and declaring an emergency. Back again is Jeff Muns, Assistant County Council. Go ahead, please.

All right. Thank you. As you recall in January, we reconstituted the hospital facility authority with the five board members serving as the board for that that entity. Our current ordinance for that requires or provides for a seven member board. So you do have a quorum with five of you, but as you know, we set up this reconstitute this hospital facilities authority so that different um entities could take advantage of that and issue bonds and so on. So they've hired bond counsel and they would like our ordinance to match the statute closer so that it's consistent with having five is allowed. So RS441.535 provides that hospital authority shall have no fewer than five members and no more than 11 members. And so by ch changing our ordinance it's consistent with the statute satisfies bond council because they uh as paranoid as we can be as your lawyers they don't want to have any potential questions with this any interpretation. So at the at the request of the bond council, we've made this amendment for your consideration to facilitate moving the activities of the hospital facility authority forward.

All right. Any questions? All right. I'll now open the public hearing on this item and uh clerk, can you moderate that for us?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. If you're attending this meeting in person, wish to comment on this specific item only, this is your opportunity to please fill out a blue card and deposit in the box that can be found by the center doors. Mr. Chair, seeing no members of the public physically present wish to comment on this specific item with your ascent, I'll move to those attending virtually. If you're attending this meeting virtually, wish to comment on this specific item only. This is your opportunity to please raise your hand. I will call on you in the order that I see. Mr. Chair, I see other members of the public either physically or virtually present wish to come on this specific item today. Thank you. I'll now close the public hearing and check to see if commissioners have any other input or comments. And seeing none, may I have a motion to read the ordinance by title only?

I move we read the ordinance by title only. Second. All right. Commissioner Helman has moved to read the ordinance by title only. Commissioner Savage is second that. Any further discussion? Not seeing any. Clerk, will you please call the poll? Commissioner West. I, Commissioner Savis. I, Commissioner Helm. I, Mr. Chair. I, Motion passes 4 to zero, Mr. Chair. All right. Once again, Andrew, you read by title only for us.

Yes, Mr. Chair. The ordinance is 04-2026 entitled as an ordinance amending county code chapter 2.03, hospital facility authority and declaring an emergency. That is the title. Mr. Chair, next. Is there a motion to approve that? Chair, I move we approve ordinance 04-2026. Second. Right. Thank you. Commissioner Savis uh has moved to approve the ordinance 04206. Commissioner Helma seconded that. Any further discussion?

Yes, Chair. Just real briefly. Um several years ago we initiated this hospital authority. Um and I'm I'm glad from time to time it can be utilized. I know is not a very active committee at times, but but uh when the call's there, we're we're prepared to deal with it. I appreciate the fact that we are improving this um making this amendment today. Okay. Thank you, Commissioner. Clerk, will you please call the poll? Commissioner West, I. Commissioner Savis, I. Commissioner Helm, I. Mr. Chair, I. Motion passes four to zero. Mr. Chair, moving on. And thank you again, Mr. Mr. Mons, but looks like you're also back again. So, Gary, what's next?

Yes. Next, the next public hearing is approval of a boundary change proposal number 2024-00001 for sewer and storm water services to 1 19024 South Rose in Oregon City. Jeff Mun's assistant county council will present. Go ahead, please.

Yes, thank you. This is another annexation into a component of West. This is an annexation of the Tri City Service District. This is a single farmer residence that will be discontinuing a septic and annexing into the sewer district for the sewer services. Uh you'll notice this is a 2024 annexation. It took some time for them to get all of the maps legal description type information together then getting approved by district uh department of revenue but it is back and it is uh followed the proper process. All the notices have been provided as as required and mailings and so on and publications. is consistent with our comprehensive plan as well as state law and code. So staff recommends approval of the annexation 2024-00001.

Thank you. Colleagues, any questions? All right. I'll now open the public hearing on this item. Clerk, you're up. Thank you, Mr. Chair. If you're attending this meeting in person, wish to comment on this specific item only, this is your opportunity to please a blue card and deposit in the box found by the center doors.

Mr. share. Seeing no members of the public physically present who wish to come on this specific item, I'll now move to those attending virtually. If you're attending this meeting virtually, wish to comment on this specific item only. This is your opportunity to please raise your hand. Mr. Chair, I see no other members of the public either physically or virtually present wish to comment on this specific item today. Thank you. I'll now close the public hearing and check to see if commissioners have any comments or additions. Doesn't appear so. So, is there a motion to approve? I move we approve boundary change proposal number 2024-00001. Second.

All right. Commissioner Helman's move to approve boundary change proposal 2024-00001. Commissioner Savage has seconded that. Any further discussion? Seeing none, clerk. Commissioner West. I. Commissioner Savis I. Commissioner Helm. I. Mr. Chair. I. Motion passes four to zero. Mr. Chair. Gary, what's next?

The final public hearing is approval of boundary change proposal 2025-013 for sewer and storm water services to 19530 South Central Point Road in Oregon City. No county general funds are involved. They weren't for the other item either. Uh Jeff Muns, assistant county council, please go ahead. Yes, thank you. Again, this is a single family residence in Oregon City. This is also being annexed into the Tri City Service District component of West. Uh this one is uh for the same purpose to discontinue septic and connect to the sewer system. This one had proper notices sent out. It is consistent with state law and our comprehensive plan as well as the cities and uh staff recommends approval of this annexation.

Okay. Thank you, Mr. Muns. Any questions? Seeing none, I'll open the public hearing on this item. Andrew. Thank you, Mr. Chair. If you're attending this meeting in person and wish to comment on this specific item, this is your opportunity to please fill out a blue card and deposit in the box found by the center doors. Mr. Chair, seeing no members of the public physically present wish to comment on this item and I move with your ascent to those attending virtually. If you're attending this meeting virtually and wish to comment on this specific item only, this is your opportunity to please raise your hand. Mr. Chair, I see no other members of the public physically or virtually present wish to comment today.

All right, we're moving right along. Thank you everybody. So, I'll now close the public hearing, check to see if there's any comments by my commissioners. Seeing none, is there a motion to approve? I move we approve boundary change proposal number 2025-013. Second. All right. Commissioner Savis has moved to approve the boundary change proposal 2025-013. Commissioner Helma seconded that. Any further discussion? Seeing none, clerk, will you please call the poll? Commissioner West. I, Commissioner Helm. I, Commissioner Savis. I, Mr. Chair. I, Motion passes four to zero. Mr. Chair.

All right. Thank you again, Mr. Muns. Gary, what's next? Thank you. Next is the consent agenda for the board of county commissioners. Andrew, would you please read the consent agenda?

Consent agenda for the board of county commissioners. Item A, elected officials. One, approval of previous business meeting minutes for the board of county commissioners. Two, approval of a contract with Axon Enterprise for video evidence analysis artificial intelligence tools. Contract values 1,946,2286 for 10 years. Funding is through budgeted county general funds. Three, approval of a board order to cancel delinquent business, personal property, and manufactured structure property tax accounts. Total tax cancellation amount is $500,966.60. B. County Administration 1. Approval of a memorandum of understanding with the Bureau of Land Management to serve as a cooperating agency for the Western Oregon Resources Management Plan revision and designation of a county representative. No fiscal impact, no county general funds are involved. C. County Council 1. Approval of a resolution of necessity for acquisition of easements through good faith negotiations or if necessary condemnation actions for the middle Clacamus interceptor project. No county general funds are involved. D. Juvenile. One. Approval of a reinstatement and amendment to an intergovernmental agreement with Oregon Department of Human Services for partial reimbursement of youth placements. Amendment value is $400,000 for two years. Total agreement value is $800,000 for 5 years. Funding is the United States Department of Health and Human Services. No county general funds are involved. E technology services one approval of a board order authorizing a purchase order to CDWG for cloud-based email security platform MCAT. Contract value is $522,245.50 for three years. Funding is through departmental cost allocation which may include a small portion of budgeted county general funds. F health housing human services one. Approval of revenue lease agreement with Genua Healthcare for pharmacy space at the Beaver Creek Health Center. Agreement values approximately $49,25748 for 5 years. Funding through Genua

Healthcare. No county general funds are involved. Two, approval of an intergovernmental agreement with Twatin Valley Fire and Rescue for ambulance services. Agreement value is $796,93527 for 10 years. Funding is to the American Medical Response Agreements cost savings provision. No county general funds are involved. Three, approval of a local subreient grant agreement with the Mental Health Association of Oregon for alcohol and drug recovery peer-reed services. Agreement value is $322,72 for one year. Funding is to the Oregon Health Authority. No county general funds are involved. Four, approval of an amendment to an intergovernmental agreement with the city of Sandy for elderly and disabled transportation services. Amendment value is $110,000 for 15 months. Total agreement value is $3,313,949 for 20 months. Funding is through statewide transportation improvement funds with a required match of $55,000 in budgeted county general funds. G transportation development one. Approval of a property sale of a tax foreclosed parcel to the city of Westlin. Sale value is $1,128.78. Funding is to the city of Westland. No county general funds are involved. Two, approval of four funding agreements with Manny's Choice, Motorized Precision, SNWTEC, and Whispering Lavender Farm for business development grant program awards. Total agreements value is $147,800 for two years. Funding is through budgeted lottery dollars. No county general funds are involved. Three, approval of an amendment to a purchase order with the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for the purchase of road paint from Nennis Flint. Amendment values $200,000 and no time increase. Total contract values $1 million for one year. Funding is through the county road fund. No county general funds are involved. Four, approval of a board order for a purchase order to open Gov for transportation asset tracking software. Order values $391,7516 for 3 years. Funding is to the county road fund. No county general funds are involved. Mr. Chair, that concludes the board of county commissioners consent

agenda. All right, Andrew is always nice job. So, do any of my colleagues wish to remove any item from All right. May I have a motion? I move we approve the consent agenda. Second. Right. Commissioner Helm's move to approve the consent agenda. Commissioner Savatus second that. Any further discussion? Seeing none, clerk, will you please call the poll? Commissioner West. I, Commissioner Savis, I. Commissioner Helm, I. Mr. Chair, I. Motion passes four to zero. Mr. Chair. All right. I'll now recess as board of county commissioners convene as a water environment services board of directors. Gary.

Next is the consent agenda for water environment services. Andrew, would you please read the consent agenda?

Water environment services board of directors consent agenda. Item A, approval of an amendment to a contract with TAP for Intertype 2 force main project design refinements. Amendment value is 696,867 for no time increase. Total contract value is 16,164,4257 for 2 years. Funding is through water environment services sanitary sewer construction funds. No county general funds are involved. B. Approval of an amendment to a contract with Hazen and Sawyer DPC for Tri City Water Quality Lab Remodel Design Services. Amendment value is $417,660 for 17 months. Total contract value is $688,435 for 3 years. Funding is through water environment services surface water and sanitary sewer construction funds. No county general funds are involved. Mr. Chair, that concludes the water environment services board of directors consent agenda.

Okay. Does anyone want to remove anything from the consent agenda? May I have a motion? I move we approve the west consent agenda. Second. Right. Director Savis has moved to approve the consent agenda. Director Helm has second that. Any further discussion? Seeing none, clerk, will you please call the poll? Director West. I. Director Helm, I. Director Savis, I. Mr. Chair, I. Motion passes four to zero. Mr. Chair. All right, everybody. We're moving along here. I will now adjourn as a water environment services board of directors and reconvene as a board of county commissioners. Gary, what's next?

Thank you. Next is county administrator update. That's me. I have several updates for you today. First is a business item. When the board was on recess, I did sign a contract on your behalf. So at per county code appendix C section C-050-01000 section 5 the county administrator has authority to sign contracts on behalf of the board of county commissioners in any dollar amount when the board is on recess for at least two consecutive weeks. the board. You were on recess from March 23rd 23rd through March 27th, 2026 and you did not meet on Thursday, April 2nd due to a board lack of board quorum. That was two consecutive weeks. I signed one contract on your behalf. It is for the finance department. Approval of the Clackamus County Sheriff's Office Aurora Airplane Hanger lease agreement. Total lease value is $7,980 from April 1st, 2026 through March 31st, 2027. Funding is through budgeted county general funds. I signed this because there was a delay in getting the lease completed um on both sides, but we got it done. but it was due March 31st when you were on recess. Although we could not get it to you before your prior board meeting before you went on recess because the dollar amount was so small and it is budgeted funds. I did not have a concern and the county court allowed me to do it so I did it. So today I'm just informing you that I signed this contract and it will be filed uh with the clerk's office and recorded as if it was done by you although I signed it. Do you have any questions on this contract I signed on your behalf?

I do. Go ahead. I know the previous lease was five years. Why did we just do a one year?

That is a great question that I'll have to get you the answer to. I'm not sure why it was just not to surprise you. I didn't know if it was supposed to be Iologize. I'm not sure. I will find out and get that to you. Okay. Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner. Any other questions? Okay. Uh thank you. If I may, I'd like to share a piece of good news that I would normally share during my update and it's timely because you had the hearing today about the office of the county internal auditor. And the good news is an employee of that office, Kathy Young, who's senior internal auditor, recently recently received a national award for her service. The National Association of Local Government Auditors, which is a group dedicated to helping auditors protect and enhance the public good, awarded Kathy with the 2025 Neton award. This award recognizes the best performance audit reports of the year. Kathy won for her work on the county's asset management report, which was published last year in 2025. Kathy is part of an elite group of accomplished auditors recognized across the United States and this is our office's first ever submission and win for this award. So thank you to Kathy for her phenomenal work and Kathy is only one of two staff members in that office, Jod being the other. uh and they are able to really do some phenomenal work with just a twoperson team. And as you know, the work of the county internal auditor's office supports Clackamus County in being accountable and transparent and high functioning to the public. So they are an important part of our government operations. Congratulations to Kathy for this award. Finally, commissioners, as you know, you will be on recess next week, April 13th through 17th, due to a lack of quorum because many of you are traveling for county business. Thank you. But not enough here to conduct business. There is no board meeting next Thursday, April 16th. The next board business meeting will be Thursday, April 23rd at 10 a.m. That is my update today. Thank you, commissioners.

All right. Thank you, Gary. Next is up is commissioner communication. And I'll go ahead and start with Commissioner um Savis. Sorry.

Yeah, thank you, Chair. Um, as I kind of mentioned on Tuesday, uh, we are, um, just want to just give a casual, uh, informal update on the, um, work that the finance work group is doing with regard to, uh, CCSO. And I want to do a shout out to all the members, um, of that work group for their participation and the contribution and the positive spirit they're bringing forward. But I think it's uh been very um uh educational. Uh we have we have found a number of um misunderstandings that have been clarified and we are looking forward to the next meeting in which we are going to work a little bit further on some of those things and as things come up. But it it is very interesting how um just something as small as citing an expense um and the context that can make it very confusing. I I'll give you an example of that. Um you know one context may be gez this this contract cost x amount of money and it sounds like a big number but maybe the context is it's not an annual number but it's actually a three-year number. So I think that when we're talking about the annual budget that we speak in annual terms um and I think those that's an example of of communication. So one can get very confused if the numbers three times bigger or it's three times smaller however you want to look at it. And uh I think finding that common ground and the and having a a consistent context in which when we're working on the annual budget, we speak in annual terms ideally as best as possible. And um and I think the other thing I've learned over the years, whether it's been in my um business background or um uh product

development um is that you know when someone brings up a different opinion or has a different idea um you know I have learned from a teamwork environment that asking the question well okay if I don't understand it then tell me what explain more. If you have one one person has a different opinion, explain more so I can better understand what your point is as opposed to um disregarding those comments or or or not say ignoring but just not letting that input be valued. And um I I think there's a uh again the greatest teamwork and collaboration I've seen in a long time um with with this group of people. And again, shout out to the finance staff uh in at the county and great shout out to the finance staff at CCSO and some of the people around the table. It's been pretty awesome. And I I do want to also add as a segue to this when it comes to um being curious and listening to people and not questioning or doubting what they say. I just want to just say I really appreciate and I shared this with Chair Roberts last week that you know uh unlike um some of his predecessors um he he does allow the public to speak. He doesn't question them. He has does not criticize them and uh he has a a welcoming um and inviting um uh spirit that he brings forward and I think that is the the very essence of good government and elected leaders. I just want to just just acknowledge that uh chair I yield back to you, sir.

All right. Uh, thank you again and Commissioner West.

Uh, thank you, Chair, and I just want to take a quick second um, uh, to talk a little bit about the Veterans Village. It was really great to hear the local support from our graange here in the community that gives the support to our veterans that may be struggling with homelessness, um, behavioral health issues and helping find a way to make sure that they're able to get stabilized, healthy, and whole again. I really appreciate those efforts. um we almost didn't have a veterans village and it was um a hard fight before I was on the commission and looking back now and seeing how important that fight was to build out so much of the care infrastructure that we have um today the Veterans Village has been replicated. It has uh been wildly successful but it almost didn't happen. Um Commissioner Svice is one of those reasons why that happened. If you go back and watch all the videos, he was tirelessly advocating for our homeless veterans and believe that they shouldn't have to subsist on the streets, but we can do better for those um service members that um served our country. And many of them sacrificed much uh for their service. Um and I remember if you go back watch the videos to site the actual veteran village, to site the facility there that we have now today, it was a 3-2 vote. It was razor thin. Um, in that vote, uh, Commissioner Savvice really worked to push that through. Um, and there were two other commissioners that voted against citing that. There was opposition from other commissioners on the dis about it cost too much or this or that and they didn't want to move it forward and um, we it didn't even get a unanimous vote when they tried to bring the service contract forward also for that veterans village. But it has been critical and it you know before we even had a recovery oriented system of care it absolutely fit that model and the value system that we operate today to help people get the care they need. is a important part and cornerstone in our um recovery care

continuum that we give to people um which is much different than what you've seen happen through much of the region is also a key to our success. And um this board has made very mindful concerted efforts to operate and with a treatment first recovery focus and building out all the recovery infrastructure that legitimately didn't even exist three and a half years ago. But we've been bold and we've worked hard and we've overcome many barriers. And uh we've worked hard to get the 15 final million dollars from the state legislature and the governor's office to get the recovery campus to break ground here in just a couple months. And there's so many other things like the Lake Road behavioral health center that we just did, the ribbon cutting on, there's a caring place, there's a stabilization center uh where people can go in an acute crisis and get the care they need instead of intersecting with law enforcement. Um and so much more and so much more that we've done. And so I just was just reflective of all of that after hearing our community members have supported this far and wide at the very grassroots level to make sure that our care continuum from its earliest infancy before we even knew what it looked like in the Veterans Village has been supported. So shout out to the Graange and shout out to um Clackamus County for having the courage and the audacity to step out and say no, we must do better and take care of our homeless veterans. Um and I'm really appreciative of that work. And uh also quick shout out, I didn't say his name, but I'll give uh former commissioner Ken Hbertson some really big kudos on this. Also, um I got a chance yesterday at a form can form thinking myself personally and I think credit should go where credit's due. But um I just wanted to make sure that we were out there championing that and telling the story. Um uh and then one last thing is that Veterans Village actually was the model that we were able to make a really successful 2.0 Clackman's village right next door. So that's also part of our infrastructure that we've built. We've reduced homelessness by close to 65% in Clackamus County. We have the best um numbers in the region. It's not close. So just wanted to talk about that today. And uh since it's been a topic during

today's business meeting, chair, I yield back. All right. Thank you, Commissioner.

Yeah, I just want to uh echo many of the statements that Commissioner uh Savas made about the the CCSO work group. We are uh I think we're making great strides. It's it's a really uh great group of people and we um I think we've all connected as far as what what we are trying to accomplish and I know we have one more meeting coming up. It may be the last. Um but I think I think we've made a lot of headway and it's given me a a really good insight. I think it's given you a really great insight. the things that you seem surprised about uh the things that we we haven't been on the same page as far as language numbers and all that that it's it's um it's eye opening let's say that so um anyway I I have appreciated being part of that group um I attended this week the uh boring CPO meeting um in boring at the boring graange and uh they Steve Bates brought up the fact that he came before us um recently and had asked asked for um a half million dollars to support their park in uh in Boring um and had asked where we were with that and I said, "We're not very far, Steve, because uh we just don't have those funds available." Now, um they have a really great group of volunteers that would like to take part in helping to get the park fixed up. Um the maintenance on this park is terrible and I was there at the grand opening of this park back when uh Dan Odell worked very hard and the other people in Boring uh were there. Um however, they did ask if they could borrow a lawn mower and Clackamus County said no. And I know there's liability waiverss involved. Um, but if we could could at least supply them the tools and the resources needed. I think they have a crew of people that would be happy to try to get the park up

to speed. I think they've got the water thing worked out as well. There was an issue about, you know, there's irrigation, but who's paying for the water and and all that? So, um, but if we if we scrape together any dollars to help get this park back to where it used to be, I I would, you know, encourage us to, um, to help out in any way we can, and I'll go out and work there on a Saturday myself. So, there you go. Thank you. Just a couple quick comments. Uh,

April's always, uh, something dear to my heart. It's uh child abuse prevention month and uh I have a long career working child abuse cases. I was child abuse coordinator. I worked up at a manual hospital where we'd see 1400 kids a year. And this this statistic always shocked me when I'd be in a classroom full of kids or um and this is according to the American Academy of Pediatrics that one out of four girls and one out of six boys will be molested by their 18th birthday. And when you think about those numbers and I look at a classroom, I just am always shocked at at how uh unfortunate that is. And so I I think this is also a good time to thank those frontline people that work those difficult cases and help support children and families. I also want to thank Mr. Williams, his office, you know, would work human trafficking cases and some of these international cases and his position both as a US attorney and um uh as a former Multma County prosecutor. So I always admired those individuals, the nurses, the social workers that work with children and families that kind of work forward to get them onto a a path of recovery. So our own children's center. I want to thank uh the folks that work there and also uh CWS and the list kind of goes on and on. So just uh uh if you know some of those individuals, please extend uh our thanks to the great work they do. Second, I had uh yesterday I was at Tuckila. That was my very first time there. I I just have to say um first a big uh thank you to the city of Gladstone. Uh the we had a a huge group there yesterday and uh the chief was uh the police chief from Gladstone was

there, some of his staff, and it has been a little bit of a rocky road over the years. and we changed uh the housing manager for that complex and H3s has done really a great job addressing the concerns and issues from the local community and uh what was really impressive is how really everybody came together at the table talked about the problems really wanted to fix it collectively together and it was very uh it was great to hear things are moving ahead. Well, one of the questions that I asked a number of the individuals that were there and I I value my time with frontline people all the time and I had everybody go around the room and kind of tell me what did you see as the biggest concern facing you in your role in supporting this population and there were a number of things but what really resonated with me was just the dire need and the increase in seniors. So it was uh again re kind of a affirms that this is a population that is uh needs additional services and when I looked in the facility it was an aging population that was were the majority of the population there and as I looked down the hallway I saw lots of walkers and wheelchairs. So it is it is a population that has health issues and I know the sport's committed to really working on whatever we can do to prepare to you know see this increasing population. So thanks to all the staff there. It was really a great opportunity and Emily for scheduling that for me. The next thing I just wanted to talk quickly about is Gary and I had a Zoom meeting. We've now had one with Yamhill Marian and yesterday was with Hood River

looking at could they be a partner in our recovery campus and I'll bring it back to some of the same things they're saying is seniors are their fastest growing issue. So just again reiterates the concern I think we all have and they're in the same boat that many of us are in when it comes to finances and struggling finances. And so collectively the more we have these conversations, the more we can combine resources and work together to use our dollars most effectively, it really does benefit all of us. It doesn't make sense for Hood River County to go build their own treatment center. I mean, it's just for their population. So, any way we can work together with our surrounding agencies, I I think is a benefit. I want to give Gary a chance. Do you want to add to anything on that? I know you were part of that discussion. Uh, thank you, Chair. Yes, we met with the chairs of those three counties along with their county administrator just to talk about how we could partner. All three are interested at various levels of interest. Uh so we've sent them materials and we've asked them to please report back on what further information they may need. So it was very very productive. Thank you chair for the idea originally a few months ago and we will we'll report back to all of you on what progress comes from that.

So so with that that really concludes my comments and unless any I want to give you anything else. May I respond to the hanger question? My thank you to staff Elizabeth Comfort respond texted well after you asked the question. So the current airplane hanger is the the owner is going is stopping his leasing. So that ended as of April 5th. Okay. So we found a new hanger in the same complex. The new owner of the new hanger only wants a year contract one at a time. Okay. So that's the answer. Thank you coach.

All right. Well, if no one has anything else, this will conclude our meeting for today. Thank you for joining us and we're ajourned.