Board of County Commissioners - Regular Meeting

Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us for today's July 29th, 2026 meeting of the Deschutes County Board of Commissioners. We'll now call the meeting to order. The first order of business is the Pledge of Allegiance. Please join us. Pledge of Allegiance. All right. Next up, we will review, if necessary, modify and approve the agenda for today's meeting. Are there?

So move approval of the agenda.

And I will second it.

It's been moved and seconded. Any further discussions? Seeing none, Commissioner Adair?

Yes.

Commissioner Dubon?

Yes.

And Chair votes yes. Okay. At this time, we'll have citizen input. I don't have any blue forms up here, but if there's anyone in the room or online who would like to provide public comment, This is the time to do so. You could fill out a blue form afterwards if you like. And for people who are online, if you could raise your hand, virtual hand, if you're interested in providing public comment. I don't see anyone in the room. Kim, are there any hands raised online? Okay, seeing none, we can move on to commissioner announcements. Are there any commissioner announcements?

I just want to thank, I believe it was up to almost 1,800 people that were fighting the Akawa Butte fire in Sisters. And it's ended up burning actually more acreage than the Flat Fire 11 months ago. Yes, thanks to all the excellent work that they did. It takes a team of different agencies that are coordinating everything. And I did meet Commissioner Williams from Lake County's brother who works for ODOT here. So I've been to a lot of fire meetings. And yes, thank you for the great job they did for a while there. I wasn't sure if it was going to close. Actually, social media, there were really authentic looking posts that said Highway 20 was closed. people please don't make those posts you just make the people actually doing the job you make it so much more difficult so um yes thank goodness it didn't cross highway 20 and um things did turn around but you know we have to um pray for the rest of our state um jefferson county warm springs and um Crook County really have their hands full, and then all the other over a million acres that have been burning, are burning. It's a really serious time, and we haven't even gotten to August yet.

Yeah.

And this may go down as a historically bad fire season for the state of Oregon. I'm incredibly appreciative of the work of all of the firefighters, both structural and wildland, on the Aqua Fire. And this fire was really touch and go. I mean, on Wednesday, afternoon um with the incredible winds with the pyro cumulus cloud creating its own lightning um this could have gone very differently and and so we we were uh lucky uh to receive some rain uh later that afternoon and um and the firefighters were able to uh take full advantage of that little reprieve to establish better and better containment every day around that fire. So a good reminder to all of us that, you know, but for a lucky break every once in a while, a whole lot of us could be directly in harm's way and we need to be doing everything we can to make our homes and our landscapes more fire resilient. Any other commissioner announcements?

Just a slight follow-up on that, just for any property owner, any homeowner, just needles out of the gutters, cut a couple branches, get the dry leaves out of the inside corners of your property, if it's by a deck or the back of the house. Just a little bit of work on a cool morning can really raise the chances of survival, defensible space for a property. And that's what we preach this all year long, but it's so tangible right now.

And the really good news is the state will have grant funding for goats. And we do have a herd of 500 goats in Terrebonne. And you see all that dry grass and you know how fast fire just whips through it. So Mariana Temple Ruiz reminded me again that we're going to have that grant funding. And I've been talking about that because, you know, they don't cause sparks and they clean up. So hopefully that will happen shortly. They realize the necessity.

One other thing that I'll mention during announcements here is that back in 2023, the legislature made some funds available for what are called county energy resiliency planning plans. And COIC was the entity that implemented this planning for the three counties in the Central Oregon region. And that report, it's not a county energy resiliency plan, but it's the Central Oregon Energy Resiliency Plan, is now available. And I think that we should have a... a presentation on that pretty soon. There's kind of alongside the completion of those plans, there's Energy Trust of Oregon grant funding that became available in April. I'm hoping that the window of application eligibility doesn't close too quickly. And that we can go right from that plan to possibly pursuing a project that would cover at least the Fair and Expo Center and possibly the Fair and Expo Redmond Airport and Core 3. moving forward so um you know i don't have i don't have specifics on when we should do that but i just want to flag it for staff that will want to um learn about learn more about those opportunities soon okay any other commissioner announcements seeing none we can proceed to the consent agenda um some of the consent second That's been moved and seconded. Any further discussion?

I'm just thinking that Captain Michael Gill will be joining the behavioral health advisory group. He's following enormous shoes from Captain Schultz, and I'm glad that he's going to be part of that group. It will be really important working together.

And I'll acknowledge we did have the Behavioral Health Advisory Committee meeting about a week and a half ago. That's where we finalized this request to put his name on there as the captain of the jail. He's kind of default part of the Behavioral Health Advisory Committee. But then also, you know, I'd like to promote in the next few weeks or months, we can promote the fact that we need a You know, we'll bring that around at some point and just maybe ask press release a little bit of promotion on that for a couple more public members.

Any further discussion for the consent agenda? Seeing none, we'll call for the vote. Commissioner Adair?

Yes.

Commissioner DuPont? Yes.

Yes.

And chair votes yes, thank you, we can now move on to our regular action items on the agenda, starting with item number eight public hearing and consideration of order twenty twenty six dash zero to six approving an annexation into the Ben park and recreation district.

Good morning, Commissioners. I'll actually be presenting it. This is just a petition for a specific property who's requesting to annex into Bend Parks and Rec. Bend Parks and Rec District has approved the annexation. The Department of Revenue has given preliminary approval relating to the maps. And the required county departments have reviewed and have no objection to the petition. So at this time, staff requests that the public hearing be opened. And at the conclusion, requests approval of Order 2026-026.

Good. Any questions or comments before we open the public hearing? Seeing none, we can now open a public hearing and a public hearing on order 2026-026. Is there anyone in the room who would like to provide input during this public hearing? uh kim is there anyone online with their hand raised um it's a pretty standard uh annexation requests we see a lot of these and um uh if there's no no public input we can close the public hearing and proceed to consideration of this order So this is for 45.27 acres at 63685 O.B. Riley Road.

Scroll the agenda looking for that motion. It's right here. Here we go. So I'll move approval of Order 2026-026, approving the annexation of that 45.27 acres at 63685 O.B. Riley Road into the Bend Park and Recreation District.

I'll second the motion.

And moved and seconded. Any further discussion? Seeing none, we can call for the vote. Commissioner DeBone?

Yes.

Commissioner Adair? Yes. And Chair votes yes. Thank you. Item number nine, a public hearing on the proposed issuance of hospital revenue and refunding bonds, series 2026 St. Charles Health System by the Hospital Facility Authority.

Good morning, commissioners. For the record, Robert Tintle, Chief Financial Officer. And I'll invite the others to introduce themselves as well from Oreck and St. Charles.

J.C. Bridges, Interim CFO and VP Finance, St. Charles.

And I'm Greg Blond. I'm an attorney at Orrick, Harrington, Sutcliffe, and Portland, and I'm bond counsel to the hospital facility authority of Deschutes County.

And I'm Jody Mooney. I'm the Senior Vice President, Chief Legal and Risk Officer at Deschutes.

Great. Thanks for joining us today. So a little background first before I turn it over for the public hearing. So the Internal Revenue Code requires that qualified 501 bonds such as the bonds presented here today must be approved by the applicable elected representatives of the governmental unit issuing such bonds and the applicable elected representatives of a governmental unit having jurisdiction over the area in which the assets are located as the applicable elected representatives of the county The Board of County Commissioners will consider this resolution today approving the issuance of bonds by the Health Facility Authority to finance and refinance projects. So the principle of an interest on the 2026 bonds will not constitute a debt. of the county nor shall the 2026 bonds be payable from any tax of any nature levied upon any property within the county nor any other political subdivision of the state of Oregon. So the 2026 bonds will be payable only from the revenues and the resources provided by the St. Charles Health System. So it's not an obligation of the county. Just wanted to make sure that is clear. So, this public hearing is being held for the purpose of receiving public comment on a request by St. Charles Health System to the Hospital Facility Authority of Deschutes County, of Deschutes County, Oregon to issue its revenue bonds in one or more series pursuant to a plan of finance in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $450 million. The proceeds of the bonds are expected to be used by St. Charles for the purpose of financing and refinancing All or a portion of the cost of capital construction, acquisition, development, improvements, renovations, and equipment for health care facilities located in Deschutes County, St. Charles. And St. Charles is the owner of the bond finance projects. And I also just wanted to point out, as stated in the materials, there's certain thresholds and certain debts and projects involved. dollar amounts listed, but they wouldn't add up to the $450 million. It just depends on the amounts that will be used. And so the authorization, though, is up to $450 million. And I'll turn it over to the board for the public hearing as well.

Yeah. Are there any questions or comments before we proceed to a public hearing?

Yes, I am a member of the board. I believe there are five people on the hospital authority group, five members total. And we did have a meeting, which Robert attended, what, wasn't in June? So yes, June. So we were aware that this would actually come back to us. And it is not an obligation of Deschutes County. Just thank you for making that clear.

I'm curious, just so I understand all the mechanics of this. Are bond series like this the primary way that St. Charles raises capital construction fund?

Yes, that's correct.

And would St. Charles do bonding for anything else besides capital construction?

Nope, only capital.

That's helpful to understand. And the suite of projects at St. Charles that these funds will be covering, can you give us a little bit of a description?

Absolutely. The single largest project that this will be covering is an expansion to inpatient rehab beds and the services. So the gym and all of the spaces that the clinicians need to provide that service and in a best of class kind of nature so that is the the single largest investment that will be made with these funds um all of the remaining investments are related to enhancements and and improvements to the structures on the bend and redmond hospital campuses and so those two hospitals much of which are are things to extend the life of those buildings. So we have a pretty significant roofing project that is happening on the Bend campus. We have HVAC and air handling projects that are happening on both campuses. Both of those to improve that infrastructure for the current spaces and also provide ability for expansion as we continue to grow both facilities.

And if we were looking beyond Bend and Redmond to other parts of the region, would you be doing these bond transactions with the other counties or-

Correct. Yeah, we don't have any plans to use these funds outside of Deschutes County. However, in our longer term debt plans, we do have plans for future years in which we would be going to those counties through a very similar process. Well, through the same process.

Yes, just in a different county.

Yeah, exactly.

Great. Thank you.

Yeah, you bet.

JC, what is your new title?

Interim CFO.

Okay. Congratulations.

Okay. If there's no further questions or comments, we can proceed to a public hearing on the proposed issuance of hospital revenue and refunding bonds series 2026 by the Hospital Facility Authority. Is there anyone in the room who would like to provide input on this item? Kim, are there any hands raised online? Okay, seeing none, we can close the public hearing now and proceed to the resolution.

I move approval of resolution number 2026-039, approving the issuance of hospital revenue and refunding bonds series 2026 St. Charles Health System by the Hospital Facility Authority of Deschutes County, Oregon.

I will second it.

It's been moved and seconded. Any further discussions? Okay, seeing none, we can call for the vote. Commissioner Adair?

Yes.

Commissioner Dubon?

Yes.

And Chair votes yes. Thanks for coming in to chat with us today. Excited to see all the work happening. Okay, item number 10, second reading of ordinance number 2026-013 and approval of resolution number 2026-037, Cinder Butte Plan Amendment Zone Change and Intent to Rezone.

Hey, Holly. Good morning, Commissioners. For the record, Holly King, Senior Planner with Community Development. The items before the board today include two items related to the quasi-judicial Cinder Butte plan amendment zone change. First, we have before you is the second reading of ordinance number 2026013, approving the plan amendment and zone change for a 30.88 acre portion of the subject property. The applicant is requesting to change the zone from surface mine to rural industrial. The board conducted the first reading two weeks ago and staff has now returned with the full ordinance package and attachments. Legal counsel has reviewed the ordinance package and the edits discussed at first reading have been incorporated into the second reading. So for this, staff recommends the board would move approval and adoption of second reading of ordinance number 2026013. And then the second part of the request today is the approval of the resolution of intent to rezone, which is resolution number 2026037. This is affecting a smaller portion of the subject property, about 3.58 acres. And the resolution of intent to rezone will effectively delay the rezone of the property for up to 10 years. When the property owner is ready to affect the zone change, we would return with the full adopting ordinance package. But today, the action for this item is just the approval of the resolution. Again, both of these are in your packet, reviewed by legal counsel. No changes to any of the documents. If approved, the ordinance would become effective 90 days from today's date. The resolution would become effective upon approval today. And with that, staff is available for any questions, but would look to the board to make motions as necessary.

Thanks, Hallie. Yes, and then we have already had significant presentation and discussion on this item. um you know maybe most importantly to me we've confirmed that there are no people's to this uh to this application and that uh the city of redmond um is you know submitted no concerns or or comments on this application so um are there is there any further discussion or do we want to move to a motion

I'll move approval of second reading of ordinance number 2026-013 by title only.

And I will second it.

It's been moved and seconded. Any further discussion? Seeing none, we'll call for the vote. Commissioner Adair?

Yes.

Commissioner DeBone?

Yes.

And chair votes yes. Okay, so that's our vote. First motion, and now we can do the reading now and then proceed to the other motions. Okay. Before the Board of County Commissioners of Deschutes County, Oregon, an ordinance amending Deschutes County Code Title 23, the Deschutes County Comprehensive Plan, to change the comprehensive plan map designation for a portion of certain property from surface mine to rural industrial to and amending Deschutes County Code Title 18, the Deschutes County Zoning Map, to change the zone designation for certain property from surface mining to rural industrial. Ordinance number 2026-013. Okay.

I will move adoption of the ordinance number 2026-013.

And I'll second it.

It's been moved and seconded. Any further discussion? Seeing none, Commissioner DeBone.

Yes.

Commissioner Adair?

Yes.

And Chair votes yes. Okay. We still have a resolution to consider.

I'll move approval of resolution number 2026-037. And I will second it.

It's been moved and seconded. Any further discussion?

Just acknowledging intent to rezone 3.58 acres. So we haven't seen this a lot, but this is, you know, transitioning from that surface mining to a future rural industrial opportunity.

And just a, you know, a remaining piece of this property that they're, that they don't need to rezone right at the moment.

Okay.

If there's no further discussion, then, uh, I made the motion. You made the motion. So Commissioner Adair?

Yes.

Commissioner DeBone?

Yes.

And Chair votes yes. Great. Thank you, Hallie.

Thank you, Hallie.

All right. Item number 11, Oregon Health Authority's Rural Health Transformation Program Funding for Behavioral Health Clinical Supervision. We are ahead of schedule, maybe?

A little ahead of schedule.

Holly was out. She was right around the corner. Okay. Okay.

I had started sending messages as I saw we were moving through agenda as quickly, but they may not have, clearly did not see them.

Or we're in the middle of something out in the lobby. It's happened. Great. Just to kind of prep for the remainder of the meeting. We have one executive session and we're going to be able to Loop the Commissioner to bone in through a separate channel. Great.

Yes, I already have the link.

Excellent. Oh no, where we are 15 minutes ahead of schedule. Get everyone off to the fair bright and early.

All right, perfect. Okay, we are here to talk about the Rural Health Transformation Program again, but in a different way. So, as you know, we did not get awarded for the Lapine program. But we were contacted by the OHA, indicating that they had some money for rural health transformation program for clinical supervision. And we had engaged in a grant in the past under ARPA and House Bill 2949, where they awarded us some money to do clinical supervision. If you remember right, it was also around retention, scholarship funding. So they said, based on that, we were eligible for up to $395,000. In our rural area of Lapine, And in Redmond, we experience really difficult times in recruiting and retention of our staff. For example, 30% turnover and 20% vacancy. So this money that they have out there for clinical supervision is specifically to target that. So what we would like to do is to request to apply for a grant, we're looking at probably about $150,000 versus the 395. Unfortunately, the 395 has limitations. We can't use it for Bend or any of our non-rule areas. Because this is coming after our budget has already been approved, it would be considered supplanting if we were to offset some of our current clinical supervision costs. So our proposal that we are drafting really focuses on a few areas, which is targeted clinical supervision. Specifically in Lapine and Redmond, those clinicians are generalists. They're expected to see every age range. And so They have a hard time getting specialized clinical supervision for kids, for early psychosis, for substance use. So what we want to do is invest some dollars into clinical supervision in that area through training for the clinicians, through training of the clinical supervisors, as well as being able to use some of our assets in Bend to go down and provide that clinical supervision, so through stipends. So we're looking at right now, we have a budget of about 140, but we're hoping to seek approval today to apply for a grant up to 150,000. All that just running in here fast.

I know. I actually called Dr. Hathi because I was upset with who didn't get funding, and she actually called me back. Yes. So, yeah, we had a conversation. So I'm actually going to do a connection with some of the people that we're awarding and find out how we can – have a better opportunity with the next funding. And of course, that funding has to be out by, what, is it September 30th or something? I mean, there's really timely dates that they're going to need. And really, we can only use $150,000 then?

And because our budget is already approved, it's difficult. Again, we would be supplanting if we were to ship those costs. And I did give that feedback to OHA and said, I know you're at kind of the mercy of the federal government and when these timelines come down, but if you could do, this is supposed to be a five-year award. So if you could do the next iteration before budget cycles. so that we can plan. Otherwise, we're just constantly, we don't have the funding. We pulled it out of reserves to cover clinical supervision and those sorts of costs. So it's not like we just have funding sitting there. In order to do our clinical supervision stipends now, we diverted it from something else, right? So I said, if there's a way to get on budget cycle, then we will have more opportunity to apply and maximize these resources. But as it is, the way those rules are set up, we're really limited. And boy, we got notice of this just a couple weeks ago. We've been really trying to be very creative on how we can maximize the use of this opportunity.

How much were we applying for, for Lapine?

It's a combined amount. So what we did... No, I meant originally, what did we ask for that we did not get?

I believe it was 1.2 million, two or three. Okay. All right. Just want to know when I have my meeting so I can... Make sure that we do better next.

Yes. I think we made a strong argument. If you look at the awardees, very few, I think there was only one county entity that received the RHTP grant. So the rest went to CBOs and that sort of thing. So I think we made a strong argument. It's just whether it met the threshold of what they were looking for. There were a lot of applicants.

And ClearPath was not selected either. So yes, it's been noted. So thank you.

And Shannon, so these $150,000, this is for five years or $150,000 per year?

They're only releasing one year at a time. The RHCP itself is just a five year. So we're hopeful that if they're hearing us and that they allow this next opportunity application to come before and give us some indication for planning for next year's budget cycle. Right now, this particular grant that we're applying for today would go through September of 2027. And so, again, we're off. But if we had some indication before next year's budget that we would receive the RHTP grant in September of 2020 or October of 2027, then we could do some planning around that without supplanting. But the way it is now...

I was told that it's actually going to happen much faster. And that's why they're going to let me have this conversation.

Yeah, I think it is. And that's just the feedback I gave them. It makes it really hard. It puts us in a bind when they come in July and say, hey, we've got money to get out the door right now. And then in September, we're going to award it when we already have it in our budget.

So yes, hopefully next year will be better.

Can you remind me, so this Rural Health Transformation Program, this is a small amount of funding that is being made available in exchange for massive cuts in Medicaid. The Rural Health Transformation Program, has all of the funding for this program been allocated for out years, or is this subject to annual appropriations by Congress?

Each one is a little different. So this particular one that we're applying for is under the workforce development portion and it is being set up annually the way they're distributing it right now. Whether they change their mind next year, but right now this is annually. Others, there were different levels of awards and some of them were for the full amount and others were like just a set amount of dollars that you can implement right away. So it varies.

Yeah, I know that this Rural Health Transformation Program, those cuts to Medicaid were done through this weird budget resolution process, not through regular annual appropriation. So I'm just curious how it all works.

You and me both, and I sit in a lot of meetings, it depends on which grant you're going to go for, which portion of the RHTP you're going to go for.

Okay. I mean, it, and it would be, it would, I think it would be helpful to understand this kind of like the, you know, all of the health related stuff that was done under HR one, just for planning for our purposes, you know, because if, if, if this stuff is subject to annual appropriations, then we're, we're basically depending upon future Congresses to continue to pursue these priorities instead of, say, going back to wanting to more adequately fund Medicaid generally, which is frankly something that I would hope that Congress would consider. So maybe just from a policy perspective, maybe health services could dig into this a little bit for us so that we can understand kind of what our – what our federal advocacy should be like in the next few years as well.

We still have regular RHTP meetings with the state, so we definitely could dig into it.

Thank you. Okay.

With that, I'll move to apply for and accept, if awarded, the Rural Health Transformation Program funding from the Oregon Health Authority for behavioral health clinical supervision.

I'll second the motion.

It's been moved and seconded. Any further discussion?

Or up to $150,000?

And I'll accept that, yep.

Okay. Any further discussion? Seeing none, Commissioner DeBone?

Yes.

Commissioner Adair?

Yes.

And Chair votes yes.

Thank you.

Thank you. Good luck. All right. At this time, other items. Are there any other items from my fellow commissioners or from the county administrator?

Thank you, commissioners. The district map that we have created, it's been displayed as a PDF and online as a map with inserts of showing each of the four cities and then one for southern deschutes county that's what the board has seen that's what the public has seen we had a private request um to uh keep keep the map no make no changes to the actual map but to add city labels to the map uh for reference uh so people can identify where each city is located to add precinct numbers because the numbers for Sun River and Black Butte, Sun River being 16 and Black Butte being precinct 22, were not on the district map. So those were the two things to add to the map. And then there was a request to remove all of the inserts from the map. So it was just one large-scale version of the map. And then a second was to just include a blow-up of the city of Bend. So we received that request. I reached out to you individually to see if making those additions and then reprinting that PDF was acceptable to commissioners individually. Just given that we received the request a couple of days ago, those maps are intended to be displayed at the county fair today. And staff is very sensitive to touching the maps in any way, shape, or form, just given the interest in those maps. And so the commissioners all supported that. The private party paid the fees to our IT department to both just add the labels, add the precincts. And then to make some of the changes to the insert. So I just wanted you to all be aware that if somebody sees those maps and they're there today, I mean, again, they'll look the same. The colors are the same. Nothing else has changed beyond those changes. But I just wanted to make sure that you had the awareness of that. If anybody sees those or asks questions.

Yeah, thank you. Yeah. So just so just so everyone knows, these are custom maps that are being produced at cost to the requester for advocacy purposes at the Fair and Expo. And the most important thing to me about this is that everyone knows that you are allowed to request custom maps and pay for them for advocacy related to the district ballot measure that will be on the ballot in November. um nick i i would ask i'm not i i still don't quite understand how the city locations i mean they were they were on the maps before and but now there's been a request to display them on the maps in a different way

I'm sorry, the locations were identified in the outline, but the labels for each city and the handout we had provided to the board, that handout didn't have the city labels on them. Okay. And so I can, I'll just pass this down. It's just, all it does is it just on the large map. It just includes the labels for the cities.

This is what the custom maps that were requested looks like.

That was the draft I received yesterday from IT. Again, the same map with the same outline, just with the city labels. The map that we've been providing to the board and has been online has all the inserts, and those have the city labels on them, but they weren't on the large-scale map.

Okay. Okay. I guess the other thing to note about this is that We went through a discussion of the draft ballot measure language a couple weeks ago, and the amount of text that we came up with was going to be too long. One of the suggestions has been to remove some of the geographic-specific information in the text, which then makes us rely more heavily on good maps. And so... I guess as we move towards approving that language next week, it's on the schedule for next week, right? We may need to have a discussion about the maps, how they'll be displayed in the Voter pamphlet, it's not a colored document. So, you know, a lot of the kind of information to help people understand the different geography, we're going to need to figure out a way with the black and white maps in the voter pamphlet plus a little bit of text to accurately portray the maps to people.

we'll be prepared to discuss that with the board next week. Thank you. That was not on my radar and we'll make sure that we have our information technology staff available to, to help us with that part of the discussion.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I was trying to think about voter pamphlets and how it would, you know, if you want to do a really big map, it would have to go across pages, for example. So, you know, it'll be, that'll be an important thing to talk about because, you know, as we are, you know, understanding from this, this, custom map requests. The geography matters a lot. And people are going to want to understand clearly what's at stake here. Thank you.

Okay.

Are there any other, any additional other items? I don't think we've said yet at this meeting that today is the opening day for the Deschutes County Fair. And it'll be great to see a lot of our community members and visitors from abroad coming to Deschutes County to celebrate our agricultural traditions and join us for some fun at the fair. Any additional other items?

No, and thank goodness the air quality index is really good today, and it shoots in Redmond.

Pretty lucky. Yeah. Okay. If there is no additional other items, we can proceed to executive session at this point. Kim, would you like to read the notice? Yes.

the deschutes county board of commissioners will now convene an executive session pursuant to ors 192.660 the specific authorization for this executive session is ors 192.660 subsection 2e which allows the board to meet in order to discuss real property negotiations Designated staff and the media are allowed to remain during the executive session. However, the media may only report that the board met in executive session and the identified basis for meeting in executive session. Recording devices are not permitted. No final decisions will be made, and at the conclusion, we will open the doors and invite the audience back to the meeting.

Thank you.