Board of Commissioners - Regular Meeting

All right, we're going to open up this uh board of commissioners meeting right at 10:00 a.m. on May 7th. And I would ask Commissioner Starret to lead us 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. Thank you for that. Up next is our calendar session. Is there any changes to the calendar session? None.

None. All right. Uh D is public comment. Uh I'm going to ask that if there's anybody online raise your virtual hand if you have a public comment. There is a public hearing today. So make sure that um if you have a comment for the public hearing. We're going to wait till then. Um and Ed is here in the audience. I'm just going to let you know that I we changed your public comment to green. So it'll be on the actual public hearing. So we'll call you towards the end. Um, and then right now in the audience, I have a public comment from Beth Kaiser. Please come on down and name and address, please. I'm Beth Kaiser, 1400 Hoskin Street, Newberg. And I just want to give praise to Carrie Hinton. I've done the poll watching for the last six years, and she always does a great training. But this year, she introduced something new, which I'm very impressed with. It's the election dashboard and it's keeping a running tally of the ballots that are turned in and it's such a useful tool and it really was a genius thing for her to develop. I'm sure she had help with tech and all that, but I just want to give her praise and thank her for continuing to watch out for our community and our elections.

Thank you. Thank you. And also, if you haven't sign, is it too late to sign up for ballot tracks? I it's not cuz it's wonderful because you you get a notification on your text when your ballot goes out and then when it's received. So it's very very comforting. So yes, thank you clerk Hinton and thanks Beth. All right. Um that oh one online go ahead and promote them.

Can you hear us, Rebecca? Yes. Can you hear me? Yes, we can. Name and address, please. Awesome. I'm Rebecca Wallace from Newberg.

Good morning, commissioners. I wanted to take a moment during public comment to inform the board and the public that there's an active chapter of the disabled American veterans here in Yamhill County, Yamhill County, Chapter 5, DAV. Our chapter has certified chapter service officers available to assist veterans and their families with opening and filing VA benefit claims at no cost. We work under the supervision of four VA accredited national service officers located at the Portland VA Medical Center, helping ensure veterans have access to knowledgeable and accurate assistance when navigating the VA claims process. We currently have an office in Newberg located at the Veteran of Foreign Wars office and we also have to availability to meet veterans at the American Legion in McMinnville. At this time, appointments are scheduled uh only by appointment and not walk-ins. Though, we're working towards establishing dedicated walk-in service days a couple of times each month to improve accessibility for veterans throughout the county. And I want to be clear that we do recognize and appreciate the county's existing veteran service officers and the work that they already do for our veteran community. Our purpose today is simply to inform the board and the public that there are additional veteran support services available locally through DAV for those who may need assistance. Veterans or family members seeking help and information can contact us at ycdavcsgmail.com. Thank you for your time and continued support of veterans in Yamhill County.

Thank you. Rebecca, can you give that um email one more time, please? Sure. Y c d a v c cs ogmail.com

and thank you for uh I know you you have that breakfast uh I visited once you do that is it monthly the breakfast in Newberg. The the opportunities we have are are growing um for veterans to have fellow community and uh camaraderie. We we do a coffee uh every Tuesday at Nutree Ranch in Newberg. That's at 2902nd Street. Um it it starts from 9:00 a.m. and it goes to 10 a.m. On the third Tuesday of every month, we do biscuits and gravy and that's free for veterans. And then we do have some events that are climbing in attendance. Uh the first Tuesday of every month in Newberg, there's a VFW dinner that happens at 6 PM at the Friend Center. And recently, we started up some fellowship and community um for some of the younger veterans that like to um go to tap houses. So, Shahalen Valley Brewing, we're doing uh every 2nd Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. we'll be at Shahalen Valley Brewery and we provide um a drink ticket, which soda, whatever they want to get along with appetizers. And the third Thursday will be uh beer and tacos at uh Stumptown Taps and in Newberg. And if if there's a veteran that wants to start an event um and provide fellowship and camaraderie in the town that they live in because um most of the things we do are countywide, they can just contact the VFW and say, "Hey, we'd like to have an event started um at this location at a restaurant or um even something fun like golf." And they can just contact us and we'll set something up um for fellowship and camaraderie for veterans.

Where do you have all this listed? because that's a lot. Uh the VFW has most of that listed. It's on vfw415.org. That's our website for the VFW. Thank you and thanks for what you do. Sure. Sure. Thank you for having me. Thank you. Thank you. All right. I'm seeing no others online and there's none in the audience. So we will move on to department updates which there is none. F is work session. There is none. G is consent agenda. We have some minutes and appointments. I would move approval. Is there any further discussion? None. None.

All those in favor signify by saying I. I.

I. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. H is old business. There is none. I is other business. I1 is consideration of approval of a settlement agreement re resolving claims in Lynch versus Yamhill County by and between plaintiffs Walter and Caroline Jakewith individually and on behalf of a proposed class and Yamhill County, Oregon subject to court approval pursuant to federal rule of civil procedure 23. We have Caleb online if anybody has questions. Yeah, we have U. Michael McGee here as well who helped us negotiate the settlement agreement. Um, and he was gonna give an update.

Okay, we're getting you promoted here, Michael. Hang on a second. Thank you. Yep. Go ahead. We can hear you. Great. Okay. Uh, good morning, commissioners. Uh, everybody hear me? Okay. Yes.

Great. Great. Okay. Well, uh, since the last time we were in before you to inform you about the, uh, mediation that was held back in February and the tenative settlement that we had that was, uh, approved by the board in and, uh, that last session, we have worked out a written settlement agreement with the pliff's representatives uh, that is here for you this morning. um or your consideration. So, I was just going to go through and kind of highlight the main terms of that. I I think that uh Caleb has circulated it to all of you and you may have already discussed it before, but in general, it follows the settlement agreements that have already been reached between the plaintiffs and Multma County and Clackmus County. uh the highlights and the major differences that apply to ours. Um we have basically split the surplus categories into older sales and newer sales. So we have uh approximately actually 10 older sales that generated a surplus uh from judgments of foreclosures on or before October of 2017 in the total amount of $166,2186. those sales uh by virtue of our uh our negotiations with the plaintiffs do not carry any kind of prejudgment interest with them. So that is a net figure of 166 218. There are also four newer properties

that were sold since 2017 that generated a total surplus of $9,421.35. The parties agreed that the uh typical statutory 9% rate of interest would apply to those four surpluses and the interest amounts from those dates work out to be $3,830.77. So, um, a subtotal of about $13,252 for those four newer surpluses. Total amount uh, as far as out of pocket that the county will have to pay uh, based on the settlement agreement is 179,47018. uh that amount will be due within 30 days of the signing of the settlement agreement. Um and so assuming that that will occur uh today or this week and we have uh tenatively agreed with the plaintiffs that this will be submitted to the court by Monday. um we will have uh until early June to make that deposit into the settlement fund. Now there are also the uh remaining properties that have not been sold or disposed of by the county. So there are 13 of those retained properties under our settlement agreement. uh we are required to auction those properties and make reasonable efforts to do that for 12 months following the date of the

signature on the settlement agreement. Um so we would have until May of 2027 for auctioning those properties. uh we have agreed that that auction process has to start within 3 months although not all of the properties have to be auctioned within 3 months. So at least the first retained property has to go up for auction within 3 months of the signature date on the uh settlement agreement. Um and the the the process for that auction isn't dictated by the uh settlement agreement in any kind of specific terms. So we just have to use the you know reasonable efforts to notify that just to put those up for auction um at a at a public sale. So that's we can work out the details of that with uh Caleb's office and um you know defer to how you guys want to handle that. But but basically you know commercially reasonable sale process uh based on you know uh similar auctions that you've held uh conducted by the sheriff or by Caleb's office uh are are fine. the proceeds assuming that they sell the proceeds of the sale to the extent that there is a surplus after paying all of the amounts um that the county has had to pay for maintenance and upkeep. This the the net surplus is going to get paid into the settlement fund during that 12-month period. Um and it gets dist distributed

by the plaintiff's class and by the court administrator from there. Um so you might wonder what happens after the 12-month period. If these properties don't actually sell, we will have a continuing obligation to try to sell the property uh in some kind of arms length fashion and to pay the proceeds to the uh prior owners of the property to the extent that there is a surplus um uh or to allow redemption to those prior owners. So, uh that that's that's really it. That kind of covers it. There's the the lumpsum payment of 179,000 and then there's the obligation to continue to auction and sell the retained properties.

Thank you. Uh Ken, can you remind me how much is in that uh fund? What Mike sent me is a little confusing. So, I got two numbers. So, I'll have to confirm this, but it looks like in the foreclosure refund account, there's just over $40,000 right now. Okay.

So, where does the balance come from? Uh, that's a great question. I'll probably take a look at it. It might be insurance reserve. Yeah, I

have a question. Uh, Michael, I'm noting two specific properties. The Church Street property, uh, 117233 and 11 1989, the Lafayette Street property. These were properties that were um were donated to the affordable housing corporation uh through the housing authority and the Church Street property is in the process they're getting bids for rehabilitation. There was a tenant in there that had to be relocated and the Lafayette property was um as you know was was rehabbed or maybe you don't know and then it was sold. Uh, so I'm looking at the 14,000 and the 10,000 is considered surplus amounts. Would we Is that added into the 179? Because we donated those properties and I and I and I'm wondering if those were just the um appraisal numbers. the uh those two, the Church Street and the Lafayette properties are both considered to have already been sold under the sale agreement or under the settlement agreement. So in other words, we've we've stipulated and agreed to the 10,000 and the 14,000 respectively as the total surplus even if it varies from uh you know market value or appraised or assessed value. So, I'm not quite sure how the uh the the consideration for those sales was calculated back at the time that they were transferred to the housing authority. But, you know, for for purposes of the settlement, we're considering them to have been sold at arms length.

Okay. And and this is just a question. And so I don't want the housing authority to get upset about this, but but in other words, we're on the hook for a donation, a transfer we made to the Affordable Housing Corporation because we obviously in good faith, you know, we we did have concerns that were raised and we're told by the state there's nothing we can do. We can't we can't give any of the uh surplus equity back to people. But so in other words, we're on the hook for a donation that we made

as far as the this this current lawsuit by these plaintiffs. Yes. Um I think that we have had discussions with uh Caleb and Christian in the past about ways to potentially pass through the expenses of the settlement to the housing authority. Okay. Have you talked to the housing authority? Our office has not.

Okay. Because I think we should we should have a meeting or something. I mean, they don't have any money. Um uh nobody has any money, but I just want to make sure and if this is what is what is. I mean, we we did this because we wanted to include the stock of affordable housing and we did. So, I don't want to make them, you know, the fall guy, but I just maybe there's something somewhere. Maybe they have some kind of fun. But I'll I'll get a hold of of Vicki and Mark and maybe we can talk. All right. Thank you. Any other questions? Oh, you answered all nine and it's all right. All right. with that. If I may, I think for the

um and Michael or Caleb can correct me, but I think what if you include in the motion, you might want to just authorize me to go ahead and sign the agreement. Yes, please. Okay. So, I'd make a motion approval uh with and adding our administrator Ken Huffer to be able to uh authorize the agreement and I guess proceed with the proceeds into their account. So, and sign the agreement, please.

Motion's been made. Any further discussion? No. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Motion passes unanimously. All right. Thanks, Michael. Thanks, Caleb. Thank you. Thank you, guys. Thanks, commissioners. Goodbye. Item I consideration of approval to authorize public works to purchase a 2026 Peterbuilt 536 under the state government source wall contract in the amount of $285,943. I would move approval. Is there any further discussion? None. None. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. I

motion passes unanimously. Thank you. I3's consideration approval of amendment number two to an agreement between Yamhill County and Columbia County Board Order 22-099 for space available detention bed rentals decreasing rates from $4.95 per bed per day to 151 per bed per day retroactive to April 6, 2026 through June 30, 2026 and $230 per bed per day effective July 1, 2026 with an automatic renewal clause on a year-by-year basis to increase rates by 3% or the amount of seasonally adjusted CPI-U West size class B/C. And the sheriff is here if we have any questions.

No, I would move approval. Motion's been made. Any further discussion? None. None. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. I force consideration approval of amendment number one to agreement number 443000-000044294 between Yamhill County and the Oregon Health Authority for Intoxicated Driver Program Funding retroactive to July 1st, 2025 through June 30, 2027. I would move approval. Motion's been made. Any further discussion? None.

None. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Uh, I5's consideration approval of an ordinance repealing ordinance 946 and adopting Yamhill County Code Chapter 5.05 as the Yamill County Ambulance Service Code to correct a scrier's error and incorporate required information and declaring an emergency. I would happily move approval. Motion's been made. So, for this one, um, Chair Johnson, we need to do the the first and second reading. Um, yes. to to declare an emergency. So, um if there's no objections, I'll begin the first reading by title only. None for me.

None. Okay. Uh in the matter of repealing ordinance number 946 and adopting Yamhill County Code, chapter 5.05 as the Yamhill County Ambulance Service Code and declaring an emergency. Um is there any discussion? None. Okay. I will now begin the second reading by title only. in the matter of repealing ordinance number 946 and adopting Yamhill County Code Chapter 5.05 as the Yhill County Ambulance Service Code and declaring an emergency. All right. All right. Still need a motion for approval. Yeah. Motion. So motion's been made. Any further discussion? None. None.

None. All right. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. I6 consideration of approval submit a letter regarding HUD program updates. Commissioner Starret.

Uh this was brought to us. I do have some concerns about uh if those for those of you who who've read this basically it's it's a writing to HUD um on behalf of the continuums of care nonprofit housing and service providers. But they're basically asking that the federal government pretty much leave everything up to um local jurisdictions and some of the the nonprofits for local control to be able to uh be the guiding principles. And I do believe that that's an important piece of this. The part that I don't like is that um but but again it's up to you if you want to sign it uh add Yamh Hill County to the other counties that uh have signed on to this letter. The reason why I had some concerns is because the federal government has looked at some of the housing first programs, a lot of those really don't show uh a return on investment. They show a lot of money going out the door, but we really can't say that we've done that housing first has actually solved the problem. So, I think there's some merit to looking at this at these programs, but I also think that at the end of the day, it's up to local local decision makers to look at these programs. And we should be looking at whether or not these are actually effective because if you look at other counties and other jurisdictions, they're spending a boatload of money on the homeless problem, and it's only getting worse. I mean, look to Portland, we're looking at billions of dollars. Look to Multma County. I believe we've done a good job in Yam Hill County. I think we can do better, but I think we've resource we've used we've leveraged every resource at our disposal and we have really accountable nonprofits. So, I would recommend adding our name to this. But that being said, I think it it merits us looking at a lot of the housing first programs. Are they really helping the people we want to help?

So, just this letter with an amendment adding our name to it. Yeah, we would just basically let AOC know that we would uh I can send you the information. I think you've got it. Basically to uh let them know when they send this to the uh US Department of of Housing and Urban Development that we would add our uh add our uh con add our support to this letter. Yeah. We just need consensus, would we? We don't need a motion, right? I'm good. I'm good. Okay. I'll get this to Bailey. Okay. Thank you. Thank you.

Thanks. Thanks for bringing that. And that brings us to our public hearing. So with that, I'm going to open up our public hearing at 10:26 a.m. Are there any objections to the jurisdiction hearing this item? Seeing none and hearing none. Does any commissioner need to reveal any actual or potential conflicts of interest? No. None.

That brings us to the public testimony portion. I have one public comment comment card filled out. If you want to give public testimony, fill out the green card. If you're online, raise your virtual hand and we'll get you in line. With that, I'm going to call up Ed Fredenburg. Come on up, Ed. Sorry that we've delayed you for a few weeks on this, but go ahead and come on up and uh state your name and address for us, please. Uh my name is Ed Fredenburg. Uh, address 9875 Northeast Meadow Loop in Newberg. And I'm hard of hearing, so this is my microphone that Bluetooth into my hearing aids provided to me by the VA. So, I appreciate that.

Nice. And I'm going to leave it here so I can hear better what's going on. Okay. Yep. Thanks for your service. Okay. I'm here to comment on the uh proposed changes to the Yam Hill County zoning ordinance. Uh I already only have one issue and that's with regard to the change to uh zone AF10.

And uh I've written two letters. Uh these are the copies of the letters in case they got lost in the mail. I'll just give them to you for the record. And those letters identify there's a conflict uh created by the change to uh the addition of transportation facilities language to zone AF10. uh one of one of the letters identifies the conflict and the second letter identifies two possible solutions to resolve the conflict. So the conflict is really that the uh the change to uh the addition of transportation facilities which I think in general is a good good idea for in most cases uh but it makes it a conditional use in zone AF10. Uh zone AF10 already includes language that uh uh includes as permitted use uh parks and open space. Um and the changes to the addition of that uh transportation facility language to the zoning ordinance that has to do with parks and open space which is pro. I'm not sure if that's I guess that's section 403 405. Um it would make uh transportation facilities a permitted use. So it's logical to assume that uh that change to pro would also apply to AF10 since AF10

is refers to zone pro. So, the solutions that I identified in the second letter either don't make the change to uh zone AF10 or to make the change but change it to a permitted use. Any questions? Thank you. Okay. Actually, the the microphone here is pretty good, so I'm going to take this back to my seat. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Thank you.

Is there any other public comments? If you're online, raise your hand. Seeing none, with that, I'm going to close the hearing at 10:31. That uh brings us to deliberations or discussion. So, did everybody get the friends of Yamh Hill County uh letter? Okay, Ken, my first question out of the gate here is uh more on a time frame basis because I think there's a lot to unpack here. I think there's some definitions that need to be handled with uh roads, highways, and other transportation facilities and improvements. Um, and I'd like to get uh an attorney on boarded for the county before we really get digging into this. But what I would want to have a discussion with is time frame wise for CPRD and the Yuny Young Bridge, uh, what can we do on a a singular case basis for that one to keep this moving forward? or do we have to address this before we can go address the Ying Young Bridge?

You you would at least have to address the AF10 zone. You could leave the other ones um uh off uh for later, but you'd at least have to add uh it as a conditional use or permitted use in the AF10 zone to to go ahead with the bridge uh that is uh of interest to CPRD. So to take baby steps on this, can we just do a conditional use for all of these and change this? Yeah. Yeah, you could instead of permitted uses for uh your first two or three on here and then the rest are conditional anyway. Yep. The board can do that. Yes.

Okay. And then it still requires uh for us to get that enacted first within our zoning ordinance before CPRD then can follow through with their application. Correct. Okay. And what's our time frame to do that? Um good question. Uh we probably would if the board directed us to do that, it probably uh would come back in about three weeks. I'd be working with Caleb and and possibly a attorney that would contract with uh to come back with the ordinance uh amendment or amendments and uh then we'd uh there'd be a 21-day period where someone could appeal that to the uh Lanny's board of appeals.

Okay. Um, I think the one other stipulation that we probably should have in there, and I think this will help with the Yuing Young uh bridge would be with an already authorized permitted use. So, for example, with the Yuing Young Bridge, uh they already have a permitted use with having a park. Um, I think any conditional use would then be in conjunction with an already permitted use and that should still allow a path forward for the Yuingong Bridge. a couple things and that'll give time for u council to kind of chime in on this.

I'm not sure if I follow. You mean that uh theoretically if the um if the it's listed as a permitted use uh to have a park that it uh follows that the uh a road is also allowed or a bridge is also allowed uh to serve that park. Is that what it would be a use in conjunction with that permitted use? In this example, it's a park. Okay.

And it's in conjunction with an already permitted use. The the only problem I see with that it's uh number one the board already actually made a determination uh that um it's not an allowed use in the AF10 zone and they did that when they denied the the bridge previously. And number two, I would agree with that if it wasn't specifically if if roads and transportation facilities weren't specifically listed in the um uh agricultural zones. And I would I would uh agree with Mr. uh with Ed that um if you had a um you could call it an accessory use if you didn't have it uh identified in another zone, but since it's identified in another zone um and it says in the AF10 zone that if it's not listed as a permitted use, but it's listed over here as a a permitted use in the farm zone, you can't then uh just conclude that well, it's just an accessory because uh the the take on it is that you've specifically have listed a use where permitted where you want it to be permitted. And so in this case, the way the ordinance is written, the use that you have uh listed as uh permitted or conditional is in the farm zone and you don't have that in the AF10 rural residential zone. and with specific language in our ordinance that says if it's not listed as a use that's allowed in this zone then it's not allowed or needing to add a current use that it already is currently in use as an example the the Yuing young bridge again so we need to add that language in there

current current permitted use in conjunction with and either way it'd still be a conditional use right permit. Yeah. For the bridge. I think I get to know. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Um the other issue is do we need to define the roads, bridges, and transportation facilities before we I don't think so. I feel like we're we're trying to do something, but if we need definitions, then how can we go uh approve this without the definitions?

Yeah, this language is right from the uh uh transportation goal and uh it has definitions in there. Uh we can certainly lift those out and put them into our code. Uh but that's that's where this is coming from is it's already defined in uh in our the uh LCDC goals and policies for the state. Okay.

Couple of things I do want to mention that uh we had asked the board had asked a while back CPRD to do some outreach to neighbors because the neighbors were here and they were not happy. They did do that. I know uh CPRD board member Jason Fields was among those going knocking on doors saying, "Hey, what do you think about this?" I was at the open house that CPRD had to have people come in and they explained everything when went from station to station and I was surprised at how amanable the neighbors were once they understood what the plan was. That being said, they did what we asked them to do. We're trying to avoid litigation. We're trying to uh help with an immediate need, but we do have concerns regarding on the county and with state land use laws. So, if we have this tied to a permitted use, I mean, we're I think we have to be very careful at how this is worded because and then I also would like to see whether or not CPRD's attorneys can also take some of this off our plate in terms of being able to craft some of the wording. obviously subject to our approval, but I also know where we are in terms of county council's office overload, but I do want to make sure that when this comes back to us that we are looking at this with a fine tooth comb. So, it this does allow for flexibility and it present prevents any kind of misuse, but I think we have to be extremely careful how we word this. Can we I mean the Euing umbridge has already been dragging on for about a year. Um can we give this like two more months? Let's get the definition done. I think we're getting really close. Uh get it ran by um an incoming attorney or we can also I

guess we can do we still have Jod on retainer. Maybe we can run this through Jod's office and can we get is it logical that we can get that done in a couple weeks and then maybe we can just reopen back up at deliberations and then Yeah. What if you and have like everything defined and ran through uh approval through council? Yeah. What if you continue this for four weeks and and uh so my understanding is you want to uh add definitions and you want it to be reviewed by legal counsel. Yep.

Okay. And I also want to make sure that we're not incurring any any uh financial burden from this. This is something I think we want to work in partnership with CPRD. This is something that they, you know, it's a legitimate need for what they want to accomplish. But I also know that we have incurred enormous outside council uh expenses. And I think if we want to be, you know, we want to be the good guys here, but we also don't want to have to pay for it. So, I'm just wondering whether or not CPRD would be willing to take a look at paying for any of the review or any of the uh any of the council costs that we incur as a result of trying to get this done for you. I know you guys can't make that determination now, but I am concerned about us paying for it.

We could potentially do it a little cheaper if they waited even longer once we have our own in-house. They're still paying for it. Still paying for it, right? But it's a little cheaper than outside council. But I Yeah, I mean I'd be interested in seeing if their legal counsel would want to help with the heavy lifting on that. Yeah, we'll we'll speak to uh we have a board meeting tonight, so we'll bring that up. Okay. So, let's make that just part of it. Reaching out to CPRD and see if they're willing to take on some of the cost or all of the cost. All.

All right. So, I'm going to close this public hearing down at the point of deliberations. Um, let's do 30 days and then you guys can bring it up at your meeting that we delayed it for 30 days and then we'll should Okay. Yes. We don't want to do that. So, Bailey is or Ken or somebody's coming up with a date. That's what you're looking for. We need I think we want to state the exact date. Uh, June 4th. June 4th. June 4th. So, we're going to continue this at the point of deliberations at the June 4th meeting. Sound good to you? 32 at 10:00 a.m. At room 38. In room 32 at 10 a.m.

Do you want me to add anything else to that? No, thank you. Okay. All right. We close it at 10:42. And with that, we're back to our regular public hearing and we are on to K, which is announcements. Commissioner King,

a conversation with Nath Nathan Wildfire from Hive Project uh this week and they are was excited to report that Newberg has um done the fastest subdivision development pro permit process in the state uh just three weeks. So kudos to them and they should be getting kicking off here in just a few weeks. Um went and visited some people uh with some road problems on their on their road. They've been reaching out a little bit and trying to talk with some solutions with those guys um between dust abatement and gravel and so on. Um the three of us were at family place dinner this last week. was really I think they raised a decent amount of money and

Juliet's or sorry family place Juliet it's like wait a second I was like did I miss one

family place was the next night sorry um for me I uh mentioned did a a package with the blind pig and um did a private dinner and I want to thank the in at the ground for uh providing one of their Airbnbs that they have uh there in Yamhill for hosting us with that in Lemlson Winery for providing some of the pairings and the blind pig for uh doing the heavy lifting on the cooking. Uh the three of us were at Dayton City Council and I'll let chair give the more update on that as it was his birthday and um uh he's it's kind of he's pushing for for the uh city of Dayton to have the the the park there. Um chamber board meeting in Newberg. um they have signed their uh agreement with the McMinnville Chamber to move forward with the uh insurance and I thought that was really great. So um and I think they'll be able to really outreach a lot of other the smaller businesses like wineries and stuff that really only have two or three employees and hard to to come by those. So, um, kudos to those guys and a busy summer season for them packed with lots of events. Uh, YCOM cancelled yesterday. Um, Dundy is kicking off a farmers market. Um, and Destination Dundy is hosting its second annual walk and roll to school on May 27th in collaboration with Dundee Fire and Newberg Dundee police. uh proclamation was signed in the safety month in conjunction with their safe routes to schools efforts. Um Newberg city council um got chance to listen to them that they elected to send uh one elected to Poisdorf um and they're paying for it. So moving forward

with that um they are doing a one time in expansion on the urban who's going I think the mayor. Oh, that's nice.

Um, I think onetime urban growth boundary expansion uh up to 150 acres of continuous land. So, they we're moving forward with implementing that aligning Newberg elections filing deadlines with the state of state deadlines and the River Street ad hoc committee created to is was created to weigh in on the street design there. And um one that pertains to us is allowing of a property along the river to be deanexed and will go to back to us for approval. This is Will Cut's property. It's about 28 acres. Um lots of rumors around transit and so on. I think that we've got all cutting emails and questions and so on. And so I I spoke with Cynthia um a couple times, but um Dialer Ride was is was about 10 less for you guys, but more for just the record and out into the people who are listening, but was about 10 routes and cutting and we're cutting it down to about three. Um if you are a qualified paratransit customer, you will still receive services. It costs around $200,000 um for one route, an eight hour shift for 260 days a year. So, and that's not even the all-in cost with gas and insurance and stuff. That's just the the cost of our transit. So, um unfortunately, the funding that is being lost um or we're not losing funding. It's um it's more of just the costs gone up. Um in addition, the transportation package that is under the referendum. Um in that with that package, Yamh Hill County would see about a million dollars of funding, additional funding coming to

Yamhill County. Um but obviously we're having to weigh the cost of that between the taxes that are being implemented. So, um, yeah. So, there is your update on the transit situation there. Thank you. I think it's important for us to make sure that we we do emphasize the part about a lot of folks were getting very very used to using Dialer. Yes. An Uber or something. It was like an Uber and it was it was very generous. It was not sustainable. Uh the whole purpose of dialeride was for people who were either um elderly, disabled to a to get them from getting them to a transit to be able to take the bus.

Yes. So unfortunately, you know, we can't provide Uber to everybody and uh we want to make sure that the folks it was designed for really get that service. So I I applaud our our transit manager for being able to navigate ways to continue to provide that. Yeah.

Uh you do hear from folks who say, "Hey, thank you. I had one woman stop me a couple of years ago and say that her father lived at the end of a gravel road and he uh was um an amputee and so they they originally weren't going to even drive down the gravel road and so a phone call and Cynthia was able to just figure it out and get them to go down the gravel road. So they've been very responsive and I do appreciate that. uh Juliet's House. That was that was a it's always eye opening to see what they do and the level of trauma that they address. So appreciated being there. Was on the Northwest Senior Disabilities uh services budget committee this year. We were able to uh complete the budget based on what we received from the Oregon Department of Human Services and also matching that to the Medicaid allocation. So the budget has been passed. Uh let's see. Yesterday we had our family well-being council which is an interesting group of everybody from the social services to public health to uh our community justice and uh Oregon Department of Human Services child welfare is there. So we've been working on that using title five federal program dollars really focusing on maternal health and um just prenatal and and and postnatal care uh different programs. So I appreciate the work that's being done. the Yam Hill County Public Health uh grantee. Uh that report has been completed. I also want to uh acknowledge uh that many of you have heard me over the years talk about the woeful uh state of Oregon's uh child welfare system. I took part in a lawsuit back in 2019 with a New York firm, uh, A Better Childhood, and we worked with Disability Rights and with a local law firm, and and were able to do a class action lawsuit against the the state of Oregon for too many kids

being yanked out of their homes, too many kids being sent out of state. And as a side note to that, I worked on legislation to uh actually track the number of children in foster care who were put on psychiatric medications. Prior to that, no one could tell us anything. We're bringing kids into the system, putting them on a cocktail of psychiatric drugs, and then we wondered why these kids never were succeeding. So now they have to track it. back to this this case is now um we just got a report uh based on the requirements of the lawsuit that we did back in 2019 was that the state of Oregon has to have two times a year reports on the state of child welfare. That's the number of kids being taken out. The number of kids being sent out of state. uh we have seen some improvement, but before we start to to jump up and down and say that the improvement is is vast, we have to remember that um this is an ongoing problem that we need to either make sure we're not taking kids out, we don't have to. We're putting them with with kinship care with their families and we're keeping an eye on where they are going because a lot of these kids had been severely damaged and abused in the foster placements they had. So, I I'm cautiously optimistic about that and I appreciate all the work that our local nonprofits do to to aid that work.

Um, so I just want to congratulate Dayton FFA for their crops team got number one in the states. They're going to be headed to uh nationals, which is fantastic. Not only one team, they actually took two teams and team A placed first and team B placed second. So, they're kicking butt in the crops. Um, last Thursday I went to the Sheridan budget meeting. Um, sounds like we might actually be able to help out on a smaller level, but they're looking for a dropbox for the books at the library and Carrie happens to be sitting on one last old outdated election box and uh I think we might be able to help him out there. We're measuring it up and seeing if it it's going to be the right size for him. Um, Friday was the Juliet House fundraiser. Always great to see the involvement from the community on that and I I felt like uh from all the other fundraiser dinners that we attend. That was probably one of the better ones. Um so they very well advertised uh and great community attends those and really uh gives those guys a lot of support. So I appreciate that. Uh Monday was the joint session uh between us and the city of Dayton. Uh discussed uh property of Dayton Landing. Uh we discussed this at the parks board level about uh transitioning that property into the ownership of the city of Dayton. City of Dayton did in fact say I just wanted everybody in the same room so we can actually get finally feel like we're getting somewhere. This predates me. I mean it's been going on for for years and years. So I finally just I wanted everybody in the same room and have uh a a meeting to to finally just do you want Dayton Landing? And they do. they want Dayton Landing. It just comes down to what are the costs associated with that? What is the county willing to uh accept uh in form of payment? What are lease terms look like? What do access agreements look like? Uh maybe it's a 5-year deal to where that they

could then go after grant funding to pay whatever we do determine as a fair price for it. So, I finally feel like we're starting to get a little bit of traction and uh hopefully if I they were going to have a meeting, I think within two weeks to come up with a we're trying we're actually pushing that out a little bit, Jeremy, because they're they're in the middle of budget process as well, just like we are. Yeah. You know, um so we're we've targeted we've talked about like the first week of June. I know that pushes out a little bit further, but it's better than yours, so I'm okay with that. But yes. Yeah. Jeremy and I are in contact and and we haven't got a specific date on the calendar, but we're floating dates back and forth.

Good. Okay. It sounded to me it sounded very promising that they really want it and we really want them to have it and I think it's going to uh I think we can come to an agreement. So, um with that chat with the chairs tonight at 6 PM at the government services building and there is no planning commission meeting tonight. There's nothing on the docket. So, if there's nothing else for the good of the order, I'll close it out at 10:54.