Remarks by Craig Roberts
181 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 6 of 8
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“All right, is there a second? Second. So Commissioner West has moved to approve $305,564.55 in general funds for two deputies, an internal audit internship, and a county administrative privacy officer to be paid from the county general fund surplus contingency. It's been seconded by Commissioner Helm. Is there any further discussion?”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“All right. Thank you all very much. Gary, can we take a recess?”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“All right. Adjourned. Back at 1.30. Good afternoon. Welcome back, everyone, to our policy session on August 11th, 2026. County Administrator Gershman, will you please call the roll again? Yes, thank you, Chair. Roll call. Commissioner Savas.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“Right. Great. Thank you. Commissioner Helm has a question.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“ANYTHING ELSE, COMMENTS? ANYTHING ELSE, COMMENTS? IS THERE A MOTION? IS THERE A MOTION?”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“Commissioner Helm has moved to approve the three spending requests for unallocated opioid settlement funds as presented. Commissioner Savas is second of that. Any further discussion?”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“Questions? I kind of, I guess I have one of Gary perhaps, and that would be, I guess I'm trying to understand why was that not in the budget process that we had earlier in the budget season?”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“All right, Commissioner West has moved to approve $70,000 for the Performance Clackamas Transit Team and $30,000 for the Performance Clackamas Development Team for a total of about $100,000 to be paid from the county's general fund surplus contingency. And that has been seconded by Commissioner Helm. Any further discussion? Seeing none. Clerk, will you call the poll?”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“And Commissioner West might have some insight.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“All right. Commissioner Helm is moved to approve the payment of the Association of ONC Counties invoice for the amount of $9,908.36. Commissioner West is seconded. Any further discussion?”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“Commissioner West has moved to appoint James Rhodes to the Local Public Safety Coordinating Council. This is seconded by Commissioner Savas. Any further discussion?”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“Yeah, and I think, you know, my concern comes down to, and you briefly touched on it, is bandwidth. And usually, you know, When you take something new on, something else has to come off the end, unless we're adding staff. And I recognize that. Second component or concern I have is budgetarily, right? How much is it going to cost for the water? And I do know a lot of parks that they mow it and get it all nice and trimmed up, but they don't water during the summer for that very reason. So I do see that you can come in and just as Commissioner Helm said, you know, get it all cleaned up, mowed…”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“All right. So moving forward, I guess trying to figure out if you feel like we need a motion or... No. Okay. All right. So then I think we have clear direction.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“All right. The final item today is Commissioner Communications. So I would ask each one of you. I got somewhere to be.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“All right. Any comments? All right. Thank you for all for joining us this afternoon and have a great day.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“Well, good morning, everyone. I will now call to order the Clackamas County Board of County Commissioners Business Meeting for August 6, 2026.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 6, 2026
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“Thank you. And if you're able, would you please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. Okay, before we start our regular public comment portion we have some important public safety updates we want to talk about having to do with the wildfires and And I am going to turn that over to Gary. You want to give us some updates, sir?”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 6, 2026
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“And thank you for showing up on such short notice.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 6, 2026
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Board of County Commissioners · Aug 6, 2026
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“All right. Thank you. Commissioner Savas has a question.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 6, 2026
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“If I might interject just I think that just in the 2025 N95 masks were critically important and that's actually where we worked with the state really well and there was a distribution hub we had in Wilsonville and so it's a much larger scale so if it does rise to that I'm confident that we'll be having conversations with the state about the needs to fill our void in those masks so It was quite complicated I can just tell you being a part of it every day we would have a meeting just on N95s and making sure that we were kind of getting those out there so I would think at this point as far as…”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 6, 2026
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“All right. I thought Andrew had the power to do anything. Me too. Commissioner Helm.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 6, 2026
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“Just a couple comments to kind of reassure people about kind of the, I would call it the incident command structure. And there really is a lot of experience in how those are operated. Oftentimes the incident commander is kind of the first on the scene. They eventually move to a unified command. And then when the federal overhead team comes in, they provide this next level. And I will just say it's really getting... all the right people around the table in making those decisions. They have what's called a JIC, a Joint Information Center, where they're also working closely to kind of get the…”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 6, 2026
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“And another question I wanted you to maybe reiterate is talking about the air quality and the forecast for the air quality. You project it to get better in that area. I mean, can you help us kind of understand, is it going to be like it is down here, or is it JUST TRYING TO, I THINK FOLKS OUT THERE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHEN DO YOU THINK IT'S GOING TO GET BETTER BECAUSE ONE THING, AS LONGER IT GOES ON, I THINK THE MORE RISK AS BEN'S BROUGHT UP IS KIND OF MORE HEALTH ISSUES START TO PROGRESS. YEAH.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 6, 2026
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“I think the dilemma is oftentimes is is Should I take my child into emergency room or urgent care or a senior? And what is kind of that threshold you would see as like, I probably ought to take them in now or do something? Because I think that's a lot of times a struggle that honestly we all have sometimes. It's just, should I go or not?”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 6, 2026