Remarks by Diana Helm
82 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 4
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“Thank you, Ron. Yeah, and I know we discussed this last time. The folks up at the mountain are happy to get this fix. Is this just really truly a Band-Aid?”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“It is just a Band-Aid. It's another Band-Aid. That's right. And it's such... The river is... It changes every year. It changes every winter. And we have to do fixes. I am looking for the longer-term solution myself. I don't know what that is. I know it's going to be in the millions and millions of dollars. But in the meantime, this has to get done to fix a real urgent need. So I will be supportive of this. But I also... would love to see a long-term solution, although this river has like a mind of its own and does something different every year. So it's a little hard to gauge. All right.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“Thank you for the presentation, Cindy. So I know that this comes up, the good neighbor agreement that you're working with for and the neighbors. What's the timeline on that, getting that done?”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“During construction, okay. Correct. It's not during construction. All right, thank you for that clarification. And then are the construction updates only by email? Are we doing any other type of reaching? Is there any other way to reach out besides like door hangers, business to business or anything?”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“No, I move to direct staff to proceed with a solicitation for legal services to Housing for Success participants as proposed.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“Thank you for the information, additional information from the last session we had. We've gotten a lot of constituent feedback since the July 7th policy session and I just want to bring up that the reason I brought it up in the first place was because of what happened on the west side of The Portland area, and that we wanna take into consideration the community impacts, both the environmental, the amount of water, electricity, energy, this is gonna, would affect Clackamas County and whether we want them here. I'll talk about the moratorium thing here in just a minute. the economic impact,…”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“The compelling need, obviously, because it is, we have resource issues. We have water, you know, right now, the Clackamas River, I've never seen the Clackamas River this low in my lifetime, and it's pretty frightening. But I will say, too, is there a way to put a pause on this now? while we put a moratorium in place. I mean, my, okay, you're shaking your head. So that's one question. It wasn't one of the options, so I kind of figured it wasn't. But what I'm hearing, and this is, I want to be very responsive to our constituents, is they want to make sure nothing happens at all until we have…”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“All right, so we had to start that process because what happened over in Washington County is I mean There's an application that went in like hours before their moratorium went into place, right? So I mean they are out there sniffing around and you know Getting in under the gun and it's it's tough because I want to I want to make sure this happens as quick as possible. So We'll talk about that then.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“Right. I agree. And I think there's a lot of information out there that we can find. I mean, between AOC, NACO, you know, there's the old data centers, right, that were the large football field size ones that are, you know, they use up a lot of energy and water. And there's newer ones that don't. I haven't done my research either. But I... do want to say that I think we need to do something sooner than later. I don't want to wait for the state. The state has not addressed our natural resources, especially in light of their housing rules and the burden it puts on us and what we have to end up…”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“Well, I think the whole point of a moratorium is a pause and gives us a chance to... kind of do our research and I think that's what you're saying right is we can do we can do a little research so let me I'll throw this out I'm open to amendments but this is what I've come up with so I would like to move direct staff to initiate the fastest legally permissible temporary moratorium and concurrently determine if there is any interim development standards that can legally be adopted before the moratorium is effective. See what I mean? We would be closing the gap of the gap.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“Well, that's what I'm saying. It is a moratorium. It is just a moratorium and then gives us time to... What is the definition of a correction program?”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“Okay. Okay, yeah, because the clock starts ticking, right, as soon as it's put in place?”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“Okay, oh, okay, all right, all right. Well, then I will revise my motion to just say then that I move to direct staff to initiate the process to adopt a moratorium on data centers.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“The intent is in there because that's the whole purpose of a moratorium.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“Commissioner Helm, I mean, does that... Well, that's why I asked about the correction program. Yeah, yeah. I don't think that applies here to this.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“Okay. Then I will amend my motion to move to direct staff to initiate the process to adopt a moratorium on data centers and a correction program.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“And just for clarification, that correction program is to research and bring criteria back to the board so we have more information when this goes into place. Simple. Yep.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“Well, that's why I ask about an interim development standards to kind of, I want to put a wrench in it. That's what I'm trying to do to just stop the wheels, right? It's... this process is, it's a long process. So if there's nothing that can be done in that arena, then I guess we just move forward with the moratorium.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“And I want to say that we do understand that, but I think this issue is urgent enough that it moves to the top. This is what we do is we have to reprioritize on a daily, weekly basis.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“I think it's on us to actually do some of that work for you, Dan. I mean, I said there's a lot of information out there available. We're not reinventing the wheel. Other counties, other states, other jurisdictions have gone through this. So if we can glean something from someone else, I will promise right now I will do that as much research for you as possible so that we don't start from scratch on this.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“AGREED, YES, WE DID GET A COUPLE BEFORE THIS MEETING THAT I WAS ABLE TO READ THROUGH AND JUST TO EXPRESS OUR, I WOULD SAY OUR GRATITUDE TO ALL THOSE, WE HAVE SOME VERY STRONG CPOs IN THE COUNTY AND THEY DO REALLY, REALLY GOOD WORK AND I APPRECIATE ALL THAT THEY DO. THEY ARE OUR BOOTS ON THE GROUND IN THEIR COMMUNITIES AND ADVOCATE FOR THEIR COMMUNITIES AS WELL. I agree, we have to find a way, but what I'm hearing you say, there are no other options as far as a group policy. Everyone will have to go out. We've explored everything, correct?”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“It's not, they're not having parties out there on, you know, our time. Oh, I know, I know.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“Yeah, thank you, Under Sheriff Eby. Can you kind of give me specifics on what that funding gap is? Is it add to pays? Is it...”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“Yeah, going back to the privacy officer salary and benefits, is this person, because it's been done out of the county council office, do they have to be an attorney to do it?”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“Okay. It just seems like a really, really high number to me.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026