Remarks by Kit Johnston
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“All right. Good morning, everybody. I'm going to open up this Yamil County Board of Commissioners formal session at 10 a.m. on October 22nd. And I'd ask John Olson to lead us in the flag salute. Let's go, John. I pledge allegiance 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 very much. Thank you. General. Okay, cool. Up next is our calendar session. Is there any changes by the commissioners?”
“Okay. DS public comment. If you're online, raise your virtual hand. And if you're in the room, raise your hand or fill out the card. And I do have one. So I'm going to ask Catherine Holder to come on up. Yeah, right here to the tables in the middle. And then when you get there, just give us your name and address, please. And then go ahead with your comment.”
“Thank you. Thank you. We'll make sure that we get your contact to the correct people.”
“Is there any other public comment online? If you are, raise your hand. I am seeing none other in the audience. So we will move on. Thank you very much. We are up to E, which is department updates, and we are joined by our tax and assessment team. Good morning, Derek and Patty.”
“So just to put your mind at ease, I did receive my tax statement in the mail. Oh, yes.”
“Can you remind us the basis of why that went through the system?”
“I can tell you just as kudos to you guys. I've been through the process before, years ago, nothing lately. There might be a few coming up in the near term. I do appreciate you guys implementing the let's come to an agreement before it gets to PFAB. That's very, very helpful to the process and also I think helpful to the citizens that maybe feel like nervous taking it to PFAB and to the board. I like how you guys implemented that. And I can tell you that the ones that I have brought, most of them we have come to a decision before it even made it to PFAB. So I do appreciate that process, my…”
“Wouldn't now be a good time to give us an update on House Bill 3518 and just your efforts there, if there is anything that's changed since last year?”
“So, um, Do you know, uh, are you aware of urban form?”
“Does it interact with what Brian has for his GIS system that's set up?”
“So all the cities in Yamil County are transferring to Urban Form as their basically database for planning. So if you're trying to build something, you'll go to Urban Form and click on it and try to give you as much public information as it can on on, uh, those, uh, different tax odds.”
“There's a, there's a push by urban form to, uh, get cities and honestly the County to, um, I think they're looking for, and Brandon was very well versed in this too, but I want to say it's about 30 grand that they're looking for to step up this platform as the primary, I guess, a way of getting information in county wide, not the county, but county wide through cities. Mostly I've watched a couple of the presentations from urban form. I think they could change their sales pitch just a little bit. Cause I watched one out in Willamina and they're trying to go for a blanket three grand per city.…”
“So that's a sure thing. It was on the radar, I believe. It looks very Washington-y.”
“F is work session. There is none. G is consent agenda. I would move approval. Is there any further discussion?”
“None. All those in favor signify by saying aye.”
“Aye. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. H is old business. H1 is consideration of an ordinance amending the Yamil County Zoning Ordinance Section 1006 signs declaring an emergency and setting the effective date. This is the second reading brought to us by Jody. You had plenty of warning to get there.”
“You're distracted by a retirement party.”
“Thank you. Somebody put it on the agenda. I would have read it. Would have gotten done quicker, that's for sure. Do we need to set the date then now since this is the second reading?”
“So I would move approval. Is there any further discussion?”
“All those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. All those opposed, nay. Motion passes. Commissioner Stewart voting aye. Commissioner Johnson voting aye. And Commissioner King voting nay. And I remembered to ask for the nay this time. Last time I was like, oh. We're moving on to aye, which is other business. I want discussion of a proposal.”
“I negative 1 is Lindsay Manfred giving us a presentation.”
“Cool. Any further discussion? None? All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion passes. Thank you. Go for it.”
“Motion has been made. Any further discussion?”
“None. All those in favor signify by saying aye.”
“Thank you. That brings us to I1. And this is the discussion of a proposed truancy task force roster. Did everybody get a copy of the roster on there in an email?”