Remarks by Paul Savas
128 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 6
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“Okay, and then when... How does that correlate to the correction program where the research is done?”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“Aye. I'm hoping that if you see any red flags, you bring them to us for consideration. Again, I'm more on the process. That's my hesitation is the process and the timing.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“All right, questions. So we multiply that, is that in that 6,000 to 10,000?”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“With the dollar amount we earlier talked about, I guess, right? For the reimbursement?”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“Yeah. First of all, if these are going to be ongoing funds versus one-time funds, I would like to see how that looks in the forecast. Okay, so that's my hesitation here today. I would like, you know, I appreciate the internship in the treasurer's office for the internal auditor, so I support that. I know that's a one-time type thing, but we talked the other day, and I'm still advocating at some point next year that we consider how we actually put in a, because we're lacking a position there. It's not that it's vacant, but we need to create one. We're understaffed in the internal auditor…”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“Okay, so One quick follow-up here. So knowing that the board adopted the budget by by program and by What's the other term? Category. Category. Do you already have a program category where this would be, knowing that there's supposed to be like a monthly report of some sort, right? How would you do that in a most seamless way?”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“I appreciate your response to the first part of my question, so thank you. And maybe if there's a point in time where we actually need to transfer funds to make up for that, I could strongly support that, but I do know that a lot of work's underway and there's a lot of opportunity to find more efficiencies within the Sheriff's Office without compromising service.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“opportunity, just to put it out there, and I'm looking forward to sitting down with the new sheriff, Sheriff Rhodes. I know he's got something scheduled with each of us. And we're talking about money, we're talking about budgeting, and one of the things that came up was the million dollars plus that the sheriff's office is paying for for the vacant positions and allocated costs. which could be a revenue source if there's new eyes and a fresh start of looking at that. So that might be an opportunity to not only enhance funding on both sides of that, whether it's directly to the sheriff's…”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“Move to approve the positions. Move to approve, well, I'm reluctant to use that number, so I'm going to go with, I move to approve funding of the two deputies, an internal audit internship and a county policy officer to be paid from a combination of county general fund contingency and other sources as needed or possible.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“In the way I'm interpreting that, what I mean by that, that's my motion, what I mean by that is that if some of that can be funded with already budgeted funds that is general fund support, but in a department, that'd be tapped first. I'm looking at Gary. Do we need a specific amount?”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“Okay, well, I'll withdraw the motion and let someone else make it.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“Chair, my comments before the poll here is I'll be abstaining. I don't think it's out of realm to have pre-prepared here how that would look in a baked-in forecast. I guess that's my... I support what we're doing here. I just, you know, knowing that there's a million dollars that the Sheriff's Office is paying for in vacant positions and allocated costs, there's a savings there. I think there's a creative way of doing this and not putting us in a situation of ongoing, this ongoing burden. So I'll be abstaining for that purpose.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“It doesn't apply to this, but I do want to just state again that if there's a spending proposal, of that remainder for ongoing expenditures, I would like to see it accompanied with the forecast and how it impacts the forecast. I know that does not apply here. This is one time I recognize that, but I just have a little bit of heartburn knowing that we're only two months in on this budget. And we're depleting those funds. And the budget or that the fiscal year does not cease until June 30th of next year. And we're only two months in.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“I'm not sure it is. Second or the first I think it's actually one of several Historically, so I don't quote me on that but my recollection was when I used to sit on those meetings way back that This discussion about paying those legal battles was something that this group Regularly try to spread across the board Clackamas County picked up their fair share I You know for a while I think the board at one time expressed collectively that they weren't seeing the value in it. So we ultimately pulled out of participating because of no progress. So, you know, I'd frankly like, I don't know what the…”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“Yeah, I'd also be remiss to say it has nothing to do with this organization, has nothing to do with these fees, but it's a shame to see us reinvesting while a lot of our forest is on fire right now. Exactly.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“Okay. I do remember sitting in those rooms and talking about this very thing.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“I'm gonna abstain because I think this is an ongoing, and I abstain on the earlier ongoing expenditure.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“Yes, earlier this year Commissioner Helm was invited to speak at the boring CPO and she had a conflict so I attended in her stead and they County Park staff made a presentation and for that nice presentation went through the whole issue and what I gleaned from that was that there was some issues with the piping of the irrigation or where it was going and maybe something in design or an error, whatever that was, and that it was going to be corrected. However, there was also funding challenges that related to the amount of water. But I thought that I had gleaned out of there that there was…”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“I would like to add one more thing and that is, um, I think it's important sometimes to be good neighbors, and I do know sometimes when weeds go to seed, and there's neighboring properties nearby, and there are weeds on our park, and they're blowing into the neighbor's property. That's another factor that kind of bothers me, and they're pretty tall weeds.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“Great. Commissioner Savas? Yeah, so a couple questions. What parks are being irrigated?”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“Okay so the this is a golf course considered a park?”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“Okay. So how about landscaping? What parks are being landscaping and which ones are we not landscaping?”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“When was the last time you were out there? At Boring Park?”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“So you saw the northeast side of the park with the weeds with the neighboring property? Yeah. Okay.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026
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“You know, it's a highly used park as a trailhead, and when I was there on Sunday, the parking lot was full. People were loading off their bikes and whatnot, and again, as a trailhead. So it does get a lot of use, and I know we made the investment to build the trails, and that's frankly part of the trail system. I assume, I don't know, but, you know, what role is, and I'm actually kind of raising this a little bit, with Metro, but what role does Metro play or can they play in any kind of future bonding to help pay for the facilities that they keep on acquiring and having us build, right? I…”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 11, 2026