Remarks by Phil Chang
312 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 13
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“One more blue sheet. Okay. Good morning everyone. Thank you for joining us today for this September 2nd, 2026 meeting of the Deschutes County Board of Commissioners. We will now call the meeting to order and the first item on our agenda is the Pledge of Allegiance. Please join us.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“Next, we will review and modify, if necessary, the agenda and then approve the agenda. Are there any requests for additions, subtractions, or other changes?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“It's been moved and seconded. Further discussion? Seeing none. Commissioner DeBone? Yes. Commissioner Adair? Yes. And Chair votes yes. All right. Now we are moving to citizen input. And I have three blue forms here. If there's anyone else in the room who would like to provide input during citizen input this morning, please fill out a blue form here. Or if you're online and would like to provide public comment, please raise your hand. your virtual hand online. First up, we have Sean Snyder. Good morning.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“Thank you, Sean. I would say that if this disrespectful handling of a deceased person was happening inside the city of Bend, there's a good chance that it was Bend PD that was handling the situation. So I would encourage you to contact leaders from the city of Bend about that. We have, well, they do hold public comment for their meetings just like we do. So on”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“And other county employees contacted the Forest Service about Phil's Trail after you visited us last time. Just so you know. Okay. Our next piece of citizen input is from Amy Sabadini.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“Thank you. Thanks, Cindy. We've gotten a lot of written public comment from people about the item on our agenda this afternoon related to Quaze Energy. that their application or their request to be considered for a rural renewable energy development zone tax abatement. And just so everyone knows, the county in this case only has authority over that potential tax abatement. We do not have land use authority in this case. This is a project happening on Forest Service land. So the federal and state governments are doing all of the siting evaluation. And just so nobody thinks that we've got lots…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“Is there anyone online with their hand raised? Okay. Then we can move on to commissioner announcements. Are there any commissioner announcements? We have at least one item that we decided to try to do under commissioner announcements today rather than schedule it for an agenda item in a couple of weeks. And that is an acknowledgement for the Cascades Futurity and Aged event. You know, I, I know that I know that some of my fellow commissioners are more, you know, more closely connected to this event.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“Would you would you like to make an announcement? Come on. Okay. Yeah.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“I'll mention a couple of things. First off, tonight at COCC, Pacific Power is going to do a little overview presentation on their project blueprint project, which is a 500kV transmission line that will, under either of the two route options that are that are being considered pass through eastern Deschutes County a little bit to the east of Pine Mountain. So if anyone is interested in transmission line sighting issues or questions, that might be a good thing to check out. I'll also mention that the Public Health Advisory Board met yesterday and the primary topic that they heard about was how…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“Yeah, and just so everyone knows, that fire, the ignition source has been identified. It's one of the nearby businesses. So, you know, anyone... Early on, there was, I think, some speculation that that fire may have been started by unauthorized camping homeless people or something like that. But it was just regular business activity at one of the nearby businesses that sparked that fire, just to be clear. Okay. With that, let's move on to the consent agenda.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“It's been moved and seconded. Any further discussion?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“Little updates? Yeah, I would like to ask a question or two. if that's okay for us to do during consent agenda item discussion. Okay. So as we all know, the original intent with Core 3 was for this piece of county property to be transferred to COIC to manage and develop for the Core 3 facility. And that hasn't happened yet. And that's part of the reason we're working on this agreement right now or this lease in MOE right now. One thing I'm curious about is whether the county is continuing to carry costs because the land transfer hasn't happened yet. It seems like we are pretty involved in…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“So the cleanup costs will be covered by COIC with course refunding. But the staff time, the expenditures, is that being reimbursed as well? Or...”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“Thank you. Yeah, I mean, and that's not grounds to vote against this MOU and lease, but it is just an ongoing concern of mine is as long as this piece of property is technically in our ownership, even though it's intended for Core 3, we are expending precious staff time and resources to advance a very important project. Yeah, just something to keep an eye on for the future.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“Yeah, no, I just wanted to kind of take a microscope to a moment for, you know, what the county has invested and is continuing to invest to advance the Core 3 project.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“That works. Thank you. If there's no other questions, we can proceed to approving the consent agenda. So it was moved by you. Okay. Calling for the vote, Commissioner DeBone.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“Okay. Calling for the vote, Commissioner Adair.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“And Commissioner DeBone. Yes. Chair votes yes. Thank you.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“Okay, moving from our consent agenda to regular action items, item number five is a proclamation for Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. We have some county staff here to lead us on this proclamation. Thanks for joining us today.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“And Caroline, you would point people to this 877 number before the 988 because it's a youth specific line.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“Thank you. I just want to say thank you to our team here at Deschutes County and to all the members of the Central Oregon Suicide Prevention Alliance for the work you're doing every day to fight this epidemic in our nation and in our community. It is Without those resources, without the compassion and support, without the education and awareness, I'm sure that this problem would be even worse. So thank you for all the lives that you've helped to save. Are there any questions, comments before we look at this proclamation?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“Well, if we're ready to proceed to the proclamation, how about Commissioner Adair, would you like to read the first portion and the first three whereases and Commissioner Dubon, the second three, and then I'll wrap it up.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“Now therefore be it resolved that the Deschutes County Board of Commissioners do hereby designate the month of September and each year thereafter as Suicide Prevention Awareness Month in Deschutes County and urge the community to learn how they can help prevent suicide. Dated the second day of September 2026 by the Deschutes County Board of Commissioners.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“It's been moved and seconded. Any further discussion?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“Thank you. Okay. Calling for the vote. Commissioner DeBone? Yes. Commissioner Adair? Yes. And Chair votes yes. Thank you so much. We'll look forward to seeing you at some of those events.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026