Remarks by Rod Runyon
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Rod, I will make a motion to approve the agenda.
Thanks for being here. Good information. As a former chair of the Columbia Community Action Council, during my time with the county, I was chair probably most of my eight years. I was also, when it was called CAP, Community Action Program, about five decades ago. I was on there at that time. My question goes back to almost your first slide with the annex, okay? And there were a lot of rules to be allowed to be in the annex and the rules where you would not be allowed to stay in the annex. Now that you're going to have 21 units basically listed as permanent, but are there rules there to…
Okay. And are we talking, could it be couples? Is it just individuals with children?
Dog or cat. OK, but that can have issues as well.
Yeah, I'm just trying to get the questions out that are going to end up in the newspaper for you. Okay, so that's great. Thank you very much. That's a good deal. The Hamilton is going to be an issue. It was an issue back when I was on a board, and I'm the one that got it to have a couple of units at the east end for veterans. There were two units, and then it all became veterans, and that's been great. But the building is probably about ready to hit the bulldozer. It's been there many, many decades.
There will be a major community project to help you with that. Thank you.
And on another kind of topic, you contacted me about a sound system and whatnot. Was that you or somebody else from your group?
Yeah. No. Okay. I thought it was, I thought it was macaque. All right. Thank you. That's all I got.
Council Runyon. Did you say you're just starting the survey or has it been going on for a little while here locally?
How are you doing for replies? Is it light, moderate what you expect or heavy?
On a similar sojourn to Harmerston, you said you were there, you did the surveys there and whatnot. Did you get 100 responses, 10 responses, 1,000? Do you have any idea?
Oh, well, that's good. All right. Good start.
Council Runyon. Well, 15th and 16th of October, I attended the League of Oregon Cities and was very pleased to watch one of the panelists on data centers, and that was our mayor, who did a very good job of explaining reality versus some of the things that are out there in the outer limits of reality. Then the following week, it was conference time once again. with the Oregon Connections Telecommunication Conference in Hood River representing QLife. And there were, I think, one, two, three board members there on the afternoon and the next day that I was there. But really entertaining. And it's…
It just seems almost appropriate or inappropriate to be going through that list unless we withdraw it from the consent calendar and have that discussion. And I'm all for honoring Councilor Ring's request. And then we could go through those kinds of things and have that discussion.
Yeah. It would be good to have him here. I'm not sure what happened because he was online.
Well, apparently there is some material that has just gone through.
I agree. I'd make a motion to, is this appropriate time or not, Mr. Mayor?
But it would need to come off the consent agenda to have a discussion, would it? Yes. Yes, that's right.
Well I think we all want to hear what you what he has to say do we want to hear it now or do we want to pull it and then hear it later under item I guess it'd be 10B or 11a under either way we'd have to take it off the consent agenda to have a discussion about the possibility of holding it over or going ahead and voting on it after we pulled it off and heard the discussion
Consent agenda, I'll say again, is a non-discussion item. You yay or nay it. If you take it off, then you can have that discussion.
I'll make a motion to honor Councilor Ring's request to withdraw it from the consent agenda.
So once the items are solidified, approved, et cetera, as far as what would constitute a fee and what wouldn't and all that, would we do some... I would hope we would do some kind of appropriate but simple signage at Lucid Clark Park saying, you know, some things do require a fee. Please call City Hall, what have you, whatever number. I mean, we would need to... One of the things we keep hearing on the street is, you know, we didn't know. We didn't know there was a rule. Who do we contact? So we would have to come up with some sort of simplified sign that puts it on, you know, with a phone…
Thank you. I just wanted to get that verbally into the record. Yeah, you bet.
Summation there, you mentioned that the council had asked to bring it back on the consent calendar. I don't recall that. And I find that odd if you're making changes to something as big as this, that it would come back on the consent. It seemed like it would come back in open sessions. We could have had that discussion before.
We hadn't had a chance to see if that was correct or we liked it, et cetera, or whatever. So I just, I'm on the other side of that description. I still, at this point, think that I would benefit from Councilor Ring's input on this. And if there's really no urgency at this point, delaying to the next council meeting when hopefully he could be here, would not be a big problem. Am I correct? Or is there an urgency that we have to get something done?