Board of County Commissioners - Regular Meeting

Morning everyone and welcome Housing Authority Board of Directors and over to you director Harrington.

Thank you clerk moss Welcome everyone to the Tuesday July 7th 2026 Washington County Housing Authority Board of Directors meeting. Thank you for joining us today Clerk moss. Could you do us the formal honors and roll call please? I

Certainly, Director Harrington. The Housing Authority of Washoe County is meeting this regular session July 7th, 2026. Director Treece?

Here.

Director Savara?

Here.

Director Fai?

Present.

Vice Chair Willey? Here. Chair Harrington?

Here. All righty. Next, we have our public comment opportunity. This is an opportunity for members of our community to share their thoughts on the Housing Authority. Oops. Thank you. On the Housing Authority, for up to two minutes an individual, Clerk Moss, do we have anyone who wishes to do so?

I did not see anyone sign up in advance of Mr. Feek. Please go ahead for up to two minutes.

If you could keep it Housing Authority related, please, Mr. Feek. Thank you.

Chair Harrington, in particular, Michael Savaro, director, all of you directors for the housing. There are three topics. Forest Grove housing, permanent supportive housing. As you know, I live in Forest Grove. This document was printed in the work session, Forest Grove Permanent Supportive Housing Update and Approval of Architect and General Contractor. And reading through this and knowing where the building's going to be, it's going to be Jim's automotive. Did a lot of business there with Jim. He'll be pleased, too. I'm glad this is happening. So I'm totally in support of that. Second thing is federal legislation, housing bill. We need to make sure there's support by the county legislative to overcome a veto of the housing. We need to make sure we have adequate housing money. And we can't do anything without money. Budget determines everything. You determine the budget for the county based upon the administration. Budget determines values. And we need to make sure we have values that support housing nationwide, which goes all the way down to the state, regional, county, and city. This does, Chair Harrington, what I have given to you by Mortimer Adler, what others have a right to expect from us, Aristotle, for everybody, difficult thought made easy. yes eight things that need to be keep track of that we keep the promises make them to tell them the truth to tell a lie would hurt them in some way that return anything we have borrowed promised to return that we pay our debts to them we do not steal what belongs to them that we do not enter the health damage their bodies or kill them we do not interfere with the freedom of action when their conduct in a way it injures us that we do not make false statements that would injure the reputation to give them a bad name when i make public comment during the regular business meeting i will go into more detail It's very important to have values that we operate from. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Feig.

Is there anyone else in the auditorium that wishes to speak on housing-related matters for up to two minutes? Not seeing any hands. Anyone raising forward? Is there any member online via Zoom that wishes to provide public comment for up to two minutes? Give you just a moment to utilize raise hand function. Not seeing any hands. Chair Harrington.

Thank you, Clerk Moss. Next, we have our consent agenda, which consists of one item, the minutes from our June 16, 2026 minutes. What are the wishes of the board regarding today's consent agenda?

Motion to approve the minutes.

Second.

Thank you. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor, please vote by raising your hand or saying aye. Thank you. Any opposed? The motion passes 5 to 0. Thank you, Director Savaro, for the motion. Next, we'll move on to a resolution in order for Construction Management General Contractor, CMGC, and Architect Contract Awards for the Forest Grove Permanent Supportive Housing Project. back in March we had approved the use of CMGC for this project and now our Experts are here to take us through the next step welcome Thank You chair Harrington a board of directors For the record.

I am Jill Chen deputy director of the Housing Authority of Washington County.

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With me is Lisa Varon, our Real Estate Division Manager, and today I'm here to present our Forest Grove Permanent Supportive Housing Update. Before we go through the slides, I'd like to just set a frame about this project and the importance of this project. It highlights the success of the integration of housing and homeless services. It is also one of the last projects of the Metro Affordable Housing Bonds, targeting and helping our houseless and homeless population. We are so thankful for Oregon Housing and Community Services. This is the first time the Housing Authority won a 9% low-income housing tax credit, $4 million in GAP funding, rental assistance, and supportive services funding for 45 homeless households. We are so pleased To also thank Lisa for building out our real estate division so that we can move forward on this project and are very thankful for our partners at Forest Grove City Council who have been so supportive of this project and we are going next week to meet with them and give them the same update. For today's presentation, we will have a short project summary and history current timeline and Lisa will go through the guts of this project really about our architect general contractor our services partner and the recommendation to you a board of directors. As Dale mentioned just a few minutes ago, our project is at 3127 Pacific Avenue. This is at the split of the highway going right into Forest Grove. It is the former site of Jim's Auto Shop. We are pleased that it will serve 45 households in their own apartments, mainly studios and one bedrooms. It is going to be targeting our culturally specific Latinx population. Working with Central Cultural and Care Oregon to provide behavioral health services, HOC, Housing Authority, will be the owner and developer. And our key partners include, in addition to Central Care Oregon, will include Transcending Hope. The site, as you will recall, is along the major corridor to Forest Grove, provides strong access to transit, employment, community, amenities, and on-site services. Sorry, this is taking a little bit more. There. The Housing Authority started our work on PSH by participating in the Permanent Support of Housing Institute in mid 2024, which helped us refine the project concept and strengthen our partnership approach. It also led us to this site, which is closer to the amenities I've mentioned earlier. From then, we moved quickly to secure the site, entering a purchase and sale agreement in December 2024 and purchasing the site a year later. In February, we presented to you regarding the need for our pre-development funds and our construction management approach. In May, we were approved by Oregon Housing and Community Services for the funding, and we will be building on these milestones as we move forward. As mentioned, we have already started planning and funding applications. We're now in the services, looking at rounding out our service providers with architect, general contractor, and service providers. Moving forward, we will be working on permitting and the construction start. Construction completion is expected sort of early 2029. The start will be we're targeting sometime end of 2027 and lease up by 2029. With this, I move over to our current status. And you'll see that we have the architect, which we'll be talking about, Scott Edwards, architecture, general contractors, Walsh, case management provider, transcending hope, resident service provider central. We have already put together an almost full completed financing package with 6.74 million from Metro affordable housing bonds, 3 million from Care Oregon, the balance of the funding from Oregon Housing and Community Services. So all the funding for this project is ready and we will be moving forward on the pre-development. I will hand it over now to Lisa, who will walk with you through the procurement process.

The architect procurement was a key component of assembling Hawks team for this Forest Grove permanent supportive housing property. The RFP was issued in March 2026 and the response was strong with 11 firms submitting proposals. 10 advanced through the initial evaluation and from there, Hawk interviewed three finalists. After scoring in interviews, Scott Edwards Architecture emerged as a top-ranked firm with 155.2 points out of 200. Their experienced approach and team capacity aligned well with the needs of a permanent supportive housing project of this scale. Based on this process, they are the firm we are bringing forward today for Chabad's approval. Scott Edwards Architecture, or SEA, brings a depth of experience that is well-suited to this development. They have designed more than 1,900 units of affordable workforce, senior, transitional, and permanent supportive housing across the region, and they have a long history of working in Washington County. They also successfully partnered with Central Cultural on Casa Amparo, giving them direct experience working with our culturally specific service partner. The proposed team includes COVID participation and incorporates strong sustainability and community engagement practices. This combination of expertise and values makes them a strong fit for the project. Following the architect selection process, we initiated a CMGC procurement in April 2026. Five firms submitted proposals, and after evaluation, three advanced to the interviews. Walsh Construction received the highest score at 160.02 out of 200. Their interview demonstrated both the depth of their team and their familiarity with permanent supportive housing development. As a result, Walsh is the general contractor we are recommending for Chabad approval today. Walsh has extensive experience building affordable and permanent supportive housing throughout the region. In 2025 alone, they delivered more than 23 projects, including eight permanent supportive housing developments. They are known for high quality work, a strong quality assurance and quality control program, and consistent success achieving more than 30% COVID subcontractor participation. Their values, approach, and track record make them a strong partner for HAWC in a project of this complexity. Early on in this project, we looked to put together a partnership for the Permanent Supportive Housing Institute, which included HAWC, Central Cultural, and Care Oregon. The Permanent Supportive Housing Institute is sponsored by Oregon Housing and Community Services and the Corporation for Supportive Housing and is a training program to develop capacity to build these types of developments throughout the region and state. For this development, Central Cultural will lead resident services, and we've recently added Transcending Hope to provide case management. Care Oregon will support integration into the behavioral health system. This multifaceted partnership creates a service model that is culturally responsive, coordinated, and grounded in experience working with permanent supportive housing residents. As the service structure is now in place, the next step for Hawk as owner and developer is securing the design and construction partners needed to move the project through design and pre-development. To move the project forward, we are now requesting formal approval from Hubbard for selected design partner based on the competitive RFP process and the team's qualifications. We are recommending Scott Edwards architecture for architectural services for the forest growth PSH. Specifically, we are requesting that Hubbard adopt resolution and order approving the selection of Scott Edwards architecture for architectural services for the Forest Grove Permanent Supportive Housing Project and authorize the Housing Authority of Washington County Executive Director and or Deputy Director to execute all necessary documentation related to the architect services contract. With architect approval, the project can begin advancing into design, coordination, and pre-construction. In parallel with selecting the architect, Hawk also completed the competitive CMGC procurement process. We've been busy. Walsh Construction ranked highest among the finalists and brings strong experience with permanent supportive housing and COVID participation. We request that Hubbard adopt resolution order approving the selection of Walsh Construction Company for the Forest Grove Permanent Supportive Housing Project and authorize the Housing Authority of Washington County Executive Director and or Deputy Director to execute all necessary documentation related to the construction management general contractor services contract. With both partners approved, the full development team will be in place and ready to begin the next phase of project delivery. That concludes our presentation, and we're open for any questions that you may have.

Thank you. Directors, any questions or comments? Seeing none, if we could please move to the next slide. Back, sorry. There we go. Seeing no questions or comments on this great project and the work that staff has done, I would ask for a motion, as you see here on the screen.

I'm going to make the first recommendation. It's one. Motion.

For both. Correct.

It's displayed on the screen. Should I say so moved as displayed? Or would you like? No, you need to read the words. Okay. I'm going to repeat, Lisa, what you just read. Okay. Chair.

It's on your TV screen. I see it on my computer. Okay. Yeah, I got it.

I make a motion to adopt the resolution and order approving the selection of Scott Edwards architecture for architectural services for the Forest Grove Permanent Supportive Housing Project and authorize the Housing Authority of Washington County Executive Director and or Deputy Director to execute all necessary documentations related to the architecture services contract. and adopt resolution and order approving the selection of Wash Construction Company for the Forest Grove Permanent Supportive Housing Project and authorize the Housing Authority of Washington County Executive Director and or Deputy Director to execute all necessary documentations related to the construction management general contractor services contract.

Thank you. We have a motion to adopt those two resolutions and orders. Do we have seconds? Second. All those in favor, please vote by raising your hand or saying aye. Thank you, directors. Any opposed? The motions carry unanimously, five to zero. Thank you. Next, we move on to our second public comment period for the Housing Authority Board of Directors. This is an opportunity to come and share your thoughts on any business related to the Housing Authority for up to five minutes an individual. Clerk Moss, do we have anyone who hasn't spoken thus far today?

Thank you, Chair Harrington. I did not see anyone sign up. Has there been any new members to the auditorium? Motion to provide public comment on any housing related item up to five minutes. Please raise your hand, start coming forward. Not seeing any in the room. Is there any member online via Zoom? We should provide public comment on housing for up to five minutes. Give you just a moment to utilize raise hand function. Not seeing any hands, Chair Harrington.

Thank you, Clerk Moss. At this juncture, we have no Board of Director announcements that I know of. Anyone else? No? Okay. So do we have a motion to adjourn the Housing Authority Board of Directors meeting?

So moved.

Second.

Thank you. All those in favor, please vote by raising your hand or saying aye. Thank you. Directors, any opposed? The motion carries unanimously five to zero. The Housing Authority Board of Directors meeting is hereby adjourned and we'll give our staff a few minutes to switch over to our next meeting.

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All righty, good morning, Board of Commissioners, and over to you, Chair Harrington.

Welcome, everyone, to the Tuesday, July 7th, 2026 Washington County Board of Commissioners Business Meeting. Clerk Moss, could you do us the formal honors and roll call, please?

Certainly, Chair Harrington. The Washington County Board of Commissioners also meeting as all other county service districts in this regular session, July 7th, 2026. Commissioner Fai?

Present.

Commissioner Treece?

Here.

Vice Chair Willey?

Here.

Chair Harrington? Here. And I'll announce Commissioner Snyder is excused for today.

Yes, thank you. So, all those of you who are able to stand, will you please stand and join us in the Pledge of Allegiance? Thank you, and I hope everyone had a enjoyable semi-sesquintennial, otherwise known as July 5th and our 250th anniversary of our nation. July 4th. I said July 5th. Oh, good grief. This is what colleagues are for. I get dates wrong all the time. So, thank you. All right. Next, we'll move on to public communication. This is an opportunity for members of our community to share their thoughts with the Board of Commissioners for up to two minutes in individual. Clerk Moss, who do we have?

The first two we have, Madam Chair, is Mary Huck Yopolis and Angela Trey.

Good morning. Good morning. Start when you're ready.

Good morning, Chair Harrington and commissioners. I'm Mary Halkiopoulos, a resident of Washington County. On April 28th, I testified regarding a non-existent Washington County address at which 417 individuals were registered in March 2026. At that time, at least 676 individuals had been registered at that address since 2021. Of those 417 individuals on the March rolls, 180 were active, 237 were inactive, and nine had cast illegal ballots from this bogus address. Two months later, in May 2026, the voter rolls showed an increase in the number of registrants from 417 to 454. 64 additional people were registered, including six who had been removed earlier and then returned. 27 of the 417 were removed. Of the 454 currently on the May 26 rolls, 240 are active, 214 are inactive. Nine have cast illegal ballots from this address with an additional two yet to be confirmed. The most intriguing addition is a registrant who has an out of state status and an East Coast mailing address. Makes no sense. Now as of May 26, 2026, at least 731 individuals have been registered at this address. As you can see, this very popular non-existent address is still very much operational. As we established during previous testimony, under ORS 260.715, a person may not knowingly make a false statement, oath, or affidavit when a statement Oath or avidavit is required under election laws. As mentioned in previous testimony, we would love to see which statute or statutes allow for false registration information to be provided by anyone. Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Latre.

Good morning, Chair Harrington and commissioners. My name is Jill Latre. I'm a resident of Washington County. On June 23rd, 2026, the board had a work session which the elections office manager, Dan Forrester, provided a debrief of the recent election and answered board questions. We've had many great interactions with the elections office team and believe they are doing their very best to carry out the process set before them. We also recognize that when reporting to the board, it's natural that a team manager would want to put his best foot forward regarding his team's work. That said, we would like to request a meeting with you to address the information that was provided during the work session regarding, one, the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 and its requirements for administration and maintenance of voter registrations. Specifically, the definition of two consecutive general elections for federal office and the subsequent rules for removal of voters. Two, county voter roll maintenance. Three, the parties responsible for the method and security of ballots received. Four, undisclosed mistakes from the recent primary election. Five, out of state voters. SIX, STATE STATUTE REGARDING PARTISAN MAKEUP OF BALLOT HANDLING TEAMS. SEVEN, STATEMENTS REGARDING THE NUMBER OF VOTERS PAST AND PRESENT. EIGHT, WHAT OREGON'S POSTMARK LAW ACTUALLY STATES. NINE, UNIQUE IDENTIFIERS AND QR CODES. TEN, ELECTION COST. 11, STATEMENTS THAT THE ELECTIONS DIVISION FOLLOWS ALL FEDERAL AND STATE LAWS AND PROCEDURES. We noted several instances where the information provided to you was incomplete or inaccurate. It's not our opinion, it's a statement based on data and facts. We believe it would be very productive to have a dialogue with you and the election office staff. Hopefully such a discussion would go a long way to getting everyone on the same page. Thank you.

Thank you. Clerk Moss, who do we have next?

Next we have Bill Malloy and Cedric Wilkins.

Mr. Malloy, start when you're ready.

Commissioners and Chair, my name is Bill Malloy. I'm a 60-year resident of Washington County, and I'd like to invite my Heavenly Father to join us in these proceedings. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen. And Lord, if it be your will, please save our American Republic. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Malloy. Mr. Wilkins, go right ahead.

It's been a couple years since I talked in public. I'm from Portland. I'm really intrigued. In March 2021, President Biden and Bill Gates gave $100 million to a fusion energy project at MIT. You build the reactors smaller. And next year, they're going to test it out. I want to know if it works. I'm just curious. We may be on like a scientific revolution. Um, you know, fusion energy is a lot more cleaner than, uh, fission and Oregon doesn't like the ideal place to make such a reactor would be Oregon state university because Portland, uh, gets a lot of energy from the hydroelectric dams. It doesn't really need it. You know, it's, it would, or actually forest growth, uh, about your housing thing. I'm on HUD housing. And I would submit my name to move out to Forest Grove. One thing about high tech, of course, out here is Intel, and they make the hardware. But recently, I've been just intrigued about AI and chat GDP. And I've asked it to write a program, and it actually can write a computer, write its own program. I mean, it's fantastic. It's strange I ask it, does this MIT fusion stuff work? It wouldn't answer the question. It doesn't know, and I don't know any. It depends if it works next year. And it's smaller. And another thing I'm intrigued about is HUD is a topic which I call computer money. If you build an apartment complex and people can't afford to live there, it's empty. And that goes back to the Great Depression and idle resources. If kids are starving and they can't go to school, you've wasted all the time them being in school before that. So, you know, it's idle resource. And there was an interesting thing. The president threatened to cut food stamps. and the tv news said that only ten percent of all people that are could starve in this country get money for get food for the food bank ten percent right the other ninety percent is from From my food stamp card, let's say, which I have one. I'm on food. The only sad thing about me, this stuff is going on and I'm 69 years old.

Thank you, Mr. Williams.

All right, but good time to be living.

Thank you. Clerk Moss, anyone else?

All right, the last one we have for this session is Ralph Medica. Ralph? Ralph?

Mr.. Medica is it Medica Medica.

Thank you Thanks for listening I'm here to talk about The condition of the road that I live on I live on old pumpkin Ridge Road, which is a gravel road that that Meets pumpkin Ridge at approximately three miles up Since I've lived there in 25 years 25 years ago when I moved in we were on the top of the list to get paved We're still waiting I have tried through the county commissioner, through the county board to get them to give us some consideration and have been completely unsuccessful. The county is currently paving roads in this county that nobody drives on. They're paving roads from Roy to Verbort that are just basically just vacant roads. The situation we have is that 99% of the people that go up our road are servicing Pumpkin Ridge. There's three times the number of homes above me on Pumpkin Ridge than when I moved in. There's businesses up there, there's construction traffic, there's delivery vehicles, there's everything. These people are coming past my house raising clouds of dust 100 feet tall 100 times a day. You wouldn't tolerate it. If there was a construction project in your neighborhood, you would demand that they bring water trucks out there and take care of this. Another situation is the fact that this road drops in elevation approximately 400 feet in one mile. So every car on the road has anti-lock brakes. These people are coming down the road at 45 and 50 miles an hour. They have no brakes, and they don't even know it. There's no such thing as a panic stop on a gravel road. Brakes lock up, they release, and you keep going. I've had two cars flip over on the roof in front of my house. I've had a head-on collision. I've pulled cars out of the ditch. I would like to know why we can't get some consideration to either pave this road or close it to through traffic.

Thank you, Mr. Medica. If Clerk Moss has your email address, we can follow up through our constituent report process and get you some information. Thank you.

I wish you would. Thank you very much.

Thank you for your time. Okay, that's it for our first public comment period for today's meeting. Next, we'll move on to today's consent agenda, which consists of two sets of minutes. one item from the office of community development four items from land use and transportation two items from facilities fleet and parks and two items from human resources what are the wishes of the commission regarding today's consent agenda move to accept the consent agenda we have a motion and a second all those in favor please vote by raising your hand or saying aye thank you Commissioners any opposed the motion carries unanimously four to zero next we'll move on to boards and commissions today We have an opportunity to appoint to the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board Barry Boulding to fill a midterm vacancy to a term ending June 30th 2028 and and to reappoint to the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board Kim Jansen, Patrick McGee, and Nico Geerling to a term ending June 30th, 2029. We also have the opportunity to appoint to the Metzger Park Local Improvement District advisory board, Roy Beatty and Barrett Johnson to fill midterm vacancies to a term ending June 30th, 2028 and Aaron La Follette to a term ending June 30th, 2029. Also to reappoint to the Metzger Park local improvement district advisory board, Thomas McGowan and Gordon Silk to a term ending June 30th, 2029. What are the wishes of the board regarding all of these appointments?

I hope to approve.

Second. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor, please vote by raising your hand or saying aye. Thank you. Commissioners, any opposed? The motion carries unanimously four to zero. Next, we move on to two different proclamations. The first is to proclaim July 26th. as Parks and Recreation Month in Washington County. And I'd like to invite Carl Schweitzer, our Parks Division Manager, and Megan McMillan, the Vice Chair of the Washington County Parks and Recreation Advisory Board. Thank you, welcome.

Good morning, Chair Harrington. Good morning, Commissioners. Today we're here to talk to you about a really fun subject, and that is proclaiming July as Parks and Recreation Month in Washington County. So hopefully you can see the text. It's pretty small here. But each July, communities across America recognize July as Parks and Recreation Month. to celebrate the tremendous good that parks and recreation play in the life of individuals, families, and communities. It reminds residents of the numerous benefits that recreation programs and parks provide. Parks and recreation, excuse me, parks and programs create opportunities for play to experience nature and enhance community belonging and connection. They support personal wellbeing, protect natural areas, and aid in climate change resiliency. Parks and Recreation Month celebrates parks and recreation professionals who operate and maintain our county's parks. It celebrates the many citizens who give generously of their time on advisory boards like the Park and Recreation Advisory Board and the Metzger Park Local Improvement District Advisory Board. It also celebrates the many volunteers and donors who help keep our parks thriving throughout the year. Parks and Recreation Month is also an opportunity to encourage the community and all community members to visit local parks and recreation spaces and programs in July and throughout the year. So highlighting a few of Washington County's parks, Scoggins Valley Park, also known as Hag Lake, Metzger Park, and Eagle Landing Park. Those, according to about, 2,500 acres of parkland. We have a team of 10 full-time, two part-time, and six seasonal professionals. And of course, we're supported by our Parks and Recreation Advisory Board and the Metzger Park Local Improvement District Advisory Board. We have with us today several of our staff and some of our advisory board members. If you would stand up and be recognized, that would be great. and some of our recreation programming that we do at Washington County Fishing Tournament. We have a number of educational opportunities for people to come and learn about the natural environment, public art projects, and then we have a seasonal kayak rental shop that a lot of people take advantage of and have an opportunity to do something that they may otherwise not be able to. We do partnerships and special events throughout the year. We have a really great relationship with WCCLS. We have a little mini library at Hag Lake, thanks to their support. We have music, we have all kinds of special events, and we partner with other community groups like Central Cultural and get hooked to provide recreation and outdoor programming for our community's youth. So in addition to Washington County Parks, recreation programs, parks, and natural areas also are provided throughout the county by cities, special districts, regional, state, and federal agencies. So there is a park. or natural area near everyone in Washington County, and we celebrate that. So Washington County residents and visitors are encouraged to celebrate Parks and Recreation Month by visiting a park or joining a recreation program this summer. And with that, I would like to reintroduce Megan McMillan, who is the vice chair of our Washington County Parks and Recreation Advisory Board to read the proclamation.

Good morning chair Harrington. Good morning board. I am so proud to represent the amazing team that we have who works in our parks and all of my neighbors here in Washington County who love our parks. I'll read the proclamation. Whereas parks and recreation are an integral part of communities throughout this country, including Washington County, Oregon. and whereas parks and recreation promote community and personal health and wellness, improving the physical and mental health of people who live near or visit parks, and whereas our parks and natural recreation areas ensure the ecological beauty of our community and provide a place for children and adults to connect with nature and recreate outdoors. And whereas parks, open space, and trails provide active and passive outdoor recreation opportunities, help maintain clean air and water, and promote stewardship of the natural environment. And whereas parks and recreation encourage physical activities by providing spaces for hiking, biking, swimming, and many other activities designed to promote active lifestyles. And whereas parks and recreation increase a community's economic prosperity through increased property values, expansion of the local tax base, increased tourism, the attraction and retention of businesses, and crime reduction. And whereas in Washington County, we are fortunate to have a variety of recreation and park systems providing countless recreational opportunities for all residents and visitors alike, And whereas Washington County's parks are operated and maintained for beauty and safety by a dedicated group of parks and recreation professionals. And whereas the Washington County's Parks and Recreation Advisory Board and Metzger Park Local Improvement District Advisory Board members generously give their time and energy to help Washington County's parks thrive. and whereas Washington County provides three parks totaling more than 2,500 acres with over 1 million visitors per year. Now, therefore, be it resolved that on the seventh day of July 2026, the Washington County Board of Commissioners does hereby recognize the broad range of benefits derived from parks and recreation programs and places and hereby proclaims July as Parks and Recreation Month in Washington County. The board encourages all people to explore and enjoy our community's parks and recreation offerings and celebrate their vital place in our community. Thank you.

Thank you very much. Do we have a board motion to adopt this proclamation as read?

So moved. Second.

We have a motion and a second. All those in favor, please vote by raising your hand or saying aye. Thank you very much. Any opposed? The motion carries unanimously, four to zero. And I would like to invite the two of you and our Washington County staff to join us in a picture to memorialize this opportunity. to proclaim July 19th through 25th, 2026 as National Deflection Week in Washington County.

Well, thank you so much. Good morning, Chair Harrington, Board of County Commissioners. As the Chair said, My name is Mira Semantle. I use she, her pronouns. I'm the Director of Health and Human Services. It is an absolute privilege and honor to be here before you today to proclaim July 19th through 25th as National Deflection Week. We have a number of staff as well as partners and providers in our audience today for this memorable occasion. And I just really am so pleased to highlight this program as it's a true one Washington County program. involving health and human services, but also our district attorney's office, our sheriff's office, community corrections, as well as dozens of community partnerships and providers. So with me today, I have Danielle Farr, who is our incredible deflection program coordinator. Within HHS and our behavioral health division and then we also have with us today Candace Altman We're so pleased to have Candace with us today from 4d Recovery and she's the regional director for 4d and she will be reading today's proclamation I will go ahead and turn over to Danielle for the presentation Good morning chair Harrington and members of the board

My name is Danielle Farr, and I serve as the Senior Program Coordinator for the Washington County Deflection Program. Thank you so much for your opportunity to be here as we recognize July 19th through 25th as National Deflection Week in Washington County. We appreciate the board's consistent support for this work and the vision that has allowed this program to take root and grow. A little bit about... Next slide, please.

There you go.

Deflection week national deflection week is a chance to celebrate innovation collaboration and individual partners who make deflection possible across our country. Here in Washington county we're approaching our second full year of implementation and in that short time this program has demonstrated its ability to save lives promote recovery. reduce substance use and lessen criminal justice system involvement. Deflection is an upstream strategy. It allows us to meet people early before arrest and connect them with the support that keeps them engaged in community and in treatment and in hope. Our participants face complex needs and significant challenges. A third have never in their lifetime accessed substance use treatment before. a quarter have previously survived an overdose, and many experience houselessness, food insecurity, and unemployment. These numbers tell a powerful story about who we are serving and why this unique tool of deflection really matters. It also speaks to the depth of the need in our community, a need that we're beginning to meet because this board has authorized the creation of this program and equipped us to respond to care with connection. From our launch in September 24 to May of 26, our team has provided 667 resources and referrals to our participants. Every single participant has been referred to treatment services for an assessment. With a high needs population, an invitation or a recommendation is not always enough to give them full connection to care. But on our high contact model, 70% of the referrals that we've provided have been utilized. Most uninsured participants have become insured, and nearly 2 thirds of those who began in the program as unhoused participants became housed. With deflection as a new trend, we are now improving our tracking to better understanding how deflection helps connect people with the services that are available to them. With this commitment to collaboration, we now have 43 partnership agreements with community providers. And these outcomes are possible because of this collaborative framework that the board has supported from the start. We are poised to serve even more community members with our expansion and our non-citation coming later this month. The numbers matter, but so do the voices. And our participants give us quotes that we've been given permission to share. Some of those include, While being in deflection, my life has turned around. I'm sober for the first time. Every aspect of my life has changed for the better. And we hear messages like, I was given the opportunity to access different resources that helped me get to the root of the issues. I was able to get back to a place where I respected myself again and could move forward in life. These are powerful reminders of the human impact behind our data. On behalf of the Washington County Deflection Program, we respectfully request that the board designate July 19th to 25th as National Deflection Week in Washington County. I am proud of what we've accomplished together. And we're looking forward to continuing this work with our partners and the community. And thank you again for your time and continued support and enthusiasm for this program. I would like to have the honor of turning things over to Candice Altman, who has been with us in deflection since our very first deflection warm handoff. And she will read our proclamation.

Thank you. Good morning. Chair Harrington and members of the board. My name is Candace Altman and it was already mentioned that I'm the regional director for Washington County 40 recovery. I'm very grateful and honored to be here. Like she mentioned, been here since the since very early and still very proud of the work that is happening every day. Whereas deflection is an early upstream approach that does not wait for nor need an arrest, overdose or crisis situation before taking action for people, families, youth, veterans and survivors facing the challenge of substance use, misuse and addiction, mental health and its related consequences. And whereas the police treatment and community collaborative also known as PTAC, is the national and global voice of the field of deflection, and whereas the PTAC National Leadership Council voted to designate the third week of July as National Deflection Week to be held annually in any nation, and whereas there are now over 1,600 deflection sites in the United States, including Washington County, through the Washington County Deflection Program. And whereas deflection continues to grow rapidly as a community-led public safety and public health strategy that offers to police and communities alike a third option instead of arrest and charging or taking no action when it is clear that a person needs help and support. And whereas deflection creates six distinct pathways for people to be rapidly connected to treatment, housing, and services in order to achieve recovery. And whereas deflection saves public dollars, reduces drug-related property crime, and reduces overdose deaths while creating access to services and improves social determinants of health. And whereas public awareness about deflection promotes trust, confidence, partnership, and decreases stigma and shame. Now, therefore, be it resolved that on the seventh day of July 2026, the Washington County Board of Commissioners does hereby proclaim the third week in July as National Deflection Week in Washington County. We also call upon all government agencies, public and private institutions, businesses and schools in Washington County to recognize the growing promise of deflection and the positive impact of supporting access to care on the lives of the members of our community. Thank you.

Thank you very much. I would like to also make the comment that our work here at Washington County to support our community members through this program is heavily reliant upon funding provided to us by the state. That would be from the state legislature and the governor's office and distributed through the Criminal Justice Commission. But for that funding, these wonderful people wouldn't be able to do that work. So thank you very much for playing a role in ensuring that our state legislature continues to see the need and the opportunity to ensure that people's lives are not wasted because life is precious. Thank you. Also, I would like to ask that the proclamation as read by Ms. Altman to please be updated in today's packet. Thank you very much. We have a slight difference. All those in favor of adopting the proclamation as read. I'll make a motion. Thank you.

I make the motion first, because we haven't made a motion, Chair. I know, I was just asking. Oh, okay, sorry.

I thought it was raise your hand. As presiding officer, I was asking.

Yeah, okay. No, no, okay, go ahead. I was thinking, sorry for the complications, I was thinking raise your hand, and I was like, wait a minute, did we make a motion here? So that's all.

I move we approve the National Deflection Week Proclamation.

I second it.

Thank you. All those in favor of this motion and as stated and seconded, please raise your hand. Any opposed? The motion carries unanimously four to zero. And I would like to invite our Washington County staff, our guests here and partners to this specific program to please join us in a picture opportunity.

So one picture here first, and then...

Sorry about that, Chair.

No, it's okay. I just couldn't get everything out of my mouth fast enough.

Your intentions were good.

OKAY. SO NEXT WE'RE GOING TO MOVE TO PUBLIC HEARINGS. WE DO HAVE SIX DIFFERENT PUBLIC HEARINGS BUT LUCKILY FOUR OF THEM ARE RELATED TO ONE TOPIC SO WE'LL ONLY HAVE ONE PRESENTATION ON THAT AND THEN WE'LL GO THROUGH THE REQUIRED NUMBER OF PUBLIC HEARINGS. So first, we have a public hearing to legalize a portion of Southwest Holly Hill Road as County Road 2482. Welcome, Mr. Shetler.

Hello, Chair Harrington, members of the board. I'm Stacy Shetler, County Engineer with Land Use and Transportation. We do have a presentation for you. go over a few slides, but while that's getting pulled up, I'll talk a little bit about Holly Hill Road and the proposal in front of you today, and that's to legalize a portion of the road. Holly Hill Road is kind of in the southwest corner of the county, adjacent to Yamhill County. The road is a rural, local classification, and it is has some survey of the survey notes from nineteen from eighteen seventy two excuse me when i will be located in so this process is to set the legal line of the road so that road itself has been travelers current location for over seventy five years qualifies for legalization under the or asses recommending a fifty-foot right away with And that's justifiable based on the current roadway standards for this type of roadway. There are no permanent structures located in the proposed right-of-way. Adjacent property owners were notified per statute. There's no known opposition to the proposed legalization. We did have one person that lived nearby call, and their question was about paving the road. We were able to direct them to the operations and maintenance staff for that question. This public hearing, you may have other people give input onto the proposed legalization. So with that, we ask your board conduct the public hearing and then prove the resolution in order to legalize this portion of Holly Hill Road. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Shetler. And at this juncture, I'd like to open a public hearing on this topic. Clerk Moss, do we have anyone who wishes to do so?

Thank you, Chair Herrington. I did not see anyone sign up in advance for this public hearing. Is there any member in the auditorium who should provide comment for up to two minutes? If you heard from staff, just raise your hand, start coming forward. Not seeing any in the room. Is there any member online via Zoom who should provide public comments? If you heard from staff, give me just a moment to utilize raise hand function. Not seeing any hands, Chair Herrington.

Thank you. And with that, I'll close today's public hearing on this topic and ask for a motion to approve the resolution in order to legalize Southwest Holly Hill Road as County Road 2482. So moved. All those in favor, please vote by raising your hand or saying aye. Thank you, commissioners. Any opposed? The motion carries unanimously four to zero. Next, we'll move on to an entirely different matter. This is the one related to the four different public hearings. This one is to annex two tax lots and right-of-way totaling approximately three acres to various districts. Welcome.

Good morning, Chair Harrington and Commissioners. Teresa Cherniak, Community Planning Section Manager for the Department of Land Use and Transportation. Trisha, excuse me, Trisha Grisco will give the presentation.

Thank you, Teresa. Good morning, Chair Harrington and Commissioners. For the record, I am Trisha Grisco, Associate Planner with the Land Use and Transportation Community Planning Section. The items before you are four proposed boundary changes, 26-7 through 26-10, request to annex two tax lots and right of way into Tualatin Hills Park and Recreation District, Clean Water Services, Enhanced Sheriff's Patrol District, and the Urban Road Maintenance District. The subject property is in the North Bethany sub area. It's located at 6060 and 6130 Northwest 185th Avenue, Portland, Oregon, approximately three acres in size. It's generally north of Northwest Springville Road, east of Northwest 185th Avenue, and west of Northwest 183rd Avenue. The subject property, hatched in blue and white, is located within the regional urban growth boundary in unincorporated Washington County. The area in solid light blue shows the current extent of the THPRD boundary in this vicinity for boundary change 26-7. This map shows areas that have been annexed to clean water services, urban road maintenance district, and enhanced sheriff's patrol district relative to the subject site. This is a request by the property owners to annex the subject area into multiple service districts in order to serve future development. County staff has reviewed the request and found that it does meet the criteria for boundary changes as outlined in the staff report. Staff recommends the board conduct the public hearing and at the conclusion of the hearing, by separate action, adopt each resolution and order approving minor boundary change numbers 26-7 through 10 with the annexations becoming effective today, July 7th. If there is any public testimony today, there is a brief statement I would need to read into the record. If not, I will conclude my presentation and can answer any questions you may have.

Thank you. Are there any board questions at this juncture?

I have a quick question. The subject property right next to it, the white space, it's a different property. How come they don't want to annex as well? Did we reach out? What's our process?

We are usually contacted by property owners, and these two properties are owned by the same property owners. And the neighboring properties, they could request it, but they have not reached out.

And we don't typically say, hey, your neighbor is going through this process. Do you want to consider yourself to be included here? Is it property by property?

It's property by property. And it's usually they're asking for this request because they want certain urban services, and the neighboring properties could also combine, but we have not gotten a request from the neighboring properties.

Thank you. That is because once they become part of these districts they have to pay property taxes to those districts So they wait until they're ready to develop it before they start paying bills like that Are there any other questions from commissioners Okay, seeing none, but before I move to all the different public hearings, I would like to recognize Ms. Teresa Cherniak. This is the last time that she'll be before the Board of County Commissioners before she retires later this month. Ms. Cherniak has done active work here, valuable work for over 13 years, and I just want to recognize all of that before you leave the meeting today. So thank you, Teresa. Alrighty, so we will move to our first public hearing to consider the annexation of two tax lots and right-of-way totaling approximately three acres to the Tualatin Hills Park and Recreation District. And at this time, I'd like to open that public hearing. Clerk Moss.

I did not see anyone sign up in advance of this public hearing. Is there any member in the auditorium to start coming forward? Raise your hand. Not seeing anyone in the room. Is there any member online via Zoom? There's great public comment on this public hearing. As you've heard from staff, I'll give you just a mobilized raise hand function. Not seeing any hands. Chair Harrington.

Thank you, Clerk Moss. And with that, I'll close this public hearing and ask for a motion. Excuse me. to adopt the resolution in order approving the annexation to the Tualatin Hills Park and Recreation District with the approval becoming effective July 7th, 2026. All those in favor of please vote by raising your hand or saying aye Thank You commissioners any opposed the motion carries unanimously four to zero Next we'll move on to the public hearing for the same property set To annex to clean water services district at this juncture. I'll open the public hearing clerk moss. I

Thank you, Chair Harrington. I did not see anyone in the auditorium sign up for this one. Is there any member in the auditorium that wishes to sign up for this public hearing? As you've heard from staff, start raising your hand or coming forward. Not seeing any in the room. Is there any member online via Zoom that wishes to make a public comment on this public hearing? As you've heard staff give you just a moment to utilize raise hand function. Not seeing any hands, Chair Harrington.

Thank you, Clerk Moss. And with that, I'll close this public hearing and ask for a motion to adopt the resolution and order approving the annexation with the approval becoming effective July 7, 2026 for these two tax lots and right-of-way totaling approximately three acres to the Clean Water Services District.

So moved.

All those in favor, please vote by raising your hand or saying aye. Thank you. Commissioners, any opposed? The motion carries unanimously, four to zero. And next, we'll move on to considering the annexation of the same property to the Enhanced Sheriff Patrol District. And with that, I'd like... Well, that's interesting. We have a little typo. Okay. To the... Enhance Sheriff Patrol District and I'd like to open a public hearing clerk Moss Thank You chair Harrington.

I did not see anyone sign up in advance of this public hearing Is there any member in the auditorium? We should probably public hearing up to two minutes on this really one of the ESPD as you've heard from staff not see any hands I see anyone coming forward in the room. Is there any member online? We should probably public come up to two minutes as you've heard from staff Give you just a moment utilize raise hand function not seeing any hands to her attempt

Thank you. And with that, I'd like to close this public hearing and ask for a motion to adopt the resolution and order approving the annexation for the two tax lots and right-of-way totaling approximately three acres to the Enhanced Sheriff Patrol District with the approval becoming effective July 7th, 2026. So moved. Second. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor, please vote by raising your hand or saying aye. Thank you. Next, we'll move on to the Urban Road Maintenance District. Same property set to annex to the Urban Road Maintenance District, also known as URMD. At this juncture, I'd like to open the public hearing. Clerk Moss.

Thank you, Chair Harrington. I did not see one sign up in advance of this public hearing. Is there any member in the auditorium wished by public hearing... To this public hearing, as you've heard from staff, raise your hands start coming forward. Not seeing any in the room. Is there any member online via Zoom? We should make public comment for up to two minutes, as you've heard from staff. Give you just a moment to utilize raise hand function. Not seeing any hands. Chair Harrington.

And with that, I'd like to close today's public hearing and ask for a motion to annex these two tax lots and right-of-way totaling approximately three acres to the Urban Road Maintenance District. Through resolution and order and approving the annexation with the approval becoming effective July 7th 2026 We have a motion and a second all those in favor Please vote by raising your hand or saying aye Thank You commissioners any opposed the motion carries unanimously. I Four to zero. Next, we'll move on to an entirely different subject. And joining Ms. Cherniak is Michelle Miller to take us through yet another development code plan update related to significant natural resources. Welcome, staff report.

Thank you. Good morning, Chair Harrington and commissioners. I'm Michelle Miller with Land Use and Transportation, a senior planner. And I'm here to present the staff report on ordinance number 914, its minor amendments to the urban significant natural resource maps and standards. So ordinance 914 contains some key provisions. There are minor map corrections and adjustments to the significant habitat boundaries in several of our community plan maps. There's clarifications to significant natural resource related design elements in two different community plans. And then there's some non-substantive changes to our SNR standards in the Community Development Code to clarify some terms, processes, and some exemptions. So a little bit of background about ordinance number 914. It's a follow-up to the major updates to the county's natural resource regulations that this board adopted in late 2024 with a engrossed ordinance numbers 901 and 902. A engrossed ordinance number 901 amended the significant natural resources and cultural maps and the policies and design elements in each of our community plans. Engrossed ordinance number 902 amended the standards in our Community Development Code and these ordinances addresses addressed statewide planning goal 5 following the process that were that was outlined in the Oregon administrative rules and The 2024 update included bringing our 40-year-old natural resource program for the urban area into legal compliance with state law changes and also to be compliant with metro rules for habitat protection. We adopted the new SNR maps in the urban unincorporated areas for two new natural resource categories called riparian and upland wildlife habitat, which I'll briefly go over in the next few slides, as well as adopting clear and objective standards for proposed development on properties that did contain those significant natural significant habitat, excuse me. After the SNR ordinances were adopted, the board approved as a work program task in 2025 through 2027 to evaluate any requests from property owners to change the SNR inventory maps over this following year and to consider any clarifications to the adopted rules after the first year of our implementation. The result of that work program task being the ordinance before you today. So the 2024 update included two natural resource categories, riparian wildlife habitat and upland wildlife habitat. Riparian wildlife habitat includes those water areas like streams and wetlands and then the associated riparian buffer or the areas within a certain distance from the streams. The current requirement for riparian habitat includes following Metro Title 13 requirements, which mean development is very limited along the riparian wildlife habitat buffer, also known as the vegetated corridor, but some development activity is allowed. If the proposed development would impact the riparian wildlife habitat, clean water services requirements will likely apply. And if the vegetation will be impacted, native vegetation must be replanted along the water area and any invasive plants must be removed. The other new SNR category was upland wildlife habitat. Upland wildlife habitat includes the forest and woodlands adjacent to the riparian wildlife habitat. The current rules for properties that contain mapped upland wildlife habitat in the urban areas focus on tree retention or replacement where upland wildlife habitat is shown on the SNR maps. There is a clear and objective path for development that includes a tree inventory, tree points, and a tree retention and planting requirements. There are two options that applicants can choose as an alternative to the clear and objective path. A tree canopy preservation area standard and also an environmental review requirement. There are added protection measures for upland wildlife habitat in areas that have been added to the urban growth boundary after 2005. And that is a Title 13, Metro Title 13 requirement. So the map correction requests include either removing, reclassifying the habitat type, or altering the habitat boundary. Three of the map requests were made because the applicants had received a final approval under those earlier SNR standards, and the properties did not contain the earlier habitat mapping, or they were reviewed under our old standards. In some cases, the property owner requested removing the designation because the habitat had been removed before the maps had been adopted in 2024. The other type of requests that we received were for recategorizing the habitat based on new information provided by the property owner, like field verification by Clean Water Services or, oops, I haven't been continuing, continuing with my, excuse me, I got a little confused there. Let me get to the right one, yeah. Sorry, I'm going to reverse a little bit and go back. So I'm going to talk about the community plan maps first. And those are with our ordinance. And we received six requests since the adoption of those earlier ordinances. And each one is slightly different. And I've kind of talked about that a little bit already. And they were reviewed by the same environmental consultants as prepared the 2024 inventory. And that's consistent with that methodology that we used WHEN THOSE RULES WERE ORIGINALLY ADOPTED. AND THOSE EXHIBITS ARE IN YOUR PACKET AND THEY'RE NUMBERED 1, 2, 4, AND 6 AND IT STARTS ON PAGE 348 OF THAT AGENDA PACKET. SORRY ABOUT THAT. AND HERE ARE I DISCUSSED THIS A LITTLE BIT ALREADY AND SOME OF THE REASONS WHY WE WERE MAKING THOSE CHANGES. SO WE GOT A LITTLE BIT OUT OF ORDER THERE. SO I'LL MOVE ON TO THE NEXT ONE. And the 1982 community plans had originally included some design elements that guided applicants on developing in the mapped SNR areas. With our 2024 update, this board approved changes to those design elements to remove the ones that were no longer in effect because of annexations or their development had occurred on those sites already. And so the remaining design elements were intended to directly refer back to the code because it was the clear and objective path. And there were two special design elements that we proposed to clarify further with additional text, and those are in the Bull Mountain and Metzger progress area. And that further clarifies that development proposed in areas with significant habitat must follow the procedures in section 422 of those development standards with the 2024 ordinance. So turning to the Community Development Code section 422 standards, after a little over a year of implementing the changes this board adopted in 2024, staff recognized a few minor clarifications to the standards were in order. We are going to go over those now. First, there are a couple of section 422-4. Those are the exemptions to the regulation section where staff proposes some clarification. We added the term Christmas to specify and clarify that trees in commercial tree farms refers to Christmas tree farms. We also added the state law citation and confirmed that trees harvested for timber production under the Oregon Forest Practices Act do not qualify for this exemption. The other proposed change clarifies that a development proposal that does not intend or show removal of any regulated trees in the mapped upland wildlife habitat areas is exempt from the provisions of section 422, provided that they receive a determination of exemption. Another proposed change clarifies that the methodology to verify the riparian wildlife habitat boundary includes field delineation, which is one of the Clean Water Services and US Army Corps of Engineers requirements. And finally, we propose a correction to the table in section 422-10.3 that's for tree canopy preservation areas. We added several words that were inadvertently left off the table to be consistent with the regular text in section 422. So the Planning Commission considered ordinance number 914 at its meeting on June 3rd, and the majority recommended approval as filed. Staff recommends that your board conduct the public hearing and adopt ordinance number 914, and by a separate action,

adopt the associated findings thank you thank you first we're going to see if there are any other board questions with regard to this presentation i have a quick question uh... he said majority of that planning commission supported uh... with uh... uh... what was there five to one i've seen one and there was one abstention And so what were they saying, like the dissenting voices were?

I think the one person that voted no was interested in, I think, more protection for natural resources than what our regulations currently require.

So it was a comment back to Ordinance 901 and 902 as documented in the staff report. Thank you. Any other commissioner questions at this juncture? Thank you. And at this time, I would like to ask for a motion to read ordinance number 914 by title only.

So moved. Second.

All those in favor, please vote by raising your hand or saying aye. Thank you. Commissioners, any opposed? That motion carries unanimously four to zero. Ms. Duke-Dreesen, could you please do so?

Yes, thank you, Madam Chair. Ordinance 914, an ordinance amending the Aloha-Reedville, Cooper Mountain, Bethany-Bowl Mountain, Cedar Hills, Cedar Mill, Metzger Progress, and Raleigh Hills Garden Home Community Plans, and the Community Development Code relating to development in areas designated significant natural resources.

Thank you. And at this juncture, I'd like to open a public hearing with regard to ordinance number 914. Clerk Moss, do we have anyone who wishes to testify?

We do, Madam Chair. The first one we have in the room is Holly Wilberg. Holly?

Good morning, commissioners. I wanted to first ask if it was okay to play an audio of a video that I have regarding this. We don't allow that. We don't allow audio. Okay, that's okay. No worries, that's okay. So I want to focus my comments on the timeline because I believe the sequence of events is critically important. On February 14th, 15th, and 16th, over President's Day weekend, Crews hired by the property owner worked aggressively to clear as much of this property as possible. One of the properties is in question here to remove the significant natural resource riparian habitat. Trees were cut that were greater than six inches this in diameter the significant natural resource area was not properly staked and protected with construction fencing When the workers were asked to produce the permit authorizing the work They did not produce one and said they did not need to show it By Tuesday February 17th the county staff had been notified a code enforcement inspector was sent out and from what I personally observed was extremely concerned by what had occurred a stop work order was issued But by then, much of the damage had already been done. That is the part of this case that I do not believe can be separated from the request before you today. On February 27th, I met with Commissioner Fai at one of her community coffee meetings. I spoke with her about this property, the wildlife that lives there, the mature trees and natural resources, the steep slope, the drainage towards the Tualatin River watershed, and my concern about erosion and the apparent disregard for the protections. I genuinely felt heard that day and I appreciated that conversation. But now we are being asked to accept a process in which a map natural resource was cleared first and then evaluated afterward to determine whether the habitat is still there. That is backwards. Had a proper evaluation occurred before the trees were removed and had that evaluation concluded that the area did not qualify for protection, I would not be standing here today making this argument, but that is not what happened. My concern is much larger than this one property owner. Goal five is supposed to protect natural resources through an orderly land use process. If a property owner can disregard permit conditions, remove the resource, face little to no meaningful consequence, and then use the altered condition of the land as the basis for moving the protected boundary, that creates an extraordinarily dangerous precedent. It effectively says destroy first, evaluate later. Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Wilbur, for your testimony during this public hearing.

Is there any other member in the auditorium that we should probably comment on this? I don't see anyone raise their hand or coming forward. We had one sign up online, Matt Wellner. Mr. Wellner, can you hear us? I can hear you. Can you hear me? Yes, you can. Please go ahead for up to two minutes.

Thank you very much, Chair Harrington and commissioners. My name is Matt Wellner. I'm here to voice support for Ordinance 914. Our property is referred to as the julep property in your staff report. It's shown in the file ordinance on page three of exhibit one. I brought this issue to staff's attention in July of 2024. At the time, we had an approved 41 lot subdivision that we were working through the engineering process on before we could start construction. Part of the adoption of ordinances 901 and 902, there was no upland habitat designation on the property. We requested that staff amend the maps to reflect this approved project prior to the adoption. Unfortunately, they were unable to do so at the time, but they said that they would come back at a later date to make those adjustments. That's why we're here today. Our project has been constructed, and the final plat is recorded, and this ordinance will amend the SNR maps to reflect what's actually on the ground. Again, we're supportive of the ordinance, and we hope that you are too. Lastly, we want to thank staff for following through with this work. Thank you for your time.

Thank you, Mr. Wellner. Clerk Moss, anyone else?

Is there any other member of the public online via Zoom which would provide public comment on this Ordinance 914? As you've heard from staff, give you just a moment to raise hand function. Not seeing any additional hands, Chair Herrington.

Thank you, Clerk Moss. And for the record, I would like to note that we have two written testimony submissions, one from Nancy Fletcher and one from Peter Buck. So at this juncture, I would ask for any board comments with regard to today's proposed ordinance 914. Seeing none, I'll make my comment. Thank you very much, Ms. Wilbur, for bringing your matter to attention. I believe it applies to the original two ordinances, 901 and 902. Sadly, I hear your appreciation for your meeting with Commissioner Fai. Sadly, that information was not shared with us prior to today. Thank you. So as as indicated the ordinance before us today nine fourteen is uh... part of our follow-up to ordinance nine oh one and nine oh two which requires that property owners do a set of work before uh... day do work on their property uh as with all of our community development code and if they they don't and we get reports our code enforcement and inspectors get involved and follow-up ramifications occur so we do have these this ordinance to make the corrections made over that first year of implementation as well as various clarifications which i believe is good follow-up work to uh... something as significant as the significant natural resource work across our entire county so at this juncture i would like to ask for a motion to adopt ordinance nine fourteen And ordinance, well, as read previously, do we have a motion to adopt ordinance 914? So moved. And do we have a second? Clerk Moss, we have a motion and a second. Could you please take the roll, please?

Certainly, Chair Harrington. Commissioner Fai?

Aye.

Commissioner Treese?

Aye.

Vice Chair Willey?

Yes.

Chair Harrington?

Yes. The ordinance passes unanimously four to zero. At this juncture, I would like to ask for a motion to adopt the findings for ordinance number 914. So moved. Second. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor, please vote by raising your hand or saying aye. Thank you. Commissioners, any opposed? The motion carries unanimously. FORWARD TO ZERO AND AUTHORIZES THE CHAIR TO SIGN SAID MOTION OR RESOLUTION AND ORDER MEMORIALIZING THE ACTION. NEXT WE HAVE A SECOND ORDINANCE. THIS IS TO REVIEW THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE 916, AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE WASHINGTON COUNTY CODE CHAPTER 2.32 PERSONNEL CODE.

Do we need to? This is, Chair Harrington, this is the first reading of the proposed ordinance. Yes. So do we need to have you? Yes, have a motion to have it read by title only, and I will do the honors.

Great. Do we have a motion to read Ordinance 916 by title only? So moved. Second. All those in favor, please vote by raising your hand or saying aye. Thank you, everyone. Any opposed? The motion carries unanimously four to zero. Ms. Duke-Dreesen.

Chair Harrington. Ordinance number 916, an ordinance amending the Washington County Code Chapter 2.32 personnel.

Thank you. And at this juncture, I would like to note that we have scheduled a second reading and a public hearing for ordinance 916 for July 21st, 2026. Okay, great. Next, we move on to our second public comment period for today's meeting. This is an opportunity for members of our community to come and testify for up to five minutes in individual. Clerk Moss, do we have anyone who wishes to do so?

We do, Chair Harrington. We have two signed up in the room, Dale Feek and Sarah Genta.

Go ahead, Mr. Feek.

Sorry, I lost my balance there. I've recovered. That's good. Chair Harrington and Commissioners Dale Feek. I sent you an email early this morning. It's called What We Have a Right to Expect from Others, and I sent it to you, Chair Harrington, the Housing Authority, Director Mike Severa and the Clean Water Services will make public comment to them when they have their next meeting I also copied it to the mayor for mayors and councillors in Forest Grove Hillsboro Beaverton and Cornelius and I said because of the current political climate, please consider more Mortimer J Adler's words of wisdom below And it's what do others have a right to expect from us? from Aristotle for everybody difficult thought made easy and And it's Adler, preeminent scholar, philosopher, summarized Aristotle's Nicomenean ethics out of this book. Of course, it's translated to English in the book. They're all translations just like the Bible is, I guess. Okay, so anyway, what do others have a right to expect from us? You have it in front of you. I'll go down to the bottom part, Adler said. In small print, page one, in my judgment, there is only one, just one sound book in the field of moral philosophy, only one that seems to me to be unpragmatic, undogmatic, completely sound, and that is Aristotle's Ethics, written in the fourth century. Its soundness depends upon Aristotle's understanding of human nature in the fourth century. And Adler did make it so it's germane to women and so forth in our current situation. So what do others have a right to express from us? That we keep the promise we make to them. That we tell the truth, telling the truth, when telling a lie would hurt them in some way. That we return anything we have borrowed and promised to return. That we pay our debts to them. That we do not steal what belongs to them. That we do not injure their health, damage their bodies, or kill them. that we do not interfere with their freedom of action when their conduct in no way injures us, that we do not make false statements that would injure their reputation or give them a bad name. And Adler says, all these things and more of the same sort can be summed up by saying that others have a right to expect from us that we do nothing that might impede or obstruct their pursuit of happiness, Nothing that might interfere with or prevent their obtaining or possessing the real goods they need to make good lives for themselves. It is their need for these real goods that gives them a right to them. And it is their right to them that we are obliged to respect if we ourselves are just. Adler also says that we have a right to expect the same thing from others. And I say this because I want to bring this to everybody's attention because we have big philosophical problems in our world, in our nation, in our state, county, and local level. And it's very important, I think, for all of us to keep these values in mind when we make decisions and we lobby for people to do what's right and what's just. I'm going to go to memorial service tonight in the honor of Sandra Nelson. As you know before, I shared this with her, and she went back and rewrote it, recopied it, and made it so it's clear. And so even though she and I disagree, as a prayer was said today, I am openly for freedom of expression and people to say what's important to them and their belief system and their value. I'm letting you know this is my belief system. This is what I operate under, and I'm encouraging other people to do the same thing. Thank you for listening.

Ms. Genta, go ahead. Hi, my name is Sarah Genta, and I'm here to provide an update to the June 2, 2026 testimony I gave regarding an ADA accommodation request. I'm giving you an update because you're not going to get one from the commissioners, those of you watching at home and in the audience. They're probably going to take the full 90 working days, which will put us into September, before they make a decision regarding a very simple accommodation request as you recall the or maybe you don't recall so I'll let you know the request was regarding accommodation for hearing loss auditory processing and processing limitations that impact the ability to follow purely auditory presentations without parallel visual reinforcement simply put The request was that the public once again be able to use the display monitors. At home you'll be seeing me pointing to like nothing because it doesn't make any sense at home. That's kind of the whole point. If this accommodation had been made and you're watching this video on YouTube or the Access channel, you'd already seen the presentations with the PowerPoints that everybody else was able to use except the taxpayers. which I am a taxpayer in this county, can't use those monitors anymore that we paid for. Okay, so the PowerPoints and visual slides are not available to us using the display equipment. We can submit documents, but if you're at home and you're watching this recording later today or tomorrow, you won't find any of the documents that the fellow public presenters submitted because it goes to the next slide. So two weeks from now, you might be able to then access it. It's all very convoluted and not very accessible. So even though my case that I made a request for accommodation was regarding my husband, who's a disabled vet, it's also preventing everybody at home from fully participating and benefiting from the county meeting with this denial of equal opportunity. I've sought out guidance from disability advocacy groups And I am consulting with other municipalities nationwide regarding barriers to the three groups, the disabled, minorities, and the aged. So again, had I been able to use the monitors, you would be able to follow along with what I'm going to read to you. And so you'd have the visual parallel presentation. This I'm going to read from the WashingtonCountyOregon.gov website under the Office of Access and Opportunity page, where the county commissioners themselves have posted this. We provide leadership and support to the county to ensure all those in Washington County have equal access to the services, benefits, programs, and activities they need to thrive. Our commitment. The Office of Access and Opportunity plays a vital role in ensuring all Washington County community members have fair access to the county services, programs, and opportunities to participate in decision-making. Washington County's mission is to provide excellent, cost-effective services that support healthy, safe, and sustainable communities while encouraging meaningful participation in community activities and county governance, like today. As part of this mission, the county is committed to addressing challenges that could be faced within the county government systems to make sure all residents have access to the services they need. What a concept. On July 22, 2025, the Board of County Commissioners adopted the Access and Opportunity Resolution and Order a year ago. The access and opportunity resolution order is an evolution of the 2020 equity resolution and builds upon the work started then. This effort allows the county to affirm our values while complying with federal, state, and local laws. I'm curious why it's so difficult to let us use the monitors. We have to all huddle and make a decision and take over 90 days. I, I spoke to commissioner fine. She says, you're all like deliberating or contemplating, or I don't know what you're doing. It's all bunch of hogwash from my perspective. So those of you at home, um, can also email Adrian Manriquez. He is the ADA compliance officer for the county. That is a D R I a N. Adrian underscore M-A-N-R-I-Q-U-E-Z. Adrian underscore Manriquez at WashingtonCountyOR.gov. Adrian underscore Manriquez at WashingtonCountyOR.gov.

Thank you. Clerk Moss, do we have anyone else?

Did not have anyone else in the auditorium that signed up. Is there any member via Zoom that we should pray public comment for up to five minutes? Give you just a moment to utilize raise hand function. Not seeing any hands, Chair Harrington.

Thank you. And with that, that closes today's second public comment period. So I'll move on to board announcements. So here are the meetings for the remainder of this month of July. Next Tuesday, July 14th, we'll start with a Washington County Board Executive Session at 11 a.m., followed by a Washington County Board Special Meeting at noon. On Tuesday, July 21st, we'll have a Board Work Session starting at nine and a Washington County Board Meeting at 10. On Tuesday, July 28th, We'll have a Washington County Board work session starting at 1 p.m. and a Washington County Board meeting at 6.30 p.m. On Tuesday, August 4th, we'll start with a Washington County Board work session at 9. We'll pause that and reconvene likely times certain 1 p.m. We will have the Housing Authority Board of Directors meeting at 10 a.m. followed by the Washington County Board meeting immediately following at approximately 10.30 and reconvene in our work session after that. On Thursday, August 6th, we'll have a Washington County Board roundtable starting at nine. Are there any other board announcements for today? Seeing none, I would like to ask for a motion to adjourn today's meeting.

So moved. Second.

We have a motion and a second. All those in favor, please vote by raising your hand or saying aye. Thank you, everyone. Any opposed? The motion carries unanimously, 4-0. Thank you. We'll see you at 1 o'clock.