Board of County Commissioners - workshop

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. MORE SESSIONS NOW IN ORDER. WELCOME. THANK YOU, CHAIR, FOR JOINING US FROM WHEREVER YOU ARE. I HOPE IT'S GOING TO BE COOLER THERE THAN IT'S GOING TO BE HERE TODAY BECAUSE IT'S 97 SCHEDULED.

COOLER, YES, BUT THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED.

I'M IN UPSTATE NEW YORK. THAT'S THE EXCITING PART, THOUGH, THUNDERSTORMS AND LIGHTNING. ROOM FOR RAIN. IT DOESN'T GET ANY BETTER THAN THAT. ANYWAY, WE MOVE AHEAD. SO FORMAL AGENDA ITEMS. YOU SAW THAT WE KIND OF DID A LITTLE SWITCH TODAY ON THE AGENDA. SO WE ARE GOING TO START WITH BOARD AND LEADERSHIP COMMUNICATION HERE IN JUST A FEW MINUTES. OF NOTE, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE GOING TO COME OUT OF THE BOARD MEETING AND BEFORE WE ADJOURN THE BOARD MEETING, WE'RE GOING TO ADJOURN INTO EXECUTIVE SESSIONS AT 1 O'CLOCK. SO WE'RE GOING TO GO DIRECT AND JUST TAKE THAT ACTION IN THE BOARD MEETING RATHER THAN COMING INTO THIS ROOM AND THEN IF ANYONE IS THINKING THEY CAN JOIN US, THEY CAN'T. So yeah, board and leadership communication. Are you going to handle that for Tanya, Marnie, or do we need to?

No, I can do that. Yes.

Chair Welly, you have a, yes. Chair, go ahead.

Thank you. Realizing that your two executive sessions may not take the full time, I'm just hoping someone will text me on my work cell phone when you reconvene in work session. later today after your two exec sessions.

Absolutely. We will take a break, and during that break time, we'll reach out and make sure you're connected up. Okay?

Okay.

Yes.

All right. I'd actually like to invite these three gentlemen to the table. So I, and I know Tonya as well, are really thrilled to introduce to you two key positions within the assessment and taxation So as you remember, Dan Forrester, who served over the past four years as our Elections Division Manager, has now moved to the Tax Division Manager. And so we are happy to introduce David Hamilton as our new Elections Division Manager. David brings more than 25 years of nonpartisan election experience to Washington County. built across a breadth of the profession from leadership and administration to policy communication and voter access. And I also happen to know that he is particularly interested in making sure that people with ADA accommodation needs, disabilities have access to voting and support. So David has directed large teams of staff, managed multimillion-dollar program budgets, and led extensive voter education and outreach initiatives. He has experience working with election officials, political parties across the spectrum, nonprofit organizations, and, as I said, voters with disabilities in the general public. He has a strong commitment to elections that are secure, accurate, and open to public scrutiny. He is currently pursuing his national certified elections registration administrator certification through the Election Center in partnership with Auburn University and holds a bachelor's degree from Carleton College, a master's degree from the University of Washington. So we're thrilled that David has been on board, I think, about three weeks now. That's right. Three weeks now. David, anything that you want to say to them?

Sure. Thank you very much for that, Marnie. And Chair Harrington and Board Commissioner members, thank you very much for the opportunity to serve Washington County, State of Oregon, and the United States in this incredible project of democracy in our constitutional federal republic. I really do appreciate that opportunity. As Marnie had mentioned, I have a breadth and depth of background. I started in Washington State back in the 90s, quite some time ago. You helped to date me. But since then, I've worked for a variety of different entities, including the International Republican Institute, as well as the National Democratic Institute, as well as the International Foundation for Electoral Systems. And I've been working internationally as well as domestically in the United States. And I'm looking to return home to the Pacific Northwest and specifically Washington County here in Oregon. And I thank you for the opportunity to serve the citizens and voters of this great county. Thank you.

And then another key area in assessment and taxation is the position that was vacant when Eric Olson was promoted to director. So I'm really thrilled to announce that Dylan Ross has accepted the position after a very competitive recruitment process. Dylan is an internal promotion after serving as the tax role administration supervisor. Dylan has a long history of successful leadership experience dating back to his 15 years in retail management. prior to coming to the county. He began his career here as a county assessor too, and has progressively grown in his leadership since. Dylan has gained statewide credibility for his expertise and leadership, which we are very confident will serve him well in this important appraisal division manager role. So very thrilled to be able to introduce Dylan, and I'm happy that he have this promotion opportunity.

Thank you, Marnie. Chair, board, I'm excited for the opportunity to assist my county team and the community on a much higher level. Excited for it. Thank you.

Well, welcome to the team. Certainly we are extremely happy when we get to promote from within. So congratulations on that. Welcome. I promise not to say anything about the fact that I'm a Coug and you're not. But that's OK. We can coexist together. It's been a long time for me out there, too. So, Chair, Commissioners, do you have any comments you want to make? Welcome to both of you, and thank you for serving.

Thank you. Thank you.

Yeah, both of you, welcome. Very excited to hear your background, your background. I agree with Commissioner Willey that nothing is more gratifying than an internal promotion. So, the former county staff, myself.

So, yeah, thank you very much. You're welcome.

Thank you. And I apologize for my tardiness. Sometimes summer activities for kids, drop-offs don't quite go as smoothly as planned. So thank you, Marnie, for stepping in. So continuing the leadership update, would like to provide an update on Juvenile Drug Court. Keys to Success received a national award. The Keys to Success program has been selected to receive the RISE 26 Family and Juvenile Treatment Court Award recognizing their dedication, collaboration, commitment to improving outcomes for youth and families involved in the treatment court system. This honor comes from All Rise, the national advocacy organization that supports training and strengthening justice system responses to substance use and mental health disorders at every interception point. The team will be recognized this week in Nashville at the all rise conference this work would not be possible and i'm working from marnie's computer thank you marnie for having it up so i'm not used to the screen and it just changed um my view so please bear with me one second okay this excellent work couldn't be done without the many partners across our One Washington County ecosystem, including the court, the DA's office, Metropolitan Public Defender, Washington County Health and Human Services, peer support, recovery mentor treatment providers, family navigators, and our incredible juvenile counselor, supervisor, and researchers who make this all possible. Congratulations to our team. And I also just want to mention all of our specialty courts would not And I want to underscore, would not be possible without federal and state funding to make those specialty courts a reality. So appreciate and hopeful for future commitments, both from the federal level and state level.

And that concludes my update.

Good morning, Chair, Vice Chair. Just real quickly, we do have some executive sessions for the Meteor program. legal updates this afternoon, but I did want to mention as we communicated last week with you that I think every attorney in our office, except for myself, will be headed to the coast this weekend for the, or this week for the Oregon County Council's Association Conference. This is the annual conference of all the county council where we come together and talk about, you know, issues infecting all counties and learn from each other and share experiences with each other. I did want to highlight that Kim Stewart, Senior County Counsel Kim Stewart and Albert Dickens are both on the agenda sharing their expertise in prison reform litigation and habeas proceedings. Also of note, several former county counsel or people that work with our office are also on the agenda, just highlighting really the strength of the expertise and experience and respect that our office has around the state. So most of them, everyone will be taking their computer, but just bear with us as communication may be a little delayed as I've encouraged everyone to actually engage in the learning and the time, you know, out of the office with their colleagues statewide.

Yep. Should be good weather.

Maybe a little cooler.

Great. Okay. Thank you, Courtney. So, Chair, would you like to lead us off, give us any kind of an update that you want to share, or do we move on? Okay. Jason, Nafisa, any of you two want to jump in there?

Yeah, I can jump in quick. Last week, I had the opportunity to attend the National Association of Counties in New Orleans. Remember that this happens twice a year, once in D.C., and then they rotate different places. counties or different parishes in the United States. And this time was in New Orleans, Louisiana, and it was extremely hot for my Oregon body and very humid. Not used to their sidewalks either. I do come back with a lot of grievances, I think, from that state, from that parish. But the NACO conference was very well put together, as usual, very well organized. I have my plane ticket there was okay but coming back got multiple delays. I didn't get in until like midnight last night here so I'm not actually prepared to give a very synthesized deep dive into my own learnings. I did come back with immense amount of knowledge and education and follow-ups from different people and different organizations. So I'm not prepared to do that this week today yet as I got in last night, midnight. But I did come back with a lot of information and a lot of people who stopped by in the offices. That's the word I was looking for. Thank you. And then I did come back with something that was gifted to give it to the IT department, Tanya. So this is for you. I did try to send them after you and say, Chase, the county administrator is here. But they did tell me to give that to Tanya and give it to the IT department. But it was very, I tell you that They had a really interesting discussions this year and it was very well timely. I did come back with a lot of information about the OMB because it was heavily focused on that. So OMB was, I think everybody copied our letter and that was the story. But so I'll give a next week updates on different topics and my opinions and my take on and where our county is. But for now, thank you for the opportunity to attend that conference. It was very well organized, very well put together. AOC was there. We had this year, you know, every year we get an opportunity to know how many counties from Oregon are present. This year we had 15 counties that were present. I think it was less than last year, but... Less is not right. Good number out of the 36, so almost half, right? Did I do my number right? Yeah, I'll end there. Sorry, I'm not prepared to synthesize what I learned because...

Okay. Well, you can give us an update next week maybe.

Yeah, the current administration really do need to step up and do something about the airport. The plane's getting delayed. I know I'm doing a bit of traveling with this current administration, and I didn't have the opportunity to travel when Trump 1.0 was in office. But I am noticing compared to Joe Biden administration, to this administration, that the airport is in shambles.

Is that a political statement you're making?

No, it's not a political statement. This is an observation I'm making, actually. Political will be different, will sound different, but I'm trying not to be political, but just to speak to the experience and the filtration that you go through, and then also the delay of the planes. I am noticing that, and I think it's a terrible legacy, and I hope the administration fixes. I know there's new change going on there, but... That's my kind statement.

Okay. You done? Yes, I'm done. Okay. Sounds good. Jason?

Yeah. I'll give a couple of updates on what my plans are for the week and last week, but before I get to that, I wanted to let the whole Commission know about something that came up late last week with a Metro grant in the city of Tigard that the staff at Metro had recommended full funding for the Ash Creek NatureLink. It's a competitive grant process and that grant scored very well and everything was sort of moving forward. And then the Metro Council had a work session last week where they recommended removing at least half of the funding for that project, which was pretty disappointing to both Tigard and actually Clean Water Services. I didn't quite catch that link initially, but I figured it out and suggested that the Tigard team who was asking me for advice, that they connect with Clean Water Services staff about that as well. So there is a letter that Tigard, both former and current Tigard elected officials, were offered to sign on to basically supporting the staff recommendation. And I did sign on to that and I'll get a copy of that to the board. So just a heads up there is pretty disappointing and frustrating for one of our Washington County cities. And the reasoning for the change in funding? My understanding, though I've not watched the whole work session, was to spread the money more around the region and sort of more of a maybe a political decision. On a competitive grant, that doesn't feel great, but there's a, I guess the other piece to this I'm not sharing is that there was, this has taken a lot to get aligned there are multiple private landowners involved who've been very difficult to deal with and sort of provided a narrow window for which to sort of get this done with their cooperation and that that window is probably going to close if this doesn't get done now instead of like i guess one of the metro staff suggestions or metro council suggestions was you can apply for another grant to get the rest of the funding and that's just not it's trying to tag on to a clean water services project that's already about to be done so they're just the timing of it all was really difficult okay uh let's see last wednesday i did meet with uh representative from the American Heart Association and the coalition that supported the flavored tobacco ban. And they were concerned about specifically about enforcement. So I now at least know what they were wanting to talk about and how quickly we will be enforcing and in what form. So I listened to them and got them connected with people that can answer their questions specifically. Last Thursday, the chair and I had a prep meeting on the Urban Services Framework Town Hall that we have planned for early August. On Friday, I had a briefing on our community engagement work and updates there. And then at the Public Safety Coordinating Council, we had an overview of the public defense system this time around. One thing that got my attention there that I'll share is that you know more than half of our cases with with public defense or publicly funded defense is done by private law firms many of you probably know that but when that happens those law firms don't have the same access to social worker support which is one of the most commonly needed things in the Metropolitan Public Defender's office. And so that was just something that got my attention and something we should note and think about for resource stuff in the future. Then we also discussed the HB 3069 public safety plan and the management teams got a, plan and working forward towards getting prepared to submit that over and answer questions about some of that over the next couple months. The DA also announced that related to retail theft, they're now pushing, and you may have seen in the media, a presumptive arrest approach to retail theft in Washington County. Yesterday, I had a one-on-one with the CWS general manager and then talked with some CWS staff about onboarding. And then we had an ESPD levy planning meeting yesterday afternoon. That'll be coming to the commission with details on August 4th. For more discussion, I will be at the Harkins House luncheon tomorrow. Thursday, I've got a couple different meetings, including one-on-one with the county administrator. And then on Friday, an HB 2017 Transit Advisory Committee meeting and a one-on-one with a county auditor. Saturday, I'll be at an event for the Korean Society of America at the RESER. And then Monday is the, I think, the Westside Economic Alliance's annual golf fundraiser, and they've asked me to here at some hole where there will be an event to meet elected officials. So I have some sort, I'm not sure exactly what's happening, but I was asked to be there. I'm not going to be golfing, but I'll be there.

Yeah.

Okay. That's what I got. All right. I took a few.

That's fun of you. Okay. Uh, Jared, any comments you want to make?

Nothing additional. I'm on vacation. I'll see you next week.

OKAY. SOUNDS GOOD. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. SO FROM MY STANDPOINT, THE VIRTUAL DISTRICT 4 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT LISTENING SESSION WAS LAST WEEK FOR DISTRICT 4. WE HAD ONE PERSON ATTEND BUT HE WAS VERY WELL ADVISED. SO I THINK WE NEED TO CIRCLE BACK AND HAVE MORE CONVERSATION WITH HIM. IT WAS A GOOD CONVERSATION. HE HAS LOTS OF IDEAS. And so that was a positive thing to me because obviously these have not been well attended. And we made a special effort to do two of them. And still out of the two, I had two District 4 representatives. But our staff are doing a great job on that, handling that and gathering all that information. THURSDAY MORNING WAS AGING AND VETERAN SERVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE. I WAS ABLE TO JUST KIND OF BRING THAT BOARD UP TO SPEED OR THAT COMMITTEE UP TO SPEED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT THE COUNTY IS DOING AND THEN FROM THERE HEADED OFF TO THE DELORES AFFORDABLE HOUSING GRAND OPENING HERE IN HILLSBORO. CHAIR HERRINGTON SPOKE ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD, ALSO MAYOR BEACH PACE FROM HILLSBORO, METRO COUNCIL PRESIDENT JUAN CARLOS AND THE GOVERNOR. SO IT WAS A GOOD TURNOUT. IT'S A GREAT EVENT AND IT'S A BEAUTIFUL FACILITY. SO WE SHOULD BE VERY PROUD OF THAT FACILITY HERE IN WASHINGTON COUNTY. FORESTRY HAS BECOME KIND OF A CONVERSATION AGAIN. SO WE ARE MAKING ELECTIONS ON THE BLM AND THE FEDS HAVE CHANGED WE'RE HOPING THEY CHANGE SOME OF THE ALLOCATIONS. AND SO THAT WOULD GIVE US SOME ADDITIONAL MONIES IF THAT WERE THE CASE. SO WE APPRECIATE AOC's help and AOCC's help, the executive director there, both of them weighed in on helping us make that decision. So that was good. So I have a variety of other meetings. I also will be at the Harkins House Community Corrections Barbecue tomorrow. That's always a fun event. So looking forward to that. Meeting with Salmonberry Trail and Colpac as well on the executive station. some specific things going there as well. So I think that just about wraps it up. So we're moving on. We have next item up is Tonya and your quarterly report. So you want to take it from here.

Good morning, Chair and Board of Commissioners. And thank you team for getting the presentation up. Guess what? It's another quarter. A flash before our eyes quite quickly. So today I will provide a brief overview of the initiatives included within the quarterly management report and as always available for questions or discussions. And please feel free if there's questions along the way to ask. Within this quarterly management report, there is my quarterly message, department updates, closing comments, the point of record update, as well as public safety and justice attachment, which I will briefly touch on. So just to cover some of the department updates, which are included in the quarterly management report, the ARPA capital projects, yay, are entering the final phase. We did have a major schedule shift, which is pretty customary within capital projects. However, we are still on track to complete our critical facilities on time and on budget to meet the setting deadline for the ARPA funds. So that is great news. The law enforcement mechanical upgrades are near completion. community corrections and the jail services systems are commissioned. The project manager departure, which we had within facilities, has now been successfully absorbed through staffing in facilities, so that is good news. Given our staffing levels and In many of our departments, including facilities, when we do have one staff departure, it does leave a void that we need to scramble. So just appreciate the leadership of Laurel Brown and team in making sure that we stay on track for these projects. Moving on to information technology services. This is an item that doesn't come to public view many times. However, I wanted to take an opportunity to lift this up because it is important to accessibility for our community and it directly connects with our access and opportunity resolution in order which your board had adopted. and making sure that our services and information is accessible to the public. Our website is fully what's called WCAG 2.1 AA compliant. Really what that means, and I don't expect anyone to remember that, and I won't remember that acronym, really what that means is that it is ADA compliant to the new standards. And this includes the vendor updates are underway. Well, the DOJ had extended the timeline because our understanding is that many jurisdictions had challenges meeting meeting the compliance deadline. This has not slowed the county's progress and we were on track of meeting the original deadline. So just want to give a huge shout out to the teams because this includes not only how we display information on our website, it includes just how our PowerPoints are developed, et cetera. So huge advancement and also increasing accessibility for our community. Moving on to public safety and justice, HB 3069, the state, and I touched on this my last quarterly report, and the board did have some questions, and this is an area to watch. So I will just be bringing this back up as we see this continue to emerge. The state is preparing their unified grant process and standardized biennial plan. The county team is engaged and ready. The public safety coordinating subcommittee formed to begin planning for the preparation of this new process. Community Corrections is in the process, moving on to Community Corrections, of implementing the new statewide contact standards, and they have been integrated locally. As part of meeting our contact standards, we are moving forward, as your board is aware, with optional arming that is progressing at this stage. We have equipment purchased. The first employees were qualified training. We are working and just want to give huge kudos to Caitlin Barrows and her leadership, as well as Caprice Massey and John Cook for ensuring that the training between the sheriff's office and community corrections is uniformed and aligned. I do want to underscore that arming will not be put in place until there are assurances that the training staff from the sheriff's office is confident in the training level at community corrections. I know that this can cause some questions and concerns. frustration from some of our partners of wanting to increase our contact standards immediately. However, it is extremely important that as we move forward, we do this safely and thoughtfully, both for the safety of our parole and probation officers and the safety of our community as well. Moving on to juvenile services, the NRC has produced 28 recommendations, and those recommendations are included in the full attachment report in the back of your quarterly management report. and NRDC stands for the National Resource Center for the Transformation of Youth Justice. This report and project was secured through grant funding, and really what this report is is an assessment of where we are with our juvenile services, looking at those services through a best practice lens, And this aligns with our continuous commitment to a learning organization and always iterating on where we are and looking to be better tomorrow than we are today. Strategic planning is underway, aligned with one, three, and five-year goals. The department is planning on examining and issuing new mission and value statement beginning in 2026. Moving on to land use and transportation. Springville Road phase four and several bike ped projects are completed, which is great. We have 11 projects that are currently out in totaling $100 million, including multiple major projects. We do anticipate, because it is summer, and that was part of why I was a few minutes late, that there are summer construction impacts and delays. So I also just want to use this opportunity as just an important reminder, just as we are still in early harvest season, it is important on our roads that we are sharing our roads, both with pedestrian bikes and also being mindful of farm equipment. as they need to use the roads also for purposes of business and economy.

And I really appreciate the emails that we get from AUT saying where the road construction is in the county and what to anticipate. I forward those on to other family members that I know that travel those routes. So I appreciate AUT trying to keep us abreast of what's going on there. Helps to be able to avoid some of those areas.

Or have patience when you do have delays and allow extra time. LUT is undergoing a CDC assessment project, CDC stands for the Community Development Code. And this includes a comprehensive code review, which has been completed. There are modernizations recommended to improve usability of the code and support housing. This is incredibly important as a review of our community development code is a really continuous project as we continue to get input from community businesses seeking permitting, et cetera. Update on community access. LUT is taking steps to expand community access to land development information. This is aimed to improve community access. Some of the improvements include the hearings officers meetings have been moved to civic web, so this allows virtual, easier attendance for community members. And the public can now access Acela, which is the software system, without having individual accounts. And additional tools to improve access are in development. Moving on to housing, health, and human services. Specifically on housing, the department has hit a significant milestone with 3,000 supportive housing services funded households housed. Sorry, I had to take a pause between that tongue twister of the words. In May, the department also received notices from the Oregon Housing and Community Services that our Forest Grove Permanent Supportive Housing Project will be awarded 9% of tax credit financing, which is great news. This quarter, the department completed financial analysis and program policy development to adjust payment standards for the Housing Choice Voucher Program funded by HUD, and your board was previously briefed on that. As your board is aware, Metro launched the new Regional Planning and Oversight Committee, RPOC, to support the continued regional administration of supporting housing services measure, where Commissioner Welley will serve on behalf of the board and Commissioner Snyder as his alternate, and the board will be receiving an update as requested at your last board meeting in August. Moving on to Animal Services Academy. Animal Services had launched an online academy in 2021. This is a free program that has since evolved into a three-hour in-person information session offered to the community quarterly. The most recent session was held on May 20th and had strong interest with 65 people from across the county signing in to participate. One of the benefits of the academy is that it serves as a volunteer orientation for those in contributing their time and talents to the shelter or representing animal services at community events. So this is a great way to bring the community in and also a great volunteer pipeline. Library collections, this is a significant change in how we operate and manage our WCCLS library cooperative. As I indicated to the board previously, I would be adding updates on the library collections in the quarterly management report, just because of interest to you as the commission, and I also know our partners at large. So a draft memorandum of understanding has been developed to define shared service expectations, roles and responsibilities between WCCLS and the partner libraries. This agreement was shared with partners in early May and staff will be working and are working with library directors and the WCCLS executive board to incorporate their feedback into the final agreement by early August. What this has also included is WCCLS staff have started to visit libraries across the county to better understand current operations workflows and space considerations. This has allowed an opportunity for WCCLS staff to interact directly with staff at libraries and have that one-on-one conversation to bridge some of the concerns that libraries have had in the early phases of how will this work? What will this change mean as we go through this change management process? WCCLS continues recruiting for key positions to lead this work, including two supervisor roles that are expected to be filled and onboarded in August. And staff are laying the ground for the RFP to be issued later this summer, aiming to select a main vendor for library materials and processing. The project does remain to stay remains on schedule with strong collaboration across partner libraries and ongoing efforts to improve efficiency and community access. I want to underscore that while this project does remain on schedule, staff have heard your board. and your feedback from your board to, quote, let's do this right. So if we do have service or project interruptions that we sense along the way, we will be informing your board and, of course, working with partners throughout this process. Exciting progress on parks capital improvement projects, including Scoggins Campground, Tualatin River Water, Craft Dog, and Scoggins Visitor Park. Designs and permitting are nearing completion for all three of these projects. There's been major multiple grants secured and major RFPs are on schedule to be issued this fall. I just want and I know I've mentioned this in the past, but just want to give huge kudos to Carl, who really has pursued the art of the possible and really went after various funding sources and grants to really create a braided funding stream for these projects. Chair, I see your hand up.

Thank you. This is one question I wanted to make sure I got in to this meeting. And given the work that Commissioner Willey has done to really uplift all the improvements at Hag Lake, particularly with Scoggins Campground and Visitor Center, but on Scoggins Campground specifically, I was wondering if we could have some kind of celebration on the land clearing and utility work starting. I realize it's probably in like October November but it'll be before Commissioner Willey's term is done. So I just wanted to get that out today and hope that you'd look into it. Thank you.

Thank you, Chair, for that. And I know we were planning a celebration, but I appreciate you lifting that up because we'll look at the timing to ensure that it occurs still this fall.

Yeah, well, Eagle Landing would be another one. That's not my district. That's Jason's district. But I've been looking at that project for a number of years as well. So, yeah, I'd be excited to kick that one off.

Yes.

And then attached to the document is the program plan of record. And if you review the program plan, we are completed with many items. I will indicate if you look to page 12 of the management report LUT ordinances, we have had to delay some of the housing code revisions and move that to quarter four. as well as the contractor's establishment ordinance, which is on page 13. I will indicate I think I'm not surprised by delays in LUT because given the capacity that we have on this team, it is amazing at what they accomplish and given the significant workload. Happy to answer any questions.

Great.

Chair.

Chair, you've got your hand up.

Sorry, I forgot to get off mute. On that change on 9-14 and then the later one, when it says delayed Q4, given that this is the Q4 report for fy 26 i assume that means q3 and q4 of fy 27 but i just wanted to check um correct that is correct thank you so basically next year okay all right any other comments questions this is a great report uh tanya as i

pointed out it's 56 pages of lots and lots of good information. I know that it takes a lot of your time and staff time to put all this together, but it's very much appreciated because it does bring us up to speed, not only about what we've accomplished, but where we're going. And that's always good to know and anticipate in advance. So thank you very much for the time that you spend putting this together and the staff as well. It's a good job. Anything else.

I'm sorry I didn't jump in on comments real quickly. I apologize for going after you. If I could just make a couple of quick comments. On page 7 on expanding community access to land development information. I these are great highlights or great accomplishments and I just wanted to make sure that all those improvements will be highlighted in two places. Our upcoming community engagement meetings as well as to the planning commission because those are really terrific improvements. I also wanted to say thank you very much to Animal Services. It's an aspect of our work that is discretionary support or service rather. And I just wanted to uplift, I really appreciate the outcomes that you reported on. And then lastly, I know that there were a few other Q4 FY26 milestones that were delivered on. that I just want to bring voice to today. The first was the budget adoptions with very few layoffs. Thank you very much, Tonya, Angie, and team. Then readiness for the implementation of the new levies that all took effect as of January 1. Thank you, thank you. And then two more things, County Council, team has done a lot of work in preparing us for federal grant changes. So I just wanted to say thank you for that. And lastly and that work has ramped up and is ongoing. And then lastly I just wanted to say thank you to all of the departments for the continued new staffing work as well as the new staff onboarding that they've been doing. It's really that step is so very important. You know, you're actually not successful in the hiring process if you can't onboard someone successfully. So thank you very much. I do have a few questions that I'll follow up on. WHEN I GET BACK I'LL JUST TYPE THEM UP OVER E-MAIL, SEND THEM THROUGH BCC COMMUNICATIONS AND THAT WILL BE FINE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR LETTING ME USE A FEW MORE MINUTES, VICE CHAIR.

NEW SPEAKER NO, THANK YOU. THAT'S NOT A PROBLEM. WE ARE ON SCHEDULE. ANY OTHER COMMENTS? WE GOOD? OKAY. WE ARE GOING TO ADJOURN THE WORK SESSION AND GO INTO THE BOARD MEETING WHICH WILL CONVENE IN ABOUT 13 MINUTES. IS THAT GOOD ENOUGH? OKAY. AND SO AT THE END, REMEMBER, AT THE END OF THE BOARD MEETING, I WILL CALL FOR EXECUTIVE SESSION AND I HAVE THOSE NUMBERS IN FRONT OF ME HERE SO WE CAN DO THAT.

OKAY. VICE CHAIR WILLIE, I JUST WANTED YOU TO KNOW I DID CATCH UP WITH THE AGENDA CHANGES AND I HAVE NO QUESTIONS ON THE AGENDA. THANK YOU. OKAY.

ABSOLUTELY. THANK YOU. OKAY. RIGHT NOW WE ADJOURN TO THE BOARD MEETING.