Board of Commissioners - Regular Meeting

I'm ready. All right. Good morning, everybody. I'm opening up this Yam County Board of Commissioners formal session formal session May 14th at 1000 a.m. Um, brand new to our county council's office is Colin Silverdale. And so I'm going to ask him to lead us in the pledge of allegiance

to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you for that. Thank you. Welcome. And welcome. Welcome. C is our calendar session. Is there any changes to that? None. Okay. Uh before we move off that agenda item, um request to talk about a work session for opioid settlement funds about getting something on the calendar for a work session.

Um sorry, I was grabbing a pen. How soon would the board like to get something on the calendar? Early June or Yeah, we're hoping to um I think Director Manfren can get something. We had a local alcohol and drug planning commission meeting and we talked about the uses of that money and we'd also had board discussions but kind of revised things a little bit on our end. Um so based on that first u second week of June is that something everybody could do we have any do we have any other work sessions? I wasn't sure what we had

I'm here all morning Thursday. No, I don't think we have any other work sessions scheduled and we have a lot of budget kind of things that are happening, but I think we could easily fit in a work session, I think. Okay, I'll leave it to your discretion based on what we if you see that we do have something else or it's a long hearing or something else on it. Okay. But I think we Yeah, I'd like to get that in the first couple of weeks of June. Yeah. I also we could probably do it the same day, probably take 10 minutes, but uh YCOM um just there's some questions that the that board has for us to talk about as well for on a Do you want it to be a work session? Yeah, that was what I was Do you want it to be a work session or just an agenda item under other business for discussion?

I think it could be either. It doesn't Okay. How soon? Well, I'll get with the sheriff and see. Okay. when he can be here as well. But yeah, because I could find some, you know, we could do that. Okay, let me let me just check with the sher. We'll get with the sheriff, but okay. It is a discussion that we need to have. Okay. So, so two work session items. We'll talk about opioid settlement funds. We'll look at either the first or second week in June. I would do second or third week in June if if we're requesting. Yeah. Okay. The first week's I'm going to be packed. Okay. Okay. So 11th or 18th would be better for me. Yeah.

Okay. So I'll confirm those dates and we'll get that updated on the work session calendar and then we can talk about the YCOM. We can make it a work session. Um maybe shoot for the same time frame or does it need to be quicker? No. Well, I think for our next meeting, which we just had one, so probably in that earlier part of June and I can do a walk on too if it needs to be a more discussion. Can you copy um Director Manfrin and myself on that? We'll do. That'd be great. Thank you. Cool. Thank you. Thank you.

All right. With that, we're going to get on to our public comments. If you're online, raise your virtual hand. If you're on the audience, um, go ahead and fill out one of the tan public comment cards. Right now, I have one, so I'll call up Elise Arnell for a public comment. When you get up there, just name and address, please. Good morning. Thank.

All right. My name is Elise Tierell and my address is um 112 South Main Street in Newberg. So, hello commissioners, um, Chair Johnston, and I am going to do my best to make it through this public comment because it's deeply personal. Um, and I couldn't read it without almost puking. Um, but I want to address something directly. Um, because I do understand the timing of this comment and it matters. Um, yep. I am in local civic and political work. I am a local elected official and I support local and statewide campaigns and causes that I care deeply about. Because of that, I take my conduct during election season extremely seriously. I work very hard not to center myself intentionally or unintentionally in ways that distract from candidates. ballot measures or the public issues voters are being asked to evaluate. That is one of the primary reasons I intentionally chose not to publicly discuss my husband's death or my ex family's experience last year or during this election cycle. I did not want my husband's death politicized. I did not want my children's grief politicized. And I did not want my personal tragedy to become become part of campaign season discourse in this county. But I am speaking this morning because cho because a sitting county commissioner chose to make public comments during an election season that season that require response. And I have a feeling that very few of us in the addiction community feel comfortable doing so. So I'm going to give it a shot.

So, Commissioner Starret, had you simply explained the technical role and limitations of the overdo of the overdose fatality review committee the way you did later in written email to me, which was appropriate, I would not be here this morning. if it had been publicly stated that the committee has a limited retrospective review function, that not all overdoses are reviewed, that family consent is required, and that post vvention services are handled separately, I would have had no issue with the comments. Instead, during a public meeting, as part of informal announcements, the committee and county response were described in glowing and expansive terms as leaving no stone unturned. And as and as accomplishing extraordinary coordination and care around overdose response and families, that is a very different message. And I did go back and listen to it multiple times to make sure that my comments are fair. When elected officials publicly overstate the effectiveness of systems during election season, especially systems connected to politically supported departments, programs, or candidates, it matters, and this is not a one-off concern for me, which is why I'm here. There is a consistency of this board to be willing to amplify successes and minimize shortcomings when discussing people and systems you support politically while showing far more comfort criticizing those you do not support including myself. I want to be clear. I believe everyone involved in that committee genuinely

cares. That is not up for question. The issue is not whether people care. The issue is that public grandstanding leaves no room for families who experiences challenge the narrative being presented. My family's experience did challenge that narrative. My husband died in January of 2025. His death was initially treated and communicated to me as an overdose based largely on his addiction history, not on the crime scene. It was later then reclassified 7 months later as natural causes. During that process, there was mass confusion, limited investigation, and no coordinated outreach to my family through the systems that were publicly described as extraordinary and deeply supportive. As someone who is 12 years sober myself, I can tell you that your rhetoric matters. Families listening to these meetings hear these statements and think, "Maybe the system works for everyone except for us. Maybe our pain is an exception. Maybe speaking up means we will simply be dismissed because the public officials have already declared the system a success. That is how stigma survives. And it is exactly why families often stay silent after overdose deaths, addiction related deaths or traumatic losses. Because when public officials present systems as beyond criticism, families who experienced gaps, failures, or silence begin to question whether there is room for honesty at all. I also want to address something specifically specific that deeply impacted me. Referring broadly to the population or individuals and families experiencing overdose or suspected overdose situations by a public committee as heartwarming felt profoundly disconnected from the

realities many families are actually living through. These are some of the worst moments of people's life and I can tell you it was the worst moment of mine. publicly discussing these situations in broad celebratory or self-cong congratulatory terms particularly when some cam families report receiving no outreach at all from postvention systems like my own can feel deeply painful and alienating to those still actively living through trauma and grief. So, I felt it was fi it was important to finally speak because my family's because my family has experienced a high trauma death that later and now has become part of public conversations in other venues. I want my children to remember their father for who he was as a person and who he could have been, not simply through the lens of how he died. I also know there are questions surrounding his death that our family never may have may never fully have answers to. But they can rest assured knowing that their mother and stepmother did not stay silent while systems may have been portrayed publicly as far more comprehensive or successful than what families actually experience privately. More importantly, I hope I hope this o this opens the door to a more honest public conversation about what resources are truly available to individuals and families experiencing overdose, suspected overdose, addiction, recovery, and traumatic loss in Amhill County. If someone like me, someone highly connected to providers, systems, and community resources was never formally outreached or offered any sort of postvention support. Then what about the families who are isolated, ashamed, overwhelmed, and carrying stigma quietly alone? And I can tell you that's me, too. And even to

sit here today feels embarrassing. And I know that that's stigma. I genuinely welcome a follow-up conversation and would sincerely appreciate one because despite political disagreements, I believe this is an issue where we should all want the same thing. And I do believe that specifically Commissioner Starret does. We all want more support for families, more transparency, more awareness of available resources, and increased investment in systems that help people before and after tragedy occurs. Addiction and traumatic loss do not recognize part political party lines. And neither should the compassion or access to care. I did not create this conversation during an election season. I am simply responding to it after public comments were made that I believe were insensitive, inflated, and disconnected from the lived experiences of some families in this county. I am not asking for perfection from Yamhul County. I am asking for honesty. I am asking for humility, and I am asking for elected officials to stop presenting complicated, underresourced systems as polished success stories when real families are still carrying profound, unanswered questions and unsupported grief. My husband's life mattered. My children's experience currently matters and the experience of other families, especially families addict navigating addiction, overdose, recovery, and stigma matter enough to deserve a more truthful public conversation than what was presented at that meeting. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

All right. Is there any more public comment? Again, if you're online, raise your virtual hand. Seeing none, moving on to department updates. There is none. F is work session. There is none. G is consent agenda. We have some minutes and appointments to the habitat conservation plan committee. I would move approval. Is there any further discussion? None. None. All those in favor signify by saying I. I.

I. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. H is old business. There is none. I is other business. I1 is consideration of a maintenance assistance grant intergovernmental agreement 2025-27 M A70 between Yhill County and the Oregon State Marine Board OSMBB for maintenance cost at Dayton Ediger and Rogers Landings in the amount of $37,150 with a 40% match retroactive to July 1, 2025. I would move approval. Is there any further discussion?

Yes. In light of our meeting with uh Dayton City Council and staff, is this transferable? Travis is here to answer that. You were anticipating that question, I guess, a little bit. Yeah, that would be one that would need to be taken up with the marine board by the city of Dayton. We could have those preliminary discussions on our own accord just to do some background work, but that would definitely be something if this transfer took place, the city of Dayton would then need to apply. So would that necessitate a match from them or could they sort of piggyback on our match? That would be separate. They would they would need to have their own match.

So even though it's one intergovernmental agreement, each one is still specifically itemized uh separate. So Edigar would be its own. Rogers Landing own Dayton. Yeah. Rogers Landing is a much larger portion of this, right? It's a pretty small amount that goes to Dayton. Yeah. Um and usually the match if if you're still following the same format that we've done for years, usually personnel um and the time that you're spending, it's pretty easy to come up with that 40% match. Yeah. The labor costs alone, right, make the match and then your additional expenditures is just kind of fluff on top. Yeah. Okay. All right. Thank you. Yeah. Any further discussion? None. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you.

Thank you. Thanks, Travis. Thank you. Thank you. I two is consideration of approval of a modification of physician services agreement with William Koig. Second, DO board order 03-132 for district medical examiner services updating provisions related to notice, contractor status, liability coverage, indemnification, and insurance coverage through the county's CIS liability coverage program. I'll move approval. Chair, motion's been made. Any further discussion? None. None. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. I

motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Item I3 is consideration of approval to authorize transit staff to prepare and submit an application for the 202729 ODOT section 5310 federal grant. I'd move approval. Motion's been made. Any further discussion? None. None. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Item I4 is consideration and approval to authorize transit staff to prepare and submit an application for the 202729 O section 5311 federal grant. I move approval. Motion's been made. Any further discussion?

You're following the transit these days. These are just our primary funding streams that we we um apply for every year. Cool. All right. With that, uh all those in favor signify by saying I. I. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. I five is consideration of approval of amendment number one to grant agreement number 35710 between Yamhill County Transit and the Oregon Department of Transportation Board Order 25-053 to amend the contract language. I move approval. Motion's been made. Any further discussion? None. None. All those in favor signify by saying I. I.

I. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Item I six is discussion of Yamh Hill County submitting an opportunity zone nomination application for zone number 410 71030601. Um I put this on there and it's been changing uh kind of rapidly this week. Um I gave you guys a handout. Uh this is from uh Business Oregon. One of their first presentations that they put out. Opportunity zone isn't new in our state, but we are going with uh opportunity zone opportunity zone 2.0, which is a little bit of an upgrade. Uh before opportunity zone 1.0 was kind of a temporary program, but with the big beautiful bill, uh the federal government solidified it to be a permanent program. So, it's uh basically up to our area to nominate opportunity zones. And what they did was they're going to narrow down how many opportunity zones are allowed um from 10 years ago from opportunity zone 1.0. Um right now we have five in Yamill County. There's three in the McMinnville area, one in Newberg, and one in the West Valley. Um, conversations have been on the economic development uh side of whether the county should have its own application to increase countywide odds of getting hopefully at least two opportunity zones designated with the federal government. Um, with that being said, there's three other applications being submitted for three other zones, not one that the county necessarily would be interested in. One in the West Valley is going to be nominated by Sedcore, not by Sedcore, but written by Sedcore for Sheridan and Willamina. Um, Sheridan has some projects that are um I would consider shovel ready. So, somebody just bought uh I think it's the Huntley

building, maybe. It's on Main Street there. Uh it's been under construction for quite a few years, and it's definitely a project that could use some contractors to co come in there. Um basically with opportunity zones, it's a tax incentive for any capital gains costs and it defers those capital gains costs. So the uh it draws that uh investment opportunity in from those private businesses to finish off uh those businesses and those opportunity zones so that those businesses can defer their capital gains costs from other uh projects that may have been from the area. Um the handout that I gave you kind of summarizes quite a bit of that. I think the county's portion is the reason I'm here uh for an ask from the board is either do we do our own application for a zone because we know that we lack industrial land. Do we nominate a zone for that knowing that we're going to be competing against three other applications in the area that probably aren't as far along as what our zone would be because there's a quite a few stipulations u that would rank you accordingly through uh for the ultimately the governor's office picks uh what opportunity zone should be in Oregon and then they and they would then forward that on to the the treasury uh for acceptance of that. And so it would become of the ranking through business Oregon and the governor's office of what applications and ours would probably be a little bit lower cuz we're not shovel ready. Um we have an area but it's probably not quite zoned right yet for uh industrial land. Um, originally my thought was to do one for the fairgrounds, but it doesn't really do us any good because we're not a taxable entity and the businesses that it would draw in, it would help them. But when you don't know, when you have four properties potentially, number one, that you could move the fairgrounds to, or even the greater question, are we moving

the fairgrounds? We're probably a little bit behind on being able to pull the trigger on doing an application. So then the second question is, do we then just there's you're allowed five supporters on every application. Do we as a county then just go and support the other three applications and not be the one? The only reason that I would I I could go either way. If we drop one application and the county's not, then you reduce your odds of possibly getting two zones nominated at the governor's from the governor's office. But on the flip side, if you just let the three do that and we support the other three, um there's a greater possibility that one of those three would actually get chosen. So it could be a 6, one, half a dozen the other kind of scenario to get as many opportunity zones chosen in Yamhill County, but it's definitely uh at the whim of the governor to choose uh what they believe is correct for the state of Oregon for opportunity zones. So

where are you thinking Yam Hill County? Um so the opportunity zone that uh if we did write an application would be um the 41071030601 which would be on the north or the south side of highway 18. So uh demographically it' roughly be hospital side of highway 18 all the way down to um are you familiar with like uh the John Deere dealership? Mhm. So, right in that area would be that opportunity zone. So, butting up to city McMminville,

right? But if um it goes into the city of M McMinnville in a couple spots, but the opportunity zone line actually follows 18. McMinnville would do the other the north side of 18 as part of their application because they have a project in Lynfield that they'd like to um support and and draw in outside business to do developments. I know about that one. So, the rural bonus, how does that how does that impact uh something that would be, you know, proximal to a city? I mean, is that something they're going to have to work out in terms of because the standard is 10%, the rural bonus is 30%.

What does that do to like you're talking about Sheridan proper?

Yeah. So, that's more for the incentive of that bringing that business in. That's what that incentive for the application process. It is 100% up to whatever entity wants to put an application in for an opportunity zone and then the governor chooses from there. So at that level, it's and it's actually a fairly simple application. But when you start going through all the check marks of shovel ready, is it zoned properly appropriately? Cuz what they ran into from the original opportunity zone 1.0 was uh everybody nominated a section, but the section really wasn't ready to draw in that investment from those businesses that want to move quickly. Is it zoned right? Is the infrastructure there? Is the water there? Is the sewer there? So, you really have to be strategic on what you're nominating and make sure that it's ready within that 10-year window.

Does that property meet all of those or is it in the urban growth boundary? Is it

it's so uh this one that I that I'm recommending it's in it's not within the urban growth boundary but it's stated within uh McMinnville's uh growth plan to be the area that would be uh extended extending the urban growth boundary but it's not zoned properly uh to to have a business still EFU it's uh doesn't have any infrastructure out there um there's a lot checks against that. I honestly, if I was to recommend to the board, I would be leaning towards just supporting the other three applications because I think that those zones that they have have better check marks than what the county would be wanting from an application. And it to me it would just almost muddy the waters by the county applying for their own zone. Even though we're trying it's an odds game with the governor's office. for trying to just increase our odds of getting at least two selected.

I think we're better off because they do have better check marks with with projects that are shovel, especially out in Sheridan. Yeah. And I'd hate to draw from a project in the West Valley when they desperately need that uh development out there. I wouldn't want to take away from them. I know Newberg has shovel ready projects and they're and Newberg is going to submit an application for theirs. Yep. and they're massively deficient and I'm sure all three are in industrial lands. So, yeah, I would be more in the camp of supporting the three that are further along. Yeah. That sounds good.

So, with that, and I know this is a little bit soon because this board could change uh before we get to it, but now that this is solidified at the with the big beautiful bill, and it's a permanent program, it's actually every 10 years that uh the nomination process will come up again. So, I'd really like us to have uh start working on a plan for the next 10 years. And and uh you can actually still under opportunity zone 1.0, know, you can still nominate till 2028 or or businesses can still come in and take advantage of this program. So, it is there and it's active right now with the five zones that we have. This is just renewing it to the 2036 level. when we get to 2036, I'd like us to be prepared because we do know that we lack industrial zoning uh that we start preparing to be able to have our own application and nomination for uh and for 2036, which we should probably start around 20 or this board should start around 2034 and start planning for that.

So, the sunset, but that was in the in the in the current um one point is just is the end of 28. Yep. So, so you're you're allowed till 2028 under opportunity zone 1.0, businesses are still allowed to take the old incentives. Okay? Because some of it has changed like the rural incentive actually increased uh under opportunity zone 2.0 to to draw in uh developers. Okay. So, um yeah, that makes sense. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Appreciate it. So, if there's a consensus, we'll support the other three applications. Let's do that. Okay. Sounds good. Thank you.

Okay. Thank you. All right. Cool.

I'll get with uh Ken and Kevin and make sure that we there's it's it's all digital online. Uh there's an interface on business Oregon's website that we can go in there and um basically click and then write a short uh support letter for each opportunity zone application. So I'll get with you or Kevin and guide you through it.

Seeing how we usually bring support le letters, you know, like for grant applications and all kinds of things, you know, we'll see requests from cities and other jurisdictions coming forward. Does the board want to take a formal action and just say yes, we're going to provide support letters for these three applications and that way I I don't necessarily have to come back and retroactively, you know, approve something. Yeah. So moved. Absolutely. Any further discussion on that? None. No. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Yep. Cool. Motion passes unanimously. We'll get it taken care of.

Thank you. With that is J. Public hearings. There is none. And then K is announcements. Commissioner King. Um transit met um committee met this week. We largely talked about the today's agenda items and uh expecting a large uptick in the paratransit uh applications. Just as a reminder um that uh if you apply if you're using dialeride and you have the you have the specific need for dialeride um applying for a parair transit uh during that 21-day window you will still receive those services. So, um I've got lots of phone calls this week uh from parents um about their kids being able to get to work and um just kind of confused about the whole process. So, spent a lot of time chatting with them. Uh met with the chamber president up in Chain Valley. Um I have another one tomorrow with the past president. We're just really kind of trying to hammer out um future planning, how we and they can be better partners um both locally and regionally. Uh attended a D2A data to action focus group um largely around HHS but u just talking about how data is shared and this group was Washington, Tamok and Yamill County. I can't say it was massively productive, just those counties don't have a lot to do with each other not being in the same district. Um, wildly different sizes. Um, Equity Action Group, Holly from Responder Life gave a mental health presentation largely on um, first responders and dispatchers. She talked about how they average around 300 trauma

events in um their careers and the toll that that can take on them and just uh how we could be more supportive of them. And it was largely, you know, she left it with the biggest thing you can do is give them eight minutes and listen, you know, just what what would you want? You know, what what would you want to tell me for eight minutes? You know, having lived next to um you know, a police cap or a chief fire captain, sorry. you know, there were days that he definitely came home and just wanted to me to listen, you know, and so that was um it was it was good to hear and just the focus on mental health this month and next month, I think is is important to to hear those types of stories and how to be more supportive. Speaking of first responders and dispatchers, uh YCOM budget um the budget committee suggested an 18% uh increase to uh to the board. This right sizes um the past savings that were given to the users back in 2021. So our next YCO meeting we'll be chatting about that um recommendation. uh regional solutions. I spoke with um we spoke around about the roundts happening with the chief prosperity officer including the recent one which was talking about their concern with sorry um crop growers seed events. um their concerns about employment uh law paperwork and the filings that it takes and a overtime and uh growing Oregon's ability to export. Um we just discussed connect Oregon and the current regional solutions um board um and the there was no application from

Yamh Hill County. So um I thought that was interesting. So, I'd like to try to be a little bit more competitive in that to get uh state dollars back to us with um transportation major the major transportation concerns we have. Um and just our budget uh filling her in on uh the long-term trend of declining revenue and local governments due to measures five and 50. Is it commission?

We had our local alcohol and drug policy committee uh meeting and that is a gathering of the DA, public health, the sheriff, recovery works northwest, the CCO and we were talking about the opioid settlement dollars and director Manfrin has asked that we we're going to be addressing this at the work session. So, a couple of things is as we look at some of the the changes and one of the one of the projects that I think is going to be pretty much uh advanced and I would be supportive of this is a step down type of housing. So, in other words, we've got people this is not a shelter. These are people who are stepping down from let's say it's it's inpatient or more more intensive outpatient and we're looking at using anticipated Medicaid revenue to support this. So, we looked at the pros and cons of using actually a contractor and using making this in-house. So, we're looking at really the the uh the specifics of using HHS. It would be an easier transition through the pro the uh program, lower operating costs and um so we do have oversight over the opioid settlement money. So, I have asked that they um come to a consensus and bring that information and we'll have Director Manfrren coming and talking about that um at the work session. And uh I feel good with the plan that we all pretty much came up with and looked at the level of care. It'll be kind of be like TTRS without the children. We are getting funding from ODHs because there are children involved. that piece would be removed but we would have people who would be men or women specifically the uh governor's office came out with some statistics that uh overdoses are declining have been declining and that came out from OS um OA rather looking at the harm reduction and outreach. This is a uh data report that is required by the CCO for provoking hope which is pass through money for that needle exchange program. In that they look at some of

the harm reduction uh data. We looked at the core age group and that is the 30 to 50 um years of age males mostly encountered looking at some of the um uh some of the work that's being done there. What is the substance use um most uh impacted um by these groups and that is methamphetamine and most of the people that are coming to the needle exchange program are unhoused. met with the uh McMminville Fire Chief and with and director Chief Amy Hannifan and the city manager talking about the specifics of ambulance funding. This is a statewide issue. This has been advanced through the legislature. They have tried to get some bills passed because they're just not making it with the Medicaid reimbursement. McMinnville is basically being asked to carry the freight for the other fire districts in terms of if there's a a need to transport uh they're not getting the reimbursement that they need. So really while the other districts can go out for a levy, here's McMinnville that's doing the lion share of the work oftentimes throughout the county for the other districts and um the other six districts are are basically, you know, kind of feeders. So, we talked about some of the things that we can do and we'll be bringing this to um to AOC. Had a meeting uh rather conversation with uh housing authority executive director last week. I looked at some of the uh the numbers in terms of that um that settlement that uh settlement that we're required to pay that $179,000. And I looked at two of the properties that we had uh donated to the housing authority and I said that they um I asked Vicki if she would be interested in helping to pay for that and that was a total of $24,000 and she reminded me that they had paid the taxes on that when we transferred

the property. So I apologized for trying to shake down a nonprofit and I said you can't blame me for trying. But she said, "No, that 10,000 and that 14,000 was the condition of transferring the property." So nice try, commissioner, but it's not going to happen. And uh that's all I have.

All right. Uh last Tuesday was Williner City Council meeting. Uh they were awarded some grant funds through COG to help them update their development codes, which was nice. Uh caught the tail end of McMinnville City Council. Don't have a lot to update there. They were uh I think the beginning of that meeting was mostly budget talks. um AOC uh board meeting, we recommended uh myself and Commissioner Cameron from Marian County for the regional solutions advisory committee. Uh that now goes on to the governor's office for selection between the two of us. Um Lafayette City Council meeting coming up tonight at 6:30. Uh we have Ryak tonight, our road improvement advisory committee is coming up tonight at 6 PM at the public works. Um they're going to go through a lot of crash data hopefully. um we can come up with something that we can get on to ODOT as more of a uh reminder of how dangerous our intersections are uh that we need to get upgraded. Um got a note from Senator Mkeley's office that it we're we're making our we're progressing through the process uh for some grant funding to the tune of almost $7 million uh coming in for McDougall. So fingers crossed. Um, sometimes it changes between now and and the next few months as we progress through this. But it seems like the more we talk about it, the more traction we're getting and uh hopefully within by the end of the year, we have an answer of whether we're going to get some funding for McDougall and get that over the finish line finally. Um, AOC tomorrow, we have 10:00 a.m. we have uh governance and revenue and then at 1:00 we have the public safety. Uh there's a ribbon cutting tomorrow for the new Kina subdivision in Newberg. Um and then Saturday, Friday and Saturday

is alien days. Uh the parade starts at noon on Saturday. So the Yamhill County Rodeo and Fair is going to have their normal float going through there and we're going to hand out flyers that have all of our concerts coming up for the for the fair and rodeo. So last year we I think we printed out a couple thousand flyers and we ran out partway through. So uh Janet printed us a few more for this year, but there's a lot it's a great opportunity for our fair to advertise uh because there's a lot of outertowners that come to the Alien Days parade and those who we want to garner their attention to come take advantage of our fair. So

you joged my memory with Senator Mkeley's office. did get um an email from uh his office that we um our CIP that we submitted through him was going to go to the subcommittee next. So, we've made it through our first round. He selected us to Merkeley and Toiden have selected us to be in their um deal for the RA for the radio tower. So, it's very good news. Y cool. And don't forget coming up on Saturday also uh we do have uh Valk is going to be competing in the K9 competition in Washington County. I'll be at that and Watson is going to be there. Is that the at the Pickles Stadium? It's at in Hillsboro.

Is it at the stad baseball stadium there? It's on uh I have the actual address. No for the Hops Hops Stadium. Is that what it is? No, it's it's Hillsboro. Yeah. I I haven't The Sherwood K9's going to be at the same thing. Okay. And we're going to have the booth is going to have I believe Watson will be there, but Valk is competing and um I think we're just I think we're going to take it all. Okay, cool. All right. With that, uh just some just some reminders of uh scheduling wise. I know we talked about work sessions. Um we also have some early starts coming up because we have Cove Orchard Sewer District budget

and we also have extension service um budget. Both of those are budget committee meetings. Um and then we'll also have I believe that's next week, the 21st, we'll have those two um budget committee to to convene to go through those budgets as the board of directors. So that's next week. And then when we start getting into June, um we also will have the budget hearing and budget adoption for the county budget as well as adoption of Cove Orchard and extension service. That'll all happen in June as well. Okay.

Um so we've got a lot of budget stuff that's coming up. The second one is to Sharon. Uh thanks Kevin for setting this up. But uh we have a lyric coming back to do a presentation on June 18th. You may remember we had that rural broadband project that was funded by the ARPA funds that we received from Senator Boowquist uh at the state. They have finished their work and I'm in the process of closing out the reporting on that, but um we figured it'd be good to have them come and uh do a presentation to the board about that project and and how it went and the completion of it. So, uh we've got it scheduled for June 18th to come and um basically present a closeout um on that project. Um, otherwise it's a really busy time right now. We're also going to be meeting to schedule more executive sessions. Just a reminder, we have uh four uh collective bargaining agreements that are currently in pro in negotiations right now. So, it's getting to the point that we're going to need to schedule some executive sessions to talk about uh bargaining authority for the other three. We already had one this morning, but we've got three more that we'll be coming back to. I think we've already got one scheduled for the 28th. So, so trying my best if there's particular um formal sessions to avoid or things we're going to be looking at the calendar pretty closely, but I know it looks like the June calendar is going to be a very busy one.

We move the co-chard out one week or is that going to mess up your schedule? We already noticed it and did everything because we had to notice it 30 days out. So, okay, no worries. All right. Um, with that, I'd like to, uh, thank all of our law enforcement officials in the county, uh, cities and our sheriff. It's National, um, police week, and I just want to recognize them and know that they put their lives on the line to keep us safe, and we appreciate it. So, with that, I'm going to close us out at 10:45 a.m. And thank you all for coming and sticking with us today.