Board of Commissioners - Regular Meeting

Good morning, everybody, and welcome to our former session on June 4th at 10 a.m. And I'm going to ask Jody to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Give 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. And here's a piece of paper that's working. Up next is our calendar session. Is there any changes by the commissioners? Nope.

All right. Yes. No, we chatted briefly this morning. Kind of wanted to talk about I mentioned it last week. It's all kind of blurring together. The need for the transition to the new location and the building. And I thought not at this point that we have to we need to find a window. And right now we're kind of looking at three weeks in July that we'll need to do formal sessions virtually. In order to accommodate to be able to relocate equipment from this room to the new location and because we're targeting the first Thursday in August is kind of our first formal session over in the new hearing room. So there's kind of two parts with that. I just kind of wanted to put it on your radar and you can email me as far as your thoughts on that window for July. And then I would also just add that in the past, the board has typically kind of did like a summer break on formal sessions or maybe forego a formal session in one week. Um, if you have thoughts on that, that might also coincide with the window that we need, uh, it might be an opportune time. I'm trying to minimize the number of, uh, virtual session that we're doing. And then also working with Ken on land use hearings, because, you know, I'd, I'd like to avoid doing those virtual as much as possible. Um, and so we're trying to coordinate some calendars. And so I just kind of wanted to put that out there. Um,

for something to think about and if there's certain dates that or that time frame sounds good but right now we're really looking at three weeks in july okay i'll email you mine the most ideal for me would be july 23rd to not have a boc is that the last one um i think second to last there's a july 30th thursday okay

So if the board wants to email me, and then we could always come back next week and talk about it during calendaring or one of the next couple sessions and kind of finalize that plan. It also will help me because I'm trying to give some direction to our contractor who's doing this work. So then they know the window as well to where they can come in here and start unplugging and moving things. Okay. Thank you. Sounds great.

Thank you.

All right, that brings us to our public comment. If you're in the audience, raise your hand, or if you're online, raise your virtual hand. I do have yours here, and I'm going to call up Maggie Bowman for our first in-person public comment. When you come up to the microphone, if you can state your name and address, please.

Good morning, I'm Maggie Bowman. I'm a retired school teacher here in Yamhill County, and there might be one of my former students in the audience.

What's your address?

Oh, 1947 Grand Haven Street Northeast. Thank you. I've lived in Yamhill County since 1982. I'm a metalsmith and I'm currently working with McMinnville High School kids on a volunteer basis on an after school club. And I'm here because I love this county. I love the quality of life in this county and I love the livability. And at the risk of sounding a little bit like Chicken Little, I'm here to address the topic of potential data centers in Yamhill County. I'm here to ask you to plan ahead, prepare for our future, and impose a complete ban on data centers in Yamhill County for the future of the people who live here. I have no knowledge of any developments or plans to build one in Yamhill County, but I was taught to plan ahead. and to look ahead into the future. And right now, Oregon already has 130 data centers already up and running. The United States has over 5,000. People in Forest Grove, it was just in the newspaper, are really upset with what's going on in their neighborhood. There are 31 new ones being built as we speak, and one has to wonder if Yamhill County might be next. We've got the farmland that could potentially be rezoned, industrial, technological, or heavy construction use. And we have the water. We've got the Yam Hill and Willamette Rivers. These are the exact combinations that developers look for when planning their centers. I'm here today to lay a bunch of facts on you, and if you've been hiding under a rock, you wouldn't have heard these, but you probably have already heard these. There's potential negative effects and financial profits. I'm asking you to put our needs above financial profits is what I meant to say. There's a long list of concerns among the people in Yamhill County. I posted about six days ago something on Facebook about, hey, what do you folks think about the potential of a data center in Yamhill County. I received over 500 responses. One of them was positive that had to do with temporary construction jobs. I've watched dozens of videos from people all over the United States and a lot of people, their lives have been irreversibly changed due to where they live and the data centers. People have been negatively affected and sometimes ruined. Some people have had to move away from the data centers, virtually destroying any property value that they had. They took huge losses by moving. Data centers are a huge strain on the local electrical and power resources. The average data center uses up to 5 million gallons of water a day to cool their coils. They pollute not just rivers, but groundwater and aquifers. The additional strain on the power grid would no doubt raise our costs here, but could actually reduce the availability of our power in this community. Just ask the folks in Lake Tahoe, have you heard about them? 50,000 people have been told end of the year they don't have any power, find something else, because their power is gonna be directed to a data center. They create air pollution from the diesel backup generators or on-site gas plants, and the noise and the light pollution is 24-7. It doesn't turn off. It's like the inconsiderate camper in the campground that won't turn off its freaking generator. The environmental impact They're calling noise pollution infrasound. The low frequency sound waves can travel up to two miles. Chronic exposure to constant droning sounds can cause headaches, motion sickness, hearing loss, dizziness, irritability, depression, anxiety, sleep deprivation, asthma, and seizures, and in some cases, short-term memory loss. Farmers are even reporting that their beef and their chickens are having lower fertility rates. In a nutshell, the data centers may make someone a lot of money, but not benefit the people in our community, the citizens. They reduce the quality of life for everyone in these communities, and when I looked at the website for the commissioners, all three of our county commissioners Mr. Farmer, you said you want Yamhill County to be safe and welcoming for families. Ms. Starrett, you said you're safeguarding the rights of residents. And Mr. King, you want to preserve the unique character of Yamhill County and the quality of life. So some people have compared data centers to Trojan horses, and we know how that turned out. The Amazon Data Center in Boardman also collects over $100,000 of tax breaks per year, which that tax money could be going to local situations. I know that you folks have a commitment to economic growth. And someday, if it hasn't already happened, some large entity is likely going to offer you A buttload of money.

That's an actual measurement. I looked it up.

With billions of dollars to allow a data center to be built in Yamhill County. I'm here all by myself. I don't have a rally squad behind me. But I'm asking you on behalf of the citizens county, just say no to data centers. A complete ban, not a moratorium. Moratoriums are temporary. If you truly represent and care about the people who voted you into power, please don't sell us out to wealthy corporations. We value our lifestyle here It's heaven. Let's get ahead of this. Let's plan for our future. Let's open that virtual can of worms and get the conversation going. The power is in your hands to preserve the quality of life we have here. And I know this is a huge ask for one citizen to stand up and say, please ban data centers. But let's get this ball rolling and figure out where we stand on it as a community and stand strong on it. I appreciate your listening, thank you.

Thank you. Thank you very much.

Thank you. flyer that I handed out. Did it get handed around? Thank you. This is it in a nutshell. Someone on Facebook sent this to me and said, here's a pretty good visual. And as a retired school teacher, it's kind of nice to have something that you can just look at and it goes, yeah, we get it. So thank you. I wasn't asking for any commitments or answers. I just want to get the ball rolling and I don't want secrets in this community. There are a lot of people in communities that feel like these data centers are being built without their knowing. The problem is the meetings are probably posted, but a lot of people don't go online and look for agendas and topics and things like that. So let's get the ball rolling. Thank you for listening.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Any other public comments? If you're online, raise your virtual hand. seeing none all right we're gonna move on is department updates there is none F is work session and we have F one which is why calm and we are Jordan joined by sheriff Elliot. Good morning.

Good morning. Chair and best of the board, thank you for an opportunity to come talk with you this morning. Obviously, I'm here as my role as sheriff under the current intergovernmental agreement for our communications center. I'm the chair of the executive board for WICOM. And Commissioner King obviously sits on that board with me as a representative for the county. I wanted to just share with you that I've had a lot of conversation with our YCOM director, Patty Sowers. She is attending to more important things this morning. That's why she's not sitting here with me. Otherwise, she'd be here. So you could bounce other questions off of her if you have any that I can't answer. And I just wanted to kind of give a brief kind of high-level overview of where things are at with YCOM, what's going on with YCOM right now. We did... have our budget committee. That was a couple weeks ago. We have a budget that has been recommended by the budget committee. The executive board will meet next week where we will be looking at that recommendation and then hopefully adopting a budget for the next fiscal year. One of the, we've had a little bit of changeover on the executive board over the last year or so. The fire district representative seat was due up for essentially that term to be refilled. David Van de Wally has served in that board seat for a long time. He was nominated again by representatives from the fire districts to continue. So David Van de Wally continues as the fire district representative. City of McMinnville has a board representative. They changed, there was a lot of things that happened in kind of a short time proximity. Adam Garvin had been the representative for a long time, obviously in his role now as a full-time city manager. The city has elected for Chief Cordwood to be the representative on the WICOM board. So he joins us. And then Brandon Dross is the representative for small cities, the city administrator from Lafayette. He has indicated his intention to step down as soon as we're done with the budget process. He was filling a temporary vacancy when Rochelle Roden left to go work at another city. And we will, the nomination or the recommendation from the small cities is that Mayor Rachel King from Amity will assume that seat. as soon as we get through the budget process. Mayor King did serve on the budget committee this year. So we are seeing a lot of involvement and participation from the individual YCOM user entities, which we're really pleased with. We have restarted and kind of rekindled the user group meetings so that user group gets together, talks about any of the user experiences, and then they can bring any of those concerns back to the executive board to be dealt with. So we have a subcommittee, a work group that was formed about a year ago? Yeah, it's been a while. That has got the mission to undertake updating that intergovernmental agreement, that ORS 190 agreement. The existing one is in need of updating, but that's proving to be a very lengthy process. There is a lot contained within that agreement. The agreement makes up everything from the scope of services that are to be provided to the governance and representation. Obviously, there have been some changes over the years since that last 190 update. with respect to West Valley Fire District now contracting with the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. McMinnville Fire District is now an independent entity from the city of McMinnville. So there's just a lot to unravel with respect to making sure that that agreement is current, that it is accurate, that it reflects the current makeup of the representation. And then along with that, you know, come a lot of discussions about the dues, the dues schedule, how the dues are calculated, what the basis for the dues is. Currently, dues are split between police and fire. So police agencies or entities pay 80% of all YCOM dues and fire pays 20. There's a lot of... discussion about whether that is the appropriate split between police and fire. And all of those conversations have impacts that extend to every city council, independent fire district board, obviously the county and the city of McMinnville is the largest dues payers for YCOM. So there's just a lot of work that needs to be done. That committee has met I don't know, a lot of times. And it was being chaired by Yamhill Police Department Chief Greg Graven. Captain Brandon Boutel has been a part of those, Chief Godfrey, YCOM, a lot of the other fire districts. So we're hopeful that we make good progress with getting that 190 current and updated and and scheduled. So any questions about kind of overarching WICOM before I move on? All right. So a lot of people, when we start talking about YCOM, they start thinking about radios and the radio system. And obviously, YCOM does not own the radio system. YCOM is a user of the radio system, just like every other person that uses the radio system. The county currently owns and is responsible for the public safety communications radio system that is in use. I put together a board or a committee. It also has been probably a year ago. And I'm essentially having it as an advisory board for me with respect to the radio system. So I've been before you a couple of times before. All of the work that we undertook using some of the ARPA dollars is totally complete. We have made some substantial increases in the actual infrastructure itself when you're talking about the physical radios in our vehicles at the sheriff's office, the repeaters and the base stations that exist at the tower sites that are around the county, everything from coax cabling to power cords. We've done a lot of work over the last couple of years just trying to keep things current. But the advisory committee, we did look at, you know, what is the future of the radio system? We're growing. Every entity in the county is growing. The demand is growing. Um, and the technology is always changing. And so this advisory committee, uh, chief Godfrey from new McMinnville fire, uh, chief law from Dayton fire captain Simmons from Newberg Dundee police department, uh, because they're on a, a separate radio system from us, uh, myself, emergency manager, Brian young, uh, Chief Graven, you know, we're taking a look at, you know, what is the future of radio communications look like in the county? And we worked together with county council and we drafted together an RFI, a request for information that was sent out last fall. I think we got 12 or 13 responses to that from industry experts that are either, some of them were full concepts that gave us kind of the bones of a concept for what we should do. Some of them were just offers to be consultants for us. But we got a couple of good responses that give us some framework for where we should be looking. And so that's what we're going to be doing next. The committee has gone through and has scored those. We've evaluated them. And then now we have to start looking at kind of the technical side of what is actually realistic. We also concurrently have the committee SIP application that is with our federal representatives. So Senator Merkley's office, Gustavo Guerrero, his field rep, we've been working with on that. That is continuing to advance, but we obviously have no way of knowing what the end result may be. But we did work with him to make sure that we have the ability and the flexibility to Take anything that may come from that application process and apply it towards the direction that the advisory committee suggests that we should go and the responses to the RFI. So it's not just one single solution that we're boxed into. We're just looking at upgrades in general to bolster our communications. So...

And can be done in phases.

And to be done in phases. No matter what we do, there's big price tags and it has to be done in phases. And all the while, we have to maintain full operational capability because it is the system that... All law enforcement in Yamhill County, with the exception of Newburgh-Dundee Police, rely on for daily communications and all of the fire districts, with the exception of Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue and Dundee Fire. So I think that was all I wanted to cover this morning, unless you all have any questions about YCOM or the radio system and where we're going with that 190 update. Thank you.

I'm good. The only concerns I've gotten were from other cities, but they're, I mean, legitimate concerns, but sometimes we just can't avoid it. But where the increases to the dues and it wasn't necessarily the increase, but how short a notice it might have been to some of them. But I don't know that we can change the timing on that at all.

And we have a lot of feedback from particularly the small cities, but certainly I know the county and the city of McMinnville would also love to have more advanced notice. And it is a challenge with pretty much everybody else gets through their budget before we get to YCOM budget. And so part of that 190 update and do scheduling is looking at a model that is a predictable model for all of the users where we're basing The upcoming fiscal year, you know, basically you have an even numbered year tracks with the prior even numbered year and odd and odd. So as we head into 27 we'd be looking at all of the data that we already have from 2025 when you're looking at total calls for service. How many phone calls, you know, and using that as the basis for the calculation. So it makes it a predictable way for entities because we we deal with the same unpredictable factors that every other government entity, when you're talking about personnel costs, health insurance, PERS, you know, and you're finding out, you know, in February that you have a 20% increase in health insurance premiums, and you're having to try to budget for the upcoming fiscal year. And it is very challenging. And so, you know, there's Commissioner King, I'm sure can fill you in, we have very robust discussion after the last budget committee process about some substantial decreases that were afforded to all the users back in like 2020, 2021, where had we just stayed on a consistent track of like a 3% increase per year, we would be in a much better position than we are right now, where we had actually substantial decreases for all the users back then, and now we're having to right-size that, and you're seeing these larger dues increases in the current years. Okay.

How focused are we on the assessment for equipment upgrades and consistently making sure that that budget light item is correct for current values of replacement? Is the committee looking at that as they kind of progress through and...

So I'm looking at that from the management of the radio system standpoint. I think everyone would look at it and agree in talking with Patty. It has been many years since we have adjusted the dollar amount of essentially the pass-through that comes through WICOM for the radio system. It's been the same dollar amount consistently for a long time. We actually have been able to realize I don't know, Ken would know better. For quite a number of years, we've been able to put money in reserve and roll that from year to year. We have spent some of that as we tackle some of the most pressing needs with the infrastructure, but we still are in a pretty decent space as far as having some money on hand to deal with emergency situations. And then we do have a contract with a provider right now that is here all the time, keeping tabs on the system. They're actually here again today working on some stuff. I get monthly reports from them with any issues that they've found. And because of that service agreement that we have, there is work that is being done monthly as far as the maintenance and upkeep. And we addressed, you know, we had everything from HVAC units on the shelters that weren't functioning to, you know, frayed the jacket on some of the cabling where, you know, it deteriorates the ability to transmit a clear signal and all those things have been addressed.

Yeah.

Barry Breyers everywhere. Cherry Breyers, bees, damage to ice bridges from prior storms. So, yep. Okay.

Yeah. Thank you.

Thank you. Thanks.

And I'll just say that you'll be seeing when budget hearing for a county budget hearing, because that's one that I always bring for the deliberation list, because now that I have the number, that's going to be an adjustment we're going to have to make within that budget based on that increase. So it was not insignificant. Okay.

Thank you. Thank you, Sharon.

All right. G is the consent agenda. We have some meeting minutes on there. I would move approval. Is there any further discussion?

No.

None. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion passes. Thank you. H is old business. There is none. I is other business. I just want to, before we get going, there is an add-on. So there will be an I-4. I-1 is consideration of approval of an intergovernmental agreement between Yamil County Transit and the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde for fixed route service effective upon full execution through June 30, 2030.

Move approval.

Motion's been made. Any further discussion? None. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. I too is consideration of approval of amendment number nine to the provider services agreement between Yamil County Health and Human Services And Yamhill County Community Care Organization, Board Order 26-099, adding $45,535.17 in funding for Lutheran Community Services, School-Based Mental Health Outpatient Services, effective July 1, 2026 through December 31, 2026.

And chair, this is just for clarification, the CCO was contracting intending to contract directly with Lutheran, but they've asked us to be the pass through for that. So we'll do that for the rest of this contract. So I would move approval.

Thank you. Any further discussion? No. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. I3 is consideration of approval of a board order in the matter of approving a lease with JJSS property LLC and terminating board order 22-383. I would move approval. Is there any further discussion?

Do you want to add anything to that? And what this is, this was a modification. We had a lease agreement for all the, this is the Kirby Street property where developmental disabilities and veteran services and public health were located. We've since moved DD and veteran services to the new location. So we vacated that portion of the property. So this is modifying the only remaining service that's there is our public health department.

So just one building left. That's correct.

Very nice. All right. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. The add-on is item I-4. And I-4 is in the matter of appointing legal counsel for the county as required under ORS 203.145. Ken or Caleb, do you want to?

Yeah, so the intent of this, there's a requirement. So Jody has been hired as interim county council. And it's a statutory requirement in order for Jody to act as legal counsel. The board has to approve this.

All right. I would move approval. Is there any further discussion?

No. None.

None. All right. All those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Any final words? That was a little bit of a hesitation there. All those motion passes unanimously. Thank you. And that brings us to our public hearing. deliberations. So we closed it down and we're at deliberations. Okay. So Jay's public hearings, docket number G01-22, a public hearing to consider a planning commission recommendation to add roads, highways, and other transportation facilities and improvements as a permitted use in the following zoning districts. Should that say permitted use or conditional use?

Excuse me, there was a mix of permitted and conditional uses that were recommended. Originally. Okay.

Parks, Recreation, Open Space, Assembly, Institutional Districts, Section 801PAI, and as conditional use in the following zoning districts, Mineral Resource Districts, Section 404MR, Rural Residential Districts, Section 501AF10, Commercial Districts, Section 601RC, 602NC, and 603HC, Industrial Districts Sections, 701RI, 702LI, and 703HI, Public Works Safety District Section 802, PWS, Public Airports Landing Fields District Section 803, PALF. This public hearing was previously tabled on June 22nd, 2023, and we are continuing it from May 7th, 2026 at the point of deliberations. Let the deliberations commence.

I just want to add that I had asked for everybody to take a look at this definition. I sent it to Ken and Ken and Jody so that we can have a pretty clear definition for that one particular designation.

So from the ones that can sent us we're basically adding. In your memo it's adding transportation facilities do not include recreational trails bicycle past shared use past pedestrian trails greenways. Rail trails walking paths or facilities intended primarily for recreational or non motorized transportation purposes correct okay. and ken are we still on with uh i know we deliberated this a little bit and i recommended that you just do conditional use for all of them instead of uh permitted uses for i think two or three different zones yeah if if that's what you want to do that would be fine okay i just want to make sure that still stands from our last where did this definition come from is that so i think it has emails or s definition

No, this definition is from Commissioner Sterritt. My definition didn't have the exclusion of pathways or anything like that. And Jody also had provided a definition that accepted some multi-use pedestrian right-of-way trails, which is a little more concise language. That is also one to consider.

That was sent late yesterday.

I can...

This is one copy, but you got it there. Okay.

Do you want a copy?

No, I thought you were. I thought you were.

Jody, have you had a chance to work with Ken on both versions of this, the original and Commissioner Starrett's?

We talked about it about 15 minutes before executive session. That is the first we've had a chat.

Ken, can you give us a time frame for when we need to have this decision done by?

Uh, we, we really don't have a timeframe for this. Um, and, uh, the timeframe, uh, really is from CPRD. Uh, they'd like to, um, put the, an application in for the, uh, footbridge, uh, for one of their parks. And so, but there's no timeframe that is required on the part of the county. Okay.

I'd like to recommend that we put this off for a week, and in the meantime, have county council and our planning director sort of wordsmith this, bring it back in a week. We've got a date certain, and then we can go ahead and just at least give CPRD, you know, they know that next week we'll have something in writing.

So I just want to make sure, are you looking for a drafted ordinance next week or just a definition for transfer? Well, I think a draft ordinance would be great.

Okay. Sort of compiling or sort of taking into account both of these. Okay. So if everybody's okay with that.

Is that realistic for you or?

I mean, let's do two weeks. And the reason I say that is, you know, Jodi got here like a few days ago and probably has a few other things.

I'm going to go out tomorrow.

So let's do two weeks.

Two could be super helpful.

Okay.

As long as that's not going to throw anything off for CPRD. So we'll have something actually. An ordinance that you can consider. Yeah. Yeah.

And my understanding is everything is conditional use and then plan are trying to massage this definition. Yeah, weeks is great.

Okay. Are you might be having input for the Commissioner steroids memo here.

I just get concerned about On my first thought is Excluding transportation facilities and in the future if somebody wanted to go out for grants or something like that to build a project or we wanted to for some of our parks or something that that would limit us, but they're just questions that I would have and talk with Jody. Okay, perfect. Yeah, that's where.

Work with him and see if we can work the concerns in, okay. All right, so we're gonna put this off for another two weeks. and that will put it back to us on that work with that calendar one two back on the 18th so that might be no we'll be all right because we're not into july yet so we'll still be here okay thank you thank you thanks guys All right, so that brings us up to K, which is announcements. Commissioner King.

I got to go, was invited by Bill Cross at Willamette Valley Vineyards to go to Oregon Economic Summit hosted by Oregon Business Institute. I think the biggest takeaway was what a lot of us already know is 10 years ago, we were in the top 20, and now we're in the bottom 10, if not lower on most areas of the economy, whether that's people moving here to afford jobs, job creation, entrepreneur starting businesses, so on. So it's really obviously that that is largely to do with our legislators. So hopefully that things can start turning around on that front is the common theme of that meeting. I attended the John Potter, groundbreaking for hive and newberg the missile meeting housing fund a huge shout out to REP sharp and said core for really being the drivers behind that in the beginning. John Potter, $3 million investment so. John Potter, And it's good to see I think they broke ground, the day after so that project is moving on. John Potter, New York City Council budget we're in there. biennium year, the middle year, so they're just in the right sizing. And Dundee voted to not allow drive-throughs through city limits. A big congratulations to them. And their schools got the Safe Routes to Schools grant as well. Fiesta was on Saturday. And it's always one of my favorite events to attend. Home Builders Foundation Gala up in Portland. Nathan Young and a team of the workforce training development was introduced for new reef fabrication timber products. This is a... significant project and partnership that's happening with newberg and hive and other hopefully projects with um that are down the road that are kind of in the in the making now um met with business with carlton business owner who's working through some of her um starting to open a business and just working through and was able to connect her with the um Councilor Ward Mullen, so huge shout out to her for her help there. I wanted to make sure and give her. She's great to work with. Yamhill Forest Land Classification Committee meeting. I met with the sheriff to go over a lot of what we just talked about. And happy Pride Month. It kicked off at Mac Market today, and there are events happening all around the county for the next month. So congratulations to them.

Thank you, Chair. Last Friday was the field day at NREC, and I went to that in Aurora. They had exhibitions of food preparation, tours of the farm, Christmas trees, the whole small woodlots thing, food food preservation. And the biggest thing for me was seeing a machine there. You might have heard about it. It's $100,000 Danish machine. It's a weeding machine. And it will actually geolocate where the seeds are put. It will then come back and then just take out just the weeds. You look like you know it.

This is solar, the solar panel. Yeah.

And they said that on the, on the, the test fields that they were able to actually completely, you know, get rid of any kind of farm labor. And also some of them, some folks say down 60%.

So it's a, I like the ones that are lasers. Yeah. In California, they have a lot that's just laser spot that shoot the weeds. But yeah, there's a lot of good technology coming out. And I don't know. I think it's going to be good for the egg industry on one end. On the other, it's going to force us to be more efficient. And then labor-wise, it's going to be interesting to see how that starts taking a dent out of the labor force. So we'll see. It's interesting. It was great. I mean, overall, it's super cool technology.

Yeah, very nicely done at NRAC. Thursday evening was CPRD board meeting. It was a very long board meeting. We have some members of the board there joining us today. But it was over four hours. And again, the contentious part, again, was horses, hikers, and bicycles not mixing. And that has to do with the Crystal Parrot Riley program. There was a PAC presentation from Friends of Chehalem Parks PAC, which was just organized to pass an ordinance to preserve certain lands within the CPRD district for heritage purposes. So they gave the board the opportunity to go ahead and draft an ordinance or they're gonna get it on the ballot with signatures turned in by August. My understanding is that CPRD had commissioned a study and that's to determine whether or not bikes were advised on the horse hiker trails and they came back with the study. Is that right, Clay, that said that... OK. And it said that bikes were a go. Is that what it says?

Or did I misunderstand?

To do bikes.

OK. Thank you.

Anyway, to be continued, CPRD submitted a grant for the bypass trail. They would get $500,000 if they are approved. Presentation on the closed county-owned Newburgh landfill as a park or a trail. There was a... presentation including deq information dundee sanders estate park ribbon cutting is going to be on july 8th which is exciting they approved the cprd budget and also the shahelm glenn golf course clubhouse feasibility study update on friday aoc's hhs steering committee talked about the public health priorities and crisis stabilization coming up for the new long legislative session. We also had our local government advisory committee talking about the policy options for the 27 long session, funds for some of the mandated crisis stabilization services. So we are required to provide services and we're not given the funding for it. We had a fire season forecast with ODHS and the Oregon Resilience Emergency Management folks. And we're gonna have... Commissioner Chair Johnston has asked that we have our emergency manager do a presentation on an update on fire season, and he's working on that. We also talked about another issue which has been really contentious, and that has to do with the fact that our law enforcement officers, specifically our sheriff, is asked to take people who have mental health issues to civil commitments to various places that they are not prepared to do. So they're going to take a look at how we address this. This is not a place, the back of a patrol car, for people who are in mental health crisis, and our law enforcement officers are having to deal with that. We talked about the HR1 changes, which are going to be eligibility requirements, and that is folks who, you know, work requirements and SNAP requirements, and that's coming up. Also, folks who don't have jobs but need to get jobs are going to be able to work with WorkSource Oregon. We also talked about state housing and local partnerships. We had our Health and Human Services Board of Health meeting yesterday, where they talked a little bit about an update on the Medical Reserve Corps. I'm going to be bringing an ordinance before you, which is to make it a little bit more of a a stable and permanent part of the county. So nice to see that they're taking that very seriously. We do have a lot of volunteers who have been volunteering for that. They took a look at the rates for board recommendation that has to do with public health and environmental health. One thing I'm going to ask, and this is going to be something that the budget committee next year should probably take a look at is this the county charges for restaurant licensing fees to do some of these uh inspections but also the state requires that we kick back some of that money to them we're going in the hole about a hundred thousand dollars every year and so unfortunately that would mean an increase to those restaurant licensing fees or else it's going to continue to come out of the general fund so i'm going to be leaving notes everywhere to remember that That next year, that would be another $100,000 you can keep in general fund for some other things you might find useful. And we can get them to the Board of Health to agree to those rate increases. So just a couple of those things. They did a measles update. And a couple of things I brought up is that there have been the state is very concerned about the fact that vaccination rates are low and exemption rates are high. So folks are basically saying, you know, I'm going to take a look at whether or not I want to do the full childhood vaccine schedule. And a lot of parents are opting not to. I also pointed out that if you look at the outbreaks, they are oftentimes in 99 to 95 percent, 100 percent. 100% of the students have been vaccinated and there are still outbreaks. So we wanna make sure people know the truth about some of this stuff. The other thing I pointed out is at the federal level, they're recommending reducing the full load of childhood vaccines, the state of Oregon to see whether or not there's a connection between the fact that we have the highest rate of childhood chronic diseases and also the highest rate of the number of vaccines we give to our children. But the state of Oregon has decided they want to continue to do recommend the full load for the kids. I also want to point out, and this is just a little bit of an opinion that I did look at over the years, who Big Pharma gives donations to at the state level, and it's virtually all of our state legislators. So both sides, and the governor is not likely to recommend lowering that, because it does impact the budgets of Big Pharma. Also wanted to do a big shout out to Superintendent Dori Vickery in the West Valley and the district nurse out there. They found out that a lot of the kids there weren't getting follow-up for some significant vision problems. So they put together, tomorrow, it's going to be tomorrow, at Chapman, Faulkner Chapman, And they're taking a look at how they can get these kids lined up with fully dilated eye exams. They've worked with Pacific University over there and getting some folks to take on vision services. But I do want to say that what they're doing out there in Sheridan is they put together what's called a K through 12 care team. where they look at all the needs of those families and those kids, and they help them with that. Also, we had our ambulance service area committee meeting, and Chief Hannafin has moved on, and we have a new one. R.C. Mock is going to be taking over, and also just found out yesterday afternoon, finally, OHA has approved our ASA plan. So kudos to Lindsay and everybody else on that team for working so hard on that. And do wanna point out, we do have some updated data on the syringe exchange program that we have the CCO contracting with Provoking Hope. And we're seeing that some of the folks have been in their addictions, mostly men, in their 40s and 50s. We also are looking at Narcan administration, and we're looking at the fact that in some cases, they've administered six different naloxone doses to see if they can get a successful reversal. So these are people seriously in their addiction. And there's a breakdown of what drugs, we've got heroin, we've got meth, We've got a variety of things, but one of the services that they are providing most often is wound care. So you've got a lot of addicts with a lot of serious medical issues. So that's the update on Provoking Hope, and that's all I have. All right.

Thank you. You had a busy week. um last friday i had the opportunity to attend the ribbon cutting ceremony for empower uh they are in mcminnville but it does affect yamhill county um and they finally pretty much got the facility wrapped up upgraded and added on to is the old betty lose facility i think the coolest part about this is they went from 70 employees when it was betty lose to 450 right now or 400 to 560 and they plan on in the next few years to be at 700. So they're not going anywhere. They're a great addition to Yamhill County and McMinnville. So keep at it. Empower. We love you. Also Friday, I went to actually the day before the NREC 65th anniversary to hear from a lot of the speakers and some of them were ex-employees that have been a part of the programs there for many, many years and kind of gave backgrounds from how NREC started and where it's at and the funding issues that they're going through right now because of the state. But just interesting to know the different commodities that have gone through there as basically test commodities to see if they'd work in the state of Oregon. Right now, I think the most interesting one going through would be olives. They have a lot of different varieties of olives out there. I did miss the field days on Saturday, but they were supposed to have fresh strawberries. Did they? Okay, good. That's how I was going to miss that. But anyway, NREC 65th anniversary, I thought went well. I want to shout out for Andrea Salinas. She landed us another $850,000 for McDougal Interchange. So it's still a little bit short, but every little bit helps. And I think it's finally going to get us to the point where we can finally get ODOT off the dime to get the rest of the funding to get it over the hill. So I feel really good about that. Huge thank you for her. Huge thank you for our other federal delegates, because I know those guys all work together well. Brandon, who works with Andrew Salinasov, who's our regional solutions, I suppose, guy in our area. I just appreciate how open they are. You pick up the phone, you email them, they're there, they answer questions that you may have. I appreciate the the support that they give our area and not only Andrew Salinas but Wyden's office and Merkley's office with Gustavo and Corrine and all those guys so they know the importance of what we have going on and it's just I guess it's up to us to just kind of keep yep keep keep repeating ourselves and let them know that we have projects that we need to get done they're safety projects that we need to focus on in our area from McDougal to Ham Hill or Lafayette Highway and Highway 18 and then obviously the big ask which is the bypass so we'll continue to advocate for that and thanks to them. Last night was McMinnville scholarships for our two McMinnville ambassadors there's four total two of them are coming from Mendo this year, I had the opportunity to give those out to them last night I thought it went well. McMinnville High School is very, very well organized in their scholarship presentations. And you do not miss a beat. You stand in line right behind your next presenter and you get up as soon as they're off the stage, you get on there and keep your speeches short and sweet. And they kept it moving very well. And I was very, very impressed. So I look forward to hopefully next year if we get another ambassador from McMinnville. um tomorrow night will be the yc no tonight is the yc presentation so i'll go out there and give that one for the ambassadors because of that there will be no chat with a chair tonight and there also is no planning commission meeting tonight unless something changed because there's nothing on the docket and that is all i have is there anything else for the good of the order

Just a really quick reminder, just looking at the calendar for June, got a very busy agenda for the next several formal sessions. We do have another executive session scheduled for next week for the 11th. We also have the hearing for the county budget will be on the 11th. So we'll be doing that. On the 18th, we'll also be convening early to do Cove Orchard Sewer District and Extension Service as the Board of Directors to do the hearings and budget adoption for both of those. And then also on the 18th, we'll be doing budget adoption for the county. So there's a lot of things that are coming up on the schedule. I also anticipate, you know, because again, just an update. We had four open collective bargaining agreements. We did reach tentative agreement with the sergeant's union. I'm hoping or anticipating that i'll be bringing that before the board next thursday for ratification it sounds like their group did in fact vote and ratify this week so um one down three to go um so we're going to be adding executive sessions as we need to because again we're still in active negotiations on three other cbas so a really busy time The other thing, just a quick update, because it seems like every week I give an update on government services building and how it's going. I will say that, you know, no changes from prior updates that I gave other than to say that kudos to Haworth and the team that's working on that. We're on schedule, work's proceeding. We could be, the next big move could be happening as early as the second week of July, which is the Board of Commissioners and Administration moving into the space. It should be ready to go by that time. So Haworth has done a great job. We're on schedule, on budget, and they're doing a great job.

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I just want to add that on the 11th, there might be a very pleasant surprise, and that has to do with Watson. And Watson, the sheriff's new puppy, might come to visit. We've had the opportunity to meet Watson, and we asked him to come. So hopefully Watson will, and Watson's a girl, so she will bring her handler, and they will be joining us. So get ready for that. Very nice.

One last thing before we go. Butterfly tour tomorrow. Probably one of the most important meetings that I have yearly. So crossing our fingers, see if we can see some blue fenders butterflies. With that, I'm going to close this out at 10.59.