Board of Commissioners - Regular Meeting

All right.

Good morning, everybody. I'm going to open up this formal session on June 11th at 10 a.m. And I'm going to ask Jody to lead us in the flight. Salute again.

God indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you very much for that.

Before we get to public comment, we do have a special guest in the room, and it is Watson and his handler. If they'd like to come up and just give us a brief overview, and if Watson's future guests

Wingman. Name and address. Chair, Darren Campbell, we met their acquaintance at the canine trials, and they were kind enough to come and talk about working dogs of Oregon and Watson, who will soon be joining us.

Good morning. Good morning. Mr. Chair and members of the Commission, my name is Darren Campbell. I'm actually from Beaverton. And Commissioner Starrett is correct. We cross paths at the Washington County Canine Trials, which is a great event that I think Yamhill County should look at investing in. What brings us here today is Mr. Watson. Watson's just getting close to being about a six-month-old golden doodle. His employer is you guys, the Yamhill County Sheriff's Office to be more exact. His job is going to be basically working with people. And these guys, their job is to make people smile and make people feel good about the day. And and just touching a dog has the ability to release cortisol and dopamine and all those happy chemicals that your brain produces. And it's really difficult to come across a guy like Watson and not. have your day become better. And that's the goal for Watson, is to work with deputies and staff in the sheriff's office, work with victims and witnesses of crimes and critical incidents. And then on top of that, be a community outreach resource for the sheriff's office. Go to public events and that type of thing. He is in the middle of his training right now, so we're raising him for that specific purpose. We figure he's probably got another... Seven, eight, nine months. before he goes full-time with his handler, Will. And yeah, he's going to be up there. I know that we've done about 30 dogs total so far in different jobs, but the big one for us is the law enforcement therapy dog. It's a passion for us, and we love doing it. And just so you guys can understand, the sheriff's office purchased Watson. The sheriff's office is paying for his veterinary care And we're donating all the training and all the raising and there's equipment. And so it's a true partnership to bring this resource as economically as possible to this community. And with that, I'd be...

I'd just like to interject a little bit.

Sheriff's Office funds have not paid for this. This is through donations through the community. Dutch Brothers, Don Dix Family Trust have paid for things up till now. Obviously, we've got the foundation, which we would encourage anybody if they want to donate to Watson and his path, that would be excellent. I mean, he has had one mishap where he ate something he wasn't supposed to, but we kind of expect that. Any questions for Watson?

No, I see how he's like total stare down with Commissioner Starrett. So I don't know if Commissioner Starrett had some other time spent with him. He totally knows Commissioner Starrett.

I will tell you, Mr. Chair, this dog was selected because of his disposition. He just, his number one is wanting to be around people. And that's what we want. We want somebody that's not going to be hung up on little things. And that's part of his training right now is to expose him to as much of the world as possible so that when the sheriff's office takes custody of him, they don't come across anything that he hasn't already seen or experienced. So that's kind of our goal right now, along with just making sure he knows how to sit and lay down and act cute and appropriate in every situation.

He's staring at kale now. Yeah.

Somebody's got food.

If I was a deputy on a crash or something and came back to the office and was a little shook up or something, what's Watson going to do for that deputy?

I'll tell you, just his presence and being a calm presence in that situation. um sometimes it's enough does he come and like sit on your lap or does he you know what what's uh what do you train on what you need at the time dogs are amazing at kind of understanding the situation especially in those times i've had dogs that have been in debriefs of some of the most horrific incidents on the planet where there's 40 50 people there and i'll be told afterwards that the dog we put in that situation directly to the person that they thought needed it most and They just have a sixth sense about these types of things. So, but yeah, to answer your question, there'll be that calm presence that can sit in your lap. I mean, obviously he does a pretty good job of that. But yeah, I mean, cool.

Great. I think if I can interject for a minute, obviously my job in our detective divisions, we primarily work sexual and physical abuse crimes against children.

So I've seen, because Juliette's also has a dog,

But in order to bring the child in a traumatic incident and have to sit and talk to and tell their story and to just go through it, just having him there will just immediately just bring that down and they'll feel more comfort.

Will you be his handler, Will?

Yeah.

You will. Take him home?

Yeah. Bummer. Watson's going to have his fingernails painted because I got three daughters. And bows. He's going to get lots of love.

Oh, cool. Well, we really do appreciate you bringing Watson in and kind of his midway checkup for how he's doing on training. If we can, I assume you want to get some pictures.

You want to get pictures?

Kevin would like a picture, I'm sure.

And the sheriff, and maybe we can stand behind.

Maybe you guys can stand where you are. We'll bring Watson and the sheriff up there. Oh, yeah. No. I'm happy to take some photos.

No, you can be in it. You guys can be in it.

I'm not going to be in it.

Mary, do you want me to take it?

No, you can't be in it. Oh, okay. I'm getting out of this microphone. I felt like I was making that error.

You guys are blocked.

Thanks, guys. Thank you, everyone.

All right. Up next is our calendar session. Is there any changes to the calendar?

No. No, thanks.

And D is public comment. If you're online, raise your virtual hand. If you're in the audience, raise your hand. Right now, I do have two public cards filled out, and I'm going to call up David Burton first. If you'd come up to the microphone and state your name and address and then give your brief public comment.

Hi, my name is David Burton. I live at northwest of McMinnville, about three miles out on Orchard View Road off of Baker Creek Road. When we moved here back in the early 80s, one of the reasons for living out there was the easy access to the public lands out there in close proximity. At that time, Baker Creek Road was open, High Heaven was open. Later on, Weyerhaeuser came in and closed everything down. They still have Baker Creek Road closed down past Rainbow Lodge. We were pretty happy a few years ago when the gate on High Heaven was opened. But then a couple years ago, due to board order, 23-386, which declares that they can close that gate during fire season, which is basically the prime time when you'd want to go up there and have access to all the public lands. That access goes through just a couple miles straight up to a lot, thousands of acres of BLM land with prime foraging. There's nettle and and many kinds of mushrooms and elderberries and the season for those, a lot of those just is closed during the time that that gate is closed. There is access going around, but you have to go all the way from my house clear down to Carlton and around and it turns a five mile drive into a 35 mile drive and adds about an hour to the time it takes to get up there, which is quite a restriction in many cases. My understanding is that One of the reasons that this is closed, the people up there kind of objected to it being open. And one of the things they listed was fire hazards. And they objected to sometimes people drive up there for partying. They talked about trash dumping and people shooting. My experience is pretty extensive. I've been going up there for decades. many, many years in lots of places. And that section of road that's closed really doesn't have anything of public interest. It's once you get past that section, there's lots of BLM parcels with all of these activities that I've mentioned that are easily accessible. The board order authorized closure of the gate during fire season, and mostly because of fire hazard belief. But the Last summer, the road was closed for almost a month while the fire danger was still low. And it didn't open until three weeks to a month after fire danger was low again. And also, it seems to me if there is a fire hazard, you wouldn't want to lock the gate between the fire and the response crews. You wouldn't want to lock the gate between an evacuation route that residents might want to get out that they have to deal with. So I just think that's not a very valid reason to close that gate. In addition, there is a guideline, ODF, Oregon Department of Forestry has a guideline for road use. And no matter the fire danger, they would not close that road, even in extreme fire danger. I have a print of that and I can leave with you. There's also a very easy way to know what the fire danger is. You go to the fire danger map and you click on the road behind the gate and it'll tell you what the fire danger is. So if it's extreme, you could know not to go up there. But right now, the gate's scheduled to be closed on Monday. And for probably the next three weeks or a month, the fire danger is still going to be low. And you can tell that just by clicking on that map. Let's see what else. I'm a great proponent of public access to our forest lands. It's great to be up there. It's good for your spirit. And I oppose anything that's not really practical or needful that restricts that access. Let's see what else. I guess what we would like to see and what I would propose is to relax the closure requirements of that gate, perhaps base it on real fire danger, like when the fire danger actually gets to extreme. I don't want to be up there during that case anyway, and I think many people maybe don't. And it would be quite reasonable if you closed it when the fire danger became extreme. But to close it a month before the fire danger is even out of low is an unnecessary restriction. And I would request that the board re-examine that policy because it really limits people living in the northwest segment of town. I have to go all the way to town, all the way to Carleton, all the way around. It adds about an hour to my ability to go up in there. I have a copy of the board order. and a further detailed statement of mine and a copy of the ODS regulations that I can leave here with you.

You can, if you can hand that to Cale, that'd be great.

Thank you.

Thank you, David. And we're setting up a meeting with emergency management and possibly ODF to address some of the early wildfire risk that came on this year. So it might, I think it'd be educational for all of us, but I'll try to shoot you an email when that's going to be so that you can be there. Cause I know there's a lot that goes into them calling what date to close that gate. So.

I appreciate that. I would like to participate that and, And it would have been nice to have known that there was a consideration of the gate closure back when it happened so that there could be more public comment. I know that the only people I know who want the gate closed are the people who live up there who don't like traffic in front of their house. And everyone down here who uses the woodlands would like to have that access open.

Let me, the other thing I'll try to do, or maybe I can get with Bailey or Cale, but find those meetings from about three years ago. I'll send you links to them, maybe listen to them. There was quite a bit of public input that was given and it might add some insight to them and then we can have a conversation.

Okay. I'd like to also say the comment on Watson. I think it's great that we have a dog.

to face the public i know it brightens my day whenever i see a friendly dog or even a cat and that's just a great thing thank you appreciate it thanks david okay i'm gonna call up uh dan miller uh come on up to the microphone and same thing name and address please that's it i just you can hold the microphone and stand it's fine but you do have to speak into the microphone

Maybe I will say, I don't know that this is the first time I've had any opportunity like this since I don't really know the culture and stuff. I do have a couple of pictures I'd like to show, just pictures of maps and things like that. So if possible, maybe I could bring those up to you or is that the best way to do that?

If you wanted to start them at Jody there and that way each commissioner can get a look at them.

So I'm... I'm here with David to talk about this High Heaven Access. So my name is Dan Millick. I'm a father of five girls. Oldest is graduating from Patton this week. And we have been in McMinnville for just about four years now. We moved here from Maui, Hawaii, specifically because it was one of the most beautiful places in the country. My wife is from Beaverton area, and we just really wanted to be back in the Pacific Northwest. When I looked at McMinnville and when we were trying to see if we should move here, we looked and we saw access to the public lands and it was one of the biggest things we saw. We had been living in Tigard and Tualatin and it was just a long ways. So I regularly hike and camp up in those BLM lands. And I'm here to talk about that access to that beauty through our public lands. Specifically, so if you look at the first map that I have there, I've circled. It's a map of the BLM lands just west of our town. And I've circled approximately 4,500 acres. And that's based on that map and clicking. I'm not a surveyor or anything like that. But those 4,500 acres are best accessed through High Heaven. And that includes Ball Bearing Hill and the area surrounding that, which is about a 2,500-acre property, two other 300-acre properties, and a 600-acre property, a 500-acre property, and then an 86-acre property that's fairly close to, I think, the gate area. So really, when we moved here, we really wanted to have access for our kids to see the outdoor world. It was just after COVID, and it turns out a lot of the areas around here started putting up trespassing signs, getting a little bit hands-offish. on Grand Haven and the farm areas around there, I guess, before we moved there were fairly accessible. Neighbors were friendly and all that stuff. But now things are starting to get trespassing signs everywhere. It's kind of sad to see. But we respect them. And we try to stay in our areas. We try to keep the law and all that stuff. But blocking this access to these 4,500 acres means that it's really difficult for us to get up into the mountains, into the hills here. If you notice on those other maps, I included a map of directions from the roundabout on the west side of town up to the first property. Google Maps says that's about 10 minutes. Now, we all know it's country roads sometimes. Google Maps isn't great, but this is what we're going off of. It's about 10 minutes to get there. If we were to go up and around through Meadow Lake Road to Ball Bearing Hill and back down to get to that same property, it's about 45 minutes. Sorry, 54 minutes, according to Google. If you look at the same or the next property up, Google shows about 19 minutes versus about 45 minutes. So it's like a 25 minute difference to get to those properties. That in my world basically means that I might as well not use those properties. I could just as easily go to Silver Falls State Park and the properties around there. It basically shuts off access to those areas for anybody in McMinnville. So I know that some of the conversation around this has been that there's a gate and that you can still access it through walking, hiking, biking into those areas. I think if you look at those maps, you'll see how far the distance is from that gate to those properties. I don't think it's really accessible from a hiking standpoint, especially with small children. And so the only access for me is to drive up there with a vehicle. This is a, I don't remember the classification of the road, but it is not a paved surface. It's a gravel road, but it's not a vegetation covered road. And so in a lot of areas, these types of roads are accessible through most of the summer to vehicles. The last thing I'd like to note is that it was either last year or the year before I did take my daughters up there. We drove up with my pickup truck. We got up to an area that looked like it would be fun to play in. It was in the BLM land. The kids were outside playing, just picking up sticks and throwing rocks and what kids do up in those areas. And we had a biker come by that had a whole mouthful of words to say to us. and basically said that we shouldn't be up here with a truck during fire season. And I had driven where I thought was OK. Gate was open. And it was a surprise to me. I had no idea. We had only been here for probably a year or two when this happened. And so I Again, I'm here with David and kind of had similar experiences where the rules maybe weren't clear. Maybe the gate was open. If the gate was open and it got closed while we were up there, that could be a real concern for us, either costing somebody to come up and unlock the gate, requiring us to drive up and around where we may not have a good knowledge of how to get out the other direction. or being stuck overnight or something like that, which is kind of scary for a dad with a bunch of little kids up there. So I just like to recommend that the council here thinks about this issue, thinks about it as I would as a parent, as a father of small children, and wanting to see access to these places. Do you have any questions?

I don't. I'll tell you the same thing that I told David. I'm going to try to get you the links also. I was checking to see if you wrote down your email.

I'm not sure that I did on the paper.

I don't see it. I have David's, but if you could... If I give you this comment card, can you write down your email? I'll send you the same links. I think a little bit of back history on this might help a lot on how we got there with the ball bearing fire and getting to that gate closure. It was a tough decision for us to make, but maybe go watch those meetings and just kind of get a little back history on it. And then, David, if you have any further questions, too, I can get you connected with the sheriff and make sure that Deputy Hall gets your other concerns. So I do appreciate you guys coming. Thank you, guys.

Thank you. Do you want me to grab the card? Yep.

Yeah, absolutely. Thank you for coming.

Anytime.

Is there anybody online for a public comment? If so, raise your virtual hand. If there's anybody else in the audience, raise your hand. Not seeing any. Okay, we're going to move on to department updates. There is none. F is work session, and we're joined by Director Lindsay Manfren, and we're going to discuss opioid settlement funds. Good morning. Morning.

Well, this is exciting. Maybe not as exciting as Watson, but exciting nonetheless. Thank you for pulling up those slides. So I do have a presentation ready if you want me to just jump in unless there is any. OK, so today I'm coming back after we had discussion a couple of years ago around some ideas related to the opioid settlement dollars. Wanted to come back with you to you because the landscape has really changed since our last conversation and I really have some different recommendations related to these funds based on those changes we've seen throughout Yamhill County, but also the state as well. So really at the end of this presentation, you'll see there's two ideas that I'm bringing forward to you for consideration in terms of thinking about potential uses for these funds. I'll say this probably throughout the presentation, but any of the ideas that I am putting out there would have multiple steps and certainly this would not be the last time you would see any of these things coming to you. Because there would be contract require you know needs and things of that nature, so without anything else you want to go ahead and click forward. This is just a really quick recap of how we can use the settlement dollars. Unlike some of the other funds that we've received in the past, such as marijuana tax dollars, where really it was at the discretion of the board to use them in any way they chose to, these do have some pretty heavy restrictions on them, largely just related to prevention, treatment, and recovery of opioid use disorder. Go ahead. I'm not gonna go into details on this slide and I recognize that it is small print, but I did wanna share this with you because I think it is just a document that you can use as reference that really shows the vast spectrum of things that are already happening in the county. And I think this is important. Because before I would make any sort of recommendation to you around how to spend these funds, I really wanted to make sure that we did a thorough assessment of what already exists so that we're not duplicating or adding anything that doesn't feel like it would be advantageous to the community members. So at our last work session, which hard to believe was in 2024, there really things boiled down to two major needs that we were seeing. One was around medically managed withdrawal, also called detox. I'll use those interchangeably and residential treatment services. At that time, given where we were at, the focus really was on detox and increasing access to detox. Since then, there have been 50 beds of detox added throughout the state, 213 residential treatment beds, and you can see that there are a significant number already in development as well. None of these beds are in Yamhill County specifically. They are all in Oregon. However, it is pretty common for us to be working with all of these facilities to move people in and out of detox, residential treatment, sometimes in between both of those. The other piece that is a bit more anecdotal is what I'm hearing from my team and what I'm also hearing from community partners is that the ability to get people into these facilities has eased significantly. So it's not a perfect system by any means, but the long delays that we were experiencing before um are are much reduced so it's much easier for our staff to facilitate getting a client or someone who we're working with into a residential treatment facility into a detox facility and that is also what i'm hearing from community partners as well so it seems as though while again maybe we're not quite at the capacity that we need throughout the state we are definitely making significant progress and we're feeling that on the back end as well

So while you're on that, so is there like a waiting list still though?

So it depends a little bit on time. I will say it is very unusual for us to have a waiting list of people. When it works best, when the system works best, right, and you have someone who is indicated to have say go into a detox facility, it works best when you can get them in immediately, meaning they don't leave, they go directly from our clinic to that facility. I can't say that that happens every time, but it is unusual that we can't get someone in within 24 hours. We also work really closely with those facilities and they will help in some ways. We've referred someone on the phone with them and they said, hey, we don't have a bed capacity right now, but I was just on the phone with this facility and it sounds like they do. So there's a lot of partnership that works throughout the state in terms of doing our very best to get people in quickly. This is just a little bit of information for you that will be helpful as we move into the next part of the conversation. So you can see in the red bar at the very top, that's the level of care that we call detox. So that's the highest level of care. That's someone who's needing support to go through withdrawal. In that orange or the second level there, that is the residential. So that's still inpatient. That's residential. What I'm going to be talking about is what is in that green row where the red box is, which is level 2.5 care. And that is considered outpatient care, but it's very intensive. And so that's what we're talking about here. It's not inpatient, but it's not just general outpatient treatment. Go ahead. So this is the level of care that our current treatment and recovery services, our TTRS homes work under today. These are facilities that we operate. They are not residential treatment because while people live in these facilities, they are actually getting their treatment services in our main clinic. So they travel from this, whatever house they happen to be living in to our clinic for services. However, because we own and operate these houses, we have daily connection with peers on site there are a lot of ancillary supports that people wouldn't be receiving if they were in just a general outpatient treatment and not in one of these homes the catch to these programs as they exist today is that it was developed in a partnership with odhs child welfare to really prevent children from being separated from their parents when we can keep them safely in a home like this with lots of support from our staff as well as our partners that we contract with like lutheran community services who provides parent coaching and provoking hope who provides peer services so what i want to talk about today is expanding and modifying this program slightly So instead of having the requirement for having children, what I'm proposing is that we add one house to this program that is dedicated to men without children. Currently, in order to access the TTRS programs in the houses, you have to be parenting a child and you need to have custody of that child, at least physical custody. So we have a men's house, we have women's houses, and then we have a house where people can co-parent as well. um and so this model would allow us to extend that concept but to individuals who do not have children we currently have five homes and then a stabilization house the stabilization house is actually a home that um does have 24 7 staffing and that is um generally when we believe and odhs has made the determination that a child can be safely kept with the parent, as long as there's that 24-7 supervision and oversight. So we have someone, generally it's a staff person for Provoking Hope, a peer, who provides 24-7 staffing in the home until the parent is ready to move to the TTRS general program. So go ahead. So I spoke to most of this, but this concept came out of a conversation with our local alcohol and drug planning committee, which is advisory to the board and Commissioner Serrett is part of. And in those conversations, we were really talking about the shift that I mentioned earlier in the increased access to other services throughout the community. And in those conversations, what really rose to the surface was this need for individuals to be able to transition somewhere where it is not just general outpatient. Oftentimes, if someone's leaving detox, someone's leaving residential, they're not really at the level of just being able to transition back into their general everyday life. life without a lot of supports and this is a program that provides those additional supports in that sort of transition back into just sort of the general community. So it came from there. We did an assessment, we being our administrative team in HHS, and to look at the feasibility around this. And what we found was that we have at any given moment or any month, we have 82 individuals who would be eligible for this level of care, meaning they meet that 2.5 requirement or higher and could access this level of care. The homes that we're talking about are going to be probably around five individuals. I actually just recently, last evening, found a house that could be a possibility that could be between four and eight people, but we wouldn't be talking about more than that. The model just doesn't allow that. It's really important for the model to be in a home setting because in addition to the supports like treatment and peers, it's also a really good opportunity for people to really hone in and develop in some cases skills around just home management and cooking and being part of a group and needing to work with others around things that inevitably come up when you're sharing a space and sharing a kitchen and sharing bathrooms and things of that nature. So it's important that it's not an apartment complex and that it is instead really a home setting where people may have individual bedrooms, but the home itself is shared. The average ideal stay is around nine months. So that's sort of how long people typically stay in the existing programs. And we believe that it will likely be the same with this as well, potentially a little shorter though. The complexity of having children in the mix just adds another layer that wouldn't be part of this program either. So in our assessment, we also looked at what we would expect from a cost and a revenue standpoint. The annual operating costs for this program, which is largely staffing, it comes to the $239,200 per year. And then potential modeling of what we did for a purchase or acquisition of a house. I'll talk more about that in a moment, but I wanna jump to the anticipated revenue. And this is Medicaid revenue based on looking at a five bed capacity, with a 61% occupancy and what we currently have for what we consider our daily rate, that's what we bill for the TTRS services currently. And as you can see, the anticipated revenue is slightly higher than our anticipated cost, meaning this program would be able to self-sustain on its own, which is really great news. So the cost, um, that would, so, so meaning we wouldn't need opioid settlement dollars to implement this, but what we would need is, uh, opioid settlement dollars to either purchase a house or renovate an existing County property. I think either of those could be options. We've talked, Ken and I, um, have talked about, um, potential options, um, I think there's pros and cons of looking at either way. I think either option, there are some pretty significant limitations. There's significant limitations in the available properties that the county owns right now. And certainly there are limitations in just what the market looks like right now. I put $850,000 on the slide as a bookmark, something to consider. However, I mentioned that I did some looking. Again, I wasn't working with a realtor. This is just online looking at existing houses for sale and asking prices. We did find three homes that were potential candidates for something like this. With one of them, the actual one that would be the preference is coming in at $575,000, so actually significantly less than what's on the slide here, and it would require minimal renovations. It would house between four to eight men, depending on the size of the bedrooms. I haven't seen the property. So again, just putting that out there as something to be thinking about when you're thinking about ballpark number of how much something like this might cost. The second recommendation or an idea that I'm bringing to you is a partnership with Clackamas County. Clackamas County had reached out and had a conversation related to a potential partnership by way of an IGA related to some of the work that they're currently doing. They are in process of building what they're calling their recovery campus. It is a substantial and a significant project that they're taking on. And what they have proposed through, at this point, just a memo, so there's no draft IGA or anything of that nature, but what they have proposed via a memo is that for $250,000, a one-time $250,000 cost, Yamhill County could buy in to guarantee access to one detox bed and one residential bed. Those would be reserved for Yamhill County, meaning anytime it was not vacant with a person from Yamhill County, we would always be able to place someone. And when someone vacates it, we could place another person. I think... Our behavioral health director and I, Jason, spent a fair amount of time talking about this and really came to the determination that this would be very beneficial. As I mentioned earlier, we're seeing this ease in access that is certainly being felt and welcomed throughout the state around some of the capacity challenges that we were experiencing two years ago. And we do know that there are still people that if they're not immediately able to go somewhere, we're going to lose them. They're going to leave our buildings and we may not see them again. And so having the ability to always have access to at least one residential bed and at least one detox bed and having that direct point of contact to easily help people get in there would be of significant value. And again, that would be a one-time cost of $250,000. I have not seen a draft IGA. So of course, all of that is contingent on making sure that everything feels like it is up to the standards and things that we would all want to see. So I would certainly want to see that IGA. And of course, that would come before you as well. So those, if you want to just summarize the last slide there.

Explain the difference real quick, because back when we were talking, discussing detox facility, because it's a statewide, it's first come first serve statewide. How are we able to get at this level of care? How are we able to get a basically guaranteed room and

Essentially, there are rules that allow you to purchase beds. There are other areas where this works, where there are agreements between facilities to have what's called first right of refusal, meaning you pay in a certain amount of money and you have the ability to say yes or no. In those circumstances, if you say no, they can fill it with someone else. Based on the way that the memo reads for this, it's my understanding that that actually wouldn't happen, that they would keep it open until we had someone to use it. I think that we would probably make good use of it. I don't imagine it being open all that often.

Yeah, and I'd want to make sure we looked at the reverse of that. We wouldn't want to hold open a room that couldn't be useful for somebody else too. I agree. Okay, thank you.

And the turnaround time, the nice thing about detox, the turnaround time is rather quick too. So it's not like someone is in those beds for weeks or months. It is, you know, a days to a week time period generally.

How many rooms are at that facility?

They have not built it all out yet, but it's significant. We're talking dozens of beds. It's large. And I think for those larger counties, they have just a bigger influx of individuals, and so it makes sense for them to have these types of large facilities in their area. Okay.

Just a couple of things I wanted to point out. This is not a shelter. I mean, there are rules. This is going to be like our TTRS houses, but minus the children. That Medicaid revenue, which would basically sustain operating costs, is what, about $280,000 a year? So then basically, we're looking at using the funding that we have, the opioid settlement money, mostly for capital. And as far as the houses, you know, the day use house and the HHS admin, I mean, that would be to me the very priority to, you know, not buy something else when we have so much else. So I know that there are considerations because there's limitations on those houses. But if we could do that, that would solve two problems. And I think we're going to have Troy look at them and kind of eyeball them. Is it possible or is it just better to just start from scratch? The other question is you're going to be adding one FTE, correct? Correct. So the cost of that, does that, is the Medicaid reimbursement going to cover that? Correct.

Yes.

Okay. And the other question is the, okay, so in terms of being able to staff that position, do you anticipate any issues adding that one person?

I don't, these are generally positions that we are really successful in recruiting for.

Okay, thank you.

If you are able to fold into that five and a half, $600,000 range for a four bedroom house, is there any reason why, or we remodeled one of the houses we have, is there any reason why you couldn't, or would there be a need for both of these options? Or is one- Yeah. gonna trump the other, or more priority for the other,

In terms of the recommendations or in terms of... Yeah, just where you're at or the need or...

Certainly if I were... Are you looking at one or the other?

Yeah, if I were to prioritize my recommendations, it would be the expansion of the TTRS and purchasing or renovating an existing county property would be my highest priority. I think that's where the most significant need is and is really... Again, back to that, we've got 82 people who at any given moment in our service array would be able to access that. Not saying all 82 would want to, right? It's voluntary and there may be reasons people may choose not to, but I think that does speak pretty significantly to the need.

And we can do both.

Yeah, because I think we have one point.

I was just about to chime in on that because the budget question is probably going to come up. Year-to-date right now on opioid settlement funds is we have just over $2.1 million. And anticipating probably in what we have budgeted for next year is anticipating another close to half a million dollars in payments coming in. It's really hard to predict the payments because we have all these various settlement agreements that are all getting paid at different schedules and different amounts. And so that half million is an estimate that what we typically see on an annual basis. But again, we have $2.1 million currently in the opioid settlement fund. Where would you be looking for the house at?

Where would be the ideal of McMinnville always or somewhere outside?

We definitely want McMinnville just because of the ease of access to the intensive clinic services. Oftentimes individuals who are at this level of care are receiving services in the clinic many times a week. It's very intensive programming. And so taking into consideration transportation and things like that, it generally would only work in McMinnville. And just quickly, I wanted to note, Commissioner Steyer, your comments just around sort of what this is or isn't. And I will say, in my tenure here with the county, I've only received one complaint from any of our TTRS houses, which are throughout the community. And that complaint was the day after 4th of July one year where there were fireworks, sort of canisters and things that were in the street. We called the house manager and they immediately got cleaned up. So- Happy to say that that's the only complaint we've ever had. That's great.

so if we're just if these this house is just going to target uh males without children i i guess i'm having a little bit of hard time deciding why a house versus being more efficient with an apartment building and adding a few more rooms and like maybe a common area yeah um are these males that potentially do have children and so they need that setting to help train them or are they just strictly single males

They are, so for the purpose, they wouldn't be allowed to have children staying with them there. So they wouldn't have children. I mean, they may have children and have other ways that they're connecting with them outside of the house setting. I think the way that the model was designed originally was really to help individuals do what we call skill building in terms of conflict resolution, in terms of just doing chores and managing how it is when one person might be doing chores and the other person's not doing their chores and how do you navigate that in a way that is healthy and things like that in terms of the dynamics that change when you are in a more communal setting. I wouldn't say that it's necessarily an absolute requirement or, you know, there's no mandate, right? There's no regulation that we're following. So we could certainly explore something. I would be really hesitant to have anything where they didn't have at least the communal kitchen and those types of spaces, just because I think that we're really missing out on that skill building that we find really critical as individuals are often going back into the workforce, building relationship with family and things like that.

So we've got a housing authority property. We work with housing authority, the Sheridan property. We can't maintain occupancy there because of the voucher freeze. So we've got units that are empty. Is there any way we could do a switcheroo and get the Medicaid funding for those units and at least have some next level of step down and step up? Because it's a shame to see those units empty.

Sure, certainly it is. I think that would be a possibility that would need to be explored with our Medicaid partner, for sure. And they have agreed to sort of this model based on what they know of it so far. So that would require some contract negotiations.

Okay, thank you.

I mean, I love the idea of both and or even using those apartments in Sheridan that, you know, if they're sitting empty, that would be a great resource as well. And just ballpark math. One idea that we've been kicking around as well, even before I got here was recovery high school as well. Is that something that you would still entertain with this money? And I'd be happy to bring somebody to present to the board as well or yourself.

Sure. It is not something that I am an expert in by any means, but I definitely am supportive of the concept and have seen significant success and heard of significant success around the state in the youth that are able to access those. So I do think that there is a lot of truth to getting kids who are needing something like that into a school where they're getting those extra supports and services and sort of creating a space where everyone is in that recovery mentality that is sometimes difficult if you're in a general high school or even middle school in some cases. So I'm very supportive of the concept. I think when they've been explored before, it comes down a little bit to size and scope and what's feasible and what's sustainable based on the size. And I think if all of those things can be figured out and determined, then it's a great concept.

I was just going to say working with the school districts is another consideration. There has to be significant buy-in. I know at Harmony Academy in Lake Oswego, which we're actually sometimes sending our kids to, I mean, of course, the recovery rate with a kid in those is like what... They stay clean 90% of the time. 90% of the time they don't when they do come back to their school of origin. So it isn't a question of something we could set up. It would have to be in partnership with the school districts. And I think that it's really going to have to be something that they prioritize.

Well, Willamette ED has shown great interest in being in Yamhill County. And that would be something that they would set up. So we would partner with them. And we could seed money or something to that effect, have that conversation with them to be here. So

Yeah, we've been open to that for a really long time. We just need them to step up. It hasn't been something they haven't known about.

If it's helpful to the discussion, I would just highlight, you know, if we use the estimates that Lindsay has brought forward this morning, you know, we're looking at for these two, if the board is supportive of this, you know, we're looking at 1.1 million, which is about half of what we have available in opioid settlement funds, which from a settlement compliance. It makes me feel better because there are some timelines associated with the settlement, you know, conditions in the settlement that we have to start using some of these funds. So at least this starts us down a path to ensure that we're complying with that. And so if you're looking at 1.1 million, you know, of using for these areas, you still have the remaining half that would help facilitate future discussions or future work sessions on where to spend the remaining funds and other areas as well. So.

So are you looking for us basically consensus from the board to say, based on the recommendations of the LADPC and your best estimates, that these are the recommendations and we can just say, you know, sally forth and go pursue. And then we can talk about the houses, our houses and the ones that you find and basically just get a move on.

I think that's what we're looking for is consensus on this direction because, again, everything, whether it's the IGA with Clackamas County for the $250,000, that's an action that would be coming back before the board. The board would review that IGA and, you know, the terms and conditions and give a final green light to. So that would come back. So that's why I don't think it needs any formal action today because we don't have anything to take formal action. And I would say the same thing. If we're targeting $850,000 for making the capital investment, whether it's an existing house or purchasing a house, the purchase and sale agreement or a construction contract or remodel contract would all come back before the board. So that's why I don't think we need any official action. But if, you know, I think we are looking for consensus on these recommendations to proceed.

So I'd want to see new construction versus purchasing because you mentioned 500 and some odd thousand for one that almost sounded like it was ready to go versus what we could rehab or demolish and build a new maybe where the old admin houses for HHS or whatever, whatever property you have tagged for that. But I think I would want to see numbers for that as kind of a next phase. And then obviously IGA, I'm assuming it's going to be fairly straightforward, but we definitely want to review that. We can do that. I guess in general, I'm okay with the recommendations. Yeah, both of those.

And I worked with Chair Roberts to do this at the Clackamas County back in November. So I'm glad that we're moving forward.

so can we get a date then for wesd yeah i can work on that for to bring a proposal for uh high school detox yeah do you would you probably on the other end of um our move in august maybe or sure whatever i guess whatever the next available day is i'd say probably you're looking at late summer early fall probably somewhere there yeah okay okay great thank you sounds great excellent thanks thank you lindsay All right, that brings up our consent agenda. Looks like we have some appointments, some excess vehicles, and some minutes. I would move approval. Is there any further discussion?

None.

All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. H is old business. There is none. I is other business. I1 is consideration of approval to authorize Lindsay Manfrin or designee on behalf of EML County Health and Human Services to submit an application to the Oregon Department of Health and Human Services Ticket to Work Program.

I would move approval.

Motion's been made. Any further discussion?

Just one quick question, Lindsay, while you're still here. That's a reimbursement. So that $32,000, that's over four years. Is that even worth your admin costs?

It's a great question. This is the first time that we've actually had to apply for these funds. And I would say the administrative oversight is very small. And so as these come up, really what the benefit is, is it's allowing a direct connection between these agencies and our supported employment programs just to make it really easy to get people connected. And the fact that we get a reimbursement on top of that is just sort of icing on the cake, as they say. Okay, thank you.

Motion's been made. Any further discussion?

No.

All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Item I3 is consideration of a Verizon wireless offer to upgrade county. Item I-2, that's two weeks in a row I've done that. Item I-2 is consideration approval of proposed HHS behavioral health usual and customary rates, public health clinical rates, and environmental health fees for 26-27, effective July 1st, 2026.

Chair, I move approval.

Motion's been made. Any further discussion?

I do have some questions for Lindsay, if you don't mind. Some of these are for me and some of them are just general questions for public for process. The sliding scale rate that you have and pay what you can, how do you maintain the fairness of that? I've heard a dollar or 150. How do you maintain that?

It is based on their family size and income and looks at the federal poverty guidelines. And so it's a scale that is just determined by that.

Okay, so there's a little bit of a formal process. You don't just say, I can pay a dollar.

Yeah, it's very much a formal regulated process.

And on the rate sheet, you have billings listed for on-office visits, one through five ranging from $25 to $197. And... And then on another page you have in-person office visits for 494 and 679. Is that number when they're together, if you do both of those?

I think it might be the difference between a public health office visit rate and a behavioral health office visit rate.

Okay.

So the public health ones are going to be a lower, they're a lower, be in a lower cost.

And are those market or are we quite a bit cheaper than if you were to go to Providence or?

That's a good question, and I don't know the answer to that. I haven't compared to sort of the market for what those cost in other facilities or other organizations. But how we do it is there are certain services and costs that were capped at the state by a certain level. And so for those ones, of course, as long as our our costs are not under that, then we just use the max rate. But largely what we use is something called the Jarvis methodology. And it's a rate setting tool that is based on our costs. And that's how we set those rates.

And what's your reimbursement rate on those? Are we... you know, getting a kind of market on that, or are we?

It depends pretty significantly on insurance providers. So one of the things that has happened over the last four years or so is we have seen a significant shift in the number of, or really what we call our payer mix. So historically, the vast majority of people who have come to our clinic for behavioral health services, which is certainly the largest amount of services we're providing, historically has largely been Medicaid. Over the course of the last four years, we have really seen that shift. And right now, only about 60% of our services we're providing are to Medicaid. That leaves 40% that is privately insured. That is a challenge for us because it is difficult for us to be credentials with private insurance. health insurers for a lot of reasons. It's not an issue that is unique to Yamho County by any means. It's something that community mental health programs have challenges with throughout the state. And so when I say challenges getting credentialed, they have a lot of rules that are different than Medicaid rules. And those are ones that just by the nature of our organization are difficult to meet. And it has nothing to do with quality of care. It just has to do with the types of providers and the rules around credentialing individual providers versus organizations and things of that nature. So oftentimes we're not getting paid by private insurance providers. And when we do, they rarely pay our rate. But with Medicaid, our costs are covered generally because of the capitated contract we have with the CCO.

And then I saw that QMHPs are getting $5.67 an hour for school-based health centers. Those are master levels?

Yeah, QMHP is a master level therapist, yes.

Yeah, and that seems a little, seems on the high end. Is that right, or...

It's accurate.

Again, we're billing insurance for that.

Right. So where we can bill insurance, we will try. And then the rest of it just goes towards the encounters that we have with our capitated CCO contract.

And I saw we no longer offer IUDs. Is that correct?

About two years ago or almost two years ago, we stopped providing the reproductive health services at the public health clinic. It was just based really on volume. We were seeing access to those services in other places like primary care really increasing volume. Specifically, we did a lot of work in public health to bring in trainings to primary care providers around long-acting contraceptive methods and things like that. And really, we've just seen that maintain. And our volume was just not enough at that point to sustain those services. And so all the reproductive health services, as far as annual well women's exams and birth control, we have ceased to do. We do continue to do STD, STI testing and treatment and vaccinations, though.

Okay.

thank you i think that was everything i had okay yeah and we did talk about the restaurant licensing fees which i've been bugging ken about every week so we can address that at the next board of health or next year's board of health yeah thank you the sheriff would like to talk to you about integrating a kennel into the transitional men's housing i'll wait for that email okay

All right, moving on. Motion's been made. Any further discussion?

None.

None. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Thank you. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Item I3, consideration of a Verizon Wireless offer to upgrade county cell phones and get one-time free credit. Sounds like a heck of a deal. I would move approval. Is there any further discussion on this?

I don't have any. None.

All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye. Aye. Thanks, Shane.

Thank you, Shane. Motion passes unanimously. Item I, force consideration approval of a proposed customer price index rate increase of 2.67% as recommended by Yamhill County Solid Waste Department and Solid Waste Advisory Committee for Waste Management. Hauling effective July 1, 2026. Ashley's here if anybody has any questions. We also have a waste management representative here too.

Same question as with Recology. I'm going to assume that This rate increases very minor compared to what we will see maybe next year with hauling, with the Coffin Butte being offline or changing their rates and diminishing their services.

We've already quit going to Coffin Butte as a Q4 of last year. So we won't see a bump next year because we're not going to Coffin Butte.

So this increase kind of reflects that from last year and we won't see more in the coming years or higher bumps? Not because of disposal, no.

Okay.

was all i had okay make sure start no questions no all right uh i would move approval is there any further discussion i'm hearing none all those in favor signify by saying aye aye motion passes thank you thank you guys for oh we got one more here hang on a second uh consideration approval of a proposed item i5 is consideration approval of a proposed rate increase of 8.1 percent as recommended by yamhill county solid waste department and Solid Waste Advisory Committee for Waste Management Transfer Station effective July 1, 2026, and consideration of a proposed rate change for fluorescent light tubes to $3.50 per tube less than four feet in length and to $5 per tube greater than four feet in length by Waste Management Transfer Station effective July 1, 2026. Do you have any questions?

None. Thank you. None.

none all right i'll make a motion to approve if there's no further discussion all those in favor signify by saying aye aye aye motion passes unanimously thank you guys for coming Item I-6 is consideration of approval for public works to lease two motor graders under the state government source wall contract in the total amount of $75,147.28 per year for four years. And this is a savings from what we did last time. If you guys have any questions.

I have a few questions. Okay. And I realize that we maybe surplused some of these questions that I have to ask here. No worries.

They're more than happy to answer them.

How these graders didn't seem that old, six, seven years old. How's this money work? And where's the savings at? least new ones I mean I like the idea of you know somebody else managing them we have a team you have a team of mechanics right so if you can just help me make this yes all make sense so

Annually, the cost of maintaining or repairing the graders gets more significant every year. This last like two years we've spent probably $85,000 on just one in repairs. So if you're taking into account what our annual lease payment would be, it would end up being, you know, $38,000 and $39,000 for one and the other. And would end up paying for itself so we'd be saving money on the maintenance side but also saving money and our replacement fund side and the goal here was to build up our funds so in the future we can start purchasing them outright that Price has significantly gone up since 2020 when we were buying them and had a buyback with Peterson Cat. It's no longer an option. It's not profitable for us. So this was a way for us to save in the future.

So you're spending around $80,000 just in maintenance for one of these guys?

Yeah, maintenance and repairs. And it's getting worse. We've been having some transmission issues on one of them. And if they can't rebuild it, that part of loan is over 70, so $30,000.

And what would you typically spend if you're not buying a transmission or something? What do you budget for to maintenance and repair one of these guys? I know they're heavy art uses.

Yeah. It's really hard to say. It depends on conditions and... what they are doing with certain operators. Just to redo the pins and bushings in the front end, it costs us $24,000. Okay. So the parts are really expensive, and then the labor to do it is very expensive. And Peterson Cat likes to keep all of their software tight, so we end up having two call service trucks, unfortunately. Okay. Okay.

And with the new leases, all of that is inclusive now, correct?

Yeah. So the idea was that we would basically have no maintenance costs. We, with this deal, would have insurance taken care of and a warranty for the entirety of it. So we won't have any of that expense as well.

what else will you be using the new truck that we just uh was up in here for us a few weeks ago if they're gonna you know if we have was john deere's doing the the service on these what else is going to be that we would be using that mobile truck for or the shop truck yeah okay um

That one, we maintain brush cutters and we have, you know, anything from small vehicles all the way to big dump trucks that we're able to work on and do things in the field. And we can work on cap, but if it's anything like software related where we have to, you know, test electrical outlets and things like that, we just don't have the software, but all the mechanical portions we can. Okay.

All right. Thank you.

Thanks.

Thanks. Thank you, guys.

I would move approval. If there's no further discussion, I call for a vote. All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Aye. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you very much. Thank you.

I was just going to stick around for the next thing in case there's any questions.

Okay, stick tight there. I-7, consideration approval to authorize Mark Lago or designee on behalf of Yamil County Public Works to submit an application to the Oregon Department of Transportation for the Safe Route to School grant for South College Street improvements.

That's a county road that they have to take back once we fix it right now.

They are accepting it back once it's built to their standard. It's a win-win. It needs a lot of work. I forget the gentleman's name, but I believe he was the city manager for the city of Newburgh a couple years back. We had a very positive conversation. It's in their best interest. They want to bring it into the fold, all the roads that we maintain in the city limits. The threshold is being up to the city standards. So this will this will make that happen at little to no cost to the county. And then when it's all new, it will be turned over to the city. So it's a real win win. yeah how much of of college is the county and i knew that part of north college was but i didn't know south college was yeah so south college it uh if you go to the four-way stop that is by like one of the baseball fields or softball fields at that school back there renny yeah um and then you head towards the river it goes in the dip and then back up to the railroad tracks okay so not the school towards downtown then is correct

Is this the one that we get to take advantage of, the George Fox intern where they did the design, 30% design on?

I believe so.

I'd make a motion to approve. If there's no further discussion, I would call for a vote. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Thanks, guys, for coming. Moving on. I, a consideration of approval of an agreement between the Yuma County Sheriff's Office and the City of Dayton for police services in the amount of $219,129.31, effective July 1st, 2026 through June 30, 2027. I would move approval. Motion's been made. Any further discussion?

None. None.

All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Motion approved. Did you say aye?

Aye.

Aye. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Aye. Nine's consideration of approval of a board order in the matter of authorizing the sale of surplus property and exempting the sale from the requirements of YCC 2.60.03 A to D. This is a Connex that somebody offered to purchase from us, but we have multiple others. I did talk to Mark, and he's aware that he'll help with the other Connexes and get those onto Surplus for you for the next go-round. Does anybody have any questions? No.

Something more?

No. Jody.

Oh. Oh. I think it was for me, it's pretty self-explanatory in the memo.

Yes. Yeah. I was just, I was a little worried about the process and, you know, only being a thousand dollars instead of the surplus. And, you know, can we do that? But I was assured that we could. So yeah, I don't have a problem with it.

I think considering the condition, it's probably a decent value in having staff savings not look at it. But if we do a lump with the rest of them, I think there was four. Did you say there's four or five more?

We have. I'm not even positive the number. They're spread out over three different locations. There's some that are not ours. There's some that belong to Public Works. I don't know. We're going to have to do a lot of research to try to determine that. This one, it was... I'm trying to accomplish a specific purpose with opening up some space in that storage yard. Uh, we, it's interesting because we actually had a recent, uh, criminal case where we wound up with like four of those that were all brand new and they sold at a federal auction for like $1,500 a piece. And they had like roll up garage doors in them and man doors. I mean, they were very, very nice, uh, And so looking at what the yield was on the auction and then what we would be invested into it versus being able to get that thing out of there and open up some space for a need that exists. That was the reason for the request.

Okay.

And not have to move it.

And not have to move.

And not have to move.

I will say I'm okay with just this one, but if we do more, let's try to time it out and Kira will help get these on surplus. Mark said. Mark said. Mark said.

Yep.

So anyway, with that, I would move approval. If there's any further discussion, call for a vote. All those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you, Sheriff.

Jay's public hearings. We are, Jay wanted to receive a public comment on the 26-27 county budget. Do you need me to open that or, okay. I'm going to open up this public hearing at 11.15 a.m. to receive public comment on the 20-26-27 county budget. If you're online, raise your virtual hand. If you're in the audience, raise your hand. And physical hand. Get plenty of time seeing none. All right, there is none. Good job.

You can close the hearing and I have some modification.

Okay. With that, I'm going to close the hearing at 1116 am.

Okay, as kind of typical that we do each year. This is also the point once we do the public hearing close public hearing. I also have some minor adjustments that I want to present to the board prior to preparing the resolution and everything for budget adoption for next week. I will say pleasantly this year, in years past, I've had a pretty long list of changes, but I only have essentially three changes to bring forward. So I'm getting my handouts here. So here's the first one.

And second one is a memo. Got that.

So per Oregon budget laws, the board of commissioners can make some changes as long as it's not more than 10% within a fund of the approved budget that the budget committee approved back in May. or April. So the first change is going to be a change to the discretionary fund, our general fund. And it's reducing the reserve for the future line by $107,816. And you're going to see it further explained down below. It's increasing expenditures in the 911 dispatch services. I need to make this adjustment. YCOM approved a budget that included a dues increase and the dues increase is $107,816. So in order to make sure I have sufficient appropriation to pay our dues for next year, that's the first change. And that's 100% general fund. So that's why I'm reducing the reserve for the future. So I have to increase the discretionary allocation to 911 to pay our YCOM dues. So that's the first one. The second one, the second request for a change is, and this is late in the process, it's kind of unique, but in talking with county council and things that transpired over the last couple months, I have a reclassification request for our current county council one to county council two. And that's in light, and you'll see that I explained it in the memorandum, Um, over the last, you know, since February, you know, sorry, Caleb, you're here on the spot. So sorry for the awkwardness. Yeah. Uh, requesting reclassification, as you know, Caleb, uh, really stepped up when we were having staffing issues within county council's office. Um, We were paying him out of class during that time frame, but he was working out of class the entire time, demonstrated outstanding ability to do the job. And so looking backwards, it's not just recognizing Caleb for the work that he's done, but also looking forward that should they have challenges, county council's out of the office. I want the ability of assistant county council to be able to step into that position and and provide coverage without having to go through additional steps of doing out-of-class pay or things like that. It assists long-term for coverage, simplifies things in the operations of the office, and this is in direct consult with Jody, our current county council.

And I also would add that Councilor Raver has added significant other duties to the office just in general in terms of narratives that he provides to the office. So I would concur that that's definitely a much needed reclassification.

So with that, those are the only changes that I have to the approved budget, which is a little unique for this year. And so this only requires one action if the board, a motion and approval for the changes that I have summarized here. And then those would be reflected in version 40 for the final budget resolution that I bring forward next year, next week.

Okay.

I would move approval.

of the changes presented. Okay. Any further discussion? All right. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you.

All right.

Moving on to K, which is announcements.

All right. Uh, I got to invited to intend the, uh, said court golf tournament. I didn't golf, but, um, DCI, Tim Murphy at DCI senior vice president, uh, asked me if I'd come help him cook some hamburgers. So I got to spend the day with him. The theme of the golf course was, um, old cartoon characters. And so he asked me to dress like Brutus of in Popeye and, uh, and he dressed like Popeye. So we did win first place for best dressed just in case you were wondering. Um, But it was great to spend the day with him and just other business leaders in our region. Sheriff's Foundation dinner. Obviously, you guys would probably echo some of this stuff, but I go to a lot of these places. fundraising dinners. And if you see chicken on the menu, it's going to not a great night. Well, Kit really knocked this one out of the park. That was some of the best catered chicken I've ever had. Well done. I know you put a lot of work into that, you and your team. So thank you so much. And to the foundation board members, first time, first crack at it, you guys kicked it out of the park and I didn't hear how much money they raised, what the total was, but I don't know, maybe one of you guys heard or sheriff. I have that number. You have the number. Okay, good. Um, so thank you to everyone that was involved with that. Um, Commissioner Starrett and I got to tour the jail on Monday. My biggest takeaways on that was the new kitchen space looked really great. And I could tell how excited they were to have that kind of functioning at more high speed and proper equipment and being able to clean the space a lot better. And the other difference was, is that last year, one of those cell blocks were kind of under construction and seemed like it had been for a long time and it was currently in use. So I like to see that forward movement there. Obviously that building is old and has lots of needs. And so it's good to see a little check marks off. YCOM this week, as Ken said, a rather large increase to the budget, 18%. And really what that was is during COVID, the board had shut off these incremental increases every year of 3%. And so this was getting us to right size and be able to hire a few people to keep, you know, that crew right now is working really at 100% all the time. In fact, Patty, the director gave a update that Ziply had had a failure a couple weeks ago to 911, to the 911 lines, and nobody really knew outside of YCOM. There are seven lines and two switches. Three of those lines went down, and they were able to move two of them to their admin lines, but... During that time, while they're trying to fix it, they get ghost calls. And this is a call that essentially to the dispatchers sounds just like a call. They pick up and, you know, give their spiel and there's nothing on the other end. It's a ghost line. And so that takes about 20 seconds to go through that motion. On a typical day last year, May 1st, This was from May 24th to June 3rd. On May 28th last year, you get around 80 calls. This year on that day, there was 432 calls. So really just a shout out to that crew and what they have to do to deal with. And so that was one thing that was really helped me justify to get to that 18% and understand the need for that. Also text to 911 is live and they're filming a video campaign right now with one of our ASL interpreters. She's volunteering to film this video just to describe it to the general public. So that would be very great to see that working. Of course, if you can call, it's a little bit faster and more efficient, but if you can't, then it's a great resource. Equity Action Workgroup. On July 6th, the homeowner application open up for Mac Habitat for Humanity, three affordable homes along. And then as well as a homeownership repair grants are going to open up for up to $15,000. And as we heard earlier today, High Heaven Gate is closing on Monday. So that's all I have.

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the fundraiser for the Sherris Foundation, the very first one, and I think we had, and a former board, we were kind of the champions of making sure that there was support for that. And I'm amazed to see that the board, the foundation board has been so active. They were just really behind this. And I do want to say that not only did you have a habitat conservation tour the day before. You then went to Costco and bought the chicken. You came home and cooked it. You and your wife, Carolee, and your daughter, Quinn, were working really long hours to put that thing on. And it was really evident just how much you put into it, not only having it at your place, but we really do appreciate it. And seeing the canine demonstration and the sheriff's posse and just seeing the families there and seeing just how important that money is going to be to support them, the wives and the kids and what the deputies go through. So I just shout out and hopefully, Sheriff, this will be the beginning of many more and that you raise boatloads of money. We did have our jail tour, and I want to say a special thank you to the guys that sit there in the observation room and take a look at those cameras all day long, and the ones that deal with some very difficult people. And we don't see them all the time, but I just appreciate them very much. Tuesday was a swearing-in of seven new staff. So you've got deputies and you've got staff and you've got reserve deputies. So congratulations for that particular event. Also want to say a very special thank you to Community Corrections, the Corrections Program Coordinator, Raul Michel. I witnessed a graduation of three women who went through a six-month course called Moving On. And these are women who the course started out with eight, three of them graduated, one of them with a brand new baby. And they went through a very difficult program, and they graduated. So I want to thank the probation officers and the corrections program coordinator for the work that they do in that. One of the predictors of criminality in women is unhealthy romantic relationships. And that basically is where they are involved with guys who are basically going to help them get into some criminal behavior. And the primary victims are children and acquaintances. And that is something that is significant. So one of the modules is learning how to have healthy relationships. So congratulations to those three women. It's quite impressive. The other thing is, just want to report back that Dori Vickery, superintendent at Sheridan, did report on that vision clinic. 25 kids were identified as having significant vision issues. One of the kids had so many issues vision-wise that she would actually have to have corrective lenses to drive. So this is something that wouldn't have happened without the district nurse, without the superintendent, and the university, Pacific University team. So hopefully that'll be an annual event.

So last Friday was the butterfly tour. It went fairly well. It's about the same as the last three years. But the only thing different is we actually had some federal delegation that showed up and a few extra parks board members. It was a little bit concerning in the very beginning because it was raining and it was cloudy and that's not good butterfly flight time so we get out there at our second stop and the sun comes out and there's the butterflies flying around so it ended up just absolutely knocking it out of the park having federal delegation there to actually back up what we've been doing with our habitat conservation plan so. That all went well. Saturday was the YCSO Foundation Barbecue Fundraiser. They raised over $60,000, and this benefits all of their volunteer groups that are associated with the Sheriff's Department, and especially the canines, and they had a demonstration. And we're thinking an idea for next year as an extra auction item is... you have a canine experience and you get to bid and decide which commissioner should should the dog have to run after and i mean you'll get a little bit of protection don't worry about it it'll be fine we'll make sure that you're safe but you get to pick which commissioner gets attacked by the dog i'm in yeah yeah mary can be a part of that yes yeah i'll have watson with me i'll be watson watson will come up that would be yeah do we get to pick which dog Anyway, it was very well attended. The cadet group showed up. They helped. I mean, they were there three hours early, making sure everything was organized. It went really well. The posse, Jason saying the posse showed up with their horses. I think just in general, the whole thing went well, especially for inaugural foundation dinner. So looking really looking forward to next year and and see how well that they do. I did meet with the Amity and McMinnville superintendents this week to begin conversations about some form of a truancy court. Right now there's no, there's nothing with teeth to back up. If a parent does not get their kid to school, they can ask and beg and plead for them to drop their kids off. But there seems to be a breakdown there of parents getting their kids to school. So yeah, i'm going to start digging a little bit into this i know malheur county has an ordinance where they stepped up their own county-wide truancy court so i want to start looking into that we'll reach out to malheur and see how they were able to do that um willamina city council meeting they're finalizing budgets um so not too much going on there that's uh Too exciting. Yesterday was Applied Physics Tour, which is out on Riverside Road on the outskirts of Mac in the industrial area there. Last time I toured there last year, they're actually still under construction with the clean room. I'm not even going to begin to explain what they do, but it has to do with microscopes and these little tiny pieces that they have to use chemicals to erode away and... They have to work under microscopes, and we're talking like micron-sized stuff, pieces that go into microscopes. If you want to know more, just go out there and get a tour next time because it's pretty cool. Tonight's Recology After Hours with the Chamber at 5 p.m. at Recology. Lafayette City Council meeting is tonight at 6.30. And with that, is there anything else for the good of the order? All right. We're going to call it closed at 1132 a.m. Thanks, everybody, for sticking in there with us.