Board of Commissioners - Regular Meeting

Sorry, Bubba, did you say something?

I was just checking on sound. Okay, yeah, I can hear you. Okay, good. I got my AirPod in. Sometimes it doesn't love Zoom on the iPad. Oh, gotcha. If you say it's good, then I'll trust you. Yep, yep, I can hear you. Mr. Johnson, you saw that I have a walk-on. Is it you? I do not see it. Okay, yeah, just at the end. Juliet's house request from us. Russell should be on the call, so we can call on him as well. Is there a printout somewhere? I had asked maybe forward something to you guys, but maybe it got out late. Sorry about that.

I forwarded an email. You should see an email from me. I can resend it if you want it at the top.

Oh, that is a summary. Do you have a copy of the actual letter that's going to be submitted?

No, I'm just asking for consensus, and then we'll work from there. So would you guys be interested in doing this? We can talk about it when we get there.

OK. Yeah, we should be careful. We should wait till we start. Yeah.

all right all right i'm gonna if everybody's ready i'm gonna open up this formal session at 10 a.m on july 30th and can we all stand for the flag salute please i'll lead us pledge allegiance to the flag to the flag of the united states and to the republic for which justice for all. Thank you all for that. Up next is our calendar session. Is there any changes?

None for me.

None. Okay. Public comment. If anybody online, which I cannot see who's watching right now, but if anybody's online, raise your virtual hand if you have a public comment. Kale, is there any? I'm not seeing any. Okay. Moving on? I don't see any hands. Okay. All right. Thanks. Moving on. E is department updates. There is none. F is work session. There's none. G is consent agenda. I would make a motion to approve. Is there any further discussion?

None.

None. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. H is old business. H1 is consideration of a board order and findings in the matter of affirming the planning director decision to approve planning docket number FT-02-26 slash M-02-26 forest template dwelling substantial construction request and recite approval tax lot R322-00700. The applicant is Mike Osterman. I would move approval. Is there any further discussion? none none for me and all those in favor signify by saying aye aye motion passes unanimously thank you that brings us to other business which is I-1 is consideration of approval of amendment number three to an agreement between Yamil County and Polk County board order 23-401 for four guaranteed beds in the amount of $760 per day in the first year with an annual increase based on the CPI retroactive to July 1st, 2026 with an annual automatic renewal clause.

Chair, I move approval.

Motion's been made. Is there any further discussion?

None.

All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. I choose consideration of approval of amendment number four to an agreement between Yamhill County and Clatsop County, 19-217, for one guaranteed bed in the amount of $230 per day in the first year with an annual increase based on the CPI retroactive to July 1st, 2026 with an automatic renewal clause.

I would 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-3's consideration approval of amendment number one to agreement number 37324 between Yamhill County and the Oregon Department of Education 25-309 to include the afterschool snack services terms and conditions effective upon full execution.

Move approval.

Motion's been made. Any further discussion?

None.

None. None. All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Aye. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. I force consideration of approval to rescind Board Order 26-122 and to authorize Public Works to purchase a 2026 Peterbilt 536 under the state government source well contract in the amount of $278,410. I would move approval. Is there any further discussion?

None.

None. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion passed unanimously. Thank you. I-5's consideration approval of a temporary access easement between Yamhill County and the Gary T. Baker Revocable Trust for access to tax lot number R3230-00100 for the equipment and materials required to fall two trees near the property and the old Newberg landfill. I would move approval of this. Is there any further discussion?

None.

None. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. I-6 is consideration of approval of a cooperative purchase agreement with Copunet Inc. Master Agreement Number R250302 for Zoom phone implementation to replace the current voice over internet protocol, VoIP, phone system, a total amount of $644,187 for three years. I would move approval. Is there any further discussion?

Chair, we have Shane Hoffman here, heads up our IT department. I think it might be a good idea if you just got the base code on the record. Thank you.

Sounds great.

Shane? Alright, well good morning everyone. Can you hear me? Yes. All right. Yeah, we're requesting board approval for selecting CopyNet as a reseller for a Zoom phone solution. We've had Mitel for over 11 years. It's an end of sale, which means we cannot buy more licenses. Replacement hardware is limited. If we stay with Mitel, we'd have to spend significant dollars to do an upgrade. It's a perfect time to evaluate additional phone system options, which led us to explore Zoom phones and the opportunity to leverage an Omnia cooperative contract. My memo has the request, the background and the dollar comparisons between Mitel, the Mitel upgrade and Zoom phones. One other advantage I wanted to highlight that I think it's in my memo, but I don't think I called it out clearly enough. I just wanted to mention one. Another advantage is the county IT staff. will only have to support the county Zoom phone implementation. In the city of McMinnville, IT staff will support their own Zoom phone implementation. Currently today with Mitel, county IT staff have to support the county, the city Mitel phones, as well as WICOM business lines. With that, are there any questions?

Thank you. None.

Thanks, Shane. All right, motion's been made. Is there any further discussion?

None.

None. All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. That brings us up to a walk-on by Commissioner Keene.

Yeah, and Cale, if you don't mind promoting Russell on here as well. I left most of my notes at the office, so... But this was a request by Juliet's House to ask us if we could be a part of a community block grant process. Now, we are in the middle of one. It gets a little complicated because we are in the middle of one with Cove Orchard as well. We have a request in. Speaking with Arthur Chaput at Business Oregon... There's only so much money in these grants, obviously. I think that there is about $25 million in requests and a pot of around $10 million, give or take. So we compete but don't compete. These are two separate options. About 25% of the money goes to infrastructure like Cove Orchard. 20% or so goes to community building programming like this. And then there's a 5% that goes into things like economic development and so on. So what we are asking today is some consensus or just a small conversation about if you guys would be interested in being... We have to be the... the grantor, and then we subcontract to Juliet's house and they're looking to buy a neighboring piece of property to expand their services. And I'll let Russell kind of give us a little bit more of a background on what it is they are hoping to do. to do with that. Thank you, Commissioners.

Excuse me, Russell, real quick. And Chair, can I just request that this is an item that requires a lot of there's a lot of background to these CBDG grants and looking at the pots of money. I think it's best if everyone gets up to speed. And I want to make sure that when when we do have this conversation, everybody's fully aware of what is available, what is likely going to be allocated for these particular kinds of projects. And I think right now we're coming to it cold because we got it last night. And I think in order to do justice to it, and so that when we have more information, we can be better informed to do our due diligence to ask Russell these questions. So I just think in the interest of fairness that we take a look at this, but not today.

Yeah. And that's more or less what I'm asking is, are you guys in the world interested to be doing this and then giving letting Russell give the bit of the elevator speech? And if you guys want to get with him during the week, there is some deadlines that they are trying to meet. So. which is why I walked it on and not tried to do it in a week when you guys had more time to read. So I met with him on Wednesday.

I think they have it until the end of September. So I don't think there's so much urgency that we have to do this today.

But there is a deadline in August as well, from what I understand. So maybe we can just yeah, maybe we can let Russell give his his elevator speech and then you guys can get with him on your own and ask more questions and so on. But I'm just looking to see if start the conversation. If there's interest, I'm not asking for anything, any yeses or nos today.

I have interest. Russell, go ahead and hit us with your bullet points.

Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner. I appreciate this time. So as you know, we have been slowly moving towards creation of a Family Justice Center that's a little bit further down the road. And so we're building it piece by piece. And the first step that we see is critically important is expanding our physical facility to provide more services, specifically in our clinical services, which is where we do the assessment and the medical evaluation of the children that we see that have been impacted by child abuse. There's a building close to us that we would like to acquire. that would allow us to begin that process. And in that space, we would be putting another assessment area, which is a family waiting room and an assessment room, a forensic interview room, a medical space. And what's particularly interesting is creation of a drug, a child drug endangered laboratory where we could actually do the testing with the child that's been exposed to drugs. We've been a pioneer in the state of Oregon in this regard up until very recently, children that were exposed to drugs were measured on an adult scale, which is just totally inappropriate working with a national organization we have brought in an appropriate level of testing for children we just don't have an appropriate space yet to collect that data and to analyze to whether to what degree a child has been exposed to drugs of any kind. So this is part of what we are hoping to do. We're looking for about 1.5 million to acquire the building and to do some minor modifications to it that will allow us to actually serve more children in this community.

All right. Russell, would it be too much to ask to have something by next Thursday if we put it on the agenda now?

Absolutely. We will get some information to you.

Yeah. And I'd like to see if he can and if it's in his schedule, have Arthur there just in case there's some in-depth questions that we need answered. Because my biggest thing is I want to make sure we're not competing against ourselves with the cohort.

Certainly.

So appreciate it.

I appreciate your time. Yes, ma'am.

thank you yeah appreciate that and i didn't mean to short circuit this i just want to make sure because there's so much about the about the process that i think it would be good for for us to know i just want to make sure that i know that it's broken into different um different grant applications for different types of projects i would just want to know if there's anything in the hopper that would also be in this category that before we head down this road we know whether or not we're cutting the legs off another project so arthur would be good to to know where we stand on that but i think it's only about 11 million bucks that the um the state's going to get and um and and 2.8 for these types of projects i believe and i just want to make sure we're we're fully aware before we

Charge ahead. Speaking with Arthur, Yamhill County has no other or other organizations. There are no other projects like this or in that pot of money happening.

Regionally within District 6, is there any that you're aware of?

He didn't mention any. I know Polk County just built a Family Justice Center, so they're not in this as well. And I don't think that Marion County, if I'm... is eligible because they fall into a larger, very unique situation.

Well, if we can get Arthur on board for next Thursday and that'll be an in person, right?

In person. Yes.

Okay. Give her a test run. Work out all the bugs. All right. Thanks, Russell. Appreciate it. Thank you very much. With that, we have Jay, which is public hearings. There are none.

Excuse me, chair. Were we going to talk about dog control at all today?

Sheriff is here.

Yeah.

Sheriff. Good morning. Can you hear me okay?

Yes. A little muffled.

Mr. Hopper asked me to join this morning. I don't know if he wants to say anything to kick off or if you want me just to kind of give a general update.

Yeah. If you, if you want sheriff, because I did extend the invitation based on discussions yesterday and I know there are some, uh, press releases and some, a lot of dialogue that's been happening, um, about, uh, dog control and, uh, Um, and so we thought just kind of having the discussion here as part of formal session and kind of getting an update on the status and where we're at on things that just, you know, figured the board would want an update.

Um, so yeah, there's been a lot of attention the past several days, uh, about dog control and we continue to have conversations with our community partners. Uh, and I think really, you know, as the board is fully aware, It is just increasingly challenging to deal with dogs that come into the stray system and how to move them. It is my opinion based off of all the conversations that the dog fostering system, the adoption system, most if not all of our local shelters and nonprofits are completely overcrowded. I did have a good conversation with the executive director from Homeward Bound yesterday. Also wound up having a very good conversation with a private kennel owner yesterday who stepped in to help us. And just to give, I think, some perspective or an example, over the past three days, we have received probably a dozen complaints about dogs being found wandering at large or trespassing on people's property. But in one case, just outside the city of Dayton, there were two dogs that had been running. And as we currently are really space challenged to find somewhere to kennel dogs that are picked up. Yesterday, it all kind of culminated in these dogs wound up on some private property and the homeowners were unable to even come out of their house because the dogs were so aggressive. Um, we ended up spending about two and a half hours with, uh, I think it's some total of five sheriff's office personnel. We had a Sergeant, uh, one of our canine handlers, a couple of deputies, and then one of our detectives that went out, uh, just because she has had success sometimes, uh, getting dogs to approach her that, uh, will not approach, some of our other staff. One of our canine handlers was to the point he was going to put on a full bite suit to try to get in and capture this aggressive dog that just was continuously charging at deputies. It was pepper sprayed. We were ultimately able to safely capture both dogs and we were able to take them to a facility that allowed us to bring them there for kindling it's an open investigation. Some individuals reached out. We potentially identified owners. I don't know if they were dumped or how it came to be that they were out there, but these dog calls, and it's not just us, the cities, the city of McMinnville, the city of Newburgh, dog calls continue to be a significant demand of our time and resources. And as we are just working to figure out what the next stage of dog control looks like. I know the board is full aware in conversations through the budget process this year of the efforts to try to stand up dedicated personnel, identify location and identify places to be able to kennel. I'm actively pursuing some of those at the board. We all went on some field trips here recently trying to identify locations, There just is a lot of frustration, I think, in the community about people that are affected when they have stray dogs on their property or they're wandering. They're concerned about their welfare. We are significantly challenged, and it's not because of any ill intent by anybody, but the nonprofits and the other organizations that we've partnered with for a long time, they have their own challenges when it comes to moving these dogs through the system. re-homing them, finding adoptions for them. And as you can imagine, it's really kind of interesting to watch and to see a lot of the commenting and the discussions that are happening on social media because people openly acknowledge the challenges and the liabilities that are associated with dealing with these animals and the legal requirements that are codified in statute of attempts to identify owners and reunite the dogs with owners. And there are individuals that recognize that some of these dogs are significantly medically challenged, behaviorally challenged. And then they're also at the same time saying that there should be an easy solution. And there's just not, there is not a easy button that we can go and punch because I'm convinced that now after dealing with this as sheriff for two and a half years, we would have done that a long time ago. So I think the one thing that all of the recent flurry of conversation and discussion has prompted is a willingness for more people to engage. I hope to be able to bring back information to the board here soon with maybe a list of options of how we can continue to try to address the issues. So it's just another one of those kind of a linchpin times where we are trying to figure out the best course forward. Our partners in the community that we have worked with for a long time, they're still having conversations with us. They're offering suggestions. We've got some ideas. Homeward Bound gave me a list of ideas of things that we can do to help try to mitigate some of the impacts in the community. And they are all 100% worth pursuing. They're great ideas. So I am convinced that we will see a good solution. It's just we're kind of in a moment of limited options as we try to figure out what we do moving forward.

Commissioner Stewart.

Thank you, Sheriff. It really is unfortunate because at the end of the day, it is the owner's responsibility to be a good dog parent. We see that in the child welfare system. And then somehow government is supposed to fix the abdication of parental responsibilities. And the children and the dogs have been neglected and have not been cared for. And now we are tasked with, you are tasked with figuring out how we address this. I do want to say there's a lot of misinformation on social media, a lot of things that are just absolutely wildly inaccurate and deliberately misleading. What I will say is that it's important for people to understand that the statute requires the sheriffs to enforce this We do the funding part of this, making sure that there is funding to do the job that you have to do. But it's also incumbent upon all of us to think in terms of what we do. We have had a contract with Newburgh, and that went away. And we've been working with Homeward Bound. So I just want people to know that it isn't that you or anyone else has just simply not been aware of the challenges, contracts ending, options. We've looked at other facilities. So I think people need to know it's not like we're ignoring it and we don't realize there's a problem.

Agreed.

All right. Anything else? Any other comments? Commissioner King?

No, I mean, I've, you know, to the sheriff and to Ken and I've said, you know, to do whatever as a commissioner, you know, and I'm sure you two are as well to do whatever legwork that needs to happen here. I mean, we are approaching emergency status. Um, well, we might be past that. We, you know, we don't have a contract with anybody. So, um, you know, uh, I have a list of kennels that I'm willing to get on the phone and start calling and, uh, start connecting those dots if that's possible or if that's needed sheriff, um, as just a, from a time resource. I know that each office, the admin office, sheriff's office, you know, all have restraints on time and this isn't necessarily fit into the normal box of things that need to get worked on. So, um, I, I, I agree with the commissioner stare at that. You know, this is the, you know, statutorily our responsibility, the sheriff's responsibility. And so, um, but, and to find those ways to fund, we've, we've given seed money to be able to, to start that. And, you know, we ended up spending a lot of it on, on, uh, bad dogs or dogs that don't want to, people don't want to take home. And we ended up spending a lot of money on them just being kennels. And so that, that part is hard and where some of the seed money goes to. So I just want that, you know, from that misinformation part, the commissioner was talking about, I want that to be on the record that, you know, as a board, we have tried to invest in this and, and, you know keep finding stumbling blocks and i don't not pointing fingers at any one person this is just a complicated situation so i think that um you know i know the sheriff and his office is trying her their best and and uh ken and his office is trying best working together so um and and yeah we're the three of us are doing our parts as well so that's all i have thank you commissioner

All right. If there's not anything else, we'll move on. Thanks for joining us, Sheriff.

Thank you, Sheriff.

Kay is announcement.

Sure. Get lost in two weeks of where you're at and what you did. So if I repeat something, I... apologize but uh yam hill derby days i got to watch a a couple of those derby races that's always um super fun a couple of girls competed for first and second so that was it was fun to watch uh old-fashioned festival parade pancake feeds all the fun stuff that happens there mac fresco did a um Art Walk, close down about three or four streets of 3rd Street. I had to say hi to the high school students that had a booth there. Really cool. They took Coke cans, pop cans, and put rivets through and made earrings. It was super cool. Um, got to meet with, uh, YCCO and get an update from them and, uh, just what they've been working out history of the whole thing. And, and, uh, how things are moved forward for them and the challenges that they are forecasting, uh, come in the next year or two, um, met with Mac superintendent. Um, I think, uh, chair, you, you had a similar conversation, um, just around attendance. So that's, um, something interesting that, uh, look forward to working on transit advisory committee this last week, as I've stayed in the past, uh, doing community outreach to implement the fare system that's coming on. We spoke a lot about that. Jessica Beach role and probation. And just, uh, we seem to always end up having conversations just about, um, you know, the sessions that are coming up and, and the money that's been taking, been taken from them or split into different pots. And that's usually how those conversations end up going. And then, uh, Three of us got to attend the Chemeketa ribbon cutting here in Yamhill County for their science lab. And got to, as you heard earlier, hang out with Russell a little bit from Juliet's house. So, yeah, definitely moving along. That's all I have. Over to you, Commissioner Starrett.

Chair and commissioners and everybody else, Friday was the Suicide Prevention Coalition. We talked about suicides in older people. Lacey Plasker with HHS's Older Adult Behavioral Health Department gave us an update on statistics that are not well known, and that is the number of suicides in older people. Some of them are actually calling EMS because they're lonely. So they're trying to mitigate that. There are more and more older people in Oregon, and I don't know that folks realize the breadth of services that HHS provides in terms of outreach for our older citizens. Law enforcement chaplain Leo Keelan was there. He gave a training to the first responders on vicarious trauma that they're experiencing. We had our CCO board meeting and talked about the impacts to HR1 and how the CCO contracts are going to be facing some challenges throughout the state. Affordable Housing Corporation met. We talked about an update on projects in the works. The church street remodel, you might not remember years ago, this was a county tax foreclosure. And if you look at the before and after pictures, Housing Authority does a wonderful job on rehabbing these houses, selling them below market, and then getting them back on the tax rolls. But at one point, I'd like to show you the before and after pictures. It's almost ready to go on the market. It's beautiful. talked about a reduction in the number of families on the housing rehab list. And speaking of CBDGs, McMinnville has, there's a grant and five projects are underway for rehabilitation of some of these homes. The veteran safety grant participants have been chosen. Housing Authority, there were updates on various property occupancies, including Stratus, and continued discussions on the redevelopment of the Northwest rubber property in Mack. The Local Government Advisory Committee is a group of people from OHA and throughout the state, commissioners and HHS, personnel talking about the cuts to Medicaid that are coming. But one thing I don't think that this group realizes, or most people realize, is that Oregon has perhaps the most generous and aggressive Medicaid eligibility and SNAP payments, but also there's a high error rate in the SNAP world. And we're supposed to get that down, but there doesn't seem to be an interest in making sure we don't have errors It's more about how can we kind of, I believe it seems they're trying to circumvent so that they can wind up getting more and more people eligible and get them through the system. And I don't think that's the way it should work. We've got a million and a half Oregonians on Medicaid. And we've built a system that, quite frankly, is not sustainable. It's no longer affordable. The cuts that are coming from H.R. 1 are going to really impact the state of Oregon. We're looking at a $421 million budget hole because the state of Oregon has refused to remove folks from the Medicaid rolls that are no longer going to be covered by the federal funding for it. So the state is going to backfill that. And that is no questions asked. There are no eligibility requirements, regardless of where you come from, what your documentation status is, and that is going to be paid by the taxpayers because it's coming out of the general fund. So I think it's important that we realize state government is growing faster than most other governments throughout the country. The number of folks on Medicaid in Oregon, we cover one in three Oregonians and it's no longer going to be sustainable, but it doesn't look like it's going to end anytime soon. Also CPRD had a board meeting and they declined to hear more testimony from those who were concerned about the dangers of mixing bikes, horses, and hikers on Crystal Parrot Riley trails. So despite the fact that there is now an initiative petition out there circulating signatures to save heritage parks, they decided to go ahead with that as well. And there were also some concerns brought up, raised by a citizen on the financial mismanagement of CPRD in light of the resignation of a former employee. The recommendation by the citizen was a forensic audit of CPRD and taking a deep dive into their records, making sure that they're accurate. We had our ribbon cutting at Chemeketa. Fascinating, fascinating program with a lot of high tech. And they're going to be focusing on all the things we need to fill. And these are jobs in EMS, paramedics, EMTs, child care and medical assistance. And one of the things I thought was great talking to Dr. Howard was that they are not only going to give an associate's degree after two years of these types of programs, but they're going to be able to stack another two years, which is leadership. and management on top of that, so that anybody graduating from these programs can graduate from Chemeketa with a bachelor's degree, so that all these jobs that require a bachelor's degree, they now have a cost-effective way to do that. The fair was great yesterday. My very favorite part of it is watching all the kids with their animals and talk to John, who talked a little bit about, who talked about the fact that he has 75 different animal, different kids in the 4-H and FFA groups. So he was there and the mutton busting, little girls riding sheep and they're tough little kids. So really, really, and also did talk to the superintendent regarding that attendance thing at Chemeketa. So more to be discussed. Thank you.

Thanks. And I do appreciate you filling in and giving the presentation for the Chemeketa ribbon cutting. I was definitely running late from an ODOT meeting and it is very much appreciated. And I thank you for that. Commissioner King touched on some truancy issues. truancy court conversations that we're going to be having with McMinnville and now Amity School District. I've also had Willow Minor reach out to me. Just a quick little update. They'll be coming before sometime in August to give a presentation and ask for us to set up a truancy task force. force to see if it is viable to have some form of a Yamhill County truancy court. So just prepare for that. Hopefully sometime in August, we can get that arranged and Jeff and Courtney from Mack and Amity will be there. And then they'll hopefully bring along, there's been a couple other counties that have implemented something along these lines that we could hopefully draft from. So anyway, they're going to come give us a presentation and hopefully we can get something set up for them. Uh, fairs in full swing. Uh, come on down clear till Saturday and check it out. Um, there's a youth livestock auction Saturday at noon. They'll feed you, uh, and get you a free pass into buying, uh, one of the kids animals that'll be going through. Uh, we definitely need your support down there. Uh, every year we grow. more and more and have more and more kids that we need to support and it's becoming just a fantastic program so if you're available come on down you don't have to buy a whole animal you can always just do add-ons for a kid that you may know or if you see one that happens to come by and and give you their sales pitch right out of the blue those are the ones that i like you can always just add on a few bucks to their auction slip you don't have to buy an animal And a quick reminder, when you do, if you do go and you've been there before, you know that the youth livestock auction, you can, it's an option to donate your hog to Y-Cap. So you can purchase it. And instead of flooring it and giving it back to the butchers at floor price, you can actually donate it. And Y-Cap then gets funding, which I think, and I don't want to speak totally to this, but I believe the tribes put some funding towards Y-Cap to help do the cut and wrap. So it's a really good program and really cheap protein meat to be at the food banks for us. And new this year, with a limit, they're actually going to do a couple other of the animals, too, as a donation. So come check that out. Saturday starts at noon. They'll feed you barbecue starting at 11. National night outs coming up on Tuesday. I'm going to be out at Willamina starting at five is set up six o'clock will be in the dunk tank and then I believe Jason Fields commissioner elect will be right behind me in the next hour. I didn't know if you two wanted to give a quick update on where you're going to be or which ones. But I know the sheriff and his crew will be pretty much hit every single one and they'll they'll bounce around to hit them all. But it's a great evening out and shows great support to the community when we're engaged with those. So are you guys going to be anywhere particular?

I'm going to Willamina. I sponsored one of the sponsors, the dunk tank, because I'm going to get out there and let you guys have it.

I usually try to hit two or three of them. Um, I I'm committed to go on Willamina. They did a great job of reaching out to all three of us. It sounds like, um, to get us out there. So I'll be, I'll be there for sure. And, um, you know, I think, let's see, maybe trying to remember where I was last year, but, uh, I think it was Newberg, McMinnville and Carlton last year. So maybe I'll try to hit Yamhill and, uh, amity and then scoot out to willamina something like that so try to try to get to as many as i can but you know the cities get to be spread out pretty far so that's where i'll be

Um, to continue on, I have chat with the chair next Thursday, 6 p.m. Government Services Building. With that, I'm going to pivot to Ken if he wants to give a quick little update of coming into in-person meeting next Thursday, August 6th.

Yeah, happy to. So we're in the final stages. We're winding down the project work on the government services building. Our offices have now moved. We're now on the third floor in the new location. Like I said, we're doing the last minute, the small items in the hearing room, but it's set up right now. The AV is set up and staff and I are going to be doing a lot of testing and training on the new system, both latter part of this week and early next week to be ready to go because on August 6th will be our first formal session in the new hearing room. And we're also doing a stress test that day because there's a planning commission in that same room that evening as well. So we're going to have our first formal session and first planning commission session on Thursday the 6th in the new space. So really excited to kind of showcase the new location and the new dais, the new meeting room layout, and we'll be ready to go next Thursday.

Do you have a plan to start a half an hour early to do a quick little tour or anything?

The plan is to do a ribbon cutting at the front door at nine 30, right there at the entrance. And so yeah, Admittedly, we're going to be careful about how many people we have there because the lobbies are kind of limited and being able to see the door. But just looking at the board, cutting the ribbon and we go into the new hearing room and, you know, a half hour before session and then we'll go right into session at 10 o'clock.

All right, cool. Is there anything else for the good of the order?

Can we make sure, this has just popped in my head, but I know Commissioner Burschauer was pretty essential in this deal too. Did she get an invite to come to ribbon cutting?

We can do so if there's particular folks that you want us to invite and we'll invite Commissioner Burschauer to join as well.

Yeah, I think that would be a good idea. Excellent. All right. Thank you.

All right. Anything else for the good of the order?

No, none for me.

All right. We're going to close it out at 1042. See everybody next week. Thank you.