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Good morning everybody. It's Wednesday,
July 15th

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at 9:00 a.m.
Julie, want to lead us in the Pledge of

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Allegiance?

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» I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America, and to the

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republic for which it stands, one nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and

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justice for all.

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» Any public comment?
No?

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Any public comment online?

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All right.
We will start off with the consent

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agenda.
I entertain a motion to approve the

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consent agenda.
>> I make a motion to approve the consent

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agenda.
>> Second.

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Any discussion?
>> No.

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» All those in favor?
>> Barney, I.

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» Crawford, I.

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All right, Christina.

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» Good morning.
Christina Herron, finance director.

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I believe the treasurer's report is on
the agenda first.

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Let me talk to you about that.
>> Mhm.

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» Uh so, these are our balances as of June
30th.

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And in that first section, those are our
banking investment account balances. And

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then, the difference between our books
and the bank balances

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is that variance, and then that variance
is described below that. It's typically

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our outstanding checks
and some deposits in transit.

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The next section below is all of our
bank accounts in our general ledger and

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how those foot out, and that's the
number that's compared to our

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bank balances to get the variance.

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The next section is how all of that cash
is allocated across each fund

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in our accounting system.

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And then, you can see that that matches
all of our pooled cash in the uh

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bank account section.

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And then, the next section is our
investment allocation uh by type, and

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then the investment values. And just a
quick reminder that those investments

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are guided by the Crook County
investment policy pursuant to ORS 294.

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And our investments are typically held
to maturity, which results in lower risk

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and more predictable returns.

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So, the very last one is just a recap of
the interest we're currently earning on

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the safest accounts that we have in our
local government investment pool

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account.
And I'm happy to answer any questions

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that you may have.

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» No, I don't have any.
>> No, I don't have any. Thank you.

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» Thank you.
>> Appreciate it, as always.

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» Okay.

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» So, you're taking around.
>> Yep. It's kind of the main meeting

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today.
So, this contract is an IGA with the

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Oregon Water Resources Department for
the Assistant Water Master. And uh this

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year, they did request an increase, but
we did not provide them an increase.

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Their request came at the very end but
after budget had been adopted, we did

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not have it in the budget. So, this
contract does not reflect an increase in

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cost for this period. Just a quick
reminder of what this IGA is for. It's

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for water master services under ORS
540-045

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and then OAR 692-50
which are specifically for the assistant

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water master for the Deschutes Basin and
our portion of that. It's a refund a

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part of salary benefits, payroll
expenses, supplies, and IT services.

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And then the duration of this IGA is
July 1st of '26 to June 30th of '27.

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They would like to have a conversation
in December or January about increasing

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the rates, but um
we'll have them come present at that

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time.
>> What do we pay right now currently?

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» Yeah, $46,250
a year.

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» [clears throat]
>> It's been progressively going up every

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year.
I'm I would suggest

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I will not be here, but I would suggest
that you revisit this. I know that there

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are statutes that provide for this,
but in doing some research then um

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and I think there are other counties
that are wondering why we're paying

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this.
It's kind of like double paying.

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Um
that needs to be looked at and

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understand better and at least give a
scope of what they do and be accountable

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» for what they do. Mhm.
>> So, I would suggest that we

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revisit
>> Yeah, I think we should

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do some kind of a report
with who has to do that, but

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what value we actually get out of it
versus what the cost is.

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» Yeah, I'm not sure who directly works
with them at the county, whether that's

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Will, do you know if that's
>> State

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» Tim or
>> I don't know off the top of my head. I

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do have it on my to-do list to to
challenge Jefferson County about this

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and another another issue. Um
So, I I can at least as far as putting a

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report together, get the ball rolling
and and work with Christina or whoever

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else at the county we need to to
um

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I don't know that conversation for you.
>> Yeah, I don't think there's anybody in

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the county that works with them, but um
you know, they they manage all the water

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rights for the state. They manage the
users that are not within Ochoco

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Irrigation District. They manage Ochoco
Irrigation District and all the water

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users in them
well, in the whole state, but in our

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region.
Um

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paying them doesn't give us any
opportunities or give us any any greater

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value of being able to say we don't like
this or we would like to see this

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changed or
um it doesn't give us any authority.

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Um and it's kind of double double taxing
in in many ways because each

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person that um
you know, is a taxpayer is paying for

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this.
Um and if you're an irrigation user,

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you're paying twice for it.
Um so, I I you know, I think that uh

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it'd be interesting to know what their
value is.

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» Agreed.
>> Yeah, I feel like we're just subsidizing

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the state.

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» Yeah, again.
>> Yeah, yeah, again.

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» For yeah, for state resource in this
case.

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» Yes, yeah, absolutely. I mean, it's
their water.

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» State's water, so
um and it's a a service as I understand

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it that they they need to be be
providing to a certain extent under

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statute already, so I yeah, I'm fully
supportive of putting a report together

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and happy to to kick that off and
report back to the board.

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» Yeah, definitely no increase.
>> Yeah.

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That was a hard no.
>> [laughter]

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» Good job. Good job.

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Yeah, uh so no action item.
>> We do need to sign the contract.

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» Oh, okay.
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if you want to move forward with the
contract for this fiscal year '27 at the

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current rate.
>> What's the time frame on it?

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Do we have to get back to them?
>> I don't know. They have been bugging

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Eric and I about getting it signed.
>> I remember

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this is effective back to July, yes.
Section 4

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on page 252 of your packet.
This is effective back to July 1.

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» I think it's in our best interest to
move forward with it this year just

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because of the time frame of the trying
to build a case to

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and conference with Jefferson County
that I think they probably already moved

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it. It was it two? Yeah.
>> Yeah, and it and it was it was it was

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several months ago, but I did have a
conversation with

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uh
Jefferson County's County Administrator

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and he had indicated they were
wanting to have a conversation about a

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legislative
fix um so that, you know,

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we'll have to go through a a long
session and and try to work through that

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if that's the if that turns out to be
the best

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route uh to proceed to fix it. So, I I
would recommend that you proceed with

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this this IGA um while we look at the
rate.

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» God bless you.
>> Um thank you.

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» And this is I believe this is kind of a
one-off from their standard normal thing

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because of the Deschutes Basin,
Deschutes Basin being the Deschutes and

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the Crooked River in this whole water
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and the different things that's going on
in the Deschutes Basin compared to

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others, so.

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I would entertain a motion.
I make a motion to approve the IGA

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Oregon Water Resources Department for
the County. Second?

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Any discussion?
All those in favor?

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» Barney, I.
>> Robert, I.

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» Will?
>> Uh thank you. Uh no no managers are

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reporting this morning.

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» I got nothing.
>> I got nothing.

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» All right. Public?
Last chance for the day

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till next week, of course.

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Anybody on the phone?

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» Um no.
>> I make a motion to adjourn.

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» Second?
>> Any discussion?

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All those in favor?
>> Barney, I.

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» Robert, I.

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» Thank you, everyone.
>> Thank you, all.