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Okay, good morning, Jefferson County Board of Commissioners. It is March 12, 2025, and it is 815.

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We're going to get started with our administrative session, which is our department heads, electeds, and

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So I feel like I gave a pretty good update last time I was here this is can you is this go through Lindsey can you hear me all right.

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I really don't have too much more to add we just swore in Brad Hamlin.

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you're just came back to us to fill that ATV position yesterday.

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Other than that, I almost said no report.

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I feel like it's just a chair.

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But other than that, yeah, I don't really have too much more than that.

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Yep. Yeah.

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I lack of doing things for sure. But people

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are going to prison. That's part of it.

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didn't get some long-term stays out of the jail, so yeah,

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how was your conversation with the City of Maghars?

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There hasn't been anything since, they really reached out. I was supposed to have a meeting with Chief Plumber on Monday, but I didn't make that meeting, so hopefully I'll catch up with him next week and get some more news on some of that.

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That may reach out to Will, figure out where they're at.

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And staffing wise, where you at.

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Technically, minus those LATCF positions were fully staffed on the patrol side.

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We do have one retirement coming up in May, and so we'll have to fill that position but

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as far as the jail goes. I think we're still lacking one or two positions.

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Still recruiting

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on everything. Still recruiting. Still recruiting on the front office staff position.

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We got quite a few applicants for that. I think we were sitting around 18 applicants. Anything

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else? Any other questions? Yes. See you at the ranch.

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there's a lot going on but so I know some people are waiting on things. I promise

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I'm you're on my list but if you need something urgent call me.

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I won't

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elaborate on a lot of things going on. Good

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morning Phil. Good morning.

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Community Development is rolling along. We're seeing a lot of permits and

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applications coming in for single-family dwelling structures,

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department that kind of thing. We have two staff notes I wanted to share with you.

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Tony has been out for a bit. She's in the KDSRA via text that she'll be back on

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Monday, so I'm really looking forward to that. The other is our sanitary in

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Matt just informed me this morning that he has accepted a job and his last day

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will be June 5th. So we've we've been proactive in terms of June 5th. Yes. So we've

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been proactive in terms of outreach on that, so we should be in a good place for that transition.

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And like I mentioned, I'm smiling because it's time to be back on Monday, and I can certainly use the help.

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So, that's it.

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Well, it's exciting to hear the increase in permits and activity, I'm sure it's going to continue to grow.

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And I think we had mentioned earlier, keep a close eye on that, and if there is staffing

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needs, because I feel like it's going to continue to go increase.

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Let us know ahead of time so we can maybe be proactive and not have a big gap in there

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where everyone's really struggling.

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Sure.

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I'll be talking to Jeff and about it is I think we should be doing some forecasting on planning

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a little bit more there's quite a bit in play that I we just need more coverage there and with

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that level of coverage is I don't know what that staff will be asking and talking to have about

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that as we as we move forward and

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have we had much help as far as your desk for some planning

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projects or is that still in the process contracted services we have we have reached out and we've

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engage two consultants. One has done some planning work in terms of applications. But the higher level, the more difficult stuff, neither consultant is available or kind of wanting to do what's it's, it's, it's, it's, it's a tough find right now.

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We know how to do it. Staff knows how to do a lot of it, but it does get to higher level that it just is so complicated.

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If there is a little bit of help in play, if you see things come in, if there's something that you can believe off of your plate, give to one or two of them.

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Yes.

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Okay.

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So the county has also engaged Dave Allen, David Allen on a project or two and so we're both using consultant at a level and then David Allen's playing room with something.

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game has the budget process gone.

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It's going well.

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Good morning.

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Give us a lease, Jefferson County Finance Director.

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Yeah, working hard at budget.

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I'm about three quarters of the way done with it.

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Gearing up to present a draft budget

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to the County Administrative Officer

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and the Budget Officer, Commissioner Simmelink.

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So looking forward to presenting that.

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Had a good day of meetings with both of them

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as well as a few different departments.

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I think we worked through a lot of questions

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and concerns for those various departments and have those ones pretty nailed down.

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I will be sending out an email to department director shortly just reminding you dates for budget hearings.

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We're about a month out from that as well as those of you who have not submitted a budget narrative yet.

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I'll be sending you a template basically what you submitted last year so you can kind of build a budget narrative for this year.

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So, be looking for that for me. I'll need that by the end of next week. So, get that out.

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I am back to being fully staffed. I had some staff out with some sick families and then out at conference for the past couple of weeks.

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So, it's been kind of light in the finance department, juggling some duties between the desks but everybody's back and healthy now.

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So, looking forward to the rest of the month of March.

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Hi, good morning, Katie Russell, Public Health, just working on budgets and work plans.

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We have our TPEP work plan we turned in on Monday, so that was exciting.

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And then we also have maternal child health that's coming up and an STI HIV plan.

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And so a lot of work plans, a lot of budgeting happening right now.

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We're also starting to look to the summer and our outreach event.

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So we have just a couple of things that we're hoping to do on a regular basis, like every

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other week.

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And then just big events here and there throughout the summer.

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So we're starting to look forward to that and figure out how we're going to staff that

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and some of our plans and supplies and things, so that's exciting. We're heading to Jefferson County

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Middle School on Friday to do their career days, so hopefully we'll plant some seeds and some

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middle schoolers to become public health employees in the future. So now I became decided to become a nurse

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This is middle school career day, so hopefully something will happen there.

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Anyways, that's it for us.

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Kate Simpke, county clerk, earlier this week we had our first key

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that meeting, that stands for Property Values Appeal Board.

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We will be hearing two petitions, the board will, next Friday, the 21st.

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Just preparing now for the special district election, we have a total of potential 55 candidates, 13 of those candidates are shared positions from the Shoots County.

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So far we have about 22 individuals who have filed for special district positions out of 42.

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two. So we're just kind of halfway there. I called or sent emails last week reminding

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the districts and I will do one more time. That's Friday. The deadline is the 20th. So next

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week is the deadline.

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The final. There will be four measures on the ballot, two measures

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to the MAC. One, the library is asking, have a levy end, the lake Chinook fire and rescue.

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Also, we'll be asking the public for money. In preparation for this election, we mailed out

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119 inactive notices as a second reminder to those voters whose signatures we either

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challenged or who had a name change that was for the November election.

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It's just part of our routine process.

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We challenged 1.3 signatures or 155 out of 12,000 voted ballots that we received.

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So, we inactivate them if they didn't respond, and then we give them another opportunity

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reminding them.

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We need an updated signature is really what we're looking for.

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And then finally, but I would mention that the Secretary of State, as Reid will be

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stopping by, for a visit, April 14th.

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I've just a yearly update and face-to-face conversation.

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Generally, that's something that the new secretary likes to do, is visit all the counties.

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So yeah, the last visit, I visited with the office and asked if it would be okay if we

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We had representatives from the PCP's come, and they were very amiable to that, the previous administration.

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So, I'll probably do the same here too, and see if they would like some company, I'd like to meet a few more members of our community.

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That's it.

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Thanks, Kate.

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More than that.

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Morning commissioners Matt Paulson, Public Works director.

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So in public works we're busy with recruitment still, still looking at different applications

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and working through that.

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We have started our wheat program, Spray'n, so getting going with that.

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Working on a hazard mitigation grant through OEM and we're up to about 9 million for the

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of palisades, so just rock ball and different mitigation measures or the different geologic

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features that happen down there, so hopeful on that one, but with OEM, there are some uncertainty

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with funding and different things, but working through that.

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And that's focused down there at the coast.

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Yeah, pretty much rimmed around from the boat ramp on the other side, so quite a few

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miles of Jordan Road that you know is affected by rockfall on a regular basis so that's

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to do with you know scaling you know some netting possibly maybe some blasting some of

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the overburden so it's quite a large project you know one thing with OEM they're looking

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for a 25% match so you know finding a couple million dollars I think we could probably

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partner or state parks and possibly PGE, but I guess we'll just work through those

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details as things happen, but it's a pretty good project for us.

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Also working on the capital improvement payment maintenance master plan, that was going

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well, so we're looking at all of our roads that have had deferred maintenance for decades

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and come up with a plan to really address the issues that are happening with those roads.

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And then we're also working on that safety action, transportation safety action plan.

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So that one, hopefully, will have funding for it soon and put that plan into work.

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Also working on the Pony Butte Paving Plan.

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So that one's, we had them redesign it, so we have a really good plan now, so I'll present

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that to the board and just present some options that we have with that road.

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Other than that, we're crushing rock, our rock crushers have been humming, so we're

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doing well with getting our stockpiles built back up.

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We're also grading some roads and fixing potholes and sign work.

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So, yeah, things are going well.

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What's your name?

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Feather.

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You know, they came out with that.

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That new round of funding with the Congressional Directorate's spending. So I reached out to our contact there and I can't remember her name. But she said, do not apply this year that we are still in the running. We're just waiting for the Oregon budget to pass. Once that passes, then the project will get going.

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I think once the budget gets passed,

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and funding's approved and those projects that were selected, I think, you know, the ball

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starts rolling in. I don't know if we'll get to it, you know, this fall. I mean, it's

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a possibility. Our plan, yeah. Our plan is done. I mean, we pretty much designed the new

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bridge. We just need to get the funding and...

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I guess, because I just was in a question from the situation, is it we would have to

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reapply for this money through the state?

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No.

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Through the feds.

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No.

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So our project was a portion, or it was approved.

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I think you don't have to get allocated money.

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Yeah, I think they have to get the budget balanced and passed.

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the state. The state. That's what she said. She said state budget.

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talking possibly started working to fall. Is that what you said? If if it all came

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together. I mean that would be the hope. Otherwise next fall once the water gets

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shut off. So 26. But where are we at with the bridge that got closed

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November, Eureka? Yes. We're still, I mean we shorted up, we shorted up and then did they get

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reinspected or how, what is that process? We got reinspected and everything is as it was with

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the temporary shorting. Okay, okay. So we still have a weight restriction and it's probably a short-term

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allowance for that weight restriction. Yeah and they'll continue to monitor it, you know. They

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inspect our bridges every year, so it'll be re-inspected again.

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But with that

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temporary shoring, they said it could last seven years, ten years.

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We got a little bit of time. No. It's not immediate threat, but what that did is

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it put us in line, you know, the way bridges work, they go off a sufficiency

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So once it's determined to have no capacity, which this bridge did, it went from having

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several thousand pound load capacity to zero, or I asked them, can I write a bicycle

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across it?

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And they said no.

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They said close the road, and that's how severe it was.

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They said we're sending someone out to see if the bridge is still standing.

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And the bridge is in good condition, but just the way they inspect, the way they look

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look at the timber structure, what it's going to do is allow us to really move our application

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up as, you know, this is an emergency.

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So, okay.

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Well, keep that on our radar because I think it'd be good for us to go out and look at it

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like we had talked about and see how valuable that bridge is or if we direct some more focus

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to other things or if that's a necessity and we need to make sure that that stays open

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so I think it'd be good to go out there the three of us at some point this spring and

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take a look at it, assess it, if we need to reach out to the the neighboring community to see what

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the need is for that and just value that on priority this spring. So yeah.

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They are, but I think it's a ways out.

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Yeah, I asked Josh Bailey at North Unit, you know, what if we just put some culverts

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in and he says, well, you can put a couple of eight foot culverts inside my side and

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he wasn't real sure on the hydraulics, but he thought that might be an option.

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But we just want to make sure whatever we do, it aligns with their master plan.

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We don't want to waste, you know, resources putting something in that they can't use when they do pipe it.

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Well, let's continue to talk about that.

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Well, and I'm also just thinking of putting a whole new bridge, and then they put a pipe in and...

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Yeah, well, it's the bridge, yeah.

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Yeah, because the bridge is a million and a half.

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I mean, why spend that resource if they're going to pipe it?

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Yeah, that's all because I'm going to invite it right where

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you at with a staff map or down three mechanic and no we have two mechanics

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two mechanics. Yeah, just three road workers. Great.

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You're right. Good morning, Ray Salise, Jefferson County

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the assessor. Yesterday, I attended public hearing before the House Revenue Committee

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at the Capitol regarding House Bill 3518. As you know, this is relating to assessment

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and taxation funding. It was very well attended, standing room only. I estimate maybe 70 people

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in their many testimonies. The bulk of the testimonies were in favor of House Bill 3518.

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Interestingly, though, there were two opposed testimonies, and they came from the Special

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District's Association. They want to get more information on some of the language in

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the bill. I think they're concerned about, well, all special districts are concerned about

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their money. They're usually single-purpose taxing districts, and they're really watching

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their nickels and their dimes. And rightly so. So I think we would invite them to the table

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absolutely to engage in the discussion and look at the issue.

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But overwhelmingly the support was in favor of this House Bill.

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So I asked the commissioners.

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Please support House Bill 3518.

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Yeah, I think we got AOC.

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I don't know what else to get extended.

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Yeah, that'll happen.

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There's plenty of bills out there.

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and so yeah they know AOC's really had a focus on that and I'm sure the staff

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were there. Yes AOC testified in favor we all met at AOC's building and walked

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over from there. Yeah well cool family event. Thank you for going over and being a

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part of that. I know it's a important bill for only our county but counties across the

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stay trained to keep things floating and getting our

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reimbursements of the work that we do.

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Well, thank you for your support.

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Yeah.

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That's right.

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Good morning.

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Good morning.

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It feels like Monday morning.

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It's going to take on a crazy back.

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I'll make it back.

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Right.

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So I'm actually going to have a question for you.

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So, um, are you guys receiving calls about VA cuts, about our office closing, okay, we

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are too, just so you know, um, so there's a lot of fear and panic out there, um, with

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all the stuff on the news, so, um, formally I have to receive anything from OBV or VA

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about any cuts, okay, so whatever about to share is just stuff I gather together to try

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to see what's happening in it and so you know what's being put out there and why people

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are freaking out. So on the news and online you'll find that they're going to be starting

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to cut it June 2025 this year. It's approximately 83,000 jobs and that's about 15% of the workforce.

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At 30% of the workforce are veterans and half of those veterans are disabled that are employed by the VA.

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90% of the VA workers are in the health care side.

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So they're looking to go back to staffing levels at 2019 levels.

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The problem that people are concerned about is this is before the PAC-DAC pass where they open up health care to millions of veterans.

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friends, they added like 20 cancers to the presumptive list for Gulf War, they added

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more presumptuous to the aging orange list.

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So they're worried that that's going to affect health care and then there are people are

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always any time anything happens for as government shut down who will worry about their benefits

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because they rely on those benefits to pay their mortgage and support their families.

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So the new VA secretary, the Collins, he reports that they're getting recommendations from

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DOGE, but DOGE is not making the decision about the cuts that he and his staff are making

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decisions about the cuts.

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He is still saying that they're going to accomplish this without making cuts to health care or to

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compensation benefits or fetching benefits to veterans and beneficiaries, and that there

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there are still going to hire for more than $300,000.

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Sorry, $300,000, mission-critical positions.

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And the focus is serving veterans better than before.

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And that, in doing so requires organization and change.

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I do an interview he had.

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And he is aware of outdated systems.

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I'm not sure if you guys know the part of the problem with the VA

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with being slow with the health

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requisites, the system they're using is over 30 years old.

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They've been trying, they've been saying they're

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going to update it for the last eight years.

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And all this money that's been spent is still not done.

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So he is aware of the outdated technology

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and says it's nowhere it needs to be.

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So, you know, when people call the office,

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I just try to assure them that we are still open,

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because people are surprised in the call

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call the backer. I can't just think they were closed. So I tell it we know we're county employees

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like I have no knowledge of us being funded or cut or anything like that you know and we're still

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proceeding on and you know if anything changes with funding or health care anything with that as soon

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as I know something definitive I'll let them know so you know I'm just telling them you can either

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or wait it out and see what happens,

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or if you're really that concerned about it,

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then you can contact the VA Secretary yourself

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or your members of Congress and tell them you're concerned.

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But I mean, other than that,

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like, you know, I have no power

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to control anything that happens at that level.

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So I'm hoping that we're going to see

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what updated tech, you know,

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and things are, you know,

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I'm going to run more smoothly with all of this, but I, so anyway, hopefully things will

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calm down.

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So on a different note, we are on the agenda for today for out-of-state travel, it's

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8.3.

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The afternoon of March 26, OVB is asking to be on their interview of their panel for the

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training team so I'll be unavailable during that time but I mean I'll still be in

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the office. The welcome home veteran's dinner is Saturday March 29th 4 o'clock

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that's when the doors open they're wrap up that's the angels to get a key and

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Gabe thank you so much for Julio you guys have been helping me a lot with all these

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random people are wanting checks now instead of paid by credit card because 3% it was a lot of money that way

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So they've been having to cut quite a bit of checks for me lately with my grant money

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So I appreciate it and feel for the PSU data. I emailed you guys last week the tinier kind of way out. I was trying to

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project like what the population is going to be here

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And then the gym and full passes what I have

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with the grant money from OVA. I have a few of those left and there's still probably about 20 music lessons left.

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Joyful noise, just put out there spring semester online, so that's all I got right now.

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Thank you.

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Yeah, we can.

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I can't wait.

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I went back to office this morning, I put a sign.

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Does Kevin have any other appointments that you can need to cover?

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No.

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I've got to take care of it.

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And I made it back in time.

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So we're good.

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Okay, thank you.

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Well, thank you, Laura.

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I know it's definitely a challenging time with what's going on.

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on the fence and then even a little bit on the state side so appreciate you

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reaching out to all your clients and settling their nerves a little bit

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and I think a lot of what's going on we need to be a little patient and trust

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that our federal government is going to take care of such an important role for

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citizens, and so I think people call me then, and I'm great advice as as they do you have

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concerns to reach out to their federal leaders and voice those concerns, because it's very

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very impactful when it comes from.

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The veterans and how it's going to affect their lives or their finances. So, if you need anything from us on that, let us know. Thank you. I think we should, we're making public health, get a message out to our veterans. I know that we're not covering more speed shots on the gay, VA, some, some issues there,

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do a joint press release to get some good messaging out there as far as why I have an update on the physical therapy, they are not taking B.A.

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I think the veterans that had, you know, the authorization, I think, you know, they're

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always in my case.

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You know, they received them through that authorization, and then what's the authorization

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from them?

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So we were not able to resolve that issue, unfortunately.

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So it's a little different.

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It's a little different.

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That's us.

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Yeah, well, I'll, I'll wish my concerns to you directly in the movie because I haven't heard anything about

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the, I'll have to check in the RSV shots.

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Well, it could be, or, yeah, yeah.

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I'll go with the shot.

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I could be sure.

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I don't know.

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Not everything is free anymore.

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No funding.

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Yeah.

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So, we'll talk about that.

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Okay.

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I mean, you're thinking maybe getting something posted.

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Well, I think we're forcing constituents,

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or you know, the folks that she takes care of,

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everyone's a need to be alerted

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as to what their process is going to pull.

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That's why.

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Here's why.

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I know what's like, say, we're going down a rabbit hole.

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I don't want to go down.

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So we're going to roll.

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Okay.

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Diane, come on.

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Hey, I mean, morning.

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Diane, who was on the HR director?

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So, we are going to view, when we start on, in addition to our mobile, HR, security,

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development.

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You know, some of our program is starting on June 16th, and that's the program that we

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hire.

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I still feel there's a lot of change.

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We're in some kind of trade school kind of program, college, or whatever.

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They're going on to something like that.

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So we're going to be reaching out to Madras over high school, and all of us, the SCAC campuses,

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and then some other community colleges to see if there are kids coming back.

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So I'm going to have one to request.

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And then that starts on James and Steve.

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And then we've been working on the Affordable Care Act reporting that was the issue contract,

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I said, you know, I was not a person, I'm not much of a person.

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So I had this event at 21 reports to them.

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And so, I was also admitted and never going to go free

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and then there are some fidelity people,

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but that was a big, but I'm not going to have that.

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And then we, and thank you, Gabe, for your help with.

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We had some, we've run some reports

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and then we hope to see if that works out.

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And then we're working on a military memo policy that will help us putting some sort of protocol in place for one military week and then we have benefits.

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We don't have anybody in that church right now, but I'm just going to take a look at the view.

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And then we are working with a public health restructure,

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when she went on that, and then our state committee meeting is next.

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One stay in the 19th and 17th Anniversary of this, and we just passed what we did.

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And then the other thing I want to mention is because the OSC advice is, there's an opportunity

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for a supervisor training through CIOS and that's where insurance general has a kind

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of recharge for them.

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So we can actually slide up with this very inexpensive training for $30 and it's 10 to 12

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on the 15th, April 15th, and then 4th, they can go to the Dallas and get some of them.

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I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

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Two.

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And I'm sorry.

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And it's kind of just a bit of an overview of Supervisor, you know.

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Realism, laws, and big section of regulation.

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It's just two-six Supervisor.

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So if you guys have any Supervisor you want to sign up for,

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It's a great opportunity to get in the carpool, and I'm kind of in, you know,

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compared to about 12 directors, and I try to just figure out how to get back in the

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world, and I hit the enrol button the next time you have it immediately, so if I have

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a figure out how to get that to everybody, I think we're going to create an account for them,

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I'm sorry for my tardiness running real late this morning, I was hoping to be fully

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staffed by the end of the day, apparently he declined yesterday afternoon, so back to

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Building, excuse me, building some grounds on continuing to Miller Lumber, tear that building

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down, get all that debris hauled off, access control we got installed yesterday up

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and running at the jail facility.

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So next stop, this can be prone probation, we've got the panel plugged in and IT logged on

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and everything.

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So making progress with access control panels, and then hippie Joe's place, the property

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farm property on Birch and Clackamas. There was some garbage debris out there. We got cleaned

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up, we ended up hauling some material and blocking off that gate so hopefully we'll limit that

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in the future and then be hitting the ground strong with turf grass management. So grass

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that's in plugging that stuff so we're starting to roll juniper hills park the grass

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up the juniper hills park level out off so turf grass is a grown so yeah time of year

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busy season flags

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yeah they shoot I got that notification tracking number um yes

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during the day I think the last or last night so yeah they're on their way three flags are on their

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for three flat holes are on their way.

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We've delivered you so.

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Easy.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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For the cemetery, not the fairgrounds.

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Oh, I hear about flat holes and blacks.

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All black.

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Me too.

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Thanks, Tony.

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No report.

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Wow.

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Is it the chair?

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No, I just, I feel like I'm just really quiet up here. I feel like I should say, but I try and reach out to you guys with questions as I have them throughout the week and so sometimes when I'm here, I feel like all my questions have been answered so I don't have any further questions. Other than be patient. I know, you know, with the VA and everything, you can reach out to the people.

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There's a lot of concerns financially right now with a lot of different entities, and

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I just have been always cautioning patients.

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I think that, you know, we have some business people in the White House right now, and they're

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just reconstructing their, you know, they're just going in and getting things revamped in

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everything.

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So just patients, I think that when they say that the VA is going to be fixed and better

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than what it was, then I trust that it will be,

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so I just think that people just need to be cautioned

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patients.

448
00:38:53,220 --> 00:38:53,640
That's it.

449
00:38:54,140 --> 00:38:54,520
It's all for me.

450
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:55,720
For sure, it's a link.

451
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:01,400
I thought we had a good Lindsay.

452
00:39:01,540 --> 00:39:01,820
Good Lindsay.

453
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:03,420
She said no more.

454
00:39:03,420 --> 00:39:04,060
She said no more.

455
00:39:05,860 --> 00:39:06,520
There's your time.

456
00:39:09,780 --> 00:39:13,740
Just a, I probably submitted 10, 9.

457
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:20,700
test loads in the last five, six days as well as one of the things that affect us in terms of the injection.

458
00:39:23,660 --> 00:39:28,840
They did interviews on the regional solutions for our area.

459
00:39:29,380 --> 00:39:32,180
They identified candidates and candidates for most of us know.

460
00:39:32,500 --> 00:39:33,940
I think it's going to be fantastic.

461
00:39:34,820 --> 00:39:36,160
If he picks the job,

462
00:39:42,340 --> 00:39:45,460
he has some individual things to discuss.

463
00:39:49,060 --> 00:39:49,660
Perfect.

464
00:39:49,660 --> 00:39:53,120
Well, thanks for your help with the letters.

465
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:58,500
There is a bunch of bills that could positively or negatively affect the county.

466
00:39:58,700 --> 00:40:01,100
And so I think you probably will have that on my act.

467
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:08,700
And the only thing I wanted to say was we had our meeting about strategic planning for

468
00:40:08,700 --> 00:40:15,500
the county with Sarah, I can't remember her last name, her last name, her last name, and I

469
00:40:15,500 --> 00:40:21,480
I thought that was really productive doing a overarching kind of plan from the county

470
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:24,500
base, which would pull in a lot of your guys' plans.

471
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:31,940
I know Matt's been working on it with his department, but kind of just getting everything to fit

472
00:40:31,940 --> 00:40:39,260
in somewhat seamlessly and prioritize things and have a good vision for the future for this

473
00:40:39,260 --> 00:40:47,500
county and set some precedence of what's important to our community, which will track

474
00:40:47,500 --> 00:40:56,580
with some of the finances we do have and the limited about that.

475
00:40:56,940 --> 00:41:03,640
So that process has been started and we'll keep going through that and bring more of you

476
00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:18,860
and at a more in-depth level, here shortly, without the other thing is Crooked River Ranch tonight, I think Sheriff's gonna be there, what are you planning on going?

477
00:41:23,540 --> 00:41:33,300
I think Matt's playing on going Tony is playing on going so I think do we have some discussion

478
00:41:33,300 --> 00:41:52,020
later on of topics. Yeah okay well okay well okay well okay we'll thank you for coming

479
00:41:52,020 --> 00:41:58,390
tonight I know they're important topics so that community so yeah so

480
00:42:04,550 --> 00:42:08,930
I think we were required to send a notice on the set of five people,

481
00:42:09,330 --> 00:42:12,850
certainly the five participants in the process about the subdivision.

482
00:42:13,530 --> 00:42:16,990
We just sent them to the high court to make sure that we have the question.

483
00:42:17,250 --> 00:42:17,890
It's okay to share.

484
00:42:18,450 --> 00:42:20,670
The rest is actually back at the base of our budget.

485
00:42:26,380 --> 00:42:26,820
Okay.

486
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:28,280
It was just been fun.

487
00:42:28,720 --> 00:42:29,080
I got to say.

488
00:42:29,500 --> 00:42:29,960
How's it?

489
00:42:30,100 --> 00:42:30,220
Yeah.

490
00:42:30,540 --> 00:42:32,260
No, I didn't share a game with you last year.

491
00:42:33,220 --> 00:42:33,980
It's been awesome.

492
00:42:47,780 --> 00:42:52,440
Okay, good morning.

493
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:07,660
Welcome back from our administrative session. If I could have everyone

494
00:43:07,660 --> 00:43:09,620
Please stand for the pleasure of allegiance

495
00:43:15,060 --> 00:43:28,060
to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God and indivisible with liberty and justice.

496
00:43:30,420 --> 00:43:31,160
Good morning, dear.

497
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:34,820
Did you join me in front of this morning?

498
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:39,040
Dear Heavenly Father, we just want to thank you for your provision, for all the things

499
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:44,020
that we do in this land, and God we ask for the people that you would bring peace and unity

500
00:43:44,660 --> 00:43:49,480
of the people of our land, and God that you would give us the opportunity to prosper in this land.

501
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:54,440
And so Lord, our county leaders are making decisions on our behalf.

502
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:59,780
I pray that you would give them wisdom and God you would also give them favor once they've made those decisions

503
00:43:59,780 --> 00:44:05,720
So thank you for everything. Thank you for all these people being here to represent. And Jesus name we pray. Amen.

504
00:44:13,340 --> 00:44:16,420
Okay, so we are going to get started with

505
00:44:17,240 --> 00:44:20,900
public comment and it looks like we got quite a few people in the room

506
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:27,540
So if we can keep everything to three minutes if there's any reason why you need more than that

507
00:44:28,500 --> 00:44:35,740
please let me know let's try and keep things the three minutes with all the

508
00:44:35,740 --> 00:44:41,440
people about me want a doc so who is first no

509
00:44:44,230 --> 00:44:47,230
one online come

510
00:44:53,310 --> 00:44:54,310
on come on

511
00:44:54,310 --> 00:44:59,970
we can I I'm aware of the historical society so I'll give you three

512
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:01,220
Three minutes and five seconds.

513
00:45:09,220 --> 00:45:24,900
We're coming so we'll definitely give you a little bit more time. I think we've been working on some of this for a while. I'm going to appreciate you guys coming and kind of giving us an update on where you're at. Ready.

514
00:45:47,340 --> 00:45:51,820
Do we go? Yeah. Go ahead. Please state your name for the record. Please. My name is Tony Ahern.

515
00:45:51,820 --> 00:45:55,380
in representing the Jefferson County Historical Society.

516
00:45:57,080 --> 00:46:00,000
My name is Tom Matting, also with the Historical Society.

517
00:46:01,300 --> 00:46:04,560
And we were here a couple months ago back in December,

518
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:07,980
regarding the potential of the county,

519
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:11,640
potentially partnering with us to establish a museum

520
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:15,780
at the historic Methodist Church in Madders.

521
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:19,700
We brought the idea before the board back in December

522
00:46:19,700 --> 00:46:25,940
as we had a closing date, because we have made an offer to purchase that church building.

523
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:34,260
So we had to kind of rush it to get here before you, because we don't feel we can move forward without partnership with the county.

524
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:40,360
And since that December meeting, we've had the building thoroughly inspected.

525
00:46:41,300 --> 00:46:44,700
And I have some local contractors come in to give us assessments.

526
00:46:44,700 --> 00:46:51,400
and we've come away even more committed to the idea that the building would make an excellent local museum.

527
00:46:52,900 --> 00:47:00,880
Another revolution we've had since we've talked to you is that as an organization we've decided we wanted to move very frugally with it

528
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:08,320
and kind of do our remodel in phases and with phase one being things we needed to do just to get open.

529
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:14,420
and you know some of the basics and we were also asked by the commissioners

530
00:47:14,420 --> 00:47:19,600
back in December for information about what other counties comparable in size

531
00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:26,940
and population in their rural settings and what those counties do for

532
00:47:26,940 --> 00:47:33,100
local museums and we've come up with a report on that that we've had and it's in

533
00:47:33,100 --> 00:47:36,700
packet as well. And so that brings us to today.

534
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:42,060
We've also, after December, Commissioner

535
00:47:42,060 --> 00:47:47,860
Wunch volunteered or was assigned to work with us and he's met with us a couple of times

536
00:47:47,860 --> 00:47:54,660
and he's kind of helped keep us on track, certainly hasn't made any commitments at all for you guys,

537
00:47:54,660 --> 00:48:02,020
unfortunately. But I know my place. Yeah, he's been very helpful and has helped keep us

538
00:48:02,020 --> 00:48:05,100
It's on track and we've come up with this presentation.

539
00:48:05,860 --> 00:48:15,260
It hasn't changed much from December, but anyway, we hope that we can go over it a little

540
00:48:15,260 --> 00:48:15,520
bit.

541
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:23,520
Again, we're hoping for it's a 6,000 square foot building.

542
00:48:24,100 --> 00:48:30,160
We're looking to remodel just the upstairs, it's a two story building, the first phase

543
00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:30,920
to get going.

544
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:33,700
We're targeting the upstairs.

545
00:48:36,780 --> 00:48:41,940
And our current contract hasn't changed, except for the extension date.

546
00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:49,940
And it's for $300,000, $200,000 at closing plus $100,000 within the next two years.

547
00:48:53,420 --> 00:49:05,800
And what we're hoping to do, we have kind of a budgeted target of 300,000 to 325 for first phase remodeling.

548
00:49:06,660 --> 00:49:09,320
So try to hustle through this.

549
00:49:11,150 --> 00:49:17,880
So basically on page two, skip to what we're here for is the request to the county.

550
00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:23,180
What we're hoping for is one time $400,000 commitment.

551
00:49:23,780 --> 00:49:27,880
$200,000 would be towards the purchase of the building, and

552
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:32,020
another $200,000 would be a kickstart to our remodel fund.

553
00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:39,100
And the historical society, we're happy and eager to contribute $100,000.

554
00:49:40,620 --> 00:49:44,020
We love to be able to do all of it, but that's what we can afford.

555
00:49:44,020 --> 00:49:55,500
and we are eager to put in $100,000 to the purchasing fund and along with that what we are hoping

556
00:49:55,500 --> 00:50:04,480
for is the county's commitment for $100,000 annually for a period of time, first ability or

557
00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:12,760
sustainability I should say for an annual commitment to help us with staffing and other expenses.

558
00:50:16,470 --> 00:50:23,150
But, you know, one thing I think, and if the county could commit to $200,000 to the purchase,

559
00:50:23,490 --> 00:50:31,830
if they could do another $200,000 for the remodel, and if they could commit to that $100,000 a year sustainability,

560
00:50:33,190 --> 00:50:40,950
over six years that would be a $1,000,000 commitment to our local museum, to local history, and our culture.

561
00:50:42,810 --> 00:50:47,590
and that would help us immensely on getting grants

562
00:50:47,590 --> 00:50:50,970
because grants is going to be the other foundation that we have.

563
00:50:52,370 --> 00:50:56,690
And, you know, every grant provider requires local buy-in

564
00:50:56,690 --> 00:50:59,290
and that would just be, that would be it for us.

565
00:50:59,870 --> 00:51:02,630
If you guys doing that, you know, we could move forward very strong.

566
00:51:08,150 --> 00:51:15,870
Obviously, we haven't opened yet, but we do have budget estimates and we're looking

567
00:51:15,870 --> 00:51:25,110
at, you know, frugally, a $200,000, $205,000 revenue streams for the year, and see annual

568
00:51:25,110 --> 00:51:27,930
expenses eats that almost up.

569
00:51:27,930 --> 00:51:40,010
So, and of course, obviously, these are just projections, you know, a year away or so from opening, but you can see that the county is $100,000 commitment is vital to us.

570
00:51:42,530 --> 00:51:50,650
You know, grant programs, we target, there's a lot of local grants being foundation, roundhouse is based out of sisters.

571
00:51:51,830 --> 00:51:55,310
We will be going out for these people.

572
00:51:55,450 --> 00:51:57,170
They'd be a constant effort for us.

573
00:51:57,910 --> 00:52:02,210
What we depend on at $100,000 from the county,

574
00:52:02,990 --> 00:52:08,210
or some kind of structure to where the county helps us pay for a director.

575
00:52:08,730 --> 00:52:12,830
And that director would be spending a lot of his or her time looking for grants.

576
00:52:13,830 --> 00:52:16,710
And keeping us financially strong.

577
00:52:19,150 --> 00:52:24,530
The other, you know, ideas we have moving forward financially is work hard with local

578
00:52:24,530 --> 00:52:31,590
corporations and businesses, but, you know, we're confident that we could move forward

579
00:52:31,590 --> 00:52:32,090
with this.

580
00:52:32,430 --> 00:52:36,010
One thing we think it's important, too, is our organization.

581
00:52:36,630 --> 00:52:43,410
The Historical Society has been around for 50 years, and we had a museum back in the 70,

582
00:52:43,410 --> 00:52:51,170
the 1970s, the 1990s, and had to close when it was at the old courthouse due to structural

583
00:52:51,170 --> 00:52:58,710
issues. And since then, there's been at least three major efforts to bring another

584
00:52:58,710 --> 00:53:05,490
museum in the town, and they've all kind of fell apart without really, through any

585
00:53:05,490 --> 00:53:11,470
fall to the historical society. I'm not sure there's very few historical societies

586
00:53:11,470 --> 00:53:16,870
in the state of Oregon that can financially handle their own museum.

587
00:53:17,110 --> 00:53:21,470
They all need help locally and to do like usually the counties.

588
00:53:24,850 --> 00:53:29,290
So we're certainly not a fly-by-night organization that's asking for your help.

589
00:53:29,350 --> 00:53:30,670
We've been around for a long time.

590
00:53:31,090 --> 00:53:41,240
We have the equipment or the exhibits ready to go, so we think we'll be a good partner.

591
00:53:42,380 --> 00:53:48,380
In the last part of the presentations and trying to speed through this, I might make three minutes.

592
00:53:50,460 --> 00:53:56,960
I think you're passed, but we're going to give you the last couple of pages is our report of all the counties.

593
00:53:57,380 --> 00:54:06,380
I think we have about 11 or 12 of them here that have the various ways, the different counties that are comparable to Jefferson.

594
00:54:06,380 --> 00:54:11,380
and contribute and partner with their four

595
00:54:11,380 --> 00:54:12,740
of their local museum operations.

596
00:54:14,860 --> 00:54:16,340
It's pretty impressive.

597
00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:19,580
Basically every county is involved.

598
00:54:21,340 --> 00:54:25,580
I think right now Jefferson County gives us $10,000 a year

599
00:54:26,380 --> 00:54:28,760
which is appreciated.

600
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:33,420
I believe at one point when we were looking at opening a museum

601
00:54:33,420 --> 00:54:40,440
West Side, the budget line item got kicked up to 30 and but only if we had a museum

602
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:47,800
top. So we're hoping we can go from 30 to 100 and we think that lines up well

603
00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:52,000
with these other counties. You know, we think we're a healthier county. We have

604
00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:53,540
more tourists than a lot of these counties.

605
00:54:56,120 --> 00:55:00,520
So yeah, there we are. Is any questions

606
00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:02,340
Is there anything you guys want to throw in us?

607
00:55:03,220 --> 00:55:08,120
Yeah, so just a little bit, I, to my fellow commissioners,

608
00:55:08,220 --> 00:55:10,800
wanted to bring the Historical Society, kind of just to get

609
00:55:11,650 --> 00:55:15,980
updated where they're at, mainly after the building inspection

610
00:55:16,480 --> 00:55:20,360
and the meeting with the contractor, just to see where this

611
00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:24,320
building lies, as far as structural and all that.

612
00:55:24,780 --> 00:55:27,700
And I spoke with the contractor one-on-one.

613
00:55:27,700 --> 00:55:32,040
and thought the bones were really good of that building.

614
00:55:32,620 --> 00:55:35,180
There is some work that needs to be done,

615
00:55:35,880 --> 00:55:39,160
but there's not a huge issue.

616
00:55:40,420 --> 00:55:42,700
The local contractor also mentioned,

617
00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:46,960
I think something that intrigues this group

618
00:55:46,960 --> 00:55:49,800
is the history of the building itself,

619
00:55:50,280 --> 00:55:51,600
and how fitting that is.

620
00:55:52,780 --> 00:55:57,420
So yeah, mainly I just wanted the group to update you

621
00:55:57,420 --> 00:56:03,840
kind of bring you up to speed with some of the conversation. It is a big

622
00:56:03,840 --> 00:56:12,720
ask financially and that's what I told the group and that's a lot for the

623
00:56:12,720 --> 00:56:20,060
county to take on but I think there's conversations of where we want to be as a

624
00:56:20,060 --> 00:56:25,660
county to help because you are a great organization and I think we are probably

625
00:56:25,660 --> 00:56:31,320
one of the only counties that doesn't have any kind of museum in today's

626
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:40,660
society history sometimes just falls off and it's an important piece to value

627
00:56:40,660 --> 00:56:46,280
where we've been as a society and remember that and in some of the

628
00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:52,100
education whether it's with the schools or tourists it's a valuable piece and we

629
00:56:52,100 --> 00:56:58,940
do have a rich history in this county and at what level can we help I I don't

630
00:56:58,940 --> 00:57:05,040
know but appreciate the update and would like to work towards some kind of

631
00:57:07,260 --> 00:57:13,040
process to kind of help keep things going and especially with the direction of

632
00:57:13,040 --> 00:57:21,840
these two but more if you guys had any questions of specifics of funding what

633
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:28,400
their vision is, I kind of wanted to open it up to you guys to direct anything to them.

634
00:57:28,920 --> 00:57:34,720
If you want to have them do any research or work or whatnot.

635
00:57:35,640 --> 00:57:41,680
So my question is, and my concern is, is I know that you guys are set on this building,

636
00:57:42,540 --> 00:57:51,520
but dumping $500,000 into renovating this building, I'm looking at the

637
00:57:51,520 --> 00:57:54,980
Fairgrounds has two historical buildings on site.

638
00:57:55,900 --> 00:58:05,160
Is there a benefit to pursuing grants and to building a new facility in that area where the public already is familiar with?

639
00:58:05,340 --> 00:58:15,420
And people already go, especially as the fairgrounds complex is doing more outreach and having more venues throughout the year.

640
00:58:16,060 --> 00:58:21,960
Is that not a better location to build a building that can be more visible in the public?

641
00:58:22,580 --> 00:58:29,040
The fact we went down that road for about a year working with Fairboard and it was a good

642
00:58:29,040 --> 00:58:29,660
relationship.

643
00:58:30,260 --> 00:58:37,960
We talked about doing a joint structure like an advanced center on one side in our museum

644
00:58:37,960 --> 00:58:38,560
on the other.

645
00:58:39,200 --> 00:58:44,600
But I gosh, I was thinking that was going to be $4 million, you know, with $3.5, $5 million.

646
00:58:44,600 --> 00:58:49,040
dollars. And, you know, when you talk about building a brand new building, everything

647
00:58:49,040 --> 00:58:57,440
that would have to go in to that. So, you know, when you think about those kind of dollars

648
00:58:57,980 --> 00:59:05,620
versus $500,000, you know, again, that's what we want to be for, but we want to do things

649
00:59:05,620 --> 00:59:12,320
that we can afford. Yeah, there are pluses and minuses about being at the fairgrounds.

650
00:59:12,320 --> 00:59:30,980
Is there, maybe you guys looked into getting any partners like, say, reaching out to Warm Springs and seeing if a portion of the building can be utilized to display Warm Springs and there could be some funding opportunities from them as well to contribute?

651
00:59:30,980 --> 00:59:37,500
At this point, we haven't looked at anybody for interior museum operations since

652
00:59:37,500 --> 00:59:42,500
we don't have one yet. That's the kind of thing, though, that as soon as we

653
00:59:42,500 --> 00:59:48,160
have the building secured in a hard plan, that's when we go hard at partners.

654
00:59:49,960 --> 00:59:56,980
And partners are going to want to see what we've done, what's behind this at this

655
00:59:56,980 --> 00:59:59,960
as well. I'd like to just...

656
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:29,540
Kind of echo some of the things that Commissioner once said. You know, museums are important. They tell us who we were. They tell us who we are. And it also is a community a sense of where we're headed. It's, I'd say it's as important an organ to the community as schools and libraries or the stores downtown in terms of.

657
01:00:30,400 --> 01:00:34,120
letting people, you know, take pride in their community.

658
01:00:35,160 --> 01:00:41,040
And so I really, you know, I just like to see us move forward.

659
01:00:41,040 --> 01:00:44,700
And again, you know, the big part of moving forward is

660
01:00:45,480 --> 01:00:49,600
showing to, I mean, we are part of the Oregon Cultural Trust.

661
01:00:49,860 --> 01:00:52,940
The museum already is connected with it.

662
01:00:54,100 --> 01:00:57,860
But in order to get some return from those organizations,

663
01:00:57,860 --> 01:01:03,980
They really need to see what, you know, how is the rest of the community standing behind us?

664
01:01:04,480 --> 01:01:12,200
And I think that shows up in some of these other counties, how they are funded.

665
01:01:13,080 --> 01:01:16,880
They get, they all say they get grants, but a lot of it, you know,

666
01:01:16,940 --> 01:01:22,000
the basis for that is showing that they have local community support from governmental agencies.

667
01:01:23,460 --> 01:01:31,810
So basically what I'm getting down here is you're asking the county for 1.4 million over the course of six years.

668
01:01:32,590 --> 01:01:36,790
400,000 now and then a million or six years.

669
01:01:38,350 --> 01:01:49,810
For now, well, two towards the purchase of the building, two towards the kickstart are remodeling, so that's four total.

670
01:01:49,810 --> 01:01:58,870
And then what I mentioned and then a hundred thousand a year for sustainability and what I said is if it was if you'd committed for six years

671
01:01:58,870 --> 01:02:08,470
That would be a million total oh million over six years got you got you six years. Okay, I know just on a lot of these other counties

672
01:02:10,210 --> 01:02:15,230
They have bonds that are helping to fund it also to our tea funds

673
01:02:15,230 --> 01:02:23,710
If you guys thought about going out for a bond at all, my biggest concern is it's a lot

674
01:02:23,710 --> 01:02:29,250
to ask financially and I would love to know where our constituents are on this issue.

675
01:02:29,770 --> 01:02:35,310
You know, when you're talking about, you know, over the next six years, the tap of an

676
01:02:35,310 --> 01:02:45,170
officer's position is this, is this at a level right now when we are trying to fund

677
01:02:45,170 --> 01:02:50,270
staff at various levels in the county. Is this something that our community wants now or in five

678
01:02:50,270 --> 01:03:00,310
years? I'd really like to be able to see where our constituents are on this. But once again,

679
01:03:00,390 --> 01:03:06,990
I'm bringing it back to a bond. I know there's some significant numbers here in some of these

680
01:03:06,990 --> 01:03:10,890
other counties that are funded through bonds. Is that something that you guys have thought about?

681
01:03:10,890 --> 01:03:25,810
Absolutely. I would say the plan, the loose plan, is to open, establish a good museum, and then go ask the county what do you think of us do you want us to keep us here or not?

682
01:03:26,630 --> 01:03:32,210
But I think if we have nothing to show them, then that would be a hard vote.

683
01:03:34,370 --> 01:03:40,750
I, you know, my guess is, although, like, Crick County, I would assume the plan was, they

684
01:03:40,750 --> 01:03:45,050
were all established before they got the local support for a bond.

685
01:03:45,470 --> 01:03:51,390
But that's definitely what we would, our goal and our hope, would be to establish a bond.

686
01:03:51,830 --> 01:04:00,590
And so, a commitment of $100,000 a year for the next six years, and then also the building,

687
01:04:01,190 --> 01:04:06,990
being that it's an old structure, and there's going to be continued maintenance on it.

688
01:04:07,110 --> 01:04:10,790
Is that something that the county would be financially obligated for, or is that?

689
01:04:11,410 --> 01:04:17,290
I would think we've talked about this, if the county wanted to buy it, then the county would maintain it.

690
01:04:17,450 --> 01:04:22,110
But our take is if you just help us buy it, then that's on us.

691
01:04:23,210 --> 01:04:28,850
But that's another negotiation thing, like maybe say, who knows?

692
01:04:28,850 --> 01:04:36,630
But I mean like if the county would say we'll give you say 75,000 a year, but we will maintain your building or whatever

693
01:04:36,630 --> 01:04:38,450
You know if you if you guys

694
01:04:39,170 --> 01:04:43,190
Side you want to go forward to us then we can kind of work out the details

695
01:04:43,190 --> 01:04:48,310
Okay, and then also on staff and you know helping you $100,000 a year

696
01:04:51,090 --> 01:04:51,550
and

697
01:04:51,550 --> 01:04:55,810
And, you know, 189,000, what is 120

698
01:04:58,240 --> 01:04:59,620
,000 for staffing?

699
01:05:00,780 --> 01:05:04,420
If these grants don't go through or a bond,

700
01:05:04,520 --> 01:05:07,160
it doesn't go through in six years,

701
01:05:07,440 --> 01:05:09,180
are we gonna be asked to continue this?

702
01:05:09,260 --> 01:05:11,600
100,000, I mean, is it gonna be a perpetuity?

703
01:05:12,280 --> 01:05:16,760
Is it gonna be, I'm just, my mind's just going that route.

704
01:05:17,040 --> 01:05:18,640
Yeah, well, you know, that's hard to predict.

705
01:05:18,820 --> 01:05:22,760
You guys may, we may be so awesome to get ahead.

706
01:05:22,760 --> 01:05:28,700
Okay, let's give you 200,000 a year, or we may have a really poor museum, so we're done.

707
01:05:29,500 --> 01:05:34,120
We would gamble on ourselves to say that you would be happy with this, but it's hard

708
01:05:34,120 --> 01:05:34,920
to say in six years.

709
01:05:35,420 --> 01:05:37,880
Hopefully, we'd have a bond that you guys could step away from.

710
01:05:43,520 --> 01:05:48,760
Just curious on the lease that we have, we're on fifth, third, or whatever, how long is

711
01:05:48,760 --> 01:05:48,880
that?

712
01:05:49,080 --> 01:05:49,820
How long is that lease?

713
01:05:50,300 --> 01:05:51,200
I don't know, Loddy.

714
01:05:55,680 --> 01:06:00,020
What is your timeline on your offer?

715
01:06:01,340 --> 01:06:01,920
Great question.

716
01:06:02,660 --> 01:06:05,320
Mr. Simmelink, that is the end of April.

717
01:06:06,000 --> 01:06:11,680
So we hope to have a decision or an plan moving forward by then.

718
01:06:11,980 --> 01:06:13,560
Because we've already asked for one extension.

719
01:06:22,980 --> 01:06:28,120
What kind of a building were you guys looking at when it was $3.5 to $5 million?

720
01:06:28,120 --> 01:06:32,680
dollars. We were just working with the fair board and we were talking steel building.

721
01:06:35,540 --> 01:06:43,160
Yeah. He should have decided. Yeah. It wasn't a Taj Mahal building. No, but but but quite large.

722
01:06:43,420 --> 01:06:50,560
You know, it's, you know, because the fair board wanted a large exhibition in an event center

723
01:06:51,460 --> 01:06:57,940
and we were, you know, this one is about six thousand five hundred square feet with the two floor

724
01:06:58,920 --> 01:07:04,780
And out there, I think we were talking like 4,000, we needed at least a couple of so

725
01:07:06,860 --> 01:07:08,020
large structures.

726
01:07:09,620 --> 01:07:20,060
You know you have a great question about the historical buildings out there, the home and the school.

727
01:07:20,820 --> 01:07:28,780
And there's a lot of historical societies that have things within their counties that they protect and are harder.

728
01:07:28,780 --> 01:07:35,180
And certainly, we wouldn't lose sight of those places because those have been a big

729
01:07:35,180 --> 01:07:38,200
part of the historical society since they were put out there.

730
01:07:38,340 --> 01:07:41,220
I know the house was dropped in the 1970s, I think.

731
01:07:43,280 --> 01:07:45,800
So we will continue to keep good care of those.

732
01:07:46,180 --> 01:07:48,920
And we're always out there during the fair to give tours.

733
01:07:49,580 --> 01:07:50,980
And I love that.

734
01:07:51,040 --> 01:07:52,400
Still a showcase piece for us.

735
01:07:52,480 --> 01:07:53,960
I've been on multiple tours out there.

736
01:07:54,120 --> 01:07:54,920
I love those old buildings.

737
01:07:54,920 --> 01:08:21,360
But that's a big, I guess, concern or just point of interest for me is, you know, if you're going to have, potentially 20, 25,000 people throughout the year visiting that area versus, I mean, how many people in our community even know where this building is located.

738
01:08:22,240 --> 01:08:28,780
So other than if you know the history of it, I think there's more people that come down

739
01:08:28,780 --> 01:08:35,260
fifth street and go on fairgrounds and our plan is to maybe put a big sign up on the

740
01:08:35,260 --> 01:08:38,600
odd fellows building and say, hey, three blocks down, it's your county museum.

741
01:08:39,120 --> 01:08:40,960
So we think it'll be very visible.

742
01:08:41,460 --> 01:08:47,100
It's an iconic building that's in pretty much every old photo of Madras back in.

743
01:08:47,100 --> 01:08:53,520
And I think another thing you brought up, and it's a good point, but if we buy that building

744
01:08:53,520 --> 01:08:59,620
for $300,000, that's probably a good buck, even if we bail out of it and move into a

745
01:08:59,620 --> 01:09:02,060
museum that somebody builds force at the fairground.

746
01:09:02,900 --> 01:09:08,620
It's $300,000, and a half a city block.

747
01:09:09,980 --> 01:09:20,420
So, you know, I think it makes good sense just as a purchase that alone saving the most

748
01:09:20,420 --> 01:09:21,740
iconic building in town.

749
01:09:23,280 --> 01:09:32,720
What's going to say to me the museum is Jefferson County Museum is not just that building

750
01:09:32,720 --> 01:09:43,820
for the buildings of the Fairfield. It's the agon. It's the threshing bee. I mean, it's

751
01:09:43,820 --> 01:09:51,740
all those of them. It's a living organ. And this is just a way to help sustain them. So that's

752
01:09:51,740 --> 01:09:54,260
why we need to have this forward. Yeah. Yeah.

753
01:09:58,110 --> 01:10:02,370
But what do you guys, what would you suggest as a move forward

754
01:10:02,370 --> 01:10:06,370
or a timeline, or what we expect.

755
01:10:10,000 --> 01:10:11,960
I'm going to need to noodle on it a little bit.

756
01:10:12,240 --> 01:10:15,660
I mean, obviously, you gave us some things that we asked for.

757
01:10:15,800 --> 01:10:16,700
I think that's fantastic.

758
01:10:17,700 --> 01:10:21,180
I'm a little privy to where we stand with budget right now,

759
01:10:21,180 --> 01:10:22,460
and it's not pretty.

760
01:10:23,380 --> 01:10:28,500
Of course, we haven't gotten to any kind of conclusion

761
01:10:28,500 --> 01:10:30,800
on anything, but this is an essence

762
01:10:30,800 --> 01:10:33,020
of creating a completely new department.

763
01:10:33,020 --> 01:10:40,400
me. You know, I'm not, you know, I'm not necessarily paying member, updated paying member,

764
01:10:40,540 --> 01:10:46,820
but I consistently am a member at points and times during the year. So I'd have to

765
01:10:46,820 --> 01:10:54,460
abstain, I guess, I guess I have to abstain. But you know, like I said, I think if your timeline

766
01:10:54,460 --> 01:11:00,780
is towards the end of April, it gives us a little bit of a runway to keep it kind of top

767
01:11:00,780 --> 01:11:05,100
a mind here and have some conversations. I know I can reach out to each, I know everybody

768
01:11:05,100 --> 01:11:10,780
in this room to be able to talk through what things I'm thinking, et cetera.

769
01:11:12,900 --> 01:11:13,480
I haven't

770
01:11:13,480 --> 01:11:17,240
done my diligence as far as contacting other commissioners and other counties, you know,

771
01:11:17,300 --> 01:11:22,860
Gany and Critt, for instance, climate would be a good one to go to as well as see how they

772
01:11:22,860 --> 01:11:30,860
kind of do things. Have we offered the grant services, you know, we offered global grants

773
01:11:30,860 --> 01:11:38,980
to look into anything on their behalf or do we know of anything that's out there that

774
01:11:38,980 --> 01:11:46,900
we could conceivably get our hands on if we suck, you know, stuck, stuck global grants

775
01:11:46,900 --> 01:11:47,920
on them.

776
01:12:25,400 --> 01:12:31,020
Is it outside the purview of CBG grants, is this kind of a project outside of a community

777
01:12:31,020 --> 01:12:31,600
block grant?

778
01:12:33,240 --> 01:12:39,240
And so we looked in and out when we were looking at the Fairgrounds community development

779
01:12:39,240 --> 01:12:43,100
block grants provide a lot of things but they will not build the museum.

780
01:12:44,020 --> 01:12:44,860
Not by a little thing.

781
01:12:45,600 --> 01:12:46,880
We're not building one.

782
01:12:49,940 --> 01:12:52,940
Fairgrounds, let's don't call it a museum, let's call it something else.

783
01:12:53,720 --> 01:13:00,480
community space. But we did look into that. But the other thing with grants, you know,

784
01:13:00,560 --> 01:13:05,980
we're real confident, like the Roundhouse Foundation, even the Bing Foundation, we think

785
01:13:05,980 --> 01:13:11,400
we can really hit the ground running. And, you know, as a historical society, I think

786
01:13:11,400 --> 01:13:16,520
that opens the door for us to get a lot of grants. You know, we're not all professional

787
01:13:16,520 --> 01:13:18,380
grant writers, and I'm sure we could use that.

788
01:13:18,380 --> 01:13:22,920
Yeah, I know I think I think that's a that's a huge tool that we've in the city

789
01:13:22,920 --> 01:13:28,480
You know, and this is a kind of a joint. Yeah, and if you're gonna be asking them for money as well

790
01:13:29,080 --> 01:13:33,140
This is a by the way. Have you have you had council with them yet?

791
01:13:33,780 --> 01:13:35,980
You guys are it only one of them so far

792
01:13:39,580 --> 01:13:41,600
No, that would be in the future, okay

793
01:13:42,780 --> 01:13:48,060
And yeah, but we think it would be a really excellent addition to the city of Madras too

794
01:13:48,380 --> 01:13:54,090
So yeah, we go to the city to seek their support.

795
01:13:54,870 --> 01:13:58,030
Well, I think I'll tell you where I stand right now at this moment.

796
01:13:58,190 --> 01:14:03,650
I'd kind of like to visit with some of you individually and, you know, Mark, you continue

797
01:14:03,650 --> 01:14:04,250
your work.

798
01:14:04,510 --> 01:14:06,130
You can be in this pretty well.

799
01:14:06,210 --> 01:14:14,520
I'm very appreciative of that and knowing what our deadline is is important.

800
01:14:16,220 --> 01:14:19,860
So stop being non-committal or committal.

801
01:14:19,860 --> 01:14:25,880
Well, I would throw out an I shouldn't maybe talk out of time, but we have $100,000 ready.

802
01:14:26,420 --> 01:14:33,340
So if you get to the budget in time and you want to say, well, we'll do 100 now and

803
01:14:33,340 --> 01:14:35,960
then save that your second 100 for two years down the road.

804
01:14:37,000 --> 01:14:44,140
Because it's 200 now, yeah, 100 in 24 months, so potentially we can move forward on it.

805
01:14:44,200 --> 01:14:44,940
We're trying not to.

806
01:14:45,000 --> 01:14:48,640
We're trying to save what we have in order so we can invest in the remodel.

807
01:14:49,540 --> 01:14:54,880
I think it would be, I think it would be, I think we would lend credence to even having

808
01:14:54,880 --> 01:14:59,980
those conversations with being, you know, say, hey, we're, we've

809
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:18,520
If you feel it's important, you feel it's important to show your skin, you know, and some of those things. And like I said, I think the other thing is we try to getting the building captured. I don't think that's the problem. I really don't. I think it's the sustainability of it into the future.

810
01:15:19,160 --> 01:15:26,180
You know, you got your one third of the way there with what's already in the budget that thanks to Commissioner Ayer in back in the day.

811
01:15:28,120 --> 01:15:39,980
So, like I said, I'm not kicking the can, but let's get serious about having conversations and you continue the work that you've been doing and it was loop forward.

812
01:15:39,980 --> 01:15:46,380
Yeah, no, and that's part of the reason why I wanted to bring them here today was to to refresh this conversation

813
01:15:46,380 --> 01:15:53,560
Knowing that the end of April is kind of a deadline for purchase of the property and and give them feedback of

814
01:15:54,120 --> 01:16:01,880
What they need to do in the meantime and then I was planning to invite them back with more more information

815
01:16:01,880 --> 01:16:09,660
Direction from you guys once or twice and see where we can get to before the end of April was my thought process time wise

816
01:16:09,660 --> 01:16:18,060
That's why. Who's the property over there? Link? It's Link the group that's behind you.

817
01:16:19,020 --> 01:16:28,320
Very, very familiar. Thank you. Any more questions or directions or you guys want to reach out to them individually?

818
01:16:28,320 --> 01:16:36,460
Yeah, I think that I'll be reaching out and I'm going to be reaching out some others

819
01:16:36,460 --> 01:16:40,740
to see kind of what are options.

820
01:16:40,840 --> 01:16:42,240
I know that I'm coming late into the game.

821
01:16:42,240 --> 01:16:45,920
You guys have been talking about this for a while apparently, so I'm trying to get caught

822
01:16:45,920 --> 01:16:46,200
up.

823
01:16:48,120 --> 01:16:49,720
So it's one of those things, right?

824
01:16:50,160 --> 01:16:54,640
You know, my mind's always going 100 miles an hour and I'm sure that 90% of the stuff

825
01:16:54,640 --> 01:16:56,740
that's popping into my mind you guys have already hit and covered.

826
01:16:56,740 --> 01:17:05,760
So just want to all right, but thank you for coming here today you have a before you had do you have a scheduled meeting

827
01:17:13,260 --> 01:17:19,760
Why did did you want to come and go I just thought hey would be great capture all in the same same ring

828
01:17:21,880 --> 01:17:26,020
Okay, I know where to get hold of him. I know where to find you. I know where to find you and you

829
01:17:31,920 --> 01:17:38,680
So, yeah, I think direction is maybe reach out to some private people at some level.

830
01:17:38,780 --> 01:17:46,600
The county is interested and you reach out to some private partners and I think you

831
01:17:46,600 --> 01:17:51,420
can definitely say we're interested in helping you at some level and see what the buy-in

832
01:17:51,420 --> 01:17:57,840
is from some of them, so the more we can get certain partners, at least a warm buy-in

833
01:17:57,840 --> 01:18:03,460
and wanting to help, I think it helps make things stronger as a whole.

834
01:18:05,000 --> 01:18:09,380
So, thank you. So, these three minutes were like, for the long run.

835
01:18:11,060 --> 01:18:16,560
And then, yeah, Jeff, can you connect them with global grants,

836
01:18:24,220 --> 01:18:25,180
opportunities?

837
01:18:25,180 --> 01:18:25,440
these.

838
01:18:37,250 --> 01:18:38,990
It's too late to ask some capital to request.

839
01:18:45,620 --> 01:18:48,840
Yeah. Thank you very much. Thank you,

840
01:18:48,980 --> 01:18:52,020
guys. Thanks. Okay.

841
01:18:54,780 --> 01:19:01,000
Good morning. Good morning. May or do you name for the name for the

842
01:19:18,000 --> 01:19:29,300
record please but anyway I we submitted a letter to Jeff in the city to help a

843
01:19:29,300 --> 01:19:35,900
grant, death wasn't here, I gave it the game and he said that's perhaps needs to go

844
01:19:35,900 --> 01:19:44,040
before the commissioners were trying to get assistance that have the county, the

845
01:19:45,180 --> 01:19:54,740
Ryan, the county sheriff's office to write us a grant for a generator, pursue a

846
01:19:54,740 --> 01:20:02,420
grant for a generator. So we're going to, in the toll list, we want to put in, have a mobile

847
01:20:02,420 --> 01:20:09,720
generator with transfer switches in our facility. The Department of Energy just recently came out

848
01:20:09,720 --> 01:20:19,120
and said that for 70% likelihood there'll be more ground out. So that is one of the things regarding

849
01:20:19,120 --> 01:20:25,100
the city of Matholias. And then regarding the VWO and the

850
01:20:25,100 --> 01:20:31,200
fly bowl, or vice commander, and commander of the letter to you,

851
01:20:32,320 --> 01:20:36,280
we've got time, we'll forget the Memorial Day thing.

852
01:20:36,520 --> 01:20:39,860
We'd rather do it right. We'll do it once.

853
01:20:40,380 --> 01:20:49,100
And then the VW is attempting to mend our differences with the

854
01:20:49,100 --> 01:21:01,120
moving positively. And we are pleased that the Redmond Community Center has got a grant

855
01:21:01,120 --> 01:21:09,400
from St. Charles that everyone has helped with the Community Center. The overall thing

856
01:21:10,460 --> 01:21:21,280
I just submitted for a grant for $6,500 to improve the office situation at the senior

857
01:21:21,280 --> 01:21:25,940
center and that has installed a few other items.

858
01:21:27,550 --> 01:21:35,620
We met with the fairer board and that went positive, we asked them to consider replacing

859
01:21:35,620 --> 01:21:47,360
including the flag bulls and also allowing us that the W to have a permanent spot inside

860
01:21:47,360 --> 01:21:59,300
the fairgrounds during the fair perpetuity throughout for us, and then let's see.

861
01:21:59,300 --> 01:22:08,880
So, take a look at the flagpole issue at the cemetery, we get time, we do what I do

862
01:22:08,880 --> 01:22:09,320
much.

863
01:22:09,640 --> 01:22:17,140
And then, regarding the museum, I'm actually an advocate of the museum as a part of the

864
01:22:18,580 --> 01:22:25,880
fairgrounds because of the continuity of operations and stuff, like a whole lot of kitchen

865
01:22:31,640 --> 01:22:44,030
So I had a question on your generators and your one generator multiple transfer switches, correct?

866
01:22:44,510 --> 01:22:49,810
So what would this generator be powering the entire city?

867
01:22:49,810 --> 01:23:01,310
the portions public works department, the city hall and the depot separately because we

868
01:23:01,310 --> 01:23:07,610
can't afford three generators, you guys got your big generators, with those 100 kilowatt

869
01:23:07,610 --> 01:23:08,430
or something,

870
01:23:12,620 --> 01:23:23,880
somebody, somebody, but then we got two big generators, we don't need

871
01:23:23,880 --> 01:23:31,340
And we're going to incorporate our own welder with that trailer so we can weld on the movie.

872
01:23:33,080 --> 01:23:33,260
All right.

873
01:23:34,000 --> 01:23:37,460
Have you talked to Skidjula at all about the generators at all?

874
01:23:38,180 --> 01:23:38,640
Right.

875
01:23:38,960 --> 01:23:39,500
Frames Kidjula.

876
01:23:39,760 --> 01:23:39,860
Yeah.

877
01:23:40,380 --> 01:23:44,080
Well, we have just a conversation.

878
01:23:45,000 --> 01:23:46,420
Just a quick shot.

879
01:23:46,920 --> 01:23:49,320
We can't do it because of you alone.

880
01:23:49,320 --> 01:23:57,900
We have to have counsel to write it and give them the letter from the city, but I have

881
01:23:57,900 --> 01:24:06,240
talked about, you know, your generators that you just prepared, so that sounds really

882
01:24:06,240 --> 01:24:06,460
positive.

883
01:24:06,840 --> 01:24:13,000
I'm a big advocate for military guys and community operations, that's why I think, I actually

884
01:24:13,000 --> 01:24:18,960
think the fairgrounds, the museum, the library should look at that whole thing.

885
01:24:28,690 --> 01:24:32,570
Is this the work that you've done with them?

886
01:24:33,410 --> 01:24:40,650
This is what I asked them to present us with something official with, and then my plan

887
01:24:40,650 --> 01:24:50,310
is, I talked to Tony about this, so my plan is that Tony and I will go up there and take

888
01:24:50,310 --> 01:25:00,290
to look and then he'll give me his good bad nuggles and then hopefully either myself

889
01:25:00,290 --> 01:25:05,490
or all of us some representatives from the VFW and Tony can go over and find a middle ground.

890
01:25:06,650 --> 01:25:11,710
And if the price tag is too big on this then we're going to have to go for some outside

891
01:25:11,710 --> 01:25:19,730
funding for different things or some donations so we need to ... but that's all part of it.

892
01:25:19,730 --> 01:25:20,590
So this was the first act.

893
01:25:20,630 --> 01:25:22,610
I was just making sure that this was this.

894
01:25:22,910 --> 01:25:26,370
I want this to be, yeah, so I asked for the three things.

895
01:25:26,370 --> 01:25:29,210
If you use a B word, the bond thing,

896
01:25:32,260 --> 01:25:33,980
I don't want to use the word.

897
01:25:34,340 --> 01:25:35,120
There you go.

898
01:25:36,400 --> 01:25:42,580
But no, I think that this was thank you for this and tell the guys I appreciate.

899
01:25:43,020 --> 01:25:48,260
The timeliness of this as well, just so that we can have everything in black and white officially.

900
01:25:49,600 --> 01:25:51,180
And then we can move forward.

901
01:25:51,180 --> 01:25:58,500
So, across the board, BFW, I think we're Charlie Mike,

902
01:25:58,920 --> 01:26:00,900
over the board of continuing to mention,

903
01:26:01,200 --> 01:26:05,840
it sounds good with the Jefferson County seniors.

904
01:26:06,580 --> 01:26:11,240
We would appreciate if they reported to you one other thing.

905
01:26:11,760 --> 01:26:17,180
We'd like to put our sign out in front of the community center.

906
01:26:18,520 --> 01:26:20,660
BFW post, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1.

907
01:26:21,520 --> 01:26:25,500
We use the same vendor that we use and we'll pay for it.

908
01:26:26,000 --> 01:26:29,320
We use the same vendor that I don't know if I could help

909
01:26:29,320 --> 01:26:30,980
do a lease on that deal or not.

910
01:26:32,480 --> 01:26:35,560
But rub graphics did their signage out trying

911
01:26:35,560 --> 01:26:39,480
and we'll use the same vendor, same motif.

912
01:26:41,040 --> 01:26:42,660
We'd like you to consider that.

913
01:26:44,400 --> 01:26:53,540
And then we have the quasi and perpetuity, a sign of our own, our, we have a play kind

914
01:26:53,540 --> 01:26:58,200
of visual representation of ourselves in the community center.

915
01:26:58,600 --> 01:27:03,780
It's not just for, you know, out in the periphery of nowhere else.

916
01:27:04,860 --> 01:27:09,080
Is not somewhere in your being a shameless plug of your event coming up the end of the

917
01:27:09,080 --> 01:27:09,480
month here?

918
01:27:09,480 --> 01:27:21,660
Yeah, 29th we have our big dinner sponsored by the BFW and we're if you're all of course invited

919
01:27:23,020 --> 01:27:29,800
by the way part of our mending deal with the Jefferson County seniors is a congregate we

920
01:27:30,340 --> 01:27:36,100
are offering up some discount so they can get in because you know most of people are poor

921
01:27:37,300 --> 01:27:42,620
Otherwise they wouldn't be eating at the community center.

922
01:27:42,960 --> 01:27:46,200
So something five votes offered to him.

923
01:27:46,340 --> 01:27:52,100
I can't remember what Mike did, but I'm subordinate to that.

924
01:27:52,560 --> 01:27:56,040
I'm the judge at because much lower position.

925
01:27:56,640 --> 01:27:59,080
Both those guys are operating at 100%.

926
01:27:59,080 --> 01:28:01,720
I'm operating at 70%.

927
01:28:03,040 --> 01:28:04,380
That was pretty much it.

928
01:28:04,380 --> 01:28:08,040
Alright, thank you Sean. Thank you.

929
01:28:11,060 --> 01:28:14,140
George Kirk 1-5-0, North East Tenshreet,

930
01:28:14,600 --> 01:28:21,440
aka 70-100 Southwest Shad Road. So a couple of concerns is with like you know

931
01:28:21,440 --> 01:28:25,040
everybody's hurting for budgets and funding being cut you know like the city

932
01:28:25,040 --> 01:28:29,160
talked about last night they're looking possibly a million dollar budget

933
01:28:29,160 --> 01:28:33,700
It's shortfall, you know, and the fire department

934
01:28:33,700 --> 01:28:36,540
asking for a bond this year, the library wants to expand.

935
01:28:36,740 --> 01:28:37,960
They're asking for a bond this year.

936
01:28:38,560 --> 01:28:42,800
The MAC is asking for a bond this year to stay in the

937
01:28:42,800 --> 01:28:43,140
operate.

938
01:28:44,240 --> 01:28:47,980
And I think that the historical society should ask the

939
01:28:47,980 --> 01:28:51,620
public for a bond to see if that's what we really,

940
01:28:51,620 --> 01:28:52,180
really want.

941
01:28:52,400 --> 01:28:55,880
I mean, if they ask for maybe like 25 cents per thousand

942
01:28:55,880 --> 01:28:57,300
or something, it might be able to be approved.

943
01:28:57,300 --> 01:29:04,540
But I think it would be very irresponsible of all three commissioners if they just decided to give a hundred thousand dollars of my

944
01:29:04,540 --> 01:29:10,400
Your and everybody in the county's money away, especially with a lot of my friends family that

945
01:29:11,100 --> 01:29:11,340
River

946
01:29:12,620 --> 01:29:14,520
We would prefer that you give a

947
01:29:15,240 --> 01:29:20,100
Hundred thousand dollars here in mr. Pollock so we could have a share of run around out there

948
01:29:20,760 --> 01:29:25,900
You know patrolling and keeping it safe out there not that they don't get called, but you know

949
01:29:25,900 --> 01:29:28,780
It's always nice to have a deputy, you know,

950
01:29:29,000 --> 01:29:31,560
present, just what I've called,

951
01:29:31,900 --> 01:29:33,840
but have a deputy president prevents crime,

952
01:29:34,020 --> 01:29:34,320
prevention.

953
01:29:34,820 --> 01:29:36,680
See, the deputy old crap, a better not speeder,

954
01:29:36,740 --> 01:29:38,280
better not commit crimes than nobody here.

955
01:29:38,680 --> 01:29:39,800
But if you never see a deputy,

956
01:29:39,960 --> 01:29:41,700
you're more likely to commit crimes.

957
01:29:42,260 --> 01:29:45,260
But I think the $100,000 a year would be very irresponsible,

958
01:29:46,480 --> 01:29:48,020
because you're going up 90%.

959
01:29:48,020 --> 01:29:50,500
If you're giving them 10,000 now, you go to $100,000,

960
01:29:50,540 --> 01:29:53,920
you're going 90% up, and then $400,000 for building,

961
01:29:53,920 --> 01:29:59,860
you can purchase $200,000 to buy the building, and then $200,000 to also.

962
01:30:01,360 --> 01:30:08,020
Re-model, another concern is, so what if you do throw $500,000 of 200 for the building, 200 for

963
01:30:08,020 --> 01:30:13,440
construction, and $100,000 for operation costs? There's going to be change orders to fix

964
01:30:13,440 --> 01:30:18,480
the building, so that really, it's always change orders when you're doing remodeling, so

965
01:30:18,480 --> 01:30:23,940
it's going to cost more. It's just not feasible. Another concern is, if they do open, we give

966
01:30:23,940 --> 01:30:32,040
five hundred thousand dollars a half a million dollars and then they realize oh we can't operate

967
01:30:32,040 --> 01:30:37,260
on this money that we already have we're gonna have to come ask for two hundred and fifty to sustain

968
01:30:37,260 --> 01:30:43,640
and they can't do it so then they just close so then that will be big news if you give five hundred

969
01:30:43,640 --> 01:30:49,260
thousand dollars right away in the first year and they just closed because they're not open and I

970
01:30:49,260 --> 01:30:52,740
believe there's grants and they should ask the public because if you just give five hundred

971
01:30:52,740 --> 01:30:58,920
thousand dollars away then they realize we can't operate and they close. I guarantee you

972
01:30:58,920 --> 01:31:04,380
that there'll be three brand new commissioners. If you lose a half million dollars we're money.

973
01:31:04,940 --> 01:31:07,400
Thanks. Thanks for your comments George. Thanks.

974
01:31:10,040 --> 01:31:14,960
We do have revenue that comes in a multitude

975
01:31:14,960 --> 01:31:21,500
of different assets and there's specific ways we can spend that money and can't spend that money.

976
01:31:21,500 --> 01:31:26,660
So there is money that could potentially go to something like this, whether it's their

977
01:31:26,660 --> 01:31:31,100
whole ask or not, is beside the point.

978
01:31:31,700 --> 01:31:33,700
But some of that money can't go to the sheriff.

979
01:31:34,220 --> 01:31:42,320
And currently with the sheriff's update today is he's fully staffed on the patrol side

980
01:31:42,320 --> 01:31:50,080
with what the original FTE was for the last two, two and a half years.

981
01:31:50,080 --> 01:32:04,080
We've gave them latitude to hire two extra patrol staff, and those positions are still open, so we are supporting the sheriff, and we understand that, but thanks for your comments.

982
01:32:11,400 --> 01:32:11,960
Thanks, George.

983
01:32:13,580 --> 01:32:14,100
Laura.

984
01:32:14,100 --> 01:32:22,540
I wanted to follow up to Mr. Stamford's comment, I'm sorry, Laura Moore, Jefferson County

985
01:32:22,540 --> 01:32:25,380
Veterans Service Office regarding the signage on the senior center.

986
01:32:26,060 --> 01:32:32,620
I just want you to also, if you're going to look at doing the VFW to consider where

987
01:32:32,620 --> 01:32:40,380
the American Legion is in that because they also meet there, so I think if they also want

988
01:32:40,380 --> 01:32:47,700
signage and probably appropriate to do that, you know, at the same time. So there's just just a thought.

989
01:32:48,440 --> 01:32:49,640
Thank you. Thank you, thanks, Laura.

990
01:32:49,860 --> 01:32:56,960
Thank you for putting on our commander, Mike Williams, there's also many of us have the interaction.

991
01:32:58,420 --> 01:33:01,480
You can also kind of be there.

992
01:33:02,700 --> 01:33:06,020
Do we have any other public comment in the room, real quick?

993
01:33:06,660 --> 01:33:09,660
do we need anyone online?

994
01:33:11,950 --> 01:33:14,990
I think Laura is, was she wanting to try to get out of here?

995
01:33:15,050 --> 01:33:20,870
I have a way out of the sign that I want to make sure that if you get the same thing

996
01:33:20,870 --> 01:33:26,610
that anybody that wants to sign piece of motion, tell me my suggestion is that that building

997
01:33:26,610 --> 01:33:33,570
that the senior organization is really pleased to, that nothing may be purchased out of

998
01:33:33,570 --> 01:33:35,610
the green thing that goes through the system?

999
01:33:36,150 --> 01:33:36,270
Yep.

1000
01:33:36,450 --> 01:33:40,870
In the past, someone's come in, said they had a plan,

1001
01:33:41,230 --> 01:33:43,530
and then they said you know something to install them.

1002
01:33:44,050 --> 01:33:45,810
Yep, no, 100%.

1003
01:33:45,810 --> 01:33:47,050
This is county property.

1004
01:33:47,350 --> 01:33:49,250
We need to go through the proper channels,

1005
01:33:49,430 --> 01:33:52,330
regardless of if it's privately funded or not.

1006
01:33:52,570 --> 01:33:54,470
It needs to be approved through Tony.

1007
01:33:54,870 --> 01:33:57,970
And if Tony needs assistance come through us,

1008
01:33:58,010 --> 01:33:59,290
but it is county property.

1009
01:33:59,570 --> 01:34:00,830
And there is a process,

1010
01:34:00,830 --> 01:34:07,150
this, whether there's any kind of improvements need to be approved through Tony.

1011
01:34:07,350 --> 01:34:09,630
So thank you for that reminder.

1012
01:34:10,470 --> 01:34:11,770
No more public comment?

1013
01:34:13,190 --> 01:34:17,610
Okay, Bora, thank you for your patience, we'll get you in and out.

1014
01:34:17,870 --> 01:34:19,370
I have two things in there.

1015
01:34:20,110 --> 01:34:20,690
Eat two.

1016
01:34:20,810 --> 01:34:21,530
Two and eight three.

1017
01:34:21,770 --> 01:34:28,890
Okay, let's do eight two real quick, which looks like a correction to our copier contract.

1018
01:34:28,890 --> 01:34:29,930
copy your contract?

1019
01:34:32,970 --> 01:34:34,310
What's the correction?

1020
01:34:41,320 --> 01:34:45,780
Yeah, the when I sent these last

1021
01:34:45,780 --> 01:34:51,000
signed contract, they responded saying that the PO number was incorrect and

1022
01:34:51,000 --> 01:34:59,760
then that also they were incorrect on the the per copy price is actually lower.

1023
01:34:59,760 --> 01:35:14,400
All right, move to sign the corrected canon contract acknowledgement in Lena purchase order for veteran service office previously signed on February 12th, 2025 as m-028-254 that signed by the chair.

1024
01:35:15,080 --> 01:35:15,340
Second.

1025
01:35:15,860 --> 01:35:18,180
The motion and a second any further discussion?

1026
01:35:19,500 --> 01:35:22,940
All those in favor of the corrected con canon contract?

1027
01:35:23,440 --> 01:35:24,800
Please state by saying aye.

1028
01:35:24,800 --> 01:35:27,800
I'm I motion carries and

1029
01:35:29,020 --> 01:35:30,220
E3 or

1030
01:35:30,800 --> 01:35:32,280
out of state travel

1031
01:35:36,200 --> 01:35:37,400
so this is the

1032
01:35:38,700 --> 01:35:41,320
conference we attend every year nationally

1033
01:35:41,320 --> 01:35:46,240
it travels all over the US in this year it's going to be in

1034
01:35:47,200 --> 01:35:47,800
Kentucky

1035
01:35:50,300 --> 01:35:51,220
so just

1036
01:35:51,220 --> 01:35:55,120
important to know just so you know for budget is that

1037
01:35:55,120 --> 01:35:58,180
generally the conference is held in May or in the

1038
01:35:58,180 --> 01:36:03,180
June, most years, but this year is going to be held in July, which is going to be a new fiscal year for us.

1039
01:36:04,200 --> 01:36:12,180
So, and then the one next year is in Reno, and that was in May, so we're going to have two conferences in one fiscal year.

1040
01:36:13,260 --> 01:36:22,640
So I'm asking for permission to attend, but also carry out those funds so we can fund both of those in the same fiscal year.

1041
01:36:22,640 --> 01:36:24,140
Yeah, it makes sense.

1042
01:36:24,240 --> 01:36:24,400
Different.

1043
01:36:25,020 --> 01:36:25,260
Okay.

1044
01:36:25,560 --> 01:36:26,040
Perfect.

1045
01:36:26,400 --> 01:36:30,180
My motion to authorize, for out-of-state travel for Laura Moore and Kevin Ellensburg,

1046
01:36:30,380 --> 01:36:35,260
do attend the 2025 National Association of County Veteran Service Officer Conference, July

1047
01:36:35,260 --> 01:36:36,800
13th through 18th, 2025.

1048
01:36:38,620 --> 01:36:39,100
Second.

1049
01:36:39,900 --> 01:36:41,200
You got a motion in a second.

1050
01:36:41,300 --> 01:36:42,260
Any further discussion?

1051
01:36:44,240 --> 01:36:48,540
All those in favor of the out-of-state travel for Laura and Kevin, please state by saying

1052
01:36:48,540 --> 01:36:48,820
aye.

1053
01:36:49,020 --> 01:36:49,160
Aye.

1054
01:36:52,620 --> 01:36:54,280
Great day, Laura. Thank you.

1055
01:37:02,270 --> 01:37:03,290
Informal time.

1056
01:37:03,930 --> 01:37:05,430
13, welcome.

1057
01:37:06,530 --> 01:37:09,270
Which is our Madras Aquatic Center in

1058
01:37:09,270 --> 01:37:10,510
Operation District. All right.

1059
01:37:10,790 --> 01:37:11,530
Come on up.

1060
01:37:12,210 --> 01:37:13,950
28 minutes behind schedule.

1061
01:37:26,360 --> 01:37:27,560
Good morning commissioners.

1062
01:37:27,720 --> 01:37:28,220
Good morning.

1063
01:37:28,580 --> 01:37:31,080
Names for the record when you get a chance.

1064
01:37:31,860 --> 01:37:32,740
So for the record,

1065
01:37:32,880 --> 01:37:33,620
Courtney Snead,

1066
01:37:33,660 --> 01:37:35,280
executive director of the

1067
01:37:35,280 --> 01:37:37,140
Black Recreation District in

1068
01:37:37,140 --> 01:37:37,800
Janelle Lewis,

1069
01:37:38,040 --> 01:37:40,120
our board vice chair is here

1070
01:37:40,120 --> 01:37:40,880
with me as well.

1071
01:37:44,000 --> 01:37:52,980
We didn't expect to give you a 22 page slideshow, but I wanted to take this opportunity to give you a bunch of information about stuff that's going on.

1072
01:37:53,160 --> 01:37:58,800
So I'm not going to go through all of it, but you have it in case you want to take a look at it and ask any questions.

1073
01:37:58,800 --> 01:38:04,960
So let's scroll through. We've got some history. I wanted to just touch base

1074
01:38:04,960 --> 01:38:10,320
real quick that we do have a number of planning documents and have done quite

1075
01:38:10,320 --> 01:38:15,120
a bit of community outreach over the last few years to try and identify what the

1076
01:38:15,120 --> 01:38:19,940
priorities are of the communities that we serve within the district. And let's

1077
01:38:19,940 --> 01:38:25,280
if you go to the next one. Right now in our 10-year master plan we're focused on

1078
01:38:25,280 --> 01:38:32,320
sustainability which is the first piece of the feedback we received that the district

1079
01:38:32,320 --> 01:38:36,240
needs to kind of get our house in order and figure out how to operate sustainably.

1080
01:38:36,880 --> 01:38:45,660
And so that's what we're doing with the measures that are on the ballot in May and the goal

1081
01:38:45,660 --> 01:38:49,620
of that is to not have to come before you in the future and ask for tax anticipation loans

1082
01:38:49,620 --> 01:38:51,400
which is why we are here this morning.

1083
01:38:52,180 --> 01:38:59,300
So Lindsay, if you want to just want it to remind you, if you go back one, we give all

1084
01:38:59,300 --> 01:39:03,160
second graders, the five or nine jays school district swim lessons every year.

1085
01:39:03,500 --> 01:39:07,960
This is a picture of our Worm Springs Cade second graders this year and I'm life-garning

1086
01:39:07,960 --> 01:39:12,860
in the background because we don't have enough staff right now, all right, that should

1087
01:39:12,860 --> 01:39:14,220
not be a photo.

1088
01:39:14,660 --> 01:39:20,320
So if you want to go to the next thing, in this presentation, one of the things that we

1089
01:39:20,320 --> 01:39:25,040
We had the board look at in the last few months is really defining what sustainability means

1090
01:39:25,040 --> 01:39:30,240
and trying to demonstrate the things that we're currently able to do versus the things

1091
01:39:30,240 --> 01:39:36,240
that we know we should be doing as a responsible public organization that is required to follow

1092
01:39:36,240 --> 01:39:40,440
at least 15 different state codes and laws and rules, just as you all are.

1093
01:39:41,000 --> 01:39:46,040
So the next few pages, if you just want to click through, kind of talk through the definitions

1094
01:39:46,040 --> 01:39:51,600
of sustainability and identify, you know, what happens if the measures pass within the

1095
01:39:51,600 --> 01:39:56,040
first couple years, within the next three to five years, and then also tries to identify

1096
01:39:56,040 --> 01:39:57,040
what we're already doing.

1097
01:39:57,360 --> 01:40:01,120
And so as you kind of go through the next three or four, you can see there's not a lot

1098
01:40:01,120 --> 01:40:06,800
of underlined things because there's not a lot of things we can currently do with the funding

1099
01:40:06,800 --> 01:40:07,760
level that we have.

1100
01:40:09,280 --> 01:40:15,020
I also have, in the presentation, some data for you about participation numbers, despite

1101
01:40:15,020 --> 01:40:19,980
having to cut programs and services over the last few years, our participation rates are all up

1102
01:40:19,980 --> 01:40:26,140
in all the things that we do. And so this kind of shows you how aquatics has grown over the years,

1103
01:40:26,400 --> 01:40:32,080
the end-based programming, which is sports and enrichment. And then overall, you know, the last

1104
01:40:32,080 --> 01:40:36,300
year we've just seen a boom in the in folks participating. If you want to go to the next one,

1105
01:40:36,680 --> 01:40:41,980
this is a breakdown of programs that require pre-registration. So this is swim lessons,

1106
01:40:43,080 --> 01:40:45,620
all of our different sports programs tackle football,

1107
01:40:45,840 --> 01:40:47,220
soccer, soccer, all the things.

1108
01:40:47,860 --> 01:40:49,820
And you can see that over the last few years,

1109
01:40:49,940 --> 01:40:53,000
it's just participation is booming in these activities.

1110
01:40:53,780 --> 01:40:55,360
If you go to the next slide,

1111
01:40:55,960 --> 01:40:59,040
there's a lot of talk out there about our lack of open swims.

1112
01:40:59,400 --> 01:41:02,180
Part of that is it requires about $1,500

1113
01:41:02,500 --> 01:41:04,400
to run an open swim for three hours.

1114
01:41:05,080 --> 01:41:08,900
And we recover about $600 of that with fees.

1115
01:41:08,900 --> 01:41:15,040
So, property taxes subsidize us being able to be open for open swim, but despite cutting

1116
01:41:15,040 --> 01:41:20,080
it, we've got the highest number of people participating in open swims and it's a supply

1117
01:41:20,080 --> 01:41:20,820
and demand thing.

1118
01:41:21,500 --> 01:41:25,960
So, now that we only offer them twice a month, they're full and we're able to cover the

1119
01:41:25,960 --> 01:41:27,240
cost of offering that.

1120
01:41:28,120 --> 01:41:33,340
If you go to the next slide, this is just a, it's hard to read, but it's a visual representation

1121
01:41:33,340 --> 01:41:37,720
of overall program participation since 2018-19.

1122
01:41:38,400 --> 01:41:42,220
Our data prior to that is, I don't trust it.

1123
01:41:42,380 --> 01:41:43,960
I'm just gonna say it that way.

1124
01:41:44,320 --> 01:41:47,200
But you can see that during the asterisk year that

1125
01:41:47,200 --> 01:41:49,880
we will not talk about, it was really low in them.

1126
01:41:49,920 --> 01:41:51,120
It's just been booming since.

1127
01:41:52,440 --> 01:41:54,500
And we expect that trying to continue growing

1128
01:41:55,040 --> 01:41:57,500
if the measures successfully pass.

1129
01:41:58,340 --> 01:42:00,140
If you go to the next slide,

1130
01:42:00,140 --> 01:42:03,340
And also, another really important piece is memberships.

1131
01:42:03,380 --> 01:42:08,100
Most of those are, as you can see in that far right, third party health insurance.

1132
01:42:08,260 --> 01:42:13,320
Most of those are supported by Medicare, so it's for our seniors who are doing fitness

1133
01:42:13,320 --> 01:42:14,320
workouts in the morning.

1134
01:42:14,420 --> 01:42:19,700
If you come up to the pool between 9 and 11, you'll see probably 20 to 40 people in there exercising

1135
01:42:20,320 --> 01:42:24,740
because it's way easier to do in the water than it is on land once you get to a certain

1136
01:42:24,740 --> 01:42:25,040
age.

1137
01:42:26,300 --> 01:42:28,080
You want to go to the next slide.

1138
01:42:28,080 --> 01:42:34,540
So, I just, I want you guys to have this information in case you're asked, and I also am trying to get it out as much as possible.

1139
01:42:34,900 --> 01:42:38,740
If the measures don't pass, our current reduced hours will be reduced further.

1140
01:42:39,320 --> 01:42:44,720
I'm not even sure as I've been working on the budget that we're going to be able to be open for the hours that are presented here,

1141
01:42:45,900 --> 01:42:47,760
because we'll go down to three staff.

1142
01:42:48,200 --> 01:42:55,960
Right now, we've got about 20 to 30 staff members, seasonally depending on when that is, we will go down to three staff members.

1143
01:42:55,960 --> 01:43:01,160
If the measures don't pass, because instead of funding people to do programming, we're

1144
01:43:01,160 --> 01:43:07,400
going to have to fund facility improvements, because we're caught in a really tricky

1145
01:43:07,400 --> 01:43:08,680
situation financially.

1146
01:43:10,020 --> 01:43:14,180
If we have any mechanical or capital figures, we're going to be looking to all of our friends

1147
01:43:14,180 --> 01:43:19,100
and partners across Jefferson County, as well as grants, and there's not a lot of grants

1148
01:43:19,100 --> 01:43:22,500
for maintenance repairs, to try and fund it.

1149
01:43:22,500 --> 01:43:26,040
And if we can't find that money, then we will close until we can save enough money.

1150
01:43:26,600 --> 01:43:32,360
That puts us in another tricky situation because we'll lay everybody off and then it'll be tough to get folks to come back.

1151
01:43:33,260 --> 01:43:44,260
If you go to the next slide, I just want to point out that third bullet point, if the measures don't pass, that we'll have to explore options for someone else taken over operation of the recreation district and y'all are on our list.

1152
01:43:44,820 --> 01:43:51,400
So we'll be looking to the county or the city of Madras or somebody, maybe a private organization to take over operating the district.

1153
01:43:51,900 --> 01:43:57,300
Because at the point at which those measures don't pass, we don't really have another option.

1154
01:43:57,920 --> 01:43:58,860
That's out of pool.

1155
01:43:59,740 --> 01:44:00,040
I'm sorry?

1156
01:44:00,180 --> 01:44:00,900
That's out of pool.

1157
01:44:01,360 --> 01:44:02,140
That's everything.

1158
01:44:02,400 --> 01:44:06,880
That's a aquatic facility, that's sports enrichment, all the different programs.

1159
01:44:07,560 --> 01:44:10,300
If the measures don't pass, the board is going to be talking about it.

1160
01:44:10,300 --> 01:44:15,360
Our next board meeting, March 19th, not offering any sports or land-based activities next year.

1161
01:44:15,360 --> 01:44:20,360
So, that 250 kids that were in basketball will not be in basketball.

1162
01:44:21,580 --> 01:44:29,120
It's, we are in a severe budget pickle and that's the reason, last year the measures were put on the ballot.

1163
01:44:29,600 --> 01:44:37,440
They failed by, one failed by about 95 votes and that's why the board is chosen to put it on again.

1164
01:44:37,880 --> 01:44:42,580
I'm not sure that there's the will to put it on again if it doesn't pass this time.

1165
01:44:42,580 --> 01:44:47,600
And so we're talking about super significant impacts and reductions.

1166
01:44:48,700 --> 01:44:53,160
If you go to the next slide, because I like to end on a positive note, if the measures

1167
01:44:53,160 --> 01:44:58,340
pass will be able to triple our hours, that's all dependent on how quickly we can onboard

1168
01:44:58,340 --> 01:44:59,860
staff to help.

1169
01:45:02,060 --> 01:45:29,980
So I'm not sure, part of that is contingent upon the discussion with you all about the tax anticipation loan. So we'll get to that in the moment. But the goal is to triple the hours by next summer with those staffing adjustments. So you can see right now we're operating during the school year with 27 to 30 hours a week, open to the public and we would go to 61 hours a week, which is a doubling during the school year and to 76 hours a week during the summer.

1170
01:45:29,980 --> 01:45:36,220
summer. So, this gets us really excited. And then if you go to the next slide, we can

1171
01:45:36,220 --> 01:45:40,500
begin the process. We have to redo our locker room walls. I don't know if anybody remembers

1172
01:45:40,920 --> 01:45:47,620
a few years ago. A few years ago. I came out that the walls were not put in properly

1173
01:45:47,620 --> 01:45:51,520
entire locker rooms. They were done with drywall in a wet environment. And so, they're crumbling

1174
01:45:51,520 --> 01:45:56,680
from the inside out. We've got about three to five years to replace them. It's about a 1.2

1175
01:45:56,680 --> 01:46:02,900
estimated $1 million project to do that and so in addition to that we have new aquatic

1176
01:46:02,900 --> 01:46:06,360
health codes we'll have to follow which I'll also talk about in a second when that project

1177
01:46:06,360 --> 01:46:09,660
comes up so that may actually be more than 1.2 million because of that.

1178
01:46:10,580 --> 01:46:14,880
Anyway, we're really excited about the possibility of partnering with the county on programming,

1179
01:46:15,260 --> 01:46:20,280
on James Park and all kinds of other fun things should the measures pass.

1180
01:46:21,000 --> 01:46:22,160
You want to go to the next slide?

1181
01:46:22,160 --> 01:46:26,880
Okay, I needed to take a moment and talk about this because this is new and your county

1182
01:46:26,880 --> 01:46:32,500
health department will be responsible for implementing these rules and holding us accountable

1183
01:46:32,500 --> 01:46:33,340
for following them.

1184
01:46:34,480 --> 01:46:40,960
In our state's infinite wisdom, they have adopted the Model Health, Model Aquatic Health

1185
01:46:40,960 --> 01:46:45,920
Code, which is a best practice document for operating in Aquatics facility, both as it relates

1186
01:46:45,920 --> 01:46:49,720
to the asset itself and how we operate with staffing in the pool.

1187
01:46:50,920 --> 01:46:56,760
And I just brought for visual impact, all of those yellow tabs are money that we currently

1188
01:46:56,760 --> 01:47:01,320
are not spending, that we will be spending because of these new regulations that the

1189
01:47:01,320 --> 01:47:01,900
state has.

1190
01:47:02,740 --> 01:47:08,120
So kindly giving us two weeks to respond to, that they're implementing mid-March.

1191
01:47:08,740 --> 01:47:13,640
I don't know what the timeline is for us being shut down for not being in compliance, but

1192
01:47:13,640 --> 01:47:18,920
I can tell you that every pool east of the cascades is in noncompliance with these new rules.

1193
01:47:18,920 --> 01:47:22,960
We met a few weeks ago in how to discussion about it.

1194
01:47:23,300 --> 01:47:32,340
So it's about $150,000 next year that we'll have to invest because of this asset management

1195
01:47:32,340 --> 01:47:36,800
related stuff, preventative maintenance stuff that as a small district we just don't have

1196
01:47:36,800 --> 01:47:38,420
in place that will now be required.

1197
01:47:39,760 --> 01:47:46,120
Lots of documentation that we don't currently have on preventative maintenance, staffing

1198
01:47:46,120 --> 01:47:51,820
levels that are higher than what we currently have. We're close to best practice on staffing

1199
01:47:51,820 --> 01:47:55,080
levels. We've done some work over the last three years, but we're not quite compliant.

1200
01:47:56,580 --> 01:48:01,980
And so we're waiting with beta breath to see if they're going to give us a runway to

1201
01:48:01,980 --> 01:48:06,680
come into compliance, or if it'll be a, hey, March 15th, we're going to shut you down if

1202
01:48:06,680 --> 01:48:10,360
you're not in compliance. I hope they don't go that route. I hope they give us until at least

1203
01:48:10,360 --> 01:48:18,880
January of 26. I'm kind of hoping for January of 27. Because like I said, and I'm the facilities

1204
01:48:18,880 --> 01:48:27,340
guy right now. So you're saying we're one of only 10 states that have adopted these standards.

1205
01:48:27,420 --> 01:48:31,520
That's correct. And what are some of the examples of these standards?

1206
01:48:32,600 --> 01:48:38,560
So for the one that's super impactful is how they're calculating bather load.

1207
01:48:38,560 --> 01:48:43,140
Beta load is the number of people and bodies that can be in the water at one time.

1208
01:48:43,680 --> 01:48:46,440
Right now our building occupancy is 375.

1209
01:48:47,160 --> 01:48:50,100
The new Beta load calculations limit us to 158.

1210
01:48:51,420 --> 01:48:55,320
So that's one significant example that impacts how we operate.

1211
01:48:55,500 --> 01:49:00,680
Another one is we're required to have a lifeguard at the top of the slide and the bottom of the

1212
01:49:00,680 --> 01:49:01,000
slide.

1213
01:49:01,200 --> 01:49:05,560
Right now we have a deck attendant who's a 14 year old implementing rules at the top

1214
01:49:05,560 --> 01:49:06,180
of the slide.

1215
01:49:06,180 --> 01:49:08,340
But now we'll have to put two lifeguards.

1216
01:49:08,540 --> 01:49:16,280
So instead of spending $14 an hour, we'll be spending $56 an hour for every hour that we have the slide open.

1217
01:49:17,040 --> 01:49:20,300
So it's, and people get very angry if the slide isn't that way.

1218
01:49:20,600 --> 01:49:23,700
And so there's that children get very angry.

1219
01:49:23,820 --> 01:49:24,340
And they'll appear.

1220
01:49:24,860 --> 01:49:28,000
Is there, is there any, couldn't go on the slide while they were there for Rex?

1221
01:49:28,160 --> 01:49:28,500
Oh, yeah.

1222
01:49:28,580 --> 01:49:32,480
Is there anything we can do about this now reaching out to people doing that kind of stuff?

1223
01:49:32,480 --> 01:49:37,720
Summarize it and give me a give me a also I'll forge you my comments that I made to the yeah

1224
01:49:38,500 --> 01:49:46,120
Kelly will whip out. I love going. Oh RPA and SDAO is also involved

1225
01:49:46,700 --> 01:49:54,060
I mean they literally we found out at the SDAO conference February 8th that comments were open and we're extended to February 25th

1226
01:49:54,060 --> 01:49:56,000
And that it would be implemented March 1st

1227
01:49:58,740 --> 01:49:59,760
State of work there you go

1228
01:49:59,760 --> 01:50:06,640
Okay, so I just I wanted to bring this to your attention because it has a huge impact and the whole aquatic's professionals community is

1229
01:50:07,160 --> 01:50:10,180
We want to do best practice. Should it be the law?

1230
01:50:12,100 --> 01:50:17,440
No, no, no, you said something earlier that east side, you know, east side versus west side. Why what's the difference?

1231
01:50:17,680 --> 01:50:21,540
Well, we met as an east side. We have a dry sideers meeting that we do every quarter

1232
01:50:22,540 --> 01:50:24,540
So it's we do do

1233
01:50:25,680 --> 01:50:28,960
Or Portman, Hermiston, Ontario, the Mac,

1234
01:50:30,100 --> 01:50:32,320
Primeville, Sisters, it's like all of us

1235
01:50:32,320 --> 01:50:34,520
that have facilities on the side of the map.

1236
01:50:34,600 --> 01:50:36,680
The rules aren't different for Eastern and Western.

1237
01:50:36,900 --> 01:50:37,660
No, no, no, no.

1238
01:50:37,660 --> 01:50:39,240
Okay, so this impacts everybody.

1239
01:50:39,480 --> 01:50:41,440
And to all it's in hills, they have their own,

1240
01:50:41,580 --> 01:50:43,460
you know, they have a lot of money.

1241
01:50:43,600 --> 01:50:45,220
They have their own legislative people

1242
01:50:45,220 --> 01:50:46,120
that are on this too.

1243
01:50:48,020 --> 01:50:49,980
But, you know, we don't have those kind of resources

1244
01:50:50,660 --> 01:50:53,520
as dry-siders, which is why we meet together.

1245
01:50:54,540 --> 01:50:55,200
There you go.

1246
01:50:55,380 --> 01:50:56,000
What else?

1247
01:50:56,360 --> 01:50:57,920
So you said you, Matilda, right?

1248
01:50:58,060 --> 01:50:58,520
You're Hermiston?

1249
01:50:58,860 --> 01:50:58,980
Yep.

1250
01:50:59,840 --> 01:51:01,720
Who else would be a big, big player?

1251
01:51:02,220 --> 01:51:02,660
Boardman.

1252
01:51:02,920 --> 01:51:03,960
I'm going to do a new one.

1253
01:51:04,040 --> 01:51:04,520
I'm going to do a new one.

1254
01:51:05,780 --> 01:51:06,220
LaGrand.

1255
01:51:07,620 --> 01:51:08,060
Union.

1256
01:51:08,480 --> 01:51:12,060
Malala is not dry ciders, but they have a small district.

1257
01:51:12,840 --> 01:51:13,100
Beautiful.

1258
01:51:13,260 --> 01:51:14,140
Beautiful place, too.

1259
01:51:14,340 --> 01:51:14,900
Court County.

1260
01:51:15,700 --> 01:51:15,900
Really?

1261
01:51:16,420 --> 01:51:18,000
They have their outdoor pool during the summer.

1262
01:51:18,200 --> 01:51:22,180
I mean, some of the outdoor pools in the summer have different rules than what we do.

1263
01:51:22,180 --> 01:51:27,120
I'm assuming Kanita is also impacted potentially as an aquatics facility.

1264
01:51:28,500 --> 01:51:33,720
I'm assuming that Redmond is impacted as they're building an aquatics facility, because

1265
01:51:33,720 --> 01:51:38,400
there's also a whole bunch of new rules about building new facilities that we, unless

1266
01:51:38,400 --> 01:51:43,480
we substantially alter, which we can't get an answer with, that means I'm guessing we're

1267
01:51:43,480 --> 01:51:47,340
doing locker rooms as substantially altering, but then you have to come into compliance with

1268
01:51:47,340 --> 01:51:47,920
the building stuff.

1269
01:51:47,920 --> 01:51:54,540
That's cool. So, you said you don't know what the penalties are for non-compliance

1270
01:51:54,540 --> 01:52:03,000
quite yet. Is there in your dry sideers meeting? Is there a consensus that, you know, can

1271
01:52:03,000 --> 01:52:08,500
be united front on, okay, good. Yes. I would say even be with the Aquatics

1272
01:52:08,500 --> 01:52:12,660
Professionals community. There's a united front. Good. Because that's always a good way to get

1273
01:52:12,660 --> 01:52:13,500
your voice heard. Yeah.

1274
01:52:16,410 --> 01:52:18,870
Do you want to go to the next one? Why I'm really here.

1275
01:52:20,010 --> 01:52:25,570
So, historically the county has given us a tax anticipation loan to get us through July

1276
01:52:25,570 --> 01:52:28,130
to November when property tax revenues come in.

1277
01:52:28,310 --> 01:52:34,050
It's a loan, it's mutually beneficial, y'all make 6% interest off of us and then we get

1278
01:52:34,050 --> 01:52:37,390
to have cash flow for those months before the property taxes come in.

1279
01:52:38,010 --> 01:52:43,910
This year it's even more critical, we are looking to end the fiscal year in a deficit and

1280
01:52:43,910 --> 01:52:49,270
And so those funds would be super helpful in May and June to get us through that piece

1281
01:52:49,270 --> 01:52:51,670
and then also to get us through to November.

1282
01:52:52,250 --> 01:52:59,310
If the measures pass, we need, we hope, to try and hire staff as soon as humanly possible

1283
01:52:59,310 --> 01:53:02,890
so that we can ramp up our hours because when people vote and they see it pass, they're

1284
01:53:02,890 --> 01:53:05,350
going to expect that we have the hours immediately.

1285
01:53:06,110 --> 01:53:10,650
It's going to take us a minute to get people lifeguard certified and hired and all that kind of stuff.

1286
01:53:11,710 --> 01:53:17,650
So if we have a larger tax anticipation loan, last year you gave us 250,000 and we used

1287
01:53:19,170 --> 01:53:20,250
212,000 of it.

1288
01:53:22,470 --> 01:53:27,730
This year we're hoping for 400,000 so that we can, like I said, quickly on board new staff.

1289
01:53:28,950 --> 01:53:32,190
If the measures don't pass, we won't need 400,000.

1290
01:53:32,390 --> 01:53:35,810
Part of it's going to depend on what the board decides if we're going to operate the pool

1291
01:53:35,810 --> 01:53:42,190
the summer if we're going to do any programming, you know, what that looks like, because if

1292
01:53:42,190 --> 01:53:48,890
we do, if the measures don't pass, we'll be probably laying staff off like the middle

1293
01:53:48,890 --> 01:53:52,050
of June as soon as we're done with the school year. And I don't know what kind of staffing

1294
01:53:52,050 --> 01:53:57,070
we'll have for the summer. So it could be that we need less. But within that tax anticipation

1295
01:53:57,070 --> 01:54:03,590
loan, 50,000 of it is earmarked to replace our domestic water heater. I've got to reset

1296
01:54:03,590 --> 01:54:05,790
that her, we call her, she's very temperamental.

1297
01:54:06,890 --> 01:54:09,570
Got her about 30 times a day right now

1298
01:54:09,570 --> 01:54:11,810
to try and keep the showers warm.

1299
01:54:13,090 --> 01:54:17,570
She's 20 years old, 18 years old, operating 24 or 7.

1300
01:54:18,030 --> 01:54:19,270
So I got some quotes.

1301
01:54:19,470 --> 01:54:21,690
The quotes came back in about 42,000.

1302
01:54:21,830 --> 01:54:23,350
So I've got a little bit of a buffer in there,

1303
01:54:23,410 --> 01:54:25,090
just in case they've got a replace piping

1304
01:54:25,090 --> 01:54:25,890
and that kind of stuff.

1305
01:54:26,470 --> 01:54:28,430
But again, that's all part of the loan

1306
01:54:28,430 --> 01:54:32,170
that we will repay and that we are paying 6% interest on.

1307
01:54:32,170 --> 01:54:42,910
So we're hoping that the county is still open to providing that tax anticipation loan as I said, a mutually beneficial loan to us.

1308
01:54:43,410 --> 01:54:49,950
So I love, you know, loans versus just grant my name's given out or whatever.

1309
01:54:52,960 --> 01:54:57,400
So you typically asked for 200,000, you want to double that to 400,000.

1310
01:54:59,100 --> 01:55:05,180
If you don't receive the $400,000, $50,000 out of that $200, we'll still go to the heater.

1311
01:55:06,500 --> 01:55:10,280
So if it

1312
01:55:12,450 --> 01:55:18,990
doesn't pass, you just said that you won't need all the $400,000.

1313
01:55:18,990 --> 01:55:19,150
No.

1314
01:55:21,630 --> 01:55:29,010
So my thought is, can we give you, is it possible to give you the current loan of $200,000,

1315
01:55:29,530 --> 01:55:35,610
and then if it passes, come back for the remainder of what you need?

1316
01:55:36,250 --> 01:55:36,890
Where is that?

1317
01:55:37,450 --> 01:55:37,690
Yes.

1318
01:55:38,990 --> 01:55:43,910
Last year was 250, so I would ask you to keep it in the past.

1319
01:55:43,910 --> 01:55:50,070
That's what I had that that number down 250 and that the new he said 200 ago. Where am I used to it used to be 200

1320
01:55:50,070 --> 01:55:56,230
Then it got up last year. Okay. Part of it is that we close every September and we do a lot of maintenance and things.

1321
01:55:56,250 --> 01:56:02,950
And so we have a lot of expenses that month before we get our taxes in so the 250 helps us deal with that.

1322
01:56:03,690 --> 01:56:10,170
So yes, I would say it would be totally reasonable and acceptable and helpful to get the 250 kind of approved.

1323
01:56:10,170 --> 01:56:13,430
And then if the measures pass, we can come back and ask for the additional.

1324
01:56:13,430 --> 01:56:14,930
Is that a problem with our budget?

1325
01:56:15,210 --> 01:56:17,590
No, is that going to be good to work with our budget?

1326
01:56:18,950 --> 01:56:19,190
Okay.

1327
01:56:19,650 --> 01:56:24,310
No, not in the fund that we typically utilize to provide this anticipation.

1328
01:56:24,870 --> 01:56:25,210
Okay.

1329
01:56:25,730 --> 01:56:30,790
It would help us, Commissioner Taylor, to have a sense of whether or not the commission

1330
01:56:30,790 --> 01:56:36,510
would approve up to that 400 so that as we're doing our budgeting and planning, that we have

1331
01:56:36,510 --> 01:56:41,130
a sense if that's an option or if I need to figure out alternatives or really hit home

1332
01:56:41,130 --> 01:56:47,810
that we're not going to be able to increase staffing until January I my personal

1333
01:56:47,810 --> 01:56:53,130
believe just beginning for myself as I I really want to wait and see what our

1334
01:56:53,130 --> 01:56:59,110
community says before I commit to that much more alone because my fear is if

1335
01:56:59,110 --> 01:57:03,170
we give me $400,000 that's the ability to pay it back if it doesn't go through

1336
01:57:03,170 --> 01:57:05,730
and so it comes back.

1337
01:57:05,830 --> 01:57:09,690
It comes right out, you just pull it right out.

1338
01:57:09,690 --> 01:57:11,610
You just pull it out of, I love it.

1339
01:57:11,610 --> 01:57:12,570
The property taxes, so.

1340
01:57:12,790 --> 01:57:13,350
It goes with that money.

1341
01:57:14,270 --> 01:57:16,010
100% guarantee it gets paid out.

1342
01:57:16,590 --> 01:57:18,890
OK, OK,

1343
01:57:21,100 --> 01:57:22,660
I'm on board with supporting the pool.

1344
01:57:24,180 --> 01:57:25,760
I'm on board with supporting the pool

1345
01:57:25,760 --> 01:57:30,840
for what you're asking if our constituents approve it.

1346
01:57:30,960 --> 01:57:33,100
If I could say supporting the district.

1347
01:57:33,100 --> 01:57:38,080
district. Because it's more than the pool. It's also all the sports. Yes, enrichment, all the things.

1348
01:57:39,600 --> 01:57:45,300
We're trying to help people. You go. Remember it's the whole thing. You're right. Yeah, no, I think

1349
01:57:46,440 --> 01:57:54,900
myself included, I see no reason why we wouldn't continue the $250,000 now. Wait and see how the voters

1350
01:57:55,660 --> 01:58:02,640
feel about the measure. And if they're in support, I definitely want to be that good partner and

1351
01:58:02,640 --> 01:58:20,560
bridge that gap. And so I think it comes down to the voters. If they support the work you guys are doing and what you propose, I would be the vote of, yes, how can we help you get there with this guarantee approval by the voters?

1352
01:58:21,020 --> 01:58:24,260
So yeah, that's where I'm at.

1353
01:58:24,260 --> 01:58:29,680
I just want to add really briefly that there's a really active group right now that I'm

1354
01:58:29,680 --> 01:58:35,780
a part of the back of the MACRD going out and marketing the measures.

1355
01:58:36,220 --> 01:58:38,180
So there's just two measures again this year.

1356
01:58:38,320 --> 01:58:39,480
We have to dissolve and reform.

1357
01:58:39,980 --> 01:58:41,260
It is not a bond.

1358
01:58:42,020 --> 01:58:43,500
It's to dissolve the district.

1359
01:58:43,540 --> 01:58:46,840
You have to vote yes on that and then vote yes to reform.

1360
01:58:47,400 --> 01:58:52,280
So we're really trying to get the messaging out because we're only short by 95 votes on

1361
01:58:52,280 --> 01:58:56,520
the dissolving part and I think it was very confusing for our constituents last year.

1362
01:58:57,220 --> 01:59:00,180
And so I do not think it was a lack of support.

1363
01:59:00,400 --> 01:59:02,020
I think it was the confusion of the ballot.

1364
01:59:02,280 --> 01:59:05,600
And so that's why we're pretty aggressively getting out there with the two yeses.

1365
01:59:06,380 --> 01:59:11,080
So trying to spread that word, it's voting yes twice if you really do want to support.

1366
01:59:12,260 --> 01:59:14,540
Thank you to the commissioners for supporting that measure.

1367
01:59:15,040 --> 01:59:21,580
Yeah, no, it's confusing I think when we all started this conversation previously, it was

1368
01:59:21,580 --> 01:59:27,080
confusing to us as well as you guys and like all that happens so the confusion

1369
01:59:27,080 --> 01:59:32,760
from the voter standpoint is is challenging and so I hope you guys

1370
01:59:32,760 --> 01:59:38,440
success in that education piece because it is it's difficult to explain that so

1371
01:59:51,580 --> 01:59:57,180
That says 250, if 250 is what is true to that on 8th 1st,

1372
01:59:57,280 --> 01:59:59,200
but the payment on the last year in November.

1373
02:00:14,660 --> 02:00:35,960
What I want to know is how valuable is the $50,000 earmark for that domestic water? How does it relate to operations as of today? Is it just a pain in the butt? Because you're reset it 30 times, or is it just that we're not providing hot water to people taking charge? Depends on the day. I mean, if I had money sitting in a bank account would have been replaced six months ago.

1374
02:00:38,040 --> 02:00:39,680
I mean, it would have been a place.

1375
02:00:39,860 --> 02:00:44,980
It's more like also customers has factions like having small children that get cold in

1376
02:00:44,980 --> 02:00:46,820
the pool really easily can't go warm up.

1377
02:00:47,580 --> 02:00:48,920
Right. Well, that's my point.

1378
02:00:49,120 --> 02:00:55,020
I think I've been an advocate in this conversation about the 250 loan and then an advocate for the

1379
02:00:55,020 --> 02:00:57,300
50,000 just because it is an asset.

1380
02:00:57,820 --> 02:01:02,220
Now, whether you guys run or not in the future, that's to be told here soon, right?

1381
02:01:02,220 --> 02:01:12,500
So somebody's going to need a $50,000 water heater at some point, you know, if this, I mean it's not going to sit up their idle no matter what, right.

1382
02:01:12,920 --> 02:01:19,580
So I would be an advocate for doing 300 at this time to allow them to 50. You just kind of look at it.

1383
02:01:19,600 --> 02:01:22,340
250 is, hey, this is operations that gets them through.

1384
02:01:22,340 --> 02:01:31,000
So the 50 is this tangible piece of equipment that is necessary for the, you know, to make it run.

1385
02:01:31,120 --> 02:01:36,580
And like I said, if you're going to, it's all not marketing, if you're going to tell people, hey, we need you to pass these bonds.

1386
02:01:37,260 --> 02:01:40,100
And I would have if you had warm showers, you know.

1387
02:01:40,200 --> 02:01:43,760
And I don't want that to be a detriment.

1388
02:01:44,580 --> 02:01:48,020
So there's no difference, again, coming back to my eyes anyways.

1389
02:01:48,020 --> 02:01:52,760
there's no difference between alone in your 350 because it's collected we collected anyways

1390
02:01:52,760 --> 02:01:57,940
we're gonna get paid that's a guarantee that you know the community needs to understand fully that

1391
02:01:57,940 --> 02:02:04,720
this isn't a giveaway. This is your money that's coming in and if you tell me I need it right now

1392
02:02:04,720 --> 02:02:10,160
that's fine I do I do admire the other commissioners and I'm not putting words hopefully not putting

1393
02:02:10,160 --> 02:02:16,060
words in your mouth but I do admire the fact that we want to see what the pulse of the community is

1394
02:02:16,060 --> 02:02:24,040
as to what it's going to look like. But I don't think $50,000 water heater is too much

1395
02:02:24,040 --> 02:02:25,620
of an ask. That's my own opinion.

1396
02:02:26,340 --> 02:02:29,580
Well, they can use 50 grand out of the 250 in the meantime, all right?

1397
02:02:29,940 --> 02:02:36,980
Did you use 212 to the last year up until the taxes came in, so November, right?

1398
02:02:37,160 --> 02:02:41,160
Well, and frankly, the measures don't pass and we're at the 250. We're not even going to use

1399
02:02:41,160 --> 02:02:44,740
that because the pool might be shut down and we won't be doing any other programming

1400
02:02:44,740 --> 02:02:51,260
our activities. So 300,000 wouldn't change? I actually think 250 is okay. I mean I appreciate

1401
02:02:51,960 --> 02:02:57,520
the sentiment for sure because then we can plan to actually replace it in May June instead of

1402
02:02:57,520 --> 02:03:03,440
waiting until September because that 250 will come in May 1st. So that's actually super helpful

1403
02:03:04,020 --> 02:03:09,940
in itself to keep it at the 250. But I mean I would rather not because I think when we calculate

1404
02:03:09,940 --> 02:03:18,360
interest. It would not be calculated on the extra 150 until we get it in July. So I'd rather not

1405
02:03:18,360 --> 02:03:24,040
pay 6% on that 50,000 if I can save it. So you just snatched it from the victor the jaws of

1406
02:03:24,040 --> 02:03:34,160
victory here. It's fine. I appreciate it. That's fine. Is that something we would entertain as

1407
02:03:34,160 --> 02:03:45,100
just proposal of 250 May 1st and then if both measures pass July 1st

1408
02:03:45,100 --> 02:03:51,520
increasing it up to 400 so another 150 July 1st dependent on the measures

1409
02:03:51,520 --> 02:03:57,840
so it's more streamlined everything's set in place and as soon as that vote

1410
02:03:57,840 --> 02:04:08,300
count. You guys know we know and and there's a plan is that no that's great. We need a motion for

1411
02:04:08,300 --> 02:04:15,640
that. No we'll we'll do a loan agreement. I have Alexa work to see if they can get it on there or

1412
02:04:15,640 --> 02:04:19,240
whatever. When's your next board meeting? March 19th.

1413
02:04:21,390 --> 02:04:21,770
I'll get that.

1414
02:04:21,770 --> 02:04:24,030
The world's 28, Alex is drowning in work.

1415
02:04:24,810 --> 02:04:25,470
No pun intended.

1416
02:04:27,170 --> 02:04:28,550
As always, thank you, Lexington.

1417
02:04:29,250 --> 02:04:31,290
So, staff directed.

1418
02:04:32,190 --> 02:04:32,550
Thank you.

1419
02:04:34,030 --> 02:04:37,670
What, just to, this doesn't put pay any.

1420
02:04:37,910 --> 02:04:38,710
I know you can't vote.

1421
02:04:39,190 --> 02:04:41,550
What is the, are we having town halls?

1422
02:04:41,730 --> 02:04:44,490
We haven't, are we gonna get really serious about,

1423
02:04:45,670 --> 02:04:47,530
not saying that you're not serious, but.

1424
02:04:49,590 --> 02:04:59,250
So I know that the back the MACRD local action committee is active they've been tabling

1425
02:04:59,250 --> 02:05:14,700
at major events as a public employee I'm not you can't write 100% no we're just going

1426
02:05:14,700 --> 02:05:18,280
of reasoning, blackmailers, flaring cars,

1427
02:05:19,020 --> 02:05:20,780
and even president at local events.

1428
02:05:21,120 --> 02:05:22,560
Anyone has feedback?

1429
02:05:22,880 --> 02:05:24,080
I just came out with the postcard.

1430
02:05:24,660 --> 02:05:27,780
Scott Taylor is our folks person this year,

1431
02:05:29,500 --> 02:05:32,540
and I'm the vice chair for that committee.

1432
02:05:33,520 --> 02:05:38,020
What, the building itself, the bond on the building,

1433
02:05:38,440 --> 02:05:39,860
it's done win.

1434
02:05:40,500 --> 02:05:43,180
June, this June, 2025.

1435
02:05:43,180 --> 02:05:48,000
So we have two months or three months to pay on it basically, then it goes away.

1436
02:05:48,240 --> 02:05:53,400
Yes, that's why we're trying to roll that into the permanent tax rate that we're establishing.

1437
02:05:54,400 --> 02:05:59,300
Or it goes completely away so that it will keep the current tax rate essentially.

1438
02:05:59,540 --> 02:06:01,800
Yeah, no, I've understood it.

1439
02:06:02,100 --> 02:06:04,980
I just was curious because I hear conflicting things.

1440
02:06:04,980 --> 02:06:08,380
I thought it was coming up soon, and then I've got other people coming.

1441
02:06:08,660 --> 02:06:09,500
No, nothing in the future.

1442
02:06:09,940 --> 02:06:11,000
That's what I've heard.

1443
02:06:11,000 --> 02:06:17,960
If the measures do not pass, we will levy the bond next year for an amount to pay back

1444
02:06:17,960 --> 02:06:22,000
alone that the general fund has to make to the debt service fund to make the final payment

1445
02:06:22,000 --> 02:06:24,980
because of the PG&E tax refund situation.

1446
02:06:26,380 --> 02:06:32,380
So we will levy convoluted much less than we have historically to make that general loan

1447
02:06:32,380 --> 02:06:32,900
payment back.

1448
02:06:33,180 --> 02:06:33,520
Sounds good.

1449
02:06:33,680 --> 02:06:34,800
If the measures do not pass.

1450
02:06:34,800 --> 02:06:38,440
All right, everybody got staff got everybody got an idea of what we're doing.

1451
02:06:38,800 --> 02:06:38,980
Direction?

1452
02:06:39,920 --> 02:06:40,440
Yes.

1453
02:06:41,020 --> 02:06:41,100
Good.

1454
02:06:41,620 --> 02:06:42,820
Thanks for commissioners.

1455
02:06:43,020 --> 02:06:43,800
Thank you guys.

1456
02:06:45,840 --> 02:06:47,060
Hey boss man, do we think?

1457
02:06:47,620 --> 02:06:49,800
Yeah, let's take a quick little break.

1458
02:06:50,000 --> 02:06:55,960
We're behind schedules and then we'll come back and jump through some of these things real quick.

1459
02:06:56,220 --> 02:06:59,680
So let's be back in three minutes.

1460
02:07:01,220 --> 02:07:01,780
Okay,

1461
02:07:10,790 --> 02:07:11,790
welcome back.

1462
02:07:12,970 --> 02:07:15,150
Let's go back to the beginning here.

1463
02:07:15,390 --> 02:07:18,170
I would entertain a motion on the consent agenda.

1464
02:07:18,170 --> 02:07:20,090
There's one move to approve consent agenda.

1465
02:07:20,290 --> 02:07:21,470
6-1-3-6-3.

1466
02:07:21,870 --> 02:07:22,430
Second.

1467
02:07:23,950 --> 02:07:24,730
That a boy.

1468
02:07:25,450 --> 02:07:26,850
Any further discussion?

1469
02:07:27,050 --> 02:07:27,190
Nope.

1470
02:07:27,810 --> 02:07:30,370
All those in favor of approval of consent agenda,

1471
02:07:30,610 --> 02:07:32,350
item 6-1-2-3.

1472
02:07:32,550 --> 02:07:33,430
Please state by saying aye.

1473
02:07:33,630 --> 02:07:33,770
Aye.

1474
02:07:33,770 --> 02:07:43,430
5, motion carries, good executive session that we're late for at 10 p.m. 6 o'clock board

1475
02:07:43,430 --> 02:07:49,370
commissioner meeting at Calcutta Ranch tonight, 8 1 GIS.

1476
02:07:55,920 --> 02:07:57,900
Yeah, can you please.

1477
02:08:00,040 --> 02:08:01,460
Any staff

1478
02:08:01,460 --> 02:08:02,540
update on this

1479
02:08:05,680 --> 02:08:11,940
date one standard MOU with City of Madras for GIS transfer of

1480
02:08:13,240 --> 02:08:13,760
information

1481
02:08:17,890 --> 02:08:21,710
I know it's a data sharing agreement that I have reviewed but I

1482
02:08:21,710 --> 02:08:28,250
don't know what it entails that's a GIS for sure if we were going to send a letter

1483
02:08:28,250 --> 02:08:31,470
to somebody that would know what would be I'd put on the front of the envelope

1484
02:08:31,470 --> 02:08:31,910
two.

1485
02:08:33,920 --> 02:08:36,720
G-I-S. Ray?

1486
02:08:42,460 --> 02:08:44,380
Ray is on there. Are you there, Ray?

1487
02:08:49,360 --> 02:08:50,300
He's running down.

1488
02:08:51,540 --> 02:08:54,180
I'm gonna keep going, I'll go ask Ray to come back.

1489
02:08:54,200 --> 02:08:55,960
Okay, let's go eight four.

1490
02:09:00,660 --> 02:09:04,180
The motion to prove the salary change order for Isaac Blair Building Inspector, two.

1491
02:09:05,220 --> 02:09:05,620
Six.

1492
02:09:06,560 --> 02:09:13,420
The motion in a second, any further discussion? I think this is just continuing Isaac stepping

1493
02:09:13,420 --> 02:09:18,220
and open us in that interim and some vacancies.

1494
02:09:18,540 --> 02:09:20,160
So appreciate Isaac for doing that

1495
02:09:20,160 --> 02:09:23,060
and want to make sure he's compensated

1496
02:09:23,060 --> 02:09:25,060
for that extra work that he's doing.

1497
02:09:26,140 --> 02:09:27,160
Any further discussion?

1498
02:09:27,880 --> 02:09:30,900
All those in favor of the salary change order for Isaac.

1499
02:09:31,280 --> 02:09:32,420
Please state by saying aye.

1500
02:09:33,700 --> 02:09:33,860
Aye.

1501
02:09:34,200 --> 02:09:34,820
Motion carries.

1502
02:09:35,600 --> 02:09:40,620
Back to 8-1 with our GIS exchange of data

1503
02:09:40,620 --> 02:09:43,520
with the City of Madras. Ray, thank you.

1504
02:09:43,740 --> 02:09:45,200
Good morning, commissioners,

1505
02:09:45,320 --> 02:09:47,240
Racial East Jefferson County Assessor's Office.

1506
02:09:48,200 --> 02:09:50,740
This is our memorandum of understanding.

1507
02:09:51,320 --> 02:09:53,740
Same as what we established with Jefferson County

1508
02:09:53,740 --> 02:09:55,160
soil and water district.

1509
02:09:55,820 --> 02:09:57,620
And it's just for our annual subscription,

1510
02:09:57,820 --> 02:10:00,260
you've already approved that, MOU, it's the same one.

1511
02:10:00,720 --> 02:10:00,740
Okay.

1512
02:10:02,580 --> 02:10:03,840
Thank you for that.

1513
02:10:04,280 --> 02:10:05,680
That, Ray. Appreciate it.

1514
02:10:07,740 --> 02:10:09,800
I will motion to approve the memorandum

1515
02:10:09,800 --> 02:10:11,200
of understanding between Jefferson County

1516
02:10:11,200 --> 02:10:14,520
and the City of Madras for the exchange of GIS data.

1517
02:10:16,680 --> 02:10:16,860
Second.

1518
02:10:17,780 --> 02:10:18,940
I've got a motion in a second.

1519
02:10:19,060 --> 02:10:22,180
Any further discussion on the motion?

1520
02:10:24,440 --> 02:10:25,140
All those in favor?

1521
02:10:25,480 --> 02:10:25,780
Say aye.

1522
02:10:28,910 --> 02:10:29,070
Aye.

1523
02:10:30,690 --> 02:10:30,850
Aye.

1524
02:10:32,050 --> 02:10:34,590
I think he's not playing around today.

1525
02:10:34,910 --> 02:10:35,610
Motion carries.

1526
02:10:36,650 --> 02:10:38,070
That was for you, Will.

1527
02:10:41,150 --> 02:10:42,170
Thank you, Jones.

1528
02:10:42,350 --> 02:10:42,570
Thank you, Jones.

1529
02:10:42,570 --> 02:10:42,690
Appreciate it.

1530
02:10:42,750 --> 02:10:43,210
Thank you, Ray.

1531
02:10:43,470 --> 02:10:43,930
Appreciate it.

1532
02:10:47,890 --> 02:10:51,790
I'm correct me if I'm wrong staff. We are scratch and eat five

1533
02:10:53,030 --> 02:11:06,100
Okay, who longer needed 8 sex is this Tony? It's six yes change order for our Sheriff's Office public health storage building

1534
02:11:06,780 --> 02:11:14,520
Change order number two is the mobile health clinic plug-in. It's a 220 plug-in to be added so they can keep

1535
02:11:14,520 --> 02:11:23,500
their clinic or batteries charge things cool. The HVAC permits that we

1536
02:11:23,500 --> 02:11:28,180
normally cover. They went ahead and purchased them just because the contractor

1537
02:11:28,180 --> 02:11:33,080
purchased them because of timing. So he purchased them and then so this is

1538
02:11:33,080 --> 02:11:39,420
basically counting for those costs. Change order three is the electrical overhead

1539
02:11:39,420 --> 02:11:44,440
doors. So the contractor originally thought that that was part of the bed. So

1540
02:11:44,440 --> 02:11:49,500
he purchased them and is willing to eat that cost. But there is a change order for

1541
02:11:49,500 --> 02:11:55,100
$7,200 for getting electricity to $6,000. Yeah, $6,000.

1542
02:11:55,360 --> 02:11:56,660
I like

1543
02:12:00,860 --> 02:12:05,080
him eating the cost. I do think it's going to be beneficial just to have an electric

1544
02:12:05,080 --> 02:12:12,840
roll with over manual. Because of the variety of staff they'll be using the doors, both on

1545
02:12:12,840 --> 02:12:14,640
public outside and share of side.

1546
02:12:14,640 --> 02:12:15,920
I'm trying to initial cost.

1547
02:12:16,020 --> 02:12:18,340
We try to keep costs as low as we could, just so.

1548
02:12:18,500 --> 02:12:19,640
Absolutely, and I appreciate that.

1549
02:12:20,140 --> 02:12:20,240
Yep.

1550
02:12:21,080 --> 02:12:22,660
There is a value for sure.

1551
02:12:22,740 --> 02:12:26,280
Yep, huge value, and we're getting discounted rate

1552
02:12:26,640 --> 02:12:27,320
and that value.

1553
02:12:27,840 --> 02:12:31,060
Okay, all motion to approve the purchase,

1554
02:12:31,280 --> 02:12:32,820
requisition form, sheriff's office,

1555
02:12:32,940 --> 02:12:35,100
and public health storage building change order number two

1556
02:12:35,100 --> 02:12:37,740
and number three in the amount of $12,200.

1557
02:12:38,360 --> 02:12:38,640
Second.

1558
02:12:39,420 --> 02:12:41,860
The motion in a second, any further discussion.

1559
02:12:41,860 --> 02:12:53,180
I just want to appreciate staff for keeping the project clean and mean and online with

1560
02:12:53,180 --> 02:13:00,660
the estimate and budget so appreciate that and we went and saw it last week and it's

1561
02:13:00,660 --> 02:13:05,700
really good and we're going to benefit both departments as well and thank you departments

1562
02:13:05,700 --> 02:13:12,020
for working together and leveraging your finances to have this asset.

1563
02:13:14,160 --> 02:13:17,080
It's easier for both, so appreciate it.

1564
02:13:17,460 --> 02:13:18,360
Any further discussion?

1565
02:13:19,580 --> 02:13:24,880
All those in favor of the purchase requisition form for the change order of number two and number three.

1566
02:13:25,140 --> 02:13:26,720
Please signify by saying aye.

1567
02:13:26,940 --> 02:13:27,100
Aye.

1568
02:13:27,920 --> 02:13:28,120
Aye.

1569
02:13:28,460 --> 02:13:29,060
Motion carries.

1570
02:13:29,960 --> 02:13:30,940
Thank you, Mr. Smith.

1571
02:13:30,940 --> 02:13:31,500
Thank you, Tony.

1572
02:13:35,110 --> 02:13:36,930
8-7 is that you, Jeff?

1573
02:13:38,250 --> 02:13:45,150
8-7 is, yes, it's the action from the action you guys took last week to read through the

1574
02:13:45,150 --> 02:13:47,230
job description for the Public Works Director.

1575
02:13:50,500 --> 02:13:56,800
Okay, I'll move to sign the salary change order for Matt Palison, the great one at Public

1576
02:13:56,800 --> 02:13:57,540
Works Director.

1577
02:14:00,130 --> 02:14:00,510
I'll second.

1578
02:14:00,990 --> 02:14:02,090
Get a motion in a second.

1579
02:14:02,230 --> 02:14:03,130
Any further discussion?

1580
02:14:05,660 --> 02:14:08,400
All those in favor, please signify by saying aye.

1581
02:14:08,400 --> 02:14:10,340
Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi.

1582
02:14:11,140 --> 02:14:11,500
Motion carries.

1583
02:14:13,800 --> 02:14:15,980
Do we have Robert yet?

1584
02:14:16,540 --> 02:14:17,180
Okay.

1585
02:14:17,620 --> 02:14:19,920
Just let me know when he's available.

1586
02:14:20,660 --> 02:14:22,880
I think he's doing some travel in this morning.

1587
02:14:23,180 --> 02:14:25,980
So, elected official reports.

1588
02:14:26,260 --> 02:14:29,600
Do you have any other elected updates, Sheriff?

1589
02:14:30,440 --> 02:14:30,820
Yes, sir.

1590
02:14:31,640 --> 02:14:32,280
Gabe.

1591
02:14:37,210 --> 02:14:38,330
Hey, do you have anything?

1592
02:14:38,930 --> 02:14:40,150
If so, chime in.

1593
02:14:43,300 --> 02:14:44,620
Don't see anyone else.

1594
02:14:46,380 --> 02:14:47,660
Department of Head Reports,

1595
02:14:50,680 --> 02:14:53,740
Kedi, Tony, Diane, any other reports?

1596
02:14:55,400 --> 02:14:56,100
Okay,

1597
02:14:58,150 --> 02:14:59,550
we'll come back to Robert.

1598
02:15:00,590 --> 02:15:30,570
County Council report. Okay, thank you. County administrative officer. Yeah, it's going back to the Ed Coe discussion regarding the $10,000 invoice to remain a platinum member. Front of you is the interlocal, all right, we're sorry, the memorandum of understanding between the city of Madras and Ed Coe on page three, 2.6. The question was if there is a need for

1599
02:15:30,570 --> 02:15:34,410
us to continue to be a platinum member for the extra seat.

1600
02:15:34,730 --> 02:15:43,560
So in that paragraph, it says that for the period of this MOU, the city and county will

1601
02:15:43,560 --> 02:15:46,720
each have one appointed representative serving on the Edco board.

1602
02:15:47,140 --> 02:15:51,940
Additional seats may be retained through ongoing platinum membership already in place.

1603
02:15:56,640 --> 02:15:59,400
So we get one seat, maybe, in a platinum member.

1604
02:15:59,600 --> 02:16:03,440
What is the makeup with the program?

1605
02:16:04,120 --> 02:16:08,460
So, yeah, so I was kind of going the other way, sorry, my coworker.

1606
02:16:08,560 --> 02:16:13,000
Yeah, so we get one member for being a partner of the local program.

1607
02:16:13,280 --> 02:16:23,720
And so if we continue to be a platinum member, I would say this year is the year that we would then have some type of decision for you all to make on who would take the platinum level seat.

1608
02:16:24,000 --> 02:16:24,840
A new seat.

1609
02:16:25,020 --> 02:16:26,440
A new seat.

1610
02:16:26,440 --> 02:16:33,000
We would still have a commissioner or potential through the program.

1611
02:16:33,640 --> 02:16:33,760
Yes.

1612
02:16:34,040 --> 02:16:34,640
There would be one.

1613
02:16:34,900 --> 02:16:37,080
What other seats do we have with the program?

1614
02:16:38,020 --> 02:16:39,280
The city would have one.

1615
02:16:39,580 --> 02:16:40,360
The city would have one.

1616
02:16:40,580 --> 02:16:47,860
If the city and the county each independently do $10,000, then we would have another one seat each that they would appoint.

1617
02:16:48,820 --> 02:16:50,740
And then you would appoint as well.

1618
02:16:51,160 --> 02:16:51,460
Okay.

1619
02:16:51,660 --> 02:16:52,220
You would select.

1620
02:16:53,040 --> 02:17:00,000
When we had some early discussions in the kind of the program makeup Will and I and maybe John and

1621
02:17:00,000 --> 02:17:07,420
Kim and who else you know talked to potentially about trying to bring back some financial partners to help

1622
02:17:07,420 --> 02:17:15,720
fund the local program and potentially how you would the county may then participate at a 10,000 level and then

1623
02:17:15,720 --> 02:17:23,360
look to that community partner that's also contributing to our local program and offer this

1624
02:17:23,360 --> 02:17:29,280
as a kind of a care. If you come in at a certain level and buy down the cost of the local program

1625
02:17:29,880 --> 02:17:35,320
don't tell John Stark or Brenna but you can have a seat on the board for not having to pay 10,000

1626
02:17:35,320 --> 02:17:42,700
of your own platinum level but maybe 5,000 to our local program and you can have a seat or something

1627
02:17:42,700 --> 02:17:51,740
like that. Okay. So the question is do we want to continue at the $10,000 level to have

1628
02:17:51,740 --> 02:17:58,780
that? When is this decision need to be? I think the invoice is a calendar year invoice.

1629
02:17:59,380 --> 02:18:05,280
So we're approaching some level of tardiness. tardiness?

1630
02:18:07,470 --> 02:18:10,590
2025 dues. The invoice was created.

1631
02:18:11,030 --> 02:18:15,990
do we have a potential interest

1632
02:18:18,100 --> 02:18:26,570
in that that extra seat if we were to do

1633
02:18:26,570 --> 02:18:31,290
something like that through the program? I haven't heard anything but my guess is

1634
02:18:31,290 --> 02:18:35,010
we would if we offered it offered the opportunity to one of your

1635
02:18:35,010 --> 02:18:39,130
programs you know it could be one of your folks that you have pointed to the

1636
02:18:39,130 --> 02:18:45,770
local advisory group until per a year and see what you want to do kind of a yearly decision.

1637
02:18:47,510 --> 02:18:54,450
I personally think that continuing with this for at least another year, especially as we're

1638
02:18:54,450 --> 02:18:59,430
going through our strategic plan of our county and developing a strategic plan, I think it'd be

1639
02:19:00,070 --> 02:19:04,350
beneficial to continue this for another year and at least have another seat of the table

1640
02:19:04,350 --> 02:19:10,170
So to kind of help in our transition of implementing our, it comes down to implementing our strategic

1641
02:19:10,170 --> 02:19:11,070
plan for our county.

1642
02:19:11,330 --> 02:19:12,530
It comes to economic development.

1643
02:19:16,800 --> 02:19:17,700
Well, I

1644
02:19:22,240 --> 02:19:28,320
don't know, I'm torn because I'd like to, I'd rather say, I'm not going to take

1645
02:19:28,320 --> 02:19:33,160
that 10 out of the budget, but I'd almost say I'd rather have our program director having

1646
02:19:33,160 --> 02:19:38,720
some tools in their tilt tool belt to achieve with that 10,000 as opposed to having another

1647
02:19:39,380 --> 02:19:39,860
representative.

1648
02:19:39,860 --> 02:19:45,320
I mean, I think at some point that table's so huge, you know, it's the size of this room going around.

1649
02:19:45,780 --> 02:19:48,500
I don't know what another voice from this community is going to do.

1650
02:19:49,080 --> 02:19:53,980
I mean, the possibility of selling it, if you will, for half, you know.

1651
02:19:55,200 --> 02:20:03,620
But like I said, I'd kind of rather have, rent a half, an extra $10,000 that is in the budget for ancillary stuff.

1652
02:20:03,620 --> 02:20:09,520
You know, we've talked to general, we've talked videos, we've talked, you know, advertising,

1653
02:20:09,760 --> 02:20:15,980
you know, those types of things that would be a bigger picture of how we sell this community

1654
02:20:15,980 --> 02:20:23,160
to this county to outsiders, you know, as opposed to another, just another V voting member

1655
02:20:23,160 --> 02:20:28,660
who cares, that's true. I don't know. But what's, can I gas, can I ask, then you can do your

1656
02:20:28,660 --> 02:20:34,560
comments, too, but I mean, Rena, would you come up? What is the advantage disadvantage

1657
02:20:35,100 --> 02:20:37,060
in your opinion? Yeah.

1658
02:20:40,560 --> 02:20:43,720
Yeah, that's a really good question. And I think, you know what,

1659
02:20:43,820 --> 02:20:47,220
it really does, and I don't mean to give you the diplomatic response, but I think it

1660
02:20:47,220 --> 02:20:52,640
really does come down to preference. I would never argue against more tools in the toolbox,

1661
02:20:52,640 --> 02:20:57,960
so to speak. We also have a really great group at the local level on the local board, so

1662
02:20:57,960 --> 02:21:02,140
could see where that would be a great opportunity as well. But again, it really

1663
02:21:02,140 --> 02:21:05,900
comes down to preference, but like I said, I would never say no to more tools

1664
02:21:05,900 --> 02:21:12,280
in the toolbox. But we have you and we have Mark, no matter what. City has two

1665
02:21:12,280 --> 02:21:17,820
spots, am I correct? They have two. Correct, they have two. I guess my point is

1666
02:21:17,820 --> 02:21:22,960
that if we had 10,000, I'd rather go dangle that carrot out in front of our business

1667
02:21:22,960 --> 02:21:28,000
business, you know, our business is et cetera and say, hey, can you match us five on doing

1668
02:21:28,000 --> 02:21:33,440
this project or whatever, you know, and we have something to pull from, as opposed to,

1669
02:21:34,740 --> 02:21:38,580
there's nothing in the pantry, you know.

1670
02:21:39,520 --> 02:21:40,540
That's my way of.

1671
02:21:40,800 --> 02:21:48,380
We only have so much money in this area and is this money better suited to keep open

1672
02:21:48,380 --> 02:21:51,880
and ended for potential options.

1673
02:21:53,690 --> 02:21:55,190
Well, historically, we've never done this work.

1674
02:21:55,830 --> 02:21:58,770
I mean, literally, we have never been aggressive.

1675
02:21:59,270 --> 02:21:59,870
Yeah, you know.

1676
02:22:00,350 --> 02:22:02,750
So to have 10,000 to go get aggressive,

1677
02:22:02,750 --> 02:22:06,710
and then we've never leveraged that 10,000 to your business

1678
02:22:06,710 --> 02:22:10,590
community to say, hey, 100,000, whatever ends up being

1679
02:22:10,590 --> 02:22:15,210
versus going and warming a seat every so often.

1680
02:22:15,310 --> 02:22:17,550
And that's truly a testament to your work already.

1681
02:22:17,870 --> 02:22:18,950
I mean, this early on,

1682
02:22:18,950 --> 02:22:30,550
I am blown. I'm I'm crazy. Excited for any of them. Great job. Thank you. So are you so you're suggesting not even being a member at all?

1683
02:22:30,550 --> 02:22:46,930
We're a member. There was still a member. Correct. But we have representation with him as the head coach person. Yes. And we have not not an additional step at all. So like bronze, gold, platinum, you're not suggesting step down.

1684
02:22:46,930 --> 02:22:55,710
We're just doing the same, we have a program at 90, yeah, whatever, yeah, we've invested

1685
02:22:55,710 --> 02:23:03,790
a higher to be in the program, have the same representation we had, so we have put more

1686
02:23:03,790 --> 02:23:11,090
money in, but if we were to stay at this platinum level, we would have another seat, so we'd

1687
02:23:11,090 --> 02:23:16,070
But it would be a voting member, so Mark's a voting member, Brenna is not.

1688
02:23:16,630 --> 02:23:18,370
If I'm out of line, tell me.

1689
02:23:18,610 --> 02:23:19,150
Nope, you're correct.

1690
02:23:19,390 --> 02:23:22,230
So Mark is a voting member.

1691
02:23:22,750 --> 02:23:29,150
If you paid the $10,000 for additional voting member that dilutes the $98.

1692
02:23:30,430 --> 02:23:32,890
It doesn't dilute the $98 other votes.

1693
02:23:33,250 --> 02:23:33,910
Let's put it that way.

1694
02:23:34,130 --> 02:23:35,750
Any more than having just one.

1695
02:23:36,610 --> 02:23:41,570
is the savings, I guess, and put that money to work on the ground here.

1696
02:23:43,890 --> 02:23:53,230
With whatever potential you need, maybe, and so kind of put that in more of a contingency

1697
02:23:53,230 --> 02:23:59,790
or whatever, versus a local program, is what it is.

1698
02:23:59,790 --> 02:24:06,110
And then you build a fund, you literally, big vision would be to build a fund by going

1699
02:24:06,110 --> 02:24:12,590
to the folks that utilize it go mostly from this community and saying, hey, could you

1700
02:24:13,130 --> 02:24:13,950
chip in?

1701
02:24:14,750 --> 02:24:20,190
I don't know that any of them are on the advisory, but I think they would understand

1702
02:24:20,190 --> 02:24:25,990
the value that they would get out of it at that point if we have some seed money to start

1703
02:24:25,990 --> 02:24:26,270
with.

1704
02:24:27,290 --> 02:24:33,630
Yeah, I mean, we'll just say so that similarly the other small or sorry Asian say smaller, the more rural community.

1705
02:24:33,990 --> 02:24:42,050
So Crook County, Prainville, Sisters, they have their local boards function much in the same way as to kind of what you're describing.

1706
02:24:42,630 --> 02:24:45,850
So this is a conversation that we hear very often.

1707
02:24:46,510 --> 02:24:53,430
And again, I hate to give you guys the diplomatic answer, but I put that back in your cart and what you're thinking from that standpoint.

1708
02:24:53,430 --> 02:25:02,170
I will also mention being newer to EDCO in terms of the platinum membership, I am not entirely sure what that actually outlines.

1709
02:25:02,450 --> 02:25:06,150
I've been focusing primarily on the local board level, but I could get more information.

1710
02:25:06,790 --> 02:25:15,830
If you guys think that would be, or sorry, if you all think that would be more helpful and come back to whatever you think would help you inform your decision.

1711
02:25:17,950 --> 02:25:30,950
I agree with what Kelly has been saying, and if all of this is going to do is just provide $10,000 for the regional edco, and who watch more continued focus on Vend.

1712
02:25:32,230 --> 02:25:39,450
If this $10,000 can be more beneficial use here for you in Jefferson County, we always go that route.

1713
02:25:42,230 --> 02:25:46,190
Okay, we need a direction.

1714
02:25:46,410 --> 02:25:47,050
I got direction.

1715
02:25:47,130 --> 02:25:49,530
I'll communicate back to Mr. Stark.

1716
02:25:50,090 --> 02:25:50,210
Okay.

1717
02:25:51,230 --> 02:25:54,730
And then budget, you know what, do it that way.

1718
02:25:54,730 --> 02:25:55,250
It's the same.

1719
02:25:55,770 --> 02:25:56,630
Yeah, I think it's the same.

1720
02:25:56,630 --> 02:26:01,170
Yeah, just whatever we labeled out, we have a kind of a catch-all, lack of better term

1721
02:26:01,170 --> 02:26:07,830
and fund 250 economic development, which is then labeled economic development in this

1722
02:26:07,830 --> 02:26:08,390
year's budget.

1723
02:26:08,390 --> 02:26:10,750
There's over 300,000 that are located in here.

1724
02:26:11,570 --> 02:26:17,050
But I think kind of the yellow side thing on your Excel sheet

1725
02:26:17,050 --> 02:26:20,530
is that the message is that we're

1726
02:26:20,530 --> 02:26:27,030
steeply putting 10,000 aside as local program

1727
02:26:27,030 --> 02:26:29,410
assistance or enhancement or whatever.

1728
02:26:29,710 --> 02:26:30,130
Does that make sense?

1729
02:26:30,950 --> 02:26:32,550
Or do you not even need to do that?

1730
02:26:33,890 --> 02:26:36,690
I would say you get confused because if we

1731
02:26:36,690 --> 02:26:41,130
We have an ed code program line, and we try and put in the amount that we're committed

1732
02:26:41,130 --> 02:26:43,930
to for the IJA between the three cities in us.

1733
02:26:44,690 --> 02:26:50,350
And so to see that go to, for example, with 96 to 106, but then next year, the actual

1734
02:26:50,350 --> 02:26:55,750
is only 96, or it would fluctuate, I would encourage to stick it out of the economic development

1735
02:26:55,750 --> 02:26:56,190
line.

1736
02:26:56,310 --> 02:27:00,490
And if we get a pattern going, then we can look at another GL line.

1737
02:27:00,990 --> 02:27:07,650
Well, you'll have to have a catch all for if we got contributions from business from business

1738
02:27:07,650 --> 02:27:14,570
This is the intent which I really like was not in the room is that the city is now the fiscal agent so any any

1739
02:27:15,170 --> 02:27:20,130
When go through income with and yeah outside of the program would filter into the city

1740
02:27:20,130 --> 02:27:31,410
made me manage that. Okay, direction? Thank you, Brenna. Thank you, Brenna. And Ditto, so glad to have

1741
02:27:31,410 --> 02:27:36,770
you here. I'm excited when I had the opportunity to interview you and thank you're doing a great job

1742
02:27:37,410 --> 02:27:42,130
and look forward to what you're going to do over the next year. Thank you so much.

1743
02:27:44,630 --> 02:27:45,150
Okay.

1744
02:27:47,540 --> 02:27:52,460
Robert's there. Okay, Robert, you have a...

1745
02:27:52,460 --> 02:27:55,060
Department of Head update. Can you hear us?

1746
02:27:59,490 --> 02:28:01,550
You must hear us, but we can't hear you yet.

1747
02:28:06,900 --> 02:28:10,480
Not that great at lip reading, so we're still working on it.

1748
02:28:24,180 --> 02:28:27,020
More waiting, Jeff. Do you have anything else?

1749
02:28:28,740 --> 02:28:31,960
There's a report down. You might have to change your mic.

1750
02:28:32,320 --> 02:28:32,900
I do not.

1751
02:28:33,940 --> 02:28:35,140
whether report.

1752
02:28:38,850 --> 02:28:43,070
So you guys go through your reports and potentially then read the

1753
02:28:43,070 --> 02:28:50,790
read the executive session while Robert sees it. It is audio change. I don't know. I'm

1754
02:28:50,790 --> 02:28:58,630
having such memory loss. I can't remember what we talked about regarding Miller. What was

1755
02:28:58,630 --> 02:29:03,650
are what do we kind of Miller the discussion was to talk about that in the

1756
02:29:03,650 --> 02:29:07,750
executive session. Okay. Thank you.

1757
02:29:10,400 --> 02:29:13,580
Thank you. Okay. All right. Okay.

1758
02:29:16,540 --> 02:29:18,240
So Jeff is

1759
02:29:18,240 --> 02:29:25,860
good. Commission discussion. Is there anything commissioner Taylor? No, not

1760
02:29:25,860 --> 02:29:26,400
this week.

1761
02:29:38,680 --> 02:29:39,600
EOCA tomorrow.

1762
02:29:40,360 --> 02:29:41,020
It's been canceled.

1763
02:29:41,600 --> 02:29:42,220
Well it has been canceled.

1764
02:29:42,220 --> 02:29:42,340
Yeah.

1765
02:29:42,760 --> 02:29:43,260
Oh no.

1766
02:29:43,640 --> 02:29:45,200
Not with that update.

1767
02:29:48,760 --> 02:29:48,940
Okay.

1768
02:29:51,720 --> 02:29:53,220
And not rescheduled.

1769
02:29:53,500 --> 02:29:54,440
Not rescheduled.

1770
02:29:54,660 --> 02:29:54,760
Okay.

1771
02:29:55,120 --> 02:29:55,480
Thank you.

1772
02:29:55,560 --> 02:29:56,560
We're all out of the office.

1773
02:29:56,640 --> 02:29:57,320
You guys should get out.

1774
02:29:57,540 --> 02:29:58,620
Oh, there we go.

1775
02:29:59,160 --> 02:29:59,460
Gotcha.

1776
02:29:59,460 --> 02:29:59,820
Nothing.

1777
02:30:00,000 --> 02:30:29,940
Thanks, Robert. We'll jump right into what you got for us. So, yeah, as you guys know, I, what you may have in front of you is just some changes that I'm proposing and structure. Two of the three positions have existed already, which are a week positions for which you and I'll just this officer excite in the adult side to my knowledge. The leads have been used.

1778
02:30:29,940 --> 02:30:35,740
this in about five to six years, our last lead on the juvenile side was Lacey Delacruz,

1779
02:30:36,340 --> 02:30:41,020
and then the adult side was Andy Pointer. Lacey is obviously the deputy director now

1780
02:30:41,020 --> 02:30:47,420
and Andy Pointer has left. I'm going to introduce the wanting to re put these positions

1781
02:30:47,420 --> 02:30:53,600
within the organization to just offer opportunity for growth with the staff that we currently

1782
02:30:53,600 --> 02:31:02,980
have an in-house. Both are, I would guess, consider a role so they're not new FTEs. They would be given to

1783
02:31:02,980 --> 02:31:12,940
officers that are already within the organization. Five percent raised for Out of County residents and

1784
02:31:12,940 --> 02:31:20,060
seven half percent raised for in-county residents. We would be, hopefully, with your guys as approval,

1785
02:31:20,060 --> 02:31:23,960
these would take effect June 21st of 2025.

1786
02:31:25,640 --> 02:31:30,680
I think some of the benefits for me would just be having that leadership

1787
02:31:31,440 --> 02:31:37,200
with more of the ground troops being able to just focus more on the vision

1788
02:31:37,200 --> 02:31:43,280
of terms of accountability for our quality of standards in terms of contact,

1789
02:31:43,280 --> 02:32:00,440
on visits, assessments, as you guys know, on the juvenile side we're seeing a lot of growth and on the adult side, the states changing a lot of their expectations of us in terms of standards, assessments.

1790
02:32:01,440 --> 02:32:11,020
Some of the things that I can necessarily put the attention I would like to have, so having an adult lead to be able to focus on those things.

1791
02:32:12,020 --> 02:32:18,620
And then the third part of the structure change would be creating a supervisor for the

1792
02:32:18,620 --> 02:32:25,520
adult side, and that would look like turning Lacey Dallacruz, who is currently deputy director

1793
02:32:25,520 --> 02:32:31,760
of just the juvenile department, two deputy director of both the adult and juvenile side of

1794
02:32:31,760 --> 02:32:38,600
things, part of that sugar would require her to become a certified adult for information

1795
02:32:38,600 --> 02:32:45,820
officer that would include her going to the academy for the six weeks. She would become

1796
02:32:45,820 --> 02:32:47,340
fire and police pose.

1797
02:32:49,920 --> 02:32:54,940
Jeff and I and HR have kind of talked about what the raise was.

1798
02:32:55,140 --> 02:32:57,880
If she would go from 29 to 30,

1799
02:33:00,750 --> 02:33:08,260
effective, if they've approved June 21st. Again, she would

1800
02:33:08,260 --> 02:33:15,400
most of her time, not most of her time, but it's a 60-40 split, 60 being juvenile, 40 adult

1801
02:33:15,840 --> 02:33:21,020
in terms of the FTE and then also in terms of how we would cover her salary.

1802
02:33:22,360 --> 02:33:29,440
I think the benefit to this is cost savings for the juvenile department or detention costs.

1803
02:33:29,940 --> 02:33:35,560
I hope to kind of offset some of that by moving over some of her costs to the adult budget

1804
02:33:35,560 --> 02:33:36,960
which is a little bit more healthy.

1805
02:33:38,060 --> 02:33:43,880
Again, creating that supervisor on the adult side,

1806
02:33:43,960 --> 02:33:47,120
what I'm at at the office, and also what I am there to

1807
02:33:47,120 --> 02:33:50,040
and being able just to have someone to collaborate

1808
02:33:50,040 --> 02:33:54,200
with more closely in terms of what we're doing on the

1809
02:33:54,200 --> 02:33:54,940
adult side.

1810
02:33:56,040 --> 02:33:59,200
And I think it's also just giving more incentive to

1811
02:33:59,200 --> 02:34:02,520
keep lazy around. She's been with the county for 17

1812
02:34:03,160 --> 02:34:06,060
years. And I think it's just continuing to help her with

1813
02:34:06,060 --> 02:34:11,320
career development, including more multimedia, so I'm

1814
02:34:11,320 --> 02:34:14,900
heard within the county. So I don't, I'm going to

1815
02:34:14,900 --> 02:34:17,340
rambla a little bit now, but if there's any questions

1816
02:34:17,340 --> 02:34:19,800
or anything I could answer, please let me know.

1817
02:34:20,520 --> 02:34:29,680
So you said June 21st for this potential change. Why June 21st,

1818
02:34:29,680 --> 02:34:35,360
rather than like a July 1st, and for budgeting purposes, I'm

1819
02:34:35,360 --> 02:34:38,100
sure it's not going to be payroll. Payroll. Payroll. Payroll.

1820
02:34:38,240 --> 02:34:42,640
Here it starts on the 21st. Okay. Okay. So what we use

1821
02:34:42,640 --> 02:34:46,560
those interchangeably, July 1st, June, really, June 21st. So

1822
02:34:46,560 --> 02:34:51,200
we try to make sure you guys know it would be the real

1823
02:34:51,200 --> 02:34:52,960
effective days. June 21st. But

1824
02:34:53,660 --> 02:34:58,440
Hey, Robert, are we in the first session of our

1825
02:34:58,440 --> 02:35:08,040
a biennial budget from the community justice funding specifically for adults. Are we in

1826
02:35:08,040 --> 02:35:10,540
the first or second year of that biennium?

1827
02:35:10,780 --> 02:35:11,760
The second year.

1828
02:35:11,900 --> 02:35:21,680
We're in the second. So the outlooks of the next, I mean you have reserves. You have lots

1829
02:35:21,680 --> 02:35:30,900
of accessible ways for the sustainability of this, I guess, in my point. What's the outlook

1830
02:35:30,900 --> 02:35:39,680
for next biennium? Well, I'm actually at OACD right now. We're just speaking on that and the

1831
02:35:39,680 --> 02:35:48,600
comments are AOC. Our BOCC has been very supportive of the growth of adult community corrections and

1832
02:35:48,600 --> 02:35:53,840
And they're the gaskin terms of what we received the last biannium to this biannium.

1833
02:35:54,220 --> 02:35:59,920
And it seems like we're getting the local support we need, we'll actually be going to

1834
02:35:59,920 --> 02:36:08,840
mart of the capital building to advocate for ourselves for an $18.18 for each adult

1835
02:36:08,840 --> 02:36:09,840
on supervision.

1836
02:36:10,780 --> 02:36:12,800
That's really back to your questions.

1837
02:36:12,800 --> 02:36:20,440
If approved, it would be a substantial growth in terms of what we would receive compared

1838
02:36:20,440 --> 02:36:21,820
to prior bionyms.

1839
02:36:22,280 --> 02:36:25,140
What are you at right now, so you said 18-18?

1840
02:36:26,120 --> 02:36:32,680
That's what they ask is, what we receive last time based off of our population that was

1841
02:36:32,680 --> 02:36:42,160
about 2.2 million, if given the full ask, which we know probably won't happen.

1842
02:36:42,160 --> 02:36:47,060
And it would be 3.5s by any.

1843
02:36:48,440 --> 02:36:52,980
So what's the breakdown for adult currently?

1844
02:36:53,360 --> 02:36:55,360
Wasn't it like 16 or 15?

1845
02:36:55,580 --> 02:36:59,380
I think you mentioned it here recently.

1846
02:36:59,840 --> 02:37:02,260
I think the people lower than that because it's

1847
02:37:02,260 --> 02:37:05,260
enough on a case study that was long before my time.

1848
02:37:06,400 --> 02:37:08,160
I don't know off the top of my head.

1849
02:37:08,160 --> 02:37:14,860
So you're basically asking to be fully funded over there and currently we're probably funded

1850
02:37:14,860 --> 02:37:18,100
per individual about 80% of what the actual cost is?

1851
02:37:19,400 --> 02:37:27,300
Yeah, I mean our budget I think is reflective of we're doing well.

1852
02:37:27,880 --> 02:37:33,700
We're working at a high capacity of the population that we have and staff that we have.

1853
02:37:33,700 --> 02:37:42,820
So even if not given the full budget, we would still receive approximately, if not more,

1854
02:37:43,000 --> 02:37:49,960
we would receive the last biennium because our population has maintained through COVID

1855
02:37:49,960 --> 02:37:56,900
where a lot of these other populations have dropped, we're still making up about 1.16

1856
02:37:56,900 --> 02:38:07,020
of the population in terms of people on supervision which is we basically have a higher population

1857
02:38:07,020 --> 02:38:13,020
of people on supervision compared to our general population of people in our county compared

1858
02:38:13,020 --> 02:38:16,940
to other counties which is the good and bad thing.

1859
02:38:20,280 --> 02:38:26,640
One question, tell me if I'm crazy but it seems to me I ran across something the other day

1860
02:38:26,640 --> 02:38:34,620
that they're asking, they might be coming back to asking us for another bite at that time

1861
02:38:34,620 --> 02:38:38,060
study. Is that, does that sound familiar to you?

1862
02:38:40,180 --> 02:38:46,540
Yes, because they want to do a new one to kind of get reflected. Sorry I'm walking around.

1863
02:38:47,760 --> 02:38:56,620
But yeah, they may ask so we can get more accurate in terms of what we're doing with people

1864
02:38:56,620 --> 02:39:02,060
before on the cost. But that serves me right. When we did that time study, they didn't use it.

1865
02:39:02,160 --> 02:39:08,660
They were like, ah, that's not good enough. Right. Right. They didn't. And so that's more

1866
02:39:08,660 --> 02:39:14,420
of some of the frustration like because it's showing, hey, this is how much it's costing to supervise

1867
02:39:14,420 --> 02:39:20,840
to rehabilitate someone because it would be huge amount compared to what we actually get in terms

1868
02:39:20,840 --> 02:39:29,560
So if the bite should, I mean, it would be a lot more kind of unrealistic compared to what they've approved and given us.

1869
02:39:30,000 --> 02:39:33,800
So yeah, it wasn't utilized, how we hoped for.

1870
02:39:34,640 --> 02:39:45,940
Well, I'm very supportive of this. I think this allows growth and obviously some opportunities to capture some of these out of a very strong adult side.

1871
02:39:45,940 --> 02:39:54,860
So I'd be I'd advocate for this change. Okay, it's a motion. Is it a motion? Do we need a motion?

1872
02:39:55,660 --> 02:39:58,400
Yeah, do we have a motion?

1873
02:40:00,440 --> 02:40:07,080
If you wanted to, you could make a motion to reorganize the community justice adult and juvenile

1874
02:40:07,080 --> 02:40:12,960
department as presented including the new job description of deputy director.

1875
02:40:12,960 --> 02:40:19,020
So moved. Second. Okay you got a motion and a second is there any further discussion.

1876
02:40:20,100 --> 02:40:26,180
So this would be given staff, excuse the ability to do all these things and then probably

1877
02:40:26,180 --> 02:40:30,680
getting a little more fine detail of what that's looking like. Is that the motion before

1878
02:40:30,680 --> 02:40:36,800
you would would implement it in June, June 21st as presented and what we would work with

1879
02:40:36,800 --> 02:40:44,440
Robert on going out for the recruitment for those two leads at some point. I know he would be

1880
02:40:44,440 --> 02:40:46,920
able to make an offer until we get closer to the Jew.

1881
02:40:50,780 --> 02:40:52,480
Any further discussion?

1882
02:40:55,120 --> 02:41:04,460
Paul is in favor of supporting the restructuring of adult and juvenile. Please state by saying

1883
02:41:04,460 --> 02:41:08,140
Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Motion carries.

1884
02:41:08,620 --> 02:41:10,460
Thanks Robert. Thank you guys here.

1885
02:41:10,560 --> 02:41:11,940
It should be bad. Good luck tomorrow.

1886
02:41:12,700 --> 02:41:13,740
And thank you. Bye.

1887
02:41:19,240 --> 02:41:22,180
Anything further for discussion today?

1888
02:41:24,960 --> 02:41:26,360
Just remember we're going to recess.

1889
02:41:27,040 --> 02:41:31,600
We are going to recess. So do I have a script council?

1890
02:41:36,330 --> 02:41:38,630
We're going to go in executive session.

1891
02:41:38,950 --> 02:41:41,550
Are we going to need to come back for any decision?

1892
02:41:41,550 --> 02:41:48,130
decisions. I do not see any need to come back to E. I guess if we do, we could always make

1893
02:41:48,130 --> 02:41:54,050
that decision tonight. That's true. Yeah, you're going to be recess until six. Yeah. We

1894
02:41:54,050 --> 02:41:59,650
are going to go into executive session. We will then recess for our six o'clock in Crook

1895
02:41:59,650 --> 02:42:05,070
and River Ranch. If there's any decisions that need to be made, we will do them there tonight.

1896
02:42:05,070 --> 02:42:07,950
I will read the script.

1897
02:42:09,550 --> 02:42:13,410
The Jefferson County Board of Commissioners will now meet an executive session to consider

1898
02:42:13,410 --> 02:42:14,750
real property transaction.

1899
02:42:15,090 --> 02:42:25,170
The executive session is held pursuant to ORS192.00.6602E, which allows the commission to

1900
02:42:25,170 --> 02:42:30,950
meet an executive session to deliberate with persons designated by the governing body to negotiate

1901
02:42:30,950 --> 02:42:32,350
real property transaction.

1902
02:42:35,060 --> 02:42:40,040
Representatives of the media and designated staff shall be allowed to attend the executive

1903
02:42:40,040 --> 02:42:44,600
session. All other members of the public are asked to leave the room. Representatives of

1904
02:42:44,600 --> 02:42:49,340
the news media are specifically directed not to report on any of the deliberations during

1905
02:42:49,340 --> 02:42:54,440
the executive session except to state the statutory section and the purpose of the executive

1906
02:42:54,440 --> 02:43:00,320
session. Specifically, the news media is restricted to reporting that the Board of Commissioners

1907
02:43:00,320 --> 02:43:09,560
met an executive session pursuant to ORS192.6602E to deliberate with persons designated

1908
02:43:09,560 --> 02:43:12,560
by the governing body to negotiate real property transactions.

1909
02:43:13,680 --> 02:43:16,540
No discussion may be made in executive session.

1910
02:43:16,720 --> 02:43:24,540
At the end of the session, we will recess and reconvene at our Cricut River Ranch meeting

1911
02:43:24,540 --> 02:43:25,920
at 6 p.m.