[0:01] And welcome to the regular meeting of the Board of Multnomah County Commissioners. The health and safety of our community and staff members are at the forefront of our minds as we continue to navigate county business in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

[0:14] In accordance with the Declaration of Emergency announced on March 11, 2020, an extended by the Board of County Commissioners on December 17, today's meeting is being held virtually.

[0:22] To align with social distancing guidelines, some rules associated with Board of County

[0:27] Commissioner meetings will be temporarily altered.

[0:29] Please mute your mic when you are not speaking and before you present, check to make sure

[0:34] that your mic is unmuted and your camera is on.

[0:39] I ask presenters to remember that the public may be listening via phone, so please state your

[0:43] name before you respond to questions.

[0:46] May I have a motion on the consent calendar?

[0:49] So moved.

[0:53] Mr. Vega Peterson moves.

[0:54] Commissioner Stingman.

[0:55] Second.

[0:55] Approval of the consent calendar.

[0:58] The board clerk will now take a roll call vote.

[1:02] Commissioner Miron.

[1:04] I.

[1:04] Commissioner Jypal.

[1:06] Commissioner Miron.

[1:07] I.

[1:09] Commissioner Stingman.

[1:11] I.

[1:11] And here.

[1:12] Before he.

[1:13] Hi.

[1:14] The consent calendar is approved.

[1:20] opportunity for public comment on non-agenda matters. This is a time for the board

[1:27] to hear public testimony not for board deliberation. When it is your turn to speak,

[1:32] I will call your name and unmute you. I will set a timer for three minutes when you begin speaking

[1:37] and announce when your time is up by saying time. At which point, please wrap up your sentence.

[1:42] When you are done with your sentence, I will place you back on mute.

[1:46] Madam Chair, we received three written submissions for public testimony and one submission for oral public testimony, which was shared with board members and staff.

[1:57] Today's public testimony is from Diana Henkels. Diana, I'm going to unmute you and then at that time you can also turn on your camera if you'd like.

[2:13] Oh, there you go.

[2:18] Oh, there she is. Okay, Diana. You're unmuted and you can begin now.

[2:24] Good morning.

[2:27] Cherka for a commissioners. Thank you very much for hearing this brief public comment from me today.

[2:32] I did send a written comment as well. I am this my first time using this system and appearing

[2:38] before this commission. I want this board. I wanted to just flag a topic for you. I believe

[2:46] That I will make further comment on a budget hearing later on in the within the next four weeks or so.

[2:53] But my name is Diane Hingles, I am an attorney.

[2:56] I represent small business utility advocates.

[2:59] We represent small business generally.

[3:02] It's a nonprofit.

[3:03] I'm not in profit.

[3:03] We represent small businesses in energy regulatory proceedings.

[3:08] And we just want to note for the commissioners that they may already be aware.

[3:12] the small business, small commercial customers have been hit very hard by the pandemic.

[3:19] And there is a, there is processes in play where the, for example, the Public Utilities Commission is,

[3:26] and where it's working with stakeholders regarding the impact of the pandemic on consumers.

[3:33] But I have also become aware that the, that there are counties in Oregon, at least one Washington.

[3:39] And I include that in my comments that is working with the county regarding this group of rate

[3:46] payers.

[3:47] And I wondered if the Baltimore County might be able to look into that a bit and suggest

[3:53] potentially following a similar path with regard to providing relief for small commercial

[3:59] customers as they have a crude fair amount of arirages due to the pandemic.

[4:05] I'm available for the comment or information.

[4:07] Thank you.

[4:10] Thank you for coming.

[4:11] Then thank you for bringing that issue to our attention.

[4:19] That concludes our public testimony.

[4:23] So we can start with the regular agenda.

[4:31] You're on mute.

[4:32] Oh, I'm up.

[4:34] Is that your next for me to tell me I'm up?

[4:35] Yes.

[4:36] We will now recess as the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners.

[4:40] And convene as the governing body

[4:42] or the Gunthorp Riverdale Sanitary Service District.

[4:45] Number one.

[4:47] R1, public hearing and consideration of the 2021-2020 Dunthrop Riverdale sanitary service district number one proposed budget and other administrative

[5:00] 11, and 2012. Ugly numbers, very ugly numbers, but you can see that they haven't improved in fact

[5:06] that they've dropped significantly since the really the last big boom cycle in the late 80s, early 90s.

[5:12] Rough yellow, are these nationwide statistics?

[5:15] These are nationwide statistics, yeah. I think it's important to do that because obviously our

[5:19] local stats are informing the national stats.

[5:22] No, I think your stand I was just trying to get it in.

[5:24] Sure, no, perfect. Yeah, yeah. And they're gathered. Yeah, they were gathered, as I said.

[5:29] through with this October current population service, a household service, you know.

[5:40] So in staying true to our equity lands, I think it's important to kind of humanize some

[5:43] of these numbers, just to take a look at how demographics play into these employment rates.

[5:49] Black men that include the people of the African and Caribbean diaspora, as well as African

[5:53] American men, have the toughest time.

[5:57] And white women, largely non-Hispanic, white women generally have been the most successful.

[6:04] These numbers may be you're not surprising, but I think they're good to look at.

[6:09] I think they're very helpful in creating context for which populations we should be targeting

[6:13] here at the county as well.

[6:19] And here, given these declines in employment rates over time, these ratios had to drop dramatically

[6:27] between 2000 and 2012.

[6:31] So in October of 2000s, you can see nearly half of all non-colleginal graduates from the

[6:36] 2000 held a full-time job.

[6:38] So by 2003, this full-time employment rate dropped sharply to 35 percent, and only increased

[6:43] back to 38 percent in October of 2007.

[6:47] And then there's the great recession again where there's a significant drop where the employment

[6:53] rate had dropped to 21 percent in 2009, which was another new record.

[6:57] And then remained at 21 percent in 2011 and fell again to a new historical low of 19 percent

[7:04] October 2012.

[7:07] So that basically means in October 2012, only 19 of every 100 high school graduates from

[7:11] the class of 2012, who did not attend college in the fall were employed full-time.

[7:16] Now, I'd like to use these statistics and put them in a greater context because the retirement

[7:22] rate has also sort of been extended.

[7:26] Many people over the age of 57 have had more success in getting jobs and that includes part

[7:31] time as well as full-time work and because of economic restraints, but also because their

[7:35] desired skill set many people are working longer and longer into retirement.

[7:40] So the old model that we had where you would get an education, go to full-time employment,

[7:45] and then retire, has been blown to bits.

[7:47] What we now have is the intermediary steps between education and full-time employment, which

[8:00] Then we have a sort of transition to retirement period after full-time retirement, where we're

[8:05] using those supervisors, voice to retire, to train our new workforce, and then hopefully

[8:10] in two full-time retirement.

[8:13] Questions about that sort of new model at all?

[8:15] Wonderful.

[8:17] So then let's return to our sort of local statistics.

[8:20] As has been already been mentioned by Commissioner Smith, there's a, we're the 11th highest

[8:24] percentage of unemployment teams in the country, 28%, unemployment rate for youth ages 16 to

[8:31] 24, with a 12% employment rate among African American males.

[8:35] In the Portland Metro there are 36,000 youth not working and not in school and 1,500

[8:39] more likely drop out this school year.

[8:42] Can I ask one more question?

[8:44] Sure.

[8:44] What's the definition of Portland Metro area?

[8:48] What is that?

[8:49] It's a graphical definition.

[8:51] Sure.

[8:51] So, it's largely the extent of where

[8:54] trim it runs, and so it's our county and

[8:57] neighboring Washington County.

[8:58] It is.

[8:59] And we do have partnerships in Washington County,

[9:01] so those numbers are really including our school districts,

[9:04] as well as as well as theirs.

[9:06] Thank you.

[9:06] Yeah, of course.

[9:07] Thank you.

[9:11] So to focus a little bit on our youth profile,

[9:13] these are the demographics of the youth that we

[9:16] employed this summer,

[9:19] again, I think it's important to show

[9:21] that we are focusing on the highest need communities

[9:24] and doing our very best to sort of have a good spread.

[9:29] We have 101 positions here at Montenamo County.

[9:32] And again, just under 500 for the program total.

[9:34] So this is the breakdown that you soak that in.

[9:42] But then also of course, there are employment barriers.

[9:44] Yes, sure.

[9:45] Here we go back, sure, of course.

[9:48] And in addition to serving the highest need,

[9:50] but this is a income-based program.

[9:55] It is.

[9:56] You have to meet the poverty levels in order to be-

[10:00] In this program. Yeah, absolutely. It was great to be able to say, okay, we're going to take a certain population in the underserved, and we're going to put a man. But this has some clear criterion from the federal government that we have to meet in addition to that.

[10:14] Thank you so much. This probably should have been the last slide, not the first slide.

[10:18] Yes.

[10:18] But in light of the sort of demographics slide that we had earlier, we really want to target certain communities. And while economic needs don't necessarily define communities, these are more culturally defined communities.

[10:27] So we could easily sort of figure that out.

[10:30] But you're right, right?

[10:31] Here are the employment barriers to our youth as well.

[10:34] We have at risk of dropping out physical disability,

[10:37] many who are, again, already dropped out of high school

[10:39] or gang involved and affected in the juvenile justice system,

[10:42] limited English.

[10:43] And so we did try to figure out what were those barriers

[10:47] and if it's all right, these were the economic characteristics

[10:50] that we really focused on.

[10:52] So food stamps in the last six months

[10:53] free and reduced lunch, public assistance, and homelessness.

[10:57] So thank you again Commissioner Smith. I probably should have reversed that and started with economic and then moved down towards the other but I think you get a bigger picture of sort of what we're trying to do here in terms of context concept and really sort of on the groundwork.

[11:12] Now in terms of how we've focused the placements we really want to find those jobs that aren't going anywhere within the county that is to say a lot of our youth are in our system of services.

[11:23] and they're really, they're positioned very well to add to the services that we have to offer.

[11:28] So we focused in education, health care and community services, places that we thought they could find meaningful work and fruitful career pathways.

[11:36] And as you can see here, we placed almost a third in education a little more than a third, an education position that is 16 at the Sun Schools, 20 at the Libraries and 4 in Arts Administration and Community Education placements.

[11:50] We're trying to grow involvement in the healthcare system, not just in the county, but as well as some of the healthcare providers outside of the county,

[11:58] we had eight in the health department and four in wellness programs throughout the county.

[12:02] And then of course the community services, including animal services and poverty programs, hunger relief, emergency management, aging and disability.

[12:10] And so we think that this is a place where youth can add value almost immediately and really feel a worthwhile piece of the county system.

[12:25] We had pretty good success.

[12:26] I'm 90 of our 101 successfully completed the program.

[12:30] Youth had to complete 80% of their planned hours with supervisors reports being satisfactory.

[12:37] There are 11 incomplete participations to were terminated, 16,000, over 16,000 hours worked here just the county with 144,822 dollars in wages earned.

[12:51] Which I think are actually pretty good numbers.

[12:53] And if we look at the program over the last few years, since its inception 2009, 91% of youth have successfully completed their internships and received positive evaluation from the supervisor.

[13:03] 81% of the participating youth or assessors work ready, 93% return to high school post secondary education, or became employed, 97% were low income and 76% were youth of color.

[13:18] In terms of the next steps, like how we can make this program better, in my opinion, there are three things that we'd like to do.

[13:24] As we focus in those areas of education, health care and community services, we can strengthen the internal training for those youth,

[13:30] So that they actually have the skills set within a year or two years time to become full-time employees.

[13:36] We want to connect more with the existing programs or at-risk youth, the ones that we run and the ones outside the program,

[13:43] to sort of address the workforce development efforts and educational opportunities for those youth to get them on this on-ramp to success.

[13:51] And ideally to grow private sector involvement in investment, not just in the healthcare fields outside of the county,

[13:56] but really in all local businesses that want to be a part of that homegrown talent pipeline.

[14:03] So, I would like to give my friends an opportunity to sort of add anything if I've missed a little bit or

[14:10] I have a quick question.

[14:11] Yeah sure.

[14:12] So I was looking at the placements.

[14:14] Didn't we have folks in the IT department?

[14:17] We did not have an IT.

[14:19] We had them in places like the sectors or the departments that didn't show up on their

[14:24] like in facilities, we had some in HR,

[14:27] but we didn't have anyone in IT this summer.

[14:30] Partly, because we were really trying to match

[14:32] and assess the skill set that a lot of our youth

[14:34] have in a lot of our low-income youth

[14:35] are not working on computers all the time.

[14:38] And that's something that we can sort of work on moving forward

[14:40] but they were just more skill to do a lot of the human services

[14:43] stuff and that's where we focused our efforts.

[14:46] And I think that's going to be one of the things

[14:47] that we look at when we're looking at a comprehensive program

[14:51] that we try to identify those areas like you did with health care, and IT is definitely a place

[14:57] that I think that all local governments will...

[15:01] We will take over some of those positions. Frankly, I think I'd like to see some of our folks trained up so that they can stay here,

[15:08] and won't let the county in that be taken away from other local governments, and I won't say who they are. But we lose a lot of our folks.

[15:15] And I think, at this point, we are going to be very, very poised to train that next generation of young people with those skills in addition to getting a college degree.

[15:28] because there are some challenges

[15:31] with going from summer works to work in the county.

[15:36] And a lot of our jobs there labor oriented jobs

[15:41] and there's a process that you have to go through.

[15:44] But I think this is very important

[15:45] of building that foundation

[15:47] so that when they leave summer works,

[15:49] hopefully they can get into future connect,

[15:53] come back after they get a degree

[15:55] and go into the system

[15:57] because they would be used to, you know, what we do here at Momentum Accounting and City of Portland and try that.

[16:04] So that being said, we'll get off my soapbox, because I think I'm speaking to the choir right now.

[16:10] No, that's actually really eloquently put, and I agree to, just if you don't mind, there's two things on a personal note

[16:15] why I think this program is really, really successful.

[16:20] So in the one hand, you know, we're working with low income youth, but we're changing their attitudes and values around work itself.

[16:24] we're saying that look in the county cares, we do good

[16:27] meaningful work right here and you can be a part of that.

[16:29] And for those youth who are growing up in system

[16:31] to services, they can appreciate that.

[16:33] And the second part is our ability to develop

[16:35] intergenerational relationships, young people, who generally

[16:38] are not spending a lot of time with adults and have

[16:40] lasting relationships inside and outside of work

[16:43] to sort of give them advice to sort of help them grow up

[16:45] is been just really immeasurable.

[16:48] So I thank you for the opportunity you've

[16:49] offered us commissionersmith and obviously the entire board.

[16:52] So I will pass it off to you, friends.

[16:55] Can I just ask a question before we go on?

[16:59] On next steps, Rafael, you had strengthening internal training

[17:04] for you in terms.

[17:06] Can you give an example of where you see that needs to be strengthened

[17:09] or what you're looking at?

[17:11] I'm sure.

[17:12] You know, if we were to, again, to take a look at,

[17:14] this is a community services.

[17:16] We could design a curriculum around community services.

[17:18] What are the sorts of things that you would be doing on the job?

[17:20] Can you get on the phone and make an ask, can you organize certain communities, can you go through the data to figure out which organizations are working in that sort of work?

[17:29] So it's almost just like on the job training rather than general work experience, it's saying you want to do this work.

[17:36] We're going to build up your skillset so that you're actually good at this work.

[17:40] And commission, McKeele, today the way it's set up, POIC and ERCO, they do our training.

[17:49] And we don't have the amount of time that we'd like to have to train our kids before they go on the site.

[17:56] And I think we're referencing that maybe if we get ahead start, we can do some things in addition to the training that they get from POIC and ERCO to be job ready.

[18:07] So that they can get the most out of their summer works opportunity and we can get the most out of them too.

[18:15] That's great.

[18:15] That's right.

[18:18] Well, Raphael, you did a great job.

[18:21] My name is Andrew McGough.

[18:23] I'm an executive director of work systems and I'm, you know, he did a great job, but I'm the stats guy.

[18:30] Not Raphael.

[18:31] And I guess I would just add a couple of things and some more about sort of opportunity

[18:36] Because I think Commissioner Smith talks about this a lot at the county level number of retirements opportunities that are emerging in the county, which is absolutely true.

[18:46] But across the region, you'll notice I handed you a state of the workforce report.

[18:51] And part of the reason I gave you that is because all this stuff is interconnected.

[18:54] I mean, we're reliant on our youth sort of fill the pipeline for the future.

[18:59] And there's lots of opportunity in the future.

[19:01] Over the next 10 year we're projecting about an 18% growth rate in all industries across the region and that translates into about 190,000 new jobs.

[19:14] And when you look at some high demand industries like IT, software, manufacturing, health care, those growth rates are significantly higher up to the 30 plus percent range in the IT field.

[19:26] So there are lots of opportunity for our youth,

[19:30] but what we need to do is a better job.

[19:33] I think as a community in preparing them

[19:35] to take advantage of those opportunities

[19:37] down the line.

[19:38] And just one other sort of quick factoid, which I just like.

[19:44] By 2030, the number of people 65 and older in the region

[19:48] will double.

[19:50] So that is an enormous demographic shift

[19:53] that I'm not quite sure we're all ready for right yet and, you know, we

[20:00] Need our youth to get ready for all of those old folks that are coming down the line.

[20:06] So, I think thinking about this program as just one of those opportunity programs.

[20:12] Hey, I'm part of that old folk group too. So, you know, I figured nothing perjured even that statement, you know, I am who I am.

[20:26] That's right, so I'm going to need to pay the bills, right?

[20:29] We've worked hard to get where we're going to be.

[20:33] So the only other reason I think I wanted to say is I wanted to personally thank Commissioner

[20:40] Smith for her leadership on this issue.

[20:44] We were fortunate enough to be invited to the White House a few weeks ago and I don't know

[20:51] you Commissioner, but it was a thrill for me and we sort of debated. Was this an award or not?

[20:56] Well, I figure just getting invited to the White House is pretty big recognition.

[21:02] There was only about 50 of us there, and I think in my mind that was a tremendous award,

[21:09] and it was all attributable to the Commissioner's leadership and commitment to this issue.

[21:15] And I want you to know that, you know, we're your partner in this and we're going to do whatever

[21:21] we can to continue to resources effort to could your others to get involved because it makes

[21:29] good sense, both from a policy perspective and the long turn of benefits to the community.

[21:35] So thank you Commissioner Smith and I look forward to continuing to work the other.

[21:39] Thank you.

[21:39] Yeah, it seems like this should not be something that I get paid to do because this is what

[21:43] I like to do.

[21:44] And being one of those summer youth connect folks, it was the old seat of program.

[21:51] I don't think anybody in here remembers Sita, Jimmy does, I know,

[21:57] but I had my first work

[22:02] experience as a Sita student while I was in high school in Michigan.

[22:08] And so for me, I get what, you know, this is all about and how important those experiences

[22:15] and bringing those dollars into your family,

[22:19] because it totally changes the lives of families,

[22:23] not just the individual who's getting the check,

[22:26] but I can attribute a lot of things to why I'm sitting here today.

[22:31] But I know working in that seat of program,

[22:35] it was a stepping stone to getting here.

[22:37] And so I'm very grateful for it, and I get the kids,

[22:40] I love them.

[22:41] After I go on this big high,

[22:44] and then towards August September, it goes down because they lead. I mean they have so much

[22:50] energy in here and I think they're getting great training here and this is a model on how

[22:59] to do things better the next time because I think it just keeps getting better and better

[23:05] every year and yeah and I do agree with you. I said to myself when the president walked

[23:10] out, I said, you know what? I said, I am so through for the rest of my life. If I don't

[23:16] ever see the president again, I have seen him twice in one week. He was, he was a keynote

[23:23] to the, the bank with that we were at. But this was up close in personal. He was very good,

[23:29] and he gets it. And just by the quality of the folks from around the country who are doing

[23:36] similar activities that we are. I think I feel pretty good about what we're doing here at

[23:41] Montgomery County. I think we're in line with the rest of the country and I know that we're

[23:45] going to be building a pipeline not only for Montgomery County but for local governments in general,

[23:52] we're all going to have the same problem in the next 10 years. So for me, getting a head start is always

[23:57] a good place to be. Thank you. Thank you all. Yeah. Thank you. Oh, by the way, one more

[24:03] fact wait, she she to ended in 1982 in the public investment the federal investment and we're

[24:11] forced training at the time was 30 times greater than it is today. So that's where I graduated.

[24:18] So it lasted long enough to get me out of high school. Thank you. I wanted to make one last

[24:24] comment on the controlling side because as somebody who was at the Department of Human Services last

[24:28] when Commissioner Smith contacted DHS to talk about funding, it was an easy decision to really

[24:34] look at trying to change the face and cycle of poverty for a lot of kids both on the child

[24:39] welfare side and who are kids of Tana family. So I can confidently say it would not have happened

[24:45] without the local effort and partnership here to put those resources in to give those kids

[24:51] an opportunity, which for some of them is going to be a life-changing moment and really change

[24:55] their trajectory. So thank you to Commissioner Smith and I'll be for making it happen.

[25:00] As we know from the findings of the reached transportation crash and safety report, East Multnomah County transportation systems are behind much of the reason in regards to certain safety features like our streetlights.

[25:14] And this has a disproportionate effect on communities of color. The district is planning to invest our capital funds to help improve safety in the communities we serve through upgrades to street lighting in key corridors.

[25:27] and leverages the teaching partnership with the County Transportation Division.

[25:32] Our first major construction project will be increasing lighting levels on southwest 257th Avenue in two phases.

[25:40] The first phase will be from just south and west historic Columbia River Highway to southwest Cherry Park Road,

[25:47] and the second phase will be from southwest Cherry Park Road to southeast Star Street.

[25:52] And with that I'll go ahead and turn it back over to Tom.

[25:57] Thanks, Chad.

[26:00] The district current assessment is $60 per property per year for the fiscal year 2022 budget. We are proposing a $10 increase the property assessment for street lighting.

[26:13] The district is not seen an increase in street lighting.

[26:17] a property assessment since 2014, property assessment of $70 is estimated to generate just a little over $500,000

[26:27] among the $7,900 property served.

[26:32] This new rate provides the district with the necessary operating resources to match operational capital needs for the district's assets.

[26:40] Many of which are reaching the end of service life.

[26:43] The district operates as an enterprise fund whereby it must generate revenues for operation

[26:49] by charging rates to recover all costs of providing services. Once again, we would like to

[26:56] remind you that budget is only approved once. As a budget committee, you have the authority to

[27:01] revise the budget prior to approval. If any changes are necessary after budget is approved,

[27:07] the governing body must make revisions when adopting the budget which is scheduled for June 10.

[27:14] Your approval today will allow the approved budget to be submitted to the tax supervising

[27:18] conservation.

[27:20] Who will start a review and provide feedback and comments which will be brought back at

[27:25] the time of adoption.

[27:27] Chat and I are available for questions at this time.

[27:32] Thank you, Tom.

[27:32] Thank you, chat.

[27:34] Tasia, did we receive any public testimony?

[27:37] No, we did not.

[27:39] Thank you.

[27:40] I'm going to call on commissioners by district to see if anyone has any questions.

[27:44] we'll start with Commissioner Myron. Thank you. Thank you again, Tom and

[27:52] Chef, and I do not have any questions at this time.

[27:58] Commissioner

[27:58] Jai Pal. Thank you, Commissioner Stegman. No questions. Commissioner

[28:03] Jai Pal. Thank you, Commissioner Stegman. No questions.

[28:05] Thank you, Commissioner Stegman. No questions. And chair

[28:07] before me. I do not have any questions either. Thank you. Thanks,

[28:13] Thanks, Trent.

[28:16] Yes, thank you Tom and Chad for bringing this forward and I just wanted to appreciate the relationship. I know that fair view and trapdale have been really impressed by the work that you all have done out in their cities and providing the LED lights in the past, which has saved the district money as well as making sure that we have new poles along 257 so thank you very much for working so well with the cities.

[28:43] Now, acting as the budget committee of the mid-multimate county street service district, we will vote on approving the fiscal year 2021 22 budget at 1,331,000 and submittal to the tax, supervising and conservation commission.

[28:59] The board will now take a roll call vote.

[29:05] Commissioner Larry. I. Commissioner Jack.

[29:09] I. Commissioner Baker Peterson.

[29:14] I. Commissioner Sigmund. I.

[29:17] And chair fourth.

[29:19] I.

[29:21] The mid-multimate County Street lighting service district number 14 service district budget is approved.

[29:27] Thank you.

[29:31] Thank you all.

[29:35] Thank you.

[29:36] All right. We will now adjourn as the governor and body for the mid-multimate

[29:40] on county street light and services from the 14.

[29:43] And we can be as the Moloma County Board of Commissioners.

[29:49] Our three resolution of proving an amendment of an IGA

[29:53] with the East County City of Gresham City

[29:56] of Trautel City of Fairview and City of Wood Village.

[30:00] For business income tax, so moved, second,

[30:07] commissioner, make a Peterson move, commissioner, my right

[30:09] seconds approval of our three.

[30:14] Eric. Good morning, chair. Good morning, chair. Good morning. Chief financial officer. I use

[30:19] pronouns, he and him. And so this morning I bring an amendment to the IGA with these kinds of cities for

[30:28] revenue sharing approach for the business and contacts. This amendment would take effect July 1, 2021,

[30:39] and is a follow-up to an amendment that the board passed last year, believe in the month of May.

[30:46] And that amendment that was passed last year was a result of the board making it increase the business

[30:54] and contacts rate in the month of March, we increased the tax rate, but we also made some modifications to the tax provisions that created an increase of the gross exemption and also the owner's compensation deduction.

[31:07] And those two provisions are resulted in a small decrease to their revenue split with these county cities.

[31:14] So that amendment last year corrected or at least to fill that gap, but it also provided

[31:21] East County cities with 3% of the anticipated revenue increase from the tax increase for

[31:31] tax rate 2020. So this amendment that before you today is all up to that from last year.

[31:39] In that amendment last year, we also committed to working with East County cities with the finance leaders to reassess the collect what we call the collective share approach on how we split the revenue.

[31:55] Really kind of taken a look at where the revenues are income being generated and the tax revenues are being generated.

[32:03] So, we've had multiple meetings with the East County City leaders, we work extensively with

[32:10] the City of Portland Administrator of the Tax, trying to acquire data that would help us

[32:17] in making that determination. We're getting better data to kind of assess the situation. And we did,

[32:23] we did take a look at, for all the business income tax accounts in particular tax share, we assessed

[32:31] the number of accounts that were registered within East County cities versus the rest of

[32:36] the moment on the county. And that resulted in about 7.5 percent of registered businesses

[32:41] being in East County cities. But we felt like that was, it's not a complete picture of

[32:47] the situation because there's many businesses that are registered in East County cities that do

[32:52] business outside of East County cities and vice versa. So we felt like that wasn't a sufficient

[32:58] approach to assess the situation completely. So we had continued conversation with the city

[33:05] port and the other mechanisms to get to a better approach and we kind of continue to run into

[33:11] barriers as we just don't acquire the information through the filing process for businesses.

[33:18] And through that process, you know, we felt like it was possible through our filing

[33:24] across the future tax years to request that business

[33:28] filers provide more detailed

[33:30] apportionment information that would give us enough

[33:33] information that really kind of identify the

[33:36] true activity that's being generated

[33:37] if the East County cities versus the rest of

[33:39] the moment of the county for us to really take a

[33:41] a really good assessment of that collective share approach.

[33:46] And so the proposal today

[33:49] it has four components in this amendment.

[33:53] The first one is to maintain the revenue split that was approved last year, which essentially

[34:03] preserve that commitment to filling the gap of the owner's compensation deduction and the

[34:08] gross six exemption, but also maintaining that 3% of the anticipated revenue increase from the tax

[34:16] rate. That's the first part. The second piece is that one of the elements as a discussion with

[34:22] counties cities went on is if they noted with the existing agreement, not the amendment but the

[34:27] existing agreement that we have with these counties cities. There's a provision in the

[34:31] site and there that requires that we notify them 60 days in advance for any tax code change

[34:37] and they requested that we increase that from 60 days to 90 days. I think it's completely

[34:42] appropriate. Most tax code changes are very minor in significant but a tax rate increase for example

[34:51] significant and it makes sense for them to have a little bit more time to assess the situation,

[34:56] take it to their governing bodies to assess the situation.

[35:00] That's the second piece. The third piece is to continue to work with the city of Portland to in the future

[35:07] tax year to get a better portion of information through that filing process for business and income tax.

[35:15] And the final component is a continue our negotiation on the agreement. And so our commitment is to

[35:24] through that process of getting a better portion of information through the filing process

[35:30] is that East County City's incornation with Mona McCounty would commit to when we have that data

[35:37] to reassessing the collective share approach and at that point potentially reassessing the whole agreement

[35:44] if it makes sense at that time.

[35:47] I propose that we, you know, considering that it takes time to build this into a future tax filing process

[35:56] And to get a full complete tax year, I committed that we know within five years, we should have enough information and comparable information for at least one to two years of text data.

[36:11] But we made a modification with the current amendment before you today that if we have the information before that five year period, which we July 2020 six, we will reassess at that point in time.

[36:23] So if we have enough data, for example, in the next three years, at that point in time,

[36:29] we would reopen up the assessment of the agreement, specifically this collective share component,

[36:35] with these kind of cities, and then put together a potential different amendment or changes to the

[36:42] agreement. There is no necessary commitment to change anything based on the additional information.

[36:48] It just allows us to continue the negotiations on this component.

[36:55] So those only four provisions that we're adding to the existing agreement,

[37:03] but the main component is that the increase that we established last year with the amendment

[37:09] that will continue with this amendment because the last year's amendment that was passed

[37:15] expires on June 30th, 2021.

[37:20] So this would contain that.

[37:23] And now I will open up her comments from the commissioners

[37:27] in the chair.

[37:32] You, Eric, I want to also note

[37:34] that we have Will Glasson here from the county attorney's office

[37:38] who helped craft this.

[37:40] And we also, I think, have Jenny Madcore on the line.

[37:43] We have a lot of questions for her as well.

[37:46] Tasia, did we receive any public testimony on this item?

[37:50] No, Madam Chair.

[37:51] We did not.

[37:55] Thank you.

[37:56] I'm going to call on commissioners by district to see you as questions.

[37:59] And we'll start with district one.

[38:02] Thank you, Chair.

[38:07] So I,

[38:09] some of my questions have been addressed by will prior to this presentation.

[38:14] so I want to thank you well for that and also Jenny. But I do want to be sure I'm

[38:21] understanding what I heard very clearly as we proceed with this item. So first I'd had a question

[38:29] about the language and section four in states and with the written consent of each party

[38:38] sort of about reconvening after a portion of data has been obtained, and I just wanted to clarify the intent of that language.

[38:53] It sounds like it's intended to promote and support collaboration, but does not mean that if any parties declined to provide written consent

[39:03] that it would prevent the remaining parties from convening, as soon as we have this sufficient

[39:09] data considered, or even the board to just hear, take its own action, or hear the information

[39:16] without written consent for convening. Is that understanding correct?

[39:24] Good morning, Commissioner. I'm Gordon County, Commissioner. Jenny Madcourt, County Attorney,

[39:30] Commissioner Miron, you are exactly correct. That's the intent of the language, and it does

[39:34] not prohibit the county or other parties from engaging in continued dialogue.

[39:40] Great. Thank you for that. Second, and this is, I guess, more of a comment on the

[39:48] language and a question, but I wanted to put it out there. In the recitals, we're articulating an

[39:54] intent to quote memorialize the county's willingness to seek additional

[40:00] The left of this picture in the future, it will be coming right into the intersection with the new bridge.

[40:06] For several months now, we've had the bicycle and pedestrian traffic that goes up through the cemetery on kind of a gravel pathway that has we've been moving around to accommodate traffic.

[40:19] We anticipate paving this area tomorrow. So in time for the rain over the weekend, hopefully we'll have an asphalt pavement back there,

[40:29] so that the bicyclists and pedestrians will be served as the winter comes on.

[40:37] Just another image of that area, we're attaining while going in.

[40:42] This is the west work bridge, and you can see some of the piling in the background that we've driven over the summer.

[40:52] The east work bridge.

[40:56] This shows the drilled shafts that are in the bottom of the river.

[41:00] So from the elevation that you can see, those drilled shafts go down about 200 feet down into the river bottom.

[41:06] And that'll, these will hold up the, the peers in the middle of the river that the arch is attached into.

[41:15] We're working on the, also on the east approach.

[41:19] We've, on the columns for that.

[41:22] So this is the east abutment.

[41:24] What it looks like now full of concrete.

[41:28] One of the beams for the top of these east, east approach.

[41:35] And kind of, now you can see where there's a column with a beam on top and a column with a beam on top and kind of there the rhythm of that.

[41:43] And so we'll be continuing to work on this as we were going to winter for the south half of the east approach.

[41:51] And then ultimately, once we get traffic on the new bridge, the old old piece of the bridge on the right hand side of the image will get removed.

[41:59] And we'll kind of mirror image what we're building now on the north side.

[42:04] This is the foundation at the other end or the east end of the arches.

[42:11] You can see some people in there, just if you look around a little bit, it's a huge structure that will mostly be buried.

[42:22] We're going to be working on that this fall and start to see things that really look like the foundations of the bridge coming along.

[42:31] And that's, let's see update for today.

[42:34] Let's say you want to ask questions.

[42:36] I want to ask questions.

[42:38] I'm a comment.

[42:39] I think this is good.

[42:40] It's good to see where we started and where we are today.

[42:44] It is amazing that we are, where we are today because all of the construction, I had a chance

[42:50] to go over there a couple of weeks ago and I was just like floored by everything that's going

[42:54] on.

[42:55] So I'm glad that you are in charge of this and making sure that this project goes.

[43:00] Thank you. We're excited about the progress.

[43:04] The enormity of this project is absolutely stunning.

[43:09] We were able to go last week on a tour.

[43:13] And, you know, from far away, it looks like construction.

[43:17] And then you get down on the ground next to these giant pieces of rebar and steel.

[43:22] And you just realize just how much it really takes to build something that's going to last,

[43:27] you know for the next 7,500 years so it's it's so cool and thank you for coming with

[43:33] these regular updates so that we can see the progress because we'll all I think we'll

[43:37] all remember this for the rest of our lives.

[43:41] Obviously wouldn't happen without the support of the board and we really appreciate that.

[43:46] So thank you very much and for the opportunity to work on it.

[43:49] Thank you.

[43:50] Thank you.

[43:51] Thank you.

[43:52] All right.

[43:53] There being no further business.

[43:54] We're adjourned.

[43:55] Thank you.

[45:00] These to make a decision, and I think we're all agreed that it's really the parties, and I think that would be a slight modification. So whatever's appropriate, I'll all make that motion.

[45:10] And then the other question, I think Commissioner Marion's question covered it, but I just want to be crystal clear, that nothing in this amendment.

[45:19] super-seeds, the accountability under the underlying IGA, to terminate that IGA with the required notice.

[45:33] I think that's a genuine question. We're a well-question. Oh, sorry about that. Yes, Commissioner, your understanding is correct. Thank you.

[45:42] And then I'll have some comments as well later, but you know, what I would like to see us do is to take the time,

[45:53] and there's a lot of time now with five years to address what I think is an underlying policy

[45:57] question. This is more than 20-year-old IGA, that as far as I know has never really been evaluated

[46:05] in terms of the underlying policy question, which to me is should the county share county-generated

[46:16] tax revenue with the East County cities? And I want to be really clear that I don't have an answer

[46:22] that question, and also that Mike Purpose in no way is to remove resources from the East County

[46:29] cities. So the contrary, I just want to be sure that we are using county-generated revenues

[46:37] in a way that's aligned with our mission vision and values. And I just don't think we've ever

[46:42] had that conversation, and I want to make sure that we do. So, you know, I think similar to Commissioner

[46:47] My question is what's what's the mechanism to do that and share the answer maybe by saying it here in the board meeting and agreeing to it were committing to have that conversation or perhaps Jenny there's a mechanism and maybe it is a budget note to that effect.

[47:04] So throwing that question out there for whoever wants to address them.

[47:09] From the legal end, as the chair said, the Board of County Commissioners has authority to

[47:14] group quest information from the CFO at any time and any way. So you can make that statement now,

[47:22] as Mr. Miron did with the times specific, you know, once a year or once every six months.

[47:29] I think that's the most straightforward way at this time and there may be other options,

[47:36] But you have a lot of authority to request that information.

[47:40] Yeah, to clarify, I'm not thinking so much about requesting information.

[47:44] I think Commissioner Myron sort of covered that territory.

[47:48] But more having this board or whichever board, having the policy

[47:52] conversation about whether or not the underlying IGA is what we should do.

[48:01] And so those conversations, again, you have really complete authority

[48:07] to begin any policy work groups or discussions that would further evaluate the efficacy of any program

[48:15] including this one.

[48:20] And you could put it in a budget note. I mean, there's, you have options

[48:23] available. Okay. Great. Thank you, Jenny. I'll have some additional comments, but those are my questions.

[48:30] So I'm sorry. There's some confusion. We're not, we don't usually do your questions and then

[48:34] comments where you vote. That's like the city does. We usually do questions and then comments. And then

[48:38] vote. So if you have comments, and I'll go back to Commissioner Miron, if you have comments

[48:44] to, we make them, you can make them now. If you do have after the discussion, if there's more

[48:50] something you want to add, but usually we don't do speeches at the end, we do them right before

[48:57] the vote. We don't do that. We do them during the questions. So if you would like to speak after

[49:03] everyone asks questions you can, but you don't have to. You can make your comments now as what I'm

[49:09] going to say. Sure. I'm happy to go ahead and make them now. I made a couple of them as we went

[49:18] but I'll repeat them. This idea was created more than 20 years ago and as I mentioned,

[49:27] I don't think it is culturally examined since then. I do think it raises fairly significant policy

[49:33] questions for the sport and those are should we be giving county levied business

[49:37] income tax revenues to the East County cities and if so, how much?

[49:41] As I said, I want to be really clear. I don't have a pre-genced answer to either

[49:45] of those questions and even more clear that I don't raise them out of a desire to

[49:50] remove resources from the East County to the contrary. I believe East County has

[49:55] been and is still under resource and I've supported and continue to support.

[50:00] All the ways in which we're working to remedy that, including by exploring property tax reform, which I think would have a significant beneficial impact for East County cities.

[50:09] But the policy question for this board is whether allocating county revenues generated by attacks that this court has levied for the cities to use in their discretion is appropriate.

[50:19] That question has become more relevant in the wake of the racial justice movement that's the reason since we adopted amendment one last year.

[50:26] Specifically, the calls for rethinking public safety and reallocating investment from

[50:32] policing and the car's law system to the social services that our BIPOC communities

[50:36] are crying out for. I happen to listen in on a panel last night that was convened by the

[50:42] coalition of communities of color, talking to leaders of organizations of color about what they

[50:49] saw was necessary for public safety and all of their answers were about the social services

[50:55] that the county provides. Mental health services, behavioral health services, youth and family

[50:59] wrap around supports, violence prevention services for the houseless. I would think that the

[51:05] cities had their own policy question to answer, which is whether they want to continue to rely

[51:10] on the county to levy the taxes they feel they need, but that's obviously up to them. When we entered

[51:16] amendment one a year ago, I understood that we were going to convene a work group that would

[51:24] including the help of all reason, COVID.

[51:28] There has been work done to obtain the data

[51:30] that would inform the second question

[51:32] if the BIT revenues to be shared, what would that share be?

[51:36] And as we've heard today, we've not been able to obtain that data.

[51:39] I don't think the data is necessary to answer

[51:42] the first underlying policy question,

[51:44] but it's possible that it would be helpful.

[51:46] So I'm prepared to support this amendment with the proviso

[51:48] that at this time, we actually commit

[51:50] to addressing the policy question

[51:52] And we begin the process of doing so within a reasonable time frame, and as Jenny said, I think we can talk about what the mechanism is for for stating that commitment.

[52:02] So with that, those are my comments for now. Thank you.

[52:08] Thank you. Thank you. I'm Commissioner Myron. Did you have comments that you wanted to make or did you.

[52:12] Well, I said you.

[52:14] I have comments, but I'd actually like to hear my fellow commissioners questions first, and I know we actually do.

[52:21] do often hear questions before we then go back and give comments.

[52:27] So I would really like to get the input from other commissioners and hear their questions before offering comments.

[52:34] If that's okay.

[52:36] Yes, of course. Commissioner Vega Peter.

[52:40] Thank you, Chair.

[52:42] So first of all, I just wanted to thank Will and Eric and Jenny and the folks that have been working on this issue.

[52:53] I know, you know, I appreciate that you've kept me up to date and

[52:57] and brief me on that over the last, you know, several months in terms of the

[53:02] work that you've been doing to try to see if there was a way of getting the

[53:06] additional data that we had asked for when this came up a year ago when we were

[53:11] over a year ago now that we were doing the VIT increase.

[53:14] And unfortunately, you know, the data that we were looking for in terms of where the

[53:20] taxes were originating, the white slow calories, the taxes were

[53:24] originating from for the businesses, wasn't, wasn't available with the way that the city

[53:29] Portland had been, you know, had been just collecting data. And so I appreciate that the work

[53:34] is going to be happening over the next, over the next years to try to change the systems that this

[53:41] system will be able to support getting that data. I think that will be an important thing because I

[53:45] know it's a question that I have, I know it's a question that I've heard that the cities

[53:49] themselves have about, you know, who exactly is paying this tax how much and and is the current

[53:56] agreement that we have about sharing the revenue, reflecting on that. And I think that's a very

[54:00] fundamental and critical question in terms of tax fairness. I think some of the questions that

[54:06] my colleagues, you know, bring up in terms of the policy itself are also, you know, very valid

[54:13] and it will be an interesting discussion.

[54:17] I think my question though is more about the origin of this agreement, right? And I think we

[54:24] heard a little bit about this when we were talking about the increase. But either well or Eric,

[54:30] if either one of you could you explain a little bit about how this agreement came up in the first place

[54:34] and why we do have the sharing system that we do with the East County cities for the

[54:43] make a computer so I can kind of jump and give a kind of high level. So as you noted, this

[54:47] is this is the old agreement. It dates back to 1976 and at that point in time, I think there

[54:53] were three cities, I think Gresham was the one that didn't have a attack at their own tax rate,

[54:58] but the other three cities had the...

[55:00] For our own version of a business income tax. And at that time, through that collaboration with East County

[55:07] Cities and London County, it was decided that it made administrative sense for us to kind

[55:13] of converse the taxes together to streamline the administration process of the taxes. So, as you

[55:21] know, you know, actually going through and administering a tax is difficult to do, um,

[55:27] it's costly to do. Um, and then it puts an administrative burden on the taxpayers to actually

[55:34] file with multiple jurisdictions. So this was a, a mechanism to bring it into one spot, essentially,

[55:40] and then have one administrator that's collecting on your behalf to, again, to, to reduce the

[55:47] taxpayers in terms of the collection process. So, and it also was also really meant to improve

[55:54] kind of that general reporting across the board with unifying the taxes. So, I know there's a lot

[56:00] that more that goes into that, but at a kind of very high level, that was the main purpose of bringing

[56:05] these taxes together, which I could like to say at that time, it was there's three jurisdictions

[56:10] to have their own tax and then the immersion with our tax.

[56:18] Great.

[56:18] Thank you for that.

[56:19] I think that's important just as we're talking about this to remember that.

[56:24] And I did appreciate the testimony that we heard at the time from the East County

[56:27] District cities and they're representatives who were talking about the history of it.

[56:33] And just the fact that, you know, it really was a reflection of how we're

[56:38] how the impact on the taxpayers and their administrative burden in doing this and which enabled

[56:45] the county as a whole to then use this mechanism to increase our revenue so that we can provide

[56:50] more services. So I don't have any other questions but I appreciate that.

[56:56] Thank you commissioner

[56:58] statement. Thank you chair. Thank you Eric. I do have a question about what do you see the system or

[57:05] process the data collection from the city, sorry. My dog city of Portland, like will that change? Are we hoping that they have a newer different system and then on the reporting in that tax filers? How will that change or how are you hoping it will change?

[57:23] So our current plan and discussion with the city of Portland is that, like I said, the businesses have this information, we're just not in our tax forms, we don't require that information, so that's why they're not providing it, right?

[57:39] So our simple plan is to modify our form to ask for some additional information that would give us some more granular detail on an apportionment.

[57:49] And then through that filing process when businesses file that the city for them within their system.

[57:56] That can just make some modifications to essentially retain that data.

[58:01] And then we can essentially then spit out reports on this, you know, this against apportionment data.

[58:07] It's not just, it's not a commitment just to do it once, it's a commitment to kind of maintain that moving forward. It's just a general recording component.

[58:17] Great. Thank you. That's all the questions I had.

[58:22] Thank you.

[58:23] Mr. Mayor,

[58:26] thank you. Thank you, Eric, for walking us through this and

[58:34] and will and Jenny for answering questions this morning and for many informative conversations

[58:41] leading up to today. Eric, in particular, I just want to say a special thank you. You have

[58:50] been consistently responsive throughout the past several weeks to describe and delve into some

[58:56] of those details and answer questions and I really appreciate the time that you have spent with

[59:01] office. I also want to extend appreciation to Commissioner Stegman and, again,

[59:08] particular gratitude to your chief of staff, Becca Stavichord, who has spent a lot of time

[59:17] in conversation with myself and my staff about this. I really appreciate her collaborative

[59:24] and transparent communication and her consistent willingness to engage, especially when some

[59:31] conversations can be challenging. Last May, when we approved amendment 1 to our IGA with the

[59:38] East County cities, increasing our allocation of the BIT to them, I did have a lot of questions,

[59:46] including policy questions. But I supported our action at that time with some expectations.

[59:54] A key among them were first wanting to have that broader policy conversation, not just about

[1:00:00] How we determine the allocations in the collective share agreement, but those bigger policy questions that Commissioner

[1:00:08] Jai Paul brought up and described so well. I also wanted, I thought we had committed to seeking that

[1:00:17] business activity, a portion of data to inform group group work group process between May 2020, and this

[1:00:24] consideration now, and that data is not yet available, and that's unfortunate, but with what

[1:00:34] Eric has described, I feel confident that we will be able to get hold of that data. Ultimately,

[1:00:43] in terms of the policy conversation, I want that to be about not just how we determine the

[1:00:51] of share agreement, but if and whether we continue to do so, as I said Commissioner

[1:00:58] Jaya Paul really expressed the reasoning around this perfectly and I would just

[1:01:03] like to express support. I would just like to express support for her rationale and for

[1:01:09] the process so that we are ensuring that conversation happens and in terms of our own

[1:01:19] county resources that those are being used in the most effective way possible to support our constituents in East County.

[1:01:31] I understand their significant history on this issue and respect that historical context and the multiple perspectives on this topic.

[1:01:39] And thank you, Eric, for providing a brief synopsis of some of that history here, and thank you commissioner, thank you Peterson for asking about it.

[1:01:49] But I do believe it's appropriate for us to reassess major arrangements such as this one, when the environment has changed so significantly since the over 20 years the original agreement was forged.

[1:02:02] So, that's, I think, on my comments while we might not agree on the merits of reassessing the underlying premise of the agreement,

[1:02:14] I do think we can agree that the conversation can't happen without quality data.

[1:02:19] So, let's pursue that. Let's have the larger conversation and thank you all again for being here today.

[1:02:31] I'm sure, Jaya Paul, did you have additional comments?

[1:02:34] Question questions?

[1:02:34] I don't just just reiterate, also my gratitude to Will and especially to Eric for having

[1:02:42] tried really hard to get the data that we need and for having to continue to try to get that data.

[1:02:47] No, just some comments.

[1:02:47] Thank you.

[1:02:51] Mr. Vega-Pesa.

[1:02:53] The Vega-Pesa.

[1:02:54] Sorry about that.

[1:02:55] Now worries.

[1:02:56] I don't have any other additional comments.

[1:03:00] Thank you, Commissioner Sankman.

[1:03:02] Thank you, Chair.

[1:03:03] And thank you to my colleagues for very robust conversation, and I think some of the takeaways are I'm thinking in terms of the larger picture as you all know and I appreciate Commissioner

[1:03:17] job halls work around tax reform.

[1:03:21] And so while we're dealing with one specific issue today,

[1:03:25] I think you're spot on that we have to talk about our

[1:03:28] structural tax deficit that exist in the state of Oregon.

[1:03:34] So our agreement with the East County cities began with a

[1:03:38] partnership to avoid duplication of tax collection

[1:03:41] efforts and administrative costs.

[1:03:44] So the mechanics of that partnership was pretty simple.

[1:03:48] The county collects business income taxes on behalf of the cities of Wood Village,

[1:03:53] Trautdale, Fairview, and Gresham, and then distributes a share of the net proceeds back to the cities.

[1:04:00] That revenue then comes part of the general fund for each of those jurisdictions that is used to support public safety safety

[1:04:09] as well as emergency response, parks, maintenance, economic development, code compliance, and community planning.

[1:04:18] The revenue stream represents about 11.7% of the operating budget for the city of Gresham,

[1:04:26] 12% for wood village, 13.6% for their view, and 18% for tarot del.

[1:04:34] I know that we are all going through the budgeting process and I would ask my colleagues to consider if we were faced with an 11 or 12 or 13 or an 18% decrease to our budget, what that would do to the services that we would not be able to offer.

[1:04:53] Michael over this last year has been to engage with the East County cities to negotiate and update it

[1:05:00] These recent conversations reflect much of what was discussed the last time the county suggested modifications to the IGA.

[1:05:09] The bottom line is that it's hard to refine a formula for a share when you don't have the adequate data to inform that decision.

[1:05:17] And as the board knows, gathering quality data for this process is time intensive.

[1:05:23] However, the proposed idea before us today reflects what I believe is a good plan to reopen this conversation when we have that data.

[1:05:34] This last year has been quite challenging to say the least, and I would like to thank Liam Frost from the chair's office,

[1:05:41] our chief financial officer, Eric Ariano, as well as all of the mayor's city managers and budget directors representing the East County cities.

[1:05:50] And most of all, my Chief of Staff, Rebecca Stavinger, who has put in countless hours in trying to get us where we are today.

[1:06:01] All of your hard work and diligent have allowed us to move along a timeline with many competing demands.

[1:06:09] And I want to thank you also much and appreciate all of the incredible work that you continue to do today during the pandemic, during the crisis.

[1:06:18] And while we go about the business of the county, thank you.

[1:06:26] Thank you.

[1:06:26] Thank you, commissioners.

[1:06:27] Mike, I appreciate you calling out our chief financial officer who this is one of a million issues he has on his plate.

[1:06:36] And yet he has given countless hours and time and attention to detail that is greatly appreciated.

[1:06:44] So thank you, Eric, for all of your work.

[1:06:45] And Will, you as well, and Lori, thank you for mentioning,

[1:06:53] I'm sorry to mention your segment mentioning.

[1:06:54] Liam Frost for my office, who's also put in a lot of time

[1:06:57] along, side, Rebecca, Statma Gord.

[1:07:02] Michelle Diapal, did you have a amendment

[1:07:05] that you wanted to make?

[1:07:06] I do.

[1:07:07] Thank you, Chair.

[1:07:08] I would like to propose or move, I guess, an amendment

[1:07:13] that the last sentence of paragraph three be changed to say the parties will use such information

[1:07:22] to evaluate the collective share for the agreement at Section 2.1. The change is really from

[1:07:28] cities to parties and then changes there to the correspond to that.

[1:07:42] Second, Commissioner

[1:07:49] Commissioner Myron,

[1:07:53] this is on the amendment, right?

[1:07:55] Yes, I.

[1:07:57] Commissioner Jackwell?

[1:07:58] Aye.

[1:07:59] Commissioner Vega Beansen?

[1:08:01] Aye.

[1:08:02] Commissioner Stegman?

[1:08:03] Aye.

[1:08:04] And chair for.

[1:08:06] Aye.

[1:08:06] The amendment is approved.

[1:08:09] And now, Tasia, will you please take a roll call vote on the amendment as amended?

[1:08:17] Commissioner Myron?

[1:08:18] All right.

[1:08:20] Commissioner J. I.

[1:08:22] I.

[1:08:23] Commissioner Vega Peterson.

[1:08:25] I.

[1:08:26] Commissioner Stegman.

[1:08:27] I.

[1:08:28] And check for me.

[1:08:31] I.

[1:08:33] Be.

[1:08:34] Resolution as amended.

[1:08:37] It's been approved.

[1:08:39] Thank you chair.

[1:08:40] Commissioners.

[1:08:43] Thank you, Mr. CFO.

[1:08:47] All right.

[1:08:49] That concludes our regular board meeting today.

[1:08:53] So we will be adjourned,

[1:08:57] but don't go anywhere, because we have a budget briefing.

[1:09:05] Yay!

[1:09:08] All right, we're going to take two minutes pause.

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