[0:06] in clerk anna niola thank you for

[0:09] joining us today and helping us through

[0:11] this meeting

[0:12] welcome everyone to the tuesday july 26

[0:16] 2022 washington county board of

[0:18] commissioners meeting

[0:20] board clerk if you could do us the

[0:22] honors please

[0:23] the board of county commissioners also

[0:25] serving as the governing body of clean

[0:27] water services and all other county

[0:29] service districts is now meeting in

[0:31] regular session

[0:33] tuesday july 26 2022

[0:36] commissioner fi

[0:38] here

[0:41] commissioner

[0:42] rogers vice chair willie

[0:45] here

[0:46] chair harrington here

[0:48] thank you

[0:49] commissioner therese is excused he's on

[0:52] vacation

[0:55] we have no updates to this evening's

[0:58] agenda to report this evening so we'll

[1:00] move right into our public comment

[1:02] period this is an opportunity for

[1:05] members of our community to speak with

[1:07] us

[1:08] on any subject matter they would care to

[1:12] for up to two minutes

[1:14] please note that we do have two public

[1:16] hearings later in the evening as well

[1:19] ms niola do we have anyone who wishes to

[1:22] address us now

[1:24] no one signed up for this period but if

[1:26] anybody attending would like to speak

[1:28] now please raise your hand

[1:35] i see the people that are raising their

[1:37] hands their topic is regarding one of

[1:40] the public hearings um let's see

[1:46] sherry can you unleash yourself please

[1:51] okay

[1:52] so i'm allowed to talk about it now and

[1:54] not wait till seven it's okay

[1:56] oh no if this is concerning a public

[1:58] hearing i didn't see you signed up oh i

[1:59] didn't know what you meant okay so wait

[2:01] till seven yes correct well we may get

[2:04] to it before then

[2:09] and that's it so no one for this period

[2:13] all right thank you ms niola

[2:15] next we'll move to adopt our consent

[2:18] agenda this evening's consent agenda

[2:20] consists of six items two items from

[2:24] clean water services

[2:26] three items from land use and

[2:28] transportation and one from county

[2:31] administration

[2:33] we have a motion from commissioner

[2:34] rogers we have a second from

[2:36] commissioner phi all those in favor of

[2:39] adopting today's consent agenda please

[2:41] raise your hand thank you commissioners

[2:43] and he opposed the motion carries

[2:46] unanimously four to zero

[2:48] next we have a presentation

[2:51] of

[2:52] regarding the office of equity inclusion

[2:55] and community engagement the quarterly

[2:57] report for the quarter

[2:59] of april 2022 through the end of june

[3:03] 2022

[3:04] so i'd like to turn over turn it over to

[3:07] ms latricia tillman

[3:09] our chief equity officer thank you

[3:12] okay good evening chair harrington and

[3:15] board of commissioners

[3:17] it's nice to see you tonight and i will

[3:19] be joined this evening by amanda garcia

[3:22] snell brianna jackson and matt criggy

[3:27] all right

[3:31] and i'm looking for the slides to come

[3:33] up great thank you so we are presenting

[3:36] on uh quarter 2

[3:39] 2022 which is april through june

[3:43] and if we go to the next slide

[3:47] i can add a couple of contextual

[3:50] comments

[3:52] so uh

[3:54] well change is constant over the course

[3:56] of human history certain watershed

[3:59] moments or eras have pulled us as humans

[4:02] globally and as a nation either toward

[4:05] or away from the oppression of others or

[4:07] toward or away

[4:09] from the recognition of our shared

[4:11] humanity and equality

[4:13] in the months since we presented last

[4:15] many of us found ourselves in another

[4:17] watershed moment

[4:18] as it relates to equality as defined by

[4:21] gender identity racial identity and

[4:23] class

[4:27] none of the branches of government our

[4:29] governmental institutions nor our

[4:31] nation's constitution is infallible and

[4:34] at every level of government we're

[4:35] called to

[4:36] continuous improvement

[4:38] to create a more perfect union and our

[4:40] country's commitment to equity requires

[4:43] us to always ask continuous improvement

[4:45] for whom

[4:48] the 4th of july weekend

[4:51] in which we saw

[4:55] murder

[4:56] mass murder

[4:58] and also the death of an unknown black

[5:01] man we saw that juxtaposition between

[5:04] the value of the life

[5:06] of a mass murderer and an unarmed

[5:08] individual and as we continue to

[5:11] consider how we can advance equity

[5:13] within our spheres of influence we at

[5:15] oei ce the office of equity inclusion

[5:18] and community engagement are also

[5:20] encouraging a consideration of

[5:23] intersectionality of identities

[5:26] for example while washington county

[5:28] strives to address present day

[5:30] inequities such as birth outcomes

[5:33] we are focusing in on poor outcomes

[5:36] borne by black women related to infant

[5:39] and maternal mortality

[5:41] as we do that we have to recognize that

[5:43] the experience of pregnancy for black

[5:45] women during slavery was coerced and

[5:48] without consent

[5:49] in fact the very field of gynecology

[5:52] has its roots in white men's use of

[5:55] black women's bodies for research again

[5:58] without consent

[6:00] the professionalization of nurses

[6:02] marginalized black midwives and doulas

[6:05] whose knowledge had roots far more

[6:07] historical than western medicine

[6:09] and in many of our lifetimes white

[6:12] healthcare institutions subjected black

[6:14] women latinos and indigenous women

[6:17] to for sterilization in the name of

[6:19] public health again without black latina

[6:22] and indigenous women's knowledge or

[6:23] consent

[6:24] our equity work whether local or on a

[6:27] larger scale has to recognize the

[6:29] intersection of gender race and class

[6:31] in order to dismantle the structures

[6:33] that make it possible to undermine

[6:36] fundamental rights to women's health

[6:38] infant health and bodily autonomy

[6:41] similarly as our workforce was once

[6:43] again reeling from the mass murders in

[6:46] buffalo new york and uvalde texas

[6:49] we've also spent time reflecting on the

[6:51] causes of gun violence in our

[6:53] communities including the toxic

[6:55] combination of hyper masculinity

[6:58] racism the violence of poverty and the

[7:01] legal

[7:02] legacy of physical violence

[7:04] and the lack of value placed on black

[7:07] indigenous brown latino rotten eggs and

[7:10] immigrant lives throughout our nation's

[7:12] history

[7:13] both of these examples are a reflection

[7:16] of how we in the office of equity

[7:18] inclusion and community engagement

[7:20] approach our equity work

[7:22] we lead with race but we don't stop

[7:24] there we consider the ways our society

[7:27] and our county policies and practices

[7:29] marginalized people across race and age

[7:32] race and geography race and class

[7:35] race and gender identity race and sexual

[7:38] orientation

[7:39] disability and veteran status

[7:43] we cannot ignore the fact that in all of

[7:45] the various ways people have experienced

[7:47] marginalization

[7:49] racism compounds that marginalization

[7:52] even further

[7:53] to move forward we have to consider both

[7:55] our universal goals for equity

[7:57] and how people in our washington county

[7:59] community experience barriers to the

[8:01] best possible outcomes

[8:04] next slide please

[8:07] so what do we do to advance equity

[8:10] so equity as you all know is focused on

[8:13] outcomes

[8:14] we will have achieved equity

[8:16] when we can no longer predict outcomes

[8:19] by race gender sexual orientation

[8:21] ability veteran status geography etc

[8:25] we will know we are on the way to equity

[8:27] when we can no longer predict leadership

[8:30] access to power and participation in

[8:32] shaping policy and programs by race and

[8:35] other social factors

[8:37] in order to do that we need robust

[8:39] community engagement to develop pathways

[8:42] to dismantle barriers to participation

[8:44] to decision making

[8:46] and build processes that engage more

[8:48] voices wisdom and experience that

[8:50] engagement will help inform not just our

[8:52] desired outcomes from our investments

[8:55] but tailored strategies that recognize

[8:58] we don't all have the same starting

[9:00] point in life or in our family's lives

[9:03] my experiences challenges and

[9:05] opportunities are not the same as yours

[9:07] and vice versa

[9:09] equitable policy making equitable

[9:11] program design requires identifying

[9:14] understanding and addressing structural

[9:17] barriers to optimal outcomes

[9:20] it is a never-ending journey of

[9:22] listening and learning

[9:24] next slide

[9:28] at some point in our quarterly

[9:30] presentations i identified that we will

[9:33] be in the initial stages of change

[9:35] through 2022 that was so optimistic

[9:38] here we are halfway through 2022 and

[9:41] what i'm recognizing as i am sure you

[9:43] are as well

[9:45] that this is a cyclical rather than a

[9:47] linear process we are definitely seeing

[9:50] initial results as you will hear that

[9:52] each initiative oeice and others takes

[9:55] on to advance equity

[9:58] puts us back at point two change

[10:01] introduced

[10:02] of introducing change 0.3 resistance in

[10:06] point 4 and learning until we see more

[10:09] initial results

[10:10] in the context of transitioning to one

[10:13] washington county design the future in

[10:16] the upcoming community strategic plan

[10:18] for washington county

[10:20] while still leathering the coven

[10:23] pandemic this organization continues to

[10:26] adapt to change on multiple fronts

[10:29] the graciousness of staff towards each

[10:31] other as we move forward with

[10:33] exceptionally full plates has been

[10:36] something that continues to impress me

[10:40] next slide

[10:44] as our work evolves one thing that we're

[10:47] learning in oeice is that there is less

[10:49] and less separation or distinction

[10:51] between community engagement and equity

[10:54] diversity and inclusion work community

[10:56] engagement is a central pillar of

[10:59] effective equity work

[11:01] so as we move forward in our quarterly

[11:03] reports to your board we will separate

[11:06] out the work for reporting purposes and

[11:09] in our team structure however we are

[11:11] noticing that it is becoming

[11:12] increasingly challenging

[11:14] to separate out uh

[11:17] the um

[11:19] that community engagement from the

[11:20] equity diversity and inclusion work as

[11:22] we move forward

[11:25] um so just a touch base on two points uh

[11:29] that are new within this uh timeline we

[11:32] just continued to add to it um april

[11:35] 2022 you all

[11:38] established the advisory council on

[11:40] racial equity

[11:41] and we'll talk a little bit more about

[11:43] that and then

[11:44] uh this past june

[11:46] you adopted a budget that was informed

[11:49] for the first time by the budget equity

[11:51] tool so we thank you for your continued

[11:53] commitment to our equity journey and at

[11:56] this point i will turn it over to amanda

[11:58] to talk about initiatives and

[12:00] accomplishments of the community

[12:02] engagement team over the past quarter

[12:06] thanks latricia uh good evening chair

[12:08] and commissioners as latricia mentioned

[12:10] i'm amanda garcia snell

[12:12] and i'm here to share a bit of the

[12:13] latest work happening in community

[12:15] engagement sorry amanda

[12:18] vice chair willie

[12:20] has an urgent need sure well it isn't an

[12:23] urgent need i just want to respond back

[12:25] to

[12:26] ask for clarification from latricia when

[12:28] she said

[12:29] it's becoming more increasingly

[12:31] difficult to separate out equity from

[12:34] community engagement

[12:36] did i did i re hear that correctly

[12:39] latricia and could you give me a little

[12:42] bit more

[12:44] um information behind that because that

[12:47] seems

[12:49] um

[12:50] that that doesn't seem to jive for me so

[12:53] can you give me more information on that

[12:55] sure and it was really just more in how

[12:57] we structure this quarterly report in

[13:00] the past we've had

[13:01] a community engagement section and then

[13:03] we've had an equity section and now we

[13:06] see more community engagement around

[13:08] some of our critical equity work and we

[13:11] also see our equity work involving more

[13:14] community engagement so for it's more

[13:16] that for us the lines are blurring and

[13:18] how we've structured our reporting

[13:20] process

[13:21] and the lines

[13:23] blur

[13:24] somewhat in terms of how we

[13:28] do our work within our office so that

[13:30] the community engagement team is often

[13:31] leading on equity work and our equity

[13:34] team is often doing community engagement

[13:37] okay that makes perfect sense to me i i

[13:39] just misunderstood what you said there

[13:42] so thank you very much for that

[13:43] clarification and sorry amanda i didn't

[13:46] mean to get in front of you there oh

[13:47] that's all right

[13:49] next slide please

[13:54] and next slide

[13:57] so um this slide is not new it's one

[13:59] that we put into the presentation but it

[14:02] does it is a representation of the

[14:04] various ways in which community can

[14:06] engage with you all and staff throughout

[14:08] the county um and so we just keep adding

[14:11] it or continue to show it because i

[14:13] think it um it really highlights that so

[14:16] much more than any one specific event

[14:18] there are all these opportunities that

[14:20] people have to engage and we're really

[14:22] working to as literature mentioned make

[14:24] those equitable

[14:26] uh next slide please

[14:29] so beginning with some of our externally

[14:31] uh facing projects we have um

[14:34] reapportionment which as you know um now

[14:37] we are conducting the engage the

[14:38] community engagement in three phases

[14:40] we're currently in phase two and

[14:42] planning uh face and the planning stage

[14:44] for phase three uh to accomplish this

[14:46] work which includes in-person and

[14:48] virtual events as well as digital

[14:50] engagement and an online survey uh

[14:53] and some of those things are focused

[14:54] specifically on culturally specific

[14:56] participation um

[14:58] we are working with espousal strategies

[15:01] to help us

[15:02] carry the water on that work and really

[15:05] ensure that we're kind of and

[15:06] community-based organizations to ensure

[15:08] that we're connecting with the community

[15:10] and then as you heard earlier today we

[15:11] um we had a last-minute opportunity to

[15:14] be at the fair on saturday and with the

[15:16] proposed

[15:17] uh

[15:18] map option the proposed district maps to

[15:21] share with with the public and we had

[15:24] about 47 people

[15:25] identify their preferred option over the

[15:28] course of the day so um that was pretty

[15:30] uh that was pretty great because we

[15:32] weren't that was sort of a last minute

[15:34] pull together and we were happy that we

[15:35] were able to do that

[15:37] and uh thank you tom and sylvia for

[15:39] representing us as well as oei ce staff

[15:42] and cpo revisioning so this is a

[15:44] long-term project um that will start by

[15:47] looking at cpo boundaries to potentially

[15:49] align with the new commissioner

[15:51] districts so it's really

[15:52] you know we won't fully kick this work

[15:54] off until we have a better sense of what

[15:56] the districts will be until those are

[15:58] approved

[15:59] by you all and later this year um but

[16:02] until that work is in full swing we have

[16:03] contracted with linda haramio to

[16:06] facilitate uh conversations and help us

[16:09] develop service agreements in the

[16:11] interim period that we can have with

[16:14] cpos and cci so that we can have really

[16:17] clear roles

[16:18] about the work that we're doing together

[16:21] this um

[16:22] this service agreement process has

[16:24] already begun with a survey to cpo

[16:26] leaders and cci representatives and then

[16:29] she will be having more in-depth

[16:30] conversations with them

[16:33] for civic leadership training we

[16:35] received some really great proposals

[16:37] from a variety of culturally specific

[16:39] community-based organizations uh and

[16:43] so much so that the the requests are

[16:45] over twice as much money as we have set

[16:47] aside to um to uh provide for this

[16:51] project and so we're really um as we

[16:54] review those proposals we're really

[16:55] starting to think creatively about how

[16:58] can we fund

[16:59] uh

[17:00] how can we you know how can we fund

[17:02] these things or what can we do to

[17:03] provide comprehensive civic leadership

[17:05] training opportunities to the community

[17:07] um and so we're i'm super excited about

[17:10] the response that we got and um and

[17:12] we'll keep you posted on

[17:14] how that goes

[17:15] uh in terms of the board the quarterly

[17:18] town hall so um we held this quarter two

[17:21] town hall on june 23rd um it was focused

[17:24] on resources and programs for older

[17:25] adults there were 20 people on zoom that

[17:28] were not staff and at the time 22 views

[17:30] on youtube i just checked this morning

[17:32] and we were up to 79 views on youtube

[17:35] and so we have started planning the

[17:37] quarter three town hall which is

[17:39] scheduled for september 28th

[17:42] next slide please

[17:46] in regard to regional partnerships and

[17:48] this is one of the examples that

[17:49] latricio is referring to we're working

[17:52] with the cities of hillsborough and

[17:53] beaverton to conduct arpa-related

[17:55] community engagement and the three of us

[17:57] jurisdictions will be contracting um

[17:59] with a team led by espousal strategies

[18:02] and uh included on their team a variety

[18:04] of culturally specific and responsive

[18:07] organizations to help carry that to help

[18:09] conduct that work um really the goal

[18:12] here is to have some shared community

[18:13] engagement practices and build capacity

[18:16] within cbo's for community engagement

[18:19] there's been a fair amount of

[18:21] administrative work to get to this point

[18:23] when you have three jurisdictions

[18:25] involved in that type of process but a

[18:28] spousal is officially on board and this

[18:30] week we will introduce them to the covid

[18:32] racial advisory group who had a

[18:35] significant role in helping us with the

[18:37] rfp and selecting

[18:39] the

[18:40] contractor and next slide please

[18:45] so for our internal um projects that

[18:48] we're working on the equitable community

[18:50] engagement policy which i brought to you

[18:52] a couple of weeks ago and we'll bring

[18:54] back after more fiscal and legal

[18:56] analysis as well as more stakeholder

[18:58] input

[18:59] and i'll be coming back to you in

[19:00] september with that i think tentatively

[19:02] scheduled for september um and as a

[19:05] reminder this is really this policy is

[19:07] really about ensuring best practices

[19:08] across the organization for equity

[19:10] centered engagement it's also related to

[19:13] the arpa work in the sense that the

[19:14] jurisdictions have committed to

[19:17] alignment of best practices and

[19:19] engagement strategies in an effort to

[19:21] reduce burden to community-based

[19:22] organizations and the community as a

[19:24] whole and so

[19:26] um we'll be working closely with the

[19:27] jurisdictions on that too

[19:31] um

[19:32] sorry not specifically on the policy but

[19:33] on those strategies

[19:36] and

[19:37] um boards and commissions so we continue

[19:39] to use the data that we collect in the

[19:41] application prop um process to inform

[19:44] our recruitment work um in addition to

[19:46] that the equity leadership council

[19:49] committee that's focused on diversity

[19:51] and inclusion best practices for boards

[19:53] and commissions

[19:55] has been working for over a year on

[19:57] standards and shared practices related

[19:59] to

[20:00] recruitment onboarding training bylaws

[20:03] all things boards and commissions in the

[20:05] county they're really it's a great

[20:07] committee they've been really motivated

[20:09] they've taken on some big pieces of work

[20:11] um

[20:12] in that process their work has also

[20:14] really highlighted the need for us to

[20:17] to think about the overall role of

[20:19] boards and commissions in the county

[20:21] which is a big question and so i think

[20:24] we're just kind of recognizing the the

[20:26] need to start thinking about that and um

[20:28] and where do they fit in the community

[20:29] engagement spectrum and um you know what

[20:31] are we

[20:33] asking of them etc and so lots of big

[20:36] questions related to that and it and

[20:38] we'll be we'll start looking at this in

[20:39] the coming months and

[20:41] and figure out what we need to do

[20:44] the land acknowledgement implementation

[20:46] group had their kickoff meeting at the

[20:48] end of june

[20:49] and is really ready to hit the ground

[20:50] running with looking at the

[20:52] recommendations from our indigenous

[20:53] partners in relation to county practice

[20:56] and so they're going to start with

[20:57] looking at the various types of meetings

[20:59] that are held

[21:01] throughout the county

[21:02] organization and held by the county

[21:04] organization and really start to dive

[21:06] into

[21:07] you know how are we

[21:09] what are those meetings what is you know

[21:11] how are they how could they be

[21:12] categorized in a sense of

[21:14] how does the um

[21:16] how does the land acknowledgement

[21:19] you know how would it be most relevant

[21:20] and meaningful uh to

[21:22] to recognize in those processes

[21:26] next slide please

[21:30] bridging between internal and external

[21:32] engagement um are our cultural heritage

[21:35] month celebrations and so these uh

[21:38] as you may know these started out as a

[21:40] small way to raise awareness and

[21:42] celebrate with staff and they really

[21:44] have become

[21:45] pretty popular

[21:47] opportunities to build relationship and

[21:49] community connection internally and

[21:52] externally and in some instances have

[21:54] led to policy change as we saw with the

[21:57] juneteenth holiday

[21:58] and the creation of the asian asian

[22:00] american native hawaiian and pacific

[22:02] islander business council

[22:04] by washing by the washington county

[22:06] chamber of commerce

[22:07] and i just noticed we're missing an age

[22:10] so we can get that we're an n we're

[22:12] missing a letter there so we can get

[22:13] that corrected um

[22:16] but these

[22:17] staff there's some pictures there staff

[22:19] marching in um pride parade and the

[22:21] juneteenth celebration and so

[22:23] there's been a lot of interest and

[22:25] excitement from staff to participate in

[22:27] events and a lot of creativity around

[22:30] you know what are the ways in which we

[22:31] can celebrate

[22:34] next slide

[22:38] and then uh finally our e-update so it

[22:40] continues to grow with increased

[22:42] subscribership and it seems to be

[22:44] well-received um it's a way for us to

[22:47] share engagement opportunities we do

[22:49] this on a weekly basis and we have been

[22:51] sharing other information as well

[22:53] sometimes

[22:54] you know

[22:55] health alert information covered testing

[22:57] opportunities or heat advisory stuff so

[23:01] opportunities to share that information

[23:02] because we do put it out weekly and it

[23:05] is intended for cbo's and other

[23:07] community stakeholders

[23:08] and so we're up to about 620

[23:11] contacts on that list

[23:14] and with that i will pass it back to

[23:16] latricia

[23:21] i think you're one more amanda

[23:29] oh yeah

[23:30] anchor most exciting

[23:33] or certainly very exciting i don't want

[23:35] to say the most exciting but um

[23:38] so the uh

[23:40] as you know the advisory council on

[23:42] racial equity we just had the um the

[23:44] launch last

[23:46] last week

[23:47] if i'm getting my weeks my weeks are

[23:49] starting to blur together um so this is

[23:52] uh

[23:53] the you all adopted the charter earlier

[23:56] this year and then um appointed members

[23:58] in um

[23:59] june we had a lot of

[24:02] folks interested in this and of course

[24:03] this has been a long time coming one of

[24:06] the um

[24:08] one of the components of the equity um

[24:11] resolution and so

[24:13] uh very exciting to officially be

[24:15] launching in this group it's a great

[24:17] group of community participants and the

[24:20] chair and commissioner trees are also

[24:22] on

[24:23] acre as we affectionately call it

[24:27] and with that i will pass it back

[24:31] thanks amanda

[24:33] and thank you to all your team that's

[24:35] doing just an amazing amount of work

[24:37] especially with the one current vacancy

[24:40] that we're filling so

[24:42] they've uh definitely they're definitely

[24:44] shouldering quite a load

[24:47] on behalf of the county so next slide

[24:49] please

[24:52] all right so we're going to pivot to

[24:54] focus on the work related to equity

[24:56] diversity and inclusion

[24:58] and then next slide please

[25:02] so as you know um we've been

[25:05] continuing to

[25:07] um

[25:08] live into the equity resolution

[25:11] internally in washington county with the

[25:14] development of our equity leadership

[25:16] council committees and you can see the

[25:18] six that are listed there on the right

[25:21] there they've been focused on

[25:23] development and implementation of equity

[25:26] diversity and inclusion strategies

[25:28] standards policies and tools based on

[25:31] best and emerging best practices

[25:34] next slide

[25:37] they're currently

[25:39] in the late stages of

[25:42] membership recruitment to fill vacancies

[25:44] either that have been created because

[25:47] people left the county or change jobs or

[25:50] have you know work life balance that

[25:52] they're trying to maintain

[25:54] they've done quite a bit of work around

[25:57] um

[25:59] all the charges within the six

[26:01] committees um we had a separate

[26:03] committee focused on limited english

[26:06] assistance policy implementation that we

[26:08] recently sunseted and moved under the

[26:11] civil rights compliance committee i'll

[26:13] talk a little bit more about that in a

[26:15] minute

[26:16] um

[26:17] and then as you know

[26:20] they developed the budget equity tool

[26:22] under the leadership of ashley horn our

[26:24] equity policy manager

[26:28] work in progress now is

[26:31] co-creating a legislative equity tool

[26:34] with government relations and

[26:36] the equity leadership council equity

[26:39] policy committee

[26:41] and they're hard at work on the

[26:43] bilingual pay policy update this is

[26:46] something that has been a high priority

[26:48] for our office since its inception and i

[26:51] know a priority for many others within

[26:54] the county

[26:55] and we're using equity best practices

[26:58] and engagement staff engagement

[27:00] empowerment practices to help inform a

[27:03] thorough update of that policy

[27:06] and then um

[27:08] we will

[27:09] pivot from that policy

[27:12] back to

[27:13] develop uh policy and procedures for our

[27:16] employee resource groups to get those

[27:19] launched

[27:20] next slide please

[27:27] okay so

[27:28] the

[27:29] limited english assistance policy was a

[27:32] policy that you adopted in late 2020

[27:37] and we have been working really hard

[27:38] with our departmental partners to

[27:41] understand what currently is happening

[27:44] in terms of how departments are assuring

[27:47] interpretation support for our

[27:51] community members with limited english

[27:53] proficiency

[27:55] but we have also

[27:57] uh we also built into the budget equity

[27:59] tool

[28:00] uh explicit ask for how much we are

[28:05] investing in interpretation translation

[28:08] and accommodations for people with

[28:10] disabilities so when we think about

[28:12] language access or

[28:15] language access support we think about

[28:17] multiple languages including asl

[28:21] but also

[28:22] like large font or braille for people

[28:24] with disabilities

[28:27] as i mentioned the leap committee

[28:28] sunsetted and will be moving under our

[28:31] civil rights compliance committee as

[28:32] this is a pillar of title vi of the

[28:36] civil rights act

[28:38] which is focused on client civil rights

[28:41] and

[28:42] we are continuing to work with

[28:44] departments to identify their vital

[28:46] documents for proactive translation

[28:50] what

[28:50] you see on your screen as part of the

[28:52] work that we're doing countywide we will

[28:55] be installing large i speak posters with

[28:59] multiple languages in public facing

[29:02] lobbies to make it easy for individuals

[29:05] to identify

[29:07] the language that they speak and

[29:09] what language they need interpretation

[29:11] in and to communicate very clearly that

[29:14] interpretation services are free

[29:17] to the public

[29:18] and then we have also printed an array

[29:21] of i speak cards and these are like

[29:24] wallet

[29:25] cards that on one side in english say

[29:29] the language that they made

[29:30] interpretations supported and on the

[29:32] other side in the person's preferred

[29:35] language explains that they have a right

[29:38] to competent interpreter free of charge

[29:44] these will be available for order um

[29:48] from our

[29:50] for our community partners so we will

[29:52] make those available to community

[29:54] partners to distribute to the

[29:56] communities that they serve who need

[29:59] language assistance

[30:01] next slide so we're really excited about

[30:04] that

[30:06] next slide i just wanted to close the

[30:08] loop on the budget equity tool this is

[30:10] information you've already seen several

[30:12] times but i wanted to

[30:13] put it here for posterity and just to

[30:16] reflect that the budget equity tool was

[30:19] developed

[30:21] less than a year ago was piloted briefly

[30:25] in 2021 and then was

[30:27] adopted and applied in our budget season

[30:29] in 2022 with the results

[30:33] that you see in front of you

[30:35] codifying our investments that will help

[30:38] advance washington county towards equity

[30:43] next slide please

[30:47] and i tried to connect all the dollar

[30:50] slides together so um pivoting slightly

[30:53] um

[30:54] focusing on an update we've been kind of

[30:56] making our way through a year of

[30:58] reporting

[31:00] on

[31:00] our spending for

[31:02] um

[31:04] minority women emerging small businesses

[31:08] there's a number of other

[31:11] designations as well but they all fall

[31:14] under the cobid

[31:16] acronym

[31:18] um which is the certification office for

[31:21] business inclusion and diversity

[31:24] um

[31:25] so as you can see about uh

[31:28] the beginning of

[31:30] the 21 22 fiscal year

[31:34] very small spend rate but fast forward

[31:37] to the end

[31:38] of this fiscal year our total coven

[31:41] spend was about 3.74

[31:45] um this is uh based on 36 contracts with

[31:50] currently certified cobit suppliers and

[31:54] some suppliers go in and out of cobid

[31:56] certification

[31:59] and so this is based on which suppliers

[32:01] were certified at the time that this

[32:04] report was put together

[32:06] next slide please

[32:09] to break that down a little bit further

[32:12] you can see all the various designations

[32:14] that include that are included under

[32:16] that coven

[32:18] umbrella so native american lgbt

[32:20] disabled veteran

[32:22] veteran

[32:23] um

[32:24] dbe which is disadvantaged business

[32:26] enterprise women business enterprise

[32:28] minority business enterprise etc

[32:31] and so as of uh july 1st

[32:36] 2021

[32:38] 37 of total vendors registered um were

[32:43] um

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[32:48] uh

[32:49] i don't know what that's connected to i

[32:50] apologize

[32:52] i'm looking in my notes for that

[32:56] 444 vendors have registered since july

[33:00] 1st 2021. so that's 37 of our total

[33:03] vendors have registered since july

[33:06] uh 20 or 1 in 5 are certified mwesb

[33:10] suppliers

[33:11] and

[33:12] uh greater than 50 percent are oregon or

[33:15] local

[33:16] uh suppliers and then we are seeing some

[33:19] registrations from non-profits in the

[33:22] area

[33:23] so this chart

[33:25] kind of points to the need to update our

[33:28] data systems

[33:30] because

[33:32] as i mentioned before

[33:33] certification and self-identification

[33:36] are two different things and this is

[33:39] self-identified entities

[33:41] self-identified as

[33:44] minority women emerging small business

[33:46] or other designations

[33:53] okay

[33:56] so

[33:57] what i want to do in the next slide is

[33:59] pass the mic over to matt craig to talk

[34:02] a little bit more about our

[34:04] partnerships and well you'll be hearing

[34:07] from matt craig our economic development

[34:09] manager as well as brianna jackson our

[34:11] learning and development manager

[34:14] because the work that we do in

[34:16] the offices of equity inclusion and

[34:19] community engagement

[34:20] really relies on partnerships across the

[34:24] organization so as we go forward we'll

[34:26] continue to build in

[34:28] updates from our partners within

[34:30] washington county who can share a little

[34:31] bit about our work and so with that

[34:35] we'll turn it over to matt craig

[34:37] great thank you uh latricia i hope my

[34:40] fan isn't too loud here it's a little

[34:41] warm in the home office

[34:43] yeah so

[34:44] um literally thank you for giving the

[34:46] opportunity to say a few words here in

[34:48] oei ice uh update um as your board will

[34:52] recall washington county's economic

[34:53] development program is closely linked

[34:56] to oei ce's external engagement work uh

[34:59] in fact we've been looking for more and

[35:00] more opportunities to sink and align our

[35:03] efforts in doing so we aim to provide

[35:06] community partners with clearer and more

[35:08] transparent ways to connect with the

[35:10] county build trust and relationships by

[35:13] making what is important to them

[35:15] important to us

[35:16] and to help to focus investment in

[35:18] response to community needs so here are

[35:21] just a few examples on this slide of the

[35:23] work that oei ce and economic

[35:25] development are addressing together so

[35:27] in that first bullet point about

[35:29] sponsorships the county has uh for a

[35:32] long time provided sponsorships for a

[35:34] variety of community organizations we're

[35:36] now looking for opportunities to provide

[35:38] sponsorships to local organizations that

[35:40] further the goals of equitable economic

[35:43] development including for organizations

[35:45] that support entrepreneurs and small

[35:47] businesses

[35:48] small business development trained

[35:50] workers and provide career exposure

[35:52] apprenticeships and learning

[35:53] opportunities for youth provide

[35:55] technical assistance and businesses uh

[35:58] for businesses at all stages of the

[35:59] business cycle and also importantly and

[36:01] as highlighted in uh literature's past

[36:03] couple slides increase supplier

[36:05] diversity here at the county so these

[36:08] two examples that we have um

[36:11] on this slide are owami's youth

[36:14] conference that's oregon association of

[36:16] minority entrepreneurs youth conference

[36:18] we're sponsoring them and a couple of

[36:20] business diversity institute programs so

[36:23] bdi's programs

[36:25] owami's youth conference focuses on

[36:28] minority youth providing them with

[36:30] opportunities to connect and learn from

[36:32] experienced mentors

[36:34] the conference provides youth training

[36:35] on topics such as business development

[36:38] and entrepreneurship basics and personal

[36:40] and business financing and basic say

[36:43] basics and marketing and sales

[36:45] uh business diversity institute is an

[36:47] organization that provides training it

[36:49] to minority owned and women-owned local

[36:51] businesses

[36:52] bdi's leadership recharge

[36:55] sponsorship

[36:56] helps to fund businesses to attend uh

[36:59] this event where they can build their

[37:01] network and gain access to curriculum

[37:04] such as

[37:05] business planning business transitioning

[37:07] leadership marketing and financials

[37:09] bdi's minority enterprise development

[37:12] week

[37:13] med provides workshops for industry

[37:16] relevant education to small business

[37:18] owners

[37:19] and their

[37:21] the second example that we have on the

[37:23] slide here

[37:25] for you this evening is a collaboration

[37:27] between oeice economic development and

[37:30] this is uh demonstrated in the kaiadiyas

[37:33] partnership

[37:34] so community discussions about the

[37:36] bridge shelter which sits on 10th avenue

[37:38] in hillsborough also known as caesareas

[37:41] in spanish led to deeper discussion

[37:43] within community about what the

[37:45] primarily latino latina-owned businesses

[37:48] along the street want to see and need to

[37:50] thrive in their area so oeice and

[37:54] economic development helped to support

[37:56] the latino policy council the city of

[37:58] hillsboro and other partners to identify

[38:00] collaborative solutions to issues with

[38:03] safety security and waste cleanup

[38:06] so with a grant from the county and

[38:08] substantial investment from the city of

[38:09] hillsboro this important uh this will

[38:12] this benefits uh to the counties is

[38:15] underway right now and we'll be coming

[38:16] back at a later point to report back on

[38:19] on more of that work so these are just a

[38:21] couple of examples of how oeice and

[38:24] economic development staff are working

[38:25] together we see a lot of opportunity for

[38:28] continued alignment and staff from both

[38:30] groups keep in close contact regarding

[38:33] ongoing efforts and potential future

[38:35] collaborations

[38:37] so thank you and i think i'm turning it

[38:39] back to you latricia is that right you

[38:41] could turn it to me and then i'll pass

[38:43] the ball to brianna and we can go to the

[38:46] next slide

[38:48] thank you so much um i'm brianna jackson

[38:51] the learning and development program

[38:52] manager and really excited to share a

[38:54] few updates regarding learning and

[38:56] partnership with the office of equity

[38:57] inclusion and community engagement so

[39:00] the leadership or the equity leadership

[39:02] council training committee started this

[39:04] calendar year in support of the 21 day

[39:07] racial equity habit building challenge

[39:09] led by oeice this challenge laid the

[39:12] foundation for additional challenges to

[39:14] follow including the pride month

[39:16] challenge led by the lgbtq celebration

[39:19] committee last month and the trauma

[39:21] informed care challenge hosted by

[39:23] behavioral health and developmental

[39:25] disabilities divisions happening right

[39:27] now

[39:28] the training committee is continuing to

[39:30] research additional learning topics such

[39:32] as microaggressions environmental and

[39:35] social justice and active allyship in

[39:37] the workplace just to name a few so

[39:40] we're really excited about being able to

[39:41] move forward with additional

[39:43] opportunities of learning for our staff

[39:45] in a way that is um

[39:47] accessible at many many different forms

[39:51] additional learning opportunities that

[39:52] we've hosted are as follows the

[39:54] trauma-informed return to work learning

[39:56] opportunities one was um how to focus on

[40:00] people leaders and the other a focus for

[40:02] individual contributors both of those

[40:05] opportunities were led by aaron

[40:06] fairchild of collective action

[40:08] consulting additionally basic rights

[40:11] organs

[40:12] lgbtqia 2s plus workplace affirmation

[40:16] and inclusion training

[40:18] which was filled to capacity in june and

[40:21] will now have a second session to

[40:23] support the demand of our employees and

[40:25] most recently the mainstreaming of

[40:27] anti-semitism in america lunch and learn

[40:30] workshop by bob hornstein director of

[40:32] community relations and public affairs

[40:34] of the jewish federation of greater

[40:36] portland this opportunity was in

[40:39] response to a community request and we

[40:41] are grateful for uh commissioner navy

[40:43] safai and her staff brenda lynn bartlett

[40:45] for making the connection between oeice

[40:48] and mr hornstein it was an incredible

[40:51] event and we have the video so we're

[40:52] really excited to continue offering that

[40:54] as an opportunity for our employees to

[40:56] learn

[40:57] something that i want to note about a

[40:59] couple of our opportunities that is that

[41:00] we've also been able to partner with our

[41:02] benefits department to be able to offer

[41:06] wellness points as incentive for

[41:07] employees to be able to attend these

[41:09] learning opportunities which is really

[41:11] helping us to bridge the gap between not

[41:13] only um like health and well-being but

[41:17] actual career wellbeing and learning as

[41:19] well next slide please

[41:25] next slide please

[41:29] thank you um so i want to lift up the

[41:31] discrimination harassment and

[41:33] retaliation-free workplace uh policy

[41:35] training with great enthusiasm so

[41:37] between mid-april and mid-june learning

[41:40] and development and partnership with

[41:41] oeice launched a campaign to bring our

[41:44] employees compliant with washington

[41:45] county administrative policy 301 titled

[41:48] workplace discrimination harassment

[41:50] sexual assault and retaliation

[41:52] prevention and a related procedural

[41:54] policy 301 a i'm happy to report that 98

[41:59] of our people leaders 80

[42:01] of our individual contributors in each

[42:03] one of our board members were trained in

[42:05] roughly seven weeks and this was a live

[42:08] two-hour training that took people away

[42:10] from their standard work to be able to

[42:13] learn this particular information

[42:15] this training will be an annual

[42:16] requirement for all employees and we are

[42:19] currently finalizing a contract with the

[42:21] trainer to continue to support employees

[42:23] who are outstanding and new staff as

[42:25] they are hired we also look forward to

[42:28] expanding the focus of this training to

[42:30] include the american with americans with

[42:33] disabilities act and client um civil

[42:36] civil rights and i just want to say that

[42:38] we also did a survey with this

[42:40] particular um this particular training

[42:43] and received incredible feedback from

[42:45] many people who thought that the

[42:47] training was um well executed that the

[42:50] communication was helpful to them to be

[42:51] able to get into the training and the

[42:53] support that they received to ensure

[42:55] that they were able to

[42:57] have the time away from their desks to

[42:58] be able to do this training um was was

[43:01] adequate so i'm really excited about the

[43:03] things that we're doing in partnership

[43:05] with oei ce and look forward to

[43:06] continuing that partnership and i will

[43:09] turn the floor back over to latricia

[43:11] thank you for having me

[43:14] great thank you brianna and

[43:16] matt for your updates on our

[43:19] partnerships together in those areas and

[43:21] as i move towards closure i'll just

[43:23] highlight a couple of other

[43:25] partnerships

[43:27] next slide please

[43:32] thank you so one of the areas of

[43:35] partnership that is really essential to

[43:38] equity diversity and inclusion work is

[43:41] our partnership with human resources and

[43:43] the entire human resources team but i

[43:47] really want to call out and appreciate

[43:50] the leadership of our chief hr officer

[43:53] and our talent acquisition team

[43:56] so one of the items that

[43:58] has happened as a result of our

[44:00] partnership is that

[44:03] hr is eliminating pre-employment

[44:06] screening tests

[44:09] unless validated or required for certain

[44:11] public safety jobs this practice was

[44:15] eliminated because it was determined to

[44:17] be a barrier to a large number of

[44:20] applicants who dropped out of the

[44:21] recruitment process at this step

[44:24] and we found that some tests also

[44:26] resulted in a disparate impact for

[44:29] applicants who were black indigenous

[44:33] and latino or latinx

[44:36] so really excited

[44:38] to

[44:39] take the time with hr to understand the

[44:42] dynamic and the impact of a practice

[44:46] that was long-standing within the county

[44:48] and to understand its impact

[44:51] while it seemed neutral

[44:53] in its practice

[44:54] understanding that it had a disparate

[44:57] impact

[44:59] second we're really excited to be

[45:01] contracting with an organization called

[45:04] workplace change a culturally

[45:07] progressive full service human resources

[45:09] consultancy

[45:11] they are working with the talent

[45:13] acquisition team to identify and

[45:15] implement equitable best practices in

[45:18] recruitment hiring and retention of

[45:21] people of color

[45:22] so that's really exciting they're

[45:24] engaging on their own assessment and

[45:26] change process

[45:28] and then as i mentioned earlier oeice is

[45:32] currently updating our bilingual pay

[45:34] policy we're centering the experiences

[45:37] of bilingual staff to identify immediate

[45:40] and long-term solutions to the

[45:42] shortcomings of the existing

[45:44] policy which falls short in supporting

[45:47] those who are providing language final

[45:50] language services to our community

[45:53] one update that happened

[45:56] in the fall of 2020 is that we the

[45:59] talent acquisition team again changed

[46:01] the bilingual proficiency testing

[46:03] company to uh language testing

[46:06] international

[46:07] due to the disparate impact the past

[46:10] tests had on native spanish speakers

[46:13] the switch to lti has proven to be both

[46:15] more efficient and a better testing

[46:18] process

[46:20] next slide please

[46:25] we continue to partner with the housing

[46:28] department as you know two of our staff

[46:31] people within oeice are dedicated 100 of

[46:35] the time to support the work of

[46:37] supportive housing services

[46:39] and a few highlights of their work is uh

[46:43] one that was a three-day event in april

[46:46] um that was a housing access fair that

[46:49] had approximately 160 attendees the goal

[46:53] of that fair was to remove barriers that

[46:55] homeless people faced when trying to

[46:57] access housing

[46:59] they provided language support and

[47:00] accommodations for individuals with

[47:02] disabilities and as a result all of the

[47:05] available housing slots were filled

[47:08] and um there were additional supports

[47:12] such as meals being provided and

[47:13] clothing items such as shoes being

[47:16] purchased in support of our houseless

[47:18] neighbors

[47:20] um

[47:21] there was also

[47:23] some shelter fighting engagements in

[47:25] partnership with hillsborough and

[47:27] beaverton again

[47:29] working across our jurisdictions to

[47:31] build equity into our housing decisions

[47:35] as it relates to siting and you all

[47:37] received an update about our equitable

[47:39] sighting policy

[47:41] and then lastly

[47:42] through a partnership with sunrise

[47:45] church which was established as a hub

[47:47] for community donations there's a

[47:50] partnership now with faith-based

[47:52] communities launching a donation drive

[47:55] in support of future supportive housing

[47:57] services placement

[48:00] and so far 54 welcome home kids have

[48:03] been

[48:04] provided for the alola inn which is

[48:06] opening in this fall or winter

[48:10] next slide please

[48:13] this is my final slide

[48:16] as i mentioned our equity work is about

[48:18] outcomes and so we need

[48:21] data to understand uh where we have gaps

[48:24] in our outcomes and

[48:26] in order to have data

[48:29] to understand our gaps we need data

[48:30] systems and infrastructure as well as

[48:33] supportive policies that support the

[48:35] standardized collection and analysis

[48:38] particularly of demographic data

[48:40] so our equity leadership

[48:43] committee equity leadership council

[48:46] equity data committee has

[48:48] conducted an initial analysis of

[48:50] washington county's data infrastructure

[48:53] and systems

[48:54] and found gaps in inconsistencies as

[48:57] well as areas needing improvement in the

[48:59] types of demographic data collected how

[49:02] it's collected whether it's shareable

[49:04] etc as an example

[49:07] some data systems collect hispanic

[49:10] latino as a race and some data systems

[49:13] collect hispanic latito as an ethnicity

[49:16] separate from race and that makes it

[49:18] challenging to do any kind of cross

[49:20] comparison between those data systems

[49:24] so the equity data committee identified

[49:27] a need for a more comprehensive analysis

[49:29] and the office of equity inclusion and

[49:32] community engagement has been working

[49:34] with

[49:36] our arpa team to design a county-wide

[49:38] equity data assessment

[49:41] and

[49:42] we launched that rfp in may

[49:45] and received five uh successful

[49:49] proposals uh in june and we have since

[49:53] reviewed those proposals and have

[49:54] identified

[49:56] um the opportunity to move forward

[49:59] um with interviews with proposers before

[50:02] we move into the final contractor

[50:04] selection but we anticipate that that

[50:07] will

[50:09] help to launch a very thorough

[50:11] comprehensive

[50:13] equity data assessment which will put us

[50:15] on a road to being able to develop our

[50:18] ability to collect and report out equity

[50:22] data

[50:23] in addition to that equity data

[50:25] assessment through our our funding we

[50:28] will be

[50:29] hiring a civil rights compliance trainer

[50:32] that person will be training

[50:35] organizations who are receiving federal

[50:37] opera dollars in their responsibility

[50:40] for

[50:41] compliance with

[50:42] civil rights both employee civil rights

[50:45] as well as clients civil rights and

[50:46] we'll also be training our contract

[50:48] managers so that they can help

[50:52] coach our funded organizations as needed

[50:55] to come into compliance

[50:58] and we're also

[50:59] um building out an equity coach kind of

[51:03] position to help

[51:05] our funded projects think about how to

[51:08] more robustly build equity into their

[51:10] projects and then as amanda mentioned

[51:14] during her section and back to my

[51:16] comment about what fits in our equity

[51:18] benefit and what fits in our community

[51:20] engagement bucket and we are using our

[51:23] arpa dollars to support the

[51:25] multi-jurisdictional community

[51:27] engagement project so it all comes full

[51:30] circle

[51:31] um

[51:32] in the connection between equity

[51:34] diversity and inclusion work and our

[51:36] community engagement work

[51:38] so

[51:39] um as we transition to the next slide i

[51:42] just want to again thank the board for

[51:44] your support for our work

[51:48] for the commitments you've made in uh

[51:51] arca investments in equity and again

[51:54] with just deep gratitude for all of our

[51:56] partners across washington county and um

[52:00] our beloved office of equity inclusion

[52:03] and community engagement tv

[52:05] so thank you very much and i'll turn it

[52:07] back over to you madam chair for any

[52:09] questions the board might have

[52:14] thank you ms tillman ms garcia snell ms

[52:17] jackson and mr craigie

[52:20] commissioners do you have any questions

[52:22] or thoughts for our team

[52:26] go ahead commissioner rogers

[52:30] whoops you're on mute sir

[52:34] am i no i think i'm off

[52:36] thank you for telling me though

[52:38] buttons clicking and unclicking don't

[52:40] always work as well as we

[52:42] would like them to uh just some general

[52:44] comment and question of you tanya um

[52:48] one pleased to see the work being done

[52:51] in particularly matt craig's area

[52:55] my work on wsi we're always looking to

[52:58] see

[52:59] if we can't engage communities

[53:02] just don't have access to the services

[53:04] so i i like that matt a bunch i'm

[53:07] talking tonya but i see you know and i

[53:09] agree

[53:10] the body of work is pretty stunning what

[53:11] we've done

[53:13] so i

[53:14] that that's all interesting

[53:16] one of the questions i have to be kind

[53:18] of the grinch of it uh and i did that

[53:20] early on so this isn't anything new is

[53:23] what was this going to cost and

[53:24] originally

[53:27] we all supported the work i still

[53:28] support the work

[53:29] uh but i always like to wrap i think

[53:32] it's an occupational hazard being an

[53:33] accountant like to wrap my head around

[53:35] costs so i know what what's going on

[53:37] i've heard of a couple new positions

[53:39] tonight i've heard

[53:40] several new contracts

[53:43] originally we were going to have

[53:45] one

[53:46] person

[53:47] at the board

[53:48] a majority vote said no we're going to

[53:50] have five that was great we are where

[53:52] we're at

[53:53] and i certainly can't take exception to

[53:55] any of the great work that's been done

[53:56] but

[53:57] i'm trying to understand what this is

[53:59] all costing including benefits so that

[54:02] i get asked that if you can't imagine

[54:04] the number of times in the community

[54:05] what what is the program costing

[54:08] and so nobody else may need to know but

[54:10] i have an information need

[54:11] as a chair i like what she says that all

[54:14] the time she said she has an information

[54:15] need i have one

[54:17] that i would like to be able to take out

[54:19] to groups and say this is what our cost

[54:21] is and this is a benefit so

[54:23] anyway that's

[54:24] my point i compliment you tanya it

[54:27] always comes from the top

[54:29] people don't think that but it's true

[54:31] the tone's at the top and

[54:32] you've been able to accomplish this

[54:34] through folks and so i i congratulate

[54:36] you on that

[54:39] thank you commissioner rogers and so um

[54:42] we can provide that in a written update

[54:44] because i do think that question has

[54:45] been

[54:46] raised as far as what does this cost

[54:48] through this budget process and so for

[54:51] example ms tillman had referred to

[54:55] the two positions

[54:57] that were supporting

[54:59] shs which is our supportive housing

[55:01] services program those positions are

[55:04] funded by the supportive housing

[55:06] services measure so as we think about

[55:09] equity at washington county it is about

[55:12] embedding equity practice in each of our

[55:14] departments and so

[55:17] i would think of this as a

[55:19] centralized but decentralized effort and

[55:22] that is in service to all of our

[55:24] community members

[55:26] as we move forward so let me work with

[55:29] ms tillman and providing that in writing

[55:32] because this is a reoccurring question

[55:33] that comes up

[55:35] it came up through the budget process

[55:37] and we can provide that clarity of how

[55:39] we're structuring our work

[55:42] and

[55:43] ms tillman had referred to

[55:45] some of the costs and some of the

[55:47] outcomes and we can make sure that we do

[55:49] include that into kind of a dashboard

[55:52] report to your board and also the

[55:53] community as we move forward because we

[55:55] know our community and our community

[55:57] partners are also

[55:59] interested in this work

[56:06] any other commissioner questions or

[56:08] comments

[56:16] seeing none i'll finish up i want to

[56:19] thank you as always for

[56:22] these quarterly updates

[56:24] uh it helps us be mindful

[56:27] of how we are doing a better job of

[56:31] serving our community and addressing

[56:34] their needs

[56:36] and it also

[56:38] helps us take stock and recognize our

[56:41] progress on this journey so thank you so

[56:45] much team for being with us this evening

[56:48] and matt i hope the temperature will

[56:51] cool this evening in ways that i'm not

[56:54] sure it did last night so everyone

[56:56] please stay safe

[56:59] drink lots of fluids take good care of

[57:01] yourself it's going to be hot here for a

[57:04] while in the pacific northwest

[57:09] sarah harrington can we do an agenda

[57:11] check-in and i apologize my mic wasn't

[57:13] working at the beginning of the meeting

[57:15] but i do have an update on cooling

[57:18] shelter

[57:19] and given the number of individuals that

[57:21] are on the attendee list it may be

[57:23] beneficial to spread that word at this

[57:25] time if the board is okay with an agenda

[57:27] change

[57:28] sounds like a great idea go ahead miss

[57:31] angie okay thank you chair harrington

[57:33] and board and

[57:35] um team if they are on it pre uh

[57:38] displaying um a few slides um so i do

[57:42] want to provide the board and the

[57:44] communion update

[57:46] given that we are in this extreme heat

[57:48] environment our daytime

[57:50] and evening cooling resources and

[57:53] services so much of what i will say i am

[57:55] reading from the slide deck but i do

[57:57] want to make sure that this information

[57:59] is available to our public both from a

[58:01] verbal and also a written format

[58:04] because i know um i and all of us can

[58:07] talk quickly right now uh or at any

[58:10] point in time

[58:11] so in washington county we have close to

[58:14] 20 libraries and recreational facilities

[58:17] that are serving as daytime cooling

[58:19] shelters

[58:20] some with extended hours into our

[58:23] evenings

[58:24] an additional 14 other locations are

[58:26] serving as daytime splash pads or

[58:29] hydration

[58:30] stations these location the cooling

[58:33] resources are all listed on the county's

[58:36] web page and can be accessed by visiting

[58:39] www.staycoolwashingtoncounty.com

[58:44] and that web extension is

[58:47] on the slide deck that you see displayed

[58:49] on your screen at this time

[58:51] trimet is providing free transportation

[58:53] to any cooling center in the three

[58:56] county region

[58:58] our encampment outreach staff are

[59:01] equipped with water

[59:02] cooling towels and other resources for

[59:06] those experiencing healthlessness

[59:08] this is the same resources that we are

[59:11] being made available to migrant farm

[59:13] workers

[59:14] next slide

[59:20] so now we're transitioning into

[59:22] overnight shelters and this is really

[59:24] timely information

[59:26] because our first overnight shelter for

[59:27] this extreme event did open at 7 00 pm

[59:30] tonight due to severe weather conditions

[59:34] washington county has activated

[59:36] inclement weather shelters that will

[59:38] provide emergency shelter capacity to

[59:40] ensure no one seeking shelter is turned

[59:43] away

[59:44] these shelters will provide relief from

[59:46] extreme heat and access to air

[59:48] conditioning

[59:50] to access these shelter beds interested

[59:52] individuals can walk up to one of the

[59:54] locations listed below

[59:56] so for this evening that includes the

[59:59] salvation army building and the address

[1:00:01] is listed

[1:00:03] as on the slot as the slide displayed

[1:00:06] and this shelter is open

[1:00:08] as of 7 pm this evening

[1:00:11] and it is accessible

[1:00:12] via trimet route number 57

[1:00:16] starting tomorrow

[1:00:18] this shelter along with beaverton

[1:00:21] community center will be open and the

[1:00:24] beaverton community center is accessible

[1:00:26] via trimet route numbers 52 76 and 78

[1:00:33] shelters remain open 24 hours throughout

[1:00:37] the severe weather event

[1:00:39] meals are provided for guests

[1:00:41] no one will be turned away and pets are

[1:00:44] okay

[1:00:45] for our guests please prepare be

[1:00:47] prepared to work with shelter staff and

[1:00:49] how to accommodate your pets at these

[1:00:51] shelter locations

[1:00:53] i do want to extend significant

[1:00:55] appreciation to our washington county

[1:00:57] staff

[1:00:58] and our partners

[1:01:00] to not only ensuring that these shelter

[1:01:02] locations are available during this

[1:01:05] event but that we are looking at our

[1:01:07] year-round inclement weather events and

[1:01:10] ensuring that their shelter

[1:01:12] available for our community members next

[1:01:14] slide please

[1:01:18] and so i do want to leave with just a

[1:01:20] general community message from our

[1:01:22] public health division our public health

[1:01:24] division continues to ask

[1:01:26] that we do a neighbor check-in with one

[1:01:29] another especially older adults and

[1:01:31] anyone who might have a health condition

[1:01:33] that could put them at a higher risk for

[1:01:35] heat-related illness

[1:01:37] members of the public worried about a

[1:01:39] friend

[1:01:40] family member or neighbor who they can't

[1:01:43] get in touch with are asked to call

[1:01:45] non-emergency dispatch at five zero

[1:01:48] three

[1:01:49] six two nine

[1:01:51] zero one

[1:01:52] one one to request a welfare check

[1:01:56] and so that number if you're interested

[1:01:58] is displayed on the screen at this time

[1:02:00] and currently our staff are pushing out

[1:02:03] these messages through our social media

[1:02:05] networks and also

[1:02:07] public

[1:02:09] information

[1:02:11] and that concludes my update thank you

[1:02:13] chair and board for allowing me this

[1:02:15] opportunity prior to

[1:02:17] resuming the rest of the evening's

[1:02:18] business

[1:02:20] thank you ms angie appreciate all the

[1:02:23] work that's gone into this

[1:02:26] next on our agenda this evening we have

[1:02:29] two public hearings

[1:02:31] the first one

[1:02:32] is related to a transportation matter

[1:02:36] so first i would like to

[1:02:39] ask

[1:02:40] for a motion to read ordinance number

[1:02:44] 882

[1:02:46] engrossment a buy title only

[1:02:50] we have a motion from commissioner

[1:02:51] rogers a second from vice chair willie

[1:02:54] all those in favor please vote by

[1:02:56] raising your hand thank you

[1:02:57] commissioners any opposed the motion

[1:03:00] carries unanimously four to zero mr carr

[1:03:03] if you could do us the honors please

[1:03:06] thank you chair harrington and gross

[1:03:07] ordinance number 882 an ordinance

[1:03:09] amending the transportation

[1:03:11] transportation system plan element of

[1:03:12] the comprehensive plan relating to an

[1:03:14] extension of tile flat road this is

[1:03:16] engrossment hearing number one

[1:03:20] thank you sir

[1:03:21] and i'd like to turn it over to mr

[1:03:24] stephen roberts our director of land use

[1:03:27] and transportation here at washington

[1:03:29] county to see if there is a staff report

[1:03:32] first

[1:03:34] thank you madam chair yes there is a

[1:03:36] staff report uh erin wardell is our

[1:03:38] principal planner for transportation

[1:03:40] planning she's going to walk through the

[1:03:41] staff report

[1:03:43] i'll be here as well along with andy

[1:03:45] back our planning and development

[1:03:46] services manager for questions or

[1:03:48] discussion after the presentation thank

[1:03:50] you

[1:03:52] thank you stephen can we go to the next

[1:03:54] slide

[1:03:57] this slide shows an overview of the

[1:03:58] presentation we have planned for today

[1:04:01] um first of all i should mention that

[1:04:03] the board directed engross meant at the

[1:04:05] hearing on march 1st so it's been about

[1:04:07] five months since we talked about this

[1:04:08] ordinance and so we're going to start

[1:04:10] with a review of the tile flat extension

[1:04:12] planning we will then review public

[1:04:15] outreach and some of the recent

[1:04:16] community comments that we've heard

[1:04:17] through some engagement and then we'll

[1:04:19] be reviewing prior public hearings and

[1:04:21] the engrossment amendments before we get

[1:04:23] to our staff recommendation at the end

[1:04:26] next slide please

[1:04:30] the tile flat road extension was

[1:04:32] initially identified as a part of the

[1:04:34] planning work that the city of beaverton

[1:04:36] conducted for cooper mountain they were

[1:04:38] specifically evaluating the south cooper

[1:04:40] mountain area as a part of it coming

[1:04:41] into the urban growth boundary but they

[1:04:43] expanded their planning to include

[1:04:45] middle north cooper and some of the

[1:04:47] adjacent areas so you can see in the

[1:04:49] graphic shown which is from beaverton's

[1:04:51] planning documents this extension down

[1:04:53] in the the southern part of that map

[1:04:56] shortly after beaverton completed that

[1:04:58] planning effort washington county

[1:05:00] conducted the transportation future

[1:05:02] study which was an opportunity to take a

[1:05:04] very long-range 50-year look at our

[1:05:07] transportation system and as a part of

[1:05:09] that work we engaged extensively with a

[1:05:11] number of residents who live on cooper

[1:05:13] mountain part of the save 175th

[1:05:16] neighborhood group and those neighbors

[1:05:18] brought up the need for an all-weather

[1:05:20] redundant network around the cooper

[1:05:22] mountain area that they call the around

[1:05:24] the mountain solution and they had

[1:05:26] identified through their own work the

[1:05:28] need for the tile flat road extension as

[1:05:31] well as the cornelius pass road

[1:05:32] extension which you'll be reviewing in

[1:05:34] ordinance 883 at an october hearing

[1:05:38] so as a result of that community's

[1:05:41] involvement the board added to the long

[1:05:43] range planning work program the cooper

[1:05:45] mountain transportation study and that

[1:05:47] was an opportunity for us to do a

[1:05:49] detailed technical analysis of

[1:05:52] transportation solutions for the cooper

[1:05:54] mountain area

[1:05:55] we then moved into the urban reserves

[1:05:57] transportation study which took a

[1:05:59] broader look at the growth that we

[1:06:01] expect to happen within our urban

[1:06:03] reserves areas over about the next 40

[1:06:05] years and our transportation system

[1:06:07] needs that will result from that

[1:06:10] the tile flat road extension has since

[1:06:13] been included in the river terrace 2.0

[1:06:15] plan that the city of tiger prepared as

[1:06:18] a part of requesting metro to add

[1:06:21] the river terrace 2.0 area to the urban

[1:06:23] growth boundary and it is referenced in

[1:06:25] ordinance number 879 the tigard urban

[1:06:28] planning area agreement

[1:06:31] next slide

[1:06:35] the proposed transportation system plan

[1:06:37] amendment before you would extend tile

[1:06:39] flat road as a collector facility south

[1:06:41] from shulls ferry road from its existing

[1:06:44] intersection with tile flat road to with

[1:06:46] the intersection of roy rogers road and

[1:06:48] bull mountain road

[1:06:50] it would also add what's called a

[1:06:51] refinement area south of bull mountain

[1:06:54] road to the intersection of roy rogers

[1:06:56] and beef bend road

[1:06:57] the purpose of a refinement area is that

[1:07:00] we have an identified transportation

[1:07:01] system need but there are some unique

[1:07:03] constraints in the area and some

[1:07:06] planning work being done by tigard in

[1:07:07] king city over on the east side of the

[1:07:09] road that needs to be advanced further

[1:07:12] before we're ready to officially draw a

[1:07:14] line on the map and so that's why we

[1:07:16] have both an alignment for a part of

[1:07:18] this area and then a refinement area for

[1:07:21] another part of it

[1:07:23] this is envisioned as a very long range

[1:07:25] improvement

[1:07:26] and quite frankly this is one of the

[1:07:27] hardest things we do as transportation

[1:07:29] planners is try to take a 20-year look

[1:07:31] at what our system needs and why we need

[1:07:34] that it's based on growth projections

[1:07:36] and it's based on compliance with state

[1:07:38] rules and laws guiding how we do

[1:07:40] long-range transportation planning so we

[1:07:43] don't envision that we will have funding

[1:07:44] for this improvement in the near future

[1:07:46] but adding it to our plan provides

[1:07:49] certainty and transparency to the

[1:07:51] community and it informs other planning

[1:07:53] efforts that will be conducted over the

[1:07:55] next 20 years

[1:07:57] it is unlikely that this facility would

[1:07:59] be built before the areas broadened the

[1:08:01] urban growth boundary and i want to

[1:08:03] explain that a little bit because it's

[1:08:04] important and the next slide we'll talk

[1:08:05] a little bit more about the urban growth

[1:08:07] boundary potential expansion the reason

[1:08:10] we think it's unlikely to be built has

[1:08:11] to do with transportation funding we

[1:08:13] have a number of existing needs already

[1:08:15] identified in our transportation system

[1:08:17] that have been in line for a really long

[1:08:19] time so it's somewhat unlikely that

[1:08:21] there will be funding available for this

[1:08:24] before it comes into the urban growth

[1:08:26] boundary i think all of us expect that

[1:08:28] this will come into the urban growth

[1:08:29] boundary within probably our 20-year

[1:08:31] planning horizon if not sooner than that

[1:08:34] um

[1:08:36] so while we could build it once the line

[1:08:38] is drawn on the map it's unlikely that

[1:08:40] funding will be identified the other

[1:08:42] benefit of waiting until the land is

[1:08:44] brought into the urban growth boundary

[1:08:46] is that portions of the road could then

[1:08:48] be built by development or through

[1:08:49] development and it would not be an

[1:08:51] entirely publicly funded improvement at

[1:08:53] that time so this last point really has

[1:08:55] to do with transportation funding and

[1:08:57] the availability of it for this

[1:08:59] particular project

[1:09:01] next slide

[1:09:04] now this slide talks about that

[1:09:05] potential urban growth boundary

[1:09:07] expansion

[1:09:08] what you see in this graphic on the

[1:09:10] slide is an identification of the types

[1:09:13] of rural land that we have in washington

[1:09:15] county we have rural land designated as

[1:09:18] urban reserve

[1:09:19] rural land designated as rural reserve

[1:09:22] and then rural land that has no reserve

[1:09:24] designation

[1:09:26] so when we talk about urban growth

[1:09:27] boundary expansions in washington county

[1:09:30] land that is blue is eligible to be

[1:09:32] added to the urban growth foundry once a

[1:09:35] city prepares a concept plan and

[1:09:36] requests portland metro to add it to the

[1:09:38] urban growth boundary then portland

[1:09:40] metro goes through the process of making

[1:09:42] the decision to expand the urban growth

[1:09:44] boundary it's not a decision that can be

[1:09:46] made by washington county were somewhat

[1:09:48] reactionary when it comes to urban

[1:09:50] growth boundary expansions because the

[1:09:52] county board is not the decision maker

[1:09:54] on this

[1:09:56] additionally the land that is rural no

[1:09:59] reserve

[1:10:00] can be added to the urban growth

[1:10:01] boundary

[1:10:02] at some point in the future

[1:10:04] 175 of our original reserves have been

[1:10:08] added to the urban growth boundary we're

[1:10:10] only at about 40 right now a little bit

[1:10:12] under 40 percent so we still have a ways

[1:10:14] to go before these rural no reserve or

[1:10:17] undesignated areas can be included

[1:10:20] so in 2021 the city of tigard requested

[1:10:24] metro to add the urban reserve area

[1:10:27] identified in blue on this map to our

[1:10:29] regional urban growth boundary

[1:10:31] metro's chief operating officer

[1:10:33] recommended to metro council that the

[1:10:36] expansion take place not through a

[1:10:38] regular urban growth boundary expansion

[1:10:41] but through a land exchange process

[1:10:43] which is not a process that the portland

[1:10:45] metro area

[1:10:46] has done previously but is allowed

[1:10:48] through state statute

[1:10:51] metro council has not yet made that

[1:10:52] decision we believe they will make that

[1:10:54] decision later this year or consider

[1:10:56] making it later this year but we don't

[1:10:58] have a definitive timeline

[1:11:00] it's important to note that our planning

[1:11:01] work and identification of the need for

[1:11:03] this collector facility happened before

[1:11:06] the urban growth boundary expansion

[1:11:08] request was made it's somewhat difficult

[1:11:10] at this point to have a conversation

[1:11:12] with the community explaining that

[1:11:13] because a lot of the community concerns

[1:11:15] we're hearing have more to do with the

[1:11:16] urban growth boundary expansion which is

[1:11:18] again a different decision-making

[1:11:20] process happening at the same time

[1:11:24] next slide please

[1:11:28] so this slide summarizes the public

[1:11:30] outreach that we have done as

[1:11:32] a part of all of these various planning

[1:11:34] studies and the staff reports prepared

[1:11:36] for the planning commission and the

[1:11:38] previous board hearings had detailed

[1:11:39] explanations of some of the engagement

[1:11:42] that we had done as a part of this so

[1:11:44] through all these planning studies the

[1:11:45] south carolina mountain planning effort

[1:11:47] river terrace and river terrace 2.0

[1:11:49] planning with the city of tigard as well

[1:11:51] as our own cooper mountain

[1:11:52] transportation study and urban reserve

[1:11:54] transportation study we had engagement

[1:11:57] with community members living in this

[1:11:58] area as well as through our

[1:12:00] organizations such as our cpos and the

[1:12:03] beaverton neighborhood associations

[1:12:06] as a part of filing the ordinance we

[1:12:08] went through our statutory required

[1:12:10] notification process

[1:12:12] additionally we provided supplemental

[1:12:15] notification to potentially affected

[1:12:17] property owners and offered virtual

[1:12:19] question and answer sessions

[1:12:21] the first of those took place in the

[1:12:23] fall shortly after we had filed the

[1:12:24] ordinance the second one took place just

[1:12:26] a few weeks ago and as a part of that

[1:12:29] second

[1:12:30] q a session we expanded the number of

[1:12:34] property owners who we mailed the

[1:12:35] notification to

[1:12:36] we expanded it into the rural reserve

[1:12:39] area to property owners who take access

[1:12:41] off of some of the rural roads that

[1:12:43] could potentially have a future

[1:12:45] intersection with the tile flat road

[1:12:47] extension while the rural reserve area

[1:12:50] itself will not be brought into the

[1:12:51] urban growth boundary or directly

[1:12:53] impacted by this road alignment given

[1:12:56] their proximity to it we thought it made

[1:12:58] sense to invite them to that

[1:13:00] so we had about 16 community members

[1:13:03] join us for that second listening

[1:13:05] session i should say we had 16 unique

[1:13:07] logins in zoom it's hard to say how many

[1:13:09] people were actually there for that

[1:13:10] meeting

[1:13:11] and we had a very good conversation a

[1:13:13] lot of the points that were brought up

[1:13:15] at that meeting echoed the concerns that

[1:13:17] we had heard at the previous hearings as

[1:13:19] well as through outreach that we've done

[1:13:22] for this ordinance through time

[1:13:24] those can be summarized as concerns over

[1:13:26] the environmental impact of the new road

[1:13:29] our determination of the fact that we

[1:13:31] need the road for connectivity questions

[1:13:33] about the technical analysis that led us

[1:13:35] to determine that

[1:13:37] questions about the timing and the

[1:13:39] funding that would be available for this

[1:13:41] road and when they can expect to see it

[1:13:43] done

[1:13:44] questions about the process of taking an

[1:13:46] exception to statewide rules and why

[1:13:48] it's allowed in these unique

[1:13:49] circumstances in urban reserve and rural

[1:13:52] undesignated areas

[1:13:54] and then finally we probably heard the

[1:13:56] most questions about the process of

[1:13:58] adding this area to the urban growth

[1:14:00] boundary

[1:14:01] fortunately for that listening session

[1:14:02] we were joined by one of metro's

[1:14:04] principal planners and so he was able to

[1:14:07] speak for metro and explain more about

[1:14:09] the technical process that metro will be

[1:14:11] going through as a part of evaluating

[1:14:13] this land swap

[1:14:14] so that was really the bulk of the

[1:14:16] feedback that we heard at that meeting

[1:14:19] next slide please

[1:14:23] this slide reviews your prior actions

[1:14:25] the planning commission held their

[1:14:26] hearing on december 15th of 2021

[1:14:29] the board held their first hearing on

[1:14:31] january 18th and then continued

[1:14:33] deliberations to march first

[1:14:36] at the march first hearing your board

[1:14:38] directed staff to engross the ordinance

[1:14:40] based on interpretation of case law that

[1:14:43] arose after we had filed the original

[1:14:46] ordinance

[1:14:47] when we filed the original ordinance we

[1:14:50] simply added the line to the map in our

[1:14:52] transportation system plan

[1:14:54] based on our review of case law we

[1:14:56] determined that we also needed to add

[1:14:59] some text references within our

[1:15:01] transportation system plan referring to

[1:15:03] why we added that to the map

[1:15:05] so our engrossment adds a specific text

[1:15:08] reference describing what we're seeing

[1:15:10] in the map

[1:15:11] it also adds a strategy to our

[1:15:13] connectivity goal which describes how

[1:15:16] adding this collector facility to our

[1:15:18] transportation system plan helps us to

[1:15:20] meet our connectivity goal

[1:15:22] and finally we adopted the we are

[1:15:24] recommending the engrossment include the

[1:15:27] exceptions technical analysis as a

[1:15:30] technical appendix to our transportation

[1:15:32] system plan

[1:15:33] that is not new information that arose

[1:15:36] since then that information was included

[1:15:38] along with our original staff report

[1:15:40] we're simply elevating it to become a

[1:15:42] part of our transportation system plan

[1:15:44] through this engrossment

[1:15:47] next slide please

[1:15:50] and i went through the engrossment

[1:15:52] changes now um so again we do think that

[1:15:55] these

[1:15:56] respond effectively to case law and are

[1:15:59] what we need to do in order to be

[1:16:01] consistent with state rules and with

[1:16:03] that case law precedent

[1:16:05] next slide

[1:16:08] so our staff recommendation tonight is

[1:16:10] to conduct the public hearing and then

[1:16:12] as a part of the rules with engrossed

[1:16:14] land use ordinances the board is

[1:16:16] required to hold two engrossment

[1:16:17] hearings so this is the first of those

[1:16:19] it's our evening hearing next week we

[1:16:22] will have the august 2nd day meeting and

[1:16:24] at that time the board will have the

[1:16:26] opportunity to adopt the ordinance

[1:16:29] and i think that is our last slide

[1:16:34] thank you

[1:16:36] commissioners do you have any questions

[1:16:39] on this staff report

[1:16:41] at this time

[1:16:47] commissioner 5 that includes you you're

[1:16:49] off camera so no questions at this time

[1:16:55] okay i have a question though

[1:16:59] didn't want to step in front of any of

[1:17:01] my colleagues

[1:17:03] i'm confused about one thing if we could

[1:17:06] go back to slide eight please

[1:17:09] so

[1:17:11] this

[1:17:14] summary no no

[1:17:16] so this

[1:17:17] thank you for

[1:17:19] summarizing in general the

[1:17:22] engrossment changes

[1:17:24] um

[1:17:26] what i struggle with

[1:17:28] is

[1:17:30] that and i let me start with i did not

[1:17:34] re-review the presentation from

[1:17:38] uh when

[1:17:39] we did the engrossment five months ago

[1:17:43] i didn't do that at all

[1:17:45] so i may just not remember something

[1:17:50] uh

[1:17:52] back on slide four if i could

[1:17:58] i remembered

[1:18:00] you know the

[1:18:01] the

[1:18:03] slide you know really focusing on the

[1:18:05] tile flat road

[1:18:07] uh

[1:18:10] thank you this is the slide i was hoping

[1:18:12] for

[1:18:13] um

[1:18:14] my problem is this bullet about adding a

[1:18:18] refinement area

[1:18:21] south of bull mountain oh

[1:18:24] oh

[1:18:25] right

[1:18:26] never mind i do this all the time

[1:18:30] i

[1:18:31] uh confuse beef bend road with bull

[1:18:35] mountain road

[1:18:36] and earlier i was thinking bull mountain

[1:18:40] even though i was seeing the label beef

[1:18:42] bun

[1:18:43] beef ben like why are we taking

[1:18:46] this

[1:18:47] whole big refinement area when the road

[1:18:51] uh

[1:18:52] general road alignment is way up there

[1:18:55] you are not the only person who confuses

[1:18:57] those two roads

[1:18:59] thank you

[1:19:00] i

[1:19:01] answered my own question i'm sorry i

[1:19:03] took up everyone's time

[1:19:07] all righty

[1:19:08] seeing no further questions from

[1:19:11] commissioners including myself

[1:19:13] i'd like to open a public hearing and

[1:19:16] this is where i need to turn to our

[1:19:19] board clerk

[1:19:20] and see

[1:19:21] who we have signed up and who else might

[1:19:24] wish to speak so ms niola if you could

[1:19:27] please

[1:19:28] we have several people

[1:19:30] aligned so the first one is andy haagen

[1:19:33] andy could you unmute please

[1:19:37] can you hear me

[1:19:38] yes

[1:19:40] thank you for uh hosting us and allowing

[1:19:43] us to speak today i appreciate it and

[1:19:44] for all your time from everybody

[1:19:47] my name is andy haugen i'm also the cpo

[1:19:50] 10 chair

[1:19:52] uh and i just am kind of representing a

[1:19:54] lot of people that live in the area as

[1:19:56] well as uh myself that have a few

[1:20:00] comments

[1:20:01] um

[1:20:02] i i sent written testimony in earlier so

[1:20:05] maybe you had a chance to review that

[1:20:07] already but i'm just going to kind of

[1:20:08] highlight a few of the main points that

[1:20:10] i also submitted by

[1:20:11] written testimony um i believe this

[1:20:15] ordinance is not a great idea for

[1:20:16] washington county because i think it

[1:20:18] creates more issues than it resolves by

[1:20:20] seeking statewide land use planning

[1:20:22] exemptions in rural and forest lands it

[1:20:25] promotes a dangerous precedent

[1:20:27] to land use laws which are in place for

[1:20:29] a variety of reasons if adopted soon

[1:20:32] more exemptions and rezoning will follow

[1:20:34] until the land use laws and regulations

[1:20:37] could be rendered useless

[1:20:39] uh i was looking in the ec report for

[1:20:42] the board of commissioner staff report

[1:20:43] and attachment a for all three possible

[1:20:47] routes of a b and c for the proposed

[1:20:49] extension

[1:20:50] um

[1:20:51] where almost all the categories for

[1:20:54] economic social environmental and energy

[1:20:56] were slightly negative or neutral

[1:20:59] when not a lot of positive aspects for

[1:21:01] that

[1:21:02] this alone would show the road would

[1:21:04] have very positive little positive

[1:21:06] impact

[1:21:08] many citizens of washington county do

[1:21:10] not want this extension

[1:21:12] not one person that gave testimony at

[1:21:14] the planning commission was in favor of

[1:21:17] it and that also originally failed back

[1:21:19] in december

[1:21:20] and there's no transit opportunities

[1:21:22] it's expensive

[1:21:25] it doesn't correlate i believe what the

[1:21:26] county climate goals

[1:21:28] and more desired improvements were on

[1:21:31] tile flat road that were rejected last

[1:21:33] year by the beard and city council

[1:21:35] and i don't i think roads that already

[1:21:37] exist should be improved upon rather

[1:21:39] than adding new roads thank you

[1:21:44] thank you next is tanya

[1:21:46] steele

[1:21:49] tanya can you please on you

[1:21:52] yes hello good evening can you hear me

[1:21:54] yes hello good evening uh it's very nice

[1:21:58] to meet all of you

[1:22:00] this is my first um

[1:22:02] chance to attend one of these i

[1:22:04] unfortunately did not receive

[1:22:05] notification of some of the earlier

[1:22:07] meetings

[1:22:08] the july 13th or the october 25th

[1:22:11] meetings um

[1:22:12] i'm the owner of lone owl farm at 18 900

[1:22:16] southwest schultz ferry road

[1:22:18] my property is the 26 acres that tile

[1:22:21] flat road would

[1:22:22] bisect in order to connect

[1:22:26] um

[1:22:27] when we purchased this farm in 2011 it

[1:22:30] showed on the map as rural reserve

[1:22:33] a few years ago it suddenly with no

[1:22:36] notification to me

[1:22:38] uh showed up as undesignated which in

[1:22:40] the newest document now says rural no

[1:22:42] reserve

[1:22:44] very recently a dedicated turn lane and

[1:22:46] a turn signal into my property has also

[1:22:49] appeared so

[1:22:50] sort of to a lay person it's very

[1:22:52] confusing how this process is working

[1:22:55] what's happening

[1:22:57] my children and i have been working for

[1:22:59] the last 11 years to rehab this farm

[1:23:02] it's a christmas tree farm

[1:23:04] it's coming up on 100 years as a farm

[1:23:09] we sell christmas trees every year we

[1:23:11] have thousands of customers that come we

[1:23:13] sell pre-cut you cut

[1:23:15] we love to engage with the community and

[1:23:17] we're very afraid that this road is

[1:23:19] going to

[1:23:20] again probably destroy or severely

[1:23:23] impact most of our business

[1:23:26] and drastically change

[1:23:28] our farm my farm is 40 acres this again

[1:23:31] will bisect 26 of those will make a very

[1:23:34] large portion

[1:23:35] inaccessible for farming

[1:23:38] and

[1:23:40] you know there's a lot of growth around

[1:23:42] us and in some ways it's very sad to see

[1:23:44] this happen it's a very beautiful place

[1:23:46] a beautiful area and

[1:23:49] we very much would like to i think see

[1:23:51] the road not go through and destroy this

[1:23:54] farm so thank you for your time if you

[1:23:56] have any questions i'm very open to

[1:23:58] taking those thank you

[1:24:01] thank you next is lily stone

[1:24:04] lily can you please unmute

[1:24:13] lily we can't hear you

[1:24:20] it looks like your mic's a muted can you

[1:24:22] hear me yes thank you

[1:24:25] commissioners thank you for taking the

[1:24:26] time to hear comments this evening from

[1:24:30] what i understand the proposed changes

[1:24:33] to the tsp are largely to accommodate

[1:24:36] the river terrace 2.0 plan

[1:24:39] and that is why washington county is

[1:24:40] looking to include the road and

[1:24:42] potential intersection in this tsp

[1:24:46] the river terrace 2.0 plan involves

[1:24:48] swapping land outside of the urban

[1:24:50] growth boundary that connects forests

[1:24:53] streams

[1:24:54] and farms with property that has been

[1:24:56] already flagged for development for some

[1:24:58] time

[1:25:00] this plan has not been approved by metro

[1:25:03] if this new roadway is to service river

[1:25:05] terrace 2.0 it doesn't make sense to

[1:25:07] include it in the tsp at this time

[1:25:10] especially when shoals ferry has already

[1:25:12] seen significant expansion

[1:25:14] and these projects will impact signific

[1:25:16] sensitive ecosystems

[1:25:18] if the tsp is used to help identify

[1:25:21] projects of fund

[1:25:22] i'd argue that the developers of the

[1:25:24] river terrace 2.0 project

[1:25:26] should be paying for this change and not

[1:25:28] necessarily taxpayers

[1:25:30] also it is important to consider current

[1:25:32] economic conditions

[1:25:34] according to the bureau of labor

[1:25:35] statistics

[1:25:36] in june inflation was up 9.1

[1:25:39] which is the largest rate increase we've

[1:25:41] seen in 40 years

[1:25:43] consumer spending which is a key

[1:25:44] indicator of a looming recession

[1:25:47] is also predicted to decrease as well as

[1:25:50] fargo is expecting that more people will

[1:25:52] be digging into their savings to cover

[1:25:54] the cost of goods

[1:25:56] to my knowledge the impacts of this

[1:25:58] level of inflation and a potential

[1:26:00] looming recession have not been

[1:26:02] considered when examining the population

[1:26:04] growth that would be used for these

[1:26:06] projects

[1:26:09] given that the tsp identifies projects

[1:26:11] for funding

[1:26:12] i'd like to see washington county be

[1:26:14] more conservative with the budget and

[1:26:15] only look at funding critical projects

[1:26:18] not ones that could potentially happen

[1:26:20] or be funded by developers

[1:26:22] due to the uncertainty around this

[1:26:23] proposal and the environmental and

[1:26:26] economic impacts it would have

[1:26:28] i encourage you not to approve a

[1:26:30] engrossed ordinance number 882

[1:26:33] thank you again for your time

[1:26:35] thank you lily next is andrea damico

[1:26:40] andrea can you please on me

[1:26:53] andrea are you there

[1:26:58] can you hear me now

[1:26:59] yes

[1:27:00] hi

[1:27:02] i would like to address the creeks that

[1:27:04] feed into the tultan river that will be

[1:27:06] affected if the tile flat road extension

[1:27:09] is approved

[1:27:10] organizations have been cleaning up the

[1:27:12] tabalton river for years

[1:27:14] and the runoff of roads and bridges will

[1:27:16] contribute to sediment and silt

[1:27:19] that affect our waterways causing

[1:27:21] erosion and pollutants which deteriorate

[1:27:24] the water quality and the effect of

[1:27:26] wildlife in the area

[1:27:28] along the creek we have beavers nutria

[1:27:31] deer and elk now

[1:27:33] and many others

[1:27:35] we need to protect our waterways from

[1:27:37] being polluted

[1:27:40] for the natural wildlife

[1:27:42] changing the water the waterway doesn't

[1:27:44] only impact us environmentally it also

[1:27:47] impacts

[1:27:49] our water table

[1:27:50] in the past two years our water table

[1:27:52] has risen

[1:27:54] in which we have had to have our pumps

[1:27:56] of our wells raised and this has never

[1:27:58] happened before in

[1:28:00] 100 years plus

[1:28:02] i'm not opposed to change but scholes

[1:28:05] ferry and roy rogers have already added

[1:28:08] lanes i really don't see the advantage

[1:28:10] to extending tile flat

[1:28:12] roy rogers and shoals ferry have as many

[1:28:14] lanes as tv highway

[1:28:17] and lastly if this was proposed in

[1:28:20] december of 2021 and was turned down why

[1:28:23] are we revisiting the expansion

[1:28:26] and in 2014 beaverton had their plan for

[1:28:29] south cooper and there was never a

[1:28:31] mention of extending tile flat

[1:28:34] what's changed since then the houses

[1:28:37] have just started to be built on south

[1:28:39] cooper

[1:28:41] i urge the commission commission

[1:28:44] to not approve the a and gross ordinance

[1:28:47] number 882 due to the impact

[1:28:50] that it will have on our waterways and

[1:28:52] the wells of the remaining farms in the

[1:28:54] area and lack of clear need for this

[1:28:57] expansion

[1:28:59] [Music]

[1:29:00] thank you

[1:29:01] next is carrie

[1:29:03] parmentier

[1:29:06] carrie can you on mute please

[1:29:09] it should be fine good evening chair and

[1:29:11] commissioners and thank you for your

[1:29:13] time this evening

[1:29:14] yes i'm actually speaking on ordnance

[1:29:16] 882 because i believe it's directly

[1:29:19] connected with ordnance 883

[1:29:22] i'm asking you to please

[1:29:24] excuse me i've got covert at the moment

[1:29:26] so i'm slightly struggling

[1:29:28] to

[1:29:30] stop and think about this

[1:29:32] the planning commission voted against

[1:29:34] this four to two

[1:29:36] yet it as the last speaker said it's

[1:29:38] back on the table and the question is

[1:29:40] why

[1:29:41] if we're looking at the proposal of

[1:29:44] round the mountain

[1:29:45] then there's a gap between where

[1:29:47] ordinance 882 stops at tile flat and

[1:29:50] where the proposed 883 stops at clark

[1:29:53] hill road the reason being the rest is

[1:29:56] rural reserves this is not good planning

[1:29:58] it feels it's being done by still

[1:30:01] and in fact is not actually opening up

[1:30:04] for public consultation the way it

[1:30:06] should be and connection with everybody

[1:30:08] that will be involved

[1:30:10] i agree with what cpo 10 andy hagan said

[1:30:14] at the start of this with the first

[1:30:16] public hearing

[1:30:17] we've got existing roads let's focus on

[1:30:20] those

[1:30:21] stop taking rural lands for roadways

[1:30:24] i was actually reading the metro's coos

[1:30:27] report

[1:30:29] and they said that metro is growing at

[1:30:31] half the pace it was five years ago

[1:30:35] that is a real clear indicator along

[1:30:38] with this upcoming recession or just

[1:30:41] slow down that we all know is happening

[1:30:43] let's actually look and see what is

[1:30:46] needed and properly assessed and planned

[1:30:48] to there

[1:30:49] rather than long-term planning that

[1:30:51] could be extremely wasteful

[1:30:53] and not a good use of our funds that you

[1:30:56] manage on our behalf

[1:30:58] thank you for allowing me the time to

[1:30:59] speak

[1:31:02] thank you

[1:31:03] next is john

[1:31:06] stone

[1:31:08] john kenyon

[1:31:10] yes sam thank you commissioner um i am

[1:31:12] concerned with this

[1:31:14] uh proposed inclusion of the tile fat

[1:31:16] road extension and the additional beef

[1:31:18] bend road intersection in the tsp

[1:31:22] specifically

[1:31:23] engrossed ordinance number 882 the

[1:31:26] inclusion of these projects in the tsp

[1:31:28] seems to largely be based on the

[1:31:31] uh

[1:31:33] terrace 2 project

[1:31:35] which requires an urban growth boundary

[1:31:37] swap that my knowledge has never been

[1:31:39] done before and requires

[1:31:41] approval by the metro that aside it's

[1:31:44] important to consider future anticipated

[1:31:47] growth when making these investments

[1:31:49] especially when our community is facing

[1:31:51] an economic challenge associated with

[1:31:53] high inflation and increased interest

[1:31:55] rates

[1:31:56] even before the current inflation that

[1:31:59] we are seeing today and doubling of

[1:32:01] those interest rates we actually had a

[1:32:03] population drop of 0.2 in the portland

[1:32:06] metro area

[1:32:10] and from 2020 to 2021 that data comes

[1:32:14] from the u.s census bureau we are not

[1:32:17] just seeing a decline

[1:32:18] in population growth we are actually

[1:32:21] seeing a decrease in population in our

[1:32:24] area

[1:32:25] i'm not sure what population forecasts

[1:32:27] are included when justifying funding in

[1:32:30] the tsp but when i look at the 2040 and

[1:32:34] 2045 distributed forecast

[1:32:36] of population put out by metro these

[1:32:39] studies do not include the impacts of

[1:32:41] covenant 19 or the impacts of very high

[1:32:44] inflation in the near term along with a

[1:32:46] near-term recession those should be key

[1:32:49] considerations when thinking about

[1:32:51] including projects that are only needed

[1:32:53] in the instance of continued expansion

[1:32:56] in the area

[1:32:57] i encourage you all to not approve the a

[1:33:00] and gross ordinance number 882 and to

[1:33:03] dedicate that funding towards something

[1:33:05] that will be more beneficial for our

[1:33:07] community thank you

[1:33:09] thank you

[1:33:10] next is marilyn silver

[1:33:13] maryland communion

[1:33:16] hi can you hear me

[1:33:17] yes great

[1:33:19] um

[1:33:20] thank you very much for the opportunity

[1:33:22] to voice my objections to this ordinance

[1:33:25] i've also submitted written

[1:33:27] uh testimony which goes into more detail

[1:33:30] but i would like to just make a couple

[1:33:33] of points

[1:33:34] i fail to see the urgency or need to

[1:33:37] pass this ordinance

[1:33:39] your own planning commission as others

[1:33:41] have said voted it down by a vote of

[1:33:43] four to two

[1:33:45] they acknowledged public objections and

[1:33:47] their staff report failed to persuade

[1:33:49] them of the need for this ordinance

[1:33:52] the area impacted this by this ordinance

[1:33:54] is outside the ugb and metro has yet to

[1:33:57] schedule public hearings

[1:33:59] on bringing the area into the ugb as a

[1:34:02] mid-cycle exception

[1:34:04] metro apparently is proceeding at the

[1:34:06] request of the city of tiger and

[1:34:08] apparently tiger doesn't want to wait

[1:34:10] until 2024

[1:34:12] which is the normal cycle for ugb

[1:34:14] expansion i wonder

[1:34:16] why metro is proposing a land exchange

[1:34:19] apparently the first time this has been

[1:34:21] done

[1:34:22] what is the urgency for metro to act and

[1:34:25] for washington county to act your staff

[1:34:27] have acknowledged that this ordinance

[1:34:29] requires exceptions to the statewide

[1:34:31] planning goals

[1:34:32] what is the urgency to build this road

[1:34:34] in contravention to these goals which

[1:34:37] prevent roads from being built on rural

[1:34:39] reserve areas

[1:34:40] population growth is slowing we all

[1:34:42] agree

[1:34:43] the pandemic has changed the way we work

[1:34:46] and resulting patterned traffic patterns

[1:34:49] and there are still areas in washington

[1:34:50] county which are being developed

[1:34:53] so what is the urgency for city of tiger

[1:34:55] to implement river terrace 2.0

[1:34:58] their representatives did not attend

[1:35:00] your staff's question and answer session

[1:35:02] so we don't know their motivation

[1:35:06] the proposed extension will greatly

[1:35:08] impact vital forest and wetland areas

[1:35:10] and wildlife habitat

[1:35:12] and in a time when climate change is

[1:35:14] making its effects apparent

[1:35:16] why do we want to trade forest canopy

[1:35:18] and water resources for more concrete

[1:35:21] and asphalt

[1:35:22] thank you very much for the opportunity

[1:35:24] to address the book

[1:35:26] thank you marilyn honest

[1:35:28] yes i'm sorry to have to interrupt you

[1:35:31] and i apologize to everyone who is

[1:35:34] waiting to testify

[1:35:37] i have been informed that our youtube

[1:35:40] broadcast of this meeting

[1:35:43] is

[1:35:44] not

[1:35:45] working properly

[1:35:47] so i have been counseled by county

[1:35:49] council to pause the meeting

[1:35:52] for a moment

[1:35:54] so we can assess what is happening

[1:35:56] while i know completely

[1:35:59] that our video recording

[1:36:02] uh

[1:36:03] is

[1:36:04] for streaming video continues to work

[1:36:08] i just need us to pause for a moment so

[1:36:11] that our team has the opportunity to

[1:36:13] investigate

[1:36:16] yes commissioner rogers yeah man i'm

[1:36:18] sure i completely agree with you could

[1:36:20] we also just take a five minute break

[1:36:21] we've been going at it and i need to uh

[1:36:24] kind of go off camera for me

[1:36:26] yes

[1:36:27] um i would suggest we uh take a break

[1:36:31] until 8 15

[1:36:33] if possible that gives you a little bit

[1:36:35] longer than five good yeah okay

[1:36:46] in the process of the public hearing

[1:36:49] for

[1:36:51] our

[1:36:52] ordinance a engrossed ordinance 882

[1:36:55] agenda item e1

[1:36:58] so i'd like to turn it back to our board

[1:37:01] clerk ms niola to see where we're at

[1:37:04] with folks who wish to testify during

[1:37:07] this evening's public hearing the public

[1:37:09] hearing is still open

[1:37:12] thank you next we have anna maria ponzi

[1:37:15] anna

[1:37:16] thank you good evening commissioners

[1:37:18] thank you for this opportunity um i want

[1:37:20] to first agree

[1:37:21] with everyone who's already testified

[1:37:23] this evening with their concerns and i

[1:37:25] too oppose this ordinance

[1:37:28] i also want to note that despite my

[1:37:30] repeated requests i have yet to receive

[1:37:32] any information directly from the county

[1:37:35] on this initiative including the recent

[1:37:37] july 13th q a meeting

[1:37:40] and like chair harrington i also find

[1:37:42] the maps and this information very big

[1:37:45] confusing and unclear over my 50 years

[1:37:49] i've witnessed the the encroachment of

[1:37:51] the never ending development near our

[1:37:52] property off of vandermost road

[1:37:54] decades ago when our family established

[1:37:57] one of the state's first wineries we

[1:37:59] helped to protect our region's

[1:38:00] agricultural industry

[1:38:02] through state land use laws including

[1:38:04] and most importantly the adoption of the

[1:38:06] ugb

[1:38:07] it's therefore incredibly disappointing

[1:38:10] to see how this once precious boundary

[1:38:12] seems to be so easily adjusted devaluing

[1:38:15] its original intent

[1:38:17] had it been respected in coordination

[1:38:19] with responsible planning any

[1:38:20] infrastructure should have come prior or

[1:38:23] at minimum hand in hand with the

[1:38:25] proposed housing

[1:38:26] instead now we seek a band-aid approach

[1:38:29] to support the overwhelming development

[1:38:31] somehow now realizing

[1:38:33] that housing means more cars

[1:38:35] we got it wrong and that being said i

[1:38:38] struggle to now see how extending a road

[1:38:40] along another road will avoid congestion

[1:38:43] this proposal only offers a temporary

[1:38:45] solution as i believe the only real way

[1:38:47] to alleviate congestion is

[1:38:50] looking at the development and that

[1:38:51] creates it

[1:38:53] we've already seen the result of

[1:38:54] increased traffic on current connecting

[1:38:56] roadways from urban areas through

[1:38:58] farmland accidents have increased human

[1:39:00] life has been sacrificed with fast-paced

[1:39:02] commuters likewise the roads have become

[1:39:04] increasingly dangerous for the local

[1:39:06] farmers there's also the continued

[1:39:08] concern of not having adequate bike

[1:39:10] lanes which will provide security to

[1:39:12] urban cyclists who misjudge the volume

[1:39:14] and the speed of the vehicles

[1:39:16] so i'd like to know what the master plan

[1:39:18] is i'd like to know how it ends and if

[1:39:20] we don't respect boundaries how can

[1:39:22] property owners like tanya ever feel

[1:39:24] confident in making future decisions

[1:39:26] this ordinance demonstrates how

[1:39:28] boundaries may change again and again at

[1:39:30] any moment

[1:39:32] i hope that the commission will

[1:39:33] reconsider to push this

[1:39:36] just pushing out the urban footprint and

[1:39:38] instead urge them to look at more

[1:39:40] progressive longer-range planning and

[1:39:43] seek a more responsible approach to

[1:39:44] meeting both future future housing and

[1:39:46] agricultural needs thank you

[1:39:49] thank you anna

[1:39:51] next i'm going to call on brett he is

[1:39:54] representing 1 000 friends of oregon and

[1:39:56] should receive five minutes to speak

[1:39:59] hi can you hear me

[1:40:00] yes

[1:40:01] oh my gosh i did not realize i was gonna

[1:40:03] get five minutes um thank you border

[1:40:05] commission for the opportunity to speak

[1:40:06] before you today for the record my name

[1:40:08] is brett morgan and i work for 1 000

[1:40:10] friends of oregon as our transportation

[1:40:13] and great communities advocate

[1:40:15] um as you all might be aware too a

[1:40:17] thousand friends has been tracking and

[1:40:18] working on issues like ordinance 882 for

[1:40:21] over 50 years through the urban growth

[1:40:22] boundary system and the land use system

[1:40:24] be pioneered here in oregon and i think

[1:40:27] many of the comments we have heard today

[1:40:28] speak true to some of the conversations

[1:40:30] and the way that the land use system is

[1:40:32] supposed to allow for conversations to

[1:40:34] be facilitated between urban or those

[1:40:36] folks within the urban growth boundary

[1:40:38] and those outside and what the

[1:40:39] trade-offs we make when we make

[1:40:40] decisions

[1:40:42] if you haven't had the opportunity to

[1:40:44] i'd like to direct you to the written

[1:40:46] comments that we provided to the board i

[1:40:48] believe yesterday which detail in more

[1:40:50] detail than i can uh and with a legal

[1:40:52] framework uh as well

[1:40:54] uh specifically to ordinance 882 and i

[1:40:57] want to call out two things that are in

[1:40:58] the testimony itself one um as other

[1:41:02] folks have hinted that is an exception

[1:41:03] being made for this land use goal

[1:41:06] there's a goal land use exception being

[1:41:07] made

[1:41:08] but we find that in the appendix and

[1:41:10] when it is further explained why we're

[1:41:12] pursuing a unique and limited

[1:41:13] circumstance for why we would

[1:41:16] make this land useful exception uh the

[1:41:18] point is conductivity throughout the

[1:41:20] roads and uh desire to limit congestion

[1:41:23] on the roads but these are pretty

[1:41:25] generic and somewhat dubious grounds we

[1:41:27] consider to basically land use exception

[1:41:30] and place a goal exception and we

[1:41:32] continue to have concerns that if this

[1:41:34] is the logic that we're using to justify

[1:41:36] for this specific project uh it could be

[1:41:38] used in multiple other instances and

[1:41:40] used to degrade and break up farmland

[1:41:43] and expand outside of farmland

[1:41:46] i'd also like to make uh light of the

[1:41:48] second thing mentioned in our letter and

[1:41:49] other folks have made light as well this

[1:41:52] uh tsp amendment is largely dependent on

[1:41:54] a ugb land swap that has not happened

[1:41:56] before and is a new process

[1:41:58] um and i would also like to argue the

[1:42:00] point that we're making reliance and

[1:42:01] assumptions on who will pay for this

[1:42:03] road potentially in the future without

[1:42:05] the certainty of the current land use

[1:42:07] system in the in the ugb swap nor the

[1:42:10] understanding of who might those payers

[1:42:11] be in the

[1:42:12] future the next point i'd like to make

[1:42:14] is really a framing of how i look at

[1:42:16] this issue and it really is around

[1:42:18] burdens and benefits and who those are

[1:42:20] being placed upon and it's pretty clear

[1:42:22] that ordinance 882 is largely for the

[1:42:25] benefits of folks living within the

[1:42:26] urban growth boundaries to the detriment

[1:42:28] of those living outside the urban growth

[1:42:30] boundaries you've heard multiple pieces

[1:42:32] of testimony today from farmers

[1:42:33] concerned citizens people who own land

[1:42:36] uh all variety of folks who all all

[1:42:38] pointed out the fact that this road and

[1:42:39] this connection to ordinance 883 i would

[1:42:42] again stipulate that these two

[1:42:43] ordinances are very much connected and

[1:42:45] one is dependent on the other for the to

[1:42:47] really be effective and to reach the

[1:42:48] goals that you are

[1:42:50] moving towards but um the the

[1:42:52] construction of the movement towards 882

[1:42:54] and the construction of the road

[1:42:55] eventually will degrade farmland split

[1:42:57] up farmland and really limit their

[1:42:59] ability of our uh region and our county

[1:43:01] moving forward uh to

[1:43:04] keep working lands in working option

[1:43:07] um i'd like to close out that i caught i

[1:43:09] constantly hear in in meetings around

[1:43:11] the region and clackamas county

[1:43:13] multnomah county benton county that uh

[1:43:15] policymakers often feel constrained by

[1:43:18] decision maker by the decisions of past

[1:43:20] decision makers and that things like a

[1:43:22] tsp amendment while seeming innocuous

[1:43:24] now will greatly affect then shape the

[1:43:27] decision making of future policy makers

[1:43:29] that will come after you and for the

[1:43:31] many reasons you've heard today if

[1:43:33] you're feeling uncertain about this

[1:43:34] measure and feel like maybe you don't

[1:43:36] have all the facts or we don't maybe

[1:43:38] need at this time you can certainly add

[1:43:39] this to the tsb at any moment going

[1:43:41] forward or work towards that goal but if

[1:43:43] you don't feel like you have sufficient

[1:43:45] grounds right now to do that you don't

[1:43:47] have to pass this ordinance there's no

[1:43:48] requirement pushing that forward

[1:43:52] closing out too i would also like to

[1:43:53] make light that we're in a heat dome and

[1:43:55] that automotive transportation and the

[1:43:57] road and infrastructure that we're

[1:43:58] describing and talking about in ordnance

[1:44:00] 882 and an 883 really are automotive

[1:44:03] road infrastructure that will have a

[1:44:05] climate impact and will contribute to

[1:44:07] heat domes and other uh extreme weather

[1:44:09] phenomenon like we're currently

[1:44:10] experiencing so with that in light and

[1:44:12] kind of taking into the context of this

[1:44:14] entire meeting uh we 1 thousand friends

[1:44:16] of oregon strongly urges you to oppose

[1:44:18] ordinance 882 and it's connected to

[1:44:20] measure 883 thank you

[1:44:23] thank you brett those are all the people

[1:44:25] that i have listed that signed up for

[1:44:28] the public hearing is there anyone else

[1:44:31] that would like to speak that has not

[1:44:32] been called

[1:44:35] please raise your hand

[1:44:39] i see no one else chair

[1:44:43] thank you ms niola and with that i will

[1:44:46] close the public hearing for a engrossed

[1:44:49] ordinance 882

[1:44:53] mr carr i have a couple of questions

[1:44:57] should

[1:44:58] is it appropriate for me to ask them now

[1:45:00] or should i hold them until

[1:45:03] we have another public hearing on august

[1:45:06] 2nd

[1:45:07] once we

[1:45:08] record that you are required to have

[1:45:10] another public hearing so

[1:45:12] it's your preference we're happy to

[1:45:13] answer any questions that chair or any

[1:45:15] of the other commissioners have

[1:45:17] but we will have another hearing on

[1:45:19] august 2nd

[1:45:20] commissioners i would i would like to uh

[1:45:24] ask the courtesy of asking a couple of

[1:45:26] questions tonight

[1:45:28] uh if that's okay with you okay and but

[1:45:31] first do any of you have questions you

[1:45:33] can certainly go first i have no problem

[1:45:36] with that

[1:45:38] go ahead commissioner rogers just just a

[1:45:40] couple of comments uh and questions uh

[1:45:43] the

[1:45:44] comments are that uh

[1:45:47] if the staff presentations are correct

[1:45:50] in regard and i suspect that they are

[1:45:52] aaron and what you've done

[1:45:53] in terms of

[1:45:55] timing

[1:45:56] uh frankly this road may not ever be

[1:45:58] built

[1:45:59] uh

[1:46:00] in time for anybody who's viewing this

[1:46:02] tonight or anyone on this call to ever

[1:46:04] see it

[1:46:05] if you're talking out

[1:46:06] 40 50 60 years and so

[1:46:09] one of the dilemmas that i have and

[1:46:12] being one board member is that uh

[1:46:15] you know you're you're looking at the

[1:46:16] future you're trying to say what's it

[1:46:18] going to look at like and that's very

[1:46:20] difficult

[1:46:21] so that's my comment my questions are

[1:46:23] these is one the

[1:46:25] the urgency i i don't know i do know

[1:46:27] that river terrace

[1:46:30] if they only have one outlet that's

[1:46:31] under roy rogers road that's not the

[1:46:33] best alternative they need some way out

[1:46:36] i i guess i don't have a firm grasp on

[1:46:38] what it would look like as you go to

[1:46:40] tile flat and all of that but

[1:46:42] to me getting out of that area over to

[1:46:44] shoals ferry is pretty important so

[1:46:47] i i regret that's going to affect some

[1:46:50] really

[1:46:52] fine businesses like ponzi and other

[1:46:55] groups but maybe there's some way to

[1:46:57] engineer it so that doesn't happen i

[1:46:58] mean i don't i don't know that

[1:47:00] but i would like

[1:47:02] you to recover

[1:47:04] your ground aaron at some points and

[1:47:05] explain how this is done that

[1:47:08] this board

[1:47:10] is not the decision maker in regard to

[1:47:12] the ugba expansion

[1:47:14] we're not uh it's uh city of tiger has

[1:47:17] requested certain things we

[1:47:19] have a network of streets or ours or

[1:47:21] roads and we're trying to

[1:47:23] make a circulation

[1:47:25] pattern that makes some sense not only

[1:47:27] for

[1:47:28] 2022 but for

[1:47:30] 2072

[1:47:32] and so

[1:47:34] that's a hard thing to do but at some

[1:47:36] point you may want to revisit that and

[1:47:38] you also may want to

[1:47:39] revisit the urgency

[1:47:41] and the urgency isn't when you need

[1:47:43] something it's in the planning because

[1:47:44] things happen and we get that this is

[1:47:46] this is the hard stuff i mean it's never

[1:47:47] fun it's the hard stuff so

[1:47:50] my questions are can you recover that

[1:47:52] maybe not tonight but at least at the

[1:47:54] next meeting and have prepared for those

[1:47:57] kinds of questions that's my comments

[1:47:59] and my question

[1:48:03] we can certainly do that for the next

[1:48:04] hearing um i can also address it now if

[1:48:07] you'd prefer to hear

[1:48:08] a little bit more about that at this

[1:48:10] time

[1:48:12] go ahead okay

[1:48:13] so the um the decision to expand the

[1:48:16] urban growth boundary as you said did

[1:48:19] come from the city of tigard the way

[1:48:20] that portland metro has laid out the

[1:48:22] process in order to do an urban growth

[1:48:23] boundary expansion a city has to meet

[1:48:26] the concept plan requirements that are

[1:48:28] established by metro's rules

[1:48:31] city of tiger did that and they made

[1:48:32] that request to metro as a part of the

[1:48:35] 2021

[1:48:37] mid-cycle ugb adjustment and that's also

[1:48:40] a new process

[1:48:42] metro established the mid-cycle i want

[1:48:44] to say as a part of the 2018 urban

[1:48:46] growth boundary expansion i'm looking at

[1:48:48] chair harrington i know she'll remember

[1:48:50] this i believe as a part of the 2018

[1:48:52] cycle they established the mid-cycle and

[1:48:54] that allowed them to revisit the urban

[1:48:56] growth boundary within a three-year time

[1:48:58] period rather than waiting the usual six

[1:49:00] years so 2021 would have been the first

[1:49:04] mid-year opportunity

[1:49:06] when metro looked at tigard's

[1:49:09] application

[1:49:11] they determined that due to or metro co

[1:49:14] looked at it's a still staff review not

[1:49:15] metro council review so staff looked at

[1:49:17] it evaluated it technically and

[1:49:20] determined that it was a concept plan

[1:49:22] that met the requirements but they

[1:49:24] determined that rather than do the

[1:49:26] mid-cycle adjustment which required a

[1:49:29] statement of need for expanding it it

[1:49:31] made more sense at this time to do the

[1:49:34] land swap approach and this has not been

[1:49:36] done in metro yet but it is a set of

[1:49:39] rules that are established by state

[1:49:41] statute and other mpos within the state

[1:49:43] can follow this process as well it's

[1:49:45] just the first time that metro is doing

[1:49:46] it

[1:49:47] and so as a part of that they need to do

[1:49:49] a technical analysis to find where the

[1:49:51] land can come from and that's the piece

[1:49:53] that they haven't finished yet so metro

[1:49:55] staff are currently doing the technical

[1:49:57] work that will lead them to identify

[1:50:00] what land could be identified

[1:50:02] already within the urban growth boundary

[1:50:05] my understanding from metro staff is

[1:50:07] that that land would then become urban

[1:50:09] reserve and would replace this land

[1:50:11] which would then come into the urban

[1:50:13] growth boundary

[1:50:14] so i believe this is all still being

[1:50:17] determined

[1:50:18] right now and so we'll see how this

[1:50:20] plays out

[1:50:21] metro council has not yet weighed in and

[1:50:23] shown their preference for if they would

[1:50:25] like to do this

[1:50:26] i do think that it's important to keep

[1:50:28] two things in mind first of all that the

[1:50:30] county doesn't get to make this decision

[1:50:32] at all we're a part of it we have

[1:50:34] conversations our city partners and with

[1:50:35] metro but they're the ones who make

[1:50:37] these decisions

[1:50:38] we end up in a a bit of a reactionary

[1:50:41] position when these happen and as the

[1:50:43] transportation provider we find it's

[1:50:46] important for us to consider what we

[1:50:48] need out of our transportation system so

[1:50:50] that we can continue to provide a

[1:50:52] connected multimodal system

[1:50:54] and then the second thing i think is

[1:50:56] important to keep in mind is that we

[1:50:57] identified the need for this collector

[1:51:00] facility before we knew that tigrid was

[1:51:02] going to ask to add it to the urban

[1:51:04] growth boundary so while it is more

[1:51:06] likely to be built if this land does

[1:51:09] come into the urban growth boundary and

[1:51:10] start developing and needing a

[1:51:12] transportation network at which time

[1:51:14] development would probably build part

[1:51:16] most of it may be

[1:51:18] we identified the need before we knew

[1:51:20] that part of it so there's a couple of

[1:51:21] different moving technical analysis

[1:51:24] pieces happening and when we come back

[1:51:26] next week we can be prepared to address

[1:51:28] this again

[1:51:34] thank you uh commissioner rogers and ms

[1:51:37] wardell commissioner vice chair willie

[1:51:39] how about you

[1:51:41] yeah thank you very much aaron that um

[1:51:44] i was

[1:51:45] anticipating that i'm gonna need to have

[1:51:47] just a little bit more conversation with

[1:51:49] you but that was a great explanation

[1:51:52] and i think

[1:51:53] from my standpoint

[1:51:55] i'd love to hear a little bit more about

[1:51:58] this whole process

[1:52:00] i heard the testimonies tonight

[1:52:03] and i understand that i

[1:52:06] travel that area a lot because my

[1:52:10] family lives in sherwood

[1:52:12] so i i go there um but i yeah i wanted

[1:52:15] to have a better understanding of this

[1:52:17] and i certainly understand the concerns

[1:52:20] that we heard tonight uh from the

[1:52:22] testimony so i will reach out aaron just

[1:52:24] ask for maybe 15 minutes to understand

[1:52:27] the land swap part of it because i don't

[1:52:30] get that so anyway thank you for that

[1:52:36] to use your phraseology vice chair

[1:52:39] willie i don't get it either it's

[1:52:42] it's new for all of us

[1:52:44] uh you know as as ms wardell uh

[1:52:47] mentioned it is an aspect of land use

[1:52:51] that the state allows

[1:52:53] but metro uh has never utilized it

[1:52:58] so we have no basis of explanation

[1:53:02] and i know i haven't invested any time

[1:53:05] in looking

[1:53:06] at any

[1:53:08] recent past information for the metro

[1:53:12] council that describes it either so uh

[1:53:16] we're all on the same learning

[1:53:18] journey you're not alone

[1:53:21] believe me

[1:53:23] commissioner fine do you have any

[1:53:24] questions at this juncture

[1:53:27] no okay

[1:53:28] um

[1:53:29] so um

[1:53:32] uh thank you ms wardell for speaking

[1:53:35] about the

[1:53:37] mid-cycle ugb expansion request that the

[1:53:41] city of tigard

[1:53:44] submitted and

[1:53:45] since they submitted that

[1:53:48] came this

[1:53:50] new idea of the ugb land swap

[1:53:54] and thank you for your comments on that

[1:53:57] so that uh i understand how there is the

[1:54:01] potential

[1:54:03] for

[1:54:03] such a thing to swap out

[1:54:07] urban reserve existing urban reserve

[1:54:10] land

[1:54:12] with

[1:54:12] land already in the urban growth

[1:54:15] boundary elsewhere and as a former metro

[1:54:18] councillor

[1:54:19] and

[1:54:21] before me

[1:54:23] uh

[1:54:24] lived with the decision back to

[1:54:27] the 2002 ugb expansion that was

[1:54:31] still which was done using the soil

[1:54:35] classification

[1:54:36] hierarchy where there is land out in the

[1:54:39] damascus area that is in the urban

[1:54:42] growth boundary

[1:54:44] but doesn't seem to be in any rush for

[1:54:47] urbanization so that could be some of

[1:54:49] the land that they're looking at but

[1:54:52] there may be others as well

[1:54:55] so thank you for

[1:54:56] clarifying that uh for me um i just have

[1:55:00] a couple of questions and i don't need

[1:55:02] the answer now laters just later such as

[1:55:05] with the august 2nd

[1:55:08] public hearing if you could

[1:55:10] once again provide

[1:55:12] a presentation for us because i think

[1:55:15] that helps all of us

[1:55:17] um

[1:55:19] so uh

[1:55:21] i remember

[1:55:22] the history of adopting er

[1:55:25] urban and rural reserves right and all

[1:55:28] the remands that were involved with that

[1:55:30] and court of appeals

[1:55:32] the uh what i don't remember is the time

[1:55:35] frame by which

[1:55:37] the area

[1:55:38] and if i look at um

[1:55:42] slide number

[1:55:43] oops

[1:55:45] two three four five slide number five oh

[1:55:47] there it is

[1:55:49] um

[1:55:50] there was a time

[1:55:52] i think

[1:55:54] when the land

[1:55:57] south of shoals ferry road but west

[1:56:00] of that

[1:56:02] uh upper blue urban reserve

[1:56:05] might have been in rural reserve

[1:56:08] and uh

[1:56:11] i don't know when

[1:56:13] that little brown area

[1:56:15] right at the top of

[1:56:18] shoals ferry road and tile flat road was

[1:56:22] made

[1:56:23] rural no reserve to use your

[1:56:25] nomenclature what i used to call

[1:56:28] undesignated rural undesignated

[1:56:31] so if you could clarify for me

[1:56:34] now if you know it but certainly august

[1:56:36] 2nd that would be awesome

[1:56:40] when that uh had that status

[1:56:44] then uh the other questions that i have

[1:56:48] is is

[1:56:50] if we

[1:56:51] go through this process

[1:56:53] uh with this ordinance and the county

[1:56:56] tsp is adopted

[1:57:01] it's my understanding

[1:57:04] that

[1:57:07] for the urban reserve areas so the areas

[1:57:10] in blue

[1:57:11] there can be

[1:57:13] through the planning process

[1:57:15] right with development

[1:57:18] that

[1:57:20] right-of-way purchases could be

[1:57:22] made for that or there could be

[1:57:26] conditions on the development as

[1:57:29] you talked about in the packet material

[1:57:35] so it sounds like i got that part right

[1:57:37] so far

[1:57:38] okay

[1:57:39] um

[1:57:40] but my question is for

[1:57:43] that area that is

[1:57:46] rural

[1:57:47] no reserve

[1:57:49] if if

[1:57:53] if the

[1:57:56] if we don't

[1:57:58] adopt the ordinance now

[1:58:01] or in current time

[1:58:04] uh

[1:58:06] well what am i trying to get at

[1:58:09] what i'm really trying to understand is

[1:58:12] that

[1:58:14] uh

[1:58:15] for

[1:58:16] that hatched area in the

[1:58:18] brown part

[1:58:22] we can't just

[1:58:24] purchase

[1:58:26] that property or purchase the

[1:58:28] right-of-way needs to put that road in

[1:58:32] such an area without

[1:58:35] further public process and property

[1:58:38] owner engagement and willingness and all

[1:58:41] that right adding the line to our plan

[1:58:44] allows us to acquire right-of-way and

[1:58:46] construct the road so adding it to our

[1:58:49] plan at this time would allow us to do

[1:58:50] that

[1:58:52] it would be unlikely to be done as a

[1:58:54] part of development not not impossible

[1:58:56] but unlikely because it is rural

[1:58:58] undesignated or rural no reserve um but

[1:59:01] it would be possible for that to happen

[1:59:04] we could have some development within

[1:59:06] the what's now the urban reserve area

[1:59:08] even contribute towards that

[1:59:10] extra territorial kind of improvement

[1:59:13] because it'll be in our plan we'll know

[1:59:15] it's an improvement that we're trying to

[1:59:16] achieve and we'll have the ability to do

[1:59:18] that

[1:59:20] okay thank you

[1:59:21] um then the the last question i have is

[1:59:26] so

[1:59:28] i'm

[1:59:28] a frankly i'll just i am

[1:59:30] a little bit bothered by the fact that

[1:59:34] some people seem to think that

[1:59:36] this tsp is being done in response

[1:59:40] to the city of

[1:59:42] tigards mid-cycle ugb expansion request

[1:59:47] when

[1:59:48] this is

[1:59:49] a

[1:59:50] tsp

[1:59:52] amendment idea that has been around for

[1:59:56] quite well since the

[1:59:58] the development of an adoption of those

[2:00:01] urban reserves

[2:00:03] um so my question the question i'm

[2:00:06] trying to get at is

[2:00:08] uh i understand that we have another

[2:00:11] public hearing on

[2:00:13] april 2nd

[2:00:15] but could we just as easily delay

[2:00:19] action on

[2:00:22] a decision on that until

[2:00:24] after

[2:00:26] the metro council has had the

[2:00:28] opportunity to to decide if they want to

[2:00:31] entertain a land swap

[2:00:33] and or after they decide if they even

[2:00:37] want to

[2:00:38] grant a mid-cycle ugb expansion request

[2:00:42] as made by the city of tigard

[2:00:46] that would be something the board could

[2:00:48] consider and we would want to consult

[2:00:50] with county council to probably bring

[2:00:52] forward an option for what that could

[2:00:53] look like for the board and how we would

[2:00:55] continue to a date certain

[2:00:57] what that would mean from a technical

[2:00:59] standpoint is that

[2:01:01] if we wait until the land comes into the

[2:01:03] urban growth boundary we no longer need

[2:01:05] the exception analysis for the part that

[2:01:08] is in blue

[2:01:09] and as you said we've been working on

[2:01:11] developing this ordinance and associated

[2:01:13] cooper mountain area ordinances since

[2:01:16] 2015 probably going back to the

[2:01:18] beaverton work that was done

[2:01:20] way before we knew that city of tiger

[2:01:22] would be making this request or even

[2:01:23] that it would be possible for them to

[2:01:24] make a request in the year 2021 so most

[2:01:28] of our technical work predated that we

[2:01:30] worked with city of tigard as they were

[2:01:32] developing their river terrace 2.0

[2:01:34] concept plan and explained our intent

[2:01:36] behind this ordinance and what we would

[2:01:37] like to see we do want to make sure that

[2:01:40] their development has this internal

[2:01:42] collector circulation

[2:01:44] if it is brought into the urban growth

[2:01:46] boundary and if it starts to develop so

[2:01:49] deferring a decision until after we know

[2:01:52] the decision on the urban growth

[2:01:53] boundary is something that the board

[2:01:55] could consider doing

[2:01:57] now the piece that's in undesignated

[2:01:59] just south of tile flat road would still

[2:02:01] need that exceptions analysis and so we

[2:02:03] would likely still need the tsp

[2:02:05] amendment um as we have framed it today

[2:02:08] although with the line work and the text

[2:02:10] reference updated to explain that it's

[2:02:12] now only that that piece of the segment

[2:02:15] um that's outside the urban growth

[2:02:17] boundary so there would be some

[2:02:18] restructuring to the ordinance at that

[2:02:20] time but if the exceptions analysis

[2:02:22] technical work would still need to be

[2:02:24] included in rtsp

[2:02:26] okay okay

[2:02:28] uh i also uh understand that that

[2:02:32] listening session that you had

[2:02:35] on recently on july 13th

[2:02:39] was uh

[2:02:40] regarding

[2:02:41] property owners

[2:02:44] was it for property owners as notified

[2:02:46] just in the blue area or was it for

[2:02:49] property owners in

[2:02:52] that brown area as well up by shoals

[2:02:55] ferry road it was both so we looked at

[2:02:58] the uh corridor the roadway corridor

[2:03:00] which is wide it's 375 feet and then we

[2:03:03] applied a buffer to that additionally

[2:03:05] for the july 13th session we noticed

[2:03:09] everyone who's in the rural reserve area

[2:03:12] who takes access off of van der most

[2:03:14] road because that road would have a

[2:03:16] future intersection with this alignment

[2:03:18] even though the alignment does not go

[2:03:20] into the rural reserve area i believe

[2:03:22] the ponzi vineyard is in the rural

[2:03:24] reserve area for example so not directly

[2:03:26] impacted but included in our invitation

[2:03:29] to that listening session

[2:03:31] and i will say i know we've heard

[2:03:32] testimony tonight from some people

[2:03:34] saying that they didn't know about that

[2:03:35] listening session i did verify that they

[2:03:38] were included in our notice for that and

[2:03:40] we have interacted with those property

[2:03:42] owners in other fashions with other

[2:03:43] meetings and phone calls as well

[2:03:45] and that notification was done through a

[2:03:48] letter it was okay thank you

[2:03:51] okay

[2:03:52] um

[2:03:54] thank you very much i appreciate having

[2:03:56] the opportunity to share my questions

[2:03:58] and even to get uh some answers to that

[2:04:02] this evening thank you very much

[2:04:05] so with that commissioners uh

[2:04:08] where we're at is we

[2:04:10] um

[2:04:11] held our public hearing this evening our

[2:04:15] first public hearing on a engrossed

[2:04:18] ordinance 882 we've also had the

[2:04:21] opportunity for

[2:04:23] some um

[2:04:24] q a with our staff and sharing comments

[2:04:28] with one another

[2:04:29] and at this juncture uh

[2:04:32] i'm looking for a motion to continue the

[2:04:35] public hearing for our second oh excuse

[2:04:38] me tonight was our second public hearing

[2:04:41] but we need to

[2:04:43] continue and have a public hearing next

[2:04:45] tuesday august 2nd

[2:04:49] on this a engrossed ordinance do we have

[2:04:52] such a motion we have a motion from

[2:04:54] commissioner rogers a second from

[2:04:56] commissioner phi all those in favor

[2:04:58] please vote by raising your hand thank

[2:05:00] you commissioners any opposed the motion

[2:05:03] carries unanimously four to zero

[2:05:07] next

[2:05:08] slight slight change of plans

[2:05:12] we had a

[2:05:14] a

[2:05:15] hiccup with regard to accepting

[2:05:19] testimony during our initial public

[2:05:22] comment period someone who was signed up

[2:05:25] was missed so before we move on to our

[2:05:28] second topic for public hearings

[2:05:32] given the passage of the evening i would

[2:05:34] like to ask our board clerk if she could

[2:05:37] please call on that person

[2:05:39] uh and that we would pick back up from

[2:05:42] there

[2:05:43] yes dale are you unmuted

[2:05:46] yes can you hear me anna yes thank you

[2:05:52] hi i'm dale feek forest grove

[2:05:54] district four

[2:05:56] uh

[2:05:58] resident

[2:06:00] chair harrington and and county

[2:06:02] commissioners

[2:06:03] and i i'm

[2:06:04] on i realized that kevin his grandmother

[2:06:07] passed away and there were some problems

[2:06:09] with

[2:06:10] how this all worked for me to not

[2:06:13] to make public comment now instead of at

[2:06:15] the beginning of the meeting

[2:06:16] personally i want to thank you

[2:06:18] commissioner pam trees even though she's

[2:06:20] on vacation

[2:06:21] for writing the attached document that i

[2:06:24] sent to an email titled statement on

[2:06:26] overturning of roe versus wade at the

[2:06:30] waiting county board of commission

[2:06:31] meeting july 12th

[2:06:33] i also want to thank you madam chair

[2:06:35] harrington and commissioner nafisa phi

[2:06:38] for also signing it

[2:06:40] i appreciate the honoring of each

[2:06:43] person's personal belief systems when

[2:06:45] you commissioner roy rogers and

[2:06:47] commissioner jerry willey decided not to

[2:06:49] sign it

[2:06:51] as commissioner tree said

[2:06:53] this is not a letter but a statement

[2:06:56] the beginning sentence reads we are

[2:06:58] dismayed and frustrated by our u.s

[2:07:00] supreme court

[2:07:02] has chosen disregard nearly 50 years of

[2:07:04] legal precedent protecting the right to

[2:07:06] abortion in this country

[2:07:08] then she goes on and i'm asking you and

[2:07:11] writing to please review what she

[2:07:13] wrote to you

[2:07:14] and i copied it and pasted the email

[2:07:16] that i sent to you

[2:07:18] and i also sent my email i doubt that

[2:07:20] the attached document titled women die

[2:07:23] and that's pro-life

[2:07:25] by nick kristoff will change your minds

[2:07:28] commissioners rogers and willie but

[2:07:30] please consider reading it

[2:07:33] so that

[2:07:34] that's statement one and statement two

[2:07:37] is has to do with an email i sent to to

[2:07:40] the environment equality commissioners

[2:07:42] about

[2:07:43] director richard whitman uh retiring at

[2:07:46] the end of december as the director of

[2:07:48] deq

[2:07:49] i'm so impressed with what he's done and

[2:07:51] changing the culture and how he's really

[2:07:55] helped fulfill the mission of deq

[2:07:57] thank you for letting me uh make my

[2:07:59] comment now instead of wait at the end

[2:08:01] of the meeting thank you

[2:08:02] thank you dale

[2:08:05] thank you ms knight i appreciate that

[2:08:08] next we'll move on to our second public

[2:08:12] hearing topic of the

[2:08:14] evening and this is regarding ordinance

[2:08:16] 888 and i would ask mr carr if he could

[2:08:21] well first i would ask the commission if

[2:08:23] we could have

[2:08:24] a motion to read ordinance 888 by title

[2:08:28] only

[2:08:29] we have a motion from commissioner phi a

[2:08:31] second from commissioner rogers all

[2:08:33] those in favor please vote by raising

[2:08:35] your hand

[2:08:36] thank you commissioners and he opposed

[2:08:39] the motion carries unanimously four to

[2:08:41] zero mr carr could you please read the

[2:08:44] ordinance by title only

[2:08:46] of course chair harrington ordinance 888

[2:08:48] an ordinance declaring a temporary ban

[2:08:50] on certain psilocybin businesses and

[2:08:51] declaring an emergency

[2:08:54] and i will uh be the lead presenter on

[2:08:56] this so if it's okay with you chair

[2:08:58] harrington i will proceed

[2:08:59] uh good evening commissioners

[2:09:02] good evening commissioners we have an

[2:09:03] all-star team here to help you uh work

[2:09:05] through this tonight we have stephen

[2:09:07] roberts uh and teresa cherniak and todd

[2:09:10] woods from uh lut and we have

[2:09:12] mira samantha from hhs and rob bovet

[2:09:16] from my office

[2:09:17] to walk us through but i will uh lead

[2:09:20] off the presentation now if we could go

[2:09:23] to the next slide please

[2:09:27] so this is a background on measure 109

[2:09:29] as you know it was passed in november

[2:09:31] 2020 it legalized license and regulated

[2:09:34] manufacturing transportation delivery

[2:09:36] sale and purchase of psilocybin products

[2:09:38] and the provision of psilocybin services

[2:09:40] in oregon it is similar to but different

[2:09:43] than the marijuana legalization measures

[2:09:45] it was approved by 59 of the voters in

[2:09:47] washington county uh with only 56

[2:09:50] percent statewide

[2:09:51] uh oh the off the oregon health

[2:09:54] authority has completed some rules we're

[2:09:56] making however rules for citing an

[2:09:58] operation of psilocybin businesses have

[2:10:00] not been drafted we expect completion by

[2:10:02] the end of the year

[2:10:04] on january 2nd 2023 the oha will be

[2:10:08] required to begin accepting license

[2:10:10] applications including for businesses to

[2:10:11] manufacture tests in the minister's

[2:10:13] assignment

[2:10:15] the ordinance the measure does allow for

[2:10:18] local jurisdictions

[2:10:19] to pass an ordinance

[2:10:21] banning uh the psilocybin activities in

[2:10:24] their jurisdiction

[2:10:26] if you pass that ordinance then uh oha

[2:10:29] is notified that uh they are not to

[2:10:31] issue any licenses in that jurisdiction

[2:10:34] the

[2:10:35] measure also requires that any such

[2:10:36] ordinance must be referred to the voters

[2:10:39] at the next general election which in

[2:10:41] this case would be the november 2022

[2:10:44] election next slide please

[2:10:48] so this is a background you're very

[2:10:50] familiar with on july 12th we had a work

[2:10:52] session where the board provided some

[2:10:54] direction to us to go ahead and pass

[2:10:56] prepare an ordinance the board had first

[2:10:58] reading of that ordinance on july 19th

[2:11:02] uh next slide please

[2:11:07] so i want to turn it over to ms samantha

[2:11:09] who can talk a little bit about the

[2:11:10] health policy impacts

[2:11:13] all right uh thank you mr carr uh for

[2:11:15] the record again my name is marissa

[2:11:17] mantle i'm the interim director of

[2:11:18] health and human services here with

[2:11:20] washington county

[2:11:21] um so as tom did a great job reviewing

[2:11:24] measure 109 and noting the prior board

[2:11:27] consideration of the work session on

[2:11:28] july 12 and the first reading of

[2:11:30] ordinance 888 on july 19th so just a

[2:11:34] brief high-level review of the policy

[2:11:36] context for psilocybin services as

[2:11:38] stated in measure 109 a key purpose to

[2:11:41] legalize psilocybin services in oregon

[2:11:44] is to expand therapeutic options for

[2:11:46] mental illness among adults and improve

[2:11:49] the physical mental and social

[2:11:51] well-being of all oregonians

[2:11:53] psilocybin is a psychedelic substance

[2:11:55] that has been used for medicinal and

[2:11:57] religious purposes throughout history

[2:11:59] and preliminary evidence from small

[2:12:01] clinical studies indicates that

[2:12:03] psilocybin may be effective and safe for

[2:12:06] the treatment of some mental health

[2:12:07] conditions in controlled settings and

[2:12:09] among select participants

[2:12:11] measure 109 created the oregon

[2:12:13] psilocybin advisory board which was

[2:12:15] charged with advisory in the organ

[2:12:17] advising the oregon health authority

[2:12:19] regarding the safety and efficacy of

[2:12:21] psilocybin in treating mental health

[2:12:23] conditions a research subcommittee of

[2:12:26] the oregon psilocybin advisory board was

[2:12:29] tasked with a literature review for this

[2:12:30] purpose and provided recommendations

[2:12:33] the evidence review by the subcommittee

[2:12:35] cited that psilocybin may be effective

[2:12:38] in reducing sub some substance use

[2:12:40] disorders including problematic alcohol

[2:12:43] and tobacco use and addiction was not

[2:12:45] listed as one of the risks cited in the

[2:12:48] rapid evidence review by the org and by

[2:12:51] the opab

[2:12:53] all right next slide please

[2:12:56] i think teresa cherniak is going to take

[2:12:58] this one from that mistake

[2:13:00] thank you tom

[2:13:01] um

[2:13:02] so after january of this year the oregon

[2:13:05] health authority will begin accepting

[2:13:07] applications for licenses that will

[2:13:09] allow new types of land uses

[2:13:12] including psilocybin manufacturing which

[2:13:15] will need to

[2:13:16] happen indoors where the mushrooms to

[2:13:19] make psilocybin will be grown and

[2:13:21] processed

[2:13:22] the psilocybin service centers which are

[2:13:24] the establishments where psilocybin will

[2:13:26] be administered to clients and then the

[2:13:29] testing facilities

[2:13:32] where there's a new unique type of a

[2:13:34] land use like these usually land use and

[2:13:36] transportation staff first determine

[2:13:39] whether it's like another use

[2:13:41] and if not we undertake process to amend

[2:13:45] the community development code

[2:13:47] considering where the new uses might be

[2:13:49] most appropriate and where they might

[2:13:51] not be appropriate

[2:13:53] for instance with psilocybin service

[2:13:55] centers

[2:13:56] we would consider whether they should be

[2:13:57] allowed in residential areas and some

[2:14:00] rural districts

[2:14:02] we'd also then consider whether there

[2:14:04] might be some appropriate standards to

[2:14:06] address any possible impacts from the

[2:14:08] use

[2:14:09] these might include things like distance

[2:14:11] from sensitive schools or sensitive uses

[2:14:14] like schools or other psilocybin

[2:14:16] businesses

[2:14:18] requirements say for fencing of any

[2:14:20] outdoor areas

[2:14:22] security requirements or hours of

[2:14:24] operation and then we'd consider what

[2:14:27] type of land use review is appropriate

[2:14:30] for instance whether the uses were

[2:14:31] allowed outright

[2:14:33] or needed a land use permit

[2:14:36] this is the approach that we took on

[2:14:38] marijuana business regulations

[2:14:40] which are included in our community

[2:14:42] development code now and it would be the

[2:14:44] clearest and most transparent approach

[2:14:46] on the land use side of psilocybin

[2:14:48] businesses

[2:14:50] typically we don't develop our

[2:14:52] regulations until state rule making is

[2:14:54] complete

[2:14:55] since the rulemaking often will address

[2:14:58] the various items we might include in

[2:15:00] our regulations

[2:15:01] so we take our cues from the rules and

[2:15:04] we we don't want to be inconsistent with

[2:15:06] what the rules end up being because the

[2:15:08] state hasn't yet started their

[2:15:10] rulemaking for the service centers in

[2:15:12] particular we haven't started developing

[2:15:14] any local regulations

[2:15:17] and that actually was not yet included

[2:15:19] in our work program

[2:15:21] next slide please

[2:15:24] a few of the things that we do know now

[2:15:26] that have land use implications

[2:15:28] one is that the measure was unclear

[2:15:30] about whether psilocybin businesses are

[2:15:32] allowed in residential districts in the

[2:15:35] unincorporated area it is clear about

[2:15:37] cities

[2:15:39] and the measure does say they aren't

[2:15:40] allowed in a primary residence

[2:15:42] but this would be likely one of those

[2:15:44] items in our regulations to make clear

[2:15:47] whether the businesses would be allowed

[2:15:49] in residential districts

[2:15:51] another is that the measure is that the

[2:15:53] measure does allow reasonable time place

[2:15:55] and manner regulations so again things

[2:15:58] like where the uses are allowed and any

[2:16:00] standards for operation

[2:16:02] some of these are included in the

[2:16:04] measure but others are likely to be

[2:16:06] developed through the rule making

[2:16:09] and in a similar way when the

[2:16:11] recreational marijuana measure passed

[2:16:13] some years ago the county did determine

[2:16:15] that some time place and mana

[2:16:17] regulations were needed

[2:16:19] and implemented a temporary ban while

[2:16:22] the organ sorry

[2:16:24] while the regulations were developed and

[2:16:26] adopted

[2:16:27] also similar to the marijuana uses the

[2:16:29] measure requires us to provide a land

[2:16:31] use compatibility statement or lux

[2:16:34] for all of the psilocybin-related

[2:16:37] license applications

[2:16:39] when we fill out a lux we're certifying

[2:16:41] whether the use is allowed in the

[2:16:43] proposed location and whether there's a

[2:16:45] required permit process

[2:16:48] without local definitions and time place

[2:16:50] and mana regulations there could be

[2:16:52] confusion over whether the uses are

[2:16:54] allowed in different areas and potential

[2:16:56] litigation over the code interpretations

[2:16:59] that staff would end up making

[2:17:01] these implications support the idea of a

[2:17:03] temporary delay until state rules are

[2:17:06] known and there's time to develop any

[2:17:07] appropriate regulations

[2:17:10] with that

[2:17:11] i will turn it back to mr carr

[2:17:15] thank you mr next slide please

[2:17:20] so the staff recommendation is to refer

[2:17:22] a ballot measure to washington county

[2:17:23] voters in november of this year to

[2:17:26] temporarily opt out for a maximum of two

[2:17:28] years

[2:17:29] uh we don't recommend uh permanently

[2:17:32] banning psilocybin business of course

[2:17:33] when i say we i mean hhs and and uh lut

[2:17:37] the county council has no recommendation

[2:17:38] on this uh

[2:17:42] this is a similar approach that the

[2:17:43] board took for marijuana um

[2:17:45] the if the temporary opt-out is approved

[2:17:47] the lut division department will begin

[2:17:50] legislative process to develop time

[2:17:51] placement matter regulations next slide

[2:17:53] please

[2:17:59] next slide please oh there you go so

[2:18:01] this is the timeline you introduced it

[2:18:03] on july 19th today we're having a second

[2:18:05] public reading uh

[2:18:06] second reading and public hearing this

[2:18:08] is an opportunity for the board to

[2:18:10] direct any amendment or engrossment of

[2:18:12] the ordinance

[2:18:13] um on august 2nd if the board engrosses

[2:18:16] the ordinance this evening then there'll

[2:18:18] be a public hearing on the occult

[2:18:20] ordinance

[2:18:21] if not if there are no engrossments then

[2:18:23] there will be a vote on the final

[2:18:24] approval of the ordinance and a

[2:18:26] resolution order uh if the ordinance is

[2:18:28] approved resolution or

[2:18:30] putting it on the ballot for the

[2:18:31] november 8th 2022 election

[2:18:34] uh next slide

[2:18:36] please so these are the options we've

[2:18:39] talked and you may have seen we've added

[2:18:40] one

[2:18:41] uh option one is reject the ordinance on

[2:18:44] august 2nd no temporary opt-out

[2:18:47] option two is take no action for now

[2:18:50] and defer action on the ordinance to

[2:18:51] november or december at that point we

[2:18:53] may have a better idea about what the

[2:18:55] state's doing and then you could pass an

[2:18:56] ordinance

[2:18:58] uh if you pass an ordinance uh on in

[2:19:00] november or december that ordinance

[2:19:02] would effectively ban psilocybin

[2:19:04] businesses from being licensed effective

[2:19:06] to august uh january 1st 2023

[2:19:10] that ordinance would be referred to the

[2:19:12] ballot at the next general election

[2:19:14] which would be november 2024.

[2:19:17] um

[2:19:18] we are the staff is not recommending

[2:19:20] this but we thought we'd tell you that

[2:19:22] this is an option uh we expect that this

[2:19:25] is untested although similar things were

[2:19:27] done with marijuana um

[2:19:30] the the language of the the measure

[2:19:32] appears to allow for this uh it

[2:19:35] it could be contested

[2:19:37] uh the recommendation is to approve the

[2:19:39] ordinance on august seconds implement

[2:19:41] this the temporary

[2:19:42] two-year opt-out

[2:19:44] uh option four is to engross the

[2:19:46] ordinance today with either a shorter

[2:19:48] longer period

[2:19:50] or no sunset at all

[2:19:52] so those are the four options next slide

[2:19:54] please

[2:19:57] that's it any questions

[2:20:02] uh

[2:20:03] i realized that

[2:20:07] the packet

[2:20:08] was not updated with this presentation

[2:20:12] so commissioners i hope that

[2:20:15] you have taken note of the definitions

[2:20:18] of opt-out option one two three and four

[2:20:25] i just downloaded the packet and checked

[2:20:27] the packet again

[2:20:29] once i noticed that it was different

[2:20:31] from the prior version so

[2:20:34] if you need just a moment to

[2:20:38] write out what those options are for

[2:20:40] yourself prior to the public hearing in

[2:20:42] case folks mention the options

[2:20:47] take a photo now

[2:20:48] [Laughter]

[2:20:50] it began

[2:20:53] do you have any questions before we open

[2:20:56] a public hearing go ahead vice chair

[2:20:58] willie

[2:21:02] well yeah this um

[2:21:06] this frustrates me a little bit that i

[2:21:08] just get this information at

[2:21:11] nine o'clock

[2:21:13] at night

[2:21:15] uh with no advance notice

[2:21:19] our last meeting

[2:21:22] was

[2:21:24] an ordinance that was written

[2:21:26] to go to the voters for a two-year delay

[2:21:31] and now we have option one two three and

[2:21:35] four

[2:21:38] and

[2:21:41] i don't understand

[2:21:44] why

[2:21:46] this is now coming to us

[2:21:49] at this particular point in time

[2:21:53] so

[2:21:54] i realize

[2:21:56] chair that you and

[2:21:58] commissioner trees

[2:22:00] were opposed to this you wanted to adopt

[2:22:05] um

[2:22:07] the implementation of this on january 1

[2:22:10] except the oha's

[2:22:15] recommendations

[2:22:18] i think there was

[2:22:20] conversation by three of the

[2:22:22] commissioners that had some concerns

[2:22:25] about that and now we have four options

[2:22:30] so

[2:22:31] yeah this frustrates me

[2:22:35] and again it's kind of a

[2:22:37] blind side

[2:22:38] proposal and um

[2:22:42] i'd like to i'd like to hear more

[2:22:44] conversation about

[2:22:46] where this came from

[2:22:48] i think if i might commissioner willie

[2:22:51] um

[2:22:52] i understand

[2:22:53] the difference between the three options

[2:22:57] that i believe we had

[2:23:00] uh from our last meeting and today is

[2:23:03] that

[2:23:04] mr carr

[2:23:06] has been clear

[2:23:08] clear with us

[2:23:12] about

[2:23:13] what

[2:23:16] option four is

[2:23:18] uh

[2:23:19] that with having an election

[2:23:23] with no sunset

[2:23:25] um

[2:23:26] so i don't believe that options

[2:23:31] oh

[2:23:33] well maybe option two is new uh

[2:23:36] maybe i have it wrong

[2:23:38] let me stop there before i make the

[2:23:40] situation worse

[2:23:42] and mr carr if you could address

[2:23:44] commissioner willie's question that

[2:23:46] would be most helpful i should have

[2:23:48] started you there and commissioner

[2:23:49] william i do want to apologize this is

[2:23:52] something that uh we discussed on friday

[2:23:55] and uh

[2:23:56] as i said it's an option that if you

[2:23:59] read the the technical language of the

[2:24:02] measure it's allowable but it's never

[2:24:05] been tested so it's not clear what a

[2:24:07] court would do with this

[2:24:08] um

[2:24:10] so we it actually is in the packet and

[2:24:12] chair i just checked um it this this

[2:24:16] version got uploaded yesterday uh and so

[2:24:20] we we worked on it on friday and

[2:24:22] it was uploaded so and i apologize if we

[2:24:25] should have done more to note that and

[2:24:28] that's on us

[2:24:29] uh okay so my question my question to

[2:24:32] you tom is who is we

[2:24:35] are you say we worked this on friday i

[2:24:37] was at naco

[2:24:40] so

[2:24:40] mr roberts mr bovet

[2:24:43] uh ms cherniak and i worked on this

[2:24:46] friday and over the weekend

[2:24:49] yeah okay so

[2:24:50] so

[2:24:56] my frustration is this that

[2:24:59] first of all

[2:25:01] there was that kind of conversation over

[2:25:03] that period of time it is now tuesday

[2:25:08] this is the first time i've seen this

[2:25:12] there's

[2:25:13] number four

[2:25:15] okay

[2:25:16] uh there's number two

[2:25:19] and i'm thinking i'm going to go into

[2:25:21] this conversation tonight

[2:25:23] with what we agreed upon

[2:25:27] last week

[2:25:28] in a three to two vote

[2:25:31] that we would approve

[2:25:33] number

[2:25:34] three option number three and that's

[2:25:38] where we were going

[2:25:40] now we have

[2:25:42] four options

[2:25:44] back on the table again

[2:25:47] so commissioner willie

[2:25:49] you all you did last week was was was

[2:25:52] introduced on first reading that wasn't

[2:25:53] an approval the approval can't come

[2:25:55] until tuesday this is

[2:25:58] another legal option that we're laying

[2:25:59] out for you you don't need to vote on

[2:26:01] this tonight unless you want to amend

[2:26:03] the ordinance the vote would come next

[2:26:06] tuesday so you have time to consider

[2:26:08] this and i apologize and we're happy to

[2:26:09] sit down and meet with you and discuss

[2:26:11] this um it's this is just your staff

[2:26:13] trying to make sure you have every

[2:26:14] option in front of you before you have

[2:26:16] to make a determination

[2:26:18] i get that that's when i get that i get

[2:26:20] that tom

[2:26:21] i i understand that but not at nine

[2:26:24] o'clock at night

[2:26:27] in the public hearing okay

[2:26:29] if you wanted to communicate with me

[2:26:32] then you should have done it yesterday

[2:26:35] okay

[2:26:36] i don't like surprises no more than the

[2:26:38] chair likes surprises

[2:26:41] this is a surprise it's a significant

[2:26:44] modification to what we talked about a

[2:26:46] week ago and it doesn't bode well with

[2:26:50] me

[2:26:57] commissioner willie

[2:26:59] um

[2:27:05] there is only one change

[2:27:09] in

[2:27:10] the

[2:27:11] options

[2:27:14] between last week's meeting and

[2:27:17] what

[2:27:18] we've seen display

[2:27:21] so only one change but a significant

[2:27:23] chair and quite frankly you opposed last

[2:27:27] week's

[2:27:28] ordinance

[2:27:29] of a three to two vote you oppose that

[2:27:31] and now we have

[2:27:33] a modification

[2:27:36] seems to me like there's some bait and

[2:27:39] switch going on here and there's some

[2:27:41] conversations going on behind the scenes

[2:27:44] and then all of a sudden

[2:27:45] tuesday night

[2:27:47] we have

[2:27:48] options

[2:27:50] just doesn't feel very right to me

[2:27:53] i'm sorry commissioner willie i think we

[2:27:55] have a

[2:27:56] misunderstanding what the position that

[2:28:00] commissioner therese and i took

[2:28:02] in the minority last week

[2:28:05] was

[2:28:06] with regard to continuing

[2:28:10] through

[2:28:11] the process the ordinance process

[2:28:14] okay but on a vote of three to two

[2:28:18] the board chose to continue with the

[2:28:20] process

[2:28:21] so now this is the process having

[2:28:25] the

[2:28:27] uh ordinance read

[2:28:30] and having

[2:28:31] a public hearing tonight with the next

[2:28:34] step of the process being

[2:28:38] the decision next tuesday

[2:28:41] whether or not

[2:28:42] to adopt

[2:28:44] an ordinance

[2:28:46] the only variation on that is

[2:28:49] we have an ordinance on the table right

[2:28:52] ordinance 888

[2:28:54] and if the board wishes to make those

[2:28:57] changes in addition to having the public

[2:29:00] hearing tonight we would also have to

[2:29:02] make a decision on any possible

[2:29:04] engrossments

[2:29:06] so

[2:29:07] um

[2:29:11] there's still another option

[2:29:14] okay oh there's there's still another

[2:29:16] option that has not been

[2:29:18] discussed

[2:29:20] at the commission level

[2:29:22] prior to tonight and so

[2:29:24] we're supposed to evaluate

[2:29:29] um option four

[2:29:32] with no sunset

[2:29:34] we didn't talk about no sunset we talked

[2:29:36] about a two-year sunset

[2:29:38] option two

[2:29:40] no action now

[2:29:41] defer action on the ordnance till

[2:29:43] november december that wasn't even on

[2:29:46] the docket

[2:29:47] so no i'm sorry chair okay there's a lot

[2:29:51] of variety in what our decision making

[2:29:53] is supposed to be

[2:29:55] tonight and next week

[2:29:57] okay i i understand

[2:30:00] more clearly what you're saying okay and

[2:30:02] i don't disagree with you at all

[2:30:05] okay

[2:30:07] um

[2:30:08] commissioner uh commissioner mr carr i'm

[2:30:12] sorry

[2:30:13] i gave you the wrong title

[2:30:15] i i i want to object to the bait and

[2:30:18] switch

[2:30:18] that's not fair

[2:30:21] we provided this to you at six o'clock

[2:30:22] last night and i know it was late we're

[2:30:24] just trying to do our jobs

[2:30:26] seriously six o'clock last night tom

[2:30:28] that that counts

[2:30:30] okay

[2:30:31] yeah okay so it won't be it's not a bait

[2:30:33] and switch i don't mean to offend you by

[2:30:36] the terminology

[2:30:37] i will okay i apologize for that

[2:30:40] but this defends me

[2:30:42] okay

[2:30:43] the fact that at nine o'clock at night

[2:30:45] we're having this conversation

[2:30:47] offends me

[2:30:49] so i guess we're both equally offended i

[2:30:52] apologize if i offended you with my

[2:30:54] terminology but this

[2:30:57] doesn't work

[2:30:58] to be clear the only thing that was

[2:31:01] added was option two we had three

[2:31:03] options last week we added another

[2:31:04] option which i think is legally

[2:31:07] questionable but i included it at out of

[2:31:10] an excess of caution if you want us to

[2:31:13] take it out we can do that

[2:31:14] uh but there's really very little reason

[2:31:17] to insult your staff

[2:31:18] and that's what you're doing

[2:31:20] these are people who work really hard to

[2:31:22] get this in front of you

[2:31:23] and i think it's it's inappropriate

[2:31:26] let's try and let's try and be clear

[2:31:27] about this tom

[2:31:29] there was no

[2:31:30] implication that i was insulting the

[2:31:32] staff

[2:31:34] if you took offense to it i apologize to

[2:31:36] it

[2:31:37] okay

[2:31:38] but it's not about staff

[2:31:40] this is about communication

[2:31:44] eyes wide open when i go into a public

[2:31:47] hearing that i know what the hell we're

[2:31:50] talking about

[2:31:52] okay and i didn't

[2:31:55] now you can say you said at six o'clock

[2:31:57] last night well i was at a wea event

[2:32:00] till nine o'clock last night okay so i'm

[2:32:02] sorry i didn't pull it up and i didn't

[2:32:04] look at it

[2:32:06] i guess that's on me

[2:32:09] but

[2:32:11] this doesn't work

[2:32:15] so we can move on

[2:32:24] commissioner rogers

[2:32:27] um

[2:32:28] just for clarification

[2:32:30] in adding option two have the options

[2:32:33] been renumbered from what we approved

[2:32:35] the last time so

[2:32:38] so we're clear if we went with

[2:32:40] it was we went with three is that two

[2:32:42] last time

[2:32:45] i just i'm sorry i don't have last two

[2:32:47] was added between one and three

[2:32:49] for me

[2:32:51] two was added between one and three

[2:32:53] it's really not nobody if we saw him

[2:32:55] last last time

[2:32:57] what would three have been numbered so

[2:32:58] that we're consistent i i don't have

[2:33:00] that from tom from three would have been

[2:33:02] two okay that's what i want to know

[2:33:05] but to be clear the ordinance hasn't

[2:33:07] changed at all the ordinance still

[2:33:09] incorporates option three

[2:33:11] all we're doing is going over things

[2:33:13] that ways you could change the ordinance

[2:33:17] well madam chair i'm still in favor of

[2:33:20] what now is option three i guess it was

[2:33:22] two last time so i was for the records

[2:33:24] right trying to be clear so that we

[2:33:26] don't sit there and say we're still in

[2:33:27] favor of two two now has changed and two

[2:33:29] or three and all that but

[2:33:31] i i i'm still with the staff

[2:33:33] recommendation yeah

[2:33:35] and for the record what threw me is we

[2:33:38] didn't get any indication that the

[2:33:40] presentation changed

[2:33:43] and it was done after

[2:33:45] the ordinary 3 p.m on monday deadline

[2:33:49] so that the commission knew

[2:33:53] to be prepared for the

[2:33:55] presentation change

[2:33:57] thank you mr carr for

[2:34:01] making it clear that the ordinance

[2:34:03] hasn't changed

[2:34:05] uh

[2:34:06] but we do know that we have an

[2:34:09] additional option that had not been

[2:34:11] previously covered so thank you for that

[2:34:16] and i join commissioner willie uh in

[2:34:19] apologizing if any staff feels in any

[2:34:23] way

[2:34:24] uh

[2:34:25] offended or slighted

[2:34:27] in any way this evening as we try to

[2:34:31] make sure we know

[2:34:32] we understand what we've had the benefit

[2:34:35] of understanding through tonight's

[2:34:37] presentation

[2:34:41] so we

[2:34:42] uh have a presentation

[2:34:46] staff report do we have any remaining

[2:34:49] commissioner questions before we move on

[2:34:52] to the public hearing

[2:34:56] okay

[2:34:57] uh ms niola

[2:34:59] uh we've read the ordinance fight title

[2:35:01] only we've had the staff report could uh

[2:35:04] we you please or i'd like to open the

[2:35:07] public hearing

[2:35:08] uh could you please uh bring in the

[2:35:12] folks who wish to testify thank you

[2:35:15] yes first to speak is jesse ewing jesse

[2:35:19] good evening can you hear me couldn't

[2:35:21] hear you anna sorry

[2:35:23] can you hear me

[2:35:24] yes we can hear you

[2:35:26] good evening i'm jesse ewling a

[2:35:28] mycologist and a professor at oregon

[2:35:30] state university with over 15 years

[2:35:32] experience including many high-profile

[2:35:34] peer-reviewed publications i'm also the

[2:35:36] mycologist and the co-chair of the

[2:35:38] oregon psilocybin advisory board but

[2:35:40] today i'm speaking to you as an

[2:35:42] oregonian

[2:35:43] psilocybin is non-addictive safe it's a

[2:35:46] naturally occurring medicine and

[2:35:47] mushrooms with proven efficacy in

[2:35:49] treating mental health conditions like

[2:35:50] depression addiction

[2:35:52] ptsd and anxiety

[2:35:54] as evidenced by the recent fda

[2:35:56] designation as a breakthrough therapy

[2:35:58] this is not marijuana the production

[2:36:00] process and biology of these organisms

[2:36:03] is different than marijuana

[2:36:05] however psilocybin is not a silver

[2:36:07] bullet it won't work for everyone and we

[2:36:09] take that reality very seriously

[2:36:11] we summarize evidence for both the

[2:36:13] efficacy and the potential negative

[2:36:15] outcomes in a document that was

[2:36:17] previously referred to as the rapid

[2:36:18] evidence review it's available on the

[2:36:20] psilocybin services website

[2:36:22] i also personally summarize all the

[2:36:24] biochemical mycological and

[2:36:26] ethnomycological history of psilocybin

[2:36:28] production and usage and open access

[2:36:30] peer-reviewed publication in the journal

[2:36:32] fungal biology which i can share with

[2:36:34] you

[2:36:35] we as a board have put forward very

[2:36:37] reasonable recommendations to the oha

[2:36:39] and they've already put some of those

[2:36:41] into rules through their expedited

[2:36:42] rulemaking for training programs

[2:36:44] products and testing licenses for

[2:36:47] example of the over 200 species of fungi

[2:36:49] that produce psilocybin we're going with

[2:36:51] just one cylosophy cubensis we're not

[2:36:54] doing synthetic psilocybin because we

[2:36:56] don't have the oversight to meaningfully

[2:36:58] regulate that process safely

[2:37:00] all clients will be over 21 and will

[2:37:02] undergo extensive screen and preparation

[2:37:05] sessions this is not a dispensary model

[2:37:08] and i recommended these guidelines

[2:37:09] because i like you want to live work and

[2:37:12] raise my family in a peaceful and safe

[2:37:14] community that is free from illicit

[2:37:15] activity

[2:37:16] it's okay to have questions about this

[2:37:18] approach because it's new and

[2:37:19] transdisciplinary but as community

[2:37:21] leaders we have a responsibility to help

[2:37:23] address this mental health crisis so i

[2:37:26] encourage you to think of the people who

[2:37:27] might not make it those two years and i

[2:37:29] encourage you not to opt out of of

[2:37:31] psilocybin licenses for businesses thank

[2:37:34] you for the opportunity to speak with

[2:37:37] thank you

[2:37:38] next is barbara hansen barbara can you

[2:37:40] please unmute

[2:37:43] hi again can you hear me okay yes

[2:37:47] thank you uh i am an rn with over 35

[2:37:50] years of experience working in hospice

[2:37:53] in oregon i currently serve as the ceo

[2:37:55] of the oregon hospice and palliative

[2:37:57] care association which is a statewide

[2:38:00] public benefit organization helping to

[2:38:02] ensure oregonians have access to high

[2:38:05] quality hospice and palliative care as

[2:38:07] they near the end of life

[2:38:10] and although i serve on the oregon

[2:38:11] psilocybin advisory board i am

[2:38:14] testifying today in my role with the

[2:38:16] oregon hospice and palliative care

[2:38:18] association there are 15 hospice and

[2:38:21] palliative care programs that serve

[2:38:23] washington county

[2:38:25] and 11 of them are members of our

[2:38:27] association these programs provide

[2:38:30] excellent care for many hundreds of

[2:38:32] washington county residents each year so

[2:38:35] my purpose in testifying today is to

[2:38:38] respectfully ask the county

[2:38:39] commissioners to consider the needs of

[2:38:42] seriously and terminally ill residents

[2:38:44] when you discuss ordinance 888

[2:38:47] i have never personally taken psilocybin

[2:38:50] but i know there have been studies done

[2:38:52] at johns hopkins and nyu showing very

[2:38:56] promising results about the benefits of

[2:38:58] psilocybin and improving symptoms of

[2:39:00] depression and anxiety

[2:39:03] among others the the improvements are

[2:39:05] even after one single treatment and they

[2:39:08] can last for many months more studies

[2:39:10] will be done and need to be done but

[2:39:12] these results already show the possible

[2:39:14] benefits for persons who will need

[2:39:17] palliative or hospice care please allow

[2:39:20] them to have access to this promising

[2:39:22] treatment thank you for this opportunity

[2:39:24] to testify today

[2:39:26] thank you

[2:39:28] and next we have sherry

[2:39:32] sherry can you please on me yeah can you

[2:39:34] hear me

[2:39:34] yes

[2:39:36] hi my name is sherry savoit and terry i

[2:39:38] am from forest grove

[2:39:41] um i've been a depressive my whole life

[2:39:45] i suffer from

[2:39:47] depression and anxiety

[2:39:50] um in 2020 i had a lung cancer

[2:39:54] surgery and um they took out half of my

[2:39:57] left lung

[2:39:58] and i got severely depressed

[2:40:00] over that period of time for a year

[2:40:03] and um

[2:40:04] i just kept thinking

[2:40:06] i wish i can't wait till 2023

[2:40:09] for the psilocybin to be legal

[2:40:12] here so

[2:40:14] i just want all of you that need to know

[2:40:16] more about

[2:40:17] psilocybin to watch

[2:40:19] the movie that's on netflix how to

[2:40:21] change your mind

[2:40:23] and look up paul's statements

[2:40:25] and see his research

[2:40:27] um

[2:40:29] my

[2:40:30] one of my friends i told about this

[2:40:32] delay

[2:40:34] she said people are gonna die

[2:40:36] so

[2:40:37] that's i know that sounds dramatic but

[2:40:39] this can seriously help a lot of people

[2:40:42] so i really urge you

[2:40:45] to have no delay and do option one if i

[2:40:48] read that correctly

[2:40:49] and um

[2:40:52] i wanted to add

[2:40:54] that the ripple effect of psilocybin

[2:40:57] could mean less people in the fancy

[2:41:00] new

[2:41:01] facility that they're building in

[2:41:02] beaverton so

[2:41:04] please um

[2:41:07] don't take this decision lightly

[2:41:11] um

[2:41:12] i don't know it's really hard to talk

[2:41:14] about

[2:41:15] mental health stuff and i'm short of

[2:41:16] breath because of my lung issue but

[2:41:19] i just want you all to tune in and

[2:41:21] open your hearts

[2:41:29] anyways i better stop talking

[2:41:31] but thank you harrington and um therese

[2:41:35] for

[2:41:36] being on board

[2:41:40] thank you sherry

[2:41:42] chair that's all the people i have that

[2:41:44] signed up is there anyone else that

[2:41:46] would like to speak on this ordinance

[2:41:48] please raise your hand

[2:41:51] i see no hands

[2:41:55] thank you ms niola

[2:41:57] and with that we'll close tonight's

[2:42:00] public hearing

[2:42:02] uh

[2:42:03] board members i

[2:42:05] would refer us um

[2:42:09] back to

[2:42:11] the

[2:42:13] presentation

[2:42:15] um

[2:42:16] the

[2:42:16] options

[2:42:18] on the presentation are

[2:42:21] i think

[2:42:22] um

[2:42:25] a little

[2:42:26] out of sync with the requested action

[2:42:29] perhaps on the

[2:42:31] packet table that i'm seeing before me

[2:42:35] but

[2:42:36] that could entirely be

[2:42:40] my problem let me go back to

[2:42:47] well i can't i have to clear

[2:42:49] do an unusual clearing of the cache

[2:42:52] which is ridiculously arduous so

[2:42:55] anyway

[2:42:56] um

[2:42:57] what we

[2:42:59] um

[2:43:00] we've closed the public hearing i want

[2:43:02] to make sure i'm doing these procedures

[2:43:04] right

[2:43:06] uh

[2:43:08] what we need to decide tonight

[2:43:11] is if we want to proceed next week with

[2:43:15] ordinance 888 as it stands or do we wish

[2:43:20] to entertain any changes to the

[2:43:24] ordinance that would require us

[2:43:26] to consider those and engross the

[2:43:29] ordinance tonight

[2:43:31] otherwise we will delay further decision

[2:43:34] making

[2:43:35] on the ordinance to next tuesday

[2:43:39] uh

[2:43:40] mr carr

[2:43:42] uh i saw you raise your hand and then

[2:43:44] not

[2:43:45] but you're unmuted did i capture that

[2:43:47] correctly yes that which is why i load

[2:43:50] my hand sure okay that's correct

[2:43:52] thank you sir uh vice chair willie

[2:43:58] yes thank you chair i i just want to

[2:44:00] make a couple of comments and then ask

[2:44:02] uh for

[2:44:04] a procedural

[2:44:07] perspective so

[2:44:10] we have heard from the voters that this

[2:44:15] product needs to be available that is

[2:44:18] not in question from my standpoint there

[2:44:22] there isn't an option

[2:44:23] to ban

[2:44:25] this completely and we're not even

[2:44:27] considering that

[2:44:29] in regards to our

[2:44:33] two-year

[2:44:35] [Music]

[2:44:37] deferral i really strongly believe it

[2:44:40] will not be two years i think we need to

[2:44:43] give our staff opportunity to evaluate

[2:44:46] what the oha rules that come out we

[2:44:49] haven't even seen them that and then an

[2:44:52] opportunity for our lut department to

[2:44:56] determine where we have siding available

[2:45:00] so there's a lot of work that needs to

[2:45:03] be done on this before we can implement

[2:45:05] this and i'm just i think that's the

[2:45:08] reason why i'm going with option three

[2:45:10] because we need to take those things

[2:45:12] into consideration

[2:45:14] i heard

[2:45:16] the

[2:45:17] com i have compassion

[2:45:19] for those who are testifying that they

[2:45:22] need this

[2:45:23] i understand that i am not opposing that

[2:45:26] i'm just advocating that

[2:45:30] as a county commissioner i believe we

[2:45:33] need to make sure that we understand the

[2:45:35] rules and that we are complying with the

[2:45:39] guidelines that will be provided by the

[2:45:42] state

[2:45:45] so with all of that

[2:45:48] chair i am concerned a little bit

[2:45:51] that

[2:45:53] commissioner therese is not here tonight

[2:45:56] and she was

[2:45:57] obviously um

[2:46:00] in opposition to option three

[2:46:03] uh i don't want this to be a

[2:46:06] i don't know possibly a two to two

[2:46:08] tonight so how do we go about making

[2:46:11] sure that commissioner therese is heard

[2:46:14] in her vote next let me let me ally your

[2:46:17] fears

[2:46:19] okay

[2:46:20] you're correct that there are four of us

[2:46:22] here tonight i vote last

[2:46:26] and

[2:46:27] i am in agreement

[2:46:29] that

[2:46:31] a decision

[2:46:32] should be made

[2:46:34] next week

[2:46:35] okay

[2:46:36] so i am in no way

[2:46:39] uh

[2:46:40] i don't have a need

[2:46:42] to

[2:46:43] exercise

[2:46:44] my political power and influence through

[2:46:47] my vote of one

[2:46:50] okay

[2:46:51] uh i

[2:46:53] and i've made accommodations to attend

[2:46:56] next week's meeting even though i'm on

[2:46:58] vacation

[2:47:00] so

[2:47:00] um

[2:47:01] let me allay your fears okay okay yeah

[2:47:05] thank you i just wanted to make sure

[2:47:06] tonight was to have the public hearing

[2:47:10] and to decide if

[2:47:12] the board thinks there is a need to make

[2:47:15] changes to ordinance 888 and do an

[2:47:18] engrossment okay

[2:47:21] i

[2:47:21] am choosing to not exercise

[2:47:25] the option as you recognize to toward

[2:47:29] having a decision opportunity next

[2:47:32] tuesday okay all right yes thank you for

[2:47:35] that and again i was mostly

[2:47:38] um

[2:47:39] considerate of trying to be considerate

[2:47:41] of commissioner therese she's not here

[2:47:43] tonight but i wanted to make sure we

[2:47:46] heard her vote as well so thank you for

[2:47:48] that

[2:47:52] okay commissioners

[2:47:55] do any of you have a need to consider

[2:47:58] any

[2:47:59] changes to ordinance 888 that would

[2:48:02] require us to have

[2:48:04] consideration of those and engrossment

[2:48:09] i'm not seeing anyone have any

[2:48:12] indication

[2:48:13] all right

[2:48:14] so

[2:48:15] um

[2:48:17] mr carr

[2:48:18] just to make sure i do this right

[2:48:22] especially since

[2:48:23] uh

[2:48:24] some of these options uh involve time is

[2:48:27] of the essence if i could use that

[2:48:29] phrase

[2:48:34] the ordinance

[2:48:35] that is in our current packet

[2:48:38] i believe

[2:48:39] that is reflective of the staff

[2:48:42] recommendation

[2:48:44] uh

[2:48:45] to

[2:48:48] implement and opt out an election with a

[2:48:50] two-year sunset

[2:48:53] am i correct on that

[2:48:55] that is correct yes okay thank you

[2:48:58] um so we don't need to take any

[2:49:02] let me double check my sheet of paper do

[2:49:05] we need to uh take an action

[2:49:08] uh

[2:49:09] to move the draft ordinance forward for

[2:49:12] next tuesday

[2:49:13] no you could move to continue

[2:49:15] consideration but it's already scheduled

[2:49:17] so

[2:49:17] i'll move to continue would probably be

[2:49:19] the appropriate motion okay let's do

[2:49:21] that then

[2:49:22] uh

[2:49:23] board

[2:49:24] members uh do we have a motion to

[2:49:28] consider moving forward with ordinance

[2:49:30] 888 for next tuesday we have a motion

[2:49:33] from commissioner rogers do we have a

[2:49:35] second we have a second from

[2:49:37] commissioner willie

[2:49:38] all those in favor of moving forward

[2:49:41] with consideration of the ordinance for

[2:49:44] next tuesday's meeting please vote by

[2:49:46] raising your hand

[2:49:48] uh the motion is unanimous well anyone

[2:49:51] opposed

[2:49:53] there are none uh the motion is

[2:49:55] unanimous four to zero so next week we

[2:49:58] will

[2:49:59] next tuesday august 2nd vice chair

[2:50:02] willie will be running the meeting and

[2:50:05] on the agenda will be the consideration

[2:50:08] of adopting ordinance 888

[2:50:13] which is the option

[2:50:15] uh for

[2:50:17] a

[2:50:18] opt-out

[2:50:20] of to

[2:50:22] uh with a two-year sunset

[2:50:27] okay go ahead vice chair willie

[2:50:31] you were supposed to give me an easy

[2:50:32] agenda for next week what what happened

[2:50:34] with that i blew it sorry

[2:50:39] all right

[2:50:40] thank you

[2:50:43] all righty then

[2:50:45] so

[2:50:46] the next item on our agenda for this

[2:50:48] evening is our second public comment

[2:50:51] period this is an opportunity for

[2:50:53] community members to come and share

[2:50:55] their thoughts with us for up to five

[2:50:57] minutes a person

[2:50:59] uh ms niola do we have anyone who wishes

[2:51:02] to speak with us at this time

[2:51:05] i had no one signed up but if there's

[2:51:07] anyone please raise your hands

[2:51:11] no hands

[2:51:14] alrighty thank you

[2:51:16] next on the agenda is board

[2:51:18] announcements i'll start the process off

[2:51:21] as mentioned we will have board meetings

[2:51:24] next week we have a work session

[2:51:26] starting at 9 00 a.m then it will pause

[2:51:29] so that

[2:51:31] vice chair willie can run the business

[2:51:34] meeting starting at 10 a.m with the

[2:51:37] housing authority board of directors

[2:51:39] meeting at 10 followed by the board

[2:51:42] meeting at 10 30 and then reconvening

[2:51:45] the work session

[2:51:47] uh

[2:51:48] at

[2:51:49] probably 1 p.m

[2:51:52] i'll see you all in eastern standard

[2:51:54] time

[2:51:55] uh then there is a work session on

[2:51:58] tuesday august 9th

[2:52:01] not sure that i left you a simple agenda

[2:52:04] that day either commission vice chair

[2:52:06] willie

[2:52:07] on tuesday august 16th as there are

[2:52:11] three of us on the commission who will

[2:52:13] be away on vacation

[2:52:15] the meetings are cancelled no quorum so

[2:52:19] that means we will have had one meeting

[2:52:21] in august with the full board

[2:52:24] yeah us for

[2:52:26] modeling taking vacations

[2:52:29] uh then we're into the month of

[2:52:31] september

[2:52:32] ta-da folks we are reconvening in person

[2:52:36] on thursday september 1st we'll have our

[2:52:40] round table so the board will be meeting

[2:52:42] in person which means

[2:52:45] we'll be moving to hybrid mode so our

[2:52:48] public can can

[2:52:51] attend in person or you can continue to

[2:52:54] tune in through zoom and youtube uh

[2:52:57] because we will be hybrid versus 100

[2:53:01] virtual

[2:53:03] still the same people

[2:53:05] uh then on tuesday september 6 that's

[2:53:09] the monday after the labor day holiday

[2:53:11] we'll have the joint pair of meetings

[2:53:14] work sessions starting at 9 00 am board

[2:53:17] meeting at 10

[2:53:18] and the following tuesday september 13th

[2:53:23] vice chair willie's going to have to

[2:53:24] preside over that meeting again as

[2:53:27] commissioner phi excuse me commissioner

[2:53:30] therese and i will be away on a clean

[2:53:32] water services trip

[2:53:34] and um that's it for now on september

[2:53:37] meetings we will have another

[2:53:41] set of meetings in september so in the

[2:53:43] month of september we'll have two

[2:53:45] meetings with the full board in

[2:53:47] attendance so

[2:53:50] that's it for board announcements from

[2:53:52] me this evening uh any from the rest of

[2:53:55] the commission

[2:54:00] all righty well with that do we have a

[2:54:02] motion to adjourn today's

[2:54:05] we have a motion from commissioner phi

[2:54:08] in a second from vice chair willie all

[2:54:10] those in favor please vote by raising

[2:54:11] your hand thank you commissioners and he

[2:54:14] opposed the motion carries unanimously

[2:54:16] 4-2-0 our meeting this evening is hereby

[2:54:20] adjourned everyone please take good care

[2:54:23] of yourself in this heat wave that we

[2:54:25] have i just saw the

[2:54:28] email from our emergency manager that

[2:54:32] the forecast has been extended into

[2:54:35] possibly saturday so do take care

[2:54:39] and be very safe

[2:54:41] watch out for one another bye now

[2:54:54] you

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