in clerk anna niola thank you for
joining us today and helping us through
this meeting
welcome everyone to the tuesday july 26
2022 washington county board of
commissioners meeting
board clerk if you could do us the
honors please
the board of county commissioners also
serving as the governing body of clean
water services and all other county
service districts is now meeting in
regular session
tuesday july 26 2022
commissioner fi
here
commissioner
rogers vice chair willie
here
chair harrington here
thank you
commissioner therese is excused he's on
vacation
we have no updates to this evening's
agenda to report this evening so we'll
move right into our public comment
period this is an opportunity for
members of our community to speak with
us
on any subject matter they would care to
for up to two minutes
please note that we do have two public
hearings later in the evening as well
ms niola do we have anyone who wishes to
address us now
no one signed up for this period but if
anybody attending would like to speak
now please raise your hand
i see the people that are raising their
hands their topic is regarding one of
the public hearings um let's see
sherry can you unleash yourself please
okay
so i'm allowed to talk about it now and
not wait till seven it's okay
oh no if this is concerning a public
hearing i didn't see you signed up oh i
didn't know what you meant okay so wait
till seven yes correct well we may get
to it before then
and that's it so no one for this period
all right thank you ms niola
next we'll move to adopt our consent
agenda this evening's consent agenda
consists of six items two items from
clean water services
three items from land use and
transportation and one from county
administration
we have a motion from commissioner
rogers we have a second from
commissioner phi all those in favor of
adopting today's consent agenda please
raise your hand thank you commissioners
and he opposed the motion carries
unanimously four to zero
next we have a presentation
of
regarding the office of equity inclusion
and community engagement the quarterly
report for the quarter
of april 2022 through the end of june
2022
so i'd like to turn over turn it over to
ms latricia tillman
our chief equity officer thank you
okay good evening chair harrington and
board of commissioners
it's nice to see you tonight and i will
be joined this evening by amanda garcia
snell brianna jackson and matt criggy
all right
and i'm looking for the slides to come
up great thank you so we are presenting
on uh quarter 2
2022 which is april through june
and if we go to the next slide
i can add a couple of contextual
comments
so uh
well change is constant over the course
of human history certain watershed
moments or eras have pulled us as humans
globally and as a nation either toward
or away from the oppression of others or
toward or away
from the recognition of our shared
humanity and equality
in the months since we presented last
many of us found ourselves in another
watershed moment
as it relates to equality as defined by
gender identity racial identity and
class
none of the branches of government our
governmental institutions nor our
nation's constitution is infallible and
at every level of government we're
called to
continuous improvement
to create a more perfect union and our
country's commitment to equity requires
us to always ask continuous improvement
for whom
the 4th of july weekend
in which we saw
murder
mass murder
and also the death of an unknown black
man we saw that juxtaposition between
the value of the life
of a mass murderer and an unarmed
individual and as we continue to
consider how we can advance equity
within our spheres of influence we at
oei ce the office of equity inclusion
and community engagement are also
encouraging a consideration of
intersectionality of identities
for example while washington county
strives to address present day
inequities such as birth outcomes
we are focusing in on poor outcomes
borne by black women related to infant
and maternal mortality
as we do that we have to recognize that
the experience of pregnancy for black
women during slavery was coerced and
without consent
in fact the very field of gynecology
has its roots in white men's use of
black women's bodies for research again
without consent
the professionalization of nurses
marginalized black midwives and doulas
whose knowledge had roots far more
historical than western medicine
and in many of our lifetimes white
healthcare institutions subjected black
women latinos and indigenous women
to for sterilization in the name of
public health again without black latina
and indigenous women's knowledge or
consent
our equity work whether local or on a
larger scale has to recognize the
intersection of gender race and class
in order to dismantle the structures
that make it possible to undermine
fundamental rights to women's health
infant health and bodily autonomy
similarly as our workforce was once
again reeling from the mass murders in
buffalo new york and uvalde texas
we've also spent time reflecting on the
causes of gun violence in our
communities including the toxic
combination of hyper masculinity
racism the violence of poverty and the
legal
legacy of physical violence
and the lack of value placed on black
indigenous brown latino rotten eggs and
immigrant lives throughout our nation's
history
both of these examples are a reflection
of how we in the office of equity
inclusion and community engagement
approach our equity work
we lead with race but we don't stop
there we consider the ways our society
and our county policies and practices
marginalized people across race and age
race and geography race and class
race and gender identity race and sexual
orientation
disability and veteran status
we cannot ignore the fact that in all of
the various ways people have experienced
marginalization
racism compounds that marginalization
even further
to move forward we have to consider both
our universal goals for equity
and how people in our washington county
community experience barriers to the
best possible outcomes
next slide please
so what do we do to advance equity
so equity as you all know is focused on
outcomes
we will have achieved equity
when we can no longer predict outcomes
by race gender sexual orientation
ability veteran status geography etc
we will know we are on the way to equity
when we can no longer predict leadership
access to power and participation in
shaping policy and programs by race and
other social factors
in order to do that we need robust
community engagement to develop pathways
to dismantle barriers to participation
to decision making
and build processes that engage more
voices wisdom and experience that
engagement will help inform not just our
desired outcomes from our investments
but tailored strategies that recognize
we don't all have the same starting
point in life or in our family's lives
my experiences challenges and
opportunities are not the same as yours
and vice versa
equitable policy making equitable
program design requires identifying
understanding and addressing structural
barriers to optimal outcomes
it is a never-ending journey of
listening and learning
next slide
at some point in our quarterly
presentations i identified that we will
be in the initial stages of change
through 2022 that was so optimistic
here we are halfway through 2022 and
what i'm recognizing as i am sure you
are as well
that this is a cyclical rather than a
linear process we are definitely seeing
initial results as you will hear that
each initiative oeice and others takes
on to advance equity
puts us back at point two change
introduced
of introducing change 0.3 resistance in
point 4 and learning until we see more
initial results
in the context of transitioning to one
washington county design the future in
the upcoming community strategic plan
for washington county
while still leathering the coven
pandemic this organization continues to
adapt to change on multiple fronts
the graciousness of staff towards each
other as we move forward with
exceptionally full plates has been
something that continues to impress me
next slide
as our work evolves one thing that we're
learning in oeice is that there is less
and less separation or distinction
between community engagement and equity
diversity and inclusion work community
engagement is a central pillar of
effective equity work
so as we move forward in our quarterly
reports to your board we will separate
out the work for reporting purposes and
in our team structure however we are
noticing that it is becoming
increasingly challenging
to separate out uh
the um
that community engagement from the
equity diversity and inclusion work as
we move forward
um so just a touch base on two points uh
that are new within this uh timeline we
just continued to add to it um april
2022 you all
established the advisory council on
racial equity
and we'll talk a little bit more about
that and then
uh this past june
you adopted a budget that was informed
for the first time by the budget equity
tool so we thank you for your continued
commitment to our equity journey and at
this point i will turn it over to amanda
to talk about initiatives and
accomplishments of the community
engagement team over the past quarter
thanks latricia uh good evening chair
and commissioners as latricia mentioned
i'm amanda garcia snell
and i'm here to share a bit of the
latest work happening in community
engagement sorry amanda
vice chair willie
has an urgent need sure well it isn't an
urgent need i just want to respond back
to
ask for clarification from latricia when
she said
it's becoming more increasingly
difficult to separate out equity from
community engagement
did i did i re hear that correctly
latricia and could you give me a little
bit more
um information behind that because that
seems
um
that that doesn't seem to jive for me so
can you give me more information on that
sure and it was really just more in how
we structure this quarterly report in
the past we've had
a community engagement section and then
we've had an equity section and now we
see more community engagement around
some of our critical equity work and we
also see our equity work involving more
community engagement so for it's more
that for us the lines are blurring and
how we've structured our reporting
process
and the lines
blur
somewhat in terms of how we
do our work within our office so that
the community engagement team is often
leading on equity work and our equity
team is often doing community engagement
okay that makes perfect sense to me i i
just misunderstood what you said there
so thank you very much for that
clarification and sorry amanda i didn't
mean to get in front of you there oh
that's all right
next slide please
and next slide
so um this slide is not new it's one
that we put into the presentation but it
does it is a representation of the
various ways in which community can
engage with you all and staff throughout
the county um and so we just keep adding
it or continue to show it because i
think it um it really highlights that so
much more than any one specific event
there are all these opportunities that
people have to engage and we're really
working to as literature mentioned make
those equitable
uh next slide please
so beginning with some of our externally
uh facing projects we have um
reapportionment which as you know um now
we are conducting the engage the
community engagement in three phases
we're currently in phase two and
planning uh face and the planning stage
for phase three uh to accomplish this
work which includes in-person and
virtual events as well as digital
engagement and an online survey uh
and some of those things are focused
specifically on culturally specific
participation um
we are working with espousal strategies
to help us
carry the water on that work and really
ensure that we're kind of and
community-based organizations to ensure
that we're connecting with the community
and then as you heard earlier today we
um we had a last-minute opportunity to
be at the fair on saturday and with the
proposed
uh
map option the proposed district maps to
share with with the public and we had
about 47 people
identify their preferred option over the
course of the day so um that was pretty
uh that was pretty great because we
weren't that was sort of a last minute
pull together and we were happy that we
were able to do that
and uh thank you tom and sylvia for
representing us as well as oei ce staff
and cpo revisioning so this is a
long-term project um that will start by
looking at cpo boundaries to potentially
align with the new commissioner
districts so it's really
you know we won't fully kick this work
off until we have a better sense of what
the districts will be until those are
approved
by you all and later this year um but
until that work is in full swing we have
contracted with linda haramio to
facilitate uh conversations and help us
develop service agreements in the
interim period that we can have with
cpos and cci so that we can have really
clear roles
about the work that we're doing together
this um
this service agreement process has
already begun with a survey to cpo
leaders and cci representatives and then
she will be having more in-depth
conversations with them
for civic leadership training we
received some really great proposals
from a variety of culturally specific
community-based organizations uh and
so much so that the the requests are
over twice as much money as we have set
aside to um to uh provide for this
project and so we're really um as we
review those proposals we're really
starting to think creatively about how
can we fund
uh
how can we you know how can we fund
these things or what can we do to
provide comprehensive civic leadership
training opportunities to the community
um and so we're i'm super excited about
the response that we got and um and
we'll keep you posted on
how that goes
uh in terms of the board the quarterly
town hall so um we held this quarter two
town hall on june 23rd um it was focused
on resources and programs for older
adults there were 20 people on zoom that
were not staff and at the time 22 views
on youtube i just checked this morning
and we were up to 79 views on youtube
and so we have started planning the
quarter three town hall which is
scheduled for september 28th
next slide please
in regard to regional partnerships and
this is one of the examples that
latricio is referring to we're working
with the cities of hillsborough and
beaverton to conduct arpa-related
community engagement and the three of us
jurisdictions will be contracting um
with a team led by espousal strategies
and uh included on their team a variety
of culturally specific and responsive
organizations to help carry that to help
conduct that work um really the goal
here is to have some shared community
engagement practices and build capacity
within cbo's for community engagement
there's been a fair amount of
administrative work to get to this point
when you have three jurisdictions
involved in that type of process but a
spousal is officially on board and this
week we will introduce them to the covid
racial advisory group who had a
significant role in helping us with the
rfp and selecting
the
contractor and next slide please
so for our internal um projects that
we're working on the equitable community
engagement policy which i brought to you
a couple of weeks ago and we'll bring
back after more fiscal and legal
analysis as well as more stakeholder
input
and i'll be coming back to you in
september with that i think tentatively
scheduled for september um and as a
reminder this is really this policy is
really about ensuring best practices
across the organization for equity
centered engagement it's also related to
the arpa work in the sense that the
jurisdictions have committed to
alignment of best practices and
engagement strategies in an effort to
reduce burden to community-based
organizations and the community as a
whole and so
um we'll be working closely with the
jurisdictions on that too
um
sorry not specifically on the policy but
on those strategies
and
um boards and commissions so we continue
to use the data that we collect in the
application prop um process to inform
our recruitment work um in addition to
that the equity leadership council
committee that's focused on diversity
and inclusion best practices for boards
and commissions
has been working for over a year on
standards and shared practices related
to
recruitment onboarding training bylaws
all things boards and commissions in the
county they're really it's a great
committee they've been really motivated
they've taken on some big pieces of work
um
in that process their work has also
really highlighted the need for us to
to think about the overall role of
boards and commissions in the county
which is a big question and so i think
we're just kind of recognizing the the
need to start thinking about that and um
and where do they fit in the community
engagement spectrum and um you know what
are we
asking of them etc and so lots of big
questions related to that and it and
we'll be we'll start looking at this in
the coming months and
and figure out what we need to do
the land acknowledgement implementation
group had their kickoff meeting at the
end of june
and is really ready to hit the ground
running with looking at the
recommendations from our indigenous
partners in relation to county practice
and so they're going to start with
looking at the various types of meetings
that are held
throughout the county
organization and held by the county
organization and really start to dive
into
you know how are we
what are those meetings what is you know
how are they how could they be
categorized in a sense of
how does the um
how does the land acknowledgement
you know how would it be most relevant
and meaningful uh to
to recognize in those processes
next slide please
bridging between internal and external
engagement um are our cultural heritage
month celebrations and so these uh
as you may know these started out as a
small way to raise awareness and
celebrate with staff and they really
have become
pretty popular
opportunities to build relationship and
community connection internally and
externally and in some instances have
led to policy change as we saw with the
juneteenth holiday
and the creation of the asian asian
american native hawaiian and pacific
islander business council
by washing by the washington county
chamber of commerce
and i just noticed we're missing an age
so we can get that we're an n we're
missing a letter there so we can get
that corrected um
but these
staff there's some pictures there staff
marching in um pride parade and the
juneteenth celebration and so
there's been a lot of interest and
excitement from staff to participate in
events and a lot of creativity around
you know what are the ways in which we
can celebrate
next slide
and then uh finally our e-update so it
continues to grow with increased
subscribership and it seems to be
well-received um it's a way for us to
share engagement opportunities we do
this on a weekly basis and we have been
sharing other information as well
sometimes
you know
health alert information covered testing
opportunities or heat advisory stuff so
opportunities to share that information
because we do put it out weekly and it
is intended for cbo's and other
community stakeholders
and so we're up to about 620
contacts on that list
and with that i will pass it back to
latricia
i think you're one more amanda
oh yeah
anchor most exciting
or certainly very exciting i don't want
to say the most exciting but um
so the uh
as you know the advisory council on
racial equity we just had the um the
launch last
last week
if i'm getting my weeks my weeks are
starting to blur together um so this is
uh
the you all adopted the charter earlier
this year and then um appointed members
in um
june we had a lot of
folks interested in this and of course
this has been a long time coming one of
the um
one of the components of the equity um
resolution and so
uh very exciting to officially be
launching in this group it's a great
group of community participants and the
chair and commissioner trees are also
on
acre as we affectionately call it
and with that i will pass it back
thanks amanda
and thank you to all your team that's
doing just an amazing amount of work
especially with the one current vacancy
that we're filling so
they've uh definitely they're definitely
shouldering quite a load
on behalf of the county so next slide
please
all right so we're going to pivot to
focus on the work related to equity
diversity and inclusion
and then next slide please
so as you know um we've been
continuing to
um
live into the equity resolution
internally in washington county with the
development of our equity leadership
council committees and you can see the
six that are listed there on the right
there they've been focused on
development and implementation of equity
diversity and inclusion strategies
standards policies and tools based on
best and emerging best practices
next slide
they're currently
in the late stages of
membership recruitment to fill vacancies
either that have been created because
people left the county or change jobs or
have you know work life balance that
they're trying to maintain
they've done quite a bit of work around
um
all the charges within the six
committees um we had a separate
committee focused on limited english
assistance policy implementation that we
recently sunseted and moved under the
civil rights compliance committee i'll
talk a little bit more about that in a
minute
um
and then as you know
they developed the budget equity tool
under the leadership of ashley horn our
equity policy manager
work in progress now is
co-creating a legislative equity tool
with government relations and
the equity leadership council equity
policy committee
and they're hard at work on the
bilingual pay policy update this is
something that has been a high priority
for our office since its inception and i
know a priority for many others within
the county
and we're using equity best practices
and engagement staff engagement
empowerment practices to help inform a
thorough update of that policy
and then um
we will
pivot from that policy
back to
develop uh policy and procedures for our
employee resource groups to get those
launched
next slide please
okay so
the
limited english assistance policy was a
policy that you adopted in late 2020
and we have been working really hard
with our departmental partners to
understand what currently is happening
in terms of how departments are assuring
interpretation support for our
community members with limited english
proficiency
but we have also
uh we also built into the budget equity
tool
uh explicit ask for how much we are
investing in interpretation translation
and accommodations for people with
disabilities so when we think about
language access or
language access support we think about
multiple languages including asl
but also
like large font or braille for people
with disabilities
as i mentioned the leap committee
sunsetted and will be moving under our
civil rights compliance committee as
this is a pillar of title vi of the
civil rights act
which is focused on client civil rights
and
we are continuing to work with
departments to identify their vital
documents for proactive translation
what
you see on your screen as part of the
work that we're doing countywide we will
be installing large i speak posters with
multiple languages in public facing
lobbies to make it easy for individuals
to identify
the language that they speak and
what language they need interpretation
in and to communicate very clearly that
interpretation services are free
to the public
and then we have also printed an array
of i speak cards and these are like
wallet
cards that on one side in english say
the language that they made
interpretations supported and on the
other side in the person's preferred
language explains that they have a right
to competent interpreter free of charge
these will be available for order um
from our
for our community partners so we will
make those available to community
partners to distribute to the
communities that they serve who need
language assistance
next slide so we're really excited about
that
next slide i just wanted to close the
loop on the budget equity tool this is
information you've already seen several
times but i wanted to
put it here for posterity and just to
reflect that the budget equity tool was
developed
less than a year ago was piloted briefly
in 2021 and then was
adopted and applied in our budget season
in 2022 with the results
that you see in front of you
codifying our investments that will help
advance washington county towards equity
next slide please
and i tried to connect all the dollar
slides together so um pivoting slightly
um
focusing on an update we've been kind of
making our way through a year of
reporting
on
our spending for
um
minority women emerging small businesses
there's a number of other
designations as well but they all fall
under the cobid
acronym
um which is the certification office for
business inclusion and diversity
um
so as you can see about uh
the beginning of
the 21 22 fiscal year
very small spend rate but fast forward
to the end
of this fiscal year our total coven
spend was about 3.74
um this is uh based on 36 contracts with
currently certified cobit suppliers and
some suppliers go in and out of cobid
certification
and so this is based on which suppliers
were certified at the time that this
report was put together
next slide please
to break that down a little bit further
you can see all the various designations
that include that are included under
that coven
umbrella so native american lgbt
disabled veteran
veteran
um
dbe which is disadvantaged business
enterprise women business enterprise
minority business enterprise etc
and so as of uh july 1st
2021
37 of total vendors registered um were
um
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uh
i don't know what that's connected to i
apologize
i'm looking in my notes for that
444 vendors have registered since july
1st 2021. so that's 37 of our total
vendors have registered since july
uh 20 or 1 in 5 are certified mwesb
suppliers
and
uh greater than 50 percent are oregon or
local
uh suppliers and then we are seeing some
registrations from non-profits in the
area
so this chart
kind of points to the need to update our
data systems
because
as i mentioned before
certification and self-identification
are two different things and this is
self-identified entities
self-identified as
minority women emerging small business
or other designations
okay
so
what i want to do in the next slide is
pass the mic over to matt craig to talk
a little bit more about our
partnerships and well you'll be hearing
from matt craig our economic development
manager as well as brianna jackson our
learning and development manager
because the work that we do in
the offices of equity inclusion and
community engagement
really relies on partnerships across the
organization so as we go forward we'll
continue to build in
updates from our partners within
washington county who can share a little
bit about our work and so with that
we'll turn it over to matt craig
great thank you uh latricia i hope my
fan isn't too loud here it's a little
warm in the home office
yeah so
um literally thank you for giving the
opportunity to say a few words here in
oei ice uh update um as your board will
recall washington county's economic
development program is closely linked
to oei ce's external engagement work uh
in fact we've been looking for more and
more opportunities to sink and align our
efforts in doing so we aim to provide
community partners with clearer and more
transparent ways to connect with the
county build trust and relationships by
making what is important to them
important to us
and to help to focus investment in
response to community needs so here are
just a few examples on this slide of the
work that oei ce and economic
development are addressing together so
in that first bullet point about
sponsorships the county has uh for a
long time provided sponsorships for a
variety of community organizations we're
now looking for opportunities to provide
sponsorships to local organizations that
further the goals of equitable economic
development including for organizations
that support entrepreneurs and small
businesses
small business development trained
workers and provide career exposure
apprenticeships and learning
opportunities for youth provide
technical assistance and businesses uh
for businesses at all stages of the
business cycle and also importantly and
as highlighted in uh literature's past
couple slides increase supplier
diversity here at the county so these
two examples that we have um
on this slide are owami's youth
conference that's oregon association of
minority entrepreneurs youth conference
we're sponsoring them and a couple of
business diversity institute programs so
bdi's programs
owami's youth conference focuses on
minority youth providing them with
opportunities to connect and learn from
experienced mentors
the conference provides youth training
on topics such as business development
and entrepreneurship basics and personal
and business financing and basic say
basics and marketing and sales
uh business diversity institute is an
organization that provides training it
to minority owned and women-owned local
businesses
bdi's leadership recharge
sponsorship
helps to fund businesses to attend uh
this event where they can build their
network and gain access to curriculum
such as
business planning business transitioning
leadership marketing and financials
bdi's minority enterprise development
week
med provides workshops for industry
relevant education to small business
owners
and their
the second example that we have on the
slide here
for you this evening is a collaboration
between oeice economic development and
this is uh demonstrated in the kaiadiyas
partnership
so community discussions about the
bridge shelter which sits on 10th avenue
in hillsborough also known as caesareas
in spanish led to deeper discussion
within community about what the
primarily latino latina-owned businesses
along the street want to see and need to
thrive in their area so oeice and
economic development helped to support
the latino policy council the city of
hillsboro and other partners to identify
collaborative solutions to issues with
safety security and waste cleanup
so with a grant from the county and
substantial investment from the city of
hillsboro this important uh this will
this benefits uh to the counties is
underway right now and we'll be coming
back at a later point to report back on
on more of that work so these are just a
couple of examples of how oeice and
economic development staff are working
together we see a lot of opportunity for
continued alignment and staff from both
groups keep in close contact regarding
ongoing efforts and potential future
collaborations
so thank you and i think i'm turning it
back to you latricia is that right you
could turn it to me and then i'll pass
the ball to brianna and we can go to the
next slide
thank you so much um i'm brianna jackson
the learning and development program
manager and really excited to share a
few updates regarding learning and
partnership with the office of equity
inclusion and community engagement so
the leadership or the equity leadership
council training committee started this
calendar year in support of the 21 day
racial equity habit building challenge
led by oeice this challenge laid the
foundation for additional challenges to
follow including the pride month
challenge led by the lgbtq celebration
committee last month and the trauma
informed care challenge hosted by
behavioral health and developmental
disabilities divisions happening right
now
the training committee is continuing to
research additional learning topics such
as microaggressions environmental and
social justice and active allyship in
the workplace just to name a few so
we're really excited about being able to
move forward with additional
opportunities of learning for our staff
in a way that is um
accessible at many many different forms
additional learning opportunities that
we've hosted are as follows the
trauma-informed return to work learning
opportunities one was um how to focus on
people leaders and the other a focus for
individual contributors both of those
opportunities were led by aaron
fairchild of collective action
consulting additionally basic rights
organs
lgbtqia 2s plus workplace affirmation
and inclusion training
which was filled to capacity in june and
will now have a second session to
support the demand of our employees and
most recently the mainstreaming of
anti-semitism in america lunch and learn
workshop by bob hornstein director of
community relations and public affairs
of the jewish federation of greater
portland this opportunity was in
response to a community request and we
are grateful for uh commissioner navy
safai and her staff brenda lynn bartlett
for making the connection between oeice
and mr hornstein it was an incredible
event and we have the video so we're
really excited to continue offering that
as an opportunity for our employees to
learn
something that i want to note about a
couple of our opportunities that is that
we've also been able to partner with our
benefits department to be able to offer
wellness points as incentive for
employees to be able to attend these
learning opportunities which is really
helping us to bridge the gap between not
only um like health and well-being but
actual career wellbeing and learning as
well next slide please
next slide please
thank you um so i want to lift up the
discrimination harassment and
retaliation-free workplace uh policy
training with great enthusiasm so
between mid-april and mid-june learning
and development and partnership with
oeice launched a campaign to bring our
employees compliant with washington
county administrative policy 301 titled
workplace discrimination harassment
sexual assault and retaliation
prevention and a related procedural
policy 301 a i'm happy to report that 98
of our people leaders 80
of our individual contributors in each
one of our board members were trained in
roughly seven weeks and this was a live
two-hour training that took people away
from their standard work to be able to
learn this particular information
this training will be an annual
requirement for all employees and we are
currently finalizing a contract with the
trainer to continue to support employees
who are outstanding and new staff as
they are hired we also look forward to
expanding the focus of this training to
include the american with americans with
disabilities act and client um civil
civil rights and i just want to say that
we also did a survey with this
particular um this particular training
and received incredible feedback from
many people who thought that the
training was um well executed that the
communication was helpful to them to be
able to get into the training and the
support that they received to ensure
that they were able to
have the time away from their desks to
be able to do this training um was was
adequate so i'm really excited about the
things that we're doing in partnership
with oei ce and look forward to
continuing that partnership and i will
turn the floor back over to latricia
thank you for having me
great thank you brianna and
matt for your updates on our
partnerships together in those areas and
as i move towards closure i'll just
highlight a couple of other
partnerships
next slide please
thank you so one of the areas of
partnership that is really essential to
equity diversity and inclusion work is
our partnership with human resources and
the entire human resources team but i
really want to call out and appreciate
the leadership of our chief hr officer
and our talent acquisition team
so one of the items that
has happened as a result of our
partnership is that
hr is eliminating pre-employment
screening tests
unless validated or required for certain
public safety jobs this practice was
eliminated because it was determined to
be a barrier to a large number of
applicants who dropped out of the
recruitment process at this step
and we found that some tests also
resulted in a disparate impact for
applicants who were black indigenous
and latino or latinx
so really excited
to
take the time with hr to understand the
dynamic and the impact of a practice
that was long-standing within the county
and to understand its impact
while it seemed neutral
in its practice
understanding that it had a disparate
impact
second we're really excited to be
contracting with an organization called
workplace change a culturally
progressive full service human resources
consultancy
they are working with the talent
acquisition team to identify and
implement equitable best practices in
recruitment hiring and retention of
people of color
so that's really exciting they're
engaging on their own assessment and
change process
and then as i mentioned earlier oeice is
currently updating our bilingual pay
policy we're centering the experiences
of bilingual staff to identify immediate
and long-term solutions to the
shortcomings of the existing
policy which falls short in supporting
those who are providing language final
language services to our community
one update that happened
in the fall of 2020 is that we the
talent acquisition team again changed
the bilingual proficiency testing
company to uh language testing
international
due to the disparate impact the past
tests had on native spanish speakers
the switch to lti has proven to be both
more efficient and a better testing
process
next slide please
we continue to partner with the housing
department as you know two of our staff
people within oeice are dedicated 100 of
the time to support the work of
supportive housing services
and a few highlights of their work is uh
one that was a three-day event in april
um that was a housing access fair that
had approximately 160 attendees the goal
of that fair was to remove barriers that
homeless people faced when trying to
access housing
they provided language support and
accommodations for individuals with
disabilities and as a result all of the
available housing slots were filled
and um there were additional supports
such as meals being provided and
clothing items such as shoes being
purchased in support of our houseless
neighbors
um
there was also
some shelter fighting engagements in
partnership with hillsborough and
beaverton again
working across our jurisdictions to
build equity into our housing decisions
as it relates to siting and you all
received an update about our equitable
sighting policy
and then lastly
through a partnership with sunrise
church which was established as a hub
for community donations there's a
partnership now with faith-based
communities launching a donation drive
in support of future supportive housing
services placement
and so far 54 welcome home kids have
been
provided for the alola inn which is
opening in this fall or winter
next slide please
this is my final slide
as i mentioned our equity work is about
outcomes and so we need
data to understand uh where we have gaps
in our outcomes and
in order to have data
to understand our gaps we need data
systems and infrastructure as well as
supportive policies that support the
standardized collection and analysis
particularly of demographic data
so our equity leadership
committee equity leadership council
equity data committee has
conducted an initial analysis of
washington county's data infrastructure
and systems
and found gaps in inconsistencies as
well as areas needing improvement in the
types of demographic data collected how
it's collected whether it's shareable
etc as an example
some data systems collect hispanic
latino as a race and some data systems
collect hispanic latito as an ethnicity
separate from race and that makes it
challenging to do any kind of cross
comparison between those data systems
so the equity data committee identified
a need for a more comprehensive analysis
and the office of equity inclusion and
community engagement has been working
with
our arpa team to design a county-wide
equity data assessment
and
we launched that rfp in may
and received five uh successful
proposals uh in june and we have since
reviewed those proposals and have
identified
um the opportunity to move forward
um with interviews with proposers before
we move into the final contractor
selection but we anticipate that that
will
help to launch a very thorough
comprehensive
equity data assessment which will put us
on a road to being able to develop our
ability to collect and report out equity
data
in addition to that equity data
assessment through our our funding we
will be
hiring a civil rights compliance trainer
that person will be training
organizations who are receiving federal
opera dollars in their responsibility
for
compliance with
civil rights both employee civil rights
as well as clients civil rights and
we'll also be training our contract
managers so that they can help
coach our funded organizations as needed
to come into compliance
and we're also
um building out an equity coach kind of
position to help
our funded projects think about how to
more robustly build equity into their
projects and then as amanda mentioned
during her section and back to my
comment about what fits in our equity
benefit and what fits in our community
engagement bucket and we are using our
arpa dollars to support the
multi-jurisdictional community
engagement project so it all comes full
circle
um
in the connection between equity
diversity and inclusion work and our
community engagement work
so
um as we transition to the next slide i
just want to again thank the board for
your support for our work
for the commitments you've made in uh
arca investments in equity and again
with just deep gratitude for all of our
partners across washington county and um
our beloved office of equity inclusion
and community engagement tv
so thank you very much and i'll turn it
back over to you madam chair for any
questions the board might have
thank you ms tillman ms garcia snell ms
jackson and mr craigie
commissioners do you have any questions
or thoughts for our team
go ahead commissioner rogers
whoops you're on mute sir
am i no i think i'm off
thank you for telling me though
buttons clicking and unclicking don't
always work as well as we
would like them to uh just some general
comment and question of you tanya um
one pleased to see the work being done
in particularly matt craig's area
my work on wsi we're always looking to
see
if we can't engage communities
just don't have access to the services
so i i like that matt a bunch i'm
talking tonya but i see you know and i
agree
the body of work is pretty stunning what
we've done
so i
that that's all interesting
one of the questions i have to be kind
of the grinch of it uh and i did that
early on so this isn't anything new is
what was this going to cost and
originally
we all supported the work i still
support the work
uh but i always like to wrap i think
it's an occupational hazard being an
accountant like to wrap my head around
costs so i know what what's going on
i've heard of a couple new positions
tonight i've heard
several new contracts
originally we were going to have
one
person
at the board
a majority vote said no we're going to
have five that was great we are where
we're at
and i certainly can't take exception to
any of the great work that's been done
but
i'm trying to understand what this is
all costing including benefits so that
i get asked that if you can't imagine
the number of times in the community
what what is the program costing
and so nobody else may need to know but
i have an information need
as a chair i like what she says that all
the time she said she has an information
need i have one
that i would like to be able to take out
to groups and say this is what our cost
is and this is a benefit so
anyway that's
my point i compliment you tanya it
always comes from the top
people don't think that but it's true
the tone's at the top and
you've been able to accomplish this
through folks and so i i congratulate
you on that
thank you commissioner rogers and so um
we can provide that in a written update
because i do think that question has
been
raised as far as what does this cost
through this budget process and so for
example ms tillman had referred to
the two positions
that were supporting
shs which is our supportive housing
services program those positions are
funded by the supportive housing
services measure so as we think about
equity at washington county it is about
embedding equity practice in each of our
departments and so
i would think of this as a
centralized but decentralized effort and
that is in service to all of our
community members
as we move forward so let me work with
ms tillman and providing that in writing
because this is a reoccurring question
that comes up
it came up through the budget process
and we can provide that clarity of how
we're structuring our work
and
ms tillman had referred to
some of the costs and some of the
outcomes and we can make sure that we do
include that into kind of a dashboard
report to your board and also the
community as we move forward because we
know our community and our community
partners are also
interested in this work
any other commissioner questions or
comments
seeing none i'll finish up i want to
thank you as always for
these quarterly updates
uh it helps us be mindful
of how we are doing a better job of
serving our community and addressing
their needs
and it also
helps us take stock and recognize our
progress on this journey so thank you so
much team for being with us this evening
and matt i hope the temperature will
cool this evening in ways that i'm not
sure it did last night so everyone
please stay safe
drink lots of fluids take good care of
yourself it's going to be hot here for a
while in the pacific northwest
sarah harrington can we do an agenda
check-in and i apologize my mic wasn't
working at the beginning of the meeting
but i do have an update on cooling
shelter
and given the number of individuals that
are on the attendee list it may be
beneficial to spread that word at this
time if the board is okay with an agenda
change
sounds like a great idea go ahead miss
angie okay thank you chair harrington
and board and
um team if they are on it pre uh
displaying um a few slides um so i do
want to provide the board and the
communion update
given that we are in this extreme heat
environment our daytime
and evening cooling resources and
services so much of what i will say i am
reading from the slide deck but i do
want to make sure that this information
is available to our public both from a
verbal and also a written format
because i know um i and all of us can
talk quickly right now uh or at any
point in time
so in washington county we have close to
20 libraries and recreational facilities
that are serving as daytime cooling
shelters
some with extended hours into our
evenings
an additional 14 other locations are
serving as daytime splash pads or
hydration
stations these location the cooling
resources are all listed on the county's
web page and can be accessed by visiting
www.staycoolwashingtoncounty.com
and that web extension is
on the slide deck that you see displayed
on your screen at this time
trimet is providing free transportation
to any cooling center in the three
county region
our encampment outreach staff are
equipped with water
cooling towels and other resources for
those experiencing healthlessness
this is the same resources that we are
being made available to migrant farm
workers
next slide
so now we're transitioning into
overnight shelters and this is really
timely information
because our first overnight shelter for
this extreme event did open at 7 00 pm
tonight due to severe weather conditions
washington county has activated
inclement weather shelters that will
provide emergency shelter capacity to
ensure no one seeking shelter is turned
away
these shelters will provide relief from
extreme heat and access to air
conditioning
to access these shelter beds interested
individuals can walk up to one of the
locations listed below
so for this evening that includes the
salvation army building and the address
is listed
as on the slot as the slide displayed
and this shelter is open
as of 7 pm this evening
and it is accessible
via trimet route number 57
starting tomorrow
this shelter along with beaverton
community center will be open and the
beaverton community center is accessible
via trimet route numbers 52 76 and 78
shelters remain open 24 hours throughout
the severe weather event
meals are provided for guests
no one will be turned away and pets are
okay
for our guests please prepare be
prepared to work with shelter staff and
how to accommodate your pets at these
shelter locations
i do want to extend significant
appreciation to our washington county
staff
and our partners
to not only ensuring that these shelter
locations are available during this
event but that we are looking at our
year-round inclement weather events and
ensuring that their shelter
available for our community members next
slide please
and so i do want to leave with just a
general community message from our
public health division our public health
division continues to ask
that we do a neighbor check-in with one
another especially older adults and
anyone who might have a health condition
that could put them at a higher risk for
heat-related illness
members of the public worried about a
friend
family member or neighbor who they can't
get in touch with are asked to call
non-emergency dispatch at five zero
three
six two nine
zero one
one one to request a welfare check
and so that number if you're interested
is displayed on the screen at this time
and currently our staff are pushing out
these messages through our social media
networks and also
public
information
and that concludes my update thank you
chair and board for allowing me this
opportunity prior to
resuming the rest of the evening's
business
thank you ms angie appreciate all the
work that's gone into this
next on our agenda this evening we have
two public hearings
the first one
is related to a transportation matter
so first i would like to
ask
for a motion to read ordinance number
882
engrossment a buy title only
we have a motion from commissioner
rogers a second from vice chair willie
all those in favor please vote by
raising your hand thank you
commissioners any opposed the motion
carries unanimously four to zero mr carr
if you could do us the honors please
thank you chair harrington and gross
ordinance number 882 an ordinance
amending the transportation
transportation system plan element of
the comprehensive plan relating to an
extension of tile flat road this is
engrossment hearing number one
thank you sir
and i'd like to turn it over to mr
stephen roberts our director of land use
and transportation here at washington
county to see if there is a staff report
first
thank you madam chair yes there is a
staff report uh erin wardell is our
principal planner for transportation
planning she's going to walk through the
staff report
i'll be here as well along with andy
back our planning and development
services manager for questions or
discussion after the presentation thank
you
thank you stephen can we go to the next
slide
this slide shows an overview of the
presentation we have planned for today
um first of all i should mention that
the board directed engross meant at the
hearing on march 1st so it's been about
five months since we talked about this
ordinance and so we're going to start
with a review of the tile flat extension
planning we will then review public
outreach and some of the recent
community comments that we've heard
through some engagement and then we'll
be reviewing prior public hearings and
the engrossment amendments before we get
to our staff recommendation at the end
next slide please
the tile flat road extension was
initially identified as a part of the
planning work that the city of beaverton
conducted for cooper mountain they were
specifically evaluating the south cooper
mountain area as a part of it coming
into the urban growth boundary but they
expanded their planning to include
middle north cooper and some of the
adjacent areas so you can see in the
graphic shown which is from beaverton's
planning documents this extension down
in the the southern part of that map
shortly after beaverton completed that
planning effort washington county
conducted the transportation future
study which was an opportunity to take a
very long-range 50-year look at our
transportation system and as a part of
that work we engaged extensively with a
number of residents who live on cooper
mountain part of the save 175th
neighborhood group and those neighbors
brought up the need for an all-weather
redundant network around the cooper
mountain area that they call the around
the mountain solution and they had
identified through their own work the
need for the tile flat road extension as
well as the cornelius pass road
extension which you'll be reviewing in
ordinance 883 at an october hearing
so as a result of that community's
involvement the board added to the long
range planning work program the cooper
mountain transportation study and that
was an opportunity for us to do a
detailed technical analysis of
transportation solutions for the cooper
mountain area
we then moved into the urban reserves
transportation study which took a
broader look at the growth that we
expect to happen within our urban
reserves areas over about the next 40
years and our transportation system
needs that will result from that
the tile flat road extension has since
been included in the river terrace 2.0
plan that the city of tiger prepared as
a part of requesting metro to add
the river terrace 2.0 area to the urban
growth boundary and it is referenced in
ordinance number 879 the tigard urban
planning area agreement
next slide
the proposed transportation system plan
amendment before you would extend tile
flat road as a collector facility south
from shulls ferry road from its existing
intersection with tile flat road to with
the intersection of roy rogers road and
bull mountain road
it would also add what's called a
refinement area south of bull mountain
road to the intersection of roy rogers
and beef bend road
the purpose of a refinement area is that
we have an identified transportation
system need but there are some unique
constraints in the area and some
planning work being done by tigard in
king city over on the east side of the
road that needs to be advanced further
before we're ready to officially draw a
line on the map and so that's why we
have both an alignment for a part of
this area and then a refinement area for
another part of it
this is envisioned as a very long range
improvement
and quite frankly this is one of the
hardest things we do as transportation
planners is try to take a 20-year look
at what our system needs and why we need
that it's based on growth projections
and it's based on compliance with state
rules and laws guiding how we do
long-range transportation planning so we
don't envision that we will have funding
for this improvement in the near future
but adding it to our plan provides
certainty and transparency to the
community and it informs other planning
efforts that will be conducted over the
next 20 years
it is unlikely that this facility would
be built before the areas broadened the
urban growth boundary and i want to
explain that a little bit because it's
important and the next slide we'll talk
a little bit more about the urban growth
boundary potential expansion the reason
we think it's unlikely to be built has
to do with transportation funding we
have a number of existing needs already
identified in our transportation system
that have been in line for a really long
time so it's somewhat unlikely that
there will be funding available for this
before it comes into the urban growth
boundary i think all of us expect that
this will come into the urban growth
boundary within probably our 20-year
planning horizon if not sooner than that
um
so while we could build it once the line
is drawn on the map it's unlikely that
funding will be identified the other
benefit of waiting until the land is
brought into the urban growth boundary
is that portions of the road could then
be built by development or through
development and it would not be an
entirely publicly funded improvement at
that time so this last point really has
to do with transportation funding and
the availability of it for this
particular project
next slide
now this slide talks about that
potential urban growth boundary
expansion
what you see in this graphic on the
slide is an identification of the types
of rural land that we have in washington
county we have rural land designated as
urban reserve
rural land designated as rural reserve
and then rural land that has no reserve
designation
so when we talk about urban growth
boundary expansions in washington county
land that is blue is eligible to be
added to the urban growth foundry once a
city prepares a concept plan and
requests portland metro to add it to the
urban growth boundary then portland
metro goes through the process of making
the decision to expand the urban growth
boundary it's not a decision that can be
made by washington county were somewhat
reactionary when it comes to urban
growth boundary expansions because the
county board is not the decision maker
on this
additionally the land that is rural no
reserve
can be added to the urban growth
boundary
at some point in the future
175 of our original reserves have been
added to the urban growth boundary we're
only at about 40 right now a little bit
under 40 percent so we still have a ways
to go before these rural no reserve or
undesignated areas can be included
so in 2021 the city of tigard requested
metro to add the urban reserve area
identified in blue on this map to our
regional urban growth boundary
metro's chief operating officer
recommended to metro council that the
expansion take place not through a
regular urban growth boundary expansion
but through a land exchange process
which is not a process that the portland
metro area
has done previously but is allowed
through state statute
metro council has not yet made that
decision we believe they will make that
decision later this year or consider
making it later this year but we don't
have a definitive timeline
it's important to note that our planning
work and identification of the need for
this collector facility happened before
the urban growth boundary expansion
request was made it's somewhat difficult
at this point to have a conversation
with the community explaining that
because a lot of the community concerns
we're hearing have more to do with the
urban growth boundary expansion which is
again a different decision-making
process happening at the same time
next slide please
so this slide summarizes the public
outreach that we have done as
a part of all of these various planning
studies and the staff reports prepared
for the planning commission and the
previous board hearings had detailed
explanations of some of the engagement
that we had done as a part of this so
through all these planning studies the
south carolina mountain planning effort
river terrace and river terrace 2.0
planning with the city of tigard as well
as our own cooper mountain
transportation study and urban reserve
transportation study we had engagement
with community members living in this
area as well as through our
organizations such as our cpos and the
beaverton neighborhood associations
as a part of filing the ordinance we
went through our statutory required
notification process
additionally we provided supplemental
notification to potentially affected
property owners and offered virtual
question and answer sessions
the first of those took place in the
fall shortly after we had filed the
ordinance the second one took place just
a few weeks ago and as a part of that
second
q a session we expanded the number of
property owners who we mailed the
notification to
we expanded it into the rural reserve
area to property owners who take access
off of some of the rural roads that
could potentially have a future
intersection with the tile flat road
extension while the rural reserve area
itself will not be brought into the
urban growth boundary or directly
impacted by this road alignment given
their proximity to it we thought it made
sense to invite them to that
so we had about 16 community members
join us for that second listening
session i should say we had 16 unique
logins in zoom it's hard to say how many
people were actually there for that
meeting
and we had a very good conversation a
lot of the points that were brought up
at that meeting echoed the concerns that
we had heard at the previous hearings as
well as through outreach that we've done
for this ordinance through time
those can be summarized as concerns over
the environmental impact of the new road
our determination of the fact that we
need the road for connectivity questions
about the technical analysis that led us
to determine that
questions about the timing and the
funding that would be available for this
road and when they can expect to see it
done
questions about the process of taking an
exception to statewide rules and why
it's allowed in these unique
circumstances in urban reserve and rural
undesignated areas
and then finally we probably heard the
most questions about the process of
adding this area to the urban growth
boundary
fortunately for that listening session
we were joined by one of metro's
principal planners and so he was able to
speak for metro and explain more about
the technical process that metro will be
going through as a part of evaluating
this land swap
so that was really the bulk of the
feedback that we heard at that meeting
next slide please
this slide reviews your prior actions
the planning commission held their
hearing on december 15th of 2021
the board held their first hearing on
january 18th and then continued
deliberations to march first
at the march first hearing your board
directed staff to engross the ordinance
based on interpretation of case law that
arose after we had filed the original
ordinance
when we filed the original ordinance we
simply added the line to the map in our
transportation system plan
based on our review of case law we
determined that we also needed to add
some text references within our
transportation system plan referring to
why we added that to the map
so our engrossment adds a specific text
reference describing what we're seeing
in the map
it also adds a strategy to our
connectivity goal which describes how
adding this collector facility to our
transportation system plan helps us to
meet our connectivity goal
and finally we adopted the we are
recommending the engrossment include the
exceptions technical analysis as a
technical appendix to our transportation
system plan
that is not new information that arose
since then that information was included
along with our original staff report
we're simply elevating it to become a
part of our transportation system plan
through this engrossment
next slide please
and i went through the engrossment
changes now um so again we do think that
these
respond effectively to case law and are
what we need to do in order to be
consistent with state rules and with
that case law precedent
next slide
so our staff recommendation tonight is
to conduct the public hearing and then
as a part of the rules with engrossed
land use ordinances the board is
required to hold two engrossment
hearings so this is the first of those
it's our evening hearing next week we
will have the august 2nd day meeting and
at that time the board will have the
opportunity to adopt the ordinance
and i think that is our last slide
thank you
commissioners do you have any questions
on this staff report
at this time
commissioner 5 that includes you you're
off camera so no questions at this time
okay i have a question though
didn't want to step in front of any of
my colleagues
i'm confused about one thing if we could
go back to slide eight please
so
this
summary no no
so this
thank you for
summarizing in general the
engrossment changes
um
what i struggle with
is
that and i let me start with i did not
re-review the presentation from
uh when
we did the engrossment five months ago
i didn't do that at all
so i may just not remember something
uh
back on slide four if i could
i remembered
you know the
the
slide you know really focusing on the
tile flat road
uh
thank you this is the slide i was hoping
for
um
my problem is this bullet about adding a
refinement area
south of bull mountain oh
oh
right
never mind i do this all the time
i
uh confuse beef bend road with bull
mountain road
and earlier i was thinking bull mountain
even though i was seeing the label beef
bun
beef ben like why are we taking
this
whole big refinement area when the road
uh
general road alignment is way up there
you are not the only person who confuses
those two roads
thank you
i
answered my own question i'm sorry i
took up everyone's time
all righty
seeing no further questions from
commissioners including myself
i'd like to open a public hearing and
this is where i need to turn to our
board clerk
and see
who we have signed up and who else might
wish to speak so ms niola if you could
please
we have several people
aligned so the first one is andy haagen
andy could you unmute please
can you hear me
yes
thank you for uh hosting us and allowing
us to speak today i appreciate it and
for all your time from everybody
my name is andy haugen i'm also the cpo
10 chair
uh and i just am kind of representing a
lot of people that live in the area as
well as uh myself that have a few
comments
um
i i sent written testimony in earlier so
maybe you had a chance to review that
already but i'm just going to kind of
highlight a few of the main points that
i also submitted by
written testimony um i believe this
ordinance is not a great idea for
washington county because i think it
creates more issues than it resolves by
seeking statewide land use planning
exemptions in rural and forest lands it
promotes a dangerous precedent
to land use laws which are in place for
a variety of reasons if adopted soon
more exemptions and rezoning will follow
until the land use laws and regulations
could be rendered useless
uh i was looking in the ec report for
the board of commissioner staff report
and attachment a for all three possible
routes of a b and c for the proposed
extension
um
where almost all the categories for
economic social environmental and energy
were slightly negative or neutral
when not a lot of positive aspects for
that
this alone would show the road would
have very positive little positive
impact
many citizens of washington county do
not want this extension
not one person that gave testimony at
the planning commission was in favor of
it and that also originally failed back
in december
and there's no transit opportunities
it's expensive
it doesn't correlate i believe what the
county climate goals
and more desired improvements were on
tile flat road that were rejected last
year by the beard and city council
and i don't i think roads that already
exist should be improved upon rather
than adding new roads thank you
thank you next is tanya
steele
tanya can you please on you
yes hello good evening can you hear me
yes hello good evening uh it's very nice
to meet all of you
this is my first um
chance to attend one of these i
unfortunately did not receive
notification of some of the earlier
meetings
the july 13th or the october 25th
meetings um
i'm the owner of lone owl farm at 18 900
southwest schultz ferry road
my property is the 26 acres that tile
flat road would
bisect in order to connect
um
when we purchased this farm in 2011 it
showed on the map as rural reserve
a few years ago it suddenly with no
notification to me
uh showed up as undesignated which in
the newest document now says rural no
reserve
very recently a dedicated turn lane and
a turn signal into my property has also
appeared so
sort of to a lay person it's very
confusing how this process is working
what's happening
my children and i have been working for
the last 11 years to rehab this farm
it's a christmas tree farm
it's coming up on 100 years as a farm
we sell christmas trees every year we
have thousands of customers that come we
sell pre-cut you cut
we love to engage with the community and
we're very afraid that this road is
going to
again probably destroy or severely
impact most of our business
and drastically change
our farm my farm is 40 acres this again
will bisect 26 of those will make a very
large portion
inaccessible for farming
and
you know there's a lot of growth around
us and in some ways it's very sad to see
this happen it's a very beautiful place
a beautiful area and
we very much would like to i think see
the road not go through and destroy this
farm so thank you for your time if you
have any questions i'm very open to
taking those thank you
thank you next is lily stone
lily can you please unmute
lily we can't hear you
it looks like your mic's a muted can you
hear me yes thank you
commissioners thank you for taking the
time to hear comments this evening from
what i understand the proposed changes
to the tsp are largely to accommodate
the river terrace 2.0 plan
and that is why washington county is
looking to include the road and
potential intersection in this tsp
the river terrace 2.0 plan involves
swapping land outside of the urban
growth boundary that connects forests
streams
and farms with property that has been
already flagged for development for some
time
this plan has not been approved by metro
if this new roadway is to service river
terrace 2.0 it doesn't make sense to
include it in the tsp at this time
especially when shoals ferry has already
seen significant expansion
and these projects will impact signific
sensitive ecosystems
if the tsp is used to help identify
projects of fund
i'd argue that the developers of the
river terrace 2.0 project
should be paying for this change and not
necessarily taxpayers
also it is important to consider current
economic conditions
according to the bureau of labor
statistics
in june inflation was up 9.1
which is the largest rate increase we've
seen in 40 years
consumer spending which is a key
indicator of a looming recession
is also predicted to decrease as well as
fargo is expecting that more people will
be digging into their savings to cover
the cost of goods
to my knowledge the impacts of this
level of inflation and a potential
looming recession have not been
considered when examining the population
growth that would be used for these
projects
given that the tsp identifies projects
for funding
i'd like to see washington county be
more conservative with the budget and
only look at funding critical projects
not ones that could potentially happen
or be funded by developers
due to the uncertainty around this
proposal and the environmental and
economic impacts it would have
i encourage you not to approve a
engrossed ordinance number 882
thank you again for your time
thank you lily next is andrea damico
andrea can you please on me
andrea are you there
can you hear me now
yes
hi
i would like to address the creeks that
feed into the tultan river that will be
affected if the tile flat road extension
is approved
organizations have been cleaning up the
tabalton river for years
and the runoff of roads and bridges will
contribute to sediment and silt
that affect our waterways causing
erosion and pollutants which deteriorate
the water quality and the effect of
wildlife in the area
along the creek we have beavers nutria
deer and elk now
and many others
we need to protect our waterways from
being polluted
for the natural wildlife
changing the water the waterway doesn't
only impact us environmentally it also
impacts
our water table
in the past two years our water table
has risen
in which we have had to have our pumps
of our wells raised and this has never
happened before in
100 years plus
i'm not opposed to change but scholes
ferry and roy rogers have already added
lanes i really don't see the advantage
to extending tile flat
roy rogers and shoals ferry have as many
lanes as tv highway
and lastly if this was proposed in
december of 2021 and was turned down why
are we revisiting the expansion
and in 2014 beaverton had their plan for
south cooper and there was never a
mention of extending tile flat
what's changed since then the houses
have just started to be built on south
cooper
i urge the commission commission
to not approve the a and gross ordinance
number 882 due to the impact
that it will have on our waterways and
the wells of the remaining farms in the
area and lack of clear need for this
expansion
[Music]
thank you
next is carrie
parmentier
carrie can you on mute please
it should be fine good evening chair and
commissioners and thank you for your
time this evening
yes i'm actually speaking on ordnance
882 because i believe it's directly
connected with ordnance 883
i'm asking you to please
excuse me i've got covert at the moment
so i'm slightly struggling
to
stop and think about this
the planning commission voted against
this four to two
yet it as the last speaker said it's
back on the table and the question is
why
if we're looking at the proposal of
round the mountain
then there's a gap between where
ordinance 882 stops at tile flat and
where the proposed 883 stops at clark
hill road the reason being the rest is
rural reserves this is not good planning
it feels it's being done by still
and in fact is not actually opening up
for public consultation the way it
should be and connection with everybody
that will be involved
i agree with what cpo 10 andy hagan said
at the start of this with the first
public hearing
we've got existing roads let's focus on
those
stop taking rural lands for roadways
i was actually reading the metro's coos
report
and they said that metro is growing at
half the pace it was five years ago
that is a real clear indicator along
with this upcoming recession or just
slow down that we all know is happening
let's actually look and see what is
needed and properly assessed and planned
to there
rather than long-term planning that
could be extremely wasteful
and not a good use of our funds that you
manage on our behalf
thank you for allowing me the time to
speak
thank you
next is john
stone
john kenyon
yes sam thank you commissioner um i am
concerned with this
uh proposed inclusion of the tile fat
road extension and the additional beef
bend road intersection in the tsp
specifically
engrossed ordinance number 882 the
inclusion of these projects in the tsp
seems to largely be based on the
uh
terrace 2 project
which requires an urban growth boundary
swap that my knowledge has never been
done before and requires
approval by the metro that aside it's
important to consider future anticipated
growth when making these investments
especially when our community is facing
an economic challenge associated with
high inflation and increased interest
rates
even before the current inflation that
we are seeing today and doubling of
those interest rates we actually had a
population drop of 0.2 in the portland
metro area
and from 2020 to 2021 that data comes
from the u.s census bureau we are not
just seeing a decline
in population growth we are actually
seeing a decrease in population in our
area
i'm not sure what population forecasts
are included when justifying funding in
the tsp but when i look at the 2040 and
2045 distributed forecast
of population put out by metro these
studies do not include the impacts of
covenant 19 or the impacts of very high
inflation in the near term along with a
near-term recession those should be key
considerations when thinking about
including projects that are only needed
in the instance of continued expansion
in the area
i encourage you all to not approve the a
and gross ordinance number 882 and to
dedicate that funding towards something
that will be more beneficial for our
community thank you
thank you
next is marilyn silver
maryland communion
hi can you hear me
yes great
um
thank you very much for the opportunity
to voice my objections to this ordinance
i've also submitted written
uh testimony which goes into more detail
but i would like to just make a couple
of points
i fail to see the urgency or need to
pass this ordinance
your own planning commission as others
have said voted it down by a vote of
four to two
they acknowledged public objections and
their staff report failed to persuade
them of the need for this ordinance
the area impacted this by this ordinance
is outside the ugb and metro has yet to
schedule public hearings
on bringing the area into the ugb as a
mid-cycle exception
metro apparently is proceeding at the
request of the city of tiger and
apparently tiger doesn't want to wait
until 2024
which is the normal cycle for ugb
expansion i wonder
why metro is proposing a land exchange
apparently the first time this has been
done
what is the urgency for metro to act and
for washington county to act your staff
have acknowledged that this ordinance
requires exceptions to the statewide
planning goals
what is the urgency to build this road
in contravention to these goals which
prevent roads from being built on rural
reserve areas
population growth is slowing we all
agree
the pandemic has changed the way we work
and resulting patterned traffic patterns
and there are still areas in washington
county which are being developed
so what is the urgency for city of tiger
to implement river terrace 2.0
their representatives did not attend
your staff's question and answer session
so we don't know their motivation
the proposed extension will greatly
impact vital forest and wetland areas
and wildlife habitat
and in a time when climate change is
making its effects apparent
why do we want to trade forest canopy
and water resources for more concrete
and asphalt
thank you very much for the opportunity
to address the book
thank you marilyn honest
yes i'm sorry to have to interrupt you
and i apologize to everyone who is
waiting to testify
i have been informed that our youtube
broadcast of this meeting
is
not
working properly
so i have been counseled by county
council to pause the meeting
for a moment
so we can assess what is happening
while i know completely
that our video recording
uh
is
for streaming video continues to work
i just need us to pause for a moment so
that our team has the opportunity to
investigate
yes commissioner rogers yeah man i'm
sure i completely agree with you could
we also just take a five minute break
we've been going at it and i need to uh
kind of go off camera for me
yes
um i would suggest we uh take a break
until 8 15
if possible that gives you a little bit
longer than five good yeah okay
in the process of the public hearing
for
our
ordinance a engrossed ordinance 882
agenda item e1
so i'd like to turn it back to our board
clerk ms niola to see where we're at
with folks who wish to testify during
this evening's public hearing the public
hearing is still open
thank you next we have anna maria ponzi
anna
thank you good evening commissioners
thank you for this opportunity um i want
to first agree
with everyone who's already testified
this evening with their concerns and i
too oppose this ordinance
i also want to note that despite my
repeated requests i have yet to receive
any information directly from the county
on this initiative including the recent
july 13th q a meeting
and like chair harrington i also find
the maps and this information very big
confusing and unclear over my 50 years
i've witnessed the the encroachment of
the never ending development near our
property off of vandermost road
decades ago when our family established
one of the state's first wineries we
helped to protect our region's
agricultural industry
through state land use laws including
and most importantly the adoption of the
ugb
it's therefore incredibly disappointing
to see how this once precious boundary
seems to be so easily adjusted devaluing
its original intent
had it been respected in coordination
with responsible planning any
infrastructure should have come prior or
at minimum hand in hand with the
proposed housing
instead now we seek a band-aid approach
to support the overwhelming development
somehow now realizing
that housing means more cars
we got it wrong and that being said i
struggle to now see how extending a road
along another road will avoid congestion
this proposal only offers a temporary
solution as i believe the only real way
to alleviate congestion is
looking at the development and that
creates it
we've already seen the result of
increased traffic on current connecting
roadways from urban areas through
farmland accidents have increased human
life has been sacrificed with fast-paced
commuters likewise the roads have become
increasingly dangerous for the local
farmers there's also the continued
concern of not having adequate bike
lanes which will provide security to
urban cyclists who misjudge the volume
and the speed of the vehicles
so i'd like to know what the master plan
is i'd like to know how it ends and if
we don't respect boundaries how can
property owners like tanya ever feel
confident in making future decisions
this ordinance demonstrates how
boundaries may change again and again at
any moment
i hope that the commission will
reconsider to push this
just pushing out the urban footprint and
instead urge them to look at more
progressive longer-range planning and
seek a more responsible approach to
meeting both future future housing and
agricultural needs thank you
thank you anna
next i'm going to call on brett he is
representing 1 000 friends of oregon and
should receive five minutes to speak
hi can you hear me
yes
oh my gosh i did not realize i was gonna
get five minutes um thank you border
commission for the opportunity to speak
before you today for the record my name
is brett morgan and i work for 1 000
friends of oregon as our transportation
and great communities advocate
um as you all might be aware too a
thousand friends has been tracking and
working on issues like ordinance 882 for
over 50 years through the urban growth
boundary system and the land use system
be pioneered here in oregon and i think
many of the comments we have heard today
speak true to some of the conversations
and the way that the land use system is
supposed to allow for conversations to
be facilitated between urban or those
folks within the urban growth boundary
and those outside and what the
trade-offs we make when we make
decisions
if you haven't had the opportunity to
i'd like to direct you to the written
comments that we provided to the board i
believe yesterday which detail in more
detail than i can uh and with a legal
framework uh as well
uh specifically to ordinance 882 and i
want to call out two things that are in
the testimony itself one um as other
folks have hinted that is an exception
being made for this land use goal
there's a goal land use exception being
made
but we find that in the appendix and
when it is further explained why we're
pursuing a unique and limited
circumstance for why we would
make this land useful exception uh the
point is conductivity throughout the
roads and uh desire to limit congestion
on the roads but these are pretty
generic and somewhat dubious grounds we
consider to basically land use exception
and place a goal exception and we
continue to have concerns that if this
is the logic that we're using to justify
for this specific project uh it could be
used in multiple other instances and
used to degrade and break up farmland
and expand outside of farmland
i'd also like to make uh light of the
second thing mentioned in our letter and
other folks have made light as well this
uh tsp amendment is largely dependent on
a ugb land swap that has not happened
before and is a new process
um and i would also like to argue the
point that we're making reliance and
assumptions on who will pay for this
road potentially in the future without
the certainty of the current land use
system in the in the ugb swap nor the
understanding of who might those payers
be in the
future the next point i'd like to make
is really a framing of how i look at
this issue and it really is around
burdens and benefits and who those are
being placed upon and it's pretty clear
that ordinance 882 is largely for the
benefits of folks living within the
urban growth boundaries to the detriment
of those living outside the urban growth
boundaries you've heard multiple pieces
of testimony today from farmers
concerned citizens people who own land
uh all variety of folks who all all
pointed out the fact that this road and
this connection to ordinance 883 i would
again stipulate that these two
ordinances are very much connected and
one is dependent on the other for the to
really be effective and to reach the
goals that you are
moving towards but um the the
construction of the movement towards 882
and the construction of the road
eventually will degrade farmland split
up farmland and really limit their
ability of our uh region and our county
moving forward uh to
keep working lands in working option
um i'd like to close out that i caught i
constantly hear in in meetings around
the region and clackamas county
multnomah county benton county that uh
policymakers often feel constrained by
decision maker by the decisions of past
decision makers and that things like a
tsp amendment while seeming innocuous
now will greatly affect then shape the
decision making of future policy makers
that will come after you and for the
many reasons you've heard today if
you're feeling uncertain about this
measure and feel like maybe you don't
have all the facts or we don't maybe
need at this time you can certainly add
this to the tsb at any moment going
forward or work towards that goal but if
you don't feel like you have sufficient
grounds right now to do that you don't
have to pass this ordinance there's no
requirement pushing that forward
closing out too i would also like to
make light that we're in a heat dome and
that automotive transportation and the
road and infrastructure that we're
describing and talking about in ordnance
882 and an 883 really are automotive
road infrastructure that will have a
climate impact and will contribute to
heat domes and other uh extreme weather
phenomenon like we're currently
experiencing so with that in light and
kind of taking into the context of this
entire meeting uh we 1 thousand friends
of oregon strongly urges you to oppose
ordinance 882 and it's connected to
measure 883 thank you
thank you brett those are all the people
that i have listed that signed up for
the public hearing is there anyone else
that would like to speak that has not
been called
please raise your hand
i see no one else chair
thank you ms niola and with that i will
close the public hearing for a engrossed
ordinance 882
mr carr i have a couple of questions
should
is it appropriate for me to ask them now
or should i hold them until
we have another public hearing on august
2nd
once we
record that you are required to have
another public hearing so
it's your preference we're happy to
answer any questions that chair or any
of the other commissioners have
but we will have another hearing on
august 2nd
commissioners i would i would like to uh
ask the courtesy of asking a couple of
questions tonight
uh if that's okay with you okay and but
first do any of you have questions you
can certainly go first i have no problem
with that
go ahead commissioner rogers just just a
couple of comments uh and questions uh
the
comments are that uh
if the staff presentations are correct
in regard and i suspect that they are
aaron and what you've done
in terms of
timing
uh frankly this road may not ever be
built
uh
in time for anybody who's viewing this
tonight or anyone on this call to ever
see it
if you're talking out
40 50 60 years and so
one of the dilemmas that i have and
being one board member is that uh
you know you're you're looking at the
future you're trying to say what's it
going to look at like and that's very
difficult
so that's my comment my questions are
these is one the
the urgency i i don't know i do know
that river terrace
if they only have one outlet that's
under roy rogers road that's not the
best alternative they need some way out
i i guess i don't have a firm grasp on
what it would look like as you go to
tile flat and all of that but
to me getting out of that area over to
shoals ferry is pretty important so
i i regret that's going to affect some
really
fine businesses like ponzi and other
groups but maybe there's some way to
engineer it so that doesn't happen i
mean i don't i don't know that
but i would like
you to recover
your ground aaron at some points and
explain how this is done that
this board
is not the decision maker in regard to
the ugba expansion
we're not uh it's uh city of tiger has
requested certain things we
have a network of streets or ours or
roads and we're trying to
make a circulation
pattern that makes some sense not only
for
2022 but for
2072
and so
that's a hard thing to do but at some
point you may want to revisit that and
you also may want to
revisit the urgency
and the urgency isn't when you need
something it's in the planning because
things happen and we get that this is
this is the hard stuff i mean it's never
fun it's the hard stuff so
my questions are can you recover that
maybe not tonight but at least at the
next meeting and have prepared for those
kinds of questions that's my comments
and my question
we can certainly do that for the next
hearing um i can also address it now if
you'd prefer to hear
a little bit more about that at this
time
go ahead okay
so the um the decision to expand the
urban growth boundary as you said did
come from the city of tigard the way
that portland metro has laid out the
process in order to do an urban growth
boundary expansion a city has to meet
the concept plan requirements that are
established by metro's rules
city of tiger did that and they made
that request to metro as a part of the
2021
mid-cycle ugb adjustment and that's also
a new process
metro established the mid-cycle i want
to say as a part of the 2018 urban
growth boundary expansion i'm looking at
chair harrington i know she'll remember
this i believe as a part of the 2018
cycle they established the mid-cycle and
that allowed them to revisit the urban
growth boundary within a three-year time
period rather than waiting the usual six
years so 2021 would have been the first
mid-year opportunity
when metro looked at tigard's
application
they determined that due to or metro co
looked at it's a still staff review not
metro council review so staff looked at
it evaluated it technically and
determined that it was a concept plan
that met the requirements but they
determined that rather than do the
mid-cycle adjustment which required a
statement of need for expanding it it
made more sense at this time to do the
land swap approach and this has not been
done in metro yet but it is a set of
rules that are established by state
statute and other mpos within the state
can follow this process as well it's
just the first time that metro is doing
it
and so as a part of that they need to do
a technical analysis to find where the
land can come from and that's the piece
that they haven't finished yet so metro
staff are currently doing the technical
work that will lead them to identify
what land could be identified
already within the urban growth boundary
my understanding from metro staff is
that that land would then become urban
reserve and would replace this land
which would then come into the urban
growth boundary
so i believe this is all still being
determined
right now and so we'll see how this
plays out
metro council has not yet weighed in and
shown their preference for if they would
like to do this
i do think that it's important to keep
two things in mind first of all that the
county doesn't get to make this decision
at all we're a part of it we have
conversations our city partners and with
metro but they're the ones who make
these decisions
we end up in a a bit of a reactionary
position when these happen and as the
transportation provider we find it's
important for us to consider what we
need out of our transportation system so
that we can continue to provide a
connected multimodal system
and then the second thing i think is
important to keep in mind is that we
identified the need for this collector
facility before we knew that tigrid was
going to ask to add it to the urban
growth boundary so while it is more
likely to be built if this land does
come into the urban growth boundary and
start developing and needing a
transportation network at which time
development would probably build part
most of it may be
we identified the need before we knew
that part of it so there's a couple of
different moving technical analysis
pieces happening and when we come back
next week we can be prepared to address
this again
thank you uh commissioner rogers and ms
wardell commissioner vice chair willie
how about you
yeah thank you very much aaron that um
i was
anticipating that i'm gonna need to have
just a little bit more conversation with
you but that was a great explanation
and i think
from my standpoint
i'd love to hear a little bit more about
this whole process
i heard the testimonies tonight
and i understand that i
travel that area a lot because my
family lives in sherwood
so i i go there um but i yeah i wanted
to have a better understanding of this
and i certainly understand the concerns
that we heard tonight uh from the
testimony so i will reach out aaron just
ask for maybe 15 minutes to understand
the land swap part of it because i don't
get that so anyway thank you for that
to use your phraseology vice chair
willie i don't get it either it's
it's new for all of us
uh you know as as ms wardell uh
mentioned it is an aspect of land use
that the state allows
but metro uh has never utilized it
so we have no basis of explanation
and i know i haven't invested any time
in looking
at any
recent past information for the metro
council that describes it either so uh
we're all on the same learning
journey you're not alone
believe me
commissioner fine do you have any
questions at this juncture
no okay
um
so um
uh thank you ms wardell for speaking
about the
mid-cycle ugb expansion request that the
city of tigard
submitted and
since they submitted that
came this
new idea of the ugb land swap
and thank you for your comments on that
so that uh i understand how there is the
potential
for
such a thing to swap out
urban reserve existing urban reserve
land
with
land already in the urban growth
boundary elsewhere and as a former metro
councillor
and
before me
uh
lived with the decision back to
the 2002 ugb expansion that was
still which was done using the soil
classification
hierarchy where there is land out in the
damascus area that is in the urban
growth boundary
but doesn't seem to be in any rush for
urbanization so that could be some of
the land that they're looking at but
there may be others as well
so thank you for
clarifying that uh for me um i just have
a couple of questions and i don't need
the answer now laters just later such as
with the august 2nd
public hearing if you could
once again provide
a presentation for us because i think
that helps all of us
um
so uh
i remember
the history of adopting er
urban and rural reserves right and all
the remands that were involved with that
and court of appeals
the uh what i don't remember is the time
frame by which
the area
and if i look at um
slide number
oops
two three four five slide number five oh
there it is
um
there was a time
i think
when the land
south of shoals ferry road but west
of that
uh upper blue urban reserve
might have been in rural reserve
and uh
i don't know when
that little brown area
right at the top of
shoals ferry road and tile flat road was
made
rural no reserve to use your
nomenclature what i used to call
undesignated rural undesignated
so if you could clarify for me
now if you know it but certainly august
2nd that would be awesome
when that uh had that status
then uh the other questions that i have
is is
if we
go through this process
uh with this ordinance and the county
tsp is adopted
it's my understanding
that
for the urban reserve areas so the areas
in blue
there can be
through the planning process
right with development
that
right-of-way purchases could be
made for that or there could be
conditions on the development as
you talked about in the packet material
so it sounds like i got that part right
so far
okay
um
but my question is for
that area that is
rural
no reserve
if if
if the
if we don't
adopt the ordinance now
or in current time
uh
well what am i trying to get at
what i'm really trying to understand is
that
uh
for
that hatched area in the
brown part
we can't just
purchase
that property or purchase the
right-of-way needs to put that road in
such an area without
further public process and property
owner engagement and willingness and all
that right adding the line to our plan
allows us to acquire right-of-way and
construct the road so adding it to our
plan at this time would allow us to do
that
it would be unlikely to be done as a
part of development not not impossible
but unlikely because it is rural
undesignated or rural no reserve um but
it would be possible for that to happen
we could have some development within
the what's now the urban reserve area
even contribute towards that
extra territorial kind of improvement
because it'll be in our plan we'll know
it's an improvement that we're trying to
achieve and we'll have the ability to do
that
okay thank you
um then the the last question i have is
so
i'm
a frankly i'll just i am
a little bit bothered by the fact that
some people seem to think that
this tsp is being done in response
to the city of
tigards mid-cycle ugb expansion request
when
this is
a
tsp
amendment idea that has been around for
quite well since the
the development of an adoption of those
urban reserves
um so my question the question i'm
trying to get at is
uh i understand that we have another
public hearing on
april 2nd
but could we just as easily delay
action on
a decision on that until
after
the metro council has had the
opportunity to to decide if they want to
entertain a land swap
and or after they decide if they even
want to
grant a mid-cycle ugb expansion request
as made by the city of tigard
that would be something the board could
consider and we would want to consult
with county council to probably bring
forward an option for what that could
look like for the board and how we would
continue to a date certain
what that would mean from a technical
standpoint is that
if we wait until the land comes into the
urban growth boundary we no longer need
the exception analysis for the part that
is in blue
and as you said we've been working on
developing this ordinance and associated
cooper mountain area ordinances since
2015 probably going back to the
beaverton work that was done
way before we knew that city of tiger
would be making this request or even
that it would be possible for them to
make a request in the year 2021 so most
of our technical work predated that we
worked with city of tigard as they were
developing their river terrace 2.0
concept plan and explained our intent
behind this ordinance and what we would
like to see we do want to make sure that
their development has this internal
collector circulation
if it is brought into the urban growth
boundary and if it starts to develop so
deferring a decision until after we know
the decision on the urban growth
boundary is something that the board
could consider doing
now the piece that's in undesignated
just south of tile flat road would still
need that exceptions analysis and so we
would likely still need the tsp
amendment um as we have framed it today
although with the line work and the text
reference updated to explain that it's
now only that that piece of the segment
um that's outside the urban growth
boundary so there would be some
restructuring to the ordinance at that
time but if the exceptions analysis
technical work would still need to be
included in rtsp
okay okay
uh i also uh understand that that
listening session that you had
on recently on july 13th
was uh
regarding
property owners
was it for property owners as notified
just in the blue area or was it for
property owners in
that brown area as well up by shoals
ferry road it was both so we looked at
the uh corridor the roadway corridor
which is wide it's 375 feet and then we
applied a buffer to that additionally
for the july 13th session we noticed
everyone who's in the rural reserve area
who takes access off of van der most
road because that road would have a
future intersection with this alignment
even though the alignment does not go
into the rural reserve area i believe
the ponzi vineyard is in the rural
reserve area for example so not directly
impacted but included in our invitation
to that listening session
and i will say i know we've heard
testimony tonight from some people
saying that they didn't know about that
listening session i did verify that they
were included in our notice for that and
we have interacted with those property
owners in other fashions with other
meetings and phone calls as well
and that notification was done through a
letter it was okay thank you
okay
um
thank you very much i appreciate having
the opportunity to share my questions
and even to get uh some answers to that
this evening thank you very much
so with that commissioners uh
where we're at is we
um
held our public hearing this evening our
first public hearing on a engrossed
ordinance 882 we've also had the
opportunity for
some um
q a with our staff and sharing comments
with one another
and at this juncture uh
i'm looking for a motion to continue the
public hearing for our second oh excuse
me tonight was our second public hearing
but we need to
continue and have a public hearing next
tuesday august 2nd
on this a engrossed ordinance do we have
such a motion we have a motion from
commissioner rogers a second from
commissioner phi all those in favor
please vote by raising your hand thank
you commissioners any opposed the motion
carries unanimously four to zero
next
slight slight change of plans
we had a
a
hiccup with regard to accepting
testimony during our initial public
comment period someone who was signed up
was missed so before we move on to our
second topic for public hearings
given the passage of the evening i would
like to ask our board clerk if she could
please call on that person
uh and that we would pick back up from
there
yes dale are you unmuted
yes can you hear me anna yes thank you
hi i'm dale feek forest grove
district four
uh
resident
chair harrington and and county
commissioners
and i i'm
on i realized that kevin his grandmother
passed away and there were some problems
with
how this all worked for me to not
to make public comment now instead of at
the beginning of the meeting
personally i want to thank you
commissioner pam trees even though she's
on vacation
for writing the attached document that i
sent to an email titled statement on
overturning of roe versus wade at the
waiting county board of commission
meeting july 12th
i also want to thank you madam chair
harrington and commissioner nafisa phi
for also signing it
i appreciate the honoring of each
person's personal belief systems when
you commissioner roy rogers and
commissioner jerry willey decided not to
sign it
as commissioner tree said
this is not a letter but a statement
the beginning sentence reads we are
dismayed and frustrated by our u.s
supreme court
has chosen disregard nearly 50 years of
legal precedent protecting the right to
abortion in this country
then she goes on and i'm asking you and
writing to please review what she
wrote to you
and i copied it and pasted the email
that i sent to you
and i also sent my email i doubt that
the attached document titled women die
and that's pro-life
by nick kristoff will change your minds
commissioners rogers and willie but
please consider reading it
so that
that's statement one and statement two
is has to do with an email i sent to to
the environment equality commissioners
about
director richard whitman uh retiring at
the end of december as the director of
deq
i'm so impressed with what he's done and
changing the culture and how he's really
helped fulfill the mission of deq
thank you for letting me uh make my
comment now instead of wait at the end
of the meeting thank you
thank you dale
thank you ms knight i appreciate that
next we'll move on to our second public
hearing topic of the
evening and this is regarding ordinance
888 and i would ask mr carr if he could
well first i would ask the commission if
we could have
a motion to read ordinance 888 by title
only
we have a motion from commissioner phi a
second from commissioner rogers all
those in favor please vote by raising
your hand
thank you commissioners and he opposed
the motion carries unanimously four to
zero mr carr could you please read the
ordinance by title only
of course chair harrington ordinance 888
an ordinance declaring a temporary ban
on certain psilocybin businesses and
declaring an emergency
and i will uh be the lead presenter on
this so if it's okay with you chair
harrington i will proceed
uh good evening commissioners
good evening commissioners we have an
all-star team here to help you uh work
through this tonight we have stephen
roberts uh and teresa cherniak and todd
woods from uh lut and we have
mira samantha from hhs and rob bovet
from my office
to walk us through but i will uh lead
off the presentation now if we could go
to the next slide please
so this is a background on measure 109
as you know it was passed in november
2020 it legalized license and regulated
manufacturing transportation delivery
sale and purchase of psilocybin products
and the provision of psilocybin services
in oregon it is similar to but different
than the marijuana legalization measures
it was approved by 59 of the voters in
washington county uh with only 56
percent statewide
uh oh the off the oregon health
authority has completed some rules we're
making however rules for citing an
operation of psilocybin businesses have
not been drafted we expect completion by
the end of the year
on january 2nd 2023 the oha will be
required to begin accepting license
applications including for businesses to
manufacture tests in the minister's
assignment
the ordinance the measure does allow for
local jurisdictions
to pass an ordinance
banning uh the psilocybin activities in
their jurisdiction
if you pass that ordinance then uh oha
is notified that uh they are not to
issue any licenses in that jurisdiction
the
measure also requires that any such
ordinance must be referred to the voters
at the next general election which in
this case would be the november 2022
election next slide please
so this is a background you're very
familiar with on july 12th we had a work
session where the board provided some
direction to us to go ahead and pass
prepare an ordinance the board had first
reading of that ordinance on july 19th
uh next slide please
so i want to turn it over to ms samantha
who can talk a little bit about the
health policy impacts
all right uh thank you mr carr uh for
the record again my name is marissa
mantle i'm the interim director of
health and human services here with
washington county
um so as tom did a great job reviewing
measure 109 and noting the prior board
consideration of the work session on
july 12 and the first reading of
ordinance 888 on july 19th so just a
brief high-level review of the policy
context for psilocybin services as
stated in measure 109 a key purpose to
legalize psilocybin services in oregon
is to expand therapeutic options for
mental illness among adults and improve
the physical mental and social
well-being of all oregonians
psilocybin is a psychedelic substance
that has been used for medicinal and
religious purposes throughout history
and preliminary evidence from small
clinical studies indicates that
psilocybin may be effective and safe for
the treatment of some mental health
conditions in controlled settings and
among select participants
measure 109 created the oregon
psilocybin advisory board which was
charged with advisory in the organ
advising the oregon health authority
regarding the safety and efficacy of
psilocybin in treating mental health
conditions a research subcommittee of
the oregon psilocybin advisory board was
tasked with a literature review for this
purpose and provided recommendations
the evidence review by the subcommittee
cited that psilocybin may be effective
in reducing sub some substance use
disorders including problematic alcohol
and tobacco use and addiction was not
listed as one of the risks cited in the
rapid evidence review by the org and by
the opab
all right next slide please
i think teresa cherniak is going to take
this one from that mistake
thank you tom
um
so after january of this year the oregon
health authority will begin accepting
applications for licenses that will
allow new types of land uses
including psilocybin manufacturing which
will need to
happen indoors where the mushrooms to
make psilocybin will be grown and
processed
the psilocybin service centers which are
the establishments where psilocybin will
be administered to clients and then the
testing facilities
where there's a new unique type of a
land use like these usually land use and
transportation staff first determine
whether it's like another use
and if not we undertake process to amend
the community development code
considering where the new uses might be
most appropriate and where they might
not be appropriate
for instance with psilocybin service
centers
we would consider whether they should be
allowed in residential areas and some
rural districts
we'd also then consider whether there
might be some appropriate standards to
address any possible impacts from the
use
these might include things like distance
from sensitive schools or sensitive uses
like schools or other psilocybin
businesses
requirements say for fencing of any
outdoor areas
security requirements or hours of
operation and then we'd consider what
type of land use review is appropriate
for instance whether the uses were
allowed outright
or needed a land use permit
this is the approach that we took on
marijuana business regulations
which are included in our community
development code now and it would be the
clearest and most transparent approach
on the land use side of psilocybin
businesses
typically we don't develop our
regulations until state rule making is
complete
since the rulemaking often will address
the various items we might include in
our regulations
so we take our cues from the rules and
we we don't want to be inconsistent with
what the rules end up being because the
state hasn't yet started their
rulemaking for the service centers in
particular we haven't started developing
any local regulations
and that actually was not yet included
in our work program
next slide please
a few of the things that we do know now
that have land use implications
one is that the measure was unclear
about whether psilocybin businesses are
allowed in residential districts in the
unincorporated area it is clear about
cities
and the measure does say they aren't
allowed in a primary residence
but this would be likely one of those
items in our regulations to make clear
whether the businesses would be allowed
in residential districts
another is that the measure is that the
measure does allow reasonable time place
and manner regulations so again things
like where the uses are allowed and any
standards for operation
some of these are included in the
measure but others are likely to be
developed through the rule making
and in a similar way when the
recreational marijuana measure passed
some years ago the county did determine
that some time place and mana
regulations were needed
and implemented a temporary ban while
the organ sorry
while the regulations were developed and
adopted
also similar to the marijuana uses the
measure requires us to provide a land
use compatibility statement or lux
for all of the psilocybin-related
license applications
when we fill out a lux we're certifying
whether the use is allowed in the
proposed location and whether there's a
required permit process
without local definitions and time place
and mana regulations there could be
confusion over whether the uses are
allowed in different areas and potential
litigation over the code interpretations
that staff would end up making
these implications support the idea of a
temporary delay until state rules are
known and there's time to develop any
appropriate regulations
with that
i will turn it back to mr carr
thank you mr next slide please
so the staff recommendation is to refer
a ballot measure to washington county
voters in november of this year to
temporarily opt out for a maximum of two
years
uh we don't recommend uh permanently
banning psilocybin business of course
when i say we i mean hhs and and uh lut
the county council has no recommendation
on this uh
this is a similar approach that the
board took for marijuana um
the if the temporary opt-out is approved
the lut division department will begin
legislative process to develop time
placement matter regulations next slide
please
next slide please oh there you go so
this is the timeline you introduced it
on july 19th today we're having a second
public reading uh
second reading and public hearing this
is an opportunity for the board to
direct any amendment or engrossment of
the ordinance
um on august 2nd if the board engrosses
the ordinance this evening then there'll
be a public hearing on the occult
ordinance
if not if there are no engrossments then
there will be a vote on the final
approval of the ordinance and a
resolution order uh if the ordinance is
approved resolution or
putting it on the ballot for the
november 8th 2022 election
uh next slide
please so these are the options we've
talked and you may have seen we've added
one
uh option one is reject the ordinance on
august 2nd no temporary opt-out
option two is take no action for now
and defer action on the ordinance to
november or december at that point we
may have a better idea about what the
state's doing and then you could pass an
ordinance
uh if you pass an ordinance uh on in
november or december that ordinance
would effectively ban psilocybin
businesses from being licensed effective
to august uh january 1st 2023
that ordinance would be referred to the
ballot at the next general election
which would be november 2024.
um
we are the staff is not recommending
this but we thought we'd tell you that
this is an option uh we expect that this
is untested although similar things were
done with marijuana um
the the language of the the measure
appears to allow for this uh it
it could be contested
uh the recommendation is to approve the
ordinance on august seconds implement
this the temporary
two-year opt-out
uh option four is to engross the
ordinance today with either a shorter
longer period
or no sunset at all
so those are the four options next slide
please
that's it any questions
uh
i realized that
the packet
was not updated with this presentation
so commissioners i hope that
you have taken note of the definitions
of opt-out option one two three and four
i just downloaded the packet and checked
the packet again
once i noticed that it was different
from the prior version so
if you need just a moment to
write out what those options are for
yourself prior to the public hearing in
case folks mention the options
take a photo now
[Laughter]
it began
do you have any questions before we open
a public hearing go ahead vice chair
willie
well yeah this um
this frustrates me a little bit that i
just get this information at
nine o'clock
at night
uh with no advance notice
our last meeting
was
an ordinance that was written
to go to the voters for a two-year delay
and now we have option one two three and
four
and
i don't understand
why
this is now coming to us
at this particular point in time
so
i realize
chair that you and
commissioner trees
were opposed to this you wanted to adopt
um
the implementation of this on january 1
except the oha's
recommendations
i think there was
conversation by three of the
commissioners that had some concerns
about that and now we have four options
so
yeah this frustrates me
and again it's kind of a
blind side
proposal and um
i'd like to i'd like to hear more
conversation about
where this came from
i think if i might commissioner willie
um
i understand
the difference between the three options
that i believe we had
uh from our last meeting and today is
that
mr carr
has been clear
clear with us
about
what
option four is
uh
that with having an election
with no sunset
um
so i don't believe that options
oh
well maybe option two is new uh
maybe i have it wrong
let me stop there before i make the
situation worse
and mr carr if you could address
commissioner willie's question that
would be most helpful i should have
started you there and commissioner
william i do want to apologize this is
something that uh we discussed on friday
and uh
as i said it's an option that if you
read the the technical language of the
measure it's allowable but it's never
been tested so it's not clear what a
court would do with this
um
so we it actually is in the packet and
chair i just checked um it this this
version got uploaded yesterday uh and so
we we worked on it on friday and
it was uploaded so and i apologize if we
should have done more to note that and
that's on us
uh okay so my question my question to
you tom is who is we
are you say we worked this on friday i
was at naco
so
mr roberts mr bovet
uh ms cherniak and i worked on this
friday and over the weekend
yeah okay so
so
my frustration is this that
first of all
there was that kind of conversation over
that period of time it is now tuesday
this is the first time i've seen this
there's
number four
okay
uh there's number two
and i'm thinking i'm going to go into
this conversation tonight
with what we agreed upon
last week
in a three to two vote
that we would approve
number
three option number three and that's
where we were going
now we have
four options
back on the table again
so commissioner willie
you all you did last week was was was
introduced on first reading that wasn't
an approval the approval can't come
until tuesday this is
another legal option that we're laying
out for you you don't need to vote on
this tonight unless you want to amend
the ordinance the vote would come next
tuesday so you have time to consider
this and i apologize and we're happy to
sit down and meet with you and discuss
this um it's this is just your staff
trying to make sure you have every
option in front of you before you have
to make a determination
i get that that's when i get that i get
that tom
i i understand that but not at nine
o'clock at night
in the public hearing okay
if you wanted to communicate with me
then you should have done it yesterday
okay
i don't like surprises no more than the
chair likes surprises
this is a surprise it's a significant
modification to what we talked about a
week ago and it doesn't bode well with
me
commissioner willie
um
there is only one change
in
the
options
between last week's meeting and
what
we've seen display
so only one change but a significant
chair and quite frankly you opposed last
week's
ordinance
of a three to two vote you oppose that
and now we have
a modification
seems to me like there's some bait and
switch going on here and there's some
conversations going on behind the scenes
and then all of a sudden
tuesday night
we have
options
just doesn't feel very right to me
i'm sorry commissioner willie i think we
have a
misunderstanding what the position that
commissioner therese and i took
in the minority last week
was
with regard to continuing
through
the process the ordinance process
okay but on a vote of three to two
the board chose to continue with the
process
so now this is the process having
the
uh ordinance read
and having
a public hearing tonight with the next
step of the process being
the decision next tuesday
whether or not
to adopt
an ordinance
the only variation on that is
we have an ordinance on the table right
ordinance 888
and if the board wishes to make those
changes in addition to having the public
hearing tonight we would also have to
make a decision on any possible
engrossments
so
um
there's still another option
okay oh there's there's still another
option that has not been
discussed
at the commission level
prior to tonight and so
we're supposed to evaluate
um option four
with no sunset
we didn't talk about no sunset we talked
about a two-year sunset
option two
no action now
defer action on the ordnance till
november december that wasn't even on
the docket
so no i'm sorry chair okay there's a lot
of variety in what our decision making
is supposed to be
tonight and next week
okay i i understand
more clearly what you're saying okay and
i don't disagree with you at all
okay
um
commissioner uh commissioner mr carr i'm
sorry
i gave you the wrong title
i i i want to object to the bait and
switch
that's not fair
we provided this to you at six o'clock
last night and i know it was late we're
just trying to do our jobs
seriously six o'clock last night tom
that that counts
okay
yeah okay so it won't be it's not a bait
and switch i don't mean to offend you by
the terminology
i will okay i apologize for that
but this defends me
okay
the fact that at nine o'clock at night
we're having this conversation
offends me
so i guess we're both equally offended i
apologize if i offended you with my
terminology but this
doesn't work
to be clear the only thing that was
added was option two we had three
options last week we added another
option which i think is legally
questionable but i included it at out of
an excess of caution if you want us to
take it out we can do that
uh but there's really very little reason
to insult your staff
and that's what you're doing
these are people who work really hard to
get this in front of you
and i think it's it's inappropriate
let's try and let's try and be clear
about this tom
there was no
implication that i was insulting the
staff
if you took offense to it i apologize to
it
okay
but it's not about staff
this is about communication
eyes wide open when i go into a public
hearing that i know what the hell we're
talking about
okay and i didn't
now you can say you said at six o'clock
last night well i was at a wea event
till nine o'clock last night okay so i'm
sorry i didn't pull it up and i didn't
look at it
i guess that's on me
but
this doesn't work
so we can move on
commissioner rogers
um
just for clarification
in adding option two have the options
been renumbered from what we approved
the last time so
so we're clear if we went with
it was we went with three is that two
last time
i just i'm sorry i don't have last two
was added between one and three
for me
two was added between one and three
it's really not nobody if we saw him
last last time
what would three have been numbered so
that we're consistent i i don't have
that from tom from three would have been
two okay that's what i want to know
but to be clear the ordinance hasn't
changed at all the ordinance still
incorporates option three
all we're doing is going over things
that ways you could change the ordinance
well madam chair i'm still in favor of
what now is option three i guess it was
two last time so i was for the records
right trying to be clear so that we
don't sit there and say we're still in
favor of two two now has changed and two
or three and all that but
i i i'm still with the staff
recommendation yeah
and for the record what threw me is we
didn't get any indication that the
presentation changed
and it was done after
the ordinary 3 p.m on monday deadline
so that the commission knew
to be prepared for the
presentation change
thank you mr carr for
making it clear that the ordinance
hasn't changed
uh
but we do know that we have an
additional option that had not been
previously covered so thank you for that
and i join commissioner willie uh in
apologizing if any staff feels in any
way
uh
offended or slighted
in any way this evening as we try to
make sure we know
we understand what we've had the benefit
of understanding through tonight's
presentation
so we
uh have a presentation
staff report do we have any remaining
commissioner questions before we move on
to the public hearing
okay
uh ms niola
uh we've read the ordinance fight title
only we've had the staff report could uh
we you please or i'd like to open the
public hearing
uh could you please uh bring in the
folks who wish to testify thank you
yes first to speak is jesse ewing jesse
good evening can you hear me couldn't
hear you anna sorry
can you hear me
yes we can hear you
good evening i'm jesse ewling a
mycologist and a professor at oregon
state university with over 15 years
experience including many high-profile
peer-reviewed publications i'm also the
mycologist and the co-chair of the
oregon psilocybin advisory board but
today i'm speaking to you as an
oregonian
psilocybin is non-addictive safe it's a
naturally occurring medicine and
mushrooms with proven efficacy in
treating mental health conditions like
depression addiction
ptsd and anxiety
as evidenced by the recent fda
designation as a breakthrough therapy
this is not marijuana the production
process and biology of these organisms
is different than marijuana
however psilocybin is not a silver
bullet it won't work for everyone and we
take that reality very seriously
we summarize evidence for both the
efficacy and the potential negative
outcomes in a document that was
previously referred to as the rapid
evidence review it's available on the
psilocybin services website
i also personally summarize all the
biochemical mycological and
ethnomycological history of psilocybin
production and usage and open access
peer-reviewed publication in the journal
fungal biology which i can share with
you
we as a board have put forward very
reasonable recommendations to the oha
and they've already put some of those
into rules through their expedited
rulemaking for training programs
products and testing licenses for
example of the over 200 species of fungi
that produce psilocybin we're going with
just one cylosophy cubensis we're not
doing synthetic psilocybin because we
don't have the oversight to meaningfully
regulate that process safely
all clients will be over 21 and will
undergo extensive screen and preparation
sessions this is not a dispensary model
and i recommended these guidelines
because i like you want to live work and
raise my family in a peaceful and safe
community that is free from illicit
activity
it's okay to have questions about this
approach because it's new and
transdisciplinary but as community
leaders we have a responsibility to help
address this mental health crisis so i
encourage you to think of the people who
might not make it those two years and i
encourage you not to opt out of of
psilocybin licenses for businesses thank
you for the opportunity to speak with
thank you
next is barbara hansen barbara can you
please unmute
hi again can you hear me okay yes
thank you uh i am an rn with over 35
years of experience working in hospice
in oregon i currently serve as the ceo
of the oregon hospice and palliative
care association which is a statewide
public benefit organization helping to
ensure oregonians have access to high
quality hospice and palliative care as
they near the end of life
and although i serve on the oregon
psilocybin advisory board i am
testifying today in my role with the
oregon hospice and palliative care
association there are 15 hospice and
palliative care programs that serve
washington county
and 11 of them are members of our
association these programs provide
excellent care for many hundreds of
washington county residents each year so
my purpose in testifying today is to
respectfully ask the county
commissioners to consider the needs of
seriously and terminally ill residents
when you discuss ordinance 888
i have never personally taken psilocybin
but i know there have been studies done
at johns hopkins and nyu showing very
promising results about the benefits of
psilocybin and improving symptoms of
depression and anxiety
among others the the improvements are
even after one single treatment and they
can last for many months more studies
will be done and need to be done but
these results already show the possible
benefits for persons who will need
palliative or hospice care please allow
them to have access to this promising
treatment thank you for this opportunity
to testify today
thank you
and next we have sherry
sherry can you please on me yeah can you
hear me
yes
hi my name is sherry savoit and terry i
am from forest grove
um i've been a depressive my whole life
i suffer from
depression and anxiety
um in 2020 i had a lung cancer
surgery and um they took out half of my
left lung
and i got severely depressed
over that period of time for a year
and um
i just kept thinking
i wish i can't wait till 2023
for the psilocybin to be legal
here so
i just want all of you that need to know
more about
psilocybin to watch
the movie that's on netflix how to
change your mind
and look up paul's statements
and see his research
um
my
one of my friends i told about this
delay
she said people are gonna die
so
that's i know that sounds dramatic but
this can seriously help a lot of people
so i really urge you
to have no delay and do option one if i
read that correctly
and um
i wanted to add
that the ripple effect of psilocybin
could mean less people in the fancy
new
facility that they're building in
beaverton so
please um
don't take this decision lightly
um
i don't know it's really hard to talk
about
mental health stuff and i'm short of
breath because of my lung issue but
i just want you all to tune in and
open your hearts
anyways i better stop talking
but thank you harrington and um therese
for
being on board
thank you sherry
chair that's all the people i have that
signed up is there anyone else that
would like to speak on this ordinance
please raise your hand
i see no hands
thank you ms niola
and with that we'll close tonight's
public hearing
uh
board members i
would refer us um
back to
the
presentation
um
the
options
on the presentation are
i think
um
a little
out of sync with the requested action
perhaps on the
packet table that i'm seeing before me
but
that could entirely be
my problem let me go back to
well i can't i have to clear
do an unusual clearing of the cache
which is ridiculously arduous so
anyway
um
what we
um
we've closed the public hearing i want
to make sure i'm doing these procedures
right
uh
what we need to decide tonight
is if we want to proceed next week with
ordinance 888 as it stands or do we wish
to entertain any changes to the
ordinance that would require us
to consider those and engross the
ordinance tonight
otherwise we will delay further decision
making
on the ordinance to next tuesday
uh
mr carr
uh i saw you raise your hand and then
not
but you're unmuted did i capture that
correctly yes that which is why i load
my hand sure okay that's correct
thank you sir uh vice chair willie
yes thank you chair i i just want to
make a couple of comments and then ask
uh for
a procedural
perspective so
we have heard from the voters that this
product needs to be available that is
not in question from my standpoint there
there isn't an option
to ban
this completely and we're not even
considering that
in regards to our
two-year
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deferral i really strongly believe it
will not be two years i think we need to
give our staff opportunity to evaluate
what the oha rules that come out we
haven't even seen them that and then an
opportunity for our lut department to
determine where we have siding available
so there's a lot of work that needs to
be done on this before we can implement
this and i'm just i think that's the
reason why i'm going with option three
because we need to take those things
into consideration
i heard
the
com i have compassion
for those who are testifying that they
need this
i understand that i am not opposing that
i'm just advocating that
as a county commissioner i believe we
need to make sure that we understand the
rules and that we are complying with the
guidelines that will be provided by the
state
so with all of that
chair i am concerned a little bit
that
commissioner therese is not here tonight
and she was
obviously um
in opposition to option three
uh i don't want this to be a
i don't know possibly a two to two
tonight so how do we go about making
sure that commissioner therese is heard
in her vote next let me let me ally your
fears
okay
you're correct that there are four of us
here tonight i vote last
and
i am in agreement
that
a decision
should be made
next week
okay
so i am in no way
uh
i don't have a need
to
exercise
my political power and influence through
my vote of one
okay
uh i
and i've made accommodations to attend
next week's meeting even though i'm on
vacation
so
um
let me allay your fears okay okay yeah
thank you i just wanted to make sure
tonight was to have the public hearing
and to decide if
the board thinks there is a need to make
changes to ordinance 888 and do an
engrossment okay
i
am choosing to not exercise
the option as you recognize to toward
having a decision opportunity next
tuesday okay all right yes thank you for
that and again i was mostly
um
considerate of trying to be considerate
of commissioner therese she's not here
tonight but i wanted to make sure we
heard her vote as well so thank you for
that
okay commissioners
do any of you have a need to consider
any
changes to ordinance 888 that would
require us to have
consideration of those and engrossment
i'm not seeing anyone have any
indication
all right
so
um
mr carr
just to make sure i do this right
especially since
uh
some of these options uh involve time is
of the essence if i could use that
phrase
the ordinance
that is in our current packet
i believe
that is reflective of the staff
recommendation
uh
to
implement and opt out an election with a
two-year sunset
am i correct on that
that is correct yes okay thank you
um so we don't need to take any
let me double check my sheet of paper do
we need to uh take an action
uh
to move the draft ordinance forward for
next tuesday
no you could move to continue
consideration but it's already scheduled
so
i'll move to continue would probably be
the appropriate motion okay let's do
that then
uh
board
members uh do we have a motion to
consider moving forward with ordinance
888 for next tuesday we have a motion
from commissioner rogers do we have a
second we have a second from
commissioner willie
all those in favor of moving forward
with consideration of the ordinance for
next tuesday's meeting please vote by
raising your hand
uh the motion is unanimous well anyone
opposed
there are none uh the motion is
unanimous four to zero so next week we
will
next tuesday august 2nd vice chair
willie will be running the meeting and
on the agenda will be the consideration
of adopting ordinance 888
which is the option
uh for
a
opt-out
of to
uh with a two-year sunset
okay go ahead vice chair willie
you were supposed to give me an easy
agenda for next week what what happened
with that i blew it sorry
all right
thank you
all righty then
so
the next item on our agenda for this
evening is our second public comment
period this is an opportunity for
community members to come and share
their thoughts with us for up to five
minutes a person
uh ms niola do we have anyone who wishes
to speak with us at this time
i had no one signed up but if there's
anyone please raise your hands
no hands
alrighty thank you
next on the agenda is board
announcements i'll start the process off
as mentioned we will have board meetings
next week we have a work session
starting at 9 00 a.m then it will pause
so that
vice chair willie can run the business
meeting starting at 10 a.m with the
housing authority board of directors
meeting at 10 followed by the board
meeting at 10 30 and then reconvening
the work session
uh
at
probably 1 p.m
i'll see you all in eastern standard
time
uh then there is a work session on
tuesday august 9th
not sure that i left you a simple agenda
that day either commission vice chair
willie
on tuesday august 16th as there are
three of us on the commission who will
be away on vacation
the meetings are cancelled no quorum so
that means we will have had one meeting
in august with the full board
yeah us for
modeling taking vacations
uh then we're into the month of
september
ta-da folks we are reconvening in person
on thursday september 1st we'll have our
round table so the board will be meeting
in person which means
we'll be moving to hybrid mode so our
public can can
attend in person or you can continue to
tune in through zoom and youtube uh
because we will be hybrid versus 100
virtual
still the same people
uh then on tuesday september 6 that's
the monday after the labor day holiday
we'll have the joint pair of meetings
work sessions starting at 9 00 am board
meeting at 10
and the following tuesday september 13th
vice chair willie's going to have to
preside over that meeting again as
commissioner phi excuse me commissioner
therese and i will be away on a clean
water services trip
and um that's it for now on september
meetings we will have another
set of meetings in september so in the
month of september we'll have two
meetings with the full board in
attendance so
that's it for board announcements from
me this evening uh any from the rest of
the commission
all righty well with that do we have a
motion to adjourn today's
we have a motion from commissioner phi
in a second from vice chair willie all
those in favor please vote by raising
your hand thank you commissioners and he
opposed the motion carries unanimously
4-2-0 our meeting this evening is hereby
adjourned everyone please take good care
of yourself in this heat wave that we
have i just saw the
email from our emergency manager that
the forecast has been extended into
possibly saturday so do take care
and be very safe
watch out for one another bye now
you