[3:30] Good morning everybody. I'm going to

[3:31] open up this Yuma County Board of

[3:33] Commissioners formal session at 10:00

[3:35] a.m. on June 18th. Commissioner King,

[3:39] will you lead us in the flag salute?

[3:43] » I pledge allegiance to the flag of the

[3:46] United States of America, and to the

[3:48] Republic for which it stands, one nation

[3:52] under God, indivisible, with liberty and

[3:55] justice for all.

[3:59] Thank you for that.

[4:01] >> Well.

[4:05] » See is our calendar session. Is there

[4:07] any changes?

[4:08] >> Nope.

[4:09] >> None. All right.

[4:12] D is a presentation and we're welcoming

[4:15] our

[4:17] we're welcoming Alerica

[4:20] to give us a presentation on the

[4:22] broadband grant funding that we

[4:23] distributed here. When was that? Year

[4:25] and a half ago?

[4:26] >> No, it was 2 years.

[4:28] >> Almost 2 years ago.

[4:30] >> Time gets by. Well, the project's

[4:32] wrapped up and we're here to get a

[4:34] presentation on it. Welcome.

[4:36] >> Thank you.

[4:38] So, I did make a little PowerPoint on my

[4:40] laptop. Is there an easy way to share

[4:42] that or do you want me to just kind of

[4:44] go through it?

[4:44] >> We will direct you

[4:46] >> Sure.

[4:47] >> to the lovely Bailey and K.

[4:49] >> That'd be great. Yeah, do you

[4:50] >> have So, do you have it on your

[4:52] Perfect.

[4:55] » Looks good.

[5:02] Try to keep it short and sweet.

[5:03] >> Sure.

[5:05] >> Appreciate you coming out.

[5:06] >> Absolutely. So, you guys

[5:08] >> Oh, that looks familiar.

[5:09] >> probably remember

[5:11] uh

[5:13] December of

[5:14] uh

[5:15] year and a half ago, 18 months ago, we

[5:18] decided we wanted to go fix

[5:20] internet connectivity for about 300

[5:22] households in Yamhill and uh

[5:25] Oh, sorry.

[5:27] Absolutely. So, about 18 months ago, we

[5:30] all decided we wanted to fix internet

[5:31] connectivity for about 300 households

[5:33] that had

[5:35] very poor service options.

[5:37] So,

[5:38] um

[5:40] you go to the next slide. We had

[5:42] uh

[5:43] needed we we we had 24 months to deploy

[5:47] uh

[5:48] all the capital and and connect

[5:50] everyone.

[5:52] Got it done in 18 months, which we're

[5:53] really excited about.

[5:55] We wind up with

[5:56] a little more underground fiber than we

[5:58] expected in the beginning.

[6:00] Underground is generally better because

[6:02] less prone to storm damage. You guys

[6:04] might remember the storm that came through the area a

[6:08] few years ago and put a lot of the

[6:09] aerial fiber on the ground.

[6:11] So for that reason we we tried to if

[6:14] there's a lot of tree cover, I go

[6:16] underground with it.

[6:18] So we wind up with 131,000 ft of

[6:20] underground fiber placed,

[6:22] um, past all the 297 addresses that we

[6:25] wanted to pass.

[6:26] Um,

[6:27] we had some significant

[6:29] issues with

[6:31] fiber supply chain. Most of that due to

[6:34] the BEAD grants starting to hitting in

[6:36] other states.

[6:37] But fortunately, we have a great team in

[6:40] procurement and they were able to

[6:42] do some things like driving to Colorado

[6:45] to pick up spools of fiber to make sure

[6:48] we we got it done quickly and

[6:49] efficiently.

[6:51] So 100% of the permitting and

[6:53] construction is complete and we're now

[6:55] doing

[6:56] connecting customers and and doing

[6:58] drops.

[6:59] You can go to the next slide.

[7:02] So this is just a kind of a a brief

[7:05] overview of of kind of what got done.

[7:08] A lot of vault set. That's just because

[7:10] there's a

[7:11] lot of main line required to put all

[7:13] those

[7:14] the people that were unserved were

[7:15] unserved for a reason. They're they're

[7:17] out in the middle of nowhere.

[7:19] And so put 271 vaults in and had

[7:23] 20,000 ft of aerial strand as well.

[7:26] So it's all energized and lit. The

[7:30] first customer should be coming online

[7:31] here in the next few days.

[7:33] >> How many hookups did you end up with?

[7:35] >> Well,

[7:36] um,

[7:39] it's looking like we might wind up with

[7:40] 220.

[7:42] Um, so uh you know, you never know until

[7:44] you hook someone up. Uh there might be some people that drop out or

[7:47] other people that add in, but um

[7:50] uh right now 221 is the number that we

[7:52] have uh

[7:53] on the on the docket to do drops for.

[7:56] >> Can you remind me what the cost of your

[7:57] basic package was?

[8:00] >> It's $59 a month.

[8:03] I'll go to the next slide.

[8:06] Um so the uh we have 85 that are that

[8:11] are in the pipeline to get dropped um

[8:13] hopefully in the next few weeks. Um

[8:15] we're targeting the next 4 weeks for

[8:18] those 85 drops. We're we're trying to

[8:20] get them in the hopper as fast we can.

[8:21] We'd really like to get all 221 done by

[8:24] the end of summer, um but some of them

[8:26] are are quite long.

[8:28] Um so it it may be into September,

[8:30] October before we get all of them done.

[8:32] >> When you say quite long, just their

[8:33] driveways are a long ways into like the

[8:36] actual house that it needs to be hooked

[8:37] up into or

[8:38] >> Uh one of them is is over 4,000 ft long.

[8:42] >> Folks.

[8:43] >> Yeah, so we're looking at some of those

[8:44] going, "Well, that's going to take a hot minute." But um uh

[8:48] yeah, the the 85 that we have that is in

[8:50] the pipeline includes one that's 1,200

[8:52] ft. So so we're going to be biting off a

[8:54] couple of the long ones in the beginning

[8:55] to make sure we don't wait to the end to

[8:57] get them all done.

[8:59] Um we've been uh

[9:01] keeping in contact with customers with

[9:02] mailers. We've had four rounds of

[9:04] mailers go out just to let all of the um

[9:06] uh

[9:07] the people know what's going on and

[9:09] where we're at.

[9:10] Um and that's been uh very well

[9:12] received.

[9:13] And um

[9:15] just in the last few days we've

[9:17] completed 13 drops. So we should be

[9:19] turning those customers on in the next

[9:21] week or two.

[9:23] Next one.

[9:26] So the budget went well. Um we had a

[9:29] initial uh

[9:30] budget of $3.6 million and it was $3.62 million. So uh um

[9:38] very excited about that. Um there's

[9:40] still going to be more cost incurred by

[9:41] Alyrica as we get these drops in in

[9:43] place and and installs done, as

[9:46] expected. Um but uh

[9:48] the team did a very good job of

[9:50] estimating costs and controlling costs.

[9:52] Um

[9:53] uh we had a lot of uh

[9:55] panic moments as uh the costs were

[9:58] rising from our our subcontractors and

[10:00] the material costs were rising and had

[10:01] to get creative with how we how we

[10:04] control them, but I was very impressed

[10:05] with how well the team did on that.

[10:08] Um you can go to the next slide.

[10:11] So,

[10:12] we really appreciate you guys helping us

[10:14] make this happen. Obviously, would not

[10:16] have gotten these

[10:17] the the connectivity options to these

[10:18] people without you guys.

[10:20] And so, really appreciate Yamhill's

[10:21] support in this.

[10:23] And um excited to get all the customers

[10:25] online and and make their lives better.

[10:31] » Thank you for that. Uh one of the things

[10:32] I had brought up during this whole

[10:35] conversation was the cost of broadband

[10:37] and how we were pretty much restricted

[10:40] to this being a broadband project. Uh I

[10:43] had brought up what about Starlink? And

[10:46] when you compare the cost of Starlink

[10:48] for rural customers for anybody compared

[10:51] to it's what comes down to $12,000 per

[10:54] hookup and that's not even and that's if

[10:56] you get all 297.

[10:58] Uh $12,000, $13,000 per hookup of

[11:02] taxpayer money and then we had a couple

[11:05] of million dollars just in the

[11:07] assessment and the study to do this

[11:09] before we handed it off. So, I I've

[11:12] always had concerns about the fact that

[11:14] here was, you know, federal handout. I

[11:17] just want this for the record as not an

[11:18] indictment against Alyrica. You guys

[11:20] have done a wonderful job in Polk

[11:22] County. You did a great job here. You

[11:23] did exactly what we asked you. But it

[11:25] was like our we were hamstrung by you've

[11:29] got you can't use Starlink and you can't

[11:31] pay people to put in Starlink cuz it's

[11:33] so much cheaper and it's excellent

[11:34] coverage for those who live in the rural

[11:38] areas. So, I just want for the record

[11:40] sometimes these federal programs or

[11:42] state programs just are just they don't

[11:45] pencil out and they're not taxpayer

[11:47] friendly, but everybody goes, "Woohoo,

[11:49] you know, I got broadband." And now it's

[11:52] you know, whatever, but thank you for

[11:53] getting it done

[11:54] under budget and on time. With that

[11:57] being said.

[11:58] >> Absolutely.

[12:00] Anything else?

[12:01] >> Thanks for coming and all the work you

[12:02] did. And I know that um

[12:05] you know, did and your team to nail down

[12:06] that right on budget is pretty

[12:08] impressive and with the added expenses

[12:11] of having to travel to go get your

[12:12] stuff, I think that's

[12:14] really great. So, thank you. Appreciate

[12:16] that.

[12:16] >> Thank you. Thanks.

[12:18] >> Can you guys email us that uh

[12:21] presentation?

[12:23] Thank you.

[12:23] >> Thank you.

[12:24] >> Appreciate you coming. Thank you.

[12:25] >> Thank you.

[12:31] » All right. This is our public comment

[12:33] period. If there's anybody in the

[12:35] audience, raise your hand. If you're

[12:37] online, raise your virtual hand.

[12:39] If you'd like to give public comment.

[12:43] » Chair, I want to respond to one of the

[12:45] comments we received online. This was

[12:47] from a gentleman who had some concerns

[12:49] about the long lines at the waste uh

[12:51] management um in Newberg and uh said,

[12:56] you know, they've gotten an increase

[12:58] over the last 15 years, but they haven't

[12:59] increased their capacity. So, I

[13:01] contacted Ashley Watkins and uh she is

[13:05] with Yamhill County Planning. She got a

[13:06] hold of Waste Management and Dave Huber

[13:09] pointed out that there was a land use

[13:11] application submitted to our planning

[13:13] department and they're going to add

[13:15] additional entrance lanes for the

[13:16] Newberg transfer station. So, I

[13:18] responded to him and I think a lot of

[13:20] people are going to be very happy to

[13:21] hear about that.

[13:23] >> I think that the the lanes though, they

[13:25] don't

[13:26] take away from the 2 and 1/2 hours, but

[13:29] just getting people off of Winooski. So,

[13:31] there's still a hang-up with Waste

[13:33] Management in their

[13:35] ability to

[13:38] >> [clears throat]

[13:39] >> move people through. So,

[13:41] >> Do we know how often there's a backup?

[13:43] >> I don't know, but I

[13:44] >> Very often. Especially weekends.

[13:46] >> Yeah, but I think the fact that they're

[13:48] increasing the capacity is really what

[13:51] they can do. And beyond that, I don't

[13:54] know what we

[13:55] >> Look, this is something we're interested

[13:56] in having a conversation about. We can

[13:58] have them. They're more than happy to

[13:59] come before if you can kind of give us

[14:00] an update cuz I've

[14:02] seen their

[14:03] uh presentations before city councils

[14:05] many a time, and I actually think that

[14:07] there's mansion plans for

[14:09] uh

[14:10] the

[14:11] transportation. But let let me hear it

[14:13] from them.

[14:13] >> Yeah, Newberg talked about it this week,

[14:14] and they had they were were this week at

[14:16] their city council, and there was a

[14:18] lengthy discussion about it. Um

[14:22] Yeah, I mean, it they talked about 4

[14:24] years ago putting in

[14:25] a

[14:26] compactor, and that hasn't happened yet.

[14:29] So, I think that uh Newberg and Dundee

[14:31] are both kind of pushing on

[14:33] >> Mhm.

[14:33] >> on um

[14:35] Waste Management to make that happen

[14:37] sooner rather than later. Um so, it's

[14:39] not another 4 years to go. So,

[14:43] yeah, I'm interested to see what happens

[14:44] as garbage

[14:46] changes with the closure of Coffin Butte

[14:48] or

[14:49] the denial of the

[14:51] um conditional use permit for them. The

[14:53] I think garbage prices will be going up

[14:55] over the next as we've seen uh just in

[14:58] the last few weeks, uh but over the next

[15:00] few years, we'll we'll see more of it.

[15:02] So,

[15:03] >> Especially since our own landfill shut

[15:05] down, which we we knew was going to

[15:07] increase costs to you the the uh

[15:09] consumers, and also we've lost a million

[15:12] dollars a year in tipping fees. So,

[15:14] yeah, it's been an it's been an impact.

[15:16] People don't understand it's got to go

[15:18] somewhere.

[15:18] >> It does.

[15:19] >> Where is it going to go?

[15:22] >> So, we interested in having them come

[15:23] before us or is that the end of the

[15:25] discussion?

[15:25] >> I don't know what there is to add to

[15:27] that.

[15:28] >> I mean, the only thing could be is uh if

[15:30] we need concerns addressed if we keep

[15:32] getting comments about backups, we

[15:34] probably need to figure out how often it

[15:35] happens and if there is any plans for

[15:37] expansion besides the uh new lanes, it

[15:40] sounds like.

[15:41] >> Yeah, I mean, I think that yeah, I I I

[15:43] think that Newberg is going to ask us

[15:45] for some support. Um

[15:49] just with the

[15:51] Trying to remember exactly what with the

[15:53] acute with uh

[15:54] to allow them to be able to put in

[15:57] um compactors and you know, with the

[16:00] mentioned earlier the uh

[16:02] closure of the incinerator um down

[16:04] further south. So,

[16:06] um

[16:07] I think Newberg is going to be looking

[16:08] to us for

[16:09] some

[16:11] help in that. So, maybe we would hear

[16:13] from Newberg first and then what their

[16:15] needs are.

[16:18] And then

[16:19] maybe Waste Management.

[16:23] >> Who wants to drive that bus?

[16:24] >> You want to go ahead and do that?

[16:25] >> Okay. Sounds great.

[16:27] We will wait to hear further from

[16:29] Commissioner King on that.

[16:31] Um up next is F department update. Uh

[16:33] there was no other public comment.

[16:36] Uh F is department updates, there is

[16:38] none. G is work session, there's none. H

[16:40] is consent agenda.

[16:43] I would move approval.

[16:47] Is there any further discussion?

[16:49] >> None.

[16:50] >> All those in favor signify by saying I.

[16:52] I. Motion passes unanimously. Thank

[16:54] you.

[16:55] I is old business. There is one item

[16:57] there. It's consideration of a board

[16:59] order and findings in the matter of

[17:01] upholding the planning director's

[17:02] decision to approve planning docket FD

[17:05] 01-26

[17:07] principal farm dwelling in conjunction

[17:09] with farm use tax lot R4523-0203.

[17:15] Applicant is Ray

[17:17] and Bernadine Markham.

[17:19] I would move approval. Is there any

[17:21] further discussion?

[17:22] >> None.

[17:23] All those in favor signify by saying I.

[17:26] Motion passes unanimously. Thank you.

[17:29] J is other business. J1 is consideration

[17:31] of resolution 26-06-18-1

[17:35] for adoption of the MH County budget for

[17:37] fiscal year 2026-2027

[17:41] and setting the appropriations and

[17:43] levying taxes.

[17:46] I would move approval.

[17:48] Is there any discussion on this item?

[17:50] >> None.

[17:51] All those in favor signify by

[17:53] saying I. I.

[17:54] >> I.

[17:55] >> Motion passes. Thank you.

[17:57] >> And chair, before we move on, um

[18:00] It's a good segue. I'm used to this

[18:02] being further down on the agenda, so um

[18:04] just uh another discussion. Um first I

[18:07] want to express

[18:09] um gratitude to the board

[18:11] and to our budget committee members and

[18:13] all the department heads and our

[18:15] everyone involved with the budget

[18:16] process. I know this is a very long

[18:17] process that we go through that, you

[18:19] know, our internal team start working on

[18:22] this in October November.

[18:23] >> It's pretty much never-ending now. You

[18:25] can say that.

[18:25] >> I can say that. That's it's year-round

[18:27] for me.

[18:27] >> For you.

[18:28] >> Um

[18:29] and uh I really want to appreciate you

[18:31] know, I appreciate everybody's efforts

[18:33] in getting this budget put together. Um

[18:35] you know, it's a it's a challenging

[18:37] process. Uh that being said, um I do

[18:41] want to recognize and and just mention

[18:43] to the board that we've had two

[18:44] resignations from the budget committee.

[18:46] So Jason Fields has resigned his

[18:49] position obviously because he'll be

[18:50] taking office in January.

[18:53] Um and then uh Greg Thoresgard also uh

[18:56] gave me a resignation last week. Um

[18:58] so we have two openings on the budget

[19:00] committee and I wanted to talk briefly

[19:02] about process. I'd like to

[19:05] uh

[19:06] open uh a recruitment for filling those

[19:09] two late positions so we have them just

[19:12] in case we ever need to convene the

[19:14] board between now and next April. Uh

[19:17] convene the budget committee and uh

[19:19] I know in the past, you know, this has

[19:21] been one of those committees that there

[19:23] we do get a lot of interest. Budget

[19:24] Committee and Planning Commission seem

[19:26] to be the two that where we get the most

[19:27] interest in applications.

[19:29] And I just wanted to talk process um

[19:32] with the board briefly before we move

[19:34] too far away from the budget. So,

[19:36] um what I'd like to do is post on the

[19:39] website and that we do have two

[19:41] vacancies and I'm basically looking for

[19:44] feedback on how long you would like to

[19:46] have that open

[19:49] uh to to set a deadline for

[19:51] applications, so then I can bring the

[19:52] applications back before the board for

[19:55] consideration.

[19:56] >> Okay.

[19:57] >> Could we say uh end of June, beginning

[19:59] of July?

[20:01] Um and then everybody spread the word.

[20:03] >> To open or to close it?

[20:05] >> No, in other words

[20:06] >> To close it?

[20:07] >> Keep it, you know, keep it open, post it

[20:08] now, keep it open and then spread the

[20:11] word and we've got it on the website and

[20:13] then we're going to spread the word as

[20:14] far as Do you have anybody that's

[20:16] interested and then come back with the

[20:18] applications and take a look at them.

[20:21] >> So, that's two weeks, three weeks?

[20:23] >> So, until July 3rd.

[20:25] Would that be a two-week period?

[20:27] >> our next meeting after

[20:29] >> July 2nd would be our next

[20:32] >> July 2nd. And so, um we could do a close

[20:36] date, which I was thinking kind of

[20:38] giving it a little more than a two-week

[20:39] period if we did it till July 3rd and

[20:42] then on July 9th would be the formal

[20:45] session that the applications you can

[20:46] >> 5 p.m.

[20:48] >> Okay.

[20:49] >> And what I can do is um once that

[20:51] deadline has come closed, I'll take all

[20:53] the applications, I'll share it with

[20:55] individual commissioners and then so

[20:57] that way you can review them and kind of

[20:58] be prepared for the 9th on

[21:01] for discussion and appointment.

[21:03] >> While we're drawing attention to

[21:05] openings on committees, can we go ahead

[21:06] and make sure that we're up to date on

[21:08] the others and maybe post them right

[21:09] below that?

[21:10] >> Can do.

[21:10] >> Okay.

[21:11] >> Yeah.

[21:12] >> Might be a good opportunity to attract

[21:14] some attention to the other ones.

[21:15] >> Yeah, and at Northwest Seniors we're

[21:17] looking for

[21:18] consumer advisory and we always have

[21:20] those positions open. So, I know we've

[21:22] taken it down because it's been up so

[21:24] long, but we can put those two Northwest

[21:26] Senior

[21:27] and Disability Services uh

[21:30] Consumer Advisory Council and I can send

[21:33] the information. Yeah.

[21:34] >> I'm looking at the meeting to please

[21:36] take notes for me cuz

[21:38] >> uh Northwest Seniors and what else do we

[21:42] have?

[21:44] >> Was your Drug and Alcohol Committee

[21:45] full?

[21:47] We'll do a review of all committees.

[21:49] But I think for this one in particular I

[21:51] was really wanting to cuz we'll set a

[21:53] deadline um for the budget committee and

[21:55] then we'll we'll go through all the

[21:57] committee rosters and check in with

[21:58] departments and then call attention to

[22:00] those as well.

[22:01] >> Okay. All right.

[22:02] >> Cool.

[22:03] >> Thank you.

[22:04] >> All right.

[22:06] Moving on. J2's consideration approval

[22:09] to implement a commercial property

[22:11] assessed clean energy C-PACE program as

[22:13] allowed by ORS 233

[22:17] .680-685.

[22:22] I would move approval of this. It's nice

[22:25] to see we finally got this. I did not

[22:26] think that it would be this long to kind

[22:28] of go back and forth between us and MDP

[22:30] and

[22:31] finally get this implemented, but I'm

[22:33] glad to finally see it.

[22:36] » I have a question before we You want to

[22:38] read it first or

[22:40] >> Yeah, so we have a motion, but we need

[22:42] to do a first.

[22:45] » Okay.

[22:52] » Hearing none.

[22:53] >> Hey, hold on.

[23:17] » Okay, in the matter of authorizing the

[23:19] Yamhill County

[23:24] Two Yamhill counties in there. The

[23:25] Yamhill County commercial property

[23:27] assessed clean energy program and

[23:29] adopting the Yamhill County C-PACE

[23:33] program code declaring an emergency and

[23:35] setting the effective date.

[23:38] » Is the effective date today?

[23:40] >> If everyone votes for it, it'll be an

[23:42] emergency and yes. But if not everybody,

[23:45] then we have to wait the for the second

[23:47] reading.

[23:48] >> Commissioner Stirk, question.

[23:49] >> had a question. Um, and I don't know if

[23:52] this is for MEDP or for Kevin. Put you

[23:55] on the hot seat here. They talk about

[23:57] um, seismic being uh, one of the

[24:00] categories that's eligible for

[24:03] authorized by the statute in this bill.

[24:06] And

[24:08] have has anybody had discussions about

[24:10] whether anybody's going to take

[24:11] advantage of this for seismic cuz it's

[24:13] so expensive and whether or not with the

[24:16] applications or the interest that we've

[24:18] had we've seen anything. I see some of

[24:20] the a listing of things that this could

[24:22] be authorized to pay for, but

[24:26] uh, seismic being a really big ticket.

[24:29] So, do we have any information on that?

[24:32] >> Um, my name's Patty Herzog. I'm the

[24:34] executive director for the McMinnville

[24:36] Economic Development Partnership and

[24:39] partnering with uh, the county on this

[24:41] program.

[24:42] Um, seismic retrofits are an eligible

[24:46] um, project under the the state

[24:49] ordinance. And so, we haven't had any

[24:52] interest in that yet, but the program

[24:54] isn't fully established. So, we would

[24:56] expect to see some of that. Um, there's

[24:59] been four inquiries since uh we've

[25:02] talked about this last in in January.

[25:06] Um, and uh while they didn't speak to

[25:09] the specifics of what they're doing, um

[25:12] a couple of those uh inquiries had to do

[25:15] with uh rehabilitation of buildings. So,

[25:19] I would assume that would include some

[25:21] seismic acti- seismic retrofitting as

[25:24] part of that.

[25:25] >> Yeah, as far as your outreach and

[25:27] getting folks familiar with this

[25:29] potential um opportunity,

[25:32] how will you get that information out?

[25:34] So, many of the of the, you know, people

[25:36] just can't move forward because of the

[25:38] seismic requirements.

[25:39] >> Yeah. Um, we plan to to hold information

[25:43] sessions. We'll have the information

[25:45] available on our website. We'll be

[25:47] including it in the newsletter that we

[25:49] have, sending it out to the county um

[25:52] broadly, and then we have uh quarterly

[25:55] business leader forums, and so we'll be

[25:58] getting the information out to folks and

[26:00] addressing any questions as they come

[26:02] up. Um, we I have been attending uh

[26:06] regional C-PACE um collaborators group.

[26:09] They just met yesterday,

[26:11] um and that group meets every month. So,

[26:14] uh

[26:15] collaborating throughout the region to stay in alignment with what other

[26:20] counties and jurisdictions are doing and

[26:22] staying on top of uh any legislative

[26:26] changes that may be coming, too.

[26:28] >> Thank you. Thank you. I know in the

[26:30] past, and Ken, I don't know if you can

[26:32] remember, but when we tried to we talked

[26:34] about this years ago, and the the board

[26:37] at the time

[26:38] majority of the board came to the

[26:41] you know, understanding that this might

[26:42] just be too much of a heavy lift for the

[26:44] county, and I'm I'm not sure what

[26:46] changed, but it seems like everything is

[26:48] going to be okay on our end in terms of

[26:50] covering our administrative costs, and

[26:52] whether it's going to be too much for,

[26:55] you know, the assessor or for any kind

[26:56] of administration.

[26:58] >> I think the original concept is we were

[27:00] going to administer this program, and

[27:02] the next agenda item is looking at

[27:04] working with MEDP to administer the

[27:06] program. So,

[27:08] it's been a while since that that's what

[27:10] I kind of recall.

[27:11] >> Yeah, okay.

[27:12] >> And cost recovery will be through the

[27:14] application process up to a limit, but

[27:16] the limit is fairly substantial. In

[27:18] fact, I think it's changed while we've

[27:20] gone through this process.

[27:22] I think originally it was like 15,000,

[27:24] but now it's 25,000.

[27:26] Is that right, or

[27:26] >> I believe our agreement says 15.

[27:29] >> Okay. Okay.

[27:33] » Yeah, I was just going to say I I spoke

[27:34] with the the county assessor, and he

[27:35] assures us this is not going to be a

[27:37] major burden for his. It it's going to

[27:40] be entered into the tax rolls similar to

[27:42] any other

[27:43] special assessment, which they already

[27:45] do a substantial number of years. So,

[27:46] it's it's just one more in an already

[27:48] underway set of work for them.

[27:51] >> Okay, good. All right, thank you. And

[27:53] thank you for doing this

[27:55] doing all the legwork. And Kevin, too.

[27:58] >> Thank you, Commissioner.

[28:00] >> Can you reach out to Don and let him

[28:01] know that everything's going to be

[28:04] hopefully in place after today, or or

[28:07] let him know what your process is going

[28:08] to be, because he's been emailing on a

[28:10] monthly basis to see where we're at with

[28:13] it. Yeah, hopefully he's been reaching

[28:14] out to you, too, also, but

[28:16] >> Yeah,

[28:18] I just wanted to confirm on the fee

[28:20] structure. Our current fee structure for

[28:23] this is 1%

[28:25] with a minimum of 2,500 and a maximum of

[28:28] 15,000.

[28:30] >> Okay.

[28:30] >> The message to to folks that have

[28:33] reached out has been this program is set

[28:37] up for cost recovery

[28:39] for the for what the program costs to

[28:41] run.

[28:42] Talking with other jurisdictions, those

[28:46] fee structures have been going up

[28:49] substantially.

[28:50] So

[28:52] we may want to revisit this

[28:54] as as things move forward.

[28:57] >> Okay.

[28:57] >> Appreciate that.

[28:58] >> Yep, keep us posted.

[28:59] >> Thanks for resurrecting this chair.

[29:01] >> absolutely. I appreciate the time

[29:03] Patty's put into it and

[29:07] pushing it forward. So thank you.

[29:08] >> Thank you. So we have to do a second

[29:10] reading still.

[29:11] >> And we're all agree that we can go into

[29:13] second reading. Yeah, okay.

[29:15] >> Um

[29:17] one perfect Do we need to call for any

[29:19] public comment as part of this process?

[29:21] >> No.

[29:21] >> It's legislative. But

[29:24] if you do want to change the fees, it's

[29:25] in the code. So you're going to have to adopt a new

[29:29] ordinance if you want to change the

[29:30] fees.

[29:31] >> Okay.

[29:39] » Second reading in the matter of

[29:40] authorizing the Yamhill County

[29:42] commercial property assessed clean

[29:44] energy program and adopting the Yamhill

[29:46] County C-Pace program code, declaring an

[29:48] emergency and setting the effective

[29:49] date.

[29:51] >> All right, with that we vote on it,

[29:53] right?

[29:54] All those in favor signify by saying I.

[29:56] >> I.

[29:57] >> Motion passes unanimously and the

[29:59] effective date is set for today or right

[30:02] now, right? Okay.

[30:03] Perfect.

[30:04] >> Thanks, Patty.

[30:07] J3 is consideration approval of an

[30:09] agreement between the Yamhill County

[30:11] Administration and McMinnville Economic

[30:13] Development Partnership MEDP to

[30:15] administer the commercial property

[30:17] assessed clean energy C-Pace program

[30:20] effective for 3 years upon approval.

[30:23] I would move approval. Is there any

[30:24] further discussion?

[30:26] >> None.

[30:26] >> All those in favor signify by saying I.

[30:29] >> I.

[30:29] >> Motion passes unanimously.

[30:32] Item J4 is consideration approval in the

[30:34] matter of amending the Yamhill County

[30:35] tax foreclosed property management and

[30:37] disposition policy.

[30:43] » You want me to go?

[30:44] Uh this is something I proposed

[30:50] a year ago.

[30:52] Um

[30:53] in response to House Bill 2089. Uh so it

[30:56] updates our foreclosure policy to match

[30:59] what's now required in statute.

[31:02] Um

[31:03] so

[31:03] Yeah. It's just housekeeping.

[31:05] >> interesting and uh how it's a double

[31:08] process now for the auction.

[31:10] >> Just on the auction portion of it. It

[31:12] really covers a lot of different

[31:13] avenues.

[31:15] >> It does. It does. It's going to be a

[31:18] I'll say it. It's a burden on the

[31:19] government. Um

[31:22] but it is what it is.

[31:24] >> Question about about the um the auction

[31:27] twice. It says regardless of the

[31:29] properties uh real market value. But if

[31:32] it does sell at auction, is it required

[31:36] to

[31:37] auction it again cuz it says all

[31:39] properties will be auctioned twice

[31:40] regardless of real market value.

[31:43] And then it says

[31:45] if it fails to sell at the first

[31:46] auction, so if it's sold is there a

[31:49] requirement to do a um another auction?

[31:53] >> No.

[31:53] >> So basically if it makes that real

[31:55] market value threshold, does it have to

[31:57] go through the second?

[31:58] >> Well no, it'll be sold. Um

[32:01] we won't own title to it anymore. If

[32:03] that's in there, if that

[32:05] >> Yeah, it is in there under 1 2 3rd

[32:09] paragraph.

[32:11] Um

[32:13] uh 3rd sub after your second paragraph

[32:15] on your uh update letter.

[32:20] Where it says all properties will be

[32:21] auctioned twice regardless of the real

[32:23] market value.

[32:25] >> I I think the intent is

[32:28] real market value comes first process,

[32:30] which is higher in most cases than what

[32:32] is owed for the taxes and the properties

[32:34] typically don't bring that much. And so

[32:36] the secondary is okay if it doesn't sell

[32:39] >> Yes.

[32:40] >> most likely then we come back and run it

[32:42] through auction. So we've covered

[32:44] ourselves there as far as value and not

[32:46] on the hook anymore. So then we go

[32:48] through what I would consider a normal

[32:50] process which is just recouping putting

[32:52] it to auction recoup our taxes.

[32:54] >> Yeah, that was in my memo. I was

[32:55] thinking I had that in the policy. Yeah,

[32:57] that just is a

[32:59] that's a not clear way to say what he

[33:02] just said. Which is we tax it or we

[33:05] auction it once. If it doesn't sell we

[33:07] have to auction it twice before we can

[33:08] go to a private sale which is what we

[33:10] used to do.

[33:11] I just want to make sure we didn't get

[33:12] ourselves in trouble by having that in

[33:14] there as sort of a prescriptive. Yeah,

[33:17] no that's not in the that would be Yeah,

[33:19] that's not in the policy that was just

[33:20] in my memo. Yeah, yeah. Thank you. And

[33:22] then the other question I had was

[33:25] uh the county transfers the surplus

[33:27] proceeds to the state treasurer.

[33:30] So can you clarify that because it's

[33:32] always you know to me when we have the

[33:34] state involved in terms of recouping and

[33:36] this has been a county effort and it was

[33:39] their problem to begin with that they

[33:41] didn't want to fix.

[33:42] Don't get me started.

[33:44] Um

[33:45] so

[33:47] this actually was

[33:49] um a benefit and something that the

[33:51] counties were okay with.

[33:53] The

[33:55] um

[33:57] burden of processing claims for surplus

[34:00] would have been insane especially for

[34:03] bigger counties. So the state treasurer

[34:06] offered to take it off the county's

[34:08] hands.

[34:09] The downside being that they keep

[34:14] whatever's extra.

[34:15] Um

[34:16] >> In general so

[34:17] >> It I mean at the end of the day it was

[34:19] being distributed to the taxing

[34:20] districts anyways so it's not like the

[34:22] county was holding that money.

[34:24] >> 17% of it though was going to

[34:27] Oh, coming to the county? Yeah. Um but

[34:30] that's

[34:33] I mean

[34:34] it's surplus proceeds. It's technically

[34:36] not anybody's money until it's

[34:39] the statute statutory redemption

[34:41] period's up.

[34:43] But it's, you know

[34:45] it was that was a give from the state to

[34:48] take that burden off her hands. So it's

[34:50] not a bad thing.

[34:51] >> How nice of them.

[34:53] >> Yeah, they get a perk for sure. But um

[34:56] there were other things in House Bill

[34:58] 2089 that were far worse. I know

[35:00] >> Okay, well thanks for all the work you

[35:01] did on this for a long time.

[35:04] >> help much, but you know, we tried.

[35:07] >> I know. Thank you.

[35:10] » All right.

[35:11] I would move approval if I didn't

[35:12] already. Is there any further

[35:13] discussion?

[35:14] >> None.

[35:15] All those in favor signify by

[35:16] saying I. I. Motion passes unanimously.

[35:19] Thank you and thank you, Jody.

[35:22] J5

[35:24] is consideration of approval of

[35:26] amendment number eight to agreement

[35:28] number 185833 between Yamhill County and

[35:31] the Oregon Health Authority for public

[35:33] health services board order 25-269

[35:37] increasing funds by $329,974.

[35:43] » I just want to add before I move

[35:44] approval of this is back when HR1, the

[35:47] big beautiful bill was in discussion,

[35:49] this was sort of a a

[35:52] sort of things that were being done to

[35:54] make this less impactful for counties

[35:56] and it was the rural health

[35:57] transformation dollars that came from

[35:59] centers for Medicaid and Medicare. We

[36:02] got a an allocation to the county that

[36:04] was going to be used for public health.

[36:06] A lot of these grants are competitive,

[36:08] but what the decision was made um was to

[36:12] include, you know, solving problems for

[36:14] families in some of these underserved

[36:16] schools and that was Sheridan and Dayton

[36:18] that didn't have a school-based health

[36:19] center. So these are for two family

[36:21] health navigators.

[36:23] This is going to fund two positions. So

[36:25] my concern was after the funding for

[36:27] this goes away, is this going to be

[36:29] self-sustaining? But, the hope is that

[36:31] it will and that they're going to use

[36:33] these funds that we came that came from

[36:34] the federal government to cover these

[36:36] positions in these schools. So, I think

[36:38] it's a win-win at this point for public

[36:40] health and I would move approval.

[36:41] >> All right. Any further discussion?

[36:43] >> None.

[36:44] All those in favor signify by

[36:45] saying I. I. Motion passes unanimously.

[36:49] Thank you.

[36:51] J6, consideration of approval of

[36:53] amendment number two to an agreement

[36:55] between Yamhill County and Summit Food

[36:57] Services Board Order 23-214

[37:00] establishing a 3% increase and amending

[37:03] other conditions effective July 1, 2026

[37:06] extended through June 30, 30 2031.

[37:10] >> I would move approval.

[37:11] >> Motion's been made. Is there any further

[37:13] discussion?

[37:14] >> None.

[37:14] All those in favor signify by

[37:16] saying I.

[37:16] >> I.

[37:17] Motion passes unanimously. Thank you.

[37:21] Um item J7's consideration of approval

[37:23] of a board order in the matter of

[37:25] limiting certain claims arising from

[37:27] recreational use of

[37:30] public trails and or structures in

[37:32] public easements, unimproved

[37:33] right-of-way, and adjacent property

[37:35] pursuant to ORS 105.

[37:39] 668.

[37:43] I would move approval. Is there any

[37:45] further discussion on this?

[37:47] >> No.

[37:48] >> Or does anybody want to

[37:49] Uh Travis brought this before you. Did

[37:51] he finally get

[37:52] >> Yeah.

[37:52] >> This is just

[37:53] >> to opt in for Senate Bill 179.

[37:55] >> It's just a housekeeping thing. Yeah.

[37:58] >> Uh any further discussion? None. All

[38:00] those in favor signify by saying I. I.

[38:03] Motion passes unanimously. Thank you.

[38:07] J8's consideration of approval of an

[38:08] intergovernmental agreement between

[38:10] Yamhill County and Marion County Board

[38:12] Order 03-922

[38:14] for 20% of the ferry operations,

[38:17] maintenance, and capital improvement

[38:18] costs effective July 1, 2026.

[38:22] I would move approval.

[38:24] Is there any questions or further

[38:26] discussion?

[38:27] >> None.

[38:27] All those in favor signify by

[38:29] saying I. I. Motion passes unanimously.

[38:33] Thank you.

[38:34] >> [gasps]

[38:34] >> J9's consideration approval of a

[38:36] transfer appropriation authority in the

[38:38] fiscal year 26 budget from discretionary

[38:41] fund to jail maintenance fund for

[38:43] unanticipated expenses and reimbursement

[38:46] revenues due to jail kitchen fire

[38:49] of the 90,000.

[38:51] How much was covered by insurance?

[38:53] >> Actually, the full amount that's being

[38:54] appropriated is the full reimbursement.

[38:57] >> From the CIS?

[38:58] >> Yeah. It

[38:58] >> Perfect.

[38:59] >> You know, that's what we had as far as

[39:00] claim

[39:02] and return.

[39:03] >> Right. I would move approval. Move approval.

[39:05] Okay. Any further discussion? None. All

[39:08] those in favor signify by saying I. I.

[39:11] Motion passes unanimously. Thank you.

[39:14] J10's consideration of ratifying a

[39:16] collective bargaining agreement between

[39:17] Yamhill County and Yamhill County

[39:19] sergeants {slash} Teamsters Local 223

[39:22] effective upon approval through June 30,

[39:24] 2027.

[39:27] >> I would move approval.

[39:28] >> Motion's been made. Any further

[39:29] discussion?

[39:30] >> None.

[39:30] All those in favor signify by

[39:32] saying I. I. Motion passes unanimously.

[39:34] Thank you.

[39:36] >> [sighs]

[39:36] >> And with that, we have K is a public

[39:40] hearing and I'm going to open it up at

[39:42] 10:36 and it is to receive public

[39:45] comment for Community Development Block

[39:47] Grant for Cove Orchard Sewer District.

[39:50] If you're in the audience and would like

[39:52] to give public comment or if you're

[39:54] online and like to give public comment,

[39:56] raise your virtual hand.

[40:02] Seeing or hearing none, I will close

[40:05] this public hearing at 10:36 a.m.

[40:11] And then, what's your next step on that,

[40:13] Ken?

[40:13] >> There's no further action required. It's

[40:15] it the script.

[40:17] >> What?

[40:18] Did you get the script?

[40:19] >> Yeah, I

[40:20] sent it to everybody.

[40:23] Do I know

[40:27] » Good.

[40:31] Let's see.

[40:37] Did we not put them I don't think I got

[40:38] them in this pile.

[40:41] It's in this folder.

[40:50] That's the memo.

[40:53] I got it.

[40:55] There should be another workflow memo.

[41:39] Was there something in addition to the

[41:40] cover sheet that you sent?

[41:46] » Did you Did you say you had it?

[41:47] >> I have the cover sheet. You have the

[41:48] cover sheet.

[41:49] >> Yeah, cuz I'm only seeing the cover

[41:51] sheet.

[41:57] To me?

[42:01] » It's okay. We were ahead of schedule

[42:03] anyway.

[42:09] Yeah, nothing. Yeah, nothing. Okay,

[42:12] that's fine.

[42:14] What's going

[42:15] >> Jody talk more.

[42:16] >> No.

[42:18] >> In the well, yeah.

[42:18] >> We are in public in a public meeting.

[42:21] Game face.

[42:22] >> It's a long script.

[42:24] I don't have to read all that.

[42:26] >> She didn't do the

[42:28] Pledge of Allegiance this week, so we

[42:29] can make her

[42:32] >> You know what? Why don't you come

[42:33] forward?

[42:34] >> Can you get her a little flag pin?

[42:36] >> Update.

[42:37] >> So, she can be a little more patriotic.

[42:38] >> I'm looking really quickly to see if

[42:40] there are any

[42:41] >> You can listen to the recording later.

[42:45] » I got it.

[42:53] » Okay, why don't you get the quick update

[42:55] cuz I'm not seeing anything that

[42:56] requires board action unless it's

[42:59] authorization to apply for the grant.

[43:01] And then

[43:01] >> Well, this is language that was in the

[43:03] grant.

[43:04] And the grant

[43:05] action had had to be read.

[43:07] >> Okay, why don't you come forward and you

[43:09] get to read it?

[43:10] >> No, boy.

[43:10] >> Ah.

[43:12] >> Let me shorten it up.

[43:16] It's It's not really a script. It's kind

[43:17] of an overview of what's being proposed

[43:19] and I think the memo covered a lot of

[43:21] this, but then there are requirements

[43:23] under their rules that we have to make

[43:25] sure that we cover.

[43:26] >> Okay, so

[43:28] >> Uh do we want Do we have an item number

[43:29] for this? Do we want to sign it?

[43:31] >> It'll It'll still be under the same uh

[43:33] >> So, do you want me to open the public

[43:35] hearing back up or no? That was just for

[43:37] the public comment.

[43:39] I did.

[43:40] >> Yeah.

[43:43] » Okay.

[43:44] >> No.

[43:46] >> I'm just reading a script.

[43:48] >> requirement that we have to put

[43:49] something on there that we heard. So,

[43:50] why don't we just in an abundance of

[43:51] caution reopen the hearing, we'll read

[43:53] the statement, see if there's any

[43:55] comments in regards to Mark's statement

[43:57] and then we can close the hearing.

[44:00] >> Okay.

[44:01] So, I'm going to reopen uh

[44:04] this public hearing for the receipt of

[44:06] public comment for a community

[44:08] development block grant for Cove Orchard

[44:10] Sewer District at 10:40. Go forward,

[44:13] Mark.

[44:13] >> Okay.

[44:14] We are presented We're here to present

[44:16] the proposal for public hearing for the

[44:18] Yamhill County Community Development

[44:20] Block Grant funding application. The

[44:22] purpose of the public hearing is to

[44:24] obtain citizen views to allow response

[44:27] for the public to funding proposals and

[44:30] answer any questions posed by citizens.

[44:33] Yamhill Yamhill County proposes to

[44:35] request fund for Community Development

[44:37] Block Grant for Cove Orchard Sewer

[44:39] District wastewater system

[44:41] rehabilitation project. The purpose of

[44:44] the CDBG grant is to improve the quality

[44:46] of life for low and moderate income

[44:49] people can

[44:50] people by providing clean environmental

[44:53] and clean drinking water through the or

[44:55] through water and sewer infrastructure

[44:57] improvements and extensions of service.

[44:59] To benefit the residential area, there

[45:01] must be at least 51% of the benefit

[45:03] entry areas

[45:04] are low to moderate income

[45:06] to to perform uh legal activities, to

[45:09] minimize displacement, provide

[45:12] displacement assistance as necessary.

[45:14] The CDBG program can fund a wide variety

[45:16] of community development activities,

[45:18] water and sewer infrastructure,

[45:20] neighborhood re- revitalization,

[45:23] uh urgent need, and economic development

[45:25] projects. Yamhill County is applying for

[45:27] this project under the water and sewer infrastructure program. The CDBG

[45:32] program can fund a range of sewer

[45:35] infrastructure activities including but

[45:36] not limited to uh wastewater. Projects

[45:39] that involve inflow and infiltration to

[45:42] collection systems that surcharge from

[45:44] pumps, pump stations, and manholes.

[45:46] Projects that extend public sewer and

[45:48] areas and failed septic tanks.

[45:52] Projects to rehabilitate the wastewater

[45:54] treatment plant to allow greater

[45:56] efficiency and compliance with

[45:58] regulations.

[45:59] The grant will fund the design,

[46:01] environmental review, construction, and

[46:03] replacement of several main lines,

[46:05] laterals, manholes, clean outs, 14

[46:07] septic tanks, upgrade to the flow

[46:10] monitoring, dosing tank components, as

[46:12] well as video inspection of entire

[46:14] system according to the Calaveras plan

[46:16] for

[46:17] Cove Orchard Sewer District. An income

[46:20] survey was conducted door-to-door this

[46:23] winter at Cove Orchard Sewer District.

[46:25] Based on the results, 79 75.9

[46:29] of the population served is considered

[46:31] low to moderate income. This data

[46:33] validates the need for funding grant as

[46:36] assistance cannot afford

[46:38] required infrastructure improvements

[46:39] without economic assistance from the

[46:41] CDBG grant. Next steps for the public

[46:44] hearing will be to write the CDBG grant,

[46:46] then submit the grant package by

[46:48] September 30th, 2026 for design and

[46:51] environmental review only.

[46:53] For the fiscal year of 2027, the CDBG

[46:56] funding availability is expected to be

[46:59] approximately $150,000.

[47:02] Then the county will come back a year

[47:04] later and apply for a CDBG grant for

[47:06] construction phase of the project. The

[47:08] maximum available grant is 1,000

[47:11] 4 1,000 Excuse me, 1 million

[47:15] 40,000 over the next 3-year period.

[47:18] We open the floor in questions about the

[47:22] CDBG program and about the proposed

[47:23] project.

[47:25] >> Is there any comments? Raise your hand,

[47:28] or if you're online, raise your virtual

[47:29] hand.

[47:32] » In your survey, what is the um

[47:34] threshold for low to moderate income?

[47:37] >> I I don't I think you asked that before.

[47:40] Uh there's actually a um

[47:43] something I had to find online for that

[47:45] specifically

[47:47] number, and I got that from the business

[47:48] in Oregon. I don't remember that value,

[47:52] but it really it depends on how many

[47:54] people are actually even living in the

[47:55] home as well. So, it goes by the number

[47:57] of families living in in there and the

[47:59] number of people living in the house.

[48:01] So, it's like three different

[48:02] categories.

[48:04] » Okay.

[48:05] >> Seeing no public comment,

[48:08] I'm going to close this public hearing

[48:11] at 10:44 a.m.

[48:14] >> And I was just going to add if the board

[48:16] is wanting to take action, another

[48:18] proposed action could be a motion

[48:20] to authorize

[48:22] um

[48:24] staff to apply for the grant to proceed

[48:26] with the next steps and make the

[48:27] necessary applications.

[48:29] >> So moved. Is there any further

[48:30] discussion?

[48:31] >> None.

[48:32] All those in favor signify by

[48:33] saying I. I. Motion passes unanimously.

[48:36] Thank you very much for that, Mark.

[48:38] >> Thanks, Mark.

[48:43] » All right, with that, that brings us to

[48:46] our announcements.

[48:49] Commissioner Keen.

[48:53] » Last week, I think we a lot of us saw

[48:55] the last days of school, [snorts] so

[48:58] universities are back at home or

[49:01] my kids are at home,

[49:03] already getting antsy, so

[49:06] that's been fun.

[49:09] Pride Festival this last weekend, PFLAG

[49:12] in Newberg put on the Wine Country Run

[49:14] Club,

[49:16] 5K and a little fair afterwards. It was

[49:19] a really well-attended event, so kudos

[49:22] to those guys.

[49:26] Met with Brandon from Congressman

[49:27] Salinas' office.

[49:30] I'd mentioned that we're going to have

[49:31] open house, so I don't know if

[49:34] Ken or

[49:35] we can

[49:37] Brandon said that they would be

[49:38] interested in coming to our our open

[49:40] house, so if we can make sure that they

[49:41] get a invite on when we have a solid

[49:44] date for that, that would be awesome.

[49:47] Uh Recovery High School, I spoke with

[49:49] some groups to come and present on the

[49:52] 2nd or 3rd August

[49:53] week of August for for us once we get

[49:55] back into our new digs and into the

[49:58] groove of things.

[50:01] Is there any particular date that would

[50:03] be better

[50:04] one over the other for you guys?

[50:07] That far out I can't imagine.

[50:10] » Hard to say right now.

[50:12] >> Well, we'll we'll I'll follow up with

[50:13] them.

[50:14] >> out there that we can pick.

[50:17] >> Um spoke a little bit about Newberg City

[50:19] Council. Um

[50:21] discussion around

[50:24] waste management and

[50:26] um

[50:28] just they're not adding any more capacity to

[50:32] that. So,

[50:34] um that is one thing to pay attention

[50:36] to.

[50:37] Um they did de-annex the piece that we

[50:39] mentioned a few weeks ago um

[50:41] over by Rogers Landing. Uh so, that

[50:43] should be coming back to us for approval

[50:46] as well um soon.

[50:49] And uh tomorrow's June is June June

[50:52] 10th. I think offices are closed. Is

[50:54] that correct, Ken?

[50:55] Um

[50:56] you know, I think that this was a way to kind of celebrate the last

[51:01] emancipated slaves and

[51:03] I know that as that might not mean a lot

[51:05] here in Oregon or Yamhill County,

[51:07] there's still quite a bit of

[51:09] racism that we see. I know in Newberg

[51:11] High School it's a huge problem.

[51:13] Um and I see it happen all around. So,

[51:16] uh hopefully with this we can just bring

[51:18] some awareness to um

[51:21] some of that racism that happens in our

[51:22] community and

[51:24] that it would make a step towards the

[51:26] stop of it. So, thank you.

[51:29] >> Do you have any specific examples of

[51:31] this racism that you say is so rampant?

[51:33] >> Oh, yeah. I mean, I I know I had a

[51:35] friend um

[51:37] two or three weeks ago was leaving uh

[51:39] the pool in Newberg and some kids drove

[51:42] by and called her the N-word.

[51:44] And said, "Get out of town." I think it

[51:46] happens in you know, in the in the high

[51:48] school. It happens um with the same

[51:50] thing between Hispanic people being

[51:52] called racial slurs and uh

[51:54] you know,

[51:56] racial slurs is is a huge problem

[51:59] um that that I see happen all of the

[52:01] time.

[52:02] >> You see, I I I'm I'm just I think when

[52:04] we hear when we make those statements,

[52:07] we're painting a picture of a community

[52:09] that I think is completely erroneous.

[52:12] >> true. It's real.

[52:13] >> And

[52:13] >> We're painting a picture that's real.

[52:14] >> You hear it. You You say you see it. I'm

[52:18] just trying to to see whether or not

[52:20] this is verifiable or whether you're

[52:22] just painting a picture of Newberg as a

[52:24] racist community.

[52:26] >> you'd like, I can have them come here

[52:27] and show and tell you their stories.

[52:30] >> Well, you know, I think we have to be

[52:31] really really careful about that. I just

[52:33] think it we we need to be really careful

[52:35] about calling our communities

[52:37] a just a blanket statement of calling

[52:39] them racist.

[52:40] >> call our our blanket community racist. I

[52:43] said that it's here.

[52:45] >> Okay.

[52:45] >> And and it's it's verifiable. If you

[52:48] want, I can have them, but I didn't call

[52:49] every person in Yamhill County a racist.

[52:51] >> All right. Well, I just want to put that

[52:53] on the record.

[52:53] >> Well, I'd like to have it on the record

[52:55] that racism is here.

[52:57] >> Right. Okay. All right. Well, here we

[52:59] go.

[53:01] All right. Uh

[53:01] >> Go ahead.

[53:02] >> What you Are you done?

[53:04] >> Yeah.

[53:05] >> Okay.

[53:06] Uh my update is that we had our adult

[53:08] recovery court policy meeting. That's

[53:10] presided over that court is presided

[53:12] over by Judge Wiles, and he um

[53:16] puts together a group, and we're we've

[53:18] got um

[53:19] POs, clinicians, recovery court uh

[53:22] involvement, uh and we talk about the

[53:25] policies that will help the folks who

[53:27] are enrolled in the participants get

[53:29] through the get through the It's a very

[53:31] grueling process, and we want to make

[53:33] sure that when they are out of the

[53:35] process, that they're able to maintain

[53:37] their sobriety. So, I always appreciate

[53:39] the work that's being done there. Our

[53:41] CCO board meeting, we talked about some

[53:43] of the

[53:44] funding recommendations and some of that

[53:47] money is going to go to Grand Sheramina

[53:49] and to the Churches United for West

[53:51] Valley, which is another community group

[53:53] in the West Valley, some tribal

[53:55] supports, and also some funding for the

[53:58] um

[53:59] uh the traditional health health worker

[54:01] development in our county. Also want to

[54:04] talk about when we have these work

[54:05] requirements that are starting as a

[54:07] result of HR 1. They'll be

[54:10] uh they just started and now we have to

[54:11] look at some of the Medicaid uh the

[54:13] Medicaid changes that are going to take

[54:15] place in our community. Conversation was

[54:17] around the Providence health plan going

[54:19] away and also internally the pharmacy

[54:22] benefit manager, they're going to have

[54:24] to look for a new one. So, lots of stuff

[54:26] that the CCO is facing and I do want to

[54:28] appreciate the work that they do.

[54:30] >> Thank you.

[54:32] Uh last Thursday was Lafayette City

[54:35] Council meeting and if the mayor were

[54:37] here, she'd probably correct me, but

[54:39] it's very interesting. So, they have to

[54:41] if they're going to expend more than a

[54:42] million dollars in grant funding that

[54:43] they've already received, they actually

[54:45] have to put it to the vote of the

[54:47] people. So, they're creating a ballot

[54:50] title right now to go on November ballot

[54:52] so that they can expend grant funding

[54:54] that they've received for the for pump

[54:56] station. So, I found that very

[54:57] interesting if Kevin wants to

[54:59] >> Yeah, it's a piece of the one of the

[55:00] quirks of their charter is any project

[55:03] over a million dollars has to be

[55:04] approved by

[55:06] public vote. Which these days means

[55:09] there's a lot that's going to have to go

[55:12] before the voters. So,

[55:14] um it does make it very difficult to

[55:15] apply for the large grants and things

[55:17] like that. But,

[55:18] >> And how to word the the title for the

[55:20] ballot to make sure that's well, wait,

[55:22] is is it city funds? Where's it coming

[55:24] from? Well, the funding's already there.

[55:25] It's hey, will you let us go ahead and

[55:27] use this grant funding? Or I think in

[55:29] this case it's already been received

[55:31] maybe.

[55:31] >> It maybe. I'm I'm not sure about this

[55:33] specific

[55:34] >> Anyway, I wish the The was here so she

[55:36] can clarify, but

[55:36] >> It's a challenge really.

[55:37] >> It was very interesting and watching

[55:39] them go through the whole process at the

[55:41] dais trying to come up with a ballot

[55:42] title for

[55:44] November. Anyway, that was interesting.

[55:47] Uh Friday

[55:49] uh

[55:49] I had a meeting uh with a new

[55:53] potentially a new grant writing firm for

[55:55] specifically for the Newberg Dundee

[55:57] bypass to go after mega grant, rural

[55:59] grant, or an infra grant. Um they did

[56:02] release a infra grant uh or a nofo

[56:05] before a grant coming out, but the

[56:06] window was like it's like 2 weeks long

[56:09] for a federal grant. It was basically

[56:11] written for grants that were probably

[56:13] either denied previously and they

[56:15] already know the projects that are out

[56:17] there and they opened up this short

[56:19] window so that that those grants could

[56:20] go apply for it. Um e- either way, we

[56:23] still had a

[56:25] uh conversation with the transportation

[56:26] solutions company in Washington to see

[56:29] uh what it looks like for us to either

[56:32] apply for that one, which is not going

[56:34] to happen, or now what it would look

[56:35] like for the future for uh any other

[56:38] potential grant fundings that come out,

[56:39] which probably will hit early next year,

[56:42] mega grant, rural grant, uh infra,

[56:44] something like that. So,

[56:46] uh conversations are in in in play. I'll

[56:49] come back to you guys with probably

[56:51] dollar amounts that uh these grants may

[56:53] end up costing. Uh we are between

[56:57] Parkway Committee and and Dave

[56:58] Hargerberg is spearheading it going

[57:00] around to all the other different uh

[57:02] groups throughout the community, whether

[57:03] it's the tribes or Spring Mountain group

[57:05] uh to

[57:07] um

[57:08] get funding from them first and then our

[57:09] next stop is going to be ODOT to see

[57:11] what they have for funding to help with

[57:12] this because, you know, they really

[57:14] should be driving this, but uh we're

[57:16] going to proceed

[57:18] uh in conjunction with them with advice

[57:20] or or whatever they do. My biggest thing

[57:23] I don't want ODOT time-wise to hang us

[57:26] up because um

[57:28] transportation solutions Inc. They

[57:30] naturally get this grant done in about 6

[57:32] to 8 months. There's a lot that goes

[57:33] into it with different studies besides

[57:35] the application. There's traffic studies

[57:38] and there's um cost analysis benefit analysis that

[57:42] need to be done and they're

[57:44] uh well in tune to be able to do that

[57:45] for us. So, that's hanging out there. Um

[57:48] there are it seems like a

[57:50] Springboard uh has some funding that

[57:53] they're willing to throw towards it. Um

[57:55] uh next stop is ODOT to see where

[57:56] they're at and I'll give you guys an

[57:57] update probably in 2 or 3 weeks.

[58:02] Question?

[58:04] To uh John and Patty back there as well

[58:06] for being on the committees and in uh in

[58:09] Salem for those. I'm sure it's uh

[58:11] >> Yeah, I'm sure it's an extra

[58:11] >> an extra work.

[58:13] >> Yeah, I'm there.

[58:14] >> Condolences.

[58:14] yes. Thank you for

[58:16] representing though.

[58:17] >> And thank you, Chair Johnston. You have

[58:19] pushed this farther than anybody has

[58:21] over the years. So, thank you for that.

[58:22] >> More than happy to be there and we got

[58:24] funding for McDougall after the Oregon

[58:27] Transportation Comm- I can't remember if

[58:28] I updated uh last week on this or not,

[58:30] but $14 million and we are slated for

[58:33] construction for McDougall now, which is

[58:35] fantastic. Um we're funded for design

[58:38] phase for La Fayette 18. They're talking

[58:41] like 2030, 2031 for construction.

[58:44] Um there are I guess while I'm on the

[58:46] subject, uh there are

[58:48] three

[58:50] fairly relevant transportation projects

[58:52] that are going to happen within the next

[58:54] uh 2 to 3 years.

[58:56] One is on the backside of uh

[58:58] McMinnville. It's Highway 18 from I'm

[59:00] just going to say the la- the first exit

[59:03] behind Lowe's and then probably around

[59:06] uh

[59:07] well, it ends pretty close to

[59:09] uh behind Lowe's there.

[59:11] That's going to be a fairly major

[59:12] project where they got to close Highway

[59:14] 18 for multiple days twice in about a

[59:18] year.

[59:19] Um so, and and thanks to Counselor

[59:21] Chenowith brought attention to, it's

[59:24] going to be closed on Sunday,

[59:26] which is a heavy traffic day for

[59:28] everybody coming home from the coast in

[59:30] August.

[59:32] So, the way they had their detours, he

[59:33] was super concerned, and so he invited

[59:35] me to the meeting plus ODOT officials,

[59:37] and we had a pretty good conversation

[59:39] about um either rerouting or having

[59:42] multiple detours, or if there is if we

[59:45] don't change the detour, we know that

[59:47] like for example, people coming from the

[59:48] coast are going to take Durham,

[59:50] whether you put that detour cut that off

[59:52] or not. We talked about actually

[59:53] shutting that road down so people don't

[59:56] take it, or they better have a flagger

[59:57] at 99 and Durham because people are just

[1:00:00] going to naturally take that as a

[1:00:01] bypass. So,

[1:00:02] seems like a pretty good plan. That's

[1:00:04] still a year away, but uh bid goes out

[1:00:06] in October for that project.

[1:00:09] Bid goes out for McDougal also in

[1:00:11] October, but they will not do both of

[1:00:13] those projects at the same time. They'll

[1:00:15] actually delay McDougal till 2028 when

[1:00:18] they're done with the project behind

[1:00:20] Lowe's at Highway 18.

[1:00:22] In the mean

[1:00:23] >> It's also going to impact transit with

[1:00:25] its location on Durham. That's just

[1:00:27] another thing to kind of put in there.

[1:00:28] >> Right.

[1:00:29] Yeah.

[1:00:30] So, it's not going to be fun, but I look

[1:00:33] forward to I don't

[1:00:35] I look forward to the trans or the

[1:00:36] project being complete, and we'll we'll

[1:00:38] get through this, but it needs a little

[1:00:40] bit better

[1:00:42] planning, and ODOT's very fully well

[1:00:44] aware, and thanks to Counselor Chenoweth

[1:00:46] for kind of bring all that those pieces

[1:00:48] together. And we're still a year away,

[1:00:49] so

[1:00:50] even in ODOT terms, I think we can get

[1:00:52] this in. We may need an IGA between us

[1:00:55] and ODOT. If we do in fact use Durham as

[1:00:58] a detour at least for that Sunday, and

[1:01:01] they put flaggers at 99, they said if we

[1:01:04] do a detour on that, then we'll need an

[1:01:06] IGA between us and them.

[1:01:07] >> Is that also potentially are they

[1:01:09] looking

[1:01:10] What What road is that?

[1:01:14] Old Sheridan Road?

[1:01:15] >> Mhm.

[1:01:15] >> Yes, Old Sheridan was another one that

[1:01:18] not designated as a detour, but you know

[1:01:20] people are going to take it. So.

[1:01:22] >> Mhm.

[1:01:25] It's coming, but

[1:01:26] we're focused on it and

[1:01:29] Councilor Chenowith will not let this

[1:01:30] one slip through the cracks. I guarantee

[1:01:32] you. He's all over it.

[1:01:34] Anyway, so construction projects, they

[1:01:36] will not do McDougal at the same time

[1:01:38] even though they both go out for bid

[1:01:39] this fall. McDougal actually will be

[1:01:41] delayed one more year till 2028 cuz they

[1:01:44] don't want to have two major projects on

[1:01:46] the same highway cuz it'll talk about

[1:01:49] really mess things up. But what will be

[1:01:51] happening in conjunction in 2027 are the

[1:01:55] smaller projects in that McDougal Road

[1:01:57] area. So right by the way scales,

[1:02:00] they're going to realign McDougal at a

[1:02:01] 90° instead of an angle.

[1:02:04] They're going to do that project.

[1:02:05] They're going to go ahead and do the

[1:02:06] turn lane project at Stoller Road.

[1:02:09] And they're going to cut off the end of

[1:02:11] McDougal on the Lafayette side. So they

[1:02:13] will in 2027 do those projects, but the

[1:02:16] roundabout will wait till 2028 cuz

[1:02:18] that's going to

[1:02:19] create some major closures. So a lot

[1:02:22] happening.

[1:02:25] And glad to see it all moving forward.

[1:02:28] AOC Friday, we had natural resource

[1:02:30] committee and our transportation

[1:02:32] committee.

[1:02:34] Monday we had our Yamhill County

[1:02:36] Economic Alliance meeting. Very

[1:02:37] interesting discussion Patty about the

[1:02:40] urban form and what they're doing for

[1:02:42] all the cities. I'm looking forward to

[1:02:46] extended conversations on that and see

[1:02:48] if there's a fit for them for us.

[1:02:51] Um.

[1:02:54] Also on Monday with Sheridan City

[1:02:55] Council, Sheridan discussed

[1:02:58] um

[1:03:01] potentially

[1:03:04] and it's just they just asked a

[1:03:05] question. It's fine and I probably

[1:03:07] wouldn't even be updating if I didn't

[1:03:09] actually being called to the dais to

[1:03:11] give some background on where we're at

[1:03:13] with the fairgrounds, but they want to

[1:03:15] be a part of the conversation for

[1:03:18] possibly if there is a relocation of the

[1:03:20] fairgrounds they want to be at the table

[1:03:21] to help with that.

[1:03:23] Um, so I'm in the process to seeing as

[1:03:26] we get closer to the master plan process

[1:03:28] over the next 8 months to a year

[1:03:31] and we set up probably committee

[1:03:33] we need to have a representative from

[1:03:35] West Valley on that committee. So

[1:03:37] just as a quick high overview

[1:03:41] um, update on that. Tuesday

[1:03:44] uh, was the Oda meeting that I just gave

[1:03:46] a big rundown on. Um, done DC to council

[1:03:49] meeting.

[1:03:50] Uh, I gave them an update on our

[1:03:52] construction process for GSB and I'm

[1:03:54] just letting everybody know that we

[1:03:56] could possibly if you plan on coming to

[1:03:58] a meeting in person check the calendar

[1:04:00] just to make sure because we may be all

[1:04:02] virtual for a few weeks. So I'm just

[1:04:04] kind of pre-warning everybody.

[1:04:07] Um, park board meeting was canceled for

[1:04:10] tonight.

[1:04:11] Uh, parkway committee was this morning

[1:04:13] which pretty much was the same update

[1:04:15] that I just gave for the construction

[1:04:16] projects.

[1:04:17] Um, and then fair board meeting tonight

[1:04:19] at 5:30.

[1:04:22] And we're a little over a month away

[1:04:23] from fair time. So get ready. It's going

[1:04:25] to be here before you know it.

[1:04:27] Is there anything else for the good of

[1:04:28] the order?

[1:04:30] None?

[1:04:31] All right, cool.

[1:04:33] Appreciate it. We're going to close it

[1:04:34] out at 11:01 a.m. Everybody have a good

[1:04:38] weekend.

Board of Commissioners Formal Session 6/18/2026

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