BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS'
REGULAR MEETING
December 15, 2004
9:00 a.m.
Commissioners' Conference Room
APPROVED 3/16/05
Commissioner Bobby Green, Sr., presided with Commissioners Bill Dwyer, Don Hampton, Anna Morrison and Peter Sorenson present. County Administrator Bill Van Vactor, County Counsel Teresa Wilson and Recording Secretary Melissa Zimmer were also present.
1. ADJUSTMENTS
TO THE AGENDA
There was a special presentation given to the new chair of the Lane
County Commission on Children and Families to Rob Jerome. They presented a plaque to Don Hampton for
his service on their commission.
Item 6. c. was pulled.
2. PUBLIC
COMMENTS
Loraine Still, Creswell, read a letter into the record
from Dr. Sherry Foreman of the Veterinary Hospital in Creswell.
Carol Titus, Eugene, spoke in favor of a centralized
database for rabies reporting. She
noted that in Oregon there had not been a case of rabies in a dog since 1991,
due to veterinarians educating and encouraging their clients to comply with
rabies vaccination requirements for the health and safety of their pets. She stated the relationship of trust between
the client and doctor could be jeopardized if their medical records are turned
over to animal control for use other than as a database for public health purposes. She explained this was not about reporting
the rabies vaccination information, it was about how it is to be used after it
is recorded.
Mona Linstromberg, Veneta, said she attended the City of
Eugene’s meeting on amendments to its telecommunication ordinance and there
were five industry representatives. She
was convinced that it is crucial to have a meaningful provision for independent
technical review implemented for every telecommunications application like the
City of Eugene is doing. She said that
Steve Hopkins, Land Management, was not willing to put it into Lane County’s
ordinance. She didn’t think Lane
County’s telecommunication ordinance was complete.
Craig Harbison, Veneta, said the need for technical review
is based on the information they received and stated that the applicant had not
provided the basis for which to establish whether or not the application meets
criteria from the Eugene Code 957.50 6 C3.
He said it requires the applicant to provide evidence demonstrating that
co-location is impractical on existing tall buildings. He said the applicant stated in their
written statement that there are no existing tall buildings or structures at
the height needed to provide the necessary coverage for the site. He noted the application materials submitted
were not consistent with the written statement. He said the applicant had not provided documentation of the
minimum height necessary for providing capacity needs. He said once the minimum height is
established through property documentation and methodology, the applicant could
then demonstrate there are no other co-location structures available. He added the applicant had not provided
documentation of the reasons for the location, design and height of the
proposed proof of need. He recommended
that the applicant be required to provide the information contained in Exhibit
A. He commented the application was
incomplete.
Jeanetta
Overholser, Cottage Grove,
commented that many other states already have the mandatory rabies reporting and
they have made it work. With regard to
confidentiality, the Humane Society of
Cottage Grove would not give them information because of confidentiality. She agreed there needed to be changes with
limit laws for those who do rescue or fostering. She wanted to do what was best for the animals.
David Calderwood, Eugene, passed out two letters regarding
compliance for rabies reporting. (Copy in file.)
Lauri Segel, Eugene, spoke about the legal lot
verification item. She said she
attended every meeting and the members of the committee were not offered a
preview of the staff report. She would
have preferred to have the opportunity to talk to staff about it first. She said there wasn’t consensus from the
group on some of the issues that were indicated in the staff report. She noted
the area of disagreement is around road or bodies of water creating a legal
lot. She thought the committee was
committed to bringing the Board a good product. She didn’t think the whole product was approved by consensus but it
had not been an adversarial process.
Scott Bartlett, Eugene, commented that Lane County has been
moving backwards to deal with the aspect of public policy. He noted there are fewer kennels today
available for impound than they had in 1979.
He thought they could craft a win-win situation for everyone. He hoped they could have a uniform rabies
and licensure policy with other
agencies.
3. COMMISSIONERS'
REMONSTRANCE
Sorenson commented
that he met with the editorial board of The Register Guard to discuss
the Oregon Cultural Trust. He explained
it is a trust established by the state legislature to encourage people to
contribute to culture, art, music, history and performing arts. He noted it is funded by the disposal of
state lands that are deemed excess. He
said it also comes from the Oregon license plate that could be purchased. He stated what was most significant was the
unique financing system to have people that contribute to their high school
band or museum or any other non-profit cultural organization that the Oregon
Cultural Commission has approved, contribute to the Oregon Cultural Trust and
receive a dollar for dollar tax credit up to $500 individual or $1,000
jointly. He said 42% of the money is
retained and the other is to fund culture over Oregon.
4. COMMISSIONERS'
BUSINESS
a. THIRD READING AND
DELIBERATION/Ordinance No. 19-04/In the Matter of Amending Chapter 7 of
the Lane Code to Add a Provision Pertaining to Filing of Rabies Vaccination
Certificate, Issuance of Tag (LC 7.088) (NBA & PM 11/23/04 & 12/8/04).
Wilson commented the
matter is ready for deliberation.
David Suchart,
Management Services, reported that over 2003 they had 221 dog bites, 101 cat
bites, one ferret bite and one monkey bite.
He noted in 2004 from January to November there have been 218 dog bites
and 48 cat bites.
MOTION to
move to adopt Ordinance No. 19-04 with Option 4.
Dwyer MOVED,
Sorenson SECONDED.
Wilson explained by
not electing either Option 1 or 2 leaves this in the status that the information
would not be limited in its use. She
noted that Option 1 provided that information should not be used for any
licensing provision and Option 2 was created as the counterpoint to that. She added the information could be used for
enforcement. She explained the Board
didn’t need to include either Option 1 or Option 2. She said the affect would be there with no limitation on the use
of information.
Green asked by the
motion that was made and seconded if the recording information is unlimited in
its use.
Wilson noted that
anyone could make a public records request and there was no limitation. She noted the ordinance itself indicates
that to the extent it is part of a veterinarian’s customer list, they will
attempt to keep it confidential under the customer list. She said that Option 1 had provided a
restriction on how the County would use the information, that the County
wouldn’t use the information for licensing.
She noted that Option 2 would be opposite of that. She explained if they didn’t include Option
1 or Option 2 the County could still use the information for enforcement. She said they are adding to the laws that
exist. She noted the law already
requires dogs to be licensed. She said
state law already requires that owners of dogs who get a rabies certificate for
their dogs turn their certificate over to the County. She said what is proposed to be done with this ordinance is to
require the veterinarians to tell the County which animals have received a
rabies inoculation. She added the information
would go to the public health official or his or her designee. She said it is anticipated the designee will
be Animal Control.
Wilson explained the
ordinance itself is designed for veterinarians to make the reports. She noted the four options that were offered
were in response to controversy that existed.
She said Option 1 makes it clear that they would not be using the
information for Lane County’s licensing requirement. She said that Option 2 is the opposite, but if they don’t enact
either Option 1 or Option 2, it is information received by the County and the
County could do with what it needed to do with enforcing any of its laws. She said that Option 3 was an option that
was written in the version that came from the task force report. She said it specified that a violation would
result in a Class C violation, for a first offense and a Class B for future
ones. She explained that Option 4 makes
clear that violations are committed by veterinarians. She said it controls behavior of veterinarians. She noted the penalty provision for
violating the ordinance makes it clear that the veterinarians are subject to
penalties.
Suchart said their
intent under Option 2 is to use the information they receive in order to do
licensing and help to increase the number of licenses that are sold. He added it is not his and Mike Wellington’s
intent to use it to deal with the limit laws unless there are complaints as was
stated earlier.
Dwyer indicated he
wanted to adopt the Ordinance as is with Option 4.
Wilson indicated
that Option 2 was unnecessary and that adoption without Option 1 would leave
them with what Option 2 states.
Van Vactor explained
the reason there was an Option 2 was because he wanted it for the purpose of
licensing and she drafted Option 2.
Sorenson asked what
the best way was to protect the lists from the predatory attacks by their out
of state competitors. He thought the
trade secret component had a strong limitation on Lane County’s ability to send
it out.
Wilson thought they
would have to make a change in state law.
ROLL CALL VOTE: 4-1 (Morrison dissenting).
Green requested that
as a follow up in March to report what information Suchart has with regard to
this ordinance.
5. COUNTY
ADMINISTRATION
a. Announcements
Van Vactor announced
he would be on vacation for the next two weeks.
6. PUBLIC
WORKS
a. DISCUSSION/Road
Fund Review – Secure Rural Schools Re-Authorization and New Project Requests.
Ollie Snowden,
Public Works, reported they have been working with the congressional delegation
to get the secure rural schools legislation reauthorized. He noted there has been cautious optimism
that this might be reauthorized this coming year. He added they continue to get requests from other governments to
fund road projects.
With regard to
Attachment 1, (copy in file) Snowden said they have two years of history and he
took the best forecast for their revenue sources and some of the work that Dave
Garnick had with the general fund to extend their expense side of the ledger
and compare where they are in the future.
He noted that timber receipts and state highway fund transfers are the
two big revenue sources for the road fund.
He noted in 04/05 they are expecting to get under $20 million through
Secure Rural Schools and they are expecting to get $15 million in the state
highway fund transfer.
For Timber Receipts,
Snowden explained that Attachment 1 assumed timber receipts would be renewed at
about the 75% level or $15 million. He
thought the total new revenue in 07/08 would be about $35 million. He thought there would be about an 8%
increase in 05/06 in personnel costs and a 5% increase in costs each year after
that. With lines 17 to 21, he assumed
that the $40 million road fund balance he currently has will be spent down in
the next two years. He said all the
money had been earmarked for either revenue sharing with the cities and other
agencies or projects that are to be built in the Capital Improvement Program. He noted that once the money is gone, there
will be no more revenue sharing with the cities and the only capital projects
would be pavement preservation. He said
the Board would have to make choices where they would be making the cuts. He indicated the message for the 75% and
100% alternative is that once the $40 million road fund balance is drawn down
and they have to live off new revenue coming in, they will see substantial
changes in the road fund programs.
Dwyer asked why so
much money was budgeted for engineering.
Snowden responded
that engineering includes multiple divisions and the biggest percentage of the
budget is road maintenance. He added
there is money budgeted for design, field and lab and some of that would be
reduced from line 10. He thought the
most money cut would be $2.5 to $3 million.
He noted by comparing line 22 with 07/08 to 08/09 to what they have been
doing in previous years, it meant that even with 100% funding they would only
have one-third the capital program in the future that they have had in the
recent past. He said they need to
manage the expectations about what the Secure Rural Schools is going to do for
them once the fund balance is spent down.
Morrison commented
that unless they deal with the employee costs they would not have more
revenue. With regard to the scenarios,
she thought it would be advantageous if they were to have an attachment 3 that
showed what would happen if the reauthorization does not take place at all
Snowden reported
that ODOT overpaid Lane County for the first seven months of OTIA III and to
make that up, Lane County would not be receiving any OTIA III pass through from
now through the rest of the year.
Snowden explained if
they didn’t have Secure Rural Schools funding, they would have received about
$750,000 in the road fund based on the actual harvest. He noted that Attachment 3 shows the list of
projects they have direction to pursue that are in the adopted CIP including
projects from the CAPP program, community development and assisted housing
program. He noted the cash balance they
carried forward into this fiscal year was about $44 million. He said the fund balance they have going
into this fiscal year pays for the projects on this list.
Snowden indicated
they had received four formal requests for additional project funding. He said that ODOT is asking for $2 million
from the County road funds to add to their Peterson Tunnel passing lane
project. He said they already have $2.5
million of ODOT money that will extend the passing lane 800 feet. He said they decided if they could get
another $2 million they could extend the passing lane another 5,000 feet. He said they also asked for $535,000 for a
left turn lane at Mill Road. He noted
it was originally a CAPP project but it was delayed because ODOT was using OTIA
III money to replace the bridge over the railroad tracks. He said they are reactivating that project
and they are asking for that money. He
said he needs to get something out to the cities, but he needed to come to the
Board to get direction. He noted
because the revenue is coming in lower than what they anticipated, the way they
set up the OTIA III pass through is giving a greater percentage of the money to
the small cities than what was originally intended when they sent the IGA’s out
to the cities.
Snowden indicated
that Chickering would come back in January with the LTD item and the ODOT
item.
Chickering said they
would be starting the CIP process in February.
He thought they would continue to get requests that were not generated
during the normal CIP process. He
recalled last year during the CIP process, he asked the Board to prioritize
projects and if they wanted to add something, to withdraw or delete a project
of equal value.
Morrison was in
favor of number one, number two and number three.
Dwyer indicated he
was in support for all of them.
There was consensus
to go ahead with all of them.
Sorenson wanted more
of a narrative with project, numbers and the cost benefit.
Snowden responded
they would do that through the CIP process this year.
Dwyer commented they
have to know what critical needs this is addressing and how is it enhancing
safety
Green requested
Snowden bring back what a countywide gas tax would look like. He noted in the past the County was not able
to make a case for a countywide gas tax.
He commented that the needs and maintenance are still there.
Tony Bieda,
Intergovernmental Relations Manager, reported the National Forest Counties and
School coalition from 41 states that receive money from Secure Rural Schools
have members on the coalition. He said
they have begun the lobbying efforts to reauthorize this act and the
expectation is that the majority of the effort will be exerted during the next
congress. He thought they could see a
bill to reauthorize early next year and the most likely scenario is that the
content of the bill would be a simple and direct reauthorization of the funding
level that is currently in place. He said whether or not 100% of the current
funding structure would be retained by the time the bill was passed was
something yet to be determined. He said
in Lane County they have received letters of endorsement for reauthorization
from almost all of the school districts and a majority of the cities.
b. REPORT BACK/Legal
Lot Verifications, Property Line Adjustments, and Roads Dividing Legal Lots
(NBA & PM 4/28/04 & 5/12/04).
Steve Hopkins, Land
Management, reported the Board adopted Ordinance 7-04 in June 2004 and
during the hearing process, there were three issues that were identified. He said the Board wanted staff to address
those issues and come back at a later date.
He said there is a group of 17 people who have been meeting to address
the issues. He noted there is another
meeting scheduled on January 10 and they hope to get an ordinance written and
start the public hearing process next year.
c. ORDER 04-12-15-1/In
the Matter of Denying a Request to Amend the Rural Comprehensive Plan to
Redesignate and Rezone 73.76 Acres of Land From "Agricultural Land/E-40
Exclusive Farm Use" to "Marginal Land/ML Marginal Lands" (File
PA02-5838; Ogle-Childs). (PULLED).
d. FIRST READING AND
SETTING SECOND READING AND PUBLIC HEARING/Ordinance No. PA 1220/In the
Matter of Amending the Rural Comprehensive Plan to Redesignate Land From
"Forest" to "Marginal Land" and Rezoning That Land From
"F-2/Impacted Forest Lands” to "Ml/Marginal Land," and Adopting
Savings and Severability Clauses (File PA 03-5901; Carver) (Second Reading
& Public Hearing: January 12, 2005, 1:30 pm).
MOTION: to
move to approve a First Reading and Setting a Second Reading and Public Hearing
on Ordinance No. PA 1220 on January 12, 2005 at 1:30 p.m.
Dwyer MOVED,
Morrison SECONDED.
VOTE: 4-0 (Sorenson excused).
7. CONSENT
CALENDAR
A. Approval of
Minutes:
April 13, 2004, Work
Session, 9:00 a.m.
September 15, 2004,
Regular Meeting, 1:30 p.m.
November 23, 2004,
Legislative Breakfast, 7:00 a.m.
November 23, 2004
Regular Meeting, 1:30 p.m.
December 1, 2004,
Regular Meeting, 9:00 a.m.
December 1, 2004,
Regular Meeting, 1:30 p.m.
B. County Administration
1) ORDER 04-12-15-2/In
the Matter of Approving the Internal Auditor Work Plan for 2005.
C. Health and Human
Services
1) ORDER 04-12-15-3/In
the Matter of Ratifying the County Administrator's Signature on a Contract with
PeaceHealth, Oregon Region for Billing Authority Not to Exceed $400,000 and to
Delegate Authority to Sign Contracts with Mercy Medical Center and Providence
Health Systems for Billing Authority Not to Exceed $200,000 Each for the Period
October 1, 2004 Through September 30, 2005.
D. Management
Services
1) ORDER 04-12-15-4/In
the Matter of Authorizing the County Administrator to Execute a Three Year
Lease Agreement with the Lane County Extension Service with Revenue of $228,384
for Space at 950 W. 13th Avenue, Eugene.
2) ORDER 04-12-15-5/In
the Matter of Cancellation and Forfeiture of a Land Sale Contract Pursuant to
ORS 275.220 and ORS Chapter 93 with Billy Joe and Dorothy A. King for the
Purchase of County Owned Real Property (Map # 16-04-15-00-00600, 92909 River
Road, Junction City.
E. Public Works
1) ORDER 04-12-15-6/In
the Matter of Dedicating and Accepting a Parcel of County Owned Land as Right
of Way For an Unnamed Public Road (18-10-07).
2) ORDER 04-12-15-7/In
the Matter of Awarding a Three-Year Requirements Contract to Cascade Health
Solutions for the Purchase of Alcohol and Drug Testing, CDL Physicals, and
Miscellaneous Services.
3) ORDER 04-12-15-8/In
the Matter of Awarding a Three-Year Requirements Contract to The Jerry Brown
Co., Inc. for the Purchase of Cardlock Fuel and Fueling Services in Veneta,
Contract No. RFP04/05 FS-01.
4) ORDER 04-12-15-9/In
the Matter of Releasing, Dedicating and Accepting Parcels of County Owned Real Estate, as Public Road Right-of-Way.
(20-03-20) (Un-Named Road).
5) ORDER 04-12-15-10/In the Matter of Re-Appointing a Member to
the Lane County Planning Commission.
END OF CONSENT
CALENDAR * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
MOTION: to
approve the remainder of the Consent Calendar with item E. 5) pulled.
Dwyer MOVED, Hampton
SECONDED.
VOTE: 5-0.
E. 5)
Sorenson explained that Ms. Rughani had
resigned from the Planning Commission.
He requested a way to appoint members of the Planning Commission from
the pool of people who had applied last year.
MOTION: to move to approve 04-12-15-10
to appoint Lisa Arkin to a term on the Lane County Planning Commission that
would expire September 30, 2008 and to appoint Mark Herbert to the term that
would expire September 30, 2005.
Sorenson MOVED, Dwyer SECONDED.
Green commented that Sorenson was having
conversations with candidates outside of the process about what their
intentions are. He noted they had a
process and Sorenson didn’t support it.
He didn’t understand why Sorenson was changing things.
Sorenson responded the people applied a year
ago and some would have a term that would go only a few months. He said this was to recognize that Arkin had
applied for a longer term. He said it
was in a spirit of a compromise that he made this motion.
Green commented that if Sorenson trusted the
process in place, Mark Herbert and Lisa Arkin would serve according to the
vacancy in a capacity that is beneficial to the Planning Commission. He noted in most cases they would re-appoint
that person, recognizing that it was a short term. He asked why they were trying to fix something that was not
broken.
Wilson spoke with Stephen Vorhes, Assistant
County Counsel, and his recollection of the action that the Board took on
December 8 is that Sorenson made a motion and what is captured on the order is
consistent with the motion that they made.
She noted the motion describes certain people completing other’s
terms.
Green stated if Sorenson had these types of
concerns, he should have accepted Dwyer’s proposal to be involved in the
process at the initial stages instead of not being part of it and then trying
to overcorrect it.
Green didn’t support the motion. He said this had failed the test
publicly. He noted himself and Morrison
took on the responsibility to do it the correct way. He thought Sorenson should have accepted his assignment and
interviewed the people. He didn’t think Sorenson was giving proper respect to
the citizens who applied and went through the interviews. He added Sorenson wasn’t giving proper
respect to Mark Herbert. He thought
they were endorsing a worse process and it shouldn’t be done. He didn’t think the public could trust an
application process to serve on a volunteer committee when anyone could come up
at the last minute and make adjustments.
VOTE: 3-2 (Green, Morrison dissenting).
8. HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
a. ORDER 04-12-15-11/In
the Matter of Establishing One Full-Time (1.0 FTE) Developmental Disabilities
Specialist Effective January 1, 2005 in the Department of Health & Human
Services.
MOTION: to
move to approve ORDER 04-12-15-11.
Dwyer MOVED,
Morrison SECONDED.
VOTE: 4-0 (Sorenson excused).
9. MANAGEMENT
SERVICES
a. ORDER 04-12-15-12/In
the Matter of Acknowledging Receipt of the Lane County Comprehensive Annual
Financial Report (CAFR) for the Year Ended June 30, 2004, and Filing a Copy of
the Audit Report with the Secretary of State.
David Suchart,
Management Services, reported this was the earliest that they had ever prepared
the report and completed all the work.
He noted a draft copy went to Finance and Audit.
Mary Case of
external auditor Moss Adams commended the County employees for having the
financial statements prepared so early and with new auditors. She said that November 1 was the date they
completed their fieldwork for the audit.
She stated they would be coming back next month to go through the
management letter.
Case passed out
required communications. (Copy in file).
She noted that auditors are required to communicate certain things with
boards and audit committees who are responsible for oversight of the financial
reporting process. She noted there is a
letter that explains what the audit does regarding the financial statements. She added they did an audit of the
compliance in accordance with the Single Audit Act so there are two opinions in
the financial statements. She said
there was nothing to report. She noted
the financial statements and compliance were clean.
Case noted there was
a new auditing standard implemented this year, SASS 99 that involved
interviews. She stated it asked
questions about knowledge about fraud within the County.
Case said they are
required to tell what an auditor’s responsibility is under general accepted
auditing standards and the Single Audit Act.
She noted they don’t test every transaction but a sample of transactions
to render an opinion. She said there
were no material weaknesses to report.
Case indicated if
there were significant audit adjustments recorded during the course of the
audit, they would have shared it with the Board. She noted they didn’t propose any adjustments during the course
of the audit and management had adjusted things correctly.
MOTION: to
move to approve ORDER 04-12-15-12.
Sorenson MOVED,
Dwyer SECONDED.
VOTE: 4-0 (Morrison out of room.)
b. REPORT/Government
Finance Officers Association Award.
Suchart reported
that the County has received the Certificate of Achievement of Excellence in
Financial Reporting. He noted they
received it from the Government Finance Officers Association and there were few
comments. He appreciated the
professionalism of his staff in preparing the report.
10. PUBLIC
SAFETY
a. PROGRESS
REPORT/Community Wildfire Protection Plan.
Linda Cook,
Sheriff’s Office, reported that last May the Board approved Title III funds to
perform the project, pursuant to the Healthy Forest Restoration Act that
President Bush signed in December 2003.
Cook indicated there
are four major parts to the development of the plan. She said the first is conducting a risk assessment. She noted the process involves the community
and identifying the highest priority areas for implementing fuel reduction
strategies. She said the process calls
for an in depth analysis of population densities and the topography of the
local areas to determine the areas at highest risk. She noted the second part is developing a community-based
map. She said the maps would be given
to the fire chiefs so they can do an in-depth analysis of each of their own
districts. She said the purpose of the
community-based map is to identify local wildland urban interface zones. She noted the wildland urban interface zones
have been identified by the state. She
indicated the Healthy Forest Restoration Act allows for the requirement that
communities develop their own plan so they are local specific. She noted another part was community
outreach; plan development and writing the plan itself. She said the plan would only be successful
if all of the right parties had been engaged and provided their input for the
plan. She said they have decided to
conduct 15 or 20 stakeholder interviews and to mail out 1,500 landowner
surveys. She said they would compile
the results and conduct an analysis of what the results mean. She said the result of the landowner surveys,
the stakeholder interviews and the forums they hold will be brought back to the
steering committee for them to decide what their priorities should be for the
plan.
Cook noted another
important aspect of the plan is implementing pilot projects. She said while they are busy developing the
maps, conducting the risk assessment and a community outreach, they will also
do other field reduction strategies so they could incorporate the lessons
learned from those projects into the written document itself. She indicated at this point the Oregon
Department of Forestry is recommending that they do the fish hatchery and the
EWEB facility located at Leeburg and Triangle Lake Schools. She reported they have developed an in-depth
project plan and schedule. She noted
they have a steering committee that is directing the work and the development
of the process.
b. ORDER 04-12-15-13/In
the Matter of Approving Increased Funds for the Title III Project for
Developing a Community Wildfire Protection Plan.
MOTION: to
move to approve ORDER 04-12-15-13.
Dwyer MOVED, Hampton
SECONDED.
Morrison supported
the motion. She hoped that between now
and spring they have enough of this completed so that the BLM and Forest
Service will come forward with RAC projects they could fund with Title II money
to direct against the wildland urban interface.
Cook reported their
project plan will be finalized in June and she will be bringing it to the Board
for adoption.
VOTE: 5-0.
c. ORDER 04-12-15-14/In
the Matter of Appointing Jan Clements Sheriff Pro Tem.
Wilson indicated the
chair received a letter from Sheriff Clements dated December 8, 2004,
indicating that he was tendering his resignation effective December 31, 2004
for retirement. She noted he has
offered to serve as Pro Tem Sheriff until Russ Burger is sworn in. She explained under the Home Rule Charter,
the Board has the authority to fill the vacancy in the elected position.
MOTION: to
move to approve ORDER 04-12-15-14.
Dwyer MOVED,
Sorenson SECONDED.
VOTE: 5-0.
11. CORRESPONDENCE
TO THE BOARD
None.
12. EMERGENCY
BUSINESS
None.
13. COMMISSIONERS'
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Hampton announced
there would be a tree lighting in Oakridge on Sunday at 4:00 p.m. He thanked the Board for appointing him to
the position of commissioner representative.
Dwyer said they
delivered 470 turkeys in the Eugene Springfield area and 120 turkeys in
Florence.
Morrison reported
the AOC legislative meeting was on Monday.
She reported the Food Share event in Florence went well. She commented that teleconferencing would
work well with Lane County as they might not have to go to Salem, but they will
be able to do the meetings by video conferencing.
14 EXECUTIVE
SESSION as per ORS 192.660
To take place at the
end of the meeting.
15 OTHER
BUSINESS
None.
There being no
further business, Commissioner Green recessed the meeting into Executive
Session at 12:10 p.m.
Melissa Zimmer
Recording Secretary