1984-90128-Minutes for Meeting October 17,1984 Recorded 11/20/1984A va 57 FACE 438
DESCHUTES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
OCTOBER 17, 1984 - REGULAR MEETING MINUTES
Acting Chair Prante called the meeting to order at 10:00 A.M.
Commissioner Young and Commissioner Tuttle were present.
Amendments to Chair Prante read the amendments to the
the Agenda Agenda. There were no changes or additions.
Bid Opening Michael Maier, Director of Administrative
for Courthouse Services, and Marshall Ricker, Architect,
Annex re- opened the bids received for the re-roofing
roofing of the annex. The bids received were: Glen
Pro~ec : Johnson Roofing, Bend, Oregon, $44,603.00 single
ply; Early Roofing, Springfield, Oregon,
$52,893.00, base bid built up system, and
$83,814.00, single ply; and Eagle Roofing, Bend,
Oregon, $53,820.00, single ply.
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The bids will be checked for compliance with the
` = < bid specification and will be placed on the Board's
agenda at a future date for awarding of the bid.
Public Hearing John E. Andersen, Community Development Director,
Regarding Geo- explained that during the past year the County has
thermal Amend- been conducting a study of the geothermal potential
ment to
for Deschutes County, the proper role for Deschutes
Deschutes
County, and the regulation of the resource.
County Comp-
Mr. Andersen stated that the Deschutes County
rehensive
Planning Commission has spent the last year
Plan
studying geothermal development potential in the
and Zoning
County, have proposed a geothermal element for the
Ordinance
Deschutes County Comprehensive Plan and related
amendments, and have held numerous work shops for
discussion and information, as well as obtained
public testimony in a public hearing September 12,
1984. The Deschutes County Planning Commission
recommends adoption of the Ordinance as proposed in
the final draft of October 10, 1984. Mr. Andersen
read a letter received from Myer Avedovech,
representing Mr. James R. Miller, LaPine Pumice
Company, which has a direct interest in aspects of
the element. Mr. Andersen explained that Union
Geothermal has been active in reviewing the plan
and has sent a letter to be submitted into the
record. Mr. Andersen explained that the letter has
not yet been received and gave an overview of the
letter. Mr. Andersen stated that the Sierra Club
had indicated an interest in the proposal but found
the time too short in order to prepare a
presentation. Mr. Andersen suggested that after
receiving testimony today the hearing be continued
to December 12, 1984 in order to allow additional
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time for presentation. Mr. Andersen introduced the
consultant for this proposal, Mr. Eliot Allen.
Eliot Allen, Eliot Allen and Associates, Salem,
Oregon, summarized the contents of the element.
Mr. Allen stated that this project was funded by
the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) last
fall. Since the work began, approximately 110
person hours have been put into the project by the
Deschutes County Planning Commission and County
staff. Another 25 person hours were contributed by
interested citizens and other federal and state
agencies that the County has coordinated with. Mr.
Allen said that there has been an extensive amount
of public involvement effort on the part of the
County during the project and because of this, the
County can feel confident that views have been
sought and incorporated into the element. Mr.
Allen stated that the project had two purposes.
The first purpose was in response to the assistance
from the BPA to help the BPA and Northwest Power
Planning Council determine how much geothermal
energy could be developed in this county as the
Power Planning Act is implemented. BPA was
interested in knowing how much power could be
generated by resources in the County as well as how
much electricity could be displaced by geothermal
direct use. The estimates came to 1,200 to 2,500
megawatts of power generation capable from the
resources and 2 to 10 megawatts of electricity that
could be displaced, either through geothermal
direct use or heat pumps. Mr. Allen said that the
second major objective was to put a magnifying
glass on Goal 5 as it relates to geothermal
resources. The entire Goal 5 process was gone
through carefully to give the County the Goal 5
element as it relates to geothermal energy, and to
comply with LCDC requirements. The element
document is constructed and formated identically to
the Goal 5 process. Mr. Allen continued that
geothermal energy is the heat of the earth.
Geothermal energy is able to be extracted from the
earth in those places where the crust is thin
enough that the resource can be captured through
wells. By bringing the resource to the surface of
the ground in those wells, if the temperature is
hot enough, electricity can be generated by turning
a turbine with the steam of the resource. If the
temperature is low it can be used directly to heat
buildings, industrial processes, and agricultural
processes. Low temperature water (ground water)
can be heat pumped with a water source heat pump
for heating of buildings or industrial processes.
Mr. Allen said that in the State of Oregon there
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are a variety of governmental entities that
regulate geothermal resources. The resource that
exists beneath 250 degrees fahrenheit is considered
to be ground water and the Oregon Water Resources
Department is in charge of appropriating it. Above
250 degrees fahrenheit it is considered a mineral
and the Department of Geology and Mineral
Industries regulates it. If it is above 250
degrees fahrenheit the ownership of the resource
goes to the overlying property owner. In addition,
the Department of Environmental Quality becomes
involved in all cases when it comes to disclosing
of any type of a resource. Mr. Allen continued
that on federal lands the Bureau of Land Management
is the federal lead agency who supervises the
leasing of the resource and any development and
operations that would ensue after that. The Forest
Service is heavily involved if the resource occurs
beneath national forest lands, which does occur in
Deschutes County. The County has direct authority
over private and state-owned lands. The authority
is a land use type authority under the state
statutes. Zoning of geothermal drilling is the
responsibility of the County. The County is also
responsible for siting small scale power plants
less than 25 megawatts. Above 25 megawatts the
responsibility goes to the State Energy Facility
Siting Council.
Mr. Allen said that the resource inventory was
based on existing information with a limited amount
of field work because there was not a great amount
of time or budget in this project to enable actual
field work. Seven major resource areas were
identified, which were divided into three types of
resource - the higher temperature resource that
would generate electricity, the moderate resource
from 100 degree fahrenheit to boiling to heat homes
and factories, and the low temperature resource
that can be heat pumped. The high temperature
resources mostly exists on federal lands and are
the direct responsibility of BLM and the Forest
Service, although the County has a major
responsibility to advise those agencies as to the
proper way to manage the development of these
resources. Mr. Allen continued that the east flank
of the Central Cascades is a major resource area in
high temperature. Newberry Crater is a well known
and long standing perspective resource area. There
are two smaller ones just north of Glass Buttes.
There is an electrical potential that does extend
slightly into Deschutes County and some leasing has
occured just across the County line. Just west of
Powell Buttes there is some high temperature
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leasing occuring, some of that leasing has come
into the Alfalfa area. Of these high temperature
areas the one that has the most feasible potential
in the shortest term would appear to be Newberry
Crater and the area near Sisters and Black Butte
Ranch. These high termperature areas combined have
been estimated to generate approximately 1,200 to
2,500 megawatts of power. This estimate is
tentative and there is a great deal more research
work to be done before a definitive number can be
developed. There has been about 1/4 million acres
of land inside Deschutes County leased by the
Forest Service for geothermal and another 145,000
acres with applications pending. Mr. Allen stated
that a very important aspect of this project for
purposes of economic development is the moderate
temperature resources that exist. These
temperatures range from 100 degrees fahrenheit up
to boiling, which is most usable in agricultural
and aquacultural applications as well as industrial
applications. Mr. Allen stated that a well that
produces fluids in those temperatures could be used
to support fish farming and green housing. Mr.
Allen stated that this is already occuring in
Klamath County, Lake County, and Harney County to a
certain extent. In terms of Deschutes County's
interest in economic diversification, more work
particularly in the Alfalfa area might represent an
opportunity to use this resource to create jobs
locally without any adverse environmental
consequences and without a lot of capital
investment required. Mr. Allen stated that there
are indications that these moderate temperatures
exist in the Redmond area, but more work needs to
be done. Mr. Allen continued that the best low
temperature areas (ground water as low as 50
degrees fahrenheit) within Deschutes County are in
the LaPine and Sisters areas. In these areas it is
estimated that 2 to 10 megawatts of electricity
could be displaced by switching people to
geothermal. Mr. Allen encourgaed major facility
construction in either of these two areas in excess
of 10,000 square feet to look to water source heat
pumps for heating purposes. Mr. Allen stated that
the resource inventory is preliminary and as
exploration occurs over time the inventory will
need to be amended.
Mr. Allen stated that the next step in the project
was to document the status of resorce development
in the County. There is no resource utilization
going on in the County in high or low temperature.
There has only been a limited amount of exploration
in the Newberry Crater area and Sisters-Black Butte
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area. The conclusion is that Deschutes County is
in the early stages of development and the project
is well timed in that there is the opportunity to
do some advance planning and have policies and
measures in place before development pressures.
The next portion of the project was concerned with
the Goal 5 requirement of identifying conflicting
uses and identifying the consequences of those
conflicts. Conflicts were identified in many kinds
of intensive activity such as residential,
commercial, recreational and tourism aspects.
Geothermal development in high temperature regime
is an industrialization of an area. Mr. Allen
explained that if you were to go into an area to
develop high temperature steam resources, you would
build a power plant and the immediate vacinity
would become industrialized in character. The
Deschutes County Planning Commission determined
that kind of activity would conflict in many of
these rural sites where there is tourism and
recreation activites, as well as some of the resort
activities. The consequences of those conflicts
were determined to be primarily environmental and
economic. Mr. Allen said there are some
environmental risks in developing geothermal,
although technology exists to control those and
minimize them. The Planning Commission was very
concerned about the economic consequences where an
area would become industrialized, and by virtue of
that, tourism and recreation would begin to fall
off in that area. These conflicts are limited
strictly to the high temperature resource. The
Planning Commission determined that the low
temperature resource did not have serious conflicts
or consequences. The Planning Commission is
recommending that low temperature activity be
allowed as an accessory use under the zoning
ordinance. The real area of sensitivity was the
high temperature resource creating an
industrialization that would be inconsistent with
the rural recreational character of many of the
sites. The next step in the Goal 5 process is
putting in place management practices to get what
benefit we can from the resources as well as avoid
conflicts. Mr. Allen stated that Goal 5 says that
you either protect the geothermal resource fully
and don't worry about other uses; or you worry
completely about the other uses and do not allow
geothermal; or that they have equal merit and
should conditionally allow things to coexist as
much as possible. Mr. Allen explained that
geothermal exploration and development for power
generation is a permitted use in all of the EFU
zones, in two of the Forest zones, and in the
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mining zones. Mr. Allen stated the conclusion of
the project was that the County will take a very
agressive posture in relationship to the federal
agencies activities and will have direct land use
responsibilities. The fourteen policies and zoning
ordinance amendments say in effect that Deschutes
County recognizes the value of the geothermal
resources and believes that particularly low and
moderate temperature resources can be used to
foster economic growth in the County and create
jobs, and the County supports that. Deschutes
County recognizes the high temperature power
sources as being significant; however, there are
concerns about any adverse environmental economic
consequences that development of that resource
could cause. If that kind of activity is going to
occur in areas where Deschutes County has
jurisdiction there will be some very specific
development standards that will apply.
Chair Prante asked Mr. Allen if any of the areas of
the high temperature resource could be developed
without any adverse effects.
Mr. Allen stated that high temperature power
generation is possible in the northern Glass Buttes
area and to a certain degree west of Powell Buttes.
Mr. Allen stated that there are areas in the
Cascades that may be possible to accomodate
development without significant adverse effects,
although an area this large needs to be approached
on a site specific case-by-case basis.
Commissioner Tuttle asked Mr. Allen to explained
the impact of the unitization of the leases.
Mr. Allen explained that it describes the combining
of several leases into one single operating unit
and is done primarily for two reasons. Unitization
occurs because there is a tremendous resource
potential and the operators choose to pool their
interest so the resource can be more effectively
managed. Another reason unitization is created is
because under state law it allows the acreage in
that unit to not be charged against that particular
lease holder in that state.
Paul Converse, 6880 N. E. lst Street, Redmond,
a citizen and candidate for Central Oregon Peoples
Utility District Board of Directors, stated that
Newberry Crater is awfully large and half of the
hot water potential in the County. Mr. Converse
said that it would be a mistake to prohibit
development in that area. Mr. Converse asked how
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geothermal development will hurt the recreational
aspects of Newberry. Mr. Converse said that it
will create industrialization, but the beetles are
now doing a good job of ruining the scenery by
killing half the trees in the area so, geothermal
would be another visusal impact. Mr. Converse said
that since dams are being excluded on the river to
keep them natural and we do want power this kind of
power seems to blend with the environment very well
and would be a mistake to prohibit it in the
Paulina Lake region. Mr. Converse asked how many
square miles this area is and is this the prime
building area in the County from an energy
standpoint. Mr. Converse asked if it had been
assessed whether the drillers can drill at an angle
from outside the area to penatrate the best spots,
or it is necessary in this technology to drill
vertically to get the steam. Mr. Converse asked if
there is any type of pollution associated with
geothermal energy we should be aware of? Mr.
Converse said that he does not think that
geothermal development would decrease tourism.
It was suggested that Mr. Converse look at the
element, which will answer a great number of his
questions.
John C. Driscoll, 62142 Cody Jr. Road, Bend,
explained that he is also running for Central
Oregon Peoples Utility District, and concurred with
Paul Converse' observation. Mr. Driscoll stated
that the effects of these facilities would be less
dramatic then a dam, and geothermal energy of this
type has been sucessfully pursued in Klamath
County. Mr. Driscoll stated that geothermal has a
proven track record and is much simpler and would
allow more control over power and its distribution.
Mary Jane Newton, 11 N. W. Kansas Ave., Bend,
explained that if a steam plant were allowed at
Newberry Crater there would be tremendous effects.
Ms. Newton said that not only would it be turned
into an industrial area, it would also make it
almost a private area because people would not be
allowed in those areas. There will be tremendous
effects as far as steam is concerned and the noise
from drilling. A geothermal process is a continual
process. A well is drilled and the resource is
used but you also find that the heat is going to
diminish. Ms. Newton explained that the drilling
is continual, the noise from the drilling is
continuous, and the pollution is continuous from
different types of chemicals in the water. Ms.
Newton continued that in Newberry Crater there is a
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sink where cold air settles and 400 tons of steam
coming out of each well per hour and the area will
be completely in a cloud. People won't be able to
see across the lake or stand the smell. Ms. Newton
said where tourism is concerned it will be
destroyed. Ms. Newton said that in 1982 there were
300,000 people who visited Newberry Crater. Ms.
Newton said that the fish resources and tourism is
going to be ruined. Ms. Newton asked what the
balance is between the two. Ms. Newton stated that
tourism is already an important resource and if
this is destroyed for some power, is it worth it?
Commissioner Tuttle asked Mr. Eliot if some slides
could be presented at the next hearing to get an
idea of what a plant looks like.
MOTION: TUTTLE moved to continue the hearing to
December 12, 1984.
YOUNG: Second
VOTE: UNANIMOUS APPROVAL
Public Hearing Commissioner Tuttle disclosed that on September
Regarding 25, 1984 Mr. Chase asked Mr. Tuttle if he had
Vacation of in his files some information that had been
Easement for given him last June, which he had. The
Philip Chase information was transmitted to County Counsel and
(action item) is included in the record. This is the only
contact Commissioner Tuttle has had with the
applicant during that period of time. Commissioner
Tuttle stated that he has not walked the property
but knows where it is from being in that area on
other occasions.
Chair Prante disclosed that she has met with both
Mr. Thompson and the Chases, but doesn't remember
the exact date. Chair Prante stated that she has
visited the property.
Commissioner Young disclosed that he has been
involved with this issue for approximatley 11
years. Commissioner Young stated that he knows the
property and knows the people and has had contact
for several yea,rs now.
Dave Hoerning, County Engineer, read aloud the
Engineer's Report of June 26, 1984. The report
explained that on May 23, 1975, Deschutes County
entered into an easement agreement with Mr. and
Mrs. Phillip Chase. This agreement was made in
consideration of a vacation of a public road, which
was also owned by Mr. Chase. The agreement was
made to provide access to the property lying
southerly of the Chase property. At the time of
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the vacation agreement, the 40 acre parcel lying
southerly was shown in the ownership of the State
of Oregon. However, it has been recently
determined that the ownership is under the Bureau
of Land Management and is part of 160 acres owned
by BLM. In 1982 Dwane Thompson filed for a way of
necessity to his 40 acre parcel. He asked for
access off an existing road that meandered through
the property lying west of his parcel. After
several hearings, the previous Board of
Commissioners granted a right of way along the
northerly line from the existing road to the
Thompson property. Mr. Thompson found this route
to be unsuitable due to its location and the steep
terrain. Being on the northeasterly slope of the
hill, the alignment would be shaded during the
winter causing hardships as well as the the steep
grade under winter conditions. Mr. Thompson began
investigating other alternatives and found that the
County had provided for the easement across the
Chase property for future access to the public
lands. Mr. Thompson then negotiated for right of
way from BLM over their property to the point of
access on the Chase property. Mr. Thompson
contacted the County regarding the status of this
easement and was told that it could be utilized if
the conditions of the agreement were met. The
County agreed to accept the offer of dedication
outlined in the agreement of May 23, 1975 and so
notified the BLM, the Chases and the Thompsons.
Since that time, the Chases have asked that the
easement agreement be nullified. Mr. Hoerning
walked the alignment that was given by the previous
Commissioners under the way of necessity to Duane
Thompson and agrees that it is unsatisfactory for
an access to his property. Mr. Hoerning said that
he found Mr. Thompson has acquired a new right of
way easement from his property to the Chase
property for the purpose of serving a single family
residence and he understands substantial work has
been done by Mr. Thompson. It is the
recommendation of the Public Works Department that
the County should accept the offer of dedication
and not nullify the Easement Agreement.
Max Merrill, representing Mr. & Mrs. Chase, stated
that their position is that Mr. Thompson's concern
are outside of the scope of what is being dealt
with today. Mr. Merrill said that this easement
agreement was done for the purpose of making sure
that a property of 40 acres, owned by the State of
Oregon, had an alternate route. It has been 10
years now and that route has not been used and it
has been established that BLM owns the property
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rather than the State. Mr. Merrill said it is
their position that the whole purpose of initiating
that process 10 years ago was done on the mistake
of both parties in executing that agreement, when
they thought there was a necessity for it. It is
Mr. Merrill's understanding that had the parties
not believed that the State owned it and had to
have access to that property, the easement
agreement would never had been entered by either
party. Therefore, it is their position that
legally there is a situation where a mutual mistake
was made by both parties. Mr. Merrrill said
therefore, it is reasonable the agreement be
rescinded and that the dedication not be sought and
the rights under the agreement be annulled. Mr.
Merrill said that events that have occured since
that agreement are very significant. There has
been no request to use that access in the ten
years, so .they are looking at what necessity there
really is.for that road. If the past ten years is
any indication, there is certainly no need to get
to that BLM property through the Chase property.
Mr. Merrill stated that Mr. Thompson's problem of
access does not relate to this issue. Mr. Thompson
still has all of the remedies he had before,
regardless of what the County does today; that
being, if he continues with his appeal on the
private way of necessity and wins that appeal a new
route will be sought. Mr. Merrill continued that
if the power that work under the statutes in
finding alternate access determines that the Chase
property would be the proper way to go, they would
make that determination and the Chases can fight
that battle at that time. Mr. Merrill stated that
he does not think it would be proper for the County
Commissioners to grant a public way or require the
Chases to give a public way, when there is no need
for it, to satisfy the requirements of one
individual who has a need for a private way of
necessity. Mr. Merrill said that he has spoken
with BLM and understands that they have granted an
easement that is contingent because it would not be
useful upon the granting of this public easement.
Mr.. Merrill continued that BLM's preference would
be that it not be up through this area. Mr.
Merrill stated that there are ways available, and,
in fact, Mr. Thompson has been offered a way across
Mr. Couch's property. Mr. Merrill stated that
there are other areas that Mr. Thompson could use
that are significantly shorter than the access he
is seeking here. If the Commissioners are going to
decide the issue today it is simply one of whether
the County needs this road for the purpose that it
was intended to provide when the agreement was
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drawn. Mr. Merrill stated what Mr. Thompsons needs
are a separate issue which he has another forum in
which he would conduct that process. Mr. Merrill
said that his issue is important to the Chases
individually. If the County requires them to
dedicate the easement as contained in the agreement
it will be a public access. The Chases would
prefer a way of necessity through their property to
be a private way of necessity with a limited
access. Mr. Merrill continued that the
recommendation all along was that this be vacated
and only since Mr. Thompson has indicated a wish
that he have access was there was a real question
involved with it. Mr. Merrill said that the County
has consistently indicated that they do not have a
real reason for having that roadway there and the
Chases certainly do not want to have it there and
feel that the recommendation from Public Works
should be.allowed.
Bob Lovlien, representing Duane Thompson, explained
that the situation indicates that the statutory way
of necessity has been ganted by the County, but is
simply unuseable because of a 20 percent grade on
the northern face of the slope that is supposed to
provide access to the property. Mr. Thompson tried
to find another way to get into his property.
There are two other possible alternatives; one is
to use another BLM approach, which was blocked by
Mr. Chase and others. The other option is to use
the existing public access that has been provided
by the deed records and then use a BLM access,
which has been approved. Mr. Lovlien stated that
Mr. Thompson is at the end of his patience with
this thing. Mr. Lovlien continued that if you look
at the statues is clearly provides that you cannot
vacate this easement if there would be any public
benefit to it. There has been demonstrated that
the Thompson property is land locked except for the
statutory way of necessity and this would in itself
be substantial reasons for the County to continue
to ask for an easement. Mr. Lovlien stated that
the County does not have the statutory authority to
vacate this easement when it provides access to the
Thompson property. Mr. Lovlien stated that they
have no problem with limiting that access if the
County has the authority to do that. Mr. Lovlien
showed the Board a map of the property and all
routes. Mr. Lovlien stated that Mr. Couch's
property has just been foreclosed, leaving Mr.
Couch with no interest in the property. There are
only two available accesses of record, one the
statutory way of necessity which is not a
reasonable access and the second is the access
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through the existing easement and the BLM access
permit. Mr. Lovlien stated that Mr. Thompson only
wants an access to this property. Mr. Thomspon has
looked into all available routes.
Morris Ziegler, BLM Area Manager, showed the
Commissioners the routes they have looked at for
access to the Thompson property. Mr. Ziegler
stated that when they look at roads and accesses it
is their job to look at damage of resource. Mr.
Ziegler stated that the reason for not granting an
access along the canal is because there is alredy
an access along the other side.
Chair Prante closed the hearing.
MOTION: YOUNG moved that this easement not be
vacated under the present circumstances.
PRANTE: Second
Commissioner Young stated that it appears to him
that there has been a consertive efffort to keep
Mr. Thompson off his property and until such time
these people get together and give Mr. Thompson a
reasonable access to this property he does not want
to vacate that access.
Commissioner Tuttle stated that he agrees with
Commissioner Young with the exception that Mr.
Thompson has not yet exhausted his remedies under
his original way of necessity, which could have
been appealed, and still has the option of appeal,
or in the event this continuing offer of easement
is vacated, a possible option is to begin a new way
of necessity. Commissioner Tuttle said he would
vote no on the motion because the easement is not
in public use and has only a private benefit to a
single land owner and that is only constructed
because the continuing offer being there, not
because there aren't other options available.
VOTE: TUTTLE, no; YOUNG, yes; PRANTE yes.
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Cooperative Neil Hudson, Director of Public Works, explained
Iprovement that this agreement is between Deschutes County and
Agreement State Highway Division for improving the
with State intersection of Highway 97 and 61st Street.
Highway This is a high accident area. Mr. Hudson stated
Division for that there are federal funds available for this
Highway 97 project to straighten out this intersection.
and 61st
Street MOTION: TUTTLE moved to sign the Cooperative
(action item) Improvement Agreement with the State
Highway Department for the insection of
Highway 97 and 61st Street.
YOUNG: Second
VOTE: UNANIMOUS APPROVAL
Acceptance of Neil Hudson explained that this Declaration of
Declaration Dedication is for an additional 10 feet of
of Dedication right of way on Empire Boulevard. This strip
for Empire is being dedicated along with a 30 foot strip for
Boulevard public road purposes on the property being
(action item) developed by Virginia and Jake Wolfe for the Myrmo
Company. The 10 foot strip will allow widening of
Empire Boulevard when the overpass is built to
connect Highway 97 with Boyd Acres Road.
Chair Prante entertained a motion to accept the
Declaration of Dedication for Empire Boulevard.
MOTION: TUTTLE so moved.
YOUNG: Second
VOTE: UNANIMOUS APPROVAL
Order No.
84-269 and
Petition to
Designate
a Newspaper
for Publication
of Personal
Property Tax
Warrants
(action item)
Order No.
84-050 and
Order No.
84-054,
Declaring
the Necessity
to Acquire
Along Walker
Road
(action item)
Chair Prante read aloud the title of the petition.
Order No. 84-269 designates the Bulletin for
publication of Notice of Issue of Warrants for the
Collection of Delinquent Taxes on Personal
Property.
MOTION: YOUNG moved to adopt Order No. 84-269
designating the Bulletin for publication
of personal propery tax warrants.
TUTTLE: Second
VOTE: UNANIMOUS APPROVAL
Neil Hudson explained that this is a piece of
property needed to replace a bridge under the
Federal Bridge Replacement Program. Mr. Hudson
said that they had tried negotiating with the
property owner but he would not return any phone
calls. Mr. Hudson stated that the property has
appraised, which is the first step in condeming
the property. Mr. Hudson said that the
condemnation is going to cost more than the
property is worth. Mr. Hudson recommended
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proceeding and adopting Order No. 84-050 and
84-054.
MOTION: TUTTLE moved to adopt Order No. 84-050.
YOUNG: Second
VOTE: UNANIMOUS APPROVAL
MOTION: TUTTLE moved to adopt Order No. 84-054
declaring the necessity to acquire
property.
YOUNG: Second
VOTE: UNANIMOUS APPROVAL
Second Reading MOTION: YOUNG moved for the second reading of
and Possible the Ordinance by title only.
Adoption of TUTTLE: Second
Ordinance VOTE: UNANIMOUS APPROVAL
No. 84-031
Naming an Chair Prante read the title of Ordinance No. 84-031
Area the for the second reading.
Northside
Industrial MOTION: TUTTLE moved to adopt Ordinance No.
Area 84-031.
(action item) YOUNG: Second
VOTE: UNANIMOUS APPROVAL
Application for Before the Board was an application for a
a License as a Business License as a Wrecker of Motor Vehicles
Wrecker of for Cliff's Repair and Auto Wrecker in LaPine.
Motor Vehicles
or a Salvage MOTION: YOUNG moved that the application for
Pool Operator Cliff's Repair and Auto Wrecking be
for Cliff's approved contingent upon planning
Repair and approval.
Auto Wrecking TUTTLE: Second
(action item) VOTE: UNANIMOUS APPROVAL
Joint Appli- Commissioner Young explained that the Board has
cation Between instructed County Counsel to begin condemnation
Deschutes proceedings on the one foot stip on Division
County and Street, but the proceedings could not begin until
Ray Springer there was a reason. Because of this, a Land
for the Partition Application is being submitted to the
Extension of City of Bend.
Urania Ave.
(action item) MOTION: YOUNG moved that the Chairman be allowed
to sign the application to the City of
Bend.
TUTTLE: Second
VOTE: UNANIMOUS APPROVAL
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Possible Chair Prante explained that this order provides
Adoption of for the transfer of cash for expenditures in the
Order No. amount of $553,242 within various funds.
84-274,
Transferring Chair Prante entertained a motion to adopt Order
Cash No. 84-274.
(action item)
MOTION: YOUNG so moved.
TUTTLE: Second
VOTE: UNANIMOUS APPROVAL
Afton, Inc. Chair Prante entertained a motion to authorize the
Software permanent Chairman to sign the Software License
License Agreement between Deschutes County and Afton, Inc.
Agreement
(action item) MOTION: TUTTLE so moved.
YOUNG: Second
VOTE: UNANIMOUS APPROVAL
Other Staff/ Richard Isham explained that the City Commission is
Public Concerns going to consider some revised conditions of
approval intended to settle two LUBA appeals
regrading the Jack Fuls project. Mr. Isham
continued that this agreement is intended to give
some definite revised conditions of approvals for
several issues. This approves the project and
continues it to site plan review and adopts a
landscape plan.
MOTION: YOUNG moved to accept the agreement as
presented by County Counsel and that he be
authorized to sign off for the County.
TUTTLE: Second
VOTE: UNANIMOUS APPROVAL
The Board recessed and reconvened at 1:30 this date to meet with
Department Heads.
DESCHUTES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Albert A. Young Chai an
ILoi stow Prante,-Commissioner
Laurence A. fiuttl6, Commissioner
BOCC:ae
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