1991-09163-Minutes for Meeting February 20,1991 Recorded 4/2/199191-09163 0106 0610
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DESCHUTES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
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Chairman Maudlin called the meeting to order at 10 a.m.ord
members in attendance were Dick Maudlin, Tom Throop and Nancy Pope
Schlangen. Also present were Rick Isham, County Counsel and Larry
Rice, Public Works Director.
1. CONSENT AGENDA
Consent agenda items before the Board were: #1, signature of
application for Highway Bridge Replacement Funds for
replacement of Spring River Bridge; #2, signature of Personal
Services Contract with Joseph Mathews for Computer
Consultation with the Library; #3, chair signature of two
Power Line Easements for Central Electric Cooperative; #4,
reappointments of Veronica Zecchini, Darrel Wilson and Bob
Slawson to STF Committee; #5, signature of Personal Services
Contract with Century West Engineering for LaPine Sewer
Project; #6, signature of Tax Refund Order 91-035; #7,
signature of MP-90-87 creating two parcels on Butler Market
Road for Scott Oakley and the McFarlands; and #8, postponed.
SCHLANGEN: I move approval of consent agenda items not
including item #8.
THROOP: Second the motion.
VOTE: THROOP: YES
SCHLANGEN: YES
MAUDLIN: YES
2. COOPERATIVE IMPROVEMENT AGREEMENT ON YEW AVENUE INTERCHANGE
Before the Board was signature of the Cooperative Improvement
Agreement with the State Highway Division and the City of
Redmond concerning the proposed Yew Avenue Interchange on
Highway 97 north of Redmond.
Larry Rice said the agreement required that the City maintain
all the roads in the interchange built by the State. The City
and the County would negotiate their partnership on the
relocated Airport Road. He said the agreement did not commit
the County to any fiscal amount.
THROOP: I'll move signature.
SCHLANGEN: Second.
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VOTE : THROOP : YES 61 of; 0680
SCHLANGEN: YES
MAUDLIN: YES
3. OEDD LETTER REGARDING CONSEP MEMBRANES LOAN
The Board of Commissioners received a letter on February 14,
1991, from Betty Pongracz of the Oregon Economic Development
Department concerning the County's Community Development Block
Grant business loan to Consep Membranes.
The letter stated that out-of-state jobs created as a result
of the loan could not be counted for purposes of complying
with the Block Grant contract requirement that by March 31,
1991, the company create at least 42 new permanent jobs. Rick
Isham said that if out-of-state jobs could be counted, the
total number would probably be sufficient to meet the grant
objectives and the grant could be closed. If out-of-state
jobs were not counted, it was unlikely that the grant goals
could be met. If the goals were not met, the agreement
between OEDD and the County required that the County pay back
OEDD $12,000 per job not achieved. At current job levels, the
County would have to pay back OEDD between $120,000 to
$250,000. Rick Isham felt the statement in the letter that
out-of-state jobs could not be counted was basically a new
interpretation. He didn't think there was anything in the
grant agreement with OEDD which indicated a regional basis for
the new jobs. He recommended developing the current out-of-
state job figures even if they weren't accepted by OEDD to
support the County's contention that those jobs should be
counted. He said prior to this letter, OEDD had always
referred to HUD's "national objectives," while now they were
talking in terms of counting only County residents.
Rick Isham said the County had $120,000 in escrow as had been
required by the contract with OEDD. He said that when he
asked then-Commissioner Larry Tuttle, who had been involved
in the program from its inception, if there was any potential
risk to the County general fund resources since that would be
unlawful. Larry Tuttle said the County had made no guarantees
and that the program could fail with no risk to the County.
Rick Isham said the original grant said that jobs had to be
"targeted" to low and moderate income persons, however two
years after the grant agreement was signed, OEDD indicated
that the people "hired" had to be half low to moderate income
persons.
The Board asked Rick Isham to work with COIC in developing the
final reports based upon all new jobs created in and out-of-
state as a result of the formation of the company since the
company would not have been formed without this grant.
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4. WEEKLY WARRANT VOUCHERS
Before the Board were weekly bills in the amount of
$157,283.94.
THROOP: Move approval subject to review.
SCHLANGEN: Second.
VOTE: THROOP: YES
SCHLANGEN: YES
MAUDLIN: YES
DESCHUT COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
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Nancy Po S hlangen, Comm'ssioner
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