44-349-Minutes for Meeting October 19,1982 Recorded 10/26/1982-_I L E
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DESCHUTES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OCT 2 6 1982
OCTOBER 19, 1982 - COURTDAY MEETING D SCOSE SRY pgTTERSON
CHUTES CLERK
Chairman Shepard called the meeting to order at 10:00 A.M. Commission-
er Paulson and Commissioner Young were also in attendance.
Amendments to The Chairman amended the agenda to include a discussion
the Agenda regarding Employment Relations Board election. It was
noted that the representatives of the local news media
had been previously notified by telephone of this amend-
ment.
Discussion re- Chairman Shepard stated that the Board had reviewed a
garding ERB a letter from the Employment Relations Board (ERB) which
Election ordered the Board to conduct a new election. Bruce
Bischof, Labor Counsel for Deschutes County, stated that
the Board has three options in response to the order
which were: (1) go ahead with the election; (2) not
participate but remain silent and let them conduct the
election and not comply with the results of the elect-
ion; or (3) seek legal action to injuct the election
from occurring.
Commissioner Young stated that the first election should
be investigated first, and until such time as an invest-
igation had been conducted, he would have no confidence
ifs the competence of'ERB to conduct an election. At
this time there was an urgent telephone call for Chair-
man Shepard in regard to this matter and the meeting was
recessed. At 10:10 A.M., Chairman Shepard recessed the
open meeting to conduct an executive session for the
purpose of discussing litigation. The open meeting was
reconvened at 10:34 A.M.
MOTION: YOUNG moved to instruct County Counsel and the
official labor counsel to take whatever legal
action necessary to forestall another union
election until such time as an investigation
has been done to the Board's satisfaction.
PAULSON: Second.
VOTE: SHEPARD: AYE.
PAULSON: AYE.
YOUNG: AYE.
Discussion re- Neil Hudson, Director of Public Works, explained to the
garding Knott Board the results of a traffic study the Public Works
Road Traffic Department had recently completed on portions of Knott
Study Road. These results were diagramed on a map. It
indicated the average number of vehicles per day over
certain sections of the road, as well as the average
speed of traffic over certain sections of the road.
They figured the average speed by taking the lower 85%
of all traffic and averaging that speed. He explained
that the rationale for this is that approximately 85% of
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the population drives in a safe manner and the other 15%
do not. Based on this study, they are recommending to
the State Speed Control Board that the speed limit for
that portion of Knott Road be established at 45 miles
per hour. He said that one other question in regard to
this road's use is whether or not trucks will be
permitted to use the road. In his opinion the road is
not structurally strong enough to handle truck traffic
but by limiting the speed to 45 miles per hour, it
should deter truck travel. He also suggested that they
could consider making a weight limit that would restrict
18-wheel trucks from using the road. He also noted that
there had been some concern about this route being used
as a truck by-pass, but he did not feel that this was
likely as it has been determined that Bend is a destin-
ation for most travellers, for gas and food, etc.
MOTION: PAULSON moved that they recommend to the
State Speed Control Board a 45 mile per hour
speed limit from 15th Street to China Hat Road.
YOUNG: Second.
VOTE: SHEPARD: AYE.
PAULSON: AYE.
YOUNG: AYE.
Appointment to The Board had received a letter from Rex Garrett of the
Lazy River
Lazy River Vector Control
District
requesting that they
Vector Con-
appoint
Mrs. Emily Boyd to their B
oard of Directors to
trol District
replace
John Macy who has
left the
area.
Board of Dir-
MOTION:
PAULSON moved to
appoint
Mrs. Emily Boyd,
ectors
53130 Bridges Dr., to the
Lazy River Vector
Control District
Board of
Directors.
YOUNG: Second.
VOTE:
SHEPARD: AYE.
PAULSON: AYE.
YOUNG: AYE.
.Contracts for Mr. Hudson explained that the Board has already awarded
Paving of the bids which contained the contracts, and now the con-
American Ave. tracts are ready for Board signatures. The Board signed
and Simpson the contracts, which were with R.L. Coats.
Road
MP-82-18, Lin Bernhardt, Planning Department, brought this before
Mike Gibney the Board for approval and signature. She explained
that this created one 243-acre parcel and one 82-acre
parcel.
MOTION: YOUNG moved to approve MP-82-18.
PAULSON: Second.
VOTE: SHEPARD: AYE.
PAULSON: AYE.
YOUNG: AYE.
PP# 634, Pete Lin Bernhardt brought this before the Board for signat-
Hester ure and approval. She explained that the appeal period
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on this expires at 5:00 P.M. Wednesday, so they would
have to approve this subject to there being an appeal
filed, and they would have to sign it Thursday.
MOTION: PAULSON moved that Preliminary Plat #634, for
Hester be approved subject to there being no
appeal filed before the appeal deadline and
signed Thursday after the expiration of the
appeal period.
YOUNG: Second.
VOTE: SHEPARD: AYE.
PAULSON: AYE.
YOUNG: AYE.
Order #82-348 Chairman Shepard read the order aloud for the record.
Providing for MOTION: YOUNG moved to approve order #82-348.
Cash Transfer PAULSON: Second.
VOTE: SHEPARD: AYE.
PAULSON: AYE.
YOUNG: AYE.
Requests for Before the Board were three requests for refund. The
Refund first was to Trout Realty in the amount of $45 from the
Environmental Health Department. The second was for
Village Steelworks in the amount of $18.20 from the
Building Department and the third was for Albert
Santiago in the amount of $40 from the Planning
Department.
There being no further business at this time, the Board recessed the
meeting until 10:00 A.M.
DESCHUT COUNTY BOARD SIONERS
C A HEPARD, HAI MAN
AL ERT DUNG C SSIO
ROBERT
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JR., CO SSIONER
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