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AGENDA REQUEST & STAFF REPORT
For Board Business Meeting of September 29, 2014
DATE: September 26,2014
FROM: David Doyle Legal 388-6625
TITLE OF AGENDA ITEM:
Resolution 2014-124
PUBLIC HEARING ON TillS DATE? No.
BACKGROUND AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS:
On June 25,2014 the BOCC declared a fire emergency and imposed use restrictions on wildlands
within unincorporated Deschutes County. Those restrictions were to remain through October 15,2014,
but due to cool, wet weather, all fire officials and the County Forester recommend rescinding the use
restrictions.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None
RECOMMENDATION & ACTION REQUESTED:
Approve and sign Resolution 2014-124
ATTENDANCE: Ed Keith, County Forester
DISTRIBUTION OF DOCUMENTS:
Ed Keith
Anna Johnson
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Background & History: On June 25, 2014 the BOCC declared a fire emergency and
imposed use restrictions. That declaration ran throught October 15, 2014. Due to
weather patterns, all fire officials and the County Forester now recommend that the use
restrictions be rescinded.
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Document Number Resolution 2014-124
9/26/2014
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REVIEWED
LEGAL COUNSEL
For Recording Stamp Only
BEFORE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON
A Resolution Rescinding the Declared State of *
Emergencyand Removing the Imposed Public * RESOLUTION NO. 2014-124
Use Restrictions on All Unprotected Wildlands *
within Unincorporated Deschutes County, *
Including All Lands Owned by Deschutes County *
WHEREAS, ORS 401.309 authorizes the county governing body to declare a state of emergency within
the County; and
WHEREAS, on June 25,2014, the Deschutes County Board of Commissioners, upon consultation with,
and recommendation from fire officials and the County Forester, approved Resolution No. 2014-072 which
imposed use restrictions on unprotected wildlands within unincorporated Deschutes County, effective through
October 15,2014; and
WHEREAS, current weather patterns have greatly decreased the threat and likelihood of high intensity
wildland fires, including wildland-urban interface wildfires; and
WHEREAS, federal and state fire officials and the County Forester now recommend that the restrictions
previously imposed through October 15, 2014, be immediately rescinded and ended, now therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF DESCHUTES
COUNTY, OREGON, as follows:
Section 1. Pursuant to ORS 401.309 and the Deschutes County EOP, the State of Emergency that was
declared on June 25, 2014 is, upon signing of this Resolution, rescinded and withdrawn.
Section 2. Effective upon signing of this Resolution, the Public Use Restrictions on all unprotected
wildlands within unincorporated Deschutes County, including all lands owned by Deschutes County, are
removed and withdrawn.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON
Dated this of , 20_
TAMMY BANEY, Chair
ANTHONY DEB ONE, Vice Chair
ATTEST:
ALAN UNGER, Commissioner
Recording Secretary
RESOLUTION NO. 2014-124