Board of County Commissioners

Coordinating Committee Minutes

THURSDAY – MARCH 1, 2007
7:00 P.M. – 9:00 P.M.

PUBLIC SERVICES BUILDING
2051 KAEN RD. ROOM 369B
OREGON CITY, OR. 97045

“Draft” Meeting Minutes

Attendees: Martha Schrader – Clackamas County, Carlotta Collette – Milwaukie, Linda Malone – Sandy, Hal Busch – Gladstone, John Hartsock – Boring Fire District, Dick Jones – OLWD, Rick Gruen – CCSWD, Bob Wise – Cogan Owens, Bob Austin - Estacada, Jim Wright – Damascus, Susan Ziloko - Clackamas County, Thelma Haggenmiller – citizen, William Wild – citizen, Rich Imholt – Vector Control, Doug Neeley – Oregon City, Charlotte Lehan – Wilsonville, Danielle Cowan – Wilsonville, Renate Mengelberg – Clackamas County, Paul Savas – OLSD, Barb Ledbury - Damascus

During introductions, attendees spoke briefly about sustainability items from their jurisdictions. At the beginning of the meeting a quorum was not present to approve the minutes. Later, enough voting members had arrived and the minutes of the February 1, 2007 meeting were adopted unanimously.
Green Ribbon Committee Presentation – Rick Gruen and Bob Wise
Presentation items included:

• Explanation of the committee and that it was created for an economic development roadmap to include agriculture, natural resources and sustainability
• The importance of keeping the viability of agriculture and natural resources
• Values and value added growth
• Products of agriculture and natural resources that are produced rurally and used in urban areas
• Find ways to capture more value locally
• Oregon Core Clusters – forestry/Ecosystems, Agriculture, Food Processing and Forest Products
• Importance of Green Building / Development
• Green Ribbon Committee contact information is: Rick Gruen: 503-656-3499 rick.gruen@or.nacdnet.net or Renate Mengelberg: 503-353-4327 renatem@co.clackamas.or.us or Bob wise 503-225-0192 bob.wise@coganowens.com or the County website http://www.co.clackamas.or.us/business/partners.htm What is the Regional Transportation Plan?

Discussion items included:

• We need to be thinking of the whole big picture
• Measure 37 impacts and challenges (water for farms being impacted by development
• Land supply for agriculture and forests
• Tourism to natural areas – the Environmental Learning Center
• Complete Community Congress in May is an opportunity for cities, CPOs, special districts to talk about these issue
• Green ribbon would like to engage these communities
• What are the costs for LEEDs certifications? (Bob Wise will find out)
• Need to come up with a set of standards that become part of the permitting process
  It would be helpful if LEEDs certification buys you market bonus, improves your operating capitol, reduces operating costs over time.
• Helping smaller tracts of Timber to receive certification (stewardship component – tree version of the old grain co-op concept)
• Bio-fuels and bio-energy – should be developed because we have the raw material here
• How does the county facilitate small communities – small cities might come together through IGAs MOUs etc.
• Unless “green” is part of the code – only voluntary support of the principals will happen
• League of Oregon Cities - might be a good discussion item in that venue

Information Resource: Interface Engineering www.interfaceengineering.com check this website for a complementary book on green building “engineering a Sustainable World”

The meeting was adjourned at 8:20 p.m.