Since when did Commissioners have the authority to regulate offices of other Elected Officials by claiming an emergency if they can identify malfeasance in office, or willful or wanton neglect of duty or failure to meet statutory requirements?
This stuffing of language into the Emergency Regulations 6.03 ordinance which comes from State Statue 401 developed to minimize injury to persons, the environment, and property, through such events as fire, floods, drought, earthquake, blight, civil disturbance, riot, terrorism and war is a self-inflicted shot of power and control to the three Commissioners who voted for it. It has created a divisive and dangerous protocol that will solicit lawsuits and will do little to build trust with other elected officials.
As a citizen who testified at the Aug. 11th hearing opposing these revisions, I found them over reaching of an elected official’s authority, vague, one-sided as there was no defined violation or due process criteria, misrepresenting of the original intention of Chapter 401, and lacked transparency as the process did not notify or solicit input from any public or elected official in the County. Timeframe 13:43 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6Bx-j_R4V8
This expanded power, which gives majority authority to five Commissioners to investigate, identify, and then declare the factors that warrant the exercise of emergency controls over stepping in and regulating a department, then ends with the caveat language that says, by the way, “nothing in this chapter is intended to divest any County official of their statutory duties.”
I call this the Judge and Jury Commissioner panel. Should we ‘All Rise’ to salute our new panel, or should we call, write, and protest our objections to this power grab and let them know, that they will not win at the ballot box.
Shirley Morgan
Welches
REFERENCE INFORMATION
Shirley Morgan lives in Welches. She is a graduate of Marylhurst University in West Linn (1999), with a master’s degree in Whole System Design/Organizational System Renewal from Antioch University in Seattle (2003). She holds another master’s degree in community and economic development from Southern New Hampshire University-Manchester (2008) and an associate’s degree of church leadership from Portland Bible College (2015).
REFERENCE MEETING INFORMATION
June 15, 2022 Clackamas County Board Policy Meeting-8:30am
At time frame 34.28 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCAwVY23mt8
15 days
July 7, 2022 Clackamas County Business Meeting -1st hearing-10am https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu-Bo0Yfk_U
10 days
July 21, 2022 Clackamas County Business Meeting-2nd hearing-extended https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=564ZD5CF4TA
13 days
Aug. 9th 2022 Clackamas County Administrative Update Meeting-10am
Timeframe 1:33.21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlIy4752pWQ
2 days
Aug. 10, 2022 Policy Session with Sherry Hall Elections https://www.clackamas.us/meetings/bcc/presentation/2022-08-10
Aug. 11th, 2022 Clackamas County Business Meeting-2nd hearing
Timeframe 13:43
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