With the Estacada Contract non-renewal notice and in the spirit of looking at all of our options, Tyler Deems and I attended a City/Counties Insurance Services (CIS) entitled “Best Practices for Dealing with Downsizing”. We are looking at all options to manage the impact.

Work was done this month to consolidated and provide some continuity to the rules and guidelines that all advisory boards follow. Will also be working on Council Rules updates and making sure language does not conflict with other documents such as the City Charter, Council Policy and Oregon Revised Statue (ORS).

We worked this month on a grant with the Oregon Trail School District. The Grant, if received will provide for programming with for youth at the Sandy Grade. We will be partners in programming.

I was asked by Dr. Scott Lazenby to be a guest speaker at his class at Portland State University. We have worked together on this class in the past and I always learn so much from the students.

We met again with Bert Key from the VFW about the flag installation. All the areas are marked, supplies are ordered and we are ready to dig.

Staff and I held our first annual meeting with Enterprise to see how the vehicle lease contract and fleet management is working. Things are going well, a little fine tuning was discussed but overall it seems to be a success.