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2012-0517 Dorman Center Costing: Will It be Closed?
The County Liason has sent an email on the costs of repairing the Dorman Center to solve the safety (snow, seismic, wind) issues.
See Email from County.
2012-0509 No One Applies for BOD Openings
While the Darned folk claim they have given public notice, I can't find it anywhere with a "due date".
Per an alledged copy of the "application", they were due yesterday, May 8 2012, and, according to the County no one has applied. This means Saldivar, Dueber, and Sharp are declining to be on the BOD, leaving 3 openings on the newly downsized 7 opening BOD.
see Email exchange with County.
2012-0506 Community Ignores Mt. Hood Wilderness
it is truely sad that our mounttain community can't spare the time to help protect the wilderness by engaging visitors to the forest. Only one Mountain Resident attended the Wilderness Steward orientation on Saturday (me).
Wilderness Steward Training: May 5, 2012
Have fun! Be encourages to hike in the Wilderness Areas! Represent the Community!
Wilderness Steward Training will be at the ZZ Ranger Station on May 5th 2012! See the PDF file or the web page for details.
2012-0301 Darned Folk Want To Tax You!!
County has spend all their money so you need to have a local tax to pay for
   a road to the National Forests.
The Darned Folk, claiming to represent you think it is a good idea. After all, the Portland rubes, using the road to get to the Wilderness Areas, can't be expected to pay anything.
2012-0301 Darned Folk Don\'t Need No Stinking Town Halls!!
Apparently, the "quarterly town hall" for Q1 isn\'t needed. They haven\'t scheculed one. The evidence is that they haven\'t done anything, have nothing they want to report to rubes like you, and can't waste their time talking with mere community folk.
2012-0201 Mtn Times Letter: Intimatation with Law Suits!
It appears another flood plan land owner thinks it is OK to sue anyone who complains about something. Make them spend big bucks to defend themselves: that'll shut folk up and let the poor landowner recourse the river so it floods someone else....
But then, the Oregon anti-SLAPP ordinance may be an expensive education to some.
2012-0203 Mr. Big Talker's Self-aggrandizement?
Mr. Big Talk/No Action proposes that the BOD violate their own bylaws by gratuously receiving adknowledgement for something they didn't approve, nor do.
Read his diatribe and you decide how he has tied himself in knots with his quest for self importance.
Big Talker, Not Big Doer?
One of the most talkative ones seems to have limited time to actually do something for the community (other than lose, and get paid to replace, Town Hall signs.
2012-0119 Kip O'Connor files a SLAPP?"
Oregonlive article on lawsuit filed in Federal.
SLAPP, Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation, are nasty, bullying things.
2012-0103 "This is for our information only"
With what seems to be the ultimate chutzpah, the Darned folk have decreed that Cam Gilmore's visit at their next meeting is "do internally" "information for us" and they aren't going to let you know!
Darned folk: walk your talk!
2012-0103 You should pay to save my house!
Mr. Amplitheater, apparently, is near the river, on the flood plain, up Lolo Pass and wants you to pay a tax so there is a fund to keep him with a access and gas. The river ate the bank by his house and you should pay a tax to fix it for him. Listen to the meeting recording for specifics
2012-0103 Mr. Amplitheater "educated"
Apparently, Mr. Amplitheather was taken to the wood shed. The County folk have "educated" him on how they must do competitive biding and can't just give County contracts to his friends
2011-1229 Villages Audios Available
With entirely too much effort, I've gotten copies of the Darned folk's meeting mp3
It is very interesting to show why some 'less than stellar' folk really want the minutes to be trivialized and/or go away.
2011-1206 Villages: Walk Your Talk!
At the December 6 BOD meeting, Mr. Amphitheater stated:
   "I am opposed to ODOT or any Government
    organization positioning themselves that
    they don't account to anybody."
2011-1229 Villages: Taunts the Community!
Once again, the Darned Folk taunt the Community
If you want to know the Agenda, you must have Microsoft Office!
They can't be bothered to create a PDF for the likes of you
2011-1206 Only 5 votes required!
With the reduction in BOD size, it only requires 5 of the Directors to vote to remove one of them. Since the recording noted that one of the "less than stellar" Directors was told "the county can't award contracts (to your friends) without bid: it's illegal" and the Director kept on about it.....
2011-1101 You Aren't Allowed To Know!
"Karen Buehrig presented an update and overview on the County’s Transportation System Plan."
But, of course, the Darned folk won't give the community a summary or any information on it.
As the one Darned chair stated: "if you want to know what happened, you have to attend our (boring) meetings"
2011-1101 Spending Your Tax Dollars
"...reported that the Villages’ bank balance is $2522.18 with five checks written (totaling $452)." but they are too important to tell you "what" or "who" the checks were to....
2011-1025 Budget and Treasurer's Report
Yes, they will spend this!

click to open in new window
2011-1013 CYA: Bylaw Draft finally Available
Maybe the complaint to the BCC worked, maybe it is CYA, but 2 days before the Town Hall, the Darned folk secretly and without any publicity, posted a copy of the proposed changed bylaw. A copy is here
"......town hall meetings to give citizens an opportunity to identify, discuss and vote on community issues. The Board may designate town hall meetings can be held concurrently with any regularly scheduled monthly business meetings. All...."
2011-0824 Darned Folk Celebrate Success:
=> in Sandy!
Apparently, the Mountain Express Bus is claiming 100K "rides". How many free passengers is not acknowledged nor how many are unique (i.e. is it mostly just 20 people riding to work every day). But to celebrate, you have to go to Sandy on 8/25.
Take the bus, that'll also help their stats.
2011-0815 Darned Folk have $2589.18 of Tax Dollars to Fritter
Having "paid bills" and received the "quarterly check" from the County, they have a this money to spend. For the "135 responses" they still need to pay Survey Monkey since they weren\'t competent to do it themselves.
2011-0810 County Charges for Villages Audios
It appears in order to discouage the community from knowing what the darned folk are doing, the County is now withholding records and then charging when you ask for the most recent records to be made available.
2011-0725 Are They Really This Slimey?
At the very bottom of the BOD's "agenda", not hilighted, in plain text, reads the item:
     "5:25 Town Hall"
with the sole agenda item:
      "A. By-Law Amendments".
=> there have been no such "amendments" published to the community, nor any minutes of last months meeting.
The only implication is that they feel they can better represent the community by
   "mushroom management"
i.e. keep them in the dark and feel them b**ls**t organic material
2011-0706 "Survey" Results???
147 (or so) people responded.
Complete results are available:
in document here.
Summary Image:
in document here.
Popup image is the one they sent! Seems a bit incomplete? SNAFU!
2011-0613 Village Officers Selected
Apparently, the Villages folk have "selected" officers at their June meeting (no minutes or recording available). They seem to be:
  Shirley Dueber - Chairman
  Nathaniel Ingrao - Vice Chair
  Pat Sharp - Treasurer
  Kara Verdoorn - Secretary.
2011-0613 Still Two Open Board Slots
There are two open Board slots but the applications states you must have submitted it by March 15,2011
Application Here
2008-0108: Still no apology from Dougherty/Reeves/Applegate/Roth for the "silently" changing agendas, incomplete agendas, hidden (important) agenda items, (see Jan 8 mtg, Dec. 4 mtg, Aug. 21, 2007, and a commentary.
=> since they are stonewalling and unrepentant, one might conclude deceit.
Clackamas County's
Villages at Mt. Hood
Advisory Board
a.k.a "Board of Directors"
Also (Formerly?) Strategic Planning Organization
4-6 pm June 5, 2012
Hoodland Fire Station
Agenda:
        Not Available

Abraham Lincoln in a speech in 1854:
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

Slimy is my word for it.
The Agenda for the Town Hall apparently was posted after the meeting with the date of the meeting.
I call this "CYA and confuse".
   
Villages of the Darned!
Darned Folk: Walk Your Talk - Be Accountable To The Community
January 5, 2012
At the December 6, 2011 BOD meeting, one of the BOD members, apparently summarizing the BOD's position on an ODOT action, said:
      "I am opposed to ODOT or any Government
       organization positioning themselves
       that they don't account to anybody."
It is truly a sad reflection on their integrity that, at the very next meeting, January 3, 2012, that Clackamas County Advisory Board schemed that the community should not be informed that Cam Gilmore, a key person in Clackamas County staff, will be attending the February meeting.
   ........read more
---------------------------------------------------- Vainglorious Bullies Or Conniving Profiteers? You Decide
August 23, 2011
It seems that no one wants to play their game: they have two openings on the BOD, which would have been 4 but they snookered two newbies into being willing to be on it (they "volunteered" by not running away fast enough?)

So, rather than "solve the problem of community dislike, disrespect, avoidance, etc", they are, instead, trying to change the bylaws.
   ........read more
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We Don't Need No Stinking Meeting Notices! March 3, 2011
Apparently the meeting scheduled for Tuesday March 1, 2011 was canceled. Then it wasn’t. Then it was……

So maybe it will be rescheduled for tomorrow… or next week… or sometime.
We’ll certainly keep our friends informed but anyone else?
   ........read more
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Link from our Tax Paid for Web Site???
Only if we like you! February 23, 2011
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We Can’t Allow The Community to Tell Us To
          Go Away!   February 21, 2011
How did cooperation evolve when cheaters-those who benefit without making sacrifices-can threaten its stability?
.....what should be done with the "Villages"?
As one person suggested:
=> Take it to the crossroads at midnight and pound an aspen stake through its heart, stuff its head with garlic, and scatter the remains to be disinfected by sunlight so it can never, ever rise again?
Dates

May 19, 2012
Grand Opening:
Boring Station Trailhead

June 7, 2012
Mt Hood Corridor CPO

May 19, 2012
Rhododendron CPO

June 5, 2012
Villages BOD

Q1 2012?
 Village Town Hall


BOD minutes available
2012-0103 minutes
2011-1206 minutes
Audios of:
2012-0209
2012-0103
2011-1206
Susan's Notes/Summary from the Villages June 7, 2011 minutes
PDF of minutes available here
"Discussion - Relevance of Board and continuation of Villages:"
1) Cluelessness - would "love the Villages to have a project to work on."
apparently they are "in control", "communicate with the county" but have absolutely nothing to do!
2) With nothing to do, the community should "trust them"
George Wilson said that the Villages need more faith and trust from the community.
Pat Sharp said she is concerned about the negativity continuing in the media.
3) no clue, no trust, but they need to be autonomous!
George Wilson said that he shares Doug’s feelings. He thought that the Villages Board is whittling away its autonomy.
the community finds the Villages Board to be irrelevant,
County does not respect the Villages Board.
4) Don't attend the next Town Hall (should there be one)!!!
Mr. Amphitheater's gives his word: next Town Hall, and if more people do not attend the events, then he will be resigning from the Board.
5) Gotcha! They will make all BOD meetings be "Town Hall Meetings!"????
Board of Directors meetings also as Town Hall meetings???
Since they are irrelevant and no one shows up once a quarter, let's do it once a month??
6) Clueless, not doing anything, no one shows up to vainglorious them, no one want to waste time a the meetings so...
...reduce the number of people on the board to only the number of self important glory hounds that are willing to waste time at meetings like theirs????
Warning!
Secret, no pulic notice
nominations for BOD due sometime in May....
Clackamas County seems to be refusing to let people know about this.
Having reduced the count (due to lack of interest), they seem to be trying to ignore the community.
Document's I've managed to acquire for the Community
Available 2012-0405
1. Minutes of March BOD
>>>FAIL: after the April meeting????
Available 2012-0130
Available 2012-0105













































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