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TRANSCRIPT OF THE MEETING OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF

MULTNOMAH COUNTY, OREGON 501 SE HAWTHORNE BLVD., PORTLAND, OREGON

JANUARY 21, 2016 @ 9:30 AM CHAIR DEBORAH KAFOURY CALLED THE MEETING TO ORDER AT 9:38 A.M. WITH VICE-CHAIR; LORETTA SMITH AND COMMISSIONERS JULES BAILEY, JUDY SHIPRACK AND DIANE MCKEEL. ALSO ATTENDING WERE JENNY MADKOUR, COUNTY ATTORNEY, AND LYNDA GROW, BOARD CLERK. [ALL CAPS TEXT IS THE BYPRODUCT OF CAPTIONING THIS PROGRAM.] WELCOME TO THE MULTNOMAH COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS. TO OUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED MEETING. CONSENT AGENDA C.1 BUDGET MODIFICATION # HD-23-16: Authorizing five position reclassifications

within the Health Department C.2 BUDGET MODIFICATION DCJ-12-16 Reclasses a Vacant 1.000 FTE Office

Assistant Senior to a Records Technician in the Juvenile Services Division C.3 BUDGET MODIFICATION DCM-11-16 Reclassifying a Human Resources

Manager 1 to Assistant County Attorney Senior in DCM Human Resources C.4 Full on Premises Sales Liquor License for Bottoms Up Tavern; 16900 NW St.

Helens Rd., Portland, OR 97231 C.5 BUDGET MODIFICATION DCA-18-16 Reclassification of info Specialist 3 to an

Info Specialist 2 in the IT Division C.6 BUDGET MODIFICATION DCA-19-16 Reclass Project Manager to Contract

Specialist Senior in the Department of County Assets C.7 NOTICE OF INTENT for the Health Department to Submit an Application of up to

$300,000 to the Oregon Health Authority C.8 Appointments and Reappointments to the Multnomah County Citizen Budget

Advisory and Citizen Involvement Committees (CBAC & CIC) C.9 Appointment of Timothy Wood to the Multnomah County Planning Commission

for a Four-Year Term

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C.10 NOTICE OF INTENT to Submit an Application for up to $15,000 to the Penney Family Fund

CHAIR KAFOURY: DO WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR? SO MOVED. SECOND. COMMISSIONER SMITH MOVES, COMMISSIONER BAILEY SECONDS APPROVAL OF THE CONSENT CALENDAR, ALL IN FAVOR, VOTE AYE. THE CONSENT CALENDAR IS APPROVED. PUBLIC COMMENT Opportunity for Public Comment on non-agenda matters. Testimony limited to three

minutes per person. This is a time for the Board to hear public testimony, not for Board deliberation. Fill out a speaker form available at the back of the board room and give it to the Board Clerk. Unless otherwise recognized by the presiding officer, testimony is taken in the order the forms are submitted.

CHAIR KAFOURY: DO WE HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT? YES, MADAM CHAIR, WE HAVE FIVE. (BOARD CLERK CALLS NAMES) I AM PAUL PHILLIPS, AND I SPOKE HERE JANUARY 7 ABOUT THE IPO, STANDS FOR INJURED AND PISSED OFF, AND I AM STILL INJURED AND PISSET OFF BUT SO I WAS INJURED AND PISSED OFF THAT I FORGOT TO MENTION MY INJURIES. AND I OBTAINED A BROKEN LEFT HIP AND TWO FRACTURES TO MY SPINAL CORD, AND WHEN I HAVE SAT HERE AND SAID THAT THERE IS 10,000 PEOPLE A YEAR WITH PERMANENT SPINAL CORD INJURIES, THAT'S WHERE THEY ARE PARALYZED, AND THE UPPER, LOWER ARMS. ARMS AND LEGS. THAT'S A SMALL CITY, AND THAT'S EACH YEAR. AND ANOTHER 2,000 TO 10,000 MORE PEOPLE ARE WHAT THEY CALL INCOMPLETE SPINAL CORD INJURIES, WHAT I HAVE. AND I THINK THAT THAT'S A TERRIBLY LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE, BUT WITH THE SAME -- SAYING IN MY PREVIOUS DISCUSSIONS, ONE-THIRD OF THE NATION, 100 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE INCURRABLE DISEASES. THAT'S AN AWFUL A LOT OF PEOPLE. AS I SAID, I AM SUFFERING WITH HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE FROM THE LACK OF OBTAINING BLOOD PRESSURE MEDICATION, THAT'S A LIFETIME PRESCRIPTION, BUT DON'T SEEM TO, I GUESS, IF I DIE, I DON'T NEED THE MEDICATION. ANOTHER THING IS MY BROTHER IN HOME FORWARD, APPARENTLY, THEY ACCEPTED HIS RENT, THIS TIME, AND APPARENTLY DISCHARGED TOO MANY. HE HAD TO GO TO A HOSPITAL, AND THEY FOUND OUT THAT HE HAD BED BUGS ON HIM, AND A HAZMAT TEAM WAS, WAS ORGANIZED, AND I GUESS, THEY HAVE THEM IN THE HOSPITALS, TOO. THEY HAVE NOT SPRAYED HIS PLACE COMPLETELY, FREE OF BEDBUGS YET. NOW, I WILL GIVE UP MY TIME. IT'S NICE TO SEE JOE,

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THOUGH, BACK TO VEST THE ONE CASE IN FEDERAL COURT, AGAINST THE CITY MAYOR, AND THE CITY, ITSELF, FOR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS, AND MR. LIGHTNING BEING A WATCHDOG POLITICAL WATCHDOG, AND MYSELF BEING INJURED AND PISSED OFF BECAUSE I NEVER GOT ANY JUSTICE AT ALL THANK YOU. CHAIR KAFOURY: THANK YOU. I'M LIGHTNING AND I REPRESENT LIGHTNING WATCHDOG, PDX. CHAIR KAFOURY, I THINK YOU MADE JUST ABOUT EVERY EXCUSE THAT YOU CAN ON WAPATO, TURKEY THAT INTO A SHELTER. YOU HAVE EVEN GONE AS FAR AS SAYING THE ROOF IS LEAKING AND SAYING THAT YOU DON'T THINK THAT THE ZONING COULD BE APPROVED. LET'S JUST GET DOWN TO BUSINESS ON THIS, AND UNDERSTAND YOU WANT TO SEE A SALE HAPPEN. AND TRANSIT CENTER THAT MONEY POSSIBLY INTO NEW MULTNOMAH COUNTY COURTHOUSE. WHICH WILL BE MATCHED BY THE STATE. NOW, AGAIN, THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT WANT TO SEE THAT MADE INTO A SHELTER. AS WE KNOW, BARRY AND JORDAN MENACHE HAVE DONE A GREAT THING CREATING ANOTHER SHELTER DOWNTOWN. BUT, THERE ARE WAYS TO GET THAT DONE. MAYOR HALES APPROVED THAT IMMEDIATELY. IT'S DONE. AGAIN, FROM MY POSITION ON WAPATO, MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT THAT WOULD MAKE AN IDEAL SHELTER. WHEN I AM GOING TO PROPOSE TO MAYOR HALES, TO BUY WAPATO FROM MULTNOMAH COUNTY. IT'S DECLARED A SURPLUS PROPERTY. THE CITY OF PORTLAND SHOULD HAVE A RIGHT TO STEP IN, AND BUY THAT PROPERTY. AND IT SHOULD BE TRANSFERRED TO THE CITY OF PORTLAND, AND LET MAYOR HALES BEGIN TO PROCEED FORWARD, AND GET THAT OPENED UP AS A SHELTER. IT SAT AT MULTNOMAH COUNTY FOR TEN YEARS, THE BIGGEST BLUNDER OUT THERE. I MEAN, WHO WOULD BUILD A BUILDING FOR 58 MILLION, HAVE IT SIT EMPTY FOR TEN YEARS, AND PAY 300,000 A YEAR, COMPLETE LOSS, AND THEY THINK THAT'S SOMETHING GOOD. GET IT OFF THE BOOKS IN MULTNOMAH COUNTY, AND LET THE CITY OF PORTLAND STEP FORWARD, AND OPEN THAT UP, AS A SHELTER, WHICH IS NEEDED, AND TO GET THE JOB DONE. AGAIN, WAPATO IS NOTHING BUT A BLUNDER. IT'S AN EMBARRASSMENT. MAKE SOMETHING GOOD OUT OF IT. WAPATO SHELTER, TRANSFERRED TO CITY OF PORTLAND, $1, PUBLIC GOOD. THANK YOU. CHAIR KAFOURY: THANK YOU. WHO IS NEXT? GOOD MORNING. GOOD MORNING, I AM JOE WALSH, FOR THE RECORD, AND I REPRESENT INDIVIDUALS FOR JUSTICE. LAST NIGHT I WAS OUT AND ABOUT IS, AT A GATHERING AT OUR GOOD COMMISSIONER [INAUDIBLE] WAS ALSO PRESENT. AND ON THE WAY HOME, BECAUSE I USED THE BUS, AND THE TRAINS, I GOT STUCK DOWN IN DIVISION AND 92ND STREET IN THE COLD. IT WAS ABOUT 8:00. AND MY TOES WERE SO COLD, THAT THE THOUGHT WENT THROUGH MY MIND, YOU KNOW, I AM GOING TO GO HOME AND IN THE NEXT OR 10 OR 15 MINUTES, AND I AM GOING TO TAKE MYSELF A REALLY HOT SHOWER. JUST TO

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GET THE CIRCULATION BACK INTO MY TOES. BUT, SUPPOSE THAT I HAD NO PLACE TO GO. WHAT WOULD I DO? WHERE WOULD I GO? AND I LOOKED AROUND, AND THERE WERE SHELTERS, AND A DOORWAYS, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE LOSE 54 PEOPLE ON THE STREETS THAT DIE YEAR AFTER YEAR. YEAR AFTER YEAR. THEY HAVE NO PLACE TO GO, SO WHEN I GOT HOME LAST NIGHT, I DID TAKE A SHOT SHOWER AND I ASKED MY WIFE, PATTY, I SAID WHAT THE HECK IS THE TEMPERATURE? AND SHE LOOKED IT UP, AND IT WAS ONLY 48 DEGREES. 48 DEGREES. BUT, THE WIND FACTOR ON THAT PARTICULAR SETTING, WHERE THE BUS COMES AT THE MAX, IS WIDE OPEN. AND THE COLD IS UNBELIEVABLE. AND THAT'S WHAT I WENT THROUGH, AND WE ARE NOT DOING A GOOD ENOUGH JOB. WE HAVE THE SHERIFF USING PRISONERS FROM OUR JAILS TO SWEEP HOMELESS PEOPLE, AND STEAL ALL THEIR STUFF. WE HAVE THE CITY STILL DOING IT. WHEN ARE WE GOING TO STOP? JUST STOP? I KNOW THAT THE CHAIR, THIS IS A PRIORITY FOR YOU. IT'S GOT TO BE A PRIORITY EVERY DAY. YOU HAVE GOT TO BE ON THE PHONE EVERY DAY, LIKE WE ARE. AND ASKING PEOPLE, STOP IT! DO WHAT NEVADA DID, DO WHAT SALT LAKE CITY DID, JUST GET THEM OFF THE STREETS. WAPATO IS, IS -- IT'S AN AVENUE THAT YOU COULD TRAVEL DOWN. I DON'T CARE. GET THEM OFF THE STREETS! AND STOP PLAYING POLITICS WITH THIS. PEOPLE ARE DYING, EVERY YEAR. AND WE JUST PLAY GAMES. AND IT'S BREAKING MY HEART. AND LASTLY, IT WAS REAL. VERY REAL TO ME BECAUSE I HAD A PLACE TO GO. AND THEY DON'T. THEY DIE ALONE IN THE COLD, WHERE THE COPS TOOK THEIR BLANKETS. WHAT THE HELL IS THE MATTER WITH US? THANK YOU. CHAIR KAFOURY: THANK YOU. GO AHEAD. GOOD MORNING, MADAM CHAIR, AND COMMISSIONER, I AM KEVIN FITS, WITH THE OREGON MENTAL HEALTH CONSUMER ASSOCIATION. IN MY TWO MINUTES I HAVE ONE GOAL, AND THAT IS TO PERSUADE YOU TO CREATE A PEER SERVICES COORDINATOR AS A PROGRAM MANAGER IN YOUR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH DIVISION AND FISCAL YEAR 2017 BUDGET. WHY SHOULD THIS BE DONE AND WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT? CLACKAMAS COUNTY HAS HAD A SIMILAR POSITION, AND THEIR COUNTY STRUCTURE FOR 4.5 YEARS. THIS IS MARKET DISRUPTION. MARKET DISRUPTION IS HAPPENING ALL OVER THE PLACE, IN THE FOR PROFIT SYSTEMS, GOOD IDEAS MAKE MONEY AND GOOD IDEAS SAVE MONEY. AND NEW BUSINESS MODELS, AND WAYS OF SERVING THE CUSTOMER, LIKE UBER AND AMAZON AND AIRBNB, AND APPLE AND SPOTIFY ARE REPLACING, RESHAPING AND REPLACING THE BUSINESS LANDSCAPE. COMPANIES LIKE WAL-MART, TAXIS, KODAK AND MACY'S AND COMCAST ARE STRUGGLING TO ADAPT AND REMAIN PROFITABLE. CREATIVE DISRUPTION CAN AND DOES OCCUR IN SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS, BUT SOMETIMES, THEY NEED A LITTLE PUSH. BY FORWARD THINKING LEADERSHIP, WHO ARE NOT AFRAID TO TAKE RISKS AND SHAKE UP SERVICE

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PROVIDERS, CONTRACTUAL EXPECTATIONS. FOR EXAMPLE, HERE IN MULTNOMAH COUNTY, FOUR MAJOR SERVICE PROVIDERS CONTROL 85% OF THE SUBCONTRACTED ADULT BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICE THIS IS MULTNOMAH COUNTY. CREATIVE DISRUPTION HERE IN PORTLAND MEANS THREATENING THE EMPIRES, AND IN PLACES LIKE PHILADELPHIA, LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA, WASHINGTON, AND NEW YORK CITY, PEERS ARE AN ESSENTIAL PART IN A MAJORITY OF MOST OF THEIR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICE SYSTEMS. AND SOME OF THESE CITIES THEY ARE SPENDING 20 TO 30 MILLION A YEAR ON PEER DIRECTED AND PEER SERVICE PROVIDERS, INCH PEERS ARE SERVICE PROVIDERS OF UP TO 35 TO 40% OF THE WORKFORCE IN THESE SYSTEMS. I APPRECIATE THE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH DIRECTOR DAVID WITH THE TRAINING PROGRAMS AND THE FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF NORTH STAR CLUBHOUSE AS MENTIONED IN THE BRIEFING ON TUESDAY. AND WE WANT A LARGER COMMITMENT TO PEERS AS SERVICE PROVIDERS. THIS NEEDS SUPPORT WITH, WITHOUT, BECAUSE WITHOUT CONCERTED FOCUS, STEWARDSHIP AND PLANNING, PEERS WILL OCCUPY ONLY 3% OF MULTNOMAH COUNTY'S BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICE PROVIDER'S WORKFORCE AND BEFORE? BECAUSE IN ORDER TO CREATE THE JOBS, THE COUNTY HAS TO WRITE CONTRACTS AND SET MANDATES FOR THE SUBCONTRACTORS, TO, ACTUALLY, HIRE AND CREATE THESE POSITIONS. THAT'S WHY IT'S ESSENTIAL TO CREATE A PEER SERVICES COORDINATOR WITHIN MULTNOMAH COUNTY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH. THIS MEANS UPSETTING THE PYRAMID OF THE PSYCHIATRIST AS THE UNQUESTIONABLE EXPERT. PEOPLE WITH LIVED EXPERIENCE AND IN RECOVERY FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTIONS, CAN DISCOVER WHAT WORKS. PEERS ARE BECOMING EDUCATED THROUGH SELF HELP AND MUTUAL SUPPORT ON FACEBOOK AND THE INTERNET, AND THAT OUTDATED MODELS OF BRAIN DISEASE AND CHEMICAL IMBALANCE THEORY FALLACIES NEED TO BE REPLACED WITH CURRENT RESEARCH AND BEST PRACTICES. THIS IS TURNING CONVENTIONAL SERVICE DELIVERY ON ITS HEAD IN CITIES AND COUNTIES ACROSS THE UNITED STATES. I WILL WRAP UP. I HAVE TWO OTHER POINTS, BUT THAT'S IN MY HANDOUT. AS A RECENT 2015 BEHAVIORAL SURVEY HAD SUGGESTED, WHEN PEOPLE WHO ARE RECEIVING SERVICES HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO CHOOSE PEERS AS SERVICE PROVIDERS, OVER TRADITIONAL SERVICE PROVIDERS, THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE CHOOSE TO WORK WITH PEERS. TO END, IN THREE WEEKS FROM NOW AROUND FEBRUARY, AROUND FEBRUARY 11, WHEN THE HEALTH DIRECTOR JOANNA FULLER COME TO YOU WITH THEIR 2017 BUDGET AGENDA, I ASKED IS THAT YOU INSIST THEY CHUNK OUT MONEY TO CREATE A POSITION WITHIN YOUR ORGANIZATION. CHAIR KAFOURY: THANK YOU. IF YOU WANT TO LEAVE YOUR TESTIMONY WITH US, WE CAN GET COPIES. GREAT.

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CHAIR KAFOURY: THANK YOU. I AM NANCY NEWELL, AND I AM PROUD TO SAY THAT I WAS PART OF THE EXPOSURE OF THE ENRON DEAL, AND SEVERAL OTHER MERGER DEALS IN OUR ELECTRIC GRID IN THIS CITY. AND I AM ALSO AN ANTI-NUCLEAR ACTIVIST AND HAVE SUCCEEDED IN CLOSING THREE NUCLEAR PLANTS THROUGHOUT THIS COUNTRY. I AM HERE TODAY BECAUSE I HAVE READ THIS BOOK ABOUT THE WASHINGTON PUBLIC POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM. WHICH, THAT PLANT, THAT RESULTED, WAS A -- THE SINGLE LARGEST MUNICIPAL BOND DEFAULT IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. NOW, WE HAVE THE WEST COAST INFRASTRUCTURE, ON OUR WATER, THAT HAS BEEN OK'D BY STATE LEGISLATION, BY THE CHAIR, JULES BAILEY, AND TED WHEELER, THAT HIT THE BEGINNINGS OF IT FOR A YEAR. WE WERE ABLE TO EXPOSE WHAT WAS GOING ON. AND THERE HASN'T BEEN FULL PUBLIC DEBATE ON THE BEAUTIFUL BULL RUN WATER, WHERE IT'S GOING, FROM CANADA TO MEXICO, AND WHERE THE STRUCTURE COSTS ARE GOING TO BE, AND WHO IS GOING TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE, AND MULTI-NATIONALS ARE RUNNING THE CITY PRACTICALLY, AND YOU ARE SAYING, AND OFFERING AS YOU RUN FOR OFFICE, THAT YOU ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO SOLVE THESE PROBLEMS WITH ALL OF THE DEBT THAT WE'RE INCURRING, AND THE INABILITY TO EVEN HAVE ANY PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY FOR SOME OF THE THINGS THAT GO ON. WE HAD A TREMENDOUS INITIATIVE CAMPAIGN TO STOP FLUORIDE IN THE WATER BECAUSE THE FLUORIDE WE FOUND WAS GOING TO COME FROM CHINA LOADED WITH AGRICULTURAL TOXINS, AND THE OVERSIGHT ON THAT, FAILED. AND THE OVERSIGHT ON THIS, WE HAVE THAT NUCLEAR PLANT RUNNING, IT CAN BLOW UP THE ENTIRE NORTHWEST, AND IT'S NOT BEING CLOSED, LUCKILY WE JUST GOT WORD FROM A WHISTLE-BLOWER, AND MAYBE YOU WILL LISTEN NOW, AND I ASK FOR A RESOLUTION OUT OF THIS COMMITTEE, AND I HAVE A GROUP OF PEOPLE, AND I HAVE NOT SEEN THAT YET, AND I HAVE NOT SEEN THAT FROM ANY PUBLIC OFFICIAL, AND I AM WONDERING WHAT'S WRONG WITH, WE CLOSED TROJAN, WHAT'S WRONG WITH OREGON? WE ARE PURCHASING THROUGH [INAUDIBLE] ELECTRICITY. IT SHOULD BE SHUT TODAY. WE HAVE TREMENDOUS WASTE PROBLEMS, AND THERE IS NO PLACE TO PUT THE WASTE. WE ARE SPENDING FORTUNES ON ALL OF THESE TYPES OF THINGS, AND WE NEED MONEY, AS YOU WELL KNOW, IN OUR COMMUNITIES FOR SOMETHING THAT'S A LOT HEALTHIER. SO, I WOULD RESPECTFULLY REQUEST THAT SOME ACTIONS BE TAKEN AND STOP MISTREATING THE CITIZENS THAT CONSTANTLY SPEND THEIR TIME EXPOSING THE TRUTH, AND RISK THEIR, SOME OF THEIR, SOME PEOPLE TAKE THEM TO TASK. I WAS REFUSED TO BE ALLOWED TO SPEAK IN THE STATE LEGISLATURE, WELL, THAT CHAIR LOST HER POSITION. BUT WE CANNOT CONTINUE LIKE THIS. YOU HAVE GOT TO OPEN IT UP, MR. BAILEY, YOU DID NOT MENTION IT IN TWO. MEETINGS THAT I'VE BEEN TO, AND I BROUGHT UP WITH YOU PERSONALLY, AND YOU JUST TURNED AWAY FROM ME AFTER YOU PROBABLY SAID YOU WROTE THE BILL. THERE HAS TO BE A FULL PUBLIC EXPOSURE. OUR WATER IS BEING TREATED. WE DON'T KNOW HOW. WE

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DON'T GET ACCURATE INFORMATION. YOU HAVE TO PAY A FORTUNE TO GET THE PUBLIC RECORDS. I THINK THAT THIS OPERATION OF GOVERNANCE HAS TO STOP. WE ARE ONE OF THE WORST IN TRANS-ER IS IN HOW THE MONEY IS SPENT IN THIS CITY AND COUNTY. CHAIR KAFOURY: THANK YOU. WE WILL NOW RECESS AS THE BOARD OF MULTNOMAH COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AND CONVENE AS THE MULTNOMAH COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH. REGULAR AGENDA – 9:30 am Recess as the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners and Convene as the Library District R.1 Present the Oregon Public Health Association (OPHA) Policy Champion

Awards. Sponsor: Chair Deborah Kafoury’s Office. Presenters: Haven Wheelock, Outside In and Jenn Vines, Public Health Officer, Multnomah County

CHAIR KAFOURY: THIS IS A BIG DEAL. TODAY, WE HAVE THE PLEASURE OF RECOGNIZING THE INCREDIBLE PARTNERSHIP AND HARD WORK OF TWO OF OREGON'S STATE REPRESENTATIVES, THOSE TWO FROM MULTNOMAH COUNTY, JENNIFER WILLIAMSON AND [INAUDIBLE]. THE MULTNOMAH COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT NOMINATED THESE TWO LEGISLATORS FOR THE OREGON PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION'S POLICY CHAMPION AWARD FOR WORKING ON LAWS THAT ALLOW PEOPLE TO CALL 9-1-1 FOR A DRUG OVERDOSE WITHOUT FEAR OF BEING ARRESTED. AND FOR LAY PEOPLE TO USE IN THE LOCK ZONE TO REVERSE A DRUG OVERDOSE. WE NOMINATED THEM FOR THEIR WORK AND WERE SO PROUD THAT THEY WON. WE ASKED IF THEY WOULD COME THIS MORNING SO THAT WE COULD GIVE THEM THE RECOGNITION THAT THEY DESERVE. OPIATE OVERDOSES ARE KILLING PEOPLE ACROSS THE COUNTRY. THE EPIDEMIC IS SO OBVIOUS, THAT IT EVEN CAME UP LAST WEEK IN THE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES WHEN HILLARY CLINTON AND BERNIE GIUSTO CALLED OUT -- BERNIE SANDERS CALLED OUT THE MEASURES WE HAVE TAKEN TO SAVE LIVES. THE REPRESENTATIVES HAVE PASSED LEGISLATION THAT SAVES PEOPLE'S LIVES. I AM GOING TO ASK THE TRICOUNTY HEALTH OFFICER, DR. PAUL LEWIS, AND HAVEN WHEELOCK OF OUTSIDE IN, TO PLEASE COME UP AND TALK ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE THAT THESE TWO REPRESENTATIVES HAVE MADE. GOOD MORNING, MR. LEWIS, DR. LEWIS. GOOD MORNING, CHAIR KAFOURY AND MEMBERS OF THE MULTNOMAH COUNTY COMMISSION. II AM PAUL LEWIS THE HEALTH OFFICER. SUBSTANCE MISUSE IS A PERSISTENT PROBLEM, ONE THAT INCLUDES A LEGAL, COLUMN,

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AND TOBACCO, INAPPROPRIATE USE OF DRUGS INTENDED FOR OTHER PURPOSES, AND ILLEGAL DRUGS LIKE HEROIN AND METH. WITH NO LEGITIMATE USE. OPIATES LIKE HEROIN AND PAIN PILLS ARE A SPECIFIC PROBLEM, AND AS THE CHAIR MENTIONED, THE FOCUS OF THE NATIONAL AND REGIONAL ATTENTION. THE LAST YEAR WE HAVE COMPLETE DATA, 2014, WE HAD MORE THAN A DEATH A WEEK FROM HEROIN OVERDOSE, AND MORE THAN A DEATH A WEEK FROM A PAIN PILL OVERDOSE. AND FAR TOO MANY PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM, MYSELF INCLUDED, KNOW PERSONALLY THAT THESE SUBSTANCES CAN KILL, QUICKLY, OR ERODE FAMILIES IN OTHER LIVES OVER DECADES. WE'RE ALL VULNERABLE TO SUBSTANCE MISUSE, INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES, AND AS A COMMUNITY. WHILE DEATHS FROM HEROIN AND ILLEGALLY PRESCRIBED PAIN PILLS ARE PEAKING, HOPE IS EMERGING THROUGH A BROAD RESPONSE OF CONCERNED INDIVIDUALS, AND AGENCIES, PROFESSIONALS, AND THE POLICY-MAKERS THAT WE'RE HONORING TODAY. EVEN THOUGH THERE IS NO SINGLE LAW OR RULE THAT CAN PREVENT ALL OF THE HARMS FROM THESE SUBSTANCES, THERE IS PROGRESS. IN THE 2013 LEGISLATIVE SESSION, OREGON LAW CHANGED TO ALLOW LAY PEOPLE TO POSSESS AND ADMINISTER IN THE LOCK ZONE, THIS IS THE LAZARUS DRUG THAT AWAKENS THE OPIOID OVERDOSE VICTIMS FROM A FATAL SLEEP. IT'S AN DOTE THAT GIVES VICTIMS A CHANCE TO START THEIR JOURNEY BACK TO RECOVERY AND HEALTH. AND IT'S A DRAMATIC INTERVENTION THAT MAKES US ALL REALIZE WE NEED A COMPREHENSIVE EFFORT TO PREVENT, RECOGNIZE, AND TREAT THIS DISEASE. AND I WANT TO EMPHASIZE THAT THIS IS A DISEASE, IN NOT A MORAL FAILING. AS MANY OF MY COLLEAGUES POINTED OUT, IF SOMEONE HAD HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE, WE WOULD NOT CONSIDER THAT A MORAL FAILURE BUT A DISEASE THAT NEEDS TREATMENT. IN THE FIRST FULL YEAR AFTER THE 2013 LAW PASSED, THANKS TO PARTNERS LIKE OUTSIDE IN, MULTNOMAH COUNTY SAW AN UNPRECEDENTED 30% DECREASE. BUT WE KNEW THERE WAS MORE THAT NEEDED TO BE DONE. THEY UNDERSTOOD THAT BYSTANDERS ARE WORRIED ABOUT CALLING 9-1-1, AND FIRST RESPONDERS WOULD NOT ARRIVE IN TIME TO HELP. OUR SURVEYS AND PERSONAL STORIES LIKE THOSE OF ADVOCATES LIKE MICHELLE CHISOLM TELL US MANY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT ARRESTS FOR MINOR VIOLATIONS THEY MIGHT HESITATE TO CALL 9-1-1. A HESITATION THAT COULD BE FATAL OR LEAD TO IRREVERSIBLE BRAIN DAMAGE. THE 2015 GOOD SAMARITAN LAW, IS SIMILAR TO A LAW THAT ENCOURAGES UNDERAGED BYSTANDERS TO CALL FOR HELP WHEN THEY SEE ALCOHOL POISONING. THE NEW LAW WENT INTO EFFECT JUST THREE WEEKS AGO, AND IT WILL HELP VICTIMS GET HELP MORE QUICKLY AND BEGIN THE JOURNEY TO RECOVERY. JENNIFER WILLIAMSON WAS KEY IN MAKING OREGON THE 33RD STATE WITH THIS TYPE OF GOOD SAMARITAN LAW, AS CO-CHIEF SPONSORS, OF SENATE BILL 839. THEY TESTIFIED PASSIONATELY FOR THE BILL IN COMMITTEE AND CARRIED IT TO THE HOUSE FLOOR. REPRESENTATIVES WILLIAMSON WAS ALSO A SPONSOR OF SENATE BILL 384, THE 2013 BILL. THEY WORKED TO PROTECT THE FAMILIES AND CHILDREN IN THE COMMUNITY, WHOSE LIVES ARE

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DEVASTATED BY ADDICTION, AND OREGON IS BETTER BECAUSE OF THEIR SERVICE. I WOULD MIKE TO INTRODUCE HAVEN WHEELOCK FROM OUTSIDE IN. CHAIR KAFOURY: THANK YOU. GOOD MORNING. THANK YOU COMMISSIONER KAFOURY AND THE REST OF THE COMMISSIONERS, I'M HAVEN WHEELOCK, THE PROGRAM COORDINATOR FOR THE SYRINGE EXCHANGE AT OUTSIDE IN. AND I AM HERE TODAY TO SAY THANK YOU TO THESE AMAZING REPRESENTATIVES, FOR THEIR HARD WORK AND PREVENTING OVERDOSE DEATHS FOR OUR STATE. OUTSIDE IN SYRINGE EXCHANGE PROGRAM SERVES 4,000 CLIENTS EVERY YEAR, AND I WOULD ARGUE THAT OVERDOSES TOUCH THE LIVES OF ALL OF THEM. MANY HAVE LOST PEOPLE THAT THEY CARE ABOUT TO OVERDOSED DEATHS AND ROUGHLY HALF HAVE REPORTED OVERDOSES THEMSELVES THROUGHOUT THEIR LIFETIME. THE LEGISLATION, THE LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS BY THESE TWO CHAMPIONS HAVE HELPED TO ENSURE THAT MORE AND MORE OVERDOSE EVENTS DO NOT RESULT IN DEATH. I HAVE THE HONOR OF TALKING TO FOLKS EVERY DAY IN OUR PROGRAM, WHO HAVE USED NALOXONE TO SAVE THE LIVES OF PEOPLE THEY CARE ABOUT AND EXPRESSED GRATITUDE FOR KNOWING THAT THEY CAN CALL FOR HELP IF THEY NEED IT, WITHOUT WORRYING ABOUT ARREST. JUST THIS WEEK I HAD A MAN TELL ME HOW HE SAVED THE LIFE OF HIS FRIEND AND STAYED AFTER CALLING 9-1-1 BECAUSE OF AN OVERDOSE. HE TOLD ME THAT HE HISTORICALLY WOULD LEAVE AN OVERDOSE EVENT, CALL 9-1-1, AND RUN, LEAVING HIS FRIENDS UNCONSCIOUS, BECAUSE HE WAS AFRAID, AND THAT WITH THE NEW LAWS IN PLACE, HE WAS ABLE TO STAY AND CONTINUE RESCUE BREATHING UNTIL HELP ARRIVED, AND HE LEFT KNOWING THAT ONE, HIS FRIEND WAS OKAY, AND TWO, HE DID NOT FEEL THE GUILT THAT HE USUALLY WOULD FEEL AFTER THESE EVENTS FOR HAVING TO LEAVE. THE WORK ON THESE TWO BILLS HAS, AND WILL CONTINUE TO SAVE LIVES ACROSS OUR STATE, AND IN OUR COMMUNITY, SO ON BEHALF OF DRUG USERS, THEIR FRIENDS, AND THEIR FAMILIES, ASK THE STAFF OF OUTSIDE IN, AS WELL AS MULTNOMAH COUNTY SYRINGE EXCHANGE, I JUST HAVE TO EXPRESS SINCERE AND HEARTFELT GRATITUDE TO THESE REPRESENTATIVES FOR CHAMPIONING THESE BILLS. IT'S AN HONOR TO BE HERE FOR THAT. CHAIR KAFOURY: THANK YOU. NOW IS THE TIME TO PRESENT THE AWARDS, WE WILL HAVE A PHOTO CONTINUE. THE OREGON PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION AWARD FOR REMARKABLE DEDICATION AND COMMITMENT TO PUBLIC HEALTH. [APPLAUSE]

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THANK YOU CHAIR KAFOURY, MEMBERS OF THE HEALTH BOARD, I AM JENNIFER WILLIAMSON, STATE REPRESENTATIVE HOUSE DISTRICT 36. ON THE WEST SIDE OF PORTLAND, I AM ALSO CURRENTLY SERVING AS THE HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER. WHEN PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THE PERSONAL BEING POLITICAL, THIS, THESE BILLS COULDN'T BE CLOSER TO THE TRUTH FOR THE TWO OF US. I BECAME INVOLVED IN ISSUES AROUND OVERDOSE WHEN MY MOM OVERDOSED INADVERTENTLY ON PRESCRIPTION PAIN MEDICATION THAT SHE WAS PRESCRIBED AFTER HER SURGERY. AND IT WAS ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYING. AND IN 2012, WHEN I WAS RUNNING FOR OFFICE, I TALK ABOUT THIS BEING AN ISSUE THAT I CARED ABOUT, AND LUCKILY, I FOUND THE MULTNOMAH COUNTY TEAM IN SALEM LED BY CLAUDIA BLACK, WHO HAS A PASSION ABOUT THIS WORK, AS WELL, AND WAS ABLE TO SPONSOR BOTH THE 2013 BILL, AND THE 2014 BILL, WITH REPRESENTATIVE FAGAN, AND HEARING THE STORIES, ESPECIALLY FROM HAVEN AND THE FOLKS AT OUTSIDE IN ABOUT HOW OUR POLICY CHANGE IN SAVING LIVES IS TRULY -- TRULY REMARKABLE. WE ARE SPONSORING A BILL TO ALLOW NALOXONE TO BE SOLD OVER THE COUNTER, SO YOU WILL SEE THAT IN THIS NEXT SESSION, AND WE WILL GET THAT PASSED, AS WELL, AND WE'LL CONTINUE THE WORK TO ADDRESS THE CRISIS OF OVERDOSE IN THIS STATE AND THE USE OF OPIOIDS, SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS RECOGNITION. CHAIR KAFOURY: THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR AND MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION, I AM SHAMIA [INAUDIBLE], HOUSE DISTRICT 51, OUTER SOUTHEAST PORTLAND AND SOUTHEAST GRESHAM IN MULTNOMAH COUNTY. I SHARE REPRESENTATIVE WILLIAMSON'S COMMENTS REGARDING THE MULTNOMAH COUNTY TEAM, AND CLAUDIA BLACK, AND WHAT AN HONOR FROM THE OREGON PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION, SO I AM VERY GRATEFUL. IN TERMS OF WHY I WANTED TO BE A SPONSOR OF THIS TYPE OF LEGISLATION, I WILL START BY SAYING SOMETHING KIND OF STRANGE, WHICH IS THAT, IN OCTOBER OF 2014, OCTOBER 30, MY MOM, UNEXPECTEDLY PASSED AWAY, AFTER COMPLICATIONS FROM A ROUTINE SURGERY. THIS WAS FIVE DAYS BEFORE THE ELECTION, OF WHICH I WAS RUNNING IN A FIERCE RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN, AND THE WEIRD THING FOR ME TO SAY IS THIS WAS A REALLY HAPPY ENDING. SIX YEARS PRIOR, WHEN I WAS ABOUT TO START MY THIRD SEMESTER OF LAW SCHOOL, I WAS CALLED TO THE HOSPITAL, ACTUALLY, PORTLAND ADVENTIST IN EAST PORTLAND, BECAUSE MY MOM HAD BEEN TAKEN TO, BY AN AMBULANCE AFTER OVERDOSING ON HEROIN, AND AT THAT POINT, MY MOM WAS AN ADDICT MY ENTIRE LIFE, ON AND OFF THE STREETS OF EAST PORTLAND, AND A VARIETY OF OPIOID AND WHATEVER THAT SHE COULD GET, METHAMPHETAMINE, ADDICTIONS, AND SHE HAD OVERDOSED, AND SHE WAS IN THE ICU, AND WAS UNCONSCIOUS. SO, I WENT THERE, AND LEARNED THAT HER HUSBAND, AND HER HAD BEEN PARTYING THE NIGHT BEFORE, AND THAT SHE HAD OVERDOSED, AND THAT HE KIND OF JUST KEPT PARTYING, AND THEN THE NEXT MORNING HE COULD NOT WAKE HER. AND HE

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DID NOT CALL THE POLICE FOR THE EXACT REASON THAT HE WAS SCARED OF GETTING IN TROUBLE. AND THEY WERE LIVING WITH HIS PARENTS AT THE TIME, AND COINCIDENTALLY, MY MOM'S BROTHER-IN-LAW STOPPED BY THAT MORNING TO, I THINK, TO RETURN A SPATULA, TO HER DAD, WHICH THEY LIVED IN THE BASEMENT AND NOTICED MY MOM WAS UNCONSCIOUS AND CALLED THE POLICE, AND SO YOU KNOW, WE GOT LUCKY ENOUGH TO WHERE SHE DID GET THERE IN TIME THANKS TO THE COINCIDENCE OF A SPATULA RETURN, AND WAS ABLE TO SAVE HER LIFE, AND SHE YOU KNOW, WE GOT THE BLESSING AND THE FACT THAT THAT WAS HER TURNING POINT. SHE LEFT PORTLAND. MOVED TO PENDLETON, MY BROTHERS AND I SUPPORTED HER FOR A YEAR WHILE SHE, YOU KNOW, GOT CLEAN AND GOT HER FIRST NON-BARTENDING JOB AND SPENT THE NEXT, ALMOST SIX YEARS BEING A MAJOR PART OF HER GRANDKIDS' LIVES AND OWNING HER FIRST HOME AND GETTING TO EXPERIENCE THE BENEFITS OF BEING CLEAN AND SOBER, AND SO WHEN I LOOK AT THESE BILLS, I KNOW THE UNFORTUNATE REALITY THAT MANY IN THE PUBLIC, AND UNFORTUNATELY, SOME OF OUR COLLEAGUES IN THE LEGISLATURE LOOK AT THESE BILLS, AND SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, WHY DO A POLICY CHANGE? WHO ARE WE SAVING HERE? THESE ARE ADDICTS. WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE? I AM ACUTELY AWARE THAT FOR ALL OF THESE PEOPLE, THEY ARE SOMEBODY'S, SOMEBODY. THEY ARE SOMEBODY'S BROTHER OR SISTER, OR IN MY CASE, SOMEBODY'S MOM, SO I AM VERY HONORED TO HAVE BEEN A PART OF THIS WITH REPRESENTATIVE WILLIAMSON, AND I AM ALSO HAPPY I GOT THROUGH MOST OF THIS WITHOUT CRYING. AND WHAT AN HONOR TO RECEIVE THIS AWARD, SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. [APPLAUSE] COMM. SMITH: MADAM CHAIR, REPRESENTATIVES -- WE ARE READY TO GO. OK. YOU DON'T HAVE TO TAKE QUESTIONS. PEOPLE WOULD LIKE TO -- THANK YOU. I KNOW FIRST HAND FROM HAVING SERVED WITH BOTH OF YOU, YOUR COMMITMENT, AND YOUR DEDICATION TO SAVING LIVES, AND TO JUSTICE, AND TO A COMMUNITY THAT WORKS FOR EVERYBODY, AND THIS IS JUST ONE EXAMPLE OF THE INCREDIBLE WORK THAT YOU BOTH ARE DOING IN OUR LEGISLATURE. WE ARE HONORED TO WORK WITH YOU AND LOOK FORWARD TO MORE COLLABORATION IN THE FUTURE. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO AND FOR DOING IT FROM YOUR HEART, IT MEANS A LOT. THANK YOU. COMM. SMITH: I WANT TO THANK THE REPRESENTATIVES FOR THE HARD WORK THAT YOU DID ON THIS PARTICULAR BILL. IT'S VERY PERSONAL FOR

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ME, TOO. MY DAD OVERDOSED ON HEROIN, AND HIS BIGGEST FEAR WAS, HE HAS SINCE PASSED AWAY, WAS THAT HE WOULD GO TO JAIL, AND SO, REALLY THEY ARE SOMEBODY'S SOMEBODY, AND THIS IS GOING TO MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE IN MANY FAMILIES. THANK YOU FOR THE WORK THAT YOU DID IN GETTING THIS PASSED AND OUR GOVERNMENT RELATIONS FOLKS FOR REALLY PUSHING THIS. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. THANK YOU. I DIDN'T GET THROUGH YOUR ENTIRE PRESENTATION WITHOUT CRYING. I FIND THE WORK THAT MULTNOMAH COUNTY CAN DO WITH STRONG PARTNERS, SUCH AS YOU TWO, TO BE THE MOST GRATIFYING PART OF THIS JOB AND I AM DELIGHTED TO SEE YOU ATTRACTED SUCH A WIDE AUDIENCE HERE TODAY OF ADMIRERS, I AM DELIGHTED THAT THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE HERE TO, TO HEAR THE STORY THAT WAS TOLD ABOUT ADDICTION, BEING A DISEASE, FOR WHICH WE SHOULD HAVE THE SAME EMPATHY THAT WE HAVE FOR OTHER DISEASES, AND THAT IT IS NOT A MORAL FAILING. IT SHOULD NOT BE THE OBJECT OF OUR DISDAIN OR STIGMA. THE RECOVERY MODEL THAT MULTNOMAH COUNTY EMBRACES AS A MAJOR HEALTH CARE PROVIDER IN THIS COMMUNITY, AND THAT YOU HAVE EMBRACED NOW STATEWIDE IS AN EMBLEM FOR YOU AND YOUR WORK, AND AS WELL AS, AS WELL AS FOR OUR STATE. THANK YOU FOR SHINING SO BRIGHT FOR US. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU BOTH. I THINK THAT THE WORD, CHAMPION, IS ABSOLUTELY FITTING FOR THE TWO OF YOU. YOU ARE DOING A LOT OF GREAT WORK DOWN IN THE LEGISLATURE, AND I PARTICULARLY LIKE THAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT WHAT'S THE NEXT STEP THAT WE NEED TO ACCOMPLISH. WE'RE NOT JUST LETTING THIS GO, WE'RE GOING TO KEEP GOING, AND REALLY MAKE THAT DIFFERENCE FOR MORE AND MORE PEOPLE. AND I THINK DR. LOUIS SAID, YOU STEPPED SO FORWARD IN PROTECTING CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, OUR MOTHERS, OUR FATHERS, AND OUR BROTHERS AND OUR SISTERS, AS YOU SAID, AND SHAMIA, YOU SAID, IT'S SOMEBODY'S SOMEBODY, AND THAT'S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER, SO, I WANT TO THANK YOU BOTH FOR YOUR WORK ON THIS, AND YOUR WORK IN THE LEGISLATURE, AND SHAMIA, I HAVE KNOWN YOU SINCE MY RUN FOR OFFICE, I THINK, AND WE ARE VERY FORTUNATE TO HAVE YOU AS OUR REPRESENTATIVE IN EAST COUNTY, SO THANK YOU. CHAIR KAFOURY: THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE YOU TWO TOOK THE TIME OUT OF YOUR BUSY SCHEDULES, AND I KNOW YOU ARE GETTING READY FOR SHORT SESSION BUT TO ALLOW US THIS OPPORTUNITY TO THANK YOU PUBLICLY AND HAVE SO MANY FOLKS HERE TODAY ABLE TO LISTEN TO THE STORY OF WHY YOU ARE RECEIVING THESE AWARDS. YOU TWO, ALONG

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WITH YOUR COLLEAGUES DOES GREAT WORK, THAT DOESN'T GET THE ACCOLADES THAT YOU DESERVE SO HERE WE ARE TODAY TO SAY THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] WE WILL NOW RECESS AS THE MULTNOMAH COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH AND RETURN TO THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS. R.2 Intergovernmental Agreement #30898 with ODOT for Sandy Boulevard from

230th to 238th. Presenter: Riad Alharithi, Capital Improvement Program Manager

CHAIR KAFOURY: MAY I HAVE A MOTION? MOVED. SECOND. COMMISSIONER SHIPRACK MOVES, COMMISSIONER MCKEEL MOVES APPROVAL OF R2. GOOD MORNING. GOOD MORNING. I AM RIAD ALHARITHI, THE ENGINEERING SERVICE MANAGER, AND TODAY, WE'RE REQUESTING THE APPROVAL OF A SANDY BOULEVARD IGA. THIS IS TO REPLACE AN EXISTING IGA, THE EXISTING ONE, THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO IS JUST THE METHOD OF THIS PROJECT. THIS NEW ONE WOULD ALLOW THE COUNTY TO DELIVER THE PROJECT UNDER THE COUNTY PROCUREMENT AND CERTIFICATION PROGRAM. THIS IS A CONTINUATION OF THE CERTIFICATION PROGRAM BY SWITCHING THE PROJECT TO BE DELIVERED UNDER THE COUNTY'S PROCUREMENT RULES. THERE ARE NO CHANGES BESIDE THAT, THIS WOULD DELIVER THE PROJECT AND HAVING THE PROJECT ON SCHEDULE FOR THIS SUMMER. DO WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM THE BOARD? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, VOTE AYE. THE IGA IS APPROVED. THANK YOU.

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R.3 RESOLUTION Opposing Oil Shipment by Rail, and Endorsing Comments on

the Tesoro Savage Vancouver Energy Distribution Terminal Draft

Environmental Impact Statement. Sponsor: Commissioner Jules Bailey, D-1.

Presenters: Tim Lynch (Senior Policy Analyst), Allyson Boyd (Continuity

and Resilience Planner), Elizabeth Clapp (Senior Research Analyst), Dr.

Patrick O'Herron (Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility, President),

Jared Smith (ILWU Local 4, President), Dan Serres (Columbia Riverkeeper,

Conservation Director), Michael Lang (Friends of Columbia Gorge,

Conservation Director), and Other Invited guests

CHAIR KAFOURY: DO I HAVE A MOTION? SO MOVED. SECOND. CHAIR KAFOURY: COMMISSIONER BAILEY MOVES, COMMISSIONER SMITH SECONDS APPROVAL OF R3. CHAIR, I WILL TO BEGIN BY THANKING JOHN WASIUTYNSKI, CHRIS VOSS AND ALL THE FOLKS WHO REACHED OUT ON THIS ISSUE TO MAKE IT A PRIORITY, AND TO CHAIR, TO YOU AND YOUR OFFICE FOR ASSISTING WITH THIS RESOLUTION. IT'S ONE THAT I AM PROUD TO SPONSOR AND BRING FORWARD. BECAUSE THIS IS A RESOLUTION THAT IS REALLY ABOUT OUR VALUES, AS A COMMUNITY. THEY ARE AROUND SAFETY AND HEALTH. OUR VALUES ARE AROUND THE ENVIRONMENT, AND OUR VALUES FOR JOBS. AND OIL TRAINS ARE NOT CONSISTENT WITH OUR VALUES. WE ARE SEEING MORE COMING THROUGH. A MILLION GALLONS A WEEK, TRAVELING THROUGH MULTNOMAH COUNTY. 26% OF MULTNOMAH COUNTY RESIDENTS LIVE WITHIN A HALF MILE OF AN OIL TRAIN. WE HAVE SEEN NINE SIGNIFICANT DERAILMENTS, INCLUDING ONE THAT RESULTED IN FATALITIES. THAT'S NOT CONSISTENT WITH OUR COMMUNITY. IT'S NOT GOOD FOR WORKERS, NOT GOOD FOR FAMILIES, AND IT'S NOT GOOD FOR ON YOUR CLIMATE CRISIS OR THE HEALTH OF THE RIVERS, AND THE HEALTH OF THE LANDSCAPE. THIS IS ABOUT THAT, AND ABOUT SAYING THAT WE DESERVE A COMMUNITY. BUT WE CAN MAKE OUR OWN CHOICES. WE DON'T HAVE TO BE AT THE MERCY OF GREAT THAT PASSED THROUGH. WE NEED TO FREE IT UP FOR THE GREAT AND MANUFACTURING AND THE GOODS AND THE JOBS, THAT ARE PRODUCED IN OREGON, AND GOING ELSEWHERE. I AM PROUD TO PRESENT THIS RESOLUTION, THAT'S ABOUT HEALTH, ABOUT SAFETY, AND IT'S ABOUT PROTECTING OUR VALUES. AND WITH THAT, I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU ALL. GREAT.

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GOOD MORNING, WE HAVE REPRESENTATIVES FROM PORTLAND FIRE, THEY HAVE TO GET OUT OF HERE SOON, SO IF YOU COULD COME AND JOIN US HERE AT THE TABLE. GOOD MORNING, I'M JOHN WASIUTYNSKI, THE DIRECTOR OF THE SUSTAINABILITY HERE AT MULTNOMAH COUNTY. I AM HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE OIL TRAINS. EVERYBODY READ IN THE PAPER RECENTLY ABOUT THE RISE OF OIL EXTRACTION, IN NORTH AMERICA, AND DUE TO FRACKING, AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES ALLOW US TO EXTRACT OIL FROM SHALE. A LOT OF THAT ACTIVITY IS GOING ON IN NORTH DAKOTA REGIONALLY, AND THAT OIL NEEDS TO FIND ITS WAY TO MARKETS, AND A LOT OF TIMES, IT'S TRAVELING THROUGH THE COLUMBIA GORGE AND MULTNOMAH COUNTY TO REACH IT'S DESTINATION. THE COUNTY WAS ASKED BY OREGON CITIZENS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY TO LOOK INTO THE DANGER THAT THIS NEW COMMODITY OR, NOT NEW, BUT THIS COMMODITY POSES TO RESIDENTS, INCLUDING THE NUMBER OF RESIDENTS THAT ARE SERVED WITHIN THE DANGER ZONE. MY OFFICE TOOK THE LEAD ON DEVELOPING THAT RESEARCH, AND WITH HELP FROM THE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, AND WE HAVE CHRIS VOSS, AND SUPPORT FROM THE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT. I WANT TO START THE FINDINGS BY SAYING THAT BY AND LARGE, TRANSPORTER OF CARGO BY RAIL, IS SAFE AND EFFICIENT. WE HAVE LOTS 6 CARGO MOVING EVERY DAY, AND IT GETS TO THE ULTIMATE DESTINATION SAFELY. THE RAIL INDUSTRIES INVEST A LOT OF MONEY INTO GETTING SAFER AND BETTER. THIS PARTICULAR COMMODITY PRESENTS CHALLENGES THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO HIGHLIGHT, AND ADD TO THE PROBLEMATIC NATURE. IT’S IS MORE EXPLOSIVE THAN TRADITIONAL OIL, AND IT'S -- WHAT'S MAKING UP THE MAJORITY, TRAVELING THROUGH OUR REGION. THE INCREASE [INAUDIBLE], THERE WAS VERY LOW AMOUNT OF OIL BY RAIL TRAVELING THROUGH THE REGION TODAY, AND AS THE COMMISSIONER MENTIONED, THERE'S BEEN DRAMATIC INCREASES. THEY ARE LIKELY TO CONTINUE AS THE NEW EXPORT TERMINALS ARE DEVELOPED IN THE NORTHWEST, AND THE EXPORT BAN WAS SHIFTED BY THE CONGRESS. THE OTHER THING, AND WE HAVE PORTLAND FIRE TO TALK MORE ABOUT THIS, THE RISE IN THIS COMMODITY LEFT REGULATORS AND EMERGENCY RESPONDERS PLAYING CATCHUP TO SORT OF COPE WITH THIS NEW REALITY. SO EVEN THOUGH THE RAIL INDUSTRY IS NOT REQUIRED TO ADOPT SAFER CARS, THOSE CARS WON'T BE ON THE RAILS UNTIL 2018. THE MOST UNSAFE CARS ARE GOING TO BE OFF THE RAILS, BUT THOSE WON'T BE IMPLEMENTED UNTIL 2018, THE FINDINGS FOUND THAT UP TO 12 TRAINS A WEEK CARRYING A MILLION GALLONS OR MORE OF CRUDE ARE TRAVELING THROUGH MULTNOMAH COUNTY, AND THE SMALLER SHIPISHMENTS ARE ALSO TRAVELING THROUGH THE COUNTY. THE COMMISSIONER MENTIONED 26% OF THE RESIDENTS LIVE WITHIN A HOOF MILE OF A RAIL LINE. THAT'S A BUFFER WE USE TO ANALYZE BECAUSE WE KNOW FROM THE STATE FIRE MARSHALL AND FROM THE FEDERAL SAFETY ADMINISTRATION, NOT SURE I GOT THAT FEDERAL AGENCY RIGHT BUT THE HALF MILE, THE LIKELY EVACUATION AREA, IN CASE OF A FIRE OR EXPLOSION FROM A RAIL CAR. THERE IS 108 SCHOOL

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AND CHILDREN WITHIN -- I'M SORRY, 108 SCHOOLS AND CHILDCARE FACILITIES WITHIN THAT HALF MILE BUFFER. PEOPLE OF COLOR ARE MORE LIKELY TO LIVE WITHIN THAT BUFFER ZONE, MAKING IT AN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ISSUE, 25 BILLION OF IMPROVED PROPERTY WITHIN THAT RADIUS, AND VANCOUVER ENERGY PROJECT, WHICH IS BEING, UNDER REVIEW, AT THE PORT OF VANCOUVER, FURTHER INCREASE THE OIL BY RAIL TRAFFIC ON THE WASHINGTON SIDE, AND IT'S REASONABLE TO ASSUME THAT THAT'S GOING TO CAUSE CONGESTION ON THE WASHINGTON SIDE AND SENDS MORE OIL TRAFFIC TO THE OREGON SIDE. TODAY IS A RESOLUTION, WILL AUTHORIZE THE OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY TO SUBMIT COMMENT TO THE REGULATORS IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON ABOUT THIS PROPOSED ENERGY TERMINAL, AND IT WILL ALIGN THE COUNTY WITH THE CITY OF VANCOUVER AND OTHER CITIES IN THE GORGE, AND IN OPPOSITION OF THIS PROJECT, AND THE OIL RAIL BY OIL GENERALLY. WITH THAT, I WILL TURN IT OVER TO OUR GUESTS HERE. SURE. CHRIS VOSS, DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. GOOD MORNING. WITH MULTNOMAH COUNTY. IS THAT WORKING? YEAH. OK. SO, I AM A BIT OF A NUMBER'S GUY SO I WILL NOT GO THROUGH THE REPORT BUT I THOUGHT THAT I WOULD GIVE IT SOME NUMBERS. FIRST I WANT TO SORT OF REPORT THAT SINCE 2012, MULTNOMAH COUNTY IS, ACTUALLY, HAS HAD 34% OF THE STATE'S RAIL INCIDENTS IN THE STATE, SO WE'RE GETTING MORE THAN OUR FAIR SHARE. ANOTHER NUMBER, THERE HAS BEEN A DECLINE OF RAIL INCIDENCES IN THE COUNTRY, HOWEVER THE NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS RELATED TO FIRE AND VIOLENT RUPTURE HAVE ACTUALLY NEARLY DOUBLED FROM 20 IN 2009 TO 38 IN 2014 NATIONALLY. SO, THE TYPES OF INCIDENTS WERE, WE'RE MOST CONCERNED WITH, WE HAVE SEEN AN INCREASE FOR, AND AS WE LOOK AT SORT OF THE WEST PORTLAND FACILITY, IT'S RECEIVING 120,000 BARRELS A DAY LOOKING TO INCREASE TO 360 DALLAS A DAY, IF ALL OF THE PROPOSED EXPANSES TO THE OIL FACILITIES IN OREGON AND WASHINGTON LOOKED AT AND APPROVED. YOU ARE LOOKING AT OVER A MILLION GALLONS. SO THERE ARE A LOT OF INCIDENTS, THEY TEND TO BE MINOR, THIS IS A LOW PROBABLY, HIGH CONSEQUENCE EVENT, BUT CERTAINLY, IF YOU ARE INCREASING THAT PROBABILITY, BETWEEN THREE AND NINE FOLD, JUST WITH THE SHEER VOLUME YOU ARE MORE LIKELY TO SEE A SIGNIFICANT EVENT, SO I THINK

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THAT'S ONE THING TO KEEP IN MIND. IT IS LOW PROBABILITY, HIGH CONSEQUENCE, AND NUMBERS DON'T LIE, SO THREE TO NINE TIMES AS MANY TRAINS AND AS MUCH OIL WILL HAVE AN IMPACT FOR US. GOOD MORNING, I AM WILLIEO, A DEPUTY CHIEF WITH THE PORTLAND FIRE AND RESCUE, AND WITH ME HERE TODAY IS LIEUTENANT SHAWN CHRISTIANSEN, AND LIEUTENANT BRIAN PROFIT, BOTH ARE CURRENT AND PAST HAZMAT COORDINATORS, I WOULD LIKE TO READ A PREPARED STATEMENT REGARDING THE PORTLAND FIRE POSITION ON OIL TRAINS. PORTLAND FIRE AND RESCUE HAS THE FOLLOWING CONCERNS ABOUT LARGE QUANTITIES BEING TRANSPORTED THROUGH MULTNOMAH COUNTY. THE CRUDE OIL TRAIN DERAILMENT PRESENTS MANY CHALLENGES AND HAZARDS FROM THE COMMUNITY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT. THESE EVENTS ARE EXTREMELY LABOR AND EQUIPMENT INTENSIVE. A THIRD, FOURTH, AND FIFTH ALARM ASSIGNMENT FOR A LARGE INCIDENT DRAINS THE RESOURCES FROM THE REST OF THE CITY. THE SITUATION INCREASES RESPONSE TIMES AND AVAILABLE UNITS FOR ONGOING CALLS, FOR ASSISTANCE. THIS CAN CREATE LIFE THREATENING FIRE AND MEDICAL SITUATIONS ACROSS THE CITY DUE TO THE LACK OF FIRE APPARATUS AND PERSONNEL. LARGE HYDRO CARBON FIRES ARE UNIQUE INCIDENTS THAT CALL FOR SPECIFIC EQUIPMENT AND TRAINING. PORTLAND FIRE CURRENTLY HAS SOME RESOURCES, SOME RESOURCES FOR SUCH FIRES, HOWEVER, A LARGE CRUDE OIL DEREMAIN WOULD LIKELY OVERWHELM THE CURRENT CAPABILITIES. IN ADDITION TO EQUIPMENT, SUCCESSFUL CONCLUSION OF THE DERAILMENT ALSO REQUIRES SPECIFIC TRAINING. PORTLAND FIRE HAS A SMALL CADRE OF PERSONNEL TRAINED FOR THESE TYPES OF INCIDENTS. IDEALLY, ALL RESPONDERS WILL BE ON THE SCENE, SHOULD BE TRAINED. EVACUATIONS ON A SMALL OR LARGE SCALE ARE DIFFICULT. COUNTY AND CITY-WIDE NOTIFICATIONS FOR SHELTERING IN PLACE, AND-OR EVACUATION, ESSENTIAL, IS ESSENTIAL FOR A POSITIVE OUTCOME. EVACUATIONS ARE LABOR INTENSIVE, AND TIME CONSUMING. SOME INCIDENTS REQUIRE THIS TO TAKE PLACE QUICKLY, AS PREVIOUS INCIDENTS HAVE SHOWN HAVE SHOWN, THE NOTIFICATIONS ARE SPOTTY AT BEST. WHILE WE CONTINUE TO PURSUE GRANTS TO TRAIN ADDITIONAL PERSONNEL, AND OBTAIN THE NECESSARY RESOURCES NEEDED, SUCH AS PHONE UNITS WITH THE ABILITY TO BRING LARGE TOTES OF FOAM TO THE SCENE, AND SELF SUFFICIENT PUMPS TO APPLY THE FOAM, WE ARE NOT YET PREPARED IN THE MANNER THAT WE BELIEVE THAT WE SHOULD BE. WE APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER THIS MORNING. AND WE ARE AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE. CHAIR KAFOURY: THANK YOU. COMM. SHIPRACK: I HAVE A QUESTION. IT'S GREAT TO HEAR FROM THE PORTLAND FIRE BUREAU AND HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESPONSE ABOUT THIS. I UNDERSTAND THAT THE BILL WAS PASSED IN THE LEGISLATURE. WE

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JUST HAD SOME LEGISLATORS HERE. THEY ARE GONE. LAST SESSION, HOUSE BILL 3225, AND IT ADDRESSED THESE ISSUES, CAN YOU EXPLAIN HOW THAT IMPACTS YOUR READINESS TO RESPOND? DID IT HAVE ANY IMPACT ON YOUR READINESS TO RESPOND? DOES IT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS CONVERSATION AT ALL? DO YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT? WE'RE DEBATING ON WHICH ONES CAN ANSWER. SO THAT HOUSE BILL -- CHAIR KAFOURY: COULD YOU STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE RECORD? I AM LIEUTENANT BRIAN PROFIT, WAS THE CURRENT HAZMAT COORDINATOR, WE JUST SWITCHED THE POSITIONS LAST MONTH. CURRENTLY, I AM WRITING ON ENGINE 7, WHICH IS THE HAZMAT STATION STILL. FOR THAT HOUSE BILL. IT IS SET UP, GETTING MORE REGULATION, WELL, NOT NECESSARILY REGULATION BUT MORE INFORMATION FROM THE RAILROADS TO THE FIRE DEPARTMENTS, ALLOWING A BIT EASIER PIPELINE OF INFORMATION. IT SET UP A NEW POSITION WITH THE STATE FIRE MARSHALL'S OFFICE, WHO IS CHAD HAWKINS, AND HE'S GOING TO BE IN CHARGE OF RAIL INCIDENTS, TRAINING, ANYTHING DEALING WITH RAILROADS THROUGH THE STATE OF OREGON. HE'S IN CHARGE OF NOW. WHERE IT HELPS US THE MOST, IS THEY DELL WITH THE RAILROADS FOR THE LAST SIX MONTHS, AND THERE ARE SIX FOAM UNITS THAT ARE BEING PUT TOGETHER BETWEEN THE STATE AND THE RAILROADS. THE CITY OF PORTLAND WILL BE GETTING ONE OF THEM, AND IT'S, BASICALLY, GOING TO BE A TRAILER WITH FOUR TOTES OF FOAM. AVERAGING ABOUT 1,000 TO 1200 GALLONS OF FOAM PER TRAILER, AND THAT IS WHAT WE CALCULATE VERY CLOSE TO WHAT WE WOULD NEED TO PUT OUT WITH THE CRUDE OIL FIRE. SO, THOSE, THOSE SHOULD BE DISTRIBUTED OUT WITHIN THE STATE BY THE 1ST OF JUNE. THOSE TRAILERS. ALSO WITH THIS POSITION AND THAT HOUSE BILL THERE WILL BE SOME MORE TRAINING ON HOW TO USE THOSE TRAILERS, THROUGHOUT THE STATE. THE OTHER TRAILERS WILL BE DISTRIBUTED TO THE FIRE DEPARTMENTS, WITH HAZMAT TEAMS, THAT ARE FOUND ALONG THE RAIL LINES. COMM. SHIPRACK: I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT. REPRESENTATIVE SMITH WARNER IS, WASN'T HERE TO RECEIVE HER, AN AWARD TODAY, BUT SHE IS A FRIEND OF MULTNOMAH COUNTY, AND IT SOUNDS LIKE, WITH REGARD TO SAFETY, THE LEGISLATURE IS WORKING TO ADDRESS THESE CONCERNS TOGETHER WITH THE STATE FIRE MARSHALL, AND WE HAVE A LARGE AUDIENCE OF INTERESTED PEOPLE HERE TODAY, AND I THINK THIS IS IMPORTANT INFORMATION BECAUSE SHOULD WE FIND THAT WE LACK SURVEY TORQUE TO CHANGE THE BEHAVIOR OF THE RAILROADS, PERHAPS, WE CAN FIND ADDITIONAL AVENUES TO PURSUE SAFETY, AND JUST ONE OTHER FOLLOW-UP SINCE WE HAVE YOU AND YOU DO HAZARDOUS

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MATERIALS. WHAT, WHAT ARE THE OTHER HAZARDOUS MATERIALS THAT TRAVEL BY RAIL? IF THERE ARE ANY OTHERS? THE RAILROAD TRANSPORTS ANY AND EVERYTHING. I MEAN, THERE IS TONS OF THEM THAT TRAVEL BY RAIL. GOING BACK TO, TO THE COMMENT MADE EARLIER, ON THE SAFETY OF THE RAILROADS, THEY CLAIM 99.97% SAFETY RATING. AND I DO AGREE WITH THAT, TO A POINT. THE AMOUNT OF PRODUCT THAT TRANSPORTS ACROSS THE RAILROADS AND THIS COUNTRY, IS HUGE. BY VOLUME AND NUMBER. I THINK DEALING WITH CRUDE OIL AND SUCH YOU KNOW, THAT.03%, WHEN SOMETHING DOES HAPPEN, IT'S NOT NORMALLY -- IT'S NOT SMALL, IT'S A LARGE INCIDENT. THAT'S WHY WE'RE LOOKING AT THE FOAM AND TRYING TO DEAL WITH CRUDE OIL, BUT TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING WOULD PROBABLY BE MY BEST ANSWER. IT'S AN EASY WAY TO TRANSPORT PRODUCTION, BUT YES, THERE IS A TON OF HAZMATS THAT TRAVEL ACROSS. WE'RE WELL CONCERNED ABOUT THE SAFETY, OBVIOUSLY, OF WHAT IS TRANSPORTED THROUGH OUR COMMUNITY. EXCUSE MEE, I AM SHAWN CHRISTIANSEN WITH PORTLAND FIRE, THE HAZMAT COORDINATOR. JUST GOING BACK TO YOUR QUESTION, THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS TRANSPORTED BY RAIL. PROBABLY SOME OF THE MORE SIGNIFICANT THINGS THAT WE WORRY ABOUT ON HAZMAT WOULD BE OUR -- WOULD BE CHLORINE, AMMONIA, AND L&G, LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS, AND LIQUEFIED PROPANE GAS, AND THERE IS, LIKE BRIAN WAS SAYING, THERE IS A LONG LIST OF CHEMICALS, SUBSTANCES BEING TRANSPORTED BY RAIL. AND THE OTHER COMMENT THAT I WOULD LIKE TO THROW OUT IS ON YOU KNOW, WHEN WE TALK, THE RAILROAD REPORT, THEY HAVE NUMBERS THAT THEY REPORT ON INCIDENTS THAT THEY HAVE, DERAILMENTS AND WHATNOT. AND A DERAILMENT ISN'T WHAT WE SEE ON THE NEWS OF 20 CARS LAID OVER ON THE SIDE. IT COULD JUST BE A RAIL CAR ON THE WHEELS. IT COULD BE AN INCIDENT FOR THEM, IT COULD BE A HUMAN CAUSE DIESEL RELEASE, WHICH IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST INCIDENTS WHEN THEY ARE REFUELING ONE OF THE ENGINES. THEY COULD RELEASE 100 TO 200 GALLONS WITHIN THE YARD, AND THEY HAVE CLEANUP CONTRACTORS THAT COME IN AND CLEAN IT UP. SO, I WANT TO THROW THAT OUT THERE, BUT ALSO, JUST BACK TO THE HAZMAT. THERE ARE OTHER CHEMICALS THAT WE LOOK AT THAT YOU KNOW, FOR US, WOULD BE A LARGE INCIDENT, ALSO. IF I CAN MAKE ONE OTHER POINT. I THINK THIS IS RELEVANT. A LOT OF CHEMICALS AROUND FOR A LONG TIME, THERE IS YOU KNOW, STANDARDS WITH REGARD TO THE RAIL CARS THAT HAVE BEEN IN PLACE, SO THIS BEING SORT OF A NEW PRODUCT, THEY HAVE SAID, AND CHANGED THE REGULATION REQUIREMENTS FOR THE RAIL CARS FOR THIS OIL. BUT, UNFORTUNATELY, IT'S PHASED IN, SO YOU ARE NOT GOING TO SEE ALL THE CARS CARRYING THIS MATERIAL UNTIL I BELIEVE IT'S 2025. YOU SEE THIS MAY

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NOT BE IN THE IDEAL CARS IT SHOULD BE IN, BY 2025, AND YOU WILL SEE THAT SORT OF CHANGE, SO THERE IS THIS PATCH, SO IF YOU SEE SOMETHING MORE HAZARDOUS ON THE RAIL, CHANCES ARE IT'S IN A CAR MET SPECKS. YOU ARE NOT SEEING A LOT OF CHANGES IN THOSE SPECKS. COMM. MCKEEL: THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT. SO PART OF THIS QUESTION WILL BE FOR YOU, AND PART OF IT WILL PROBABLY BE FOR YOU, OVER HERE. I REPRESENT EAST COUNTY, AND I WANT TO ASK WHAT OUTREACH WAS DONE WITH GRESHAM FIRE, CORBETT FIRE, FIRE DISTRICT 10, DID WE DO OUTREACH TO THEM, TOO? YOU KNOW, WHAT THEIR THOUGHTS ARE AROUND THIS, AND THE OTHER PIECE, THAT'S FOR YOU. DO YOU COORDINATE WITH THOSE OTHER EAST COUNTY FIRE DISTRICTS ON THIS KIND OF THING? SO TO THAT QUESTION, SO, JUST A QUICK RUNDOWN ON THE HAZMAT PROGRAM, IT IS RUN THROUGH THE STATE FIRE MARSHALL, FUNDED PROGRAM, THERE ARE 13 TEAMS SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE STATE. PORTLAND, GRESHAM, AND TUALATIN VALLEY FIRE ARE THE METRO TEAMS, AND THE REST OF SCATTERED THROUGHOUT SOME OF THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS ACROSS THE STATE. SO, WE HAVE A -- WE'RE IN A PARTNERSHIP WITH OSFM, PARTIALLY FUNDED THROUGH THEM, THROUGH FEES COLLECTED. AS FAR AS OUTREACH, WE WORK WITH THE STATE TEAMS ON, NOT ALL OF THE TEAMS, ON A REGULAR BASIS, BUT WE TRY AND WORK WITH THEM AS MUCH BECAUSE WE DON'T GET TO ONTARIO, OREGON AS MUCH AS WE WOULD LIKE. ALL THE TIMES ARE REQUIRED TO CONDUCT OUTREACH WITH OUR PARTNER AGENCIES WITHIN THE RESPONSE AREA. SO, GRESHAM FIRE WOULD GO OUT TO CORBETT, EAST COUNTY, THEY HAVE A LARGE AREA, THEY GO CLEAR OUT TO HOOD RIVER, AND DOWN TO MADRAS, SO THEY COVER A LARGE AREA BUT DO OUTREACH WITH ALL OF THOSE PARTNER AGENCIES. CITY OF PORTLAND, WE HAVE -- OUR TEAM COVERS PORTLAND, AND THE CITY OF PORTLAND, PLUS ABOUT 90% OF THE COLUMBIA COUNTY, SO WE'RE UP THERE TALKING TO THE COLUMBIA FIRE AND RESCUE, AND VERNONIA, AND ST. HELENS, SCAPPOOSE, AND RAINIER, AND WE'RE CONDUCTING OUTREACH WITH THEM ON A YEARLY BASIS. SO, THERE IS, THERE IS OUTREACH BEING CONDUCTED, PLUS THE TEAMS WORK AMONGST OURSELVES WITH TRAINING STATEWIDE. COMM. MCKEEL: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I WAS GOING TO ADD, COMMISSIONER, THAT OUR WAS A RESEARCH PROJECT. SO, WE DID NOT DO A TON OF OUTREACH FOR THE ACTUAL COMPILING OF THE DATA. USED DATA EXISTING ALREADY. THERE IS NOT A FIRE DEPARTMENT IN THE COUNTRY THAT'S NOT AWARE OF THIS ISSUE.

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THANK YOU VERY MUCH, AND CHRIS, I'VE BEEN UP TO CORBETT FOR THE MEETINGS, SO I KNOW THAT THERE IS OUTREACH GOING ON, BUT I JUST, TO THIS POINT, I WANTED TO JUST MAKE SURE THAT IT'S ALWAYS MY QUESTION, YOU KNOW, AND I DO HAVE A PIECE OF PORTLAND IN MY DISTRICT, TOO, SO I AM THERE WITH YOU BUT THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR, SOME OF THIS IS OPENING UP NOW, AND YOU KNOW, I AM JUST REALLY INTERESTED, AND NOT VERY COGNIZANT OF THESE ISSUES. IF WE ARE NOT GOING TO HAVE THE RAIL CARS UP TO SNUFF, AS YOU SAY, UNTIL 2025, IS THERE SOME A-THAT WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO TAKE TO SPEED THAT UP A BIT? AND WOULD THAT BE AN EFFECTIVE KIND OF, KIND OF ACTION, DEPENDING UPON, AGAIN, THE JURISDICTION THAT WE HOLD OVER WHAT IT IS THAT THE TRAINS ARE CARRYING IN CASE WE FIND THAT OUR JURISDICTION IS LESS POWERFUL THAN WE WOULD LIKE TO THINK IT IS, THEN CAN WE TRY TO IMPOSE SOME KIND OF ACCELERATED SPEEDUP, THAT SORT OF IS PART ONE, AND PART TWO IS ON THE DERAILMENTS, WHERE A TRAIN JUMPS THE TRACK, OR A CAR JUMPS THE TRACK, AND LANDS UPRIGHT NEXT TO THE TRACK, I DRIVE A CAR, AND I'VE BEEN A DRIVER SINCE LIKE 1965, AND THEY HAD A VEHICLE DESIGNED, A LITTLE LESSON CALLED THE PINTO, WHICH, AND NOW I AM WONDERING -- THANK YOU. I HAVE AN AUDIENCE. AND NOW -- CHAIR KAFOURY: DO YOU WANT TO KNOW IF THEY HAVE DRIVEN IN A PINTO? WE ARE WITH YOU, COMMISSIONER. [LAUGHTER] COMM. SHIPRACK: WHICH WAS, -- -- SO, I WANT TO KNOW, IS THE STATUS OF AN OIL CAR ON A TRAIN TODAY, THAT HASN'T BEEN ELEVATED TO THE NEW STANDARDS, SOMETHING THAT WHEN I LIE IN BED AWAKE WORRYING ABOUT THIS NOW, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, THAT IS LIKE THE PINTO. SO, IF WE BUMP IT, IT WILL EXPLODE. I WILL TAKE THE FIRST HALF OF THE QUESTION. THE REGULATION OF THE RAILROADS IS DONE AT THE FEDERAL DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION LEVEL. THE ACCELERATION OF THE RULES WOULD HAVE TO TAKE PLACE AT THE FEDERAL REGULATORY LEVEL. I SHOULD SAY, HOWEVER, THAT IT'S BEEN THE PUBLIC OUTCRY ABOUT THIS NEW AND EMERGING ISSUE THAT HAS LED TO A LOT OF THIS IS -- THIS REGULATION THAT'S COME INTO PLAY TO START ADDRESSING THE ISSUE OF THESE PINTO YOU KNOW, RAIL CARS. DID YOU WANT TO ADD ANYTHING? COMM. SMITH: MADAM CHAIR. SO, ON THE RAIL CARS, I WILL USE A COUPLE OF STYLES, THE PINTO. THE 111 IS THE MOST COMMON CAR OUT THERE. A NON-PRESSURIZED RAIL CAR TO

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CARRY, BASICALLY, HUNDREDS OF PRODUCTS. CRUDE OIL BEING ONE OF THEM. AND THEY HAVE FOUND THAT, THAT CAR IS NOT NECESSARILY GREAT FOR CARRYING FLAMMABLE LIQUIDS, SO THEY STARTED DOING SOME THEMSELVES JACKETING THEM WITH MORE BARRIERS AND PUTTING HALF INCH HEAD SHIELDS ON THE ENDS TO HELP TO PROTECT THEM FROM RUPTURING, AND THEY STARTED DOING THIS KIND OF VOLUNTARILY, AND THEN THEY CAME UP WITH THE 1232, IT WAS BROUGHT OUT THEY NEEDED TO GO AWAY FROM CARRYING FLAMMABLE LIQUIDS AND TO THE 1232. THAT CAR WAS IN MASS PRODUCTION. ANYBODY THAT HAD STOCK IN A COUPLE OF RAIL CAR COMPANIES SAW THEIR STOCK GO UP QUITE WELL. RECENTLY THAT HAS COME OUT THAT THE 1232 IS NOT THAT SAFE, EITHER, AND NOW, THE NEW CAR THAT THEY ARE COMING OUT WITH IS THE 117. IT HAS HIGHER ROLL PROTECTION, HAS THICKER STEEL. THE 1232 IS MANDATORY TO BE JACKETED SO THERE WERE TWO LAYERS OF STEEL WITH THE THERMAL BARRIER IN THE MIDDLE BETWEEN THE FLAMMABLE LIQUID AND SUCH. THEY ARE DOING EVERYTHING THAT THEY CAN TO MAKE THE CARS SAFER, AND THE 1232 WAS SUPPOSED TO BE DONE IN EVERY FLAMMABLE LIQUID TRANSPORTED BY 2018, AND NOW WITH THE 117, COMING OUT, AND THE 1232 STILL ON THE TRACKS. AND THE 117 SUPPOSED TO BE DONE -- 2025 WAS KIND OF A NEW NUMBER, I HAD HEARD 2020, THESE DATES, EVERYBODY, IS DEBATING IN WASHINGTON. I DON'T HAVE ANY CONTROL OVER THAT. IT COULD BE 2025, I AM NOT 100%, TO BE HONEST. BUT THE RAIL CARS ARE COMING OUT TRYING TO BE SAFER AS THEY COME. AND PART OF THE PROBLEM IS IT COMES DOWN TO FORCE EQUALS MATH TIMES ACCELERATION. IT'S A BASIC PHYSICS, AND IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW MUCH STEEL WE PUT ON THE CARS, IF THEY ARE TRAVELING AT 50 MILES PER HOUR, AND THEY HAVE 30,000 GALLONS OF FUEL IN EACH, AND THE CAR, ALONE, WEIGHS SOMETHING LIKE A COUPLE OF TONS ALREADY, WHEN THEY BOUNCE OFF EACH OTHER, THEY ARE GOING TO RIP EACH OTHER OPEN, UNFORTUNATELY. THAT'S BEEN SHOWN WITH THE 111S, AND A COUPLE OF 1232S TORN OPEN IN WRECKS, ALSO. SO, IT COMES DOWN TO JUST THE SPEED AND THE WEIGHT OF THE CARS, ALSO. THE 117, I HAVE NOT SEEN MUCH ON THEM. I HAVE SEEN WHAT THEY ARE DOING, THICKER, STRONGER WELTS, BETTER ROLE POSITION ON TOP. COMM. SHIPRACK: WHAT IS THE SPEED OF A RAIL CAR THROUGH PORTLAND? I BELIEVE IT'S 25, IS THE MAX. THE RAIL LINE COMING IN, WHICH PARALLELS SANDY BOULEVARD, IS A MAX OF 45, FROM WHAT I REMEMBER. THAT'S GOING TO DECREASE AS IT GETS CLOSER TO THE CITY, WHICH THAT WOULD BE A QUESTION FOR A RAIL REPRESENTATIVE TO ANSWER THAT. I DON'T KNOW THE SPEEDS BEYOND THE SANDY BOULEVARD SECTION BEING 45. TO ADD ONTO THAT, PART THE LENGTH OF TIME IT'S TAKING TALKING TO SOME FOLKS IS JUST PRODUCTION. THEY ARE BUILDING THEM DAY AND NIGHT, BUT WHEN YOU NEED 200,000

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CARS, IT TAKES THEM A WHILE TO GET THEM BUILT SO THAT'S PART OF IT. AND I AM WORRIED ABOUT YOU LOSING SLEEP AT NIGHT. SO, JUST SO YOU KNOW, OUR RECENT INCIDENT BETWEEN A GASOLINE TANK TRUCK AND SOME RAIL CARS ON A SIDING, THOSE WERE 111 CARS. IT WAS STRUCK BY A SEMI-TRACTOR TRAILER TRUCK, AND CARRYING APPROXIMATELY 11,000 GALLONS OF GLEAN, THAT DID IGNITE, BURNED, AND WE PUT THE FIRE OUT. AND THERE WERE SEVEN RAIL CARS IMPINGED. THOSE WERE DOT-111 CARS, THE NON-PRESSURE GENERAL SERVICE CAR. THE RAIL CAR STRUCK DIRECTLY BY THE TRUCK WAS NOT RUPTURED, IT HAD SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE, NOT RUPTURED, AND THERE WAS NO LEAK ON THE CARS. THERE WAS NOT -- THERE WAS NOT ACTUALLY A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF PRESSURE BUILT UP IN THOSE CARS. PART OF IT IS THE PRODUCT IN IT. IT WAS MOLTEN ASPHALT, NOT CRUDE OIL. BUT, JUST SO YOU CAN GET SOME MORE SLEEP AT NIGHT, IT WAS HIT BY A TRUCK, I DON'T KNOW THE SPEED IT WAS TRAVELING, BUT -- THE ROAD IS SET AT 45. RIGHT. SO -- COMMISSIONER SMITH. COMM. SMITH: THANK YOU, AND COMMISSIONER SHIPRACK, I HAVE NOT DRIVEN A PINT OVER BUT I HAVE RIDDEN IN SEVERAL PINTOS, IN MY YOUNG AGE, AND I HOPE THERE ARE NO CAR MANUFACTURERS HERE, I LIKE THE PINTO, BUT JOHN, THANK YOU FOR MAKING IT VERY CLEAR THAT NEITHER MULTNOMAH COUNTY OR ANY LOCAL JURISDICTION HAS ANY STATUTORY AUTHORITY TO PICK AND CHOOSE THE PRODUCTS TRANSPORTED BY RAIL THROUGH THIS JURISDICTIONS, I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT'S CLEAR, RAILROADS AND COMMON CARRIERS, AS SUCH, ARE REQUIRED TO SHIP ANY PRODUCT, IF IT IS LEGAL AND CAN BE SHIPPED IN AN ACCEPTABLE VESSEL, AND I THINK THAT THAT'S WHAT IS THE PLAY, THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE CLUB PROHIBITS ANY REGION FROM RESTRICTING THE FREE FLOW OF GOODS AND SERVICES THROUGH THE UNITED STATES. I HAVE TO TELL YOU, I AM SO PLEASED IN, AND HAPPY THAT OUR REPRESENTATIVE, BARBARA SMITH WARNER, SHE WROTE AND PASSED A BILL THAT WOULD GIVE THE STATE FIRE MARSHALL NEW AUTHORITIES AND DIRECTION TO DEVELOP PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE PLANNING FOR ANY POTENTIAL OIL, RAIL, INCIDENT WHICH IS HUGE FOR YOU ALL GOING FORWARD. BUT WHAT'S AT ISSUE HERE TODAY, THAT I THINK THAT WE NEED TO REALLY KEEP CLEAR, THAT'S IN OUR RESOLUTION, IS IT'S A DECISION TO ENGAGE IN CONSTRUCTION OF THEIR TERMINAL FACILITIES TO EXPORT OIL, AMONG OTHER THINGS. THE PORT'S DECISION IS GOVERNED BY STATE AND FEDERAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS, WHICH, FOLLOWING THE NAPA PROCESS, IN WRITING AN EIS. WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE TODAY IS COMMENTING ON THAT

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ALONGSIDE THE HUNDREDS OF CITIZENS AND OTHER COUNTIES WHO ARE ALSO COMMENTING, THAT HAVE TO BE RECORDED BY JANUARY 22, 2016. THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE TODAY. SO, I WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUE, COMMISSIONER BAILEY, FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP IN BRINGING THIS ISSUE FORWARD. IT IS ABSOLUTELY APPROPRIATE, AND IMPORTANT THAT OUR ELECTED LEADERSHIP OF MULTNOMAH COUNTY EXPRESS OUR GREAT CONCERN ABOUT THE REAL DANGERS AND THE REAL HEALTH RISKS PRESENTED BY A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN OIL TRAIN TRAFFIC THROUGH OUR COMMUNITIES. THAT IS VERY REAL. AND SO I AM GOOD WITH SENDING A LETTER SAYING THAT THERE ARE REAM OPPORTUNITIES FOR EXPLOSIONS IN THE AREA EVEN THOUGH THIS IS IN VANCOUVER ON THE EDGE OF MY DISTRICT AND DISTRICT 2, IN THE HIGHLAND, JANTZEN BEACH AREA, WHERE THERE ARE MANY FOLKS WITH VULNERABLE POPULATIONS, WHO ARE SENIORS AND FOLKS WHO ARE LOW INCOME, AND WHO ARE VERY CLOSE TO WHERE THIS PORT OF VANCOUVER IS. SO, I AM VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THIS, AND I AM VERY HAPPY THAT YOU BROUGHT THIS TO OUR ATTENTION, AND THAT WE'RE ABLE TO GET OUR COMMENTS RECORDED AND SENT ONTO THE GOVERNMENT TO LET THEM KNOW HOW WE FEEL ABOUT THIS, WHICH WILL BE SENT TO THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON, SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER CHAIR. I WOULD LIKE TO, IF THE BOARD HAS ANY MORE QUESTIONS FOR THESE GUYS, THEN -- CHAIR KAFOURY: WE HAVE ANOTHER PANEL. WE HAVE MORE FOLKS TO TALK, AND THESE GUYS HAVE TO GET OUT OF HERE. WE KEPT THEM LONGER THAN THEY WERE ABLE TO BE HERE. CHAIR KAFOURY: WE REALLY APPRECIATE YOU COMING TODAY. WE DON'T OFTEN GET TO SEE THE FIRE BUREAU HERE, SO WE ARE REALLY APPRECIATIVE OF YOU COMING OVER TO CHAT WITH US. THANK YOU. JUST TO FOLLOW UP ON COMMISSIONER SMITH'S QUESTION AND CHRIS, YOUR COMMENT. THE FACILITY WOULD RESULT IN AN INCREASE IN OIL TRAIN TRAFFIC, AND HAVE YOU QUANTIFIED THAT? HOW MUCH IS THAT? THE NUMBER THAT YOU SAID, THAT EXPANDS FROM 180,000 SOMETHING OR OTHER, TO 360,000? IS THERE DIRECTED TOWARDS THE FIRE BUREAU? THEY CAN GO BACK AND RESCUE PEOPLE. THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING. THANK YOU.

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I BELIEVE IT WAS THEY ARE GOING FROM THE NUMBERS FROM 120 TO 360, SO IT WOULD BE A THREE-FOLD INCREASE IN THAT TERMINAL ON THE OTHER SIDE. EXACTLY HOW MUCH OF THAT WOULD BE GOING THROUGH MULTNOMAH COUNTY, I DON'T KNOW THAT WE HAVE THAT EXACT NUMBER. WE HAVE ESTIMATES BASED ON THE PERMITTED FACILITIES, THAT WERE PROPOSED FOR THE NORTHWEST. AND IT'S HAZARD TO GET THAT. WHAT WE DO KNOW IS THAT THE RAILROAD COMPANIES MUST DISCLOSE TO STAY TO THE COUNTY, AND THE NUMBER OF TRAINS CARRYING A MILLION MORE, OR MORE GALLONS OF CRUDE OIL THROUGH THE COUNTY, AND THESE ARE CALLED UNI-TRAINS, SO IT'S WHEN ONE COMMODITY IS SHIPPED, AND IN A SINGLE TRAIN, UP TO 12 OF THOSE, MILLION GALLON OR MORE TRAINS ARE TRANSITING THROUGH THE COUNTY, SO THERE IS ALREADY A VOLUME THAT EXISTS, AND PRESUMABLY, IT WILL INCREASE. COMM. SHIPRACK: I WANTED TO UNDERLINE THAT BECAUSE, AND I WANTED TO DEFER TO YOUR SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTISE AGAIN BECAUSE I HAD A CONVERSATION WITH ANOTHER SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT WHO [INAUDIBLE] DURING OUR CONVERSATION, AND I THOUGHT RELY BELOW ZERO, THAT JUST THE REVERSE WOULD OCCUR BECAUSE THE CRUDE OIL THAT WOULD TRAVEL THROUGH THE CITY OF PORTLAND TO ONE OF TWO FACILITIES ON THE COLUMBIA RIVER, INCLUDING OUR OWN, WHICH I SUPPOSE, PERHAPS, ON THE WILLAMETTE, OR WOULD CONTINUE TO CARRY CRUDE WITHOUT THE BENEFIT OF HAVING A FACILITY IN OUR NEIGHBORING STATE, WOULD TAKE IT SORT OF RIGHT DOWN THE GUT OF THE STATE OF OREGON TO REFINERIES IN CALIFORNIA. I AM TRYING TO UNDERSTAND, WE HAVE TWO SUBJECT MATTERS AT ONCE, ONE IS A RESOLUTION, OPPOSING THE OIL TRAIPSE, AND THE OTHER IS A RESOLUTION TO SUPPORT THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT DRAFTED TO GO TO VANCOUVER, SO I THINK THAT IMPACT OF THE VANCOUVER FACILITY ON OIL TRAIN TRAFFIC THROUGH PORTLAND IS A SIGNIFICANT MATTER OF FACT THAT WE NEED TO BE AWARE OF, AND WE NEED TO BE CAREFUL THAT WE'RE ACCURATE ABOUT IT. I WILL JUST SAY, WITH REGARD TO THE SORT OF THE INITIAL QUESTION, AND SORT OF THE NUMBERS, WHAT IS ULTIMATELY THAT TRIPLING MEAN TO US AS FAR AS THE NUMBERS? TO BE HONEST, WE JUST DON'T KNOW. THE REALITY IS, I THINK THAT THE THOUGHT IS THAT IF THE NUMBERS TRIPLE OR IF THEY GET ALL THOSE, ALL THE PERMITS COME IN, AND YOU ARE SEEING A NINE FOLD, THERE IS, I THINK, A REASONABLE THOUGHT THAT WE WOULD SEE MORE SHIPMENTS THROUGH THE COUNTY, BUT EXACTLY HOW MUCH, IS IT A ONE TO ONE RELATIONSHIP? THAT, I DON'T THINK THAT WE KNOW. AND THERE IS INVITED GUESTS WHO MAY BE ABLE TO SPEAK WITH MORE AUTHORITY ABOUT THIS ISSUE BUT WE KNOW WITHOUT THE TERMINAL, THAT THERE IS OIL TRANSITING THROUGH HERE, AND ONLY SO MUCH RAIL

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CAPACITY THAT EXISTS, SO I THINK THAT LED TO THE CONCLUSION OF THE INCREASE IN TRAFFIC. COMM. MCKEEL: I HAVE ONE QUESTION, AS LONG AS WE'RE ON THIS FACILITY IN VANCOUVER, AND YOU MENTIONED THE CITY OF VANCOUVER, I AM JUST CURIOUS WHAT THE CITY OF VANCOUVER AND THE CLARK COUNTY COMMISSION HAVE SAID AROUND THIS PROJECT, WITHIN THEIR JURISDICTION. SO THE CITY -- I DON'T KNOW, AND MAYBE ONE OF OUR OTHER GUESTS WILL HAVE INFORMATION. BUT I KNOW THE CITY OF VANCOUVER HAS PASSED A RESOLUTION PROHIBITING ANY FUTURE OIL FACILITIES TO BE PERMITTED WITHIN THEIR JURISDICTION, THE SAVAGE PROJECT WAS INTRODUCED BEFORE THAT RESOLUTION WAS PASSED. THE CITY IS ON RECORD OPPOSING TESORO SAVAGE VANCOUVER ENERGY PROJECT. SO, THAT'S THEIR -- THAT'S THEIR POSITION. IT'S VERY -- MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THEY ARE VERY EAGER, THE CITY IS EAGER TO DEVELOP THE WATERFRONTS, AND TO SEE MORE ALONG THE WATERFRONT, AND THEY ARE CONCERNED THAT THIS OIL FACILITY AT THE PORT WOULD MAKE THAT MORE -- WOULD MAKE THAT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MORE DIFFICULT. THANK YOU. SO MY APOLOGIES, COMMISSIONER, I DON'T KNOW WHAT CLACKAMAS COUNTY'S POSITION IS, I AM HOPING THAT ONE OF OUR OTHER PRESENTERS WILL BE ABLE TO GIVE INFORMATION ON THAT TOPIC. COMM. SMITH: SO, REALLY, THE CITY OF VANCOUVER AND THE PORT OF VANCOUVER, THEY ARE IN DIRECT CONFLICT, THE PORT OF VANCOUVER IS PLANNING, SO WE'RE VERY CLEAR ON THIS, THE CITY OF VANCOUVER DOESN'T HAVE INJURED OVER THE PORT. THIS IS A FEDERAL ISSUE, AND I WANT TO -- THIS PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE BEEN SEPARATED IN TWO SEPARATE RESOLUTIONS BECAUSE WE'RE GETTING IT CONFUSED, AND WE'RE ADDING STUFF, THAT, THAT IS DIRECTLY OPPOSITE OF WHAT IT IS. BUT HELP ME TO UNDERSTAND THIS, CHRIS. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE AN INCREASE IN THE OIL COMING THROUGH THE COUNTY, IF THIS ACTUALLY PASSES. AND IT'S CLEAR FROM THE REPORTS THAT WE NEED MORE RESOURCES AND TRAINING TO BE ABLE TO DEAL WITH AN EMERGENCY FROM MULTNOMAH COUNTY'S STANDPOINT. WHAT KIND OF AN ADDITIONAL TRAINING DO YOU THINK THAT WE WILL NEED IF THIS PASSES, IF THE FEDS SAY THAT THIS IS A GO, AND THE GOVERN SAYS THIS IS A GO IN WASHINGTON, AND WHAT WILL WE DO TO RESPOND TO THIS NEW ADDED OIL TRANSPORTATION? THERE ARE THE FIREFIGHTERS WHEN YOU NEED THEM? COMM. SMITH: YES, I ONLY ASKED YOU THAT QUESTION BECAUSE YOU ARE THE HEAD OF THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, THAT'S ALL.

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AND IT'S A GREAT QUESTION, AND I THINK THAT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE WANT TO TALK SHORT OF THE HAZMAT TEAMS BECAUSE YOU HEARD ABOUT THE CAPACITIES INCREASING SOME OF THESE TOOLS, AND THE TRUCKS THAT THEY ARE RECEIVING. BUT, YOU KNOW, MULTNOMAH COUNTY IS A BIG COUNTY, TOO, SO WHERE THINGS ARE STAGED, YOU KNOW, IF THERE IS AN INCIDENT ON ONE SIDE OF THE COUNTY, AND HOW THEY ARE DEPLOYED. I WOULD PREFER TO WORK WITH THOSE EXPERTS AND COME UP WITH SOMETHING MORE DETAILED OTHER THAN TO SAY IT'S REASONABLE TO THINK THAT IF THE RISK INCREASES, IN THE COUNTY, BECAUSE WE'RE SEEING A LOT MORE OIL, THAT THEREFORE, WE SHOULD RELOOK AT HOW WE ARE ALLOCATING THE RESOURCING AND WHAT RESOURCES WE HAVE. COMM. SMITH: I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT AND NECESSARY BECAUSE IF NOT, WHY COME OUT AND SAY THIS BECAUSE IF WE ARE NOT GOING TO RESPOND TO A GREATER NEED OF SOMETHING THAT COULD HAPPEN, THAT'S GOING TO BE A REALITY, THERE IS NO NEED FOR US TO EVEN TALK ABOUT IT. WE HAVE DR. PATRICK O'HERRON JOINING US. CHAIR KAFOURY: CAN WE HAVE THE NEXT PANEL COME UP. I WILL ASK ORVIE DANZUKA TO COME UP AND JARED SMITH ALSO TO COME UP, PLEASE. I AM PATRICK O'HERRON, WITH THE OREGON CITIZEN FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY, AND I HAVE SOME PREPARED TESTIMONY, BUT I DID WANT TO ADDRESS THE COMMISSIONER SMITH AND SHIPRACK'S TALK ABOUT PREPARING FOR ONE OF THESE, AND WHAT'S REALLY A MYTH THAT WE CAN PREPARE FOR THIS SORT OF DISASTER, WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT AN EXPLOSION, TO SORT OF STATE THE OBVIOUS, THERE IS NO MITIGATING THAT, ONCE THERE IS AN EXPLOSION. SO, ALL THE FOAM IN THE WORLD WILL PUT OUT THE FIRE, BUT IT'S NOT GOING TO PREVENT THAT SORT OF, THE DAMAGE THAT HAPPENS IMMEDIATELY IN AN EXPLOSION, SO IF YOU LOOK AT [INAUDIBLE], FOR EXAMPLE, 47 PEOPLE WERE KILLED IMMEDIATELY FROM THE EXPLOSION, NOT FROM THE FIRE THAT HAPPENED LATER. FIVE OF THE PEOPLE'S BODIES HAVEN'T BEEN FOUND BECAUSE THEY WERE, ESSENTIALLY, VAPORIZED. SO, THAT'S, THAT'S THE SORT OF THING WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, AND NO MONITORING CAN HELP TO PREVENT THAT. THE MOST CATASTROPHIC PROBLEMS WE SEE WITH THESE. LET'S START WITH THE NEXT PANEL DISCUSSION. AGAIN, WE HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT WANT TO TALK, SO IF YOU COULD LIMIT YOUR TESTIMONY TO, JUST BE VERY SHORT, TWO MINUTES WOULD BE APPRECIATED. THANK YOU.

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HI, I AM DR. PATRICK O'HERRON. I AM THE BOARD PRESIDENT OF OREGON PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY, AND A PRACTICING RESIDENT IN MUGGY OREGON, I LIVE IN NORTH PORTLAND. AND I WANT TO THANK THE CHAIR AND COMMISSIONERS FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY, AND ESPECIALLY, COMMISSIONER BAILEY, FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP ON THIS MATTER. I AM HERE TODAY REPRESENTING OVER 1,000 MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS, AND PUBLIC HEALTH ADVOCATES WHO OPPOSE OIL BY RAIL TRANSPORT. I AM HERE TO EXPRESS SUPPORT FOR THE COUNTY'S REPORT TITLED OIL BY RAIL CARGO MOVEMENT IN MULTNOMAH COUNTY. OREGON AND WASHINGTON, PSR, COLLABORATED TO PRODUCE A RELATED REPORT BASED ON A REVIEW OF OVER 125 PEER REVIEWED MEDICAL JOURNALS, FOCUSING ON THE HEALTH IMPACTS OF CRUDE OIL TRANSPORT. OUR CONCLUSION, OIL TRANSPORT AND STORAGE IN OUR STATES IS AN UNACCEPTABLE THREAT TO THE HUMAN, HEALTH, AND SAFETY. I AM ALSO HERE TO EXPRESS THE SUPPORT FOR THE COUNTY'S DRAFT RESOLUTION, OPPOSING OIL BY RAIL, AND THE COUNTY'S COMMENTS ON THE DRAFT EIS FOR THE VANCOUVER ENERGY PROJECT. AND AS WE HAVE HEARD A NUMBER OF OIL TRAINED DERAILMENTS, AND EXPLOSIONS AND FIRES, THE NUMBER OF THOSE EVENTS IS ALARMING. NINE SINCE JULY OF 2013, WHEN AN OIL TRAIN EXPLOSION LEVELED BLOCKS OF QUEBEC AND 47 PEOPLE WERE KILLED. OTHER ACCIDENTS HAVE LED TO APOCALYPTIC SCENES WITH 300 FIREBALLS FLAMING TANKER CARS, FALLING INTO RIVERS AND FIRES THAT HAVE BURNED FOR UP TO TWO DAYS. THE ALARM UNDERSTANDING FREQUENCY OF THESE FAILURES SO DUE TO SEVERAL FACTORS DESCRIBED IN THE COUNTY'S BRIEFING REPORT. HERE'S ONE THAT WAS SURPRISING TO ME. TRAINS DERAIL ALL THE TIME. THERE HAVE BEEN SIX MAJOR TRAIN DERAILMENTS AROUND THE UNITED STATES, JUST SINCE CHRISTMAS. AND THAT'S THE MAJOR DERAILMENTS, LIKE THE ONE IN OGDEN, WHERE A CAR WAS DRUG THROUGH TOWN AND RIPPED UP FOUR CROSSINGS BEFORE THE TRAIN CAME TO A STOP, IN THE NORTHWEST, THE STUDY WAS DONE LOOKING AT JUNE 2011 AND 2013, AND THERE WAS, ON AVERAGE, ONE DEREMAIN EVERY 3.5 DAYS, MOST OF WHICH ARE SMALLER AND NEVER MAKE THE NEWS. TRAIN NOISE, WHICH ACTUALLY HAS MORE PROFOUND HEALTH IMPACTS THAN YOU MIGHT THINK AND DELAYS TO EMERGENCY VEHICLES. NOT NECESSARILY THE FIRST THING YOU THINK ABOUT. BUT IMAGINE YOU'RE HERE IN INNER SOUTHEAST WAITING FOR A TRAIN TO GO BY AND THEN IMAGINE THAT IT IS 100 CAR, ONE-MILE LONG UNIT OIL TRAIN AND THEN IMAGINE YOU ARE IN AN AMBULANCE WITH CRUSHING CHEST PAIN HAVING THE BIG ONE AND YOU'RE WAITING TO GET TO A HOSPITAL. GIVEN THREAT TO PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELL BEING, OIL BY RAIL PROPOSES -- BROAD COMMUNITY SUPPORT. THAT SUPPORT IS GROWING. ONE QUICK EXAMPLE, IN RECENT PUBLIC HEARINGS, VANCOUVER ENERGY PROJECT, DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT, 2,000 ATTENDEES OVER THREE

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NIGHTS WITH CITIZENS WAITING HOURS AT TIMES AND TAKING TESTIMONY UNTIL 11:00 P.M. EACH NIGHT. THE VAST MAJORITY OF THAT TESTIMONY WAS IN OPPOSITION TO THE TERMINAL. PUBLIC HEALTH PERSPECTIVE, OIL BY RAIL IS RECKLESS, PROVEN TRACK RECORD OF BEING TERRIBLY DANGEROUS. NO REASON TO SUBJECT SCHOOLS, CHILD CARE FACILITIES AND MOST VULNERABLE POPULATION TO THE RISK. THANK YOU. OOD MORNING, MADAM CHAIR AND COMMISSIONERS. ELECTED OFFICIAL OF THE LAWRENCE SPRINGS RESERVATION OF OREGON. ON BEHALF OF THE CONFEDERATE TRIBES OF WARM SPRINGS, MULTNOMAH COUNTY LEADERSHIP AND OPPOSING CRUDE BY RAIL TRANSPORTATION -- GOOD NEIGHBOR, REACHING OUT TO THE TRIBES, CONCERNS ABOUT FOSSIL FUEL TRANSPORTS. SOME OF THE REASONS I DISCUSSED HAVE BEEN TALKED ABOUT. I WILL GO THROUGH SOME OF THE OTHER ONES THAT I HAVE. THE TRIBES HAVE UNIQUELY BORNE THE IMPACTS OF RAIL AND WATER-BORN SHIPPING POLICIES THAT HAVE DRAMATICALLY ALTERED THE COLUMBIA RIVER LANDSCAPE -- TRIBES UNFAIRLY CARRIED THE RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH CORPORATE GREED AT THE COST OF THE ENVIRONMENTS, TREATY RESERVE FISHING RIGHTS, COLUMBIA RIVER AND OUR HOMES. TRAINS DERAIL FOR VARIOUS REASONS. GORGE PRESENTS HIGH-RISK CHALLENGES. WE DON'T BELIEVE IT IS A MATTER OF IF, BUT A MATTER OF WHEN AND WHAT IS GOING TO BE THE RESPONSE. TOXIC, POTENTIALLY DAMAGING MATERIAL WITHIN THE TRAINS ELEVATES THE RISK TO THE ENVIRONMENT AND TO OUR COMMUNITIES, INCLUDING THIS COMMUNITY HERE. ANY TYPE OF CRUDE INTO THE RIVER WILL HAVE SIGNIFICANT LONG-TERM IMPACTS AQUATIC RESOURCES OF THE RIVER. BAKKEN CRUDE MAY EVAPORATE QUICKLY BUT IT HAS PROPERTIES THAT ARE IMMEDIATELY TOXIC TO FISH. CRUDE IS HEAVY AND WILL BE VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO CLEAN. VANCOUVER ENERGY PROJECT, MANY MORE OIL TRAINS ON THE RAIL THROUGH THE COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE AND PROFOUND IMPACTS ON TRIBAL MEMBERS AND THEIR ACCESS TO THE RIVER. CURRENTLY THE RISK OF TRAIN STRIKES TO TRIBAL MEMBERS CROSSING THE RAILROAD IS TOO HIGH. MORE TRAINS WILL MAKE THIS ACCESS MORE TREACHEROUS. THAT IS THE SAME HERE. TRAINS GOING THROUGH THE COMMUNITY AND INCREASED TRAFFIC, OBVIOUSLY INCREASES STATISTICALLY THE LIKELIHOOD OF SOME SORT OF AN ACCIDENT. WASHINGTON STATE NOTED IN VARIOUS DOCUMENTS, BNSF RAILROAD -- NATIONAL SCENIC AREA ALONG OUR SACRED RIVER. TO US AND THAT IS COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE. THE FIRST RESPONDERS, YOU KNOW, RESPONSE TIME, ADDITIONAL TRAINING, WHO IS GOING TO PAY FOR THAT TRAINING, DOES YOUR COUNTY BEAR THAT BURDEN? DO CITIES? WHO BEARS THAT BURDEN. COLUMBIA RIVER TREATY TRIBES APPEALS THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TANK CAR SAFETY RULE ASKING TORE CONSULTATION WITH TRIBES AND -- FELL SHORT OF PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT AND TRIBE'S INTEREST. COMMUNITIES WITHIN MULTNOMAH COUNTY HAVE A DIRECT INTEREST IN THE -- SINCE THESE TRAINS TRAVEL ON LINES THROUGH RESIDENTIAL, COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL AREAS. COLUMBIA

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RIVER TREATY TRIBES CONCERNED ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE, EFFECTS ON -- CARBON FOOTPRINTS MOVEMENT IN THE PROPERTY DIRECTION FOR ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE. TRIBE IS A MEMBER OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER INTERTRIBAL FISH COMMISSION, CLOSEST TIES TO CITY AND -- INTEREST TO THE SEVEN BANDS AND TRIBES SIGNATORY TO THE TREATY WITH THE TRIBES OF MIDDLE OREGON, 1855. WELL DOCUMENTS FROM THE DECEDENTS TO THE TREATY SIGNERS -- 1855 TREATY SIGNIFICANTLY SECURED OFF RESERVATION FISHING RIGHTS, ALL USUAL AND ACCUSTOMED STATIONS, WHICH FEDERAL COURTS HAVE RULED CAN BE LOCATED BOTH WITHIN AND OUTEYED OF THE TRIBE'S TREATY SEATED AREA. LARGEST AND BEST KNOWN -- RESERVATION, CUSTOM FISHING PLACES, WILLAMETTE FALLS AND YOU ARE ALL FAMILIAR WITH THAT. AND IN CLOSING I WOULD LIKE TO SAY IT IS HEARTENING THAT MULTNOMAH COUNTY, THE TRIBES, CITY OF PORTLAND AND MANY OTHERS ARE TAKING A STAND AGAINST THE DANGEROUS OIL BY RAIL PROJECTS THAT THREATEN OUR COMMUNITIES. TRIBAL AND NONTRIBAL COMMUNITIES WILL BE LEFT TO LIVE WITH THE CONSEQUENCES OF THESE PROJECTS -- ALL IN THE NAME OF A COMPANY'S BOTTOM DOLLAR. OUR REGION IS DEFINED BY THE COLUMBIA RIVER AND ITS PROTECTION SHOULD BE ON THE FOREFRONT OF ALL OF OUR THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. UNION LOCAL FOUR, BEHALF OF OUR 200 MEMBERS. WHEN I WORK IN VANCOUVER, I RESIDE IN PIEDMONT, FIVE BLOCKS OFF OF THE TRACK, COLUMBIA BOULEVARD. LAST 2 1/2 YEARS FACED WITH THE THREAT OF HAVING TO WORK AROUND THE RAIL CARS, FACILITY AND STORAGE TANKS. THE FIRST THREATS WE LOOKED AT WAS THE RIVER AND WHAT WOULD HAPPEN WITH THIS INCREASED TRAFFIC -- OIL BARGE TRAFFIC ON THE RIVER. WE FIGURED IT IS JUST A MATTER OF TIME. NOT AN IF BUT WHEN WE HAD A SIGNIFICANT OIL SPILL ON THE RIVER AND IT WOULD SHUT DOWN THE RIVER, WHICH WOULD SHUT DOWN THE PORTS BECAUSE THERE WOULDN'T BE ANY SHIP TRAFFIC WHILE IT WAS BEING CLEANED UP. FUTURE WIND ENERGY PROJECTS AT THE PORT. WHERE THIS TERMINAL IS SLATED TO GO IN HAS ALWAYS BEEN USED FOR WIND ENERGY STORAGE, WIND MILL TOWERS, BLADES -- THIS FACILITY WOULD TAKE UP THAT SPACE. AND I QUESTION WHETHER OR NOT IF THIS FACILITY GOES IN WIND ENERGY PROJECTS WOULD TAKE A BACK SEAT TO OIL AT THAT POINT. THEN LAC-MEGANTIC, LIKE THE DOCTOR STATED, TOWN WAS LEVELLED AND 47 PEOPLE KILLED. AND TO ADDRESS YOUR QUESTION ABOUT FOAM AND WHAT WAS PASSED IN THE LEGISLATION MAYBE, NO AMOUNT OF FOAM WOULD HAVE PREVENTED 47 DEATHS. IT WAS THE INITIAL EXPLOSION THAT TOOK CARE OF THAT. 200 MEMBERS THAT WILL WORK ALONG THESE TRACKS, IT'S OUR 200 MEMBERS THAT WILL WORK IN THE GRAIN ELEVATOR THAT IS JUST YARDS FROM THE RAILROAD TRACKS, POTENTIALLY FOUR-MILE-LONG TRAINS WOULD GO BY A DAY LOADED. AND NO AMOUNT -- I ASKED A BUILDING TO NORTHERN SANTA FE REPRESENTATIVE, IF THERE IS ANY CAR THAT CAN BE BUILT THAT WOULD WITHSTAND WHAT HAPPENED IN LAC-MEGANTIC AND HE

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SAID NO CAR COULD HAVE PREVENTED THAT. NOT POSSIBLE. A REPRESENTATIVE TOLD US LAST JUNE AT A CONFERENCE, EVERY FIRST RESPONDER THAT NEEDS TO HAVE TRAINING AND EQUIPMENT HAS BEEN GIVEN THAT. WE WENT TO THE LOCAL FIREFIGHTERS IN VANCOUVER AND THEY LAUGHED. THEY SAID ABSOLUTELY NOT. THEY HAVE BEEN GIVEN NOTHING. LOCAL FIREFIGHTERS IN VANCOUVER ARE ADAMANTLY OPPOSED TO THE PROJECT. BATTALION CHIEFS ARE OPPOSED TO THIS PROJECT. THEY HAVE TOLD US THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING THEY CAN DO TO GET US OUT OF THERE IF THERE IS ANY KIND OF AN EXPLOSION, BEST THING THEY COULD DO WOULD BE CORDON OFF THE AREA A MILE FROM THE SITE AND PREVENT PEOPLE FROM GOING THERE. THAT IS WHAT THEY HAVE TOLD US. WE ARE HERE TODAY ASKING YOU THAT YOU ALIGN YOURSELVES WITH THE CITY OF VANCOUVER AND PORTLAND AND TAKING THE STAND AGAINST THIS DANGEROUS PROJECT. THANK YOU. COMM. SHIPRACK: MADAM CHAIR, A SPECIFIC COMMENT FOR YOU, BECAUSE I WANT TO SAY THAT I APPRECIATE YOUR CONCERN AND EFFORT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE PORTS AREN'T SHUT DOWN, AND I ALSO AM CURIOUS BECAUSE SOME SACRIFICE, IT SEEMS TO YOU, HOW MANY JOBS AT THE TESORO SAVAGE PLANT WOULD THE ILWEU BE FOREGOING IF IT IS NOT BUILT? WE WOULD MOST LIKELY BE TYING AND UNTYING CHIPS THERE. THE NUMBER OF JOBS -- WE WOULDN'T ACTUALLY BE WORKING INSIDE OF THE FACILITY BUT WE HAVE TO WORK ADJACENT TO THE FACILITY AND WE HAVE TO WORK -- THE FACILITY IS IN A LOOP TRACK, AND THAT LOOP TRACK HAS ONE WAY IN AND ONE WAY OUT AND IT IS TYPICALLY BLOCKED BY A TRAIN. AND THAT LOOP TRACK WILL BE OIL TRAINS, AND IF WE ARE IN THAT FACILITY AND THERE IS ANY KIND OF EXPLOSION OR IN THAT LOOP TRACK AND THERE IS ANY KIND OF EXPLOSION, THERE IS NO WAY ANYBODY IS GETTING OUT OF THERE. COMM. SHIPRACK: AGAIN, THE ECONOMIC INTEREST OF YOUR MEMBERS AND YOUR INTEREST IN MAKING SURE THAT THE ECONOMY, REGION REMAINS HEALTHY BY KEEPING THE PORTS OPEN AND ACTIVE IS NOTED. EVEN THOUGH WE WOULDN'T DIRECTLY WORK AT THIS FACILITY, THIS FACILITY WOULD BRING A LOT OF MONEY INTO THE PORT, DEVELOP OTHER AREAS OF THE PORT THAT WOULD BENEFIT US. WE WOULD BENEFIT FROM THE PROJECT EVEN THOUGH WE'RE NOT WORKING IN THE FACILITY. MEMBERS HAVE TO WORK ADJACENT TO THE TRACKS AND CARS, AND DEIS STATED THAT THERE WILL BE A UNIT TRAIN DERAILMENT EVERY TWO YEARS. IT IS NOT IF THAT HAPPENS, THAT WILL HAPPEN. THE DEIS STATES ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATES THAT.

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COMM. SHIPRACK: DEIS -- DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT -- IS THAT WE'RE VOTING ON THIS MORNING? NO, I'M STATING THAT OUR MEMBERS SEE THAT AS A VERY HUGE SAFETY CONCERN. THEY STATED THAT THERE WILL BE A DERAILMENT ONCE EVERY TWO YEARS. COMM. SHIPRACK: I APPRECIATE THAT, THANKS. CHAIR KAFOURY: WE HAVE ANOTHER PANEL. YES, I WILL ASK DAN SEARS, AND MICHAEL LANG AND -- TO COME UP. MY NAME IS DAN SEARS, COLUMBIA RIVER KEEPER, CONSERVATION DIRECTOR. ON BEHALF OF THE 10,000 MEMBERS AND STAND UP TO OIL COALITION, I COMMEND MULTNOMAH COUNTY FOR ITS GREAT WORK IN BRINGING THIS FORWARD AND FLAGGING THIS ISSUE. ONE OF THE BIG GAPS WE'VE SEEN IN THIS ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS SO FAR HAS BEEN THAT OREGON HAS LARGELY BEEN LEFT OUT OF THE PICTURE. ONE OF THE REASONS WHY YOUR STAFF WASN'T NECESSARILY ABLE TO ANSWER THE QUESTION OF WHERE ALL OF THE TRAINS WOULD GO, FOR A PROJECT OF THIS SIZE, WHICH IS BY VOLUME ALMOST HALF THE SIZE OF THE KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE, ANY TYPE OF OIL GOING TO ANY DESTINATION. LIFTING OF THE OIL EXPORT BAN -- COULD BE BAKKEN CRUDE GOING TO ANY PORT IN THE WORLD. AND THAT MAKES IT VERY DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT RAIL ROUTES MIGHT BE TAKEN AND WHAT THE MARKETS MIGHT BE. THERE IS A LEVEL OF -- A LACK OF CLARITY ABOUT WHAT COULD HAPPEN. THEY ARE NOT REQUIRED TO DISCLOSE. AND THAT PUTS MULTNOMAH COUNTY VERY MUCH IN THE CROSSHAIRS. 360,000 BARRELS OF OIL A DAY. IT IS JUST A STAGGERING VOLUME OF OIL. POSES AN UNPRECEDENTED RISK OF SPILLS TO THE COLUMBIA RIVER AND THAT IS ONE OF THE MAIN INTERESTS I'M HERE TO SPEAK ABOUT TODAY. JULY 2013, A RESIDENT OF LAC-MEGANTIC DESCRIBED SEEING A RIVER OF FIRE FLOWING DOWN THE STREET IN HIS TOWN. WE ARE HERE TODAY TO PROTECT RIVERS OF SALMON, RIVERS OF COMMERCE, AS YOU HEARD FROM JARED, AND THESE ARE THE VALUES THAT COMMISSIONER BAILEY IDENTIFIED IN HIS OPENING COMMENTS. WITH THESE IMAGES IN MIND, RIVERS OF FIRE AND THE VALUES THAT THEY THREATEN, WE UNDERSTAND THAT THE EIS SUBSTANTIALLY UNDERSTATES THE RISK TO MULTNOMAH COUNTY AND THE RIVER. THAT IS A THING THAT MULTNOMAH COUNTY STAFF DID A GREAT PLACE OF IDENTIFYING THE PLACES WHERE IT FELL SHORT AND HAS A BIG BLIND SPOT FOR OREGON. LOOKING AT THAT SHORTCOMING, EIS IDENTIFIES THE POTENTIAL WITHIN THE LIFE SPAN OF THIS PROJECT TO HAVE AN OIL SPILL MILES DOWN SPRING, FOULING SALMON HABITAT THAT WE SPENT HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS TO RESTORE, DRINKING WATER SUPPLIES FOR CITIES LIKE RAINIER, AND POTENTIALLY AN OIL SPILL ALL OF THE WAY TO THE MOUTH OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER IF IT HAPPENS

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BELOW THE BONNEVILLE DAM. A DOCUMENT THAT IS INADEQUATE. IT COMES UP SHORT. WHAT MULTNOMAH COUNTY HAS DONE IN THE DRAFT DOCUMENTS, RESOLUTION, AND YOUR COMMENTS, IS IDENTIFY PLACES WHERE MULTNOMAH COUNTY RESIDENTS WOULD BE PARTICULARLY IMPACTED. AND THIS EXTENDS FAR BEYOND THE RISK OF SPILLS TO THE RIVER AND TO EVERYONE WHO IS IN THIS ROOM, EVERYONE WHO HAS A BUSINESS, WHO HAS A SCHOOL, IS IN THAT HALF-MILE PASS ALONG THE RAIL ROUTE, THE REASON I SAID PIPELINE, STARTING TO REFER TO THIS AS A PIPELINE ON RAILS. THAT IS THE KIND OF SCALE THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. TO CLOSE, I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT YOU WOULD BE ENTRUSTED -- THE CITY OF WASHINGTON WOULD BE ENTRUSTING THE SAFETY OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER AND MULTNOMAH COUNTY TO A COMPANY WITH A SPOTTY SAFETY TRACK RECORD. TESORO SAVAGE COMBINATION INCLUDES TESORO, IN 2010 A HUGE EXPLOSION IN A REFINY KILLING SEVEN WORKERS. 4,000 AIR QUALITY VIOLATIONS AT ONE REFINERY IN NORTH DAKOTA. EIS FLAGS THAT THIS WOULD BE A EXTRAORDINAIRE RY RISK -- STAND WITH VANCOUVER, PORTLAND, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE EXPECTED TO MAKE COMMENTS WITH THE STATE OF WASHINGTON AND URGE THE STATE OF WASHINGTON TO TURN DOWN THIS VERY DANGEROUS AND RECKLESS PROPOSAL. THANK YOU. COMM. SMITH: I HAVE A QUICK QUESTION. MICHAEL, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR COMMENTS. I WAS LOOKING AT THE LETTER THAT WE ARE EXPECTED TO VOTE ON. ONE OF THE THINGS I NOTICED WE ARE AN OIL DEPENDENT COUNTRY AND STATE IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. DO YOU HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS IF IT DOESN'T TRAVEL BY RAIL, WHAT SHOULD WE SUGGEST TO THEM ON THE ALTERNATIVE? THE ALTERNATIVE THAT WE SEE IS TO BE RAMPING DOWN OUR DEPENDENCE ON OIL IN THIS WAY. I MEAN, THIS IS A NEW PROJECT. THIS, YOU KNOW, NOT BUILDING THE TESORO PROJECT IS NOT GOING TO SHUT DOWN GAS STATIONS IN PORTLAND. NEW PROPOSAL TESORO SUPPORTED THE LIFTING OF THE OIL EXPORT BAN. WE ARE CONCERNED THAT THIS PROJECT HAS AS A FUNDAMENTAL PART OF IT THE ABILITY TO SHIP OILS OVERSEAS WHICH OBVIOUSLY PROVIDES NO BENEFIT TO CONSUMERS HERE IN THE NORTHWEST. COMM. SMITH: THAT'S NOT WHAT THEY LED WITH, THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST, NOT OVERSEAS. GOOD POINT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. GO AHEAD. GOOD MORNING, MADAM CHAIR AND MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION. MY NAME IS MICHAEL LANG, CONSERVATION DIRECTOR FOR FRIENDS OF COLUMBIA GORGE. THE OPPORTUNITY TO TESTIFY BEFORE YOU AND THE

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COMMENTS ON THE DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT -- TO CLARIFY, THESE ARE COMMENTS FROM THE COUNTY ON A DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT. TO SUMMARIZE MY COMMENTS, BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE VERY MUCH TIME, PLEASE DON'T SPOIL THE GORGE. SUPPORT THE RESOLUTION. SUPPORT THE COMMENTS DRAFTED BY YOUR FINE STAFF. I WOULD LIKE TO HIT A FEW POINTS HOPEFULLY THAT HAVEN'T BEEN RAISED YET. MULTNOMAH COUNTY LED EFFORTS TO PROTECT THE COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE AS A NATIONAL SCENIC AREA. THEY AT THE VERY ORIGIN WERE LEADING EFFORTS WITH OTHER LEADERS AND THOUSANDS OF CITIZENS, PAST THE LANDMARK FEDERAL LEGISLATION, COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE NATIONAL SCENIC ACT IN 1986, AND I HAVE BEEN AROUND DOING THIS WORK SINCE -- ALMOST SINCE THEN. IN FACT, I WORKED FOR A GROUP THAT SUPPORTED THE ORIGINAL BILL. THIS IS THE BIGGEST THREAT WE HAVE SEEN SINCE 1986 ON THE COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE. WHAT WE ARE SEEING AN UNPRECEDENTED INCREASE IN THE AMOUNT OF OIL TRANSPORTED BY RAIL, AND VERY UNSAFE RAIL CARS, AND, UNFORTUNATELY, BECAUSE OF THE FAULT OF GEOGRAPHY, THE GORGE IS THE FUNNEL. IT'S THE EPICENTER FOR ALL OF THIS OIL. WHAT TEST -- TESORO SAVAGE IS PROPOSING 15 MILLION GALLONS OF OIL PER DAY -- THROUGH THE COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE, COMBINED WITH THE EXISTING AND -- 100 OIL TRAINS PER WEEK EACH CARRYING 3 MILLION GALLONS OF OIL THROUGH THE COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE. THIS IS A NATIONAL SCENIC AREA. IT IS NOT A NATIONAL OIL PIPELINE. WE ASK THAT YOU STEP IN, BE RELEVANT, PUT A MARKER IN AND OPPOSE THIS INCREDIBLE INCREASE IN OIL BY RAIL THROUGH OUR REGION. IT IS ESPECIALLY ALARMING BECAUSE THE OIL TRAIN DERAILMENTS AND EXPLOSIONS THAT HAVE OCCURRED OVER THE LAST 2 1/2 YEARS. TRANSPORTING OIL BY RAIL, WE BELIEVE, IS INHERENTLY UNSAFE. THERE IS A COMPARISON TO THE PINTO, WHICH I HAD THE PLEASURE OF DRIVING IN THE LATE '70S AND EARLY '80S. THIS IS MORE LIKE THE CORVAIR. REMEMBER THAT? UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED. IT IS EVEN WORSE THAN THE PINTO. YOU DON'T WANT TO DRIVE THIS. AND IN PARTICULAR, THE NEWEST CARS THAT AREN'T EVEN PRODUCED YET ARE ONLY RATED SAFE UP TO 18 MILES AN HOUR. THEY PUNCTURE AT SPEEDS AS LOW AS 18 MILES AN HOUR. THE NEW FEDERAL RULE ALLOWS THEM TO DRIVE THROUGH THE GORGE AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. THROUGH PORTLAND, WHICH IS DESIGNATED AS A HIGH HAZARD URBAN AREA, 40 MILES AN HOUR. BUT THEY'RE ONLY GOOD, EVEN THE BEST CARS THAT AREN'T PRODUCED YET ARE ONLY GOOD UP TO 18 MILES AN HOUR. YOU ARE PREVENTING A DISASTER FROM HAPPENING IN PORTLAND, IN MULTNOMAH COUNTY, IN THE COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE, BY OPPOSING THIS INCREASED IN OIL BY RAIL AND GOING ON RECORD OPPOSING THE TESORO SAVAGE TERMINAL. AND YOU WOULDN'T BE ALONE. YOU WOULD BE JOINED BY COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT THE GORGE, BY HOOD RIVER COUNTY, CITY OF HOOD RIVER. THE CITY OF STEPHENSON IS OPPOSED TO THE TESORO SAVAGE TERMINAL OIL BY RAIL BECAUSE ALL OF THESE COMMUNITIES ARE BISECTED BY THE RAIL LINES. THE EMERGENCY -- THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND EMERGENCY SERVICE CENTER IN STEPHENSON

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IS ABOUT 50 YARDS FROM THE RAIL LINE. IF AN ACCIDENT HAPPENED THERE, THERE WOULD -- THEY WOULD BE HELPLESS, ABSOLUTELY HELPLESS TO DO ANYTHING. THIS ISSUE IS A CHANCE TO BRIDGE THE RURAL URBAN DIVIDE FOR MULTNOMAH COUNTY, CITY OF PORTLAND, TOWNS ALL ALONG THE RAILWAYS BY JOINING IN SOLIDARITY IN OPPOSING OIL BY RAIL. FIREFIGHTERS, LOCAL ELECTED LEADERS, GOVERNMENTS, UNIONS, 101 BUSINESSES IN THE CITY OF VANCOUVER ON RECORD OPPOSING THIS PROJECT. THE WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT PROJECT, $1.2 BILLION INVESTMENT IN RENOVATING VANCOUVER'S WATERFRONT IS ADAMANTLY OPPOSED TO THIS PROJECT. SO, IT WOULD HARM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE GORGE. THERE HAS BEEN SO MUCH INVESTMENT IN TOURISM AND TRANSITIONING ECONOMIES AWAY FROM RESOURCE EXTRACTION, TOWARDS A HEALTHIER, DIVERSIFIED ECONOMY. TOURISM IS A BIG PART OF IT. THESE TRAINS WOULD GO RIGHT BY MULTNOMAH FALLS, MOST ICONIC PLACE IN THE STATE OF OREGON WITHIN MULTNOMAH COUNTY. AND IT IS NOW AN OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. SO, AGAIN THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD. WE SUPPORT MULTNOMAH COUNTY IN ADOPTING THIS RESOLUTION AND THE COMMENTS. THANK YOU. CHAIR KAFOURY: THANK YOU. COMM. MCKEEL: COULD I ASK A QUESTION, CHAIR? THANK YOU, MICHAEL, AND THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE. WE TALKED ABOUT SO THE GORGE WOULD BE OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TO ME. SO, YOU TALKED ABOUT CITIES AND COUNTIES WHO HAVE DONE RESOLUTIONS IN THE GORGE. COULD YOU ELAB LAB LABORATE ON THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE? WHO ARE WE TALKING ABOUT IN THE GORGE WHO HAVE ACTUALLY DONE RESOLUTIONS -- MR. LANG: SURE, FROM MEMORY. I WILL START ON THE EAST. CITY OF DALLES, WHITE SALMON, MOSIER, HOOD RIVER, STEPHENSON, CAMAS AND WASHOUGAL, I BELIEVE. COMM. MCKEEL: OH KAY OKAY. I'M A LITTLE SURPRISED WE HAVE NOT HIGHLIGHTED MORE OF MULTNOMAH COUNTY WHERE THE TRACKS GO. WE KNOW WHERE THE TRACKS ARE -- WE KNOW WHERE THEY ARE IN TROUTDALE. WE ARE GETTING CENTRIC FOCUSED HERE. WE HAVE NOT TALKED ABOUT A LOT ABOUT WHERE THEY GO IN MULTNOMAH COUNTY, LET ALONE UP IN THE GORGE. SO, YOU KNOW, THAT IS PROBABLY MORE FOR OUR FOLKS, BUT A LITTLE MORE EMPHASIS, I THINK, ON THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL. IF I MAY, CONVERGENCE IS THE CITY OF PORTLAND. MAJOR POPULATION CENTER OF THE AREA. COMM. MCKEEL: I GET THAT. I'M JUST SAYING MULTNOMAH COUNTY IS BIGGER, AND MY DISTRICT IS THAT PART OF MULTNOMAH COUNTY OUT IN

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THE GORGE. AND AS YOU TALKED ABOUT, WE HAVE THE MOST ICONIC TOURISM DESTINATIONS IN THIS DISTRICT. THAT'S RIGHT. COMM. MCKEEL: AND I THINK THAT IS A PRETTY BIG DEAL. SO, THE OTHER QUESTION I HAVE IS THE GORGE COMMISSION. I MEAN, WE, MULTNOMAH COUNTY HAS A REPRESENTATIVE ON THE GORGE COMMISSION. I'M SURPRISED HE WASN'T ASKED TO BE HERE TODAY TO SPEAK. BUT -- IF I MAY, THE GORGE COMMISSION ADOPTED A RESOLUTION IN JULY OF 2014, WHICH WAS PROVIDED TO YOUR STAFF THAT OPPOSES OIL BY RAIL THROUGH THE COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE. AND ALSO REQUESTS A NUMBER OF ACTIONS BY THE STATES WHEN THEY'RE REVIEWING ANY OIL TERMINAL PROPOSALS UNDER THE STATE'S JURISDICTION. AT THE SAME TIME, THEY ALSO SENT LETTER IS TO THE THEN GOVERNOR KITZHABER AND INSLEE EXPRESSING THEIR OPPOSITION OIL BY TRAIN -- AND ASKING FOR -- COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE NATIONAL SCENIC AREA ACT. YES, ROBERT LIBERTY REPRESENTS MULTNOMAH COUNTY VERY WELL ON THE GORGE COMMISSION. AT THE HEARINGS TWO WEEKS AGO, TESORO SAVAGE, GORGE COMMISSION DID SEND A REPRESENTATIVE FROM HOOD RIVER COUNTY WHO SPOKE AND EXPRESSED THE GORGE COMMISSION'S RESOLUTION AND THEIR LETTERS TO THE GOVERNORS RAISING SIGNIFICANT CONCERNS OVER THE TRANSPORT OF OIL BY RAIL THROUGH THE GORGE AND THE FAILURE OF THE DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT TO ADEQUATELY ANALYZE THOSE IMPACTS AS REQUIRED BY LAW. AND -- IN THE OFFICE, DID INCLUDE ALL OF MULTNOMAH COUNTY, RAILROADS THROUGH MULTNOMAH COUNTY, CALL-OUTS FOR ALL OF THE CITIES IN MULTNOMAH COUNTY WITH POPULATIONS THAT ARE EXPOSED TO THAT HALF MILE BUFFER THAT WE TALKED ABOUT. THANK YOU. COMM. SHIPRACK: MADAM CHAIR, I THINK PART OF WHAT THIS CONVERSATION POINTS OUT, A TRANSLATION, IN TERMS OF PROCESS -- ISSUE IN FRONT OF US AT ONE TIME. ONE ISSUE THAT RELATES TO OIL TRAINS. AND THE CONVERSATION ABOUT THE AMOUNT OF OIL AND THE ALTERNATIVES TO TRANSPORT THAT EXIST, AND THAT WHOLE CONNECTION OF SAFETY OF THE CONTAINERS, INABILITY OF CAN TAINER -- CONTAINERS TO CONTAIN THE RISK AND INABILITY OF FIRE PROTECTION OR OF HAZARDOUS WASTE MITIGATION. THAT THOSE ISSUES DWELL IN THE CONVERSATION ABOUT OIL TRAINS, AND THEN THERE IS THIS RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THAT MULTNOMAH COUNTY COMMISSION, AND THE PORT OF VANCOUVER, AND THE CITY AND COUNTY, CLARK COUNTY CITY OF VANCOUVER, AND THIS ISSUE OF A FACILITY WHICH, AGAIN, NOT BEING A

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SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT IN THIS, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FACILITY DOES. I DON'T -- I DON'T FEEL CLEAR AND I -- I WANT TO SAY PLEASE UNDERSTAND TO YOU THAT THIS GROUP THAT YOU'RE SPEAKING TO HAS A VERY EXTENSIVE BOOK OF BUSINESS. WE DO A LOT OF WORK AND WE ARE EXPECTED TO MASTER A LOT OF AREAS, A LOT OF SUBJECT MATTER AREAS. THIS JUST DOESN'T HAPPEN TO BE ONE THAT COMES UP VERY OFTEN. AND CERTAINLY NOT A NEW FACILITY IN ANOTHER COUNTY, WHICH, NOW, YOU KNOW, I REALLY AM CONCERNED ABOUT THE PRECEDENT OF US TAKING ON CLARK COUNTY BUSINESS AS WELL AS OUR OWN BECAUSE I WANT TO SAY WE STRETCH TO DO OUR OWN AND I THINK WE DO IT WELL WITHIN THIS RANGE. ALL OF THOSE EXCUSES BEING PUT FORWARD, HAVING A CONGLOMERATE OF TWO VERY COMPLEX, VERY IMPORTANT SUBJECT MATTERS IN FRONT OF US IN ONE RESOLUTION, I FIND DAUNTING. YOU KNOW, WHEREAS IN -- IN OTHER SUBJECT MATTERS THAT COME TO US, WE ARE EXTENSIVELY BRIEFED BY STAFF IN ADVANCE, BOTH PUBLICLY, PUBLIC BOARD BRIEFINGS, AND PRIVATELY IN OUR OFFICES SO THAT WE HAVE A CERTAIN GRASP OF THE ISSUE TO PREVENT US FROM EMBARRASSMENT. WE HAVE NOT HAD THE BENEFIT OF THAT IN THIS CASE. SO, I AM STILL CONCERNED ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TESORO, BECAUSE THIS IS THE ONLY RELATIONSHIP THAT I CAN SEE -- AND THE FREQUENCY OF OIL TRAINS THROUGH OUR COMMUNITY. THAT RELATIONSHIP SEEMS TO BE WHAT IS IMPLIED INSIDE THIS RESOLUTION. PROCEDURALLY, I WOULD REALLY PREFER THAT WE NOT HAVE MULTIPLE SUBJECT MATTER RESOLUTIONS PLACED IN FRONT OF US AS A BODY BECAUSE I THINK IT -- COMMISSIONER, I WILL APOLOGIZE AND TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR INADEQUATE BRIEFING AS A STAFF MEMBER WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR BRINGING FORWARD, HELPING TO BRING FORWARD THIS RESOLUTION. LET ME ALLOW -- ALLOW ME JUST TO STATE THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE TESORO SAVAGE VANCOUVER ENERGY PROJECT AND OIL BY RAIL. THE FACILITY WOULD ACCEPT OIL FROM RAIL CARS LOADED INTO TANKS AND THEN LOADED FROM THE TANKS ON TO OCEAN-GOING VESSELS FOR EXPORT TO FOREIGN MARKETS OR TRANSPORT TO DOMESTIC REFINERIES. THAT IS THE CONNECTION BETWEEN OIL BY RAIL AND VANCOUVER ENERGY PROJECT. COMMISSIONER, THANK YOU FOR YOUR REMARKS. A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT -- I WILL TRY TO SIMPLIFY A COMPLEX ISSUE AND THE RESOLUTION REALLY IS ABOUT ONE THING. IT IS ABOUT SHIPMENTS OF OIL BY RAIL AND ENDORSING THE TESORO SAVAGE VANCOUVER TERMINAL COMMENTS IN THE DEIS, WHICH IS AN OIL BY RAIL TERMINAL. THEY ARE INTRINSICALLY LINKED TOGETHER. I WAS ABLE TO MEET WITH YOUR STAFF ALONG WITH A NUMBER OF MY COLLEAGUES AS WELL, SIX WEEKS, TWO MONTHS AGO. VERY GOOD MEETING. I THINK IT WON'T APPROXIMATELY 45 MINUTES OR SO, WE PRESENTED A NUMBER OF MATERIALS, SOME OF WHICH WE PRESENTED TODAY TO THE ENTIRE COMMISSION, AND WE ALSO WERE ABLE TO MEET WITH MEMBERS AND STAFF MEMBERS OF EVERYONE OF THE

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COMMISSIONERS, TOO. I GET IT. IT IS A REALLY BIG ISSUE. BUT THAT'S THE REASON THAT WE'RE HERE BECAUSE IT IS A DIRECT THREAT TO THE LIVELIHOOD AND REALLY THE CULTURE AND WHO WE ARE IN THE NORTHWEST. REGARDING THE PORT OF VANCOUVER, IT'S TRUE THAT THE CITY OF VANCOUVER AND THE PORT ARE VERY MUCH IN DISAGREEMENT OVER THIS TERMINAL. BUT THE POLLING THAT HAS BEEN CONDUCTED IN THE PORT'S DISTRICT SHOWS THAT A MAJORITY OF RESIDENTS OF TAXPAYERS IN THAT PORT DISTRICT OPPOSE THE TESORO SAVAGE PROJECT. AN OPPONENT OF THE TERMINAL, VOCAL ACTIVE OPPONENT WAS ACTUALLY ELECTED TO THE PORT COMMISSION LAST NOVEMBER AS WELL. SO, I THINK THAT THE VOTERS HAVE SPOKEN IN THE PORT DISTRICT AND EXPRESSED THEIR OPPOSITION TO THE PROPOSED TESTER SAVAGE TERMINAL FOR MANY OF THE REASONS THAT YOU HAVE ALREADY HEARD TODAY. COMM. SHIPRACK: I APPRECIATE THAT. I JUST ASK YOU, MICHAEL, TO KEEP IN MIND THAT I AM NOT A CANDIDATE FOR ANY OFFICE. AND THAT THE POSITION -- AND I APPRECIATE THIS -- OF VOTERS ON AND THE POSITION AND POLLING ON THIS ISSUE IS NOT MY PRIMARY CONCERN. MY PRIMARY CONCERN IS THAT THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS FROM MULTNOMAH COUNTY TAKE ACTION THAT IS REASONABLE WITHIN OUR MISSION AND THAT IT IS BASED ON ACCURATE AND RELIABLE INFORMATION AND THAT IT ALSO ADDRESSES THE MATTER AT HAND WHICH REALLY IN SOME WAYS I THINK THE MATTER AT HAND WAS ARTICULATED AS STOPPING THE COMMUNITY RELIANCE ON OIL. AND I NOTICE THAT THERE WAS AN INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF BICYCLES PARKED IN FRONT OF THE BUILDING TODAY AND I APPLAUD ALL OF YOU WHO ARRIVED HERE THAT WAY THIS MORNING. YES, I SAW YOU. AND I -- AND I ALSO WANT TO SAY -- OKAY, CONFESSING THAT I WAS NOT ALL THAT EARLY GETTING TO THE OFFICE. I GUESS THAT REALLY OUR GENERAL LACK OF JURISDICTION OVER THESE SUBJECT MATTERS MAKES THIS A -- A -- AN EXPRESSION OF BELIEF AND I WOULD LIKE TO CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION ABOUT THE COMMUNITY'S RELIANCE ON OIL AND OIL PRODUCTS, AND -- FOR HEATING, FOR TRANSPORTATION, FOR ALL OF THOSE THINGS THAT WE USE OIL IN OUR PRODUCTS FOR AND I THINK THAT IS WORTHWHILE GIVEN THE STATE OF THE PLANET. CHAIR KAFOURY: ONE MORE SPEAKER BEFORE WE GET TO PUBLIC COMMENTS. THANK YOU, YOU HAVE BEEN VERY PATIENT. MY PLEASURE. GOOD MORNING. MY NAME IS CSIA KEARNS, I AM DEPUTY CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR FOR THE WESTERN REGION OF THE SIERRA CLUB, AND I LIVE HERE IN MULTNOMAH COUNTY, ACTUALLY JUST A FEW BLOCKS AWAY FROM THE EVACUATION ZONE IN NORTH PORTLAND. I'M AN AIR FORCE BRAT. I HAVE LIVED IN A LOT OF DIFFERENT PLACES BUT I CALL PORTLAND HOME NOW AND MY FATHER'S CAREER TAUGHT ME MANY DIFFERENT THINGS BUT ONE OF THE PRIMARY MESSAGES I GOT GROWING UP WAS ONE OF DUTY AND

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LEADERSHIP. AND HE TAUGHT ME THAT THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO SERVE ONE'S COUNTRY, THAT LED ME TO MY CAREER IN A PUBLIC INTEREST ORGANIZATION BUT IT IS IN THAT SPIRIT OF LEADERSHIP THAT I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS YOU TODAY AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP AND REQUEST YOU TO PROTECT US FROM OIL TRANSPORT THROUGH MULTNOMAH COUNTY TODAY. I'M PROUD TO BE HERE ON BEHALF OF SIERRA CLUB'S 10,000 MEMBERS AND SUPPORTERS IN MULTNOMAH COUNTY. THIS IS AN ISSUE THAT AFFECTS OUR MEMBERS AND COMMUNITIES -- IT IS PART OF THE REASON SO MANY OF THEM ACROSS THE COUNTRY MOST LIKELY WILL COMMENT ON THE DEIS FOR THE TESORO SAVAGE PROJECT. JURISDICTION DOES NOT APPLY HERE GIVEN THERE ARE SO MANY IMPACTS THAT WILL HAPPEN FAR AND WIDE. THEY WILL ALSO WEIGH IN BASED ON THE IMPACTS TO THEIR COMMUNITIES. JUST YESTERDAY, NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, 2015 THE HOTTEST YEAR ON RECORD. HE CAN STILL TURN THIS AROUND AND AVOID THE -- THAT WILL REQUIRE LEADERSHIP SUCH AS WE ARE FACED WITH TODAY. WE KNOW THAT MULTNOMAH COUNTY CAN BE AT THE FOREFRONT -- ASSURING THAT WE DON'T MAKE CARBON EMISSIONS WORSE. WE CAN'T STAND BY WHILE HARMFUL OIL PROJECTS ARE FACING THE REGION. THE LARGEST OIL BY RAIL FACILITY IN NORTH AMERICA AND TRANSPORTING HALF OF THE OIL THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN MOVED BY THE KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE, ICON OF CARBON EMISSIONS AND FLOOD GATES. THE WARMING TEMPERATURES CAUSED BY PROJECTS LIKE THIS AND OTHER SYMPTOMS OF CLIMATE CHANGE, SUCH AS EXTREME WEATHER AND HUMAN DISPLACEMENT ARE NOT GOING TO AFFECT ALL PEOPLE OR COMMUNITIES IN THE SAME WAY. WE KNOW THAT THE ELDERLY, CHILDREN, COMMUNITIES OF COLOR AND LOW-INCOME POPULATIONS WILL BE DISPROPORTIONATELY HARMED BY THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE. COUNTY STAFF REPORT, DISPROPORTIONATE IMPACT HOLDS TRUE FOR CURRENT AND FUTURE OIL TRANSPORT IN OUR REGION. THESE POPULATIONS WOULD BE MORE LIKELY TO BE KILLED IN AN OIL TRAIN EXPLOSION AND WE HAVE A -- RESOLUTION REALLY STRIVES TO ADDRESS THAT TRUTH. AND IT ALSO CAN SERVE AS A MODEL FOR OTHER COUNTIES THAT SEEK TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FULL BREADTH OF THEIR CONSTITUENCIES. WE HAVE SEEN STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY HAVE BEEN STEPPING UP TO PROTECT THEIR COMMUNITIES TO REDUCE THEIR CARBON EMISSIONS AND MAKE INVESTMENTS IN A MORE SUSTAINABLE FUTURE. MULTNOMAH COUNTY IS ALREADY A POWERFUL EXAMPLE OF THIS AND HAS ALREADY REDUCED GLOBAL WARMING POLLUTION SIGNIFICANTLY PER CAPITA ALONGSIDE CONSIDERABLE GROWTH, SOMETHING TO REALLY BE PROUD OF. TESORO CARBON EMISSIONS WOULD BE THREE TIMES THE EMISSIONS OF MULTNOMAH COUNTY SETTING BACK THE IMPORTANT PROGRESS THAT WE HAVE MADE. TODAY'S RESOLUTION IS ALIGNED WITH OTHER SMART STEPS THE COUNTY HAS ALREADY TAKEN AND DEFENDS PREVIOUS POLICY DECISIONS THAT THE COUNTY HAS ALREADY MADE. TIME AND AGAIN, WE HAVE SEEN FEDERAL POLICY MIRROR THE ACTIONS OF LOCAL DECISION

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MAKERS AND THIS STEP BY MULTNOMAH COUNTY WILL UNDOUBTEDLY AMPLIFY THE MESSAGE THAT GOOD CLIMATE JUSTICE POLICY AND PREVENTION OF MASSIVE NEW CARBON EMISSIONS IS POSSIBLE. TODAY YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY, AGAIN, TO DEMONSTRATE YOUR LEADERSHIP AND TO BE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY. MY FATHER IS GOING TO RETIRE THIS APRIL AND SO HE WILL BE SPENDING A LOT OF TIME WITH ME IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD AND ALONG THE COLUMBIA RIVER AND I LOOK FORWARD TO BE ABLE TO TELL HIM ABOUT THE STEPS YOU HAVE TAKEN TO HELP PROTECT OUR THRIVING COMMUNITY AND MAKE WAY FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE. THANK YOU AGAIN. VOTE TO ACCEPT THE REPORT. -- THANK YOU AGAIN. CHAIR KAFOURY: THANK YOU. COMM. SMITH: MADAM CHAIR, I HAVE TWO QUESTIONS BEFORE YOU LEAVE. HOW IS THE EVACUATION ZONE DETERMINED? I CAN ANSWER THAT QUESTION, COMMISSIONER. THE -- IN REALITY, THE RESPONSE TO -- AND AGAIN PORTLAND FIRE PROBABLY WOULD HAVE DONE A MUCH BETTER JOB RESPONDING TO THIS QUESTION, IN REALITY, IT WOULD DEPEND ON THE INCIDENT, HOW LARGE OR HOW SMALL THE EVACUATION ZONE WILL BE. WE KNOW FROM PRECEDENT, YOU KNOW, IF IT IS A SIMPLE DERAILMENT WITH KNOW LEAK OR FIRE, THEN THERE MIGHT NOT BE AN EVACUATION. HOWEVER, WITH A LEAK, THE -- THERE IS FEDERAL GUIDELINES THAT SAY, YOU KNOW, IF THERE IS A LEAK, SORT OF A PLAY BOOK, FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PUTS OUT A PLAY BOOK AND SAYS IF THIS HAPPENS, DO THIS. FOR HAZARDOUS MATERIALS, THEY SAY IF THERE IS A LEAK, EVACUATE TO 1,000 METERS -- SORRY, 300 METERS. IF THERE IS A FIRE, EVACUATE TO 1,000 METERS. THAT IS THE HALF MILE BUFFER. COMM. SMITH: COMMISSIONER MCKEEL BROUGHT UP THE ISSUE, MULTNOMAH COUNTY IS BIG. AND I CAN TELL YOU, COMMISSIONER, I LIVE 100 FEET FROM A RAILROAD IN THE WILKES NEIGHBORHOOD. WHAT WE'RE SAYING GIVE US THE CRITERIA WHERE IT COULD POSSIBLY HAPPEN. EVERYBODY IS TALKING ABOUT VULNERABLE POPULATIONS THAT IT IS GOING TO IMPACT, BUT WHERE IS GROUND ZERO AT? WE DON'T KNOW. COMM. SMITH: RIGHT, YOU DON'T KNOW. FOR PEOPLE TO SAY IT IS GOING TO HIT THESE VULNERABLE POPULATIONS YOU NEED TO KNOW WHERE IT IS FIRST BEFORE YOU CAN SAY WHO THE VULNERABLE POPULATIONS ARE GOING TO BE. THIS IS WHAT I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH. THE OTHER PIECE, I LIKE WHAT YOU'RE DOING, SUPPORT WHAT YOU'RE DOING, JENNY MAY HAVE TO GIVE ME MORE EXPERTISE ON THIS. THE LETTER THAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO SEND AS A RESULT OF THIS RESOLUTION, I THINK, IT IS -- IF WE DON'T SEND A LETTER, IT COMES FROM THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS,

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NOT FROM THE SUSTAIN ABILITY DEPARTMENT. YOU HAVE US HERE VOTING ON THIS AND YOU ARE NOT GOING TO PUT US ON THE LETTER, I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GIVE US THAT INFLUENCE THAT YOU REALLY, REALLY WANT WHEN WE'RE SENDING THIS LETTER TO WASHINGTON STATE. SO, THAT'S MY ISSUE WITH THIS WHOLE THING. MADAM, CHAIR, IF I MAY, IN RESPONSE TO THE COMMISSIONER'S QUESTION, USDOT DETERMINES THE BLAST ZONE AS A HALF MILE ON EITHER SIDE OF THE RAILROAD TRACKS. IN THE EVENT THAT A CAR OR A CARS RUPTURE, EXPLODE, AND CATCH FIRE. COMM. SMITH: WHAT SHE'S SAYING, WE'RE NOT TELLING PEOPLE WHERE THE RAILROAD TRACKS ARE. RAILROAD TRACKS ARE COMING THROUGH THE GORGE, COMING DOWN SANDY AVENUE, LIKE I SAID, 100 FEET FROM MY HOUSE. IT'S NOT JUST IN THE JANTZEN BEACH AREA. IT IS ALL OVER. WHEN YOU SPEAK OF THIS, YOU SPEAK WITH SO MUCH CERTAINTY OF WHERE THIS -- WHERE THIS ACTUAL EXPLOSION IS GOING TO HAPPEN THAT WE DON'T KNOW BECAUSE IT COULD BE A NUMBER OF PLACES. IT COULD BE ANYWHERE THROUGH THE GORGE ALL OF THE WAY THROUGH TO JANTZEN BEACH, UP AND DOWN. HUGE ISSUE THAT I THINK IS IMPORTANT. IT IS A HEALTH AND SAFETY RISK FOR US TO HAVE THE OIL TRAINS DOWN HERE, BUT, I MEAN, WE NEED TO GET SERIOUS ABOUT THIS. WE SPENT AN HOUR AND A HALF ABOUT THIS. I THINK WE PROBABLY COULD HAVE HAD A MUCH LONGER TIME. I AGREE WITH COMMISSIONER SHIPRACK WE PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE HAD THIS SEPARATED. WE DON'T. BUT IF WE ARE GOING TO SEND THIS DOG GONE LETTER WE NEED TO SEND IT WITH SOME FORCE. NO DISRESPECT TO YOU -- NONE TAKEN. COMM. SMITH: WE NEED TO SEND IT FROM THE MULTNOMAH COUNTY BOARDS OF COMMISSIONERS. I THINK IT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO GET A MAP FOR FOLKS. REPORT PUBLISHED HAS A MAP WITH RAIL LINES MARKED ON IT AND HALF MILE BUFFER ON IT. CHAIR KAFOURY: SO THAT WE CAN PUT IT OUT ON THE WEB SITES OR WHATEVER. THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL. CHAIR, I WOULD SIMPLY SAY, I REALLY I APPRECIATE THOSE COMMENTS. GREAT PROCESS AND RESOLUTION TO BE ABLE TO VOTE ON AND WOULD BE DELIGHTED TO FOLLOW UP ON ANOTHER OFFICIAL COMMUNICATION FROM THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS IF THERE IS INTEREST.

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CHAIR KAFOURY: I THINK NOW WE HAVE TIME FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS. IN THE -- I APPRECIATE IF WE COULD HAVE TWO MINUTES. IF YOU COULD LIMIT. WE WILL KEEP A STRICT WATCH ON THE TWO MINUTES. THE CLOCK IS UP HERE. AND WE VERY MUCH APPRECIATE ALL OF YOU COMING OUT TO TESTIFY TODAY. APOLOGIZE FOR THE LENGTH OF THE MEETING. ALLOWING US TO HAVE TO MAKE THESE RESTRICTIONS. IF YOU KNOW THAT SOMETHING HAS BEEN SAID -- YOU CAN SAY YOU SUPPORT THE RESOLUTION, THAT WOULD BE WONDERFUL AS WELL. I WILL CALL FOUR NAMES AT A TIME. PLEASE COME FORWARD. [NAMES BEING READ] CHAIR KAFOURY: SIR, YOU CAN GO FIRST. THANK YOU. MY NAME IS ROB. I LIVE IN MULTNOMAH COUNTY. I'M THE PRESIDENT OF THE OREGON RAIL USERS LEAGUE. JUST A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND. OREGON RAIL USERS LEAGUE, COALITION OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ENTITIES THAT RECOGNIZE THE NUMEROUS BENEFITS -- SERVING THE STATE OF OREGON. WE INCLUDE RAILROADS, RAIL SHIPPERS, AND ALSO PASSENGER RAIL ADVOCATES. FREIGHT RAIL SERVICE IS THE SAFEST AND MOST EFFICIENT WAY OF MOVING A VAST DIVERSITY OF CARGO OVER LAND AND PROVIDES THE FOLLOWING BENEFITS TO THE CITIZENS OF OUR STATE. INCREASED FUEL EFFICIENT CY EFFICIENCY. FOUR TIMES MORE FUEL EFFICIENT THAN TRUCKS, REDUCED POLLUTION, MOVING FREIGHT BY RAIL RATHER THAN ON THE ROADS, REDUCES GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION -- REDUCED HIGHWAY CONGESTION -- FREIGHT TRAIN CAN CARRY THE FREIGHT OF SEVERAL HUNDRED TRUCKS, REDUCING HIGHWAY GRIDLOCK, USING THE PRESSURE TO BUILD EXPENSIVE NEW HIGHWAYS. SINCE THE BOARD'S RESOLUTION ADDRESSES MOVEMENT OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS, IT IS IMPORTANT TO RECOGNIZE THAT FREIGHT RAILROADS HAVE BEEN DELIVERING HAZARDOUS MATERIALS FOR SEVERAL DECADES AS A CONDITION OF THE COMMON CARRIER STATUS WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. AT THIS TIME, RAILROADS DEVELOPED CONSIDERABLE EXPERTISE IN DELIVERING THE FULL RANGE OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS. THEY ARE REQUIRED TO MOVE AND MAINTAIN 99.99% SAFE DELIVERY RATE FOR HAZMAT. AS A RESULT OF THE RAILROAD'S AGGRESSIVE AND ONGOING SAFETY PROGRAMS, ACCIDENT RATES ON AMERICA'S RAIL LINES HAVE DECREASED BY 94% SINCE 1980. AND I WILL POINT OUT THAT THIS SAFELY RECORD IS ABOUT 16 TIMES BETTER THAN THAT OF TRUCKING. FINALLY, WHEN WE SPEAK OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS, IT IS IMPORTANT TO BE ABSOLUTELY CLEAR ABOUT WHAT THE MATERIALS ARE AND HOW THEY FIT INTO OUR EVERYDAY LIVES, HERE IN OREGON AND ACROSS THE U.S. THESE MATERIALS INCLUDE THINGS LIKE CHLORINE, USED TO PURIFY MUNICIPAL WATER, AMMONIA, USED AS AN AG FERTILIZER, AND CHEMICALS AND INDUSTRIAL AND MANUFACTURING PROCESSES, PRODUCTION OF TENNIS SHOES, SPORTS WEAR, AIRPLANES, MEDICINES AND NUMEROUS PRODUCTS.

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FREIGHT TRAINS SAFELY MOVE THE RAW MATERIALS THAT MAKE UP HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS WHICH MOST PEOPLE FIND IN THEIR KITCHENS, MEDICINE CABINETS AND GARAGES. CUSTOMER DEMAND FOR THE PRODUCTS IS THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT REASON FOR THEIR USE AND MOVEMENT AND HISTORY SHOWS THAT RAILROADS ARE THE SAFEST MODE OF OVERLAND TRANSPORTATION FOR THEIR DELIVERY. I WILL CUT THIS SHORT. ANY QUESTIONS? CHAIR KAFOURY: IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SUBMIT WRITTEN TESTIMONY AS WELL, YOU CAN HAND TO THAT THE CLERK. SHE CAN DISTRIBUTE IT TO US. I WILL DO SO. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. MUCH. I WORK AT EMANUEL HOSPITAL IN PORTLAND, OREGON, THERAPIST WITH SUICIDAL CHILDREN. DESPAIR THESE CHILDREN FEEL WHEN THE ADULTS IN THEIR LIVES FAIL TO MAKE DECISIONS PROTECTING THEIR PRESENT AND FUTURE WELL BEING. BORED OF THE OREGON CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION, AWARENESS OF THE RISK AND COSTS OF CATASTROPHIC CLIMATE CHANGE TO ALL OF US AND TO OUR CHILDREN IN YEARS TO COME. VOLUNTEER WITH THE SIERRA -- NO GREATER RISK AND COST ASSOCIATED WITH THE TESORO SAVAGE OIL TERMINAL PROPOSAL AND OIL BY RAIL THAN THE IMPACT ON THE ESCALATION OF CATASTROPHIC CLIMATE CHANGE. YESTERDAY -- CRUDE OIL TO WEST COAST REFINERIES, TODAY THE DOOR IS OPEN TO SHIP IT OVERSEAS. ON AND ON IT GOES. ALL -- GOVERNOR INSLEE IN WASHINGTON ON RECORD SAYING THAT THE COST OF INACTION ARE SIMPLY TOO HIGH, REFERRING TO THE COSTS OF INACTION IN CURBING CARBON SOLUTION IN WASHINGTON. THOSE COSTS TO OUR ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, ECONOMY, BURDEN OUR CHILDREN SHOULD NOT HAVE TO BEAR IN DECADES TO COME. GOVERNOR BROWN OF OREGON IS ON RECORD SAYING QUOTE CLEARLY THE PUBLIC GOOD OF THE STATE OF OREGON IS COMBATTING CLIMATE CHANGE BY KEEPING FOSSIL FUELS IN THE GROUND. OUR CHILDREN ARE COUNTING ON ELECTED OFFICIALS TO MAKE THE RIGHT DECISIONS SO AS TO NOT YET AGAIN -- SHORT TERM PROFIT -- RESOLUTION BEFORE YOU AND COMMENTS PUTS MULTNOMAH COUNTY ON RECORD AS STANDING TO PROTECT THE SAFETY AND FUTURE WELL BEING OF OUR CHILDREN. I APPRECIATE YOU DOING THE RIGHT THING FOR ALL OF US BY PASSING THESE MEASURES TODAY. THANK YOU. CHAIR KAFOURY: THANK YOU. MY NAME IS GREGORY MONAHAN, RESIDENT OF PORTLAND AND MULTNOMAH COUNTY. I WANTED TO UNDERSCORE THE COMMENTS BY DR. OHAREN FROM THE OREGON PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY WHEN HE SPOKE ABOUT THE ATYPICAL NATURE OF THIS BAKKEN CRUDE OIL THAT IS IN THESE TRAINS. IT IS HIGHLY VOLATILE, HIGHLY EXPLOSIVE, AND IT IS UNUSUAL. IT IS NOT THE NORMAL CRUDE OIL THAT WE HAVE BEEN

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DEALING WITH FOR MANY DECADES IN THIS COUNTRY. RECENTLY ATTENDED THE PACIFIC STATE'S BRITISH COLUMBIA OIL SPILL TASK FORCE HELD HERE IN PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 5TH, AND LISTENED TO THE TESTIMONY OF A COUPLE OF KORPD F OF COORDINATORS FROM THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY REPORTING ON SOME WEST VIRGINIA DERAILMENT AND THE ILLINOIS TRAIN DERAILMENT, BOTH OF WHICH HAD FIRES ASSOCIATED WITH THEM. WHEN THEY GOT DONE WITH THEIR PRESENTATION, I RAISED MY HAND AND ASKED, LOOK, I'M AN ENGINEER BY TRAINING AND I HAVE BEEN SITTING HERE AND I HAVEN'T HEARD YOU TALK ABOUT ROOT CAUSE. WHY IS THAT? WHY CAN'T YOU PREVENT THESE SPILLS IN THAT WOULD BE THE BEST THING. AND THEY THOUGHT FOR A MINUTE. WE -- IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT HAPPENS, IF YOU SHIP THINGS BY RAIL, YOU WILL HAVE DERAILMENTS. AND IF YOU -- THESE EXPLOSIVE FUEL TRAINS DERAIL, CHANCE OF A VOLATILE EXPLOSION IS VERY HIGH. SO, I THINK IT'S REALLY ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO DESCRIBE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF WE HAD A LAC-MEGANTIC-LEVEL OF TRAGEDY HERE IN PORTLAND. IT WOULD JUST BE TOTALLY DEVASTATING AND THERE IS -- THERE IS NO WAY YOU CAN PREPARED FOR IT AND WHEN THESE TRAINS GO UP, THEY DO NOT FIGHT THE FIRE. THEY STAND BACK AND LET THEM BURN OUT. IF YOU LOOK AT VIDEOS ON LAC-MEGANTIC, YOU CAN SEE THEM POURING WATER ON THE NEARBY CARS TO KEEP THEM FROM EXPLODING. PLEASE SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION. THANK YOU. CHAIR KAFOURY: GOOD MORNING. HI, GOOD MORNING. I'M DR. SANDERS, ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENTIST. RETIRED FROM THE OREGON HEALTH DIVISION, AND I'M FORMERLY ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF COMMUNITY HEALTH AT PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY. I'M HERE TO URGE YOU TO PASS THE RESOLUTION OPPOSING OIL TRAINS IN MULTNOMAH COUNTY, AND ENDORSING COMMENTS ON THE CONCERNS OF MULTNOMAH COUNTY ON THE TESORO SAVAGE VANCOUVER ENERGY EXPORT TERMINAL. MY CONCERNS INCLUDE THREATS TO PUBLIC HEALTH AND CLIMATE AND IN THE INTEREST OF TIME, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SUPPORT THOSE -- THE POINTS MADE BY DR. O'HAREN AND MS. KERNS. ONE THING THAT IS SCARING ME A LOT, POTENTIAL FOR DERAILMENTS, OIL SPILLS, FIRES, EXPLOSIONS, AS CARS TRANSPORTING CRUDE OIL IN THE COUNTRY SHOWN IN THE OIL TRAIN BRIEF VERY WELL. WE HAD A CLOSE CALL IN DECEMBER WHEN AN OIL TRUCK ROLLED OVER AND COLLIDED WITH RAIL CARS AND CAUGHT FIRE IN THE NORTHWEST INDUSTRIAL AREA OF PORTLAND. VERY NEAR TO FACILITIES STORING LARGE QUANTITIES OF EXTREMELY HAZARDOUS MATERIALS. IF IT HAD NOT BEEN ASPHALT IN THESE -- IN THOSE RAIL CARS, THERE IS NO KNOWING WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED. IT COULD HAVE A BEEN A -- WITH THE COMPLICATION OF ADDING THE EXPLOSION OF NEARBY HAZARDOUS MATERIAL TANKS. THE EFFECTS OF AN ACCIDENT, SPILL, FIRE, EXPLOSION, OR THREAT OF THEM ON IMPACTED COMMUNITIES ARE IM MESH MEASURABLE -- ECONOMIC COSTS IN THE

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BILLIONS. THE RESOLUTION IS TIMELY AND WELL FOUNDED AND THE BASIS FOR IT IS WELL RESEARCHED AND DOCUMENTED. DEMOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF POPULATIONS LIVING AND WORKING AND GOING TO SCHOOL NEAR THE RAIL LINES IS VITAL TO OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE RISKS WITH WHICH WE ARE FACED. I WANT TO COMMEND YOU AND YOUR STAFF FOR THIS EXCELLENT WORK AND URGE THE COMMISSION TO VOTE YES, SIR -- VOTE YES ON THE RESOLUTION. CHAIR KAFOURY: THANK YOU. THE NEXT FOUR PLEASE COME FORWARD. [NAMES BEING READ] CHAIR KAFOURY: YOU CAN START WHILE PEOPLE ARE COMING UP. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. MY NAME IS MARILEE DAY, MULTNOMAH COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT FOR MANY YEARS. AND IN THAT ROLE, COORDINATED THE PEDIATRIC PREVENTION PROGRAMS OF LEAD, IMMUNIZATIONS AND ASTHMA. OREGON HAS THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF ASTHMA IN THE NATION, 11% OF THE POPULATION. ANALYSIS DEMONSTRATED THAT ASTHMA WAS FOUND TO BE PREDOMINANTLY IN NEIGHBORHOODS WITH HIGH INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY, DIESEL TRAINS, TRUCKS, AND INDUSTRY. AND THIS IS WHERE AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS. THIS IS WHERE YOUNG FAMILIES LIVE. LOW INCOME AND PEOPLE OF COLOR. IN OIL TRAINS ARE AT LEAST A MILE LONG, AND EACH ONE IS PROPELLED BY THREE OR FOUR LARGE DIESEL ENGINES EMITTING DIESEL AIR POLLUTION. THIS IS NOT JUST -- JUST CAUSES ASTHMA, BUT ITS FINE PARTICULATE MATTER CAUSES -- IS FILLED WITH BUTANE, FORMALDEHYDE AND BENZINE AND A WHOLE FAMILY OF COMPOUNDS THAT PENETRATE THE LUNGS, HEART, BRAIN, CAUSING CANCER, SERIOUS HEART DISEASE AND NEUROLOGICAL DAMAGE. REMEMBER THAT THESE -- THAT OUR KIDS EAT, DRINK, AND BREATHE MUCH MORE THAN WE DO FOR THEIR SIZE. MEANING THEY'RE GETTING THE GREATEST EXPOSURE FROM THESE COMPOUNDS. EVEN IF YOUR CHILD DOESN'T HAVE ASTHMA, EXPOSURE TO DIESEL PARTICULATE MATTER IN CHILDHOOD SETS THEM UP FOR HAVING CANCERS IN THE FUTURE. I LIVE IN THE CULLY NEIGHBORHOOD. I CAN SEE THE TRAIN TRACKS. IT IS ABOUT FOUR BLOCKS AWAY. TWO MONTHS AGO, THE NUMBER OF TRAINS COMING THROUGH, OIL UNIT TRAINS, SEEMED TO DOUBLE. WHY WASN'T I NOTIFIED? I KNOW HOW DANGEROUS THEY ARE. AND THAT'S BECAUSE I THINK THAT THEY'RE CONSIDERED SO EXPLOSIVE WITH OIL, PROPANE AND BUTANE THAT ONLY FIREFIGHTERS KNOW THEIR ITINERARY. I WOULD JUST LIKE TO ASK YOU TO NOT LET DIESEL OIL TRAINS GO THROUGH OUR NEIGHBORHOODS AND PLEASE LET US BREATHE EASIER. I'M FRIGHTENED TO BE IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD NOW WITH THESE OIL TRAINS AND I THINK A LOT MORE PEOPLE ARE TOO, THANK YOU. CHAIR KAFOURY: GOOD MORNING.

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I CAN'T SEE ON MY PAGE -- MY NAME IS DR. KELLY OHANLEY. OBSTETRICIAN, GYNECOLOGIST, WITH A DEGREE IN PUBLIC HEALTH I WORKED IN ALMOST 40 COUNTRIES AND I'VE BEEN THERE TO HELP PROTECT THE LIVES OF MOTHERS AND BABIES AND HAVE HELPED TO TEACH THE NEXT GENERATION OF DOCTORS AND STANFORD AND HARVARD UNIVERSITIES. I AM AFFILIATED WITH OREGON'S PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND I WILL SPEAK TO JUST A FEW OF THE HEALTH PROBLEMS THAT WILL ESCALATE DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE IF WE FAIL TO OPPOSE THE INCREASING MOVEMENT AND BURNING OF OIL. WILDFIRES, SMOKE EXPOSURE WILL INCREASE THE NUMBER OF RESPIRATORY AND CARDIOVASCULAR HOSPITALIZATIONS AND EMERGENCY ROOM VISITS. URBAN HEAT ISLANDS, AGING POPULATION, INCREASED URBANIZATION WILL INCREASE THE VULNERABILITY OF URBAN POPULATIONS TO HEAT STROKE AS WELL AS HEART AND RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS. CLIMATE CHANGE WILL CAUSE EXPANSIONS AND GEOGRAPHIC RANGES OF FLEES, TICKS, AND MOSQUITOS, CARRYING LYME -- IT IS QUITE A LIST. FOOD SECURITY. MANY CROP YIELDS WILL LIKELY DECLINE DUE TO THE COMBINED EFFECTS OF CHANGES IN RAINFALL, SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS, INCREASING COMPETITION FROM WEEDS AND PESTS. MANY NATIVE AMERICANS WILL CONFRONT SHORTAGES OF KEY FOODS. WITH RISING FOOD PRICES, FOOD SHORTAGES AND LOW INCOME POPULATIONS WILL INCREASE IN RESULTING IN MALNUTRITION. NUTRITIONAL VALUE OF SOME FOODS IS PROJECTED TO DECLINE DUE TO THE DECREASED PROTEIN IN CROPS. FARMERS ARE EXPECTED TO -- TO NEED TO USE MORE -- LASTLY, THE OCEANS AND SEAS ARE NOT GOING TO -- IN SUMMARY, CLIMATE CHANGE REPRESENTS THE SINGLE GREATEST EMERGING THREAT TO HUMAN HEALTH. ON BEHALF OF MOTHERS AND BABIES IN THE UNITED STATES AND WORLDWIDE WHO DO NOT HAVE A SEAT AT THIS HEARING, I URGE YOU TO SAY NO -- EXCUSE ME, YES, TO THE OIL TRAIN RESOLUTION. THANKS. CHAIR KAFOURY: THANKS. HI. HI. I'M DR. ROSE CHRISTOPHERSON, RETIRED VA PHYSICIAN WHO ALSO HAS AN APPOINTMENT AT OHSU, BEFORE RETIREMENT, I USED TO TEACH PHARMACOLOGY. I BELIEVE WE HAVE TWO MINUTES. I HAVE BEEN TIMING YOUR TIMER. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS VERY LARGE PROBLEM. I CAN APPRECIATE YOUR CONCERN WITH THE COMPLEXITY OF IT AND YOU HAVE ESPECIALLY EXPRESSED CONCERN BECAUSE YOU'RE SORT OF ASKING YOURSELVES OR BEING ASKED TO COMMENT ON SOMETHING THAT THE PORT OF VANCOUVER IS DOING. HOWEVER, THIS IS OBVIOUSLY A VERY HUGE PROBLEM. THE PORT OF VANCOUVER MAY BE PUTTING THE OIL ON TO BOATS AND SHIPPING IT OUT, BUT AS YOU HEARD FROM MANY PEOPLE, THE TRAINS WILL COME THROUGH THE MULTNOMAH COUNTY. AND, SO, IT IS YOUR LOCAL RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT ALL OF US WHO LIVE IN MULTNOMAH COUNTY AND PAY TAXES AND VOTE IN MULTNOMAH COUNTY, AND ARE YOUR CITIZENS AND I APPRECIATE YOUR WILLINGNESS TO TAKE ON

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THIS COMPLEX ISSUE. SOMETIMES WE DO NEED TO TALK TO OUR NEIGHBORS AND LET THEM KNOW, AND I BELIEVE THE -- SEVERAL MAYORS AND -- AND OTHER PEOPLE HAVE TESTIFIED UP AT THE RIDGEFIELD -- THE TESTIMONY THAT GOES TO 11:00. I HOPE YOU WILL RISE TO THE OCCASION OF DEALING WITH THIS VERY COMPLEX ISSUE. AND DEALING WITH IT RESPONSIBLY, LOOKING AT THE NEEDS OF THE LOCAL PEOPLE THAT YOU REPRESENT, AND OF OUR PLANET, INCLUDING ALL OF THE WARRIORS WHO WILL HAVE TO GO FIGHT HERE AND THERE AND EVERYWHERE IF -- IF WE DON'T CONTROL THE CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE RISE OF THE OCEANS AND ALL OF THE THINGS THAT WE KNOW WILL HAPPEN. THANK YOU. CHAIR KAFOURY: THANK YOU. PUSHING TEMPERATURES AND NORTH POLE TO AN ASTONISHING 15 DEGREES ABOVE ZERO, TO THE MELTING POINT, AND THAT IN JANUARY. THE ARCTIC WAS THE WARMEST LAST YEAR THAN IT'S EVER BEEN, IT HAD RECORD LOSSES OF ICE IN 2015 DUE TO RISING TEMPERATURES AROUND THE GLOBE? BRITISH COMMITMENT BARBARA WARD ONCE SAID ABOUT VIEWING EARTH FROM SPACE: SHE SAID, YOU KNOW, WE DEPEND UPON A LITTLE ENVELOPE OF SOIL AND A RATHER LARGER ENVELOPE OF ATMOSPHERE FOR LIFE ITSELF, AND BOTH CAN BE CONTAMINATED AND DESTROYED. IT'S IN OUR HANDS. WE MUST STOP MORE FOSSIL FUEL DEVELOPMENT. WE MUST SAY NO TO THIS TERMINAL. IT'S THE ONLY MATH THAT WORKS. IN THIS WE CANNOT FAIL BECAUSE WE HUMANS HERE ON EARTH, WE HAVE NOWHERE ELSE TO GO. THANK YOU. I'M DR. UNANIMOUS SON KRUMBACHER, I'M A CANCER RESEARCHER HERE IN MULTNOMAH COUNTY. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING. I SUPPORT COMMISSIONER BAILEY'S RESOLUTION ON TRANSPORTING OIL. AS YOU'VE HEARD, DIESEL FUEL EXHAUST CONTAINS CANCER CAUSING PARCELS. BEWARE OF EIS MODELING. A COMPUTER GENERATED MODEL CANNOT EVALUATE CANCER RESEARCH. RESEARCHERS STILL DON'T KNOW HOW THE MANY CANCER CAUSING CHEMICALS INTERACT IN OUR BODIES. IN ADDITION, YOU'VE HEARD DIESEL EXHAUST IS LINKED TO ASTHMA IN CHILDREN AND HEART HE AND LUNG DISEASE IN ADULTS. TO AVOID HARM, I URGE THE MULTNOMAH COUNTY COMMISSION TO REJECT OIL TRAINS IN OUR COUNTY. THANK YOU. GOOD AFTERNOON. I'M THICK THONGS, I'M BRINGING UP THE TRANSPACIFIC PARTNERSHIP BECAUSE IF IT PASSES, IT'S IN FRONT OF OUR CONGRESS NOW, IT'LL NEGATE ANY RESOLUTION THAT YOU AND OTHER GOVERNMENTS MAKE. THERE'S A PORTION OF IT INVESTORS STATE, I.S., THAT WILL HAVE TRIBUNALS DECIDE WHETHER ACTIONS LIKE WHAT YOU'RE PROPOSING COST, EVEN SOME

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FOREIGN COMPANY, COSTS THEM MONEY. AND THIS IS NOT OUTLANDISH BECAUSE IT'S ALREADY BEEN GIVEN THE GO-AHEAD SO FAR. SOMETIMES IT GETS CALLED NAFTA ON STEROIDS. SO TRANCE-CANADA, WHO HAVE THE KEYSTONE PIPELINE PROPOSAL, AND THAT WAS REJECTED, HAVE PRESENTED TWO LAWSUITS, ONE OF THEM THAT THE PRESIDENT DOESN'T HAVE AUTHORITY TO TELL THEM WHATNOT TO DO, EVEN UNDER EPA ADVICE. AND THE BIG ONE IS THAT NAFTA, PRECURSOR TO THIS TRANCE-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP, TPP, IS SUING US FOR $15 BILLION BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT GOING TO MAKE THE MONEY THEY INTENDED TO MAKE. AND THE MAIN THING IS WE COST THEM BECAUSE THEY EXPECTED TO NEED THE APPROVALS AND THEY GOT THE APPROVALS BEFORE. WEAK, VERY WEAK. WITH OUR OWN TRAINS THAT THEY WANT TO HAVE COME THROUGH HERE, IT'S MOSTLY FOR EXPORT. I RECOMMEND THE RESOLUTION TO OPPOSE WOULD BE EXPANDED. IT WOULDN'T BE THIS ONE, THERE WOULD BE ANOTHER ONE, TO BE MORE LIKE PORTLAND'S COMMISSIONERS HAVE DONE FOR FOSSIL FUEL INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT. SOMEBODY WAS WONDERING WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO IF WE DO GET THESE TRAINS. WE WILL BE ON THE TRACKS. THANK YOU. YOU'RE UP. THANK YOU, COMMISSIONERS, I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF 101 BUSINESS OWNERS, SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS IN VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON. YOU CAN SEE ALL OF US AT VANCOUVER101.COM. THIS PROJECT IS TOUTED AS AN ECONOMIC BOON FOR OUR REGION. YOU SHOULD KNOW PRETTY MUCH ALL OF THE LOCAL ECONOMY IN VANCOUVER DISAGREES. WE ARE AN INFORMAL COALITION OF ACCOUNTANTS, MERCHANTS, MECHANICS, FARMERS, LAWYERS, HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS, CHILD CARE PROFESSIONALS, BREWERS, WINE DISTRIBUTORS, I.T. PROFESSIONALS, YOU NAME IT. LAST SUMMER WE STARTED GETTING TOGETHER TO DISCUSS THE IMPACT ON THE LOCAL ECONOMY OF THIS PROJECT. WHILE THE COMPANY THAT WANTS TO PUSH THIS PROJECT THROUGH IS TOUTING 176 LOCAL JOBS, WE THINK THE COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS IS JUST TERRIBLE. WE THINK THIS IS GOING CHANGE VANCOUVER'S BRANDS HE AND THE KINDS OF BUSINESSES THAT WANT TO BE LOCATED HERE AND THE KINDS OF CUSTOMERS AND CONSUMERS AND FAMILIES THAT WANT TO LIVE HERE. THE CITY HAS CHANGED A LOT IN THE LAST 20 YEARS. WE'RE A LOT MORE DIVERSE LOCAL ECONOMY. WE HAVE THE KINDS OF FAMILIES THAT CAN SUPPORT THESE VARIOUS BUSINESSES. ALL OF THAT CHANGES IF WE BECOME AN OIL TOWN. THANK YOU VERY MUCH IN HELPING US DWEES DEFEAT THIS PROJECT. IT'S VANCOUVER101.US. [NAMES BEING READ] PLEASE COME FORWARD. YOU CAN START.

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OKAY. THANK YOU, CHAIR AND COMMISSIONERS, FOR PROVIDING THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK. RAIL ACCIDENTS ARE VERY WORRISOME BUT IT'S NOT THE ONLY -- CAN YOU GIVE YOUR NAME FOR THE RECORD, PLEASE. I'M SORRY, IT IS SANDY, I LIVE IN MULTNOMAH COUNTY. WE HAVE A GOAL TO PRESERVE A LIVABLE CLIMATE. WE NEED TO KEEP THOSE FOSSIL FUEL RESERVES IN THE GROUND, INCLUDING THE OIL THESE TRAINS CARRY. WE WISH TO REFUSE THESE TRAINS, WE NOT ONLY KEEP OUR COMMUNITIES SAFER, WE SERVE AS A MODEL AND INSPIRATION TO OTHER COMMUNITIES TO FOLLOW SUIT AND SAY NO TO THE OIL INDUSTRY. IF THE INDUSTRY CANNOT SHIP THIS OIL THERE IS NO POINT IN THEIR EXTRACTING IT. TODAY'S RESOLUTION IS A STEP ON THE ROAD TO THE FUTURE WE NEED, TO ENSURE THE FUTURE OF OUR COMMUNITY AND THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF OUR CHILDREN. AND FUTURE GENERATIONS. ON BEHALF OF MYSELF AND 350PDX, THANK YOU, JULES, FOR BRINGING THIS RESOLUTION BEFORE THE COMMISSION. AND THANKS TO ALL OF YOU FOR THE YES VOTE I TRUST YOU WILL MAKE. THANK YOU. GOOD AFTERNOON. GOOD AFTERNOON, CHAIR KAFOURY AND COMMISSIONERS, MY NAME IS WILLY MYERS, I'M NOT EXECUTIVE TREASURER OF THE COLUMBIA CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNSEL REPRESENTING 13,000 IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY THAT CALL PORTLAND THEIR HOME. I LIVE WELL WITHIN THE BLAST ZONE IN NORTH PORTLAND, VERY CLOSE TO THE RAIL. I MOVED THERE RECENTLY. OUR MEMBERS THAT GO TO WORK EVERY DAY ARE COMPENSATED FOR THEIR LABOR WITH FAMILY WAGES TO FIND BENEFIT PENSION PLANS AND EMPLOYER PROVIDED FULL FAMILY HEALTH BENEFITS. WE ARE THE MIDDLE CLASS. WE BUILD YOUR BRIDGES, YOUR STREETS THAT YOU DRIVE ON, YOUR SCHOOLS, AND EVEN YOUR COURTHOUSES. WE ALSO BUILD LARGE INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS LIKE THE VANCOUVER ENERGY PROJECT. WE RELY ON THESE PROJECTS TO FEED OUR FAMILIES. WE CURRENTLY HAVE A PROJECT LABOR AGREEMENT IN NEGOTIATION WITH VANCOUVER ENERGY, WE HAVE A SIGNED LETTER OF UNDERSTANDING FOR THAT PROJECT AND THERE WILL BE 320 CONSTRUCTION UNION MEN AND WOMEN FROM THIS REGION WORKING ON THAT PROJECT. DOMESTIC MILES TRAVELED IN THE NORTHWEST ARE AT AN ALL-TIME HIGH. RIGHT NOW THEY ARE AT AN ALL-TIME HIGH, FURTHER EVIDENCED BY NO PARKING IN THE GARAGE OR WITHIN NINE BLOCKS OF HERE. WE ARE AN OIL DEPENDENT NATION AND AN OIL DEPENDENT CITY. AS WE WISELY PHASE AWAY FROM FOSSIL FUELS IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE DO NOT TIE OUR HANDS WITH RESOLUTIONS AND POLICIES THAT WILL MAKE IT MORE DIFFICULT FOR US TO REACH OIL INDEPENDENCE. YEAH. AND COULD THROUGH RESULTING POLICIES SERIOUSLY AFFECT OR SUPPLY FOR OUR OWN USE BY PRE

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OPPOSING PROJECTS. WITH THAT WE URGE THAT YOU VOTE KNOW AGAINST THE RESOLUTION. THANKS. THANK YOU. GOOD AFTERNOON. HELLO, MY NAME IS ANN HEROON. I SUPPORT OF RESOLUTION, BOTH SIDES OF IT OPPOSING THE OIL TRAINS AND SENDING A STATEMENT TO THE VANCOUVER SAVAGE TERMINAL. JUST AN HISTORICAL NOTE, PORTLAND DID STORE OIL ACROSS THE STREET AT THE FOOT OF THE HAWTHORNE BRIDGE IN BIG TANKS. IN 1911 THERE WAS AN EXPLOSION AND FIRE AND PORTLAND'S BELOVED FIRE CHIEF DAVE CAMPBELL DIED WHILE FIGHTING THAT OIL FIRE. SO LAST SUMMER IN JUNE, AS YOU KNOW, MULTNOMAH COUNTY AND THE CITY OF PORTLAND PASSED SOMETHING THEY HAD BEEN WORKING ON A LONG TIME, THE 2015 CLIMATE ACTION PLAN. THAT PLAN CALLS FOR THE CITY AND COUNTY TO TAKE SPECIFIC ACTIONS TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE. I'M WANTING TO LOOK AT ONE OF THE MANY ACTIONS REQUIRED IN THAT PLAN. THAT IS TO STRENGTHEN PUBLIC AWARENESS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AS A HEALTH RISK. BUT CONSIDER IN THE FACE OF THAT, THAT WE DO KNOW THAT BURNING FOSSIL FUELS IS A PRIMARY CAUSE OF CLIMATE CHANGE, YET AT THE SAME TIME WE KNOW THAT OIL TRAINS ARE CARRYING MILLIONS OF GALLONS OF OIL EVERY WEEK THROUGH MULTNOMAH COUNTY THAT. OIL IS PUT ON BIG SHIPS WHERE IT WILL SAIL ACROSS THE OCEAN AND BE BURNED IN OTHER COUNTRIES, SPEWING OUT CLIMATE CHANGING POLLUTANTS OVER THERE. THEN ALSO THIS PROPOSED TERMINAL IN VANCOUVER, SO IN THE FACE OF THAT, WE HAVE A CLIMATE ACTION PLAN THAT SAYS MULTNOMAH COUNTY WILL RAISE PUBLIC AWARENESS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AS A HEALTH RISK. BUT AS LONG AS MULTNOMAH COUNTY MAKES NO STAND AGAINST THE OIL TRAINS, AND REMAINS SILENT IN THE FACE OF THIS PROPOSED VANCOUVER SAVAGE TESORO TERMINAL, WE ARE BASICALLY TELLING OUR RESIDENTS THESE THINGS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH CLIMATE CHANGE. SO THAT'S NOT RAISING PUBLIC AWARENESS, IT'S INHIBITING IT. WE SHOULD GET ON BOARD WITH THAT CLIMATE PLAN. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. MY NAME IS KAREN BOYER, I'M A RETIRED TEACHER AND PROUD GRANDMOTHER. I'M OUTRAGED TO LEARN THAT EVEN AS THE CLIMATE TALKS IN PARIS WERE ATTEMPTING TO COMBAT ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHE, HERE IN THE UNITED STATES EFFORTS TO DISMANTLE THE EPA AND EXPAND FOSSIL FUEL EXPORTING WAS GIVEN A GREEN LIGHT. I'M ONE OF SCORES OF IMRAND PARENTS WHO ARE DELIGHTED BY THEIR GRANDCHILDREN AND FEAR FOR THEIR FUTURE. WE HAVE SO MUCH TO LEARN FROM OUR INDIGENOUS BROTHERS AND SISTERS WHOSE DECISION MAKING CONSIDERED INTO SEVEN GENERATIONS INTO THE FUTURE. FOSSIL FUELS WERE NEVER MENTIONED IN THE PARIS TALKS. LET'S MOVE TO A LOCALIZED

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ECONOMY, LIMIT THE TRAFFIC ACROSS THE OCEANS, HERE IN OREGON WE HAVE SO MUCH TO BE PROUD OF. THE COUNTRY LOOKS TO US FOR LEADERSHIP AND I REALLY HOPE YOU PASS THIS RESOLUTION. MAY THE REST OF THE WORLD GET ON BOARD. IN RESPONSE TO THE TRAIN COMMENTS THAT ONE GENTLEMAN MADE EARLIER, I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT SOLUTIONARY RAIL IS CREATING A NATIONAL RAIL SYSTEM BOTH FOR FUEL AND FOR FREIGHT, INCLUDING LOCALIZED GREEN ENERGY TO BRING MUCH MONEY AND EMPLOYMENT TO PEOPLE ALL ACROSS THE RAIL, ALL ACROSS THE SYSTEM ACROSS THE COUNTRY. SO THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE THAT WE CAN LOOK FORWARD TO IN A FOSSIL FREE WORLD. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. CHIQUITA ROLLINS AND DICK HARMON, PLEASE COME FORWARD. YOU CAN BEGIN, SIR. GO AHEAD. OKAY MY NAME'S HARLAN SCHOBER, I LIVE IN SOUTHEAST PORTLAND, WELL WITHIN MULTNOMAH COUNTY. THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER BAILEY, FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD. I'VE BEEN GOING TO OTHER HEARINGS AS WELL, BOTH OF THE TESORO SAVAGE HEARINGS IN RICHFIELD. THE EVIDENCE IS OVERWHELMING. PEOPLE WITH MORE DEPTH OF KNOWLEDGE THAN I HAVE AGAIN AND AGAIN JUST HAMMERING HOME ALL THE REASONS WHY WE'VE GOT TO TURN AWAY FROM FOSSIL FUELS. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE, A FEW PEOPLE WILL TESTIFY IN FAVOR GENERALLY SPEAKING. THEY HAVE A RELATIVELY NARROW ECONOMIC SELF-INTEREST AND COMPARED TO THOSE OF US IN THE RED SHIRTS THEY SEND TO HAVE THE MORE EXPENSIVE HAIRCUTS. IT SEEMS LIKE WE'RE REALLY CLOSE GETTING THIS DONE. IN THE INTERESTS OF SAVING TIME, IS THERE ANY OF YOU ON THE COMMISSION NOT PREPARED TO VOTE YES NOW? WELL, IN THAT CASE I'LL FOLD MY CARDS. THANK YOU, GET ON WITH IT, PLEASE. THANK YOU. YOU'RE UP, SIR. MY NAME IS BEN PO, I'M WITH OCCUPY ST. JOHN'S AND I COCHAIR THE SAFETY AND LIB ABILITY TEAM OF THE ST. JOHN'S NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION. I CAN ECHO EVERYTHING THAT THIS GENTLEMAN JUST SAID, HE AND I WILL SHARE HIS BREATH TEE. I HAVE HEARD THE FULL SPECTRUM OF TESTIMONY. I'VE BEEN ATTENDING THE HEARINGS ACROSS THE RIVER AND I HAVEN'T HEARD ANYONE SPEAK IN ADVOCACY OF THIS PROJECT WHO DOESN'T STAND TO MAKE MONEY FROM IT. AND THAT'S A VERY, VERY SMALL PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATION OF THIS AREA. THIS IS A REGIONAL ISSUE. IT TRANSCENDS THE COUNTY, IT AFFECTS US ALL. AND I REALLY HONOR THE STAND THAT YOU GUYS ARE GOING TO TAKE TODAY IN OPPOSING THE TESORO SAVAGE PROJECT AND SUPPORTING COMMISSIONER BAILEY'S RESOLUTION. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

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THANK YOU. GOOD AFTERNOON. I'M DICK HARMON, I WANT TO THANK THE COMMISSION, CHAIR, ESPECIALLY MR. BAILEY. I'M 79 AND I'M HERE BECAUSE OF MY GRANDCHILDREN AND GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN. I HAVE A LOT OF FRIENDS IN LABOR. WE'RE IN A SITUATION HERE OF YES AND NO. THE PROBLEM WITH THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT SO FAR FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, AS A VETERAN ORGANIZER, IS IT'S PRETTY GOOD AT SAYING NO, BUT IT'S PRETTY WEAK AT SAYING YES. SO I SUPPORT WHAT YOU'RE DOING, I SUPPORT THE RESOLUTIONS. I'M DESPERATE OVER THE FUTURE OF MY CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN AND GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN. HOWEVER, WE HAVE TO BE ABLE TO DO TWO THINGS, NOT JUST ONE. WE HAVE TO BE ABLE TO CREATE A NEW ECONOMY WITH MASS EMPLOYMENT, FULL EMPLOYMENT, WHICH THE NEW ENERGY SYSTEM AND ITS ACCOMPANYING INFRASTRUCTURE CAN DO. BUT WE'VE GOT TO GET SERIOUS ABOUT THAT. AND THE LEADERSHIP IS NOT GOING TO COME OUT OF WASHINGTON, IT'S GOING TO COME OUT OF LOCAL PLACES LIKE PORTLAND. IN COOPERATION WITH THE TRADES AND WITH THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS THAT HAVE SOME IMAGINATION. SO THIS QUESTION OF IMAGINATION, WE HAVE TO SHIFT THE CONVERSATION SOME. WHAT I SEE HERE IN THE OPPORTUNITY TO CREATE A NEW ECONOMY BASED UPON CLEAN ENERGY IS FULL EMPLOYMENT FOR THE PEOPLE OUT HERE NOW, BRINGING PEOPLE OUT OF THE PRISONS, BRINGING PEOPLE OUT OF THE POVERTY COMMUNITIES AND PUTTING THEM INTO WORK LIKE WE DID IN WORLD WAR II. THIS LITERALLY HAS TO BE A MOBILIZATION LIKE ROOSEVELT TOLD THE GUYS IN DETROIT. GET OFF YOUR ASS, WE'RE GOING TO BUILD AND BUILD AND BUILD. AND IF YOU DON'T -- HE WAS IN A POSITION TO TAKE THEM OVER. WE ARE NOT. SO I'M FOR THE RESOLUTIONS. I'M FOR LABOR, I'M FOR THE CHILDREN, AND THERE'S NO REASON ON GOD'S EARTH THAT WE CAN'T DO BOTH. THANK YOU. [NAMES BEING READ] PLEASE FORWARD. ALL RIGHT, E COME FORWARD. ALL RIGHT, YOU CAN START. HI, MY NAME IS ALEX AND SO FAR BOLOO, I'M A GRADUATE OF CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY AS A BIOLOGY MAJOR. I'M HERE TO TAKE A POSITION OF SOCIAL RESPONDENTS. I'M THE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COMMITTEE CHAIR. DON'T PUT OFF UNTIL TOMORROW WHAT YOU CAN DO TODAY. TO TODY'S READING OF ATMOSPHERIC CO2 LEVELS IS AT 402.20 PARTS PER MILLION, 2.65 PARTS

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PER MILLION ABOVE THIS DAY ONE YEAR AGO. WE CONTINUE ON THAT TREND WE HAVE LESS THAN 59 YEARS BEFORE EVERYTHING IS IRREVERSIBLE. OIL BY RAIL IS A SEATTLE CONCERN A HEALTH CONCERN, AND AN EMERGENCY RESPONSE CONCERN. AN ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN, BUT POINT BLANK, OIL BY RAIL IS A GLOBAL CONCERN. I HAVE A REFERENCE HERE FROM MIT NEWS. THEY HAVE A QUOTE. GLSICALLY THEY ARE SAYING THAT ENN THE MASS EXSINKS PERIODS BEFORE, IT'S TAKING 2,000 YEARS TO DO WHAT WE HAVE DONE IN 2ING 2. SOIL EROSION IS THE BIGGEST PR OILEM, THAT OUR EARTH BECOMES INHOSPITABLE. LONG BEFORE THAT OUR AIR IS TOO TOXIC. SO OIL BY RAIL IS AN EXTINCTION CONCERN, AS WELL. 80% REDUCTION IN 50 YEARS IS WAY TOO LATE. TO TODY IS THE DAY. MR. BAILEY, I THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME IN PUTTING THIS FORWARD. YOU LEFT A LITTLE EARLY LAST NIGHT SO I WASN'T ABLE TO GIVE YOU OUR CANDIDATE ENDORSEMENT QUESTIONNAIRE HE AND A LITTLE BROCHURE ABOUT OUR ORGANIZATION GLIL. COMM. BAILEY: I'LL FOLLOW UP WHEN WE'RE NOT IN A MEETING. THANK YOU FOR HAVING THIS HEARING, MY NAME IS EDITH GILLIS. I HAVE LIVED IN MULTIPLE LOCATIONS IN MULTNOMAH COUNTY. ALL OF THOSE WOULD HAVE BEEN FATAL FOR US BECAUSE OF THE PROXIMITY TO THE OIL RAILS ROUTE. NOW, IT IS IN YOUR JURISDICTION BECTALSE OF SAFETY AND HEALTH FOR ECONOMY, OUR ENVIRONMENT, OUR JOBS, AND FOR DEMOCRACY. AND IF WE HAVE MORE OIL TRAINS OR THE SAME THAT WE HAVE, OR WE HAVE THE TESORO SAVAGE, WE WILL HAVE OUR ECONOMY AND ENVIRONMENT DESTROYED. WE WILL LOSE THE THINKERS, THE WORKERS, THE RESOURCES THAT WE NEED. OUR BOND ABILITY WILL GO DOWN. WE WILL LOSE MONEY FOR LOANS, AND I WANT TO LET YOU KNOW THAT THE RAILS ARE NOT GOING TO CONTINUE THE SAME SISDETY. JUST BECTALSE THERE'S REGULATION DOESN'T MEAN THERE'S ENFORCEMENT. BEFORE THE BIG CUTOFF IN 1976 MY MOTHER WAS KILLED AT A RAILR. OUD CROSSING. THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO FOLLOW THE SAFETY THAT IS NOT GREATFT A RE GRCED. THEY ARE NOT MAINTAINING THE RAILS BECAUSE THEY WANT TO HAVE NO TRAFFIC SLOWDOWN. IF THEY INCREASE OIL AND LNG TRISDFIC THEY DON'T TAKE TIME TO REPAIR THEM. THEY INCREASE VIBRATION, WEIGHT, FRICTION AND CORROSION SIVENESS OF THEM IS MAKING THEM MUCH LESS SAFE. SECOND, MY CHILDREN WERE KIDNAPPED AT AGE TWO AND A HALF AND SEVEN AND A HALF TO BE SOLD INTO PROSTITUTION FOR DRUG MONEY. THIS HAPPENS OUT OF STATE, PEOPLE COME IN FOR THIS AND YOU SEE IT IN NORTH DAKOTA. ALL THE LOCAL BUSINESSES WE WANT TO HAVE WITH SUSTAINABILITY WILL FAIL. IF WE PUT MONEY INTO BEING NORTH AMERICA'S SACRIFICE ZONE, WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE THE SUSTAINABILITY THAT WE NEED AND WE'RE NOT GOING TRANSITION AS WE NEED TO. THANK YOU. HELLO.

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GOOD MORNING, I WORK FOR THE TAL GRBON SOCIETY OF PORTLAND AND I WILL BE TESTIFYING ON THEIR BEHALF TODAY. I LIVE IN MULTNOMAH COUNTY AND LIKE COMMISSIONER SMITH, I LIVE VERY CLOSE TO THE KENTON UNION PACIFIC RAIL LINE IN WOODLAWN NEIGHBORHOOD THAT ALSO TRAVELS THROUGH CONCORDIA. I'D LIKE TO START BY COMMENDING COMMISSIONER JULES BAILEY FOR BRINGING THIS RESOLUTION BEFORE THE COMMITTEE TODAY. PORTLAND AUDUBON AND ITS 14,000 LOCAL MEMBERS, MANY OF WHICH ARE MULTNOMAH COUNTY RESIDENTS, FULLY SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION TODAY. AND IN ADDITION TO SENDING COMMENTS ON THE VANCOUVER TERMINAL. WE URGE ALL COMMISSIONERS TO UNANIMOUSLY APPROVE THEM TODAY. PASSAGE OF THIS RESOLUTION BUILDS ON THE MOMENTUM OF MANY SIMILAR RESOLUTIONS APPROVED BY ELECTED OFFICIAL THROUGHOUT THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST, INCLUDING VERY RECENTLY THE CITY OF PORTLAND. THESE RESOLUTIONS WERE NOT JUST SUPPORTED BY THE ELECTED OFFICIALS BUT BY THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS OF LOCAL RESIDENTS WHO HAVE SPOKEN OUT AGAINST THESE DANGEROUS OIL TRAINS AND THE TRANSPORT OF THEM THROUGH OUR COMMUNITIES. NOT ONLY ARE THEY DANGEROUS TO OUR COMMUNITIES AND CITIZENS BUT THEY PRESENT CONSIDERABLE RISK TO OUR NATURAL RESOURCES. INCREASING THE FREQUENERG OF OIL TRAIN TRAFFIC PUTS US AT DIRECT RISK. AN OIL TRAIN SPILL COULD BE CATASTROPHIC TO SALMON RUNS AND A LITNDRETHEM OF SPECIES OF MAMMALS THAT DEPEND ON THESE STREAMS AND RIVERS. I URGE YOU TO TAKE STEPS TO PROTECT OUR ANIMALS AND NATURAL RESOURCES. GOOD AFTERNOON. I'M A PORTLAND RESIDENT, I'M PUTTING ON MY HAT AS AN ECONOMIST WHO'S WORKED IN RESOURCES A LONG TIME. I'D LINING TO ANSWER SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT HAVE BEEN GRADES AND BRING UP AN ISSUE WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN. THE INDUSTRY IS HIGHLY MOTIVATED TO GET RID OF RESOURCES IN THE GROUND BECAUSE PRACTICALLY NOBODY IN THE ENERGY RESOURCE INDUSTRY BELIEVES THE PRICE OF FUEL IS GOING GO BACK UP WHERE IT WAS. EVERYBODY'S WORRIED ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING. THE SECOND REASON IS THERE'S A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT IN THE GROUND AND SUDDENLY EVERYBODY REALIZES THEY HAVE TO PRO GRCE MORE TO HAVE THE REVENUES THEY EXPECT. THEY ARE HAVING AN INVENTORY SALE. TESORO IS MAKING USE OF THE INVENTORY SALE TO SHIP WHATEVER THEY CAN. THAT BEING SAID, WHAT IS NOT MENTIONED HERE IS IT'S REALLY NOT AN INSURABLE RIS DI YOU COULDN'T CHAND ENOOD H PER BARREL TO COVER THE RISKS YOU HAVE OF THE BIG ONE GOING OFF. AND MANY, MANY DERAILMENTS SIMULTANEOUSFT A AND OTHER SPILLS WHERE YOU'VE GOT ALL THE PRIMARY RESPONDERS DEALING WITH THE OTHER PRONVIEMS OF HUMAN INJURY, WHICH WOULD BE OCCURRING WITH THE BIG ONE. WE KNOW IT'S OVERDUE IN THIS AREA. WE DON'T97NOW WHEN IT'S GOING TO OCCUR. BUT IN ORDER FOR SOMEONE TO INSURE RISK IN ANY REAL SENSE, THEY

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WOULD HAVE TO MAKE SURE URHAT THE IAN TRASTRUCTURE WAS BUILT UP IN THE RAILCARS SO THAT IT WOULDN'T FAIL UNDER THE L. OUTHEM OF A REASONANVIE EENUECTED NINE-PLUS EARTHQUAKE. THESE RAIL LINES WERE BUILT BEFORE THEY UNDERSTOOD PLATE TECTONICS, WHICH WAS DEVELOPED IN 64 1964. SHY FINISH THIS? IF YOU CAN WRAP UP IN A SENTENCE. OTHERWISE WE HAVE MORE PLTAPLE TO GO. WELL, I'D LIKE TO TAKE FOUR. I'M SORRY, SIR, WE HAVE A LOT OF PLTAPLE LEFT. I'LL DROP IT THERE. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SUBMIT WRITTEN TESTIMONY WE'RE HN WPY TO TAKE THAT, AS WELL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. [NAMES BEING READ] MY NAM- RS JACK HERBERT, I'M RETIRED FROM THE DEQ INDUSTRIAL AIR QUALITY REGULATION. MY SON, I LIVE IN CEDAR HILLS, MY SON LIVES IN PORTLAND. AND D> USED DATA FROM THE EPA TO MODEL THE EFFECTS OF AIR TOXICS THROUGHOUT OREGON. THE CLEAN AIR ACT OFTHE B990 HAD ABOUTTHE B88 DIFFERENT AIR TOXICS. ONE OF THEM DIESEL EMISSIONS THEY ESTIMATED AWOOUNTED FOR THE MAROUGRITY OF CANCER CAUSED BY AIR TOXICS. THIS IS IN -- I HOPE YOU CAN REALLY GRAPHIC THE SERIOUSNESS OF THIS. I THINK IT WAS 70% FOR THE STATE OF OREGON. SO WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU -- SOMEBODY’S ALREADY TALKED ABOUT INCREASED TRAIN TRAFFIC, YOU'RE GOING TO INCREASE DIESEL EMISSIONS. SO OUR CANCER DEATHINGS IN MULTNOMAH COUNTY WILL GO U SOIF YOU ALLOW THESE TRAINS TO COME THROUGH. OBVIOUSLY THAT KIND OF AIR POLLUTION HAS NO PLACE IN THE GORGE. I'M A MEMBER OF THE CLIMATE JOBS COMMITTEE AND DICK HARMON HAS GIVEN YOU AND INERY CLEAR PRESENTATION OF THE REASON THEY WELL, WHAT WE NEED TO DO. WHAT WE ARE FACING NOW IS A LOT SCARIER THAN PEARL HARBOR BUT WE DON'T SEEM TO BE ABLE TO GET IT. I WANT TO POINT OUT THAT ANYTHING WE DO HERE TO GREEN OURSELVES, PROMOTE OUR ECONOMY, WILL BE SWAMPED IF WE LET THIS TERMINAL GO IN. IT'S A LITTLE BIGGER THAN OREGON AND HAS A HECK OF A LOT BIGGER APPETITE. THE OIL, THE FOSSIL FUELS WE EXPORT, INCLUDING OR LIQUID NATURAL GAS

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TERMINALS WILL CONYTLETEFT A SWAMP WHAT WE SAVE HERE. OREGON AND THE WHOLE WEST COAST WILL BE GREATFT A INCREASING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS BY EXPORTING THEM. ANOTHER POINT IS THE ONLY BENEFIT FROM THIS TERMINAL IS ROUGLLU, AND THIS PROJECT WILL BE SUBSTANDARD IN THE NUMBER OF JOBS, I UNDERSTAND, FROM THE AMOUNT OF WATERFRONT, THE NRONBER OF ACRES, THIS IS A RARE OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDES JOBS THROUGHOUT THE PORTLAND AREA AND IT'S SUBSTANVIDRD. YOU WILL BE LOSING J OIS YOU GET IF YOU PUT IN A GOOD PROJECT THAT WOULD BE BEN HAVEICIATHEY HI. GOOD AFTERNOON, CHAIR, MAVIDM CHAIR, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BEING HERE TODAY AND THANK YOU, JULES, FOR PUTTING THIS RESOLUTION FORWARONB. I JUST WANT TO CLEAN UP AROUND THE EDGES A LITTLE BIT, THAT SOME OF THE THINGS I HAVEN'T HEARD SO FAR, I SUPPORT MOST OF THEM. THE FIRST ONE IS THAT I TRAVEL AMTRAK BACK TO WISCONSIN ONCE A YEAR. IT GOES RIGHT THROUGH NORTH DAKOTA AND PAST SOME OF THE FILLING SITES. MORE INYTORTANTLIFT A THAN THAT IT PASSES THE BIG -- WHAT DO YOU CALL, THE BIG RIGS THAT COME ROLLING THROUGH, THETHE B-DOCTOR CAR TRAINS. AMTRAK IS REQUIRED TO PULL OFF TO THE SIDE AS. THEY HAVE LITTLE SIDETRAMBS. AND SO W- RRE R> TE.RED TO SIT THERE AND WATCH AS THE BIG OIL TANKERS GO BY US. AND BOTH OF THE TRAMBS% D ESI MEAN, THEY ARE CLOSE. I WAS RIGHT AT THE WINDOW AND THE STATIONARY TRAIN I WAS ON, THE AMTRAK TRAIN, WE WERE STOPPED ABOUTTHE B0 TIMES BETWEEN HERE AND WISCONSIN FOR QUITE CONSIDERABLE TIMES WAITING FOR THE TRAIN TO GET TOTALFT A PAST US THEY AND THAT TRAIN WAS JUST GOING BACK AND FORTH. I SWEAR, IF I PUT MY ARM OUT THE WINDOW THAT TRAIN WOULD HAVE HIT IT. ERNST TO GIVE YOU SOME IDEA OF WHAT I THINK IS THE MAINTENANCE OF THOSE TRAMBS. AND MORE INYTORTANTFT A THE BED SYSTEMS OF THOSE TRACKS IS DEGENTING CONTINUOUSLY. TO BE ABLE TO POINT AT ONE SPECIFIC LOCATION ON A MN W AND SAY THADUES WHERE THE INCIDENT IS GOING TO OCCUR, THAT'S PREPOSTEROUS. IT COULD NEVER BE DONE. BECAUSE IT COULD HAVE GONE -- WHEREVER THERE'S A WEAKNESS IN THE ROADBED, THAT'S WHERE ONE OF THESE TRAINS COULD JUST DERAIL IF FOR NO OTHER REASON. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BEING HERE TODAY. ERNLES, I WILL SUPPORT THAT. HAVE A GOOD DE'S, F HEERNS. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER F HEERNS THAT WANTED TO TESTIFY TODE'S? ALL RIGHT. WELL, I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE FOR COMING AND SITTING TBEFOUGH THIS LONG HEARING. WE APPRECIATE THOSE WHO COMMENTED AND THOSE WHO

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HAVE COME JUST TO SHOW THEIR SUPPORT OR EENURESS THEIR CONCERN. URHANK YOU ALL FOR PARTICIPATING. DO WE HAVE COMMISSIONERS THAT WOULD LIKE TO MAKE COMMENTS B HAVEORE THEND INOTE? SURE, TO ECHO YOUR COMMENTS, THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY WHO SPENT THEIR TIME TO COME OUT TODE'S, ALL THE EENUERTS THAT TESTIFIED, THE PEOPLE GIVING TIME, ENERGY TO NO BENEFIT OF THEMSELVES TO COME OUT AND MAKE THIS WOR DI I WOULD L >E TO SEND A SPECIAL THANK-YOU TO MY MOM AND STEP-DAD WHO ARE IN THE AOUGIENCE. MAMME THAT'S A CONFLICT OF INTEREST, I'M NOT SURE. I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE SOME COMMENTS, PLEASE. COMM. MCKEEL: I WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE COME AND STAYED AND YOUR PASSION AROUND THIS ISSUE. WHENEVER% D ESALL THE INFORMATION IS INYTORTANT. BUT FOR ME WHENEVER A RESOLUTION COMES BEFORE OUR BOARONB MY FIRST QUESTION IS HOW DOSTS IT INYTACT OUR COUNTY BUSINESS. THE INFORMATION AROUND COUNTY MANAGEMENT AND HEALTH IS HOW IT RELATES TO THE BUSINESS THE COUNTY DOES. THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IS REFERENCED IN A BULLET POINT AT THE BOTTOM OF SRONMARY OF FINDINTES THAT SAYS EMERGENCY RESPONDERS DO NOT HAVE ADEQUATE EQUIPMENT TO RESPOND TO A LARGE SCALE OBR EVENT. SO HAVING SAID THAT, I WILL SUPPORT THE RESOLUTIONS AND DO I LOOK FORWARONB TO HEARING MORE ABOUT HOW THE RES HEUTION CAN HELP US MOVE FORWARD ADDRESSING THE ISSUES THAT ARE RELATED TO OUR COUNTY PROGRAMS. THANK YOU ALL. CAND S-D SHIPRACK: JUST A BRIEF COMMENT, I WANT TO ESPECIALLY THANK YOU, MR. HARMON AND ALL OF YOU. IT'S BEEN A LONG MORNING; I THINK WE CAN AGREE. AND YOU HAD SOME EXPOSURE AS WELL EARLIER ON TO SOME OF THE OTHER BUSINESSES THAT MULTNOMAH COUNTY TRANCEACTS. I REALLY THINK THAT YOUR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT HAS A TREMENDOUS GRAVITATIONAL PULL HERE. I APPRECIATE YOU HAVING YOUR OAR IN THE WATER, WHICH YOU ABSOLUTEFT A DO. GOING BACK TO MR. HARMON'S COMMENTS, I WANT TO SAY THAT MOST OF US HERE ARE MOTIVATED BY THE POSSIBILITY OF YES. AND WHILE NO CAN BE AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE VOCABULARY, THE POSSIBILITIES OF YES ARE WHAT. THEYIVE US ALL FORWARONB. AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, TO BE IN CONTEXT, SOMEONE MENTIONED THE SPECTER WHICH, YOU- NOW, HAS BEEN WITH US IN THIS COUNTRY FOR ABOUT THE LAST 16 YEARS, OF WARRIORS, I BELIEVE, WHO WILL HAVE TO GO FIGD THE BATTLES THAT ARE BEING BROUGHT ABOUT BY CLIMATE CHANGE. LEST WE FORGET, WE HAVE BEEN AT WAR FOR THE LAST 15 YEARS IN A PART OF THE WORLD THAT REALLY HASN'T BEEN MENTIONED TODAY, BUT IS AN OIL PRODU THANG PART OF THE DAYRLD. HE AND ENERGY INDEPENDENCE, I DON'T KNOW IF ANYONE REMEMBERS THAT PBEFASSS I

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DO% D-I THINK HAS HEADEED SPONSOR SOME OF THE DEVELOPMENT THAT IS THE BASIS OF TODAY'S ACTION AND CONT, SOVERTHE SO WHILE WE ACT AND WE CERTAINFT A WILL ACT TODAY, I THINK THAT WE NEED TO BE JUST THOUGHTFUL OF THE UNINTEND CONSEQUENCES OF OUR ACTIONS. WE NS CD TO BE REALISTIC ABOUT WHAT IT IS THAT WE ARE REALLY TALKING ABOUT, AND REALLY TALK ABOUT THAT. AND SOME OF YOU DID AND THAT IS THE CRISIS THAT WE'RE IN AROUND REALLY RAMPANT CLIMATE CHANGSS GLOBAL RAMPANT, SOMLTANE MENTIONED THE NASA MAP WHICH I ALSO SAW LAST NIGHT, WHICH SHOWS THE HEAT SIGNATURE OF THE WORLD. SO I THINK THAT IDUES IMPORTANT THAT WE FRAME OUR CONVERSATION IN THIS AUTHENTIC- IND OF WE'S. BUT THAT IS WHAT W- RRE TALONENG ABOUT HERE. AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR REMINDING US. THANK YOU FOR REMINDING US OF OUR JOUGHT AND OUR RESPONS OF ILITS A W THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS WITH REGARD TO THE IMPACT OF THE PA THAFIC TRADE AGRS CMENT ON WHATEVER AMBITIONS AND ASPIRATIONS WE MAY HAVE INSOFAR AS HAVING OIL TRAVEL THROUGH OUR NEMB OF THE WOODS, BECNE E WE ARE A JRON- ING-OFF PLACE TO THE PACIFIC ECONOMY. AND ALL OF THE APPETITES THAT THAT REPRESENTS. THANK YOU, AND THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER BAILEY, FOR SPONSORING THIS ENTIRE MORNING OF CONVERSATION. COMM. SMITH: CHAIR, I HAVE A QUICK COMMENT. I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE FOR STE'SING HERE ALL MORNING AND LISTENING TO EVERYBODY'S COMMENTS. A BIG THANK-YOU TO COMMISSIONER BAILEY FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP ON THIS ISSUE. URHIS IS AND INERY INYTORTANT ISSUE AND IT IMPACTS THE HEALTH HE AND THE WELFARE OF LOTS OF F HEERNS IPAN% MULTNOMAH COUNTS A W SO THANK YOU FOR COMING OUT TODAY. CHAIR KAFOURY: I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL AIZIN FOR COMING TOVIDS A W I WANT TO THANK PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR BRINGING ATTENTION TO THIS ISSUE. I WANT TO THANK COMMISSIONER BAILEY FOR SPONSORING THE RESOLUTION TODAY. AND THAT'S COUNTY MAN -- EMENT FOR HEADEING US UNDERSTAND THIS THREAT. I BELIEVE THE BOARD HAS RESPONSIBILITY TO UNDERSTAND THE HAZARONBS IN OUR COM CONITY AND TO DO WHAT WE CAN TO PROTECT AND INFORM OUR COMMUNITY ABOUT THE POTENTIAL HARTE WE DON, F HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO REGULATE THE RAILROADS. BUT WE DO HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO DEMAND A MORE THOROUGH REVIEW OF POTENTIAL HAZARD, TO- NO TO HEY WILL BE MORE CLOSELY MONITORED, AND THAT SAFETY REGULATIONS ARE STRONG ENOSORH TO PROTECT US WHEN ! D THINGS H THE EN. SHIPPING CRUDE OIL THROUGH OUR NEIGHBORHOODS PAST THOUSANU OF PEOPLE POSES AND INERY REAL TBEFEAT. WE NS CD ASSURANCE THAT INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS THAT INCREASE THE NUMBER OF CARS HE AND OIL IN COLTNOMAH COUNTY WILL NOT HARM OUR COMMUNITY. THE TESORO SAVAGE PROJECT AT THE PORT OFND INANCOUVER DOSTS NOT TOX. THEYESS INYTACTS TO OREGON DESPITE OUR PROXIMITY TO SHIPPING ROUTES AND THE PROPOSED

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FACILITY. THE RISK TO OUR COM CONITY IS ERNST TSTE GREAT. THAT IS WHY I'M URGING REGULATORS TO STOP THIS PROJECT FROM MINDEING FORWARONB AND CONSIDER THE FULL RISK OF SHIPPING OIL BY TRAIN THROUGH THE MOST HEAVILY POPULATED AREA IN THE STATE, , UL THANKOMEVERYO COUNTS A W THANK YOU AIZIN FOR COMING TODAY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND NOW WE WILL HAVE OURND INOTE. CHAIR KAFOURY: ALL THOSE IN FAVORND INOTE AYE. [CHORUS OF AYES]. OPPOSED? THE RESOLUTION IS ADOPTED. THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] CHAIR KAFOURY: NOW WE'VE COME TO THE TIME OPEN OUR AGENDA FOR THE BOARD TO BRING UP ANY NON AGENDA ITEMS FOR THE GOOD OF THE ORDER. DO WE HAVE ANYTHING? NO? ALL RIGHT. ADJOURNMENT – 12:43 PM

CHAIR KAFOURY: HAVING NO FURTHER BUSINESS, WE ARE ADJOURNED. TRANSCRIPT PREPARED BY LNS CAPTIONING AND UTILIZED IN CREATING MINUTES BY THE BOARD CLERKS. FOR ACCESS TO THE VIDEO AND/OR BOARD PACKET MATERIALS, PLEASE VIEW AT: HTTP://MULTNOMAH.GRANICUS.COM/VIEWPUBLISHER.PHP?VIEW_ID=3 SUBMITTED BY: LYNDA J. GROW, BOARD CLERK AND MARINA BAKER, ASSISTANT BOARD CLERK BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MULTNOMAH COUNTY, OREGON