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City, county will search for homeless solutions
Joint meeting to be
held Wednesday
discuss ideas such
as a managed camp
BY BRENNA VISSER
The Bulletin
Guy Cavallo has a simple
request: a place he can call his
own.
For the past 10 years, the
69-year-old has been home-
less, finding new places to put
his RV around Redmond ev-
ery few years. Most recently, he
joined dozens of other home-
less residents in calling the cor-
ner of 17th Street and Green-
wood Avenue in Redmond
home.
Getting to live in a house
or apartment again would of
course be his preference —
he lost his former Redmond
house when his wife died, he
said.
But his income of $820 from
Social Security makes that ba-
sically impossible to do.
“It’s so hard to get going
again,” Cavallo said. ”With the
price of everything, what do
you do?”
So for Cavallo, even having
a parking space where he knew
he could legally park would
make a world of difference in
his life.
A program that could offer
this is now being considered in
Redmond.
On July 21, the Redmond
City Council and Deschutes
County Commission will meet
to discuss several proposals in
an effort to address the city’s
growing homeless population.
The number of homeless
residents in Redmond has
more than doubled from 89
to 189 in two years, according
to data from a yearly point-in-
time count, which counts the
number of homeless people in
a given region on one night in
January.
Guy Cavallo,
69, works
on secur-
ing a tarp
over a load
of trash July
8 in prepa-
ration to
drive to the
dump from
his campsite
along 17th
Street in Red-
mond.
Ryan Brennecke/
The Bulletin
See Homelessness / P4
Wetlands Complex expansion
Redmond
police station
plan moves
forward
City council OKs $2.2M buy
of NW Canal Boulevard
property for new HQ
BY GARRETT ANDREWS
The Bulletin
Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin
An aerial view of the City of Redmond’s water pollution control facility irrigation site, at 5801 Northwest Way in Redmond.
Redmond to relocate its wastewater treatment facility
BY NICOLE BALES • The Bulletin
T
he city of Redmond is seeking to acquire
more than 900 acres from the federal
government to relocate and expand its
wastewater treatment plant. The current facility, built
in 1978, is located less than two miles from the city
center in the Dry Canyon, and abuts residential homes
and farmland.
Further north, the proposed relo-
cation site sits adjacent to the city’s
610-acre irrigation complex which
has a holding pond for treated wa-
ter and hay fields. The water is used
to irrigate the hay and biosolids are
used for fertilizer. The city leases
land from the federal Bureau of
Land Management next to the site
where disinfected water is infil-
trated into the ground.
The relocation and expansion,
known as the Redmond Wetlands
Complex project, will use con-
structed lagoons and wetlands to
naturally treat wastewater before
discharging it into the groundwater.
Fewer chemicals
Ryan Kirchner, the city’s waste-
water division manager, said the
natural process achieves the same
goal as a mechanical system, but
uses fewer chemicals and takes
more land and time to treat and
clean wastewater.
Constructed lagoons will screen
the wastewater and break down en-
ergy and nutrients in 15 to 20 days.
The fast-expanding city of Redmond
took another step this week in its plan to
build a new police station.
The project would include an on-site
mental health triage center similar to
the stabilization center at the Bend pub-
lic safety campus on Poe Sholes Road,
which officials say has been successful.
Police leaders in Redmond say the de-
partment long ago outgrew the 25-year-
old station at 777 SW Deschutes Ave.
The 12,850-square-foot building, located
on a 1-acre lot, used to have a 36-person
staff. The department has grown to 61
employees today.
The building is “functionally obso-
lete” and afflicted with failing HVAC and
plumbing systems, police officials say, and
there is a shortage of secured parking and
storage space for evidence. The current
facility also does not offer equal locker
rooms or bathrooms for female officers,
according to City of Redmond documents.
Three months ago, the council took a
first step in building a new police station,
which had been identified by the current
council as a goal.
The emerging plan for a Redmond
public safety campus was discussed in
greater detail last week at a meeting of
the Redmond City Council, which re-
sulted in councilors authorizing the city
manager to move forward with a plan to
purchase an 8-acre parcel at 2983 NW
Canal Blvd. The council had eyed an-
other parcel — on S. Canal Road — but
that option didn’t make as much finan-
cial sense to councilors.
See Wastewater / P5
See Police / P3
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Wednesday 7/21
Events in and around Redmond
The Redmond Spokesman welcomes event information for
its community calendar. Submissions are limited to nonprofit,
free and live entertainment events. Deadline is 5 p.m. Thursday
for the following Wednesday’s paper. Items are published on a
space-available basis and may be edited. Contact us at
news@redmondspokesman.com or fax 541-548-3203.
Redmond Fire & Rescue Board Meeting: The board will
discuss the wildland radio purchase, City of Redmond Down-
town Urban Renewal District revenue sharing and more; 9:30-
10:30 a.m.; free; Redmond Fire & Rescue, online, Redmond; red-
mondfireandrescue.org
Yoga Nidra: A relaxing guided meditation known as “yogic
sleep”; 6-7 p.m.; free; Deschutes Public Library, online; de-
schuteslibrary.org
The Tangents at Over the Edge: The classic rock band will
perform; 6-8 p.m.; free; Over the Edge Tap House, 13959 SW
Commercial Loop Road, Terrebonne; facebook.com/overth-
eedgetaphouse
Mystery Book Club: Discussing “Girl in Disguise” by Greer Ma-
callister; 6-7 p.m.; free; Roundabout Books, online; roundabout-
bookshop.com
THuRsday 7/22
Live at the Vineyard — Michael John & Rob Fincham: The
local duo will play a variety of hit covers; 5-8 p.m.; $15 advanced
tickets required; Faith, Hope and Charity Vineyards, 70450 NW
Lower Valley Drive, Terrebonne; faithhopeandcharityevents.
com
‘Bad Mommy Bad Writer’ by Kim Cooper Findling: The
See Calendar / P3
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Puzzles ............. 2 Obituaries ....... 5
Police log ........ 2 Classifieds ....... 6
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