EIGHT - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, December 30, 2020
County equips new surveyor position
By David Sykes
The Morrow County
Commission has been busy
buying equipment to outfit
the new county surveyor
position it created earlier.
The surveyor position was
previously an elected one
and filled the last several
years by Stephen Haddock.
However, under state law
counties can do away with
the elected position and
hire a surveyor as a county
employee. Last year Mor-
row County decided to do
that and subsequently for
the first time did not hold
an election, and instead
hired Matthew Kenny to
the position. Kenny was
previously a survey tech-
nician for the Umatilla
County Road Department.
The new equipment was
needed because when the
position was elected the
surveyor would bring his
own equipment and vehicle
to the job, so now Morrow
County needed to purchase
those things by the end of
this year.
At its December 16
meeting the commission
voted to buy a 2021 Ram
2500 Crew Cab from Dave
Smith Motors in Kellogg,
ID for $32,415. Kenny
reported to the commis-
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sion that he asked eight
different dealers for quotes
on existing inventory and
received back three that
met the specifications. Dave
Smith was lowest with one
from Power Chevrolet in
Sublimity and Landmark
Ford in Tigard both be-
ing higher. Kenny said the
“general consensus” is that
inventory on fleet vehicles
is “extremely low,” so he
felt good getting three bids.
Commissioner Don Russell
said he has bought vehicles
from Dave Smith Motors
for many years and has got-
ten good prices and service.
He noted that they are also
the largest Dodge dealer in
the world and located in
Kellogg.
In other surveyor equip-
ment purchases, the county
voted at its Dec. 23 meeting
to buy a GNSS system and
robotic total station setup
at a cost of $44,500. The
system is a needed piece
of equipment for survey-
ing. Kenny received three
bids on the equipment and
went with the low bid from
Kuker-Ranken In Mount-
lake Terrace, WA.
In other business at
their Dec. 16 meeting the
commission voted to sell
two sheriff vehicles at the
state auction. The vehicles
are a 2013 Dodge Charger
with 105,229 miles and
a 2013 Dodge Ram with
142,322 miles. The vehicles
will be transported to Salem
to be sold at the periodic
state auctions.
In other action the com-
mission voted to grant a tax
refund of $2,793 to Arcus,
LLC for property on Butter-
creek that was improperly
assessed for the 2017-18
tax year. The error was
discovered after this year
tax statements were already
mailed out in October. At an
earlier Dec. 12 meeting the
commission granted a tax
refund to the Port of Mor-
row the amount of $4,892.
The Port had been incor-
rectly billed for two tax
lots taxable due to a lease.
The lease had not been ex-
ercised yet so the parcels
should have remained ex-
empt from taxes. At a Nov.
25 meeting the commission
approved a $3,052 tax re-
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fund to CoreLogic, a real
estate data company, for its
overpayment of taxes.
The commission voted
unanimously to reappoint
Stanley Anderson to the
county planning commis-
sion. He was originally
appointed in 2019. County
planner Tamra Mabbott said
she did not advertise the po-
sition was open for public
application because she felt
the cost of $300 to advertise
in the two newspapers was
too much to spend. The po-
sition is for the Irrigon area.
The commission agreed
that since he was appointed
and Anderson had agreed to
serve again, they should not
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and ranches practices of
Madison Ranches and his
belief they will operate the
facility responsibly. “Man-
agement is very important
to make sure a facility is
successful. This facility
(Madison) is successful
and has a long history of
successful farming and
livestock management
compliance,” he said of
the applicant. He said the
permit would protect the
environment and still allow
the facility to be profitable.
The commissioners
listened to the report and
viewed a power point pre-
sentation from Mathews
but took no action as it was
Map of the proposed new 6,000 head animal feed lot in Umatilla County near the Morrow
County line.
advertise the position open,
which would have given
others the chance to apply.
The decision opened a
broader discussion on what
county positions should be
advertised to the public and
which should not. Commis-
sioner Jim Doherty said he
normally wants open posi-
tions advertised but would
take acceptance to planning
commission positions be-
cause it “is a different sort
of thing to me.” He said it
is hard work the planners
do, and he even proposed
paying the planning com-
mission members for their
volunteer work. Doherty
suggested the county either
set a policy for appointing
members to all committees
and when they should ad-
vertise, or to consider each
If approved the lot informational only since
would be located at Mad- the facility is located in
ison Ranches and have a Umatilla County.
maximum of 6,000 head of
cows and would use 8,660
adjoining farm acres on
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appointment and whether to
advertise it open “on a case-
by-case basis.” Mabbott
also suggested that the com-
mission consider dropping
the number of planning
commission members from
the current nine to seven or
maybe even five. “It is not
a ‘statutory requirement’ to
have nine,” she reminded
them.
In other business the
commissioners heard from
Wym Mathews from the
Oregon Dept. of Agricul-
ture who gave a report of a
new feedlot operation being
planned in Umatilla County
but located near the Mor-
row County line (see map).
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