public access roads -Continued from PAGE ONE West Glen roads to a better standard and the property owners maintain them for the long run, that seems to be the most fiscally respon- sible way to assist,” he told commissioners. Mabbott said the way these older subdivi- sions were put in, should not have been allowed, and today would not be built this way. “New subdivi- sions are required to meet a minimum road standard and they also provide a homeowners agreement or a maintenance agree- ment,” she explained. But, she added that the county doesn’t have a way to actu- ally enforce the agreements in the future. “There is a new subdivision outside Boardman and before they start to build, they have to put up an asphalt road and then there is an agreement (maintenance). “But what if 10 years from now peo- ple don’t want to maintain those roads?” she asked rhetorically, even though the agreements are record- ed at the courthouse. After a long dis- cussion Commissioner Jim Doherty moved that the county proceed with the repairs, with no stip- ulation for either code en- forcement or any required maintenance agreements with the property owners. “The county road dept rec- ommends the expenditure. The public use of the road justifies the expenditure. Emergency folks want this done. And I don’t want this done quid pro quo - we will only do this if you do that. You are either recommend- ing it or not. The emergen- cy stipulation justifies it,” Doherty explained of his motion to just proceed with repairs. He pointed out the county doing and paying for the repairs would fol- low Oregon Law for public roads. The motion to just proceed was eventually amended by Commissioner Melissa Lindsay when she said she wanted mainte- nance agreements worked out with the landowners if the current work is done. “Any chance we get to a future maintenance agree- ment? I don’t think this is right we do it every two to three years,” she said. “I can do this if I know this is a one-time agreement and there is something for future maintenance.” She agreed with Imes that the first step would be to do a mailing to all the residents explaining the situation and need for the maintenance agreement. “I want a com- mitment of some kind for future maintenance,” she emphasized. Russell agreed there must be a mainte- nance agreement attached to the repairs. “I would like to help them to bring it up, but there has to be some path going forward to maintain their own road,” Russell said. He added that the county needed to be consistent on what it does with all roads in similar circumstances in Morrow County. “We can’t just keep going in and doing mainte- nance on that road and we don’t do it on other roads. We need to be consistent. I’m probably in favor of one time.” But he didn’t want to see them come back again in two to three years with the same request. “What’s the plan after we do it one time? That’s what I want to see,” Russell stated. Doherty said he didn’t want the current road work tied to any mainte- nance agreement or code enforcement, and refused to vote in favor of the mo- tion. “There is an illegal spud cellar out off of tower road and I bring it up ev- ery time code comes up because we beat the hell out of these people and we don’t go after those peo- ple,” he said of the seed potato facility he claims is a zoning violation. “We want to appreciate that we have 30 families out there working their tails off with those trucking businesses,” he said. “Don’t reach out to those people with trucks until the illegal seed potato processing facility is shut down,” Doherty said before voting against the amended amendment which passed 2-1. “It is important for me to see it through,” Imes said about the road repairs. Mabbott said she would work with Imes to change things at West Glen. “This can be a pilot project in one neighborhood,” she said. 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