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A6 • HERMISTONHERALD.COM EOTEC rejects rodeo arena bids By JADE McDOWELL Staff Writer Almost a year before the 2017 Farm-City Pro Rodeo, the Eastern Oregon Trade and Event Center board re- jected all bids on construc- tion of the new rodeo arena. During a special meet- ing Thursday morning John Frew, president of construc- tion manager Frew Devel- opment Group, noted that EOTEC has only $4 million available to build the arena. Neither bid hit that mark. Bothum Construction, a Hermiston-based resi- dential contractor, put in a bid at $4,477,138. Kirby Nagelhout Construction Company, a residential and commercial contractor out of Bend, submitted a bid of $4,740,000. Bothum Construction is owned by David Bothum, one of the founders of the Farm-City Pro Rodeo who has helped upgrade and maintain the current rodeo arena over the years. He resigned his position rep- resenting the rodeo on the EOTEC board in February, citing his intention to bid on construction of the new arena after the design was complete. The board had planned to choose a contractor at its regular meeting July 29 but held off after Frew rec- ommended he irst speak to the board’s legal counsel. On Thursday after an ex- ecutive session Frew said that although Bothum Con- struction gave the lowest estimate, there was some question about what consti- tutes the lowest “responsi- ble” bidder. “This question is critical and it has come up over and over again,” he said. He said in this situation, the legal deinition of “re- sponsible” was not the lay- man’s deinition of being a good person or fulilling commitments. Instead, it is a checklist that includes items such as having the right amount and kind of liability insurance, having complet- ed a similar scope of work before and having the right type of license needed to perform the work. Frew said it was their legal counsel’s opinion that the Bothum Construction, as a home builder, bid did not fulill all of the compo- nents necessary to be con- sidered responsible. The board voted to reject both the bids and have the three-person construction committee (made up of By- ron Smith from the EOTEC board, Don Miller from the fair board and Mike Kay from the rodeo board) look at a way to quickly ind some options for reducing costs and then put the re- vised bid package out again for a shortened period of time. “Let’s put them to work,” board member Dan Dorran said. As Bothum and oth- er members of the rodeo board, visibly upset, began to voice questions about the process going forward, board chair Byron Smith cautioned everyone to not let their emotions get the better of them. “Everyone here is emo- tional about this,” he said. “If we’re going to make this happen, it’s not going to be emotional.” “You’re probably right,” Bothum responded, and the meeting was adjourned without further comment from the audience. The next EOTEC meet- ing will be held Friday, Aug. 12, at 7 a.m. in the West Park Elementary li- brary. REPORTS: • Evergreen Financial Services Inc. vs. Joseph Cuhna; judgment for $2,289 plus interest, costs and fees. $515.76 plus interest, costs and fees. continued from Page A5 •National Collegiate Student Loan Trust 2005-2 vs. Richard Scheele; seeks $50,697.48 plus interest, costs and fees. •Portfolio Recovery Associates LLC vs. Chevelle Gregerson; seeks $2,938.75 plus interest, costs and fees. •Portfolio Recovery Associates LLC vs. Jonathan M. Crosby; seeks $2,593.79 plus interest, costs and fees. Judgments The following judgments have been rendered in Umatilla County courts: • Bonneville Billing & Collections Inc. vs. Maria Pieper; judgment for 394.16 plus interest, costs and fees. • Credits Inc. vs. Lynette and Rich- ard Barthel; judgment for $1,544.88 plus interest, costs and fees. • Credits Inc. vs. Mark A. Barkhurst; judgment for $2,201.69 plus interest, costs and fees. • Credits Inc. vs. Daniel Almonte; judgment for $1,251.46 plus interest, costs and fees. • Credits Inc. vs. Ramon B. Leon; judgment for $1,792.08 plus interest, costs and fees. • Credits Inc. vs. John A. McCuen; judgment for $7,587.13 plus interest, costs and fees. • Credits inc. vs. Stephanie R. Manson; judgment for $2,986.73 plus interest, costs and fees. • Bonneville Billing & Collections Inc. vs. Jose Sandoval; judgment for $318.70 plus interest, costs and fees. • Credits inc. vs. Javier Echeverria; judgment for $725.91 plus interest, costs and fees. • Capital One Bank vs. Lavanda L. Watkins; judgment for $5,548.63 plus interest, costs and fees. • Capital One Bank vs. Jessica Tra- na; judgment for $2,288.88 plus inter- est, costs and fees. • Professional Service Bureau vs. Kevin L. Carver; judgment for $454.38 plus interest, costs and fees. City plans free public bus system for 2017 By JADE McDOWELL Staff Writer STAFF PHOTO BY JADE McDOWELL Past Hermiston Rotary Club president Tim Beinert hands a donation check to Dennis Barnett at the Eastern Oregon Trade and Event Center. Rotary Club gives $25,000 to EOTEC Hermiston Herald The Eastern Oregon Trade and Event Center board got some good news Thursday afternoon in the form of a $25,000 donation from the Herm- iston Rotary Club. The donation, which will be spread out over ive years through a i- nancing option offered to EOTEC donors, went to the nonproit Friends of the Fair and Rodeo to provide lexibility for how the donation is used. Rotary Club Presi- dent Dean Fialka said the club’s past, current and future presidents came together and decided that the sizable donation could help the new fair and rodeo grounds be a quality project for the community. • Bonneville Billing & Collections Inc. vs. Elizabeth A. Fagan; judgment for $1,254.05 plus interest, costs and fees. • Credits Inc. vs. Brandon and Ni- cole Makin; judgment for $4,628.86 plus interest, costs and fees. • Let’er Rent Property Manage- ment vs. Janessa Brickman and Teagan Kaneaster; judgment for $1,427.78 plus interest, costs and fees. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2016 LOCAL NEWS “We’ll be very inter- ested to see it all come together,” he said. Former Rotary Club president Tim Beinert presented a check to EO- TEC fundraising commit- tee member Dennis Bar- nett on Thursday during the Rotary Club’s regular meeting. The meeting took place in EOTEC’s newly-completed event center, and club members were offered a tour after the event. Barnett said after con- struction bids for both the rodeo arena and barns came in over budget, the donation was very much appreciated and will be put to good use. “It’s truly amazing how giving our commu- nity and Rotary really is,” he said. •Credits Inc. vs. Jhovana Macias; judgment for $3,380.69 plus inter- est, costs and fees. • Credits Inc. vs. Deysy Esparza; judgment for $758.30 plus interest, costs and fees. A partnership is in the works to bring a free public bus system to Hermiston early next year. The ixed-route sys- tem, which would stop at various locations around town on a regu- lar schedule beginning in 2017, would be part of the regional Kayak Public Transit system run by the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. Assistant City Can- ager Mark Morgan told the City Council during an hour-long work ses- sion Monday that allow- ing the tribes to run the system through a mem- orandum of understand- ing, instead of inventing one from scratch, would save an immense amount of time and money. “They’re already do- ing this stuff,” Morgan said. “We don’t need to reinvent the wheel.” Right now Herm- iston’s only public transportation is the subsidized taxi tickets for senior and disabled riders. The city pays about $100,000 a year for those, in addition to about $30,000 that comes from Umatilla County. CTUIR Planning Di- rector JD Tovey said the tribes have access to sig- niicant amounts of fed- eral grant money. They could bring in more of those federal dollars to fund the new Hermis- ton system if they lev- eraged the city’s money as a match and included Hermiston riders in their system-wide ridership count. He said money would be kept separate so Hermiston dollars would not fund other legs of the inter-city sys- tem that currently runs between 17 communi- ties. Morgan said the city would continue to run the $2 taxi ticket pro- gram as well, but would expect the cost to go down as more riders opt- ed to take the free bus. • Credits Inc. vs. Juana Castane- da Saldana; judgment for $10,000 plus interest, costs and fees. • Nationwide Recovery Service vs. Jeffrey D. Henderson; judgment for $3,889.29 plus interest, costs and fees. Morgan and Tovey couldn’t give councilors an estimate on cost, because it depends on factors such as how many stops and how many hours per week the buses operate. But Morgan said the grant money and over- head savings would help balance things out, and the payoff would be a system that serves more citizens and doesn’t charge them anything. “Hermiston has grown tremendously since that (taxi ticket) program was put in place,” Morgan said. “It’s ineficient and it only serves our senior and dis- abled residents.” Tovey said a ixed route through Hermiston would allow the bus that runs be- tween cities to stop just once in Hermiston, in- stead of three times, saving enough time that the CTU- IR could likely reach its goal of extending service to Boardman. Worship NEW BEGINNINGS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP Worship Service 10:30 AM Sunday School 9:00 AM Pastor J.C. Barnett Children's Church & Nursery Available 700 West Orchard Avenue P.O. Box 933 • Hermiston, Oregon 541-289-4774 LANDMARK BAPTIST CHURCH 125 E. Beech Ave. • 567-3232 Pastor David Dever Sun. Bible Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:00am Sun. Worship Service . . . . . . . . . . 11:00am Sun. Evening Worship . . . . . . . . . . 6:00pm Wed. Prayer & Bible Study . . . 6:00pm www.hermistonlmbc.com The Full Gospel Home Church 235 SW 3rd Phone 567-7678 Rev. Ed Baker - Rev. Nina Baker Sunday: Sunday School........10:00 am Worship...................11:00 am Evening Service........7:00 pm Wednesday Service..7:00 pm "Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you." 1 Pet. 5:7 Grace Baptist Church 555 SW 11th, Hermiston 567-9497 Nursery provided for all services Sunday School - 9:30 AM Worship - 10:45 AM 6:00 pm Wed Prayer & Worship - 7:00 PM “Proclaiming God’s word, growing in God’s grace” First United Methodist Church Of Hermiston Rev. Dr. James T. Pierce, Pastor Open Hearts, Open minds, Open doors 191 E. Gladys Ave. Sunday Worship at 11am (541) 567-3002 St. Johns Episcopal Church All People Are Welcome Scripture, Tradition and Reason Family service 9am Sunday Gladys Ave & 7th Hermiston Fr. Dan Lediard, Priest. PH: 567-6672 Seventh-day Adventist Church • Professional Service Bureau vs. Loren K. and Tami L. Rood; judgment for $1,441.68 plus interest, costs and fees. • First Community Credit Union vs. Anna B. Navarro; judgment for He said state govern- ment oficials recently pointed out that the only gap in public transportation between Ontario and Port- land is the stretch between Stanield and Arlington. If Kayak extended its route to Boardman, the state would likely help extend the Hood River-based service that stops in Arlington, creating the opportunity for some- one to take public transpor- tation all the way from the Idaho border to Portland and back. The city is putting to- gether a public transporta- tion committee to design a bus route through Hermis- ton so that it can be paired with a budget and presented to the City Council for ap- proval. Morgan said if all goes well the system could be up and running by Jan. 2. Councilors said they liked the idea and several volunteered to sit on the transportation committee. 1255 Hwy. 395 S. • 567-5834 oasisvineyard.us Worship 10:00 AM "come as you are" NEW HOPE COMMUNITY CHURCH 1350 S. Highway 395, Hermiston Sunday Worship Services English- Pastor Dave Andrus 9:00 & 10:45 am Spanish- Pastor Genaro Loredo 9:00 & 10:15 am Classes for kids during all services For more information call 541-567-8441 Echo Community Church 21 N. Bonanza Street, Echo OR Phone: (541) 376-8108 Sunday School • 9:30am Worship • 10:45am Children’s Church • 11:15am Potluck & Communion ~ First Sunday of the Month Saturdays Sabbath School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:30 a.m. Worship Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11:00 a.m. 567-8241 855 W. Highland • Hermiston Our Lady of Angels Catholic Church 565 W. HERMISTON AVE. DAILY MASS: Monday-Friday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . English 7:00 am THURSDAY . . . . . . . . . Spanish 6:00 pm SATURDAY: . . . . . . . . . English 5:00 pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Spanish 7:00 pm SUNDAY: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . English 9:00 am . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bilingual 11:00 am . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Spanish 1:00 pm OFFICE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567-5812 First Christian Church "Proclaiming the Message of Hope, Living the Gospel of Love" SUNDAY WORSHIP 10:00 AM COFFEE / MINGLE 9:15 AM CHILDREN'S CHURCH 10:00 AM Nursery Provided 567-3013 775 W. Highland Ave., Hermiston To share your worship times call Terri Briggs 541-278-2678