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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:
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vs. Joseph Cuhna; judgment for $2,289
plus interest, costs and fees.
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•National Collegiate Student Loan
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$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.
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“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
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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
