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The INDEPENDENT, May 19, 2011
Mayor Kinsky declares May 20 Banks Bike to Work Day
by Jodi Boylan
Mayor John Kinsky got to do
the “fun” part of his job at the
May 10 Banks City Council
meeting. The City of Banks ob-
served National Drinking Water
Week, May 1-7, with the city’s
second annual National Drink-
ing Water Week Coloring Con-
test. Kinsky called up each win-
ner individually, and shook their
hands as he handed them a
certificate and prize. This
year’s winners for the 2-6 year-
old category were Brooklyn
Janeway in 1st place, Aidan
Kroo in 2nd place, and Jackson
Henderson in 3rd place. For the
7-9 year-old category, 1st place
went to Martial Stegemeirer,
Alyssa Greagor placed 2nd,
and Ayyub Diani placed 3rd. In
the 10-12 year-old category, El-
lie Schmidlin took 1st place,
Hannah White was 2nd, and
3rd place went to Brantley
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Roberta Sommer presented
the mayor with A Trees for All –
Community Stream Planting
Challenge plaque. City of
Banks residents have helped
plant 1.1 million native plants in
the Tualatin River Watershed
since 2005.
A certificate of Appreciation
was presented to Councilor
Craig Stewart recognizing his
wife, Tami Stewart, for her ded-
icated service to the city by
serving on the Banks Tree Ad-
visory Board.
Kinsky read Banks Bicycle
Month Proclamation, then pre-
sented it to Hal Ballard. The
proclamation noted that the bi-
cycle has been an important
part of the lives of Americans
for more than a century, and
that millions of Americans en-
gage in bicycling because it is a
viable and environmentally
sound form of transportation,
as well as an excellent form of
recreation and physical activity,
when safely driven. The
League of American Bicyclists
has declared the month of May
as National Bike Month for 55
years. Kinsky, with the support
of the City Council, declared
May 20 as Banks Bike to Work
Day.
Banks Liquor Store
A full service liquor store
NEWLY REMODELED
with MORE ROOM
for GREATER SELECTION
Open every day 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Located inside Jim’s Thriftway
Council noted that many
people are using Banks-Ver-
nonia Trail as a biking re-
source, that the parking lot is
full on the weekends, and that
people are parking and unload-
ing their bikes on Main Street.
With a smile on his face, Bal-
lard commented, “If you build it,
they will come.”
After introducing himself as
the Banks weekend warrior and
fill-in for Deputy Patrick Cher-
tude, Washington County Sher-
iff’s Deputy Bobby Wormington
briefed council on police activi-
ty for the month of April. Worm-
ington commented that he is
“kinda new” at this, but that he
used Chertude’s format for his
report. According to Worming-
ton there were 146 document-
ed incidents in the city. There
were 38 public service re-
quests, three arrests, 67 traffic
stops, 16 citations, and 12 writ-
ten reports. A call for a domes-
tic disturbance resulted in a
DUII arrest; other calls were for
criminal mischief at Sunset
Park, theft of a bicycle at Banks
High School, fraud, driving
while suspended, and a report
of sexual crimes involving an
under-aged victim which detec-
tives are investigating.
Raymond Deeth stood in as
the Planning Commission Liai-
son. According to Deeth the
Planning Commissioners are
studying the land use informa-
tion section by section. After a
public hearing the commission
approved the Banks Library re-
model project.
City Manager Jim Hough
presented the City Manager
Report:
• The City of Banks is work-
ing with Washington County
Cooperative Library Services
staff to revise and update the
Public Library Services Agree-
ment (PLSA) and the WCCLS
Information Network Agree-
ment. Hough anticipates the
WCCLS Executive Board will
vote to approve the drafts at its
May meeting and he hopes to
have both documents on the
June Council Agenda for ap-
proval.
• The City is working with the
Banks Historical Society on its
annual renewal of the Log Cab-
in Lease Agreement. There are
no anticipated changes; Hough
hopes to have approval of the
new lease on the June Council
Agenda.
• The city has received notifi-
cation that, as expected, DLCD
is applying to LCDC to appeal
the recent ordinance adopting
the Banks Parks & Recreation
Master Plan, which brings
Quail Valley Golf Course into
the Banks UGB.
• Banks Earth Day at Banks
Elementary School went quite
well. A lot of recycled material
was collected and the swale
behind the school was cleaned.
• The city is working with
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Servpro on pre-disaster plan-
ning for business continuity and
cleanup after disaster. The city
will hold a pre-disaster planning
meeting in mid-June at City
Hall. City staff has been ad-
vised that Servpro is opening a
new facility in Cornelius on Fri-
day, May 13, and the public is
invited from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00
p.m. to see what they have in
the way of cleanup equipment.
• A water customer has re-
quested that return envelopes
be added to the water bills. This
option has been reviewed
again and it is too expensive as
well as wasteful. A large num-
ber of customers deliver their
water bill payments directly to
City Hall, or to the 24-hour drop
box at the entrance to City Hall.
Council unanimously ap-
proved the purchase of a back-
hoe from the City of Harrisburg
in two payments of $2,000
each, during fiscal year 2011-
2012. The water utility needs a
backhoe that could also be
used for a number of public
works projects. The city’s Pub-
lic Works Supervisor has seen
the vehicle and advised that it
is a good purchase.
Council approved renewing
the Intergovernmental Cooper-
ative Agreement with Washing-
ton County for the Community
Development Block Grant
(CDBG) program.
The next Banks City Council
Meeting will be held at City
Hall, on June 14, at 7:00 p.m.
Two from Banks
earn honors
Kelsii Jo Dana and Tiffany
Ann Gentzkow, both of Banks
were named on the Western
Oregon University
Winter
Term 2011 honor roll.
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