APPROVED ON JANUARY 11, 2012

BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

AT THE WEEKLY BUSINESS SESSION

WEEKLY BUSINESS SESSION December 21, 2011, 9: 00 a. m.

Televised on Cable Channel 14 from the Anne G. Basker Auditorium

604 N.W. Sixth Street, Grants Pass, OR 97526

Present: Simon G. Hare, Vice Chair, and Don Reedy, Commissioner.

Attending: Sara Rubrecht, County Emergency Manager/ Search& Rescue Coordinator; Roger Harada, PlanningDepartment; Kim Kashuba, Recorder; Members of the Media and Other Interested Persons.

These are meeting minutes only. Only text enclosed in quotation marks reports a speaker' s exact words. For complete contentsof the proceeding, please refer to the audio recording.

Pursuant to notice through the media and in conformance with the Public Meeting Law, Simon G. Hare, Vice Chair calledthe meeting to order at 9: 00 a.m. Items discussed were as follows:

1. PROCLAMATIONS: In the Matter of Proclaiming December 21, 2011 as Homeless Persons' Memorial DayCommissioner Hare read the Proclamation and Kelly Wessels, Chief Operations Officer for United Community Action

Network, accepted the Proclamation and spoke briefly about homelessness and UCAN' s services to the community.She announced this year' s UCAN Point in Time Count information would be released today at 5: 00 pm today, outlining thecurrent number of homeless individuals in the community.

2. PUBLIC COMMENT ON AGENDA ITEMS:

Dale Matthews, Grants Pass, spoke in opposition to Agenda Item 3e: Proposed Meeting ScheduleLarry Ford, Grants Pass, spoke in favor of Agenda Item 3c: Findings of Fact Re: Copeland Sand& Gravel.

3. CONSENT CALENDAR:

a. Amendment# 3 to Lease Agreement between Josephine County and Uwe Schroeder, dba SchroederWholesale

Commissioner Hare explained the terms of the Lease and advised that the Board was prepared to approve the

Amendment. Two original leases signed; one returned to Chet Bolen, one retainedfor recording.

b. Violation Surcharge Waiver Request for Rowland and Barbara Normand

Roger Harada, Planning Department, explained the circumstances surrounding the request for the waiver and advisedthat the Planning Department recommended the waiver.

c. Findings of Fact and Decision In The Matter of a Request to Modify a Specific Condition of Approval for anExisting Aggregate Operation to Allow One of Four Allowable Blasting Events to Occur Between June 1st andAugust 31st. Applicant: Copeland Sand& Gravel, Inc.

Roger Harada, Planning Department, described the history giving rise to the Findings of Fact and Decision.One original document signed and retainedfor recording.

d. Economic Development Application for RCC Small Business Development Center

Rick Leibowitz, Regional Director of RCC Small Business Development Center(" SBDC"), and Kenny Houck, IllinoisValley Business Entrepreneurial Center (" IVBEC"), presented Exhibit A, spoke about the services of the SBDC and the

IVBEC, and encouraged the Board to approve their Economic Development Application. Commissioner Hare advised that

although the application is for $35, 000, due to the approved Economic Development Budget for that year, the Board was

prepared to approve the application for$ 25, 000.

e. Proposed Meeting Schedule for the Board of County CommissionersCommissioner Reedy advised that the Board was in the process of revising meeting schedules and formats in an attempt

to be more efficient and transparent, and described the current proposal.

f. Resolution# 2011- 063 In the Matter of Appointment to the Josephine County Parks Advisory BoardCommissioner Hare spoke regarding the appointment of Doyle Nelson and endorsed the appointment. One original

Resolution signed and retainedfor recording.

g. Resolution# 2011- 064 In the Matter of Adopting the Josephine County Natural Hazards Mitigation Plandated July 2011

Sara Rubrecht, County Emergency Manager/Search & Rescue Coordinator, briefly revisited the purpose of the

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Resolution and the effect of the Plan, and recommended the Board sign the Resolution adopting the Plan.One original Resolution signed and retainedfor recording.

Commissioner Reedy made a motion to approve the Economic Development Application for RCC Small BusinessDevelopment Center in the amount of$25, 000, seconded by Commissioner Hare. Upon roll call vote, motion passed 2- 0;Commissioner Reedy— yes, and Commissioner Hare— yes. One application signed and returned to Rosemary Padgett.

Commissioner Reedy made a motion to approve Consent Calendar Items 3a, b, c, e, f& g, as listed, seconded byCommissioner Hare. Upon roll call vote, motion passed 2- 0; Commissioner Reedy— yes, and Commissioner Hare— yes.

4. REQUESTS/COMMENTS FROM CITIZENS:

Larry Ford, 136 Ferry Road, Grants Pass, encouraged the Board to consider allowing public comment at the ThursdayAdministration Meetings, and suggested more effort be spent to enforce day use fees at the Parks to help keep them open.

Dale Matthews, Grants Pass, spoke about a recent meeting that allegedly broke Public Meeting Law.

Steve Chroninger, Merlin, spoke in favor of the proposed meeting schedule and thanked the Board for their efforts at beingmore efficient.

Chris Ferguson, Sunny Valley, thanked the Board for the opportunity to view his local government in action.

Roy Lindsey, Grants Pass, spoke in favor of the proposed meeting schedule and thanked the Board for improved meetingdecorum.

Rycke Brown, Grants Pass, spoke in favor of parts of the proposed new meeting format and in opposition of other parts.She submitted for the record Exhibit B regarding Extra Virgin olive oil.

Ed Bowers, Grants Pass, thanked the Board for the manner in which the meetings are now run and encouraged the Board tostrive to find a solution to continue funding the Public Safety Department.

5. ITEMS FROM COMMISSIONERS

Commissioner Reedy clarified that the proposed meeting schedule would begin on a trial basis and was subject to revisionas necessary. He also announced that Commissioner Hare had been elected as Board Chair of the Job Council.

Commissioner Hare discussed his recent meeting with the Governor, described the economic proposals being consideredby the state and other counties and stated it was important that the citizens of Josephine County be educated as to what it meansto be an O& C County.

Weekly Business Se : ion w.. adjou ed at 10: 18 am

Kim Kashuba, Recorder

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Extra Virgin " is not VirginThis is a non-review of a book I haven' t read: Extra Virginity: The Sublime and

Scandalous World ofOlive Oil. I heard about it on NPR last Friday (and now cannot find theshow), as they were interviewing the author, Tom Mueller. I learned that, for 30 years, theolive oil that I bought because I thought it was full of good anti-oxidants was not. It took me a

full two days to get the joke. The author still hasn' t; he has devoted a website to "extravirginity:" www.extravirginity.com.

The day after I heard the show, I found some apparently virgin olive oil in Wal-Mart,under the brand "California Olive Ranch." It is in a green bottle. Its ingredient list says:100% unrefined, unfiltered extra virgin olive oil. Contains no trans-fatty acids or genetically

modified ingredients." Its label reads like the makers read the above book, which means theydon' t get the joke either. But it smells like the fresh juice of ripe olives, not oil, just as the

author told us olive oil is supposed to smell like. I' d never smelled that wonderful aroma in

my life, but I knew it when I smelled it. My housemate said it smells like an olive grove.I had always considered "extra virgin" to be a meaningless marketing ploy, trying to put

a superlative on an absolute. One is either virgin or not; one cannot be more virgin than

someone else, or excessively virgin, which is what" extra virgin" would seem to mean.

I forgot several things: every word on a food label means something; that meaning isactionable; these are large companies with lawyers who parse the meaning of words. And,when used to modify an absolute, "extra" has a different meaning: "outside of," as in "extra-

curricular," "extra-marital," "extra-territorial," or" extra-terrestrial." "Extra virgin," even

without the hyphen, modifies an absolute to say that it is not virgin, outside of virgin, pastvirgin. It may have once been virgin, but it will never be virgin again.

Thus, the other words on olive oil labels that the author thinks are meaningless or

redundancies are not. It may say" cold pressed" because "extra virgin" makes no such claim.In fact, it makes no claim except that the oil is not virgin. "Virgin" oil is always cold pressed or

centrifugally extracted, a distinction without a difference in the finished product; "extra

virgin" has to say that it is.For thirty years, I bought the cheapest virgin or" extra virgin" olive oil on the shelf

because I didn' t think too hard about the words "extra virgin." Turns out that I was

contributing to the problem of low-quality olive oil, made from dropped fruit instead of fruitpicked at the peak of ripeness. It makes a nasty, rancid oil that has to be deodorized andrefined; they then add a bit of virgin olive oil to give it some color and flavor.

I use olive oil for my health; I' m not buying cheap olive oil any more. Now I wish themaker of my oil to drop the "extra" from their label and be proudly virgin.

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Rycke Brown, Natural Gardener 541- 955-9040 rycke@gardener.com

St. Johns Wort: Get It Before It' s Gone

You can have an amazing herbal healing oil, good for all skin problems, earaches,hemorrhoids, vaginal infections, and wounds. The bad news is that you have only weeksto gather the materials and make it, and you can' t buy it in stores. The good news is that

it grows nearly everywhere, and it takes only minutes to gather enough to make a year' ssupply for a family with enough to give samples away.

It' s called Oil of St. John' s Wort, and the flowers are blooming throughout theNorthwest and probably much of the country right now. It' s late in Southern Oregon this

year, thanks to our late cold rain; it normally blooms in May and early June; it started thisyear in mid-June, and should bloom into mid-July.

Most people have heard of St. John' s Wort as an anti-depressant first popularized

in Europe. It' s best not to use the herb internally, as internal use can cause photo-sensitivity. As a topical antibiotic, anti- inflammatory, and astringent, it is safe andexceedingly useful.

Only the fresh flowers are usable to make the Oil; dried doesn' t work. People

familiar with the herb are apt to believe that only the wild St. Johns Wort, also known asKlamath Weed, a noxious weed in pastures with clusters of bright yellow half-inch-wideflowers, is useful for medicine. But the domestic evergreen ground cover St. Johns Wort,

used commonly in parking lots, roadsides, and other public landscaping as well as homelandscapes, has two-inch wide blossoms that make excellent oil.

The flowers are unique and easy to recognize: they have 5 shiny yellow petalssurrounding a porn-porn of anthers tipped in red when freshly opened. The flowers of the

wild Klamath Weed and the domestic ground cover are identical, apart from size: it takes

about 5 minutes to gather enough of the ground cover to make a quart of oil, while it

might take hours to gather enough of the little Klamath weed blossoms to do the same.

The leaves are similarly identical apart from size: oval and twice as long as they are wide;two inches long in the ground cover; V2 inch long in the weed.

The Oil is quick and easy to make once you have the flowers: cut the blossoms upa bit; put them in a jar; cover them with olive oil; put the jar of oil and blossoms in a pot

of cool water; heat it to a low simmer; keep it simmering for V2 hour; remove from thewater and allow to cool; strain and bottle.

For an anti-biotic that is perhaps stronger in some cases, you can make garlic oilthe same way. Garlic oil in the ear will clear up a sinus infection or a sore throat, and youcan make it any time of year. It' s also good on all wounds, and is useful internally indogs and cats for respiratory infections.

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Rycke Brown, Natural Gardener 541- 955-9040 rycke@gardener.com