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Votes at a glance: consent agenda, three fire-district annexations and county-shop lighting approval

3431472 · May 20, 2025
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Summary

The board approved the amended agenda, accepted the consent agenda, approved three owner-petition annexations into rural fire-protection districts and authorized a lighting project at the county shop not-to-exceed $17,000 conditional on three confirmed bids.

At the May 20 Curry County Board of Commissioners meeting the board took several formal actions during the consent and discussion portions of the agenda.

Key outcomes

- Consent agenda: The board approved the consent agenda as amended (motion made and seconded). Vote recorded as unanimous in favor. Details on individual consent items were not all read aloud at the meeting; one consent item added ductless heat pumps and units for the sheriff’s office and another added CAPA grant approval for the assessor’s office.

- Annexations: The board opened a public hearing under ORS 198.857 on three owner-petition annexations into rural fire-protection districts and approved all three petitions. The hearing opened at 6:55 p.m. and closed at 6:57 p.m. (Each motion carried unanimously.) The annexations recorded in the hearing were described in the record with the following identifiers (as read into the record): • BOC annexation number 25-0X (owner: Stanford) into the Gold Beach/Wedderburn Rural Fire Protection District — approved by motion. • BOC annexation number 25-07 (owner: Roe) into the Ophir (spelled in transcript as Ofer) Rural Fire Protection District — approved by motion. • BOC annexation number 25-08 (owner: "Ro twin" in transcript) into the Upper Checo Rural Fire Protection District — approved by motion.

- County shop lighting: The board approved a motion to proceed with a lighting project for the county shop with a “not to exceed” limit of $17,000 contingent on receiving three confirmed bids. Motion carried unanimously.

Votes and procedure notes: The meeting record shows unanimous aye votes by the commissioners present for the motions listed above. Where roll-call named commissioners, the transcript recorded affirmative votes from Commissioner Coker and Commissioner Hollinger and the third commissioner announced assent. Where motion makers were not identified by name in the transcript, the minutes show motions were made, seconded and carried.

No ordinances or resolutions were adopted in this part of the meeting beyond the recorded motions to approve annexations and the lighting authorization.