Board member moves to authorize Chair Greg Pence to seek third‑party investigation of Dec. 8 receipt

A board member moved to authorize Board Chair Greg Pence to contact the district's legal counsel so counsel could authorize a third party to investigate a plaintiff's receipt dated Dec. 8, 2025. "I would like to make a motion to authorize board chair Greg Pence to contact the district's Legal counsel," the member said during the meeting.

The motion, as recorded in the transcript, requests that legal counsel engage an outside third party for the investigation; the maker of the motion also stated the date of the relevant receipt. The transcript includes a recorded second and subsequent procedural comments that district legal counsel would work directly with the third party to investigate, but it does not spell out the nature of the receipt, the allegations, the scope of the inquiry, or any timeline for the work.

The meeting transcript does not record a formal roll‑call vote or other final action on the motion. After the motion and apparent second, the meeting was adjourned. The board identified Board Chair Greg Pence by name in the motion; the person who made the motion and the chair are not named in the transcript beyond those references. The transcript does not specify whether the board formally approved the investigation, who the third party would be, or what documentation the third party should review.

The motion references a matter that was the subject of an earlier closed session under ORS 192.660 for personnel matters; the transcript shows the executive session immediately preceded the motion but provides no additional public details about that session's contents.