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The “incident at Fern Hill” just gets bigger and better each time she tells it. First, he took her glasses, then he grabbed her glasses, and now he “ripped off” her glasses?

Janeen’s working up the “suspicion of a misdemeanor of second degree disorderly conduct” into something much bigger. Janeen and Beach (the mighty duo) want to label Brown as a TERRORIST or some such.

Immediately, with no due process. Isn’t it ironic considering the “fear vibe” in and around Hillsboro with our Latino neighbors and ICE, and their lack of due process?

Isn’t that a double standard?

And then, immediately, Mayor Pace and her cohorts categorize the misdemeanor as “political violence” when according to the State of Oregon, and it explicitly states, that:

“suspicion of a misdemeanor of second degree disorderly conduct is NOT political violence.”

One would think that elected officials would NOT GO OVERBOARD and be mature and wise enough to allow an investigation to go through its cycle.

They’ve “had a bead” on Brown and his dissidence for a long time. I’ve witnessed it especially in the last 3 council meetings. It’s hard to miss.

This is puzzling. The agenda was a list of “None” except an update from the city manager.

Mayor Pace opened the meeting with a long-winded tirade on the acceptable conduct of those attending. It felt like being sent to the principals office and being lectured to me.

She then explained why the meeting was planned to be so short so that she and the council could go out and dine and mingle with constituents at the Tuesday market.
However, the market was closed due to the smoke in the air.

People attending had 3-minutes for verbal comments including the councilors.

The city manager, Robby Hammond, did not have any city-related updates, none.

However, he did promote a new children’s book titled Oro for $10. It was basically a publicly-paid for free advertisement. It had nothing to do with running the COH. I thought the sales pitch was completely inappropriate and maybe broke code.

During the entire meeting there were 6 policemen present including the Chief. Why? Were they there as a pseudo-security squad for the mayor? Again, why?

What was their purpose? Seriously, I’ve never seen anything like it in the many years I’ve attended the COH council meetings.

Were they there to arrest someone? Or to intimidate? Or to join the mayor for dinner?

I don’t know if they were on duty and paid? Seemed like a heavy-handed ploy and unnecessary to boot. It didn’t reflect well. And all on the taxpayers dime.

Do you have ideas?

Does anyone want to speculate on the cause? I’m going to guess spontaneous combustion due to mismanagement.

I don’t know who watches these air pollution permit requests. Here’s the notice:

DEQ Requests Comments on Ampac Mobile Holdings, LLC’s Proposed Simple Air Quality Permit

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality invites the public to submit written comments on the conditions of Ampac Mobile Holdings, LLC’s proposed air quality permit, known officially as Simple Air Contaminant Discharge Permit or ACDP.

The site is located at: 5800 SW Western Ave. in Beaverton.

To view the public notice:
To learn more about this proposed Simple air permit, please download and read our notice and draft permit documents here: YDO Notice for Ampac Mobile Holdings.

The public may submit written comments about the proposed permit by clicking on the link below: Comment on Ampac Mobile Holdings permit.

I’ve watched the equilibrium shift to warp-speed gentrification in the last 20 years, displacing families who have lived here since the turn of the century, the 19th to 20th centuries. The Real Local culture of Hillsborites is being asphyxiated, steadily, actively, and at warp speed for the last 20 years. The COH caters to and promotes the privileged and affluent, as Willey and Callaway defined in their “business plan with the Chamber of Commerce,” the organization founded by Willey and Callaway over dinner in 1994.

If you haven’t heard about the social strata of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, I suggest that you go online to learn about it. In Jackson Hole, there’s a social struggle and true dilemma between the uber-rich living in uber-luxury in uber-mansions and the folks who do the work. It’s stark.

Middle class people who work to maintain the city, police, firemen, teachers, nurses, garbage collectors, and on and on, do NOT live in Jackson Hole in general. They’ve been “priced out,” “pushed out,” and displaced from Jackson Hole, the town that they and their ancestors founded, built, shaped, nurtured, and grew for nearly 200 years.

That’s the trend I see in Hillsboro and the vibe of the current direction the COH is planning and pushing, hand in hand with giant-high-tech businesses, starting with Intel. There’s an unspoken take over of our town that began last century and that no body noticed or was paying attention to.

If it doesn’t matter to you, then please open your eyes, or do nothing, go along. If it DOES MATTER, YOU CAN stop it now by electing officials that ARE NOT SEWN UP in a wealthy campaign donor’s pocket.

Do you want to live in a Jackson Hole-esque culture and 2-tier town or not?

I do not. Your vote can make a huge difference in your future and mine and the culture of we the Real Locals. Vote wisely.

Is live and being broadcast as I type. IMO, a greatly important message, not only for Catholics and Christian’s.

It was nearly 4 hours long. I’ve never seen so many people testify, the majority in SUPPORT (edited to correct, thank you Redditor for spotting my error) of the moratorium. However, all people who signed up to testify were allowed to do so. IOW, the meeting wasn’t cut short.

There was discussion to put BESS into a separate moratorium and it was decided to leave it in so city code can be written for stand alone BESS installations, not just for those related to data centers/farms.

The 120-day moratorium clock started today. The council knows the research will take longer but state law only allows 120 days. After that, and with progress reports and findings, a follow-on moratorium is possibly (pretty much a given) to continue research and studies. We shall see what pans out. Power to the People, not to the corporations who want to exploit our natural resources and convince us that we NEED data farms and not farm land.

Truth be told, they NEED our land for data farms so they can make billions. It’s interesting that they justify data farms here because of a trans-pacific cable. Across the country, with no cable in sight, they justify data farms because of the “robust power grid.” Everywhere they build it’s for another reason, even the climate in the region. Any excuse to be acceptable to the public. Creative PR to stop the dissidents from objecting. Gas lighting again, and again, and again . . .

Short summary of the first post.

This is to let you know that there’s a special city council meeting on an ordnance for a moratorium on enterprise zones and data farms. The information packet is 587 pages, available on the COH website. Updates are indicated in red. Public comment will be heard, 3 min.

Do you think the new “engineered communities” like South Hillsboro are the New American Dream? All those row houses with no yard? And they’re built so fast, quality is questionable. Warranty?

Is anyone planning to go? I have a conflict. I wonder why the meeting isn’t scheduled for a time when more folks might be able to attend? Agenda isn’t described either.

I know it’s on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday each month, but there are 3 Tuesdays this month. Since council meetings this year have been canceled and the mayor’s been skipping so many at this CRUCIAL time playing the old “stall, delay, let the clock run out” game (sic), a meeting is necessary this week. Especially since an “emergency meeting request” was denied on too many data farms and Enterprise Zones tax breaks, and the “new sites” reported by Dirk of the Herald last week. Where is Mayor Pace and her team? Are they busy with the PR experts dreaming up a new “spin” or what? We need info.