Clackamas County to require registration to speak at meetings February 23 2021
Move at suggestion of Tootie Smith follows multi-week inundation of calls for Commissioner Mark Shull to resign.
Clackamas County will begin requiring constituents seeking to provide public comment at Board of County Commissioners meetings to register at least two hours prior to the start of the meeting. The changes take effect next Thursday, March 4.
The move comes at the direction of County Chair Tootie Smith. Commissioners agreed to a registration process intended to provide more transparency and accountability for those joining virtually via the Zoom application. These changes follow weeks of calls for Commissioner Mark Shull to resign as well testimony in support of Shull which have taken up a significant portion of the public-comment period each week.
National Guard assigned to Clackamas, Marion counties
The troops will help provide relief in counties still hit hard by the winter storm.
Portland General Electric crews continued working Saturday, Feb. 20, to restore power to the thousands of people still affected by a wicked winter storm that hit the area beginning Feb. 11.
Although the vast majority of people have had their power restored, tens of thousands of PGE customers remain without electricity.
Officials with Clackamas County and the Oregon National Guard are partnering to go door to door to conduct welfare checks on residents affected by the winter storm and ongoing power outages Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 20 and 21. Marion County officials said guard members may start helping as early as Monday morning, Feb. 22.
Five dead, thousands without power in Clackamas County February 16 2021
Deadly snow and ice storm leaves path of destruction in its wake; sewage treatment at 75% capacity
More than 72,000 Clackamas County residents are still without power as the county and Portland General Electric work to recover from one of the worst ice storms in 40 years.
According to Nancy Bush, county disaster management director, many residents in cities such as Canby and Molalla will be seeing their power restored today, but many more residents in rural areas have still yet to see the lights come back on.
Bush told county commissioners Tuesday, Feb. 16, that approximately 250,000 Clackamas County residents were without power at one point over the past three days more than a quarter of the county s total population.
Canby bar loses liquor license for defying COVID closure
OLCC suspends Route 99 Roadhouse liquor license after seeing customers and employees indoors without masks
The Route 99 Roadhouse in Canby is closed for what owners say will be a few weeks after the Oregon Liquor Control Commission suspended their liquor license for allowing people to eat and drink inside the building without masks.
OLCC had received complaints in January that the restaurant was allowing groups of customers to gather and consume food and alcohol inside the building, according to a news release from the OLCC. Restaurants in extreme-risk counties, which at the time included Clackamas County, are only allowed to welcome customers for takeout and outdoor dining.