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Commissioner Johnston files for re-election

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Mot

This is good news!
Mr Johnston has done a great job here in Yamhill County during this current service.
We are super blessed to have him. Let's get out the vote and be sure he returns the service people!

Drew

Thank You, commissioner Johnston! You have our votes. Keep up the good work.

manyhands

Do not vote for Kit!

On October 2 Yamhill County Commissioners Kit and Mary Starrett added a Yamhelas trail item to the commissioners' meeting after the initial agenda publication. No information on the trail, which is dear to many Yamhill County citizens' hearts, was included in the meeting packet.

Mary and Kit voted to direct Planning Director Ken Friday to repeal an ordinance concerning the trail project and remove it from the county’s TSP. Citizens at the meeting called Mary's and Kit's process, "sneaky." County Commissioner Bubba King voted no on the item.

The good news is, Yamhill County's nine planning commissioners must hold a hearing to allow citizens to submit letters and testify. (Stay tuned for the date of the trail hearing, to which you can send letters and attend to testify in favor of the trail.)

The bad news is, county planning commissioners are appointed by Yamhill County Commissioners.

I say this because in 2023, Mary, Kit, and county commissioner at the time Lindsay Berschauer appointed six candidates with jaw-dropping conflicts of interest and lack of qualifications to the county parks advisory board. The appointments included Lindsay's husband and Celine McCarthy. Celine, who owns farm property along the proposed Yamhelas trail, and her husband, Greg, who was convicted in federal court the previous year of financial fraud, were among the largest campaign finance donors to Lindsay, according to the News Register article "Commissioners engineer takeover of parks board; two resign in protest."

All we can hope is a large outpouring of letters and testimony will convince the planning commission to drop any allegiance to the commissioners and recognize two very important things: Yamhill County citizens and businesses have indicated repeatedly they want and would benefit greatly from the trail.

Vote for Marvin Bernards!

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