Clark County Council 11-18-2025
By
Jackie Lane
Posted: 2025-11-22T00:32:58Z
Council Attendees: Sue Marshall, Glen Yung, Will Fuentes, Matt Little, Michelle Belkot
Link to materials: Clark County Council Meetings | Clark County
Public Hearing: Local Homeless Housing Plan PowerPoint Presentation
- 2025 – 2030 plan, to be submitted to Commerce after approval.
- Council for the Homeless helped develop the plan
- Council questions:
- Michelle re: action 6.3 Tenant protections. How would you entice a landlord to allow a tenant to not pay their rent? They are not suggesting not allowing evictions for non-payment of rent. Protections for other eviction types. (slide 17)
- Matt ‘How’ re: 5.3. Policy development focus.
- Public Comment
- 10 supportive, also bringing up emergency caused by Federal spending cuts and pivot from Harm Reduction/housing first. 3 complaining of drug use, against housing first.
- Council discussion
- Glen appreciative
- Matt asks about harm reduction/addition. Homeless crisis response system does serve those people but aren’t the providers of mental and addiction services. Help get connected to services.
- Approved
Open Public Comment
- Betty Sue Morris – re: Columbian article on housing affordability. (submits the article and GMA act). One of the goals is that you should provide for housing. ‘inappropriate conversion’, emphasis on inappropriate as conversion of ag land can be appropriate. “glad to see you here tonight, Michelle Belkot, you are my councilor” (I laughed out loud).
- Gwen – roundup rant claims glysophate is in vaccines. Claims Bill Gates owned the patent on it and sold it to Bayer. (John Franze developed it in 1929 for Monsanto before Gates was born)
- Eric Cox – Lack of attention from Councilor Little re: graffiti. Spoke to Matt, referred him to Sheriff, and noted that he (Matt) has 2 other jobs.
- Bruce Barnes – More homeless rant. Rant about Michelle’s ouster from CTRAN board
- Rob Anderson – re: the investigation on kicking Michelle off CTRAN. (now we know why Michelle showed up in person). (Link to report – full of inaccuracies: 25-05127-Skamania-Report.pdf)
Consent Agenda: Item 6 removed (no longer needed). Everything else approved.
Separate Business
- Interlocal agreement EMS district 2 and Battle Ground, La Center, Ridgefield, Woodland - Approved
- Wage increase M1, M2, M3 employee classifications. Approved
- Contracts for appraisal services. Approved after training a couple councilors on contracts.