Committee for Community Involvement - Jan. 20, 2026

Agenda

Minutes

CCI Attendees: Karen Bjorklund (Chair), Stephanie Carkin, Pat Erdenberger, Marrion Kaufman, Bill Merchant, Amy Nichols, Brent Parries (Vice-Chair), Gordon Slatford, and Danielle Weber

Absent: None
Attending PGA Staff: Tonia Holowetzki, Ed Nieto 

1. Welcome, Introductions 

Chair Bjorklund welcomed CCI members and PGA staff. 

2. Approval of Meeting Minutes

Vice-Chair Parries motioned to approve the December 2025 meeting minutes, and Bill Merchant seconded the motion. The committee unanimously approved the minutes. 

3. From CCI Bylaws: Update on CCI biennial process for CPOs to select the CPO Representative to C4 (Clackamas County Coordinating Committee)

Ed informed members that, with seven days left, two votes had been cast via SurveyMonkey among CPOs, with two additional votes arriving by email. PGA will send an additional email to CPOs to remind them to vote before the deadline.

• CCI to take its own vote on candidates for Representative and Alternate, which will be added to the votes from each CPO

Using a Zoom poll, a majority of committee members voted (anonymously) for Pamela Burback to be CPO Representative, and Pat Erdenberger to serve as Alternate. 

4. Public Comment

There were no public comments.

5. From CCI Action Plan: Address protecting neighborhood/community livability in the Zoning Ordinance 

CCI members had previously decided to invite Planning Staff and CPO representatives to a virtual CCI meeting work session to take some examples of subjective elements of livability and try creating objective standards for the Zoning Ordinance. Ed provided the update that the timing of the work session with Planning and Zoning still needs to be finalized as staff assesses its departmental workload from February through March. 

6. From CCI Action Plan: Develop 2025 CCI Annual Report for the BCC, with 2025 CCI Accomplishments & 2026 CCI Action Plan

For the annual report, committee members shared ideas for content, including Gordon’s recommendation to include the revision of the CPO handbook. Responding to Karen’s suggestion to include the improved relations between Code Enforcement and CPOs, Tonia recommended that PGA reach out to Code Enforcement Supervisor Michael Barnes to contribute a summary with data. Tonia also suggested including the new monthly and quarterly CPO newsletters, along with the Summer 2025 CPO Awareness campaign.

Regarding 2026, committee members discussed the possibility of annual CPO handbook reviews, and the virtual work session with Planning and Zoning staff and CPOs.

The discussion also brought out comments from several CCI members that they would like a few opportunities to meet in-person. Since some CCI members need to be primarily virtual volunteers, the possibility of a hybrid meeting came up to be discussed later.

7. Follow-up to Facility Naming/Renaming Policy Discussion 

The following background was provided for newer members of the CCI: In 2024, the BCC asked the Parks Advisory Board & the CCI to comment on a public request to rename the Carver Park Boat Launch. The Parks Advisory Board asked the CCI to specifically comment on their policy recommendations regarding renaming county facilities. The CCI spent several meetings and work time outside of meetings developing in-depth analysis and recommendations to the Park Advisory Board on public involvement in naming and renaming county facilities, to inform Parks Advisory Board decisions and be part of deliberations provided to the BCC. A year and a half later, in January 2026, County staff presented a proposed revised policy to the BCC on Facility Naming, which noted that it didn’t apply to renaming. No work by the CCI or the Parks Advisory Board was provided by staff in the public packet to the BCC.

Committee members expressed disappointment with the disregarding of all CCI’s recommendations on a county facilities renaming policy; and that from the BCC meeting discussion, it did not appear that staff had ever provided the BCC with CCI’s work in any form, even though the BCC had requested the CCI’s comments. 

Ed and Tonia suggested that PGA seek information about what happened to the recommendations before they had a chance to reach the BCC. Ed suggested a lack of a formal process regarding the submission of requested recommendations to the BCC may have played a role in expectations not being met, while Tonia emphasized the importance of closing the communications loop between commissioners and CCI.

8. PGA Update

None shared due to time constraints.

9. New business for future agendas

None shared due to time constraints.

The meeting adjourned at 8:00 p.m.

Next meeting: Tuesday, February 17, 2026, 6–8 p.m. via Zoom.