Mayor's, Legislators, and staff reception

Tonight (Jan 3, 2007) was the Oregon Mayor's Association and League of Oregon Cities welcome reception. It was an opportunity to meet with many of Oregon's mayors, and mayor elects. The mayors were asked to bring gift baskets from their individual communities. I only had time to visit with Fisher Implements, Linn Benton Tractor, Ampac Seed Company and Barenbrug. They were all very helpful and provided me with an assortment of items from tractors (toy) to seed, representing our community very well. There were many legislative assistants who also come to these receptions and the gifts that were submitted were raffled off to these aides, a small reward for their hard work. The winner of the Tangent Gift Basket was Patrick Sieng, (below) who is the Legislative Assistant to Oregon Representative Jean Cowan.

Updates on Tangent Drive

On December 27th, Chuck Knoll sent me an email regarding the work on Tangent Drive. He included drawings and if you would like to see them, please send me an email, s.mclennan@comcast.net. He basically said what had been accomplished and that the work would be continuing in May of 2007. On Dec 28, I wrote back to ask if the current ditch was being filled in on the north side. Darrin Lane, the Linn County Roadmaster and Director, replied:

"Chuck is off this week so I thought I'd give you a short reply.

Regarding the ditch being filled in, we intend to essentially block off the flow on the north side of tangent drive from the new ditch inlet east of the new development [Meadow Wood] to the west side of the new development. The remaining ditch on the north side will not be affected.

The purpose of this is to direct all of the storm water flow on the north side of Tangent Drive, east of and including the new development, into the new storm sewer. This will result in a significant flow reduction in the north ditch west of the new development. Drainage from existing homes into the north ditch will not be impacted by this project.

Regards,"