By Pat Erdenberger, Hoodland CPO For The Mountain Times
The goal of the Hoodland Community Planning Organization (HCPO) is to bring County information to our Hoodland community and have a voice back to the County. HCPO is interested in hearing from any individual or business to address concerns, issues, or to ask a question or two.
Members of the CPO Board met with a representative of the Clackamas County Office of Code Enforcement (OCE) in mid-November. They provided an excellent presentation of their program as well as some changes to staffing CPO areas that place a single agent in oversight of all four CPO areas in the Mt .Hood Corridor. This one change will improve communication between our area and the OCE in the coming years. We hope to have a presentation by both the Sheriff’s Office and the OCE in next year’s CPO speaker’s line-up when they have time.
Jay Wilson of the Clackamas County Office of Disaster Management will be presenting a “Flood of Historical Information” about the several historic major floods in this area and the resulting channel migration. The presentation will be held at the Lion’s Club in Welches on Tuesday, December 17 th at 6:00-8:00PM.
We collaborate with other community organizations supporting many interesting and helpful activities in the Mt .Hood Corridor like the Mt. Hood Livability Coalition, the Hoodland Community Resource Collaboration, the Mt .Hood Corridor Wildfire Partnership, the Firwood, Rhododendron, and Government Camp CPOs, and many other organizations. That rising tide created by so many people doing good works lifts many boats in this woodland and resort area. The HCPO gives thanks to them all.
The Mt. Hood Corridor Wildfire Partnership held another debris collection on Veteran’s Day weekend. A huge pile of excess fuels on resident’s property were delivered for free disposal. Thank you to the volunteers from the CPO and Crew 30 of the Wildfire Fighting Team. And much applause to the women who delivered huge mossy branches in her Prius. We look forward to another collection to be planned in May of 2025.
The HCPO will not be holding a community meeting in December this year. We will hold meetings in January and February via Zoom online so that no one need travel too far at night in the cold weather. Anyone with suggestions for speakers at those Zoom meetings please write to hoodlandcpo@gmail.com and let us know your thoughts.
“It Takes This Village”