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This story was written by Paul Valencia with ClarkCountyToday.com. Editor's note: In July, the Clark County Charter Review Commission passed 10 amendments to be sent to the voters in the November general election.

One of those amendments was adopted by the Clark County Council, leaving nine to be determined by the voters.

Clark County Today wrote about all of the amendments back in July.

In this updated series, Clark County Today is reposting highlights from those reports in July, as well as noting some arguments for and against each amendment that appear in the voters' pamphlet.

This story was written by Paul Valencia with ClarkCountyToday.com. Editor's note: In July, the Clark County Charter Review Commission passed 10 amendments to be sent to the voters in the November general election.

One of those amendments was adopted by the Clark County Council, leaving nine to be determined by the voters.

Clark County Today wrote about all of the amendments back in July.

In this updated series, Clark County Today is reposting highlights from those reports in July, as well as noting some arguments for and against each amendment that appear in the voters' pamphlet.

As Clark County moves toward adopting its two thousand twenty-five comprehensive plan update, Friends of Clark County is warning that approved urban growth area expansions could threaten the future of local agriculture, reduce access to farmland, and weaken the infrastructure needed to sustain the region's food system.

Anne Foster, president of Friends of Clark County, said the county's decisions to expand urban growth areas around Battle Ground, Ridgefield, and La Center reflect a pattern of prioritizing development over agricultural land preservation, despite public testimony urging the Clark County Council to limit outward growth.

"We have been saying for the last three years there is no legal need for Battle Ground, for Ridgefield, and La Center, and Camas for that matter, to expand their urban growth boundary," Foster said in an interview with The Reflector on Thursday, October 8th.

"We've been pretty loud about that with fifty-five comments.

Four, amendment number twenty-seven, concerning legislative branch performance audits.

Peter is a telecommunications professional with twenty-two years of experience.

He served as a policy analyst for the Board of Clark County Councilors from two thousand and fourteen to two thousand and sixteen.

With more than four thousand hours of experience in a council office and current service on the Charter Review Commission, Peter knows the details and background of the challenges facing the council.

He is prepared on day one to begin work on his priorities: public safety, promoting housing affordability, and no new taxes.

This story was written by Clark County Today.

Corruption, cronyism, collusion, and cover-up are alive and well in the city of Vancouver, according to Reform Clark County founder Rob Anderson.

Despite clear ethics rules against self-dealing in government, Perez used a publicly funded nonprofit and current Clark County Councilor, Will Fuentes, to obtain a loan for her for-profit business she would not otherwise have been able to secure on her own.

An ethics complaint filed October 6th by Anderson charges that Vancouver City Councilmember and candidate for Washington 17th Legislative District, Diana Perez, voted in 2025 to give taxpayer money to Fourth Plain Forward, while at the same time applying for and getting a personal business loan from that nonprofit without disclosing her financial interests or stepping aside.

"Councilmember Perez admitted on a podcast that her caf got its loan through Fourth Plain Forward," Anderson said.