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Today on CityCast Portland, we're talking about why you should be caring heavily about the race from Oklahoma County Chair and also why Oregon electricians support data centers.

Plus, the massive traffic jam that starts today.

I'm your host, Claudia Meza, and with me are Oregonian City Hall reporter Shane Dixon-Kavanaugh and Willamette Week reporter Garrett Andrews.

You can also check in on updates about the closure on i5rosequarter.org. I'm going to throw both of these links in the show notes for our listeners.

But yeah, let's take a quick break here.

When we come back, we're getting a bit of an overview on the upcoming Multnomah County chair election.

One some people are calling the most important election on the November ballot.

What area are you in, Andy? It's in Northern Virginia, outside of D.C.

It's called Loudoun County, L-O-U-D-O-U-N.

And by the way, I put a link in the chat to the Amazon Web Service purchase of the Holmes community.

They paid $3.7 million an acre.

But they wanted, they want the land.

They want the land.

And so in this county, I mean, in most places in America, property taxes are going up, but we have so many data centers that are paying so much in tax that, um, the entire County budget, except for schools, the entire County budget, except for schools is paid for by tax revenue data centers.

I mean, it's, it's insane.

Hello and welcome to another episode of the County Cricket Podcast, an association with our friends at Bear Cricket.

I'm your host, Aaron, aka The Cricket Connoisseur, and joining me on my left for our 2026 Rothsay County Championship, Round 12 review show is none other than our resident Lancashire fan and co-founder of the podcast itself.

It is the one, the only, Joe Nuttall.

Joe, first things first, mate.

Yeah, pretty good.

Thank you, mate.

Just sort of preparing for the coming week of County Championship and obviously sort of thinking about this podcast now, reflecting on what is going to be a reflection of the week gone by.

So a really good round and an exciting round of cricket.

We still have to keep the plant operating for at least two years, Ferguson said.

The village is planning to shut down the plant and acquire water from the North County Water District, but that won't be ready to go for years.

I just want to make sure we're not investing in something we're taking out of service, Trustee Tim Mulholland said.

Ferguson mentioned that the intake part will satisfy part of the health department's consent order about the plant.

The town was responsible for 25% of the project, with 75% reimbursed by the state.

Now that the project has been completed, grant consultant Jody Faulkner sent the first voucher to the state in the amount of $326,993.49, and the town received a deposit of $245,245.11.

Earlier this summer, after consulting with Chautauqua County Soil and Water Conservation District, the Town Board authorized Highway Superintendent Jeff Finan to spend up to $25,000 to rectify erosion and flooding issues along the creek near Sheridan Bay Park leading into the town's beach.

The beach is often washed out whenever the creek overflows.

But yeah, the 20 minutes, 25 minutes that he's had every game coming on, he's done a job and he's made a difference, hasn't he?

Yeah, he's made things happen, hasn't he? Yeah, just going back to this County squad track, I've got to say massive kudos and thanks to Phil County, I think it is.

I don't know the surname, but he's on the yellow board and he's on Twitter and things.

But yeah, really good resource.

So I've just shared the X and Facebook links in the chat.

I'll put them into the description across the socials as well.

So, so if I'm right in saying then, so what it is, it's, it's a, it's a sort of build, build a group of, of, of County fans, um, to come together young County fans, I guess, um, with, with sort of, because T folks, that kind of thing and getting like an ultra kind of thing, would you say, or not, or not quite that, that way?

Well, here's the thing.

Well, it actually it was much longer because I managed the whole city reservoir program, which is 10 reservoirs used for water supply and public recreation.

One of the 10 is actually run by the County under contract with the city, but I did oversee it as well.

And so the County ran it.

I wasn't too engaged with it, but the other nine reservoirs, when I came on the scene, I opened up the last three that were still closed.

So by the time I was done over the objections of a lot of people, every lake in our system was open to the public.

Yeah.

So there had already been a good amount of nighttime poaching.

And at that time, it was illegal to night fish in San Diego County.

Holy fuck, yeah, I'm sure it is, dude.

Uh, look, I'm just gonna assume that old Tri-County area is none of my business.

Now listen, Slick.

Where can a man get a drink and something to eat around here? Holy shit, I am thirsty.

I am currently tracking Silas Dead Eye Dolan.

That name drops like it has paperwork attached to it.

He runs the largest outlaw operation in the Tri-County area.

Crime is coordinated from Devil's Asshole all the way to Beelzebub's Balls.