Board Moves to Pause Position Filling under Current Budget with Exceptions
A recommendation to pause filling positions under the current budget until the end of June with exceptions was proposed by Commissioner Gary Richardson during today's workshop. A motion to have a hiring pause until the budget is finalized at the end of June, with exceptions of any currently approved Personnel Requisitions that have been posted, and exceptions granted by the board for directors who bring in PRs to be filled case by case was approved 3-0. The board moved other decisions on their workshop agenda to next week's Weekly Business Session, save for business from the Public Works Department. A Fish Hatchery Road Guardrail Replacement Estimate, Bearcat Manufacturing Quote, a Sheriff's Office vehicle replacement, and a Public Works Fuel Station Clean Up Proposal was presented by Public Works to the board. Motions to approve all items passed unanimously. Also approved without objection was a travel request by Community Development. The board heard a request from Information Technology to replace the old back up system with new hardware. The item was moved to next week's consent calendar, as well as a Community Development item for Rose Butte LLC Findings of Fact and Decision.
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JoCo Sheriff's Office Seeking Runaway Juvenile
The Josephine County Sheriff's Office is seeking the public's help in locating a runaway juvenile. A report came in Monday that 17-year-old Ethan Knight was last seen around 8 a.m. on March 29th riding a skateboard with black & green swirl wheels on Lincoln Road. He was wearing black pants, a black hoodie, gray shoes, black hat, and was carrying a black cross-chest shoulder bag. Ethan is described as a 5'10" white male with brown hair, brown eyes, and weighing 160 pounds. Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Ethan is encouraged to call the Sheriff's Office at 541-474-5123. ...Read more
US Marshals Led Task Force Arrests Child Sex Abuse Suspect in White City
The United States Marshals Service led Pacific Northwest Violent Offender Task Force located and arrested a man wanted for nine local felony child sex abuse charges in White City Monday. The suspect, Jose Francisco Gonzalez-Castaneda, 40, of Medford, had nine felony warrants for sexual abuse charges. He is lodged in the Jackson County Jail. Federal authorities added additional charges after Gonzalez-Castaneda was lodged. The arrest came when U.S. Marshals, along with Jackson County Sheriff’s Office and Central Point Police Department detectives located Gonzalez-Castaneda at a White City shopping center in the 7500 block of Highway 62. The task force arrested him without incident. The charges stemmed from a years-long investigation by JCSO Special Victims Unit detectives.
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