September 22, 2024 • 30 mins
Portlanders face ranked choice voting for the first time in the General Election, and here's how it works. Is your home's roof ready for fall and winter weather? HER Roofing has tips on how to spot problems. ODFW is giving hunters an incentive to have deer and elk tested for chronic wasting disease.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome to Local Voices. I'm Brad Bord. This week Portland
prepares for its first election with ranked choice voting, and
this is the time of year to get your roof
ready for stormy weather. I'll have some tips from her roofing.
Voters in Portland will face changes on the general election
ballot in November. The number of city council members will
increase from four to twelve, and ranked choice voting will
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be used to determine the new mayor, auditor, and city
council members. To explain how it works, James Eckles joins
us on Local Voices. He's an election analyst for the
City of Portland. James, what is ranked choice voting?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Simply put, rank choice voting is a method of voting
that allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference
instead of choosing only one candidate. This method can allow
your vote to count toward another candidate if your favorite
candidate gets eliminated.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Can you give an example of how it will affect
a voter's selection of candidates.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
The example that comes to mind that will sort of
change the way voters interact with the ballot is if
you think of a single choice election, the typical elections
that we have already in Portland. Oftentimes, when a voter
goes to vote, they only have one choice. They can
choose one candidate per contest, and we often hear about
people making the lesser of two evils decision, so they
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may not feel they can comfortably vote for a candidate
that they prefer to vote for it because they have
to vote for the one that they think is the
most viable candidate. Ran choice voting is a bit of
an attempt to remove that, and you should always vote
for the candidates that you prefer at the top of
your ranking. Your ranked one, you're ranked two, and then
if you still feel like those candidates that you feel
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represent you the most might not be as viable. You
have third, four, fifth, sixth rankings to rank other candidates
as well.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
What races will use ranked choice voting.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
So in this year's November elections it will be Portland
City mayor auditor and all twelve city council seats.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Why is ranked choice voting being used in the City
of Portland races.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
We are implementing it here in the City of Portland
because in twenty twenty two, the voters took an amendment
from the Charter Commission, a commission that is formed every
ten years in Portland to make recommendations about things that
we might want to change in Portland for the better.
And that commission made a recommendation to put on the
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ballot this change to our election method, and in twenty
twenty two, the voters voted a majority that we would
change to ranked choice voting, among several other changes to
our election system and our form of government. So really
that's our job here in the Election's Division is to
implement that change. We don't choose what we implement. We
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simply follow the will of voters in that sense.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
So what makes ranked choice voting different from single choice elections?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I first always want to be you know, when I'm
answering questions like this to preface again, you know, we're
we're working on implementation, so we don't want to go
too far down the road of what is the best
system or is this a better system? But we also
do think that it's important to talk about the distinctions
why this system operates differently than a single choice system
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and why that might be important to our voters. So
there are a few differences that make it distinct The
first is we will no longer have primary elections for
Portland City candidates. We will, in fact have no elections
for Portland City candidates outside of the general election each
November or every other November. And one big change to
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this is primaries typically in Portland see somewhere between thirty
and forty percent turnout, whereas the general election tends to
have seventy percent or higher turnout. So this means that
we're now going to be electing candidates in a single
election that has far higher turnout as opposed to the
primaries or a special election which might have a much
lower turnout. There's another difference is just you know, straightforward,
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when you see your ballot, you're going to see that
instead of a single column to make a choice, you
have a grid on your ballot to make up to
six choices. And that's a big difference. You know, having
that choice allows for voters to have more of their
intention coming through on the ballot, you know, as they
discussed a little bit ago. It allows for people to
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mark their preferences down instead of feeling like they have
to vote based on sort of some sort of idea
of strategy. And then the last thing I want to
talk about is a difference relates to our multi winter
rank choice voting, which is being used only for city
candidates for city council members, and we'll be electing twelve
of those three from each of four districts in the city.
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So each district that you live in, you will vote
for city council members in that district and three will
be a out of that race. Now, this ends up
a little bit different than a normal single choice election
because it leads to more likely scenario to have a
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more representative city council. And the math on this, I
think the best way to sort to answer this question
is kind of with the hypothetical. If you think of
a of a district, a hypothetical voting district, and sixty
percent of the people in that district are always going
to vote for Party A, and forty percent of the
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people in that district are always going to vote for
Party B. They're never going to change their votes, They're
always going to vote that direction no matter what. If
we look at a typical single choice election and we
run that election three times to get three city council members,
every single one of those elections will result in candidates
winning from that Party A or from you know, we
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have non partisan elections in Portland that you can replace
party with issue or demographic or whatever. So in that choice,
we have one hundred percent of the candidates representing Party A.
But now if we look at our new multi winner
rank choice voting in a multi murber district, what happens
is we get to our threshold of twenty five percent
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plus one with our first candidate, that's going to be
Party as we expected. We get to our second candidate
twenty five percent plus one, again, that'll also be Party
A as expected. But now what we see is we've
got about fifty percent of the vote tied up in
those first two candidates, and that means there's not enough
voting block left to represent a third candidate, But that
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forty percent that's left over, we'll be able to elect
their candidate. So our final outcome in this hypothetical situation
would be two thirds of your candidates representing Party A
and one third of your candidates representing Party B as
opposed to one hundred percent representing Party A. So it's
an attempt at getting a little more nuanced in detailed house.
The councilors representing you as a voter.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
And so in those races where three council people will
be selected from one district, the ones that would be
selected then are numbers would be the ones that came
in one, two, and three. Those would become the city
councilors for that district.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Right, Yeah, it's it's the ones who in the end
are the are the highest vote getters. So it's we
set our threshold at twenty five percent plus one in
those races, because that's that's essentially mathematically what three people
can get to where you would never be able to
elect a fourth person. So yeah, so it's the three
top vote getters in the sense that they all pass
to that twenty five percent plus one threshold.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
All right, so I know on election day how vote
counting works. Eight o'clock comes and we wait for that
first print out of how races are turning out, How
does it work for rank choice elections? How are those
votes tallied? How are they counted?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yeah, so everything from a voter's perspective is going to
remain the same, And I think that's important for us
to stress because you don't have to do anything different
with your ballot. You send it to the same place
you always have. You have the same deadline. You know,
you want to get make sure your ballot gets in
by election day and then we'll have up to seven
days after for ballots to come in through the mail
and they'll start getting counted and tallied by the counties.
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So from the voter's perspective, nothing is changing, and I
think that's important. Once we receive them on the on
the counties end, then that counting will will happen. Where
normally you look at a single round and we get
all of the votes once we have one hundred percent
of ballots in and that is your your final vote.
So everybody only had one choice, so we simply look
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at whoever had the most and you pay. Here, we'll
look at the first round, so what everyone ranked as
their first choice on this ranked choice ballot, and if
somebody gets over the threshold, So in our mail race,
if somebody got over that fifty percent plus one threshold,
then just like a normal election, we're done after one round.
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You know, someone had lots of support, a candidate was
well lifed in the city and they got their right away,
we elected that person and were done. Yes, in that
first round, with those first choices counted, nobody gets over
that fifty percent plus one, that majority threshold, that's where
it becomes different from a normal election. So in that scenario,
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we then moved to the lowest vote getting candidate, So
whoever got Oftentimes in races like this, they're only someone
who had very little support or even potentially no votes,
and so a candidate in that situation would be eliminated.
And then we look at all the ballots that voted
for them. So if there are thousand people in Portland
that voted for the candidate that got the fewest votes,
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we look at their ballots, we look at who they
chose as their second highest candidate, and then we move
those thousand votes to that candidate. Then we run the
tally again in a second round with that eliminated candidate removed,
and we see what happens. So some of those votes
might go to candidate a candidacy, And once all of
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those votes have been shifted over, we run the accounts,
we see if anybody crossed the threshold. Again, if at
that point someone's over fifty percent plus one, we're done
and we're elected. But again, if nobody gets over, we
just rinse and repeat the same process until we eliminated
enough candidates and votes have been shifted for a majority
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of votes to be for a single candidate and they win.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
So what's being done to help Portlanders understand ranked choice voting?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
So really interestingly would the Charter Commission put this on
the ballot for us to vote on. Part of the
charter change was that there would now be a mandate
for the City of Portland to do voter education. And
that's something that has never been done before the state
of Portland. We've always left that to the counties. Oldman
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County has been great at doing voter education for quite
a long time. But we really felt like with a
change like this, we wanted to make where voters understood
that change it felt comfortable and confident voting. So that
is now a chartered mandate for the city to voter education.
So we have developed over the last year and a
half since it passed, a three pronged approach to this education.
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The first is just a broad education where we're having
paid media, we're tabling at major events in Portland.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
We're Out of Pride at Juneteenth at Jade Night Market,
and then we do community presentations which anybody can go
on our website request for their organization or for their
small community for us to come out and do a presentation.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
So that's sort of our broad base that will go
to everybody that's been going on over the summer, but
you can expect to see that really increase in September
and October when ballots start to come out. The second
prom is a targeted outreach. We know that when major
changes happen in elections that it's often disproportionately affecting communities
of color, communities of low income communities that don't turn
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out to vote very often, and as a story, been
left out of the city governing process. So we wanted
to make sure that we really had some targeted outreach
those communities. We have some paid media that is directed
at communities that have been left out historically, but we
also have a grant program that we're doing this year
where we have fourteen organizations, organizations like a panoh Erco
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Urban League, you know, these organizations that are culturally specific
and really trusted in their community. We're helping to educate
them so that then they can pass on that message
to their community and make sure that we're not leading
anybody behind in this education process. And then the last
third prong of that is just candidate focused. We know
there are, for one, a lot of candidates running this year,
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a lot of changes in the election methods, so a
lot of candidates are throwing it at in the ring.
But also it means that candidates are going to talk
to far, far more voters than I ever could personally,
and a candidate has a vested interest in making sure
those voters know how to go vote for them. So
we've spent a lot of time and resources trying to
make sure candidates understand the method so that when they
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talk to voters they can pass that on.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
So what guidance do you have about the process of
filling out a ballot that has rank choice voting. You
described earlier what it looks like. Go over that again
for us.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yeah, absolutely, So when it arrives, you'll see there'll be
a separate ballot, a separate card is what we call
it for the Portland City election, so there won't be
any confusion about the two. You'll see it separated out,
and you'll see instead of a single column that you
fill in, there'll be a grid with six rankings across
the top. And then all of the candidates in that
particular contest down the left side. Now, if there's one
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thing I can say, as a sort of a single
sentence rule that you should keep in mind when you're
filling this ballot out, it's just to mark a different
candidate for each ranking, and only rank each candidate once. Right,
you're only going to rank six candidates. You can do fewer,
rank one, two, three, whatever you want. As long as
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you rank at least one candidate, your vote will get counted.
We will count that ballot. But if you'd like to
rank more, we encourage you to do so, to have
more of your attention across a ballot. But just if
you do, make sure to only have one O will
filled in in each column and row. Now, the next
thing that we really encourage people to do is to practice.
We have seen from the data and the research and
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other jurisdictions that one of the best ways for people
to understand this is to actually practice it. So we
have created a platform. We've worked with a vendor to
create a platform where you can practice ranked choice voting.
That's available on our website at www dot Portland dot
gov slash vote vote and if you go there, it'll
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walk you through a mock election. You get to vote
on some things. We do different things with different organizations.
Every couple of weeks we rotate that through and when
you do that, it'll show you the results and it'll
walk you through sort of what happen round by round,
and you can see a visual representation of that. And
then finally, the last bit of guidance is really if
you're really still unsure, we're gonna be here to help.
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So you'll see information in the voter's pamphlet, you'll see
a mailer showing up in your mailbox that will describe
some of this, and you'll see an insert in the
actual ballot itself that has some tips and some information
on how to fill out a rank choice ballot. And
if you really still feel uncomfortable, we always encourage you
to call three one one. Three one one is going
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to be well prepped when ballots drop on what to
do to fill in these ballots, and they are great
at their jobs at either answering the questions you have
about the ballot or passing you on to the right
people to get those questions answered. But we want to
make sure every single person feels completely comfortable and confident
filling out their ballot.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
All right, so I'm filling out my ballot and I
make a mistake. What do I do?
Speaker 2 (15:55):
So the first thing you can do is, if it's
an easy correction, you can make that correction on the
ballot the same as you've always been able to. You
just want to make it really clear. So say you
do you know Canadada and Canada, being you sort of
weren't sure, you liked them both a lot, and then
you accidentally mark them both as rank one. You can
X out one of those ovals, but just make it
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very clear visually so that when someone in the tallying
is adjudicating that they know very clearly what your intention
is on that ballot. So those sort of corrections can
be made right off the ballot before you send it in.
But if your ballot is sort of ruined beyond you know,
you spilled some coffee on it, or it got torn up,
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or you just aren't sure, you could always request a
replacement ballot from the elections division for the county that
you're voting. For the vast majority of Portland voters, that
will be mold Nooma County, but it may also be
Clockiness or Washington, depending on where you live. So if
you're really just not sure or you're nervous that it's
not going to be accepted, we really encourage you. We
want you to feel comfortable, so we encourage you to
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go in and get a replacement ballot, but you can
only do that before you send in your actual ballot once,
so make sure you really double check it, look over it,
you know you feel comfortable with it before you mail
in or drop off your ballot, because you won't be
able to make changes to it after it's been put
into the system.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
So where can listeners go to get more information about
ranked choice voting?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
So the first and the best resources to go to
our website, So www dot Portland dot gov slash vote.
That's www dot Portland dot g o V slash v
o t E. That's the best place. It's got lots
of resources. It's got you know, videos that you can watch,
it's got a mock election that you can practice, It's
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got links to other resources. You can do as deep
of a dive as you'd like. But we also understand
that some people aren't going to want to sit on
their computer, on their phone and sort of take through this.
They'd rather talk to a live person, So we also
encourage people to call three one one if they're not sure.
You can call them now if you have just general questions,
or as I said before, when you get your ballot,
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if you're unsure about anything on your ballot, feel free
to call everyone one to ask them what you should
do and get in touch with who can answer those questions.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
James, thanks for joining us. That's James Eckles and elections
analysts for the City of Portan with details on changes
to the Portland City Council race and rank choice voting
that'll be used for the mayors, auditors and council members' races.
You're going to learn more about how it works on
the Moldama County Elections website. This is the time of
year you want to get your roof ready for the
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fall and winter weather. Jana Zavala, owner of her roofing,
joins us on local voices. What sign should we watch
for to say whether there are problems with our roof.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
If you clean your own gutters or see them from
an upper window, If you see small rocks or granules
in the gutter, that is a sign that your roof
is towards the end of its life. Another sure sign
is if you're standing back from your house with the
sun directly on it. If the roof looks shiny in places,
that typically would be the light shining off the fiberglass shingle.
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That happens if you lose the granules and the fiberglass
gets exposed. The sunlight reflects off the fiberglass and it
will appear shiny. Another sign is moss or algae. Algae
can look like black streaks down the roof. Moss actually
eats the algae, and moss can be a problem on
the roof. Also, if you do hire a contractor to
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treat moss, you want to make sure that they are
sure to fib with Department at Agriculture.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
It's required.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
That's interesting. Would a leak also be a sign of
a problem.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Yes, but if you think about it, water has to
travel through the roof, plywood, insulation and sheet rock, then
you have possible interior damage. I recommend that with the
first good rain that we get to go into the
attic and look for any drips. If you see any,
give us a call. We also do emergency tarping services.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Sometimes I see composite shingles that will cur on the edge.
Is that a problem?
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Yes, And there's a couple of different reasons why they
may be curling. One is that they're just worn and
it's possible to just do time to do your roof.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Another possible reason is that it's low slope.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
A lot of houses are steeper up top, and then
they kind of go into a low slope situation if
the roof is too low, and it will start to
curl and the water can go backwards. And so one
of the things you want to look for, and that
is in your soffit. If you have a closed soffit
and have wood exposed in your sofa area, you want
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to look up to see if you see any signs
of wood separating or drips coming through the soffit. So, yeah,
that that definitely would be an issue.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Is there anything else that you think may need attention
or we should look at.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Yeah, Buckled wood can look like or a hump in
the roof, rotted barge boards, facial boards. Ventilation issues is
also pretty big. And chimney flashing. You know, it's interesting.
I have twenty eight years of experience in the riffing industry,
and I find that a lot of contractors, riffing contractors
don't change out the bargeboards or facial boards, and that
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has to be done during the riffing process because the
flashing and shingles are actually nailed to those bargeboards and
facial board. If you think you have rotted boards, be
sure to hire somebody that can change it out because
doing it later as a repair may cost four times
as much, so there's no savings in that.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
What question should I ask a roofer roofing company before
I move forward with the project?
Speaker 4 (21:38):
I would say check the CCB get this license. Licenses
are required as a contractor on any marketing material, so
folders brochures the trucks and their courses their estimate. So
go to CCB, look up their license number, and you
want to check to see if there's any judgments or
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if they have a clean record and insurance. And if
your home is older than nineteen seventy eight, you want
to make sure that they are certified for lead.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
That is very.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Important, So that's definitely something to look at. The thing
is is that if there is an issue, it's not
actually a better business burrow that you would go to
you'd actually go to the CCB and the CCB would
handle the mediation. So definitely check the CCB. That is
the number one thing I always recommend homeowners to do.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Yeah, you can go on live. I've done it before.
You go online and it's just really easy to put
in the contractor's number, just to double check things and
make sure that everything is all set to go. What
should I consider when considering different kind of roofing materials.
I've put on a roof on our house before and
there was a very wide variety of different types of shingles.
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Any recommendation as to what you should look at or
at least think about in making that selection.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Yes, now you're touching on something that's very near and
dear to my heart. I prefer polymer modified asphalt, and
so I'm going to get a little technical on you.
Polymer modified asphalt is a much better kind of asphalt
than regular oxidized asphalt.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Oxidized asphalt is.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
In our streets and up on our roofs, but polymer
modified asphalt is a much softer asphalt and is not
pre aged in manufacturing and actually in storm states since
stays like Colorado and Texas insurance companies are starting to
require homeowners to go with palmer modified asphalt. It is
very important to take a look at it. Polymer modified asphalt.
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If everything remains equal, all warranties are equal, polymer modified
asphalt will last longer. A lot of the manufacturers have
palmer modified asphalt and they're being pushed to manufacture it now.
Malarke's line, their whole line is polymer modified. Certainty has
a good polymer modified asphalt I know owns. Corning's got one.
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I definitely feel that pollarer modified asphalt is the.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Way to go.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Very important thing to ask about. Are there things I
can do to extend the life of a roof?
Speaker 4 (24:02):
What not to do is don't pressure washer roof, don't
hire anybody to pressure washer roof, and don't scrub the shingles.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
Those granules is what protects the asphalt.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
If you take the granules off, you're left with an
asphalt and it's only a matter of time before it
breaks down and you're left with some fiberglass. So I
would recommend not pressure washing at all and doing regular maintenance,
so cleaning your goters, blowing off the roof, and hire
a professional roofing contractor to do that. They can inspect
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the roof, making sure everything is all sealed up, you
don't have any exposed nails, and then also treat moss
if it needs to be treated again with a contractor
that's licensed by Department Agriculture.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Now, the rainy season is right around the corner. Is
rain and issue if I'm getting a new roof installed.
How do they work around that?
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Yes, so we are a contractor that works all year round,
and what we do is we really watch the weather.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
So some things be done, but most of the time.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Especially when you get to tear off, it cannot be
done during the rain. Most roofing contractors that work year
round will tear off a section at a time and
dry it in what we call dry it in with
some underlayment, and then protect the area with a tarp
over that overnight. But yes, it can be done. You
just want to be careful with the contractor that you
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choose that when you get into the winter season, and
make sure that you ask them the questions of what
they're going to do if we come across the rain.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Yeah, anything else you'd like to add that I didn't
ask you about.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
I would love for everyone to give us a call
and especially have us take a look at your roof.
We we do perform maintenance and we also do emergency tarping,
so all those things are very important, and also look
at your gutters. Gutters are also one of those things
that get missed, and we find during the wintertime a
lot of people kind of let that go and what
happens is the gutters end up failing and they start
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the nails that are holding them in are starting to
pull out because they're overflowing with debris. You don't want
that to happen to you because when those start coming out,
the nails typically are not going to go back into
the same hole without it sliding back out again. So
definitely keep an eye on your gutters. Do you maintenance,
Call a professional roofine contractor like her Roofing.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Thanks for the tips. That's Gianna Zavala, owner of her Roofing.
The blog on their website has information about how roof
repairs are done, problems to look for in other tips.
The website is her roofing dot com. Chronic wasting disease
affects deer and elk. It's been detected in states surrounding
Oregon and the Department of Fish and Wildlife wants to
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know when it's found here. Michelle Denahee is with ODF
ANDW and explains chronic wasting disease and.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
The animal can have CEDWD and be spreading it without
actually showing any symptoms. It can take years for them
to develop symptoms. So what we've been doing for the
last few decades is testing as many hunter harvested elk
as we can, as well as roadkilled deer elk, because
we want to basically detect it early and that will
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help us slow the spread of the disease. This year,
Oregon Hunters Associations stepped up with a special incentive and
is giving away hunting gear. There'll be a drawing for
hunting gear for hunters that get their deer or elk
tested this season, the drawings.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
For a new hunting rifle and scope. Michelle, how do
hunters get their animals tested?
Speaker 6 (27:26):
It's pretty easy to get done. During certain weekends of
deer and elk seasons. Will have checkstations set up and
if you drive by one, you'll see signs about it
and hunters to our transporting wildlife need to stop. It
shouldn't take long, but we've also partnered with a number
of meat processors and taxidermises. Again, they will also test
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your deer elk and finally you can call your nearest
ODFW office and make an appointment to get it tested
or we also have collection barrels where you can leave
the head of your.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Animal what's involved in the test.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
So basically we take some of the brain tissue and
test it and we do post results online within about
three to five weeks. Thankfully, we've never had a detection
of CWD in Oregon. Unfortunately, it's now been found in
almost all surrounding states. It was detected in Washington recently.
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It's also in California and Idaho, so we're concerned that
we may get a detection too. But if your animal
does test positive, we will call the hunter who turned
it in.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
What's been learned from other states.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
CWD has been found in many other states and provinces,
and what they see happens is that an animal won't
show symptoms, but they'll be passing it through those to
those contact with other animals. There's also some evidence that
it can be deposited in soil and uptaken there, and
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so what happens is the disease keeps spreading and you
don't know it, and when it gets to a certain prevalence,
as more and more deer and elk are affected, you
can actually see impacts to the population.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Michelle, what's the risk to humans.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
It's important to say that there's no evidence that CWD
makes humans sick. There's been no connection found from eating
or handling contaminated meat. Hunters who are concerned, we recommend
that they wait until they get their test results back,
you know, to eat their animal, and the Center for
Disease Control recommends not eating eat from a CWD positive animal.
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But again, there's no evidence that humans can be sickened
by this.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
That's Michelle Denahey with the Oregon Fish and Wildlife and
details on a drawing for hunters to get their deer
and elk tested for chronic wasting disease. The Oregon Hunter's
Association is donating a new rifle and scope for the drawing.
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Welcome to Local Voices. I'm Brad Bord. This week Portland
prepares for its first election with ranked choice voting, and
this is the time of year to get your roof
ready for stormy weather. I'll have some tips from her roofing.
Voters in Portland will face changes on the general election
ballot in November. The number of city council members will
increase from four to twelve, and ranked choice voting will
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be used to determine the new mayor, auditor, and city
council members. To explain how it works, James Eckles joins
us on Local Voices. He's an election analyst for the
City of Portland. James, what is ranked choice voting?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Simply put, rank choice voting is a method of voting
that allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference
instead of choosing only one candidate. This method can allow
your vote to count toward another candidate if your favorite
candidate gets eliminated.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Can you give an example of how it will affect
a voter's selection of candidates.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
The example that comes to mind that will sort of
change the way voters interact with the ballot is if
you think of a single choice election, the typical elections
that we have already in Portland. Oftentimes, when a voter
goes to vote, they only have one choice. They can
choose one candidate per contest, and we often hear about
people making the lesser of two evils decision, so they
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may not feel they can comfortably vote for a candidate
that they prefer to vote for it because they have
to vote for the one that they think is the
most viable candidate. Ran choice voting is a bit of
an attempt to remove that, and you should always vote
for the candidates that you prefer at the top of
your ranking. Your ranked one, you're ranked two, and then
if you still feel like those candidates that you feel
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represent you the most might not be as viable. You
have third, four, fifth, sixth rankings to rank other candidates
as well.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
What races will use ranked choice voting.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
So in this year's November elections it will be Portland
City mayor auditor and all twelve city council seats.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Why is ranked choice voting being used in the City
of Portland races.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
We are implementing it here in the City of Portland
because in twenty twenty two, the voters took an amendment
from the Charter Commission, a commission that is formed every
ten years in Portland to make recommendations about things that
we might want to change in Portland for the better.
And that commission made a recommendation to put on the
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ballot this change to our election method, and in twenty
twenty two, the voters voted a majority that we would
change to ranked choice voting, among several other changes to
our election system and our form of government. So really
that's our job here in the Election's Division is to
implement that change. We don't choose what we implement. We
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simply follow the will of voters in that sense.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
So what makes ranked choice voting different from single choice elections?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I first always want to be you know, when I'm
answering questions like this to preface again, you know, we're
we're working on implementation, so we don't want to go
too far down the road of what is the best
system or is this a better system? But we also
do think that it's important to talk about the distinctions
why this system operates differently than a single choice system
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and why that might be important to our voters. So
there are a few differences that make it distinct The
first is we will no longer have primary elections for
Portland City candidates. We will, in fact have no elections
for Portland City candidates outside of the general election each
November or every other November. And one big change to
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this is primaries typically in Portland see somewhere between thirty
and forty percent turnout, whereas the general election tends to
have seventy percent or higher turnout. So this means that
we're now going to be electing candidates in a single
election that has far higher turnout as opposed to the
primaries or a special election which might have a much
lower turnout. There's another difference is just you know, straightforward,
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when you see your ballot, you're going to see that
instead of a single column to make a choice, you
have a grid on your ballot to make up to
six choices. And that's a big difference. You know, having
that choice allows for voters to have more of their
intention coming through on the ballot, you know, as they
discussed a little bit ago. It allows for people to
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mark their preferences down instead of feeling like they have
to vote based on sort of some sort of idea
of strategy. And then the last thing I want to
talk about is a difference relates to our multi winter
rank choice voting, which is being used only for city
candidates for city council members, and we'll be electing twelve
of those three from each of four districts in the city.
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So each district that you live in, you will vote
for city council members in that district and three will
be a out of that race. Now, this ends up
a little bit different than a normal single choice election
because it leads to more likely scenario to have a
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more representative city council. And the math on this, I
think the best way to sort to answer this question
is kind of with the hypothetical. If you think of
a of a district, a hypothetical voting district, and sixty
percent of the people in that district are always going
to vote for Party A, and forty percent of the
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people in that district are always going to vote for
Party B. They're never going to change their votes, They're
always going to vote that direction no matter what. If
we look at a typical single choice election and we
run that election three times to get three city council members,
every single one of those elections will result in candidates
winning from that Party A or from you know, we
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have non partisan elections in Portland that you can replace
party with issue or demographic or whatever. So in that choice,
we have one hundred percent of the candidates representing Party A.
But now if we look at our new multi winner
rank choice voting in a multi murber district, what happens
is we get to our threshold of twenty five percent
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plus one with our first candidate, that's going to be
Party as we expected. We get to our second candidate
twenty five percent plus one, again, that'll also be Party
A as expected. But now what we see is we've
got about fifty percent of the vote tied up in
those first two candidates, and that means there's not enough
voting block left to represent a third candidate, But that
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forty percent that's left over, we'll be able to elect
their candidate. So our final outcome in this hypothetical situation
would be two thirds of your candidates representing Party A
and one third of your candidates representing Party B as
opposed to one hundred percent representing Party A. So it's
an attempt at getting a little more nuanced in detailed house.
The councilors representing you as a voter.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
And so in those races where three council people will
be selected from one district, the ones that would be
selected then are numbers would be the ones that came
in one, two, and three. Those would become the city
councilors for that district.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Right, Yeah, it's it's the ones who in the end
are the are the highest vote getters. So it's we
set our threshold at twenty five percent plus one in
those races, because that's that's essentially mathematically what three people
can get to where you would never be able to
elect a fourth person. So yeah, so it's the three
top vote getters in the sense that they all pass
to that twenty five percent plus one threshold.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
All right, so I know on election day how vote
counting works. Eight o'clock comes and we wait for that
first print out of how races are turning out, How
does it work for rank choice elections? How are those
votes tallied? How are they counted?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yeah, so everything from a voter's perspective is going to
remain the same, And I think that's important for us
to stress because you don't have to do anything different
with your ballot. You send it to the same place
you always have. You have the same deadline. You know,
you want to get make sure your ballot gets in
by election day and then we'll have up to seven
days after for ballots to come in through the mail
and they'll start getting counted and tallied by the counties.
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So from the voter's perspective, nothing is changing, and I
think that's important. Once we receive them on the on
the counties end, then that counting will will happen. Where
normally you look at a single round and we get
all of the votes once we have one hundred percent
of ballots in and that is your your final vote.
So everybody only had one choice, so we simply look
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at whoever had the most and you pay. Here, we'll
look at the first round, so what everyone ranked as
their first choice on this ranked choice ballot, and if
somebody gets over the threshold, So in our mail race,
if somebody got over that fifty percent plus one threshold,
then just like a normal election, we're done after one round.
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You know, someone had lots of support, a candidate was
well lifed in the city and they got their right away,
we elected that person and were done. Yes, in that
first round, with those first choices counted, nobody gets over
that fifty percent plus one, that majority threshold, that's where
it becomes different from a normal election. So in that scenario,
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we then moved to the lowest vote getting candidate, So
whoever got Oftentimes in races like this, they're only someone
who had very little support or even potentially no votes,
and so a candidate in that situation would be eliminated.
And then we look at all the ballots that voted
for them. So if there are thousand people in Portland
that voted for the candidate that got the fewest votes,
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we look at their ballots, we look at who they
chose as their second highest candidate, and then we move
those thousand votes to that candidate. Then we run the
tally again in a second round with that eliminated candidate removed,
and we see what happens. So some of those votes
might go to candidate a candidacy, And once all of
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those votes have been shifted over, we run the accounts,
we see if anybody crossed the threshold. Again, if at
that point someone's over fifty percent plus one, we're done
and we're elected. But again, if nobody gets over, we
just rinse and repeat the same process until we eliminated
enough candidates and votes have been shifted for a majority
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of votes to be for a single candidate and they win.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
So what's being done to help Portlanders understand ranked choice voting?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
So really interestingly would the Charter Commission put this on
the ballot for us to vote on. Part of the
charter change was that there would now be a mandate
for the City of Portland to do voter education. And
that's something that has never been done before the state
of Portland. We've always left that to the counties. Oldman
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County has been great at doing voter education for quite
a long time. But we really felt like with a
change like this, we wanted to make where voters understood
that change it felt comfortable and confident voting. So that
is now a chartered mandate for the city to voter education.
So we have developed over the last year and a
half since it passed, a three pronged approach to this education.
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The first is just a broad education where we're having
paid media, we're tabling at major events in Portland.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
We're Out of Pride at Juneteenth at Jade Night Market,
and then we do community presentations which anybody can go
on our website request for their organization or for their
small community for us to come out and do a presentation.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
So that's sort of our broad base that will go
to everybody that's been going on over the summer, but
you can expect to see that really increase in September
and October when ballots start to come out. The second
prom is a targeted outreach. We know that when major
changes happen in elections that it's often disproportionately affecting communities
of color, communities of low income communities that don't turn
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out to vote very often, and as a story, been
left out of the city governing process. So we wanted
to make sure that we really had some targeted outreach
those communities. We have some paid media that is directed
at communities that have been left out historically, but we
also have a grant program that we're doing this year
where we have fourteen organizations, organizations like a panoh Erco
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Urban League, you know, these organizations that are culturally specific
and really trusted in their community. We're helping to educate
them so that then they can pass on that message
to their community and make sure that we're not leading
anybody behind in this education process. And then the last
third prong of that is just candidate focused. We know
there are, for one, a lot of candidates running this year,
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a lot of changes in the election methods, so a
lot of candidates are throwing it at in the ring.
But also it means that candidates are going to talk
to far, far more voters than I ever could personally,
and a candidate has a vested interest in making sure
those voters know how to go vote for them. So
we've spent a lot of time and resources trying to
make sure candidates understand the method so that when they
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talk to voters they can pass that on.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
So what guidance do you have about the process of
filling out a ballot that has rank choice voting. You
described earlier what it looks like. Go over that again
for us.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yeah, absolutely, So when it arrives, you'll see there'll be
a separate ballot, a separate card is what we call
it for the Portland City election, so there won't be
any confusion about the two. You'll see it separated out,
and you'll see instead of a single column that you
fill in, there'll be a grid with six rankings across
the top. And then all of the candidates in that
particular contest down the left side. Now, if there's one
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thing I can say, as a sort of a single
sentence rule that you should keep in mind when you're
filling this ballot out, it's just to mark a different
candidate for each ranking, and only rank each candidate once. Right,
you're only going to rank six candidates. You can do fewer,
rank one, two, three, whatever you want. As long as
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you rank at least one candidate, your vote will get counted.
We will count that ballot. But if you'd like to
rank more, we encourage you to do so, to have
more of your attention across a ballot. But just if
you do, make sure to only have one O will
filled in in each column and row. Now, the next
thing that we really encourage people to do is to practice.
We have seen from the data and the research and
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other jurisdictions that one of the best ways for people
to understand this is to actually practice it. So we
have created a platform. We've worked with a vendor to
create a platform where you can practice ranked choice voting.
That's available on our website at www dot Portland dot
gov slash vote vote and if you go there, it'll
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walk you through a mock election. You get to vote
on some things. We do different things with different organizations.
Every couple of weeks we rotate that through and when
you do that, it'll show you the results and it'll
walk you through sort of what happen round by round,
and you can see a visual representation of that. And
then finally, the last bit of guidance is really if
you're really still unsure, we're gonna be here to help.
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So you'll see information in the voter's pamphlet, you'll see
a mailer showing up in your mailbox that will describe
some of this, and you'll see an insert in the
actual ballot itself that has some tips and some information
on how to fill out a rank choice ballot. And
if you really still feel uncomfortable, we always encourage you
to call three one one. Three one one is going
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to be well prepped when ballots drop on what to
do to fill in these ballots, and they are great
at their jobs at either answering the questions you have
about the ballot or passing you on to the right
people to get those questions answered. But we want to
make sure every single person feels completely comfortable and confident
filling out their ballot.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
All right, so I'm filling out my ballot and I
make a mistake. What do I do?
Speaker 2 (15:55):
So the first thing you can do is, if it's
an easy correction, you can make that correction on the
ballot the same as you've always been able to. You
just want to make it really clear. So say you
do you know Canadada and Canada, being you sort of
weren't sure, you liked them both a lot, and then
you accidentally mark them both as rank one. You can
X out one of those ovals, but just make it
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very clear visually so that when someone in the tallying
is adjudicating that they know very clearly what your intention
is on that ballot. So those sort of corrections can
be made right off the ballot before you send it in.
But if your ballot is sort of ruined beyond you know,
you spilled some coffee on it, or it got torn up,
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or you just aren't sure, you could always request a
replacement ballot from the elections division for the county that
you're voting. For the vast majority of Portland voters, that
will be mold Nooma County, but it may also be
Clockiness or Washington, depending on where you live. So if
you're really just not sure or you're nervous that it's
not going to be accepted, we really encourage you. We
want you to feel comfortable, so we encourage you to
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go in and get a replacement ballot, but you can
only do that before you send in your actual ballot once,
so make sure you really double check it, look over it,
you know you feel comfortable with it before you mail
in or drop off your ballot, because you won't be
able to make changes to it after it's been put
into the system.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
So where can listeners go to get more information about
ranked choice voting?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
So the first and the best resources to go to
our website, So www dot Portland dot gov slash vote.
That's www dot Portland dot g o V slash v
o t E. That's the best place. It's got lots
of resources. It's got you know, videos that you can watch,
it's got a mock election that you can practice, It's
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got links to other resources. You can do as deep
of a dive as you'd like. But we also understand
that some people aren't going to want to sit on
their computer, on their phone and sort of take through this.
They'd rather talk to a live person, So we also
encourage people to call three one one if they're not sure.
You can call them now if you have just general questions,
or as I said before, when you get your ballot,
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if you're unsure about anything on your ballot, feel free
to call everyone one to ask them what you should
do and get in touch with who can answer those questions.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
James, thanks for joining us. That's James Eckles and elections
analysts for the City of Portan with details on changes
to the Portland City Council race and rank choice voting
that'll be used for the mayors, auditors and council members' races.
You're going to learn more about how it works on
the Moldama County Elections website. This is the time of
year you want to get your roof ready for the
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fall and winter weather. Jana Zavala, owner of her roofing,
joins us on local voices. What sign should we watch
for to say whether there are problems with our roof.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
If you clean your own gutters or see them from
an upper window, If you see small rocks or granules
in the gutter, that is a sign that your roof
is towards the end of its life. Another sure sign
is if you're standing back from your house with the
sun directly on it. If the roof looks shiny in places,
that typically would be the light shining off the fiberglass shingle.
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That happens if you lose the granules and the fiberglass
gets exposed. The sunlight reflects off the fiberglass and it
will appear shiny. Another sign is moss or algae. Algae
can look like black streaks down the roof. Moss actually
eats the algae, and moss can be a problem on
the roof. Also, if you do hire a contractor to
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treat moss, you want to make sure that they are
sure to fib with Department at Agriculture.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
It's required.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
That's interesting. Would a leak also be a sign of
a problem.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Yes, but if you think about it, water has to
travel through the roof, plywood, insulation and sheet rock, then
you have possible interior damage. I recommend that with the
first good rain that we get to go into the
attic and look for any drips. If you see any,
give us a call. We also do emergency tarping services.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Sometimes I see composite shingles that will cur on the edge.
Is that a problem?
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Yes, And there's a couple of different reasons why they
may be curling. One is that they're just worn and
it's possible to just do time to do your roof.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Another possible reason is that it's low slope.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
A lot of houses are steeper up top, and then
they kind of go into a low slope situation if
the roof is too low, and it will start to
curl and the water can go backwards. And so one
of the things you want to look for, and that
is in your soffit. If you have a closed soffit
and have wood exposed in your sofa area, you want
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to look up to see if you see any signs
of wood separating or drips coming through the soffit. So, yeah,
that that definitely would be an issue.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Is there anything else that you think may need attention
or we should look at.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Yeah, Buckled wood can look like or a hump in
the roof, rotted barge boards, facial boards. Ventilation issues is
also pretty big. And chimney flashing. You know, it's interesting.
I have twenty eight years of experience in the riffing industry,
and I find that a lot of contractors, riffing contractors
don't change out the bargeboards or facial boards, and that
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has to be done during the riffing process because the
flashing and shingles are actually nailed to those bargeboards and
facial board. If you think you have rotted boards, be
sure to hire somebody that can change it out because
doing it later as a repair may cost four times
as much, so there's no savings in that.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
What question should I ask a roofer roofing company before
I move forward with the project?
Speaker 4 (21:38):
I would say check the CCB get this license. Licenses
are required as a contractor on any marketing material, so
folders brochures the trucks and their courses their estimate. So
go to CCB, look up their license number, and you
want to check to see if there's any judgments or
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if they have a clean record and insurance. And if
your home is older than nineteen seventy eight, you want
to make sure that they are certified for lead.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
That is very.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Important, So that's definitely something to look at. The thing
is is that if there is an issue, it's not
actually a better business burrow that you would go to
you'd actually go to the CCB and the CCB would
handle the mediation. So definitely check the CCB. That is
the number one thing I always recommend homeowners to do.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Yeah, you can go on live. I've done it before.
You go online and it's just really easy to put
in the contractor's number, just to double check things and
make sure that everything is all set to go. What
should I consider when considering different kind of roofing materials.
I've put on a roof on our house before and
there was a very wide variety of different types of shingles.
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Any recommendation as to what you should look at or
at least think about in making that selection.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Yes, now you're touching on something that's very near and
dear to my heart. I prefer polymer modified asphalt, and
so I'm going to get a little technical on you.
Polymer modified asphalt is a much better kind of asphalt
than regular oxidized asphalt.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Oxidized asphalt is.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
In our streets and up on our roofs, but polymer
modified asphalt is a much softer asphalt and is not
pre aged in manufacturing and actually in storm states since
stays like Colorado and Texas insurance companies are starting to
require homeowners to go with palmer modified asphalt. It is
very important to take a look at it. Polymer modified asphalt.
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If everything remains equal, all warranties are equal, polymer modified
asphalt will last longer. A lot of the manufacturers have
palmer modified asphalt and they're being pushed to manufacture it now.
Malarke's line, their whole line is polymer modified. Certainty has
a good polymer modified asphalt I know owns. Corning's got one.
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I definitely feel that pollarer modified asphalt is the.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Way to go.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Very important thing to ask about. Are there things I
can do to extend the life of a roof?
Speaker 4 (24:02):
What not to do is don't pressure washer roof, don't
hire anybody to pressure washer roof, and don't scrub the shingles.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
Those granules is what protects the asphalt.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
If you take the granules off, you're left with an
asphalt and it's only a matter of time before it
breaks down and you're left with some fiberglass. So I
would recommend not pressure washing at all and doing regular maintenance,
so cleaning your goters, blowing off the roof, and hire
a professional roofing contractor to do that. They can inspect
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the roof, making sure everything is all sealed up, you
don't have any exposed nails, and then also treat moss
if it needs to be treated again with a contractor
that's licensed by Department Agriculture.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Now, the rainy season is right around the corner. Is
rain and issue if I'm getting a new roof installed.
How do they work around that?
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Yes, so we are a contractor that works all year round,
and what we do is we really watch the weather.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
So some things be done, but most of the time.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Especially when you get to tear off, it cannot be
done during the rain. Most roofing contractors that work year
round will tear off a section at a time and
dry it in what we call dry it in with
some underlayment, and then protect the area with a tarp
over that overnight. But yes, it can be done. You
just want to be careful with the contractor that you
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choose that when you get into the winter season, and
make sure that you ask them the questions of what
they're going to do if we come across the rain.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Yeah, anything else you'd like to add that I didn't
ask you about.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
I would love for everyone to give us a call
and especially have us take a look at your roof.
We we do perform maintenance and we also do emergency tarping,
so all those things are very important, and also look
at your gutters. Gutters are also one of those things
that get missed, and we find during the wintertime a
lot of people kind of let that go and what
happens is the gutters end up failing and they start
(25:58):
the nails that are holding them in are starting to
pull out because they're overflowing with debris. You don't want
that to happen to you because when those start coming out,
the nails typically are not going to go back into
the same hole without it sliding back out again. So
definitely keep an eye on your gutters. Do you maintenance,
Call a professional roofine contractor like her Roofing.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Thanks for the tips. That's Gianna Zavala, owner of her Roofing.
The blog on their website has information about how roof
repairs are done, problems to look for in other tips.
The website is her roofing dot com. Chronic wasting disease
affects deer and elk. It's been detected in states surrounding
Oregon and the Department of Fish and Wildlife wants to
(26:37):
know when it's found here. Michelle Denahee is with ODF
ANDW and explains chronic wasting disease and.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
The animal can have CEDWD and be spreading it without
actually showing any symptoms. It can take years for them
to develop symptoms. So what we've been doing for the
last few decades is testing as many hunter harvested elk
as we can, as well as roadkilled deer elk, because
we want to basically detect it early and that will
(27:04):
help us slow the spread of the disease. This year,
Oregon Hunters Associations stepped up with a special incentive and
is giving away hunting gear. There'll be a drawing for
hunting gear for hunters that get their deer or elk
tested this season, the drawings.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
For a new hunting rifle and scope. Michelle, how do
hunters get their animals tested?
Speaker 6 (27:26):
It's pretty easy to get done. During certain weekends of
deer and elk seasons. Will have checkstations set up and
if you drive by one, you'll see signs about it
and hunters to our transporting wildlife need to stop. It
shouldn't take long, but we've also partnered with a number
of meat processors and taxidermises. Again, they will also test
(27:48):
your deer elk and finally you can call your nearest
ODFW office and make an appointment to get it tested
or we also have collection barrels where you can leave
the head of your.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Animal what's involved in the test.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
So basically we take some of the brain tissue and
test it and we do post results online within about
three to five weeks. Thankfully, we've never had a detection
of CWD in Oregon. Unfortunately, it's now been found in
almost all surrounding states. It was detected in Washington recently.
(28:25):
It's also in California and Idaho, so we're concerned that
we may get a detection too. But if your animal
does test positive, we will call the hunter who turned
it in.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
What's been learned from other states.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
CWD has been found in many other states and provinces,
and what they see happens is that an animal won't
show symptoms, but they'll be passing it through those to
those contact with other animals. There's also some evidence that
it can be deposited in soil and uptaken there, and
(29:00):
so what happens is the disease keeps spreading and you
don't know it, and when it gets to a certain prevalence,
as more and more deer and elk are affected, you
can actually see impacts to the population.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Michelle, what's the risk to humans.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
It's important to say that there's no evidence that CWD
makes humans sick. There's been no connection found from eating
or handling contaminated meat. Hunters who are concerned, we recommend
that they wait until they get their test results back,
you know, to eat their animal, and the Center for
Disease Control recommends not eating eat from a CWD positive animal.
(29:35):
But again, there's no evidence that humans can be sickened
by this.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
That's Michelle Denahey with the Oregon Fish and Wildlife and
details on a drawing for hunters to get their deer
and elk tested for chronic wasting disease. The Oregon Hunter's
Association is donating a new rifle and scope for the drawing.
Thanks for listening to Local Voices, I'm brad Ford. You
can hear past episodes on the iHeartRadio app onder. The
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