Baker County Parks Board Feb. 23 agenda lists Wigwam/Wayside, Sumpter Valley tailings

The Baker County Parks Board posted its meeting agenda on Feb. 17, 2026 and scheduled a regular meeting for 10:00 a.m. Feb. 23, 2026 at the Sumpter Valley Railroad (SVRR) Depot in Baker City, with Wigwam/Wayside and Sumpter Valley tailings listed on the docket. The notice sets the SVRR Depot as the meeting location and positions those two items as agenda topics; the board will meet two days after the notice was published.

The county notice contains an incomplete sentence about public access, reading in full: "will be available either in perso" and the copy provided to this newsroom is truncated at that phrase. The truncated line leaves unclear whether the meeting will also be available remotely or at a secondary location, so the county’s published agenda packet should be reviewed to confirm access options for the Feb. 23 session.

The Feb. 23 agenda listing for Wigwam/Wayside and Sumpter Valley tailings does not appear in the excerpt provided beyond the headline reference; the full agenda packet is needed to confirm staff reports, permit numbers, maps, or proposed actions tied to those items. If the board will consider land-use changes, maintenance plans, or funding related to Wigwam/Wayside or tailings at the Sumpter Valley site, the agenda packet would identify the responsible staff, any proposed motions, and any fiscal notes attached to those items.

A separate Baker County document from 2023 provides context on county capital and grant actions but is not dated to the 2026 Parks Board meeting. A Baker County BOCC year-end payment register page and minutes fragment stamped 02/16/2023 10:53 includes this verbatim: "Chief Trevor Nelson presented Approval of rant Application. Chief Nelson is asking that the Board approve to apply for the 2022-23 EMS Matching Grant for improved EMS Equipment. This would be for Patient Moving and Pediatric Securing Equipment, such as 3 powered stair chairs, and 5 sets of Pediatric Restraint Equipment. The expected 25% County Match would be $8,195.37, which is in the EMS Equipment Budget. Commissioner Jimmy Anderson moved to approve as presented. Commissioner James Bennett seconded the motion. The motion carried unanimous."

That 2023 register fragment carries the county header "BAKER COUNTY BOCC Year End Payment Register Page 1 of 15," user stamp "USER: SMITHD," Job No: 25687 and a bank line showing Bank Number: 1 / Name: First Federal / Description: Operating Account. The same page contains ledger and payment lines with codes and amounts, including numeric entries such as 1,898.61, 1,881.11, 17.50, 148.32 and 1,375.00 and check references including 981845, 981753 and 981745. A block of chart-of-accounts tags appears verbatim on the page, for example #COA101-041 #COMMDEV-041 #CRTHSE-041 and department codes FIRE10-041 through FIRE80-041 and RESCUE1190-041.

Records identify Stacie D. Harvey as Clerk and Cathy Rhoden as Chairman on the 2023 document; Chief Trevor Nelson, Commissioner Jimmy Anderson and Commissioner James Bennett are named in the EMS grant excerpt. To confirm the scope and impact of Wigwam/Wayside and Sumpter Valley tailings on the Feb. 23 Parks Board agenda, request the full Feb. 17, 2026 agenda packet from the Baker County Clerk’s Office (Stacie D. Harvey), contact Parks Board staff at SVRR Depot for meeting access, and request any staff reports or maps that accompany agenda items.