La Pine City Council hosts Deschutes County commissioners, but mayor’s recent election defeat made for twist

La PINE, Ore. (KTVZ) – Deschutes County commissioners paid a visit to La Pine City Hall on Wednesday evening for one of their periodic joint meetings with the City Council, to talk about a variety of mutual issues.

First on the agenda and upper-most in many residents’ minds was to keep striving for solutions to the homelessness issues on public lands, in the wake of this summer’s Darlene 3 Fire.

However, last week's La Pine voter defeat of Mayor Daniel Richer by challenger Jeannine Earls made for a twist on that lead-off topic. Updated Deschutes County election results Wednesday showed Richer, who moved to table the homeless topic, lost to Earls, 47-34%.

NewsChannel 21's Tracee Tuesday was on hand and will have a report First at Ten on Fox.

Other topics up for discussion ranged from county road conditions during the winter to working together on solid waste dumping related to code enforcement and city-county collaboration on community cleanup events.