What’s on our Radar – Week of May 18th, 2026
This week’s Radar offers you opportunities to plug into what’s coming up at Tuesday’s Clark County Council meeting and more. You’ll also find plenty to catch up on from last week, including the Railroad, Parks, and C-Tran Board meetings, as well as Clark County Council work sessions with the Clean Water Commission and the Clark Conservation District. Plus, be sure to check out the Other Highlights section for our take on April 28th’s Comp Plan Preferred Alternative Hearing decision and other resources.
THIS WEEK’S RADAR
Our weekly radar is intended to highlight Clark County meetings and events relevant to Friends of Clark County priorities. This list is not exhaustive. For a full list of Clark County meetings, please visit Clark County Council and Clark County Community Planning on the Clark County website.
TUESDAY, MAY 19TH
Clark County Council meeting at 6pm: Meeting information
Items of note:
- Public comment opportunity: speak up to 3 minutes on any topic.
- Year of the Woman Farmer proclamation
- Clark County’s Information Technology Department is asking for a Microsoft upgrade to use AI. “Purchasing 500 Co-pilot Pro licenses would allow the county to explore the value of AI.”
Ethics Review Commission meeting at 12:30pm: Meeting information
WEDNESDAY, MAY 20TH
Clark County Board of Health meeting at 9am: Meeting information
Clark County Council Regional Parks Funding Update and 2026 Stormwater Code & Manual works sessions (beginning after the Board of Health meeting): Meeting information
Council Time meeting at 1pm: Meeting information
THURSDAY, MAY 21ST
Planning Commission public hearing on the Stormwater Code & Manual Update at 6:30pm: Meeting information
LAST WEEK’S HIGHLIGHTS
Clark County Council work sessions
There were great work sessions from the Clean Water Commission and the Clark Conservation District, as well as the Commission on Aging’s 2025 Annual Report. Unfortunately, recordings of these work sessions are not on the county’s YouTube page yet. Here are a couple of short highlight reels for now:
Watch FOCC’s Clean Water Commission work session highlight reel
Watch FOCC’s Clark Conservation District work session highlight reel
Parks Advisory Board meeting
Topics included RTC’s Regional Active Transportation Plan, the Capital Improvement Plan (CIP), Trillium (Minnehaha) Park Master Plan updates, and Regional Parks Funding Task Team updates.
Listen to audio from the May 12th Parks Advisory Board meeting
Railroad Advisory Board meeting
Read League of Women Voters Observer Corps Notes for May 11th Railroad Advisory Board meeting
Charter Review Commission meeting
Watch the May 13th Charter Review Commission meeting recording
C-Tran Board meeting
Watch May 12th C-Tran Board meeting
OTHER HIGHLIGHTS
Comp Plan Update Preferred Alternative Hearing Decision
- Read FOCC’s Statement on the Comp Plan Preferred Alternative Hearing decision
- Read Detailed League of Women Voters’ Notes on the Preferred Alternative Hearing
- View Feral Bee Garden Public Comment and Testimony Analysis on the Preferred Alternative Hearing
Save the Date for Friends of Clark County’s Annual Fundraising Dinner!
Our annual Dinner with Friends will take place September 13th from 4 to 7pm at Cedars Public House, 15001 NE 181st Ave in Brush
Prairie, WA 98606. The food will be delicious, the setting beautiful, and the company even better. We hope you will join us for dinner.
Friends of Clark County is proud to share with our neighbors, community partners, and policy makers our vision of a thriving place to live, work, and play now and for future generations. As we see this spectacular region we call home rapidly developing around us, we need your help more than ever to keep Clark County beautiful and livable through conservation, advocacy, and education.
It has been a busy year and with your help, we will be able to accomplish even more. Tickets will go on sale soon—but for now, SAVE THE DATE!
Friends of Clark County
Subscribe to FOCC’s newsletter
News From Your Friends
Friends of Clark County
Clark County Calendar of Land Use Activities
This great public resource compiled by FOCC’s own Jackie Lane tracks Clark County’s land use activities in a publicly available document. Make sure to bookmark it!
Friends of Clark County
Support Friends of Clark County
If you find Weekly Radar helpful, consider donating to support our work. As a small, grassroots organization every dollar has the potential to make a difference!
See you next week!
FOCC Community Outreach