Ms Pturley:  You are ever so right......if it walks like a power-grab; quacks like a power-grab and smells like a power-grab, there's a pretty good chance it's a power-grab.  The "county concern" metric, as you say, is subjective....I would suggest intentionally so.  It gives the Board of Commissioners carte blanche authority to veto any initiative they choose.  It's a egregious constitutional violation which, essentially, deprives citizens of the initiative right.  The initiative process was designed and placed in the US and Oregon Constitutions specifically to provide citizens a direct "recourse for grievances" vis a vis an over-reaching and controlling legislative body.  The Board's assumption of a preemptive veto power to keep initiatives off the ballot negates that constitutionally protected citizens' power.  IMO, a Board truly dedicated to democracy would not even want such power, let alone try to grant it to themselves.  regards, Gary