got it to trigger.
Your comment and some more searching based on that idea lead me to this thread.
https://community.openhab.org/t/on-off-vs-open-close-contact-item-cannot-get-it-to-work/11322/7
In there Chris Jackson states that an item HAS to be set to the right Item Type based on the items configuration. Because the XML shows on and off i changed my item type to switch even though the leading opinion when searching was that it should be contact because it’s read only.
Set my rule up as “changed to ON” and it fired off an email as soon as the timeout for motion lapsed and the device re-triggered.
Learn something new every day. Thanks very much for assistance in helping me get that part down. Now to try and frame the rest of the rule up.