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Board approves county pass-through of $322,149.99 hazard-mitigation grant for Columbia Memorial Hospital; chair declared conflict but voted to meet quorum
Summary
Clatsop County authorized the county manager (or designee) to execute a Hazard Mitigation Assistance grant agreement (EMS-2022-BR-006-009) to pass $322,149.99 to Columbia Memorial Hospital; county counsel cited ORS 244.12(b) to allow a conflicted public official to vote when needed for a minimum number of votes.
Clatsop County approved a time-sensitive pass-through of federal hazard-mitigation funding to Columbia Memorial Hospital and authorized the county manager or designee to execute the grant agreement.
County Counsel Anthony Pope explained an ethics exception in state law, reading from ORS 244.12, subsection (b): "If a public official's vote is necessary to meet a requirement of a minimum number of votes to take official action, they shall be eligible to vote, but not participate as a public official…
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