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Former SMAC lobbyist outlines small-city priorities and a stalled bill to ease grant matches
5736672 · August 26, 2025
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At a Sweet Home council meeting, Sean Tate summarized the goals of House Bill 36 54 to reduce grant-match burdens for small cities and described why it stalled in the Senate.
Sean Tate, former lobbyist for the Small Municipalities Advocacy Coalition, told the Sweet Home City Council that small cities make up the majority of municipalities in Oregon and face unique barriers to municipal infrastructure grants. "Of the 241 [cities], 211 have populations under 20,000," Tate said, adding that "the average city in the state of Oregon is less than…
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