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Columbia County interviews applicants for jail-levy oversight committee; medical care and reentry services raised
Summary
Commissioners interviewed applicants for the Jail Operating Citizens Advisory Committee, discussed the committee’s limited oversight role over a 2014 jail levy and heard an applicant call for better jail medical and reentry services including continuity of Oregon Health Plan coverage and medication-assisted treatment.
Columbia County commissioners on a June 2005 agenda interviewed applicants for the Jail Operating Citizens Advisory Committee (JOCAC), focusing discussion on the committee’s narrow role overseeing 2014 jail levy funds and on gaps in jail medical care and reentry services.
The committee was created after the county’s jail levy passed in 2014, the board said, to verify that levy revenues are spent for jail operations rather than other county purposes. “The citizen operating committee was established after the initial levy was passed in 2014 to the idea that the committee would review the expenditures made with the levy funds and verify that they were used for jail operations,” the meeting chair said.
Two applicants who spoke were Paul Carroll and Michelle…
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