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Wallowa County reviews grandstand safety fixes and a $5 million office–museum proposal as staff prepares state grant applications
Summary
County staff and consultants presented a structural/code assessment for the fairgrounds grandstands and conceptual plans for a combined office and museum. Staff said two capital-project grant forms are nearly complete and require the commission’s sign-off before an online submission deadline this month.
Wallowa County commissioners spent the Feb. 11 workshop reviewing recommended life‑safety repairs to the fairgrounds grandstand and preliminary designs and cost estimates for a new office and museum building, and were told staff has nearly finished two state capital‑project grant applications that the board must approve before online submission.
County staff said the grandstand work is primarily life‑safety and accessibility upgrades—handrails, guardrail height, non‑slip treads, and additional designated wheelchair spaces—rather than major structural replacement, and that one of the project grant forms covers the grandstand and the other covers the proposed office/museum.
Gary Fleming, who led the grandstand code assessment, recommended keeping the existing structural elements where possible to avoid triggering a full code upgrade. “Unless there are some significant modifications to be done to the building, we don’t need to do any more structural repairs,” Fleming said. He urged raising or replacing…
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