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Klamath County commissioners approve contracts, supplemental budgets and appointments in routine session
Summary
At a June 30 meeting, the Klamath County Board of Commissioners approved a series of contracts, supplemental budgets, grant agreements and an appointment, including road overlay and rock‑production contracts with Rocky Mountain Construction and a $415,000 Oregon State Fire Marshal grant for fuels mitigation.
Klamath County commissioners approved multiple contracts, supplemental budget resolutions and administrative actions during a routine public meeting on June 30, 2025. The actions include road construction contracts, emergency‑management grant budgeting, surveying contracts, and appointments; most motions passed by voice vote.
Why it matters: The approvals allocate county funds, initiate major road projects and add grant money for fuels mitigation that county officials say will be used by local fire districts and fire‑wise communities.
The board approved the following actions (motions and outcomes summarized):
- Retirement plans: Approved renewal of the Klamath County 401(k) governmental profit‑sharing plan and the 457(b) deferred compensation plan and adopted a plan loan program. Motion authorized the human resources director to sign the agreements. (Motion presented; no fiscal impact stated.)
- Oregon State Fire Marshal grant (Emergency Management): Approved a supplemental budget resolution to accept and budget $415,000 from the Oregon State Fire Marshal for equipment purchases to be used by fire districts and fire‑wise communities for fuels mitigation. The board budgeted the grant and associated administrative funds for emergency management and finance.
- Fairgrounds interfund loan and budget adjustments: Approved a supplemental budget resolution moving $101,250 from debt services to operating contingency and approved an amendment to the interfund loan between the Fairgrounds and General Reserve funds that reduces the loan interest rate (the board recorded a multi‑year decrease in interest revenue to the general fund reserve). The board previously agreed to lower the interest rate from 4.5% to 1% and to forego interest payments for FY26 and FY27.
- Internal services/ERP and learning management: Approved supplemental budget adjustments to increase implementation costs tied to the county’s new ERP software and to add the Cornerstone Learning Management System module (the motion described increases in revenue/expenditure and fund transfers between internal service budgets).
- Public works contracts (road overlays and rock production): Awarded the 2025 ACP overlay projects for 7 Mile Road and Dellinger Lane to Rocky Mountain Construction (contract signed later in the meeting; expenditure of $2,379,222.50 from road funds). Awarded the 2025 EAC base rock production project to Rocky Mountain Construction (contract signed; expenditure $1,034,945 from road funds). The board accepted the low responsive bids and authorized contract signatures.
- PLSS corner services (land surveying): Approved multiple quotes and signed contracts for 2025 PLSS corner services with several surveying firms (Armstrong Surveying; North State Land Surveying; EGR & Associates, Inc.; To The Point Land Surveying LLC; S and F Land Services LLC). Contracts run 07/01/2025–06/30/2026; each contract has a fiscal cap “not to exceed $150,000” paid from the corner restoration fund.
- Appointment: Approved and signed an order appointing Richard Clay Scholl to the Anselangelo Valley Vector Control District Board.
- Community Corrections grant amendment: Approved Amendment No. 2 to the behavioral health deflection grant agreement (the amendment extends the completion date to Sept. 30, 2025; no fiscal changes were reported).
- Forest Service cost‑share (RACC) agreement: Authorized the chair to sign Forest Service cost‑share agreement 25CS11060200078. County staff reported an award valued at $192,126.80 with matching in‑kind contributions that produce a net fiscal impact of $164,250 to the commissioners’ miscellaneous grant fund; initial payments to be made from the tourism grant fund.
- District Attorney services contract: Approved and assigned a contract with MDI Associates, LLC for chief medical legal death investigator services; the motion noted the county received a single bid and that the fiscal impact was “unknown at this time.”
- Liquor license recommendation: Filed a recommendation regarding a new liquor license application for Crater Lake Resort with the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission; the county noted a $25 revenue fee for each new license to the general fund.
- Klamath Housing Authority bylaws: Approved updated bylaws formatted to a county template. One board member declared a conflict of interest and the board recorded one abstention; the motion passed.
How the votes were taken: Most motions were moved, seconded, and approved by voice vote with the chair recorded as voting “aye” and the motion passing. Where the transcript records a single abstention, the board noted the abstention in the record.
