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Commissioners report on public safety, grants, water planning and local projects
Summary
During announcements the board’s commissioners summarized recent meetings on public safety funding, paused federal grants that could affect emergency-management staffing, regional water planning, a proposed $100 million McMinnville recreation center bond, and local infrastructure grant requests.
At the Yamhill County Board of Commissioners’ May 15 session, commissioners used the announcement period to report on recent meetings and developments affecting public safety, regional water planning and local infrastructure.
Commissioner Stern said the Association of Oregon Counties (AOC) public-safety session covered a required six-year report to the Legislature on the actual cost of community corrections to counties. He said Yamhill County “has exceptional numbers statewide when it comes to deflection,” and that the county was called out positively during the meeting.
Stern also reported concern about two federal/state grant programs that he said are paused: a BRICS infrastructure-support grant and the Emergency Management Performance Grant (EMPG). He said EMPG currently funds roughly 50% of Sergeant Young’s position and that pauses to those grants could…
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