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Oregon bill would cap grant matches and let small cities use funds for planning and engineering
Summary
Lawmakers and small-city officials told the House Committee on Emergency Management, General Government and Veterans that House Bill 3654 would reduce matching requirements for capital and infrastructure grants for Oregon cities with fewer than 20,000 residents and allow awarded grant money to cover planning and engineering.
Representative Ed Deal, state representative for House District 17, asked the House Committee on Emergency Management, General Government and Veterans on March 27 to approve House Bill 3654, which would cap maximum matching-fund requirements for state capital-construction and municipal-infrastructure grants to Oregon cities with populations of 20,000 or fewer.
The bill would create a sliding scale for local matches based on population and allow small cities to use awarded grant funds for all phases of a project, including engineering, planning and support services. “When capital and infrastructure funding grants require Oregon’s smallest towns to provide a 15 to 20%…
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