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Deschutes County approves bundled homeless-response funding, moves forward with East Redmond managed camp
Summary
Deschutes County commissioners voted Oct. 29 to reallocate $567,963 in ARPA funds and authorize additional one-time uses of local funds to support a package of homelessness-response projects, and they approved a notice of intent to award construction of the East Redmond managed camp to Taylor Northwest LLC.
Deschutes County commissioners voted to allocate a combined set of one-time funds to support homeless-response projects and authorized advancing the East Redmond managed camp construction.
The board approved reallocating $567,963 in ARPA-designated funds, authorized up to $270,000 from unused economic development funds, and moved $108,597 from the project development fund for a suite of projects that include a managed camp in East Redmond, safe-parking support and other transitional housing work. The motion to allocate the funds passed 2–1.
Why it matters: Commissioners said the allocations respond to an expected increase in food and housing insecurity and to cost increases for the managed camp construction. County staff and city partners had worked to revise a funding matrix and to secure Redmond’s commitment to share the camp cost overage.
Details of the package and board action - Reallocated ARPA funds: $567,963 (motioned and approved) - Unused economic development funds: up to $270,000 (board direction to use…
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