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Subcommittee approves ODF plan to use insurance proceeds for Klamath and Santiam rebuilds
Summary
The Natural Resources Subcommittee approved a Legislative Fiscal Office recommendation backing ODF’s request to increase other‑funds capital construction expenditure limitations to spend excess insurance settlement proceeds on two wildfire‑destroyed facilities in Klamath and Santiam; the motion passed by voice with no objections.
The Natural Resources Subcommittee on Nov. 18 approved a Legislative Fiscal Office recommendation allowing the Oregon Department of Forestry to expend excess insurance settlement proceeds to rebuild two administrative facilities destroyed in the 2020 and 2021 wildfires.
Interim State Forester Kate Skinner told members the department received earlier bond authorization and insurance proceeds but that updated professional cost estimates raised projected needs. Skinner said the Klamath facility was destroyed in 2021 and that the…
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