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State senator outlines 2025 wins and flags housing, transportation challenges for Sherwood
Summary
Senator Nieron Mislan briefed the Sherwood City Council on 2025 legislative outcomes — from transportation funding and a $1 million Boone Bridge study appropriation to manufactured‑home protections and consumer privacy measures — and answered local questions about transmission, data centers and housing policy.
State Senator Nieron Mislan (Senate District 13) told the Sherwood City Council on Oct. 7 that the 2025 legislative session and a recent special session produced a mix of policy changes that may affect Sherwood and the surrounding area.
Mislan said the special session preserved funding for Oregon Department of Transportation oversight and for highway incident response and maintenance, and removed obsolete tolling language. “We maintained funding for hundreds of Oregon jobs that will do things like incident response on our highways and freeways, maintenance, filling potholes, plowing roads,” she said.
On a locally significant transportation project, Mislan said she secured $1,000,000 for geotechnical and archaeological studies for Boone Bridge seismic and capacity upgrades and is pursuing another $6,000,000 to prepare the project for…
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