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Board ratifies two union contracts, approves three health grant applications and other items
Summary
The board unanimously ratified two AFSCME collective-bargaining agreements (dentists and juvenile-services staff), approved notices of intent for three health grants (produce-prescription, mobile crisis teams, behavioral-health/community-safety), and approved other routine items in a single session.
At its July 7 meeting the Multnomah County Board approved several consent or ratification items and authorized notices of intent for federal grants.
Ratifications - AFSCME dentists unit (successor CBA, effective July 1, 2025–June 30, 2028): county labor relations staff summarized the agreement’s terms, including increased professional fee reimbursement (full-time dentists: $1,500 → $2,000 per year; part-time: $1,000 → $1,500), an additional one‑time 40‑hour longevity recognition leave for qualifying dentists, and expanded bereavement leave for long‑distance funerals.
- AFSCME JCSS unit (successor CBA, effective July 1, 2026–June 30, 2029): the agreement includes a 3.3% cost-of-living adjustment effective July 1, 2026, later-year COLA ranges of roughly 1–4% as negotiated, an increase in bilingual/KSA premium to 5%, and other workplace adjustments such as training and intake premium provisions.
Notices of intent to apply for grants - R5: Health department will apply to HRSA for a produce-prescription program (up to $500,000 per year for four years) to provide produce boxes and nutrition education to pregnant and postpartum low-income clients, serving approximately 100 clients per year through partnerships including Feed Them Freedom.
- R6: Health department will apply to SAMHSA for mobile crisis team partnerships (up to $750,000 per year for four years) to expand Project Respond’s capacity so it can act as first responder on appropriate 911 calls without law enforcement being dispatched first, add mobile teams and embedded behavioral-health call-center staff.
- R7: Health department will apply to SAMHSA for a behavioral-health and community-safety partnership grant (up to $750,000 per year for five years) for capacity building around prevention, early intervention and violence‑related behavioral-health impacts; staff will use coalition planning and existing school-district partnerships in initial project scoping.
All ratifications and notices of intent were approved by unanimous roll call votes. Board members thanked labor relations staff and health-department grant teams for their work preparing agreements and applications.
