The Marion County Board of Commissioners meets Wednesday to consider an agreement with Salem Health to provide community-based psychiatric treatment, as well as a $14 million contract to cover a landfill with ash daily for the next ten years.
Commissioners will consider a $475,000 contract with Salem Health to help Marion County’s Health and Human Services Department provide inpatient psychiatric services for people with mental or emotional disturbances, drug abuse, alcohol abuse or gambling addiction through December. The agreement is retroactive to January, when those services began.
The board will consider adding about $68,000 of federal pandemic relief funding to a contract with Salem-based Keller Associates, Inc. for building a new sanitary sewer treatment plant and sewer collection systems to serve the cities of Detroit and Idanha. The new contract would total about $129,000.
They will also consider a roughly $836,000 contract with with DePaul Industries, Inc. to provide unarmed security for Marion County’s courts.
Commissioners will consider a $14 million contract with Valley Landfills Inc. to cover solid waste at the Coffin Butte Landfill in Corvallis with incinerator ash for the next ten years.
The board will consider a $116,000 contract with Emery and Sons Construction Group, LLC, for concrete floor repair at the North Marion Recycling and Transfer Station.
They will consider another $249,000 contract with the Salem-based company to build sidewalk ramps, drainage and striping compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act on Northeast 39th Avenue.
Commissioners will also consider adding about $1.69 million to an agreement with the state Department of Transportation for connecting traffic signals on Northeast Lancaster Drive, Silverton Road and Cordon Road, as well as in downtown Salem on Center, Court and 12th streets. Of that, about $1 million would be paid in federal money, with the rest covered by Marion County and the city of Salem. The new contract would total about $3 million.
Meeting details: The commissioners meet at 9 a.m. Wednesday in the Senator Hearing Room at 555 Court Street N.E. Anyone can sign up to give public comment in-person at the meeting. The meeting is streamed live on YouTube.
Contact reporter Ardeshir Tabrizian: [email protected] or 503-929-3053.
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Ardeshir Tabrizian has covered criminal justice and housing for Salem Reporter since September 2021. As an Oregon native, his award-winning watchdog journalism has traversed the state. He has done reporting for The Oregonian, Eugene Weekly and Malheur Enterprise.
