The Marion County Board of Commissioners meets Wednesday to consider approving federal pandemic relief funding for the St. Paul Fire Protection District, the Salvation Army Kroc Center, and the Family YMCA of Marion and Polk Counties.
Commissioners will consider providing relief for losses incurred due to Covid through three projects, retroactive to March 2021 and through December 2026.
The fire district would get $86,500 for its fuel management depot for emergency vehicles, the Kroc Center would would receive $125,000 to help mitigate revenue loss, and the YMCA would get $125,000 to reimburse youth development costs.
The board will consider reducing a contract with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management by about $45,000 in unspent funds for Marion County Sheriff’s Office patrol on BLM land.
They will also consider adding $91,600 to a contract with the Oregon State Marine Board to buy a 22-foot, inboard jet, auxiliary outboard boat for sheriff’s office’s patrol related to recreational boating.
Commissioners will consider reappointing Denyc Boles to the Marion County Budget Committee for a term ending June 30, 2025. The committee, which consists of three citizen members and the three county commissioners, sets the recommended budgets for all county departments, operations and capital improvements.
The board will consider a $150,000 economic development agreement with DataVision Communications, a Gervais-based telephone company to provide broadband services in rural, agricultural communities in Marion County through July 2023. The agreement would be paid for by Oregon Video Lottery proceeds allocated to counties for economic development.
They will also consider a $150,000 agreement with the Marion County Juvenile Department for one juvenile probation officer, a qualified mental health professional and related equipment to create the “Community Crisis Outreach Services for Youth Team,” intended to better serve people with mental illness who have had contact with the juvenile justice system. The agreement would be in effect through June 30, 2023.
Commissioners will consider adding $91,800 to its agreement with the Oregon Health Authority for immunization services.
The board will consider accepting $120,000 from the health authority for Marion County’s Child Welfare Program through June 2023. The funding is intended to lower the number of children in the foster care system by reducing their length of stay in foster care, maintaining them safely at home with their parents or caregivers, and reducing the rates at which families are referred to or re-enter the child welfare system, according to the agenda item.
They will consider adding $452,000 to a contract with Information Services, Inc. for the sheriff’s office’s records management and jail management systems.
Commissioners will also consider adding $145,000 to a contract with Radio Technology Services to replace analog radio channels supporting the sheriff’s office and Public Works Department.
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.
