The Marion County Board of Commissioners meets Wednesday to consider adding funds to a contract with the Oregon Health Authority and accepting a grant to help cover county costs for emergency management.
Commissioners will consider approving an agenda that lists federal funds the county would seek in 2022 to complete high-priority road and infrastructure projects.
Those funds include several projects in the Santiam Canyon totaling about $63.4 million that include broadband access, sewage infrastructure, excavation at Detroit Lake, road improvements on North Fork Road and new radio equipment at two Marion County radio sites damaged in the Beachie Creek Wildfire.
They also include about $3.7 million for reconstruction and bridge replacement on Wintel Road, $3 million to build left turn lanes at major intersections on the McKay/Yergen/Ehlen Road Corridor and $32 million for reconstruction of the Interstate 5 Aurora-Donald Interchange.
Commissioners will also consider adding around $10.9 million to a contract with the Oregon Health Authority for public health services through June 2023, and retroactive to July 1, 2021. The new contract total would be about $14.1 million.
They will also consider a $207,470 grant from the Oregon Military Department’s Office of Emergency Management to reimburse half of the county’s program costs for its Emergency Management program.
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.
-Ardeshir Tabrizian
