A Cherriots bus at the Downtown Transit Center. (Courtesy of Cherriots) Salem Area Mass Transit District Board of Directors will give the first reading of its proposed ordinance, which includes a new fee schedule. • The first reading will precede the open comment period. The board will then take public[Read More…]
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Uncategorized AGENDA: Marion County to consider new land uses, justice department-funded position
Wednesday appears to be the busiest meeting so far in 2019 for the Marion County Commission. • Commissioners will consider entering into an agreement with the Oregon District Attorneys Association and the Oregon Department of Justice to help staff the Oregon Child Support Program. The staffer would report to Marion[Read More…]
Uncategorized AGENDA: Skirmish over solar array to return to Marion County
Courthouse Square, where the Marion County Board of Commissioners offices are located and where meetings are held. (Caleb Wolf/Special to Salem Reporter) The Marion County Commission has a small handful of topics to consider at its meeting Wednesday. • Commissioners will consider two items from its Health and Human Services[Read More…]
Uncategorized AGENDA: Chemeketa Community College board to discuss tuition increase, vote on service animal policy
The Chemeketa Community College board will hear recommendations on increasing tuition for the 2019-20 school year at their regular meeting Wednesday. Neva Hutchinson, the board chair, said the board is aware tuition will have to increase next year, but is just beginning to discuss where the rate will be set.[Read More…]
AGENDA: Polk County Commission to meet in executive session
The Polk County Courthouse. (Courtesy of Janet Guzman/Polk County Itemizer-Observer) The Polk County Commission’s agenda for the second week in January is bare, aside from an issue to be discussed in executive session. State law allows governing bodies to meet behind closed doors to discuss things like personnel discipline, hiring[Read More…]
Uncategorized Salem-Keizer School Board to hear boundary change plan
The Salem-Keizer School Board will hear Tuesday the district’s plan to shift school boundaries starting next year to relieve overcrowding at many school in northeast Salem. The board isn’t scheduled to vote on the plan until Feb. 12 and have asked people with comments on the changes to wait until[Read More…]
Uncategorized Salem to talk committees, aid for vulnerable populations and a 111-unit apartment complex
Salem City Hall (Salem Reporter files) Salem City Council’s first meeting of 2019 will include two agenda items that will address the city’s role in helping vulnerable populations in the region and an information report on a 111-unit apartment complex proposed in the South Gateway Neighborhood. The mayor will also[Read More…]
Uncategorized Marion County to consider funding homeless liaison another year, accept FEMA grant
(Salem Reporter archive) Here is what the Marion County Commission will discuss on Wednesday. • First on the docket for the the commission is whether to send $45,000 to the Mid-Willamette Valley Council of Governments for another year. The money helps pay for a program coordinator position for the Mid-Willamette Valley[Read More…]
Polk County to vote on fair board appointee
The Polk County Courthouse. (Courtesy of Janet Guzman/Polk County Itemizer-Observer) The Polk County Commission has a light week this week. • There will be a vote on appointing Shellie Berry to the Polk County Fair Board. There will not be further discussion before the vote. • Dean Bender, the county’s[Read More…]
