The effort to extend paved roads, water lines, sewer pipes and upgraded electrical power to the South Hermiston Industrial Park could provide Hermiston with the best of both worlds.
Cities are constantly looking to bring more businesses and jobs to their community, and the industrial park will provide space for smaller, but important, business to grow while still leaving larger plots of land available for bigger tenants. We wanted to make sure we were planning ahead of time to accommodate those smaller scale industrial users, Hermiston Assistant City Manager Mark Morgan said. Allowing some of these smaller industrial developments to take root allows us not to be so beholden to the large-scale operators.
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The city of Hermiston is on its way to making the South Hermiston Industrial Park more âshovel readyâ after city councilors awarded a bid for a $1.6 million construction project at their Monday, May 24, meeting.
The project will extend Southeast Campbell Drive down to East Penney Avenue, pave an undeveloped right of way for Southeast 10th Street connecting to Highway 395, create a new road leading into Port of Umatilla-owned property, and add water and sewer lines in the area.
The council awarded to contract to Tapani, Inc. of Richland, Washington, which was the apparent low bidder of four bids.
âAll four of these bids were within $100,000,â Assistant City Manager Mark Morgan said.
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HERMISTON â The Hermiston City Council is holding off on firm decisions about how to spend the $3.6 million the city anticipates from the American Rescue Plan, but city staff and councilors discussed a list of ideas during their Monday, April 26, meeting.
The latest federal stimulus package, designed to speed recovery from the pandemic, includes direct payments to cities and counties to help make up for lost revenue and spur local recovery programs. City Manager Byron Smith said the city expects to get $3.6 million â half this summer, and half in summer 2022.
The city has lost about $800,000 in revenue from the pandemic, mostly from the early shutdown of the aquatic center in summer 2020 and loss of rental fees at city-owned venues, including park shelters and the Eastern Oregon Trade and Event Center. City Finance Director Mark Krawczyk said department heads have done a âyeomanâs jobâ of only spending on âmission criticalâ items to try to make up