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Benton County commissioners allocated only 20 minutes towards talking about revisionary bylaws to how the Disposal Site Advisory Committee could carry out its work during a county meeting on March 19. Instead, they spoke for almost an hour. DSAC exists in accordance with Oregon State law, and according to ORS 459.325, must review regional disposal...
Oregon law mandates that any county that maintains a landfill must also maintain a disposal site advisory committee, but when Ken Eklund, chair of Benton County’s Disposal Site Advisory Committee called for a meeting, he was forced to cancel it as the county would not send anyone to log the hours. The next day, the...
Committee is concerned that its recent interactions with county staff have stalled its advisory role.
Some members of the audience and speakers question the League of Women Voters' rules. While emails don't draw a connection to Benton County officials, they were clearly unhappy about it.
An alternate-reality game launched in 2007 by a Corvallis designer has just won a coveted Peabody Award. And the game’s theme is uncannily relevant today.