The budget increased 7.47%, around $18 million, with $203 million in projected revenue this fiscal cycle.
The decision comes in response to state legislation that was passed in 2021.
🎧 Reporter Karen Robinson-Jacobs discusses the racial makeup of police departments in relation to the communities they serve.
A site has not been selected yet. These are the rules surrounding its location, its features and the people it must serve.
It was one state agency against another.
The rainbow banner will be displayed after city leaders reached a "compromise".
"To bee or not to bee?" That was the philosophical question before the City Council on Tuesday. It had already outlawed not only beekeeping but the insects themselves.
Despite an Albany City Council vote earlier this month to raise a Pride flag outside of City Hall for the month of June, the rainbow banner may not fly after some city leaders advocated for first putting a flag policy in place.
County officials vow they will get to the bottom of why voters rejected Measure 2-140 — before they return again with another ask.
“The lake doesn’t look its best,” one city employee acknowledged.
The Budget Commission has sent the coming year's budget onto the council, but it won't include $100,000 for this project.
The City Council unanimously approved the plan that had plenty of detractors who live and work in East Albany.
Public says they fear crime, machetes and
No one came before the Historic Resources Commission to speak for or against the project.
A City Council motion to raise the flag in June was not unanimous. Here's why.
In the past year, the city's library director has received five requests to remove material from the shelves.
Goals include figuring out if the salaries are competitive enough to attract — and keep — workers.
Albany residents will still get free rides. Here's why.
The Linn County Board of Commissioners has said no. Still, city officials say they want to bring everyone to the table for a chat and compromise.
The way the the news was relayed has engendered distrust, flashbacks of past incidents and has some parents pulling children out of school altogether.
While the founder of the new group says he doesn't intend to compete with another group of restaurateurs, he also didn't intend to have two groups.
It means developers won't have to offer a minimum number of parking spaces for their projects. Some planning commissioners questioned if it would work to encourage people to ditch cars.
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Before Corvallis city leaders decided whether to lend their names to Benton County's effort to pass a $110 million bond on the May 16 ballot, they had questions; nearly two months later, the county sent an update letter addressing some of them.
Overall, the project is more than $3 million than first envisioned. More details on the amenities emerge.
"I am not very happy about being threatened," the city's top boss told an official at the state Department of Environmental Quality.
Years after the city returned a softball field to wetland, the mighty beaver has returned to stake a claim. For now, the city is trying to live in harmony.
The challenge will be filling the positions by July.
City staff was pushing hard to use more pandemic money — aimed for social services — to fill the gap. Instead, the City Council did this.