Category: Commissioners

  • 2024 Commission Meeting Schedule

    NOTICE OF BOARD OF COMMISSIONER MEETINGS Meetings are open to public attendance – with meeting participation via Zoom teleconference available. • To listen to the meeting, or participate in the public comment opportunity, please call: (253) 215-8782 or (301) 715-8592 and enter meeting ID number: 814 2000 6863. If you do not get through the…

  • Commissioners to Hold Work Session

    There will be a work session held by the Union County Commissioners on Wednesday, November 13, 2024 at 9 AM. Work sessions are open to public attendance – with meeting participation via Zoom teleconference available. To listen to the work session, please call: (253) 215-8782 or (301) 715-8592 and enter meeting ID number: 893 5220 7756 and prompted…

  • Commissioners Support Operation Green Light for Veterans

    Commissioners Support Operation Green Light for Veterans In a regularly scheduled meeting today, the Union County Board of Commissioners unanimously passed a resolution in support of Operation Green Light for Veterans. From now through November 11, 2024, various county buildings will be illuminated in green to honor veterans and raise awareness of the resources available…

  • Committee Members Needed

    Updated: December 4, 2024 Committee Members Needed The Union County Board of Commissioners are accepting applications from qualified volunteers interested in serving on one or more of the various committees with current openings as listed below. Interested citizens are invited to submit a completed Advisory Committee Application. Applications are available below or at the Union…

  • County Wide Burn Ban Effective Immediately

    County Wide Burn Ban Effective Immediately In a special session today, the Union County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to implement the County Wide Burn Ban/Regulated Use restrictions at the recommendation of the Union County Fire Defense Board.  As specified in County Ordinance 2024-02, the commissioners may ban all fires outside incorporated cities within Union…

  • Applications Accepted for Community Dispute Resolution Services

    Request for Applications for Community Dispute Resolution Services Notice is hereby given that Union County and the University of Oregon on behalf of the University of Oregon School of Law (Grantor) are initiating the application and selection process for grant funds available to eligible community dispute resolution programs in Union County under ORS 36.155.  The…

  • Watershed Press Release

    Press release (March 21, 2022): Oregon Water Resources Commission Completed State Recognition of Final Upper Grande Ronde River Watershed Partnership Place-Based Integrated Water Resources Plan Union County Commissioner Donna Beverage presented the Final Upper Grande Ronde River Watershed Partnership Place-Based Integrated Water Resources Plan to the Oregon Water Resources Commission on March 17, 2022. She…

  • 2022 Business Assistance Grant

    March 2, 2022 Grant Funds Available to Union County Businesses   The Union County Business Assistance Grant Program 2022 has a total of $500,000 available due to federal funding received from the Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund.  Grants of up to $10,000 per eligible business may be awarded subject to available funding and number of…

  • Commissioners Approve Resolution

    Commissioners Approve Resolution Declaring Emergency Due to Foreseeable Staffing Shortage of Health and Safety Workers September 15, 2021 In a regularly scheduled Board of Commissioners meeting held this morning, the Commissioners unanimously approved a resolution stating concern for the foreseeable future regarding an insufficient amount of qualified local staff to continue to provide basic public…

  • Union County Begins Early Fire Season and Declares Drought

    Union County Begins Early Fire Season and Declares Drought   Wednesday, June 9, 2021 Union County Board of Commissioners voted in a regular session today to enter regulated fire season on June 15, 2021.  County Ordinance 2018-01 states the County Commissioners may enter the regulated fire season prior to July 1 based on a recommendation…

  • Request for Applications for Community Dispute Resolution Services

    Request for Applications for Community Dispute Resolution Services Notice is hereby given that Union County and the University of Oregon on behalf of the University Of Oregon School Of Law (Grantor) are initiating the application and selection process for grant funds available to eligible community dispute resolution programs in Union County under ORS 36.155. The…

  • County to Move to Moderate Risk Category

    Union County to Move to Moderate Risk Category   This week the Union County Commissioners were able to successfully dispute a three-case discrepancy incorrectly posted to Union County by the Oregon Health Authority.  The case dispute will drop the county two levels to a Moderate Risk Category effective Friday, February 26. Union County will move…