Today, as part of Mental Health Awareness Month, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, Senior Advisor to the President and Director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, and Christen Linke Young, Deputy Assistant to the [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Megan Chuinard PHONE: 503-585-8351 EMAIL: mchuinard@oregoncounties.org WEBSITE: www.oregoncounties.org Salem, Ore. (Feb. 6, 2023) — The Association of Oregon Counties (AOC) is pleased to announce the hiring of Robert Yde as IT Trainer and [...]
The Association of Oregon Counties (AOC) legislative affairs team has compiled a special edition Legislative Summary on the First Special Session of 2020. This summary contains an overview of policy that AOC spearheaded, monitored, and [...]
Registration is now open for the 2019 AOC Annual Conference. Scheduled for November 19-21 at the Graduate Eugene in Lane County, Oregon, attendees will have the opportunity to network with county officials, experts from [...]
On March 6, the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing exploring federal revenue options to address and improve America’s infrastructure. The hearing featured testimony from U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee Chairman [...]
Oregon county commissioners, judges, and staff from 22 counties joined nearly 2,000 other county leaders in Washington, D.C. for the National Association of Counties (NACo) annual Legislative Conference March 2-6, 2019. Participants met with members [...]
County Solutions begins stakeholder meetings, Oregon State Parks begins public outreach The Association of Oregon Counties (AOC), a statewide organization representing Oregon counties through sharing information and developing consensus, is a key partner in facilitating [...]
NACo, Rural LISC and RCAP launch mobile app and announce the Bridging the Economic Divide Partnership to address rural broadband access The National Association of Counties (NACo), the Rural Community Assistance Partnership (RCAP) and Rural [...]
State and local efforts to legalize and regulate cannabis may be more consequential than any federal drug laws enforcement, according to Saphira Galoob, CEO of the Liaison Group that lobbies exclusively on federal cannabis issues. [...]
County commissioners and judges interested in natural resources are watching the implementation of Good Neighbor Authority (GNA) by the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF), and continue to have concerns about the negative impacts that this [...]