Congratulations to the 2015 OACES award winners! Outgoing OACES President John Vial announced three award winners at the OACES Business Meeting in October: Surveyor of the Year: Carl Clinton (Clackamas) for his engagement in the [...]
Legislative Update: Congress Expected to Pass Short-term Extension of MAP-21 Today, the House of Representatives is expected to vote on another short-term extension of MAP-21 that would continue current law through November 20. As previously [...]
OACES is excited to announce co-sponsorship of the Enhanced Gravel Roads Workshop with the Oregon chapter of APWA and the ODOT T2 Center. The focus of this workshop will be on alternative and innovative treatments and [...]
The Annual Conference will be held November 17, 18, 19 at the Hilton Conference Center in Eugene (pre-conference day is November 16). Please visit the AOC website homepage www.oregoncounties.org for registration and accommodation information. Click on the [...]
The 2015 AOC Legislative Summary is now available. Please click here for your reading pleasure. Now for a preemptive mea culpa...we were having trouble finding time to do the final proof, and finally decided we [...]
AOC steering committees, Legislative Committee and Board of Directors met October 12 at the Local Government Center in Salem. The Legislative Committee and the Board won't meet again until December 14, but the steering committees [...]
The Department of Land Conservation and Development and ODOT have jointly issued an announcement of $2.6 million in funding for Transportation and Growth Management grants. Three counties - Benton, Crook, Yamhill - and the Lincoln [...]
The AOC Solid Waste Subcommittee of the Energy, Environment and Land Use Steering Committee met in Portland and visited two sites dedicated to reducing the flow of waste into the landfills. The subcommittee first [...]
In late August during a roundtable discussion with local, state and national sage grouse conservation partners at Portland's World Forestry Center, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced USDA's new four-year strategy that will invest approximately $211 [...]
Sage Grouse Not Listed Big news this summer when the U.S. Department of the Interior announced that sage-grouse will not be listed under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA). AOC, along with numerous other groups [...]