Micah Brown

This Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy for the Cascades West Economic Development District outlines a roadmap for regional economic growth and resilience from 2025 to 2030. The plan is structured around five strategic priority areas: Regional Collaboration and Partnerships, Growing Economic Vitality Through Business Development, Infrastructure Resilience, Foundations for Economic Wellbeing, and Rural Vitality. Its overarching vision is to foster a diversified and resilient economy that provides stable family wage jobs, lifelong learning, accessible education, sustainable natural resources, integrated infrastructure, and coordinated economic development efforts across the region.

This official 2024-2027 Equity Strategic Plan for Lane County serves as a guiding framework to advance equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging, transitioning from a Racial Equity Plan to more equitable governance. It focuses on five main goals: aligning county-wide equity efforts, utilizing disaggregated data for progress measurement and decision-making, cultivating a thriving and inclusive employee culture, securing ongoing financing and resources for equity work, and fostering an inclusive framework for community engagement and civic participation. The plan aims to integrate resource stewardship, an equity lens, and a collective impact approach to develop and implement effective equity action plans.

The strategic plan for Lane County focuses on ensuring a safe and healthy county by developing a balanced budget that maintains critical services and addresses long-term expense pressures. It also aims to foster vibrant communities through rural economic development, redevelopment opportunities, and improved equity and access to services. Additionally, the plan prioritizes infrastructure development, including securing a location and refining plans for a new courthouse.

The Community Public Safety Repair Plan for Lane County addresses the crisis in the public safety system caused by deep layoffs in 1981-82. The plan outlines modest first steps to mitigate community risk and take advantage of efficiencies through coordination and collaboration. It focuses on restoring a minimal 24-hour law enforcement response, felony property crime investigation and prosecution, drug and alcohol treatment for high-risk adult and juvenile offenders, and mental health support for criminal adults and juveniles. The plan also emphasizes the importance of system balance, transparency, and targeted funding to reduce community victimization.

The Lane County Public Health Advisory Committee meeting included discussions on tobacco policies, recommendations regarding aerial spraying, and a review of products for vegetation management. The committee also discussed an equity event follow-up and received reports from the Ambulance Service Area Subcommittee. Staff provided updates on the Pertussis outbreak, accreditation efforts, the Community Health Assessment, and Modernization efforts. Additionally, there was a discussion about financial assistance for the 2019 Lane County Stand Down for Military Veterans in Need and input on the County Climate Action Plan.