PUBLIC NOTICE and AGENDAS: Budget Committee Meetings for Urban Renewal District and City of La Grande - May 15th and May 16th

NOTICE of BUDGET COMMITTEE MEETINGS
Urban Renewal District
CITY of LA GRANDE
and
City of La Grande General, Enterprise, and Special Funds

Public meetings of the Budget Committees of the City of La Grande, Urban Renewal Agency and the City of La Grande, Union
County, State of Oregon to discuss the budgets for the Fiscal Year July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2024, will be held beginning at 6:00
p.m., on Monday, May 15, 2023, at the F. Maxine and Thomas W. Cook Memorial Library, 2006 Fourth Street, La Grande, Oregon.
The Urban Renewal Agency Budget Committee will begin deliberations in connection with the proposed Urban Renewal District
(URD) Fiscal Year Budget effective July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2024. The purpose of this meeting is to receive the Budget Message
and to receive public comments about the proposed URD Budget on May 15, 2023.
Immediately following Urban Renewal Agency Budget Committee meeting to consider the Urban Renewal District Budget, the City
of La Grande Budget Committee will convene a separate meeting to receive the Budget Message and begin deliberations in
connection with the City’s General, Enterprise, and Special Funds budgets effective July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2024. No public
comments on the City’s General, Enterprise, and Special Funds budgets will be heard until Tuesday night.
The City Budget Committee will continue their meeting the following day to continue deliberations and take public comment in
connection with the City’s General, Enterprise, and Special Funds budgets. This meeting will begin at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May
16, 2023 at the F. Maxine and Thomas W. Cook Memorial Library, 2006 Fourth Street, La Grande, Oregon.
Any person may appear at the meetings and discuss the proposed programs with the Budget Committee during the Public
Comment portions of the agendas. Those individuals who wish to provide comments to the Budget Committee(s) may do so in
person or may provide virtual public comments with the same time limitations as those attending in person. Persons interested in
providing their comments virtually shall contact City Staff at rstrope@cityoflagrande.org or by calling the City Recorder at (541)
962-1309 not later than 5:00 p.m. on Friday, May 12, 2023, to make arrangements. In the event the Chair does not announce a time
limit for comments, each speaker is asked to confine their comments to three minutes in length, whether the comments are in -
person or virtual.
The meetings will be available for viewing live via the City’s scheduled Charter Communications channel 180 beginning at 6:00 pm
on each day of the scheduled meetings on the EO Alive website at https://eoa.tv or on the EO Alive.TV Facebook page at
https://www.facebook.com/EOAliveTV.
A copy of the URD and City Budget documents may be inspected on or after Wednesday, April 26, 2023, online at
www.cityoflagrande.org or obtained by mail via email request to hrajkovich@cityoflagrande.org or phone request via phone
message to 541-962-1313.

Heather RajkovichFinance Director