TD Council Votes To Begin IGA Negotiations For Treaty Oak Project

In a unanimous vote, The Dalles City Council directed its staff to negotiate an intergovernmental agreement with Columbia Gorge Community College and Wasco County to use enterprise zone funds from the Google projects to pay for a revenue bond to provide $3.5 million to help match $7.3 million in state funding to develop the Treaty Oaks Skills Center and provide on-campus housing at CGCC.  The state funds would be used for the center to expand career and technical education offerings at the college, with the school constructing student housing as the match and committing to be responsible for $3.8 million of the bond to make that happen.  Most of the Council discussion did center on whether the City might have to dip into other funds to pay for its part of the revenue bond, but Mayor Steve Lawrence is confident that once the final figures are in for what Google will pay for its latest project for the next 15 years it won’t be an issue, adding he thinks those numbers will be finalized soon.  Wasco County Commissioners will take up the issue at their December 5 meeting, and then the college board will make a final decision.

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