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EIGHT - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, October 23, 2024 Lexington airport work sees setback due to new cultural study requirements -Continued from PAGE ONE for both. the county are not well de- fined as we’ve kind of seen over the last few months,” said Ince. “As we refine and implement new processes along with the implementa- tion of this system, the risk and procurement manager position is going to be in- tegral in helping us stand that up. “The timeliness of hopefully having that per- son on board at the begin- ning of this process is going to be very valuable; it will allow someone to focus on just that element of it,” he added. Commissioner Roy Drago asked whether the software would improve IT (internet technology) security for the county. Ince replied that the county is also working with BerryDunn on a sep- arate project for business continuity and disaster re- covery for its technical in- frastructure. The two teams are working in tandem to provide the best solutions “They’re going to be collaborating to make sure that as we negotiate the statement of work in the contract that we’re incor- porating some of those best practice security rec- ommendations from the disaster recovery business continuity team into this,” Ince said. “I can tell you that in- ternally, security and roles and permissions within a system, our processes, will definitely be more secure and allow us to kind of seg- regate some of the functions that need to be separated more than what we have today,” he added. “I would say that the ERP doesn’t directly tie in with our IT security infrastructure, but it will assist with any type of fraud risk,” added Morrow Coun- ty Administrator Matthew Jensen. Also at the meeting, the BOC held a public hearing and approved a supplemen- tal budget for fiscal year 2025 for the establishment of a behavioral health de- flection grant program fund. It also adopted a supple- ment budget to allow for transfer of opioid abate- ment funds. Ince told the BOC that the county had originally thought it would be the fiscal agent for the grant funds, which are to be used by Community Counseling Solutions in its opioid de- flection program. However, Ince said fur- ther review of the funds showed that the county is the grant recipient, which created the need for the special fund. “These are import- ant dollars for the county. They’re going to help us, hopefully, try to lighten some of the addiction is- sues we have,” Morrow County district Attorney Justin Nelson said in favor of the proposed budget ad- justments. “I can’t say for sure it’s going to work, but I think we’re going to give it every shot we have.” In other business, the commissioners authorized payment of a claim rejected by the finance department. The claim was for work on a side-by-side owned by Morrow County Parks. The work had been time-sen- sitive, since it happened during fire season, and the UTV was equipped to respond to dry lightning strikes and fires on the park. The repairs needed had ended up being more signif- icant than expected, and the department had neglected to get prior approval. Ince said the purchase didn’t meet process require- ments and therefore could not be approved by statute. However, he said he didn’t feel there was wanton dis- regard for the process, but merely an oversight. All the employees involved had reviewed the correct procedure. The BOC also ap- proved three fiscal year 2025 resolution budget transfers and adjustments, two for transfers of appro- priations and one for an increase of appropriations. One transfer was from general operating contin- gency in the general fund into the weed department for costs related to the building lease, utilities and expenditures for fixtures and equipment for the new weed office location. The other was a transfer of ap- propriations from general operating contingency to the finance department for the creation of a new risk and procurement manager position. The increase of ap- propriations was for funds from a Homeland Security emergency management grant program for the audio/ visual upgrades in the coun- ty’s primary emergency operations center, which is the upper meeting room in the Bartholomew Building in Heppner. In other business, the board: -ratified the 2024-2027 Collective Bargaining Agreement for Morrow County Road Department, Local 2479 American Fed- eration of State, County, and Municipal Employees; -heard that South Mor- row County Seniors Matter received the 2024 Oregon Rural Quality Excellence Award for a Community Based Organization earlier this month; and -canceled the Nov. 20 BOC meeting due to sched- ule conflicts with the Asso- ciation of Oregon Counties annual conference, which BOC members and some staff will attend. 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