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Beaverton Valley Times: “Millions of dollars are now headed to Washington County”
Rep. Andrea Salinas is continuing to deliver real results for her community, this time securing more than $14 million in federal funding for an array of infrastructure improvements and public safety projects.
Salinas’ work will fund water infrastructure, rural broadband, highway safety improvements, and other projects throughout Oregon’s 6th Congressional District.
DCCC Spokesperson Dan Gottlieb:
“While Republicans waste time carrying out demands from their far-right party leaders, Andrea Salinas shows up day after day to deliver tangible results back home. That’s why her neighbors will re-elect Salinas once again in November.”
Beaverton Valley Times: Salinas’ funding requests to hire Tigard-area houseless community service officer, support Sherwood broadband approved
Ray Pitz | March 11, 2024
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U.S. Rep. Andrea Salinas, a Democrat representing Oregon’s 6th Congressional District, helped pushed through into law $14 million in community project funding. Millions of dollars are now headed to Washington County.
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The funding includes the first part of the 2024 fiscal year government appropriations that were passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. Her requests included public safety, housing, infrastructure, and rural development initiatives in her district.
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After passage by the U.S. Senate on March 8, President Joe Biden signed a $460 billion package that included requests made by Salinas.
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“I am incredibly pleased to vote for the first government funding package today and advance over $14 million for important community projects in Oregon’s Sixth District,” Salinas said in a March 6 statement, four days before the president approved the measures. “From making needed improvements to our roads and water infrastructure, to expanding access to rural broadband and public transportation, these projects will tangibly improve the lives of everyone in our communities.”
The Newberg Graphic: Federal money will go toward improving two dangerous byways near Newberg
Gary Allen | March 7, 2024
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Two of the area’s most notoriously dangerous byways will receive significant upgrades should a bill conjured in Congress receive President Joe Biden’s signature this week.
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U.S. Rep. Andrea Salinas — 6th Congressional District Democrat representing communities including Newberg, McMinnville, Tigard and Beaverton) successfully pushed the $14 million bill, termed Community Funding for Oregon’s Sixth District, as part of an appropriations package passed by the House of Representatives recently.
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Although the bill concentrates on infrastructure and public safety projects, it also includes funding for housing and rural development initiatives.
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More than $1.57 million of the bill will go toward installing a highway safety median along the McKay/Yergen/Ehlen corridor that stretches from Highway 219 near St. Paul to Interstate 5. The stretch, designated as a safety corridor by the state, has over the past two decades seen multiple fatal accidents, particularly near its western terminus.
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The project, estimated to begin in 2025, will be in concert with a state plan to also replace old and substandard guardrails and add striping and rumble strips at the three creek crossings between Case and Gearin roads.
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Also, a larger pile of federal cash — nearly $3.6 million, the largest project in the spate — will go toward improvement of the intersection of Highways 18 and 99W at McDougall’s Corner, located between Dundee and Dayton. More than $3.58 million will be dedicated to designing a roundabout at the intersection and paying for right-of-way purchases near the intersection.
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“The project is an appropriate use of taxpayer funds because this rural, high-speed, unsignalized intersection has a significant history of serious and fatal crashes that have an overrepresentation of younger-driver involved accidents,” Salinas’ office said in a release.
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