Agenda posted for Grant County/Greater Idaho meeting
By Logan Bagett on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2021 in Eastern/Southeast Oregon News More Top Stories
CANYON CITY – UPDATE: The official agenda has been released for the meeting that will take place tomorrow with the Grant County Court, including call-in instructions. The Court will call the meeting to order at 9 a.m., and then the floor will go to the “Citizens for Greater Idaho” to discuss relocating the Idaho border. Seating will be limited, and attendees on the phone are asked to mute the line using star-6 when you aren’t speaking. Download the full agenda below:
PREVIOUSLY RELEASED (8/02/2021):
The Grant County Court will hold a public meeting this Wednesday, August 4th to discuss the “Greater Idaho” concept of moving the Oregon/Idaho border. The meeting was approved on a ballot measure in May by Grant County voters.
According to a release from Move Oregon’s Border, attendees will discuss potential ballot measures that would be part of an effort to move the Oregon/Idaho border to extend Idaho’s jurisdiction over rural, conservative counties of eastern and southern Oregon.
Mike McCarter, president of Move Oregon’s Border and Citizens for Greater Idaho said in a press release, “Idaho’s government would defend us from the radical Left’s cultural revolution and preserve our way of life – Oregon’s government wouldn’t.”
The ballot measures are intended to put pressure on the state legislatures of Oregon and Idaho to negotiate an interstate compact to relocate their common border.
McCarder said, “We may be able to convince northwestern Oregon to let eastern and southern Oregon counties go. Because if they do, then the state income tax revenue would improve by $367 per wage earner annually, because the per capita personal income of these counties is only as high as Idaho’s. Is northwestern Oregon willing to forego that, just to keep Oregon looking big on a map? How does keeping our counties under the governance of Salem improve their lives in any way?”
The meeting will begin at 9 a.m. and will be open to comments. The public is invited to attend in person at the Courthouse in Canyon City.
