Proposed settlement would end dispute over aid to Blacks
Pending applicants would benefit if federal judge approves, but state must commit to more data.
Gov. Kate Brown has announced a tentative settlement in a legal challenge to Oregon s setting aside $62 million in federal funds to aid Black families, businesses and nonprofits.
The settlement still requires approval from a federal judge.
But it would resolve a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in October by Great Northern Resources, a logging company based in John Day; Dynamic Service Fire and Security, an electrical contractor in Salem, and Walter Van Leja, its owner. It named the state through Katy Coba, director of the Department of Administrative Services and the chief operating officer of state government as the lead defendant.
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Oregon settles Cares Fund suit, may resume distributing grants to Black Oregonians OregonLive.com 3/12/2021 © Sean Meagher | The Oregonian/OregonLive/oregonlive.com/TNS The Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse.
Organizers of the state’s $62 million coronavirus relief fund for Black Oregonians could soon be allowed to resume distributing grant money after agreeing to a settlement with a John Day logging company that challenged the constitutionality of the unique state fund.
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Pending court approval, the fund could resume paying out aid to Black Oregonians while the state will pay an undetermined sum to applicants of other races who applied for help from the fund last year.
Oregon Cares Fund to release final round of COVID grants to Black community
Pending approval by the judge, the settlement agreement allows the remaining $8.8 million to be distributed to Black Oregonians, Black-owned businesses and Black-led nonprofits that have demonstrated financial harm due to COVID.
Posted: Mar 12, 2021 11:45 AM
Posted By: Alicia Rubin
PORTLAND, Ore. The Oregon Cares Fund is nearly ready to release its final round of COVID grants to the Black community, after a settlement agreement was reached with plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit filed against the fund. If approved by the judge, the agreement allows the remaining $8.8 million to be distributed to Black Oregonians, Black-owned businesses and Black-led nonprofits that have demonstrated financial harm due to COVID.