SALEM, Ore. – The Emergency Fire Cost Committee (EFCC) will meet Tuesday, March 3 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. in Salem. The meeting will be held in the Santiam Room of Building D on the Oregon Department of Forestry’s Salem campus, located at 2600 State Street. 

The committee’s agenda includes a number of informational and decision items: 

• Financial Status of the Oregon Forest Land Protection Fund
• Weather Update
• Update on Status of Large Fire Cost Collection Efforts
• Insurance Policy for 2020 Fire Season
• Determine Unencumbered Balance of Oregon Forest Land Protection Fund as of February 16, 2020
• Agency/Fire Division Report
• EFCC Administrator Report
• Public Comment/Good of the Order

The full agenda for this meeting can be found here.

This meeting is open to the public. Public comments will be accepted near the end of the meeting, once the EFCC Administrator report has been given. The meeting space is accessible to persons with disabilities. Requests for an interpreter for the hearing impaired or other accommodations for persons with disabilities should be made at least 48 hours before the meeting by calling Chrystal Bader at 503-945-7220.

The Emergency Fire Cost Committee oversees the Oregon Forest Land Protection Fund (OFLPF), established by the Oregon Legislature as an insurance fund with the purpose of equalizing emergency fire suppression costs among the various Oregon Department of Forestry protection districts. The emergency funding system is designed to operate as an insurance policy whereby all districts contribute (pay premiums) into the fund so that money will be available to any individual district to pay fire suppression costs on emergency fires. More information can be found here: https://www.oregon.gov/odf/Board/Pages/EFCC.aspx

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