Sustainability: Business, Economics, & Politics

Government & Business

Use these resources to find information from and about Salem city government and local businesses.

GOVERNMENT

• City Government Brief overview, excerpted from the Official Statement by the City of Salem to meet full faith and credit obligations for bonds.
  • Full Official Statement, including water & sewage, tax revenue, budgets, and more technical financial information
• Salem planning documents. Just the Salem documents from the Local & Regional Document Archive.  Search full text, or browse "This Collection".
  • Local & Regional Document Archive (LRDA).  Search or browse over 2000 planning documents from ALL Oregon cities and counties.
• Key Salem documents:
  • Charter
  • Salem Revised Codes
  • Budget
  • Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports
  • Comprehensive Plan
  • Transportation Plan
  • Minto-Brown Island Park Restoration
• City of Salem website: http://www.cityofsalem.net.  To restrict your standard web search to this site, use the "advanced search" feature of your search engine (e.g. Google or Yahoo), and enter "cityofsalem.net" in the "site or domain" box.
• City of Salem documents These documents are available through ftp (file transfer protocol), and require a username and password available from faculty to students in relevant courses.
• Search all Oregon state, city, and county websites simultaneously:
   
•  Interagency Partnership for Sustainable Communities Collaboration among the US Dept of Housing and Urban Development, the Dept of Transportation, and the Environmental Protection Agency

LEGAL

• Salem Revised Code
• Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) and Oregon Administrative Rules (OAR)