The May 4, 2026 council minutes describe Mt. Angel’s entry into the Marion County MORE intergovernmental agreement (IGA), which allows member agencies to share equipment and services. Finance Director Tara Von Flue explains that over 80 agencies participate and the city attorney recommended signing the IGA as Mt. Angel starts a project with Mt. Angel High School—initially to use the city’s bucket truck to work on the school’s flagpole. Council approved entering into the IGA to avoid delaying the assistance and to enable future equipment and service sharing with schools and other agencies; the Mayor highlighted the need to develop cost estimates and rate sheets to reflect the value of the city’s equipment.While the IGA is a legal framework rather than a discrete procurement, it opens the door to structured internal service arrangements, cost recovery, and potential revenue-generating work using city-owned assets (e.g., bucket trucks, barricades, specialized public works equipment). Vendors providing fleet management, cost allocation and rate setting, work order and asset management systems, or safety and training programs can leverage this as a signal that Mt. Angel is expanding how it uses and monetizes its fleet and field services, and may need tools and consulting to manage these shared-service relationships effectively.

City is also using a SPIRE grant-funded barricade system and planning staff training on deployment, suggesting a growing inventory of deployable public works assets.