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Among its 4,000 or so individual customer accounts, it also provides municipal water to the city of Redmond, neighboring subdivisions, and parks and schools in Bend. The district manages more than 700 miles (1,100 km) of canals serving about 70.3 square miles (182 km 2 ) of lands within a rough area of 280 square miles (730 km 2 ).
Bend is a city in central Oregon and ... Construction activity in Bend appears to be slowing. The number of building permit applications received by the Bend City ...
The first use of 3-1-1 for informational services was in Baltimore, Maryland, where the service commenced on 2 October 1996. [2] 3-1-1 is intended to connect callers to a call center that can be the same as the 9-1-1 call center, but with 3-1-1 calls assigned a secondary priority, answered only when no 9-1-1 calls are waiting.
Deschutes County (/ d ə ˈ ʃ uː t s / də-SHOOTS) is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon.As of the 2020 census, the population was 198,253. [1] The county seat is Bend. [2]
City of Fairfax Utilities [Fairfax City] City of Falls Church Department of Public Works (serves Falls Church and east-central Fairfax County) City of Manassas Utilities (also wholesale) Fairfax County Water Authority (most of Fairfax County, major wholesaler to surrounding areas)
Covering about 415 acres (1.68 km 2), Bend Municipal Airport traces its history to 1942. A group of Bend citizens banded together to deed a small piece of farmland to the City of Bend for a municipal landing strip. The site was developed and used for pilot training through World War II. After the war, the airstrip was maintained by the City of ...
The 1928 charter also moved Bend to a council–manager form of government, where the mayor leads city council while a city manager oversees day-to-day city operations. In May 2018, Bend voters approved charter amendments bringing back the direct election of the mayor. Bend's mayors currently serve four-year terms and are directly elected by ...
When Deschutes County separated from Crook County, Bend was selected as the county seat, but there was no courthouse, so the county government rented two offices in the newly opened O'Kane Building to serve as the county court, its first location. [1] [4] The building is an excellent example of Bend's early 20th-century development.