RESCHEDULED: November 12 Special City Council Meeting

Due to today's ongoing Microsoft Outlook outage, the City of Salem is canceling tonight's special meeting. City Council deliberations following Monday night's public hearing on City Council code interpretation of SRC 400.110(e) regarding "data center facilities" will now take place at a November 17, 2026 special meeting of City Council. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. in Loucks auditorium of the Salem Public Library.

• Salem City Council is accepting written testimony until 5 p.m. on Friday, November 13, 2026.
• The purpose of the special meeting is Council deliberations.
• Written testimony may submitted via email [email protected] or be submitted in person at the City offices, located at 440 Church St., SE, 5th floor.
• The public hearing is now closed, no testimony or public comment will be accepted at the special Council meeting.
• On Monday night, November 9, 2026, the Salem City Council received written and oral testimony on the matter, closed the public hearing and announced a special meeting to further deliberate on the interpretation of "data center facilities," set forth in Salem Revised Code section 400.110(e). The matter before Council is an interpretation of this section of SRC, from 2013-2014, and whether to include artificial-intelligence data centers, hyperscale data centers, or other facilities whose defining function is large-scale, computational processing in the "data center facilities" definition from that time period.

City Council code interpretation of SRC 400.110(e): https://pub-salem.escribemeetings.com/FileStream.ashx?DocumentId=1777