Category Archives: CPO 1
Who you gonna call? Dwindling community engagement with WashCo government
Four meetings a year for four geographic districts countywide is Washington County’s plan for neighbors to interact with government. After shutting down the Community Participation Organizations (CPOs) this spring, the county is still working to define what comes next, but decisions have already been made to limit future engagement by moving to four meetings per area countywide, based on County Commissioner Districts, held quarterly, and focusing on countywide issues rather than local neighborhood concerns.
CPO News February 2026
Community participation program—as we know it—likely to end soon
After a years-long decline in county support, Washington County’s once exemplary community involvement program (Community Participation Organizations—CPOs, and the Committee for Community Involvement—CCI) will end as neighbor-led organization if the Board of County Commissioners (BCC) proceeds as outlined in their December 2 work session.


































