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Wednesday, May 11, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
LETTERS
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it’s fairly safe to assume that our departed
city manager’s interpersonal communication
skills and demeanor were deemed unaccept-
able by some of his co-workers. Exactly how
much more do we need to know, and at what
cost?
City councilors have explained that part of
the rationale for offering Gorayeb a severance
and a year’s pay, versus an at-will termina-
tion and three months compensation, was that
the severance option would keep the details
of the investigation closed to the public.
The Council’s concern being that there was
information and opinions shared during the
investigation that was understood to be confi-
dential, and if revealed now could apparently
seriously damage relationships among the
remaining staff at City Hall.
Gorayeb is gone and many are understand-
ably infuriated that taxpayers will be covering
his compensation for the next year. It could
be argued that we, as taxpayers, have every
right to know all the details surrounding the
defective situation we are now being asked to
cover under warranty.
The problem is, regardless, we are stuck
with the deal the city agreed to offer Gorayeb.
Airing out the city’s dirty laundry may satisfy
a passing curiosity, but the potential negative
ramifications don’t warrant it. Reputations
and working relationships at city hall could
be irreparably damaged, and it would no
doubt be a huge distraction from dealing with
the issues that our community expects city
hall to be dealing with.
Unless the end goal is to replace everyone
at City Hall, there is no need to drag this ugly
issue out any further.
Greg Werts
• • •
To the Editor:
First of all, the mayor and all the city coun-
cil should resign immediately. They have all
become complicit in what Gorayeb has been
doing. Everything that Goreyab has touched,
approved, negotiated and passed needs to be
gone over with a fine-tooth comb with an
independent lawyer (NOT the current one).
The citizens of Sisters should bring suit
against the city for wanton waste of tax dol-
lars on a man who should have been fired a
long time ago. Again, because of the spineless
mayor and council, Goreyab got away with
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everything he wanted.
Hopefully Sisters will wake up and hire
someone who has government/city experi-
ence and is from Oregon and has the best
interests of Oregon in mind. Goreyab was a
manipulator, not a negotiator.
I sincerely hope that Sisters returns as the
town it once was — minus the corruption.
Les Roe
• • •
To the Editor:
In the debate over the Sisters School
District’s proposed $10.7 million bond, arti-
cles appearing in recent issues of The Nugget
have suggested the District’s discretionary
spending is only just beginning.
In “District promises oversight of bond
projects”(April 20), Superintendent Curt
Scholl rationalized the purported need for
new athletic facilities — which alone would
cost roughly $838,750 if the bond passes —
by saying, “Our schools are parks facilities in
many ways.”
Are we funding education or paying for a
new city park?
In “Ballots out for school bond measure”
(April 27), The Nugget cited bond advocate
Jay Wilkins’ justification for the discretionary
expense to be that quality facilities are nec-
essary for Sisters to compete for enrollment
with other local districts.
This is what school districts do: con-
tinuously tax and spend in an endless bid
to progressively increase enrollment. In the
Sisters School District’s eyes, stable fund-
ing for educating our current students is not
enough. Constant expansion is their mantra.
The schools must look like show-horses to
impress and fill ever more seats.
When additional enrollment exceeds
capacity, a new school must be built. Yet
more taxes.
What’s also worrisome is that, rather
than conduct comprehensive and unbiased
reporting, The Nugget has seemingly cho-
sen to become a mouthpiece for bond advo-
cates. “Ballots out for school bond measure”
detailed Mr. Wilkins’ pro-bond arguments for
the overwhelming majority of the article, yet
it failed to interview a single person opposed
to the measure.
The Nugget also front-loaded all argu-
ments in favor of the bond measure in its
Letters to the Editor (April 27). Arguments in
Boys golf hosts event
at Black Butte Ranch
By Rongi Yost
Correspondent
The Outlaws hosted their
annual Sisters Invitational,
held at Glaze Meadow
at Black Butte Ranch on
Thursday, May 5, with nine
teams in attendance.
Sisters had a good outing,
and Coach Bill Mitchell com-
mented he was pleased they
didn’t finish last. Junction
City took top honors with
a team score of 357, and
Cascade was runner-up at
362. Sutherlin took third
with 365, and North Marion
finished at 388. Remaining
scores were: Newport (396),
Sisters (400), Stayton (409),
Cottage Grove (416). Sweet
Home only brought three
players so did not receive a
score.
The Outlaws lowered their
team score to 400, which
marked their lowest team
score in three years.
Austin Lake had his best
round of the season and fin-
ished with an 84.
Mitchell said, “Austin just
bought a new driver, and we
have been working on align-
ment and weight shift, and he
hit it well today.”
Andrew Mayes (junior)
broke 100 with a nice round
of 97, which included a birdie
on the No. 5 hole, a par three.
Andrew knocked it in from
the green-side bunker for
a two. Kade Owen shot a
106, Devin Robillard shot a
113, and Wyatt Hernandez
rounded out the scores with
a 142.
“Austin and Andrew both
did a good job today, and
Kade shot a 49 on the back
nine,” said Mitchell. “We
are hoping we can carry this
into districts next week. Our
goal is to break 400 as a daily
team goal, and I think we can.
We’ve been having a put-
ting competition every day
at practice, and that is also
helping.”
The golf team was to par-
ticipate at districts Monday
and Tuesday, May 9-10, at
Tokatee.
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