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Wednesday, October 2, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Vasquez appointed
to SPRD board
Rent
increases
capped at
9.9% in 2020
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
Local resident Rosemary
Vasquez has been appointed
by the Sisters Park and
Recreation District (SPRD)
board to fill a vacancy due
to the resignation of Jayne
Simmons.
Vasquez was one of five
applicants for the position
who answered questions from
the board during an open inter-
view process. She will serve
out the remainder of Simmons9
term, which ends in 2021.
Since moving to Sisters in
2008, Vasquez has been a reg-
ular participant in a number of
the classes offered at SPRD.
One of the things she hopes to
see happen during her board
tenure is the development of a
method or mechanism to facil-
itate two-way communication
between the class participants
and the SPRD staff and board.
She believes that because of
her participation in SPRD
classes, she may be able to act
as a conduit in representing
the interests of participants,
whom she thinks don9t have
much of a voice in what hap-
pens in the organization or the
classes that are offered.
Vasquez looks forward to
seeing the results of a needs
assessment conducted to give
participants and community
members the opportunity to
express their needs and wishes
for recreation and social activ-
ities. She is especially inter-
ested in exploratory outreach
to the local Latino community
to encourage their participa-
tion in SPRD activities and to
determine what their interests
are.
Do we need
to be offering more late-
afternoon and evening
classes, so people who
work or have other
responsibilities during
the day can come?
— Rose Vasquez
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Rosemary Vasquez.
The times that classes are
held is something else she
would like to explore.
<Do we need to be offering
more late-afternoon and eve-
ning classes, so people who
work or have other respon-
sibilities during the day can
come?= she queried.
The new board member
plans to spend her first few
months listening and learning.
She has extensive previous
board involvement, includ-
ing serving on the boards of
the Association of Family
and Conciliation Courts in
California (appointed by a
judge), the Youth Soccer
League, Language League,
and Hawaii Big Sisters.
Vasquez is a longtime
social worker, writer, music
lover, world traveler, and
hiker, as well as a mother and
grandmother.
PORTLAND, (AP) 4
State economists announced
We d n e s d a y, S e p t e m b e r
25, that rent increases will
be capped at 9.9 percent
through 2020, the first
full year Oregon9s new
rent control law will be in
effect.
The
Oregonian/
OregonLive reports the
Oregon Legislature this
year passed Senate Bill 608,
which imposed the nation9s
first statewide rent control
policy.
The law caps rent
increases at 7 percent plus
the rate of inflation for the
urban West. For 2019, that
number came to 10.3 percent.
Not all rentals are subject
to the policy. The rent cap
doesn9t apply to buildings
that are less than 15 years old
which is an attempt to avoid a
damper on housing construc-
tion 4 nor to government-
subsidized rents. Landlords
may raise rent without any
cap if tenants leave of their
own accord.
Typical rents across
Oregon are rising at a far
slower rate than what9s
allowed under the cap.
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