POLITICS
Measure 2 eases school mergers
By Rene DeCair
Emerald Reporter
On Nov. 6 voters will have the opportunity to eliminate
one- of the pesky bugs that irritates the state's school dis
tricts each time one plans to merge with another
Ballot Measure 2 is a constitutional amendment pro
posed by the 1989 Oregon Legislature that would give
merged school districts a tax base equal to the sum of
their previous bases. The measure is not expected to have
any financial impact on the state
Proponents of the measure said it will eliminate the
confusion of the complicated "formula" computation
method that is currently used to figure tax bases for merg
ing districts. There are no opponents to the measure
“It gives them a better formula to calculate the tax base
after a merger than the current system," said Donnella
Slayton, administrative assistant for the secretary of state
According to Steven Bender, an economist for Oregon's
legislative revenue office, the state has two types of
school district mergers - territorial and non-territorial.
Bender said Measure 2 would affect mergers that in
crease a district’s territory, such as a merger that com
bines two high schools in one district. Mergers that do
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VOTE '90
Measure 2
Question: Shall constitution allow
school district created by merger a
tax base equal to sum of tax bases of
merged districts?
SUMMARY
• This measure would amend the
state constitution to allow a school
district formed by the merger of two
smaller districts to have a tax base
equal to the sum of the tax bases of the
component districts, plus ti percent
Under current law. the tax base of
any special district not just school
districts that is affected by a bound
ary change must la* computed by one
of three formulas, depending on the
nature of the change
• The measure retains voters' ability
to ini rease the new district’s tax base
by election. Effective fiscal years IfHll
and after
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