2B Wednesday, May 17, 2017 Appeal Tribune
LAUREN HERNANDEZ/STATESMAN JOURNAL
Brian Mitchell, 16, applies for a passport in the Marion County Clerk’s Office on Friday.
Passport applications rise since election
LAUREN E HERNANDEZ
STATESMAN JOURNAL
Passport applications have surged in
the Mid-Willamette Valley since Presi-
dent Donald Trump’s election, according
to officials.
In 2016, the Marion County Clerk’s of-
fice processed between 800 and 900
passports applications for the entire
year. The office processed roughly 895
applications in the month of February
2017 alone.
That number surged to roughly 1,170
in March and is continuing to rise since
then, said Marion County Clerk Bill Bur-
gess.
Burgess said the hike in passport
processing may be a result of undocu-
mented parents who are rushing to get
passports for their American-born chil-
dren in the event of deportation — a con-
cern since highly publicized U.S. Immi-
gration and Customs Enforcement activ-
ity since Trump’s deportation and immi-
gration executive orders.
“There are American children who
will not be allowed to cross the border
without a passport if their parents are
deported,” Burgess said.
Since Trump’s inauguration in late
January, Burgess said, his office has
been flooded with parents who scooped
up their children after school and imme-
diately visited the office eager to apply
for a passport before the office’s 5 p.m.
closing time.
Parents and children often line the of-
fice with passport photos, birth certifi-
cates, and passport applications while
they wait to be processed by one of
roughly nine certified passport proces-
sors the office employs. Some parents
bring along someone to translate during
the application process.
The increase in passport applications
may also be affected by the Western
Hemisphere Travel Initiative, which
passed in 2007 and resulted in more than
18 million passports applications. Now 10
years later, passports issued in 2007 will
soon expire, which may be a factor in the
rise Marion County is observing now.
The United States Department of
State saw an “unprecedented surge” in
passport applications back in 2007 after
the 9/11 Commission started to require
passports for travel to and from Canada,
Mexico and the Caribbean.
On March 3, the office accepted 114
passports. Three days later, the office
accepted 134 passports. Burgess said it
sometimes took weeks to reach 100 proc-
essed passports last year. The youngest
child to receive a passport was 21 days
old.
“From my point of view, we’ve got to
do everything we can to serve these peo-
ple as well as we can to make sure they
can feel and live as securely as possible,”
Burgess said.
In an effort to help more families,
Burgess said the office will provide ex-
tended passport service hours out of the
clerk’s office on election day, Tuesday,
May 16. The office will be open from 7
a.m. to 7 p.m.
The office will be open for extended
hours to juggle the election day rush but
said that will also give families more
time to get passports for children.
Burgess said while the clerk’s office
will process ballots on election day, there
will still be between five and nine work-
ers who are certified by the United
States Department of State to process
passports.
Ramon Ramirez, director of Pineros y
Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste, or
Northwest Treeplanters and Farmwork-
ers United, said he recently visited
North Salem High School and Woodburn
High School to talk to students about pre-
paring for the possibility of their parents
getting deported.
“We found out overwhelmingly that
these kids are having conversations with
their parents about ‘what if you got de-
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May 10 & 17, 2017
NOTICE OF BUDGET HEARING
A public meeting of the Silver Falls Library District Board of Directors will be held on May 23,
2017 at 6:00 pm at Silver Falls Library, 410 South Water Street, Silverton, Oregon. The purpose of
this meeting is to discuss the budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017 as approved by the
Silver Falls Library District Budget Committee. A summary of the budget is presented below. A
copy of the budget may be inspected or obtained at Silver Falls Library Reference Desk, between
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TOTAL OF ALL FUNDS
FINANCIAL SUMMARY - RESOURCES
Actual Amount
Adopted Budget
2015-2016
This Year 2016-17
Beginning Fund Balance/
Net Working Capital
1,310,114
1,275,000
1,150,000
Fees, Licenses, Permits, Fines,
Assessments & Other Service Charges
26,439
27,000
25,000
Federal, State and all Other Grants,
Gifts, Allocations and Donations
77,104
75,900
82,900
Revenue from Bonds and Other Debt
0
0
0
Interfund Transfers /
Internal Service Reimbursements
0
0
0
All Other Resources Except Current
Year Property Taxes
43,996
36,050
39,800
Current Year Property Taxes
Estimated to be Received
700,934
735,000
759,200
Total Resources
2,158,587
2,148,950
2,056,900
FINANCIAL SUMMARY - REQUIREMENTS BY OBJECT CLASSIFICATION
Personnel Services
693,227
773,125
819,550
Materials and Services
209,424
277,000
270,200
Capital Outlay
0
0
0
Debt Service
0
0
0
Interfund Transfers
0
0
0
Contingencies
0
150,000
150,000
Special Payments
0
0
0
Unappropriated Ending Balance and
Reserved for Future Expenditure
1,255,936
948,825
817,150
Total Requirements
2,158,587
2,148,950
2,056,900
FINANCIAL SUMMARY - REQUIREMENTS AND FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT EMPLOYEES
(FTE) BY ORGANIZATIONAL UNIT OR PROGRAM *
Name of Organizational Unit or Program
FTE for that unit or program
Library Services
902,651
1,050,125
1,089,750
FTE
11.7
11.8
11.8
Not Allocated to Organizational
Unit or Program
1,255,936
1,098,825
967,150
FTE
Total Requirements
2,158,587
2,148,950
2,056,900
Total FTE
11.7
11.8
11.8
STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN ACTIVITIES and SOURCES OF FINANCING *
No significant changes.
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Next Year 2017-18
PROPERTY TAX LEVIES
Rate or Amount Rate or Amount
Imposed
Imposed
2015-16
This Year 2016-17
Permanent Rate Levy
(rate limit 0.5748 per $1,000)
LONG TERM DEBT
Total
0.5748
0.5748
Rate or Amount
Approved
Next Year 2017-18
$0.5748
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Estimated Debt Outstanding Estimated Debt Authorized, But
on July 1.
Not Incurred on July 1
$0
$0
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