2A Wednesday, May 31, 2017 Appeal Tribune
Department of Human Services says
$595M cut will hit several programs
JONATHAN BACH
STATESMAN JOURNAL
The Oregon Depart-
ment of Human Services
sent out a warning May
23: Expect to see services
slashed throughout the
agency under proposed
state budget cuts.
DHS Director Clyde
Saiki and top officials
from
the
agency’s
branches outlined the po-
tential impact of proposed
budget reductions un-
veiled by lawmakers ear-
lier this session.
That impact would cre-
ate a crater touching
much of the agency.
Under the proposed
cuts, DHS would reduce
costs by $285 million in
general fund money from
its current service level,
which means a loss of an
additional $310 million in
federal funds, Saiki said
during the public meeting
at DHS headquarters in
Salem.
That translates to
losses totaling almost
$600 million.
Officials “spent hours
and hours and hours ago-
nizing over what to put on
the list, because if we had
a preference, we would
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put nothing on this list,”
Saiki said.
Lawmakers’ list of cuts
came out as they faced an
estimated $1.6 billion bud-
get shortfall. The most
current economic fore-
cast cut that shortfall to
$1.4 billion.
“We need to be able to
use our resources really
wisely and effectively,”
said Ashley Carson Cot-
tingham, Director of the
Aging and People with
Disabilities program.
Project Independence
One of the potential re-
ductions would affect
“Oregon Project Inde-
pendence,” with an esti-
mated 1,200-person im-
pact each month around
the state, she said.
“This program pro-
vides personal care,
heavy housework or
chore services within
your own home, and this is
for folks that are not on
the Medicaid program,”
Cottingham said.
“So it’s a really popular
program to get a little bit
of light touch support so
that you can remain inde-
pendent for as long as pos-
sible and not have to come
on to the publicly funded,
long-term care,” she said.
The average cost for
the program is about $332
per case, compared to a
general
fund
dollar
amount of about $800 for
the Medicaid option, Cot-
tingham said.
Disability Services
The Office of Develop-
mental Disability Ser-
vices may have to narrow
the eligibility criteria for
who can obtain services,
Director Lilia Teninty
said.
“People like the idea of
a wide door so that lots of
people can come through
the door, but then poten-
tially access — because
we’ve got a wide door —
access only a small
amount of services,” Te-
ninty said.
Budget cuts would
mean “narrowing that
door,” she said. That may
mean raising the number
of functional disabilities a
person needs to have to
obtain services from two
to three.
TANF and daycare
Self-Sufficiency Pro-
grams would see $84.6
million dollars in cuts un-
der legislators’ proposals,
Deputy Director Dan
Haun said.
“The really unfortu-
nate thing for the self-suf-
ficiency
program
is
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The Department of Human Services could reduce costs by $285 million in general fund money
from its current service level, which means a loss of an additional $310 million in federal funds.
there’s really only two
places that can come from
for us,” Haun said.
Those are Temporary
Assistance to Needy Fam-
ilies (TANF) and employ-
ment-related daycare, he
said.
Parents at 48 months in
the TANF program would
be cut off, with children
and parents cut off at 60
months, he said. “We’d
have a full-family sanc-
tion,” Haun said.
The full-family sanc-
tion would impact about
970 families right away,
and the 48-month sanction
would affect 3,952 fam-
ilies, he said, though
“that’s always a moving
target with the TANF pro-
gram” because people
come on and off it as they
gain and lose employ-
ment.
For employment-relat-
ed daycare — a supple-
ment for working people
who need help with day-
care — the proposals
would mean cutting an av-
erage of roughly 1,000
families per month off of
the caseload, Haun said.
Child welfare
Interim Child Welfare
Director Laurie Price said
reductions would be felt
in screener positions
within DHS. Those staff-
ers field allegations of
abuse.
“It won’t impact the
number of staff we have
today, but it impacts the
number of staff we would
have tomorrow given our
current service level,”
Price said.
Secondly, cuts would
come to the agency’s post-
adoption services, which
are services provided to
families who adopt chil-
dren through DHS, she
said.
Under
Gov.
Kate
Brown’s proposed budget,
child welfare was set to
see an increase in staff-
ing.
Leadership
reshuffling
The meeting Tuesday
came at a time when the
agency is experiencing
leadership shuffling. Sai-
ki himself is retiring later
this year. Fariborz Pakse-
resht, who now runs Ore-
gon’s juvenile detention
system, is set take over
Sept. 1.
“Fariborz and I have
worked together for a
long time,” Saiki said
Tuesday. “He’s one of the
best leaders in state gov-
ernment.”
The new director’s sal-
ary will be $15,459 a
month, according to his
offer
letter.
That’s
$185,508 a year.
Correspondence
ob-
tained through a public
records request shows
planning for Saiki’s re-
tirement has been in the
works for some time.
In April, Pakseresht
said in a text to Heidi Moa-
wad, Brown’s Public Safe-
ty Advisor, that the gover-
nor’s office had been
speaking with him about
DHS.
“I got an offer letter
from
Nik
(Blosser,
Brown’s Chief of Staff)
yesterday but haven’t
signed it yet,” Pakseresht
said in the April 6 text.
In May, Brown an-
nounced he would take
over the job in September.
In considering the ap-
pointment, Brown chose
Pakseresht
for
“his
proven track record of
strong leadership and in-
novation at DHS, the De-
partment of Administra-
tive Services and (the
Oregon Youth Author-
ity),” according to a
spokesperson for the gov-
ernor’s office.
“Gov. Brown expects
Fariborz to bring this spir-
it of innovation to mod-
ernize DHS and ensure
the agency continues to
move in the right direc-
tion for the benefit of all
Oregonians,” the spokes-
person said.
Saiki’s official retire-
ment day is July 30, public
records show. He will
maintain a foot in the door
at DHS during the direc-
torial transition. His last
day with the agency is
Sept. 30, records show.
With the number of
children who spent at
least a day in foster care
during the 2016 fiscal year
edging past 11,100, Lena
Alhusseini, who took the
helm as the Oregon’s child
welfare director last No-
vember, signaled her res-
ignation last week.
She didn’t say why in
her resignation letter to
DHS officials and de-
clined to comment fur-
ther on May 22.
The Statesman Journal
reported on Sunday Al-
husseini saw herself as
“targeted and vilified” in
March, less than two
months before her resig-
nation.
Saiki introduced Price
as Alhusseini’s interim re-
placement at the start of
the meeting, saying, “She
graciously volunteered
for the position.”
The recruitment proc-
ess for a permanent child
welfare director remains
unclear.
“We haven’t had a
chance with the resigna-
tion coming on last week
for me to sit down with not
just Fariborz but with
Laurie and probably the
governor’s office to talk
about how we want to
move forward,” Saiki
said.
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OBITUARIES
Harry Montgomery
Dec. 5, 1925 — May 19,
2017
Harry Leroy Montgo-
mery, 91, of Oregon City,
died of natural causes at
home May
19,
2017.
Harry was
born Dec. 5,
1925,
in
Stratton,
Colorado,
to William
and Ruth Montgomery.
Harry captained the
1943 Newberg state cham-
pion football team. He
served in WWII in the
Vancouver shipyard and
later as a seaman in the
Merchant Marines.
Harry was a line fore-
man for PGE and retired
after 38 years of service.
He served as a city coun-
cilman in Silverton and an
exalted ruler for the Sil-
verton Elks Lodge BPOE
2210. Harry was an avid
outdoors man and will be
sorely missed by all who
knew him.
He is survived by his
wife of 69 years, Ethel
Marie Montgomery, his
daughter Rebecca Steed,
sons Patric and Michael
Montgomery, and the nu-
merous
grandchildren
and great children he
adored.
Funeral Mass was held
on Thursday, May 25, at
St. John the Apostle
Catholic Church in Ore-
gon City. He will be laid to
rest with full military
honors at Willamette Na-
tional Cemetery in Port-
land.
Hillside Chapel in Ore-
gon City was entrusted
with
arrangements.
Please visit www.Hillsi-
deChapelFH.com to leave
a memory for the family.
Lawrence Emil
Bochsler
Oct. 31, 1929 — May 19,
2017
Lawrence Emil Boch-
sler passed away peace-
fully at the
age of 87.
Lawrence
(Larry)
was born in
Mt. Angel
to Charles
and Fran-
cis Bochsler, the youngest
of six children.
He lived his entire life
in the Silverton and Salem
area, except for a brief
time in Georgia during his
Army service. He owned
a farm in Silverton for
many years. Lawrence
worked and retired as a
surveyor for the Marion
County Highway Depart-
ment. One of his greatest
joys was to take a drive on
the roads in the county
and recount the turns,
grades and bridges he sur-
veyed as the roads were
built. Lawrence enjoyed
being outdoors, especially
hunting and fishing.
He was preceded in
death by one sister, four
brothers and one grand-
son. Lawrence is survived
by his four children: Dan
(Linda), Bernie (Regina),
Susan (Brian) and Sally.
He had five grandchil-
dren and five great-
grandchildren.
The family would like
to thank Davenport Place,
which cared for him the
last three years, and Se-
renity Hospice. A memo-
rial service will be sched-
uled at a later date.