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Greater Albany Public School District 8J
i Junction City School District
i Lincoln County Public Schools
i North Santiam School District
i Pendleton School District
i Redmond School District
Because the cap is set in statute —
ORS 338.125(4) — it requires legislative
action to be changed.
A bill that would raise the cap was
presented to state lawmakers in June.
However, the legislature did not include
it on the list of bills for the special ses-
sion.
The Oregon Virtual Public Schools
Alliance supports a permanent cap in-
crease and would likely support legisla-
tive action in the future, though none is
planned at this time. The group also has
a petition on its website, urging Oregon
lawmakers to increase the cap.
Powell acknowledged virtual schools
don't work for everyone, adding that it
often depends on the needs and sched-
ules of each family. Both her children
have spent years enrolled in virtual
charter schools, as well as years at brick
and mortars.
Powell also acknowledged the option
as a form of school choice, arguing it's
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one Oregon families should have.
"It's outrageous that during a time of
unprecedented school closures and the
reemergence of COVID-19," she said,
"the state Legislature would make it
harder — not easier —for parents to pro-
tect the health and safety of their fam-
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been really, really shorthanded. We’re
running 60%.”
Freres Lumber was approved for a $5
million PPP loan on April 27, and Freres
said the company will spend all of that
on payroll.
Despite an unemployment rate in
Oregon of 11.2% in June, the company
has been searching for employees since
the slowdown.
The nearly 100-year-old wood prod-
ucts producer was forced to shut down
for the first week in May as orders
slowed along with the state’s shut
down, and it ran out of room to store the
plywood and other products it produc-
es.
But it kept its employees on the pay-
roll.
During that week the company was
closed, three workers contracted CO-
VID-19.
While some manufacturing busi-
nesses have struggled with outbreaks
of employees contracting COVID-19,
Freres said the three employees who
contracted the coronavirus quarantin-
ed with pay.
“They caught that when they weren’t
here,” Freres said. “They wouldn’t have
caught it if we wouldn’t have had to shut
down for a week.”
Freres Lumber has provided PPE and
cleaning supplies, mandated social dis-
tancing by marking separation, dis-
couraged use of lunchrooms, installed
plexiglass barriers, closed offices to the
public and increased third-party clean-
ing of public areas.
Freres Lumber vice president of Op-
erations Kyle Freres said the company
has paid for employees to stay home
while not feeling well, encouraged them
to maintain social distance while away
from work and been upfront about their
cases and informed co-workers of pos-
sible exposures.
“No one wants to get sick and no one
wants to transmit sickness to others,”
Kyle Freres said. “We all realize that CO-
VID transmissions in the workplace can
affect the health of friends, family, and
co-workers.
“We are an essential industry that
worked through the pandemic, and we
wanted to be as safe as possible while
sustaining the livelihood of our employ-
ees and our business.”
Though Freres Lumber is located at
its multiple facilities in Lyons, it draws
most of its employees from the High-
way 22 corridor cities of Salem, Keizer,
Turner, Aumsville, Stayton, Mill City
and Detroit, many of which have been
harder hit than the Linn County city of
1,200.
Despite employees coming from
areas hard hit by the coronavirus, it still
has only had three employees contract
the virus.
Freres Lumber spent about $10,000 to install dividers to keep workers safe from spreading COVID-19.
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Rob Freres said the company is hir-
ing for skilled positions including struc-
tural engineers, CNC operators, electri-
cians and truck drivers as well as un-
skilled workers.
“We’ll help with schooling and it
doesn’t have to be directly work-related
at the present time,” Rob Freres said.
To apply, go to https://frereslum-
ber.com/careers/current-job-open-
ings/. Positions pay from $13.85 to $25
an hour.
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sites from March to June brought a major hit in reve-
nue for state parks that, combined with the decline in
Oregon Lottery dollars that also supports parks, has
meant a $22 million shortfall for OPRD.
The agency responded with cuts, layoffs and a hir-
ing freeze that means only about half the normal
amount of rangers are patrolling state parks in a year
when more people than ever are flooding parks and
public lands.
“There’s no modern equivalent for attempting to
serve as many people as we expect with as few a peo-
ple as we’ll have,” OPRD spokesman Chris Havel previ-
ously told the Statesman Journal. “We’re basically op-
erating with a skeleton crew.”
Havel stressed that the new surcharge is temporary
and primarily aimed at encouraging people to keep
recreation local. He noted that New Mexico has closed
all its state parks to out of state visitors, but Oregon
isn’t going that far.
“We’re adding this as one more way for people to
think about whether right now is the right time for a
long-distance trip,” OPRD spokesman Chris Havel
said. “If people from out of state consider that, and still
want to come, it’ll cost a little extra and they’ll be sup-
porting our state parks system.”
If Oregon wanted to continue the added fee into the
future, that would require a more complex process,
Havel said.
“For now, the focus is only on this year,” Havel said.
The surcharge is similar to the extra fees most state
add to fishing licenses purchased by out of state resi-
dents.