May 5, 2017
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Oregon
Cider business bill progresses
Proposal would
allow on-site
production,
marketing
By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI
Capital Press
Claire Withycombe/Capital Bureau
People gather in support of immigrants Monday at the state Capitol in a rally and march organized by
Causa Oregon and the Oregon School Employees Association.
Immigrant groups protest in
Salem over Trump policies
By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
SALEM — In an expres-
sion of solidarity on a day
honoring the world’s workers,
supporters of Oregon’s im-
migrants rallied and marched
Monday at the state Capitol.
The rally reflected the
current attitude of resistance
from the left in the wake of
the election of President Don-
ald J. Trump, who pledged
during his campaign to “build
a wall” along the U.S.-Mexico
border, and whose administra-
tion has reportedly stepped up
federal immigration enforce-
ment efforts.
For decades, Oregon has
had a sanctuary law that pre-
vents state and local officials
from enforcing federal immi-
gration laws if a person’s only
crime is being in the country
illegally.
Advocates say that im-
migrant communities in Or-
egon are seeing heightened
enforcement of immigration
laws, including arrests of
people who are recipients of
Deferred Action for Child-
hood Arrivals, or DACA, an
Obama-era policy that al-
lowed some undocumented
immigrants who came here as
children to receive temporary
relief from deportation and a
two-year work permit.
Rep. Teresa Alonso Leon,
D-Woodburn, also cited a
ballot measure proposal from
three state lawmakers filed
April 25 to repeal the state’s
decades-old sanctuary law by
amending the state constitu-
tion.
That proposal, Initiative
Petition 22, was filed by Re-
publican state Reps. Greg
Barreto, of Cove; Mike Ne-
arman, of Independence; and
Sal Esquivel, of Medford.
Alonso Leon, who argues
that the president’s enforce-
ment actions threaten public
safety by undermining rela-
tionships between police and
immigrant communities, said
the petition would “divide
our state and amplify Donald
Trump’s harmful and hateful
policies.”
The petition will need
88,184 signatures to qualify
for the ballot, according to the
Secretary of State’s Office.
Andrea Williams, execu-
tive director of Causa Oregon,
said immigrants need to learn
their rights and “fight back”
when those rights are violat-
ed.
“We need to continue to
advocate for better protec-
tions here in our own state,”
Williams said.
Suad Elmi, a mother of
five who emigrated from So-
malia, described her harrow-
ing journey by boat and on
foot from her war-torn home
to a refugee camp in Kenya.
“We should be united,”
Elmi said. “Our president
should be a uniter, not a divid-
er. We should use that mon-
ey he’s trying to build a wall
(with) and build houses, you
know?”
Gov. Kate Brown, who
has been a prominent voice
advocating progressive social
issues since Trump’s election,
reaffirmed her support for im-
migrants in a brief speech at
the event.
In February, the governor
signed an executive order bar-
ring the use of state resources
to enforce federal immigra-
tion policy; she’s also advo-
cated expanding Medicaid to
children who are also undocu-
mented immigrants, an initia-
tive called Cover All Kids.
“I know that this is an un-
certain and scary time for Or-
egon’s immigrant and refugee
families,” Brown said. “I want
you to know that my support
for you is unwavering.”
Schools may sue if Elliott Forest isn’t sold
By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Lawyers for
the Oregon School Boards
Association say school dis-
tricts plan to sue the Oregon
Land Board if it doesn’t pro-
ceed with a full-value sale of a
swath of coastal forest to either
a private buyer or the state.
Some 82,500 acres of the
Elliott State Forest in Coos
and Douglas counties are up
for sale, a contentious proposal
that has rallied the state’s envi-
ronmental groups.
The land is constitutionally
required to generate revenue
for the Common School Fund,
which is essentially an endow-
ment for public K-12 educa-
tion.
The land is supposed to
generate revenue for the fund,
but the forest has become
more of a financial liability of
late because of declining tim-
ber harvests. The Land Board
— comprised of the governor,
state treasurer and secretary
of state — is basically a trust-
ee for the beneficiaries of the
fund, the state’s public schools.
In 2015, the board began a
process to sell the land, only
to receive one bid from a part-
nership between a timber com-
pany, Lone Rock Resources
and the Cow Creek Band of
Umpqua Tribe of Indians, a
sale that the governor now op-
poses.
In an April 28 letter to the
board, the association argued
that the board must sell the
forest to the partnership be-
tween Lone Rock and the Cow
Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe
of Indians, or have the state
buy it outright by contributing
its appraised value of $220.8
million to the Common School
Fund. That’s a tall order as the
Legislature is wrestling with
a $1.6 billion shortfall in the
state budget.
No other proposal, includ-
ing a bill before the Legisla-
ture to transfer certain state
trust lands to other entities,
meets the state’s obligations to
public schools, the attorneys
claimed, citing a 1983 Oregon
attorney general opinion. That
opinion, they argue, authorizes
the board to “promote noneco-
nomic values, but those values
are secondary to the ‘para-
mount objective’ of financial
return to the Common School
Fund.”
“We appreciate that some
individuals may place a higher
regard on noneconomic values
of the forest, such as scenery
or recreation, than on the val-
ue of the forest as an economic
asset to benefit the state’s pub-
lic schools,” the letter states.
“The board, however, may not
consider the desires of anyone
other than the state’s schools.”
A bill sponsored by state
Sen. Arnie Roblan, a Coos
Bay Democrat, would iden-
tify common school fund
trust lands that have “limited
performance potential” and
transfer them to state, federal
or tribal entities, according to
a Legislative Policy and Re-
search Office analysis.
Gov. Kate Brown has pro-
posed using $100 million in
state bonding capacity to buy
a portion of sensitive areas of
the forest and negotiate a new
habitat conservation plan with
federal agencies on the rest of
the land, while also providing
a chance for tribes to exer-
cise ownership. She wants to
decouple some or all of the
land from its obligations to the
Common School Fund.
Tobias Read, the state trea-
surer, said recently that he sees
a “path forward” for public
ownership — despite indica-
tions earlier this year that he
would support the sale. Secre-
tary of State Dennis Richard-
son, the lone Republican on
the board, supports the sale of
the land to Lone Rock and the
Cow Creek Band of Umpqua
Tribe of Indians.
SALEM — A proposal to
expand allowable activities
for cider businesses on farm-
land is sailing through the Or-
egon legislature with minimal
opposition.
Imitating rules established
for wineries, Senate Bill 677
would permit cider business-
es to produce and sell their
beverages, serve food and
conduct other agritourism ac-
tivities on-site in farm zones.
Companies generating less
than 100,000 gallons of cider
a year would have to be with-
in or next to an orchard of at
least 15 acres to take advan-
tage of the provisions.
The orchard size require-
ment would increase to 40
acres for businesses produc-
ing more than 100,000 gallons
annually, under the bill.
The Senate has unani-
mously approved SB 677 and
it’s now heading for a vote on
the House floor after clear-
ing the House Committee on
Economic Development and
Trade with a “do pass” rec-
ommendation on May 3.
Cider businesses are sim-
ilar to wineries in terms of
government regulation and
the process of crushing fruit
to make juice that’s then fer-
mented into alcohol, said Dan
Eric Mortenson/Capital Press File
Suzie Hoffman samples a glass of hard cider during last year’s
Hard-Pressed Cider Fest in Hood River, Ore. Senate Bill 677, which
would ease Oregon’s land use rules for cider businesses, is moving
through the Legislature with little opposition.
Lawrence, founder of Stone
Circle Cider near Estacada.
The goal of SB 677 is to
provide cider companies with
the same opportunity to pro-
cess and sell their product,
while educating consumers
about how it’s made, said
Lawrence.
“Oregon is in a strong po-
sition to be a leader, if not the
leader, in this industry nation-
wide,” he said. “It helps bring
dollars and jobs to the coun-
tryside.”
U.S. sales of cider surged
more than 300 percent be-
tween 2010 and 2015, to
about $870 million, with
Northwest consumers being
particularly keen for the bev-
erage, according to testimony
from the Northwest Cider As-
sociation, which has 25 Ore-
gon members.
Rep. Ken Helm, D-Bea-
verton, commended SB 677’s
supporters for emulating ex-
12 month waiver
3 years at 1.9%
isting land use provisions for
Oregon wineries, rather than
trying to create a whole new
system for their industry.
“There’s fewer unknowns
here,” Helm said.
Nobody spoke against the
bill during the committee
hearing, but written testimo-
ny submitted by the Oregon
Farm Bureau was unenthusi-
astic.
The organization wants to
encourage Oregon’s cider in-
dustry but is concerned “about
the breadth of activities au-
thorized” under SB 677, much
as it was concerned about pre-
viously enacted rules for win-
eries, said Mary Anne Nash,
OFB’s public policy counsel.
The proposal allows bed-
and-breakfast operations and
other activities “seemingly
unrelated” to agriculture in
farm zones, without requiring
cider businesses to own the
orchards, she said.
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