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About The print. (Oregon City, Oregon) 1977-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 11, 1978)
I A 0 £ print PROPERTY OF CLACKAMAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE 11 Finance committee offers solutions Irate-based serial levy has been Idnced by the Long Range ■rice Study Committee in an ef- | to replace the annual income [which the College has been lin previous years, said Dr. i Hakanson, president of the «. ■he rate-based serial levy would k $1.60 for every $1,000worth property owned in Clackamas mty, Hakanson said. the proposed levy will collect Lent operating and building is over a period of three years Bead of every year as has been |gein preceding years, Hakanson ■.The serial levy will grant more »in the long run for the Col- I each year because property Hue will increase from year to |, he said. [Hakanson said that if the pro- ■iserial levy does pass, it will Be the College thousands of dol- K annually by eliminating costly net elections. The serial levy II only require one budget elec- n every three years, Hakanson r [The proposed levy of $1.60 per thousand dollars of property has been carefully realized by con tractors and board members and virtually all possible inflationary actions in the near future have been taken under consideration, Hakan son said. "So, at this time, we feel the $1.60 will be a sufficient amount to ask' for," he said. As the tax base stands right now for the College, $1.25 for every $1,000 of property is needed to meet operational costs, Hakanson said. The extra 35 cents has been designated for proposed building costs of the science wing, welding and auto body facilities. If the proposed serial levy does pass the board tonight, it will be up for public election some time this spring -- probably in March or. April, Hakanson said. If thè rate-base serial levy should pass the public election in the spring, construction of the science building and other proposed build ingsites should begin some time in 1979, according to Don Fisher, facilities development and plan ning officer at the College. While a sudden ice storm hit Clackamas and surrounding counties and forced closure of the schools, the local denizens of the ecology pond By Happie Thacker Of The Print Dawn weather watch extends school vacation While many students were , still a- sleep in their warm beds, blissfully un aware of the freezing rains and icy roads that delayed the opening of the College by a day Jan. 3, Dr. Ronald Kaiser, dean of instruction, was trying to decide whether or not to start classes. "Although I consult with Marv Weiss, (dean of community services and community education) I have the pri mary responsibility," Kaiser said. "The paramount concern is for the safety of students and staff members — not only for them to get here safely but to get them home safely also." Since the Clackamas Community College district encompasses all of Clackamas County, except Lake Os wego and Sandy, Kaiser must be con cerned about the road conditions throughout the county, not just those close to the college. "I have people spotted throughout the county," Kaiser said, "in Molalla Lake Oswego Heights, Gladstone and Estacada' These people are early risers and generally start calling me with re ports about 4:30 or 5 a.m." Kaiser's weather-watch actually be gins the night before when he listens to weather reports and tries to decide if there is a possibility of bad weather. held their own school and were caught running around learning the names of the local fauna. If there appears to be any cause for worry he calls the county sheriff's off ice, the North Clackamas Early Bird School Bus Dispatch and the weather service the next morning at about 5 a.m. to check on road conditions. He then has time to make a decision be fore people in outlying areas start leaving for school. "I try to gather all the information I can about weather conditions," Kai ser said, "but the acid test comes when I step out my front door. I have con crete steps and if I can't get down them I know it's bad." Kaiser, who lives in Beavercreek, then tries to drive around the area and down to the college to check on road conditions there. "Once the determination is made to close the school, we make a call to the Portland services that contact about 10 other radio stations," Kaiser said. "We usually make the decision by 5:40 a.m. and it takes -awhile to get it on the radio, but by 6:30 it's on the air." Then Kaiser or Weiss comes to the school and puts the message on the code-a-phone by 6:30 for those who call in seeking information. Kaiser will also close the college in the middle of the day if weather con ditions deteriorate after students arrive. Students in the buildings will be noti fied, notices placed on the entrances to the buildings, arid again announce ments will be called into radio sta tions in the area. These unplanned holidays have only happened two or three times in the three years this program has been in operation. Before the decision was made to close school completely they tried such things as telling the students to stay home (while faculty and administra tion were supposed to report in for work) or delaying classes an hour or two. Neither of these plans was very successful, according to Kaiser, since weather conditions didn't generally improve enough during thé day to war rant starting classes and it wasn't fair to require the staff to risk driving on dangerous roads. "The staff still gets paid if they can't get here because of the weather," Kaiser said. "It wouldn't be fair to punish them for something they have no control over. "The main thing is that we keep it so that people don't get injured try ing to get here, it's just not that im portant and regardless of whether or hot the college is closed, students and faculty are urged to use their own good judgment about coming in and not to take risks."