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Enterprise Courier
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¡I 4 is a big day not
k the future of Clacka-
iinmunity College but
f government finance
¡on, and students who
out the quality/of their
on,the college and the
icy of the government
districts they will sup
taxpayers should begin
ng for it now;
Ipril4, CCC is putting
the voters of the dis-
proposal for a three-
ute-based serial levy
would provide the dis
til operating funds for
tt three years as well
the local share of con
nfunds to build a new
ience Building and an
i to Barlow Hall for
ito body repair and
national classes.
n't have to tell any
who currently has a
ithe Orchard Complex
i student who has an
ody repair class or one
is been shut out of the
>y crowding how im-
tthe success of the
from his or her stand-
At least, I shouldn't
i, Approval of the levy
til 4 would provide di
ll tangible benef its to
ill provide a less ob-
int equally important
to all other CCC stu-
By giving the college
isource of operating
s for three years, it
iwthe administration
eton the basis of bet-
irmation with fewer
invariables to get the
ssible use out of each
tax dollar. With financing as
sured for three years, the
faculty
and administrators
will be freed from the annual
necessity of running levy e-
lection campaigns to devote
full time to providing the
best possible service to you,
the students, and to the com
munity.
And with three
years of operating funds as
sured, it means the kind of
atmosphere of job security
that retains the good faculty
you already have and attracts
’ other good faculty members.
And for the many of you
who already are taxpayers
and those of you who soon
will be, passage of the April 4
levy means more efficient use
of the hard-earned dollars you
turn over to taxing districts
and less of it spent on the ex
pensive ritual of annual elec
tions and repeated efforts at
passing operating levies.
Last year,
the amount
spent on the three elections '
to win an operating levy for
CCC including election costs
and campaign expenditures
totaled $20,000.
If the rate-based, serial
levy concept is established as
an acceptable means of fi
nancing taxing districts at
the April 4 election, with a
strong,
favorable majority,
other taxing districts will try
it,
and all taxpayers will
benefit.
Local control is retained,
because no administration of
taxing district is going to use
three years worth of operating
revenues unwisely when it
knows it must face the voters
again at the end of that three
years.
Now that you know the
importance of the April 4.
election to you as well as to
the state in general, why am I
taking this opportunity to
address you.
Frankly,
the
Citizen's.
Campaign Committee needs
your help to make the elec
tion a success, and there is
much you can do to ensure a
favorable vote on April 4.
First, you can register and
vote. If every student who
had taken a course here in
the past year were to vote
April 4, a resounding majority
would be assured. Your vote
is important. It does count.
Secondly, you can donate
your time to a door-to-door
effort to inform the voters
about the April 4 election and
to help win their support for
the rate-based serial levy. We
also need
people to man
phones on election day to re
mind those people who have
voiced support for the levy to
give that support form and
substance in the ballot box.
Third, you can lend your
financial support. It hasn't
been all that long since I was
a student, and I know how
tight it is, but any help you
can contribute now will be
returned to you many times
in the future if the levy suc
ceeds on April 4. You can
help and enjoy yourself at the
same time by buying tickets
to the Benefit
Sing-Along
March 25 at the West Linn
Inn. For $5 per person you
can have a great evening of
fun and song as well as all
the beer you can drink and
all the sausage and finger
food you can eat. You also
can take part in a bingo night
we are planning for the Satur
day before the election on
April 1 at several locations in
the county. Or you can make
a cash donation, which is tax
deductible, to the Clackamas
Community College Founda
tion. It simply costs money
to win public understanding
and support through mass
mailings, posters and news
paper and radio advertising.
Those of us on the citizens
committee have nothing to
gain personally from working
on the levy campaign. We
believe in CCC and the many
benefits it provides to the
community and its economy
as well as the vast human re
sources it nourishes through
its educational and commun
ity programs.
We believe also in the con
cept of the rate-based serial
levy and the stability and
savings it promises to the tax
payers.
If these things are import
ant to those of us who have
no direct, personal benefits
to gain from passage of the
April 4 levy, they should be
of special importance to you,
the students, who stand to
gain better classroom space,
more time and attention from
your faculty and better use of
the funds being spent for
your benefit.
. A little
of your time,
money and effort spent now
will mean much to you in the
near future as well as in the
long run.
Plèase help.
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COCKTAILS
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Your excuse for not getting
involved in Clackamas Commun
ity College's student government
is as frail as ashes. You are re
lating your impressions of other
individual's actions from an ob
viously biased point of view.
The exuberance exhibited by a
few persons among the student
government is a natural outlet
of energy for some extremely
astute participants thereof.
If you expect the participa
ting students to conduct them
selves as though they were Lords
of Parliament, you're not func
tioning at any level of reality..
If you were involved and knew
of the time freely given by these
"persons with1 heads removed,"
you would possibly evolve a
greater consideration
for the
outward acts of others.
at the CCC Bookstore
March 14,15,16
It is, however, as I see, much
easier to criticize than to par
ticipate or understand.
Via buy all types of books
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