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To The Editor:
What should we do with our
Court House?
Clackamas County faces that
question since our Com
missioners decided to move the
courts and administrative of
fices to the Red Soils Center on
Warner-Milne Road, Oregon
City.
We applaud their decision,
taken on advice of a group
formed to study the problem.
As members of that group we
learned the worst, that our
Court House is outgrown and
located in the wrong place.
Parking
is . impossible.
Remaining there costs huge
sums of tax money.
It already is hopelessly over
crowded and conditions will
only worsen as we add more
courts to meet the undeniable
needs of justice. Clearly,
economy alone justifies the
decision to move.
Offices scattered between
Gladstone, Marylhurst and
Oregon City total more than
$200,000 a year in leases.
Needs of a growing population
forced expansion; Clackamas
had barely 50,000 people
when they built the Court
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House in 1936. Now we ap
proach 220,000.
The knotty space problem
has developed a million-dollar
lawsuit against the County over
an ill-starred lease of a Glad
stone building. Defense of that
case alone will be quite expen
sive.
Thus, the space
crisis
generates waste. In addition, it
costs far too much in wasted
time and travel of employes
among these offices-between
jail and courts, between
assessor and building division,
etc. Nobody knows how to
curb this expense which is
largely hidden, but too obvious
to citizens who fritter away their
own time when doing business
with the sprawled-out set of
County offices.
Clackamas has room and
facilities at Red Soils. It owns
land adequate for decades to
come. Our study found no
reasonably economical alter
native to the Red Soils move.
When the County vacates
the old Court House we believe
it could serve the community in
other ways. We think our
citizens have the intelligence
and good sense to find worthy
answers to that question.
This letter is an effort to
initiate public discussion and
debate. At least, it will produce
a better public understanding of
the Court, House issue. We
look for a solution that will
benefit the taxpayers, citizens
throughout this large County,
and the communities clustered
by the old Court House at
historic Willamette Falls.
Eldon Evans
22289 S. Molalla Av.
Oregon City, OR
97045
632-4408
Edward D. Latourette
702 Main St.
Oregon City, OR
97045
656-1621
Joseph A. Stein
Star Route
Zig Zag, OR
97049
622-3425
Pathetic excuse
One year ago, as a biology
student at CCC, I submitted a
term paper dealing with several
ecological aspects of the “En
vironmental Learning Center,”
alias the Exterior Decorators’
Showroom. Through it was a
pathetic excuse for environ
mental technology at the time,
it nonetheless had, as Lpointed
out in my paper, a great deal of
potential. Last weekend, I
revisited the ELC to see what,
if any, changes had been
made. The visit proved most
enlightening; obviously, the
people in charge of the ELC
still have a great deal to learn
about 'environmental
management, so the name of
the facility couldn’t be more
appropriate.
Currently, the ELC comes
off as a sort of cross between
Alice- in Wonderland and a
prime-time situation comedy—
grossly overplanted, the gar
den comes complete with
Alice’s favorite friend, the
domestic white rabbit. And as
far as' learning about environ
mental management goes, 1
believe that one could obtain
equally constructive infor
mation by watching a couple of
reruns of “Gilligan’s Island” and
noting
their
set
design
techniques.
For those who are interested
in environmental learning (the
real thing), I would recom
mend the Field Ecology
taught by Dr. Rosenw
Portland State Univers
an intense, observatil
proach, emphasizirl
reciprocal interactive p|
occurring between o|
and environment in
ecological situation. Fl
who are presently in I
the ELC, I would reca
a trip to Disneyland (bl
work history and refl
note: your parents dol
as references).
By the way of col
criticism, I would like
that the ELC still hoi
potential, despite the 1
the current supervisor!
There is absolutely! not
wrong with the Center, in
opinion, that a little dyna
and a small bulldozer] cou
take care of....
Sincerely,
Jay Haight
Oregon City
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19600 S. Molalla Avenue, Oregon City, Oregon 97045
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