PROPERTY OF
CLACKAMAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE
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Clackamas Community College
Vol. No. 14
Wednesday, Jan. 31,1979
evy language could spell loss
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«agreement between the
[e's arid state’s attorneys
|a provisional clause in
Based budgeting may
the College a loss of an-
|ed income.
Bohn Hakanson, College
lent, . said
that
a
lional clause regarding
|sed serial levying should
lertain to the College’s
levy which went into ef
ist year. The College’s
led serial levy went into
[long before the College
| was aware or even
red o.f such a clause,
Ison said.
Hakanson said, the College
would receive, through proper
ty assessement, a figure close
to the predicted $1.60 per
$1,000 of taxes whether or not
the county assessor increased
or decreased property value.
The clause stipulates that the
College would receive “x”
amount of dollars up until
achieving their projected figure
for this year, or whatever the
levy would produce, whichever
figure is the smaller.
“Our projection for funds this
year was less than the actual
amouht accumulated which, if
not for the clause, would be
considered as cash on hand
and put to use in possibly a
building fund or of that
nature,” Hakanson said. “The
amount in excess of our predic
ted figure for the year 1978-79,
if the clause is. effective, will
never be seen by the College.
This money will show on the
public’s property assessment as
a decrease in their payment to
the state.”
Hakanson said that the
College was neither informed
by the state attorney who in
troduced this provisional clause
nor the county assessor. “If the
College had been forewarned
about the clause we could have
taken precautions for the
following two years. We don’t
want to make waves about the
clause or the state may take it a
step further and reappeal the
rate-based serial levy idea it-
self.”
The revenues which ex
ceeded the College’s an
ticipated funding figure would
most “directly be put to use in
the proposed science facility at
the College,” Hakanson said.
“We could take 'measures to
regain these lost funds by
notifying the taxpayer as to our
present situation, saying that
the College has been denied its
full $1.60 per $1,000 and is
only getting somewhere bet
ween $1.52. But this would
only complicate matters. The
last thing taxpayers want to
hear is the College asking for a
couple of dollars they feel
they’ve been denied which (the
taxpayers) believe was Settled
in last May’s vote on the serial
levy,” Hakanson said.
“We’re just going to let it ride
this time and revise our projec
ted budget figures for the
following two years so that the
College will receive its
promised amount.”
The College may take this
case to tax court and let the
representing attorneys from
both sides hash it out. “The
rate-based serial levy is a new
concept to the state of Oregon
and I feel it is a positive step in
the right direction for attaining
necessary revenue. To hassle it
in court would only jeopardize
the idea of rate-based 16vying,
and the College might have to
seek other ways for funding
two years from now,” Hakan
son said.
Logger
believer
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Bind of Henry David
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net to some, they still
[the key to a meaningful
Pne such individual is
[Geber, former botany
horticulture student of the
Be who now makes his
logging with horses.
lere’s nothing I’d rather
[aid Geber. “I love my
|and 1 love my work.”
Big
ecology-minded,
I believes that logging
Korses is much less har-
|o the environment than
more modern logging equip ploughing and log-pulling mat
ment can be. To prove his ches in which he won first and
point, Geber hitched up his second palce. The horses are
team of matched Percheron more than a source of income
. geldings and pulled three large for Gerber. They are his family.
trees out of the woods. What
Geber lives in the Beaver
they left behind could have creek area with his dog and two
been mistaken for a deer trail.
horses. He lives alone and
Geber even has access to a works alone, but he’s never
crawler that is equipped for lonely.
heavy logging, but he seldom
“I guess I’m kind of a her
uses it.
mit,” he said.
“If I hâve to winch logs out of
Although he is always open
a dangerous spot I’ll use it,” he to change, Gerber is happy
said. “Otherwise you can’t get with both his job and his
me near the noisy thing;”
lifestyle. He is satisfied with a
Geber also pointed out that low-key life and a lower-than-
while most logging operations average income.
are seasonal, his horses work
“I make enough to feed me
end the boys,” he said. “That’s
year round.
“Machines just can’t work in all I need.”
mud,” he said. “Horses can.”
Being free, being with
Geber has an obvious love nature, being with God. The
for his two beautiful draft hor dreamers are many, but
ses, Rube and Guss. He works takers few. Terry Geber,
alongside them, every day. He Thoreau, decided to let
dream become a reality;
centimeters
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Photo by Don Ives
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