I the Print ClackamasCommunitv College"" VQh XVIII. No, 4 _ Wednesdayk Q^t9ber 24, 1984 Schools, public services hurt by measure By Jane Wilcox Of The Print Services provided by the police, fire and sheriff’s department’s will suffer heavy budget cuts if Ballot Measure 2 passes Nov. 6. As a property tax limitation, Measure 2 will limit the ability of state and local governments to raise revenues from property taxes, income taxes, assessments, user fees or changes that would increase revenue without the consent of the voters. Measure 2 would limit real property taxes to l'/i percent of assessed property based on July 1, 1981 values and limit it to no more than 2 percent per year over the prior year ’s assessment value. The tax of any real property would be limited to 1 percent, or $15 per $1,000 of assessment, or the amount levied for the 1983 tax year if that amount is less than the amount produced by a $15 per $1,000 rate. The measure would cause a decrease in the amount of money now available to schools and local govern ments. Voters can exceed the 1 Vi percent tax limita tion by a 50 percent voter.turnout on the proposed in crease, and a simple majority to approve it. The argument in favor of the tax limitation is sim ple: Who should have the final say on the level of taxes in Oregon? Measure 2 will give Oregonians con trol of the level of taxes in Oregon and their rate of increase. “It is not a ‘tax limitation’ as much as it is a floor from where the Oregon taxpayers can work from,” Ray Phillips, a member of the committee that authored the bill said. Measure 2 has a provision by which any money for any service can be approved or turned down. This is accomplished by a 50 percent voter turnout, and only three elections since 1964 have failed to meet this criteria, Phillips said. H? College’s board meets, finalizes brochure criteria The first concrete steps by the Board and will appear toward selecting a new presi in the brochure. dent were made last night The Board, which met in an when Clackamas Community emergency session at 7:30 p.m. College’s Board of Education in the small dining room of the I met to finalize criteria for a College’s cafeteria, had also College brochure. intended to finalize its The brochure was drafted in presidential search pro order to describe the job cedures, but ran out of time to qualifications for the next Col do so. A tentative date has lege president. Copies are been set, Dec. 12, for the scheduled to be mailed out na Board to come to a decision on tionwide on Nov. 1. the members for a screening A salary of $58,000 plus fr committee. inge benefits, a minimum This screening committee master’s degree for educa was designed to help the Board tional qualifications and an select possible candidates for on 2,” bumper sticker and a billboard which understanding and commit the presidency, which will be ment to the role of a com vacated by current College happens to be located on Molalla Ave. munity college were criteria President Dr. John Hakanson Photo by Joel Miller topics that were agreed upon when he retires in December. VOTE YES YES OR NO--Examples of campaign publicity for and against Ballot Measure 2 include “No Tax limitations have worked in Washington and supporters of Measure 2 are confident it will work in Oregon. The argument for the opposition to Measure 2 is that it will cut funding to police, fire, schools and other social services to an unacceptable level. Measure 2 will “cut funding for economic develop ment, cripple the Veterans’ Farm and Home Loan Program, slash police/fire budgets and services, ma jor factors in attracting and keeping industry in our communities; further reduce funding for education and retraining for Oregon’s work force and virtually eliminate local government’s ability to bond for sewers, water and roads »necessities for economic growth and adequate housing,” Donald J. Connelly, certified public accountant of Salem, said. Specific cuts to be made will include the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Department, the Clackamas County Police Department and the Clackamas County Fire Department. “Measure 2 will require approximately a 42 per cent funding cut to the Clackamas County Sherriff’s Department,” Chief Deputy Sheriff Risley Bradshaw said. This 42 percent budget cut would mean laying off between 36-45 people. Of these people, 75-80 percent would come from the patrol and investigations department. This is about a third of the patrol department, Bradshaw said. The budget cuts would not affect the prison as far as staffing and continued incarceration of the inmates already there, but it would have quite an affect on the number of criminals caught due to the lack of patrolmen. David Haney, a firefighter with the Oregon City Fire Department, said out of their 24 full-time firefighters, at least six would be laid off. The fire department would also have to decide which calls were important enough to answer because of the reduction in staff.