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Federal grant electrifies Clackamas
By Patty Salazar
News Editor
A h, to be o n the open road. T o feel, the
w in d in your hair, th e sun o n your face
an d the low h u m o f your electric powered
engine. T h a t’s right, electric powered cars.
Be prepared drivers. T here’s a new era o f
autom obiles o n th eir way and w ith that
brings a new definition o f eco-friendly.
Last July, in an attem pt to becom e
m ore eco-friendly Clackamas C om m unity
C o lleg e' co nstructed a . contract w ith
EC O tality, a co m p an y w h o contacted
Clackamas C o m m u n ity College in Nov.
2 0 ip , about installing electric charging sta
tions in preparation o f a new rollout o f
electric powered cars. O regon is a “pilot”
for the Nissan Leaf in Nov. 2011. T his
new breed o f electric pow ered cars is very
intriguing. These .cars, along w ith electric
energy fuel, have the capability to ru n o ff o f
traditional gasoline.
“W e were talking to P G E last Decem ber
an d w e started looking at sights and in
spring it to o k o ff really fast, said Kirk
Pearson, director o f plant operations at
CCC.
B ut just how m u ch does an opera
tion like this cost? Clackam as itself p u t up
$2,448 for tw o charging stations, while the
total project cost cam e o u t to b e $10,909
in O regon C ity alone. A nother electric
charging station was placed o n th e C C C
Wilsonville campus.
“O u r total cost was $5,150, split between
C C C , Portland General Electric an d Pacific
Core,” said Pearson.
. T h is brings the cost to the college to
$4,164 for these charging stations o n the
tw o college campuses.
“These stations were paid for by a federal
grant given to the college,” said M ike Noel,
m e head o f the sustainable energy depart
m en t at C C C . ”
E C O tality is preparing these sta
tions dow n the W est Coast from British
C olum bia to M exico in preparation for the
new line o f electric cars.
“W h en you look a t w hat it w ould cost,
i f you waivered a few [years] and said, ‘O h
yeah I w ant to do this now,’ you w ould
be p utting o u t [the full am ount] o f that
money. It m ade sense to get involved now,”
said Pearson.
“It wasn’t necessarily [that] the college
reaching ou t being like, ‘H ey we really w ant
tw o electric vehide charging stations; an d
spend all o f this m oney o n it. It was m ore
a federal initiative to launch all these elec
tric vehide charging stations from British
C olum bia all the w ay to Mexico,” said N o d .
T here are going to be 18,000 dectric
vehide charging stations nationwide, 1,100
o f these stations will be placed in O regon.
Bob Cochran, dean o f cam pus services,
explained th at for now th e charging stations
are free to use for the public. T h e electricity
o u tp u t o f the actual charging station is paid
by C C C . Clackam as is currently n o t track
ing how m uch d ectrid ty is being used by
the charging stations, i f any is being used
at all.
E C O tality is keeping track o f ho w m u ch
d ectrid ty th e stations ate p u ttin g o ut. After
the trial period is over in Dec. 2012, there
will be a user fee for th e charging stations.
“After [EC O tality does] their analysis on
how the stations are bei ng used th en we take
ownership,” said Pearson.
C C C will d e d d e o n a fee for th e use o f
the charging station once th ey have taken
ownership.
. “I th in k th at it’s where personal trans
portation is headed. I d o n t k now about
m y lifetime b u t certainly in your lifetime.
I th in k th at it is going to becom e pretty
prevalent,” said Pearson.
Its certainly a possibility th at dectric
vehicles will take off in th e future. For now,
though, C C C m ight w orry about how
effective their choice to im plem ent these
charging stations was, as the C C C employ
ees th at were so exd ted about th e charging
stations have yet to see th em p u t to use.
FINES: Slap on the wrist for college administrators
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Carla Corbin, the compliance
specialist from die Secretary o f
State office assigned C C C ’s case
was unavailable for contact. T he
Secretary o f Stale’s office did p ut us
in contact with Alana Cox, another
compliance specialist. She explained
that Parini had “directed somebody
to violate [the law].”
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told someone to violate Oregon
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information for the bond measure.
Barry was also fined for proof Above: I he postcard m eant fo r voters w ith corrections made by the secretary o f state office that were never changed by CCC.
reading and editing the b o n a levy
postcard.
reviewed by the Secretary o f State’s husband.
to follow the same rules as everyone
[fines]? I am satisfied that some
Paulson worked o n informa office b ut n ot all concerning the
“T h e reason for the low dollar else. However, having said that I also action has been taken b u t u nsatisfied
tional artides for the spring schedule bond measure was sentin for review. am ount o f the fines is to prevent the think that the amounts are merely w ith the message it is going to send,”
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the bookmark that were biased and know that we were really trying to be sins o f those whose salaries and bud
in support o f the bond. She declined objective with the material we tried get comes from the tax payer. T h e
to com m ent and directed further to p ut o u t It is challenging because m ain purpose o f the statute is to
inquiries to Courtney W ilton, vice you also need to be able to describe shine public light on what amounts
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was reviewed during the investiga those people involved.”
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