Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Governor touts ‘ever-better’ Oregon
Republicans
list priorities
for session
House Republican
Leader Wayne Scott (R-
Canby) has released the
House Republican agenda
for the 2007 session that
began Monday, Jan. 8.
The document’s title,
“Building Oregon from the
Community Up,” reflects
the caucus’s belief that gov-
ernment closest to the peo-
ple governs best, according
to Scott.
“We have an agenda for
successful students, responsi-
ble government, safe
families and a robust econ-
omy,” he said. “House Re-
publicans want to strengthen
Oregon’s communities, and
empower citizens to create
local jobs and improve their
neighborhoods and schools.”
Highlights of the ses-
sion agenda include devel-
oping a rainy-day fund,
achieving round-the-clock
state trooper coverage on
highways, as well as ex-
panding workforce and skill
development programs in
high schools and commu-
nity colleges. House Repub-
licans also pledge to protect
working families and small
businesses from irresponsi-
ble tax increases.
“This document is the
product of caucus work-
groups that met early this
year, and caucus discussions
that occurred after the elec-
tion,” said Scott.
“The 2007 session will
be different for House Re-
publicans,” he said, “but we
will continue to work to-
ward increased accountabil-
ity and fiscal responsibility,
and oppose efforts to ex-
pand state government at the
expense of local decision-
making.”
JoCo seeks
volunteers
Applications to fill two
vacancies on the fair board
and one on the airports com-
mission are being accepted
by the Josephine County
Board of Commissioners.
The fair board is com-
prised of seven members,
who meet once a month to
review business manage-
ment, finances and other
affairs for the fairgrounds.
The term length is three
years.
Applications will be ac-
cepted until Friday, Jan. 19.
The seven-member air-
port commission works to
advise the board of commis-
sioners by promoting safe
general and recreational
aviation, and enhancing eco-
nomic development and
tourism activities. Also, be-
coming an asset to commu-
nities and general business
sectors in the county.
The current open posi-
tion represents Grants Pass
business interests, and the
term will expire on March 1,
2010. Applications will be
accepted until the position is
filled.
Applications for the fair
board and airport commis-
sion are available at the
commissioners office at the
county courthouse, Room
154, in Grants Pass.
For more information
phone 474-5221.
The greatest things
are accomplished
by individual people,
not by committees
or companies.
- Alfred A. Montapert -
Page 9
COUGARS KEEL-HAULED 75-45 -- The Phoenix Pirates
swamped Illinois Valley Friday night, Jan. 5 in a Skyline
Conference varsity contest in Ken Mann Memorial Gym.
All scorers were led by I.V’s Steven Paul, with 18 points,
including three treys. I.V.’s varsity girls lost the same
night 51-43 against the Pirates in Phoenix. Cougar
Sheena Cole led all scorers with 30 points. The Cougar
boys (0-2 in Skyline play; 4-6 overall) played Rogue River
Tuesday night, Jan. 9 on the Chieftains’ court. The I.V.
girls (1-2 Skyline; 6-5 overall) played the Chieftains in
Cave Junction Tuesday. (Photo by Dale Sandberg for
‘Illinois Valley News’)
OLCC revenue reported
Oregon Liquor Control
Commission distributed
$426,153 in November liq-
uor revenue to Josephine,
Douglas, Jackson, and Lane
counties and their 37 incor-
porated cities.
*Josephine County,
population 79,645, $16,732;
Cave Junction $919; Grants
Pass $17,070.
*Jackson County, popu-
lation 194,515, $40,865;
Ashland $12,732; Butte
Falls $271; Central Point
$9,549; Eagle Point $4,625;
Gold Hill $659; Jacksonville
$1,518; Medford $43,807;
Phoenix $2,843; Rogue
River $1,217; Shady Cove
$1,613; Talent $3,816;
Douglas County, popu-
lation 102,905, received
$21,619. Lane County,
population 336,085, re-
ceived $70,607.
OLCC distributed $8.26
million statewide during
November, using a formula
based on Oregon’s popula-
tion of 3.63 million. The
amount was 21-cents per
capita for counties; 61-cents
for cities.
The 36 counties re-
ceived 10 percent of the
total, $762,922; 239 cities,
20 percent, $1.53 million;
state general fund, 56 per-
cent, $4.27 million; and city
revenue-sharing account, 14
percent, $1.07 million. Ad-
ditionally, the State Office
of Mental Health and Ad-
diction Services received
$610,997; and the Oregon
Wine Board got $20,628.
OLCC revenue is de-
rived from the sale of dis-
tilled spirits in 241 liquor
stores, taxes on malt bever-
ages and wine, license fees,
and fines for liquor law vio-
lations.
Last month’s revenue
share was $9.5 million.
OLCC collects privilege
taxes of $2.60 for a 31-
gallon barrel of malt bever-
age, 67-cents a gallon for
taxable wine with an alcohol
content of 14 percent or un-
der and 77-cents on taxable
wine with more than 14 per-
cent. Of that, 2-cents a gal-
lon goes to the Oregon
Wine Board to fund re-
search and promotion.
Gov. Kulongoski called
on the business community
to be a better partner with
the state and advance his
priorities around education,
health care, energy inde-
pendence and fiscal security
for the 2007 legislative ses-
sion that began Monday,
Jan. 8.
Also during the Oregon
Business Plan Economic
Summit last week, Kulon-
goski announced the ap-
pointment of Allen Alley to
serve in the newly reconfig-
ured position of deputy chief
of staff, alongside Tim
Nesbitt. He said that Alley
will oversee the economic
development, technology,
transportation, workforce
training, and energy policy
areas.
Alley, according to an
announcement from the
governor’s office, has more
than 30 years experience in
multiple disciplines from
engineering to marketing,
venture capital and entrepre-
neurship. In January 1997
he co-founded Pixelworks,
one of Oregon’s leading
technology companies.
Alley stepped down as
president and CEO of
Pixelworks last month. He
continues as chairman of the
board of directors.
In introducing the new-
est member of his leadership
team, the governor called
him “an individual who will
help strengthen the bridge
between the public and pri-
vate sectors.
Last month the gover-
nor announced the recon-
figuration of his office,
appointing Chip Terhune as
his chief of staff and
Nesbitt to oversee educa-
tion, human services and
health care, public safety
and natural resources poli-
cies as one of two deputy
chiefs of staff.
At that time, the gover-
nor also announced estab-
lishing the second deputy
chief of staff position to
oversee economic develop-
ment, technology, work-
force training, transportation
and infrastructure and en-
ergy policies.
Highlighting the need
for sustained investment in
education from early
childhood through post-
secondary and skills train-
ing, children’s health
care and renewable and al-
ternative energy, the gover-
nor offered his vision for
putting the state on the path
A musician must make music.
An artist must paint, and a poet must write if he is to be ultimately
at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.
- Abraham Moslow -
Honesty
♦
Integrity
♦
Attention Buyers!
to an “ever-better Oregon.
“We learned good les-
sons in bad times,” he
added. “Working together
now, we can apply those
lessons to build an ever-
better Oregon -- an
ever-better Oregon because
that phrase suggests more
than improvement. It sug-
gests progress, which en-
dures -- and a vision, which
guides us through good
times and bad.”
The governor empha-
sized that the defeats of
Measures 41 (state income
tax cut) and 48 (spending
limits) show that Oregon is
ready to move forward and
make the key investments to
mend the damage to public
services created by the cuts
of the last recession.
“With a recovering
economy, we have the op-
portunity and obligation to
bring fiscal stability to our
education system, and in-
spire and prepare students to
achieve their full potential.
“We've worked too hard
-- and sacrificed too much --
to become complacent now.
We must not settle for just
better, when ‘ever better’ is
within our grasp,” the gov-
ernor concluded.
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Check out your library online at www.solis.lib.or.us
Some thoughts for the New Year:
“I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not
enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true ar-
chitecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child
whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open
door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grate-
ful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of
it. Now, when I read constantly about the way in which library funds
are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that
American society has found one more way to destroy itself.”
Isaac Asimov. New York: Doubleday, 1994
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