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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, March 1, 2017
PATROL
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Pot sales pump $5.3 million more into Oregon
*The red and black backpack which
was found behind the Cave Junction Dairy
Queen on Feb. 21 may have belonged
to the troublemaker who has been van-
dalizing and burglarizing the business.
Contents of the backpack included tools,
personal items, and a collection of keys for
vehicles, locking gas caps, and post office
boxes.
*An individual was served with an
RO at 12:05 p.m. in the 400 block of Lone
Mountain Road.
*Five rounds from a .357 were
heard on Feb. 18, and a citizen assumed
that the gunshots originated from the 400
block of Beebe Drive. The caller thought
this was a violation of a stalking order
which prohibited a neighbor from owning
weapons. There were no eye witnesses, so
the violation was logged as unfounded.
By
Andrew Selsky ,
Associated Press
SALEM, Ore. (AP)
— The marijuana business
in Oregon is becoming a
bonanza for the state.
The Oregon
Department of Revenue
announced Tuesday it
received $5.3 million in
marijuana tax payments in
January. The grand total
of $65.4 million received
in the year since Oregon
started taxing pot sales
is blowing the original
estimate out of the water.
Outside the Valley
*Twenty-five incidents.
Friday, Feb. 24
*A woman in the 200 block of
Kerby Street received more than 100
threatening and harassing text messages
and voice mails from her husband and
offspring, who live in the 9300 block of
Takilma Road. They told her that she
would pay, and they would watch her suf-
fer. They claimed to have posted flyers on
telephone poles, and they wrote her name
and address in bars from Grants Pass to
Brookings. She will obtain a restraining
order.
In January 2016, the state
started collecting a 25 percent
tax from medical marijuana
dispensaries’ recreational sales.
A year later, recreational pot
shops — which first opened in
Oregon five months ago — began
charging a 17 percent tax.
Meanwhile, dispensaries stopped
selling recreational pot.
Even though the tax rate has
dropped, money is still flowing
into state coffers. Still, it is a
drop in the ocean compared to
an expected $1.8 billion budget
shortfall, which the Legislature is
now trying to resolve.
“The (marijuana tax)
numbers ... suggest very strong
collection,” said Mazen Malik,
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Dillinger and Dalegowski said
current city code provides for up
to three volunteer “code enforcers”
who’d be provided with training to
stay safe and make reports to the
council. “We’re going to get this
going,” Dillinger said.
“Provisions to use volunteer
code enforcers have been on the
books for at least eight years - but
nobody has done it yet,” Dalegowski
said. “I know that the current system
is imperfect. We do need to go another
route, but the city really hasn’t had the
resources to deal with these situations
- and the citizen complaint method is
Outside the Valley
*Nineteen listings.
Saturday, Feb. 25
*At 8:11 a.m., an ex-husband started
the day off on the wrong foot by harass-
ing his ex-wife in the 200 block of Kerby
Street. He texted that she was going to pay,
and she claimed he had nothing to lose. He
donned his black cowboy hat and galloped
off in his white Dodge Durango, in search
of his missing Social Security debit card.
Outside the Valley
*Fifteen items.
senior economist with the
Legislature. “Thus it suggests
that the transition is being
implemented successfully and the
consumers are continuing to buy
at the rate we saw last year.”
Last May, the Legislative
Revenue
Office
quadrupled
its estimate of
net marijuana
tax revenues
that the state
was expected
to receive
through June
30 of this year
— from $8.4
million to $35
a way to prioritize the situation. There’s some
pretty despicable looking places around. But we
don’t have an objective way to analyze all these
properties.”
Former mayor and recent candidate Don
Moore said, “If I had been elected I would have
put a code enforcement officer on the payroll,
which doesn’t cost that much, and they generate
revenue with the tickets they write - like when
someone parks in a handicap lane.” He said that
dealing with junk strewn about properties can
be tricky. “It depends on the degree, or if it is a
hazard, then the city has to do something. One
man’s junk is another man’s treasure, but if it
causes a nuisance, then it’s a different deal. It’s
tough though, the way the laws read, if it isn’t
on the public right of way, there’s very little you
can do. They can put a lien on properties, but
that’s expensive and it takes lawyers. And once
lawyers are involved, everybody loses.”
million.
The actual total pot tax
payments are now almost double
that revised amount, and five more
months of tax collections remain
before June 30.
Wright suggested that, “If the city codes
were enforced and they charged more in fines,
maybe people would start cleaning up their act
and the city would have more money to work
with too.”
However effective and timely enforcement
strategies seem elusive. Dalegowski also said,
“We’re also exploring ways that might be more
expedient, with the goal of getting the nuisance
removed in a more expedient manner, putting
pressure on the owner.”
“From a tourism standpoint, those places
that don’t conform impact impressions of our
town in regards to people visiting, spending
money or even wanting to live here,” said acting
Illinois Valley Chamber of Commerce President
Menno Kraai. “We need property owners to
step up, because everybody losses quality of life
when the property values go down.”
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