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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, March 1, 2017
I.V. Fire looks to
hire 4 firefighters
PRICeS gOOd: mARCh 1 - 7
Anita R. Savio
IVN Contributing Writer
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Three Rivers removes acting
from superintendent title
The Three Rivers School
District Board of Directors
is pleased to announce that
David Valenzuela has been
approved as permanent
superintendent of Three
Rivers School District. At
the Feb. 21 board meeting,
the Board voted unanimously
on the decision. Valenzuela
was originally appointed
as the district’s interim
superintendent on May 17,
2016.Board Chair Danny York
stated, “We’re very excited to
make this announcement and
we’re hopeful that this is the
long-term solution that the
district is looking for.”
Valenzuela has a long
history with Three Rivers
School District. Having
attended Three Rivers
schools throughout his
childhood, Valenzuela has
been associated with the
district for over 38 years in
various capacities. He served
as the director of curriculum
and instruction, technology,
and federal programs from
2012 to 2016. Before that,
Valenzuela served the district
in the capacities of principal,
vice principal, middle and
high school teacher, and
maintenance worker. He holds
a Master of Arts in secondary
education from Southern
Oregon University, and a
Bachelor of Arts in secondary
education from Western
Oregon University.
“I would like to
sincerely thank the Three
Rivers District Board of
Education for the appointment
of superintendent,” said
Valenzuela. “Three Rivers
School District provided
me with the educational
foundation that has essentially
paved my career pathway in
the field of education. I am
deeply honored to have the
opportunity to serve as the
superintendent for this great
district.”
Board Vice-Chair Kate
Dwyer shares the board’s
confidence that “Dave
Valenzuela is the perfect fit
to shepherd this district into
increasing success.” Board
member Paul Kelly agreed,
“Mr. Valenzuela has shown
the board he has all the skills
and experience to manage this
district effectively for years to
come.”
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A proposed five-year levy by the Illinois
Valley Fire District of 50 cents per thousand
will allow the district to hire and outfit four
firefighter/emergency medical technicians
(EMTs).
Fire Chief Dennis Hoke said that the
district’s sole reliance on volunteer firefighters
is not sufficient to meet current demands on
the district.
“Right now the district has a number of
volunteers that provide ancillary services, but
only 15 volunteers who have been willing to
go through the firefighting and EMT training.
And of those, the majority work, they may
have two jobs. They have families.”
“We get a structure fire,” added Hoke,
“and three, maybe four, people show up.”
The National Fire Protection Association
recommends 12 firefighters for fire attack on a
house fire.
Hoke explained that the lack of sufficient
volunteer firefighters is a nationwide problem,
not limited to the Illinois Valley, due to the
substantial time and out-of-pocket expenses
required of volunteers.
Reliance on volunteers also creates a
problem for the district’s call-out response
time, which currently averages nine minutes.
But, according to Hoke, in the case of
cardiac arrest, brain death occurs in four
to six minutes. Fires in houses of modern
construction reach flashover in seven to nine
minutes.
“The volunteer has to leave his home,
drive to the fire station, get his suit on and get
his fire apparatus and go to the call. But with
paid firefighters we can cut the response time
because they will be based, in 24 hour shifts, at
the fire station.”
The district is also seeing a yearly
increase of five to 10 percent in the volume of
calls it receives. Last year, IVFD responded
to 1374 calls for service, of which 65 percent
were medical.
The four new hires will double the
number of firefighter/EMTs available to
respond to any one emergency.
Hoke said that the levy will raise an
average of $333,000 in each of the five years
covered by the levy. That will cover salaries
of approximately $40,000, plus associated
costs such as health insurance, payroll
taxes, workman’s compensation insurance,
mandatory PERS, overtime, equipment and
specialized training. Hoke noted that the new
hire salary level is about $10,000 less than
what most other departments pay, which will
create somewhat of a revolving door.
“We expect we will be constantly training
hires and then seeing them leave to join higher
paying departments.”
Hoke addressed the question of what
financial impact the levy will have on Illinois
Valley property owners. For the past five years,
property owners have been paying 25 cents
per thousand to purchase radios, breathing
apparatus and protective equipment for the
district. But that levy has now run its course
and gone away. With the new levy of 50 cents,
taxpayers will effectively be seeing an increase
of only 25 cents over what they have already
been paying for the past five years.
“For a home assessed at $100,000, that’s
less than the cost of a gallon of milk per
month.”
Hoke noted that the money can only
be accessed to hire the four new firefighters/
EMTs.
“Not a cent will leave this Valley.”
Hoke also addressed the public safety
issue.
“The cutback in funding for the sheriff
has put our first responders at unacceptable
risk. I can’t tell you the number of times we
continue to get ourselves in a situation where
law enforcement is not available when we
need them.”
“If the sheriff office shuts down patrol
after July 1st (the start of the 2017/18 fiscal
year), that’s going to have a huge impact on us.
And that also makes it hard to get volunteers.
They want to fight fires. They want to go
to medical college. They don’t want to be
assaulted or shot at.”
Hoke added that people will call the
fire department for what are really law
enforcement calls, because they know the fire
department will respond even if the sheriff’s
department doesn’t.
“And then we find ourselves in the
middle of a burglary or murder.”
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Sessions: More violence around pot than ‘one would think’
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice
Department will try to adopt “responsible
policies” for enforcement of federal anti-
marijuana laws, Attorney General Jeff Sessions
said Monday, adding that he believes violence
surrounds sales and use of the drug in the U.S.
In a meeting with reporters, Sessions
said the department was reviewing an Obama
administration Justice Department memo that
gave states flexibility in passing marijuana
laws.
“Experts are telling me there’s more
violence around marijuana than one would
think,” Sessions said.
The comments were in keeping with
remarks last week from White House
spokesman Sean Spicer, who said the Justice
Department would step up enforcement of
federal law against recreational marijuana.
Sessions stopped short of saying what he
would do, but said he doesn’t think America
will be a better place with “more people
smoking pot.”
“I am definitely not a fan of expanded
use of marijuana,” he said. “But states, they
can pass the laws they choose. I would just
say, it does remain a violation of federal law to
distribute marijuana throughout any place in
the United States, whether a state legalizes it
or not.”
Eight states and the District of Columbia
have legalized marijuana for recreational use.
The Justice Department has several options
available should it decide to enforce the law,
including filing lawsuits on the grounds that
state laws regulating pot are unconstitutional
because they are pre-empted by federal law.
Studies have found no correlation
between legalization of marijuana and violent
crime rates. But law enforcement officials in
states such as Colorado say drug traffickers
have taken advantage of lax marijuana laws
to hide in plain sight, illegally growing and
shipping the drug across state lines, where it
can sell for much higher.
Pot advocates say the officials have
exaggerated the problem.
“You can’t sue somebody for a drug debt.
The only way to get your money is through
strong-arm tactics, and violence tends to
follow that,” Sessions said.
Sessions said he met with Nebraska’s
attorney general, who sued Colorado for
allegedly not keeping marijuana within its
borders. That lawsuit was dismissed by the
U.S. Supreme Court, but neighboring states
continue to gripe that Colorado and other pot-
legal states have not done enough to keep the
drug from crossing their borders.