Election set Tuesday
Sandy voters to decide on city budget
Sandy residents w ill vote on the
proponed 1975 76 city budget next Tuesday,
April IS Polls will be open from 8 a m to8
p m at City Hall
The proponed budget calls for a tax levy
of $150,514 21 in excess of the six per cent
limitation. If approved, the operating
budget to be financed by local taxes would
be $30,565 82 less than the operating budget
financed by local taxes for the current
year.
Projected tax rate on the levy would be
$8 63 per $1,000 of true cash value, a
reduction of $2 from the current tax rate,
according to C arl H atfield J r., city
manager.
“ This is the second and most substantial
tax decrease in the past three years,”
pointed out Hatfield
He said it would become the lowest city
tax rate since the I96o’s, "while at the
same time, providing an action program
for the year built around well-conceived
set of goals and objectives, adopted by the
city council to meet the challenges of the
coming year "
The city council begun work on the goals
and objectives for the 1975-76 budget, in
January and began incorporating them
into a budget format on Feb 10 The city
budget committee approved the proposed
budget one month later
The budget request reflects a city wide
goal, as determined by the council, of
expanding Sandy's tax base through a
controlled program of annexation and
internal development.
City wide objectives, as outlined by the
council, include gaining a additional
source of water to make controlled growth
possible This action would lower the city’s
tax rate.
Programs to be supported by budget
funds include an offstreet parking plan to
encourage additional business volume and
shopper convenience and an onstreet
parking program to be expanded on
downtown streets, notes Hatfield
He said a major thrust in this year’s
program is to get the city’s Meinig Park in
shape for the upcoming bicentennial
program.
The city also plans to increase and
improve the book collection for adults and
children at the city library
The revision of the city’s zoning or
dinance will be completed and a master
plan of bike trails will be established,
according to Hatfield
Sewer trunk line extensions to those
areas in the city not currently served by
sewers is planned, along with completion
of the final phase of the sewer system
rehabilitation project
If passed, the budget will also help the
city’s Senior Citizen’s Program into its
second year of service.
Other action called for by the budget
includes a detailed survey of all city
streets to begin a phases-by-phase up
dating of streets here Grades will be set
on all existing streets, and future street
locations will be designated Hatfield said
street maintenance will also be increased
"Since the lack of water is the most
pressing problem facing the citizens of
Sandy, every effort will be made to locate
federal funds to provide an additional
source and supply of water to permit
controlled growth within the city,” ex
plained Hatfield.
He said the proposed budget also calls
for the abatement of dangerous buildings
to be continued by the building depart
ment, along with efforts to establish ad
ditional housing for all income levels
Chamber hears
radio man
Dan MacDonald, of KRDR radio, will be
guest speaker at Tuesday’s noon Sandy
Chamber of Commerce luncheon at the
Sandy Senior Center
In addition to his long list of extra
curricular activities, MacDonald serves as
a volunteer w ith the Sandy Police
Department.
i£aédy
C L E A N IN G V P (he park . . . John
Erickson. 23. puts some muscle into raking
up foliage In Melnlg Memorial Park,
located behind city hall. Erickson Is a new
city employee, charged with park main
tenance and part time duty as a Kandy
policeman. His job is federally funded.
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Weather
(Pont Photo)
Parents meet on problems
at Sandy Grade School
Sandy Grade School parents interested
in developing guidelines for grade school
disciplinary problems and creating a new
grading system will meet tonight (April
G reat Way To The Mt. H ood Playground
Erickson supervises a park cleanup every
Saturday from 8 to t p m Melnlg Park will
be the site of the second annual Mandy
Mountain Festival again this July in
conjunction with Bicentennial activities
here.
10) at7:30p m. at the Sunset Theatre.
Suggestions evolving from the meeting
will be presented to the Sandy Grade
School Board.
H L Pr.
April 2
50 36 .17
April 3
45 36 .17
April 4
47 29 00
Aprils
56 31 00
April 6
59 35 19
April 7
57 33 00
April 8
62 32 00
The Troutdale station weather readings
are made by 8:30a m
Welches students
add comment, too
Art Linkletter might have made a for
tune on the premise that "kids say the
darndest things ”, but if he’d been at
Welches School this week he'd have found
his theory full of holes
Seven young adults,the oldest an eighth
g rader, added verbal insights and
illustrated intelligence and reason that
many grown ups lack
The grade schoolers were offering input
at an "adult'' meeting of the minds on
problems at the school Tuesday night.
The older folks had been kicking around
the notion of having counselors work with
student misbehaviors and utilizing honor
student hall monitors
E rin Brown, adorned in a scuffed
football jersey, stood up on his tennis shoes
and addressed the^large group in a
squeaky voice.
"Honor students might be small in size;
they could get pushed around Having a
student monitor might cause problems
between relationships of kids," he added
Proliferating on the idea of attaining
adult counselors, young Brown pointed out
that "some kids think it's neat to be
punished They would want to be bad so
they could be with a counselor. Some at
tention should be given to good kids, they
have problems, too."
One parent asked for what purpose the
students had been invited to the meeting.
Denise K elner, an eighth grader,
retorted. " I feel we shouldn't be put out of
this, we have to live with this as well as the
No gas, either
teachers—our comments should mean just
as much "
“ Teachers don’t listen to our problems
because they don’t have time," explained
another young Welches co-ed " It ’s hard
for the teacher to see a child's individual
problems, we need counselors," she said
A sixth grader said "our class wants
gum chewing, and also eating in class. We
haven’t had a chance to see if we can chew
gum, we do deserve a chance."
Another youngster noted that im
plementation of a pay phone would cause
less disturbance in the office.
Speaking about better communication, a
young female student asked, “ talk to us as
adults to adults, not children to children. ”
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Van whispers about local streets
If you heard any noise when Neil
Jackson. PGE district manager in Sandy,
drove by you last Friday on a Sandy street,
it wasn't the motor in the peculiar white
van he was driving
It was the vehicle's heater
That's th e loudest sound source on one of
Portland General Electric’s two new
NO E N G IN E there . . . Carl Hatfield.
Mandy city manager, (left) and Neil Jack-
electric powered vehicles
Jackson wus putting around town Friday
afternoon in the gasless carriage to show
off the unusual mode of transport.
"People were staring when they passed
me on my way out here, ” smiled Jackson,
who navigated the rig from 1706 E Bur-
nsideSt. and back
son, PGE district manager, Inapect a new
approach to transportation—an electric
i
The all electric demonstration vehicle is
powered by two 56 volt lead acid type
batteries that weigh 1,500 pounds each and
are connected in a series for a total 112
volts d.c.
In the middle of the rig under the hood
(Continued on Page 11)
powered vaa. Jackson was showing off the
vehicle around lawn last weak.
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SANDY. OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1975
No. 15
Parents, faculty air
feelings on problems
By P A U L K E L L E R
News Editor
Problems at W elch« Grade School go
beyond gum chewing, snowball throwing
and
s im ila r
student
misbehavior
de via new.
That's what a crowd numbering close to
130 people including parents, teachers and
students, seemed to agree on during a two-
and-ane-half hour sharing of ideas in a
meeting at the school Tuesday nght
Tonight (April 10) at 7:30 p.m parents
and teachers will meet again at the school
to continue their problem-solving q u « t
The original focus on the problem
solving attack at W elch« a few weeks ago.
called by the PTA, focused on student
misbehavior and conduct enforcement by
teachers at the school.
However, as brought out Tuesday night,
this situation might be a symptom to
deeper problems at the school.
"The school atmosphere is negative and
teachers shouldn’t be blamed." reported
Jim Olson, serving as spok«m an for a
smaller group of parents who met last
week to come up with solutions to the
W elch«' mess
Eight other parent group spokesmen
summarized feelings and conclusions
Tuesday night
Olson said his group of eight agreed a
lack of proper direction for teachers exists
Suits filed
against area
mobile homers
Deputy Dist. Atty. Scott Parker has filed
five suits on behalf of Clackamas County
alleging violations of mobile home zoning
at W elch« According to Olsen, they
decided a resource person is necessary,
someone the teachers could turn to, he
said.
One gentlem an ir. tbj> audience
suggested that accommodation be made in
the school's budget to have an outside
resource person who could relay new
teaching methods to the faculty, rather
than depending on a punishment system.
His idea received a hearty round of hand
clapping "Tim e has come for a vice
p rin cipal or counselor at W e lc h « ,”
acknowledged
one
parent
group
spokesman
Rick Squires, social stu d i« and physical
education instructor at the school spoke on
behalf of W e lc h « ’ faculty He explained,
“ We do not see the discipline problem or
the behavior of teachers here as being
unique. The m a jo r problem is com
munication.
"The teacher's respect towards the
present administration and school board is
lacking and the present conduct code is
ineffective,” said Squires
He suggested setting up a "democratic
communication line" between parents,
administration and teachers to "open
doors and improve trust and confidence ”
Squires outlined a procedure by which
the teachers would write a new conduct
code with a disciplinary procedure The
PTA and school board would then approve
it and the rules would have to be en
forceable, he said.
Terry Kent, another parent group leader
and Welches school board candidate, told
Tuesday night's crowd that "legitimate
and vital concerns go beyond the student
behavior problem
Commission meets
on Mt, Hood water
A study meeting on the Mt. Hood Water
District’s expansion proposal will be held
April 18 at 12 noon in the CRAG conference
room " D ” 527 SW Hall S t, in Portland
Purpose of the meeting w ill be to review
the expansion proposal and to go over
additional materials submitted since the
hearing held a few weeks ago at Sandy-
High School, according to Don Carlson,
executive d ire c to r of the P ortland
Metropolitan Boundary Commission
He said a response from CRAG'S
Community Development Committee, and
the Boundary Committee s staff recom
mendation will be presented
W e won th e b a ttle
restrictions
Charged w ith illeg al placem ent of
mobile horn« are William and Mary Lou
Dunham, owners of land in a recreational-
residential zone in the Brightwood area;
and William and Vera A Vittetow, owners
of recreational-residential property in the
Wemme-ZigZag area; and Kenneth and
Abbie Barrett, for location of a mobile
home on rural-residential and at McCabe
Road and Highway 26
Also named as defendants are Raymond
and Muriel Rathbone. owners of com
mercially zoned property on the east side
of 1-205, south of Highway 212; and Leon A
and M arie Schultz, for a mobile home on
property in a residential zone at Sunnyside
Road and 127th Avenue
Parker asks for abatement of nuisancm
and an injunction of violation of the county
zoning ordinance in all of the suits.
The county zoning ordinance prohibits
mobile homes outside of mobile home
parks, except under temporary permits
for certain hardship conditions
Each of the suits resulted from com
plaints filed at the Clackamas County
Planning Department, according to county
planner Gary Naylor
"M ore needs to be done to eliminate the
confusion, antagonism and inability to
deal with the reality of the problems at this
school!” Kent explained.
Another parent said that a group is
currently investigating the high turnover
rate of W e lc h « ’ teachers
Kent’s group of parents concluded that a
low morale at school, a “ considerable”
communication gap. and too big of load for
the ad m in is tra tio n sta ff a re m a jo r
problems at the school.
Other parents at the meeting stressed
that conduct r u l« should apply not only to
students, but to all school personnel.
One group leader said discipline should
be geared to self-respect and should get
away from punishment She suggested a
conference room could be initiated and
honor students could serve as hall
monitors and patrol buss«
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