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Board accepts budget, member resignation The Sandy Grade school board moved to accept a $1 8 million budget for the coming year, accepted the resignation of board member Howard Vaeretti and asked John Callaghan, principal of the upper grades, to reconsider his proposed resignation Callaghun said he did not wish to make any statement on his resignation until after he again spoke to the board V a e re tti subm itted his resignation because a change in his jobs will prevent him from serving on the board The Sl.771.642 budget will be discussed at a public hearing May 5 In the upper grade lib ra ry . Superintendent Tony Bryant said the proposed budget will require a $978,925 levy election June 17. Bryant said the budget included no new programs, but that increases in the cost of goods and services hud caused the 20 per cent increase in the budget I-ast year the district needed $1,466,55« to operate ‘'The price of paper products, teaching supplies and textbooks have gone* up 20 to 30 percent in a year," Bryant said Bryant added that the budget included money for the replacement of some school buses which are 20 years old The board also accepted the resignations of four staff members: Mrs. Donna Carline, Mrs M ary Cline, M r Kobert Ketchum and Mrts LeAnn Mar- jama The four will leave at the end of the school year. Because Vaeretti's resignation was made too late to allow electing a replacement board member in the May 6 district election, the board is accepting applications from persons interested in being appointed to fill the vacancy, Bryant said "Anyone interested in the position is requested to submit a resume to the district office by May 5," Bryant said Persons may call the district office for details. Board m em ber E velyn Anderson requested that persons interested in working on the 12-month school committee contact her She also asked for volunteers to work on her bike pa th program The board approved the participation of the district in a University of Oregon Dental School flouride treatment program for fifth and sixth grade students with parents’ approval PIZZA BARN will be the name of new restaurant built on Highway 26 near Hoodland Shopping Center. The restaurant will be part of a development given partial approval by the Clackam as County Planning Commission Monday. Restaurant plan approved The C lackam as County P lanning Commission approved Monday part of a planned commercial development near Welches The commission voted unanimously approved a zone change allowing for the construction of a pizza restaurant near the Hoodland Shopping Center The commission declined to allow ap proval of the second phase of the project School-parent meeting planned By HOWARD SCOTT News Editor Parents of Sandy Grade school children will have an opportunity to talk over any concerns they have with the school system at a special meeting with other parents, teachers and school administrators April 30at7:30p m. The meeting, scheduled for the upper grade gumnasium, was set by the Sandy Grade school board Monday after a group called “Concerned Parents" requested it. Joe Astleford, spokesman for the group, presented the board with a list of 20 suggestions regarding discipline in the schools and 21 ideas on possible changes in report cards The list had been prepared from the comments of about 56 persons attending a parents' meeting at Sunset Theatre. April 10. Astleford asked the board to "accept the help of the people that showed up. Schedule a meeting, comeand listen." In explaining the "Concerned Parents" purpose, Astleford said, “ Our sole Intent Is to try to work with the school board and offer ourselves to help the board " While saying that the school board wanted Input from parents, board president Dan Ten Eyck commented he thought the board would not "feel com fortable" about making them policy. “ I think some of these are real good suggestions that would be best im plemented at the teacher or administrator level," he said. Ten Eyck invited parents to talk with teachers in their childrens' classroom “ The problem has been that If a parent has a problem he wants to go to the school board with it. They never think about going to the teacher or an administrator aboutit." Some of the parents attending the Flrwood election set Firwood's Neighbors. In c , will hold its first annual meeting for the election of officers at tonight's Thursday meeting scheduled for 7:30 p.m at the Firwood School C e n tra l Area. Because the Executive Board members hold alter nating one and two year terms, association members will be voting to fill the positions of board members whose terms expire in April of 1975 meeting at the theater and the school board meeting had expressed dis satisfaction with talking to teachers or which would include construction of public service and professional-retail facilities. Construction on the Bowman It Sherfey project will begin “ as soon as proper permits are issued," according to A1 Jensen of Mt. Hood Properties. l^aédy principals. The April 30 date was set when a schedule conflict precluded holding the meeting in Muy as originally planned Ideas submitted by the "Concerned Parents" included getting more parents to attend board meetings, reducing size of classrooms, increasing salaries for capable teachers, forming a parents ad visory group and sending a questionnaire to all parents to seek input Great Way To The Mt. H ood Playground Vol. 65 Single Copy 15’ No. 16 SANDY, OREGON. THURSDAY, APRIL 17. 1975 * KMM Voters pass levy Sandy voters approved the 1975-76 city budget, in a special election Tuesday night, 138-58 The $150,514.21 tax levy will be $30,565.82 lower than *ht budget accepted by voters taM year The projected tax rate will be $9.63 per $1,000 of true cash value, a drop of $2 from last year's figures. City Manager Carl Hatfield called the 191 voter turn out about average. “ I t ’s not bad for a special election.” ■M M M CHANGING STAFF at the P o s t-F ro m left. Howard Scott assumes duties as editor this week. Caroline Duff replaces Jo Espersen as Post advertising manager and Nancy Barker surrenders her position of staff writer to Paul Keller. Post changes staff, adds editor Howard Scott, 24, has taken over the editor's position at the Sandy Post Scott replaces Paul Keller at the news editor's typewriter Keller has served as editor just over a year and will now devote his time to writing features for the paper Scott served as editor of the St. Johns Review in Portland from June 1973 to October 1974, and was also news editor of the Ferndale Record, Ferndale, Wash . for a summer while attending college He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from Western Washington State College where he graduated In 1973. At Western, Scott was employed as copy editor, sports editor and wire editor of the school's twice-weekly newspaper He also served as production manager of Klipsun Magazine, published twice each term at Western. The new Post editor w jn first place in the Sigma Delta Chi Mark of Excellence Contest, Region X, for best editorial writing in 1972. Since leaving the Review, Scott has taken g raduate business classes at Portland State University. He and his wife, Judy, are in the process of moving from Portland to Sandy They look forward to meeting the residents of the area and becoming involved in com munity activities Caroline Duff. 38, has taken over as advertising manager at the Post. She replaces Jo Espersen who has served with the paper for the last 11 years. Following minor surgery, Mrs. Espersen and her husband. Butch, plan on moving to Maui in the Hawaiian Islands Mrs. Duff, who has lived in Sandy since 1959, is a member of the Mt. Hood Com munity College Citizens advisory group for the college swimming pool, is active in local Camp Fire Girl activities, and is an avid bowler. She is a past member of the Mt Hood Jaycettes and Sandy Women's Club She and her husband, Jim , have three daughters. Nancy Barker, a three year veteran feature writer on the Poet staff has resigned to devote more time to her family and free lance writing. Petitions ask for cemetery district P etitio n s seeking form ation of a cemetery maintenance district which would include the F ir Hill and Sandy Ridge cemeteries began circulating the Sandy area Monday. The cemetery tax district would include the Sandy Union High School District’s area. “ The district would be run on the same basis as a water or sewer district." said Ken Hallgren. one of the organizers He explained that a cemetery district would provide permanent maintenance and upkeep, allow for improvements and take care of necessary property enlargement of the area's cemeteries Once the petitions have met the required number of names they will be sent to the county commissioners, a hearing will be held, followed by a tax levy vote here Petitions are available at the Sandy City Hall and Sandy Rexall Drug Store At present, both the F ir Hill and Sandy Ridge cem eteries are owned by the county. F ir H ill was foreclosed by the county in 1970 and Sandy Ridge was foreclosed this January when owner Bernard McManus failed to pay taxes on the property The county commissioners, who have explained they have no desire to be in the cemetery business and are anxious to see the local cemetery situation cleared up In response to the cemetery situation here, a group of concerned locals have decided a cemetery tax district would be the most appropriate remedy to the problem. Nearby Estacada maintains a suc cessful cemetery district which includes six individual cemeteries. According to Carol Bogumil of the Clackamas County Department of Public Works, tax rate in the Estacada district last year was ten cents per $1,000 to property owners. He guessed a Sandy district would require around the same amount BLM approves Wildwood land trade TOPPLED TRUCK blocked the eastbound exit from Highway 26 at Boring moat of the day Monday. The truck fell when Its load of wood chips shifted as It left the highway A patent for 14 small tracts in a homesite subdivision near Sandy has been issued by the Bureau of Land Management <BLM> as a portion of a federal land exchange for 122 acres of land adjacent to B LM ’s Wildwood Recreation Site B T. Vladimiroff. BLM Salem district manager, said the 14 small tracts, totaling approximately 16 acres, were exchanged by BLM with William C. and Winnie B Murphy, Beaverton, for acreage owned by the Murphys Also involved in the ex change will be 18 acres of BLM a d ministered lands in the Beaver Creek area near Oregon City. The Murphy holdings and the total federal property are of ap proximately equal value—$59.000 The tracts acquired by Murphy are part of a 4Oacre homesite subdivision along the Sandy R iver which was created for veterans in the late 1950's on a lease and purchase basis Only 18 of the 35 lots went into private ownership because many of the would-be purchasers failed to meet the terms of the lease which included the building of a suitable dwelling. Some of the sites and dwellings were damaged by the 1964 flooding of the Sandy River The private lands which will come into public ownership under terms of the exchange are on steep hillsides adjoining the Wildwood Recreation Site Vladimiroff noted that these lands visible from Wildwood, have aesthetic values that are important to Wildwood At the time the exchange was first proposed there were strenuous objections from nearby landowners who indicated a desire to purchase the property them selves so as to enlarge their own lots to compensate for damage caused by the 1964 flood Following these objections, the Murphys agreed to let the present lan downers have the first opportunity to buy the acquired lots at the exchange ap praisal price •SS PETE CARLSON À ___ (11-4111 SANDY Saatfay
