Levy approved
A small turnout <>l Sandy voters ap
proved a $155,000 water bond issue, 142-31.
Monday.
The money raised by sale of the bonds
will I n * used to liuild a water storage tunk
to help relieve the city's chronic water
problems
Depending on the cost of construction at
the time bids are let, the city will build
either a 750.000 or one million Kallon
reservoir.
"We ll construct the largest tank we can
for the money available," Mayor Mel
Hannherg said.
Current estimates place the cost of the
larger tank at »184.000 The difference
between that and the bond total will be
paid from Sandy's water improvement
fund which now umounts to about $30,000
I lie water system improvement fund
receives :«) per cent of the city’s water
serv ice revenue
The bond issue will I n * sold before bids on
• he project are let
Before construction cun begin on the
tank Sandy must obtain county approval
lor the tank's local ion
The tank will allow up to 235 additional
water service connections in the city water
system Hatfield said that could mean as
many as «25 more persons hi Sandy
A part of the proposed long range
development of the Sandy water system,
the reservoir could handle water demands
in the city until 1982 or 1984. he said
Projected expansion of the water system
would inalude adding Alder Creek as a
source of water for Sandy.
Acting City Recorder Ruth lx>undn*e
called Monday 's vote "much smaller than
usual
She says there are about 735
registered voters in the city
The Monday election was the first held
on that day in the* city's 62-year history
General Telephone
rate request cut
A 7 per cent increase in annual revenues
was granted Io General Telephone Co last
week by Public Utility Commissioner
Charles Davis.
The increase is substantially less than
Its* 3S per cent requested by the company
Davis also ordered a sp<*cial study of
alleged service problems in the company's
phone system
I lie utility has an estimated 136,000
customers in the state
I be , per cent rate increase amounts to
»2 9 million annually As purt of the rate
hike. Davis will require tlx* company to
hire an independent research firm to in
vestigate the quality of tlx* firm's service
Officiate of G TE say tlx* rate increase is
insullieient Henry Kutschia. manager of
tlx* GTE's Gresham office, was out of the
office Friday and unavailable for com
ment
I hero was substantial disagreement
between G TE and tlx* PUC over quality of
service by the company
According lo J E Sherar, vice-president
and general manager of the company,
increases in basic r e s id e n tia l and business
rates because of the allowed rale increase
w ill pmliohly be very small
Vol. 65
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SANDY, OREGON, THURSDAY. A U G . 28, 1975
Sunshine m ountain
Day off
I he sl.»ff of the Post will lx* enjoying tlx*
Labor Day holiday Monday and the office
will be clos *d from 5 p m Friday to 8 30
a m Tuesdaj
There will be no changes in news or
advertising deadlines for next Thursday's
newspaper.
Race track ordered closed
The D epartm en t of E nviro n m en tal
Quality has ordered closure of a cont
roversial motorcycle race track near hen-
on grounds it violates noise regulations.
Robert E .G ilb e rt, departm ent ad
ministrator for the Portland region, sent a
letter to Ronnie Long, owner of the
Mountain View Cycle Park, indicating the
track violated noise standards in tests
conducted July 13.
Long was ordered to cease operations
until the track can comply with the noise
regulations.
If there a re violations a c rim in a l
com plaint may be filed with the
Clackamas County district attorney. Ixmg
was warned in the correspondence
The track owner -enntends that con
(traction of the facility was begun prior to
Jan I. 1975 and therefore was not subject
to the noise regulations which became
effective at that time
Gilbert wrote in the letter to Long that
an investigation by the department in
dicates work on the track began prior to
the first of the year and therefore the
owner has to meet noise regulations.
Nearly lou residents near the track,
locat(*d five miles south of Sandy on Rude
Road, have sought tostop Its operation.
The residents filed noise complaints and
a petition in opposition of the track in
February.
The track was built on 11 acres of un
zoned property in Clackamas County
Kids pet show set Saturday
Today is the last day registrations will
be taken for the city's pet show to be held
in Meinig Memorial Park Saturday at 10
am .
Vising pet owners up to 16 years of age
should sign up at city hall by 5 p m No fee
will he charged
The show is open to all domestic pets,
says Irene Funk, summer coordinator of
Sandy's Park and Recreation Department
who is coordinating the event
All animals must be either leashed or
caged and no pet larger than a Great Dane
will be accepted in the competition
Judges will be looking for charac
teristics such as curliest hair, biggest
eyes, longest body, smallest, longest tail,
most wiggly, and even (he most patriotic.
M einig M e m o ria l P a rk is located
directly behind the Sandy City Hall
Zoning fees to climb
Effective Monday Clackamas County
will have increased zoning fees
According to Gustova M R ivera,
planning director, the Land Conservation
and Development Commission (LCDC) is
indirectly responsible for the increase
"The increase is due to the fact that
LCDC is demanding we increase
notification," he said. "That has doubled
the cost of mailing.
The only money we are spending is on
mailings aixl notices to newspapers "
I* ees for a zone change request will
increase from a flat fee of »150 to $200 for a
residential and $250 for a commercial or
industrial proposal
Tlx* charge for conditional use requests
will increase from $150 to $200 and the fee
for a comprehensive plan change request
will increase from $50 to $300
N o. 40
MT. HOOD looms above the Sandy-Woodland area on one
o f this summer's few sunny days during the past
weekend.
(Post photo)
Sandy council to discuss
service boundaries
A Sandy City Council discussion of an
annexation policy for the city was post
poned Monday until the city engineer can
prepare maps showing councilmen where
Sandy s ultimate service boundaries lie.
A proposed boundary, the projected
limit of the area where city services could
be provided, had been presented to the
c r mcil at its Monthly meeting by a special
citizens committee
The committee, appointed by the council
this spring, included an outline map of the
proposed boundary, but the council could
not compare the outline with other maps
used in project ing the service area.
( ouncilman Olin Bignall requested that
acceptance of the committee's report be
delayed until the maps are available,
prohahly by the regular meeting of the
council se, for Sept. 8.
The annexation policy discussion had
been included on the council agenda
(lending the outcome of Monday's water
bond election.
W ith the approval of the bond issue the
city will have enough water to serve new
areas, vacationing City Manager Carl
Hatfield J r told council members in a
letter.
"At present there are two people owning
property who will probably petition for
annexation in the near future," Coun
cilman Jim Duff said.
The council will resume discussion of its
BP A totals
extortionist
policy on additions to Sandy at the Sept 8
meeting
Two measures to include the city library
board and a library trust fund in the
m unicipal code were passed by the
council.
A
th ird
lib ra ry
m a tte r
establishing court penalties for overdue
books or destruction of library property
was referred to the library board
John Geyer, a U S . Forest Service
employe, was named to the Sandy Plan
ning Commission at Monday's council
meeting. Geyer is a new resident to the
Sindy area w*ith background in land use
planning.
The council accepted the apparent low
bid by Clackamas County Bank for a
$20,933.45 bond issue fo r the M a rc y
Limited Improvement District.
The bank offered a 6 238451 per cent
interest rate The next lowest bid, by First
National Bank of Oregon, was for 6 9900
per cent.
Sandy Union High School S uperin
tendent Joe DeMarsh told the council of
plans to locate a parking lot on land the
district recently acquired along Bluff
Road across from the high school
DeMarsh asked that the city work with
the school district in planning for any
future straightening of Bluff Road and for
the control of street parking in the school
area
The council also formally directed the
city engineer to prepare preliminary plans
for limited improvement districts in the
city
Because of the Labor Day holiday the
regular September meeting of the council
has been postponed until Monday. Sept. 8.
John Gever
Welches sets closed meeting
The Welches School Board will hold an
executive session meeting at 7 p.m. Friday
in the school to discuss personnel matters
Monday night the board met to work in
the school's parent-student handbook,
discussed personnel assignments for the
coming year and updated policy for non
school use of the building
repair bill
Cost of repairing and replacing 11 high
voltage power transm ission towers
damaged by an extortionist in the
Brightwood area last fall was placed at
more than $230,000 by the Bonneville
Power Administration, last week
The extortionist, D avid Heesch,
Beavercreek, is serving a prison term
alter admitting he dynamited the towers
as part of an attempt to extort $1 million
from BPA
Heesch's wife, Sheila, admitted aiding
Heesch and was sentenced to prison but
has been paroled
The damage done by Heesch was the
largest item in BPA's repair hill for the
year which ended June 30. according to
Jack O'Neal, operations and maintenance
manager for the agency
Town meeting
scheduled
SANDY'S DOWNTOWN . r e . will be discussed »1 .
« r ? i n , O r 1:M P m Sep‘ ’ in *h,‘ P“ r,* h
«• »»•
Michael's Church. The meeting sponsored bv the
< hainber of ( ommerre will include presentations bv the
city planners on three suggested downtown plans. The
meeting will he open for input from property owners and
reftidrnt* of Sandy .
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O'Neal said replacements and repairs
needed as a result of vandalism and
malicious damage totaled$440,473 Except
for the extortion dynamitings the largest
expense was to repair and replace in
sulators, conductors and hardw are
damaged by gunshots
The 75’s Are Alive
at Carlson Chevrolet
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ear«, faa tracks and Demos. Chevrolet Mater vision hat strongly saggested
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listea. la taet, wa listened se hard that we’va adjvsted ear prieea oven fewer.
There’s gaad newt I there's bad newt. The Good news (far prospective
Chevy keytra) Is that wa da have a larger seleetiea af naw 79’s at the fewer
prieas. The had aaws is that the 1171 Medals will have a bege priaa iaeraaaa
whan they are iatradaead on October 2nd. Wa have 2 aaw Corvettes priead
*900 fess than tha identical 1I7S medal, and wa have a 15 Series Cab aad
Chassis that is priead «beat *3,NO leas thaa the comparable 71 Hadal. Ill
ears aad tracks will shew a price iaerease, in tael, even the freight weat ap.
What date it ail mean? It jast mesas that if yea invest new in a saw 1179 Chav,
ear er track from Carlson Chnv., yea'll ba telling yoartalf all aait year haw
brilliant yea ware.
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