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July 13 1971 (Sac 1)
California firm sues county
OREGON CITY - A California firm
is suing Clackamas County for nearly
Si m illion back and future rent on the
allegedly defective Mason Building in
Gladstone
Essex Property Corp., the building's
owner, filed the suit last week in U S
D istrict Court in Portland, asking for
$40.500 in back rent, plus $8100 per
month until the building is re-rented or
the 10-year lease expires
Ten y ears' rent would cost the county
$972.000.
The county signed the 10-year lease
on the Mason Building in October 1977.
effective Feb 1, 1978 Staff assistant
Mike Bateson said the county paid the
$8,100 monthly rent for February and
March
The county has refused to pay rent on
the building since March, when it found
structural and other alleged defects in
the building
C onsultants from the F a c ility
Sciences Corp of Beverly Hills, Calif ,
were studying the county's office space
problem. Bateson said, when they
found that part of the Mason Building
slowly was breaking away and slipping
down a hill toward the Clackamas
River
Large cracks appear in the building s
walls and windows
Other defects in the building, the
county charged, include inadequate
wiring, insufficient fire doors and
walls, restrooms inaccessible to the
handicapped and a defective heating
system
The county asked the Essex company
to correct these alleged defects in
March, Bateson said, but the company
did not comply. The commissioners
then voted not to pay any further rent
until the defects were corrected
Why didn’t the county know about the
defects before it signed the lease in
October*
“ Most of the problems happened
after our research,” Bateson ex
plained The previous tenants hadn’t
reported any problems, he said
Bateson admitted, “ I t ’s partly our
fault We didn’t take the time to go over
it with a fine-toothed comb.”
Learning from its mistakes, Bateson
said, the county staff used a fine
toothed comb in inspecting the second
floor of the Transamerica Building in
Oregon City The county signed a lease
on the floor in June and w ill move the
commissioners’ and county counsel s
offices there soon
t]
The commissioners had intended to
house all the Human Resources
Department offices and the civil ser
vice and finance offices in the Mason
Building. Bateson said
'Die latter two now are in the county
courthouse,
w hile
the
Human
Resources offices are scattered in
downtown Oregon City, the Red Soils
area on Kaen Road, the Marylhurst
campus near West Linn and Milwaukie.
All but the Hed Soils offices are rented
Bateson said the county may try to
get out of the Mason Building lease.
Commission Stan Skoko emphasized,
" I ’m not involved in it. This is (Bob)
Schumacher and (Ralph) Groener’s
( the other two commissioners) boo-boo
I opposed this thing from the begin
ning ’”
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am ong
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session titled “ How to Take
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To make the county’s
corrections effort more ef
ficient, the report proposes
merging the state and county-
staffs under the county
c o m m u n ity c o rre c tio n s
manager.
A single unit would be set
up to handle all report on all
accused a convicted persons
from arraignment through
R e s id e n tia l fa c ilit y
The most visible part of ihd
new plan w ill be the 40- bed
residential facility.
The facility is intended f a
persons
convicted
of
m isdem eanors or m inor
felonies, “ not the real serious
people” who otherwise might
be let go on probation,
Gassaway said.
"They may be on work
release, they may just need a
place to stay for a time, they
may need an education
release,” Gassaway said.
Many of the fa c ility ’s clients
m ig.it have committed a
crime because of alcohol,
drug. job. financial, marital,
or emotional problems, he
added.
“ Crime is just a symptom
of some problem within the
i n d i v id u a l , u s u a ll y , ”
Gassaway said “ There%rea
lot of people who can benefit
from this kind of thing.”
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Staff from the county's
mental health department
would be on hand for coun
seling Drug and alcohol
treatment programs also
would be available Besides
room and board, the facility
could make emergency
loans, provide transportation
for persons on work release
and offer employment or
educational counseling and
placement.
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makes
the recognizance
report also would make the
pre-sentence investigation,
which guides the judge in
sentencing;
the intake
r e p a t,
done
before
probation,
and
recom
mendations on diversion to
outside
agencies,
if
requested by the district
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This system, the com
m ittee’s report says, leads to
duplication of services and
wasted effort. Without a
single c le a r
d ire ctio n ,
corrections workers often
work at cross-purposes, it
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Currently, the county and
the state share corrections
responsibilities. Generally,
the state handles probation
and parole for serious felons,
while the county handles
offenders guilty of class C
felonies (including theft,
reduced burglary and drug
charges) and misdemeanors.
County corrections also
supervises
the antabuse
program ,
w hich
helps
alcoholics fight their ad
diction and provides pre
sentence investigations for
all offenders after they have
been convicted.
sentencing. The same team
of counselors would handle a
“ client” in all stages of the
proceedings
The report recommends
the county start a Release on
Own Recognizance (ROR)
program, which would allow
“ trustworthy” defendants to
be released without bail
before trial. Criteria for such
release would include length
of residence in the com
munity, local fam ily ties,
employment, past record
and the seriousness of the
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Working from December
1977 to June 1978, the com
mittee came up with the two
pronged attack on the
county’s current fragmented
approach to corrections and
rehabilitation.
'We’re trying to pull
everything
together and
work closer,” said Terry
Gossaway, the county’s
c o m m u n ity c o rre c tio n s
manager
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A light agenda is expected
for the Welches School Board
tonight (July 13).
The main order of business
w ill be reorganization of the
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WEST L IN N - Where do funded largely by the state
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question
ago
Clackamas County com
The plan was to be
munity corrections officials
reviewed today by the state's
w ill be asking in the weeks to C om m unity
Corrections
Advisory Board
With their approval, the
corrections staff can begin
looking in earnest for a site
for
the 40-bed facility.
Tuesday, Aug. 15. Assistant
The building is one-half of
Planning Director Dominic
an effort to improve the
Mancini w ill report on up
c o u n ty ’s
attem pt
to
coming county activities for
rehabilitate
lawbreakers
Rock Creek, Damascus,
The other part of the attack
south of Oregon City, the Mt.
is a consolidation of the
Hood Corridor and the rural
county and state corrections
planning and zoning areas.
e ffo rts
under
county
‘ ‘ How to Im press the
direction.
Planning Commission” w ill
The state funding for the
be discussed by Planning
plan is coming from the
Commission Chairman Rich
Community Corrections Act
Ares
Both "H o w to ”
passed
by
the
1977
sessions should be of
L e g isla tu re .
That
act
assistance to people who
released funds to the State
need to deal with the county
C orrections and M ental
on land use matters At thé
Health divisions for counties
request of the County Citizen
to use in setting up correc
In v o lv e m e n t
A d v is o ry
tions facilities
The law
Committee, Stevenson w ill
requires the participating
send special invitations to
county to take over the state
the League of Women Voters,
correctional services in that
Home Builders and other
county.
in te re s t groups d ire c tly
To take advantage of the
concerned with land use.
state’s offer, the county put
together 13-member com
mittee to draw up the plan,
inclu ding County Com
missioner Ralph Groener,
board for the coming schoo
C ircuit Court Judge Patrick
year and the election of a G ilroy. Sheriff John Renfro
chairman.
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Art Knauss, representatives
of various county and state
corrections projects and two
citizens
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