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W W W W » » » » • V .»♦ ..W » •» » •.» « « •« •» « 4 • • W » lF »'r’r»>»»»V»,»Vri»» » » . » » r <*»»»*•»•'»-■ r* - > »• * r . r * - - - • ' ‘ - » * - - t < 'f * ¡^ ch V c “ 1 L”’7’* 0>3 * Great Way To The Mt. Hood Playground Single Copy 1 5' Vol. 68 SANDY. OREGON. THURSDAY. SEPT. 14, 1978 No. 37 Budg et levy sought Peters warns of school closure sessions together working out the figures for each department. “This is a need-to-have budget,” he Voters in the Sandy Union High School district will go to the polls said. “ It’s different from a nice-to-have Tuesday for a fourth attempt to ap budget. There are a lot of things we prove operating funds for the school. could have asked for but the board and The vote is the second try for a levy the budget committee held the line on amount above the six percent spending.” If the levy fails, the school board limitation. would be in the unique position of Voters will be asked to approve an having to keep the doors open to tuition operating levy of $1,419,252.36 above the students from Redland after Nov. 22 but tax base. The overall rate for the closed to students living within the district will be an estimated $6.52 if the district. levy passes. The 201 Redland students enrolled An attempt to establish a new tax this year are taught under contract base and another to set a three-year tax between the Sandy High and Redland rate were also turned down earlier this School districts. The contract, which was under dispute by several members summer. Superintendent Jack Peters said the of the Redland board earlier this budget passed by the budget committee summer, calls for $420,000 in tuition and school board is sound but he is fees. Peters stated that a small core group making tentative plans to close down the school to district students in the of teachers would be maintained to teach classes if the budget fails and that event the levy fails. “ It’s coming down to possible administrators, including himself, Tlosure,” Peters said. “We have would also be assigned classes Should the budget be turned down enough funds to make it through to around Nov. 22. After that we’ll have to again, a final attempt at passage could lay off teachers and maintain a be held Nov. 7 in the general election if the board chooses to do so. skeleton staff.” A group of Sandy High patrons has Peters said the budget committee and the school board had numerous banded together to ward off that by JOHN K LIN E Melvin Haneburg Sta/f photo SANDY CITY COUNCIL In a unanimous decision Monday night named the new community center after retiring mayor Melvin Haneburg. The city acquired the building on Proctor Blvd. earlier this year and has converted it into a center for club and community events and activities. Mayor Haneburg has been a supporter for the concept. The two-story building was named the Melvin N. Haneburg Community Center. Bond election set for Welches School Voters in the Welches School district will go to the polls Tuesday to decide the fate of a large scale building program for the school. The Sept. 19 ballot will list a $2.99 million bond referendum to finance construction of an upper grade school on a lot adjacent to the existing school on Salmon River Rd. Plans for the new school have r .1 j Tt been drawn. Superintendent Jcxk Callaghan said the school board decided to get a reading from the voters in the bond election before spending Inside The Post Spike Emerson remembered in dedication of Meinig Park shelter...................... p. 2, sec. I Wendell Halseth, Estacada farmer, learns the ropes of property tax relief . . p. 11, sec. 1 Zigzag man returns from auctioneering school ready to hit the cir c u it......................p. 3, sec II money on engineer and architect fees, upper and lower grade students to be i he new building would contain a segregated. Programs for grades K-4 library for upper grade students plus a would remain in the existing building gym, arts and crafts room and a while those for grades 5-8 would be housed in the new facility. cafeteria as well as classrooms. Enrollment at the school is 323 this Callaghan said he urged the board to plan for the new building because of the year, 13 more than were enrolled at the increase of students plus a gym, arts school last year. Callaghan said the and crafts room and a cafeteria as well existing school constructed in 1968, was built to handle a maximum of 300 as Callaghan said he urged the board to students. plan for the new building because of the “We feel there is a strong need for a increase of students expected over the new school,” Callaghan said. “We next several years. He points out that wouldn’t be asking for the bond the county has issued 64 building package if there wasn’t. permits in the district. Growth at the “We think it would be wise to move on school is expected to be around 6 per this now,” he added. “With con cent a year, he added. Interest in the new building may not struction costs going up at a rate of 18- be as high as Callaghan would have 24 percent a year, it makes sense to liked He has issued an invitation for build now.” patrons to get together in small groups Should the measure be approved, for coffee hours to discuss the building payoff on the bonds would add an plan. However, none have been estimated $3 per $1,000 of assessed organized. valuation to patron’s tax bills. The Hie superintendent said the new current tax rate for the school levy is building would make it possible for $3.97 possibility. They have formed Citizens for Education committee and are working actively in the community to promote budget approval this Tuesday. Problems with budget passage are not new to the district. The board had to go to the voters three times in three of the past four years (’74, 75, and ’76). The levy passed on the first attempt in June, 1977. The Sandy High School Board met Monday night and postponed most of the business involving the distribution of funds until after the levy election. A special meeting of the board was scheduled for 7:30 pm Sept 20 The meeting will be held to examine proposed fiscal management policies and to discuss the levy election Three new teachers were approved by the board, Daniel Brisbin, Diane Sonderskov and Patricia McAfee are now teaching at Sandy High The board also heard a presentation by a representative of General Telephone. The district is considering upgrading its current telephone system to eliminate some of its communication problems. City levy approved Sandy voters approved a $92,002 operating levy for the city Tuesday by a 181-159 margin. It was the third at tempt at levy passage by city council. Council had trimmed over 25 percent from the original levy request which went down to defeat in June. The levy will result in an estimated tax rate of $5.41 for property owners in the city. Just under 29 percent of eligible voters turned out at the polls, the highest turnout of the three elections. City council learned Monday night that the revision process for the new comprehensive land use plan for Sandy is several months behind schedule. Land use planner Eldon Edwards, whose firm was hired to in«JQduct tiie technical end of the plan revision, told council that the p reset which was sttieduled completion in July- will not be finished until Oct. 31. Edwards said planning consultant Lin Dingier, one of his former em ployees who was handling the $12,000 project, has resigned. The loss of Dingier put the project even further behind schedule, he said. The comprehensive plan, a requirement of all-cities and counties in the state under the Land Conservation and Development Commission, was to have been submitted to the council for possible revision and approval in August. A citizens advisory committee ap pointed by the council has held a series of meetings on the land use plan. The committee will hold another meeting Wednesday night, Sept 20, at city hall. The public is invited. In other action: The council approved a request by A. E. Mills to annex a 9 3 acre parcel of land into the city. Jerry Lawson, who represented Mills before the council, said city water and sewer services are within access to the property But he said there are no plans for development at this time. The property is located on Meinig Rd. which is due to be paved by the county and city early next year. Council instructed city engineer Dennis Peoples to mark off areas for the water and sewer connections on the street for later hookups Council voted unanimously to apply for technical assistance lorm the Port of Portland to come up with an analysis of the Sandy-area economy. The research help comes free of charge to the city thorugh a federal grqnt. The study will be done in two areas: the impact of industrial growth on the city and the potential benelits of promoting more tourism in the area The project will not require any cost to the city. Council set Monday, Oct 2, as the date for a public hearing on the amount of assessments to be levied to businesses in the LID 4 downtown improvement parking district. The LID was formed to construct the parking lot in the downtown shopping center area Council appointed city finance director June Isakson to the position of City Recorder on a temporary basis until the city hires a new city manager Current city manager Paul Helton will vacate the office Friday leaving the city tem porarily without an ad ministrative chief A citizens advisory committee reviewed a list of 33 ap plicants for the job last week and for warded names of eight persons to council for consideration A t Chamber luncheon Straub criticizes Measure 6 be major beneficiaries under the governor-appointed Land Conservation measure with homeowners absorbing a and Development Commission while disproportionately greater share of the increasing the role of the Legislature in Insisting that Ballot Measure 6 would tax burden. land-use planning be “a disaster to the people of Oregon,” Under Measure 6, property Straub pointed out the state is Gov. Bob Straub urged Sandy residents assessments would be rolled back to to vote instead for the tax-relief 1975 levels and would increase by no growing faster than California by 26 package he helped design in last week’s more than 2 percent annually under the percent a year and double the national average. special session of the Legislature. same ownership. However, property “The only way to preserve the beauty The Legislature's plan, which will be would be reassessed at existing market of Oregon is through wise land-use Measure 11 on the November general value after being sold. planning,” he said. “We are ahead of “The joker in this deck is that homes election ballot, calls for the state to tap all other states in the country in this its general fund to pay half the property change hands every five years on the area. taxes of each homeowner up to a average while businesses average a “ We may make mistakes because change in ownership only every 20 maximum of $1,500. we're plowing new ground, but we must years,” Straub said. It also would provide equivalent “ In some cases, large industries maintain a willingness to correct these relief to renters through the state’s never change hands.” he added. “When mistakes.” existing property tax relief program that happens, more and more of the tax Under existing LCDC framework, the and would place limitations on in burden will be shifted to the Governor said all cities and counties in creases in expenditures of state and homeowner ” the state will come up with local ver local governments, including school Straub also assailed the plan as an sions of comprehensive land use plans districts. for their areas under a statewide attack on local taxing authority. Straub addressed nearly 100 mem “Who will make the decisions on how system of common goals and ob bers and guests of the Sandy area to divvy up the 1.5 percent of tax jectives Sandy relator Dale Nicolls, in a Chamber of Commerce at a Tuesday dollars?” he asked “ It would be taken quest ion-and-answer session following out of local control and put in the hands luncheon Straub's remarks, said he opposed the State Sen Vic Atiyeh, the Beaverton of the Legislature ” Republican running for governor, will When asked whether state income idea of an administrative body ap speak at next Tuesday's chamber taxes would have to be raised to pay the pointed by the governor having such luncheon He expressed grave reser costs of Measure 11, Straub assured the far-reaching authority. Nicolls said he favored the concept of vations about Measure 11 in a Monday audience they would not. speech, saying he would study the “I’m sure the next session of the a state land planning agency but impacts of both proposals before Legislature will probably make some stressed that it should be answerable to deciding which he will support in revisions in the proposal as it now elected officials Following his remarks, Straub paid a stands,” he said. November In another area, Straub attacked visit to St. Jude's Nursing Home where Straub's main theme Tuesday was Ballot Measure 10 which if enacted, he met with residents and joined them opposition to Measure t. He said business and industry would would limit the authority of the In refreshments by JOHN K LIN E sun photo Gov. Straub makes a point. Seated is Chamber president Marvin Hansen.
