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4- SANOY (O c a ) POST Thuc» Sopt 21, 1978 (Soc. 1)
Budget cut hurts
deputies’ morale
From page one
Jury hears murder trial
run goes on vacation, the
Boring swing deputy w ill
cover both districts during
his shift.
The result, Renfro said, is
that deputies w ill need more
time to answer a call, par
ticularly if it is in another
district. And as calls stack
up, deputies are likely to give
only a brief investigation If
there is no apparent danger,
he said, they move on to the
next call.
OREGON
CITY
Clackamas County sheriffs
deputies are now slower to
answer a call and less likely
to investigate it, as a result of
budget cuts, according to
Sheriff John Renfro.
‘•It’s creating a serious
morale problem among our
sta ff. Our deputies are
b e co m in g fr u s tr a te d ,”
Renfro said
Renfro suffered a $130,000
. cut in his budget from fiscal
year 1977-78 to 1978-79, part of
a $1.8 million cut in the
Clackamas County general
is only relying on repetition to convince
you those are masks,” Crist said.
Urnaut had testified that the robbers’
masks were the size of oversized
pillowcases and came down over their
shoulders and Smith testified they
came down to the chest, Crist reminded
the jury.
Pointing to the alleged masks, Crist
said, “ Neither of those are oversized
pillowcases.”
Defense attorney Lowe later
produced a plastic bag about the size of
a pillowcase. Lowe said the bag had
been seized as evidence by state police
until “ it didn’t fit the theory’’ that
Reynolds was one of the robbers.
Lowe contended that “ there has been
a consistent refusal by the state to
consider the possibility that there were
more than two people involved in the
incident.” That, he said, would un
dermine their case.
As to the M-l rifle found at Reynolds’
“ We’ve had complaints
that our officers are not
spending much time on
various types of calls,”
Renfro admitted
fund.
Renfro has not had to lay
off any deputies since June,
when the cuts were made.
However, he said, he has had
to forego replacing em
ployees who take a vacation.
Under the current set up, if
a deputy goes on vacation,
the deputy patrolling an
adjacent
d is tric t
is
responsible for that beat
also. For example, Renfro
said, if the deputy covering
swing shift on the Mt. Hood
Renfro said the deputies
w ill continue to answer all
calls until the department
calculates how much of their
time is spent on “ non-
mandated” calls, such as
nuisance reports, noise
com plaints
and
c iv il
disturbances.
Renfro said he is con
sidering refusing to answer
repeatedly false burglar
alarms.
Scouts set paper drive
Cub Scout Pack 248 w ill
hold its annual paper drive
Saturday, Sept 30. Cub
Scouts w ill be collecting
newspapers in the Sandy
area from 9 a m. to 1 p in.
The droD box w ill be
located on Pleasant Street
By JOHN DEAN
Staff photo
Mission accomplished
i LY DE SI THERLAND, right, presents Senior Center Director Dick Halvorson a $400
check for completion of the Kiwanis Calendar. The calendar project is contracted out each
year to a community agency as a fund-raising project. The senior citizens compiled 856
birthday and anniversary listings and 634 organizational meeting dates for the 1979
calendar.
LOCAL POTTERY
By Chary I Holllngworth
Another armed robber
hits service station
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in 10 days occurred Sept. 15
at R.S. Smith s service
station at 39191 Proctor Blvd
in Sandy. The robber entered
the building at 3:35 a m.,
brandished a weapon and
demanded cash.
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The suspect is described as
a white male, 18-20 years old,
5’8” -5’9’’ tall, 145-150 pounds,
with blond, wavy hair. He
was w earing a brown
leather-like jacket and blue
slacks. His gun was possibly
a two-inch .38 ca lib er
revolver.
The robber left the station
on foot with $77 in cash. In a
sim ilar robbery Sept. 5, $71
was taken. Police are still
investigating but have no
suspects in either case.
A $700 canvas tarp was
taken Sept. 16 from a flat bed
trailer belonging to Charles
Snyder of Sandy. The trailer
was parked on Industrial
Way near 362nd Ave.
Stereo equipment and
tapes valued at $550 was
stolen
from
Randolph
Nelson’s car while it was
parked at Babe’s Big Boy
Pizza at 38707 S.E. Pioneer
Blvd. in Sandy. The theft
occurred between midnight
and 1:30 a m. Sept. 16.
At $275 white shag rug
belonging to Mrs. Roger
Shearer of Boring was taken
Sept. 18 from Mt. Hood
Cleaners and Laundry at
38862 Proctor Blvd in Sandy.
The six-by-eight foot rug had
been left in a coin operated
cleaning machine.
A juvenile shoplifter was
apprehended Sept. 18 at Foxy
Bottoms clothing store, 39210
Proctor Blvd in Sandy. The
store management caught
the g irl a fte r she had
shoplifted a $7 shirt. The
property was returned to the
store and police released the
girl to her parents.
Two juvenile shoplifters
took a hunting hat Sept. 14
from the County F a ir
Department store at 39065
Pioneer Blvd. in Sandy. One
of the suspects returned the
hat. The other suspect is
being questioned by police.
District garden clubs
will meet in Wemme
The nineteen garden clubs
of Clackamas district w ill
hold the annual fall meeting
Wednesday, Sept. 27, at
Bowm an’ s
Resort
in
Wemme.
Registration is from 9:15 -
10 a.m. The business meeting
w ill
follow .
Luncheon
reservations should be sent
to Mrs. Herman Zahler, 659-
1492.
A program on mushrooms
w ill be presented by Mr.
Floyd Hand.
Hostess clubs are Wild
wood. Sandy and Estacada.
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County officials held a group therapy
session Friday. But the meeting dealt
with wounded budgets, not wounded
psyches.
The county’s budget committee is
looking for ways to meet a $417,000
shortfall in the general fund, the result
of a newly-revised estimate of receipts
from Oregon and California Railroad
(O&C) timber lands by the Federal
Bureau of Land Management.
The budgeters are looking for ways to
raise more revenue, as well as cut
programs. Suggestions ranged from
charging for rabies examinations on
animals to closing the Canby ferry.
Peter Schnell, vice-president of
Publishers’s Paper Corp, of Oregon
City and a budget committee member,
put the county’s problem in per
spective: “ The decisions we make now
are not for-the-moment or superficial.”
Schnell felt the county should take
advantage of the opportunity now to
make preparations for even larger cuts
if Measure 6, the 1.5 percent property-
tax limitation, passes in November.
A problem the county faces on top of
the $417,000 cut is that Surveyor Dexter
Milne has refused to lay off any of his
staff in accordance with the budget he
was given in July.
The budget committee cut Milne’s
budget by 60 percent to $57,000, ex
pecting he would have to cut his staff
from six to two. Milne has maintained
his staff and has spent 40 percent of his
salary budget since July.
At that rate, said Finance Director
Robert Queen, Milne w ill run out erf
salary funds in three months. “ When
the budget runs out, I can make no
more payments,” Green warned.
Milne responded that he has not been
given a clear directive from the Board
of County Commissioners to lay off his
staff. “ If it is the policy decision of this
board that I shall cut persons indicated
by the budget, the board has the power
toorder me to do so,’’ he said.
Commissioner Ralph Groener asked
Milne to develop a schedule service of
fees as a means of raising his budget.
Milne estimated that 70 percent of his
office’s time is devoted prim arily to
private developers on subdivision in
spection and maintenance of survey
records.
John McIntyre, evironmental ser
vices director, suggested the county
institute a systems development charge
to cover the cost of planning for a
developing area.
McIntyre said a recent controversy
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over a development proposal in Lake
Oswego cost the county $10,000 in
planning staff time. Had the fee not
been waived, the county could have
recouped $250 of that expense, he said.
“ If we spend that kind of money on
someone, there ought to be some
mechanism to get that money back,”
McIntyre said.
M cIntyre gave the committee several
other suggestions for raising revenue or
cutting his budget:
— Closing the Canby ferry would save
the county $80,000 per year. McIntyre
also suggested charging $1 for a single
trip or a $10 yearly pass. On summer
weekends, he said, the ferry often
carries 1,000 cars a day.
— The county could double the fees it
charges landfill owners and garbage
collectors, raising $94.000.
— Either closing or reinstituting
charges in the county parks might be in
order, he said.
M cIntyre said the Clackamas Town
Center on Sunnyside Road, to open in
1980, w ill give the county a financial
boost.
“ I hope it w ill pull us out of our hole
by June,” he said.
Human Resources Director Jono
Hildner said he could find $190,000 to
save or cut in his budget. The biggest
single source would be an eight-year
grant from the federal government for
a mental-health center that Hildner
thought the county would not receive.
“ We may be able to free up $50,000 to
$75,000 of general fund support by
accepting the grant,” Hildner said He
said the grant could pay for some
services the county funds now.
Hildner said his department could cut
$100,000 in administrative costs by not
filling open positions and by cutting two
positions.
He said another $45,000 could come
from reserve funds the federal
government has designated to prevent
layoffs.
Hildner said charging fees in the
public health office “ isn’t going to
amount to beans in terms of money.”
Homeowners
get tax break
The county assessor’s office has a
piece of good news for property owners
in the city The tax rate for the city w ill
be 86 cents per $1,000 of assessed
valuation below original estimates by
former City Manager Paul Helton
Helton informed The Post Wednesday
morning that he had learned from the
assessor’s office that the city’s total
valuation of property w ill be $6 million
more than he had originally planned in
making an estimate on the tax rate for
the city.
Helton had based his projections on a
total assessed valuation of $31.400.000
However, County Assessor Edith
Bowen said the total w ill be $37,411,780.
Last year’s total was $29.478.030 while
the tax rate for the city was $4.57.
City voters last week approved an
operating levy of $92.002 for the present
fiscal year
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Jo e lS h e kte r
home, Crist said “ it is not an unusual or
a unique gun,” and noted that only one
witness out of seven or eight persons in
the tavern had said the gun was similar
to the one used in the robbery.
Crist charged that Matsuda had given
an inadequate test of the gun. “ He
didn’t even check to see if it had been
fired recently.”
Crist said the fact Matsuda used only
one bullet in his comparison was a
weakness, and said no testing had been
made of the gun’s barrel. “ Is this the
type of quality evidence you’re going to
rely on?” he asked.
Lowe said an “ alcoholic blackout”
may have caused Reynolds to forget
much of what happened that evening
The morning of the arrest, he said,
Reynolds couldn’t remember what he
did around 1:30a.m.
Lowe contrasted this explanation
with the description of the gunman as
confident and commanding
Budget wounds discussed
behind Clackamas County
Bank, or the boys w ill pick up
papers by prearrangement
Persons with papers sould
call Stu Simonson at 668-6024,
Ed Harris at 668-6826 or
Gareth York at 668-4425, to
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