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About Sandy post. (Sandy, Oregon) 1938-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1978)
•e**r**^ > V ’ ***.•'</*' • * •- I 1 » r * 1 - r * » f • f <• ' .* / , r j ' • * - • » • - 0 *1 * r f , t U C i* t O M V O I 68 NO 51 The I t ? 4C> SANDY. OSEGON THUSSOAY. DEC 21, 1978 Single copy 15 cent« City plans to fix potholed streets Several major feeder streets in Sandy completed and approved by the city? Robert McNeely, developer of are in sad shape and City Manager Tickle Creek Estates off South Bluff Roger Jordan is pushing to get funds Road, objected to the policy being together to fix them On a recommendation from Jordan, implemented after he had begun work city council Monday night voted to on his project He told council he was submit an application for a federal ready to clœe on a number of houses in the 84-lot development and that the assistance grant that could bring in as requirement for paving before issuance much as 175,000 for street repairs on of building permits could cost him a Meimg Avenue and Tupper Road. Both streets are collector routes for great deal of money Council then agreed to increase the subdivisions which have been ap proved. Both are marked with potholes number of building permits that could and ruts which will likely worsen as be issued for Tickle Creek Estates from heavy equipment trucks use them to 20 to 50 percent of the total number of lots. bring in materials Councilman George Burg assured But with the city operating on a McNeely that “past commitments by shoestring budget this year, with the the city would be honored.” prospects for an improvement nowhere Council president Jim Duff, who in sight, the city has no funds available to make repairs or to widen the roads to presided at the meeting in the absence 40 feet, the width required for collector of retiring Mayor Mel Haneberg, said he knew of no other developers who had streets Jordan told council members that if been given promises of building per the city is awarded the grant money mils without road surfacing Also at council, a motion was passed under the Safer Off-Systems Grant to sell city water to a specially formed Fund, it will be required to participate water association comprised of four at a rate of 12 percent of the cost of the improvements He said the program is homeowners outside the city on Summertime Drive first-come, first-serve and is intended Council agreed to the request on the to help smaller jurisdictions like Sandy condition that the property owners pay bring their roads up to standard the installation of a single water meter In addition to the city dollars and the to serve the four houses, plus a $100 possible grant funds, property owners connection fee per home whose land adjoins the roads to be Water customers outside the city pay surfaced will be required to pay for double the city monthly rate for water improvements. Also, subdivision developers will be used The local water association will John Kline photo required to install sidewalks and curbs be required to maintain the private and pave half the roadway on the ex system at no cost to the city terior of their developments In addition to the Tupper Road and Kathy Koch’s art class to bring Christmas cheer to the home. Pictured here are Meinig Avenue improvements, council several students gathered around one resident who obviously enjoyed the visit. also has been working on plans to «traigl»en and widen South Bluff Road. Bluff will be a major collector street for new developments which have already *b#*en approved? Sandy Elementary School incurred a Aiso on the subject of road surfacing, $1,200 loss Friday during school hours council formally adopted a written quality standards since the Legislature Kauffman said this week that Bennet policy on the surfacing of roads in new when a band instrument storage room is required to submit all plans for any stripped the Division of its enforcement was broken into. School officials subdivisions powers in the last year’s session and improvements on the system to the reported that a piccolo was stolen and a The policy, submitted for approval by gave that authority to the state Water Health Division before construction $900 electric organ nearly destroyed. Jordan, requires builders to pave all Control Board. begins. Music teacher Gerald Dickson said streets in a subdivision before a The traditional role of that board, But Bennet maintains that such a the room is usually kept locked, but that building permit will be issued on any requirement “is a bunch of crap.’ He however, has been in the area of water a teacher’s keys were missing and houses. rights for property owners, not in en does not recognize the ability of the However, if weather conditions presumably were used for entry into Health Division to enforce its water forcing water quality standards. preclude paving, the city could allow up the room. The piccolo’s case was left behind but to 20 percent of the building permits to be issued — not to exceed a maximum the instrument valued at $300, was of 20 permits. Developers would then be missing. Dickson said the small in required to post a bond for the amount strument could easily be slipped into a pocket without the case of the road paving. The electronic circuitry of the organ Developers will be allocated a three- Jordan has said he believes the city is The grant, if awarded, would be month grace period to complete the was ripped out, apparently by hand. in great need of a comprehensive plan through the Land Conservation and Dickson is not sure if it can be repaired which will serve to guide the city work from the time of the waiver. Development Commission which would “The components in the back of the The policy also states that, “At no through its period of expected growth in be a third party to any contract the city time will the city allow occupancy of a organ were very severely damaged, the immediate future. might award to get the job done dwelling unit until the final pavement is he said. Spreading Christmas cheer FIFTH AND sixth grade students from Sandy Elementary School put on their beat T Christmas garb and visited with residents at St. Judes nursing home Friday morning. Students in the Community School’s Silver Threads program Joined School hit by vandals Court to enforce water quality standards by JOHN KLINE In the face of a court order against him, Gerald ’ Red” Bennet has begun taking steps to comply with requirements from the state Health Division to clean up the water in the Alder Creek-Barlow system. Bennet, owner of Alder Creek Water Co and the numerous sub-systems in the company, began work on the in stallation of a chlorine detention tank last week at Alder Creek and Highway 26. Clackamas County Circuit Court Judge Dale Jacobs had agreed earlier in the week to sign an order prepared by lawyers at the Health Division requiring Bennet to install adequate purification equipment. The Health Division had requested the court to take action last August. A suit was filed then asking that Bennet be required to install the filtration tanks and a chlorinator and that he submit the engineering plans to the Health Division for approval. The Barlow system serves 70 houses north of Highway 26 and west of Alder Creek Residents along the system have been instructed by the Health Division to boil their water before drinking. Those instructions are still in effect, according to Health Division en forcement officer Ken Kauffman. Bennet said this week that he is working on the installation of a 7,000 gallon detention tank located next to the chlorinator He said he is not doing the work because of the court order but is installing the tank as part of the overall long-range plan for improving the system But Bennet m aintains that the detention tank, which holds the water for 30 minutes after contact with the chlorine, is not necessary He said state law requiring the 30-minute contact time “is outdated” because it was written 50 years ago, He said. "It only takes 10 to 15 seconds to kill all the bacteria in water after the chlorine is added " He said he u would lobby in the coming session of the Legislature to have the law amended as such. Bennet also maintains that test results gathered by the state and the federal Environm ental Protection Agency during the summer which showed high coliform bacteria counts were misleading Those tests showed the Barlow system to be “grossly out of compliance ’ with state and federal standards Bennet said the res on for the high bacteria count was because of work being done tor the city of Sandy ’s intake structure on Alder Creek above the hoadoorlm of Bennet’s system Ha blames city crews for fecal matter in the creek which contributed to the coliform count. He also said he plans to build a 100,000 gallon sand filtration tank along the creek “by the end of winter” which will eliminate the need for a chlorination injector and holding tank. However, he said no plans for the new system have been drawn up. Sandy planner may be hired The city of Sandy may be looking at the possibility of hiring a full-time planner — but only on a temporary basis — to complete work on the long overdue comprehensive plan. City Manager Roger Jordan said the city has received 10 applications for the position which may be funded by a hardship grant from the state. Work on the comprehensive plan has come to a standstill after the city’s planning consultant, Eldon Edwards, informed members of council last month he no longer had a staff to work with. Jordan told council members the city had two alternatives to get the plan completed: Hire a full-time planner or find another consulting firm to do the job He said the city would be eligible for the hardship grant under either situation. Sandy fourth in pledges Students at Sandy Elementary are better readers and the Multiple Sclerosis Society has more research finds now after last spring's Read-a- thon fund drive. Sandy Elementary placed fourth in the state among the 30 school systems which participated in the program in the amount of dollars pledged for the drive, the Society has announced. Pledges at the school amounted to $2,449 69 while a total of 2,119 books were read. Only three other school systems raised more money than Sandy Elementary: Portland ($12.523), Beaverton ($10,879) and Lake Oswego ($3,211). The Society holds two Read a thons a year, one in spring and another in the fall. Students are asked to solicit pledges from donors based on the number of books the student will read. Aims woman halts school bus from your parents if you plan on getting The Sandy High school bus that off at another stop. serves the Aims area is back on a “We had heard that the family had normal schedule following an incident moved and had no way of knowing what that happened two weeks ago. An Aims woman.OrrilynMarsh, stood stop was hers,” he said. It was the next day that Mrs. Marsh, in front of the bus on its morning route accompanied by her daughter, blocked for 45 minutes Dec. 6 and refused to let it pass after driver Dorothy Marchman the path of the bus. The driver told the few remaining had refused to let the woman’s children to stay seated on the bus, while daughter ride the bus. “The whole thing started last year locking the vehicle and went to a neigh before school was out,” said trans bors house to call Markwell Markwell portation supervisor Chuck Markwell. called the Clackamas County Sheriffs “Her two children were denied access Department who responded to the to the bus because of disruptive scene but Marsh had by then given up her vigil. behavior. No charges of any kind have been “One of the girls was back in school pressed against Mrs. Marsh and ac this year and Tuesday she decided that cording to Markwell. her kids are still she wants to ride the bus.” Markwell not riding the bus Mrs. Marsh could not be reached for added. “Well, the state says that if you ride the bus home, you must have a note comment on the incident. New phone number listed The monthly charge on the system The phone number for Sandy High will be approximately $1,100, an in School will be changed effective Dec 29 crease of $300 over the present system. to make way for a new touchtone system that will be installed in February. The new number for the school will be 668-8011. Business manager Jim Smith said callers will be able to reach people at the school as well as the district office when the new system is installed General Telephone will install the Hoodlond H ops.......... ..1 -4 system, which will include five in E d ito ria l..................... coming lines, at a cost of ap Obituarios................... proximately $2,500 The present set-up P e o p le ........................ has three incoming lines HomoAGorden.......... . . 11-5 Smith said several new extensions will be installed in the school "to keep TV................................. HI-4-4 people from having to run halfway ' ' d across the school to pick up a phone Inside The Post 1 CAR NEGOTIATES ruts on Meinig Avenue The eKy hopes to secure federal funds to make Improvements.
