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The sky hook Art gallery page 2, sec III Pg. I, sec. II The Sandy Post ''¿¿ëtà Levy approval tied to better protection Manufacturer sets up shop in Sandy park If ru ra l residents want to reduce the tim e it takes for a Clackamas County sh e riff’s deputy to respond to a call, they’ll consider voting for the sheriff departm ent’s B ’ ballot serial levy Feb. 17. According to Sheriff Paul M cAllister, im provement of law enforcement ser vices in the county’s outlying areas — including the Sandy, Hoodland and Bor ing areas — depends on passage of that levy. And so do many other im portant services, he said. The proposed three-year levy for $4.74 m illion would allow the sh e riff’s department to restore nine deputy posi tions lost to inflation during the past two and a half years and add approx im ately 30 more, M cA llister said. As a result, the department could rebuild its decimated road patrol forces, re-establish its narcotics in vestigation unit an increase its detec tive division, he said. “ B asically, we’re running short everywhere,” the sheriff said. “ We’ve had to focus on burglaries, rapes and murders — the people crimes — and take personnel off vandalism, juvenile crimes and crim e prevention The way it is now, we’re forced to react after, in stead of being able to prevent it.” His department has 80 officers to serve a county population of nearly 150,000. while Multnomah County has 225 officers serving 155,000 residents, M cA llister said. “ We have nine detectives doing what 30 do in Multnomah County, yet we have 10 times the geographical area and almost the same population,” he said. “ Their men cover 18 to 19 square A new tenant has set up shop in Sandy Industrial Park. Hildebrand North America, a sub sidiary of Wood Technology Systems Inc. of Seattle, is transferring the pro duction of its lumber dry kilns, wood waste burners, formaldehyde treat ment chambers and its microprocessor process control systems to Sandy this month During the transfer, the plant w ill be in operation at its new location. The firm w ill occupy the form er Tim berline T ra ile r building Hildebrand products are currently manufactured in Portland, but due to rapid growth, require increased work area Manufacturing employment is ex pected to grow to approxim ately 75 per sons at the Sandy location this year “ We w ill be hiring locally as the year goes by,’’ Operations Manager Hal Franszen said. He w ill be located at the Sandy plant. The engineering, adm inistrative and sales functions w ill remain in Portland for the tim e being, but may relocate to Sandy w ithin the next year That would increase the Sandy staff by nearly 30 persons, Franszen said, but would in volve just the transfer of present employees The Tim berline site had been vacant since a u tu m n of 1979 when the m anufacturing firm consolidated its operation at Forest Grove. Sandy man on Garwood jury A Sandy man was one of the five Marine Corps officers who last Thurs day convicted form er prisoner of war Robert Garwood of collaborating with his North Vietnamese captors Garwood, who faces a maximum sentence of life in prison, was found guilty by the panel which included Maj. Kenneth R Frederickson, 33, a 12-year Marine Corps veteran who served in the Vietnam War. Frederickson now serves as plans and analysis officer in the Camp Lejeune, N.C., manpower office, according to Marine Corps officials. Mount Hood once again became an attractive magnet for recreation enthusiasts after last week’s snow. Tuesday, the mountain made an appearance before the wet weather returned. It is expected to last through the weekend, dumping another load of the white stuff. $1,600 w ill be used for personnel ser vices and $18,583 for m aterials and ser vices, in addition to the capital outlay. $25,000 w ill transfer to the street fund for improvements and maintenance The suggestions are “ not cast in stone,” Jordan said. “ You’ll have an opportunity to get your hatchet out dur ing the budget process,” he told the committee Although there had been some con cern that revenue sharing m ight be discontinued, Jordan said the program has been extended at current ap propriations for three years. A breakdown of the expenditures shows $1,600 used for a park aide Under materials and services, Sandy Community school w ill receive $5,500; S andy C iv ic S e rv ic e s M o u n ta in Festival, $500, Coalition of Social Ser vices. $1,000, m ajor equipment repairs, $3,500; copy machine rental, $4,000, computer maintenance, $3,083. and computer programs, $1,000 Capital outlay expenditures include payment on the lease agreement for the street sweeper, $10,500; a police car, $9,000; sander, $5,000; a building department car and improvements to Tupper Park, $4,500 each. City shop im provements. a water flusher, an a ir compressor and miscellaneous equip ment, would all be less than $3,000. Jordan said there has been one change in the anticipated city budget. “ At this point in time, I w ill be recom mending that we remain w ithin a Ballot A ,’ he said Previously, he had hinted that the city would need additional money, available through a B' ballot, to m aintain its current level of services. The proposed budget w ill go to the voters May 19 Newspaper ventures into computer age The Sandy Post this week steps in to the computer age Although the changes aren’t readi ly noticeable in the physical ap pearance of the newspaper, the way it goes to press has undergone a dram atic change. Gone are the typew riters and copy paper Replacing those standards are video display terminals, or VDTs The changes have been made in the news, classified advertising and production sectors of the paper To day’s newspaper was produced elec tronically. The VDT resembles a television screen attached to the keyboard of a typew riter, plus more than three dozen extra keys for coding what is typed Rather than tin g in g away at 4 miles, while our men cover 300 to 400.” Sometimes, there may be only one deputy serving the area “ from Boring up to Government Camp,” meaning a 30 to 45 minute response time, he said. “ Our response time is lousy and I ’ll be the firs t to admit it. But the people who have been howling the loudest — in Happy Valley, Boring, Sandy and on up the mountain — are the ones who voted the B’ ballot down,” he said That vote was in November. Although voters in November approv ed a $3.29 m illion ‘A ’ levy for the department, allowing it to restore 15 positions cut in the past few years, only five of those w ill be available to patrol duty and th a t’s “ a drop in the bucket," M cA llister said. As im portant as the added patrol positions, the ‘B’ levy would again allow the department to focus on drug tra ffic (75 percent of all crimes are drug-related, M cA llister said), fraud, auto theft and crim e prevention, he said. It would also fund a records system update. “ What it boils down to is that, without the B ’ levy, we’ll maintain the same level of performance as we have now,” said M cAllister. “ The ‘B’ levy would allow us to keep pace w ith the popula tion and have effective law enforce ment in Clackamas County Without it, we can’t do it . ” The proposed levy would cost approx im ately 79 cents per $1,000 assessed property valuation, according to the sheriff. The owner of a $50,000 home would pay $39.50. Ordinance text change would allow complex City earmarks funds for new equipment The bulk of the money which the city of Sandy receives through state and federal revenue sharing w ill be used to make equipment payments and pur chases. according to suggestions made Monday evening by the c ity manager Roger Jordan told a jo in t meeting of the City Council and Budget Committee that he w ill recommend the city spends $43.000, of an anticipated $88,183, for capital outlay expenditures. He w ill make his form al budget proposal at the first meeting of the Budget Committee Monday, Feb 23 According to Jordan’s suggestions. Single Copy 20 ‘ typew riter keys, Post reporters tap on the new keyboard and letters ap pear on the screen When headlines, captions for photographs or bylines are needed, a special code is put in the computer and they are w ritten on the screen E verything appears on the screen One step in the old process that is eliminated, and perhaps the most important, is the need to make several trips weekly to the printing and production plant in Gresham w ith the typew ritten news and sports stories Now, to send m aterial to be typeset, a telephone connection is made w ith the Gresham plant, another key is punched and at the push of a button the story, headline and caption are set over the telephone lines to be typeset A ll this makes for a change in The P<j6t’s classified advertising depart ment From now on, all classified advertising w ill be handled through a new telephone number, 667-6633. For residents on up the mountain, the call is toll free * S im p ly te ll the person who answers the telephone that you are a want ad customer and would like to make a collect call to place a classified ad. In the cla s s ifie d a d ve rtisin g department, salespeople “ call up’ a form on the screen That replaces the paper form that used to be put in the typew riter They fill in the form on the screen, store it in a mem ory disk and then send all the ads in a group to be typeset Those ads are kept in memory until they expire or are cancelled by the customer There is a slight, but tem porary, rhange that very discerning readers may have noticed in today’s Sandy Post Because of new ty p e s e ttin g machines, the size of the p rin t you are reading has shrunk by a hun dredth of an meh That w ill change back to the pre-VDT size in about a m o n th when the ty p e s e ttin g machines are altered slightly While the video display term inals are new to The Sandy Post, they have been sweeping the newspaper business nationwide like a hot scoop As the prices of the systems have become more economical, smaller newspapers, like The Sandy Post, have become able to adopt their effi cient means of bringing the readers the news % The Sandy City Council w ill examine a possible change in the text of the up dated zoning ordinance as a result of action taken by the Planning Commis sion. The commission voted last Monday to recommend to the council that it change the text of the ordinance to allow m ultiple fa m ily dwellings as a conditional use in a parcel currently zoned for comm ercial use. The change would affect properties located between Pioneer Boulevard and McCormick Drive, east of Sandy City Hall and west of Wolf Drive. The a f fected properties are currently vacant. In updating the text of the central- co m m e rcia l zone (C -l), the c ity adopted certain prohibited uses which listed certain space extensive land uses which are not considered compatible with the intent, constraints and oppor tunities of the C-l d istrict. “ Intent” provisions were addeded and intended to protect the future com- m e r c ia l a re a b e tw e e n P r o c to r Boulevard and Pleasant Street so that incompatible land uses do not develop prior to the tim e that the central city comm ercial d istrict requires the land for expansion. However, the effect on the properties adjacent to City Hall was not fu lly con sidered, according to City Planner Don Wilson New free standing residential structures are also prohibited in the C-l zone The m atter came to the c ity ’s atten tion when a senior housing complex was proposed on one of the affected tax lots In reviewing these proposals and the overall development pattern for other properties adjoining McCormick Drive, the city staff reached the conclusion that at least the southern one half of the properties should be allowed to develop for residential uses Under the text change recommended by the commission, it w ill now receive conditional use applications on the pro perties involved It is felt by city staff that new m u lti fa m ily residential structures in the Proctor Pleasant area would pose a conflict with the a b ility of the central business d istrict to fu lly expand in that direction The central business d istrict is constrained by topography on the south and an established neighborhood on the north. In other action, the Sandy Planning Commission: — recommended that the home oc cupation standards be a perm itted use in a high density residential zone These uses are subject to approval only in one and tw o-fam ily dwellings The concern of the city staff was that, if allowed in apartments, the problem of parking and signage could disturb the other residents of the complex — recommended the city adopt a new “ suggested m inim um ” for required parking stalls at a senior citizen hous ing complex The commission’s sugges tion gives the council the right to reduce the requirements even further, if necessary or desired The minim ums would find that each one-bedroom unit requires one stall; two-bedrom units, 1.75 stalls, and three- bedroom units, two spaces The reduction of off-street parking spaces to less than the two spaces for each dwelling unit standard may be ac complished only through review and approval of the council. P rior to council consideration, the Design Review Board w ill consider the proposal and make its recommendation — recommended that the city council form a committee to consider zero side yard dwelling development standards If the commission and council wish to entertain standards which would per m it the reduction of the required m inim um lot size, then a change to the ordinance and standards would be re quired Index SECTION I Keeping P o s te d ...........................3 Obituaries .................................. 3 (liu rc h Notes .................. 4 Lunch Menus ........................... 5 E ditorial, L e tte rs...................... 6 SECTION II Area News ...................................1 About People .............................. 2 Around the C ounty.......................3 Home and G a rd e n .................... 6 C la ssifie d .............................. 942 SECTION II I Sports, R e cre a tio n ................... 1-4 Television D irectory Inside Tab
