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- a » MUMM! The Sandy Post Editorial & Opinion Von Braschler. Publisher C aroline Duff, O ffice M anager Mark Floyd. Editor Dan Dillon, News Editor SANDY OREGON, THURSDAY. APRIL 16, 1981 Deflated grade school levy buoyant With needed programs and im p ro v e m e n ts je o p a rd iz e d by association, Sandy Elem entary School Board has dropped a con troversial kindergarten proposal from its “ B” ballot levy. That’s a shame, but perhaps the safest way to salvage the rest of the school programs tucked in the sup plemental budget. The move cuts some $148,000 from the levy. School officials were figuring kindergarten costs at $100,835 for eight half day units in all neighborhood grade schools plus $47,478 in associated transpor tation costs. The drastic surgery gives new odds for survival to other needs in the once-defeated “ B” ballot. Actually, District 4f>grade school b u d g eters a r e n ’t calling the “ B 'levy programs “ needs,’’ since all dollars needed to keep the elementary program operating basic operating expenses were approved earlier in an “ A” levy. Some of the “ B" measures are pretty badly needed, however. The d is tric t's program for talented and gifted students (50 of them!) cowers in jeopardy, with only ¿i $32,161 price tag threatening shutdown. That’s a bargain for what society stands to gain by fostering their superior abilities. Similarly, co-curricular athletics and activities could die, with $33,672 lacking Then there’s the town’s suc cessful com m unity school in jeopardy, with possible loss of $14,300 local matching money ask ed in “ B” ballot. Like the aquatics center in bad need of a $6,(MM) outside paint job, our community sch<x>l serves the entire community — not just the school kids who attend classes in the busy trailer or swim in the pool. Outdoor school* - a great learn ing a d v e n tu r e o u ts id e th e classroom for sixth graders could die for want of only $11,658, as could counseling for grades one through six for want of $21,490. School buses and a grounds maintenance tractor priced $65,5(H) are needed, too. These are small amounts for key grade school programs. It would be pennv-wise but pound-foolish for voters to defeat what remains of the “ B” ballot May 19. Welches School debt due all? We are a group of concern ed citizens who have been watching the unravelling of events c o n c e rn in g the school’s construction pro blems since November 1980 We also would like to go on public record in requesting the following information from the board: < 1 > A list t and breakdow n of all extra costs associated Dawn Morrison Sandy Community Action ed a handgun. Presidents Center gets most of its food L in c o ln , G a rfie ld and from Tri County Food Bank McKinley were slain Can Jean Stein The latter is a non profit didate Robert Kennedy was ( 'arolyn Smith o rg a n iz a tin th a t fin d s killed Governor George Kathy Willis surplus and out-dated food at Wallace is crippled In Sept , no or l i t t l e cost and 1975, alone, President Ford's assem bles it fo r its life was threatened twice by members assassins w ielding han The members pay 6 cents dguns. Now P re sid e n t a pound plus expense of Reagan has been shot transporting from a Natinal Must we bury another Guard warehouse president before the Con From 700 to almost 900 gress acts to pass an effec people come to the Center tive national handgun con each month for help of some trol law9 Together we can kind No charge is made to make the Congress act now clients. They may make to control handguns Join some contribution if they are with us today able and some do N T "Pete’’ Shields Costs of the Center for Chairman rent, utilities, telephone and Handgun Control, Inc trash removal come from HU) 18th Street. N W Clackamas Co Community Washington, DC 20006 Action Agency (CCCAAi. Contributions from patrons and clients are used mainly to purchase bulk foods and During the past two years, provide emergency gasoline many of us farmers in to get clients to such places M a lh e u r County have as the Food Stamp office at brought to light scores of Marylhurst. With death of the kindergarten problems in Oregon's land A deep concern now for proposal, the remaining “ B’’ ballot use planning detrimental to fu tu re operation of the agriculturists only would cost school district Center is the effects of cuts Because a farmer is not patrons $197,716 ($184,781 in hard made in federal funding of allowed to sell one to five or Community Services Ad costs plus a standard built-in 7 per 10 acres of land, we have ministration. from which our documentated cases of in cent for uncollected taxes). county receives funds to dividuals that could no, hold operate its four service I’hat’s a small price to pay for their operations together centers these high-yield programs examin during the years of low Of the four, Sandy is likely agricultural prices Some ed one-by-one. < VB) to have the best survival pro were forced to sell their spects, because it has farms below normal land operated for 10 years with values v o lu n te e r help Jancie A sad and tragic even, now Bunch, local volunteer coor taking place in Sonoma dinator reports 26 volunteers County, C alif , w ill un who labored during March. doubtedly help prove our W Pete Sulzbach by JACK ZIM M ERM AN point Because of inflation, Chairman Associated Oregon Industries high interest rates and low At that time our primary with construction problem- Rene’ Wence apple prices, the entire apple concerns were the safety of and One of the more controversial issues fac Karolyn Yates growing areas are being fac the new school and safety of ing Oregon lawmakers in Salem this session (2) An assurance that we Bonnie Lookabill ed with total extinction our children involves so-called plant closure legislation w ill lie kept appraised of Bonnie F Baird Len Eaton and his staff California's land use con We want to compliment Two bills - one from each chamber- these costs, as they increa Sally Flury deserve much praise for the trol is sim ilar to Oregon’s the hoard for all the steps already have been introduced, and others each month super outstanding Sandy with minimum lot sales from they have taken to find solu are expected One, House Bill 2550, would We are no, anti school alumni basketball tourna 20 acres to 640 acres tions to the construction pro board and obviously not anti require one year's advance notification, if a ment I ocal aid strong Farmland in rural residen blems and for actively at company employing 50 or more workers in Legislative Report from the State Capital school We jus, wan, tlie-. Every player showed in tial zones set up by land tempting to determine who costs paid by whomever ,h< tents to shut down Prime among its provi *- L US IV E to Or eg on s Week i y Nv w spa The vo lu n te e rs who tense desire and enthusiam planners in the Sonoma is at fault pers from Associated Oregon Industries sions is 85 percent one year income Ixiard feels is responsible operate s >n«l\ C o m m unity and played their hearts out. County area is selling for as We would also like to thank maintenance, following shutdown for af They were all winners - much as $50, ooo per acre, but the superintendent, Ken fected workers Leaving work before conclusion of the only losers being the sup the apple growers are being Blackburn, for all of the time The other measure Senate Bill 830 - in prescribed working hours might have a porters who didn’t attend prevented from selling one, he has invested to insure on volves companies employing 1<M> or more large number of exemptions in keeping with Sincerely, two, or three acres that ly the best for the communi workers, requires six month closure notice the spirit of the current assembly's other Pete Carlson would help them hold on for ty and absolves the firm from the income deliberations One might be permitted to a year or two, until their Furthermore, by placing maintenance provision, if it complies with leave early if the worker was sick, tired or agricultural prices stabilize such a competent person in the notice provision sick and tired A c c o rd in g to news the position of Clerk of the Both bills also contain sanctions against By the same token, workers might be ex To all my dear friends in releases and p ersonal Works, Fred Carlson, makes firms laying off 20 percent or more of their cused early because of sexual harassment We have come here tonight Sandy, Gresham and the reports we are receiving, vc,ion C»»n,er wish to offer us feel that our fnished workforce for three months or longer I^ack of sexual harassment might be an to speak our peace because Estacada area who sent the w trm thanks to the p»»ople of many growers there are school will be a structure Introduced at the behest of organized equitable alternative. already pulling their o r he Sandy area for the help lovely cards and flowers to that we will all "be able to of the coming school levy At labor, these bills are similar to a measure The possibilities for exemptions to each such a critical tune when we chards, and some have ih« give in operation of the me while in the hospital in live w ith." introduced during the 1979 session that section of the new law would have to be ex are facing the possible loss Mitchell — much love, as I Center already filed bankruptcy However, by the board received only scant consideration before dy tensive to cover the many facets of today's of our kindergarten, our notices, because other apple In March these patrons of can't answer all of them for taking these proper steps to ing in committee Circumstances creating socioeconomic societal structure librarian and our musn some time. the ( • I ter contributed $2,479 growers w ill not tie able to rectify these construct in pro more interest this year involve the shaky But the nitty gritty of the Workers' teacher, we wa I Sure appreciated the love rth >f clothing, fu rn itu re , buy at any price Other crops blems, there have been extra housing industry nationwide and Oregon’s Responsibility Act would deal with the hour lood and all manner of shown. My love to each and are not feasible on non costs that could fall back on assurance from the board dependence upon that activity to support its of work for hour of pay concept That might that our tax dollars will be household items Values are every one of you orrigated land, and they are the pocketbook of taxpayers biggest supplier of jobs, the forest products prove the measure’s undoing. One can spent wisely Pearl B. Colwell not able to sell a few acres to t »imputed a, lawn sale scale of this district. industry. almost conjure a vision of never ending If we do no, ge, this Rt. 5, Box 374, enable them to hold their far th ir ty five »»mergency These costs include such In other words, more business are closing hearings during which opposing witnesses Mitchell, South Dakota food boxes were prepared ming operations together things as hiring of an in assurance from ,h«» board or trimming production testify endlessly citing myriads of assumed then there is the possibles loi that many families dur The professed purpose of dependent engineer, hiring The resulting controversy has all the fringe benefits threatened by this philosopy that the voters w ill tak< land use planning is to help ing March, in addition to of Fred Carlson to oversee elements of a classic confrontation between At the same time, provisions requiring help given clients in getting preserve farmland, but the the remainder of the school s aggressions ou, on the coni those who favor more government control of certain productivity standards would be ing levy. ,■" d stam p e lig ib ility in te r inflexible rules sometimes construction, attorney fees, Our President lies wound the private section and those believing sim ilarly jeopardized by current practices, If the " B " levy fails, then view s and insuring that the work in reverse as in the additional soil tests and God ed, felled by a bullet fired government should restrict its activities to virtually ingrained in much of today’s both ourselves and our ' ould g«»t to from a "Saturday night aforementioned case where only-know s what o the r caring for those who cannot care for workforce. children w ill be the victims Mary Ihurst Food Stamp Of s p e c ia l.” This fa v o rite thousands of acres of "potential" costs. themselves and meddle less in an economy But the clincher, the prime provision of (The Welches School fice. farmland are being lost, hun We would like to go on that can cure itself weapon of the assassin was this whimsical (or not-so-whimsical) piece Board voted that nigh, to in t it her referrals were made easily obtained in a Dallas dreds of farmers are being public record to say that Rising in the midst of this turmoil are of legislation, would be a requirement speci struct their attorney. John to such sources of help as the pawnshop put out of business and none of these necessary, but those who are suggesting a goose and fying each worker must contribute a certain Well Child clinics, operated "e xtra ” costs attributed to Osborne, to seek a solution to In all but one of the 11 thousands of people con gander or tit for tat response to labor's bills amount of hourly wages and salaries to a this problem, up to and in by the county health depart assassinations and attemp nected to the industry are the improper construction HB 2550 is called the Employment Stabiliza statewide Workers' Responsibility Fund seriously affected ment and the employment ted a ssassina tion s of should fall back on the inno eluding arbitration i tion Act This body of detractors is sug The state treasurer would accept such Tedmond D Wrigh, service, operated by the Presidents or Presidential cent taxpayer gesting consideration of a Workers' Respon Neil Venturacci money < provided through an automatic Molly G Smith State of Oregon sibility Act candidates, the assassin us- Ontario,Or. checkoff system), invest it with firms w ill The move is an expression of exaspiration ing to expand into economically lagging at the plant closure penalty concept and is areas and maintain the fund a a level offered largely in jest, but does have a prescirbed by actual practice in order to sobering tendency to move the proverbial reimburse employers for violations by shoe from one foot to the other workers. Such a Workers' Responsibility Act, for The actual reimbursement process would instance, would require workers to give be administered by a new D epartm ent of employers a one-year notice before quitting Unrevenue', subject to ratification by the their jobs It might also require a six-month governor and ultimate review by the pre-notification, if an employe were to tem Supreme ( ourt, allowing for intercession porarily be absent from work or specific upon written request by two thirds of all by KEN JERNSTEDT reasons, such as a strike, for instance This currently serving State Senators younger proponents claim it has become im State Senator. Dial. 2H is to do the job , bill might go as far as prohibiting organized than age 25 and older than 55 Final ap^ possible to budget accurately for a He need to look back only 10 years work stoppages pellate authority would rest with a "By Gol two-year period The proposal of annual sessions of to find out how important te attitude There might be prohibitions against tak- ly Board of Appeals " They use the most recent budget the legislature is back with us again of the leadership is in times of ng a day or more off, tardiness or leaving The latter would consist of 15 members - cutting special session of last August this year, as it has been each session budget d if fic u ltie s In 1971 work before the end of normal working seven each appointed by Senate and House as proof that the budget job cannot for the last decade lawmakers were facing the worst hours and one by the governor, according to ap be done properly by a session every There is a difference this time, money problem in years, but This provision would have to contain ex propriate geographic, racial, sexual, age. other year legislators rolled up their sleeves however, since the annual session emptions For instance, contracting a com environmental and educational distinctions I can’t quite buy this. What the scheme has drawn the support of and went to work, challenged to do municable disease would be a valid reason In order to assure strict im partiality in all most recent special session proved leaders of the m ajority party in both what many observers said couldn t for staying home in bed Jury duty and serv decisions rendered by the BGBA no member was that it is possible for the be done the senate and house, ing time in jail might also be good excuses could ever have been gainfully employed, le g is la tu re , when p ro p e rly Whether they have the muscle to for not showing up Likewise, domestic d if manage or have proprietary interest in a They succeeded After the session motivated, to act with dispatch The push through the plan is still ques ficulties. hospitalization, drunkenness and successful or unsuccessful private sector The Oregon Journal editorialized August special session in only five tionable. death could be excused absences business that its outstanding record is all the days cut more than $200 million from For those of us strongly opposed to A flat tire would be an acceptable excuse Proponents of such legislation realize ful existing budgets, because of a drop m ore re m a rk a b le when one the idea — including Governor for tardiness Same would apply to faulty ly the difficulty of achieving passage of their remembers the severe fiscal pinch in state income tax revenue Atiyeh — it is a consolation that the a special session in emergencies alarm clocks Both would have to be limited measure untarnished by friendly amend that faced the Assembly last estimates constitution must be changed to pro Two years ago, R was changed to to a specific number of frequencies during a ments this session January and which worsened as the Our budgeting process is no d if vide for annual sessions Only a vote also permit a m ajaritv of the specified period of time, such as once a year They would like to see it passed in some session progressed ’’ ferent than it has ever been The on of the people can change the con for each members of the legislature to call t'-^m - anything to establish the concept ly change seems to be in the attitude stitution, which presently calls for a legislators serving in the current Of course, the Bureau of Labor and In themselves into special session now They 're willing to come back in subae of the legislative leadership Rather regular session convened in January dustries would be armed with authority to MWion would be well advised to The push for annual sessions this quent sessions and do their best to than embracing a can-do attitude of odd numbered years, study the example set by the 1971 investigate and validate such excuses. time is being based on the state s strengthen it in the future and then doing the job. all we hear is It gives the governor power to call <* * * '° " - and then follow it without budge, difficulties Annual session complaints about how impossible it ■ny further delay Blythe L. Creek Patty I<ennan Plans hurt farms Salem scene: Employers state scapegoats? Game ‘super’ Letters to the editor Thanks due Control handguns Legislator’s report: Referendum need stalls annual sessions r
