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SECTION I
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SANDY OREGON THURSDAY, MAY 7.1981
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Heliport plan stirs mountain
by M IC H A E L P JONES
Eor The Post
The Mount Hood area has often been
described by old timers as a place of
both beauty and controversy When the
impact of the proposed Zigzag heliport
settled into the community, the state
inent became more apparent than ever
The idea for a heliport to be con
structed on an unused section of land,
adjacent to the Hoodland Women’s Club
on Salmon River Road, has been
around for little more than a month, but
it has built tensions between residents
and the project’s originators
Last Monday at the Women’s Club,
two supporters, Randy Priest and Gale
Peterson, outlined their organization’s
plans for the 100 foot by 200-foot
heliport which will cost between $600
and $1200
In the audience were members of En
vironmental Committee on Suitability
(ECOS), an opposition group of
parents, business people and residents.
ECOS claims the proposed location is
“fully unsatisfactory” because it would
be located in a high density area close
to Highway 26. the major east-west
thoroughfare. They also argue that the
the heliport would be located within 100
feet of a public park and tennis courts,
the Women's Club. Visitor Information
Center and Senior Center
The g ro up s m ain co nce rn ,
however,is for 360 children who attend
Welches School and 24 who attend the
Mount Hood Preschool Co-op, accor
ding to a spokesman
Supporters of the project claim that
the site "has good road access, parking
and amenities It is suitable and safe
for flying and usable with a minimum
of low flying over nearby homes ”
( a roly n Smith of Rhododendron
claimed at the meeting that the
h e lip o r t’s
d e ve lo p e rs
had
misrepresented the role and support of
Emmanuel Hospital’s Life Elight
According to John Hopkins, Life
Flight administrator. "The decision of
whether to put a helispot in the com
munity is up to the community, not us
Life Flight does not need a centralized
location to provide service."
The Boring Fire D strict’s budget
committee last w’eek approved a 1981-82
proposed budget of $609,000, an in
crease of 28 percent over this year's
budget.
While this will result in an estimated
tax rate of $1 59 per $1,000 assessed
valuation, up from $1 24 this year, the
budget contains an added bonus for
homeowners, according to Fire Chief
Matt Shields
For the first time, the district will in
clude in its budget new equipment pur
chases and other capital expenditures,
ra th e r than fund them through
sepapate serial levies, Shields said
That means any capital expenditures
w ill be subjet to the state s 30 percent
property tax reimbursement program
for homeowners because they, like the
rest of the budget, will funded through
The Oregon State Speed Control
Board agreed in April to slow down
traffic on Highway 26 as it approaches
Sandy — but city officials are not
satisified.
The state board agreed to reduce the
speed from 45 miles per hour to 4o mph
on sections east and west of the city and
the city council said Monday it thinks
that’s great, but 35 mph would be
greater. As a result, it directed City
Manager Roger Jordan to send the
board a letter to that effect, prior to the
board's next meeting.
The affected areas extend from
I^ingensand Road to Ten Eyck Road on
the east end of the city, and from Ruben
I^ane to Bluff Road on the west end
According to Jordan, "This move by
the State Speed Control Board is
somewhat surprising, since the initial
proposal by their staff was to recom
mend to the Board that the 45 mph
speed lim it be retained.”
The c ity ’s major concern has been
the safety at the two intersections with
Highway 26, and since the 25 mph speed
lim it presently is only a few hundred
feet from the intersections, traffic does
not begin to slow down until it is im
mediately at the intersections, causing
traffic hazards
The council agreed to approve a call
ing fo r bids on re p a ir of the
240,000-gallon reservoir on Vista Loop,
east of the city The reservoir, which is
several years old, needs to be sand
blasted and coated inside The cost w ill
be approximately $8,000, according to
City Engineer John Lichtenheld
Councilman Vern Richards objected
to the project, based on the construction
of a proposed reservoir in the Sandy
Heights area as outlined in a water
study
" I t seems to like doing both is a
duplication. $8,000 sound economical,
but we could use that $8,000 to build the
new one,” he said
However, Lichtenheld pointed out,
"it's not in bad enough shape to aban
don "
AW
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the district's tax base
cent troin this year for several reasons,
The district passed a $944,152 tax
Shields said Among them is a substan
base last November, which is expected
to fund district operations for four to tial reducton in expected carry-over
funds from this year, he said.
five years.
Also, last year's levy requirements
"Were not putting capital expen
ditures into the budget to waive were less than normal because of a
large cash ca rry-o ver from the
homeowners’ rights to vote on those ex
previous
year, he said
penditures.” Shields said "The board
I he budget proposes a 17 percent in
deliberated about it a long time, but
crease for personnel services, reflec
decided it would be best to include them
ting negotiated wage increases for the
in the budget” because of the tax break
district's eight paid personnel and in
to homeowners, he said
creases in insurance, retirement and
The budget w ill require a property
volunteer firelighters' programs It
tax levy of $587.365. That sum will sup
does
not provide for additional paid
port a general fund of $558,287, up 30
firefighters because the district re
percent from this year, truck and
mains committed to its volunteer pro
equipment purchasesof $25,000 and
gram,
Shields said
bonded indebtedness payments of
A public hearing on the budget w ill be
$14,424
held at 8 p m June 2 at the Boring Fire
The total required levy is up 47 per
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SUHS ballot makes up for deficit
Patrons of the Sandy Union High
School District w ill vote on a $355,293
ballot B proposal when they go to the
polls June 30. That is. if they approve
the district s A ballot proposal May 19
The d istrict s budget committee
voted Friday night to submit the ballot
to district voters to make up for a pro
pos«‘d deficit in state funding and give
the original B’ ballot another try
I hat B ballot, $96,500, was expected
to cover purchase of a new school bus.
the hiring of a new counselor and
renovation of the art room and library
That portion was defeated by district
voters March 31, 1,328 1,021
The rest of the monies is anticipated
shortfall from the state, according to
district business manager Joan Hay
She said the anticipated tax rate for the
In other action, the council —
— Appointed Monte Schnepp to the
Planning Commission. He had been a
member of the commission s advisory
committee and the city w ill now accept
applications for that vacancy.
B ballot would be approximately 74
cents per $l,ooo assessed valuation
I hat would be coupled w ith a tax rate
of approximately $3 77 per $1.000
assessed valuation for the proposed $2 1
million budget which voters will see
May 19 That budget is subject to 30 per
cent payment by the state The B’
ballot is not
Single Copy 20’
Lower speeds
eyed for city
boundaries
According to Hopkins, L ife ,F lig h t
would most likely not utilize the propos
ed landing area because the helicopter
lands as near the victim as possible.
"You don't transport p<*ople 16 miles
down the hill to a helispot,” he said
"We can land up there on the mountain
like we have in the past." He pointed
out that records indicate most Life
Flight calls involve injured skiers
According to Don Wilner, Clackamas
County Environmental Services plan
ner, the proposed heliport would be a
conditional use in the area, zoned
residential recreational That, he said,
would mean "the heliport would have to
be used for emergency aircraft only
Basically out official position, at this
time, is we haven't been contacted
Period No applications have been
made and no proposals have been turn
ed in All we have to go on at this time is
rumors and a lot of concern from
residents m the area."
ECOS organizers have scheduled a
meeting for Friday. May 8. at 8 p m in
the Welches School gym to publicly air
the heliport issues
Boring fire budget holds new bonus
SECTION II
Area News ..........
1
About People
2
Hoodland Happenings
2
Bits & Pieces
4
Classified Advertising
9-14
Television Directory Inside Tab
—Approved a modification of an ap
proved conditional use for a senior
Photo hy Mark Floyd
Ron Sun of Beaverton flies over a hill Sunday at the Mount. ain View Cycle Track,
Sun placed second in the Yam aha (¿old Cup race behind his brother. Chuck. Turn
to page I, sec. II for additional photos.
apartment complex proposed by Mr
and Mrs Averytt Brewster The
modification will allow them to place
less than two parking spaces per dwell
ing at the apartment to be located near
McCormick Drive and Meimg Park
Smith defends Reagans economics in Sandy
by DAN D II.I.O N
Denny Smith has been busy since
I he look over as the representative of
Oregon s second Congressional
district, but it hasn't been in the
M a
halls of Congress The session has
gotten off to a slow start and Smith
has taken (he opportunity to fly back
and forth between his constituents
and the capitol
Friday, in the midst of his 12th trip
ft
back to Oregon since taking office.
Smith visited a town hall meeting at
-M s
the Mel Haneberg Community
Center in Sandy and made his pitch
for acceptance of President Ronald
Reagan's proposed budget.
The visit came just two days after
the president had gone on nation
wide television to outline his pro
posais and Smith was enthusiastic
"Ronald Reagan's proposal is only
going to he a decrease in the huge in
crease,” Smith said "We re already
paying There is no cut "
He charged the Carter administra
tion with creating a $155 billion
deficit and "basically reducing the
value of dollars in everyone’s
pocket ” He claimed that the budget
had grown 16 5 percent during the
last two years of the Carter ad
l>enny Smith outlines President Reagan's economic policies Fridav a t t k r-
Dantxiion ministration, but that Reagan re
rt*y at the ( ommunity ( enter for Sandy residents.
quests only a 6 2 percent hike in his
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first budget proposal
The president is only slowing down
Ihe rale at which (he budget grows,
Smith claimed, not making cuts in
the total. " I t is im portant to
recognize that the budget is not be
ing cut President Reagan's pro
gram reduces the rate of growth in
federal spending There are cuts on
ly from the proposed C arter
budget,” he said
I nder the shift in Reagan's budget
priorities, outlined by Smith, basic
programs would get 41 percent of the
budget in 1984. compared to 37 per
cent today — a growth of 11 percent.
At the same time, Reagan's
budget would give 32 percent of
every dollar in 1984 to defense - now
it gets 24 percent - for a 33 percent
jump
Smith defended the growth in the
m ilitary budget, citing the Vietnam
war as a period when the United
States wore out its m ilitary hard
ware, while Russia spent the time in
creasing its arsenal. "Russia, since
that time, has spent $300 billion
more on the m ilitary than the U S ,"
he claimed
" I f we spend one nickel too little,
we lose our freedom," he said. " I f
we spend one nickel too much, we’re
wild-eyed spenders "
He also cited a pay increase for
the members of the m ilitary as part
of the reasoning behind the defense
growth
"la»t’s decide who is the war
monger. It's not us." he said, listing
Russia’s intervention is Afghanistan
and African nations.
As for the United States’ advisors
in El Salvador. Smith said, " I don't
think you'll see us get involved there
in a m ilitary conflict It's one of the
commitments of this administra
tion."
Smith opened his appearance on a
personal note, describing the presi
dent as a "great man who is not in
terested in getting re-elected, which
is one of the best things I can say
about him ."
He later charged that the assassin
who attempted to take the life of the
president should be put to death "A
proper judicial trial w ill prove him
guilty,” Smith said. "Justice w ill be
sure and swift and then he should be
executed,"
He also defended the controversial
Secretary of the Interior. James
Watt He "makes a good case for the
federal government doing a good job
as landlord Then we ll be happier
tenants." he said " I don't think
somebody 3,000 miles away can do a
better job of management than we
can here."