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'•e 6 SANOV « > • ) POST Thur* Moy 14 1981 ($•< I) I he Sandy Post Von B roschier P ublisher C a ro lin e D uff. O ffic e M a n a g e r itQual&Opinion Mark Floyd Editor Dan Dillon. News Editor SANDY, OREGON THURSDAY, MAY 14 1981 Sandy’s budget taxpayer’s bargain The city of Sandy’s budget levy about 10 percent, and staff number Tuesday looks so squeaky tight and remains the same except for one bright that i t ’s surprising feu peo new parking control officer who ple are singing its merits. But w ill be self-supporting with new th a t s the w a y it goes in revenue generated and one new politics—the bad draw public out summer park aid afforded by cry, while good efforts draw silent revenue sharing outside funds. nods. Both control of parking and park There’s a lot th a t’s good about litte r and vandalism should be this tight, little city budget and the welcome additions. creative budgeters who measured City departments even may have lim e and weather before running it to pool workers to compensate for up the local flagpole After all, this loss of federally-funded CETA is not the year to buy new equip workers, cut after Sandy’s budget ment or expand city facilities or was written. Then, too, there may services. Federal and state funding be more cuts in state and federal support is down, and recession revenue sharing. makes local taxpayers reluctant to Most of the c ity ’s general fund as build. budgeted goes toward maintaining So we see a frugal city operating a 24 hour police department with levy just an “ A ' basic support one patrolman on duty weekdays budget without “ B ” frills. and two on duty during critica l In fact, th* requested general hours of weekend fund operatior dollars amount to I he rest of the budget is pure just 8.3 percent more than last creative gen ius-getting more for year, despit«• a two-year city less. Examples include city plans growth factoi twice that percen to gear up the lib ra ry for a coun tage (plus inflation). ty w id e a u to m a tio n pool, im Actually, th«* tax rate sought is provements of roads and im less than the 1980-81 Sandy tax rate provements to water and sewer ($<>.96 per thousand of assessed systems. valuation ven us $7.24 total last The city is through wasting year, including previously approv ed bonds). money to m aintain overworked pump stations and tired of potholes With state revenue sharing pay on North B luff Hoad and unfinished ing 30 percer of the c ity ’s basic Hood Street. Also slated are in operations, ’ I taxpayers can ex stallation of a walkway along pect to pay hi ng less than $4 Meinig Avenue from Highway 211 to per ihousa sessed valuation Barker Street and improvements for the gen -ration of the city at Tupper Park. 1 dependii iew assessment levels). A local taxpayer No city with 16 percent growth in can expec only about $20 two years can expect full city ser Heliport favored per m onth» home for full vices to come cheap, but this city services Your story on the Zig Zag maintenance budget before voters heliport warrants correc Overall city salaries go up only Tuesday looks like a bargain. (VB) COUNTRY M A R K E T MELSON MEMORIAL PIONEER PARK / è Z z .z / s T //i t a r ( A. vil L s M SV Letters to the editor'. Heliport, levies stir readers Dear M r K u rth I) ', V M r K,u5,h u Carolyn Smilh , these facts: facts I have just been advised 1 d u / t , these that a h<*lirnn>»r k«.. Rhododendron , welrh*»« _ $216,000, <b> $201.000. that a helicopter pad has 1. Welches can operate a $216,(NX), (hi $201,(XX), ( 0 been proposed for the area state-approved program on $187,(XX), (d) a figure to he near the Hoodland Womens its present resources of announced. tion Contrary to fear filled (2) Unpaid taxes will not Club on Salmon River Road $738,492 without either an A Residents of the Welches critics, the proposed location exceed $48.897 or 74 percent or B hudgt Please consider this letter School District will be asked poses no undue safety per county estimate as an expression of my op 2 Failure of the B budget to vote May 19 on school hazard for Highway 26. thé (3, P resent student position to any helicopter will, without question, result board positions and a budget school or playgrounds population will (a) remain pad fo r the fo llo w in g in a new B budget proposal which contains “ A " and ‘ B’’ Curiously, the same agin stable, (h) increase 3 per reasons: 3 There is some figure bet ballots In order for the " B " ners don’ t m ind when cent, (c) not sh ift dr- It is entirely unnecessary ween $738,(N X ) and $945,(X X ) ballot to pass, the “ A " ballot helicopters land on the ram alically within grades Io the best of my knowledge acceptable to the voters that also must pass If the ‘‘B" school playground The projected cos, fo, the a medical evacuation by- w ill insure a superior quality ballot does not p;tas. the by KEN .IE !t\.S I EOT As the fire chief indicated, 1981 82 budgel including h e lic o p te r has been of education and s t ill Welches students would be State Senator, hist. 28 h e lic o p te r bigots b lin d bonded indebtedness, is necessary only twice in two deprived of many benefits, zelim inte adding needless themselves to the mayhem estimated at $5.44 per $l,,xxi teachers years. The athletic field at in c lu d in g kindergarten, on that highway, in contrast Welfare reform hasn t occupied much of before tax relief Welches School is adequate 4. Welches School is ex music, library, a vice prin to helicopter safety the public spotlight this session, hut it surely The decision ,0 support or for use in an emergency periencing a growth rate 85 cipal, extra curricular ac H e lip o rts everyw here is one of state government's m ajor no, to support the A and B (Please note that I am percent less than that tivities and a good teacher to operate in complete safety achievements of the past two years ballot is your individual notincluding any Timberline p re d ic te d by school student ratio. To cite congestion in Zig Zag An aggressive top in bottom shakeup of choice evacuations in this state authorities to gull us into The ‘ A” and "B" ballots is laughable, when heliports welfare programs waged by the Atiyeh ad ment ) K. C Blackburn building a new school would add about 50'cents to work superbly well on city ministration has replaced welfare with The proposed area is too The Welches K budget Superintendent the taxes per $1,000 of roofs and crowded yards at work for thousands of Oregonians at a sav close to Welches School and W elches School should be voted down to give a*sts$ed property value For hospitals, parking garages ings of more than $150 million in your lliw ay 26 Assuming the pad the school hoard the un a $80,Ooohoroe, this would be federal and state tax dollars and the P G E to w er would be used for recreation mistakeable messae that $25 for the year. downtown, Johnson Creek, It also has provided a blueprint for the as well as for possible taxes are needlessly high, Many folks would speed M arx Road and Sandy rest oi the nation to follow, because what emergency, those people us loca l business g ra v e ly $25 for a dinner out or a new Boulevard happ'iied With little fanfare here in Oregon 1 am addressing this to all ing the pad would be, for the depressed, building at a sweater. At least Ko are located in IS what the Reagan administration hopes to of you who have not yet seen who provides much of the money and most most part, coming and going standstill, unemplyment ris Any voter who has ever achieve for all states Oregon, and more than 30 of the say. the current production at the to Bowman s or Rippling ing and that waste is not ac had or expects to have a are in the Portland metro No one can quarrel with the original con ceptable Sandy Community Theatre. River If this were the case, ( fregon turned the corner two years ago child in school or who par area Their safety record cept of welfare, designed during the 1930’s A Funny Thing Happened would it not make more with adoption of a policy that permits the The hoard must produce a ticipated in the community speaks for itself They are as a system of temporary aid for people on the Way ,0 the Eorum.’’ sense for a pad ,0 he built on state to require able bodied welfare reci new B budget that reflects school program at Welches never heard from in the who through no fault of their own were This weekend (Thursday. their property and not Coun School should appreciate its pients to accept available employment the board’s concern with news, because they have no unable to meet their needs and the needs of ty property? Friday and Saturday at 8 Now we have a federal government with a current economic trends and value to our community. their families. accidents and make no p.m.), you have an oppor In my judgement, the pro new attitude and a new agenda, and it is as shows its efforts ,0 achieve Whether you decide to vote nuisance Not even in the But somehow without our quite knowing determined as is the Atiyeh administration tunity to experience the ex posed expenditure, as well greater efficiency with the for or against the school vicinity or on the roofs of how it happened this system of temporary tra o rd in a ry p e rfo rm in g as the property, could be put present staff. to r«‘turn to the original concept and goal of budget, your decision is wor hospitals aid has turned into a system of lasting welfare talents of many of our local to better use as a softball Milton M Fox thless, unless you physically shat kies, and it has reached the point where As one of the proponents, I Sandy residents students field or some other athletic Oregon's policy has resulted in 5.000 reci Brightwood go to the poll May 19 to vote certify that Emanuel s Life we now have third and fourth generation and adults, alike field where it would be of pients being immediately dropped from the welfare families Plight will use this heliport, Marjorie Wicks more use to more people welfare rolls, with another 15,000 receiving Give yourself a break as any other, when it suits Rhododendron What to do to solve this problem and to I urn off the television Get A fte r a ll, p ilo ts and a sharp reduction in their payments. the need That is because break this chain of dependency has puzzled the lead ou, and drive, walk It is estimated that nearly 75 percent of passengers of helicopters Tuesday. May 19. Welches the State Legislature for a number of years designated heliports are are not all that many. those affected by changes now are or crawl to the Sandy Com School D istrict w ill ask preferre as safer for all con Reform attempts, however, generally have employed and no longer dependent on such So far. everything related voters to consider a $21,454 munity Theatre and treat been frustrated by the federal government cerned And safety is one of help On Feb 9, the Welches to this has been very A ballot and a $185 023 yourselves to an evening of the prime reasons for hav ing School Budget Committee secretive I would certainly great fun. shrieking laughter *’ B " ballot this one received the 1981 81 budget and no-host brownies hope for a public hearing I The tax base with 6 per Don Wilner was misin proposal showing operating do believe you will find more Pauline Stafford cent increases has failed to formed, as we sent this pro requirements of $990,603—25 opposition than approval keep pace with costs The Sandy posai by letter to the county percent more than the cur Please let me hear from 1981 82 budget reflects a commissioners A p ril 14 rent year's $791.630 The you dollar increase of $153.229 or They assigned it to the plan committee approved with Arthur G Bock 19 36 percent of last year's ning department for study negligible changes b> JACK Z IM M E K M AN $791.630 budget Rhododendron and recommendation No He wish ,0 thank our statutes, rules and orders be written in sex W ith in tw o weeks Associated Oregon Industries cc: Board of County Com The budget increase as ex frie n d s , re la tiv e s and doubt, they will hold a public neutral terms Superintendent Blackburn missioners pressed as a percentage, neighbors for their prayers Legislative counsel, the bill drafting arm hearing recalled the committee into A condition exists in Salem these days 19 36 percent becomes an and sympathy in the loss of Finally, we believe a good _ of the legislature. figures it will take at session with a proposal setting apart deliberations of the 61st a la rm in g a m o u n t—even idea should be considered B e h e a rd our husband and father least three sessions before current law ex reducing the requirements Legislative Assembly from any of its more so than the dollar and judged on its merits Also, many thanks for the periences the amending process to bring by $70,000, citing that lack of predecessors figure of $153.339. but if ex Public safety and suitability food, flowers and donations I want to thank all the most wording into compliance ns growth in enrollment left It’s a subtle preoccupation with sex’ amined by components, it citizens of the mountain They were g re a tlv ap This rewriting involves tens of thousands are matters for impartial him no grounds to justify so becomes understandable if predated the all-encompassing condition actually study and evaluation, not communities who took the of laws and even more rules and orders great a budget increase not palatable from the tax down t deal with sex legislation It deal's guessw ork, time to come to the informa Oregon Revised States alone fill six massiv e e m o tio n a l In a split decision, the payer point of view with virtually all legislation and consists of Family of Mervil Kirby cynical distortion and hear tional forum on the proposed volumes committee voted to reduce say. The $153.229 increase in the elimination of sex Zig Zag Heliport In essence, the sex neutralization means the budget by about $45,000 cludes the following ( l) In the final analysis, this I was proud of the con ferreting out masculine pronouns wherever The current proposal not F urthermore. it was mandated by the 1979 salary and benefits of ap one promises good things for cerns that they expressed they currently exist and omitting them in only leaves intact a lux legislature and creates a condition that is proximately 11.6 percent or a whole community, and over the potential use of the drafting of new material It means the I ETTERS POLICY; urious student to teacher ra expected to persist for at least two more $92,032. (2) maintenance and favors no individual or public" park land for a tion, full-time position for eventual elimination of the words he his The Post asks that all regular biennial sessions - until the mid operations (2 buildings) 2 4 group It is worth a try commercial venture and for and him Pronouns that through the cen letters to the editor be Music, P E and library all Eighties or beyond percent or $18.897 and. <» Joseph A Stein their concerns over its prox tunes have been accorded status represen of which should be re- typed, double-spared and Simply speaking, the legislature is staff positions approximate im ity to our school and evaluated but it Gale Peterson ting both genders in law and certain gram signed. Deadline is noon, also pro neutering Oregon Revised Statutes ly 5 3 percent or $42.(XX) for senior center Zig Zag matical situations throughout the Engl.sh- vides for two new teachers Tuesday. letters should The process actually began Oct 3, 1979. a nticipated s ta ffin g for I want to also thank Ken speaking world plus aids be accurate, free of 'he < ffective date of House Rill 244«. pushed 1981 82 contingent upon total Blackburn for acting as A curious anachronism involves the fact libelous remarks and in The press and patrons rough the 60th Assembly by sponsors and enrollment and enrollment moderator at the heliport ORS 174 110« 2 > -- which specifies * Words have been given stories im good taste. This f o signers Reps Gretchen Kafoury Mary patterns within the school meeting that allowed both used in the masculine gender may include plying that failure of this B Mr. Winston Kurth newspaper attempts to Burrows, Jane Cease Nancy Ryles Mae The 1981 82 budget is an sides to present their cases the feminine and the neuter " remains on budget will result in elimina publish all letters it Ass, Director Yih. Joyce Cohen Sue Pisha. and a lone imperfect instrument, based Eor those unable to attend ‘b* books in obvious opposition to the newer tion of music. P E . library, receives and may edit Dep, of Environmental Ser male. Sen Erank Roberts on the following informa the Friday meeting, there k in d e rg a rte n , ” KS 174 115 One assumes this helps cover vices v ic e material lightly to eon- Its passage. 454 in the House and 27 3 in tion—none of which is within are petitions at many local principal, study body ac- situations that may arise in the interim form to guidelines. 902 Abernathy Road fbe Senate, expressed state policy that the control of the d is tric t: mountain businesses against before the neutering overhaul is completed Maximum length is 200 Oregon City, Oregn 97045 tivitia and more Not men (1) State funding for the the proposed heliport words. tioned in he propaganda are Welches school may be <a> Pass Welches levy Legislator’s report: State rolls up welfare roll Play good Levy explained Levy too high Salem scene: State said guilty of sexism I hank you Nix heliport • ¡r *• ♦
