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About Sandy post. (Sandy, Oregon) 1938-current | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1981)
Dosey-do District meet pg. 4, sec. 1 pg. 1, sec. II Voters support SUHS, city levies; nix grade school Qannv r* »nlu Sandy school districts go, a split deci sion from voters in Tuesday's special election as the Sandy Union High School D istrict's ‘A ’ ballot was approved, and the Sandy Elem entary School D is tric t’s ‘ B’ ballot was defeated The city of Sandy's levy was narrow ly approved The SUHS operating levy of $1,865,826 was approved 1.645-1.006 It w ill provide operating funds needed to balance the general fund budget of $4 6 m illion for the 15)81-82 school year The state w ill pay 30 percent of the property taxes in re lie f for an 'A' ballot _ ___ _ * ■ . ... • _ The estimated tax rate w ill be $4 39 per $1,000 assessed valuation The Sandy Elem entary D istrict's 'B' ballot was turned down by a 614-508 The $197,716 proposal would have pro vided funds for school buses and a grounds maintenance tractor. Talented and Gifted program, athletics and ac tivities, an elementary counseling com ponent, Outdoor School, Community School and painting for the Aquatic Center Under the state’s relief program, the ‘ B ballot items are not elegible for state compensation The B ballot may 1 m * submitted twice after the governing body's 'A ballot has been approved by voters This marked the d is tric t’s first attempt since the A ’ ballot was approv ed .March 30 The city's one-year operating levy, $319,869 96, was n a rro w ly passed, 199-185 The funds w ill be used to balance the city s $5)68,880 budget It w ill require an estimated tax rate of $4 50 per $1,600 assessed valuation Coupled with an estimated $2 46 per $1,000 assessed valuation for general obligation bonds already on the Ixtoks, the property taxes on a $50,000 home w ill be approx im atelv $348 Other results from around the area in clude: Bull Run School D istrict Yes No 51 89 Welches School ‘A' l.evx Yes No 318 213 Welches School ' I f l.evv Yes 568 614 No 1,045 1,000 297 232 No Sandy Elem entary ‘ I f Levy Yes Yes No City of Sandy ‘A’ Levy Yes Sandy High School ‘ A‘ L e w 199 185 No Shooting spree nets attempted murder charge A Sandy man and Portland woman are being held on charges of attem p ted m urder following an early morn ing incident last Friday after two persons forced their way into an apartment at gunpoint and then shot at another person when he drove up In custody are Charles Peter Vet ter, 38, of Sandy, and Elizabeth Louise Ery, 46, of Portland He also faces ch a rg e s of f ir s t degree burglary and ex-convict in posses sion of a firearm She faces those same charges as well as a driving while suspended charge. According to the Sandy police, a burglary was reported shortly after midnight May 15 A man and woman went to a Gary Street residence look ing for a juvenile When he was not there, the two held those in the residence at gunpoint. The youth the couple was hxiking for drove up a bit later but was not hit in the subsequent g unfire, although his passenger window was shot out in the incident. A fter police responded to the scene of the shooting, they were given a description of the suspect. They subsequently located the suspect at the in te rse ctio n of Pioneer B oulevard and Scales Street He was carrying a box of clothing SANDY P repared by ' i C RIVER BASIN MAP*’. 0 IV IS I0 N O T STATE LANDS, Jonuary 1900 j c T hooo As police approached, the suspect dropped the clothing and attempted to draw a gun from his belt It fell to the ground and a round discharged -, ___________ _ The state of Oregon is investigating the navigability of the Sandy Itiv e r from its mouth to mile post 36.5 to determine ownership of the rive r s bed Battle lines drawn over Sandy River navigability hi mi i ns. ... ... ... w m DILLON by i l>AN S te e lh e a d e rs and Sandy R iv e r residents agree Both groups want to keep the riv e r as it is without re s tric tions. But they don't agree on who owns the rive r's lx*d and that has both groups fearing that the way they enjoy the riv e r could be altered The state of Oregon is claim ing ownership to 36.5 miles of riv e r lM*d fro m its m o u th u p s tre a m to BrightwiMMl That claim is based on a federal act in 1859 granting th< state ti tie to all land under navigable rivers River residents think the riv e r bed already has an owner those who own property along the bank They claim they have title to the land out to the m iddle of the riv e r and the state s claim to the riv e r lx*d would take what they say is theirs ruesday, state hearings officer B ill Brooks was in Sandy to take testimony regarding the navigability of the riv e r and he was surprised “ I ve held 16 hearings on rivers around the state and I find this testimony kind of strange.'* he said "I ve never had a person get up and testily in favor of n a vig a b ility." Doug Hobson, president of the Sandy R iv e r c h a p te r of the N o rth w e st Steelheaders, told the audience of 70 in terested persons. "The fish in the riv e r belong to everybody in the state of Oregon If this riv e r is non navigable, no one can drop .in anchor in the stream where there is private property.” Carl Berry, who lives on the riv e r at B right wimm I. disagreed As a real estate agent, he said that each transfer of title had to be approved by every subdivision of government and that his deed said hi* owned the pro perty to the m iddle of the Sandy River " I don't believe anyone has the right to take away what I ow n." he conclud ed A woman who lives on the rive r near Dixlge Park said, "People come once ' to fish) and you say. O K.’ But the next tim e they come they bring four friends w ith them " Attorney Vern Cook, who lives on the Sandy River at Troutdale, served in the Oregon Legislature in 1973 when it directed the Division of State Ixinds to determine which state rivers are in deed navigable " I think the question is not ‘Shall we take from the people,’ but. Shall the p<*ople ol the slat«* of Oregon take what they think they own, when in fact they do not," he said The question of navigability is coni mg up now, he said, because "u n til 36 ro 40 years ago. nolNwIy argued about who owned beds of streams Now. the population is doubling every It) to 20 years and there is a much heavier de mand The rivers are worth a lot more m oney." Cook added that there is no "p lo t or scheme" to take anybody's land and he surmised that no property owner would lose anything by the establishment of the state's rights Brooks seconded that opinion, "T o my knowledge, the state has no plans for any significant changes." If the Sandy R iver is declared navigable, the effect won't be very In heliport controversy noticeable for most property owners, according to Jay Edwards of the D iv i sion of State Kinds The decision would pertain only to the stream bed which is defined as from the Sen. Mark Hatfield, R Ore., w ill be ordinary high water mark on one side to the guest speaker at a special meeting the high water mark on the other side of the Sandy Chamber of Commerce Diane Gregory, a property owner one next Thursday. May 28. at noon at the m ile fro m D odge P a rk , s a id Tollgate Inn trespassers have often made unplea According to Dixie Whitmore, ex sant scenes at her home She added that only having rights to the high water ecutive secretary for the chamber, Hat mark would hold little benefit in her field w ill address topics of general in terest and answer questions from the situation "A t the edge of the high water mark, audience they'd be at my front porch," she said Hatfield last visited Sandy in 1978 Persons interested in the issue of the when he attended a sim ila r chamber Sandy R iver’s navigability who did not attend Tuesday's hearings may still luncheon and in 1975, when he visited testify in w riting, w ithin the next two Sandy Union High School weeks, to Division of State Lands. Hatfield w ill also visit .Salem, Red mond, Portland Prinevile. I .a ke view, Klam ath EalLs, Ashland. Medford and Grants Pass. Welches board casts support with opposition by MICHAEL P. JONES Eor The Post The people who oppose the proposed Zigzag heliport won a number of vic tories this week as the Welches School Board, the Mount Hood Pre-school Co op and ne w ly-fo rm e d C om m unity School Women's Group all voted to re ject the proposed location for the Ian ding fa cility P rior to its May 14 meeting, a source close to the Welches School Board in dicated that the school d is tric t's stand would be "no stand, because it didn't d ire ctly affect the school " Board member Ix*ah Behan agreed and added that because the helicopter pad was to be located off school proper ty. the board would have no real authority to take a stand either way However, as public concern regar ding the heliport's pro xim ity to the school grew, the board was forred to act The site is directly across the street from the school, The board members told the heliport developers, who presented their pro posal. they would w rite a letter to the Clackamas County Commission oppos mg the fa c ility 's location whenever com m unity input was requested Board member Ron Worrel echoed other individuals' and groups’ concerns raised since the proposal surfaced Focusing on the issues of safety for school children, distraction caused by noise and the potential comm ercial abuse, overuse and policing of the heliport, Worrel told the developers they w ere "going up the r iv e r backw ards." Worrel added, " I don't know if you'd meet w ith resistance if it was located elsewhere You are dealing with an emotional attitude in terms of the prox im ity to the school.” Joe Stein, who operated not only the first com m ercial heliport in Oregon, but in the United States as well, responded that he didn't want to deal w ith the heliport on an emotional level. " It 's too slippery," he said He contended that the proposed loca tio n was im p o rta n t because the Women's Club is only a few hundred feet away and that building is essential in providing emergency shelter for p o te n tia l flood v ic tim s or o th e r homeless people in the event of natural disaster Stein added that the helicopters would cause little , if any, noise to d is ru p t the co n ce n tra tio n of the students because heliports are located on the roofs of hospitals in Portland, as well as elsewhere around the country. Behan, a nurse at Emanuel Hospital where Life F lig h t's rooftop heliport is located, disagreed She said that the helicopters are too noisy, disrupt con venations and sleeping patients, and that their fumes enter the ventilation system M arilyn lx»slie, a registered nurse who lives in the Ixilo Pass area near Zigzag, reaffirm ed Behan's opposition Leslie. who worked at Woodland Park Hospital in Portland, said, "E v e ry tim e a helicopter landed on the hospital's roof, it shook the whole building Worrel called the public's concerns " le g itim a te ’’ and added that the heliport issue was being looked upon as the parade of horribles’’ relative to the policing of the facility. Stein said it would be up to the county to police the fa cility and another developer, (»ale Peterson, added that a heliport manager would have to be ap pointed Joe Redwing, of the Federal Aviation A dm inistration, said he has been flood ed w ith calls from Mount Hood area residents the past two weeks His agen cy, he said, would have no role in the en forcement of the heliport's rules and that it would lx* up to the State Police or the County Sheriff's Department " A ll they have to do is w rite a couple of tickets and word would get around pretty quick,” Redwing said Redwing admitted that the callers "w ho knew nothing about helicopters’’ were contacting his office w ith con cerns that were not valid He said that any issue w ith safety and comm ercial uses of the proposed heliport would pro bably not be a factor, adding that the landing fa c ility "would serve a vital function for the mountain ” " I t would be better to have a known location." Redwing said " It 's a lot easier to do that than say ‘ I 'll meet you at m ile post 45 on Highway 26 ’ Then you h ave to m ake s p e c ia l a r Hatfield due for chamber get-together rangements w ith the state police to stop tra ffic and rope it o ff.” Meanwhile, the county Planning Department is preparing a recommen dation to the county commissioners whether to allow the process for a con ditional use perm it of the currently vacan park land to begin According to Dominic Mancini, ac tin g p la n n in g d ir e c to r , th e department's decision w ill be based s tric tly on what the ordinances say and that its recommendation should be made w ithin the next week He added that it would be up to the commissioners whether or not to accept the departm ent's recom m endation, because it would be the commissioners who would file the conditional use per m it a p plication in behalf of the heliport's developers, because it would be located on public land In an organizational meeting Mon day, members of the Environmental Committee on S uitability and splinter groups opposing the heliport met to unify their efforts and develop legal tactics to fight the location of the Ian ding area The public is invited to attend the special meeting, but seating is lim ited so reservations w ill be on a first-come, first served basis. 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