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V o l. 71 N o 44 The Sandy Post SANDY OREGON THURSDAY NOVEMBER 5. 1981 ( IS F S 481-lM ) S ingle Copy 2 5 ’ Sandy sewer, water rates rising in January by DAN DILLON Sewer and water rates for Sandy residents w ill go up with the January 1982 hilling Although the move won't be official until form al ratification at the Nov 16 Sandy City Council meeting, all members present at Monday night s meeting have indicated they w ill sup port the move when the ordinance is read for a second and final time The basic fee for water service w ill jum p 75 cents to $7 75 per month That w ill be coupled w ith an approx imate 10 4 percent rate increase for general water service The basic sewer fee w ill rise $1 to $7 50 per month and all other sewer fees w ill be amended by a 5 percent increase Along with the new sewer and water rates, City Manager Roger Jordan is recommending a cost-of- service study and a thorough review of the revenue and expenditures necessary to operate the sewer and water services during the next few years The rate increases were recom mended by the local budget com m it tee when it prepared the 1981 82 budget The committee and council agreed at that time that u tility funds should be self supporting and that an nual cost-of living rate adjustments be made However, since the budget was prepared the number of new con struction s ta rts -a prune source of revenue fo r u t ilit y funds has faltered " I have analyzed the records to date concerning building and review ed the economic proections for the future, and at this time I am revising the estimates used in the budget for new c o n n e c tio n s b e lo w those already-low projections used in the budget," Jordan said Water connection fees have been revised down to $24,600 from $29,750 The sewer connection fees’ estimate , living index to raise u tility rates " I t appears to me at this tim e that drops $10,000 to $32,500 the simple annual cost-of living in The last rate increase was made in creases which we have been making July 1980 " In reviewing the cost of over the past few years are not going living during this tim e ," Jordan said, to continue to provide the necessary "these rate increases simply reflect resources to support these funds, he the cost of living increase " said Thus, he suggested initiation of However. Jordan is uncertain that the cost-of-service study the city can continue to use a cost-of Phone bills should drop fo r Sandy bv DAN DILLON While everyone else in the area served by General Telephone ( o of the Northwest can look to help sup port the u tility ’s increase in annual revenues, Sandy residents can be happy they live in the only Oregon area covered by the u tility where rates w ill actually drop O riginally, the telephone company America conducted the havrides and supplied a booming asked in June for authority to in llayrides may sound old-fashioned, but many Sandy residents got a taste of nostalgia last I riday crease its annual rates by $24.5 shmallows between rides. during a merchant-sponsored "Moonlite Madness" celebration. Sandy High Future Farm ers of m illion l-ast F riday Public U tility Commissioner John Lobdell granted GTNW its fir s t increase since >975—$16 m illio n beginning this week. While one party residential rates water company customers and is pressure, allowed germs to enter the w ill increase an average of 22 3 per w ater d is tric t could be formed by M ICHAEL P. JONES making the system a health hazard, water cent elsewhere, in Sandy they w ill without a customer vote They say Post Correspondent She charged that Gerald "Red "so the people could not have a direct drop they would have to pay for the Bennett, who owned the company un The basic rate w ill drop from $9 65 vote and a direct say. system and a rate that could reach Customers of the Alder Creek til it was placed in receivership, to $8 88 per month for a one party $1(M ) a month Water Company claim that the An alternative plan to the district "served water without regard to residential telephone, from $8 15 to Gene Ginther, who was appointed receiver appointed to run the water was "m ade to fa il," Sullivan charg public hazards," and that he "w illfu l $7 46 for a two-party residential receiver in 1980 by U S D istrict system has misused his power to ed. ly exposed the public to these telephone, and from $6 50 to $5 87 for Judge Gus Solomon, disagrees He form a water d istrict which they The E n viro n m e n ta l P rotection hazards " a four-party residential telephone, said the total cost for the d istrict claim would cost as much as $100 a Agency, on the other hand, wants to according to John Clay, PUC in fo r would be $1.7 m illion, or $14 to $27 per "E P A has brought these charges month provide evidence to show that im mation representative. month over a 30-year period, if against m e," Bennett said, "b u t has The receiver claims that the water proper construction, operation and The largest rate increases in F a rm e r’s Home A d m in is tra tio n continually denied me a tria l I can d istrict is needl'd to combat the pro adm inistration of the system were Oregon w ill occur in some business money is available at 7 percent in the factors leading to the health produce documents to prove that blems which have plagued the services because of higher equip terest Hookup charges for new EPA personnel falsified records, system hazard. ment costs and an increase in the customers would be approximately manipulated test results and Last Friday, the firs t round of EPA attorney Barbara Lighter amount of service offered $1,000, but current users would not be caused results from water tests to be hearings on whether the Alder Creek said, "Im p ro p e r water was due to the In Sandy there w ill be an increase charged. polluted when the tests were never Water Company constitutes a health presence of anim al and human and a decrease in business services Attorney Ed Sullivan, representing performed " hazard and should be made a water wastes in the water ” She added that A one party business telephone w ill the opponents of a district formation, district got under way L a rry Payette, EPA environmen certain conditions, such as broken rise from $26 to $26 25 per month and charged Friday that Ginther has Opponents argue that if a health tal specialist, explained methods us- p ip e s and in a d e q u a te w a te r a two party business phone bill w ill deliberately ignored the concern’s of hazard is proven to exist, a costly drop from $20 25 to $19.53 per month, Clay said. Also included in the rate increase is approxim ately $525.000 in revenues the company hopes to generate from the increase in its coin-phone rate from 10 to 25 cents that the Cedar Ridge area, which is w ill be allowed resource specialist, said Clackamas by M IC H A E L P. JONES As part of the rate case, GTNW inside the Hoodland Service D istrict LCDC staff member Lloyd Chap County would now have to apply an agreed to establish reduced in Post Correspondent boundary, was considered for its man examined the w ild life resources adm inistrative rule to the wetlands trastate long-distance rates for per w ild life values when the plan was in the Mt Hood C orridor He said and explain what conflicts may exist A fte r review ing m ountains of sons with hearing or speech im prepared They did not recognize that the Cedar Ridge w inter range if the areas are developed The coun public documents and listening to pairments who use keyboard equip that development would have an im area for deer and elk w ill also be re ty w ill also have to explain how those two and a half hours of testimony, the ment to type phone messages pact on w ildlife examined He said the area is unique conflicts would be resolved Land Conservation and Development Chapman said, "The county con because it contains both w ild life and She said the county w ill most likely "T his settlement is in the best in Commission (LCDC) approved the tended this was a trade off that had wetlands have to include citizen input to meet terest of General Telephone and its Clackamas County comprehensive to be m ade—w in te r range fo r " N o r m a lly , the tw o are not the LCDC c o n d itio n s It w ill, c u s to m e r s .” s a id L o b d e ll. plan last Friday in Salem development related," he said however, be up to county officials to Ratepayers benefit because the size Roger Kirchner, LCDC informa He said that all inform ation con Clackamas County officials argued determine how much citizen input of the increase was sharply reduced tion officer, said, "The comm is The rate increase includes approx sioners took action to indicate that im ately $4 4 m illion in revenues the the county had met all of the goals re company w ill collect as the result of quired for the northwest urban areas the new Federal Communications and that the plan complied Commission regulations which re In the disputed rural areas of the quire telephone companies to more county, such as the Mt Hood ( or- quickly recover the costs of items ridor, the commissioners pointed out such as new telephone connections was a pet," Blazek said " I t was a number of areas that need further that some dogs were running by DAN DILLON investigation. Kirchner said L( D< in too good of shape " his sheep "The attack was re a l A Sandy area fam ily found dis, however, approve the plan for There are concerns that ly vicious," Blazek said "They out last Thursday what can hap the area w ithin the Hoodland Service unless the white dog is iden had been at it awhile " pen when people's pets run free tified, more attacks could occur D istrict When he arrived, four sheep in a ru ra l area "The commissioners signed off on in the area were dead and two were badly B ill Blazek had seven sheep the area w ithin the Hoodland Service " I'm afraid it w ill happen injured grazing on 14 fenced acres near D istrict and agreed that it should not again," Blazek said "A nd they Blazek shot one of the dogs -a SECTION I his home on Dover Court in the be zoned for natural resources," he just don’t stop at sheep They " je t black" Labrador German Firwood area Thursday three Obituaries w ill take a cow or a calf if said Shepherd m ix and the other School Lunch Menus dogs attacked and killed six of The commissioners also agreed to there's enough of them It's two escaped A neighbor came Keeping Posted the sheep The surviving lamb accept the county's exception not to pretty disgusting " forward and agreed to have Senior Center News suffered cuts inside its ears Blazek also grazes a cow and apply the natural goals of the state tests run on his dog Editorials. Letters where the dogs pulled at them there a llo w in g the land to be calf in the pasture where the The third dog -a pure white Sports, Recreation 7 8 " I'd had the animals up there sheep were kept developed G erm an Shepherd-Samoyed in the pasture since May,' Linda MacPhearson. LCDC field The problem of dogs attack m ix-escaped " It's been spot SECTION II Blazek said "We hadn't had representative, explained that the ing livestock is growing in ted by two or three people." any problem s—no problems Area News 1 commission amended its decision Clackamas County, according Blazek said, but doesn’t appear Around the County 2 w hatsoever-then boom This is and required Clackamas County of to Director Richard Wick of to be from the area About People * it ficials to go back and re-examine all Anim al Control The dead dog had wool in its Hoodland Happenings 5 "T h e sheep w e re m y inform ation related to three wetland A pasture near Redland has teeth, but the owner has not Classified Advertising 11-14 children's pets, just like those lost 30 sheep in the last six mon areas which were not included in the been identified dogs were someone's pets " natural resource inventory submit ths, he said. Throughout the "The person from Animal SECTION III A neighbor called Blazek mid ted by the county Two are w ithin the whole county, this goes on Control said that it definitely Television D irectory Inside Tab Thursday afternoon to tell him Hoodland Service D istrict Claire Punchy, LCDC planning fire to keep warm and roast mar Customers claim water district not necessary ed to take water samples and how those sites were selected. He said sampling locations were selected by G in th e r and were generally those that provided easy access Tests were generally taken between 11a m and noon Payette said he knew the water source of each home tested, but Ben nett and others on the system claim that some tests were taken at residences not even being served Bennett w ill be given an opportune ty to produce a document that, he says, w ill prove that tests were not taken at locations where the EPA says they were The hearing w ill reconvene Nov 11 and 13 at 10 a m at the Mt Hood Lions Club in Wemme LCDC approves County comprehensive plan cerning the w inter range areas w ithin the corridor was sketchy An LCDC subcommittee w ill con duct a public hearing Nov 16 at 1 p m in the County Commissioner's Hearing Room, Clackamas County Courthouse. 906 Main, in Oregon C i ty. Testimony at that hearing w ill be lim ited to those persons who ap peared and signed up to testify at the LCDC hearing last Friday in Salem Livestock attacks increase countywide Index EÔ2.'«. w "B y state law, they have a right to k ill a dog that's a tta ck ing the stock." he said But a person whose stock has been a t tacked cannot take the m atter into their own hands, even if they know where the dog came from "When a dog owner is known, then the dog owner is responsi ble to pay for damages.’’ Wick said " I f the owner isn't known, the stock owner can file a claim with the county. It goes before the Dog Control Board which pays a percentage of the m arket value " " I t ’s not near as much as they'd get if they know who the owner is ," Wick said State law allows the stock owner to sue the dog owner for double indem nity
