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Graphics teacher questions budget emphasis
by SCOTT NEWTON
A drafting and graphics instructor
at Sandy Union High School question
ed whether the correct emphasis is
given to vocational education in the
district at a school board meeting
Monday night.
'What I'm going to do is going to be
viewed by some. I know it is already
viewed, as being sort of disloyal to
the school and that sort of thing."
Paul Montgomery told the board
" I hope i t ’s not that way. I ’m trying
to present it in a positive way.”
Montgomery gave the five board
members an eight page chart com
paring costs of co-cum cular ac
tivities, vocational education, and
other areas.
" I think the figures are very ac
curate." he said
One set of figures reported that
1319.91 is spent per student in co-
curricular activities, while $183.18 is
spent per student in vocational
education.
ment the vocational arts department
needs, or needs repaired, “the girls
basketball team goes down to the
women's basketball tournament" in
Portland
Montgomery told the board. "Now,
my point with that again, is. that's
OK. if we have the money and that’s
what the board wants, and that's
what the community wants
"B u t I just want to make the point
that we need to think about this stuff
some more and evaluate those sorts
of things."
STATEMENTS TROUBLING
He said that what brought this up
were statements by people who
"could have a very large impact on
local schools "
Those statements include, "Voca
tional classes are more or less like a
hobby," Programs cost too m uch,"
and "There is no vested interest in
vocational education, either for it or
against it."
He said that he does not understand
the implications behind the last state
ment
Montgomery said that he wouldn't
want to see activities cut back unless
it was for some important reason
"The future of this country rests
with technically trained people, and I
don't believe that that's an exaggera
tion," he said.
Lynn Sondenaa. metals instructor,
reported to the board on the outcome
of the SUHS skills contest Fourteen
contests were held with 125 voca
tional education students competing.
Sandy won 17 awards
He also cited other information in
support of Montgomery
" I'm upset to think that statements
are made that vocational education
is de-emphasized here," Superinten
dent Jack Peters said.
"That bothers me because I agree
with you, Paul Vocational education
is an integral part of life. And I
believe if you don’t have a saleable
skill, then you're in trouble."
He said that, not having one of
Montgomery’s financial statements
in front of him, he could not discuss
the numbers on it, but pointed out
that vocational education is the
second-largest expenditure on the
proposed 1982 83 budget, second only
by a little more than $9,000 to com
munications. an area where all
students w ill take at least one class
during high school.
BUDGET HEARINGS SET
In other business, and before Mon
tgomery addressed the board, the
1982-83 budget was discussed
Matthew Shields Jr. was elected
chairman of the budget committee
P a tty K la s c iu s w a j e le cte d
Gas leakage
avoids water
for time being
M A C H IN E R Y SA ID
UNAVAILABLE
"When we’re trying to get ready
for a skills competition, or when
we’re trying to help students in the
classroom with machinery, we can
be told we can’t get a piece of
machinery fixed that’s vital to so
meone le a rn in g how to be a
machinist, or trying to learn how to
be a machinist because the lathe is so
off-center you can’t even get a cut on
by MICHAEL P. JONES
Post Correspondent
it.
‘ ‘W e re told that money isn’t
available, and I understand the
economic conditions, don’t get me
wrong on that.
"We re told that we can’t have the
money to do that but on the same day
a wrestling team goes from here to
North Bend for one day (a Friday),
and Saturday also, costing two
substitute teachers salaries, plus
transportation and the driver
“ I suspect th a t’s over $400 right
there.”
Montgomery said that that is just
one example
He said that while there is equip-
Pholo by
A Sandy man was injured Tuesday evening when the pickup truck he was
driving slam m ed into a tree on Coalman Road. Eugene Halverson was taken
Dun Dillon
to Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center by Alpine Ambulance. He was treated for
an injured shoulder and facial lacerations.
To accommodate light industry.
Commission recommends expanded sewer, water
Sandy should expand sewer and
water capacity to accommodate
more light industry and pursue a
core area pedestrian shopping mall,
a city Economic Development Com
mission has advised
R e co m m e n d a tio n s
and
an
economic appraisal of the city w ill be
presented to the City Council 7:30
p m Feb 16. Commission chairman
George Morgan w ill present the
group's findings after two years of
study.
The Commission has recommend
ed city government gear-up ag
gressively to handle additional com
merce and m a rke t its e lf w ith
brochures and personal contacts to
businesses that might locate here
The advisory panel noted in a
report to Council that financing its
marketing plans could prove d if
ficult, but worthwhile to meet com
munity economic development objec
tives
This land lies outside the c ity ’s pre
sent municipal boundaries. Sandy,
however, has designated the land as
industrial growth area in its Com
prehensive Plan and figures little
problem in annexing and servicing it
with sewer and water, according to
City Planner Don Wilson
Sparse industry and commercial
development leave Sandy with pro
blems, according to the Commission
These include slim local job oppor
tunities and a small tax base,
s h o u ld e re d
p r im a r ily
by
homeowners in the bedroom com
munity.
The Commission report says ideal
engineer for a new city industrial
development plan would be a private
investment group Such a group, ac
ting as a private land-holding cor
poration, developed the present San
dy Industrial Park
Much of the c ity ’s designated In
dustrial land today belongs to a few
local landowners, who have voiced
wilbngness to parcel off their proper
ty for sale or lease
That includes large tracts of land
in the hands of a few landowners west
of S E 362nd Avenue Duane Knapp
and Ruben Hoffman of Sandy own ap
p ro x im a te ly 75 acres of th is
undeveloped industrial land.
BONDS MAY BE NEEDED
The city, however, may require
general obligation bonds or other city
financing for extension of a major in
dustrial sewer trunk line and a
southwest water storage reservoir,
according to the Commission report.
Best immediate potentials for in
dustrial expansion w ithin the city,
according to the Commission's
report, include the Mt Hood In
d u s tria l P a rk being m arke te d
privately at the west end of town.
Additional ready land within the c i
ty lies in the Sandy Truck Lines site
and Sandy Industrial Park, which the
Commission claims is underutilized
w ith vacant or underdeveloped
parcels.
The Commission also recommend
ed the city strengthen Sandy's retail
business sector by implementing a
core area pedestrian mall, introduc
ed in 1975 as the Sandy Downtown
Plan.
MORE PARKING NEEDED
That plan called for covered
walkways and offstreet parking
The city has built one offstreet
parking area at Heritage Square
since introduction of that plan, but
the Economic Development Comm-
mission feels parking is a lingering
problem in Sandy.
Other hindrances to Sandy shopp
ing, the Commission said, include
lack of motels, a convention center
and a shopping center that would at
tract shoppers to town.
The advisory group, however,
Stays within Ballot A guidelines
City budget proposal makes small jump
The city of Sandy w ill need slightly
more than $400,(MM) in taxes this year
to balance the 1982 83 proposed
budget.
According to the plan unveiled
Monday night for Budget Committee
and City Council members, the c ity ’s
proposed
Sidget is up only two-
tenths of 1 p.. v*ent over last year’s
appropriated budget The General
Fund is up slightly more than 6 7 per
cent over last year’s budget
As such, the city w ill be able to
operate within the limitations of the
state Ballot A formula based on infla
tion and growth
If approved by voters on March 30,
the budget would cost city taxpayers
an estimated $6 »4 per $1,000 «.Lsess-
ed valuation for operation of the city
and general obligation bonds already
approved
Last year, the tax rate was $6 81
per $1,000 assessed valuation
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secretary Terry Lenchitsky, Dan
McDonald and Marvin Hansen are
also on that committee, in addition to
members of the board of education
Budget committee meetings w ill be
at SUHS in rooms 50-51. The first
meeting w ill be tonight, Feb 11. at
7.30 p.m. The second and third
meetings, also set for 7:30, w ill be
Feb. 16 and 18
A budget of $4,959,313 is proposed.
That is a 7.2 percent increase over
the $4,625.322 budget for 1981-82
An A ballot of $2,382,946, with a m ill
levy of $3.90 per $1,000 valuation, is
proposed That leaves $716,992 for the
B ballot, with a valuation of $1 36 per
$1,000
"We re proposing to you that we do
almost what we did last year,”
Peters said, adding that some pro
grams have been reduced or cut.
GENERAL FUND
$302,713
$254,704
$85,744
$74,418
$54,920
$54,432
$46,075
$44,240
$36.857
$35,923
$31,858
$19,790
$5,900
$4,850
$3,750
$l,osa.«74
Police Department
Public Works
Library
City Manager's Office .
Non-Departmental
Senior Citizens Program
Contingency Fund
Building Department
Planning Department
General Services
Recreation Department
Legal and Judicial
Parka-Parkways
Community Center
City Council
TOTAL
In his budget message. City
Manager Roger Jordan noted that
nearly all m aterial and service ap
propriations are at the same level as
last year
"Appropriations were increased
only in cases where It has been pro
ven that the existing appropriation
was not adequate, or where we simp
ly have very little control over the In
creasing costs, such as the ap
propriation to pay u tility service
costs," Jordan said
This year’s budget projects a 5 per
cent cost-of-living increase for all ci
ty personnel, with a modified merit
step for those employees who are not
at the top of their salary range at this
time
The m odified salary package
enabled the city to prepare the
budget w ithin the Ballot A state for
mula
Because the city w ill slay within
the Ballot A limitation, the state w ill
cooperate with the taxpayers
As a result. 30 percent of the local
property tax burden w ill be paid by
the state under the program which
has been in effect for the past three
years.
generally feels Sandy has a lot to of
fer toward economic growth. In its
sales pitch for Sandy, the Commis
sion report cites good industrial land
opportunities, adaquate commercial
sites downtown, a labor pool for new
employers and resources like plen
tiful water.
And while Sandy once feared sewer
problems, a recent engineering
report indicates the city could safely
accommodate another 300 hookups
w ithout m a jo r expansion, C ity
Manager Roger Jordan noted.
CITY’S LOCATION GOOD*
The Commission also figures the
city claims a good strategic location
for relocating businesses on a major
highway near Portland, an interna
tional airport and recreational sites
on Mount Hood
Chairman George Morgan also
re p re s e n t’ s Sandy E co n o m ic
Development Commission in a three-
city effort to attract more light in
dustry to eastern Clackamas County
The small industries attraction
program of Sandy, Estacada and
Molalla w ill provide each of the con
cerned small cities with a marketing
package that city boosters w ill stuff
with sales points for their hometown.
Personal presentations by local
boosters then w ill be made to firm s
likely to relocate
Morgan said that Port of Portland
technical advisors that are helping
the small cities assure Sandy that its
two-year planning and sales points
put this city in an advantageous posi
tion, compared to Estacada and
Molalla
The uphill fight, according to Jor
dan. is to sell this end of the county as
a proper site for industry, since coun
ty commissioners have deemed the
Clackamas area as the county's in
dustrial hub
The next step in Sandy 's marketing
effort, then, w ill be preparation of a
community profile for a sales packet
to boost the locale for industrial and
other commercial development
Sandy’s economic development
commission has recommended in its
report to City Council that the Com
mission be contined in present form
or with volunteers to boost the area
The gasoline which spilled when a
ta n ke r o verturned Jan. 15 on
Highway 26 six miles east of Govern
ment Camp could eventually wind up
in the head waters of the Salmon
River, according to a Department of
Environmental Quality spokesman.
Approxim ately 4,300 gallons of
gasoline were spilled when a tanker
trailer, being pulled by Kenneth Lee
Dervy of St. Helens broke loose and
began passing him
Mark Fritzler, DEQ information
officer, said that although the crew
from Willamette Environmental Ser
vices, who responded to the scene for
clean-up, could find no evidence of
gasoline in the Salmon R ive r
drainage, the possibility still exists,
that some of it could get into the head
waters
F ritzler said that by the time WES
crews arrived, there was little they
could do because the gasoline had
already leaked into the heavy pumice
soil. The clean-up, he said, "was
beyond any technology we have to
day. It was impossible to dig up half a
mountain to find out where it went."
As temperatures warm, Fritzler
expects most of the gasoline to
evaporate although some could get
into the water If any does get into the
water, according to Fritzler, the en
vironmental impact is expected to be
m in im a l
because
g a s o lin e
evaporates quickly
"We don’t have any plan or staff to
monitor the situation," he said, "but
we still have to rely upon the citizens
to notify us if they see gasoline in the
area ”
Fritzler said that a likely place for
the gas to appear would be in
meadows where ground water from
Mt. Hood's slopes appears to collect.
" I f it turns up, and it may, it w ill be
in the meadows and small streams
nearby the spill site," he said
DEQ officials know of no ground or
surface water systems near the head
waters used for domestic purposes.
Fritzler did indicate that there could
be a number of "bootleg systems"
where residences pump water direct
ly from the river into homes.
" I f people discover any gasoline,
we ll respond immediately to clean it
up, but we’ll have to rely upon the
recreationist and others in the out
doors to help us locate any sites,"
Fritzler said
Test-core samples drilled by WES
at the time of the accident showed
that none of the spillage had then
reached the river, according to Ed
Minugh. who headed the WES opera
tion
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