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The Sandy Post SANDY, OREGON. THURSDAY. MARCH 25, 1982 Vol. 72 No. 12 liF <USPS«IH»> Senior serial levy faces voters Tuesday Charges filed on second son o f slain man by DAN DILLON A second son of the Sandy chiropractor slain March 5 has been charged in connection with the homicide. Harvey Hayden Hazelett, 19, was arrested March 17 by Sandy Police Chief Fred Punzel in Oregon City fo llo w in g a m e e tin g in the C la c k a m a s C o u n ty d is t r ic t attorney's office He was arraigned Thursday in Clackamas County D istrict Court on charges of hindering prosecution, tampering with physical evidence and unlawful removal of a body, stemming from his alleged participa tion in the homicide of his father, Hubert Harold Hazelett. 52. A: the time of his arrest, Punzel said bail was set at >75,000. He was lodged in the Clackamas County Jail. According to Punzel, hindering prosecutior is a Class C felony punishable by up to five years in the state penitentiary The other charges a re C lass A m is d e m e a n o rs punishable by a maximum of one year in the county ja il and a $1,000 fine Photo by Scott Newton Brad Carter, Sandy, and Chris Conley, visiting from Parkrose, chose the first weekend of spring to leap into ac tion and demonstrate some bicycling acrobatics as the sun bathed the Sandy area. Luckily they had some fun in the sun as rain is expected this weekend. Want more citizen input Mt. Hood residents in uproar over plan by MICHAEL P. JONES Post Correspondent The lack of citizen participation in updating the Mt Hood Community Plan is not acceptable That was the message Thursday as area residents met with Clackamas County Planning Division staff However, Ardis Stevenson, assis tant director of Environmental Ser vices, told the group that what has been developed "is not la w " and that citizen participation could bring about changes Revisions in the plan are being made after the county was instructed by the state I^and Conservation and Development Commission to make some refinements LCDC instructed the county to insure that sewers would not expand outside the boun daries of the Hoodland Service District. To accomplish this, LCDC gave the county 150 days to look at land-use exceptions outside the service district. The county is to show that th a t a rea is c o m m itte d to agricultural and forest uses In addition, LCDC asked that the county re-inventory wetland areas and detail their locations and size, both in and out of the service district. Property owners and members of the Mt Hood Corridor Citizens Plan ning Organization took exception with the county’s process, however C.J Sullivan, a Welches resident, reminded Stevenson that her staff had earlier promised a complete list of proposed changes before anything was drafted He said that inform a tion had not been provided. “ You put together a bloody pro posal without asking us what we wanted,” he charged He said that the citizen input pro cess used in 1976, when the plan was originally adopted, outweighed the new process when the residents seem to have been forgotten "We have elected officials, not gods,” he said, and suggested that the proper input process be im plemented Stevenson told Sullivan that the meetings were not a legal require ment because the revisions of the plan, so far, are only proposals She said the county is attempting to get the citizens involved in the process and that 4,700 names were taken from the tax roles and sent informa tion john McMahan of Brightwood, chairman of the Mt Hood CPO, ques tioned whether all property owners had received the revision materials. Less than half of those present in dicated they had, by a show of hands. He called it a "significant e rro r" in the process and suggested that everyone, not just taxpayers, should receive the mailings. S tevenson c a lle d th a t a "marvelous goal," but impractical. The residents asked that the revi sion schedule be lengthened beyond LCDC’s 150-day deadline. While county officials want to pre sent the revisions at the end of May, CPO officials indicated they would fight the county in front of LCDC is they were not granted an extension for what they called "proper citizen input ” Recommends denial in Sandy basin Committee draws line on hydro siting by MICHAEL P JONES Post Correspondent A citizens committee studying hydroelectric project siting has made its recommendation to the C lackam as County Planning Division Among its recommendations, the committee suggested that hydroelectric projects be denied in scenic waterway areas, such as the Sandy-Salmon waterway, the Clackamas waterway and the Willamette River greenway "W hile many of the proposed hydroelectric projects are small in size and have slight individual impacts, the cumulative impacts of the proposed projects may substantially im pair the natural resources of Clackamas County,” the report said The report came about after Paul Sanders of Zigzag sought approval of a mini hydroelectric An expanded service area for the Sandy Senior Center and a larger operating budget could be the result if voters county wide approve a three- year serial levy this Tuesday, March 30. The city, too, would be able to redistribute some its budget to cover earlier cutbacks The senior center’s service area would expand to include portions of Boring, Cottrell and Damascus Cur rently it serves only the Sandy area ditional full-tim e employee and a part-time outreach worker, accor ding to Community Services Director Sandra Potter Marquardt. That would ease the burden created with the elimination of a CETA worker position during fiscal 198(1 The serial levy would stabilize revenues fo r operation of the county’s 10 senior centers which de pend on local monies and the Older Americans Act. With the expanded area would come an expanded budget financed by taxpayers countywide. Currently, the center is financed by the city and federal grants. Cost locally would be approximate ly 22 cents per $1,000 assessed valua tion. The operating budget would jump from $54,432 to $67,585 during the coming fiscal year, and to $75,094 and $82,603 during the succeeding two years of the serial levy. The result would be a savings of $28,582 that the city was going to put into the center’s operating expenses. Each senior center would be granted a yearly allocation based on the percentage of senior citizens in the service area, relative to the senior population of Clackamas County Currently, 31,000 Clackamas Coun ty residents are more than 60 years old. "That money would be reprogram med into the areas were we did cut services,” said City Manager Roger Jordan. " I t would probably make up for the loss of revenue we have at this tim e.” The other alternative would be to put the money into the contingency fund While the county funds would maintain the operating costs of the center, while expanding the service area, the city would still put funds in to the center. "The city w ill qtilize some of its revenues to keep the building up," Jordan said, because it also serves as a community service as well. The e x tra money generated through the senior serial levy would enable the local center to hire an ad The elder Hazelett’s body was found in the Sandy R ive r by fishermen early March 5 Herbert Harlan Hazelett, 17, was arrested that evening and appeared before Clackamas County Circuit Court Judge Winston Bradshaw who arraigned him on a first degree murder charge. He is being held at the Donald E Long Juvenile Home in Portland Janine O’Neill, Clackamas County deputy d is tric t a tto rn e y , said Wednesday that no determination has been made as to whether the younger Hazelett w ill be tried as a juvenile or adult If tried as a juvenile, the court would only have jurisdiction until he turns 21 years of age. An autopsy showed the elder Hazelett died from shotgun wounds to the chest and massive head in juries The homicide is still under in vestigation. Single Copy 25« project on Mimkahda Creek. The county hearings officer denied the project because it would have been built on slopes in excess of 35 percent Ordinance and the Mt Hood Community Plan prohibit construction on slopes greater than 20 percent The Clackamas County Board of Commissioners also denied the plan, but directed the planning staff to redraft the slope or dinance The committee's recommenda tion recognizes that there is an In creasing demand for private hydroelectric development of the county's rivers and streams which are currently used for recreational and ag ricu ltu ra l purposes, as well as a fish habitat To maintain quality in these waters, the committee felt some criteria would be necessary for hydro siting Along with scenic waterways, the com m ittee recommended denial at historical sites, wetland areas, streams used for fish migration, spawning or rearing, deer and elk winter ranges and nesting areas "Unless the director of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, or the delegate of the d ir e c to r , c e r t if ie s to the Clackamas County hearings of ficer that any substantial adverse impact of a proposed hydroelec trie project on natural resources shall be avoided, such hydroelec trie projects are prohibited,” the committee recommended The committee also suggested requirements for approval, other than location. It listed noise standards, fish and w ildlife support, water purity and vegetative buffers along rivers and streams as considera tions In the meantime, the county 4- . a ■ v Planning Division is developing its own set of criteria Planning D irector Dominic Mancini said the staff would select all or part of the com m it tee’s recommendations, but is under no obligation to accept its development criteria He said the draft the planning staff develops for hydro siting w ill be sent to agencies who play a role in examining hydroelectric impact on a regular basis The siting criteria is scheduled to go before the planning com mission in m id-April and addi tional citizen testimony w ill be taken at that time "Anyone can sanction a given set of criteria, hut it doesn't mean it has more cre d ib ility than anyone else's,” Mancini said "The committee has only submit ted what they would like to see. which doesn’t mean it w ill be ac cepted ” CITY LEVY The city of Sandy w ill need slightly more than $400,000 to balance its pro posed 1982-83 budget. The c ity ’s proposed budget is up only two-tenths of 1 percent over last year’s appropriated budget. The general fund is up slightly more than 6.7 percent over last year’s budget. As such, the city w ill be able to operate within state limitations for a Ballot A formula, based on inflation and growth. The cost to city taxpayers would be an estimated $6 94 per $1,000 assess ed valuation for operation of the city and bonds, which have already been approved The city w ill stay within the Ballot A lim itation, the state w ill cooperate with 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 No easy answers seen to government cutbacks Area residents, concerned by federal and state cuts in social ser vices, met Tuesday in Sandy to ponder ways vo lu n te e rs could assume new re sp o n sib ility fo r welfare of troubled neighbors They found no easy answers, but a lot of shared worry over what small towns like Sandy would lose with nobody to fill the vacuum of govern ment cutbacks. "Is is possible for us to pick up responsibility at our own doorstep?" asked fo ru m m o d e ra to r and organizer Father Lindsay Warren of S a n d y's C hurch of the Good Shepherd. His forum of concerned social ac tivists included representatives from Sandy Kiwanis, Mt. Hood Hospice. Pioneer Association, city govern ment, Mt. Hood Community College and Eagle Creek P re sb yte ria n Church. "Reaganomics has brought us to our knees, perhaps, but i t ’s forcing us to help one another,” said Macy Brader of new Mt. Hood Hospice volunteer care for term inally ill. The forum considered posting a list of available community resources at strategic help agencies in town with nam es, addresses and phone numbers to contact for welfare assistance. The busy all-volunteer Sandy Community Action Center would be a logical place to post such referral information, the greup mus ed, as would city hall and the c ity ’s Community Center. Ken Hallgren of Sandy Kiwanis suggested Sandy has volunteer groups that want to help neighbors in need, but individually often lack time to get deeply involved "W e’ll have to find some very d if ferent status fo r the kind of volunteers Mr. Reagan is talking about,” city Community Services D irector Sandra Potter Marquard said of new Federalism's emphasis on local volunteers. One p o p u la r w e ll o f liq u id volunteers may have run dry, she noted. That spring of eager women who traditionally have staffed volunteer programs is flowing toward more paying jobs to survive the tough economy on the homefront, she sug gested "We have a reward system only for (paying) jobs, but not necessarily for (non paid) work toward a worthy goal,” Mt Hood College President Stephen N ic h o ls o n sa id of volunteerism " I t ’s a problem for us, because we’re a cash economy." "W e’re a self-serving society," Frank Marcy added. There’s social punishment for refusing to pay $30 in taxes, Father Warren noted, but none for refusing to help a hungry neighbor. “ It's something that'll have to catch on—seeing your neighbor help ing out in the community weekends instead of taking his boat out,” Ken Hallgren said. Gone are the days of 1960s big government programs when federal money attempted to solve any social program, the group concurred. Sandy City Manager Roger Jordan said the municipal government could get involved, but not hope to replace cut federal social services. . He told a story of an old man nam ed George who lived on beer until recently in a broom-closet size room on a main street in Sandy The man wanted to be left alone, and reject efforts to remove him from his environment The city senior center sent in hot meals occa sionally, and finally the city took lia b ility through its building inspec tor to have the old man institu tionalized. Still, the city had to work through bigger government for help in con vincing Clackamas County Mental Health Division and a judge to have the man hospitalized for his own well being "Ixx'a l people should meet l<x..l need," Jordan said, "and here we find ourselves back to the county level to remedy a problem with state and federal funds ’’ Index SECTION I Senior Center News 2 Keeping Posted 3 School Lunch Menus 4 Obituaries ...................... 4 Editorials, Letters ................6 Sports. Recreation 7-8 SECTION II Area News ..................... 1 Around the County 2 Hoodland Happenings ...3 Home and Garden ....... 4 About People 5 Classified Advertising 7-11 SECTION III TV Revue Inside Tab
