Vol. 72
No 18
SANDY OREGON THURSDAY MAY 6, 1982
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For coming fiscal year
Accomplishments noted, district sets new goals
by DAN DILLON
with keeping firefighters up to date
on training for certification at the
end of each year by keeping track of
what classes have been attended and
what classes are needed
The district also plans to replace
the fire engines at the two substa
tions with new rigs The old rigs w ill
be kept; one w ill serve as a pumper
and the other w ill be remodeled into a
special apparatus ng the following
fiscal year
FIRE PREVENTION
The district is re-evaluating its en
tire fire prevention program, con
sidering the addition of another paid
firefighter to take the prevention
method to district residents and
schools, a fire code to allow for more
inspections or maintaining the status
quo
“ There's all kinds of facets you can
go into, but the question is, it is cost-
effective," Rathke said
The Sandy Fire Department is
completing what officials consider
one of the best years in its history
with the implementation of a number
of new programs designed at keeping
the department all volunteer
“ Overall w e>- in pretty good
shape,’’ said F it . *hief Bob Rathke.
“ Some things are really starting to
je ll.”
During the year, the district in
itiated a pension program for the
volunteer firefighters Rathke said
the program is “aimed at maintain
ing a viable and effective operation
for a long time to come ”
It makes the Sandy department the
only volunteer operation in Oregon
with a pension program and is the ac
complishment that Rathke said he is
most proud of in his 10 years as chief
A sleeper program that has
volunteers spending the night at the
fire hall for quicker emergency
response was also initiated this year
and already the d istrict noticing its
benefits
A new emergency medical techni
que was »»„.oduced during the year,
Rathke said, and !* is saving lives. It
involves inserting a tube down the
throat of a victim to allow free
passage of a ir to the lungs
The district has also refined its
training program to the point where
it is “ one of the best probationary
training programs for a department
our size,“ according to Rathke.
Flushed with the district s success
during the current fiscal year,
Rathke w ill take a budget calling for
$637.286 in the form of tax levy to the
fire d is tric t’s Budget Committee this
Monday evening at 7:30 p m.
Estimated tax rate would be ap
proximately $2.55 per $1,000 assessed
valuation, down from $2.75 a year
ago
The budget, which represents the
third year of a six-year tax base, is
aimed at continuing the d is tric t’s
level of service.
“ Pretty much we re carrying on
what we’ve done and trying to im
prove on them,” Rathke said
The district has plans to add a
small computer to its operations for
easy record-keeping
Volunteer reim bursem ents and
pension would be kept on the com
Students at Bull Run School celebrated Arbor Day Friday by planting more
puter, according to Rathke, as well
than 10« trees that were donated to the school. Austrian pines, shore pines
as training records
and black Japanese pines were planted around the school grounds by such
Those records assist the district
He wants to get the community in
volved in fire prevention and thereby
expand the program He cited cities
in Minnesota with populations of
more than 80,000 that have maintain
ed all-volunteer fire departments
Rathke envisions the possibility of
training persons in the community to
make fire safety inspections, thereby
eliminating some of the burden from
the paid firefighters
Utilizing citizens would allow the
paid firefighters to make better use
of their time
TRAINING SHIFT
The district w ill shift the emphasis
of training funds from the line per
sonnel to officers and paid staff.
R athke said the d is tr ic t has
established a sound e r ' gh training
program that it can j the bulk of
training of line personnel in house
The Sandy Elementary D istrict
School Board took its knife to the
d is tric t's 1982-83 levy proposal
recently and cut $316,363 away from
the proposal that was rejected by
voters March 30.
They did it with a big assist from
the state of Oregon who upped the
basic school support that had been
projected with the original budget
was prepared
“ We’re going to operate a very
austere, but very intact program
with this proposal,” said Superinten
dent Clark Lund.
The new $19 m illion proposal, if
given passing marks by voters,
would result in a tax base of approx
imately $8.21 per $1,000 assessed
valuation
The biggest difference from the
$2.2 m illio n proposal that was
defeated earlier came with a $269,511
jum p in state basic school support.
That was created when the official
certified figures outshone the verbal
advice given at budget preparation
time. Additional outside revenue
means less money that has to be
tacked on the district patrons’ pro
perty tax assessments.
The largest reduction came in
teachers' salaries, according to
Lund. New teachers w ill not be hired
to fill positions vacated by two
teachers who are leaving the district.
“ We w ill still maintain a favorable
student-teacher ra tio ," Lund said.
While there w ill be a general trend
towards larger classroom loads, the
move w ith “ bring about equity
across the d is tric t,” he said
Some schools have had smaller
loads in the past and that w ill
gradually work out to a more even
distribution.
A maintenance vehicle, budgeted
at $4,000, was cut fromthe budget.
Some fencing at Sandy Ridge School
Photo by Dan Dillon
volunteers as. left to right. Mindy Tykeson, Sandy Kdgren, Sheena Kitchens
and Karyn Leas.
and behind Cedar Ridge School,
valued at $7,000, was also eliminated
Lund said the district could do one
of those projects with revenue in the
current budget, if the school board
authorizes that action.
He cited a security problem at the
rural Sandy Ridge site.
The district w ill eliminate $6,000
that was to be transferred to the
lunch fund from the general fund
“ The picture isn’t quite as bleak as
it was in January as far as the
amount of transfer needed," the
superintendent said. “ Actual pro
gram costs haven't been running as
high as we thought they’d run.
With the other drops, the con
tingency dropped proportionately,
losing $15,000 for a total tax decrease
of $345,320
Reminiscent of Franklin Delano
R o o s e v e lt’ s New D e a l, one
Democratic candidate for governor
has a plan that would put 23,000 out-
of work Oregonians on the public
payroll.
Don Clark. Multnomah County ex
ecutive, recently outlined his back-
to-work proposal in an interview with
The Post.
Taking $300 m illion available in the
state Unemployment Compensena-
tion Fund, Clark proposes to form an
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Oregon Employment Corps,
Clark said that current unemploy
ment benefits don’t provide Orego
nians with a decent standard of living
over an extended period of time
R a th e r th a n e x te n d in g those
benefits, he would propose that these
funds be combined with available
federal monies, a job-loss tax fund,
local matching funds and a revised
corporate income tax allocation to
create the 15,000 member Adult
Employment Corps
Clark would then make those peo
pie available to communities where
unemployment has hit hardest serv
ing in public works capacities,
building sewers, water projects and
b u ild in g the in fra s tru c tu re on
industrially-zoned land so that when
there is a recovery, the state w ill be
ready to accommodate industry
"You can’t have growth unless you
have someplace for the businesses to
relocate," he said.
The program would be phased out
when unemployment drops below 8
percent
An 8,000-member Young Adult
Employment Corps for those who are
m arginally into the job market and
potential “ tax users," would be
utilized to do forest brush clearing
and planting trees in anticipation of a
revitalized tim ber industry.
They would also help taxpayers
save by weatherizing government
buildings As with the adult corps,
local governments would supply the
engineering, materials and supervi
sions for the projects
REV ITALIZING CONSTRUCTION
"N a tio n a lly they have to do
something," Clark said of the home
building industry. “ Ultim ately, it's
the high interest rates that are killing
us."
He said a non-profit corporation,
backed by the state, would attract
money from pension and retirement
funds because it would offer a safe in
vestment.
The money could them be made
available to banks and savings and
loans on the condition that is be loan
ed without the customary fees. Clark
said that could allow home loans to
be provided at rates of between 11
percent and 12 percent, rather than
14 percent and 15 percent.
His second step in revitalizing the
homebuilding industry would in
stitute lease-option agreements for
homebuyers.
Using housing authorities to sell
bonds, the state could assist in the in
itia l construction cost and allow
young people to move into a new
home with essentially nothing down.
The money would go into an escrow
account that would be used as the
down payment after three years
A third proposal would allow first-
time homebuyers to move into semi
finished homes. That, Clark adm it
ted, would take some working with
local building authorities to ac
complish.
HEALTH CARE
Clark called his plan for health
care the “ boldest initiative coming
out of the whole campaign."
He said the state could create, by
statute, a State Health Care Fund
fro m p a y ro ll ta x on Oregon
employers that would cost less than
they pay now in fringe benefits.
Clark said that $1 5 billion, less
than is now being paid out by
employers, could provide health care
for every Oregonian w ith such
be n e fits as 100 percent p h a r
maceuticals paid by the state That,
he said, would be of particular impor
tance to senior citizens on fixed in
comes
The whole plan would be put out to
cost competition to keep the price
down because "every dollar you
spend on health care is one less dollar
you have to spend somewhere else,"
he said
He cited Multnomah County’s Pro
A 19-year-old Sandy man has
pleaded innocent to murder in the
shooting death of his father, accor
ding to a spokesman fo r the
C la c k a m a s
C o u n ty
d is t r ic t
attorney's office
Harvey Hayden Hazelett entered
the plea in circuit court in connection
w ith the death of Herbert H.
Hazelett, 52, said Deputy District A t
torney Janine O’Neill.
The Sandy chiropractor’s body was
found the morning of March 5
floating in the Sandy River near
Kubitz Road, about one mile east of
Sandy. He died of gunshot wounds
and and massive head injuries, ac
cording to the state medical ex
aminer's report.
Circuit Court Judge Dale Jacobs
said Hazelett w ill be tried June 21.
E arlier, murder charges were
dropped against Hazelett's 17-year-
old brother, Herbert, who had been
originally charged in the case.
The charges against the younger
Hazelett were dropped at the request
of the district attorney's office, which
said it was satisfied as to his in
nocence
“ There is a however,’“ Lund said.
Uncollectable taxes were running
approximately 7 percent in March,
he said. Now, the amount of uncollec
table taxes is running 12 percent to 14
percent.
Council nixes
members
Accordingly, the Sandy district
raised the amount of its anticipated
uncollectable taxes 3 percent to a
total of 10 percent, thus adding
$28,957 for estimated uncollectable
taxes.
on committee
Candidate Clark offers ‘new deal’ to unemployed
by DAN DILLON
A downed tree limb on power
lines, not a Portland General
Electric Company crew install
ing a new u tility pole, knocked
out power in downtown Sandy
early last Friday afternoon
According to Bob Kallen, San
dy's PGE district manager, ser
vice was interrupted for ap
proximately 45 minutes last
Friday when a tree limb fell
against power lines on Born-
stedt Road Lights were out
some 45 minutes for customers
in the downtown business area,
and for customers out Highway
211 to Sandy Farms and in the
Bornstedt Road area.
He said that workers putting
in a u tility pole at the intersec
tion of Highway 211 and Pioneer
Boulevard were not responsible
for the lost power as some local
residents suspected.
“ They were working the line
hot," Kallen said. "They did not
cause the outage," he said.
Trial date set
June 21 for
Hazelett case
Added state money helps school cut budget
by DAN DILLON
Tree limbs
take power
in core area
ject Health which uses private health
care services to control costs and
serves the elderly and working poor.
BUSINESS ASSISTANCE
“ My p rio rity would be expansion of
small Oregon firm s with less than 50
employees," Clark said. Experts
estimate that 70 percent of the new
jobs w ill come from local firm s ex
panding. he said
"M y p rio rity would be to put
Oregonians to w o rk," Clark said,
rather than recruiting out of-state
firm s that could bring their own
workers.
So-called “ diversified" industry is
“ footloose industry," Clark said “ If
they're here today, they can be gone
tom orrow."
He said Oregon can diversify its ex
isting industry. “ We need to do more
w ith forest products," he said
“ Those trees are like money in the
bank to us "
He said the state should diversify
its tourism industry and, finally, take
advantage of its location on the
Pacific Rim
“ I t ’s the marketplace for the next
100 years and Oregon is sitting in the
middle of it," he said. “ I t ’s our big
gest source of future wealth "
by DAN DILLON
The Sandy City Council doesn’t
want its members to serve on
council-appointed committees as
private citizens.
At the April 19 council meeting.
Councilman Jim Duff appointed
himself as his citizen representative
on the Sign Ordinance Review Com
mittee Councilman Don Blair ques
tioned the appropriateness of that ac
tion
Each council member had been
asked to provide the name of a local
businessman and resident to serve on
the committee
" I t would be my feeling that we
should each appoint two, rather than
appoint o urselves," Councilman
Calvin Jones said at Monday night's
meeting.
The council agreed, indicating that
it w ill not allow Duff to serve as his
own representative The action
followed a legal opinion, issued by Ci
ty Attorney Jack Hammond, that in
dicated the make-up of the review
committee is up to the council
F o rm a l c o u n c il a c tio n was
postponed until the May 17 meeting
because Duff was not present at Mon
day's session.
“ One of us would be placing
ourselves in a dual role." said Coun
cilman Vern Richards. “ Someone on
the councilisn't going to be as objec
tive to the recommendations of the
committee "
B lair agreed “ I don’t see how a
person can sit on a committee, then
get up here on the city council and
vote on it when he could be the swing
vote on the com m ittee," he said