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SANDY OREGON. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 1982
( I S P S IMI-IMI)
Body found
in Brightw
identified
SUHS readies for vote,
shut-down of school
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The body of Herbert Eugene Weed,
25, was found handcuffed in a field 18
miles up Wild Cat Creek off Highway
26
He had been shot Officials are not
making known some facts in the case
as they continue investigation
Death is believed to have occurred
about Aug 26
Weed lived in Southeast Portland
and was self-employed
No decision
reached yet
on manager
Following a day long session last
Saturday interviewing prospective
candidates to serve as the city of San
dy's new city manager, local officials
are undecided who will fill the posi
tion.
Former City Manager Roger Jor
dan resigned Aug 31 to accept a
sim ilar position in Dallas, Ore.,
where he had previously served as
assistant city manager Jordan has
been retained as a consultant by local
officials to assist in the search for a
replacement.
Mayor Ruth Loundree said the City
Council spent Saturday interviewing
six finalists but it reached no decision
on a successor
She said Jordan has been asked to
do some research before the final
choice is announced.
“ We haven’t settled on anyone,”
she said. “ I ’m hoping Monday night
we can decide ”
The City Council will meet in ex
ecutive session—not open to the
public—to discuss the selection, she
said. The regular council meeting
will get underway at 7:30 p.m. in San
dy City Hall
Photo by Dan Dillon
A Boring firefighter stands in the mist as he sprays out the last of a fire that destroyed an abandoned shed on Richey
Road in Boring last Friday. The shed was destroyed in an unauthorized burn, according to Fire Chief Matt. Shields.
Because the shed was abandoned. Shields said no loss was estimated.
Dips slightly, but turn-around seen
Sandy enrollments reflect state trend
First-week enrollment figures for
Sandy area schools dipped slightly
this year, going right along with
predicitions that enrollments in
Oregon would drop.
In the Sandy Elem entary District,
1,426 students had enrolled by Mon
day this year, compared to 1,453 on a
similar date one year ago.
At Sandy Union High School,
enrollment was down “ about 20
students” from a year ago.
Verne Duncan, state superinten
dent of public instruction, had
predicted a dip in school enrollments
in his annual prognostication, citing
the state’s poor economy as the chief
reason for the decline
“ We had predicted steady growth
fo r the 1980s,’ * Duncan said,
“ because of a sharp increase in the
number of Oregon births since 1973
“ But fewer Oregon jobs mean
fewer Oregon students,” he said.
“ Unemployment chased thousands
of families out of the state last year,
giving our schools our biggest stu
dent loss in history.”
Duncan said the num ber of
students attending elementary and
secondary schools in 1961-82 was
down 1.9 percent and represented the
lowest total since 1964-65.
“ I don’t believe we’ve hit bottom
yet,” he said “ Many parents who
left the state last year for work
cameback this summer to move their
fam ilies.”
Locally, school administrators are
so sure that will be the case in
Sandy’s future.
“ Our current enrollments reflect a
cycle in the drop in population
growth," said Sandy Elementary
Superintendent Clark Lund. “ We
have a trend going the other way,
though, now.”
He expects Sandy Elem entary
District’s enrollment to climb over
the next three to four years, noting
that local kindergarten through
second-grade classes have larger
enrollments than upper grades.
Currently, the district’s second
largest class is the first grade. The
largest class is the sixth grade and,
when combined with this year’s fifth
grade class district-wide, Lund an
ticipates that Cedar Ridge School
will experience one of its all-time
largest enrollments next year
Throughout the district, only Kelso
School shows an enrollment increase
The other schools, however, have ex
perienced only a “slight drop.”
At Sandy High School, Dick H ar
rison, director of student services,
said part of the school’s attendance
drop can be attributed to the loss of
students from the Redland District.
L a s t y e a r ’s g ra d u a tin g class
represented the last of the students
from that district who will be bused
to Sandy.
As as result of that anticipated
loss, he said he planned the cur
riculum to accommodate approx
imately 1,160 students by the end of
the first semester
“ If indeed, we do have 1,160
students at that time, it will be
down,” Harrison said.
However, he pointed out that Sandy
High School has had a stable enroll
ment for the past 10 years, never
fluctuating more than 80 students.
“ I don’t envision any drastic rises
or drops in the next two to three
years," he said.
Neither administrator expects the
lower enrollments to affect their
district’s state Basic School Support.
Lund pointed out that the support is
only partially based on enrollment
and with the m inim al drop, it
shouldn’t ad ve rs ely a ffe c t the
district.
At SUHS, the missing students are
“ mostly tuition students (from
Redland), so it will not affect us that
much," Harrison said.
Commissioners OK golf course change
by M IC H A E L P. JONES
Post C o rre s p o n d e n t
Despite objections by the Mt. Hood
Corridor Citizen Planning Organiza
tion, the Clackamas County Board of
Commissioners voted Monday to
allow American Guaranty Financial
Corporation to convert 14.5 acres of
B ow m an’s
G o lf
C o u rse
to
developable land.
In their new role as hearings of
ficers, the commissioners voted to
approve the request. The proposal
will allow the modification of a condi
tional use permit, originally approv
ed in 1965 That paves the way for
removal of two parcels of land from
the 126-acre golf course.
Following the hearing, Clackamas
County planner Gary Naylor said the
conditional use change will give
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by SCOTT NEWTON
one lives.
Parents considering transferring
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Joan Hay, deputy clerk at Sandy
their high school-aged student to
I Union High School, has a file three another school have also had ques
j quarters of an inch thick explaining tions Hay said that if a student
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school closure procedures.
changes districts, his parents must
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For someone who cares about
pay tuition in that district unless they
educating young people, that’s not or a guardian live there
I exactly a productive use of one’s
Tuition at Parkrose High School is
time, Hay pointed out.
$3,498 this year.
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But, for the last two weeks she has
If the school closes an athlete may
. been figuring out how to implement
transfer to another school and com
the closure of the school.
pete However, the Oregon School
“ I guess I ’m expecting the worst
Athletic Association would not allow
and hoping for the best,” said Wayne
that same athlete to come back and
I Johnson, board president.
participate for Sandy if the school
A major topic at the school board
reopens
meeting Monday night was the clos
Other district patrons know they
ing of the school, and Superintendent
paid $4 35 per $1,000 valuation to
Jack Peters addressed students at an
SUHS last year, but thought the $4 70
assembly Wednesday morning to
per $1,000 valuation being asked for
discuss the same thing
this year was in addition to the $4 35
On Sept 21 voters may approve or
valuation This is not true
disapprove an operating levy, which
For 1981-82, a $75,000 house with a
is divided into “ A ” and “ B” ballots.
$4 35 valuation cost $326 25 in school
If the “ A ” ballot of $2,069,093 is
taxes. If the “A ” and ” B" ballots
defeated, all athletics and student ac
pass Tuesday that same property,
tivities will cease Sept. 28 The last
with a valuation of $4.70, would cost
day of school would be Sept. 29.
the owners $352 50, or $26 25 more
On Oct. 19 voters could again con
The “ A ” and “ B” ballots will be
sider the district's budget, with a yes
voted on separately. The ” B" ballot
vote getting students back in school
is for $404,040. Included on the "B "
on Oct. 21. The next election would be
ballot is the $32,440 swimming pool
Nov. 2.
fund. $41,-22 in athletics, $15,360 for
If the school closes teachers would
club advisors and $134,446 for sup
be laid off, and a skeletal staff, com
plies.
prised of Peters. Hay, Jerry Swails,
“ We re trying very hard to regain
m aintenance supervisor, Esther
some credibility for the school and
Bradford, switchboard operator
how it’s managed,” Johnson told The
(half time) and security personnel,
Post.
would remain.
He feels the board has responded to
Though it costs $25,818.24 per
what the public wants by “ taking the
school day to educate the almost 1200
activities out of the daily homework”
students that attend SUHS, with
and
re tu r n in g
to a
“ c o re
maintenance, insurance, security
curriculum.”
personnel and other expenses it
Johnson added, “ We’ve carved a
would cost $5,776 62 to have the
pretty good chunk, too.”
building sit empty, according to Hay.
Peters said, “My contact with peo
School officials have spent some
ple leads me to believe we’re going to
time recently trying to clear up
be successful Tuesday.”
misunderstandings about the budget,
Peters had a number of meetings
and property taxes. Some people
on the mountain Monday, and reports
have been under the mistaken belief
receiving positive feedback.
that all the property taxes they pay
Peters pointed out SUHS opened in
go to the SUHS district, when in fact
1914, and has never closed, even dur
those dollars also go to the city, coun
ing the depression. That “ historic
ty, the elementary district and the
consideration” also provides him
fire district, depending upon where
with a reason for being optimistic.
The young man found slain Sept 4
in a field near Brightwood has been
identified as a Portland automobile
mechanic.
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American Guaranty the opportunity
to develop that portion of the golf
course into housing.
“ If they can take it out of the condi
tional use for the golf course, then
they can develop it,” said Naylor.
'’But we don’t have any specific
development proposal before us
They have only submitted a concept
on an aerial photograph. ”
Naylor said the first parcel to be af
fected is approximately two acres of
grass and small trees It is triangular
and sits between the Green Tee Motel
and the resort’s former restaurant.
The second parcel encompasses
approximately IS 5 acres and lies
Just east of the golf course fairways
It is forested, contains swampy soils
and has a pair of small ponds
U n d e r th e c u r r e n t zo nin g
classification, a proposal such as
American Guaranty's is allowed, ac
cording to Naylor That is backed up
in the county's proposed land use
designation which goes before the
s ta te L an d C o n s e rv a tio n and
D e v e lo p m e n t C o m m is sio n in
December
In a report to the commissioners,
the planning staff recommended ap
p ro val of the conditional use
modification. They said exclusion of
these two parcels would not adverse
ly affect the golf course because they
are not part of the playing area.
If these parcels are later developed
for housing, the planning staff said,
this “ would be consistent with ex
isting or potential development on
adjacent parcels ”
The commissioners' approval of
the request, goes against sn earlier
recommendation made by the Mt.
Hood Corridor CPO The local plann
ing group voted 8-5 on Aug 30 against
the conditional use permit modifica
tion.
Bob Dorman, an officer of the CPO,
said the biggest problem for citizens
who attended the meeting was the
lack of available information
"We got a technical piece of paper
(from the county) that told us
nothing,” said Dorman
Concerns such as the need for the
conversion of 14.5 acres of recrea
tional land to a condominium use and
the timing of the proposed project
during difficult times in the real
estate market, were raised by CPO
members
“ The consensus of those present
was there wasn't any real reason to
change the zoning of the property.”
said Dorman. “ The zoning was pro
per when they orginally did it.”
Mountain high school
not tied to SUHS vote
by M IC H A E L P. JONES
Post Correspondent
Mt. Hood area voters should exer
cise caution, said Welches School
Superintendent Kenneth Blackburn,
if they believe voting against Sandy
Union High School levies will lead to
a mountain high school.
Blackburn is currently gathering
facts on 11 school districts in the state
that are comparable in size to the
Welches area Not a formal school
board or superintendent proposal,
Blackburn is gathering information
about costs, curriculum offerings
and building facilities needed for a
small high school with a student
population of 145 because of the in
quiries by taxpayers,.
Even if a new high school proves
feasible, Blackburn thinks it will be
months before it could open
“There may be people operating
under the erroneous assumption that
a Welches High School will become a
reality with the defeat of SUHS’s
levies." said Blackburn. “This is not
so”
Establishing a high school is a
“ lengthy process,” said Blackburn.
During the interim, SUHS needs to
remain open
If the A and B levies are defeated,
Blackburn estim ated the SUHS
District could spend up to $1 million
“ closing the system down
Parents in the mountain area could
then look forward to no high school in
close proximity for their children to
attend, said Blackburn
To continue the education of their
high school-aged children, Blackburn
said parents would have only a
limited number of options available
to them.
shut down, the district would be
under “ no obligation to pay for tui
tion in another district for students.”
“ It comes down to if you cannot
provide a school for students in your
own district there obviously isn’t
enough money to pay the tuition for
students, or even selective students,
in another district,” said Blackburn.
Four autos
collide on
Sandy street
It wasn't as spectacular as recent
c h a in -re a c tio n
c o llis io n s
in
Portland's Vista Tunnel, but a four-
car accident last Wednesday after
noon illustrates a common problem
with driving on Sandy's two main
thoroughfares
Randall Martin of Sandy told police
he was driving west on Proctor
Boulevard when he saw a car
p a r a lle l p a rk in g in fro n t of
Clackamas County Bank As he slow
ed, his car was hit from behind by
one driven by Neeta Rowe of
Portland
Her car, in turn, was struck by one
driven by Cynthia Hauser of Sandy
and she was struck by a vehicle
d rive n by Kevin Robinson of
Estacada
None of the drivers were injured.
Police said the vehicles were
following too close, but no citations
were issued.
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The first would be to “ physically
move” to another district, either the
entire fam ily or just the student, said
Blackburn This would prevent the
fam ily from being charged tuition
which could be as high as $3,000 or
more a year per student This does
not include the cost of transportation
to and from school
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they would even accept the student.”
Blackburn also said if SUHS does
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