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The st Editorial & Opinion Von Braschler. Publiihor Carolin* Duff. Office Manager Don Dillon. Editor Scott Newton News Editor SANDY. OREGON. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 7. 1982 Ballot measures pose threats here Two Nov. 2 ballot measures that could adversely affect the Sandy- Hoodland area require local voter attention. Measure 3 to severely limit pro perty tax could hamper local government agencies, especially schools that receive two-thirds of their public education funding from state property taxes. Area schools, notably Sandy High, have had enough difficulty raising public funds just to stay open. The measure also would shift the burden of public education from business and commercial property tax to personal income taxpayers. Other small-town services would be hurt especially hard by the 1.5 percent tax limit, rollback to 1979 assessments and 2 percent annual increase ceiling. The municipality of Sandy pro bably would be forced to cut police protection and heap extra functions on smaller depart ments, tough if the department has only one person. The city has a small tax base as it is, and other major revenue from building permits here has dropped drastically with the building slump. Local fire districts might have to severely restrict fire protection to live within new smaller budgets. In fact. Measure 3 is so restric tive it would require two-thirds vote of both state houses and the public to boost property tax rates. Why hamstring future genera tions by the myopia of today’s financial panic? A property tax limitation twice has been rejected by Oregonians in recent years Let’s be as responsible now by voting “No” on drastic Measure 3 and working sensibly to reduce government spending. Another Nov. 2 question that could harm Sandy area residents is Measure 6 to abolish the Land Conservation and Development Commission. While kicking ineffective state bureaucrats out of our backyards might sound good at first, the con sequences run deeper. The LCDC reviewers, as guar dians of state land-use planning goals, are all that prevent strip development of this area, notably Carmel Estates shopping center at Boring, long opposed by Sandy Left to local county land-use planning, the center at the Boring Highway 26 interchange with drainage and sewage service pro blems would have popped up long ago That would mean a business drain on Sandy, probably left holding the bag for sewer service. Statewide critics of LCDC generally concur that Commis sion members are ineffective, costing long delays and com pliance expenses. Often, too, members seem insensitive to local community land-use desires. Logically, the easiest way to make the program work as directed to oversee local govern ment Comprehensive Plan com pliance is to improve the pro cess—not scuttle the program. Maybe the easiest way to ac complish this is to review Com mission membership, as the governor has started to do. Let’s not throw out a model land-use planning approach that has preserved Oregon’s natural resources and quality of life in positive way3 that can and do at- tact industry to this state and pro tect state farmland as top in dustry here now during the slump. Raise an angry voice against LCDC practices, but vote a sane "No” on Measure 6. (VB) Personally speaking: Seconds, future nip SUHS I think lt'l been an interesting football season for the SUHS Pioneer« it’s true they’re two minutes and S3 seconds. or five point«, from a 4-1 season But despite their 1-3 record, alt the garnea but one were decided in the fourth quarter But one haa to wonder what the future bold* for football at Sandy MikrKoatrba, SUHS athletic director, report* that "in thia area, at leaat, " Sandy ia unique in that it now haa no feeder ayatem for football Of the five school* that contribute student* to the SUHS diatrict, only Cedar Ridge and Welches have the number« for a football program < edar Ridge contributed l»l freshmen thia year, and Welchea contributed 43 Twelve freahmen had attended Bull Run, another Hl attended Boring 'though some Boring students attend Sam Barlow High School) and another 25 attended Cottrell You've got to figure half of these student* are girl« About th* lack of a feeder program and how it might affect the future of SUHS foot bell. Kostrba aald, "I don’t think it bode« well There are alwaya thoae kida who will be interested in football, but the Intereat doeen't laat long If you get drilled " He added that football ia like any other program "If we have the number» u> justify it, we'll have It os long aa we can fund it," he aald I.ynn Hama, who a in hia third aeaaon aa freshman coach, waa hoping to have 23 or 33 at practice thia week That'« Juat enough kids to «crimmag* The freahmen have loot »-o to Parkroee «04 to Barlow and V 14 to Gardner Junior High of Oregon (ity Harrie started the aeaaon with "IS kid* who knew how to put an the pad* " He add ed that he ian't totally »orious" when he •ay« that, but it doos gat the point aernaa He aald ho had about five youngster» from Welchea who had ptayed football, and a few transfer student* Other* played bail aa aeventh grader« at Cedar Rf^a, but mlAAi^m A yAMMT At tJItA StA^J® la critical, dkMatroua," he aald A email turnout and player« with MtUe or no eaperienre are factor« Harrie must deal with la addHMn, thia la the amaUeet e Wm he * had la throe yean by SCOTT NEWTON for 13 yean before taking on the freahman team, aald he t aeon tremendou* improve ment between the fint and third games He added. "They 're good people " Clark Lund, superintendent of the Sandy Elementary Diatrict. feel» he haa unfairly been labeled anti football Hut outside of concern expreoaed by high achool coachea there haa been no preoaure applied by parent* or patrona for reinatatement of a football team Lund feeto the public made the decialon two yean »go by voting down the distnc« « "B" ballot Laat year the budget commit tee allocated about 313.0» for a "limited" He feats mon atudenta an being bettor served for fewer dollar« with the preaent program which includes coed soccer in the fall Equipment replacement is "very costly Lund aald Equipment, coachea' aalariea and travel for football would pro bsbiy coat from 33.393 to 36,500. according to Lund, or about a third of the total »porta program l<und aaki they would probably have to travel beyond the Barlow Trail League to find garnea Lund, who by the way haa boon at every SUMS footbeU gam* thia aeaaon aald that a football program at Cedar Ridge ia not a It haa. and will be, cenatdored on a year to year beata, be aald Fire plan, school tax, killed pets eyed Fire meet key Hoodland Fire Diatrict Board of Directors will meet 7:30 p.m., Oct. 13. One topic for the evening will be a policy that would prevent a board member from serving as part-time employee (volunteer > or fully paid employee of the fire district If a preaent volunteer were elected to the board, he or she would have to resign from the volunteer or paid position to serve on the board In our opinion, this policy seriously would limit some of the fire district's resources One valuable resource the fire district could lose ia the district's fire investigator, who cur rently serves on the board Another valuable resource is a paramedic, who also presently serves as a board member The Hoodland fire department has four paramedics On* of the four ia a board member At this time the Hoodland Fire Diatrict doesn't offer ad vanced life support on a 24 hour baais The four paramedics are available at certain times, depending on whether they happen to be in the fire diatrict to res pond Should one of the four paramedics choose to be an elected board member and not a volunteer, we would lose hu service to the fire district aa a paramedic Not only would we be throwing away hundretis of tax dollar« used for hia training, but the paramedical service would be cut by 25 percent In addition, we feel that having a firefighter on the board will give the diatrict greater insight about fire district matter«, as oppos ed to a member with minimal fire department background We urge th* public in Hoodland to lake part and voice their opinions at the Oct 13 board meeting at the Hoodland fire station in Zigxag It's your service, your taxes Daniel Brown. Brightwood Richard Curtis, Welches Durwood Douglas, 111. Rhododendron Sales tax best As the junior board member of the Sandy Union High School Board of Directan. I feel an obliga Uon Io support a group of young swimmers at our high school These young men and women have A sm —trstert to me their mtAfMM1 dCSIT® to in the Mt Hood League Along with their intense desire they have organised a rovenue drive «oieiy on their own to raise the neceesary funds Io have a team If successful, these funds would be turned over to the board of directors of the school district for dispersement to the sup port of the swimming pro gram. It is my responsibility along with the other board members to administer the funds you as taxpayers ap propriate to the school district Passing of the A Ballot Measure has allow ed us to keep the high school operating throughout the present year 1 will do everything I possibly can to continue the high quality of education we are giving the students Many of the programs that were offered on the B Ballot had to be eliminated. For Starkovich With a Senate District stretching from Sandy in the north to nearly Oakridge in the south, it’s going to take someone with energy, dedicaron and con cern to represent that district. Steve Starkovich certainly has these qualities The new Senate District 14, nicknamed the "helicopter district. " has been racked with high unemployment Steve recognizes the concerns of the timber industry, farm ing and tourism Steve is also very much aware of the needs of small business and retired persons The citizens of the west These additional taxes are only a stop-gap They run out next July. Then what are they going to suggest’ Anyone with common sense knows that when your income drops, you had better lower your spending Everyone knows this, ex cept perhaps the Oregon legislators Jean Roberts Mehama Packwood wrong Guard animals Oregon's Senator Bob Packwood recently led a successful filibuster on capitol hill and kept Senator Helm's abortion restriction legislation from being heard and voted on in Letters to the editor due to the failure of its. passage It is with regret that any or all of these items were selected for the B Ballot but under the state election laws the budget must be broken into two segments if not sue cessful by September I hope we can avoid a similar situation by having a large public support in the preparation of the up coming budget. Public notification will be publish ed in the Sandy Post as to times and place«, Aa a final comment con ceroing the funding of our public schools, I feel com pelled to contact our legislature in Salem and express the taxpayers con cern for taking the burden of public education off the local property taxpayers and funding education with an alternative source such aa a state sales tax where all people share in this obligation Terry l^enchltsky Boring Ban trash burn According to Rick Guatafaon. Executive Of ficer of Metropolitan Ser vice District "Dumping fees will be 50 percent higher than the figures us ed in promoting the Oregon City garbage burning plant " 'Oregonian. Sept U. 19« > You, the reader of this letter probably have already reached the con clusion that the hauler of garbage will be paying for thia increase, and he will But. who pays the hauler’ You do If you now are pay mg 33 per month for gar bage service by necroasity your bill < according to Gustafson> will go 38 per month or SIS every two months You have no choice but to vote Yas" to prohibit th* garbage burning plant Pat Transue Gladstone City Council slopes of the Cascades have never before had the oppor tunity to elect their own state senator Reapportion ment has given them this important responsibility I believe they could do no better than to elect Steve Starkovich to represent them in the Oregon State Senate Dell Isham Senate Majority leader Davis supported It is time to elect some business men or women to our legislature Govern ment ia a business and should be run as such. Is it good business to instigate new programs, when you don’t know if the money will be available'* Is it good business to budget more than you know will be com ing in’ Is it good business to spend your surplus and then raise taxes to continue "as usual’" The State of Oregon has been guilty of these things, hence the deficit. (Voters, please don't misunders tand Oregon is not in debt When they talk of deficit, it means they don't have as much to spend as they plan ned > At a recent candidate's fair, candidate« were ask ed what they would do for money to run Oregon government. Answers varied from sales tax to socking the rich Only one candidate. Joe Davis. (who claima to be an amatuer politician, but a good business man) said reduce the programs We didn't have them four years ago. until we had a surplus We did without them then, we can do without them now. Vote for Joe Davis Special sessions were called to balance the budget Our legislators knew thst many people were out of wort Their remedy- sock them with mor* taxes, so government can continue "as usual " Packwood would treat Solidarity in Poland, if he happened to be on the side of the military junta? His behavior leads me to believe things wouldn't be much different then they are Is this the kind of "representation" Oregon needs in Washington? I think not William L. Carmichael Sisters the Senate The piece of legislation in question was viewed by many as a sane and ra tional attempt to curb what has become an epidemic of death in our society The Heim's legislation was designed to limit federal funding of abortions and to expedite a Supreme Court review of abortion legisla tion. Indications were that there just might have been enough votes to see its passage Concerned groups from across America had worked long and hard to have their day on the Senate floor But alas, our own Senator Packwood decided the constitutional process was not valid at this time, since its outcome might be counter to his personal views Hence, the filibuster led by him. "Our" Senator decided that he not only wanted his ideas to rule, but he decided to deny the nght of his opposition to even be heard In my view, his actions were un- American. unethical and a prostitution of the constitu tional intention of the democratic process Senator Packwood forgot that be is "our represen tative" ... and that means all of us. even those who are on the other side of this particular issue. I think Senator Packwood has a right to be heard Too bad he doesn't feel the same about me and thousands of Oregonians like me Some who reed this no doubt agree with Senator Packwood’s position on this particular issue But what about the next time’ Will you want a chance for your views to be heard when you disagree with the senator? When "our” Senator Packwood decided to play dictator, he decided that hie view was THE view. No debate No vote No com promise It was hi* wsy or no way I wonder hew Senator This is to all livestock owners everywhere We all know the age-old problem there is with dogs and other domestic animals getting where they do not belong Most have a weapon on hand to control these in stances of intrusions upon our domain Being a farm owner and owning various animals too numerous to mention, I have some things that everyone knows but I feel should be reminded The thing that is most impor tant to me when it comes to dogs and cats and other domestic pets is that they are someone’s pets The fact that they are not where they are supposed to be is not always the animal's fault The so-called strays is what I want to talk about or the shooting of these so- called strays to be exact. I have some friends who raise greyhounds and ma la mutes, all registered stock worth a lot of money They have put a pretty pen ny into pens and such to keep their dogs in and other dogs out. Well, they went out for the afternoon and came home to find one of their dags and a pup missing A hole had been dug. so they began to look for their dogs In the process they heard three shots. That be ing a common sound around these parts, no one paid much attention to them To make a long story short, th* dog was shot Needless to say. we have some very upset people ail the around, and 1 would just like to throw out a few suggestions to maybe pre vent this from happening again I, myself, would rather deal with the owner of a live dog or what have you, than a dead one But do not get me wrong There are «orne people who should not own dogs, and therefore the dog must psy What I dislike is dogs shot by people who do not have the slighest ides what they are doing and can hardly load a gun, much leas fire it. If you own a gun, then you dam well had better know how to use it. The best form of protec tion is prevention snd thst goes for all animal owners. Nothing can gat hurt if nothing can get at it. Karen RuaaeU □Moy
