The
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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