SANDY
Vol 77 No 21
OREGON
THURSDAY MAY 21
1987
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I S P S INI I m i
Council delays budget decision
by SCOTT NEWTON
Stall w rite r
Nearly 80 pimple turned out for the
Sandy City Council meeting Monday
night to protest possible cuts in
senior citizen and recreation pro
grams. but the council delayed a
decision on a proposed city budget
until June 1.
Many people at the budget hearing
Monday evening asked the City • oun-
cil to fund programs at current
levels The city budget committee,
which is made up of members of the
City Council and an equal numtiei of
citizens, voted las, month to take
$38,941 from senior citizen programs
and $17.794 from recreation pro
grams and put that money in the
street fund
About 30 citizens protested the cuts
in front of City Hall Monday after
noon by marching and carrying
signs
Howard Herger, chairm an of the
Sandy Senior Center advisory com
mittee, told the council Monday night
that he opposed elim inating the
"valuable human services" that the
center offers
Young people also need supervised
activities, he said
" I don't think it's wise to take
dollars away from either program ."
Berger said
A lot of these seniors
made Sandy what it is. and we owe
them some support
Glenda Nelson, contract manager
of the Clackamas County Area Agen
cy on Aging, said she realized the city
was facing economic constraints, but
she said the senior citizen population
was growing, not decreasing
She said outreach programs were
solving complex problems fated by
senior citizens. She said transporta
tion and lunch programs also were
valuable services
Christine Bierman-Christiansen, a
member of the Sandy Recreation
Commission, said it seemed inconsis
tent for the City Council to work so
hard on juvenile crim e issues and
then cut recreation programs for
young people.
Bierman-Christiansen presented a
petition signed by 141 people who op
posed cuts to the recreation pro
gram Dorothie Bernard presented a
p e titio n w ith m o re th a n 230
signatures protesting the cuts to
senior citizen programs
George Berg, a budget committee
member and a senior citizen, said the
senior center should depend more on
volunteers
by SCOTT NEW TON
Staff w riter
Senior citizens picketed City Hall Monday in protest m is to the Sandy Senior ( enter and recreation programs
I believe
there are enough paid
people here that it keeps some people
out who would volunteer
Berg said he had no complaint
about the job the paid staff d ir s but
he said the budget committee was
trying to hold down costs
It's rough Wc hate to do it. but
it's got to be done " he said
After the meeting. Brad Paluck. a
member of tin- budget committee,
said that some committee members
thought Sandy residents would not
tolerate the city taking the full 6 per
cent increase allowed for its tax base
plus implementing a 2-cent per
gallon gasoline tax
The City Council had at one time
considered implementing a gasoline
tax without a vote of Sandy residents
Members of the budge, committee
convinced the council to put the gas
tax on ttie ballot Voters w ill decide
the issue in tie June m a il-in e le ctio n
City Councilor k ir r y 1’ uck said
aftei Monday s meeting that fie was
not opposed to the senior citizen pro
grains lie said fie was dissatisfied
with the way City Manager loin
HefxT planned to Implement the
cuts
Buck told the audience Monday
night that he was opposed to the
salaries being paid lb ' said lie talked
to a senior center d ire c to r in
Port bind w ho was making $22,000 per
year plus $H, j 00 in fringe benefits
B uck said the d ire c to r yt . o m m u n i-
ty
services
in Sandy
is making
$40,IKMl and lias a il assista nt who is
m a k in g $2a,0t>0 a ye a r
According to city Finance Director
June Peterson the director of colli
munity servo es, Sandra Potter Mar
quardt. is paid $28,216 per year plus
$,'.,' trt in frm . c benefits for a total of
$15,'*>4 Nancy Enabrit. recreation
d ire c to i. makes $16.212 plus $5,557 in
fringe benefits (or a total of $21,769
Potter Marquardt said that she is a
department head and thus has more
responsibility than the director of a
senior center
Heber said Potter Marquardt s pay
was comparable to that of the seven
other department heads in the city of
Sandy
Buck said he toured the Gresham
Senior Center and was impressed
I he G resh am S enior C en te r
receiv es no tax dollars anil they offer
as many activities as we offer here
It's all volunteer."
Man charged in Sandy I Iigli barn fire
A 20-year-old Sandy man was arrested Friday
in connection with a Jan 12 barn fire on Sandy
High School property that resulted in damages
of about $8.000
Michael I) M iller. 382IMI Nettie Connett Drive
has been charged with second-degree arson anti
second-degree burglary, saitl Jim Gallagher,
fire marshal of the Sandy T ire D istrict
The Sandy Eire D istrict investigated the cause
of the fire anil the Oregon St.ite Police arson
d iv is io n con du cte d the crim inal investigation.
Gallagher saitl Sandy poin t w e n at the scene
when M iller was a rre s te d F rid a y i n o r i a i n it bi
home
M iller was taken to the Clackamas Counts
jail, where he was lodged until Monday He wa
released into the custody of his mothei saitl
Huss W illiams, public information ftn el lo r the
Clackamas County Sheriff's Office
An mtlii lin e n , against M iller was handed
down by a Clackamas County grant! jury on
April 23. Gallagher said
The roof ami loft of the barn received the most
damage in the Ian 12 fire, which t x t urred about
IP p m
Gallagher saitl the building was worth an
estimated $12.000 and th.tt it hail received $6.0,10
worth of damage
Small animal cages, portable bleat hers anti
other contents were damaged in the fire, w itti an
estim ated loss value of $ ' immi , i i.dlagher saitl
Diane Tiller, president of the San
dy Area Chamber of Commerce, said
it was not fa ir to compare senior
citizen programs in different coun
ties because counties have different
ways of funding programs
Id le r said the chamber board was
opposed to the cuts in senior citizen
programs
1 talked to a lot of people who
would rather drive through potholes
than have senior center services
c u t," T ille r said
Mayor Deane Wesselmk told the
group the council would make a deci
sion at a spet lal meeting May 26. but
Heber told I he Post on Tuesday that
council members would wait until the
regular meeting June 1 because a
council member was planning to be
out of town May 26
A Gresham woman died Sunday
when the car in which she was ruling
left the road anti struck a tree near
Sandy
The accident occurred on Marmot
Hoatl northeast of Sandy
k ittle Margaret Folantl, 68. of
118.36 Proctor St.. died at the scene,
saitl Huss Williams, public inform a
tion officer for the ( Tackamas County
Sheriff’s ( Ifflce
The woman's husbantl. Eugene Ed
ward Folantl. 71. was the driver of
W hat was in te re s tin g was th a t we
hail virtually hundreds of volunteers
from every walk of life roll up their
sleeves and work hard We had
farmers, truck drivers, bankers ami
real estate agents." Brooks saitl
Header boards up anti down
Turn to S ill HIT E. Page 4.
the car He was taken to Providence
Metln al Center where he was treated
for m inor injuries ami released
The Folands were in a 1973
Cadillac Mrs Folantl was wearing a
lap seat belt, W illiams said
The car went around a curve into
the opposite lane left the roadway
anil struck a tree No other vehicles
were involved
The accident tx t urred about 3'
miles east of the intersection of Mar
mot Hoad and Shipley Hoatl
Power
pole
down
where to go from here. Morrison
salt)
The board recently hired a new
superintendent. Judy Warren, who is
cu rre n tly p rin c ip a l at Firw ood
School in Sandy in addition. Jerry
McMahan is due to join the board in
July.
Power lines were draped
over Highway 26 Thursday
when a truck and trailer,
driven by Thomas Lyle
Wilson of Prineville, hit a
pole as he was pulling up to
ihe c u rb on P io n e e r
Boulevard n ear Beers
Avenue. According to a
Sandy police report, the
pole was leaning at about a
20 percent angle when the
truck pulled up to the curb
Traffic was tied up briefly
as one lane was closed.
*\\ t il litivc t<> meet
¡iiui see w here to tin
from here.'
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Morrison said Mt Mahan and DaV'
Enna, another board member, had
spoken to several local groups in an
a tte m p t to g a rn e r support
A
telephone campaign as conducted
anti several people put out signs on
the highway seeking support
Morrison said she wonders if peo
ple were confusetl by the school
safety-net measure, which also was
on the ballot anil was approved by
voters statewule
The d istrict received an updated
tax base in 1684
The Clackamas County Sheriff's
Office w ill return to business as usual
after a m ajority of voters marked
their ballots in favor of a three-year
serial levy on Tuesday
According to the unofficial filia l
results from the Clackamas County
Elections Office, 30.137 people voted
yes" anil 15,253 voted no" on the
levy request Absentee ballots were
being counted Wednesday
Everyone is pretty happy." said
Huss W illiam s, public inform ation of
ficer for the sheriff's office
We've
got a place to work today
The sheriff's office faced layoffs
after its proposed levy suffered a
narrow tie,eat in March If the
sheriff's levy had failed at the polls
Tuesday, even app ro val of an
emergency levy would no, have oc
curred in tim e to keep the sheriff s of
fice from shutting down at least tem
porarily
The three-year serial levy, which
replaces one approved in 1984. was
for $33 8 m illion, or $11,275.585 per
year The lax rate per $1.000 of
assessed valuation w ill increase
from $1 20 to $1 34
Brooks cut more than $1 m illion
from the levy after it failed at the
polls in March I he loss was the first
at the ballot box for the sheriff’s o f
fice
Sheriff B ill Brooks told The Post on
Monday that if the sheriff's levy was
approved, it would lie because of the
efforts of a political action com m it
tee called Citizens for Effective k iw
Enforcement
The political action committee was
headed by an Oregon City doctor,
Craig Smith, and a Clackamas
la w y e i. Dean Eitzwater
Brooks saitl Citizens for Effective
I,aw
E n fo rc e m e n t
g a rn e re d
numerous endorsements from city
councils, chambers of commerce anti
other groups
Gresham w om an killed
in accident outside Sandy
V oters reject levy
for Welches school
Voters in Hoodland rejected a
Welches School D istrict levy by a
m argin of 347 to 279 in Tuesday s
election, according to unofficial filia l
results from the Clat kamas Count
Elections Office
Absentee b a llo ts w ere being
counted Wednesday
Voters were asked to approve a
one-year operating levy of $105.140
The levy would have increased the
tax rate jw r $1.000 of assessed valua
tion from $4 50 to 5 25. a 16 percent in
crease
Superintendent Dan Barker said
the d istrict asked for the operating
levy because increased enrollments
hatl caused a neetl for additional staff
members anti additional supplies anti
equipment
In preparing for the current school
year, the district planned for 360
students but has had as many as 404.
Barker said The d istrict expects to
have 420 students next year, which
compares w ith 3UH students in the fall
of 1983
Dawn Morrison, chairwoman of
the Welches school board, said she
was disappointed at the loss
"W e've had a lot of changes It
would have made things a Io, simpler
if the levy hail passed We ll board
members i have to meet and see
S h e r iffs
levy tía in s
a p p ro v a l
Photo by S< ott Newton