JUNE 16, 2017, KEIZERTIMES, PAdE A11
TOBACCO,
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The latest trend the pair is
trying to catch up to is vaping.
“The idea that vaping is a
better choice than using to-
bacco in another form is just
erroneous. Taking superheated
liquid into your lungs is not
healthy,” Bouska said.
Vaping pens can also be used
to smoke cannabis oil without
the distinct associated odor.
Suneson said the general sci-
entifi c consensus is that vaping
is not the effective quitting tool
it is sometime sold as.
“More often people start
vaping and continue using tra-
ditional tobacco. The amount
of nicotine in vaping liquid is
also anybody’s guess,” Suneson
said.
Also, because a single vaping
tank can last for hours, it’s likely
that vapers are ingesting more
nicotine than they would oth-
FEE,
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uniforms and patrol cars or
even expanding outreach
programs like KPD’s annual
BLAST Camp, which fi lled up
in just two days last month.
KPD currently has 37 of-
fi cers, four fewer than it did a
decade ago, and the population
has only grown since that time.
The most cost-effective way
to collect the fee would be to
add it as a line item to exist-
ing utility bills. That method
erwise because they no longer
reach the natural end of a ciga-
rette, she added.
Currently, Oregon does not
require a license to sell tobacco
products – even though one is
required for selling Christmas
trees and owning a dog – but
that is the part Marion County
health would like to change.
Proposed legislation at the state
level often gets hung up in the
process, so MCHD is advocat-
ing for local jurisdictions to
take up the issue.
It would start by establish-
ing a citywide tobacco retailer
licensing program and that
would allow enforcement of
associated rules, which could
range from regular audits of the
kind OHA performs to even
increasing the purchasing age
to 21. Suneson said roughly 90
percent of underage tobacco
users are supplied by those age
18 to 21.
While middle school and
high school students learn how
to avoid things like peer pres-
sure and deconstruct advertis-
ing campaigns, which are es-
sential skills, more could be
done to protect youth from the
dangers of tobacco use, Bouska
said.
“We have the tendency to
put the onus of refusal on the
youth, and their frontal lobe
that includes reasoning and
logic are still developing until
the age of 25,” she said. “The
economy is important, but at
what health cost? And what
could the (policy) umbrella do
for our youth?”
Suneson suggested put-
ting yourself in the shoes of a
15-year-old with all the power
of Google in your pocket.
“If you’re 15 and do a quick
Google search on vaping you
will fi nd arguments on both
sides,” Suneson said.
Choosing which to believe,
at a young age, is likely a bet-
ter refl ection of desire than in-
formed decision-making, she
said.
has taken fi re when it came to
establishing a fee for parks, but
it wasn’t even broached during
the meeting Monday.
Resident Rhonda Rich told
the council it would be “wise”
to put the fee before voters in
the form of a ballot measure,
but the city would have to wait
until May 2018 to do so with-
out additional cost.
That didn’t sit well with
Mayor Cathy Clark.
“I appreciate the concerns
about fi nances and the ability
(for households) to absorb the
increase in cost. I also appreci-
ate the voice of an election. The
reason, at this point, I feel we
need to move forward with the
audience is timing. For me, this
has waited too long,” Clark said.
Without addressing the spe-
cifi cs of a vote, a timeframe
for the fee to begin being col-
lected, or the methodology by
which it will be collected, all
the other counselors chimed in
with support.
The ordinance the council
directed city staff to draft will
include opportunities to raise
the fee for infl ation-related
reasons.
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SUPPORT: ‘They need to
feel safe and secure’
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“In 2008, we had 41 offi cers and Chief
(John) Teague left for a position in Dallas and
that was frozen. Then the positions of the next
three offi cers who left were frozen. Failing to
adequately fund police puts citizens and police
offi cers at higher risk,” Adams said.
Adams’ point about offi cer safety was picked
up by Garry Whalen, a former city councilor
and longtime volunteer on city committees.
“They need to feel safe and secure to per-
form their sometime dangerous duties,” Wha-
len said.
Whalen also suggested a 90-day lead time
between the approval of the fee and the begin-
ning of collection so that residents can adjust
their budgets accordingly, especially given that
landlords will likely pass along the costs to ten-
ants.
Ken Gierloff spoke as president of the
Southeast Keizer Neighborhood Association
and said the group supports both a police and
parks fee, but police should take precedence.
“Chief Teague has done a wonderful job of
stretching resources, but I think we’ve reached
the tensile strength of that line,” Gierloff said.
Echoes of Gierloff ’s testimony could be
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After resident Rhonda Rich advocated for
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decide, another resident, Matt Lawyer, put the
ball back in the court of the council.
“You are the elected body and you have the
ability to make these choices. I respect the need
to have that voice but it’s why you all are here,”
Lawyer said.
The city council has the ability to impose a
fee without a vote.
After declining to speak on the issue earlier
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