THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2015
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Voters given option to renew
Consult a
tax for Seaside School District PROFESSIONAL
Programs at
risk should
option tax fail
HOW TO VOTE
Voters can turn in their
ballots at several local drop
sites:
• Clatsop County Clerk
& Elections Office, 820
Exchange St., Suite 220,
Astoria
• Cannon Beach City Hall,
163 E. Gower
• Gearhart City Hall, 698
Pacific Way
• Seaside City Hall, 989
Broadway
By KATHERINE
LACAZE
EO Media Group
SEASIDE — A special
election Nov. 3 will give vot-
ers in Seaside School District
the option to renew a ¿ve-
year local option tax to fund
operations at the district’s
four schools.
Ballots were sent out
Wednesday, and voters have
until Nov. 3 to turn them in.
The question on the bal-
lot asks if the district should
renew its 0.52 tax per $1,000
of assessed property value for
¿ve years beginning 201-1.
The measure would renew
a tax in place since 2000 to
support the school district,
which includes Seaside High
School, Broadway Middle
School, Seaside Heights Ele-
mentary School and Gearhart
Elementary School for stu-
dents from Seaside, Gearhart
and Cannon Beach. This is
the fourth time voters have
the option to renew the levy,
according to Superintendent
Doug Dougherty.
If the measure is approved,
the levy will be renewed at
the same rate for the next ¿ve
years, starting with school
year 201-1. 5esidents will
not see an increase because
of the local option tax.
According to the state’s
Department of 5evenue, most
taxing districts are allowed to
ask their patrons for tempo-
rary taxing authority above
the permanent rate limitation.
This authority is known as a
“local option tax.” Local op-
All drop sites will be open
until 8 p.m. on Election Day
to receive ballots. For more
information, visit www.
co.clatsop.or.us/clerk/page/
elections.
Submitted Photo
Erin Jackson, left, and Lori Lum, members of the Vote For
Kids committee, hold up signs of support for renewing a
local option tax for Seaside School District 10 during a
football game. The tax will be up for vote during a special
election Nov. 3.
‘Good education leads to
good community.’
Lori Lum, co-chairwoman, Vote for Kids
tion taxes are limited to ¿ve
years for operations and up to
10 years for capital construc-
tion purposes.
2verall, more than $.5
million would be raised
through the local option tax.
This estimate is based on
current data available from
the Clatsop County assessor.
Seaside’s total school budget
for 2015-1 was Must over
$21 million.
The additional revenue
has to be used for operation-
al costs, or to maintain cur-
rent programs, services and
staf¿ng levels at the schools
— items that directly impact
students’ classroom experi-
ence. It helps offset the costs
of extracurricular activities
and sports, which are “very
attractive to prospective
teachers” and help the dis-
trict bring in and retain qual-
ity teachers, Dougherty said.
If the measure does not
pass, the district will need to
make reductions in programs
and increase class sizes.
Co-chairwoman
Lori
Lum of the Vote For Kids
committee, said she believes
the measure “is vital to the
school district.” The com-
mittee, established about four
months ago, raises awareness
for the measure through pre-
sentations, handing out infor-
mation and setting up signs.
Lum has four children in the
school district and has seen
the positive bene¿ts of the
additional revenue, but she
said she would still be in fa-
vor, even if she didn’t.
“Good education leads to
good community,” Lum said.
“I’m all for a greater, stron-
ger community and educat-
ing our kids.”
The local option levy is
not related to building new
school facilities at a different
location. A bond measure to
do so was proposed in 2013
and failed. Dougherty has
said the district likely will
present a new bond measure
some time in the next year
and a half. 5enewing the lo-
cal option tax is the ¿rst con-
cern, however.
“We’ve been trying to
keep that separate,” Dough-
erty said.
Wyden talks gun ‘rights and responsibility’
By ANTONIO SIERRA
East Oregonian
B2A5DMAN — In the
wake of the Umpqua Com-
munity College shooting,
the national debate over gun
control and mental health
has centered around 5ose-
burg.
In his first town hall
meeting since a 2-year-old
man killed nine people, U.S.
Sen. 5on Wyden carried on
that debate in Boardman on
Sunday.
Some in the crowd were
decidedly anti-gun control,
with one man saying school
shootings were the result
of people not being able to
protect themselves because
they’re in “gun-free zones.”
According to The Orego-
nian, UCC is not a gun-free
zone and students with guns
and concealed firearm per-
mits were on campus at the
time of the shooting.
Wyden said legislators
must find a way to balance
“rights and responsibility,”
finding a sweet spot between
protecting citizens’ Second
Amendment rights while
also closing loopholes like
straw purchases.
Irrigon resident Sue Oli-
ver asked Wyden about the
federal government’s ban on
funding for gun violence re-
search.
The Democrat said the
law was introduced by for-
mer U.S. 5ep. -ay Dickey,
an Arkansas 5epublican who
recently told the Huffington
Post that he has since re-
AP File Photo
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, shown here speaking
on Capitol Hill in June 2013, held a town hall Sunday in
Boardman where the audience questioned him on gun
control and Planned Parenthood funding.
gretted pushing the law after
mass shootings like the one
at UCC.
Despite early discussion
focusing on gun control,
questions from the audience
soon veered into questions
and comments about mental
health.
Wyden asked for com-
ments from George Shimer,
a school resources officer
for the Boardman Police De-
partment and the husband of
5iverside High School Prin-
cipal Marie Shimer.
Shimer said he would like
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ed to be a better warning
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gerous people with mental
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Morrow County Sher-
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county since the state closed
the Blue Mountain 5ecovery
Center and Eastern Oregon
Training Center, with one
of the closest facilities be-
ing the -uniper 5idge Acute
Care Center in -ohn Day.
“They broke something
on purpose and had no fix at
all,” he said. “That’s what’s
frustrating.”
Morrow County Court
-udge Terry Tallman said
increasing mental health op-
portunities was one of the
county’s top priorities.
The audience requested
answers for other hot top-
ics, like the recent inves-
tigation by Congress into
Planned Parenthood after an
anti-abortion group accused
the organization of illegally
selling fetal tissue.
Wyden said he supported
a woman’s right to abortion
but also supported alterna-
tives like family planning,
foster care and adoption.
A local physician’s assis-
tant said the federal govern-
ment should direct its family
planning dollars to clinics
that provide those services
without doing abortions in-
stead of Planned Parenthood.
Wyden countered with
the fact that none of the fed-
eral government money that
goes to Planned Parenthood
pays for abortions.
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