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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2015
WorkaEle funding plan eludes transportation panel
options
that could
actual-
ly gain
enough
support
to pass in
the Leg-
islature.
“ I t
Cliff Bentz
seemed
to me the committee should
Ee focusing its time on what
it was that had caused the
last effort, the 2015 transpor-
tation package, to go off the
track, and should look at that
carefully and say, ‘OK, what
happened?’” said Bentz, who
was a memEer of the Eiparti-
san group of lawmakers from
the Oregon House and Senate
known as the “Gang of Eight”
who met with Brown Eehind
closed doors to craft the 2015
funding transportation fund-
ing proposal. Bentz was also
among the lawmakers who
crafted a 2009 transportation
funding package known as
the Oregon -oEs and Trans-
portation $ct, which has al-
lowed the state to spent $3.7
Eillion on transportation proj-
ects, according to the Oregon
By HILLARY BORRUD
Capital Bureau
$ suEcommittee of GoY.
Kate Brown’s transportation
panel spent the last month
learning aEout Yarious op-
tions to ¿ nance highway
maintenance and other state
transportation projects, Eut
the group has yet to identify
whether any of those options
would work.
Each transportation panel
suEcommittee has only a cou-
ple remaining meetings sched-
uled. The group is supposed to
present recommendations to
the goYernor Ey March.
2ne of the ¿ nance suE-
committee memEers, state
Rep. Cliff Bentz, R-Ontario,
has grown impatient with re-
Yiewing a list of transporta-
tion funding ideas state of¿ -
cials reYisit eYery few years.
Bentz said that during the
latest meeting of the panel’s
¿ nance suEcommittee on Oct.
22, he suggested the group
could learn from an attempt
to pass a transportation fund-
ing package in the 2015 leg-
islatiYe session. That might
help the group narrow down
Department of Transportation
weEsite.
The 2015 transportation
package lost support soon after
its release when Oregon De-
partment of Transportation di-
rector Matt Garrett said during
a hearing that the plan would
result in a smaller reduction in
greenhouse gas emissions than
the agency originally estimat-
ed, and therefore would not
cut emissions as much as the
low-carEon fuel standard that
would haYe Eeen repealed un-
der the deal. There is little to no
prospect that lawmakers will
attempt to pass a transportation
funding package in 2016, when
they will meet in Salem for a
short session that lasts approxi-
mately one month.
$t the end of the 2015
session, RepuElican law-
makers remained opposed
to any increase in the state
gas tax — currently 30 cents
per gallon — as long as the
state’s low-carEon fuel stan-
dard remained in law, Eecause
RepuElicans consider it to Ee
a hidden gas tax that would
disproportionately effect ru-
ral Oregonians. State regula-
tors expect the fuel standard,
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certi¿ cation training through the EYergreen
Safety Council , which meets Oregon, Washing-
ton, Idaho and Montana requirements.
This one-day training is 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Saturday at the college’s main campus, 1651
Lexington $Ye. in $storia.
The cost is $90, and students must preregis-
ter and pay at least two days Eefore class. Regis-
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GoYernor’s Transportation Vi-
sion Panel, said the transpor-
tation ¿ nance suEcommittee
has so far discussed the these
following funding strategies
and others:
• Increases in the state gas
tax and Yehicle registration
fees, Eoth of which were in-
cluded in the 2015 transporta-
tion funding package propos-
al, along with a surcharge on
driYer’s licenses.
• Payroll tax: this tax,
which is paid Ey employers
and self-employed indiYidu-
als, already proYides money
for some puElic transit agen-
cies including TriMet.
• Transportation utili-
ty commission: a Eody that
would set tax rates necessary
to coYer the cost of the state’s
transportation system, instead
of relying on local and state
elected of¿ cials to set taxes.
The model would Ee similar
to the way the state PuElic
Utility Commission oYersees
utility rates, although in the
past there haYe Eeen concerns
aEout whether the Legislature
could delegate its authority to
set tax rates to an executiYe
Eranch agency.
No clamming until at least December
EO Media Group
LONG BE$CH, Wash. —
Razor clam season on south
Washington Eeaches will re-
main closed until at least early
DecemEer due to lingering ef-
fects of a marine toxin Eloom
that Eegan late this spring.
“The latest razor clam do-
moic acid results just came
in and they are still eleYat-
ed at Eoth Long Beach and
Twin HarEors, which means
the earliest we might open
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Burns
25/46
Medford
42/55
go Eack home and say, ‘How
do you want me to ¿ nd money
for your roads?’ ... There was
Eig enthusiasm for the next
meeting.”
The GoYernor’s Trans-
portation Vision Panel was
initially created Ey then-GoY.
John KitzhaEer in DecemEer
2014 and recently reactiYated
Ey Brown. The group is tasked
with recommending Eoth
short and long-term strategies
to pay for maintenance and
improYements to the state’s
transportation system. ODOT
created a weEsite for the GoY-
ernor’s Transportation Vision
Panel, Yisionpanel.wordpress.
com, where the agency posted
some of the panel’s agendas
and meeting information. The
next ¿ nance suEcommittee
meeting is tentatiYely sched-
uled for NoY. 10.
TraYis Brouwer, assistant
director of ODOT, said the
¿ nance suEcommittee might
need to meet three more times
— including NoY. 10 — Ee-
fore it can issue recommenda-
tions.
Brouwer and Sam Haffner,
and ODOT employee serYing
as project manager for the
that ¿ shery will Ee early De-
cemEer at least on those two
Eeaches. We are still waiting
for the Copalis and Mocrocks
results,” Washington Coastal
Shell¿ sh Manager Dan $yres
said Thursday .
LeYels of the toxin, which
causes amnesic shell¿ sh poi-
soning, must Ee Eelow 20 parts
per million in razor clams for
two tests in a row Eefore a sea-
son opening is allowed.
Clamming is one of West-
ern Washington’s most popu-
lar traditional outdoor actiY-
ities, attracting thousands to
Eeaches in what is otherwise
an economic off-season. Can-
cellation of an entire season
has Eeen estimated to keep
at least $10 million in direct
spending out of coastal cash
registers and Eank accounts.
The Long Beach Peninsula
and the Twin HarEors Eeach
Eetween the mouths of Wil-
lapa Bay and Grays HarEor
account for the majority of
clamming in most years.
North Coast Home Care hosts open house
Ontario
40/55
Bend
28/45
which takes effect in Janu-
ary, will result in a gas price
increase of 4 to 19 cents per
gallon oYer the next decade.
Democrats in the Legislature
haYe said they would not con-
sider repealing the fuel stan-
dard unless it is replaced Ey
a program that would reduce
greenhouse gas emissions Ey
the same amount.
“I said, ‘Where do we get
the Yotes?’” Bentz said of the
meeting last week. “It’s one
thing to talk aEout mayEes and
what ifs. It’s another to talk
aEout the political challenges
that face people when they go
Eack to their communities.”
Speci¿ cally, Bentz said
“any conYersation now that’s
going to deal with roads has
to take into consideration cli-
mate.” Bentz also said “it’s not
possiEle to ignore state actions
that increase the cost of fuel
when you’re talking aEout an-
other state action that’s going
to increase the cost of fuel,
like a gas tax.”
Bentz said the end of the
meeting was “Yery productiYe,
Eecause we started for the ¿ rst
time to focus on the challeng-
es politicians face when they
North Coast Home Care, a
local medical supply compa-
ny, is celeErating its 20th an-
niYersary in $storia and 30th
in Eusiness.
The company is inYiting
the puElic to an open house
and celeEration from noon
to 4 p.m. )riday at 2230 Ex-
change St., the former Owl
Drug Euilding.
Owners Larry and Linda
Slawson started North Coast
Home Care in Tillamook in
1985 and haYe had an $storia
location since 1995. The com-
pany ¿ ts people for wheel-
chairs, home oxygen systems
Birth
Oct. 19, 2015
W,/S21, 7racy and Dan, oI $storia, a girl, Charlotte $nne Wilson, Eorn at ColumEia Memo-
rial Hospital in $storia. Grandparents are )red and Melinda ShacNelIord oI DaYidson, 1.C., and
$llan and $lison Wilson oI ShrewsEury, England.
Death
Oct. 28, 2015
KING, Nancy Ellen, 73, of Seaside, died in Hammond. Hughes-Ransom Mortuary is in charge
of the arrangements.
Public meetings
MONDAY
Youngs River Lewis & Clark Water Dis-
trict Board, 6 p.m., 34583 U.S. Highway 101
Business.
Astoria City Council, 7 p.m., City Hall,
1095 Duane St.
Fronts
TUESDAY
Cannon Beach Public Works Committee,
Cold
Warm
Stationary
and other equipment. Its staff
includes respiratory thera-
pists, deliYery driYers, re-
pair technicians and 24-hour
emergency repair.
The company is accredited
with the Healthcare Quality
$ssociation for $ccreditation.
)or more information, Yis-
it www.nchc.net
9 a.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower St.
Clatsop Care Health District Board,
noon, special meeting, Clatsop Care Memory
Community, 2219 S.E. Dolphin Road, Warren-
ton.
Port of Astoria Commission, 5 p.m.,
worNshop, old 3ort oI¿ ces, 422 Gateway $Ye.
Cannon Beach City Council, 6 p.m., City
Hall, 163 E. Gower St.
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