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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016
‘What do you like best or enjoy most about the county fair?’
“There’s not enough
advertising. It came
awful fast. But prob-
ably the kids doing
the 4-H with their
animals. I think it’s a
good lesson for them.”
THE DAILY ASTORIAN // QUESTION OF THE WEEK
“I always enjoy
the music — the
different artists that
come, especially at
the Tillamook Fair.
And the rides are
amazing.”
Loretta Maxwell, Astoria
“Usually the live
music. I just like to
see it.”
John Hreha, Astoria
Cord Chase, Astoria
Cannon Beach celebrates National Night Out
see the new fire truck and
learn more about safety ini-
tiatives at the third annual
National Night Out .
“That’s one of the rea-
sons we do this event each
year, to get to know all of
you on a different level,”
Cannon Beach Police Chief
Jason Schermerhorn said to
the crowd. “It’s not as easy
to have a conversation with
us when you’re seeing us on
the road at a traffic stop.”
Food, raffle prizes and
A chance for
the community
to get to
know police
By LYRA FONTAINE
The Daily Astorian
CANNON BEACH —
About 100 people gathered
Tuesday night to talk with
officers, meet neighbors,
more were donated by local
organizations,
including
Seaside Rotary. The event
also had a Home Depot
woodworking station for
kids, a Community Emer-
gency Response Team booth
for residents to sign up and
free helmets.
There were about 40 peo-
ple at the 2014 event and 60
people last year.
“Each year gets better
and better,” Schermerhorn
said.
Schermerhorn thanked
event attendees, including
administrative
specialist
Valerie Mannix and officers
Chris Wilbur, James Jordan,
Joseph Bowman and Jodi
Symonds.
“It’s to meet new people
we haven’t met yet and we
partner with Home Depot
and the fire department so
kids can see us on another
level,” Schermerhorn said.
“We’re just as human as
they are.”
In light of recent national
tensions, Cannon Beach
Police Department con-
tinues to partner with the
Lower Columbia Diversity
Project.
“We send chiefs or differ-
ent officers to their meetings
to build communication so
we know what’s going on in
their communities and they
know what’s going on in
our community,” Schermer-
horn said. The department is
also working on strengthen-
ing the relationship between
police and Cannon Beach’s
Hispanic community. A bro-
chure on what residents can
expect from a traffic stop
was available at the event in
English and Spanish.
“We’re good at dealing
with different events but
it’s important to continue to
address that with the offi-
cers,” Schermerhorn said.
The police department
is planning a September
“Burger with a Cop” event.
Campaigns clash over how tax measure revenue could be used
Some fear a ‘blank check’ to Legislature
the measure — how the rev-
enue can be spent.
Initiative Petition 28 —
which is on track to be called
Measure 97 on the ballot —
would levy a 2.5 percent tax
on certain corporations’ Ore-
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
Two sides of a proposed
corporate sales tax on the
November ballot are clashing
over a fundamental tenet of
gon sales exceeding $25
million.
Our Oregon, the nonprofi t
group backing the proposal,
wrote in Section 3 of the ini-
tiative that revenue from the
tax “shall be used to provide
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
THURSDAY
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Mostly cloudy with a
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La Grande
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Baker
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Ontario
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Burns
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Brookings
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John Day
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Bend
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Medford
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Klamath Falls
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Lakeview
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Ashland
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Eugene
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Portland
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Astoria through Tuesday.
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Normal high/low ........................... 68°/54°
Record high ............................ 88° in 1939
Record low ............................. 45° in 1969
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additional funding for pub-
lic early childhood and kin-
dergarten through 12th grade
education, health care and ser-
vices for senior citizens.”
Opponents of the mea-
sure argue that passing the
tax is akin to writing a “blank
check” to the state Legisla-
ture, because the ballot mea-
sure is not constitutionally
binding.
That means that lawmak-
ers may spend the estimated
$3 billion in annual state rev-
enue from the tax for any pur-
pose they see fi t.
An opinion released Mon-
day by the nonpartisan Offi ce
of the Legislative Coun-
sel supports the opponents’
claim.
“Section 3 would not bind
a future L egislature in its
spending decisions,” wrote
Chief Legislative Counsel
Dexter Johnson in the opin-
ion issued to state Rep. John
Davis, R-Wilsonville. “If
Measure 97 becomes law, the
Legislative Assembly may
appropriate revenues gener-
ated by the measure in any
way it chooses.”
Only a constitutional
amendment could restrict
how the Legislature spends
the money, legislative counsel
concluded.
Katherine Driessen, a
spokeswoman for Our Ore-
gon, said the ballot measure
“spells out very clearly where
the revenue must go.”
“As with any law, the Leg-
islature would have to change
the law in order to spend the
money on anything else,”
Driessen said. “We believe
Lawmakers on the W ays
and M eans C ommittee have
said some of the revenue from
Measure 97 could be used to
help offset some $885 million
in projected cost increases
to the state’s public pension
program, known as the Pub-
lic Employees Retirement
System.
“It could be used for
reserves or PERS, if it’s
needed to,” said Rep. Peter
Buckley, D-Ashland, who
co-chairs the committee with
Devlin.
Driessen, Our Oregon
spokeswoman, said using
Measure 97 revenue for PERS
would confl ict with the intent
of the initiative.
But lawmakers say that
view denies the reality that
PERS is part of the budgets
for K-12, health care and
senior services.
“I could put a certain amount
into K-12 and say I’m not cov-
ering the PERS funds then the
school districts don’t have that
much in additional resources
because they do have to cover
the PERS costs, so it isn’t like
there is a barrier between these
two,” Devlin said.
Lawmakers also want to
have the fl exibility to repur-
pose revenue in the event of
an economic downturn or
other fi nancial crisis, in order
to avert layoffs or cuts in basic
services, Buckley said.
“You’re going to get this
from both sides,” Devlin said
of the battle over IP 28. “One
side is going to say the Leg-
islature can do whatever they
want with this so then you
shouldn’t approve the mea-
sure. The other side is going to
say: Voter, you’re going to get
everything you ever wanted if
you vote for the measure.”
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Theft
• At 12:23 a.m. Tuesday,
Clatsop County Sheriff’s Offi ce
arrested Jacob Allen Cox-Brown,
22, of Astoria, for second-degree
theft after he allegedly stole
LED light bars on July 23
from a location on Industrial
Avenue in the Astoria area.
Assault
• At 8:52 a.m. Friday, War-
renton Police arrested Gerald
L. McGee, 27, of Seaside, for
fourth-degree assault on the
800 block of Southeast Anchor
Avenue.
that with the billions needed
to boost our schools and crit-
ical services, any Legisla-
ture would be hard-pressed to
spend the money on anything
other than those areas.”
Sen. Richard Devlin,
D-Tualatin, co-chairman of
the joint legislative Com-
mittee on Ways and Means,
said going against voters’
wishes would stir up political
backlash.
“They could use it (IP 28
revenue) for anything they
want at their own peril,”
Devlin said. “If it passes, the
voters would have spoken
very clearly that they want
these things improved.”
The Legislature has modi-
fi ed ballot measures in the past
to fi x sections that didn’t work
or to add clarity, but generally
has adhered to the intent of
such laws, Devlin said.
For example, lawmakers
have made several tweaks to
Measure 91 legalizing recre-
ational marijuana since voters
approved the law in 2014.
“Obviously you’ll run into
some marijuana advocates
who’ll say we didn’t follow
what they’d hoped for, and
you’ll probably run into some
people who weren’t advocates
who said we went too far, but
I think the Legislature actu-
ally tried” to follow the spirit
of the law, Devlin said.
Proponents of the measure
and lawmakers already dis-
agree on interpretations of the
intent of Measure 97.
PERS costs
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DUII arrest
• At 1:11 a.m. Tuesday,
Clatsop County Sheriff’s
Offi ce arrested Jacob Ray
Farnham, 23, of Astoria, for
driving under the infl uence of
intoxicants near Blue Ridge
Drive in Astoria.
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WASHINGTON
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BIRTH
July 12, 2016
HARRIS, Brandi, and
WHITE, Raymond, of Asto-
ria, a boy, Robert Liam
White, born at Columbia
Memorial Hospital in Asto-
ria. Grandparents are Jeff
and Trena Bainer of Astoria,
Karrie and Brian Taylor and
Robert Baughman of Tilla-
mook and Duane and Tamy
Malcolm of Warrenton.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
WEDNESDAY
Seaside Improvement Com-
mission, 7 p.m., City Hall, 989
Broadway.
Gearhart City Council, 7 p.m.,
City Hall, 698 Pacifi c Way.
THURSDAY
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