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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2016
Tax opponents say measure’s description misleading
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Opponents
of a corporate sales tax mea-
sure on the November ballot
have asked election oficials
to remove draft language from
the voters’ pamphlet that says
the revenue would be spent
on education, health care and
senior services.
Rep. John Davis, R-Wil-
sonville, was one of at least
three people who made sim-
ilar requests to the Financial
Estimate Committee on Ini-
tiative Petition 28 as part of
public comments on the pro-
posed language. The initiative,
backed by the nonproit Our
Oregon, is on track to be called
Measure 97 on the ballot.
The measure levies a 2.5
percent tax on certain corpo-
rations’ Oregon sales exceed-
ing $25 million and
care and services for
would generate an
senior citizens.”
estimated $3 billion
But Davis and
a year in new rev-
others say that state-
enue, according to
ment conlicts with
the Legislative Rev-
reality.
enue Ofice.
Davis based his
The proposed
request on an opin-
inancial
impact
ion Monday from
statement
that
the nonpartisan Leg-
would appear in the Rep. John Davis, islative Counsel’s
voters’ guide says
Ofice that concludes
R-Wilsonville
“the increased rev-
the measure effec-
enue will require increased tively places no restrictions on
expenditures by the state in lawmakers from spending the
the areas of public early child- revenue on other things.
hood and kindergarten through
The Legislature “may
grade 12 education, health appropriate revenues gener-
care, and senior services.”
ated by the measure in any
That comports with the way it chooses,” the opinion
measure’s text, stating that stated.
revenue from the tax “shall
Davis wrote in an email
be used to provide additional that based on the opinion, the
funding for public early child- draft language is “both fac-
hood and kindergarten through tually incorrect and also mis-
12th grade education, health leading to the public.”
In all likelihood, most, if
not all of the money, would
be used for the intended pur-
poses, said Rep. Peter Buck-
ley, D-Ashland, one of the
Legislature’s chief budget
writers. Education is the state’s
largest budget line, and the
costs of health care programs
are anticipated to climb next
year, Buckley said.
“If lawmakers want to
spend the money elsewhere,
they would have to change the
law,” said Katherine Driessen,
an Our Oregon spokeswoman.
“Speculation about whether
they will or they won’t is just
that. Given the dire funding
crisis our critical services are
facing, we expect they will
be hard-pressed to change
the law to spend the money
on anything other than our
schools, healthcare, and senior
services.”
At least two others have
echoed Davis’s request for
a change to the language in
the voters’ pamphlet: Greg-
ory Chaimov, a former leg-
islative counsel and attorney
for the opposition campaign
Defeat the Tax on Oregon
Sales, and John Tapogna of
ECONorthwest.
The draft language “would
lead a voter to believe that
Measure 97 revenue would be
earmarked exclusively for pre-
K-12, health care and senior
services, and that the revenue
would supplement, and would
not supplant, current spend-
ing on those services. For
legal and technical reasons,
that’s unlikely to be the case,”
Tapaogna wrote.
Melissa Unger, politi-
cal director for SEIU Local
503, said the voters’ pamphlet
should relect how the mea-
sure requires the revenue to be
used.
“Clearly stating that the
measure requires funds to
these four speciic areas is a
key component to the measure
and should be included and
clearly stated,” Unger wrote.
Two committees respon-
sible for writing the inancial
impact statement and explan-
atory statement in the vot-
ers’ pamphlet are scheduled
to meet Friday and Monday to
consider the public comments
and whether to make changes.
“Section 3 of the measure
very clearly spells out where
the money will go, and that’s
early education, k-12 edu-
cation, senior services, and
healthcare,” Driessen said.
“We expect the committee will
agree with us on that because
that would clearly be the law
once Measure 97 passes.”
Text-to-911: Current technology blocks photos, videos
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“Barring anything unfore-
seen, the state anticipates roll-
ing it out region by region and
within two years we should be
border-to-border,” Rusiecki
said.
Call irst
Astoria Dispatch prac-
ticed sending more than 500
text messages to make sure
the technology works for all
cellphone providers. So far,
the dispatch center has only
received two text messages
from residents. One was acci-
dentally sent, and another was
for a reported drunken driver.
Dispatcher Candace Pozdol-
ski said receiving the text mes-
sage on the drunken driver took
much longer than a call. She
recalls being on the phone with
Oregon State Police waiting
to dispatch them while quietly
waiting for a reply text. Dis-
patchers have some automatic
replies set up, such as “Clatsop
County 911, what is the loca-
tion of your emergency?” Once
a conversation is started, dis-
patchers must reply as quickly
as they can.
“It takes a little while
because you have to type your
thoughts,” Pozdolski said.
“It’s not as effective, but if
it’s going to help save some-
one who is locked in the closet
with a burglar in the house,
then it is worth it.”
Dispatch centers strongly
Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
Astoria Police Department Dispatcher Candace Pozdolski demonstrates how the new text-to-911 technology works on
Tuesday in the Astoria Police Department.
encourage people to call irst,
if possible.
Besides slower response,
texting 911 has other down-
sides. Pinpointing the loca-
tion of a text on a map is less
accurate, dispatchers do not
get audio clues in the back-
ground that help understand
a situation, and text mes-
sages can include confusing
abbreviations.
Each dispatch center in the
pilot project agreed on com-
mon abbreviations such as
“st.” for street and “hwy.” for
highway. Dispatchers are ask-
ing the public to text as clearly
as possible, which means no
slang and no emojis.
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Beneits
The current technology
blocks photographs and vid-
eos. If necessary, Rusiecki
said, dispatchers can retrieve
photos or videos from the sys-
tem. Eventually, accepting
multimedia will be automatic.
“There will be beneits if
someone is able to take a pic-
ture of a suspect or a license
plate,” Rusiecki said.
The texting capability sim-
ply gives people another way
to contact 911. The most com-
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“We are going to have to
clarify and that is going to take
time,” Pozdolski said. “We just
ask everyone to use clear text.”
mon uses for texts involve
domestic violence, suicide
attempts, kidnappings, home
invasions and active shooters.
As an example, Rusiecki
said, the need for texting
911 was apparent during the
Orlando shooting in June. Peo-
ple were hiding in the night-
club and texting their relatives
to call 911 while the shooter
was in the building. Dispatch-
ers were talking to people who
were texting their loved ones.
“It can get complicated
very quickly,” Rusiecki said.
While texting helps dis-
patch centers catch up with a
generation accustomed to such
communication, dispatchers
do not expect to be looded
with texts.
Rusiecki said nationwide
numbers show dispatch centers
are successfully handling texts
without getting overwhelmed.
“Nobody is inundated by
this by any means,” he said.
During the pilot project, the
seven emergency call centers
are using a third-party system,
TeleCommunication Systems.
Astoria Dispatch is work-
ing to use its own system
through the network known
as Next Generation 9-1-1. The
plan is to get every dispatch
center in the state on the net-
work so text messages can be
easily transferred from center
to center.
“The connectivity is what
is missing,” Rusiecki said.
“That’s where it’s heading.”
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