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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 2017
Bill would eliminate obsolete boards, commissions
Some boards
venture deeply
into esoterica
By CLAIRE
WITHYCOMBE
and PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — A bill in the
state Legislature would do
away with a dozen obsolete
state boards and commis-
sions, ranging from the Base-
ball Advisory Committee to
the Task Force on Military
Families.
According to a list com-
piled by the Legislative Pol-
icy and Research Offi ce last
year, the state has more than
250 boards and commissions,
some of which venture deep
into bureaucratic esoterica,
such as the Board of Denture
Technology and the Board of
Electrologists and Body Art
Practitioners.
These entities serve vary-
ing purposes — some reg-
ulate professions and in so
doing play a role in public
health; others make policy
recommendations.
There is sometimes no
distinction between a board,
commission, committee or
task force. For instance, a
commission may oversee
a state agency or a particu-
lar industry. Generally, task
forces are used to address a
particular issue on a tempo-
rary basis, while boards, com-
missions and committees usu-
ally function regularly.
State Sen. Chuck Riley,
D-Hillsboro, the chairman
of the Senate Committee on
General Government and
Accountability, said his com-
mittee sought to make a list of
commissions and boards that
hadn’t met recently.
“That’s the kind of thing
I’m interested in, making the
government as transparent as
possible, get rid of things that
aren’t needed, or don’t make
any sense,” Riley said . “And
this was a good place to start.”
Little activity
The Legislative Policy
and Research Offi ce found
46 boards, commissions and
task forces that “showed no
evidence of activity” in the
past year. The list was whit-
tled down as offi cials learned
some bodies were required by
federal law, others only met
intermittently by design, and
others still after legislative
counsel found some needed
to be kept to “honor the for-
malities of interstate compact
language.”
Lawmakers on the Sen-
ate General Government
‘It is a good way to say
you’re shrinking the size
of government without
shrinking the size of
government.’
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THURSDAY
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ALMANAC
and Accountability Commit-
tee discussed culling the col-
lection of boards and com-
missions at a meeting in
December .
“Honestly, governors have
been trying to whittle down the
list for many years, and have
not done so because the Leg-
islature hasn’t helped,” Riley
said. “And I wasn’t asked by
the governor to do this, but I
think she’ll be pleased.”
Sen. Elizabeth Steiner
Hayward, D-Beaverton, said
at the time she felt that the list
of proposed reductions didn’t
go far enough.
“I would certainly be sup-
portive of starting to take a
hard look at other boards and
commissions about, even the
ones that are meeting, about
what they are actually contrib-
uting and how much the state
is paying for their existence,”
she said.
• The Committee on Performance Excellence;
• The Governor’s Council on Oregon’s Economy;
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UNDER THE SKY
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Sen.
Kim
Thatcher,
R-Keizer, said she wondered
how the public could attend
even 10 percent of the meet-
ings of the state’s various pub-
lic boards and commissions.
“I don’t think there is pub-
lic participation,” Thatcher
said. “There’s a facade of pub-
lic participation in that the
public is invited, but there’s so
many, it’s just overwhelming.”
The list compiled by the
policy and research offi ce did
not include the state’s agricul-
tural commodity commissions.
The trend of using boards
and commissions to make pol-
icy dates back to the 1880s in
the United States, when civil
service inspired a desire to
involve the public and those
affected by policies in the pro-
cess of policymaking, said
Jim Moore, political science
professor at Pacifi c Univer-
• The Public Officials Compensation Commis-
sion;
• The Special Legislative Committee on Public
Education Appropriation;
• The Task Force on Military Families;
• The Western States Legislative Forestry Task
Force.
sity and director of the Tom
McCall Center for Policy
Innovation.
Some of the boards arose
out of a new need for regu-
lations, such as the creation
of the aeronautics board in
response to the invention of
the airplane. Others stem from
requests from professionals
who want to be regulated by
the state, Moore said.
Felix was born in Cornejo Burgos, Spain, on in Compton, California. The couple moved
March 24, 1928. Felix passed away April 12, to Astoria in 1971, where they opened Bay’s
2017 in Longview, Washington.
Upholstery, and Felix worked until his health
Felix’s early youth took place in Spain at a failed in 2015. Working in his upholstery shop
tumultuous time, just as the country
was Felix’s passion, and he enjoyed
was on the brink of civil war. When
visiting with his customers. He also
the Caballero family needed to escape
enjoyed raising and spending time
with his Boston t erriers.
in 1936, circumstances required Felix
In 2016, Cab moved to the Walker
and his older brother Victor to remain
house in Longview, Washington,
in Spain under the care of a monastic
where he lived until his death.
order, while the family sought refuge
He is survived by a brother, Fer-
in the U.S.
nando Caballero of Rosemead, Cali-
Later, thanks in part to the Ameri-
fornia; a sister-in-law, Jeanne Fluhrer
can Red Cross, 11-year-old Victor and
of Clatskanie, Oregon; two brothers-
10-year-old Felix traveled together
across the Atlantic Ocean on the ship Felix Caballero in-law, Richard Bay of La Center,
Washington, and Glen Bay of Minne-
named Vulcania, and arrived at Ellis
apolis, Minnesota; and many nephews
Island on Sept. 30, 1938, to rejoin
their family who settled in Carteret, New Jer- and nieces, including Victor Caballero of Pasa-
sey. Later the family moved to the Los Angeles dena, California, Dan Caballero of Whittier, Cal-
ifornia, Derrick Fluhrer of Sammamish, Wash-
area, where Felix attended school.
At the age of 18, he enlisted in the U.S. Army ington, and Scott Fluhrer of Miami, Florida.
Graveside services will be held Friday, April
and was stationed in Panama. Shortly after his
discharge from the Army, Felix was hired by 21, 2017, at 11 a.m., at Knappa Prairie Ceme-
Union Pacifi c Railroad as an upholsterer, and tery, 92924 Knappa Dock Road , Astoria, OR
worked for them for 20 years. He married Eileen 97103.
Caldwell’s Luce-Layton Mortuary is in
Bay on Feb. 24, 1971, in Las Vegas. She pre-
charge of the arrangements. Please sign our
ceded him in death Nov. 12, 2007.
After retiring from Union Pacifi c Rail- online guest book at www.caldwellsmortuary.
road, he became a self-employed upholsterer com
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Efforts to downsize state
boards and commissions have
been a perennial project for
governors. Govs. Vic Atiyeh,
Mark Hatfi eld and Barbara
Roberts all spearheaded such
efforts, Moore said.
“It is a good way to say
you’re shrinking the size of
government without shrink-
ing the size of government,”
Moore said.
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REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Monday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 58°/44°
Normal high/low ........................... 57°/41°
Record high ............................ 85° in 2016
Record low ............................. 30° in 1967
• The Board of Directors for the Oregon School
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• The Military Council;
FRIDAY
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• The Baseball Advisory Committee;
Jim Moore,
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After an amendment to the legislation, the following
12 boards and commissions would be eliminated:
political science professor at Pacific University
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