THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2017
College tobacco policy focuses
on education, being neighborly
Smoking
is already
restricted
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
The Clatsop Community
College Board once again sent
a tobacco-free policy back to
the drawing board over con-
cerns of truth in advertising and
to add stronger language about
prevention and education.
Board members voted to
rename the proposed pol-
icy “tobacco-restrictive,” as it
allows smoking in good-neigh-
bor zones designated by cam-
puses. Tobacco use on campus
is already restricted to desig-
nated areas.
The new policy encour-
ages individuals to promote
compliance and tobacco ces-
sation. “College employees
are expected to support indi-
viduals becoming tobacco free
and to promote compliance in
their areas of responsibility and
on the college’s campuses,”
according to the policy.
College President Christo-
pher Breitmeyer said cessation
education efforts are almost
nonexistent. He recommended
adopting the policy “with the
knowledge that we will be
developing some very active
interventions for folks who do
smoke, and also for those stu-
Clatsop Community College
Clatsop Community College has struggled to craft a to-
bacco-free policy.
dents who have the very real
issue of that addiction.”
“It doesn’t really have legs,”
said board member Esther
Moberg, requesting more lan-
guage be added about preven-
tion and education. Breitmeyer
agreed to work on the language
and bring the policy back to the
college board in December.
Board member Tessa
Scheller was the lone “no” vote
on the name change and con-
tinued her criticism of the pol-
icy for not banning smoking on
campus outright.
“All peoples are welcome
here,” she said. “Bad habits
are not. Things that can lead to
the injury of other people, they
just can’t be tolerated, in my
opinion.”
In June, the college board
voted unanimously to send a
proposed tobacco-free pol-
icy back to the drawing board
because of loopholes allowing
people to smoke in cars and on
the fringes of campus.
The college can prohibit
smoking in cars on its property,
Breitmeyer said Tuesday, and
is planning the good-neighbor
zones in the upper parking lot
of the main campus and along
Liberty Lane at the Marine and
Environmental Research and
Training Station.
A council of college rep-
resentatives has been helping
Breitmeyer craft the policy.
The council members brought
the policy back to the college
board over concerns not with a
tobacco-free campus, but with
the implementation, he said.
Several staffers provided argu-
ments on behalf of the zones.
Angela Martin, a grant
accounting specialist with the
college, said it has modeled
its policy after Portland Com-
munity College, one of the
first community colleges in the
state to make campuses tobac-
co-free, along with good-neigh-
bor zones.
“While we know that smok-
ing is bad, we also know your
policy will not curb all smok-
ing, all smokers from smok-
ing,” Martin said.
Rinda Johansen, a program
assistant with Lives in Tran-
sition, said the college does
not have the staff to enforce a
smoke-free campus without the
zones.
Technical Services Special-
ist Mariah Manners said she
doesn’t want to tell students
to leave campus or have them
smoking on surrounding side-
walks, trails and in the woods.
Anatomy and Physiology
instructor Nichole Warwick
said she worked in Towler Hall
during a short-lived previous
campuswide ban and had to
walk past smokers on the side-
walk with her asthma inhaler.
She and others remembered
the time someone dumped dis-
carded cigarette butts on a pre-
vious vice president’s desk.
“My idea would be to have a
safe area for students to smoke,
if they’re in crisis,” Warwick
said.
Lawmakers look to help first-time homebuyers
the state that year, but by last
year, they accounted for only
about 28.8 percent, according
to the National Association of
Realtors.
Offering the tax exemp-
tion would cost the state nearly
$4 million in income tax rev-
enue, according to an analy-
sis in March by consultants
Lisa Sturevant and Dean Bel-
las and commissioned by Ore-
gon Realtors.
The program would ulti-
mately boost first-time home
purchases and result in posi-
tive gains to the statewide econ-
omy, the consultants concluded.
Farther down the line, the eco-
nomic prosperity could trans-
late into greater income tax rev-
enue from additional jobs in the
construction industry. The study
estimated that more than 3,200
Oregonians would start one of
the savings accounts, and that
at least 161 of those households
would purchase a newly-built
home in the first five years of
the program. The state could
expect a $1.26 return for every
dollar it invested, the consul-
tants estimated.
Detractors see the program
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Some state law-
makers are making another
push to create a first-time home-
buyer savings account program.
The program would allow
Oregonians who haven’t owned
a home in the past three years to
save up to $50,000 in a 10-year
period without paying state
income taxes on the principal
and interest. The money could
be used to pay for a down pay-
ment on the purchase of a sin-
gle-family home.
Lawmakers on the House
Committee on Human Services
and Housing plan to submit
a bill to create the program as
early as the next legislative ses-
sion in February.
Similar legislation stalled in
the House and Senate revenue
committees earlier this year and
never received votes on those
chambers’ floors.
Despite a surge in home
sales in Oregon, the percent-
age of first-time homebuy-
ers has declined precipitously
since 2009. They represented
about 44 percent of the sales in
as a tax shelter for wealthy
Oregonians.
Chuck Sheketoff, executive
director of the Oregon Center
for Public Policy, went as far
as dubbing it the “Rich Fami-
lies’ Down-Payment Assistance
Program.”
The Capital Bureau is a
collaboration between EO
Media Group and Pamplin
Media Group.
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