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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2017
Astoria balks at pawn shop gun ban
Councilor Zetty Nemlowill
casting the only “no” vote.
Nemlowill said afterward in a
text that she does not object
to a better registry system for
pawn shops but would not
apply it to secondhand deal-
ers. “Imposing a potentially
costly and time-consuming
task on small business own-
ers of secondhand stores in
Astoria is unjustifiable,” she
wrote.
In other business Monday
night, the City Council:
• Granted a 2.5 percent pay
raise to City Manager Brett
Estes after a performance
evaluation held in executive
session.
Estes, who was hired as
city manager in 2014, will
now earn $125,838.
• Approved a $29,262
contract with Arbor Care
Tree Specialists of Astoria
to remove hazardous trees at
several city parks.
The vote was 4-1. Price
voted “no” because of con-
cerns about cost and the
inclusion of a Douglas fir at
Shively Park she does not
believe should be cut down.
• Adopted an ordinance
that expands the police
department’s ability to tow
vehicles for noise complaints,
like car alarms.
City Council
may consider
stricter rules
By DERRICK
DePLEDGE
The Daily Astorian
Astoria will not ban the sale
of used guns at pawn shops,
but the city might impose
stricter regulations on pawn-
brokers and secondhand deal-
ers to discourage trading in
stolen goods.
City Councilor Cindy Price
called for a vote on a ban Mon-
day night, but was rebuffed
when no other councilor
agreed to second her motion.
At a November work ses-
sion, Price and Mayor Arline
LaMear had discussed poten-
tial restrictions on pawn shops
and used gun sales because of
a new pawn shop opening on
Commercial Street downtown.
Price tied the issue to the
prevalence of guns in the
United States and the deadly
toll from gun violence.
“I think it’s an import-
ant statement for Astoria to
make,” she said. “At least it’s
important to me.”
The mayor and other city
councilors were uncomfort-
Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
Astoria may impose stricter regulations on pawnbrokers
and secondhand dealers.
able with a ban, but did direct
staff to draft possible regula-
tions on pawnbrokers and sec-
ondhand dealers.
Interim Police Chief Geoff
Spalding told the City Council
that existing regulations do not
go far enough to ensure effective
oversight. The new rules could
involve permitting and licens-
ing, holding periods and com-
puterized transaction systems.
The city may purchase software
that would allow police to view
transactions to search for stolen
property and guns.
Several secondhand dealers
said they are already burdened
by regulation and pressed the
City Council to explain what
problem the city is trying to
solve.
“We all work together,
because nobody wants bad
things to happen,” said Neil
Christensen of Gun & Boot
& Gear, which sells used guns
out of M&N Workwear in
Suomi Hall in Uniontown.
Bernie Bjork, a former
commercial fisherman and
Port of Astoria commissioner
who has a building with the
secondhand store Mallterna-
tive on Marine Drive, warned
of over-regulation.
“Rules and regulations is
what got our current president
elected,” he said of President
Donald Trump. “Way too
many rules and regulations.”
The City Council voted
4-1 to ask staff to come up
with new regulations, with
AP Photo/Matthew Brown
Washington state last year began requiring facilities
that receive crude oil by rail to notify the state officials
in advance of shipments.
Crude oil in Washington state
tops 1 million barrels per week
Associated Press
SPOKANE, Wash. —
Figures show railroads ship
more than 1 million barrels of
crude oil across Washington
state each week.
The Spokesman-Review
reported information from
October 2016 through Sep-
tember of this year indicate
railroads shipped nearly 56
million barrels of crude oil
across Washington in 82,000
rail cars. Most of the oil trains
enter the state from Idaho,
transporting light crude from
North Dakota.
The state last year began
requiring facilities that receive
crude oil by rail to notify the
state officials in advance of
shipments. The information is
shared with emergency man-
agers along the rail route. The
Department of Ecology later
publishes quarterly reports
summarizing the volumes.
The state says railroads
began shipping crude oil
through Washington in 2012,
and volumes have increased
over time.
Washington’s reporting
rule also applies to pipelines,
which must report informa-
tion about crude oil volumes
twice per year.
New audit takes a hard look at state’s efforts to boost graduation
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
The Oregon Department
of Education has failed to
help school districts use data
to identify students most at
risk of not graduating on time,
according to an audit released
today by the Oregon Secretary
of State’s Office.
For instance, students who
change school districts during
high school have graduation
rates about 30 percent worse
than those who remain in
the same school system. The
group makes up more than 25
percent of high school enroll-
ees, yet the education depart-
ment does not track, ana-
lyze or report their graduation
performance.
The percentage of Oregon
students who graduate on time
has inched up for the past five
years — even with increases in
the number of credits required,
but the rate remains third worst
in the nation. Only 75 percent
of Oregon public high school
students graduate on time. The
average rate nationwide is 84
percent.
“We need Oregon’s Depart-
ment of Education to step up
its game and assume its lead-
ership role to make Oregon a
leader in education,” Secretary
of State Dennis Richardson
said. “Oregon students deserve
a world-class education, and
it’s ODE’s job to show how to
get there.”
The audit also found that
more than 70 percent of stu-
dents who don’t graduate on
time come from low-income
households. The likelihood of
their failure to graduate often
becomes evident as early as
middle school, yet the educa-
tion department has neglected
addressing
middle-school
performance and improving
the transition to high school,
according to the audit.
Auditors said the state
could improve graduation
rates by identifying specific
groups of students who are
struggling and targeting pro-
grams toward them. The edu-
cation department’s plans have
focused on students of color,
migrants and English language
learners. But auditors found
that the agency could yield
better results if it also tracked
and used improvement tools
among students who transfer
between districts, come from
low-income households and
are in middle school.
Auditors
recommended
that the education department
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preventing students from drop-
ping out and increasing access
to college-level courses in high
school and to career technical
education. The state’s two-
year budget allocates $170
million to increase gradua-
tion rates and $7.4 million to
reduce chronic absenteeism.
Full-day kindergarten also
started in 2015 to try to help
students’ long-term outcomes.
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we have identified in recent
years, and we look forward
to using the audit results to
move our work forward,” Gill
wrote in a Thursday letter to
Audits Division Director Kip
Memmott.
Some statewide plans
and funding to boost on-time
graduation already are in the
works. Those plans focus on
reducing chronic absenteeism,
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successful in school and gradu-
ate on-time,” Richardson said.
Auditors
acknowledged
that the education department
and schools face some limita-
tions in financing some of the
work needed to boost grad-
uation in the state. The state
Legislature does not fully
fund schools, as prescribed by
the state’s Quality Education
Model.
Colt Gill, acting deputy
superintendent of schools,
largely agreed with the find-
ings of the audit.
“Many of the themes in the
audit are consistent with what
collect data on individual stu-
dents’ grades and credit attain-
ment to analyze and iden-
tify: when students most often
fall behind, courses with high
failure rates, and how per-
formance in specific courses
affects graduation. The agency
then needs to draw from edu-
cation research and practices
in successful districts to better
support students in transition
and in schools with midrange
graduation rates, the audit said.
“The ODE must aggres-
sively assess and assist school
districts if they are to provide
the help students need to be
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