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Librarian: Johnson
has complained about
the state library’s
performance for years
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Johnson is forthright in
her frustration with the state
library. But she said the idea
that she alone is behind the
firing is “absurd.”
“Do the math. Even if
I voted ‘no,’ you still don’t
have the numbers,” to defeat
Dahlgreen’s
nomination,
Johnson said.
She’s right, which points
to a curious decision Brown’s
office has refused to explain.
A new law meant Brown
needed to nominate a state
librarian for the first time this
year. Brown initially sub-
mitted Dahlgreen’s name for
reappointment.
Democratic Caucus leader
Sen. Ginny Burdick said
last week that she informed
Brown’s office earlier this
year that a few senators in her
party had qualms with Dahl-
green’s performance. Burdick
declined to explain the qualms
or name the lawmakers who
didn’t support Dahlgreen.
Brown quickly with-
drew Dahlgreen’s name and
decided she had to go. Gover-
nor spokeswoman Kate Kon-
dayen said Brown offered
Dahlgreen the chance to stay
in her position while she and
her staff looked for a replace-
ment. But Dahlgreen chose to
be fired immediately.
In a chamber with 30
members, it takes 16 votes
to confirm a nominee for a
state director’s job — a bar
Dahlgreen would likely have
passed even with a few sena-
tors objecting.
Some Democratic law-
makers who called for
changes at the state library
soon after Dahlgreen became
the head said they would have
voted for her.
A spokeswoman for the
12-member Senate Repub-
lican Caucus said that no
Republican had serious objec-
tions to Dahlgreen.
It is highly unusual for
one lawmaker to wield veto
power over such appoint-
ments. Johnson carries out-
sized powers at the Legisla-
ture, in part because she is the
Democrat most likely to part
ways with fellow Democrats,
thus having unusual power to
make or break Senate deals.
Johnson said Friday there
was “unequivocally no” trade
with Brown’s office to quash
Dahlgreen’s reappointment.
Kondayen said she had no
comment when asked how
many senators were opposed
to Dahlgreen’s reappointment
or whether Johnson played a
role.
She also refused to elab-
orate on what expectation
Dahlgreen failed to meet,
repeatedly pointing to this
statement: “MaryKay Dahl-
green fell short of clear and
timely expectations from
legislators, and as a result of
these performance issues, did
not have the Senate support
necessary for confirmation.”
Until this year, the Ore-
gon State Library board of
directors had the power to
appoint the state librarian.
However, that changed as
part of a wide-ranging bill
that revamped how the state
library functions.
Library leaders in the state,
including the board of direc-
tors and Dahlgreen, supported
the change because they said
it seemed to give the depart-
ment equal gravitas as other
state agencies.
Some started to regret
that decision this week when
Dahlgreen was dismissed
with little explanation or prior
notice.
Dahlgreen was widely
respected by the library com-
munity in Oregon and had the
support of the lead lobbying
and industry group, Oregon
Library Association.
The state library performs
three main roles: conducts
research for other state depart-
ments; provides money and
expertise to libraries around
the state to make sure they
are up-to-date; and distributes
audiobooks and Braille books
for people with vision impair-
ment or physical obstacles to
holding a print book.
Johnson, D-Scappoose,
has complained about the
state library’s performance for
years, including under previ-
ous state librarians.
In the May hearing, she
railed against what she said
were long unresolved issues
in how staff perform their
jobs. One concern in partic-
ular: She was frustrated that
managers couldn’t define one
of the key metrics by which
the library agreed to have its
performance judged.
“When I hear the profes-
sional staff talk about a need
to define what a ‘research
transaction’ is — we’ve been
talking about this for six
years!” Johnson said. “I don’t
know when that definition
comes. I don’t know why this
is so difficult. I just — I don’t
get it.”
Dahlgreen assured her that
the problem would be solved
by the next budget request in
2019.
“2019? that’s almost a
decade to get this done,”
Johnson said. “I think this is
just shameful.”
Rep. Mike Nearman,
R-Independence, also voted
against the library’s bud-
get and proposed key perfor-
mance measures. But he said
he had nothing against Dahl-
green. He voted on ideolog-
ical grounds that he doesn’t
see a need for the state library
to exist, he said.
Warming center: ‘We’re growing’
and the other board members
say the church remains one of
the few places they can afford.
The church charges them only
$86 a month in rent and they
pay a small portion of the util-
ities. The church basement is
already set up for the center’s
work.
Parkison told Haefker
that he has looked into sev-
eral commercial spaces. One
property owner would charge
a rent of $2,000 a month, a
price well beyond the warm-
ing center’s financial capac-
ity. The center also only oper-
ates for a few months out of
the year and would need to
morph into a very different
type of organization if it were
to occupy a building for a
solid 12 months, Parkison has
noted.
Board members believe
they would need support from
the city and local businesses
to locate somewhere else.
Until then, they hope to make
the church location work —
for the center, the neighbors
and the city.
“We’re growing,” Park-
ison said, though not referring
to physical growth.
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Mattresses are stacked before being cleaned at the Asto-
ria Warming Center.
For its first several years,
the warming center was in
survival mode, he said, try-
ing to figure out how to keep
opening night after night.
Now, with a relatively new
board as well as new pro-
cesses in place, the center is
looking outward, looking for
common ground. A neigh-
borhood agreement, outlin-
ing a series of promises to the
neighbors, came out of the
meetings last summer and has
been the center’s guiding doc-
ument this season, Parkison
said.
Center staff and volunteers
patrolled the streets near the
shelter, led litter cleanup par-
ties, improved lighting and
landscaping at the church and
enforced stricter exclusion
policies. People who came to
sleep at the center who acted
up could be excluded for the
night or the entire season
depending on the incident.
Fire Chief Ted Ames
reported that his department
Though he knows there
are still concerns among some
neighbors and an upcoming
conditional use permit appli-
cation process, he feels good
about what the center accom-
plished in trying to work with
the neighborhood and serve
the homeless population. He
and his board remain commit-
ted to their work.
“The anchoring we do
helps people who are lost on
the streets,” Parkison said.
Some of the people they
served this season have gone
on to find jobs and perma-
nent housing, he said. To have
a meal and a warm place to
sleep gives people “a little
tiny foothold.”
Regulators: ‘Compliance is critically important’
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The commission says it
is working to improve upon
problems identified in a
recent Oregon Secretary of
State audit of the system. In
a response to the audit, com-
mission officials said the CTS
“has identified thousands of
discrepancies, small and large,
that have led to investigations,
administrative charges, and
warnings or sanctions.”
Commission
Execu-
tive Director Steve Marks in
November notified licens-
ees of several other upcom-
ing changes in enforcement.
Among them: the state will do
spot checks on businesses to
make sure their video security
systems were up to snuff and
check that businesses weren’t
selling amounts over the legal
limit to individual customers.
“With each passing day
OLCC licensees are seeing
and hearing about increased
OLCC enforcement activ-
ity,” Marks wrote in a bul-
letin posted on the state’s
website. “ … Compliance is
critically important in build-
ing this industry so you need
to take action to prepare for
the increasing likelihood
you may be inspected in the
field and that your (Cannabis
Tracking System) data will be
scrutinized.”
Additional positions were
approved in 2017, so that there
are now 23 inspector posi-
tions and 21 investigator posi-
tions, compared to 11 of each
in 2016. Inspectors typically
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Help for the lost
work in the field, whereas
investigators typically work
on licensing from an office
setting.
State budget analysts have
said it can be difficult to ascer-
tain just how much money is
needed to regulate the state’s
legal marijuana market — in
part because the growth of the
industry has been rapid.
“The budget environment
related to regulation of mari-
juana continues to be in near
constant motion,” budget ana-
lysts wrote in the annotated
two-year budget for the Ore-
gon Liquor Control Commis-
sion’s marijuana program.
“Budgeted resources are pred-
icated on an estimated num-
ber of licensees, which have
so far exceeded expectations
at every turn.”
Layer of uncertainty
The changes on the state
level as the marijuana industry
matures come amid an addi-
tional layer of uncertainty —
as to what extent the federal
government will scrutinize
states where recreational mar-
ijuana is legal.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff
Sessions said at an event at
Georgetown University ear-
lier this month that federal
prosecutors wouldn’t pursue
“small” marijuana cases.
But Sessions has rescinded
more liberal Obama-era
guidelines and has given fed-
eral prosecutors wide latitude
on the issue.
It’s not yet clear how the
U.S. Attorney for Oregon,
Billy Williams, will proceed.
However, Williams has
claimed that a significant
amount of marijuana leaks out
of Oregon across state lines.
He convened a group of law
enforcement, lawmakers, pub-
lic health and cannabis busi-
ness groups to discuss the
issue last month.
David Bordelon, a man-
ager of Ancient Remedies, a
cannabis dispensary in Salem,
says the store hasn’t been sub-
ject to a random inspection by
the state, other than a “minor
decoy” operation.
State records show that
Ancient Remedies didn’t sell
marijuana to minors as part
of a sting in December. It was
one of 18 stores that passed
a 25-store inspection in the
Salem-Keizer area.
Ancient Remedies con-
verted from a medical mari-
juana dispensary to a recre-
ational outlet in November
2016, which at the time was
“really scary” because they
were one of the first cannabis
businesses in the area to make
the transition, Bordelon says.
But Bordelon says their
experience with the state has
been positive.
While to his knowledge,
there haven’t been any com-
plaints filed about his busi-
ness, he says the agency iden-
tified a problem with the way
Ancient Remedies was report-
ing store-to-store transfers in
the Cannabis Tracking Sys-
tem and contacted the busi-
ness right away.
“That’s the only time
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did not have to respond to
the center once — a major
improvement over last year.
Police responded 18 times,
but for minor incidents that
ranged from medical calls
to small disturbances and a
report of a missing person,
Chief Geoff Spalding said.
“Our policies this year cen-
tered around respect and were
strictly enforced,” Parkison
said in the days before the
center closed for the season.
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we’ve been contacted for an
issue,” Bordelon said. “They
called us immediately to let us
know there was an issue.”
Periodically, the business
files requests with the agency
to make changes, such as
when they sought to rearrange
the layout of the store, Borde-
lon said.
Ancient Remedies will
typically get a full response
approving the changes or ask-
ing for more documentation
within two weeks to a month,
Bordelon said.
Inspectors needed
Bordelon believes the
agency could benefit from
more inspectors.
“In general, the people they
have are doing a great job,”
Bordelon said, noting that
more inspectors could mean a
quicker response time for busi-
nesses seeking guidance as
well as increased enforcement.
Alicia Smith, owner of
Homegrown Oregon, a canna-
bis business with three loca-
tions in Salem, also says her
experience with the regulatory
agency has been positive.
“We have a great rela-
tionship with the OLCC,”
Smith said, “And I think a
lot of the reason why that is
true is because we’ve always
been really transparent with
them, and we’ve kept in con-
stant communication with our
inspectors.”
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