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3A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2018 Ethics commission asked to weigh in on special session Republican questions Brown’s move By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE Capital Bureau SALEM — A Republican state senator is asking the state ethics commission to weigh in on whether Gov. Kate Brown acted appropriately in calling for Monday’s special session as her campaign for re-elec- tion heats up. Lawmakers on Monday voted to extend a state tax break to certain business own- ers at Brown’s behest, despite chatter among some that she had called the special session in a move calculated to appear pro-business ahead of her re-election bid in November. Under the Oregon Consti- tution, governors may con- vene a special session upon “extraordinary occasions.” “Needing a tax cut on small businesses to raise poll- ing numbers for re-election is not an ‘extraordinary occa- sion,’” wrote state Sen. Brian Boquist, R-Dallas, in the Fri- day letter, a copy of which he sent via email to the press Monday night. “Using public staff for the aforementioned purpose would, and does, raise serious questions on the adequacy of our ethics and elections laws.” He also noted that “mer- ited or not,” it was the “belief of many today” that the gov- ernor, in calling the special session that she was “further- Oregon Legislature State Sen. Brian Boquist has asked the state ethics com- mission to review Gov. Kate Brown’s decision to call a special session for a business tax break. ‘Needing a tax cut on small businesses to raise polling numbers for re-election is not an ‘extraordinary occasion.’ ’ Sen. Brian Boquist, R-Dallas ing her re-election campaign using public resources.” The special session drew critics both on the right and the left. That came to a head Mon- day, with many Republicans inside the Capitol question- ing the necessity of a special session and with the Portland chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America protest- ing the new tax break outside. Several Democrats voted “no” on the proposal Mon- day, including state Sen. Mark Hass, D-Beaverton, who said that he didn’t want to expand the tax break when the exist- ing proposal hadn’t been stud- ied enough to know whether it was effective. Boquist asked the commis- sion a number of questions about the limits on a gover- nor’s use of his or her posi- tion, including whether it was permissible for the governor to use “public employees and funds to lobby for a bill in the self-proclaimed special ses- sion to support a governor’s re-election.” Brown, a Democrat, ada- mantly denied the allegation that the session was called for political purposes during a press conference Monday evening. “Absolutely not,” Brown said. A spokesman for Brown deferred to those comments when the EO Media Group/ Pamplin Media Group Cap- ital Bureau inquired about Boquist’s letter late Monday, which was sent to the press after the governor’s press conference. Boquist also wrote that it appears there is a loop- hole “large enough to drive a freight train through” in state ethics and elections laws that allows statewide elected offi- cials — the governor, trea- surer, secretary of state, attorney general and labor commissioner — to avoid state ethics requirements that other public officials must heed. Boquist wrote that his let- ter was not a complaint, but a request for an advisory opin- ion that “will be used for fur- ther action, though unde- termined, but most likely to present legislation clos- ing loopholes that appear to exist exempting the statewide elected officials in the execu- tive branch from elections and ethical standards common of others.” The Capital Bureau is a collaboration between EO Media Group and Pamplin Media Group. Recology assures Astoria on rates, recycling plans Impact of policy change in China By KATIE FRANKOWICZ The Daily Astorian China’s new regula- tions on imported recycla- ble materials are affecting recycling and garbage com- panies’ profits and some cus- tomers are seeing substantial increases to their recycling rates and surcharges. But not in Astoria. At least not yet. Carl Peters, general man- ager for Recology Western Oregon, the company that handles garbage collection in the city, assured the City Council Monday night that the company is “still recy- cling, the routes are run- ning.” There are no major rate increases on the hori- zon or plans to stop collect- ing recycling. “Those things are not coming here, at least not now,” Peters said. The com- pany, he wrote in a letter to the city, remains “commit- ted to providing the oppor- tunity to recycle to our cus- tomers and have no plans for any landfilling of collected recyclable materials in the foreseen future.” Recology provided the city with its annual rate review Monday night. The only rate change will be a slight increase for one- time use of a dumpster. The 3 percent increase reflects the extra amount Recology must now pay to dispose of material. Prior to this year, China would accept a contamina- tion level of 5 percent on imported recyclable mate- rials, and many facilities on the West Coast were designed to meet this stan- dard, Peters said. Now, the contamination level must be a mere 0.5 percent — well under what the facilities can guarantee, and even beyond what available technology is capable of providing. Where companies once saw a profit from mixed recycling, now they are pay- ing for it, Peters said. For now, Recology plans to combat the issue of con- tamination in recycling with education, sending out flyers to remind people what can and cannot be recycled and how to prepare recyclable items for pickup. Peters told the coun- cil some materials may not be allowed in commingled recycling in the future, com- mon items like yogurt cups, aseptic packaging used for milk cartons or soup, and other items. But this is not certain yet, he emphasized. He added that even if such items were no lon- ger able to be recycled, they could still find a home. China may not want plastic, for instance, but other com- panies might have ways to repurpose items. State: Cooke can’t move juvenile Atlantic salmon to net pens Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington state fish managers have denied a request by Cooke Aquaculture to move thousands of juvenile Atlantic salmon from its hatchery to marine net pens in Kitsap County. The Department of Fish and Wildlife said it rejected the company’s application because the move would increase the risk of fish disease transmis- sion both within and outside the pens. State lawmakers in March passed legislation to phase out marine Atlantic salmon aqua- culture. The industry has oper- ated for decades in Washington but came under heavy criti- cism after tens of thousands of non-native fish escaped from net pens near Cypress Island in Skagit County into waterways last summer. That legislation ended state leases and permits for opera- tions that grow non-native fin- fish in state waters when cur- rent leases expire in 2022. Cooke currently has two leases with the state. Cooke plans to continue operating until then, agency officials said, and in late April, the Canada-based company sought permission to move 800,000 juvenile fish from its hatchery near Rochester to grow out to adult size in net pens in Rich Passage. 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Following the August col- lapse of net pens at Cypress Island, the state agency began requiring that fish be tested for PRV before they are transferred. WANTED Alder and Maple Saw Logs & Standing Timber Northwest Hardwoods • Longview, WA Contact: John Anderson • 360-269-2500 SCHEDULE THE DAILY ASTORIAN A transported showed they had a form of the fish virus PRV that has not been known to occur in Washington waters. State fish health man- ager Ken Warheit called it an “exotic strain” that differs from the variety that had been pres- ent in the eastern Pacific Ocean, creating an “unknown risk that made it unacceptable.” He said there is a differ- ence between the strains. “My issue is that it’s unknown and exotic,” he said. “The uncer- Evening listings TUESDAY M AY 22 A - Charter Astoria/ Seaside - L - Charter Long Beach 6:30 7 PM 7:30 8 PM 8:30 9 PM 9:30 10 PM 10:30 11 PM 11:30 KATU News at 6 (N) Wheel Fortune (N) Roseanne (SF) (N) The Middle 1/2 (N) The Middle (F) (N) Splittin (SF) (N) For the People (N) KATU News (N) (:35) Jimmy Kimmel Jeopardy! (N) KOMO 4 News (N) Wheel Fortune (N) Jeopardy! 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