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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.
Tests taken from samples
of fish that would have been
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tainty creates the risk.”
Cooke did not immediately
respond to an email seeking
comment.
State officials also said that
Cooke proposed putting the
juvenile fish into pens that had
not been empty for at least 30
days, a move that contradicted
its own management plan.
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.
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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-
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