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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2018
Oregon unions join Nike in new push for tax package
— to gain big new revenue
sources for schools and other
state services.
They now see a big open-
ing this year after Demo-
cratic Gov. Kate Brown was
re-elected and Democrats
gained seats in both legis-
lative chambers. They now
have the three-fifths super-
majority needed in the state
House and Senate to pass tax
increases, without any Repub-
lican votes.
Melissa Unger, execu-
tive director of Local 503 of
the Service Employees Inter-
national Union, said that the
new coalition is looking for
a “bold solution that gets us
where we want to go … It’s
really about investing in our
state.”
Nike started working with
Brown earlier this year on tax
policy. This summer, the For-
tune 500 apparel company
agreed to join the governor
and the unions in opposing
two conservative tax mea-
sures on the ballot. At the
same time, a union-backed
group agreed not to proceed
with a proposed ballot mea-
sure that would require corpo-
rations to disclose more infor-
mation about their taxes and
workforce.
Separate from
pension reform
By JEFF MAPES
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Oregon’s public employee
unions have joined forces with
Nike and a group of long-term
care providers to launch a new
coalition aimed at pushing a
major tax package through
next year’s Legislature.
Leaders of the Coalition
for the Common Good said
they want to work with leg-
islators on new revenue for
schools and other public ser-
vices. And, unlike in previ-
ous years, they don’t want to
tie the negotiations to agree-
ments on cutting costs of the
state’s public pension system.
“We want to bring a sole
focus into revenue reform,”
said James Carlson, presi-
dent of the Oregon Health
Care Association. “The real-
ity is we can’t afford to waste
another five years chasing a
deal that may or may not hap-
pen” on cutting government
costs, he added.
The state’s major public
employee unions have repeat-
edly led efforts — both on the
ballot and in the Legislature
AP Photo/Don Ryan
Gov. Kate Brown at a rally in Portland in October.
Nike signed the letter along
with the five other founding
members of the coalition to
work for “(i)nvestments that
can adequately fund strong
schools and essential public
services.”
The letter also called for a
“state where businesses can
grow and thrive; where Ore-
gon-based businesses are val-
ued for the contribution they
make to the local economy
and their engagement with the
community.”
The other signers were
the Oregon Education Asso-
ciation, SEIU Local 503,
Oregon AFSCME Council
75, the Oregon Health Care
Association and the Russell
Development Co. The lat-
ter is a Portland-based firm
headed by John Russell, who
has frequently worked with
Democrats.
The letter didn’t specif-
ically address whether the
revenue discussions should
exclude talks of cost control.
Nike spokesman Greg Ros-
siter said the company didn’t
have any further comment for
now beyond the letter.
Unger said she welcomed
additional business involve-
ment in the tax discussions.
At this point, the state’s major
business groups have repeat-
edly said they want any talk
of revenue to also include cost
controls.
The Oregon Business Plan
— which will be discussed
next week at the annual Ore-
gon Leadership Summit put
on by business interests —
says that “Oregon needs rev-
enue reform as well as better
cost management to resolve
its fiscal crisis.”
The governor and legisla-
tive leaders talked with mem-
bers of the new coalition Mon-
day. Brown said Tuesday in a
statement that “Oregon’s edu-
cation has gone underfunded
for too long” and added that
“now is the best opportunity
in a generation to right this
wrong.”
Brown released her pro-
posed 2019–21 budget on
Wednesday and called for
major new investments in
education.
State Senate President
Peter Courtney, D-Salem,
called next session “proba-
bly the best chance we’ll ever
have to do something remark-
able” for education. He said
he also supported focusing
on taxes separately. Mak-
ing an agreement on pension
reform and other cost controls
has been a recipe for delay, he
said.
Given their reduced num-
bers, Republican legisla-
tors acknowledge that it will
be harder to head off any tax
increases they don’t like.
But state Sen. Tim Knopp,
R-Bend, said he didn’t think
the state would be able to
make major new investments
without first making major
strides in dealing with Ore-
gon’s $22 billion pension
debt.
“We obviously have to
look at both” revenue and cost
controls he said. “Whether
those discussions are happen-
ing together or separately is
material to the outcome.”
“I do not believe anyone,
including in the majority, have
the luxury of ignoring the cat-
astrophic failure” in the pen-
sion system, Knopp added.
SEIU’s Unger said she is
fine with separate negotiations
on PERS and other issues.
And she said members of the
new coalition understand that
even if they can get a tax mea-
sure through the Legislature,
they have to be prepared for
the eventuality that it could
get referred to voters.
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
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Newport
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First
Dec 6
Full
Dec 15
Ontario
34/46
Burns
26/39
Klamath Falls
27/40
Lakeview
25/38
Ashland
38/47
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Morgan Lynn Heesch, age 80, passed away
After moving to San Jose, California, in
peacefully at home in Roseville, California, on 1962, Lynn had a 34-year career at IBM during
what he called the “golden age of data process-
Nov. 20, 2018.
Born on Aug. 18, 1938, Lynn was the only ing.” He also worked in real estate, which was
how he met his second wife, Patricia
child of Morgan and Evelyn Heesch,
Jackson. After retiring, they traveled
and grew up in Astoria. While he
extensively and enjoyed an active
was a student at Astoria High School
social life at their home in Sun City
(Class of 1956), Lynn worked at the
Lincoln Hills, California. Lynn and
Flying A Service Station, and began
Pat were together for more than 30
his lifelong love of hot rods and cool
years, and had many happy times
cars.
together before her passing in 2012.
As a young adult, he was a mem-
Lynn is survived by his children,
ber of the Air National Guard,
Gregory Heesch and Debra Heesch;
worked in a treacherous job at the
a stepdaughter, Judy Bartlein; a step-
Astoria Plywood Mill, pulled cables
Morgan Lynn
son, Jim Jackson; four stepgrandsons;
for Western Electric, and got a degree
Heesch
and numerous friends.
in engineering from Clatsop Commu-
nity College.
A celebration of life will be
He married (and later divorced) his high planned for early 2019 — to add your name
school sweetheart, Eva Ullfers, and with her had to the contact list, please submit your info via
eepurl.com/dODQBL
two children, Gregory and Debra.
ON THE RECORD
DUII
• At 10:31 p.m. Tuesday, Omar Chavelas-Reyes, 27, of Warrenton, was arrested by Astoria
police on the 90 block of U.S. Highway 30 and charged with driving under the influence of intoxi-
cants and reckless driving. His blood alcohol content was 0.22 percent.
CORRECTIONS
Comment clarified —
A story on 1A Wednesday
about an Astoria Planning
Commission discussion of
possible development guide-
lines and rules in the Urban
Core — the last piece of the
city’s Riverfront Vision Plan
— misstated Planning Com-
missioner Daryl Moore’s
position. While Moore is
opposed to the possibility of
allowing residential spaces
in overwater development in
the Urban Core, he is in favor
of allowing mixed use gen-
erally south of the Astoria
Riverwalk.
Venue name incorrect —
The venue for a Saturday perfor-
mance by singer Rebecca Kil-
gore is called the North County
Recreation District Performing
Arts Center. An item on page 17
of Thursday’s Coast Weekend
misidentified it as North Coast
Recreation District.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
THURSDAY
Clatsop Soil and Water Conservation District Board, 6 p.m., annual meeting, Grace Community
Baptist Church, 1195 Irving Ave.
LOTTERIES
Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy,
sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries,
sn-snow, i-ice.
CLATSOP
POWER
EQUIPMENT , INC.
SALES SERVICE RENTALS
•
Roseville, California
Aug. 18, 1938 — Nov. 20, 2018
Partly sunny
Pendleton
34/48
The Dalles
36/47
Portland
41/49
Sunset tonight ........................... 4:32 p.m.
Sunrise Friday ............................. 7:36 a.m. Coos Bay
Moonrise today ........................ 11:55 p.m. 45/50
Moonset today ........................... 1:08 p.m.
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SUN AND MOON
Time
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ASTORIA
41/51
Precipitation
Wednesday ....................................... 0.54"
Month to date ................................... 5.98"
Normal month to date ..................... 10.35"
Year to date .................................... 52.71"
Normal year to date ........................ 56.57"
Nov 29
47
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Mostly cloudy with a
little rain
Morgan Lynn Heesch
MONDAY
REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Wednesday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 54°/40°
Normal high/low ........................... 51°/38°
Record high ............................ 68° in 1907
Record low ............................. 22° in 1896
Last
49
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Mostly cloudy with
occasional rain
Mostly cloudy
SUNDAY
•
OREGON
Wednesday’s Pick 4:
1 p.m.: 4-9-2-2
4 p.m.: 4-5-9-9
7 p.m.: 3-2-8-6
10 p.m.: 9-1-3-0
Wednesday’s Lucky Lines: 3-5-
11-15-18-21-26-30
Estimated jackpot: $22,000
Wednesday’s Megabucks: 2-6-
18-20-25-41
Estimated jackpot: $4.4 million
Wednesday’s Powerball: 4-19-
59-68-69, Powerball: 21
Estimated jackpot: $183 million
WASHINGTON
Wednesday’s Daily Game:
2-7-0
Wednesday’s Hit 5: 06-21-23-
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