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P«8« S Portland Obaarvar. Auguat 20. 1001 McCoy hires new staff WEST COAST IS THE PLACE FOR CUSTOM FRAMING • IN C E I M I Multnomah County Com missioner Gladys McCoy has an nounced the addition o f two new staff assistants, Lynette Stinson and Richard Ellmyer. W « have all the currant tranda In Intarlor Framing Rick Oak«, Contemporary Metals. Oriental Patterns. Natural Woods. GoW Leaf Traditional Our Expert Sales Consultants are available to aaslst you w ith ell your framing requirements. WEST COAST PICTURE CORP. SMS N.E. Skidmore M 2 7MS The Urban Laagua of Portland has held three Com m unity Congresses in the Eliot. King and Boise neighborhoods to gather inform ation for Community Service Agency grants. Above, at the King meeting, are: Cornetts Smith. A M A Family Day and Night Cara Program; Benjamin Mallard of Houston; County Com m issioner Qordon Shad- burna; Bill Kincaid. Portland Development Com mission; Bruce Broussard. Portland Observer: Jackie Lynch. Urban Laagua, and Lance Fluker. (Photo; Richard J. Brown) Hours: • S Monday Saturday 3T VISA Ms. Stinson previously served as S ta ff Person for Senator B ill M c Coy. She studied at the University o f P o rtlan d w ith emphasis on Business Administration. She served as an adm in istrative assistant in a com m unity action agency in O a klan d , C a lifo rn ia , p rio r to moving to Gresham five and one- half years ago. M s. Stinson will be concerned w ith issues in E n v iro n mental Services and H u m an Ser vices. MASTERCHARGE Pacific Citizen Power o f the Week Richard E llm yer, who resides in the St. Johns neighborhood, previously served as Legislative Assistant for Senator Bill M cC o y. E llm yer is actively involved in the North Portland Citizens Committee and the North Portland Community A ction C o u n c il, and serves as D em ocratic P arty D istrict Leader from House District 15. He earned his degree fro m Upsala College in East Orange. New Jersey. Ellm yer will focus his attention on C ounty Managem ent and w ill develop a series o f Future Forums dealing with the mission and scope o f Coun ty government five to 10 years from now. Oregon legislative session mixed bag The results o f the 1981 Legislative The person or persons who are in session were m ixed. Gains were tim idated, or the Attorney General made in a ffirm a tiv e action or a district attorney, can file a civil legislation and the racial harassment claim for an injunction, damages or b ill was passed, but legislative other appropriate relief. establishment o f the Black and This b ill was introduced at the Hispanic Commissions failed. request o f G o v ern o r A tiy e h . The The follo w in g bills were passed Senate amended the bill to include and have been signed by the gover sexual harassment. A long dispute nor or are pending signature. with the House followed, with Rep. A ffirm a ti ve A ction: Tom Mason and Rep. Bill R uther SB 680 declares that a ffirm ative ford refusing to accept the inclusion action w ill be used when m aking o f sexual harassment. D u rin g the appointments to state commissions closing hours o f the L egislative and advisory boards. Governors session, the House version m aking appointm ents " a r e en prevailed. The governor will sign the couraged to implement this policy biil Friday, August 21. o f a ffirm a tiv e action in their ap Black and Hispanic Commissions: pointm ents, subject to the legal Governor Atiyeh established, by requirem ents fo r each ap p o in executive order, a Commission on tment.” Black Affairs and a Commission on H B 2467 and H B 3281 require H ispanic A ffa irs , and appointed that school districts and state in members to them . He then stitutions o f higher education, when requested that the commissions be required to reduce teaching staffs established by the legislature so that due to school enrollment or lack o f they w ould be perm anent c o m funds, "shall make every effort to missions. tran sfer teachers o f courses H B 2041 and H B 2042 were scheduled fo r d iscontinuation to passed by the House Committee on other positions for which they are Aging and M inority Affairs. Rather qualified. M erit and seniority shall than going to the fu ll House fo r be considered in determination o f a passage without an attached budget, teacher fo r such tra n s fe r." This they were sent by the committee to legislation, sponsored by the the W ays and Means C o m m itte e, Oregon Association o f Teachers, where they died. A separate biil, SB precludes the use o f seniority as the 5559, was adopted to appropriate $1 sole determ inant and attem pts to to each o f the two governor’s com protect minority teachers who often missions. This b ill also sets a have little seniority. $ 25 ,00 0 m axim um fo r any fu tu re H B 2965 requires that all state a p p ro p ria tio n s for each c o m agencies review a ffirm ative action mission. objectives and performance for the Less successful were a series o f current biennium and plan for the C iv il Rights b ills, many o f them next biennium as part o f their requested by the Bureau o f Labor budget presentation. The bill was and Industries. Several observers sponsored by Reps. M arg ie H e n credit their defeat to lack o f effo rt drickson, Jane Cease, Gretchen in their behalf by that agency. K a fo u ry , G ra tta n Kerans, M a ry SB 189 would have required per Burrow s, Jim C h rest, W a lly sons applying for teaching c e r Priestley, and Nancy Ryles, and tific a te renewal to dem onstrate Senators B ill M cC o y and Frank knowledge o f state and federal civil Roberts. rights laws. H B 2966 requires that all state SB 206 would have extended from agencies include affirm ative action six months to one year the period in goals and achievem ent as part o f which a complaint can be filed. their evaluation o f management. SB 216 would have protected cer HB 3242 requires the extension o f tain material from public disclosure affirm ative action goals to program during a civil rights investigation. delivery and requires that all con SB 218 would have added age as a tracts with non-governmental agen protected class in public ac cies be am ended to include this comodation. requirement. The state affirm ative SB 221 would have allowed the action office will monitor. Bureau o f Labor and Industries to This b ill, introduced at the fine companies that do not abide by request o f the governor, addresses orders to re fra in fro m the frequent charges that many state discrimination. agencies and state-supported SB 223 would have p ro h ib ited programs do not adequately serve em ployers, labor unions and ap the minority population. prenticeship and training com m it Racial Harassment: tees from discriminating in selection The governor’s racial harassment o f trainees. bill was passed in amended form. It SB 226 would have allowed the states that any act o f intim idation, Bureau o f Labor and Industries to under the existing law o f in file civil suits against employers who tim id a tio n , w ill become a more are alleged to use u n law fu l p rac serious offense if racial in nature. tices. A person who, by reason o f race, H B 2791, introduced by Rep. color, religion, or national origin, Vera K atz, w ould have allow ed intim idates an o th er is g u ilty o f a cities and counties to adopt c ivil Class A M isd em ean o r. I f tw o or rights legislation that would provide more persons conspire to in more protection than state laws. timidate, they are guilty o f a Class C Juries: Felony and can be sentenced to five Two bills were introduced to ad years in prison and/or a $2,500 fine. dress the lack o f m in o rities on juries. H B 2772 would have prohibited prosecutors from exercising perem ptory jury challenges solely because o f race, c o lo r, re lig io n , n a tio n a l origin or sex. H B 2798 would have ordered the county clerk to add representatives o f m inority groups to the jury list in proportion to their numbers in the county. The firs, bill addressed the p roblem of prosecutors removing all minorities from the juries o f m inority defen dants; the latter addresses the lack o f m in o rities on the ju ry panels, which are selected by chance from voter registration lists. Both bills were tabled in the House Judiciary Committee. HB 2700 would have prohibited discrimination in availability o f in surance and ap p licatio n o f insur ance rates. M a rtin Luther King J r .’ s b irth date will be commemorated, but not as a legal holiday. The second M on day in January will be celebrated as a Day o f Commemoration, the same as Columbus Day and February 14, the day Oregon became a slate. H B 528, which was sponsored by the Black U n ite d F ro n t and the National Lawyers Guild, was tabled in the House Judiciary Committee. This b ill would have restricted the use o f deadly force by police o f ficers to protecting life. C urrently, police can kill an escaping felon or a person escaping the scene o f a felony. H B 2618, which w ould have prevented state agencies fro m in vesting funds in companies that do business in countries that practice legal racial separation, was tabled in the House Committee on Aging and M inority Affairs. Three bills were passed that affect Indians. A Senate Joint M em orial asks Congress to repudiate the existing policy o f terminating Indian tribes and to restore recognition to those tribes that have been te r minated. HB 3196 provides for civil action against persons who violate Indian graves. HB 3195 requires the Fish and W ild life D ep artm en t to provide salmon fo r religious ceremonial use by the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indian tribes. Overall, those bills that dealt with affirm ative action in state agencies were ado p ted , w hile bills dealing with private corporations and the criminal justice system did not pass. Dani Lynne Barnett has enrolled at Howard University where she will study Business Ad ministration. 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