T he P ortland O bserver • M ay 18, 1994
ODOT Initiates
New Minority
Contractor
Effort
1994 State
Tax Filling
Change
Beginning with the 1994 tax year,
Oregon taxpayers will not have to
attach copies o f federal schedules to
T h e O re g o n D e p a rtm e n t o f their O regon incom e tax return. They
T ransportation will offer minority will file only a copy o f their state
contractors the opportunity to act as income tax return and a copy o f the
prim e contractors on as m any as six front and back o f their federal 1040
sm all W e stsid e C o rrid o r-re la te d form. This change eliminates the need
projects in Portland.
for the taxpayer to include any federal
“W e have determ ined that m i schedules.
nority contractors have continually
Some of the com m on schedules
lost m arket share since 1989,” said filed include: Schedule A - Itemized
Bea H udson, m anager o f O D O T ’s Deductions; Schedule B - Interest
Civil Rights Section. Hudson said and Dividend Income; Schedule D -
that in 1989 the U.S. Suprem e Court Capital G ains and Losses; and Form
in C roson vs. the City o f Richm ond, 2441 - Child and D ependent Care
Va. effectively ended state and local Expenses
governm ent preference program s for
Elim inating the need to file fed
m inorities.
eral schedules will make it easier for
“This is a chance for minority the taxpayer to file their return and for
contractors to win contracts from the departm ent to process them. This
O D O T as private contractors,” said change should reduce that average to
H udson. She said that since m ost four pages. The inform ation previ
m inority contractors are sm all, they ously found on the schedules will be
are lim ited in the types o f jobs they obtained electronically from the In
can bid for as prim e contractors.
ternal Revenue Service. About 30
“ T h e s e W e s ts id e C o rrid o r percent o f Oregon taxpayers file the
projects are in the $50,000 range,’ form 40S (short from) and d o n ’t have
Hudson said. “T hat puts them w ithin to include federal schedules now.
the range o f sm aller contractors. And These taxpayers will not be affected.
the type o f work involved will mean
that the prim e contractors will need
little or no subcontractor assistance.”
Proposals for one project, a park
ing lot construction job, w illbe opened
at O D O T ’s regular bid opening on
May 26.
C ontractors wanting more infor
m ation about the initiative and u p
com ing projects should get in touch
with Jerry Hoffman at O D O T ’s O f
fice o f C ivil Rights in Salem at (503)
378-4900.
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Native Americans Honored By Rose Festival;
Tribal Leaders Named Parade Grand Marshals
The tribal leaders representing
each o f O regon’s Indian tribes and
their unique sovereign status will be
honored as Rose Festival G rand M ar
shals in this year's D elta Airlines
G rand Floral Parade.
E ight tribal organizations in O r
egon will be represented in the Grand
Floral Parade. Preceding the Grand
M arshals will be the N orthw est In
dian V eteran A ssociation H onor
G uard and a representative carrying
an eagle feather staff, a symbol sacred
to the Indians.
G rand M arshals and the tribes
they represent include: Doug Hawley
and Clifford Sam, Burns Paiute Tribe;
Greg Norton, Confederated Tribes of
Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw
Indians; M ark M ercier,Confederated
Tribes o f the Grande Ronde; Antone
Min thorn, Confederated Tribes o f the
U matilla Indian Reservation; Delvis
Heath, Confederated Tribes o f the
Warm SpringsReservation; K enTan-
ner, C oquille Indian Tribe; M arvin
G arcia, K lam ath G eneral Council;
and Dee Pigsley, Siletz Tribal Coun
cil.
“The Rose Festival strives to be a
celebration o f the spirit o f our state
and w hat better way to portray that
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dent o f the Portland Rose Festival
Association. “These people are inter
woven into the fabric o f O reg o n -its
past, present and future,” he said.
A program o f N ative American
events and activities is being orga
nized by the Rose Festival Associa
tion. Tribal representatives will visit
Portland-area schools prior to parade
weekend to meet with students. A
post-parade reception honoring the
tribal leaders, free and open to the
public, is being hosted by the Oregon
Historical Society.
In addition, the N orthw est Film
o f Floats at Oregon Square in the
Lloyd D istrict on Saturday and Sun
day, June 11 and 12. H ours are 7:30
p.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday and 11:30
a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sunday. This pre
sentation is free to the public.
The Portland Rose Festival cel
ebrates its 86th year in 1994. The
Delta Airlines Grand Floral Parade
takes place on Saturday, June 11 be
ginning at 10 a.m . Ticketed indoor
and outdoor seating is available at the
Coliseum. O utdoor seating is avail
able at the Oregon Convention C en
ter. Tickets are available at G.I. Jo e’s
Ticketmaster outlets or by calling 224-
4400.
Target and Habitat For Humanity Begin
Construction Of New Home In Portland
Plans tobuilda Habitat for Human
ity home in Northeast Portland will soon
become reality as Target and Portland
Habitat affiliate begin groundbreaking
activities for the new house being built at
1142 NE Dean S l The house site will be
excavated and the foundation will be
poured.
Once the foundation has bee
set, Target volunteers from the new
H illsboro-T anasboum e store that
open since July will be team ing with
employees from surrounding stores
to help com plete the house by mid-
July. Target volunteers will work
together with H abitat for Humanity
and the partner fam ily on a activities
such as wall-raising, siding and paint
ing. Their volunteer work is sched
uled to begin the week o f May 21.
“W e are very excited to begin
work on the new H abitat home with
T a r g e t’s s u p p o r t,” sa id B en
Schonberger o f Portland Habitat for
Humanity. “Target em ployees have
agreed to volunteer hundreds o f hours
to help make this dream a reality for
a local family in need.”
The project is part o f T arget
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derful L ife” program , w hich provides
funding and people pow er to build
hom es in T arget store com m unities
throughout the country. “ Building
A W onderful Life” was inspired by
the key messages o f philanthropy
and com m unity giving found in the
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derful L ife”. The H abitat home in
Portland is one o f 38 hom es to be
built by Target em ployee volunteers
nationw ide in 1994.
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C enter and the Sacred Earth C oali
tion are co-presenting a film festival
o f Native American films, produced
entirely by American Indian film pro
ducers. The film festival takes place
June 9-12 at the Film Center in South
west Portland. A prem ier showing of
a film by a Northwest American In
dian film producer is planned. The
Native Am erican Film Festival is
underw ritten in part by the Portland
Rose Festival Association as part of
the association’s com m itm ent to cul
tural education and awareness.
An Indian cultural presentation
o f m usic, drumming and dance will
also occur at the M ervyn’s Showcase
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