T he P ortland O bserver • J anuary
Tax Booklet
Error
Discovered
The Oregon Department o f Rev
enue has issued a correction for the
table on the inside cover o f the 1994
Oregon full-year resident income tax
instruction booklets (Form 40 and
40S) that most Oregonians will re
ceive in the mail.
The table titled “Do I Need To
File?” includes 1993’s gross income
numbers instead o f those for 1994.
Minimum income filing requirements
by law are indexed annually to the
Consumer Price Index.
The error only occurs on the
inside o f the front cover (page 2) o f
the 1994 full-year resident income
tax booklet. The tax tables and ex
emption credits are correct and cor
rect numbers are found in all other
instructions. All tax calculations in
the booklet are correct.
The error will not affect state
revenues, businesses, or most indi
viduals. The department expects that
a small number o f people might file
tax returns who otherwise would not
need to do so. The departm ent’s pro
cessing system has been alerted to
this possibility and any taxes or re
fund due would not be affected.
P age
18, 1995
David Knowles Appointed
Portland Planning Director
A northeast Portland resident
and former commissioner for Metro,
the regional government, has been
formerly appointed director o f Plan
ning for the city.
David Knowles has been serv
ing in the position as interim director
since Nov. 1993. His appointment to
permanent status was made by City
Commissioner Charlie Hales.
Hales said he wants Knowles’
continued help to streamline the plan
ning department’s permit process and
improve the livability o f neighbor
hoods.
“ We have m ade significant
progress on both fronts in the 14
months that David has been in charge
o f the bureau,” Hales said
He said under Knowles, there
has been increased attention to the
needs o f the bureau’s customers, who
include neighborhood residents and
developers.
He also cited Knowles for lead
ing the development o f the Livable
City H ousing Council which is
charged with developing 50,000 new
and affordable housing units in the
city’s neighborhoods.
Future go als include stream -
lin in g en v iro n m en tal regulations,
c o m p le tin g an o u te r so u th east
com m unity plan and im plem ent
ing a strategy for new housing in
the p ro p o se d riv e r d is tric t in
n o rthw est P o rtlan d .
Knowles represented northeast
Portland on the Metro Council from
1897 to 1992. He is a lawyer and a
former chairman o f the Housing
Authority o f Portland.
He and his wife, Pamela, also a
lawyer, and their three sons live in
northeast Portland.
Kornbrodt Running For Multnomah
Education Service District
Sy Kombrodt has announced
his candidacy for Multnomah Edu
cation Service District, Position #6
which is an “At-Large” position.
K ornbordt filed yesterday with
Multnomah County Elections
- Kombrodt is an Adult Parole
& Probation Officer employed by
the Oregon Department o f Correc
tions. K om bordt’s youngest son,
Charlie, is a Freshman at Grant
High School and his other son, Joe,
graduated from Grant in 1985.
Kombrodt was elected this past fall
to the Site Council at Grant Cluster
Advisory Committee. Since the fall
o f 1986, when his son, Charlie,
entered First Grade at Alameda
School Kombrodt has been active
in the Local School Advisory Com
mittee (at Alameda until Charlie
finished 5th Grade in 1991 and then
at Beaumont Middle School until
The election date is March 28.
Brian Black
Named Director
Of Urban
League Special
Projects And
Training
Brian A. Black, a South Caroli
na native, has been named Director
o f Special Projects and Training at
the Urban League O f Portland Black
was most recently Coordinator o f
Multicultural Affairs at Newberry
College in Newberry. He holds a
master o f arts in teaching (business
education) from the University o f
South Carolina at Columbia. As a
student. Black held several positions
assisting the University’s President
and the Executive Assistant to the
President for Equal Opportunity Pro
grams.
His new assignment will include
supervising training for staff and cli
ents, board development, and spe
cial projects related to marketing and
fund raising. “We are extremely
pleased to have a person o f Brian's
talents join our team,” said Urban
League President Lawrence J. Dark.
“His professionalism and education
background will help us accomplish
many o f our important goals in our
50th anniversary year.”
The Urban League o f Portland
is a non-profit, community-based
human service, economic and social
justice agency serving at-risk youth
and families, students, jo b seekers,
and seniors in the metro area The
League is one o f 113 local affiliates
o f the National Urban League.
Tax Break Forum
Date Changes
A public m eeting on the c o n
sid eratio n o f tax b reak s to b u si
nesses w ho plan m ajo r e x p a n
sions in M ultnom ah C o unty w ill
be held M onday, Jan. 23 at 6:30
p.m . at th e M ultnom ah C ounty
C o u rth o u se , 1021 S.W Fourth
Ave. T his is a new date from one
that was an n o u nced e a rlie r
The purpose o f the forum is to
provide information to county com
missioners and officials from other
jurisdictions about the effects, bene
fits and liabilities o f a tax abatement
program.
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June o f 1994). K om brodt is a past
President o f the Federation o f O re
gon Parole & Probation Officers.
He is a long time Board member o f
the Beaumont Wilshire N eighbor
hood Assoc iation and has been Chair
o f the Education Committee. He is
a member o f the Portland Metro
Area Local Government Boundary
Commission, and has been since
1988. He is a member o f the Metro ’ s
NE Composter Enhancement Com
mittee.
Kombrodt stresses that in these
times o f tight budgets and shrinking
income for public uses we must
continue to deliver services such as
Outdoor School, programs for At
Risk Youth, Health Services for
Teen Age Mothers and programs
for non English speaking students
in the most cost effective manner
possible.
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Proprietor
PCC Board
Filings Due
The filing deadline for individu
als interested in running for a Port
land Community College board o f
directors position is Thursday, Jan.
26 at 5 p.m. at the county election
offices in M ultnomah, Clackamas or
Washington counties.
Three positions on the seven-
member board are up for election.
They include Zone 2, composed o f
northeast Portland and Colum bia
County, Zone 3, comprising south
east Portland, and Zone 7 o f western
W ashington County.
Incumbents Harold W illiams o f
Zone 2, Keith Skelton o f Zone 3 and
Karen McKinney o f Zone 7 all have
announced they plan to run again.
The four-year terms begin July 1.
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Remembering The King Legacy
2728 NE MLK Blvd
Portland, Oregon 97212
(5 0 3 ) 284-4144
Oral presentations in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were made Friday by Michael Grice (left) and
Luscia Hicks before assembled students at Humboldt Elementary School. (Photos by Donn Thomas)
Settlement Reached In Fraudulently Yellow Pages Marketing Scheme
Attorney General Theodore R.
Kulongoski has announced that his
office has entered into a settlement
agreement with a Florida company
that fraudulently marketed a series o f
yellow pages directories in Oregon.
It is the second case this year involv
ing yellow pages fraud.
E n te rin g into the se ttle m e n t
a g reem en t w ith the D ep artm en t
o f Ju stic e is A m can E n te rp rise s,
In c ., w h ic h d o e s b u s in e s s as
N orth A m erican D irecto ries, Inc.,
and its ow ner, C harles R. Sm ith.
T he com p an y so lic ite d for se v e r
al y ello w pag es d ire c to rie s in
O regon, in clu d in g T he O regon
Y ellow p ag es, The W est C oast
Y ellow P ages and The N atio n al
W h o le sa le rs Y ellow Pages.
Department o f Justice investi
gators found that the company mis
led businesses by implying that in
purchasing advertising in Amcan di
rectories businesses were merely
continuing a pre-existing relation-
ship with their yellow pages compa-
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Solicitations from Amcan con
tained account or reference numbers,
names o f account representatives, and
were printed on yellow paper con
taining the familiaryellowpages logo.
Additionally, the company used Or
egon mailing addresses that were, in
fact, mail drops. Businesses who re
sponded to requests to correct infor
mation were billed as much as $196
per year for directories which did not
go to all consumers in geographic
areas but primari ly to other business
es that had also been scammed.
Company records indicate that
Amcan mailed approximately two
million solicitations to Oregon in the
past two to four years. The U.S.
Postal Service previously has taken
legal action against Amcan for civil
mail fraud.
Under the terms o f the settle
ment, Amcan is permanently prohib
ited from conducting future yellow
pages publishing businesses in Ore
gon In addition, the department has
received $25,000 for restitution and
to cover attorney fees and investiga
tive costs.
For more information, consum
ers and businesses should contact the
Attorney General’s consumer hotline
at(503)378-4320or229-5576(Port-
land only), Monday through Friday,
8:30 a.m. to noon or write Financial
Fraud, 1162 Court Street, N.E., Sa
lem, OR 97310.
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