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K a is e r
P er m a n e n te
A fric a n A m erican A s s o c ia tio n
Awards Four Scholarships
to Students Interested in
Health Care
In a recent awards ceremony,
the K aiser Perm anente A frican
American Association o f the North­
west gave three $500 scholarship
to college-bound high school se­
niors interested in health care ma­
jors, and one $ 1,000 scholarship to
a college junior studying science.
S c h o la rsh ip s o f S500 w ere
aw arded to Terressa A nderson, a
senior át Jefferson High School
who interested in nursing; Shonte'
Bradford, a senior at Roosevelt
High School, who is planning to
study child psychology.
The $ 1,000 went to college ju n ­
ior O nyeka nd u ag u b a, wfro is
studying general science and pre­
m edicine at Oregon State U niver­
sity in Corvallis, Ore.
This is the first year the Kaiser
Permanente African American As­
sociation has given a scholarship to
support African- American students
pursuing careers in health care.
The Kaiser Permanente African
American Association provides a
forum to encourage professional and
personal growth, career development,
opportunity, and enhancements in
the work environment for African
Americans within Kaiser Permanente
and to facilitate diversity initiatives
within the organization.
NW Residents
Approve Parking
Permit Program
worked hard to inform their neigh­
Residents and business owners in
bors and turn out the vote."
a portion ofNorthwest Portland over­
Approxim ately 450 addresses
whelmingly approved creation o f the
received
ballots for the vote on
neighborhood’s first permit parking
perm
it
parking.
Voters returned
program late last week. The pro­
nearly
250
ballots
to the C ity, with
gram, which will take effects Au­
more
than
200
valid
ballots were
gust, prevents commuter parking
counted.
The
results
showed 87
there daily. The program is the latest
percent
in
favor,
12
percent
op­
success o f the efforts o f consultant
posed
and
one-
percent
abstain­
Doug Capps, hired last year by the
ing. Both the N orthw est D istrict
City at the request o f City Commis­
A ssociation and the Nob Business
sioner Charlie Hales, to solve the
A ssociation supported the vote on
neighborhood parking issues.
the perm it program.
The affected area stretches from
Com m issioner Hales will ask
W est B urnside S treet north to
the City Council June 30“1 formally
N orthup and from Northw est 16 to
accept the election results and es­
18 avenues. The C ity identified
tablish the parking permit program.
the area because as m any as 300 to
A pplications for perm its, which
350 dow ntow n com m uters park
cost $21 the first year and $15 a
there daily. The program is the
year thereafter, w ill be m ailed to
latest success o f the efforts o f con­
business and residents on July 2.
sultant Doug Capps, hired late year
Permit enforcem ent will begin a
by the city at the request o f City
month later.
C om m issioner Charlie Hales; to
“N orthw est Portland is one o f
solve the neighborhood’s parking
the
city ’s best neighborhoods,"
issues.
said Hales. “ But we need to con­
“This is a good step on a long
tinue to work hard to strike the
journey to address issues,” said
right balance its vibrant com m er­
Hales. “ It is p ro o f positive that we
cial corridors and the needs o f its
need to focus our efforts and ad­
residents.”
dress specific areas w ith small so­
Capps will continue his work to
lutions that w ork.”
establish
several shared parking
C apps’ efforts in the neighbor­
lots
and
plans
to look at other
hood include new, more consis­
sectors
o
f
the
neighborhood
where
tent parking signage along busy
perm
it
parking
might
work.
The
N orthw est 23rd Avenue; efforts to
arrival
o
f
the
Central
City
Street­
create shared parking lots and the
car in early 2001 will also offer
im provem ent o f transit services
residents and visitors to the neigh­
and em ployer participation in Tri-
borhood more transportation op­
M ett Passport program
tions, Capps said
“This successful vote is testa­
“This success shows that when
ment to the hard w ork o f residents
it comes to N orthw est Portland we
and business ow ners in this part o f
need to think locally and act very
N orthw est,” said Capps. "They
locally,” said Capps.
rallied behind this idea and then
DHR Names New Administrator of Oregon
Child Protective Services
A nationally recognized child
welfare expert has been chosen to
head the State Office for Services to
Children and Families in the Oregon
Department o f human Resources.
Ramona Foley, 54, comes to Or­
egon from South Carolina where for
the past five years she has been director
of the Division ofFamily Preservation
and Child Welfare Services in the
State’s Department ofSocial Serv ices.
Gary Weeks, director o f DHR. said
Foley’s national reputation and exper­
tise in child welfare reform made her
an ideal choice to head SCF.
“ We are excited to have a person
o f her caliber as part o f the DHR
team,” said Weeks. “In South Caro­
lina she has helped bring together
many serv ices to support the safety
and well-being o f children including
mental health and alcohol and drug
services. She understands how criti­
cal these services are to the success
o f child welfare.”
Foley has 30 years o f experience
in public social services. O f those,
14 have been in a leadership position
in the department’s highly visible
child welfare system. She began her
career as a caseworker in 1967.
While in her current role she has
been a leader in the state’s child
welfare reform efforts, including the
complete revision of the state’s stat­
ues, policies and procedures regard­
ing child welfare; the successful
implementation, policies and proce­
dures regarding child welfare; the
successful implementation o f the
W.K. Kellogg Families for Kids ini­
tiative, a five-year private and public
partnership resulting in the doubling
o f foster care children who were
fare Administrators.
Foley has a bachelor’s degree
(1967) and a masters in social work
(1971), both from the University of
South Carolina.
Foley’s office will be in the Flu-
man Resources Building in Salem,
where thecentral SCF office is housed.
SCF has a 1997-99 budget o f nearly
$455 million, 42 field offices and a
statewide staff o f about 1,580.
“Foley joins a very capable staff
at SCF and will take that group to the
next level,” Weeks said. Foley be­
gins work at SCF on Aug. 16. Her
monthly salary is $8,365.
Foley succeeds Kay Toran, who
announced her retirement from state
services in February after five years
as the state’s child protective ser­
vices administrator. Toran will join
the Oregon affiliate o f Volunteers o f
America as its president and chief
executive officer.
Ramona Foley
adopted; and introduction o f the
Statewide Automated Child Wel­
fare Information System.
“For years, Oregon has been
viewed nationally as a creative and
progressive state in its commit­
ment to improving services for chil­
dren and their families,” Foley said.
“In fact, several o f the ‘new’ child-
welfare reforms being implemented
across the country had their origins
in Oregon’s private and public ini­
tiatives. I am excited about being
a part o f the DHR team.
Foley is vice president of the
National Association o f Public
Child Welfare Administrators and
past president of the national Asso­
ciation o f the Interstate Compact
on the Placement o f Children. She
was the 1998 recipientofthe Award
for Excellence in Public Welfare
Administration from the National
Association o f Public Child Wei-
Free Transportation
Marketplace
T he U .S. D e p a rtm e n t o f
Transportation's (DOT’s) Office o f
small and Disadvantaged Business
Utilization, is sponsoring the “O r­
egon Transportation Marketplace”
in Portland, OR. The Deputy Secre­
tary ofTransportation, Mr. Mortimer
L. Downey will be the keynote
speaker for the day’s festivities. The
event will be held on July 15, 1999
from 8:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. at the
Double Tree Hotel Columbia River,
1401 North Hayden Island Drive,
Portland. Oregon 97217. Ph. (503)
283-4466.
The m arketplace is designed to
educate, train and assist small busi­
nesses, including m inority and
wom en entrepreneurs, to secure
D O T-funded procurem ent and
D O T-assisted contracting op­
portunities with Federal, state
and local transportation agen­
cies. M illions o f dollars have
been aw arded in contracts due
to this event held in other loca­
tions! For more information
please call Ms. Carla Coolman
at(202) 366-9886 or(800) 532-
1 169 X69886. Registration is
FREE.
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ADULT AND SENIOR
S E R V IC E S
Gives Intel Job-
Discouraging Break LorraineJohnson-Coleman
Invite you to on ofternoon o f poetry with
Officials in a Portland suburb on
Tuesday granted a $200 million tax
break to computer giant Intel Corp,
with a novel provision that could
discourage Intel job growth over the
next 15 years.
The tax break provision requires
Intel, the world's No. 1 computer
chip maker, to pay an extra $1,000
for all new manufacturing jobs it
adds at area plants above 1,000 new
jobs in the 15-year period.
Officials acknowledged the irony
o f the break: while most communi­
ties welcome as many new jobs as
they can attract, prosperous W ash­
ington County west of Portland can
be seen as penalizing job growth.
But the county has absorbed thou­
sands o f jobs in the region’s high
tech boom o f the past decade —
including thousands at Intel, which
employs 11,000 people in the county
— and is more interested in limiting
the impact on strapped schools and
other infrastructure.
“W e’re still pro-business," said
Tom Brian, chairman o f the Wash­
ington County Board o f Commis­
sioners, which unanim ously ap­
proved the tax break and jobs provi­
sion Tuesday night after a three-hour
public hearing.
“It’s a matter o f pace — and ask­
ing businesses to contribute to the
impact (of job growth)," he said.
Brian said that when Intel submit­
ted its application for the break on
local taxes — allowed under a 1993
Oregon law — company officials
indicated they did not expect to add
many jobs to their Oregon plants
over the next 15 years.
Brian said county officials began
negotiating the corporation’s tax
break request based on that and de­
cided to include a clause requiring
Intel to pay more if it added more
than the 1,000 manufacturing jobs it
expected to add to its current jobs in
the county.
“W e’re not limiting the growth—
they can add all they want," Brian
said. “They just have to help pay for
the impact.”
Brian said he’s been surprised by
the attention the jobs provision has
received. “To us, it was common
sense,” he said.
Under the tax proposal, Intel is
expected to pay about $19.35 mil­
lion annually in taxes on its Wash­
ington County property and equip­
ment over the next 15 years, an in­
crease o f $7.35 million annually over
its current level, for a total increase
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15 years.
The company will save a total of
about $200 million over those 15
years by making certain guaranteed
payments in return for a reduced tax
rate on equipment the company plans
to add, county officials said. Intel
had said it would not make the addi­
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property taxes on the equipment.
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