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develop the model and still has
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agency where the CIO works,
the Department of Adminis-
trative Services, does not have
enough employees assigned to
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was understaffed, and pointed
out in a Feb. 24 written response
that the agency had asked for
12 more employees in the next
two-year budget starting in July.
Without additional employees,
Jordan estimated his agency
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project management strategy by
summer 2017.
However, Jordan took issue
with the auditors’ recommen-
dation for clear consequences
By HILLARY BORRUD
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Oregon has taken
steps over the last year to prevent
major information technology
project failures such as Cover
Oregon, but the effort remains
understaffed and incomplete,
according to an audit released
Monday.
Auditors also concluded the
new project management strat-
egy would not prevent many of
the common problems that arose
with state IT projects over the
last 10 years.
Auditors at the Secretary of
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has taken more than a year to
when IT projects fail to meet
goals during the development
process; Jordan wrote that it was
also important to be “supportive
and collaborative.”
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tially asked for more time so
that George Naughton could
write “an enhanced response” to
the audit after Jordan resigned
March 5, said Secretary of State’s
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Kristen Grainger, a spokeswom-
an for Gov. Kate Brown, wrote
in an email that it was simply
an “opportunity to consider that
DAS has a new interim director,
and whether or not the agency
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that. Upon further consideration,
it did not.” Naughton made only
a few minor word changes be-
fore signing off on the response
Jordan had written.
An independent IT services
review that Brown called for last
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Ski areas ask Legislature for
liability protection
week will cover management
issues in addition to security is-
sues, Grainger wrote. Brown an-
nounced her plan for the review
in a press release last week ac-
knowledging a data breach at the
DAS-managed state data center.
Despite the audit’s focus on
IT project management, it did
not examine what auditors de-
scribed as “arguably the worst
computer development failure
in state history,” Cover Oregon.
Oregon spent $300 million in
federal money primarily to set
up an online exchange for peo-
ple to purchase health insur-
ance, plus at least $26 million in
state money for related projects,
The Associated Press reported.
The exchange website failed to
launch as planned in October
2013. Meanwhile, the state and
technology company Oracle
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ing lawsuits over the project.
SALEM (AP) — Ski areas are asking the
Oregon Legislature for enhanced protection
from lawsuits after the state Supreme Court
invalidated the broad liability waivers often
printed on the back of lift tickets.
Ski facility executives told the Senate
Judiciary Committee Monday that they
may have to raise their prices if they aren’t
shielded from lawsuits. They say they’ll face
higher bills for lawyers and insurance.
But Lauren Bagley, whose son was
injured as a teenager at Mount Bachelor in
2006, says ski companies should be held
accountable when their man-made equipment
fails.
Committee chairman Floyd Prozanski
asked both sides to work together and see if
there’s room for agreement.
Portland mayor suspends
city-funded travel to Indiana
PORTLAND (AP) — Mayor Charlie
Hales says Portland’s government is joining
the reaction against an Indiana law aimed
at preventing government from compelling
people to do things they object to, such as
catering gay weddings.
The law has been widely criticized as
allowing discrimination against gays.
Hales said Monday he’s suspended
city-funded travel to Indiana. He called on
business and civic leaders to do the same.
Spokesman Dana Haynes says Portland
employees do occasionally travel to Indiana
— the planning and development department
leaders went recently for a forum. But he
says travel is scheduled department by
department, and it’s not yet known if any
trips were in the works.
Washington Governor Jay Inslee also
imposed an administrative-wide ban on state-
funded travel to Indiana.
Oregon regulators are considering
sanctions against two bakers who refused
to provide a wedding cake to a same-sex
couple.
Time’s running out for Vanport survivors
PORTLAND (AP) — Sev-
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it away, Vanport is having some-
thing of a comeback.
In February, the Smithsonian
Magazine published a long piece
about the city’s disappearance.
The Oregon Historical Society’s
current exhibit features Vanport,
too.
But many Portlanders still
don’t know the history of the
1948 tragedy that wiped Ore-
gon’s second-largest city off the
map. City memorials are hidden
beneath moss and blackberries.
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schools.
A team from Concordia Uni-
versity believes they have an
idea that will bring the story of
Vanport back to life. Working
with Beaumont Middle School
students, the Concordia group is
creating an interactive app and
documentary.
“But time is running out,”
Concordia education professor
Shawn Daley told the Beaumont
students. Few of the 40,000 peo-
ple who once lived in Vanport
remained.
In March, Daley’s team
planned to interview six survi-
vors. One died just before the in-
terview. Another suffered a heart
attack.
Shipbuilder Henry Kaiser cre-
ated Vanport in the early days of
World War II because he needed
a place where his employees —
particularly African American
The federal government chose
not to rebuild Vanport after the
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Portland took it over in 1961. To-
day, the land holds a golf course
and a race track.
State legislators have urged
middle schools to teach Oregon
history. A 2013 bill gave the
Oregon Department of Educa-
tion money to create an Oregon
Studies program, but it’s still in
the early stages, said Markisha
Smith, the director of ODE’s eq-
uity unit.
Oregon school districts create
their own curricula, so the state
can’t force any school to study
Vanport, but leaders at the state
department are interested in shar-
ing the work Daley’s team puts
together.
James Thompson, now 83,
rolled out a map and pointed out
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ive and cherry bowls. He washed
dishes every day but Sunday, he
told them.
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Thompson told the students,
Army Corps members rolled out
banners saying that levees would
hold the Columbia River back.
Thompson was heading out to
stack sandbags when the river cut
a six-foot hole into a railroad em-
bankment that served as a dike.
“We saw this mass of peo-
ple running down the street and
all these cars,” Thompson said.
“You couldn’t even move.”
AP Photo/The Oregonian, Allan deLay
A boy clings to safety at Entrance Circle during Vanport
flood of Memorial Day 1948. Fourteen people died.
workers — could live. The area
had few homes, and real estate
bigotry prohibited African Amer-
icans from living in most of Port-
land.
Kaiser built his new city on
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It soon became the most state’s
most diverse city. About 15 per-
cent of Vanport’s residents were
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a movie theater and a library.
Portland State University got its
start there as Vanport Extension
Center.
Daley realized last year many
of his North Portland neighbors
didn’t know any of that history.
One of Daley’s Concordia gradu-
ate students, Matthew Blanchard,
confessed he had grown up
across the river in Vancouver —
the Van in Vanport — but didn’t
know the history either.
Daley and Blanchard began
researching, but information
about Vanport is scattered across
the region. The Oregon Historical
Society has some photos. Clark
County has others. Portland State
University keeps its own records,
and the Vanport Multimedia Proj-
ect has its own slice of history.
Using money from a National
Council of Social Studies grant,
Daley and Blanchard began to
synthesize the information into
one cellphone app.
In early March, they drove out
to the land where Vanport once
stood.
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