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Page 2A WEATHER East Oregonian TODAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY Partly sunny and nice Clouds and breaks of sun Nice with episodes of sunshine 77° 53° 73° 56° REGIONAL CITIES Forecast FRIDAY SATURDAY Partly sunny and pleasantly warm Mostly cloudy and very warm PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 78° 52° 80° 54° 79° 57° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 79° 54° 77° 53° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 74° 69° 92° (1980) 40° 43° 25° (1916) PRECIPITATION 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date 0.00" 0.01" 0.16" 5.83" 8.54" 9.10" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday Yesterday Normals Records Corvallis 73/49 0.00" 0.17" 0.09" 3.65" 4.98" 6.65" SUN AND MOON Oct 20 Bend 76/46 Burns 78/38 6:59 a.m. 6:27 p.m. 12:53 a.m. 3:28 p.m. Full Last Oct 27 Nov 3 Caldwell 78/43 Medford 84/51 PRECIPITATION Oct 12 John Day 81/54 Ontario 80/46 37° 41° 25° (2012) 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today New First Albany 74/51 Eugene 75/49 LOW 74° 70° 87° (1958) 80° 59° Spokane Wenatchee 73/50 76/55 Tacoma Moses 71/51 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 75/49 75/48 64/55 70/50 81/48 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 72/53 77/57 Lewiston 80/53 Astoria 78/53 66/53 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 74/56 Pendleton 77/45 The Dalles 79/54 77/53 79/54 La Grande Salem 78/43 74/52 TEMPERATURE HIGH 80° 53° Seattle 69/56 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 79° 50° Klamath Falls 77/38 Today Astoria Baker City Bend Brookings Burns Enterprise Eugene Heppner Hermiston John Day Klamath Falls La Grande Meacham Medford Newport North Bend Ontario Pasco Pendleton Portland Redmond Salem Spokane Ukiah Vancouver Walla Walla Yakima REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: Areas of fog across the north today; partly sunny in the south. Eastern Washington: Partly sunny today. Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly sunny today; pleasant. Partly cloudy tonight. Clouds and sun tomorrow. Western Washington: Mostly cloudy at the coast today with areas of fog; partly sunny across the south. Cascades: Partly sunny today. Partly cloudy tonight, but increasing cloudiness across the north. Northern California: Partly sunny today, except sunshine in central parts. 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Temperature bands are highs for the day. -10s -0s showers t-storms 0s 10s rain 20s 30s flurries 40s snow ice 50s 60s cold front 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s high warm front stationary front low National Summary: Rain will retreat and seas will ease along the Atlantic coast today. However, river flooding is forecast to continue in the Carolinas. Showers and storms will riddle areas from Wyoming to Arizona. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 93° in McAllen, Texas Low 22° in Olney, Mont. 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Main St., Hermiston 541-567-6211 2I¿FHKRXUV0RQGD\WKURXJK)ULGD\DPWRSP &ORVHGPDMRUKROLGD\V Tuesday, October 6, 2015 Multimedia consultants -HDQQH-HZHWW MMHZHWW#HDVWRUHJRQLDQFRP 'D\OH6WLQVRQ GVWLQVRQ#HDVWRUHJRQLDQFRP 7HUUL%ULJJV WEULJJV#HDVWRUHJRQLDQFRP NEWS To submit news tips and press releases:FDOO ID[HPDLOQHZV#HDVWRUHJRQLDQFRP To submit community events, calendar items and Your EO News: HPDLOFRPPXQLW\#HDVWRUHJRQLDQFRPRUFDOO7DPP\0DOJHVLQL LQ+HUPLVWRQDWRU5HQHH6WUXWKHUVLQ3HQGOHWRQDW To submit engagements, weddings and anniversaries: HPDLOUVWUXWKHUV#HDVWRUHJRQLDQFRPRUYLVLWZZZHDVWRUHJRQLDQ FRPFRPPXQLW\DQQRXQFHPHQWV &ODVVLÀHG$GYHUWLVLQJ FODVVL¿HGV#HDVWRUHJRQLDQFRP To submit a Letter to the Editor:PDLOWR0DQDJLQJ(GLWRU'DQLHO :DWWHQEXUJHU6(%\HUV$YH3HQGOHWRQ25RUHPDLO HGLWRU#HDVWRUHJRQLDQFRP Legal Advertising:$PDQGD-DFREV DMDFREV#HDVWRUHJRQLDQFRP To submit sports or outdoors information or tips: VSRUWV#HDVWRUHJRQLDQFRP Real Estate Advertising: Jodi Snook MVQRRN#HDVWRUHJRQLDQFRP COMMERCIAL PRINTING Production Manager: 6WHYH.QREEH VNQREEH#HDVWRUHJRQLDQFRP State seeks more drivers for mileage tax test By HILLARY BORRUD Capital Bureau SALEM — A state pilot program launched in July to charge Oregon drivers based on the amount they drive has roughly 900 participants, mostly in the Portland metro- politan area. OI¿cials had hoped to enroll up to 5,000 people in the pay-by-the-mile program, the ¿rst oI its Nind in the nation. Participants sign up with one of three private vendors, then install an electronic device that enables the company to tracN mileage and collect fees. ³, thinN we all need to get more (participants) in because the more we have, the better the data,´ said 9icNi %erger, chair of a tasN force overseeing the effort. Oregon Department of Transportation employees told the tasN force this weeN they are worNing on strategies to sign up more people. Although more than 200 people enrolled in Mult- nomah County, the partic- ipation numbers for many counties remain in the single digits and several counties east of the Cascades have no participants. Tom Fuller, a spoNesman for ODOT, said the agency is using various strategies to encourage more people to participate. For example, the Driver and Motor Vehicle Services Divi- sion now provides informa- tion about the program when people renew their licenses and registration. ³:e¶re worNing on creating more partnerships, worNing to get Àeets into the test drive,´ Fuller told the tasN force. Fuller said the agency also wants to sign up people with underrepresented types of vehicles and from more areas of the state, “for example to reach more eastern Orego- nians.” Oregon faces a long- term transportation funding dilemma, because state and federal gas taxes currently provide about half the money for bridge, highway and other transportation projects. As people purchase more fuel ef¿cient vehicles, state of¿- cials expect gas tax revenue will decline in the future. “When you realize that ... vehicles on the road are going to use less and less fuel and our funding is dependent on fuel taxes, the pressure to ¿nd something different is pretty high,” said ODOT spoNes- woman Michelle Godfrey. “Costs of construction have increased dramatically, so the money we do get in gas tax, even though it¶s Àat, is basi- cally half of what we need.” The department has been searching since 2001 for other options to charge people for using Oregon’s roads and highways, and lawmaNers authorized the pilot project in a 2013 law. It was origi- nally supposed to cost $2.8 million, according to a budget report for the legislation that authorized the program, Senate Bill 810. The budget has since increased to $8.1 million through the end of this year and the state could spend a total of $12.7 million by mid-2017, although Godfrey said ODOT expects the project to come in under that budget. The state could incur additional costs in the future because the pilot will continue inde¿nitely until lawmaNers decide whether to maNe it mandatory. One problem with a pay-by-the-mile road fee is that it is more expensive to administer than the gas tax. ODOT of¿cials suggested during the tasN force meeting that one way to address this might be to use the mileage fee to replace not only the gas tax but also license, vehicle registration and other fees, which carry higher adminis- trative costs. State Rep. John Davis, R-Wilsonville, said he appreciated the suggestion because otherwise, he would be sNeptical of the road user fee given the high administra- tive costs. Critics of the pilot have said it bene¿ts drivers of low-mpg vehicles that produce more pollution and penalizes drivers of more fuel-ef¿cient vehicles, and lawmaNers including state Sen. Betsy Johnson, D-Scappoose, have raised concerns about the cost and other aspects of the program. In July, the Willamette WeeN newspaper reported that legislators questioned ODOT of¿cials’ decisions to send Jim Whitty, manager of the agency’s Of¿ce of Innovative Partnerships and Alternative Funding, on more than 100 trips over the last decade including to Washington, D.C., Brussels, London, Barcelona, Singapore and Australia. The state paid $65,000 of Whitty’s travel costs, with the remainder picNed up by conference sponsors who were not iden- ti¿ed in the newspaper article. At the tasN force meeting in Salem this weeN, Whitty announced he plans to resign from the agency at the end of this year. “I’m an innovator and there comes a point where the program becomes more governmental,” Whitty said after the meeting. “We’ve reached that point. My services are not as needed at this stage going forward.” Corrections The East Oregonian worNs hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets any errors. If you notice a mistaNe in the paper, please call 541-966-0818. Attention Parents: Don’t Miss the Bus! Join us Thursday, October 15 from 6-8 pm at Pendleton Early Learning Center ning ly lear An ear am that p rogr a r ents in ts p p s u por ole as their r ost their t a nd m r. s r i f ’s che child tial tea n e u l f in Sign-up Now! Space is Limited! 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