Page 8A OFF PAGE ONE East Oregonian Thursday, November 19, 2015 ODOT: Would only reduce carbon emission by roughly 20 percent of original 2.02 million metric tons over a decade negotiations, I demanded Gov. Brown immediately could achieve that through request the resignation of a package of alternative fuel Director Garrett due to incentives and spending to gross incompetency at best improve public transit and and dishonest manipulation UHGXFHWUDI¿FFRQJHVWLRQ at worst,” Ferrioli said in a One part of the plan written statement. “Whether in particular resulted in Director Garrett knew the immediate skepticism by numbers ODOT provided environmentalists: proposed the workgroup were wrong technological improve- or he simply failed to provide PHQWV LQ WUDI¿F ÀRZV the updated numbers in his that were supposed to cut possession, his decision carbon emissions by 2.02 to surprise workgroup million metric tons over a members with new numbers decade. Together with other in a public hearing without components of the plan, any advance warning led these improvements were to the demise of a critical, supposed to reduce carbon bipartisan transportation emissions by as much as infrastructure package for 9.1 million to 11.22 million Oregonians that would metric tons over a decade. have resulted in real carbon Garrett said on June 24 the reduction.” technological improve- Records obtained by ments would yield roughly )HUULROL¶V RI¿FH VKRZHG 20 percent of the amount as early as June 8, Garrett calculated originally for and Brown’s sustainable the bipartisan group, which communities and transporta- meant the transportation tion policy adviser Karmen package would no longer Fore received emails from achieve the same amount of ODOT staff with lower carbon reductions predicted carbon reduction estimates. from the low-carbon fuel Amanda Pietz, manager standard. of ODOT’s transportation Ferrioli revealed on planning unit, wrote in the Wednesday that he had also email that a computer model asked the governor to seek had predicted that $400 Garrett’s resignation soon million in technological after the hearing. improvements to improve “In June, following the WUDI¿F ÀRZ FRXOG UHGXFH implosion of transportation carbon emissions by 2.02 million metric tons over a decade. Nonetheless, transpor- WDWLRQ RI¿FLDOV FRQWLQXHG to provide documents to the bipartisan group of lawmakers negotiating the transportation package — known as the Gang of Eight — that showed the state could achieve the same 2.02 million metric ton reduction in carbon emissions at half the price, $200 million over a decade. The ODOT estimates continued to sink lower, with Garrett passing along an updated prediction of 0.87 million metric tons in carbon reduction from $200 million in transportation improvements in a June 10 email to Fore and Brown’s energy policy adviser Margi Hoffman. However, ODOT and the governor’s advisers continued to tell lawmakers LQ XSGDWHG EULH¿QJ GRFX- ments that they could achieve 2.02 million metric tons in carbon reductions for $200 million. On the eve of the legis- lative hearing on the trans- portation package, Garrett asked his staff to double- check the numbers. Angela Crowley-Koch, legislative director for the Oregon Environmental Council, also questioned the calcula- Continued from 1A HORNECK: Scholarship fund also established in his name a chance to spur collaboration between OSU and BMCC. community, Horneck was an All these developments will avid rock hound, member of allow HAREC researchers to the Hermiston Lions Club, do things they’ve never been church leader and youth able to do before, Hamm said. soccer referee “I don’t want our faculty “Anything he was involved to be limited by facilities,” he in, he gave his heart and soul,” said. “If they’re successful, our Vicki Horneck said. “I think growers will be successful.” that’s what people loved about Nobody understood that him. He was a very giving better than Horneck, Hamm person.” said. The two worked closely Now, the community is together over the years and giving back to Horneck’s became fast friends. memory. While the OSU “Don meant a lot to us, College of Agricultural and a lot to this experiment Sciences provided $60,000 for station,” Hamm said. “If you the new $300,000 building, didn’t know Don, you missed the rest came out of donations out.” from local farms, businesses, Bryan Wolfe, chairman trade groups and the station of the HAREC advisory researchers themselves. committee, said the building A memorial scholarship will help to carry on Horneck’s fund has also been established legacy. in Horneck’s name, for “What Don advanced and students studying agronomy brought to our operations can’t and soil sciences. be measured,” said Wolfe, a “Everybody has done so Hermiston farmer. “He was many things to memorialize always thinking outside the him,” Vicki Horneck said. box.” “Those people who didn’t Dan Arp, dean of the know him will be able to see OSU College of Agricultural what he meant to all of us.” Sciences, also spoke at the Phil Hamm, station ceremony and thanked the director, said the Don Horneck donors who made the project building is a much-welcomed happen. addition to the HAREC Though Arp said he didn’t campus, which continues to know Horneck as well as grow. The 290-acre property others, he did get a chance added a pair of new green- to take a tour of the research houses in the spring, and plans station with Horneck during WREXLOGIRXUQHZRI¿FHVQHDU RQHRIWKHVLWH¶V¿HOGGD\V WKHFXUUHQWRI¿FHEXLOGLQJ “He exuded pride and Of course, Hamm said they enthusiasm for this station,” are excited to break ground in $USVDLG³