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NORTHWEST East Oregonian Page 2A Tuesday, November 24, 2015 6WDWHXQSUHSDUHGWRDFFHSWVWRUHSRWWD[FDVK BRIEFLY Lowell school RI¿FLDOVWRKHDU JXQVLQFODVVURRPV SURSRVDO an early sale law passed by the Legislature. A temporary 25 percent sales tax on these limited, early sale products SALEM — Oregon takes effect Jan. 4, and stores lawmakers this week ques- can keep 2 percent of the tax tioned whether the state to cover administrative costs, Department of Revenue will Galvin said. This will change be ready to accept massive to a permanent 17 percent amounts of cash in 2016, sales tax, also with a 2 percent when Oregonians begin administrative hold back for paying a sales tax on recre- stores, when licensed recre- ational marijuana. ational marijuana retailers The department expects open in late 2016. There is to collect approximately $1 no tax on pot for medical million a month, with 40 to marijuana patients. 80 percent in cash. The Department of “The (Legislative Fiscal Revenue will also likely 2I¿FHUHSRUWKHUHVWDWHVWKDW EO Media Group a formal security assessment Beginning in January the state will begin collecting ask the Legislature for more has yet to be conducted by taxes from legal marijuana businesses, most of which money in the 2016 session collect recreational either the Oregon State Police will be paid in cash. The Department of Revenue has to or an independent security not yet made infrastructure changes necessary to ac- marijuana taxes, Legislative and store as much as $1 million a month the taxes )LVFDO 2I¿FH DQDO\VW -RKQ ¿UP´VWDWH6HQ'RXJ:KLW- cept are expected to generate. Borden said during the sett, R-Klamath Falls, said during a hearing by the Joint hearing that “time is not team at the department has hearing. Borden said the Subcommittee On General on our side here.” Galvin begun work creating a secure /HJLVODWLYH )LVFDO 2I¿FH Government on Nov. 16 said lawmakers only moved environment,” Galvin said. found the Department of “You’re going to start getting responsibility for marijuana “They’ve had a structural Revenue might need more money in January, a couple tax collection from the analysis done for the safe. resources to collect the taxes, hundred thousand dollars Oregon Liquor Control They’re starting to order but could also streamline its operations and might be on in cash a day. When do you Commission, which regu- cameras.” plan to make that secure, and lates the new recreational pot Currently, adults age the cusp of hiring employees how?” market, to the Department of 21 and older can purchase for duplicative and poten- John Galvin, a marijuana Revenue in late May. limited marijuana prod- tially unnecessary jobs. 7KLV VWRU\ ¿UVW DSSHDUHG tax program and withholding The department had a ucts tax-free — seeds, and payroll tax manager at security assessment sched- GULHG OHDYHV ÀRZHUV DQG LQWKH2UHJRQ&DSLWDO,QVLGHU the Department of Revenue, uled with the Oregon State QRQÀRZHULQJ SODQWV ² DW newsletter. To subscribe, go said during the committee Police, and “our facilities medical dispensaries, under WRRUHJRQFDSLWDOLQVLGHUFRP By HILLARY BORRUD Capital Bureau LOWELL (AP) — The Lowell School Board may soon be considering changes to a districtwide ban that prohibits teachers IURPFDUU\LQJ¿UHDUPVLQ classrooms. The Register-Guard reports the director of Lowell’s Mountain View Academy charter school, Laurie Cardwell, is expected to ask the board Monday to allow teachers who hold state concealed weapons permits to carry ¿UHDUPVDWVFKRRO Cardwell has previously brought the proposal to Lowell School District Superintendent Walt Hanline, who opposes having guns on campus. Cardwell is bringing the issue up again following last month’s shooting at Umpqua Community College, where a gunman killed nine people before turning the gun on himself. Hanline says there are better ways schools can improve classroom safety than arming teachers. He says the board will discuss different safety plans at Monday’s meeting. 5HEXIIHG2):DSSRLQWHHVFRQ¿UPHGE\6HQDWH re-appointees, Holly Akenson of Enterprise, and Michael Finley of Medford. Akenson is SALEM — The Oregon a wildlife biologist, manages Senate voted this week to a tree farm with her husband FRQ¿UP WZR PHPEHUV RI WKH DQGLVDQDUFKHU\DQGULÀHELJ Oregon Fish and Wildlife game hunter, according to Commission whom Gov. the Department of Fish and Kate Brown reappointed in Wildlife’s website. Finley is president of a grant-making April. The move was a reversal foundation, and previously from earlier this year, when served as superintendent of the Senate Committee on Yellowstone, Yosemite and Rules delayed action on the Everglades national parks. He two reappointments over is also a hunter and angler. Ahead of the vote concerns that commissioners had failed to adequately Wednesday, Senate Republi- oversee the Oregon Depart- cans said they had been under ment of Fish and Wildlife the impression Brown would EXGJHW 7KH VSRUW ¿VKLQJ reconsider the reappoint- industry and cattle ranchers ments. The Senate voted in had also called for the governor to appoint commis- 0D\ WR FRQ¿UP WZR RWKHU sioners who represented their controversial appointees to perspectives. Commissioners the commission, Astoria resi- are appointed to represent dent Bruce Buckmaster who Oregon’s congressional has ties to the commercial JLOOQHW ¿VKLQJ LQGXVWU\ DQG districts. The Senate voted 22-8 on former state lawmaker Jason :HGQHVGD\WRFRQ¿UPWKHWZR Atkinson of Jacksonville. By HILLARY BORRUD Capital Bureau “You cannot continue to load the board with philo- sophical people that represent the big cities,” said state Sen. Fred Girod, R-Stayton. “It does not work ... The legislature deserves a lot of the credibility for this agency going down the toilet, and the governor deserves a lot of credibility for this agency going down the toilet. I urge a ‘no’ vote.” Girod’s language displeased Senate President Peter Courtney, D-Salem. “Sen. 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Attorneys representing the Oregon Legislature said in a Nov. 13 letter that a law adopted by the Legislature earlier this year prohibits local government from taxing medical pot. La Pine enacted the tax earlier this year on the two dispensaries in town. Randy Huff co-owns one of them, and says he’s been paying the city about $500 dollars a month. ClassiÀed Advertising: FODVVL¿HGV#HDVWRUHJRQLDQFRP Copyright © 2015, EO Media Group TODAY /D3LQH¶VPHGLFDO SRWWD[H[SHFWHG WRIDFHODZVXLW and the credibility of the appointments secretary,” Ferrioli said. “Members who voted unanimously (in committee) for the last round of appointments to ODFW did so on the assurance there would be consideration of D VSRUW ¿VKLQJ PHPEHU DQG a landowner. That did not happen. That to me is a breach RIFRQ¿GHQFHDQGDVRUWRID disconnect between credi- bility of the governor and the expectation that her asks will be respected.” Sen. 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