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WINNER OF THE 2016 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD
IONE
Proposed
budget
includes
big cuts
Lawmaker’s framework
includes no new taxes
By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
SALEM — The co-chairs
of the Legislature’s joint
budget-writing committee
Thursday
presented
a
spending
plan
that
included cuts
in services
to
refl ect
the
state’s
expected $1.8
billion short-
fall for the
next two-year budget cycle.
The $20.265 billion
budget outline presented
by Sen. Richard Devlin,
D-Tualatin, and Rep. Nancy
Nathanson,
D-Eugene,
refl ects that shortfall and
describes potential cuts to
general program areas such
as health care, education and
public safety.
Devlin and Nathanson
said the framework makes
large cuts to key state
services.
“To be clear, to be clear,
we do not believe the
resources as allocated in this
document are suffi cient,”
Devlin said in remarks
during a press conference at
the Oregon State Capitol.
Senate Majority Leader
Ginny Burdick said in a
statement that the frame-
work demonstrated a need
for revenue reform.
The state’s Republicans,
meanwhile, presented the
framework as an opportunity
to cut state spending. Both
parties stressed maintaining
“critical” services; the
framework, if implemented,
could mean changes ranging
from higher college tuition
costs to cuts in dental care
for low-income people.
Gov. Kate Brown’s
$20.8 billion recommended
budget released Dec. 1,
was put together assuming
$897 million in new revenue
gathered through new taxes
and the closing two tax
loopholes.
By contrast, under the
framework presented by
Devlin and Nathanson does
not assume the new revenue
Brown proposed.
Under the plan, the
Oregon Health Authority
spending would be 27.5
See BUDGET/12A
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Sixth-graders Kalvin Rietman, portraying President-elect Donald Trump, and Alexandrea Cavan, portraying fi rst lady Melania Trump, lead a
procession during the Ione Community School’s presidential inauguration on Thursday in Ione.
Elementary democracy
Ione school pre-enacts inauguration on eve of D.C. spectacle
By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN
East Oregonian
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Fifth-grader John McElligott, portraying House Speaker Paul
Ryan, swears in fi fth-grader Cameron Proudfoot, portraying Vice
President-elect Mike Pence during the Ione Community School’s
presidential inauguration on Thursday.
Most people never get to attend
the presidential inauguration in
Washington, D.C. — but Ione resi-
dents got to experience a ceremony
of their own Thursday at the school’s
traditional mock inauguration.
Ione has been hosting a pre-en-
actment of the presidential inaugura-
tion for more than 20 years as a way
to teach students about the process,
with students from kindergarten
to sixth grade playing roles. Sixth
grader Kalvin Rietmann played
the role of president-elect Donald
Trump, and Alexandrea Cavan
played his wife Melania. Students
from the fi fth and sixth grade classes
played the roles of Trump’s children,
Vice President-elect Mike Pence
and his wife, and other dignitaries
who will attend the national event.
More inside
For more on the real Trump
inauguration see page 10A
Students also represented local
offi cials, such as Ione’s mayor Rod
Taylor and Morrow County Judge
Melissa Lindsey.
“We hope it helps them under-
stand government,” said retired
teacher Barb Collin, who now works
as a substitute teacher at the school.
“One of our former teachers,
Diana Kincaid, thought of it to teach
kids about the culture and about
democracy,” said Linda Neiffer,
a fi rst-grade teacher. “We have a
mock election, too — all the kids,
kindergarten through sixth grade,
get to vote.”
See PRESIDENT/12A
Hansell, Barreto seek to
Lawmakers to consider
air regulations for dairies curtail emergency clause
Recommendations made
by task force in 2008
By GEORGE PLAVEN
East Oregonian
Oregon lawmakers may fi nally
be ready to follow through on air
quality controls for dairy farms orig-
inally put forth by a state task force
nearly a decade ago.
Senate Bill 197 would direct the
Environmental Quality Commission
to adopt a program for regulating air
emissions from dairies — something
the Oregon Dairy Air Quality Task
Force recommended to the Depart-
ment of Agriculture and Department
of Environmental Quality back in
2008.
ODA and DEQ are the two agen-
cies in charge of issuing permits for
confi ned animal feeding operations,
which include dairies. The program
requires what’s known as a National
Pollutant Discharge Elimination
System Permit, which outlines how a
dairy will handle manure and protect
“I think this is a reac-
tion to the Lost Valley
Ranch permit, and
continuing to fi nd a
way to oppose that.”
— Marty Myers, Threemile
Canyon Farms general manager
against groundwater contamination.
There is no oversight, however,
for air quality. In its fi ndings, the
Dairy Air Quality Task Force found
that dairies do have the potential
to release several kinds of harmful
emissions, including ammonia,
methane and hydrogen sulfi de.
The report called for establishing
the Oregon Dairy Air Emissions
Program by 2015, though the legis-
lature never came up with funding.
SB 197 would revive that effort, with
rules adopted by the Environmental
Quality Commission to take effect in
See AIR/12A
Say fast track for laws
has gotten out of hand
By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
Two Eastern Oregon lawmakers
seek to curtail the legislative prac-
tice of new bills going into effect
as soon as the governor signs them
into law.
State Sen. Bill Hansell of Athena
and Rep. Greg Barreto of Cove,
both Republicans, said the use of
the emergency clause on bills has
gotten out of hand, so they are
sponsoring Senate Joint Resolution
15 to make it harder to declare an
emergency.
Jan. 1 is the traditional date
new laws go into effect, about six
months after they pass out of the
Legislature. Hansell said that’s
enough time for citizens to examine
bills and decide to move against
them through the initiative and
referendum process. But an emer-
gency clause means the bill takes
effect on signing, Hansell said, and
Hansell
Barreto
that makes the process to challenge
a law “virtually impossible.”
Hansell said the emergency
clause should be for emergencies,
for bills that need to go into action
as soon as possible, but lawmakers
tack on the clause as a matter of
course or to avoid a referendum. The
joint resolution proposes amending
the Oregon Constitution to require
bills declaring emergency to receive
at least 2/3 majority support in the
House and Senate for passage.
“It’s going to require folks to
consider if they want the clause,”
Hansell said.
Barreto said he did not see a need
See EMERGENCY/12A