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transportation dollars are spent on
and how that spending is impacting
the condition of the infrastructure.”
The five lawmakers who made
the recommendations belong to
an accountability subgroup of the
Legislature’s Joint Committee on
Transportation Preservation and
Modernization.
The
larger
14-member committee
is charged with crafting
the
transportation
package.
Legislative
leaders hope to pass
the package during the
160-day session, which
began Feb. 1 in Salem.
“I am of the opinion
that from this point
forward, we go down
a list and start crafting
a draft bill, … then we amend it,
… do whatever it takes,” said Rep.
Andy Olson, who led the account-
ability subgroup.
ODOT has been criticized for its
history of projects that have been
overdue and over budget. A recent
$1 million management perfor-
mance audit by New York-based
McKinsey & Co. was intended to
respond to that criticism and show
ODOT is prepared to effectively
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — A group of
lawmakers has recommended
restoring authority over the state
transportation director to the
Oregon Transportation Commis-
sion.
The authority now
rests with the governor.
The
recommen-
dation was one of
several intended to
boost
accountability
for the use of taxpayer
dollars in the event
that lawmakers pass a
transportation package
this session.
The transportation
package would infuse
hundreds of millions of dollars for
projects into the Department of
Transportation’s budget.
“In this era where we are right
now where trust in government
is low, accountability is a really
important issue, and it’s a worth-
while challenge,” said Susan
Morgan, a lobbyist with the Asso-
ciation of Oregon Counties and a
former OTC commissioner. “Our
citizens want to know what their
manage an influx of new highway
funding.
The firm’s report, released Jan.
30, portrayed an agency lacking in
dissent and accountability, wasting
money and needing greater over-
sight and guidance. The report also
said the agency performed better
than most transportation depart-
ments but poor compared with the
private sector.
The accountability subgroup
recommended adding “clawback”
provisions to state transportation
contracts to boost accountability
over the use of taxpayer dollars.
Sen. Kathleen Taylor, D-Port-
land, a member of the account-
ability subgroup, said such provi-
sions, often used in the private
sector, give the state recourse when
contractors violate their contract
with inexplicable overages on cost
and time.
“It’s a very contentious issue,
but I think citizens want to make
certain that their money is being
well looked over,” Taylor said.
Another key recommendation
would create a website dashboard,
featuring a road map, where the
public could follow the cost and
progress of projects.
OTC chairwoman Tammy
Friday, April 7, 2017
BRIEFLY
Lawsuit accuses
Seattle mayor of
molesting boy in 1980s
Baney, in a letter to Gov. Kate
Brown in January, complained the
commission needed more oversight
of the director.
Then, four former chairmen
of the Oregon Transportation
Commission said March 15 that
the commission should regain
authority over the state transporta-
tion director.
Until 1999, the commission
had authority to hire and fire the
director, and the director reported
to the commission.
After years of pressure by Gov.
John Kitzhaber, the Legislature in
1999 took that authority away and
gave it to the governor, said former
OTC Chairman Stuart Foster.
Minutes from the 1999 legisla-
tive meetings on the bill give no
indication of the reason for the
change.
“You are running the place, and
you are responsible to the share-
holders, and then all of a sudden,
someone else is appointing the
director,” said Mike Hollern, who
served on the OTC most recently
from 1987 to 1993.
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oration between EO Media Group
and Pamplin Media Group.
SEATTLE (AP) — A lawsuit
accuses Seattle’s mayor of
sexually molesting a teenage
high-school dropout in the 1980s,
and in interviews with The Seattle
Times, two other men claim he
also abused them.
Mayor Ed Murray’s personal
spokesman, Jeff Reading, said in
a statement that the allegations are
false, politically motivated and
that Murray would fight them.
In a lawsuit filed Thursday, a
46-year-old man, identified only
by his initials, said the abuse
began in 1986 when he was 15.
Separately, the newspaper
reported that two other men said
they knew Murray when they
lived in a Portland, Oregon,
center for troubled children. They
accuse Murray of abusing them in
the 1980s.
The Times said one of them
talked with a social worker and
detective at the time. No charges
were filed.
Police had warned
teen about fake gun
prior to death
PORTLAND (AP) — An
Oregon police officer says he
had warned a teen shot by a
fellow police officer that carrying
a fake gun might get him killed
one day.
The Oregonian/OregonLive
reported Wednesday that a
Portland police report obtained
by the newspaper states Officer
Gregory Adrian had met
17-year-old Quanice Hayes
during a car prowl months before
his death. Adrian encountered
Hayes after he and a friend were
accused of breaking into a car.
Officers found a fake gun in
the teens’ belongings. Adrian
says the pair was firmly told that
the toy gun looked real and may
get them killed if they carried it
or pointed at someone.
Court record say Hayes
was shot by a police officer he
reached toward his waistband as
they were trying to arrest him.
An internal investigation is still
ongoing.
Bills would stave off opening of second Oregon women’s prison
from the Oregon District Attorneys
Association.
The Family Sentencing Alter-
native Pilot Program diverts the
parents of minor children from
prison and allows them to stay
in the community under supervi-
sion. The offenders also receive
wraparound services such as drug
treatment or parenting classes.
Last year, 75 parents partici-
pated in the program in five coun-
ties: Multnomah, Washington,
Marion, Deschutes and Jackson.
That helped to keep 139 children
out of foster care, according to a
joint report by the Department of
Human Services and the Depart-
ment of Corrections.
“Women oftentimes have child
abuse or sexual abuse histories. In
turn, they develop mental health
issues and then they start self-med-
icating through drugs and alcohol,
poor relationships, (and) eventu-
ally end up participating in drug
offenses, property crime,” said
Tira Hubbard, a parole and proba-
tion officer in Jackson County.
“That rolls them into the criminal
justice system. By just treating the
addiction and the criminality and
not looking at those underlying
root causes, we’re just treating the
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Several proposals
in the Legislature would stave off
the need to open an expensive
second women’s prison in the
midst of Oregon’s $1.6 billion
revenue shortfall, according to
initial projections.
‘What we do not want to have
to do is open new prisons,” said
Sen. Elizabeth Steiner-Hayward,
D-Beaverton. “The last thing the
state can afford to do is put more
and more of our hard-earned
dollars into prisons instead of
education and health care and the
human services that will prevent
people from interacting with the
criminal justice system in the first
place.”
Two bills to expand eligibility
for the Family Sentencing Alter-
native Pilot Program received
widespread support from criminal
justice reformers and law enforce-
ment during legislative hearings
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Another bill to expand the
length of an early release program
from 90 to 180 days for inmates
convicted of nonviolent property
and drug crimes faces opposition
symptoms and not the virus.”
Speakers at hearings in the House
and Senate judiciary committees
unanimously supported two bills
that would open up the program to
pregnant women. Some pregnant
women who otherwise qualified
for the program were rejected and
were sent to prison.
“Having a baby in prison is a
really, really rough situation,” said
Rep. Tawna Sanchez, D-Portland,
who has worked extensively for
social justice organizations. After
giving birth, the women have to
“immediately give the child to
someone else,” Sanchez said.
The other bill to expand an early
release program called Short-Term
Transitional Leave is provoking
more controversy. The proposal
would expand the 90-day program
to 180 days.
Inmates who don’t have a
mandatory minimum sentence
and have no violations in the past
12 months are eligible for the
program. In the first two years,
program failures were minimal,
according to the CJC.
Nevertheless, district attorneys
have come out against the expan-
sion, citing a 2013 agreement with
the then-House Majority Leader
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
TODAY
SATURDAY
Showers, t-storm;
winds increase
A couple of
showers
61° 40°
47° 34°
SUNDAY
MONDAY
Cool with clouds
and sun
A stray shower in
the afternoon
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
54° 39°
53° 32°
55° 33°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
53° 37°
65° 44°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
64°
59°
81° (1934)
47°
38°
25° (1911)
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
Trace
Trace
0.27"
6.27"
4.02"
4.23"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
61°
63°
83° (1952)
48°
38°
22° (1939)
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
Trace
Trace
0.14"
4.93"
2.80"
3.25"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Full
Last
Apr 10
Apr 19
59° 34°
59° 35°
Seattle
55/43
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
59° 40°
New
6:24 a.m.
7:31 p.m.
4:03 p.m.
4:57 a.m.
First
Apr 26
May 2
Today
TUESDAY
Turning cloudy
Spokane
Wenatchee
57/36
55/37
Tacoma
Moses
56/41
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 61/39
54/37
51/44
54/40
61/38
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
52/44
62/41 Lewiston
66/43
Astoria
62/41
51/43
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
55/41
Pendleton 55/34
The Dalles 65/44
61/40
60/41
La Grande
Salem
61/38
54/41
Albany
Corvallis 54/41
54/40
John Day
56/35
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
66/42
55/41
50/31
Caldwell
Burns
66/43
53/30
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
Hi
51
59
50
50
53
55
55
59
65
56
48
61
57
56
51
54
66
66
61
55
57
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34
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Sat.
Hi
51
42
42
48
41
38
51
45
53
39
41
41
39
50
49
52
52
55
47
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26
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34
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
70
79
65
60
80
55
63
65
69
73
65
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80
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WINDS
Medford
56/39
(in mph)
Klamath Falls
48/27
Boardman
Pendleton
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Winds gusting past 45
mph today; cloudy with showers. Cooler.
Rain tonight.
Eastern and Central Oregon: A shower and
thunderstorm around today, but a little rain
near the Cascades. Windy.
Western Washington: A couple of showers,
a thunderstorm later today; winds becom-
ing strong.
Eastern Washington: Rain this morning,
then a shower and thunderstorm around;
increasing winds.
Cascades: Snow and rain today with gusty
winds. Snow level mostly near 4,000 feet
with a few inches.
Northern California: A shower and thunder-
storm around today; snow, accumulating
1-2 inches in the interior mountains.
Today
Saturday
SW 15-30
SW 15-30
WSW 8-16
W 7-14
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
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— Founded Oct. 16, 1875 —
and two now-retired lawmakers
not to revisit sentencing changes
for at least five years.
“The most important reason
I oppose (the bill) is it erodes
an important pillar of a good
justice system and that is truth in
sentencing,” said Linn County
District Attorney Doug Marteeny.
Marteeny said victims may be
unaware that an offender won’t
have to serve all of his or her
sentence.
Sen. Floyd Prozanski, D-Eu-
gene, chairman of the Senate Judi-
ciary Committee, responded that
it’s prosecutors’ job to let victims
know how the system works.
The expansion would post-
pone the need to open a second
women’s prison by at least two
years, according to analysis by
the Oregon Criminal Justice
Commission. The cost of opening
the second facility would be about
$9.5 million.
The population at the state’s
only women’s prison, Coffee
Creek Correctional Facility in
Wilsonville, has hovered above
capacity for more than a year. The
limit is 1,280. On Wednesday the
population was 1,298, according
to DOC.
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3
2
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8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m.
0-2, Low
3-5, Moderate 6-7, High;
8-10, Very High;
11+, Extreme
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num-
ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Forecasts and graphics provided by
AccuWeather, Inc. ©2017
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showers t-storms
0s
10s
rain
20s
flurries
30s
40s
snow
ice
50s
60s
cold front
70s
80s
90s
100s
warm front stationary front
110s
high
low
National Summary: Rain showers will riddle the coastal Northeast as colder air and gusty
winds deliver snow to the eastern Great Lakes and Appalachians today. Rain and mountain
snow will push well inland over the Northwest.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 93° in Imperial, Calif.
Low 6° in Antero Reservoir, Colo.
NATIONAL CITIES
Today
Albuquerque
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Hi
78
61
53
51
72
66
66
51
66
46
56
44
78
73
49
87
34
65
85
80
53
70
62
84
68
72
Lo
47
41
38
35
45
40
42
38
41
32
38
33
58
45
31
56
16
45
74
58
34
42
50
61
46
57
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Sat.
Hi
78
70
56
61
60
73
50
50
70
59
67
59
85
75
60
88
37
71
84
83
64
72
76
75
77
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46
42
39
38
48
33
36
45
39
57
46
65
38
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44
71
62
51
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66
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Louisville
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
Tucson
Washington, DC
Wichita
Hi
58
65
78
54
61
62
72
50
71
65
51
92
51
53
61
78
55
65
60
69
69
65
55
91
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Lo
37
45
58
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36
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Sat.
Hi
68
74
78
60
74
71
75
55
80
79
59
87
49
51
66
67
47
59
74
54
69
59
51
89
63
76
Lo
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64
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56
40
63
59
40
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35
39
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25
39
60
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sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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