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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast WEDNESDAY TODAY Partly sunny and breezy Pleasant with some sun 67° 43° 70° 49° THURSDAY FRIDAY Cloudy, a shower in the p.m. Cloudy PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 71° 54° 71° 50° 75° 52° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 75° 52° 73° 46° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 73° 77° 99° (1940) 52° 52° 32° (1893) 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" 0.95" 0.63" 10.10" 5.92" 7.14" through 3 p.m. yesterday HIGH LOW 78° 78° 104° (1940) 55° 53° 41° (1956) 0.00" 0.24" 0.29" 6.55" 4.35" 5.40" SUN AND MOON 5:05 a.m. 8:45 p.m. 11:41 p.m. 8:55 a.m. First Full June 17 June 23 June 30 July 8 John Day 65/39 Ontario 73/45 Bend 63/36 Burns 65/32 Caldwell 69/43 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 59 64 63 60 65 62 64 66 73 65 67 65 61 74 58 62 73 77 67 65 65 65 68 63 63 71 75 Lo 47 33 36 48 32 34 43 40 46 39 34 37 34 47 44 48 45 46 43 51 33 46 45 35 49 49 43 W sh s pc s s pc sh pc pc s s pc pc s sh pc pc pc pc c pc sh pc pc c pc pc NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Wed. Hi 61 70 70 60 71 68 69 71 75 71 71 70 67 79 58 63 77 77 70 69 71 69 67 68 68 74 75 Lo 50 39 44 50 40 40 48 46 52 48 40 44 42 53 49 51 50 51 49 54 41 52 50 41 53 55 48 W c pc c pc s pc c pc c pc s pc pc pc c c s c pc c c c pc pc c pc c WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Hi 86 89 81 72 82 63 75 83 77 65 69 Lo 60 81 63 56 57 52 58 61 61 56 65 W s r s pc pc r pc s pc pc r Wed. Hi 97 91 81 77 76 61 81 84 77 67 76 Lo 65 82 61 58 56 46 61 64 62 53 66 W s t s pc pc sh s pc s pc sh WINDS Medford 74/47 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 Albany 64/45 Eugene 64/43 TEMPERATURE Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today Last New 82° 55° Spokane Wenatchee 68/45 71/49 Tacoma Moses 64/46 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 76/45 63/40 60/49 63/46 75/43 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 62/46 71/49 Lewiston 77/48 Astoria 71/45 59/47 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 65/51 Pendleton 62/34 The Dalles 73/46 67/43 69/50 La Grande Salem 65/37 65/46 Corvallis 66/45 HERMISTON Yesterday Normals Records 77° 53° Seattle 63/50 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 76° 57° Today SATURDAY A couple of morning showers Tuesday, June 13, 2017 (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 67/34 REGIONAL FORECAST Eastern Washington: Partly sunny today; a shower in spots in the north in the afternoon. Cascades: A couple of showers today; partly sunny and warmer in the south. Wednesday WSW 8-16 WSW 6-12 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Coastal Oregon: A couple of showers today; in the morning in central parts, any time across the north. Eastern and Central Oregon: Sunshine and patchy clouds today; warmer in the south. Clear to partly cloudy tonight. Western Washington: Mainly cloudy today with a shower in the area. Mostly cloudy tonight. Today WSW 12-25 WSW 10-20 2 5 7 7 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 Subscriber services: For home delivery, vacation stops or delivery concerns: 1-800-522-0255 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. 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Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 105° in Perryton, Texas Low 24° in Squaw Valley, Calif. 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 86 87 84 94 66 88 68 90 86 86 92 90 92 78 88 97 64 80 85 90 91 84 92 90 88 80 Lo 55 71 71 71 51 72 47 63 71 67 74 70 77 51 68 69 42 62 72 76 73 71 75 70 72 60 W s t s s pc t pc pc s t pc t pc s t s s t t t t t pc s t s Wed. 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Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801 or email editor@eastoregonian.com. • To submit sports or outdoors information or tips: 541-966-0838 • sports@eastoregonian.com COMMERCIAL PRINTING Production Manager: Mike Jensen 541-215-0824 • mjensen@eastoregonian.com Hermiston passes $57.3M budget Oregon Legislature passes bill to track college graduation rates By JADE MCDOWELL East Oregonian By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau SALEM — A bill awaiting Senate approval would require public universities to report the number of students from each Oregon high school and their college graduation rates. Legislators said the bill was intended to accelerate reporting information that should have been part of a state initiative to set up a statewide data system to track students’ progress from preschool to postsecondary school. The information is important for school offi- cials to gauge how they are doing in preparing pupils for college, said Rep. Mark Johnson, R-Hood River, the chief sponsor of the bill. The data also could help state education officials and lawmakers understand where they need to invest money and time to improve the state’s high school graduation rate, which is one of the lowest in the nation. “There are national data that track student enrollment. We know how many are enrolling (in Oregon public postsecondary institutions), but we can’t trace them back to the school of origin here in Oregon,” Johnson said last month. “How are those students matriculating through the system? Where do they do well? Where do they have roadblocks?” The House of Representa- tives and Senate both passed the bill unanimously. But changes during a conference Legislature passes bill setting deadlines for public records requests SALEM — A bill to set deadlines for responding to public records requests is headed to Gov. Kate Brown’s desk, after the House of Representatives unanimously approved the measure on Monday. Senate Bill 481 gives agencies about 15 days to hand over public documents or provide a written explanation for the delay. Under existing law, there is no set deadline for a response. “When it comes to public records requests, Oregonians are entitled to both transparency and timelines,” said Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum. If the bill is signed into law, public agencies would be required to acknowledge receipt of a request within five days and either hand over the records at least 10 days after that or give a written explanation for when the request will be satisfied. The bill clarifies that requestors have a legal right to appeal if they believe a public agency is taking longer than necessary. The bill tasks the Attorney General’s Office with cata- loguing the state’s some 500 public records exemptions so that the public can find them more easily. The exemptions are scattered in separate Oregon statutes. The legislation is the product of a public records law reform task force assembled by the attorney general in September 2015. — Capital Bureau committee to reconcile differences in the two versions of the bill still need approval. The House checked off on those changes Monday. The Senate is scheduled to vote on the changes Tuesday .The governor, who holds the title of state schools chief, has identified “a seamless system of education from cradle to career” as one of her priorities. Yet, the longitudinal data system, a project of the Chief Education Office, has not been completed in the past several years. “The longitudinal data system has been promised to us since 2011,” Johnson said. “It’s still not up and running.” During a Senate debate on the bill May 8, Sen. Betsy Johnson, D-Scappoose, asked why a bill was necessary to facilitate information sharing between education agencies. “With our current appalling graduation rate and all of the money we’ve spent on this longitudinal data system, why does the Legislature have to pass a bill to achieve cooperative data sharing between the Department of Education, school districts and HECC (Higher Education Coordinating Commission)?” Corrections The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets any errors. If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818. We have Great Father’s Day Gift s! Give him a Candy Bouquet! Put a smile on the heart with the power of flowers. HWY 395, HERMISTON 541-567-4305 Mon-Sat 8am-6pm • Sun 12pm-5am www.cottagefl owersonline.com The Hermiston city council passed a $57.3 million budget for 2017- 2018 on Monday. The budget appropriates money for a number of large projects, including construc- tion of the new senior center downtown, the West High- land Trail for bicycles and pedestrians, new money- saving solids-handling equipment for the recycled water treatment plant and various upgrades to city parks. On the personnel side, all staff will receive a 2.5 percent cost of living increase, and the city is adding building mainte- nance position and a human resources specialist. The council also put on its Hermiston Urban Renewal Agency hat to pass the agency’s budget, most of which will be dedicated to a $900,000 festival street project on NE Second Street in front of city hall. After passing the budget, the council approved a bid from National Meter & Automation, Inc. to replace all city water meters with remote-read meters and insulate them. The project was paid for by $1.2 million in bonds that will be repaid through the rate increase the city council enacted in 2016. Prior to the regular city council meeting the council held a work session to hear a presentation from Umatilla County Fire District 1 Chief Scott Stanton about the fire district’s first year as a combined district with Stanfield and Hermiston. Stanton said the first year has gone well, and has given the community added benefits such as 24/7 staffing at Station 22 on Diagonal Road. He said there have been two house fires where response time was cut down from seven minutes to under two minutes due to that change. He also said that since January the district has had only one delay of service where an ambulance could not immediately respond to a call because everyone was already in service, which is a much lower number than in previous years. Stanton said the district’s call volume was up 6.5 percent in 2016 compared to 2015, with a 22 percent increase in fires and a continued upward trend of motor vehicle crashes. “Distracted driving seems to be a common theme,” he said. Stanton said the district will be holding a ground- breaking sometime within the next month for the new four-story training tower that the department is building out at the Westland Road station in partnership with Blue Mountain Community College. Larger state budget saves four PSD jobs East Oregonian Some extra money from Salem will help blunt the impact of the Pendleton School District’s staff reduction for the 2017-2018 school year. The district had antic- ipated a $7.8 billion state education budget, but now that the Oregon Legislature is attempting to pass an $8.2 billion budget, the district can add back four positions and even create a new one. The Pendleton School Board unanimously approved the district’s newly bolstered budget at a meeting Monday. The district’s budget committee had recom- mended a $48.3 million budget, which included a $1.4 million decrease in the general fund from the year before, meaning the district had to reduce its workforce by 19.5 positions. But the larger education budget plus anticipated dropout prevention funding through Measure 98 added $1.5 million to the budget. Michelle Jones, the district’s director of business services, said the district will invest that money into re-creating two elementary school teacher positions that were going to be left unfilled after retirements. The larger budget will also allow the district to maintain two assistant positions that were set for layoffs. Jones said the district will also look at adding a kinder- garten teacher. Matt Yoshioka, interim superintendent, said 190 students were already enrolled in kindergarten compared to the 210 that were enrolled on the first day of school last year, although that could be attributed to a better registration campaign. Brenda Giesen, whose position as the assistant principal of Washington and Sherwood Heights elemen- tary schools was cut, will serve as a temporary teacher at Washington next school year, according to a personnel report the board approved. The rest of the $1.5 million windfall will go to Measure 98 dropout prevention or the contingency fund, which had been diminished under the previous budget proposal. HAPPY FATHERS DAY! Verna Taylor, HAS • Ric Jones, BC-HIS Forrest Cahill, HAS 541-567-4063 • 405 N. 1st St., Suite #107, Hermiston 541-215-1888 • 246 SW Dorion, Pendleton P SYCHOLOGICAL S ERVICES OF P ENDLETON , LLC www.pendletonpsych.com 541-278-2222 2536 809
