WEATHER
East Oregonian
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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.
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Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
-10s
-0s
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: As downpours drench parts of the South and the Ohio Valley, severe
storms will stretch from the Upper Midwest to western Texas today. Rain and high-country
snow will fall on the northern Rockies.
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
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t
pc
pc
s
t
pc
t
pc
s
t
s
s
t
t
t
t
t
pc
s
t
s
Wed.
Hi
91
89
74
87
76
89
75
72
91
87
91
87
93
83
84
102
68
85
85
92
93
85
88
99
91
84
Lo
59
73
61
63
51
74
53
57
73
68
72
70
77
52
68
72
41
58
74
75
71
71
70
75
73
61
Today
W
s
t
pc
t
pc
t
s
s
pc
t
t
t
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s
pc
s
pc
pc
t
pc
t
t
t
s
pc
s
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
92
90
89
79
91
91
85
93
91
95
96
98
87
91
91
78
77
84
95
70
72
69
63
96
94
93
Lo
75
75
79
67
71
72
75
70
73
71
73
71
54
64
70
48
50
54
78
52
60
53
50
64
75
72
W
t
t
t
pc
pc
t
t
s
pc
pc
s
s
t
t
s
s
s
s
t
r
pc
pc
c
s
s
pc
Wed.
Hi
94
90
89
86
90
93
87
80
92
94
83
105
73
79
91
79
84
90
93
78
73
70
67
104
89
95
Lo
74
76
79
70
66
73
75
62
73
65
63
74
51
53
69
48
52
56
75
58
61
54
53
68
68
70
W
t
pc
pc
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sh
s
pc
pc
pc
s
s
s
t
s
s
s
t
s
pc
pc
c
s
t
pc
Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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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)?”
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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.
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