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A18 From A1 wallowa.com AMY HAFER RACE FOR CANCER AWARNESS June 28, 2017 WEED Continued from Page A1 Photos by Paul Wahl/Chieftain Bayden Morton (1567) leads the pack early in the Amy Hafer Race for Cancer Awarness 5K division Saturday. Morton finished the race in 18:56. To Morton’s left is Isabelle Tinglestad, who turned in the top time in the 10K division 43:15. Also pictured are Maia Vandervlugt of La Grande (1499) and Ellyse Tingelstad (1521). The event is named after Hafter, a 1989 Wallowa High graduate who lost her battle with breast cancer in 2007. More photos online at Wallowa.com JAIL Continued from Page A1 The efforts have removed a number of felons from the street or forced them to fl ee the county. The effort began to reap results about the time Wallowa County discovered it would be losing nearly $1 million in Secure Rural Schools funding. The county has been scram- bling to fi nd options to make up the defi cit, including cutting the sheriff’s budget. Depending on the fi nal bud- get numbers when it is adopted later this month, Rogers says he may be forced to make a dif- fi cult choice: Delay hiring a much-needed deputy or curtail the number of criminals that law enforcement sends into the jail system. “I’m not going to cut the damn jail; these people need to be there,” the sheriff said. “I would 10 times rather explain to the commissioners that I’m over budget from doing my job than answer to a bunch of angry citizens because I didn’t do my job.” Until February 2016, Union County housed Wal- lowa County inmates. The sheriff’s offi ce, which handles all of the prisoners taken into custody, changed gears and selected Umatilla County for prisoner housing services. Rog- ers offered a variety of reasons for the move that included costs and a lack of space in Union County. “We knew when we started the Street Crimes Team to clean things up around here, it was going to be a tough year –– that we were going to be well over budget on jail space, and we were. But now we’re starting to see the fruits of our labors because our jail population is dropping,” Rogers said. To keep costs down, no one taken into custody is trans- ported to the Umatilla jail with- out the express permission of either Rogers, chief deputy Fred Steen or community cor- rections offi cer Kyle Hacker. “There’s certain people I am not going to release. I just won’t do it,” Rogers said. Steen also cited the effec- tiveness of the county’s com- munity corrections (parole and probation) force as a factor in the temporary prisoner glut. 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The county has a six-cell jail that functions as a tempo- rary holding station in the jus- tice center, 104 W. Greenwood St., Enterprise. The facility can’t hold prisoners for more than 96 hours at a time, and it would take more than a million dollars to upgrade to allow lon- ger-term stays. The county would also get soaked for the fi ve additional personnel needed to operate the jail as a full-time institution. A number of other cost-prohibi- Flanagan can legally allow anyone over the age of 18 into his store, but he demands identifi cation from customers and doesn’t allow anyone under the age of 21 to remain. “I don’t want some 18 year-old kid coming into our place to buy accessories for their 15-year-old high school friends,” he said. “I don’t want their parents mad at me. We have kids, and we don’t want them partaking before they’re of legal age.” Others are likely to be concerned that a dispen- sary will attract a criminal element. “Many of the people who come in here to buy accesso- ries are veterans with PTSD and elderly people who use it for their aches and pains,” he said. “Others are hard-work- ing people who simply use it for recreational purposes.” The building where his shop is located is being sold, and Flanagan said that he’d prefer to have the dis- tive improvements would also be necessary. It has no exer- cise yard, no legal library and a host of other amenities required under state law. Rogers said the jail is get- ting much more use than in pre- vious years. Although Rogers believes his offi ce has a great deal of community support for its law enforcement efforts, he doesn’t believe a specifi c levy would receive taxpayer approval. “I’ve never brought it up because I know the feelings about taxes and levies around here,” Rogers said. Rising criminal activity may eventually mean more and bet- ter law enforcement facilities. “We’re dealing with a sys- tem that is still operating at ‘80s and ‘90s population level with a criminal element that has grown substantially over the years,” Rogers said. “They still want to believe that little Wallowa County Chieftain pensary elsewhere anyway. With the help of an investor, it’s possible they would pur- chase property and build a dispensary. He also doesn’t plan to grow cannabis himself, although he would mar- ket locally grown marijuana from a licensed grower. The state has collected $75 million revenue since 2016, although it has yet to distribute the funds. Flana- gan noted. State law allows dispensaries to pay the local share directly to the city, an option Flanagan said he would utilize. As to how much Joseph would stand to gain, Flana- gan said tax revenue of more than $100,000 annually is anticipated in Huntington, one of the few eastern Ore- gon towns with a recreational dispensary. Besides employ- ing several local residents full-time, Flanagan also sees a dispensary as a draw for tourists, which he said would benefi t many businesses besides his own, particularly in the wintertime. “All I see are paved streets and full businesses,” he said. old Wallowa County only has one, two or three crooks in it from time to time, but it’s just not true. We have people liv- ing here who are a continuous problem to the community.” He added that he believes without the legitimate threat of jail, the county’s recidivism rate would skyrocket. Umatilla County pro- vides seven prisoner beds to the county at a cost of about $140,000 a year. The county pays for the beds regardless whether they are occupied. The jail supplies additional beds as needed at a higher rate. Over the past year Umatilla has simultaneously housed as many 17 Wallowa County pris- oners. Statistics provided by the Umatilla jail show usage peaked in July 2016 and April of this year. Last week, Umatilla was hosting four of the county’s inmates.