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Cannabis vote
requires one-
third turnout
Confederated Tribes of Warm
Springs tribal member voters are
asked to participate in a Cannabis
referendum on June 16, the ques-
tion being:
“Shall the Confederated Tribes
of the Warm Springs Reservation
authorize the Tribal Council to:
“Allow, license, regulate and op-
erate a Tribally-owned retail sales
facility to be located on-reserva-
tion and/or on-trust land for sales
of marijuana and related products
for the legal possession and use of
small quantities of marijuana by
adults 21 years of age or older on
reservation? Shall the resolution
be approved? Yes or No.”
There is a voter turnout require-
ment for the Cannabis referendum
vote to be valid.
The Warm Springs Thurs-
day Market will be operating
again this summer at the Cam-
pus Pavilion, starting June 12
and running through mid Sep-
tember.
The weekly event runs
Thursdays from 10:30 a.m.
until 2 p.m., featuring the dis-
tribution of 30 Fresh Harvest
kits from the High Desert
Food and Farm Alliance. Each
kit includes a bag of locally
grown fresh produce.
Additional vendors include
locals selling value added food
items, beadwork and jewelry, art
and clothing. Programs set up
booths to share information
and offer free items. OSU Ex-
tension typically has a recipe
and taste testing.
Set-up is free and open to
anyone in the community. The
event
is
coordinated
by KWSO and the War m
Springs Community Action
Team.
Sentinel forest and timber sale project
Specifically, there is a need for
one-third of tribal eligible voters
to cast ballots.
With 3,696 voters at this time,
1,232 votes are needed for the ref-
erendum outcome to count.
Ballots are in the mail for the
May 20 Special District Election
The Jefferson County Clerk’s
Office this week mailed out the
ballots for the Special District Elec-
tion coming up on May 20. In the
Warm Springs precinct, no. 14,
there are 1,508 registered voters,
clearly enough to make a differ-
ence in the outcome of some ques-
tions.
For the May 20 vote, there is
one position up for election for the
Jefferson County School District
509-J, with Laurie Danzuka run-
ning unopposed. Other items:
The future of the Madras
Aquatic Center and Madras
Aquatic Center Recreation District
are on the ballot; and a bond mea-
sure proposal for improvements to
the Jefferson County Library Dis-
trict services.
The Library District Measure
asks whether the district shall issue
$20.4 million in general obligation
bonds. If the library bonds are ap-
proved, they will be payable from
taxes on property in the district.
If approved, the bonds would
finance capital costs for construc-
tion, expansion, renovating, furnish-
ing and equipping library facilities.
Improvements and additions
would be a new multipurpose
room, meeting room, study spaces,
spaces for children, teens and
adults, work areas for staff, and
an outdoor courtyard.
Thursday Market starts in June
Two positions on the library dis-
trict board are also on the ballot.
Madras Aquatic Center
There are two questions regard-
ing the Aquatic Center. One of the
questions asks whether the existing
MAC recreation district should be
dissolved.
The current level of funding
for the existing district is insuffi-
cient to sustain the operations,
while state law does not permit the
district electors to increase the cur-
rent permanent tax rate. However,
if the existing district is dissolved,
a new district could be formed
with a new funding structure.
And the second question regard-
ing the MAC and recreation district
is whether a new district should be
formed, replacing the current one,
if it is dissolved in the election. The
ballot also includes positions on the
Madras Aquatic Center Board of
Districts. Other special district
positions up for election: Central
Oregon Community College, and
the Jefferson County Education
Service District.
The Cannabis referendum vot-
ing will take place at the Warm
Springs Community Center from 8
a.m. until 8 p.m. on June 16.
The Warm Springs Branch
of Natural Resources is ac-
cepting comments regarding
the Sentinel Forest Vegetation
Management and Timber Sale
Project.
The project proposes a
commercial timber harvest of
about 20 million board feet
across 1,475 acres in a south-
west section of the War m
Springs Reservation.