SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, JULY 25, 2015
Chief
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The majority questioned the
termination of the chief’s con-
tract and the actions of the
board.
Some supported the board’s
action and said that a number of
volunteers had been unhappy
working with Langborg.
It wasn’t “new” news — the
SVFR board had an outside
service evaluate Langborg earli-
er this year to monitor his con-
duct and discuss complaints
made against him.
Langborg emerged favorably
from the evaluation.
When she spoke, former
SVFR board member Cindy
Spinner suggested that the eval-
uation’s results be made public.
“Nothing significant came
from the independent review,
which reached out to 32 individ-
uals over a month, and many of
the complaints had been
resolved as publicly stated by
President Scott in the February
2015 board meeting,” Spinner
said.
After a full hour of comment,
Carnahan closed the public
hearing.
Director Lori Gates made a
motion to rescind her former
motion that terminated the con-
tract with Langborg.
“I had conversations with
community members and fire
district members contrary to
what I had previously been
told,” Gates said.
Director John Scott seconded
the motion.
Before the motion went to a
vote, Carnahan addressed the
public.
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Without you, we don’t have a
fire department. You are the
backbone of this community. ...
I’m going to tell you I’m very
proud of this department,” he
said. “Whatever happens, no
matter how this vote goes, I
want you to pull together.
Because you are very, very
important. I think everyone in
this audience ought to thank
them for what they do.”
Director Woody Woodbury,
who was part of SVFR for a
couple years, said, “I think
everybody who knows who I
am knows my deep devotion to
the town itself and this depart-
ment. Whatever happens with
this vote tonight, I believe that
the board will move forward in
the correct direction and address
any and all issues.”
“Boards are allowed to
change their minds,” board
attorney Christy Monson said.
She clarified that a “yes” vote
on Gates’ motion would nullify
the vote and motion from the
previous meeting.
SVFR Human Resources
Manager Julie Brown took a roll
call vote.
In a 4-to-1 vote, Gates, Scott,
Woodbury and Director Tony
Phillips approved rescinding the
motion. Carnahan did not.
As the meeting concluded,
Carnahan said, “I want to thank
everyone for their input. You
gave of your time and we thank
you for that.”
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Scott brought to mind a
Norman Rockwell painting of a
man addressing a council.
“He was making a point. You
guys did that tonight. It’s a won-
derful thing,” Scott said. “You
felt there was cause —
whichever side you were on —
and you turned out to support
your cause wonderfully. I think
this is fine. I think this is a turn-
ing point. I think we’ll see
improvement for everybody,
volunteers, staff, citizens,
everyone.”
In his statement, Langborg
said, “We will right the ship and
I will continue to work hard to
ensure the service our district
provides remains at the high
level our citizens have come to
expect. SVFR will persevere
and we will grow as an organi-
zation from this experience.”
Brown said, “The department
plans to move forward by focus-
ing on our firefighters, our com-
munity and continuing to work
on implementing the strategic
plan the board adopted.”
Langborg added, “I want to
thank the many people who
have offered their support over
the past week. It has served as a
strong reminder of why my wife
and I have fallen in love with
this wonderful community.”
The SVFR board will contin-
ue to work with Langborg and
the department.
Carnahan, a volunteer battal-
ion chief and a duty chief, took
a leave of absence this week.
Details of his leave were not
made available.
ity of school district funding
from local governments to the
state. Oregon’s national K-12
educational rankings have
been declining ever since.
“Oregon has the worst rate
of high school graduation in
the country,” Finney said.
Some education foundations
have specific mission state-
ments, while others are more
general.
In 1989, anticipating the
passage of Ballot Measure No.
5, the Ashland School District
formed an education founda-
tion. The focus, according to
Mann-Heintz, was supple-
menting teachers’ salaries to
keep class sizes down.
The Eugene Education
Foundation, created in 1993,
has a primary focus in the arts
and additional programs that
supplement the curriculum.
Siuslaw School District
Superintendent Ethel Angal
said, “It opens up to the
schools a large number of
funding sources, with someone
else doing the legwork for us.”
“It doesn’t involve very
much money,” Finney said. “In
fact, you can get grants to start
up your education foundation.
We have been given a full set
of documents from the Bethel
School District. We have
everything practically ready to
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about that and I want to do it.
Will you help me?’ I said,
absolutely. We presented our
plan to the church board and
were approved the end of June.
The Boys and Girls Club was
leaving on June 30 and we
were told a week earlier that we
would be the ones to take it
over.”
The two could not begin ren-
ovations until July 6. Since
then, they have partitioned the
space into two separate class-
rooms, each capable of han-
dling 20 children, acquired new
appliances for the kitchen,
painted the entire interior,
spread bark dust and built cabi-
nets. The long-term goal is to
have two classrooms with two
teachers, two aides and a
kitchen worker.
When Boys and Girls Club
ran the preschool, they offered
a Montessori method of learn-
ing, as well as traditional pre-
school. Navarro and Haflett
will use the Ausbelian pre-
school program that combines
both a traditional teacher direct-
ed approach with the
Montessori-style, child-directed
approach.
“Ausbelian is both,” Navarro
said. “We are going to have
some child-directed time and
teacher-directed time. They will
have instruction when they are
all in a group together, working
on things, and they will also
have areas set up where they
will have child’s time and can
choose activities.”
ABC will offer a five-day
full-time rate, or a five-day
half-day rate. The full-day 7:30
a.m. to 5:30 p.m. monthly rate
is $450. The half-day monthly
rate for either 7:30 a.m. to
noon, or 12:30 to 5 p.m., is
$380.
“We don’t have any two-day
or three-day rates,” Navarro
explained. “It’s just too hard to
try and figure out. We will have
a few places available for drop-
ins if people need it. We will
charge $3 per hour for drop-ins,
but it will be on a space-avail-
able basis,” she added.
Haflett said, “We are really
excited to get this going
because of all the families that
used the facility that are still
looking for childcare. Meeting
those needs is important to us.”
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go. There isn’t a lot of outlay
in terms of expense to the
school district.”
Finney sees an advantage in
combining the Siuslaw and
Mapleton districts into a single
foundation. She pointed out
that combining the two dis-
trict’s median incomes shows
an even greater need for assis-
tance.
“Both districts are more
likely to get grants ahead of
other districts that have higher
incomes,” Finney said. “The
intent and hope is that we will
be able to search grants that
are available, tailor them to
our needs and bring those dol-
lars in to help subsidize pro-
grams for the schools. It’s a
win-win situation for both dis-
tricts.”
She also assured the Siuslaw
board that there would be no
overlapping in fundraising
efforts currently underway in
either school district. The
foundation would focus on
regional, state and national
grant funds not directly avail-
able to the districts.
The Siuslaw board voted to
move forward with the initia-
tive and, according to
Mapleton Superintendent Jodi
O’Mara, the Mapleton School
Board has indicated interest in
the project.
The two districts would
have to make commitments to
the foundation for office space,
utilities, equipment and possi-
bly providing employee sup-
port.
“My hopeful timeline,”
Mann-Heintz said, “is that in
July we will get the organiza-
tion structured, get the articles
of incorporation and by-laws
ratified and filed with the state.
Then we would apply for our
501(c)3 nonprofit status,
which could take a long time.
“But,” she added, “I do
understand the state moves a
little quicker with education
foundations because they are
familiar with the structure and
understand the function.”
Once the foundation is
granted its nonprofit status, it
can begin applying for grants.
Mann-Heintz hopes this can be
in place in time to fund proj-
ects for the 2016-17 school
year. She said the school
boards would determine the
funding goals for the founda-
tion.
“My vision,” Mann-Heintz
said, “is to have a teacher
grant application process so
that teachers who have a spe-
cific project in mind will have
a simple application process
that outlines what their project
is, what they need and the time
frame. They would submit that
request to the foundation and
the foundation would be able
to fund, or modify, depending
on the resources available.”
“For the past 25 years,” she
added, “Oregon schools have
been hammered and the fund-
ing from the state has not kept
up. Oregon used to be tops in
education, we were way up
there. Now, in many measures,
Oregon is in the bottom five
(states) in the nation. It is
embarrassing. That is another
motivator for this alternative
funding source; to try and sup-
plement what is available to
our students. There is no limi-
tation on what the school dis-
tricts can expect to do with
this kind of funding.”
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He also reminded grillers to
leave enough space between
the grill, houses, belongings
and combustible materials.
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Barrett estimated the total
damage to be $80,000.
He reminded people to use
care when barbecuing.
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