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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2017
Dunes City
Because of that, options for
robust law enforcement cov-
erage in Dunes City is “fairly
limited,”
according
to
Forsythe.
“If we wanted to hire a
sheriff ourselves like several
cities have done, it costs
$170,000 a year to maintain
that person, which obviously
our budget couldn’t handle,”
Forsythe said.
While Forsythe stated he
did not foresee any changes to
the city’s law enforcement sit-
uation in the immediate
future, he encouraged people
to call Lane County Sheriff’s
Office when issues arise.
“Those calls go on record,
and start to build an aware-
ness for them as to where
things
are
happening,”
Forsythe said. “If we all sit
there and go, ‘Well, we know
the sheriff isn’t going to come
because it’s not a physical
danger,’ and we don’t make
that call and go on record for
it, they will never come.
“When the federal govern-
ment looks at crime rates for
Lane County on the West
Coast. They think it’s an
from 1A
“I’ve caught a lot of perch,”
Snow said. “We came here
every year to catch perch and
bring it home to Virginia.”
Forsythe said, “I look for-
ward to hearing your input,
and it was already very help-
ful today.”
“It seems like a great group
of gentlemen here and I look
forward to working with
them,” Snow said.
In other news from the
meeting, Forsythe reported on
a meeting that he, Snow and
Councilor Sheldon Meyer had
with the Lane County
Sheriff’s Office regarding law
enforcement in Dunes City.
Currently, the city does not
have its own police force and
must rely on Lane County, but
the sheriffs cannot always be
relied upon to provide consis-
tent and timely law enforce-
ment to the area.
“You have a total of 25
sheriffs in Lane County,
which is 55 miles wide and
100 miles long,” Forsythe
said.
excellent place to be because
there’s no crime. And because
we don’t make those calls and
no one comes out, no record is
ever given.”
Along with security, com-
munication between the coun-
cil and the public was also
discussed in Wednesday’s
meeting.
As of now, Dunes City
Council’s meeting rules of
order state that members of
the public may give input dur-
ing the public comment peri-
od of a city council meeting,
but the councilors cannot
engage in a conversation dur-
ing that period. They can only
quietly listen, responding to
the comments after the com-
ment period is over.
The oft-maligned rule pre-
vents a give and take between
the public and the city council
during meetings.
“It really feels ridiculous to
sit here and hear it, and not be
able to respond to it,”
Forsythe said. “It seems kind
of weird.”
The mayor said that the
council has been working on
changing the meeting rules of
order to allow back and forth
conversation, and hopes to
implement a change by
February.
In an interview Forsythe
gave the previous month, he
also stated the council was
also looking into other ways
to gain community input, with
town halls being a possibility.
Finally, the council decided
to again postpone a vote on an
agreement to issue South
Coast Water District a permit
to use water from Woahink
Lake.
At issue is 85 homes in the
city that currently receive
water from Siltcoos Lake.
While the water levels at
Siltcoos are steady, the quali-
ty of water is poor, being
described as “a big mud pud-
dle” by South Coast Water
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receive guidance on the water
rights they have to give.
Meyer, who had been
speaking with state officials
on the matter, said the state
was confident Woahink Lake
would be more than able to
support all Dunes City citi-
zens. However, Meyer also
wanted to give experts the
chance to address these con-
cerns directly to the residents
through a public forum.
“I think it would be best to
wait until January to hear
what the public’s concerns are
on all sides of this issue,” he
said.
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The plan is to provide water
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