COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL August 12, 2015
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up positions this year, with
three new kindergarten teach-
ers brought on to teach a full
day making up many of the
new hires. Nice said Harrison
is “overfl owing” and has been
forced to turn away students
recently. Harrison also hopes
to cultivate the idea of “par-
ents as partners,” Nice said.
Dorena Principal Kim Scrima
explained that the rural school
has lost 50 percent of its teach-
ers, and new hires will make for
a new environment there. She
said the school hopes to branch
out into the nearby community
more. Dorena is the only school
that can offer free breakfast,
lunch and a snack, Scrima said.
Lincoln Middle School likes
to focus on achievement and
relationships, Principal Jeremy
Smith said. Relationships can
be fostered by greater commu-
nication with parents, he said,
including social media outreach.
The school has also recently
gone to a “hybrid block” sched-
ule which doubles the minutes
of math instruction time for
each of its students.
At Kennedy High School,
Principal Mike Ingman said
he’s excited about a push toward
increased engagement with
the broader community and
outreach in the form of guest
speakers and other presenta-
tions. The school also plans to
interact with and update parents
more frequently on their kids’
progress. Plans for more visits
to college campuses are also in
the works.
Principal Anne Fisk is in her
second year at Latham, which
boasts strong traditions such as
a Grandparents Day, lapathon
and apple press. The school
works to create S.O.A.R-ing Ea-
gles that can Show respect, take
Ownership of their actions, Act
responsibly and Reach for their
personal best, Fisk said. She
said she’s proud that Latham
has a very active parent club.
In contrast to many other
schools, London Principal Bill
Bechen said his school is not ex-
pecting any new hires this fall.
The school hopes to hear soon
if it was awarded a grant for a
half-time P.E. teacher. A school-
wide reading project involving
two books that all students read
within a month is also in the
works.
Cottage Grove High School
has experienced a lot of recent
successes, said Principal Iton
Udosenata, and the school is un-
dergoing a lot of transitions. He
said CGHS is working to ease
the transition by picturing the
school year as a road map that
has its milestones but also its
pit stops and fl at tires. The high
school is adding more advanced
placement classes this year and
is continuing efforts to combat
its chronic absentee rate.
New Bohemia Elementary
Principal Heather Bridgens talk-
ed about the school’s complete
lack of space, in addition to its
nine new hires. Its computer lab
has been disassembled and will
go mobile to allow space for an
all-day kindergarten classroom,
and A Primary Connection, the
program which assists parents
with various needs, is moving
to the nearby Lane Commu-
nity College campus in Cottage
Grove. Bohemia hopes to foster
regular attendance and consis-
tency in discipline, Bridgens
said.
bond’s duration, the lower the
rate residents will pay to fund
the bond. (For a fi ve-year bond,
for example, the rate would be
about $.30 per $1000 of as-
sessed property value; a 10-year
bond would cost taxpayers $.15
per $1000).
The committee is exploring
the idea of using the bond to
purchase the equipment all at
once, Wooten said, reasoning
that the cost of the equipment
goes up each year. Wooten said
the District could end up paying
about 25 percent more by spac-
ing out the purchase of each
piece of apparatus.
That is, of course, if local vot-
ers approve the bond, and the
photo by Jon Stinnett
Dorena Principal Kim Scrima talks about the upcoming school year with South Lane
School District Board President Tammy Hodgkinson.
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the equipment it needs to keep
people safe.”
South Lane Fire’s bond com-
mittee is exploring the option of
seeking a bond for fi ve, six or 10
years, with a total of about $2.5
million to purchase the equip-
ment. The longer the potential
time is short to decide whether
to pursue the bond in 2015 or
wait until next year. A Sept. 3
deadline must be met for the
bond to be written, for pub-
lic comment on the bond to be
taken and paperwork fi led, and
Wooten said he’s not sure if that
is enough time to inform voters
on the need for the new equip-
ment.
Voters recently approved a lo-
cal option levy to fund fi re and
life safety operations, a levy that
will be up for a renewal in 2016.
This would seem to complicate
the potential pursuit of a bond to
purchase equipment, and a May,
2016 bond measure may be
hampered by low voter turnout.
“I believe the public should
decide whether it’s important
enough to have a modernized
fl eet,” Wooten said.
The bond committee is sched-
uled to meet again on Aug. 20 to
continue discussing a potential
bond.
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“It’s a question of what is
most effective and effi cient,”
Aleman said. “To have two enti-
ties doing the same thing, with
the City’s track record for main-
tenance, doesn’t make a lot of
sense. So we start to think about
‘how can this operation become
more effi cient?’”
The current maintenance
agreement spans fi ve years, and
it is facilitated by the BLM’s
ability to transfer federal fund-
ing to the City to cover the main-
tenance costs, which amount to
about $20,000 annually.
A new agreement must be de-
veloped if the partnership is to
continue, and Meyers said via
an entry in the Friday Update
publication that the City does
hope “to obtain a longer-term
agreement with the BLM for the
maintenance of the entire trail.”
“City Staff discussed the pos-
sibility of having a fi ve to 10-
year cooperative management
agreement tied to an assistance
agreement that would allocate
funding for the period encom-
passed by the management
agreement,” he wrote. “Having a
long-term cooperative manage-
ment agreement may enable the
City to apply for certain grant
funds to improve and repave the
upper ten miles of the trail.”
These repairs, Meyers said,
are sorely needed, as the trail’s
surface has begun to crack and
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The Row River Trail is a 15.6-mile haven for local cy-
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show evidence of disturbance
by tree roots in many places.
Portions of the sides of the
trail’s surface have also begun
to slough off.
“This trail needs work,” Mey-
ers said. “We’ve already done
most of the resurfacing on our
portion because of the Dorena
hydroelectric project.”
The City can’t afford to resur-
face the entire trail, and by all
accounts, the BLM can’t either.
To complicate matters, the BLM
can’t apply directly for grant
funding to fi nance the repairs.
“Resurfacing the trail is no
little ticket item,” Aleman said.
“We’ll need to be creative to-
gether to see how we can ac-
complish that goal. Perhaps
it can be done in phases. It’s a
matter of looking for funding
and working with our partners
on a deliberate front.”
Regardless of how the resur-
facing is paid for, Meyers said
making it happen is a must.
“The trail is really, really im-
portant for us,” he said. “We’re
constantly seeing people use it,
and it’s a huge economic engine
for us. It’s part of the designat-
ed Scenic Bikeway. It needs to
be nice, because if it isn’t, the
word will get out. If the trail is
great for three miles, then goes
to crap, it still refl ects poorly on
us.”
Regardless of how the trail
gets resurfaced, Aleman said the
BLM is pleased with the work
the City has done thus far.
“I’d like to laud the efforts of
the City of Cottage Grove,” she
said. “They’ve been responsive
and wonderful to work with. It’s
been a good partnership for all
involved.”
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