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10A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL July 27, 2016 T AX Continued from page 1A West Main and R Street, Fourth Street and Highway 99 and others that have been car- ried out with gas tax revenues. “The tax has been successful, but it’s getting more and more diffi cult as costs have gone up and revenue isn’t really chang- ing,” he said. “Professionally, I think it’s (the gas tax) not a solution. We have hybrid cars, and vehicles today get far bet- ter gas mileage. There needs to be some kind of solution to match modern technology, and it hasn’t happened yet.” The option of placing a bond for street repairs before vot- ers drew the support of several councilors, including Councilor Garland Burback, who pushed the issue of bonding for repairs throughout the meeting and ul- timately voted against placing the tax increase on the ballot. Meyers pointed out that the City does not have the staff to direct the number of needed repairs all at once. He also added that a bond could be used to repair the infrastructure under the street, which is not covered by fuel tax revenue. “Even if we couldn’t bond the whole amount, we could bond parts like 16th Street and South Sixth that you could get done,” Burback said. “This thing here is just a waste of time, trying to come up with enough money to do anything.” The Council seemed to agree that a multi-part solution involv- ing bonding and gas tax rev- enues could work best, though Meyers pointed out that placing a bond before voters could take a while. “We could get together a list of some of the streets, some of the cost totals and get ready to put something out in May or later,” he said, adding that reve- nue would not be available until much later than that. Councilor Mike Fleck said he could support a gas tax increase that would not put Cottage Grove’s tax higher than that of nearby cities. Fleck supported placing the three-cent hike on the ballot, which Councilor Jeff Gowing said might still be a tough call for voters. “I think you’ll have a hard time selling it at three cents,” Gowing said. The Council will review the prospective ballot measure at its Aug. 8 meeting. P AK T ECH Continued from page 1A “We’ve had a wonderful re- sponse from EPUD on this,” he said. “Scott Coe has been instru- mental in making it happen.” Borg shared similar kudos for Meyers, who he called “spec- tacular to work with.” PakTech is expected to start limited operations in Cottage Grove by December. “It’s still unfolding, exactly how we’ll use this much more space,” he said. “The Cottage Grove facility is larger than the facility we have in Eugene now. This is going to be an excellent expansion for us, and we’re ex- cited to be coming to Cottage Grove.” Mayor Tom Munroe also lauded the move. “Bringing PakTech to Cottage Grove was a community effort,” Munroe said. “It could not have happened without the efforts of City Staff, Commissioner Faye Stewart, Emerald People’s Util- ity District and the Chamber of Commerce. “We are happy to have them here not only because of the new quality manufactur- ing jobs but because of the ad- ditional improvements to elec- trical services that will come to the area as a result.” of the District, its major taxpay- ers and the health of the state school system itself. Parent said she alone was interviewed for an hour as part of the process. Now, the District will ramp up its planning efforts to build the new school and make its upgrades, though cost estimates returned by Highland Construc- tion, which will build the new Harrison, have gone up from the $19 million anticipated during the bond planning process. “The construction world is really intense right now, and costs are really escalating,” Par- ent said. “We’ll be scaling back some on our original design, but it won’t be much.” South Lane will work with a $22.6 million estimate that Parent said will involve scaling back the square footage of the new Harrison. The school is ex- pected to cost $250 per square foot, she said, and cutting 1000 square feet from the 82,000 square foot size as originally planned could provide signifi - cant savings. “We won’t be cutting class- rooms or anything else; it will just be fi ne-tuning,” she said. The District initiated a Con- struction Management General Contractor model during the bond planning process, and as such, plans from BLRB Archi- tects will carry over to Highland Construction, though with 21 school districts passing bonds in the state last fall, it may prove diffi cult to secure sub-contrac- tors to fulfi ll some aspects of construction. Parent said South Lane is cur- rently paying its architects’ fees related to the new building, in addition to tackling the network upgrades and deferred mainte- nance. The District is working to replace 80 devices including computers, and Maintenance Supervisor Matt Allen is over- seeing fl ooring upgrades in many schools. Crews will likely not start roof work until next summer, Parent said. The District is also currently ordering 500 new security locks for classroom doors, locks that can be used to secure rooms from the inside. The work nec- essary to begin the move of Kennedy High School to the old Delight Valley campus and con- struction of the new early learn- ing facility may begin next year. South Lane will be putting out a bid for security equipment and cameras soon, Parent said, and by next April, she estimates that construction of the new Harri- son will be advanced to a stage that “we’ll start to see things go vertical.” The Seamen’s Union soon found that the brazenness of the ruling offended and mobilized social progressives and sailors alike, and what seemed a clear attempt to thwart the intent of Congress won the Supreme Court no friends on Capitol Hill. It still took 15 years, but the ruling led directly to the Seaman’s Act of 1915 – which fi nally ended in- voluntary servitude on Ameri- can merchant ships for good. SENIOR MEALS PROGRAMS Offering Meals on Wheels and Cafe 60 at the following locations: Anyone age 60 and older is served, regardless of income, suggested donation is $3. 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Then the court asserted that all Constitutional rights come with special ex- ceptions – a claim it tried to il- lustrate with a series of really silly examples: that laws against carrying concealed weapons are an exception to the Second Amendment, for one, and that laws against libel are an excep- tion to free speech, for another. The laws requiring cops to act as goon squads for private shipping companies, the court claimed, were the same sort of thing — a special exception to the Thirteenth Amendment. And as if saving its most out- rageous point for last, the ruling fi nished off with this gem: “Indeed, seamen are treated by Congress, as well as by the Parliament of Great Britain, as defi cient in that full and intel- ligent responsibility for their acts which is accredited to or- dinary adults, and as needing the protection of the law in the same sense in which minors and wards are entitled to the protec- tion of their parents and guard- ians.” In other words, the court ruled, sailors were a child-like special class of persons and were too stupid to be entrusted with the full rights and privileg- es of citizens. Shanghaiing had, of course, been a real and growing prob- lem in Oregon port cities for at least 10 years before this ruling came down. But it was after this decision, which became known as “Baldwin v. Robertson,” that the real glory days of shanghai- ing came to pass. 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