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WEDNESDAY EDITION | MAY 15, 2019 | $1.00 CGSENTINEL.COM 3 Est. 1889 S entinel C ottage G rove VOL. 131, NO. 20 S ERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF C OTTAGE G ROVE , D ORENA , D RAIN , E LKTON L ORANE AND Y ONCALLA Your Local News Delivered Your Way: In Print. Online. On the Go! PERSONAL | COMMERCIAL BENEFITS | SURETY By Damien Sherwood (541) 942-0555 PayneWest.com/Cottage-Grove WEATHER Clouds and rain with a high of 62 and a low tonight of 48. Full forecast on A5 Levy vote will decide future of CAL schools Citizens weigh pros, cons of new courthouse dsherwood@cgsentinel. com The Lane County elec- torate will have a chance to vote this month on whether or not to autho- rize $154 million in bonds for a new county court- house with ballot measure 20-299. If successful, $94 mil- lion is expected to be contributed by the State of Oregon and another $4 million from federal funding. Without the state contribution, the measure stipulates that no bond money can be collected. It is estimated the approval of the 20-year bond will cost a landowner with a median assessed property value of $187,000 approx- imately $50 annually. At a total of $252 See COURT 9A By Damien Sherwood dsherwood@cgsentinel. com A look at two county ballot measures Cottage Grove area residents will decide on May 21 Measure 20-300 poses the question to voters in the Crow-Applegate-Lo- rane School District of whether or not the district should continue to levy $1.50 per $1,000 assessed property value for general operations of schools for the next five years, begin- ning in 2020. COMMUNITY The measure is a renew- al of a November 2014 lo- cal option levy to provide funding for school in- structional programming and retaining teachers and staff. At the proposed rate, the levy is estimated to raise $1,062,000 of rev- enue over five years. “Actually, this has been in place since 2003-2004,” said district See LEVY 7A CGHS begins search for new principal By Zach Silva zsilva@cgsentinel.com The circus comes to town Thursday. A3 SPORTS — B DAMIEN SHERWOOD/COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL Emergency responders shut down Row River Road as fire crews attempted to contain an 87-acre wildfire that began Friday, prompting Lane County Emergency Management to issue a Level 1 Evacuation . Lions sending four to state meet. B1 • RECORDS Obituaries Births A2 • LORANE NEWS Mop-up continues in Row River Road wildfire By Damien Sherwood dsherwood@cgsentinel.com Crews from multiple emergency and wildland agencies responded Friday to a fire on a hillside off Row River Road. The 87-acre fire was reported around 4 p.m. and threatened sev- eral residences, destroying one, and prompted a Level 1 Evacuation to be issued between Dowens Road and Shoreview Drive by Lane County Emergency Management. No deaths or injuries were report- ed. Within two hours of being re- ported, a full complement of agen- cies including South Lane Fire and Rescue, Eugene-Springfield Fire, Coburg Fire, Lowell Fire, Lane Fire Authority, Harrisburg Fire, Lane County Sheriff ’s Office, Lane Coun- ty Search and Rescue, Lane County Emergency Management, Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF), Cottage Grove Police and Oregon State Police were on the scene to battle the blaze and direct residents to safety. At least 86 emergency re- sponse personnel were involved in See FIRE 6A • CLASSIFIEDS City approves new School board election budget for 2019-20 offers new, familiar faces By Zach Silva By Damien Sherwood zsilva@cgsentinel.com dsherwood@cgsentinel.com FOLLOW US FOR THE LATEST NEWS : /CGS ENTINEL @CGS ENTINEL CGS ENTINEL . COM 541- 942-3325 ph • 541-942-3328 fax P.O. Box 35, Cottage Grove, OR 97424 Cottage Grove’s budget for the 2019- 20 fiscal year was approved May 7 during a public meeting of the Budget Committee. The adopted budget to- taled $41,963,970, an increase of about $3.6 million from the previous year. The total included about $11.5 million in grants and loans for water and wastewater projects and the Safe Routes to School program. The adoption of the budget also au- thorized the continuation of the city’s full permanent tax rate at $7.2087 per $1,000 of assessed property value, which is expected to generate about $4.7 million of collectable tax revenue. See BUDGET 9A As the May 21 election quickly approaches, there will be at least one new face on the South Lane School District school board. In this election, there are four spots that will be voted on with three candidates running un- opposed. In two of those races, incumbents Tammy Hodgkin- son and Jerry Settelmeyer are running to secure their positions on the board; in position three, Dustin Bengston is running un- opposed. According to his candidate filing, Bengston is currently a federal employee with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Marriage & Family Counseling Learn to positively overcome confl icts and create stronger relationships for life. See CGHS 7A SLSD reaches decision on sale of Harrison By Damien Sherwood A5 Listings and public notices B7-B9 More changes are coming to the Cottage Grove High School ad- ministration. A month after assistant principal/athletic director Gary Roberts announced that he will be going to Marshfi eld High School next year, principal Mike Ingman announced that he is taking his talents to Eugene. After seven years as a principal in the South Lane School Dis- trict, Ingman will begin at Sheldon High School starting on July 1. “I have enjoyed the professional and per- sonal relationships that I have cultivated over the 20 years that I have been has experience in budget devel- opment. The one contested seat is po- sition 7, which sees Demian Schwartz and Gary Mort run- ning for the spot. Mort, the in- cumbent, was voted to this seat in 2015 and sees this as a posi- tive as the board looks to sort through a number of issues. “I’d like to see it through. Par- ticularly right now, and this is always the argument the incum- bent makes, ‘Oh, we can’t change horses midstream.’ We have a lot of stuff in the stream right now,” said Mort, an instructor at Lane Community College. Over the span of the next See BOARD 7A dsherwood@cgsentinel. com Members of the South Lane School District Board of Directors vot- ed unanimously May 6 to sell the old Harrison School property at 1000 S 10th St. The board stipulated that the property would be sold only under the condition that the buy- er completes demolition and abatement of the as- bestos in the building. “That was one of the things that was important for the district in order for the sale … to have that abated and demol- ished,” said superinten- dent Larry Sullivan. “It’s a fairly unhealthy build- ing with all the asbestos See DECISION 9A Quality Vision Care for You Comprehensive family, medical eyecare and optical services We provide exams for Cataracts, Glaucoma, Diabetic and Lasik Serving Cottage Grove since 2006 Alan D. 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