Polk County Itemizer-Observer • August 12, 2015 11A
Polk County Education
SCHOOL NOTES
Registration due for camp on Friday
DALLAS — Registration is due Friday for LaCreole Middle
School’s sixth-grade orientation camp, to be held Aug. 25 and 26
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The camp will help incoming sixth-graders get to know their
new school building, practice opening lockers and ask questions
of teachers and other students.
Those attending are asked to wear comfortable clothes and
bring a water bottle. Lunch will be provided through the dis-
trict’s summer lunch program.
Tuition for the camp is $20, though partial scholarships are
available. To sign your sixth-grader up, fill out a registration form
and return it to LaCreole, 701 SE LaCreole Drive, Dallas by Friday.
For more information: 503-623-6662.
plies will be given to kids in the Falls City area from 4:30 to 6:30
p.m. on Thursday at George Kitchen Upper Park.
This also is a time for families to register for school.
For more information or to donate to the event: Salvation
Army Polk County office, 182 SW Academy St., Suite 220.
Registration for Talmadge to begin
INDEPENDENCE — Registration for Talmadge Middle School
runs Tuesday through Aug. 20 from 1 to 3 p.m. and again from 5
to 7 p.m. each day.
Sixth-grade registration is Tuesday. Seventh-graders register
on Aug. 19. Eighth graders may register on Aug. 20.
For more information: Talmadge Middle School, 503-606-
2252.
DHS, LaCreole to hold registration
LCFC supply giveaway on Tuesday
DALLAS — Dallas High School and LaCreole Middle School are
open for student registration starting next week.
DHS, 1250 SE Holman Ave., Dallas, will begin registering stu-
dents entering their senior year this fall on Monday from 9 a.m.
to 3 p.m. On Tuesday, incoming juniors may register from 9 a.m.
to 3 p.m. Aug. 19 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. is slated for sophomores.
The final day of registration, Aug. 20, is reserved for freshmen
from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
For those unable to make those times, registration is open 5 to
7 p.m. Aug. 20. Families with more than one student attending
DHS may register all on the day designated for the oldest stu-
dent. Students who are new to the district may register on any
day.
LaCreole Middle School, 701 SE LaCreole Drive, Dallas, will reg-
ister returning in-district students on Tuesday and Aug. 19 from 9
a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 3 to 6 p.m.
Students new to the district can register on Thursday from 8
a.m. to 3 p.m.
For more information: Dallas High School, 503-623-8336;
LaCreole Middle School, 503-623-6662.
INDEPENDENCE — Life Center Foursquare Church will host a
school supply giveaway at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday at Henry Hill
Park in Independence.
Supplies will be available to the first 250 Central School Dis-
trict students in grades K-12. Children and youth must be pres-
ent to be eligible for the supplies.
For more information: Life Center Foursquare Church, 503-
838-6507.
Free supplies to students Thursday
FALLS CITY — The Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Social
Services, in partnership with the Falls City Christian Church, will
host its annual Tools for Schools backpack and supply distribu-
tion.
About 175 backpacks filled with all the necessary school sup-
County to hold immunization clinics
DALLAS — Polk County Public Health is holding four immu-
nization clinics to prepare children for back to school.
Appointments must be made in advance for the clinics.
School immunizations will be available on Aug. 19, Aug. 26
and Sept. 9 from 8 to 11 a.m. and from 1 to 4 p.m. at the agency’s
Dallas clinic, 182 SW Academy St. Suite 302. On Sept. 9 a clinic
also will be held in Independence from 1 to 4 p.m. at Oregon
Child Development Coalition, 535 G St.
For more information: 503-623-8175.
Got a school note or story idea?
Send it by Friday at noon to
ionews@polkio.com.
Decision on tax
stalled by board
By Jolene Guzman
The Itemizer-Observer
DALLAS — The Dallas
School Board took com-
ments Monday on its option
to adopt a construction ex-
cise tax, or school construc-
tion system development
charge (SDC).
If adopted, a fee would be
collected on new construc-
tion within the district.
The maximum the district
could collect in the 2015-16
school year is $1.20 per
square foot on residential
construction and 60 cents
per square foot on commer-
cial construction. About a
third of the districts in the
state have adopted the
charge.
Dallas sent letters out to
home builders and real es-
tate agents in the area, in-
forming them the charge
was under consideration.
Most comments offered
Monday were regarding the
possible negative effects of
charging the fees.
Gene Henshaw, represent-
ing the Dallas Area Chamber
of Commerce’s public policy
committee, said members of
the committee had con-
cerns.
“Some of the members of
the public policy committee
of the chamber have not
been really enthused that
there is going to be a small
number of folks who are
going to be paying this for
the entire school district,” he
said, referring to new home
buyers.
Henshaw also said com-
mittee members believed
implementing the charge
could negatively affect the
district’s chances of passing
another levy and could sup-
press economic activity.
Jim Williams, also a mem-
ber of the committee and a
longtime lobbyist for the
c o n s t r u c t i o n i n d u s t r y,
shared those worries. He
said cities and school district
that adopt the charges aren’t
considering the tax base
value increase new con-
struction brings.
The board didn’t make a
decision Monday and will
bring the topic up for more
discussion.
“We will consider the in-
formation we’ve received
tonight, both from the school
district and our guests, and
move this to our agenda next
meeting,” said Board Chair-
woman Lu Ann Meyer.
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