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INDEPENDENCE
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MONMOUTH
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American Eclipse.
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JOLENE GUZMAN/Itemizer-Observer
Dallas Golf Club is two steps closer to becoming part of the city of Dallas’ urban growth boundary.
EDUCATION
Meet the candidates
running for Central’s
School Board.
Golf club closer to joining UGB
By Jolene Guzman
The Itemizer-Observer
DALLAS — The Dallas City
Golf Club is two steps closer to
being part of the city of Dallas’
urban growth boundary.
Monday, the Dallas City
Council had its first review
of an ordinance to include
the property in the UGB, a
move that will allow the club
to renovate buildings and
expand services offered at
the nine-hole executive
course.
On April 26, the Polk
County Board of Commis-
sioners approved the club
owner’s application to move
from the county to the Dal-
las UGB.
A second reading of the
ordinance and vote is slated
to take place at the council’s
May 15 meeting.
The council addressed the
popularity of another form
of golf Monday, making it
necessary for groups hold-
ing tournaments to reserve
the disc golf course in Dallas
City Park.
City officials said requests
have increased. Tourna-
ments require more staff
time and keep recreational
users from playing during
the tournament.
Reserving the course
would cost $100 for four
hours, plus $15 per hour for
additional time.
Councilor Jackie Lawson
suggested the city require
tournament reservations for
another sport growing in
popularity: Pickleball.
Pickleball combines ele-
ments of tennis, badminton
and table tennis.
The city budgeted $30,000
from parks system develop-
ment charges to build pickle-
ball courts in Roger Jordan
Community Park near the
Dallas Aquatic Center. HEAL
Cities also awarded a $9,500
grant to help pay for the
courts.
“Apparently, it’s way be-
yond the scope of what I
ever knew, and I keep hear-
ing more about it,” Lawson
said. “It might behoove us to
even consider going ahead
and moving on that now.”
City Manager Ron Foggin
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said the disc golf ordinance
doesn’t include pickleball,
but the city could consider
that if requests came in for
tournaments.
In other business, the city:
• Selected a new auditor,
Pauly Rogers & Co., follow-
ing and request for proposal
process. Pauly Rogers was
the low bidder.
• Will have a workshop in
June discussing the role of
the recreation coordinator
position that the Dallas
Budget Committee decided
to restore to the budget.
Hunt, Barnes vie for spot on URD budget includes
money to buy armory
Dallas School Board
Itemizer-Observer staff report
DALLAS — Three seats on
the Dallas School Board are
up for election on May 16,
but only one is contested,
Position
No. 1.
Candi-
dates Dave
Hunt, a re-
tired fire-
fighter, and
I v a n
Barnes, the
owner and
Hunt
operator or
Kings Val-
ley Clean-
ing Servic-
es
are
vying for
that seat.
H u n t
and Barnes
provided
Barnes
answers to
an election questionnaire
(see below).
Incumbents Jon Woods
(Position No. 3) and Michael
Blanchard (Position No. 4)
are running for re-election.
Lu Ann Meyer, who has
served three terms, is not
running for re-election.
THE NEXT
7
DAYS
PLANNING
FOR YOUR
WEEK
DALLAS SCHOOL
BOARD POSITION 1
Ivan Wm. Barnes, 47,
of Dallas
C U R R E N T E M P L OY-
MENT: Owner and operator
of Kings Valley Cleaning
Services. Owner of 2BJivan
music school.
E D U C AT I O N : Bi s h o p
Montgomery High School,
1988; San Francisco State
University, creative writing,
1998; Stanford, studied phi-
losophy.
PREVIOUS GOVERN-
MENT SERVICE: Big Fork
Fire District Trustee, Flat-
head County, Mont.
C A M PA I G N P H O N E
NUMBER: 503-507-5162.
HOW LONG HAVE YOU
RESIDED IN THE AREA
YOU WILL REPRESENT: Six
years.
WHY ARE YOU RUNNING
FOR OFFICE?
I have five sons, four in-
volved in the school system.
I’m an open-minded guy,
not affiliated with either
party. I thought a free-mind-
ed individual would be an
asset. I want to keep an open
mind and to listen.
WHAT IS THE BIGGEST
SINGLE ISSUE FACING THE
DALL AS SCHOOL DIS-
TRICT? HOW WOULD YOU
ADDRESS IT IF ELECTED?
Issues like transgender
locker room access and the
budget. On the transgender
locker room issue, people
were so excited on both
sides of the issue and every-
one was trying to write the
perfect policy. My kids are
not a policy. We should be
dealing with what is best for
the individual. Policy has be-
come like the tax code.
WHAT EXPERIENCE OR
TALENT DO YOU BELIEVE
YOU WOULD BRING TO
THE OFFICE?
In elective office, I was a
Big Fork Fire District trustee,
serving a 100-square mile
area, and I was a private
school administrator.
My family has been in this
country for 300 years. We’ve
got a long, proud history. All
the history in my family is
aimed at service. I want to
serve the children of this
community.
See SCHOOLS, Page 5A
By Jolene Guzman
The Itemizer-Observer
DALLAS — The Dallas
Urban Renewal District
proposed 2017-18 budget
includes money to pur-
chase the old armory prop-
erty, help pay for Dallas
Downtown’s RARE program
participant, and continue
street and building façade
improvement projects.
Jason Locke, the city’s
community development
director who also works
with the district, intro-
d u c e d t h e d i s t r i c t ’s
$548,000 total budget
Thursday. The district’s
budget committee consists
of the same people as the
city of Dallas’ committee.
Locke said much of what
is included is based on rec-
ommendations from the
district’s advisory council.
He said $100,000 is set
aside for purchasing the old
Dallas armory property,
though not all that may be
spent this year.
“That reflects a total pur-
chase price, not a payment
price, of the armory prop-
erty,” Locke said.
Committee member Pete
Christensen asked if that
property wouldn’t be a bet-
ter site for the new senior
center than the current
property adjacent to the
old Carnegie library.
“The issue is that we’ve
already basically commit-
ted to that site. We’ve com-
mitted to that site near the
Carnegie Building,” Locke
said. “That’s where all the
environmental reviews
have happened. That’s
where the land use ap-
provals happened.”
Furthermore, City Man-
ager Ron Foggin pointed
out the grant paying for the
new center only applies to
the current site.
Locke said the plan for
the armory property in-
cludes a private developer.
“The purpose of the dis-
trict is not to build public
buildings on publicly
owned land,” he said. “The
purpose of acquiring that
property is to basically en-
sure that it develops with a
high-quality private devel-
opment so that property
comes back on the tax roll.”
See BUDGET, Page 6A
SPORTS
Central’s Bethanie Al-
tamirano and Isaac Bur-
gett are locked in on re-
turning to state.
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POLK COUNTY
County official says
bond would pay for
critical repairs.
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Eclipse task
force to meet
Monday
Itemizer-Observer staff report
DALLAS — The Dallas
Eclipse Task Force will
meet Monday at Pressed
Coffee & Wine Bar.
The group meets
monthly to update and
plan for the upcoming
Great American Eclipse
that will briefly darken
the sky over Dallas and
much of the Mid-
Willamette Valley on Aug.
21.
Plans for local and re-
gional celebrations and
events will be discussed.
Pressed is located at
788 Main St. in Dallas and
the meeting begins at
5:30 p.m.
For more information
about Dallas’ eclipse-relat-
ed events, go to
https://dallaseclipse2017.c
om/.
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