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BEND
City works to secure two homeless shelters
Council finalizes
purchase of Bend Value
Inn pending grant money
BY BRENNA VISSER
The Bulletin
The city of Bend is closer to getting
two permanent homeless shelters off
the ground.
On Wednesday, the Bend City
Council voted to finalize the purchase
of the Bend Value Inn, which would
be turned into temporary housing for
homeless residents, on the condition
that the city is awarded grant money
from the state.
Unlike a warming shelter, which
only allows people to stay at night, this
shelter at 2346 NE Division St. would
have 28 rooms for homeless residents
to live in like a home, albeit on a tem-
porary basis.
“I’m really excited that we are look-
ing at a concrete option for this type
of housing,” Councilor Gena Good-
man-Campbell said Wednesday.
The money is expected to come
from Project Turnkey, a state program
operated by the Oregon Community
Foundation that gives local commu-
nities and nonprofits funding to reno-
vate hotels and turn them into home-
less shelters.
After a series of setbacks put Bend
at the back of the line for this funding
earlier this year, an expected infusion
of an additional $9.7 million into the
state program is putting the city back
in play for paying for the majority of
this project with grant dollars, said
Carolyn Eagan, the city’s economic
development director.
Guests wait
in line June 9
to check into
the home-
less shelter
at 275 NE
Second St. in
Bend .
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Bend | Library plans
LEGISLATURE
Residents urge board to
reconsider expansion plans
Cooperation on
tax, housing
issues bring end
of session closer
BY GARY A. WARNER
Oregon Capital Bureau
An aerial view of
the 12-acre plot of
land, right, near
the intersection of
U.S. Highway 20
and Robal Lane
is seen Thursday.
Area residents are
questioning the
Deschutes Public
Library board’s de-
cision to build the
new Central Library
at the proposed
location.
Back in January, the Legislature
thought it would be adjourning for good
on Friday.
Too optimistic.
Midweek, lawmakers seemed doomed
to working right through to the consti-
tutional deadline of 11:59 p.m. June 27,
with maybe a break for Father’s Day.
Too pessimistic.
House and Senate members headed
for the exits Thursday afternoon with a
few hours of sunlight left to spare and
word not to be back in Salem for floor
sessions until Monday.
“They didn’t really want to work on
Saturday, either,” Rep. Jack Zika, R-Red-
mond, said of his colleagues in the other
party and other chamber.
Lips that are rarely zipped stayed shut
as sheaves of bills and resolutions moved
swiftly through the Legislature. The work
was a late-session nod to the reality that
bills cannot be amended on the floor of
the House or Senate.
Ryan Brennecke/The
Bulletin
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A
growing number of Bend
residents are questioning the
Deschutes Public Library
Board’s plan to build a new Central
Library on 12 acres off U.S. Highway
20 and Robal Lane.
The plan is the result of a $195
million bond approved by voters
in the fall to build the new library,
double the size of the Redmond Li-
brary and upgrade the other county
libraries.
But residents say the bond mea-
sure never explained where the new
library would be built.
They worry the proposed location
offers poor access off the highway
and would be better suited in other
parts of Bend.
Anne Ness, a newly elected library
board member who will be sworn
in at the July 14 meeting, is listening
to the concerned citizens. Ness, a
retired teacher from Sunriver, plans
to ask the board to stall its plans and
consider the public input.
“I would hope that we would be
able to take a pause, even if it’s for
a month or two, to really go look
at our plans,” Ness said. “I’m hop-
ing there would be an opportunity
to seek more information from the
community.”
At the last library board meet-
ing June 9, several residents spoke
against the current Central Library
location. Speakers included Bend
City Councilor Anthony Broad-
man, Bend Park & Recreation Dis-
trict board member Ariel Mendez,
Bill Gregoricus of the Central Ore-
gon Coalition for Access and Louis
Capozzi, board president of the
Council on Aging of Central Ore-
gon.
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2 Japanese nationals assaulted, allegedly by Oregon inmate
NOELLE CROMBIE
The Oregonian
The brutal assault of two
Japanese women, allegedly by
an escaped inmate, prompted
a blistering letter from the
Japanese government to Or-
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egon Gov. Kate Brown, ques-
tioning how the Department
of Corrections allowed the
14-time felon to slip away and
warning of economic conse-
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General Masaki Shiga of the
Consular Office of Japan in
Portland came about two
weeks after Jedaiah Lunn,
36, walked away from an
inmate work crew in Wash-
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women with a large stick,
leaving both with critical in-
juries.
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the result of a breakdown
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Oregon’s relationship with
Japan, a longtime economic
and trade partner.
The consulate’s letter was
pointed and detailed poten-
tial consequences.
Tenants get
reprieve;
landlords get
assistance
BY PETER WONG
Oregon Capital Bureau
Oregon lawmakers reached an agree-
ment that will give tenants 60-day pro-
tection from eviction proceedings if they
show their landlords they have applied
for rental assistance in the aftermath of
the coronavirus pandemic.
The agreement, which the House ap-
proved Thursday, also guarantees that
landlords will be paid all of their past-
due rent from the state program. Under
an earlier state program, landlords had
to
forgo
20%
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