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Redmond
supports
funding for
homeless
COVID-19 surges again
MASK UP!
Starting Friday, masks required for indoor gatherings
Money would come from
American Rescue Plan funds
BY BRENNA VISSER
The Bulletin
The Redmond City Council plans to use
$2.93 million in American Rescue Plan Act
funding to go toward a public safety facility
and three homeless-related projects.
Roughly two-thirds of the funding, $2
million, will go toward the public safety fa-
cility. The city plans to complete a relocation
and expansion of its police station by 2025.
The new public safety campus is expected to
include an on-site mental health triage cen-
ter similar to the stabilization center at the
Bend public safety campus.
The other $930,000 will help fund the cre-
ation of two homeless shelters in the city and
a managed camp that would allow homeless
residents to legally park an RV or camp.
The council will officially vote on adopt-
ing a budget adjustment for this money later
this month.
See Homeless / A6
BEND POLICE
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A sign posted outside of the REI store in Bend reminds people to wear a mask while inside the store Thursday.
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tarting Friday and lasting through Feb. 8, masks are now required in indoor public spaces in Oregon,
regardless of vaccination status, following an announcement by Gov. Kate Brown. The mandate is in
response to surging COVID-19 cases and rising hospitalizations. The recent spread of COVID-19 is
due largely to the highly contagious delta variant circulating in the state and in Central Oregon.
BY GARRETT ANDREWS
The Bulletin
Redmond School Board to consider resolution
opposing Gov. Brown’s statewide mandate
BY NICOLE BALES
The Bulletin
REDMOND — The Redmond School
Board will consider a resolution to op-
pose Gov. Kate Brown’s indoor mask
mandate for K-12 schools, after a conten-
tious special meeting Wednesday that in-
cluded police officers at entrances.
It was the third heated school board
meeting this week in Central Oregon, as
parents and others took their anger over
mask policies directly to board members,
urging them to defy the governor’s man-
date, which went into effect Aug. 2. In
Redmond, audience members frequently
heckled speakers.
The state has said the mandate is in-
tended to keep students in school by
preventing the need to quarantine and
school closures. This comes as the num-
Investigation finds
officer did not violate
policy with keychain
ber of coronavirus infections and hos-
pitalizations grows rapidly throughout
the state, fueled by the highly contagious
delta variant.
Michael Summers, the vice chair of the
Redmond School Board, proposed a reso-
lution that he drafted for the board and the
school district’s attorney to review before
bringing it back for a vote in late August.
See Redmond / A6
The Bend Police Department is standing
behind its man, Cpl. Josh Spano, who be-
came the subject of an online furor over his
use of a keychain bearing the phrase “MO-
LON LABE” and photos on social media
purporting to show associations with ex-
tremist groups.
In investigation documents released
Thursday to The Bulletin, Chief Mike
Krantz recommends no discipline for
Spano, a 6-year veteran of the department.
The documents show the chief’s assessment
is echoed by Spano’s supervisors in the pa-
trol bureau, as well as the lieutenant who
conducted the internal investigation.
“There is no information in Corporal
Spano’s personnel file or any information
discovered during this investigation in
which a reasonable person could conclude
Corporal Spano conducts himself at work
in any manner other than commendable,”
Krantz wrote.
See Keychain / A6
Sheriff, former deputy ready to square off again, in court
BY GARRETT ANDREWS
The Bulletin
Nelson
TODAY’S
WEATHER
Kozowski
A rematch of sorts started Thursday
in a Eugene federal courtroom as for-
mer Deschutes County sheriff’s dep-
uty Eric Kozowski argues a federal civil
rights claim against his onetime boss
and election rival, Deschutes County
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Sheriff L. Shane Nelson.
Jury selection in Kozowski’s $3.4 mil-
lion wrongful termination suit began
Thursday in U.S. District Court. The
10-day trial before Judge Michael J.
McShane will be one of the first federal
civil jury trials held in Oregon since the
pandemic hit in 2020.
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Nelson intends to attend the entire
trial, he said Wednesday through a
spokesperson.
Since Kozowski filed the claim in
February 2018, numerous current and
former sheriff’s office employees have
testified in depositions. A judge in
March 2020 issued a ruling declining to
dismiss the case, ruling it could proceed
to trial.
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County Sheriff’s Office was involved in
10 active lawsuits, while the comparably
sized Bend Police Department was in-
volved in one: former Bend Police Chief
Jim Porter is named as a defendant in a
federal claim against various local offi-
cials filed by a Portland man who is act-
ing as his own attorney. The Redmond
Police Department was involved in four
active lawsuits as of Wednesday.
See Court / A6
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