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A2 THE BULLETIN • WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 2022 The Bulletin LOCAL, STATE & REGION How to reach us CIRCULATION Didn’t receive your paper? Start or stop subscription? 541-385-5800 PHONE HOURS 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday 7 a.m.-11 a.m. Saturday-Sunday and holidays GENERAL INFORMATION 541-382-1811 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. ONLINE www.bendbulletin.com EMAIL bulletin@bendbulletin.com AFTER HOURS Newsroom ................................541-383-0348 Circulation ................................541-385-5800 NEWSROOM EMAIL Business ........business@bendbulletin.com City Desk .............news@bendbulletin.com Features.................................................................. communitylife@bendbulletin.com Sports ................. sports@bendbulletin.com NEWSROOM FAX 541-385-5804 OUR ADDRESS Street .............. 320 SW Upper Terrace Drive Suite 200 Bend, OR 97702 Mailing ........... P.O. Box 6020 Bend, OR 97708 B ADMINISTRATION Publisher Heidi Wright ..............................541-383-0341 Editor Gerry O’Brien .............................541-633-2166 OREGON LEGISLATURE | COMMITTEE MEETINGS THIS WEEK Lawmakers discussing paid family leave, workforce programs, drug treatment grants BY HILLARY BORRUD The Oregonian Oregon lawmakers have a packed schedule of meetings this week to get updates on how the state is implementing a long list of laws and spend- ing priorities. Starting Wednesday, Ore- gon’s 90 lawmakers will hold dozens of meetings on topics ranging from drug treatment grants to pleas by parents of severely developmentally disabled children to extend a pandemic program that al- lowed parents to work as paid caregivers for their children. All interim hearings, which take place between legislative sessions, will take place online because hearing rooms at the Capitol are un- der renovation, spokespeople for legislative leaders said. The Senate will hold a floor session Friday to vote on ap- pointments to boards and commissions. Lawmakers will kick off the online meetings with a sweeping hearing Wednesday morning on a variety of eco- nomic topics, from an update on progress rolling out the $200 million workforce ini- tiative lawmakers and Gov. Kate Brown approved earlier this year to an update on the Andrew Selsky/AP file Members of the Oregon Senate meet Dec. 13 during a special session of the Legislature in Salem. Lawmak- ers hold legislative committee days starting Wednesday. World Athletics Champion- ships coming to Eugene this summer. Also on Wednesday, the Senate Interim Committee on Labor and Business is sched- uled to hear updates from top officials at the Employment Department, including on the status of the paid leave pro- gram that lawmakers approved three years ago. It is running eight months behind schedule. Legislators will also get an update Wednesday on how the state is distributing drug treatment grants, funded with reallocated marijuana taxes under the voter approved Measure 110, which legalized possession of small amounts of hard drugs. Lawmakers will hear about challenges in Oregon’s early learning programs, which the state has approved money to expand in recent years. On Thursday, the House Interim Committee on Hu- man Services will hear from parents caring for severely developmentally disabled children. Such parents were able to get paid to do the work during the pandemic and have been advocating for the state to continue the program, which started amid a shortage of care workers. According to The Lund Re- port, parents of approxi- mately 300 children around the state have signed up for the program, which requires them to complete the same training and vetting as any other worker. Due to the rel- atively low pay of $16 to $19 per hour, it costs the state $11 million. The Senate Interim Com- mittee on Housing and Devel- opment is set to hear updates on the state’s housing supply and “recent investments, suc- cesses and challenges” in tack- ling homelessness in Oregon, although no details were avail- able Tuesday morning regard- ing who would provide that information. In a joint meeting Thursday, House and Senate education committees will hear from Secretary of State Shemia Fa- gan and state auditors in her office about their recently is- sued report warning Oregon is at risk of wasting huge new investments in K-12 schools because of the state’s weak tracking of learning outcomes and lack of accountability for districts to increase student success. 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Box 6020 Bend, OR 97708 Phone ......................................... 541-617-7829 CORRECTIONS The Bulletin’s primary concern is that all stories are accurate. If you know of an error in a story, call us at 541-383-0367. OREGON ELECTIONS Clackamas County completes counting blurred primary ballots BY JAMIE GOLDBERG The Oregonian Clackamas County election officials announced Tuesday that the county had finished duplicating virtually all ballots marred with a printing error and were moving on to count- ing ballots from voters in the military and abroad. The county appears to have duplicated more than 22,000 ballots over the holiday week- end due to an unexpectedly high number of elections work- ers and volunteers who showed up to help tally ballots. Earlier in the week, elections officials said they only antic- ipated that 211 people would pitch in between Saturday and Monday to hand-dupli- cate ballots. Instead, 428 peo- ple showed up to copy voters’ choices onto new ballots, a pro- cess necessitated because tens of thousands of ballots were printed with blurred bar codes that couldn’t be read by vote Read endorses Kotek for governor after primary loss BY PETER WONG Oregon Capital Bureau Gillian Flaccus/AP file An election worker in Clackamas County uses a purple maker May 25 to transfer votes from a spoiled ballot to a fresh one so the ballot can be scanned. counting machines. The printing error and a bungled response by election officials in the days leading up to the election led to results in a handful of key races being de- layed for well over a week. Election officials said they expect all ballots to be pro- cessed by the end of the week and will be on schedule to cer- tify the election by the June 13 statutory deadline. Along with processing bal- lots from members of the mili- tary and those abroad, election officials are working to process ballots that need signatures. State Treasurer Tobias Read has endorsed Tina Kotek, who defeated him in the May 17 Democratic pri- mary for Oregon governor. Kotek, the former Ore- gon House speaker from Portland, won 56.1% to Read’s 31.8%. Patrick Starnes, the 2018 Indepen- dent Party nominee who ran as a Democrat, won 2.1%, and 12 other candi- dates split the rest of the Democratic votes. Kotek faces Republi- can Christine Drazan of Canby, the former House GOP leader, who won 23% in a 19-candidate field, and unaffiliated candidate Betsy Johnson, a former Democratic state senator from Scappoose who plans to qualify by petition for the Nov. 8 general election. Read had been endorsed by two former Democratic governors, Barbara Rob- erts and John Kitzhaber. Read will remain state treasurer, which he was elected to in 2016 after five terms in the Oregon House from Beaverton. He is in the middle of his second four-year term as treasurer. “Two weeks ago, Demo- crats made clear that they want Tina Kotek to be our nominee. I respect their decision and have congrat- ulated the former speaker on her victory. I’m com- mitted to working with her to make Oregon a place where every child can re- alize their full potential,” Read said in a statement Monday. █ pwong@pamplinmedia.com TO SUBSCRIBE Call us ......................541-385-5800 • Home delivery and E-Edition ..........................$7 per week • By mail .................................$9.50 per week • E-Edition only ...................$4.50 per week To sign up for our e-Editions, visit www.bendbulletin.com to register. TO PLACE AN AD Classified ......................................541-385-5809 Other information ....................541-382-1811 OBITUARIES No death notices or obituaries are published Mondays. When submitting, please include your name, address and contact number. 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