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A2 THE BULLETIN • SATURDAY, JULY 30, 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 news@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 PUBLIC DEFENDERS Plan to get more lawyers: pay them more than contract rate BY ZAEEM SHAIKH The Oregonian Officials with the Oregon Office of Public Defense Ser- vices have a proposal to ease the shortage of court-ap- pointed attorneys to represent low-income criminal defen- dants. Entice lawyers to temporar- ily join the ranks of public de- fenders by paying them more than those already under con- tract. The need is acute, but the money is not yet there, advo- cates for the plan have said. As of Friday, 189 people accused of crimes in Oregon lacked attorneys, and 86 of those are felony cases, accord- ing to the office. In March, four people facing criminal charges filed a class-action lawsuit against the state over its failure to appoint them de- fense lawyers. To address the shortage, the office wants to match the $158 hourly rate that federal public defend- ers receive to lure lawyers not under contract to represent adults and juveniles in custody in the state. The office typically pays $105 per hour for murder cases or those involving juve- niles and $75 per hour for all other cases. But bringing on additional lawyers and paying them more would require approval and additional funding from state lawmakers, on top of the nearly $13 million the Legisla- ture already allocated in Feb- ruary. The agency has a two- year budget of $355.9 million and contracts with nonprofit law firms and independent lawyers who take on public defense cases. Funding the $158-hourly rate increase until July of next year comes with a projected price tag of about $2 million, according to the office. Any changes won’t hap- pen quickly, some members of the 10-person commission that oversees the office said in a July 22 meeting. “More money will help us get there; I did not see any magic bullet to get lawyers for unrepresented people tomorrow,” said Steven T. Wax, Oregon’s former top federal defender and a com- mission member. In letters to the commis- sion, Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice Martha Walters has recommended that de- fense lawyers be able to nego- tiate hourly rates higher than $158 for complicated cases and for the new rates to be ex- tended to out-of-custody cli- ents as well. Stephen Singer, the office’s executive director, said that would cost millions more. Walters has also suggested recruiting retired judges to help resolve cases and conduct trainings. An additional idea would be to recruit volunteers who are not yet qualified to represent clients to work un- der the supervision of lawyers. 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 PORTLAND TO OPEN LATEST CAR-FREE BRIDGE BY KRISTINE DE LEON The Oregonian ADMINISTRATION Publisher Heidi Wright ..............................541-383-0341 Editor Gerry O’Brien .............................541-633-2166 DEPARTMENT HEADS Advertising Brian Naplachowski .................541-383-0370 Circulation/Operations Maria Johnson ..........................541-617-7830 Finance Wendy Dougherty ...541-383-0324 Human Resources ................541-383-0340 TALK TO AN EDITOR City Julie Johnson ...................541-383-0367 Business, Features, GO! 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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 Stash Tea Co., founded in 1972, is preparing to move its headquarters and retail store from a Tigard business park to downtown Portland. The company will occupy a 7,000-square-foot space at SW Yamhill Street and Ninth Avenue. The space will house the company’s offices and a retail store with a tea bar. Stash has 35 employees in Portland. The move comes after the company’s lease of its office space near the Bridgeport Village shopping center comes to an end, said Daniel Kerbel, vice president of global marketing at Stash Tea. He said the decision to move to downtown Portland is part of the company’s rebranding efforts to get back to its roots. “For us, it’s important to be connected to the pulse of Port- land,” Kerbel said. “We are proudly a Portland brand. We love the type of talent we can hire out here, and ultimately, it’s our roots. So we want to be very true to our roots.” LOCAL BRIEFING TALK TO A REPORTER Bend/Deschutes Government ........................................................541-633-2160 Business Suzanne Roig ............................541-633-2117 Calendar .....................................541-383-0304 Education Bryce Dole .....................................541-617-7854 Fine Arts/Features David Jasper .................................541-383-0349 Health Suzanne Roig ............................541-633-2117 La Pine ........................................541-383-0367 Public Lands/Environment Michael Kohn ............................541-617-7818 Public Safety Garrett Andrews ......................541-383-0325 Redmond Joe Siess..........................................541-617-7820 Salem/State Government .. 541-383-0367 Sisters .........................................541-383-0367 Sunriver .....................................541-383-0367 Stash Tea to move headquarters to downtown Portland Sheriff’s office seeks help to identify suspected thieves before the victim even realized their vehicle was broken into. The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Of- fice is asking the public to help identify a man and a woman believed to be involved in numerous thefts from ve- hicles parked at trailheads throughout the county. After stealing from the vehicles, the two individuals are alleged to have gone to Walmart in Bend to purchase gift cards using stolen credit and debit cards, the sheriff’s office said Friday in a news release. The man has a tattoo on each forearm and a large tattoo on the right side of his neck. The woman has a thin build and a large tattoo on her left forearm. Anyone with knowledge on the mat- ter is encouraged to contact the sher- iff’s office at 541-693-6911. The refer- ence case number is 22-38722. The sheriff’s office added that it wanted to remind people not to leave valuables unattended in vehicles, and in some cases, the duo have been able to use the stolen credit or debit cards Bend sets open house for home energy score program Bend’s home energy score program will be the focus of an open house and question and answer session Monday at city hall. The proposed program rates how efficiently a home uses energy. It gives each home a numerical score based on physical properties like types of win- dows and insulation and the amount of greenhouse gases a home emits. Homeowners in Bend who wish to sell their properties would be required by the program to obtain home energy scores before they can list their homes on the market. They are then required to share their home energy scores with potential buyers The program was set forth by the Bend Community Climate Action Plan to encourage energy efficiency and transparency when it comes to home energy costs. Implementation would effectively create a new step in the home selling and buying process. Hillsboro, Mil- waukie and Portland have already implemented home energy score pro- grams. Based on these established pro- grams, the estimated cost of a home energy assessor to perform an audit would be between $150 and $300. In 2016, Bend conducted a sec- tor-based inventory of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the city. Residential energy accounted for 29% of emissions while transporta- tion made up 36%. The Climate Action Plan’s goal is to decrease fossil fuel emissions by 40% by 2030. The home energy score open house will be held in hybrid format Monday at 3 p.m. Attendance is permitted on- line and at the council chambers at city hall, 710 NW Wall St. in Bend. COVID-19 community levels for Central Oregon and Prevention monitors levels of COVID-19 to help communities de- cide what prevention steps to take based on the latest data. Levels can be low, medium or high and are deter- mined by looking at hospital beds be- ing used, hospital admissions and the total number of new COVID-19 cases in an area. On Thursday, the CDC ranked 11 Oregon counties at high levels of com- munity spread, 20 at medium and five at low. The agency listed the following lev- els for Central Oregon: Deschutes County: Medium Crook County: Medium Jefferson County: Medium Precautions the CDC recommends for communities with medium levels: • If you are at high risk for severe ill- ness, talk to your health care provider about whether you need to wear a mask and take other precautions. • Stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccines • Get tested if you have symptoms The Centers for Disease Control — Bulletin staff reports To sign up for our e-Editions, visit www.bendbulletin.com to register. 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