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Workshop talks aspen health
Participants can
learn techniques
to better stands
Blue Mountain Eagle
IZEE – A daylong work-
shop to help area land-
owners restore, manage
and monitor their aspen
stands is coming up in
Izee.
“Land Manager’s Guide
to Aspen Management in
Oregon” will run from 9
a.m. to 3 p.m. June 8 in the
Izee Schoolhouse.
The class is offered by
the Upper South Fork John
Day Watershed Council,
with Oregon State Uni-
versity Extension Service
agents Nicole Strong, Bob
Parker and Shanna North-
way as instructors.
Aspen is considered an
important tree species for
habitat and wildlife, but it
has been adversely affect-
ed by some prior land use
practices including fire
suppression.
The workshop will pro-
vide information and tools
A MAN
WAKES
UP in the
morning
after sleeping on...
an advertised bed, in advertised
pajamas.
for assessing and restoring
aspen stands.
The morning sessions
will cover aspen ecology
and health, management
practices to improve aspen,
incorporating livestock and
aspen management, and
more.
Lunch will be provided
by the Watershed Council.
From noon to 3 p.m.,
the class will tour aspen
stands and examine differ-
ent treatments.
Class size is limited. To
RSVP, contact Amy Stin-
er at 541-792-0435 or us-
fjdwc@outlook.com,
or
Shanna Northway at shan-
na.northway@oregonstate.
edu.
Funding for the class
comes from the Oregon
Watershed
Enhancement
Board, Oregon Wildlife
Heritage Foundation and
OSU.
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Senate OKs $7.3 billion school plan
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SALEM – A $7.3 billion
state school funding mea-
sure, though criticized by
minority Republicans and
education advocates, is on
its way to Gov. Kate Brown
for her signature.
The Oregon Senate ap-
proved the budget on an 18-
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following a debate of more
than three hours and action
by the House last week.
The fund is $600 million
more than in the current
two-year cycle, which ends
June 30 — and the current
cycle is up $1 billion from
2011-13, when it was at its
lowest during the economic
downturn.
The fund supplies the
lion’s share of school op-
erating costs since voters
imposed statewide limits on
local property taxes in the
1990s. It is about 40 percent
of the $18.5 billion general
fund, which is supported by
taxes and lottery proceeds,
the most flexible funding
sources available to law-
makers.
The budget’s floor man-
ager says it will boost
per-student funding by $100
for most of Oregon’s 197
districts and cushion them
from most cuts.
“Funding education is
a difficult process; there is
never enough money,” said
Sen. Rod Monroe, R-Port-
land, a retired teacher. “This
does not gain anything on
our deficit, but it doesn’t cut
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anything, either.”
Monroe also said the
budget provides $220 mil-
lion in state funding for full-
day kindergarten, which
lawmakers made mandatory
in 2011 and starts this fall.
Sen. Mark Hass, D-Bea-
verton, said this budget
makes good on the Legis-
lature’s promise to support
full-day kindergarten back
then.
“It was not the popu-
lar thing to do, but it was
right,” Hass said.
But educators told the
Legislature’s joint budget
committee that the fund
ought to be at least $7.5 bil-
lion — $245 million more
than is proposed. Among
the groups at public hear-
ings in March were delega-
tions from Portland Public
Schools, which enroll the
most students in Oregon,
and the Forest Grove and
North Clackamas districts.
All 12 Republicans
joined those critics and vot-
ed against it.
“Democrat leaders argue
$7.225 billion is ‘the best
we can do’ for Oregon stu-
dents,” said Senate Repub-
lican Leader Ted Ferrioli,
R-John Day. “Passing an
underfunded K-12 budget
on partisan lines will neg-
atively impact local school
districts around Oregon.
‘The best they can do’ is un-
acceptable.”
“We can do better,”
agreed Sen. Alan Olsen,
R-Canby.
The bill contains a pro-
vision that earmarks for the
school fund 40 percent of
any additional tax collec-
tions projected in the May
14 revenue and economic
forecast — the final one
before the start of the new
budget cycle on July 1.
Leaders said passage of
the fund also gives a figure
that school boards can plan
on as they draw up their
own budgets for the 2015-
16 school year.
It would be the earliest
legislative action on the
state school fund since 2011,
when lawmakers cleared a
budget on April 11.
Republicans
proposed
several motions to send
the fund back to the budget
committee, and others to
raise more money for it by
reducing government regu-
lation of business or selling
the Elliott State Forest and
reinvesting the proceeds. All
failed on party-line votes.
“The K-12 students of
Oregon will be the losers,”-
said Senate Minority Leader
Ted Ferrioli, R-John Day.
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