News
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
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Recall raises campaign
inance questions
Complaint
filed against
committee in
favor of recall
By Rylan Boggs
and Sean Hart
Blue Mountain Eagle
A campaign inance com-
plaint has been iled against
the Committee to Recall
Boyd Britton, while another
group campaigning to keep
the county commissioner in
ofice recently learned it was
required to register as a politi-
cal action committee.
The complaint, iled by
Kimberly resident James O.
Kelly with the Oregon Secre-
tary of State Aug. 5, accuses
the committee of failing to
report any campaign inance
activity.
An account summary ob-
tained from Oregon Elections
System for Tracking and Re-
porting (ORESTAR) conirms
that the Committee to Recall
Boyd Britton had not iled any
contributions or expenditures
as of Monday.
Julie Carr, the treasurer for
the committee, could not be
reached for comment.
Kelly claims the commit-
tee established March 20 did
not report contributions and
expenses related to the print-
ing of 72 recall signature
pages or ile a Certiicate of
Limited Contributions and
Expenditures.
Kelly claims the signa-
ture-gathering committee has
also been active in supporting
the recall and “is required to
declare its intent to function
as a political committee ded-
icated to supporting the re-
call.”
The committee was not
registered as a political action
committee for the recall elec-
tion as of Monday, according
to information obtained from
ORESTAR.
Kelly noted the group has
not reported any inancial in-
formation after gathering the
signatures.
“At the very least there
should have been reporting
of: printing and postage for
the distribution of an estimat-
ed 4,000 mailers in support
of the recall that appeared in
mailboxes countywide on or
around July 28, 2016,” Kelly
stated in the complaint.
Secretary of State Com-
munications Director Molly
Woon said the department
will be contacting both Kelly
and the committee to further
investigate the complaint.
Woon said the committee
could possibly face ines de-
pending on the outcome of the
investigation.
“At the Secretary of State’s
ofice, we believe transparen-
cy is an advantage,” Woon
said.
On the other side of the
political battle, Vote No
on Boyd Britton Recall,
which is registered as a
political action committee
for the recall, has reported
$10,743 in contributions,
including $250 from Kelly,
and $5,856 in expenditures.
Another group that voiced
support for Britton, however,
did not realize until last week
that doing so with collective
funding was required to be
reported.
Grant County Positive Ac-
tion Treasurer Judy Schuette
said the organization recently
learned it was legally required
to register as a political action
committee for the recall elec-
tion, which it did Aug. 2. She
said the group, which is not
afiliated with a political par-
ty, never intended to become
a political action committee,
but when members pooled
their funds to purchase adver-
tising against the recall, the
group become legally classi-
ied as one.
“As soon as we understood
that we technically were a po-
litical action committee, we
were the ones who contacted
the Secretary of State’s ofice
and said, ‘What do we do?
How do we ix this?’” she
said. “We didn’t know that we
were going to have to do all
this. Evidently, if more than
one person takes in a dona-
tion to support a campaign
or person, and since we had
our members donate to help
pay for the ad, it opened up
this other door that we didn’t
know we’d have to be going
through.”
Schuette said the group has
seven days to report a contri-
bution, and she would be re-
porting contributions and ex-
penditures to the Secretary of
State Tuesday, seven days af-
ter registering as a committee.
The Eagle/Angel Carpenter
John Day Volunteer firefighters respond to the Gleason Pool with a large
fan to quell some fumes from a chemical mixture in the pump house at the
facility.
Fireighters respond
for fumes at pool
Blue Mountain Eagle
John Day volunteer ire-
ighters responded to Glea-
son Pool at about 4:30 p.m.
Friday after a report of fumes
in the facility’s water treat-
ment room.
The department came
with one engine and four on
Blue Mountain Eagle
The Grant County Court
meeting Wednesday, Aug. 10,
will begin at 1:30 p.m.
The few items on the agen-
da include signing contracts
related to the Grant County
Fair, which begins that day.
For more information,
contact Laurie Wright, 541-
575-0059.
C OPS & C OURTS
Grant County Sheriff
The Grant County Sheriff’s
Ofice reported the following for
the week of Aug. 8: concealed
handgun licenses, 7; average in-
mates, 10; bookings, 7; releases,
7; arrests, 1; ingerprints, 5; civil
papers, 22; warrants processed,
2; asst./welfare check, 3; search
and rescue, 2.
Justice Court
The Grant County Justice
Court reported the following
ines and judgments:
• Failure to perform the du-
ties of a driver: Linda Marie
Bond, John Day, sentenced to 10
days jail, 12 months probations,
10 days community service, and
ined $1,797.46.
• Violation of speed limit:
Dawn Marie Thomas, 53, Au-
burn, Washington, 43/25, Aug.
9, ined $160.
Exceeding speed limit: Ker-
LETTERS
Continued from Page A4
Cooperation,
collaboration
and coordination
To the Editor:
For one county commis-
sioner, cooperation, collabo-
ration and coordination is the
same thing. So for those who
have a challenged vocabu-
lary, here’s what the dictio-
nary has to say.
Cooperate: to act jointly
or concurrently to a common
end.
Collaborate: to work with
another person or group to
achieve or do something; to
give help to an enemy.
Coordinate: to put in the
same order or rank.
Steve Beverlin, Malheur
forest supervisor, told those
at the Wednesday meeting
that all three of the “C’s”
were used in arriving at deci-
sions involving forest issues.
Yes, one can cooperate
with whatever may come
ith Gene Crabb, 24, Canyon
City, 75/65, July 29, ined $135.
• Violation of basic speed
rule: Sakhan Meth, 42, Tualatin,
76/55, June 24, ined $260; Jer-
emy S. Taylor, 44, Bend, 75/55,
July 19, ined $135.
• Driving while suspended:
Travis James Freniere, 30, John
Day, July 8, ined $435, July 13,
ined $435; Harry Samuel Nard-
strom, 36, John Day, July 9,
ined $435; Melinda Paris Cox,
42, Prairie City, June 24, ined
$435; Melinda Paris Cox, July
1, ined $435.
• Driving uninsured: Travis
James Freniere, July 8, ined
$260, July 13, ined $260.
• Failure to properly use safe-
ty belt: Sierra Lynn Dahlen, 16,
Prairie City, July 28, ined $110.
• Failure to renew registra-
tion: Nicky Joe Ballou, 39, John
Day, June 21; ined $110.
Dispatch
John Day dispatch worked
178 calls during the week of
Aug. 1-7. Along with the vari-
ous trafic warnings, trespass-
ing, injured animals, noise com-
plaints and juvenile complaints,
out of collaboration, but the
result is based on appeasing
and placating the environ-
mental community that has a
strangle hold on our natural
resources. Coordination is a
law passed by Congress that
the county has been loathe
to invoke. If the court were
to use coordination and had
a natural resources plan to
back them up, then all cit-
izens of the county would
become “stakeholders,” not
just a few that collaborate
to secure a piece of what
we once had that made our
county vibrant so many
years ago.
The Grant County Pub-
lic Forest Commission will
be working on a natural re-
sources plan for the county.
With input from a public
that desires to see genuine
improvement on our for-
ests, among many goals,
achieve a healthy, fire-resis-
tant landscape. Surely with
the intelligence, education,
hands-on life experiences,
we citizens can create a rea-
sonable natural resources
these calls included:
• Oregon State Police:
Aug. 5: Responded to a truck
accident at Highway 26, mile-
post 182.
• John Day Police:
Aug. 1: Responded with
sheriff’s ofice to a possible do-
mestic at Riverside Trailer Park
in John Day.
Aug. 3: Received a report of
theft from Mt. View Mini Mart
in Prairie City.
• Grant County Sheriff:
Aug. 2: Responded to a
report of shots ired on Ingle
Street.
Aug. 3: Advised of a phone
scam in John Day; responded
with OSP to a report of a verbal
dispute involving an intoxicated
subject in Mt. Vernon — sub-
jects were contacted and advised
to return to their residence.
• John Day ambulance:
Aug. 3: Dispatched for a
woman with chest pain in John
Day; responded for a 62-year-
old female with dificulty
breathing.
• Dayville Fire Department:
Aug. 1: Responded to a ire
at Franks Creek Road.
plan suited to Grant County.
It is imperative we have
a natural resources plan (not
to be confused with a land-
use plan already in effect).
The county court must as-
sert their authority in co-
ordination so we can help
ourselves now and provide a
future generation a “future.”
Dave Traylor
John Day
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Arrests and citations in the
Blue Mountain Eagle are taken
from the logs of law enforcement
agencies. Every effort is made to
report the court disposition of
arrest cases.
He said a maintenance per-
son would be looking into
the issue.
John Day ambulance was
on standby at the scene, and
John Day Police chief Rich-
ard Gray closed off the area.
The pool was closed at the
time of the call, and no one
was injured.
Chip sealing to start
Aug. 15 on Highway 26
Blue Mountain Eagle
County Court meeting begins at 1:30 p.m.
board, along with John Day
Fire Chief Ron Smith. Two
ireighters with masks on
placed a fan near the building
to dissipate the fumes.
Smith said there was an
equipment failure inside the
water treatment room, which
blew and spread some gran-
ules, causing a strong smell.
A 30-mile section of High-
way 26, between the junction
of Highway 19 and Mt. Vernon,
and a short section of Highway
395 in Mt. Vernon will be chip
sealed starting Aug. 15. The
Oregon Department of Trans-
portation expects the sealing to
take three weeks and to have
the roads painted by Sept. 15.
Additionally,
ODOT
crews will repair damage
caused by erosion to the
Highway 26 Beech Creek
Bridge, east of Mt. Vernon.
Workers will be on the roads
Mondays through Saturdays,
and drivers can expect up to
20-minute delays as well as
loose rock on the roads.
ODOT is asking that live-
stock be kept off the roads
during the chip sealing process
to prevent adhesion problems
caused by animal waste. For
updated information on high-
way work and current travel in-
formation throughout Oregon,
visit tripcheck.com or call the
toll-free Oregon road report at
511 or 800-977-6368.
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