Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, April 14,2010 - SEVEN
SCHOOL DISTRICT
-Continued from Page ONE will include: two credits of okay financially this year
may only be awarded to a
student who meets the fol
lowing eligibility criteria:
has a documented history
of an inability to maintain
grade level achievement
due to significant learning
and instructional barriers;
or has a documented history
of a medical condition that
creates a barrier to achieve
ment. For students who
entered grade nine before
July 1, 2007, the student’s
team shall decide whether
the student must meet the
unit of credit requirements
set by the state board of
education or the credit re
quirem ents specified by
the district for a modified
diploma at the time the
student entered grade nine.
Students with a modified
diploma must have three
credits in English, two in
math, two in science, two
in social studies, one in
health, one in PE, one in
career technical ed, the arts
or second language for a
total of 24 credits.
Other graduation
options are:
*an extended di
ploma, which is awarded
only to students who have
demonstrated the inabil
ity to meet the full set of
academic content standards
for a diploma w hile re
ceiving modifications and
accommodations. Require
m ents for the extended
diploma include: in grade
nine through completion
of high school, complete 12
credits which may not in
clude more than six credits
in a self-contained special
education classroom and
math, two credits of Eng
lish, two credits of science,
three credits o f history,
geography, economics or
vices; one credit of health,
one credit of PE and one
credit of the arts or a second
language.
The students re
ceiving an extended di
ploma must have a docu
mented history of an in
ability to maintain grade
level achievement due to
significant learning and
instructional barriers; or
have a document history
of a medical condition that
creates a barrier to achieve
ments; and participate in an
alternate assessment begin
ning to later than grade six
and lasting for two or more
assessment cycles; or have
a serious illness or injury
that occurs after grade eight
that changes the student’s
ability to participate in
grade level activities,and
that results in the student
participating in alternate
assessments.
*an a lte rn a tiv e
certificate which will be
awarded to students who do
not satisfy the requirements
for a diploma, modified di
ploma or extended diploma
if the students meet mini
mum credit requirements
established by the district.
Alternative certificates will
be awarded based on indi
vidual student needs and
achievement.
In other business
at the meeting, Burrows
told the board that because
of good fiscal planning, he
believed the district will be
and next, unlike many other
districts, but anticipated that
the following year could be
very difficult.
A lso during the
meeting, he board reviewed
2010-11 calendar options
and ad o p ted O p tion A
which calls for a pre-Labor
Day start with two weeks at
Christmas, teachers begin
ning August 23, students
beginning on August 30, a
two-week Christmas break
with the last school day
on December 16, students
ending Thursday, June 9,
secondary teachers end
ing Friday, June 10 and
elementary teachers ending
June 13.
Other options con
sidered were:
* Option B with a
post-Labor Day start with
two weeks at Christmas,
teachers beginning A u
gust 30, students beginning
September 7, a two-week
Christmas break with the
last school day on Decem
ber 16, students ending
Thursday, June 16, second
ary teachers ending Friday,
June 17, and elementary
teachers ending on Monday,
June 20.
*Option C with a
pre-Labor Day start with
less than 1-1/2 weeks at
Christmas, with teachers
beginning August 23, stu
dents beginning August
30, less than 1-1/2 weeks
at Christmas with the last
school day on December
22 with an early dismissal,
students ending Monday,
June 6, secondary teachers
ending Tuesday, June 7 and
CANDIDATE’S FORUM
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Watkins said he thought educa
tional service districts are not saving any
money and just employing a “bunch of
people.” He said he is against doing away
with the state kicker tax returns because
it is one of the few things that is keeping
government honest. “Our state govern
ment’s problem is there is no discipline,”
he said.
Colleen MacLeod candidate for House
District 57
Colleen MacLeod, candidate for
Oregon House Dist 57 says things have
gotten out of control in Salem because
people have not been paying attention.
“They have imposed onerous taxes on us,”
she said of Salem, and pointed to her op
ponent, Greg Smith, who did not attend the
forum, as one of those who has voted to
increase taxes. “In some places in our state
there is 20 percent unemployment. You
can’t keep going to the well and raising
taxes, there is no more to get,” MacLeod
told the crowd.
On the lottery she said it was
originally sold to and voted in by the
people of Oregon to be used for economic
development. “The people didn’t vote this
in for the money to be used in the general
fund,’ she said. MacLeod said the people
are asking the government to do too much
and that we need less government not
more taxes and more government. “I am
a Reagan Republican. I was against tax
measures 66 & 67,” she said.
On education she says everything
at the state level needs to be looked at.
People need to control the education of
their children at the local level. She said
private and charter schools would be a
good thing.
County Judge Candidates - Terry Tail-
man and Dean Kegler
On money coming into the county
from the wind farms Kegler said he did not
know how much money was coming in
each year, but he assumed it was going into
the general fund. Tallman said the county
received $280,000 from wind farms last
year and that $40,000 of that was going
to the lone School District and would for
the next five years.
When asked if the wind money
should reduce county property taxes Tail-
man said that commissioners have not
decided where all the money will go, but
he sees lots of needs around the county in
cluding a new elevator in the Gilliam Bis-
bee building in Heppner. Kegler said there
are a lot of projects in the county where the
windmill money could be used.
As far as the previously men
tioned BETC tax breaks, Tallman said if it
were not for the BETC we would not get
all the wind money into the county coffers.
“If the BETC is going to be spent, it needs
to be spent here,” Tallman said.
On the tippage fees, or money the
county receives for the dumping at the
big regional Finley Buttes garbage dump,
Tallman said he thinks it is divided up cor
rectly and the procedure should remain the
same. Kegler also said the tippage money
has a big positive impact on the county
and should remain the same.
Both Kegler and Tallman said
they thought the juvenile court should
lone students perform
community service project
elementary teachers ending
Wednesday, June 8.
•O p tio n D w ith
less than 1-1/2 weeks at
Christmas with teachers be
ginning August 30, students
beginning September 7, less
than 1-1/2 weeks at Christ
mas with the last school day
on December 22 with early
dismissal; students ending
Friday June 10 with a five-
day week, secondary teach
ers ending Monday, June
13, at elementary teachers
ending Tuesday, June 14.
Option A received
152 district employee votes,
Option B-20, Option C-24
and Option D-14.
In other business at
the meeting, the board:
-heard from the
Umatilla-Morrow ESD on
a proposed merger with
Union-Baker ESD, which
is reportedly insolvent.
If a merger does occur, a
representative from UM-
ESD said that the tax rate
for Umatilla-Morrow ESD
constituents could rise,
possibly from 56 cents
per thousand valuation to
around 61 cents per thou
sand. According to officials,
the state legislature is urg
ing mergers to reduce the
number of ESDs.
-h eard a W indy
River Elementary school
improvement report;
-heard a report on
the Riverside High School
heating, ventilating and air
conditioning project.
-approved a resolu
tion to accept a $40,000 do
nation from the Echo Wind
Farms and expenditure for
purchases/improvem ents
to the district’s technology
systems and equipment.
stay in Morrow County with the county
judge heading that court. Kegler said local
people know the children and can better
serve their needs. Tallman said he doesn’t
want to see the Morrow County children
and parents having to travel to Umatilla
County to attend juvenile court. ‘I don’t
think that would be right,” he said.
About the Boardman race track,
Tallman said he is not sure it will ever be
built. “I am not saying it will not be built,
but I think we need to put a closing date
on this. We need to tell the developers to
get the dollars and start digging,” Tallman
said. “The county has already done things
to help them (the race track) Kegler said.
“They no longer have an office at the Port
of Morrow and though I would like to see it
happen, I don’t know if he (the developer)
is going to pull it off,” Kegler said.
Morrow County District Attorney -
Justin Nelson and Tom Cutsforth
Justin Nelson said he has done
criminal prosecution as a deputy in the
Umatilla County DA’s Office. “I know
criminal law,” he said. He said he has
experience working in the drug court and
understands that the Boardman and Irrigon
area of the county has gang problems.
Tom Cutsforth said he would
work to rebuild the relationship between
the Morrow County DA’s Office and
the sheriff’s department. He said he has
worked with Sheriff Ken Matlack.
Cutsforth said he would do a good
job prosecuting domestic violence and
abuse cases and understands they need to
be handled in a special way. “You need to
protect the victims and hold the perpetra
tors responsible when they come to court,”
he said. Nelson said victim’s advocates are
BMCC announces Honor Roll, Dean’s
List and President’s List recipients
its at BMCC.
The following stu
dents com pleted the re
quirements: Tonya Vawser
of Heppner (3.73), Stepha
nie Rill of Heppner (3.21 ),
M elinda Smith o f Lex
ington (3.77), and Tammy
Smith of Lexington (3.23.
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as of April 1: A.C. Hough
ton Elementary, Irrigon-
271; Heppner Elementary
School-195; Heppner High
School-228; Irrigon El
ementary School-202; Ir
rigon High School-328;
Riverside High School-400;
Sam Boardman Elemen
tary School-309; Windy
River Elementary School,
Boardm an-215; Morrow
Education Center (Morrow
County School District)-65;
Morrow Education Center
(Umatilla School District)-
29; for a total of 2,242.
-approved the fol
lowing resignations/retire-
ments: Tim Beatty, RHS
science teacher; Alison
Ogden, SBE half-time el
ementary teacher; Shane
Fritz, RHS Spanish teach
er; Carol Chapman, WRE
fourth-grade teacher; Mari-
bel Torres, RHS rally advi
sor.
-approved the fol
lowing employment: Mayra
Colin-Carillo, MEC English
language learner education
assistant; Elaine Moore,
IES special ed assistant.
-approved the fol
lowing extra duty contracts:
Eric Keller, Irrigon Junior
High head wrestling coach;
Kyle Carpenter, RHS head
track coach; Breena Tolar,
IJH assistant track coach;
Jason Dunten, IJH, head
track coach.
-approved a resolu
tion to approve a financing
agreement for borrowing
through a flex-lease pro
gram.
-heard the follow
ing announcement: the next
board meeting will be held
at Irrigon High School on
May 10 at 7 p.m.
important and the district attorney needs
to prosecute cases swiftly.
On the drug problem Cutsforth
said you can lock up all the drug dealers
you want, but it will not go away if you
cannot get rid of the market and the de
mand. Nelson said we need to send offend
ers off to jail. Give people a chance. Give
them treatment, but if that doesn’t work
“they need to go away,” Nelson said.
Justice of the Peace - Earl Woods, Ann
Spicer and Terry Felda
Terry Felda says the court needs to
be a peoples’ court and suggested having
night court so it could be more accom
modating for people. When asked she said
she did not know the cost of operating the
court. Earl Woods said the current court
has a budget of $198,000 and that the
county has benefited from keeping it open
and not turning it over to circuit court.
He said the court handles about 11,000
cases per year. He said there was room to
improve the operation of the court. Woods
also said the court had a good collection
record of about 98 percent. Woods said
he would like to see the county improve
the clerical part of the court. Spicer said
there was room for some “tweaking” of the
justice court but that overall it was working
pretty good as it is.
“We need to change it so people
are not stacked up like cord wood like
they are now,” Felda said. “We need to
make it more automated when people are
paying tickets.”
All three candidates said they
would not go easy on DUI cases.
County Commissioner Ken Grieb
was also at the forum, however, he is run
ning unopposed for his position.
Sheriffs Report
The Morrow County
Sheriff’s Office reports han
dling the following business:
Nov. 10 C ont:
-MCSO Deputy reported
he was out at the lone City
Council meeting.
-M CSO D eputy
reported he was out with
a subject in lone who was
reported possibly suicidal
and Stanfield had put out
an attem pt to locate on
him. The subject was trans
The Heppner High School Ag department will ported to Space Age outside
z putting up the frame for a new greenhouse on Friday Hermiston to meet with a
loming, April 16, beginning at 8 a.m. Volunteers who sergeant with the National
■e willing to help with this project at welcome.
Guard and was going to
stay with the sergeant for a
couple days.
-MCSO received
report o f a dom estic in
progress in Irrigon with a
male and female yelling for
Call 5 4 1 - 6 7 6 - 9 2 2 Ô
the past 30 minutes. MCSO
B lue M o u n tain
Community College recent
ly announced Honor Roll
(3.0-3.39 GPA), D ean’s
List (3.4-3.84 GPA) and
President’s List (3.85-4.0
GPA) recipients for the
2010 winter term.
Students must have
completed 12 or more cred-
Volunteers needed for help
vith new greenhouse at HHS
Students in Erin Heideman's horticulture class recently worked
on a community service landscape project at the Woolery
House Bed A Breakfast in lone. Pictured are front row (L-R)
Mason Haguewood, Shannon Metcalfe, Jordan Braun, Jordan
Peterson, Mary McElligott, Micah Stillman, Makenna Ramos,
and Mary Rietmann. Standing (L-R) are Jeremy Coleman,
Steven Holland, Zac Orem, Adam Collin and Sairi Aparkio.
-approved an at
tendance variance for the
2010-2011 school year for
students from the Umatilla
School District to attend
A.C. Houghton Elementary
School in Irrigon.
-rescinded a policy
for the selection o f text-
books/instructional m a
terials and adopted a new
policy.
-revised a policy on
the handling of questioned
or challenged materials and
adopted a new challenge
request form.
-adopted a new
policy on reporting require
m ents regarding sexual
conduct with students.
-named the screen
ing committee for the Riv
erside High School assistant
principal position.
-approved a resolu
tion to approve the financ
ing agreement for borrow
ing through a flex-fund
program.
-approved an Ir
rigon Elementary School
field trip request. Instead
of the usual outdoor school,
Joel Chavez, Irrigon El
ementary School principal
and director of the English
Language Learner program,
proposed a change to an
“urban school” during that
week where students will
go to Portland and visit
OMSI, the zoo and other
urban educational opportu
nities. Chavez said that the
outdoor school experience
has been problematic for
students and staff and of
fered the urban school as a
more enjoyable and educa
tional experience.
-received the fol
lowing enrollment report
and OSP responded and the
argument was verbal only.
-MCSO deputy re
moved large pieces of wood
on Hwy. 730, Irrigon.
-MCSO received
report of a vehicle being
driven 100 mph on 1-84. All
deputies were out on a pos
sible domestic assault.
-M C SO deput y
reported he was assisting
an OSP Trooper with an
arrest.
-Boardman Police
Department officer reported
he was out with the food
bus in Boardman regard
ing parking issues from the
previous day.
-BPD officer re
ported he was out at Windy
River Elementary School.
-BPD officer re
ported he was out at the
Department of Human Ser
vices.
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