EIGHT- Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Cougar sighted in Heppner
Tuesday morning
Lexington ‘now open
for business’
By David Sykes
“The town is now open
for business,” Mayor Mar-
cia Kemp declared last
Tuesday night after the
town council voted unani-
mously to pass its 2019-20
budget.
The town had been shut
down for nine days after
the council did not approve
a new operating budget
at a June 27 hearing. Not
enough councilmembers
were present at the public
hearing for a quorum, so
according to state law if
a budget is not passed by
June 30 the town cannot
spend money. Mayor Mar-
cia Kemp said without an
approved budget she had no
choice but to shut it down.
She had at that time gath-
ered the keys and laid off
the two town employees.
After consulting with
state officials and the
League of Oregon Cities
Kemp scheduled a new
hearing date, republished
the budget in the newspa-
per and this time a quorum
was present, and the budget
passed unanimously. After
Lexington Mayor Marcia Kemp
the vote Kemp declared
“The town is now open for
business,” with a round of
applause from the crowd
of 28 people in attendance.
“Report for work tomor-
row,” she said to mainte-
nance man Ed Dickenson.
The other town employee,
recorder Dawn Greisen
would also be back at work
the next day.
Following the meeting
Kemps said she was happy
the town was open again.
“I’m very happy. I can sleep
at night and not worry about
the town,” she said.
Tre Cimmiyotti told the Gazette that he spotted a cougar outside his back door this
morning on Gilmore Street. He said, “I just saw the outline of the cat’s body when I
walked out the door at 3:40 this morning. I must have startled it because it then growled.”
Cimmiyotti said he just backed up and headed to his car. He heard it growl again
as he got in and headed off to work. He later called the sheriff’s office and the Gazette
to report the sighting.
(Editors note: Photo is not the actual animal that was sighted, for display only.)
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