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SIX - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 11, 2020 PUBLIC NOTICE INVITATION TO BID FOR MORROW EMER- On April 9, 2020 at the GENCY OPERATIONS hour of 11 am the Mor- CENTER RE-ROOF NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE row County Courthouse, 100 Court Street, Heppner, OR 97836, inside the lob- by at the Front doors, the defendant’s interest will be sold, subject to redemp- tion, in the real property commonly known as: 400 SE Division St. Irrigon, OR 97844. The court case number is 17CV42064, PHH MORTGAGE COR- PORATION, Plaintiff and THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF JAMES P. O'BRIEN AKA JAMES P. OBRIEN AKA JAMES PATRICK O'BRIEN; TRACEY LYNN O'BRIEN; NOAH JAMES LINDSEY; OC- CUPANTS OF THE PROPERTY, Defendants. The sale is a public auction to the highest bidder for cash or cashier’s check, in hand, made out to Morrow County Circuit Court. For more information on this sale go to: http://oregon- sheriffssales.org/ 2-26-4c PUBLIC NOTICE MORROW COUNTY LAND USE HEARING THE MORROW COUN- TY PLANNING COM- MISSION will hold the following hearings of pub- lic interest on Tuesday, March 31, 2020, at 7:00 p.m. at the Port of Morrow Riverfront Center, Board- man, Oregon. Land Partition LP-N- 481-20: Daniel and Sar- ah Kerns, applicants and owners. The property is described as tax lot 201 of Assessor’s Map 4N 25 22AB. The property is zoned Rural Residential (RR) and located on Mill- er Road near the canal. Request is to partition a 5-acre parcel to create 2 parcels. Criteria for ap- proval includes the Mor- row County Zoning Ordi- nance (MCZO) Article 3 Section 3.040 Rural Resi- dential Zone and Morrow County Subdivision Ordi- nance (MCSO) Article 5 Land Partitioning. Conditional Use Permit CUP-S-342-20: Blattner Energy applicant and Mark Miller, owner. The property is described as Tax Lot 500 of Assessor’s Map 1S 26. The property is located 7 miles north- east of Lexington and is zoned Exclusive Farm Use (EFU). Request is to approve a temporary con- crete batch plant. Crite- ria for approval include MCZO Article 3 Section 3.010(C)(14) and Article 6 Conditional Uses. Opportunity to voice sup- port or opposition to the above proposal or to ask questions will be provid- ed. Failure to raise an is- sue in person or by letter or failure to provide suffi- cient specificity to afford the decision maker an opportunity to respond to the issue precludes appeal to the Land Use Board of Appeals based on those issues. Copies of the staff report and all relevant docu- ments will be available after March 20, 2020. For more information, please contact Stephanie Case at 541-922-4624 or by email scase@co.morrow.or.us. DATED this 6th day of March 2020. MORROW COUNTY PLANNING DEPARTMENT Published: March 11, 2020 Affidavit 325 Willow View Dr., Heppner, OR Sealed bids for the Re- Roof of the County Emer- gency Operations Center project will be received by the Morrow County Public Works Department, At 365 W. Hwy 74, P.O. Box 428, Lexington, OR 97839, No later than 4:00 pm March 26th 2020. The bids will be opened and reviewed on March 31, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. at the Lexington Con- ference room located at 365 W. Hwy 74, Lexing- ton, OR. The County may reject any bid not in compliance with all prescribed public bidding procedures and requirements, and may reject for good cause any or all bids upon a finding of the County that it is in the public interest to do so. The bidder must be regis- tered with the Construction Contractors Board. Work consist of, but may not be limited to, the following estimated unit cost quan- tities: Provide necessary building permits. Provide Morrow County with ten-year workman- ship warranty Remove existing roof, clean areas haul away all debris. All roofing remov- al and debris disposal to be done in accordance with all state, local and federal asbestos abatement regula- tions. Any structural repairs deemed necessary by building code or manufac- turer warranty standards to be done. Install fully adhered 60 mil TPO, ¼” Dens-deck or equivalent. Install custom manufac- tured edge metal, pipe flashing and metal vents. Properly flash all roof pen- etrations. The roof structure hous- es several mission critical units. Some of which are paired antennas. These will require special coordi- nation to ensure that only one unit is misdirected at a time. Work will need to be com- pleted no later than June 18th, 2020. This is a morrow Coun- ty Public Works Project and funded with Morrow County funds. A bid bond in the amount of 10% of the bid amount is required with the proposal. Per- formed and payment bonds in the amount of the con- tract bid amount will be required of the successful bidder. Site visits of the building can be arranged by con- tacting Tony Clement at (541)—240-1791. For all other questions of con- cerns please contact Mor- row County Public Works at (541) 989-9500. The County will award the contract with in thirty (30) calendar days of the bid opening. Work will commence within five (5) calendar days of the notice to proceed. The contractor shall complete all work. 3-11-3c IN SEARCH OF I am trying to find the gen- tleman that gave me his gun case to repair at the dentist’s office. Please call Marlene Pointer 541-256-0371 3-11-1c Council considers 2 nd amendment sanctuary, may send to voters to approve ‘Why would anyone be upset with this?’ asks councilmember By David Sykes The Heppner city coun- cil continued a conversation Monday, asking if the city should follow Lexington’s lead and pass a resolution or ordinance preserving second amendment rights and declaring itself a sanc- tuary city. The council was look- ing at a second amendment preservation resolution that says, among other things, the people of Heppner have the right to “keep and bear arms as originally under- stood: in self-defense and preservation, and in defense of one’s community and county.” The resolution presented to the council by City Manager Kraig Cuts- forth is almost identical to a law passed by Umatilla voters last November and it attempts to block any new laws coming from the state legislature taking away existing gun rights. The second amend- ment sanctuary issue for Heppner surfaced at last month’s council meeting after Lexington had earlier declared itself a sanctuary city. The Lexington council had passed the town law in preparation for what it saw as new laws restricting gun rights coming from the Oregon legislature. The Heppner council discussed becoming a sanctuary last month and then instructed City Manager Kraig Cuts- forth to some back this month with some examples of laws. Cutsforth brought the recently enacted Uma- tilla law as an example. Cutsforth admitted that the resolution lacked “a lot of teeth”, but still might accomplish what the coun- cil wanted. He said one problem with an ordinance is the city does not have a police force so depends on the county sheriff office to enforce the laws, including what is constitutional and what is not. The issue came to the council when some people in the community expressed concern that a Democrat super majority now in con- trol of the Oregon legisla- ture would attempt to pass legislation limiting second amendment rights. Gun rights advocates feel the Or- egon legislature is dominat- ed by Portland-area liberals who will pass gun control measures antithetical to the beliefs of those in rural Ore- gon. Gun control advocates feel the current laws are too loose and there should be more restrictions on gun ownership and transfer. In an effort to fight off possi- ble new state laws, voters in 23 Oregon counties and a dozen cities have already passed second amendment ordinances, resolutions or letters. Umatilla county passed its second amend- ment sanctuary ordinance with a 65 percent yes vote of the people in last Novem- ber’s election. The Oregon legislature at its just ended special session was considering two new gun control laws. HB 4005 is the safe storage bill requiring gun owners to secure their weapons with a trigger lock while not in use or being trans- ported, and SB 1538 that would allow local govern- ments and school districts to ban concealed weapons on their premises, which they currently don’t have the authority to do when an individual has a valid concealed handgun license. At Monday’s meeting councilmembers and mem- bers of the public discussed whether a second amend- ment law or resolution was even needed, if it would harm financing from the state, if it was legal, and if it should be taken to voters for approval. Coun- cilmember John Bowles, who is also Undersheriff for Morrow County, said in talking to people since the last meeting he has heard both sides. “I have heard it both ways. Some support it, some don’t.” Councilmem- ber Dale Bates said the proposed amendment only states what is guaranteed in the Bill of Rights and he could not understand why people would be opposed. “It takes us back to what our forefathers wanted,” he said speaking to the Bill of Rights and the sec- ond amendment. “Why would anyone be upset with this?” Heppner citizen Gayle Gutierrez however was against it and wanted to know why the city needed the resolution. “Why do we even need this?” she asked. Bates said he has heard con- cerns from people that the Oregon legislature may be going the way of Virginia, which has a similar political makeup as Oregon. Virginia has a small geographic area of the state heavily populated with Democrats. After recently taking control of that state’s legislature the more liberal Democrats began consider- ing gun control legislation against the beliefs of the more conservative and Re- publican rural areas. This caused a political standoff and pushback from the rural counties and cities, similar to what is happening in Oregon. To that Guti- errez replied, “But this is not Virginia.” Citizen Cin- dy Doherty, also in atten- dance at the meeting, was also against taking second amendment action, telling Bates he represents all the people and he should not just vote his opinion. Bates said he has talked to people in the city and it is not just his opinion. Councilmember Adam Doherty said although he was pro second amend- ment, he was concerned the city could lose state and county funding if it passed a second amendment reso- lution or ordinance. May- or Jim Kindle said if the state decides to come after the guns, he didn’t think the resolutions would stop them. Near the beginning of the discussion City Attor- ney Bill Kuhn gave his opinion. “A large portion of my job as city attorney is compliance and risk assess- ment,” he told the council. “That is neither progressive or conservative, Democrat or Republican.” Kuhn said the danger in passing the resolution was that it makes a statement that the city will not enforce valid gun control laws. “Making a statement that the city will not enforce state and federal law is never wise and can have unintended and un- foreseen legal liabilities,” he said in his statement. He went on to say his job as city attorney was to advise the city on how to comply with all existing state and federal laws. Kuhn also said the city cannot delegate to the sher- iff the ability to determine the validity or constitution- ality of state or federal fire- arms laws, saying, “Only the courts can determine these issues.” He said he was not recommending passage of a second amend- ment resolution without “a thorough and complete analysis of all the issues involved, constitutional and otherwise.” He com- pared the city passing the resolution to blindly hitting a hornet’s nest. “Before Serious speed! hitting it with a stick, you check to see what kind of hornets are in it and how many,” he told the council. After much discus- sion, many on the council thought it might be a good idea to take the issue to vot- ers and let them have their say. However, no decision was made, and the second amendment issue was ta- bled until next month’s meeting. The proposed resolu- tion is about one and half pages long and is avail- able on the Heppner Ga- zette-Times Facebook page. 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