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/
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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.
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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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