TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, February 24, 2021
The Official Newspaper
of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow
IRRIGON
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payers are actually funding
through regular property
taxes, and how much time
the sheriff’s office spends in
Irrigon. “It seems there is
a huge analysis that needs
to take place and come to
us (commissioners) before
that (sheriff) contract comes
to us,” she said. She said if
there is fine money going to
be taken out of the justice
court system and into the
Irrigon municipal court
then either the sheriff ’s
office or the justice court
budgets would have to be
reduced. “That money has
to come from somewhere,”
she pointed out. “Justice
court income supports 82
percent of the sheriff’s bud-
get. There is a general fund
discussion that has to take
place before the next (sher-
iff) contract because there is
a huge dollar change there,”
she added.
The commissioners
were generally not in favor
of dropping police pro-
tection contracts with the
cities, however they were
in favor of more analysis on
what those contracts would
actually cost the county
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especially if the justice
court fine money were lost
to Irrigon’s new municipal
court. “I don’t personally
desire to move away from
the contract,” Lindsay said.
“I think it is important, but
I think we need to make an
analysis of what the true
cost is especially when
part of the compensation
is missing,” she told the
other commissioners and
Matlack.
“The city of Irrigon is
just going to have to figure
out that if by going to this
model if we have a reduc-
tion in revenue from the
justice court system then
there is a reduction in the
sheriff’s budget numbers.
We have been giving them
an additional 100 hours a
week then those additional
hours go down a little bit. It
is a direct cause and effect,”
Russell said. “It is an ex-
periment the city of Irrigon
wants to try for a while. I
don’t want to go away from
the contract model, but
if one of our cities wants
to contract for additional
(sheriff) services we should
have a number on what that
is,” he added.
Matlack urged the com-
missioners that if they were
going to discontinue giving
sheriff coverage to decide
now while his department
was down two patrol offi-
cers so he could cut back
now and not have to lay
anyone off. He said the
commissioners had until
June, when cities make up
their budgets and the new
contracts are renewed, in
which to make a final de-
cision.
High school
internship positions
available
Morrow County high school
students work as interns in
their desired field. -Contribut-
ed photos.
The Morrow County
high school internship pro-
gram is open and accepting
applications for the 2021-
2022 school year. Over 50
internships are available
across all Morrow County
communities. All sopho-
mores and juniors are invit-
ed to apply. The application
period is open March 1
through April 16, 2021.
This is a unique oppor-
tunity to gain valuable work
experience, get paid and
receive high school credit.
Students are encouraged to
explore internships related
to their career interest. In-
ternships are available in
multiple sectors including
healthcare, finance, agri-
culture, manufacturing,
education, maintenance,
mechanics, information
technology and more. All
positions are paid minimum
wage and students can work
up to 15 hours each week.
All internship posi-
DEADLINE:
MONDAYS
AT 5PM
tions are posted on the
Intermountain Education
Service District career web-
site https://intermountain.
tedk12.com/hire/index.
aspx
Students who have
questions can reach out to
Kim Rill, Education and
Workforce Training Coor-
dinator at 541-371-0980 or
kimberlyr@portofmorrow.
com.
Businesses may contact
Kalie Davis, Director of
Workforce Development at
541-571-1624 or kalied@
portofmorrow.com.
The program is a part-
nership between Morrow
County School District,
Ione School District, Inter-
Mountain Education Ser-
vice District (IMESD), and
the Port of Morrow. Fund-
ing for the program comes
from the Morrow Education
Foundation via the Colum-
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