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whether or not the grants
were awarded. He said con-
struction could begin as soon
as next year, but it is unlikely
to occur that quickly.
“These things take time,
especially if you’re going to
engage the local skateboard
community and what they
want,” he said. “I would
want to move this through as
quickly as possible, in part to
remove some of the pressure
McKenzie Park is getting
from that population.”
Fetter said he is not sure
what the park would cost but
that different funding options
may be available.
“The state has a commu-
nity parks grant program that
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ing to,” he said. “Very often
you’ll see half of the funding
being asked for these kinds of
facilities. We’re talking hun-
dreds of thousands of dollars
to build a modern facility,
not unlike the investment
we made in our trail system.
It could very easily be over
such as hearings being dis-
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the penalties for non-com-
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pliance, such as jail time.
“More than a few indi-
outgrowth of what we’ve viduals who made it pain-
been doing for years now fully clear to the court that
— trying to get people to they were going to live
take responsibility for their life on their terms are now
actions by paying their having the opportunity to
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gations to the city,” he said. while wearing a very styl-
“Rather than bringing se- ish set of orange and white
riously non-compliant de- stripes,” Creasing said. “It’s
fendants in piecemeal, we early in the program yet to
decided to start setting the JLYH VROLG VSHFL¿FV EXW
contempt hearings in larger, there seem to be a lot more
once-a-month batches, giv- folks both in and out of the
ing us a better opportunity program who are making
to reach the targeted audi- things right.”
ence.”
The defendants who
Creasing said not all of may face jail time have had
the defendants ordered to numerous prior hearings
attend during that day are for non-payment, Creasing
“seriously non-compliant” said, and have frequently
and would not necessarily failed to appear at the hear-
face a jail sentence. Rather, ings or to follow through
he said, the event allows a with commitments made.
large group to witness the He said, at their last hear-
EHQH¿WV RI FRPSOLDQFH ing, he informs them they
are being scheduled for
Compliance Day and warns
them they will likely be ap-
pointed counsel and their
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jail time.
Creasing said, before
Compliance Day, the de-
fendants have the oppor-
tunity to pay their entire
balance to have the hearing
dismissed. He also said the
city prosecutor will often
advise the defendant to pay
a fraction of the total bal-
ance owed to the city in or-
der for him to recommend
the hearing be dismissed.
If the defendant pays
less than the recommend-
ed amount, Creasing said
the payment is examined,
and a discussion is had as
to whether the defendant
needs an attorney appoint-
ed in order to have a second
hearing at the next Compli-
ance Day before possibly
going to jail.
Some defendants who
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could sit and see what’s going
on,” he said. “It would also
be largely indestructible, so
primarily made out of con-
crete and steel, and would
have modern features that
would be modern into the fu-
ture. These things have been
around for more than two
decades now, so the ones that
were designed 20 years ago
were pretty basic. ... There’s
been a lot learned over the last
20 years about how to build
an ideal skate park.”
Fetter said he plans to ap-
ply for grants this fall to help
fund the facility and would
know in the spring of 2016
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Bust: To bust a trick is to perform it
successfully. You are busting if you
are skating well; or a spot is a bust if
you are likely to get kicked out.
Carve: The act of making big fast
turns usually in a large bowl or
transition.
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Echo City Administra-
tor Diane Berry said when
its skate park was upgrad-
ed in 2006, the project was
awarded more than $74,000
in grants, from the Wildhorse
Foundation, the Tony Hawk
Foundation, the Walmart
Foundation, the Oregon
Community Foundation, the
Ford Family Foundation,
the Safeway Foundation and
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An additional $10,000 grant
was awarded for general
$200,000. The ask might be park amenities, she said, and
half of that from the state through fundraisers and do-
grant program. There are oth- nations, organizers were able
er funding options that I’m to raise $105,000 in total for
exploring. ... I’d be turning the project.
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She said the city found a
to see how much non-local company, Grindline Skate-
money we could get.”
parks of Seattle, Washington,
that agreed to build the park
within the budget. Through
luck and timing, the end prod-
uct was actually larger than
originally anticipated when
Grindline chose to add on to
the project without additional
costs.
“Into the project, it just
kept growing, and yet it didn’t
cost us anymore,” she said.
“We ended up with a bigger
park than what we were plan-
ning on and a better park. We
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about $150,000.”
Berry said people from
Hermiston use the skate park
in Echo, and people from far-
ther away travel to use the cir-
cuit of parks in the Columbia
Gorge, including Echo, Hood
River and Irrigon.
do not quite meet the crite-
ria for counsel appointment
discuss with Creasing “a
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plan” to pay down their
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paying half of the total bal-
ance with no new offenses
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period, after which the re-
mainder is forgiven. After
the hearing, he said the de-
fendant’s performance on
any plan is monitored.
Warrants are issued for
the defendants who do not
show up to the hearing,
Creasing said, and the pros-
ecutor can also choose to
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pliance Day Jan. 21, and 25
attended, with eight cases
paid in full by the appear-
ance date. On Feb. 18, 28 of
the 66 scheduled appeared,
with six paid in full by then.
At the last Compliance
Day, March 18, 32 of the 81
scheduled appeared, with
nine cases paid in full.
Emerson said in an
email that approximately
15 people have had their
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through the Clean Slate
program between January
and March, and $11,574.51
was collected from defen-
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in full for the three Com-
pliance Day hearings this
year.
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is upside down; the darkside of the
desk is the side that the baseplate is
mounted to.
Funbox: Any variety of box (usually
wooden, concrete or metal) with
grindable surfaces.
Grind: Any variety of tricks where
the hanger(s) of the truck(s)
grind(s) along the edge of an
obstacle.
rolls a lot of what would
have been individual show-
cause hearings into that
single setting, with more
defendants able to see that
other people have differ-
ent resolutions that are not
simply, ‘Pay it all, or go
to jail,’ ” he said. “It also
demonstrates to a larger
audience of defendants that
it is possible to go to jail
for non-payment. There’s
a difference between not
seeing Bob around for a
while, versus watching Bob
led out of the courtroom in
handcuffs. It gets people’s
attention.”
According to informa-
tion from Court Adminis-
trator Rosalie Emerson, 61
defendants were scheduled
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