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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
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GROWTH:
ARENA:
meaning a teacher is
instructing
students
from both grades.
Hermiston
school
enrollment has shown
little sign that it will
slow down, and if it
continues to meet or
exceed the high growth
projections, Portland
State is predicting the
district will have about
6,500 students or more
by the 2022-23 school
year.
According to the
website
Niche.com,
Hermiston is currently
the 28 largest school
district in the state.
At 6,500 students, the
district would rank
between the McMin-
nville and Corvallis
school districts, which
are currently rank 19th
and 20th in the state for
size.
EOTEC’s main components (event center, barns
and rodeo arena) can be used at the same time.
The board plans to ask the commission to instead
set an occupancy cap of 2,700 people for the en-
tire project, meaning that a meeting in the event
center could happen at the same time as a high
school rodeo as long as the total combined atten-
dance does not exceed 2,700 people.
The planning commission held a public hear-
ing on the matter in July, but after concluding
that the applicant had not presented enough
evidence to justify the variance, continued the
hearing to Wednesday in order to give the board
more time to gather evidence.
Don Miller, who represents the Umatilla
County Fair on the EOTEC board, said that the
fair board was beginning to make plans to move
all of its equipment and other possessions out
of the current fairgrounds, which will be turned
over to the Hermiston School District on Jan. 1,
2017.
He said it was the fair board’s understanding
that those items could be stored at the new fair-
grounds, which means that the EOTEC board
needs to start thinking about a secure storage lo-
cation on site.
The EOTEC board’s next regular meeting will
be Sept. 30 at 7 a.m. in the EOTEC event center.
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FILE PHOTO
Crew members of Barton Laser Leveling in Hermiston use water trucks to provide moisture to the dirt
in the Farm-City Pro Rodeo arena in this ile photo. The rodeo has been held at the Umatilla County
Fairgrounds since its inception and the arena grounds have been updated over the years by volunteers
and members of the rodeo board.
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