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Page 10 The INDEPENDENT. September 20, 2000 Banks resident seeks council action on fence ordinance violation Banks resident Dorothy Johnston appealed to the Banks City Council for enforce ment of the city’s fence ordi nance at the September 12 meeting of the council. Accord ing to Johnston, when she first appeared before the council five months ago, the hedge next to her driveway was ap proximately three feet high. Now, she said, it is over six feet high and creates a potential safety hazard by interfering with Johnston’s ability to see when backing up onto the road. Mayor Ray Deeth said a no tice of non-compliance had been sent to the landowner, m ere apparently had been no followup and the Council tabled the request until a special meeting scheduled for Septem ber 19. Chief of Police Crandall re ported that a new records sys tem has created a slight in crease in the number of inci dents recorded because the new system counts some inci dents not previously included. Crandall also told the council that teachers and crossing guards have been provided with orange safety vests and signs. The police department was authorized by the council to repaint several crosswalks with donated paint. Tom St. Laurent presented a report on the timber cruise of the city’s watershed. The city has approximately 100 acres of mature timber in the watershed with an estimated net harvest ed value of $900,000. Arbor Village Homeowners Association (AVHA) and the City have reached a prelimi nary agreement on how ex penses for Greenville Park are to be handled. The agreement will be revisited after the AVHA meets. AVHA has established their regular meeting date as the first Thursday of each month. Their next meeting will be October 5 at 7:00 p.m. Greg Thiel of Navigant, the city’s consulting engineer, re ported that the traffic signal at Oak Way and Highway 47 may be delayed for up to one year. Oregon Department of Trans portation is now requiring some modification to the traffic sepa ration island at the entrance to Oak Way, although nothing had been mentioned about the is land during two on-site walk throughs with ODOT prior to project start up. Thiel also reported that the Health Divisions Technical and Management Review of the water system requires that the city complete a third round of lead and copper testing, have a written emergency plan and a written cross connection plan. The plans and testing are re quirements of the water system loan. Budgeted for $2,000, the cost, to date, has been $14,500. The Coliform Sampling Pro gram has been completed and approved by the state, Thiel re ported; also that a meeting will be held with State Forester John Krause regarding logging above a city-owned spring. Navigant received approval from the council to move the Wilkes Street Intersection Im provement Plans to the bid stage, in hopes of completing work this fall. Council was informed that city-owned property at 140 Market Street is assessed at $62,060. Quail Valley Golf Course representatives appeared be fore city council to discuss their proposal to include QV inside an expanded urban growth boundary as open and recre ational space. They also indi cated that residential develop ment might be proposed at a later date. City council ap proved continued discussion between the city and QV to de velop a contract ensuring that expenses would be covered by QV. After considerable discus sion, the council passed a res olution notifying the state Pub lic Employees Retirement Sys tem of the city’s intent to join PERS for all eligible employ ees with an effective date of July 1, 2001. After a second reading, the council approved the sign ordinance and the Wa ter Use Curtailment Plan. Banks School District holds first meeting in newly renovated offices The Banks School Board met September 11 for the first time in the old junior high school, now the District Offices. The restoration returns the building to its original spacious feeling with the old gymnasi um, now the board meeting room, surrounded by a second story railing looking down on the refinished original wood flooring. Construction by OTKM, providing space for dis trict offices, is complete. Work will soon begin on a mural by local artists Bill and Bob Schlegel on the back wall where the stage used to be. After an absence of thirteen years, Banks High School will again have a student newspa per. In a presentation to the board, Emily Howell, Natalie Schraeder and Jasmin Vick, with instructor Terry Bristow, said, “The Brave Voice will be distributed monthly as an insert in the Forest Grove News- Times beginning in October.” Started as a special project in yearbook last year, the paper promises to be an outlet for student writers, a place for school news and a cooperative effort by the student staff. The twelve students of the new journalism class will be selling advertisement to fund their pa per. Howell will be editor, as sisted by Schraeder. Vick will be photo editor. Superintendent Marilyn Mc- Glasson distributed to the board an unofficial tally of the types of special needs stu dents present in every class room, to illustrate how the modern classroom is different from the “typical” classroom of the past. The district makes every effort to provide for the needs of all students in the classroom by hiring additional instructional assistants and sending those students with especially high needs out-of district. This year, seven stu dents are being provided serv ices outside the district and the cost for their education will be covered by contingency funds included in the budget for this purpose. In other action, the board approved an overnight field trip to Madras by the football team and received copies of revised policies. McGlasson noted that enrollment has increased over last year. 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