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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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