I feel that we have a good organization on the whole and to jump ship just because we have questions and concerns is not in the best interests of anyone. Things will always be brighter for those who put forth the effort to make everything better. The property owners in the State of Oregon have revolted again. As often happens when a private citizen writes a measure, it had flaws that caused it to loose some of it's original intent during interpretation. Over subsequent years, the property tax payers apparently did not see enough relief from measure 5.
Vector control is in danger of receiving fatal cuts.
It also requires them to keep local control with cities and counties as much as possible, but did not include special districts in the wording. These requirements could conceivably cause those districts termed non essential to education or public safety to loose a hugely disproportionate amount of their revenue. Because of this threat to our Oregon districts, seven managers, one assistant manager, and a representative from the Oregon Health Department, met in Salem at the Special Districts Association conference room, on Wednesday, November 27th. We were there to pool our ideas on how to protect our districts from excessive revenue cuts. We all agreed that we are in fact public safety agencies.