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ODFW ~ Permit for the Winter Lake/China Creek Project, Messerle Named Manager

12/31/2014

Hey Folks,

Check out page 16 and you will notice that Fred Messerle is the new project manager. Funny, Steve Denny never mentioned a 6 million dollar position for the former commissioner when he was presenting the project to the public, but that is how the Old Boy's Club works. The Nature Conservancy, the Army Corp of Engineers, The Bureau of Indian Affairs, and of course, The US Fish and Wildlife all have a piece of this project and it is benefiting only the few who will make millions off of public tax dollars and the few who will get to use it for mitigation. The rest of us will have to learn to live with mosquitoes......Rob T.

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Blame Big Government, not the Police

12/27/2014

December 21, 2014,

Blame Big Government, not the Police

The Senator from Kentucky, Rand Paul, made an astute observation in the death of Eric Garner when he explained to a reporter that Big Government and bad policies triggered the incident in New York that killed the young black man, not racism.

Ambitious legislators trying to look tough on crime have to pass laws to validate their positions, which force police officers to uphold bad laws and suffer the consequences of being the enforces to power hungry politicians. The cause and effect of lousy legislation is the establishment of a new class of criminal and the results resonates in the impoverished neighborhoods that are more prone to having violators of these new offenses. The process situates police enforcement in an unnatural adversarial position against average citizens, who turnaround and wrongly blame the police and not the power-wielding politicians whose actions caused the problem. In-turn, law officers begin to build animosity and resentment towards those that they have growing authority over, which is the attitude seen and experienced by the public.

Ironically, both the police and the people equally share the same disposition, because cops do not like enforcing dumb laws no more than most people like obeying them. Without any culpability, the clueless electorate reelects the same politicians to office, which perpetuates the endless cycle of a growing intrusive government.

Lawmakers should be aware that anytime they pass a law a police officer may have to use deadly force and kill some individual to enforce that law.

Is a death penalty worth the enforcement of a seat-belt violation?

In my town of Bandon OR, the city councilors rescinded an ordinance that had been on the books for years, which made it illegal for homeowners to park their vehicles in their own driveway. Imagine one of Bandon’s easygoing small-town cops having to use deadly force against an angry citizen who was ardently opposed to obeying a silly ordinance---all to appease the ridicules whims of local policy makers. It is just one of many potentially violent scenarios. The argument is the policy, not the perpetrator, is to blame for dangerously escalating the situation.

Every day the police have to use deadly force to confront people who commit nonviolent crimes. Nowhere is that more evident than with the War on Drugs and nowhere does that happen more than in the neighborhoods where minorities live and those incidents advances the perception of a racist system. In Bandon, the ordinances are complaint driven, so unless someone notifies the city, the city officials do not enforce the code. That is not the case with aggressive, proactive laws like drug offenses where there is less police discretion compounding the perception of bias adding to the mistrust.

It is time to stop blaming cops for the misdeeds and overreach of the political elite. There is no excuse for a bad cop, but most of the men and women in Blue are decent humans trying to do a difficult job made more difficult with every new piece of legislation. Their protection allows us the comfort to wallow in liberty. Otherwise, we would be using the Second Amendment against “Mob Rule.”

Americans have to ask themselves how much authority they will allow the government to exert for the purpose of public tranquility. Absent an answer, we may have to get used to watching riots and lootings disguised as protests for the advancement of civil rights until the voting public has enough trust in each other to elect representatives that will not hinder a free society with mandated misery. Start by connecting with politicians before they pass bad laws.

Rob Taylor is the founder of the website, www.CoosCountyWatchdog.com, which is a network of individual government watchdogs.

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LTE ~ Coos Bay Urban Renewal Giving Away Public Assets Paid for by The Public

12/24/2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Wow! How appropriate during the season of giving. For us citizens who are uneducated in local politics, especially the questionably needed Urban Renewal Agency, would a Coos Bay professional politician please write a guest editorial for the World newspaper that is for the benefit of all citizens and answers the questions set forth below?

The 18 December World newspaper front page below the fold article tells us that the professional politicians of Coos Bay have agreed to sell the Egyptian Theatre for a dollar. This follows closely the sale of the Hollering Place property to the Confederated Tribes for a token dollar amount. Didn’t the citizens of Coos Bay pay $400,000 for the Egyptian? Why weren’t we citizens asked if we want to sell our asset for a dollar? Why Hollering Place sale to the Tribe for such a lowball amount? Why is the Egyptian sale for a dollar in the interest of the citizens of Coos Bay? Is the next domino to fall a decision by the professional politicians to sell the land under the Coos Historical museum that I recall the citizens paid $500,000 for ten years ago? Maybe this asset will fetch $2.

There is more in the same issue World newspaper in an article above the front page fold. We are being told that the SCCF Board of Directors, those are the decision makers who we citizens did not elect, appoint or anoint, who will manage hundreds of millions of our monies without oversight or interference from us citizens, are actively planning investment and distribution of monies strategies.

We have a good idea of what Jordan Cove Energy would pay as taxes during the next 20 years. Before the professional politicians determine how the hundreds of millions of Jordan Cove Energy fees in lieu of taxes will be spent, would a professional politician / SCCF leader summarize the negotiated and agreed upon legally enforceable contract document with Jordan Cove Energy that covers payment of fees in lieu of taxes during the next 20 years and that is currently in place; a document that prevents sale of the company without provisions that guarantee receipt by the citizens of fees or taxes from any successor company - Chinese or otherwise - to Jordan Cove Energy who in all likelihood will sell out as soon as permits are received.

I eagerly wait to be informed by the guest editorial.

Fred Kirby
Coos Bay

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Port Orford Joining the Religion of Eco/Devo with Sacrifice to Enterprise Zone in 2015

12/24/2014

From: FISH Arthur * BIZ [mailto:Arthur.Fish@oregon.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 9:42 AM
Subject: Designation of Enterprise Zones Available Cities, Ports and Counties

Earlier this year, as most of you know, Business Oregon launched a Round of Designation, and the Newberg and Harney County Enterprise Zones were designated. Both are “rural.”

This message serves first to inquire about serious interest and readiness for a new designation by communities that do not have an enterprise zone, in that it might be possible to launch another such “mini-round” this autumn right away for two designations that are still available under a 2012 Law. So, let us know if at this very moment, your community is so interested and ready?

Regardless, please note that there will be a round starting in January with initial submissions due in April. This 2015 round could include openings for up to six designations:

1.       The two available right now—if not otherwise designated by then, of course

2.       Two that might be available, because of premature termination effective January 1, 2015, for lack of use by the current zone—Oakridge/Westfir* and *Port Orford*

3.       Two enterprise zones that are scheduled to expire by operation of law after 10 years, effective July 1, 2015—Hermiston* and Roberts Creek*—which make this round obligatory.

_________________________________

* Current sponsoring government(s) may seek re-designation in 2015; although they have no particular right to it, if wanting it they always have able to be re-designated.

In either case, the process of local submission and designation is relatively straightforward, but by law:

·         There needs to be consultation with local taxing districts (who are sent timely notice for a public meeting)

·         Resolutions adopted by the governing body of sponsoring counties, ports and cities (at least a week after the meeting)

·         Consent resolution by any other jurisdiction that could but will not sponsor, as allowed (recently adopted at any time before initial due date)

·         Clear map and description of the entire proposed enterprise zone boundary (including electronic PDF image and GIS/shape files)

·         Proposed area conforms to limits by type of zone on overall size and distance, as well as distance between each noncontiguous part of the zone

·         Showing of minimum economic hardship (the agency can assist in assembly and analysis of relevant data).

(Administrative rules also emphasize that the zone contains significant, useable sites for industrial development)

If there are more proposed enterprise zones than designations, then a competitive evaluation is triggered, to which sponsoring governments would have extra time to respond to additional (optional) criteria, some of which are subjective with respect to the zone’s potential for success. Such evaluation has not been needed in more than 12 years, and hardly at all before that, since the 1980s. These criteria involve worthwhile matters to consider for achieving economic development and operating an enterprise zone. Pursuant to the designation, the zone sponsor has six months to finalize certain decisions and actions.

Finally, please note that in 2016 through 2021, three or more enterprise zones are set to expire by operation of law, necessitating an annual cycle of such designation rounds.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions. Regards,

Arthur Fish, Incentives Coordinator | [Oregon Business Development Department]
503-986-0140 | www.oregon4biz.com | Fax: 503-581-5115
(State Lands Building Suite 200, 775 Summer St NE, Salem OR 97301–1280)

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ODFW ~ Purchases Private Property for Wetland Restoration "Mosquito Preserve"

12/24/2014

Copy of the Warranty Deed of the property adding to Winter Lake Land:

Maps below show the complete potential Restoration Area of the Coquille Valley by USFWS & BIA & ODFW.

Map made by The Nature Conservancy for ODFW to show Conservation Opportunity Area

Map made by Coos County Today to show all the property owners in the COA.

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BOC ~ Coos County Joining the Tri-county Consortium December 16, 2014

12/14/2014

Coos County Board of Commissioners Public Meeting
December 16, 2014
9:30 am in The Owen Building
Get there early to sign up and speak.

Agenda Item O. Coos, Curry, Douglas, MOU Tri-county Agreement first step to Regionalization and the deterioration of the representation of the people.

http://www.co.coos.or.us/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=04bOtRCV7DU%3d&tabid=141&portalid=0&mid=1169

Important Article that should be read before reading the following description of the Tri-county Aggrement the Coos BOC is going to be voting on this Tuesday:

http://www.cooscountywatchdog.com/blog/agenda-21-sustainable-development-regionalism

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Lane County Commissioners Historic PANDA/NDAA Ordinance: DEC. 16th 2015 ‏

12/10/2014

Dear fellow Oregonians,

The Lane County Commissioners have an opportunity to make a historical decision on Tuesday, December 16th, to pass an ordinance that would criminalize the implementation of a dangerously unconstitutional federal law. Section 1021 of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) allows for the federal executive branch to declare anywhere in the United States a potential “battlefield” on the war on terror, replacing constitutional law with the ‘law of war’. The ‘law of war’ under section 1021 authorizes the indefinite detention, rendition, and possible torture and execution of suspected Americans without a trial or judicial review. The proposed ordinance would criminalize any implementation of the ‘law of war’ and would severely penalizes any person attempting to deny another of the due process rights outlined by state law, and guaranteed by the U.S. and State Constitutions.

The Commissioners’ legal counsel and even Lane’s District Attorney both oppose this ordinance, claiming it unnecessary and a vast overreach of the County’s constitutional power. However, over the past three years the 2012 NDAA has proven to be one of the clearest examples of the current failure of our federal system of checks and balances. This failure is requiring states and counties to provide the necessary legal clarity for this law, because the federal government has refused and proven unable to do so. Congress overwhelmingly passed the law in 2011, and for the past three years they have failed to pass any of the proposed amendments to fix the problematic section. The President promised he wouldn’t sign the bill because of the constitutional concerns with section 1021, but signed it anyway, and later ironically fought in court to protect the section from being thrown out. Despite a federal judge who ruled section 1021 unconstitutional, the Obama administration appealed, and the Circuit Court of Appeals over turned her decision. The Supreme Court officially refused to hear the case in March of 2014. As it stands, section 1021 remains in effect, and its broad and unclear language allows for the ‘law of war’ to be implemented on American soil, including the indefinite detention, rendition, and possible torture and execution of American citizens without a trial.

As elected and appointed officials in the state of Oregon, our County Commissioners’, their legal counsel, the District Attorney, and County Sheriff, are all required by Article XV Section 3 of Oregon’s Constitution to “support the Constitution of the United States and this State”. It's true that ultimately this issue should be resolved at the state or federal level, but until the political will is created to do so, our local officials have a constitutional power and obligation to protect the due process rights of those in their jurisdiction. The proposed ordinance does not only secure and support the constitutional rights of the people, but also serve as an educational tool to expose the unconstitutionality of the 2012 NDAA, and exemplifies local solutions to fix it.

Please come to the Commissioners meeting on Tuesday, December 16th, at 9:00am in Harris Hall (125 E 8th Ave, Eugene), and help us demand the passage of this crucial ordinance. The Commissioners' legal counsel has been dragging their heels for the last eight months and it's time the Commissioners set a clear deadline to finalize this ordinance. We need as many people in Harris Hall as possible, as well as people willing to speak during the public comment section in the beginning of the meeting. Those willing to speak, should sternly demand the immediate passage of the ordinance, and ask the Commissioners to set strict deadlines to make it happen. Without the publics’ pressure, this law will remain in effect, and this opportunity to reclaim our local sovereignty will be lost.

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good [people] to do nothing.”

-Edmund Burke

Sincerely,

Colin Farnsworth

PANDA ~ Oregon State Coordinator

Oregon.Against.NDAA@gmail.com

Feel free to contact us at anytime for more information or visit:

1) PANDA ~ Oregon Youtube channel

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvVPBv-oZoli5NnE_MC6BRQ

2)PANDA ~ Oregon Facebook page

www.facebook.com/pandaOR1776

3) PANDA’s National website:

www.PANDAunite.org

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12/10/2014

NOAA ~ California Drought Caused by Natural Causes, Not Global Warming, Duh

12/10/2014

Researchers offer new insights into predicting future droughts in California Natural cycles, sea surface temperatures found to be main drivers in ongoing event

December 8, 2014

According to a new NOAA-sponsored study, natural oceanic and atmospheric patterns are the primary drivers behind California's ongoing drought. A high pressure ridge off the West Coast (typical of historic droughts) prevailed for three winters, blocking important wet season storms, with ocean surface temperature patterns making such a ridge much more likely. Typically, the winter season in California provides the state with a majority of its annual snow and rainfall that replenish water supplies for communities and ecosystems.

Further studies on these oceanic conditions and their effect on California's climate may lead to advances in drought early warning that can help water managers and major industries better prepare for lengthy dry spells in the future.

"It's important to note that California's drought, while extreme, is not an uncommon occurrence for the state. In fact, multi-year droughts appear regularly in the state's climate record, and it's a safe bet that a similar event will happen again. Thus, preparedness is key," said Richard Seager, report lead author and professor with Columbia University's Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory.

Folsom Lake, 2011 (Credit: CA Dept. of Water Resources)

This report builds on earlier studies, published in September in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, which found no conclusive evidence linking human-caused climate change and the California drought. The current study notes that the atmospheric ridge over the North Pacific, which has resulted in decreased rain and snowfall since 2011, is almost opposite to what models project to result from human-induced climate change. The report illustrates that mid-winter precipitation is actually projected to increase due to human-induced climate change over most of the state, though warming temperatures may sap much of those benefits for water resources overall, while only spring precipitation is projected to decrease.

Folsom Lake, 2014 (Credit: CA Dept. of Water Resources)

The report makes clear that to provide improved drought forecasts for California, scientists will need to fully understand the links between sea surface temperature variations and winter precipitation over the state, discover how these ocean variations are generated, and better characterize their predictability.

This report contributes to a growing field of science-climate attribution-where teams of scientists aim to identify the sources of observed climate and weather patterns.

"There is immense value in examining the causes of this drought from multiple scientific viewpoints," said Marty Hoerling, report co-author and researcher with NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory. "It's paramount that we use our collective ability to provide communities and businesses with the environmental intelligence they need to make decisions concerning water resources, which are becoming increasingly strained."

To view the report, visit: http://cpo.noaa.gov/MAPP/californiadroughtreport.

NOAA's mission is to understand and predict changes in the Earth's environment, from the depths of the ocean to the surface of the sun, and to conserve and manage our coastal and marine resources. Join us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and our other social media channels. Visit our news release archive.

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B.O.C. ~ County Excepting Applications for Budget Committee very Important Position

12/9/2014

Hey Folks,

The BOC is taking applications for the county's Budget Committee and it would be a good idea to get someone who has the ability to show fiscal restraint. This committee is where all the skeletons come out and a board member can take the time to ask the important questions, and you will have questions. All other committees are for political cover when our representatives need a stamping board to do the job they do not want to do.....Rob T.

USDA ~ Taking Public Money to Bribe Private Land Owners for Enviro Restoration

12/8/2014

Conservation assistance available on private land

Farm and Forest Landowners,

The Natural Resources Conservation Service provides technical and financial assistance to private landowners to help them improve water quality, forest health, soil health, and treat other natural resource concerns they have identified.

Landowners who are interested in natural resource management improvements can request assistance through our office any time, however funding cutoff dates are in early-January and early-March this fiscal year. If you are interested in program funding this year, please contact us as soon as possible to initiate your project planning.

Conservation programs that may be of interest to landowners in Coos and Curry Counties include:

Ø Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) provides financial and technical assistance to agricultural producers in order to address natural resource concerns and deliver environmental benefits. The following program areas are available now:

·   Agricultural Water Quality & Quantity: improve livestock management and/or irrigation to enhance pasture cover and reduce sediment loss

·   Collaborative Forest Health-Middle Fork Coquille River: improve Forest Health through pre-commercial thinning and forest management

·   Irrigation Automation Cranberry/ Blueberry: Improve water management, energy consumption through automated irrigation, localized moisture monitoring

·   Organic Initiative: Helping organic growers and those transitioning to organic

·   Seasonal High Tunnel Initiative: Improve local marketing of produce by extending growing seasons.

Ø Conservation Stewardship Program: (CSP) maintaining and adding conservation activities on agricultural land and nonindustrial private forest land.

Ø The Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP) provides financial and technical assistance to help conserve agricultural lands and wetlands through easements.

Ø Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP). Pays FSA cost-share, incentives and annual rentals to landowners who restore and exclude livestock from riparian areas.

Ø Conservation technical assistance, farm plans and future projects. We can help you identify resource needs and practices to address them by conducting an inventory and developing a Farm Plan.

Landowners who are interested in any of these initiatives or would like technical assistance dealing with natural resource issues on their property should call us or come in to discuss available programs and assistance. Please phone (541) 396-2841 extensions 105 or 107 or visit us at 382 North Central Blvd.

Amy Wilson, District Conservationist, 541-396-2841 ext. 105, amy.wilson@or.usda.gov

Amy Wilson - District Conservationist
Natural Resources Conservation Service
382 N. Central Blvd, Coquille OR 97423
Phone 541-396-2841 ext. 105
Fax (855) 651-9159

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OFF ~ The Fight In Your Backyard Demands a Call to Your County Officials‏

12/8/2014

12.05.14

As you know, the next legislative session will be bringing a flood of anti-gun bills. Given the makeup of the legislature, some very bad legislation could well become law. So we believe that the battles for our rights may very well come down to whether our county commissioners and sheriffs are willing to stand up to Portland.

The opening salvos in that battle are now being fired.

Oregon Firearms has contacted every sheriff in the state asking for their commitment to protecting Second Amendment Rights, irrespective of what anti-gun bills are passed in the legislature. We are also reaching out to the county commissioners.

On December 2nd, Clackamas County Commissioner Tootie Smith addressed the commission about the prospect of the county taking a pro-active, pro-gun stand. The audio of that meeting can be heard here. The discussion about gun rights starts at 35.30.

In the audio, County Commissioner Martha Schrader, (ex-wife of anti-gun congressman Kurt Schrader) takes a jab at OFF and muses about our "agenda". Apparently Martha is still upset that OFF supported her opponent, pro-gun Alan Olsen, when they were in a race for State Senate.

Commissioner Paul Savas says he tried to contact us numerous times in the past and got no return calls. What he fails to mention is that his calls were all fund raising calls. He also neglects to mention his lack of response when we pointed out to him that he had helped pass an ordinance regulating gun dealers that he had no authority to implement.

There can be no doubt that only Commissioner Tootie Smith was willing to take a principled stand while the rest of the commission looks for any excuse to either do nothing or actively oppose gun rights.

Please don't underestimate the power of your county commissioners and your sheriffs. If they are willing to take a stand for your rights, a powerful message will go to the legislature.

We'll keep you up to date on when and if your sheriff takes a stand. (As usual, Sheriff Glenn Palmer of Grant County has already taken a pro-gun pledge!) But until they do, please don't hesitate to contact them and your commissioners and let them know you expect them to be looking out for your rights no matter what Portland tries to pass. You can find them here at the bottom of the page.

As an example of just how bad the coming "background check/ universal registration" schemes can be, take a look at this notice from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. It explains how under Washington's newly passed gun grab (I594), students at a hunter safety class won't be allowed to pass rifles to each other!

It does state that instructors will be allowed to hand rifles to a student, but even that may not be accurate. See here for an explanation of why hunter safety instructors may not be allowed to hand guns to students.

Under I594, you won't even be allowed to buy or hand a nail gun or flare gun to another person without police permission and an expensive background check!

Do not doubt for a moment that, based on his success in Washington, Michael Bloomberg will be spending millions to pass a similar ballot measure here and will be counting on uninformed voters and a lazy, complicit media to get it done.

All indications are that the vast majority of voters in Washington, and many, many gun owners had no idea what they were voting for in Washington. This is the great danger of ballot measures. Too many voters make a decision based only on the lies they are told on TV. We simply cannot allow that to happen in Oregon. Contact your sheriff and county commissioners and tell them to say no to any anti-gun bill or ballot measure.

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Action Alert ~ Bandon City Council Meeting to Discuss Mosquitoes Dec. 8, 2014

12/6/2014

Hey Folks,

The past five months the Mayor of Bandon, Mary Schamehorn, was speaking on countlessly
expensive radio ads for Commissioner John Sweet's reelection campaign claiming that he had fixed the mosquito problem. Many in the community know that is a blatent lie and they should not be allowed to continue to commit this fraud on the public.

Monday, December 8 at 7:00 pm in the Bandon City Hall, the Chair of the Mosquito Committee will be presenting a report on the problem and we need to be there to make sure there is no spin on the issue. Please attend the meeting and speak up for yourself. We know several property owners did suffer from mosquitoes and it is a problem that will continue, as long as the USFWS is allowed to expand their efforts to flood the valley as a tactic to create more "willing sellers."

Remember, the Bandon Marsh expansion was only "temporarily suspended" and the Service is looking for anyway to lift that suspension and what better way than having a sitting commissioner and mayor claim the mosquito problem is fixed. Why is Sweet and Schamehorn capitulating with the agency that caused the infestation in the first place? What do they have to gain in their positions?......Rob T.

BANDON CITY COUNCIL

DECEMBER 8, 2014

555 HIGHWAY 101, BANDON

7:00 P.M.

TENTATIVE AGENDA

1.       CALL TO ORDER - INVOCATION - PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

                   John Hubbard, Retired

2.       PUBLIC REQUEST(S)

2.1     Burn Permit for Seabird Chapel Gorse Clearing – Jim Minkler

3.       PRESENTATION

3.1     Annual Report by County Vector Control Committee - Roger Straus

3.2     Request for Discussion Re: Future of the Water Resource Committee - Peter Hughes, Former Chair



4.       HEARINGS - NONE

5.       PROCEEDINGS

5.1     ACTION & DISCUSSION

5.1.1 Approve Council Meeting Calendar for year 2015-2016



5.A     Adjourn to Joint Session of City Council and Urban Renewal Agency

5.A.1 Presentation of Fiscal Year 2012-2013 City & Urban Renewal Agency Audits - Presented via skype - Roy Rogers from Pauly, Rogers and Co, PC

                             5.A.1.1         Acceptance of City Audit

                             5.A.1.2         Acceptance of Urban Renewal Audit



                   5.B     Adjourn to Regular City Council Meeting

          5.2     RESOLUTION

                    5.2.1 Resolution # 14-20: Abstract of November 4, 2014 Election Re: a referral measure amending the city charter

Resolution # 14-21: Abstract of November 4, 2014 Election Re: Candidates for City of Bandon Offices

                   5.2.2 Resolution # 14-22: Amending Agreement with Coos County Library Service District for FY 14-15

          5.3     ORDINANCE

6.       CONSENT AGENDA

          6.1     APPROVAL OF COUNCIL MINUTES

                   6.1.1 Council Minutes - November 3, 2014; October 29, 2014, joint with URA; November 10, 2014, joint with URA

6.2     REVIEWING COMMISSION & COMMITTEE MINUTES (these have not necessarily been approved by the commission or committee they belong to)

6.2.1 Planning Commission Minutes None

6.2.2 Parks & Rec Minutes None

                   6.2.3 Committee for Citizen Involvement Minutes - No Meeting

6.2.4 Community Center Advisory Committee Minutes - No Meeting

                   6.2.5 Water Resource Committee Minutes - No Meeting

          6.3     INFORMATION ONLY: DEPARTMENT REPORTS

                    6.3.1 Police Report for October, 2014

                    6.3.2 A/P Report for October, 2014

                    6.3.3 Library Report for October, 2014

                    6.3.4 Wastewater Plant Report for October, 2014

                    6.3.5 Public Works Monthly Report for November, 2014

                    6.3.6 Water Treatment Plant Report for October, 2014

                    6.3.7 Finance Monthly Report for October, 2014

                    6.3.8 The Barn Monthly Report for October & November, 2014

          6.4     INFORMATION ONLY: OTHER ITEMS

                    6.4.1 Appoint Budget Officer for FY 2015-2016

                    6.4.2 Thank You Letters from Organizations receiving State Revenue Sharing

                    6.4.3 Approve Holiday Schedule for year 2015-2016

                    6.4.4 Approve Budget Calendar for year 2015-2016

6.4.5 Liquor License Approval

7.       PUBLIC COMMENT - The City of Bandon offers this time for citizens to comment on municipal issues not already on the agenda. After the Mayor asks for comments, rise or raise your hand for the Mayor to acknowledge you. Come to the podium and state your name and address. Please be sure to speak into the microphone. Comments should be limited to 3 minutes. Please supply 15 copies of the material brought to the meeting for distribution.

8.       OTHER: COUNCIL/MAYOR/STAFF REMARKS

9.       ADJOURN TO EXECUTIVE SESSION RE:

192.660(2)(a) 192.660(7): To consider the employment of an officer, employee, staff member or agent

192.660(2)(d): To conduct deliberations with persons you have designated to carry on labor negotiations

192.660(2)(e): To conduct deliberations with persons you have designated to negotiate real property transactions

10.     ANY ACTION, IF NECESSARY FROM EXECUTIVE SESSION.

10.1    Approval of the Collective Bargaining Agreement with the IBEW for the Electric Department

11.     ADJOURN

Council Chamber is accessible to disabled.

For services contact City Hall at 347-2437 voice; 711 TTR;

email: citymanager@ci.bandon.or.us; City web site: www.ci.bandon.or.us.

EOE

THE NEXT REGULAR MEETING OF THE COUNCIL WILL BE JANUARY 5, 2015

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12/2/2014

Real grassroots democracy at work, the right to local self-governance

All governments owe their existence to the people of the community that those governments serve, and governments exist to secure and protect the rights of the people and those communities. Any system of government that becomes destructive of those ends is not legitimate, lawful, or constitutional.

All too often, Coos County has been the victim of no doubt well meaning but nonetheless damaging legislation. Salem, for example, created special assessments and did away with the severance tax imposed on large tract timber properties. Unfortunately, 66% of the county’s taxable land base qualifies for these property tax benefits thereby significantly reducing needed funding for mandatory public services like road maintenance and sheriff’s patrols.

The National Defense Authorization Act includes clauses that arguably violate the civil liberties of average American citizens and would use our own law enforcement to boot.

State Senators Arnie Roblan and Jeff Kruse co-sponsored a preemptive law, dubbed the “Monsanto Protection Act” that denies counties the right to protect their own organic farmers from cross contamination or simply choose not to grow GMO foods within their respective boundaries. In other words, the State, not the people who live here and must live with the consequences, has the authority to make decisions on our behalf. This parent child relationship is referred to as Dillon’s Rule.

Local governments make deleterious decisions as well. Despite any evidence that expensive enterprise zone tax exemptions benefit the taxpayer officials continue with the practice at the expense of public services and schools. Perhaps the biggest breach of local government legitimacy is looming on the horizon with the proposed privatization of our tax dollars through the Community Enhancement Plan.

Across the country communities are taking a dim view of distant bureaucrats, legislators and regulatory agencies making development decisions that are harmful to the local economy and adversely affect their quality of life. By asserting their right to use their local government to make law these counties and communities have democratically enacted rights-based ordinances that ban hydraulic fracturing, factory farms and the disposal of sewage sludge within their boundaries.

The people of Coos County possess the right to use their local government to make law, and the making and enforcement of law by the people through a municipal corporation or any other institution shall not eliminate, limit, or reduce their sovereign right to local, community self-government.

Naturally, not everyone agrees communities should have a right to local self-governance. The people of Grant Township, Pennsylvania and the Grant Township Board of Supervisors do not want oil and gas waste materials injected into land within their community on the grounds that it is economically and environmentally unsustainable and passed an ordinance to this effect. The ordinance asserts the peoples inalienable right to clean air and water. Pennsylvania General Energy has sued the township claiming the ordinance violates its constitutional right to inject fracking waste into this community. The township is vociferously defending its ordinance in court and the battle comes down to whose rights does the government protect, the corporation or the individuals who make up that community?

Landowners along the proposed Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline route feel their property rights may be violated if eminent domain is used to acquire their land against their wishes for the construction of the 36” pipeline. Local leaders and Astroturf booster organizations insist that even though this is our community and we must live with the consequences, the choice of whether to cite a LNG export terminal on the North Spit is not ours to make. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) will make this major development decision on our behalf. Sure, we are allowed to comment into the public record and hope our concerns are given merit in the final decision but the process is by no means a democratic one.

Consider Denton, Texas near the epicenter of where fracking was invented and surrounded by oil and gas wells. The town decided clean air and water was more important to the health and happiness of its citizens and overwhelmingly passed an ordinance banning fracking despite being outspent 10 to 1 by the oil and gas industry. The State’s top regulator refuses to honor this law and the majority wishes of this community regardless of the negative health effects.

“It’s my job to give permits, not Denton’s,” Texas Railroad Commission Chairwoman Christi Craddick said. “We’re going to continue permitting up there because that’s my job.”

Again, there is nothing democratic about the regulatory process and clearly it is the regulators job to issue permits, not to deny them.

Coos County has a fundamental, individual political right, exercised collectively, to determine what’s in its best interests. For this reason a citizen initiative asserting our right to local self-governance entitled “The Coos County Right to a Sustainable Energy Future Ordinance” has been filed with the county clerk. Unlike Denton’s, this is a rights-based ordinance that when enacted will prohibit the acquisition of land for constructing infrastructure for non-sustainable energy systems. The ordinance will also refuse to acknowledge corporations as persons or as having rights greater than the individual.

Read the Coos Community County Bill of Rights

Sign a petition to put this on the May 2015 ballot by downloading and printing SEL 348 – 2014-I-002 Mail your completed and signed petition form to Coos Commons Protection Council, PO Box 2042, Bandon, OR 97411 – You must be registered to vote in Coos County.

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BIA ~ DOI Boasting About a Half Million Acres Taken Off the Tax Roll, so the rest pay

12/1/2014

Hey Folks,

I worked for and support Indian Sovereignty, if that means they are self sufficient, not dependent on the tax payers of the American Government. However, the origins of these tribes are questionable, plus the country's tax payers have to pay for the nearly half million acres that has been given to the Indians this year alone and taken off the tax roll.

Plus, the Indians lost the American Indian Wars and to the victor goes the spoils, so they should consider themselves very lucky. Most governments just eliminate their enemy. Unfortunately, the BIA is using these people's desire to be independent as a way to have authority over natural resources and the Indians might want to reconsider dealing with a government that has broken most of its treaties with Indians in the past.

We have two Coos County commissioners working to acquiesce their responsibility as representatives of Coos County citizens and give that authority to local Indian Tribes. The Tribal Twosome, Cribbins and Sweet, refuse to release a questionnaire given to them from the tribe, so one wonders what they are telling the tribe that they won't tell us? What backroom deals are being made in the name of the people?.....Rob T.

This week, the White House is welcoming hundreds of tribal leaders from across the country to the sixth annual White House Tribal Nations Conference. The conference provides leaders from the 566 federally recognized tribes the opportunity to interact directly with President Obama and members of the White House Council on Native American Affairs. It also builds upon the President’s commitment to strengthen the government-to-government relationship with Indian Country and to improve the lives of Native Americans.

2014 has been a year of continued progress when it comes to the Obama Administration’s trust relationship with the Nation’s first people. We’ve seen the beginnings of a transformation on Indian education reform, progress on energy and economic development, and the Administration is working to address climate change impacts on Tribal Nations. The Department of the Interior put together a video that highlights some of this ongoing work in Indian Country.

Click here to watch “2 014: A Year of Progress in Indian Country.”

We look forward to engaging with everyone who plans to attend the conference and to those who follow along online throughout the week. Regards,

Tim Fullerton
Director of Digital Strategy
U.S. Department of the Interior
www.instagram.com/USInterior

P.S. To watch the conference online, visit www.doi.gov/live starting Wednesday, December 3 beginning at 8:30am EST.

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SCOTUS ~ Government trying to limit the 1st Amendment by calling it a Threat

12/1/2014

Hey Folks,

The following court case will effect me. Many accuse me of being very intimidating, all because I have a tendency to be brutally honest and have a tact to dissect problems to the bone. The powers that be do not like that ability and they would love to find a way to silence their critics. They have accused me of being abusive and rude, and they might be right, but it is no more rude than to be a government bureaucrat that denies the citizenry their right to freedom of expression. I'm one of the few who think it is wrong to be denied my right to yell "Fire" in a crowded theater, because it erodes civil liberties.......Rob T.

SCOTUS weighs limits of free speech on Internet
Source: San Francisco Chronicle"Anthony Elonis claimed he was just kidding when he posted a series of graphically violent rap lyrics on Facebook about killing his estranged wife, shooting up a kindergarten class and attacking an FBI agent. But his wife didn’t see it that way. Neither did a federal jury. Elonis, of Bethlehem, Pa., was convicted of violating a federal law that makes it a crime to threaten another person. In a far-reaching case that probes the limits of free speech over the Internet, the Supreme Court on Monday will consider whether Elonis' Facebook posts, and others like it, deserve protection under the First Amendment." (11/30/14)

http://tinyurl.com/qgl4p37

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