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League Debate
Oregon House of Representatives District #56

Scheduled  Oct. 23 2022

The  event Sunday October 23 is for candidates for Oregon House of Representatives District #56, which is a new district established since redistricting. We will meet in the Ashpole Community Center adjacent to Eagle Point City Hall 17 Buchanan Avenue South at 4pm.

League debates scheduled: Oct.10 has been canceled.

The Monday, Oct.10  event is between Jackson County Commissioner candidates for Position #1 and #3.  Doors open at 5:30pm in the new Medford City Police Dept. bldg at 219 Ivy in the Prescott Room.

Voter Service Update from Jackson County Elections Office

  • June 1, 2022- Candidate filing begins
  • August 19, 2022 – County/City/District ballot title filing deadline (SEL 805)
  • August 30, 2022 – Candidate filing deadline
  • September 1, 2022 – Voters’ pamphlet filing deadline (county candidate statements)
  • September 8, 2022 – County/City/District measure filing deadline (County-SEL 801, City-SEL 802 & Districts-SEL 803)
  • September 12, 2022 – Voters’ pamphlet filing deadline (city/district candidate statements)
  • September 12, 2022 – Voters’ pamphlet filing deadline (measure arguments)
  • September 23, 2022 – Military & overseas ballots mailed
  • October 10, 2022 – Out of state ballots mailed
  • October 18, 2022 – Voter registration deadline
  • October 21, 2022 – Ballots mailed to voters
  • November 8, 2022 – Election Day

LWV Rogue Valley supports the Oregon Ballot Initiative Petition 17 requiring permits and background checks to buy guns.

https://www.lifteveryvoiceoregon.com/ip-17-summary

JOSEPHINE COUNTY CHARTER UPDATE

By Dorothy Yetter

The Commission was created on 28 April 2021 by the Board of County Commissioners with Order No. 2021-018. Nine members were appointed and our first meeting was held 9 September 2021. We set ourselves up for business, electing officers and hammering out bylaws, by 1 December 2021.

After a few attempts to wrap our arms around the enormity of the task, we settled on a read- through and ‘mark-up’ of the existing document. Even as we do that, we have discovered that we need to invite experts to provide us with their observations in their areas of expertise such as finance (for instance, what is the actual budget process in use?) or administration (for instance, what recourse do exempt personnel have to political reprisal?)

While that is the meeting-to-meeting activity, we have a few over-arching questions considering if the current structure of county government is adequate to the task. That currently manifests as:

  • How many commissioners? Some advocate our county is small enough and homogeneous enough to be governed by the current 3, elected at large. Others think the county is more diverse and needs more commissioners actually from those diverse communities – either resident in that community or elected specifically by that community.

  • Does the county need a County Executive? It would separate powers, split the administrative (executive) functions from legislative, but is it more overhead than we need?

  • Is our product to be a report of recommendations or as a complete re-write of the charter? If a re-write, what form would that take?

We know that those questions exist but before we tackle them, we do need to nail down the products of county government. County Counsel will be providing us with the statutory requirements but beyond that, there are the things some would like our county government to do. After deciding on those, then we have to determine what government structure will give us the tools to effect those objects.

Right now, the Commission is going through the current charter, finding little things that should be cleaned up. We have not addressed the BIG question of “balance” but that question is wrapped up in the points above (number of commissioners and county executive).

 

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Contact LWVRV for more info on HCR4US at action@lwvroguevalley.org  

 

  A new study has been initiated by LWVOR: a re-study of Childcare in Oregon, originally done in 1988. 1988 Childcare LWVOR Study

The Re-Study includes interviewing Child Care Providers here in Jackson and Josephine Counties. This is the Interview Questions.

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LWV Rogue Valley Meetings are on Zoom. Members will receive invitations.

The League of Women Voters of Rogue Valley is now a 501 (c)(3) – a non-profit organization. Your membership and other contributions are deductible to the extent allowed by the IRS.

LWVRV   P.O. Box  8555    Medford OR 97501.

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