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Drama Embroils Long Creek Council Meeting Nov. 10, 2016

Do you realize what would happen to just a few in Long Creek?

Measure 12-64 asks the citizens of Long Creek to prohibit (to ban) the production, processing, wholesaling, dispensing and retailing of marijuana within the city limits. If commercialization of marijuana is allowed in Long Creek all residents  will be subjected to the effects even though only a small amount of property owners will be directly effected by commercial operations.   See map below.

Keep in mind we can't have a commercial marijuana business operating within 1,000 feet of a school. When we apply this restriction to our small community this is what we have. Only the areas outside of the circle would be able to consider a commercial operation. How would you feel if you were outside of this area and didn't want any commercial marijuana business next to your home? Should so many subject so few to this decision? Should a small community allow such business within their city limits subjecting a few to the will of those who don't have to worry about the effects of such a decision? Should a small community segregate itself; exposing the few to the will of those who are protected by the established restrictions. Vote YES on 12-64

 Vote Yes on Measure 12-64 and stop (prohibit) commercialization of marijuana in Long Creek. 

Long Creek City Council Meeting October 13, 2016

Meeting on the Growth of the Patriot Movement in Oregon

Long Creek City Council Meeting September 8, 2016

Long Creek City Council Waits But Again For Lawyers Approval to Function

This Thursday night meeting of the Long Creek City Council left us again waiting for the City Lawyer to tell the council what to do.

1. In general the City has jurisdiction and exercises regulatory management over all rights of way within the City under authority of the City charter and state law....http://www.ci.sandy.or.us/Streets-Sidewalks-and-Public-Property/

2. Additionally the City has jurisdiction and exercises regulatory management over each right of way whether the City has a fee, easement, or other legal interest in the right of way, and whether the legal interest in the right of way was obtained by grant, dedication, prescription, reservation, condemnation, annexation, foreclosure or other means...http://www.ci.sandy.or.us/Streets-Sidewalks-and-Public-Property/

3. Anyone can ask to have their property surveyed. Why does the city require permission from a lawyer to survey public land within the city limits? Why is the city paying a lawyer to tell them they have the right to survey city property right of ways?

4. Why is the city stalling on what is considered their regulatory management over all right of ways?

5. Anyone can have their property surveyed at anytime and there is absolutely no need to have a lawyer say you can.

6. Why is there a need to have a special approval by the council or discussion to do so when it is an established right.

7. Why would the council procrastinate on fulfilling their regulatory right.

8. In the last 3 years multiple times I have heard the council claim that it was just minutes before a council meeting that they have got word from the lawyer and so its too late to address an issue or that the lawyer hasn't responded on important issues that are weeks old.  Does this repetitive action set some kind of record? Possibly as Marcellus, the guard, said in Hamlet, "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark".

9. The city is actually paying a lawyer to advise them to ignore their duties as elected officials. 

So do we as citizens have a responsibility to proceed ahead with alternative moves to address a dysfunctional city council to protect our public land, is there a need for deeper investigation into why this is taking place.

What do you think?

Below is photos of the public land and boundary issues.

Long Creek City Council Meeting August 11, 2016 Part 2 of 2

 Council moves forward in improving the end of West Main Street for future housing lot developments adjoining street and provide needed larger truck turn around area. Fire Dept. beings plans for live-burn fire training on three structures . More information shared on up coming 2017 Solar Eclipse event, large crowds expected. Video in two parts.
Part 2

Long Creek City Council Meeting August 11, 2011 Part 1 of 2

Council moves forward in improving the end of West Main Street for future housing lot developments adjoining street and provide needed larger truck turn around area. Fire Dept. beings plans for live-burn fire training on three structures . More information shared on up coming 2017 Solar Eclipse event, large crowds expected. Video in two parts.
Part 1

Long Creek's Appeal to Petty Tyrants

Long Creek’s Appeal to Petty Tyrants

For a small country community like Long Creek it is amazing to see so many problems which are to no surprise to Grant County residents. I was told by one county official how the mayor of Long Creek was one of the main entertainments at local city government / county meetings, as he spun story after story about the latest happenings in our small community.

Someone might want to brush this off as just smalls-ville type country life, but personally, having lived in several small communities from up and down the west coast and east as far as South Carolina, I beg to differ. Long Creek has several of what I would refer to as petty tyrants and there is a reason for that which I will address but first; just what is a petty tyrant. 

Way back in time — okay, the ‘70s — Author Carlos Castaneda coined the phrase “Minor Petty Tyrant” to describe, in anthropological terms, “Tormentors who are fearsome and inflict misery, but do not hold any real power over life or death of others.” Aka, locally that would apply to recently vacated Tom McHatton and Mark Steven O’Dell and now aspiring petty tyrant, James Norris.

Starting back in 2014 Tom McHatton , was our local paper hanger and MSO, that is Mark Steven O’Dell, was his assistant. They would slip into the Post Office or the local general store and hang paper on the bulletin boards with claims of all kinds, all made up B.S., with the intent of causing problems for someone. It got so bad that the Post Office was forced to install a locked glass case as a restraint. Their other activity was to attend the local city council meetings and read off their latest unsubstantiated and blatant defamations about someone or some organization.

O’Dell on the other hand was the impeccable example of a born fabricator/ deceiver, be it his military history or his life story. I personally acquired 296 pages of information from some 9 ex- wives, lawyer and court documents of his more than two felony charges and a recent fraud case in Oregon just before arriving here in Long Creek. Fortunately McHatton and O’Dell have moved on to be petty tyrants to some other community.

Our latest Long Creek’s petty tyrant is James Norris, who has over stepped common legal procedures and in one case actually stealing property to bully his way around this small community. Just recently his latest move is to block off the west end of Main St. and telling the city that he wants to turn it in to his private drive way. Although it has been mentioned that that part of Main Street needs to be left open for emergency vehicle access, there hasn’t been any obvious effort on the part of city government officials to correct the situation. A call to the sheriff’s office was to no avail because they have no jurisdiction on the city street. This leads me to the real problem with Long Creek.

At the June 2016 city council meeting, the citizens were told by the mayor and supported by the city council that they will not address any complaints filed against James Norris. This comes as no surprise as the city council hasn’t enforced any city ordinances for some time unless one of our past or present petty tyrants forced them into it. A history of letting individuals do as they please within the community with disregard to city law and without any regulation by the city government has completely killed any concept of community spirit.

A few months back I had the privilege of meeting a couple who have spent the last ten years traveling the world on their bicycles. They had been told they couldn’t stay the night in our city park and related that it was the first time they had experienced such an inhospitable attitude linked with clutter which they collected before leaving the park. I shared with them that it was likewise for me, in that of the many small communities in which I’ve lived; I’ve never seen so bad a community spirit and lack of hospitality.  I shared that I lived here for the country and not the community’s attitude.

So what has happened to Long Creek?  First, you add years of ignoring activity which has showed disregard for community law. Secondly, add a local government which will not enforce the city law that they took an oath to uphold. Thirdly, you have individuals acting disrespectfully and bullying others within the community and the lack of community members and/or spiritual leaders to speak out against such conduct, thereby giving their consent to such bad behavior. Fourth, you add a disrespectful debased conduct in which the use of foul language, threats of physical harm and slander are used against neighbors when disagreements arrive--because if you disagree with someone’s view in Long Creek you have to hate them and be disrespectful. Then the really weird thing happens, weeks go by and you find that same person who has threatened to beat you up and called you every sort of profanity, now smiling and waving “Hello “as if nothing ever took place.

There needs to be disciplined forms of life that enable people to transcend the chaos that drags down a community. Offensive, bullying, disrespectful behavior may be right according to some; but as stated in the closing scenes of the movie, “Dogville”, these people would be called dogs. And if they’re lapping up their own vomit, the only way to stop them is with a lash—aka: ‘correction’. But some might say they don’t know any difference, like dogs they only obey their own nature, so why shouldn’t we forgive and tolerate them?

Dogs can be taught many useful things, but not if we forgive them every time they obey their own nature.  So if we don’t acknowledge the tyrannical actions, if we don’t enforce law, if we don’t correct those who bully or disrespect others then we can only expect them to eat their own vomit and continue to spew their negative and hurtful attacks into the community. As citizens in a community we each have a responsibility to stand up in defense of proper behavior. It, at this immediate time, may be that it isn’t you personally, but your neighbor that is under attack, so the inclination is to look the other way. But be assured history has proven that the petty tyrant is not selective and anyone can come under attack even as the community as a whole suffers the consequences while they are allowed to function as petty tyrants.

Long Creek City Council Meeting July 14, 2016

Long Creek School District Compared to Other Oregon Schools

 Information shared here is taken from the Oregon Department of Education website.
Oregon Department of Education

How does Long Creek School District compare over all with Oregon School districts Report Cards.

How well did Long Creek School compare to other smaller schools in Oregon?
Monument School District compared over all with Oregon School districts.

Actual Operating vs Capital Expenditures per Student

 (figures taken from ODE Website)

Oregon Department of Education Reports 

2014 - 2015 school year

Oregon State Average cost per student $10,342 

Long Creek Operating Expenditures per Student
                             28 students                cost per student $36,116    

Grant County     Student Enrollment    Operating Expenditures per Student    
Dayville SD 16J      52                                 $25,601                         
John Day SD 3      592                                 $12,875                               
Monument SD 8     59                                  $19,585                                   
Prairie City SD 4    148                                $14,892                                     

Long Creek City Council Meeting June 9th 2016