Publication Date
10-15-2004
Document Type
Report
Subjects
Urban policy -- Oregon -- Portland -- Periodicals, Portland (Or.) -- Politics and government -- Periodicals, Portland (Or.) -- Social conditions -- Periodicals
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/13925
Recommended Citation
City Club of Portland (Portland, Or.), "2004 Ballot Measure Report Measures 34 & 38" (2004). City Club of Portland. 523.
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/13925
Notes
Measure 34: Current law directs that Board of Forestry manage all state forests to maximize "permanent value" (defined by board) through mixed use, including timber sales, mining, protecting, conserving, utilizing forests. Measure requires management defining "permanent value" as balancing sustainable timber production with water, wildlife, watershed protection, recreation, forest restoration, considering resource conservation equally beneficial to timber production. Manages Tillamook, Clatsop Forests half for forest restoration, prioritizing drinking water, habitat, fish protection; half for sustainable timber production, with restoration management steps recommended by restoration science team. Addresses using timber revenues for common School Fund, forest restoration management (board providing additional funding as needed); continues current local school funding levels. Measure declares it replaces any other management plan for Clatsop, Tillamook Forests adopted in 2004 election.
Measure 38: State Accident insurance Fund (sAiF) is a public corporation selling, administering workers compensation insurance, and administering accident fund for the purpose. Measure abolishes sAiF. Requires state to assume sAiF's authority over accident fund; reinsure fund; satisfy sAiF's obligations under its existing policies; use fifty percent of any excess surplus (meaning any funds exceeding reserves and surplus necessary to satisfy future liabilities) to satisfy policyholder claims in litigation before October 2003; transfer forty percent of any excess surplus to new fund; sell sAiF's assets; transfer proceeds to same fund; and reinsure, otherwise resolve sAiF's remaining liabilities. Dedicates new fund to supporting schools, local law enforcement; providing medications to seniors, medically needy; promoting job growth. Requires certain reports to legislature regarding rates for insurance premiums.
Published in City Club of Portland Bulletin Vol. 86, No. 20