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Quite a shot Legend comes to life Michael Berger’s photo was one Rick’s Cafe comes to Casablanca, of the winners in city contest thanks to LO’s Kathy Kriger — See A TIME TO SHINE, A11 — See NEIGHBORS, B1 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2012 • ONLINE AT LAKEOSWEGOREVIEW.COM • VOLUME 99, NO. 49 • 75 CENTS Foothills plan Championship on the line advances to fi nal vote Council votes 4-3 on plan; nal meeting will be Dec. 18 By KARA HANSEN MURPHEY property tax revenue collected The Review in the area from about $12 mil- lion in 2013 to about $575 mil- The Lake Oswego City lion at the end of the district’s Council has tentatively ap- 22-year lifespan. proved a $43.2 million urban Economic Development renewal plan for the Foot- Manager Jane Blackstone de- hills district, lining up the fi - scribed the proposed projects nal vote necessary to ad- as “very basic infrastructure vance the redevelopment of projects that really set the the 58-acre, largely industri- stage for private development al area between State Street to occur.” and the Willamette River. They include relocated sew- The plan authorizes the use er and stormwater mains, land- of urban renewal funding for scaping enhancements and about 20 projects intended to transportation upgrades, such attract private investment and as a “northern portal” into the spur redevelopment, ultimately district via a new intersection, bringing a mix of retail, hous- reconstruction of Foothills ing and commercial spaces to Road and the extension of B Av- the area. enue across State Street from The council voted 4-3 in favor downtown. In addition, a large of it on Tuesday, scheduling a staircase would lead toward a fi nal meeting on the topic for new public plaza by Foothills REVIEW PHOTO: VERN UYETAKE Dec. 18. Park. Lineman Collin Calhoon lets out a celebratory yell following Lake Oswego’s 42-21 victory over Tigard at Jeld-Wen Field on Saturday. The Lakers “I think it’s a fantastic oppor- The plan also provides for will look for their second consecutive state championship Saturday at 1 p.m. at Jeld-Wen Field. Lake Oswego will face the Sheldon Fighting Irish tunity for our city and at a very $8.8 million in assistance to de- in a rematch of last year’s fi nale. Sheldon made its way into the fi nals by beating Jesuit 35-28. For more on the fi nals plus the game with the low cost,” Councilor Donna Jor- velopers working to build af- Tigard Tigers, see Sports, page A20. dan said. “Without this plan fordable housing, and it would and this framework and urban pay to reimburse the city’s gen- renewal district, I’m not sure eral fund for about $1 million where else we would be going spent on planning to date. as a city.” “Many of these projects in- The city would have to fi nd volve partnerships with private money to front a $6.9 million parties and other supplemental loan to get the work started, sources that come from devel- Lake Oswego presents new but that would be paid back by opment-derived revenues,” new tax revenue generated in Blackstone said. the district. Offi cials anticipate A new project on the list in- the city’s investment will gen- erate huge returns, boosting See FOOTHILLS / Page A5 emergency water system Trailer-mounted puri er could be borrowed throughout LOSD on governor’s ve counties By KARA HANSEN MURPHEY budget: Not enough The Review Lake Oswego has a new mo- bile water treatment system money for K-12 that can help supply the re- gion with clean drinking wa- By DREW DAKESSIAN vides service to our students ... ter following a major disaster. The Review is a signifi cant part of what the A sort of mini water treatment ESD provides for us,” Korach plant on wheels, the trailer- Oregon Gov. John Kitzha- said. “And (Kitzhaber) is look- mounted system will be kept at ber has made his budget rec- ing at reducing funding for Lake Oswego’s public works op- ommendations for the next ESDs and shifting their focus, erations yard but is considered a two years, and the powers- which essentially means that regional asset, available to water that-be in the Lake Oswego we’re going to get cost-shifted. agencies in Clackamas, Colum- School District are So not only is the mon- bia, Multnomah and Washing- not thrilled. ey short of the park, ton counties in Oregon and “It’s certainly not but we’re going to pick Clark County what we had hoped up additional costs in Washington. for,” said LOSD Super- that we are not cur- “Hopefully Clackamas REVIEW PHOTOS: VERN UYETAKE intendent Bill Korach. rently incurring as we we’ll have River Water Roddy Tempest of Tempest Environmental shows components of the city’s new mobile water treatment “We’re looking at assess the ESD chang- Providers and system with Kevin Batridge, assistant water plant manager for Lake Oswego, examining equipment in the something that will be es.” two of the city of Lake background. a significant problem “He’s pulling money these Oswego used a for us.” KITZHABER away from the ESDs, systems $115,000 U.S. cryptosporidium, giardia, bacte- LOSD is one of 10 and that’s just going to Homeland Se- ria and viruses along with pesti- school districts served kill some of the dis- within the curity grant to cides, herbicides and other or- by the Clackamas Edu- tricts in the state,” said region in purchase the ganic material. cation Service District, Lake Oswego School purification The treated water is then fun- which provides various Board Chairman John the next system. The neled into one of two custom- educational programs Wendland. “As far as couple of idea is to bol- made 5,000-gallon bladder tanks and services that are Lake Oswego, we have years.” ster water pro- — giant pillows too big to carry viewed as too costly or a lot of our own re- viders’ abilities in a standard dump truck. It limited in demand for a sources because we’re — Kim Swan, to supply safe could then be supplied to the single location. a big enough district, Clackamas River drinking water public by hooking the bladders Kitzhaber has rec- KORACH but it will affect us be- Water Providers if their infra- to a tap system, or bottle fi lling ommended reallocat- cause we use ESD ser- water resource structure is station, or it could be trucked ing up to $120 million currently vices.” manager somehow com- elsewhere. provided to ESDs through the Milt Dennison, Clackamas promised, The system can purify up to State School Fund formula to ESD superintendent, was not whether that’s 30,000 gallons per day, enough to Student Achievement Centers, available for comment. because of a prolonged power provide about a gallon of drink- new regional centers focused In October, Stuart Ketzler, outage following an earthquake, ing water to each Lake Oswego Lake Oswego shows its new trailer-mounted emergency water on promoting excellence in LOSD executive director of fi - wildfi re or fl ood, or because of resident. purifi cation system at the main fi re station on Monday. The mobile teaching and learning for nance, predicted that the contamination of a city reser- But the system isn’t only for teachers, faculty, child care amount of money that LOSD voir. system can treat up to 30,000 gallons of water each day. Lake Oswego — though the city and other early education pro- would have to contribute every “In Lake Oswego, we’ve never might have “first dibs” in the fessionals, leaders and instruc- year to Oregon’s Public Em- had a sustained water outage of truckloads of bottled water. fresh sources such as lakes, riv- wake of a catastrophe, said Kim tional support personnel. ployees Retirement System any type,” said Kari Duncan, “In this situation, with the sys- ers or reservoirs. The water is Swan, water resource manager “All of our payroll systems will be increasing from $4.5 Lake Oswego’s water treatment tem we now have, we wouldn’t sucked through a 2-inch-wide for Clackamas River Water Pro- go through the ESD, all of our million for fi scal year 2012-13 to plant manager. “But I know, for need that type of supply. You line and pumped up to the trail- viders. assessment, all of our testing, $6.3 million for FY 2013-14 and example, with the Hurricane Ka- could send the bottled water er, where it fl ows through a se- “Anyone else, if Lake Oswego all the databases go through to $6.5 million for FY 2014-15. trina situation and Hurricane elsewhere.” ries of filters and tanks that wasn’t using it, could call and the ESD and ... specialized spe- Sandy, you had FEMA supplying Powered by a diesel generator, make it safe and more palatable cial services program that pro- See BUDGET / Page A3 those areas with truckloads and the system pumps water from to drink. 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