Camera cops Body cameras present privacy issues — SEE NEWS, A3 PortlandTribuneTUESDAY, MARCH 24, 2015 • TWICE CHOSEN THE NATION’S BEST NONDAILY PAPER • PORTLANDTRIBUNE.COM • PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND THURSDAY COUNTY ESD BOARD OUSTS LEADER Superintendents question Jorgensen’s leadership style By SHASTA KEARNS MOORE The Tribune The Multnomah County Education Service District’s board is no longer allowing Superintendent Barbara Jorgensen in the building while it searches for her re- placement. The move came from an offi - cial vote Tuesday night, March 17, but the factors behind it have been brewing since last summer, board members say. Bernie Giusto, former Mult- nomah County sheriff and Mult- nomah ESD board chairman, says Jorgensen’s ouster was a result of “leadership style, or lack thereof.” The dissatisfaction with Jor- gensen’s leadership stemmed from the superintendents of the county’s eight school districts: TRIBUNE PHOTO: JOHN M. VINCENT Portland, Centennial, Parkrose, Transportation Security Administration offi cers Andrea Green and Edmund Gray pose for a photo with a roll of PDX carpet. The carpet was named the grand marshal of the PGE/ David Douglas, Riverdale, Reyn- SOLV Starlight Parade. olds, Gresham-Barlow, and Cor- bett. The school districts provide about 90 percent of the budget for the ESD, Giusto says, and the superintendents had threatened to pull their contracts from the umbrella organization if Jor- Not just a gensen were not removed. Giusto says the decision was based on the unhappiness of the superintendents, who requested a meeting with the board three weeks ago at the Parkrose School District offi ce. “At that point we realized we needed to make a change,” Gi- usto says. “It was in the interest of everybody to transistion the leadership of ESD.” WELCOME MAT That led to a cryptic March 5 news release stating that Jor- gensen would henceforth be TRIBUNE PHOTO: STEVE LAW working from home. Several North Portland residents staged a silent protest by waving “MESD today confi rmed that Starlight Parade signs at last week’s hearing on the Pembina propane terminal. An Superintendent Barbara Jor- independent study concluded the terminal won’t threaten lives in the gensen is currently working off- area, but it didn’t cover possible injuries or safety issues while site, and will continue to work propane is transported via rail and ship. off-site for the indeterminate fu- ture. Out of respect for Superin- called to the carpet tendent Jorgensen’s privacy, MESD is refraining from com- Study says propane ment about this change,” read Iconic cult STARLIGHT PARADE Get a selfi e with the release. What: Portland General Electric/ PeeDee On March 17, Jim Rose, Mult- ‘celebrity’ will be SOLV Starlight Parade facility would be safe nomah ESD’s chief operating of- The Portland Rose Festival is When: 8:30-11 p.m. May 30 planning a special event for the fi cer and director of technology, grand marshal at Where: Streets of downtown public to meet, greet and get a Despite assurances of part of the company’s bid to win was announced as interim super- Portland, from the North Park sel e with the PDX carpet, aka approval of the project. The Ca- intendent. Rose has said he annual city event Blocks to Lincoln High School PeeDee, the 2015 PGE/SOLV outside review, North nadian company hopes to build would not want to continue on as Cost: Free Starlight Parade grand marshal, the export terminal on land superintendent. By JOHN VINCENT from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Portlanders still wary leased at the Port of Portland’s Jorgensen was promoted to For the Tribune Thursday, March 26, at the Rose Terminal 6, opposite West superintendent in 2012 after for- sidered weird to name a car- Festival Building, 1020 S.W. By STEVE LAW Hayden Island. mer Superintendent Ron Hitch- In a scene right out of pet as grand marshal of a ma- Naito Parkway. The Tribune Pembina commissioned Oslo, cock left suddenly, Giusto says. IFC’s “Portlandia,” the jor parade, but this is Port- Norway-based DNV GL to do the As chief program officer, Jor- Portland International Air- land, Oregon, and we do weird A half-billion-dollar pro- safety review, known as a Quan- gensen had been second-in-com- port’s carpet has been very well here,” says Jeff reach the pinnacle of popular- pane export terminal pro- titative Risk Assessment or mand. named as the grand mar- Deering, chairman of the Port- ity, we get yet another pleas- posed in North Portland won’t QRA. “She was chosen for the job shal of the 2015 Portland land General Electric/SOLV ant surprise,” said Stan Wat- jeopardize the lives of resi- “It’s a study of the possible based on what we needed in the General Electric/SOLV Starlight Parade. “This carpet ters, Port of Portland project dents on Hayden Island or consequences of the bad things moment,” Guisto says. Starlight Parade. and its iconic pattern just and technical services direc- other nearby neighborhoods, that could happen,” Dyck said. ESD Board Vice Chairman Transportation Security blew up on social media with tor. “It’s an honor to have the according to a third-party DNV evaluated worst-case Nels Johnson says the decision Administration officers Ed- people from all over the world Portland Rose Festival select study released last week. scenarios, such as explosions to make a change wasn’t person- mund Gray and Andrea Green snapping off foot selfi es before the PDX Carpet as the Star- The study’s fi ndings are dia- from the propane tanks, and cal- al. escorted the roll of carpet to it’s gone. It was just too much light Parade’s grand marshal, metrically opposed to those of a culated there might be one fatal- “For the record, I think Bar- an airport news conference fun to ignore.” and a fitting tribute to the citizen-written “white paper” ity every 38 years, considered an bara is a wonderful person and a Friday as dozens of onlookers Last year, the 28-year-old city’s welcome mat.” that stirred up fears of a cata- acceptable level of risk. See JORGENSEN / Page 2 snapped photos of the icon carpet was walked on by an The PGE/SOLV Starlight strophic accident at the terminal. “Pembina believes the QRA with their cell phones. Friday all-time record 15.9 million Parade is one of the Rose Fes- “The risk for accidents for this results are very reassuring,” marked the airport’s inaugu- passengers who traveled tival’s signature events. It facility will be largely contained Dyck told the commissioners. ral PDX carpet festival, with through PDX. In October, PDX draws more than 325,000 spec- to this site,” said Eric Dyck, proj- That’s because the risks are con- dozens of carpet-themed sou- celebrates its 75th anniversa- tators along its 2.25-mile ect manager for Pembina Pipe- fi ned primarily to the work site. venirs available to travelers. ry. downtown Portland route. line Corp., testifying to the Port- There’s no residential areas even “In any other city in this “Just when we thought we land Planning and Sustainability country it would likely be con- had seen the PDX Carpet See CARPET / Page 2 Commission last Tuesday as See PROPANE / Page 2 “Pamplin Media Group’s pledge is to Portland Tribune deliver balanced news that re ects the STOUDAMIRE LOOKS FOR HIS SHOT stories of our communities. Thank you — SEE SPORTS, PAGE B1 for reading our newspapers.” Inside — DR. ROBERT B. PAMPLIN JR. OWNER & NEIGHBOR VS. 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On Tuesday, Erika Manzo was crowned as Roosevelt High Antonio, Texas. She is the pursue a career as a business computer engineering and pur- uation, the 17-year-old says she was Sierra Hosea of Franklin School’s Rose Festival Princess. daughter of Veronica Silva de owner. She is the daughter of sue a career as an engineer in would like to attend a universi- High School. She is the daugh- The 18-year-old senior has Manzo and Carlos O. Manzo. Tony and Tiffanie Quatraro. the film industry. ty and pursue a double major ter of Kristi and Jeff Hosea. Af- plans to attend a four-year uni- Talia Quatraro was crowned The Metro West princess for Olivia Berry became the in communications and politi- ter graduation, the 18-year-old versity and major in biomedi- on Wednesday as the Metro 2015 was Clara Cannon. The fourteenth member of the Rose cal science with long-term am- says she plans to attend a four- cal sciences with a minor in East princess from Lake Oswe- 18-year-old senior at Valley Festival Court when she was bitions of being a broadcast year university, followed by Spanish.