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ClackCo commissioner pushes back on ODOT toll plans
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — There is major pushback from Clackamas County officials and residents after the Oregon Department of Transportation announced tolls will be added to stretches of I-5 and I-205 in the next 5 years.
Commissioner Paul Savas wants the community to show up to a town hall on Wednesday, December 1. He and others say in that stretch of I-205 there is nowhere for anyone to catch a bus and hardly any bus service.
Bike routes are non-existent. That’s why everyone drives now, he said.
Read the full article at Koin.com.
Decision on Interstate 205 tolling plan delayed
PORTLAND, Ore. (Portland Tribune) — ODOT has temporarily postponed its decision on tolling stretches of I-205 and I-5 in the next five years and will consider a request from Clackamas County for extra time to hash out regional congestion-pricing plans before tolls are implemented.
County Commissioner Paul Savas requested a delay in voting, originally scheduled for this month, on ODOT’s proposal to amend the Metro region’s long-term transportation plan and its required process for allocating funding to transportation projects.
ODOT’s delay allows the Oregon Transportation Commission time to review the county coordinating committee’s proposal to develop a comprehensive plan for answering “critical systemwide questions” regarding traffic diversion mitigation and funding decisions before bringing the state department’s proposed amendments to an official vote.
Read full article at Koin.com.
Clackamas County Officials Air Concerns over Gov’s Commutations
State and local officials, led by Canby state representative and gubernatorial candidate Christine Drazan, are continuing to denounce Governor Kate Brown for the latest use of her clemency powers, including her November decision to commute the sentences of 70 prisoners who committed serious crimes as teenagers.
Drazan sent Brown a letter last month that was signed by a dozen Clackamas County elected officials, including Canby’s state senator, Bill Kennemer, Clackamas County commissioners Tootie Smith, Paul Savas and Mark Shull, Canby Mayor Brian Hodson, Molalla Mayor Scott Keyser and Oregon City Mayor Rachel Lyles Smith, among others.
In the letter, Drazan and the other officials expressed concern for the safety and wellbeing of their communities, as well as fears that her move would retraumatize the victims of violent crime.
Read the full article at CanbyFirst.com.
County Commissioner Paul Savas to campaign for fourth term
Paul Savas is seeking reelection to the Clackamas County Commission Position 2, seat he has held for over a decade.
The three-term incumbent says he plans to hit the ground running if reelected to serve on the nonpartisan board through 2026, continuing to push affordable housing and jobs as well as equity for the county’s underserved populations amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I really am honored and humbled to serve the citizens of this county,” Savas told Pamplin Media Group. “It comes with a tremendous amount of responsibility and I take that seriously. I’m committed to protecting the quality of life in this county and helping the underserved succeed.”
Read the full article at Clackamas Review.
Clackamas Co. Commissioners draft letter to Gov. Brown on COVID-19 restrictions
CLACKAMAS COUNTY, OR (KPTV) – Commissioners in Clackamas County spent time at their meeting on Thursday to draft a strongly worded letter to Governor Kate Brown on why they think she’s wrong in moving the county back to tighter restrictions. It was signed by all five commissioners.
Over the two pages, it asks for a few things including a two-week caution period before being moved to the “high risk” category for fear of all the restrictions that come along with that label.
The letter says businesses in the county have operated safely in the moderate risk level since February 26 and they believe they can continue to do so. It goes on to say that moving into the “high risk” level with tighter restrictions with such short notice, could seriously harm businesses that have struggled so much already.
Read the full article at KPTV.com.
Clackamas County board reaffirms committment to nonpartisanship
Clackamas County commissioners voted Tuesday, March 16, to approve an amended resolution from 2017 committing the board to work in a “nonpartisan” manner.
The reaffirmation of the resolution came at the request of Commissioner Paul Savas who suggested the board take another look at the three-year-old document to include new language addressing political parties or personal benefit for board members. The request follows weeks of calls from County Chair Tootie Smith for board members to “check their politics at the door” as they seek to work on serious issues facing the residents of Clackamas County.
The discussion to amend the 2017 resolution lasted only about 23 minutes, but proved intensely hard to follow as even the commissioners themselves had to back up several times to ensure they were following proper procedure in adopting amendments to the language provided by Savas.
Read full article at Portland Tribune.
Opportunity knocks for Clackamas County’s McLoughlin Boulevard (Op-Ed by Paul Savas)
Published in The Clackamas Review – 5/3
After years of engaging neighbors and businesses in the McLoughlin Area of Oak Grove and Jennings Lodge, one common theme emerges: The community wants improvements on the boulevard and the surrounding area.
Savas understands the realities (Grover Jeffrey Bornefeld)
Savas understands the realities
West Linn Tidings
4/19
As a Democrat and Neighborhood Leader who knocks on lots of Democratic doors in my local precincts, I am concerned.
How can someone with no government or volunteer service, with a vague resume, who has lived and worked out of Clackamas County and Oregon for most of the past decade, win the tacit endorsement of other Democrats simply by dint of party label?
County commissioner is a nonpartisan position. I may lean to the left, but I will not support the unseating of a commissioner as dedicated, smart and hard-working for our county as Paul Savas simply to follow the party line.
We need commissioners who understand the realities of what can be achieved at the county level, not someone who appears fixated on national and state issues but doesn’t know where else to begin.
Grover Jeffrey Bornefeld
Jennings Lodge
Common-sense approach (Thelma Haggenmiller)
Common-sense approach
Lake Oswego Review
4/19
I have been a Paul Savas supporter since I first met him over 20 years ago. At that time, he was an elected official of the Oak Lodge Water District and then the Oak Lodge Sanitary District. I have watched him mature over those 20 years, but one thing has never changed — his common-sense approach to any issue he takes on.
The attention to detail that made Paul successful in his automotive business is evident in his approach to issues that daily face the County Commission position he now holds. That is the kind of person I want to see continue in that position. Paul not only thoroughly does his homework on every issue he faces, he also does it with honesty and integrity.
I sit in on most County Commission policy sessions and closely observe the five commissioners at work. I see and hear the variety of issues they face daily and observe the kind of restraints they are under in their attempts to accomplish even minor changes to the bureaucratic system they must operate within. Paul, with his common-sense approach to issues, works well with others to come up with innovative solutions to most of their major roadblocks to success.
He knows and understands the restraints that daily face an elected official. He regularly questions the soundness of issues that come before the commissioners and has managed to work to accomplish solutions to the multitude of societal problems the commissioners face daily. He is not a one-issue person, but rather approaches all problems with equal fervor.
I will be voting for Paul Savas for Clackamas County commissioner, and I urge you to join me.
Thelma Haggenmiller
Oak Grove