In an earlier post I questioned why the Board had not asked the County for a legality opinion on the Board proposal. Since the Board was apparently refusing to do so I did;.
The County Clerk has now informed me (us) that the proposal would not be a legal special district voting and funding plan because it would change too many of our laws and rules on voting and assessments. I have forwarded the County's response to the Board.
Under the election rules anyone can appeal the County Clerk's finding within 10 days. The Board has the relevant dates and information if anyone is interested in looking at it.
Glenn Brown
"In an earlier post I questioned why the Board had not asked the County for a legality opinion on the Board proposal. Since the Board was apparently refusing to do so I did;.
The County Clerk has now informed me (us) that the proposal would not be a legal special district voting and funding plan because it would change too many of our laws and rules on voting and assessments. "Call Mr. Dennison with any questions. He issued his opinion, no response required unless you wanted to appeal. The question is why the Board did not do get this opinion a year or more ago. Oh yeah, the County already told the Board their plan would not be approved by the County. "
I did call Steve at the county. He is part of his email to me:
“Sorry for the late response. My county legal department could not find any reason that I could not share the filing with you. Attached is the measure as submitted by Mr. Brown on 2/23/22. The last page of that pdf is my letter to Mr. Brown stating that the filing was rejected. The rejection was not a legal opinion.
Our office does not review prospective petitions for substantive constitutional or legal sufficiency, but we do follow a procedural constitutional review based on Oregon Constitution, Article IV, §1, Article VI, §10 and ORS 250.168, 250.270, and 255.140. The Oregon Constitution established the following requirements for local initiative petitions”
We found that the text of this petition did not comply with the requirements listed above. If you have any questions, please let me know.
Regards,
Steve
Steve in my opinion was talking about your petition not anything from the District.
Correct?