Oregon City School Board calls on Mark Shull to resign
Letter condemns Clackamas County commissioner s heinous transphobic, Islamophobic, racist and xenophobic statements
Oregon City School District board members this week added their names to the legion of Clackamas County elected officials calling for the resignation of County Commissioner Mark Shull in light of his racist and homophobic comments.
OCSD School Board Chair Martha Spiers said Shull s heinous comments have resulted in County Board Chair Tootie Smith asking for Shull s resignation, making the calls for him to step down widespread and bipartisan.
Spiers and fellow OCSD School Board member Anna Farmer teamed up to write a letter to reaffirm the school board s commitment to support everyone s right to feel seen, heard, safe, and welcome in our community by joining with other Clackamas County and regional leaders in calling on Shull to immediately resign as county commissioner.
February 25 2021
Proposed 12-cent increase per $1,000 of assessed value in county s local option property tax will come before voters in May
Clackamas County commissioners were split over whether to send a proposed increase of the local option public-safety levy to voters on the May ballot.
In a purely symbolic vote, commissioners decided 3-2 to support Clackamas Sheriff Angela Brandenburg s proposal to increase the levy by 12 cents. County Chair Tootie Smith, who ran for chair on a campaign of ensuring county public safety is well-funded, and Commissioner Mark Shull, who was appointed board liaison for public safety earlier this week, were the two Nay votes.
February 23 2021
MacKensey Pulliam says women are once again losing ground in the workplace as they lose their jobs at a higher rate than men, or as they strive to accommodate employment and the needs of at-home education for their children.
It s been almost a year since we were notified that Oregon schools would be closed for two weeks in order to help flatten the curve. Eleven months later, schools are still closed, while kitchen tables and couches have been converted into wildly ineffective classrooms for increasingly frustrated children and their parents. Distance learning has had a devastating effect on our kids mental health and ability to learn.