MEASURE 3-378 CLACKAMAS COUNTY
BALLOT TITLE: Renewal of Current County Sheriff Public Safety Local Option Levy
QUESTION: Shall Clackamas County fund Sheriff’s jail beds, law enforcement; levy $0.248 per $1000 assessed value for five years beginning 2012-2013? SUMMARY: This measure renews the expiring Public Safety Levy approved by voters in 2006 and will not increase taxes. Renewing the existing
levy will allow the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office to:
Maintain 84 jail beds opened since initial passage of the levy. This has reduced the number of prisoners released early into the community by approximately 91%. The deputies patrol areas of the county that are home to 150,000 residents who did not have regular police protection before the levy. Continue Sheriff’s expanded drug enforcement program to arrest drug traffickers and those involved in drug-related crimes such as identity theft, property crimes, child abuse, and child neglect. Levy support has allowed the sheriff’s enhanced drug enforcement program to take 72 children into protective custody. This measure would cost 24.8 cents per $1000 of assessed value. The cost would be approximately $4.13 per month, or $49.60 per year, on a $200,000 home. It is estimated the proposed rate would raise $9,755,230 in 2012-13, $10,047,890 in 2013-14, $10,349,330 in 2014-15, $10,659,810 in 2015-16, and $10,979,600 in 2016-17.
