This year (2013), the City Club of Portland will be studying “Oregon’s Property Tax System.” The bibliography to that future report will be useful indeed.
(City Club of Portland has produced many excellent, readable, and debatable (in the best sense of the word), reports.)
In the meantime, here are some other Oregon Property Tax System reports to get you started:
Visit the Oregon Judicial Department (soon to be the Oregon Judicial Branch) for updates on court holidays and closures.
You can find lists of House and Senate committee assignments in Current Press Releases, starting Dec. 21, 2012, although some leadership appointments were announced earlier.
These appointments can change so make sure you also follow the Legislature’s website, which will soon reflect these appointments and other preparations for the new session as Legislators (and espcially their expert design, layout, and content specialists) build the 2013 session webpages.
Report to the Oregon Legislature: “OJD study of historical funding for programs formerly paid for through court fees”
Full title: Report to the Legislature: HB 4168 (ch 48, Or Laws 2012): OJD study of historical funding for programs formerly paid for through court fees: county mediation/conciliation and law library programs, December 2012, Oregon Judicial Department.
Note: this report does not factor in the fund reductions that occurred in some law libraries pursuant to SB 1579 [2012 Oregon Laws 107 § 74].
The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) has posted their 2013 Legislative Session calendar for each state.
Read the Status of the Oregon eCourt Program report.
You can find the report and more at the State Library’s Reports to the Oregon State Legislature
To read more about eCourt, visit the OJD e-Court website.
We’re pleased, and very excited, to announce that our new, collaborative, Oregon county law libraries Oregon Legal Research website went live last week.
And what a journey it has been, with the generous and nurturing (and pro bono!) support from the best friend public law librarians ever had, Justia. It’s been a long and interesting journey, which we’ll write up one day soon – and post to the website, but not until the journey is complete.
In addition to continuing work on the website, note that the new WordPress Oregon Legal Research Blog won’t go “live” until the current Blogger Oregon Legal Research blog is fully migrated to WordPress. We still have lots of librarian work to do on it (taxonomies, oh my), but again, we bow down willingly and gratefully to Justia‘s patient and skilled teaching and technical staff. They create miracles that make us look good, really, really good.
Running a nonprofit is serious business requiring serious business and nonprofit management skills.
Colleges and universities offer classes on nonprofit management, e.g. the Institute for Nonprofit Management at PSU, and so does the Nonprofit Association of Oregon.
This one on Nonprofit Financial Fundamentals is coming up in January 2013 at a Beaverton location.
Oregon Vote-by-Mail Elections
Your ballot must be RECEIVED at an Elections drop-off location by 8 p.m., November 6th, 2012.
To locate the nearest ballot drop-off location:
Oregonian v. The Honorable Nan G. Waller and State Of Oregon
(Filed October 24, 2012 (Multnomah County Circuit Court 091116280, Court of Appeals A148488))
“BREWER, J.
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