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Airport taxing measure may pass.


Byline: LARRY BACON The Register-Guard

A Coos County Coos County is the name of two counties in the United States:
  • Coos County, New Hampshire
  • Coos County, Oregon
 measure to create an airport taxing district flip-flopped and now appears to be passing.

The spread stood at 8,929 to 8,144 Wednesday in favor of the measure, though unofficial final results may take two more days because of a ballot-counting glitch A temporary or random hardware malfunction. It is possible that a bug in a program may cause the hardware to appear as if it had a glitch in it and vice versa. At times it can be extremely difficult to determine whether a problem lies within the hardware or the software. See glitch attack. .

"For the airport and the South Coast area this is good news," said Martin Callery, marketing director for the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay The Port of Coos Bay is a port of the Pacific coast of the United States, located in Coos Bay near the city of Coos Bay, Oregon. It is the largest deep-draft coastal harbor between San Francisco Bay and Puget Sound, and is Oregon's second busiest maritime commerce center after the . "This provides a stable level of funding that allows the airport to move ahead."

Election officials estimated that more than 8,000 of nearly 26,000 ballots cast had yet to be counted.

The countywide airport district, if it becomes reality, will support operation of the North Bend North Bend is the name of several places in the United States of America:
  • North Bend, Nebraska
  • North Bend, Ohio
  • North Bend, Oregon
  • North Bend, Washington
  • North Bend Rail Trail
  • North Bend State Park
 Airport, owned by North Bend and managed by the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay.

The airport provides the only scheduled air passenger service on the South Coast.

A temporary port levy Port Levy is a long, sheltered bay and settlement on Banks Peninsula in Canterbury, New Zealand.

The current population is under 100, but in the mid 1800s it was the largest Māori settlement in Canterbury with a population of about 400 people.
 currently covers the operation of the airport and an adjoining industrial park.

The levy generates about $300,000 a year and runs out in June 2004. Callery said the levy hasn't met the facility's needs.

The new district will be authorized to levy 24 cents per $1,000 of property valuation - an amount expected to generate more than $735,000 the first year.

Callery said the port will continue to manage the airport until next June, then turn over responsibility to a new five-member board of directors after a transition period.

Those directors will come from a slate of 18 candidates on the ballot in Tuesday's election.

The five leading the field were Judy Weeks of Coos Bay Coos Bay (ks), city (1990 pop. 15,076), Coos co., SW Oreg., a port of entry on Coos Bay; founded 1854 as Marshfield, inc. 1874, renamed 1944. , Fred Gernandt of Bandon, and Sue Richardson, Helen Brunell Mineau and Clair Jones , all of North Bend.

A printing error caused thousands of ballots to get "kicked out" of the tabulating machines, County Clerk The term "county clerk" has been commonly applied, in several English-speaking countries, to an official of a county government. United States
Most counties in the U.S.
 Terri Turi said.

To count them, several four-member election boards must review the faulty ballots, enter the results of each one on duplicate ballots and run them through the tabulators, she said.
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Title Annotation:Glitch: A printing error on ballots caused a snag and will slow down unofficial final results.; Elections
Publication:The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Date:Nov 7, 2002
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