Bashaw v. Bear Creek Valley Sanitary Authority

The question to be decided is whether defendant sanitary authority must use federal grant money and other unused capital to make payments on its bond issues before it may exercise its taxing power for this purpose.

Plaintiffs, ten owners of property taxable by the Bear Creek Valley Sanitary Authority, appealed to the Oregon Tax Court pursuant to ORS 294.485 for a declaration that a proposed tax levy for fiscal year 1977-1978 of the sanitary authority contravened the Local Budget Law, ORS 294.305 — 294.520. The Department of Revenue intervened on the side of the taxpayers.1 The tax court agreed…