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0 V1N39VIAI )IOVia ZOl.090 31V1S 3383VS Saturday, June 1 2002 The Sacramento Bee A3 Capitol California Oracle probe chief blasted Brad Cheshire, a California state parks aide, prepares to place a sign recently at the Granite Bay entrance to Folsom Lake. Due to budget woes, state officials estimate one in five lifeguards will be cut. At Folsom Lake State Recreation Area, rangers say nearly a third of the 25 to 27 summer water watchers will be cut. Sacramento Bee Randy Pench mm Fewer Lifeguards to the Rescue Budget troubles blamed for state beach cuts An executive of the company lashes out against a delay in the testimony of employees. By Amy Chance BEE POLITICAL EDITOR An Oracle Corp.

executive, outraged that a state legislative committee has postponed its plans to take testimony from company officials, lashed out Friday at what he called unfair and politically motivated treatment from the lawmaker leading the effort. Ken Glueck, Oracle's vice president for government affairs, held a series of media interviews to protest that Assemblyman Dean Flo-rez, D-Shafter, has thus far refused to let the company present its side of the story. Florez is chairman of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee, which is leading an inquiry into a $95 million state computer software contract with Oracle that the state auditor has criticized. Glueck said he considers the committee's approach "outrageous treatment for a California company." "I think we are in a perfect storm," Glueck said. "Florez is beholden to nobody.

He wants to run for statewide office. He's in the newspaper every day. This is a made-for-TV movie this guy is running at our expense." Florez could not be reached for comment Friday. Speaking on the one-year anniversary of the day the state signed its deal with Oracle -the final day of the company's fiscal year -Glueck said the company wants the opportunity to show that the contract as written was a good deal for the state. Glueck also answered questions on issues the company had previously refused to discuss.

He said a $20,000 political contribution from the company to Gov. Gray Davis in February was issued by mistake by an accounts payable clerk. He said the clerk discovered the error and stopped payment on the check, which was reported but never cashed by the Davis campaign. Oracle lobbyist Ravi Mehta last year delivered a $25,000 check from the company to Davis' then-director of e-government shortly after the contract was signed, fueling questions about the deal. "It is just stupid to suggest the state is going to spend $100 million and make a 10-year com- ORACLE, pageA4 By Carlos Alcala BEE STAFF WRITER Heather Tukua found a prime spot to sunbathe when she went to Beals Point at Folsom Lake this week.

Finished with the semester at California State University, Chico, she spread her beach blanket out on top of a lifeguard tower, then spread out to get tan. "All of them were empty, so I figured, why not?" Tukua said. Indeed, all the towers were empty of lifeguards, and they will stay that way most days this summer. Facing a riptide of state budget troubles, California's state beaches along the Pacific and at inland reservoirs like Folsom are cutting back. State officials estimate one in five of the approximately 600 seasonal lifeguards will be cut.

Those left will be working fewer hours. At Folsom Lake, nearly a third of the 25 to 27 summer water watchers will be cut. The Folsom Lake State Recreation Area will only staff two of the four beaches it normally guards, and only staff those on weekends and hoi- idays. "It surprised me," Tukua said. "I'm from Long Beach, and they always have lifeguards on the beach.

I would just assume they would have lifeguards." They would, if they had money, but the California Department of Parks and Recreation is expected to see $4.8 million cut from its $270 million budget. Park usage continues to climb, with more than 90 million visits to the states 267 parks in 2001. The cuts will affect more than lifeguards. Each local park district will determine the budget impact, which should not hit the permanent rangers but could affect maintenance and other services. That prospect was more worrisome to Julie Ruff of Roseville, who was at Beals Point with some friends and their small children.

"If there's trash, and it's nasty, I don't want to hang out," Ruff said. "But the lifeguard thing doesn't bother me." State park lifeguards had to rescue 7,400 people last year, state officials said. BEACHES, pageA4 Sacramento BeeA.C. Santos Folsom resident Matt Nevens tosses his son Jacob, 3, into the air Friday at Beals Point, where lifeguard service is planned only for weekends. Credit monitor considered Rebounding CTA eyes ballot plan "I'm absolutely serious," the CTA president says.

State officials recommended at the time that individual employees take steps to monitor their personal finances and consider putting a fraud alert on their credit files. But the state response has led to cries from state employees and their unions asking the state to do more. State officials met Thursday with at least one marketer of credit monitoring services. The company and others offer a range of services that use mail or e-mail to let users know when credit has been sought in their name or with their Social Security number. Brian Murnahan, a spokesman for the recently formed Office of Privacy Protection, said Friday that he knew "prices have been asked for." A spokesman for Experian, one of the three major credit bureaus and a marketer of credit monitor- SECURITY, page A4 The state may pay for the service after a hacker gained access to workers' information.

By Ed Fletcher BEE CAPITOL BUREAU The state is considering purchasing credit monitoring services to protect state workers who may have had their Social Security numbers and other personal identity information exposed as a result of a computer security breach. An April 5 security breach at a state data center may have exposed personal identity information of 265,000 state employees. The possibility that outside access to the information could have occurred was discovered by the controller's office May 7 and publicly disclosed May 25. By Jim Sanders BEE CAPITOL BUREAU Thwarted in the Legislature, California's largest teachers union will consider launching a ballot initiative to expand collective bargaining into textbook selection and other academic matters. California Teachers Association President Wayne Johnson said his group's polling has shown that roughly 70 percent of voters favor giving teachers more control over issues affecting their classrooms.

AB 2160, a controversial bill to accomplish that CTA goal, was heavily amended to prohibit expansion of collective bargaining but still failed Thursday to win passage in the Assembly. The measure was shelved without a floor vote, effectively killing it. "I'd be less than honest to say we're not looking at (an initiative)," Johnson said Friday. "If you can't do it one way, you look at doing it another. Voters might be asked to approve either jointly or as separate initiatives an expansion of collective bargaining rights and a requirement that California raise per-pupil funding to the national average, Johnson said.

Two years ago, the CTA threatened a similar measure to increase per-pupil spending. After TEACHERS, pageA4 Levy's legacy: Missing adults starting to have their own advocates dent and founder of The Nation's Missing Children Organization and Center for Missing Adults. By her count, 30 different agencies are equipped to help families of missing kids. But away, the disgruntled spouse who plots a getaway. And then there are the cases that truly baffle.

"It's consuming our thoughts and minds. I've never been through any MARJIE lundstrom cially where the person has a medical or psychiatric history. Eventually, some families are simply left to fend for themselves. Al Andres is paying an attorney and a private detective to track his daughter's 1994 disappearance. DoriLynne Andres of Cloverdale was last seen dropping off her two children, 6 months and 2, at her mother's home in Petaluma before setting off for truck driving school in Los Angeles.

She never returned. Police in Petaluma eventually passed the case to Cloverdale police, who he says will not return his calls. "We need to get closure," said Andres, who now lives in Pennsylvania. "From the kids' standpoint, they're asking: 'Where's my mother? What happened to They need to know she didn't abandon them because she didn't love them." The Bee's Marjie Lundstrom can be reached at (916) 321-1055 or mlundstrom sacbee. com No one goes looking for a "silver lining" in a case as awful as Chandra Levy's.

But if there is one thread of insight, a lesson amid the anguish, it is this: There are Chandra Levys everywhere adult women and men who abruptly vanish, ripping giant holes in the lives of family and friends. Some you hear about. Most you do not. America has long obsessed over its missing children, with little faces staring out of group posters and Advo mailers. Yet until Chandra, we've been less absorbed by the plight of missing adults.

That's changing. This month, after years of unsuccessful lobbying in Washington, D.C., a Phoenix-based group is set to receive a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Justice Department to run a national clearinghouse for missing adults. "This is a segment of the victim population that was definitely under-served," said Kym Pasqualini, presi light prayer service at the hospital. Early on, the missing woman's friends found their way to the Carole SundCarrington Memorial Foundation, which put up a $5,000 reward and counseled them on how to keep pressing the case and attracting essential media attention.

"We got things rolling fast," Flores said. Getting publicity has been tougher for the family of Angelina Evans, a 26-year-old Sacramento woman last seen May 22, 2001, near Stockton Boulevard. Her aunt, Dottie Kriske, acknowledged that her pregnant niece "wasn't in a very good scene," but the family is desperate for answers especially since she left behind five kids. "It's kind of frustrating, especially with Chandra Levy and everything," Kriske said. "You feel guilty because you haven't done a candlelight vigil and things like that." For law enforcement, part of the problem is the very fact the missing person is an adult.

Privacy considerations thwart some inquiries, espe missing adults? Only a couple, she said. "There's this attitude that, if it's an adult gone missing, they probably wanted to go away anyway," said Al Andres, whose 22-year-old daughter disappeared in California in 1994. Last year, 841,276 missing persons were reported to the FBI's National Crime Information Center, of whom nearly a quarter were over age 18. In Sacramento, police logged 313 missing-person reports in April, about 30 percent of them adults. Of those, 44 were considered to be "at risk." Their circumstances vary the Alzheimer's patient who wanders thing like this," said Marcie Flores, a close friend and colleague of emergency room nurse Jan Scharf, who disappeared last month.

Scharf, a Cameron Park resident who works at UC Davis Medical Center, last spoke to her daughter May 14. Her car was found May 19 outside her Folsom health club. But no Jan Scharf. Flores and a handful of close friends and family members have seized the disappearance with the same fervor as the Levy family calling news conferences, organizing fund-raisers, creating a hotline (916-734-1370) and, on Sunday, hosting a 7:30 p.m. candle OUTPUT: 053102 21:35 USER: DSWEENEY BEEBR0AD MASTER 03-04-01.