Wednesday, April 15, 2015 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
City fills vacancies on boards
By sue stafford
Correspondent
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Jack Nagel, a 36-year resi-
dent of Sisters and former
business owner, was tapped to
fill the vacancy on the Plan-
ning Commission created by
the resignation of Alan Holz-
man. The Sisters City Coun-
cil made three new appoint-
ments to existing vacancies
on committees at their April 9
meeting,
Tim Clem, an architect,
will serve out the nine-month
vacancy on the Parks Advi-
sory Board. One of three
vacancies on the Budget
Committee will be filled by
William Hall, current chair of
the Community Assets Com-
mittee. Two vacancies remain
on the Budget Committee,
which usually meets two to
three times during the last two
weeks of May, to review the
proposed budget for the com-
ing fiscal year.
Lynne Fujita-Conrads,
City finance officer, reported
that three contracts are up
at the end of June, the close
of the City’s fiscal year. She
asked for direction from
Council regarding a possible
two-year extension to the
contracts for the City attorney
and the City insurance agent.
The City engineer contract
requires a new request for
proposal. Council will discuss
the possible contract exten-
sions at their next workshop.
Patrick Davenport, com-
munity development direc-
tor, received approval from
Council to proceed with plans
for development of a business
owner survey to be conducted
this summer, giving owners
an opportunity to share their
opinions about a number of
issues that affect their busi-
nesses. The City is especially
seeking input from those busi-
ness owners who do not live
within the city limits and are
therefore unable to vote on
City matters. The survey will
provide a tool for encouraging
communication between all
business owners and the City.
Due to McKibben
Womack’s resignation from
the Council, effective April
30, 2015, Council is asking
interested parties to apply for
the remaining two years of his
term by submitting an appli-
cation to City Recorder Kathy
Nelson by April 20. Appli-
cants must have been a resi-
dent within the city limits for
the last 12 months and be a
registered voter. Applications
are available on the City’s
website, www.ci.sisters.or.us,
in the announcement section
of the home page. For more
information, Nelson can be
reached at 541-323-5213 or
knelson@ci.sisters.or.us.
Prior to the Council meet-
ing, at a joint workshop of the
City and Deschutes County
Councils, Roger Lee, execu-
tive director of Economic
Development for Central Ore-
gon (EDCO), reported that
EDCO has assisted in bring-
ing seven successful business-
development projects to Sis-
ters that have created 77 new
traded-sector jobs and $3.5
million in new capital invest-
ment. Traded-sector busi-
nesses are those whose goods
and services are sold to cus-
tomers outside of Sisters and/
or the region, bringing money
into the city from outside the
area.
Caprielle Foote-Lewis,
Sisters’ EDCO manager,
is currently working on 27
pending projects and is also
assisting commercial busi-
nesses that are considering
relocating to or expanding
in Sisters. That assistance
is unique to Sisters within
Central Oregon because of
the importance of commer-
cial businesses to the city’s
tourism. In other cities in the
region, the EDCO staff focus
solely on traded-sector jobs.
Foote-Lewis has also
worked on several strate-
gic projects with the Sisters
business community, includ-
ing the establishment of Sis-
ters Tech and conducting an
inventory of existing indus-
trial space.
The Ford Family Foun-
dation, Rural Development
Initiatives, and EDCO are
sponsoring an upcoming
Sisters Country Economic
Vitality Summit on Friday,
May 8, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at
FivePine Conference Cen-
ter. The event is free and
open to anyone interested in
the economic vitality of the
region. For more informa-
tion contact Foote-Lewis at
541-977-5683.
In other County news,
Anna Johnson, public com-
munication coordinator for
Deschutes County, announced
the formation of a 16-person
committee to spearhead the
creation of the Deschutes
County Centennial Celebra-
tion in 2016. They are look-
ing for a representative from
Sisters to join the committee.
Their next meeting is May 12.
Those interested may contact
Johnson at 541-388-6570.
Book store welcomes
authors to Sisters
Paulina Springs Books
will welcome a couple of
noted authors in very differ-
ent fields this month
On Friday, April 24 at
6:30 p.m. at Paulina Springs
Books in Sisters, bestsell-
ing Oregon mystery author
Phillip Margolin will pres-
ent his new novel, “Woman
with a Gun.” In this thriller
set in Oregon, the Pulitzer
Prize-winning photograph
“Woman with a Gun,” show-
ing a bride facing an expanse
of ocean with a six-shooter
held behind her back, sparks
the imagination of aspiring
novelist Stacey Kim — espe-
cially when she learns that the
woman in question was sus-
pected of killing her million-
aire husband on their wedding
night.
What does the photogra-
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