Wednesday, May 3, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
CORRECTION
City Councilor Richard
Esterman requested retrac-
tion of a story that ran in
the March 29 edition of The
Nugget titled “Council denies
permit fee waiver.” The
Nugget stands by the story
with the following correction:
Esterman is an event pro-
moter. As the story noted,
he made a permit fee waiver
request to the City Council
in March, acting as a private
citizen.
The story stated that “In
the past, and again this year,
Esterman has billed his events
as fundraisers for nonprofit
organizations, and therefore,
under the organizations’
nonprofit tax identification
numbers, filing for the event
permits as nonprofits, which
cost less. (Esterman’s busi-
ness) Central Oregon Shows
is a for-profit business.”
The statement that
Esterman has applied for per-
mits as a nonprofit in the past
is incorrect. While Esterman
has consistently included
charity fundraisers as part
of his shows, this year was
the first time that Esterman
requested that the City waive
an event permit fee and treat
one of his shows as a charity
benefit. The request involved
his Sisters Wild West Show
set for August 19-20. The
request came after the City of
Sisters raised its permit fee to
$390. The council denied the
request, citing concern over
precedent.
According to City records,
Esterman has applied for
event permits listing Make-
A-Wish Foundation and the
Sisters School District as
co-applicants. In both cases,
the entity made clear to the
City that they were not co-
applicants for the events in
question.
In a statement to The
Nugget, Esterman said that
“Central Oregon Shows has
always applied for event per-
mits as a for-profit enterprise,
although a profit is rarely
made. This is the first year
Councilor Esterman applied
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using a charity’s non-profit
status because the funds gen-
erated during the event bene-
fit that particular charity. The
application was rejected, but
Councilor Esterman simply
reapplied and paid all fees
due for a profit event.”
The full text of Esterman’s
statement may be found on
page 2 in the Letters to the
Editor column.
CITY MANAGER: Public
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Michigan. He holds a Masters
of Public Administration
degree from Northern
Michigan University.
Martha Meeker was most
recently the city manager of
McMinnville, Oregon, where
she served for two years. Prior
to her tenure in McMinnville,
Meeker built a distinguished
career in the United States Air
Force, where she rose to the
rank of brigadier general and
held significant management
positions. She holds multiple
masters degrees, including
in operational art and sci-
ence from the USAF Air and
Command Staff College.
David Miller currently
serves as the public works
and community develop-
ment director for the City of
Folsom, California. Miller
has 15 years of upper-level
city management experience,
including as development ser-
vices manager for the Santa
Clara Valley Transportation
Authority, and community
development director for La
Grande, Oregon. He holds
a Bachelor of Arts degree
in Architecture from the
University of Washington.
Bruce St. Denis currently
serves as district manager for
Development, Financing, and
Planning Group, a private
municipal service manage-
ment firm in Tampa, Florida.
Previously, St. Denis served
as town manager for the Town
of Longboat Key, Florida for
15 years. He holds a Master of
Management degree from the
University of South Florida.
See CITY MANAGER on page 7
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