Wednesday, August 19, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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City snapshot
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
" City staff has shared with
Council their draft version of
a resolution rejecting hateful
acts in our community and
welcoming, serving, and pro-
tecting residents and visitors
without regard to race, origin,
religion, income, gender, sex-
ual orientation, or immigra-
tion status. Council made a
few suggestions for the word-
ing and directed staff to place
the resolution on the August
26 regular meeting agenda for
consideration for adoption.
" An AmeriCorps intern
will be on the job with the
City during the first week
of September. Emily Shoup
will be dividing her work
hours between the update to
the Comprehensive Plan and
implementation of the Sisters
Vision Plan.
" Three Sisters Holdings,
LLC, is requesting approval
of a Zoning Map Amendment
and Comprehensive Plan
Amendment to rezone and
re-designate the property
at 800 W. Barclay Dr. from
Urban Area Reserve to Light
Industrial. The Planning
Commission will hold a pub-
lic hearing at their August
20 meeting at 5:30 p.m. The
applicant is also propos-
ing text amendments to the
Comprehensive Plan related
to the subject property and
industrial land needs. The par-
cel of land is part of the Forest
Service property lying on the
north side of Barclay Drive
(approximately 13 acres).
" A community website is
being designed by the City to
fill a current gap in connectiv-
ity to resources in the commu-
nity (see related story, page
17). It is being designed with
the help of funding from the
Ford Family Foundation and
will be a place to announce
meetings, volunteer opportu-
nities, and to share resources.
The goal is to enhance com-
munity connectivity, one of
the four main goals of the
Sisters Vision Plan.
" A snow-removal contract
has been put out for bid by
the City. There are two sec-
tions included and bids can
be made for both or either the
north or south section. Public
Works Director Paul Bertagna
said the forecast for the com-
ing winter is for wet and cold
weather.
" The work on Well #4
is ramping up and work is
scheduled to be completed
by early October. Aeration
improvement is underway at
the City9s sewage treatment
plant, increasing the ability
to treat excess sewage and
doubling the City9s treatment
capacity to 2.3 to 2.5 million
gallons a day.
" The annual City
Community Grants will be
awarded at the August 26
Council meeting. The City has
$40,000 (double last year9s
amount) available for disper-
sal. There have been requests
made totaling $94,000.
" Council agreed to
approve a Professional
Services Agreement with
Angelo Planning Group, Inc.
for the Comprehensive Plan
Update in an amount not to
exceed $95,000. The last
update was completed in 2010
and is in need of reworking
and updating to meet current
and projected conditions. The
Comprehensive Plan deter-
mines the direction the City
will take over the next five to
10 years. There will be several
opportunities over the com-
ing months for public input
into the plan. Comprehensive
Plans are a requirement of the
State (see story, page 1).
" An Intergovernmental
Agreement with the Oregon
Department of Transportation
for East Portal acquisition
from the Forest Service sub-
ject to legal revisions was
approved by the Council.
Now negotiations can begin
with the Forest Service on the
price for the property.
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PHOTO BY JIM CORNELIUS
Sisters resident Chris West dropped off several boxes of goodies from Sisters Bakery at the Sisters Post
Office on Monday, as a gesture of appreciation for the staff there. The U.S. Postal Service has been in the
national news as cuts and political contention have made a stressful job considerably more so.
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