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2A ܂ WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2018 ܂ APPEAL TRIBUNE Oregon tree shines bright at Capitol Visitors photograph the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree, a noble fir from Oregon, after a lighting ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. House Speaker Paul Ryan listens to Bridgette Harrington as she recites a poem before the lighting of the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree. SAUL LOEB, AFP/GETTY IMAGES ERIK S. LESSER/ EPA-EFE Council Sears, 69, will begin his second term in January. He is a Colorado State Univer sity graduate with a degree in civil engi neering. His 26year career with Marion County included running solid waste management, as well as directing the Public Works Department for about six years. In that role, he oversaw waste management, planning, building in spection, the county’s fleet, animal con trol, code violations and more. “When I retired 11 years ago, I had the unique opportunity to give back to the community,” he said. “I felt I understood most of the jobs the city does – except, perhaps, policing.” Sears said he sees the world through an engineer’s lens – which is “a blessing and a curse” – and has made infrastruc ture his focus. On the city’s transporta tion plan committee, he’s now helping craft the matrix by which projects are ranked. He’s also on an advisory com mittee for Highways 213 and 99E to the Oregon Department of Transportation. To him, Silverton’s most pressing in frastructure needs are a new water treatment plant, the installation of a pump station to get water there from Silver Creek in event of problems in Abi qua Creek, dredging of Silverton Reser voir to expand storage capacity, repairs to aging sewer pipes, and an overhaul of McClaine Street. He’s expressed concern over the openditch storm drainage system in “Mill Town,” Silverton’s Northside Addi tion and repeatedly proposed expand ing the Urban Renewal District to in clude parts of it so the neighborhood can get extra funding for projects there. Continued from Page 1A Ninetyeight percent of those remain ing ended up passing their medical ex ams, and they remain a tightknit group, Neideigh said. Her career path led from cardiology at Charleston Area Medical Center, to student health at Western Oregon Uni versity, to Kaiser Permanente in 2012, where she now works nights and week ends, seeing everything from “coughs and colds” to “broken bones, stitches and abscesses.” Her husband, a firefighter, also works nontraditional hours. The couple re turned to Silverton from Salem in 2013 and now happily shares childrearing duties with Neideigh’s two sisters and their families, who also live in town. She started attending council meet ings when she grew concerned about the traffic and demands on city infra structure she expects new homes in the Pioneer Subdivision will bring. She wanted to make sure the city is only al lowing “controlled, smart” growth be cause “the decisions right now could significantly affect the future of Silver Jim Sears Dana Smith ton,” she said. She also opposed the council’s pro posal to change city code to allow for more homeless housing communities like the one envisioned by members of St. Edward’s Episcopal Church. Instead of changing language in the city’s code, she favored a narrow conditionaluse permit allowing cottages for homeless women to be placed in the church’s parking lot. “I really felt like there were a lot of so lutions that were designed to bring the community together that were not tak en advantage of,” she said. “There is no diversity on our council, and we need diversity to come to the best solution.” Jim Sears Returning council member Jim ss These G i M ’t r ea n o t D Dana Smith bo t Ku a Savings! L2501HST WITH LA525 LOADER • 24.8 Gross HP † , 3-Cylinder Kubota Diesel Engine • 4WD • Hydrostatic Transmission (HST) • Performance-Matched Implements Available $0 DOWN, 0% A.P.R. FINANCING FOR UP TO 60 MONTHS ON SELECT NEW KUBOTAS!* Councilor Dana Smith, 59, also earned voters’ approval for a second term. She plans to continue chairing the Environmental Management Commit tee and working on affordable housing issues, as the council looks like to create two working groups that will address homelessness and affordable housing separately. Trained as a civil engineer, she sees her familiarity with building practices and codes as one of her best assets, she said. She’s particularly interested in promoting accessory dwelling units, ADUs, as a “smaller solution with lower impact on infrastructure” to bring hous ing costs down for residents who can’t afford rent and purchase prices in Sil verton. “I think it’s an underutilized ap proach,” she said. “No one’s promoting KX033-4R1A • 24.8 Gross HP † , Kubota Diesel Engine • Strong Bucket Breakout Force OVS AURORA 19658 HWY. 99 E. HUBBARD, OR (971) 216-0111 www.ovs.com • 800-653-2216 STORE HOURS: Mon–Fri: 8–5 • Sat: 8–Noon community together that were not taken advantage of. 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According to the Oregon Government Ethics Commission, the investigation settled with Smith’s payment of $100 for failing to disclose she has an ownership interest in a small company seeking to build communal living cottages in town before she took part in a council discus sion about its sewer connection. She’d recused herself from a prior discussion about the cottage develop ment and said later she thought the sewer project’s size and scope – affect ing more than a dozen households – made it OK to for her to discuss. “In the future, if something comes up where I have an obvious financial stake, I will step down (from the conversa tion),” she said. “If it’s a bigger, citywide issue – as I feel the sewer thing was – I will participate. If I need to claim a pos sible conflict of interest, then I know what to say now.” To Place an Ad Classifieds: call 503-399-6789 Retail: call 503-399-6602 Legal: call 503-399-6789 Web site: www.SilvertonAppeal.com Missed Delivery? 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