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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2015 NORTH COAST 3A One turtle improves, one dies Consult a PROFESSIONAL NEWPORT (AP) — Au- thorities say a sea turtle found hypothermic and emaciated last month on a southwest Wash- ington beach is improving at a Newport aquarium. A second cold sea turtle, found Friday on Washington’s Long Beach Peninsula, was dead on arrival Monday evening at the Seattle Aquarium. Oregon Coast Aquarium spokeswoman Erin Paxton in Newport said Tuesday that the olive ridley turtle named in water last weekend and has warmed up to her ideal body temperature of 75 degrees. She’s - cial Jim Burke says that while spits out the nutrient-packed gel food supplement she’s offered. Burke says putting the tur- tle in a rehabilitation pool con- buoyancy issues that prevent her from diving below the wa- ter’s surface. He says this is a common ailment for distressed turtles and he hopes the issue resolves itself. The turtles were found far from the temperate waters of their normal winter range. Cannon Beach Tongue Point: PD unveils Nice but spendy Port mulls what to do with property strategic plan Foot patrols will become a priority By NANCY MCCARTHY The Daily Astorian CANNON BEACH — Longtime resident and former Cannon Beach City Councilor Sam Steidel was sworn in as the city’s mayor Tuesday night. Steidel, who ran unop- posed in the November gen- eral election, replaces Mike Morgan, who served as may- or for six years. The new mayor thanked beginning the City Council meeting. During the meeting, Po- lice Chief Jason Schermer- horn presented a master plan for the police department that includes a new mission state- ment and several goals. “We started developing this three years ago with a community forum and some ‘coffee with a cop’ events,” Schermerhorn told the coun- cil. “It contains the expecta- tions the community has for us as well as expectations from the police department.” The department’s three strategic goals are: • Increase community contact through foot patrols and participation in commu- nity events; and effectiveness of depart- ment operations; • Establish a working en- vironment that encourages teamwork, empowerment, communication and profes- sional development. Among the core values contained in the plan is a statement that the depart- ment “embraces diversity in all its forms, and vows to treat all individuals equally, with empathy, compassion and respect.” Schermerhorn said the department will, among other projects, increase downtown foot patrols and check local bars more often. The citizens police academy, which he directed while working for the Seaside Police Depart- ment, will be expanded to include all law enforcement agencies in Clatsop Coun- ty. The department also will assume responsibility for the Community Emergency Response Team, which the Cannon Beach Fire & Res- cue had been supervising. The department’s strengths, according to the plan, include an attitude that other, a positive communi- ty perception, an emphasis maintaining a low crime rate. However, the plan notes that the department’s weaknesses include a lack of experience, too many calls, a lack of op- portunity to move up in the department and complacen- cy. Opportunities to over- come those weaknesses, however, include partner- local businesses, exploring “lateral mobility” that would detectives and dealing with the increasing volume of tourists in town. The plan notes that “inter- nal and external” threats also exist that aren’t under the de- partment’s control. By being aware of them and devel- oping programs to respond, however, the department can “greatly reduce the potential for loss,” the plan says. Those threats include employee retention, a tsuna- center, mental health issues, change and community per- ception. During the community forum held in November 2013, those attending said the department’s highest priority should be patrols, including foot and bicycle patrols and building and business checks. That prior- ity was closely followed by public assistance, including home security checks, mo- torist assists, animal control and enforcing the city’s nui- sance ordinance. Emergency response ranked third on the list of community priorities, and that was followed by com- - forcement and criminal in- vestigations. By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian Port of Astoria Executive Director Jim Knight asked the Port Commission Tues- day: What should the Port do with North Tongue Point? “I’d appreciate hearing your opinion about Tongue Point,” Knight said, adding that the Port would estab- lish the parameters of dis- cussions with the multiple groups that come forward with proposals for the land. Nice idea, no money North Tongue Point, somewhere between 30 and 40 acres, includes five finger piers, a rail spur and Colum- bia River channel access and more than 140,000 square feet of World War II-era hangar space meant for an amphibious U.S. Naval base. The Port Commission unanimously voted Sept. 29, 2009, to execute the lease on North Tongue Point with the Missoula, Mont.-based Washington Group, lasting 10 years. The majority of the Port Commission agreed that while the property has great potential, the Port doesn’t have the money to unilater- ally improve it into a mod- ern shipping facility, which Knight said would take hun- dreds of millions of dollars. “Tongue Point is the only future for us right now,” said Commissioner Bill Hunsing- er, referencing the area’s freedom from building re- strictions in the Astoria Riv- erfront Vision Plan. The land has rail and deep water ac- cess to things that can’t be regained if the Port walks away, he said. Hunsinger supports buy- ing North Tongue Point, on which the Port’s lease from Washington Group runs for more than $300,000 annually. The Port has spent about $1.6 million on lease payments, said Knight, and has a fairly equal amount to pay in rent on the remainder of the lease. It has had multiple suitors for the property, but nothing has materialized in a deal. “It’s a good location, but the Port can’t afford it them- selves,” said Commissioner James Campbell, a previ- ously stated proponent for keeping the lease at North Tongue Point. Campbell has been a tenant of the property since 1980 through Camp- bell Towing & Marine Con- struction. Commissioner Robert Mushen said the worst thing to do would be to walk away from the lease, adding that while the Port doesn’t have the money to develop it, the best option is to find a part- ner that does. Commission Chairman John Raichl said that while he knows the least about the Tongue Point lease, he agrees it’s a dysfunctional property with potential that the Port should only stay in if it doesn’t jeopardize what the public already owns through the Port. He recom- mended including the public in the decision. The Port should get a consultant to tell it about shipping trends and the pos- sibilities for North Tongue Point, said Commissioner Stephen Fulton. A private port? Knight said industry ship- pers are looking at ways to privatize port operations. He asked commissioners if they’d be willing to privat- ize North Tongue Point if it would ultimately create more jobs than are already there and improve the prop- erty. Oregon has been a pio- neer in keeping its water- way public, said Mushen, and he’d hate to see Tongue Point go private, even if it created some extra tax rev- enue. The Port needs to protect the multiple hundreds of jobs at North Tongue Point, he said, requiring any part- ner to guarantee that em- ployees would hire locally and provide continuity. Pa- cific Coast Seafood’s tem- porary plant subleased from Del Mar Seafoods accounts for most of the jobs, along with J&H Boatworks, J.E. McAmis Inc., NRC Environ- mental Services and others. 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