THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2015
NORTH COAST
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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.
The Port’s obligation is
to its current tenants, said
Raichl, and it has to make
sure local jobs are being
created by any venture. He
reiterated the need for more
public input.
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