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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2015
Port tackles pressing issues in proposed budget
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
Port of Astoria staff proposed a
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16 fiscal year at the agency’s first
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Port’s most pressing needs, focus-
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its best opportunities to support its
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online copy of the story at www.
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committee will take comments on
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budget officer would then post a
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The Port of Astoria’s budget
committee will meet Tuesday
at the old Port offices, 422
Gateway Ave., to hear public
comment on the budget and to
approve it.
Budget before audit
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performed by Moss Adams, which had
initially been trying to release it before
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Grey said it’s more likely the audit
will come out near the end of May,
after the Port’s budget committee is
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said the current proposed budget is
balanced and based off what the Port
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Grey said.
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more than what’s been projected for
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proximately $5 million runway im-
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director down to part-time security
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in a “Master Capital Plan” ulti- time jobs, according to the Port’s
mately needed to fix all the is- budget, split between the cen-
sues with its aging infrastructure. tral waterfront, property manage-
From there, staff whittled down ment, marinas, airport, boatyard,
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split between medium and high
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priorities.
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the proposed budget, which calls
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also proposes spending $166,000
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around the runways, also funded RYHUQDYLJDEOHZDWHUV
by an FAA grant.
• $1.1 million on fuel and oil and
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airport is the $436,000 proposed
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longshoremen and Astoria Forest
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‘Eat Healthy’ program High-speed chase ends with arrest
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of Astoria present a program
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cates (CASA) Program,
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come.
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ty women participated in
the project, taking pictures
of things that help them eat
healthy, as well as things that
didn’t. Participants in the
study, who came from all in-
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and their families are an im-
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An Astoria man was arrested in Seaside
Monday night after taking law enforcement
on a high speed chase that began on the beach,
just north of Gearhart.
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without a seatbelt on the beach. When the of-
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took off southbound down the beach at 60
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Sergeant Mike Smith.
Painter, who had a 34-year-old Hammond
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miles on the beach before exiting near Sunset
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which reached 90 miles per hour, Smith said.
Seaside Police unsuccessfully place spike
stripes. Painter then turned on Broadway
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side. He was booked into Clatsop County Jail
at 10:07 p.m. Monday.
He is charged with attempting to elude po-
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felon in possession of a restricted weapon, pos-
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been charged with any crime.
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of similar charges of eluding police, criminal
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