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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, MAY 21, 2015
Nursing: Clatsop
is the ninth
college to join
the consortium
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The work for a bach-
elor’s degree moves be-
yond the basics of nursing,
Sansom said, focusing on
leadership, outcomes man-
agement, population-based
care, epidemiology and
clinical experience during a
practicum.
“Any clinical expe-
riences are coordinated
to occur in the student’s
community,” Sansom said,
adding students would
work with local practicing
nurses during their practi-
cums.
Sansom said Clatsop is
the ninth college to join the
consortium, which also in-
cludes six campuses of the
OHSU School of Nursing.
Several of the college’s
15 nursing students being
pinned June 12 have al-
ready been accepted into a
variety of bachelor’s pro-
grams, Sansom said. In the
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most locally.
Donna Larson
sop Community College.
Donna Larson, the col-
lege’s vice president of
academics and student af-
fairs, said it has had a simi-
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which local students can
get a bachelor’s from the
McMinnville institute.
She said the college has
articulation
agreements
with Eastern Oregon Uni-
versity for the college’s
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with many of their classes
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“We’re working with
art,” Larson said, adding
the college is preparing
to talk to the University
of Oregon, Oregon State
University, the Art Insti-
Emerging
tute of Portland or another
partnerships
institution to help students
The partnership with pursing a bachelor’s in
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nursing program or for Clat- brainstorming stage.”
Parking: Port staff
would research a
parking plan
replaced by Timothy Ramis
at Tuesday’s meeting. Ramis
Kaup said regardless of the said he hoped the Port would
equipment, the Port needs to schedule a performance re-
make sure it enforces a park- view for Jordan Ramis. “I
ing policy, which he added would hope we do it in an ex-
would be easier with the new ecutive session so we can all
machines. Fick said the Port be straightforward,” Ramis
should use a collection agen- said. Knight said a Port Com-
cy for people who do not pay mission workshop two weeks
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Knight said staff would re-
• During public comment,
search a parking plan and Englund reminded the Port
bring a recommendation back that it is 13 months from a
to the Port.
deadline — June 30, 2016
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new items popped up at the treatment system as part of
meeting Tuesday:
its recent Tier II stormwater
• Financial Manager Jim monitoring designation by the
Grey said Moss Adams LLP Oregon Department of Envi-
is working fast to reach a Fri- ronmental Quality after years
day deadline to release the of high levels of copper emp-
Port’s 2013-14 audit, adding tying into the Columbia Riv-
it would likely come out later er. Englund asked where the
in the month. It was due Dec. money is coming from to pay
31 but delayed as the Port had for the stormwater treatment.
accountants comb through its Knight said he does not know
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curacy.
a stormwater system to cover
• The Port’s former law- the entire central waterfront,
yer, Ronald Guerra from the including copper and the
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Flood maps: ‘What’s at
stake is millions of dollars’
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inundation to areas that have
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“What’s at stake is millions
of dollars,” Warrenton Mayor
Mark Kujala said. “This is about
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development codes in the city of
Warrenton and Clatsop County
as a whole.
“The most important thing
that a city does is public safety,
so we’re very concerned about
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like anyone is in Clatsop Coun-
ty.
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stand the economic impacts of
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mapping. And we’ve seen a lot
of inaccuracies.”
Kujala sent a letter to FEMA
this week explaining the agen-
cy’s modeling does not match a
review by Coast and Harbor En-
gineering, an Edmonds, Wash.,
consultant hired by the cities
and county.
Kujala offered to work with
FEMA to resolve the dispute
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nalized. But the mayor also de-
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bureaucratic process,” and said
he would appeal for help from
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.,
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore.,
and U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonami-
ci, D-Ore.
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sought to counter FEMA’s new
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been under pressure to improve ter elevation of nearly 13.5 feet,
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the National Flood Insurance a “data point generated from
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stable. FEMA has tried to en-
Brett Estes, the city man-
“We want to just get it right,”
Kujala said. “We want to make
sure that what’s done is based in
science.”
ager in Astoria, said the pro-
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not historically experienced
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He also said calculations for
so-called “velocity zones,” areas
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waves could push water over the
riverbank, “could have impacts
on existing development along
the waterfront with regards to
rates and the ability to continue
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dition to impacts on any future
development along the water-
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Tongue Point: Multiple parties interested
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was more than $6.2 million.
The property has attracted
interest from multiple pri-
vate parties. The Port would
need private support for the
hundreds of millions of dol-
lars Executive Director Jim
Knight and others have esti-
mated are needed to modern-
ize the site.
Most recently, Huy Ying
Chen, the head of a federally
approved immigrant inves-
tor group based in Kirkland,
Wash., was trying to put to-
gether a deal to buy North
Tongue Point. But he and the
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ments about the nature of
their talks, which have not
advanced. Knight said he has
not heard from Chen since he
came to Astoria in March.
Lease to buy
The Port last seriously
looked at buying the proper-
ty in 2008, trying to get loans
from the county, revenue
bonds and lobbying the federal
government.
But the Port ended up in a
lease, for which it pays Mon-
tana-based Washington Devel-
opment Company $350,000
a year through 2019, with an
option to buy at the end.
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in October 2009 stipulated that
to buy the property before the
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would be an early termination
fee equaling 50 percent of the
remaining lease value. The
lease also stipulated that if Port
makes capital improvements
worth more than $50,000 to
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the site, the investment will
be deducted from the purchase
price. The 2014 appraisal
showed about $1.7 million in
improvements by the Port and/
or Washington Development
Company.
Another appraisal of
the fair market value of the
property would be required
before the Port can buy the
property, according to the
lease agreement. The ap-
praisal would include the
revenue generated from the
site, former Port Director
Jack Crider said in 2009 af-
ter signing the lease.
A fair price
Knight concurred with
Hunsinger’s assessment of it
being the right time.
“I need to go in as ful-
ly armed as I possibly can,”
Knight said, adding that the
Port needs to convey the short-
comings of North Tongue
Point to Washington Develop-
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development costs.
The Port would likely have
to go out for a bond of some
type to buy the facility. Port
Commissioner Robert Mushen
said it would likely take another
year or two for the Port to gain
credit with bonding agencies.
The agency is relatively in
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waiting for its 2013-14 audit
from Jim Lanzarotta of Moss
Adams, LLP. Ironically, Lan-
zarotta was last reviewing the
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it was discussing the purchase
of North Tongue Point.
Commissioner
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Fulton said the Port also needs
to look at whether North
Tongue Point is in a coast-
al high hazard zone subject
to high velocity water, also
known as a VE zone, which
could restrict development.
“I think Bill has a good
point about it being key for
development, but this VE zone
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adding that he wonders where
the money is going to come
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Scott McClaine, owner of
Clatsop Coin, attended the
meeting and during public
comment said that if he won
the lottery, he would also like
to buy North Tongue Point.
He asked why, if Washing-
ton Development Company is
such a huge company with the
infrastructure to make North
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