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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 2015
WARRENTON VALEDICTORIAN
Brianna Marsch
Graduate’s high school:
Warrenton High School
Continuing education: I will
continue my education at Oregon
State University to earn a degree
in zoology and animal sciences.
Community/school involve-
ment: I was the president of
student council my senior year,
the president of NHS (National
Honor Society). I also help with
Warrenton Kids Inc., and work
as a server/busser/hostess at the
Astoria Golf and Country Club.
Scholarships: I have received
the Sandy Adams Softball Schol-
arship through Warrenton Schol-
arships Inc. program, and I have
applied for many, many more.
Sports: I play volleyball and
softball. I have been on varsity
for both sports since my sopho-
Cannon
Beach has
big ticket
budget items
By ERICK BENGEL
EO Media Group
If the City Council passes
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2015-16 budget in its current
form tonight, the city can look
forward to a handful of capital
improvement projects taking
shape around town fairly soon
— from street and sidewalk
renovations to emergency
preparedness measures.
Consequently, City Manager
Brant Kucera said he anticipates
more expenses than revenues in
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get, which may rise about 8.5
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budget, from $13,508,389 to
$14,659,865.
However, the city’s fund bal-
ances are large enough to absorb
the loss and still have a robust
amount remaining, he told the
budget committee.
“We absolutely need to
maintain healthy fund balances.
That’s key. That’s critical,” he
said. “But you also need to rein-
vest those fund balances into the
community.”
General fund
• The ongoing renovation of
City Hall: $50,000;
• Repairing and rehabili-
tating the surfaces of the city’s
downtown tennis and basketball
courts: $40,000;
• Constructing a new plaza
at the west end of Second Street
with benches, low lighting and a
rebuilt sidewalk: $35,000;
• Hooking up water, power
and wastewater services to the
cache container sites and assem-
bly sites, plus installing antennas
at both the north-end and south-
end emergency cache container
sites: $33,000.
RV Park enterprise fund
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phase project involving a re-
placement of the RV Park’s
electrical and water systems
and a sewer upgrade. The
project also includes the in-
stallation of 50-amp service
and water pedestals at each
RV pad and repaving roads
and pads:
Phase No. 1: $220,000;
Full project: $450,000.
Water enterprise fund
• The replacement of two
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plant: $85,000.
Roads fund
• Reconstructing the Spruce
Street blocks between First
and Third streets to make them
ADA-accessible: $75,000.
Water, sewer and roads
funds:
• Repair of the public works
garage: $30,000.
Utilities
Though many people tend
to focus on the general fund,
Kucera stressed that enterprise
funds — basically, water and
sewer — are “just as critical to
running the city as the police
and administration.”
Cannon Beach has about
1,700 residents, but, “if you look
at the number of visitors that we
get here, we function like a city
of essentially 10,000 people a
year,” he said.
A tourist community’s pop-
ulation can be a rather deceiv-
ing number because it is “not
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of what government actually
needs to do for the residents,”
he said.
more year. I have
member all of the
also played club
bus rides for sports
volleyball for four
and band, and I
years, as well.
will miss it. I will
Favorite class
remember the time
and teacher: I
we won state band
have many favor-
for 3A my junior
ite teachers, but
year and senior
I will have to say
year.
my favorite teach-
Advice for suc-
er is Mr. (Steve)
cess? My advice
Porter (in biology)
for success would
for believing in me
be to persist and
and helping me all
never give up. Life
these years. My fa-
gets hard some-
Brianna Marsch
vorite class would
times, but it does
be zoology, which
no good to lay
Mr. Porter taught as well.
down and be the victim. Grab
What will you remember the bull by the horns and take
the most? I will remember most command. Blaze your own trail
all of the memories I have made and do whatever it takes to put
with my closest friends. There yourself in the best position to
isn’t just one thing. I will re- achieve your dreams.
WARRENTON SALUTATORIAN
Shaden Moss
through
Gateway
Continuing
Ed-
Lodge No. 175.
ucation:
Attending
Sports:
Cross
Brigham Young Uni-
country, track and pep
versity in the fall. Plan-
band.
ning to get a bachelor’s
Favorite class and
degree in mechanical
teacher: Band with
engineering and ad-
Mr. McClure.
vance into aerospace
What will you re-
engineering through a
member the most?:
master’s program.
I will most remember
going to cross country
Community/school
camp with the team
involvement: Band,
last summer. We fell
pep band, National
in the river while in-
Honor Society, Key
Shaden Moss
ner-tubing, which was
Club, Boy Scouts of
fun, and in the middle
America, early morn-
ing seminary through The Church of of camp they had a small birthday
celebration for me.
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Advice for success? Work hard,
Scholarships: Brigham Young
Grant, North Coast Scholarship stay motivated, get enough sleep
Foundation
Scholarship,
Dick and food, don’t overwork yourself
and Harriet Baldwin Scholarship and prioritize.