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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2016
Seaside schools
seek advice on
search for new
superintendent
Directors look
for community
input on desired
qualities in new
administrator
By KATHERINE
LACAZE
EO Media Group
SEASIDE — Who will
take charge next fall at Seaside
schools? And what qualities
are residents and district staff
looking for in a new leader?
The Seaside School Dis-
trict Board of Directors plans
to meet with administrators,
staff, students and the com-
munity to decide on qualities
they seek in a new superin-
tendent. Informational ses-
sions will be held through-
out the day Tuesday at the
Seaside High School library,
with a meeting for the pub-
lic at 5:30 p.m. The search
team includes Greg McKen-
zie and Mike Taylor of Nex-
tUp Leadership, based in
West Linn.
Longtime Superintendent
Doug Dougherty announced
his upcoming retirement in
November, but will continue
to serve part-time as superin-
tendent-emeritus to help tran-
sition the new superintendent
during the 2016-17 school
year. Dougherty is expected
to work on a new school relo-
cation bond to be placed on
the November ballot.
Dougherty began his
career with the Seaside
School District as a teacher
at Seaside Heights Elemen-
tary School in 1982. He also
worked as a teacher at Broad-
way Middle School and the
principal of Cannon Beach
Elementary School before
being hired to replace former
Superintendent Harold Rig-
gan in 1998.
Faculty, student and
staff meetings will take
place throughout the day,
conducted by one of the
search consultants. The dis-
trict hopes to have the new
schools leader start July 1.
“It’s not a required meet-
ing for anyone in the dis-
trict,” Executive Assistant
Sally Fran-
cis
said.
“It’s only if
they want to
come.”
Admin-
istrators and
of¿ce staff
Doug
will meet
Dougherty
at the dis-
trict of¿ce
while Associated Student
Body leaders will convene
in the high school confer-
ence room. Maintenance
and food service staff from
all schools will meet at the
high school library.
For those unable to
attend a meeting, a brief
online survey is available on
the district’s website, www.
seaside.k12.or.us, and takes
about 3 to 5 minutes.
The survey seeks infor-
mation on what is “work-
ing well” in the district and
what is not. Respondents
are asked to checkoff qual-
ities important in a superin-
tendent, for example, “good
listening skills,” “empow-
ering leader,” “strong core
values” or “visionary.”
From the information
gathered at the meetings,
the survey and interviews
with community leaders, the
district’s board of directors
will “come up with an idea
of what the district is look-
ing for as far as qualities for
the superintendent” to aid
in the search process, Fran-
cis said.
The board plans to dis-
cuss the information and
adopt a set of quali¿cations
at its meeting Feb. 16.
Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian
Firefighters from Astoria, Warrenton, and Lewis and Clark respond to a structure fire at the U.S. Coast Guard housing
construction site.
Coast Guard housing
¿re under investigation
Two units
damaged in
un¿nished
building
By ERICK BENGEL
The Daily Astorian
The Astoria Fire Depart-
ment and Clatsop County
Fire Investigation Team are
looking into the cause of a
¿re that damaged an unoccu-
pied building in the new U.S.
Coast Guard housing develop-
ment on Culp Court in Astoria
Friday.
At 435 p.m., ¿re crews
were dispatched to 200 West
Klaskanine Ave. near the
un¿nished
development.
When personnel arrived,
smoke was pouring from
Building No. 2.
Auto service center employee
guilty of stealing $20,000
By KYLE SPURR
The Daily Astorian
An employee at a Warren-
ton automotive service cen-
ter pleaded guilty to stealing
more than $20,000 in cash
sales from the business over
nine months.
Brent Douglas Perry, 45,
Seaside, was
sentenced
in Clatsop
County Cir-
cuit Court
Thursday to
¿ve
years
probation. If
Brent
the probation
Douglas
is revoked,
Perry
he will face
four years in prison.
As part of his sentence,
he is required to pay back
$20,639.41 that he stole from
Putman Pro-Lube between
October 2013 and July 2014.
He paid back $10,000
at the time of sentencing.
Because of his cooperation,
payment of half of the restitu-
tion and lack of criminal his-
tory, the District Attorney’s
Of¿ce agreed to the probation
sentence.
In addition, Perry was
ordered to serve 160 hours
of community service and
have no contact with the vic-
tims or business.
He was indicted in Feb-
ruary 2015 on nine counts of
¿rst-degree theft. He pleaded
guilty to ¿ve counts Thurs-
day, before being sentenced.
While working for Put-
man Pro-Lube, Perry thought
he found a loophole in the
system that allowed him to
pocket cash sales without a
record. However, the busi-
ness caught on and reported
the theft to the Clatsop
County Sheriff’s Of¿ce.
Detectives came to the
business undercover and
paid in cash. Video record-
ings showed Perry ringing up
the cash sales, deleting the in-
voices and keeping the money.
The ¿re affected two units
— 963 and 967 — in the four-
unit townhouse-style dwelling
and was declared under con-
trol at 6 p.m. No injuries were
reported.
The incident was called in
under unusual circumstances:
The contractor happened to
notice the smoke on live secu-
rity camera footage from Van-
couver, Washington, where he
is based.
“If he hadn’t noticed it on
security camera and called
(911), it probably would’ve
been a lot more damaged than
it was,” Brett Bishop, a lieu-
tenant with the Astoria Fire
Department, said.
“It was con¿ned to the
building of origin, but it
could’ve very easily spread to
all four of those units because
it’s under construction, and it’s
a lot of open material without
sheet rock,” he continued.
Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian
The contractor owns the
housing development, which
he will transfer to the Coast
Guard once it is completed.
Crews from Lewis and
Clark, Olney Walluski and War-
renton ¿re departments were
also arrived on scene. Mean-
while, Knappa Fire Department
personnel stood by at the Asto-
ria Fire Station to provide ¿re
coverage for the city.
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