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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2016
‘The city of Astoria wants to spend a lot of money on the former
Safeway lot, including building a new library. What do you think?’
“If they want to invest in a great
library, add a law library. It
would help a lot of people who
don’t have access to the books
that are necessary for court,
like ‘Jurisprudence.’ It’s needed
for common people, like you and I, who
can’t afford an attorney.”
THE DAILY ASTORIAN // QUESTION OF THE WEEK
“I think instead of
building a library,
throw that money
at the existing
library’s book
collection.”
“I think they should
consider put-
ting the library in
one of the existing
buildings that’s not
being used instead of
building a new one.”
Jeff Frane, Astoria
Anna Weber, Astoria
Brandie Litts, Scappoose
College hopes to build maritime up at MERTS
below the Royal Nebeker Art
Gallery and a second-story
addition to the Alder Hall
student services building.
By EDWARD
STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
Graphic by SRG Partnership Inc.
Clatsop Community College will request state funding to add a second story to the main
building at the Marine and Environmental Research and Training Station, a vocational
campus east of Astoria.
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Greater investment
Hamilton said the com-
mittee agreed it was time to
ask for more investment in
the vocational campus. The
second-story addition would
double the classroom and
of¿ ce space at the maritime
science building to more than
26,000 square feet, with-
out increasing the building’s
footprint. SRG has estimated
construction would cost
8.65 million, with another
.66 million in indirect
costs.
The proposal by SRG also
includes an option for the col-
lege to buy the 7 acres it leases
from the Oregon Department
of State Lands for the campus
for 500,000 . Duffy said the
state would want the college
to either own the land or have
a long-term lease. The college
has 1 years left on a 20-year
lease.
Hamilton said the col-
lege’s proposal will be blind-
ranked by a select group of
college presidents overseen
by Community College and
Workforce
Development,
along with projects from the
other 16 Oregon commu-
nity colleges. In 2017, the
state Legislature will decide
whether and how much to
fund in bonding for capital
construction at community
colleges.
Center of excellence
“If we become a (mari-
time) center of excellence,
there could be enormous
Servino appointed to transit board
The Daily Astorian
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As Clatsop Community
College tries to become a
national center of maritime
excellence, it will request
state funding to add a sec-
ond story onto the maritime
science and administrative
building at the Marine and
Environmental Research and
Training Station.
The
college
board
approved the request to the
state last week . College staff
are creating a proposal to
send next month to the state
Of¿ ce of Community College
and Workforce Development.
“Anything you’d do today
wouldn’t be funded until
2017,” said Interim President
Gerald Hamilton, adding the
college would have seven
years afterward to raise the
matching funds and have the
addition built.
The request will be for
state bonds like the college
received in 2013 and used
to ¿ nance 8 million of the
16 million redevelopment
at Patriot Hall , which was
matched locally by a general
obligation bond.
Kent Duffy, a princi-
pal architect with SRG Part-
nership Inc., which has
worked with the college on
Patriot Hall and the overall
Jerome Campus Redevelop-
ment Project, presented the
MERTS project and several
alternatives reviewed by a
master-planning committee
of college representatives,
including the expansion of
the Dora Badollet Library,
a two-story parking garage
growth,” Hamilton said.
The college could become
one of the centers under
federal legislation intro-
duced in September by U.S.
Rep. Gene Green, D- Texas,
and co-sponsored by U.S.
Rep. Suzanne Bonamici,
D- Oregon .
The bill would establish a
maritime and energy technical
training grant program to sup-
port workforce training at com-
munity colleges, along with up
to 10 Centers of Excellence
around the country focusing
on expanding workforce train-
ing opportunities and assisting
with job placement.
Donna Larson, the college’s
vice president of academics
and student affairs, said the
designation would lead to new
maritime science programs
such as maritime and diesel
engineering. She said the col-
lege would also need space
to expand its Electronic Chart
Display and Information Sys-
tem, a ship bridge simulator
for operating anything from a
¿ shing boat to a lique¿ ed natu-
ral gas tanker.
In 201, s tate Sen. Betsy
Johnson sponsored legisla-
tion naming the college Ore-
gon’s Maritime Training
College. It is the only com-
munity college in the nation
with a U.S. Coast Guard-ap-
proved Training Ship Pro-
gram authorized to pro-
vide a student with all the
sea service credit required
for an Able Seaman-Special
endorsement. The program
and its yellow training vessel,
the Forerunner, was recently
featured in Professional Mar-
iner, a national maritime
industry magazine.
Sunset Empire Transpor-
tation District’s Board of
Commissioners approved the
appointment of Jim Servino
to the district board at the
January meeting, ¿ lling the
district’s Commissioner No.
7 vacancy.
He is currently the mem-
bership and assistant exec-
utive director at the Asto-
ria Warrenton Chamber of
Commerce.
Servino is very active in
the community, serving on
several committees, includ-
ing being chairman of the
Friends of Astoria Aquatic
Center and chairman of the
Committee to Promote Asto-
ria. He has recently returned
to the Astoria area, where he
raised his family and was the
owner and general manager
of several radio stations.
The Commissioner No.
7 position expires in June
2017 .
BIRTH
Feb. 7, 2016
SCARBOROUGH, Brianna, and FRETS,
Walter, of Astoria, a boy, Silas Robert Frets, born
at Columbia Memorial Hospital in Astoria. Grand-
parents are Jon and Trish Scarborough of Astoria
and Steve and Sophie Frets of Kodiak, Alaska.
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1225 Ave. A, Seaside.
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