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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 2016
Moore: He is 10th manager in 16 years Alameda: Coast
Guard paid for the
speed humps and
installation
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away he is someone that has an intuitive
understanding of the job.”
While he worked in larger mar-
kets, Moore said, his recent experi-
ence in Champaign County has simi-
larities to Clatsop County. The regional
planning commission offers commu-
nity development, planning and early
childhood educational services to local
governments.
Moore led a staff of 215 employ-
ees with a $25 million budget. Clatsop
County has about 200 employees and a
budget of about $60 million.
“They are similar sized,” he said.
“Many of the things we do here, I have
some background in.”
Board of Commissioners Chairman
Scott Lee said he has been impressed
with Moore.
“Cam is coming in with a lot of back-
ground,” Lee said. “He had been man-
aging organizations with hundreds of
employees for a long time. I sensed right
Revolving door
Clatsop County has had a dificult
time retaining county managers. Moore
is the 10th manager to take the helm in
16 years.
That fact mattered to Moore. Through-
out the hiring process, he asked many
people to give their honest assessment
about the revolving door of county man-
agers. He discovered many former man-
agers left on their own, either through
retirement or as a step forward in their
careers. He also heard some left because
their spouses were not happy in the area.
“The answers I got were remarkably
consistent,” he said. “What I heard from
people gave me a comfort level to come
here.”
For Moore, he is putting roots down in
the community. He and his wife recently
bought a home in Gearhart, and they plan
on eventually retiring in Clatsop County.
“This is the last stop in my career, or
as I have said a few times, this is my last
hurrah,” Moore said. “I don’t see myself
leaving here for another job.”
Core philosophy
As county manager, Moore said, his
core philosophy is managing the county’s
inancial and human resources. On the
human resources side, Moore’s priority is
to make sure every county employee suc-
ceeds at their jobs. The more focus put
on helping employees, the more success-
ful the county becomes, Moore said. In
addition, he said, taxpayers beneit in the
long run from a more eficient and effec-
tive organization.
“I think every day about what I can do
while I’m here to create a positive envi-
ronment, to encourage employees and to
recognize the good things they do,” he
said. “This is where I focus most of my
time thinking about these things.”
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The Coast Guard paid
for the speed humps and the
installation, Petty Oficer 1st
Class Levi Read said, “to help
dissuade people from speed-
ing through the neighborhood
where kids like to play.”
City Councilor Drew
Herzig has cited the speed
humps as the latest example
of residents taking the initia-
tive and demanding trafic
safety improvements.
Persistent
complaints
about a confusing intersec-
tion at Eighth Street and
Irving Avenue eventually led
to a new stop sign and other
warnings.
“It’s a good thing, in
their perspective, because
they think it’s going to help
slow trafic down,” Jeff Har-
rington, the city engineer,
said of the speed humps on
Alameda. “Whether it does
or not, we won’t know until
the results are in.”
Rate hikes: The City Commission will vote on proposed budget in June
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‘Not doing due
diligence’
This year, Warrenton’s
water rates rose 15 percent,
sewer rates 2.5 percent.
“This is basically the result
of us not doing due diligence
years past,” City Commis-
sioner Tom Dyer said. “It’s
coming back to us.”
For several years, Warren-
ton chose not to increase rates
at all, though previous stud-
ies advised the city to increase
them by double-digit percent-
ages. During the height of
the Great Recession, the city
increased rates by 5 percent
annually until the city started
implementing
double-digit
hikes two years ago.
“It wasn’t enough, because
we’ve been eating through the
reserves the last ive years,”
Fritsch said. “We are behind
the eight ball.”
‘The costs don’t go
away’
— that does not solve all our
problems,” Fritsch cautioned.
“It really just gives us some
breathing room when we get
into having reserves and a
healthier ending fund bal-
ance, should we get in trouble
again.”
The budget committee will
consider a multiyear plan that
calls for lattening the rate
hikes while borrowing money
and postponing a handful of
capital improvement projects.
The city’s revenue worries
have been compounded by the
loss of three major ratepay-
ers over the last decade: Gear-
hart, Camp Rilea and Paciic
Coast Seafood, which burned
down in 2013 and recently
announced it is returning to
Warrenton.
“It’s good news, obvi-
ously, that we hear that Paciic
Coast Seafood is coming back
An alternate plan proposed
zero debt but a 13 percent
water rate increase and a 9.5
percent sewer rate increase.
Fritsch said the city should
revisit the plan in a couple of
years and see if it needs to be
ine-tuned.
Budge committee mem-
ber Paul Mitchell, marketing
director at Columbia Memo-
rial Hospital, said the commit-
tee ought to focus on the dollar
amount rather than the per-
centage increase.
“It’s the percentage points
which make it look large. It
isn’t the actual number,” he
said. “The number is not that
overwhelming.”
He added that the commit-
tee must sell the positives of
the plan and explain exactly
what the public is paying for
to make the rate jumps more
palatable.
Commissioner Henry Bal-
ensifer said he thinks War-
renton residents “realize that
they need clean water, and that
water needs to be reliable, and
that our infrastructure is not
aging and leaching things.”
The City Commission will
vote on the proposed budget in
June.
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