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Port: System at Tongue Point will cost $60,000 Seaside: Public safety is
North Tongue Point
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Knight said there is also
renewed interest from Asto-
ria Forest Products, which
processes and stores logs on
Pier 3 and transports them
to Pier 1 for export, in help-
ing with the system. The log
exporter had initially seemed
willing to help but broke
off talks with the Port when
issues around a requirement
to use union labor to trans-
port logs between the piers
lared up.
Knight said Astoria Forest
Products has started absorb-
ing the cost of the “ghost rid-
ers” who ride in the passen-
ger seat of log trucks as they
travel between piers, a con-
dition of labor agreements
the Port has with the Interna-
tional Longshore and Ware-
house Union. The Port had
been forced to subsidize the
longshore labor to keep log
exports rolling.
Astoria Forest Products
uses private contractors to
transport logs, but Knight
said the company is looking
into acquiring its own trucks,
which longshoremen would
drive.
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Robert Evert, permit and project manager for the Port of As-
toria, collects samples along Pier 2. The Port is required to
have a stormwater treatment system after experiencing high
amounts of copper in storm runoff into the Columbia River.
Cleansing shells
The Port contracted envi-
ronmental consulting irm
Maul Foster Alongi to design
the stormwater system.
The plan is to create a
bioswale with settling ponds
to remove suspended solids
from runoff, and a gabion
cage illed with oyster, crab,
clam and other shells to
help ilter out metals. Shells
have a high concentration
of calcium carbonate, which
when released into water
helps absorb and precipitate
metals.
Ada Banasik, an environ-
mental engineer with Maul
Foster Alongi, told the Port
Commission Tuesday she is
researching whether dredge
spoils sitting in mounds on
Pier 3 can be used to build an
embankment for the settling
ponds. But the dredge spoils
need to be tested for copper
and how well the material
will compact.
The project could cost
around $1 million if the Port
can use the existing soils,
she said, but much more if
not.
The Port Commission
approved two work orders
Tuesday with Maul Foster
Alongi. One, for $24,600,
will help complete engi-
neering and bidding for the
central waterfront project.
Another, for $20,000, will
help pave the way for another
stormwater collection sys-
tem the Port recently learned
it has to implement at North
Tongue Point, also by the end
of June.
Knight said the Port
received notice mid-March
that Tongue Point had
received high copper read-
ings during the same period
of time as the central water-
front. Disparities between
reports from the lab and to
the state kept the problem
unknown, he said, but placed
an identical timeline on the
Port to install stormwater
treatment at Tongue Point.
The system at Tongue
Point will cost about
$60,000, Knight said, and
mostly revolve around
improving the facility’s catch
basins with shells and other
methods to keep metals from
leaching into the river.
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the city’s No. 1 expense
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The reason is completion of
work on North Holladay Drive.
“Next year we don’t have a
North Holladay project, so the
amount of expenditure is going
to go down by $3.4 million.”
Winstanley said.
An improved economy has
helped the city build up reserves,
he said, and community devel-
opment — building and plan-
ning departments — moved
into the black a year ahead of
schedule.
“Financially we’re in much
better shape,” he said. “When
the economy tanked in 2008, it
caused signiicant problems not
only for the private sector, but
for the public sector also. We’re
back in a position where our
reserves are pretty good and we
don’t have to worry if there’s a
downtick.”
Public safety remains the
city’s No. 1 expense, Winstan-
ley said.
The Seaside Police Depart-
ment’s proposed budget of $3.4
million represents the largest
portion of the $4.4 million Pub-
lic Safety total. Fire Depart-
ment expenditures are about
$731,000, with lifeguard and
courts costs completing the sum.
The preliminary budget sets
aside about $225,000 for the
Bob Chisholm Community Cen-
ter Main Hall refresh, Winstan-
ley said, with another $80,000 of
the project cost coming from the
partnering Sunset Empire Park
and Recreation District.
Capital projects
Two major capital proj-
ects loom on the city’s horizon
— the Avenue U Bridge and
a proposed Seaside Civic and
Convention Center renovation
— but the impact will not be felt
in the new year’s budget.
Representatives of the con-
vention center went before the
City Council in April with plans
for a $15 million upgrade to
accommodate more guests and
update facilities.
That renovation is not in the
budget as councilors have yet to
weigh in on the plan.
“They might say we’re not
prepared to do a renovate, in
which case it doesn’t require
any budget adjustment,” Win-
stanley said.
If the city does approve a
project, costs could be paid “a
number of ways,” including a
bond, he said.
The city is in the design
phase to replace the Avenue
U Bridge at an expected cost
of about $3.5 million, Win-
stanley said, as Seaside awaits
responses for federal or state
funding. “My experience is that
a lot of times when the federal
government starts passing down
money, ODOT (Oregon Depart-
ment of Transportation) says, ‘If
you’ve got a project ready to go,
we’ve got some funding.’”
But, he added, “I don’t know
if they’re going to give us any at
all.”
Other factors
The city has budgeted
$27,000 from its general fund
for donations and contributions.
Where those funds are headed
will be the subject of future
Budget Committee meetings.
While cigarette taxes gener-
ate $7,000 in revenue and the
city receives $1,800 in liquor
license fees, taxes from the city’s
three cannabis dispensaries will
not be budgeted next year.
“The state of Oregon has
been fairly clear on this,” Win-
stanley said. “They’re going to
keep it all until they decide that
they’re going to pass some of
it down. I’m going to wait for
them to pass it down before I
start budgeting money for it.”
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