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majority of Oregon’s 74 del-
egates and provide a boost to
his populist campaign.
Kentucky Democrats also
vote Tuesday.
Minimum wage
Although Oregon recently
approved a three-tiered mini-
mum wage that puts the even-
tual top rate at $14.75 an
hour in the Portland area but
sets lower bars in rural and
coastal regions, Sanders said
his administration would try
to raise the federal wage even
higher.
Asked if this goal is realis-
tic, given that a relatively pro-
gressive state like Oregon rec-
ognizes regional economic
disparities, Sanders delivered a
variation on his stump speech.
“What I have said is that I
want to see an America where,
if somebody works 40 hours a
week, they are earning a living
wage, and to my mind a living
wage is $15 an hour,” he said.
“I don’t think we can get there
tomorrow, but, if elected presi-
dent, I will do my best to make
sure that, within the next sev-
AP Photo/Ryan Kang
Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., pauses while audi-
ence members cheer during a rally in Springfield in April.
eral years, $15 an hour mini-
mum wage is the law in every
state in this country.
“I think, that’s where we
should be striving for,” he con-
tinued, “because what we are
seeing in this country is grow-
ing income and wealth inequal-
ity. People on top are doing
phenomenally well, while mil-
lions of Americans are working
longer hours for low wages.
“So the goal here is a liv-
ing wage for every Ameri-
can worker, and that is, to my
mind, 15 bucks an hour.”
Economics
With respect to the need
for balance between the North
Coast’s traditional economy
based on ishing and logging
and the demand to conserve
those natural resources, Sand-
ers acknowledged the dilemma.
“That is the challenge,” he
said. “I think we are all — I
hope all of us are — concerned
about the environment, and yet
we’re also concerned about
good-paying jobs. And I think
what this requires is a very
strong cooperative relation-
ship between the federal gov-
ernment, the state government
and the local government.
“Right now, at a time when
the middle class of this country
is disappearing, and we’re see-
ing more and more income and
wealth inequality, there has to
be a very signiicant focus on
the creation of good-paying
jobs.”
He added that the need for
jobs is why he introduced leg-
islation, the Rebuild Amer-
ica Act, to put people to work
repairing the country’s infra-
structure — roads, bridges,
water systems and wastewater
plants — while building a rail
system.
“Jobs, to my mind, are very
important. There’s gotta be a
balance, as you indicated. But
we also need to rebuild our
crumbling infrastructure, and
when we do that, we can create
a heck of a lot of jobs in Ore-
gon and throughout this coun-
try,” he said.
Why Sanders?
Asked how Oregonians
would beneit from a Sanders
administration, the presiden-
tial hopeful pointed to a suite
of proposals that would impact
the entire nation rather than
Oregon speciically:
Instituting a $15 national
minimum wage; making pub-
lic colleges and universities
tuition-free; demanding that
the country’s wealthiest peo-
ple and largest corporations
pay more taxes; guarantee-
ing healthcare for all citi-
zens through a Medicare-for-
all plan; combating climate
change; and helping to lead
the world in moving energy
systems away from fossil
fuels and toward sustainable
energy.
“So I think what you’re
looking at is an administra-
tion prepared to stand up to
the greed of Wall Street, to
the greed of corporate Amer-
ica, and create a government
that begins to work for all of
us, not just the 1 percent,” he
said.
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cities have struggled to ind
solutions. Economic experts
have cautioned that the lack
of housing could hinder
job growth and economic
development.
The units in Cannon Beach
would be for people in the
area’s median-income, not
low-income, range. The hous-
ing is for residents who make
75 to 105 percent of the coun-
ty’s average income, City Man-
ager Brant Kucera said.
Carleton said the two sites
would be similar in construc-
tion costs, and would both
require city zone changes.
“This is what the city might
do, if they wanted to, on these
properties,” consultant Teri
Silva said.
Since February, the task
force has been brainstorming
ways to close the city’s work-
force housing gap.
“This is the irst hope I’ve
had of seeing anything concrete
coming out of any of the dis-
cussions we’ve had in the past
year and a half,” Kucera said.
“I think we should do them
both,” resident and task force
member Ken McQuhae said.
Carleton Hart Architecture/Submitted Graphic
Carleton Hart Architecture/Submitted Graphic
A design option for potential affordable housing units that
cover part of the Spruce Street parking lot in downtown
Cannon Beach.
One design option for potential affordable housing units
elevated over the Spruce Street parking lot in downtown
Cannon Beach.
“We could continue to have
these discussions for the next
10 years if we wanted to, but
we need a starting point.”
The task force, formed to
make recommendations to
increase affordable housing, had
its irst meeting in January 2015.
A 2014 Cannon Beach hous-
ing needs survey found 92 per-
cent of restaurant owners and
79 percent of hospitality busi-
ness owners said inding hous-
ing is a problem for employees.
“We have staff right now
that are critical to what we are
doing that cannot ind a place
to live and might not be able to
work for us this summer, which
The city can’t grow with-
out affordable housing, Kucera
said, adding, “I think these will
be sold out before they’re even
built.”
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provides serious issues for us as
a business,” said Jason Menke,
co-owner of Sea Level Bak-
ery. “We can’t operate without
them.”
Menke said he was encour-
aged by the designs, and sug-
gested that the affordable hous-
ing units be open for small
business owners like him to
lease and rent to employees.
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said Todd Johnston, task force
member and Northwest Oregon
Housing Authority executive
director. People have returned
vouchers the housing author-
ity gave them since there is no
housing available.
Potential sites
Residents offered sugges-
tions and concerns during the
public comment period.
Downtown
businesses
may oppose the Spruce Street
housing due to fewer parking
spaces, resident Nancy McCa-
rthy said, and a plan for parking
is needed.
“To me, it looks very ster-
ile compared to what we have
here as a community,” Jan Sie-
bert-Wahrmund said. “I don’t
think it’s a good idea to put
everyone together. I would
much rather be in a neighbor-
hood that has different income
levels around.”
Siebert-Wahrmund ques-
tioned placing the Spruce
Street housing in the tsunami
zone and whether the city had
enough water to service new
units. She asked for greater
community input.
“It’s not as simple as it
seems to be talked about
today,” she said.
Moving forward
Silva said the city could
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keep the units affordable by
putting strict, speciic regula-
tory restrictions on the lease.
Potential renters could be
screened to make sure they
work in Cannon Beach and
meet certain criteria.
The next task force meeting
is June 8.
Silva plans to run numbers
to see if the concepts are inan-
cially feasible, as an estimated
cost is not yet known, and will
prepare a document with the
group’s recommendations for
the City Council. Mark Barnes,
the city planner, will consider
potential city code adjustments
to make the designs possible.
“Know that all of this is con-
ceptual,” Silva said.
Affordable housing will be
discussed at the city’s strate-
gic planning sessions at the end
of May. Kucera said the coun-
cil will likely consider “at least
one of those concepts.”
Rents would pay for the
mortgage to build the housing,
so the development would be
no cost to taxpayers, Kucera
said after the meeting.
Because the units would not
be federally subsidized low-in-
come housing, the city would
fund the development.
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