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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 2016
Port sets new development,
inancial goals for coming year
North Tongue
Point, expelling
sea lions also
among priorities
cating metal railings to line the
docks. Knight said he was told
by the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration the
strategy has proven effective at
other marinas.
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
Three of the commissioners
said ixing the Port’s main piers
on the central waterfront should
be one of the highest priorities.
The Port recently allocated
$300,000 to make emergency
repairs on Pier 2. A large portion
of the pier’s eastern dock was
put on a 3-ton weight restriction
after an inspection by the state
Department of Transportation,
which recommended closure of
the dock by July if the Port could
not make signiicant repairs.
To repair the deteriorated
western dock of Pier 2, the Port
has requested $4.8 million from
the state’s ConnectOregon VI
infrastructure grant program.
Estimates to repair the entire pier
have ranged above $10 million.
The Port of Astoria Com-
mission voted Tuesday to
focus on developing North
Tongue Point, improving
dredging, expelling sea lions
from the East End Mooring
Basin and repairing its docks,
ixing crumbling piers and fur-
ther improving the agency’s
inances as priorities for the
coming iscal year and beyond.
Commissioners provided
several priorities they felt the
agency should focus on in the
coming year.
Alex Pajunas/The Daily Astorian
Development of North Tongue Point is a Port priority for
the upcoming fiscal year.
Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian
Sea lions occupy the docks at the East End Mooring Ba-
sin. The Port wants to remove the animals and bring in
paying customers.
Dredging
“The Port of Astoria is the
recipient of everybody’s sedi-
ment from upstream,” said Per-
mit and Project Manager Rob
Evert, reporting on the Port’s
dredging operations over the
past year.
The Port spent more than
$400,000 over the past year
dredging more than 130,000
cubic yards of accumulated sed-
iment from around its piers to
accommodate ships. The agency
is looking at whether to con-
tinue dredging with the 44-year-
old vessel Felkins, buy a new
dredge or seek outside help.
Todd Kimball, an accountant
from CFO Selections working
with the Port, presented a cost
analysis showing the agency
spent $3.07 per cubic yard
to dredge sediment this year.
The cost would rise to $3.26 if
the Port performed signiicant
maintenance on the Felkins, and
to $4.55 if the Port bought a new
dredge.
Port staff estimated a bid
from Ross Island Sand and
Gravel Co. in Portland would
cost $8.42 per cubic yard, and
the U.S. Army Corps of Engi-
neers $8.89. Higher contracting
costs are largely associated with
moving a dredge to and from
Astoria.
Sea lions
The Port has been waging a
mostly losing battle for a couple
of years to expel sea lions from
the docks at the East End Moor-
ing Basin and ill them with pay-
ing moorages. Four commis-
sioners agreed that battle should
continue as a high priority.
The agency has tried every-
thing from surveying tape and
beach balls to inlatable air
dancers and a fake orca, but
to little avail. Students from
Knappa High School are fabri-
Baby chickens, ducklings
and a turkey were killed Mon-
day morning when a shed on
a property in Gearhart caught
ire.
The cause of the ire is
undetermined, but ireighters
are pointing to a heat lamp in
the shed for the baby chickens
and ducklings that may have
started the ire.
Residents of the property
on the 89000 block of West
Anderson Road were not
home at the time. A neighbor
reported the ire and Gearhart
Volunteer Fire Department
responded at about 9:30 a.m.
The shed was fully engulfed in
lames and is considered a total
loss. No other buildings were
damaged.
Gearhart Fire Chief Bill
Eddy said some of the baby
chickens and ducklings were
able to get out. It is unknown
how many were killed,
since the shed was com-
pletely destroyed and unsafe
for ireighters to enter and
investigate.
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Finances
After iring former Finance
Manager Colleen Browne and
Facilities Manager Tammi Her-
man, Knight hired Finance
Manager Jim Grey and Staff
Accountant Will Isom.
The Port, unsure of its inan-
cial igures dating back to 2013,
failed to turn in a required audit
to the state by the beginning
of last year. Knight contracted
with CFO Selections to comb
through the inances, check the
accuracy and help prepare the
Port for future audits.
The Port hired account-
ing irm Moss Adams, which
reported in January that the Port
had improved its net inancial
position by more than $1 mil-
lion between July 1, 2014, and
June 30, as part of a three-year
positive trend.
The Port is upgrad-
ing its accounting and prop-
erty management software,
and purchased a high-perfor-
mance server speciically for
inances, as it tries to build more
advanced analytics to help man-
age business.
Baby chickens, ducklings killed in shed ire
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PROFESSIONAL
Fixing piers
Tongue Point
The Port’s lease on North
Tongue Point from Missoula,
Montana-based
Washing-
ton Development Corp. is up
in 2019. Four commissioners
agreed Tuesday that the Port
should buy the land.
The site encompasses about
30 acres of tarmac, several in-
ger piers jutting into a shipping
channel off the Columbia River
and access to a derelict rail
spur. The Port has entertained
a myriad of grandiose propos-
als there, from exporting wood
products and agricultural com-
modities to dismantling ves-
sels and importing cars, but
has so far done no better than
tread water on a facility many
have said will cost more than
$100 million to modernize.
Executive Director Jim Knight
recently said the Port has sev-
eral interested parties.
The agency also has sev-
eral tenants located there,
including J&H Boatworks and
Paciic Seafoods, which tem-
porarily relocated there after
the company’s plant in War-
renton burned down. The com-
pany is planning to move back
to Warrenton by next year.
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