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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, MAY 23, 2016
Gearhart’s vacation rental plan gets scrutiny
State examines
plan to show
tax returns
By R.J. MARX
The Daily Astorian
GEARHART — Gearhart
is ready to enact regulations
on vacation rentals, but a key
aspect of the proposal may
undergo further review.
A plan to require short-term
property owners to show proof
of iling a 2015 state lodg-
ing tax return with the state
Department of Revenue is still
uncertain.
“We still need to have con-
versations with them how
about how exactly we would
be able to partner to make this
happen,” Bob Estabrook, pub-
lic information oficer with the
Department of Revenue, said
Friday.
Gearhart already charges a
7 percent lodging tax and Ore-
gon requires a state lodging tax
of 1 percent be paid on a quar-
terly basis.
After July 1, that tax will
increase to 1.8 percent, with
the additional funds to pay for
state tourism promotion and
the Eugene Civic Stadium.
According to the Gearhart
Planning Commission pro-
posal, property owners who
can show they paid their state
lodging tax in 2015 will be eli-
gible to apply for a vacation
rental permit, as long as they
meet city standards for off-site
parking, septic systems and
other health and safety codes.
Conidentiality
“The thing that makes this
tricky is that our lodging tax
information about taxpayers is
kept at the same level of con-
identiality that it is for per-
sonal income taxes,” Esta-
brook said. “So we don’t have
a way we can share with the
city, ‘These people are compli-
ant, these people are not.’ The
system would have to be set up
in a way where taxpayers get
some kind of certiication from
us and then they could provide
that to the city.”
Short-term rentals require
the iling of a quarterly return
for the period in which the
house is rented as an income
property, Estabrook said.
If the property is only
rented during certain months,
a return would be required for
those months only.
“If you’re a hotel and open
365 days a year, you’re iling
returns for every single quar-
ter,” Estabrook said. “People
with one home or two homes
may not always have a reason
to ile.”
What kind of system Gear-
hart oficials set up is “up to
them,” Estabrook said. “We
want to have some kind of
conversation about what kind
of information they’re going
to get in what we’re able to
certify. There’s not going to
be any kind of enforcement
mechanism for us because we
don’t have a role with local
lodging taxes or permitting.
A recommendation
“The Planning Commis-
sion has gone through their
paces and made a recommen-
dation to the City Council, but
it’s just that — a recommenda-
tion,” City Administrator Chad
Sweet said. “They did a lot of
heavy lifting and went through
a lot of these regulations, and
really honed them down. Now
it’s up to the City Council to
go along with the regulations,
change the recommendations,
or to come up with something
completely different. That’s
their prerogative.”
The regulations “look
solid,” Sweet said.
“Common sense regulations,
the safety rules, limiting the 30-
or 60-day sign-up period, set-
ting the limit at what that comes
to, are all probably going to do
well,” Sweet said. “The attrition
factor will also do well to bring
it to the number the community
sees it over time.”
The plan does not allow
homeowners to transfer their
short-term rental permit after a
property is sold.
“I think we’re very prelim-
inary in talking with them,”
Estabrook said. “This is a new
path they’re trying to blaze
in terms of getting a connec-
tion between local govern-
ments and the state tax. It’ll
take some thinking and talking
to igure out how we might be
able to do that. We don’t have
a, ‘We think that’s a good idea
or a bad idea’ opinion. It’s
something from an adminis-
trative perspective we need to
work out with them.”
The City Council plans to
discuss the proposed short-
term rental rules in July.
New Cannon Beach ire chief wants to bring out potential
Benedict to
take the helm
By LYRA FONTAINE
The Daily Astorian
CANNON BEACH —
After an in-depth selection pro-
cess, former Pendleton ire mar-
shal and Helix ire district chief
Matt Benedict has accepted the
position of ire chief at the Can-
non Beach Rural Fire Protection
District.
“I’m just excited to be here,”
he said. “This is the last step for
me, to become a ire chief in a
large organization.”
Benedict, 47, will begin June
1, but is currently in Cannon
Beach transitioning into his new
position with Interim Fire Chief
Jim Stearns.
His salary will be $80,000.
A start in Pendleton
Cannon Beach has been
Benedict began his career in
without a permanent ire chief 1994 as ireighter paramedic
since October, when for- for Pendleton Fire District. He
mer chief Mike Balzer was was promoted to lieutenant
dismissed.
paramedic, captain paramedic,
“The department
then assistant chief
seems to have a lot
and ire marshal in
of potential,” Bene-
2014. For six years,
dict said. “I want to
he was also chief of
help them get to that
the Helix ire district.
point to bring out all
“We’re
really
the potential to make
excited to have Matt
us one of the pre-
here,” Stearns said.
mier agencies on the
“He brings profes-
North Coast.”’
sionalism and a drive
Benedict
was
in the ire service
chosen out of 20
that I think will be
Matt Benedict
applicants
from
very beneicial to the
across the coun-
community.”
try. He emerged as one of three
Benedict started in Pendle-
inalists after interviews from an ton when Stearns was Hermis-
area ire chiefs’ panel and a Can- ton’s ire chief.
non Beach citizen panel.
“I’ve had the beneit of
knowing Matt since he started
in the ire service,” Stearns
said. “I was in a neighbor-
ing agency and got to watch
Matt come up through the
ranks pretty quickly within the
organization.”
Born and raised in Portland,
Benedict said he is excited to
live on the North Coast, where
he vacationed as a child. He
also looks forward to being
closer to family in Portland.
“The people I’ve met down
here have been very friendly
and have so far welcomed me
to the community,” he said.
After selling their Helix
home, Benedict and wife
Amanda, an emergency room
nurse, will rent or buy in the
Cannon Beach area. They
have four children who will
visit often.
Man sentenced for attempted sex abuse
The Daily Astorian
A Clatskanie man was con-
victed Friday for attempting to
sexually abuse a 13-year-old girl
when he was 18 and living in
Knappa.
Dillon Jacob Leroy Sutton,
22, was sentenced in Clatsop
County Circuit Court to 30 days
in jail and four years probation.
If he violates probation, he could
face three years in prison.
Sutton pleaded no con-
test last month to irst-degree
attempted sex abuse, a class C
felony. Other charges of sec-
ond-degree rape and second-de-
gree unlawful sexual penetra-
tion were dismissed.
The attempted sex abuse
occurred in February 2012. Sut-
ton was arraigned on the charges
in November.
As part of his sentence, Sut-
ton is ordered to have no contact
with the victim or her family, and
he must register as a sex offender.
Corporate sales
tax heads to
November ballot
Union-backed
measure would
help inance
education,
health care
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — The union-
backed Our Oregon has sur-
passed the threshold for sig-
natures required to place a
corporate sales tax measure on
November’s ballot.
The campaign has col-
lected 125,000 signatures
and planned to submit the
last batch to the Oregon sec-
retary of state’s ofice Friday
for veriication, said Our Ore-
gon spokeswoman Katherine
Driessen.
Only 88,184 signatures are
required to place the measure
on the ballot.
“Everyone is pretty thrilled,
and it is a real showing of sup-
port for our campaign,” Dries-
sen said. “Our volunteers are
fanning out around the state
and really talking to voters
everywhere and feeling the
goal of the campaign resonates
with Oregon citizens.”
The next step for the cam-
paign is to build support for the
measure, she said. Supporters
hope to see the $5.2 billion in
biennial revenue from the tax
go toward education, health
care and senior services.
Business groups have
strongly opposed the mea-
sure, saying the tax will drive
up consumer prices and erode
private sector jobs. The Leg-
islative Revenue Ofice is
scheduled to report on the pro-
jected impacts of the corporate
tax during legislative hearings
Monday.
The report will examine
the effects on wages, private
and public sector employ-
ment, prices and other eco-
nomic indicators.
Sales over $25 million
Often referred to as a
gross receipts tax, the 2.5
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steep tax increase.
State Sen. Mark Hass,
D-Beaverton, proposed an
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his bill never reached the
loor of either chamber.
“I think after Monday it
will start to get real,” Hass
said of the upcoming report.
“I think there is a chance
for a compromise, and I
think there is an opportunity
for sensible people to get
together to look at coming up
with an alternative to what
is going to be a very conten-
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D-Tualatin, said in April that
he is working on alterna-
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percent levy would apply
to certain corporations with
annual sales exceeding $25
million. The tax would affect
about 1,000 of Oregon’s
30,000 corporations, said
Legislative Revenue Oficer
Paul Warner.
But business leaders said
the trickle-down effect of the
tax — in the form of higher
prices — will hurt consum-
ers, employees and busi-
nesses of every size.
“Everywhere you have a
gross receipts tax of this nature
the consensus among econ-
omists is who pays it is you
and me and small business and
families, and we think that pic-
ture will be painted very viv-
idly on Monday — that Ore-
gon families are going to be
paying this $5.2 billion tax
increase,” said Ryan Deckert,
president of the Oregon Busi-
ness Association.
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