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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 2016
Astoria accepts terms of
new Verizon tower lease
Coxcomb Hill
tower to be
relocated at
Reservoir Ridge
By ERICK BENGEL
The Daily Astorian
The Astoria City Council
gave a nod of approval — but
did not vote on — the terms
of a new lease agreement with
Verizon Wireless, which plans
to build a communications
tower at Reservoir Ridge to
eventually replace the tower at
Coxcomb Hill.
Using the Reservoir Ridge
tower, some hardware atop the
Astor Hotel and a monopole
to be built outside city lim-
its, Verizon will service cus-
tomers in the Astoria area. The
city plans to use the equip-
ment to enhance emergency
communications.
Friends of the Astoria Col-
umn, a nonproit working to
preserve the iconic monument
on Coxcomb Hill, persuaded
the council to replace the hill’s
aging tower by building a new
one elsewhere instead of plant-
Power outage
affects more
than 9,100
The Daily Astorian
More than 9,100 Paciic
Power customers in north
Clatsop County lost power at
7:57 a.m. Wednesday, accord-
ing to company spokesman
Tom Gauntt.
The outage affected people
— including in the cities Asto-
ria, Knappa and Svensen —
who get some of their power
from the Bonneville Power
Administration.
Paciic Power was able
to switch power back on for
Knappa and Fern Hill resi-
dents at 8:03 a.m. The bulk of
Astoria came back on at 8:07
a.m.
ing it in the same location.
According to the ive-year
lease agreement, Verizon will
have no monthly payments.
However, the company will
make a one-time payment to
the city of $15,000 for future
maintenance of the road to the
Reservoir Ridge site, east of
the city.
Co-locators looking to use
the tower must obtain leases
from both the city and Verizon.
Verizon’s lease can be
extended ive times for a max-
imum 25-year lease. After that,
the city will own the tower.
City Manager Brett Estes
said the terms are favorable to
Astoria, saving money on con-
struction while meeting the
city’s communications needs.
Police Chief Brad John-
ston, who negotiated with
Verizon on behalf of the city,
said, “We get what we needed,
which is to relocate that tower
and to update the communica-
tions system.”
In addition, Verizon will
extend an existing lease at
Coxcomb Hill for $1,969.64
per month for one year, while
the company works to tear
down the tower there. If the
works spills into a second
year, the igure will climb to
$2,028.73 per month.
With the City Council’s
acceptance of the terms, Ver-
izon — which didn’t have
representatives at Tuesday’s
meeting — may sign the leases
soon and bring them to the
next council meeting for inal
consideration, Estes said.
Meanwhile, Johnston said
he hasn’t heard whether the
company has found another
location for the monopole,
which was originally planned
for Shively Park.
The council rejected the
proposed pole in February
because it didn’t it the historic
site.
going to be spent on build-
ing a pool in Long Beach.
But the city “came to the con-
clusion that they didn’t think
it’s worth the maintenance
and ongoing repairs of it on
a yearly basis,” Doug Knut-
zen, a representative for the
trust, said. “So they turned
this grant down.”
The managers of the trust
reformulated it to partner
with local pools, including
Astoria’s.
“There’s a pretty signiicant
amount of money, and we’re
trying to treat it like a trust.
And, if the world’s perfect, it
may go on forever,” Knutzen
said, adding that “we’d like to
get as many of our residents
over here and in other pools as
possible so we can help them
with their swimming ability.”
He said that beach safety is
especially important in Long
Beach because of drownings
and other crises that occur on
the peninsula.
“It’s kind of an unusual
thing, but it certainly will help
our aquatic center,” Mayor
Arline LaMear said, “and
we’re delighted that your folks
will be able to come over and
enjoy our facilities.”
Aquatic sharing
In other business, the
council approved an agree-
ment with the Verna S. Oller
Aquatic Trust, allowing resi-
dents of south Paciic County
in Washington to use the Asto-
ria Aquatic Center for drop-in
visits and group swim lessons
at no charge to the participants.
The trust will pay for the
visits with the $4 million Oller
bequeathed to the south county
residents.
The money was originally
Coast Guard halts search for 3 aboard plane
Associated Press
BROOKINGS — The
U.S. Coast Guard has sus-
pended its more than
12-hour search for three
people aboard a small plane
that crashed in southern
Oregon.
The agency said late
Tuesday that Cessna
172F pilot John Belnap,
his 17-year-old son Max,
and a 17-year-old friend,
Ryan Merker, remain
missing.
Authorities
believe
the plane crashed into the
Pacific Ocean because a
backpack belonging to
someone aboard was found
on the beach near the
Brookings airport. Other
items believed to be from
the plane also have washed
ashore.
The plane was flying
from Brookings to Grants
Pass late Monday. Curry
County Sheriff John Ward
said the pilot’s wife, Cheryl
Belnap, reported the plane
missing after her hus-
band didn’t arrive home in
Grants Pass.
The last radar ping was
within a few miles of the
airport, Ward said.
The teens attended
Grants Pass High School,
and a vigil was held
there Tuesday night, the
Grants Pass Daily Courier
reported.
Max Belnap is a top
runner at the school, and
Merker recently won a pole
vault completion.
Merker’s father, Dar-
ren, told those at the vigil
that he spoke with his son
shortly before the flight.
“When he called us last
night he said: ‘Mom, Dad. I
have a chance to go fly for
the first time, can I go?”’
They told him he could.
“I can’t keep him in a
glass bubble,” the father
said. “My last words to
Ryan were, ‘I love you and
have fun.”’
John Belnap is a nurse
anesthetist at the hospital in
Grants Pass, the newspaper
reported. He and his wife,
Cheryl, had four children,
according to a 2012 article
about Cheryl Belnap, who
is a second cousin of for-
mer presidential candidate
Mitt Romney.
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The Daily Astorian
CANNON BEACH —
What do you do with an old
elementary school ?
Residents want to trans-
form the former home of Can-
non Beach Elementary School
into a center for music and the
arts. The school, located on
land vulnerable to a tsunami,
closed in 2013. It is owned by
the Seaside School District.
The Cannon Beach 2016-
17 budget, passed in June,
included a $665,000 place-
holder for purchase, demoli-
tion, remediation and resto-
ration of the school site. City
oficials aim to decide whether
to purchase the elementary
school property by the end
of 2016. At the Parks Mas-
ter Plan meeting in June, res-
idents wrote their vision for
city parks with markers on
large maps. For NeCus’ Park,
many residents wrote “must
buy,” and “a once-in-a-life-
time opportunity.” The school
sits on the Native American
village site.
“I believe there is signii-
cant public support for the pur-
chase and renovation of the
former elementary school site
to be used as a city arts cen-
ter to include a large acoustic
space for public concerts and
other musical events,” John
Buehler said at the June coun-
cil meeting. “I encourage you
to purchase and renovate the
former elementary school to
allow public use of the site for
music performances and art
events.”
Buehler, the Cannon Beach
Chorus conductor, said the
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The fate of the Cannon Beach Elementary School remains
undecided as city officials consider a purchase of the
property.
town lacks a large acoustic
space for large arts and musi-
cal events, and a choral con-
ductors’ workshop formerly
held in Cannon Beach is now
held in Seaside, where it brings
“thousands of people.”
“The site has been a tre-
mendously important part of
Cannon Beach history,” resi-
dent Susan Glarum said at the
work session.
The history
Its history began as the site
a Native American village vis-
ited by Lewis and Clark, then
as elementary school and sum-
mer home of the Haystack Arts
program started by my father.
The program was started
by Glarum’s father, L. Stanley
Glarum, in collaboration with
Portland State University.
Glarum and resident Jan
Siebert-Wahrmund both said
the elementary school property
could possibly be used for an
arts and culture center, as well
as an area for the Haystack
Rock Awareness Program.
“It may not be simple or
easy, but the irst step is to
make sure that it remains a
possibility by keeping money
in the budget to purchase the
property,” Siebert-Wahrmund
said. She said residents would
be willing to donate time and
money toward the project.
Resident Mary Peterson
said the purchase price was an
“outrageous amount for less
than one acre,” adding the
average home price in Cannon
Beach is “about $330,000.”
City
Manager
Brant
Kucera said the school site
would cost $400,000 to pur-
chase and the remaining
$265,000 of city funds would
go to demolition, restoration
and remediation.
Despite closing of the
elementary school in 2013,
Kucera said an environmen-
tal assessment report on the
property does not seem to
show major environmental
concerns. In coming weeks,
engineers will complete a
structural analysis on the
building. The city plans to
make a decision by the end of
the year, according to the stra-
tegic plan.
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