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3A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 2017 Warrenton budget includes water and sewer rate hikes Budget reflects demands on infrastructure By KATIE FRANKOWICZ The Daily Astorian WARRENTON — The Warrenton City Commission on Tuesday approved a “con- servative” budget that reflects increased demands on the growing city’s infrastructure and services. The $30.6 million budget for the fiscal year that opens in July adds a 1.5 percent cost of living wage increase, a full-time utility worker and increased hours for a part-time accounting clerk. Changes to the state’s Public Employ- ees Retirement System meant the city had to swallow a rate increase that had a $120,000 impact. Residents will also see increases to community center rental rates, water and sewer rates and recycling rates. Overall, the increases to water, sewer, stormwater and recycling will add approxi- mately $5.68 total to the aver- age consumer’s base rates, Finance Director April Clark said. The increases were nec- essary to fund regular mainte- nance and operations costs and other related projects into the future, according to city staff. The community center’s rates, meanwhile, have not been increased in nearly three years and were raised at the urging of the budget committee. “Astoria Ford and Panda Express completed new facili- ties and Walmart broke ground, with an expected completion of March 2018,” City Man- ager Linda Engbretson wrote in her budget message. The city issued building permits for 19 single-family homes, four duplexes, one triplex and two six-plexes, she wrote. Meanwhile, work con- tinues on rebuilding Pacific Coast Seafood’s Warrenton plant, which was destroyed in a fire in 2013. The new plant is expected to be completed in December. “Continued service demands and enterprise fund debt service requirements will require the city to care- fully manage all revenues and expenditures to ensure the con- tinued financial health of the city as well as timely repay- ment of debt,” Engbretson wrote. The budget, she told com- Army band offers free concert at Liberty Theater The Daily Astorian The Oregon Army National Guard’s traditional military concert band will perform a free concert Friday night at the Liberty Theater. FREE The 234th TICKETS Army Band will play The Daily music by Astorian has fewer than 100 George Ger- shwin and free tickets re- maining for the John Wil- concert. Each liams, along request can with songs receive up to from the four tickets by B r o a d w ay coming by the play “Hamil- newspaper’s ton” and the office at 949 Disney movie Exchange St. “Moana.” The concert is at 7 p.m. The Clackamas-based band’s performance is part of a summer concert series. Organizers say the free concerts are one of the ways “the Oregon National Guard gives back to our communities for their support in our mis- sions within the state of Ore- gon as well as throughout the United States and the world.” missioners, is a conserva- tive document. She couldn’t name any fund that saw a major increase over this year’s budget. “It was pretty small pota- toes,” she said. The city is not cutting any services, but was not able to include requests from the police department for a new vehicle and a part time office support position. City staff estimate property taxes will come in at about $900,000. Though the total budget is $30.6 million, the amount includes reserve and ending fund balance money. The over- all spending authority is $26.1 million. This is the first budget Eng- bretson has completed as city manager, and she credited the hard work of her staff. Mayor Henry Balensifer and City Commissioners Rick Newton, Tom Dyer and Mark Baldwin approved the budget unani- mously. Commissioner Pam Ackley was not present. In other business: • Recently appointed Com- missioner Baldwin was offi- cially sworn in. He has served on the City Commission in the past and was appointed by commissioners to fill a seat left vacant after Balen- sifer was appointed to take over as mayor. Balensifer him- self filled another vacant seat when the commission selected him as mayor, the one former Mayor Mark Kujala left open after he resigned in March to spend more time with his family and seafood business. Balensifer will serve out the remainder of Kujala’s term, which expires in 2018. Bald- win will serve out the remain- der of Balensifer’s term, which expires in 2020. • The commission adopted the increased water, sewer and recycling rates as well as the increased community center rental rates. There was no pub- lic comment either in favor of or opposed to these increases. New butcher shop, smokehouse opens in former Rio Cafe location A second butcher shop for Astoria By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian Astoria’s second butcher shop has opened in the former Rio Cafe. Jeremy and Nan Scho- enwald recently started Smokehouse Butcher Block, where they sell fresh and smoked meat products, along with other grilling accouterments. Jeremy said he got his introduction to Asto- ria staying in town four months annually for eight years while working on the Port of Portland’s Dredge Oregon. The Schoenwalds moved from Portland full time two years ago. Nan, who has managed properties in Portland for the past 20 years, started River and Coast Property Management a year ago. The company is located in the same building as the butcher shop, one store- front over. After more than 20 years in operation, the Rio Cafe closed in March, begin- ning speculation on what would come next. Jeremy Schoenwald worked as a butcher locally at a large grocery store and recently at Gulley’s Butcher Shop downtown. He said he walked by the former restaurant one day looking ll Ca ime yt n A Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian Jeremy and Nan Schoenwald recently opened Smokehouse Butcher Block in the former Rio Cafe on Ninth Street. for a job with Jake Martin and Phil Spencer’s Astoria Stock Co., another proposed butcher shop he heard was moving into the space. Instead, he found a still-va- cant space waiting for a tenant. He and his wife even- tually signed a five-year lease. While Gulley’s located in the heart of downtown, the Schoenwalds see their shop as a potential anchor busi- ness for the area around the Astoria Transit Center to the west, with easier parking and accessibility. “I really think we will increase a lot of people’s vis- ibility by being in this loca- tion,” Jeremy said. Smoke specialty “At the time of opening this, there was not another smokehouse for 50 miles,” Nan Schoenwald said. The shop includes a refrig- erated case for smoked ribs, Fre e as Est F ima t t es Jeff Hale P ainting • Residential • Commercial •Cedar Roof Treatments • Interior & Exterior Over 20 years local experience 503-440-2169 Jeff Hale, Contractor LICENSED BONDED INSURED CCB#179131 bacon and other cuts, along with sausages, chicken and jer- kies. Another case holds fresh meats, along with yakisoba noodles and cheeses. The wall is lined with regional products the Schoenwalds have brought in, from canned tuna to dog treats. While there is inevitable crossover with fresh meats, the couple said they are not trying to replicate Gul- ley’s, which focuses more on deli options as opposed to smoked goods. “We’re not going to be doing smoked fish here, because I have a tremendous amount of respect for every- body that’s been doing it 100 years,” Jeremy said. Astoria now has two regionally sourced butcher shops. Aside from specializing in smoked goods, the Schoen- walds said they were encour- aged to open a butcher shop because of customers’ con- cerns over grocery chains low- ering meat quality and increas- ing prices. The couple uses a distributor they said helps find them a mix of regional, natu- rally raised products at a rea- sonable price. Jeremy is the second for- mer butcher of Gulley’s to branch out into his own busi- ness. Miles Peacock opened food cart Sasquatch Sausage over the winter with business partner Mari Inaba outside the new Reach Break Brewing. 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