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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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.
Spencer said he and Martin
got too busy to move forward
with Astoria Stock Co.
“With the second butcher
shop opening up, we felt it
was a moot point,” Spencer
said.
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