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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2017
Astoria seeks money to replace Irving Avenue bridge
Last bridge
in need of
major work
By KATIE
FRANKOWICZ
The Daily Astorian
Astoria plans to apply for
funding for a $6.5 million
bridge replacement project on
Irving Avenue.
Located at 33rd Street,
just east of the Cathedral Tree
trailhead, the bridge is the
last bridge within city limits
in need of replacement. The
1950s-era wood and concrete
structure does not meet cur-
estimated $670,000 in match-
ing funds. It is possible the
city could use money it will
receive from a recently passed
state transportation law.
If the city lands the grant, City
Manager Brett Estes said staff
would return with a specific
proposal on how they plan to
come up with the matching
funds.
“We just do not want to
miss an opportunity to get
this final bridge replaced,” he
said.
Mayor Arline LaMear
pointed out that even if the
city does get the grant, con-
struction is six years down the
road.
So in the meantime, she
rent standards and is already
load-limited due to significant
deterioration noted by the
Oregon Department of Trans-
portation, which inspects the
bridge annually.
The City Council approved
the submittal of a local bridge
project application for the
2022-2024 Statewide Trans-
portation Improvement Pro-
gram under the state’s Local
Bridge Program at a meet-
ing Monday night. The city’s
Franklin Bridge and another
bridge on Irving Avenue were
replaced using this funding
source.
Though total costs are esti-
mated at $6.5 million, Astoria
will need to come up with an
asked, “do we dare drive
across it?”
City Engineer Jeff Har-
rington said that while the
bridge is in need of replace-
ment load limits, annual
inspections and small repairs
keep it safe for now.
A bridge at 19th Street and
Irving Avenue built in 1946
was replaced two years ago.
During construction, it was
closed to vehicle traffic. The
closure impacted the neigh-
borhood as well as other Asto-
ria residents, who often use
the winding Irving Avenue as
a way to cut around traffic in
the downtown corridor, espe-
cially during the busy sum-
mer tourism season.
In other business:
• The City Council
approved the creation of a
new recreation manager posi-
tion for the Parks and Recre-
ation Department. The man-
ager would be in charge of
the department’s Recreation
Division and responsible for
a variety of items, including
pursuing the sale of park lands
and looking at long-term
solutions for parks funding.
The parks master plan final-
ized in 2016 emphasized the
need to increase staff capac-
ity, noted Parks and Recre-
ation Director Angela Cosby
in a memo to the councilors.
The salary for the recre-
ation manager position could
range between $57,567 to
$69,973 a year.
• Another need identified
in the parks master plan was
also addressed Monday night
when the City Council
approved a parks and recre-
ation marketing plan for the
fiscal year.
“Most advertising is done
sporadically, mostly through
social media,” the plan states.
But the department hopes to
reach customers more often
and more consistently by
offering discounts and give-
aways, investing in advertis-
ing on a variety of platforms
and adding bilingual commu-
nication and marketing mate-
rials, among other strategies.
Poll: Half have
unfavorable view
of Brown, but
would re-elect her
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Half of Orego-
nians view Gov. Kate Brown
unfavorably yet would re-elect
her by a narrow margin if the
election was conducted now,
according to an online sur-
vey by Nashville-based pollster
icitizen.
Forty percent said they
would vote for state Rep. Knute
Buehler, R-Bend, to unseat the
first-term governor, the survey
shows.
The survey of 645 respon-
dents, paid for by icitizen, is
the first glimpse into the mind-
set of Oregonians more than a
year before the November 2018
gubernatorial election.
Jim Moore, director of the
Tom McCall Center for Policy
Innovation at Pacific University,
said the responses to Brown are
unsurprising.
“While she is a fairly popular
governor, she hasn’t really done
anything to put her name on,”
Moore said.
“Clearly, this is a message
for her campaign to commu-
nicate what she has done that
makes her worthy to be gover-
nor again.”
The respondents — part of
a “convenience panel” of Ore-
gonians icitizen uses for online
polls — were not confirmed as
registered voters, said Cynthia
Villacis, the company’s polling
director.
Favorable opinions for
Brown were stronger in the
Portland area and the Willa-
mette Valley, 45 percent and
55 percent, respectively. In the
rest of the state, only 37 percent
of respondents said they had a
favorable opinion of her, while
62 percent gave unfavorable
feedback.
Out of all respondents, 341
were members of the GOP. In
Oregon, only 26.7 percent of
registered voters are Republi-
can, 29.5 percent are unaffiliated
and 36.7 percent are Democrat,
according to the most recent sta-
tistics from the Oregon Secre-
tary of State’s Office.
“That sounds to me as if
(icitizen) oversampled Republi-
cans,” Moore said.
Leslie Rich, a senior vice
president of client services, said
the results are weighted to reflect
the state’s electorate makeup of
different party affiliations.
Political pundits see the
results as a bad sign for the
Republican challenger, an ortho-
pedic surgeon who was elected
as a state representative in 2014.
Buehler also challenged Brown
in 2012 for secretary of state.
When Oregonians were
asked their preferred Repub-
lican to face off with Brown, a
majority chose a Republican
who hasn’t even filed as a can-
didate and has had no media
attention.
About 31 percent of respon-
dents said Greg Wooldridge,
a former commander of the
Navy’s Blue Angels, is their pre-
ferred GOP candidate. Mean-
while, only 28 percent identi-
fied Buehler as their preferred
choice.
Wooldridge is familiar to
conservative circles, where he
has served as a delegate to the
National Republican Conven-
tion, but is lesser known outside
of his party.
Wooldridge is considering
a bid for the Republican nom-
ination and has met with sev-
eral former gubernatorial candi-
dates and political consultants.
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