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3A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2017 Cannon Beach narrows down fi nalists for city manager position Panels will evaluate the contenders By BRENNA VISSER The Daily Astorian CANNON BEACH — The search for Cannon Beach’s new city manager is now down to three fi nalists. The candidates, announced at a special meeting Tuesday, were chosen by city councilors in executive session last week from a pool of six semifi nal- ists. They come from as close as Nehalem and as far as Ari- zona and Florida. The process to fi nd a new city manager started four months ago after Brant Kucera left the position for a job in Sisters. Thirty-three people applied for the post , 14 from Oregon. “The level of management experience the applicants had was impressive,” Mayor Sam Steidel said. One of the candidates, Bruce St. Denis of Longboat Key, Florida, was also in the run- ning with Kucera to be the city manager of Sisters. St. Denis is Kevin Greenwood Peter M. Jankowski a manager at the Development Planning & Financing Group, a private development com- pany in Tampa . He previously served as the town manager for Longboat Key for 15 years, and holds a master’s degree in management from the Univer- sity of South Florida. The other out-of-state fi nal- ist, Peter M. Jankowski, served as town manager of Cave Creek, Arizona, for three years. He holds a juris doctorate from the Franklin Pierce Law Center and has worked more than 20 years in municipal government as a town manager in Massa- chusetts and Maine. He also served as a state representative in New Hampshire. Jankowski left Cave Creek because the C ity C ouncil decided not to renew his con- Bruce St. Denis tract for another year, accord- ing to a city press release. Kevin Greenwood, the one local candidate, lives in Nehalem and has 13 years of upper-level local govern- ment experience on the Ore- gon Coast. He holds a master’s degree in public administra- tion from Portland State Uni- versity and has worked as the city manager of Garibaldi and general manager of the Port of Garibaldi for fi ve years each. Greenwood served as gen- eral manager of the Port of Newport for the past three years until this summer. He resigned as general man- ager in July because r ecently elected port commissioners wanted a change in leadership, according to a press release from the port . Steidel said Tuesday he feels confi dent in the abilities of all three candidates. City staff and Jensen Strat- egies will work on forming community and local govern- ment administrator panels to evaluate fi nalists. Represen- tatives will be chosen from the Cannon Beach Chamber of Commerce, the hospitality industry, arts community, envi- ronmental groups and other locals to offer input, interim C ity M anager Jason Schermer- horn said. The other panel will be made up of three other city managers and one special dis- trict manager. None have been chosen yet. Those interested in meet- ing the fi nalists are invited to a community forum at 7 p.m. Nov. 6 at the Surfsand Resort. Citizens are encouraged to submit their questions ahead of time to City Recorder Col- leen Riggs, either in person or by email by the end of the day Oct. 31. The C ity C oun- cil plans to choose a preferred candidate by Nov. 8. “I’m looking forward to seeing the different types of questions the community will ask,” Steidel said. Bonamici discusses health care, climate change Town hall held in Cannon Beach C onsult a P rofessional Q: Muscle spasms can be a thing of the past. horses in the leg,facial tics A: Charlie and back spasms are all deficiency ASTORIA CHIROPRACTIC Barry Sears, D.C. 503-325-3311 2935 Marine Drive Astoria, Oregon symptoms — muscles are irritated and working too hard — they don’t have the nutrients they need. 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Update appeared Q: Driver out of nowhere and By BRENNA VISSER The Daily Astorian CANNON BEACH — When Gearhart resident Arden Bryce heard Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici tell the story of her and her daughter, Selah, on the fl oor of the U.S. House of Representatives back in May, she couldn’t help but feel emotional. Bryce emailed Bonamici earlier in the year when House Republicans fi rst started pro- posing plans to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Bryce, whose daugh- ter has been diagnosed with autism and a host of other medical issues, said she wor- ries about how she would be able to afford the medication her daughter requires. Bonamici told Bryce’s story on the House fl oor after voting against legislation that proposed eliminating coverage for pre-existing conditions and preventive care. “How am I supposed to meet her needs without cov- erage?” Bryce said. “I hope the more personal connec- tions we make, the more seri- ously Congress will take their jobs. I know (Bonamici) cared about health care before, but if she can carry this story in her heart it will keep making it personal.” Bryce was one of the many people who came to ask Bonamici, D-Oregon, ques- tions about health care, cli- mate change, tax reform and other topics at Tuesday night’s town hall meeting. Many in the audience expressed concerns about cuts to Medicare and other changes wants me to check my drivers and buy their program. LEO FINZI Revo Uninstaller, available Astorias A: Install from our web site, AstoriasBest. Best.com com. Click Recommended Programs W e make affordable house calls . M-F 10-6 Sat . 11-4 77 11th Street, Suite H Astoria, OR 503-325-2300 Brenna Visser/The Daily Astorian U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici speaks at a town hall meeting Tuesday. to health coverage proposed by the Trump administra- tion, including Selah herself. Bonamici said there are bipar- tisan efforts to address the Affordable Care Act, and that any proposal would have to benefi t people who use it. “I’d be concerned about any health care proposal that undermines Medicare,” Bonamici said. “This is the United States of America. There is no reason why any- one should go without health care. I’ll be fi ghting for you on that.” Bonamici also discussed her work as the co-chair of the bipartisan Oceans Caucus. Bonamici and her colleagues managed to include amend- ments that address harmful algal blooms and ocean acid- ifi cation in the House bill to set funding levels for next fi s- cal year. Her amendments increase funding for the National Oce- anic and Atmospheric Admin- istration’s National Ocean Service to do coastal monitor- ing and assessment of harm- ful algal blooms — which can lead to toxins that shut down shellfi sh harvests — as well as help coastal communities respond to changing ocean conditions and how they affect fi sheries and ocean health. “Oregon’s economic vital- ity is dependent on the health of our oceans and coastal com- munities,” Bonamici said. “Climate change affects our economy.” While on the topic of cli- mate change, some asked how Bonamici would improve the role of the federal government in battling the numerous fi res that torched Oregon’s forests this year. “As we see more extreme weather events, we know cli- mate change can exacerbate these events,” Bonamici said. Bonamici was one of many Western lawmakers who requested more emer- gency funding from Trump administration to fi ght wild- fi res throughout Oregon. She supports efforts to reform how wildland fi refi ghting is funded . In large events, the U.S. Forest Service often exhausts all its funding for wildfi re sup- pression quickly, Bonamici said, which forces the agency to borrow money from other accounts that would otherwise go toward fi re prevention and forest management. While there were no active fi res on the North Coast this summer, more than 50 fi re- fi ghters throughout Clatsop County were sent out to help fi ght fi res in other regions of the state. “When we have fi res of this scope, it doesn’t make sense to borrow from these other accounts to fi ght them,” she said. “Let’s have funding to manage these forests better.” Roby’s Q: Furniture & Appliance Astoria • (503) 325-1535 1555 Commercial Street Store Hours Mon. - Fri. 9:30am-5:30pm Saturday 10am to 5pm More Locations: Tillamook • (503) 842-7111 1126 Main Ave Lincoln City • (541) 996-2177 6255 SW Hwy. 101 Newport • (541) 265-9520 5111 N. Coast Hwy. Florence • (541)997-8214 18th & Hwy. 101 Oregon cuts 3,800 jobs as hospitality hit hard PORTLAND — Ore- gon shed jobs for the second month in the row, though its unemployment rate remained essentially unchanged, the state Employment Depart- ment said Tuesday. Oregon’s nonfarm pay- roll employment dropped by 3,800 jobs in September, fol- lowing a revised loss of 7,000 jobs in August, according to the monthly jobs report. The late-summer slowdown came after six months of robust hiring, when employ- ers added 42,600 jobs. The jobless rate for Sep- tember stood at 4.2 per- cent, up from 4.1 percent in August. The leisure-and-hospital- ity industry cut 3,700 jobs in September, its second con- secutive month of weak hir- ing after a spike in June and July. State employment econ- omist Nick Beleiciks said employers probably got the workers they needed in early summer and didn’t need as many as the season wore on. Oregon’s construction industry, consistently strong The most valuable and respected source of local news, advertising and information for our communities. www.eomediagroup.com over the past year, added 2,900 jobs. No other industry added half that many. Beleiciks said the forest fi res that charred the state in September did not impact the jobs report. “Although some people were out of work because of the forest fires, I don’t think enough people were out of work long enough,” he said. “So, basically, if someone was out of work early in September because of the fires — but they ended up going back to work in Sep- tember — they’d still be counted as having a job in these figures.” A total of 2.05 million Oregonians were employed in September, an increase of more than 68,000 work- ers from this time last year, when the jobless rate was 4.9 percent. Another unemployment measure, known as U-6, was at 8.2 percent in September — up slightly from August. 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