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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.
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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.
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expressed concerns about cuts
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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.”
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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
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The late-summer slowdown
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ers added 42,600 jobs.
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tember stood at 4.2 per-
cent, up from 4.1 percent in
August.
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ity industry cut 3,700 jobs in
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secutive month of weak hir-
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summer and didn’t need as
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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.”
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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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looking and part-time work-
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