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Levy: Other funding options are being explored to limit cost
Recruitment
and retention
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estimates 80 percent of the 380
calls Cannon Beach Fire and
Rescue responds to each year
are medical.
The majority of emergency
service calls come from north
Clatsop County, so in Can-
non Beach it is not uncommon
for an ambulance to take 15
to 40 minutes to arrive, Bene-
dict said. In one case, he recalls
waiting 45 minutes before an
ambulance could treat some-
one with dangerously low
blood pressure.
Medix Operational Man-
ager Duane Mullins said there is
always at least one ambulance
stationed in Seaside and Asto-
ria. While he considers response
times over 10 minutes to be the
minority, the reality is the far-
ther calls are from those nodes
the longer the response time.
“Someone living in Elsie
is not going to get the same
response than someone in Sea-
side living across the street
from McDonald’s,” Mullins
said. “I think trying to add a
couple more people is smart.
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Cannon Beach Fire Chief Matt Benedict does paperwork in his office at the main station.
Fire departments don’t respond
to fires anymore; they respond
to medical calls.”
But with Benedict as the
only paramedic on staff and
volunteer firefighters hav-
ing varying degrees of emer-
gency medical technician cer-
tifications, this can leave first
responders without advanced
life support for minutes in a
field where seconds count.
“Bringing on two fire-
fighter paramedics on alternat-
ing 12-hour shifts would mean
we could have someone with
the right skills respond no mat-
ter what,” Benedict said. “You
just can’t predict when you are
going to be responding to these
kinds of calls.”
Like many fire depart-
ments across the country,
recruiting and retaining vol-
unteers is a challenge. The
number of volunteers has been
slowly declining over a num-
ber of years, from about 30 to
18 who respond on a regular
basis. It’s a problem reflected
in Cannon Beach’s citizen sur-
vey, where positive ratings for
fire services dropped by 5 per-
cent from last year.
Benedict attributes vol-
unteer retention issues to the
heightened training required
by the state that can demand
more time. The lack of afford-
able housing in Cannon Beach
also makes it hard to find vol-
unteers who can afford to live
in the district they serve.
To address the challenges,
the recruitment and retention
specialist would figure out
what resources are available
to solve the problem. The spe-
cialist would explore differ-
ent community partnerships
in the hopes of expanding the
program.
With residents juggling the
bond passed in 2016 to pay for
the new Seaside school cam-
pus, as well as a levy to pay
for a firetruck, Benedict said
he is exploring other fund-
ing options to limit the cost to
taxpayers.
The fire district is also dis-
cussing whether to ask the city
to raise the lodging tax as sup-
plemental funding.
“A majority of our
responses are for individuals
that do not pay property tax
and are from out of town,”
Benedict said.
If the board doesn’t sup-
port the higher levy, the orig-
inal fire chief levy, which
would just pay for the chief’s
salary and expenses, would be
back on the ballot. It’s enough
to operate with for now, Ben-
edict said. But eventually, he
believes these needs will have
to be addressed.
“What price do you put on
a life?” Benedict said. “On
a $100,000 house, you are
paying $35 a year. That’s
not much for an insurance
plan.”
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The transmission line
would also prevent aerial pes-
ticide spraying over certain
fields and its construction
would be disruptive to grazing
and silage harvesting, Mizee
said.
A vibratory hammer will be
used to install the transmission
tower foundations, which is
also disturbing to cattle due to
the region’s soft, spongy soil,
he said.
“They’ve offered us almost
nothing as far as compensation
for a pretty big impact,” said
Mizee.
Forestland will also be
negatively affected by the
transmission line, which will
require trees to be cleared
along a right-of-way, said La
Follette.
A 115-kilovolt transmis-
sion line would usually require
a 100-foot wide right of way,
but in this case, it may be nar-
rower under certain circum-
stances, according to the Til-
lamook Public Utility District.
Landowners are also con-
cerned about the health impacts
to themselves and their live-
stock from being exposed to
electromagnetic emissions, La
Follette said.
In 2008, the Tillamook
Public Utility District agreed
to find possible connection
points for a offshore wind
energy project to deliver elec-
tricity to its grid.
While that memorandum of
agreement has since expired, it
shows the utility district is at
least open to the possibility of
offshore renewable energy, La
Follette said.
Todd Simmons, the utility
district’s general manager, said
the agreement with a devel-
oper was intended to allow the
region to anticipate and plan
for offshore energy.
However, the utility district
doesn’t now have any plans to
connect to such offshore proj-
ects, Simmons said.
Currently, a single distri-
bution line serves about 3,000
properties in the Oceanside
area, which is three times more
prone to outages than other
areas on the utility district’s
grid, he said.
“When that line goes out,
everybody’s out of power until
we make that repair,” Sim-
mons said. “We’re vulnerable
with that one line.”
The distribution line is also
at 90 to 95 percent electrical
load capacity, so more capac-
ity is needed to accommodate
Oceanside’s eventual growth,
he said.
Constructing a second dis-
tribution line — which has a
smaller footprint than a trans-
mission line — wouldn’t make
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affected by falling trees or car
collisions, he said.
In that situation, there
would only be a single connec-
tion to Oceanside, which would
result in brownouts when the
community’s electricity needs
eventually become greater
than its load capacity, Sim-
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