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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2018
Port of Astoria, schools hire Henningsgaard for timber suit
Attorney will
be local voice
in class action
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
Astoria attorney Blair
Henningsgaard has been
hired to represent the Port of
Astoria, Seaside School Dis-
trict and Jewell School Dis-
trict in the $1.4 billion breach
of contract timber lawsuit
filed by Linn County against
the state.
The state Board of For-
estry in 1998 passed a rule
emphasizing
conservation
and recreation along with
timber harvests on state for-
estlands. The class-action
lawsuit, supported financially
by the timber industry, claims
the change in policy breached
Blair Henningsgaard
a historical contract to maxi-
mize sustainable timber har-
vests on forestlands deeded
by counties in the 1930s and
1940s, costing them an esti-
mated $1.4 billion.
Henningsgaard will attend
meetings of legal counsel rep-
resenting the parties in the
lawsuit. His representation of
the Port and school districts is
separate from his position as
the city attorney for Astoria,
which not a party to the tim-
ber lawsuit.
“Based upon a discussion
with John DiLorenzo (Linn
County’s attorney), I do not
anticipate my fee exceed-
ing $10,000 annually; $3,333
apiece,” Henningsgaard wrote
in a letter to the Port, Seaside
and Jewell. “This assumes I
will attend four meetings per
year in Salem and spend time
getting up to speed on the case
and in communications.”
A win or settlement in
favor of the plaintiffs could
result in sizable payouts to
the approximately 140 taxing
districts party to the lawsuit.
Those include local school
districts, the Port and Clatsop
Community College.
Clatsop County, which has
about 23 percent of the forest-
lands involved in the lawsuit,
was the only county among
the 15 counties included in the
class action to opt out, mean-
ing it has no counsel at meet-
ings about the progress of the
lawsuit. Four other taxing dis-
tricts under the county were
automatically removed, and
the Sunset Empire Parks and
Recreation District voted to
opt out.
Dirk Rohne, a Port com-
missioner and former county
commissioner, came up with
the idea to seek separate legal
representation. When he was a
county commissioner, Rohne
had kept track of the lawsuit.
But the vote on whether to opt
out was delayed until shortly
after he was out of office. His
replacement on the county
board, Kathleen Sullivan, was
one of the three “yes” votes
in the 3-2 decision to opt out.
Residents had urged commis-
sioners to oppose the lawsuit
in favor of a more balanced
forest management policy.
“Ultimately, the only thing
that the county has accom-
plished is it’s in the dark,”
Rohne said, adding elected
leaders have a fiduciary duty
to participate in issues that
could affect constituents.
Seaside and Jewell school
districts receive the most tim-
ber tax revenue of any in the
county, Seaside Superinten-
dent Sheila Roley said.
“We just wanted to have
someone who understood the
aspects of that legal conversa-
tion,” she said.
Jim Knight, the Port’s
executive director, set up the
meeting with Seaside and
Jewell school districts about
hiring representation.
“We did not purposefully
exclude anyone,” Knight said.
“It was easier to do a meet-
ing with these three entities.
These are the three largest
recipients of (timber) tax pro-
ceeds” in the county.
A Linn County judge
recently denied the state’s
attempts to have the lawsuit
thrown out on the grounds
that it has sovereign immu-
nity against lawsuits by other
governments.
In his letter, Hennings-
gaard wrote that DiLorenzo
will likely file an appeal prior
to trial to clarify legal issues
surrounding the state’s duties,
and that he would likely pro-
vide input.
“If the appeal is filed, it
will probably be several years
before the court makes a deci-
sion,” Henningsgaard wrote.
“This means that a trial in this
case is a long way off. I got the
impression from DiLorenzo
that the state of Oregon is not
inclined towards settlement
discussions.”
County fair: ‘I have seen a lot of things come through here that were not good choices’
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meeting. “I encouraged them
to take a hard look at how their
spending habits are occurring.”
The fair hosts two of the
largest annual local galas
—the
Astoria-Warrenton
Crab, Seafood & Wine Festi-
val and the Astoria Scandina-
vian Midsummer Festival —
along with the county fair and
several other events.
Unforeseen maintenance
issues that have arisen in the
past few months — such as
a $12,000 emergency roof
repair — have put a strain on
the budget, as well. A high
degree of staff turnover in the
past few years — including
this year — has also made it
harder for the fair.
“A lot of things just came
to a head,” Steele said.
Spending choices have
not always been prudent, said
John Lewis, the fair’s mainte-
nance supervisor, at a Wednes-
day meeting.
“I have seen a lot of things
come through here that were
not good choices,” he said.
The Fair Board held a spe-
cial meeting last week to dis-
cuss priorities for the remain-
der of the year and potential
areas for savings. It may
postpone special projects
— including one that would
install new heaters in the arena
and another to renovate the
farm house. It likely will also
transfer money from other
funds, including $100,000 of
its contingency money that
will require approval from
county commissioners.
At any given time, the
fair has no more than three
or four full-time employ-
ees based at the fairgrounds.
The fair has been especially
short-handed since Fair Man-
ager Kathi Mattinen needed
medical leave. The fair office
is located more than 3 miles
away from the county’s main
building on Exchange Street.
“It’s just so much easier
when you’re in the main build-
ing,” Lewis said. “We’re just
so far out that it can be hard
to get things communicated.”
Unlike other county depart-
ments, the fair is not super-
vised by the county manager.
“It makes it a unique
Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
The county fair is nearing budget limits.
dynamic. It makes it kind of
difficult, too,” Steele said.
“Getting everybody to get on
the same page and commu-
nicate at the same time can
be kind of challenging. It’s
a complicated thing for peo-
ple to understand, and they’re
doing their best.”
In an otherwise posi-
tive performance review of
County Manager Cameron
Moore released in July, com-
missioners asked that he work
to improve county staff’s rela-
tionship with the Fair Board.
Commissioner Lisa Clem-
ent, a liaison between the two
boards, said some at the fair
have their guard up about
working with the county.
“They have questions for
me that they don’t understand.
‘Why do we need to watch
that budget?’ I don’t think
it’s, really, that they’re trying
to do anything illegally,” she
said earlier this month. “I just
think that they are leery of let-
ting people know what they’re
doing.”
Commissioner
Sarah
Nebeker shook her head as
Clement offered the report.
“Hopefully you can help them
see the need for them to com-
municate,” she said.
But commissioners have
not necessarily been active
in attending Fair Board meet-
ings in recent years, said Mike
Autio, the Fair Board’s chair-
man. Also, until this year, the
budget has mainly been han-
dled by the fair manager, and
many have come and gone
in the past decade, he said.
The board is now picking up
more of the slack in the bud-
get process.
“We’ve been sort of
removed from that as a fair
board,” Autio said. “Now
we’ve been trying to be
actively involved in that bud-
get process.”
Autio also pointed to staff
turnover in recent years at
both the fair and the county
manager’s office as possi-
ble reasons for the lack of
communication.
“We’re definitely taking
steps to communicate a lot
better,” Lewis said.
Clement said she will
also continue to work toward
improved communication.
“If you tell us what you
need, you know, we have a
full budget process. You can
come anytime and speak to us
about what you need and what
is on the plan and what your
vision is,” Clement said. “All
of them have been here for
multigenerations and so have
I. I think there’s some kind of
weird, like, ‘OK, we can talk
to her,’ sort of thing going on.”
At a meeting Wednesday,
Steele reviewed the fair’s bud-
get proposal for the next fiscal
year line by line with the Fair
Board, though it has yet to be
finalized.
“I’ve been trying to be
more of a presence at Fair
Board meetings, mostly for
them to know that I’m here to
support them,” Steele said.
Board members appeared
to appreciate their involve-
ment in the process.
“I’d like to see more of it,”
Autio said.
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