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“When evaluating the job
performance and there’s some
sort of tweak we can make,
we’ll look at doing that,” he
said. “To me, that’s what trans-
parency is all about.”
Rare runoff
Wev took 43 percent of the
vote in this month’s election,
short of a majority, prompting a
runoff in November with Ros-
coe, who had 37 percent. The
third candidate, Doug Thomp-
son, received 20 percent of the
vote and was eliminated.
The runoff is the first for a
county commission seat in a
decade.
District 3 covers parts
of Astoria, Miles Crossing,
Jeffers Garden, Lewis and
Clark, Youngs River, Olney,
Green Mountain and parts of
Walluski.
Throughout their cam-
paigns, Wev and Roscoe have
offered similar viewpoints
on most county issues, par-
ticularly their desire for men-
tal health services to be incor-
porated into a potential new
county jail.
“I think a lot of the issues
we’ve had are very similar,”
Roscoe said. “The most obvi-
ous difference between us is
how long I’ve lived here and
how long I’ve been directly
involved in the community.”
Wev, who moved to the
North Coast four years ago,
has a different view of their
experiences.
“I think the contrast
between Roscoe and me is
pretty clear. My emphasis is on
the future. It’s not about what
I’ve done in the past,” she said.
“My resume speaks for itself.”
Roscoe said he wants to
host community forums on
topics such as forestry and
workforce housing ahead of
the election. Despite finishing
in second, he hopes the typi-
cally higher voter turnout in
November will propel him to
a win. Turnout this month was
36 percent.
Wev said she will continue
to rely on canvassing and will
expand her efforts to the south-
ern part of the district.
“Obviously I did something
right in my messaging,” she
said. “I think I’ve done a good
job of connecting with people
on Commercial Street. But I’m
really excited about connect-
ing with the farm community.”
Wild card
For those who voted for
Thompson, their decision in
November could decide the
election.
Wev
and
Thompson
each served on the Clatsop
County Democratic Central
Committee.
“When Doug Thompson
threw his hat in the ring the
last minute, I was pretty sure
it would split the progressive
vote, and it did,” Wev said. “I
think the people who voted for
Doug Thompson are certainly
more likely to vote for me in
a runoff.”
Thompson, a property
manager, resigned as the cen-
tral committee’s president and
filed for the seat hours before
the deadline. He said he made
the decision to run after Com-
missioner Lisa Clement chose
not to seek re-election.
Thompson said he isn’t so
sure he and Wev were chasing
the same voters, pointing to
the fact that Wev filed before
Clement announced her deci-
sion. He has, for now, declined
to make an endorsement in the
runoff.
“I think it’s entirely possi-
ble that the two old guys split
the old guy vote,” Thompson
said.
Roscoe said he is not sure
why Thompson ran or what
led people to vote for him over
Thompson and Wev.
“It seemed to me as if it was
one of those squabbles within
the Democratic Party itself I
wasn’t privy to,” he said.
Warming: Code amendment could
set rules for homeless shelters
California and the Cana-
dian provinces of Quebec and
Ontario.
About 100 Oregon busi-
nesses, including large manu-
facturers, utilities, fuel distrib-
utors and others would have
been required to buy credits.
The proceeds of those
purchases would have gone
toward paying for projects
aimed at offsetting carbon
emissions.
Well-designed cap and
trade programs can encourage
businesses to adopt cleaner
technology and operating pro-
cedures and also invest in
green energy, which fuels the
economy, said Dallas Burtraw,
an expert on environmental
regulation and a senior fellow
at Resources for the Future in
“Lots of people don’t
like it,” Circuit Court Judge
Dawn McIntosh said. “But
what an Alford plea tells me
is that you have assessed
your options in this case.”
As he was led out of the
courtroom, Johns looked
over at a few of his and Bou-
dreau’s family members
who were in attendance.
“Love you guys,” he told
them. “Love you too,” a
couple of them responded.
Since 1992, Johns has
faced numerous felony and
misdemeanor charges in
the county. His convictions
include menacing, theft,
criminal mischief, burglary,
driving under the influence
of intoxicants and assault.
A sentencing hearing has
been scheduled for June.
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Mattresses are stacked before being cleaned at the Astoria Warming Center.
and doesn’t work and what
kind of impacts emergency
shelters may have in certain
parts of the city.
Moore calculated one set
of figures — the maximum
number of occupants allowed
in a set space in certain zones
— by looking at the average
number of people the warm-
ing center served in years
when there was negative feed-
back about the center versus
the average number of peo-
ple served in years when there
was positive feedback.
Janet Miltenberger, trea-
surer for the Astoria Warm-
ing Center, argued against
this logic, commenting that
the center and how it oper-
ated changed dramatically last
year. She pointed to the pub-
lic meetings last year and the
neighborhood agreement and
stricter internal policies that
resulted.
The Astoria Warming
Center has just submitted its
application for a temporary
use permit for the next cold
weather season, a require-
ment the board says puts them
on shaky ground from year to
year and that planning com-
missioners hope to help avoid
in the future with the code
amendment.
The work has been chal-
lenging, commissioners said.
“It’s easier being on the
other side, I’ll say that,” said
Commissioner Joan Herman,
gesturing to the empty audi-
ence seating area after the
Tuesday meeting ended.
She joined the Planning
Commission in October,
about a month after the Asto-
ria Warming Center received
permission to operate during
the cold weather season. Her-
man sat in on many of the
meetings over the summer,
but said she is looking at the
issue more broadly now.
“I think before it would
have been easier to give a
flip solution: We need to find
a place for all the homeless
people,” she said. “But on the
other hand, we have to bal-
ance that against the neigh-
borhoods’ rights and con-
cerns. It’s not always an easy
answer.”
Moore said the most inter-
esting part of the process is
trying to balance the legal
with the moral.
“As planning commission-
ers we’re directed by some
language which is law and
we’re trying to craft code that
addresses what are pretty clear
moral issues and there’s some-
times conflict,” Moore said.
“Unfortunately as planning
commissioners, or any kind of
legal entity, you kind of have
to err on the legal side.”
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The commission has been dis-
cussing, debating and tweak-
ing language and listening to
public testimony about the
proposed code for the past sev-
eral months.
The new code attempts to
define the people an emer-
gency shelter serves and
establishes a conditional use
standard that comes with var-
ious requirements, including
a list of a center’s responsi-
bilities to the neighborhood
in which it is located, safety
standards and a 1,000 foot
buffer from other warming
shelters.
Dan Parkison, president
of the Astoria Warming Cen-
ter’s board, suggested that last
requirement, but he and oth-
ers on the board are not con-
vinced the new code will help
them or the people they serve.
Homelessness is a growing
issue, they said after a Plan-
ning Commission meeting
Tuesday, but as the code pro-
posal stands now, their orga-
nization would be capped at
serving 25 people a night.
“They’re writing a docu-
ment that’s obsolete the day
they finish writing it,” Park-
ison said.
The Planning Commission
asked city staff to come back
later this summer with code
language for the commission-
ers to discuss, approve and
recommend to City Council
for adoption. A draft could be
in front of the commissioners
as early as July.
The Astoria Warming Cen-
ter remains the only such
facility in the city. The Plan-
ning Commission can’t single
out the center in the proposed
code amendment, but the
facility is the example com-
missioners point to during
discussions about what does
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‘More and more customers
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“More and more custom-
ers are forcing corporations to
take these steps,” Burtraw told
the committee Tuesday. “In
order to compete, they are try-
ing to differentiate themselves
by showing that they are clean
and green.
“The firms that are more
efficient are the firms that are
more profitable. Investment is
happening in the companies
that are manufacturing prod-
ucts in a less energy-intensive
way.”
The Legislature set a goal
of reducing carbon emissions
to 51 million metric tons annu-
ally — which is about 10 per-
cent less than 1990 levels
— by 2020. The most recent
measurement set the state’s
carbon emissions at about 62
million metric tons, so the state
needs to reduce emissions by
about 11 million metric tons.
That’s the equivalent of about
taking nearly 2.4 million pas-
senger vehicles off the road
for one year, according to the
U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency.
Transportation is the main
source of growth in green-
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Oregon Department of Envi-
ronmental Quality.
The carbon-pricing com-
mittee is scheduled to meet at
least six times before the end
of the year to develop the pro-
posed policy, Kotek said.
“I’m confident and I’m firm
in saying it can make sense
for Oregon,” Burtraw said.
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pening globally, and Oregon is
particularly well-positioned to
take advantage of that because
of the resource base that the
state has.”
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