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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, MAY 29, 2018
Port: Director wants
agency to look at public-
private partnerships
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Photos by Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
People attending a Memorial Day event in Warrenton watch as a Coast Guard helicopter drops a wreath into the water.
Memorial Day: ‘Nothing happy about it’
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Some in the crowd, like
Steve Olson, come to the cer-
emony as a reminder of this
sentiment. A member of Asto-
ria Moose Lodge 408, Olson
used to help facilitate some of
the wreath ceremonies him-
self. Olson was dismayed that
more people didn’t turn out.
“People need to remember
what this day is about. It’s not
just camping and barbecues,”
he said.
Sue Glen, the registrar of
the local Daughters of the
American Revolution chapter
in Astoria, sees the ceremony
as an homage to a family line
that has seen combat since
before the Revolutionary War.
As a wife to a service
member for more than 29
years and the daughter of a
Marine, Memorial Day is
about remembering her roots.
“We need to remember our
past to protect our future,”
Glen said.
For others, the day was
about one veteran in particu-
lar. In the front row reserved
for those who had lost some-
one in the line of duty sat the
Members of the Coast Guard color guard stand at attention during the Memorial Day event.
family of Warrenton local
David Mitts, an Army ser-
geant who died in 2004 while
serving in Mosul, Iraq.
On the hillside sat his twin
Duane Mitts, and his cousin
Johnny Breitmeyer, donning
a cap of David’s picture. They
reminisced about his love of
duck hunting, clam digging
and his positive spirit.
“Being here, it’s a way
to be in his presence — to
honor him. This is our way
of remembering him,” Bre-
itmeyer said. “He’s truly
missed. We’re very thank-
ful he chose to go into the
armed forces and give us our
freedom.”
After the ceremony, the
two had plans to carry on a
14-year-long tradition of hav-
ing lunch at his grave.
The state, however,
has canceled the competi-
tive ConnectOregon grants
through at least 2019 to focus
on several specific transporta-
tion projects. Knight has sig-
naled alarm bells, saying the
loss of state money could cost
the Port and other airports
larger FAA grants requiring
local matches the Port can’t
cover.
The Port last received
$1.5 million from the Con-
nectOregon program to repair
the west side of Pier 2, where
much of the region’s seafood
is transferred from boats to
companies operating in the
Port’s processing warehouse.
But the agency has held the
state grant back in hopes of
using it as a local match on
$10 million worth of pending
damage claims it has with the
Federal Emergency Manage-
ment Agency dating back to a
December 2015 storm.
FEMA has so far offered
about $1.5 million to help
recover from the storm dam-
age, Knight said. The Port has
employed an engineering firm
to prove its higher claims, and
recently started reaching out
to federal congressional rep-
resentatives for help to speed
the process along.
Next year’s proposed
budget includes just over
$400,000 in FEMA storm
damage grants. The amount
was the minimum the agency
could hope to get, Isom said.
“If we don’t get the
money, the projects aren’t
going to move forward,” he
said of repairing storm dam-
age. “It’s sort of a middle
ground, taking a conservative
approach, but at least having
something in our budget as a
placeholder.”
The Port recently hired
Kevin Cronin, former com-
munity development director
for the city of Astoria, to seek
out a more diverse source of
grant revenue. He has applied
for several grants already, and
will seek a federal grant worth
at least $25 million from the
Department of Transportation
to help tackle a larger infra-
structure project, Knight said.
The budget has also
shrunk in response to the Port
Commission’s recent deci-
sion to abandon a lease at
North Tongue Point, where
the agency lost more than
$150,000 last year after
expenses. Boatbuilder Hyak
Maritime purchased the prop-
erty from Washington Devel-
opment Corp. and began
turning the docks into a ship-
wright center.
Knight said the Port needs
to look at more public-private
partnerships to spur devel-
opment on dilapidated Port
properties, even if that means
selling buildings but keeping
land ownership.
“I’m looking forward to a
new era of the Port of devel-
oping partnerships that can
rebuild these really wonder-
ful properties that have dilap-
idated buildings on them,” he
said.
The Port also has several
other unresolved issues that
could significantly impact
its budget. The agency is
negotiating a settlement on
a multiyear lawsuit over the
operation of the Astoria Riv-
erwalk Inn; approaching a
state recommendation on the
cleanup of historical petro-
leum contamination on the
central waterfront; choosing
how to develop or dispose
of other properties it owns
on the Skipanon Peninsula;
and determining how to most
cost-effectively dredge its
waterways.
“While staff is confident
that it will obtain positive
outcomes in each of the unre-
solved issues, the timing of
resolution for several items
remains uncertain,” Knight
said in his budget message.
“It is likely, however, that
these issues will be resolved
during the coming fiscal
year.”
The Port will hold a sec-
ond hearing of the budget
Wednesday. The agency must
adopt a new budget by the
end of June.
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