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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 2018
College needs big-money donors Seattle divided as
to upgrade Tongue Point campus leaders halt job tax
Match needed
for state bonds
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
Clatsop Community Col-
lege will need some multi-
million-dollar donations in
order to match $8 million
worth of state bonds by 2021
to improve the Marine and
Environmental Research and
Training Station, its consul-
tant told the college board
Tuesday.
The training station, built
at South Tongue Point in the
1990s on property leased from
the Department of State Lands,
serves as the college’s main
campus for career-technical
programs such as maritime
science, automotive, welding
and historic preservation.
The state recently awarded
the college $8 million to
improve the campus. But the
bonds require an equal match
by 2021 and the college to
have ownership or a 99-year
lease of the property.
The college is having the
land appraised before buy-
ing it with money from its
plant fund, used for construc-
tion, renovation, and acqui-
sition of property. The col-
lege board recently authorized
spending up to $150,000 over
three years for a consultant on
a capital campaign to raise the
$8 million match.
“We’ll probably need a
$2.5 million gift from some-
one,” said Catherine Crooker,
The Daily Astorian
Clatsop Community College will need some multimil-
lion-dollar donations to match $8 million in state bonds
to improve the Marine and Environmental Research and
Training Station.
the college’s consultant.
The first year and a half of
the campaign would focus on
those big donors before boost-
ers approach the general pub-
lic, she said. This summer,
she will begin gauging their
interest before bringing a rec-
ommendation to the college
board on whether to continue
with a capital campaign.
“If in the feasibility study I
find the money is not there, I
will tell you,” she said.
College President Christo-
pher Breitmeyer said its pro-
grams send graduates around
the country, widening the
fundraising net. The project
has more corporate philan-
thropic potential than a lot of
other projects she works on,
Crooker said.
Still, the college faces a
tight deadline, she said, and
the next few months will
answer whether the money is
available for a successful cap-
ital campaign. Crooker will
come back in the fall with a
recommendation of whether
to move forward.
The college had originally
proposed using the bonds to
add a second story onto the
administrative and maritime
science building. But it has
since hired an architectural
consultant to create a master
plan for the property to inform
a project. The plan will be pre-
sented this summer.
While the college is pre-
paring to buy its campus from
the state, Columbia Land
Trust is gathering grants to
buy 90 acres to the south, have
it restored to quality fish and
wildlife habitat and hand it
over to the college as a living
laboratory. The trust recently
received a $332,000 state
grant to match a $920,000 fed-
eral grant it is waiting on from
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service to fund the purchase.
The college board on
Tuesday passed a $12.7 mil-
lion operating budget for the
coming fiscal year, up more
than $1 million from the pre-
vious year. The budget took
into account an additional
$450,000 in estimated state
timber tax revenue the col-
lege expects beyond what it
uses to pay down debt, along
with a $3 per-credit tuition
increase expected to raise
about $75,000 in revenue.
The college is spending
more on counseling and main-
tenance staff, hiring a new
full-time welding instruc-
tor and establishing a profes-
sional development fund for
support staff, along with pay
increases recently awarded to
all employees.
The college board on Tues-
day approved spending more
than $800,000 out of the plant
fund on campus management
software. An agreement the
college had with Rogue Com-
munity College will expire
next year.
The college founda-
tion’s auction in April raised
$126,000, said Board Mem-
ber Robert Duehmig, and the
college’s historic preserva-
tion and restoration program
received an $18,000 donation
from the Lower Columbia
Preservation Society to help
build a new shop on campus.
Cannon Beach considers food trucks
Questionnaire
to be sent out
By BRENNA VISSER
The Daily Astorian
CANNON BEACH —
Cannon Beach is exploring
ways to possibly permit food
trucks within city limits.
Food trucks are prohibited,
with the exception of oper-
ating at the farmer’s market,
as they fall under the city’s
ban on “outdoor merchandis-
ing.” But the city is re-exam-
ining it’s ordinance after mul-
tiple presentations from Bob
Neroni, owner of EVOO Can-
non Beach Cooking School,
who initially came to the City
Council months ago to find a
legal way to operate a food
cart in his parking lot on the
days his restaurant closes.
At a work session Tuesday,
city councilors directed staff
to work with Neroni to create
and circulate a questionnaire
around the restaurant commu-
nity as a way to gauge interest.
While a rule change would
stand to benefit him person-
ally, Neroni believes food
trucks are “a growing opportu-
‘I think food trucks could
be a nice addition as
long as it’s done in the
Cannon Beach way.’
City Councilor Nancy McCarthy
nity” that would improve and
diversify the culinary scene.
“It’s an untapped, niche
market,” Neroni said.
Food carts have long been a
contentious issue in both Sea-
side and Cannon Beach. Part
of what has kept food trucks
at bay has been the fear they
would create competition for
brick-and-mortar businesses.
Some, like City Councilor
George Vetter, worry allow-
ing food trucks could enable
transitory businesses to “cut
in during the gravy season” of
summer to make a profit with-
out having to pay rent like
their stationary competition.
Food trucks could also take up
parking spaces when the city
most needs them.
“They would want to be
here when parking is most
valuable,” Vetter said.
City Councilor Mike Bene-
field expressed concerns that
food trucks don’t fit the aes-
thetic character of Cannon
Beach, and that there were
few places in town that could
accommodate a pod of trailers.
“I love food trucks, but it
just doesn’t fit here,” Bene-
field said.
Neroni said his proposal
centered mostly around allow-
ing businesses with parking
lots to operate and manage
food trucks on days or times
of day when their businesses
are closed. This would allevi-
ate competition and parking
concerns. It was the proposal
he floated to other restaurant
owners in town, he said, and it
was supported.
As for the competition,
Neroni said there was a sim-
ilar concern when the city
was contemplating a farmer’s
market.
“And we’re doing well
with the farmer’s market. It’s
not taking away business,” he
said.
Overall, Neroni wants the
city to work with the restau-
rant industry on a solution that
allows food carts in a highly
regulated way. Reviewing
aesthetics, location, seasons
of operation and limiting the
number of permits the city can
issue are all factors the city can
regulate and enforce.
Neroni suggested the city
form a committee to help
design community standards
for food trucks like it did when
the farmer’s market was first
conceived.
“This needs to not just be
fair for one, but fair for all,”
Neroni said.
While some hesitations
remained, the City Council
came to a consensus to look
into ways to accommodate the
steadily growing trend of food
trucks at a future work session.
“I think food trucks could
be a nice addition as long as
it’s done in the Cannon Beach
way,” City Councilor Nancy
McCarthy said.
Cannabis testing reveals contamination
By MATEUSZ
PERKOWSKI
Capital Press
Mandatory testing of can-
nabis in Oregon has revealed
several biopesticides contam-
inated with more highly reg-
ulated chemicals, prompting
regulators to halt sales of the
products.
The problem has led the
Oregon Department of Agri-
culture to believe such con-
tamination probably is not lim-
ited to marijuana, this state or a
certain pesticide product.
“In a way, this kind of
tipped us off that we could
be seeing this in other crops,”
said Rose Kachadoorian, the
department’s pesticide regis-
tration and certification leader.
“These pesticides are mar-
keted nationally.”
To complicate the situa-
tion, such contamination ren-
ders the pesticides adulterated
and misbranded under Oregon
law, but it’s allowable under
a federal policy adopted two
decades ago by the U.S. Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency.
Before 1996, the EPA con-
sidered any level of impurity
“toxicologically significant,”
but then the agency changed
its policy to allow up to 1,000
parts per million of contamina-
tion by certain other pesticides.
The federal policy recog-
nizes that low-level contami-
nation may occur at large facil-
ities that aren’t dedicated to
one chemical and it’s primar-
ily concerned with toxicity to
plants, Kachadoorian said.
Oregon and other states
are urging the EPA to recon-
sider this “pesticide regulation
notice,” or PR notice, to poten-
tially exclude organic biopesti-
cides from the policy, or her-
bicides sprayed over the top of
genetically engineered crops,
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resistant could damage the
plant, while prohibited resi-
dues could result in rejection
by domestic or foreign buyers,
Kachadoorian said.
“It happens all the time that
retailers are testing,” she said.
If a grower sprays a pesticide
that’s labeled to have a short
duration but the product is con-
taminated with a longer-lasting
chemical, then the crop could
exceed “tolerance” levels for
the latter substance, Kacha-
doorian said. In other cases, the
product may have no “toler-
ance” level for the contaminant.
“We’re concerned about
truth in labeling,” she said.
Recreational and medical
marijuana must undergo test-
ing in Oregon.
The biopesticide issue
came to light when a cannabis
grower was adamant that he
hadn’t used a permethrin pes-
ticide for which his marijuana
had tested positive.
By PHUONG LE
Associated Press
SEATTLE — Seattle lead-
ers on Tuesday repealed a tax
on large companies such as
Amazon and Starbucks after
a backlash from businesses,
a stark reversal from a month
ago when the City Council
unanimously approved the
effort to combat a growing
homelessness crisis.
A divided crowd chanted,
jeered and booed at the coun-
cil meeting, drowning out
the leaders as they cast a 7-2
vote. People shouted, “Stop the
repeal,” as others unfurled a
large red banner that read, “Tax
Amazon.” An opposing group
held “No tax on jobs” signs.
The vote showed Ama-
zon’s ability to aggressively
push back on government
taxes, especially in its afflu-
ent hometown where it’s the
largest employer with more
than 45,000 workers and
where some have criticized it
for helping cultivate a widen-
ing income gap that is pricing
lower-income employees out
of housing.
The tax was proposed as
a progressive revenue source
aimed at tackling one of the
nation’s highest homelessness
numbers, a problem that hasn’t
eased even as city spending
grew.
Businesses and residents
demanded more accountabil-
ity on how Seattle funds home-
lessness and housing and said
the city should take a regional
approach to the problem. Many
worried that Amazon and others
would leave the city as the com-
panies sharply criticized the tax.
The online retailer even
temporarily halted construc-
tion planning on a new high-
rise building near its Seattle
headquarters in protest. Ama-
zon called the vote “the right
decision for the region’s eco-
nomic prosperity.”
The company is “deeply
committed to being part of the
solution to end homelessness
in Seattle,” Drew Herdener, an
Amazon vice president, said in
a statement.
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