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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2018
Seaside lukewarm on lodging tax hike for bridges
Repairs are still
a priority for
City Council
By BRENNA VISSER
The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE — While the
City Council agreed making
Seaside’s bridges more seismi-
cally sound is a priority, most
councilors are hesitant to use
lodging tax dollars to pay for
it.
At a workshop about tsu-
nami preparedness Monday,
City Councilor Tom Horning
pitched raising the lodging tax
by 2 percent to quickly pay for
retrofitting seven bridges and
build two pedestrian bridges
over 20 years to withstand a
Cascadia Subduction Zone
earthquake.
Horning, a geologist,
argues investing in bridges
that will act as evacuation
routes out of the tsunami inun-
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Seaside is looking to improve bridges to help prepare for
a devastating earthquake and tsunami.
dation zone is the best way to
save the most lives. The pre-
dicted 25-foot to 50-foot wave
would destroy about 92 per-
cent of Seaside’s buildings,
leaving about 20 to 30 feet of
standing water throughout the
town. The disaster could cause
anywhere from 500 to 23,500
fatalities, depending on the
time of year and how prepared
the town is to respond, Horn-
ing said.
Projected to cost about $35
million, Horning sees lodging
taxes as a quick way to raise
about $1 million a year to help
finance bridge repairs.
While the sense of urgency
resonated, some city coun-
cilors questioned the legality
and feasibility of using lodg-
ing taxes.
State law requires 70 per-
cent of lodging tax revenue
be used for tourism promotion
or property. Raising the lodg-
ing tax to pay for infrastruc-
ture improvements has been
contested by hoteliers and the
Oregon Restaurant & Lodging
Association.
There was also concern
about how it would pair with
the lodging tax increase passed
by Clatsop County that would
fund operations at a new jail,
and how steadily increasing
hotel bills would affect the
tourism industry.
Terry Bichsel, owner of
Best Western Plus Ocean View
Resort and Rivertides Suites
Hotel, said as a lodging opera-
tor, he recognized the need for
disaster preparation, but felt
the cost should be shared by
the community.
“The lodging tax is an easy
target, but I would encourage
niles allegedly punched and
kicked a man repeatedly in
the parking lot of the Seaside
Civic and Convention Center.
DUII
• At 12:55 a.m. Sun-
day, Eric N. McKinnis, 34,
of Portland, was arrested by
Doris Kosko Rusinko
Astoria police on 30th Street
near the East Mooring Basin
and charged with driving
under the influence of intox-
icants, attempting to elude
and reckless driving. His
blood alcohol content was
0.18 percent.
Astoria
Sept. 2, 1926 — July 5, 2018
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DEATH
July 27, 2018
ARQUETTE, Troy, 54, of Seaside, died in Seaside. Hughes-Ransom Mortuary is in charge of
the arrangements.
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Mayor
The events are a chance for
residents to ask LaMear about
city policy issues.
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LaMear will hold a “Meet
the Mayor” meeting at noon
Wednesday at City Hall.
THURSDAY
Northwest Oregon Housing Authority Board, 10 a.m., NOHA office, 147 S. Main Ave., Warrenton.
Seaside Parks Advisory Committee, 7 p.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower St.
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Over
Doris Kosko Rusinko, 91, peacefully passed residential ambassador for other new residents
away to the Lord on July 5 at her home in Asto- at her assisted living facility, and she loved
ria, Oregon, with her family and friends at her watching golf every Sunday.
side. She had been on hospice since February.
Doris is survived by a son, Mark Rusinko,
Doris was born in Wilkes-Barre,
of Delaware; and a daughter, Susan
Pennsylvania, to John Kosko and
Harrington and son-in-law, David
Mary (Kwochka) Kosko, on Sept.
Miller, of Astoria, Oregon. She is
2, 1926. She enjoyed playing clar-
also survived by a granddaughter,
inet and saxophone in the concert
Leah (John) Kulikowski, of Mary-
land. There are many nieces and
and marching band in high school.
nephews around the country.
After high school, she graduated
Her husband, Paul; son, John; sis-
from Misericordia College in Dallas,
ter, Elaine (Bowanko); and daughter-
Pennsylvania, as a teacher.
in-law, Paula; preceded her in death.
Doris briefly taught math in
A funeral service will be held on
New Jersey before marrying Paul
Doris Rusinko
Saturday, Aug. 4 at noon at St. Bren-
Rusinko, of Nanticoke, Pennsylva-
nia in September 1950. They moved
dan the Navigator Eastern Orthodox
Mission Church in Hammond, Ore-
to Niagara Falls, New York, to start
a family and a new job. They had three chil- gon, followed by a reception.
dren. Doris was a homemaker taking care of
Graveside services will be held in Dallas,
their son, John, who was born with spina bifida, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, Aug. 8, at 11
and she was active in her Russian Orthodox a.m. at Fern Knoll Cemetery.
Church, singing in the choir and making piero-
Memorial donations may be made to St.
gies every week with the women’s club to sup- Brendan the Navigator Eastern Orthodox Mis-
port the church.
sion Church, in lieu of flowers.
Doris moved out to Oregon to be with her
Funeral arrangements are in the care of
daughter in 2004. Her hobbies included read- Ocean View Funeral and Cremation Service of
ing biographies and history books. She was a Astoria.
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“I don’t like to raises taxes
for nothing, but it’s quite small
in comparison to the need,” he
said.
The City Council dis-
cussed possibly floating a
bond or road levy and lobby-
ing the state for higher priority
for funding given the town’s
unique status as the most vul-
nerable to a tsunami on the
Oregon Coast. Other ideas
included instituting a fee on
resident’s water bills to help
fund an emergency prepared-
ness consultant.
Some, like City Councilor
Dana Phillips and Mayor Jay
Barber, questioned whether
more attention should be
directed on resilience after the
wave subsides.
But one consensus was
reached: Something needs to
be done — fast.
“We need to address this
soon,” Barber said. “We don’t
have an answer to funding,
but once you’re aware, you’re
responsible.”
OBITUARIES
ON THE RECORD
Assault
• At 1:08 p.m. Mon-
day, a 15-year-old boy from
Woodland, Washington, was
arrested by Seaside police on
the 410 block of First Avenue
and charged with second-de-
gree assault. A group of juve-
spreading the responsibility,”
Bichsel said.
Some councilors felt Sea-
side’s lodging tax, which is
10 percent, is already reach-
ing a breaking point. Seaside’s
rate is the third highest in the
county, following Warrenton
and Astoria, which sit at 12
percent and 11 percent.
“We have to stop looking
at lodging taxes as a panacea,”
City Councilor Tita Montero
said. “If we keep raising lodg-
ing taxes out of the norm, we
will lose those tourists that we
think will keep coming to fund
this.”
Some councilors, like Seth
Morrisey, supported using
revenue the county will share
with cities from the new lodg-
ing tax for bridge projects in
conjunction with other reve-
nue sources.
Horning said he supports
getting creative to find fund-
ing, but feels the impact of
raising the lodging tax was
being overstated.
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