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Port: ‘No cruise ship has threatened not to come’
this port.”
The Port was one of the
first to require all tours be vet-
ted and sold on board, which
cruise lines love, Conner told
the Ethics Commission during
his testimony. But people buy-
ing cruises through the ship
can’t see whether they are
from Sundial Travel or Lor’s
Tours, he said.
Michael Nerney, head of
the Cruise the West associa-
tion the Port belongs to and
assistant deputy director of the
Port of San Francisco, said a
similar policy is in place there
allowing only buses approved
by cruise lines to pick up pas-
sengers on port property.
“Passengers can purchase
tours on their own if they wish
after exiting the terminals,”
Nerney said.
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“One of the reasons we’ve
been so successful with cruise
ships is making sure tours are
sold on board,” Knight said.
“This is how cruise companies
make money.”
Cruise ships rent the
entirety of open space on Pier
1, meaning they have the right
to control access while ships
are at berth, Knight said.
Vinatieri recently testi-
fied before the Port Commis-
sion that the agency is creating
a hostile environment in the
name of protecting on-board
cruise ship revenue.
“Port staff are systemati-
cally harassing local transport
and tour providers,” he said.
“These local operators provide
service to elderly and disabled
cruise passengers.”
Conner was recently exon-
erated by the Oregon Govern-
ment Ethics Commission after
being reported by Kulp for a
possible conflict of interest.
He’s paid by the Port to mar-
ket the North Coast as a day
stop for cruise ships migrating
north in the spring and south in
the summer and fall.
Conner testified to the Eth-
ics Commission that while he
receives a benefit as a tour
operator and helps strategi-
cally park buses based on tour
departure times, he does not
serve on any decision-making
body at the Port or have any
say in the agency’s policies
or which tours the cruise lines
approve.
“I’ve been doing this for
about 15, 16 years, and I’m
very careful at keeping those
separated,” Conner said of his
positions with the Port and
New policy
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The Port of Astoria restricts vehicle access on Pier 1 during cruise ship visits to tours preapproved with cruise lines,
along with a bus by Sunset Empire Transportation District running between the docks and downtown.
Sundial Travel.
Some members of the Eth-
ics Commission questioned
whether Conner should declare
a potential conflict of inter-
est when working for the Port.
But the commission found that
he separated the two positions
enough and voted 6-2 to dis-
miss Kulp’s complaint against
him.
A segment of
passengers
Only 15 to 20 percent of
passengers on average take
advantage of shoreside excur-
sions, Conner said. Many
depart the ship and either walk
along the Astoria Riverwalk or
take a bus route operated by
Sunset Empire Transportation
District in partnership with
the volunteer Clatsop Cruise
Hosts.
“I support more tour oper-
ators, but I like that the cruise
lines control it,” Conner said
of tours being sold on board
only. “It makes it organized.”
Neither Kulp nor Vinatieri
have signed the tour opera-
tor agreement, although Kulp
has agreements with some
cruise lines. Vinatieri claims
the Port’s policy, including a
$100 dock access fee for every
cruise ship visit, disadvan-
tages smaller tour operators
in favor of larger, more estab-
lished operations like Con-
ner’s. He has called on the Port
to update policies for small-
er-scale tour operators like
his and make exceptions for
elderly passengers and people
with disabilities.
Kulp, who declined to com-
ment pending possible legal
action, has previously called
on the Port to replace Conner
with an outsider not offering
tours.
“It is true that the cruise
lines want to make a high
markup on shore excursions,”
Vinatieri said. “However,
shutting out tour operators that
don’t advertise with the cruise
lines is something special to
During a recent cruise
ship conference in Florida,
Knight said, cruise ships con-
veyed how much they like the
Port’s policy protecting their
on-board revenue.
“No cruise ship has threat-
ened to not come, but Con-
ner has highlighted that’s why
we’re doing so well,” Knight
said.
The cruise ship season is
almost over, with only four
ships left this month. Knight is
looking to craft a new operator
policy he said will be non-ne-
gotiable but as flexible as pos-
sible to accommodate newer
tour operators. “It’s going to be
my role to wrestle with craft-
ing a policy that will deal with
the coming year that accom-
modates these other operators,
and protecting the cruise ship
business,” Knight said.
Camping: Communities and agencies need to be flexible
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long letter outlining their con-
cerns with the city’s approach
to dealing with the camps.
“What we do not want is to
declare a political emergency
and rush through changes to
city code that do not really
address the problem of being
homeless and seem more to
be addressing the problem
with homelessness,” Moffett
said, reading from the letter
Monday at LaMear’s request.
“Our desire is for Asto-
ria to support all the people
involved while finding lon-
ger-term solutions,” she con-
tinued. “For example, instead
of telling people where they
can’t live, tell them where
they can live, at least until
there are better options.”
They suggested marking
areas where camping could
be allowed, providing trash
cans or dumpsters and por-
table bathroom facilities and
involving the homeless in
the discussion of possible
solutions.
LaMear also asked Elaine
Bruce, executive direc-
tor for Clatsop Community
Action, to discuss the agen-
cy’s work and a 10-year plan
to end homelessness in Clat-
sop County first executed in
2011.
“Certainly plans can
change over time,” Bruce
said. She believes they are
achieving some of the goals
outlined in the plan, like
establishing
relationships
with private landlords to pro-
vide housing for people or
working with cities and the
county to change develop-
ment codes.
But homelessness is
“incredibly, incredibly com-
plex,” she said. Communities
and agencies need to be flexi-
ble. The camping that is hap-
pening in the woods is a new
challenge. “We didn’t have
that five or six years ago,”
she said.
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