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5A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2018 Port keeps grant spigot running at airport Local match for federal money By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian The Port of Astoria Com- mission voted Tuesday to have their cash-strapped agency spend up to $230,000 to stay in the pipeline for several mil- lion dollars in Federal Aviation Administration grants. The Port, facing a lack of money to fix its infrastructure and a log export market drying up because of proposed tariffs, had faced some consternation over whether to pay the large local match for the federal program that funds most of the maintenance at the World War II-era Astoria Regional Airport. The airport is set to lose more than $30,000 a year from operations, but brings in the vast majority of the Port’s grant revenue, largely because of its use by the Coast Guard and military units. The Port has received more than $12 million in federal grants at the airport so far. The Daily Astorian The Astoria Regional Airport has attracted more than $12 million in grants from the Federal Aviation Administration The $230,000 match will allow the Port to receive $4.1 million in the 2019-20 fiscal year. The match also makes the Port eligible for another $3.7 million supplemental grant with no local match required. Port Commissioner Bill Hunsinger, the lone abstention in the vote on the local match, has argued that the Port should not be spending money on an airport that loses money. John Raichl, a former Port commissioner and member of the Airport Advisory Commit- tee, said that while the airport does struggle to break even for the Port, it generates a lot for the community. The airport hosts the Coast Guard’s Air Station Astoria, the Life Flight Network medical evacuation service, electric airplane tug manufacturer Lektro, UPS and the Columbia River Bar Pilots. “In short, the airport sup- ports a wider array of people, businesses and industries than any asset the Port owns,” War- Port: Agency is waiting on a report from state Continued from Page 1A Alan Brann, owner of Kiwi’s Water Taxi, which fer- ries people to and from ships in the Columbia River out of the Port’s mooring basins, said he spends between $35,000 and $40,000 per year on fuel, moorage and power. But since being told to relocate after the causeway’s closure, Brann said he stopped buying fuel from the Port, instead going to Wilcox & Flegel Oil Co. downtown. “My opinion of the Port of Astoria right now is pretty much zip,” he said. J.D. Moreland, who has three commercial fishing boats at the East Mooring Basin, said he has been there since 2003 and has no other place to go. “We’re just disgusted with how that has went down there, slowly downhill,” he said. “Our rates have gone up. The service has gotten worse.” Many boat owners have thrown cold water on the Port’s argument that the cause- way is too dangerous to even THE DAILY ASTORIAN W EDNESDAY E VENING A (2) (-) (-) (6) (-) (8) (9) (10) (12) (13) (-) (20) (-) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) L KATU KOMO KING KOIN KIRO KGW KRCW KOPB KPTV KPDX KCPQ TBS KZJO ESPN ESPN2 NICK DISN FAM FMC LIFE ROOT FS1 SPIKE COM HIST A&E TLC DISC NGEO TNT AMC USA FOOD HGTV FX CNN FNC CNBC BRAV TCM SYFY RFD (2) (4) (5) (-) (7) (-) (3) (10) (12) (-) (13) (20) (22) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) walk on. They called on the Port to at least allow them a liability waiver to reach their boats. Knight cast doubt on whether a lawyer would approve liability waivers, but said the Port is dedicated to getting the causeway open as soon as possible. The prob- lems at the causeway and in other areas of the Port’s crumbling infrastructure are decades in the making, and the cash-strapped agency needs help from the public in arguing for more assistance, he added. Commissioner Bill Hunsinger, a withering critic of Knight, blamed him for not taking responsibility for the Port’s issues over his four-year tenure or providing a plan to fix the causeway. He called on the Port to have professionals plot a path between the weakest portions of the causeway for boat own- ers to use. He offered to donate $3,000 to help with repair efforts, later saying he’d need to be paid back. The Port is still wait- ing on a report from the state Department of Transportation on what needs to be fixed to reopen the causeway, Knight said. The agency has sought help from local marine con- tractor Bergerson Construc- tion, which performs much of the local dock work, to look at the structure. Greg Morrill, co-owner of Bergerson, said the company has looked at the state’s previ- ous report and disagreed with some of the dire warnings. Frank Spence, the presi- dent of the Port Commission, said the agency should hold an emergency meeting once the state recommendations come back so the agency can take immediate action. Port Com- missioner Robert Stevens even warmed to the idea of allowing boat owners a liability waiver to access the causeway. Floyd Holcom, owner of the Pier 39 waterfront com- plex just east of the marina, and architect Nik Sernande recently approached the Port about leasing and operating the East Mooring Basin under Fishermens Wharf — Astoria. They want to develop more slips, install floating homes, add retail spaces and poten- tially create a new cruise ship terminal along a breakwa- ter owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Port is hoping the part- nership will provide the mil- lions of dollars in private cap- ital to overhaul the causeway and enliven the marina. Holcom, who has been providing skiffs for tenants at the East Mooring Basin to reach their boats, said he was shocked to learn of the cause- way’s closure and hopes to work with the Port to solve the issue. “Ours is about 650 feet long,” he said. “It goes out to Pier 39, and we have mainte- nance guys on it all the time, as well as a beer truck that’s about 40,000 pounds.” About half the audience left the meeting after discussion of the East Mooring Basin ended. On his way out, Dave Dens- more, who has been using a skiff to reach his live-aboard boat, offered Port commission- ers a ride out if they want to look underneath the causeway. renton Mayor Henry Balen- sifer, an employee at Lektro and a member of the advisory committee, wrote for a recom- mendation in favor of the local match. “Including the U.S. Coast Guard, it enables over 425 permanent, full-time fami- ly-wage jobs actively working on the airport alone.” The Port Commission also passed a motion Tuesday to form a task force that will look at how to make the airport at least break even. Airport Manager Gary Kobes said that while the air- port is set to lose between $35,000 and $37,000 from operations, new hangars being built for Life Flight and former Nirvana bassist Krist Novosel- ic’s company KAST Han- gars will add about $10,000 to $12,000 in revenue. A rent credit given to the bar pilots for improving their space will also expire in April, adding another $2,700 a month in rev- enue, he said. If the Port could lease an upland parcel in its industrial park just outside the airport fence, that would go pretty far toward making the facility break even, Kobes said. The Port has struggled to find ten- ants for the so-far empty indus- trial park, which is largely in the tsunami inundation zone. The agency has looked at turn- ing much of the site into wet- lands surrounding an environ- mental research station for rent to local research groups. Store: ‘A burden well beyond what Grocery Outlet can handle’ That proposal would also require state approval, Plan- ning Director Kevin Cup- ples said. “I don’t know what ODOT would say to that but they’d have to approve any- thing done in the roadway,” he said. Chris Hoth, the commis- sion chairman, and Commis- sioners Carpenter, Teri Car- penter, Lou Neubecker and David Posalski unanimously approved the request, with the conditions of a turn lane or right turns only out of Ave- nue N. “If they don’t like the con- ditions of the proposal, they can appeal it, or come back to us,” Posalski said before the vote. Continued from Page 1A Michael Ard, an engineer representing Main & Main Capital, argued that the turn lane “was not essential.” The multimillion-dollar cost to extend the turn lane is “a burden well beyond what Grocery Outlet can handle.” Ard said the city could approve the project “even absent that turn lane, and that’s what we’re requesting tonight.” Commissioner Bill Car- penter gave developers another option, proposing a right-turn in, right-turn out configuration with a bar- rier to allow traffic to flow through the intersection. 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