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A5 THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2019 Sturgell: ‘I know what kind of person I am’ Continued from Page A1 Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian Astoria Mayor Bruce Jones, left, speaks with City Manager Brett Estes prior to a City Council meeting Monday. Hotel: ‘We don’t owe Hollander Hospitality anything’ Continued from Page A1 about her application when he scheduled a meeting with her last week . As mayor, Jones makes appointments to city boards. Instead, she said Jones told her she could not be both an advocate and a Design Review C ommittee member. City councilors and other city board members had called for her removal , he said, because they did not believe she could be impartial. “I was scolded for attend- ing, speaking and clapping after public testimony at the Marriott h otel City Council appeal hearing, all of which I believe I have the right to do,” Bardy said during a public comment period during a City Council meet- ing on Monday night. She said her comments were no more disrespectful than the City Council over- turning the decision of two city boards that had denied the hotel project three differ- ent times. Split vote In October, the Design Review Committee vetted a redesign of the Fairfi eld project, ending with a split 2-2 vote . Bardy, who voted against the project, said the large hotel was out of scale for the waterfront . Hollander Hospitality, the developer, appealed the decision to the City Council. Jones, former Mayor Arline LaMear and City Councilor Tom Brownson voted in December to uphold the appeal, citing lack of clarity in the city’s devel- opment code. Jones later used the debate as an exam- ple of why the City Council should re-examine and per- haps change the code in the future. Bardy had given public testimony against the project at the same hearing. She said she was there to remind city councilors that the Design Review Committee “denied (the project) for a reason.” “We don’t owe Hollander Hospitality anything,” she said. “We don’t work for them. They’re going to get a hotel here and that’s fi ne, but they don’t get to call all the shots.” Afterward , when Hol- lander Hospitality won the appeal, Bardy proposed they place a park bench bearing the names of the city coun- cilors who voted for the project in front of the hotel “so that we never forget who voted in favor of it and started this slippery slope.” Jones said Monday that “I had every right to remove you from the council after your disrespectful behavior as I was urged to by many people. I chose not to. I made a decision: I am going to T UESDAY E VENING (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) mittees without any respon- sibility to explain why.” He had opted to keep Bardy on the Design Review Committee. She was not appointed to the Planning Commission. “So if you think you’ve got a ‘gotcha’ moment on me, that you’re going to tell everybody that I chewed you out, yeah, I did chew you out,” he said. “I chewed you out because I thought what you did was unprofessional and immature as many other people do, too.” “I thought that meeting was unprofessional,” Bardy rejoined from the audience. Unusual move It is unusual for a city board member to testify on an open development appli- cation the way Bardy did at the appeal hearing in December, City Manager Brett Estes said afterward , but it is not explicitly against any rules. Bardy, the owner of Elev- enth Street Barber down- town, says she received mes- sages, emails and support from people in Astoria after her comments at the appeal hearing. At the time, her comments were greeted with applause from the audience. “The (Design Review Committee) does important work,” Bardy said outside the City Council meeting. “I would like to stay on it.” WANTED Alder and Maple Saw Logs & Standing Timber Northwest Hardwoods • Longview, WA Contact: John Anderson • 360-269-2500 SCHEDULE THE DAILY ASTORIAN A meet with this young woman of whom I’ve got about 35 more years of leadership and management experience and personnel management experience than you.” A mayor can remove someone from a city board without cause, but Jones, a former Coast Guard com- mander, said, “You know, that’s chickenshit, I don’t behave that way.” “I would never, unless it was something that was criminal … just remove someone without explana- tion,” he added. “I think that is unprofessional and rude.” It was not disrespect- ful for the City Council to uphold the hotel appeal even though the Design Review Committee had denied the project, Jones said. Each board was doing its part, he added. Jones told Bardy, who was sitting almost directly in front of him in the audience at City Hall on Monday, that he did not regret meeting with her. She was respect- ful during their meeting, he said. “All the people who told me it’s going to blow up in your face, it’s going to be taken out of context, well they were right,” he said . “You’ve decided to come up here and make this pitch, but the truth of the matter is the mayor appoints and the mayor unappoints to com- The woman reminded Sturgell that she would return home to her husband and newborn baby, while he will spend years in prison. “I just want to say that I have found my peace, and I will be OK,” she said. “I will pray for you, but some things only G od can forgive.” Sturgell was also con- victed of two counts of brib- ing a witness and one count of tampering with a witness. Following his 2017 arrest, Sturgell met with the vic- tim’s father, offered $5,000 and threatened to hire attor- neys to “dig up dirt” on witnesses . Daniel Wendel, an attor- ney with the Oregon Depart- ment of Justice, asked Judge Paula Brownhill to consider the fact that those crimes were committed after he was arrested, paid bail and signed a release agreement. “It is important that the defendant went on to com- mit a completely, entirely separate class of crime in order to avoid responsibility for what he had done,” Wen- del said. Several of Sturgell’s fam- ily members and a friend presented character wit- ness statements during the hearing. “Given the right circum- stance, I know every sin- gle person in this court- room would love him as much as I do,” said JoLee Liepman, Sturgell’s daugh- ter. “Although my dad’s side of the story was not really told, I would like you to know that I believe his side of the story, and I believe he should not be here.” Sturgell, speaking for the fi rst time in the case, focused much of his statement on his love for his family. He also said his previous attorney, Jason Thompson, strongly advised him not to testify during the trial, adding that many of the things that have been said made him want to “throw up.” “I look in the mirror and I know what kind of person I am,” Sturgell said. “Just because it comes out of peo- ple’s mouths doesn’t mean that’s the truth.” Sturgell, a crab fi sher- man, purchased his fi rst of several boats as a teenager and has employed hundreds of fi shermen . He became one of the most well-known fi shermen on the West Coast, while also accruing several violations. “He’s always been the most talked-about per- son when fi shing, and both good and bad,” said Dan- iel Sturgell, his son. “I really feel like, if he wasn’t so talked about, we might not be here today dealing with what we are.” Several of Sturgell’s convictions carried a min- imum of more than eight years in prison for each count. Brownhill had the option, however, to rule that some of the sentences run concurrently. Wendel had asked Brownhill for a sentence of closer to 30 years, say- ing that it was necessary for public safety. Brownhill recognized that the sex crimes caused the victim to have issues such as anxiety, post-trau- matic stress disorder and suicidal thoughts. “That’s what the jurors found. That’s what we’re dealing with here — many, many counts of sodomy, unlawful penetration and then bribery and tamper- ing after that,” Brownhill said. “We’re dealing with the juror s’ verdict, not with (Sturgell’s) version.” The sentence, however, was closer to the minimum of more than eight years requested by Frank Stoller, Sturgell’s new, Dundee- based attorney. 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