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Bond: Taxpayers will also see a lower bill
Bill: Mitchell
said she sees a
strong likelihood
of the bill passing
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‘I JUST SAW AN
OPPORTUNITY
WHERE I SAID,
‘I KNOW
EXACTLY
WHAT’S GOING
ON, AND I HAVE
AN IDEA OF
HOW WE CAN
FIX THIS.’ ’
Mitchell
hadn’t
planned on helping to
craft such legislation, but
said she saw the fi nancial
circumstance faced by the
Coast Guard . She has a
professional background
in social services, includ-
ing administering unem-
ployment insurance for
Utah.
“I just saw an opportu-
nity where I said, ‘I know
exactly what’s going on,
and I have an idea of how
we can fi x this and get
people paid,’” the Astoria
Democrat said.
Mitchell’s legislation
— Senate Bill 722, spon-
sored with Senate Pres-
ident Peter Courtney,
D-Salem — would pro-
vide a program similar to
a no-interest loan, funded
through the state Employ-
ment Department, to pay
unemployment benefi ts to
active-duty Coast Guard .
The state would also set
up a mechanism to recoup
the payments to the Coast
Guard once they get pay-
checks from the federal
government .
During the 35-day par-
tial shutdown, the state
took more than 3,300
unemployment claims by
federal employees, com-
pared to 1,000 over the
same time period a year
ago.
“We had minimal
claims fi led by the Coast
Guard during the recent
shutdown,” said Vanessa
Krueger, a spokeswoman
for the Employment
Department. “That may
be because of communi-
cations at the federal and
state level pointing out
that under the applicable
federal government pro-
grams, people who were
required to work full time,
as most Coast Guard ser-
vice members were, were
not eligible for unemploy-
ment benefi ts.”
With support from
State Rep. Tiffi ny Mitchell
Courtney in the Sen-
ate and the offi ce of Gov.
Kate Brown, Mitchell said
she sees a strong like-
lihood of the bill pass-
ing. Her efforts come
after Democrats in Ore-
gon’s c ongressional dele-
gation — U.S. Sens. Ron
Wyden and Jeff Merkley
and U.S. Reps. Suzanne
Bonamici, Earl Blume-
nauer, Kurt Schrader and
Peter DeFazio — wrote
a letter asking the U.S.
Department of Labor to
make clear that essen-
tial government workers
are eligible for state-ad-
ministered unemployment
insurance.
“Each day the fed-
eral government requires
‘excepted’ employees to
perform work without
pay is untenable and the
(Department of Labor) has
the authority to help ease
that hardship by allowing
these ‘excepted’ federal
employees the ability to
apply for unemployment
insurance,” the Democrats
wrote.
Mitchell is also a chief
sponsor of bills to buy pre-
scription drugs wholesale
from Canada, make Ore-
gon a part of the National
Popular Vote Interstate
Compact for the presiden-
tial election and a resolu-
tion to designate May 22
as Oregon Kind is Better
Day to promote civility.
With the premium, along
with a $4 million match-
ing state grant secured upon
passage of the bond, War-
renton now has a cushion
to ensure all projects can be
completed, said Mike Moha,
the business manager in
Warrenton.
Taxpayers will also see
a lower bill after both Asto-
ria and Warrenton’s bonds
received high ratings from
investors confi dent in the
school districts’ fi nancial
wherewithal.
Astoria estimates the
property tax burden will
decrease from $2.83 to
$2.75 per $1,000 of assessed
property value in the fi rst
year of payments. Warren-
ton expects the average cost
of its bond to taxpayers to
decrease from an estimated
$2.68 to $2.51 over the life
of the bond, Moha said.
“At the time, the market
for bonds was really good,”
Moha said of the bond sales
this winter. “The stock mar-
ket was kind of jittery at
the time, but that’s good for
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Yes For Astoria Kids, a political action committee created to support the school district’s $70
million bond, put out signs, posters, social media posts and videos for the bond campaign in
November.
bond sales.”
Clatsop County will sell
nearly $20 million worth of
bonds later this month to
fund the remodel of the for-
mer North Coast Youth Cor-
rectional Facility in Warren-
ton into a new county jail.
Monica Steele, the interim
county manager , said the
bonds have already received
a favorable rating.
Development: ‘Please don’t ruin your best asset’
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“The (Historic Land-
marks Commission) and
(t he Design Review Com-
mittee) get to guide them
aesthetically, but the point
is they get to build automat-
ically,” Bardy said.
Yet, she added, “We
know we have issues with
our sewage treatment …
we know we have parking
issues. We know that we
have only two-lane roads
running into town. It just
doesn’t make sense to put
priority on these hotels that
are going to have however
many dozens to hundreds of
rooms when the infrastruc-
ture can’t handle our pop-
ulation of 9,000 people or
so.”
Public Works Director
Jeff Harrington said sew-
age capacity isn’t a prob-
lem for the city yet. Right
now, the city is looking into
instances of higher con-
centrations in the system,
a different challenge than
capacity. Harrington isn’t
sure how much any one
‘THE (HISTORIC LANDMARKS COMMISSION) AND
(T HE DESIGN REVIEW COMMITTEE) GET TO GUIDE
THEM AESTHETICALLY, BUT THE POINT IS
THEY GET TO BUILD AUTOMATICALLY.’
Sarah Jane Bardy | one of the petition’s authors,
who serves on the city’s Design Review Committee
development project would
impact the sewage system
overall.
“We don’t know enough
to distinctly say,” he said.
“But everything is old, we
know that for sure.”
Questions about how to
develop the waterfront are
at the forefront of commu-
nity and city discussions .
At the same time city
boards were evaluating the
Fairfi eld Inn, another hote-
lier indicated an interest in
developing a large hotel on
Youngs Bay. Meanwhile,
the Planning Commission
has held lengthy work ses-
sions to discuss guidelines
for the Urban Core, the fi nal
section of the Riverfront
Vision Plan.
The Planning Commis-
sion recently approved a
new waterfront hotel proj-
ect at a former seafood
processing plant from the
developers behind Buoy
Beer and the Adrift Hotel.
City leaders — most
notably Jones, after he
voted in favor of allowing
the Fairfi eld Inn’s devel-
opers to proceed and a few
weeks before he took over
as mayor — have urged
people to push for changes
to the city’s code if they are
concerned about hotels on
the waterfront.
When Jones held his fi rst
“M eet the M ayor” event
in the Astoria Library last
week, former Planning
Commissioner Jan Mitch-
ell, a member of Friends of
the Astoria Waterfront who
is married to City Councilor
Roger Rocka, had a ques-
tion. Often, the same people
attend City Council meet-
ings, Mitchell noted. What
is the best way for these
familiar faces to show that
they represent more people
than just themselves?
Jones suggested they
bring a petition.
Many of the signers of
the petition on waterfront
development said they live
in Astoria, but the petition
has received support from
people outside of the city.
“We love the waterfront
and visit often,” wrote one
man from Eugene. “Please
don’t ruin your best asset.”
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