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tions on the gym could have
some cost savings.”
Gathering
data
on
exactly what underlies the
Cougar Dome foundations
is a fi rst step toward design
and eventual construction.
On Tuesday, March
16, geotechnical engineer
Michael Remboldt, of K.A.
Engineering out of Coburg,
was onsite to take cores on
the south, west and north
sides of the building. The
track-mounted geotechni-
cal drill that Remboldt and
his wife, Marvis, used for
the work reached bedrock
at about 11-12 feet deep in
all three holes. The mate-
rial they found was mostly
a gravely substrate, Mar-
vis said, which is a piece of
good news for the building’s
seismic risk.
Their preliminary obser-
vations mean that liquefac-
tion — the collapse of the
ground that supports the
building due to earthquake
shaking — is probably not a
major issue, Michael Rem-
boldt said.
In November, the dis-
trict awarded the engineer-
ing contract for the seismic
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Geotechnical driller Michael Remboldt explains some of their methods and fi ndings to Wallowa
School Board member Polly DeVore, right, while his wife, Marvis, records sample data on the
west side of the school’s Cougar Dome on Tuesday, March 16, 2021.
retrofi t to ZCS Engineer-
ing and Architecture. The
Klamath Falls/Oregon City-
based fi rm has completed
seismic retrofi t projects for
the Baker School District
and Grant County School
District, as well as larger
gym retrofi ts for schools in
Roseburg, Klamath Falls
and Toledo, Jones said.
“We awarded the con-
tract to them because of
their experience with seis-
mic rehabilitation work.
They really understood
what needed to happen,”
she said. “They’ve done
more than any other con-
tractor. And they’ve done
some local seismic retrofi ts
in similar districts, includ-
ing Baker and Imbler.”
“They also have a great
record of being on time and
on budget,” Jones added.
“And they have done 118
similar retrofi t projects
across the state in the past
fi ve years.”
In addition, ZCS pro-
vided some seismic evalua-
tion information for parts of
the whole facility plan.
The work will be done
using a contract manage-
ment/general
contractor
methodology. That means
that the general contrac-
tors work closely with the
engineering fi rm during the
design phase of the project,
Jones said.
Some of the work that is
likely, Jones said, includes
building a new, reinforced
wall in the gym weight
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Money: ‘We’ll just have to see what happens’
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Roberts said the added
money will help fi ll holes in
the county budget caused by
the COVID-19 pandemic.
“That will just about fi ll
the budget shortfalls from
when they shorted us on PILT
(payment in lieu of taxes)
payments last year,” she said.
That shortfall left a hole
in the county budget of about
$600,000, she said.
“This’ll just backfi ll that
a bit,” Roberts said. “Hope-
fully, we won’t have to cut
people’s jobs or hours.”
Lacey McQuead, city
administrator for Enterprise,
said in an email she was
unaware of the specifi cs of
the $410,000 federal payout.
“We will be discussing
this at the next council meet-
ing (Monday, April 12) and I
will be asking the council to
appoint members to a com-
mittee to help provide the
remaining council members
recommendations on expend-
ing the funds,” McQuead
said. “Once those recommen-
dations are made, we will
provide more defi nite plans
during the budget process.”
City Administrator Larry
Braden, of Joseph, said in an
email Friday he was aware of
Joseph receiving a share of
the COVID-19 aid funds. He
still has questions, as the pro-
cess is still in its early stages.
“The expenditure guide-
lines have not permanently
been set yet nor have the
amounts,” Braden said. “The
projected amount for the city
of Joseph is $229,109.”
But he’s enthusiastic for
what it means for the city.
“In any case, this is very
exciting for the city of Joseph
and it will be fun to hear what
the exact guidelines are so we
can start the discussions of
what needs we can fi ll with
the grant monies received,”
he said.
Mayor Gary Hulse, of
Wallowa, had not yet heard of
the $170,000 his city is get-
ting when contacted Thurs-
lowa City Council next meets
Tuesday, April 20.
The mayor said the aid
package will help the city, but
he’s not sure in what areas.
“Right now, we’re just
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day, March 25, but he antic-
ipates it eagerly.
“It would mean a lot to our
budget,” he said. “I’ll need
to meet with council and our
budget offi cer and get their
opinions.”
He said he also wants to
talk to Wallowa residents to
get their thoughts on spend-
ing the federal aid. He said
once the city is notifi ed by the
feds, the aid will likely be on
the agenda for the following
council meeting. The Wal-
mainly cutting back and hold-
ing on until we fi gure what
any losses are going to be,”
Hulse said. “We’re still hang-
ing in there, but there have
been areas we’ve had to cut
back on.”
Mayor Dusty Tippett, of
Lostine, said Friday, March
26, his city hadn’t yet been
notifi ed of the federal dis-
bursement and, since it’s
going through the state, it
likely will be delayed a bit.
“Anything going through
the state will probably take
longer,” he said.
He expects the city can
best use it to upgrade its water
system.
“It could defi nitely help
the general fund and the
water fund, but I’ll have to
talk with the council fi rst,” he
said. “It’s always good news
when we hear we’re getting
money.
“We’ll just have to see
what happens. We hope to get
the water system upgraded.
The USDA has been on us to
boost the reserve in case we
had a water main break. The
water system is our biggest
expense since we don’t have
a sewer system.”
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room where the existing
wall, built of a wood portion
set on concrete blocks and
not tied together, is suscep-
tible to failure during earth-
quake shaking.
“I was with them when
they did their fi rst walk-
through,” Jones said. “What
they showed me is that,
for example, in the weight
room there’s a concrete
block that wood beams rest
on. There’s nothing that
ties it all together. So that’s
a ‘hinge point.’ And so in
an earthquake, that would
‘hinge.’ What they were
thinking about is building
another wall that would be
reinforced and go all the
way down and all the way
up and be tied into the exist-
ing wall. And they’d insu-
late the space in between,
too.”
The grant may be used
for added work.
“Other
renovations
funded by the seismic grant
will likely include the Cou-
gar Dome’s ceiling, roof and
reinforcement of walls. But
they are still in the design
phase,” Jones said. “They
will keep the same shape,
and it will be seismically
safe when they are done.”
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