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Progress is made on the new bowtie deck being built at the
Wallowa Lake Lodge. General Manager Madeline Lau said
the hope is for the deck to be completed by May 21, 2021,
in time for the May 28 start to the season.
Lodge:
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widest variety of guests
and customers, but also
to see the community use
the lodge more than they
have before,” she said. “I
want this to be a gather-
ing place, I want the com-
munity to feel very wel-
come here. For a long time
the lodge was set apart and
felt almost inaccessible. We
want to be a place that the
community uses.”
Among the adjustments
this season, which will run
through Oct. 31, are restau-
rant hours being changed,
and now being from noon
to 9 p.m. Tuesday through
Sunday. It will have a
happy hour from 3-5 p.m.
on Tuesday through Sun-
day, and a brunch from
8-11 a.m. Saturday and
Sunday.
The restaurant will have
a “Scandanavian-inspired
menu,” Lau said.
There also is a plan to
have live musicians on the
deck from 5-7 p.m. Fri-
day nights, and pianist Gail
Swart will play Sundays
from 6-9 p.m. in the dining
room.
With the deck coming in
at about double the expected
price due to a spike in lum-
ber prices, the lodge has
launched a gofundme.com
page to help with the addi-
tional expenses. The page
has a goal of $15,000.
“Initially, the cost of the
deck was half of what it
now is, so we can use com-
munity support to get us
there. Any little bit helps,”
Lau said.
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Joseph City Council members discuss the city government’s future during an emergency
council meeting Wednesday, April 21, 2021. From left are Councilwoman Kirsten Rohla,
Councilwoman Tammy Jones, Councilman Stephen Bartlow, Mayor Belinda Buswell and
Administrative Assistant Jamie Collier.
contacted Wallowa County
Planning Director Franz
Goebel, who agreed to
help.
As for actually replac-
ing Braden, the council is
trying to fi nd an interim
administrator until a per-
manent one can be found.
Some suggestions the coun-
cil received from Mulvi-
hill included fi nding some-
one with city management
experience — such as a
retired city manager. Mul-
vihill said there are people
out there who regularly fi ll
in on an interim basis.
One of the suggestions
Mulvihill made was to
appoint a council member
to the job. However, Baum
said that suggestion is the
“more unusual” of the sug-
gestions Mulvihill made.
He said he’d be wary of it
“because of the separation
of powers concerns.”
The council agreed to
table reviewing the job
description they’d use to
hire a new administra-
tor until they can get input
from the interim adminis-
trator they hire.
A meeting scheduled for
April 26 to discuss the job
description was canceled.
One of the biggest gaps
left by Braden’s departure
is in preparing the annual
budget that must be com-
pleted by June 30. The
council delegated Council-
woman Kathy Bingham to
meet with Deyette Perry,
CPA, to prepare a draft of
the budget and work toward
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meeting the deadlines of
having it ready for a pub-
lic hearing and publishing
prior to the council’s ear-
ly-June meeting.
This move was passed
6-1, with Lisa Collier being
the lone no vote.
The council also learned
from Jones that city bud-
gets cannot get extensions.
This was one of the ques-
tions posed during the April
16 meeting.
The council’s next meet-
ing — barring any more
emergency sessions — will
be Thursday, May 6.
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boogeyman in the group?
It’s unfortunate it’s that way.
What concerns me is that
you, as representatives of
the electorate, go out and
start soliciting people who
would be interested in the
job, I’d think this would be
a negative hanging over you.
I think it needs to be gotten
out. I’m hoping all of these
(accusations) are dismissed.
That’d be the best thing in
the world that somebody’s
making false accusations. I
think somebody’s got to take
the leadership to put these to
bed.”
Braden has not been
available for comment
since his resignation.
But the council did make
progress fi lling the void left
by his departure.
City
Administrative
Assistant Jamie Collier,
who worked closely with
Braden, was authorized to
handle most of the day-to-
day administrator respon-
sibilities until an interim
administrator can be hired.
The council placed limits on
what Collier can do, largely
based on recommendations
from Patty Mulvihill, legal
counsel for the League of
Oregon Cities. Those lim-
itations include requir-
ing council assent for the
expenditure of city funds
exceeding $5,000, signing
a contract valued at more
than $10,000 and the hir-
ing/fi ring or disciplining of
city employees. The coun-
cil did allow Collier to hire
one person as a Main Street
maintenance person, but
others will have to wait for
the interim administrator.
Other elements of Bra-
den’s job, for which out-
side help will have to be
sought for, include the
details of zoning and land-
use questions. The city has
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