SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 2015
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Local officials share New Year’s wish lists
C OMPILED BY T HERESA B AER
Siuslaw News
Siuslaw News staff have
spoken with many people in
recent days about their plans
for the new year. 2015. It’s got
a nice ring to it, don’t you
think?
It turns out, however, that the
tradition of making New Year’s
resolutions seems to be fading.
Still, several Florence and
Dunes City officials stepped up
and shared their ideas and
hopes for the coming year.
Following are their contribu-
tions.
Best wishes to all in 2015.
My top resolution is to make
myself, my family and Lane
County more resilient. I want to
be more prepared for natural
disasters
and
economic
upheavals.
I am going to take better care
of my health through diet and
exercise. I plan on preparing
my home with food, water and
alternate energy sources. I hope
that we as Lane citizens can
prepare our infrastructure and
emergency services to better
handle a potential subduction
zone earthquake.
Jay Bozievich
Western Lane County
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Commissioner
I don’t really do resolutions.
I find it more productive to take
the time to reflect on the proj-
ects that worked well and ana-
lyze why or on those that didn’t
turn out so well and why not.
Then I try to learn from those
experiences to help with future
endeavors.
I find that I learn most from
those things that were hard and
not so successful. Maybe
because I think more about why
they didn’t work. But in any
case, I think that all of these are
opportunities to learn and grow.
Isn’t that what we are meant to
do?
This year will be the first in
10 years during which the city
won’t be my main focus, so I’m
looking forward to more family
time, working on my hobbies
of sewing and paper crafting
and maybe learning to play my
beautiful piano. I have so very
much to be grateful for and I
hope to find a way to share that
with others.
Nola Xavier
Florence Mayor
I am optimistic that our new
council will share in creating a
unified vision, which sets the
course for the next 15 years,
with achievable goals to be
accomplished every year mov-
ing forward, a series of changes
designed to mold our commu-
nity into that desired vision for
Florence and the surrounding
area.
We all agree economic
development is essential to
expand our town but what form
will it take? We are going to
look at how to maintain our
quality of life while attracting
working class entrepreneurial
people to relocate here, while
Jay Bozievich
Nola Xavier
Joshua Greene
Joe Henry
Sue Roberts
Susy Lacer
Lynn Lamm
Mike Miller
Robert Forsythe
Rebecca Ruede
Jamie Mills
Ed Scarberry
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respecting our strong popula-
tion of retirees who do so much
as workers and volunteers. We
need to attract a younger popu-
lation to energize our base.
I personally believe that we
could make “Celebrate the
Arts” a directive and let the arts
be an economic generator. Start
with a massive public art pro-
gram that hires some of the
greatest artists in the world to
adorn our city with amazing
must-see works!
The city should put in place
financial incentives through
federal, state, county and city to
aid in the investment needed to
retrofit our commercial spaces
only for artists. The city should
take the initiative to hire the U
of O architectural students to
show some exciting conceptual
examples of what could be built
on our larger available foot-
prints, the Boardwalk, the
Lotus, across from the FEC and
the old school on 101. This will
become a message to investors
to take us seriously and that we
are open to growing in a partic-
ular way. We can set the course
in 2015.
Joshua Greene
Florence City Councilor
Utmost on my list of priori-
ties for the next two years is to
help to build a sense of team-
work and consensus with the
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new council and the staff as we
formulate our goals both short
term and long term. In the short
term it must be our No. 1 prior-
ity to hire a new city manager
and in turn a new police chief.
We have gone much too long
without those two critical posi-
tions being filled. Over the next
two years I would like to see
our efforts focused on econom-
ic development, street mainte-
nance, cost control and forming
partnerships with other stake-
holders in the area to help to
accomplish these goals.
Joe Henry
Florence Mayor-elect
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