SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, MAY 23, 2015
Results
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The Port of Siuslaw saw a
tough race, with three candi-
dates vying for two open
positions. Nancy Rickard won
commissioner position 2 with
2,018 votes, or 60 percent.
Her opponent Bill Reagan
received 40 percent.
David Huntington was
voted into commissioner posi-
tion 4, a position he has filled
since earlier this year. He ran
unopposed and received 99
percent of the votes cast.
Western Lane Ambulance
District also had an interest-
ing race. For director position
1, Cindy Russell won with
2,043 votes, or 57 percent.
She beat Karl Enlund, with 28
percent, and Brian Jagoe, with
15 percent.
For director position 2,
Richard Childs ran unopposed
and received 99 percent of the
votes.
Both Heceta Water District
and Mapleton Water District
had candidates that ran unop-
posed.
For Heceta, commissioner
position 3 will be filled by
Debby Todd and commission-
er position 4 will be filled by
Chuck Gesik. Position 5 will
be filled by appointment.
For Mapleton Water
District, commissioner posi-
tion 3 goes to Marilyn Fox,
commissioner position 4 goes
to Larry Baxter and commis-
sioner position 5 goes to
Frank Wilson. All three are
incumbents.
Mapleton School District
and Siuslaw School District
boards of directors both had
candidates that ran unop-
posed.
In Mapleton, John
Simington Jr. will fill director
position 1, Carl West will fill
director position 3 and
Michelle Holman will fill
director position 5.
In Siuslaw, Guy Rosinbaum
will fill director position 1,
Tamera Butler will fill direc-
tor position 5 and Suzanne
Mann-Heintz will fill director
position 6.
Filling three positions for
Siuslaw Public Library
District are Susy Lacer,
Patricia Riley and Jane Yecny.
The last day for the county
clerk to certify the election
results is June 8.
For more election results,
go to www.lanecounty.org and
click on elections.
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Port
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“I think it behooves you to
take a prudent attitude toward
raising fees on a regular basis, in
small increments,” Trotter said.
“It really is painful to put it off
for five or six years down the
road and then all of a sudden
have to have a big jump in fees.”
The board last approved
increases to the port’s camp-
ground rates in 2010.
The proposed 2015 budget,
which included both camp-
ground and moorage rate
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staff members and presented to
the budget committee for final
approval during the May 4 meet-
ing.
The budget committee con-
sists of the five elected Port of
Siuslaw board members and five
members of the public, appoint-
ed to the budget committee by
the board.
Seven of 10 budget commit-
tee members were present May
4 and approved the budget with
all rate increases.
Commissioners Ron Caputo
and Terry Duman and commit-
tee member Ron Cox did not
attend the budget meeting.
During the board meeting,
port administrative assistant
Dina McClure said that in addi-
tion to the 2010 campground
rate increase, the commercial
mooring rates were increased by
3 percent last year, but recre-
ational moorage rates for the
port basin have remained the
same since 2008.
Commissioner Jay Cable said,
“I look at other campgrounds
that have similar rates that have
swimming pools, that have gaze-
bos with big screen TVs, that
have grass, that have paved
driveways. They have all of
these things and their rates aren’t
a whole lot different than what
we are doing, and yet, we are
having rate increases. As a busi-
nessperson, if you have a sub-
standard product, you have to
either raise the product or lower
the rates. Like I said at the budg-
et meeting, we need to find ways
to cut costs.”
Commissioner
Nancy
Rickard said the board should
have been making small, incre-
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mental rate increases every year,
but the board has not done that.
“We have put ourselves in a
very difficult position because
we have raised the rates and we
haven’t given any amenities,”
Cable said. “Now people want
something for that rate increase.
We have a substandard RV park,
compared to the other ones
around here.”
Rickard disagreed.
“I don’t think we are over
charging,” she said.
“Our occupancy doesn’t show
that there is an issue,” Port
Manager Bob Forsythe said. “It
went up five years ago after the
rate increase and occupancy
continued to grow even after
that.”
Annual reports show that port
campground
occupancy
increased by 3 percent from
2011 to 2012, by 12 percent
from 2012 to 2013, and by 16
percent from 2013 to 2014.
Rickard spoke to the unique-
ness of the Port campground,
being located on the river, with-
in walking distance of Old Town
and walking access to clam beds
at low tide.
Board president Ron Caputo
said, “The Port of Siuslaw is the
Port of Siuslaw, and I hate to
compare it to anybody.”
“We used to have extra
money for capital projects, but
we don’t anymore,” McClure
said.
McClure later said that pro-
jecting forward, it is predicted
that fiscal year 2015 cash-on-
hand will be approximately
$100,000 less than 2014, with no
money left for capital improve-
ments.
The board voted to adopt a 3
percent increase to commercial
moorage rates for fiscal year
2015 and to make the east basin
daily moorage rates to the 40-
foot slips the same rate as the 24-
foot slips and increase the daily
rate by $2.
The resolution to adopt
increased campground fees
failed for lack of a second, and
the board voted not to adopt
changes to the west basin recre-
ational moorage rates.
Rickard said, “At the budget
meeting it was suggested that we
cut employees. Have any of you
walked the grounds to see what
is done during the off-season?
You can’t balance our budget on
the backs of the employees. The
off-season is when the cleaning
is done, the repairing is done.”
By not adopting all the resolu-
tions approved by the budget
committee, the port does not cur-
rently have a balanced budget
for the 2015 fiscal year. State
law requires the port to have an
adopted balanced budget in
place by the beginning of its fis-
cal year, July 1.
The board will need to meet
prior to the June 17 board meet-
ing to balance the budget that is
approximately $15,000 in the
red.
According to Forsythe, if the
port does not have a balanced
budget by July 1, the port will be
forced to shut down.
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