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SERVING WESTERN LANE COUNTY SINCE 1890
FLORENCE, OREGON
Commissioners could not reach consensus
on three finalists for the job
B Y J ACK D AVIS
Siuslaw News
Port of Siuslaw commissioners met
in executive session Nov. 18 to select
a new port manager from the three
finalists they had chosen.
The process began in October with
10 people applying for the position.
Six were selected to give PowerPoint
presentations and answer a series of
questions posed by the commission-
ers. Three finalists were selected, one
of which would be chosen to be the
new port manager.
That was the plan.
In reality, the board could not agree
on any of the three finalists. The con-
sensus reached was: none of the
above.
After the executive session, board
president Ron Caputo said, “We have
come to a consensus that we would
like to have more applicants and we
are going to open the application
process again for another 30 days.
Then we will go through review
process again.”
Commissioner Nancy Rickard made a
motion to “go through the process of ask-
ing for applicants to begin, that it be pub-
licized and that we review current appli-
cations that we have that were not previ-
ously opened.”
Before the motion was seconded,
commissioner Mike Buckwald cau-
tioned the board that, “If we don’t sec-
ond this, we’ve got a mess.”
Caputo seconded the motion.
Commissioner
Terry
Duman
expressed his frustrations over not
having reached a decision.
“I feel like by doing this, any time
we come to an impasse on who we are
going to choose as manager, we are
going to come back to this same argu-
ment again. Let’s go back out,”
Duman said. “We have board mem-
bers that aren’t in agreement with each
other over selections before we have
even called for a vote on a manager
and now we are going back out for
new applications.
“I feel that if it comes back the same
way next time and you don’t have a
general consensus, it will go back for
applications again.”
Caputo said, “Hopefully we will
come up with someone we can have a
consensus on. That is the plan.”
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PORT 8A
KETTLE KICK - OFF
Ambulance,
fire districts
to share HR
position
Agreement helps streamline
process, improve relationship
between agencies
B Y C HANTELLE M EYER
Siuslaw News
Officially starting Tuesday, Dec. 1, Siuslaw
Valley Fire and Rescue (SVFR) finance and
human resources manager Julie Brown will split
her time equally between SVFR and Western
Lane Ambulance District (WLAD).
The fire district and the ambulance district decid-
ed to share the human resource and finance position
earlier this fall, when Fire Chief Jim Langborg said
that he and WLAD Executive Director Brian
Burright discussed ways “to improve relationships
and create administrative and operational efficien-
cies between organizations.”
One way the districts decided to do this was
to fill WLAD’s vacant office manager position
part time with Brown’s expertise.
Langborg and Burright looked at the following
goals when making their decision: to save taxpayer
money; find additional ways to create administra-
tive efficiencies between the two districts; strength-
en the relationship between the organizations; and
reduce redundancies within both districts.
Ultimately, they also hope to save staff time.
Langborg said, “We came up with something
we could all agree with. We understand that
both districts and boards could be concerned,
since she is an employee of both districts, with
making sure we get equal value.”
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T
he Salvation Army will
soon bring holiday cheer
to locations in Florence,
starting Thanksgiving
Day. Geraldine Lucio and Old Town
Barbershop hosted the Salvation
Army’s Kettle Kick-off Thursday.
C ITY
FINALIZES
B Y C HANTELLE M EYER
Siuslaw News
Florence City Council approved
an ordinance concerning residency
requirements for the Airport
Advisory Committee at its Nov. 16
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THIS WEEK ’ S
Florence Mayor Joe Henry, Florence Area
Chamber of Commerce Executive Director
Cal Applebee and Grocery Outlet owner
Woody Woodbury joined local pilot Sam
Spayd in supporting the effort to raise
money for western Lane County.
Six locations in Florence will have kettles
daily from Thursday, Nov. 26, to Christmas
Eve, Dec. 24, including Fred Meyer, BiMart,
Salvation Army
kicks off first year
in Florence
B Y C HANTELLE M EYER
Siuslaw News
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Grocery Outlet, Safeway and Old Town
Barbershop on Bay Street.
Salvation Army volunteer coordinator
Janet Snow and director of planned giving
Bill Olson are working to get additional vol-
unteers in the Florence area.
Call Snow at 559-289-3063 or Olson at
503-880-0680 to volunteer or for more infor-
mation about the Red Kettle Campaign.
A IRPORT A DVISORY C OMMITTEE
meeting. Florence Mayor Joe
Henry also named the members of
the committee.
According to the staff report, “It
became apparent that an expansion
of the membership criteria for the
committee was necessary to allow
for maximum community involve-
ment and to fit the needs of the
community members who wished
to participate in the committee.”
Now, the city code establishing
the committee includes residency
in the City of Florence, business
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Community members
gather Thursday to support
the Red Kettle Campaign.
ownership in the city and/or airport
hangar ownership. All members
should also have a common interest
in the economic vitality of the
Florence Municipal Airport.
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PORT MANAGER SEARCH STARTS OVER