SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 2016
County
Nye Beach
from 1A
Writers feature by about $4 million and signifi-
reducing the imbalance in
one last story cantly
the road fund, while investing in
Johnny Bargain will be the
featured author at the Nye
Beach
Writers’
Series’
(NBWS)
final
reading
Saturday, June 18, from 7 to 9
p.m. at the Newport Visual Arts
Center, 777 NW Beach Drive.
Bargain is the author of “A
Collection
of
Bummer
Summers,” which provides a
glimpse into the world of a
1960s’ motorcycle gang.
This is the last reading for
the NBWS, which began in
1996 as a respected literary
program, offering presenta-
tions in all genres by a mix of
writers.
The reading is open to the
public. An open mic for local
writers will follow. General
admission is $8; students are
admitted free. For more, visit
www.writersontheedge.org.
critical services and creating
long-term stability.
According to Mokrohisky, the
imbalance in the general fund
was partly caused by the ending
of the federal Secure Rural
Schools Act and the decline of
revenue from the timber industry.
“Our focus has been on
shrinking back and balancing the
budget by shrinking control costs
and not impacting services to the
community,” he said.
The budget will also reduce
the 2013 voter-approved public
safety levy from $0.55 to $0.38
per $1,000 of assessed value for
the levy’s remaining two year.
“In 2013, voters entrusted us
with additional resources. That’s
not something taxpayers often
like to do, pay more money, but
voters supported the jail levy
because they understood that
there was going to be value
added to the community,”
Mokrohisky said.
He said the reduced levy will
still have a reserve and that the
Lane County Sheriff’s Office has
worked hard to keep costs low,
even while increasing local jail
beds at Lane County Jail to 317.
“That’s really worked to effec-
tively end the revolving door at
the jail. Now we’re trying to
make investments in other parts
of the system,” Mokrohisky said.
The other parts of public safe-
ty that are getting attention are
the sheriff’s office 24-hour patrol
and resident deputy program and
the addition of three mental
health positions and a probation
officer to work with high-risk
and repeat offenders in the jail.
Lane County reports that 60
percent of the jail population has
mental health issues.
Mokrohisky said the county
will focus on “steering people
into treatment” and community
services rather than the law
enforcement side.
“We’re trying to intervene ear-
lier and connect them to servic-
es,” he said. “If you have all of
these pieces funded well, then
you have a much healthier and
safer community. We stop the
cycle of crime.”
FY 2016-17 year will also
invest in critical services by pro-
viding staffing to help the
District Attorney’s Office file
400 additional cases per year,
funding a position in assessment
and taxation to support audits
and reappraisals, fulfilling the
equity and access plan and focus-
ing on rural economic prosperity.
Mokrohisky said the budget
did not require any layoffs, as the
county chose to reduce vacant
positions instead.
“We don’t want to lose sight
of the big picture of our role in
the community: to add value.
That’s why while we’re balanc-
ing structural imbalance and fill-
ing a gap in our budget, we’re
still making investments into
public safety services and focus-
ing on rural economic develop-
ment,” he said. “We want Lane
County to have more of a pres-
ence in our communities’ lives,
and an ongoing partnership.”
To view the 2016-17 budget,
go to www.lanecounty.org.
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from 1A
with Florence Police
Department and Western Lane
Ambulance District on standby.
Afterward, the state fire mar-
shal, state police fire investiga-
tor and a whole slew of insur-
ance investigators joined
Barrett in discovering the
cause, though it remains unde-
termined.
The Stents said that their
insurance covered the $950,000
in cleanup and repairs to the
building.
Chambers Construction,
from Eugene, Ore., completed
the repairs in 11 months. The
construction company had ini-
tially built the storage unit in
1994, and the same project
manager had reviewed the
property with the Stents before
they bought Pacific Pines.
“It was nice to work with the
original guy who had all the
original plans,” Linda said.
“Chambers Construction was
able to come back and took
pride in looking after the build-
ing it had originally built. The
team did an exceptionally good
job,” Brian added.
Linda said that most of the
unit renters had their own
insurance, something Pacific
Pines recommends but does not
require.
“Two thirds of the people
who were in the buildings
before the fire returned,” Brian
said.
The building reopened for
storage in May.
“It’s a storage unit that was
full before the fire, with a wait-
ing list, and now after the fire,
it is full with a waiting list,”
Brian said. “The business pretty
much is completely unaffected,
fortunately.”
In fact, the RV side of the
business has continued to get
better, a trend started with the
Stents’ purchase of Pacific
Pines in April 2011.
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Brian said, “It was not well
utilized before, but now it’s get-
ting up to its maximum. And it
has a good reputation. We put a
lot of money into making our
facilities really nice. We get a
lot of repeat business and peo-
ple continually come back.”
Pacific Pines features a
meeting room, a recreation
room and remodeled bathrooms
with showers. Area groups
meet there, such as American
Red Cross and the Lions Club.
Dancing with Sea Lions, the
Florence Events Center’s 20th
anniversary public arts pro-
gram, also took residency for a
while. After West Coast Auto
Body applied the clearcoat, it
needed a place to store some of
the 20 completed artist-painted
fiberglass sea lions.
“We had one of the units
completed, painted and ready
to go. Since it was available,
we could keep the sea lions
inside,” Linda said.
A dozen sea lions were the
first items stored in Pacific
Pines’ new construction.
It’s all part of how the Stents
stay involved in the community
— and how they build commu-
nity for the visitors to the park.
Besides watching University
of Oregon football on the 110-
inch screen in the meeting hall
or providing books for the
lending library, the Stents pro-
vide a place for long- or short-
term visitors to prepare for cel-
ebrations and meet new friends.
“When the fire was going
on, the residents were in the
office bringing out computers
and helping remove records,”
Linda said. “It’s a real commu-
nity, a real family.”
Brian said, “It’s a really
lovely park, and we get very
high reviews. I would say there
was no downturn in the busi-
ness.”
Pacific Pines is at 4044
Highway 101. For more infor-
mation, go to www.pacificpines
rvpark.com.
Is your family prepared?
If an emergency happens in your community,
it may take emergency workers some time to reach you.
You should be prepared to take care of yourself and
your family for a minimum of 240 hours.
Get your emergency car kit started with these essentials:
❑ Always have at least one half tank of gas
❑ First aid kit
❑ Class ABC fi re extinguisher
❑ Radio and fresh batteries
❑ Nonperishable food in coffee can
❑ Bottled water
❑ Tool kit
❑ Blankets or sleeping bags
❑ Short rubber hose for siphoning
❑ Jumper cables
❑ Waterproof matches and candles
❑ Refl ectors and fl ares
❑ Flashlight with fresh batteries
❑ Paper and pencil maps
❑ Towel, plastic bags, medications
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