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photo by Bruce Kelsh
Angelique Perrone, 14, holds a board
for Josie Eckstine, 4, to break dur-
ing a Taekwondo event at the Cottage
Grove Library on Wednesday under
the watchful eye of instructor Janon
Rodgers. Rogers, of North Douglas
ATA, and Erin Lauraine of Lauraine's
ATA Martial Arts hosted the event as
part of the Library's Summer Read-
ing program, which includes events
at the Library every Wednesday. The
program was a blend of education and
athletics, as Ms. Rogers presented a
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineer-
ing, and Mathematics) program that
focused on how physics can help
improve sports performance.
A RMORY
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that indoor water damage has
been exacerbated by the lack of
heat in the building, damage she
said wouldn’t happen if an oc-
cupant or occupants had a more
regular presence there.
The City hopes to hire an ar-
chitect to prepare drawings and
get a more fi rm cost estimate for
rehabilitating the Armory, and to
that end it recently put out a call
for proposals from three grant
writers to execute a fundraising
campaign. Two fi rms responded
that they were unable to take on
the project; the third, Christina
Lund Consulting, has hired a
team of seven to write no less
than 80 grants in hopes of se-
curing the funds. The contract,
which began on July 1, specifi es
a term of 30 months.
Lund, of Cottage Grove,
boasts fundraising successes
including those necessary to de-
velop much of Bohemia Park in
the midst of the economic crisis,
though she has also executed
capital campaigns for CASA
of Lane County and the South-
west Oregon Chapter of the Red
Cross.
Lund said she expects her
team to continue to work on be-
half of Bohemia Park for some
projects, including the construc-
tion of an overfl ow parking
lot, additional lighting and tree
plantings. But she’s also excited
to take on the Armory project,
which will involve the planning
of several donor events and tours
in addition to grant writing.
Ferguson pointed out that the
Armory’s many potential uses
make it an appealing target for
grants, and Lund agrees.
“The Armory truly could of-
fer something for everybody,”
she said. “We’re not asking for a
bond levy, and most of the mon-
ey will be raised outside Cottage
Grove. We’re not in competition
with other local fundraising ef-
forts because the City was very
clear that it did not want to can-
nibalize the efforts of other non-
profi ts.”
Lund said that the specifi cs of
the contract mean that the City
will be paying about 18 cents
per dollar it hopes to raise for
the Armory renovation, which
she pointed out is lower than the
typical 23-25 cents per dollar
needed for such efforts.
As per the contract, the City
will pay $100,000 from its
general fund at the outset with
nine quarterly payments made
thereafter. Funds secured will
be placed in an Armory Reserve
Fund.
“We have designs in hand and
are well positioned to start fund-
raising,” Ferguson said. “The
Armory has been vacant for too
long.”
Ferguson explained that the
new draft would prohibit new
construction in the fl oodway,
described as the normal run of
a river between its banks. The
new code would primarily af-
fect homes near the Coast Fork
of the Willamette River, she
said, as much of the land around
the Row River is owned by the
City. Despite Cottage Grove’s
location between two rivers,
Ferguson pointed out that only
about 60 local properties are
currently in the fl oodplain and
thus required to carry federal
fl ood insurance.
That number could rise in the
coming years, Ferguson said,
following a court ruling stating
that FEMA’s National Flood In-
surance Program (NFIP) does
not go far enough to protect sal-
monid fi sh species and in fact
encourages development harm-
ful to those species in the na-
tion’s fl oodplains. FEMA now
fi nds itself tasked with working
with NOAA Fisheries to address
its compliance with the Endan-
gered Species Act regarding
salmonid protections, a process
that could take years. NOAA
also wants FEMA to redraw its
fl oodplain maps nationwide, a
process that’s currently on hold
because FEMA lacks the funds
to carry it out.
“It’s too early to tell yet,”
Cottage Grove Community
Development Director Howard
Schesser said about how code
changes at the federal level
could fi lter down to municipali-
ties. Cottage Grove’s proposed
code changes, Schesser said,
fi nd the City “moving to the
beginning of compliance” with
stricter federal codes, though he
added that the changes “defi -
nitely don’t go as far” in limit-
ing fl oodplain development as
will likely be required in the
future.
The City has also endeavored
to map its own fl oodplains us-
ing LiDAR (Light Detection
and Ranging) technology so
that its maps can be compared
with those expected to be drawn
by FEMA and the City can use
its maps to object to the require-
ment of more property owners
to carry fl ood insurance.
Cottage Grove’s Planning
Commission held a public hear-
ing on the proposed fl ood code
changes in May; the City Coun-
cil will host another public hear-
ing on Monday, July 25.
F LOOD
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City Planner Amanda Fer-
guson said that the City’s new
draft code has been updated in
an effort to ensure that Cottage
Grove be included in FEMA’s
community rating system, which
provides federal fl ood insurance
for those structures required to
carry it, and so that local fl ood
insurance policy holders can
receive discounts with regard
to the stringency of the City’s
code.
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2016
Cottage Grove High School Football Program brings you the
2016 Lion Football Golf Classic
July 9th, 2016
Shotgun Start at 8am
Middlefield Golf Course
For more information and the registration form go to:
www.cgsentinel.com
or call Coach Gary Roberts
at 541-912-2530
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