10A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL SEPTEMBER 6, 2017
Fairs
CYCLE OREGON
CANCELED
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Cottage Grove was not on
the list of destinations but bik-
ers were expected to camp in
Schwartz Park just a few miles
outside of the city in Dorena,
Oregon. The city of Cottage
Grove has been ramping up
tourism efforts in preparation of
Cycle Oregon's ride near town.
"About 18 nonprofi ts and
groups were set up to volunteer
as a fundraiser," Travis Palmer,
executive director of the Cot-
tage Grove Chamber of Com-
merce said. However, according
to Palmer, Cycle Oregon has
agreed to pay those organiza-
tions around the state that had
signed contracts with the biking
group despite the cancellation.
As of press time, it was un-
known if Cottage Grove and its
volunteers would be included in
that contracted group.
Wildfi res continue to burn
around Oregon with areas out-
side of Springfi eld near Blue
River, Sisters and in Douglas
County have been either asked
to evacuate or put on notice to
be ready to evacuate.
Air quality continues to be
reported at unhealthy levels
around the valley including Eu-
gene and Cottage Grove. Lane
Regional Air Protection Agency
rated the air quality over the La-
bor Day Weekend as just under
250 and in Eugene at 306 out of
300.
RFP
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Growth Boundary that could
take up to two years.”
An Urban Growth Boundary
is a regional boundary set up to
control housing and urban de-
velopment mandating that the
area within the boundary be
used for urban development.
Several other factors have
slowed housing development
including construction cost and
demand as well as System De-
velopment Charges (SDC) fees.
The fees are meant to offset the
impact of a new development to
the area. However, the Cottage
Grove City Council has taken
on the issue in the last year and
councilman Mike Fleck has cre-
ated a group designed to look at
the challenges of building in the
city, including SDC fees. More-
over, a construction boom in
the state of Oregon has drive up
costs due to the low availability
of construction crews and mate-
rials. Construction on the new
Harrison Elementary School
has faced rising costs due to the
shortage in Oregon.
“This is a few years away,”
Ferguson said. “So hopefully,
if there is building, construction
costs will have gone down.”
Hayden Homes is currently
constructing a community on
Hwy. 99 near the fi rehouse com-
plete with single-family homes.
er than
B M D
but
un-
like Cottage Grove’s biggest
tourism attraction of the year,
W.O.E. charges for individuals
to attend the fair—$3 for those
12 years of age and older. “We
haven’t been free for quite a few
years,” Geiger said.
Then again, W.O.E. owns the
land that the fair takes part in.
During the year, it earns money
by renting out parking for the
races at the speedway and its
board is not paid for its service
unlike some positions within
the BMD.
While Geiger did not speak in
numbers, she said the W.O.E. hit
its fi nancial mark for this year’s
festival though mentioned each
year the cost of putting on the
fair varies.
“It depends on what type of
entertainment you have,” she
said, noting that the $50,000 it
costs to put on BMD seemed
high in comparison to the
W.O.E. which does not offer a
carnival or dozens of food ven-
dors. It does however, have a
traditional lumberjack show and
contests that mirror the Oregon
governing body had suffered
a stroke, rendering him unable
to perform the work on the ex-
terior of the building—though
he had not yet been contracted
by the city of Cottage Grove to
do so.
Since then, a process has been
in place to ensure that the work
done to the armory falls within
the parameters of being proper-
ly historic and the RFP will seek
out those fi rms who are capable
of doing the work within those
parameters.
City Planner Amanda Fer-
guson—who wrote the RFP—
said the fi rm chosen would be
responsible for a slew of work
including plumbing and elec-
tric. According to the RFP the
scope of work spans three sec-
tions—Design
Development
and Contract Document Phase
of Services, Construction Bid-
ding Phase Services and Con-
struction Phase Services—each
section housing at least 10 sep-
arate responsibilities. Those re-
sponsibilities include attending
meetings to develop goals, op-
tions and research consensus on
fi nal plans, assisting to evaluate
bids, develop recommendations
to the city, ensure documents
meet all applicable provisions
of Oregon’s Public Contracting
Code and a dozen others. Cur-
rently, the armory is the sub-
ject of a massive fundraising
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tested during the initial lead in-
vestigation of the building had
decreased. The only area that
had increased—by the stairs in
the often-utilized drill hall—
was thought to have tested high-
er due to the lead-painted stairs.
The stairs then became subject
to a construction projects which
utilized dry ice to remove the
paint at a cost of approximately
$28,000. The city will test the
areas again after that construc-
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effort. According to Ferguson,
the project listed in the RFP
has a budget of approximately
$250,000. However, fundrais-
ing began prior to the release of
the RFP with consultant Chris-
tina Lund manning the push for
community dollars.
Plans to update the armory
include the installation of hand-
icap entrances which would cre-
ate a need to alter the exterior of
the building slightly.
Lead concerns within the
armory slowed fundraising af-
ter reports of improper testing
emerged. However, those re-
ports were put to rest after addi-
tional testing by the city which
found all the areas that were
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park which costs money and
you need people at every en-
trance to make sure only paying
people get in,” Simmons said.
Geiger’s organization will
continue putting on the fair,
though it’s hoping to com-
plete some projects around the
grounds. It recently requested
money from the city to com-
plete a lighting project and sev-
eral buildings on the grounds
could use some TLC.
“We don’t whine about what
we don’t have,” Geiger said.
“We do what we can with what
we have.”
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contests for farm animals.
W.O.E., according to Geiger,
is not looking to downsize but
it is—like BMD—looking for
volunteers.
“I’m president until someone
else steps up to do it,” she said.
“We have a few young people
on our board but we can always
have more,” she said.
For BMD, the challenge re-
mains to keep the quality of the
fair up without charging.
“We looked at having it be pay
but then you need to construct a
facade all the way around the
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