The Columbia Press
June 24, 2022
that,” Commissioner Rick
Newton said at a recent city
commission meeting.
“We’re terrible land-
lords for our … (bene-
fit), but very good for
building, it could write
the other side. I think
grants or work with
it should go away.
organizations to raise
That’s my opinion.”
money for repairs.
Commissioner Mark
“It makes it an easier
Baldwin agreed.
The Head Start building is in the southwest cor-
process,” Ervin said.
“That was the worst
The agency owns ner of Robinson Community Park.
lease in the history of
three of its six Head
forever,” Baldwin said.
ary clause on CAT should vot-
Start buildings in Columbia,
The
city’s
attorney will draft
ers approve the transfer.
Tillamook and Clatsop County.
a
ballot
measure
and Warren-
“We’re losing over $200 per
The city of Seaside also owns
ton
voters
will
decide
the issue
month every month we own
the Head Start building there.
in November.
“It’s always been a good part-
nership with the city of War-
renton,” Ervin said. “When
we needed a building, they
stepped up with us to get a
grant, and this is the next log-
ical step.”
The building and property are
worth more than $700,000,
according to the county As-
sessor’s Office, yet it cannot
be sold and the city cannot
increase the rent according to
terms of the block grant.
Voters would have to ap-
prove the transfer because of
the property’s value, according
to city statutes.
The county has agreed to re-
lease the city from the rever-
sionary clause it placed on the
property when it was gifted to
the city years ago, and the city
intends to impose a reversion-
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alent of 15 years of rent
win campus
clause whereby the property fixing siding and leak-
revert to the county if ing windows.
literacy award would
If CAT owned the
the city sold it or abandoned it.
Nine Clatsop Community
College students were named
winners of the campus’ Infor-
mation Literacy Award.
The annual prize is awarded
each spring to students who’ve
submitted research projects to
the college librarian, who eval-
uates them using information
literacy criteria.
All nine illustrated a strong
grasp of the evolving world
of information, as well as the
ability to incorporate author-
itative information into their
research. Students cited a
range of research sources, in-
cluding websites, journalists,
books, magazines, scholarly
journals, streaming movies,
and personal interviews.
The 2022 winners are:
•Isabella Anthony, for her
work on left-sided heart failure
•Drake Fischer, who wrote
about the damage sea lions
cause to property and salmon
•Teresa Higuera, who sub-
mitted a report on historic
preservation problems
•Emma Johnson, for her re-
search project “Stonehenge: A
Novel Interpretation”
•Vance Lump, for thought-
ful explication of upgrading of
historic wood windows
•Katelyn Olsen, who exam-
ined Bipolar I Disorder
•Scott Stanford, for his
Baldrige assessment of Costco
•William Stevison, who ex-
plained the Treaty of Guada-
lupe Hidalgo
•Shea Stokes, for his paper
on Architectural Terra Cotta
The award was divided
equally among the nine win-
ners, with two students shar-
ing the nursing student award
and seven students sharing the
general award.
Each received a $133 check
from the Clatsop Community
College Foundation.
The college library creat-
ed the Information Literacy
Award to recognize student re-
search skills.
In 1995, the Community Ac-
tion Team (CAT) approached
city leaders, who agreed to
sponsor the nonprofit agency
in seeking a federal Communi-
ty Development Block Grant,
money that must be used to
benefit seniors, those with low
incomes, the disabled or other
special groups.
The group received a grant
to build a Head Start facility
on half an acre. Head Start is
a preschool for low-income
families. Today there are 40
children in the program ages
3 to 5.
The city wants to give the
property to CAT.
“It would make a difference
because, (there are problems
when) maintenance needs
to be done -- and we do a lot,
right now we’re getting ready
to paint the interior of the
building,” said Joyce Ervin,
CAT program director.
But the nonprofit’s mission
doesn’t include major reno-
vations to buildings it doesn’t
own.
The city receives $225 per
month from CAT, an amount
that hasn’t increased since
1995 and never will. Just last
year, the city spent the equiv-
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