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May 20, 2016 | Cannon Beach Gazette | cannonbeachgazette.com • 7A School board unanimously approves 2016-17 budget Budget includes funds for preparation of bond measure By Nancy McCarthy For the Cannon Beach Gazette A 14-member budget committee approved the Sea- side School District budget Tuesday night with no dis- cussion. The approval process took less than two minutes from the time the budget meeting started until it ad- journed. Committee mem- bers included seven school board members and seven district residents. Presented last month by district Superintendent Doug Dougherty, with a detailed explanation by Business Manager Justine Hall, the budget includes a $19.53 million general fund, with revenue coming mostly from property taxes and timber revenues. A ive-year local option levy, approved by voters last November, also added $1.2 million to the budget. Because its property val- ues are higher than the aver- age throughout Oregon, the Seaside district does not re- ceive state education funds. Taxpayers will pay $4.41 per $1,000 assessed valuation for the budget, plus 52 cents per $1,000 for a ive-year local option tax levy approved by voters last November. The to- tal levy for property assessed at $300,000 would be $1,479. The budget will cover dis- trict expenses from July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2017. Among the expenses list- ed in the budget is the cost to prepare a bond measure for next November’s ballot to relocate the district’s schools out of the tsunami inundation zone. The district could spend up to $540,000 for architec- tural and engineering fees and other services. However, that amount depends on the pro- ceeds received from the sale of district-owned property near Surf Pines. The district hopes to receive $335,000 from the sale. A $128.8 million bond measure to relocate the schools on a hill east of Sea- side Heights Elementary School failed in 2013. The district’s budget, how- ever, doesn’t include potential revenue from the sale of the former Cannon Beach Ele- mentary School to the city of Cannon Beach. An item in the city’s proposed budget reserves $665,000 for the pur- chase and possible demolition of the building. Of that, between $400,000 and $500,000 is supposed to go toward the school’s pur- chase; the tentative purchase price hasn’t been made pub- lic, and no sales contract has yet been signed, according to Cannon Beach City Manager Brant Kucera. The school district’s budget also includes 4.5 full-time-equivalent per- sonnel to be hired; they are a social studies teacher at Broadway Middle School; a full-time teacher to re- duce class size; a half-time curriculum director; a part- time technology support staff member; and a staff member who will serve as a full-time “teacher on spe- cial assignment” to provide management support to stu- dents, staff, parents and the community at Gearhart and Seaside Heights elementa- ry schools, according to the Dougherty’s budget mes- sage. The budget includes a 2.25 percent salary increase for district employees. Although he is retiring June 30, Dougherty will con- tinue to stay on half-time to shepherd the bond measure through the November elec- tion. Seaside High School Principal Sheila Roley will take over as superintendent beginning July 1. Manzanita to vote on pot Afordable housing task force gets to work Pot from Page 1A Housing from Page 1A Carleton said the two sites would be similar in construc- tion costs, and would both re- quire city zone changes. “This is what the city might do, if they wanted to, on these properties,” consul- tant Teri Silva said. Since February, the task force has been brainstorming ways to close the city’s work- force housing gap. “This is the irst hope I’ve had of seeing anything con- crete coming out of any of the discussions we’ve had in the past year and a half,” Kucera said. “I think we should do them both,” resident and task force member Ken McQuhae said. “We could continue to have these discussions for the next 10 years if we wanted to, but we need a starting point.” The task force, formed to make recommendations to increase affordable housing, had its irst meeting in Janu- ary 2015. A 2014 Cannon Beach housing needs survey found 92 percent of restaurant own- ers and 79 percent of hospital- ity business owners said ind- ing housing is a problem for employees. “We have staff right now that are critical to what we are doing that cannot ind a place to live and might not be able to work for us this summer, CARLETON HART ARCHITECTURE/SUBMITTED GRAPHIC One design option for potential afordable housing units elevated over the Spruce Street parking lot in downtown Cannon Beach. which provides serious issues for us as a business,” said Ja- son Menke, co-owner of Sea Level Bakery. “We can’t op- erate without them.” Menke said he was en- couraged by the designs, and suggested that the affordable housing units be open for small business owners like him to lease and rent to employees. “The need is out there,” said Todd Johnston, task force member and Northwest Or- egon Housing Authority ex- ecutive director. People have returned vouchers the hous- ing authority gave them since there is no housing available. The city can’t grow with- out affordable housing, Kucera said, adding, “I think these will be sold out before they’re even built.” Residents offered sugges- tions and concerns during the public comment period. Downtown businesses may oppose the Spruce Street housing due to fewer parking spaces, resident Nancy Mc- Carthy said, and a plan for parking is needed. “To me, it looks very ster- ile compared to what we have here as a community,” Jan Siebert-Wahrmund said. “I don’t think it’s a good idea to put everyone together. I would much rather be in a neighbor- hood that has different income levels around.” Siebert-Wahrmund ques- tioned placing the Spruce Street housing in the tsunami zone and whether the city had enough water to service new units. She asked for greater community input. “It’s not as simple as it seems to be talked about to- day,” she said. Silva said the city could keep the units affordable by putting strict, speciic regula- tory restrictions on the lease. Potential renters could be screened to make sure they work in Cannon Beach and meet certain criteria. The next task force meet- ing is June 8. Silva plans to run numbers to see if the concepts are i- nancially feasible, as an esti- mated cost is not yet known, and will prepare a document with the group’s recommen- dations for the City Council. Barnes will consider potential city code adjustments to make the designs possible. “Know that all of this is conceptual,” Silva said. Affordable housing will be discussed at the city’s strategic planning sessions at the end of May. Kucera said the council will likely con- sider “at least one of those concepts.” Rents would pay for the mortgage to build the housing, so the development would be no cost to taxpay- ers, Kucera said after the meeting. 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