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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
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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. Because the units
would not be federally sub-
sidized low-income housing,
the city would fund the de-
velopment.
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Whether the measure ac-
tually passed in Manzanita
is subject to debate, which
prompted the Manzani-
ta City Council to pass an
emergency ordinance at its
August 2015 meeting essen-
tially putting the provisions
of Measure 91 on hold, but
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said Measure 91, based on
the overall approval rating,
likely passed in Manzanita
originally.
“We realized this was
going to be an issue,” said
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warm reception from city
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“We want to be repre-
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Hayes said.
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in November, Oregon
Coast Cannabis, which reg-
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to July 15, 2015, can still
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juana dispensary thanks to
House Bill 3400. State law
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reation marijuana product,
which it currently does,
through the end of 2016.
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