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6A • August 12, 2016 | Cannon Beach Gazette | cannonbeachgazette.com Former port deputy director runs for council Florer has Marine Corps, volunteer experience By Lyra Fontaine Cannon Beach Gazette Local volunteer and former Port of Astoria deputy director Herb Florer is running for a spot on the Cannon Beach City Council in November. Florer and two other resi- dents, Nancy McCarthy and Brandon Ogilvie, are vying for two seats on the council. The iling deadline for candi- dates is Aug. 30. In previous Cannon Beach City Council elections, candi- dates have run unopposed. “I thought it was import- ant for people to be given a choice,” Florer said. A Cannon Beach resident for 12 years, Florer served on the city’s Budget Committee and Planning Commission for eight years. “It was interesting, educa- tional and rewarding to hope- fully be a constructive part of helping Cannon Beach be a great place to live,” Florer said. He is now on the emer- gency preparedness commit- tee and considers long-term planning and resiliency to be important issues in earthquake and tsunami readiness. Florer spent about seven years working in marina ad- ministration and as property manager and deputy director for the Port of Astoria. He rep- resented the port at regional meetings on transportation, economic de- velopment, resiliency plan- ning and emer- gency planning. F l o r e r ’s Herb work with the Florer Transportation Task Group helped contribute to the 2013 Oregon resilience plan, which involves improving recovery for the Cascadia earthquake and tsunami. Florer has also been a U.S. Marine oficer, U.S. Naval Academy instructor trainer, paralegal representing veter- ans for VISTA and the city of Seattle, and a manager for a small sailing business. As a Marine, he underwent training in Hawaii, receiving lessons in leadership, public speaking and teaching, and was deployed for six months in Twentynine Palms, Califor- nia. He graduated with a bach- elor’s degree in political sci- ence from Reed College in Portland. Florer would like to see Cannon Beach “continue to be Cannon Beach,” though he said there are no quick ixes for maintaining the communi- ty’s livability. “There are two sides to every story,” he said. “It’s im- portant to listen and not leap to conclusions.” Florer said his family background and work and volunteer experiences inlu- enced his decision to run for council. “If I have the ability to contribute, I should,” he said. “I think my background and experiences might be useful.” Arch Cape dwellers ight to save design review Advisory group reviews projects By Kyle Spurr EO Media Group Arch Cape residents continue to ight for their citizen advisory committee. About a dozen people from the unincorporated town south of Cannon Beach came to a Clatsop County Planning Com- mission meeting Tuesday, Aug. 2, in Astoria to speak out against the county’s plan to dissolve the Arch Cape Design Review Committee. After listening to the public comment, the Planning Com- mission agreed to extend the discussion to September before it sends a recommendation to the Board of Commissioners. The Board of Commission- ers discontinued Arch Cape’s committee in February, call- ing the group unnecessary, time-consuming, expensive and a potential legal liability. Former interim County Manager Rich Mays accused the committee of harassing a county employee about her disability. Despite her requests, Mays claims, the group voted to move its meetings to a building that is not a federal Americans with Disabilities Act-approved facility. The county’s decision to dis- solve the group was challenged with the state Land Use Board of Appeals, which sent the issue back to the county. The county again plans to discontinue the design review committee, but now through a land use process that includes public hearings before the com- mittee, Planning Commission and Board of Commissioners. DANNY MILLER/EO MEDIA GROUP he Clatsop County Planning Commission listens to Arch Cape resident Michael Manzulli speak during a public hear- ing on the Arch Cape Design Review Committee in Astoria. Members of the Arch Cape Design Review Committee, also known as the Southwest Coastal Citizens Advisory Committee, cite county bylaws that say a committee can only be disbanded if it is inactive. Since the group is active, the members recommend they should stay. The committee makes rec- ommendations on any land use or development applications in the Arch Cape area. “It’s been a busy commit- tee,” former member Linda Ey- erman said. However, county counsel Chris Crean said bylaws do not prevail over the county’s ability to create or disband a commit- tee whenever it is appropriate. Crean said an issue for the coun- ty is the Arch Cape committee is a quasi-judicial committee that requires extra staff time to keep minutes and send notices for each meeting. “It’s the quasi-judicial func- tion that they are conducting that is creating most of the dif- iculty and liability for the coun- ty,” Crean said. In addition to continuing the discussion, the Planning Com- mission directed county staff to research alternatives to resolve concerns without disbanding the group. Various options will be presented at the September meeting. Losing history The 39-year-old committee is the last active citizens adviso- ry committee in Clatsop County. It is becoming commonplace in the region for such groups to be dissolved. Last week, Paciic County Commissioners in Washington state voted to end Oysterville’s Design Review Board. The Oysterville board had existed for four decades. When the Clatsop County Board of Commissioners unani- mously voted in February to dis- solve Arch Cape’s committee, it offered to recognize neighbor- hood associations instead. Residents are not ready to entertain such an idea, as they continue to protect the current committee. “Any ad hoc committee that is appointed for an individual issue wouldn’t necessarily be the same people that would be appointed for another issue,” Gordon Church, of Arch Cape, said. “We lose all the history and structure of Arch Cape’s in- volvement with the county.” Virginia Murphy, a commit- tee member, took it one step fur- ther by suggesting the county re- introduce other citizen advisory committees around the county. “In my eyes, the current Board of Commissioners and staff would better serve the cit- izens by instituting advisory committees in the other areas to decentralize government and build grassroots involvement.” Why now? Each of the residents who spoke asked why the county was taking action now. Committee chairman The- odore Lundy wanted to contest the image of the group as an un- necessary bureaucratic layer. He also challenged the former inter- im county manager’s assertion that the group created a hostile work environment. “We serve the communi- ty,” Lundy said. “We are there to help people work their way through the process.” County counsel explained how plans to dissolve the group had been in the works for a while. What Mays witnessed at a committee meeting in January accelerated the process. “This creates a huge liability for the county,” Crean said. Overall, the Planning Com- mission showed its support and understanding to the residents. “It seems like a greatly valu- able committee, and I was real disturbed that this whole thing would go this way,” Commis- sioner Christopher Farrar said. “To me, the idea of rewriting the ordinances so the committee doesn’t exist seems like some kind of a fairy tale, frankly.” Park Service archaeologist explores Middle Village through artifacts Myths from Page 1A Wilson and his team studied the Chinook Indian Middle Vil- lage, once located at the mouth of the Columbia River in an area on the Washington side of the Astoria-Megler Bridge. Numerous valuable items found on the site indicate that the Chinook were successful early traders, contradicting myths about Native Americans being cheated or culturally ex- terminated by fur traders, Wil- son said. “In this case at the Middle Village, we see that nobody was getting ripped off,” he said, adding that the Chinook “struck hard bargains” with fur traders. “The trade elevated the Chi- nook.” Objects like nails, pottery, clay tobacco pipes, glass bottles and animal or ish bones can in- form archaeologists about a so- ciety’s architecture, household, smoking or drinking habits and meals. “Those bits and pieces that represent the rubbish of past so- ciety can tell us a lot about those people,” Wilson said. Gun lints, arrowheads, al- cohol bottles re-used for other purposes, Chinese coins, silver tinkers, knives, daggers, copper objects, pottery and ceramics were among the items found at the Middle Village. “What is really unique about the Middle Village is that tradi- tional artifacts that you would normally ind at a Chinook In- dian village were very sparse,” Wilson said. “But the fur trade objects were abundant.” One particularly valuable found object was a tea caddy, which in the early 19th century and late 18th century was for the wealthy. Preserved plank structures found through archaeological testing suggest the existence of three to ive former homes. The houses appeared to have been rebuilt several times, which was not found in more stable sites further up the river, Wil- son said. As for what the Chinook ate in the Middle Village, Portland State University professor Vir- ginia Butler identiied sturgeon and salmon bones, seeds, roots and wapato, an Indian potato. When the Corps reached the site around 1805, the Middle Village was unoccupied by the Chinook. Clark created a de- tailed map of the surrounding area at the site, also referred to as Station Camp. Wilson received the John L. Cotter Award for Excellence in National Park Service Archae- ology for his work at the Mid- dle Village. “It contextualizes the Lew- 239 N. Hemlock • Cannon Beach • 503.436.0208 is and Clark expedittion,” Wil- son said about the indings. “It also shows what a Chinook Village might have looked like when Lewis and Clark came up the river.” NeCus Village has parallels to the Middle Village, Wilson said. NeCus likely had contact with Europeans before Lewis and Clark arrived. Wilson, along with other archaeologists, did recent ield- work at NeCus Park. “By exploring NeCus and comparing it to Middle Village and other village sites from the area, we can get a better handle of not only the region but also the Clatsop-Nehalem people,” Wilson said. 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