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Academy startup awarded four planning grants
Academy from Page 1A
“We will award up to 15, $100,000 planning
grants over the three-year term of our federal
Charter Schools Program grant,” Donovan said.
So far, four planning grants have been award-
ed, she added.
Simmons said the grant application detailed
the school’s 5-year planning efforts, provided
budget details and indicated where funds would
be allocated. All costs in the application were
approved.
“It’s just a matter of us executing the plan
and getting reimbursed,” Simmons said. “They
were quite impressed with our grant, so much
so they’re making our application a model for
future applications.”
Where money will go
The largest portion of the grant funds are
slated to be used for training educators in the
school’s curriculum. Another $10,000 will go
to three months of salaries for the director and
ESL teacher. “This will really allow those two
individuals to really iron out any issues with our
program and prepare our program for implemen-
tation,” Simmons said.
As much as $30,000 will go to classroom
equipment and curriculum expenses.
The academy applied for the grant with the
assistance of the Seaside School District, a co-
operation “which is not always common,” Sim-
mons said. “Oftentimes there can be friction be-
tween a charter school and a district, because the
district sees the charter school as taking away a
source of revenue. My experience is the district,
particularly within the past year, has been in-
credibly supportive. They’re really trying to help
us pull this off.”
Fall enrollment at
Academy now open
Fall enrollment for Cannon Beach
Academy is underway. The acad-
emy opens with grades K-2 with a
growth plan of one grade per year
until serving kindergarten through
fifth-grade classes. Cannon Beach
Academy is a public, tuition-free
charter school part of the Seaside
School District. The academy offers
a curriculum consisting of direct
instruction and the core knowledge
sequence. Class sizes are limited.
Something ‘unique’
Enrollment at Cannon Beach Academy is
limited to 22 students. “It’s offering something
a bit unique,” Simmons said.
Families not only in Cannon Beach but in
Seaside, Gearhart and other portions of Clatsop
County in the Seaside School District will ben-
efit from the school’s Spanish language compo-
nent and direct instruction curriculum design, he
said. “If they want this curriculum, it’s open to
them,” Simmons said. “It’s great for the district.
It will encourage folks to move here because of
this choice, I believe.”
With enrollment underway, the academy’s
lease agreement at 171 Sunset Boulevard is
nearly complete.
FILE PHOTO
Cannon Beach Academy board members
Patti Rouse, Barb Knop, Sally Steidel,
Phil Simmons and Kellye Dewey with
Jeneé Pearce-Mushen, Yohali and Alondra,
at a November potluck in Cannon Beach.
The academy offers Spanish lan-
guage exposure and provides a
focus on the arts, working with local
artists to provide a rich experience.
Renovations include “moving a few walls
and putting some paint in there,” Simmons said,
as well as meeting compliance with the Amer-
icans with Disabilities Act. Improvements will
begin after the lease is complete.
“We’ve got a budget for it and we don’t antic-
ipate any significant problems,” Simmons said.
To enroll, visit www.thecannonbeach-
academy.org or call 503-440-9878.
Author shares legacy
of Oregon pioneer
Public hearing slated to pick contractor
Calvin Tibbets
is topic at
History and
Hops speaker
series event
Through the use of dynamic
cost-control modeling, the proj-
ect’s budget and expenditures
are constantly updated and
tracked, not only for real costs,
but also for trends. The benefit
of doing so, Kulkarni said, is
by detecting a negative upward
trend early, “you have the op-
portunity to correct the course
and bring it down.”
Portland-based Dull Olson
Weekes-IBI Group Architects
is providing design and archi-
tecture services for the project.
The next step is finding a gener-
al contractor.
A public hearing will take
place at the board’s next meet-
ing, March 21.
After approval, the board
can bring a contract manag-
er and general contractor on
board.
Selection will be a col-
laborative process involving
DAY CPM and school board
members, staff and community
members serving on a panel.
“This is a very important
decision for the district,” Day
said.
Ron White, a community
outreach coordinator with DAY
CPM, said the firm intends to
emphasize community engage-
ment throughout the project.
They brought surveys to
the meet-and-greet event and
the school board meeting to
collect input from attendees.
Future engagement may in-
clude town hall and neigh-
borhood meetings. The firm
also intends to communicate
through a project website that
will run through the school
By Rebecca Herren
Cannon Beach Gazette
Portland author Jerry
Sutherland’s research and
discovery into pioneer Calvin
Tibbets is a work in progress.
He first became fascinated
with Tibbets when his father,
Art Sutherland, saw the name
in a historical article and de-
cided to do a little genealogy
research given that Jerry’s
mother’s maiden name was
Tibbetts. No relationship was
found, but Sutherland contin-
ued the research into Tibbets
as a man who traveled to Or-
egon with a specific goal: to
settle here permanently and
make it part of the emerging
United States landscape.
Sutherland, who spoke at
the History and Hops speaker
series at the Seaside Brewing
Co. Thursday, Feb. 23, ex-
plained how sometimes the
research was challenging due
to the many ways the name is
spelled — most commonly,
he said, is T-i-b-b-e-t-t-s and
T-i-b-b-i-t-s. “It wasn’t until
I found documents signed by
him that I knew what the cor-
rect spelling was.”
Oregon in 1832
When Tibbets traveled to
Oregon in 1832, the area was
still contested between Great
Britain and the United States.
Hudson’s Bay Co. had practi-
cal control over the entire re-
gion and its French-Canadian
employees were preparing
to develop farms along the
Willamette River upon their
retirement. “The only Amer-
REBECCA HERREN/CANNON BEACH GAZETTE
Author Jerry Sutherland
giving a presentation on
Oregon’s first pioneer Cal-
vin Tibbets who built the
first gristmill in Clatsop
County.
icans in Oregon before Tib-
bets were sailors, fur trappers,
explorers and scientists,” he
said.
His book “Calvin Tibbets:
Oregon’s First Pioneer” be-
gins with Nathaniel Wyeth
and 11 American men meet-
ing Hudson’s Bay Co. chief
factor John McLoughlin,
who realized he had com-
petition for the region, if as
he suspected, Wyeth along
with Hall Kelley would suc-
ceed in their plans to build a
colony in Oregon, a subject
of dispute with the British.
“Many early settlers came to
Oregon to get free land and
they weren’t going to get it
if Britain took over because
at that point in time it was
all mutually owned between
Great Britain and the United
States,” said Sutherland.
Wyeth and Kelley would
fail in their ventures, but
Tibbets, being one of the
men they brought to Ore-
gon, would become an Ore-
gonpioneer by forging good
relationships with his Cana-
dian neighbors and native
tribes, even living on a Na-
tive American diet in order to
pave the way for other Amer-
icans to follow.
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SUBMITTED PHOTO
Joshua Dodson and Mike Day of DAY CPM.
district’s Web portal.
In other news:
• Hannah Sirpless, a senior
associate with Pauly, Rogers
and Company, presented via
conference call results from
the district’s 2015-16 audit.
The firm issued an unmodi-
fied opinion and concluded
there were no significant de-
ficiencies or material weak-
nesses. “In short, it’s a clean
audit,” Sirpless said. As part
of their report, the firm of-
fered a few best practices the
district could pursue to help
mitigate risk in future years.
Best practices are not signif-
icant deficiencies, but sugges-
tions on behalf of the firm,
Sirpless said, adding, “it’s
impossible to have everything
perfect within a district, es-
pecially a small district, so
our best practices are just our
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• The board unanimous-
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