10A • June 16, 2017 | Cannon Beach Gazette | cannonbeachgazette.com
Academy’s request goes to Planning Commission
Academy from Page 1A
the city’s strategic plan had des-
ignated as a future location for
affordable housing.
If the council did not ap-
prove these negotiations, the
charter school would not have
been able to open in the fall.
While details have yet to
be discussed, the plan is to
sign a three-year lease, which
is the amount of time acade-
my board members expect to
outgrow the space. As a way
to strike a compromise, Mayor
Sam Steidel —a longtime sup-
porter of the charter school —
suggested whatever is agreed
upon as rent would go toward
funding affordable housing in
Cannon Beach.
The academy’s request will
still need to go before the Plan-
ning Commission later this
month, before moving ahead
on any physical changes to the
space prior to the opening in
the fall.
A long road
Although establishing the
academy in Cannon Beach
has been in the works for more
than four years, the last-min-
ute need to find a new location
came when the board received
an estimate of $150,000 over
the $90,000 they budgeted for
construction costs at the origi-
nal location on Sunset Boule-
vard.
Costs were driven up be-
cause the space would need
to be renovated extensively to
meet state school fire codes,
board member Phil Simmons
said.
When the board originally
submitted their charter school
plans to Seaside School District
two years ago, the Children’s
Center was not available, Sim-
mons said, but is cheaper and
‘Having a school in Cannon Beach will
bring families back to town.’
Amy Moore,
delays we’ve faced these past
years have lead us here. That
building is full of love, and full
of learning. Please don’t let ev-
eryone’s work be in vain.”
A number of folks also sub-
mitted written testimony in the
hopes of persuading council-
ors.
“Every time I walk by the
former Cannon Beach Elemen-
tary, my heart feels sad for the
whole community,” Janet and
Frank Patrick wrote to city
councilors.
During Moore’s speech to
the council she argued that af-
fordable housing and the ele-
mentary school could coexist.
“Having a school in Cannon
We want school!
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Raising funds for the Cannon Beach
Academy.
A chicken-before-
the-egg situation
executive director of Cannon Beach Academy
already up to code for a school
standards.
“I’m just really proud of
the community. We’ve had
so many hurdles, and we get
knocked down, but we always
get back up again,” Simmons
said. “We understand we came
late to this council with this, so
I’m glad they saw good use of
the land.”
Alaina Giguiere, who has
been involved with getting the
school started since it closed in
2013, saw all of the roadblocks
almost as a type of destiny.
“The children’s center is the
perfect place for our school,”
Giguiere said to the council.
“I believe in my heart all the
Sister and brother Al-
exandra and Miles Dasker
host a lemonade stand out-
side their home on Hemlock
Street. While the Dasker
family spend most of their
days in Lake Oswego, Al-
exandra’s mother Melissa
Dasker said her daughter
had the idea after seeing
all of the donation buckets
around downtown shops for
the Cannon Beach Acade-
my.
“She’s known all about
the troubles the academy
has been having every time
we visit, so I think she saw
it as a need.”
She set up shop two
weeks ago on a sunny Sun-
day morning outside of the
Cannon Beach community
church, her mother said, and
raised about $30. “I think it
caught her interest because
she likes to work with kids,
they’re important to her.”
Sally Steidel, a member
of the academy board, re-
ceived the donation and said
she thought her effort was
superb. “This is so special
to us because of the struggle
we’ve had to get the school
started.”
Beach will bring families back
to town. We need the heartbeat
of our town back,” Moore said.
Some in the community had
hesitations about giving up one
of the few locations the town
has to feasibly build affordable
housing.
Councilor Nancy McCarthy
ultimately voted for lease ne-
gotiations, but questioned the
logic that having an elementa-
ry school would naturally bring
young families back to Cannon
Beach.
“Which comes first? You’re
not necessarily going to get
students with affordable hous-
ing options,” McCarthy said.
“You have a school that attracts
families: where are they going
to live?”
A key factor in the decision
for her and Councilor Mike
Benefield was that the situation
was temporary.
“My initial reaction was
‘we don’t have enough options
for affordable housing,’” Mc-
Carthy said. “But the idea that
the school was already antici-
pating reaching capacity (at the
end of three years) made me
more comfortable.”
City Manager Brant Kucera
also has mentioned conflicts
between the city’s goal to build
25 affordable homes by July
2018 and letting the school use
this property.
“The citizen survey, the
affordable housing task force
and strategic plan all identified
affordable housing as the No.
1 priority for the city,” Kucera
said. “This site was critical in
the plan. It’s a deviation from
policy — which isn’t neces-
sarily right or wrong. It’s just
different from six months ago.”
Kucera will finish the city’s
negotiations with academy
Manager from Page 1A
Wilbur is already accustomed to taking
on chief duties when he is away, he said.
Before departing in June, Kucera
plans to sit down with department
heads to solidify projects, as well as
finish lease negotiations between the
city and the Cannon Beach Academy
concerning its new location at the for-
mer Children’s Center on Hemlock.
The proposed plan to purchase five
affordable housing units to place in
the RV Resort on Elk Land Road and
Haskell Lane planned for summer will
be postponed to the fall most likely,
Kucera said, to be under the guidance
of whoever is the new city manager.
During his time in Cannon Beach,
Kucera helped the city adopt its first
strategic plan, which he called “the
foundation we’re going to need to
move forward as a community.” The
plan was developed from a citizen sur-
vey that received a 40 percent response
rate from the city’s 1,700 residents.
Kucera advised whoever takes on
the role next to be very physically
present in the community.
“This community expects the city
manager to be visible and out there in
the community — more than I have
been,” Kucera said. “The next man-
ager needs to recognize being active
in the community is the key to their
success.”
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