December 29, 2017 | Cannon Beach Gazette | cannonbeachgazette.com • 9A
School district strategic plan
wins unanimous passage
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With campus
relocation
underway,
district looks
beyond
By R.J. Marx
Cannon Beach Gazette
As Seaside School District
looks ahead to a new campus,
members of the district’s board
of directors set their sights a lit-
tle further out Thursday, Dec.
14, with unanimous approval
of a contract with consultant
Jerome Colonna to provide a
strategic plan for the district.
The cost is estimated at
$15,000 and will be paid by
existing areas of the budget,
including the district’s profes-
sional training budget, Super-
intendent Sheila Roley said.
“The cost of a consultant
for creating a strategic plan
will come from those existing
areas and will not increase our
overall expenditures as an ad-
dition to the budget,” she said.
“Any contract that we will ne-
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Educator and consultant Je-
rome Colonna.
gotiate will include the maxi-
mum amount we would intend
to spend, but the actual costs
could be less.”
The board met with Colon-
na, principal of Colonna Stra-
tegic Planning Services, based
in Bend, last week to consider
a presentation intended to take
the district “to the next level of
effectiveness.”
Colonna, with 45 years in
education and a former board
member of the Oregon Board
of Education, told board mem-
bers the nine-month process
North Bend School District 13 met once a month from
September 2016 to May of this year to create a stra-
tegic plan guided by Jerome Colonna, the consultant
contracted by Seaside School District. The North Bend
team’s initial task was to organize a district and com-
munity-wide series of focus groups to collect baseline
information for the team to utilize for the creation of
the overall plan. The team started developing five in-
dividual components of the report: values and beliefs;
mission statement; vision statement; strategic goal,
performance indicators and measures; and imple-
mentation and accountability strategies.
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would help identify goals for
the district for the next five
years.
As the district develops
the campus relocation project,
board members felt now was
the right time to embark on the
strategic plan.
Services are described in
the contract presented Thurs-
day as to “provide facilitation,
background work and shared
production of a multiyear stra-
tegic plan.”
The Seaside school board
was “very supportive” of the
project, Roley said.
The next step will be to in-
vite public input.
“We’ll try to pull togeth-
er members of the business,
nonprofit community, par-
ents, a group from our Latino
community, our own staff and
parents,” Roley said. “Our first
step will be identifying the im-
portant constituents in the dis-
trict we need to reach out to.”
A strategic planning team
will be established to take data
and start drafting the plan, she
said.
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amenities to include bike
parking, benches and recep-
tacles for trash and recycling.
The elementary school is
adding 20 classrooms and re-
configuring some spaces in the
current Seaside Heights build-
ing.
Renderings
depict
a
two-story elementary school
building with classrooms on
both floors. The first floor will
house a cafeteria, gymnasium,
library, wellness room and
music room, along with about
20 classrooms. The second
level offers 10 classrooms and
two commons areas.
Covered play areas and
sports facilities are designat-
ed, as are potential locations
for future gyms, a fishery
building, practice and playing
fields. A future performing arts
center is also included.
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a Cascadia Subduction Zone
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Renderings of the new campus buildings.
the buildings will be built to
withstand a Cascadia event,
Roley said. “We will have
generators to maintain power
in multiple areas and we are
currently working with the
city of Seaside on water stor-
age and supplies for the school
and the community. This is an
area of continuing develop-
ment.”
On Wednesday, Jan. 10,
Roley, architects and district
staff plan to present the site
plans in the first of a series
of community input sessions,
from 6:30 to 8 p.m., at Broad-
way Middle School Library at
1120 Broadway, Seaside. The
public will have an opportuni-
ty to ask questions and com-
ment on the drawings.
On Wednesday, Jan. 24, the
district heads to Cannon Beach
for an information session at
the Cannon Beach Chamber of
Commerce, 207 N. Spruce St.
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the SS Mauna Ala, also
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ship,” to the adults. The SS
Mauna Ala, a Matson line
freighter, was on its way
to Pearl Harbor to deliver
Christmas supplies to the
troops stationed there. That
was the morning of Dec. 7,
1941, when swarm of over
300 Japanese warplanes
descended upon the U.S.
Naval base at Pearl Harbor.
In response, the SS Mauna
Ala was ordered to reroute
to Oregon.
Those who lived on the
Oregon coast were startled
by the Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor, and feared that
the Pacific Coast might be
the next target. That meant
news of soldiers landing on
Oregon’s shores was taken
very seriously.
Instead of a ship full of
soldiers, however, the North
Coast had a vessel wash up
full of Christmas trees and
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