6A • June 15, 2018 | Cannon Beach Gazette | cannonbeachgazette.com
‘The biggest night of our lives’
Food truck proposal
sparks debate
Seaside High School
grads celebrate at
convention center
Food Trucks from Page 1A
City Councilor Mike
Benefield expressed con-
cerns that food trucks don’t
fit the aesthetic character
of Cannon Beach, and that
there were few places in
town that could accommo-
date a “pod” of trailers.
“I love food trucks, but it
just doesn’t fit here,” Bene-
field said.
Neroni said his propos-
al centered mostly around
allowing businesses with
parking lots to operate and
manage food trucks on days
or times of day when their
businesses are closed. This
would alleviate competition
and parking concerns. It
was the proposal he floated
to other restaurant owners
in town, he said, and it was
supported.
As for the competition,
Neroni said there was a sim-
ilar concern when the city
was contemplating a farm-
er’s market.
“And we’re doing well
with the farmer’s
market. It’s not
taking away
business,” he
said.
Over-
all Neroni
wants the
city
to
work
with the
restau-
By R.J. Marx
Cannon Beach Gazette
SEASIDE — Hundreds of family
members, friends and supporters filled
the Seaside Civic and Convention Center
Monday night to celebrate the graduation
of Seaside High School’s class of 2018.
“For many of us, this is the biggest
night of our lives,” valedictorian Colton
Carter said in addressing the audience.
“The night we take our first step past
the threshold of childhood into the real
world.”
Carter said classmates will remember
people and the feelings in years to come.
He traced the class’s four years in high
school, from 2014 as freshmen to this
year, to senior year, “the home stretch of
his marathon called high school.”
Graduation Day is “a huge turning
point,” he added, with the diploma repre-
senting freedom to make informed deci-
sions and take the next step in life.
Carter capped an evening program
that included performances by the school
band, chamber choir and a slide presenta-
R.J. MARX
Class of 2018 at Seaside Civic and Convention Center.
tion honoring each graduate.
Principal Jeff Roberts urged students
to take the skills learned in high school
and make their mark in the world. “Be
kind, be humble and work hard,” he ad-
vised.
Senior class president Corrie Falleur
delivered a roll call as students stepped
forward one by one to receive their diplo-
mas from Roberts and district superinten-
dent Sheila Roley distributed diplomas,
accompanied by members of the dis-
trict’s board, Lori Lum, Patrick Nofield,
Hugh Stelson, Brian Taylor, Mark Truax
and Michelle Wunderlich.
Salutatorian Jessica Chisholm de-
scribed senior year as a time of being “on
top of the world.” She remembered the
past four years, with unexpected friend-
ships, obstacles and laughter. “By being
here today it is clear that all our hard
work and stress has paid off.”
The past has shaped who they are
now, she said. “We are going in different
directions,” she said. “But without the
lessons high school taught, we wouldn’t
be where we are today.”
She thanked family and friends for
support. “High school has come and
gone. As Dr. Seuss said, ‘Don’t cry be-
cause it’s over — smile because it hap-
pened.’”
Cannon Beach Academy faces budget shortfall
Academy from Page 1A
“Any break you can give us is
much appreciated. It’s a slower
growth than we would like, but
it’s still growing.”
City Councilor Mike
Benefield voted to allow the
city manager to sign the $100
lease, but raised concerns
about the school finances in
the long run.
“When we negotiated the
first time, we started low in
the hopes of building up to
something like $1,000. It was
built on hopes that the viabili-
ty of the school would justify
a higher rent,” Benefield said.
“It appears to me that’s not the
case.”
Academy director Amy
Moore said the budget short-
fall is driven by a variety of
unexpected renovation costs
and a lag in people paying their
pledged donations. The school
still owes about $26,000 for
costs associated with install-
ing a fire safety system a
figure above their estimates,
Moore said. Food, payroll and
health care expenses also have
exceeded what the board ex-
pected when the school budget
was designed.
But one of the largest
losses in revenue has been a
COLIN MURPHEY/THE DAILY ASTORIAN
Poppy Stapleton turns in an assignment at the Cannon
Beach Academy.
larger than expected attrition
rate for pledges the academy
was expecting to receive from
donors. When the school be-
gan crafting its budget, they
expected about $155,000 in
pledged donations, which fac-
tored in a 20 percent attrition
rate, Moore said. The actual
rate of people not paying their
pledges has reached closer to
35 percent, meaning the acad-
emy has not received about
$54,000 they were expecting.
Moore suspects the short-
fall is in part due to some con-
fusion around what counted
as the “first year” of the acad-
emy, as the opening of the
school was delayed multiple
years from when some donors
made their pledge. Moore
also said some could just be
waiting to gauge the success
the academy after its first year
before committing any more
money.
While the academy has
faced many ups and downs,
success for the academy in
the future is a vision about
which Moore feels confident.
With 35 students enrolled and
third grade added to the ros-
ter, Moore hopes to have 50
students walking through the
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school.
The school still has fu-
ture funding hurdles to jump.
Without 50 students, the
academy would not receive
enough funding to add anoth-
er teacher and janitor — two
positions the school needs.
The academy is also waiting
to hear back from the Depart-
ment of Justice on an Oregon
Department of Education
grant, which makes up about
$200,000 of the $675,000 in
revenue they project having
for fiscal year 2018-2019.
With a larger student body,
board members are hoping to
form a committee next year as
well to organize more consis-
tent fundraising efforts.
“We’re optimistic, we
were naive, but we’re making
it work and we’re growing,”
Rouse said.
rant industry on a solution
that allows food carts in a
highly regulated way. Re-
viewing aesthetics, location,
seasons of operation and lim-
iting the number of permits
the city can issue are all fac-
tors the city can regulate and
enforce.
Neroni suggested the city
form a committee to help
design community standards
for food trucks like it did
when the farmer’s market
was first conceived.
“This needs to not just be
fair for one, but fair for all,”
Neroni said.
While some hesitations
remained, the council came
to a consensus to look into
ways to accommodate the
steadily growing trend of
food trucks at a future work
session.
“I think food trucks could
be a nice addition as long
as it’s done in the Cannon
Beach way,” City Councilor
Nancy McCarthy said.
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