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City, Port ‘hammering
out’ agreement language
was reached at a private
meeting Dec. 22. After that
meeting, the parties agreed
to suspend oral arguments
before the Oregon Land
Use Board of Appeals,
which were scheduled for
Dec. 23.
At the City Council
meeting Tuesday, Ward re-
iterated that the parties had
reached a potential agree-
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tential agreement to settle
“I think that is a very
a zoning dispute between exciting agreement in prin-
the city of Umatilla and the ciple,” he said. “However,
Port of Umatilla were put because of the holidays,
on hold Tuesday.
we weren’t able to have the
At the Port Commission attorneys produce the ac-
meeting, General Manager tual settlement documents.
Kim Puzey said an agree- We didn’t see those until
ment has been reached “in (Tuesday) morning, and
principle,” but further de- there are concerns about
tails must be addressed.
how the agreement sort of
“There are items that transposed from the vision
have legal, jurisdictional to the legalese, so we have
and contractual implica- a bit more work to do on
tions which require addi- hammering out the actual
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actions and future implica- agreement is complete,
tions. All of this must be it will be introduced at a
addressed before we have a council meeting and then
document that we can me- scheduled for a public hear-
morialize.”
ing and adoption at a subse-
Puzey said Umatilla quent meeting, so the public
City Manager Bob Ward, could review and comment
Umatilla City Councilman on the agreement before the
Roak TenEyck and media- council takes action.
tor Joe Franell contributed
“It will most likely be
to the progress on the po- within the next 30 days that
tential agreement, which we will have those issues
Zoning dispute
settlement
unveiling
postponed while
document is refined
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Sipe said during the Uma-
tilla School Board meeting
Thursday night. “There
is a group called Nero,
which does all of our se-
curity. Every time it would
go down, they could go in
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Sipe said the company
originally thought that it
would be able to narrow
the attack down by locat-
ing an IP address of the
attacker. When it looked
into the matter, however,
representatives
learned
the attack was coming
from 2,000 different sites
across the world.
“So then we knew this
was a little bit larger,” she
said.
This week, however,
the attacks spread coun-
ty-wide across the gov-
ernment network that is
utilized by many govern-
ment-funded agencies in
the region. Sipe said it is
utilized by Blue Moun-
tain Community College
and other neighboring
school districts.
“Anyone who used this
same government agency
Internet hub lost (their
Internet),” she said. “It
grows to a whole new lev-
el of concern now.”
Sipe said the attack did
not penetrate any of the
networks, it just blocked
their Internet signals by
overloading it with in-
formation. She said the
attackers did not get into
any systems, nor were
they able to access any
data.
“The example I gave
hammered out and come
back to the council,” he
said. “It won’t come back
to the council until all of the
parties, all of the negotiat-
ing team have signed off on
it, but particularly the attor-
neys. That’s where things
get hung up is when you get
from the regular players to
the attorneys.”
The dispute originat-
ed early in 2014 when the
port’s application for a $1.5
million industrial ware-
house on land designated
as an industrial zone on a
city map was denied by the
Umatilla Planning Com-
mission, which contended
the land was planned for
residential use and the map
designation was changed in
error years ago. The port
appealed the decision to the
City Council, which upheld
the Planning Commission’s
ruling, and subsequently to
LUBA, where it is on hold
pending the agreement.
Ward said the agreement
— which will still need
to be approved by the full
Port Commission and City
Council once the document
is complete — would pro-
vide “a very positive start
to 2015.”
“I think it is refreshing
that we’re going to start
the year with a settlement
with that rather than hav-
ing to continue the year
battling with that issue,”
he said.
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— Heidi Sipe
Umatilla School District Superintendent
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“It is pretty wild what is out
there. It is just sad that someone
can be so malicious.”
is if a thousand people
called 9-1-1 all at once,
the system wouldn’t be
able to handle it,” she
said. “It would shut the
entire system down. That
is exactly what happened
with our Internet ... They
are sending all of these
devices.”
Sipe said the informa-
tion technology depart-
ment at the IMESD was
able to get the signal back
Mon
1/10
up in less than 40 min-
utes, which was an amaz-
ing feat considering all
that was required to dis-
rupt the signal.
“When you consider
everything that was going
on, it is pretty incredi-
ble,” she said.
Sipe said it is just
frustrating that someone
would want to create that
kind of a problem for
anyone.
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“You are working
along and then all of the
sudden you are just crip-
pled,” she said. “It is pret-
ty frustrating. It happened
again (Thursday) for
about 10 minutes.”
Sipe said her son, Ca-
den Sipe, read an article
in the last few days that
talked about how there
is an app that people can
download, where, for a
certain fee per month,
people can pick what they
want to target and it per-
forms denial service at-
tacks.
“It could be as simple
as a randomly selected IP
(address) that is one of
ours,” she said.
Sipe said the district
was renaming all of its IP
addresses Thursday night
so that if it is just a ran-
dom attack, then it will
0
11
stop happening. She said
the FBI has since gotten
involved because the at-
tacks are considered a
federal crime.
“So we are trying to
get to the bottom of it,”
she said. “It is pretty wild
what is out there. It is just
sad that someone can be
so malicious.”
The attacks aren’t only
targeting smaller agen-
cies and networks, either.
During the winter
break, Sony and Xbox
also found themselves
victims of the same type
of attack. A hacking group
called Lizard Squad took
credit for flooding the
two companies’ networks
with the same type of at-
tack that left both systems
down Dec. 25 and Dec.
26. The systems are now
back up and running.
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