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SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 2015 HERMISTONHERALD.COM • A3 COMMUNITY 6WDQ¿HOGSUHSDULQJIRU0DLQ6WUHHWUHGHVLJQ Getting sworn in BY MAEGAN MURRAY HERMISTON HERALD As the date nears for submitting an application for grant funding through the Oregon Department of Transportation, Stanfield city officials have many decisions to make about how to approach their Main Street redesign. Stanfield City Manager Blair Larsen talked brief- ly with Stanfield City Council members Tues- day night during their regular meeting about his goals this year with the project and how he wants to specifically handle the redesign of Highway 395, which doubles as the city’s Main Street. “I told you before I met with (Oregon De- partment of Transporta- tion) on the potential for getting funding to make improvements to our Main Street,” he told city council members. “Ap- plications for that round of funding are going to be open soon. From now until the spring, I’ll be working on that.” During a Main Street re- vitalization planning pro- cess with ODOT last year, RI¿FLDOVSUHVHQWHGWKHFLW\ with options for possibly incorporating medians, curb bulb-outs and other improvements to liven up the city’s Main Street. Larsen said the council members should start think- ing about whether they want to apply for funding to support some conceptu- al drawings for the project now, or if they want to wait to see if they can get some funding for that portion of the project when they go to MAEGAN MURRAY PHOTO 6WDQÀHOG0XQLFLSDO&RXUW-XGJH5RVH(PHUVRQVZHDUVLQ&RXQFLOPDQ-DFN+X[ROOIURPOHIWQHZO\HOHFWHG&RXQFLOPDQ'HOZLQ0DQOH\DQG&RXQFLOPDQ -DVRQ6SHUU7XHVGD\QLJKWGXULQJWKH6WDQÀHOG&LW\&RXQFLO·VUHJXODUPHHWLQJ apply for funding for the overall project. Larsen said they could wait and see if they could secure funding for the conceptual drawings, but then their application would appear lackluster compared with those of other cities applying for funding. “The problem being (is) that then our appli- cation isn’t as attractive as other cities’ applica- tions,” he said. “You need to put some pretty wrap- ping on it to get it noticed before you can get the funding.” Larsen said he has spoken with a gentleman who runs an architectural firm, who would be able to draw up three differ- ent variations of a plan and drawings for about $2,500 to $3,000. He said the firm has done some work for La Grande, Bak- er City and a couple of other cities in Oregon. Larsen said he is cur- rently reviewing the city’s budget to see if there is funding to pay for those plans. He said he will probably have some information to present to the council at its Jan. 20 meeting. “I think it would be a wise investment to see if we can afford to get something like this done,” he said. Larsen said after the city gets the variations of the drawings, it can have meetings to get pub- lic feedback on the pro- posed ideas, which is an ODOT request. He said ODOT wants to make sure the community is on board before it pursues any large redesign of the city’s Main Street. “In particular, they pointed out that in Uma- tilla, they did a bunch of improvements on their Main Street, putting in medians and different improvements that way,” he said. “They found that after they put all the work in, and they put all the expense into doing it, they then had complaints from the public about the medians and requests to rip them out. They want to avoid that as much as possible to make sure that what we are putting in are things that the public will actually support.” The city’s Main Street Revitalization Commit- tee will next meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Stan- field Public Library. The public is welcome to at- tend. Trott returns as Umatilla mayor, encouraging changes the council. One change was already HYLGHQW GXULQJ 7URWW¶V ¿UVW meeting. He presided over the proceedings using high- ly ordered parliamentary procedure. “We’re going to oper- ate a little bit differently in terms of our meeting de- BY SEAN HART corum,” he said. “We are HERMISTON HERALD going to try and be a little Former Umatilla Mayor more parliamentary in what Dave Trott returned to the we’re doing in terms of the position again this year and conduct of the meetings.” said he plans to encourage a Trott said he plans to few changes. present ideas he believes $WWKH¿UVW8PDWLOOD&LW\ the council should focus on Council meeting of the year in the future. Tuesday, Trott and three “We talk a lot about council members took the Umatilla as a community,” RDWK RI RI¿FH 0DU\ 'HG- he said. “I know there is a rick and Melvin Ray were lot of energy and the like in reelected in November, and terms of downtown beau- former Umatilla Planning WL¿FDWLRQ 7KDW¶V DOZD\V Commission member Da- seemed to have been some- vid Lougee was elected to thing we’ve talked about, Plans to focus initially on neighborhoods, Code Improvement but we must not forget that the building blocks for the community are really the neighborhoods, and if we don’t have a strong sense of neighborhood and a strong infrastructure, then we’re not going to succeed, in my opinion, as a city.” Trott said he also plans WREULQJ³VRPHVSHFL¿FHQ- ergy” to the Code Improve- ment Board. “I’d like to see some re- vitalization, maybe some restructuring, and I’ll have some recommendations there,” he said about the board. “I know that when we hired our code enforce- PHQW RI¿FHU , GRQ¶W WKLQN we hired her to be an ani- mal-control person in the manner in which she has ended up over the years, and I think that subtracts considerably from her hav- ing the opportunity to do some other types of code enforcement.” Trott also recommended applicants to the council to ¿OO FRPPLWWHH YDFDQFLHV and the council accepted all of his recommendations and appointed members to ¿YH FRPPLWWHHV 0DJGD- lena Bombela, Code Im- provement Board; Arnell Eynon, Christine Harding and Judy Simmons, Library Board; Heidi Sipe and Lyle Smith, Planning Commis- sion; Arnell Eynon, Dave Meade and Hasmukh Mis- try, Transient Room Tax Committee; and Valerie Garstad, Budget Commit- tee. 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