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6A • December 22, 2017 • Seaside Signal • seasidesignal.com Community center bids exceed budget Project to see delay until spring By R.J. Marx Seaside Signal Numbers for the Bob Chisholm Community Cen- ter main hall refresh “sur- prised” city officials, leading to a rejection of three sepa- rate bids. Window treatments, floor- ing, wall covering and light- ing are main components of the project, center staff told the council in July. At the time, architects estimated costs for the re- fresh between $170,000 to $190,000. The city received three bids, the highest nearing $390,000. The low bid, from Silverton-based Ffosil Con- tracting, reached more than $257,000, significantly high- er than estimates. “Being $60,000 over what we considered was the high- est level, we did not budget this amount of money and we SEPRD Proposed rendering of new Bob Chisholm Community Center. think it prudent to reject the bids,” City Manager Mark Winstanley told councilors at the Monday, Dec 11 City Council meeting. “Staff rec- ommends you reject all the bids.” Winstanley said the city remains committed to the building refresh project but “needs to analyze what went wrong.” “It will delay this for a short amount of time,” Pub- lic Works Director Dale Mc- Dowell said after the meeting. In the meantime, the city will ask the architect to pro- vide “value engineering,” in- cluding different possibilities in flooring or materials, Mc- Dowell said. A new proposal will be likely be presented by early spring, at which time the re- fresh project will go back to the council for review. Local students named to Oregon State honor roll Names of students who have made the scholastic hon- or roll fall term have been announced by Oregon State University. A total of 1,427 students earned straight-A (4.0). An- other 4,483 earned a B-plus (3.5) or better to make the list- ing. To be on the Honor Roll, students must carry at least 12 graded hours of course work. Seaside graduates earning a 3.5 or better average include Christian D. Anderson, senior, environmental sciences ma- jor; Emma R. Dutcher, fresh- man with a major in psychol- ogy; Nicholas Nelson, senior, history major ; Rachel M. Stahly, junior, a speech com- munication major; Joshua M. Strozzi, sophomore, major- ing in pre-computer science; Brittany A. West, freshman, a pre-forestry major., In Cannon Beach Annuka A. Brown, a sophomore and biology major was named to the honor roll with a 3.5 or better average. COURTESY TRACY THOMPSON Seaside High School alum- nus Hunter Thompson, one of the area students receiv- ing honors during the fall 2017 semester at Oregon State University. In Gearhart, freshman Hunter L. Thompson, main- tained a straight A average. Thompson is a pre-forest/civil engineering major. With a 3.5 or better average, Rebekah L. Cave, a senior majoring in human development and family scienceand Aimee R. Schacher, a senior majoring in anthropology, both made the honor roll. School district considers its long-term objectives Plan from Page 1A “The cost of a consul- tant for creating a strategic plan will come from those existing areas and will not increase our overall expen- ditures as an addition to the budget,” she said. “Any con- tract that we will negotiate will include the maximum amount we would intend to spend, but the actual costs could be less.” The board met with Col- onna, principal of Colonna Strategic Planning Services, based in Bend, last week to consider a presentation in- tended to take the district “to the next level of effec- tiveness.” Colonna, with 45 years in education and a former board member of the Ore- gon Board of Education, told board members the nine- month process would help identify goals for the district for the next five years. As the district develops the campus relocation proj- ect, board members felt now was the right time to embark on the strategic plan. Services are described in the contract presented Thursday as to “provide fa- cilitation, background work R.J. MARX/SEASIDE SIGNAL Educator and consultant Jerome Colonna. and shared production of a multiyear strategic plan.” The Seaside school board was “very supportive” of the project, Roley said. The next step will be to invite public input. “We’ll try to pull togeth- er members of the business, nonprofit community, par- ents, a group from our Lati- no community, our own staff and parents,” Roley said. “Our first step will be identi- fying the important constit- uents in the district we need to reach out to.” A strategic planning team will be established to take data and start drafting the plan, she said. The North Bend plan North Bend School District 13 met once a month from September 2016 to May of this year to create a strategic 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 community-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 individual compo- nents of the report: values and beliefs; mission statement; vision statement; strategic goal, perfor- mance indicators and measures; and implementa- tion and accountability strategies. BRIC ARCHITECTURE INC. School playing fields. Architect delivers new campus site drawings Campus from Page 1A drawings released this week, 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 storage and supplies for the school and the community. This is an area of continuing development.” 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 North Spruce. BRIC ARCHITECTURE INC. Renderings of the new campus buildings. Conservancy thanks volunteers for efforts ‘Gratitude to the entire community’ By R.J. Marx Seaside Signal R.J. MARX/SEASIDE SIGNAL The Sunset Empire Park and Recreation District pool reopened Dec. 11. Community pool opens Pool from Page 1A logged laps in the main pool. The main pool now stands at about 81 degrees, the learner pool at 91 de- grees, and the spa exceeds 100 degrees. Community reaction? Some patrons were up- set by the closure, but after, the reaction has been “over- whelmingly positive,”Dar- ren Gooch, marketing and IT manager for the recre- ation district said. “Every- thing looks fresh, I hear that constantly.” Staff and supporters of the North Coast Land Conservancy filled the Cannon Beach Cham- ber of Commerce community center Friday, Dec. 8, for a hol- iday party. “We are here to express our gratitude for the entire commu- nity that supports our conserva- tion work,” Katie Voelke, execu- tive director of the conservancy, said. “It just keeps growing and growing.” Voelke was surrounded by conservancy board members, volunteers and donors as the group mingled over light hors d’oeuvres and beverages. A video presentation by Neal Maine was accompanied by text from the Onondaga tribe offering thanks to nature and the environment. In terms of land acquisition and preservation, “It’s been a R.J. MARX/SEASIDE SIGNAL Mary Blake and Tom Horning show their support at the North Coast Land Conservancy volunteer thank-you party on Dec. 8. great year, every year seems like more and more,” Voelke said. “We’ve made great headway on our big rainforest reserve cam- paign and doing work in Tilla- mook County.” The Coastal Edge program will be a focus for the next four years, she said. In 2016 the conservancy and Onion Peak Holdings LLC teamed for the opportunity to purchase critical lands for conservation within the Coastal Edge Initiative tar- get area. The two-phase program in- cludes Onion Peak, most of the Angora Peak complex and near- ly all of the Arch Cape Creek watershed — 3,500 acres of natural habitat and the headwa- ters of creeks that supply drink- ing water to Cannon Beach and Arch Cape. While eyeing a 17.6-acre parcel of forested land near Ar- cadia Beach, conservancy talks with the property owner are not yet underway, Voelke said. The owner sought temporary road access to the parcel earlier this year with the intent to build an upscale RV park. “We’ve ex- pressed we’re interested, but the owner hasn’t reached out yet,” Voelke said. For the guests enjoying salmon, cheese, wine, hearty bread and pumpkin beer, the night was a celebration. “There have been some amazing donations and pledges toward the campaign,” Voelke said. “Some people who have never contributed pledged thou- sands of dollars for the next few years.” powered by MICHAEL’S MUSIC 131 Sunset Blvd. Cannon Beach OR. 97110 503-436-1640 Sale on Ukes, Teton Guitars and Music Lessons! Open daily until Christmas Day! music fi rst