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
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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.
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School playing fields.
Architect delivers new campus site drawings
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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.
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Renderings of the new campus buildings.
Conservancy thanks volunteers for efforts
‘Gratitude
to the entire
community’
By R.J. Marx
Seaside Signal
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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.”
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