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School construction at Heights underway SEPRD election fi nal,
Chapman confi rmed
winner for Position 4
By R.J. MARX
Seaside Signal
Let the work begin!
With the fi nal day
of school Thursday at
The Heights Elementary
School, Hoffman Construc-
tion began construction for
upgrades and a new gym at
the elementary school. The
Heights will be shut down
the entire summer with no
public access.
The school will be closed
to staff except for critical
access, Seaside School Dis-
trict Superintendent Sheila
Roley said during a site visit
Tuesday.
As part of the $100 mil-
lion bond project approved
by voters in 2016, students
from Gearhart Elementary
School and Seaside Heights
will merge in the renovated
and expanded building.
In addition, the district is
working with the city for a
new reservoir and pump sta-
tion to provide water for the
school and nearby residents.
Bids for the reservoir are
expected by the end of June,
project manager Jim Henry
Looking out from the Seaside Middle School and High School site.
said.
During construction of
the water tank, workers will
install utilities at the mid-
dle and high school, includ-
ing stormwater and electri-
cal systems. The reservoir
location may be used as cen-
ter as a clearinghouse or
headquarters after a Casca-
dia Subduction Zone event,
Henry added.
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One of Seth Morrisey’s
goals
dovetailed
with
Wright’s, including com-
munications with the pub-
lic. He said he anticipates
upgrades to the city web-
site to increase involvement;
this may include video and
streaming of government
meetings.
“My second goal is based
on workforce housing,”
Morrisey said.
After receiving a county
housing report from consul-
tants, “it’s up to the coun-
cil to decide what we’d like
to go after fi rst, he said. “At
that point we can go over
the report and decide what
action we’d like to take.”
Drinking water,
tsunami readiness
Tita Montero addressed
revision and upgrade of Sea-
side’s charter.
Montero, Barber and
convention center director
Russ Vandenberg met twice
and Montero consulted with
the League of Oregon Cities
to determine how the work
is supposed to proceed.
“The fi rst thing we have
to do is pass a resolution
by the City Council that we
are going to review any city
charter and form a commit-
tee,” Montero said. “ We’re
not doing anything wrong
Chapman and Parker is just
shy of that.
One-hundred
seven-
ty-fi ve voters did not select
a candidate in this race,
and were recorded as under
votes.
In the Position 5 rec
district board race, Lind-
sey Morrison received
496 votes, to win with
41.75% of the vote. Pat-
rick Duhachek and Rodney
Roberts followed.
Veronica Russell, Jer-
emy Mills and Michael
Hinton fi ll the other three
board seats. Each of their
terms expire in 2021.
The rec district board
will meet on Tuesday
at 5:15 p.m., at the Bob
Chisholm
Community
Center.
The last day of service
for the outgoing directors
will be the last day of June.
New board members
will be sworn in at the July
board meeting, at which
time the board will select a
board president and offi cers.
By R.J. MARX
Seaside Signal
— we just need to bring it for essential services in the
up to date.”
case of a Cascadia Subduc-
Randy Frank worked tion Zone event, she said.
with the city’s park commit-
Tom Horning asked
tee to consider future devel- councilors to determine
opments in the Southeast what type of scenario they
Hills and near the current would plan for in the event
high school site.
of a Cascadia event. In his
Frank also worked with status report on the 20-year
the city’s emergency man- tsunami bridge replacement
agement director Anne plan, He said 4,500 fatalities
McBride to
on the Ore-
increase tsu-
gon
Coast
nami read-
may be a
‘WHAT WILL
iness
and
result
of
WE DO AFTER A
wayfind-
the
event;
ing
signs
MAJOR DISASTER? of those,
throughout
4,000 would
WE HAVE A LOT OF be in Sea-
town. “We
have collab-
because
GOOD RESOURCES side,
orated with
of
failing
other juris-
HERE REGARDING bridges. Ver-
dictions to
tical evac-
RESILIENCE. HOW u a t i o n
present a pic-
ture of resil-
structures
DO WE SURVIVE
iency,”
he
downtown
wrote in his
may present
IN THE WORST-
report.
an alterna-
CASE SCENARIO?’ tive.
Dana Phil-
lips focused
How to
Jay Barber
school infra-
fund that is
structure,
a matter of
including
future dis-
ways the city has worked cussion, he said, and could
with the city during con- come from an increase in
struction of the new mid- room taxes. He also said a
dle and high school campus. large majority of tourists and
The East Hills Reservoir residents who responded to
project, designed to bring a Portland State University
water to the new campus and study said they would pay
to neighboring residents, greater fees for safety mea-
could be adapted to having sures. “The community is
this be a “satellite location” aware of the issue,” he said.
Horning said he also
sought to identifying “infor-
mation gaps” in the drink-
ing water protection plan,
including discussion of sus-
tainable harvest of the for-
est with the least impact to
water quality. He said he
hopes to work with land-
owners and watershed coun-
cil on vision, goals and strat-
egies to develop a draft
management plan.
The offi cial, fi nal results
are in from the May 21 elec-
tion, and one race that was
too close to call is fi nally
decided. The difference
between winner John Chap-
man and Katharine Parker
for Sunset Empire Park and
Recreation District Direc-
tor, Position 4, came down
to eight votes.
The results were certifi ed
June 6 by Clatsop County
Clerk Tracie Krevanko.
Chapman
received
332 votes, or 25.8% of
the total. Parker received
324 votes; Marti Wajc fol-
lowed with 317 and Shir-
ley Yates received 304
votes. Less than 2 percent-
age points separated all four
candidates.
To trigger a recount the
results need to be within
one-fi fth of one percent of
total votes cast for the offi ce.
The difference between
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Barber presented a dis-
cussion of ordinances need-
ing to be updated. “We’re
looking at boards/commis-
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doned vehicles; and itiner-
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Barber also seeks to
address the resilience plan:
“What will we do after a
major disaster?” he asked.
“How will we put the city
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The emergency manage-
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and updated. “We have a
lot of good resources here
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said. “How do we sur-
vive in the worst-case
scenario?”
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presented at year-end, he
said.
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$400,000 in September. It
was based on a similar offer
made by the city of Can-
non Beach a few years ago,
Trucke said last year.
The cost of interior and
exterior renovations a the
elementary school would
be about $371,000, accord-
ing to a 2016 estimate.
“We would defi nitely be
interested in the future,”
Trucke said. “Just not
right at the moment. Sheila
Roley and the Seaside
School District have been
very supportive of this
endeavor. In fact, there has
been so much support from
the community. We hope to
revisit this next year.”
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including Broadway Mid-
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