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City budget: City OKs
$67M budget for 2019-20
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Photos by Katherine Lacaze
The top fi ve contestants for the Miss Oregon title included, from left, Shivali Kadam, Miss Portland; Hannah Garhofer, Miss Tri-
Valley; Stephanie Magee, Miss Meadow Lark; Allison Burke, Miss Northwest Wonderland; and Claire Sparks, Miss Central Valley.
Miss Oregon: Shivali Kadam crowned Miss Oregon
Planned street con-
struction, sewers and
sewer plant replacement
costs also drive the bud-
get. Capital construction
of a water tank above the
new Seaside Middle and
High School campus in
the Southeast Hills is bud-
geted at more than $5.5
million.
The budget, which
required adoption by July
1, directs about $2.2 mil-
lion to the Seaside Civic
and Convention Center
construction cost, after
paying more than $14 mil-
lion in 2018.
The city’s total unap-
propriated ending fund
balance stands at about
$16 million.
The approval of the fi s-
cal year budget came as
councilors also adopted
a road district budget and
voted to receive state rev-
enue sharing.
The road budget of
$894,939 comes at a cost
to property owners of
about 30 cents per $1,000
of assessed home value.
Without comments at a
public hearing, the resolu-
tions received unanimous
approval from councilors
Randy Frank, Tom Horn-
ing, Tita Montero, Seth
Morrisey, Dana Phillips
and Steve Wright.
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song “Refl ection” from Dis-
ney’s “Mulan.” However,
her emphasis throughout the
competition was promoting
Science Technology Engi-
neering and Mathematic
subjects and discussing how
she will help contribute to
growing the next generation
of female engineers and sci-
entists through her platform:
STEM to Bloom.
“Anyone can be in the
Miss America organization,”
said Kadam, who graduated
from Oregon State Univer-
sity in 2018 with a degree
in chemical engineering and
works as a construction man-
ager in semiconductor man-
ufacturing for Jacobs Engi-
neering Group. “It doesn’t
matter what your goals are,
personal or professional, we
are here to support you in all
of those goals.”
Kadam fi rst became
familiar with the Miss Ore-
gon Scholarship Program
when she saw her friend
and fellow collegiate a cap-
pella group member Emma
Wampler, Miss Linn-Ben-
ton County 2015, at an
appearance.
“When she described the
program to me, the emphasis
on service, I was like, ‘I’m
all in, I want to do this,’”
Kadam said. “I’m so grateful
for the last four years in this
organization. It has brought
me a second family and so
many mentors I respect so
much who have been guid-
ing lights in my life.”
During the fi nal day of
competition, Kadam and
the other top 10 candi-
dates competed for a sec-
ond time in the categories
of talent; evening wear and
social impact; and onstage
interview. Those candidates
included Emily Warren,
Miss Sunstone; Stephanie
Magee, Miss Meadow Lark;
Claire Sparks, Miss Cen-
tral Valley; Rylee Young,
Miss Southern Gem; Sarah
Blum, Miss Linn-Benton
County; Josie Carstensen,
Miss Capital City; Rose
Sheldon, Miss Coos County;
Allison Burke, Miss North-
west Wonderland; Hannah
Garhofer, Miss Tri-Valley;
and Danielle Cormier, Miss
Emerald Valley.
Once the fi eld was nar-
rowed down to the top fi ve
— Kadam, Sparks, Magee,
Burke and Garhofer — the
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Miss Tri-Valley Hannah Garhofer, who went to
Seaside High School, performs a tap routine as
her talent during the fi nal day of competition
for the Miss Oregon Scholarship Program’s
state competition Saturday. Garhofer was the
contestants had an onstage
discussion with emcee Kari
Virding Christensen, Miss
Oregon 2007, about their
qualifi cations for the job that
accompanies the crown.
Garhofer, who attended
Seaside High School and
Marin Gray, Umpqua Valley’s Outstanding
Teen, is crowned Miss Oregon’s Outstanding
Teen for 2019 by Kennedy Hjelte, Miss
Oregon’s Outstanding Teen 2018.
some mixed reactions, as the
competition originated as
a bathing suit revue. How-
ever, Kadam said she “is so
excited to be the fi rst Miss
Oregon 2.0 and really move
the organization forward in
that direction.”
‘I’M SO GRATEFUL FOR
THE LAST FOUR YEARS
IN THIS ORGANIZATION.
IT HAS BROUGHT ME A
SECOND FAMILY AND
SO MANY MENTORS I
RESPECT SO MUCH WHO
HAVE BEEN GUIDING
LIGHTS IN MY LIFE.’
Shivali Kadam
was Miss Clatsop County
in 2017, took second run-
ner-up and Burke was fi rst
runner-up.
Moving forward
Under the Miss America
2.0 initiative, the program
made several changes to
competition and judging cri-
teria, the most prominent of
which was the elimination
of the swimsuit category.
The change was met with
During the onstage inter-
view segment, Sheldon also
was asked her opinion about
whether the swimsuit seg-
ment should be reinstated
or stay removed. Sheldon
responded she was in favor
of eliminating that portion of
competition.
“Time and time again,
I’ve talked to women —
strong, philanthropic, capa-
ble women — who have not
competed, simply because
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Sheldon said. “At no point
in our time as Miss Oregon,
or Miss Coos County, or
Miss America, do we make
an appearance in our swim-
suit. We are here to make an
impact in our community,
our state, and our country,
and looking good in a swim-
suit is not a requirement for
that.”
Also during the evening,
Marin Gray, of Roseburg,
was crowned Miss Oregon’s
Outstanding Teen. Gray,
who took fourth runner-up
last year, was Miss Umpqua
Valley’s Outstanding Teen.
“I went into it this time
just wanting to bond with
my sister queens, because I
realized last year that there
was such a good sisterhood,”
said Gray, whose platform is
Building Respect, Alliances,
and Value for Everyone, or
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the mindset of just spending
time with those people who
are so amazing and having a
lot of fun, and it just worked
out for me this year.”
She will spend the next
three weeks refi ning her per-
formance in the various cat-
egories of competition to
prepare for the Miss Ameri-
ca’s Outstanding Teen Com-
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of July.
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School District: Board approves agreement to begin
natural disasters plan update, streamlining process
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different entities to have
their own individual-
ized mitigation plans
while the county
continues to be the
oversight agency.
“It allows us a
lot of streamlining
of the processes and
emergency manage-
ment systems,” Roley
said.
Each jurisdiction will
have representation on a
steering committee to help
with developing plans using
a standardized template.
Maintenance
supervisor
Chuck Loesch will represent
the school district.
However, each jurisdic-
tion can also independently
apply to FEMA for funds to
mitigate damages that could
occur in the case of a natu-
ral disaster, whether it be a
fl ood, Storm of 2007, or tsu-
nami, Roley said. She gave
the example of applying for
funds to move the district’s
bus garage to the hill next to
the new campus.
“In a tsunami, we would
lose all those resources,
but in an emergency, they
could be used for shelter
and transportation if they
were moved,” she said. “We
could potentially write a
grant to FEMA to have that
facility built.”
The board approved
to enter into an intergov-
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undergo the process of
updating their plan.
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