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School board approves reservoir land transfer at new campus
By R.J. MARX
Seaside Signal
A deal will transfer res-
ervoir property above the
new school campus. The
Seaside School District
will transfer land owner-
ship at the site of a reser-
voir on the new campus to
the city.
“We have a signed agree-
ment between the superin-
tendent, Susan Penrod, as
well as the city manager,
Mark Winstanley,” project
manager Jim Henry said at
last Tuesday’s school board
meeting. “We are in the
process of getting the prop-
erty line adjustment made
between our two proper-
ties to designate the reser-
voir area as well as the rest
of the property, which will
be one single lot.”
The 3.28-acre reser-
voir site, part of 130 acres
donated to the school dis-
trict by Weyerhaeuser Co.
in 2016 prior to the bond
vote, was annexed by the
city in October. Owner-
ship will be transferred to
the city.
Budgeted at $5.56 mil-
lion, the 5-million gallon
reservoir project totaled
$5.84 million after change
orders. The reservoir pro-
vides water to the new mid-
dle school and high school
building as well as Pacifi c
Ridge Elementary. It also
serves portions of Seaside.
In August, the city
authorized $831,000 in
cost sharing to be deliv-
ered to the school district,
about half of that for util-
ity work including water,
sewer, roads and conduit.
About $284,000 of the dis-
tribution funded a redesign
of the waterline system.
“We are in the process
of evaluating getting the
property line adjustment
made between our two
properties to designate the
reservoir area and rest of
property as a single lot,”
Henry said.
The school board unan-
imously authorized Penrod
to complete the reservoir
agreement and property
transfer.
City seeks land title from county to preserve former school fi elds
By R.J. MARX
Seaside Signal
Clatsop County
Seaside is interested in assuming title for properties here shaded in orange, with the intent of
continued use for recreational and athletic fi eld purposes.
Clatsop County plans to
turn three tax lots over to
Seaside. The property, at the
northern part of the former
high school campus on U.S.
Highway 101, comprises
playing fi elds and recreation
space.
The lots are part of fi ve
parcels deeded to the county
from the Seaside School Dis-
trict based on a reversionary
clause linked to the proper-
ties use for school purposes.
They encompass the north-
ern part of the property and
have been used for athletic
and recreational fi elds. The
reversionary clause kicked in
when the district closed the
former high school to move
schools to a new location out
of the tsunami inundation
zone.
City Manager Mark Win-
stanley said he wants to pre-
Park district: Three candidates declared so far
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since December 2019, when
she was appointed to fi ll
the vacancy left by Lindsey
Morrison.
Position 1 board member
Su Coddington has lived in
Seaside for 24 years. A nurse,
she heads the Community
Emergency Response Team
in Seaside.
Coddington
was
appointed to the seat in April
2020, formerly held by Rod-
ney Roberts, who announced
his resignation in February.
In August, Celeste Bod-
ner and Erika Marshall won
appointments to the board
after the July resignations of
former board president Jer-
emy Mills and board mem-
ber John Chapman.
Bodner assumed Position
2 and Marshall Position 4.
Bodner is the founder
and executive director of the
Seaside-based FosterClub,
a national nonprofi t with a
mission to improve the lives
of young people in foster
care.
Marshall, a Seaside res-
ident, is global human
resources for Mercy Corps,
working with the organiza-
tion’s vice president to guide
overall vision and strategic
direction.
Positions 1, 2 and 3 are for
four-year terms. The Posi-
tion 4 and Position 5 races
are for the remainder of the
two-year unexpired terms
of former board members
Chapman and Morrison.
Park district board meet-
ings, currently held via lives-
tream, are held on the fourth
Tuesday of every month at
5:15 pm.
Candidate fi lings can
be found at sos.oregon.
gov/elections/Documents/
SEL190.pdf.
serve the fi elds for recre-
ational purposes.
“The community feels
that it would be very import-
ant that those sports fi elds
continue to be able to be
used by youth of this area,”
he told the county Board of
Commissioners at a Febru-
ary meeting. “We are asking
that the county commission
deed that property over to the
city of Seaside so it can con-
tinue to be used in the man-
ner it has been used over the
last 60 years.”
The city will continue
to take care of the prop-
erty, which has a “couple of
baseball fi elds and a couple
of soccer fi elds right now,”
Winstanley said.
Seaside Kids and the
school district are among
local users.
The move to preserve the
property for playing fi elds
comes at a time when recre-
ation areas are in short sup-
ply, said Commissioner John
Toyooka, who represents
Seaside.
“In South County, there’s
insuffi cient fi elds and areas
for the youth to play at this
time,” Toyooka said. “Los-
ing the high school, losing
some of those playing fi elds,
it’s going to make it a chal-
lenge. We do need those avail-
able fi elds for the youth of the
county. We don’t have viable
alternatives at this time.”
The properties have been
sent to the county’s categori-
zation committee for discus-
sion as to the appropriate cat-
egory for each parcel per the
county’s property manage-
ment policy.
Staff will present those
fi ndings to the county com-
mission for their formal adop-
tion, Sirpa Duoos, the county’s
property management special-
ist, said after the meeting.
After the formal adoption,
staff will present the request
from Seaside for the board’s
consideration.
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Seaside School District
Exterior remediation at the middle and high school building.
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the west side,” Henry said.
“We’re really happy to see
that move on.”
Ahead,
crews
will
replace door thresholds at
the high school and middle
school, and exterior work
anticipated to be complete
before March.
Site concerns include
field drainage issues.
“We’ve been trying to get
to the bottom of that for a
few months,” Henry said.
“For some reason the field
isn’t draining as designed,
so Hoffman (Construc-
tion Co.) has dug up some
areas and we’re working
on a solution.”
Landscaping repairs will
take place after remediation
is over. “They’ll be looking
at that for six to eight weeks
once we get into spring
weather,” Henry said.
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Seaside Signal
The Gearhart Small
Business Committee is
seeking applications for
the appointment of new
members.
The committee is made
up of residents and small
business owners within
Gearhart. Citizen members
hold a one-year term and
must be at least 18 years of
age and reside within the
city limits or urban growth
boundary of Gearhart.
The committee meets
once a month, usually the
third Tuesday of the month.
The mission committee
is to educate existing and
potential business and com-
mercial property owners on
Gearhart commercial zon-
ing, available small busi-
ness resources, and Gear-
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commercial development
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