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Parking: Businesses have been interested in more options
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Seaside Park ‘n’ Pay LLC
would manage the 225-
space parking lot adjacent to
the Seaside Civic and Con-
vention Center. The paid
parking season could run
from March through Octo-
ber. Proposed rates are $1
per hour Monday through
Thursday and $2 per hour
on weekends.
Enforcement, conducted
by Seaside Park ‘n’ Pay,
would be 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
“I thought this might be
something that might help
the town,” Israel said. “We
wouldn’t even have had
this conversation 15 years
ago, because the technol-
ogy really didn’t exist and
we’d be looking at putting
in meters, and that wouldn’t
be very cost effective.”
Benefi ts, Israel said,
include an easy payment
method, an ability to refi ll
the meter remotely and
alerts when a session is
about to end. Users would
download the app, create
an account, park anywhere
there is a Park ‘n’ Pay sign
and pay for parking sessions
by phone.
R.J. Marx
Broadway in Seaside, about a block from the Seaside Civic and Convention Center.
Management
would
receive a fee of 20%. Seaside
Park ‘n’ Pay would donate
up to 5% of that income
back to the community for
improvements. Israel said he
estimated annual gross reve-
nue of $853,000 and net rev-
enue to Seaside of more than
$600,000.
Seaside Park ‘n’ Pay
would do staffi ng, enforce-
ment, signage, user interac-
Aquarium: Funds
aid library foundation
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Estuary Discovery Pro-
gram and the Northern Ore-
gon/Southern Washington
Marine Mammal Stranding
Network, which the aquar-
ium co-founded in 1998 with
Portland State University.
Maine’s wife, Karen,
launched the Haystack
Rock Awareness Program in
1987; a collaboration with
the aquarium continues with
the World of Haystack Rock
Lecture Series.
Young people from 16 to
18 often get their fi rst job at
the aquarium, Maine said.
Keith Chandler, the aquar-
ium’s general manager,
said it “does a great job of
getting them ready for the
workforce.”
Seaside Public Library
Foundation board member
Leah Griffi th joined Maine,
Chandler, Boothe and the
library’s executive director,
Esther Moberg, at Sunday’s
fundraising event.
“We were very excited
that Neal selected the library
foundation as the partner
for this fi rst event,” Grif-
fi th said. “We’re thrilled to
be here and support Neal.
He was one of my teachers
at Seaside High School all
those years ago. He inspired
a lot of people to step up
their environmental aware-
ness in the 1970s. He was a
great teacher.”
Sunday’s receipts will
be used for the purchase of
American with Disabilities
Act-accessible computers
tion and other management
tasks, he said.
Israel would test the con-
cept in a 26-week pilot pro-
gram from May to October.
The idea of paid parking
in Seaside is not new.
“According
to
my
research, the city center
parking lot was an idea pro-
posed and pursued by the
merchants in the late ‘80s,
early ‘90s because they
needed more parking to pro-
vide customer convenience
hoping to result in increased
business in the downtown
core,” City Councilor Tita
Montero said. “Since that
time, merchants have repeat-
edly indicated the need for
increased parking in the
downtown core.”
In 2002, the City Coun-
cil opted to use a shuttle
service through the Sunset
Empire Transportation Dis-
trict rather than institute paid
parking downtown.
When the convention
center discussed its $15
million expansion plan in
2015, a parking structure
was among the items pro-
posed, at an additional cost
of $6 million. The lot would
have cost the city $200,000
for 30 years. The expansion,
completed in 2019, did not
include the parking structure
component.
Before Israel’s presen-
tation, Montero sought a
City Council discussion on
whether such an initiative
should be considered.
“If the decision were to
turn the lot into paid park-
ing, the city would then con-
sider whether to self-manage
or put out an RFP (request
for proposal) for manage-
ment,” Montero said. “It is
inappropriate for the council
to now listen to a sales pitch
business proposal that infers
that such a decision has been
made or that such action is
being considered.”
She asked that the item
be removed from the agenda
until the council followed
“appropriate and due pro-
cess that determines whether
such a proposal is in order.”
While Montero’s sugges-
tion to table the presentation
was unsuccessful, city coun-
cilors reserved comment on
the paid parking plan.
“At this point we have
your presentation and pro-
posal,” Mayor Jay Barber
told Israel. “We’ll make sure
we bring that to our goals
group when we meet.”
Aquarium recovers loggerhead turtle
Seaside Signal
A turtle recovered in
Rockaway Beach is on its
way to recovery after efforts
from staff at the Seaside
Aquarium.
At about 9 a.m. last Mon-
day the aquarium received
a call about a sea turtle on
Rockaway Beach.
Upon arrival they discov-
ered it was an immature log-
gerhead sea turtle, unrespon-
sive and presumed dead.
When the sun came out, a
loggerhead sea turtle stunned
by cold ocean water unre-
sponsive and hypothermic,
began to show signs of life,
twitching its eyes and moving
its head slowly up and down.
Seaside Aquarium pre-
pared the turtle for transfer
and got it down to the Oregon
Tiff any Boothe/Seaside Aquarium
The immature loggerhead that stranded was approximately 25 pounds but when mature
can weigh over 300 pounds.
Coast Aquarium. T he tur-
tle was to remain there until
it was stable enough to move
down to California for further
rehabilitation with the hopes
of being released back into
the ocean.
The immature loggerhead
that stranded was approxi-
mately 25 pounds but when
mature can weigh over 300
pounds.
School board: Lum Toyooka won’t seek reelection
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running this May for the
Seaside school board,”
Owen said last week. “After
having the honor of fi lling a
vacant spot, I see how criti-
cal this board seat is to our
district. I’m looking for-
ward to building relation-
ships with staff and see-
ing our students grow in a
post-pandemic school year.”
Lori Lum Toyooka, who
was elected to Gearhart’s
Zone 3 Position 1 in 2017,
said Tuesday she would
not seek a second term.
The Gearhart resident and
general manager at Lum’s
Auto Center was elected
to Gearhart’s Zone 3 Posi-
tion 1 in 2017. She thanked
board members for their
“amazing” service to the
community.
Michelle
Wunderlich,
owner of the Seaside Cof-
fee House, represents the
at-large Zone 7 Position
1 board seat, has yet to
announce her plans. She
won election to the board in
2017.
Board president Mark
Truax, who represents Zone
4 Position 2 in Gearhart,
and board members Son-
dra Gomez and Shannon
Swedenborg will be up for
reelection in 2023. Swe-
denborg represents Cannon
Beach’s Zone 1 Position 1
and and Gomez Seaside’s
Zone 5 Position 1.
Feb. 6 was the fi rst day
for district candidates to fi le
for candidacy. March 18 is
the last day to fi le declara-
tion or withdrawal of candi-
dacy. Ballots will be mailed
April 28.
Candidates must be a reg-
istered voter and resident of
the zone for one year imme-
diately preceding the elec-
tion or appointment. Candi-
dates may not be employed
by school district.
Restrictions: ‘Hopefully we won’t be closing again for some time’
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graders back at school and
older students returning
in the weeks to come, the
park district adjusted their
program, which had been
limited to emergency child
care.
Students in the fi rst
cohort are dropped off at
the Sunset Recreation Cen-
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“We want to be fl exi-
ble and adapting until chil-
dren are back to their normal
schedule,” Archibald said.
Another related change
will come with the resump-
tion of in-person meetings.
While safety and distanc-
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place, work sessions and reg-
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