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Neighbors voice concerns over Necanicum Avenue RVs
By R.J. MARX
Seaside Signal
Mayor Jay Barber at the April 26 City Council meeting.
The city is “well aware”
of the issue of RVs aban-
doned or left overnight —
sometimes for weeks or
months at a time — along
Seaside’s roadways.
Necanicum
between
First and 12th, residents
say, has become a long-
term parking area, and a
safety and health hazard for
local residents.
“We’re concerned about
the waste and the garbage,”
Dave Eilenberger said at
Monday’s City Council
meeting. “And these vehi-
cles not moving.”
“I would reiterate: all
the garbage, the sewage,
the blocking of the streets,”
resident Karl Schorr said.
“What we’re wondering is
why the city chooses not to
enforce the code? ... We are
getting fed up. And if we’re
going to open up a free RV
park, then let’s advertise it
to the city of Portland.”
The RVs drive off tour-
ists, Eilenberger said, who
said they subsequently
they park in the nearby
neighborhood.
Seaside resident Randy
Skeie said he and his wife
Mackenzie contacted the
city a year ago on the issue.
“And we were given a
stone wall saying nothing
could be done. Now six,
eight, nine months later, we
have to come in here with
and ask again. Can we have
something done in a rea-
sonable amount of time?
We don’t expect the world
to turn around in a day.”
On April 20, according
to police reports, six days
before the council meeting,
an abandoned camp trailer,
two abandoned motor
homes and abandoned
truck were marked for tow
by Seaside Police.
“Just let me say the city
is very well aware of this
issue,” Mayor Jay Barber
said. “We are working on
it. And we’re going to deal
with it in a way that will
deal with the challenge.”
“It takes some time to be
able to do the posting, and
all the other things that are
required that we are very
much aware of it,” Bar-
ber said. “I’ve been driv-
ing there every day. I’ve
seen it with my own eyes.
I know.”
Forums on homelessness to begin with input from clergy
By R.J. MARX
Seaside Signal
The fi rst of four forums
on homelessness will be
held May 6, Mayor Jay Bar-
ber said.
“Our goals are working
on what we’re calling home-
less strategies forums,” the
mayor said. “We’re trying
to educate ourselves and the
community about how to
deal with the homeless situ-
ation, trying to bring diff er-
ent groups together.”
The fi rst forum, planned
for 6 p.m. at the Seaside
Civic and Convention Cen-
ter, will bring together mem-
bers of the faith-based com-
munity to inform the city
what they are doing for the
homeless.
Forums on May 13 and
May 27 will follow, con-
cluding on June 3 in an
“open mic kind of meeting,
to give people an opportu-
nity to talk about their con-
cerns, their solutions and
and how we navigate going
forward,” Barber said.
In November, driven by
a rising level of need and
impacts to Seaside’s neigh-
borhoods and businesses,
city councilors asked the
police chief, city attor-
ney and city manager what
can be done to manage the
growing number of home-
less people.
City Councilor Tita Mon-
tero proposed public forums
on the issue, but the dates
were postponed because of
the coronavirus pandemic.
At a goal-setting session
in January, city councilors
said they hope to address
homelessness, addiction and
mental health issues.
At a City Council meet-
ing in April, Montero sought
to revive the forum pro-
cess. “I believe with all of
our goals, we are giving the
citizens more opportuni-
ties to weigh in and to learn
and to participate than ever
before,” she said.
Funding opportunities to
combat homelessness could
come from American Res-
cue Plan dollars, City Man-
ager Mark Winstanley said
at a budget committee meet-
ing last week. The city antic-
ipates $1.4 million from the
federal government as part
of the government’s $1.9
trillion COVID relief bill.
“We’re not going to solve
the homeless problem, but
we’re become more edu-
cated so we can be more
responsive,” Barber said.
“That’s our goal. We want
to respond in a way that fi ts
with our community. We’re
working on that and will
continue on.”
Infrastructure: City plans to redesign and reconstruct Avenue S bridge
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fi nancial investments need
to be made.
The city’s infrastruc-
ture goals for the coming
year include replacement
of sewage disposal equip-
ment, including a dryer and
sludge processor in need
of replacement. “When
we started down this path
with our sewage disposal
arrangement, we purchased
a used dryer which has
served us well,” Winstan-
ley said. “Unfortunately, it
has reached the end of its
life.”
Costs, estimated at
about $3.4 million, would
be fi nanced by bond sales.
As for the Avenue S cor-
ridor, it is still in design,
Winstanley said. But with
the opening of the new
R.J. Marx
Roadwork on the Avenue S bridge is a city priority.
campus on Spruce Drive,
the traffi c load will con-
tinue to increase.
“I expect that we will
break ground on the Ave-
nue S project during this
next year,” he said. “That
street between the high-
way and Wahanna is going
to be used more and more
and is very inadequate for
the amount of traffic that
it will take. That’s a street
that we intend to redesign
and reconstruct so that it
will be adequate for the
traffic that it is going to
need to have.”
Federal dollars through
the American Rescue Plan
could come from the fed-
eral government in two
$700,000
installments,
this year and next.
“At this point, since we
don’t have definition as
to what’s going to be an
eligible expenditure, we
don’t know how we can
move forward yet,” Win-
stanley said. “We just
don’t know what the rules
are yet.”
The city anticipates
approval of the proposed
budget by May 28, and
approval of the final 2021-
22 budget by June 28.
Nonprofi ts: ‘Urgent resources are needed’
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The group provides
drug and alcohol-free hous-
ing options with shelters in
Astoria and Tillamook.
“It’s been a challenging
year for us,” Alan Evans,
Helping Hands’ executive
director, said.
Changed
protocols,
social distancing, COVID
pre-screening and wide-
spread closures in the ser-
vice industry added to the
burden.
The community shut-
down as a result of the pan-
demic also led to a signifi -
cant job loss in the service
sector, he said. “Most of
the people that were work-
ing in our facilities work
in the service industry and
as you can imagine how
many of our people became
unemployed.”
“But in the middle of
all of that. We served 355
unique individuals in Clat-
sop County, and 126 of
those came from Seaside.”
The state expects nearly
90,000 people will be fac-
ing eviction, Evans said.
“We’re doing our best to
prepare for that.”
Local
organizations,
including
the
Seaside
Museum and Historical
Society, Seaside House and
Our Lady of Victory Sun-
day Supper program were
among those seeking a por-
tion of funds.
Seaside’s
Restoration
House, a residential treat-
ment center for substance
abuse, asked the committee
for $10,000 for improve-
ments on their North Holl-
aday building.
A new group, the Deliver
Light Foundation, seeks to
help the displaced popula-
tion. They provide phone
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service, deliver essential
supplies, provide bus passes
and “share stories” with
homeless.
“Urgent
resources
are needed,” representa-
tive Michelle Trott said in
requesting $10,000.
The nonprofi t provides
phone service, job coun-
seling and services such as
hygiene, blankets, tarps,
socks, jackets, boots, to
homeless individuals “right
where they’re at.”
Seaside Kids, a nonprofi t
operating in the city for 65
years, provides the oppor-
tunity for all children in
the Seaside school district
to participate in sports for
free. President John Mor-
ris requested $5,000 to be
used to put a fence and gates
around center Norway Field
to provide the players with a
safe, sanitary property pro-
tected from vandalism.
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