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Vaccines: Staff face deadline
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time, employees must pro-
vide proof of vaccination or
a valid exemption.
Employees seeking reli-
gious or medical exemp-
tion may be provided with
reasonable
accommoda-
tions to continue employ-
ment, including modi-
fi ed shifts, working areas
or remote work. If the rea-
sonable
accommodation
presents an undue hard-
ship to the district, the next
steps may include putting
the employee on a leave
of absence or potential ter-
mination due to vaccine
noncompliance.
In August, Archibald
estimated about 75% of the
park district staff is vacci-
nated. “I do believe that we
have had a few staff who
have gotten vaccinated over
the last few weeks but we’ll
know more about the per-
centage once we get to the
Oct. 18 deadline,” he said
Wednesday.
Archibald
said
he
had not heard from any
employee that they are leav-
ing employment as a result
of the policy.
New employees will
have eight weeks from their
start date to be fully vacci-
nated or obtain an approved
exemption as an accommo-
dation. Fully vaccinated
means having both doses
of the two-dose vaccines
or one dose of a single vac-
cine and that the two weeks
for inoculation period have
lapsed.
“Just
because
an
employee
requests
an
exemption does not mean
that we have to a accommo-
date them,” Archibald said.
“But what we are going to
do according to the policy is
look at their workstation and
how their exemption from
being vaccinated aff ects
their work and might put
others or themselves in dan-
ger. And then we pledged to
basically follow to accom-
modate their exemption.”
Staff receives paid time
off to receive the vaccine.
Since the start of the pan-
demic, about 10 park district
employees have tested posi-
tive for the virus, Archibald
said. Many of those were
before the availability of the
vaccine. Youth programs
reopened in early Septem-
ber after a closure due to
staff members who tested
positive for the coronavirus.
The vaccine require-
ment comes as the district
remains short-staff ed in
youth programs and mainte-
nance. The district is “near
where we should be” in a
full aquatics staff , he said.
“We’re issuing frequent
reminders to share good
information and to promote
a spirit of truth and positive
behavior and modeling that
as much as we can.”
Sunset Recreation Center and property.
Future: Sale of items raises $1,500
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by the school district. The
sale of 164 items brought
in almost $1,500, which
will go into the district’s
Firehouse: Legal challenge ‘achieved goal’
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City of Gearhart
Proposed location of a fi rehouse and police station on
Highlands Lane.
happy with the outcome in
court and hopes the City
Council will move forward
with the bond measure in
the spring.
Zimmerman said the
legal challenge achieved
their goal of providing
information not included in
the ballot summary.
“While Dr. Gable and
I are disappointed in the
court’s decision, we knew
our complaint was outside
the normal court guidelines
in such matters,” he said.
“Our goal was to develop
and provide the Gearhart
voter with facts which, we
believe, were purposely
not disclosed in the ballot
language.
“Based on the Gearhart
community’s response to
our complaint, we achieved
our primary goal. We pre-
dicted the court would
probably fi nd in favor of
the city based on the laws
available to the court, but
we know now the Gearhart
voter is better informed on
the ballot language today
than they would have been
if the challenge had not
been made.”
scholarship fund.
A second sale could
follow. “One thing that
we heard, as far as feed-
back was that people
were really interested in
lockers,” Archibald said.
“As we fi gure out how to
pack attach the lockers
and get them out of the
building, I think that will
be a popular item.”
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Sims: Retiring postmaster refl ects on career
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At the start of the pan-
demic, for postal workers the
initial response at the post
offi ce was a respite in mail
and parcel volume, Sims
said. But when the stimulus
hit, it kicked into a higher
gear with a surge in online
buying.
“I used to be able to go in
by myself I could throw two
or three pallets of parcels
on a Sunday morning to get
everything done, no prob-
lem,” Sims said. “Now we’re
up to fi ve, six, seven on a
normal week. The workload
keeps increasing. We work
seven days a week.”
Sims said he will miss
the post offi ce routine, work-
ing from about 6:30 a.m.
to 3:30 p.m. — although
lately he had been arriv-
ing at 5:45 a.m. as volume
increased. “I will miss going
to work and having a goal,
‘Let’s get the mail up.’ ‘Let’s
get the reports done.’ ‘OK,
now that that’s done, we’ll
take a break and then we’ll
start up in the afternoon.’”
He’s got ideas of what
needs to be fi xed, like patch-
work computer delivery sys-
tems from the early 1990s, or
upgrades of vehicles decades
old.
“People don’t realize that
all fi ve trucks are going out
every day, seven days a week
and they’re 30 years old,”
Sims said. “My newest truck
is a 1994. The oldest is 1989.
We’re lucky we have a local
mechanic.”
Management needs to
do a better job of person-
nel retention, and over-
come cookie-cutter think-
ing that stifl es innovation.
The post offi ce should con-
sider electric vehicles, and
could put solar panels in post
offi ce buildings to generate
electricity.
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medical care, have a future,”
he said.
He loves Seaside and
plans to stay here, spending
time with family.
“This place has been great
on multiple levels,” Sims
said. “It’s fl at — I can walk
everywhere. I’ll walk down
to the U Street golf course to
eat, or to the cafe. Even the
weather.
“You asked about what
I will miss,” he added.
“Christmas. I used to open
on Christmas day to hand
out packages for a couple of
hours. I would sort packages
and open the door so people
could come in. The cham-
ber would put the informa-
tion on their reader board.
Last year two carriers and
myself delivered packages
on Christmas Day.
“Honestly I’m a lit-
tle scared, because I have
worked for the post offi ce for
over half my life.”
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“What I’m saying is when
there’s a lack of vision, a
nation perishes. People are
worried about not rocking the
boat, not doing anything out
of the, not putting their neck
out, not changing. They’re
locked in. They just deleted
17 districts in the country.
We had 67 and we’re down
to 50. Is that for streamlining,
or is that because they had to
do something because they
ran out of money?”
Most of the people he
has hired have been mid-
dle-aged and older. “Some of
the younger ones I’ve hired,
it doesn’t fi t their lifestyle
working six days a week,
because that’s what we have
to do right now,” he said.
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dom to relocate almost any-
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