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City manager: Consultants
will help with negotiations
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includes professional leadership,
recommendations of solutions to
community problems for coun-
cil consideration, budgeting and
goals, among other duties
Over the years Winstanley’s job
has encompassed the role of bud-
get offi cer, human resources man-
ager and staff liaison to the City
Council. His salary is $130,620.
In announcing his retirement
last year, Winstanley suggested
Assistant City Manager Jon Rahl
as a potential candidate.
At December’s meeting, the
council launched the search pro-
cess by inviting any internal can-
didates to show their interest in
the position. The council left the
option of closing or expanding
the search to a larger pool.
“We know Oregon recruit-
ment, public meetings, and pub-
lic records law to help our clients
avoid un necessary hiring process
liabilities,” Erik Jensen, princi-
pal and founder of Jensen Strat-
egies, said in a proposal detailing
the scope of the hiring process.
“We commit to working closely
with the city and are more than
willing to adjust our process as
needed to meet the specifi c needs
of Seaside.”
First steps will include devel-
oping a candidate profi le, inter-
views with staff and city coun-
cilors and a Zoom meeting to
receive public input.
After the profi le is developed,
Jensen advertises the position
on high-profi le managerial and
specialization specifi c websites,
within professional publications
and periodicals, with venues that
reach out to diverse candidate
populations, and in other forums
as appropriate.
Jensen Strategies vets all sub-
mitted applications, conducts
in-depth interview processes and
provides the city with information
necessary to make the best choice
for fi nalists and the successful
candidate.
Up to four fi nalists will be
interviewed at a council execu-
tive session before coming to a
consensus.
The consultants will assist the
city in contract negotiations with
the selected candidate.
“The big question was, can
they do it competently within
the timeframe that we have to be
done by the end of June?” Barber
said. “And he (Jensen) assured
me that he can within 18 weeks.
So that would be well within the
time frame.”
Barber made a motion to
sign the contract with Jensen
Strategies, at a cost of $25,000.
Councilors Tom Horning, Dana
Phillips, Steve Wright, Tita Mon-
tero and Randy Frank voted to
approve the contract. Councilor
David Posalski was absent.
Parks: Planners reject landscaping policy
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He said proposed restrictions
on parks and dunes are unnec-
essary. “Until I hear some pro-
fessional that tells me that that’s
necessary, I’m not willing to sup-
port it.”
The policy, developed by
Commissioner Sharon Kloepfer
with City Planner Carole Con-
nell, was designed to protect
vegetation and wildlife habitat in
Gearhart’s city parks.
Connell said the policy arose
from a joint work session with
the City Council and Planning
Commission with the goal of an
“overall arching environmental
policy.”
The rules would have applied
for pesticide or other chem-
icals used in city parks, and
any treated area would have
been fl agged. Trees would have
been maintained where possi-
ble, and no trees over 6-inches
diameter measured at the base
removed unless posing an immi-
nent threat. Decisions regarding
tree removal would be made by
city staff as advised by an arbor-
ist who has no fi nancial gain in
the matter. Trimming and prun-
ing would be limited to hazard-
ous and obstructive limbs, such
as for sightlines.
Mowing of dune areas would
have been prohibited from Sept.
1 through March 31 to allow
nesting birds to be undisturbed.
The policy sought to require
native plantings and tree plant-
ings with new landscaping. As
much as possible, surface and
groundwater runoff will be mini-
mized to prevent erosion.
The policy introduces con-
fl icts with existing language,
Graff said.
Graff suggested the policy be
separated from the parks plan. “If
somebody wants to bring it up at
a later date, they certainly can
do that. At that time, the Plan-
ning Commission can consider
the issue, have a public hearing
and decide if changes need to be
made.”
The parks plan, designed to
look 20 years into the future, was
developed after the state awarded
the city $15,000 grant funds for
the project, part of the 2019 local
government grant program from
the Oregon Parks and Recreation
Department.
The Parks Master Plan Advi-
sory Committee approved the
plan in late August and sent it
to the Planning Commission
for review and approval, before
heading to the City Council and
added to the master plan.
Commissioners Graff , Aus-
tin Tomlinson, David Smith,
Don Frank, Russ Taggard and
Virginia Dideum voted 6-1 to
update the parks master plan
with changes discussed at the
meeting, including elimina-
tion of the environmental integ-
rity provision. Kloepfer voted to
retain the policy.
An updated draft will be pre-
sented at the next meeting.
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Plots are available through the city for Evergreen Cemetery.
Cemetery: ‘We are behind the curve’
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reviewed surrounding cemetery
plot pricing for Clatsop County,
and the Seaside Evergreen Cem-
etery continues to be signifi cantly
less expensive per plot.
“We take care of our cemetery
like it’s a park,” he said. “The crew
does a great job up there, and our
families spend more time up there
and like it.”
With 14 additional acres avail-
able on Beerman Creek Road,
McDowell said he has a draft plan
to show potential expansion.
Councilor Tita Montero sug-
gested raising the plot price an
additional $250, to $1,000.
“We are behind the curve,” City
Manager Mark Winstanley said.
“But we are gradually increasing.”
He suggested a more frequent
look at the cemetery pricing, espe-
cially as the city considers the
expansion.
“You don’t have to be a former
resident of Seaside to get one,”
Montero said. “We’re the deal of
the state.”
Offi cials appoint Johnson’s replacement
By ERICK BENGEL
The Astorian
Rachel Armitage, a Warren res-
ident who chairs the Democratic
Party of Oregon’s Womxn’s Cau-
cus, is the new state senator for Sen-
ate District 16.
County commissioners from
within the district appointed Armit-
age last Friday from a group of
three fi nalists during a virtual meet-
ing held at the Columbia County
Courthouse.
Armitage will fi nish the term of
former state Sen. Betsy Johnson,
the prominent and infl uential Scap-
poose Democrat who announced
her independent gubernatorial run
in October and resigned from the
Senate in December to focus on her
campaign. The term runs through
2022.
The district covers all of Clatsop
and Columbia counties and parts
of Tillamook, Washington, Mult-
nomah and Yamhill counties.
In an interview, Armitage — who
received 87.6% of the weighted vote
— said she felt “very excited, deeply
honored.”
Melissa Busch, another Warren
resident and a home health nurse
with Providence Health & Services,
and Nadia Gardner, an environmen-
tal consultant from Arch Cape, were
also vying for the appointment.
The three candidates were
selected last week by Democrats
Rachel Armitage
from among a slate of eight contend-
ers at the Seaside Civic and Conven-
tion Center. In the fi rst round of bal-
loting, Busch, who is running in the
Democratic primary for Senate in
May, had walked away with 73% of
the weighted vote.
“I’d like to thank the (Democrats)
who voted for me and the commis-
sioners who appointed me,” Armit-
age said in an interview. “I would
like to thank the two women —
Melissa Busch and Nadia Gardner
— who ran this race alongside me.
“And I especially want to thank
Sen. Betsy Johnson for setting such
a strong example of what good pub-
lic service looks like in this district.”
Unlike Busch, Armitage said she
will not run in the Democratic pri-
mary for Senate. State Rep. Suzanne
Weber, R-Tillamook, is giving up
her House District 32 seat to cam-
paign in the Republican primary for
Senate.
“I am defi nitely not running for
any offi ce in 2022,” Armitage said.
Armitage emphasized her expe-
rience serving as a legislative aide
during the 2016 and 2017 sessions.
She is an alum of Emerge Oregon,
a program that trains Democratic
women to run for offi ce. She will
represent Senate District 16 when
the Legislature convenes for a short
session in February.
Several county commissioners
— including Clatsop County com-
missioners Mark Kujala and Lianne
Thompson — pointed to Armitage’s
experience in Salem.
Commissioners Courtney Bangs
and John Toyooka also voted for
Armitage. Commissioner Pamela
Wev cast the sole vote for Gardner.
Lindsay Berschauer, the chair-
woman of the Yamhill County Board
of Commissioners, said of Johnson:
“One of her biggest strengths was
her communication style and her
ability to reach out across the aisle
and talk to anybody.”
“And in the spirit of that, I was
very impressed with Rachel. She
did reach out to me almost immedi-
ately to have a conversation, and we
had a lovely conversation,” she said.
“We likely don’t agree on much
and we would probably vote oppo-
site of each other. But we had a lot
of things that we did talk about and
saw in common.”
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