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SUNSET EMPIRE PARK AND RECREATION DISTRICT
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R.J. Marx
Warming center at 1530 S. Roosevelt.
Pitching in at Seaside’s
reopened warming center
By R.J. MARX
Seaside Signal
The Sunset Empire Park
and Recreation District
played a role in the reopen-
ing of the city’s warming
center.
“The fi rst year experience
was very positive,” Skyler
Archibald, executive direc-
tor of the park district said.
The warming center was
a partnership between Clat-
sop Community Action, the
city, the park district, and
the Sunset Empire Park and
Recreation Foundation.
While Archibald hoped
the center would get a
bit more usage, numbers
increased as the winter ses-
sion moved on.
According to Clatsop
Community Action, there
were 43 unduplicated guests
and 190 shelter stays over-
all from Dec. 20 to March
15. The average number of
guests per night was 4.75.
Jan. 24-31 was the bus-
iest week, with a weekly
total of 42 shelter stays. The
busiest night of the season
was Jan. 27, when 15 peo-
ple stayed at the shelter, fi ll-
ing the building to capac-
ity. Between Feb. 21-27, 34
people stayed at the shelter.
The park district also
worked with the shelter to
provide vouchers for shower
access, enabling free show-
ers at the Sunset Pool 13
hours a week.
The Sunset Recreation
Foundation spent more than
$1,500, for meals, serving
380 overall, at a cost of $4
per meal.
Archibald hopes to par-
ticipate in the warming cen-
ter project next year.
“I don’t know if the cen-
ter will be off ered again,” he
said. “That will be addressed
primarily by the other part-
ners in the project. If it does
operate, I hope that we can
participate in some capacity
and support those eff orts.”
Viviana Matthews, exec-
utive director of Clatsop
Community Action, called
the partnership with the city,
park district and Helping
Hands, “outstanding.”
Matthews hopes to see
the warming center return
next winter. “Absolutely, if
Seaside will have us,” she
said.
This could be the fi rst
of other such partnerships
in Seaside, she said. “We
are always looking ways
on partnering to bring pro-
grams to our community in
need.”
Lease: Extension of Sunset Recreation Center lease considered
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The Northwest Regional
Educational Service District
took occupancy of more than
8,000 square feet last summer.
The lease began Aug. 1
and runs until July 31, 2023,
annual rent is $73,840, pay-
able in quarterly installments.
After the fi rst year of the agree-
ment, the annual rental income
will increase by 1.5% from the
previous year’s amount, to
$81,650. The lease agreement
includes a cost per square foot
and a stipulation for the ser-
vice district to cover their por-
tion of utilities.
The lease agreement
includes exclusive use of the
counseling offi ces, three class-
rooms and the computer lab as
well as a janitor closet nearby.
It includes a shared space of
hallways and a men’s and
women’s restroom located
nearby.
The park district leases
the service district one of the
classrooms for storage.
“If we were to proceed
down the road of discussing
the lease, there would proba-
bly need to be some hard insu-
THE LEASE AGREEMENT INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE
COUNSELING OFFICES, THREE CLASSROOMS AND THE
COMPUTER LAB AS WELL AS A JANITOR CLOSET NEARBY.
IT INCLUDES A SHARED SPACE OF HALLWAYS AND A
MEN’S AND WOMEN’S RESTROOM LOCATED NEARBY.
lation of doors or temporary
walls to secure their part of
the property,” Archibald said.
“They don’t necessarily need
it secured to the point that any-
body couldn’t have emergency
access through those areas but
they’d like to kind of secure
the building, and that makes
sense for access purposes.”
Heat in the building is
still a bit of an ongoing issue,
Archibald said. “The heat
works extremely well in some
parts of the building, not quite
as well as others,” he said. “I
would expect that repairing
the HVAC system will be an
initial priority for us once we
get the strategic plan back and
start to move forward.”
Lease conversations are
expected to begin mid-sum-
mer, he said.
The education service dis-
trict shares the park district’s
optimism.
“We continue to be excited
about the partnership with
the park district,” Dan Gold-
man, executive director of
the education service district
said. “The services provided
by both agencies are com-
plementary and, as we hope-
fully come out of the dark-
est days of the pandemic, we
will help one another to multi-
ply the impacts of our limited
resources for children, fami-
lies and community members.
The facility, as aged as it is,
needs quite a bit of TLC; but
to date, the park district team
has been responsive to our
needs. We are looking forward
to the continued collaboration
and to serving the residents of
Clatsop County from our new
home in Seaside.”
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this particular case, we’re
regulating, place, manner,
where you’re asleep and
where you park. In doing
so, we’ve still got to be part
of society and play by the
rules.”
Noncompliant vehicles
will be towed, stored or
disposed.
This will not be a
“free service,” Ham said.
“There’s going to be a cost
associated with this. I can’t
tell you what that’s going to
be but it’s going to add up.”
The task force narrowed
down options to eight areas
throughout the city, intend-
ing to prevent between one
and fi ve camping spots in
each location. Locations
have yet to be fi nalized.
Permitted
overnight
camping sites will be listed
in a separate policy. Pro-
posed locations for limited
numbers of permitted vehi-
cles include parts of Shore
Terrace, Necanicum Drive
on the east side of the 300
block, Cartwright Park,
Avenue G on the north side
of the 500 block and Mill
Ponds Park. All vehicles
participating in the city’s
program for temporary
camping must be registered
and display unexpired reg-
istration places with cur-
rent tags.
According to the ordi-
nance, it will be unlawful
for any person to camp in
these locations from 8 a.m.
to 8 p.m.
Permission may be
revoked by the city if the
person or group violates
city laws or ordinances.
Permits, available for free,
would allow campers to
park nightly for three weeks
before being required to
move their vehicles. Pri-
vate homeowners, nonprof-
its and churches may also
receive permits to allow
tents or RVs overnight.
Vehicles without permits
could be subject to tick-
eting or towing. Camping
would be prohibited in all
public park areas, all pub-
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THE
ORDINANCE
IN SEASIDE
WOULD
REQUIRE
PEOPLE
TO OBTAIN
PERMITS TO
CAMP AND
LIMIT THE
HOURS FROM
8 P.M. TO 8 A.M.
The city is still await-
ing input from their insur-
ance agency, CIS, and City
Attorney Dan Van Thiel.
Meanwhile, with an
ordinance on the horizon,
authorities are looking to
clear the makeshift RV
camp off Necanicum. The
camp has grown from a
handful of vehicles to more
than 20.
Ham said the city will
begin notifying people
parked there that they need
to start preparing to leave.
“That’s the letter basically
saying, ‘Hey, you need
to be preparing that in the
next couple of months, you
are going to need to have
other arrangements made,”
he said.
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