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Camping: Council seeks sites ahead of ordinance
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selection of alternate sites.
The ordinance, intended
to provide options for the
homeless, puts in place a
permit program for tempo-
rary overnight camping in
RVs and other vehicles.
Without options, police
are limited in their ability to
enforce the new rules.
“It’s going to be diffi -
cult for the city,” City Man-
ager Mark Winstanley said.
“There isn’t going to be a
site where people are going
to come to you and say,
‘Oh, you found the perfect
place.’ It isn’t going to hap-
pen that way.”
Vehicles, including vans
or motor homes, would
need to be registered and
in compliance with vehicle
insurance responsibilities.
A proposal to move RV
parking and tents to areas
south of Alder Mill Road
and east of public works
could handle about 20 RVs
and 20 to 40 tents, Police
Chief Dave Ham said.
“We can fi t many tents
in there for people who are
using tents as their shelter,”
Ham said. “The idea would
be to put some Jersey bar-
riers across there so motor
vehicles wouldn’t be able
to physically go through
there.”
But parts of that property
are owned by the city and
the North Coast Land Con-
servancy, a natural area that
was acquired in 2002 with
private and grant money
for the purposes of conser-
vation, City Councilor Tom
Horning, who serves on the
land conservancy’s board,
said.
“It’s encumbered,” Horn-
ing said. “It’s got contracts
with the funders who gave
us the money to acquire it.
And we can’t redefi ne the
A map of the Mill Ponds downloaded from Clatsop Webmaps and edited. The Mill Ponds Park is
outlined in heavy yellow line. The recycling center, along Alder Mill Lane, is outlined in purple
with a big dot on the lot.
Bill Montero was among volunteers at the Mill Ponds cleanup
in 2021.
usage of the property with-
out their permission.”
With saltwater and fresh-
water ponds, Horning said,
the success of the Neawa-
nna River as a salmon
hatchery is “unparalleled.”
“Basically, it’s one of
the greatest salmon facto-
ries that you can have on
the Oregon Coast,” Horn-
ing said. “You get twice as
many bird species as any
other place in the county.
Just because it’s open and
natural doesn’t mean it’s a
wasteland or anything that
could be converted into
some more urban usage.”
The Mill Ponds is already
off the list of permitted
sites, he added, as camping
Montero also proposed
a centralized location, pos-
sibly with the help of agen-
cies such as Clatsop Behav-
ioral Healthcare and Clatsop
Community Action. “I think
it would make it much eas-
ier if they can go to just one
place,” she said.
The workshop ended
with more questions than
answers, including the
structure of the Mill Ponds
deal, the availability of the
recycling lot and potential
sites for purchase or lease.
“In the interim, what
temporary steps could we
take as a council to be able
to respond by the time the
ordinance goes into eff ect?”
Mayor Jay Barber asked.
on public parkland is pro-
hibited in the ordinance.
City Councilor Dana
Phillips asked the city to
take all residential areas off
the list of potential over-
night camping sites.
“I really have appre-
hension about having any
camping in a residential area
anywhere,” Phillips said. “I
really have a problem with
the fact that after driving
through Portland and seeing
what is happening in neigh-
borhoods, that it’s going to
get out of hand.”
Winstanley proposed a
look at the contract with
Recology, which operates
the recycling center on land
owned by the city. That
space could be used for
campers.
Other options could
come through the purchase
of property or a building.
“There will be an obsta-
cle or two with every piece
of property that we are look-
ing at,” Winstanley said.
City Councilor Tita
Montero suggested possi-
ble incentives for property
owners to sell or lease to
the city. “I would like peo-
ple to maybe think about
what kind of arrangements
or enticements the city is
willing to off er to some pri-
vate landowner who might
want to get involved with
the city in this endeavor,”
she said.
City budget: Expenditures to jump in most categories
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$44.5 million in the proposed
2022-23 budget. With fund
transfers, contingencies and
unappropriated fund balance,
the city shows more than $90
million in all funds.
“We are fi nancially in
good shape,” Winstanley
said in his budget message.
“The city has weathered the
pandemic better than most.
The council will be tasked
with making wise decisions
on how to spend funds to
enhance the city, not on how
to plug the fi nancial coff ers.
Funding like the American
Rescue Plan is a one-time
shot.”
The city has budgeted
$1.54 million from the fed-
eral funds, which includes
unspent reserves from last
year.
Proposed expenditures are
up in almost every category,
with the general fund —
including the business offi ce
and the library — at $2.7 mil-
lion from last year’s $2.37
million. Public safety will see
a 5.2% increase; community
development jumps 9.9%
and public works will esca-
late 18.2%.
More than half of the room
tax of just under $9.6 million
is allocated to the Seaside
Civic and Convention Center.
The Seaside Visitors Bureau
receives an allocation of 17%
for tourism marketing. Pub-
lic safety receives 15.2%,
including .8% for lifeguards.
The remainder of the room
tax is allocated to the conven-
tion center capital improve-
ment fund, the city’s capital
improvement and mainte-
nance fund, public works for
maintenance and operation of
tourism-related facilities and
the Prom improvement fund.
A little more than 1% is allo-
cated to the emergency read-
iness fund.
Along with a new city
manager, the city is propos-
ing to add a secretarial posi-
tion, a public works secre-
tarial position and fi nance
director, a position held by
Winstanley.
“Previous fi nancial con-
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struction project fi nanced
through state and city funds.
Sewer plant costs for the
replacement and mainte-
nance of critical facilities,
including a sludge dryer to
treat sewage, is budgeted at
more than $4 million.
The budget committee
heard requests from nonprofi t
organizations for city funds,
allocating $145,500 for local
community groups.
If the budget is adopted,
Helping Hands Reentry Out-
reach Centers could receive
up to $50,000 for their work
responding to homelessness.
Grants include $15,000
each for Clatsop Community
Action and The Harbor. The
Clatsop-Nehalem Confeder-
ated Tribes, Court Appointed
Special Advocates, the South
County Food Pantry and the
Emergency Aid Fund could
receive $10,000. Seaside
Museum & Historical Soci-
ety is designated to receive
$12,000.
Other nonprofi ts to receive
funds include Seaside Hall,
Restoration House, and the
The city could hold
another workshop before
the City Council meeting
on May 23, with additional
information about available
land or buildings and prop-
erty or lease contracts on
potential sites.
“We need to do some-
thing now to make sure
that we have access for our
homeless people to go this
summer during tourist sea-
son,” Phillips said. “We
as a city must take a stand
and get something done on
a short-term basis. And I
would love it if the county
would work with all of our
cities and come up with a
property somewhere in the
county.”
‘LIFE COMES AT US FAST’
In his fi nal budget message, City
Manager Mark Winstanley shared a
retrospective on his decades of service.
“Each year we are faced with problems
and concerns, and each year they are
met with successes and failures,” he
said. “We are a society that seems to
recognize our failures and expect our
successes. If it wasn’t fi xed yesterday, it
Mark Winstanley
surely will be taken care of today. I have
in 2021.
had an opportunity to travel in Europe
and Asia in the last two years. In these
areas construction schedules are measured in centuries and
workers are generational. I fi nd it fascinating and concern-
ing that buildings built during my tenure are now being
labeled as old and obsolete. Life comes at us fast!
“I have become the oldest employee, the oldest member of
my family, many times the oldest in the room,” he contin-
ued. “I gave hugs; now I am given hugs. New people will
bring a new perspective. This is good. Thank you for the
opportunity.”
Sunset Empire Park and Rec-
reation Foundation.
Council President Steve
Wright said Winstanley
“is leaving us in excellent
shape.”
“We’re not out searching
for money,” Wright said. “We
have good reserves, particu-
larly at the convention center.
So it’s a matter of using the
money wisely.”
The city will consider
the committee’s recommen-
dations at a June meeting,
Barber said, at which time
the council will hold a pub-
lic hearing to hear and adopt
the budget for the new fi scal
year.
MARKETPLACE
106 Fundraisers
Go.
Do.
ditions triggered a reduction
in staffi ng and the fi nance
director’s position was elim-
inated,” Winstanley said.
“For the last several years we
talked about the necessity to
restore this position when I
retire. This budget will restore
the position at a department
head level and reestablish all
accounting functions back to
their control.”
The proposed fi nance
director’s salary is bud-
geted at about $94,000. The
city manager is budgeted at
$141,000, up from last year’s
$131,000.
The public safety budget,
at $9.7 million, is up from
$9.3 million to cover police
and fi re costs. Included in
revenue for public safety is
room tax of more than $1
million. The city has also
allocated $135,000 in liquor
taxes and $105,000 in mari-
juana taxes to the fund.
The city is budgeting more
than $8.4 million for street
construction, associated with
the renovation of city streets,
including an Avenue S recon-
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