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Kyle is
named
new city
manager
By R.J. MARX
Seaside Signal
Seaside named Spencer Kyle the new
city manager at Monday’s City Council
meeting.
“He comes to us as the director of admin-
istrative services from South Jordan, Utah,
and brings 16 years of local government
management experience,”
Mayor Jay Barber said.
City Manager Mark
Winstanley, who has held
the job since 2001, will
retire at the end of June.
Jensen Strategies, a
recruiting fi rm, conducted
Spencer Kyle
the national search, con-
cluding with candidate
interviews, City Council guidance, public
surveys, interview panels and a community
reception at City Hall.
City Attorney Dan V an Thiel will nego-
tiate the provisions of a working agreement
with Kyle, Barber said.
Kyle led a fi eld that included Esther
Moberg, Seaside’s library director, and
Matthew Selby, a longtime administra-
tor from Massachusetts now based out of
Yakima, Washington.
As director of administrative services,
Kyle helped manage 16 departments,
including emergency management, parks
and recreation and IT facilities.
Before moving to South Jordan, he
served as assistant city manager for Sara-
toga Springs, Utah, where he witnessed the
growth of the community from 4,500 peo-
ple to 30,000 in 15 years.
R.J. Marx
Aryn Bird, Jose Manuel Saucedo, Eric Saucedo and Tami Saucedo of The Stand in Seaside.
The Stand heads to a new generation
Saucedos have since 1994.
“It means the world and for me to
take over what they started and continue
the traditions that they’ve had and stan-
dards of food and service that they’ve
worked to achieve for the last 30 years,”
Eric Saucedo said.
In 1990, the Saucedos, originally
from Santa Cruz, California, opened a
food stand in Bend, casually called “The
By R.J. MARX
Seaside Signal
J
ose and Tami Saucedo, owners of
The Stand, are retiring June 4.
The good news is that the Mex-
ican restaurant is staying in the family.
Their son Eric Saucedo and Aryn Bird
will own and operate The Stand as the
Stand.” The name worked so well they
adopted it as they opened in Seaside.
They closed the Bend location a year
later, in 1995.
The Stand was a success from the
start, drawn by the food, prices —
“everything,” Tami Saucedo said.
Changes over the years have been
See The Stand, Page A5
See City manager, Page A6
Plastic projectile
shooting incidents
reported in Seaside
By R.J. MARX
Seaside Signal
On May 14, Salem res-
idents Hayly and Nathan
Behnke were in Seaside
with their son to celebrate
his 11th birthday. They
played arcade games, ate
at local restaurants and
rented a bicycle. The day
ended being struck by pro-
jectiles fi red from a pass-
ing vehicle.
“We
were
walk-
ing together as a family
down Broadway around
9:30 p.m. to check out
areas of town we had not
been to earlier,” Hayly
Behnke wrote in an email
to Seaside police and offi -
cials. “We were admiring
the shopfront of a book-
store we decided we would
need to visit on our way
out of town the following
day when a truck drove up
and the passenger shot at
us with an airsoft BB-style
gun.
The Sunset Empire
Park and Recreation Dis-
trict Budget Committee
unanimously approved the
2022-23 proposed budget
May 17.
This is the district’s
largest budget, Skyler
Archibald, the district’s
executive director, said, with
a proposed $3.88 million in
total revenue and expenses.
After meeting earlier
this month, the committee
increased the contract ser-
vices line in the administra-
Camping sites
approved, but
come with risk
Workshop addresses homeless sites
By KATHERINE LACAZE
Seaside Signal
By R.J. MARX
Seaside Signal
A new program at Providence Seaside Hospi-
tal uses peer support, outreach and community
partnerships to provide individuals with behav-
ioral health issues important services to meet
their primary needs.
The hospital implemented the Better Out-
comes Thru Bridges program in February. As
with other programs in the behavioral health
department, program supervisor Mikaila Smith
said, the focus is using outreach and peer sup-
port specialists to relate to and work with
tive budget from $40,000
to $60,000. The committee
added $7,500 of expenses
for youth programs’ sup-
plies, and added $2,000 of
longevity pay on the com-
munity center budget.
Longevity
pay
is
awarded to employees who
hit a 10-year milestone of
employment with the dis-
trict and provides them
with 5% of their gross
annual income from the
previous year as a bonus.
After a board shake-up,
the purchase of the former
Broadway Middle School
and two years of the pan-
demic, the district appears
to have turned a corner.
Seaside zeroed in on city-owned land bordering the
Mill Ponds off of Alder Mill Avenue for homeless camp-
ing on Monday night. The site could provide spaces for
16 to 19 RVs and 30 tent campers under terms of the
city’s new overnight camping ordinance.
At a City Council workshop Monday, City Manager
Mark Winstanley said the site was intended as a parking
lot as the Mill Ponds site is developed. “We believe that
development of that site for a temporary location would
be a good place,” he said.
The site, which
neighbors the pub-
lic works yard, is not
THE POLICY,
close to residential
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development.
“It would give us
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the ability to be able
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to go into the site on
a regular basis, be
MAJORITY OF
able to take care of
things like port-a-pot-
COUNCILORS,
ties, garbage — those
WAS ADOPTED
kinds of situations,”
Winstanley said.
MONDAY.
The ordinance is
intended to protect
the safety of residents and regulate the use of public and
private property by establishing time, place and manner
guidelines for homeless camping. It establishes a permit
program for temporary overnight camping on both resi-
dential and nonresidential properties.
Vehicles, including vans or motor homes, would need
to be registered and in compliance with vehicle insurance
responsibilities. RVs and tents would be in separate areas.
Overnight camping permits, from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m.,
would be valid for three weeks, at which time they could
be renewed.
See Park District, Page A6
See Camping sites, Page A6
See Projectiles, Page A3
Park district budget
approved by committee
By R.J. MARX
Seaside Signal
‘Better Outcomes’
through Seaside
hospital program
See Outcomes, Page A5
Becky Wilkinson
Rock painted by BOB team member
placed at painted rock beach.