A6 • Friday, June 17, 2022 | Seaside Signal | SeasideSignal.com
R.J. Marx
The intersection of Broadway and U.S. Highway 101 will see
upgrades in the 2024 State Transportation Improvement Plan.
Upgrades: Projects are
planned through 2027
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Mural: Depicts culture of
Clatsop and Nehalem people
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“It was quite the deal
when that car hit that piece
of concrete right through
the thing,” Lawson said.
“There’s three major holes
about the size of a fi st that
went through. We’re going
to surgically restore those
areas as much as we can.”
Lawson said while there
will be some repainting,
cleanup will be limited. “It
was in pretty good shape,”
he said. “It had more years
left in it. We’re trying to put
another 15 years into it.”
The fi nished mural will
be sealed with a graffi ti
protective surface and UV
chemistry that wasn’t avail-
able when the mural was
originally installed.
The fundraiser is well
on its goal of $20,000, with
a $10,000 grant from city
nonprofi t funds and $2,700
in donations so far, Lawson
said. Any money left over
from the fundraiser will be
put in a special account for
maintenance and emergency.
“We will work with a
muralist from the Seattle
area to repair the mural so
we can reinstall it on the
building on Broadway,”
Lawson said.
Damaged panels will be
shipped to Seattle for resto-
ration and then repaired and
restored.
Jeff Mihalyo, a tradi-
tional and new media artist
based in Seattle, will under-
take the project.
“We thought about hav-
ing it scanned and then
printed like a billboard, or
whatever, but it’s a piece of
art,” Lawson said. “We’re
looking to start hopefully in
a month and a half, once we
get all our ducks in a line —
and money, of course.”
Chamber: McCloud to fi ll interim role
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The chamber board has
started forming a selection
committee and will issue a
formal job opening to the
public. “Katie has been with
the chamber for over a year
and has the support of the
board in this interim period,”
they said in announcing the
appointment.
During her time as the
chamber’s marketing and
communications
manager
McCloud has helped man-
age events and awards shows,
upgraded the website and
social media, and created a
campaign, “Women in Busi-
ness,” that was honored as
outstanding social media
campaign at the Oregon State
Chamber of Commerce Con-
ference at their annual confer-
ence which was held in Hood
River.
A La Grande native, she
moved to the Dalles before
high school. Working at
Cousins’ Country Inn, her
boss suggested she serve as
an ambassador for the Dalles
Chamber of Commerce. She
got the “chamber bug,” she
said, “the passion for busi-
nesses big and small and
helping them in any way we
can.”
She and her boyfriend,
Jim Beasley, came to Seaside
in February 2021 and decided
to stay.
“That was the day Brian
had posted the job,” McCloud
said. “I applied and now a year
later, I am the interim CEO.
To say it has been a crazy year
munity knows, but luckily
we have an amazing group
of volunteers to help as well
as Brian who will be there to
help as much as he can. After
that, if we have not hired any-
one by then will be to con-
tinue the work that Brian has
done and make sure all of
our chamber members feel
supported and their business
needs are met.”
DINING
on the
Katie McCloud was named
acting director of the Seaside
Chamber of Commerce.
NORTH COAST
is a huge understatement.”
Beasley, who started at
the Clatsop Small Busi-
ness Development Center,
recently joined the Oregon
Coast Visitors Association as
their marketing and global
sales director.
As the chamber’s mar-
keting and communica-
tions manager, McCloud
started the “Women in Busi-
ness” project, a collabora-
tion between the chamber and
local businesses. The project
featured interviews and pro-
fi les of Seaside women in all
professions. McCloud envi-
sions a web page, committee,
resources and scholarships
for women entrepreneurs.
McCloud called Owen the
best boss and mentor she has
ever had.
“My plan for the near
future right now is to make it
through Seaside Beach Vol-
leyball,” she said. “This is a
beast of an event, as the com-
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101,” Dale McDowell, the
city’s public works direc-
tor said. “This is a team
eff ort.”
The Statewide Trans-
portation
Improvement
Program is the state’s reg-
ular project funding pro-
gram. Last year, the Oregon
Transportation Commis-
sion allocated $65 million
for the Enhance part of the
2024-2027 transportation
program.
The intersection proj-
ect will come in addition
to improvements already
underway from Avenue A
to Avenue K, one among
regional projects in design
through the 2021-24 state
improvement program.
The Avenue A to Ave-
nue K project, approved in
a 2021-23 state transpor-
tation improvement proj-
ect, is planned to start con-
struction in the fall, ODOT
spokesperson
Angela
Beers-Seydel said, with the
goal of improving safety
and traffi c fl ow.
The city assisted with
design review, locating
existing underground utili-
ties, water connections for
the landscape areas, and
working with the Seaside
Transportation Commis-
sion and ODOT to bring
this project to Seaside,
McDowell said.
Design was completed
in 2021 and completion is
expected this year.
The project will install
a new center turn lane,
improve
bicycle
and
pedestrian facilities and
add two rectangular rapid
fl ashing beacon cross-
walks. Plans call for new
curb ramps to meet Amer-
icans With Disabilities
Act standards. Traffi c
signs will be upgraded and
drainage improved before
pavement is replaced and
installed with new striping.
A new transit stop will be
installed.
Construction is esti-
mated at $8.1 million,
she said. The overall cost
estimate for the project,
including planning and
design, is $10.7 million.
Contractors bid on proj-
ects based on what they
think it will cost to com-
plete and we accept the
lowest qualifi ed bid. Any
funds left over from a proj-
ect go back into the general
funds available for con-
struction, and are allocated
through things like the
“Enhance” funding, which
funds projects specifi cally
designed to improve safety
and reduce congestion.
“Work that people are
seeing now is the gas com-
pany relocating their lines
in preparation for the proj-
ect,” Beers-Seydel said.
“Utilities are required to
move anything they are
responsible for before we
begin.”
The project is scheduled
in four stages, starting with
west side sidewalk con-
struction between Avenue
A and Avenue F, and east
side widening between
Avenue H and Avenue L.
Additional
construction
and widening will con-
tinue, fi nishing with a
pedestrian island construc-
tion between Avenue A and
Avenue F.
“The exact order of
how all of the compo-
nents of the project will be
done is determined when
the contractor is on board,
but we give guidance and
approval,” Beers-Seydel
said.
Traffi c signs will be
upgraded and drainage
improved before pavement
is replaced and installed
with new striping.
“Work that people are
seeing now is the gas com-
pany relocating their lines
in preparation for the proj-
ect,” Beers-Seydel said.
The city has worked to
make sure all the under-
ground infrastructure has
been located, replaced
or prepared for the work
ODOT will do, City Coun-
cil President Steve Wright
said, with McDowell “at
the forefront.”
Wright is a board mem-
ber of the Northwest Ore-
gon Commission on Trans-
portation, which works
with the Department of
Transportation to deter-
mine city needs and goals.
“I see my role as try-
ing to keep these proj-
ects moving forward and
to promote any other idea
that will help improve the
transportation options for
our area,” Wright said.
ODOT work starts in
the fall and continues into
2024. When it begins,
there will be both day and
night work with shoulder
and lane closures. Lane
closures will be at night,
7 p.m. to 7 a.m., Sun-
day through Friday, when
needed.
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community and out-of-
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event will step up and help
make this happen,” she
said.
If the fundraising goal
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Fireworks light up the sky at the 2018 Fourth of July show in Seaside.