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McBride: New code compliance offi cer
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The offi cial provides
backup support for other
members of the building
and planning departments
and works with the police
department and courts as
it relates to escalated com-
plaints and violations.
McBride has served as
the city’s emergency pre-
paredness
coordinator
and community develop-
ment assistant, taking the
lead with emergency pre-
paredness, planning and
response.
The code compliance
offi cial role was established
in 2020, when the city
sought to manage permits
and vacation rental dwell-
ing complaints, including
parking, health and safety,
and quality of life issues.
The offi cial conducts
fi eld inspections in response
to residents’ complaints.
She will investigate com-
plaints about code vio-
lations by observing and
inspecting premises, gath-
ering evidence, researching
sources of information and
identifying the nature of the
violations.
The offi cial serves as a
mediator between parties to
develop recommendations
for resolution.
“Anne has shown that
her previous role in com-
munity development has
allowed her to hit the
ground running in this new
position and she has already
started molding the posi-
tion’s responsibilities to the
recently changed VRD poli-
cies and expectations set by
the Planning Commission,”
Flory said.
McBride’s job as emer-
Dana Phillips
Tita Montero
Seamus McVey
Council: Montero to seek
fourth term on council
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R.J. Marx
Anne McBride and City Councilor Tom Horning review a
tsunami map in 2019.
Anne McBride, Seaside code
offi cial.
gency preparedness coor-
dinator and community
development assistant is an
important role in the plan-
ning offi ce, he said.
“Anne’s work in emer-
gency preparedness has
been signifi cant, and as
such Anne will be maintain-
ing most of the emergency
preparedness coordinator
duties at this time,” Flory
said. “Our team will work
together to pick up the addi-
tional admin duties until an
evaluation of her previous
position is completed.”
McBride said she looked
forward to working on
establishing a relationship
with property owners to
enforce the Planning Com-
mission’s goals in main-
taining the balance between
rental properties and the
residential feel of local
neighborhoods.
“The plan right now is
that I will still be actively
involved in emergency pre-
paredness for the city and
continue to seek and man-
age the funding from state
and federal resources ”
with decades of volunteer-
ism and promoting educa-
tion and was elected to the
council in 2010, 2014 and
2018.
Samuel M. Condron, also
known as Seamus McVey,
announced his intention to
run for Phillips’ council seat
at Monday’s City Council
meeting. McVey facilitates
a recovery clinic working
with addicts, the mentally ill
and homeless.
Kimberley Jordan, the
city recorder and elections
clerk, said he met his cer-
tifi cation requirements on
Wednesday.
Councilor Tita Montero
is gathering signatures to
seek reelection to represent
Ward 2, she said. Hers is one
of three seats coming vacant
in the new year, along with
those of Steve Wright and
Phillips. Montero was
elected in 2010 and again
ran uncontested in 2014.
Steve Wright, the council
president who serves Ward
1, is running for mayor.
Wright served on the
Budget Committee and as
president of the Seaside
Museum & Historical Soci-
ety’s board of directors. He
served on the city’s bud-
get committee and Planning
Commission before appoint-
ment to Barber’s council
seat after the death of former
mayor Don Larson in 2016.
Wright was unopposed for
election in 2018.
Candidates are invited to
obtain a candidate fi ling form
at City Hall, 989 Broadway.
The fi ling deadline is Aug. 30,
but signatures are encouraged
to be submitted to Jordan by
Aug. 22.
Gun ban: Weapons ordinance on agenda
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The reports of threats
were unfounded, Clatsop
County Sheriff Matt Phil-
lips said in an incident
report. The sheriff deter-
mined the discussion had
been distorted via word-of-
mouth and social media.
In June, an anonymous
social media post alarmed
acting Mayor Kerry Smith
enough to tell City Admin-
istrator Chad Sweet he was
concerned about people
carrying weapons to public
meetings.
The metal detector pur-
chase, priced at $4,200 with
an additional $600 expense
for the wand, was rejected
after Dana Gould, a former
law enforcement offi cer,
said monitoring could pres-
ent limitations.
“Personally, in my expe-
rience, I don’t fi nd them
extremely reliable. I don’t
have a lot of confi dence in
them,” she said. “To get a
really good, reliable walk-
through metal detector, you
really have to spend some
money.”
A uniformed offi cer at
meetings could serve a more
useful function, Gould said.
“The uniformed pres-
ence here sends a mes-
sage that there are rules
and we’re going to enforce
them,” she said. “People
tend to act better when the
uniform is present.”
In July, the city also
approved $13,000 for
exterior storefront doors
wired with electronic secu-
rity capabilities. The three
doors to be replaced are the
main entrance, the police
entrance, and the west
entrance parallel to the fi re
hall.
Staff will approach the
City Council at a later date
to review security camera
and keyless entry options
for all three doors.
The revised weapons
ordinance returns to the
council in September.
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Parks: ‘It’s All Connected’ at open house
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lost at sea in 1864. Cart-
wright Park, about 4.5 acres
south of downtown, sits
on the Necanicum River,
with boat dock, playground
and pump track for begin-
ning and training mountain
cyclists.
The Turnaround is the
city’s most familiar park,
a quarter-acre parcel and
automobile roundabout cir-
cling a statue commemorat-
ing Lewis and Clark, built in
1990.
Estuary Park sits along
the three rivers fl owing into
the ocean at this spot, and is
considered vital to habitat
restoration.
Canines are invited to
the Broadway Dog Park
north of the Sunset Recre-
ation Center, and the Rail-
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stretches four city blocks at
the commemorative spot for
the “Daddy Train” that ran
from Portland to Seaside
from 1888 to 1938, when
U.S. Highway 26 to Port-
land was created.
Daycare Park, adjacent
to the offi ces of the Sunset
Empire Park and Recreation
District, is focused on activ-
ities for smaller children,
and sits next to an outdoor
lighted basketball and pick-
leball court.
Mill Ponds Natural His-
tory Park, the 30.4-acre
property owned by the city,
was acquired by the city in
1999. With saltwater and
freshwater ponds, the neigh-
boring Neawanna River’s
role as a salmon hatchery is
“unparalleled.”
The history park is get-
ting a breath of new life
after the passage of a camp-
ing ordinance that has
enabled volunteers, public
works and law enforcement
to clear illegal campers in
the woods, many of whom
had left garbage and toxic
debris in their wake.
“The park is getting back
to normal,” said Bill Mon-
tero, an advisory committee
member. “All the garbage
is gone. The park path and
surrounds are safe, clear and
clean.”
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