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Seaside: Runkle,
Dillard, Solem,
Schorr to run
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fi nance manager for the Sun-
set Empire Park and Recre-
ation District.
“I’ve been watching
the City Council for the
past couple of years, espe-
cially through the pandemic
and I’ve seen some strug-
gles happening,” he said.
“And then seeing Dana Phil-
lips leave and seeing the big
shoes she’s going to leave, it
just seemed like now it’d be
a good time to step up and try
to fi ll those shoes.”
Runkle is a Society for
Human Resource Manage-
ment certifi ed professional.
Runkle Consulting, based
in Seaside, does fi nancial
consulting,
bookkeeping,
payroll, human resources —
“a little bit of everything,” he
said. “I have staff that work
for me and then I have a net-
work of consultants that we
rely on to be the experts in
any given fi eld that a client
might come to me for.”
Runkle joins two oth-
ers in the race. Former City
Councilor Seth Morrisey and
Seamus McVey, an addiction
and mental health recovery
professional, have also fi led
for the vacant seat.
WHO’S
RUNNING
IN SEASIDE
Mayor — all wards:
Steve Wright
City Councilor, Ward 1:
Duane Solem
Steve Dillard
City Councilor, Ward 2:
Tita Montero
Dan Schorr
City Councilor, Wards 3
and 4, at-large:
Seamus McVey
R.J. Marx
Seth Morrisey
Marcus Runkle
Land parcels: Clatsop County
transfers lots for aff ordable housing
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is potential for 18 aff ord-
able housing units if a zone
change is approved,” Rahl
said.
There is no fi nancial
cost to the city, and appli-
cable taxing districts would
forego potential revenues
from foreclosed land sales.
State Senate Bill 8
requires local governments
to allow development of cer-
tain aff ordable housing on
lands not zoned for residen-
tial use and allows establish-
ment of certain aff ordable
housing at increased density.
With the bill going into
eff ect, Rahl said, the use
of industrial or commer-
cial property for aff ordable
SEASIDE
WILL WORK
TO IDENTIFY
PARTNERS AT
THE SITE.
housing may not require a
zone change or conditional
use permit. The former high
school, adjacent to the lots,
is zoned R-2 and a residen-
Gearhart: Competitive races
for two City Council positions
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“The Nov. 8 election will
provide the citizens of Gear-
hart the opportunity to decide
if I have earned their vote
and should remain in this
position.”
Warren pointed to his
background in community
development, housing, small
business ownership, nonprofi t
and volunteer management.
“I look forward to continuing
to work with the citizens of
Gearhart to shape the future
of our City ,” he said.
“We are fortunate to
live in a community which
has a long tradition of for-
ward-thinking volunteer lead-
ership,” Warren said. “Exam-
ples of this leadership include
the comprehensive plan, lim-
itations on short-term rent-
als, an independent, redun-
dant source of drinking water
and the parks plan. I hope to
continue to contribute to this
legacy.”
Preston Devereaux
Preston Devereaux will
challenge Warren in Position
3. Devereaux, a retired Gear-
hart fi refi ghter and ex-chief,
took an active role in the
recent fi rehouse bond vote.
“I’ve got a plan where
to put the new fi re station,”
Devereaux said. “It’s in the
same location as the old fi re
station. In the downtown core
area. It’s always been the hub
of Gearhart.”
Devereaux also hopes to
address the city’s water con-
cerns and bring a return to
in-person council meetings.
Although he attended
school in Portland, Dever-
eaux comes rooted in Gear-
hart tradition.
“My great-grandparents,
grandparents had houses in
Gearhart here and my aunts and
uncles lived here and I grew up
here. We’ve been around for
well over 100 years.”
Dana Gould
Originally from Belling-
ham, Washington, Gould
served as a county sheriff ’s
deputy and fi rst responder in
southern California where
she also acted with her coun-
ty’s human resources and
health and risk management
divisions.
Family ties brought her
to Gearhart, where she has
WHO’S RUNNING
IN GEARHART
Position 1
Dana Gould
Anne Mesch
Position 3
Preston Devereaux
Brent Warren
lived since 2018. She is seek-
ing election to Position 1 after
appointment in July after
Kerry Smith assumed the role
of mayor.
“Naturally, I am honored
to be appointed to the Gear-
hart City Council,” Gould
said after her appointment
to council in July. “Gearhart
is a fabulous little town and
as evidenced by the recent
Fourth of July parade and
street dance, its citizens care
deeply for each other. I see it
in social media postings. I see
it when community volun-
teers come together to assume
personal responsibility to
resolve community problems
such as beach clean up or
ridgeway path upkeep.
“I see it when neighbors
greet each other on the street
or in their gardens,” she con-
tinued. “I believe we all want
to retain Gearhart’s old world,
small-town charm, but we
also understand the modern
world has delivered some
very serious challenges to our
doors.”
She said “it would be a
real shame” if the communi-
ty’s future successes came at
the price of its camaraderie.
“I hope that in my short
term of service I can play a
part in helping the city iden-
tify a path to move forward
together with its citizens, to
meet our challenges while
preserving all that is so good
about our community.”
tial development is already
being discussed for the pro-
posed use of the property.
R-2 zoning allows out-
right usage for single-fam-
ily dwellings, duplexes, res-
idential homes or facilities,
day care providers or resi-
dential home care. Condi-
tional uses include churches,
parks, nursing homes and
park space.
“Clatsop County also
recently deeded over the
property known locally as
the ‘North 40’ for the con-
tinuing use of green space
and playing fi elds for local
youth,” Rahl said. “It’s com-
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Anne Mesch
Anne Mesch, a former
teacher at Portland Public
Schools, is also in the race for
the Position 1 seat.
Mesch received a master’s
from Lewis and Clark Col-
lege. She taught for 27 years,
spending 15 years teaching
middle school and 12 years
teaching elementary grades.
“I’m honored to be run-
ning and grateful for the out-
pouring of support,” she said.
mon for green and park
space like this to have neigh-
borhoods and homes in the
immediate area.”
Seaside has been look-
ing into developing low-in-
come housing on the site as
required by the deed restric-
tion, Steve Wright, City
Council president and a can-
didate for mayor, said .
“One of the fi rst steps is
identifying partners that will
be able to join us,” Wright
said. “City Manager Spen-
cer Kyle is working on that.
It will take some time to fi g-
ure out all the details, includ-
ing the zoning.”
S
City Council almost two
years ago about RVs park-
ing on the streets.
“I felt I was not being
heard,” Schorr said Mon-
day. “As the city clandes-
tinely opened the RV park-
ing between 10th and 11th,
we knew we were not being
heard.
“As the crime and disor-
derly conduct as well as the
pollution increased and peti-
tions with 100 signatures
asking to close the camp
were ignored, we now felt
Duane Solem
we were being held in con-
Seaside resident and tempt. The partial block
postman Duane Solem between 10th and 11th
announced this week that he accounted for one out of
is running for the city’s Ward every six police calls for the
1 position.
last year of reporting. Coun-
“The reason I’m running cilor Montero was instru-
is because I speak to peo- mental in setting up this
ple on my route in regards camp as an ‘experiment’ and
to how they feel and they remains an advocate for the
basically let me know that street people over the resi-
they’re not being repre- dents of her district.”
sented ,” Solem said. “I just
While talking with people
want to jump in and be part from the area, Schorr said, it
of our community and put became clear that concerns
my best foot forward for for vacation rentals satu-
everybody.”
rating the second
Solem grew up in
ward and the rubber
Las Vegas, Nevada,
stamping of approv-
where he lived and
als left most in the
worked in the tour-
area left residents
ism industry for
feeling they had no
almost 40 years.
voice.
“My background
“Given
these
is from the casino Steve Dillard concerns, I believe
industry, and one of
Councilor Montero
the things I know
does not deserve
is the tourist side
a third term and
as well as being a
I could not stand
homeowner here in
by and see her
Seaside,” he said.
unopposed.”
He said residents
Steve Dillard
complain to him
Steve Dillard’s
they are not being Marcus Runkle
candidacy comes
represented as much
off a recent cam-
as they should. “I
paign for the Clat-
assured them that I
sop County Board
will keep their con-
of
Commission-
cerns because I’m
ers District 5 seat
a homeowner as
in May. While he
well,” he said. “Of
lost that election to
course not forget-
Dan Schorr
incumbent Lianne
ting anybody. But
Thompson, Dillard
my main concern is
fi led for City Coun-
looking out for the
cil in Ward 1, where
people that pay the
he will appear on the
majority of the bills
ballot with Solem.
currently.”
Dillard said his
Dan Schorr
run comes at the
Dan Schorr is
encouragement of
certifi ed to run for Duane Solem local residents. “I
the Ward 2 seat, held
bring years of expe-
by incumbent Tita Mon- rience, skills as a local resi-
tero, who was fi rst elected in dent and business owner. I
2010.
am willing to serve the city
Although most of his and help out.”
experience is in private
Dillard had a 35-year
industry, Schorr spent the career in information tech-
last four-and-a-half years nology at Advanced Micro
with Multnomah County Systems in Visalia, Califor-
when he was hired as a nia, before moving to Sea-
“commercial experienced” side, where he and his wife,
project manager working Annie, are owner-managers
in central administration to of the Sandy Cove Inn. He is
bring together the diff erent a member of the Astoria Air-
human services departments port Advisory Committee.
for a common process and
In the run-up to the
limits after a near-collapse of county commission election,
the social service contractors Dillard said he and his wife
in 2009.
had been looking to get more
As an elected large home- involved in the community.
owners association presi-
About six months ago, he
dent for 12 years, he said, he began attending city meet-
brings experience in dealing ings in Seaside. When he
with legal matters and under- learned the county’s District
standing state laws.
5 seat was open, he chose to
“I have a strong under- run. Dillard said he wants
standing of the state and to support local businesses
county human services func- recovering from pandemic
tions, and combined with shutdowns.
my commercial background,
In a spring election forum,
excellent fi nancial skills, Dillard stressed accountabil-
including due diligence ity and transparency in gov-
and turn-around experience ernment. “I have a long his-
with operations signifi cantly tory of being a business
larger than the city’s opera- person. I am an outdoors-
tion ,” Schorr said.
man, and I’m in love with
He fi rst addressed the this country.”
The “North 40” playing fi eld and land to the north delivered to the city for aff ordable housing and social services.
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