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Tillamook County Housing Commission
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Is an ADU right for you?
People are talking about ADUs as a potential solution to our housing crisis. What are ADUs and how can they help? ADU stands for “accessory dwelling unit,” which is a smaller, independent residence or rental located on the same lot as a single-family home. ADUs are sometimes referred to as apartments, secondary dwellings and granny flats. These can be a converted space or addition in an existing home (a garage or bonus room, for example). They can also be a separate structure like a converted detached garage, shed or tiny home somewhere on the property.
The Tillamook County Housing Commission is recommending ADUs as a housing production solution. Tillamook County does not have a lot of buildable land, so adding ADUs on lots that already have a home on them can reduce the time and expense of adding new housing.
ADUs can be a great solution for older adults seeking to downsize and for anyone trying to find affordable rentals. Homeowners can also create additional income streams by renting out an ADU. ADUs must meet certain requirements and it is important to note that, where these are being allowed, they must be for long-term and not as vacation rentals.

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SCIENCE
In response to those who have been following our excellent community discussion, ‘science is real’, I will preface my remarks buy relating to a recent, fairly long term dialog via email with a member of our community.

I was invited to join an in person discussion group to “bring the blues and the reds together”, that followed a proscribed protocol to participate. Everyone got equal time to speak and to be civil. Being more inclined to share in writing the individual agreed and what followed over a few months were numerous emails presenting our views on everything from gardening and music to history and pressing world events. The per tenant point in relating this exchange is that in my very first introduction expressing who I was, I pointed out that the over riding influence in our communications, besides of course any personal history, would be our sources for information that guide our judgement and beliefs.

Throughout our exchanges, we shared mutual love of musicians, authors, family, food, the good things, but regarding more serious issues, I leaned heavily into the arc of history that brought us to the present, hoping to show a coherent pattern to support my perspectives but from the very beginning to the last email, my versions of events were discounted out of hand 90% of the time, because the publication or medium was considered an unacceptable source. Examples would be podcasts, blogs, you tube interviews, alternative news sites. This pen pal was much more inclined to look forward, find common ground and move toward the common good. Fair enough, that’s what most of us want but we all know what’s said about not studying history and eventually there were too many disagreements about where we are, so choosing directions for positive forward movement became agreeing to disagree. It all came down to who and what we each believed to be true, faith in our sources. If my referrals were not published, in print, in the NYT, POST, WALL STREET JOURNAL, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, TIME and the like, they were suspect. I would point out that considering most of said outlets are owned by a few individuals very heavily invested in shaping narratives to protect their heavy investments, thinking they carry weight because they once wore the robes of truth and respect, made them suspect. The idea that history can and is often revised as it happens, depending on who gets to write or report it, can be difficult to understand let alone accept but it is true. This is the theme I would not set aside while trying to describe our common ground. It’s not unusual for two people to experience the same thing and tell very different stories, but directing policy without consensus can be disastrous on a large scale.

Pivotal events involving our nation, both internally and internationally have increased exponentially over the past 150 years, driven by industry and electricity, until now, well, how to describe; it’s horrendous? ( note the list of wars and coups above). One thing is certain, it takes way more time and energy than most folks have to keep up with and filter events for truth and that’s across the boards; science, policies, creative advances, nations working and not working together, understanding climate, keeping up with AI and surveillance, on and on, and the whole parade of personalities that present their part of the show.

Sources are important. None of us are so qualified that we don’t rely on others for their expertise. Below is a raft of sources which the curious student of science, politics, history etc, can explore and decide for themselves if they are credible, and believe me, I know someone else might comprise a list to refute each and every one of the offerings below. Go for it. Such is the nature of the tools and depth of information we have in our hands, but I think dispensing with the term “conspiracy” and just saying theory would encourage education. And, as mentioned before, the impact of the speed and momentum carrying the whole world forward presently should be part of any conversation: ubiquitous devices, overwhelming messaging.

Regarding ones love of country and how they express it I would remind folks that vehemently disagreeing with policies is a right and obligation, especially if you feel the leaders you did, or did not choose, go off the rails. Maybe we should slow down so we can hear the message the guy on the side of the road waving red flags is trying to say, even if we don’t like the distraction, because he’s trying to warn us the bridge around the curve has collapsed.

COVID- THE EVENT

Unlike the news shorts we were inundated with from the start, these links take some time. (My apologies for my poor PC skills if you have to copy and paste each link).

law.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/faculty/vitae/boyle.pdf?v1486489864
Within weeks of covid appearing on the world scene, Dr. Francis Boyle determined it was lab altered.
This link is just his resume, which should lend weight to his conclusion. It will be almost impossible to find anyone in the whole world who has worked as tirelessly for human rights and justice.

www.sott.net/article/437083-Compelling-Evidence-That-SARS-CoV-2-Was-Man-Made#
Work your way through this one and you may pass the class; probably don’t have to do the rest of the homework.

www.aier.org/article/lockdowns-do-not-control-the-coronavirus-the-evidence/
Work through it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfLycFHBsro
Dr David Martin address the European Assembly; patents for cov-2 filed years ago.

kunstler.com/podcast/kunstlercast-398-dr-geert-vanden-bossche-and-the-coming-acute-crisis-of-covid-among-the-vaccinated/
We were warned about this from the beginning.

www.sott.net/article/446585-COVID-vaccines-are-a-medical-experiment-on-humanity
Want to know what’s in the “vaccine”?

www.sott.net/article/474508-The-truth-about-ivermectin
Why was it not used immediately?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYaLgeEBgaU
Dr. Robert Malone, one of the pioneers in mRNA research. This interview like many shedding light on this three year event is long but then it’s a complicated story. He has been involved since the beginning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAHi3lX3oGM
Dr. Peter Mccullugh testifies before congress.

covid19.onedaymd.com/2023/09/dr-peter-mccullough-testifies-in-eu.htm
He’s one of the many medical doctors who the whole world listened to and quoted before COVID, and being the first to raise red flags about the mRNA treatment in writing, was one of the first to be censored and slandered. No one is any more qualified than he is to educate us on this landslide of poor choices.

www.sott.net/article/465379-Shocking-findings-on-increased-deaths-in-25-to-44-year-olds
This is dated. New data does nothing but reinforce the concerns.

www.sott.net/article/464236-Life-insurance-payouts-skyrocket-258-as-post-vaccine-deaths-rapidly-accelerate
Math science

www.sott.net/article/461953-RFK-Jrs-Heroic-Resistance-to-the-CIAs-Continuing-Covid-Coup-D-etat-A-Meditation
And you can cut to the kill and just read the book; not for the weak spirited. The Real Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates, Big Pharma and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health.

straightlinelogic.com/2021/09/26/the-spartacus-letter-by-spartacus/
More science than most want to absorb.

www.sott.net/article/458020-JUST-the-FACTS-Coronavirus-in-Australia-by-the-Numbers
Dated but the numbers even then don’t lie.

www.pearl-hifi.com/11_Spirited_Growth/10_Health_Neg/04_Pandemics/05_COVID_19/Masks/
Were they necessary or worth it?

www.sott.net/article/464615-EXCLUSIVE-Former-Harvard-Prof-Martin-Kulldorff-Science-and-Public-Health-Are-Broken
Another leading expert the world looked to until covid.

I could easily add a hundred more links. Experts, really smart people have not been silent, just silenced.

FORIEGN POLICY-

History is important and there is a lot of it that the citizens of this nation are either ignorant of or in denial of, and it is especially impactful since the beginning of the twentieth century. After WWII, the combination of complacency and accelerating event cycles leave us finding it hard to believe that our trusted leaders lie to us on a scale we now know to be true. In that vein, here’s two books that will help clarify:
The Devils Chess Board, by David Talbot, and expanding upon and updating is, One Nation Under Blackmail; Volume 1 and 2, by Whitney Webb. Our nations past is not the history we were taught in school.

williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
The CIA and our military have been busy in our name and as the business of war has grown, so has its bonds with our congress.

geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/09/13/us-251-military-interventions-1991/
I love the USofA as the idea it is intended to be. I am learning how elevated the framers of our republic were, how complete their vision was and how when the documents were completed and signed, we the people were admonished to be vigilant and participate, to not become lax. I think those framers would now agree with me that we allowed or nation to become a bloody empire.

www.sott.net/article/479090-Spreading-Democracy-the-American-Way
It’s not that our nation hasn’t done nobel things or hasn’t shared it’s advancments with other nations but if we peel back the Norman Rockwell, Father Knows Best veneers and ‘how we won the world war’ narrative, there’s alot to atone for, and there is a lag time for repercussions from brutal past aggressions. It takes generations for injustices done to other nations to boomerang back on the agressor. Think about imigrants from failed states.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oVpt_I9iQQ
Take a break from your latest Netflix detective series and try this one. It’s All a Richmans Trick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOnPWrafILk
A lesson from Professor Stephen Cohen about Russia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRb5-_790wY
Corlnel Douglas MacGreagor, a Russian proagandist? Boulder Dash! Might be the clearest, most concise, experienced and educated advisor for our nation on not only foriegn policy but domestic as well.

www.sott.net/article/486510-Pepe-Escobar-US-needs-Gaza-war-to-destabilize-BRICS-Greater-Eurasia
Pepe Escobar has become what Naom Chomsky used to be, a world repected geo-political analyst. US and it’s Western European vasals keep trying to duct tape the empire together while shooting themselves in their feet, their legs and it looks like the’re going for the head now. Stupidity or intentional destruction I don’t know but we are perilously close to finding out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q28wkPhMQrY
One of many interviews with Whitney Webb, this will introduce you to a remarkable person who holds more information at the ready and can connect the dots maybe better than anyone else, and I mean anywhere.

www.sott.net/article/487375-There-is-a-war-coming-shrouded-in-propaganda-It-will-involve-us-Speak-up
John Pilger left us with a legacy of truthful reporting about war.

www.sott.net/article/411419-The-Saker-interviews-Dmitry-Orlov
Understanding the Ukraine

www.sott.net/article/373841-Ukraine-on-Fire-How-US-Not-Russia-Destroyed-Ukraine-Oliver-Stone-Documentary-Finally-Available-VIDEO
Title says it all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNLRfmFpzM0
If you thought there were no more articulate and passionate voices left in Europe then listen to Clare Daly.

Again I could add a hundred more links.

www.sott.net/article/270110-We-were-made-for-these-times
Ending thoughts

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Nehalem Bay Community Services

MUNCH a LUNCH and GRAB & GO (kids summer lunch program)

South Route Pick up spots and times are:
Monday & Wednesday — June 17 – Aug 21

​11:00 – 11:10 Wheeler (across from Post Office)
​11:20 –11:30 Mohler Market Lot
​11:40 — 11:50 Miami/Foley and Foss Rd
​12:00 — 12:10 White Clover Grange
​12:20 – 12:30 McDonald Rd/Island Drive
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​11:30 – 12:00 Pick up available at Nehalem Bay United Methodist Church.

North Route Pick up spots and times are:
Monday & Wednesday — June 17 – Aug 21

​11:00 — 11:10 Nehalem Bay Elementary
​11:20 — 11:30 Manzanita Library Lot
​11:40 – 11:50 Nehalem Cemetery Lot
​12:00 — 12:10 Bayside Garden & Evergreen
​12:20 – 12:30 Tohl & Echanie Ct.

​11:30 – 12:00 Pick up available at Nehalem Bay United Methodist Church.

Please TEXT 425-785-1057 with the location of pick up and number of children if your child/children will be picking up lunches. This will help ensure we have an adequate number of lunches at that pick up point.

Each child will receive lunches for 2 days on Monday and 3 days on Wednesday. First day is June 17th and last day is August 21st.

NBCS is an equal opportunity provider.

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New to the area and my yard seems to be quite attractive to moles, judging from the mounds of dirt popping up overnight.

Any recommendations for someone who does mole control/removal? Thanks!

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Posting on behalf of Kim Rosenberg loretta.kim.rosenberg@gmail.com

Splish, Splash

At the recent Budget Adoption meeting and the June City Council Meeting, Councilor Tom Campbell addressed the referendum filed by Randy Kugler regarding water billing. Campbell also remarked on a conversation the two had about the water fund and indirect allocations. Once Campbell did his own research, he learned that the facts were a little different from how Randy presented them.

Someone who signed the petition for the referendum had a similar experience with the canvasser who came to their home. The canvasser said the petition was to restore quarterly billing and the old base rate. Again, not quite true.

Let’s start with the question this referendum will place on the ballot.

“Shall the City of Manzanita read water meters and bill for water service on a monthly basis rather than a quarterly?”

A yes vote would mean we pay monthly while a no vote would mean we’d revert to quarterly. It doesn’t increase the base rate allowance from 2,000 to 4,000 gallons and it doesn’t mean we will or can revert to the old water rates.

Why was the tiered system adopted in the first place and why did the rates go up?

To understand more I read the most recent executive summary of the October 2023 Water Rate Study prepared for Manzanita by the Oregon Association of Water Utilities (OAWU). I’ve included a link to the study so you can read it yourself.

There are a lot of numbers, but the Executive Summary is surprisingly easy to read. It was written by water and utility professionals who know the subject and don’t have a horse in this race. They looked into the math.

In 2023 when they did the most recent study the consumption charge per 1,000 gallon unit of water was $2.50 for residential customers in the city and $3.25 outside the city with 4 units allowed in the base rate (4,000 gallons). The study averaged both full-time and part-time residences because whether they’re in town or not, part-time homeowners still pay the base rate.

The last increase in water rates was $5 a month to Single Family Residences (SFR) in October of 2014. We all know the price of everything has gone up over the last nine years, but our water charges haven’t.

Okay, here comes the math! We annually produce and sell about 81,011,365 million gallons of water and the cost of producing that water is $1,687,953.76.

One unit of water is 1,000 gallons and costs $20.84. So, the actual cost of 4,000 gallons of water per month would be $83.36.

At the end of the day (and the budget cycle) we’re short $575,504.38. (OAWU Executive Summary p. ii and iv).

The report looked at simply splitting the costs equally between all types of users—households inside and outside town, regardless of how much of the 4,000 gallons they use, and the commercial businesses. Under that method it would be $76.36 monthly for everyone, but it wouldn’t be fair. Kind of like when you decide to split a check equally at a restaurant and you got a salad and water but everybody else had drinks, wine, apps, mains, and desserts—oof!

One of the goals of the study was to make any changes as fair and equitable as possible. People would pay their fair share based on water usage. Those who use less water would pay less and people or businesses that use more would pay more. One of the advantages of the tiered system is that most households use less than 2,000 gallons monthly except in summer so most would only see a $7 increase in their bill for much of the year.

In the summer, many of us use more water. We have gardens and bird baths and wading pools and sprinklers.

During the summer months, let’s add to that. Vacation rentals are mostly occupied, as are second homes and the campground. All those people use water too. Vacation rentals and motels do laundry. A lot of laundry. Depending on occupancy and turnover some do loads and loads of laundry every day. Some have hot tubs. Plus, visitors take showers, do the dishes, and flush the toilet. At least we hope they do.

“The discrepancies are only exacerbated as higher volumes of water are consumed. When the unit production cost (currently $20.84) is more than the unit sold price, an adjustment in the rates is necessary.” (OAWU Executive Summary p.iv)

Why shouldn’t people using more water pay for it, including those of us who live here full-time?

In Oregon, at least Western Oregon, we’re used to thinking of water as a free or close to free thing. That doesn’t reflect reality because getting the water we have from its source to our homes isn’t free. Safe, clean water is not the limitless resource we used to think it was. Just ask the folks who live in California, Colorado, Nevada and Flint, Michigan.

Paying for what we use isn’t a punishment, it’s just a fact of life. We’re used to not having to think about water, but our neighbors in Nehalem and Neahkahnie struggle with water use every summer. Conserving what we have and mindfully using less is the way we make sure there’s water in the future and that we have a reasonable water bill.

According to a records request I submitted, legal fees for the referendum as of June 7 are $4200. There will be more legal fees in the next billing cycle. I assume it will be a similar amount. In addition, we have a second water study underway which will cost another $8500.

I have to wonder how many people signing the referendum actually read the water study for themselves or watched the water presentation or the council work session when the information was presented and discussed? Use your own noggins and school yourselves, kids.

ci.manzanita.or.us/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Manzanita-Rate-Study-October-2023.pdf

Kim Rosenberg loretta.kim.rosenberg@gmail.com