Current Listing

Submitted By: LeveretteForTCTD@gmail.com – Click to email about this post

News broke late last week that the Sunset Empire Transportation District, headquartered in Astoria, was suspending all operations on Saturday, April 30, 2023. The Daily Astorian article (April 27, 2023 www.dailyastorian.com/news/local/sunset-empire-transportation-district-to-suspend-operations/article_ac06e038-e55a-11ed-9751-7f2d3c260b1f.html), described the dire financial straits facing the District. How did this situation happen? What happens next? Answers to these questions will come. More importantly to me, is that the article told the human side of this sad story, that of the dozens of citizens who would be left stranded come Monday and be unable to get to needed medical and legal appointments, school or work. This story shines a defining light on the need for public transportation: that public transportation is critically intertwined with necessary medical care, important appointments, school and jobs and can lead to potential isolation when the bus no longer shows up. Especially hard hit will be those who cannot drive and who do not have family or friends on whom to rely.

The Tillamook County Transportation District thankfully is solvent and has buses and drivers. It is my hope that the Tillamook County Transportation District will extend a hand, or buses, to Clatsop County for a short time by offering limited routes, even if these are infrequent, to help citizens in need. We can be a good neighbor and an ongoing support to our Tillamook County residents that have important business beyond our county line.

I am running for a position on the Tillamook County Transportation Board. I understand how important public transportation is to our community, to individuals, our lives and livelihoods. If elected to the Board, I will work tirelessly to ensure that the Tillamook County Transportation District Board remains fiscally sound and responsibly managed. You have my commitment on this.

Mary Leverette
maryleverette.com

Submitted By: andynorris21@yahoo.com – Click to email about this post

Another war in the works.
I’ll make the anti-war signs if you stand on HWY 101.
In my view, Kim has surpassed Amy Goodman (I met her, she was the best for years) as the bravest and most relevant American female journalist.
Biden’s CIA overthrowing Sudan?:

and this:

and this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbEiHnPDUy0

Submitted By: nehalemmast@gmail.com – Click to email about this post

Just a reminder that there’s lots of puppy love to be had at local shelters and rescues that are in need of homes. (Their mamas too!!) You can always donate those charges instead to them also if you like. Let’s be kind to female dogs and not use their bodies to make money for us.

Submitted By: rkinor@gmail.com – Click to email about this post

In an attempt to offer examples of the City Hall staff efforts to provide administrative support for the operation of our Water Fund the City Manager claimed “ the water system, they pay their own insurance premiums on their property. Who negotiates that? That would be me, who is involved in that?, me and Nina .. one example of a million things.”

I emailed the City Manager and asked if she could confirm that the above insurance premiums that she claimed to have negotiated for the water system property were for the property and liability coverage with City County Insurance (CIS). No response.

I asked if she could provide the year and month that these negotiations took place and who at CIS she had conducted these negotiation with. No response.

Since the City Manager indicated that the Accounting Manager had been involved in these negotiations, I emailed the Accounting Manager and asked if she could briefly describe her role in these negotiations including who at CIS was involved and when this took place. No response.

Failing to get any answers, I contacted the Property/Causality Trust Director for CIS and asked if a city can negotiate with CIS over costs for insurance coverage. The answer was “ We do not negotiate the cost of coverage”.

The City Manager also stated “we process significantly more invoices to the tune of about 50% of all of the financial transactions that occur in the City are for the water department and that is clearly indicated in the analysis that shows in the Materials and Services.”

A simple fact check of water department invoices processed by City Hall staff are nowhere near 50% of the annual Material and Services transactions claimed by the City Manager and is yet another exaggeration of City Hall support services to justify transfer of hundreds of thousands of dollars of Water Fund revenue to the General Fund.

The City Manager claimed “other cities that I have worked in all have used an indirect cost method.” Since the City Manager’s resume only indicates previous city employment with one city, I emailed the City Manager and asked what other cities she has worked in and also in what capacity that would have allowed her to be this knowledgeable about their overhead allocation and budget policies to make this statement? No response.

This is not the first time that I had pointed out factual misstatements made in a public meeting by the City Manager and asked that she simply correct the public record so that citizens were not being mislead. In a response to this request, she emailed the Mayor and Council stating that I or apparently other citizens who point out her public misstatements are making “personal attacks” on her and she advises “we must discourage or even ignore them if necessary”.

The above instances of non responses to simple questions seeking clarification of her public statements on important community topics seems to confirm the City Manager’s determination to discourage and ignore those citizens that are asking questions that she does not have answers for. This is a clear instance of blacklisting. Citizens who are considered by a particular authority or group to a problem because of their insistence that public officials communicate truthfully should be relegated to second class status in their community. This policy would seem to extend to instructing other City staff to also follow her lead.

The routine misstatements and exaggerations are in themselves troubling. The boldness of any public official however, that suggests that they are entitled to recommend ignoring or discouraging any citizen in our community who seeks to hold them accountable for their statements is stunning.

Randy Kugler

Submitted By: vivi@nehalemtel.net – Click to email about this post

Endorsements

Tillamook County ballots arrived are arriving in mailboxes this week and we have until May 16 to complete and turn them in.

Here is a list of candidates on our north county ballots that we three support. All have shown dedication to community service and support the mission of the organization they seek to serve.
Many are incumbents.

Tillamook Bay Community College—these are all incumbents.
Mary Jones
Andrea Goss
Shannon Hoff
Betsy McMahon
Mary Faith Bell

Transpiration District
Position 1: Jim Hefferman

Neahkahnie School District #56:
Zone 6: Michele Aeder
Zone 7: Joseph Carr (Although Tim Borman’s name appears on our ballots for Zone 7, he has suspended his campaign, and gives his endorsement to Joseph Carr.)

North County Recreation District:
Mary Gallagher

Nehalem Bay Health District:
Marc Johnson

Nehalem Bay Health District Bond Measure:
Yes

Bottom line: PLEASE VOTE!

Barbara McLaughlin
Lane deMoll
Vivi Tallman

Submitted By: constanceforncrd@gmail.com – Click to email about this post

Hello, I’ll be in Wheeler, next to the Rice & Shine tomorrow (Saturday) from 1-2pm. I’ll be there to meet, share ideas, concerns, suggestions and/or answer any questions and of course, earn your vote for Constance! This is also an opportunity to support our locals; the Rice & Shine and/or The Roost by purchasing any deliciousness and come on over, tables/chairs available!