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Headlight Herald
Tuesday, March 5, 2024 | Vol. 136, Issue 10
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Jetty rocks to come by road WILL CHAPPELL Headlight Editor
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ort of Garibaldi General Manager Mike Saindon told Garibaldi’s city council that the massive stones that will be used to rehabilitate Tillamook Bay’s south jetty will be delivered by truck to a site at the port. This marks a change of plans for the project, which had been contracted with terms that specifically avoided using local roads for the heavy loads by delivering the rocks on barges to Kincheloe Point. However, when Trade West Construction Company, the group selected to complete the jetty work, started exploring the specifics of barging the rocks they discovered it was not a practicable solution. Saindon said that the Port of Garibaldi and Tillamook County government had gone out to bid with the barge-delivery method to avoid wear and tear and disruptions on county roads. Saindon said that it had been determined that Bayocean Road could not support the 40-ton rocks and the county had been reticent to use the Barview Jetty campground as a staging area, after doing so for work on the north jetty more than a decade ago seriously impacted operations. Contractors and staff from the county and port began exploring possible alternatives after it was determined that barging wouldn’t
A view of the south jetty from the point where the rocks will be staged for a third and final time before their installation.
March 15, and has the option to be extended. In total, 1,500 rocks will be delivered to the port for the project, with five arriving each day from California and the Dalles for the better part of a year. Rocks will be offloaded from the trucks directly onto a barge, which will transport the rocks once daily to Kincheloe Point, near the worksite.
work. They looked at the Memaloose Point boat ramp and Ghost Hole turnout as possibilities, before determining that the Port of Garibaldi was the best option. The port’s board approved a one-year lease for a small parcel located between the Coast Guard building and port office that is intentionally vacant for use as a staging area. The lease begins on
Saindon said that the lease gave priority access to the port to emergency first responders and city staff and required work to stop over holiday weekends as well as during Garibaldi Days, the Lion’s Club’s annual Crab Races and the Garibaldi Seafood and Spirits festival. Port staff are working with the Tillamook Coast Visitors Association on a public
outreach campaign about impacts of the deliveries. Saindon also informed the council that the port is working to secure additional federal funding to expand the $52-million project’s scope. Saindon said that the port’s board was hoping to see the jetty extended farther and to have See JETTY, Page A3
Commissioners accept multi-family housing grant recommendations WILL CHAPPELL Headlight Editor
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he Tillamook County Board of Commissioners accepted the county housing commission’s recommendations to award $400,000 in multi-family housing grants on February 28. Commissioners also approved the hiring of new staff members for the sheriff’s office, the health and human services department and the parks department. The multi-family housing grants are part of an annual program that directs funds collected through the county’s short-term rental operator license fee to supporting housing developments that will provide below market-rate accommodation. Six projects were recom-
mended for support by the housing commission after eight applications were received. Two projects in Bay City, two in Manzanita and one each in Tillamook and Rockaway Beach will receive funding. The largest award will go to the Seagull’s Rest development in Bay City, which will receive $100,000 to add six two-bedroom duplexes affordable to residents making between 80% and 120% of the area’s median income (AMI). The Hobsonville Point project, also in Bay City, is set to accept $40,000 towards the construction of 29 two-bedroom units in duplex, triplex and quadplex buildings. The two projects awarded funding in Manzanita will represent that city’s first workforce housing. Maker Manzanita aims to
add 34 one-bedroom apartments affordable to residents making between 80% and 120% AMI and received a $50,000 grant, while the Manzanita Pines project looks to bring 60 two- and three-bedroom apartments for those making 60%80% AMI, receiving $75,000. A project to redevelop the space above the T-Mobile store on First Street in Tillamook will receive $70,000 to add four, two-bedroom apartments above the retail space. And a project on Anchor Street in Rockaway Beach is receiving $65,000 to construct four one- and two-bedroom apartments above a commercial kitchen. With the recommendations accepted, the contracts to formalize the grant awards will come before commissioners in the coming
the morning of October 8, when Woods and a partner-in-crime, alleged to be Taylor Hulbert, stole a Mercury Sable from Burden’s Towing Lot in downtown Tillamook around 2 a.m. After a brief foray to the South Prairie Store, the duo advanced to the Port of Tillamook Bay, where they stole a forklift and drove it into a car before approaching the Tillamook Air Museum. At the museum, Woods, who was driving the stolen Sable, exited the vehicle and examined the locked entrance doors before returning to the vehicle and driving it through the glass entryway. The pair then exited the vehicle and ran-
sacked the museum’s lobby, before vandalizing several other nearby businesses’ property. The two then made their way north along Blimp Boulevard, with Hulbert succumbing to exhaustion in the gras beside the roadway. Woods persevered, eventually arriving at the Tillamook County Justice Center where he used a flagpole to pierce a television screen before being apprehended by a sheriff’s duty and arrested by a Tillamook police officer. On February 20, Woods was in court to formalize his plea agreement in front of Judge Jonathan
months. Approval for a new sheriff’s office employee was approved to help meet the community corrections requirements of grants received by the county. Sheriff Josh Brown appeared at the meeting and told the commissioners that the new staffer would allow the department to conduct urine testing for drugs for those on parole or probation on the weekends and bolster the program overall. Brown said that being able to conduct tests on the weekend was required by the state, which funds the department’s community corrections division through grants. While the new position will not technically be grant-funded, its salary will be funded in large part through grant funds allocated for specific tasks they perform, ac-
cording to Brown. The new employee at the health and human services department will be an accounting manager, for whom the department had sufficient funding in its budget. This employee will be trained on the complexities of medical billing to be able to replace other department staff upon their retirement. The parks department was approved to hire a new fee collector, with the funds for the position already available in their budget. The parks department was also approved to purchase a Ford F-150 and Ford F-550 from Tillamook Motor Company for a combined price of $112,284.25. Commissioners also approved a $325,000 increase to a contract with Consor to complete the Kiwanda Corridor project.
Man sentenced for port crime spree WILL CHAPPELL Headlight Editor
One of the two men arrested in connection with an October 8, 2023, binge of property destruction at the Port of Tillamook Bay reached a plea deal with prosecutors on February 20. Ryan Corrigan Woods, 30, pled no contest to six felonies and one misdemeanor and was sentenced to time served in jail, three years’ probation and a one-year driver’s license suspension and ordered to pay more than $50,000 in restitution. The crime spree began early on
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