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Twin Rocks opens staff housing

WILL

CHAPPELL Citizen Editor

Members of the Twin Rocks Friends Camp community gathered on May 10, to celebrate the completion of a new young adult community house on Breakers Avenue in Rockaway Beach. After an appreciation lunch at the camp, the group rode the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad to the house, which will house up to 12 young adults, with move ins starting this week.

“We’re excited to introduce this new staff home, offering a reasonably priced and comfortable living space for our vibrant community of young adults who contribute passionately to our mission here at Twin Rocks,” said Twin Rocks Friends Camp Executive Director Ken Beebe.

The new house was built on property adjacent to the camp’s beachfront Harbor Villa Retreat Center that was acquired with an eye towards increasing employee housing.

The camp was established in 1918, initially consisting of three acres east of Highway 101 on the south end of Rockaway Beach before significantly expanding over the decades.

Housing for a handful of staffers already existed at the main camp, but Beebe said that finding affordable housing for young staff members had become an increasing challenge in recent years.

“It’s difficult these days

for young adults to find affordable places to live in Tillamook county,” Beebe said.

After the property was acquired, the camp began work on building the 3,586-square-foot house with significant contributions from community members.

Beebe said that Board Member Jim Fisher volunteered his services as general contractor and other subcontractors offered a variety of discounts to help facilitate the project, leading to a total cost of construction of just $420,000, under half the estimated full cost.

Volunteers also helped to keep costs down with more than 1,000 hours of labor

donated in the course of the construction.

The new house has eight bedrooms spread across two floors, with kitchens on each floor and a large communal area on the bottom floor. Beebe said that the floors will be separated by gender and that the house will be open to camp staffers between 18 and 34 years old, including interns in the camp’s college program.

Beebe stressed that the new space will offer meaningful opportunities for relationship building and fellowship among the residents.

“With this home, we aim to create an environment where young adults can thrive, connect and grow

personally and professionally,” Beebe said. Rent at the home will be

Rockaway Beach chamber inaugurates new wheelchair house and pavers

WILL CHAPPELL Citizen Editor

A group of Rockaway Beach citizens gathered at the city’s wayside on May 9, to celebrate the completion of a project that added a new wheelchair house and more than 4,000 square feet of pavers around the Chamber of Commerce’s Red Caboose.

The ceremony took place during the first farmer’s market of the year and celebrated the additional accessibility the project will afford those with limitations.

At the ceremony, City Councilors Penny Cheek and Kristine Hayes spoke before Cheek cut the ribbon on the new facilities.

Cheek shared the project’s history, which started when the chamber of commerce applied for a Travel Oregon grant in 2023 and were selected to receive $94,000 towards the work. Hayes, who is also the president of the chamber of commerce, estimated that the total cost of the project was just under $110,000, with the rest of the funding coming from private donations. Those donations came from the Marrick Family Trust, Builder’s First Source, Bob Kern, SAI Design & Build, Shane Hayes from Intrepid Construction, and Matt, Jim and Sue Vachter who donated $2,500 for the purchase of a new beach buggy wheelchair.

Work began in early April

on the installation of the new pavers, with 4,400 square feet installed, stretching from a terminus on North Miller Street up to the railroad tracks and continuing next to them to First Avenue and encircling the chamber caboose.

The new wheelchair house is located at the north end of the caboose and will house the chamber’s fleet of beach wheelchairs. It is called Barb’s Beach Mobile House in honor of a longtime volunteer who helped to maintain the chamber’s first beach buggy for more than three decades.

County dialing in emergency radio bond specifics

A group of Tillamook County staff is working to finalize the details of a bond question to support the replacement of the county’s emergency radio system that they plan to bring to voters in November.

The new system would bring Tillamook’s emergency radio communications into the digital age and carries a projected price tag of $27 million.

“Now, we need to come into the 21st century and we need to increase reliability,” said Tillamook County Commissioner Doug Olson, “we need to do all those things technically.”

The system that currently supports emergency responders in the county was built between 2001 and 2003, following voter bond approval in 2001. The system consists of 12 towers spread across the county housing VHF repeaters. According to Rueben Descloux, communication systems administrator, the old system is overburdened and becoming challenging to keep in service. The analog nature of the system limits the number of users that can simultaneously use the system while also constricting its range, making countywide communications impossible.

The analog system is also more prone to static or other interference than a replacement system would be, with sometimes troubling results.

Olson relayed the story of an officer-involved shooting that occurred last summer in Rockaway Beach during which the responding officers radioed for backup. But owing to interference other officers responding misheard the transmission and slowed their response believing the suspect was in custody.

In addition to the technical constraints, the physical infrastructure of the system is deteriorating and replacement parts are becoming hard to come by. This leaves the system at risk of failures that could not be repaired, according to a report on the system by Federal Engineering completed in 2020.

That report recommended that the county begin the process of replacing the aging system and a second report that year, also by Federal Engineers, recommended a new, digital system and provided a conceptual design. At that point, the replacement system carried a projected budget of $20 million, but with inflation in the intervening years, that estimate has now risen to $27 million.

Tillamook County Chief of Staff Rachel Hagerty is also a part of the team working on the new system and is leading the work to put the financial package together to support the project. Hagerty was already able to secure a $2 million federal appropriation last year and recently applied for another $8.9 million in federal funding.

Hagerty is also working with bond consultants at Piper Sandler to determine the specifics of a bond question, which must be submitted by August for inclusion on the November ballot. Several factors, including the bond term and interest rates, will

City Councilor Penny Cheek (left) cuts the ribbon in front of the new wheelchair house while Councilor Kristine Hayes (right) assists.

The newly installed pavers as seen from near their terminus on Miller Street.

below market rate and the first tenants are set to move in this week.

Members of the construction team and Twin Rocks’ community in front of the new young adultt housing in Rockaway Beach.

Twin Rocks Friend Camp Ken Beebe addressing the appreciation lunch at the camp’s dining hall.

OBITUARY

Richard (known as “Dick” to his friends) was born on June 23, 1936 in Brooklyn, New York, but spent most of his life on the West Coast. He retired to Bay City, Oregon in 2003 after 40 years of teaching in Riverside, California.

A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, he taught U. S. History and Political Science and for most of those years he was at Arlington High, where he also served as a track coach for the sprinters. In 1992, he was named Teacher of the Year at that school. He often served as a role model and master teacher for new teachers in the district.

Over the span of four decades,

Richard Diamond 1936 to 2023

he taught at Romona, North, and Arlington high schools and was an evening-class instructor at Riverside City College. In 1996, he was written up in Who’s Who in American Education for his popular and innovative teaching techniques for the teaching of political science in high school and college settings. After retiring from teaching, he enjoyed careers as a journalist and a photographer and was published repeatedly in magazines and newspapers in Riverside, California and Tillamook County, Oregon. In his later years, he enjoyed reporting on Neah-kah-nie High sports like wrestling and track for the North

Coast Citizen newspaper. His hobbies included coin collecting, reading history, and vegetable gardening. He played the piano and loved all kinds of music, but he especially enjoyed the sounds of jazz, folk, and big band-era music. He volunteered in local political campaigns, loved to serve on juries, and often involved himself, as a responsible citizenwatchdog, in city, county, and state governments. Dick leaves behind his wife Betty of 44 years, sons Thomas (wife, Elliana), Rick, and Jeff (wife, Shana) Diamond and daughter Laura Diamond Roche. He was the beloved grandfather

to twelve grandchildren: Breanna Sierra

Malorie (fiancé

Reid, Brittney,

and Nick

Justin Gwinn; Samantha, Gabrielle,

and Ryan Roche. He had eight great-grandchildren and one on the way. Dick passed in his sleep at home with family around him. In lieu of flowers, you may honor him by voting in future elections and encourage others to do the same. He was a life-long believer that every citizen should exercise that right and privilege. A Celebration of Life is planned for June 23 at 2 to 4 PM in the Bay City Community Hall.

Tillamook County criminal convictions

STAFF REPORT

On January 5, Joshua James Guild, 39, pled guilty to one count of driving under the influence of intoxicants, a class A misdemeanor, committed on or about July 1, 2023. On April 5, Guild was sentenced to two weeks in jail and four years’ probation, ordered to pay $2,255 in fines and fees, and his drivers’ license was revoked for life.

On January 5, Amanda Jean Haight, 31, pled guilty to one count of recklessly endangering another person, a class A misdemeanor, and one count of reckless driving, a class A misdemeanor, both committed on or about October 23, 2023. Haight was sentenced to two days in jail and 18 months’ probation and her driver’s license was suspended for 90 days.

On January 22, Christine Beth Kaiser, 35, pled no contest to one count of failure to perform the duties of a driver relating to injured persons, a class C felony, committed on or about August 29, 2022. Kaiser was sentenced to three years’ probation and her driver’s

license was revoked for one year.

On January 25, James Curtis Franklin, 53, pled no contest to two counts of aggravated harassment, a class C felony, and one count of criminal trespass in the second degree, a class C misdemeanor, all committed on or about January 5. Franklin was sentenced to 30 days in jail and three years’ probation.

On February 7, Allison Collier, 26, pled guilty to one count of attempt to commit a class C or unclassified felony, a class A misdemeanor, committed on or about November 9, 2023. Collier was sentenced to ten days in jail and two years’ probation.

On March 18, Rudie Lee Mathwes, 35, pled guilty to one count of assault in the fourth degree constituting domestic violence, a class A misdemeanor, committed on or about December 16, 2023. Mathwes was sentenced to two years’ probation.

On April 2, Angela Christina Bradley, 46, pled no contest to one count of harassment, a class B misdemeanor, committed on

or about March 23. Bradley was sentenced to time served in jail.

On April 4, Jill Dee Ann Lekas, 58, pled no contest to one count of violating a court’s stalking protective order, a class A misdemeanor, committed on or about October 7, 2023, and guilty to one count of improper use of an emergency reporting system, a class A misdemeanor, committed on or about February 9. Lekas was sentenced to two years’ probation on those charges. On the same day Lekas was found in contempt of court and sentenced to 20 days in jail.

On April 10, Eric Allen McKinley, 59, pled no contest to one count of strangulation, a class C felony, committed on or about February 3. McKinley was sentenced to 16 months in jail and two years of postrelease supervision.

On April 11, Raymond Dale Burt, Jr., 44, pled no contest to one count of burglary in the second degree, a class A misdemeanor, committed on or about December 5, 2023. Burt was sentenced to 180 days in jail.

On April 15, Sequoia Farnsworth, 20, pled guilty to one count of disorderly conduct in the second degree, a class A violation, and one count of being a person under 21 purchasing or in possession of an alcoholic beverage, a class B violation, both committed on or about December 30, 2023. Farnsworth was ordered to pay two fines totaling $575.

On April 15, Christopher Levi Johnson, 44, pled guilty to one count of disorderly conduct in the second degree, a class B misdemeanor, committed on or about February 10. Johnson was sentenced to 90 days in jail.

On April 16, Russell Steven McQuary, 36, pled no contest to one count of theft in the third degree, a class A violation, committed on or about November 15, 2022. McQuary was ordered to pay a $440 fine.

On April 18, Kristel Lynette Vaske, 38, pled no contest to one count of assault in the fourth degree, a class A misdemeanor, committed on or about April 9. Vaske was sentenced to ten

days in jail and two years’ probation.

On April 22, Jacob Michael Morris, 32, pled no contest to one count of criminal driving with a suspended or revoked license, a class A misdemeanor, committed on or about February 24. Morris was sentenced to ten days in jail and ordered to pay a $100 fine and $368 in attorney fees.

On April 22, Jennifer Ann Stolt, 34, pled no contest to one count of harassment, a class B misdemeanor, committed on or about March 15. Stolt was sentence to one year on probation.

On April 23, Laura J. Wheelock, 53, pled no contest to one count of failure to appear on a criminal citation, a class A misdemeanor, committed on or about November 27, 2023. Wheelock was sentenced to time served in jail and order to pay $100 in restitution to Tillamook County Parks.

On April 24, Nicholas Lawrence Gefre, 35, pled no contest to one count of theft in the third degree, a class C misdemeanor, committed on or about

August 17, 2023, and one count of criminal trespass in the first degree, a class A misdemeanor, committed on or about October 21, 2023. Gefre was sentenced to 20 days in jail.

On April 26, Alyssa Marie Ledbury, 26, pled no contest to one count of theft in the second degree, a class A misdemeanor, committed on or about January 16. Ledbury was sentenced to two days in jail.

On April 26, Felipe V Mata Gregorio, 37, pled guilty to one count of failure to perform the duties of a driver relating to property damage, a class A violation, committed on about December 24, 2023. Mata Gregorio was assessed a $440 fine.

On April 29, Glenn Howard Porter, 62, pled guilty to one count of driving under the influence of intoxicants, a class A misdemeanor, committed on or about February 18, 2024 Porter was sentenced to two days in jail and two years’ probation, ordered to pay $1,255 in fines and fees, and his driver’s license was suspended for one year.

Manzanita council enacts dark sky ordinance

WILL CHAPPELL

CITIZEN EDITOR

The Manzanita City Council approved a dark sky ordinance that will regulate the city’s residential areas at their meeting on May 8. The council also voted to give City Manager Leila Aman a 3% pay raise and increase her severance, citing her strong performance. The meeting began with an update on the in-progress city hall and police station construction at Underhill Plaza.

Jason Stegner from Cove Built LLC, the construction manager and general contractor leading the project, told the council that there had been an error during the surveying process that led to the misplacement of seismic pilings. Stegner

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affect the tax rate necessary to support the bond but preliminary estimates from late 2023 showed a cost to taxpayers of between 15 and 38 cents per thousand dollars of assessed property value.

In tandem with those efforts, Olson and Descloux are working to ramp up a public outreach campaign to educate voters about the need for a new system and promote the bond.

The educational efforts will be led by Descloux, who exudes enthusiasm about the project and its implications for first responders across the county. Improvements to the system’s functionality will be achieved by the new system’s reliance on trans-

said that subcontractors from Onion Peak had accidentally placed markers for the pilings about ten feet east of their intended locations and only recognized the problem after the pilings had been sunk.

However, Stegner said that the firm was responding admirably, immediately accepting full responsibility for the error and helping to work on a solution. Fortunately, the company that had placed the pilings was able to return within 24 hours of the discovery of the problem to begin working on a solution. Fixing the problem will require an additional 22 piles and delay the project by about a week.

Stegner said that the delay would not cause major issues as the project had two contingency weeks

mitting digitally encoded, binary signals rather than physical radio waves across the VHF frequencies the county uses.

The encoded signals are much smaller than their analog counterparts, which will allow multiple users to communicate on the same channel simultaneously, reduce interference and increase signal range by 40%.

The system will also be more automated, automatically switching between the transponders rather than requiring manual inputs by first responders and allow for remote monitoring by technicians.

While Descloux provides technical details, Olson will be leading the effort to convince Tillamook voters to support the bond. A political action committee is being formed as part of those efforts and Olson said that he has already booked a booth at the county fair. The new system would be available to first re-

built into the schedule and been ahead of pace prior to the incident. Stegner also said that the error would allow the city to take advantage of the extraneous pilings if it ever wished to do more construction to the east of the police station.

The dark sky ordinance will require all outdoor lighting in residential areas of the city to be shielded, that landscape lighting shine downwards, that patio lights not be brighter than 3,000 kelvins and that security lights be activated by motion detectors. The ordinance also prohibits light from one property falling beyond that property’s line and includes an allowance for holiday lighting.

Several councilors and public commenters asked questions about potential loopholes raised by the lack

sponders free of charge, including any equipment upgrades needed, while other users would have to pay a fee and provide their own equipment.

Olson said that he is confident that the bond will gain voter support once the team has explained the current system’s limitations and the necessity and upside of the replacement.

“My experience has been, and I’ve done a lot of these over the years or been involved with them, is voters are smarter than you think and they also react to truthful messages,” Olson said. “If you hype it up and misrepresent something then you’ve just shot yourself in the foot but if they clearly understand there’s a need and why we need it, because it’s out of date, you can’t get parts, the public are literally at risk in some cases, I think there’s a good chance they’ll support it.”

of definition of holidays in the ordinance and time limit for motion-activated lights and one asked why the ordinance didn’t apply to Laneda Avenue.

Other councilors said that the ordinance represented a starting point for the city’s dark sky efforts and that it could not address all eventualities but was a good step forward. Aman confirmed that the ordinance could be updated in the future to address concerns that might arise and the council unanimously approved its passage. The ordinance will take effect on June 7.

The pay bump for Aman will see her salary increase to $149,319 and severance in the case of a not-forcause termination increased from six to nine months of pay.

Council President Linda Kozlowski floated the pay bump, pointing to the recent grant award of $2.7 million for wastewater infrastructure from the state, commencement of the long-delayed city hall and police station project, and glowing reviews by council as precipitating factors. She also shared the results of an informal compensation study undertaken by Mayor Kathryn Stock that showed the managers of Cannon Beach and Seaside were both making more than $160,000 annually.

Other councilors agreed with Stock that Aman’s performance had been exemplary and said that they supported the raise and increased severance to show their appreciation and commitment.

Council also approved

permits for the city’s annual Fourth of July Parade, a celebration of pride month at Yolk restaurant and the Nest Fest music festival.

The parade will have a theme of Soar Fourth and more information and entry forms can be found on its website.

The pride celebration will consist of a DJ playing music in the restaurant’s internal courtyard from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the last Saturday and Sunday of June.

Nest Fest will take place on July 7, from noon to 9 p.m. on a property at the corner of Division and Manzanita. The property owner hosted a similar, informal event last year and said that there will be live music with all proceeds from ticket sales going to paying the artists.

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Sand Lake Recreation area killer pleads guilty

WILL

On April 22, Brandon Jose Zavala Satalich, 21, pled guilty to one count of manslaughter in the first degree, a class A felony, and one count of unlawful use of a weapon, a class C felony, both relating to the shooting death of Jason Anderson on June 26, 2021.

Zavala Satalich was sentenced to 20 years in prison on the manslaughter count and five years on the unlawful use of a weapon count, to be served concurrently, and his earliest release date is June 25, 2039.

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Attorney Aubrey Olson said that she and victims in the case were satisfied with the plea deal.

Olson explained that Zavala Satalich’s attorney had indicated his intention to claim that his client was under extreme emotional duress at the time of the crime.

If found credible by the jury, that claim would have reduced any murder charge to manslaughter in the first degree and drawn a mandatory minimum sentence of just 10 years.

“A case like that you never

really know what a jury is going to do,” Olson said, “and if a jury were to find that he did intentionally commit the murder of Mr. Anderson but that he was under the influence of extreme emotional disturbance the it would have been a manslaughter in the first degree conviction and very likely he would have only been sentenced to the mandatory minimum of ten years.”

The crime occurred on the last weekend in June 2021, when Zavala Satalich, then 18, and a large group of his extended family came to the Sand Lake Recreation Area to camp and recreate. Accompanying Zavala Satalich were his mother, her fiancé, Anderson, Zavala Satalich’s maternal grandmother, his 15-year-old girlfriend and three of his half siblings.

The group arrived at Sand Lake on Thursday and were staying in two travel trailers and one two-person tent, which Zavala Satalich and his girlfriend were sharing.

Early on the morning of Saturday, June 26, Zavala Satalich’s girlfriend exited the tent they were sharing, and approached the trailer where Zavala Satalich’s mother, Tia

Escobar, was staying with Anderson and their infant child. The girlfriend showed signs of physical abuse and told Escobar that she wanted to go home.

Anderson told Escobar and the girlfriend that he would deal with the situation and exited the trailer. Escobar told sheriff’s deputies that she heard Anderson confront Zavala Satalich about the apparent abuse before gunshots rang out.

Other witnesses at the campground said that they heard the gunshots and saw Zavala Satalich running away from the campground, closely followed by a young girl.

When first responders arrived at the scene, they found that Anderson had been hit by five shots of 13 fired and had already succumbed to his wounds.

The sheriff’s department immediately began the search for Zavala Satalich, with other law enforcement agencies lending help. After eight hours, a K9 deputy from Lincoln County located Zavala Satalich hiding in brush near Sand Lake Road and took him into custody without incident.

Olson said that Zavala Satalich confessed to the

murder almost immediately after being read his Miranda rights. Zavala Satalich said that he had purchased the illegal weapon that he used in the crime days before the trip after being involved in a drive-by shooting.

Zavala Satalich claimed that when Anderson confronted him at the campground, he had been reminded of past traumatic events and triggered, leading to the deadly shooting.

This explanation triggered a provision in Oregon’s criminal statute that classifies

killings committed under extreme emotional duress as first-degree manslaughter, rather than murder.

After Zavala Satalich’s defense team brought in a psychologist to review his mental state, they filed paperwork in the court declaring their intention to rely on that defense at trial.

Olson said that after that filing, she began to work on a plea deal built around a manslaughter guilty plea that would see Zavala Satalich serve more than the mandatory, ten-year minimum sentence as she and victims’ representatives “did not believe that was sufficient.” However, Olson said that she prioritized a plea deal to avoid forcing victims to testify in court and because even Zavala Satalich’s mother, Escobar, told her that he had experienced a rough life and that a jury could well put credence in an emotional distress claim.

That laid the groundwork for the plea deal that the sides were able to reach earlier last month.

In the deal, Zavala Satalich pled guilty to one count of manslaughter in the first degree and one count of unlawful use of a weapon

and accepted the maximum sentence of 20 years for the manslaughter charge, with an additional five years on the weapon charge to run concurrently.

At the hearing on April 22, Judge Mari Trevino accepted Zavala Satalich’s plea agreement and gave him an opportunity to apologize to his victim’s family. “I’m sorry for all of y’all, the things y’all been through, I been through the same thing,” Zavala Satalich said. “Y’all need to take what I got to say seriously or feel pity about it but that night, it just happened quick. It was dark, I couldn’t see him, because of that cowardly choice a good man lost his life.”

Since the hearing, Zavala Satalich has been transferred to the custody of the Oregon Department of Corrections and is currently being housed at the Coffee Creek Intake Center. He will receive credit for time served and after the first ten years of his sentence will be eligible to earn time off his sentence for good behavior. His earliest possible release date is June 25, 2039 and he will be subject to two years’ post-prison supervision on his release.

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done.”

In his first term in office, Javadi, a practicing dentist in Tillamook, learned the lay of the land in Salem

and fought to have his district’s concerns heard and addressed by lawmakers.

Javadi said that he had pushed to cut red tape that had previously restricted the development of affordable housing in coastal areas with flooding, landslide or other emergency concerns as part of Governor Tina Kotek’s housing legislation package.

Javadi also lent his voice to the chorus of district voices opposing the implementation of a new habitat conservation plan (HCP) for western Oregon state forests. Despite that plan’s passage in March, Javadi said that he believed his efforts had helped to increase legislative awareness of the financial crunch the new HCP will cause for counties receiving state forest revenues.

“While we didn’t get the outcome we wanted, I think we shone a nice light on the impact it’s going to have so that lawmakers and the governor are aware that we’ve got some problems that we’re going to have to deal with as a result of it,” Javadi said.

To help ensure the financial health of the counties, Javadi said that he plans to introduce a piece of legislation that would require that 66 cents of every dollar directed to the Oregon Department of Forestry to make up for lower revenues go to the impacted counties.

“We’re going to have to continue to push for it and I think a lot of that is going to come from and where I think I’ll be most effective next time is I’ve built those relationships with our ways and means members,” Javadi said.

Beyond fighting for funding, Javadi said that promoting solutions to challenges facing health and childcare providers in rural settings and finding ways to increase county revenues would be focuses of a second term.

Javadi said that he would support extending tax credits for doctors who practice in rural communities and that he would like to exempt Medicare and Oregon Health Plan income from the corporate activity tax. He also said that he would like to see the approval process for new hospitals and healthcare facilities in rural areas streamlined.

“We need to look at if you’re a community under a certain size and a certain distance away from a major metro area what can we do to make it a lot easier to get the resources we need,” Javadi said.

Javadi also said that he supported increasing funding for childcare personnel and facilities around the state and reevaluating licensing requirements to make becoming a provider easier, while still maintaining safety for children.

To boost county revenues, Javadi said that he thought the logical answer was tourism. Javadi said he wanted to explore the possibility of allowing a special zone of recreation districts where 70% of the revenues generated by transient lodging taxes would not have to go to tourism promotion.

In addition to advocating for his district’s interests on those issues, Javadi pointed to funding allocations of $2 million to the Nehalem Bay Health District to support the construction of its new health center and $1.3 million to Tillamook County for the Shiloh Levee project as successes. Javadi said that those allocations had come because of his relationships with members of the ways and means committee and that he would continue to push for more project funding if reelected.