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Wharton addresses school shooting in Texas With the recent shooting in Uvalde, Texas causing renewed concern over school safety, Nestucca Valley School District Superintendent Misty Wharton, via a letter posted in social media, both offered her condolences and reassured the community of the district’s efforts in keeping kids safe. “Nothing shakes us to the core like violence against the most innocent and vulnerable among us, particularly in a place where they are supposed to be safe without question — their school,” wrote Wharton. “Every community throughout the United States grieves with Uvalde, Texas, and each of us grieve in our own way — as a student, educator, parent, or community member, reflecting upon our lives and the people we love and are entrusted to keep safe.” Turning towards Nestucca’s safety protocols, she wrote there are a variety of precautions, procedures and notification methods the district uses to address emergency situations. They include reporting concerns, rehearsing emergency response, and employing a variety of communication channels. Wharton said that students are “encouraged to share with a trusted adult any information that is concerning to them.” As well, she said the district has strong partnerships with law enforcement and emergency service providers and that the district has “conducted a number of joint drills on how we would respond if a similar incident took place” in NVSD. And, as for communication, she said the main source of information and updates will be the district website, but that automated phone messages will also be sent to families of students. In addition, Wharton said the district’s staff and students practice what they call “ALICE” — Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate. “We practice scenarios with staff and students and actively have conversations about how to react in an emergency,” she wrote. Wharton also noted that the district has scheduled a threat assessment response coach to visit staff this August. “We will audit our facilities and safety practices and revise our safety plans as needed,” she shared. “If any revisions to our plans are needed, the district will communicate those to families prior to school starting in the fall.”
Tillamook Co. Commissioners deny appeal opposing Tierra Del Mar Campground Mar property owner Lisa Macy-Baker and supported by several in the community, as well as the Oregon Coast Alliance. Prior to the vote, commissioners heard from Kevin Gindlesperger of Oregon Treehouse Partners, as well as staff. And because Macy-Baker was not able to make the meeting, her written comments were read into the record. Amongst the issues she raised was her concern over increased traffic, of a lack of parking and of water availability. But, in the end, commissioners said while they recognize the livability and other concerns, they asserted that the conditional use process was not the place to address these issues. “A conditional use permit is not the same as a building permit,” said Commissioner Mary Faith Bell. “What the conditional use permit does is permits the owner, the
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landowner, to apply for a building permit and to go through all of the rigorous standards that are associated with a building permit. “It looks to me like all of the serious concerns including site engineering and geohazard reports, wetlands mitigation and water system — all of those things — will have to be addressed in the building permit process. So, if we deny this appeal today and uphold the Planning Commission’s unanimous decision, what we’re saying is that we agree that the applicant can move forward and in that process they will address all of those concerns and for that reason I support denying the appeal.” Commissioner Erin Skaar also said that she recognizes issues that need worked on, but added this conditional use request was not the proper venue to address them.
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Tillamook County Commissioners unanimously upheld an earlier Tillamook County Planning Commission approval of a 19-site recreational campground in Tierra Del Mar during the second of two appeal hearings on Wednesday, June 1. The Planning Commission had voted 7-0 to approve the proposed campground on Feb. 24. Accessed via Floyd Avenue to the east of Sandlake Road, the campground is being planned by Oregon Treehouse Partners LLC and will be sited on an approximately 18-acre portion of a 58.51-acre parcel. The smaller portion where the campground is planned for is zoned Rural Residential 2-Acre while the remainder of the parcel, on which the campground will not intrude, is zoned small wood lot. The appeal had been filed by Tierra Del
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“We’ve heard a lot of concerns around community livability today and leading up to this where people are concerned about traffic, they’re concerned about trash, they’re concerned about how people treat the beach, they’re concerned about what impact this will have on Tierra Del Mar as a community,” Skaar said. “I think those are really important things for us to hear, and those are important things for us as commissioners to take up but not in this decision-making process. Those are concerns we are taking up in the short-term rental committee, as related to short-term rentals. They are concerns we are taking up as we are working with Visit Tillamook Coast on facilities that are needed. Those are things that we hear, and we are working to address, but they don’t belong in this conversation.”