City of Yachats - Page 17

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – It’s back to the drawing board for a long-awaiting project to rebuild a 540-foot long portion of East Second Street. The project, which has been advocated by neighbors along the steep narrow city street for years, has been delayed again because construction bids came in 62 percent higher than expected. The main impetus for

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – The Yachats city council has approved a spending plan for fiscal 2022-23 starting July 1 that focuses on re-staffing city hall with employees and beginning several significant projects. The city’s more flexible $1.75 million general fund budget represents a small portion of the $14.3 million that the city will have on the books over

By QUINTON SMITH/YahatsNew.com YACHATS – Communication missteps, an overworked city manager, the need for staff, and more urgent issues are part of the reasons the Yachats city council last week paused the Parks & Commons Commission’s oversight of two key city buildings. The Yachats city manager and two city council members met with the commission Tuesday to explain the

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – The Yachats city council has said no – for now – to establishing a citizen involvement committee to improve communication between the city and its residents and be able to weigh in more easily on projects, especially the Planning Commission. The informal decision Wednesday came months after the council asked the Planning Commission to

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – Yachats’s new city manager has proposed a $1.74 million general fund budget for 2022-23 that under a staffing reorganization plan pays for adding five employees at city hall and two more in public works. The proposed budget got its first examination Monday during a four-hour meeting of the city’s budget committee, made up of

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – The Yachats City Council has given the go-ahead for the next step on what could be a $950,000 project to build a 350-foot boardwalk along Ocean View Drive overlooking the Yachats River. The council voted unanimously and enthusiastically Thursday to seek and negotiate detailed engineering designs for the boardwalk. Those designs will be used

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – The Yachats Rural Fire Protection District will have to take out another bank loan this summer to help make ends meet, following the defeat of a proposed tax levy by voters last November. The need for a “bridge” loan – which the district has done for the past four years – came up during

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – A Yachats councilor asked one of the city’s most active commissions Tuesday for a little more patience and a bit more time to allow its new city manager to catch up with issues and new city hall staff to learn their jobs. But that did little to mollify members of the city’s Park &

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – The Yachats City Council has taken the first step to develop one- to five-year spending plans that lays out millions for proposed projects ranging from street improvements to water and sewer projects to engineering of a riverside boardwalk and design of a green space behind City Hall. The Capital Improvement Project plan approved last

YACHATS – “Officer Creepy” is going to need a new ride. The battered mannequin has been used since 2017 as a prop in an old black-and-white cop car that the city of Yachats parked along U.S. Highway 101 to slow vehicles speeding into town. But now his 2005 Ford Crown Victoria – and two other vehicles, a trailer, a