City of Yachats - Page 20

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com A development in downtown Yachats that has sat partially completed for 13 years and labeled an “eyesore” by one Planning Commission member, may be on its way to finally being finished. The commission voted unanimously Tuesday, Nov. 16 to authorize a conditional use permit for Doug Sowden of Eugene to complete construction of his Sunset Village

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com A potential makeover of the big grass field behind Yachats City Hall is on to its next phase. After a discussion over money and staff time, the Yachats City Council on Wednesday gave city staff and the Parks & Commons Commission approval to seek landscape and engineering proposals for a redesign of the field. The approval

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats City Council has voted unanimously to open the pavilion behind the Commons on nights with bad weather to allow homeless people to sleep in a dry place. The proposal to the council was made by Yachats Community Presbyterian Church Pastor Bob Barrett and two community members, who will handle opening, closing and any cleanup.

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats City Council voted 4-1 Thursday to negotiate a contract with Gretchen Dubie, the former head of a large nonprofit organization in Eugene, to become its next city manager. After multiple interviews, two meetings with the public and six executive sessions during its three-month search, councilors chose Dubie over Helen Anderson, a longtime Yachats resident

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The two candidates to become Yachats City manager made their last pitches for the job Thursday night, one week before the City Council is scheduled to offer the position to one of them. Helen Anderson and Gretchen Dubie each spent an hour making opening and closing statements and then answering questions from an audience of 30-35 people

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The city of Yachats has postponed a hearing on a proposal to build a motel on a half-acre of land along Yachats Ocean Road after the two brothers seeking permission for the project asked for a delay because of opposition to it. City Planner and interim city manager Katherine Guenther on Monday cancelled the 3 p.m.

The Yachats City Council, some city staff and chairs of the four city commissioners have met with two city manager candidates – so now it’s the public’s turn. Manager candidates Gretchen Dubie and Helen Anderson, both of Yachats, went through three hours of interviews Thursday and Friday. They first scheduled time with some city staff, then had one-on-one in-person interviews

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats City Council has announced its two finalists for city manager – a well-known former city contractor and Planning Commission member who moved here nine years ago and the former executive director of a $10 million a year nonprofit serving developmentally disabled adults who moved here in July. Gretchen Dubie, who led the Oregon Supported Living

The Yachats Parks & Commons wants the city to keep moving on some projects. The commission voted unanimously Tuesday to recommend to the City Council that it: Release up to $60,000 in the Commons capital reserve budget for the landscape design and engineering of the green space area behind City Hall; Release up to $25,000 from the city’s visitor

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats Rural Fire Protection District has completed the sale of its former station in downtown Yachats, adding $338,000 to its books and sending $115,430 to the city of Yachats. The sale to investor Rick Ramsey of Corvallis closed the last week of September. He paid $485,000 for the 72-year-old two-story station and small house on West