City of Yachats - Page 24

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com After three city planners from out of town the past two years, the new Yachats City Council made it clear it wanted to stop the revolving door and see if it could fine someone local to do the job. On Thursday, longtime Yachats resident and former Planning Commission chair Katherine Guenther started the 16-hour-a-week job. She

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats City Council decided Thursday to try to negotiate an interim city manager contract with a Texas man who has spent the last six years working in interim municipal government roles in Texas, Arkansas, Arizona and Oregon. The council wants to bring Lee Elliott of Texarkana, Texas to Yachats as soon as possible to replace

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Anthony Muirhead, the general manager of the Adobe Motel, is the newest member of the Yachats City Council. On their first ballot Wednesday, the four members of the City Council voted unanimously to appoint Muirhead to fill the remaining two years of a vacancy created when Leslie Vaaler was elected mayor in November. The vote followed

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats Library Commission will ask the City Council in March to help it move forward with a much larger expansion of the city’s library than previously planned. The five-member commission voted unanimously Friday to ask the council to hire an architect or engineer to work up drawings and estimates for a 1,200 to 1,400 square-foot

The Yachats City Council will interview three applicants for a 2-year council vacancy during a special meeting at 9 a.m. Tuesday. A two-week extension to try to recruit more applicants resulted in two additional people filing paperwork, but one of those was deemed to be living outside city limits. The latest applicant is Anthony Muirhead, general manager of the

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com After months of back-and-forth with the City Council, the Yachats Planning Commission on Thursday voted 4-1 to recommend that all marine lighting in the city be prohibited after one year. The commission has been working on the ordinance for 18 months. It is the fourth time the commission has sent its recommendations to the council, only

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Yachats City Council will seek an interim city manager until it figures out how and who to replace Shannon Beaucaire, who is leaving within two months to take the same job in the Willamette Valley community of Carlton. Mayor Leslie Vaaler mentioned during an online Monday workshop meeting that two local residents might be interested

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Yachats is looking for its fourth city planner in 18 months – but who should it be and what qualifications should they have? How much should they work, and what are the planning issues facing the community? Dissatisfied with turnover of planners, the new City Council wants to try to find someone local to have regular office

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Yachats City Manager Shannon Beaucaire is taking the same position with the city of Carlton, it’s just not certain yet when she will leave one city and start work in the other. Although she was named the lone finalist for the job two weeks ago, Beaucaire and Carlton Mayor Linda Watkins announced her hiring Wednesday, after a

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The four members of the Yachats City Council are taking three more weeks to find someone willing to join them. The council has a vacancy because Leslie Vaaler, who was two years into her four-year council term, was elected mayor in November and took office this month. It began seeking people two weeks ago to fill the