As many of you know, I will be leaving the Dayton City Council at the end of this year, so I have been doing some reflecting. Goals I once thought were impossible have come to fruition but we still have much more work ahead. During my years on our City Council, we have created and adopted master plans to keep us on track. We have aggressively pursued grants to stretch our dollars, never raising taxes. The picnic shelter, bandstand, and historic blockhouse have all gone through restorations. The fountain was rebuilt. We have implemented new park designs and equipment at Courthouse square park downtown and the Andrew Smith park on 11th street. We also cleared and opened Alderman park as a dog friendly facility, which will be fenced with an added water feature this fall. Our downtown sidewalks have all been rebuilt with added accessible ramps, street friendly trees, and custom touches. Building facades have been improved with cost sharing programs the City sponsored. The Veteran’s Memorial was completed outside our Council Chambers. The Palmer Creek Lodge was purchased and remodeled (with grant funds) to provide our first-ever community center and has been a popular rental for graduation parties, weddings, birthdays, reunions, and quinceaneras. It also hosts our local VFW and additional community meetings and events. We have laid new streets in several locations and added sidewalks to improve safety and accessibility, including our latest stretch from 9th street to Flower lane, paid for entirely with grant funds. (continued on page 4)
What a summer we have had! Our Friday Nights have been wildly successful, with 9 evenings of cruise DCDA and the volunteers who show up each week to keep things running smoothly. Our historic Old Timers weekend brought in over 1,000 attendees, despite temperatures over 100 degrees. Our parade, this year, was a really fun one with 6 pirate ship floats and many other participants sharing bubbles, candy, popsicles, and more with our community. We crowned Queen Vera Sullivan and King Juan Palacios in a coronation to honor their long term service and contributions to Dayton. We also added WWII Veteran Vic Banke as our Grand Marshal. There were opportunities to play BINGO, reunite with neighbors, classmates, and family in the park and we enjoyed the return of the Fire District chicken BBQ, which the City sponsored this year to ensure purchases would benefit the Fire District. I am so proud of our community events, our beautiful downtown, our thoughtful parks, our collaborative networks, and our restored structures. I hope to see these events and gatherings continue as our City develops so that we will always have opportunities to connect as neighbors. This requires intentional planning and work.
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September, October, November 2022
Town Talk with the Mayor
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Soon the weather will be changing. The days are getting shorter, the leaves will fall, and before long there will be frost in the air. The City would like to remind everyone to winterize outside faucets in preparation for winter.
Steve Sagmiller, Public Works Director
From the Public Works Director
We will also be working on a number of projects that will upgrade the infrastructure and aesthetics of the City so keep tuned for upcoming updates.
Town Talk with the Mayor continued...
We have reimagined communication by replacing our website, adding an app, and of course, creating this quarterly newsletter. And there has been lots of work that is less visible. The new sewer pump station and line upgrades were a critical part of securing sewer service for the next decade. New water lines into town from our springs significantly reduced waste. The purchase and transfer of water rights from the former Fisher Farms property covers our water needs for the next generation. And recently, the Council accomplished something huge. After 10 years of work: planning, researching, and networking with stakeholders, we completed a Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) swap, only the second in the state, although many other cities are trying to replicate our success. This will improve our housing index and allow Dayton to expand west, rather than north into the Foster road area, which would have been difficult and expensive because of infrastructure challenges. During the height of COVID, when businesses were struggling and events were a near impossibility, we designed Dayton’s “Bands on the Run,” the “Don’t Stand So Close To Me” community dinner, “Bunny on the Run” and our economic development programs that reduced utility bills for patronizing local establishments and Dayton Dollars that worked like cash for residents and were reimbursed at 150% for businesses to give a needed cash injection. We have worked hard for you, for us, for Dayton. I could go on but I want to share a future project our current council is planning. Several years ago, we implemented a lodging tax, which is paid by visitors when they stay at the Vintages or in a handful of vacation rentals in the commercial areas of town. This type of tax is partly prescribed, which means that much of the collection has to go back into the industry, but part of it is discretionary and is intended to be invested back in the local community. We saved the discretionary portion for 6 years and just transferred $136k into our parks fund! This is huge, as we generally do not have a revenue source for parks so improvements usually have to come solely from grants. This means that later this year, the Council will consider applying that funding to a major park project like a splash pad or upgrades to existing facilities. Additionally, we will have that funding source for future park improvements. I am especially proud of this accomplishment because park improvements have been a focus, but are always a challenge, because of the funding. And now, we have found a way to leverage the lodging tax so that visitors can, going forward, financially contribute to the community in a way that benefits us all. This announcement is bittersweet for me as I have advocated for investments in our public spaces and I am so excited that more are on the horizon, but as I will be off the City Council, a new Mayor will cut the ribbon on a park I’ve dreamed of for years. A new Mayor will open the new footbridge when it is completed. And a new Mayor will welcome businesses to our downtown as the historic buildings are revamped over the next 18 months (construction starting soon). I have spent my entire adult life serving and loving Dayton and while I will continue to find ways to do both, it will no longer be as your Mayor. Serving as the Mayor of my hometown has been the greatest honor of my life and brought so much joy. As you select your new leadership, please remember that local leaders matter, elections matter, experience matters, and choose people over politics. These decisions will shape how Dayton will change for the next decade. Reach out, have conversations, participate, and vote. I’ll be seeing you around!
Mayor Wytoski
It has been an exciting and warm summer. The City has completed a couple of major projects that we hope makes things in town both better and safer.
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The long awaited sidewalk project between Flower and 9th Street was completed making it safer for everyone walking that section of Ferry Street (thank you ODOT and Haworth Construction) with a few more blocks on the wish list. The 6th Street overlay project was finished up with new pavement and stripping. Gone is the rough and pot holed sections.
City Manager Update
As I write this, Haworth Construction is completing the last portions of the 9th to Flower Sidewalk Project. This project has been on the City Council’s Strategic Goals list for over a decade waiting for funding. The City acquired a $750,000 Safe Routes to School Grant from the Oregon Department of Transportation last year to fund this project. Knowing Dayton’s students who walk along this stretch will now have a safe route to get to their school is a wonderful feeling. We were able to complete the project and still have remaining grant funds, so we are currently looking at replacing more sidewalk along the north side of Ferry Street between 8th and 6th Streets. We hope to have this completed by May of next year.
If you have any questions, please call or email me. I’d be happy to talk to you! rroaden@ci.dayton.or.us 503 864 2221.
Through a Small City Allotment (SCA) grant from ODOT ($100,000), we were able to complete the overlay on 6th Street this summer. The SCA program has increased it’s max grant award from $100,000 to $250,000 for the upcoming year. The City has applied for another grant to overlay 7th and 9th Streets next summer and plan to apply for 8th Street the following year. The 8th Street overlay project cost will cost at least $250,000.
Lastly, it was great seeing folks out this summer at Old Timers Weekend and Dayton Friday Nights. We are looking forward to the winter events including the Library’s Halloween Party, the Christmas Tree Lighting in November, and Breakfast with Santa and the Christmas Bazaar in December at the Community Center.
The Footbridge project which includes the upgrading of the sewer and water mainlines that it supports is 95% complete. Unfortunately, due to inflation and the increasing costs of steel, this project is now $7,500,000. The City received a $1,000,000 Yamhill County ARPA grant for this project and I have applied for another $2,000,000 in grants through Congress as well as continue to seek additional grant funding. This project is slated to be bid out in December of this year with constriction commenting in 2023 and completion in the fall of 2023.
The Mayor mentioned the completion of the Dayton UGB Swap this summer. Below is our new map showing the addition to the West of Dayton in the light gray area.
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Dayton JH/HS is under new leadership.
John Bixler, Director de Tecnología, Distrito Escolar de Dayton
Steven Sugg, Superintendent, Dayton School District steven.sugg@dayton.k12.or.us
John Bixler, Director of Technology, Dayton School District
Dayton School District Superintendent Update
Dear Dayton Families,
Our custodial and maintenance staff worked hard all summer to get the grounds and buildings ready for another school year. I appreciate their hard work and dedication to our students, staff and community. Leaders from other districts often comment on how well our buildings and grounds look.
We are seeking input about Internet coverage in the Dayton area. Please help us by taking this quick survey created by the Mid Willamette Valley Broadband Consortium. Our hope is to gain accurate, up to date information about the Internet options available to residents in our community. This survey will provide us with critical information about areas around us that lack service options. All individual responses will be aggregated for privacy. Thank you in advance for your help.
Dear Community Members,
The 2022 2023 school year has started. I hope everyone had a great summer. We are very excited about the opportunities this school year will bring.
Assistant Principal and Athletic Director Jeff Taylor graduated from Western Oregon University and began his career in education with Lincoln County SD where he was a weight training/ physical education teacher and head football coach of Toledo High School for the last 3 years. He has had a total of 15 years football and wrestling coaching experience. He is very excited and grateful to the Dayton community. He brings a ton of experience building relationships and working to make the schools he's involved with awesome. He's looking forward to getting to know the community and to work with our student athletes.
Estimados miembros de la comunidad,
Estamos buscando información sobre la cobertura de Internet en el área de Dayton. Ayúdenos respondiendo esta encuesta rápida creada por Mid Willamette Valley Broadband Consortium. Nuestra esperanza es obtener información precisa y actualizada sobre las opciones de Internet disponibles para los residentes de nuestra comunidad. Esta encuesta nos proporcionará información crítica sobre las áreas a nuestro alrededor que carecen de opciones de servicio. Todas las respuestas individuales se agregarán por motivos de privacidad. Gracias de antemano por su ayuda.
We are looking forward to a very exciting and successful school year filled with learning. We look forward to seeing the amazing things our students will accomplish this school year. We are extremely thankful to the community for your continued support. Go Pirates!
The district website has the latest COVID information for the district. Masks will continue to be optional for staff and students in our buildings and on our campus. We respect everyone's individual choice to wear a mask or not to be respected and welcomed. We will continue to monitor the CDC website and work with the Yamhill County Health Department on our responses as conditions change.
Principal Richard Ceder returns to the valley from Lincoln County School District where he was VP at Taft Jr/Sr HS for 2 years and Principal at Toledo Jr/Sr HS for the past 3 years. He worked with Dayton Jr/Sr HS when he was a School Liaison for Oregon GEAR UP and is excited to be a part of Pirate Nation! He brings a lot of positive energy and an overall focus on creating an educational setting where students feel safe, connected, and prepared for post secondary goals. He looks forward to connecting with the community and getting to know how to best serve as an education leader for Dayton.
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The City of Dayton has a no tolerance rule regarding vehicles that are considered junk, parked in the public right of way. A junk vehicle is described as a vehicle that has expired or no vehicle license tags, a wrecked, neglected or derelict vehicle.
If you have not downloaded Dayton’s smart phone app, please use this QR code to be directed to the City’s website for download links to Google Play and the App Store.
For more information regarding parking and storage of vehicles in the public right of way, please visit our website at www.ci.dayton.or.us.
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In the City of Dayton it is prohibited to park or store any vehicle upon any street, alley or other public property with the City of Dayton for more than 72 consecutive hours (3 days).
End of one Era; Start of another
All good things must one day come to an end. Deputy Rich Broyles will be retiring on September 30, 2022, after more than 23 years in law enforcement. First hired as a Corrections Reserve in December 1998, he was hired on full time as a Corrections Deputy in August 1999. Broyles served in the Yamhill County Correctional Facility until September 2004, when he was transferred to the Enforcement (Patrol) Division as a Patrol Deputy, where he has faithfully served the citizens of Yamhill County for 18 years, the last three as the Contract City Deputy in the City of Dayton. We will miss his smiling face around the Office and town.
With Deputy Broyles’ retirement, we are pleased to introduce you to Deputy Matt Twitchell, who has been selected through a competitive process as the next City of Dayton contract deputy. Deputy Twitchell began his law enforcement career with the Portland State University Department of Public Safety and was hired by Yamhill County in September 2005 as a Corrections Reserve. He was hired full time in the Enforcement (Patrol) Division in December 2005, where he served for 12 years before rotating into a detective assignment with our Special Investigations Unit (SIU) in December 2017. Deputy Twitchell is excited about the opportunity to rotate back to Patrol in the City of Dayton assignment. Look for him around town with Deputy Broyles the last two weeks of September and be sure to watch this space to learn more about Deputy Twitchell in the issues to come.
Code Enforcement is the part of the City that works with residents and businesses of Dayton to promote awareness and encourage compliance of Municipal Codes. The City’s focus is to help residents identify possible code violations and to resolve these type of issues in accordance with Municipal Code.
Code Enforcement Corner
Yamhill County Sheriff’s Office
In an effort to keep our neighborhoods clean and safe, code enforcement has been hard at work to identify vehicles that are parked more than 72 hours or vehicles that have been stored in the public right of way for long periods of time.
The City of Dayton does not, and shall not, discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, in any of its activities or operations. The city is an equal opportunity employer.
La administradora de la ciudad, Rochelle Roaden, señaló que el diseño y los permisos del proyecto del puente peatonal están completos en un 95 % y se espera que la
Para obtener más información sobre el estacionamiento y almacenamiento de vehículos en el derecho de paso público, visite nuestro sitio web en www.ci.dayton.or.us.
Dayton Public Works quisiera recordarles a todos que preparen sus grifos exteriores para el invierno en preparación para el invierno.
Laoctubre.Caravana
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de las Luces será el 10 de diciembre de 5:30 a 7:30 pm. Visita su página de facebook para más información. www.daytonoregon.org.
licitación del proyecto se realice en diciembre de este año. La construcción comenzará en 2023 y, con suerte, se completará a fines de 2023.
El distrito escolar está trabajando con el consorcio Mid Willamette Valley Broadband y está realizando una encuesta. Consulte la página 6 para obtener el código QR para acceder a la encuesta.
El diputado Broyles se jubilará de la Oficina del Sheriff del condado de Yamhill a finales de septiembre. Su reemplazo es el diputado Matt Twitchell.
Cumplimiento de Códigos es la parte de la Ciudad que trabaja con los residentes y negocios de Dayton para promover la concientización y alentar el cumplimiento de los Códigos Municipales. El enfoque de la Ciudad es ayudar a los residentes a identificar posibles violaciones al código y resolver este tipo de problemas de acuerdo con el Código MuEnnicipal.unesfuerzo por mantener nuestros vecindarios limpios y seguros, la aplicación del código ha trabajado arduamente para identificar los vehículos que están estacionados por más de 72 horas o los vehículos que han estado almacenados en el derecho de paso público durante largos períodos de tiempo.
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Alcalde Wytoski: ¡Qué verano hemos tenido! Nuestros viernes por la noche han tenido un gran éxito, con 9 noches de cruceros, conciertos y vendedores en el parque. Todos le debemos un enorme agradecimiento al DCDA ya los voluntarios que se presentan cada semana para que todo funcione sin problemas. Nuestro fin de semana histórico de Old Timers atrajo a más de 1000 asistentes, a pesar de las temperaturas de más de 100 grados. Nuestro desfile, este año, fue muy divertido con 6 carrozas de barcos piratas y muchos otros participantes compartiendo burbujas, dulces, paletas heladas y más con nuestra comunidad. Coronamos a la Reina Vera Sullivan y al Rey Juan Palacios en una coronación para honrar su servicio a largo plazo y sus contribuciones a Dayton. También agregamos al veterano de la Segunda Guerra Mundial Vic Banke como nuestro Gran Mariscal. Hubo oportunidades para jugar BINGO, reunirnos con vecinos, compañeros de clase y familiares en el parque y disfrutamos el regreso de la barbacoa de pollo del Distrito de Bomberos, que la Ciudad patrocinó este año para garantizar que las compras beneficiarían al Distrito de Bomberos. Estoy muy orgulloso de nuestros eventos comunitarios, nuestro hermoso centro, nuestros parques bien pensados, nuestras redes de colaboración y nuestras estructuras restauradas. Espero que estos eventos y reuniones continúen a medida que nuestra ciudad se desarrolla para que siempre tengamos oportunidades de conectarnos como vecinos.
En la Ciudad de Dayton está prohibido estacionar o almacenar cualquier vehículo en cualquier calle, callejón u otra propiedad pública de la Ciudad de Dayton por más de 72 horas consecutivas (3 días).
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¡El DCDA está teniendo su 3er Concurso Anual de Espantapájaros de la Comunidad de Dayton! Todas las entradas deben estar en su lugar antes del 30 de septiembre. Las fotografías se tomarán el 1 y 2 de octubre. Votación en Facebook del 3 al 9 de octubre y entrega de premios el 10 de
La Ciudad de Dayton tiene una regla de tolerancia cero con respecto a los vehículos que se consideran chatarra, estacionados en el derecho de paso público. Un vehículo chatarra se describe como un vehículo que ha vencido o que no tiene placas de matrícula, un vehículo destrozado, descuidado o abandonado.
Dayton Junior High y High School están bajo un nuevo liderazgo este año. El director Richard Ceder viene a Dayton del distrito escolar del condado de Lincoln y dirigirá la escuela secundaria este año y el subdirector y director atlético Jeff Taylor, quien también es del condado de Lincoln, se une al personal.
El alcalde Wytoski dejará el cargo de alcalde en diciembre de 2022.
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