Ferry Street News

Town Talk with the Mayor / Conversación de la Ciudad con la Alcaldesa

Hello my little town of Dayton,

It has been a busy last 4 months getting into this new role as your Mayor. I'm learning a lot, in new ways. In March I attended a Main Street Conference to learn more on how I could help bring more life to our Downtown as this is one of the requests of our citizens. I have been at a few Round Table discussions with Congresswomen Andrea Salinas. One in Amity and the other in Donald with the USDA Under Secretary for Rural Development Xochitl Torres in attendance as well.

Cinco de Mayo is one event that just happened, where we had a good turn out and not just the Hispanic community. I am already looking forward to next year!

The City Council is starting a new event “Coffee with the Council” to provide a more casual way to meet your council to ask questions and get to know us better. Our first coffee will be Monday, July 10th from 8-10 am at the City Hall Annex (408 Ferry Street). Due to public meeting laws, only three council members can be in attendance each time so we will schedule more coffees in the future with various members of the council on various days of the week. So, if you work and are not able to attend this first coffee, there will be more to attend later on this year.

A mi pequeño pueblo de Dayton,

Los últimos 4 meses han sido muy ocupados para asumir este nuevo rol como su alcalde. Estoy aprendiendo mucho, de nuevas maneras. En marzo asistí a una conferencia de Main Street para aprender más sobre cómo podría ayudar a traer más vida a nuestro centro, ya que esta es una de las solicitudes de nuestros ciudadanos. He estado en algunas mesas redondas con la congresista Andrea Salinas. Uno en Amity y el otro en Donald con la asistencia de la Subsecretaria de Desarrollo Rural del USDA (continúa en la página 4)

From left to right: Councilors Kitty Mackin, Rosalba Sandoval-Perez, Luke Wildhaber, Andrew Hildebrandt, former Mayor Beth Wytoski and former Councilor John Collins, City Engineer Denny Muchmore, City Manager Rochelle Roaden, Council President Jim Maguire, Mayor Trini Marquez, Public Works Supervisor Josh Bilodeau, former Public Works Director Steve Sagmiller, DOWL Project Manager Jared Trowbridge, DOWL Construction Manager Jason Kelly, PBS Environmental Senior Scientist Skip Haak, Stellar J Construction Manager Scott Palmer, Yamhill County Commissioners Mary Starrett, Lindsay Berschauer and Kit Johnston at the Groundbreaking Ceremony on May 23rd. Estimated date of reopening: December 2023

Town Talk with the Mayor continued / Conversación de la Ciudad con la Alcaldesa continúa

Xochitl Torres.

El Cinco de Mayo es un evento que acaba de suceder, donde tuvimos una buena participación y no solo de la comunidad hispana. ¡Ya estoy deseando que llegue el año que viene!

El Concejo Municipal está iniciando un nuevo evento "Café con el Concejo" para brindar una forma más informal de reunirse con su concejo para hacer preguntas y conocernos mejor. Nuestro primer café será el lunes 10 de julio de 8 a 10 am en el Anexo del Ayuntamiento (408 Ferry Street). Debido a las leyes de reuniones públicas, solo pueden asistir tres miembros del consejo cada vez, por lo que programaremos más cafés en el futuro con varios miembros del consejo en varios días de la semana. Entonces, si trabaja y no puede asistir a este primer café, habrá más para asistir más adelante este año. ¡Gracias!

Alcaldesa Márquez

We would like to thank our awesome volunteers who helped with the City-Wide Cleanup! This is the 26th year of the City-Wide Cleanup and some of these volunteers have helped every year! 95 trucks/cars made trips through the City Hall back parking lot. That’s a lot of work and the city appreciates the help! If you are interested in being a volunteer, please visit our webpage to apply online (https:// www.daytonoregon.gov/page/city_volunteer_opportunities) or use this QR code to be taken directly to the online application.

¡Lo más destacado de los voluntarios! ¡Nos gustaría agradecer a nuestros increíbles voluntarios que ayudaron con la limpieza de toda la ciudad! ¡Este es el año 26 de la limpieza de toda la ciudad y algunos de estos voluntarios han ayudado todos los años! 95 camiones/coches hicieron viajes por el estacionamiento trasero del Ayuntamiento. ¡Es mucho trabajo y la ciudad agradece la ayuda! Si está interesado en ser voluntario, visite nuestra página web para presentar su solicitud en línea (https://www.daytonoregon.gov/page/city_volunteer_opportunities) o use este código QR para acceder directamente a la solicitud en línea.

Volunteers (not in order and not all are pictured here) Dan Blanchard, Dylan Blanchard, Daniel Blanchard, Sam Dickson, James Levie, Tucker Wall, Steve Cooper, Jacob Walker, W. Patrick Workman, Andy Dyer, Raold Dyer, Isaac Dyer, Brody Roberts, National Walker, and Jeff Walker.

City Manager Update

June is the final month of our fiscal year and as I reflect back on what the City has accomplished over the past eleven months, I am proud of the work city staff has completed. We have finished several projects including:

• The sidewalk between 6-8th and 9th to Flower on Ferry Street providing a safe place for Dayton children to walk and bike to school.

• The overlay of 6th Street between Ferry and Church.

• The Footbridge project design and permitting has been completed and construction is commencing.

• A sewer rate study

• A Water Management Conservation Plan which is required by the State of Oregon.

• We designed a TMDL for Mercury Implementation Plan which was mandated by the Department of Environmental Quality.

• We made improvements at Alderman Park adding fencing and a new water feature for both dogs and their humans.

• The City worked with the School District to transfer their partial ownership of Legion Field to the City for development of recreational facilities. A Parks Master Plan Update will be the next step to set a vision for development in all the City’s parks.

We also migrated our website over to daytonoregon.gov and managers competed diversity, equity, and inclusion training through Western Oregon University. We started publishing all communication in both English and Spanish. We completed our annual survey as well as a parks improvement survey asking Dayton residents to rank their priorities with a variety of short and long term projects. The result of that survey will be a new bathroom installed at Andrew Smith Park on 11th Street paid with Transient Lodging Tax revenue.

Another strategic goal accomplished this year is the hiring of a Tourism and Economic Development Director, Dave Rucklos. He is introduced on page __. The City partnered with the DCDA and was awarded a $200,000 Oregon Main Street Revitalization Grant for the 300-304 Ferry Street historic restoration project.

The Budget Committee which is comprised of the 7 members of the Dayton City Council and 7 residents of Dayton met in May and approved the budget I presented for the upcoming fiscal year which includes funding for new strategic goals set by the council. At the June 5th City Council meeting, a public hearing will be held to allow residents to comment on the approved budget before it is presented to the City Council on June 20th for adoption. A new budget must be in place before July 1st, the beginning of the next fiscal year.

The upcoming year will be another busy one.

• We will be overlaying 7th Street from Ferry to Church, a portion of 8th Street that was not updated with the school project a few years ago, and a portion of Church Street between 9th and 11th Street.

• The sewer lift station replacement on the HWY 221 bridge heading south to Salem is scheduled to begin this summer.

• The new bathroom at Andrew Smith Park will be completed.

• The Footbridge project is anticipated to be reopened to foot traffic in December.

• On the administrative side, we will be moving all of our permits and applications to an online platform so residents will be able to sign up for new utility accounts, get a special event permit, rent the community center and apply for a permits all online including payment options.

These are just a few of the projects we will be working on. For a full list of the Dayton City Council Strategic Goals, please visit our website.

The past year has seen some transition at City Hall. Two longtime employees retired, two public works positions were filled, a new Code Enforcement/Building Permit Specialist was hired and a new City Recorder. We also have a new City Planner through the Mid-Willamette Valley Council of Governments. Our Municipal Judge, the Honorable Terry Mahr, retired this year and our new judge, the Honorable Larry Blake, was appointed by the City Council in May. Municipal Court is now held on the second Tuesday of the month at 3 pm in the City Hall Annex.

Right now we are gearing up for Old Timers Weekend which will see more activity this year including moving the parade to Saturday morning at 11 am, vendors and live music in the park on Friday and Saturday, a family-friendly free dance in the park on Saturday evening followed by the traditional Dayton Firefighters Chicken BBQ, VFW Bingo at the Community Center, and reunions in the park on Sunday. Nominations for King and Queen are open so if you know a resident over the age of 65 that you would like to nominate, please fill out the online application on our website or you can email cityofdayton@daytonoregon.gov your nomination.

If you have any questions or would like to chat with me, please call 503-864-2221 or email me at rroaden@daytonoregon.gov. I’d love to hear from you!

Rochelle Roaden, City Manager

Council Corner by Council President Jim Maguire

Hello neighbors! Thank you for entrusting me to represent your interests, the interests of ALL Dayton residents, as a member of the City Council for the next four years. Volunteer, non-partisan positions such as our City Council are truly a labor of love – love for our neighbors, love for our city, and love for the work that goes into making our little town a great place to live, work, raise kids, walk, bike, and play. In my mind, it is a position whose responsibility is to put people over politics, always.

A little about me – I come from a family of service. My grandfather served as the Chief of Police of San Francisco. Two of my uncles served as Army officers during the Vietnam War, my father deployed three times during Vietnam and retired from the US Navy, and I served as a commissioned naval officer during the first Persian Gulf War. I have always wanted to give back in some way to the country and communities that offered my immigrant Irish-American family the opportunities we all hope for ourselves. The high-tech sector is what brought my husband and I to Oregon in 2001, and in this spirit, I have served on volunteer boards and commissions in each of the three cities in which we have lived in Oregon.

The City Council is the policy-making body for the City of Dayton, and my hope, as your City Council President, is to be a constructive member of the seven-person team that will continue the work past city councils have accomplished, improve upon them when we can, and continue to plan and lead our city into a prosperous future.

And now I have a favor to ask of YOU. We hold our City Council meetings at 6:30pm on the first Monday of every month – a date and time we hope is conducive to allowing as many Dayton residents as possible to be able to attend and let us know about your concerns. We set aside time at the beginning of every meeting for our neighbors to come to the council and speak their mind – yet, very few take advantage of this opportunity. PLEASE come to council meetings and see how we get things done. Three minutes does not seem like a long time, but you can give us a lot of information about what is important to you, as our neighbors and constituents, in those three minutes. We would love to hear from you.

Tourism and Economic Development

Hello Dayton. My name is Dave Rucklos, and I am stepping into the newly created role as Director of Tourism and Economic Development. It’s my first day on the job and I am thoroughly excited about joining your city and staff.

My most recent position was as the Executive Director of the McMinnville Downtown Association. I took that job one week before pandemic restrictions were mandated. It was a trying time where we were challenged to find ways to support the city’s business community. We embraced some creative ideas that contributed toward weathering the storm and we exited that period with renewed enthusiasm for our downtown.

Understanding the needs of your city and community is at the top of my list as I settle into this new role. There is so much excitement about the prospects for Dayton and it is important that residents share in that feeling and where it could lead. I’m a big advocate of the careful approach to first crawl, then walk before you run. Listening will be a big part of my initial experience here.

As I navigate my way around and familiarize myself with the workings of the city, I look forward to meeting many of you in the months ahead. Reach out to me at drucklos@daytonoregon.gov. with both questions and concerns. I hope to be a positive complement to what is already a city with incredible potential.

Advertising in the newsletter does not reflect any direct or implied endorsement by the City of Dayton. 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.

Dayton High School Class of 2023

Class Motto: Finished, yet just begun!

Konstance Albright

Monika Alvarez

Kyedae Anderson

Yulisa-Alejandra Anguiano-Gonzalez

Nate Arce

Lucas Ashley

Aiden Bailey

Alex Bailey

Ryan Bates

Eva Brandon-Sanchez

Edwin Campuzano Liz Carbajal-Hernandez

Martin Carlson

Emily Ewoldt

Maya Flake

Milton Flores Gonzalez

Joel Franks

Michael Freeborn

Devin Draper Kacy Duncan

Joshua Duran

Leslie Duran-Casteneda Ava Eckroth

Paola Covarrubias

Kyler Crapper

Micheil Cross Tristyn DeHart

Hyrum Carter Montserrat Ceras Estrada Alessandra Ciobanu

Crystal Cornejo Nambo Jessi Corona-Villagomez

Natalie Garcia Ailin Gonzalez-Vargas

Sophia Grieve

Calle Griffin Jennifer Grow

Tristan Halverson

Alyssa Hancock

Brandon Haney

Subby Harvel

Ethan Hedgecock

Alejandro Hernandez

Kevin Hernandez

Bradie Jacks

Cristian Julio-Saucedo Kya Kearns Gavin Koch

Kiera Lange Kallen Lindell

Armando Magana

Nathaniel Martin Madison Martinez

Nahum Martinez Landen Miller

Isai Munoz Medina

Diana Nambo

Leonardo Nambo-Soto

Hector Nolasco

Christopher Parons

Edwin Pedro Marisol Perea Jayleen Perez

Nick Piccini Caleb Primbs

Julie Quinlan Jazmin Reos Justin Roberts

Claudia Rojas-Carrillo Jaden Shepherd

Josephine Shilhanek Nicholas Shipley-Barstad

Nicholas Simpson

Rachel Smith Sara Spriggs

Parker Stephens

Brylee Stone Zachary Svaverud

Carson Tannery Christopher Tilley

Kayla Tomas Marcos Valencia-Castro

Juan Diego Vargas-Gama

Mariah Walton

Dylan Webster Taylor Wilson

Dylan Yates

Graduates not pictured:

Alexis Dilorenzo

Ethan McConochie

Alvaro Pantoja

Dayton School District Superintendent Update

Dear Dayton Families,

Congratulations to the Class of 2023! We hope your final year of high school was all you wished it to be. Your high school experience has been marked by many challenges including two years of a pandemic. You have conquered all of the challenges put before you. You can feel confident as you step out into a wider world that you can conquer the challenges life will present you with. We wish you the best and hope to see you back in our schools in the future. Once a Pirate always a Pirate.

Important 2023 Dates:

• June 6, 2023 Grades 6-11 Student Recognition Assembly- TBA - DHS Old Gym

• June 6 Senior Awards Night 6 PM - DHS Old Gym

• June 10 Graduation 2 PM - DHS Stadium

• June 12 8th Grade Promotion 5:30 PM - DHS New Gym

• June 13 Kindergarten Promotion 1 PM - DGS

• June 14 Last Day of School (Half Day)

• Sept 5 First Day of School Grades PK-6 and 9

• Sept 6 First Day of School Grades 7, 8, 10, 11, and 12

We are offering many great in-person summer school experiences for students. Please contact your child's school for details and if you are interested in having them participate.

I want to thank you again for your support of the Dayton School District this school year. We have a great community, and are at our strongest when we support each other. Go Pirates!

Estimadas Familias de Dayton, Otro año escolar está llegando a su fin. Este año ha visto un regreso al aprendizaje en persona durante todo el año y un alejamiento de los mandatos. Ha sido bueno ver a nuestros estudiantes completamente nuevamente y que participen en las tradiciones. Continuamos monitoreando los brotes de enfermedades como siempre lo hemos hecho.

¡Felicidades a la Clase de 2023! Esperamos que su último año de escuela preparatoria haya sido todo lo que deseaban que fuera. Su experiencia en la escuela preparatoria ha estado marcada por muchos desafíos, incluidos dos años de pandemia. Han conquistado todos los desafíos que se les han presentado. Pueden sentirse seguros al salir a un mundo más amplio en el que pueden conquistar los desafíos que la vida les presente. Les deseamos lo mejor y esperamos verlos de regreso en

nuestras escuelas en el futuro. Una vez Pirata, siempre Pirata.

Fechas importantes para 2023:

• 6 de junio de 2023 Asamblea de reconocimiento de estudiantes de los grados 6-11 - TBA - DHS Old Gym

• 6 de junio Noche de premios para personas mayores 6 p. m. - DHS Old Gym

• 10 de junio Graduación 2 PM - Estadio DHS

• 12 de junio Promoción de 8.º grado 5:30 p. m. - Nuevo gimnasio de DHS

• 13 de junio Promoción de jardín de infantes 1 PMDGS

• 14 de junio Último día de clases (medio día)

• 5 de septiembre Primer día de clases Grados PK-6 y 9

• 6 de septiembre Primer día de clases Grados 7, 8, 10, 11 y 12Estamos ofreciendo muchas excelentes experiencias de escuela de verano en persona para los estudiantes. Comuníquese con la escuela de su hijo para obtener detalles y si está interesado en que participe.

Quiero agradecerles nuevamente por su apoyo al Distrito Escolar de Dayton este año escolar. Tenemos una gran comunidad y somos más fuertes cuando nos apoyamos unos a otros. ¡Vamos piratas!

Sincerely/Sinceramente,

Steve Sugg, D.ED. Superintendent

Code Enforcement Corner

It’s Time to Talk About Dog Poop

While the herbivorous cows’ manure is a good fertilizer, dog feces is not as innocent as its counterpart often containing harmful bacteria like: ringworms, E. coli, and parvovirus. When we don’t pick up after our pets, it leaves neighboring pups, cats, and even humans, at-risk to illness from the festering pet poo. While the problem of not “Picking up after your pet,” is often associated to cities, our animal’s droppings can cause even further-reaching damage to surrounding farmlands.

One study conducted in 2022 over an 18-month period in Belgium, found that animal excrement and urine beside walking paths created levels of nitrogen and phosphorus, “[…] levels that could be illegal on farmlands,” ultimately reducing biodiversity, and polluting crops, plants, and wildlife. In the study, once owners removed their pet’s feces, the negative effects of phosphorous were nearly gone – however – on sensitive-soil like farmland and nature reserves, unless pets were completely banned, the damage of nitrogen (from animal urine) remained within the soil, even after a temporary, site-specific, “pet-ban,” for almost three years, continuing to harm surrounding wildlife (birds, insects) and plants/crops long after the pet potty was first discharged.

What about Dayton? City Municipal Code, Section 5.2.6.C states: that any person who keeps, possesses, or otherwise maintains an animal shall not allow the accumulation of raw or untreated animal waste which creates an offensive odor to occur upon any property, whether public or private, or attracts insects or vermin to such property. Violations of this section of the code are a Class C Violation and are subject to a fine of $100.00 per day.

Barking Dog ‘Ruff’ on the Ears?

Banishing your barking pet to the backyard may make you feel better, but it’s not the best long-term solution for your dog, neighbors, or self. Typically, our furry friends bark for any multitude of reasons, including categories like: territorial, social-anxiety, alarm, greeting, attention-seeking, and even illness/injury barking. The first step in resolving your pet’s excessive noisiness is to understand why your pooch is yapping. According to ASPCA and VCA, several techniques owners should consider are, “Quiet Training” which teaches the pup to bark on command, rewarding the dog with a hush/quiet command, and ignoring the barking (yelling at your dog when it’s barking only increases the dog’s anxiety and confusion). Dogs bark less with sufficient enrichment toys, schedule/routine in their day, and rewards for positive behaviors.

But what if the barking doesn’t stop? Dependent on the underlying cause of their barking, some training or alterations may remedy, like: crate training ‘positive-confinement,’ keeping the pup indoors with its trigger stimuli (like cars, other dogs, lights, etc.) out of sight and soft music or television playing (with ample toys to stay occupied), keeping the dog on a looser tether outdoors, installing a doggy-door, socializing it with other hounds, Desensitizing and Counterconditioning (gradual exposure to stimuli paired with rewards), and more. Never: reward barking (an owner’s eye contact, petting, or even yelling can be internalized by their dog as a ‘reward’), use punish-

ment techniques without first speaking with a Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist or Vet (even bark-activated collars are frequently ineffective unless utilized with instructions from a specialist, and only when the owner is nearby), muzzle your pet (it does not allow them to drink water or pant to cool themselves down).

If you are not a pet-owner, or have your own pack of four-legged friends but are frequently bothered by a nearby neighbor’s furry companion, and a direct, respectful discussion with your neighbor is unsuccessful, then understanding local and state laws is the next step when settling animal-related disputes. The City of Dayton can provide a brochure for you and two other neighbors to fill out, and the Code Enforcement Officer or a Yamhill County Deputy will issue a citation to the owner of the dog. The dog’s owner will be required to appear in Court to enter a plea. If the barking dog’s owner fails to appear on his or her appointed date, the Court can impose the maximum fine.

The Dayton Municipal Code defines “Excessive Noise” in regards to animals as “the keeping of any bird or animal which by causing frequent or long-continued noise shall disturb the comfort and repose of any person in the vicinity.”

The Dayton Municipal Code also states in section 5.2.6:

1. No animal shall run at large within the city limits upon any public street, right-of-way or other public place, or trespass upon private property not owned or controlled by the owner or keeper of such animal. A dog, or dogs, under the control of a law enforcement agency or its authorized representative or agent may be exercised or utilized in the performance of their duties as police dogs without being on a leash, tether, or any other restrictive device and shall not be considered as running at large.

2. No domestic animal shall:

a) Make excessive or unreasonable noise in such a manner as to disturb or annoy any person or deprive any person of peace and quiet, other than the owner or keeper of such animal;

b) Cause injury to a person, animal, or property, or show a propensity to cause injury to persons, animals, or property;

c) Chase persons or vehicles;

d) Chase, injure or kill an animal belonging to a person other than the owner or keeper of the offending animal;

e) Damage property belonging to a person other than the animal's owner or keeper.

Please feel free to reach out to me at jshirley@daytonoregon.gov if you have any questions regarding this information. Code enforcement complaints can be submitted on the city’s website or smart phone app. Jason Shirley, Code Enforcement Officer

Journal of Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 2022 The Guardian Reed, Betsy “Deluge of dog pee and poo harming nature reserves, study suggests,” 2022

VCA Animal Hospitals Debra Horwitz, DVM, DACVB & Gary Landsberg, DVM, DACVB, DECAWBM “Barking in Dogs,” n.d.

ASPCA Common Dog Behavior Issues “Barking,” 2023

From Public Works Supervisor

The weather is great and Public Works is keeping very busy. We have summer events in the park, the bridge project getting underway, improvements at the Lagoons, final steps before the Hwy 221 lift station replacement project can go out for bids, the 7th and 9th Street overlay project, and much more.

Staff have been developing the City’s TMDL Implementation Plan (Total Maximum Daily Load) for Mercury, here is a short background: Dayton is required by DEQ to develop and implement programs to keep local streams clean. Sediment is commonly washed into the storm drain system as the result of building or construction activities. Toxic materials such as mercury bond to soil particles and are carried into local streams. Mercury is then ingested by fish which can make eating too many fish hazardous to human health. More can be found on the City’s website at https:// www.daytonoregon.gov/page/public_works_TMDL.

During the summer months water conservation is always the most critical. Here are a few tips to save water and money:

-Water early in the morning (before 10:00) or later in the evening (after 6:00) when temperatures are cooler, and evaporation is minimized.

-Set it, but don’t forget it! Whether you have a manual or automatic system, be sure to adjust your watering schedules throughout the irrigation season.

-Group plants with like watering needs. Creating watering zones in your garden will allow you to give each plant the water it requires not too much or too little.

-Adjust your mower to a higher setting. A taller lawn provides shade to the roots and helps retain soil moisture, so your lawn requires less water.

If you have any questions, please call, or email me.

jbilodeau@daytonoregon.gov 503-864-2221

Coffee with The Council

Members of the Baile Folklorico from McMinnville High School dance in Courthouse Square Park

Carnaval de Cinco de Mayo.

2024, this festival will include a parade, live music and all day festivities in the park.

credit: John Collins)