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Scholl, Pixley, Kotek look to future following election Originally published in The Chronicle Vol. 140 Nov. 16, 2022 JEREMY C. RUARK Country Media, inc.
Mayor Rick Scholl has won his re-election bid.
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Brajcich re-elected, seeking solutions to city’s challenges to work with the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) to improve safety and reduce the fast traffic along the highway. “We’d like to see the speed reduced and ODOT has a traffic calming program,” he said. “They did a project along Highway 101 in Gearhart to ease traffic speed there, so we are looking at that as a possible option.” The speed along Highway 30 in Clatskanie is 30 miles an hour (mph). While Brajcich and other city officials aren’t seeking to lower the speed, they are looking for ways to get drivers to follow the 30mph speed. We just want people to go 30,” he said. “I understand, especially when you come down the highway at 65 miles an hour, that vehicles just continue at that speed. We get
Originally published in The Chief Vol. 131 Nov. 11, 2022 JEREMY C. RUARK Country Media, Inc.
Most folks around town refer to Bob Brajcich as Mayor Bob. “I try to listen and treat everybody with respect, that is the main thing,” Brajcich said following his re-election victory in the Nov. 8 General Election. “I try to work well with the City Council and the city staff.” Brajcich first became Clatskanie mayor in 2017 and he said he has a list of priorities for his next term in office. Highway safety Safety along Highway 30 that cuts through Clatskanie is a key issue in the city, Brajcich said. The city continues
“I am humbled by the turnout, and I want to thank the citizens of St. Helens for voting me into another term,” St. Helens Mayor Rick Scholl told The Chronicle following the Tuesday, Nov. 8 General Election. “I’d like to attribute the win to the collaborative effort with the entire city council
in moving the city forward.” Priorities Scholl said the city’s top priority is finding a new finance director. The effort follows the separation from city service of former finance director Matt Brown. “Finances are our key and the framework of our city budget,” Scholl said. Scholl’s second top priority is to continue the city’s waterfront development. The project will redesign other streets and intersections, extend Cowlitz and South 1st Streets onto the
Riverfront property, create a plaza for pedestrians and vendors above Columbia View Park, add a trail on the west side of the Riverfront property, and extend underground utilities. It is expected to take two years to complete. “The biggest hurdle of that redevelopment,” Scholl said, “is going to be the traffic. That is the number one thing with every person working in administration and even the city councilors, is that we want to be the least disruptive as we can do the businesses downtown.”
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Scholl said he believes the redevelopment is “a blessing” because it will clear away aging infrastructure in the whole downtown area. “We are blessed to be able to it all in one shot,” he said. Scholl said a third priority is to work with neighboring cities and the Port of Columbia County to start advertising the city’s industrial property.
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