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Longtime Portland bureaucrat Dean Marriott, placed on paid administrative leave after a city audit showed the costs of a sewer office building went out of control, is appealing to a labor board to overturn City Commissioner Nick Fish's decision to send him home.
Marriott will receive a Jan. 8 hearing with Portland's civil service board, which reviews the suspensions and demotions of city employees. The hearing will decide whether Marriott's paid leave counts as a suspension he can appeal to the board.
Marriott, the director of the Bureau of Environmental Services, has filed a notice that he intends to sue Fish and City Auditor LaVonne Griffin-Valade. The Nov. 19 tort claim, first reported Wednesday by The Oregonian, charges Fish and Griffin-Valade with conspiring on a politically motivated attempt to end his career.
Fish placed Marriott on paid administrative leave because of the $11.5 million services building that opened this spring at the Columbia Boulevard Wastewater Treatment Plant.
In April, WW obtained documents showing how the city turned what was supposed to be a utilitarian office building, originally estimated at $3.2 million, into a poster-child facility for wastewater engineers in North Portland.
Fish responded to reports by WW and KOIN-TV by asking for a city audit. He sent Marriott home Oct. 22 after the audit said BES managers approved a design so ornate and inadequate that it required 85 change orders during construction, mostly to fix design problems like the ecoroof covered in wetland grasses.
Fish has asked the Barran Liebman law firm to investigate the project.
Marriott's civil-service protection is at the center of his tort claim. In it, his attorney says Fish and Griffin-Valade trumped up the sewer building's cost overruns to create a cause for the last city bureau director who can't be fired at the discretion of elected officials.
"Since 2000, when the city voted to remove civil servant status for bureau directors, all directors who retained their civil service protections have been replaced by 'at-will' employees," the tort claim says. "Both [Griffin-Valade] and Commissioner Fish have demonstrated clear animus toward Mr. Marriott's legal protections and shown a clear intention to remove him from his position and replace him with someone who can be fired at Commissioner Fish's discretion for any reason."
The civil-service protection has extended Marriott's 20-year career before.
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The journey of the Ocean Beach Christmas tree always has a good backstory and this year was no exception.
The tree was donated by a family in the Loma Portal area. Sal and Nancy DeMaria, local realtors, have owned their home since 1996. Nancy said, "When our kids were in high school, kids would come and [toilet-paper] the tree, and it was always a lot of work to get that toilet paper off of there. One year we had to hire a cherry picker to get it all down."
Sal told me "that the star pine was probably planted at the time the house was built in 1931. It would have been a sapling then, and has grown about a foot a year since that time."
Claudia Jack of the Ocean Beach Mainstreet Association has been organizing the removal and setup of the tree for the past 22 years. She told me that she has trees lined up for the next three years.
"As far as I know, we are the only beach community in the country that has a tree put right into the sand," Jack claimed. "There is a permanent manhole beneath the sand that is eight feet deep. The tree still has to be trimmed to get it to fit into that hole."
Usually, homeowners donate a tree because the roots are undermining their house, but Sal told me, "Nope, no problem with the roots. We just wanted to donate the tree to the community."
Jack told me it can cost $5000 and $6000 to have a tree of this size removed. This year's tree was about 65 feet once it was put into the sand; the crane operator reported that the tree weighs 10,000 pounds.
Locals have been posting comments on social media wondering if this tree will have the usual Charlie Brown Christmas tree look. Other than some crookedness at the top where it was sheared off by winds a few years ago (and a new top regenerated), it is one of the more normal-looking trees for O.B. Onlookers watching it being planted in the sand were already complaining that it looked "too normal."
O.B. Christmas Parade, Saturday, December 6, at 5:05 p.m. On December 4, at 5:30 p.m., the Ocean Beach Town Council will hold their holiday auction at Sunshine Company Saloon to benefit a food and toy drive. The old O.B. entryway sign will be up for auction this year.
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ST. PETERSBURG Trimming mature or so-called grand trees and clearing house lots in the city could become more complicated.
The city council is expected to consider an ordinance Thursday that would require a permit even to trim any tree that measures more than 30 inches in diameter at chest height. It also would require builders to leave at least two trees on each housing lot, defined as 5,800 square feet or more, that they propose to clear for construction.
Councilman Steve Kornell, who pushed for the changes, said the goal is to keep and protect the citys tree canopy, and also to help residents ward off overzealous or unscrupulous tree trimmers. Careless trimmers can damage or kill trees, and some have gone door-to-door trying to persuade homeowners to do questionable or illegal work.
Complaints about one particular operator brought the issue to light about a year ago, Kornell said. It took several months to get this guy to stop doing this, he said.
The amended ordinance requiring permits for trimming wouldnt affect developers, but rather it is aimed at helping and protecting residents and resolving confusion regarding what is and isnt allowed, Kornell said.
A committee of residents and city staff members began meeting on the issue about a year ago. A public hearing about the ordinance is scheduled for Dec. 18.
We encourage people to keep mature trees, just to keep more tree canopy, Kornell said. I think theres a lot of value to it. Even on the interstate, sometimes you can drive and see nothing but trees, and it really looks nice. We just want to make sure it stays protected.
Kornell hopes later to add a requirement to put all permits on the citys website so residents can check if they have questions about tree-trimming operations they see. It just makes things more transparent, he said.
It also can protect homeowners, who could be responsible for fines for illegal tree removals. Already, he said, the city Parks and Recreation Department can answer questions about how to choose a credible tree trimmer or what credentials to seek, or maybe even suggest contacting an arborist.
Protecting grand trees increasingly has become an issue in cities. Safety Harbor is developing a new tree ordinance after 14 mature trees were chopped down to make way for a parking lot at the Safety Harbor Resort and Spa in September. The city commission imposed a moratorium on tree removal permits until April as it considers expanding the definition for a grand tree, higher permit fees, stricter fines for violators and the replacement of trees that are removed.
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Tile drainage is not just a southern Manitoba concept.
Bryan Genzelevich is construction operations manager for Frontier Drainage, which has an office in the Stonewall area. Along with Robert Holter-Ferguson, survey/design operations manager for Frontier Drainage, they see huge possibilities with a system called Tile Drainage.
You could get a 90 percent increase because nothing would grow there in the first place, said Genzelevich. Tile unlocks the potential, the soils ability to grow. IT youve got well drained good soil on high land it has nothing holding it back. Come down in the bog here and youve got standing water and that water table is high. Salts are high. Putting tile in your going to see a bigger benefit. Tile your worst piece of land because that is where you will see the most benefit.
Tile drainage is a process that removes excess moisture from the soils subsurface.
It can be adapted for use in any soil type. Genzelevich said the biggest difference between soil types is the design that is used in laying the pipe, which is very similar to weeping tile used around homes.
In heavy clay there is tighter spacing in your lines, he said. In sand its wider, buy you also have to consider the filtration so it doesnt clog your pipe.
In clay, the spacing will be 30 to 35 feet between sections of pipe. For sand, its 45 to 50.
Genzelevich said tile drainage is very common in Ontario. There they have been using tile for 60 to 70 years and over 40 percent of the land uses this process he said.
Genzelevich added that the practice is also pickup up steam in North Dakota.
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