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As public schools across New-
berg opened their doors to begin
the 2013-2014 school year Sept. 4,
the Newberg School district was
scrambling to dealwith the sudden
and curious resignation of its top
financial officer six days earlier.
According to a release distrib-
uted Sept. 10, Director of Finance
andOperationsNathanRoedel ten-
dered his resignation on Aug. 29.
The district accepted it the same
day.
The Newberg School Board
then called a specialmeeting Sept.
3 to designate a new deputy clerk,
budget officer, check and purchase
order authorizers and custodian of
funds so as to comply with state
law and allow the district tomain-
tain day-to-day operations.
Roedel declined to comment on
the situation.According to the dis-
trict’s release, Superintendent
Kym LeBlanc-Esparza stated that
“confidence in themanagement of
the district’s complex financial op-
erations had been eroded.”
District officials declined
to
comment any further on the reason
for the resignation, citing privacy
policies regarding personnel mat-
ters.
The district has hired Gwen
Gardner as interim director of fi-
nance, tasking her not only to
manage the district’s finances until
a replacement is hired, but to re-
view andmake a report on them to
the board. It is expected thatGard-
ner,who served as interim finance
director for the Newberg School
District in 2008, will work with
LeBlanc-Esparza to present the re-
port to the board at its meeting
Sept. 24.
“Iwillworkwith her to put to-
gether what the board has asked
for in terms of her work and she
and I together will make recom-
mendations on anything we feel
they need to do on her verification
of all the numbers and budget,”
LeBlanc-Esparza said.
Shifting Roedel’s various roles
and responsibilities to others re-
quired the board to approve the
bonding of LeBlanc-Esparza for
$100,000,which it did at the Sept.
3 special meeting, for which two
Wednesday, September 18, 2013—Volume 126, Issue 38—2 sections, 24 pages—$1.00—www.newberggraphic.com
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EWBERG
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BarbaraRoberts regales seniorswith talesof
governmentanda long lifeof service
—
Former
Oregongovernor reads fromher autobiography aboutgrowing
up inSheridan andher entrance intopolitics—
Page A3
Outwith theold, inwith the
new
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Two local shopsmove
locations looking to expand their
businesses—
Business, PageA6
School district ‘loses confidence’ in fiscal officer
Bypass experiences setback, but will forge on
Schools
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Schoolboardquicklymoves to temporarily
reorganize its fiscal roles and calls for a reviewofdistrict
finances followingNathanRoedel’sunexpected resignation
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The U.S. Department of Trans-
portation announced the list of 52
projects in 37 states thatwill receive
funding from the $474million 2013
TIGER discretionary grant program,
but theOregonDepartment ofTrans-
portation’s $37.1 million bid to re-
design part of the Newberg-Dundee
Bypasswas not included.
Because work has already been
started on the Newberg end of the
bypass, the failed application was
likelyODOT’s last chance to replace
the signal-controlled
intersection
with a freeway style interchange
during the initial phase of the pro-
ject.
ODOT said it willmove forward
with the original plans to install the
fishhook intersection, which it se-
lected because
it did not have
enough funding to acquire the land
and build the bridges necessary to
construct the preferred and less con-
stricting interchange design.
“This wasn’t their favorite solu-
tion either,” Yamhill County Park-
ways Committee chairman David
Haugeberg said of ODOT. “It was
the one that they could afford. The
other choicewas to build nothing.”
Haugeberg,whowas part of dele-
gations of local officials sent to both
Salem andWashington,D.C., to gar-
ner support for the grant, said that
even though the application failed,
the effort to make the bid wasn’t a
total loss because the ground work
that was laid to build support at the
state and federal levels could pay
when applying for funding for future
phases of the bypass.
Not only did the delegation ap-
proach the Oregon Transportation
Commission in Salem last spring
and receive the approval required as
part of
the federal application
process, butHaugeberg reported that
boardmoved the bypass intersection
project up on its list of priority pro-
jects.
Haugeberg was similarly pleased
with the reception the project re-
ceived from Oregon’s representa-
tives in Congress, as their support
will be key if a sixth generation of
TIGER grant funding ismade avail-
able.
“Ultimately, I think we signifi-
cantly increased the understanding
of a lot of very important people
about the need to enhance the per-
formance of
that
intersection,”
Haugeberg said. “That’s the first
step.”
ODOT projectmanager Tim Pot-
ter said that modifications to the
fishhook
intersection, specifically
creating ramps to connect north-
bound traffic on Highway 99W di-
rectly onto the bypass and south-
bound traffic on the bypass to the
county’s major north-south
thor-
oughfare, are a possibility to be in-
stalled after Phase I is completed,
but only if funding can be secured.
GaryAllen /NewbergGraphic
No slowdown in sight—
Work continues unabated on the northeast end of theNewberg-Dundee bypass nearwhere itwill intersectHighway 219 andWilsonvilleRoad.
ODOT application for
$37.1 million to
redesign planned
intersection in Dundee
fails, but delegation
feels bid will still
pay dividends
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With 368 drive-ins remaining in the
United States,many facing closurewithout
help switching to digital, and only five pro-
jectors available in the Honda Project
Drive-In competition, the chances ofHigh-
way 99WDrive-Inwinningwere slim.But
theywere announcedSunday to be the fifth
winner of a new projector system, courtesy
ofHonda.
Owner Brian Francis said he had been
contacted by a TV news station doing a
“routine story on drive-ins” and they had
scheduled the interview for Sunday morn-
ing.When he arrived it looked like a real
interview with camera men and micro-
phones.But halfway through the interview,
that changed.
“Th
bl
h i
Th
Drive-in will get some help going digital
99W Drive-In wins new digital projector system through Honda competition
KATYSWORD
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When Beth
Woolsey contacted
the Oregon Depart-
ment of Motor Ve-
hicles she never ex-
pected to get a re-
sponse, much less
see results.
“I was pretty
ashamed of myself
actually after
the
whole thingworked
out,” she said.
Woolsey con-
tacted
the DMV
Driving for change
Newbergmom seeks, finds results
getting changes inDMV form
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Beth andAbbyWoolsey
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Hearing loss is a sudden or gradual de-
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Congenital hearing loss means you are
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