10A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, MAY 10, 2016 Lawsuit: Ballots had two errors Agency: Lawsuit is Continued from Page 1A the Secretary of State’s Ofice, Kennedy Grimes where he established protocol for proof- which directed her to proceed describes her as insubordinate reading the draft ballots before latest knock against Mistakes made with the supplemental ballots. and disrespectful. the election. Somers placed Kennedy The lawsuit alleges Somers, “Your actions were in dei- His indings detailed an Grimes on paid administrative however, ordered her to con- ance to your role at the county issue with distractions and Clatsop Behavioral leave in October 2014 after two sider other options. Somers was as an appointed subordinate multitasking. The proofread- errors were found on the ballot. upset she did not include him in department head and thus are ers worked individually rather Healthcare, staff He ired her two months later. the decision to send out supple- appropriately characterized as than following the procedure of One ballot mistake left off mental ballots, according to the insubordinate and disrespect- reading out loud while another Continued from Page 1A case manager’s inappropriate a zero in the amount of a Clat- lawsuit. ful of the ofice of county- manproofreader reads along, comments and jokes at work. sop Community College bond Andrew Altschul, Kennedy ager,” Somers wrote. Somers said. Clatsop Behavioral He described the woman’s measure as “not exceeding Grimes’ attorney, said his cli- Kennedy Grimes started Healthcare is Clatsop Coun- use of homophobic slurs, $8,200,00.” The second -misent’s iring has nothing to do Two claims working for the county in the ty’s mental health contractor. descriptions of her sex life take gave Cannon Beach vot- with the ballot errors. Rather, The lawsuit includes two District Attorney’s Ofice in The lawsuit is the lat- with her husband, and her ers incorrect instructions in an he said, she was ired for notclaims each seeking an award 2007, before being appointed est knock against an agency desire to have sex with var- at-large election for the City consulting with Somers and of economic losses in back to county clerk in August 2011. that has been criticized over ious attractive men. Council. expressing concerns to the Sec- pay, loss of beneits and otherShe worked as county clerk the past year for poor man- In the lawsuit, Studinarz, As a result of the errors, retary of State’s Ofice that expenses to be proven at a jury until March 2012, then returned agement and questioned who was hired in December the Secretary of State’s Ofice Somers and former Clatsop trial and $500,000 in noneco- to the position in June 2013. about the quality of care. 2014, claims the case man- required the county to distrib- Community College President nomic damages. Valerie Crafard, former The agency is performing an ager’s behavior extended ute supplemental ballots, cost- Larry Galizio were not going to Somers completed an inter- clerk of the Clatsop County internal investigation after beyond homophobic and ing about $14,000. follow the ofice’s orders. nal investigation after the elec- Board of Commissioners, was union staff took a “no con- sexually explicit comments The lawsuit claims Kennedy Altschul points to a ter- tion, which concluded that the hired as Clatsop County clerk idence” vote in Michele to job performance issues. Grimes immediately contacted mination notice Somers sent clerk’s ofice did not follow to replace Kennedy Grimes. Crump-Hart, the clinical She said she reported to director. The Oregon Health administrators that the wom- Authority is also conduct- an’s “substandard client-care ing a review after hearing was a safety issue for the cli- community concerns. Sev- ents served by CBH.” Video: The Corps Complex: Fields may eral high-proile staffers have Studinarz alleges that resigned over the past few administrators rebuffed be named in the future months. her requests to discipline is facing a lawsuit Holmes, who was hired by the case manager, who one Continued from Page 1A One reason the soccer asso- the agency in 2012, accord- administrator described as ciation has been able to rely ing to the lawsuit, claims he a “local girl” from a “good Tongue Point Job Corps on volunteers: Many of them felt uncomfortable with the family.” over the culling members will lay the concrete, fondly remember playing on the Continued from Page 1A is Right” host Bob Barker and and a group of volunteers will ields themselves. It has become his partner Nancy Burnet. put the equipment together. a generational pastime. The most valuable and world, with the number of The group has been follow- “Who we are, and why we “Some of us have been doing respected source of local news, breeding pairs growing from ing Wildlife Services, trying succeed, is basically because of this for so many years now that, advertising and information for 100 in 1989 to more than to document the culling with the efforts of so many differ- not only did we play and our our communities. 15,000 in 2013, making up cameras and an eight-propel- ent people,” Boisvert said. “It’s kids play, but now my grand- 98 percent of the breeding ler drone on the back of the really the community’s facility.” children are playing,” Boisvert www.eomediagroup.com population in the estuary boat. said. “That’s really heartening.” and eating about 12 million At the request of Wild- Generational pastime ___ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ___ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ salmon. life Services, the U.S. Coast Such partnerships have been To the future Between May and Octo- Guard established a 500-yard happening since the nonproit Even as it begins this latest ber last year, Wildlife Ser- safety zone around the agen- soccer association formed in chapter, the soccer association is vices killed more than cy’s boats. The Coast Guard 1984, back when it was a youth looking to the future. Teachers have 1,700 birds and oiled more claimed it was for safety rea- athletic club without ields or Within the Warrenton com- than 5,000 nests, smother- sons, while activists claimed facilities of its own. munity is a desire to turn the a big job and ing eggs in corn oil to suffo- the policing agency was try- Before Seaside’s Broadway soccer complex into a multi-pur- cate the embryos within. As ing to stile their First Amend- Field and Astoria’s CMH Field pose complex — adding, per- of Wednesday, Wildlife Ser- ment rights to monitor the kill- came into being, the Warrenton haps, baseball and football a big impact vices had killed nearly 1,500 ing. The animal welfare group ___________________________________ soccer ields were the region’s ields, Boisvert said. ___________________________________ of the birds since starting this sued the Coast Guard, asking central soccer location for high “We are overcapitalized in ___________________________ year’s operation in April. for a temporary restraining school games. The associa- terms of soccer ields. We have • What draws Under depredation permits order to lift the exclusionary tion’s recreational and compet- more than we need,” he said. them to issued this year to the Corps zone, but was denied by a fed- itive programs continue to play A piece of crude, unused land by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife eral judge. there. over the old city dump could be teaching? Service, Wildlife Services Cecelia Wakeield, of War- turned into a dog park, com- can kill up to 3,114 dou- Legal challenge renton, is helping to get the munity garden or some other • What are their ble-crested cormorants, 93 The Corps faces a lawsuit new playground off the ground. asset, he said. Another long- successes? Brandt’s cormorants and nine from the Audubon Society of Both her son and daughter have range project is to lay down a pelagic cormorants. Agents Portland and four other con- played on the soccer ields. trail through adjacent properties, • What are their can also oil 5,247 cormorant servation and animal welfare “One of the most amazing allowing bicyclists and pedestri- frustrations? nests, although none have groups trying to stop the cull- things is to go to those ields onans to access the ields. ___________________________ been destroyed this year. ing, claiming the killing will a Saturday, when the youth sea- “We’re so isolated that Sarah Kangas, a physical education endanger the birds’ entire son is going on ... There’s hun- there’s really no way for kids to teacher at Warrenton Grade School Cat and mouse western population. dreds of people there,” she said. get here,” he said. Activists from the animal A federal judge denied the “So the idea that they can put And the soccer ields deserve Read the words of our region’s welfare group arrived in April Audubon Society’s motion that playground in there, not just actual names, he said. educators starting Friday in on the Bob and Nancy, a gray for preliminary injunction to for the soccer season, but for the “We gotta work on that. The Daily Astorian. Kodiak skiff paid for through stop the killing. The parties in entire community to use year- Right now, they’re 1, 2,3,4, a grant from animal welfare the case are scheduled to pres- round — I think that’s going to which is pretty bad,” he said, activist and former “The Price ent oral arguments in July. be really neat.” laughing. ____________________________________________________________________