An online meeting for the public to question two Yachats city manager candidates has been moved to Thursday evening because of a widespread outage of Spectrum’s internet service Monday.
The online session had been scheduled for Monday evening, but is now at 5:30 p.m. Thursday via Zoom. Helen Anderson will take questions for an hour starting at 5:30 p.m. and Gretchen Dubie’s turn will come at 6:30 p.m.
Use this Zoom link to sign into the meeting.
The two candidates also answered questions from the public Friday afternoon during a meeting in the pavilion behind the Yachats Commons. Thursday’s online meeting is another chance to ask questions.
Dubie and Anderson have already had in-person interviews with council members, commission chairs and city staff. The council also held an executive (closed) session at 2 p.m. Wednesday to hear from three commission chairs on their interviews with Dubie and Anderson and to discuss the next steps in the process.
Anderson has been on the Planning Commission for eight years and worked for four years as a contractor taking minutes of meetings, doing the city newsletter and helping develop the city website. She has been an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Arizona, an engineer for Westinghouse, a project manager various organizations in Tucson, and a strategic planning consultant. She went to work as a legal assistant in the office of a Waldport attorney after leaving as a city contractor in 2020. She is also the founder and board president of Yachats Pride.
Dubie has 27 years experience in executive and leadership roles in social service agencies. She spent the last 12 as executive director of the Eugene-based program that provides services for 89 adults with disabilities in 18 group homes. It has 200 unionized employees, an eight-member board. Dubie began working remotely after she and her husband, who works at the Angell Job Corps Center, bought a house just north of Yachats last October. She resigned her Eugene position in July.