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Newport presents year-end review highlighting housing projects, infrastructure and service upgrades
Summary
City staff presented a year-end review covering major accomplishments across departments, including several housing projects under way, a clean audit, resumption of water-main flushing, a lead-and-copper inventory with no lead detected, a new fire engine, library system upgrades and other operational improvements.
City Manager Nina presented a year-end review to the Newport City Council on Aug. 18 that summarized accomplishments across city departments and highlighted several projects the city says will affect housing, infrastructure and services.
Nina said the city’s community-development team has several housing projects underway or in development, including a 77-unit Oregon State University Hatfield Marine Science Center student housing facility, Wind Haven phase 3 (about 90 units), a Fowler Homes nine-lot subdivision and a separate Fowler project with about 75 units underway. "There's a lot of housing for a community our size," Nina told the council.
The finance department completed a successful audit with no findings, and the city switched to an express bill-pay system for utility payments, Nina said. Information-technology staff handled more than 2,500 support tickets in the year. The engineering team completed a pedestrian safety crossing project in March 2025 and continued capital-project work.
Public Works resumed an annual water-main flushing program that staff said had not been done in at least five years and completed a state-required lead-and-copper inventory of more than 4,600 water meters; staff reported no lead in city water lines and the inventory was completed within the state's deadline. The city also purchased an asphalt hot box to repair potholes in-house.
The Fire Department received a new engine with a 1,500-gallon-per-minute pump, a 500-gallon water tank and 800 feet of supply hose, and upgraded extraction tools and LED lighting. The police department deployed three drones and implemented evidence-streamlining measures including barcode scanning and a 50% increase in evidence storage capacity. The Newport Public Library launched a "library of things" of more than 100 items and migrated to a new integrated library system.
Nina thanked staff across departments and noted the city will continue work on council goals in the coming fiscal year.
