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But due to signifi cant budget cuts by the foundation, Husseman won't be able to return to her role. SKEF announced in December that Whiteaker, along with Crossler, Leslie, Judson, Walker and Straub would no longer have Enrichment Academies available at their schools after winter break, meaning that Husseman, along with 22 other part-time staff members that ran the program, would be laid off. Husseman is still employed PAGE A11 e us Ho r’s ylo a T at life Submitted Members of the Root Beer and Reading Club raise a can. After school enrichment program run through SKEF are being cut. at Whiteaker as an instructional assistant, but was disappointed with the decision. “I was very sad when I found out that the funding was going away. I'm sad I'm losing the income as a second job and I will miss being able to interact with the kids on that level,” Husseman said. The six Salem-Keizer middle schools losing their Enrichment Academies were serving around 800 students. Four middle schools in the Salem-Keizer area — Claggett Creek, Houck, Stephens and Parrish — will continue to operate under SKEF because the majority of the costs are covered by a grant from the Oregon Department of Education according to SKEF executive director Kelly Carlisle — a former Salem- Keizer administrator who took over the position in August. While Carlisle explained that the cuts were a diffi cult decision, and shared that the SKEF needed to come up with a strategic plan to deal with the fi nancial issues they were facing. He also said that SKEF was losing more than $100,000 per year on the Enrichment Academies. “Unfortunately, the ex- penses of the programs far Please see CUT, Page A5 Council confronts the costs of growing city staff Traffi c troubles By ERIC A. HOWALD | Of the Keizertimes Residents see speed, enforcement as the problem because our fi nancial picture By ERIC A. HOWALD is not changing. Unless some- Of the Keizertimes The Keizer City Coun- thing drastic happens, none of cil got a somewhat bleak ac- these positions can be funded counting of where the city in the next or any future bud- stands on staffi ng needs and get. The majority of them are [paid for out its inability to of the] general fund them at fund and that a work session “ None of these is our most Monday, Jan. positions can constrained 13. fund,” In total, be funded in To illus- department the next or any trate the point, heads present- Finance ed their cases future budget” Keizer Director Tim for roughly six addition- — Chris Eppley, Wood said the city is strug- al employees City Manager gling to main- throughout tain its existing City Hall, but it took City Manager Chris staff and replacing an offi cer Eppley about an hour to for the Keizer Police Depart- dump a bucket of cold reality ment is on hold. Tax revenues are currently about $80,000 on all of the discussion. “In most cases, these [po- Please see STAFF, Page A5 sitions] are purely aspirational CHARTER REVIEW COMMITTEE: How much council crime is too much? A resounding theme from meetings of the Keizer Traffi c Safety, Bikeways and Pe- destrian Committee in 2019 was that Keiz- er residents were concerned about traffi c speeds in neighborhoods throughout Keiz- er. In southwest Keizer, complaints arose about speeds and pedestrians on 5th Ave- nue North between Hollyhock and Dennis Lane. In southeast Keizer, the long corner signaling the change from Manbrin Drive to Thorman Avenue was the target of com- plaints stemming from lack of visibility and speed. In northeast Keizer, residents of Harmony Drive took issue with their street being used as a thoroughfare. Police do what they can: ‘Problems’ are frequently in the eye of beholder “Racetrack” is a word that Lt. Trevor Wenning and Offi cer Martin Powell are used to hearing when residents describe the traffi c fl ow on Keizer’s streets. More often than not, data collected by Keizer Police Department doesn’t back up the perception of citizens. Martin cited a recent example where the complainant did everything the police needed to capture a snapshot of a perceived problem area. It was around one of Keiz- er’s schools and the resident said a straight stretch of road was experiencing a lot of speeding, by teenagers, between 11:30 a.m. Please see SPEED, Page A8 Please see POLICE, Page A8 By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes The city’s Charter Re- view Committee spent part of its meeting January 7 de- termining an acceptable level of crime for Keizer’s elected offi cials. The section of the charter that prompted the discussion involves the creation of may- oral and city councilor va- cancies. The language in the existing charter states that a vacancy is created upon an elected offi cial’s “conviction of a felony, other offense per- taining to his or her offi ce; or unlawful destruction of public records.” Language suggest- ed by the League of Oregon Cities, which is being used as a guide, simply states a mayor or councilor’s seat is vacated upon “conviction of a misde- meanor or felony crime.” Committee Member Brod- erick Pack suggested remov- ing the misdemeanor portion and limiting it to felonies. “I would like to remove Please see REVIEW, Page A5 St. Monica, one year later PAGE A3 Cuf fed in Keizer PAGE A4 Celts earn first conference dual victory PAGE A12