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son said. “It’s not your
best moment; it’s your
worst.”
Steele’s son survived
and is now grown up. Nel-
son underwent surgery
and has consistently re-
ceived positive test re-
sults, although he deals
with the effects of Cush-
ing’s syndrome from the
damage to his pituitary
gland.
Neither Steele nor Nel-
son forgot the depth of
their need in the “valley
of death,” and they re-
member the comfort they
got from their faith in
God and the support of
others.
Now they offer that
kind of spiritual help to
others by listening, pray-
ing or talking as needed.
Sometimes it’s as simple
as a hug for someone
who’s grieving; “A big
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part of chaplaincy is
touch,” Steele said. Other
times, it’s being the
peacemaker
between
family members who are
trying to agree upon what
treatment to pursue for
an aging relative. At 40
beds, Silverton is a small
hospital, so staff sends
most trauma and acute
patients to Salem or Port-
land, Haugen said.
“Oftentimes
we’re
serving patients who are
at the end of a long battle
with cancer or heart fail-
ure, and the family is
gathering around,” he
said. “Our chaplains do a
spectacular job of navi-
gating family politics and
helping family members
decide tough questions
together. Having that ex-
tra perspective is key.”
In Silverton, all four
chaplains are comfort-
able in the medical arena.
Some have even held re-
lated jobs. Steele was a
dental hygienist for 40
years before retiring and
going to seminary. Nel-
son’s first job was in the
kitchen at a hospital
where his dad worked as
an orderly, and he recent-
ly completed a two-year
Clinical Pastoral Educa-
tion (CPE) residency at
Mary Washington Hospi-
tal in Virginia. Murdy has
been a medical techni-
cian.
It’s a good thing too, be-
cause, sometimes chap-
lains end up talking with
patients and their fam-
ilies about specific diag-
noses after a doctor
leaves. Everywhere he
goes, Nelson takes along
his iPad, loaded with an
app showing visuals
about the human body
and medical conditions.
He also uses an app to
speak to patients when
the hospital’s translators
aren’t available.
Even though he doesn’t
speak Spanish, Russian or
the other languages he
usually encounters, Nel-
son finds ways to connect
with patients. Once, he
prayed for a Spanish-
speaking family’s baby
and later received an invi-
tation to the child’s birth-
day party. When party-
goers credited him with
healing her, Nelson re-
sponded with character-
istic humor, pointing to
his own face and asking,
“If I really did have the
gift of healing, would I
look like this?”
In the hospital’s halls,
where Nelson specializes
in small talk and humor,
Steele exudes the quiet
demeanor she’s had since
she was a girl. Her
warmth is palpable, and
she’s clearly comfortable
in a job that’s become a
calling. Her first experi-
ence with chaplain-type
care came back in high
school when her youth
pastor invited her to
come along with him and
his wife as he visited the
church’s oldest parishion-
ers. She was surprised.
“I’ve always been shy.
Growing up, there were
five of us kids, and none
of us would answer the
phone,” she said.
She just laughs when
she remembers how an
instructor once told her
she’d never make it as a
dental hygienist because
she doesn’t talk enough.
Now she spends all day
talking to people. But she
learned from her youth
pastor – and subsequent
work under Silverton’s
past chaplain, James
Cross – that spiritual care
is more about listening
than preaching anyway.
“As chaplains, we re-
spect all people and be-
liefs or non-belief,” she
said. “But we believe all
people are spiritual and
have spiritual needs.”
Haugen has seen Sil-
verton’s chaplains read
people expertly and offer
just the right thing. He’s
never seen them be
pushy, rather making
themselves and their ser-
vices available and grace-
fully handling rejection
or, occasionally, anger
from those who don’t
want it.
“Some people want to
talk and pray, while, for
others, that’s the last
thing they want to do be-
cause it seems self-de-
feating,” he said. “Our
chaplains are really sen-
sitive about when they
have a green light to come
in and help. That’s at the
core of why they’re so
good. They know what to
do and not to do.”
Maybe it’s his 13-
month tour-of-duty in
Vietnam, a traumatic di-
vorce, or his own health
scares, but Nelson is un-
fazed by even the worst
scenarios. He turned to
Christianity early in his
military career, intro-
duced to the concept of
spiritual salvation by an
Arabic instructor in lan-
guage school.
Personally believing
that God “is good in the
face of evil” is a message
he seeks to share with
anyone who wants to hear
it. And he’s been trained
to hear – really hear – the
people he serves at the
hospital. “It’s hard to lis-
ten well,” he said. “So
much Christian training
focuses on ‘go and tell,
when it’s just as impor-
tant to listen.”
If chaplains have a
good understanding of a
patient, they can even
sometimes serve as a go-
between in tough situa-
tions. He recalled one el-
derly dying patient who
constantly frustrated his
nurses by soiling his
sheets on purpose. Nelson
learned that the man was
angry because he wasn’t
allowed to use the rest-
room alone.
“What am I going to do
… die?” the patient asked,
rolling his eyes. Nelson
communicated this to
staff, they allowed him
more freedom, and peace
was reestablished.
Not only can chaplains
take extra time to listen,
but they’re also free to
broach the topic of spiri-
tuality. Haugen said doc-
tors and other staff often
feel they shouldn’t cross
the invisible barrier into a
patient’s deeply personal
or ethical space when
their job is to focus on
medical care. Emotional
and spiritual needs are
real too, though, making
chaplains’ work invalu-
able.
“Medicine is not mag-
ic, and there are real lim-
its to what we can do,” he
said. “Care in a hospital is
not just about the science
and the right medicine
and the right treatments.
It’s about taking care of
the whole part of us.”
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pass signature checking
and tally those addition-
al ballots on May 31.”
Burgess said once
those steps are finished,
certification will gener-
ally take place between
May 31 at the earliest
and June 5 at the latest.
Burgess’s office was
still busy tallying about
500 ballots on Thursday
afternoon, including bal-
lots received by other
counties before 8 p.m. on
Election Day and were
forwarded to Marion
County, in addition to
ballots of voters who vis-
ited the office to resolve
signature issues.
“More ballots will be
coming from other coun-
ties over the next few
days,” Burgess said.
“And, of course, we an-
ticipate that voters will
be coming in to resolve
their signature issues up
until May 30. These out-
standing ballots could
very well determine
some close races.”
Oregon Secretary of
State Chief of Staff Deb-
ra Royal explained the
protocol and stipula-
tions involved in local
election certification.
She noted that coun-
ties send abstracts of
votes to each appropri-
ate city, county, and dis-
trict elections official no
later than the 20th day
after the election, which
is June 5.
By the numbers
(Includes tallies from
Marion and Clackamas
counties)
Zone 2
Ervin G. Stadeli, 2,235
Michele Stone-Finicle, 1,843
Zone 4
Jennifer Traeger, 2,203
Wally Lierman, 1,690
James A Newkirk, 213
Zone 5
Aaron Koch, 1,985
Shelly Nealon, 2004
PUBLIC NOTICE
PUBLIC NOTICE
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Review Body: City Council
Hearing Date & Time: June 5, 2017. 7:00 p.m.
Hearing Location: Council Chambers, Silverton
Community Center; 421 South Water Street.
Public Hearing #1: File Number CP-17-01 &
ZC-17-01.
Comprehensive
Plan
Map
Amendment to designate 608 N James Street
Multiple-Family Residential with a concurrent
Zone
Change
to
zone
the
property
Multiple-Family Residential (RM-10). This will
allow the property to develop at densities
ranging from 10 to 20 units per acre accounting
for 95 to 190 units. The application will be
reviewed following the criteria found in SDC
section 4.12.400 & 4.7.300.
The Planning
Commission recommends the City Council Deny
the application.
Public Hearing #2: File Number CP-17-02 &
ZC-17-02.
Comprehensive
Plan
Map
Amendment to designate 814 N 2nd St
Multiple-Family Residential with a concurrent
Zone
Change
to
zone
the
property
Multiple-Family Residential (RM-10). This will
allow the property to develop at densities
ranging from 10 to 20 units per acre accounting
for 6 to 13 units.
The application will be
reviewed following the criteria found in SDC
section 4.12.400 & 4.7.300.
The Planning
Commission recommends the City Council
Approve the application.
All interested persons and the general public
will be given an opportunity to be heard relative
to the application either by submitting material
in writing to City Hall or providing oral
testimony at the Public Hearing. Failure of an
issue to be raised in a hearing, in person or by
letter, or failure to provide enough detail to
afford the decision maker an opportunity to
respond precludes appeal to LUBA based on
that issue.
Additional information and/or
review of this application, including all
documents and evidence submitted, may be
obtained at Silverton City Hall, 306 South Water
Street, or by telephoning Jason Gottgetreu at
(503) 874-2212. Copies of the staff report will be
available seven (7) days prior to the public
hearing and are available for review at no cost
at City Hall, a copy can be provided on request
at a reasonable cost.
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NOTICE OF BUDGET HEARING
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basis of accounting that is the same as the preceding year.
Contact: Gayle Schmidt
Telephone: 503.845.2345
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FINANCIAL SUMMARY - RESOURCES
Actual Amount
Adopted Budget
Last Year 2015-16 This Year 2016-17
Beginning Fund Balance
$6,634,336
$3,078,443
Current Year Property Taxes,
other than Local Option Taxes
1,779,913
1,845,757
Current Year Local Option Property Taxes
Other Revenue from Local Sources
514,383
658,540
Revenue from Intermediate Sources
280,044
105,704
Revenue from State Sources
6,031,495
6,151,702
Revenue from Federal Sources
679,667
611,137
Interfund Transfers
148,882
133,339
All Other Budget Resources
1,585,000
500
Total Resources
$17,653,720
$12,732,388
TOTAL OF ALL FUNDS
Approved Budget
Next Year 2017-18
$2,255,195
1,868,576
662,850
252,970
6,605,191
674,440
226,599
106,292
$12,504,847
FINANCIAL SUMMARY - REQUIREMENTS BY OBJECT CLASSIFICATION
Salaries
$4,327,516
$4,371,326
$4,501,679
Other Associated Payroll Costs
2,395,158
2,925,294
3,103,195
Purchased Services
1,342,312
1,050,574
1,177,101
Supplies & Materials
587,394
734,053
647,447
Capital Outlay
4,997,544
1,287,771
323,761
Other Objects (except debt service
& interfund transfers)
301,993
247,897
262,387
Debt Service*
778,687
783,013
813,013
Interfund Transfers*
148,882
139,825
238,060
Operating Contingency
1,192,635
1,438,207
Unappropriated Ending
Fund Balance & Reserves
Total Requirements
$14,879,486
$12,732,388
$12,504,850
FINANCIAL SUMMARY -
REQUIREMENTS AND FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT EMPLOYEES (FTE) BY FUNCTION
1000 Instruction
$4,901,558
$5,404,854
$5,653,526
FTE
54.95
54.29
57.36
2000 Support Services
3,178,692
3,428,757
3,722,490
FTE
23.34
25.4
25.85
3000 Enterprise & Community Service
345,109
380,250
434,850
FTE
3.31
3.47
3.91
4000 Facility Acquisition & Construction
5,474,890
1,372,235
162,793
FTE
5000 Other Uses
5100 Debt Service*
830,355
819,817
888,282
5200 Interfund Transfers*
148,882
133,840
204,699
6000 Contingency
930,819
1,125,236
7000 Unappropriated Ending Fund Balance
261,816
312,971
Total Requirements
$14,879,486
$12,732,388
$12,504,847
Total FTE
81.6
83.16
87.12
*not included in total 5000 Other Uses.
To be appropriated separately from other 5000
expenditures.
PROPERTY TAX LEVIES
Rate or Amount Rate or Amount
Imposed
Imposed
Permanent Rate Levy
(Rate Limit 4.6268 per $1,000)
Local Option Levy
Levy For General Obligation Bonds
LONG TERM DEBT
General Obligation Bonds
Other Bonds
Other Borrowings
Total
4.6268
$822,143
4.6268
$838,812
Rate or Amount
Approved
4.6268
$838,812
STATEMENT OF INDEBTEDNESS
Estimated Debt
Estimated Debt Authorized,
Outstanding on July 1
But Not Incurred on July 1
$10,311,683
$2,335,000
$79,852
$12,726,535
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