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meals in Oregon actually participate in
the summer program.
Last year, Oregon’s 135 summer food
sponsors served almost 1.6 million
meals and snacks at 818 locations.
Bridging the summer learning gap
The summer meals program is a way
to challenge the summer gap that puts
students — disproportionately stu
dents in lowincome families and stu
dents of color — further behind aca
demically and socially.
Outreach Coordinator Jessica Visin
sky said these meals can, instead, help
turn the summer into a boost for stu
dents.
“Access to healthy meals and enrich
ment programs in the summer supports
a child’s educational and physical
growth,” she said in a statement. “When
children miss out on chances for meals
and enrichment during the summer, it
causes a gap that they must try to make
up when school reconvenes.”
The education department’s Child
Nutrition Program is particularly inter
ested in serving more summer meals in
the following 15 counties:
܂ Clackamas
܂ Marion
܂ Union
܂ Deschutes
܂ Morrow
܂ Wallowa
܂ Grant
܂ Multnomah
܂ Wasco
܂ Jackson
܂ Sherman
܂ Wheeler
܂ Lincoln
܂ Tillamook
܂ Yamhill
How the program works
Organizations enter into agreements
with the Oregon Department of Educa
tion to run the programs, officials said.
Schools, nonprofit community or
ganizations, local government agen
cies, camps and faithbased organiza
tions that have the ability to manage a
food service program may be program
sponsors.
Sponsors are reimbursed for serving
healthy meals and snacks to children
and may manage multiple sites. Sites,
which work directly with local spon
sors, should be places in the community
where children can receive meals in a
safe and supervised environment.
They can be a variety of settings, offi
cials said, including schools, parks,
community centers, health clinics, hos
pitals, libraries, migrant centers, faith
based locations and apartment com
plexes.
The education department also has
state grant funds available up to
$20,000 per applicant to start up or ex
pand summer meal programs, includ
ing building community partnerships to
increase programs in the area.
Salem-Keizer sites, more
information
SalemKeizer Public Schools hosts
and sponsors about a dozen summer
meal sites from mid June to late August,
with school starting again in early Sep
tember.
With about 60 percent of Salem
Keizer’s 42,200 students qualifying for
free and reducedpriced lunches, the
program has significant potential in the
area.
Lillian Govus, director of communi
cations for SalemKeizer, said the dis
trict served 21,856 breakfasts and
52,343 lunches last summer.
While they haven’t finalized the sites
for this summer, the Salem and Keizer
locations are likely to be similar to last
year, which included:
܂ Auburn Elementary
܂ Chávez Elementary
܂ Eyre Elementary
܂ FACES Family Daycare Literacy &
Resource Center
܂ Hallman Elementary
܂ Highland Elementary
܂ Houck Middle
܂ Kennedy Elementary
܂ KROC Center
܂ Leslie Middle
܂ Richmond Elementary
܂ Washington Elementary
For more information on the Summer
Food Service Program, contact Jessica
Visinsky by calling 5039475897 or
emailing
orjessica.visin
sky@state.or.us.
Applications are available at
https://www.oregon.gov/ode and are
due by April 19.
To find a meal site near you, text
“FOOD” or “COMIDA” to 877877, then
enter your address, zip code or city to
get a list of sites. You can also call 211
or visit www.summerfoodoregon.org.
Contact reporter Natalie Pate at
npate@StatesmanJournal.com, 503-
399-6745 or follow her on Twitter
@Nataliempate
or
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through 2024 when it reaches its $12.7 mil
lion cap.
But the businesses added will be eligi
ble for some of the funds property owners
already in the urban renewal district have
paid in.
“Those people who are now in the new
district, they can come in and request
funds,” Sears said. “Now they have an op
portunity, and those properties haven’t
paid in.”
What is an urban renewal district?
Urban renewal districts divert tax mon
ey that would otherwise go to other enti
ties like fire districts into a separate fund,
and that money is designated to encourage
investment in existing infrastructure and
buildings to increase the value of the prop
erties in the area and create new jobs.
Since Silverton’s urban renewal district
was started in 2004, $3.8 million has been
spent, including $1.8 million on private
projects.
The expanded urban renewal district
includes Jefferson Street and Mill Town
Pub & Historic Restaurant on Mill Street.
Businesses on North 1st, including Har
ley’s Coffee, Silverton Import Auto, Abiqua
Landscape Products, Silver Lining Auto
Restoration, Pro’s Custom Cabinets, Silver
Creek Auto Body and Withers Lumber are
included in the expanded urban renewal
district.
Among those who have expressed sup
port for the expansion are Bob Knodel,
owner of Silver Creek Auto Body.
Most of the buildings in the area were
built between 1946 and 1997.
Over the past 10 years, there has been
$145,825 in recorded improvements to
buildings in that area, less than 3 percent
of the assessed value.
Were someone to develop one of the va
cant properties in the boundary, it would
add to the tax base.
“If anybody develops on those, there’s
huge … potential for income into the urban
renewal fund," councilor Dana Smith said,
"because you’re freezing tax base on bare
property and then you build on it, every
thing above that bare property tax base
goes into the urban renewal fund. I see
adding the bare properties as nothing but a
good thing.”
The urban renewal district has limited
funds remaining with $444,330 on reha
bilitation and $28,353 in new construc
tion.
But the businesses will be eligible to ap
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City councilors approved Keller Asso
ciates as the project’s engineer. With offices
in Salem and Portland, the firm has a long
history of working with Silverton, Schuetz
said.
Recently, its engineers helped review
and select a new $286,000 machine for Sil
verton’s wastewater treatment system.
They also helped create the city’s 2012
stormwater master plan and have engi
neered projects at other locations including
Amity, Ashland and the North Santiam Riv
er.
Silver Creek’s water intake pipe starts
just south of the pedestrian bridge and runs
underground along Lane, Rock and Reserve
streets up to Ames Street. A collection of 12
to18inch sections will be replaced with 16
inch pipe.
Environmental permitting could take up
to a year, with construction starting once
permits are inhand and ending no later
than spring 2021, according to city docu
ments. Now Silverton’s brandnew staff
engineer, Mike White, will begin working
with Keller on the design.
Also at the regular council meeting on
March 4:
Councilors learned Marion County will
ply for existing urban renewal district
funds.
“They’re not going to put a lot more
money into the district,” Sears said of the
businesses just added to the area. “The
district doesn’t end up getting more money
(in the) long run. They’re going to get it
anyway because the district’s already
formed, they’re getting a $12.7 million cap.”
Some of the Silverton businesses that
have previously benefited from urban re
newal funds include Silverton Falls Ale
House, Lewis Street Crossfit Gym, Gather
Restaurant, Main Street Bistro, Willamette
Valley Pie Company and GearUp Coffee.
The urban renewal funds also have
been used for park improvements, kiosks,
directional signage, trash cans and light
fixtures downtown.
The sidewalks end at the edge of the
previous urban renewal district, and there
are businesses that have benefited from
funds from the district.
Seven Brides Brewing, which is located
just south of the expanded urban renewal
district on 1st Street, received a grant of
$50,000 from the fund to upgrade its
building and $9,119 to construct an outdoor
patio.
Seven Brides closed its taproom and
restaurant in October 2018, though it con
tinues to operate as a brewery.
Other areas that need help
Sears has long been an advocate of ex
panding Silverton’s urban renewal district.
But instead of expanding it in north, he
sought to expand it into the Northside Ad
dition – also referred to as “mill town” – a
residential area of Silverton which similar
ly lacks sidewalks and has many buildings
in need of improvement.
“To me, that’s blight,” Sears said. “I ad
vocated that we include that area so those
folks could get some relief.
“And the reason it hasn’t got support is
that the agency has pretty much ear
marked the funds for commercial. There
hasn’t been any dollars spent for residen
tial.”
The city council has added the North
side Addition for a future focus area and
has set a goal of providing funding options
to use the area as a model for other areas of
the city.
Sears also advocated adding the Pettit
Property – 80 acres adjacent to the Oregon
Garden the city owns about which devel
opment has long been discussed – into the
district.
But neither was added into the current
urban renewal district.
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close Silverton Road at the Little Pudding
River for an extended period in 2020 in
stead of 2019, in part to avoid cutting off
traffic during the winter holidays. The
county will reroute traffic while workers re
place the bridge, at a total expected cost of
$6.4 million. Silverton Road will be open to
local traffic all the way to the bridge, near
64th Place NE, but other eastwest traffic
will be detoured onto Hazelgreen and
Sunnview roads. A temporary traffic light
at Silverton and Howell Prairie roads will
help that intersection from being clogged,
said Marion County Public Works Director
Brian Nicholas, adding, “Local folks will
pick their favorite route, but we’ll have two
very wellsigned detours so folks who
aren’t familiar with the area can find their
way through.”
Councilors directed City Manager
Christy Wurster to negotiate a new agree
ment with Republic Services, Silverton’s
current garbage and recycling collection
provider. Republic’s franchise agreement
with the city expires in November.
Schuetz reported that the creek bank
upon which the city pool sits is basically
sound, and its structural integrity is good.
Energy Trust of Oregon will soon recom
mend energysaving projects, some of
which may be eligible for grant funding.
Voters passed a pool levy in November 2017,
aimed to pay for operations and upgrades.
