FEBRUARY 13, 2015, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A7
BIG
TOY,
continued from Page A1
“If we can’t raise enough
overall, some things will have
to be cut or we would need to
get more from the SDCs (Sys-
tem Development Charges
from the city),” Walsh said.
Bill Lawyer, Public Works
director for Keizer, made it
clear cuts won’t be made.
“The city is committed to
the project being done as de-
signed,” Lawyer said. “We’ve
committed to the completion
of this project.”
Walsh came to the defense
of the fundraising committee
and took issue with a Jan. 30
editorial in this paper.
“It’s so disheartening to
hear the Keizertimes editorial,
which makes it sound like it’s
not being successful,” an an-
gry Walsh said. “We’ve raised
more than $105,000 without
the city’s SDCs, second most
in parks history in Keizer.
The only one with more was
Keizer Rapids Park itself. And
we’re not really in full swing
yet. For people to think it’s not
a successful campaign is ludi-
crous. The last big toy project
(at Willamette Manor Park)
raised $1,500 in 19 months.
For the twist to be anything
but (this project is successful),
that is frustrating. We’ve raised
SALEM
enough to buy all the things
for the project. We’ve had an
outstanding fundraising cam-
paign so far. We will raise the
money. We have gotten several
grants. People are starting to
do this.”
The budget for the proj-
ect through January shows a
total of nearly
$206,000 re-
ceived, or 49
percent
of
costs
raised
to date. That
includes
the
$100,000
in
Walsh
SDCs from the
city, $80,600 in
grants, $17,000 in component
sales, $5,671 in cash contribu-
tions and $2,677.86 in fence
picket sales, the last not ex-
actly adding up since pickets
are $35 each.
However, the $105,000
pointed to by Walsh includes
some asterisks due to con-
nections project leaders have
with organizations. The sum
includes $30,000 from Mar-
ion County; Marion County
Commissioner Janet Carlson
is co-chair of the fundraising
committee. Keizer Rotary is
giving $25,600 to the proj-
ect in the form of a grant plus
$4,400 for components; gen-
eral coordinator Mark Caillier
and early project supporter
Clint Holland – both Rotary
members – made the pitch to
the Rotary Board of Direc-
tors last year. The Keizer Parks
Foundation gave $10,000;
CBTF Marlene Quinn was an
original KPF board member.
The cash contributions
includes $2,171 from Keizer
Parks and $2,500 from Walsh’s
law fi rm. Some of the com-
ponents were purchased by
project leaders Kim and Ron
Freeman ($1,800), Caillier
($1,000), Quinn ($900) and
former mayor Lore Christo-
pher ($900).
Once those connections
are taken out, fi gures show less
than $30,000 has been raised
in two years, with $15,000 in
the form of a Oregon Com-
munity Foundation grant.
After the Feb. 3 meeting, it
was pointed out to Walsh poll
results in the Jan. 30 Keizer-
times showed more than 80
percent of respondents didn’t
plan to contribute to the Big
Toy project in any way.
“Of course they won’t, be-
cause all of the coverage has
been nothing but negative,”
said Walsh, once again raising
his voice. “You’ve told people
how bad the project is, so of
course your readers are against
it because you’ve told them
to be against it. Your readers
who have seen nothing but
negative stories are against the
project, but when we go into
the schools, people are 99 per-
cent for the project.”
RV SHOW
SUPER
SALE
SKATE,
continued from Page A3
“That is two budget cycles
from now,” Lawyer said. “I
don’t think it is insurmount-
able. We need to mark that
money and carry it forward.
It’s something we’ll have to
work through.”
A motion to move forward
and commit the $5,000 to the
project was approved unani-
mously by Parks Board mem-
bers.
Bazan said he’ll have
Dreamland get the design to
Lawyer.
“That was an easy $5,000
wasn’t it?” Lawyer told Bazan
with a grin after the funding
was approved.
Afterwards, Bazan ex-
pressed confi dence the neces-
sary funds can get raised.
“We’ve raised a little under
$200 so far,” he said. “Hope-
fully we’ll get more donations.
I will try my hardest to do it.
I’ve been seeing injuries (due
to the current design). A lot
of people don’t like the park
now.”
a date change brought to
the Keizer City Council last
month. The city had entered
into an Intergovernmental
Agreement (IGA) for right of
way services last May, calling
for right of way services to be
completed by the end of Janu-
ary and the city’s obligation to
be $27,832.
The revised agreement has
the city’s portion now costing
$33,575.09. More noteworthy,
however, is the right of way
deadline being pushed back to
the end of 2017.
“Though this date seems
overly far in the future,
ODOT’s fi nal acquisition of
the property and transfer to
the city can occur well after
the project is fi nished,” the
staff report read in part. “It is
anticipated that the right of
ways services will be complete
by this date and that the proj-
ect will be ready for construc-
tion.”
Lawyer said there is a need
to acquire property for right
of way for the project, with
the amendment to the agree-
ment ensuring ODOT can
transfer title of the acquired
property to the city.
“Having the 2017 date
ensures the agreement won’t
have to be amended again
should there be some kind of
hold up on transferring the
property to the city,” he said.
“The transfer of the property
normally takes place after the
construction is complete so
the timeline is set farther out.”
Lawyer said on Monday
the roundabout acquisition
has to be certifi ed two weeks
before the bid opening date.
Sidewalks will be included in
the immediate vicinity of the
single-lane roundabout.
Lawyer noted this project is
being handled differently than
the Chemawa reconstruction.
“This is a consultants proj-
ect with ODOT oversight,”
he said. “This is more typi-
cal of a grant-funded project.
ODOT oversees the adminis-
tration of the project and the
acquisitions, but the actual de-
sign and construction is up to
the consultant.”
“The pursuing witness re-
ported to offi cers the suspect
vehicle was traveling in ex-
cess of 60 mph, in the 25 mph
residential neighborhood, just
prior to the second collision,”
Goodman said.
Another witness gave po-
lice a detailed description of
Cradduck and reported seeing
him fl eeing into the area of
the MHS parking lot.
“A school custodian con-
tacted an offi cer in the park-
ing lot and informed him he
had just confronted a subject
who had broken into the con-
cession stand near the football
fi eld,” Goodman said. “The
custodian gave a description
of the suspect, which matched
the same description as the
hit-and-run driver in the fi rst
two incidents.”
The custodian told offi -
cers than when he confronted
Cradduck, the suspect took
off running and was seen go-
ing west on MacArthur Street
North.
With assistance from the
Marion County Sheriff ’s Of-
fi ce and the Salem Police De-
partment, KPD offi cers set up
a perimeter in the neighbor-
hood west of MHS and de-
ployed a K-9 to track for the
suspect. Cradduck was found
hiding in bushes near the in-
tersection of Newberg Drive
North and Max Court North.
Cradduck was taken to
the police department, where
he admitted being the driver
of the Camry. He was found
to have a blood alcohol level
of .06 percent, but refused to
submit to a urine analysis test.
Cradduck was taken to the
Marion County Correctional
Facility and charged with fel-
ony failure to perform duties
of a driver, reckless driving,
failure to perform duties of a
driver (for the property dam-
age), driving under the infl u-
ence of intoxicants, burglary
and refusing the urine test.
The total bail was $35,650.
Kuhns said on Tuesday the
Camry was not registered in
Cradduck’s name.
“But we don’t have any in-
formation to indicate it was
stolen,” Kuhns said.
In terms of damaged prop-
erty, Kuhns said it starts with
the Camry.
“If the vehicle was insured
we – or the owner of the dam-
aged pedestrian signal and the
owner of the residence – will
make a claim against the in-
surance,” Kuhns said. “If there
was no insurance on the vehi-
cle we will have to wait as this
matter works its way through
the criminal justice system.
When and if the suspect is
found guilty the District At-
torney will ask the court to
require restitution be paid to
all of the victims if the dam-
ages have not otherwise been
paid for.”
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