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City website getting closer
BOYS,
continued from Page A8
After the loss, McNary
took it on the chin in a 12-8
loss to South Salem High
School.
“They seem to become a
different team when they play
us,” Goff said of the Saxons,
who beat McNary in both
contests this season.
South ran up a 6-0 lead be-
fore McNary made it to the
board with two runs in the
bottom of the fi fth frame. The
Saxons put up fi ve runs in the
sixth frame, and the Celts re-
sponded with six, but it was
too little, too late.
“We got drilled, we lost
our composure and started
showing frustration, which
has not been characteristic of
this team,” Keeker said. “We
just didn’t compete for fi ve
innings, but we had a long
heart-to-heart after the game
about the need to show up
ready to play.”
Vasas and Trevor Gilbert
RACES,
continued from Page A1
Taylor, who has returned to
coaching softball after 12 years
on the council, acknowledged
he didn’t put a full effort in.
“I didn’t campaign. I chose
to spend my time with little
league,” he said. “The reason I
didn’t get to any meetings is I
had games. The important thing
is the fi re district and the people
we serve. I hope they are able
to pass their bond measure (in
the fall).”
Lee easily retained his spot
on the Salem-Keizer School
Board over Tim Moles. Lee won
his third term in the Zone 6
position by taking 11,372 votes
(70.76 percent) as opposed to
Moles garnering 4,538 votes
(28.24 percent).
“I’m pleased and looking
forward to serving for another
four years,” Lee said. “I’m
obviously fl attered with the
number of votes I got.”
Lee, a former city councilor,
served on the Keizer City
Council before switching to
the school board. Moles was
running for his fi rst elected
position.
“I love representing Keizer,
with seven years on council and
the potential for 12 years on the
school board,” said Lee, who
is teaming with John Honey
to start the Career Technical
Education Center (CTEC).
“I’m energized by the tasks
ahead of us.”
For Moles, just competing
was a big step.
“I think the children win
out of this,” Moles said. “I hope
anything I brought to the table
can be utilized or spark some
thoughts to help with our
children. It was a win-win for
me no matter what.”
Moles acknowledged there
was a lot more to campaigning
than he initially thought.
“The primary thing was
following the spirit, doing
what I’m supposed to do,” he
said. “That doesn’t mean it
will always work out. That’s
my drive, if you will. I just did
my job. All I’ve ever known
is to serve. I got to serve this
country in the military starting
in the Reagan years. I know I
won’t quit. Wherever I fi nd I’m
supposed to be, that’s where I’ll
fi t in.”
KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald
Celt Mickey Walker dodges a pick-off attempt in the game with
Madison High School.
both had doubles in the out-
ing. Goff, Gilbert and Mathew
Ismay had two RBIs each.
The pep talk must have
helped because McNary
stormed to a 16-5 victory
over Sprague High School
Friday, May 15.
The Celts scored all their
runs on 17 hits. Walker and
Cole Thomas had the best
days at the dish going 3-for-4.
Walker had three RBIs. Vasas
went 3-for-6 with fi ve RBIs.
“We started hitting the ball
again and didn’t stop,” Goff
said.
The transit board subdistrict
2 position easily went to Busch
over Richard Stevenson. Busch
got 1,873 votes (64.83 percent)
while Stevenson got 988 votes
(34.2 percent), according to the
initial results.
Stevenson has been a
member of the transit district’s
advisory committee the past
few years and is a regular transit
user. Busch and her husband
are
longtime
community
volunteers.
“I’m kind of surprised,”
said Busch, who thanked her
supporters
and
endorsers
including her family, her church
and the Salem and Keizer
Chambers of Commerce. “I
wasn’t sure where I was, so it’s
exciting to see those results.”
Busch plans to attend
upcoming
transit
district
budget meetings and will take
advantage of any board training
offered to her.
“Part of it for me was being
on the Keizer Fire District
budget committee and learning
how public budgets operate,”
Busch said. “That has helped a
lot. You have to pay attention
to what is allowed and what
is not allowed. Being on the
transit board is not just going to
meetings once a month. There
are other meetings to attend. I’ll
also spend more time riding the
bus, talking to the drivers.”
Stevenson had no comment.
One countywide ordinance
of interest was an attempt to
establish a Marion County
Extension and 4-H Service
District. The attempt was
successful, with 71.58 percent of
the votes in the initial counting.
SB,
continued from Page A3
• Employing Laura Mang-
um-Childers as a temporary
part-time behavior specialist at
Kennedy Elementary School.
• Employing Jenny Maguire
as a temporary full-time behav-
ior specialist at Kennedy.
• Employing as first-year pro-
bation full-time teachers Lau-
ren Burchfi el, English, Claggett
Creek; Hannah Seagren; third-
grade English for speakers of
other languages, Gubser Ele-
mentary School; Rachel Power,
LRC, Kennedy; Megan Emery,
kindergarten ESOL, Kennedy;
Michelle Brenden, sixth-grade
English and social studies,
Claggett Creek; Craig Arnold,
mathematics, Claggett Creek;
and Michael Hodges, emotional
growth center, McNary.
• Accepting the resigna-
tions of Katherine Dashiell,
fourth-grade ESOL, Cummings
Elementary School; Nadine
Zollner, general music, Keizer
Elementary School; and Rachel
Hermanson and Sean Murray,
LRC, McNary.
voting for revisions.
Superintendent
Christy
Perry announced the hirings
of Lisa Harlan as director of el-
ementary schools and Rhonda
Rhodes as assistant principal at
McNary High School.
The board approved person-
nel actions for the McNary at-
tendance area:
• Changing the statuses of
Anne Bolen, learning resource
center at Claggett Creek Mid-
dle School, and Melissa Gee,
home economics teacher at
Whiteaker Middle School, from
full-time to part-time effective
Sept. 1.
• Employing Kellie Federico
as a less than half-time sixth-
grade English teacher at White-
aker.
• Employing Vicki Wright as
a temporary full-time English
teacher at Whiteaker.
By CRAIG MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
The City of Keizer’s new
website will be much less cum-
bersome and better looking.
The only question is the
same one that’s dogged the
project from the start: when will
the site go live?
Keizer City Councilors ap-
proved spending $15,800 on a
new site last May. Evo Gov is
doing the work.
John McKown, president of
Evo Gov, told the Keizertimes
last week the site is ready to go.
“The website has been 100
percent complete for over a
month,” McKown said on May
13. “We have only received two
of our four payments owed to
us. Obviously we need all four
to launch the website, which is
where we are at now.”
McKown said his employees
working on the Keizer project
have been calling city employ-
ees “pretty much daily” trying
to move the project forward.
“We have had a tremen-
dous challenge getting the main
points of contact on the phone,”
he said. “We were told that the
third payment was sent weeks
ago – never arrived. It may ar-
rive today, who knows? But at
this point in time, we are wait-
ing to be paid so that the site
can launch. Once payment ar-
rives, it can launch in 30 min-
utes.”
Like most projects, McKown
said the Keizer website, replac-
ing one designed more than a
decade ago, has been built in
four phases: planning, design,
content migration and custom-
er training, then fi nally a Q&A
and launch.
“At each of those four mile-
stones we send an invoice for
25 percent of the work com-
pleted,” McKown said. “So at
this point, we are paid for design
approval only, but the entire site
is completed and Keizer’s staff
has had training.”
Tim Wood, Keizer’s assistant
controller who has been work-
ing on the project, said “We are
still working on updating the
content.”
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We plan on having an inter-
nal review process start (this)
week. We have continued to run
into a few technical things that
needed to be fi xed by the ven-
dor to make the site functional.
The third of four payments is
in process with the fourth pay-
ment due when the site goes
live.”
On Monday, city councilors
approved a resolution adopting
website disclaimer and policies.
“We are getting close on the
website,” city attorney Shannon
Johnson said. “We had another
meeting today.”
Councilor Roland Herrera
noted he’d heard several things.
“When is the website offi -
cially going to be up?” Herrera
asked.
City Manager Chris Eppley
noted there is still no set date.
“I have no answer for you,”
Eppley said. “Departments are
working hard to populate their
data. We also need pictures of all
department heads and city lead-
ers. We will probably be within
30 days to be live.”