PAGE A6, KEIZERTIMES, OCTOBER 9, 2015
TRANSIT,
continued from Page A1
“Salem has a critical need,
with no weekend or evening
bus service,” he said. “There’s
no mobility between 9 p.m.
Friday and 6 a.m. Monday.
There are a lot of new jobs
being created now that are
close to minimum wage. With
transit, that opens up an op-
portunity for people to get to
work. Right now we project
the image that we are a small
town because we don’t have
transit service like Portland,
Eugene and even many small-
er areas.”
Rich Duncan, owner of
Rich Duncan Construction,
took issue with Krebs’ payroll
example.
“You’re playing a number’s
game,” Duncan said. “Nobody
pays a $500 payroll. It’s a shad-
ow game. Businesses that are
going to get hurt are paying
far more than $500 in payroll.”
City Councilor Amy Ryan,
speaking as a business owner,
questioned why she should
have to pay again for a service
she doesn’t use.
“This is technically a third
tax,” Ryan said. “We’re paying
on the property tax and now
a business tax. Most of us here
don’t use it.”
Krebs responded people
pay for the fi re district but
don’t use it.
“We use it,” Ryan said. “If
we need the fi re district, it’s
there.”
“It’s the same with this,”
Krebs said of transit. “You can
use transit.”
Zielinski worried about the
transit district being able to
increase the tax in the future
without further votes.
“This is the tail wagging
the dog,” he said. “If you want
to be an empire builder, that’s
awesome. But build it with
your own money. That’s what
those of us in small business
have to do. Anything we want
to do is either with increased
sales or we have to save the
money. I’m not scared about
the .21 percent as much as
neighborhood systems with a
7 percent tax. Given time, you
will take advantage of every
opportunity.”
Krebs estimated it would
take at least 30 years to get a
tax level that high locally.
“Give it time,” Zielinski re-
sponded. “It will get there.”
Rob Miller asked if fares
could be increased or adver-
tising sold on buses to bring in
revenue instead of the payroll
tax.
“We did ads before,” Krebs
said. “Ads were bringing in
less than $100,000 but cost
more than that. It didn’t raise
that kind of money. We haven’t
found anyone willing to take
on that project. I would like to
look at it, but it would cost a
lot. As far as fares, we would
have to raise them so high, no
one would use the buses. We
would lose ridership.”
Duncan expressed concern
the money used to pay for the
new tax would be the money
currently given as charity for
local non-profi t organizations.
“Every dollar is absolutely
critical,” Duncan said. “I look
at how I’m going to give back
to the community. You’re go-
ing to take my money away so
I can’t.”
The payroll tax was sched-
uled to be discussed during the
Oct. 8 West Keizer Neighbor-
hood Association meeting and
again at the Oct. 15 Greater
Gubser Neighborhood As-
sociation meeting at Gubser
Elementary School. The topic
will also be debated at the Oct.
16 Salem City Club luncheon.
The Salem City Club meets at
the Willamette Heritage Cen-
ter at the Mill, located at 1313
Mill Street SE. The program
starts at noon.
BURR,
continued from Page A1
“I feel singularly blessed
that I had the opportunity to
live in the Pacifi c Northwest,
had a job I liked, a wonderful
wife and kids that have survived
most of the challenges in life,”
Burr wrote. “Happiness with
my own good fortune is tem-
pered by the knowledge that
not everyone is so lucky. Op-
portunities in life are not evenly
distributed. God should have
done a better job.”
Burr even had suggestions
on gifts after his passing.
“During the last few years,
when my body would no lon-
ger permit me to do many of
the things I liked to do in the
past, I was able to fi nd solace in
being a volunteer at the Keizer
Community Library and for
Meals-on-Wheels,” he wrote.
“If you are considering a mem-
ory gift, please think of these
fi ne institutions (see www.keiz-
erlibrary.org and www.nwsds.
org for more information).”
Burr was born in Seattle in
1928, graduating from the Uni-
versity of Washington in 1952.
Upon graduation, he took a
job in Salem with the Bureau
of Land Management, starting
Submitted
Art Burr, circa 1951.
as an assistant timber appraiser
and ending as an area manager.
He worked there for 35 years.
During that time, Burr met
wife Phyllis. The two married
on July 31, 1954 and were mar-
ried for 61 years.
Phyllis said the two met
when she worked for the coun-
ty extension agent across the
hall from Burr’s offi ce.
“Someone said there is a
person interested in you,” Phyl-
lis recalled this week. “We dated
for fi ve months and got mar-
ried. I turned 20 three weeks
before we got married.”
Exactly 10 months later, the
couple’s fi rst child, Linda, was
born. Leslie and Eric were born
later.
The Burrs joined the
Chemeketans in 1976, do-
ing activities like biking, cross
country skiing and backpack-
ing. Burr was a trip leader and
later served as membership sec-
retary, transferring information
from cards to the computer.
“He just loved the challenge
of getting things organized,”
Phyllis said.
Once he retired from his
BLM job in 1987, the couple
moved from the country into
town. Burr got active with vol-
unteering as a driver for Meals-
on-Wheels. He also served as
treasurer at First Congregation-
al Church for a while.
“He always wanted to have
a job,” Phyllis said. “He couldn’t
imagine being without a job.
He wanted to make a differ-
ence. Once he did that, he
would want to do something
else. He loved serving others.”
Over the years, Burr was also
active in the U.S. Naval Re-
serve, the Society of American
Foresters and Food Share.
Two days before his passing,
Phyllis said her husband sent
out an e-mail that he would
no longer be able to keep the
library’s website up-to-date on
new books. He worked with
son Eric to make sure fi nal ar-
rangements were in place and
sold his car.
“He had no more work to
do,” Phyllis said.
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