FEBRUARY 19, 2016, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A7
SMITH,
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KLL,
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Urban Renewal Board. In
September 2007 he was
appointed to a vacancy on
the Keizer City Council. He
won his election in 2008.
For the 2012 election, he
initially decided not to run
but decided after the fi ling
deadline to run. He thus ran
as a write-in candidate but lost
to Ken LeDuc.
Interestingly,
LeDuc
resigned in 2013 after just a
few months on council.
After his initial time on
council, Smith was appointed
to fi ll a vacancy on the
Keizer Parks and Recreation
Advisory Board, serving as
chair of that board in 2014.
In the fall of 2014, Smith
won an election to re-join the
city council. He was also the
public relations person for the
Big Toy play structure project
at Keizer Rapids Park, which
was built last June.
Smith and wife Krystal
both work at SAIF (State
Accident Insurance Fund)
Corporation in Salem.
“This was not about any
problem or anything being
wrong,” Smith said Tuesday.
“There's no family or health
thing. This was a good thing.
We wanted to move to a
downtown
urban
living
situation. We had been talking
about it for years. I thought we
would do it after my council
term was done and after
Keifer had graduated. This
opportunity came to us. It was
a short time frame. It was too
good of an opportunity to pass
up.”
While happy for the
opportunity, Smith noted the
downside.
“I'm still disappointed
about leaving my term early,”
“To do the whole project is
$43,200,” Holland said. “They
want $10,000 in grant money
for the $43,200 job. We need
to work on those fi elds and
get them modern. There are a
lot of problems up there.”
The grant money would be
from the Parks Board match-
ing grant program, which has
about $14,000 left for the rest
of the fi scal year ending June
30.
Jim Taylor, the former city
councilor who returned to
coaching at the facility last
year, noted the city was given
a list of needs a few years ago,
with a price tag of approxi-
mately $500,000.
“Every fi eld out there
needs something,” Taylor said.
“If they do one fi eld every
year, then maybe it’ll be two
fi elds a year down the road if
people get involved. I don’t see
a downside if we can come up
with some money. This is the
fi rst time I’ve heard someone
come in and say they will do
something for a minimal cost.”
Scott Klug asked if the
matching fund request would
become a regular thing.
“Are we looking at $10,000
this year and on?” Klug asked.
Holland said there would
be an annual request, but not
necessarily the same amount
each year.
“It might be less for some
of the fi elds,” Holland said.
“Rick Day will help with
some stuff. We want to do it
the right way. Each year is dif-
ferent. Any year, you can say
you don’t want to (fi nancially
support) it anymore. But if
you see their work, that’s not
going to happen. These are the
right guys to do it. There will
be a lot of ways people can
help with this. Knowing Tony,
KEIZERTIMES/Craig Murphy
Brandon Smith poses in Keizer City Hall Tuesday evening.
he said. “I don't like that. I
normally wouldn't give up in
the middle of a term for any
reason. I believe in fulfi lling
that commitment to the best
of my ability.”
Since the next council
meeting is March 7, a few days
after he takes possession of the
Salem home, Smith said he
had to resign this week.
“I need to be able to go
at a moment's notice, when
our Keizer house sells,” Smith
said. “It was a timing thing.
The city charter is very clear,
you have to have residency to
serve. Plus, this is a good time
to make a clean break before
the budget sessions start.”
After having to leave his
term early, does Smith foresee
making up for it by joining
the Salem City Council or
doing some other form of
public service?
“That is always a possibility,”
he said. “There are some other
things I would like to do,
but at the moment I'm not
concerned about that. Our
lifestyle is changing pretty
dramatically. My son is in the
process of making a decision
on college. That will be a big
transition for us, no kids in the
house in the fall.”
Smith noted he knows
the president of his new
neighborhood
association
(David Dahle) and knows
various people on the Salem
City Council and the Salem
Chamber of Commerce. He
might be willing to be active in
the neighborhood association,
but not much more, at least
not at fi rst.
“Anything I do in Salem
will be a way's down the road,”
he said. “Work and family are
what I will focus on.”
Smith pointed to a few of
his top memories of public
service in Keizer.
“The dedication of the
Keizer Civic Center (in 2009)
and the Big Toy are pretty
big,” he said. “They're right
at the top. And the year I was
chair of the Parks Board we
amended the master plan for
Keizer Rapids Park. That was
a big deal and brought a lot
of people in. The civic center
was such a huge project.”
KEIZERTIMES/Craig Murphy
Top: Tony Cuff with Clint Holland and Chris Argue.
Above: Cuff and Holland inspect a dugout at KLL Park.
he’ll bring guys from his farm
out to help. That guy does a
good job.”
Johnson liked the idea,
since Keizer Youth Sports
Authority (KYSA) formerly
leased the fi eld and KLL cur-
rently leases the fi eld and is in
charge of maintenance.
“The city doesn’t have the
money to put into it,” Holland
said. “Here we have guys will-
ing to do it.”
Richard Walsh asked if the
people working with Holland
would be doing the job KYSA
and KLL people should be
doing.
“Would they be able to
contribute?” Walsh asked of
KYSA and KLL. “Aren’t you
relieving them of what would
be their responsibility?”
Holland noted the shorter
leases for running KLL Park
has had an impact.
“It has come up many
times it’s hard to put in a lot of
money when the lease is up,”
he said.
J.T. Hager liked the idea of
people pitching in.
“The men you talked
about, that’s fantastic,” Hager
said. “The project is fantastic.
It would be good to look at
the whole situation out there.”
Walsh said the project
sounds good, but noted so do
others.
“I think it’s a great proj-
ect, with fantastic volunteers,”
Walsh said. “But I know there
are other projects brewing. We
have to say no to somebody.”
Holland said a formal bud-
get and project application
will be submitted in time
for the March 8 Parks Board
meeting.
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