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Cab insurance dropped off to next meeting
By CRAIG MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
A decision to raise insur-
ance limits on cabs in Keizer
has been delayed.
The issue was brought up
by city attorney Shannon
Johnson during the April 4
Keizer City Council meeting
in the form of two ordinances
and one resolution.
“Salem is where most local
taxis are, but they can operate
here,” Johnson said. “Appar-
ently to operate now in Salem
you have to have $2 million in
insurance, while we are cur-
rently at $200,000. The pro-
posal is to increase our insur-
ance limits to $1 million.”
Councilor Amy Ryan not-
ed only fi ve councilors were
present, since Dennis Koho
and new councilor Bruce An-
derson will be sworn in at the
April 18 council meeting.
“I move to table the ordi-
nance. This deserves our full
attention,” Ryan said. “I want
to see a full council vote on it
as a unifi ed group. There is a
lot of information to look at
before we make a decision.”
As such, Ryan made a mo-
tion to delay the topic until the
April 18 meeting. The motion
died for the lack of a second.
The next motion was to
approve the fi rst ordinance,
dealing with licensing proce-
dures and fees.
“I appreciate wanting all
seven people on board, but this
is the fi rst one on the table,”
mayor Cathy Clark said.
The motion was approved
4-1, with Ryan against it.
After a motion was made
to approve the second motion,
Clark had a question.
“With the fi rst one com-
ing back for a second reading
(since it wasn’t a unanimous
vote), does that not impact this
one?” the mayor asked.
Johnson said that was in-
deed the case.
“They are together,” he
said. “It would be preferable
to make them together at the
second reading.”
With that, the motion was
withdrawn and the topic will
be brought up again on April
18.
In other business April 4:
• Nate Brown, Commu-
nity Development director for
Keizer, addressed an ongoing
rumor that was brought up
again in a recent Keizertimes
letter to the editor.
“We have done a search of
property ownership,” Brown
said. “WinCo does not own
any property in Keizer, except
for maybe a home. We would
be more than excited to work
with any grocery store that
wants to operate a full-service
grocery store here. We pride
ourselves on being very de-
velopment friendly. We would
work absolutely with any de-
veloper that wants to operate a
grocery store in Keizer.
“But they do not own
property,” he added. “The
Keizertimes had a great article
about the grocery store po-
tential in Keizer. There is a
minimal space they need. We,
as a city, don’t have the abil-
ity to condemn property and
turn it over to a developer. We
have strict limitations we have
to live under.”
Clark emphasized a store
coming in would be a private
business decision, not a city
development decision.
“This is a rumor I’ve heard
more than once,” she said. “We
are in the business of saying yes
where we can.”
• Most fees were waived
for a Boy Scouts of America
Camporee at Keizer Rapids
Park, taking place April 29
through May 1. The camporee
is a scout competition event.
Byron Meadows noted 26
troops from the area came last
year. About 250 people are ex-
pected this year.
“Last year was a signifi cant
return on the investment,”
councilor Marlene Parsons
said. “It looked better when
you left than when you came.”
Meadows said the idea is
scouts do projects around the
park in exchange for fees be-
ing waived.
“With 250 pairs of hands,
we can get a lot of work done,”
he said.
Councilor Kim Freeman
visited the park last year while
the scouts were on hand.
“It was amazing to see the
tents and all the things going
on,” Freeman said. “It was a big
benefi t for the community.”
KEIZERTIMES/Craig Murphy
Mayor Cathy Clark (left) recognizes Gayle McMurria-Bachik
(middle) and Mardi Smith (right) from the Keizer Heritage Cen-
ter with a proclamation April 4.
Councilors unanimously
approved a motion to waive all
fees except for the $55 appli-
cation fee.
• Revisions to the Keizer
Development Code were ap-
proved, which bring city code
in line with state statues. The
revisions relate to the stan-
dards governing the adjust-
ment of property lines as well
as pre-application conferences.
The changes were previously
approved unanimously by the
Planning Commission.
“Code currently requires
that we issue a fee for the
pre-application conference,”
Brown said. “It has always been
optional. We offer the confer-
ence as a service and a benefi t.
It’s a benefi t to (applicants) as
well as the city.”
Clark liked the changes.
“This is very much in line
with how we conduct so many
functions in our city,” the may-
or said. “We are communicat-
ing for the best outcome, so
that we engage early and we
are effective.”
KPIC members look to keep on wheeling
By CRAIG MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
Flood history signs have
been under consideration at
Keizer Rapids Park for quite
a while, but there could be
more to come.
Members of the Keizer
Points of Interest Committee
(KPIC) have been in discus-
sions for about a year in re-
gards to doing a kiosk at Keiz-
er Rapids Park highlighting
the biggest fl oods along the
Willamette River in Keizer.
There’s a chance the signs
could morph into an outdoor
museum of sorts, paired with
the paddle wheel from a stern-
wheeler. Jerry Nuttbrock has
the paddle wheel from The
Jean and has met with KPIC
member Sherrie Gottfried to
discuss the idea.
“I got to see the ma-
chine,” Gottfried reported at
last month’s KPIC meeting.
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“Wow. Jerry would like to
jump on board with whatever
we want to do.”
Debbie Lockhart, deputy
city recorder, said quotes for
the signs were $900, while
Nuttbrock could place the
paddle wheel.
“It would be like an out-
door museum,” Lockhart said.
Gottfried, who chaired the
meeting, noted the size of the
wheel.
“It’s quite large,” she said.
“It’s going to be cool. We
would have to move it from
Jerry’s property to the park,
not quite like moving the old
Keizer School. He has thought
of a spot.”
Lockhart suggested keep-
ing in touch with Nuttbrock.
“Work with him and ask
him what he would want the
committee to do,” Lockhart
said. “He may have something
he wants you to do.”
In other recent KPIC busi-
ness:
• Last month’s meeting was
the fi rst of the year for KPIC.
That wasn’t the original plan,
but rather a result of having a
shortage of members. There
are still two vacancies, with
various members unable to
make meetings leading to a
lack of quorum.
As it was, there were just
enough members present for
last month’s meeting to hap-
pen, as four people were pres-
ent.
• Chair Jill Bonney-Hill
was absent. Since she wasn’t
present to deny the respon-
sibility, she was selected to
continue in that role this year.
Gottfried is continuing as the
vice chair.
• The KPIC Oral History
Project videos are continuing.
Possible subjects include Betty
and Mike Hart, as well as au-
thor Joy Beebe.
“She’s a very sharp lady,”
KPIC member Anita Zahn-
iser said of Beebe, a long-
time Keizerite. “She’s lived on
Sunset Drive since the 1950s.
I’m looking for pictures of
the places from then. I would
like to have Joy narrating this
as we have the old pictures.
She’ll talk about coming here
as a young wife from London,
comparing Keizer to London.”
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