JUNE 24, 2016, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A3
Skate park repairs falter
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Clear skies made for a great day
of painting at the mural at Town
and Country Lanes Tuesday, June
21.
Kathy Haney will conduct a
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urday, July 16, at Town and Coun-
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20. The attendees who also paint a
portrait on the mural will receive a
$25 stipend.
Registration is available at the
Keizer Art Association in the Keiz-
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By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
A group once interested
in refurbishing the surfaces of
Keizer’s Carlton Skate Park
has pulled out of the project.
Keizerite Joe Bazan and
owners of Lincoln City-
based Dreamland Skateparks
presented a proposal to the
Keizer Parks and Recreation
Advisory Board in November
2014 and requested $12,000
in matching funds to cover
the costs of resurfacing
the park and enhancing its
offerings.
Bazan
returned
in
February 2015 with a revised
proposal asking for $5,000,
which was unanimously
approved by the board.
At a meeting of the
parks board Tuesday, June
14, Robert Johnson, Keizer
parks manager, informed the
members of the parks board
that plans had fallen through.
“The individual interested
in resurfacing Carlson Skate
Park is no longer interested.
It puts $5,000 back in the
matching grant pot for
someone else to take the
lead, or for other projects
that surface in the coming
year,” Johnson said.
Carlson
Skate
Park
opened in July 1999, but has
since fallen into disrepair.
Cracks and worn surfaces
have meant that regular
skateboarders and BMX
bikers gather at the park
and then spend a good deal
of their riding time in the
parking lot rather than on
the ramps and bowls of the
skate park.
At the time of the 2015
proposal, Bazan hoped to
revamp much of the park at
KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald
Isaiah Kraemer fl ies above a rim at Carlson Skate Park Monday,
June 20.
a total cost of approximately
$32,000, with grants and
sponsorships covering costs
not incurred by the city.
“The majority of the park
has no real transition, a lot of
obstacles weren’t positioned
correctly and they added
pointless things (at the time
it was built),” Bazan said in
2015.
With the return of
the money to the parks
matching-grant
program,
members of the board made
no motion to earmark it for
Carlson Skate Park.
“Are we interested in
pursuing it?” asked Dylan
Juran, a member of the board
“I think it is worthwhile.”
Board
member
Jim
Taylor noted that the longer
repairs are delayed the more
expensive the project is likely
to get.
“At some point, it’s going
to become a liability,” said
Bill Lawyer, director of
Keizer Public Works.
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mayor,
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The Keizer mayor’s chair
and three seats on the city
council will be up for grabs
in November, and interested
candidates can register now
through Aug. 30.
Mayor Cathy Clark’s fi rst
two-year term is expiring,
as are the four-year terms of
councilors Dennis Koho, Kim
Freeman and Marlene Parsons.
Koho is resigning his seat
on July 1 due to health con-
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placement will be appointed
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after he vacates the seat.
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