AUGUST 12, 2016, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A7
OFFICERS: Fees could range School supplies needed
from $1.35 to $9.25 per bill
(Continued from Page A1)
If the fee were to be charged per dwelling,
which means the fee would be assessed for each
residence in an apartment complex as well as
businesses, the rate would drop to $7-$8 per
year – $1.35 per bill for one offi cer, $6.75 for
all fi ve.
“One of the challenges we face is that
staffi ng costs aren’t static,” Wood said. “Cost
of living increases, health insurance costs and
PERS contributions all go up, and any fee will
have to have some sort of escalation clause.”
City Manager Chris Eppley said that
contributions to the Public Employees
Retirement System (PERS) are scheduled to
increase by $200,000 this year alone and similar
increases can be expected every two years.
“Right when you get to the point of
thinking you can do this, PERS hits you with
another increase,” Eppley said.
Teague said the fi ve offi cers would fi ll voids
in the current roster. One offi cer would be
assigned to traffi c control, two would be added
to patrol shifts in the evening and night, one
would become a property crime detective
and one would be added to the Community
Response Unit, which specializes in longer
term investigations.
“The traffi c unit began in 1994 with four
offi cers. There’s one now, and 11,000 more
people. We also have the same number of
detectives as we had in 1994,” Teague said. “We
don’t have a property crime detective and, at
any given time, there are 30 cases waiting to
be worked.”
Depending on who ends up fi lling the roles,
recruits or lateral transfers, the timetable for
getting a new offi cer on the street can range
from one month to one year.
Wood also addressed concerns about paying
the fees for those living on fi xed incomes. At a
city council meeting last week, resident Judy
DeSpain urged the city to fi nd some other
way to collect the needed revenue. Wood said
the city has payment plans and works with a
network of nonprofi ts to help those in need
and that no one was likely to have their water
cut off as a result of inability to afford the fees.
The discussions about police funding
are happening at the same time the city is
considering adding fees to utility bills to
improve parks through out the city. The work
session was intended to be a primer for city
councilors to spread the word based on the
same set of facts, but Mayor Cathy Clark
stressed that it is not a question of either/or.
“This is not a debate of police vs. parks –
both are livability issues, both are valid parts of
our community – and I don’t want to set this
up as adversarial,” Clark said.
The eighth annual Salem-
Keizer Education Founda-
tion School Supply Drive
kicked off Aug. 1 and runs
through the end of the
month.
The drive goal is restock-
ing the School Supply De-
pot, a permanent, sustainable
resource that provides year-
round supplies to Salem-
Keizer schools in need.
Community
members
can donate school supplies at
the more than 85 businesses
and organizations in Salem
and Keizer. The drive helps
take pressure off local teach-
ers who often pay for school
supplies out of their own
pockets.
Items needed include:
composition
notebooks,
alarm
clocks,
water
color
paints, dry erase
markers, Sharp-
ies, math graph
paper,
9-volt
batteries, baby
wipes,
glue
sticks, colored
pencils, scissors,
staplers and sta-
ples, paper clips,
pencil
sharp-
eners,
printer
paper, scientifi c calculators,
wooden dowels, dividers,
Scotch tape, spiral notebooks,
colored markers, highlighters,
Post-It Notes,
tissues,
white
glue, masking
tape and duct
tape.
Drop-off
sites in Keizer
include: Keiz-
ertimes, Court-
house Athletic
Club, First Tech
Federal Credit
Union, Kaiser
Pe r m a n e n t e,
Oregon
State
Credit Union,
Starbucks and Town &
Country Lanes.
TRASH,
continued from Page A1
to $22.31 per bill. For a
commercial customer with a
95-gallon roll cart, rates would
increase from $30.30 to $32.42.
For a business with a three-
yard, front-load container, rates
would increase from $176.61
to $188.97.
Residential, multi-family
and commercial rates would
all increase by 5 percent under
the third plan. The average
residential customer’s bill would
increase to $22.52 per cycle. A
business with a 95-gallon roll
cart would pay $31.82. Three-
yard container rates would
increase to $185.44.
The city of Keizer collects
a franchise fee for contracted
waste management services by
Valley Recycling and Lorens
(as well as electric, natural gas
and cable television services),
but the city council must
approve all rate changes.
The second option would
call for a 4 percent increase
to residential and multi-family
carts and a 7 percent increase
to commercial services.
For a residential customer
with the three standard-sized
carts, rates would increase
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