SEPTEMBER 9, 2016, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A3
Freeman will run unopposed
By ERIC A. HOWALD
foundation for what she sees as
Of the Keizertimes
the work ahead.
When Kim Freemen was
“Funding is the major issue I
considering replacing a city want to see through. We live in
councilor who resigned after a great city with a really low tax
only a couple of months in of- rate, but now it’s time for us to
fi ce, her fi rst question to those decide whether the tax rate or
already holding a position on the services the city provides is
the city council was how much more important,” Freeman said.
work it would take.
Freeman is supporting the
“The responses I got were addition of fees to utility bills
anywhere
from
to create dedi-
two to 30 hours a
cated funds for
week,” said Free-
police and parks,
man.
and sees her role
The lesson she
as one of the sto-
took away from
rytellers getting
the input was sim-
the message out
ple: do the home-
to residents.
work. She’s now
“We
were
running for her
taken to task this
fi rst full term as a
year when we de-
city councilor un-
cided not to hire
Kim Freeman
opposed for Posi-
another police of-
tion 2.
fi cer, but we’ve al-
“It takes a while to feel com- ways tried to accommodate the
fortable in your understanding requests of the police chief,” she
of everything when it comes said.
to the city council, so a second
A few years ago, the city
term feels like an opportunity hired a data analyst for the po-
to see some things through to lice department that has helped
fruition and put some of the create more targeted police
knowledge I have now to good problem-solving, but Freeman
use,” she said.
knows many won’t necessarily
Prior to serving as a coun- see that as a step in the right
cilor for the past three-and-a- direction.
half years, Freeman was part of
“That person isn’t in a pa-
the city’s budget committee for trol car as a visible part of the
three years and a member of the department, so it can be hard
Volunteer Coordinating Com- to connect the dots. We’ll have
mittee for more than a decade. to do a better job of that as a
All three roles have provided council this time around,” she
insight to the inner workings said.
of municipal government and a
Continuing
discussions
around expansion of the ur-
ban growth boundary shared
by Salem and Keizer is another
KEIZER
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pects to tackle in the next four
years, although she admits that
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As far as economic develop-
ment in Keizer, Freeman said
she’s not sure that the city’s
longtime residents are ready
for vertical growth along River
Road North – constructing
housing on top of retail spaces,
for example.
“As I’ve talked with people,
they ask if that is the serious vi-
sion. People like the small-town
feeling and a two- or three-sto-
ry building is going to be a big
change,” she said. “But I think it
will happen when it’s time for it
to happen.”
In relation to discussion on
the future of parks and po-
lice and even economic issues,
Freeman has something of an
insider’s view on the state of
volunteerism in the city, which
is also going to have to be ad-
dressed by the city on several
levels sooner rather than later.
Vacancies on city commit-
tees and commissions have
been held open longer in re-
cent months before fi nding area
residents willing to step forward
and take on additional respon-
sibilities. Freeman was also one
of the volunteer coordinators
on The Big Toy Project, which
was sorely understaffed in terms
of volunteers at the time it was
built despite expecting full
shifts of volunteers who had
signed up.
“We’ve seen a decline in the
number of people who have
volunteered, and there are a
million places for people to go
and give their time,” she said.
“I think the future is going to
depend on the project. We had
several grandparents who vol-
unteered on The Big Toy who
only had grandkids living in
Keizer.”
Calling all
patriots
Keizer Elks Exalted Ruler
Dave Salisbury and mem-
ber Ron Freeman present a
request to the Keizer City
Council that Sept. 5-11 be
declared National Patriotism
Week during a city council
meeting Tuesday, Sept. 6.
Mayor Cathy Clark accepted
the proposal and made the
declaration during the meet-
ing. Sept. 17 through 23 was
declared Constitution Week
in Keizer during the meeting.
KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald
Right round
KEIZERTIMES/Lyndon A. Zaitz
Keizer Public Works Director Bill Lawyer and Mayor Cathy Clark cut a ribbon marking the offi -
cial opening of the roundabout at Chemawa Road Northeast and Verda Lane Northeast Friday,
Sept. 2.