FEBRUARY 17, 2017, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A9
ECLIPSE: Aftercare a road-
block even if funds weren’t
(Continued from Page A1)
twice a year to keep fi re risk
down, but we would have to be
out there mowing every week.
We don’t have the equipment,
we don’t have the manpower,”
Johnson continued.
Clint Holland, a member
of the parks advisory board
and a major force behind
park amenities like the
amphitheater, said he was
planning to wrangle a group
of volunteers to supply the re-
seeding work with the hope of
installing irrigation at a future
date.
Johnson suggested that
adding irrigation would only
further complicate the issue.
There are only two full-time
parks employees and 3-4
additional seasonal employees
hired for the busy season,
March to October.
When
Keizer
City
Councilor Bruce Anderson,
who was acting liaison for
the Keizer City Council at
the meeting, asked whether
the permit process could go
ahead if the $1,800 “magically
appeared,” Johnson reasserted
his assessment of the plan.
“We are in no condition
to take care of 7.5 acres of
additional irrigated turf,”
Johnson said.
Parks board member Matt
Lawyer said the shortage of
funding for the permit and
maintenance was another
reason the city needs a stable
funding mechanism for parks.
In addition to the KRP fi eld,
a shortage of funds is keeping
the city from maintaining its
existing parks.
“I would be a hard ‘no’ vote
(on moving forward with the
permit) given the issues already
needing to be addressed,”
Lawyer said.
The parks board is currently
collecting data from a survey
asking residents whether
they would support a fee
creating a dedicated fund
for parks maintenance and
improvements. Keizer residents
have received the survey with
their water bills during the past
two billing cycles, but it is also
available at www.keizer.org,
click on the scrolling banner at
the top of the home page.
ARTIST,
continued from Page A1
made himself a vow that anything on top
of that goal would be used for a company
truck. He ended up blowing through his
goal and soon after found himself sitting
in his new truck outside his workshop
trying to fi gure out how he was going to
fulfi ll nearly 350 online orders generated
during the course of the Street of Dreams
exhibition.
“I knew I could be successful, but it was
so much more than I expected. Some of
my customers had to wait a few months,
but we only lost a few orders,” Tate said.
Tate grew up on a farm in Canby and
that was where he started making things.
“I was always messing around with
wood and building. On a farm, there was
always something to build and build with,”
he said.
After studying architecture at Western
Oregon University, he ended up working
as a sales rep for AT&T and traveling
throughout Washington and Oregon with
the company, but he never gave up his
woodworking hobby.
“All the time I spent working with
wood helped with what I did for AT&T,”
he said. “I could go into a store and
immediately see how I could change
things to boost sales.”
A little over a year ago, he produced a
large Oregon state board for a customer
whose home was going to be featured
on the Salem Tour of
Homes. It generated
several other orders for
state boards and custom
projects. He started
fi lling the orders from his
garage before contracting
for a workshop on River
Road. Another customer
invited him to be part of
a décor show in Salem
and the ball slowly kept
rolling.
Tate was nearly at the
end of his fi nancial rope
when he decided to cold
call Street of Dreams.
Everything since has felt
like chasing a tornado.
He's hired a part-time
Submitted
bookkeeper and two A collection of Timbr and Moss’s trademark state boards.
part-time builders to
individual state,” he said.
help him fi ll orders.
Tate has developed designs for every
Tapping into relationships he built as
a sales rep and other contacts he's made state in the Union and has sold about 40
since those days, Tate's been able to build different ones.
Beyond the business itself, Tate wants to
up a steady stock of the wood he needs
lay
the foundation for a youth program that
and a loyal customer base, but he's got
brings students into the shop and teaches
several other irons in the fi re.
He's in talks with a Portland sports team them how to tap their creativity and turn
for a potential new line of products and it into entrepreneurship opportunities.
“When we all work together, we all
he's constantly trying to add to the look of
his bestsellers, the state boards, which start win together. Every customer and client
for as little at $38 for smaller ones and can is part of this journey and I want them to
run in the hundreds of dollars for larger feel like they were part of something they
believe in,” Tate said.
pieces.
For more information about Timbr and
“We are going to be introducing
skylines on the state boards and then Moss products, visit www.timbrandmoss.
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