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APRIL 14, 2017, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A3 School board lowballs charter school on 1st funding offer By HERB SWETT Of the Keizertimes Funding negotiation for charter renewal of the How- ard Street Charter School will start at the same 85 percent of enrollment as for the other three charter schools in the Salem-Keizer School District. The School Board had ap- proved Howard Street’s re- newal request in January, and the funding level was the only term to which the district and the charter school had not agreed. Howard Street has been funded at 100 percent of enrollment. The district administra- tion had recommended 85 Not the best way to haul lumber, no KEIZERTIMES/Lyndon A. Zaitz A tree came crashing down on top of a truck in the Gubser neighborhood during a windstorm Friday, April 7. puzzle answers Pucker up! percent, but many audience members, who praised the ac- complishments of the school, argued in favor of continuing 100 percent funding. One said a “one-size-fi ts-all” level was not likely to work well. However, the board vot- ed for 85 percent, with only Marty Heyen dissenting. In other business, the board approved a 10-year fi ber net- work agreement with the city of Salem. For an annual fee of $10,000, the district will use city rights of way for its net- work. The board approved fi ve grants, the largest $60,000 from Business Oregon, a state agency, to continue the envi- ronmental assessment work at CTEC. A $29,453 grant from the Community Resource Trust will fund evaluation of the effectiveness of CTEC programs. Also approved were $10,500 from Early Leaning Hub, Inc., for parenting edu- cation classes; $9,635 from the Oregon Department of Edu- cation for feeding programs; and $1,000 from ODE for career and technical educa- tion programs at North Salem High School. Personnel actions approved by the board included the fol- lowing in the McNary High School attendance area: • Temporary full-time teaching contracts for Kalynn Hockett at Claggett Creek Middle School and Heather Brower and Katelynn Meisen- heimer at Keizer Elementary School. • Administrator actions for Kristina Meyer at Clear Lake Elementary School and Kacey Parks and Jonathan Shrout at Claggett Creek. • Accelerated advancement to contract status for Nicole de Blasi and Megan Ward at McNary and Sally Mann at Whiteaker Middle School. The Spotlight on Success portion of the meeting hon- ored Jose Moqueda with spe- cial recognition for extraordi- nary effort and was presented by Claggett Creek. Mosqueda, the school’s security specialist and an assistant coach, had performed the Heimlich ma- neuver on a student who was choking in the cafeteria. Superintendent Christy Perry honored the leader- ship teams at Claggett Creek and Stephens Middle School for their work in connection with the district’s strategic plan. The board proclaimed the week of May 1-5 as Teacher Appreciation Week. The district budget com- mittee, which includes all the board members, will meet at 6 p.m. April 25 to hear Perry’s budget message. The meeting will be at the Services Sup- port Center, 2575 Commer- cial St. SE, Salem. Gervais farmer wins big at Rotary banquet A Gervais farmer and a resident of Browns- ville were the top winners at Rotary Club of Keizer’s annual banquet held at the Keizer Civ- ic Center on Saturday, April 8. John Zielinski bought a ticket from his brother Bob Zielinski and won the grand prize of $10,000 worth of gold and silver. John has bought his raffl e tickets from his brother every year for more than a quarter century. The winner said he was ‘pleasantly shocked’ to have won the big prize, but added that he doesn’t buy the raffl e tickets to win but to sup- port a ‘wonderful organization that does great things for the community.” Sarah Curtis of Brownsville bought her ticket from relative Doug Lusk and won the second prize, a $1,200 travel voucher. Lusk, a member of the Rotary Club, has been buying tickets for his family members for the last six years. Asked what she thinks she might do with the voucher she said “Someplace that doesn’t require a passport, probably Hawaii.” The Rotary Club of Keizer raises about $45,000 a year from the raffl e party. The money helps fund the clubs community service proj- ects. More than $750,000 in projects have been completed by the club in Keizer over the past 50 years. SPRINGSPECIALS 19 $ 99 per month * *Monthly rate is $19.99 with 6 month agreement. 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