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
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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.
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