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PAGE A6, KEIZERTIMES, MAY 5, 2017 Partial wins for community orgs in city budget By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes The city’s budget plan- ning kicked into high gear at the fi rst meeting of the Keizer Budget Advisory Committee Tuesday, May 2. The meeting largely con- sisted of reviewing the pro- posed budgets from each de- partment with some limited discussion of each (for more on those discussions, check next week’s edition of the Keizer- times). The other major portion of the meeting was dedicated to public testimony for organi- zations requesting a portion of the Iris City’s fi scal pie. In many cases, the requests had already been fulfi lled in the proposed budget, but there were a few notable exceptions. • The Keizer Chamber of Commerce requested $3,659 in direct fi nancial support, but the current proposal only allo- cates $1,500. The organization also requested that Civic Cen- ter rental fee be waived for fi ve nights during the year, a value of $2,330. That request is not fulfi lled in the current pro- posed budget, but Tim Wood, Keizer fi nance director, said it could likely be accommodated with some blackout dates. The Chamber will benefi t from roughly $9,000 in donated po- lice and public works staff time around the Chamber’s two pa- rades. • The Keizer Community Library requested $9,936, but only $8,000 is currently allo- cated. • The Keizer Peer Court requested $10,750 in support, but only $10,500 was allocated. • There is also a slight dis- crepancy in requests from the city’s three neighborhood as- sociations – a total request of $1,100 and a total allocation of $1,300 – but Wood said the balance would line up as the planning progresses. Three requests were not in- cluded at all: • A request for $5,000 to help fund a program coordina- tor position overseeing efforts to combat homelessness at the Mid-Willamette Valley Coun- cil of Governments. • There is also an outstand- ing request for $8,000 from the Keizer Parks Foundation to cover costs associated with the event marking the eclipse in Keizer Rapids Park. The paperwork does not specify whether the group is looking for direct fi nancial support or in-kind donation of services. • Meredith Mooney, a board member of Keizer United, a non-profi t group supported several local youth efforts is seeking $2,000 in fi nancial support while the group looks for a new home for its annual fundraiser. Requests from the Salem- Keizer Education Foundation and the Boys & Girls Club of Salem, Polk and Marion Counties, totaling $8,000, were included in the proposed bud- get. None of the allocations are set in stone and will not be un- til the city council approves the budget in June. In addition to hearing from leaders of several organizations making requests, the com- mittee also heard from Carol Doerfl er, a part-time cross- ing guard at Cummings El- ementary School. The school administration and neighbors want to see sidewalks installed on Delight Street North to re- duce the number of students walking in the street before and after school. “It is downright scary to watch the kids coming and go- ing,” Doerfl er said. “We’re now pushed out another year and we won’t get this done until 2019 or 2020. Try to help us get this project done.” Only 50 of the roughly 440 students at Cummings ride a bus. The remainder either walk or are dropped off by parents and guardians. Currently, there isn’t a sidewalk on any of the streets around the school. Public Works Director Bill Lawyer said the current de- sign for a solution is expensive, particularly as a result of two homes that sit below street level and could become drain- age problems, but that he wants to start working with city en- gineers on a new plan in the next quarter. “If we step up those efforts, we can then go to the school with a plan in-hand,” Lawyer said. The next meeting of the budget committee was Thurs- day, May 4. If needed the com- mittee will meet again Tuesday, May 9. Keizer man heads to trial on rape, abuse charges A Keizer man charged with continued to go unreported eight counts of rape, 11 counts were it not for a witness to some of sexual abuse and one count of the incidents who reported of sexual penetration with a it to their pastor in 2015. The foreign object faced a jury for witness was encouraged by the the fi rst time last week after pastor to contact police. In a document being arrested in detailing Avdeyev’s December 2015. interrogation by The charges Keizer police stem from acts that detectives, Avdeyev allegedly took place admitted to between 1999 and touching his victim 2002 and involved inappropriately after two victims under the more than two hours age of 14. N. Avdeyev of conversation. Keizer Police An hour later, he D e p a r t m e n t detectives arrested Nikolay admitted to sexual intercourse Avdeyev, 52, a Keizer resident with the girl, but attempted to on the 1300 block of Angie Way defer his culpability by claiming her “childish-adolescent love” NE, on Dec. 3, 2015. According to court enticed him. Further investigation yielded documents, Avdeyev began sexually abusing and raping his a prior history of suspicious primary victim when she was actions. Two additional youth 11 years old and continued victims accused Avdeyev of for three years. The abuse was inappropriate touching and discovered in 2002, but the a third accused him of sexual family did not notify police abuse, but none of the charges citing religious beliefs. Avedyev Avdeyev is facing are the result reportedly ask for forgiveness of those incidents. Avdeyev’s trial was scheduled from the victim’s parents. The crimes might have to wrap up Wednesday, May 3. 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