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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