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PAGE A2, KEIZERTIMES, AUGUST 18, 2017 City employee raises cause stir presented by DRIVE A LITTLE – SAVE A BUNCH! 3893 COMMERCIAL ST SE • SALEM MORE INFO AT NORTHERNLIGHTSTHEATREPUB.COM Lights, Comedy, Laughs! UFC215 - Sat, Sept 9 Johnson v. Borg FLYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP BOUT 9 FIGHTS IN ALL ON THE HUGE SCREEN Live Fights at 5:00 (21 & Over) - Tickets $13 Reserved Seating Available Now Online. LIVE STAND-UP COMEDY! SATURDAY, AUG 19 Benji Wright & Andrew Sleighter 7 pm & 9 pm (21 & Over) Admission only $10. Reserved Seating for this show. AUGUST MOVIE SERIES Throw Back Before You Go Back! Hook (PG) Aug 22 - 24 Ind. Jones & the L. Crusade (PG-13) Aug 29 - 31 Tickets only $2.00. See website for schedule. Today in History Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest during a coup by high-ranking members of his own government, military and police forces. — August 18, 1991 Food 4 Thought “When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It’s a whole different way of thinking.” — Elayne Boosler, comic, born Aug. 18, 1952 The Month Ahead Through Sunday, August 27 Enlightened Theatrics presents You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown located on 187 High Street NE, Suite 300. Performances at 7:30 p.m. with 2:30 p.m. matinees on Sunday. Reserved seating, admission $20 to $30. Youth under 18 $5 off. enlightenedtheatrics.org/ charliebrown/. Friday, August 18 Syco Billy concert at Keizer Rapids Park, 1900 Chemawa Road N. Gates open at 5 p.m., show starts at 6:30 p.m. kraorg.com. 503-910-3232. No outside food or beverages and no pets inside the amphitheater. Friday, August 18 – Sunday, August 20 The Elsinore Theatre presents Little Shop of Horrors located on 170 High Street SE. Performances at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. Tickets $25 to $45. elsinoretheatre.com. Salem-Keizer Volcanoes EclipseFest, BrewFest, NASA Presentations and baseball game each day. For tickets and more information, go to http://www.milb.com/ index.jsp?sid=t578. Friday, August 18 – Saturday, September 2 Pentacle Theatre presents Monty Python’s Spamalot, located on 324 52nd Avenue NW. pentacletheatre.org for show times and tickets. 503-400-6582. Saturday, August 19 Ty Curtis concert at Keizer Rapids Park, 1900 Chemawa Road N. Gates open at 5 p.m., show starts at 6:30 p.m. kraorg.com. 503-910-3232. No outside food or beverages and no pets inside the amphitheater. Dance with music by Charles and the Angels at Keizer/ Salem Area Seniors, Plymouth Drive Northeast. $5 per person. All are welcome to weekly Bingo, every Wednesday from 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Admission is $5.50. Individuals will have a chance to win monetary prizes, free game cards and Daubers. Sunday, August 20 Renowned violinist David Klinkenberg (with Brady Goss opening) concert at Keizer Rapids Park, 1900 Chemawa Road N. Gates open at 4:30 p.m., show starts at 6:00 p.m. This concert has an admission of $15. Tickets available at Uptown Music in Keizer at the concert venue. kraorg. com. 503-910-3232. No outside food or beverages and no pets inside the amphitheater. By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes Salary surveys for unrepresented em- ployees spurred debate among members of the Keizer City Council during a meeting Monday, Aug. 7. The city conducts salary surveys of comparable employees at other agencies on a regular basis and then adjusts compensa- tion packages to bring them in-line with average pay for the given type of work. The city is required to perform such surveys for union-represented employees, but conducts the surveys for non-union employees as a matter of policy every four years. Unrep- resented employees generally perform su- pervisory roles. This time around Human Resources Director Machell DePina recommended raising compensation in nine of the city’s 39 job classifi cations, affecting 14 employ- ees in six departments. “The last time we performed the survey (2013) we recommended adjustments in more than half the classifi cations,” DePina said. The total cost of the cost of living (COLA) and merit adjustments – which will affect positions including the event center coordinator, legal assistant, account- ing technicians and Keizer police sergeants, among others – is $52,300. The city will absorb the additional costs through better- Keizer City Council meeting, 7 p.m. Keizer Civic Center. Thursday, August 24 Keizer Points of Interest Committee meeting, 6 p.m. Keizer Civic Center. Friday, August 25 – Monday, September 4 The Oregon State Fair at the Oregon State Fairgrounds, 2330 17th Street NE. Open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Admission is $1 to $6. Saturday, August 26 Movies in the Park at Riverfront Park. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, 2016, PG-13, 133 minutes. No charge to attend. Donations are suggested. Patrick Lamb concert at Keizer Rapids Park, 1900 Chemawa Road N. Gates open at 5 p.m., show starts at 6:30 p.m. kraorg.com. 503-910-3232. No outside food or beverages and no pets inside the amphitheater. Dance with music by Country Gents at Keizer/Salem Area Seniors, Plymouth Drive Northeast. $5 per person. All are welcome to weekly Bingo, every Wednesday from 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Admission is $5.50. Individuals will have a chance to win monetary prizes, free game cards and Daubers. By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes New visitors to Keizer Rapids Park might not realize that the sand volleyball courts replaced a smaller court in- stalled by an Eagle Scout as his service project. How and whether to hon- or that contribution sparked some intense debate among the members of the Keizer Parks Advisory Board Tuesday, Aug. 8. The conversation had its start during public testimony when former city council- or and parks board member Richard Walsh provided an update on the Willamette Wa- ter Trail Committee and then switched hats as the father of Michael Walsh, the Eagle Scout who installed the original sand volleyball court. “We encourage the scouts that – when they make some- thing that lasts – it’s a big deal,” Richard Walsh said. “We want to encourage people to donate their time and energy. I do have a confl ict, but my prefer- ence would be for there to be something mention his name and the project.” During the meeting, parks board members voted to name the new courts after the Hans and Vicki Schneider family, who donated time, effort and fi nancial support to installing the new courts and are in the process of adding a covered shelter nearby. However, the fate of Michael Walsh’s recog- nition was left undetermined. Richard Walsh suggested that something in smaller type could be added to the fi nal dedication plaque. Michael Walsh’s original contributions are currently commemorated with a metal sign that hangs on a fence near the courts. Parks Board Member Clint Holland said he spoke to the KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald A sign near the Keizer Rapids Park volleyball courts commem- orates the efforts on a project that has since been replaced. Schneider family and they preferred that the Walsh dedi- cation remain separate from theirs. “(Hans) said they were fi ne with leaving the current mark- er in place,” Holland said. While the parks board has previously-adopted policies regarding dedications, the vol- leyball court dedications threw a wrench into the works. “We have the parameters, but this is unprecedented be- cause it was something that was replaced,” said Matt Lawyer, a parks board member. Keizer Public Works Direc- tor Bill Lawyer saw the dedi- cations as two separate issues: naming the current courts and new shelter, and recognition for projects that have been re- placed. Matt Lawyer also saw the is- sue arising again in the near fu- ture, which he said was reason enough to establish new policy. “The skate park is going to be something where we might encounter the same is- sue. It was great for this area, sudoku 3893 COMMERCIAL ST SE THIS WEEK’S MOVIE TIMES Transformers: The Last Knight (PG-13) Fri 1:00, 8:50, Sat 4:00, Sun 3:40, 6:00 Enter digits from 1-9 into the blank spaces. Every row must contain one of each digit. So must every column, as must every 3x3 square. A detached garage and truck were destroyed in a fi re on Cherry Avenue. No one was hurt, and fi refi ghters kept the fl ames away from an adjacent home. 10 YEARS AGO Feds called in to deal with coyotes Web Poll Results What are your plans during the eclipse? 71% – Staying home 47 Meters Down (PG-13) Sat 6:35, Sun 8:45 14% – Attending a viewing party/gathering Megan Leavey (PG-13) Fri 5:00, Sat 4:15, Sun 12:00 10% – Ignoring it altogether The Mummy (PG-13) Fri 9:10, Sun 1:50 Gifted (PG-13) Fri 7:15, Sun 4:00 Cars 3 (G) Fri 1:30, 3:40, 5:50, Sat 11:40, 1:50, 3:20, Sun 11:20, 1:30, 4:55 4% – Going out of town to view 0% – Leaving town to get away Captain Underpants (PG) Fri 4:20, Sat 11:00 FOR ALL SHOWTIMES GO TO NORTHERNLIGHTSTHEATREPUB.COM looking back in the KT 5 YEARS AGO Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (PG-13) Fri 2:25, 8:00, Sat 1:25, 5:30, 8:10, Sun 2:20, 6:30, 9:25 Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (PG-13) Fri 6:15, Sat 12:50, 8:30, Sun 7:05, 9:00 but the times and needs have changed. Memorialization of prior work is important,” Law- yer said. Carlson Skate Park is in need of substantial repairs for safety reason, which are be- ing prepped, but a larger re- model might be in the works. It’s named after a family that contributed substantially to the $360,000 effort. The city may end up paying for all of the new work with a parks fee, but other donors could arise prompting the need to rethink dedications. A motion to table the dis- cussion until a future meeting failed, and the dedication was approved in it’s place. How- ever, parks board members planned to invite Schneider and Michael Walsh to a future meeting to discuss how the older commemoration could be handled for the volleyball courts. Blaze barely misses Cherry Avenue home KEIZERTIMES.COM Boss Baby (PG) Fri 12:30, Sat 11:20, Sun 11:40 Add your event by e-mailing news@keizertimes.com. “That’s $120,000 in raises right when we are asking for (residents) to help us make right our police and parks.” Confl icting dedications prompt debate for parks board Monday, August 21 David Klinkenberg will perform at the Keizer Rotary Amphitheater at Keizer Rapids Park from 9 a.m. until 10:30 a.m. to celebrate the total solar eclipse. kraorg. com. 503-910-3232. No outside food or beverages and no pets inside the amphitheater. than-expected revenues from franchise fees parks.” The approved 2017-18 budget included and liquor taxes and lower-than-expected $67,400 in cost-of-living health care costs, said Tim and merit-based raises. Wood, city fi nance director. Ryan questioned DePina said the raises only why the salary survey bring current Keizer employ- was not included as part ees within 5 percent of aver- of budget talks that took ages. place in May. “It doesn’t even bring “The budget com- them even,” DePina said. She mittee is going to look suggested failing to do so at the allocation of re- could be more costly in the sources, but I don’t think long run because of increased it is up to the budget turnover, reduced productiv- committee to determine ity and morale issues. “We do whether (unrepresented the same work as other cities employees) should be with a third of the employees, paid competitively,” re- and lower salaries would make sponded Mayor Cathy it diffi cult to recruit the ex- Clark. “The compensa- ceptional candidates.” tion is a policy decision Councilor Amy Ryan took that we have chosen issue with the timing of the raises, which will be retroac- — Amy Ryan to take care of (non- tive to July 1, and the ask itself. Keizer City Councilor union) in same manner as unionized employees.” “I think we have some It still did not sit well great quality people, but as a budget committee member we approved with Ryan who voted against the imple- (COLA) raises at $67,000 in June,” Ryan mentation of pay adjustments. “$119,000 in increases when we are ask- said. “The timing is poor – not because of employees – but because we just approved ing our tax payers to step up is very unfair,” fees for police and parks. That’s $120,000 Ryan said. The increases were approved with a 5-1 in raises right when we are asking for (resi- dents) to help us make right our police and vote. Councilor Laura Reid was absent. Vote in a new poll every Thursday! GO TO KEIZERTIMES.COM Federal wildlife offi cials received a permit from the city of Keizer to shoot any coyotes that were found in the McNary Estates area. Several coyotes had been spotted on the golf course, and there were reports circling of at least two eyewitnessed coyote attacks on small pets. 15 YEARS AGO Boy’s condition improves after BB gun accident The condition of an 11-year- old Keizer boy who accidentally shot himself with a BB rifl e was upgraded from serious to fair. Eddie Quintero had been handling his older brother’s BB gun when it accidentally discharged. The BB penetrated his skull above the right ear and lodged in his brain. The boy had been alone in a bedroom of an apartment, but his older brother and mother had also been in the apartment. 20 YEARS AGO Car slams into Keizer home A drunk driver crashed into a Keizer house located on Crestwood Court at the intersection with Lockhaven Drive in the early morning. The couple in the house had been asleep. The man was arrested for drunk driving and driving with a suspended license. No one was hurt.
