SEPTEMBER 22, 2017, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A3
KPD volunteers honored by council School approves
new teachers, staff
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
The Keizer City Council
honored a trio of Keizer Police
Department (KPD) volunteers
as the Volunteers of the Quarter
Monday, Sept. 18.
Jacki Wolf, Traci Moore and
Joseph Haggard all assist the
department with fl eet services
and have done so for the past
year.
“They inspect, restock, and
clean vehicles inside and out, as
well as troubleshoot mechanical
issues, transport vehicles for ser-
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Keizer Mayor Cathy Clark, Keizer Department volunteers Traci Moore, Joseph Haggard and Jacki
Wolf with KPD Chief John Teague.
vices, respond to a wide array
of requests, and participate in
planning and decision-making
discussions” in addition to oth-
er duties, wrote Dorothy Diehl,
KPD’s community service of-
fi cer, in a nomination letter.
“Without the work of these
volunteers, the KPD would
need to commit signifi cantly
more staff time and resources
(to these tasks).”
Wolf is a retired teacher,
Moore is a 9-1-1 dispatcher at
Clackamas County, and Hag-
gard is a retired medical equip-
ment fi eld engineer who now
runs a mobile canning business.
“We get about half of a full
time employee out of these
three and it’s our pleasure to
recognize them,” said KPD
Chief John Teague at the meet-
ing.
Senior casino trip planned
The Keizer/Salem Area Seniors (K/SAS)
will be celebrating fall with a bus trip to Chi-
nook Winds Casino on Thursday, Oct. 19 at 10
a.m.
A $15 ticket gets you $3-off-coupon to any
restaurant in the casino, a $10 free slot play, and
raffl e tickets for prizes during the bus ride.
Tickets are limited to the fi rst 55 people
who sign up at the Keizer/Salem Area Seniors,
930 Plymouth Drive. Any questions should be
directed to Chairperson Val Jean Pease at 503-
391-9093.
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Also approved was the sec-
ond annual Safe and Welcom-
ing Schools Resolution, aimed
at assuring high quality for
all students by not tolerating
discrimination, hazing, harass-
ment, intimidation, bullying,
cyberbullying, or menacing of
students.
The Spotlight on Success
portion of the meeting hon-
ored Shirley Igou and Hsashi
Uchida for their volunteer
work with students at Keizer
Elementary School.
It also honored district bus
drivers for winning a statewide
skills contest involving an ob-
stacle course and a written test.
The board approved many
personnel actions, including
the following for the McNary
attendance area:
• Hiring Angela Fitts, Mc-
Nary, and Eduardo Rodriguez,
Weddle Elementary School, as
temporary full-time teachers.
• Hiring Rachel Martin,
Weddle, as a fi rst-year proba-
tion part-time teacher.
• Hiring MaCherie Doer-
fl er, Valerie Duncan, and Mat-
thew Williams, Claggett Creek
Middle School; and Kalin
Smoot, Keizer Elementary, as
fi rst-year probation part-time
teachers.
• Hiring Jocelyn Hopper
and Michelle Merritt, Weddle,
as second-year probation part-
time teachers.
• Hiring Deborah Crueger,
Gubser and Cummings ele-
mentary schools, as a third-year
probation full-time teacher.
• Resignations of Teresa
Alfaro and Beth Malmsten as
Keizer Elementary teachers.
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Of the Keizertimes
A supplemental general
fund budget of $479,480,091
was approved by the Salem-
Keizer School Board on Tues-
day, Sept. 12.
The general fund supple-
ment will add eight reserve
full-time teaching positions,
three full-time drug and alco-
hol counselors, fi ve full-time
English language development
teachers, and one full-time
STEM (science, engineering,
technology, and math) teacher.
It will also provide $100,000
for attendance strategy sup-
port; add social workers, men-
tal health staff, or additional
counselors, for three full-time
staffers; add resources for ac-
cessible educational materials;
provide resources for elemen-
tary school physical education
equipment and middle school
athletics; enable hands-on sci-
ence activities for kindergarten
through fi fth grade; add soft-
ware licenses for middle school
intervention courses; provide
a full-time position for added
translation support; add adjust-
ments for behavioral learning;
and transfer $4.5 million to the
2018 bond capital fund.
The board also approved
several grants, the largest of
which was a $406,884 Carl D.
Perkins Career and Technical
Education Grant from the Or-
egon Department of Education
to expand secondary educa-
tion programs. The remaining
grants included $20,486 from
the University of Oregon for a
freshman advisory at McNary
High School.
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