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drop-off loop. New classrooms
– for career and technical
education, science labs and
special education – would be
added to the north end of the
building.
The district plans on
assembling a task force of
McNary area stakeholders to
hammer out specifi cs of the
any redesign if the bond passes.
While Wolfe and Jespersen
hoped to redirect some of
the growing animosity from
neighbors along Newberg
Drive toward hope for the
future, there was plenty of
grievance aired throughout the
evening.
Residents along Newberg
argue that closing two other
pedestrian gates to the McNary
campus – on Sandy Drive and
Robindale Drive – have only
served to shift the problems to
Newberg.
“What motivated us was
escalating criminal activity.
It wasn't just kids behaving
poorly, but interacting poorly
with adults living in that area,”
Eppley said.
During a question and
answer session, residents voiced
concern regarding lack of
respect on the part of parents
using Newberg to drop off
their students, the lack of
sidewalks and street lights along
Newberg Drive and the lack
of a signalized intersection at
the entrance to the school on
Lockhaven.
The
most
resounding
moment of the proceedings
came when a resident of
Newberg Drive asked the
residents of Robindale and
Sandy in attendance what
should be done. “Close the
gate,” was a near-unanimous
refrain.
While it was the consensus
of the audience, Wolfe said it
wasn't something the school
would act on immediately.
“The more barriers that we
can remove for students getting
(to school) is one of the things
we have to balance,” Wolfe said.
Some of the solutions
proposed included expanding
the number of parking passes
sold, having staff park off
campus and shuttled in, creating
park-and-ride areas for students
to utilize public transportation,
posting campus monitors at
the gates and opening all three
during drop-off and pick-
up times, and having a Keizer
traffi c patrol offi cer stationed at
the Lockhaven entrance during
drop-off to keep traffi c fl owing.
The sheer number of
complaints
and
potential
solutions was illustrative of the
size of the problem, Jespersen
said.
“If every person in this
room was passionate about the
same solution, we would do it,”
he said.
The one idea that seemed
to fi nd some favor with the
offi cials in attendance was
opening the school to students
earlier. Currently, the school
doors open at 7 a.m. and the
fi rst class begins at 7:35 a.m.
Opening the doors earlier
might spread the number of
cars utilizing Newberg over a
longer time frame and reduce
bumper-to-bumper jams.
While much of the
discussion focused on student
activity and expectations,
some in attendance felt that
students should not be blamed,
or punished, for the actions of
parents.
“I feel like it's the parents
who are most disrespectful as
far as traffi c goes. How do we
get them involved in whatever
happens with this situation?
They need to be good
neighbors,” said one resident.
SMOKING: ‘Enforcement is
beyond our scope’
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property and irritates his
wife's allergies. He said most
people he has approached in
the park either comply with
requests not to smoke or leave
the area.
Board
member
Matt
Lawyer balked at the idea
because the city lacks
resources for enforcement.
“We have an increase in
(thefts from cars) and are we
going to leverage police time
to addressing the issue of no
smoking in parks?” Lawyer
said.
Board member Jim Taylor
said enforcement was not an
issue the parks board should
deal with.
“Enforcement is beyond
K9,
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too far. Bruno passed away less
than 24 hours later.
Bruno and Keniston have
our scope. Our scope is
deciding whether we want
to allow people to smoke in
parks,” Taylor said. “I think
if we had a rule, 70 percent
would abide by that.”
Board member Donna
Bradley suggested establishing
smoking areas and parks
where they made sense.
“I think that's better than
signs because that will prompt
people to sneak around and
do it. If you set a place, people
are more likely to go to that
place,” Bradley said.
The board started out with
a motion to ban smoking in
Keizer parks, but that failed in
a 3-2 vote.
Board member David
Louden said a ban or signs
is not going to stop those
intent on smoking a variety
of substances.
“I've been down at Keizer
Rapids a lot in the past couple
of months and there is a lot
of smoking of various things
down by the disc golf course.
I'm not sure a ban on that
will stop what happens there
because the only people that
go down there are the ones
who do this sort of stuff,”
Louden said.
A motion to establish
smoking areas in larger parks
and no smoking rules in other
spaces passed in a 5-1 vote.
Smoking areas will likely be
designated by signs, but board
members were aligned against
any sort of covered spaces.
been working together since
June of 2014. Bruno served
the citizens of Keizer in
several ways, as a tracking and
apprehension K9, but also as
an educational K9. Bruno and
Offi cer Keniston gave several
presentations a year to school-
aged children.
Bruno was purchased in
large part by donations from
the citizens of Keizer. In the
next few months the Keizer
Police Department will begin
the process of purchasing
another K9.
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