BAGE A2, KEIZERTIMES, OCTOBER 19, 2018
GRASSROOTS
GOVERNMENT
KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald
Keizer Barks Supervisor Robert Johnson said contractors were expected to pour a new full-size
basketball court surface at Claggett Creek Bark this week.
The Keizer Parks and
Recreation Advisory
Board
held its most recent meeting on
Tuesday, Oct. 16. Here is what
was discussed.
• When the Keizer City
Council instituted a parks ser-
vices fee, one of the cuts made
to parks services was doing
away with a caretaker position
at Keizer Rapids Park. A cur-
rent city employee resides at
a home on the property and
received a discount on rent
in exchange for 20 weekly
hours of park duties ranging
from emptying trash cans to
keeping an eye on spaces not
as visible to the average user.
Keizer Parks Supervisor
Robert Johnson said, even
with additional parks em-
ployees, keeping up with the
amount of garbage being gen-
erated is diffi cult.
“One birthday party at The
Big Toy can leave a trashcan
overfl owing after a couple of
pizza boxes,” Johnson said.
After new staff was hired
the decision was made to end
the rent-discount arrange-
ment.
“Now that we’ve had to
take on that work, we are
putting the hours in at Keizer
Rapids that could be used at
other parks,” Johnson said.
Parks board members re-
quested a report on the possi-
bility of reinstating the agree-
ment, in some new form, that
was amenable to both the city
and caretaker.
“Know someone is check-
ing, it’s a deterrent,” said Jim
Taylor, a parks board member.
• Several parks projects
that are occurring as a result
of the parks fee are still un-
derway. Paths in several parks
are either being reconstructed
or resurfaced. A new full-size
basketball court was expect-
ed to be poured at Clag-
gett Creek Park this week.
A multi-sport court at Bob
Newton Park was also ex-
pected to be resurfaced before
winter arrives.
Johnson said he wasn’t cer-
tain whether new lines would
be added to the courts before
next spring. The new surfac-
es will need time to set and
striping them is weather-de-
pendent.
The court surface at New-
ton Park will be striped to in-
clude pickleball courts in ad-
dition to the tennis court that
is a longtime part of the space.
• The board plans to dis-
cuss renaming the Rickman
Community Garden after
Peggy and Jerry Moore, the
garden’s directors, at its No-
vember meeting.
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SUNDAY, OCT. 7
11 p.m. - Arrest for unlawful en-
try into a vehicle and criminal
mischief at the intersection of Al-
lendale Way NE and Keizer Road
NE.
MONDAY, OCT. 8
8:15 a.m. - Arrest for criminal
trespass in the 5000 block of Riv-
er Road N.
12:28 a.m. - Arrest on warrant at
the intersection of River Road N
and Promenade Way N.
6:30 p.m. - Arrest on warrant in
the 5000 block of River Road N.
10 p.m. - Unlawful entry into a
vehicle and theft in the 500 block
of Dennis Lane N.
10:35 p.m. - Arrest on warrant in
the 4000 block of River Road N.
10:30 p.m. - Arrest for driving
under the infl uence and illegal
possession of methamphetamine
and heroin at the intersection of
Stadium Drive NE and Chemawa
Road NE.
10:54 p.m. - Arrest on warrant
in the 6000 block of Ulali Drive
NE.
FRIDAY, OCT. 12
12:25 a.m. - Minor in possession
of marijuana in the 1000 block of
Chemawa Road N.
6:33 p.m. - Arrest for driving un-
der the infl uence and traffi c acci-
dent in the 3000 block of River
Road N.
7:20 p.m. - Arrest for stalking and
burglary in the 4000 block of Ver-
da Lane NE.
10:38 p.m. - Arrest on warrant at
the intersection of River Road N
and Menlo Drive N.
11 p.m. - Arrest for the interfer-
ing with a police offi cer at the in-
tersection of River Road N and
Menlo Drive N.
SATURDAY, OCT. 13
1:10 a.m. - Arrest on warrant at
the intersection of Cherry Ave-
nue NE and Alder Drive NE.
2:05 a.m. - Arrest for assault in
the 700 block of Plymouth Drive
NE.
4:00 a.m. - Arrest for criminal
mischief in the 1000 block of
Clearview Avenue NE.
12:37 p.m. - Arrest for the unlaw-
ful possession of methamphet-
amine in the 5000 block of River
Road N.
TUESDAY, OCT. 9
1:02 a.m. - Motor Vehicle Theft
in the 5000 block of River Road
N.
11:40 p.m. - Arrest on warrant in
the 3000 block of Cherry Avenue
NE.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 10
10 p.m. - Arrest on warrant for
disorderly conduct in the 3000
block of partridge Lane NE.
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6 a.m. - Arrest for criminal tres-
passing in the 5000 block of Wit-
tenberg Lane NE.
10:43 a.m. - Arrest on warrant for
the unlawful possession of meth-
amphetamine in the 4000 block
of River Road N.
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Renewed KBD traffi c
team may curb traffi c
fatalities, history shows
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
With the swearing in of fi ve
new police offi cers, the Keizer
Police Department (KPD) will
be able to fully staff its traffi c
team. While that will mean
more warnings and tickets for
drivers, it could also have a
life-saving effect.
The last time Keizer had a
fully staffed traffi c team, there
were no fatalities in its fi nal
fi ve years. In the past fi ve years,
when Keizer’s traffi c team
consisted of one sergeant and
one patrol offi cer, there were
six fatalities.
Sgt. Trevor Wenning, who is
taking on a different role with-
in the department and turn-
ing over the traffi c unit to Sgt.
David LeDay, shared citation
data for the past year with the
Keizer Traffi c Safety, Bikeways
and Pedestrian Committee at
its meeting Thursday, Oct. 11.
Wenning’s fi nal message was
there is a cost in terms of safety
and lives when the traffi c team
isn’t around.
“Keizer streets are danger-
ous because we haven’t had
a traffi c team in quite some
time,” Wenning said. “We’ve
been hearing a lot of chatter
about [vehicles traveling] 50-
60 mph on River Road. It will
be interesting, in a year’s time,
to see if we are hearing the
same thing.”
Aside from two-offi cer traf-
fi c team in the past year, KPD’s
efforts
bolstered by three
grants that cover overtime pay
for traffi c enforcement. A grant
for targeted DUII enforcement
led to an additional 55 hours
of enforcement that resulted in
119 citations or warnings, sev-
en DUII arrests and the serv-
ing of six felony warrants.
A grant targeting speed
limit enforcement, covered 68
hours of overtime that result-
ed in 367 citations or warn-
ings, an average of 3.8 stops
per hour. The grant requires a
“match” of traditional traffi c
enforcement covered by KPD.
The hours used to match the
grant generated 113 citations
or warnings, an average of 4.1
per hour.
“With the speed grant, the
goal was stopping anyone 10
mph over the limit and issuing
a warning, and citations kicked
in at a level slightly higher than
that. It was not stopping any-
body and everything,” Wen-
ning said.
A safety grant for target-
ing drivers not using seat belts
generated 44 hours of overtime
and 158 citations or warnings,
an average of 3.6 per hour.
KPD has applied for the
same grants in the coming
year. If the grants are awarded,
Keizerites can expect addition-
al enforcement over and above
the newly-reinstated traffi c
team.