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School board votes
on land action Tues.
By Keizertimes Staff
The Salem-Keizer School
District (SKSD) Board of Di-
rectors is expected to vote on
whether to pursue eminent
domain action on land owned
by Keizer’s St. Edward Cath-
olic Church at its meeting
Tuesday, Nov. 13.
The meeting begins at 6
p.m. at the Support Services
Center, 2575 Commercial
Street S.E., in Salem. Time
will be provided for public
testimony.
The school district is
seeking to take ownership
of about six acres of church-
owned property northeast of
the current McNary High
School campus. The land is
needed to move forward with
planned renovations and addi-
tions to McNary so that the
school can absorb projected
growth in the student body.
If the school board decides
to move forward with an emi-
nent domain claim, the church
will have 40 days to respond
to a fair market offer or seek
resolution through the courts
or arbitration. Regardless of
where the dollar amount is fi -
nalized, the church would be
compensated for the “taking”
of the land.
The item was presented as
a fi rst reading last month with
staff recommending the board
adopt the resolution.
When asked by a mem-
ber of the school board what
would happen if the district
didn’t acquire the land from
the church, Michael Wolfe,
the school district’s chief op-
erations offi cer, said the dis-
trict would have to look for
6 acres elsewhere, and while
part of the process is to min-
imize disruption, one option
for the board to consider is
acquiring nearby residential
neighborhoods.
At the October meeting,
Wolfe told members of the
board that there was still space
to fi nd common ground with
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Commissioners’ table. Camer-
on was holding onto a 7-point
lead over Shelaswau Crier.
Willis was edging Bill Burgess
with a 3-point lead.
In the Oregon Legislature,
both Sen. Kim Thatcher and
Rep. Bill Post easily fended
off challenges from Democrats
Sara Grider and Dave McCall,
respectively.
In the biggest statewide
race, Gov. Kate Brown ap-
peared to have earned a second
term with just over 50 percent
of the vote. Republican Knute
Buehler, earned more than 50
percent of the vote in Marion
County, but it wasn’t enough
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KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald
The Salem-Keizer School District Board of Directors is expect-
ed to vote on whether to launch eminent domain action to
acquire six acres belonging to St. Edward Catholic Church.
leaders of the church, but
comments from Rev. Gary
Zerr, St. Edward priest, make
it seem as though the two par-
ties are further apart than ex-
pected.
“We had some preliminary
discussions with the district
about potentially selling or
leasing a portion of the parish’s
property. But we were never
interested in selling all of the
bare land that the district now
wants to acquire,” Zerr said.
Zerr noted that the school
district’s appraisal of the six
acres is based on bare land –
which it currently is – and
the church likely desires an
appraisal based on the the po-
tential value if it were to be
developed.
The school district’s plan for
the six acres is to move softball
fi elds and tennis courts to the
adjacent property, which will
make way for new classrooms
and reconfi gured parking.
Under the Fifth Amend-
ment to the U.S. Constitution,
federal, state and local govern-
ments can condemn private
property and take ownership
of it for public use while com-
pensating the owner for the
fair market value.
The offi ce hours will stay
the same, Monday through
Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
but Bethell plans to use the
new location to bring new at-
tention to businesses south of
Dearborn Avenue.
“Everything from Dear-
born north does well because
it has more landscaping and
access to parking. Everything
south of Dearborn is a little
more
out-of-sight-out-of-
mind,” Bethell said. “I plan to
go door-to-door with all the
businesses south of Dearborn
in hope of creating chances
for our current members, who
are already in the loop, to sit
down with the business own-
ers in south Keizer and fi nd
to win the day.
Most attempts at statewide
measures took a drubbing at
the ballot box. The only one
to pass muster with voters was
Measure 102, which will per-
mit local bonds to be issued
for affordable housing projects
that include non-governmen-
tal partners like developers and
non-profi ts.
Measure 103, which would
have prohibited any local gov-
ernment from instituting a sales
tax on groceries – and created
permanent tax loopholes for
major grocery businesses –
what shunned by more than
57 percent of voters.
Measure 104, which would
have revised the process, re-
quired in the state Consti-
tution, for approving reve-
nue-generating changes, also
failed with 65 percent of voters
saying “no.”
Measure 105, which would
have allowed local law enforce-
ment to investigate and detain
undocumented residents even
if it was their only crime, also
failed by a large margin. More
than 62 percent of voters said
“no” to that effort.
Measure 106, which would
have reduced access to abor-
tion by prohibiting use of
“public funds” to pay for them,
was rejected by almost 64 per-
cent of voters.
Overall, Oregon had epic
voter turnout for a midterm
election. Statewide, more than
62 percent of registered voters
returned their ballots. Marion
County was also well-repre-
sented with more than 54 per-
cent of voters casting ballots.
solutions for success.”
That might be something
as big as revitalizing the Riv-
er Road corridor or as small
as fi guring out how to bet-
ter promote a business on its
current site under a recent-
ly-changed sign code.
“Ever since signing the
lease, I’ve been able to spend
more and more time on Riv-
er Road and it’s given me
a new window into what is
going on,” Bethell said. “Ev-
ery time I see something new
happening, I wonder what the
Chamber can do to benefi t
the businesses and bring that
conversation to the commu-
nity.”
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