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To the Editor:
In your recent article
Fire district will consider
additional construction fees
(Keizertimes, Dec. 28), there are two
items I would like to address:
The fi rst is the overtime being
over-budget due to staff being de-
ployed to the California fi res. While
this is true, it should be noted that the
full cost of the deployment, including
overtime, is reimbursed back to the
Keizer Fire District. The net cost to
the tax payers of the District is zero.
The second item is the portion
of the article that addresses the con-
struction fees. The proposal before
the board is to amend the fee being
charged from a fl at $90.00 to 6 per-
cent of the total assessed fees. So, if
the fees totaled $4,000 the District
35K /YEAR
lottors
UNDERWATER WELDER
$38-75K /YR
Construction
fees not out
of line
would receive 6 percent
of that or $240. No, that
is not a lot of money, but
it does go much further
in recovering the costs
incurred by the District
in its fi re and safety in-
spection requirements
for new construction.
The Keizer Fire District Board is
charged with the fi nancial oversight
of the district’s fi nances. Whether that
means deploying a crew to fi ght a
forest fi re or sending the Deputy Fire
Marshall to inspect construction we
look at what the costs to the district
tax payer are. It doesn’t matter if it’s a
few hundred dollars or several thou-
sand our concern is the same: what is
the impact on the district’s taxes and
whether or not it can be mitigated or
minimized.
Chet Patterson, President
Keizer Fire District
Board of Directors
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garding future growth. At the most re-
cent presentation, representatives from
OTAK shared the outcomes of three
Oregon cities that wanted to expand
their UGBs.
An expanded UGB
and Keizer annexation
would result in houses
that would most likely be
out of the reach of cur-
rent Salem-Keizer buy-
ers. Some are concerned
that high-end homes in
an expanded UGB would
attract buyers from the Portland area.
Keizer would be a place to lay their
heads before they head off to jobs up
north. The initial buyers would be
looking for price relief from Portland
and would not necessarily buy into the
Keizer Way, meaning they would not
get involved with the city and its many
organizations.
That could end up dividing the city
between residents who sleep in Keizer
and those who call the city home and
get involved with youth sports, com-
munity events and all thngs that make
Keizer a good place to live.
There is plenty of evidence from
various examples of how expanding an
Urban Growth Boundary can positive
and negatively affect a city. There are
extraordinary costs that come with an-
nexing land into a city and preparing
the infrastructure for new develop-
ment.
There are ways to plan for the ex-
pected population growth over the
next two decades. Perhaps one solution
is to build up rather than out. The city
council needs to explore all options.
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The newest members of the Keizer
City Council (who will be sworn in
on Monday, Jan. 7) can be important
voices on the future of Keizer—if they
maintain open minds and
independent voices.
It is hard to go against
the grain, especially if you
are a new councilor—you
look to veteran council-
ors for guidance as well as
from the mayor. The posi-
tion of mayor comes with
built-in credibility on is-
sues. However there is one issue that
incoming councilors Dan Kohler and
Elizabeth Smith should maintain their
own counsel and listen to the vari-
ous points of view when it comes to
expansion of Keizer’s Urban Growth
Boundary (UGB).
The latest task force, Housing
Needs and Buildable Lands Advisory
Committee, will convene in mid-Janu-
ary and yet again discuss Keizer’s future
and make recommendations to the city
council. The task force is funded by a
state grant (one of several the city has
received over the past few years).
If the urban growth boundary is ex-
panded and the city annexes that land,
it will be a land rush not unlike when
the Oklahoma Territory opened up to
settlers in the 19th century. And there’s
nothing wrong with that. The profi t
motivation is what drives the Ameri-
can economy.
The effects of land north of Keizer
brought into the urban growth bound-
ary on the city has been discussed at
several previous public meetings led
by consultants from OTAK, who have
been aiding the city of Keizer in all
of its periodic reviews re-
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Recorded history, from 2000
B.C. to the present, our species,
whose presence by archeological
fi ndings date back some 200,000
years, has referenced this relatively
short period in planet Earth’s 4.5
billion-year-history, as an era of
continuous human civilizations.
During the presence of these
civilizations, what’s been most
common
a m o n g
humankind
had
been
one leader,
a
female
or
male,
recognized
by
a
collection
of titles, including chief, pharaoh,
king, queen and czar. These leaders
ruled by the limits of their DNA
as was true also of their successors,
usually a child or a close relative.
Since the way things were done
resulted in leaders from exemplary
to horrible, and everything in
between, “commoners”
with
thoughtful
insight
pondered
civilizations where all had a hand in
deciding their fate. For what was a
colony of the King of England and
his family in North America’s early
European settlement, although
French, Spanish and Russian
monarchs also ruled settlers here,
there were those who dreamed
visions of new and different
government designs.
One such dreamer was John
Locke, an English philosopher
and thinker who lived in Bristol,
then London, between 1632 and
1704. He is recognized as an early
proponent of an arrangement
between citizen and government
where a social contract is
established. A social contract
wherein there is protection of
rights, such as life and property,
and a legitimate, constitutionally-
elected government. It is widely
recognized that Locke’s ideas were
well known to those American
founding fathers who drafted the
Declaration of Independence and
U.S. Constitution/Bill of Rights.
Locke espoused a legitimate,
constitutionally-elected
govern-
ment and what he called natural
rights as in “that all men are cre-
ated equal, that they are endowed
by their creator with certain in-
alienable Rights, that among these
are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of
Happiness.” In Locke’s treatises is
the idea that the responsibility of
the state is to ensure the protection
and preservation of these natural
rights.
Locke argued that the authority
to act as a whole is only justifi ed
when accompanied by the “consent
of the majority.” He claimed also
that the legislative body should
be dismissed when the people
fi nd it acting contrary to the trust
reposed in it. A close relationship
with the people, said he, provides
the legislative body to act on behalf
of the general will of the people
as much as it is the duty of the
citizenry to elect legislators who
will do so.
Locke supported the idea that
the power of government should
be distributed among different
institutions as he believed it too
great a temptation of human
frailty to grasp after power, for
the same person or persons who
have the power of making laws
to also have power over their
execution. Following this idea,
the Constitution divides the
government into three separate, but
co-equal, branches of government.
Each branch is provided a system
of checks and balances intended to
prevent one branch from becoming
supreme.
However, here and now,
information leads one to conclude
that our Constitution’s democratic
foundations are in peril. Checks
and balances are ignored by
members of Congress, extreme
partisanship controls decision-
making, and personal gain has
become a high value. Meanwhile,
mendacities, corruptions, laws-
broken, job security over integrity,
and monarchy-like subservience
stand as threats to our government.
The American social contract of
230 years-running, that which
provides for our security and way-
of-life, must have our support or
disappear.