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JANUARY 17, 2020
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By MATT RAWLINGS
Of the Keizertimes
For nearly a decade, Michele
Husseman ran the Enrichment
Academy at Whiteaker Middle
School, through the Salem-
Keizer Education Foundation
(SKEF), which provided kids
the opportunity to participate
in after-school activities that
often involved sports, science,
art and entertainment.
But due to signifi cant
budget cuts by the foundation,
Husseman won't be able to
return to her role.
SKEF
announced
in
December that Whiteaker, along
with Crossler, Leslie, Judson,
Walker and Straub would
no longer have Enrichment
Academies available at their
schools after winter break,
meaning that Husseman, along
with 22 other part-time staff
members that ran the program,
would be laid off.
Husseman is still employed
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Members of the Root Beer and Reading Club raise a can. After school enrichment program run through SKEF are being cut.
at Whiteaker as an instructional
assistant, but was disappointed
with the decision.
“I was very sad when I
found out that the funding was
going away. I'm sad I'm losing
the income as a second job and
I will miss being able to interact
with the kids on that level,”
Husseman said.
The
six
Salem-Keizer
middle schools losing their
Enrichment Academies were
serving around 800 students.
Four middle schools in the
Salem-Keizer area — Claggett
Creek, Houck, Stephens and
Parrish — will continue to
operate under SKEF because
the majority of the costs
are covered by a grant from
the
Oregon
Department
of Education according to
SKEF executive director Kelly
Carlisle — a former Salem-
Keizer administrator who took
over the position in August.
While Carlisle explained
that the cuts were a diffi cult
decision, and shared that the
SKEF needed to come up with
a strategic plan to deal with
the fi nancial issues they were
facing. He also said that SKEF
was losing more than $100,000
per year on the Enrichment
Academies.
“Unfortunately, the ex-
penses of the programs far
Please see CUT, Page A5
Council confronts
the costs of
growing city staff
Traffi c troubles
By ERIC A. HOWALD | Of the Keizertimes
Residents see
speed, enforcement
as the problem
because our fi nancial picture
By ERIC A. HOWALD
is not changing. Unless some-
Of the Keizertimes
The Keizer City Coun- thing drastic happens, none of
cil got a somewhat bleak ac- these positions can be funded
counting of where the city in the next or any future bud-
stands on staffi ng needs and get. The majority of them are
[paid for out
its inability to
of the] general
fund them at
fund and that
a work session “ None of these
is our most
Monday, Jan.
positions can
constrained
13.
fund,”
In
total,
be funded in
To
illus-
department
the next or any trate the point,
heads present-
Finance
ed their cases
future budget” Keizer
Director Tim
for
roughly
six addition-
— Chris Eppley, Wood said the
city is strug-
al employees
City Manager
gling to main-
throughout
tain its existing
City Hall, but
it took City Manager Chris staff and replacing an offi cer
Eppley about an hour to for the Keizer Police Depart-
dump a bucket of cold reality ment is on hold. Tax revenues
are currently about $80,000
on all of the discussion.
“In most cases, these [po-
Please see STAFF, Page A5
sitions] are purely aspirational
CHARTER REVIEW COMMITTEE:
How much council
crime is too much?
A resounding theme from meetings of
the Keizer Traffi c Safety, Bikeways and Pe-
destrian Committee in 2019 was that Keiz-
er residents were concerned about traffi c
speeds in neighborhoods throughout Keiz-
er.
In southwest Keizer, complaints arose
about speeds and pedestrians on 5th Ave-
nue North between Hollyhock and Dennis
Lane. In southeast Keizer, the long corner
signaling the change from Manbrin Drive
to Thorman Avenue was the target of com-
plaints stemming from lack of visibility
and speed. In northeast Keizer, residents of
Harmony Drive took issue with their street
being used as a thoroughfare.
Police do what they
can: ‘Problems’ are
frequently in the
eye of beholder
“Racetrack” is a word that Lt. Trevor
Wenning and Offi cer Martin Powell are
used to hearing when residents describe the
traffi c fl ow on Keizer’s streets. More often
than not, data collected by Keizer Police
Department doesn’t back up the perception
of citizens.
Martin cited a recent example where
the complainant did everything the police
needed to capture a snapshot of a perceived
problem area. It was around one of Keiz-
er’s schools and the resident said a straight
stretch of road was experiencing a lot of
speeding, by teenagers, between 11:30 a.m.
Please see SPEED, Page A8
Please see POLICE, Page A8
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
The city’s Charter Re-
view Committee spent part
of its meeting January 7 de-
termining an acceptable level
of crime for Keizer’s elected
offi cials.
The section of the charter
that prompted the discussion
involves the creation of may-
oral and city councilor va-
cancies. The language in the
existing charter states that a
vacancy is created upon an
elected offi cial’s “conviction
of a felony, other offense per-
taining to his or her offi ce; or
unlawful destruction of public
records.” Language suggest-
ed by the League of Oregon
Cities, which is being used as
a guide, simply states a mayor
or councilor’s seat is vacated
upon “conviction of a misde-
meanor or felony crime.”
Committee Member Brod-
erick Pack suggested remov-
ing the misdemeanor portion
and limiting it to felonies.
“I would like to remove
Please see REVIEW, Page A5
St. Monica,
one year
later
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Cuf fed
in Keizer
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Celts
earn first
conference
dual victory
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