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Soaring market raises school bond investment
By HERB SWETT
For the Keizertimes
The school bond approved by voters
in the Salem-Keizer School District in
2018 has grown from $619.7 million
to $677.7 million, the Community
Bond Oversight Committee (CBOC)
told the Salem-Keizer School Board
on Tuesday, Feb. 11
Market premiums, earnings on bond
proceeds, grants and reimbursements
have made the difference, CBOC re-
ported. The additional funds were al-
located fi rst for a variety of projects
to add space or projects at Kennedy
Elementary School, which is in the
McNary High School attendance area,
as well as four other schools in the dis-
trict.
Those schools aren’t the only one to
undergo further construction. Starting
construction in 2019 prevented one
year of cost escalation for the projects.
Work at Gubser Elementary School
was near completion in time for the
start of the 2019-20 school year and
fi nished within budget.
Construction projects will begin
this year at 16 other schools. CBOC
said projects at 13 schools were on
track to be “substantially complete” by
the fall of 2020.
In other business, the board held
fi rst readings for sale of the Rosedale
School property for an agreed-upon
price of $1,105,000 and purchase of
0.22 acre for construction at North
Salem High School. Both proposed
transactions will be up for adoption at
the board’s March meeting.
The board heard Adriana Miranda,
executive director of Cause for Ore-
gon, and Dr. Reginald Richardson,
vice president of the local chapter of
the NAACP, discuss improved out-
comes for minority students. They are
the co-chairs of the Student Invest-
ment Account Task Force, which seeks
to engage community members to ad-
vise Superintendent Christy Perry on
solving underachievement problems.
Annual evaluation of the superin-
tendent’s performance was postponed
to May.
The board accepted three grants, the
largest $2,954,151 through the Ore-
gon Department of Education (ODE)
to help students in schools with high
percentages of poverty to meet state
academic standards. An ODE grant
of $37,210 will aid neglected and de-
linquent youth. A grant of $24.844
from the Response to Instruction and
Sodexo backs CTEC
with $250K gift
Through a charitable dona-
tion by Sodexo, Salem-Keizer
Public Schools’ (SKPS) Ca-
reer and Technical Education
Center (CTEC) is slated to
receive a $250,000 donation
to help fund the Culinary
Arts program. The donation
is being made to help assist in
furthering their already suc-
cessful program reach new
heights.
“This kitchen is a magnet.
It has attracted some of our
brightest stars from all walks
Blood drive
at Dayspring
in March
The American Red Cross is
holding a blood drive at Day-
spring Fellowship, 1755 Lock-
haven Drive N.E. on Tuesday,
March 24 from 12 to 6 p.m.
To schedule an appointment
call the Red Cross at 1-800-
733-2767 or contact Connie
Moritz at 503-851-0375.
of life culminating in a very
diverse, successful program,”
said James Weber, CTEC as-
sistant principal. “Our staff
have pushed the boundaries
of education in this program
seamlessly integrating English
and Science into the industry
of culinary arts.”
Sodexo and SKPS have
worked together for over 40
years and eagerly approached
CTEC to partner when hear-
ing about the opening of the
Culinary Arts program.
“Whether you are going
into food services or not, take
what you have learned and
make sure you pay it back to
others because that is how
you make the biggest im-
pact as an individual. Being
collective is part of the great
community here in Salem,”
said Steve Dunmore, Sodexo’s
CEO of School Services in
North America.
As leisure and hospital-
ity becomes the state’s sec-
ond-fastest growing industry,
the Culinary Arts program
prepares juniors and seniors
for high-demand careers.
Students are taught in a state-
of-the-art commercial-grade
kitchen under the guidance of
professional chefs. Here they
learn culinary techniques,
restaurant management skills
as well as task management
and professional skills.
CTEC is a public-private
partnership between SKPS
and the Mountain West Ca-
reer Technical Institute. The
center opened in the fall of
2015 and hosts 10 CTE pro-
grams: residential construc-
tion, manufacturing, welding
and engineering, cosmetol-
ogy, video and game design
animation, autobody repair
and painting, drone technol-
ogy and robotics, business
development and leadership,
law enforcement, agriscience
and culinary arts and man-
agement.
Intervention (RTI) project of the Ti-
gard-Tualatin School District supports
elementary school access to confer-
ences, workshops and funding.
Personnel actions approved by the
board include the following in the
McNary attendance area:
Less than half-time: Matthew Staatz,
Whiteaker Middle School.
Temporary part-time: Jennifer Ol-
son, Clear Lake Elementary School;
Pamela Pieters, Keizer Elementary
School; Antonio Perez Sanchez, Sheryl
Wetzel, Anna Yakimov, Kennedy.
First-year probation full-time: Ma-
rie Dahlin, Kennedy.
• Resignations: Dylan Bartholomew
and Megan Ward, McNary; Chelcie
Glazer, Kennedy.
• Retirements: Scott Coburn,
Whiteaker; Pamela Pieters, Keizer.
Giving back
Members
of the West
Keizer
Neighborhood
Association
have partnered
with Copper
Creek
Merchantile
to host a new
food barrel
for the Keizer
Community
Food Bank.
Donations can
be dropped off
during regular
store hours.
Submitted
Paper
adds new
sales rep
Stephanie Moss-Wittman
joined the Keizertimes staff as
the advertising account rep-
resentative on Monday, Feb.
10. Prior to coming on board
she worked in sales with State
Farm for a year.
Moss-Wittman has been
in sales and marketing for 15
years. She
has lived in
Keizer for
18 years.
Outside
of work she
enjoys be-
ing a mom
to
three
“fun, young
ladies” Des- Moss-Wittman
tinee, 13,
Brooklyn, 10, and Jenny, 8.
They like doing arts and crafts,
playing basketball, going on
hikes and hunting for rocks to-
gether as a family.
“Family time is very im-
portant to me, even if it’s just
sitting down to watch a movie
together.”
Moss-Wittman is involved
in her kid’s schools and is look-
ing forward to getting more
involved with the community.
“I’ve been involved with the
Chamber for many years, I was
a little inactive last year because
of my desk job so I’m excited
to get back,” she said. She is
looking forward to new volun-
teering opportunities with the
Chamber.
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