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Man hit by gunshot
at apartment party
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review
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sets
public
forum
Anyone with information
or located, and detectives are
An altercation at a Keizer striking the victim once.
The suspect who fi red investigating whether the is asked to contact Det. Tim
apartment resulted in a
Lathrop at 503-390-3713.
20-year-old man being shot the shots was not identifi ed incident was gang-related.
Saturday, March 7.
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located a male subject who
was the victim of a non-life-
threatening gunshot wound.
He was treated on scene by
medics and was transported
to Salem Health for further
treatment.
A preliminary investigation
indicated that a group of
individuals were at a party in
one of the apartments when an
uninvited group arrived and
an altercation occurred. One
of the people involved fi red
several shots at the original
KEIZERTIMES/Andrew Jackson
group from the apartment, The Evergreen Villa Apartment Complex was the site of a violent incident on Saturday, March 7.
PAGE A3
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
The Keizer Charter Re-
view Committee set a public
forum on potential revisions
to the Keizer city charter for
Tuesday, April 21.
During the forum, the
committee will ask for input
on four questions the group
did not want to change in the
charter without input from
the public. What the precise
questions are will be deter-
mined in the coming weeks
as members of the committee
reach out to community and
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CITY BUDGET PREVIEW:
Police services fee could escalate quickly
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
Members of the Keizer
Budget Advisory Committee
got a preview of what to
expect when budgeting season
begins in about 60 days. The
biggest challenge the group
can expect to grapple with is
what to do about the monthly
police services fee added to
utility bills in November 2017.
The group met under
the title of the Keizer Long-
Range Planning Committee
Monday, March 9.
The police fee pays for fi ve
full-time offi cers at the Keizer
Police Department (KPD), but
a rash of retirements has kept
the Keizer Police Department
from maintaining a full roster
of 42 offi cers and eight
administrators. The glut of
departures has strained the city
budget as retiring employees
collect payments for accrued
time off and that has meant
positions at the department
are being held open while the
city saves money to fi ll them.
Currently, there at 47 full
time positions fi lled at KPD
and roughly half of a full time
equivalent in paid part-time
staff.
To combat the backslide,
city staff fl oated the idea of
raising the the police services
fee from $4 per month to
$5.33 a month in the 2020-
21 fi scal year. The increase
will generate an additional
$226,000.
“That would pay for
another full-time offi cer and
offset some of the expenses
we expected would grow
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when we established the fee,”
said Tim Wood, Keizer fi nance
director.
However, the fee growth
would not stop there. In
2021, the fee would climb
to $7.39 per month and, by
2025, the fee might nearly
triple to $11.93 per month.
City offi cials were aware that
the fee would likely need to
increase over time when it was
services, City Manager Chris
Eppley said, the park fee was
the harder sell.
“With police, we knew
what we were buying – fi ve
people. I think now the
parks fee is easier to defi ne
because we can see all the
improvements
that
have
been made where the police
fee is the more diffi cult
burden because a lot of it is
philosophical. It’s selling how
safe a person feels,” Eppley
said.
Keizer Police Chief John
Teague said the fee becomes
more of a sustainability fee for
police services at the higher
rates, but the difference can be
seen in how the department
put in place, but some at the
meeting appeared caught off
guard by the exponential fee
growth projections.
When the city put in place
fees for police and parks
Retirements crimp hiring abilities
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
Possible increases to the police fee became
one of the most discussed aspects of the coming
city budget cycle, but it was far from the only
news out of a meeting of the Keizer Long-
Range Planning Committee on Monday,
March 9.
Overall, it was a mixed bag of status quo
decisions and looming headaches.
One bright spot is that the city is not
expected to raise stormwater rates in the
coming year. Typically, the increase is in the
range of 50 cents per month. However, the
delay of a capital improvement project that had
been scheduled for this year means the city will
forego the increase.
The delayed project involves replacing
stormwater infrastructure along Shoreline
Drive North and Cummings Lane North.
Keizer’s water rates are expected to increase
by 4.5 percent and the money will be put toward
continued capital improvements. Despite the
State
of the
City
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Keizer up for
the challenge,
says mayor
has risen to meet challenges
during the past year.
She started with a proj-
ect that is reaching the next
stage of its development, a re-
vision of the city charter that
removes language marginal-
izing LGBTQ people. The
charter amendment, known as
Section 44, was approved by
Keizer voters in the 1990s.
“I fi rmly believe that Sec-
tion 44 will be eliminated in
its entirety … and our charter
will refl ect the welcoming city
it is,” Clark said.
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
Keizer Mayor Cathy Clark
delivered her annual State
of the City address during a
Keizer Chamber of Com-
merce luncheon Tuesday,
March 10. Her theme this
time around was demonstrat-
ing the many ways Keizer
Doutt leads
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All-Conference
recipients
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