MARCH 20, 2020, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A9
Childcare benefi ts BIRDS,
continued from Page A1
expanded during
COVID emergency
per month for a family of four)
to 250 percent of the feder-
al poverty level or 85 percent
of the state median income,
whichever is higher for the
family size ($5,899 per month
for a family of four).
• Ensuring more certainty
for providers. Childcare provid-
ers are able to continue to re-
ceive payments from DHS, even
if children are unable to attend
or if they have to temporary
shut down during the state of
emergency.
Providers and parents/care-
takers may contact the DHS
Direct Pay Unit with questions
Monday-Friday from 8:30 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m. at 1-800-699-9074.
conversation about adding
goats, bees, miniature horses
and potbelly pigs into the
realm of permitted animals.
“There are a lot of options
out there, but our goal with
this was fi nite,” said Nate
Brown, Keizer development
director.
Commissioner
Jeffrey
Watson questioned the logic
of requiring animals to be
kept in coops when a six-foot
fence might suffi ce.
Keizerite Matt Griffi th
spoke in support of the
changes and said he’s never
seen anyone have a problem
with a six-foot fence as the
only barrier.
“The larger problem in
this area is predators,” he said.
Keizer
resident
Erica
Arcibal spoke in favor of
permitting ducks.
“Duck eggs are bigger
and more nutritious and the
keep up production through
the winter,” Arcibal said. She
added that duck coops have
more of a horizontal profi le
than the vertical profi le of
chicken coops. Adding drakes
in addition to hens isn’t the
noise problem that roosters
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To support Oregon’s work-
ing families dealing with the
spread of COVID-19, the Or-
egon Department of Human
Service is making s and the Ear-
ly Learning Division immediate
changes to childcare benefi ts.
The temporary changes are
intended to help low-income,
working families access child-
care and help providers stay
in business during the state of
emergency.
The changes are:
• Eliminating co-pays for el-
igible families.
• Providing access to more
families by increasing the in-
come limit from 185 percent of
the federal poverty level ($4,040
can become while offering
protection for the females.
Chris Duggan, another
city resident, said chickens
could be allowed to range in
backyards if their wings were
clipped, but predators like
hawks and raccoons would
remain a danger without a
rooster.
After public testimony,
Watson
seemed
more
convinced that mandating
coop
confi nement
was
unnecessary.
“I think without it, the
code is more diffi cult to
enforce,” said Commissioner
Mark Caillier.
The recommendation, with
the mandated confi nement,
passed unanimously, but
still needs to clear the city
council’s dais before residents
run afoul of the law.
In other business:
Commissioners approved
a new four-foot standard to
front yard fencing. For year’s
residents have had trouble
scrounging
up
fencing
material meeting Keizer’s 3.5-
foot maximum height.
“What that means is we
have a lot of illegal fencing all
around the city, but this takes
care of the problem,” said
Shane Witham, Keizer senior
planner.
Sidewalk savings
plan will have to
wait – for now
He suggested looking at
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known problem areas in terms
Of the Keizertimes
Members of the Keiz- of getting kids to and from
er Traffi c Safety, Bikeways schools, and getting all resi-
and Pedestrian Committee dents to public services, police
planned to ask city offi cials and fi re services, food banks,
health clinics
to start sock-
and transporta-
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tion hubs safely.
ey each year to
“We could
help fi ll in Keiz-
have everyone
er’s numerous
bring back a list
and sometimes
of the sidewalk
enormous gaps
gaps they know
in
sidewalks
about and what
throughout the
problems might
city.
be solved by
The
plans
adding them,”
rapidly collided
said Pat Fisher,
with reality, but
committee vice
members of the
chair.
committee hav-
— David Dempster
M ov i n g
en’t lost hope.
quickly might
“I met with
also help the
Tim
Wood
[Keizer fi nance director] and city get in line for upcoming
Bill Lawyer [Keizer Public grant opportunities, said Jamie
Works director] and the idea Davis, a newer member of the
was fi ne, but it will have to committee.
“I’ve been going through
come from the street fund.
This year, the street fund is some of the upcoming grant
entirely dedicated to repav- deadlines and we need to have
ing River Road,” said David our applications fi led by June
Dempster, a member of the for most of them,” Davis said.
committee.
Hoping to seize on mo-
mentum, Dempster then sug-
gested that the committee
draft a list of its top fi ve side-
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