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REOPENS: Some things
headed back to ‘normal’
(Continued from Page A1)
will be set up in the main
lobby, police department lob-
by and city hall offi ces with
signage directing visitors to
sanitize their hands before
entering the space.
• Investigating the possibil-
ities for redirecting air fl ow
away from customer counters.
• Markings on the fl oors
of the civic center indicating
appropriate spacing.
• Providing take-away
masks for customers to wear
prior to entering customer
service areas.
The civic center may also
reopen to small groups that fi t
within the governor’s guide-
lines for gatherings. Employ-
ees with customer service du-
ties will be returning to work
from telecommuting, and
municipal court proceedings
will restart with social dis-
tancing measures in place.
The second phase of the
plan begins May 25 and calls
for:
• Public works fi eld staff
being returned to normal
shift and hours, wearing
masks when sharing service
vehicles and other situations
that force employees to be in
close proximity to each other.
• Maintaining social dis-
tancing as much as practicable.
BUDGET,
continued from Page A1
issues as the Keizer Police
Department reached full staff-
ing. Keizer Police Chief John
Teague fi elded the answer.
“There are things offi cers
encounter every day that are
not criminal and that the city
can address through code en-
forcement in a way that will
keep the city safe and livable,”
Teague said.
The committee did not
recommend adding code en-
forcement capacity as part of
its approval of the budget.
• The committee recom-
mended maintaining the po-
lice and parks services fee
at $4 per month, effective-
ly punting on the question
of what to do as the cost to
maintain offi cers hired with
the fee increases.
• The Keizer Chamber of
Commerce will be getting a
boost in what it receives from
the city’s Transient Occupan-
cy Tax (TOT). Last year, the
In Phase 3, telecommuting
employees will return to po-
sitions where it will be more
effective for them to be at
their regular stations. Some
employees may shift to per-
manent or semi-permanent
hybrid shifts that mean tele-
commuting on some days and
appearing in person on oth-
ers. There is no set date for
this phase to begin as it will
need to coincide with the
governor’s easing of work-
from-home directives.
Phase 4, which has no set
date attached, will see the re-
turn of in-person city council
meetings and other task force
and committee meetings. So-
cial distancing measures will
remain in place for members
of the groups and audience
members with continued op-
portunities for electronic par-
ticipation by members of the
public.
“Through all of these
phases, we will provide ap-
propriate hand sanitizer,
gloves and masks for those
employees who desire to use
them,” Eppley wrote.
Usage of the civic cen-
ter by large groups as well as
usage of sports courts, play-
grounds and the skate park
will remain tied to the gover-
nor’s orders.
chamber requested a doubling
of the contribution it received
from the city to approximate-
ly $16,000 because TOT rev-
enues began to climb.
This year, Executive Direc-
tor Danielle Bethell pleaded
with members of the bud-
get committee for another
$12,000 from TOT revenues
as the organization scrambles
to help local businesses re-
spond to the alteration of ser-
vices forced by the pandemic.
Committee members ap-
proved the increase with no
resistance, but Mayor Cathy
Clark had hoped to have
Bethell return with a more
fi ne-tuned proposal, specifi -
cally one that would have seen
a laid off employee restored.
It may only be a sign of the
times, and a desperate need
for alternative entertainment,
but almost 900 people viewed
some part of Monday meet-
ing that was livestreamed on
Facebook in addition to oth-
er online spaces. Another 50
residents took advantage of a
live broadcast translated into
Spanish.
GARDEN,
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members from the Keizer
Station Apartments that are
gardening, but we have room
for more,” Joans said.
The garden is starting
its fourth, and according to
Joans, best year.
“This is the summer
that
we’ve
had
the
most
infrastructure
and
organization,” Joans said.
They have 20 four-
by-eight-foot raised beds
available for rent. For $25, an
individual or family can rent a
box from mid-April through
November. The
money
covers the cost of the water.
After paying the initial fee,
WICKED,
continued from Page A1
same day it became available,
actually. We met and toured
the space. It ticked all the
right boxes, and so we found
ourselves signing a lease,” Ka-
tie said.
Wicked Sweet Bakery, at
3852 River Road North, is
opening … sometime. With
stay-home orders and a pan-
demic sweeping the globe,
there is still much uncertainty.
“We plan to open with a
limited menu of doughnuts
and (Odolla Coffee Roast-
ers) espresso, offering curb-
side pick up and delivery.
Our hope is that we will fi nd
our footing with the limit-
ed menu and add our other
menu options as we are able,”
Katie said.
The other things Katie
hopes are added to the menu
soon aren’t found in run-of-
the-mill doughnut establish-
PROJECT,
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“We’ve done a couple of
projects in Keizer already
and the public works team
and the planning department
are the real heroes,” he said.
“It feels like they are on our
team.”
Blackburn expects to open
up an application process
for the apartments at the
Clutch Industries website,
the box is turned over to the
gardener’s custody where they
can grow whatever they’d like.
There are hand tools out in
the garden that the gardeners
are welcome to use.
“They can grow fruits,
vegetables, fl owers, any of
that,” Joans said. He said
people have grown everything
from beans to strawberries.
It is still early on in the
growing season and the
garden has room for more.
“Please come garden with
us,” Joans said. “Our little title
is Growing Together and we
really do think the garden
is a way of serving people
who are our neighbors and
creating an opportunity to
make friendships with people
we don’t know yet,” Joans
said.
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The pandemic has meant
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