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HOWALD Of the Keizertimes Thirty years ago, Keizer Police Chief John Teague had his worldview reset when an acquaintance told him he saw a “black man” in the mirror every morning. “I found it remarkable that his race was that prevalent to him,” said Teague, who is white. In the aftermath of that conversation, he started paying closer attention to the ways in which race is used to hinder the progress of minorities. “A while back, Wells Fargo was taken to task for charging people of color higher rates for their mortgages than white folks. Just imagine if you're a respectable, hardworking, successful, really good, admirable man and, for all that effort, you’re getting dinged on your mortgage payment because you’re black.” In a 2015 study published by the National Institute of Health, more than 93 percent of roughly 300 black, male participants reported feeling stress. Almost two-thirds attributed additional stress to money and fi nances, 43 percent replied with racism as a specifi c cause. “If you're a black person and you are told all the time that cops stop you because of race and you see other black men being stopped, all those things eat at you, you question all of them,” Teague said. “I don't know about you Celt heads to EOU lacrosse team PAGE A10 but, when I'm in those situations, I feel it in my gut.” Teague said he was once falsely accused of something in the town where he lives and not knowing what others thought of him began to color his interactions with other people in the city. Aside from making Teague aware of himself in new ways, he also had to break down barriers others might have erected in the wake of the accusation. He found some guidance in a book titled Whistling Vivaldi and Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us by Claude Steele. “The author is a rather imposing black man and he writes about SKEF dissolving at month’s end PAGE A2 TOP: Keizer Police Chief John Teague (right) welcomes two new offi cers to the Keizer Police Department. RIGHT: Protesters took to Keizer streets last week. KEIZERTIMES/ Eric A. Howald Please see POLICE, Page A7 Two years in, what have city fees accomplished? Council hosting fi rst hearing on charter changes By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes The Keizer City Council will hold the fi rst of two public hearings on changes to the Keizer City Charter at its meeting Monday, June 15. The second public hearing will be held on July 6. Both meetings are held at the Keizer Civic Center beginning at 7 p.m. The council will be discussing changes to the charter, the city’s founding document, recommended by a task force that spent the past six months scrutinizing every word and comma. The council convened the task force with an eye toward removing a section that marginalizes LGBTQ+ residents. The removal of the offending section, Section 44, is the major change recommended by the task force, but its members also found other ways to make the document more inclusive, such as using less gendered language throughout the document. “We were careful to make sure that we were changing the language to gender neutral language. Our task force picked apart every little word and did it with the intention of making this a long-term document. Our city and Please see CHARTER, Page A7 S STAY HOME STAY SAFE Skyline comes to you! KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald Nate Brown retires after 17 years that our actions today–even incremental By ERIC A. HOWALD ones–affect us in getting where we want to Of the Keizertimes A couple of years ago, Keizer Communi- be,” Brown said. “We are a direct descendant ty Development Director Nate Brown used of what the Romans did.” The past few years have been busy ones a multimedia presentation to illustrate how making a seemingly minor change to the for the Keizer Planning Department and city sign code – permitting more frequent Brown was at the forefront of several proj- changes to electronic signs – would impact ects that will inform most decisions about how Keizer will River Road grow. In that North. regard, he’s re- Even with “ Those people really kept my visual aids engine running for all those years. tiring from the role on a high showing the I have no regrets and a lot of good note. change of mes- Brown’s last sages, and how experiences.” — Nate Brown day as a city em- they might dis- ployee was Fri- tract drivers and contribute to visual clutter, it was hard to day, May 29, but he’s already got a new gig envision the impact. But the lesson Brown lined up in Washington state to keep him was trying to impart was drawn, quite liter- busy for the next year. Eventually, he wants to get back to international travel and soak ally, from history and a trip to Rome. “When you look at what the Romans up more of the history that led all of us to built ... our perspective has to be broader. the present day. Brown began his tenure with Keizer in We are in the prenatal stages of creating that kind of legacy and we have to understand Please see BROWN, Page A5 • At home test drives • At home deal transaction At home service pick up • and delivery All vehicles are sanitized • before and after service Special ed teacher pull out all stops PAGE A3 Ebbs earns Gatorade title PAGE A10 POLICE SERVICES “The fee lets us do two things,” wrote Teague. “It provides resources to night shift patrols and for traffi c enforcement, both necessary whether we have the fee or not, but not at the expense of preventing crime. “It also supplies … stratifi ed responsibility, crime analysis and dedicated policing Please see FEES, Page A5 0% APR FOR 84 MONTHS and test drives. Shop online and click at home test drive or at home service By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes In late 2017, the Keizer City Council enacted two $4 fees supporting police and park services. After two full years of fee collection, the fees have paid for $1.3 million in parks improvements and given the Keizer Police Department the leeway to focus on underlying problems rather than running from fi re to fi re. Keizer Police Chief John Teague and Bill Lawyer and Robert Johnson, of Keizer Public Works, prepared reports for the budget season that didn’t get as much airing as anticipated during budget talks. The COVID-19 pandemic prompted a different set of discussions and took the focus off the fees. 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