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Vol. 43 • No. 14
JANUARY 21, 2022
Council extends Summer Series contract
Questions and criticism of process continue at Jan 18 meeting
(LEFT) The city-sponsored Summer Concert Series at Keizer Rapids Park and its operator (RIGHT) Clint Holland at a Nov. 15 council meeting. Photo by JOEY CAPPELLETTI of Keizertimes
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI
Of the Keizertimes
The Keizer City Council voted at
the Jan. 18 meeting to continue its
Summer Concert Series partnership
with the Clint Holland-run KRA — but
not before the controversial process
was further questioned, and criticized,
by councilors.
“I have lots of questions that still
remain unanswered about the process
and I don’t know if I’ll ever get them
fully answered since I wasn’t a part of
the process from beginning to end,”
said newly elected councilor Shaney
Starr. “I do think, from what I read and
watched, that there were many oppor-
tunities along the way for things to
have been done diff erently and maybe
have been done better.”
KRA has operated the Summer
Concert Series since 2013 but the
Keizer Chamber of Commerce was set
to take over the operation this year
after independent evaluators recom-
mended the Chamber’s proposal over
KRA’s.
At a Dec. 6 meeting, the council
opted to restart the proposal process
after Holland claimed, and the city con-
fi rmed, that proposal was sent by the
city to the wrong address and Holland
didn’t receive it until Aug. 19 — six days
after the Chamber received it and 11
days until the deadline.
After resubmitting proposals, KRA
was re-awarded the contract after their
proposal was scored higher than the
Chamber’s. Keizer Police Chief John
Teague, one of the proposal evaluators,
noted on his score sheet that “it’s not
lost on me that KRA took advantage of
See KRA, page A4
Mannix leads crowded fi eld contending
for vacant representative seat
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By JOEY CAPPELLETTI
Of the Keizertimes
The race for a vacant seat in
Oregon’s House District 21 has
begun to take shape as one of the
state’s most prominent Republicans,
Kevin Mannix, fi led in the district
Thursday.
Mannix joins four other candi-
dates that have already fi led in the
district. Ramiro "RJ" Navarro Jr.,
Dave McCall and Robert Husseman
have fi led for the Democratic nom-
ination while Mannix will con-
tend with Kyler McNaught for the
Republican nomination.
Longtime District 21 incumbent
Brian Clem (D-Salem) stepped down
in November and was replaced by
Salem City Councilor Chris Hoy,
who has said he won’t run again
since he doesn’t live within the
newly drawn district.
Mannix, who operates his own law
fi rm in Salem, enters the race with
the most experience of all the can-
didates. He served on and off in the
Oregon House of Representatives
from 1988 until 2000 and in 2002 he
ran as the Republican nominee in
a gubernatorial race that he would
go on to lose by 88,000 votes to Ted
Kulongoski.
During his time in the Oregon
Legislature, Mannix authored 135
bills that were eventually turned
into laws. Mannix was a Democrat
until 1997 when he switched to the
Republican party while in offi ce and
attributes his success with passing
laws to his ability to cross the aisle.
Mannix
See DIST. 21, page A2
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