View full sizeBeaverton City Councilor Bruce Dalrymple and Sandra Dalrymple were among the attendees of Mayor Denny Doyle’s 2009 charity dinner and dance at the Kingstad Center. The 2010 event will be on the Nike campus.Beaverton’s ugly court fight with Nike about annexation is so in the past.
The latest example: Beaverton Mayor Denny Doyle is holding his second-annual community fundraiser on Saturday at Nike’s campus in unincorporated Washington County.
The OregonianDenny DoyleThe “Mayor’s Ball 2010″ is a semi-formal dinner, dance and auction expected to raise about $20,000 for the Beaverton Arts Foundation, the Beaverton Library Foundation and the Beaverton Historical Society. About 230 people have RSVP’d for the $85-per-ticket event, said Jayne Scott, executive director for the Beaverton Arts Commission.
Invitations were sent to about 500 people who previously have donated to the beneficiaries, Scott said. The event is not open to the public.
Last year, Doyle hosted his first fundraiser at the now-closed Kingstad Center. Scott said a planning committee decided the Nike campus would be an ideal location. (Nike is one of about 10 sponsors for the event, as is the city of Beaverton, which is contributing $4,000).
How times have changed.
Back in 2006, a Washington County judge ruled that city officials were in contempt of court for deliberately withholding public documents from Nike. Those included a draft annexation plan that showed city leaders considered forcing Nike’s headquarters into city limits in 2002.
By 2008, Nike and its founder, Phil Knight, heavily supported Doyle’s successful mayoral campaign against incumbent Rob Drake. Their in-kind donations to Doyle totaled about $36,000 — more than one-quarter of his financial support.
“There’s an ongoing, very collaborative relationship that has come about with the change in administration,” Nike spokeswoman Erin Dobson said. — Brad Schmidt
