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Human Rights
Commissions
in danger
by Kevin Collins
Several citizens groups have voiced
concern that the city of Eugene’s push
for economic development may be
pushing the city's various Human
Rights Commissions by the wayside.
The various commissions which serve
as advisory panels for the Eugene Ci
ty Council have undergone significant
budget cuts in recent years and sup
porters fear further slashes from the
budgetary knife.
Essentially, the commissions were
formed to advise the City Council
with regard to the impact and in
fringements on various groups due to
legislative or other actions. These in
clude commissions on the aging, mi
norities, the disabled, women and
youth. While they possess no formal
power, these comissions have been
quite active with regard to recent con
troversies such as the gut cruising
ordinance and alleged racism in the
schools.
Ironically, two of the recent mobi
lization efforts of these commissions
have dealt with activities involving
the mayor and a prominent city coun
cilperson. Specifically, the Com
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mission on Aging was quite active in
mobilizing citizen support to fight the
proposed repeal of the Condo Con
version Ordinance. This proposed
repeal was introduced by Council
person Rob Bennett soon after his
election last November and would
have removed some protections for
apartment dwellers and made it easier
for developers to convert buildings in
to condos.
The Commission on Aging and
other groups fought this repeal on the
grounds that it could have a serious
ly detrimental effect on a large seg
ment of senior citizens who live in
apartments. Mr. Bennett is one of the
area’s most prominent developers and
his role in promoting this repeal in
duced state Senator Larry Hill to
introduce a conflict of interest bill in
the state legislature.
Most recently, the Commission on
the Disabled has been involved in a
controversy surrounding the Fifth
Street Public Market which is owned
solely by Mayor Brian Obie. Com
mission Chairperson Nancy Brawner
Jones contends that officials of the
Market signed an agreement five
years ago agreeing to make the market
handicapped accessible within five
years or when any vertical or hori
zontal construction occurred—which
ever came first. Both horizontal and
vertical construction has occurred and
the five-year period expires Dec. 31,
1987. Market manager Doug Obie, the
mayor’s son, has requested an indefi
nite extension despite the feet that the
market has recently undergone exten
sive renovations.
Nancy Brawner Jones contends that
it is not just the specific access issue
of the market that concerns the com
mission but the overall message that
this scenario sends to the communi
ty. “The Market is a highly visible
commercial complex in this city and,
incidentally, we receive more com
plaints about this building than any
other in the area,” she contends.
“What is, perhaps, of more concern
is the fact that other business owners
and landlords will ask the question:
‘If the mayor does not have to comp
ly, then why should we have to?’ ” she
adds.
While the city of Eugene has en
joyed a reputation as being in the van
guard of protecting the rights of the
disabled, Brawner-Jones suggests that
this is becoing something of a facade.
She terms “scandalous” the fact that
the playground, which was construct
ed on die mall as part of recent reno
vations paid for by taxpayers, is not
handicapped accessible. This is, she
states, “in spite of the fact that the
commission raised objections about
the plans from the outset of the proj
ect and we were ignored.”
Brawner-Jones contends that the
problem lies often more with city staff
than with the City Council. For ex
ample, the city’s single paid human
rights commissioner position has been
vacant for six 'months and no im
mediate plans to fill it have been forth
coing. Several commission members
suggest that City Manager Mike
Gleason may be using this as a budget
cutting measure. She states, “It is
doubtful that any elected official
wants to be characterized as being anti
human rights or any particular consti
tuency. Yet, if the funds that the
Council allocates are not spent by the
city, it is an empty allocation. There
is, currently, $95,000 allocated for the
human rights commissions and each
commission is receiving about $1300
yearly. That is less than $10,000.
Where is the other $85,000? Is it
merely being saved for other city proj
ects such as the airport?”
Commission personnel state that
each commission receives thousands
of volunteer hours each year while the
city “lends” staff to the commissions
on a rotating basis. Such a scenario,
coupled with recent council sugges
tions that some of the commissions be
subsumed under various service de
livery agencies, has proponents con
cerned about the future effectiveness
of the commissions.
At a recent budgetary work session
of the City Council, support was gen
erally strong for maintaining the cur
rent level of financial support for the
commissions. Only Mayor Obie and
Councilperson Roger Rutan gave the
commissions the lowest priority score.
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