Oregon daily emerald., June 19, 1972, Section I, Page 4, Image 4

City
budget
election
Tuesday
Tomorrow is election day in
Eugene. Eugene voters will go to
the polls to vote on the 72-73
budget. A budget totaling $22.1
million dollars will be up for
voter approval.
“This year for the first time
we’re doing program budgeting
which means that you don’t
simply add up so many type
writers for the city of Eugene, but
you show whose personal time
and what equipment and what
process is going into what
program, what objective you’re
trying to reach,’’ said Barbara
Shellenbarger, Eugene com
munity relations officer.
“This way you can begin to look
at what costs what,” Shellen
barger stated “It makes the
budget, eventually more ac
countable to people.”
"The only problem with it this
year is it took a great deal of time
to implement it, because it’s a
more complicated procedure
than the old way. We have a
better format in terms of public
information, but we’ve had a
worse situation in that we have
had less time to inform the
public,” stated Shellenbarger.
“It’s going to begin to let us look
at the comparisons between
years and see if, for example, a
department is doing twice the
work from one year to the next
when it asks for one and a half
times the money,” she said. “We
can begin to say all right, did you
do that much work?”
“The property taxes only pay
for about one-third of the city’s
budget,” Shellenbarger said.
“The rest comes from other fees
and kinds of revenue to the city
from state and federal govern
ment so that the people aren’t
really paying directly through
taxes the whole budget.”
“About 7'2 million of the
budget comes out of property
taxes this year,” Shellenbarger
stated. “The six per cent
limitation rule, which is in our
state constitution produces
problems every year, because it
means that cities or school
districts or any public
jurisdiction can never quite catch
up with themselves. Inflation in
cost, personnel, and the size of
the city continually grow faster
than six per cent, but the law says
you can only go to six per cent
before you have to go to an
election,” she stated.
“It is very hard to maintain the
present services, much less
improve them,” said Shellen
barger. “The budget we ended up
with is basically a hold the line,
maintain services, but don’t do
anything new or extra that isn’t
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absolutely necessary type of
budget.
“Some of the things the budget
committee decided were
essential to add will have a direct
input on University students,
such as $74,400 for bicycle
facilities.
“Things which are prevention
programs not crisis programs
will receive funds under this
budget,” Shellenbarger said,
“things which come under the
Civil Emergency Fund such as
White Bird Clinic, Family Shelter
House, Information and Referal
Service, The Halfway House, The
Child Guidance Clinic, and
Alcoholic Rehabilitation
programs.
“The budget is larger this year
than it was last year,” stated
Shellenbarger. “It is about $1.2
million larger,” (the amount that
comes from property taxes).
“There are two reasons for
this. The valuation of property is
the basis on which we compute
property taxes and that valuation
of property by the county hasn’t
gone up as much this year as it
has in previous years, we have
less money coming in on that
basis,” she said.
“We also have less money
coming in on such things as fines,
parking fines and fees for city
services,” said Shellenbarger.
“Parking meters have been
taken out to produce free parking
areas and every time a parking
meter is taken out the city loses
parking revenue.
■‘The major part of the in
crease is salaries of employees,”
stated Shellenbarger. “Mainly
cost of living increases and in
creases arrived at through
collective bargaining. The voters
last year voted to have the city
enter into collective bargaining
with three unions and those in
creases and built into the
budget,” she said. “They have to
be a part of the budget, because
we’ve made the promises.
“It’s important for the city’s
employees not to be underpaid,
not to make a great deal less than
they can make in private in
dustry, because the city needs
talented people,” she said.
How is the budget made up?
“Individual city departments
prepare their budget requests
each year, they pass them to the
city manager’s office where the
most essential needs of the
departments are determined and
then they are passed on to the city
budget committee,” Shellen
barger said. The city budget
committee is made up of the eight
city councilmen and eight
freeholders who are appointed by
the mayor to serve as lay
members of the committee.
Registration begins today
Art Center offers classes
Registration begins today for the more than 50 classes and
workshops to be offered this summer by the Maude Kerns Art Center,
located at 1910 E. 15th Ave. in Eugene.
Membership in the Center is required of those taking classes. An
nual membership fees are: adult, $6; family, $10; child or teen, $3.
Summer memberships for out-of-town students are $2.
Additional information on the classes and workshops outlined below
can be obtained by calling the center at 345-1126.
Adult classes include painting, drawing, calligraphy, printmaking,
photography, pottery, jewelry, batik, spinning and dyeing, sculpture,
weaving and macrame, leather, fiction writing, poetry and stained
glass.
Childrens’ classes include preschool and primary work, pottery,
model building, photography, jewelry, leathercraft, drawing, pain
ting, sculpture and batik.
Adult workshops will be offered in sculpture, photography, print
making, life drawing, and pottery. These workshops give use of
available studios for individual, unsupervised study, with some areas
requiring instructor approval.
In addition, five intensive workshops with artist-instructors will be
offered. These include pottery, weaving, guitar, creative crochet, and
jewelry. Intensive workshops require advance registration and
deposit of $10 ($5 for guitar) at time of enrollment, with balance
payable one week before individual workshops begin.
Classes are offered in three-hour sessions throughout the day and
evening Adult classes meet twice weekly for eight weeks. Exceptions
for adult classes are: spinning and dyeing, Monday evenings only;
poetry, Tuesday evenings only; and fiction writing, Thursday
evenings only. A young people’s pottery class will meet Friday
morning only for 8 weeks; other young peoples classes meet twice
weekly for 6 weeks.
Fees for the majority of adult classes are $32 plus applicable lab
fees Pottery classes are $35 plus lab fees, calligraphy is $22, and
spinning and dyeing, poetry, and fiction writing fees are $16.
Fees for young people’s classes are $18 plus applicable lab fees,
except for pottery classes, which are $20 plus $8 lab fee. The Friday
morning pottery class fee is $14 plus $4 lab fee.
Adult workshop fees are $8 plus lab fees, except for life drawing,
which is $4 plus lab fee Fees for the intensive workshops range from
$10 to $100 plus varying lab fees.
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