Oregon daily emerald., October 10, 1973, Page 3, Image 3

IFC’s power to be decided
Fee allocation hearing slated
By JAIMIE HARTSHORN
of the Emerald
The power to allocate in
cidental fees is the issue to be
brought before the ASUO Con
stitution Committee in a meeting
today, according to Steve
Rhodes, Constitution Committee
chairer.
The hearing is scheduled for
3:30 p.m. in the EMU, room to be
posted. It is open to the public.
“The Incidental Fee Com
mittee has requested this hearing
for an interpretation of
provisions within the con
sitution,” Rhodes explained.
"The ASUO Execute has
argued that certain powers are
not vested in the IFC by the
constitution.
“The Constitution Committee
was formed to be the ‘final and
supreme authority’ of the ASUO
on such matters,” Rhodes said.
“Any student or University
organization may ask for an
interpretation of the constitution
and the committee will set a
hearing date.”
The committee is composed of
five students appointed by the
ASUO president. Four members
are law students: Rhodes, Jo
Pickford. Joe Penna. and Gene
Cyrus. Jerry Thomas, an un
dergraduate. is the fifth member.
“The hearing will be held with
a court-type procedure,” Rhodes
said “We’ll hear both sides of the
issue, then make a decision,
which must be announced within
30 days. An opinion listing
reasons for the decision will be
issued later.
“It should be stressed that the
Constitution Committee serves as
an impartial judge in the mat
ter,” Rhodes stated.
In requesting today’s hearing,
(he IFC submitted a
memorandum to the Constitution
Committee stating that the
constitution gives it “Respon
sibility for general allocation,
supervision, and expenditure of
reserves not allocated during the
spring term budgeting process,
and specific responsibility to
establish policy regarding the
expenditure of student funds by
their recipients.”
The IFC contends that the
ASUO president’s duties in this
area are “specifically limited,”
and the power consists of
“submission of an estimate of the
ASUO budget for the coming
year, submission of an ac
counting of ASUO expenditures
for the current year, and power to
veto expenditures.”
The IFC will argue that the
executive has only “the duty to
submit to the IFC an estimate of
the ASUO budget for the coming
year, the duty to submit with the
proposed budget an account of
ASUO expenditures for the
current year, the power to veto
any or all allocations of the IFC,
the authority to establish ac
counting procedures and the
authority to expend an executive
reserve if provided for by the
IFC.”
A brief submitted to the Con
stitution Committee by the ASUO
executive counters that the IFC
has “decidedly limited
legislative jurisdiction.”
“Because the president is to
carry out the executive function
within the constitution, it is
necessarily implied that the
president shall carry out the
legislative pronouncements of
the IFC in the area of the
budget,” according to the
executive.
The ASUO executive will argue
that “the IFC is a legislative body
whose sole purpose is to allocate
the incidental fee within the
ASUO budget.
“The IFC does not have a right
to withhold funds which were to
i>e allocated to programs, to
release them contingent upon a
discretionary determination of
propriety,” according to the
executive.
“Any funds held by the IFC as
'reserve,’ beyond the funds that
were to be allocated to programs
but were withheld, should be
transferred to the executive
contingency fund, to be ad
ministered by the executive
along with other such funds.
“The executive, through the
controller, has sole authority for
the disbursement of allocated
funds within the budget, and has
responsibility for the accounting
thereof to the IFC at the end of
the school year. The IFC may
legislate as to disbursement
methods and standards, the brief
says.
“The IFC is limited in its
legislative power to matters
described in Art. VII, Section 1,
clause 1, of the ASUO con
stitution.
“The IFC has completed its
legitimate functions, and is
declared adjourned,” the brief
argues.
“No salary shall be paid to
members of the IFC until elec
tions are held, prior to the for
mulation of the 1974-75 budget,
and then such salary shall be only
for the period of the actual for
mulation of the budget. All such
extra salary shall be transferred
to the executive contingency
fund,” according to the ASUO
executive.
Mayor applauds University’s role
in city government, local affairs
Photo by David Pritchard
Les Anderson
The University has come to play an active role
in Eugene city government and in community af
fairs in general, Mayor Les Anderson commented in
a talk Tuesday sponsored by the Northwest Forum.
Reflecting on the “good, sound relationship
between the University and the community,” An
derson pointed out that “University people are
active in the City Council and in practically every
aspect of city government.
“Eugene is unusual,” he said, “in that it
represents a melding of many different pursuits:
educational, industrial, cultural, and recreational,
lo mention a few.
“The entire Eugene power structure is a result
of the combining of these various groups,” An
derson observed.
Responding to questions from the small
audience, several of the queries concerning his
decision Monday to approve rezoning of land at
Valley River center, Anderson admitted that the
issue was a crucial one in the community.
“The 1990 plan, designating certain areas for
residential, commercial, or recreational use, set
aside the Goodpasture Island area (Valley River)
for regional shopping activities.
“If we want to change the emphasis of the
plan,” said Anderson, “we must spell out more
concretely the specific activities of both the
Goodpasture Island and downtown areas.
“We’re at the crossroads,” he said, “of
determining whether Goodpasture Island will
become another downtown Eugene.
“The community is in need of low-cost
housing,” Anderson said in response to another
question. “I can’t say we’re making rapid strides
toward it now, because we’re not, but it is definitely
something to which local government must address
itself more directly.
“In Eugene, citizens tend to respond to
problems by forming interest groups of ‘behind the
scenes’ people, who have no concern for fanfare or
publicity,’’ Anderson continued. “A major problem
of mayors of other cities is that everything has to be
worked through the city government.”
The University can take part of the credit for
this ease of problem-solving, Anderson said,
because it “reflects concern over the overall
situation sooner than the rest of the community.”
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