For state employes
Legislature may spend more
By MIKE DOLAN
and DENNIS PFAFF
Of the Emerald
SALEM — The Legislature may
appropriate more money for state
employe pay hikes than the
amount set forth in controversial
HB-5063.
HB-5063, which passed the
House Friday, gives the state em
ployes $91 million in state money
for pay raises over the next two
years. The governor s negotiators
have offered the employes $101
million and the Oregon State Emp
loyes Association is holding out
for approximately $135 million.
Each of these three figures ac
tually translates into about twice
as much money for the employes
because the sum will be
matched by other funds including
federal grants.
Sen. Ed. Fadeley, D-Eugene,
has announced his intention to
find more money for the emp
loyes. Fadeley is a member of the
budget-writing Ways and Means
Committee.
In a letter addressed to House
Speaker Phil Lang and Senate
Pres. Jason Boe, and distributed
to the press, Fadeleysays the em
ployes might be eligible for the
payroll money that was budgeted
for this year but was not spent.
This carry-over amounts to $1.3
million.
He also says HB-2006 and
HB-2008, which increase some
OSEA members to vote
on 24 per cent increase
SALEM (UPI) — Leaders of the Oregon State Employes Associa
tion(OSEA) agreed Wednesday to submit Gov. Bob Straub’s offer of a
24 per cent pay hike to the union's membership.
Straub said the decision by the Association's Board of Directors “is
the kind of spirit and sense of cooperation that gets results. I hope this
cooperation results in a favorable vote by the OSEA membership."
The OSEA leaders had previously refused to submit the offer to the
membership, saying the state must agree instead to the 27 per cent pay
increase recommended by a fact finding panel.
In a vote early in the year the membership rejected an offer of 23
per cent and authorized a strike.
It was uncertain what effect the vote would have on a pay package
already approved by the House and scheduled for a vote in the Senate
today. That package would give the state workers a 23 per cent pay
increase over the next two years, but would also require some of the
needed money to come from state agency savings that would result
from not filling all authorized positions.
That pay package is opposed by both Straub and the union.
OSEA officials said they hoped to have the ballots in the mail by
Friday and have tne results tabulated by June 6.
corporate and personal income
taxes, may provide enough
money for the state to meet a
number of obligations including
additional money for pay raises.
Since the University is in
Fadeley’s district, many of his
constituents will be affected by the
amount of money budgeted for
pay increases.
Some of those constituents will
be "making their presence felt”
according to ASUO vice-president
Kirby Garrett.
Garrett told the Emerald
Wednesday that the ASUO has
chartered a bus and will be taking
40 to 45 students to the Senate
today. The ASUO has opposed to
salary increase reduction rep
resented by HB-5063 and, al
though the expendition is officially
billed as an "an educational ex
perience,” it appears that the
major purpose of the trip will be to
lobby against the bill, which is
scheduled to be voted on today.
Garrett said another "critical”
purpose for having a mass turnout
of students today is to pack the
House Labor Committee which
will be considering the fate of
HB-3043, a measure sponsored
by the Associated Oregon Stu
dent Lobby. HB-3043 would
allow students to become par
ticipants in collective bargaining
between higher education ad
ministrators and faculty members.
Te bill also requires the estab
lishment of student-faculty com
mittees at institutions of higher
education to make recommenda
tions concerning faculty employ
ment ralations prior to collective
bargaining.
Photo by Warren Morgan
‘ Nuts!!! ’cried the strange little student. “This class ain ’t my style -even
if it is outside for a change. ”
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Hopes higher for drinking bill
SALEM — There’s a good chance 19-year-olds will be
able to legally drink alcoholic beverages in Oregon by the end
of the year. The Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday
morning approved the 19-year-old drinking bill, HB-2397.
If the bill Dasses the Senate and receives the governor’s
signature, it will take effect 90 days after the Legislature ad
journs. The Legislature will probably adjourn in mid-June so
the bill cannot become law until after the summer.
Gov. Bob Straub says he supports the bill, which has
already passed the House.
Although bills lowering the drinking age have been de
feated in Dast sessions, two lobbyists for the Associated
Oregon Student Lobby say HB-2397 will pass the Se
nate. Mike Cowgill and Jim Howe, from OSU, have followed
the bill since its introduction.
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Bernau proposes alternative funding for CCDC, Emerald
By MONTE ENBYSK
and JIM WORLEIN
Of the Emerald
ASUO Pres. Jim Bemau feels the executive has
devised a plan of alternative funding for the University
Child Care and Development Center (CCDC).
Bemau announced Wednesday that he will veto the
Incidental Fee Committee s (IFC) budget allocation of
$69,192 to the CCDC and set his two-pronged scheme to
work.
He had earlier called the IFC decision “unaccepta
ble.''
“I think $69,192 for a program that can aid only 65
children at the most, which comes to $9,000 for each
child, is way too much for University students to support."
Bemau's two-part plan includes a door-to-door drive
where students can donate part or all of their general
deposit to the CCDC, and a diminishing form of partial
support from incidental fees. Toqether. both means will
provide all but $16,720 of the CCDC s IFC allocation. The
remaning amount will be the program’s responsibility to
come up with, Bemau said.
The planned fund drive would have students fill out a
card to donate all or a portion of their breakage deposit.
This deposit of $25 is payed to the University once a year
by each student. If all of the deposit is not. used the
remainder is refunded to the student by the end of each
summer.
Bernau's proposed project also involved the Oregon
Daily Emerald Publishing Company. Students can pledge
money to either CCDC, the Emerald, or both. Bemau said
if a student donates money to both, the pledge will be
evenly divided between the two by the ASUO.
Bemau said he expects to receive around $30,000
from the fund drive for the CCDC along with $10,000 for
the Emerald. These figures, however, were called con
servative by Bernau.
The CCDC fund drive money, coupled with the
$22,880 the program will get from incidental fees in the
second part of his plan, will total a budget of $52,880 for
1975-76.
The second part of Bernau’s plan is a method of
partial funding by the IFC based on diminishing percen
tages. The CCDC will receive the money in four install
ments: $14,000 summer term, $4,440 fall, $2,960 winter
and $1,480 spring.
“Receiving money in diminishing installments such
as this will encourage them (CCDC) to find other sources
of funding during the year, along with helping us to have
time in locating alternative funds which we must do,” he
said. /
Kathy Sacks, CCDC director, said Wednesday she
was unclear on Bernau’s proposal and needed time to
formulate her comments.
“I consider this program a lot better than arbitrary
taxation,” said Bernau, who also felt the need to criticize
both the IFC and the CCDC for recent performances.
“The IFC made an allocation of $69,192 without in
vestigating any alternatives. And I think that CCDC sup
porters have concentrated upon the ‘easy source’ of
funds by trying to influence the IFC.”
Bernau said he hopes that this is the last time the
CCDC will go in front of the Incidental Fee Committee to
request money.
“In the future, I hope that the CCDC directors and
supporters will concentrate on funding from areas that are
not so regressive," he said, "such as taxing students who
are unable to afford the increasing costs of tuition and
room and board."
"I support the program wholeheartedly," he added,
"but I cannot see funding it on a year-in, year-out basis,
like incidental fees.”
Bernau sees the future possibility of the CCDC re
ceiving funds from the state as good, since several people
in the State Legislature have been working in this study,
including state representatives Ralph Groener and Steve
Kafoury.
The fund drive idea was originally devised by Univer
sity Vice-President of Administration and Finance, Ray
Hawk as a way to aid the financially-troubled Emerald.
The ASUO executive caught wind of the plan and decided
it would be a good means nf getting increased income to
cover the CCDC allotment.
Emerald Board of directors member and Emerald
Executive Committee member Peter Dietz explained the
Emerald's predicament.
“TheEmerald s costs have been substantially higher
than what students have been paying through their sub
scription rate,” he said.
This, coupled with a rise in operating costs and a ,
downward trend in advertising revenue, has left the com
pany short on working capital, continued Dietz.
The Emerald's financial condition was further
threatened by the senior citizen's weekly, the Phoenix
formerly owned by the Emerald Publishing Company.
“The Emerald Board of Directors saw a need tor a
publication for older citizens in the area. While the
Phoenix served these needs it was not profitable for the
Emerald to continue its publication,” explained Dietz.
Dietz added that the Phoenix is now being published
by another company under a federal grant. He said he
grant will help the Emerald "recover some of its invest
ment.”
Dietz said the Emerald is a non-profit company and
described the fund drive as “a proper way to ask students
to replenish diminished capital."