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payers revolt," would limit all
Oregon property taxes to 1.5 per
cent of the 1975-76 assessed
property value or to a ceiling of
$15 per $1,000 assessed value.
This would mean about a 40 per
cent reduction in property taxes
for homeowners and renters alike.
Measure 11, a legislative prop
erty tax relief alternative, would
require the state to pay half the
individual's property taxes up to a
$1,500 limit.
Measure 11 stipulates “equi
valent” property tax relief for
homeowners and renters, but
none for commercial or vacation
property owners.
Measure 11 would cost the
state approximately $525,000
million in lost revenue. Measure 6
would cost local governments
about $860,000. The state would
not be required to help localities
absorb their losses, but some
legislators and Gov. Bob Straub
have indicated the state would
help local services.
Gamer worries this significant
loss in state revenues could
jeopardize the existence of
HARRP.
If Measure 11 passes and
HARRP survives, the 1979 legis
lature will have the chore of integ
rating HARRP with the state's
promise to pay half the renter’s
property taxes.
Under the 50 percent formula, a
renter paying $100 a month rent
would receive $102 of relief. If the
same renter made less than
$15,000 a year he or she would
receive up to $328 in relief under
HARRP.
Grattan Kerans, Democratic
state majority whip and Measure
11 supporter, says he feels rent
ers and homeowners would
both receive the higher amounts.
Supporters of Measure 6 say
not only would HARRP remain in
tact but lower property taxes for
landlords would be passed on to
tenants in the form of lower rent.
However, Ken Bylund, Lane
County Tax Assessor, says al
though landlords are likely to re
ceive relief of about $20 a month,
there are no provisions in Meas
ure 6 tc make sure landlords will
share thetr relief.
Under Measure 6 property that
changes ownership or has con
struction after 1975 will be asses
sed at the current market value
rather than at the reduced valua
tion of Measure 6.
“Ten years down the road we
could have two identical houses
sitting side by side and have one
owner pay three-quarters more in
property taxes than his neighbor
because he bought it after 1975,’’
Bylund explains.
An owner of a home valued at
$45,000 would pay $512 a year
under current Oregon property tax
rates. Under measure 6 the same
taxpayer would owe $263 and
under 11 he or she would pay
$268.
Some big differences occur in
comparing the effects of the two
measures' effects on business
Chef Fransisco Inc. currently pays
property taxes amounting to
$66,492 a year. Under measure
11 the owners would pay $70,118.
Because Measure 6 demands
equal relief to businesses, Chef
Fransisco would pay only
$19,677.
Simi'arly Lane Plywood now
pays property taxes of $123,160.
Under 11 its owners would pay
$125,236 and under 6 they would
Day $38,287.
Garner believes that overall
students will be helped most by
voting against both.
If people are truly being
forced from their homes because
of inability to pay their property
taxes, the most efficient and logi
cal way to help them is through
expanded HARRP," Gamer says.
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to enforce these provisions, Ed
mundson added.
GTFF leaders, Edmundson
said, were particularly disap
pointed at their failure to win con
cessions on salaries and health
insurance. The University’s salary
offer is essentially the same that
GTFs would have received with
out union representation, and
Oregon law prohibits the Univer
sity from setting up a health insur
ance plan for GTFs because they
are less-than-half-time em
ployees.
However, the proposed con
tract represents “no backward
movement, Edmundson added.
Also on the agenda for the
Thursday meeting is a straw vote
asking for members' opinions on
how the $25,000 health fund
should be distributed.
in addition, nominations will be
taken for various elective offices,
including the five officers’ posi
tions, four delegates and five al
ternatives to the Lane County
Labor Council and five positions
on the grievance committee.
The membership will elect per
sons to these offices at the next
monthly meeting of the GTFF, to
be held sometime in early De
cember, Edmundson said.
Absentee balloting for the new
contract will take place Tuesday
and Thursday from 8 am. to 5
p.m. in the GTFF office, located at
868 E. 13th Ave., above the Red
Rooster Barber Shop.
Union members also may vote
absentee on Wednesday in the
EMU lobby between 10 a.m. and 3
p.m. or in the union office from 8
a.m. to 10 p.m. and from 3 p.m. to
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