Pay raise
costs EMU
extra sum
A recent contract between the
University and the Graduate
Teaching Fellows Federation will
cost the Erb Memorial Union ap
proximately $5300 for this fiscal
year, EMU director Ad ell McMillan
said at a board meeting Tuesday.
The contract granted GTFs a
13.8 percent pay increase, re
troactive over the last two years.
McMillan said the money would
be used to grant the EMU’s three
night managers who are GTFs a
pay increase, originally not
budgeted for, and to allocate back
pay to the three night managers of
the EMU last year who were also
GTFs.
The money can'be made up
from salary savings from a recent
governor’s freeze on hiring,
McMillan said.
McMillan said the EMU will also
be hiring an additional night man
ager next year because of work
load limits set by the contract.
In other business, EMU busi
ness manager Bob Schultz re
ported that figures through Oc
tober show that EMU main desk
revenues are $4,000 lower than
what they were last year while
food service revenues are up
$13,000. Schultz said the in
crease in food services revenues
could be attributed to good man
agement and that the decrease in
main desk revenues was "almost
totally due to no concerts this
year.’
The board also elected Trida
Sewell, a student, to fill a board
position and announced that the
application deadline for a vacant
famttv nnsitinn is Thursday.
City to sell rejuvenated dwelling
Any family that has at
least one child and that
earns less than the Eugene
median income may apply
to purchase the three
bedroom, two-story house
at 144 W. 11th Ave.
The house was relocated
and rehabilitated through
the city's community de
velopment allocation to the
westside neighborhood and
is up for sale to a family with
a less than average income
(median income for a family
of four in Eugene is
$16200).
The house is selling for
$58,000 and through a
financing technique that al
lows low-income families to
afford the house.
The house will be open
for viewing from 1 p.m. to 6
p.m., Monday through Fri
day.
Applications and informa
tion may be obtained from
144 W. 11th Ave. or by cal
ling 687-5279 during the
hours of the open house
only, or from City Hall. Rm.
106. 777 Pearl St. Applica
tions must be submitted be
fore noon. Dec. 13.
Ten applications will be
drawn at 2 p.m. on Dec. 13
in the City Council Cham
bers. The first family whose
application is drawn will
have the first opportunity to
qualify and acquire the
house. If the first applicant
cannot be qualified, city
staff will proceed in order
through the 10 applicants
until a qualified buyer is
found.
IFC reserve fund shortage
keys budgetary postponement
After discovering a severe shor
tage in its unallocated reserve
fund, the Incidental Fee Commit
tee postponed funding for a
number of programs Tuesday af
ternoon.
Most of the unallocated reserve
fund (which originally totaled
$4,741) is tied to the unapproved
IFC budget for 1978-79. and has
been earmarked for other ex
penses by the University ad
ministration. The IFC, left with
only $700, will hold another meet
ing Thursday afternoon, after de
termining the precise level of the
reserve fund.
"I request that all our sup
plementary budget requests be
tabled until we are sure we have
enough money,” said IFC
member Dusty Rhodes. “How can
we possibly fund them?”
Scott Bassett then recom
mended that the IFC establish
emergency budget criteria be
fore we take any action” on the
funding decisions
The committee then concluded
that the remaining $3,600 never
existed, while IFC Chairer Janet
Eggleston promised to study the
problem “until we have a dear
idea of the situation.”
In other action, the IFC voted
unanimously to approve a line
item transfer within the Drug In
formation Center budget to cover
travel expenses. The money will
offset the costs of a recent DIC trip
to Portland.
The committee also voted
against funding the director of the
3D Multi-Cultural Forum for travel
expenses to Santa Barbara Calif.
Jocelyn Jefferson, the director of
3D only since July, made the trip in
October to investigate the possi
bility of establishing another
Saturday Market in Eugene that
would raise funds. Jefferson said
she thought the program's "travel
expenses” budget would cover
the trip, but the IFC felt otherwise.
The committee voted unanim
ously to reimburse Jefferson only
for her bus trip to the Portland In
ternational Aifport, and not for the
plane trip from Portland to San
Francisco. The committee felt the
trip was not justified within the
goals of the 3D program.
Finally, the IFC unanimously
passed a motion which allowed
the SEARCH program to spend
more than $100 for each film
sponsored by the group. Previous
regulations limited the group to
$100 expenditures for each film.
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