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Legislation may boost
timber funds to schools
By GABRIEL BOEHMER
Of the Emerald
As schools face crippling
budget reductions, some argue
that the portion of national for
est timber receipts reserved for
schools should be increased.
Both federal and state legis
lation has been introduced that
would do just that.
Since 1906, national forest
timber receipts have been ear
marked for roads and schools.
The percentage designated for
each has been left up to states
and, in some instances, even
counties.
In Oregon, 75 percent of na
tional forest timber receipts
goes for roads, and the remain
ing 25 percent goes to schools.
Rep. Jim Weaver, D-Ore., will
introduce federal legislation in
which schools would receive at
least 50 percent of the timber
receipts, and the remaining
funds would be deposited in the
general fund. Direct contribu
tions to road funds would be
stopped.
Weaver aide Dave Fidanque
says the congressman is con
sidering some amendments to
the proposal before it is pre
sented.
Fidanque says it’s difficult to
predict whether the bill will gain
congressional approval But he
does know the Lane County
Board of Commissioners and
Director of Public Works Don
LaBelle oppose the bill.
At the state level, Sen. Ed
Fadeley and Rep. Margie Hen
driksen, both Eugene
Democrats, are co-sponsors of
a bill that would split the timber
receipts evenly between
schools and roads.
SB 391 was assigned to the
Senate Revenue Committee in
February and should have its
hearing “within a couple of
weeks,” according to Hendrik
sen aide Leslie Ratley.
If the Senate passes that bill, it
will be assigned to a House
committee.
Opposition to the bill in Lane
County has been voiced by the
Lane County Commission, with
Scott Lieuallen and Jerry Rust
dissenting.
"If the transfer payments to
schools were increased, and
they were prudent with the
money, that would be a form of
tax relief,” Lieuallen says. "It
would reduce the need to in
crease property tax support.”
Lieuallen says while federal
funding dwindles, public pro
grams will have to start looking
for property tax support.
If the tax base can be “freed
up,” the practical effect might
be to force voters to consider
roads with other public services
at the ballot box, Lieuallen says.
"It's an opportunity to give
voters a choice and force us to
balance our priorities.”
Lieuallen attributes the
board’s opposition to the bill to
"conservatism.”
Originally, the road fund was
used for building roads to make
timber lands accessible, but
that’s not the case anymore,
Lieuallen explains.
"The road fund belongs to
small and vested interests in
Lane County."
And if voters had to choose
between roads and other pro
grams, roads might be set as a
lower priority, Lieuallen says.
Another way to put road funding
on the same level with other
social services would be to de
signate the remaining national
timber receipts not used for
schools to the general fund, he
says.
"If you transfer money out of a
fund, it would require closer
voter scrutiny.”
However, Lieuallen says this
would just “put off reckoning a
little bit longer” by forcing
voters to set their priorities for
social programs.
Meanwhile, "the county has
to get in clean and trim shape ”
The county is perceived as
being fat, and it needs to puli its
belt tighter if the commissioners
expect voter support for an up
dated tax base in the future,
Lieuallen says.