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Local non-profit organizations hurry
to cover withdrawal ofCETA monies
By RICHARD WAGONER
Of the Emerald
A state and local ruling that
Eugene can no longer provide
Comprehensive Employment
and Training Act funds to
private, non-profit organiza
tions has sent several local
agencies scrambling to cover
possible program cuts.
At least a half-dozen Eugene
agencies, including counseling
services, childcare facilities and
veterans’ organizations, will
lose city-sponsored CETA
workers April 15.
The state attorney general's
office ruled last February that
allowing private, non-profit
groups to receive city CETA
funds for payroll was a form of
lending credit — illegal in
Oregon.
Eugenes city attorney
recommended that the city
council terminate those CETA
positions this month.
And that’s when the scram
bling began.
Some of the organizations
have transferred their services
to the city where public sector
CETA funding is still intact.
Others have cut programs rely
ing on those city funds.
But the net result, according
to one member of the city CETA
advisory council, will be a
gradual phasing out of several
programs.
“I don't think the effect on the
community will be felt on April
15,” says Jay Stutz, advisory
council member and president
of the Lane Interagency
Network. "But in the summer
they will be hurting.”
Stutz says many of these
agencies also receive
county-sponsored CETA funds,
which will allow them to keep
programs at least until Sep
tember when Lane County also
phases out its funding for
private, non-profit groups.
Until then, Stutz says the or
ganizations will be “gearing
down" to prepare for further
funding cuts.
Some 20 to 25 city CETA po
sitions will be eliminated, and
most of those workers will be
transferred to public sector
jobs, city officials say.
But Stutz says the transfer will
be of little help because those
public sector positions will also
be eliminated May 30 when ad
ditional CETA cuts are made.
Representatives at Looking
Glass Youth and Family Ser
vices, Inc., say the April 15 cuts
will hobble the program but not
destroy it.
Looking Glass has been
operating two programs for the
City of Eugene to help train and
employ young people. Both of
those programs will be taken
over by the city and eliminated
from Looking Glass’ control,
says Executive Director Jim
Forbes.
The loss of the two programs
will mean a reduction in the
agency’s administration bud
get, Forbes says. And that will
strain some of Looking Glass’
other projects and programs.
"The net result in our case is a
$10,000 deficit by June 30 —
and that makes long-range
planning impossible,” he says.
But Forbes says the agency
will continue.
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