City needs $1.5 million
Council mil call for June 30 revenue vote
By RICHARD WAGONER
Of the Emerald
The Eugene City Council is
expected to call for a June 30
election for voters to consider a
$1.5 million "Tier II” levy to fund
a handful of capital items and
some city services not covered
by the city’s current revenue
base.
City councilors will call for the
election at their meeting
Wednesday.
Voters last year approved a
$16.5 million tax base to fund
the city for the 1981-82 fiscal
year. The $1.5 million that the
city will request in the Tier II
proposal is the difference
between that base and what City
Manager Mike Gleason says is
needed to run the city.
Gleason says the operating
"core” budget falls almost $1
million short of balancing with
the already approved revenue.
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Added to that shortfall is about
$400,000 for capital-im
provement projects and a con
tingency fund to ensure the city
will get enough tax receipts to
cover the Tier II budget.
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The Tier II budget would cost
city homeowners about 60
cents per $1,000 of assessed
valuation, according to Assis
tant City Manager David Whit
low. Tax rates would increase
from $7.44 per $1,000 in
1980- 81 to $8.11 per $1,000 in
1981- 82.
Gleason plans eventually to
bring all of the city’s existing
services under the core budget.
Then the Tier II budget would
consist only of improvements on
existing services, new services
or capital projects.
Items included in the
supplemental budget are:
• Some $55,000 to purchase
Emerald graphic
books for the city library, giving
the library about $166,000 for
book buying.
• About $42,000 to operate
summer playground programs
at Westmoreland, Amazon,
Sheldon and Petersen com
munity centers.
• Funds totaling about
$25,000 to train and supply a
special 25-member police
reserve force.
• Funds to create a building
plan inspector position to
provide immediate basic plan
examinations for remodeling or
building additions. Whitlow says
the position would relieve
the understaffed planning
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the time needed to inspect plans
from six weeks to less than a
week.
• A $58,500 fund to make
improvements in city neighbor
hoods not eligible for federal
Community Development Block
Fund grants.
• About $50,000 for the Joint
Housing Committee to develop
housing for low-income and
elderly residents.
Capital projects covered by
the Tier II plan include funds to
buy land for a fire station on Fox
Hollow Road near Donald
Street, money for engineering
and designing an addition to
Fire Station 9 at 967 Goodpas
ture Island Road, and funds for
engineering and designing a
new fire station at 28th Avenue
and Polk Street.
The council will hold a public
hearing on the entire budget on
June 22 when residents will
have a chance to comment on
the plan. The council at that
time will vote on the package.
The June 30 election ateo will
include a ballot measure that
would authorize a $188,666 levy
on property in the city's Down
town Development District to
continue the free parking pro
gram downtown.
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Survival Center offers buses
for environmental supporters
By LESLIE FARRIS
01 the Emerald
Local environmentalists will be traveling to
the state Capitol this week in support of wild
animals.
The University Survival Center is offering bus
transportation today and Wednesday for anyone
wishing to attend or testify at public hearings on
two wildlife bills pending in the Legislature.
SB 791 would regulate the importation and
sale of wild animals. Oregon law already prohibits
the sale of native wildlife, and this bill would
extend that protection to non-native species.
One-hundred million birds are removed from
their habitats legally and illegally each year, says
Sydney Herbert of the Lane County Audubon
Society. Many are smuggled to avoid quarantine
and increase profits, he says, while others are
imported legally in spite of high mortality from
stress, disease and improper handling.
Testimony on the bill now before the Senate
Justice Committee will begin today at 2:30 p.m.
Those wishing to attend should meet in the
Survival Center, EMU Suite 1, at 1 p.m.
Wednesday's hearing is on House Joint
Memorial 15, which would recommend to the U.S.
Congress an amendment of the Marine Mammal
Protection Act now under Congressional review.
The MMPA was passed by Congress in 1972 to
establish a moratorium on the killing of marine
mammals. This law bans baby seal skin imports,
prohibits whaling within 200 miles of the coastline
and protects all other marine mammals, including
sea otters, polar bears, manatees, all seals,
whales, porpoise and walrus.
HJM 15, now in the Oregon House Agricul
ture and Natural Resources Committee, asks
Congress to extend the MMPA one year and then
turn management of marine mammals over to the
states.
Salmon and tuna fishing and oil industry
representatives are lobbying against the Act in
Congress. In Oregon, salmon fishermen blame
harbor seals for the decline in fish populations.
Earlier this fall, the Fish and Wildlife
Department passed a resolution asking Congress
to amend the MMPA to allow the management of
harbor seals.
Bryson says the MMPA doesn’t need to be
amended because it already allows fishermen to
kill seals and sea lions that interfere with fish and
gear. Also, it allows the states to regain man
agement authority if sufficient data is provided to
show that management will maintain the health
and stability of the marine ecosystem.
“Marine mammals are not responsible for the
decline in fish resources that proponents of HJM
15 claim they have caused,’’ Bryson says. “Dams,
habitat destruction, degraded water quality and
reduced stream flows all have contributed to the
decline in fisheries.
“The real problem is a shortage of fish, not an
overabundance of seals.”
Those wishing to attend the 8 a.m. hearing
should be at the Survival Center Wednesday at
6:30 a m.
OXFAM-America sponsors benefit
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