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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 30, 1981)
At Eugene block-grant hearing Residents pitch fund-spending plans By MARIAN GREEN OfUMEmaraM About 35 Eugene residents made their pitches to the Eugene City Council Tuesday night, asking that revenue sharing dollars be spent on items ranging from bikepaths and housing rehabilitation to a safer downtown area At the public hearing, neighborhood groups and social-service agencies sug gested ways to spend federal money obtained through the Community Development Block Grant Plan Under a tentative time schedule, the city will prepare a three-year community develop ment plan, scheduled for adop tion Nov 9. and will call for grant applications for the first year (1982-83) of the three-year plan in the middle of November The city expects to receive about $1 million in block-grant money for the 1982-83 fiscal year About 15 citizens testified for neighborhood and social ser vice agencies at the meeting Veracocha Starr, of the Beth el Triangle neighborhood, asked the council to construct bikepaths in his neighborhood which is bounded by Southern Pacific railroad tracks and U S Highway 99 'There's a need for a safe bikepath for access to recrea tion areas." Starr said "We're virtually cut off because of tbe train yards and Highway 99 " Starr said the Bethel area has only a "rough road" that is "very hazardous." In the last two years, a person was killed in a traffic accident along the road, he said Whiteaker neighbor Robert Ennons expressed concerns about increased traffic on Fifth Avenue and Blair Street (residential streets), and sug gested grant money be used to study means of diverting that traffic Ennons said he’s worried that Fifth Avenue will become a major downtown arterial" like Sixth and Seventh avenues Don Schmieding, a Eugene native, urged city councilors to "consider the need to spend energy and some of the dollars on the transient population " He suggested studying ways to help transient groups such as runaway youths, alcoholics and the mentally ill Schmieding warned that as Eugene grows, it may face tran sient concentrations in one area such as the Downtown mall "It happened in Portland.’ he said, referring to the Burn side transient area Schmiedling said that alth ough the downtown area should be the "center of our city,” it isn't. "Too many (citizens) aren't convinced that it's a safe place to go." he said Another citizen echoed Schmeidling's remarks and called for building a center where transients could go to receive help "You can cover the mall and relocate the buses, but I'm still not going to gc downtown until you clean up the other prob lems,'' said Eugene resident Jean Bates The council approved a preliminary staff draft document of community development needs and will review a new draft proposal, based on the public hearing testimony and staff recommendations, at the Oct 21 council meeting Sweeping job changes lead Moore to Suite Four One day a foreman at McDonnell Douglas, the airplane manufacturer, told 19-year-old John Moore to sweep the floor A fellow worker grabbed him and told him he didn't have to sweep floors because he had a union contract as a drill-press operator Such began the career of the ASUOs new executive coordinator After maioring in political philosophy at California State-Fullerton and the University of California at San Diego, the ambitious Moore moved through the ranks of a teacher s union, the United Auto Workers, and other unions before becoming involved in higher-education politics ASUO Pres Rich Wilkins met Moore through the Oregon Student Lobby which represents students at the Legislature There Moore searched the higher-education budget to suggest possible cuts "It was a difficult position, he says "I probably know as much about the budget cuts as anybody " While Moore understandably prefers his proposed cuts to the Legislature s, only about half of them were accepted Moore calls the result a "disaster " "Tuition will climb through 1983 and 1985 and access will be denied on an arbitrary basis. " Moore says He says that research shows students with 2 35 high-school grade point aver ages are just as likely to succeed in college as those with 2 75 averages "Why not throw them all in a hat and select them that way?" Moore's new ASUO job requires him to an alyze the student budget instead of the state s He oversees the ASUO's financial dealings with the athletic department and is planning a student development foundation to supplement the University s fundraising foundation Besides budget work Moore coordinates the office of student advocacy which — offers par alegal services — any legal service a non-lawyer can provide — to about 350 people a year Moore says about half of the cases he and his five third-year law students handle deal with violations of the student conduct code, but they can also handle problems students might have with the city landlords, police etc Scholarships available for radio students Applications are now being accepted for the Frank Conley Scholarship in Broadcasting This annual $1,000 award to a most promising junior or senior in the radio journalism field is offered in memory of broadcast newsman Frank Conley who served Northwest listeners from Redding to Seattle for many years Applications, transcripts and supporting materials, if any. must be submitted to the speech department by Oct 15, for the 1981-82 academic year award Need is considered Application forms are availa ble in 216 Villard Hall 0^G o° ’ * V 7 READ THE ODE 1c BANANA SPLIT SALE Buy one at the regular price and get the second one for only 1 cent Thursday _October 1 st r»I_. 13th & Hilyard
