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Candidates urge fair cuts
TWO DEMOCRATIC GUBERNATORIAL
candidates are urging legislators and the gover
nor to take an even-handed approach to cutting
and balancing the state's budget.
The candidates — Lane County Commis
sioner Jerry Rust and Multnomah County Execu
tive Officer Don Clark — also say the state should
search for ways to be more efficient when making
the cuts
The Legislature meets in special session
today to consider Gov Vic Atiyeh's proposals,
which include higher education and human ser
vices cuts, to reduce the budget by about $147
million
Originally, Atiyeh proposed 20-percent cuts
in those areas, but he modified his proposal to 10
percent to include what Don Clark calls "short
term fiscal fixes "
Some short-term remedies appear helpful,
but others provide no real additional money for
the state. Clark says
Rust says the governor s cuts are unfair, and
cuts should be more evenly distributed among all
state programs
The legislators also should consider cutting
the state's 30-percent property tax relief program
and Basic School Support, Rust says.
Clark says Atiyeh's original proposals, which
had higher education and human services taking
the brunt of the cuts, do not provide a "balanced
approach."
"You can't preclude looking at the entire
budget” when deciding where to make cuts, he
says And budget cuts alone will not solve the
problems, he adds
While paring is possible in nearly every area,
human resources can not handle more than
“nickle and dime cuts,” he says Those services
are in high demand now because of Oregon’s
high unemployment rate, he says.
Rust says he is concerned that the unem
ployment rate may rise as state workers lose their
jobs following the latest round of cuts.
"The net cumulative effect (on state workers)
will be to drive them to unemployment,” he says.
Rust is emphatic that the state’s higher
education system should not bear the majority of
budget cutbacks
He says he sees the merit of the basic school
support program, but says he doesn’t think the
program should be continued at present levels at
the expense of higher education.
That does not mean cuts should not be made
in that area, he said. Rust proposes that the
Legislature and the higher education board
eliminate those programs duplicated within the
system.
He cites the journalism schools at the
University at Oregon State University as an ex
ample
Rust criticizes the proposed $2.5 million
higher education cut because to achieve that
reduction the schools would lose about $9 million
from reduced enrollment.
Those lost funds would be "an economic
tragedy for the community,’’ which already
suffers from the ailing timber industry, he says.
Rust also objects to the proposed human
services cuts.
Mental health programs and programs for
retarded children can’t be eliminated, he says. He
says it’s unfair to expect families to absorb the
entire burden of those problems.
Clark is also hesitant about higher education
cuts.
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