State leaders respond to Atiyeh
SALEM i(AP) — The gover
nor's blueprint to erase the
state's huge deficit has drawn
lukewarm support from top
legislative leaders and
assurances that it could add
several more days to the
record-length special session
"The whole program is going
to be debated," said Senate
Pres Fred Heard, D-Klamath
Falls
"I don't want to set up any
fences at this point,” he said
Wednesday night "I want to
give the governor's program a
full airing "
Gov Vic Atiyeh on Wed
nesday proposed a package
that included tax boosts and
cuts in the property tax and
renter relief programs to help
erase an estimated $337 million
budget deficit
Atiyeh held firm on his
proposal to cut state agency
budgets by $120 million and
said the Legislature now must
face some hard decisions
"I think they have to face up to
reality,” the Republican gover
nor said
"That's going to be a big item
for the Senate to chew,” Heard
said later The Senate has only
agreed to cuts amounting to half
of Atiyeh's suggestions
But the leaders of the
Democrat-controlled Legisla
ture admitted lawmakers would
have to cut deeper than $62
million in cuts approved by the
Senate
Heard and House Speaker
Hardy Myers, D-Portland, said
there was no immediate plan to
adjourn the Legislature to allow
key committees to hash out
details of the plan.
"The hope right now is we
can keep all members here and
work for a solution," said Myers.
The Legislature today began
its 26th day in special session
They said, however, that
working out the technical
aspects of combining the
property tax relief and renter
relief programs alone would
take some time
Myers said that for lawmakers
to tackle the complex work of
revamping the systems "is a
very big technical and political
challenge during a special ses
sion.”
The governor s proposal to
combine the programs would
raise an estimated $35 million.
They said there probably was
the most widespread support
for some form of income tax
IFC hearings continue
Native American funds cut
The Incidental Fee Committee
approved on Wednesday two
resolutions establishing policies
already in effect by precedent
and cut three more student
program budgets
The resolutions, approved by
unanimous and 6-1 votes re
spectively, prohibit the alloca
tion of incidental fees by
"programs that have offices
and/or telephones in mailing
newsletters to students on
campus" and for lodging
The organization receiving
the largest budget cut Wed
nesday was the Native Amer
I
ican Student Union, which was
allocated only about $7,000 de
spite its request of more than
$8,300
The group, for which the
ASUO Executive recommended
an allocation of about $100 less
than the request, sustained
slashes in the director s salary
and work study funds with
smaller cuts in symposium and
pow-wow line items
Much discussion during the
Native American hearing cen
tered around the organization's
telephone use, with the IFC and
ASUO Executive both advocat
Contreras confirmed
as ASUO vice pres.
ASUO Pres Rich waktns confirmed the appointment of
Alan Contreras as ASUO vice president of program admin
istration Wednesday.
Contreras, former ASUO budget director, held the posi
tion of acting vice president since Jan 9, when Jim Edmon
son resigned retroactive to Dec. 31 Edmunson. a law
student, accepted a position as a clerk in a local law firm
The new vice president is a former candidate for ASUO
president and was an Incidental Fee Committee member for
more than a year in 1979-80. He has also served as assistant
director of the Survival Center, chairer of a 1978 Lane County
Citizens Advisory Committee on Natural Resources, and has
worked for state Rep. Margie Hendrickson, O-Eugene.
“When you've got a guy like Alan, it's easy to reuign in
my own mind. I can't imagine anyone more qualified/'
Edmunson said Jan. 9 upon the temporary appointment of
Contreras.
Contreras former position as ASUO budget director has
not been fitted. His assistant in that job, Carotyn Harmon and
Kenmar Bust, have bean given larger workloads.
Contreras, a political science senior, will enter the
urewwy tiw scnooi in
ing no funds for WATS long
distance lines and a stipulation
that Native American Student
Union officials use WATS lines
in ASUO Executive offices
Native American co-director
Greg Archuleta, admitting that
excessive phone calls have
been made on the organiza
tion's WATS phones, asked the
IFC to simply eliminate WATS
during summer term, to allocate
WATS funds to line items for
which WATS calls are made,
and to allow the group to ban
calls concerning student grants
to Bureau of Indian Affairs of
fices — a significant reason for
recent student use of the lines
The IFC remained firm on its
proposal and allocated the $440
requested for WATS phones to
standard phones
The University's Oregon
Student Public Interest Re
search Group was granted
almost $9,800, about $50 less
than the sum requested by the
group and recommended by the
ASUO Executive
OSPIRG, recovering from a
massive budget cut last year
that reduced this year’s budget
more than $35,000, received
what it wanted this year
The Black Student Union,
requesting more than $7,100,
was granted about $6,800 —
only $25 less than the ASUO
recommendation.
IFC member David Gibson
said he was uncomfortable with
"recruitment” and would like
the BSU to represent the entire
University and student body in
its trips to high schools around
the state
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boost The governor’s proposal
calls for a change in the $1,000
personal exemption to a $75 tax
credit, which would raise about
$37 million
But neither ruled out con
sideration of some other income
tax proposals, including a one
time surtax that the House has
soundly rejected
Heard said there also would
be some argument about cut
ting further into basic school
support and some resistance to
further boosts in beer and wine
taxes
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