1982-83 county services
depend on local support
By Marian Graan
Of tty CmmrmUJ
Jawbone set firmly. Lane County General Ad
ministrator George Morgan delivered the hard
facts Monday night — county residents are going
to have to foot the lion's share of the county’s bill
of services next year.
"This is the time of the year when we must
seriously consider what is the business of Lane
County," Morgan told the county budget com
mittee at its Monday night meeting, attended by
more than 125 county residents
The 1982-83 proposed budget totals about
$107 million, an almost $3 million decrease from
the current year's budget of about $110 million,
he said
Under the proposed 1982-83 budget, as many
as 84 job positions may be lost through program
restructuring, Morgan added
To fund that budget — and keep the same level
of services — the county plans to propose to the
voters on May 18 a $10 million increase in the
county tax base, he said
"A major building block is in place," said
Morgan of the tax proposal
He said that difficult economic times, "indeci
siveness at Salem" and Pres Ronald Reagan's
New Federalism" policy, which includes massive
federal funding cuts in social services support,
have forced the county for the first time to seek
more than 50 percent of its funding from local
sources
Under the proposed budget, 53 percent of the
funding will come from local sources (mainly the
$10 million tax base), 33 percent from the federal
government and 19 percent from the state, Mor
gan said
If the "worst case” scenario evolves and
revenues fall short of predictions, the county will
pull out its contingency plan that addresses
"What happens if?,” Morgan said He didn't
elaborate on the plan but said "careful revision”
would be afforded each service and department
before any cutting occurs.
Morgan stressed continuation of the open
communications between local and county
government agencies that have increased as the
local economy declined.
"As a result of 'New Federalism,’ interagency
cooperation is growing to be more important than
it has been in recent times,” he said.
Of the 10 audience members voicing comments
on the proposed budget, most urged that specific
programs be spared drastic reductions.
Speakers voiced concern for programs such as
the county's rural library program, White Bird
crisis service, the county’s predator trapping
program and the Oregon State University county
extension program.
Only two persons protested against the tax
base increase
"I can't believe that in this time of recession —
on the verge of depression — that you'd ask for a
$10-million tax increase,” said Eugene resident
Glenn Sabin. “For the homeowner who’s out of a
job, new taxes could force them out of a home.”
He urged county residents to vote the tax
proposal down if it makes it on the May ballot
Public testimony may be given at the continued
budget committee meeting Thursday night at 7:30
p m in Harris Hall
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in between executive sessions
“The board still wants to ex
plore his philosophy of how the
board office would be struc
tured," Harms said
An executive session meeting
with Weathersby will be held at
Portland State University in
Portland Sunday
Board representative Dick Zi
ta said a poll of board members
Monday afternoon indicated
most favor reopening the
search if Weathersby rejects
their offer.
Harms said he doesn’t fore
see any adverse consequences
if the board must go through the
search again ' There are
qualified persons interested in
the job,” he said.
Meeting on budget
replaces assembly
University Pres Paul Olum
has called for a convocation of
all faculty and staff Wednesday
at 3:30 p m in the EMU Ball
room
Olum postponed a University
Assembly meeting scheduled at
that time to gather staff to dis
cuss the consequences of
higher education s latest bud
get reduction The cuts are the
result of Gov Vic Atiyeh's an
nouncement of a projected
$100 million additional shortfall
in state funds on top of an ear
lier fund shortfall of $237 mil
lion
' The purpose of the con
vocation is to provide an oppor
tunity for discussion of how to
deal with the new budget
reductions," wrote Olum in a
letter to all faculty and staff
“For the University, this could
mean additional 1982-83 bud
get cuts of about $1 4 million on
top of the budget reductions
that are already assigned to us
for 1982-83
"We shall discuss in general
terms both program reductions
and the use of salary funds as
ways of meeting the reduction,
and any other suggestions you
wish to have considered," the
notice says
The Legislature paved the
path for Chancellor Roy Lieual
len to suggest reconsidering the
possiblity of faculty "furloughs”
as a means of meeting
proposed budget cuts.
Olum stressed the impor
tance of the meeting and urged
all faculty, classified and man
agement staff to attend.
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