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Measures decided by voters
Some win,
some lose
By Brad Barton
Of the Em»rmkl
Interested parties
expressed either delight
or disappointment as
Oregonians defeated
three of five statewide
measures on Tuesday's primary
ballot
Ballot Measures 1 and 2,
which faced little opposition in
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the pre-election campaign, both
passed by comfortable margins
"I'm delighted," says Oregon
Health Division Administrator
Christine Gebbie about the suc
cess of Measure 1, which will
broaden the existing water
development project bond
authority to include loans for
drinking water systems in small
municipalities
"We've been working to im
prove smaller systems for years,
and this is a source of funds we
will certainly be able to use,"
Gebbie says
"Smaller systems will be
much more likely to come to us
with money problems, such as
improvement and enlargement
of their water systems," Gebbie
adds
Passage of Measure 2 will al
low the state to sell bonds to
help finance construction of
multi-family housing for the
handicapped and the higher-in
come elderly in addition to the
state's current funding of hous
ing for the low-income elderly
Chairer Ralston Smith of the
Committee for Elderly and Han
dicapped Housing says, “We
were concerned that with three
bond issues on the ballot, peo
ple might not understand that
Measure 2 won't create new
bonding authority "
"We are very pleased at the
measure's success,' Smith
says, "because it will provide
more housing for the elderly and
handicapped.”
“We are very disappointed —
we don't know what we will do
next," says Tom Tombs of the
Oregon Corrections Division in
response to the failure of Ballot
Measure 3 The measure would
have empowered the state to
issue $60 million worth of gen
eral obligation bonds to finance
construction and improvement
of state and local corrections
facilities
"The most immediate effect
of the measure's failure,” says
Tombs, "is that the outcome of
the retrial of the division s over
crowding suit may be altered
because the judge won't have
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the options he might have had if
a plan had been prepared for
use of the funds that the mea
sure would have provided "
"Most people speculate that
the measure failed because it
was a money issue," Tombs
says "People just don't want to
spend when the economy is
poor."
“I’m not against good roads,"
says Greg Wasson of Oregon
ians for Fair Truck Taxes in re
sponse to the defeat of Ballot
Measure 4, which would have
raised the state's gasoline and
truck weight/mileage taxes by
approximately 37 percent over
the next three years to fund road
construction and repair
"The measure's defeat helps
facilitate our goal, which is to
have heavy trucks pay their fair
share of road maintenance
costs," says Wasson, adding.
"It gives added incentive to
pass an alternative measure, for
which we will need 63,000 sig
natures ”
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soon,' Wasson says, "we ll see
the Legislature allocate money
from the general fund to the
Highway Division, Oregon's
version of the (U S ) Defense
Department, at the expense of
other programs "
"I’m secretly delighted (at the
measure s failure),' Wasson
adds, "but publicly I'd say that
it's a small step toward our
major goal, which is making
highway maintenance laws
more responsible "
"By the next time a similar
measure is placed on the bal
lot," says Lane County Public
Works Director Don LaBelle,
deterioration of the county s
roads will likely be quite visible,
and people will see more
potholes and base failures ”
LaBelle says he is pleased
that 51 percent of Lane Coun
ty's voters favored Measure 4,
but adds, "maybe the econ
omies of other counties are
worse, or their roads aren't so
bad ”
“There was some division
among lawyers and judges on
the issue, but I agree with the
majority," says University law
school dean Derrick Bell on the
defeat of Ballot Measure 5 The
measure would have em
powered the governor to ap
point the chief justice of the
Oregon Supreme Court
"Members of the Supreme
Court should appoint their chief
justice,” says Bell, "because
they will be aware of the admin
istrative problems (that the
measure was theoretically de
signed to alleviate) and be as
responsive as the governor
would be to those problems "