County officials face budget denial
By Steve Hooks
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The Lane County Budget
Committee began picking up
the pieces Thursday in the af
termath of the voters' rejection
of the $10 million increase in the
property tax base
The county now must resort
to the contingency plan, a
scaled-down alternate budget,
which requires budget and per
sonnel cuts in almost every
department County officials
drew up the plan in April in case
voters defeated the proposal to
increase the present $4 2 mil
lion tax base to $14 2 million
Had voters approved the tax
base, the county would have
worked with a $41 1 million
budget for I982-83
The county still must find
$2 75 million to balance the
current $31.2 million budget.
The committee will consider this
problem at Monday's budget
session
The cuts include:
— Reducing the public
safety department patrol staff
from 26 to seven officers
— Discontinuing mainten
ance of all 86 county parks in
October.
— Reducing family planning
services, alcohol and drug pro
grams. county museum hours
and the veterans program of
fered through the community
health and social services
department.
— Eliminating routine
animal regulation patrol activi
ties in the unincorporated
areas, including stock molest
and rabies control
— Reducing the service
levels in the district attorney's
office, including prosecution of
misdemeanors and traffic of
fenses, felonies and juvenile
crimes.
— Delaying road recon
struction and bridge - re
placement.
The county now plans to get
voter approval in June for a
special $3 million, one-year
property tax levy to reduce the
sharpness of the cuts. This levy
— or the "A" ballot — would be
subsidized with state property
tax relief.
The heated debate at Thurs
day's meeting, however, was
whether voters should select
specific services for property
tax funding or approve a gener
al special levy.
“I’m not very excited about
menu' government," Commis
sioner Scott Lieualien said.
Commissioner Otto t’Hooft
argued that voter selection may
be the only way to get voter
approval of special levies.
T’Hooft plugged a special tax
levy for county law
enforcement, saying voters
would be more willing to ap
prove such a levy. County fire
districts have been successful
with such special levy propo
sals, he added
Budget committee member
Carl Hosticka, a University
CSPA professor, said that a
selection of single-purpose
levies would drive the "wedge
deeper” between rural county
residents and city dwellers.
The budget committee will
meet at 9 a m. Monday in the
commissioners’ conference
room of the County Public Ser
vice Building to discuss various
proposals.
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University student Michael Cross won a write-in vote in
Tuesday's primary election for the Republican nomination to state
senate District 21
Defeating Libertarian Tonie Nathan by a write-in vote of 121-81,
Cross will face Sen Edward Fadeley D-Eugene in November's
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his door," Nathan said "He's not what they (constituents) want.
Admitting she didn't know much about her opponent, Nathan
said “I wish Michael Cross all the luck in the world whoever he
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and answer session follows, ending at 1:30 p.m.
The KEZI newsman graduated from the University jour
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