‘No’ on tax levies
might stop sheriff
By Michele Matassa
Of th* Emerald
Lane County taxpayers must decide to
day how much their pocketbooks will affect
their votes as they respond to a request for
$2.9 million in property taxes for county law
enforcement purposes.
If voters hold their wallets too tightly,
they may jeopardize their own safety, accor
ding to county officials.
The sheriff’s office will have to cut
police patrol and criminal investigations if
the $2.9 million “A" ballot fails today, says
Bob McManus, a lieutenant with the sheriff’s
office.
That means if the office gets a call from
someone in county jurisdiction — areas not
covered by Eugene or Springfield police
departments — “then we can’t send
anybody," McManus says.
Those calls would have to be switched
to the state police, he says.
Included in the area patrolled by the
sheriff’s office are Marcola, River Road and
the Hayden Bridge area.
Also on the ballot are separate levies for
sheriff’s office prisoner transport ($842,697),
district attorney's office ($386,517), juvenile
department ($151,686), assessment and tax
ation ($505,618), rat and mosquito control
($168,5389.
These measures, on the "B” and “C"
ballots, cannot pass if the "A’’ ballot fails.
This provision results from state legislation
enacted about four years ago, McManus
says.
"If the (“A") levy does not pass we will
be doing the best job we can," he says. But
citizens will not be as safe “because there
will not be enough police officers on the
street."
“What are criminals going to do? Go out
into the country — into the easy-pickin’ area
— and commit crimes,” McManus says.
“There are people out there who are cer
tainly subject to criminal activity such as
burglary,” he says.
If measure two fails, only six people will
be available to extradite prisoners and to
transport them to court, the state peniten
tiary, and mental institutions, McManus
says.
“They will not be able to effectively han
dle that. And then there would be no one to
augment that section because there will be
no patrol section," he says.
The sheriff’s office alone will have to lay
off 50 to 60 employees if the levies fail, he
says.
The jail is already 20 people understaff
ed so failure of the measures would extend
this shortfall, McManus says.
And if the levy is a success, the sheriff’s
office would “by no means" be brought up
to standard.
The office would simply “operate at
maintenance levels,” he says.
If all the measures do pass, county pro
perty tax would increase by $21.60 for tax
payers owning $60,000 homes. The increase
equals about 36 cents per $1,000 in property
value, McManus says.
Citizens for Effective Law Enforcement
and Advocates for Lane County have endors
ed the law enforcement levy, McManus says.
When asked to predict the success or
failure of today’s levy, McManus says he
can’t objectively forecast the outcome of the
election becuase he is “so hopeful" it will
pass.
“How do you ask (that of) someone
whose career decides on whether the “A”
ballot passes?”
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