POLITICS
Measure 5 fallout to dominate Senate agenda
By Joe Kidd
Emerald Politics Editor
When asked what he'll he do
ing in the state Senate this
year, Grattan kerans begins
with sarcasm-coated predic
tions: "We are going to cut ev
erything across the hoard
We re going to raise tuition and
give you fewer educational
choices
The reasons behind such a
pessimistic forecast? Measure 5
and a looming $800 million
budget shortfall —- all of w hich
will add up to a long, tense
round of budget hashing in the
legislative session whit h be
gins next week
And kerans and one other
Kugene-area senator have been
thrown into the thick of it
kerans. who represents Hist
20, and Sen. Utrrv Hill from
I list 21. were appointed Thurs
day to the Senate's budget
i rafting Ways and Means Com
mittee by Senate President John
kitzhaber,
"Measure 5 will dominate
the entire legislative session."
Hill said. "And in addition we
will have the recession to deal
with. The two will work to
gether to force the state to re
duce the level of servii.es by 10
to 15 percent . "
And both senators say higher
education will inevitably share
some of that burden, likely lac
mg budget cuts and tuition in
c reases.
"Higher education has many
friends in the Legislature, but
that doesn't mean it will get oil
scot-free." Hill said.
kerans. a Detnoc rate legisla
tor since 1074 who served on
the senate Ways and Means
Committee in 1987, said Ore
gon’s colleges and universities
"can't be- insulated from the
cuts" caused by Measure 5 and
bleak economic: forec asts
Measure !). passed in the
Nov I) elec tion. establishes .1
1 "> pert i*nl property t.iv limit,
shitting most of the responsihil
itv of funding publii schools
front lot al tux systems to the
state government The measure
requires the state to make up
the dollars th.it would have lo
t id I v gone to public si hoots,
with that tab estimated at $04 t
million in 1891
Moreover, souring economic
forecasts have lowered the
amount of tax dollars anticipat
ed to come into state coffers
during the next biennium
Those fin tors combine to ere
ate an estimated budget gap ot
nearly Shot) million over the
next two years
Budget i ids for all state-fund
ed agent les have become the
anticipated result. The question
that has emerged How mill ll is
cut from whum'
' ll will he tough." kermis,
40. siiid l-'or higher education.
"I think we re obviously look
ing at tuition ini leases It's ei
tiler that, or eliminating whole
hunches of students
Hill, a two-term Democrat in
the Senate who has also served
two terms in the House, he
lieves tuition increases "will
certainly be discussed The
question is what will that do to
people of lower income?"
Hill, who worked on the
eight-member Ways and Meant*
Committee in the last bienni
um. says that if the cost to at
tend Oregon's colleges and uni
versities is increased, student
loan programs will also be ex
panded.
As for faculty salaries. Hill.
40. said Gov Neil Gold
schmidt s proposed Sad million
increase is "out of the pic
lure." but that some addition
dollars will probably be fun
nelled in that direction, despite
cuts in other areas
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(.rattan Knrans
I think there is .1 strung feel
iug in liulli parlies ih.il 1,11 nils
salaries have lieen too low lor
too long." lie s.inl "We re lee
lermg at the edge ot the i lift
I tilIIlk. we (all gel some
lolin
nunc dollars for fat ult\ salan
improvement but il will lie no
where near tile proposed Soil
million ill( rease Hut it will lie
some kind of ret (ignition of the
problem
Ijirry Hill
in thr past, higher educa
tion vv.is used .is it scapcgo.it.
hut not in this case now." Hill
said "Uc will Irv to niiniiui/c
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