COMMUNITY UPDATE
Delegation In town
The first official sister city delegation from Kathmandu,
Nepal. will be in Eugene until Feb. 25.
The public will have an opportunity to meet the three del
egates Feb. 21 at the Asian Festival ana at the Feb. 22 'Taste of
Nepal" presentation at 7 p.m. in the EMU Fir Room.
The delegates are Navindra Raj Joshi, deputy mayor of Kath
mandu, Sri Govinda Shah, an environmental specialist, and
Bhlkshu Maitri, president of the Kathmandu-Eugeno Sister City
Committee.
The delegation will olso ho studying wastewater and sewage
treatment methods in Eugene and Areata, Calif.
Eugene City Councilman Shawn Boles led the last delegation
to Kathmandu from Eugene in October.
The sister city agreement between Eugene and Kathmandu
began in 1975 between the mayors of the two cities.
CISCAP sponsoring benefit
The Committee In Solidarity with the Central American Peo
ple will sponsor a benefit dinner to helo raise money for com
munity organizations in El Salvador Fel>. 26 at 6 p.m.
The dinner is at the Central Presbyterian Church in Eugene.
A donation of $5 to S10 is requested, and people are being
encouraged to donate school supplies, tools and medical sup
plies
The community organizations receiving aid include re
habilitation centers for disabled veterans, women's organiza
tions and labor unions.
William Hernandez, the International Representative for the
Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, will speak at the
dinner. The FMNL is a Salvadoran political party composer! of
former rebel organizations.
Supplies donated will be taken to El Salvador by a caravan
of trucks scheduled to arrive in F.I Salvador in mid-March. The
caravan is being organized by a national organization similar
to CISCAP
For more information, contact CISCAP at <85-8653.
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County jail will turn felons away
if levy doesn’t pass, sheriff says
By Vegar Stokset
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Al least 33 criminal* would Ih» turned back inio
the street* from the lane County jail daily if voter*
turn down a $5.8 million peryear law en
forcement levy, a county official said this week
With no correctional services available, burglars,
robbers and violent offenders, including parole
and probation violators, would walk right back
into the community, posing a severe threat to the
citizens, Sheriff Bob McManus said
McManus warned that it the
March 23 levy fails, l-ane
County would lose critical law
enforcement and treatment ser
vices "desperately needed” to
secure the health and security
of its citizens.
"We are only asking the vot
ers for continued support for
the present level of services."
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programs are proposed "
The levy, which would cost each homeowner 53
i*nts per $1,000 of assessed property value, would
replace a three-year levy that expires June 30. The
old levy funded 13 (Hitml officers and several com
munity corrections programs
The first serial levy adopted in March 1087 sub
stantially helped Lane County provide treatment
and correctional programs for offenders, t he main
goal was to reduce pressure on jail space by pro
viding o w ide range of alternative correctional ser
vices
In 1086. Lane County received a court order
placing a cap on the number of inmates it could
keep in the jail To prevent overcrowding, a sig
nificant numher of inmates had to bo released ear
lier than normal But both in 1087 and 1000. vot
ers approved serial levies that funded programs
easing the needs for jail beds.
By addressing the cause of the offenders' prob
lems and providing professional help in the vari
ous levy funded programs, the need for imprison
ment decrease, McManus said.
"Alter going through the programs, many of
fenders stay away from crime, and we do not have
to spend a lot of money on locking them up in
jail.” McManus said
The real problem for many offenders is related
to alcohol and drug abuse rather than criminal ten
dencies, McManus said Ho said levy funds are
•We are only asking the voters
for continued support for the
present level of sendees. Mo
enhancements or additional
programs are proposed.*
Bob McManus,
Lane County sheriff
crucial for continued treatment of the lower-risk
offenders, and that jail space should he reserved
for the more serious criminals.
The forest inmate work camp in Alma is one of
the levy funded programs that has helped free up
jail space The camp can hold more than 120 of
fenders, and they work in areas including parks
maintenance, trail building and remodeling. Esti
mates show that when the camp is full, the num
ber of early jail releases declines up to 19 per day.
The Community Corrections Center, which also
receives levy dollars, engages a daily average of 67
inmates in regular employment in the community.
The center helps to rehabilitate offenders and free
up law enforcement resources.
Another program provides treatment services for
young offenders with alcohol- and drug-related
problems In addition, levy money funds the coun
ty's psychiatric hospital.
All these programs help the offenders develop
and maintain a constructive lifestyle, McManus
said.
The levy also funded half of Lane County’s pa
trol force. If the patrol positions are cut, people in
rural districts are at risk of not receiving emergen
cy assistance.
The understaffed department will then barely bo
able to respond to the most lifethreatening calls.
McManus said.
Maroola, McKenzie. Mapleton and Lowell-Dex
ter would lose their resident deputies and the re
maining nine patrol officers, and two supportive
positions would In; cut from the main office patrol
and investigation.
The planned cut in the state's budget, includ
ing reduced supervision of 12.000 offenders state
wide. further increases the need for local pro
grams.
"I am not saying that the levy is going to solve
all our problems, but at least it will help the prob
lem from perpetuating itself," McManus said
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