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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1995)
State pays bonuses, salaries in unreliable manner SAIJ-.M lArj i n<* u«iy the state pa\ s umpim its is in such disarray it makes little sense, with sortie workers paid loo little and others too much, according to a secretary of state s audit The state's pay system is "so riddled with excep tions. inconsistencies and lack of information, that it ts not a reliable way to understand how state work ers ore actually paid.' Secretary of State Phi! kox ling said. kei sling said the audit showed abuse of the state's prat Su e of awarding special pay to employees based on labor market conditions. These so-called "pay-line exceptions" cost the state at least $'> fi million in unjustified bonuses based on n sampling of state job classifications The bonuses are supposed to go to top priority jobs situations in whic h it is difficult to find qual ified candidates and to bring public employees up to the pay standards enjoyed by their private sec tor counterparts One-third of all state workers get extra money and in many cases, the bonuses are negotiated through collective bargaining, However, a sampling of 1ft job dassifii ations found no justification In either the tabor market, employee turnover or other data — for bonuses giv en to -t.filft state workers in nine categories Bonuses were instituted for registered nurses wht'n tHr* having a hard linn* rv« mittng thorn With J'Hl nurses on the watting list for state Job*, the bonuses are no longer m* esvirv Alis e Dale, nmuton dinctor of the Oregon Pub lic Employees Union, sets! if the state c uts hac k on the extra money it probably will have trouble recruiting and retaining workers The audit found that tn at least la cases, former manners were reclassified as line workers hut kejit their managerial salaries and qualified for extra jwv as ’lead workers.” Two of these workers, who were not identified, ended up making $3,000 more a year after thev were demoted At the same time, statu workers in general are paid less than private sector employees, according to both the audit and a separate report from the stale Legislative Fisc nl Offii e Mate workers have faileii fi.-luud lie, ,ium their salaries luive been frozen since early 1993. the rejKirt •wild The average state worker was to pen «nt below private market compensation as of last October Unless the workers get a pav hike, the report pre die ted. that gap w ill grow to 13 pen ent hv the end of per, The report blame-. Me.isor,- H. the voter approved initiative that requires puhlii employees to contribute (i percent of their pav to their pen sions MEASURE Continued from Page 1 Frohnroayar alao said the measure violates provisions in the Oregon Constitution that status an initiative can amend, hut not revise, the constitution "The changes of Measure H are so sweeping." Frohnmav er said “They are a revision." The third argument the plaintiffs make is that the ini tiative is legislative m nature "You cannot put legislation into the constitution," he said "You can only put constitu tional type directives in the constitution Measure H is leg islative in tuitun4 and therefore does not txdong in the consti tution.'* Frohmnaver said 1 rohnmaver has worked as •it unpaid, unofficial consul font of the Fugene law firm. Harrang Long Gary Kudnu k I to draft and adit the chal lenge Thr challenge requests action for a declaratory judg ment. Frohnmavor said, which moans the plaintiffs am asking tin* court to make a dw larotion that the mwmmi is unconstitutional without tin* present c of a jury Kven if just cum part tin* measure is found to be uncon stitutional. th« entire measurti will be thrown out. Frohn ntayer said "We hope it will !«< moved very rapidly to summary lodg ment after the Attorney (am end'* offii e. who flits to defend it. has filed its answer." the I 'line; Mt\ president said Two juveniles accused of shooting migrant worker go on trial WENATCHEE. Wash (AP) Judge John Bridges stood on the edge of a steep embankment Thursday, looking down to the edge of the Columbia River where police say two 12-year-old boys shot a migrant worker ih times last summer. Bridges, acting as a Chelan County Juvenile Court judge, went to the river bank at dusk at the end of the first day of John Duncan's trial for first-degree murder. Bridges is hearing the case without a jury. Duncan and Manuel Sanchez, both of Wenatchee, are charged with first-degree murder in the Aug. 20 shooting death of sea sonal worker Emilio Pruneda. Sanchez goes on trial next Wednesday If convicted, the youths con he held in juvenile facilities until they are 21 Deputy Prosecutor Gordon Edgar asked the judge to view the site where Pruneda was killed after eight police officers described the location in testi mony. "The pictures we have and the diagrams do not do justu e to the scene." said Edgar, adding he wanted the judge "to know this terrain. to see how the budv was situated I t,•tense 1.1 'A UT Neil t uNer objected, faying the site would have changed since the shooting Hut Bridges, while conceding he really didn't want to go out into the cold, overruled the objection In statements to police, both boys acknowledged shooting Pruneda Hut Duncan said he reloaded two guns, then stood over the wounded man and etnp tied the bullets from both guns into Pruneda's body. The boys said Pruneda threw rocks at them after they fired too close to him with guns thev had stolen that afternoon and taken to the river with which to play Bridges, Fuller and Edgar were accompanied to the site by two police officers and Sanchez's defense lawyer. Tom Caballero. ■ CORRECTION In the Thursday edition of the Emerald, the man on the front page was incorrectly identified as a panhandler We regret the error and are sorry for the inconvenient e. A.Y.C.E. Pizza 1 .11! \«hj ran < .it & Salad Bar L? , $/|95 5^\ Available Mon f'n. 11am-1:30pm \ Offer flood at Franklin ttlid store only 4 rf . «u ii Track Town Pizza 484-2799 Campus 1809 Franklin Blvd. West 2511 W. Uth A Wilson They squeezed through a fence's chained gate then slid down a steep hill to get to rad road trai ks that sit atop a steep embankment. Wenatchee police officer "I ok i Gordon testified she had watched from a hill 300 yards above the embankment as Duncan twice ran up the embankment, am u kneeling by n gym bag where police snv he had stashed estra ammunition. Sanchez had come up the r emUmkment oiu«. (hen sat near the gvni l>ag while Dunum went down toward the river again, she Mid. Sgt Terry Pippin showed Bridges the trail the youths allegedly used and pointed out Pruneda's campsite, where a blanket remained Pippin jumped onto a ru< k where Duni an told authorities he Stood as he emptied the bullets from two guns, shooting toward Prune-da, whose body was found |ust out ol the water. Offii nr Randy Yurmdl of th» l ast Wtmntcher Polii r Depart meat testified earlier Ihursdiiv he find watched through hinot u l«»r*i from «it rnss the river ns Dun inn aimed at f’runoda Duni an “wont out on a rod, and raised Ins arm then I heard Kunslmt mimennis ijmiitu*." 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II OOam i OOpm./OOpm9 OOpm Sal 11 00am t OOpm Sun l OOpffM OOpm MWI 12 OOpm I OOpm *> OOpmft 10pm UH 5 OOpm 15 10pm MW 6 46am 8 OOam. I? OOpm I OOpm. 3 30pm I? OOam UH B 45am 8 OOam. II 30am I 30pm. 3 JOprrv / 25pm. 10 OOpm 12 00mm f 6 45am8 OOam. 12 OOpm I OOpm. 3 30prrv8 30pm Sal 10 30am 1 30pm Sun 12 t5pm4 45pm MUH I 30-3 30pm, / 30prrv 12 20am W 1 30-3 30pm. 8 30pm-12 20am f 1 30-3 30pm. / 30pm-9 JOprn MUH II OOam-1 OOpm, / 30pm- 1220am W 1100am l OOpm. 8 30pm 12 2Qam f 11 OOanv 1 OOpm. / 30pm 9 30pm UH / OOpm 9 OOpm f 3 30pm / OOpm 3 30pm -5 OOpm 5 OOpm / OOpm Ouadvig hour* 6 45am-12 30pm. 30Qpm-l2 20«m 6 45anvl? 20am 8 OOam-10 OOpm 8 45am I 30pm. 5 30pm-1220am 8 45am 3 30pm. 5 30pm-12 20am 8 OOam-10 OOpm r OOem-9 30pm CLOSED / 45am / OOpm 8 15am-/ OOpm CLOSED Holidays Marlin Luther King. Jr. Day: Pools and all indoor facilities will be closed. Free access is available at the covered tennis courts and outdoor racquetball courts.
