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Students offered three options for future LTD funding Natasha Shepard Oregon Oattf $»mraw Student* will he given three c hokes for the future of their Lane Transit District bus servee on the ballot this week Two of tho three? options deal with the amount of fees that will be charged depending on whether or not the fees would !*■ refundable to those who do not wish to use the* bus serve e The first option proposes that students pay about $(> 4/ per student, per term, to generate approximately $324,000 for unlimited Inis servic e within the transit distric t With this option, any student who does not want to use the serve it would he refunded ins or her Iws Th« uicond option would not make the refundable Instead, about $n 16 would he charged in incidental fee* per student, per term, for bus ser vice. Hus service without the option for a fee refund is cheap er because tlie c ost to I,TO is less, said LTD Finance Adminis trator Tamara Weaver Refunding the fees increases administrative expenses for LTD. Weaver said The University requires that LTD advertise the refund as well as employing people to adminis ter the refund at the University, she said T he third proposal "nei ther would eliminate the unlimited bus service fat *tu dents No would then he • barged for the bus wrvioe ru**l year Approcimately 4.200 student* board the l.TD busses every school day. according to l.TD statistics University students make up about 1<> percent of l.TTTs total rider ship A regular l.TD bus pass i osts $2 I per month, or more than $B0 per term Currently, University students pay $<> 20 in fees per term for the unlimited bus servo e and the fee is refundable No more Mi >• 200 students request a refund per term. Weaver said If students voted to make the LTD fee non-refundable, ibe cost of bus servii «* would be less than what student* are paving now Hir University and the transit district have had a "group' agreement since the lOH’-fttt school year laist year, the Uni versity and LTD won a national energy award because of their transportation partnership, Weaver said. While other universities in the nation have similar programs, students ty pically pay $9 to $10 per term, she said An LTD bus service measure is on the ballot measure every year because of increases in the cost of bus service, said ASL'O fixer utive Coordinator Chervl Hunter ON THE BALLOT ■ WHAT: OPTION A Incidental Inns charged for stu dents to use the unlimited Lane Transit District bus service would continue to be refundable, ■ Cost: $6 4? ■ WHAT: OPTION B Incidental fees charged for bus service would no longer be refundable ■ Cost: $6.16 ■ WHAT: OPTION C Unlimited LTD bus service for University students would be eliminated, ■ Cost: No cost to stu dents t mi: ivalo Senate may gain voting options for budget Patrick Mlnford Ot&Qtm / fffmy&ct A measure that would give Ih* Student Senate Uni’ ilmn veto power over the ANt'O Programs Financ e Committees budget recommendations with an HO pendant senate maiuntv will lx* pul twfore students on the Universitv's general elet - lion ballot t Older the current s\ stern, the ■ sti ■ vote t approve or deny the budgets recommended In the ASUO Programs Finance committee, the FMt' Hoard, and the AD Hudget t .ommittec*," according to the ASt’O Constitution The senate has tint power to reject entire budge! pm krtges. and c all recommend budget changes to the appropriate committee Senate President Pro Turn pore Martin Fisher, who helped organize the measure, said the current system is flawed bet ause the senate's options are loti limited lint senate's only options ore to either rejiM t tIn* (main « com mitiee's full budget based on a few programs, or to pass the budget pat kage even if there are ON THE BALLOT ■ WHAT: Wiii gtve the ASUO Student Senate line item veto power over the ASUO Programs Finance Committee's budget rec ommendations with an 80 percent senate majority, ■ COST: No cost to students t Uf 0 individual budgets the denote disapproves of, Fisher said Wither n( Itn»*.»* solutions seem like very good ones Fisher said "This wav, if thw is a problem, the senate c ould send every thing on. exi ept fur n single program If the hailot measure is approved, the s«nate would tie nine to deny any part of the finance committee's budget ns ominendation "by a vote of •» “> of the filled seats The finance i ell! Ill It tee .dim ales llinllev til student groups that receive ini i dental foits Campus ballot offers measure for finance committee elections Patrick Minford Oregon Oaiy hntrttd A proposal to stator the election of the two at-large members of the Programs Finance Committee will lie put before students on the upcoming campus ballot As it stands now. both of the two-year at large post tions an* «*le< ted simultane ously. and subsequently vacated simultaneously The ballot measure proposes stag gering the election of the seats so the committee would always have an at-large mem ber with a year of experience Finance committee chair man and student Sen Joey Lyons, said the measure is simply a matter of student government housekeeping and will make the finance committee more efFii lent On other student govern ment bodies, such as the Stu ON THE BALLOT ■ WHAT: A proposal lo stagger the election ot two at-large pos tions on the Programs Finance Committee ■ COST: No cost to students t:MLHAi,0 dent Sen i!t> and the KMU Board of Directors, corre sponding two-year seats are elected in a staggered fashion to ensure each vear there are open seats, while experi enced members remain on 1mm h bodies If the measure passes, the parson elected to at-large seat one in 1'1‘Wi would serve only a one-year term, and seat one would lie placed on the ballot for re elec lion in l‘t'17 ■ ET ALS MU TINt.S AM () l*rogf»m > m«H r ( ommit tee will meet loday at % p in in the t Ml ' Hoard Room For more iftfentw !H»ii. call H6 Oft21 I ctliun. 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