Oregon daily emerald., May 13, 1997, Page 3, Image 3

Fund could maintain services
■ CUTS: While some people
want to use Eugene’s extra
money to fully fund, services,
others want gradual change
By Eric Collins
Community Reporter
Although the city has enough
money to continue binding its en
tire service system without cutting
$10 million in city programs next
year, City Manager Vicki Elmer is
instead recommending using half
of these funds to transition into the
elimination of city programs after
January 1,1998.
The city’s ending fund balance,
savings usually used to keep the
city running until property taxes
are collected each year, currently
contains $11.4 million, money
that some city councilors have
suggested should be used to main
tain all services for the next fiscal
year, beginning July 1.
Elmer said she believed the
city’s budget would “fall off a
cliff’ once these reserve funds
were used up. Instead of this
method, her 1998 budget recom
mendation released Monday sug
gests only using $5.5 million in
ending fund balance money to al
ter the sudden loss of city pro
grams.
The City Council’s proposed
cuts in community centers, aquat
ics programs and other cultural
city services will not take place
until January 1,1998, and with the
additional $5.5 million, services
will be given a transitional period
that Elmer said could be as long as
one or two years.
“[The reserve fund] is the mon
ey that would enable us to shut
down the services in a very mea
sured way, to allow us to transi
tion to non-profits if we need to in
some situations, to be able to send
employees to places to help them
find jobs, to help shut down the fa
cilities if we need to,” Elmer said.
Elmer said she was not happy to
take the money out of the reserve
fund because she said it put the
city in a weaker financial condi
tion. The remaining $7.3 million
could only cover city needs for a
little over one month.
“Under the circumstances I
think [this choice] is a defensible
one, but I would hope very much
that we could build up those re
serves again so we could be in the
strong financial position that [the
city] was in prior [to this],” Elmer
said.
Construction: Signs will mark entrances
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the Child Care Center and near the post office, Racette
said.
This construction is just in time for Parents’ Week
end and the Willamette Valley Folk Festival — two
events happening this weekend at the EMU.
To help decrease the confusion the limited access
can cause, Racette said EMU entrances will clearly be
marked.
“We’re trying to put up good signage,” she said.
Part of that signage will be 12 sandwich boards dis
playing directions to help guide people to the right
location, Racette said.
During the renovation, Racette said she hopes peo
ple are patient with the inconvenience of the con
struction.
“A lot of it is inconvenient right now, but it’s worth
waiting for,” she said. “It’s going to be really wonder
ful when it’s done.”
And if people are being caused an extreme incon
venience by the construction, Racette said they can
call the main office of the EMU at 346-3 705 to let them
know.
“We’ll try and remedy the situation,” she said.
The target date for the total completion of the reno
vation is August 1,1998.
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