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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1998)
Torrey applauds community in annual address The ma yor discussed the day curfew for minors and the homeless By David Ryan Freelance reporter Eugene Mayor Jim Torrey an nounced plans to implement a controversial day curfew for Eu gene’s youth in the next year dur ing his annual "State of the City” address Wednesday at the Eugene Hilton. Under the curfew, minors caught skipping school would be picked up by police and taken to the Looking Glass Youth and Fam ily Services Center. The center would then contact parents. Homeless youth would in evitably be affected by the day cur few law. "You can’t deal with [tru ancy] just in the schools,” Torrey said. “Some of [the homeless youth] are runaways, but unfortu nately a large number of them are throwaways.” Looking Glass would actively try to contact parents who do not show up after 5 p.m. “The most important issues we can deal with is how we are taking care of our young people,” Torrey said. “I heard a statistic that 30 percent of children born in Oregon will be born to unwed mothers. We need to focus on prevention and suppression before incarcera tion.” City Manager Vicki Elmer was in favor of Torrey’s day-curfew plan. "He’s trying to get kids back in school and deal with homeless youth,” she said. During the address, Torrey also talked about Eugene’s homeless population in general. “We have a homelessness problem,” he ad mitted. “We have so many of these people that we don’t have enough financial resources to deal with their needs.” In response to the city’s inabili ty to deal with the homeless, city resident Charles Grey, who head ed the Homeless Action Commit tee, was honored for his respectful attitude while dealing with city of ficials and his “fire and enthusi asm.” Aside from these issues, Tor rey’s address focused mostly on city accomplishments, especially in overcoming budget difficulties arising from Measures 47 and SO. Community involvement eased the strain, he said. The city re ceived $100,000 from former May or Ruth Bascom to build a memor ial park, $20,000 in donated supplies and labor to build cross walks at Sheldon High School, and more than 3,000 hours in la bor from volunteers involved in Stream Team, a wetland, stream and pond conservation group. In further defiance of budget cutbacks, the city is planning to build two new fire stations, one on Willakenzie Road to deal with emergencies and another on Sec ond Avenue and Chambers Street to serve as the new master station. Overcoming budget cutbacks wasn’t the only accomplishment Torrey cited. “A record number of voters say they are pleased with the city gov ernment,” he said, referring to a Eugene city survey. “Ninety per cent of people felt that they were part of the community. Eighty four percent of people surveyed had an overall satisfaction with city services. Sixty-two percent of people surveyed said they were satisfied with the city government. “When I ran for mayor, over and over again, people told me that this City Council was a joke. 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