Council creates joint measures aimed at justice system, crime
Measure ^u-u^ would al
locate $49 million for safe
ty andjustice programs
By Felicity Ayles
Oregon Daily Ememld
The community and the coun
ty are working together to create a
pair of sister measures designed
to help the justice system in Lane
County.
Measure 20-05 and Measure 20
06 are joint measures in Lane
County that consist of a levy and
a bond, respectively, to improve
community safety and the justice
system in Lane County.
The difference between a levy
and a bond is that a levy provides
funds for programs and a bond
provides funds for actual physical
improvements, such as construc
tion, said Mike Moscovitz, Lane
County public information offi
cer.
These measures will help the
county to do a better job with ju
veniles and adults who are com
mitting crimes in the community,
said Lane County District Attor
ney Dan Harcleroad.
“We’ve had big county prob
lems and small county solutions,”
he said.
The idea for the measures be
gan with a council meeting of the
Public Safety Coordination Coun
cil formed by citizens of Eugene.
lnese J5 peo
ple meet once a
month to discuss
public safety is
sues, Moscovitz
said. After deter
mining that the
city needs more
money for justice
system programs,
the group debated
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jail space and developing crime
prevention programs for children,
he said.
The disagreements continued.
Some people wanted to put all of
the money into preventive pro
grams, and others said the city
needed more jail spaces.
The group compromised and
then came up with a balanced
program for both youth programs
and the development and im
provement of jails.
Measure 20-05 consists of a
levy that would allocate $49 mil
lion for safety and justice system
programs. The levy would fund
the opening and operation of the
new Juvenile Justice Center, ap
proved by voters in the 1995 elec
tions.
The levy would also modernize
the criminal justice computer sys
tem and create alternative school
programs for at-risk youth in dan
ger of being expelled, according to
the county public information of
fice.
A major aspect of the levy
would help police spend less
time in intake centers, where sus
pects are taken to be booked. This
can take up to two hours, and that
means officers are not on the
streets patrolling, Moscovitz said.
The new proposed levy would
add more officers in the intake
center, thus allowing the pa
trolling officers to get back to the
street faster, he said.
The levy would also create a
program called Healthy Start for
families with newborn babies. So
cial workers would visit every
new mother in Lane County and
decide if the she needs services,
he said.
The second part of this duo is
Measure 20-06, a $5.1 million
bond. This part of the package
pays for the physical improve
ments to the justice system. Ac
cording to the county public in
formation office, the bond issues
funds that the county will use to
acquire land and construct and
furnish a jail. The bond also in
creases the jail intake center mea
sure from 35 beds to 100 beds,
Moscovitzsaid.
This center would make it pos
sible for people to be held for up
to 72 hours and evaluated for al
cohol and drug use and mental ill
ness.
“The bond itself is a small
amount of money,” Moscovitz
said. “It’s a relatively minor cost
to taxpayers.”
Both measures are individual
ly important, but Moscovitz said
they need each other to survive
on the ballot.
“The levy is the important
part, and the bond must pass for
the physical improvements,” he
said.
The measures are unique be
cause this is the first time the
county is addressing prevention
programs, he said.
"Ballot measures most often
deal with punishment and crim
inal justice components,”
Moscovitz said.
But these measures have a
youth and early intervention fo
cus, he said.
Moscovitz said that as of now
there is no known opposition to
the measures. Harcleroad
agreed, saying there is a general
opposition to a raise in taxes, but
there is no opposition to these
specific measures.
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