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Torrey eager for another term
■ Mayor Jim Torrey is
ready to tackle issues that
continue to plague the city
and future goals
By Sara Lieberth
Oregon Daily Emerald
Eugene Mayor James D. Torrey
believes his city has made tremen
dous progress over the years but
acknowledges several issues still
needing improvement in the place
he’s called home since 1965. By
announcing his bid for reelection
last month, Torrey would like to
remain at the helm and implement
his four-point plan for Eugene’s fu
ture from his office at City Hall.
Born in North Dakota, Torrey,
59, came to Oregon to attend the
8th grade in Waldport, where he
subsequently graduated from high
school. After a stint in the grocery
business and a move into advertis
ing for a year in Washington state,
Torrey returned south and settled
in Eugene to raise a family. It was
then that, he said, a penchant for
public service was first sparked in
him — though it came first
through little league baseball.
“That is the main reason that
I’m in public service,” he said.
“I’m the mayor because I started
coaching kids.”
In those early years, Torrey
would attend city budget commit
tee meetings and petition for
funds to acquire areas in which lo
cal children could play. The
unique needs of children, he said,
have always been at the forefront
of his political goals.
“I truly believe that if a city can
be a very good place for a child to
live, it will be a good place for
everybody to live,” he said.
Looking over a typical week’s
schedule for Torrey seems to sup
port this. He regularly reads books
to kindergartners as part of a read
ing program he instituted, meets
with high school students and dis
cusses civics with gradeschoolers.
Logging in an average of 55
hours per week with mayoral du
ties, Torrey also is a 50 percent
owner with his wife, Kathy, of
their advertising company, Total
Communications. Proud of their
close-knit family, the Torreys have
three grown
children and
three grand
children.
While sat
isfied with
his accom
plishments
and the city’s
strides in the
past, Mayor
Torrey looks
forward to
working out the kinks of several
still-pressing issues.
First, he said, many children in
the community would benefit
from after-school programs, and
he has requested a $75,000 match
ing grant from the city. He estimat
ed that 70-90 kids are currently at
tending a daily meals program at
Westmoreland Community Center
that didn’t exist a few years ago.
Second on his list is the growth
issue, a contested topic among lo
cal constituents.
“How do we deal with the con
fines of the urban growth bound
ary?” he asked. “We want to zeal
ously protect the green spaces
around our community, so it means
we have to grow up,” he said.
Providing enough services to a
city the size of Eugene costs mon
ey, he said, and requires balancing
the bringing-in of well-paying job
opportunities as Hyundai and
Levi-Strauss have recently.
“We need the tax money they
provide,” Torrey said. “And we
have a high-quality work force,
but we have to balance the impact
with the benefits.”
And finally, he indicated that an
extensive transportation system
must be addressed as Eugene
moves into the 21st century.
“No one wants to pay more gas
taxes,” he said. “But roads have to
be maintained and new ones built,
so we have to look for solutions. ”
Looking for answers and toward
the future, the mayor again
stressed his desire to strike bal
ance among the wildly divergent
political views of the community.
“What I believe a mayor has to
do, regardless of who that mayor is,
is to walk that balance and not al
low yourself to be taken to the po
lar extremes,” he said, “So as to con
tinue to have what I am absolutely
convinced is the best city around.”
Joining Torrey in the bid for Eu
gene mayor, having officially filed
with the city recorder, are Uriah
Murray, a 21-year-old student at
the Cascade Institute of Massage
Therapy, Lazar Makyadath, own
er of Lazar’s Bazaar, and the latest
to enter, retired railroad yard mas
ter James Whestine.
Whestine, who ran against Tor
rey in the last mayoral race, decid
ed to seek the office again. He said
he is not surprised by the mayor’s
reelection plan after forming an
exploratory committee to look
into a run for the state legislature.
“Jim’s reentry is predictable,”
Whestine said. “Campaign money
is hard to come by, but he has a lot
of supporters. I think he’s done a
good job of doing what he said he
would because he is an honorable
man. I consider him a friend.”
Unable to attend Wednesday’s
State-of-the-City address, Makya
dath said he is eager to hear his fel
low candidate’s assessment of the
city’s progress and prognosis.
“I’d like to see his report card,”
he said. “I think everybody is ex
cited about the coming year’s elec
tion. It looks like it will be a clean
race; it will be a good one for sure. ”
State of city
continued from page 1A
ly delivered and best-received
goals for the next year came at the
end of his speech when he advo
cated expanding youth services.
“No State-of-the-City speech
would be complete if I didn’t have
a youth issue, and I’ve got a youth
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issue,” Torrey said. “We have
children in this community
whom we are letting down. We
have lots of kids who need a safe
place to be after school.”
Torrey announced plans to cre
ate a task force of city and educa
tion officials to brainstorm possi
ble city-funded activities for
students to utilize after school,
during weekends and over sum
mer vacations.
“All of us have a responsibility
to put our hand out and help our
children,” he said.
During his recognition of com
munity service, Torrey thanked
several city employees and pri
vate citizens for taking that re
sponsibility into their own hands.
He applauded expanded services
for student parents, increasing
city reading programs and the for
mation of the Youth Council, a
panel of Eugene high school stu
dents that discusses youth issues
with City Council.
Next, Oregon’s First Lady
Sharon Kitzhaber approached the
podium and awarded two Eugene
teens with plaques for their pre
sentations in local middle schools
for Students Today Aren’t Ready
for Sex, (STARS) a program advo
eating abstinence.
“This is representative of one of
the many good things kids are do
ing today,” Kitzhaber said. “STARS
is an up-front program. Abstinence
is a powerful and important mes
sage for this age group.”
Torrey’s second major goal for
the coming year was to improve
the police station, located in the
basement of City Hall, or to move
the force to a new location. The
current station, which doesn’t
meet earthquake-proof standards,
“is not safe and shouldn’t be left
there,” he said.
Torrey also called on the city to
“continue making Eugene the
place we all want to be” by set
tling differences and resolving is
sues surrounding transportation
planning, land-use changes, a
possible new federal courthouse,
stricter clean water laws and new
public safety programs.
Looking back on the year, Torrey
recognized the dedication of a new
library, the near-completion of the
Ferry St. Bridge renovation and the
prevention of Y2K problems.
“Y2K came and went, and to
my knowledge the only machine
that malfunctioned was the fax
machine in my office,” he said.
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