Committee approves
proposal to pay council
■ If it is approved by City
Council, voters will have
the chance to vote on the
ballot measure
By Darren Freeman
Oregon Daily Emerald
Though Eu
gene mayors and
city councilors
work 20-50
hours per week,
often sacrificing
their employ
ment opportuni
ties and vacation
times, they have
never been paid.
However, a committee of Eu
gene residents appointed by City
Council approved a proposed bal
lot measure Thursday night that
would nullify the City Charter
provision prohibiting the com
pensation of mayors and council
members.
After about three months of re
search and deliberation, the com
mittee decided mayors should re
ceive from the city budget a
monthly stipend of $1,500 and
city councilors should receive
$1,000 per month. The committee
recommended those figures be an
nually adjusted to match inflation.
If City Council approves the
proposed charter amendment, Eu
gene voters will make the final de
cision in either the May or Novem
ber elections. If the measure
passes, it will go into effect begin
ning July 1,2001.
Committee members hope that
compensating mayors and city
councilors will increase the diver
sity of potential candidates and,
therefore, improve representation
in Eugene. However, the commit
tee had to settle on a dollar
amount lower than their ideal sum
to ensure voters approve the
amendment.
“The majority of us felt that the
job was worth more, but a larger
amount wouldn’t have passed the
voters,” committee member and
retired Register-Guard opinions
writer Don Bishoff said.
City Councilor David Kelly,
who said he’s cut his computer
consulting business’s workload by
75 percent since joining City
Council, said qualified City Coun
cil and mayoral candidates often
choose not to seek election for fi
nancial reasons.
“I don’t think we should make
it a condition for running for coun
cil or mayor that people be either
wealthy enough to not work or be
willing to impoverish themselves,
which are the options we have
now,” Kelly said.
In addition to holding down
jobs in the private sector, city
councilors meet at least seven
hours per week. Also, they spend
time on committees, preparing re
ports for council meetings, attend
ing intergovernmental meetings
and fielding telephone calls, e
mails and letters from con
stituents.
“The stipends aren’t full com
pensation for time and expertise
and won’t allow people in every
economic situation to run, but it
should allow more people to run,”
committee member and Friends of
Eugene president Rob Zako said.
“There’s a good chance the voters
will support this.”
Safety walk
continued from page 1
the older light fixtures are very
high and difficult to clean and
maintain, while the light bulbs in
some of the newer fixtures are eas
ily replaceable with brighter
bulbs. Some replacements have
already taken place.
Ath Norgaard, a senior journal
ism major who frequently uses the
Knight Library at night, said she
participated in the walk to get a
better idea of where potentially
dangerous areas may be and also
to show support to the cause.
“I think it is important to show
support for issues like lighting on
campus because over the years, it
has been a constant issue,” she said.
Eliot said the safety walks give
people a chance to come together
and explore problems and solutions
with different experts present.
Byron McCrae, assistant dean of
student life, said walking with a
group provided an opportunity to
identify potentially dangerous
spots that he might not notice.
“It was helpful for me to see
what other folks thought,” he said.
McCrae was especially con
cerned with lighting along the
Bean parking lot, the largest stu
dent lot on campus. Although the
parking lot appeared to be suffi
ciently lit to most participants of
the walk, McCrae questioned
whether the existing lighting
would allow someone who was
assaulted on the lot to describe the
attacker to police.
Eliot said she would like to add
lighting at the parking lot, consid
ering its distance from campus and
its potential for crime because of the
large number of cars parked there.
McCrae and Eliot said lighting
and campus safety might be relat
ed to sexual assault. Eliot said that
although experts are divided
about the effectiveness of lighting
in stopping sexual assault, she
feels that brighter lights might
contribute to people’s confidence.
“If people feel safe, they will
look safe, and I think that’s really
important,” she said.
At the end of the walks, both
groups gathered in the EMU to ex
change their impressions.
Thomas Fitzpatrick, OPS direc
tor, commended the groups’ at
tempt to make the campus safer.
However, he pointed out that even
the brightest lights should not
prompt students to let down their
guard.
“I’ve always maintained that re
gardless of how bright the lighting
... the only real safety we have is
in utilizing our common sense,”
he said.
Students will have two more
opportunities to explore safety on
campus next Wednesday and
Thursday. Next weeks’ walks will
take students by Villard, Deady,
Lawrence and Allen Halls as well as
across the bridge to Duck’s Village.
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