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Public Review
Comment Session
January 11,2001
11:30-1:30 pm
Lobby of the Erb Memorial Union
The University Community is invited to
participate in an Open House and Comment Session
on future development of the campus along
University Street between the entrance to Lawrence
Hall and 18th Avenue.
Participants will review the results of a
previous planning workshop and images of possible
future improvements and may offer comments.
The consultants for the Study from the firm of Moore
Icofano Goltsman, along with members of the User
Group and University Planners will be available to
discuss the project.
Sponsored by the University Planning Office
If you have questions call 346-5562
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writers who want to learn and grow at a real newspaper.
for information on how to freelance for the Emerald call 346-5511.
Programs Financing
The ASUO Programs Finance Committee has committed $15,088 so far for next year’s program budget.
That represents a 44% percent increase over last year’s funding—slightly more than the PFC’s 3% percent benchmark.
% CHANGE FROM THIS $ CHANGE
2000-012001-02 YEAR (TO NEAREST %) FROM THIS YEAR
ORGANIZATION
Arts and Administration Student Forum
ASUO Constitution Court
Outlaws
$605
$703
16%
$98
$1,894
$4,578
142%
$2,498
$3,443
$2,684
38%
$945
Singapore Students Association
$3,153
$3,685
17%
Philosophy Club
$1,037
$532
Pre-Health Science Center
$2,007
94%
$970
$308
$372
21%
$64
Gaming Club
$0
$300
n/a
American Institute of Architecture Students $1,010
Total To^oiT
$300
$0
n/a
-$1,010
15,088
44%
4,583
ASUO budgeting begins
■The Programs Finance
Committee considered
allotments for eight groups
at its first meeting of the year
By Emily Gust
Oregon Daily Emerald
The ASUO Programs Finance
Committee kicked off its annual
budget process Monday night, ap
proving budgets for seven groups
and denying another any money
for next year.
Throughout January, the seven
member committee will divide
about $2.3 million among more
than 100 ASUO programs — mon
ey that comes from the incidental
fee University students pay each
term.
Last term, the PFC received per
mission to spend 3 percent more
in next year’s budgets than was
spent this year.
One night into the budget hear
ings, the PFC has allotted an aver
age of 44 percent more.
Some of the biggest increases
stemmed from the new stipend
model approved by the ASUO Stu
dent Senate last year.
Following the new format,
stipend amounts — the money
some students receive for their
work in ASUO programs — are
standardized for all groups. That
means similar positions in differ
ent programs will now be given
the same stipend.
Although no new stipend posi
tions will be added this year, the
model had a large effect on the
stipend positions already in exis
tence. The changes more than dou
bled stipends for the ASUO Con
stitution Court justices, increasing
their pay from $30 a month this
year to $75 a month for next year.
On the other end of the scale,
the American Institute of Architec
ture Students failed to appear for
its budget hearing. As a result, the
PFC voted not to give the group
any money for next year.
The biggest contention of the
night came from PFC member
Aaron Week, who thought that the
constitution court should not re
ceive $650 to pay for a clerk posi
tion that is as yet unfilled.
“It’s been here for three years
and it’s never been utilized,” he
said.
Chief Justice Robert Raschio,
however, said that the court would
need all the money to hire some
one, which could prove the clerk
position was worth funding.
“I’m just asking you to have a lit
tle faith in us, I guess,” he said.
In the end, the PFC showed it
had faith in the court by giving it
the entire $650 for the clerk posi
tion.
All groups have five business
days to appeal the budgets ap
proved for them by the PFC. The
appeals process will commence af
ter the initial PFC hearings have
been completed.
Legislature opens with promises
By Brad Cain
The Associated Press
SALEM — The Oregon Legisla
ture opened its 71st biennial ses
sion Monday with the new House
and Senate leaders and Gov. John
Kitzhaber pledging to avoid a re
peat of the highly partisan 1999
session.
Those pledges of bipartisan co
operation will be put to the test in
the coming weeks and months, as
lawmakers are called upon to make
difficult choices on the budget and
other areas.
And almost as if to underscore
that point, the Senate got into a par
tisan tiff on the session’s first day
when Democrats tried unsuccess
fully to force the majority Republi
cans to adopt a rule prohibiting
senators from accepting campaign
money during sessions.
Still, Senate Majority Leader
Dave Nelson said afterward that he
and the leader of the Senate De
mocrats, Sen. Kate Brown, “are still
speaking on friendly terms.”
That dustup aside, everyone
around the Capitol seemed intent
Monday on getting the 2001 ses
sion off to a harmonious start.
The House convened with a
swearing-in of the 60 representa
tives and an opening speech by
newly installed House Speaker
Mark Simmons, who urged law
makers to “put the past behind us”
and to work for bipartisan coopera
tion.
“We have nothing to gain with
harsh words and unjust criticisms,”
the Elgin Republican said. “By
treating each other with respect we
will strengthen this body.”
The Senate heard a similar ex
hortation from Senate President
Gene Derfler.
“We have been given the tools to
make this session a success,” the
Salem lawmaker said. “Let’s all
work together to make it happen.”
If that happens, it will be in
marked contrast to two years ago,
when battles with Kitzhaber and
infighting among the majority Re
publicans produced a tumultuous
session that ended up being the
third longest on record.
Besides a large crop of freshman
lawmakers, Monday’s opening
drew hundreds of lobbyists, elect
ed officials, political well-wishers
and other hangers-on to the House
galleries for the start of the first ses
sion of the new millennium.
The highlight of Monday’s cere
monies was Kitzhaber’s opening
address, in which he made another
pitch for his budget proposals to
help young children, bolster read
ing programs and keep the Oregon
Health Plan afloat.
This will be Kitzhaber’s final ses
sion as governor, and the popular
Democrat is hoping it will provide
him a chance to re-establish his cre
dentials as a bipartisan leader and
end his governorship on a high
note.
At a news conference Monday,
Kitzhaber said he is confident that
he and the Legislature can avoid
the finger-pointing and recrimina
tions of two years ago.
“It doesn’t have to be that way,”
Kitzhaber said.
Still, there will be plenty for
Kitzhaber and the Legislature to ar
gue about in his budget plan,
which proposes making cuts in
public safety and human services
programs to make more money
available for young children and
education programs.
Simmons said Monday he has
serious doubts about Kitzhaber’s
plan to delete funding for a pro
gram that provides in-home sup
port for low-income seniors to help
keep them out of nursing homes.
“We cannot forget those seniors
who have worked so hard,” the
newly installed House Speaker
said.
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