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Feb 9 Judges will include: National Champion Remos Reynosa, AS WELL AS OTHER LOCAL SALSA EXPERTS!! PRIZES Salsa/Merengue Dancing Fridays, 10pm - 2am Friday, Jan 12, lesson: 10 -11pm by Remos Reynosa $5 cover (dance & lesson included) Lakepark Entertainment Center 6400 NW Hwy 99W Corvallis Just 2 miles north of Corvallis 541.745.5443 ssss ! R.Ashley Smith for the Emerald Eugene Mayor Jim Torrey meets with several Springfield council members prior to delivering his fifth state-of-the-city speech before a crowd of 300 at the Eugene Hilton. State of City continued from page 1A transportation plan, reconsidering the West Eugene Parkway and creat ing an independent citizen commit tee to redistrict Eugene City Coun cil wards, a task that’s completed every ten years. Before discussing his goals for the next year, Torrey outlined the ac complishments and disappoint ments of his past five years, includ ing his failure to convince Eugene voters to fund new police and fire stations. Voters shot down the pro posal in the May election and again, even more emphatically, in the No vember general election. In Novem ber, 61.7 percent of voters opposed funding the facilities while 38.2 per cent supported it. “I will not support any effort to bring this back to voters,” he said. “Though I believe the suggestions were good ones, I see now we need a new one.” Torrey suggested using existing city funds to move police patrol cars out from under City Hall, where they currently park, to a parking lot south of the building. That way, in the event of an earthquake, which Torrey said the police station isn’t engineered to withstand, the patrol cars wouldn’t be trapped beneath a pancaked building, he said. Torrey also addressed the other city ballot measure that was in the November election — the passed levy to fund after-school programs for students — and urged the city to fund the program beyond the two years provided by the levy. “We must do this for our chil dren,” he said. He also congratulated city staff for pushing ahead with the construction of the new central downtown library and gave the Eugene Public Library Foundation a service award for meet ing its three-year, $4.8 million fundraising goal in only 18 months. The award was accepted by foun dation president Nancy Oft Rose, who said that all donors to the proj ect will have their names etched into portions of the library. “We still have stacks for sale, benches for sale.... we’ll find more things to name,” she said. Before the speech, newly elected Councilor Bonny Bettman was sworn in along with re-elected Councilors Betty Taylor, Scott Meis ner, Nancy Nathanson and re-elect ed Mayor Torrey. Other recognition and service awards were given to Jan Royalty, of the Administrative Services Depart ment; Raudel Perezchica, of the Public Works Department; Budget Committee member Alan Zelenka; Planning Commission member Ellen Wojahn; and former Mayor Ruth Bascom. Torrey also offered Youth Leadership Awards to Churchill High School student Ash ley Alvarado and Sheldon High School student Evan Rutter. Budget continued from page 1A Jell-0 to a wall,” because after a budget passes through the legisla tive wringer, it rarely resembles its first draft. Despite assuring the crowd of about 100 faculty members that he was not being alarmist, Frohnmay er could not say the budget pro posal was the best for higher edu cation. “I can not tell you, notwith standing my long friendship with the governor, that I am encouraged by his budget,” he said. “The budget that has been proposed is not, in my view, satisfactory.” While making clear that he was not criticizing Gov. Kitzhaber’s ef forts to balance the state’s budget, Frohnmayer also said those in higher education “intend to fight for the best budget we can find.” The aspects of the budget pro posal that most concerned Frohn mayer were the drop in funding and a planned tuition increase that will end a four-year tuition freeze. Frohnmayer said the amount of the tuition increase is still un known, but; he added higher edu cation officials will work to ensure that it will not overprice a college education or hurt university rev enue. To help explain the budget situa tion to the group of assembled ed ucators, Frohnmayer went to the blackboard in 100 Willamette Hall to dissect how higher education funding is currently appropriated. He used diagrams to illustrate how the funding drop will hurt specific programs based on a sys tem of the lowest to highest cost. Many specific budget request items like the Bend branch cam pus and engineering education im provement request, however, are not likely to be affected by the budget process because of the po litical weight of their backers. David Conley, an education pro fessor who has worked on several state education funding projects, told the faculty members a “policy dynamics” change following the passage of Measure 5 has left Ore gon’s varied education systems squabbling over different sections of the budget pie. “Higher Ed is definitely impact ed by this change,” he said. “We are in direct competition with K 12.” Conley also said it has become clear that Kitzhaber would like to make K-12 the hallmark of his ed ucation legacy in this, his last term of office. Frohnmayer concluded his speech by asking the faculty mem bers to impart on their legislators the importance of the University in the Southern Willamette valley, and how fewer resources for the school could mean negative eco nomic impacts on the rest of the area. Most in the crowd left after Frohnmayer delivered his speech, but those who stayed heard a re port by Vice Provost for Research Richard Linton, who heads up the Riverfront Research Park. He said the University has made great gains in its quest to open up ven ues for entrepreneurial professors who want to place their discover ies on the open market through the park. Professors questioned why the University has not declared open space off-limits to future develop ment when there is a movement in the city of Eugene to open up a green space area along both banks of the Willamette flowing through downtown. Linton said that it was in the best interest of the Universi ty to leave all options open in re gards to the research park.
