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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
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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
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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.