DPS
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the decision to commission officers.
“It’s shocking to me that we
wouldn’t be contacted over a deci
sion of this magnitude,” Watts said.
Berkman said the move could be
the first step down a “slippery
slope” that could lead to DPS offi
cers carrying firearms.
Fitzpatrick said he did not be
lieve the process warranted any in
put from students or other campus
members, because it did not involve
any new laws.
“I think it was viewed as an ad
ministrative decision,” he said. “It
wasn’t a new situation. ”
Campus security forces are able
to commission their officers under a
state statute enacted in 1987. Ore
gon law, however, still prohibits
campus security officers from car
rying firearms.
Fitzpatrick said DPS will be host
ing several public meetings to en
sure that students have the right
perceptions about the changes, but
“not to seek their approval.”
DPS will also establish an 11-mem
ber Public Safety Advisory Group
that will handle any issues that arise
with commissioned officers.
To become commissioned, Fitz
patrick said officers must submit
applications to him and then under
go an extensive training and evalua
tion procedure. Three sergeants, Lt.
Joan Saylor and Associate Director
Tom Hicks will be the first DPS per
sonnel to go through the commis
sioning procedure.
Part of the process will include
classes in the legality of probable
cause arrest and searching suspects
so that officers will be well aware of
their legal limits, Fitzpatrick said.
DPS officers that already patrol
student housing have displayed in
terest in being commissioned, Fitz
Patrick said, but he did not know if
these officers will make it through
the evaluation process.
Through her position in the Of
fice of Student Advocacy, Berkman
said she is acquainted with the cam
pus and said she does not believe
there is enough of a threat for DPS
to commission its officers.
“I wonder about the need of the
change,” she said, “I don’t think
there’s a justification for it.”
With a Eugene Police Station a
block away from campus, Berkman
also felt there was little need for a
larger police force. She said it was
not in the best interests of the stu
dents to be putting DPS resources
into creating an agency focused on
persecution and investigation.
Her main point of contention,
however, was that there was little
opportunity for campus members to
discuss the change.
“If there was more of a consensus
I’d feel more comfortable,” she said.
Watts also said there should have
been more discussion prior to the
announcement by DPS, but said
while he didn’t believe it was neces
sary for the department to commis
sion its officers, he would defer to
its judgment in matters of campus
security.
When the University does have
commissioned officers it will join
Oregon State University, Western
Oregon University, Southern Ore
gon University and Portland State
University in having commissioned
officers on campus.
Scott Young,president of the As
sociated Students of Southern Ore
gon University, said that although
he could understand why the issue
would be controversial in Eugene,
his campus in Ashland has had no
difficulties with expanded power
for security officers.
“I’ve never seen any problems
with it,” he said.
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man said.
Immerman also suggested that
the increase should be 18 percent,
with the extra three percent dedicat
ed to conservation.
The board recognized issues ad
dressed by the public, and agreed
that it should also be concerned
about the increase’s effect on lower
income energy users.
“This increase will mostly affect
people who we think we have been
protecting,” Bartel said.
One of the plans that received a
positive response from board mem
bers was a block proposal that
would provide inverted rate op
tions. The plan would reward resi
dential energy users for keeping
their usage below an as-yet-to-be
determined level. Usage over this
level would result in a higher price
per kilowatt hour.
“Some residential consumers are
overly zealous with consumption,
sometimes using more than a small
business,” said EWEB Commission
er Sandra Bishop. “We should be
charging them more.”
The board will be making a final
decision at a hearing scheduled for
Feb. 6. Bartel said the key features
that the board is now concerned
with are getting the public to con
serve its energy and invest in renew
able energy sources, finding a way
to assist lower-income families dur
ing the increase, and informing high
consumers they will pay more if
they don’t limit their usage.
EWEB employees were asked to
further refine the inverted block pro
posal and make sine 15 percent is the
final number to be used for rate hikes.
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