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Public to discuss
toxic plume
Environmentalists will gather at 7
p.m. today to discuss toxic plume
found in the River Road, Whiteaker
and Bethel neighborhoods. The
event is open to the public, and local
residents are encouraged to attend.
Panel members from the Depart
ment of Environmental Quality,
Oregon Toxic Alliance and others
will speak about the situation and
will answer questions. Local resi
dents will also find out ways to pro
tect their health and property value.
The event will take place at 1055
River Road.
—Brad Schmidt
City Council makes
two-year goals
The Eugene City Council took the
first step in creating its two-year
goals and strategic planning Satur
day, spending about seven hours
generating ideas and debating.
At adjournment time, the City
Council narrowly decided to send
four broad goals to the city staff to be
“fleshed out” before a final decision
is made on whether to adopt them.
But clear City Council divisions
were visible at the meeting, as each
councilor had different perspectives
on issues facing the city, leading to
hours of disagreement about Univer
sity relations, upkeep of essential serv
ices, jobs, growth and major projects.
Although the meeting was official
ly called to order and subject to par
liamentary rules, facilitator Sue Dici
ple tried to keep the councilors from
resorting to a vote on the goals.
“Goal-setting isn’t vote-counting,”
she said. “Goal-setting is the process
of acknowledging that everybody sit
ting at the table represents different
values.”
After negotiations had broken
down and two motions to accept dif
ferent combinations of goals were
defeated, Diciple eventually called
for councilors to put a sticker next to
the set of goals they liked most. The
majority chose the third option,
which was to send all four goals to
the city for evaluation.
The goals being sent to the city
staff include:
• Strengthen the relationship be
tween the city and the University,
with the guarantee that the relation
ship be kept at a high-level policy
stage and both positive and negative
effects be analyzed. Councilors also
agreed the relationship would require
clarification of community values.
• Address the needs of the city’s
most vulnerable people. The city
staff will likely analyze what consti
tutes “most vulnerable” and come
up with possible solutions.
• Address out-of-school recre
ational and educational opportuni
ties for regional youth.
• Ensure effective, efficient and
cost-effective government. Possible
sub-issues to this may be the hiring
of a performance auditor for the city,
exploring regionalization opportuni
ties and exploring whether city serv
ices are running with private-sector
efficiency.
— JanMontry
Teach for America
brings information
Teach for America, an organiza
tion seeking to enhance K-12 educa
tion throughout the nation, will be
on campus this week to recruit June
graduates for its program.
The program selects a corps of
about 2,000 college graduates each
year for training as teachers. Indi
viduals are then assigned to full
time teaching positions throughout
the country. Assignments last two
years and include additional train
ing in education.
All positions are paid by the
school district that corps members
teach in and often provide benefit
packages. Beginning salaries for
teachers in the program range from
#22,000 to #40,000.
The Teach for America events
scheduled this week include an in
formation table Tuesday and
Wednesday in the EMU lobby from
11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.; a screening of
the CNN documentary “Teach for
America,” Tuesday from 6 p.m. tp 7
p.m. in 301 Chapman; and a general
information session and dinner in
the EMU Walnut Room from 5:30
p.m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesday.
—AimeeRudin
Pot fine
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potentially have their financial aid
suspended, and since MOD would
clear the record of first-time offend
ers, students could be given a sec
ond chance.
“Just based on comments at the
last meeting, I certainly expect it
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will pass,” he said.
A similar action recently was
taken with alcohol-related offens
es, giving an incentive for students
to join the Beginning Underage
Success Through Educational Di
version program, also run by SAPP.
BUSTED was created two years
ago as an alternative to the maxi
mum $250 fine for a handful of al
cohol-related offenses.
Municipal Court Judge Wayne
Allen said at January’s public forum
that the increased fines, together
with the new diversion program,
will give offenders incentive to
choose diversion.
“Our desire here is to build
upon the success of the BUSTED
program,” he said.
But Todd Dalotto said the increase
would hurt people who qualify for the
Oregon Medical Marijuana Act.
Dalotto, who is the executive di
rector for the Compassion Center,
said many qualified medical mari
juana patients turn to street use ei
ther because they can’t afford the
$150 fee or because they can’t find
a participating physician. He said
the fine increase will ultimately af
fect these people, who need mari
juana to ease medical symptoms but
can’t obtain it legally.
“Although the Oregon Medical Mar
ijuana Act protects regular patients, it
actually covers a small amount of pa
tients,” he said. “A lot of valid, other
wise qualified medical patients out on
the street possess less than an ounce
that they use for medicine.”
Tonight’s meeting will be at 7:30
in the City Council chambers.
Contact the senior news reporter
at janmontry@dailyemerald.com.