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the Oregon Opportunity Grant.
The grant covers 11 percent of stu
dents' educational costs.
"Only 70 percent who qualify will
actually receive the grant," said Adam
Davis, state affairs coordinator.
"So, not only is it enormously re
strictive as to who qualifies, but not
all of them get it," Barnhart said.
Davis proposed that the Oregon
Opportunity Grant should be in
creased to allow everyone who quali
fies to have access.
Davis said the grant size should be
flat. "No matter where you go (to
school), you should get the same
amount of money," he said.
ASUO State Affairs Coordinator Amy
DuFour talked with Barnhart about
qualified students unable to continue
their education after high school be
cause of their immigration status.
ASUO is asking legislators to ex
tend in-state tuition to graduates of
Oregon high schools who attend an
in-state high school for at least three
years and have been accepted to an
Oregon university while working on
getting citizenship.
Barnhart called the criteria for ex
tension of in-state tuition "vague," but
agrees with the idea.
"My position is that those people are
residents of our state: They pay taxes in
Oregon, they are going to be residents of
Oregon; we better make sure they get ed
ucated so they can continue to help the
economy rather than being a drain-off,"
Barnhart said. "It seems pretty obvious."
Barnhart means business, he said,
but he approaches subjects with a
sense of humor.
When Petkun proposed to talk
about OUS funding, Barnhart said,
"Hey, I was wondering when we were
going to get to that."
Petkun said he is concerned tuition
for some OUS students will increase
by an average of 12.7 percent during
the 2004-05 academic year.
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"It's continuing a trend that has
been occurring since I've been at UO,"
Petkun said.
Petkun said it's getting to a point
where some people are unable to ac
cess education.
Barnhart agrees. He said there is no
general tax increase possible in'the
near future and that voters would
never pass a sales tax.
"(The people) have made it very
clear that they won't accept it," Barn
hart said, referring to the voters voting
down measures that would involve an
increase in taxes.
Barnhart said under right-wing Re
publican control the legislature has
had different priorities.
"(They allotted) $ 1 billion per bien
nium in tax expenditures for out-of
state corporations," Barnhart said.
Petkun thanked Barnhart for his
role in higher education.
'You've really been helpful to us; it's
important to have a strong voice, espe
cially in higher education," Petkun said.
Barnhart said he found the meet
ing helpful.
"There are a lot of issues facing high
er education and I wonder what stu
dents are thinking," Barnhart said.
Petkun and his fellow representatives
are more than happy to let him know.
"This is a time when legislators are
assembling in their heads the priori
ties for the session," Petkun said.
"We want to be one of the first things
they think about."
And Barnhart finds out what they
are thinking by going door to door,
and with meetings like this one.
Although the University campus —
save the law school — is just outside his
district, Barnhart says he still sees higher
education as an important issue.
"Believe it or not, where we are right
now is not my district," Barnhart noted.
"Ifyou go across the street for ice cream
afterward, you'll be in my district."
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negotiation process. Lowe said he
found the willingness of all parties to
negotiate, as well as their creative ap
proach to problem solving, to be
very helpful.
"The public land-use process is usu
ally an adversarial one," Lowe said.
Negotiations, spread over 20 meet
ings, lasted 18 months. The original
40 concerns of the Fairmount Neigh
bors association were whittled down
to two: increased traffic the expansion
would bring into the neighborhood,
and possible future development on
Villard Street, where it borders the Fair
mount neighborhood. That land is
owned exclusively by the University.
To help resolve the traffic concern,
the city is funding a $35,000 study of
traffic patterns in the Fairmount neigh
borhood. The study will be used to
make changes to reduce traffic prob
lems associated with the expansion.
To settle the second concern, the
University agreed to apply for only
seven use permits along Villard
Street, which will limit the changes
that can be made to that area.
Thompson and Christine Taylor,
president of the Fairmount Neigh
bors association, attributed the
smoothness of talks to the coopera
tive attitudes of the negotiators. The
final plan was passed by unanimous
vote in the association.
The University hosted a number
of meetings and open houses for the
Fairmount neighbors so they would
be able to see the University's plans
and have their voices heard every
step of the way, Thompson said.
Taylor offered praise for the Fair
mount Neighbors association — a
volunteer organization — for the
time its members invested in the
project. Taylor also had some harsh
words for the city.
"One stake-holder, the city, was
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University Planning Associate Christine Thompson spoke to the Eugene City Club Friday
about plans for the future of the East Campus neighborhood.
not present," Taylor said. "This did
n't become a city problem until the
University submitted its plan."
"It would have been greatly bene
ficial to have the city involved earlier
in the process," Thompson agreed.
The negotiations were a success in
both getting the University what it
needed out of the East University
neighborhood and in establishing a re
lationship of trust with the Fairmount
Neighbors association, Thompson
said. That trust was strong enough that
when the University applied to change
some of the land in the East Campus
project area from low-density residen
tial to public land, there were no
objections. Thompson said the Univer
sity would definitely use this process of
negotiations in future land deals.
Taylor pointed out that with the Uni
versity set to build a new court in the
near future, the Fairmount Neighbor
hood association will have no choice
but to use this process in the future.
"Unless something changes, the
level of commitment from the Fair
mount neighbors will have to re
main the same," Taylor said.
The original East Campus policy was
written in 1982 and by 2002 needed to
be updated to reflect the modem needs
of the University, Thompson said.
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