IN BRIEF
Senate budget chief
resolute on school funds
SALEM — Senate budget chief
Kurt Schrader, D-Canby, offered as
sorted changes in his proposed
spending plan Thursday but didn’t
yield any ground on the key educa
tion budgets.
That found no favor with House
budget leader Wayne Scott. The
Canby Republican said the Senate
Democrats’ refusal to bargain on
school funding shows why tradi
tional House-Senate budget talks
have broken off.
Talks collapsed Monday when
House Speaker Karen Minnis, R
Wood Village, said she would form a
new House-only budget panel be
cause the Joint Ways & Means Com
mittee was deadlocked on K-12
school funding, the biggest item in
the budget.
Separate House and Senate pan
els are expected to begin putting
together their own budget meas
ures on May 16.
House Republicans this week
raised their school funding propos
al by $25 million, to $5.2 billion,
leaving a $125 million gap between
the GOP number and the $5,325
billion the Senate’s majority De
mocrats want for schools. That’s
the big sticking point toward re
solving a $12.4 billion 2005-07
state budget.
Schrader didn’t move from the
Senate school aid figure in his new
draft Thursday; some Democrats
have said they wouldn’t vote for
less than $5.3 billion.
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Left to right: Drix Rixmann, ASUO President elect Adam Walsh and Eugene Mayor Kitty
Piercy were among those at the West University Neighbors meeting Thursday night.
West: Piercy also discussed
police review board plans
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University’s planning process, saying
that the planning department’s role
in the University’s arena plans is
rather minimal.
“I oftentimes learn about it by read
ing the newspaper,” Ramey said.
Also at the meeting, neighborhood
association board member and Univer
sity student Don Goldman lambasted
Piercy and the rest of the city govern
ment for approving a tax break for
Hynix Semiconductor, a company that
Goldman said is undeserving of such
breaks because of the number of tox
ins it is reportedly emitting.
“I can’t believe you’re actually think
ing about doing this," Goldman said.
Piercy said state laws don’t allow
cities to pick and choose which busi
nesses within an enterprise zone to
give tax breaks.
“I’m not going to make a case for
them because I don’t owe them a
thing,” Piercy said, stressing that
Hynix has obeyed all the necessary re
quirements by improving its environ
mental standards and providing the
community with decent-wage jobs.
The city has been working with
Hynix to improve its environmental
sensitivity and much progress has
been made, Piercy said. She added
that the nature of the business,
computers and manufacturing, is
such that a higher amount of toxins
should be expected.
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an external review board that really
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West University Neighbors Chair
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current happenings with development
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reputation as a “speculator” but that it
has hired some “creative thinkers”
who are showing a willingness to
work with the community to create a
riverfront development project that
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Rixmann said he hopes the hospital
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