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Rogue cops cost Eugene
more than $1 million
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Two rogue Eugene police officers
are in prison now, but claims against
the city for the officers’ actions have
cost more than $1 million — and
more are coming in.
This month Eugene agreed to pay
$250,000 to settle three lawsuits
prompted by former police officers
Roger Magana and Juan Francisco
Lara, bringing the total so far to more
than $1.06 million. Another woman
sued last month, the 14th to do so in
the case.
Magana is serving a 94-year prison
sentence for raping, sexually abusing
or harassing 13 women during his
eight years on the force. Lara, who
served less than three years in uni
form, is serving more than five years
for using his position to coerce women
into having sex while he was on duty.
The scandal and concerns about
racial profiling led to changes in the
Police Department, expensive
reviews and an election proposal
for citizen oversight of complaints
against officers.
This weekend, voters should start
getting ballots on the city charter
amendment that would allow the
city to hire a police monitor and ap
point a citizen review board. The
election is Nov. 8.
A memo from City Manager Dennis
Taylor did not disclose the names of
the plaintiffs.
One settlement, for $62,500, was on
behalf of the “estate of TLA. ”
The estate alleged that while he was
on duty, Magana sexually assaulted
die plaintiff three times, Taylor said.
Magana was convicted of coercion, a
felony, Taylor wrote.
The Register-Guard identified her
last year as Tomme Lea Allen after her
death, which was attributed to a
drug overdose.
The city setded the second case for
$127,000. A woman alleged that Mag
ana sexually assaulted her several
times over two years while he was on
duty, Taylor wrote.
The city settled the third case for
$60,000. Lara planted evidence on the
plaintiff before sexually assaulting her,
according to the woman’s lawsuit, Tay
lor wrote. Lara “later suggested that he
could resolve the criminal charges in
exchange for sexual favors,” a memo
from Taylor said.
Taylor said the remaining cases are
to go to trial in July.
Several officers and supervisors
heard complaints about Magana, but
they ignored or dismissed them, ac
cording to police files.
A woman sued in Sept. 5 seeking
unspecified damages, claiming the
city was negligent in hiring, super
vising and keeping Magana on the
police force “when it knew or rea
sonably should have known that Of
ficer Magana was unfit to serve as a
police officer. ”
The woman said she was sexually
assaulted by Magana about 25 times
between 2000 and early 2002.
The lawsuit said Magana
preyed on women with drug or
alcohol problems.
Proposal asks for housing fee
to fund school construction
BY CHARLES E. BEGGS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SALEM — Local governments can
charge housing developers for costs of
expanding sewer and water systems
and even for new parks — but not for
building more classrooms when
growth crowds local schools.
An education advocacy group
plans to put an initiative on the
statewide ballot next year that would
change that.
The idea is that developers of
the subdivisions springing up
in the state’s fast-growing areas
should help school systems pay for
needed expansion.
Initial polling indicates strong sup
port for such a measure, said Jonah
Edelman, executive director of Port
land-based Stand for Children.
“Parents all across the state care
deeply about this,” Edelman said.
“And many taxpayers are tired of foot
ing the tax bill for school construction
while developers pay nothing.”
The proposed ballot initiative
would add schools to a law allowing
local governments to impose
“systems development charges” on
new homes to pay for public
improvements that go along with
housing expansion.
The charges now are restricted
to funding sewer and water
projects, transportation and parks
and recreation.
The group has filed with state elec
tions officials three versions of
proposed initiatives and is doing
polling to get readings on which ver
sion would sell best with voters.
TWo versions would put caps on
the development charge, of $3,500 or
$4,500 per house, and one would not.
Backers would need to collect
75,000 petition signatures by July to
put a measure on the November
2006 ballot.
Edelman said his organization is
“very receptive to a capped fee”
because the goal is for the charges
to pay some but not all the expense
of building or expanding schools.
That would reduce the costs to
taxpayers of bond issues to finance
the remainder.
“We want developers to contribute
their fair share, and that’s all,”
Edelman said.
He said 11 states permit systems
development charges for schools, in
cluding Washington and California.
Bills to permit systems-develop
ment charges for schools have been
introduced for years in the Legislature
and gone nowhere against opposition
from home builders’ groups.
The state’s main home construc
tion organization argues that such
charges are a poor way to fund im
provements and that the fees raise al
ready high housing costs.
Jon Chandler, chief executive offi
cer of the Oregon Building Industry
Association, said development
charges are an inefficient way to raise
money, besides boosting already soar
ing home prices.
The fees are passed along to buyers
“and they will pay for them through
the life of their mortgages,” he said.
“And the issue that keeps getting
lost in these days of housing inflation
is that Oregon has one of the lowest
home ownership rates in country, and
it’s getting worse as prices increase,”
Chandler said.
But Edelman said he expects sup
port from many individual develop
ers, because they know that schools
with jammed classrooms don’t help
property values.
Not providing adequate schools “is
really shortsighted because good
schools are going to be attractive to
homeowners,” said Sharon Rockett,
who is one of three sponsors of the
proposed initiative and lives in rapidly
growing Bend.
School grounds dotted with
portable classrooms lower home val
ues, she said.
Pauline McGuire of Oregon City,
another sponsor of the ballot propos
als, said she has a child in an elemen
tary school that was designed for 550
students and that is serving 807
pupils this year.
She said growth “should pay its
own way. It’s worth a little extra to
have good schools.”
Rockett said a $4,500 fee likely
wouldn’t be a big concern to a buyer
of a $300,000 house.
But Chandler said school develop
ment charges could make it more dif
ficult to win voter approval of bond
measures needed to pay the remain
der of school construction costs.
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