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HIGHER EDUCATION
Commission to ask for huge
increase in student financial aid
BY SAMI EDGE
The Oregonian
Oregon’s Higher Educa-
tion Coordinating Commis-
sion unanimously approved a
budget request Thursday that
includes a fourfold increase
in funding for financial aid
grants for Oregon students.
The request for higher ed-
ucation funding in 2023-25
includes a nearly $780 million
increase to the Oregon Op-
portunity Grant and Oregon
Promise, the state’s premier
financial aid awards. The bud-
get also recommends contin-
ued funding for the Oregon
Tribal Student Grant, which
covers not only tuition but
also housing and other college
costs for enrolled members of
Oregon tribes.
“It is a big investment, but it’s
an investment we need. It’s an
investment students have been
advocating for for years,” said
Maggie Gates, legislative di-
rector for the Oregon Student
Association. “It’s just really ex-
citing to see this sort of bold vi-
sion finally coming about.”
In total, the Higher Educa-
tion Coordinating Commis-
sion is asking for an almost
$2 billion increase in funding,
Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Commission
College graduates are seen in this 2017 photo from the state Higher
Education Coordinating Commission. The panel has asked for a four-
fold increase in financial aid grants.
up to $5.3 billion. The request
also includes a proposed 10%
increase in funds for public
universities and a nearly 30%
increase for community col-
leges, though part of that in-
crease is one-time money.
The proposed budget is
preliminary. The request goes
next to the governor’s office,
and after that is subject to
votes by the 2023 Legislature.
Commission staffers don’t as-
sume ultimate funding levels
will match their requests.
“We do not expect to get
everything we’re asking for,”
Ramona Rodamaker, the
commission’s deputy executive
director, said. “In many ways
what we’re laying out here is a
menu of things we would like
(state legislators) to invest in
and support.”
The Oregon Tribal Student
Grant was funded for the first
time this year, as an effort to
help address longstanding in-
equities that indigenous stu-
dents face in higher educa-
tion. The Legislature funded
it for only one year, but the
commission’s proposed bud-
get would make that funding
ongoing. The commission ex-
pected up to 700 tribal mem-
bers to take advantage of the
grant in its first year, but com-
mission staffers said Thursday
that only around 400 people
have submitted complete ap-
plications so far.
The commission is asking
for a more than eightfold in-
crease in funding for the Or-
egon Opportunity Grant, the
state’s largest need-based aid
award for low-income stu-
dents. Commissioners want to
see an increase from $200 mil-
lion in 2021-23 to $945 mil-
lion in 2023-25.
Commissioners also voted
to ask for $41 million more
for the Oregon Promise grant,
which pays community col-
lege tuition for Oregon high
school graduates and GED
earners who meet GPA re-
quirements and enroll in a
community college shortly af-
ter high school.
Oregon currently lags be-
hind the national average state
student aid award of $921 per
full-time student. The state
only gave $574 in financial aid
per full-time student in 2021,
according to a new national
report. Cannon said that fully
funding the budget would
help Oregon become one of
the top financial aid states in
the country, approaching the
funding levels of neighbor-
ing Washington which spent
$1,900 per-student in 2021.
Oregon’s community col-
leges asked the higher edu-
cation commission for a 44%
spending bump this year to
help cover the cost of inflation,
loss of federal pandemic aid
and budget shortages caused
by a steep downturn in enroll-
ment during the pandemic.
The commission gave them
a compromise. The proposed
budget includes a 20% in-
crease in ongoing funding to
$855 million and a one-time
increase of $50 million to help
colleges transition away from
those federal funds, instead
of having to make steep cuts
at once.
Public universities are pro-
posed to get a more modest
bump. The budget request
includes a 10.3% increase in
public university spending to
$992 million.
EUGENE | SUSPICION OF DUII
Electric vehiclemaker removes CEO
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BY MIKE ROGOWAY
The Oregonian
Eugene electric vehicle
manufacturer Arcimoto an-
nounced the removal Friday
of its CEO, Mark Frohnmayer,
naming him the company’s
chief vision officer.
Arcimoto has named ex-
ecutive Jesse Fittipaldi as in-
terim CEO. Fittipaldi, who
joined Arcimoto in 2015, has
most recently served as chief
strategy officer, according to a
news release.
On July 15, Eugene police
arrested Frohnmayer on sus-
picion of driving under the in-
fluence of intoxicants.
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The Register-
Guard, file
Officers cited Frohnmayer
in downtown Eugene, accord-
ing to Melinda McLaughlin,
a spokesperson for the Eu-
gene Police Department. She
said Frohnmayer was driving
a three-wheeled motorcycle,
similar to the vehicles made by
Arcimoto, but she couldn’t
say for sure if it was one of the
company’s models.
Police observed that Frohn-
mayer “appeared intoxicated”
when stepping off the motor-
cycle, McLaughlin said. She
said he complied with officers’
instructions.
Police declined to release
any results of intoxication
tests, saying state law prevents
disclosing additional detail be-
fore the case has been adjudi-
cated. Frohnmayer has a hear-
ing scheduled for Aug. 22 in
Eugene Municipal Court.
Arcimoto didn’t disclose
the reason for the leadership
change, but in a regulatory fil-
ing the company said it had
actually removed Frohnmayer
from the CEO role a week ear-
lier. Frohnmayer is the compa-
ny’s largest shareholder, with
about 20% of its stock.
Frohnmayer would not say
either.
“The company as a blanket
policy makes no comment on
personal matters of employ-
ees,” he said.
Catalytic converter crime ring busted
REDMOND BUREAU
Mailing address ..................P.O. Box 6020
Bend, OR 97708
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The Ar-
cimoto Ever-
green, seen
here in 2020,
is the compa-
ny’s flagship
“fun utility
vehicle.”
BY SAVANNAH EADENS
The Oregonian
A months-long investiga-
tion by the Beaverton Police
Department may have com-
pletely dismantled a local or-
ganized crime ring responsible
for a large portion of catalytic
converter thefts up and down
the West Coast, police said
Thursday.
Two alleged ringleaders and
at least 12 of their suspected
accomplices were indicted July
29 by a Washington County
grand jury on dozens of aggra-
vated theft, racketeering and
money laundering charges.
The investigation began
in late 2021 when detectives
said Tanner Lee Hellbusch,
32, of Beaverton, was running
an illegal fencing operation by
posing as a legitimate business
buying and selling catalytic
converters. In March, police
said they pulled over Hellbusch
with more than 100 stolen cat-
alytic converters, worth about
$80,000 on the black market.
Hellbusch’s arrest led detec-
tives to the person they believe
is the top of the crime enter-
prise: Brennan Patrick Doyle,
32, of Lake Oswego.
The investigation came to
a head in late July when po-
lice searched eight locations,
including a rented lakefront
house in Lake Oswego, where
they arrested Doyle and said
they found 3,000 catalytic
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Doyle, Hellbusch and the 12
other not-yet-publicly-named
defendants are accused of traf-
ficking more than 44,000 sto-
len catalytic converters with
an estimated street value of
more than $22 million since
January.
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