BRIEFLY.Byline: The Register-Guard School district asks for help funding appeal The Eugene School Board will ask the Oregon School Boards Association to kick in some funds to help pay for an appeal to a court ruling against a statewide school funding lawsuit. At the request of the Oregon School Funding Defense Foundation, the board passed a resolution by a 5-0 vote Wednesday asking the OSBA OSBA Ohio School Boards Association OSBA Ohio State Bar Association (Columbus, Ohio) OSBA Oregon School Boards Association OSBA Ontario School Bus Association OSBA Office of Small Business Assistance to contribute $20,000 from its Legal Assistance Trust to support the funding adequacy lawsuit. The foundation has raised about $200,000 of the estimated $450,000 cost of litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. . Eugene was one of 18 districts in the state to sign on last spring as a plaintiff in the suit, which accused state lawmakers of approving funding levels that fell short of legal requirements. A Multnomah County Circuit Court judge ruled in favor of the state last September, asserting that nothing in the Oregon Constitution The Oregon Constitution is a U.S. state constitution, the governing document of the U.S. state of Oregon. It was ratified on November 9, 1857, and took effect when Oregon achieved statehood on February 14, 1859. Differences from U.S. guarantees a particular level of financial support for schools. The foundation, which filed an appeal in February and expects a hearing in the summer, is asking other plaintiffs to pass similar resolutions. Man sentenced for stealing wire from city A Springfield man convicted of stealing wire from the city of Eugene and selling it for scrap was sentenced Wednesday to 7 1/2 years in prison and was ordered to pay $113,000 in restitution. Leon Paul Meier Paul Meier (born July 27, 1971 in Velbert) is former German decathlete who won a bronze medal at the 1993 World Championships in Athletics in Stuttgart where he set a personal best of 8548 points. A year earlier he had finished in sixth place at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Jr., 40, also was convicted on other counts of burglary and theft for which he received back-to-back sentences totaling 90 months, Deputy Lane County District Attorney Christopher Parosa said. In June and July, Meier removed wire from city-owned utility poles A utility pole, telegraph pole, telephone pole, power pole, or telegraph post is a post or pole upon which telecommunication network equipment is situated. . The city's cost of new wire, materials and labor exceeded $111,000, Eugene Police spokeswoman Melinda Kletzok said. Meier, who has a record of felony theft convictions running back to 1980, also faces trial in Marion County Marion County is the name of seventeen counties in the United States of America, mostly named for General Francis Marion:
stainless steel Any of a family of alloy steels usually containing 10–30% chromium. The presence of chromium, together with low carbon content, gives remarkable resistance to corrosion and heat. piano hinges that police said were stolen from a Eugene steel manufacturer. |
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