County, cities to try again for funding.Byline: The Register-Guard Elected officials from cities around the county plan to meet Thursday to try again to reverse the decay in the county's public safety systems. The meeting follows a setback setback In architecture, a steplike recession in the profile of a high-rise building. Usually dictated by building codes to allow sunlight to reach streets and lower floors, the building must take another step back from the street for every specified added height interval. last month in the county's plan to form a public safety taxing district to pay for additional patrols, prosecution, jail space, probation officers probation officer n. 1. An official usually attached to a juvenile court and charged with the care of juvenile delinquents. 2. An official charged with supervising convicts at large on suspended sentence or probation. and treatment programs. A divided Eugene City Council voted down the idea after Springfield officials narrowly approved it. Eugene officials said they wanted more discussion of ideas before a proposal came up for a vote. Mayors from a dozen cities will meet at 6 p.m. in Building 19, Room 102, at Lane Community College. In an invitation, Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy "Kitty" Piercy is the current mayor of Eugene, Oregon, sworn in January of 2005. The press dubbed Piercy's election part of a "shift to the left" for the Eugene City Council. , Springfield Mayor Sid Leiken and Lane County Board of Commissioners Chairwoman Anna Morrison wrote: "If a new funding mechanism is to be successful, we all recognize that it must have enthusiastic, not lukewarm luke·warm adj. 1. Mildly warm; tepid. 2. Lacking conviction or enthusiasm; indifferent: gave only lukewarm support to the incumbent candidate. support. Despite the lack of support for the current proposal, both city councils recognize the need to improve critical public safety services provided by the county." Mayors of Westfir, Lowell, Oakridge, Creswell, Cottage Grove Cottage Grove, village (1990 pop. 22,935), Washington co., SE Minn., near the St. Croix River; inc. 1965. There is farming (cattle, sheep, corn, and soybeans) and manufacturing (chemicals and machinery). , Veneta, Junction City Junction City, city (1990 pop. 20,604), seat of Geary co., NE Kans., at the confluence of the Republican and Smoky Hill rivers; inc. 1859. The rail, trade, and processing center of an agricultural and dairy area, it grew as the supply point for nearby Fort Riley, , Coburg, Florence and Dunes City are invited to attend or send a representative. The goal will be to find some common ground among city leaders for new public safety revenue to mend the effects of lost jail space, reduced rural law enforcement, curtailed prosecution of crime countywide coun·ty·wide adv. & adj. Throughout a whole county: found at locations countywide; a countywide search. Adj. 1. and other effects of repeated annual public safety budget cutting. This time, the process will be broadly based, Lane County District Attorney Doug Harcleroad said. `That (taxing district) was a county process asking the two cities to do something. It's no longer the county's process. This is a group process, where everybody is sort of an equal participant in the deal,' Harcleroad said. "It's going to involve compromise of a lot of different interests." - Bill Bishop |
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