Chamber advocates for improved public safety
On Wednesday, Lane County Commissioners voted to approve funding to re-open 84 jail beds at the county jail. Commissioners also voted to remove allocations for increased personal staff. The Eugene Chamber of Commerce and its members lobbied the commissioners in written correspondence and with public testimony for these changes to the 2010 county budget, as well as the reinstatement of Lane County’s portion of funding for the Lane Metro Partnership, our regional economic development organization.
The Register-Guard has news coverage of the testimony and the commissioners’ decision.
You can read Eugene Chamber President Dave Hauser’s letter to the Commissioners HERE and watch the testimony HERE (Chamber testimony at 2:27:04)
This is an important first step in local efforts to improve our public safety system, but we still have just a fraction of the jail beds, sheriff’s deputies, and prosecutors needed. The larger, systematic funding problem remains to be solved. How do we gain the necessary funding to put our public safety system on stable footing? Where does public safety rate as a priority for you? What should the Chamber’s role be in addressing the remaining budget shortfall?
On Wednesday, Lane County Commissioners voted to approve funding to re-open 84 jail beds at the county jail. Commissioners also voted to remove allocations for increased personal staff. The Eugene Chamber of Commerce and its members lobbied the commissioners in written correspondence and with public testimony for these changes to the 2010 county budget, as well as the reinstatement of Lane County’s portion of funding for the Lane Metro Partnership, our regional economic development organization.
The Register-Guard has news coverage of the testimony and the commissioners’ decision.
You can read Eugene Chamber President Dave Hauser’s letter to the Commissioners HERE and watch the testimony HERE (Chamber testimony at 2:27:04)
This is an important first step in local efforts to improve our public safety system, but we still have just a fraction of the jail beds, sheriff’s deputies, and prosecutors needed. The larger, systematic funding problem remains to be solved. How do we gain the necessary funding to put our public safety system on stable footing? Where does public safety rate as a priority for you? What should the Chamber’s role be in addressing the remaining budget shortfall?
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