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Panel tackles public safety funding.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 29-SEP-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Panel tackles public safety funding.(Government)(Two proposals would both raise taxes but each would also include relief for property taxpayers, task force members say)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Bill Bishop The Register-Guard

Any new tax to fund public safety in Lane County must provide property tax relief under two proposals that got strong support Wednesday from the county's Public Safety Task Force.

Although the 12-member panel failed to gather the 10 votes necessary to make a formal proposal to the Board of County Commissioners, the group gave nine votes to a sales tax and nine votes to a gross receipts tax on businesses - a proposal introduced for the first time Wednesday.

Both proposals would aim to raise about $60 million in taxes dedicated solely to county-funded public safety programs ranging from youth services to adult jails, from crime prevention to drug treatment - including a $24.5 million package of improvements...

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