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County may revive, and double, money plea.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 30-JAN-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: County may revive, and double, money plea.(Government)(The board is considering putting the failed income tax measure back on the ballot)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Matt Cooper The Register-Guard

For Faye Stewart, chairman of the Lane County Board of Commissioners, it boils down to this: Vote for the county income tax in May or watch 240 criminals be released from jail after July 1.

"I don't want it to look like a scare tactic," Stewart said. "It's reality. It's the reality that we're facing."

Fresh from voters' narrow defeat of a public-safety income tax proposal in November, the commissioners are studying the tax again and may vote next month to put an even larger income tax on the May ballot.

The November measure was meant to help what officials have called the county's crumbling public-safety system. But now, the commissioners are driven by the additional prospect that county government may soon lose $40 million in annual payments from the federal government as recompense for the...

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