Item B: City Response to Lane County Budget Crisis

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Potential City of Eugene Responses to Lane County FY 08-09 Proposed Budget ATTACHMENT A One-Time Recommended Gap Service Area Reductions/Eliminations Urban/Rural Impacts Funding, if Eugene Responds ?The 100-bed alternative Forest Work Camp ?An average of 1,000 offenders provide program and supported work crews would be Forest Work Camp & more than 50,000 hours each year of eliminated. Inmates who would normally be held Work Crews community service at local agencies and accountable for their crimes would be released maintain unincorporated roads. without accountability. ?The impacts to the City of Eugene (and Add equivalent of four new Eugene police to a lesser extent the City of Springfield) officers by providing $518,172 of on- would include; a diminished capacity to going funding to allow current unfillable ?Patrol would be limited, going from 24 to 20- adequately respond to emergency calls vacancies to be filled. New permanent hour patrols each day. Remaining force would be increasing the likelihood that the County money needed. In addition, one-time costs required to curtail the type of complaints that would be forced to ask the cities for cover. for equipment and vehicles is $191,500. warrant an in-person response. Crimes and ?Delayed response times could cause a Of that amount, $69,800 would qualify for incidents where prosecution is unlikely would not ripple effect resulting in requests for telecommunications funding. Field Law Enforcement be serviced. The 20 hour staffing model would services to the municipal public safety result in a 4 hour period when there would be no departments. field deputies working. During this period, there ?Reduced capacity would make it would be a system for calling out deputies from difficult (if not impossible at times) for the home to respond to emergencies. However, this Sheriff’s Office to provide assistance to process would result in a delayed response time. municipal partners when their activities bring them into unincorporated Lane County. ?Reduce from four to two the detectives available to provide follow-up investigations to ?Many investigations cross jurisdictional serious person crimes. Only the most serious or boundaries. Frequently, a single violator violent person crimes would be investigated will commit similar crimes throughout the Criminal Investigations ?Property crime detective position would be area. This loss of investigative capacity eliminated. and continuity will have an adverse effect ?Any other incidents where follow up on the success of some investigations investigation is necessary would be assigned to conducted by the cities. patrol deputies. May 6, 2008 7