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the services that government provides. He said the money for public safety is there. He said the Board of Commissioners (if they wanted to) could fully fund public safety, but they don't want to. He commented the Board of Commissioners has chosen to fund alot of things inadequately. He thought the solution for the County's public safety funding prob[~ is budgeting, not increases should be done by a vote of the people, not a~d: He said th~ ~°~iOn aspect of the district would hit the children, the schools and lib~ ~ depend on oP~ !:e-¢ie~ He didn't think that was what the County wanted Laurie Segel, Eugene, indicated the amendffi~ i~ too 3 of the Metro Plan g) services to development are identi~ed in fi~di~gs listed. She said the services to development such as woter, schO~I~, hav~ ~dings but there are none for public safety services to serve de~lopmeni: She ~aiathe "n '" ot ~lhhstand~ng and "all other related policies and texts" had inq~Stencies. She S~ ~e[~ ~6ed ib be findings and policies in Chapter 3 g) Public Facilities ~ ~iCes, that sP~ ~ ~li~ ~afety services for development and that is current!7 notlthe case. Rob Handy, Eugene, ~ake, the tax breaks they give and the caps at the state level with Measures 5, 47 and ~0 ~ ~!ing dollars and making decisions about funding priori[~S: ~ ~aia it ~ !~miting discretionary funds for other things. He asked ~ti~s that Eugene would end ~ SubSidizing some or their services and diminishing their ability to~ethe discretionary fund. Jim Hale, ~ ~ ~ ~i~;ted officials to give the District Attorney and Sheriff the broadest possibi~ i~~to Solve a problem that applies to everyone in Lane County. Page 8 - Joint Elected Officials Meeting - April 19, 2005 WD bc/m/05035/T