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formation. He added in 1982 local governments had the option of asking their citizens to approve a tax base by putting it on the ballot, there was no need for a plan amendment. He noted in 1982 tax bases grew by six percent. He commented it was a differf~t financial environment than it is now. With regard to Measure 5 passing, Van Vactor said it imposed the taxes, $10 to general government and $5 to schools. He said w~th ~hsure have increased the tax base. He noted in 1996 Measure 47 ch~ thin l islature put out to the citizens a measure addressing the issue Measure 50. He said that passed and that is now the m~ ~itec~ ~fthe today. He noted that act had the effect of producing all ~s§~gg~d v~lUatiOn on a average by 17%. He said it capped the property tax growth :at 3~ ~i~§ new constructi{ said it created that there is no legal way for Lane County t~ i~ i~ ~anent tax rate. stated they are stuck forever at $1.27 per thousand, number 35 out of 36 counties for low tax rates. He indicated costs for Lane County >ercent and it is hard to control costs at six percent with the revenu~ around three that every year they have to reduce services in order fo~ ~em to ~eP their He added they had done that the past three years He said they face the future of continuing to erode Van Vactor distributed a revised charter fo~ ~S~al Year ~ taxes and the rates and where Lane County ranks among ~°thnti~s. ~ ~0~ty is proposing an ORS. 451 County Service District. : : Ioard of ~ Commissioners would remain in charge and there wo~ld be no new go g body °~ layer of government to coordinate the service delivery syst~ servic~ p;~;gp~emment and h~ ~ ~sive infrastructure and it shouldn't be subject to the core citizen~ no~ :ap~ing the renewal and the loss of the core service. risk ;ompression and it would be a less stable :;V~ ~actor described Public Safety District with three major hurdles: getting the : ~o Plan Amendment, th~ g~ary Commission process that involves getting the resolutions ~ai~ ~uld then determine ~at the rate would be and how each city would be affected by ~ ~si~ ~a~'~d how they could ~e the proposal work for Lane County, Eugene and spri~?'. ~ indicated ~al ~ith all 12 cities is to work it out so it is a win-win for all of the juriSdictiOnS:. ~ S~d ~ ~fted this in a narrow fashion and it didn't touch on any of the other polici~ ;.~i Page 3 - Joint Elected Officials Meeting - April 19, 2005 WD bc/m/05035/T