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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 probi~ is budgeting, not increased taxes. He said the Board needs (with input from the publ services and programs at what is a barely adequate level of~din fund each program until the money runs out. He commented that ~ levies keep failing is because it is extortion. He said until th. they haven't demonstrated to the public that they are Charles Biggs, Eugene, was opposed to the Public being didn't think it was only a Lane County concern. He thou~ °ther ~unties were in the situation. He didn't think this was the correct direction :. He thought the County should address where the problem lies with the :ounties in the state should get together to address the problem with the state. He rate development and that is current!~ ~ot the case. Rob Handy, Eugene, said i~ ~ 1!~ ~ make, the tax breaks they give and the caps at the state level with Measures 5, 47 and 5¢ ~ ~ ~ing dollars and making decisions about funding get the lax ra~¢ ~rs and get ~ B~ in from the other cities and make it upon their m~¢ing fo~d. He was ~ncerned that without the buy in from other ~iti~:s that Eugene would en3 ~ ?bsidizing some of their services and diminishing their ability ~e the discretionary fund. Mon~ LinS~omberg, Veneta, aS~ i~he Metro Plan was the best route if the language of the ~ ~as any unintended ~6~quences as it is now written. She said it was important to get t~ ~i~i~ on Board : Jim Hale, E~ge~ ~ge~ th6 6i~Cted officials to give the District Attorney and Sheriff the broadest possibl~ I~ ~6 solve a problem that applies to everyone in Lane County. Page 8 - Joint Elected Officials Meeting - April 19, 2005 WD bc/m/05035/T