Chamber does the math: Smaller 2-year fee would preserve most popular services

Brittany Quick-Warner: We think it’s possible to maintain funding for the downtown library, the Amazon Pool, the Sheldon Community Center, the downtown cleanup and beautification program, to allow funding to help explore future alternative response contracts, the animal welfare unit, the animal services sheltering contract, develop park maintenance, the homeless service program, and maintain some of the budget for neighborhood services.

Presenter: The Eugene Area Chamber of Commerce offered a compromise Monday night on the so-called fire fee. Its president and CEO says it’s possible, with a modest two-year stabilization fee, to preserve many popular city services.

During public comment at the City Council meeting May 12, Brittany Quick-Warner:

Brittany Quick-Warner (Chamber of Commerce, CEO): Good evening Mayor and City Council. Thank you so much for your tireless work navigating this complex and high-stakes budget process. We know how heavy this moment is and how important it is to get it right…

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