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Campus community voices opinion to legislators

Representatives from OSU caution the subcommittee on further cuts to funding

Nick Ngo

Issue date: 4/10/07 Section: News
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Senator Richard Devlin, D-Tualatin, and seven other legislators - including past ASOSU president Rep. Brian Clem, D-Salem - met in LaSells Stewart Center Monday night to hear testimony from OSU officials and students. They were hearing testimony regarding budget items that will pass before their committee later in this legislative session.
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Senator Richard Devlin, D-Tualatin, and seven other legislators - including past ASOSU president Rep. Brian Clem, D-Salem - met in LaSells Stewart Center Monday night to hear testimony from OSU officials and students. They were hearing testimony regarding budget items that will pass before their committee later in this legislative session.

Andrew Schaefer, a student majoring in horticulture, waited patiently for his turn to present his opinion to the Joint Ways and Means Subcommittee on Natural Resources regarding the approval the co-chairs' budget.

Earlier in the year, during the congressional session, OSU asked for $15 million to help fund and invest in the research of its natural resources programs. However, there was no agreement on the budget and it was not approved.

Monday night, the sub-committee conducted a session to hear responses and reasoning from OSU representatives on reasons for approving the budget.

Schaefer was one of the many students who were selected to present their views on the budget in front of the sub-committee.

"I would hate to go up there and not be able to express all I feel," Schaefer said. "I only have a little amount of time, and there's a lot I have to say."

Along with students, deans and heads of the College of Agriculture, College of Forestry, Fisheries and Wildlife Department and Extension Services were present as well. They were presenting their case to approve budgets for programs in their departments.

OSU Director of Government Relations Jock Mills said that there are different steps to proposing a budget to fund programs over the next two years.

The first step is proposing a budget to the higher education board. The board approved the required budget of $15 million. When the proposal went to Governor Kulongoski's desk, it was cut down to $5 million. The Governor passed the proposed budget on to the state Congress. An agreement couldn't be reached during the regular session.
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