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OSU Extension Service secures funding for year
U.S. House passes Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act
The Daily Barometer
Issue date: 5/30/07 Section: News
The OSU Extension Service now has secured funding for the next academic year, after the House reauthorized the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act.
The act was approved by Congressman Earl Blumenauer, Congressman Peter DeFazio, Congressman Greg Walden and Congresswoman Darlene Hooley on May 28. The act will provide OSU Extension with funding to help secure secretarial staff, facilities, utilities, travel and telecommunications.
"We in the House have long recognized the vital importance of the Secure Rural Schools program to Oregon's counties," said Blumenauer in a press release. "Our commitment to reauthorizing this program has never wavered."
Without the Secure Rural Schools Act passing, OSU Extension would lose 85 OSU faculty and 22 support staff along with other county extensions offices closing.
"It's clear that the rural counties need this assistance more than ever," DeFazio said in a press release. "This funding will help stave off some of the layoffs and cuts in critical services like law enforcement and health care, and prevent the state from having to take over those essential services while we continue to work together on a longer-term solution."
Hooley said the act passing is a great victory for Oregon counties.
"This emergency funding bill will address the current crisis and give immediate relief of hundreds of millions of dollars to our rural counties," Hooley said in a press release. "Oregon counties need to have some certainty and be able to plan for the future."
The next step addressed by Oregon Congress is to create a future long-term plan.
"We will not relent," Walden said in a press release. "Congress will be forced to address this issue over and over and over again until we reach agreement on a long-term solution.
The act was approved by Congressman Earl Blumenauer, Congressman Peter DeFazio, Congressman Greg Walden and Congresswoman Darlene Hooley on May 28. The act will provide OSU Extension with funding to help secure secretarial staff, facilities, utilities, travel and telecommunications.
"We in the House have long recognized the vital importance of the Secure Rural Schools program to Oregon's counties," said Blumenauer in a press release. "Our commitment to reauthorizing this program has never wavered."
Without the Secure Rural Schools Act passing, OSU Extension would lose 85 OSU faculty and 22 support staff along with other county extensions offices closing.
"It's clear that the rural counties need this assistance more than ever," DeFazio said in a press release. "This funding will help stave off some of the layoffs and cuts in critical services like law enforcement and health care, and prevent the state from having to take over those essential services while we continue to work together on a longer-term solution."
Hooley said the act passing is a great victory for Oregon counties.
"This emergency funding bill will address the current crisis and give immediate relief of hundreds of millions of dollars to our rural counties," Hooley said in a press release. "Oregon counties need to have some certainty and be able to plan for the future."
The next step addressed by Oregon Congress is to create a future long-term plan.
"We will not relent," Walden said in a press release. "Congress will be forced to address this issue over and over and over again until we reach agreement on a long-term solution.
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