Ballot Measures: Conference Recommendations

           BALLOT MEASURES: CONFERENCE RECOMMENDATIONS 

 Measure                         AAUP  Measure                AAUP

5--Taxes Require Vote of People   No  13--Anti-gay Revisited     No 

Bans new or increased state or       Prohibits state or local 
local taxes without prior voter      governments from extending
approval.  Permits two tax           specific anti-discrimina-
elections annually and allows        tion protections to homo-
continuation of automatic annual     sexuals and bars actions
6 percent tax base increases.        believed to promote 
Allows the Legislature to override   homosexuality, such as
restrictions by three-fourths vote.  diversity workshops.

8--Changes PERS                  No

Requires public employees to pay     15--Sets K-CC Funding       No
6% of their salaries toward their    Requires the Legislature     
pensions and prevents governments    to fund schools and
from increasing salaries or other    community colleges at no
benefits as an offset. Bars using    less than the 1993-95 base,
accumulated sick leave to            plus adjustments for 
increase retirment benefits.         inflation and enrollment

10 -- Sets Manatory Sentence     No           
Sets mandatory sentences for         20--Equal Tax Only        No
certain felons and requires          Eliminates all current 
juveniles over 15 and up to          taxes.  Substitutes an
be tried as adults.                  "equal" tax on all 
                                     transfers of property,

11 -- Changes in Sentences       No  goods and services.  Sets
Prohibits the Legislature from       a state tax of 2% and a
reducing voter-approved prison       maximum local tax of 1%.
sentences except by two-thirds      
majority vote.                       

12--Prevailing Wage              No

Repeals the Little Davis Bacon
Act, which requires the           ____________________________
prevailing wage rate be paid      Edited descriptions from the
to workers on public works        Oregonian, July 23,1994, p.D2. 
projects.