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The county no longer contributes to the Southern Oregon Visitors Association, an 

 organization that promotes tourism. 



Southern Oregon Regional Economic Development no longer receives funds from the 

 county. 



County finance, CIS (mapmaking), administration/budget, counsel, personnel, and Board 

 ofComniissioners all cut support personnel. - • 



This means: 



o Phones will often be answeired by answering machines; 



o It will take longer to respond to questions and complaints; 



o Payments to vendors will be slower, and 



o The level of customer service will suffer. 



The county contracts with a number of nonprofit agencies. This funding will cease 

 September 30th. The funding was cut fi^om $270,000 in 1 995-95 to S33.500 for 1996-97. 

 Two examples of cut services are: 



o On-Track will dose the Men's Alternative to Violence Program. 



o The Medford Community Health Center will be closed on Wednesdays and will 



provide an estimated 2,200 fewer visits for the treatment of illness and 

 communicable diseases. 



Health & Human Services will close all communicable disease clinics. This means there 

 win be no public health programs for se>cually transmitted diseases, rashes, lice, hepatitis, 

 measles, etc. Programs for poor, young, single pregnant women will be curtailed. 



Dog license fees will have to be increased or the animal shelter will have to curt^l hours 

 of service and number of animals housed afler September 30th. 



Zoning code compliance ends on July 1st, and the available hours for accepting permit 

 applications have been reduced. 



