County may revive, and double, money plea.(Government)(The board is considering putting the failed income tax measure back on the ballot)

The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) | January 30, 2007 | Copyright

Byline: Matt Cooper The Register-Guard

For Faye Stewart, chairman of the Lane County Board of Commissioners, it boils down to this: Vote for the county income tax in May or watch 240 criminals be released from jail after July 1.

"I don't want it to look like a scare tactic," Stewart said. "It's reality. It's the reality that we're facing."

Fresh from voters' narrow defeat of a public-safety income tax proposal in November, the commissioners are studying the tax again and may vote next month to put an even larger income tax on the May ballot.

The November measure ...

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