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I watched the Lane County Commissioners hearing on public access tv tonight. It looks like the commissioners and budget committee members have voted to approve the country road trade off with the city of Eugene. In the deal Lane County will give the city of Eugene 4.5 million to use on city roads, in exchange the city of Eugene will give the Lane County 4.5 million of their general fund money.
The Commissioners have decided to cut the 4.5 million in half to fund five programs, using half the money this year and the other half to fund the same five programs next year. The five programs are: the restoration of all the current jail beds (sorry I don't remember the number off the top of my head, 2 district attorney positions, the Buckley House which provides substance abuse treatment and detox, the Phoenix Program which represents 16 beds in the juvenile justice center is a nationally recognized treatment system, and I believe 50 youth day treatment beds (I think this might be Pathways).
Sorry I don't have all the facts, I'm sure you'll find them in the news tomorrow. Just glad to see the Commissioners find a way to save part of public safety. I believe there is even talk of saving 5 deputies, by having them give out more traffic tickets.
What are your thoughts? Anyone from the county able to fill in the pieces I'm missing? Do you like the city/county swap?
Commissioner Fleenor gave a passionate speech suggesting that even though they would be depleting the road fund, we must put people before roads. We can drive on gravel roads, but we cannot cut public service any further.
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 Our footprint on social networking continues, as we have started the KMTR NewsSource 16 fan page on Facebook. Join our page by clicking here. You can also join the event page for the 2008 Olympic Trials we created on Facebook by clicking here. If you didn't know we have a Friday Night Fever page on Myspace you can view by clicking here.
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 We've added one more way to keep in contact with KMTR, and have created a Twitter account. You can follow us on Twitter by clicking this link. We will use the Twitter page as a place to speak directly to the community, letting you know about important information, fun stories, and news in our community. Twitter is a free service that can connect you with all of your friends by phone, the web, or IM.
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 Right now speed down to either the Springfield or Eugene Elite Car Bath and you can pick up free passes to a special screening of Speed Racer, compliments of our sister station The Eugene CW. The special showing is this Tuesday, May 6th at 7:00PM. There are only a limited number of tickets available so hurry down to Elite Car bath at: 192 East Q Street Springfield, OR
1713 West 8th
Eugene, OR
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You may have seen on the Today show, where Matt Lauer travels around the world in a segment, they call, "Where in the World is Matt Lauer". We are having some fun with that concept, and asking you to take pictures with a paper version of Matt, we lovingly refer to as "Flat Matt". It's real easy, just follow these easy steps. 1) Print out this .pdf file of Flat Matt. 2) Take a picture of Flat Matt in your neighborhood, with you on vacation, in your home, ect. 3) Upload your picture to the Where in the World is Flat Matt section of Your Corner Photos. 4) Watch NewsSource Today on KMTR NewsSource 16 to see if your Flat Matt makes it on the air.
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You've submitted your photos in the Your Corner Photo section. You've submitted your opinions in the Your Corner Forums. Now it's time to submit Your Videos! We've just launched Your Corner Videos, and we need you to show us your best News, Weather, Pets, Sports, Family/Kids, and Funny videos. Check it out by clicking here.
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I'm not sure what it is about winter weather, but the community got their cameras out and took some pics. Not only are there a new batch of snow photos, but we have some nice pet photos as well. Check them out in Your Corner Photos.
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We are currently working on a project that needs an animator. Someone that knows CGI, or possibly Flash. We are able to trade a $100 gas card, and a stay at the Riverhouse in Bend in exchange for the animation. The project is less than thirty seconds in length.
If you know animation send me an email at buzzblogger@kmtr.com.
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Saturday night the Associated Press handed out the broadcast awards. KMTR NewsSource 16 was named Best Newscast! A round of applause for our hard working news room is in order I think.
Thank you to all our viewers.
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About a month ago we launched site comments, where anyone could leave text messages to any of our text stories. Well today we are proud to announce video comments. To leave a video comment first click on any KMTR TEXT story. At the bottom of the story there is a link for " Add a Comment". This takes you to the Post a comment page, that if you have left a news comment you have seen before, only now there is a box that says "Record a Video Comment". If you click on this page it takes you to the Record a Video Comment page. We posted the first video comment here, so you can see how it works.
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Helmsley super fan Sarah Shoop has started a fan club on Facebook. You can check it out here. She describes the group as: For those out there
who watch the KMTR news @11 SOLELY for the adorable weather bulldog
known as 'Helmsley.' We'd be lost without him!
We also have lots of Helmsley photos in Your Corner Photos. See them by clicking here.
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 Check out our new section of the website: COUNTDOWN TO THE OLYMPIC TRIALS. It is where we are archiving all of the Countdown to the Olympic Trials stories that we run every Wednesday. It's already four stories full. You should see new stories posted every Thursday.
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 The Associated Press News Awards were just announced. Here are the KMTR winners. You can watch the stories by clicking the links below. BEST BREAKING NEWS
2nd
PLACE: KMTR, Springfield
House Fire, Nohelani Graf
3rd
PLACE: KMTR, Airport Closure Newscast, Rich
Hinrichs
BEST FEATURE: SERIES
1st
PLACE: KMTR, Citizenship Test, Mun Li Kong BEST FEATURE: SINGLE STORY 2nd
PLACE: KMTR, 42nd Street
Memorial, Jared MeyerEXCELLENCE IN PHOTOGRAPHY 3rd
PLACE: KMTR, Coburg Hills Fire, Jonathan Judd
BEST SPECIAL or DOCUMENTARY: 1st
PLACE: KMTR, Losing It, Kelli Warner2nd
PLACE: KMTR, Back to School Special, Kelli Warner
BEST WEATHERCAST
2nd
PLACE: KMTR, Weather, 11 p.m. newscast (March 19) Brent Prasnikar BEST WEBSITE 1st Place: www.kmtr.com
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