From the Office of the Governor
State of Oregon

Proclamation Calling Special Session

For 20 years, the Portland metropolitan area has been a national model
for pursuing a balanced, sensible, and workable transportation system.
Metropolitan voters, local governments, and the State of Oregon have
consistently chosen to invest in a transportation system which avoids
the congestion, dirty air, and sprawl which plague other urban centers.
Now, completion of the tri-county metropolitan light rail system is
necessary to cope with growth while preserving livability and economic
vitality throughout Oregon.

As an integral component of Oregon's statewide transportation system,
the light rail project will leverage hundreds of millions in federal
transportation dollars, freeing resources for use in other needed
projects throughout the state.  The Oregon Legislature has an
opportunity to continue the sensible course it has historically chosen
with regard to innovative transportation by committing future lottery
funds to construction of the South/North light rail project.  I am
calling this special session so the Legislative Assembly may act on
funding the South/North light rail project.

THEREFORE, I, John Kitzhaber, Governor of Oregon, find an extraordinary
occasion exists and I do by this proclamation, pursuant to section 12,
Article V, Oregon Constitution, call the 68th Legislative Assembly of
the State of Oregon to convene in special session on July 28, 1995, at
10:00 a.m.  The Constitution does not empower me to limit the time of
the special session or specify matters which may considered, but it is
my earnest hope that the members of the Assembly may act most
expeditiously in enacting the legislation referenced above, addressing
no other subjects.


John Kitzhaber, Governor
State of Oregon