OLCV: NO on 62, Diverting Lottery Funds, Harming Environmental Programs

For the third time: One of the challenges of passing good environmental laws is making sure we have the resources to carry them out. Whether it's water-quality monitoring or enforcement against corporate polluters, state parks maintenance or stopping invasive species, Oregon needs resources to meet our common environmental goals.

Measure 62 is an effort to amend the constitution and divert 15% of Oregon's lottery funds to crime programs. The state budget is a finite resource, and this measure would mean money taken away from critical environmental programs, as well as less money for economic development and schools.

Moreover, it threatens the long-term prospects for parks and salmon lottery funding that Oregonians passed in 1998, known as Measure 66 funds.

OLCV urges you to vote NO on Measure 62, thereby protecting the funding of Oregon's critical environmental programs.

Learn more about Measure 62, including the reviewing text of the measure and its fiscal impact.