This claim is technically true, and they did not make anything up, and the website they used had the right information. With that being said, this claim is outdated, and after looking at the official city of Eugene website, they said that for the 2025-2027 budget cycle, they had 11.5 million dollars in budget cuts to do. They solved this by increasing the stormwater fee for people, which was said to have generated 4.7 million dollars, allowing them to keep some services they wanted to cut. I looked at the city of Eugene Public Library website, and they said that with this increase in stormwater fee, the library was able to avoid further budget cuts for this budget cycle. In the KVAL article from July 2025, they say that because of the stormwater fee increase, they were able to preserve the contract with Greenhill Humane Society, keep Sheldon Community Center open, and avoid cutting library hours. This claim was posted in November of the same year it was decided to keep these services, so I would say that this claim is true, but outdated because it had already been decided to keep these services. This claim makes it seem like they were still wanting to cut these services and get rid of things like the Amazon pool, but that is not the case in the current budget cycle.
https://www.eugene-or.gov/5262/Sustainable-Budget
https://kval.com/news/local/new-fee-curbs-cuts-but-finding-a-sustainable-long-term-budget-a-hurdle-for-eugene
https://www.eplfoundation.org/advocacy-1
