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, : heen growing day by day. They are American Federal, Citizen Savings, Equitable e Savings, Far West Savings, First Interstate, Home Federal, Oregon Bank, Oregon Mutual & Savings, Pacific Continental, Pacific First Federal, Pacific Western, and US National. This shows a real emphasis and a positive note by the financial institutions in the economy in Eugene and Lane County. He has been working with the City of Eugene on another lending project. He said the City has worked very well with him in taking care of some problems. He sa i d it's been a positive experience to work with the City of Eugene and its employees. Mayor Keller thanked all of the participants. He introduced Bob Grieve from the Oregon Bank, Jeff Pickles from Pacwest, and Gary Crabtree from Pacific First Federal. Another of the City Council goals is to make things easy. Less than a year ago, City Council adopted a six-point program that puts a concrete program in place with implementation of goal 2, with public dollars behind it as well as the solid participation of the private sector. The two programs, with expected expenditures of public funds of $433,000 in the first year, are designed to leverage an additional $1,270,000 in that same year for a total of $1.7 million. He thanked the staff for working hard and congratulated the public sector and the private sector "for proving again that we can work together and when we do we always come up with the best program in the world." 3. Impact of the County Budgeting Program and Intergovernmental Relations Mr. Gleason introduced Gary Long. Mr. Long said a staff memorandum outlined e three areas on a report on the overall County budget, its status, the funding of specific intergovernmental service programs, and the question about the County's continued membership and voting status. This discussion may pertain to some other jurisdictions if they withdraw financially from existing intergovernmental agreement s. First, the County budget is not finalized and it will not be for several weeks. It appears that until the special election is held on August 10, no final action will be taken by the County on its overall service program. The special levy is focused on law enforcement, specifically with $2.1 million to go to public safety. The district attorney's office will receive almost $500,000 and $100,000 will go to the Juvenile Department. Staff comment about the levy is that it is difficult to predict the public's reaction to the levy. Such a levy has not been tried before. The levy impacts incorporated versus unincorpor- ated residents makes the outcome of the levy difficult to predict. The district attorney and the Juvenile Department services would benefit City residents, but they only make up 20 percent of the total levy. The remaining 80 percent would benefit county residents and would go exclusively to the Sheriff's Office. There may be more things that impact the City_ There has been some discussion about park closure and some other items at the staff level, but there is nothing concrete at this time. Mr. Long said that on intergovernmental service programs, the County is on hold on this matter as well. There has been some discussion by their intergovernmental committee and a general conclusion or recommendation to the Budget Committee that approximately $150,000 be reserved to fund the various intergovernmental, agencies such as LRAPA and L-COG. Across the board that equates to about a 40- - percent level of funding relative to this past budget year. It is quite a MINUTES--Eugene City Council July 28, 1982 Page 3