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, F. Tree Preservation Committee--Meeting has been called for . Wednesday, November 30, 7:30 p.m., Parks and Recreation Department, 858 Pearl Street. G. City Suit Re Cone-Breeden Property--Manager noted the League of Oregon Cities Board of Directors had unanimously-joined with the City in its legal action against the appeal before LCDC by citizens in the City. Mayor Keller noted the major concern of the Board had been regarding the LCDC being in an area of reviewing City zoniong actions within its city limits, and the legality of that review process in its entirety. He said also the Board felt it should pursue this particular issue to try to resolve the LCDC's role in the future. Mr. Bradley arrrived. II. Continuation of Discussion of Economic Development Procedural and Organizational Arrangements--Memo distributed Manager reviewed for Council the several sessions which had been held on this subject, and noted a discussion would be continued Friday, November 18, at the Thunderbird, with Springfield City Council, Lane County Commissioners, and L-COG Board. He indicated the process for tOday's discussion would be a five-minute continuation by Ed Whitelaw on his memo of October 10, followed by a review of the memo from the Planning Department. He said staff was asking Council action on this matter in order to instruct Eric Haws, Council's L-COG representative, e for voting on the economic development issue on December 1.- Ed Whitelaw recapped the discussion of October 19. He noted reports on any sagging health of the Eugene economy have been greatly exaggerated. The number of jobs in Lane County has been growing rapidly, but he was not saying it had been accelerating. He said the composition of employment had been shifting from the least stable categories to the more stable, noting a shift from manufacturing into nonmanufacturing areas. He said the recent growth in employment had been entirely in nonmanufacturing fields. Additionally, he said the area had an unusually large unemployment rate of 9.3 percent. Two components make up this unemployment group: (1) the in-migration into Lane County, or people who come in to look for jobs and are unemployed while they are looking but usually do find employment; and (2) those who are chroni- cally unemployed year in and year out. He said the policy implication that follows from those facts are different than if Lane County's jobs were growing very slowly. He reviewed for Council page 10 of an October 10 memorandum regarding the number of tools that local govern- ments could use to cope with economic problems, noting programs to upgrade human resources or increasing supply of capital (i.e., Port Districts). He said the rest of the memorandum included some impli- cations of these economic conditions and suggested institutional arrangements to adopt to cope with these problems. e 8'13 11/16/77--2