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1. The Eugene-Springfield metropolitan area has a history of encouraging and recognizing <br /> citizen involvement as an essential element in its planning pmgrarn. <br /> <br />2. Citizen advisory committees have been established to provide the citizen's perspective on <br /> a variety of metropolitan-wide planning and related issues. <br /> <br />3. Springfield, Lane County, and Eugene each use either their local planning commission or <br /> a committee for citizen involvement in monitoring citizen involvement in the planning <br /> process. <br /> <br />4. JPCC has been designated as the citizen organization for developing and conducting a <br /> citizen involvement program for the Metro Plan, including update processes. <br /> <br />5. The governing bodies have furthered their efforts at citizen involvement through the <br /> development and support of community neighborhood organizations, community <br /> surveys, citizen involvement advisory committees, and various media techniques for <br /> citizen involvement and education. <br /> <br />6. How effective the Metro Plan will be depends to a large extent upon how much support <br /> is provided by the metropolitan area residents in seeing that the Metro Plan is <br /> implemented. <br /> <br />7. Successful Metro Plan development and implementation is dependent on a joint effort of <br /> citizens, public and semi-public agencies, and elected officials. <br /> <br />8. Benefits of an ongoing metropolitan area planning advisory committee to provide citizen <br /> perspective include an accumulation of knowledge and experience in the planning <br /> process. <br /> <br />9. In 1984, an ongoing metropolitan policy committee, the Metropolitan Planning <br /> Committee, was formed to provide policy direction for the Metro Plan 2-1/2-Year Mid- <br /> Period Review. It was comprised of two elected officials and one Planning <br /> Commissioner each from Eugene, Springfield, and Lane County, and one representative <br /> of the metropolitan citizen committee participates as a non-voting member. <br /> <br />10. In 1987, the Metropolitan Planning Committee was replaced by the Metropolitan Policy <br /> Committee (MPC). The MPC is comprised of two elected officials each from Eugene, <br /> Springfield, and Lane County. The chief administrative officers of the three jurisdictions <br /> serve as non-voting, ex-officio members of the MPC. When the MPC is considering <br /> metropolitan transportation matters, the two members of the Lane Transit District (LTD) <br /> Board shall serve as voting members and the General Manager of LTD and the Director <br /> of the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) shall also serve as non-voting, ex- <br /> officio members of MPC. <br /> <br /> III~K-2 <br /> <br /> <br />