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~. 18 - - I , ~ EUGENE 4880 25% SPRINGF'IELD 2100 10% WATER DISTRICTS 12,310 65% TOTAL 19,490 . . . POPUlA T ION . . EUGENE 40,000 56% SPRINGF'IELD 12,000. 17% . WATER DISTRICTS 19,500 27% . I . TOTAt 71,500. . . BASED UPON POPULATIONS '. THE ABO.VE AND AREAS OF THE VARIOUS DISTRICTS AND ~IT~ES IT WAS RECOMMENDED THAT THE ESTIMATED COST ~OT TO EXCEED 85,000.00 F'OR THIS SURVEY BE DISTRIBUTED 4/5 ,TO THE CITY OF' tUGENE (WHICH WOULD INCLUDE THE WATER DI~TRICTS ~OW BEING SERVED BY THE EUGENE WATER & ELECTRIC BOA RD) AND 1/5 TO THE CITY OF' SPRINGF'IELD. . . THE DIF'F'ICULTIESOF FINANCING AND THE POSSIBILITY OF' A PROLONGED DELAY D~PEND~NT " UPON SERVING THESE OUTLYING DISTRICTS WERE DISCUSSED BY OFF'ICIALS OF' THE CITY OF' S P R I ~ G- I F'IELD AND IT WAS BROUGHT OUT THAT THE LOCATIONS AS WELL AS THE SIZE OF' THE PLANTS ,!ERE VERY IMPORTANT AND THAT THE SEWAGE PLANTS SHOUL D BE PROPERLY LOCATED TO SE RVE 1 HE SE OUTLYING AREAS AT SOME F'UTURE DATE AT WHICH TIME THE NEWLY SERVED AREAS WOULD THEN PAY THEIR PROPORTIONATE S HA RE I F' THE Y HAD NOT BEEN UNDER THE ORIGINAL F'INANCING PLAN. RELATIVE MERITS OF' ANNEXATIONS WERE DISCUSSED IN THIS CONNECTION AND REPRESENTATIVES OF' THE RURAL DISTRICTS STATED THAT ALTHOUGH THEY WERE NOT IN THE CITIES, THEY DESIRED SANITARY F'ACILITIES STATING THIS PROGRAM,SEEMED F'AVORABLE, PART I CULARL Y I F' THE OUTLYING DISTRICTS WOULD HAVE REPRESENTATION IN THE PROGRAM. . .. . . . MAYOR \LARSON OF' SPRINGF'IELD STATED HE THOUGHT IT WAS A F'INE IDEA TO INVESTIGATE THE POSSIBI.LITIES ,OF'. A, METRO~OLITAN AREA BUT HE WAS PRIMARILY CONCERNED ABOUT THE MONEY IN- VOLVED AND MR. MCCHESNEY, COUNCILMAN OF' SPRING~IELD MENTIONED THAT THEY HAD MANY PROBLEMS OF' A LARGE F'INANCIAL NATURE, INCLUDING A SANITARY DISPQSAL PLANT AND OUTLINED THE THINKING or SPRINGfiELD ~ THAT THEIR ~LANT .WAS PLANNED TO BE LOCATED WHERE IT COULO SERVE THESE OUT- LYING DISTl=lICT~ INCLUDING. THE. CAL YQUNG DISTRICT AT SOME F'UTURE QATE AND THAT HE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A.GOOD , DEA F'OR THE ONES WHO WERE ASSEMBLED AT THIS MEETING TO F'ORMULATE A PERMANENT GROUP THAT COULD MEET AN D ACT rOR REPRESENTATIVES W~ENEVER DETERMINED NECESSARY. COUNCILMAN BOOTH OF' EUGENE S TATE 0 HE THOUGHT IT WAS A QUESTION OF WHETHER WE ~ONSIDERED THAT SUCH A SURVE Y WAS NE~DED AND I F' IT WAS, HOW WE COULD GO AHEAD AND ORGANIZE TO HAVE IT DONE. . .MAYOR. JOHNSON OF EUGENE STATED THAT THE PRO BLEM IS MORE OR LESS TO DETERMINE WHETHE R IT WOULD BE PRACTICAL TO MEf;lGE ALL OF OUR CITIES AND DISTRICTS INTO A MET.ROPOLITAN AR~A, THAT ~UGENE NOW HAS A PLAN MADE OUT, READY TO GO, WHICH WAS STARTED EIGHT YEARS,OR MORE AGO. HE STATED THAT IF' WE HAD USED THAT PLAN IT WOULD HAVE BEEN H I ~HL Y INADEQUATE AT I THIS TIME. HE ALSO STATED THAT HE THOUGHT IT WAS MORE THAN JUST THE TWO CITIES MAKING THE SURVEY, THAT THE SURVE Y, IF ADOPTED IS GOING TO EF'FECT EVERY ON~ OF' THESE DISTRICTS AND THAT THEY SHOULD BE REPRESENTED O~ THE COMMITTEE F'ROM THE START IN GETT ING THE SU RV E Y UNDE.R, WA Y. MR. KENNE Y AND MR. RAY OF THE WATER DISTRICTS SPOKE IN F'AVOR OF A F'EASI8ILITY SURVEY AND ALSO EXPRESSED THEIR. DESIRE THAT THE WATER DI~TRICTS HAVE REPRESENTATION. ,< . . AF'TER THOROUGH DISCUSSIONS ON THE SUBJE CT THE F'OLLOWING MOTION WAS MADE BY MR. KJNNEY AND SECONDED BY MR.. TODD AND UNAN I MOUSL Y APPROVED BY THOSE PRESENT. THAT A RESOLUTION BE PASSED BY THOSE P~ESENT AT THIS MEETING REC~MMENDING THE FO LLOW' N G ACTION BY THE CITY COUNCILS OF' Eu GENE AND SPRINGF'IELD AND SUBSEQUENT CONCURRE.NCE OF' THE WATER DISTRICTS INVOLVED. .THAT AUTHORITY B~ GRANTED TO EMPLOY CONSULTING ENGINEERS ;10 MAKE A. F'EASIBILITY SURVEY or A METROPOLITAN SANITARY. DISTRICT INCLUDING THE CITIES OF' Eu GENE A~DSPRI~GF'IELD AND SURROUNDING F'RINGE AREAS WITHIN THIS DRAINAGE AREA AT.A COST NOT TO EXCEED 35,000.00 FOR ENGINEERING AND ATTORNEY F'EES AND SAID C OS T S TO BE PRO-RATED AS F'OLLO\YS: CITV OF' EUGENE (AND WATER DISTRICTS) - 4/5 OF' TOTAL COST C,TY.OF',SPRINGF'IELD - I /5 OF' TOT A L COST AND THi'T. SAID F'EAS 181 LI TY RE PO ~T BE SU BM I TTED TO THIS COMMITTEE WITH COf'IE!> TO THE CI'pES or SP~ I NGr;-1 ELD AND EUGENE BY MARCH I, 1950 TO ENA BLE BUD GET ACTION PRIOR, TO. THE 19~0-51 au D GE T I F' DEEMED NECESSARY AND F'EASIBLE. . .1 I T HA T THE CITY COUNCILS OF SPRI NGF'lELD AND EUGENE AND THE VARIOUS WATER DISTRICTS APPOINT REPRESENTATIVES TO ACT AS A BOARD IN THE EM PLO YUEN T OF' CONSULTING.ENQINEERS AND PRES.E~T I NG THE STUDY BACK TO THIS COMMITTEE BY MARCH I, 1950. " ~