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e Ms. Ehrman noted that the summer youth employment program served people ages 14 to 21, and she asked about programs to locate permanent jobs for young people. Ms. Swanson said both in-school and out-of-school strategies were available to youth. She said the summer employment program was intended more to serve younger people while addressing the dropout problem and teaching youth basic work habits. Responding to Ms. Bascomls question, Ms. Swanson said the new training area for a phlebotomist assistant referred to work with blood. She said the health care industry had been surveyed and had suggested establishing training for the position. Mayor Obie commended the work of Mr. Pryor and Ms. Swanson. He said the private industry council was doing an exceptional job and was one of the better organizations in terms of enthusiasm and communicating with the partners. He also thanked Mr. Rutan for representing the City Council at SWPIC meetings. IV. REPORT FROM DOWNTOWN COMMISSION Mr. Gleason introduced the item. Downtown Commission Chair Ann Bennett presented the commission report. She said the commission had heard that the council was concerned about the pace of the recommendation on Willamette Street, the citizen involvement process, and the need to improve communication between the commission and the City Council. e Ms. Bennett noted that the redesign of Willamette Street had first been discussed in 1982 and had been included in the Downtown Plan. She said the issue had resurfaced in 1985-86 as part of the Urban Renewal Pl an Update process. She said the commission had spent almost all of 1986 on the Urban Renewal Update. Ms. Bennett said the citizen involvement process had been reviewed by the Citizen Involvement Committee, and several design options had been reviewed by the public in 1986, before the commission had taken a stand. She said two public sessions also had been held in 1986, and a joint public hearing had been held with the Planning Commission, all of which included both the redesign of Willamette Street and other Urban Renewal Plan Update issues. Ms. Bennett said the Planning Commission then had suggested extending the public process and making a specific but tentative recommendation on the project in order to hear public response to the recommendation. She said the Downtown Commission had taken the suggestions, and that constituted the strategy for 1987. Ms. Bennett said the commission had made a tentative recommendation on the redesign of Willamette Street, and that recommendation, along with other Urban Renewal issues, would be the subject of a public forum scheduled for February 26. She said the 1987 process had been reviewed by the Citizen Involvement Committee, and she distributed copies of a project chronology. She said the forum would be a joint forum with the Planning Commission, after which the two groups would discuss the issue and forward a recommendation to the City Council. e MINUTES--Eugene City Council February 11, 1987 Page 7