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e Ms. Ehrman said the council will consider funding of the Extension Service at another meeting. She said statistics about users always help evaluate a service. IV. PUBLIC HEARING: CREATION OF NEW METROPOLITAN POLICY COMMITTEE City Manager Micheal Gleason introduced the item. Planning Director Susan Brody gave the staff report. She said the Urban Services Policy Committee (USPC) recommended the formation of a new Metropolitan Policy Committee (MPC) in order to consolidate the functions of the existing Metropolitan Policy Committee, the Metropolitan Area Transportation Committee, the Metropolitan Cable Television Commission, and the USPC. She said the new MPC would develop and negotiate solutions to intergovernmental problems, serve as a forum for developing recommendations for resolving intergovernmental disputes, identify along-term agenda for i ntergovernmenta 1 efforts, and promote intergovernmental cooperation and coordination. Ms. Brody said the US PC recommended that two elected officials from each of Eugene, Springfield, and Lane County serve as voting members of the new MPC, that the chief administrative officers of the jurisdictions serve as ex- officio members of the committee, and that the Executive Director of Lane Transit District (LTD) and a representative of the Oregon Department of Transportat ion (ODOT) serve as ex-offi ci 0 members of the commi ttee when transporat i on matters are considered. She said the ordi nance before the council does not contain a reference to an ODOT representative but, if the council wishes, that provision could be added after adoption of the ordinance. e Ms. Wooten said she understood at the council work session that a consumer advocacy group for cable access would be included in the proposal for a new MPC. Mr. Bennett agreed with Ms. Wooten. Mr. Gleason said the council agreed to appoint a Council Subcommittee on Cable Access to address cable access issues independently from the MPC. The subcommitte has not yet met. He did not recall approval of a consumer advocacy subcommittee of the MPC. Ms. Wooten asked if others recalled the council's action. She said she did not think a committee to address cable access issues independently from the MPC has been created by resolution or ordinance. Ms. Ehrman said the council passed to address cable access issues but ordinance although the Council prospective members. a motion to create a council subcommittee the subcommittee has not been created by Subcommittee on Committee discussed Ms. Wooten said she would like to review the minutes of the January 14 council meeting and a verbatim transcript of the discussion concerning a subcommittee. Ms. Ehrman opened the public hearing. e MINUTES--Eugene City Council March 9, 1987 Page 7