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e Mayor Obie requested that the report be returned to the council at a work session. Mr. Gleason agreed. V. EUGENE/SPRINGFIELD METROPOLITAN PARTNERSHIP QUARTERLY REPORT City Manager Mike Gleason introduced the item. Janice Eberly, president of the Metropolitan Partnership, presented an update of organizational and administrative issues. She said the partnership's executive committee had identified goals for 1988 as: recruitment (100 plus jobs); maintaining the financial stability of the partnership; and enhancing community awareness of the Metro Partnership. Ms. Eberly said the committee had specified that the executive director of the partnership should allocate work according to an 80/20 percent ratio in favor of recruitment. She noted that an administrative manager position also had been established and that a new recruitment director had been hired to begin this week. Ms. Eberly said the budget committee tomorrow would present a budget recommendation to the executive committee. The budget for FY88-89 was $500,000, a reduction of approximately $100,000 from last year, she added. Ms. Eberly said the review committee, an evaluation committee that met annually, had begun its series of meetings. She explained that the committee was made up of members representing each of the partners and was chaired by Bruce Hall. e Vicki Dietmeyer, executive director of the Eugene/Springfield Metropolitan Partnership, reported on recruiting efforts of the partnership. She expressed appreciation for the new work direction and said recruiting was using targeted research efforts and market analysis in order to match industries with community resources. Ms. Dietmeyer said the partnership in the first quarter of 1988 had averaged 70 cases, which was a substantial increase over 45 cases the same time last year. She also said that increase had occurred at the same time that staff had been reduced. Ms. Dietmeyer said the partnership was starting more intensive work on monthly case reporting, including compiling information about the location of the majority of companies' operations. She said 23 of the current 70 cases were from Oregon, Washington, or Idaho; the majority of those were Oregon companies seeking to open a second plant or considering a move within the state. Fifteen companies were from California; ten companies were from the Northeastern United States; six were from the Midwest; ten were foreign firms from the Far East or Europe; and five were unknown and being handled through a consultant. Ms. Dietmeyer added that almost all of the companies from the Pacific Northwest were secondary wood products companies, while the companies e MINUTES--Eugene City Council April 25, 1988 Page 10