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e e e habits to the youth. After the summer, they usually return to school and then seek a job outside the program during the next summer. Ms. Swanson said the program is targeted to at-risk youth, those with multiple barriers to becoming economically self-sufficient. She said 70 to 80 percent of the youth who participate in the program show a definite gain in work competency. Ms. Schue asked about an intensive, month-long camp that was held for at-risk youth a few years ago. Ms. Swanson said programs such as this are expensive. She believed that for a community such as Eugene, programs that provide actual experience working within the community probably are more effective than work training camps that are held outside the community. City Manager Mike Gleason praised Ms. Swanson's work for SWPIC. He said the region made an intelligent decision four years ago when it decided to pool job training resources and form SWPIC. He said the organization plays a key role in the City's economic development efforts. II. AGREEMENT TO TRANSFER ELECTRIC SERVICE FROM LEC TO EWEB IN THE WILLOW CREEK AREA Susan Brody, former City Planning Director, said she has been under contract with the City to participate in the negotiations between the City, the Eugene Water and Electric Board (EWES), and the Lane Electric Cooperative (LEC) regarding the transfer of electric service provision for the Willow Creek basin from LEC to EWES. She said the City has identified this area as one of its key light-industrial sites and has been concerned that LEC's higher electric rates would be a disincentive to the economic development of the area. Because of this concern, the City Council passed an ordinance in August 1988 authorizing the acquisition by condemnation of LEC's facilities in the Willow Creek area. In addition to passing this condemnation ordinance, the council adopted a motion encouraging EWES and LEC to negotiate a settlement, if at all possible, so that court action could be avoided. Negotiations began in September. Under the agreement that has been developed, the transfer of service would occur in October 1989. LEC would be reimbursed for the value of its existing facilities in the area, as well as for other facility costs to LEC resulting from the transfer. Also, for the next 20 years, LEC will receive a payment of eight percent of the electric revenues received from customers in the Willow Creek area. This annual payment will have three components: three of the eight percent will come from a surcharge on the customers in the area; two percent will come from EWEB's revenue from those customers; and three percent will result from a reduction in the surplus earnings payments that EWEB makes to the City (normally, the payment is six percent of electric revenues; for the Willow Creek area, this will be reduced to three percent and EWES will pay the other three percent to LEe). Finally, under the agreement that has been developed, the City and EWES would agree to make no service boundary changes affecting LEC for the next 25 years without the mutual consent of LEe. Ms. Brody said the City Council would be holding a public hearing on this agreement tonight, and would be asked to consider a motion directing the City MINUTES--Eugene City Council Work Session March 6, 1989 Page 3