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e arts producing organizations qualify in all categories. People are working for poverty-level wages for the economic betterment of Eugene. It is important for those moneys to develop tourism and encourage and attract people to Eugene. e M. T. Tenario, 1350 Chambers, Eugene, director of Eugene Child Welfare Project, sald that the project is funded by the federal government and is an effort to keep Indian children in Indian homes. The Southwest Oregon Native American Consortium is attempting to get Block Grant funding. They have presented testimony at public hearings, but their needs are not incorporated into the public plan. They have endured frustration, humiliation, and even racist remarks. Staff was not cooperative. They contacted the local Equal Opportunity staff and the Portland HUD office. The local staff said they wished to help the Indian community. They did not hear from her again. The Indian groups were at this meeting only because they saw the notice in the newspaper. She had submit- ted her application for the Eugene Commission on the Rights of Minorities. She was told that there was a vacancy and then was told that there was not a vacancy after submitting her application. She quoted staff notes concerning the Block Grant regulations for economic development where the subcommittee members were advised "that low- and moderate-income people did not have to be the sole beneficiaries, nor did the benefits have to be direct". Ms. Tenario said they had been advised to prepare examples for a report to the City and to the Portland office. She urged that Indians be given equal consideration. She explained that they were not a neighborhood, but that Indians are scattered throughout the city. She asked for the council's assistance. LaVerne Edwards, 1260 President, Eugene, was concerned that the funds would only go to one or two neighborhoods. She asked that all fees be included in the administrative allocations, including attorney's fees. Under Plan B, she said there would not be so much housing in the West University area, and therefore funds would not need to be allocated there. Public hearing was closed. Ms. Schue recognized that the City worked through neighborhoods and asked if the Indians' problems had been addressed. Ms. Hofmann explained that HUD regulations targeted neighborhoods. Mr. Gleason explained that the federal goals targeted geographic areas. There is some regulation softening, but these regulations, by their very nature, make it impossible to fund certain types of programs. Mr. Lindberg recognized that the Indian Consortium was eliminated when the subcom- mittee decided to eliminate the Independently Funded Activities category. However, under the Economic Development category the Indian Consortium could apply for funding. Housing rehabilitation loans might be available to the group. They could also work with the neighborhood groups. Ms. Miller saw this as a trend to cut federal money from these programs in future years. To clarify the record, she said that they had received Ms. Tenario's application for Community Development Committee membership. An incumbent was reappointed to the Community Development Committee. Ms. Schue moved, seconded by Mr. Hamel, to approve the Community Development Block Grant Three-Year Plan. Roll call vote; motion carried unanimously. - MINUTES--Eugene City Council January 25, 1982 Page 9