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- e - M I NUT E S Eugene City Council City Council Chamber March 10, 1982 11:45 a.m. COUNCILORS PRESENT: Betty Smith, Mark Lindberg, D. W. Hamel, Cynthia Wooten, Gretchen Miller, and Emily Schue. COUNCILORS ABSENT: Eric Haws and Brian Obie. Adjourned meeting of the City Council of the City of Eugene, Oregon, was called to order by His Honor Mayor Gus Keller. I. ITEMS FROM MAYOR & COUNCIL, APPOINTMENTS, ANNOUNCEMENTS, AGENDA ADJUSTMENTS A. National League of Cities Convention Report Councilor Lindberg stated that he and Councilor Hamel had represented the council last week in Washington, DC, at the National League of Cities Conference. They distributed a memo about the conference to the council Monday night. There is tension in Washington, DC, over the new federalism and the budget. The new federalism was the biggest item of discussion. Most NLC work in the next year will focus on making sure that cities playa key part of the dialogue between the president, states, and local government. They developed a National League of Cities document outlining their current position on the new federalism, which reflects Oregon's position with respect to equity of people and regions, adequate financing, and avoidance of state level regulation if there is a transfer of programs to states. They also met with the entire Oregon Congressional delega- tion, who were all very receptive. They developed ways to follow up on Oregon issues. While there, they also met with a representative of the Control Data Corporation. He said that he has asked staff to follow up on two items: the local government information network, to see if the City computer terminals can plug into Control Data Corporation's operation easily and cheaply, and the publici private partnership related to small business development and startup. Control Data Corporation has been very successful. He would like to see staff work with them. He appreciated the staff support, particularly from Paget Engen, Staff Services. B. Economic Concerns Councilor Lindberg stated that in the last several weeks, he has become very concerned about the human side of core area revitalization, which is one element of the Economic Development program. As various boards and agencies have worked on this program from various directions, it has become clear that there is a human side as well as an economic side. Homelessness, joblessness, alcoholism, MINUTES--Eugene City Council March 10, 1982 Page 1