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e e e Responding to a question from Councilor Hansen, Mayor Keller said that he had discussed his proposal with the Chairperson of the Performing Arts Commission, who felt that the group would be most willing to take on this task. After further debate, councilors agreed to discuss the Hu1t Center budget problem at a Wednesday council meeting following completion of the work of the Budget Committee on May 19. It was agreed that, based on this discussion, the council would develop policy recommendations on the matter. II. PUBLIC HEARINGS A. Parks and Recreation Master Plan (memo, resolution, background informa- tion distributed) Mr. Gleason introduced Ernie Drapela, Director of the Parks and Recreation Department. Mr. Drape1a said that the plan under which the Parks Department was currently operating had been in place for the past 30 years. He said that work on the Master Plan being considered by the council tonight had begun in 1981 and was funded at a total of $65,000. He noted that if this plan served the City for 20 years, it would have cost $3,250 per year. Mr. Drape1a referred to the memorandum of March 8, 1983, which had been distributed to councilors and which gave a chronology of the plan development process since March 1981. He said that the following data sources had been used in compiling the plan: 1) tra- ditional and historic patterns; 2) phone and personal surveys of expressed desires, including 562 phone surveys with citizens, over 50 face-to-face inter- views with service providers, seven community-wide meetings, presentations to 14 of the City's 20 neighborhood groups, and written and spoken testimony received; 3) current practices in other communities; and 4) professional expertise regard- ing state-of-the-art parks and recreation systems. Mr. Drapela said that the resulting plan represented the best collective thinking of the entire community. He noted that the Joint Parks Committee would review the plan annually. Mr. Drapela said that although there was currently little funding to implement much of the plan, the plan would be ready to serve the City when funding becomes available. He noted that two copies of the resolution had been distributed and recommended that the amended resolution, which deleted the original Section 7 . regarding plan amendment procedures, be adopted. Mr. Drapela said that the deletion was recommended since Policy 8, Chapter 4, of the Metropolitan Area General Plan made inclusion of the material in the original Section 7 unnecessary. Mr. Drapela introduced John Etter, Superintendent of Parks Planning and Design, to discuss the technical aspects of the plan. Mr. Etter said that the Joint Parks Committee had worked with community representatives to address the follow- ing areas/sources of specific concern: Audubon Society, West Butte area, Jefferson Pool, senior citizen needs, Golden Gardens, Downtown Commission recommendations, School District 4-J concerns, and concerns with emphasis on acquisition versus development of parkland. Mr. Etter used a series of overlays to show the acquistions and developments of parkland called for in the Master Plan. He thanked the Planning Department staff and the consulting firm of EDAW for their work on the plan. He noted that there was an error in the published plan and that the correct figure in Section 5.8 was 330 acres of land of City- wide significance. MINUTES--Eugene City Council May 9, 1983 Page 3