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Jason Stathakis, 645 East 31st Street, said he had been involved with Crossroads e Neighborhood All i ance for some time and bel i eved the program had a good future. Linda Duggan, 728 West 5th Avenue, opposed use of Jobs Bill funds for the Roosevelt Boulevard project and supported the Crossroads neighborhood development plan. She said that the Crossroads area was blighted and needed redevelopment. She said that plan would create new industry, such as video production and computer programming. Mario Lobo Hernandez, 1115 Sunnyside Avenue, said that he was from Honduras and worked wlth the Eugene Spanish community. He supported the Crossroads Plan, which he felt would benefit Spanish people. Marilyn Finch, 3400 Kincaid Street, said that she had worked as a volunteer with Crossroads. She said that the Crossroads proposal would create jobs, including computer-monitored care for the elderly. She said this would include call-ins, coordinated grocery and food distribution, gardening, and home repair. She noted that she had worked with the Whiteaker and Blair projects and felt it was important to help local people coordinate their own solutions to area problems. Mayor Keller said that this concluded the time set aside for public testimony on this item and noted for the record that the following additional people had requested recogniti on to speak in opposition to the staff proposal: Reginald Richardson, 2933 Willamette Street--#10. Maryann Francis, 2340 Spring Boulevard. e G. V. Stathakis, 830 Hilyard Street. Bob Guldin, 110 Mayfair Lane. Philip J. Greene, 2176 Cosmoledo. Marilyn Bloch, 1876 Pierce Street. Howard Wade, 4265 Ferry Street. Mayor Keller asked if any of these people had new proposals or information to discuss. Mr. Stathakis said that he felt the Crossroads neighborhood proposal was a creative idea for job creation. Speaking with other comment: Jon Stafford, 1060 Madison Street, said that he was a member of the Community Development Committee. He discussed the fact that the CDC had passed the Roosevelt Boulevard proposal on to the council with no comment. He fel t that staff had done good work in developing the proposal under the time constraints, but he fel t that the Roosevel t proj ect di d not do justice to the job creati on opportunities provided by the Jobs Bill funds. He did not feel the project addressed the issue of eliminating blight or of serving low-income people. - MINUTES--Eugene City Council June 13, 1983 Page 6