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e e e Ms. Schue commented that the concerns expressed by Ms. Cawood were real and must be considered. She said the council was sensitive to concerns of the communities and that this issue must be considered. She said she was confident that a solution could be achieved. Ms. Cawood, referring to the City of Eugene SDA objectives, asked if the City Council had any preference for which member government would be designated as the administrative agent for the PIC/SDA as outlined in Objective 7. Mr. Pryor asked if the council had any agendas for the member government. Ms. Wooten said she had no preference, although she had hoped that Lane County would have taken a larger role in the past few years as a coordinating body for economic develop- ment in the county. She said she worried about the level of resources available to do the job. Mayor Keller felt the question would be answered by policy and planning before the member government was chosen. He stated that he had no preference to the member government chosen. Mr. Holmer commented that he was maintaining flexibility on the various issues and was waiting for any advice which the EPIC provided. Mr. Obie stated that it was important how the program dovetails with other programs and the Metro Team. He felt that close coordi- nation with the Metro Team was important to ensure the interests of the other county communities. IV. OTHER DISCUSSION ITEMS AND/OR ANNOUNCEMENTS Mr. Ball. commenting that he was on both the City Counci.1 and the EPIC, stated that some of the often slighted purposes of the Job Training Act included hard to serve populations and rural areas and communities that fell outside the ~ain focus of attention. While he was pleased with the general direction taken, he felt the EPIC and the City Council must have a program broad enough to address all the concerns. ~1ayor Keller stated that he was not ready to buy the "equal representation" proposal for the merger because the responsibility was not equal. He said an historical problem was that the justification for having a metropolitan area was often job creation for those individuals in the outlying areas of Eugene and Springfield. He was not sure that equal representation was appropriate in this situation. Mr. Ball felt the City Council had addressed that issue in adopting its SDA objectives. He said that it fell into that area where good faith could be used to address those issues. He felt the City Council and the EPIC had left themselves flexibility to deal with that and other issues. In response to a question, Mr. Pryor stated that equal representation in its basis sense meant that the three governmental players would have equal size or numbers, although the term could be defined differently. He said it was a working definition and thus far meant each group having one-third of the repre- sentation as a gesture toward equality. Ms. Cawood stated that the EPIC had also discussed establishing an advisory council for the rural populations which would have its own separate program and funding for allocation on a population basis. She said the composition of the representation had not been finalized and that various options were being considered. Mr. Cook said the EPIC had no recommendation on representation at that point in time when discussing the advisory council. He said the 7-7-7 issue was raised and it was suggested MINUTES--Eugene City Council/Private Industry Council February 29, 1984 Page 7