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'- - e. Sweet Airport. An Environmental Protection Agency grant was awarded the City to provide sewers for the River Road and Santa Clara areas.. .the result of a tremendous engineering and design job by staff in the Public works department. We developed a plan for one of the most critical districts of our city, the Downtown area, as well as a host of other plans necessary to ensure future development of both Eugene and the metropolitan area. A unique planning development was the completion of a culture and leisure plan that will guide the City's development as a cultural center-stressing excellence and diversity while enhancing our quality of life. Along the same line, our Parks and Recreation staff continued to enhance Eugene as a destination point be staging a number of quality festivals and events. We signed an agreement with lane County to manage Alton Baker Park and the Cuthbert Amphitheater. We dedicated a new park, charnel Mulligan, at 17th and Charnelton. We did not, 1 am sad to note, dedicate an 18-hole public golf course. --- We faced, and continue to face, some problems-such as long range financial planning to assure the stability of city services, and the continued reluctance of an element of the community to compromise on transportation issues that will facilitate economic growth. But, all in all, 1984 was a good year for the City of Eugene. ..a time when challenges were met with creativity and limited resources. I want to take this opportunity to personally and publicly thank those who actively served their community during this past year. For example, the Eugene Arts Foundation, which is a creature of something less than five years, on July 30 this year fulfilled a commitment to the City of Eugene. They have given the City of Eugene to date $1,648,000 for capital expenditures; for operations, they have expended $679,000. that is a total of $2,328,000 of a commitment to their city by our private sector. For, while it is one thing to sit back and render opinions on civic matters, it is another matter entirely to subject oneself to the requirements of service, whether as a member of Councilor as someone serving on one of the City's many boards and commissions. The pressures that come with such involvement, the ability to consider divergent points of view, the time required for meetings; all of these things provide ample evidence of the dedication so many of you have posessed during this last year. A city's gevernment is only so good as the people who serve in it and, in this regard, the people of Eugene have been very fortunate in 1984. While 1 will be watching from the sidelines from tonight on, I will be watching with keen interest, hope and optimism...as 1 hope all of you will be. To those of you about to be sworn in, to those of you continuing in your terms of office, to you Brian, and to all of you gathered here tonight. ..1 wish you well in the year ahead. Farewell and good night.