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e Roll call vote; Resolution 955 carried 6:1, with Councilor Nicholson dissenting. Mayor Miller adjourned the meeting of the Urban Renewal Agency and reconvened a meeting of the City Council. IV. ITEMS FROM THE CITY COUNCIL, MAYOR, AND CITY MANAGER A. Springfield Human Rights Commission Mayor Miller announced that Councilor Green planned to attend the September 23 Springfield City Council meeting to urge Springfield not to dissolve its Human Rights Commission. He said that he is also in the process of drafting a letter to the Springfield City Council conveying the need for the two ju- risdictions to continue to work together on human rights issues. Mr. Rutan cautioned the council against becoming involved in an issue which is not its purview. The council should only take a position on this issue if it can demonstrate that there would be specific metrowide impacts in Spring- field's decision that would affect Eugene. Mr. Green said that he plans to remind the Springfield City Council that the human rights program is important to the metropolitan partnership efforts and to encourage them to retain their human rights program. The human rights program is intended to provide Springfield citizens with a vehicle for rais- e ing human rights issues; if Springfield's program is dissolved, the Eugene Human Rights Program would be impacted heavily. Mr. MacDonald acknowledged the importance of this issue. He noted, however, that the perception exists within the community that Eugene often becomes involved in matters that it should not. He encouraged Mr. Green to be sensi- tive to that perception and to limit his discussion to issues such as the impacts of the decision on Eugene and Springfield's shared metropolitan re- spons i bil it i es . Mayor Miller agreed that he would submit the letter on his own behalf. He also agreed to share the letter with the council officers for review. B. Eugene Parks and Recreation Commission Ms. Bascom said that members of the Eugene Parks and Recreation Commission have voiced concern that their input has not been taken seriously with re- spect to the Eugene Decisions process. Specifically, it voiced concern that staff did not include in its strategies, input about the need to solve finan- cial problems by doing things differently. Staff agreed to discuss this concern with the commission. - e MINUTES--Eugene City Council September 18, 1991 Page 9 ------------