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I GG. International Conference on Limits to Growth - Ms. Bea] mentioned a conference Corom on limit!! togrowth tCJbe held OctoberI9-2l in Texas, teelingit would be 10/1/75 an exciting conference wi th people of tremendous reputat.ion in attendance. File She feels Council should authorize attendance by some of the Planning Commission and possibly some of the Planning staff. Planning Director -- informed Mrs. Beal that Howard Bonnett of the planning Commission is planning to attend. HH.Introduction of Intern in City Manager's Office - Acting City Manager Corom introduced Rick Ewoniuk who will be in the Manager's office all of Fall 10/1/75 Term as an intern; he will be working in part on the charter revision. File II. Council Attendance At Joint Meeting October 2 - In polling the Council for attendance at a joint meeting of Eugene, Springfield, the County and Corom Planning COpmllssion on ESATS on October 2, Mr. Keller and Mr. Hamel were 10/1/75 the only two who could not be present. File JJ. Senior Citizens as Council Assistants - Mr. Bradley wondered what staff's Corom position would be on using senior citizens as assistants. Mr.. Murray did not think that should be a staff question but rather a matter of individual 10/1/75 judgment. Mr. Bradley felt staff might see it as causing more inconvenience. File Acting City Manager answered that the only question would be insurance coverage. KK.Introduction of Senior Citizen Volunteers - t-!L'. Nurra1J in tl'oduced t~lO senior citizens who will be working for him on a volunteer b<.!sis. They are: Jack Comm Weiss, 750 E. 36th, #3, Eugepe, and Lucille Trine, Rt. 2, Eo x 383 A -1 , Eugene. 10/8/75 File LL.Nation's Cities Article Re: Budgets - Mr. Murray distributed to Council members an article appearing in Nation's Cities about budgets, referring to the City of Phoenix. Manager had talked to tile Manager of that city who CO_ explained that a proposal of the Mayor provided that var,ious council members were assigned to audit but not to participate in discussions of certain ,10/8/75 departments during the initial formulation of their budgets. The general File objective of the process was to give the council members solid grounding as to what would appear in the budgets of the various departments. MM. Budget Process Update - Mr. Murray asked for a progress report on the budget process update, as proposed in a report by Mr. Keller and Mr. Murray. Manager explained staff has held discussions on the report and will be working on Corom it during their two-day work session at Cedarwood next week. lie would hope 10/8/75 to have results to report at November 1 workshop. File NN.Citizen Participation Appointments - Mr. Murray requested a progress report on previously discussed citizen participation appointments. Manager explained Corom City Attorney's office has been asked to rework the council procedures (by-laws) 10/8/75 to be in line with the proposal made at an earlier Committee meeting. **See p.23 File OO.Tree Cutting Preservation - Mr. .Murray re9uested an update on the tree cutting ordinance. Manager informed him there is a major tree cutting complaint being Comm handled at present. Parks Department Dir~ctor Ed Smith advised research has 10/8/75 been c6mpleted and a model ordinance drafted. It is ready to submi t to the File Joint Parks COmnUttee. PP. 46th and Willamette Pedestrian Hazard - ~r. Bradley requested a status report on the pedestrian hazard at 46th and Willamette and the petition from residents CO_. of the area. Manager reported a few doz~n letters have been received from area residents, in addi tion to the peti tion . Nost r8cently a request was 10/8/75 received for a pedestrian bridge over th~ street. At thi;-: request of the File citizens in the area, the matter will be placed on thf" Commi t tee agenda for the first week in November. . 10/13/75 - 22 -5501.