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He felt other groups and commissions should be allowed to testify with an exclaimer if the position of testimony was in opposition to City Council's position. In that way it would allow free exercise of opinions on various manners. Mr. Haws requested the staff to prepare an amendment to the reso- lution to be submitted at a public hearing. Mayor Keller indicated that such an amendment would be in order but that it would be Councilman Haws' responsibility to prepare such an amendment. Mr. Haws moved seconded by Mr. Hamel to set public hearing for February 14, 1977. Motion passed unanimously. Manager noted staff would distribute such an amendment to Council if it were prepared by Mr. Haws. File IX. Local Information Program re: State Revenue Sharing Legislation Manager indicated a report had been distributed to the Council. He said staff had been working in connection with the League in regard to state revenue sharing positions and that if the City of Eugene is to get additional revenue it is going to have to come through revenue sharing. He indicated there were two plans before the legislature now, both providing essential monies to the City of Eugene. He encouraged the formulation of a committee, perhaps composed of representative organizations in the City, Chamber of Commerce people, neighborhood organization representatives, budget committee people, or even ex-budget committee people. He indicated informational data would be prepared for the Council on the history of budgeting of the city, population census, the positions eliminated in budgets, program cutbacks, city efforts to raise monies, and any actual impacts on property taxes which have occurred. Councilman Delay requested that comparable figures of increases in costs be compiled from the State, District 4J from the County, etc. Mayor Keller indicated to Council that this was a very important task and it was going to be the Council's responsiblity to sell the program to the legislature in order to develop the program of revenue sharing for Eugene. It will also be necessary to get support from the people in the community; thus, talks will have to be scheduled before various groups and a super-sales job will have to be done. Mr. Lieuallen indicated he felt it was very necessary that the Council deal with some of the criticisms which were voiced at the January 20 meeting with the legislative members, including money earmarked for what purposes, revenue sharing for small towns versus large metropolitan areas, what strings would be attached to the revenue sharing, etc. Approve x. Final Aproval of Recommendations reconstituting Community Schools Coordinating Committee Letter and recommendation distributed to Council. Mr. Haws moved seconded by Mr. Hamel to approve recommendations reconstituting the Community Schools Coordinating Committee. 100 2/14/77 - 24 e . .