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. Mr. Delay commented on item No. 12, stating the Committee should be careful in making conclusions in regard to this item. He said the City of Eugene is in violation of secondary standards in this area and that they have gone about as far as they can in restricting industrial pollutants in the air. Mr. Farah indicated another contributing factor was the suspended particulates coming from outside the area. - Mr. Delay indicated that, in the Phase 2 portion of the study, he would like very much to have included the different rates of population growth with some comparison of projected growth rate and costs associated with the development of growth rates. Mr. Obie expressed a concern on the private open space of 3,000 acres, which was alluded to in item No.5. He was in favor of having private ownership of open space land rather than public ownership and was concerned about the possibility of the public eating away at the private open space. Mr. Farah indicated that the 1990 Update Plan will speak to that issue. Mr. Bradley asked in regard to item No.1 whether LCOG statistics or City's statistics were used in analyzing the great rate of growth as to its accuracy. He asked what is the rate and is it accurate? Mr. Faran ;ndi~ cated that item No.1 speaks in general to the rate of growth and it is in the complete report which will be submitted to Council. Mr. Delay and Mayor Keller both indicated that they felt there was a necessity to have some cursory examination of the rate of growth impact. Mr. Porter replied that he felt that would have to be done in the Metropolitan Update Plan rather in the economic study which is being considered here and the consultants and staff are looking at the entire metropolitan area, rather. than just the Eugene area. File Mr. Bradley asked if the group was thinking about mini-management systems, to which Mr. Porter replied that they hoped to have better management tools for the future. Mr. Bradley said perhaps they could have a different popu- lation rate distinctive from the metropolitan area, to which Mr. Porter replied; "The Staff feels it has responsibility to provide services to the entire metropolitan-urban area". Ms. Smith asked what the next steps in the development of the plan would be, to which Mr. Farah replied; "Th at a full report will be distributed to Council on Phase 1 while the Committee is moving on to implement its study of Phase 2". Mr. Porter indicated th~t the Study Committee had to have a factual basis to give to Phase 2 and they are now giving the statistical conclusions drawn from Phase 1, in implement- ing Phase 2 of the study. IX. Resolution enabling participation in state price agreements (resolution distributed to Council) Manager indicated that the nature of this resolution would allow the City to take advantage of any potentially beneficial mass- purchasing sales that the State may arrive at. Mr. Obie moved, seconded by Mr. Delay, to pass the reso- lution. Motion carried unanimously. Approve - I~ 2/28/77--47