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Mayor Keller thought Mr. Delay was wanting information and wasn't concerned about funding, and that the October date would be sufficient for e information and funding both. Mr. Delay asked for another explanation from Ms. Larson whether the information for options to the Council and costs involved could be available by September 1. Ms. Larson replied the committee's job was to look at all agency applications, their needs, and set priorities. She said the budget subcommittee would have to evaluate all programs. Mr. Lieuallen said he was not satisfied with the response from the Revenue Sharing Subcommittee, noting he was not that worried with the process. He said if Council could not get a response from the Revenue Sharing Subcommittee, he was willing to proceed with another process. However, he wanted to see some action occur fairly soon to address this problem. He said if the problems could. not be worked out by the Revenue Sharing Subcommittee, then perhaps another committee needed to be es- tablished. The question in his mind was what the Subcommittee could do for the City Council with respect to this issue. Assistant Manager said the Revenue Sharing Subcommittee had to respond to information asked from it by City Council. He suggested this was the reason for setting a specific date for a report from that Subcom- mittee. However, he cautioned Council not to ignore the process the Subcommittee had to follow. He said there was a major investment of time by Subcommittee members, and setting a date of October 1 would allow them the opportunity to explore other options available such as CETA funding, the response from the Springfield Budget Committee, and a chance to gather data. e Mayor Keller said he felt the subcommittee had been very responsive, but that it was a typical committee in that it had four times the requests that it could fund. Therefore, the requests were reviewed by an advisory committee as to how to spend the funds. Mr. Delay said all he felt the Council needed from the Subcommittee was some idea of what was necessary to get this program off the ground so that Lane County, the City Council, and Springfield could start work i ng on it. Then the City Council could decide whether it wanted to get involved. Mr. Obie expressed concern regarding the amount of requests the sub- committee had to turn down, and whether the Council was creating pressure on this committee in regard to this particular program. He felt the Council already was using the wrong process. He said the Womenspace people had already been referred to that subcommittee which had served well in the past, and he felt the ongoing process should be maintained and Council should not get involved by applying too much pressure to the subcommittee. 7/20/77 - 5 e 513