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. Gary Long, Personnel Director, reviewed the second portion of the memorandum in which the contract relationship between the program . agent (City) and prime sponsor (County) expires September 30. Counc i1 needs to address what kind of future contract relationship it wants to have with Lane County in general. Staff is recommending extending the contract period for 30 days to allow for review, and to establish a Council subcommittee to assess Council's role and level of program involvement for FY 78-79 and 79-80. Mr. Lieuallen was concerned as to what effect the City's request to delay implementation would have on the projects being staffed and funded by CETA. He wondered what the time frame was. Mr. Long said the priority list changes deal only with a few hundred thousand dollars, and other projects would proceed on schedule. He felt this would not substantially impair implementation of the priority list. He estimated two-to-three weeks' time. He said it was necessary to deal with the result and process of the changes. In response to a question from Mayor Keller, he noted it might be a legitimate process question as to how to involve the Eugene members on the ETAC Committee for this review, as they are now officially members of a Lane County committee. Manager reminded Council the staff is not attempting to evaluate indi- vidual applications, but simply concentrating on reviewing the process used by the Commissioners to make changes. Mr. Bradley wondered what happened to Eugene's application to become a prime sponsor. Mr. Long said the application had been rejected because the U.S. Bureau of Census would not certify Eugene for 100,000 population. e Mayor Keller noted there may be four more years of involvement with CETA, and the hope that Eugene may become a prime sponsor. He felt the City Council may wish to become more involved, to assess how they wish to be involved, in order to help them make better decisions regarding CETA. Mr. Lieuallen supported the Council getting involved. Mr. Delay reminded Council it had adopted a position some time ago to attempt to work out a consortium approach with the County, and if that were to fail, then to consider the City becoming a prime sponsor. He thought it necessary to have more intensive study by both Council and staff. Mr. Lieuallen volunteered to serve on a subcommitee of the Council to help assess the Council's role and level of program involvement appro- priate for the fiscal year 78-79 and 79-80. Mr. Hamel moved, seconded by Mr. Lieuallen, to accept staff's recommendations regarding the CETA priority list and future contract relations as outlined in staff's memo dated 9/22/78. Motion carried unanimously. Upon motion duly made, seconded, and passed, the meeting was adjourned to ~978. Charles T. Hen~ - City Manager CTH:DT:ml/CM23a19 '52 9/27/78--8