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administer the codes in the urban transition areas. He said the County is still the government that represents residents living in those areas, but they have gone through the process of adopting a code and contracting through an intergovernmental agreement. He added on the Springfield side, the agreement went further in that the Springfield Planning Commission is designated as the Lane County Planning Commission for legislative planning activities on the Springfield side of the urban transition area. He said on the Eugene side, the Lane County Planning Commission still provides the review. He noted that historic preservation in the urban transition area is not currently part of the transition agreement, so Lane County is still responsible for that and nuisance abatement in the urban transition area. He added another issue is the idea of establishing a fee in the Metro Area on land use related permits and applications to help pay for the cost of doing metropolitan level planning. Carlson reported that with police patrol and corrections, the Public Safety Coordinating Council did not come out of the urban transition. He said it is a mechanism that is available to address issues of metropolitan significance with regard to safety issues. He said what came out of the urban transition issue was the recognition that Lane County should be the sole provider of correction services. He added as a result of that, Springfield closed the jail they were operating and Lane County now has responsibility for various corrections programs. He said the cities do contract for jail services for their municipal prisoners, and the issues are still the ones that were present in 1986: an inadequate level of police patrol in the urban transition area. He added the County does not have the resources available to provide an urban level of service in the urban areas of River Road, Santa Clara, North Springfield and Glenwood, and there had been no resolution of that issue. He said the resolution is annexation and as that occurs, the cities will be responsible for providing police protection in those areas. He added there needs to be stable funding for countywide community safety services. Carlson noted the County had a small role in fire protection and emergency medical services and the urban transition emphasized that the cities are the appropriate providers for fire protection and ambulance emergency medical. He added that Lane County did adopt the Countywide Ambulance Service Area Plan as was required by state law. He said there are still two rural fire protection districts that provide volunteer fire protection, Santa Clara Fire and Lane Rural Fire. He added transition agreements with them are in place and have been recently revised. He said the issue that remains is the fire/water district consolidation, as the Metro Plan calls for the dissolution of those special districts. Carlson said with regard to parks, the agreement in the urban transition was a major one as it resulted in the separation of functions between Lane County Parks, the City of Eugene and Willamalane Parks. He said the outcome was the County should be responsible for some of the large regional parks, including Fern Ridge, Mt. Pisgah, and the Howard Buford Recreation Area. He said under a separate agreement, Lane County took over the management of Armitage State Park. He added the smaller parks were transferred to Eugene, Springfield or Willamelane and the park districts are taking care of them. He said that Eugene Page 3 -- Joint Elected Officials Meeting -- April 14, 1999 WP bc/m/99039/T