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statutory requirement (Senate Bill 1145) related to people sentenced to serving a term of a year or less who were moved out of the state system into the county system and housed in Lane County. She added the membership of the PSCC was by statute. She noted that locally they chose to expand the membership and scope of the group by an intergovernmental agreement for a broader purpose, to maximize the resources in public safety. She said they set goals to help identify the current system gaps and functions. She added the assessment period took a long time and the representation of the group was broadened to provide as many viewpoints as possible, and to make sure they would have viable recommendations for the public safety system. She said they focused on the good of the community and came up with consensus for an action (the November 1998 levy) to put before the voters, a package of components to improve public safety that would make the most significant differences. She noted they achieved unanimous support in putting forward the levy for the 1998 ballot and there was support for the campaign because it was a system-wide approach versus what was popular. She added they almost won and the polling showed that with a month longer to do more outreach, they could have easily won. She said they wanted to investigate any alternatives there might be to property tax that would get broader support from the community. She said the finance committee came with a recommendation and brought it to the PSCC to see if it was viable. She added they commissioned the Moore Information Study and Focus Groups by S2 Intelligence, and it showed strong support for those components. She noted from the survey information they came up with a Safer Communities presentation by Ken Tollenaar to talk about more of the issues. She said out of that meeting there was consensus to go forward to the Board of Commissioners. She added that an option was always to do nothing, but given the research that was done, doing nothing was not an option. REVIEW OF 1998 LEVY COMPONENTS Myra Wall, Director, Public Safety Coordinating Council, described the Public Safety Coordinating Council Safer Communities Proposal. She noted the package started with 24 components and was narrowed down to the current items. She said components that were chosen for the levy had been proven to work and make a difference. She added it had prevention and enforcement accountability. Wall noted the first component was the Healthy Start Program (the 1998 package) that appeared again. She said they added to this component a pilot project for more home visits for families in need and for more first family births. She said the second component was the alternative school program that focused on the middle school children and homeless youth, in their education and social skills development. She noted they are youth that could not be in public school, but the idea was to turn them around to get them back into the school system. She said the third component was the Juvenile Intake Assessment Center that came out of the Thurston shooting incident, to have assessment capability available seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day. David Kelly, City of Eugene, asked for clarification about the spreadsheet in the advanced packet, as the program more than doubled over the amount in the 1998 levy. Page 2 -- Lane County Joint Elected Officials Meeting -- June 30, 1999 WP bclm1990751M