Item A: Ordinance Adopting New PROS Comprehensive Plan

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.; ~ · a list of the cornrnunity's priorities that are essential for efficiently using the city's limited resources and that can help guide the EPF in our efforts to supplement and leverage the city's PROS initiatives. · the components for future city funding proposals and the assurance that the components of such a proposals address the highest priority for community~wide needs, TheEPF urges the Eugene City Council to adopt the dratl: PROS Comprehensive Plan draft plan prepared by the PROS advisory committee and the PROS staff. As the city seeks public support and funding for PROS projects and services, perhaps the most important benefit of an adopted PROS Comprehensi ve Plan and PROS Project and Priority Plan will be to provide a roadmap for a capital bond measure that could be presented to voters in November 2006. There is every reason to believe that a bond measure similar to the one that passed in 1998 would gain voter approval. Additional steps must be completed soon (ideally by May 2006), however to allow titne to organize and conduet a campaib'TI for such a measure. The most important step is completion of a public involvement process to develop a list of specific acquisitions and projects. The results of the 1998 bond measure passage clearly showed that a weHncrafted parks and open space measure will not displace other ballot measures. And like the 1998 measure, a ne\v bond proposal should contain a balance ofland acquisition for open space and parks, renovation of existing t~ei1ities to enhance their use and reduce long term maintenance cost and several ne\-\' and puhlicly desired facilities. The PROS Comprehensive Plan and the PROS Project and Priority Plan can guide the creation of this list of components, The short Hmeline lends itse1fto the use of a few charrette..style public meetings like those frequently used by the city for other projects. If combined with a widely distributed tabloid such as the one successfully used to develop the 1998 rneasure, a strong public involvement process could quickly be cornpletetL The EPF hopes to conduct a capital campaign that will Ibrther leverage the City's invcstments--- including resources gained through a ne\-\' bond measure - in enhanced and ne\\' parks, open space, and recreation facilities and services. Sincerely, Terry Smith, President cc: Carolvn Weiss ./ EPF Board :Memhers