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terrie.e.monroe@ci.eugene.or.us or 682-5412. <br /> <br />Meeting the Challenge Task Force Begins Work <br />What is Meeting the Challenge about? It is an effort initiated by the City Manager to work with a group of engaged <br />citizens who will recommend one or more new General Fund revenue sources that can lead to adoption of a <br />sustainable budget. The Task Force membership includes John Barofsky, Merle Bottge, Dave Funk, Gerry <br />Gaydos, Dave Hauser, Gretchen Pierce, Michael Redding, David Tam and Jean Tate. What is a Sustainable <br />Budget? A sustainable budget funds services that achieve desired outcomes by matching on-going revenues and <br />expenses, including the cost of capital and equipment, and maintains appropriate reserve levels. <br /> <br />The Meeting the Challenge Task Force held an initial meeting on Wednesday, September 30. At that meeting, <br />City Manager Jon Ruiz discussed the charge of the task force with team members. All the task force members <br />were aware of the deteriorating financial condition of the General Fund. In preparation for future discussions on <br />potential revenue sources, the group received a brief presentation on the financial condition of the General Fund <br />as reported in the FY10 Budget and the $12 Million Savings Plan. The task force reviewed benchmark data on <br />revenues, expenditures and property taxes per capita and received some criteria for evaluating revenue options. <br />The task force will meet four additional times before the end of the calendar year and report to the City Manager in <br />January. For more information, please contact Dee Ann Raile at 682-5041. <br /> <br /> <br />EPD to Hold Second Annual Prevention Convention <br />The Eugene Police Prevention Convention is the ultimate education in crime prevention for kids, teens and adults. <br />This year, the free event is back and will be held Saturday, October 17, from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. at Sheldon High <br />School. <br /> <br />Eugene Police Prevention Convention was set up with individuals and families in mind. Adults can sit in on crime <br />prevention workshops, while kids and teens are kept enthralled by programs designed for them. There are also <br />classes offered in Spanish. Presentations for all ages will be given by the K-9s, SWAT team, Bomb Squad, Crash <br />Team, Forensics and Crime Lab – and there will be a host of vendors and booths. <br /> <br />This event is brought to the community in partnership with Eugene area radio stations and sponsored by Oregon <br />Community Credit Union. For more information, please contact the Crime Prevention Unit at 682-5137 or go online <br />to http://www.Eugene-or.gov/preventionconvention. <br /> <br />Emily Jerome Elected OCAA President <br />At the October 2, 2009, Oregon City Attorneys Association (OCAA) annual meeting, Deputy City Attorney Emily <br />Jerome was unanimously elected OCAA President for 2010. Emily has been a frequent speaker at the city <br />attorney’s continuing legal education programs for many years on land use topics. She was elected to the OCAA <br />Executive Committee in 2005, and most recently, has served as the association’s vice-president. Emily joined the <br />City in July as the Deputy City Attorney and had been representing the City (and other local governments) on land <br />use issues since 1995. For more information, please contact Amy Matthews at 682-8447. <br /> <br />Award-Winning Authors at Windfall Reading <br /> “Alchemy & Science” will be the topic for the Windfall Reading Series on Tuesday, October 20, at 5:30 p.m. at the <br />Downtown Eugene Public Library. <br /> <br />Endi Bogue Hartigan will read from her first book, “One Sun Storm,” winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry. The <br />collection was just named a finalist for the 2009 Oregon Book Awards’ Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry. Widely <br />published in journals, Hartigan also co-founded and edited the poetry magazine “Spectaculum.” She holds degrees <br />from Reed College and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and currently lives in Portland. <br /> <br />Thomas Hager has been highly praised for making science history read like a novel. <br />The words “entertaining,” “fascinating,” and “compelling” appear frequently in reviews <br />of his books. His latest, “The Alchemy of Air,” about the development and <br />consequences of modern fertilizers, is subtitled “A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, <br />and the Scientific Discovery that Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler.” Hager <br />lives in Eugene, while writing for publications such as The Wall Street Journal and <br />speaking on C-SPAN’s BookTV and many National Public Radio programs. <br /> <br />The Windfall Reading Series is sponsored by the Eugene Public Library, Lane Literary <br /> <br />EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE 2 <br />October 8, 2009 <br />