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Mr. Brown, referring to staff’s background summary from the agenda item summary materials, asked Mr. <br />McRae to elaborate upon the identification of necessary adaptation identified therein. Mr. McRae <br />responded that discussions regarding those adaptations had not yet taken place and that preliminary efforts <br />regarding the CCEAP had focused on making the planning efforts for the CCEAP participatory and <br />effective across a broad range of community interests. He further noted that the Climate Leadership <br />Initiative representatives on the CCEAP had drafted a report on the Upper Willamette Basin released in <br />February of 2009 that outlined a variety of adaptations that might ultimately be incorporated into the <br />CCEAP. <br />Ms. Ortiz asked for clarification regarding how the CCEAP kickoff and subsequent community outreach <br />events would address the role of area social service providers in relation to the CCEAP work plan. Mr. <br />McRae noted that staff and the advisory team had been coordinating with the City’s Human Rights <br />Commission, Lane County Public Health, and other community organizations to ensure that a broad and <br />comprehensive social services strategy would be incorporated into the final version of the CCEAP. Mr. <br />McRae further stated that staff and the advisory team had been setting aside resources in order to conduct a <br />number of smaller, more focused conversations with community and social service groups as the CCEAP <br />was developed. <br />Mr. Pryor appreciated the level of expertise and experience that had been assembled for the CCEAP <br />advisory team. <br />Mr. Pryor recognized a number of parallels between the creation of the CCEAP and various elements of the <br />TransPlan process from several years ago and asked if the overall philosophy of staff and the advisory <br />team would be to use either the “carrot or the stick” with respect to any policy recommendations ultimately <br />developed as part of the CCEAP. Mr. McRae was unable to definitively answer which approach the staff <br />and advisory team would choose to take but hoped that whatever policy recommendations were made <br />would “carry some weight” in helping to achieve the goals of the CCEAP. <br />Mr. Poling asked if staff would be able to distribute to the council in advance, lists of individuals and <br />groups invited to the CCEAP advisory team public outreach meetings so that council members could <br />provide helpful suggestions and feedback. <br />Mr. Poling asked if staff would provide council with summary minutes of the community event meetings in <br />advance of the April and August presentations to the council. Mr. McRae noted that such materials would <br />be made available to the council members as requested in addition to any other materials from those <br />meetings (i.e. transcriptions, audio recordings, presentation materials, etc.) they might need. <br />Ms. Medary commented that it was staff's intent to present information regarding the CCEAP process as <br />early as possible so as to keep council members adequately informed about the development of the process <br />as it progressed. <br />B. WORK SESSION: <br /> Leaf Program Informational Update <br /> <br />Ms. Medary stated that numerous emails had recently been circulating regarding the City's leaf collection <br />strategies for the fall of 2009 and introduced Surface Operations Manager Eric Johnson to provide an <br />update to the council. <br /> <br /> <br />MINUTES—Eugene City Council September 16, 2009 Page 2 <br /> Work Session <br /> <br />