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Ms. Solomon said the plan covered six areas that were inclusive of most areas the council addressed. She <br />asked if every future plan or decision would be filtered through the plan. City Manager Ruiz did not think <br />so. He suggested that the City Council would want to go through the triple bottom line analysis for many <br />decisions. <br />Mayor Piercy hoped the plan encouraged the community to work together to move in certain directions, <br />but she pointed out the City could not force anyone to do something they did not want to do. <br />Ms. Ortiz thanked Mr. McRae and the commission for their work on the plan. She said the City could not <br />demand that people do the things called for in the plan, but the actions represented best practices if the <br />community wanted to do good things for the environment. <br />Ms. Ortiz suggested a tie between the plan and the fact that residents living along the Highway 99 corridor <br />lacked a place to buy fresh food and vegetables. Mr. McRae said that "20 minute neighborhoods" was <br />about that topic specifically, and was a topic of discussion through the Envision Eugene process. <br />Mr. Clark said he would support the proposed motion because it was worded to support the plan goals and <br />called for specific items to come back to the council for later discussion. He believed the essence of the <br />goals were around energy use and its costs and what the community should be prepared for. He said he <br />thought the community needed to be prepared. He did not think that people would be driving cars that <br />burned gas in 20 to 30 years because the cost of gas would be prohibitive and people would have <br />alternatives. It was smart to help people to transition to change. <br />Ms. Taylor asked how the community would become aware of the plan. Mr. McRae anticipated that <br />education campaigns would be prepared for actions calling for consumer behavioral changes. City <br />Manager Ruiz anticipated that the City's Web site would be employed to spread word of the plan and <br />suggested that those who participated in the development of the plan, including the Sustainability <br />Commission, would be ambassadors for the plan. He also thought the neighborhood associations could <br />play a role in getting the word out. Ms. Taylor encouraged the neighborhood organizations to schedule <br />general meetings devoted to the topic, and encouraged Sustainability Commissioners to attend those <br />meetings. <br />Mayor Piercy observed that many neighborhood organizations already had sustainability committees and <br />many association members participated in the plan's creation. Ms. O'Sullivan reported that the Sustaina- <br />bility Commission's work plan included a task specific to outreach and messaging, and the commission <br />was actively seeking opportunities to network with the neighborhood associations and other community <br />groups. <br />Mr. Clark, seconded by Ms. Taylor, moved to direct the City Manager to implement ac- <br />tions that support the Community Climate and Energy Action plan goals and objectives, <br />subject to best practices, resources, collaboration with community partners, and approval <br />by council of future policy changes. <br />Mr. Zelenka asked Ms. O'Sullivan about her perspective on the plan. Ms. O'Sullivan found the plan to be <br />on the cutting edge. It tried to achieve several objectives that were related but frequently missing in other <br />plans, such as the combined objectives of planning for climate change and adaptation and trying to reduce <br />greenhouse gas impacts by tying those issues directly to fossil fuel use. She thought the connection to <br />public health was another important innovation. <br />MINUTES— Eugene City Council September 15, 2010 Page 5 <br />Work Session <br />
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