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<br />Attachment C: Summary of Public Input to Date <br />As noted in the Agenda Item Summary, public feedback on the two scenarios has been limited, but the <br />input staff has received has been useful. According to the website statistics, the City’s redistricting <br />website, www.eugene-or.gov/redistricting has been visited 1,005 times since February. An online public <br />survey and interactive ward map are available on the City’s website. While only eight people have <br />responded to the survey (see Survey Results), 134 have visited the interactive map that allows people to <br />compare the scenarios to current wards as well as other boundaries such as neighborhood associations <br />and major roads. The map went online in August and eight comments were received via email or though <br />the comment page available on the map (see Comments Received). <br />Ongoing updates have been sent regularly to a list of 46 interested parties. Information and surveys <br />about the scenarios in English and Spanish were available at the City’s Eugene Celebration booth and <br />online. Spanish language surveys were also made available through Centro Latino Americano. In <br />addition, staff have met and discussed the scenarios with neighborhood and civic groups including Lane <br />County League of Women Voters, Eugene Area Chamber of Commerce and the Neighborhood Leaders <br />th <br />Council. Staff also attended the September 13 Jefferson Westside Neighbors meeting where the <br />majority of attendees favored scenario one. In addition, staff met with Lane County redistricting staff to <br />discuss the timeline and process for the county’s redistricting. <br />Comments Received <br />Thank you for soliciting citizen input. The two options for redistricting does not effect my home. I chose <br />to not look at any statistics until I first looked at the two district maps and formed an opinion. In my <br />opinion, Scenario 2 is the better boundaries for the Eugene Wards as the populations of the Wards in <br />Scenario 2 will have more similar geographic and neighborhood interests. In particular, boundaries for <br />Wards 1, 2 and 3 are more intuitive in Scenario 2 than in Scenario 1. <br />Sincerely, <br />John Helmick <br /> <br />Lives in: Ward 2 <br /> <br /> <br />The maps are almost impenetrable! You REALLY need to clean up the overlayed shading so the <br />respective wards have consistent shading. <br /> <br />Scenario 2 is unacceptable for Ward 1 because it unnecessarily promulgates a division of the Jefferson <br />Westside Neighbors and (it appears) Friendly Area Neighbors. <br /> <br />Paul Conte, Chair <br />Jefferson Westside Neighbors <br /> <br />Lives in: Ward 1 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />