Item 5: HUD Sustainable Communities Grant

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better integrate the component pieces within and between agencies by addressing conflicting boundaries and their correlating decision-making structure; developing strategies for increased collaboration and integration of key plan components. Secondly, by building our capacity for more collaborative discussions we will be prepared to take on the content-specific gaps, such as economic development, sustainable growth, affordable housing, public health, and social equity. Lane Livability Consortium. As the cities examine growth and public investment independently, the Lane Livability Consortium will provide a regional forum that can best facilitate the partner’s discussions regarding issues and challenges that are common to the region and which are best met with a collaborative problem-solving model. Specific program areas for Consortium efforts include comprehensive and inclusive public engagement, establishing a baseline for measuring the success of future sustainability efforts, building organizational capacity locally and statewide, and identifying a process to make more strategic regional investments in support of sustainability primarily in the areas of housing, transportation and economic development. Effectively engaging a diverse set of regional stakeholders will be the core component of our work. It will lead to new relationships within and between the partner agencies, new metrics for examining and establishing planning priorities and work plans, and will identify current gaps in how we are integrating sustainability into our current regional plans. This body of work will be presented to the local elected officials as they evolve the Metro Plan through their existing timeframes, and will also be applied uniquely within each organization as they seek future funding for projects identified and supported through the work of the Consortium. Members of the Consortium include the Central Lane Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), Lane Council of Governments (LCOG), City of Eugene, City of Springfield, Lane County, Lane Transit District, St. Vincent de Paul Society of Lane County, University of Oregon (UO) Sustainable Cities Initiative, Housing and Community Services Agency of Lane County (HACSA), the Eugene Water & Electric Board, and the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT). It is anticipated that additional jurisdictions and interests will be added as needed throughout the project. Governance of the Consortium will be by consensus. Operations of the Consortium Ultimate responsibility for the activities of the Consortium will be vested in a Leadership Team composed of elected officials from the three general purpose governments (the City of Eugene, the City of Springfield and Lane County), and a senior appointed official from the University of Oregon. This team will generally oversee the activities of a Project Management Team comprised of senior appointed officials from the organizations represented on the Leadership Team, with the addition of the Oregon Department of Transportation and the Lane Council of Governments. The Project Management Team will be the principal oversight body for the Consortium, providing direction and guidance to the Project Manager and Project Core Team, which will perform most of the activities of the Consortium. The Project Management Team, along with assistance from a Project Manager, will be responsible for review of Project Core Team work Lane Livability Consortium 2