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d. Job retention e. Utilization of job programs that assist disadvantaged workers Ms. Rygas said that she understood from Mr. Braud's report that the committee was attempting to put two community related sets of criteria into an Enterprise Zone. One set dealt with job quality, job retention, etc. and the other set dealt with environmental concerns and were not included in the above list. She said that she also understood from Mr. Braud that the set of environmental criteria were more difficult to include in an Enterprise Zone because of the State's guidelines. Ms. Rygas continued by saying that she thought that the Enterprise Zone Committee had compromised by restricting the Enterprise Zone boundaries to areas that to some extent did not include greenfields, but did include underutilized parcels, thereby having some environmental influence in the direction of the Enterprise Zone. Mr. Forbes suggested that the committee review the staff recommendations on pages 6, 7, and 8 of the memorandum. Mr. Wanichek, seconded by Mr. Rexius, moved to create a new Enterprise Zone. Mr. Bowerman said that he would like to see the entire proposal for an Enterprise Zone before voting on the concept. Ms. Pierce said that the question was whether members were in agreement that an Enterprise Zone was a good economic tool to recommend to the City Council or if members were only in agreement that it was a good tool only if it met certain boundaries and criteria. She said that the discussions about criteria and boundaries ended up reflecting each member's own personal view about economic development. She said that she was hopeful that the committee could agree that an Enterprise Zone was a good and useful economic development tool and would simply allow the City Council to decide the boundaries and criteria. She said that the committee could put forth suggestions or examples of boundaries and criteria, but that it was ultimately the attitude of the council that would be reflected in the Enterprise Zone. She said that she would rather give support to the idea of an Enterprise Zone rather than defining it too tightly. Mr. Kahle agreed with Ms. Pierce. He noted that the undercurrent of many of the discussions of the committee was the tension between keeping Eugene unique while creating economic tools that worked. In response to a question from Ms. Teninty, Mr. Wanichek said that his purpose in making the motion was to simply make a statement that the committee was in support of creating a new Enterprise Zone. He said that he assumed that conditions and amendments would unfold during the discussion. Mr. Wanichek added that he thought that the one third/two thirds would be a good compromise, perhaps giving brownfields a full exemption. Mr. Forbes agreed with that compromise. MiNUTES--Mayor's Committee on Economic Development June 28, 2004 Page 3