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Ms. Bettman, seconded by Mr. Poling, moved to adjust the City Manager's compensation, placing him on Step 4 of the salary schedule, retroactive to his employment anniversary date of April 14, 2004, and to increase the City Manager salary range on July 1, 2004, by 1.4 percent to reflect a cost-of-living adjustment. Ms. Bettman explained that the percentage selected appeared to reflect a middle range of council sentiment on the subject. The motion passed unanimously, 8:0. B. WORK SESSION: Region 2050 Status Report and Public Outreach Senior Planner Allen Lowe of the Eugene Planning and Development Department introduced the item, noting Mayor Torrey's and Mr. Kelly's participation on the Region 2050 Policy Board, which was composed of two elected officials from several small Lane County cities as well as from the Lane County Board of Commissioners. He said the effort was entering into a major public outreach phase. Mr. Lowe introduced Region 2050 Project Manager Carol Heinkel of the Lane Council of Governments, who provided a PowerPoint presentation on the Region 2050 effort and the public outreach that was being proposed. Ms. Heinkel provided information on the geographic scope of the effort and the Region 2050 participants. She reviewed the process, which included: 1) evaluation of alternative scenarios; 2) development of preferred growth scenarios, and goals, objectives, and actions in areas such as land use, housing, transporta- tion, and the economy; and 3) agreement on an integrated regional growth management strategy. The policy board had recently completed work on three alternative scenarios to present to the public. Ms. Heinkel reviewed the elements of three alternative regional growth scenarios, the Compact Urban Growth scenario, Satellite Communities scenario, and the Rural Growth scenario. She anticipated the ultimate result of the public outreach that followed was a scenario would be a hybrid of the three scenarios, which would again be tested with the public. Ms. Heinkel shared tables demonstrating examples of the evaluative criteria against which each element was weighed for each of the three scenarios. Mayor Torrey called for questions and comments. Mr. Kelly, a member of the Region 2050 Policy Board, commended the Region 2050 effort and said the fact the goals of the process had unanimous support from the elected officials of various Lane County communi- ties was significant in itself. Mr. Kelly underscored that the three alternative scenarios represented points on a continuum rather than all future possibilities. The policy board was trying to show distinct differences among the example scenarios. Referring to the evaluative information shared by Ms. Heinkel, he said there was considerable technical data behind the tables that people could access. MINUTES--Eugene City Council June 14, 2004 Page 3 Work Session