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<br />ATTACHMENT C <br /> <br />JOINT ELECTED OFFICIAL/BOARD OF COMMISSIONSER <br />REGULAR MEETING <br />March 13, 2012 <br />6:00 p.m. <br /> <br /> <br />Commissioner Sid Leiken opened the meeting of the Lane County Board of Commissioners. <br /> <br />City Councilor Dave Ralston opened the meeting of the Springfield City Council <br /> <br />City Councilor George Brown opened the meeting of the Eugene City Council <br /> <br />Present from Lane County were Board Chair Sid Leiken, Jay Bozievich, Rob Handy and Faye <br />Stewart. Pete Sorenson was excused. <br /> <br />Present from the city of Springfield were Sheri Moore, Dave Ralston, Sean Van Gordon and Joe <br />Pishioneri. Christine Lundberg, Hillary Wylie and Marilee Woodrow were excused. <br /> <br />Present from the city of Eugene were George Brown, Pat Farr, Andrea Ortiz and Chris Pryor. <br />Mike Clark, Alan Zelenka, Betty Taylor and Kitty Piercy were excused. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> WORK SESSION <br />1. <br /> <br /> <br />A. Joint Work Session for the Metro Plan Boundary Amendment for PA 11-5092 to <br />include a review of Ordinance Items Nos. PA 1281, PA 1283, PA 1284, PA 1290 <br />& 2-12. <br /> <br />Kent Howe, Land Management, recalled in 2004 the Eugene Springfield Metro <br />Plan was just completing the Periodic Review. He reported the Board of <br />Commissioners identified five issues with the Metro Plan they had concerns with: <br />the description of urban services, relating how it affects to special districts; the <br />urbanizable area citizen representation of the Santa Clara River Road area; the <br />jurisdictional autonomy with the Metro Plan boundary adjustment; the dispute <br />resolution process and farmland and open space protection. He indicated that it <br />took some time to get the cities’ interest around those issues. He noted in 2009 <br />the Board of Commissioners and the two city councils started meeting as the Joint <br />Elected Officials. (JEO) He added that a subcommittee was formed and they <br />reported back on recommendations in June. He added that the JEO in June <br />adopted those recommendations, giving staff direction to work on specific <br />changes to the Metro Plan based on recommendations from each jurisdiction that <br />include but were not limited to the following: the overarching policies of <br />identifying and addressing regional issues; policies that allow for individual <br />Refinement Plans for Eugene and Springfield to address jurisdiction specific <br />1 <br /> <br /> <br />