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WELCOMING REMARKS BY JOHNNY MEDLIN 3 -5 minutes <br /> • <br /> 1. Staff has planned a very full day, and all the speakers have been asked to be concise <br /> and keep their remarks to the key points. I'll try and set a good example here. <br /> 2. Welcome to the City of Eugene and to the Parks and Open Spaces Division <br /> headquarters. I'm Johnny Medlin, Director of the division, and my role is to <br /> welcome you, make sure you're comfortable, introduce a few of the folks here today, <br /> and then hand off the meeting to Jim who'll get the program started. <br /> 3. The City of Eugene is pleased to be co- hosting todays tour with The Nature <br /> Conservancy and Lane Council of Governments. Partnerships are a great way to <br /> make things happen, and we've shown here in the southern Willamette Valley that we <br /> know how to make partnerships work. In 1998 the City of Eugene passed a Parks <br /> and Open Space bond Measure, which included $3.7 million for open space <br /> acquisition to expand our Ridgeline Park System. Needless to say, we are very <br /> enthusiastic about the Forest Legacy program and how this new partnership new <br /> provides opportunities to leverage that funding. <br /> 4. There are a number of folks that I would like to extend a special thanks to for their <br /> attendance: <br /> Eugene's Mayor Jim Torrey, <br /> City Councilor Nancy Nathanson <br /> Springfields City Manager, Mike Kelly <br /> Terry Moffit, of Senator Gordon Smith's staff <br /> Emily Williams, of Senator Ron Wyden's staff <br /> Cathi Eastman, of Representative Peter Defazio's staff <br /> The Oregon Department of Forestry staff and <br /> Staff from the House Appropriations committee in Washington DC <br />