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SPECIFIC SERVICE RECOMMENDATIONS <br /> he committees reviewed 10 service areas that included: Fire and Emergency Medical <br /> T Services, Library, Parks and Open Space Acquisition, Planning, Building and Neighborhoods <br /> Public Safety/Police, Recreation, Storm Water and Drainage, Transportation and Street <br /> Maintenance, and Water. Each section below was drafted by committee members. <br /> FIRE AND EMERGENCY SERVICES <br /> <br /> ` ' By Jerry Finigan <br /> How the service is delivered: j <br /> River Road Area: <br /> Service is provided to this entire area by the City of Eugene. Residents in River Road who are within <br /> the City are provided the same service as other residents in the City. Residents of River Road who are <br /> not yet annexed are provided service by the City of Eugene through an intergovernmental agreement <br /> with the River Road Water District which include all services currently supplied to City residents. Taxes <br /> collected from non-City residents by the River Road Water District support this fire contract. <br /> I <br /> Santa Clara Area: <br /> The majority of fire protection to Santa Clara is provided by the Santa Clara Rural Fire Protection <br /> i ; District. A northwest portion of Santa Clara is serviced by the Lane Rural Fire/Rescue District. Since <br /> 1983, an intergovernmental agreement between the City and Santa Clara Rural Fire Protection District <br /> has provided City residents in Santa Clara protection by the Santa Clara Rural Fire Protection District... <br /> An agreement with Lane Rural Fire/Rescue similarly has provided City residents within this jurisdiction <br /> these services since 1982. Thus, district taxation directly provides fire and emergency services to <br /> residents not yet annexed, and a payment agreement between the districts and the City establishes a <br /> contract with these districts to provide the same services to residents within the district who are paying i. <br /> city taxes. As these agreements lapsed on June 30, 2001, they were continued for another year. In April i <br /> 2002, the City of Eugene announced it intended to provide services directly to City residents in Santa <br /> Clara by building a fire station in the area. <br /> What we have learned: <br /> Traditionally, citizens of River Road and Santa Clara have been satisfied with the fire and emergency <br /> services provided to them. Because the City of Eugene is contracted to service River Road there is <br /> essentially no difference in services there to residents and non-residents of the City. Similarly, the <br /> residents of Santa Clara have been satisfied with the service they are provided and have taken pride <br /> in the quality institutions they have created and have demonstrated their pride with the number of <br /> volunteers that sustain these institutions. But as the number of Santa Clara residents who are now in the <br /> City surpasses 6000, and as large senior developments have been built on the southern end of Santa <br /> Clara, there is increasing concern by some that a volunteer department, as qualified as it is, cannot serve <br /> 33 <br /> <br />