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CfJMMI`IfiEE STATEMENTS <br /> i <br /> To local officials: <br /> .i <br /> 1) Independent agency to analyze a cost fee's benefit analysis study for our River Road/Santa Clara <br /> ~ special districts' urban services versus City's. <br /> 2) March 15, 2000 Eugene City council work session: River Road/Santa Clara Issues: (services)(ref. <br /> ' March 6, 2000 Memo from Jim Carlson to City council) March 14 2000 River Road community <br /> organization requested as complete and accurate accounting on the origin and disposition of all monies <br /> related to annexed properties - 1, 156 homes in River Road and 1, 954 homes in Santa Clara. We only <br /> received the usual thank you letter; therefore requesting this information again for total annexations as of <br /> today. Very interested in cost versus service received. <br /> 3) Legal contract with city for phase-in services and pay rate for 10,15, 20-year period of time such as <br /> 24-hour community police service for River Road/Santa Clara . If this isn't activated within the required <br /> time, all contracts written will be null and void. This is not only for police but every service initiated. <br /> 4) Maybe 10 or 20 years from redistricting all original River Road/Santa Clara area for our own city <br /> councilor. We could truly have representation. We should be in one ward with one councilor. <br /> <br /> I <br /> ~ ~ <br /> Some Personal Reflections on the Outlook for Services in River Road/Santa Clara <br /> For two years, our committee has presumed a stable trend from which to make any improvements in the <br /> ~ ~ service model for River Road/Santa Clara . Recently, however, the financial markets have been ~ <br /> forecasting a major `double dip' recession likely to contract the tax base in a big way. The cause of the <br /> recession is way too easy credit which has built up a mountain of debt -more than $30 trillion in a $10 <br /> trillion economy; and we now seem to be in the saturation stage in consumer, corporate, mortgage, and ~ <br /> foreign trade debt. Signs of the recession are collapsing financial markets, a falling dollar, the failure of <br /> low interest cost to fire up the economy, the rolling over of the construction index, etc. j <br /> This cloud is causing me to have second thoughts about the prospects for the service profile in River <br /> i Road/Santa Clara ,and for that matter, city wide. <br /> Fortunately, history provides some benchmarks of what to expect when an economic crunch unfolds. <br /> j We can gauge the recession from the magnitude of declines in the financial markets; and, historically, <br /> real estate -the tax base -has tanked about a year after the `capitulation' phase of a bust in the financial <br /> markets (which we have not seen as of 8/05/02). So there will be a grace period to prepare local <br /> government for lower cost service delivery. I would hope to see this period as an opportunity to innovate <br /> rather than a chance to find a hidey-hole. <br /> 53 <br /> <br />