[WEC] Consensus Check: Letter from WEC to Eugene City Council - 20101130-01 Draft

[Larry Reed]

I'm okay with this additional change.

Larry

 

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From: wec at westeugenecollaborative.org
[mailto:wec at westeugenecollaborative.org] On Behalf Of Tim McCabe
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 9:11 AM
To: Alan; West Eugene Collaborative
Subject: Re: [WEC] Consensus Check: Letter from WEC to Eugene City
Council - 20101130-01 Draft
Importance: High

 

Greetings,

I have not seen any additional emails expressing changes except the
small change requested by Alan Buck. Two WEC members accepted the change
but I have not seen any other comments on the subject. I have taken the
liberty to add this small change (in red) to the last draft dated
20101130 and have attached it to this email. Because time is of the
essence and the the last council meeting of 2010 is next Monday the
13th, this letter needs to be finalized today and provided to the
Mayor's office to be signed by the WEC membership.

Also, I wanted to gather a sense of where the WEC is with meeting with
individual council members. As Rob noted Saturday night:  "Mary, Gary,
Jim, Jan and Aleta have signed up to contact city councilors. At least
one WEC member has signed up to contact each city councilor (aside from
Chris). But only Jan has signed up to contact George Brown, Betty Taylor
or Alan Zelenka. You can view -- or add to -- the sign up online:"
http://www.doodle.com/keiahpbsax69t67y
If meetings need to be coordinated please let me know and I will do what
I can to make that happen before Monday night.

Time is short, so please respond quickly if you want a coordinated
response from the WEC for the the next council meeting.

Warmly,

Tim 




On 12/5/10 12:49 AM, "Alan" <alan at churchillareaneighbors.org> wrote:

> On 11/30/2010 02:58 PM, Kevin Matthews wrote:
>> Dear WEC Members,
>> 
>> I'm feeling a sense of the group that the draft letter to the Eugene
City 
>> Council is ready for a consensus check as it now stands, without
further 
>> elaboration.  We could certainly say more, or continue to fine-tune,
but 
>> perhaps what we've got in hand is the right thing to produce, in a
timely 
>> way, now.
>> 
>> Of course if someone feels a real need for further changes, please
speak up, 
>> and we'll work to accommodate those ideas.
>> 
> 
> Perhaps a minor quibble but "maintaining West 11th as an increasingly 
> congested strip mall", while it may be accurate, is somewhat loaded 
> language.
> 
> If the intent is to gain broad support, then disparaging the existing 
> businesses along the route is not what we want to do.
> 
> "An increasingly congested single-use commercial corridor"?
> "An ever more congested retail avenue"?
> 
> Surely someone can come up with something better than those two.
> 
> -ajb
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Timothy M. McCabe, M.S.
Associate, Oregon Consensus
Portland State University
Courtesy Research Assistant 
University of Oregon, School of Law
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