community about availability of services.

5. Housing - Most effective: Address housing, transportation, employment and education as comprehensive and interdependant. Easiest to implement: Create a County wide citizen advisory group to advise the County on affordable housing concerns and needs.

6. Public Safety - Most effective: Provide fair and adequate funding for police, fire, ambulance and communication. Easiest to implement: Define roles and prioritize functions of the fire and police departments through specific guidelines.

7. Transportation - Most effective: Improve public transportation so that it is affordable, efficient and interconnected. Easiest to implement: Educate public regarding alternative modes of transit and their benefits.

8. Parks & Open Spaces - Most effective: Adopt requirements for open space set asides to accompany growth and development. Easiest to implement: Create a citizen based council/steering committee to advise the Parks Department.

9. Education - Most effective: Guarantee stable/adequate funding for schools. Easiest to implement: Create a county-wide teen advisory board with representation from all high schools in the County.

10. Cultural Opportunities - Most effective: Support libraries, arts and cultural activities. Easiest to implement: Educate and raise public awareness of libraries, arts heritage resources and cultural activities.

11. Cultural Diversity - Most effective: Improve affordable public transportation among jobs, housing and services; and promote alternatives. Easiest to implement: Create and promote a network of educational/informational resources that are accessable to every citizen.
I'm sorry I had to omit the Community Calendar this month to make room for this news, but didn't think you would mind. The Editor

    On Saturday, February 24, 2001, citizen volunteers gathered for the second time at Oregon City High School to put priorities on the final list of "Complete Communities" recommendations.
  Twelve people from Beavercreek were signed up to attend. Altogether approximately 50 people from the south part of the county -- Beavercreek, Canby, Molalla, and Mulino were registered.
  More than 150 citizens voted in person and online and more than 60 recommendations organized under 11 issues, issues that were identified as important to county residents. Each individual was asked to review the recommendations by issue and vote on the following:

  After voting, the Congress participants broke into smaller groups by issue to discuss the top two recommendations and brainstorm the next steps that might aid in implementation. The results of the vote, and a summary of the ideas conceived through the small group discussions, will be delivered in a final report to the Clackamas Board of County Commissioners for consideration in their 2001-2002 budget deliberations. Although the final report is still being prepared, a sample of the voting results is as follows:

1. Economy/Employment - Most effective and easiest to implement: Develop a pro-active strategy to attract family wage jobs with benefits throughout the County.

2. Environmental Quality - Most effective: Enforce environmental quality standards that provide good for air, water and land use. Easiest to implement: Tree planting and preservation.

3. Growth & Land Use - Most effective: Adopt policies to require new developers to pay for their impact. Easiest to implement: Increase efforts to include citizens earlier in the land use process.

4. Health & Social Services - Most effective: Provide programs and services that assist citizens to remain in their own homes. Easiest to implement: Educate the

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