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M I N U T E S <br /> <br /> <br />Eugene City Council <br />Public Hearing <br />Council Chamber <br />777 Pearl Street—Eugene, Oregon <br /> <br /> May 19, 2008 <br /> 8 p.m. <br /> <br />COUNCILORS PRESENT: Andrea Ortiz, Chris Pryor, Betty Taylor, Bonny Bettman, Mike Clark, <br />Alan Zelenka, Jennifer Solomon. <br /> <br />COUNCILORS ABSENT: George Poling. <br /> <br />Her Honor Mayor Kitty Piercy called the meeting of the Eugene City Council to order. <br /> <br />1. PUBLIC HEARING: An Ordinance Concerning the Planning Commission; and Amending <br />Sections 2.013, 2.330, 2.332, 2.335, 2.345, 2.350, and 2.355 of the Eugene Code, 1971. <br /> <br />Mayor Piercy opened the public hearing and reviewed the procedures for providing testimony. There being <br />no one wishing to speak, she closed the hearing and called for comments from the council. <br /> <br />Councilor Bettman indicated she did not object to removing ex officio members of the Planning Commis- <br />sion. She asked if there had been any consideration of adding two additional citizen voting members to the <br />commission. Steve Nystrom, Planning and Development Department, replied that the commission had not <br />discussed larger policy issues such as adding members. <br /> <br />Councilor Bettman asked for language to add two citizen members to the Planning Commission and a work <br />session to discuss that issue. She noted that the ordinance also removed the commission’s charge to review <br />the capital improvement program (CIP) and said that was an important task consistent with the commis- <br />sion’s other duties and should remain a Planning Commission responsibility. She said the agenda item <br />summary (AIS) indicated the commission secretary was the planning director, but it did not explicitly state <br />that in the ordinance. Mr. Nystrom said the bylaws were more explicit than the code. He said in practice <br />someone had to be responsible for maintaining the commission’s records and it made sense for a staff <br />member to perform that function; the language change would allow the secretary to be designated, rather <br />than elected. <br /> <br />Councilor Bettman requested that the language be revised to be explicit that the secretary was the planning <br />director or designee. <br /> <br />Councilor Zelenka concurred with Councilor Bettman’s request for language to add two citizen members to <br />the Planning Commission. He asked why review of the CIP had been eliminated as a commission <br />responsibility. Mr. Nystrom said the commission had discussed the very limited scope of its review because <br />the CIP came to it as a financial document, rather than one related to land use issues. He said CIP projects <br />were identified and prioritized by the council and that was outside the commission’s purview, as were <br />financial issues. The commission felt its role with respect to the CIP was awkward. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />MINUTES—Eugene City Council May 19, 2008 Page 1 <br /> Public Hearing <br /> <br />