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.' M I NUT E S e Eugene City Council City Council Chamber July 29, 1981 11:30 a.m. COUNCILORS PRESENT: Gretchen Miller, Brian Obie, Betty Smith, Mark Lindberg, D. W. Hamel, Eric Haws, Cynthia Wooten, and Emily Schue. Adjourned meeting of the City Council of the City of Eugene, Oregon, was called to order by His Honor Mayor Gus Keller. I. ITEMS FROM MAYOR AND COUNCIL, APPOINTMENTS, ANNOUNCEMENTS, AGENDA ADJUSTMENTS A. Presentation of Award Mayor Keller presented the annual Municipal Finance Officer's Association of the United States and Canada Award for Fiscal Year 1980-81 to Bill McGuire, Finance Director. He thanked Mr. McGuire for his contributions and congratulated him. B. Report from Local Electric Energy Committee e Ms. Wooten stated that the acting mayor had appointed her to the Local Electric Energy Committee. She attended a meeting, and they consolidated a grant appli- cation for local jurisdictions, including public and private utilities. These proposals will be submitted August 14, 1981. She would like authorization for two additional proposals which would benefit the City of Eugene. The first proposal would entail determining the economic and energy consequences of a municipal ordinance regulating electrical energy use in new residential and commercial structures. The second would be to complete a city-wide solar resource assessment, which will develop a data base showing the monthly and annual amount of solar energy falling on existing houses and buildings which could be used for space heating, water heating, and electrical generation, and to determine appropriate techniques for protecting access to solar energy for existing residences and businesses. These proposals were developed by Oregon Appropriate Technology in consultation with Greg Page, City Technology Coordi- nator, and will be subcontracted to OAT. These two grants would total $75,000. L-COG supports these two developmental proposals. She asked for council concur- rence in submittal of these applications to BPA and noted that she would con- tinue to update and brief the council. She also noted that individual grant proposals can be submitted to Bonneville Power Authority for the City. Mr. Obie noted that he would like this matter referred to Greg Page to receive a more formal staff presentation. Ms. Wooten stated that this must be reviewed now as the application deadline is August 14. She apologized for the short notice, but felt they should be submitted. Mr. Gleason added that on August 14, formal submittal of the applications must be done. The council could withdraw, e at the time of the award, after a more complete review if that was its desire. MINUTES--Eugene City Council July 29, 1981 Page 1