CC Minutes - 11/25/02 Work Session

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Mr. Farr expressed the hope that the council would look at qualified applicants from north Eugene/Ward 6 to fill the vacancy that Ms. Solomon was leaving on the Budget Committee. Ms. Taylor noted that there was no one from Ward 2 on the committee. Mayor Torrey predicted that there would be a great many people at the public forum that evening. He stated that if there was a 4:4 vote to extend the time limit on the forum, he would not cast a tie-breaking vote. He added that he would not accept a motion in the middle of a meeting that did not relate to items on the agenda. He clarified that he would accept an individual councilor's right to speak at the end of the meeting and that the individual councilor could make a motion at that time. He clarified that councilors were allowed to appeal the ruling of the chair and, with a second, could overrule the chair. Ms. Nathanson asked what the determining factor was that drove a motion to curtail the public forum speakers' time to two minutes. Mayor Torrey responded that such a motion was driven by the need to complete the evening's agenda. Ms. Bettman objected to instituting this change at the meeting to follow the work session. She felt that there should be seven days' notice of such changes. Mr. Rayor said that he could not support the resolution regarding the USA Patriot Act enacted at the federal level that would be presented at the City Council meeting. He noted that he had written a draft resolution and circulated it to the council. Mr. Pap8 stated that he had opposed limiting the public forum time to local residents or residents that live within the urban growth boundary when it had last been addressed, but that he would now be amenable to supporting such a motion. City Manager Carlson commented that another process session for the council would be scheduled for February 2003. B. WORK SESSION: Redesign of the Interstate 5 and Beltline Road Interchange City Manager Carlson said that staff knew that the Beltline Road/Interstate 5 project was coming to key decision points and so scheduled the work session. He noted that Mr. Kelly had participated on the Beltline Decision Team, the team formed by the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) to oversee the project. He stated that representatives from ODOT and CH2M Hill were present to provide an overview of the redesign project and answer questions. Jay McRae of CH2M Hill recapped the events that had occurred since the previous January 2002, as follows: · An environmental assessment was prepared and distributed to interested parties and made available through public news release. · A public hearing was held on June 5, 2002, and comments were received. MINUTES--Eugene City Council November 25, 2002 Page 2 Work Session