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MINUTES <br /> <br /> Eugene City Council <br /> Work Session <br /> McNutt Room, City Hall <br /> <br /> June 18, 2001 <br /> 7:30 p.m. <br /> <br />COUNCILORS PRESENT: Betty Taylor, David Kelly, Nancy Nathanson, Scott Meisner Gary <br /> Rayor, Bonny Bettman, Par Fart. <br /> <br />COUNCILORS ABSENT: Gary Pap~. <br /> <br />CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION <br /> <br />Mayor James D. Torrey called the meeting to order. <br /> <br />A. Status Report: Discussion Between City of Eugene and PeaceHealth about Hospital Expansion <br /> <br />City Manager Jim Johnson provided background on the issue. He reminded the council it directed him to meet <br />with PeaceHealth and he had asked Mr. Kelly and Ms. Bettman to join him in those meetings. There had been <br />five meetings. Lew Bowers helped represent the City; PeaceHealth was represented by Chief Executive <br />Officer Alan Yordy, board member Gretchen Hult Pierce, Facilities staff Jim Wolfoman, and land use <br />consultant Philip Farrington. <br /> <br />Mr. Johnson recommended the City schedule a public forum and a meeting with the property owners in the <br />area adjacent to the hospital. He indicated that if the council wished to place a measure asking voters for <br />assistance in helping the hospital to expand in its current location on the September ballot, the last date to do <br />so was July 9. <br /> <br />Mr. Johnson reviewed the assumptions underlying the discussions, emphasizing that they were not shared by <br />all parties. Those assumptions included: 1) PeaceHealth needs to expand beyond its current site to continue to <br />provide quality health care; 2) PeaceHealth requires certainty for expansion over the next 50-75 years; 3) <br />PeaceHealth requires approximately 40 acres for expansion; 4) the costs of developing in the core would be <br />greater than at the hospital's Crescent site; 5) expansion could not take place at either site without changes to <br />the governing refinement plan or the Metropolitan Area General Plan; 6) neither 13th and 11th avenues could <br />not be closed to accommodate hospital expansion; and 7) no other likely site had been located, and the <br />identified site for downtown expansion was contiguous and west of the hospital. <br /> <br />Mr. Johnson referred the draft proposal distributed to the council, and reviewed the elements of the proposal, <br />identifying areas of agreement and disagreement. He noted that draft had not been reviewed by the hospital <br />board or the public. <br /> <br />Mr. Rayor arrived at the meeting. <br /> <br />Mr. Johnson identified as areas of disagreement the amount of financial assistance to be provided by the City <br />for acquisition and condemnation of the properties to the west, and PeaceHealth's desire for certainty of <br /> <br /> MINUTES--Eugene City Council June 18, 2001 Page 1 <br /> Work Session <br /> <br /> <br />