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MINUTES <br /> <br /> Eugene City Council <br /> McNutt Room--Eugene City Hall <br /> <br /> September 24, 2003 <br /> Noon <br /> <br />COUNCILORS PRESENT: Gary Pap6, Nancy Nathanson, Scott Meisner, Betty Taylor, <br /> David Kelly, Bonny Bettman, Jennifer Solomon, Gary Poling. <br /> <br />Mayor James D. Torrey called the meeting of the Eugene City Council to order. <br /> <br />A. ACTION: Resolution No. 4776 Adopting Updated Metropolitan Wastewater <br /> Management Commission Regional Wastewater System Development Charge Unit <br /> Costs and Reference Data, and Amending Resolution No. 4740 <br /> <br /> Mr. Pap6, seconded by Ms. Nathanson, moved to adopt <br /> Resolution No. 4776, adopting updated Metropolitan <br /> Wastewater Management Commission regional wastewater <br /> system development charge unit costs and reference data, <br /> and amending Resolution No. 4740. <br /> <br />Ms. Bettman indicated support for the motion, although she regretted the delay in the <br />implementation of the Metropolitan Wastewater Management Commission's (MWMC) systems <br />development charge (SDC) methodology. She noted a settlement agreement between the Lane <br />County Home Builders Association and the MWMC called for the inclusion of an association <br />representative on a citizen advisory committee charged to review the methodology. While she <br />had no objection to that, she did not want the litigants to dictate the direction of public policy by <br />"stacking" the committee with representatives. She referred to the City's own Public Works <br />Rates Advisory, which included representation from the Friends of Eugene, the Lane County <br />Home Builders Association, the Eugene Area Chamber of Commerce, the Neighborhood Leaders <br />Council, the Voters Pool, the Neighborhood Pool, the League of Women Voters, an engineering <br />discipline representative, and the Citizens for Public Accountability, and maintained that the <br />committee was dominated by members who were involved with the Lane County Home Builders <br />Association. <br /> <br />Mr. Pap6 determined from Assistant City Manager Jim Carlson that the Lane County Home <br />Builders Association objected to the imposition of the rate changes being proposed as a result of <br />the prior methodology change, and a lawsuit was subsequently filed by the association. A <br />settlement agreement was reached between the MWMC and the association allowing for the <br />temporary adjustment to the rates while the citizen advisory committee reviewed the <br />methodology. <br /> <br />City Attorney Glenn Klein indicated, in response to a question from Mr. Pap6, that he had not <br />reviewed the letter from Andrew Stamp of Martin Bischoff Attorneys At-Law on behalf of the <br />Lane County Home Builders Association. The settlement agreement had been between the <br /> <br />MINUTES--Eugene City Council September 24, 2003 Page 1 <br /> Work Session <br /> <br /> <br />