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M I N U T E S Eugene City Council Work Session McNutt Room—Eugene City Hall October 26, 2005 Noon COUNCILORS PRESENT: George Poling, Jennifer Solomon, Bonny Bettman, David Kelly, Betty Taylor, Andrea Ortiz, Chris Pryor, Gary Papé. Mayor Kitty Piercy called the October 26, 2005, work session of the Eugene City Council to order. A. WORK SESSION: City of Coburg Request for Connection to Regional Wastewater Facilities City Manager Dennis Taylor welcomed Mayor Judy Volta of the City of Coburg. He asked Public Works Director, Kurt Corey to provide an overview of Coburg’s request to be connected to regional wastewater facilities. He said Wastewater Division Manager Peter Ruffier would make the presentation on the issues before the council. Mr. Corey acknowledged that the councilors had participated in a joint elected officials meeting wherein much of the pertinent information had been covered. He set the tone for the topic by providing high level background. He stated that the cities of Eugene and Springfield, under the terms of an intergovernmental agreement (IGA) that included Lane County, developed a regional wastewater treatment facility that had been in operation since 1977. He explained that the Metropolitan Wastewater Management Commission (MWMC) was the oversight body with representatives of each governing body and citizen members. He said under the terms of the IGA, the MWMC was limited to providing wastewater treatment services to the area within the Eugene and Springfield urban growth boundaries (UGBs). He related that the City of Coburg approached the joint elected officials with a request for a connection to the wastewater treatment facility in June. The joint elected officials asked staff to engage in initial scoping work and prepare a report outlining the issues, timeframes, and costs. He indicated that the joint elected officials considered a status report that addressed some of these concerns on October 11. He noted that staff report was attached to the Agenda Item Summary (AIS). Mr. Corey stated that four key issues had been identified: ? The relationship of the Coburg request to long-range planning activities and other small communi- ties’ needs for wastewater treatment services, as projected by the Region 2050 study and the MWMC Facilities Plan Update Mr. Corey noted there were numerous possibilities for accommodating the needs of outlying communities, all of them expensive, and there were geographic challenges to providing this service to some of them. He said communities such as Pleasant Hill or Goshen, for which there were no geographic challenges, could possibly be connected at some point. He explained that others were geographically removed from the MINUTES—Eugene City Council October 26, 2005 Page 1 Work Session