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MINUTES <br />Eugene City Council <br />McNutt Room --City Hall 777 Pearl Street <br />Eugene, Oregon <br />February 8, 2010 <br />5:30 p.m. <br />COUNCILORS PRESENT: Alan Zelenka, Mike Clark, Andrea Ortiz, Jennifer Solomon, Chris Pryor, <br />George Poling, George Brown, Betty Taylor <br />Her Honor Mayor Ditty Piercy called the work session of the Eugene City Council to order. <br />A. WORK SESSION: <br />Federal Surface Transportation Program — Urban Funds <br />Mayor Piercy said she and Mr. Zelenka served on the Metropolitan Policy Committee (MPC} and it was <br />their responsibility to represent the transportation goals for the City. She wanted to ensure that the <br />councilors had an opportunity to give input. She noted that the council had made a commitment to using <br />flexible dollars in the Surface Transportation Program -- Urban Funds (STP -U) for road preservation. She <br />wanted everyone to be aware of this and how it affected what they did on the MPC. She recommended <br />that they discuss whether they wanted to continue the commitment to preservation. or whether they wanted <br />to have some flexibility to use the funding for other projects. <br />City Engineer Mark Schoening stated that the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) had initiated <br />the process to allocate STP -U funds for the federal Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 -2013, with the MPC scheduled <br />to take action on the allocation on April 8. He said under the existing framework, between $3.18 million <br />and $5.25 million would be available in the category for project development, preservation, and <br />modernization projects. <br />Mr. Schoening related that, consistent with council policy, staff had developed and prioritized a list of <br />preservation projects. He said the Coburg Road project was at the top of the list, primarily because it was <br />between two segments scheduled to be maintained with the bond measure funding. Martin Luther King <br />Boulevard and Hilyard Street were the other two projects, in order of priority. He explained that when the <br />MPO allocated funds in the past, Eugene had received approximately half of those funds. He said the <br />three projects were at an estimated cost of $2.77 million, or approximately half of the high end of what <br />could potentially be allocated. <br />Continuing, Mr. Schoening said at the time the council had established the policy, the backlog had been <br />$94 million. He stated that the preservation backlog had exceeded $107 million, according to the most <br />recent data analysis from 2009. He related that though the backlog had increased, quite a bit of progress <br />had been made and they had established several funding sources between the federal STP dollars, the gas <br />tax, the bond measure, and the reimbursement component of the transportation Systems Development <br />Charge (SDC). He noted that when the SDC had been identified as a source for pavement preservation it <br />was estimated to provide $700,000 in annual revenue, but with the decline in development that number <br />had fallen to between $150,000 and $200,004. He said even though progress had been made, a long -term <br />sustainable source for funds for pavement preservation had still not been established. Because of this, it <br />was staffs recommendation to continue to prioritize pavement preservation for federal STP -U funds. <br />MINUTES Eugene City Council February 8, 2010 Page 1 <br />Work Session <br />