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ATTACHMENT B MINUTES Council Committee on Intergovernmental Relations Human Resource and Risk Services Conference Room--Eugene City Hall November 10, 2004 1~30 p.m. PRESENT~ Scott Meisner, Chair; David Kelly, Gary Pap6, members; Jason Heuser, Mary Walston, City Manager's Office; Eric Jones, Public Works Department. 1. Call to Order and Review Agenda Mr. Meisner called the meeting of the Council Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to order. 2. Review Draft of 2005 Legislative Policies Mr. Heuser reported that staff anticipated a divisive legislative session. A State budget shortfall of $800 million to $1.5 billion was expected. That was largely due to the fact the last budget was balanced using one-time revenues, shifting hard decisions into this biennium. He was not optimistic about the budget situation, anticipating deeper cuts and threats to State shared revenue. However, he did not anticipate a long session, given the length of the last session and the lack of available dollars. He suggested that the City would want to have a louder and more consistent message about how it wished to see the legislature address cuts. Without prodding, he did not anticipate the legislature taking up the issue of new revenue. Mr. Kelly reviewed a list of suggested changes and clarifications he wished to make to the legislative policies document. Members considered the list and agreed to Mr. Kelly's suggestion to reduce the length of the document by reviewing it for items that could be dropped because they were unlikely to be raised; agreed to a proposed revision to introduction to clarify the nature of local elected officials' offices; agreed to reword the executive summary to read "Eugene's recently renovated train depot is the southern terminus for the proposed high-speed rail corridor"; agreed to revise the Home Rule and the Region section by indicating Eugene "generally" supported the Oregon Municipal Policy; agreed to revise the section on urban renewal by clarifying that the downtown district revenues were no longer dedicated to the library; agreed to strike the first recommendation in the section on Public Employees Retirement System and replace it with the following: "Oppose efforts to undo or undermine existing PERS reforms, such as those instituted in the 2003 Legislative Session"; agreed to strike the phrase "any new" in the last sentence of the first paragraph of the section on the Highway Trust Fund to reflect a previous City Council action; agreed to add a historic narrative regarding the Multi-Unit Property Tax Exemption (MUPTE) to the Housing section; and agreed to add to the document a recommendation to modify State enterprise zone statutes to allow sponsoring jurisdictions to impose local criteria on companies in the zone receiving tax credits. The committee accepted a suggestion from Mr. Meisner to add a recommendation to the Environmental Issues chapter to amend Oregon Revised Statute 634.057 to allow local governments to regulate notice of pesticide spraying. MINUTES--Council Committee on Intergovernmental Relation November 10, 2004 Page 1