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Councilor Bettman said she wanted to amend the motion so that the City only budgeted for the 25 percent match and if the OWEB grant did not come through the grant application to the Forest Legacy would be withdrawn. She reiterated her unhappiness with staff regarding the change in the grant application. She commented that she was prepared to vote no altogether because she did not want to “reinforce bad behavior.” She said she would try to amend the motion instead. Councilor Ortiz moved to approve the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board and associ- ated matching fund plan. Councilor Bettman asked to make a friendly amendment to revise the language to state that the council would approve the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board grant request with a 25 percent local match, budgeted for $1.1 million, and to direct staff to withdraw the Forest Legacy application should the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board grant not be ap- proved. Councilor Pryor provided a second. Roll call vote; the motion passed unanimously, 8:0. 7. ACTION: Oregon MPO Consortium Legislative Policy Concepts and Objectives Mayor Piercy called Rob Inerfeld, Transportation Planning Manager for the Public Works Department, to the podium to explain the Oregon Metropolitan Planning Organization Consortium (OMPOC) legislative policy concepts and objectives document. Mr. Inerfeld stated that the OMPOC advanced interests common to Oregon’s designated Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs). He said as the MPO for the Eugene/Springfield Metro area the Metropoli- tan Policy Committee (MPC) was a member of OMPOC. He reported that OMPOC was seeking feedback from the MPC on its draft legislative policy concepts and objectives document and the MPC requested that its member governments provide comment on it. He noted that the CCIGR reviewed “a few versions” of the document. He related that the draft was intended to serve as a guide for the OMPOC legislative agenda. He added that the OMPOC summit scheduled for the following weekend had been postponed until 2008. Councilor Bettman thought the document should reflect the TransPlan policies and the policies that the City adopted into its Capital Improvement Program (CIP) specifically that the City wanted to prioritize and fund preservation and maintenance of the existing road system. She did not think the document reflected that this was the City’s highest priority for funding. She wanted a bullet point that had been taken out of the document to be restored that said a transportation funding package that provided equitable shares to counties and cities should be advocated for and supported. She said she would add “and adequate resources”’ after “equitable shares” to the previous. She suggested that the reference to maintenance and preservation of roads should include local infrastructure because the money came from the gas tax. She averred that the City of Eugene needed to be able to use its gas tax money for maintenance and preservation. Continuing, Councilor Bettman cited a bullet point that said “advocate and support efforts to increase the capacity and efficiency of the public transit system in Oregon” and suggested that the words “and fund” be added after “support.” She stated that there was nothing in the document that discussed access management. She noted that the document said at the top “Oregonians need to strategically invest in all modes of MINUTES—Eugene City Council October 8, 2007 Page 13 Regular Meeting