Item 2A: Approval of City Council Minutes

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would take longer to do. He supported that approach. He said that Springfield’s two projects were already in TransPlan. Mr. Inerfeld concurred. He said that two interchanges were in the illustrative list in TransPlan and on the fiscally constrained list in the RTP. Responding to a request for clarification from Mr. Zelenka, Mr. Inerfeld said the fiscally constrained list was a federal requirement that called on the jurisdiction to list projects for which funding had been identified within a 20-year time frame; the illustrative list was for projects beyond that time frame. Mr. Zelenka suggested the local prioritization criteria were a way to address Ms. Bettman’s concerns about the best way to allocate funding. The MPC would discuss how to implement those so that it could get a list of projects that worked for the region. He thought that encompassed the issues of concern mentioned by Ms. Bettman and things such as reducing greenhouse gases. Ms. Bettman objected that the Springfield projects had been moved up in priority over other projects that had been planned for, because they displaced other priorities and were inconsistent with the objectives Mr. Zelenka was talking about. She believed it was a waste of City staff resources for the City to do business in such a manner when it had invested so much in citizen involvement and planning. Such a process undermined all planning. Ms. Bettman asked if a project on the RTP constrained project list superseded the local TSP. Mr. Inerfeld did not know. He said the RTP could be amended at any time. Ms. Bettman requested an answer to the question. She asserted that the TSP was being amended to get Springfield’s projects “in the queue.” City Manager Ruiz indicated staff would follow up. Ms. Bettman said that the community was not accomplishing consistency with the RTP. She spoke of the waste in planning and the effort that occurred to undermine that planning so that people could do what they wanted. She called it a travesty and said the council was perpetuating it by letting the staff proceed as proposed. Mr. Zelenka said the plans were inconsistent for a variety of reasons but the two major issues were the two identified by staff. He agreed about Ms. Bettman’s remarks about planning, which was the reason he and Mayor Piercy were pushing for one plan and one process. He thought that the local metropolitan area could figure out how to achieve one plan. Ms. Bettman recalled that at one time in the not very distant past there had been one plan and it was split into two plans. She said that all the money spent on useless planning could fill a lot of potholes. The meeting adjourned at 6:57 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Jon Ruiz City Manager (Recorded by Kimberly Young) MINUTES—Eugene City Council April 21, 2008 Page 7 Work Session