Item 2A: Approval of City Council Minutes

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special district. She said the fact that public safety would overlap with Lane County's desire to discuss special districts meant that issue would rise to the top of the list as a priority. She reiterated that special districts added layers of bureaucracy and administration, were divorced from direct representation and would badly disadvantage Eugene residents. Mr. Clark disagreed with Ms. Bettman's assertion that Eugene was better positioned to take care of the City's public safety needs than was the County. He pointed out that Eugene did not have a jail and if the County had to make the level of budget cuts it was anticipating, it would drastically impact the City of Eugene's public safety system. He was not interested in creating new ways to tax people but the conversa- tion with the County had to occur before the budget cycle or there would be very difficult decisions in July. He asked Mr. Pryor to restate the priority list. Mr. Pryor said the motion was for a list of priority topics that included 1) transportation plan- ning/TransPlan, 2) transportation funding, 3) homeless issues, 4) Metro Plan update/UGB, and 5) a conversation on race. Mr. Clark said he would like to see the ORS 190 agreements on the list, but realized the City could only have four topics. He understood the importance of the issues raised by Ms. Bettman, but urged modification of the rhetoric around MUPTE and other tax incentives. He said those programs were not tax giveaways and should not be referred to as such. City Manager pro tem Jones said the Springfield and Lane County lists were provided so that the council could reach consensus about how to make the meeting productive for everyone by looking at those issues that were shared across jurisdictions. She said that JEO meetings occurred periodically as jurisdictions wished to schedule them. Mr. Zelenka remarked that public safety was what each jurisdiction perceived it to be. He said the issue was how to deal with funding and coordination of the public safety system and favored having a conversa- tion about the broader issues. Ms. Solomon stated that public safety was very important to her constituents and citizens expected the council to work collaboratively with other jurisdictions to solve system-wide problems. She felt it was irresponsible to leave items off the list because of a supposition about other jurisdictions' actions or agendas. She favored having a system-wide discussion of public safety. The motion to amend passed, 6:2; Ms. Bettman and Ms. Taylor voting in opposition. Mr. Clark, seconded by Mr. Poling, moved to add ORS 190 agreements, to include a dis- cussion of permitting and service delivery in unincorporated areas, to the priorities list. Ms. Solomon commented that ORS 190 agreements would fall under the umbrella topic of the Metro Plan. Mr. Lidz agreed that the issue of what happened between city limits and the UGB was part of the Metro Plan discussion. Mr. Clark said his intent was to address the creation of a de facto situation in which a resident outside the City of Eugene but inside the UGB who was not in a position to annex, even voluntarily, because they were not contiguous, would be unable to build on that property. He wanted to assure there was clear agreement between the County and the City about who was responsible for providing services inside the UGB. MINUTES—Eugene City Council January 30, 2008 Page 5 Work Session