Item 2A: Approval of City Council Minutes

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Mr. Pryor suggested that the issue could be addressed through a friendly amendment. Mr. Clark withdrew his motion and offered a friendly amendment to add ORS 190 agree- ments, to include a discussion of permitting and service delivery in unincorporated areas, as a discussion item under the Metro Plan topic. Mr. Pryor and Ms. Bettman accepted the friendly amendment. Mr. Pryor also suggested that transportation planning, TransPlan and transportation funding could be merged into one topic. He said that would result in a priorities list of the following topics: ? Transportation (planning, funding, TransPlan) ? Metro Plan/UGB (including ORS 190 agreements, permitting and service delivery) ? Homeless issues ? Public safety ? Race issues Ms. Bettman said it appeared that Springfield believed the UGB could be split before any other steps. She asked if that issue would fall under the topic of Metro Plan/UGB. City Manager pro tem Jones said it would. Ms. Bettman, seconded by Ms. Taylor, moved to add a discussion of creating an Area Commission on Transportation to the priorities list. Ms. Bettman said that this was the only region in the State that did not have an ACT. She said the planning standards and criteria for an ACT would bring the entire region together to look at funding and planning and the products that resulted from the process, which included stakeholders from many different venues, had a certain amount of credibility. She said the creation of the Citizen Advisory Committee was an end run around creating an ACT and the result was that there was still no citizen or stakeholder involvement. The vote on the motion was a 4:4 tie; Ms. Taylor, Ms. Bettman, Ms. Ortiz, and Mr. Ze- lenka voting in favor and Ms. Solomon, Mr. Poling, Mr. Pryor, and Mr. Clark voting in opposition. The mayor cast a vote in favor of the motion and it passed on a final vote of 5:4. The main motion as amended passed, 6:2; Ms. Bettman and Ms. Taylor voting in opposi- tion. Mayor Piercy suggested that potential outcomes for the JEO meeting could be identifying the top priorities that the three jurisdictions wanted to consider and the order in which they should be addressed, work plans for each jurisdiction and the next steps to be taken. Ms. Bettman said that prioritizing the list should involve breaking it down into specifics before the JEO meeting. She said an issue for her was that Springfield intended to undertake certain tasks and provide Eugene with the findings, but she did not think constituents elected the council to delegate that authority to another jurisdiction. She said the City of Eugene and the City of Springfield were separate entities and Eugene should take care of its own planning and implementation. Mr. Clark, seconded by Mr. Pryor, moved to spend no more than five minutes on the dis- cussion item. The motion passed, 6:2; Ms. Bettman and Ms. Taylor voting in opposition. MINUTES—Eugene City Council January 30, 2008 Page 6 Work Session