Item 2A: Approval of City Council Minutes

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Councilor Kelly accepted the friendly amendment with the correction that the alloca- tion included $100,000 in ongoing funding for three years and $20,000 in one-time money. Councilor Bettman commented that she could support the amendment but with great reservations. She said when the opportunity siting strategy had first come about, it had been articulated that opportunity siting went hand in hand with the preservation of neighborhoods. She called it a strategy for density that would preserve neighborhoods. She thought it would have made more sense for the position in the City Manager’s recommended budget to have been opportunity siting/infill instead of opportunity siting/ mixed- use centers. Councilor Papé was unsure that this had been vetted well enough. He thought the Planning Commission could have presented this to the Budget Committee earlier. He wondered if this could be handled through a supplemental budget. City Manager Taylor affirmed that a supplemental budget was an option to be considered. Councilor Papé indicated that he favored the intent of the amendment but would not support it at this time. He said he would support adding this position when it had been fully vetted. Councilor Taylor agreed with Councilor Kelly, but did not understand why another FTE position was needed to conduct this work. Ms. Muir responded that the staff proposal had not included additional FTE personnel. Councilor Papé said he would much prefer putting the $70,000 in one-time spending and the $60,000 in annual money now allocated to council office space toward this kind of work or public safety or potholes. He added that he would support the amendment. Roll call vote; the motion passed 7:1; Councilor Taylor voting in opposition. Councilor Papé, seconded by Councilor Solomon, moved to pull $50,000 from the Eugene Celebration and put it back into the General Fund. Councilor Papé said the amendment was not a statement against the Eugene Celebration. He felt the council needed to think of the precedent it was setting. He maintained that the City’s job was to provide venues such as the Cuthbert Amphitheater, Hult Center for the Performing Arts, and the streets that the Eugene Celebration utilized for the event. He thought the council was setting itself up for problems if it supported entertainment for one aspect of the community but not others. He averred that community funds should be kept to building and maintaining the quality condition of existing venues. Councilor Kelly opposed the amendment. He felt the Eugene Celebration was a community-building event. He averred that most people assumed City government supported the Eugene Celebration but there had been no City funding for it since Ballot Measure 47 passed. Councilor Bettman agreed with Councilor Papé but wished to point out that funding for the Eugene Celebration had passed at the Budget Committee level, 11:3. She felt it had been thoroughly vetted. MINUTES—Eugene City Council June 12, 2006 Page 13 Regular Meeting