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<br />Roll call vote; the amendment passed unanimously, 7:0. <br /> <br />Roll call vote; the amended motion passed unanimously, 7:0. <br /> <br /> <br />4. ACTION: <br /> <br />Transfer of Water Pollution Control Facility Property from the City of Eugene to the Metropoli- <br />tan Wastewater Management Commission <br /> <br />Councilor Solomon, seconded by Councilor Ortiz, moved to direct the City Manager to <br />take the necessary steps to proceed with the transfer of approximately 95.56 acres of City- <br />owned land to the Metropolitan Wastewater Management Commission (MWMC), contin- <br />gent upon MWMC’s agreement to convey to the City the right-of-way needed to complete <br />the improvements abutting the MWMC site on River Avenue. <br /> <br />Councilor Bettman indicated her support for the goal of the Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA), which <br />was to transfer the sewerage facilities. She felt some factors were complicated, however, as some of the <br />property was acquired with mixed funds and some of the property was originally owned locally or <br />federally. She wished to transfer what was needed in order to take care of the right-of-way and assessment <br />issue and to create the amount of property needed to facilitate the sewer treatment and the conditional use <br />permit (CUP) projected expansion, while retaining the amount of property that she did not believe was <br />necessary to transfer to “make it even.” <br /> <br />Councilor Bettman, seconded by Councilor Ortiz, moved to amend the motion to direct the <br />City Manager to transfer only that portion of the 95.56 acres site that was bounded by <br />River Avenue and the existing fence surrounding the water pollution control facilities on <br />the other three sides. <br /> <br />Councilor Bettman asserted that the riparian area outside of the fence was not necessary for the facility to <br />expand or operate. She felt it was in the public benefit to retain the property. She acknowledged comments <br />from staff that indicated there was a proportional benefit as two-thirds of the property was “strictly City <br />property” and the larger proportion of ratepayers resided in Eugene. She felt those comments to be <br />misleading. She asserted that the new capacity that a portion of rates was allocated for was not propor- <br />tionally distributed as the communities that were growing faster were receiving a higher proportion of that <br />benefit. <br /> <br />Councilor Kelly asked why, from the MWMC staff perspective, the City of Eugene would not want to keep <br />the excess property in its ownership or, if the MWMC wanted to keep it as a buffer, why would it not want <br />the MWMC to pay a fee for it. Wastewater Division Director, Peter Ruffier, responded that in the 1977 <br />IGA the partners agreed to transfer the existing wastewater facilities to the MWMC to complete the <br />regional facilities and that a portion of the property that was contemplated being retained in the motion had <br />been purchased with regional or non-City funds. He clarified that the portion to the east and a portion to <br />the northeast had never originally been part of the Eugene wastewater treatment plant. <br /> <br />Councilor Kelly asked if the 1977 IGA did not address a smaller transfer of property. Mr. Ruffier affirmed <br />that it did not. He clarified that when the council had last revised the IGA, it revised the section that said it <br />sought to facilitate completion of the process of transferring ownership of the existing facilities to complete <br />the regional facilities. He related that over time, the City purchased or condemned the properties necessary <br /> <br /> <br />MINUTES—Eugene City Council July 10, 2006 Page 9 <br /> Regular Meeting <br />
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