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ATTACHMENT B Proposed Amendment to the CIP Policy Guidelines and Staff Recommended Edits The following policies and text were proposed at the March 7, 2005 council meeting on the CIP. Staff has reviewed the policies and has the following comments and edits. I. Staff recommends no changes to the following policy. 7. Funding sources that have been identified for a specific project and approved with adoption of the Capital Improvement Program shall remain the funding source for that project unless a specific exception is directed by council. II. Staff recommends the following clarifying edits to the second part of the proposed motion. 8. Flexible transportation funding available to the City from federal, state, county, and local sources, that is eligible, will be used to fund Operations, Maintenance and Preservation of existing capital transportation infrastructure, unless a specific exception is directed by council. This policy duplicates a motion for transportation projects approved on January 24, 2005 to direct the City Manager to pursue and achieve amendments to the funding allocation process for federal Surface Transportation Program (and any other source of flexible funding) by working with the TPC, MPC/MPO, and Eugene representatives on the MPC/MPO in order that Eugene' s allocation will be dedicated to fund preservation of the existing road and off-street bikeway system until such time as the backlog of preservation is eliminated, unless an exception is directed by the City Council. III. Staff requests direction from Council on whether this policy applies to City transportation projects, or some other set of projects. As currently written it could be interpreted to include capital projects proposed by other agencies. Staff recommends that the policy apply only to transportation capital projects as reflected in the edited text below. 9. New Transportation capital projects that are located within the Eugene City limits will be reviewed by the Eugene City Council before inclusion into any regional or multi-jurisdictional project list or plan. This policy also duplicates previous council direction regarding transportation projects. At a June 9 Council work session, Council directed that, "All project lists or funding allocations for projects within the City of Eugene or the Eugene urban growth boundary generated through the TPC for the MPC/MPO approval shall first be reviewed and approved by the Eugene City Council before the TPC recommendations are reviewed for approval by the MPC/MPO, including review of regional projects in which the City is a stakeholder." IV. Staff has no amendments to the following text. In the event the Council adopts the above motion, the City Manager and finance staff will bring to the Budget Committee in the normal course of amendments to the City's Financial Management Goals and Policies to incorporate the above. L:\CMO\2005 Council Agendas\M050411\S0504116.doc