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1. ,Appointment, John P. MacKinnon, Jr. - Planning Commission requested confirmat~ lof December 19, 1973 appointment of John P. MacKinnon, Jr., as replacement on the \ Commission for David Hoffman, resigned, effective September 3, 1974. i : :. Mr. Williams moved seconded by Mr. Wood to schedule publ'ic hearing at the October 7 CourlCil meeting on the Code amendment with regard to housing dispersal, and that the September 3, 1974 effective date i for appointment of John P. MacKinnon, Jr., as a member of the Plan- / \ ning Commission be for~ally authorized. Motion carried unanimously. ' I \.- \ I \ . , I l; \ Wood moved seconded by Mrs. that a letter of commendation: ,. Mr. Beal Comm ,. be forwarded to David Hoffman for his service on the Commission (in 10/2/74 additipn to the usual plaque presented to retiring commission and Affi rm ,. poard membe:r;s). Motion c.az:ried unan~mously. .--..- J.: Legislative. Program - Manager.reported an expanded Legislative Committee for the League of Oregon Cities to include representatives from all areas of the State (Councilman Williams and City Manager McKinley from Eugene) with the idea of pro- tecting the effectiveness of the League at the Legislature through concentration on certain legislative proposals affecting cities rather than becoming involved in a broad program concerned with too many issues. The League Executive Committee . j suggested a number of legislative proposals considered at the last session on which it hoped the Legislative Committee would concentrate. Those proposals were re- . viewed by Manager and included State sharing of State-mandated costs, revision of the constitutional 6% limitation, increased city share of highway funds, new sources of highway revenues, changes in highway revenues as they affect small cities, improvement of land use planning program (S.B.IOO) , additional study of environ- mental impact statement requirements, compensable zoning (no legislation proposed at this time, but some thinking that there should be city or county financial re- sonsibility for reimbursing anyone whose financial situation was affected by zoning decision), amendments to various laws concerned with city government authority and procedures;- etc. ---Manager suggestedschE'c1ulingCTiscuss~on' at a' {utu"ie 'co;;;;~-tfee ..::- !meeting to give opportunity for Council suggestions as well as report on further iwork of the Legislative Committee. icouncilman Williams stressed two areas of major concern to the League - State- ,mandated costs, wherein city' functions are legislated with .neither funds nor ,mechanism for accomplishment provided, and transportation. He said It was the ;Leagu~'s position that an increase in the gas tax was warranted; the additional taxes levied to be returned to the cities and counties for construction and mainte- \ nance of transpo~tation facilities. i ;Councilman Murray suggested segregating from the Community Goals statement various , iproposals pertaining to State legi-slation to determine whether any should be given ( - [priority and a more aggressive role taken in initiating legislation. Mayor Anderson: :hoped the effort would be simplified as much as possible with the idea that gaining solutions to a few would be better than accomplishing nothing on a great many. 'Councilwoman Campbell wondered if there was to be any effort toward bringing :legislators into smaller groups for more satisfactory. exchange of views and pre- isentation of legislative action desired by the city. Manager noted the meetings ;set up by the League in legislative districts throughout the State between local , i :elected officials and legislative candidates to attempt a one-to-one relationship :in discussing the issues in addition to presenting an impressive prepared state- ;ment showing the cities' financial problems. At this point it was not known what the League planned along those lines after thE! election and before the legislative session began. Mrs. Campbell wondered if an express invitation to legislators to attend perhaps 'Wednesday Council committee meetings might provide the contact desired. Council- man Williams noted expansion of the League LegiSlative Committee to make oppor- tunity for that type of contact. He said individual Council members would be con- .tacted through the League for local input. Manager said past efforts at holding meetings to which local legislative delegation was invited were only marginally ,satisfactory and he thought the proposed one-to-one relationship would be more effective. - :In talking of ways to implement a legislative program for Eugene, Manager suggested hiring a person, preferably one living in Salem, . to be present at the Legislature daily, traveling to Eugene for contact with the Council. There was possibility of I , sharing this liaison with the County and Springfield but if that was not successful, 'he said, Eugene should do it alone, and he recommended proceeding with that type of ~rEtPr;~senta tion. In addi tion, he .Ee5!1l_~l5.t~<1..JTl9rJil.L<;'CjitiC!.!] .EUh~_ .~~.!1S,L!:_Jesoluti~ - .--'.-. -- ._- - ~_.. - 10/7/74 - 11 354