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e e e M I NUT E S City Council Work Session The Trawler January 27, 1986 5:30 p.m. PRESENT: Richard Hansen, chair; Jeff Miller, Ruth Bascom, Emily Schue, Freeman Holmer, Roger Rutan, councilors; Dave Whitlow, Jody Miller, Dave Reinhard, Sandra Gleason, Christine Andersen, Barb Bellamy, staff; Jim Boyd, The Register-Guard; Dan Brown, Springfield City Council. The meeting was called to order by the chair at 5:45 p.m. I. OREGON DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SIX-YEAR HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT PLAN The chair introduced Ms. Andersen, who distributed the "Proposed Position Paper for ODOT Six-Year HIP" dated January 27, 1986. She reported that the aDaT Public Hearing Schedule has changed to February-March instead of March-April; this makes it impossible to set an election date in March for the 6th-7th Extension. Referring to a printed projected timeline, Ms. Andersen suggested that the election could be held as late as next fall (preferably the November general election) in order to avoid a vote-by-mail ballot. Introducing the report for the ODOT Six-Year HIP, Ms. Andersen reported that the projects initially requested for the three jurisdictions are listed on the chart (Request Submitted by Local Governments) distributed in the packet. This chart includes the suggested construction year and the cost including the funding impact by fiscal year. She explained that the 1986 projects are not a part of the six-year plan. The proposed projects totaled $38.1 million. The draft for the six-year program as submitted by ODOT does not contain the priorities as submitted by the three jurisdictions and, in fact, only reflects the 1986 projects which are not in the six-year plan. The draft document does not fund even $1 of construction money from the State for the Eugene/ Springfield metropolitan area from 1987 through 1992. Ms. Andersen reviewed the sequence of events ODaT will be submitting to the State Transportation Commission on the timeline portion of the written report. The time1ine also suggests a sequence of events for the jurisdictions in order to bring their joint input to the OTC. Review and revisions of the draft document will be done during the hearings process with projected adoption of the HIP in June. In order to provide background history of ODOT1s decision-making process, the HIP for 1984-1989 was reviewed and compared to the draft 1987-1992 plan in terms of dollars funded by the State for the five regions. In the draft for the new six-year plan, Portland is funded $221 million out of the total $712 million in the State- and Federal-funded portion of the program and the MINUTES--City Council Work Session January 27, 1986 Page 1