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Jody Miller of the Intergovernmental Relations office introduced the staff presentation. She said the task force had recommended two proposals, and e staff requested direction in three areas: 1) which version of the ordinance the City Council preferred; 2) whether to refer a proposal on the scope of the ordinance to voters; and 3) if referral to voters was favored, in what form it should occur. Ms. Miller said another work session and action could be scheduled for January. She also said staff had begun research on a tentative recommendation for a referral to voters, but more work was needed. She noted that the deadline for a May election would be March 17 or sooner if a local voters' pamphlet were to be used. Glen Potter of the Intergovernmental Relations office presented the final report from the Nuclear Free Zone Task Force. He noted that the Nuclear Free Zone Task Force had been appointed last February and had been asked to review the ordinance passed by voters in November 1986. Mr. Potter said the City Council's charge to the task force was included in Appendix F of the report, and he reviewed task force responses to that charge. Mr. Potter said the task force early on had reached consensus to proceed with the provision for notification of public officials, the Ci ty Council had approved, and notification had been made in April. He said annual notification would continue under either of the two proposals in the report. Mr. Potter said placement of Nuclear Free Zone signs at city entrances also had received the approval of the task force and council, and the City had installed signs on City and county rights-of-way. He said negotiations still were occurring for authorization to place signs on State rights-of-way. e Mr. Potter said the task force had been asked to advise the council on an appropriate City response to questions about legal issues, administrative issues, and the effects of the ordinance on other programs, in particular economic development. He said the report indicated that the task force had been unable to reach consensus on all of the legal and administrative issues, although agreement had been reached on many. Ultimately, he sa i d, the two versions recommended tonight, Proposals A and B, had been drafted as separate proposals, and the full task force in November had taken action to refer both proposals to the City Council. A. Proposal A Mr. Potter said Proposal A was presented by five task force members who were interested in retaining as much of the ori gi na 1 ordinance language as possible, while seeking to address what they saw as the obvious legal problems raised early in the review process. The group named this draft the "Minimally Revised Version" of the ordinance (MRV). He said Proposal A would ban the design, development, testing, production, maintenance, and storage of nuclear weapons; nuclear weapons systems; delivery systems; command, control, and communication systems; defensive systems; and components of any of those. The definition of "de 1 i very system" included land, air, and sea craft whose primary intended purpose was to deliver a nuclear weapon to its target. The definition of "command, control, and communications systems" included remote sensing, electronic communications and data processing hardware and software e MINUTES--Eugene City Council work session December 7, 1987 Page 2