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e already had been spent on the land side of the project. He added that no State funds were used in the terminal project. Les Lyle of the Public Works Department responded to Mr. Chapman's question about River Road/Santa Clara lateral sewers. He said plans for FY88 included a proposal to bid an improvement project along Irving Drive, from Canterbury to River Road, and that would amount to about $800,000. For FY89, staff had attempted to break the River Road/Santa Clara sewers into specific projects, and two of those had been identified--the Green Lane system listed on Page 116, and the Irving and Prairie Roads system listed on Page 117. Mr. Lyle said FY90 projects would be based strictly on annexation activity and would be funded by assessments. Mr. Lyle said another question had been raised about bikepath reconstruction. He said the Public Works Department proposed addressing that issue by constructing the bike path from Richardson Bridge to Bailey Hill, which has similar expansive soil characteristics, and evaluating the results the following winter. He said the $20,000 allotted for rehab work then could be used to build another test section in the area identified and to verify that the desired approach would respond to expansive soils. e Ms. Bascom asked about the amount of increase requested by the Bicycle Committee. Mr. Lyle said he thought no dollar amount had been identified, and it was proposed that the Bicycle Committee evaluate the rehab dollar needs as part of the Bicycle Master Plan update process and that further approval be sought from the City Council. Ms. Wooten asked about the safety net issue raised by Mr. Chapman, to allow financing of sewers by low-income residents. Mr. Lyle said staff was reviewing that issue to try to develop an approach. He said a proposal now was being made to the Department of Environmental Quality for a funding resource to assist low-income and elderly residents, and a proposed code change to address that was scheduled for council action shortly. Ms. Wooten asked whether people had applied for the assistance. Mr. Lyle said no one had applied at this time, and the only approach now available was the deferral program as defined in the code. Ms. Wooten said she favored proceeding with that as soon as possible, because the necessity of that program had been discussed and requested from the outset of the grant discussions. Mr. Gleason said the current property tax deferral program for capital improvement programs was available, but another program specifically for sewers was being developed. Ms. Wooten noted that proposed improvements for the Willamette Street/Broadway redesign were scheduled for two years from now, in order to accommodate the final decision regarding the opening of Willamette Street. e Ms. Wooten said she would like to defer the item on Page 85 referring to realignment of Cheshire Street, because agreements had not been reached with property owners, the issue was becoming major in two neighborhoods, MINUTES--Eugene City Council February 8, 1988 Page 20