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e Ms. Bascom assumed that Bancroft opportunities exist for payment of the assessment. Mr. Lyle said the grant component will draw down the assessment approximately 50 percent and the loan component will be paid off through the Bancroft assessment of the improvement (ten years). Res. No. 4138--A resolution initiating Terry Street design and bidding and Amazon Channel Floodway Modifications design, acquisition, and bidding. Ms. Bascom moved, seconded by Mr. Rutan, to approve the minutes and findings from the Hearings Official and to adopt the resolution. Roll call vote; the motion carried unanimously, 8:0. v. RESOLUTION CONCERNING TESTIMONY AND FUNDING APPLICATIONS City Manager Mike Gleason introduced the item. Jody Mill er, Intergovernmental Relations Division, reported that the resolution was before the council as a recommendation from the City Council Legislative Committee. She noted a correction to Exhibit B, page 2, line 2, attached to the staff notes: the words "and attached hereto as Exhibit 1" should be deleted. Ms. Miller described the proposed changes as helping the City be more efficient, effective, and strategic in its funding requests. Those changes - relating to Federal testimony formalize practices already in effect. A resolution on policy regarding testimony to the State government was adopted in 1974. The Legislative Committee sets priorities and recommends positions and strategies to the full council. This resolution would add Federal testimony to that earlier resolution and would also add the approval of all funding applications to that process. Large funding applications would continue to come to the full council and all applications for funding to municipal corporations, the State, the Federal government, and private foundations also would require council approval. The Legislative Committee would continue in its role of balancing and developing a political, strategic plan. Ms. Schue commented that the resolution under consideration would create a mechanism to avoid conflict among departments and to maintain council control over the process. She said free speech by members of the council would not be hampered, but if they wished to speak before public bodies in a way that departed from a council-adopted City position, those comments would have to be presented as the individual's and not as representative of the council. Mr. Holmer commended the Legislative Committee for its finding that "it is the exclusive role of the City Council to set legislative policy for the City. II He considered it a reversal of that finding to allow the City Manager to determine whether the City of Eugene should speak on a legislative issue or apply for available funds (Section 6). He requested that this section be reworded to assign the authority to determine that need to the e MINUTES--Eugene City Council September 11, 1989 Page 7