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e e - VII. SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET NO.6 (memo, detail distributed) Mr. Whitlow said that the council would be considering two separate items: Council Bill 2480 dealing with the supplemental budget, and Resolutions 3672 and 3673 which were a follow-up to the Budget Committee action of May 25, 1982. He said that the supplemental budget was approved by the Budget Committee on May 4, 1982, and was brought to the council on May 19~ 1982~ at which time the council held the item over until the matter of the Convention and Visitors' Bureau could be addressed. He noted that the supplemental budget did include a $6,000 allocation to the Oregon Repertory Theater. CB 2480--An ordinance adopting a supplemental budget; making appropriations for the City of Eugene for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1981, and ending June 30, 1982, and declaring an emergency. Ms. Schue moved, seconded by Ms. Smith, that the bill be read the second time by council bill number only, with unanimous consent of the council, and that enactment be considered at this time. Ms. Smith said that, in the spirit of the consensus reached at the May 25, 1982, Budget Committee meeting, she would vote for Council Bill 2480, but she hoped that a more refined process for allocating funds from the supplemental budget would be followed in the future. Ms. Schue thanked Ms. Smith for her spirit of consensus and agreed with the hope that this process would not be repeated in the future. Councilor Ball requested information on the proposed $6,000 allocation to the Oregon Repertory Theater. Councilor Wooten responded that there had been a shortfall in Room Tax Fund revenues and that, as a result, allocations to the major performing arts groups, the Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Eugene Peforming Arts Center, and the Parks Department were reduced. She said that the major performing arts groups were nearing completion of development of a peer review process for the allocation of their share of Room Tax Funds, but that the process was not yet complete. She said that, meanwhile, the Oregon Repertory Theater wanted to maintain the tradition of a summer production on the mall, but that there were not Room Tax dollars available for the production, nor was there a process in place for providing an allocation to ORT. She said that ORT had therefore come to the Budget Committee with a request for $6,000 from the contingency fund to match funds raised elsewhere. Ms. Wooten said that the allocation to the Visitors and Convention Bureau had been reduced by approxi- mately $12,000, but that the bureau had already signed contracts with others to provide services. The Convention Bureau had therefore requested $10,000 to fulfill these contracts. Ms. Wooten noted that both requests were one-time-only requests and said it was hoped that a process would be in place for dealing with such allocations in the future. Ms. Smith reiterated her concern that the council not make it a practice using supplemental budget funds for every IIneedy causell that comes along. MINUTES--Eugene City Council May 26, 1982 Page 8