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e e e Councilor Obie asked what other opportunities the council would have to consider the Dillard Road project. Public Works Director Don Allen said that under the current assessment process the matter would be considered twice by the full council (consideration of an ordinance adopting the improvements and consideration of the contract award) and once by the Hearings Panel. Mr. Gleason noted that change in the assessment process for Bancroft projects was under consideration. He said that one alternative being considered is use of a hearings official to make decisions based on policies similar to the CIP. He said that if this alternative were adopted, the Dillard Road matter might not reappear before the council. Councilor Obie referred to an item in the CIP for a bike path from Bertelsen Road to Beltline Road. He asked how bicycles would travel from the fairgrounds to Bertelsen. Irv Berman, Public Works Planning, said that bicycles could travel along existing paths from Beltline to Danebo Avenue and from Quaker Street to Bertelsen. Mr. Obie stressed the need for maintenance of the existing path from Quaker Street to the fairgrounds, which he felt was nearly unusable. Mr. Gleason and Mr. Allen said that this path would receive maintenance soon under the Cityls maintenance program. Mr. Obie referred to the CIP item for lighting along the Amazon bike path and questioned the wisdom of installing these lights, since maintenance costs could be very high. Mr. Gleason said that maintenance costs would come out of the Public Works operating budget. Mr. Allen added that this was a test project for bike path lighting. Mr. Obie said that he wished to flag this issue and the issue of construction of Fire station 6 for consideration by the CIP subcommittee of the Budget Committee. Councilor Smith left the meeting. Councilor Lindberg said that Councilor Wooten, who could not be present today, had asked him to state for the record that if she had been present she would have voted "no" on the CIP due to her opposition to the CIP item regarding the City's purchase of property at 8th Avenue and High Street from Eugene Water and Electric Board. Mr. Lindberg concurred with Mr. Holmer's suggestion that in future programs the City take a hard look at maintenance issues. Roll call vote; motion carried unanimously. VII 1. CONSIDERATION OF THE JEFFERSON/FAR WEST REFINEMENT PLAN (memo, Attachment II A" , additional information distributed) Mr. Gleason said that the recommendations previously made by the council had been included in the proposed revisions to the August 1982 plan draft contained in Attachment A. MINUTES--Eugene City Council January 12, 1983 Page 13