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e Mr. Boles said the room tax should be part of the Strategic Plan with alloca- tion to be adjusted by the council based on the constraints in the code and following information from the community. III. ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATION WORK PROGRAM Christine Andersen, Director of Public Works (PW), introduced Dave Reinhard, of PW, Brian Churchill, Chair of the Bicycle Committee, and Mark Pangborn, of the Lane Transit District (LTD). Mr. Reinhard said a work session of the City Council and the LTD Board had been scheduled for March 4. He said that prior to this jOint meeting, a work session with the council was scheduled for February 20 to discuss transporta- tion issues. e Mr. Reinhard said results of an employee survey taken last fall indicated that employee ridership has doubled from about 300 trips for the average week to 700 trips per week since free bus passes were made available. Kay Kronholm, of PW, said most of these trips reflected round-trip commuter use. Mr. Reinhard said both the City and LTD are interested in pursuing a study of land use/transportation interaction and that this was the only item on the City Council's work plan for transportation which was not already under way. Mr. Reinhard said Transportation staff would like to hold a special work session with the council to discuss the Central Area Transportation Study (CATS), with particular emphasis on how parking policies might be developed to help promote alternative transportation. Mr. Reinhard said Transportation staff has suggested that market research be conducted to help determine where resources for alternative transportation should be targeted. Mr. Rutan said that he, Mr. Green, and Mr. MacDonald had been at an Intergov- ernmental Relations meeting that day at which it had been suggested that the LTD Board should decide whether it wished to work in concert with the City and take the issue of funding a new transit site to Washington, DC He said, alternatively, LTD could decide to delay a decision about placement of the transit site for a year. Mr. Rutan said the transit site is a high-priority project and encouraged LTD to determine its funding plan and go to Washington, DC, with members of the council in an attempt to raise Federal funding for the $10.6 million estimat- ed cost of the new station. Mr. Boles asked if the LTD Board had considered using payroll tax differen- tial funds. Mr. Pangborn said the payroll tax could be raised, which would generate about $1.5 million a year to cover a portion of the local share of the cost of the transit station. e MINUTES--Eugene City Council January 28, 1991 Page 5