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~ Responding to a question from Mr. MacDonald regarding the other components of the long-range plan, Mr. Whitlow reminded the council that the long-range plan also included employee training and development, the Short Mountain training facility, metropolitan coordination, and capital costs. He said that the social services component of the plan was included in the community policing element. Mr. Nicholson suggested that the council's assumptions about the costs of the program include the assumption that dollars will be saved by community policing and the revenue base will increase annually by six percent. Mr. Boles opposed Mr. Nicholson's suggestion as he believed it did not address the actual program costs and it was not clear that Mr. Nicholson's assumptions about the increase in revenues and savings realized from the program would be true. Mr. Whitlow said that full implementation of the phases identified in the memorandum was about $3.4 million per year. After some discussion regarding the costs of phasing in the program as opposed to identifying the full costs of the program over time, the council agreed to tentatively assume the costs of community policing at $3.4 million per year. Ms. Norris said staff would provide further information about the costs of phasing in the program to the council at the April 23 meeting. The council briefly discussed a memorandum prepared by staff regarding Hult Center rental rate options. Bob Schutz, Director of Cultural Services, said that the nonprofit arts community had previously indicated that it could accept a nonrehearsal rate of $250 per use. e The council reviewed the list of excluded strategy components that resulted from council action at the April 20 meeting. Mr. Miller proposed that component 131 regarding street trees (address life safety issues only, within Road Fund) be added to strategy package A or C. The council agreed to move component 131 to Strategy Package C. Staff indicated that $4.5 million would be required to balance Strategy Package A. The council discussed the information about alternative revenue options prepared by staff and took a series of straw polls to gauge support for inclusion of revenue options in strategy packages A and B. Mr. Robinette said he had made inquiries about Multnomah County's business net income tax, and discovered that the County adds the salaries of stockholders of closely held corporations back into the net profits for calculation of the tax. Mr. Mounts added that the City could approach the issue of the differences between corporations and other business entities by allowing noncorporate business owners to deduct their salaries when computing business net income; however, that would allow an owner to claim all net income as salary. The Multnomah County business income tax requires e MINUTES--Eugene City Council 5:30 p.m. April 22, 1992 Page 2