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" . . M I NUT E S EUGENE CITY COUNCIL September 6, 1977 Special meeting of the City Council of the City of Eugene, Oregon, was called to order by His Honor Mayor Gus Keller at 7:30 p.m., on September 6, 1977, in the McNutt Room, City Hall. Council members present: Eric Haws, D. W. Hamel, Tom Williams, Ray Bradley, Jack Delay, Scott Lieuallen, Brian Obie, and Betty Smith. I. Acceptance of Project No. 07-51-23280 for Coburg Road Storm Sewer in in the amount of $771,100 Economic Assistance Grant. Manager said this was part of the Public Works Emergency Employment Act and the deadline for accepting would be September 7. He said inquiries had been made about extension of the grant deadline and various alter- natives)with very vague responses indicating it was highly unlikely. In background information, he said the government required the city and school districts to have a project which had planned specifications ready, that the jurisdictions have control of land, and none of the grant money was available for land acquisition. An agreement was obtained with School District 4-J and Lane Community College, with a joint letter from all three jurisdictions sent three weeks ago. e He continued that this was part of a plan developed in 1967 and follows the policy of the City in the method of financing in that storm sewers larger than 24 inches be funded either by general obligation bond issues, federal grant money, or state money. He said the plan in part has been implemented and if the project were not built now, it woul d mean a reversal of the present system. He said the storm sewer would have to be built sooner or later, and if federal monies were not used at this time, it would have to be financed from bond issues or other general funds, which was not City policy. He noted the City had recently received notification that two of its three projects had been approved: $100,000 for Spencer's Butte, and $100,000 for airport development. Originally, six projects had been submitted for federal funding, but the City received none, with School District 4-J receiving $2,000,000. He said this present request for a storm sewer was in- cluded in the first request. As a result of the first review of the six projects, the federal government advised the City the storm sewer was the best, so that project was resubmitted. Don Allen, Public Works Director, distributed maps to Council and described the existing city limits, the projected urban service . 9/6/77--1 ~~b