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ATTACHMENT F MINUTES Eugene City Council Work Session McNutt Room--City Hall May 11, 2005 Noon COUNCILORS PRESENT: George Poling, Jennifer Solomon, Betty Taylor, David Kelly, Gary Pap6, Bonny Bettman, Andrea Ortiz, Chris Pryor. Mayor Kitty Piercy convened the work session of the Eugene City Council. A. ACTION: Resolution 4834; A Resolution to Approve the Eugene-Springfield Five Year Consolidated Plan for Housing and Community Development for Submission to the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development Mayor Piercy explained that this was a continuation of a Consent Calendar item at the previous meeting, held on May 9. City Manager Taylor noted that the motion was already on the table. He said Linda Dawson, Grants Manager for the Planning and Development Department (PDD), was available to answer questions. Ms. Bettman thanked staff for refining the language. Ms. Bettman, seconded by Mr. Kelly, moved to delete references in the plan regarding the City of Eugene's funding of street, alley, and traffic signal improvements in eligible neighborhoods on Table 2B, in the text and in the stated objectives unless the infrastruc- ture improvements were located contiguous with a publicly subsidized low- or very low- income housing development. Ms. Bettman averred that money slated for the alleviation of poverty and homelessness would be spent on projects that were not a high priority because of generally permissive language in the Consolidated Plan. Mr. Kelly appreciated the fine tuning of the language that allowed infrastructure improvements in combination with a housing project. He pointed out that this plan was part of the Community Develop- ment Block Grant (CDBG) process. He said historically the majority of the money had been spent to help various social service agencies and requests always outweighed funding capacity. While he believed there was a need for traffic calming and signalization, he did not think CDBG money was the "appropriate pot." Ms. Taylor disagreed. She thought that low-income people had a legitimate need for things aside from housing. MINUTES--Eugene City Council May 11, 2005 Page 1 Work Session