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ATTACHMENT G MINUTES Eugene City Council Work Session McNutt Room--City Hall May 18, 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. She announced that the council would begin with the second item on the agenda, a work session on the Santa Clara Community Park as Ms. Solomon had to leave the meeting early and wished to cast her vote on the item. A. WORK SESSION: Santa Clara Community Park Update City Manager Dennis Taylor asked Parks and Open Space Planning Manager Andrea Riner to provide a brief update. Ms. Riner said the agenda item summary (AIS) had outlined the information well. She pointed out that the AIS contained the findings of the telephone survey conducted in March, the findings of the appraisals requested by the council, and a recent letter from the McDougal Brothers' representative, Mike Evans. Ms. Ortiz appreciated the Santa Clara community coming out and showing support for the work. She noted that she had been quoted in The Register-Guard as needing more information. She felt she had learned what she needed to know at this point. She said Ms. Bettman would be bringing forth a motion and indicated her intent to support it. Ms. Bettman, seconded by Ms. Ortiz, moved to direct the City Manager to cease all action on the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area General Plan (Metro Plan) amendment for the McDougal/Santa Clara land swap urban growth boundary expansion and to instead pursue direct acquisition of an appropriately sized parcel in or out of the urban growth boundary to land bank for eventual development of a community park in Santa Clara. Ms. Bettman said the motion assumed there would be community involvement and took into account that there were no funds to actually develop the park. She averred the original direction to staff had been to move forward with land within the urban growth boundary (UGB) but they had not evaluated to any extent the broader picture of what might be available. Ms. Bettman believed that the McDougal Brothers would likely make $6 to $12 million from the property they would gain from the proposed trade as well as a $3 million tax write off on the property donated to MINUTES--Eugene City Council May 18, 2005 Page 1 Work Session