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Ms. Schue favored Alternative 3. She felt it seemed ridiculous for the City to give subsidies with one hand and to take it back in the ~ form of the systems development tax on the other. ,., Vote was taken on the amendment to the motion which failed with Smith, Obie, Lieuallen, Delay, and Schue voting no; Miller and Haws voting aye. Mr. Haws moved to amend the motion to delete Section 7.279(4} from the ordinance. Motion died for lack of a second. Mr. Haws was against this section of the ordinance because it exempted such local governmental agencies as EWEB and school districts. He felt very strongly it was not fair for the people in the city to pay for services that are provided for people who live outside of the city. Manager noted the tax would be applied only to those facilities that are built within the city limits. He said for the most part, those facilities would be used by city people. He noted again that the city is continuously negotiating and exchanging uses of property and buildings with these agencies. He said by not allowing these exemp- tions, the City could end up with a decline in intergovernmental good will and cooperation. Ms. Miller said it looked like a piecemeal setting up of City policies by exemptions from tax laws. She was not particularly in favor of the substitution of alternatives which seems to double the amount of ~ City financial support for any given project. . She had questions about exempting governmental agencies, but felt she would support it in the interest of local intergovernmental cooperation. Vote was taken on the motion which carried unanimously and the bill was read the second time by council bill number only. Ms. Smith moved, seconded by Mr. Lieuallen, that the bill be approved and given final passage. Roll call vote. All Councilors present voting aye, except Haws and Obie voting no, the bill was declared passed and numbered 18331. Mr. Lieuallen moved, seconded by Ms. Miller, to direct staff to prepare an amendment to the systems development tax ordinance which would exempt all developments within the central planning district. Mr. Lieuallen described Area "C" as shown on the map which he distri- buted. Essentially, he was referring to the core area of the city and NIP areas. He said it was not a fixed boundary or area, but a point of departure for staff in preparing the amendment. He said this would give the Council an opportunity to take direct action to implement long-standing policies for the future by enhancing and encouraging the - 18 2/12/79--14