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- e e Cityls Garbage Board, getting them involved and asking them to meet more fre- quently. The council should explore ways to have the Garbage Board be more active. The City has, in theory, a structure that should be doing these pro- jects. She did not want to duplicate the Garbage Board with another structure. Ms. Smith moved, seconded by Mr. Lindberg, to show interest in cooperating with the County in dealing with the issue of solid waste reduction, by virtue of requesting two slots on the Resource Recovery Advisory Committee. A staff person, contingent upon the approval of the City Manager, and a City Councilor would represent the City on the Lane County Resource Recovery Advisory Committee. Ms. Wooten asked Ms. Miller about the Garbage Board. Ms. Miller said that she would like to see the board work more closely with the County by having joint meetings, doing a better job of liaison, so that they could develop and implement the policies when the time comes to do it. Solid waste problems dealt with at the County level should be considered from the City point of view. The County has to deal with problems county-wide as far as Florence. They have a different scope of the problems. Motion carried unanimously. VII. CONSIDERATION OF OPTION AGREEMENT FOR 38TH AND HILYARD LANDBANKING SITE (memo distributed) Mr. Gleason introduced Greg Byrne, Department of HCC. Mr. Byrne explained the Cityls landbanking program as one of the Joint Housing Committee's highest priorities. What they do is to seek out sites that meet council's dispersal policy for low-income housing. They purchase those sites and hold them for development of low- and middle-income family projects. The 38th and Hilyard site is the first venture into this program. Over a period of two years, they have received direction to proceed from the Portland office of HUD using Federal Section 8 funds for rent supplements. Within two days of the final approval, funds were frozen by the current administration in Washington, eliminating the Cityls ability to proceed with development of the site through a private developer. Staff and the Joint Housing Committee propose optioning the site to the Lane County Housing Authority who will act as property developer. The intent of the program and the outcome of the program would be the same: to provide low-income dwelling units on that site. The Joint Housing Committee suggests optioning the site for a period of six months. During the six months, Lane County would compete for housing funds through HUD available to them and not to the City. Within the six months they would show substantial progress toward securing the financing. If they were not successful, the City would retain title and control over the property and seek funds from another source. Mr. Hamel asked about item 2, where it states, "therefore the City agrees to exempt the Housing Authority from special assessments." Mr. Hamel asked what assessments. Mr. Byrne said street improvements, upgrading of storm sewers, MINUTES--Eugene City Council April 22, 1981 Page 9