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