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Regarding Item C, Councilor Bettman said she pulled the item because she objected to the way the funding package was put together. She noted that the assessments left over $867,000 for the County Road fund to pick up. She said this was a demonstrative example of why she had voted against the Transportation System Maintenance Fee. She said, if the project was being done by the City of Eugene, the remainder of the project would be financed by SDCs and noted that the current financing was coming out of the County Road Fund which could be used for maintenance and preservation instead of increasing capacity. She said she would vote against the resolution. Roll call vote; Item C passed, 6:2; councilors Bettman and Taylor voting in opposition. Regarding Item B, Councilor Nathanson said the work session on a living wage was to be held a day before the vote on Measure 28, the State tax measure. She noted that, even if the measure passed there would be huge budget problems for the fiscal year. She said a discussion of a living wage ordinance would involve a potential budget impact to the City and commented that the discussion needed to wait until the results of the funding measure were known. Councilor Nathanson, seconded by Councilor Meisner, moved to change the tentative working agenda by switching the work session on Endangered Species Act salmon strategies for the work session on a living wage standard. Councilor Kelly noted that the council had passed a motion to work through the living wage issue in time for the beginning of the budget process. He further noted that the item had already been postponed twice. He said he could not support postponing the matter again. Councilor Bettman said it was merely a work session and any action taken was subject to the full Budget Committee. She said it would not make sense to postpone the matter since the work needed to be done in a timely way to forward on to the Budget Committee. She remarked that any budget action was contingent on what happened with the state funding measure and other alternative funding options. Councilor Taylor said she would oppose the motion because the discussion had been postponed too many times. Councilor Kelly offered a friendly amendment, which was accepted, to have the discussion on January 29. Mayor Torrey said he would vote in favor of the initial motion but would vote against the amended motion. He said, while the council would know the outcome of the vote on January 29, the council would not know what the legislature intended to do about any proposed budget cuts. Roll call vote; the motion, as amended, passed, 5:3; councilors Poling, Meisner, and Solomon voting in opposition. Roll call vote; Item B, as amended, passed unanimously. MINUTES--Eugene City Council January 13, 2003 Page 6 Regular Meeting