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MINUTES <br /> <br /> Eugene City Council <br /> McNutt Room-City Hall <br /> <br /> July 16, 2003 <br /> Noon <br /> <br />COUNCILORS PRESENT: Gary PapS, Scott Meisner, David Kelly, Betty Taylor, Bonny <br /> Bettman, George Poling, Jennifer Solomon <br /> <br />COUNCILORS ABSENT: Nancy Nathanson <br /> <br />In the absence of Mayor James D. Torrey, Council President Gary Pap8 called the meeting of the <br />Eugene City Council to order. <br /> <br />A.WORK SESSION: Stormwater Program <br /> <br />City Manager Dennis Taylor introduced the item, saying that Mark Schoening of the Public Works <br />Department was present to share some scenarios for the Stormwater Program. Public Works <br />Director Kurt Corey was also present for the item. <br /> <br />Mr. Schoening recalled the council's two previous work sessions on the Stormwater Program. <br />The first work session focused on the program's history and evolution, the goals, policies, and <br />implementation measures in the City's Comprehensive Stormwater Master Plan (CSWMP), and <br />the program's financial forecast. The second work session program focused on the CSWMP <br />goals, policies, major work activities, the relationship of those work activities to the best <br />management practices in the City's federal National Pollutant Discharge Permit System (NPDES) <br />permit, the administrative review of the program, and two scenarios for the program, one based <br />on the rate increase approved by the City Council in October 2001 and one based on the current <br />fee. The council directed staff to prepare a third scenario, which was to be based on an additional <br />$2 million in budget cuts. <br /> <br />Mr. Schoening said that the policy issue before the council was what level of funding staff should <br />assume as it continued negotiations with the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) on the <br />permit renewal and began to prepare the fiscal year 2005 budget. <br /> <br />Mr. Schoening reported that staff went through an intensive program review process, which was <br />described in the Agenda Item Summary. He briefly reviewed some of the recommendations that <br />arose from that review. <br /> <br />Mr. Schoening reviewed the financial ramifications of the three program scenarios: <br /> <br />Scenario 1 Assumes that stormwater fees will be increased to fully fund the current program. <br /> For fiscal year 2005, projected program expenditures are $10,677,000 and <br /> projected stormwater user fee revenues are $8,580,000. An approximate 24 <br /> <br /> MINUTES--Eugene City Council July 16, 2003 Page 1 <br /> Work Session <br /> <br /> <br />