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Ms. Bettman pointed out that the City could provide some up-front incentives to a hospital located 2-1/2 miles from the center because it would save the City money in the long-term if the City did not have to provide new infrastructure and services to a new hospital. Speaking to the mayor's concerns, Ms. Bettman assured the mayor that the resolution was not exclusive, but rather inclusive. She offered to share information she had on the topic with Mayor Torrey. Mr. Kelly agreed with Ms. Bettman's remarks. He said that the resolution did not preclude PeaceHealth from taking advantage of the incentives. If PeaceHealth should choose to provide a facility at the Hilyard campus or anywhere in the geographic boundaries that included emergency care, ICU, and in-patient beds, it would be eligible for the same incentives. The motion passed unanimously, 8:0. C. WORK SESSION: Surface Transportation Program - Urban Fund Allocation City Engineer Mark Schoening was present for the item. He noted that Paul Thompson and Tom Schwetz of the Lane Council of Governments (LCOG) were also present to answer any technical questions the council had on the federal Surface Transportation Program allocations or the process and criteria established and adopted by the Metropolitan Policy Committee (MPC). He referred to the Agenda Item Summary, which included a review of the allocation process, and noted the allocations to the City of Eugene recommended by the Transportation Planning Committee (TPC) in three project categories: modernization, preservation, and planning and project development. The MPC approved the list of allocations for public review; an open house was scheduled for September 25, and the MPC would take action on the fund allocation and metropolitan Transportation Improvement Program at its October 9 meeting. Mr. Schoening reported that the project list was drawn from the City's Capital Improvement Program, capital budgeting process, and TransPlan. Ms. Bettman, seconded by Ms. Taylor, moved to direct the City Manager and City Transportation Planning Committee representatives to work with LCOG and the MPC to modify the STP-U programming and evaluation criteria in order to enable jurisdictions to facilitate and prioritize the funding of operations, maintenance, and preservation of the road system, if they so choose. Ms. Bettman spoke in support of the motion. She said that it would allow the council to modify the programming criteria so it could spend the money on the City's maintenance and preservation backlog. She said that the criteria was only recently approved by the MPC, and she had only agreed to the 20 percent allocation to modernization because she had asked if the City could use the money for maintenance and preservation, and the answer had been yes. The project list subsequently presented by staff had included projects that created new capacity. She was told that the projects were picked because they scored highly against the criteria, not because they were a high priority for the City. She wanted to review and revise the criteria again so that MINUTES--Eugene City Council September 24, 2003 Page 10 Work Session