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Ms. Nathanson supported it, and hoped the council would support similar resolutions in the future. Mr. Papd questioned how Finding C was an incentive for the hospital. Mr. Kelly cited the City's former Business Assistance Team as an example of a type of facilitator that could assist the hospitals. He thought the finding provided an equivalent sort of function. Mr. Kelly said that the facilitator could be a dedicated City staff or could be a contractor who was completely focused on the task. Mr. Papd indicated he could support the resolution because of the change proposed by Mr. Meisner related to the list of incentives. Speaking to Mr. Papd's concerns regarding a facilitator, Ms. Bettman recalled that the City had subcontracted with its former City Manager Jim Johnson to work on hospital issues, and said she believed that there were knowledgeable experts in the community that the City could call upon. She noted that the proposal for a facilitator had come from her conversations with Jack Roberts. Ms. Bettman suggested that an incentive for a centrally located hospital could be an urban renewal district. That was not included on the list, but she had not intended the list to be exclusive. Mr. Poling questioned limiting the areas to which incentives could be applied. He thought that the technological advances realized by improvements to the Ferry Street Corridor and the 1-5 bridges alleviated the need to have a hospital south and west of the river. Mr. Poling moved to amend the resolution by dropping the text in Section 2 that read "south and west of the Willamette River." The motion died for lack of a second. Mr. Meisner called for a unanimous vote on the main motion. He believed adoption of Mr. Poling's amendment would have resulted in a divided vote. Ms. Nathanson agreed with Mr. Meisner about the desirability of a unanimous vote. She called on the council to adopt the needed Zoning Code amendments. She feared that in the absence of those amendments, the council could send a signal that turned out to be a hollow gesture. Mayor Torrey said that he had concerns about the resolution because he feared that it would preclude one of the providers from receiving some of the incentives listed. He asked that the definitions be modified to include an acute care in-patient facility if possible. Speaking to the potential of waiving fees and SDCs, Mayor Torrey pointed out that the City had limited dollars for new capital expenditures, and waiving fees limited those dollars still further. He said that any incentives cost the City money; such incentives were not free and were accompanied by a price tag. Ms. Bettman, seconded by Mr. Kelly, moved to extend time for the item by ten minutes. The motion passed unanimously, 8:0. MINUTES--Eugene City Council September 24, 2003 Page 9 Work Session