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transportation funding. Mr. Taylor announced that a joint jurisdictional meeting would occur on November 25, 2003. Mr. Kelly noted the council's receipt of a letter from the Shelton-McMurphy-Johnson House requesting that the 3rd/4th Connector be renamed for a historic figure when it was improved. He asked about precedent for the street renaming and the process for doing so. He recalled Ms. Bettman's request for a "big picture" process related to the issue of street renamings, and asked for progress on that. Mr. Meisner noted that the revised Whiteaker Plan included a policy calling for the renaming of the street. The advisory committee that wrote the plan had recommended the street be renamed to %helton-McMurphy Way." The council had subsequently adopted the recommendation. Mr. Kelly wanted the council to have more information about what the Mayor's Parks and Open Space Committee was doing. He recalled that the last update the council heard was in January 2003, and the Web site did not appear to have been updated. Mr. Taylor noted that a work session on the comprehensive planning process was scheduled for October 29, and indicated he would follow up on the issue of the Web site. Ms. Bettman said that she had heard from several constituents interested in the extra money generated by the parks bond measure. She said that there were those who wanted to see the fields at Adams School drained and improved, and others who opposed the staff proposal for the staff-proposed improvements at Amazon Park. Ms. Bettman said that constituents complained that the public presentation regarding Amazon Park project made it appear the project was a ~done deal." She asked how decisions about the improvements were made and if they were consistent with the statements associated with the parks bond measure. She asked if there was a way for citizens to be involved at this point, and what venue existed for that involve- ment. Ms. Bettman reported that on October 9, the Metropolitan Policy Committee (MPC) discussed the Surface Transportation Program (STP) funds in the context of street preservation. She offered two motions to the MPC, one to combine the preservation and modernization category so the City could resubmit its projects, which the mayor supported but which subsequently failed, and the second to take $900,000 now being allocated to new projects to be allocated to preservation so that Eugene could resubmit its projects and compete for those dollars to work on its backlog of preservation projects. The mayor voted against that motion, and it also failed. Ms. Bettman expressed concern that such actions took budget allocations and policy decisions further away from accountable elected representatives, and called for council discussion of the issue. Ms. Taylor shared Ms. Bettman's concerns about the way decisions were made about road funding. Ms. Taylor announced that City Manager Taylor would be at the October 14 meeting of the Southeast Neighbors. Ms. Taylor reported that a constituent had called her and suggested that Abigail Scott Dunaway be placed on a list of future street names. She thought the City should be gathering suggestions for future street names. Ms. Taylor said that she was contacted by several constituents who were very distressed by the idea of any MINUTES--Eugene City Council October 13, 2003 Page 2 Work Session