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challenges when decisions were made and, without action, staff would be motivated to come before the council and ask the council to undo the amendments. Mr. Pap6 supported the motion. In response to Ms. Taylor, City Manager Taylor stated that, though a public hearing was allowable for anything, in this case the City was trying to %lose the door" on the LUBA remand in that the resolution was a clarification of the existing record. Ms. Jerome said, in response to a further question from Ms. Taylor, that the provisions were already in the plan and a vote at the present meeting would finalize the policy direction. She stated that the ordinances adopted in July 2002 allowed ODOT to go forward if it wanted to. She added that whether that happened was up to the determination of ODOT. A no vote would result in the legal staff returning to the council to ask the council to take the parkway from its plans. Mr. Kelly expressed his opposition to the motion. He requested the City Manager provide a memorandum informing the City Council as to how much money had been spent on legal counsel and how much the Public Works Department had spent related to the WEP. Mr. Meisner said he would vote to approve the resolution, though he continued to believe the timing to be poor as it was independent of the other jurisdictions involved and ahead of the ODOT report. Ms. Nathanson voiced regret that the council sometimes became too positional. She called the council ;;smart people who sometimes look at things in a different way." She felt the housekeeping issue was a process that had been voted on and supported by both the City Council and the public. She asked the council to consider whether it was voting on the resolution to indicate a position on the larger issue or whether it was voting to merely implement something that the council as a majority had moved forward and the public had voted for. Mayor Torrey encouraged the council to adopt the resolution at the present meeting. He stressed that it provided the opportunity to indicate the position of the council before the other jurisdictions. He felt it reaffirmed the public vote and would send a message that the project was still moving forward. He asserted that ODOT was waiting for direction and could potentially take the funding elsewhere. Ms. Bettman reiterated that this resolution was a preemptive endorsement of the project and a manipulation of the process. Mr. Kelly asserted that the vote would not move the project forward. He cited other processes the WEP must still go through. Mr. Meisner reiterated that the resolution was an approval of the response to the remand. He supported the resolution. The motion to approve Resolution 4780 passed, 5:3; Ms. Taylor, Mr. Kelly, and Ms. Bettman voting in opposition. Mayor Torrey adjourned the meeting at 1:24 p.m. MINUTES--Eugene City Council November 12, 2003 Page 7 Regular Meeting