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MINUTES – Eugene City Council December 10, 2018 Page 1 Work Session M I N U T E S Eugene City Council Harris Hall, 125 East 8th Avenue Eugene, Oregon 97401 December 10, 2018 5:30 p.m. Councilors Present: Emily Semple, Betty Taylor, Alan Zelenka, Jennifer Yeh, Mike Clark, Claire Syrett, Chris Pryor, Greg Evans Mayor Vinis opened the December 10, 2018, Work Session of the Eugene City Council. 1.Committee Reports and Items of Interest •Concern expressed about how little time councilors have to review agenda materials. •The need for a downtown day center is more critical than ever; if the City Hall site is nolonger an option, an effort should be made to identify an alternative. •Lane Regional Air Protection Agenda is a good forum for those concerned about woodsmoke and automobile emissions to express their opinion. •Topics raised by constituents include natural gas, automobile inspections, and categorizingthe homeless population to determine how many are homeless by choice. •Providing council agenda materials earlier would allow the public and the council to betterunderstand the issues and surface questions/suggestions on what action should be taken. •December 10 is the 70th anniversary of International Human Rights Day; a celebratory eventwas held at Churchill High School. •Support discussing ways with which to make work sessions more effective, including a lookat the timeline for council agenda materials. 2.WORK SESSION: Housing Tools and StrategiesPlanning and Development Director Denny Braud, Policy Analyst Jason Dedrick, EconomicDevelopment Planner Anne Fifield, and Consultant Carrie Bennett presented a PowerPointoutlining the Housing Tools and Strategies project, including key takeaways, process and nextsteps.Council Discussion •Important to acknowledge that there were many skeptics at the beginning of this projectand the focus of the working group evolved as issues were surfaced and discussed. •Challenging to bring very diverse perspectives to the table and negotiate a shared set ofrecommendations. •The direction given in the original motion establishing the project timeline has not beencompletely fulfilled; the report before council is a first step. •Important to have adequate technical and economic analyses to anticipate what will andwill not work; preliminary recommendations reflect only what is politically andeconomically feasible. •Questions asked about whether a budgetary resource for funding to cover the cost of theproposed City pick-up of the Construction Excise Tax had been identified. •Disappointed that the recommendation didn’t show how different combinations ofstrategies might interact with each other and could help council move towards its housinggoals; the suggested motions should be council-generated, based on their collectivesynthesis of the committee’s research and discussion. ATTACHMENT B January 14, 2019, Meeting - Item 3A