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Mr. Bj6rklund noted that the adopted inventory was legal, acknowledged by the State, and had survived several appeals. Passage of the motion meant the council would be amending an adopted and acknowledged inventory. He said the process was not an open process that allowed for corrections along the way. The City must go back and amend the adopted inventory. Mr. Pap6 called for the question. Ms. Solomon seconded the motion. City Manager Taylor suggested the motion was the subject of an important policy discussion and delay would allow for a staff response. Mayor Piercy asked if the delay would allow the council to address the issue in the current process if it chose to. City Manager Taylor believed so. He said the motion arose out of another issue, the Dillard - Nectar Way property, and required another discussion as it had larger implications. The motion to call the question passed unanimously. The vote on the motion was a 4:4 tie; Ms. Taylor, Mr. Kelly, Ms. Bettman, and Ms. Ortiz voting yes; Mr. Pap6, Mr. Poling, Ms. Solomon, and Mr. Pryor voting no; Mayor Piercy cast a vote in support of the motion and it passed on a final vote of 5:4. Ms. Taylor expressed the hope the City would attempt to purchase the property. Mr. Kelly suggested a work session be scheduled soon to ~flesh out the subtleties" of the issue. B. Work Session: Programming of Surface Transportation Program-Urban Funds City Engineer Mark Schoening was present for the item. He asked the council to approve the list of projects shown as in Attachment A to the Agenda Item Summary so that staff could complete applications and submit them to the metropolitan planning organization (MPO), which would then begin the process of programming available Surface Transportation Program-Urban (STP-U) funds. He reported that the Metropolitan Policy Committee (MPC) programmed only 85 percent of the available funds and now recommended that 100 percent of fiscal year (FY) 2004 and 98 percent of FY05 and FY06 funds be programmed. Those funds, in combination with another MPC action, totaled $1.3 million. Continuing, Mr. Schoening said that at its May meeting, the MPC passed a motion that divided the funding into three program categories: 1) preservation; 2) modernization and planning and project development; and 3) transportation demand management. Staff recommended projects to be funded in the preservation and modernization and planning and project development categories. Mr. Schoening noted the four proposed street and off-street bicycle preservation projects and called the council's attention to the funding split for the proposed modernization and planning and project development project, which was the road improve- ments related to the federal courthouse. MINUTES--Eugene City Council June 8, 2005 Page 7 Work Session