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MINUTES Eugene City Council Regular Session City Council Chamber-City Ha11-777 Pearl Street March 11, 2002 8p.m. COUNCILORS PRESENT: Bonny Bettman, David Kelly, Scott Meisner, Gary Rayor, Gary PapS. COUNCILORS ABSENT: Pat Farr, Nancy Nathanson, Betty Taylor. Mayor James D. Torrey called the regular session of the City Council to order at 8 p.m. I.PUBLIC FORUM Roxie Cuellar spoke representing the HomeBuilder's Association. She raised concern that the Natural Resource Study was being seriously underfunded. She said that projects that could be eliminated from the study were not, and opined that this was keeping costs high. As an example she cited Taney Waterway which scored 17 out of a possible 96 and had not been eliminated from the study. She also urged the council to allow more public involvement in the process. Debby Jefferies, 3800 North Delta Highway, requested that Item D be pulled from the Consent Calendar until the Metropolitan Planning Committee had a chance to deliberate on the question. She said the current methodology created a potential for litigation. Terry Connolly, 1401 Willamette Street, spoke representing the Eugene Chamber of Commerce. He said the chamber was against Resolution 4711 (listed as Consent Calendar Item E), because it perpetuated an inappropriate method of funding the Toxics Right-to-Know Program. He suggested that the City should fund the program out of the General Fund instead of funding it in a manner that, he opined, was deeply resented by the participating businesses. Clyde Carson, 618 D Street, Springfield, said there was a pervasive perception that the Eugene government was anti-business. He urged taking decisive action to prove that this was not the case. He stressed that decisions by the council that increased the costs of doing business could not be passed on to the customer. He said the public should be paying for the Toxics Right-to- Know program since the program was providing a benefit to the public. Dave Hauser, 1401 Willamette Street, spoke representing the Eugene Chamber of Commerce. He urged the council not to appeal the Land Use Board of Appeals decision to remand the recently passed Land Use Code Update back to the City. He said a better solution would be to produce a land use code that worked and to spend money on that rather than on costly litigation. MINUTES--Eugene City Council March 11, 2002 Page 1 Regular Session