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Councilor Solomon, seconded by Councilor Ortiz, moved to direct the City Manager to prepare an ordinance to create a sustainability commission as a standing committee advi- sory to the City Council. Councilor Solomon did not feel that the council had fleshed out, as a group, what this commission would do, how it would be created, and how much it would cost. She believed it would be more appropriate to do this in the council priorities session. Councilor Kelly did not think the motion established the sustainability commission, rather it just directed staff to draft the ordinance. He believed, in terms of the SBI recommendations, the sustainability commission and the office of sustainability were the “linchpins” to make anything in the report move forward. Councilor Kelly, seconded by Councilor Bettman, moved to amend the motion to add a second sentence, as follows: “The ordinance will describe a 12-member commission in which each councilor ap- points a single member, and the remaining four members would be chosen by the full council.” Councilor Kelly explained that he felt there were lots of different ways to gather applicants for a board. He said the amendment would put this model for gaining applicants in the draft ordinance, which could ultimately be reworked. Councilor Bettman supported the amendment and the motion. She agreed with Councilor Kelly’s comments. She said this motion would give direction to staff to craft language that would later be vetted through a public hearing. Councilor Pryor expressed some hesitation over the “seeming speed” at which this was setting the mechanisms in place. He said he would support the motion, however. Councilor Poling echoed Councilor Pryor’s hesitation. He believed that specific direction should come out after the goal-setting session. He agreed that this was circumventing the process that was in place and said he would not support the amended motion. Councilor Papé asked if the ordinance would be preceded by a work session. City Manager Taylor replied that an ordinance required a public hearing. He said the motion did not speak to a work session and none was planned at the time. Councilor Papé offered a friendly amendment to require a work session on the ordinance language. Councilor Kelly accepted the friendly amendment, as did the second. Councilor Kelly disagreed that this had been a speedy process, given that it had been well over a year to get the SBI report to this point. He said in terms of being vetted through the normal processes, this had been through the previous year’s Budget Committee process. MINUTES—Eugene City Council October 23, 2006 Page 6 Regular Meeting