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Ms. Ortiz, seconded by Mr. Papé, moved to direct the City Manager to establish a technical <br />work group made up of staff, experts, and community leaders to develop options and a rec- <br />ommendation for how the City of Eugene might best capture value when it grants increased <br />development rights to property owners. The ideal method should be fair, simple, inexpen- <br />sive, and easy to administer. The work of this group shall be completed by March 2007, in <br />time to influence the legislative decision making. <br /> <br />Ms. Ortiz did not feel as though the development of the proposed ordinance was a bipartisan effort, and she <br />would like to see people working together more, and for that reason supported the motion. <br /> <br />Mr. Kelly was disappointed the council was unwilling to take definitive action on something with an impact <br />on the City’s ability to plan. Every time the council took a step toward a failure to plan, it made the City’s <br />growth management policies more irrelevant. <br /> <br />Mr. Kelly indicated he would support the amendment to the motion as preferable to the main motion. He <br />hoped to be, but did not expect to be, pleasantly surprised by the results of the State legislature. <br /> <br />Mr. Papé wanted to know the logistics of the proposed work group. Mayor Piercy indicated that no detail <br />was behind the proposal at this point. Mr. Papé indicated support for the motion. <br /> <br />Mr. Poling questioned if the predetermined outcome of the work group was a value-added tax, because if it <br />was he could not support the motion. City Manager Taylor anticipated that the work group would discuss <br />how to make the ordinance work in a way that met some of the concerns raised by those who had reviewed <br />the draft ordinance from different perspectives. Mr. Poling asked what would happen if the work group <br />could not agree on the ordinance. Would the manager get another technical work group? He reiterated that <br />if the council was establishing a work group with the specific goal of a value-added tax, he could not <br />support it. <br /> <br />Ms. Bettman asked the maker and second of the motion to accept a friendly amendment that should the work <br />group not have a remedy, the ordinance would be reconsidered for adoption. Ms. Ortiz and Mr. Papé agreed <br />to accept the friendly amendment. <br /> <br />Mr. Pryor also did not want the motion to presume a value-added tax was the result of the work group <br />effort. He did not want to hamstring the group by overly specific direction. He hoped the spirit of the <br />motion was that the work group would work diligently on options, because he could support it if that was <br />the case. Ms. Ortiz deferred to the mayor, who had asked her to offer the motion. In response, Mayor <br />Piercy said her intent was to see if the value-added tax could be made to work. If other things emerged, then <br />other things emerged. <br /> <br />Responding to a question from Mr. Papé, Ms. Ortiz indicated acceptance of amending the motion to include <br />a completion date of March 31, 2007, as a friendly amendment. <br /> <br />Ms. Solomon did not support the motion because she could not support the friendly amendment. <br /> <br />Ms. Taylor thought the motion was a time-delaying measure but she would support it in the absence of <br />anything else. <br /> <br />Speaking to Ms. Solomon’s comments, Mr. Kelly thought the spirit behind the motion was that the work <br />group would come back with a recommendation that might or might not take the form of an ordinance. He <br /> <br /> <br />MINUTES—Eugene City Council December 11, 2006 Page 10 <br /> Work Session <br /> <br />