Item 3D: Ratification of IGR Meeting Minutes

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Ms. Bettman asked why the CCIGR should support a grant application to the county. Ms. Walston explained that the Hult Center for the Performing Arts grant required CCIGR approval because it was a city facility. Ms. Taylor, seconded by Ms. Bettman, moved to support the grant application. The motion passed unanimously, 2:0. 3. United Front Trip Ms. Wilson introduced herself. She provided an update on the priority list and the trip. She stated that the deadline for submitting the projects to be included on the United Front priority list was later in the day. She said the projects had to be submitted to Linda Lynch at LTD and then she would put together a final list that the intergovernmental partners were to discuss on January 19. She indicated that the partners would determine which projects would be included on a list to bring before the CCIGR for final approval. She planned to bring the list to the CCIGR on January 23 for final review and approval. Ms. Wilson reported that she had spoken with Smith Dawson in Washington, D.C. She said she would be meeting with Ms. Lynch later in the week to go over the process of the trip, as Ms. Lynch would not be attending the 2007 trip. She related that she would be taking on some of Ms. Lynch’s duties. She added that a tentative agenda would be released prior to the trip but they would not receive the final agenda until they arrived. She assured the CCIGR that the agenda would be complete and the schedule established by the time they had arrived in Washington. Ms. Taylor asked who would attend the January 19 meeting. Ms. Wilson replied that the meeting attendees were comprised of the intergovernmental partners: Springfield Schools, LTD, the City of Springfield, the Town of Coburg, Lane County, and the City of Eugene. In response to a question from Ms. Bettman, Ms. Wilson affirmed that all those attending the meeting would be staff. In response to another question from Ms. Bettman, Ms. Wilson said the agenda would be basically the same th as the last one except for the West 11 Avenue study. She stated that there was a proposal to split the study. She related that the Springfield School District had also submitted a request for inclusion on the priority list for funding for an outdoor education program. She noted that the City of Eugene had been working on its environmental education center for some time. She had been in discussion with the Springfield Schools and would bring all of the information to the next meeting of the CCIGR. Mayor Piercy asked if the Springfield School District had identified a pocket of money for the program. Ms. Wilson affirmed that it did. She said she had spoken to Smith Dawson about this because to her and to staff this looked like a competing request. However, she determined it was coming out of a “different bucket of money.” She recalled that the City of Eugene was pushing its education center as a regional center. Springfield contended that it would be a different study area: riparian instead of wetlands. She related that they also maintained that the Eugene center was too far to drive for a field trip. She intended to find out more about the request at the intergovernmental partners meeting. She noted that the district did not intend to build a facility; rather, it wanted to build an informational trail system. MINUTES—Council Committee on Intergovernmental January 16, 2007 Page 3 Relations