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Mayor Torrey called for council questions and comments. <br /> <br />Responding to a question from Mr. Kelly, Mr. Carlson said that the River Road/Santa Clara Urban <br />Services Committees had not specifically discussed the staff recommendation, but had made <br />recommendations for implementation actions. There were no specific implementation actions <br />related to the fire station purpose. He confirmed, in response to a follow-up question from Mr. <br />Kelly, that the committees were aware of the assessment bond reserves and discussed the use of <br />those funds for plan implementation. <br /> <br />Mr. Kelly did not object to acquiring the land for the fire station and he believed the deployment <br />plan made sense. He wanted to know how the City could both acquire the land and move forward <br />with the plan implementation steps. He asked if staff estimated the cost of moving the plans <br />forward. Mr. Carlson said staff had cost estimates for the implementation measures. The total <br />cost for implementing all three measures was about $450,000. Staff did not expect all that work to <br />be done in fiscal year 2004. <br /> <br /> Mr. Kelly, seconded by Mr. Pap~, moved to direct the City Manager to prepare <br /> a request for Supplemental Budget #1 that appropriates the amount needed <br /> to purchase the property for Fire Station 11, up to $555,000. Funding of this <br /> purchase shall come from reducing the reserves in the River Road/Santa <br /> Clara Assessment Bond Fund Reserve. <br /> <br /> Mr. Kelly, seconded by Ms. Bettman, moved to amend the motion so that up <br /> to $355,000 of the fire station land purchase would be funded from the Bond <br /> Fund Reserve; the remaining $200,000 from Facilities Reserve; and the <br /> $200,000 available in the Bond Fund Reserve would be held to fund the <br /> recommendations of the River Road/Santa Clara Urban Services <br /> Committees. <br /> <br />Mr. Meisner determined from Mr. Carlson that there was approximately $570,000 in the bond <br />reserve account, which was enough to fund purchase of the site. Mr. Carlson indicated that there <br />will be revenue to the fund totaling about $400,000 to $500,000 over an eight-year period. <br /> <br />Ms. Nathanson did not support the amendment. She said that the council did not know what the <br />committee recommendations would yield. If they resulted in capital improvement projects, those <br />projects might already be addressed through other efforts, such as the Parks and Open Space <br />Bond. The City was already acquiring more neighborhood park land in this area than in other <br />areas. She suggested that some of the other recommendations might not cost much money to <br />implement. She thought the recommendation worked well as it stood. <br /> <br />Mr. Kelly clarified that he was not proposing to set aside the money to implement <br />recommendations such as those calling for capital projects. His focus was on setting aside <br />money to fund the plan updates recommended by the committees. <br /> <br />Ms. Bettman said she would support the amendment if it was to implement the second two <br />recommendations of the committees, which was to conduct two more studies. One was for an <br />urban facilities and services study and the other was for an economic study. She thought those <br />were the first steps in the process of seeing how the service transition would evolve. She also <br />perceived the recommendations as the least expensive of the recommendations, and said she <br /> <br />MINUTES--Eugene City Council October 28, 2002 Page 11 <br /> Work Session <br /> <br /> <br />