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Ms. Taylor suggested special service districts could capture the costs of serving nonresidents. Mr. <br />Carlson agreed. Ms. Taylor asked if a road maintenance district could be formed. Mr. Carlson <br />said yes; such a district would be a county road district, and the Board of County Commissioners <br />would be the controlling body. He said that such a district would be funded by property taxes. <br /> <br />Ms. Taylor said that perhaps if property taxes were used to underwrite special districts, the City <br />could reduce property taxes and find some other form of revenue to pay for the services it still <br />delivered. <br /> <br />Mr. Kelly thought that several councilors interpreted "special district" more generically than staff. <br />His focus was on ways in which geographic areas could cooperate in delivering a service. He <br />acknowledged he had not known that special districts were so strictly governed by the Oregon <br />Revised Statutes and limited to property taxes as a revenue source. Mr. Kelly hoped any further <br />work done by staff answered the question of whether there were other ways for multiple <br />government agencies to coordinate and deliver services without recourse to property taxes or a <br />separately elected oversight body. He wanted to avoid the "peer-to-peer" relationship between a <br />district and the City. <br /> <br />Mr. Kelly asked if a park and recreation district could deliver one element of parks and recreation <br />services, such as youth recreation, while the City continued to administer its parks and provide <br />adult and senior recreation services. Mr. Carlson did not think so, pointing out that the City would <br />not be able to limit the nature of such districts once formed, as they were independent entities <br />controlled by the provision of the Oregon Revised Statutes. Mr. Carlson said that there were <br />limitations to county service districts. The Metropolitan Wastewater Management Commission <br />model was a county service district with an intergovernmental agreement that determined the <br />governance model of the district. Although the Board of County Commissioners were, by law, the <br />entity overseeing the district, the board had delegated some of its responsibilities to Eugene and <br />Springfield through an intergovernmental agreement. He said that a similar approach could be <br />taken to a library district. <br /> <br />Mr. Pap~ determined from Mr. Carlson that double majority provision in Oregon law was triggered <br />for the formation of a special district, or the election must occur in conjunction with a general <br />election. Mr. Pap~ did not think the council should preclude the option of forming a special <br />district but he was not necessarily in favor of taking that approach. He was concerned the result of <br />such districts could be voter backlash as the council placed what he termed de facto taxes on the <br />ballot and the total accumulated. <br /> <br />In regard to annexation of additional households to the city, Mr. Pap~ said he could not support <br />annexation. He thought the City should keep its doors open to annexation but people should be <br />coming to the City for annexation, not Eugene seeking to annex Lane County residents to raise <br />revenues. <br /> <br /> MINUTES--Eugene City Council November 13, 2001 Page 12 <br /> Work Session <br /> <br /> <br />