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Responding to Mr. Rayor's remarks, Mr. Meisner said he shared his concerns about such sites as Valley <br />River Center, but emphasized the importance of protecting the nodal development areas from incompatible <br />development to preserve the community's options for those sites. He said that without those protections, the <br />City was unlikely to see any development of housing on those sites. Mr. Meisner said that the guidelines for <br />the nodes, established by the council, would determine what was incompatible development. <br /> <br />Regarding the council's direction to staff to ask the State about the status of funding, Mr. Kelly said if the <br />City was committed to nodal development and State funding was not forthcoming, the council needed to make <br />the effort a local priority and address it through the budget. <br /> <br />Responding to a question from Mr. Kelly regarding the phrase "owner/developer interest" in the list on page <br />17 of Appendix F, Ms. Childs recommended the entire phrase be deleted. <br /> <br />D. Action: Approval of City Council Minutes of January 24, 2000 <br /> <br />Council Coordinator Kate Rowles apologized that the minutes of January 24 were resubmitted in error. <br /> <br />Mr. Rayor asked the council to consider a topic not on the agenda. He distributed a proposed revision to the <br />resolution related to the Eugene Water & Electric Board (EWEB) charter amendment:. <br /> <br /> Section 4. The City Manager is directed to work with EWEB to develop a joint resolution for <br /> adoption by EWEB and the council by March 15. The joint resolution shall provide that <br /> EWEB's telecommunication activities comply with the following: O service to every address in <br /> the EWEB service area; 2) open platform or open access; 3) collaboration with other <br /> governmental entities; 4) will not be funded with revenues from the water, electric, or other <br /> utilities; 5) use only nonrecourse bonds, which will not be issued without voter approval; and <br /> 6) involve a significant public involvement. If a joint resolution is not adopted by March 15, <br /> then this resolution is automatically repealed. <br /> <br />City Attorney Glenn Klein said that the resolution was intended to take what had been general representations <br />made by EWEB, to turn those general representations into something more specific, and to make them <br />binding. Responding to a question from Mr. Lee, Mr. Klein said that he had not discussed the text with <br />EWEB staff. <br /> <br />Mayor Torrey said that the suggested modification to the resolution was a demonstration of why the City <br />should not be giving away its charter authority. He advocated for giving EWEB authority for provision of <br />telecommunications services through a Memorandum of Understanding, coupled with a vote for bonding <br />capacity. <br /> <br />Mr. Kelly questioned the need for the modification given that EWEB had an elected board and would have to <br />stand by the representations it had made or face the political consequences. He was also concerned about the <br />lack of a common understanding of phrases such as "open platform" or "open access." <br /> <br />Mayor Torrey said that it was true the EWEB commissioners could be recalled if they failed to live up to the <br />representations they had made, he questioned whether that was the fallback the council wanted to rely on. He <br />did not think so, particularly since EWEB could build the telecommunications infrastructure it wished to <br /> <br />MINUTES--Eugene City Council February 28, 2000 Page 7 <br /> Work Session <br /> <br /> <br />