CC Minutes - 01/21/98 Work Session

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Mr. Tollenaar moved, seconded by Ms. Nathanson, to direct the City manager to sell excess City-owned real property commonly known as portions of Centennial Boulevard and Club Road, adjacent to Hutchins Nissan, and return the proceeds to the Ferry Street Bridge Project. Roll call vote; the motion passed unanimously, 8:0. III. NON-ACTION ITEMS A. Work Session: Public Works Department Advisory Committee; Systems Development Charges (SDC) Policy and Principles Les Lyle, Public Works Department, provided the staff presentation. He discussed the establishment of the Public Works Department Rates Advisory Committee, a committee formed to advise the Public Works Department on systems development charges (SDCs), and reviewed its initial work program. Mr. Lyle asked the council for direction on two alternatives outlined in the meeting packet for reporting the work of the committee back to the council. He said that one alternative was for staff to routinely report on committee activities to the Council Committee on Finance (CCF), or to the Council Committee on Infrastructure and Planning Services (CCIPS); a second alternative was to report as needed to the full council. Staff recommended the CCF. As part of a separate action, Mr. Lyle said that one of the members proposed for the committee lived outside Eugene but owned a business in Eugene and was the preferred representative of the Homebuilders Association. He asked the council if it wished to waive the residency requirement. Ms. Taylor believed staff should report on the committee's progress to the full council. Mr. Lee said he preferred the reports go to one or both of the council committees, and suggested the chairs of the committees be asked to make the decision as to which. Mr. Meisner said that the issue of SDCs were directly related to growth management. He said that it was his preference, that the committee report as needed to both committees, depending on the topic. He said that issues related to GMS policies should be referred to the CClPS. Noting that all the things the council did came down to money, Mr. Meisner believed that the council needed more discussion of the role of the CCF and the committee structure as a whole because he believed the CCF was acting as a sort of mini-council. He said that committee meetings were not broadcast and neither citizens nor councilors could attend them all. Mr. Tollenaar agreed with Mr. Meisner. He said that the CCF discussed the issue of the SDC Committee (PW rates advisory committee) and agreed that the CCIPS should be the committee for the rates advisory committee to report to. He anticipated that the rates advisory committee would seek guidance from the CCIPS on policy issues. Mr. Tollenaar thought the process would save the council from overload. He suggested that items with major fiscal ramifications were appropriately directed to the CCF. MINUTES--Eugene City Council January 21, 1998 Page 4 11:30 a.m.