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Councilor Ortiz asked when the appropriate time would be to bring it forward. Mr. Murdoch replied that the City Council would be discussing City Hall in July and would then consider the advice of the Budget Committee. Councilor Zelenka agreed that potholes had become a big issue. He believed it was a customer service issue and that the City needed to have safer streets. th Councilor Clark understood that the maker of the 9 motion had intended it to be an appropriation. He asked what would qualify something as an appropriation. Ms. Murdoch responded that an appropriation was the budget authority to expend funds. In this case she explained that the money had not been moved out of the Facility Reserve and it would not go anywhere without the council’s approval to spend it. She said the Budget Committee had advised the council as to how the money should be moved and spent, but until then it would remain in the reserve. Councilor Clark thanked Mr. Kievith for his testimony. He had been in conversations with the Public Works Director and the City Manager about the appropriate ways to fix the problems. Councilor Solomon thanked Mr. Kievith for coming down. She felt it was a travesty to just assign money to fill potholes. She did not believe the Budget Committee was exercising fiscal prudence in this matter. Councilor Poling appreciated the clarifying conversation regarding what constituted an appropriation. He also agreed with Mr. Kievith. He believed that throwing money into potholes was wasteful and a temporary fix. He reiterated his view that once a pothole was filled the fill would begin to be dispersed from the hole a half an hour later. He had been tempted to vote against the budget resolution because of this allocation of $1 million, which he felt was irresponsible. Councilor Zelenka reiterated that the council needed to do something to address the myriad complaints from the public regarding potholes. While he agreed that $1 million would not fix the roads he disagreed that it was throwing the money into potholes as it would fix people’s streets for the short term. th In response to a question from Councilor Zelenka, Mr. Ruiz clarified that the 9 motion was not a budget issue because it did not provide spending authority; he could not spend $25 million to upgrade City Hall. He said staff would come before the City Council in a work session in July and part of this would allow the council to provide more specific direction in this regard. Councilor Clark wanted to be clear that he agreed that something needed to be done about potholes. He did not believe that filling them every two years was prudent. He said in the next couple of years the City would have to come forward with a bond or the need for a shorter fund to fill potholes and a need for several new types of fees and taxes to do so. He hoped that the City would be willing to reprioritize some General Fund money toward that effort at that time in order to garner the public’s good will. Councilor Taylor, seconded by Councilor Poling, moved to adopt Resolution 4945 electing to receive state revenue sharing funds pursuant to Section 221.770 of Oregon Revised Stat- utes. Roll call vote; the motion passed unanimously, 6:0. Councilor Taylor, seconded by Councilor Poling, moved to adopt Resolution 4946 certify- ing that the City of Eugene provides the municipal services required by Oregon Revised Statutes Section 221.760. Roll call vote; the motion passed unanimously, 6:0. MINUTES—Eugene City Council June 9, 2008 Page 11 Regular Meeting