Item 2A: Approval of City Council Minutes

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Roll call vote; the vote on the amendment was a tie, 4:4; councilors Pryor, Clark, Solomon, and Poling voting in favor and councilors Ortiz, Bettman, Taylor, and Zelenka voting in opposition. Mayor Piercy voted in opposition of the amendment and it failed. Councilor Poling said he would vote for the Resolution so that it would go before the voters but he could not support it as it was currently written. He declared it to be a mistake not to have gone with the July 10 version. Councilor Clark echoed Councilor Poling. He added his feeling that Councilor Bettman was wrong in her analysis. He averred that the wording going forward did not preserve the ordinance, rather it changed it in a way that would be detrimental to the function of the Police Auditor. Roll call vote; the motion passed, 7:1; Councilor Solomon voting in opposition. Mayor Piercy adjourned the Eugene City Council and convened a meeting of the Eugene Urban Renewal Agency at 9:02 p.m. 4. ACTION: Termination of Purchase Option on Roberts (Taco Time) Property Councilor Pryor, seconded by Councilor Bettman, moved to authorize the Agency Director to terminate the purchase option agreement on the Roberts property upon receipt of the pro- posed $500 payment from the property owner. Councilor Taylor asked why the City was only receiving $500. Division Manager for the Community Development Division, Mike Sullivan, responded that it represented a prorated amount, which meant that much of the option period had gone by and it was the value of the period remaining. Roll call vote; the motion passed unanimously, 8:0. Mayor Piercy closed the meeting of the Urban Renewal Agency at 9:04 p.m. and reconvened the Eugene City Council. 5. ACTION th Application for a Multiple-Unit Property Tax Exemption – 16 Avenue and Hilyard Street Apartments Councilor Pryor, seconded by Councilor Bettman, moved to adopt a resolution denying a th multiple-unit property tax exemption for residential property located at 693 East 16 Ave- nue, Eugene, Oregon (Corey Development, LLC/applicant). Councilor Pryor indicated his opposition to the denial. Mayor Piercy remarked that the applications were being submitted prior to the council’s consideration of potential changes to the Multiple-Unit Property Tax Exemption (MUPTE). She had thought about them and it seemed to her the applications met a lot of the objectives that had been in place when the applications had been made, such as density in the urban core, green building features, and a higher quality of product that could not happen without the MUPTE. She noted that the neighborhood approved of them. MINUTES—Eugene City Council July 14, 2008 Page 9 Regular Meeting