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Mayor Torrey said those who had expressed concerns about North Delta Highway and Garden Way street improvements should prepare to participate in council public hearings and action regarding assessments. He said the issues were important and more complicated for property adjacent to land outside City limits since such improvements also required approval from the Lane Board of County Commissioners. The motion to authorize the design phase of the Garden Way project and consider a City Council public hearing regarding it was adopted unanimously, 7:0. Mayor Torrey declared a five-minute recess in the meeting. 4. PUBLIC HEARING: RESOLUTION CONCERNING CITY OF EUGENE SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET NO. 2 FOR FY99 City Manager Jim Johnson suggested that the council hold its public hearing before any staff presentations. Mayor Torrey opened the public hearing on the City of Eugene Supplemental Budget No. 2 for FY99. Howard Bonnett, 1835 East 28th Avenue, expressed appreciation for the work of the City Council. He said he wished to testify regarding proposed uses of one-time General Fund resources because a meeting of the Budget Committee scheduled to consider it had not been held due to the lack of a quorum. He said he feared the proposals funded new services with the resources without consideration of the need for sustainable funding of on-going programs. He recommended that the resources be considered Unappropriated Ending Fund Balance and placed in the Contingency Fund until they could be fully considered as part of the budget development process. He said that, over the years, he had observed support of on-going programs through the expenditure of one-time resources in the guise of supplementary budgets. Mayor Torrey determined that there were no other persons wishing to testify and closed the public hearing. Administrative Services Director Warren Wong addressed supplemental budget proposals for both the City and Urban Renewal Agency. He said the bulk of what was in the supplemental budgets had resulted from closure of the last fiscal year and completion of its audit. He explained that most of the adjustments were called "Beginning Working Capital Adjustments," which reconciled the actual ending cash balances with what had been budgeted in June. He said additional adjustments were re-appropriations of projects started, but not completed in FY98; approved Contingency Fund allocations; and recommendations of the Interdepartmental Cooperative Team, an element of community policing efforts. He said that half of the increase of 21.75 full time equivalency (FTE) employees had resulted from passage of the Library and Parks and Open Space ballot measures. Mr. Wong reviewed sources of one-time resources for the City Budget. He noted that the total available was higher than normal because of processes used to implement Measure 50. He said that even though authorization for expenditure of the funds was requested, the City Manager MINUTES--Eugene City Council December 7, 1998 Page 11 7:30 p.m.