Item 2A: Approval of City Council Minutes

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Joint Elected Officials Meeting Minutes September 15, 2008 Page 3 Ms. Barry said the Commissioners met on this item on September 3 and gave helpful comments on what they wanted to see in the plan. Staff had tried to incorporate those ideas in this document, such as more detail on the population forecasting process, that the Lane County board would begin discussions on Metro Plan policy direction and that rural reserve concepts would be included into the work plan. This work plan would evolve and further policy decisions and direction could be incorporated, primarily work done by land management division that affected transportation in the Metro area. She thanked the Commission for their direction. Mr. Boyatt asked if there were questions or if they preferred staff went through the table. Commissioner Sorenson asked about the nature of approval. He asked at what point this became a policy issue and would require further decisions. Ms. Barry said there would be an extensive public involvement process for items related to both the work plan milestones and local and MPO planning activities. The jurisdictions would have their own formal public hearings at which time they would be asked to provide policy decisions. Mr. Boyatt agreed. Each of the jurisdictions still had the same policy decisions that they would normally have. They would then determine how to bring the different priorities for jurisdictions together. The work program did its best to identify when policy decisions were needed. Commissioner Sorenson asked if they could give authority to staff to pursue this for only one year to see how things developed. Mr. Boyatt said the approval requested was to take the work plan to the LCDC who had the legal authority to approve it or not. All of that was intended to meet that requirement in the transportation planning rule (TPR) that our plans needed to be consistent. Ms. Barry said they were required by the transportation planning rule to bring a work plan. Commissioner Sorenson asked what would happen if they didn’t like what staff was doing in a year and didn’t want it to continue. Ms. Barry said they didn’t feel the LCDC would support that as complying with the TPR. She noted that staff from the LCDC were in the audience. Mr. Boyatt said if that was the collective will of the jurisdictions, staff could go to the LCDC with a one year work plan. Commissioner Sorenson asked how much money LCDC was giving the jurisdictions and how much implementing the six-year plan would cost. Mr. Boyatt said it was difficult to know how much it would cost and he wasn’t aware of any funding from the LCDC. There would be discussions with ODOT regarding what fair share of state planning and research funds we could expect for this unfunded mandate. Commissioner Sorenson asked what other projects would not get done if the County diverted their resources to this work plan.