Item 2A: Approval of City Council Minutes

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Joint Elected Officials Meeting Minutes September 15, 2008 Page 8 the planning activities. He gave examples. It was time to consider how those services could be consolidated to provide better services to our citizens. Mayor Piercy said the task at hand was to align the planning processes. She addressed the issues of removal of the WEP. ODOT removed the WEP months ago, so that was no longer debatable. The issue was aligning the plans and dealing with transportation issues in west Eugene. Mayor Leiken asked staff to clarify the role of ODOT with the WEP. Mr. Boyatt said in 2007, the federal regional transportation plan adopted by the MPC did not include the WEP. Several months after that, ODOT reached a no vote conclusion and shut the file, selling off acquired right-of-way. The Eugene Council initiated the proposed TransPlan and removed the WEP from that plan. Commissioner Dwyer agreed the WEP was no longer an issue. He spoke regarding Commissioner Fleenor’s suggestion for check points, tentative adoptions, and choke points and said it was a good idea to include those in the plan. Mayor Piercy noted that Senator Prozanski and Representative Holvey had requested funding for an analysis of the bottleneck area during the upcoming legislative session. Mr. Inerfeld said during the first year, there would be a lot of regional dialogue throughout the process. He explained. COMMISSIONER GREEN MADE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION WORK PLAN AND FORWARD IT TO THE LAND CONSERVATION . AND DEVELOPMENTCOMMISSION EUGENE CITY COUNCILOR CLARK SECONDED. Commissioner Green said he was supportive of the concept of rural reserve; there was a pilot program being tested by the metro area in Portland and the Board became intrigued by that concept. He suggested caution, however, because they didn’t know what all it meant and the impact it would have on those that lived in the rural areas that may want to make application to develop their own property. He was supportive of this work plan and it should be moved forward to LCDC. The jurisdictions could come back together to determine how to proceed the rest of the way. Councilor Lundberg said she was comfortable with the plan. Eugene had already approved the plan, and it was a simple work plan that would get us where we needed to go. Within this plan was a myriad of ability for the public to weigh in. She supported forwarding it on to LCDC. Councilor Ballew made a friendly amendment to the motion, to adopt the plan, butDIRECT STAFF TO BRING IT BACK TO THE JOINT ELECTED OFFICIALS EACH YEAR TO ADDRESS ANY ISSUES. Commissioner Green accepted the amendment. Legal Counsel for Lane County advised that each jurisdiction should have their own motion and second.