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She declared the number of existing tax exemptions to be “mind boggling.” She clarified that the first bullet point under B2 Exemptions under the heading of FINANCING STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT meant that the City supported looking at tax exemptions that were granted in the past in order to determine whether they were still good public policy on a case-by-case basis. Councilor Zelenka asked what was meant by opposition to mandating that a portion of urban renewal funds be spent on particular types of projects, in the second bullet point under B3 Urban Renewal Districts. Ms. Wilson responded that this section had been revised by staff because it had, at one time, been very wordy. She explained that the policy statement declared that the legislature should not mandate for which projects local governments used their urban renewal funds. Mr. Ruiz felt the statement supported maximizing local flexibility in such projects. Councilor Zelenka felt that the second bullet on page 10 under TRANSPORTATION A. Funding for Streets, Highways and Transit should be called out separately. He averred that given the enormity of the City’s backlog of street repairs the desire to prioritize funding for a system of maintenance and preservation should stand out on its own. Councilor Bettman opposed the document. She explained that bullet points under B3 Urban Renewal indicated that Eugene supported disallowing public schools the opportunity to create urban renewal. She opined that this was counter to every policy the City supported. She said the finance page indicated that Eugene would oppose anything that reduced jurisdictions’ local taxes and local revenue. She believed the two were contradictory. She averred that any special projects should go to the ballot. Councilor Poling asked what was meant by “reasonable replacements to Measure 49” on page 15 under D1 Ballot Measure 37 [to be corrected to say Ballot Measure 49]. Ms. Wilson replied that it was her feeling that they should reword that sentence, because they were not just looking for a reasonable replacement for BM 37 or additional fixes for BM 49. She explained that the State was considering a whole new way of looking at the land use planning system. In response to a question from Councilor Poling, Ms. Wilson clarified that the second bullet point under D3 Twenty-Year Land Supply referred only to the impact of rural residential development within the Urban Growth Boundary (UGB). Councilor Poling was uncertain whether he was ready to move the document forward. Councilor Zelenka was unclear what was meant by basing the buildable lands inventory on actual past development, as referred to in the third and fourth bullet point under D3. Ms. Wilson explained that the two policy directions had been included in the past several documents; staff had not updated the policy directions that the council had previously adopted and the council was free to change them. In response to a question from Councilor Zelenka, Ms. Wilson confirmed that the City supported the use of polygraphs in police hiring, as referred to on page 21 under C9 Use of Polygraph for Police Officer Hiring. Councilor Clark thought he likely had a number of problems with the Legislative Document. He stressed that this was no reflection on Ms. Wilson’s work. He believed the document deserved more time. He did not wish to oppose the document, preferring instead to table it. He was especially concerned with the bullet points on page 16 under D3 Twenty-Year Land Supply. MINUTES—Eugene City Council November 10, 2008 Page 6 Regular Meeting