Item 2A: Approval of City Council Minutes

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ATTACHMENT G January 13, 2009 Joint Elected Officials Meeting City of Springfield City of Eugene Lane County Page 8 of 10 for a smaller subgroup. At the same time, the problems that had been identified here needed to be solved. They also needed to determine how to represent the people in the unincorporated urban areas. He felt a reduced number of people in two subcommittees could work on long-range and short-range issues. Springfield City Manager Gino Grimaldi said it would be unfortunate if staff walked away from tonight’s meeting without some direction. There was potential for consensus to move forward on two of the issues identified and he would recommend moving forward on those two issues. The Metro Plan was a large issue and there was interest from the group to discuss it further. The work on the two individual issues could be folded in to work done with the HB3337 work. Chair Sorenson suggested the LCBC appoint Commissioners Fleenor and Handy to the work group. He asked if Eugene and Springfield could appoint two councilors each. This subcommittee could then meet and determine the issues they would work on and bring that back to the larger group in a reasonable amount of time. Mayor Piercy asked for clarification of the smaller group and their purpose. She had heard there could be two groups: one to look at the Metro Plan and one to look at the two smaller issues. She said she was supportive of doing that. Mayor Leiken said he was also supportive and would discuss who to appoint during the next Springfield Agenda Review meeting. He asked staff to contact Bob Cortwright at the DLCD, before considering the Metro Plan discussion, to find out if we would be wasting our time. He appreciated Commissioner Fleenor’s passion regarding this subject, but felt we first needed to hear from the State. Mayor Piercy said the first issue was whether or not we could do away with the Metro Plan. Another issue was how it could be changed to make it workable. Discussion was held regarding whether or not to have one or two groups and the roles of each group. Chair Sorenson asked if the MPC could address the Metro Plan issue. Yes. Commissioner Fleenor understood the MPC would tackle the two smaller issues. Discussion was held regarding the two subcommittees. Commissioner Fleenor said he would like to see one of the subgroups tackle identifying various layers of the Metro Plan with an emphasis on where the Comp Plan stopped and the Metro Plan started. They also needed to look at what would be the required layers to satisfy the State goals. He thought the Ad Hoc committee should look at that bigger picture. Commissioner Handy asked for clarification of the two small issues for the subcommittee. Items # 2 and #4 would be for the smaller committee. Commissioner Fleenor said he did not want to be on that committee and would defer to another commissioner that might wish to serve.