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Ms. Taylor said she was pleased with the commission’s work and would support all of the recommenda- <br />tions. She saw a real connection between energy use and food security and both goals could be helped by <br />controlling urban sprawl. She liked the County’s idea of rural reserves to preserve food production <br />resources. She recommended that the City discontinue charging the Farmers’ Market for parking. <br /> <br />Mr. Poling asked how the City determined the amount of waste that was diverted from the landfill. Ms. <br />Fahy explained that it was part estimate and part hands on work “dumpster diving” to determine how much <br />garbage was produced and how much could still be recycled. She said the City worked with Sanipac to <br />identify the amount of material that was recycled. She said the most difficult thing to measure was the <br />amount of waste that was not created by changing practices. <br /> <br />Mr. Poling noted that the second and third recommendations referred to a wide variety of community <br />partners, but only the third identified those partners. He asked if there were different partners associated <br />with each goal. Mr. Bruce said there were different groups associated with each goal and there was less <br />specificity in recommendation #2 because there were many potential partners and it would be necessary to <br />determine which ones were willing to be involved. Ms. Fahy added there would be overlaps between the two <br />groups of partners. She said identified partners were those that had already expressed an interest. <br /> <br />Mr. Poling asked if the goals of achieving 90-percent waste reduction by 2020 and 50-percent fuel <br />consumption reduction by 2030 were really achievable and how those goals were identified. Mr. Bruce said <br />that the second recommendation relied heavily on the Portland task force report and efforts at the interna- <br />tional level; the goal could be tied to the estimate of the reduction of fossil fuel availability in the future. He <br />agreed that the first recommendation to establish a goal for waste reduction was challenging, but the <br />commission recognized that all of the goals were aspirational in nature. He stressed the importance of <br />setting specific goals to provide guidance for the community’s efforts. <br /> <br />Mr. Pryor appreciated the emphasis on a non-regulatory approach. He said he had been able to divert <br />almost 90 percent of waste in his personal business because it was primarily paper, but that goal would be <br />challenging in other work environments like the maintenance yard. He recalled that demolition of the <br />Williams Bakery diverted 95 percent of the material. He supported the second recommendations because it <br />was desirable to reduce dependence on fossil fuel, but there was also an economic benefit if the cost of fuel <br />skyrocketed. <br /> <br />Mr. Brown asked for clarification of the market analysis plan. Mr. Bruce said a market analysis would be <br />part of the scoping document for food security to understand the dynamics of the local market. <br /> <br />Mr. Brown said the City should do all it could to increase food security, including expanding community <br />gardens. He agreed with Ms. Taylor about the importance of preserving the urban growth boundary as long <br />as possible and no longer charging the Farmers’ Market for parking. <br /> <br />Mr. Zelenka, seconded by Mr. Clark, moved to direct the City Manager to adopt <br />the goal of increasing the volume of waste diverted from landfill from internal oper- <br />ations and facilities from current levels of an estimated 45 percent to at least 75 <br />percent by 2014 and 90 percent by 2020 and report back to the council with a work <br />plan for implementation that includes fiscal impact implications. The motion <br />passed unanimously, 8:0. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />MINUTES—Eugene City Council February 9, 2009 Page 4 <br /> Work Session <br /> <br />