Item 2H: Ratifiaction of Unanimous IGR Actions

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Ms. Ortiz observed that the basic question was whether the City should have an urban renewal district or not and this was another conversation. She supported the staff recommendation. Ms. Taylor moved to change the position on the bill to indicate support for it. The motion died for lack of a second. HB 2491 Ms. Wilson suggested monitoring the bill, a bill related to substances that constitute an intoxicant when operating a vehicle, because it had already gone to a hearing and the committee had raised issues with the broadness of it. She said it was being reworked. Mr. Poling indicated that he had pulled the bill because there had been conflicting recommendations from staff for it. Mr. Poling, seconded by Ms. Ortiz, moved to monitor the bill. The motion passed un- animously, 3:0. SB 825 Ms. Wilson stated that the bill would direct a police officer to confiscate a registration card and to mark had been driving with a suspended or revoked license. Mr. Poling had pulled the bill because he wanted to support it. He wanted to prepare for a future in which the area would hopefully have a public safety system that was fully in place and could deal with people arrested for such violations. He recalled that the second point that Lieutenant Derel Schulz had brought up was that it would make it mandatory. He said there were times when an officer out on the street could not deal with things of this nature because of time. He indicated he would advocate for supporting it if it , Ellwood Cushman, Policy Analyst for the Eugene Police Department (EPD), affirmed that staff had two concerns the mandatory jail sentence and the mandatory requirement for the police officer to do it. Ms. Piercy asked if the bill was moving. Ms. Wilson replied that a public hearing had been held and the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) had testified that it did not have the technical capability to program the system to have it ready by the time the bill would require implementation. She noted that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) had opposed the bill. Ms. Piercy recommended monitoring the bill. Mr. Poling commented that he wished they could say something other than support or oppose for this bill. He would prefer to send a letter asking the bill to be amended. Ms. Wilson predicted that the bill would be worked before it would have another hearing. She reiterated that the state agency that would be responsible for programming this in had indicated that it could not do so in the timeframe the bill would require. MINUTESCouncil Committee on Intergovernmental Relations April 1, 2009 Page 3