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5. PUBLIC HEARING AND ACTION: Resolution 1036 Adopting a Supplemental Budget; Making Appropriations for the Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Eugene for the Fiscal Year Beginning July 1, 2005 and Ending June 30, 2006 Budget Manager Kitty Murdoch explained that this first supplemental budget of the year sought to reconcile the estimates put into the budget. She said in the case of the Urban Renewal Agency (URA), the two estimates that were being reconciled were the beginning working capital estimate and the capital carryover estimate. She noted one other transaction: the rebudgeting of the $500,000 that had been appropriated for the Patterson Underpass. She stated that this money would go to the City of Eugene should there be an agreement in the future on doing such a project. She stressed that these funds would not be spent until staff received further direction. Mayor Piercy opened the public hearing. Zachary Vishanoff , Patterson Street, felt there had been a lack of dialogue regarding URA spending. He said he had no idea what the URA was doing and he thought the media did not know anything about it either. He expressed concern that the Willamette Greenway would be lost because of urban renewal projects. He called urban renewal a “negative thing in this community.” Mayor Piercy closed the public hearing. Urban Renewal Agency President Poling, seconded by Councilor Solomon, moved to adopt Resolution 1036 adopting a Supplemental Budget; making appropriations for the Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Eugene for the Fiscal Year beginning July 1, 2005 and ending June 30, 2006. Roll call vote; the motion passed unanimously, 6:0. Mayor Piercy adjourned the Eugene Urban Renewal Agency. Mayor Piercy reconvened the Eugene City Council at 9:15 p.m. 6. PUBLIC HEARING AND ACTION: Resolution 4855 Adopting a Supplemental Budget; Making Appropriations for the City of Eugene for the Fiscal Year Beginning July 1, 2005, and Ending June 30, 2006 Ms. Murdoch explained that this supplemental budget would reconcile three estimates that were in the adopted budget: beginning working capital; the reserve for encumbrance; and the capital carryover estimate. She described the three reconciliations. She noted one new budget request of $22,748 not previously discussed from the Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department, which sought to pay backfill for emergency service workers who were called to the Gulf of Mexico area. Mayor Piercy opened the public hearing. Seeing no one who wished to speak on the item, Mayor Piercy closed the hearing. MINUTES—Eugene City Council December 12, 2005 Page 11 Regular Session