Item 3: Ratification of Unanimous IGR Actions

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Comments: The Council and the Sustainability GHG emissions and the Community Climate and Energy Plan now being developed will very likely include some recommendations for reducing GHG emissions, including reducing vehicle miles travelled. We’ve got vision and goal congruence at the state and local level on this, but there are some significant problems with this bill. It looks like, but lacks some important aspects of, the MPO GHG Task Force Legislative Concepts Report. Specifically, the bill requires action at the local level and does not address funding, and it does not take the phased approach suggested by the MPO effort. If the funding piece was an oversight and it is addressed in later version, would recommend reconsidering City's position on the bill. Contact Respondent Dept Updated Priority Policy Policy No Recommendation Eric Jones PW-ADM 01/25/2010 -- -- Comments: To Kevin Finney to see if he would like to have input on bill. Contact Respondent Dept Updated Priority Policy Policy No Recommendation Rob Inerfeld PWE 01/27/2010 Pri 1 Yes IV.A Oppose Comments: Councilor Zelenka was the MPO representative to the MPO Greenhouse Gas Emissions Task Force. The Task Force created a carefully crafted consensus report called the Legislative Concepts report. This proposed legislation is counter to the Legislative Concepts report in several key ways: it does not provide a phased approach; the Task Force report only requires action contingent on funding provided by the State but this bill requires action at the local level regardless; this bill provides no funding to local governments or MPOs for modeling, planning or implementation; it puts responsibility completely at the local level rather than involving MPOs as well. If this bill were moved closer to the Task Force report, then I think we should possibly support it. It might be worth checking in with Councilor Zelenka since he was on the task force. SJR 0043 Relating Clause: Proposes amendment to Oregon Constitution authorizing sobriety checkpoints for law enforcement purposes. Title: Proposes amendment to Oregon Constitution authorizing sobriety checkpoints for law enforcement purposes. Refers proposed amendment to people for their approval or rejection at next regular general election. Sponsored By: Sponsored by Senator MONROE (Presession filed.) URL:http://www.leg.state.or.us/bills_laws/concepts/sen/SJR0043.pdf Contact Respondent Dept Updated Priority Policy Policy No Recommendation E. Cushman E. Cushman EPD-ADM 01/27/2010 Pri 3 Yes V.C7 Support Comments: We support this resolution, which would refer an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to the voters at a general election authorizing the use of sobriety checkpoints to enforce DUII laws in Oregon. This SJR would simply put the question to the voters as to whether they want to support this constitutional amendment. If the voters approved the 12 | Page