Item 2A: Approval of City Council Minutes

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ATTACHMENT C M I N U T E S Eugene City Council McNutt Room—City Hall—777 Pearl Street Eugene, Oregon February 8, 2010 5:30 p.m. COUNCILORS PRESENT: Alan Zelenka, Mike Clark, Andrea Ortiz, Jennifer Solomon, Chris Pryor, George Poling, George Brown, Betty Taylor Her Honor Mayor Kitty Piercy called the work session of the Eugene City Council to order. A. WORK SESSION: Federal Surface Transportation Program – Urban Funds Mayor Piercy said she and Mr. Zelenka served on the Metropolitan Policy Committee (MPC) and it was their responsibility to represent the transportation goals for the City. She wanted to ensure that the councilors had an opportunity to give input. She noted that the council had made a commitment to using flexible dollars in the Surface Transportation Program – Urban Funds (STP-U) for road preservation. She wanted everyone to be aware of this and how it affected what they did on the MPC. She recommended that they discuss whether they wanted to continue the commitment to preservation or whether they wanted to have some flexibility to use the funding for other projects. City Engineer Mark Schoening stated that the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) had initiated the process to allocate STP-U funds for the federal Fiscal Year (FY) 2011-2013, with the MPC scheduled to take action on the allocation on April 8. He said under the existing framework, between $3.18 million and $5.28 million would be available in the category for project development, preservation, and modernization projects. Mr. Schoening related that, consistent with council policy, staff had developed and prioritized a list of preservation projects. He said the Coburg Road project was at the top of the list, primarily because it was between two segments scheduled to be maintained with the bond measure funding. Martin Luther King Boulevard and Hilyard Street were the other two projects, in order of priority. He explained that when the MPO allocated funds in the past, Eugene had received approximately half of those funds. He said the three projects were at an estimated cost of $2.77 million, or approximately half of the high end of what could potentially be allocated. Continuing, Mr. Schoening said at the time the council had established the policy, the backlog had been $94 million. He stated that the preservation backlog had exceeded $107 million, according to the most recent data analysis from 2009. He related that though the backlog had increased, quite a bit of progress had been made and they had established several funding sources between the federal STP dollars, the gas tax, the bond measure, and the reimbursement component of the transportation Systems Development Charge (SDC). He noted that when the SDC had been identified as a source for pavement preservation it was estimated to provide $700,000 in annual revenue, but with the decline in development that number had fallen to between $150,000 and $200,000. He said even though progress had been made, a long-term sustainable MINUTES—Eugene City Council February 8, 2010 Page 1 Work Session