Item 2A: Approval of City Council Minutes

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Ms. Taylor asked when Hilyard Street would be fixed in that case. Mr. Schoening did not know the answer thth at this point. He pointed out that Hilyard Street had been upgraded between 13 and 24 Avenues a couple thth of years earlier and, with bond money, it had been upgraded between 24 and 30 Avenues. Ms. Taylor th commented that she knew where there were potholes on the road beyond 30 Avenue. Mayor Piercy said what constituted a real road was a conveyance that met a multi-modal purpose. She felt the community supported a multi-modal transportation system. She echoed the concern that if the work was not done now it would cost more, later. Mr. Zelenka observed that many streets needed to be fixed. He likened taking one project out of the queue to taking one bucket of water out of the ocean. He clarified that the project on the list for Hilyard Street was for the stretch of the street in front of the hospital. He said the area beyond what had already been done was in the queue to be reconstructed in 2011. He liked the idea of taking five to ten percent of STP-U money and putting it into bicycle and pedestrian projects. He reiterated that coordinating the bicycle/pedestrian projects with the road projects would make them cheaper to accomplish. Mr. Clark asked if it was more cost-effective to build-in the bicycle/pedestrian amenities and shorten the length of the project on Martin Luther King Boulevard. Mr. Schoening responded that he did not think that this was how they would proceed. He thought they would augment the funding with local gas tax revenue and defer another project. Mr. Clark ascertained from Mr. Schoening that he did not think the specific direction to back-out the bicycle/pedestrian projects needed to be included in the motion as an amendment. Mr. Poling wanted to be clear that if the City did not receive the full amount of STP-U funding, the first things to come off the list of the projects should be the bicycle/pedestrian amenities. He declared that the people wanted the streets fixed and this should be the primary use of the funding. Mr. Poling, seconded by Ms. Solomon, moved to amend the motion to include that, should the complete funding needed for the list of projects not be allocated to the City, the first things to come off the list should be the bicycle/pedestrian amenities for Martin Luther King Boulevard and Coburg Road. Mr. Zelenka preferred to leave this up to the discretion of the professional staff. He said staff would be making adjustments to the projects and the council should not be micro-managing it. He would leave it up to Mr. Schoening and his professional judgment to make the STP-U funding work within the priorities they had stated. The motion to amend failed, 5:3; Mr. Poling, Ms. Solomon, and Mr. Clark voting in favor. The main motion passed unanimously, 8:0. B. WORK SESSION: Safe and Efficient Streets through Access Management Peggy Keppler, Development Review Manager for the Engineering Division of the Public Works Department, recalled that three years earlier the City Council had asked staff to initiate some regulatory changes to the land use code that would allow them to implement access management on the arterial and MINUTES—Eugene City Council February 8, 2010 Page 5 Work Session