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MINUTES <br />Eugene City Council <br />Work Session <br />McNutt Room — City Hall <br />777 Pearl Street Eugene, Oregon <br />January 13, 2010 <br />12:00 p.m. <br />COUNCILORS PRESENT: Chris Pryor, Mike Clark, George Brown, Andrea Ortiz, Alan Zelenka <br />(via telephone), Betty Taylor, George Poling <br />COUNCILORS ABSENT: Jennifer Solomon <br />Mayor Piercy called the work session meeting of the Eugene City Council to order at 12:00 p.m <br />A. WORD SESSION: Adoption of Resolution 4998 Adopting Inflationary Adjustments to <br />Systems Development Charges for Parks System, and Local wastewater System, <br />Stormwater System and Transportation System; Superseding Administrative order 5S -08- <br />02 -F; and Amending Resolution No. 4900 <br />Ms. Piercy noted that the work session agenda item regarding Eugene City Council Resolution 4998 <br />regarding systems development charges (SDC) had been carried over from the council's January 11, <br />2010, regular meeting. <br />Assistant City Manager Sarah Medary introduced Assistant City Attorney Kathryn Brotherton. <br />City Engineer Mark Schoening reminded the council that Resolution 4998 had been carried over from <br />their January I I meeting in order to get a better sense of the financial impact of deferment of inflationary <br />adjustments on SDC's. He noted that a memorandum previously sent to the council regarding the SDC's <br />showed a range of four local systems as well as the revenue that would be lost if the implementation of <br />the inflationary adjustments was delayed from April until July 1, 2010, and also from April until October <br />1, 2010. He stated. that the range of the potential lost revenue was based on revenues received in 2009. <br />He further stated that the majority of the revenue losses from the four systems would be incurred by the <br />Parks system. <br />Ms. Piercy noted the tabled motion regarding Resolution 4998 from the January I 1 council meeting. <br />Ms. Brotherton, responding to a question from Mr. Clark, stated there were two motions currently on the <br />table, a motion to adopt Resolution 4998 and a motion to amend the same. <br />Mr. Clark asked if any measurement existed for comparing the deferment of inflationary adjustments of <br />SDC's and the impact of higher and lower SDC's on development in general in similar municipalities. <br />Mr. Schoening responded that City staff had surveyed other communities throughout the State of Oregon <br />and found Eugene to be in the "raid to low --mid" range in terms of the assessment of SDC's. He was <br />unaware of any analyses specifically designed to determine if SDC's were or were not a significant <br />barrier to development. <br />MINUTES Eugene City Council January 13, 2009 Page 1 <br />Work Session <br />