CC Minutes - 01/13/10 Work Session

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Mr. Zelenka stated he was not inclined to support the amendment. Mr. Clark commented he had spoken with various area developers and believed that they had suffered a substantial loss in membership over the course of the last year. He further noted that he had made the motion under discussion out of a desire to remove barriers to local development. Mr. Clark asked why certain Springfield developers had chosen not to take advantage of SDC deferrals. Ms. Burns believed that Springfield developers had not utilized the SDC deferrals because there were still liens on the properties in question. Mr. Clark offered to withdraw his amended motion that had been tabled from the January 11 council meeting. Ms Solomon, as the second to that motion, was not present to provide her consent. Absent Ms. Solomon's consent on the matter, Ms. Brotherton advised that the council simply vote on the motion. Ms. Piercy called for a vote on the previously tabled amendment. The amendment failed; 7-00. Ms. Piercy called for a vote on the previously tabled motion. The motion passed un- animously, 7:0. B. WORK SESSION: Adoption of Federal Priority Project Lists Intergovernmental Relations (IGR) Manager Brenda Wilson briefly described how the federal appropria- tions process worked and also briefly discussed how the City of Eugene generally participated in the United Front Partners of Lane County federal priority process. Ms. Wilson reported that the City of Cottage Grove had recently withdrawn from its participation in the United Front process. Ms. Wilson described the United Front partnership process and how it had financially benefited a variety of local areas and interests. She noted that the list of federal priorities projects developed as part of that ongoing process had been thoroughly reviewed by the City's IGR Committee before it was taken before the Eugene City Council for final action. Ms. Wilson noted that the amount of available congressionally delegated spending appropriations or "earmarks" had gone down by approximately 6 percent from FY06. She briefly discussed how such appropriations had been processed by the City's congressional delegations since that time. Ms. Wilson described how the Delta Ponds project request had been funded with American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)funds and further noted how representatives from the federal office of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had participated in that process. Ms. Wilson recommended that she and her United Front colleagues continue to travel to Washington, D.C. to pursue additional federal funding for local projects. She maintained that such efforts would continue to yield significant benefits for Eugene and the surrounding communities. Ms. Wilson described for the benefit of the council the various federal priority projects that had been listed as part of the agenda item summary materials. She noted that the projects had been divided into three categories: Updates and Programmatic Requests; FYI I Appropriations Requests; and Reauthoriza- tion Requests. MINUTES Eugene City Council January 13, 2009 Page 3 Work Session