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City of Eugene Planner Kurt Yeiter reported that staff presented a multi -year work program to the Land <br />Conservation and Development Commission, which adopted the work plan in 2008. The work plan was <br />attached to the packet as Attachment B. <br />Mr. Yeiter said one of the first amendments requested was to remove completed projects from the project <br />list so it would better matched the RTP, and to update the planning horizon year to 2027 to reflect the <br />reality of slower growth than anticipated. The ordinance before the elected officials include an <br />amendment to extend the planning horizon, an amendment to amend the project list by removing <br />completed projects, and an amendment to the Eugene - Springfield Metropolitan Area General Plan (Metro <br />Plan) so it reflected the same information as TransPlan. <br />Mr. Yeiter recalled that the Joint Elected Officials (JEO) agreed to open up the process to allow new <br />evidence in the form of the County's coordinated population estimate to be brought into the record. He <br />invited questions, and indicated no action was expected at that time. <br />Mayor Piercy noted no one had signed up to speak for the public hearing. She solicited questions from the <br />Eugene council. <br />Mr. Zelenka said the west Eugene Parkway project kept appearing in the document and he was concerned <br />that it was still in TransPlan, particularly since it had been removed from the RTP. He said it made no <br />sense to include it in TransPlan, and had asked if it could be removed in this process as well. However, he <br />had encountered numerous legal hoops in that endeavor. He had learned that the elected officials could <br />amend the description to indicate it had been removed from the RTP and all the funding for construction <br />had been deleted from the Metropolitan Transportation Improvement Program and there was no funding <br />for construction. <br />There being no objection, Mayor Piercy closed the record and public hearing on behalf of Eugene. Mayor <br />Leiken closed the record and public hearing on behalf of Springfield. <br />Mr. Handy solicited comments or questions from the Board of County Commissioners. There were none. <br />Mr. Handy referred to the work plan, and suggested it was the blueprint guiding staff efforts and the <br />decisions of elected officials. He believed that it was clear, but progress toward completing the <br />enumerated tasks was less so. He did not think the staff - provided materials clarified what work plan tasks <br />had been completed, which were partially complete and the percentage completed, what remained to be <br />accomplished, and the timeline for doing so, if different from the stated deadline. <br />Continuing, Mr. Handy said the Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC) conditions <br />associated with the work plan had not been provided to the JEO. There seemed to be no analysis or <br />consideration of actual on- the - ground progress in the packet of proposed TransPlan and Metro Plan <br />amendments, and the area did not seem to be on schedule, according to the work plan. <br />As an example of the lack of analysis or consideration of on- the - ground progress, Mr. Handy said the <br />amendments failed to speak to what, if any, progress had been made toward benchmarks and the LCDC- <br />approved Alternative Performance Measures as a result of implementation of planned projects and <br />development patterns. Instead, the planning goals identified for 2015 were merely pushed out 12 years to <br />2027. He said if the projects and development patterns realized over the past 15 years had not gotten the <br />community where it wanted to be, there should be analysis of that. <br />MINUTES Joint Elected Officials Lane County & Eugene . June 17, 2010 Page 2 <br />