Item 3A: Approval of City Council Minutes

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ATTACHMENT E M I N U T E S City Council McNutt Room—Eugene City Hall 777 Pearl Street—Eugene, Oregon September 22, 2010 Noon COUNCILORS PRESENT: Mike Clark, Betty Taylor, Jennifer Solomon, Andrea Ortiz, George Poling, Chris Pryor, Alan Zelenka, George Brown, members. In the absence of Her Honor Mayor Kitty Piercy, Council President Mike Clark called the September 22, 2010, work session of the Eugene City Council to order. A. WORK SESSION: Council Subcommittee on Street Assessment Policy Assistant City Manager Sarah Medary introduced City Engineer Mark Schoening and Data Manager Fred McVey, who provided a PowerPoint presentation on the recommendations of the Council Subcommittee on Street Assessment Policy for future street assessments. The subcommittee members were councilors Taylor, Solomon, and Poling. Mr. Schoening noted the charge adopted by the subcommittee, which was to examine the current code regarding street assessments for possible changes that would address inequities in the code identified by the council in its past discussions. Those inequities were related to financing, local improvement district (LID) boundaries, and how individual properties were assessed. Mr. Schoening and Mr. McVey reviewed the subcommittee’s consensus recommendations and shared slides of actual improvement projects to illustrate the impact of each recommendation.  The subcommittee did not recommend changing the Eugene Code to extend the assessment payment period because the code currently allowed extension of the payment period through the ordinance levying the as- sessments for individual projects.  The subcommittee recommended allowing deferral of street assessments until the sale or transfer of prop- erty, limited to owner-occupied single-family and duplex homes and contingent on the availability of funds.  The subcommittee recommended including cul-de-sac and dead-end street properties within the local improvement district of the unimproved street to which they connect. The properties would be assessed at the same rate as abutting properties. Dead-end streets would be determined at the time of LID formation. Unimproved cul-de-sacs and dead-end streets should be improved at the time the unimproved street to which they connect was improved, with all of the improvement costs shared within the LID.  The subcommittee did not recommend a “travel shed” approach to establishing the boundaries of an LID due to the complexity of identifying the benefitting properties. MINUTES—City Council September 22, 2010 Page 1 Work Session