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transportation and anticipated that the commission would focus on issues that were related to decisions coming <br />before the council in the coming year. <br />Mr. Skov called the council's attention to the joint work planned by the commission and Eugene Planning <br />Commission due to the many overlapping themes and issues addressed by the two bodies. He hoped that effort <br />would produce a joint statement of guidance to the council on issues such as the West Eugene EmX corridor <br />decision. He invited questions. <br />Mr. Clark anticipated that when the commission weighed in on the issues it had identified for review, his concerns <br />would be centered on cost. He wanted an analysis that looked beyond the long -term benefits and spoke to the <br />tradeoffs involved. He cited as an example, the commission's goal for a 50 percent reduction in the community's <br />use of fossil fuels by 2020. He said that would mean the reduction of a certain number of jobs because gas stations <br />would go out of business. He wanted an analysis of the costs of the commission's recommendations for both the <br />City and the community. <br />Mayor Piercy recalled that the Oregon Department of Transportation was looking into "least cost planning" and <br />suggested the commission look into that. <br />Mr. Clark hoped that the commission looked into what the State was doing. He said he did not consider vehicle <br />miles traveled (VMT) as representing the best level of analysis on which to base decisions about where the <br />community might or might not go with electric cars, for example. <br />Speaking to Mr. Clark's points, Mayor Piercy anticipated that at some point the council would have to make some <br />decisions about the type of measurement tools it wanted to use to make such decisions. She thought that would <br />also be useful to the commission. <br />Mr. Zelenka suggested the cost analysis would be complicated, that there might be fewer jobs in gas stations in the <br />future, but there could be more mechanics working on electric vehicles and people would have more disposable <br />income from driving such vehicles. The model was not a simple model. He said that cost planning could get at the <br />complexity of the issues by employing the triple bottom line (TBL) analysis. <br />Mr. Zelenka commended the quality of the commission's discussions and its outreach to the community. He also <br />commended City staff Kevin Finney for his work as commission liaison and thanked Ms. Osborn for her support of <br />the commission. He looked forward to working with Ms. O'Sullivan. <br />Mr. Zelenka noted that the commission had a rule about when members could speak on behalf of the commission <br />and when they were speaking as individuals. <br />Responding to a question from Ms. Solomon about why the City decided to move forward with Upstream Public <br />Health to partner on the Climate and Energy Action Plan as opposed to other plans or elements of the Climate and <br />Energy Action Plan, Ms. Osborn reported that the organization contacted the City to ask if it could do a public <br />health analysis of the plan. She said the City did not contract with or pay the organization. She anticipated that the <br />council would hold a work session on some of the long- and short-term costs related to the plan in September. Mr. <br />Skov added that Upstream Public Health was attempting to quantify health care savings and benefits with the <br />actions contemplated in the plan. <br />Mr. Pryor was pleased with the work of the commission and indicated his support for the work plan. Speaking to <br />the financial costs of increased sustainability and how that could be made positive instead of negative, he said he <br />MINUTES— Eugene City Council August 9, 2010 Page 5 <br />Work Session <br />