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MINUTES <br />Eugene City Council <br />McNutt Room —City Hall <br />777 Pearl Street — Eugene, Oregon <br />May 11, 2011 <br />Noon <br />COUNCILORS PRESENT: Betty Taylor, George Brown, Andrea Ortiz, George Poling, Mike Clark, <br />Chris Pryor, Alan Zelenka, Pat Farr. <br />Her Honor Mayor Kitty Piercy called the May 11, 2011, work session of the Eugene City Council to <br />order. <br />A. WORK SESSION: <br />Authorize Additional Street Preservation Projects to Use Anticipated Bond Proceeds <br />Remaining Upon Completion of 32 Streets Identified in Bond Measure <br />City Engineer Mark Schoening joined the council for the item. He introduced members of the Street <br />Repair Review Panel present, who included Howard Bormett, John Barofsky, and Janet Calvert. Other <br />members of the panel included Jim Wilcox, Steve Lee, Gary Wildish, Paul Holbo, Dan Brown, Paul <br />Adkins, Bob Kline, Clayton Walker, and Bruce Mulligan. <br />Mr. Schoening presented the panel's recommendations for street projects to be funded using the <br />remaining moneys from the Bond Measure to Fix Streets. He anticipated $10 million would remain after <br />the 32 projects listed in the measure were completed. He sought council approval to fund additional <br />projects. Mr. Schoening anticipated that if the council approved the project list, the City would begin to <br />work immediately with the goal of commencing construction in 2013. <br />Mr. Schoening briefly described the process used by staff to identify the initial project list. The panel <br />reviewed the initial list and narrowed it to a list of geographically distributed projects that cost about $6.5 <br />million. He reported that the panel was in the process of considering additional projects. <br />Mr. Schoening called attention to the project list, reflected in Attachment A of the Agenda Item Summary <br />(AIS), entitled Additional Streets to be Repaired with Proceeds fi°om the Street Bond Measure. He <br />invited questions. <br />Mayor Piercy expressed appreciation for the projects on the list, noting many of the streets had been <br />discussed as needing repairs for a long time. She solicited questions and comments from the council. <br />Mr. Zelenka determined from Mr. Schoening that the surplus funding was a result of the recession and the <br />bidding climate, the cost of interest, and the paving technique used, which allowed contractors to recycle <br />the roadway materials in place and reduced the number of trucks needed. In addition, some of the streets <br />identified in the measure were in better condition than anticipated because of good design and the failure <br />did not extend to the street base, which lowered the project costs. <br />MINUTES — Eugene City Council May 11, 2011 Page 1 <br />Work Session <br />