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Councilor Zelenka clarified for the benefit of the public that the City was not proposing to close Fire <br />Station 2. He asked staff to provide information to the council about the percentage of calls the second <br />truck company responded to that were in the Whiteaker neighborhood. <br />Councilor Zelenka indicated his support for Councilor Clark's intention to change the funding source for <br />additional jail beds. <br />Councilor Ortiz planned to support any motion that restored funding for the fire truck company <br />eliminated in the proposed FY12 budget. She considered it a one -time fix. While she recognized all the <br />hard work staff did to prepare the budget, she also knew how hard the fire fighters worked and she looked <br />forward to Councilor Clark's motion. <br />Councilor Clark acknowledged the creative and innovative solutions to the department's financial <br />problems that had been offered to the Budget Committee by Fire Chief Randy Groves and his <br />management team. He was proud of the chief and recognized the challenges he faced. He suggested that <br />people could differ as to the appropriate solution to the department's funding shortfall. <br />Mayor Piercy closed the meeting of the City Council and convened a meeting of the URA. <br />0711 - A 14l_ 1 – ". Itr0 a <br />A Resolution of the Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Eugene Adopting the Budget, <br />Making Appropriations, and Declaring the Amount of Tax to be Certified for the Fiscal <br />Year Beginning July 1, 2011, and Ending June 30, 2012 <br />Assistant City Manager Medary said the public hearing concerned the FY12 Urban Renewal budget. The <br />URA Board of Directors was scheduled to act on the budget on June 27, 2011. <br />Mayor Piercy opened the public hearing. <br />Randy Prince, PO Box 927, Eugene, suggested that a lively urban renewal district should have <br />telecommunications services. However, there was nothing in the URA budget related to <br />telecommunications. He pointed out that the City had established a Telecommunications Fund dedicated <br />to projects of widespread community benefit. He recalled that at the inception of the fund the revenues <br />had been dedicated to public purposes such as wi -fi hot spots at the library. Increasingly, the money was <br />used to benefit City departments. <br />Mr. Prince said that in 2010 the neighborhood associations were told that $30,000 from the fund would no <br />longer be available for neighborhood communications but that year the City transferred $500,000 in <br />Telecommunications Funds to pay for the City's telephone expenses. He maintained the ordinance <br />governing the use of the funding limited the funds to projects such as the library wi fi hot spots and the <br />eliminated neighborhood communications funding. <br />Mr. Prince noted that the ordinance precluded Telecommunication Funds from being used to replace <br />property tax revenues. However, he believed that was occurring through the General Fund transfer. He <br />maintained that the transfer was clearly illegal and contrary to the desires of Eugene citizens. He asked <br />the council to review the record of the General Fund transfer. He predicted the City would incur legal <br />bills defending it. <br />Mayor Piercy closed the public hearing. <br />MINUTES — Eugene City Council June 20, 2011 Page 3 <br />Public Hearing <br />