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Mayor Torrey asked Ms. Smith to speak to the intent of the committee regarding the facilitator position. Ms. Smith stated that the intent was not to advocate for developers. She felt more comfortable with the word 'applicant.' She related that the committee had discussed neighborhood groups and had posited that the position would embody fairness and help with how the code would be implemented. Ms. Bettman suggested that the motion come back with the embodiment of the intent of the committee. She said her support would be predicated on the language. She referred to the minutes and asked where the funding for the position would come from. She thought the applicant should contribute for the service and that taxpayers should not subsidize it. Mr. Kelly supported the value of the position and asked staff to provide the council with a range of alternatives to fund it. Mr. Taylor responded by saying that the City needed to do many things within PDD and within the General Fund and some of the service funds. He said the motion here would enable staff to build the decision package that could be considered by the PDD director and ultimately by City management. Ms. Nathanson said if the City was getting in the way of redevelopment of an existing site or the ultimate development of another site, then it was part of the problem and needed to be part of the solution. She stated that there was a substantial majority of Eugene citizens who believed the City should be involved with economic development. As such, she felt the recommendation to be entirely appropriate. In response to a question from Ms. Nathanson, Mr. Coyle explained that in the conditional use permit (CUP) process it was the staff's role to work with the neighborhood, the developer, and the code for the best possible redevelopment of the site. He called it a balancing act. He commented that, as much as staff tried, it was impossible to identify all of the outcomes in a body of code prior to its implementation. Mr. Kelly commented that a decision package implied that it would come in the City Manager's draft budget. He felt that his request would not cause any delay. He reiterated that he was only asking staffto come back with funding options. Mr. Taylor responded that the implementation of the economic development committee's report would be a justification for a larger discussion with the Budget Committee as to funding options. He reiterated that the council would have three work sessions to fully discuss the recommendations. Mayor Torrey called for council comments on the recommendation to proceed with the application to establish an Enterprise Zone. Ms. Taylor thought such a zone would be very dangerous. She said State legislation would have to be changed before she would support an Enterprise Zone. Ms. Bettman quoted Mr. Sheehy who said Eugene's competition was global. She opined it made little sense since tax abatement was injuring school districts, the State's General Fund budget, the County budget, jails, the City's General Fund, etc. She would support such a zone only if it was extraordinarily strategically focused on properties that otherwise had obstacles such as infill and brownfields. She said, in light of her main objective of creating living wage jobs and a sustainable economy, the zone should have a sliding scale. MINUTES--Eugene City Council August 9, 2004 Page 8 Work Session