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Mr. Meisner said that if the motion to place Option D on the ballot was before the council he would vote for it, but not for the November 2004 ballot. He indicated that if the council wanted to present a consolidated package to the public it needed to start that process now and build support over the next two years. He commented that Option A+ made sense and required a minimum amount of support from the public, but he had mixed feelings because of the need to return in the future with another funding request. He urged the media to accurately represent the impact of Option A+ on the typical homeowner over the life of the bond measure. Ms. Bettman observed that it was obvious why the City preferred the incremental approach represented by Option A+, but it was "out of sync" with the community. She said she would not support any option except a modified version of Option D for a conjoined facility on the City Hall site that would combine all functions, current services, and victims' services and preserve the site across the street for a parking garage. She hoped that if the council was not prepared to support rebuilding City Hall in 2004, no action would be taken in order to conserve internal funds for two more years while working to bring the community up to the necessary level of understanding about the need to rebuild City Hall. She said that the entire package, with more internal funding, could then be placed on the November 2006 ballot. Ms. Nathanson asked for elaboration on the issue of parking and whether a parking structure could be located on the site across the street along with the police facility. She also asked whether building to capacity needs in 2018 would generate community opposition because of the short span of time before capacity needed to be expanded. Responding to Ms. Nathanson's question regarding parking, Mr. Carlson said that all options included the assumption that there would be a full layer of parking beneath each building. He said the police building would have secure parking beneath it and the area adjacent could be used for surface parking. Police Chief Bob Lehner said that Option A+ actually provided more options for the future than did Option D with respect to the Police Department aspect of building to meet 2018 needs. He said that as technology and the way police services were delivered changed, space needs could change. He illustrated his point with the precinct model of policing, which was not currently used by the City. He said that if a precinct model was used, space allocation as anticipated in Option A+ was sized well into the future beyond 2018 and a patrol capacity would be designed to be delivered somewhere other than that facility. He said that Option A+ could accommodate patrol needs through 2018, in addition to administration, investigation, and other support functions that would remain in that facility for the foreseeable long-term future. Mayor Torrey stated he could not support Ms. Bettman's proposal as housing police functions in a secure facility that met enhanced seismic standards was both a State and federal requirement and the City currently had no such facility available. He said that biggest cost overrun factor on large projects was inflation and the longer the City waited to construct a facility the more expensive it would become. Referring to Ms. Taylor's hope that the current City Hall could be remodeled, Mayor Torrey said that Option A+ provided that option, although he did not support remodeling because the cost was typically far greater than anticipated. He said that the City would have to deal with repercussions from the misconduct of two police officers regardless of whether a bond measure for a police facility was on the ballot and he had confidence that the City Manager, Police Chief, Police Commission, and City Council would address that separate issue in a straight forward manner and not use it as a reason not to proceed with a new facility. MINUTES--Eugene City Council July 21, 2004 Page 5 Work Session