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D. The City Council has determined that the voters should be given the choice of providing additional revenue to the city in the form of a monthly city service fee, or alternatively, reducing or eliminating certain city services and facilities. The City Council therefore is referring to the voters the proposed ordinance attached as Exhibit A. If approved by the voters, the city service fee would have the following components: • Fee set by City Council at time of budget, and can only be adjusted by Council • Flat fee capped at $10 per month for residential property and 44 and Bethel schools, and $30 per month for other non - residential property • Any increase in the $10 and $30 caps would require voter approval • Council must provide assistance program for low income individuals • All dwellings and businesses in Eugene would be subject to the fee • Funds raised by the fee would be limited to paying for fire and police service, homeless and basic human services and core quality of life services such as libraries, parks and pools • Annual oversight committee would review expenditures to ensure they were consistent with limitations • Council would review the fee after five years to determine whether the fee should be revised or terminated E. The city manager will seek to bill and collect the fee in a cost effective and efficient manner. If the city manager can contract with the Eugene Water & Electric Board to bill and collect the fee, the fee will be included on the bill for sewer services. If the city manager is unable to contract with EWEB, then the city manager will develop another effective and efficient mechanism for the billing and collection of the fee. NOW, THEREFORE, based upon the above findings, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EUGENE, a Municipal Corporation of the State of Oregon, as follows: Section 1 . Pursuant to the authority of subsection (3) of Section 2.971 of the Eugene Code, 1971, a city election is called for the purpose of referring to the legal electors of the City of Eugene an ordinance authorizing imposition of a city service fee. The proposed ordinance is attached to this Resolution as Exhibit A. Section 2 . The City Council orders this special election be held in the City of Eugene, Oregon, on the 21" of May, 2013, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 254 of the Oregon Revised Statutes, and the ballots shall be counted and tabulated and the results certified as provided by law. Section 3 . The City Recorder is directed to give not less than ten days' notice of the city election by publication of one notice in the Register Guard, a newspaper published in the City and of general circulation within the City. Resolution - Page 2 of 3