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? <br /> Renovations to existing parks - $6.7 million (additional) <br />? <br /> Partnership opportunities - $1 million (additional) <br /> <br />Mayor Piercy appreciated the opportunity to consider different scenarios. She noted the City Manager’s <br />recommendation that the council place a bond measure on the ballot in 2008 instead of 2006. She <br />commented that if the council decided to take action it should have enough broad support from throughout <br />the community that it would have a chance of passing. <br /> <br />Mayor Piercy called for council questions and comments. <br /> <br />Mr. Kelly said he was interested in a bond measure in November 2006 and the issue for him was what kind <br />of bond measure. He recalled a council discussion in 2005 about a focusing on the things that were most <br />time-sensitive and suggested a measure that would include funding for land acquisitions for parks and <br />natural areas and the wetlands education center, for a total of approximately $20 million. He asked if some <br />funds remained from the 1998 bond for the Santa Clara Community Park and the additional funds in Tier 1 <br />would supplement the 1998 funds. Ms. Weiss said that was correct. <br /> <br />Mr. Kelly asked for an explanation of the Shelton McMurphey Johnson House access project. Ms. Weiss <br />replied that there was a piece of land not owned by the City that was between the Shelton McMurphey <br />rdth <br />Johnson House and the 3 Avenue/4 Avenue connector. She said the City wanted to obtain that piece of <br />property so it did not lose access to the house. <br /> <br />Mr. Kelly asked why the school sports field upgrades were considered time-sensitive. City Manager Taylor <br />said that the 4J and Bethel school districts were considering improvements to sports fields that could provide <br />opportunities for joint ventures, such as synthetic turf projects. He said that 4J School District was also <br />considering 2008 for its capital bond. Parks and Open Space Director Johnny Medlin added that there were <br />several 4J projects that could offer an opportunity for partnership and allow the City to leverage 4J funds. <br /> <br />Mr. Kelly said he did not think the sports fields were of the same time sensitivity as acquisition of land under <br />development pressure or leveraging federal funds on the wetlands center. <br /> <br />Mr. Pryor thanked the City Manager for a prudent and thoughtful recommendation; however, he would <br />probably support an “opportunity” type of bond such as Mr. Kelly described. He noted there was still no <br />project list from the Parks, Recreation and Open Space Comprehensive Plan that had been fully vetted and it <br />would be difficult to link a bond to a non-existent project list. He thought there were projects that could <br />easily be identified in order to move forward. He could be supportive of a 2006 bond that did not exceed the <br />$20 million opportunity level with identified projects. <br /> <br />Ms. Taylor said that land acquisition was definitely time-sensitive and the land would not be available if the <br />City did not acquire it. She said that the other projects were not time-sensitive, but she would support all of <br />them and the entire bond could pass. She said the community would vote for parks. She thought the last <br />parks bond should have been larger with more natural area acquisition. She advocated for the entire bond, <br />particularly land acquisition. <br /> <br />Ms. Bettman asked if staff had added to the council’s two criteria and that was why there were more <br />projects. Ms. Weiss said that was correct and projects were added to round out the list. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />MINUTES—Eugene City Council February 13, 2006 Page 6 <br /> Work Session <br /> <br />