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HomeMy WebLinkAbout07/26/1978 Meeting '- 1 MINUTES -- EUGENE CITY COUNCIL July 26, 1978 Adjourned meeting from July 24, 1978, of the City Council of the City of Eugene, Oregon, was called to order by President D.W. Hamel at 12:00 noon, July 26, 1978, King's Table, Oakway Mall, with the following Councilors present: Tom Williams, Eric Haws, Jack Delay, Scott Lieuallen, Brian Obie, and Betty Smith. Mayor Gus Keller and Councilor Ray Bradley were absent. I. Items from Mayor and Council A. Ballot Measure 6--Mr. Obie felt it would be prudent and responsible for Council to have an opportunity to discuss the possible effects and impact on the community if the measure to limit taxes were passed. Assistant Manager said the staff is beginning the process of preparing a draft for an approach to the problem. He noted there were a series of complex issues and recognized the City Council would like to be publicly involved. Attempts' are being made to determine the definition of the ballot measure and to estimate its effect on assessed value in the community. Staff is working in a multitude of arenas; the Technology Coordinator is visiting with City Managers in California to gain information and staff is seeking legal opinions. Staff wi 11 e prepare several scenarios for Council consideration including how to deal with expenditures and appropriations. He noted hopefully that the information is to be available in early September and perhaps could be a discussion item for the Council goal study session September 15. B. Budget Campaign--Mr. Hamel said the Better Eugene Committee is seeking volunteers to label flyers Friday, July 28, in the McNutt Room from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.. Also they would like volunteers to do phoning from 5:15 to 8:00 p.m. August 8. Persons interested should contact Kathryn Cox, 687-3507. C. Experimental Burn at Mahlon Sweet Field--Assistant Manager said the . burn was to begin this morning. It was hoped there would be some burning during the rest of the week, depending on weather conditions. Councilors interested (Hamel, Delay, Smith, and Lieuallen) will be notified when the burns are occurring. D. Civic Center Consultant--Assistant Manager noted the City had retained David Scott, Washington State University School of Architecture, as a consultant to work with the Council on architectural selection. It was suggested the Council schedule Friday evening, August 25, and Saturday, August 26, for the interviewing of finalists. I t was hoped at the Monday, August 28, Council meeting Council could make its final decision. Five firms may be making two-hour presentations. e 7/26178--1 531 c Mr. Delay requested the consultant respond as to whether or not applica- tions submitted a year ago for another phase of the project would be the - best possible applications for consideration for this phase. He reiterated his feeling that it is important to obtain the very best firm and get the very best job possible. Assistant Manager said the consultant had reviewed all of the materials in great depth. Mr. Scott was aware that was an item of concern, and Assistant Manager will check with Project Director for a response to Mr. Delay. However, Assistant Manager said his impres- sion was that Mr. Scott was satisfied there was a good selection of firms. In response to a question from Mr. Haws, Assistant Manager said it had been recommended to Council that the screening committee review the 27 proposals and narrow those to five finalists who would then present their proposals in compliance with the criteria Council has approved. The City Council would then make an evaluation choosing whom they felt was the best firm. Mr. Williams hoped the consultant would not be reacting just to Council's concerns, but be advising Council as to what questions ought to be asked. Assistant Manager said Mr. Scott had gone over all materials in great detail, had looked at the applications on file, had recommended the architects be allowed to update their folders, and further, that the format of criteria be modified. This modification would allow the archi- tects to respond to the elements of the selection criteria as adopted by Council. Updating by the architectural firms of their materials should be completed by August 11. It was felt giving them time now would improve the quality of the presentations. The screening committee would then work e during the week of August 14 to narrow the 27 proposals down to five finalists. Those five finalists then would be given a week to polish their presentations for the Council and Civic Center Commission joint meeting. Mr. lieuallen said he felt Council had, by default, accepted staff recommendations regarding the five finalists, the screening committee, and accepting 27 proposals. He reviewed the activity among local architectural firms and their great interest in this project. He felt that if applica- tions were opened up, the local firms could comply within 48 hours to submitting proposals. Therefore he did not think time would be a problem if Council wished to open up the proposals again. It was determined the screening committee would meet Thursday, August 17. It was consensus of Council that the finalist interviews try to be scheduled for a one-day session. Assistant Manager noted the Civic Center Commission would have to be polled; and they would focus the interview date for Saturday, August 26. He reminded Council the process would be for the two bodies to hear the presentations, followed by a majority vote of the two bodies to select the top three finalists in priority order for recommenda- tion for final Council action Monday, August 28. - 7/26/78--2 53~ I Mr. Haws expressed some concern regarding the length of time the final - interviewing process would take. Mr. Williams suggested that the presenta- tions be reduced from two hours to one and one-half hours. Asssistant Manager noted the entire process to be used during that interview session had not been completely resolved. However, Mr. Scott has been through 500 selection processes and the staff will be relying on his advice. It was consensus of Council that both Friday, August 25, and Saturday, August 26, would be held open by Councilors for the final interviews, pending the outcome of the poll of the Civic Center Commission for those dates. II. Segregation of Assessment West side of Crest Drive, north of Courtney Way; Gregory Dauw, 907 Crest Drive, SE 78-03 Mr. Delay moved, seconded by Ms. Smith, to approve the segregation of assessment. .Motion carried unanimously. III. Public Hearings: Street Name Changes Unanimously recommended by Planning Commission June 12 and 26, 1978. Public hearing was held with no testimony presented. Answering a question from Mr. Haws, John Porter, Planning Director, said e the fee structure for street name changes and appeals had been referred by Council to the Citizens Involvement Advisory Committee. The Committee had no position on street name change fees, but will recommend no fee schedule for appeals. That report will be coming before Council later. Mr. Haws requested from Mr. Porter an estimated cost for the process regarding street name changes. C.B. 1726--Authorizing street name change from Elby Drive to Lorella Avenue, located west of Debrick Road, between Rio Glen Drive and Clinton Drive (SC 78-1) and declaring an emergency was read by council bill number and title only, there being no Councilor present requesting it be read in full. Mr. Delay moved, seconded by Ms. Smith, that the bill be read the second time by council bill number only, with unanimous consent of the Council, and that enactment be considered at this time. Motion carried unanimously, and the bill was read the second time by council bill number only. Mr. Delay moved, seconded by Ms. Smith, that the bill be approved and given final passage. Roll call vote. All Councilors present voting aye, the bill was declared passed and numbered 18237. - 7/26/78--3 533 C.B. 1727--Authorizing street name change from Allsup Lane to Applewood Lane, located north of Green Acres Road between North Delta - Highway and Balboa Street (SC 78-2) and declaring an emergency was read by council bill number and title only, there being no Councilor present requesting it be read in full. Mr. Delay moved, seconded by Ms. Smith, that the bill be read the second time by council bill number only, with unanimous consent of the Council, and that enactment be considered at this time. Motion carried unanimously, and the bill was read the second time by council bill number only. Mr. Delay moved, seconded by Ms. Smith, that the bill be approved and given final passage. Roll call vote. All Councilors present voting aye, the bill was declared passed and numbered 18238. C.B. 1728--Authorizing street name change from East 35th Avenue (between Potter Street and Onyx Place) to Oynx Street; east margin of Potter Street east to the west margin of Oynx Place (SC 78-3) and declaring an emergency was read by council bill number and title only, there being no Councilor present requesting it be read in full. Mr. Delay moved, seconded by Ms. Smith, that the bill be read the second time by council bill number only, with unanimous consent of the Council, and that enactment be considered at this time. Motion carried unanimously, and the bill was read the second time by e council bill number only. Mr. Delay moved, seconded by Ms. Smith, that the bill be approved and given final passage. Roll call vote. All Councilors present voting aye, the bill was declared passed and numbered 18239. IV. Request for Authorization for Agreement: State Department of Transportation and City re: Fern Ridge Bike Path, Federal Aid Urban System Project Assistant Manager said this resolution was for construction of a segment of the Fern Ridge bike path, which is part of the metro area Master Bike Plan. It would take bicycles off 11th from Quaker to Danebo. The project would be built with Federal Aid urban funds--78 percent Federal funding, 11 percent State funding, and 11 percent City. The total estimated cost was $237,000, with the City's share being $26,000. The project has been approved by the State Transportation Commission and the City's Bicycle Committee. Res. No. 2965--Authorizing entering into agreement betweeen State Department of Transportation and City of Eugene re: Fern Ridge Bike Path was read by number and title. Mr. Delay moved, seconded by Ms. Smith, to adopt the resolution. Motion carried unanimously, with Mr. Obie abstaining because of a conflict of interest. - 7/26/78--4 S3~ , V. Parks Rules Ordinance e Mr. Obie noted he had cast a "no" vote on the first reading of the ordinance. Since that time he had read through the ordinance and the park rules and regulations and was in favor of the ordinance. C.B. 1714--Concerning Dept. of Parks & Recreation; repealing Sections 4.270, 4.335, 4.900, 5.155, 5.620 ad 5.625 of Code, 1971; amending Sections 2.007, 2.391, and 2.1990 of that Code; adding new Sections 2.812 through 2.817 to that Code and declaring an emergency, was read by number and title only, there being no Councilor present requesting it be read in full. Mr. Delay moved, seconded by Mr. Haws, that the bill be approved and given final passage. Roll call vote. All Councilors present voting aye, the bill was declared passed and numbered 18240. VI. Approval of Minutes Assistant Manager noted an amendment to the minutes to include the new appointments to the Civic Center Commission as follows: Sally Weston, 2595 Highland Drive; Royce Saltzman, 2065 University; James Aday, 754 West 12th; Jim Williams, 2083 Garfield; and Cec Smith, 2300 Parkside Lane. Mr. Delay moved, seconded by Ms. Smith, to approve the Council e Minutes July 19, 1978, as amended. Motion carried unanimously. A short recess was taken. Mr. Haws left the meeting. VII. Air Quality: Status Report and Issues Before AQMA Committee--Memos distributed. Don Hulbert, Air Quality Consultant, made the following statement. The Eugene/Springfield/Lane County metropolitan area is in violation of three federal ambient air quality standards. We do not attain standards in total suspended particulates, carbon monoxide, and photo-chemical oxidents. We are designated as an Air Quality Maintenance Area (AQMA). As a non-attainment area, we must conform to appropriate sections of the 1977 Clean Air Act amendments. Federal law requires that primary and secondary air quality standards shall be achieved as expeditiously as practicable. In the case of particulates, no later than December 31, 1982, for the primary standard. Until we attain the standards, we must make reasonable annual improvements in our air quality. To meet Federal requirements, the state must submit an implementation plan that satisfies the Federal Environmental Protection Agency. If the plan is not approved or if it is not properly followed, penalties, sanctions, and restrictions are permitted, and Federal implementation is possible. To provide local involvement in the state plan, as required by Federal e legislation, the state DEQ and two local agencies are working together. 7/26/78--5 535 I Lane Council of Governments, as the transportation planning agency, is working on the problems of carbon monoxide and photo-chemical oxidents. - Lane Regional Air Pollution Authority (LRAPA) is concentrating on particu- 1 ate s . The L-COG process will be patterned after the T-2000 planning, but is not fully developed at this time. LRAPA and DEQ are using a citizen's advisory committee to develop the particulate plan. The AQMA ci ti z,en IS advi sory commi ttee is a 25-member group representing a broad base of local public and private interests. This group has the responsibility for analyzing the particulate problem, considering strategies for control, and agreeing on which controls seem most appropriate. To support the citizen's group, the LRAPA and DEQ staff will provide technical advice, strategy alternatives, and procedural clarification. The committee is responsible for considering air pollution controls on both traditional point and non-traditional area sources of emissions within the AQMA, and to some extent, outside the metropolitan area. The controls may be applied to both private and public agencies. Traditional sources are such facilities as power plants, veneer driers, boilers, and similar stationary sources. Non-traditional sources include road dust, open burning, motor vehicles, agricultural tilling, and others. Until the control strategy is approved as part of the state implementation plan, no new or modified major emitting facility may be constructed within the Eugene/Springfield AQMA. This means a facility with the potential to emit one hundred tons of pollution a year, or any source with the potential to emit 250 tons per year. It is permissible, as part of the plan, to institute an offset policy to comply with this restriction. Such a policy e could permit a new or modified source to acquire the "pollution quota" of an existing source. The timetable calls for the citizen's advisory committee, which is meeting approximately twice a month, to complete its analysis by the end of August. Discussion of alternative controls will take place during September and early October. During mid-October and November, selection of alterna- tives is scheduled, with final decision expected by mid-November. Open burning controls, however, will be delayed until the results of the summer field and slash burning monitoring program are available. Those decisions are to be completed early next year. The state is required to submit its draft to EPA by January and final by April. EPA is scheduled to reach its decision by July 1, 1979. Once the citizen's group has reached its local pollution control decisions, it will make recommendations to LRAPA and DEQ. LRAPA, after public hearing, is responsible for preparing, approving, and adopting rules for local pollution control within its jurisdiction. LRAPA will submit its approved rules to EQC. EQC, after public hearing, is responsible for approval and adoption of its rules, and incorporation as part of the state implementation plan to be signed by the Governor. EPA is obligated to make the ultimate decision on the state implementation plan. Once that approval has been made, the plan has the force of Federal law. e 7/26/78--6 53' , . Mr. Delay noted significant air quality problems the community will have - to face in the future. One of those is total suspended particulates, especially in terms of constituting health hazards for the citizens. He noted fine particulates are more of a health hazard in that they stay in the air longer, can be transported over greater distances, and are more easily inhaled. A second significant problem noted is the growth constraint on industries in the area. He noted his report was strictly a subjective one, based upon his experiences with LRAPA, the AQMACAC, EPA briefings, and discussions with persons involved with these issues. The first issue discussed was the air shed dilemma. He described the AQMA boundaries as being a legal entity arbitrarily placed as a square grid around the urban service boundary area. He said the LRAPA pamphlet distributed tOday describes the overall nature of the Willamette Valley air as a shoe box enclosed on all four sides. Eugene is being asked to clean up one corner of the shoe box. He noted one problem with the arbitrary boundary is that the source of detected pollutants may not all be from this portion of the air shed, i.e. intrusions from field burning. A second concern expressed was the question as to whether or not the meteorological flow allows pollution to drift down through the valley and accumulate in this air shed. Answers to those questions have to be explored in a significant manner. He felt it was necessary to broaden the perspective as to how the air shed is defined. Another issue is that the Eugene/Springfield area is being asked to clean . up a problem that is not our problem alone. He noted a great need for cooperation throughout the entire Willamette Valley, as is done in the e water shed problems. He pointed out a need for cooperation and commitment from all cities in the area. He said the Eugene area was the only area with an enforced open burning ban, one which has the toughest industrial pollution control standards in the state already, and has been rolling back on traditional sources over the years, yet the area is still in violation of Federal standards. He felt the Willamette Valley air shed simply had not been studied carefully or extensively enough. It is necessary to develop more technical knowledge. It is necessary to determine whether or not the meteorological causes have different consequences than general valley-wide levels of particulates. He felt the questions of air quality are very elusive and less understood than those of water quality, and emphasized it was necessary for all in the valley to cooperate. Regarding short-term issues, Mr. Delay said the AQMACAC is dealing with this grid system encompassing the metro area. There are several monitoring stations in the area. The data base shows known sources of particulates which are a major problem (i.e., industrial, paved and unpaved road dust). To deal with these problems, data will be put into a computer model. The model will predict how much should be observed at the monitoring stations (based on control strategies). One large question to be answered is how much can be accounted for other than the known sources. He believed it would be found that there is some 40 percent or more emmission that is being measured that cannot be accounted for because they are a part of the - 7/26/78--7 537 . larger air shed problem. The committee has been discouraged by DEQ from concerning itself with slash burning because the DEQ cannot control slash e burning. He felt this should be a concern of the committee. Mr. Delay contfnued that the air quality problem will not disappear and will not be entirely solved through only the Eugene/Springfield metro area effort. Therefore, he felt it prudent the AQMACAC be encouraged to more fully explore the valley-wide implications and specifics about slash burning. And second, the City of Eugene should encourage the committee to incorporate a growth increment program. The effect would be to roll back pollution levels sufficiently to permit existing or new expansion to take place and still meet the timetable for complying with Federal standards. He also noted that the City must recognize in the current inventory a very major component of particulates going into the air comes from road dust. That problem needs to be addressed, and the committee would thus be asking cooperation both from Eugene and Springfield to participate in controlling the sources. Costly paving and improved cleaning are inevitable. In summary, Mr. Delay said there is definitely an air quality problem that needs a higher level of cooperation and attention, not just area-wide but throughout the valley and on a state-wide basis. Assistant Manager related some of staff's concern in that staff needs to continue to be deeply involved in the air quality program to reap the benefits from past investments. A revised State Implementation Plan is going on now. The issue of trying to persuade other valley communities of e the need to focus attention on air quality in the valley is being discussed. To date, there has been little success in getting cooperation from other cities in the Willamette Valley and he noted all have a high stake in air quality. Also, there is a need to have the state assess where the particu- lates are coming from and how they are moving through the area. The City is hoping to retain a lobbyist for air quality in August to prepare for the 1979 legislative session and State Implementation Plan. He sai d there might be some additional costs, but Council would be apprised of those. Terry Smith, Public Works Department, is working very hard on burning practices and slash burning control. The staff is working with LRAPA staff, who have been very cooperative, and in fact a meeting is scheduled later today to talk with LRAPA about road dust strategies. Mr. Williams questioned Mr. Delay regarding the 40-percent unknown particu- late matters, and wondered how much he would estimate of that 40 percent comes from barbeques and wood burning in homes. Mr. Delay responded wood space heating would account for approximately 3.4 percent. Answering a question from Mr. Lieuallen, Assistant Manager said that Mayor Keller is considering hosting a meeting with other mayors from cities in the valley to present the idea of mutual cooperation. This would lead to meetings with other city councils. -- 7/26/78--8 538 --'- , Answering a question from Mr. Lieuallen regarding the data on the computer e model, Mr. Delay said there was a need to determine what the factors are in the AQMA in order to determine how to deal with those problems. He said very little was occurring on a valley~wide basis, and most of what has been happening was in this area. He reiterated there was a need for cooperation among all cities in the valley, as Eugene and Springfield would not be able to solve the problem alone. He noted it would be to everyone's advantage, including the seed growers, to find out what really is going on and how to deal with the air problem. Vern Atkinson, LRAPA, noted how far advanced Eugene has been over cities like Salem and Portland in their attempt to solve the air quality problem. However, there is still a long way to go, but other areas have not come as far as this area. Assistant Manager noted that the AQMACAC is a subcommittee of the DEQ and, as such, has no direct ties to the City of Eugene. He suggested Council could request DEQ to expand the scope of the committee and allow them to look at some of these other matters, i.e., expanding into the area of intrusions from the entire valley, and not being held just to an arbitrary boundary. It was determined that staff would bring back a motion for Council to consider at its meeting August 2 regarding expanding the scope of the committee. Upon motion duly made, seconded, and passed, the meeting was adjourned to August 2, 1978. · ~uM- . ~ /' /{1{ C/ A. Keith Marti n Assistant City Manager AKM:DT:sp/ml/CM8a30 " 7/26/78--9 53' ~-_.,'~. .-.