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Ms. Mello noted that she had walked through the BMX leasehold area during the last home football game of 2010. She reported that everyone seemed to be within the log boundaries. b. Governmental Relations Mr. Sonnichsen discussed the bridge naming. He said the City of Springfield had unanimously endorsed the Whilamut Passage Bridge name on October 18. He thanked Willamalane Park and Recreation District for writing a letter to the Springfield City Council endorsing the name. He stated that the CPC had presented the naming to the Lane Board of County Commissioners on September 25 and it had been positively received. He said the commissioners were in the process of finalizing a naming policy and planned to address the bridge naming after it was finalized. He explained that they would seek endorsement by the Metropolitan Policy Committee (MPC), an inter - jurisdictional body, after the commissioners acted. Once the MPC had acted, the naming would go before the Oregon State Geographic Names Board, the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT), and then the Oregon Transportation Commission (OTC). He expected that the naming would go through. He noted that they had gone before the Metropolitan Policy Organization Citizen Advisory Committee (MPO CAC), a subcommittee of the MPC, and had received its unanimous endorsement of the Whilamut Passage Bridge name. He thought the commissioners might hold a public hearing on the naming. Ms. Behm arrived. Mr. Sonnichsen had been participating in Parks Coordination Meetings, held at the OBEC offices (the engineering firm for the bridge). He explained that they had realized early on that the process could benefit from a central clearinghouse for ideas given that the project involved multiple entities, including the CPC, the Willamalane Park and Recreation District and the City of Eugene Parks and Open Space (POS) Division. He found the meetings to be very positive and that everyone involved had a "ton of information" discussed and decided upon. He felt the meetings had been very "facilitative." He noted that Ms. Mello and Ms. Behm had participated in most of the meetings and that Ms. Larison and Mr. Ard had also contributed. Mr. Ard had been very helpful in discussions on native plants. He asked Mr. Cooper to pass along their gratitude to the people at OBEC who hosted the meetings. Mr. Sonnichsen reported that the meeting with the representative of the Eugene Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC) had been brief. He said they agreed that they needed to keep in contact. He related that they had an exchange regarding the issue of lighting in the WNA; they had "tried very hard" to point out that the EABP master plan did not allow the lighting. Continuing, Mr. Sonnichsen related that he and Ms. Mello had met with City Engineer Mark Schoening and they had proposed a different lighted path "regime" that would take a lighted path from the North Bank Trail west of the Whilamut Natural Area and guide it up through the road going into the boat launch and then continuing easterly to the junction of Day Island Road and the Autzen Path. He said the north side of the area across from the park host facility was not in the Whilamut Natural Area. He thought that if lighting could continue along that route, it would allow cyclists to come to that intersection and turn left to go to Leo Harris Parkway and to turn right to go to the Frohnmayer Footbridge. He stated that the draft plan regarding what the City wanted to do in terms of ideas for bicycle path lighting would be released in early November. Ms. Mello agreed that the Parks Coordination Meetings had been very helpful; their comments had been well - received and supported. Mr. Sonnichsen stated that the City had received an ODOT grant for the bicycle path design. He said the City would be obligated to build something within five years after the issuance of the design. He thanked Mr. Biggs for his motion made at the previous meeting so that the CPC's stand was noted on record. MINUTES — Citizen Planning Committee for the Whilamut Natural Area October 28, 2010 Page 3