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J ES Eric R <br /> Fro CARLSON Becky A <br /> Sin : Friday, August 10, 2007 10:24 AM <br /> T¢; JONES Eric R <br /> S~ 'ect'; FW: Draft news release re today's Council action <br /> i <br /> Inhp rtance: High <br /> S~ mary for you, too. ~bc <br /> FHo CARLSON Becky A <br /> S~n . Thursday, August 09, 2007 8:56 AM <br /> T PETERSON Tish A; SMITH Tammy D <br /> S bj ct: FW: Draft news release re today's Council action <br /> Ir~ip rtance: High <br /> FXI -sorry, things got to moving fast, the media was spouting erroneous information--so I didn't get a chance to run this by <br /> ymu <br /> Irk s mmary, the council directed to: <br /> . I, Drop the appeal of the circuit court decision; <br /> Bring back next Wednesday an ordinance to repeal the May ordinance (they must have unanimous consent to <br /> consider this next Wednesday and indicated to Glenn that they did so); <br /> . Bring back next Wednesday a resolution (and related motions for ballot language) to refer the $.03 increase to the <br /> votQrs in November; and <br /> Bring back next Wednesday a draft ordinance to enact the sunset repeal (probably won't actually act on this one until <br /> at I~ast September). <br /> A`jd~tionally, Angel committed to bring back an ordinance to clean up the election definitions in City Code to make clear <br /> tf jat the way we've counted votes since 1978 is the way we want the Code to be interpreted. <br /> W'e can talk about this in more detail later. -bc <br /> i <br /> F CARLSON Becky A <br /> n Wednesday, August 08, 2007 4:43 PM <br /> T KLETZOK Melinda A <br /> Ck: JONES Angel L; BOHMAN Jan L; COREY Kurt A; FELDMAN Mary H; JONES Eric R; ROBESON Maureen T <br /> S b ect: RE: Draft news release re today's Council action <br /> Ir~ip rtance: High <br /> I~el nda„ this is the edited version for release. It has Angel, Kitty and the attorney's OK. -becky <br /> I <br /> i <br /> loo ay, the Eugene City Council directed the city manager to withdraw an appeal of a judge's <br /> d~e isign to allow voters a say in November as to whether the City's gas tax should increase by three <br /> c~e is per gallon. The appeal had been filed to preserve the City's options until the council had an <br /> o~p ortunity to discuss the alternatives around the gas tax ordinance. <br /> T!h current tax is five cents per gallon in Eugene and was scheduled to decrease to three cents per <br /> g Ion on February 29, 2008. Council action in May authorized the increase of the tax from five cents <br /> p~e gallon to eight cents per gallon and also would have ensured the tax did not decrease in February <br /> 20 8, but would instead remain at the eight cents per gallon level. <br /> <br /> ~Pe itioners submitted signatures in June to refer the council's action to the voters. The petition was <br /> irhit ally rejected by the City on the grounds that insufficient qualified slgnatures were gathered to <br /> i <br /> <br />