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Mr. Peters noted that the Patterson Underpass project was slated to cost $12 million. He commented that there was uncertainty as to the need for it and asked what would happen if the Hospital did not need this improvement. City Manager Taylor replied that the project list included it in anticipation that the hospital project would generate tax increment funding. He called it a work in progress and assured the Budget Committee that it would only happen if the Hospital project went forward and at this point its placement on the CIP was a necessary promise to McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center to help facilitate their agreement with the Eugene Water & Electric Board (EWEB). In response to a question from Mr. Kelly, City Manager Taylor assured him that there would not be any work done to design or build a new downtown parking structure until the City Council had a discussion on where. it should be located. He emphasized that location would be the first consideration prior; to design. Mr. Kellynoted that street light funding. was listed on page 143 at half the funding level of previous years. He related that he received many calls about inadequate street lighting. He asked for clarification in the packet on the 22'~ and a motion that would restore funding to the previous level. Mr. Demboski asked for a copy of the talking points Mr. Svendsen had used in discussing building life cycles. Ms. Bettman asked what legislative intent the adoption of the draft document would have. She wanted to see the CIP reformatted in order to clearly see what funding was being spent on. She requested motion language to direct staff to reformat the CIP. Ms. Bettman stated that she wanted to pull the Monroe-Friendly Bikeway from the CIF. She felt there were other projects that the money would be better spent upon. Ms. Rygas asked Ms. Bettman if she was requesting the CIP be reformatted prior to the next budget meeting. Ms. Bettman affirmed she was. Ms. Rygas indicated she wanted the same thing. She recognized that it was a large task and might not be done by the next meeting. She suggested items on the list be color-coded to show what was funded, what was approved, and at what level funded items were approved. Ms. Boyle said there was probably no way to reformat the CIP prior to the Budget Committee meeting scheduled for February 22. She added that unfunded projects could be removed from the CIP in order to simplify it. Ms. Rygas acknowledged it was a challenging task. She suggested creating an addendum that cited the projects that were "wish list projects." Mr. McDonald asked what had happened to revenue received through the sale of two fire stations. Mr. Sveridsen replied that the City Council had directed the money from the sales to go to Fire Station 11 in the River Road/Santa Clara area. Mr. Peters asked what the status was of previously funded projects that were not yet constructed. City Manager Taylor asked Mr. Schoening to speak to the transportation projects that fell into that category.. Mr. Schoening explained that at the front of each section was a list of projects in red that were previously funded but not yet constructed. He said sometimes a project took several years to develop prior to construction. He cited the Monroe-Friendly Bikeway in particular, noting that it had been in the budget adopted by the City Council in 2004. MINUTES-Eugene Budget Committee February 7, 2005 Page 6