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Capital Budget Highlights <br />--. <br />City Hall Complex <br />Deciding on a vision for the future of Eugene's City Hall complex is one of the Council's <br />goals to be addressed in FY07. While there are no capital funds included in the FY07 <br />Capital Budget, the FY 2007-2012 Multi-Year Financial Plan includes the City Hall <br />renovation or replacement as an unfunded project in 2010. <br />The City Hall Complex Master Plan builds on previous efforts to provide safer, more <br />efficient public spaces. The 2001-2002 Council Goals included an action priority to <br />"Develop a strategy and implementation plan for City downtown office and public safety <br />facilities." Two specific implementation items were to develop a funding plan and <br />timeline for relocation of the downtown Fire Station #1 for Council adoption, and to <br />develop a funding plan and timeline for relocation of Eugene Police Department <br />employees then located in the basement of City Hall. Both the relocation of the Eugene <br />Police Department Forensic Evidence and Property Control Units to the new Police <br />facility on Garfield Street and construction of the new Downtown Fire Station #1 were <br />completed in FY05. <br />In spring 2001, the Council directed the City Manager to develop a Downtown City <br />Space Plan, a financial strategy and implementation plan for replacement of City Hall and <br />other downtown City offices with one or more new buildings. Two long-term goals <br />identified in the Downtown City Space Plan were construction of a new Police <br />headquarters building and replacement of City Hall. After defeat of a November 2004 <br />bond measure that would have funded components of a Community Safety Building and <br />Civic Street improvements, the City Council directed staff to initiate the current City Hall <br />Complex Master Plan to address all outstanding City downtown space needs. <br />The Master Plan process began late 2005, when the Council approved the City Hall <br />Complex Priority Issue Action Plan which identified the major policy issues to be <br />addressed, the overall description of project phasing, the nature of work to be <br />accomplished, resource needs and proposed project outcomes. This Policy Advisement <br />Phase of the master plan was completed in November 2005. <br />Also in mid-2006, Council directed the City Manager to proceed with Phase 2 -the <br />Development Plan phase - of the City Hall Complex Action Plan. This phase of the <br />master plan incorporates a broad community involvement process to develop direction on <br />major policy questions, and will culminate in a conceptual design reflecting the scope and <br />location of buildings in a City Hall complex. This phase will be completed in late 2006. <br />Council will make a decision on initiating the third phase of the City Hall Complex <br />Master Plan in FY07. Specific projects to implement the City Hall complex will be <br />identified and designs completed in this third design development phase of the Master <br />Plan. It is expected that a combination of internal funding and voter approved general <br />obligation bonds will be required to finance future projects. All three phases of the <br />Master Plan would be funded from the Facility Replacement Reserve. <br />48 <br />