Public Service Bldg.          125 East 8th Avenue               Eugene, OR  97401             Phone:  682-4203

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 2008 - REGULAR MEETING

9:00 a.m.    (Commissioners' Conference Room)

(Please turn off all cell phones)

1. ADJUSTMENTS TO THE AGENDA

# 2. PUBLIC COMMENTS

(Maximum time 20 minutes:  Speakers will be limited to 3 minutes.  If the number wishing to testify exceeds 7 speakers, each speaker's time may be reduced to fit within 20 minutes.)

3. CONSENT CALENDAR

(All items listed here are considered to be routine by the Board of Commissioners and will be enacted by one motion in the form listed below.  There will be no separate discussion of these items.  If discussion is desired, that item will be removed from the Consent Calendar and will be considered separately.)

BEGINNING OF CONSENT CALENDAR * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

A. Approval of Minutes:

November 28, 2006, Work Session, 6:00 p.m.

March 13, 2007, Work Session, 9:00 a.m.

March 20, 2007, Work Session, 9:00 a.m.

February 13, 2008, Regular Meeting, 9:00 a.m.

February 20, 2008, Regular Meeting, Following HACSA

February 20, 2008, Regular Meeting, 1:30 p.m.

B. County Administration

1) ORDER 08-2-20-10/In the Matter of Authorizing the Use of $25,000 of Video Lottery Funds to Defray the Costs of County Permits for Public Benefit Community Facility Projects. (View Material)

3. CONSENT CALENDAR

C. Children and Families

1) ORDER 08-3-12-1/In the Matter of Appropriating Funds in the Amount of $125,000 in Fund 265 and Delegating Authority to Contract with Looking Glass Youth and Family Services in the Amount of $102,711 for 17 Months for the Runaway and Homeless Youth Initiative.  (View Material)

D. Health and Human Services

1) ORDER 08-3-12-2/In the Matter of Authorizing Submission of a Grant Proposal in the Amount of $295,851 for a Lane County Demonstration Project on Protecting Vulnerable Populations during a Public Health Crisis to the State Department of Health and Human Services (DHS), for DHS Application to the Centers for Disease Control for Funding.  (View Material)

2) ORDER 08-3-12-3/In the Matter of Approving a Contract Amendment with ShelterCare for Housing for Severely and Persistently Mentally Ill Homeless Adults. (View Material)

E. Public Works

1) ORDER 08-3-12-4/In the Matter of Dedicating Land Owned by Lane County and Accepting it For Public and County Road Purposes for Kelso Street (County Road Number1965 ) (17-04-04 & 09). (View Material)

END OF CONSENT CALENDAR * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 2008 - REGULAR MEETING (Continued)

4. EMERGENCY BUSINESS

5. COMMISSIONERS' REMONSTRANCE (2 min. limit)

6. COMMISSIONERS' BUSINESS

a. REPORT/CVALCO Semi-Annual Report. (Kari Westlund) (9:30 A.M. TIME CERTAIN) (20 min.)  (View Material)

b. DISCUSSION/Recognizing Alsea Watershed Council. (Commissioner Stewart) (10 min.) (View Material)

7. EXECUTIVE SESSION as per ORS 192.660 (TIME CERTAIN 10:00 A.M.)

(Commissioners' Conference Room)

8. COUNTY ADMINISTRATION

a. Announcements

b. ORDER 08-3-12-5/In the Matter of Accepting $250,000 in Grant Funding from the Alternative to Field Burning Research Fund to Identify Options for Energy Production from Grass Seed Straw and Authorizing the Appropriation of the Grant Funds. (Mike McKenzie-Bahr) (10 min.) (View Material)

9. PUBLIC WORKS

a. REPORT/ODOT Regular Report from Area 5 Manager Sonny Chickering. (Sonny Chickering, ODOT, and Celia Barry) (11:00 A.M. TIME CERTAIN). (15 min.)

b . REPORT BACK/Process Update Relating to Processing Applications for Annexations to Special Districts Pursuant to Senate Bill 417 and ORS Chapter 198. (Stephanie Schulz) (10 min.) (View Material)

c. WORK SESSION/Discussion Relating to Intergovernmental Agreements and Extraterritorial Extensions of Services. (Stephanie Schulz) (20 min.) (View Material)

d. ORDER 08-3-12-6/In the Matter of Ratification of Grant Application and Acceptance of Grant Award from Oregon Parks and Recreation for Armitage Park Campground Development. (Todd Winter) (5 min.) (View Material)

10. MANAGEMENT SERVICES

a. ORDER 08-3-12-7/In the Matter of Amending Conditions Included in a Deed that Transferred County Owned Property to the Port of Siuslaw by Extending the Date at Which the Property Becomes Subject to Reversion to March 1, 2009 (Map #18-12-22-00-00701, 40 Acres North of County Transfer Station in Florence. (Jeff Turk) (15 min.) (View Material)

11. CORRESPONDENCE TO THE BOARD

12. COMMISSIONERS' ANNOUNCEMENTS

13. REVIEW ASSIGNMENTS

14. OTHER BUSINESS

1:30 p.m.   (Commissioners’ Conference Room)

#15. PUBLIC HEARINGS

a. SECOND READING AND PUBLIC HEARING/Ordinance No. 3-08/In the Matter of Amending Chapter 4 of Lane Code to Add Exemption to Car Rental Tax for Carbon Offset Program (LC 4.255) (NBA & PM 2/13/08). (Teresa Wilson)

16. PUBLIC SAFETY

a. ORDER 08-3-12-8/In the Matter of Transferring Lane County Parole and Probation Services from the Department of Health and Human Services to the Department of Public Safety and Restructuring the Supervisory Authority Team. (Sheriff Burger) (30 min.) (View Material)

17. COMMISSIONERS' ANNOUNCEMENTS

18. CORRESPONDENCE TO THE BOARD

19. OTHER BUSINESS

______________________________________________________________________________

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 2008 - WORK SESSION/COMMUNITY DISCUSSION ON FUTURE OF FAIRGROUNDS

6:30-8:30 p.m.  (Lane Events Center Meeting Room 1, Fairgrounds, Eugene)  

1. Overview

2. Fairgrounds Options

3. Public Comment

*NOTE:  Estimated Times

______________________________________________________________________________

*NOTE: Next scheduled Board of Commissioners' Meeting Tuesday, March 18 and/or Wednesday, March 19, 2008.