METRO POLICY ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING RECORD

January 9, 2002 – 5:00 p.m.

Metro Regional Center, Rooms 370 A and B

Committee Members Present: Chair Lisa Naito, Vice Chair Michael Jordan, Charles Becker, Bill Blosser, Larry Cooper, Nathalie Darcy, Rob Drake, Bernie Giusto, Eugene Grant, Ed Gronke, Judie Hammerstad, John Hartsock, Tom Hughes, Vera Katz, Richard Kidd, Mark Knudsen, Annette Mattson, Dave Ripma, Dan Saltzman, Jim Zehren.

Alternates Also Present: Meg Fernekees, Alan Hipolito.

Also Present: Richard Ross, City of Gresham; Max Talbot, City of Gresham; Mary Kyle McCurdy, 1000 Friends of Oregon/Citizens for a Livable Future; Laura Oppenheimer, The Oregonian; Steve Kountz, City of Portland; Holly Iburg, Newland Communities; Jonathan Harder, City of Gresham; Lynn Peterson, Tri-Met; Brent Curtis, Washington County; Todd Chase, OTAK, Inc.; Hal Bergsma, City of Beaverton; Pat Ribellia, City of Hillsboro; Kay Durtschi, Metro MCCI; I. Marrich, League of Women Voters; Stephan

Lashbrook, City of Lake Oswego; Ron Bunch, City of Gresham; Greg Chew, Parsons Brinkerhoff; Jack Hoffman, City of Lake Oswego; Ann Gardner, Schnitzer Investment; Al Burns, City of Portland.

Metro Elected Officials Present: Liaisons – Carl Hosticka, Presiding Officer; Rod Park, Metro Council District 1; Susan McLain, Metro Council District 4. Also attending: David Bragdon, Metro Council District 7, Bill Atherton, Metro Council District 2.

Metro Staff Present: Rooney Barker, Daniel B. Cooper, Andy Cotugno, Marci LaBerge; Mark Turpel; Mike Hoglund; Dennis Yee, Mary Weber.

1.  INTRODUCTIONS

 Vice Chair Jordan declared a quorum at 5:07 p.m. and called the meeting to order. Those present introduced themselves.

2. ANNOUNCEMENTS

 Lynn Peterson reported that Tri-Met was hosting open houses in different jurisdictions to discuss and gather feedback on future service to the region’s citizens. She asked the members to forward to her any comments they may received on this and said information on this was on Tri-Met’s Web site (www.tri-met.org).

3.  CITIZEN COMMUNICATIONS

 There were none.

4.  CONSENT AGENDA

4.1  MPAC Meeting Summary, Minutes December 12, 2001

6.  SELECTION OF MPAC OFFICERS

 Vice Chair Jordan opened the meeting to nominations for 2002 committee officers.

5.  COUNCIL UPDATE

 Metro Presiding Officer Carl Hosticka spoke to the Metro Council’s organizing resolution of the Metro Council and he distributed a copy of the Metro Council’s committee assignments for 2002 (made a part of this record). Councilor Hosticka said the agency’s work would continue on Periodic Review and the Fish and Wildlife Habitat Protection program, and that there would be planning for internal organization changes. He said he hoped the transitions, both this current one and the major one next January, would be smooth.

6.1  MPAC WORK PLAN

 Referring to his distributed January 2^nd memo (included as part of this record), Chair Jordan said there was a great deal of work to accomplish over the next 9 to 10 months. He said he thought it appropriate to create subcommittees to accomplish this and asked the members to sign up for a subcommittee – or two (per the distributed sign-up sheets). He would then appoint the members from the sign-up sheets.

The six subcommittees he proposed to launch (in February) were: Demand Forecast; Housing; Centers; Industrial Land; Parks and Open Spaces; and Subregional Needs. MPAC had until May to decide some of the upcoming issues, he said. His goal was to gather the diverse opinions of the group and to bring back at least one or two alternatives on each topic for the whole committee to look at. He said he was open to amending/revising his work plan in order to get the work done.

In May, working with the input from the subcommittees, the committee as a whole would then hopefully reach a consensus and apply that to the alternatives analysis staff is going through now, and then in the summer bring recommendations into focus, adopting them within the timeframe as recommendations to the Metro Council. The Council would then go through their hearing and adoption process from the fall through the end of the year. This was an incredible amount of work, Chair Jordan said, and his schedule was just as incredibly ambitious; however, he expressed hope that the subcommittee format would work well.

Mr. Cotugno said he thought the subcommittees on Centers, Industrial Lands and Subregional Needs should start work as soon as possible, as well as the Parks and Open Spaces subcommittee, but that it might be premature to begin the Demand Forecast or the Housing subcommittees before mid-February until staff could prepare information and a proposal for that one.

There was discussion on when and where the subcommittees would meet, and concern that more than the two meetings each month already devoted to MPAC was close to the limit. The tentative MPAC meeting schedule for 2002 was used for this discussion (and is included as part of this record).

Commissioner Saltzman suggested using one of the scheduled meeting dates for subcommittee work. Mr. Cotugno, building on that suggestion, proposed reserving the ability to hold a brief MPAC meeting when legislation required action, then move into subcommittee work. Discussion followed that one meeting a month would not be enough for subcommittee work. Chair Jordan then asked the committee if they would allow the MPAC Coordinating Committee the flexibility to adjust the agendas for the second monthly meeting, if necessary, to accommodate both action items and subcommittee work, with meetings possibly going beyond 7 p.m., if necessary. The committee agreed. Also, he said, subcommittees could meet more often, should they so choose.

Mr. Cotugno suggested combining the Centers and Industrial Land subcommittees to have a jobs oriented subcommittee, so the bulk of the work was down a housing/jobs track. His expectation, he said, was that the Demand Forecast subcommittee would be short and sweet, that it may be a one or two-meeting subcommittee. The Subregional Needs subcommittee was one that would probably take a while. He said his expectation of the Parks and Open Spaces subcommittee was linkage to the Periodic Review of the UGB. It was to figure out what the Parks and Open Spaces Connection was to the buildable land inventory for Periodic Review. That may not be a long duration subcommittee, either, he said.

Chair Jordan said he anticipated, from this discussion, that MPAC’s January 23^rd agenda would be a short, regular agenda and the first subcommittee meeting. Everyone had been asked for his or her first, second and third priorities for which subcommittee they preferred to work, and notification would be sent on appointments (he reminded them that they many not received their first choice, but he would try to accommodate requests). Some may be asked to serve on two subcommittees. Responding to a question from Mayor Becker, it was agreed that alternates to subcommittee members would be acceptable.

6.  SELECTION OF MPAC OFFICERS

 At this time, Chair Jordan presented outgoing Chair Lisa Naito with a gift from the committee, a gavel mounted on a plaque, for her year serving as Chair. Ms. Naito said it had been a pleasure to serve and thanked the committee for all their hard work, and also thanked Mr. Cotugno for his extraordinarily hard work.

7.  EMPLOYMENT ISSUES

 Mr. Cotugno reviewed the Draft Employment Research document, included in the agenda packet, saying this document was a bridge to the next agenda item, the Regional Industrial Land Study. He told the committee that if this document didn’t ask the right questions or give the appropriate recommendations to please let him know. A short discussion followed, ending with some of the members reiterating the need to look at this issue on a regional basis. Mr. Mark Knudsen said three areas everyone should be involved in were power, water and roads, that these cut across all jurisdictions and each carried it’s own set of problems. Mayor Katz added transportation and housing to that list, for moving freight and moving services.

Responding to a comment from Mr. Zehren on tax base sharing, Councilor Park also asked the committee to consider, regionally, what they would want to do for compensation if something turned out to be a best choice for the region but caused a sacrifice to a city. Chair Jordan commented that the kinds of questions the committee raised and how they thought about them was going to be what the subcommittees would be looking at and working on.

8.  REGIONAL INDUSTRIAL LAND SUPPLY STUDY

 Mr. Ethan Seltzer of Portland State University, Mr. Terry Moore of ECONorthwest, and Mr. Todd Chase of Otak, Inc., briefed the committee on Phase 3 of the Regional Industrial Land Study for the Portland-Vancouver Metropolitan Area (included in the agenda packet). They also directed the committee to the Website for the report, www.upa.pdx.edu/IMS. In closing, Mr. Seltzer said that the lack of a regional economic development policy made the study more difficult.

There was discussion on industrial land need/landbanking, transportation issues, jobs by lot size, and labor.

There being no further business, the meeting adjourned at 7:20 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Rooney Barker

Committee Clerk

ATTACHMENTS TO THE PUBLIC RECORD FOR THE MEETING OF JANUARY 9, 2002

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