Resolution No. 36378 As Amended

Appoint a Review Committee to monitor, review, and advise City Council and the Bureau of Environmental Services on attainment of the overall goals of the East Side Combined Sewer Overflow Tunnel Project (Resolution)

WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 167573, passed April 20, 1994, authorized the City to execute the Amended Stipulation and Final Order (ASFO) between the Environmental Quality Commission and the Department of Environment Quality and the City, for the Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Program.

WHEREAS, Portland’s CSO Program is a large multidimensional project and is under a strict timeline, mandated by the ASFO, to reduce combined sewer overflows by the year 2011.

WHEREAS, the final phase of the CSO Program requires construction of facilities to control the east side CSO outfalls to the Willamette River by December 1, 2011.

WHEREAS, the East Side CSO Tunnel Project (“Big Pipe”), as the last major project of the CSO Program, is the largest construction project to be undertaken by the City of Portland; and

WHEREAS, the project implementation plan includes various success criteria, including accomplishing the appropriate level of CSO control by the mandated schedule, minimizing cost, utilizing local businesses, maintaining safe work sites, and minimizing construction impacts; and

WHEREAS, the Bureau Innovation Project (BIP) initiated by Mayor Tom Potter resulted in 20 goals; and

WHEREAS, BIP Goal # 15 states: Appoint an Eastside CSO Review Committee of community stakeholders to report directly to the City Council; and

WHEREAS, the formation of this review committee was a direct result of the BIP Team # 15, a committee made up of city employees and citizen stakeholders; and

WHEREAS, since the length of the membership term is three years and the length of the project is almost six years, periodic procurement of new members through the Mayor’s Office will occur to maintain approximately 12 to 15 members.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Portland City Council hereby appoints the following as preliminary members of the East Side Big Pipe Review Committee:

And, after committee selection of a Chair, further directs the Chair and Review Committee to:

▪  Meet regularly, but no less than quarterly, to review project status;

▪  Monitor Environmental Services efforts to meet project success criteria

▪  Provide a forum for a discussion of issues that arise during implementation of the project

▪  Communicate project status to City Council at least every six months throughout the duration of the project.

Adopted by the Council: February 22, 2006  GARY BLACKMER

               Auditor of the City of Portland

               By /S/ Susan Parsons

Mayor Tom Potter

Prepared by:                Deputy

Paul Gribbon        

February 22, 2006

BACKING SHEET INFORMATION

AGENDA NO. 218-2006

ORDINANCE/RESOLUTION/COUNCIL DOCUMENT NO. 36378 AS AMENDED