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G. RESOLUTION 14109 APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING EXECUTION OF AGREEMENT FOR PROFESSIONAL CONSULTING SERVICES RELATING TO PREPARATION OF BAIR ISLAND ROAD SPECIFIC PLAN (Roma Design Group); (304) 7.5 Section — Claims and Warrants A. Approve warrants dated through December 18, 2000 and usual and necessary payments through January 8, 2000; MINUTE ORDER 00 -361 The motion passed by a unanimous roll call vote with Council Member Hartnett absent and Council Member Jordan abstaining on Item 7.1A. 7.4 Section — Miscellaneous A. M/S Claire /Howard to Approve the Findings and Conclusions on Appeal of Planning Commission Certification of the Final Environmental Impact Report for the proposed Downtown Retail - Cinema Project; (603) Council Member Jordan stated that some issues had still not been addressed. She stated she thinks there is a credibility gap for the Council based on e-mail, conversations and hundreds of people that have showed up to speak before the Council on the project. She made several points: 1) All documents should be available regarding all submitted proposals and a presentation should be made specific to the reason a 20 theatre project was chosen. 2) An explanation should be given as to how the current team of Irmer and Syufy were chosen and why they were chosen above the others. 3) An explanation of how the idea of a theatre complex project evolved. 4) A comprehensive explanation of the shared parking concept should be presented. 5) A traffic consultant should be hired to perform an electronic simulation of the current downtown and extrapolate the numbers of cars and traffic generated by the project to visualize the worse case scenario. 6) An expert opinion/ presentation as to what type of anchor tenants can be expected from the project should be obtained. The motion passed by a majority roll call vote with Council Member Jordan voting no; Council Member Hartnett absent and Council Member Ira abstaining. MINUTE ORDER 00 -362 7.2 Section — Motions D. M/S Claire /Ira to Approve by Motion the proposed changes to the City's Investment Policy; (503) MINUTE ORDER 00 -363 Mayor Ruskin requested additional information and Financial Services Director Ponty provided additional information regarding the changes. Council Members Jordan and Ira with Vice Mayor Claire offered their respective financial points of view. REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES DECEMBER 18, 2000 PAGE 6 MINUTES Book No.58 Page NO. 290