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mo e To: Courthouse Square Special Oversight Committee, :Hon. Edwin Peterson, Chair From: ohn Whittington, Project Co-coordinator Date: lanuary 12, 1998 Re: City of Salem Position re: Courthouse Square At your last meeting, members of the committee posed several questions to be addressed by staff. The purpose of this memorandum is to respond to the question, "Does the City of Salem Have A Position on Courthouse Square?" 1 cannot speak for the City of Salem, but I can present to you the information and understandings exchanged between the City of Salem and Marion County/Salem Area Transit. Within the context of the overall question of the City's position there are two issues which I will address: 1. The understandings between the City of Salem and Salem Area Transit with respect to the relocation of Cherriot Station from High Street; and, 2. The understandings between the City of Salem, Marion County, and Salem Area Transit with respect to the development of Courthouse Square. CHERRIOT STATION RELOCATION Attachment "A" is a memorandum dated September 23, 1982, from Gordon Aoyagi, former General Manager of the Transit District, to TransiYs Board of Directors, outlining the key points negotiated between the City of Salem and Salem Area Transit for the location of the DistricYs Transfer Station on High Street. You will note that the City staff and the Downtown Development Board had reviewed the proposal and were recommending its approval to the City Council including the City providing $141,000 toward construction of the facility and "...the location be considered temporary for a period of 5-8 years." Attachment "B" is a page from the minutes of the October 5, 1982 Transit Board of Directors meeting referencing Mr. Aoyagi's report that "City Council has accepted the High Street Transfer Point." The actual City staff report, Council minutes, and the Agreement beiween the two bodies are also available but I felt that the two enclosed pieces reflected the point at issue: the City of Salem entered into an agreement with Salem Area Transit to allow the High Street Transfer Point on the stipulation that it be a temporary facility for a period of 5-8 years. In 1985, the District commissioned a study by several regional firms, including Moore Breithaupt & Associates, of Salem, to investigate the potential for a joint development project on the Senator Block. The entire summary report from this study is lengthy, so I have provided as Attachment "C° just the first page of the report, though the complete report can be made available should the committee wish to see it. You will note, in the second paragraph of the introduction to the study, that the City had previously • Page 1