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351 Management Committee she would like Council to give the Committee some al- lowance for small projects. C) Mayor Mercer stated he would like to determine how many units should be allocated to the School District; under growth management there are 162 units C)C) to disburse. Councilmember Brandes asked if the School District property, (the 13 acres to be traded by the City), meets the criteria to apply for growth management allocations. Mr. MacDonald advised it would not at the present time. Councilmember Brandes stated it was not his understanding that action has been taken to give the 13 acres of property to the School District. He stated the City has not neglected the School District; by giving them $4 million and supporting the School Bond issue on the June ballot. He stated one of the reasons for long term agreements was for the City to be able to select the types of project it wanted, not to set priorities before the project was selected. He felt the quality of the project and benefit to the City should be the only considations in determining whether or not a project receives growth management allocations; not how much money a developer has spent on improvements, or how long he has been waiting for whatever reason. He stated the only reason the City is have trouble with the units now is that so many have been approved already. The only rationale is to stop approving project if Council is serious about stopping growth. More projects mean more people, more traffic, and more stress to provide service; every small project adds to that. Before Council goes on, they need to know what the results of the actions already taken are; that impact is not known yet. Councilmember Wilson stated the City is not giving the School District 13 acres, it is an exchange for park land. Councilmember Brandes stated the City has a 50 year lease on the park land. Councilmember Wilson stated the City Attorney does not think the lease would stand up in Court. The City is trying to work with the School District in the best interests of all concerned. Mayor Mercer stated the School District has a 7.6 acre park site that the citizens want the City to buy; he thought the City could trade for the 13 acres near the sewer plant but to make the 13 acres valuable the School Dis- .... trict would need the growth management allocations. He stated Council needs to address the backlog and what units can be made available for the School district. Councilmember Wilson asked staff to define backlog, whether it is 3500 or 2000. Mr. Swift stated that staff created in the materials Council was given, any project that was not finaled as a project that had received approval that was not yet completed with the effects of that the students were in the schools, the traffic was on the street, etc.; those projects are lumped into past backlog any project that received growth management approval from the years 1987 or earlier had not yet received a building permit final. To that, staff also added the 1988 approvals that had already been given to date - there are approximately 900 units in 1988 that are out there, some of which 12 5-17-88