Here's a roundup of the most notable items of discussion or action that local elected leaders will be taking up during meetings this week.

What: Eugene poised to build a public homeless shelter, hire homelessness czar



Summary: The Eugene City Council will discuss and likely will vote to authorize staff to spend $1.9 million set aside to begin implementing a roadmap to bring homeless people living on the street indoors.

The amount is broken down as follows:

• $836,000 to build a 4,500-square-foot "low barrier" public homeless shelter with room for 75 beds. The shelter, to be built using tension fabric, is "to be erected as soon as an appropriate site can be identified," a staff report said. There's no timeline provided for when that site will be located and there's sure to be a debate about whether to have it located in downtown.

• $525,000 to hire and provide a budget for a strategic initiatives manager, or, essentially, a homelessness czar. The manager's job will be to oversee the roadmap's implementation as well as recruit and work with social service organizations and other partners to assist in that effort. This amount is for a three-year period.

• $200,000 to launch a mobile outreach team as a pilot project to reach out to homeless people and help them connect to social services and navigate the red tape so they can get into housing and sign up for counseling, medical care and job training. The team will go out to where homeless people are rather than expecting them to come in.

• $60,000 to provide financial incentives to recruit private landlords who would be open to providing housing for homeless people.

• $279,000 to set aside as a reserve fund to respond to needs as they arise.

Lane County has also set aside money to help implement the roadmap.

Details: Noon, Wednesday, Harris Hall, Public Service Building, 125 E. Eighth Ave.; http://bit.ly/eugeneagenda. At same meeting, discussion and possible vote on proposed code and plans amendments related to the downtown riverfront development and adjoining community park.

Also: At 5:30 p.m., work session, joint meeting with Lane Transit District board of directors on MovingAhead update. At 7:30 p.m. meeting, public hearings on one-year extension of NW Natural franchise agreement, rest stop program and proposed renaming of Washington-Jefferson Park.

Lane County Board of Commissioners

No public meetings this week.

Springfield City Council

No public meetings this week.