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e I e I I e I e l Ii I j \ I) I \ I i I J ! ! I I j i I I , I I II If I: I I I I 2 I I r \1 II " II II II I' Ii I Ii II I, I' I j 3 I 11 ~Il 411 11 . 1'1 I 5 './ II ! I I -4a3~ 2/9/59 -.- -. -------- - ~ ~ -.- - - - --- - - ---- -- - ------- ---~----- --- --- - -..-.-- ~--~-_.-- - ----- --~-- ---- --~-. --- --- - - - --.--- -----.-- --'-- - ~-- -- -~-~ _._~------ ---- ---- - ----- -- -- - ~.-- --I- I I I, I 'r , COUNC I L CHAMBER ~ELiGENE, OREGON ' FEBRUARY 9, 1959 THE REGULAR MEETING Of THE .CO~MON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EUGENE WAS HELD ON FEBRUARY 9, '1959 'AT 7:30 PM IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER. THE MEETING -WAS CALLED TO ORDER BY HIS HONOR MAYOR E. E. CONE WITH THE FOLLOWING COUNCILMEN PRESENT: MR. SHEARER, MRS. LAURIS, MR. LINDEEN~' MR. MOlHOLM, MR. MCGAFFEY, MR.. CHATT AND MR. WILSON. MR.' MOYER WAS AB'$'ENT. THE INVOCATION WAS GIVEN BY REV. GEORGE R. ASHWOOD, -JR. THE MINUTES OF THE ADJOURNED MEETING O~ JANUARY 26, 1959, AS MAILED TO MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, WERE APPROVED. INTRODUCTION OF NEW BUSINESS COUNCILMAN WILSON BROUGHT UP THE:SUBJECT OF WIDENING STREETS, INDICATED THAT .AT A PREVIOUS COUNCIL MEETING HE HAD STATED THAT CERTAIN STREETS IN THE 'C~TY OF SALEM HAD BEEN WiDtNED AND THAT PARKING HAD BEEN RETAINED AFTER THE WIDENING HAD BEEN ACCOMPLISHED. He fURTHER 'STATE.D:THAT THE CITY MANAGER HAD INDICATED THAT SOME STREETS HAD BEEN WIDENED IN THE CITY OF SALEM AND PARKING HAD- BEEN REMOVED. IN THE COURSE Of THE CONVERSATION, IT APPEARED THAT THERE WAS SOME CONfUSION WITH RESPECT TO WHICH STREETS WERE BEING DISCUSSED AND THAT COUNCILMAN WILSON WAS REfERRING TO STATE STREET ON WHICH SOME PARKING HAD BEEN RETAINED WHILE THE CITY MANAGER HAD BEEN REFERRING TO 12TH STREET ON WHICH NO PARKING IS ALLOWED.' IT FURTHER APPEAREti THAT IN THE CITY OF SALEM SOME Of THE STREETS HAVE'99 FOOT RIGHTS-OF-WAY IN SOME SECTIONS Of THE CITY WHICH ALLOWS FOR WIDENING FOR 4-LANE TRAffic PLUS PARKING,'AND THAT DEPENDING UPON THE.WIDTH Of RIGHT-OF-WAY AND THE PARKING DE- SIRED, THE CTTY Of SALEM PAID PORTIONS Of THE COST Of WIDENING RANGING fROM ALL COSTS TO 25% Of- THE COSTS. IT WAS MOVED BY COUNCILMAN WILSON THAT THE COUNCIL TERMINATE THE SERVICES Of MR. ROBERT FiNLAYSON AS,CITY MANAGER Of THE CITY Of EUGENE AS OF THIS'DATE. THis MOTION WAS SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN LINDEEN. FOLLOWING THE MOTION COUNCILMAN LINDEEN STATED THAT-A NUMBER OF H~;S CONSTITUENTS HAVE TALKED WITH HIM ABOUT WHAT HE TERMED "BUCK PASSING", THAT IN A NUMBER Of INSTANCES PETITIONS HAVE BEEN CIRCULATED WHICH HAVE MADE THE NEIGHBORHOOD MAD OVER ISSUES WHICH HE INDICATED SHOULD HAVE BEEN TAKEN UP WILLINGLY BY THE CITY MANAGER..HE~URTHER INblEATED THAT IN SOME INSTANCES HE BELIEVED T~E C~UNCIL WAS NOT KEP T INfORMED.AS TO CITY. PROBLEMS. WITH REfERENCE TO ANNEXATIONS, HE STATED THAT PROMISES ON SEWERS AND OTHER ITEMS'AREMADE' AND THAT THE CITY HAS BEEN UNABLE TO TAKE CARE.OF, ITS OWN PROBLEMS, THAT THESE' PROBLEMS DEfEAT,ANNEXATION, AND If THIS IS THE BEST THAT THE CITY MANAGER PLAN CAN OffER, THEN THE ClfY SHOULD GET. ANOTHER' fORM Of GOVERNMENT. OTHER ITEMS Of SPECifiC NATURE WERE ADVANCED INCLUDING THE INCIDENT Of- PROPERTY CLEANUP ON PROPERTY OWNED BY,MR. CROWE AT 18TH AVENUE AND GARfiELD STREET IN WHICH IT, WAS. ALLEGED THAT A PETITION CAME' fROM THE CITY MANAGER'S OffiCE WHICH WAS POORLY,WORDED AND MADE ~HE PETITION PASSER LOOK SILLY, AND OTHER coMPARABLE ITEMS. COUNCILMAN SHEARER THEN stATED THAT HE HAD BEEN ON THE COUNCIL fOR fOUR~'YEARS' AND THAT THERE HAD BEEN MORE WRANGLING PER MONTH IN THE, LAS~TWO YEARS THAN THERE HAD BEEN IN THE TWO PREV10US YEARS COMBINED, THAT THERE WERE MATTERS BEING, DISCUSSED HERE:;BY NEW COUNCILMEN WHO HAVE NOT THE MOST RUDIMENTARY KNOWLEDGE Of COUNCIL PROCEDURE, AND If THE COUNCIL WILL GET ITSELf ORGANIZED AND OPERATING, THE CITY MANAGER WILL TAKE CARE. OF HIS PROBLEMS~ i I Ii I' ! ON A SECRET BALLOT TAKEN ON THE ORIG,INAL' MOTION THAT THE COUNCIL TERMINATE; THE SERVICE OF THE CITY MANAGER AS OF THIS DATE~' 1'HE MOT.ION WAS DEFEATED 5-2. COUNCILWOMAN LAURIS INDICATED THEREJIS AN ARTICLE IN THE FEBRUARY-MARCH 1959 ISSUE Of OLD OREGON BY' L~wIS P. CRUTCHER, ASSISTA~T PROFESSOR-OF ARCHITECTURE AT THE UNIVERSITY-Of OREG~,' ON COMMUNITY PLANNING. COPIES OF THIS EDITION Of OLD OREGON WERE DISTRIBUTED TO MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, AND IT WAS MOVED BY MRS. LAURIS SECONDED BY MR. SHEARER THAT THE COUNCIL PLAN A MEETING WITH MR. CRUTCHER IN. ABOUT SIX WEEKS AT MR. CRUTCHER'S CONVENIENCE TO DISCUSS COMMUNITY PLANNING. MOTION tARRIED. COUNCILMAN MOLHOLM INDICATED THAT MR. MOYER WAS ABSENT fROM THIS COUNCIL MEETING BECAUSE OF THE DEATH OF HIS MOTHER, AND COU~CILMAN MOLHOLM BELIEVED THE. RECORD SHOULD IND~CATE THIS. BILLS AGAINST VARIOUS CITY DEPARTMENTS FOR THE MONTH OF JANUARY 1959: WERE SUBMITTED AND READ AS FOLLOWS: 1 II ,I I' Ii I] I; GENERAL FUND . . - ' " PUBLI C EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM $ I , 3 I 8..46 - EUGENE HOSPITAL & CLINIC $ - - 2,8.00 PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM 5,056.48 DANIEL O. POTTER, TREAS. 52'3.72 r PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM ' , . 818.18, DANIEL O. POTTER, TREAS. ,28 I .00 I I UN'I TED STATES NATIONAL BANK - 10, 383 .7 L.' . DANIEL O. POTTER, TREAS. '168.25 II UN-ITED STATES NAT 10NAL BANK 281 .25 EUGENE FIRE FIGHTERS. ASSN.' ' ~90. 00 STATE TAX COMMI SSION - . 1,938.70, BLUE CROSS PLAN ' 29.50 I AE:rNA LIFE INSURANCE Co. 1,639.:6a UNITED ApPEAL - LANE COUNr.V 65.65 f PACIFIC HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION 1,676. 15 LANE HUMANE SOC I ErY 750.00 ~ '\ ~