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e that the citizens want a nuclear free zone ordinance and recommended adoption of Option B as the most realistic of the options. Mr. Holmer felt the council should continue to give voters a choice by adopting Option Band waiting for petitioners to propose a charter amendment. He said another way to give the voters a choice is to put the MRV and Bennett proposals on the ballot and see if the voters are willing to go this far. Mr. Miller agreed that it is important for the council to respect the voters and expressed concern about the expense involved with the MRV and Bennett versions of the ordinance. He felt the council needs to make a decision about the best way to spend funds to benefit the citizens of Eugene and that Option B was the best choice for this reason. Ms. Bascom said the council should take a risk by appointing a board and passing Option A. She said this is a risk but that it more strongly controls the amount of money to be spent. Mr. Bennett felt he could not support Option A because it is not in the best interests of the community; he said it goes too far and is hard to understand. Mr. Bennett felt a less broad ordinance could be just as effective and said he would support Option B. Mayor Obie said he heard much discussion at the public hearing about the fact that the council was not keeping its integrity with the voters because it was not supporting the most stringent version of the ordinance. He said he would not favor a board of any kind because he would not want to empower another e group of people to oversee the economic and philosophical standards of the commun ity. Mayor Obie said the council administers many ordinances and does it very well; the same would be true with this ordinance. He distributed a tally of votes from the November 1986 election in which the Lane County nuclear free zone ordinance received more "yes" votes within the City of Eugene than the Eugene ordinance did. Mayor Obie said there is no question that Option B keeps the faith of the voters. Ms. Wooten felt the council should adopt Option A because by doing so, the council could get the item off its agenda. She said it is essential that a board be established to work with other jurisdictions and for purposes of education and information. Ms. Wooten said the board set up by Option A would not have enforcement powers and very little investigative powers, so it would not dictate the economic and philosophical standards of the community as feared by Mayor Obie. She also did not feel the figures distributed by Mayor Obie indicated that the majority of voters support Option B. Ms. Wooten said an elected board, as proposed by petitioners, is bad government. III. PROCESS FOR DETERMINING FUTURE USES OF LINCOLN Sr.HOOL BUILDING Jan Bohman, Development Specialist, said the council approved allocations for security, maintenance, and repairs to the Lincoln School in May and requested that staff draft motions expressing the two process options discussed at previous council meetings. Ms. Bohman said some interim security measures e MINUTES--Eugene City Council June 22, 1988 Page 3