06/29/1983 Meeting - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

G. V. Stathakis, 830 Hilyard Street, thanked the Mayor and council for time on e the agenda. He said that he lived in the heart of the Crossroads neighborhood. He described the diverse range of people involved in the Crossroads Alliance, a citizen-based communications software industry. He urged the council to become an ally of this coalition and asked the council to allocate $10,000 to support development of a proposal for use of the $715,000 in Community Development Block Grant Jobs Bill funds that the City had applied for. He said this proposal could be developed within 15 days. He suggested that a councilor, perhaps Councilor Lindberg, be appointed to chair a task force that would oversee development of the proposal. Councilor Lindberg said that he had visited the Crossroads project and hoped the City could be a partner in the venture. He said that he did not, however, support reopening the issue of allocation of Jobs Bill funds. Mr. Lindberg said he believed the process used in determining allocation of those funds had been a good one and would allow funds to be expended by the deadline. He urged Crossroads representatives to stay in touch with the City, particularly regarding the economic development loan funds that would be available in August. Councilor Obie asked if the Crossroads request could be processed through the traditional CDSG funding channels for individually funded activities. Mr. Gleason said that the individually funded activities had largely been curtailed when the CDSG funding for economic development was created, but he said staff would look into this. Mr. Lindberg added that in the past few years the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) had made it difficult to provide funding for independent activities. He suggested that the alliance e apply for some of the City's CDSG economic diversification loan funds. Responding to comments from Mr. Stathakis, Mayor Keller said that the council would not discuss the item further at this time but would probably discuss it at a future work session, perhaps with opportunity for public comment. Mr. Gleason said that staff would work with the Crossroads group to process the request through the normal City COBG processes. IV. DAY CARE AND GROUP CARE CODE AMENDMENTS (memo, background information distributed) Mr. Gleason introduced Tom Hayes, Planning. Mr. Hayes noted that at its June 15, 1983, meeting the council had taken testimony on the amendments and had closed the public hearing, postponing action. He said that since the time of that hearing staff had met with Bill Uhlhorn of Eugene Emergency Housing and Sheilah Ewing of Oregon Child Care Network to discuss concerns raised dUt'ing the June 15 public hearing. Mr. Hayes said that, as a result of these meetings, staff was proposing three changes to the proposed amendment. He stated these changes would alter application of standards proposed for fencing and for hours of operation of day care facilities to make them apply only to facilities serving six or more, and would also revise group care home regulations for provision of employee parking to require that one parking space be provided for each employee on duty, based on the maximum number of employees on duty at the same time. Mr. Hayes said that it was further proposed, in response to Senate Bill 478, that the group care home parking regulations be amended so that they e would only apply to facilities serving six or more residents. MINUTES--Eugene City Council June 29, 1983 Page 2