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e Gail Overgard, ICCO President, explained that the ICCO is primarily an organ- ization of businesses in the northwest Eugene area. He said that 33 percent of the area is vacant, of which 22 percent is currently under development. He said the ICCO was looking forward to working with the City and the other community organizations. There being no other requests to speak, the public hearing was closed. Res. No. 4279--A resolution approving and accepting the Industrial Corridor Community Organization (ICCO) Charter for limited recognition. Mr. Rutan moved, seconded by Mr. Boles, to adopt the resolu- tion. Mr. Boles encouraged the council to vote against the motion. He supported the ICCO's application for limited recognition, but wanted to make sure that its charter was compatible with council policy. He said he would offer a substitute motion to forward the application to the Neighborhood Leaders Council (NLC) and have it work with the ICeO-elected officials to resolve the issues raised by the City Attorney in the memo included in the council pack- et. Mr. Nicholson concurred. Responding to questions, Ms. Donahue said the Iceo's charter was almost iden- tical to the West Eugene Community Organization's (WECO) charter adopted in April by the council. She said that the City Attorney's memo included in the e council packets was a shorter version of the memo submitted in April regard- ing concerns about the WECO's charter. She said the Model Charter adopted by the council does not allow for voting by proxy. She said that voting-by-mail and telephone meetings have occurred periodically, usually because of time constraints. She added that all neighborhood organization charters designate each group's meeting schedule and that there are groups that have only one or two general meetings a year in addition to monthly executive committee meet- ings. Mr. Gleason said that Section 2 of the resolution addresses transitional recognition of the area designated in the ICeO's charter if it becomes an- nexed to the city. Mr. Rutan expressed concerns about further delaying action on the IeeO's application. He said the IeeO has a broad representation and has made con- siderable efforts to gather participation of all the interests in its area. Responding to a question from Mr. Green, Ms. Donahue said the ICeO received recognition by Lane County in 1988. She said the Ieeo has not participated in City of Eugene neighborhood activities, but has been added to the neigh- borhood organization mailing list. Mr. Robinette supported the application. He pointed out that the charter required that notice of all meetings be given to the entire membership. e MINUTES--Eugene City Council November 4, 1991 Page 2 ~-~