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<br />ATTACHMENT A <br /> <br />MINUTES <br /> <br />Eugene City Council <br />Regular Session <br />Council Chamber-City Hall <br /> <br />September 26, 2005 <br />7:30 p.m. <br /> <br />COUNCILORS PRESENT: Jennifer Solomon, Bonny Bettman, David Kelly, Gary Pape, Chris Pryor, <br />Betty Taylor, Andrea Ortiz. George Poling participated by telephone. <br /> <br />Her Honor Mayor Kitty Piercy convened the meeting of the Eugene City Council. Angel Jones, Director <br />of the Library, Recreation and Cultural Services Department served as acting City Manager as City <br />Manager Dennis Taylor and Assistant City Manager Jim Carlson were unable to attend. <br /> <br />1. PUBLIC FORUM <br /> <br />Mayor Piercy welcomed everyone to the City Council meeting and reviewed the rules of the Public <br />Forum. She explained that Councilor Poling was home recovering from surgery and would participate by <br />telephone. <br /> <br />Greg Lerigo, 2224 Lillian Street, thanked the council for adopting the slogan "Eugene-World's Greatest <br />City for the Arts and Outdoors" on behalf of the 29 people who attended the previous council meeting in <br />its support. He said the advocacy group purchased a title for a Web site and that Web site was 'under <br />construction. He hoped the council would review the site upon its completion, projected to be October 6. <br />He stated that if it was acceptable, he wanted to link the City's page to it, as well as other related pages. <br />He also hoped that the City would soon put up a banner with the slogan on it. He reported that 67 <br />organizations signed up for the page; organizations that were involved in all manner of arts and outdoor <br />activities. He noted that the City of Spokane received $75,000 in services from Comcast, which put <br />together six broadcast advertisements promoting Spokane in Seattle. He wanted to discuss the possibility <br />of doing something similar in Eugene. He encouraged the council to have "some sort of grand <br />announcement" in the spring to let the public know about this. He averred that websites were as valuable <br />to local residents as to visitors. <br /> <br />Zachary Vishanoff, Patterson Street, opposed bulldozing the neighborhood park in the West University <br />neighborhood. He felt the plan surfaced over the summer and interest in a neighborhood garden and a poll <br />was expressed. He thought developers had "gotten together over the summer" and had the land appraised. <br />He felt it would be a good decision to poll the neighborhood. <br /> <br />Mr. Vishanoffprovided fliers to the council with articles on the University of Oregon's plans to build a <br />basketball arena. He thought the University would try to use eminent domain and the use of eminent <br />domain merited discussion. <br /> <br />MINUTES-Eugene City Council <br />Regular Session <br /> <br />September 26, 2005 <br /> <br />Page 1 <br />