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MINUTES <br /> <br /> Eugene City Council <br /> Work Session <br /> McNutt Room--City Hall <br /> <br /> February 28, 2005 <br /> 5:30 p.m. <br /> <br />COUNCILORS PRESENT: George Poling, Jennifer Solomon, Betty Taylor, David Kelly, Gary Pap6, <br /> Bonny Bettman, Andrea Ortiz, Chris Pryor. <br /> <br />Council President George Poling convened the meeting of the Eugene City Council. Mr. Pap6 and Mayor <br />Kitty Piercy joined the meeting via speakerphone. <br /> <br />A. ITEMS FROM THE MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL, AND CITY MANAGER <br /> <br />Mr. Poling announced that the council met on February 25-26 in a goal-setting session and had arrived at a <br />set of goals that it would adopt officially on March 7, 2005. He said several of the goals were new and <br />some represented reaffirmations of previous goals or efforts. Mr. Poling characterized the sessions as <br />productive. <br /> <br />Mr. Kelly agreed with Mr. Poling that the goal-setting session had been productive and collegial and a great <br />deal of good work had been accomplished. <br /> <br />Mr. Kelly called the council's attention the "Guest Viewpoint" column in the previous edition of The <br />Register-Guard paper regarding the issue of racism in the community. He commended the authors, Mayor <br />Piercy, Springfield Mayor Sid Leiken, and University of Oregon President David Frohnmeyer. He said the <br />column reminded the community that ridding Eugene of racism was the responsibility of all. <br /> <br />Mr. Kelly provided an update on the Region 2050 planning process, saying monthly meetings had resumed <br />and considerable technical evaluation of three potential growth scenarios for the region was occurring. <br />Those evaluations included transportation modeling, consideration of the impact of the scenarios on water <br />supplies, etc. Mr. Kelly said the information from the evaluations would be used in a major public outreach <br />process that would commence in spring or fall 2005. <br /> <br />Ms. Taylor said bicycle theft was a growing problem at the Eugene Public Library and asked what could be <br />done to stem that, giving that the City wished to encourage people to ride their bicycles to the library. <br /> <br />Ms. Taylor asked if it was true that there would be no 24-hour medic unit at Fire Station 1. City Manager <br />Dennis Taylor said no, and noted that information had been prepared in response to her questions that he <br />would share with the full council. <br /> <br />Mr. Pryor said he represented the council at the most recent meeting of the Lane Metro Partnership. The <br /> <br />MINUTES--Eugene City Council February 28, 2005 Page 1 <br /> Work Session <br /> <br /> <br />