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MINUTES Eugene City Council Council Chamber — Eugene City Hall 777 Pearl Street — Eugene, Oregon September 27, 2010 7:30 p.m. PRESENT: Alan Zelenka, Mike Clark, Betty Taylor, Jennifer Solomon, Andrea Ortiz, George Poling, Chris Pryor, George Brown, members. Her Honor Mayor Kitty Piercy called the regular meeting of the Eugene City Council to order. 1. PUBLIC FORUM Mayor Piercy reviewed the rules of the Public Forum. Mary Salinas, General Delivery, Eugene, explained to Councilor Andrea Ortiz that she had been unable to stay at previous meetings to hear councilors' responses to her remarks because she was a bus rider and buses were difficult to find after 8 p.m. She said she represented the homeless. She reported she had attended the earlier council work session on animal services. She shared an anecdote suggesting that animal protection laws were used to protect young girls before child protection laws were in place. Ms. Salinas said she did not see sick and starving animals on the streets but she did see sick and starving humans. She suggested it was easier for people to help animals than humans. Bruce Flickel, 302 Archie Street, recalled the City's intervention five years previously to protect owners of manufactured homes facing expulsion from Hidden Meadows subdivision. He said that the owners of Hidden Meadows were taking actions to circumvent its previous agreements. Those actions included letters falsely claiming maintenance failures with threats of eviction, drive -by inspections falsely generating claims of homeowner maintenance failure existing on areas of the property not viewable from the street, and collusion with a hostile neighbor who made baseless complaints about violations that actually existed on that person's own yard and had been ignored by management. Mr. Flickel cited barking dogs, odor from feces, and trespass as examples of those violations. Threats and actions from Hidden Meadows management caused him to fear the threat of eviction and to call for City intervention. Robert Ruben, PO Box 21, Waldport, shared a news report from the future that the City of Eugene had decided to refuse federal money for the extension of the EmX system on West 11 Avenue because it was not appropriate on West 11 Avenue. The City found the disadvantages of the system to property owners and taxpayers outweighed the benefits and the route could result in business closures, and excellent bus service already existed in the area. Irving Weiner, 88500 Greenhill Road, believed that Lane Transit District (LTD) had lost its way and was more interested in enriching itself than in moving the population it was intended to serve. He thought EmX might have made sense to move students from Springfield to the UO campus, but it made no sense on West 1 l Avenue. Mr. Weiner said he moved his business to West 11 Avenue because of the auto MINUTES— Eugene City Council September 27, 2010 Page 1 Regular Meeting