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Ms. Bettman said she wished the survey would have included a question about where people got their <br />information, because she thought the priorities reflected in the survey reflected the reporting in the media <br />related to the high profile placed on road projects, for example. <br /> <br />Ms. Bettman said she was not “married” to the Rock ‘N Rodeo site. She thought it should have been made <br />clear to the public that there was a cost involved in building on the existing City Hall site. The public <br />should have been asked if it wanted to build on that site if it would cost $2.5 million more and the City <br />would face “unmanageable and uncontrollable” expenses due to the need to relocate employees and move <br />them back to the site. She questioned the results of the survey because people did not have that information. <br /> <br />Ms. Bettman said the survey results for the ballot measure were also not surprising and they confirmed her <br />long-held belief that political support for whatever was placed on the ballot was a key to the measure’s <br />passage. Whatever product the council put forward needed to have more than a slim majority of councilors <br />in support, and she was not on board. She thought the proposal “DOA” at this point. She did not support <br />going forward with a police facility first as she thought it looked like the council was being manipulated into <br />doing what the voters had rejected three times. Disbursing services took away a major motivation for going <br />forward. The site was less important to her than those factors. <br /> <br />Mayor Piercy said that even if the council could make the case the Rock ‘N Rodeo site was viable, the legal <br />issues could be lengthy to overcome and could generate a community debate that could take away from <br />support. She said the council had agreed to take the patrol facility out of the main city hall. She thought <br />EWEB had been clear that it wanted to retain the administrative offices on its site. <br /> <br />Mayor Piercy asked how important it was to keep the court in the consolidated city hall. City Manager <br />Taylor said that it was a destination point for citizens. The opportunity to use facilities already designed for <br />that use was attractive to him. Mr. Carlson said the court was an independent function, with a relationship <br />to the prosecutor’s office and police investigative function. Reusing the existing City Hall site in conjunc- <br />tion with the federal building essentially established two campuses on adjacent sites. <br /> <br />Mr. Pryor expressed appreciation for the work of the consultant team. He said the information was <br />consistent with the last survey, which showed support for the work the City did; the numbers began to go <br />down when the subject changed to leadership and governance. He suggested that was more than one point of <br />view versus the other point of view; two-thirds of the public, for example, fault the council for its manage- <br />ment of growth and tax dollars. The survey demonstrated a lack of confidence that the City’s leadership <br />was managing its job as well as it could, which led to the question: Would someone want to give the City <br />money if they lacked confidence in the council? He thought they would, if they thought the City’s priorities <br />were well-placed, and residents got to set the City’s priorities because it was their money. He thought a <br />major public information campaign could occur to boost support but the City could still lose the election. <br />He was concerned the City did not have the voters’ confidence. <br /> <br />Mr. Pryor supported the existing City Hall site and thought from the public’s point of view it was the <br />common sense site. He wanted to build a 50- to 100- year building and not get caught up in trying to build <br />the cheapest building possible to get by, because those were the mistakes made in the past that come home <br />later. He said the council needed to figure out how to build such a building on whatever site was selected <br />because he thought the City would only get one shot at a new city hall for a long time. <br /> <br />Speaking to the costs of relocation, Mr. Pryor agreed there was a cost to relocating staff, but a greater cost <br />to buying a new site. <br /> <br /> <br />MINUTES—Eugene City Council June 20, 2007 Page 5 <br /> Work Shop—City Hall Goal <br /> <br />